| Banana Skin Chapter 4 A day in the life of a Cansanova "Get back here P-chan!!! I swear....!!!!" Goten, Kenshin and Sanosuke who happened to be standing in the corridor at that moment burst into nosebleeds at the nearly naked red-head that ran past. "ORO!" Kenshin looked at her wide eyed as 'she' chased a small black pig. "Was that just Ranma-dono?" Sanosuke plugged his nose. "For a guy, that girl has some great..." He was hit with the sakabatou. There was a crash further into the corridor as a purple haired girl on a bicycle ran over Ranma. "Ni hou Ai ren!!!" The girl then proceeded to glomp the red head on the floor. "You take Shampoo on date today Ranma." "Get off Shampoo!!!" "Not until Ranma promise to take Shampoo on date." The girl, obviously Chinese from her outfit, took a hot water kettle out of nowhere, poured it on Ranma and glomped him again. "P-chan!!!" Akane picked up the small pig and hugged it to her chest. Goten could've sworn that it had a nosebleed. But pigs can't do that can they? The two beside him were just staring as Ranma tried to get away from the girl named Shampoo. And of course, Akane took that time to notice the spectacle. "RAAAAAANNNNMAAA....WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH SHAMPOO!?!" Blue ki exploded around her body. "Akane is scary." Goten said. Ranma waved his hands in defense. "She dropped on me!!! Akane!!!" "YOU PERVERT!!!" A mallet came out of nowhere and slammed the pigtailed guy out the hole that Shampoo came in. "The twentieth century is strange, eh Kenshin?" Sanosuke nudged his friend. "Hai de gozaru yo." There was another loud crash from below. Without a word, they all ran downstairs. "OW!!! PAN!!!" The small raven-haired woman literally sat on Trunks. "Then FIX the damn time thingo!" "Will you get off me?! Why aren't you taking this out on Goten! He's the one who got us into this mess!!! Jesus Pan, did you gain weight or something...." All the people in the room knew that was the wrong thing to say. Trunks got a whole demi-saiyan jump on his stomach, knocking his breath out. "Say that again and Bra joins me. Goten was the one that started this, but YOU were the one that got the time thingo wet TWICE and got us to a total of TWO wrong universes." Trunks gasped for breath. "Well it's not as if I had time to stabilise my ki and FLY while we were falling into water! I need spare parts Pan! Give me a day at most!" The girl thought this over. "Fine Boxer Boy. But if you can't, you are getting a beating like you've never known before." She got off him. Trunks laughed. "Like you can beat me little girl." "Niisan, she just did." Bra said between mouthfuls of food. The ones who were watching nodded. "Come and accept thy love beloved Pig-tailed girl!!!" Ranma, once again as a girl, and still shirtless ran through the porch, a strange guy in with a bokken running after her. Trunks, Yahiko and Goten again covered their sudden nosebleeds. "RANMA! Don't you have any decency?!" Bra looked with a sweat drop as the guy in the traditional Japanese kendo outfit glomped the bare chested Ranma. The red head screamed and punched him in the face, sending the weirdo into the koi pond. Of course, that left him open to Shampoo's glomp. "WILL YOU STOP THAT!?! It's bad enough when you're a GUY!!!" Akane grabbed a cup of water and splash them both. An ear piercing scream filled the air as Shampoo's clothes fell to the ground and the cat, and Ramna, slammed into the garden wall with the 'love sign' made by her fingers. Everyone watching sweatdropped. Kenshin looked at Kaoru and did a double take. "K-Kaoru-dono! What are you wearing de gozaru ka!? It's indecent to walk about in those garments, would you like a covering...?" Bra and Pan sniggered while Sanosuke whistled. "Kenshin, this is what girls in this time wear. It will seem strange to wear our clothes here. B-chan made you and Sanosuke clothes too." Kaoru handed them neat piles, standing in a peach, short sleeved dress that billowed slightly as she walked, and, as Kenshin would say, exposing her thighs to the world. The rurouni stuttered, taking the white pants and blue, casual button up shirt. Sanosuke looked at the white pants, white t-shirt and long black jacket with the added kanji of 'evil' on the back with a snort. "Good enough. I can wear this. Ain't too bad." Bra smiled. "Thought so. I thought blue suits Kenshin better than pink." Kenshin frowned. "Sessha is not wearing pink de gozaru. Sessha gi is fuchsia de gozaru yo." Raised eyebrows all around. "Riiight." Kaoru smiled at him. "Go change Kenshin, Akane-san promised to show as around the future. Trunks-san also needs to find spare parts for his device to take us back." Sano and Kenshin noticed Yahiko smirking, already wearing the strange clothes quite comfortably, the thin cloth called a t-shirt, trousers and a hat that was definitely backwards on his head, and the ever present shinai on his back. "H-hai." The two left. "RANMA! GET DRESSED!!!" Akane screamed. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "AHHHHHHHHH!!!! MONSTER!!!!" Sanosuke had his back to the wall, eyes wide with fear. People stared at him weirdly, but moved along with their business, since strange things were common in Nermia. "Calm down man, what's the matter?" Ranma looked around, as a guy, and saw nothing at all unusual. Sanosuke kept staring at the road in fear. Yahiko snorted. "He's afraid of those monster things." "You mean cars Yahiko?" Bra asked. Yahiko nodded. "Pffft." She went up to Sanosuke, peeled him from the wall, and started dragging him along. "Oro..." Kenshin murmured. Trunks and Pan came out of the store they were currently outside of, grinning. "Any luck Pan-chan?" Kaoru asked. "Yup. Boxer Boy managed to con the store lady with his charm, once again." "I resent that." Trunks applied. "Your charm or Boxer boy?" Pan teased. "Both." He laughed, and wrapped an arm around her waist. Ranma raised his eyebrows. "They together or something?" He asked Goten. The demi-saiyan burst out laughing, grabbing his stomach. "What? They sure look like it." The other man continued to laugh as they began walking again. A black blur streaked across the roofs, a giant bag to his back. They wouldn't have noticed him except that the little man was being chased by a hoard of woman with various weapons and that there was a constant scream of... "WHAT A HAUL!!! WHAT A HAUL!!!" Ranma, Akane and Shampoo's head shot up. "OLD LEECH!!!" They jumped onto the roofs to the shock of the others. "Oh, I gotta see this." Goten jumped after then, Bra, Pan and Trunks close on their heels to the shock of the Kenshin-gumi. "Come on Kenshin!" Sanosuke grabbed Yahiko's shirt and followed after them. Kenshin looked over at her, "Kaoru-dono, hold on de gozaru." With one sweep, he grabbed her in his arms and leaped with the finesse of someone who knows how to do so expertly. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "Hee hee hee WHAT A HAUL! WHAT A HAUL!!!" "Come back here yer old leech!" "Happosai!!!" A giant ball of dust exploded into the air, followed by the silky shadowings of.... UNDERWEAR!?! Trunks and Goten looked up in shock. Pan and Bra narrowed their eyes as a small man no taller than their knee rose from the dust. "MY PRETTIES!!!" He sobbed. "What the hell?!" Sanosuke grabbed one of those 'things' of the air and then promptly threw it off his hand as if it was on fire. He wasn't THAT dense. "RAAAAAAANMA!!! YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!!!" The little old man screamed, his aura unbelievably strong as it glowed red around his small body. Ranma snorted. "Just try it old man." He cockily settled into a fighting stance. Akane got there first. "DIE HAPPOSAI!!!" The almighty mallet sailed through the air and crunched the old man into tar for the roof tiles. Pan and Bra looked down at the brown smudge in distaste. "Who's the pervert?" Bra pointed. A weight on certain parts of her chest stopped her from saying any further. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" "My, my new meat...and so accommodating..." The THING buried it's head between her breasts. A scream of fury came from the two girls. Pan struck a fist at it, only to have it jump to her chest. "AHHHH!!!" "Hmm, you don't have much on you do you girlie?" Spoke the little head. The girl's eyes sparked green, hair flaming into gold with a furious scream. Happosai's eyes widened before a fist spun his little body into the far off distance. Pan's eye twitched as she returned to normal, cracking her fists in pure anger. Bra narrowed her eyes, doing the same. "Whoa..." Ranma gasped. The tomboy was stronger than HIM. Akane 'humphed' beside him in satisfaction. A scream sounded in the distance. "ARGH!!!!!" They only saw a blur of red before the welted form of Happosai fell to the ground. Kenshin, eyes flashing yellow, flicked his sakabatou with a satisfactory 'shick' before sheathing it. "Never touch Kaoru-dono." He growled. The lady to speak of landed, huffing in fury. "Where is that pervert!?" Pan laughed. "Go Kenshin." Ranma and Akane looked at those creepy yellow eyes and shuddered. Kenshin shook his head slightly before looking up with his rurouni violet eyes. "Kaoru-dono, are you alright de gozaru ka?" He muttered a short oro seeing 'Kaoru-dono', beating the snot out of the absolutely unconscious Happosai, Pan and Bra beside her stomping with their feet. "Well if he ain't dead from your katana Kenshin, he sure dead now." Trunks quipped. "Oro? Sessha not use katanas. Sessha use sakabatou de gozaru yo." Trunks blinked. "Doesn't that mean 'reverse bladed'?" Sanosuke whistled. "You got him good Kenshin. That guy's not gonna be waking up any time soon. But that's what you get for touching your Jou-chan, ne Kenshin?" The rurouni blushed. "Kaoru-dono not sessha's de gozaru." Yahiko gave him a 'yeah right' look. "Er...Ranma, what are you doing to the old man?" Ranma and Shampoo, who were currently scraping the remains of Happosai off into a bag, tying it up in chains and... Shampoo smiled. "Airen want Shampoo to give pervert to great grand mother?" Ranma looked up. Get rid of Shampoo AND Happosai at the same time... "Go ahead Shampoo!" he said cheerily. Akane narrowed her eyes at him. What's he being so damn happy about? "Okay! You take Shampoo on date later yes?" "What's with this girl?" Goten asked. "Er...." His eye twitched. "SAOTOME!!! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL!!!" They all looked up to see a guy fly out of nowhere, holding a shinai of all things. In fact, it was the same guy that had cried for the 'pig'tailed goddess before'. Kenshin gripped the hilt of his sakabatou. BAMN!!! "Get off it Kuno." The guy fell to the roof, a foot print where Ranma's foot kicked him on his face. "Oro! This place is very strange de gozaru..." "Oh, cutie!" Bra exclaimed, making all of them sweatdrop. "Can I keep him?" "Get up Kuno." Akane said tiredly. "Oh the beauteous Akane Tendo, you must really care for me, your beloved Tatawaki Kuno for me to awake to such perfection. Very well, fair maiden, I shall DATE with you!!!" "ARGH!!!" The guy was kicked into the air, mid hug with Akane force. "I think he just hit a plane..." Pan commented, squinting at the sky. "Shampoo!!! I love you Shampoo!!!" Bra was suddenly glomped by yet another strange man, dressed in a white Chinese outfit. She just raised an eyebrow. "Well, I think I just hit my weird mark for today..." Pan commented. "Okay, who the hell is the loser groping Bra?" Trunks's eyes narrowed. Kenshin glanced at Kaoru just in case this was another pervert. Ranma sighed. "Oh Shampoo, you are so soft..." BAMN!!! A high heeled boot slammed on his head. Bra crunched his head on the roof with the familiar family trait of the Vegeta scowl. Akane rolled her eyes. "Just another day in the life of Ranma." "Well YOU try being me you uncute tomboy!!!" He shouted back. Two mallets hit his head. Huh? Two? Pan looked sheepishly at Akane. "Oh sorry. It's an automatic reaction..." She said, putting the mallet away in hammer space. The man under Bra's heel looked up, and put a pair of thick glasses over a attractive looking face....er....sort of. "You're not my Shampoo!!!" "NO DUH DWEEB!!!" Bra shouted back indignantly. Being groped TWICE in one day was NOT the top of her favourite things done to her. Straight away the man turned on the actual Shampoo. "My love! I have come toACK!" A foot slammed on his face again. "Shampoo no have time for Mousse," the Chinese girl said bluntly. Then she realised everyone else had gone. "Ranma?" ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "WHERE THE HELL AM I NOOOOW!?!?!" "Ryouga..." Ranma's eyes twitched as he watched the lost boy scream on the edge of the koi pond. Could he get anymore clueless? Pan, who was currently keeping Ranma company as he told the story of his life, or rather, COMPLAINED about his life locked eyes on the scruffy looking guy infront of them. Scruffy, but a cute scruffy, though no taste in fashion what so ever. Yellow bandanna with black rectangles? "Who's he?" She asked lightly. Ryouga blushed then went into anger. "Ranma! What are you doing with her when you have someone as sweet as Akane?!" "You got it all wrong! We're just talking, jeez..." Ranma pulled the lost boy into the porch and sat him down before he got lost. "Plus, you should remember her...right P-chan?" He said a little lower. Ryouga growled. "P-chan?" Pan asked. The two froze. She heard them? "Er..." Pan recognised the bandana, "That bandana," she said aloud, then shook off the thought. "Nah, sorry, for a moment I thought you were that pet pig." "Hehehe. Yeah, that's weird, er, I gave the bandana to Akane to put on P-chan, that's why Ranma baka calls me that, " Ryouga laughed nervously, hoping she bought it. Pan nodded slowly, looking at him suspiciously. Light glinted off his fangs. Fangs? Pan stared, almost mesmerized. Sexy... An elbow sunk into Ryouga's head curtesy of Ranma 'baka' who was obviously annoyed for that comment. "C'mon P-chan let's introduce you to the new people." Without waiting for an answer, Ranma dragged the poor guy into the dining room where the others were watching TV, eyes glued to the little people in the box, or drinking tea, or desperately trying to fix a time dodad as the case happened to be. Pan followed with new interest in the newcomer. Ryouga stared like a deer in headlights at the mostly unfamiliar faces. Ranma slammed a hand on his back. "K', left to right around the room, Yahiko, Sanosuke, Kenshin and Kaoru, who's the girl in front of the TV, Goten, Bra and Trunks, the last who's the guy working on his thing, and Akane and Kasumi you know. They can tell you their own last names." Ranma sat at the table. Quickly Ryouga bowed at the staring faces. "R-Ryouga Hibiki." He realised Ranma missed a person and turned slightly. "And you are?" "Son Pan. You single?" Pan asked, shocking the young man. Trunks glanced up for a moment but averted his gaze. "I-um..." "Hey, how come she gets to hit on guys?" Bra demanded. Trunks and Goten sent her a look. "What?! It isn't fair!" Pan rolled her eyes. "That's because I don't do it as often. Plus, he has sexy fangs." Pan leaned up and licked the side of Ryouga's lips. To be told this so bluntly was a little too much for poor Ryouga who started steaming. Ie, Ryouga go boom. And fell in a dead faint, nose bleeding on the floor. Kasumi gasped. "Oh my." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "Fixed," Trunks announced. Except there was no one there to hear him. "Geez, I spend all night working on the piece of junk for THEM and not even a thank you." On the table was a total of ten cups that previously held coffee. But working at Capsule Corp made him immune to all nighters due to Mrs Slave Worker, aka Mother. He looked at the clock. 4 a.m. "Sleep while you can Underwear Boy, no doubt you need it," he muttered to himself tiredly, resting his head on his arms and closing his eyes. "Hey wake up sleepy head!" Goten said cheerfully, boinking him in the head. "Wha? I only went to sleep a few minutes..." Trunks looked at the clock and did a double take. What seemed like minutes was actually hours. It was 8 a.m. Go figure. "Get off the table so breakfast can be served will ya?" Goten nudged him aside lately, always stomach first. Trunks groaned. "Don't I even get any thanks!?" "Like what?" Pan sat down beside him and noticed the fixed whatchamajig. "Oh you fixed it! FINALLY!!! HOME!!! Auntie May! Home sweet home!" Trunks hit the back of her head. "Two things. Shut. Up." Akane came in with P-chan in her arms. Pan looked suspiciously at the sweating pig for a long minute before turning back to Trunks. "Let's give it a go after Breakfast. If it doesn't work...." She hefted a fist, "You will feel my wrath." Trunks smirked, "Ooh, I'm shaking." Pan stuck out her tongue at him. And so commenced the daily morning ritual of Goten pigging out and everyone looking on in fascination and disgust, otherwise known as breakfast. After said morning ritual, Trunks looked suspiciously at the watch looking object. "Hopefully this piece of junk will work. " The Kenshin-gumi, New Gen Z and Ranma and co. gathered in the backyard. "Hey, how will we know ya won't drag us along too? Though things are getting boring round here," Ranma scratched the back of his head, "But I wouldn't wanna drag Kasumi and Nabiki in any of the wacko things that happen to me." "Hm...It shouldn't bring anyone other than those already pulled through dimensions and ones with the DNA entered..." Trunks wavered. "Won't know until I get proper technology." "Plus, Underwear Boy may be a weakling and a total nerd, but he knows his tech right?" Pan quipped, grinning. "Who are you calling a weakling Pan-chan?" Trunks said ominously. "Er...thankyou for letting us stay de gozaru," Kenshin said before another fight broke out, bowing slightly. He and his friends were still in the 'modern' clothing given to them, their own clothes contained in something called a 'plastic bag', a material that was as see through as glass, yet strong enough for use. Incredible. "No problem Mr Himura," Kasumi said with a smile. "Yeah, you folks have been real nice," Sanosuke added. "Okay..hold onto your hats folks, time to go," Trunks had his finger over the button. "AIREN!" A purple blur shot through the air and landed right on Trunks. A 'beep' sounded. "Oh shit." Bra muttered. "AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A chorus of voices shattered through the air, having appeared there in mid air a few seconds ago. A loud splash followed, exploding from the large lake in the middle of a park. A park that just happened to be situated in the middle of a Tokyo district named... Juuban. END CHAPTER 4 |