If, say, a fighter with a major reputation or a cop showed up - they'd melt away into the shadows and return later when the threat had passed. They were all over sixteen, and their chosen prey were little girls of under fourteen years age.
They operated just far enough away from Furinkan that they hadn't heard of 'Ranma Saotome' or 'Ryouga Hibiki'. Besides, what could these two do?
Even if they were martial artists, so were some of the BSB! Kensuke was first-dan in tae kwon doe. Tran was pretty good at that Muay Thai stuff. Del Gai watched a lot of martial arts movies! Matsushiro was a brown belt in karate! The other three had weapons!
Ryouga had his pet peeves. One of which was people picking on the weak. He'd heard of the Bakaro Street Boys from a few tearful little girls, one of whom had cried out her troubles to this cute little piglet she'd found.
Ranma would eventually be punished, and vengeance would at last be found at the hands of Ryouga Hibiki. That wasn't as important as this though. Bullies who went around hurting little girls?
One of the BSB decided to open things up by flicking his butterfly knives around and then stabbing at the really-pissed off looking guy with the bandana.
Ryouga might have lacked Ranma's speed, but was still fast enough to grab a wrist and begin applying pressure.
Akuhito screamed like a dying rabbit as he felt his wrist bones being compacted together. He tried to stab with his other hand at the boy.
Ryouga caught that arm too, which was when he made a sudden twist and jerk that put the elbow joints under some serious strain.
"I think you made him mad," observed Ranma as the other gang members gaped. "Be glad he hasn't heard what else you've done with little girls." Ranma was thinking of stolen First Kisses and the like - that sort of thing he'd heard of. After Mikado Sanzennin he could empathize somewhat.
Ryouga heard this and came to a completely different conclusion. Crack!
"Well, I wanted a good fight," said Tran, spitting his cigarette out onto the ground. "Looks like I'll just have to teach you two to mind your betters."
"I don't see any betters here," said Ranma. "What about you, Ryouga?"
Ryouga dropped the first thug. "You talking or fighting?"
"Yeesh, in martial arts movies we'd at least get to exchange insults a couple of times," griped Ranma, dodging an elbow strike and imbedding his fist into the Muay Thai artist's stomach until it was practically touching the spinal column. "It's not like these bozo street boys are a threat."
Ryouga grabbed some guy who was using simple karate attack, tugged him closer, then dropped him with a head butt. "Every so often, Ranma, you're right about something. Not often though."
"Hey!" Ranma complained, ducking under a flying kick and kidney punching the boy as he went past. "I'm not that bad."
Ryouga grabbed two heads and smacked them together. "Oh really?"
Ranma dropped the others quickly. No point in letting Ryouga get ahead of him on points. "Okay, now let's go ahead."
"What are you doing?" Ryouga asked as Ranma started putting together a pile of jewelry, weapons, wallets, and spare change.
"Kasumi's birthday is coming up. I don't want to have to deal with Nabiki's loan rates," said Ranma as he started seperating things into two piles.
"All of that stuff had original owners, you know," Ryouga pointed out.
"How are ya gonna figure out what went where?" Ranma inquired. "You can have all this 'Hello Kitty' junk."
"Why would I... oh. Never mind." Ryouga shrugged as he figured out why items decorated with little SD cats wouldn't appeal to Ranma.
"One for you, one for me," started Ranma. This should be enough for a nice present even splitting it with Ryouga.
"Hah!" hahhed Ryouga. "You get Kasumi a present! Well, I'll get her a better present!"
"Oh yeah?" Ranma fumed. "Well, I'll get her a present that leaves yours in the dust!"
"Oh yeah?"
"YEAH!"
"We'll see about that, Ranma! You wouldn't know a good present to get her if it bit you! I'll bet you'd get her something tacky like a breadmaking machine or a hot water dispenser!"
Ranma blinked for a moment. How had Ryouga known he'd planned on getting Kasumi one of those "instant hot water" thingies? "Oh yeah. You just wait, P-chan!"
(Posted Sun, 04 May 2003 16:44)
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