[Truthfully, this wasn’t
going to happen. ‘A Youkai in
Furinkan?!’ was a long story and it was going to remain as it was. Finished.
And it is a finished story.
There’s no more to it. But my
little brother gave this great idea (you know what happens to me whenever I get
a good idea :P KK-chan baka). So Kaoru
Kagome strikes again with probably another long fan fiction (probably
another 15 bloody chapters)… and it just happens to be another Ranma ½ and
Inuyasha crossover. Tee hee… Gomen,
minna. Now, just so you are all aware,
this isn’t a continuation of ‘A Youkai in Furinkan?!’ (no ‘Youkai in Furinkan
Part 2) but it does take off where my story left off. With a promise between Ranma and Inuyasha that they would see
each other again and settle the score… ^______^ …ahem, please ignore my
mischievous smiling face. <grin>
Okay! I think I’m scaring you all away
now, and I really don’t want to do that.
I hope you guys like this Ranma ½ and Inuyasha crossover that I’ve come
up with, because, I for one, really like the idea. Let’s just hope I can pull it off, ne? ^_^ Kaoru Kagome begins to
pray and hopes that all her fans don’t kill her. Ja, minna!]
Chapter I: Summer Break
Begins ^_^
Akane sighed as she watched the people leaving the train
station. What was taking Ranma so
long? All he had to do was get the
bags! She shook her head, but couldn’t
help smiling. Last semester break
Kagome had come to visit her in the Nerima prefecture and Inuyasha had followed
her, creating all kinds of havoc around town.
Those were great memories, especially since she hadn’t seen her friend
in ages.
School just ended for summer break and Akane had decided
to surprise her friend. This time, she
would come and visit Kagome.
Akane looked around for Ranma but still didn’t see
him. She sighed. He had insisted on coming to ‘make sure she
didn’t get into any trouble’. But she
knew his real reason. He was hoping to
have that fight with Inuyasha. He
didn’t know that Inuyasha wasn’t even from this time. If he wanted a fight, he would have to do it in the past, because
Akane knew Kagome wouldn’t stand for one at her house or her city. After all, people would notice more here if
Ranma and Inuyasha fought than back at Nerima.
This was Tokyo.
But then again, probably stranger things than a teenage
boy and a hanyou having it out on the streets have happened here.
“Dammit, Akane!”
Akane looked up and saw Ranma grumbling as he carried the
bags. He dumped the largest one in
front of her. She blinked and lifted an
eyebrow at him.
“What are you doing, Ranma?”
“What the hell is in that thing?!” he bellowed as he
approached her. “That thing weighs a
ton! I know you don’t have clothes in
there! You didn’t take that much! I watched you pack!”
Akane shrugged.
“Actually, I think this is the bag I put all the presents for Kagome and
Inuyasha from everyone in…” Akane trailed off when she saw a movement from the
bag. Her eyes narrowed. She turned back to Ranma and realized he
hadn’t noticed. She leaned over to him
and whispered in his ear. “You know
what? I don’t think Kagome and Inuyasha
need all the junk that they were probably going to give them. Just put it back on the train.”
Ranma blinked at her in confusion and then his eyes
widened as he saw the bag move. He got
Akane’s gist now. He wasn’t sure who
had tried to sneak with them all the way here by being in the bag, but he
wasn’t going to have any one of the psychos from back home ruin his fun here
with Inuyasha and Akane. [The game is to figure out WHO would actually go as
far to hide themselves in luggage to sneak after Ranma and Akane? ^_^ My
challenge to you! You’ll find out later anyway :P —Now back to the
story…gomen.] The reason he came with Akane was to fight with Inuyasha and get
away from all the nuts. He wasn’t going
to have any of this crap.
Ranma nodded at Akane and picked up the bag. “Presents for Kagome and Inuyasha? I’m amazed that they would actually do
something like that.” He put the bag
gently into someone else’s luggage track.
They had hoards of luggage and the one girl that seemed to be pushing
the enormous track by herself had horns, blue hair and very strange
clothes. The girl didn’t seem to notice
him adding another bag to her pile. He
smiled and walked back to Akane.
“So much for that,” he whispered to her.
“Good thing I caught them, huh? That sure was close.”
Ranma nodded and watched out of the corner of his eyes as
they loaded the bag back into the train.
He didn’t know who it was… but he really didn’t want to find out.
“So Akane, which way to Kagome’s house?”
Akane smiled at him.
“Just follow me Ranma! Don’t
forget the bags!”
Ranma nodded and watched Akane wave for a cab. A vacation with Akane by themselves…? Whoa… That was a first…
* * *
On the train…
“AAAHHH!!! TOU-SAN, THERE’S A FREAKY OLD MAN IN THIS
SUITCASE!” Lum screamed.
Happousai only grinned and attacked her. “Come here you pretty alien-oni! If I can’t have Kagome’s panties, I’ll
settle for yours!”
POW!!!
* * *
Ahem…back in Tokyo…
“Akane ne-chan!”
Akane smiled as she saw Souta run from the house to
her. She held out her arms and the
little boy rushed in for a hug. She
pulled back and tousled his hair.
“Konnichiwa, Souta-chan. It has
been such a long time since I last saw you!
You’ve gotten so big!”
Souta nodded as Buyo pulled up beside him with a “Nyao.”
Akane clapped her hands in surprise. “Buyo!” She picked
up the cat and held it against her. “I missed you too, Buyo.” She stood up and
turned around to see Ranma coming up the last couple of steps with the bags.
Akane turned to Souta. “Souta-chan, Buyo, I’d like you to meet my fiancée,
Ranma Saotome. Ranma! This is Kagome’s little brother, Souta-chan and her cat,
Buyo.” Akane made Buyo wave a paw and
Ranma leapt back a few feet.
“DAMMIT, AKANE!!! Get that thing away from me!!” Ranma
bellowed.
Souta blinked at Akane then Ranma, and then back again.
“Why doesn’t he like Buyo?”
Akane giggled and put down Buyo, shooing him away. “Ah.
Ranma is scared of cats. His dad made him VERY scared of cats. So scared that
when he gets around too many cats or he’s so scared that he can’t take it
anymore… He BECOMES a cat!”
Souta turned to a grumbling Ranma with wide eyes. “He
becomes a cat?”
Akane nodded and ignored the fuming Ranma. “Mm-hm.”
Souta just looked up at Ranma for a beat before letting
out a small cry of surprise, startling Akane and Ranma. He turned to
Akane. “You’re engaged, Akane
ne-chan?!”
Akane smiled and nodded.
“Didn’t Kagome tell you, Souta-chan?”
“Hm… Oh! Now I
remember! He’s the one who turns into a
girl, ne?” Souta turned his gaze to Ranma.
“He turns into a girl and a cat? But he looks like a normal person now.”
Ranma cursed under his breath.
Akane laughed.
“That’s because he was to get splashed with cold water to turn into a
girl and hot water to turn back into a guy. He turns into a girl more often
than he turns into a cat.”
“Why did he come with you?” Souta asked curiously.
Akane looked at Ranma out of the corner of her eyes and
stood up. “Hmmm… What should I
say? To protect me, to be with me,
maybe, and definitely to fight Inuyasha.”
“Fight?!” Souta turned to Ranma. “Why do you want to fight Inu no
ni-chan? What did he do to you?”
Akane shook her head.
“Iie, Souta-chan. He wants to
fight him for fun, so he can become stronger.”
“Oh. Okay!” Souta suddenly ran up to Ranma and grabbed
one of the bags he was carrying. “I’ll
help!”
Ranma blinked down at the boy with a wiry grin. “You sure?
These are pretty heavy. Akane
sure takes a lot of stuff with her.”
Souta nodded.
“How else am I going to be strong like Inu no ni-chan? You want to be strong like him, that’s why
you’re carrying so many bags! I want to
be strong like him too! I’ve got to
work hard so I can protect my ne-chan when he’s not here!”
Ranma blinked down at Souta for a beat. He then looked up to Akane and rolled his
eyes. “I never thought Inuyasha could
be a role model.” Ranma relinquished
one of the lighter bags to Souta and he rushed beside Akane again.
Akane looked down at Souta for a moment. “Souta-chan… How did you know that I was
coming? I didn’t tell anyone.”
“Akane-chan!”
Akane looked up and saw Mrs. Higurashi and Kagome’s
jii-chan waiting at the door. Akane
smiled at them, but was still confused.
“How did you all know I was coming?”
Mrs. Higurashi smiled at her. “Tendo-san gave us a call while you were on your way here. He didn’t want you arrive while we were all
out. But don’t worry Akane-chan, it’ll
still be a surprise to Kagome. She’s
not here right now.”
Ranma blinked.
“Is she still in school? She
should have gotten out by now. Break
started yesterday.”
“Actually,” Kagome’s jii-chan began, “she’s at the
hospital with cholera—”
“Jii-chan!” Souta bellowed at him.
“Ah… gomen, gomen.
I forgot. No more diseases for
Kagome. I already used that one before,
didn’t I?”
Ranma only stared at them dumbfounded; Akane laughed
nervously, a sweat drop forming on her brow.
Mrs. Higurashi only smiled. “Akane-chan, Ranma-kun, come on in and get settled. There are a few questions I’d like to ask
you and a few things to tell you before dinner today. And so you know, Kagome
will probably not be here for dinner tonight.”
Akane nodded and led Ranma in. They went to the guest room, where Ranma would be staying and Akane settled her things down
in Kagome’s bedroom. Once they were
through, they met in the kitchen.
“Now,” Mrs. Higurashi began, “first of all… Is it true
that Ranma-kun transforms into a girl with cold water? I recall Kagome mentioning it a few times,
but I’m curious as to see if it really works.”
Ranma cursed and Akane slammed him with a hidden
mallet. “Baka! Don’t be so rude at Kagome’s home! If they want to see girl-type just accept
it! They can kick you out at anytime,
you know!”
Mrs. Higurashi shook her head. “Gomen, Ranma-kun.” Ranma
and Akane abruptly stopped fighting when she said that. “I know it must be very difficult for you to
deal with such a thing but it would help me feel better about Kagome and Inuyasha-kun. That it isn’t only my daughter in
love with a boy that’s…just a little bit strange.”
Akane dumped a glass of cold water on Ranma before he
could protest any further.
“What’d you do that for?!” he bellowed, promptly
sneezing. “That’s cold, and now my
clothes are all wet!”
Akane blinked at him and burst out laughing. “Now you actually sound like a girl,
Ranma! Complaining about your clothes
like that!”
“You’re dead, Akane!”
“Stay back, Ranma!”
Mrs. Higurashi clanged on a glass for attention. Akane and Ranma stopped their arguing. She smiled lightly at both. “Gomen, Ranma-kun. You make a very cute girl, but a more handsome boy. I’ll heat up some water for you. Now, as for Kagome… I’m sorry to say that
not only will she not be here for dinner, but she probably won’t be here for
the entire break.”
“NANI~?!”
Jii-chan nodded while Mrs. Higurashi continued. “Gomen nasai… But Kagome is down the well
with Inuyasha-kun. She told me not to
expect her back until the break was over.
They have to go pretty far this time.”
Ranma was turning beat red. “I…didn’t think her and Inuyasha had gone that far…”
Akane pounded him over the head, her own face red. “BAKA!!! What is that ecchi mind of yours
thinking?! Mrs. Higurashi isn’t talking
about that at all!”
Mrs. Higurashi only giggled. “You two are really in love aren’t you?”
Akane and Ranma fell silent, both their faces blazing
red. Souta watched them half in terror,
half in amazement. Mrs. Higurashi only
giggled again. “Kawaii.” She shook her head. “Iie, Ranma-kun, I don’t believe my daughter
has gotten that far with Inuyasha-kun.
They argue too much for that. I
know they’re in love… I just hope Kagome’s heart doesn’t get broken, all things
considered.”
Ranma blinked in confusion. “What do you mean ‘all things considered’?”
When Mrs. Higurashi looked at Ranma in surprise, Akane
decided to say it. “Ranma doesn’t know,
Mrs. Higurashi. Kagome and I never told
him.”
“Oh, really? Well, then I suppose I should. Ranma-kun,”
she handed him the hot water. Ranma
dumped it on himself as she continued. “Neither Kagome nor Inuyasha-kun are
going to be here because they are both currently in the Sengoku Jidai.”
Ranma went bug-eyed.
“Sengoku Jidai?! But wasn’t that
like,” Ranma paused briefly to count, “500-400 years ago! How can they be there?!”
Akane sighed.
“The sacred well here at the temple, also called the Bone Eater’s Well,
takes people back in time to the Sengoku Jidai. Kagome fell in on her 15th birthday and met Inuyasha
there. Since she’s a miko, she’s been
traveling back and forth between times trying to help him on their
mission. They’ve exterminated youkais
in the present, like the one back home, but mostly in the Sengoku Jidai. That’s where that Naraku guy is.”
Ranma stared at Akane.
“So you’re telling me, Inuyasha isn’t even from this time.” Akane nodded. “And Kagome and him travel back and forth through the well.” She nodded again. “Does she do this often?”
Akane smiled crookedly.
“So often that her jii-chan has run out of ideas for sicknesses. Kagome is constantly missing school because
of this.”
Ranma whistled.
Akane blinked at him. “You
believe me?”
He stared at her with narrowed eyes. “Why?
Did you lie?”
Akane shook her head. “It’s no lie! I just thought you’d
be a bit more disbelieving.”
Ranma pointed at himself. “I fell into a spring that transformed me into a woman. Traveling back in time through a well is
more believable.”
Akane smiled and shook her head.
Mrs. Higurashi smiled at the two. “Well, I’m glad you both understand. There isn’t any way for me to get in contact
with Kagome, but I hope she does come home in time to see you both. Well, dinner is ready!”
“Itadakimasu!”
* * *
It was the middle of the night, but Ranma didn’t care as
he stared down into the well. Bone
Eater’s Well, huh? What a freaking
spooky name. It sure makes you think
twice about jumping down there. But if
on the other side Inuyasha was there, picking fights with all-powerful youkai…
He wanted a part of that. Why should
Inuyasha and Kagome get all the fun?
Besides, he made a promise with Inuyasha. They would finish their fight.
“I knew you’d be here.”
Ranma whirled about in surprise. “Akane?!”
Silence… “Akane?”
Akane was wearing a pair of jeans, hiking boots and
comfortable shirt and vest. She had two
backpacks with her. She smiled at
him. Ranma could only stare
dumbfounded. “Akane…What on earth…?”
She tossed him a backpack and walked up to the well. “Worried, Ranma? From what I remember Kagome saying, there is never a rough fall,
and I doubt any dead youkai will try to eat us if we jump in… But some living
ones might try once we get to the Sengoku Jidai.” She turned and smiled at him, sitting on the edge.
“You planned this!
That’s why everything was so heavy!”
Akane nodded.
“Mm. I brought all the
provisions we were going to need on this trip.
What better way to spend summer break than in the past? The bright side is that even in some of the
guys from back home decide to follow us… They can’t.” She grinned.
Ranma picked up that backpack and put it on. “Akane, you’re a damn sneak.” He grinned.
“You read my mind.”
She rolled her eyes.
“Of course I did, Ranma. I’ve
known you long enough. I knew the
moment you found out where Inuyasha and Kagome probably were you’d want to
go. So I came prepared. Besides,” Akane reached into her pocket and
pulled out a glowing shard.
“Hey, isn’t that—?!”
Akane nodded.
“Ah. A Shikon shard. The miko at the temple back home had one and
told me to give it to Kagome the next time I saw her. She said, ‘the soul should return to its home’. I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean,
but it gave me a perfectly good reason to follow Kagome down to the Sengoku
Jidai!”
Ranma leapt onto the edge of the well. “All right!
Then what are we waiting for, Akane?!
Let’s get going! I have a score
to settle with that hanyou and it would be some awesome training to deal with
youkai instead of humans!”
“Just so you’re warned, Ranma. Because we have this shard, youkai will probably come after us.”
Ranma grinned.
“Even better.” He turned to
Akane, his hand outstretched. “Don’t
worry, Akane. I’ll protect you from any
youkai.”
Akane smiled ruefully at him and took his hand. “Like you did last time I was captured by one?”
“Oi, that was my first encounter with one! I’m allowed one mistake.” He turned to her seriously. “But I promise, Akane. I won’t let it happen again. I’ll protect you. I swear.”
Akane’s heart swelled.
“All right, Ranma. Let’s go.”
“Yeah.”
So, holding hands, both Ranma and Akane jumped into the
Bone Eater’s Well, and into the Sengoku Jidai.