A Ranma 1/2, Love Hina, Mortal Kombat crossover By Dmitri 'Ranshin' Antonov Mortal Kombat: Death Blooms, So Does Love Chapter one: Pyre and Shadow -------------------- The place is Tokyo, the location is a roof on top a four story building. On the building in question were two people. They were dressed in outfits that normal people would find rather strange. They were wearing weird looking ninja outfits. The outfits had something that looked like giant suspenders. Both of them have small belts that resemble sumo belts. They also have flaps on their lower legs and weird looking bracers that covered their wrists and a part of their hands. They also wore masks. Everything besides the suspenders, belts, flaps, bracers and masks were coloured black. While for one of them the items that were not coloured in black were orange in colour, for the other they were grey. You could tell that both of them were male, but their age you couldn't tell because of the masks. "So, what were we supposed to do here again?" Asked the one in black and grey. "I told you about the promise I made as a child right?" The one in red and black answered with a question. "Yeah, you promised your childhood crush that you'd get into Tokyo University. That does not answer why we're here." He said, slightly agitated. "I'm here to study. Since the tournament is over, we can do something else than fight all the time." He stopped to quickly think over his words, and then continued. "We're going to a place called Hinata Inn. My grandmother lives there. So does my aunt if I'm right." "You're right. It does get tiring doesn't it Pyre?" "Yeah. And I think we should start using out normal names from now on Shadow." "Sure Keitaro. We should get normal clothes while we're at it shouldn't we? We look like weirdoes in this place." "Good idea Ranma. Let's go." After a quick run to a local clothing store they came out wearing normal looking outfits. The Person known as Keitaro Urashima, also known as Pyre was wearing a plane white shirt and black slacks combo. He also had rather thick looking glasses on. The other person, Ranma Saotome, also known as Shadow was wearing a red sleeveless Chinese shirt, and dark blue drawstring Chinese pants. "So, where to now?" Asked Ranma. "We go to grandmas' place." Answered Keitaro. "And we walk, no roof hopping." He added. "Awwwwww...no fair." Said Ranma with a fake pout. After walking for about an hour or so, first out of town, then up the mountains, they find a beautiful three story house. It looks a little ancient, but very beautiful none the less. "This must be it...Hinata Inn." Came from a surprised looking Keitaro. Ranma whistles. "Whoa, this place is huge. C'mon let's go in and find a room. I'm tired from all the travelling." He said. "Yeah, We haven't eaten in a while either." He answered. Then they both entered. "Hello? Hey grandma. You in here? It's your grandson Keitaro, I've also brought a friend." Said Keitaro in a loud tone so it would be heard. "If you imitated Scorpion I bet they'd come out in a second." Said Ranma, chuckling. "Yeah, that guy would scare their very souls out of them with only the way he talks." Said Keitaro, also chuckling. "So what now?" Asked Ranma. "Hey, there's grandmas' room. Let's wait for her in there." Said Keitaro pointing at a door with a nametag on it. "Sounds like a plan I guess." Answered Ranma, opening the door and entering, Keitaro right behind him. "Wow! This room is huge. Grandma lives in here?" Asked Keitaro out loud, rather shocked that the room itself looked like an apartment. "Yeah. Hey I was meaning to ask, what's with the glasses anyway? You never wore any before." Asked Ranma, finding it weird that his friend never wore glasses before. "I'm practically blind without them Ranma. Why I never wore any before is because I used my powers to control my sight." He answered. "It's tiring to always use my powers so instead I'll just wear glasses." He added. "Okay, whatever. What do you want to do to waste time? Spar? Eat? Sleep?" Asked Ranma, picking his favourite hobbies. "I'd rather take a bath. If I remember right then there should be an open area hot spring around here." Answered Keitaro. Both boys exited the room and went down the hall until they came to a door. They entered and saw a huge hot spring. They quickly undressed and entered the hot water. "Man, this is heaven. I remember always taking hot baths after getting wet and changing into a girl." Said Ranma with a cringe at remembering the curse. "You're lucky master Sub-Zero could fix it eh? We were lucky that the Lin-Kuei have a sacred and blessed spring used for healing." Said Keitaro. Then they heard the sound of the door to the hot springs opening. They both turned their heads towards the door and what they saw shocked them both and made their jaws drop, they drooled to boot. In came a girl with long light-brown hair, she was what every guy would describe as a 'babe'. But the fact that she was beautiful was not what shocked Ranma and Keitaro. It was the fact that she was completely naked, she didn't seem to want to hide it either. "Ahh...I love this hot spring. Bathing at noon is always the best!" She said while sinking into the hot water. "Uhh...wha..." Was what came from Ranma's and Keitaro's mouths. Their brains were currently not properly functioning because of their hormones. "Don't you think my breasts have gotten bigger? Here take a look." She said, putting her arms under her breasts to give them a full view. "I can't compare to you though...Hey c'mon I'll let you touch them!" She said all of a sudden. Then she grabbed Keitaro in a hug and moved her hand to his hand. But she moved too low, coming in touch with a certain part of the male anatomy that gets hard at times. Keitaro of course was shocked. Some girl that he had never seen before in his life just came up to him, offered him to touch her breasts, and then grabbed him 'there'. His reaction to this? He froze. "Huh? What's this hard thingy? It's getting bigger and bigger..." She then let go of him and took a pair of thick and round glasses that were on one of the many stones surrounding the spring. As soon as she saw a boy in front of her she realized what she had done. And a moment after that she thought about what a boy was doing in a girls' dorm. After thinking she came to one conclusion, she screamed. "WAAAAAHHHHHH!!! SOMEONE HELP!!! THERE ARE PERVERTS IN HERE!!!¨ She screamed at the top of her lungs. This of course shocked both Ranma and Keitaro. Their logical reaction was to run. "Some times I hate being related to you Ranma!" Said Keitaro while running. "Same here Keitaro!" Answered Ranma. All of a sudden there was an 'Oomph' sound that came from Ranma. This stopped Keitaro as he looked at what happened to his companion. When he saw what happened to his cousin he didn't know whether to laugh or to be scared. There was Ranma, his head stuck between a woman's cleavage, his hand on her right breast. The girl in question had short brown hair, and as he noticed, rather big breasts. As soon as Ranma noticed where he was he de-attached himself and quickly spilled some apologies. Then he quickly ran off after the girl they saw at the bath came in shouting that they were the perverts. They continued running. Running into a dark skinned girl with blonde hair wearing a school uniform, and a girl with short dark blue hair wearing a cooking apron, showing her their 'assets' by accident. They continued to run none the less, fearing for their very lives. Their escape led them outside and up a pair of stairs. They ran up and came across a big balcony that had clothes hanging from poles, probably to dry them. "Dammit, a dead end." Said Keitaro. "Not unless we jump." Said Ranma. Then they turned around a saw five females in front of them, three of them angry, one scared and the other one, smiling? All four girls they met earlier were there, and another girl who was wearing a kendo outfit similar to Kunos', she also had long black hair, and had a wooden sword in her hand. "We're in it deep aren't we?" Asked Ranma. "Yeah. Why the hell did this happen to us?" Keitaro asked himself out loud. Then all of sudden the girl with long light brown hair decided to introduce Keitaro to her fist. With a loud shout, she ran forward and delivered a powerful punch aimed right at Keitaro's face. Keitaro easily dodged the attack, silently thanking his training. While this was happening The girl with the wooden sword tried to slash at Ranma, who easily dodged the strikes. After avoiding a series of punches and slashed from both girls the boys jumped back about ten feet to give themselves distance, and also to try to talk themselves out of this mess. "Hey hold on! We came here to look for my grandma and ask her if we could stay at this inn. We didn't mean to peek at any of you, or to show off our privates. Honest!" He shouted frantically, trying to calm the girls down. But the girls would have none of it. "You honestly expect us to believe that?! Such and obvious lie?! This place is a girls dormitory!" Shouted the girl with long light brown hair. "A GIRLS DORMITORY?!" Shouted the two boys to themselves. They'd had absolutely no idea about that. All they knew was that Keitaros' grandmother owned an inn. The two boys started backing up after hearing the girls say something about taking them to the police station. Then, another person came up the stairs, complaining about the noise. She was a woman in her mid twenties, she had short black hair. "Hey, aren't you my nephew Keitaro, and you're Ranma right?" She asked. "Aunt Haruka? Long time no see!" He said, hugging her legs. Meanwhile Ranma just stood there ready to run if necessary. ------------------- "ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!" Came the shout from one Naru Narusegawa. She was currently very angry. These two, perverts were trying to get to stay here for a while? Not if she had anything to say about it. She then started to shout out every possible insult to a man's pride that there is. Both boys just ignored her, while turning to Haruka. "Oh man. I though grandma would let me stay here for a while. So I didn't bring any money with me. Where is she anyway?" Came from Keitaro, who was seriously trying to ignore all of Naru's insults. "She went on a world tour about a year ago, she hasn't been back since then. We do receive a fax from her once in a while though." Answered Haruka rather calmly. "It figures. This kind of crap always happens to us." Said Ranma, chuckling to himself at the irony of their chaotic lives. "Why the heck does this always happen to us anyway?" Asked Keitaro out loud. *This is always happening. Me and Ranma travel here all the way from China and look what happens.* He thought sadly. "Oh well, sorry to bother all of you." "Sorry Keitaro. Living here would have saved you rent money, but it would be too hard to live here for the both of you." Said Haruka, giving the boys a faint smile. "No kidding." Said Ranma. "Hey Keitaro, Ranma you should both be students now right? Tokyo University students right?" Asked Haruka. She knew Keitaro's goal was always getting into Tokyo U, and wherever Keitaro went, Ranma followed. Ranma and Keitaro looked a little dumbfounded. "You should both be in your second year right?" Asked Haruka again. "What are talking about aunt Haruka? Tokyo U has always been my goal but..." Keitaro started to answer but was cut off. "TOKYO UNIVERSITY?!" Shouted all the other females, rather surprised at the revelation, jumping to conclusions to boot. "YOU'RE TOKYO U STUDENTS?! THAT'S AMAZING!!" Shouted the girls gleefully. This was really irritating Ranma. This may be a first for Keitaro, but it wasn't for Ranma. So he decided to do something about the situation. "WILL YOU ALL SHUT UP?!" He shouted in a very demonic and scary voice which would make Scorpion sound like a pansy. Everyone in the house froze at Ranma's shout, except for Ranma and Keitaro. "Thank you. Now Keitaro was saying before he was so rudely interrupted..." Said Ranma, giving Keitaro a chance to speak. "Uh, yeah. I was saying that we we're planning on entering Tokyo U, but haven't become students yet." Said Keitaro truthfully. "So, you've failed your entrance exams twice already?" Asked Haruka, surprised. Before the girls could start shouting conclusions again the glare that Ranma gave them made them think twice. "No. We just haven't taken the exams yet. We've been doing some other stuff for the last three years. We graduated high-school a year early so we could travel to China." Said Keitaro calmly. "What were the two of you doing in China?" Asked the fox eyed woman Mitsune 'Kitsune' Konno. The girls had obviously come out of the shock that Ranma gave them. "First I want to know what is the problem with him? He is a guest here and he shouted at us just like that." Said the sword wielding Kendoist known as Motoko Aoyama, pointing at Ranma. "Sorry about that. It's just that I know how it feels like to have a lot of girls jump to conclusions on you. I decided to help him out. Again, I apologize." Said Ranma. He really was sorry. Scaring people out of their wits like that was not really what he liked to do. Unless it was in a fight. "I don't know if we should tell them Keitaro. After all, we're leaving anyway." Continued Ranma. "Umm, about that..." Came from Haruka, who suddenly appeared behind the two boys. "I just got a fax from your grandmother." She said handing a bunch of papers to Keitaro. "Huh? Land property papers? What are they for?" He asked his aunt. "They're for this entire land. It says that grandma is giving it all to you, on the condition that you become the manager of the place." Said Haruka. "WHAT?!" Was the logical response from everyone. -------------------- "So now you all know. I've decided to become the manager of this place. I am Keitaro Urashima, and this is my best friend and cousin..." He trailed off, letting Ranma finish for himself. "...Ranma Urashima, this guys' partner in crime. Whatever crime that may be." He answered jokingly. The girls were just too shocked to say anything. Until Kitsune spoke up. "So, now you can tell us what you guys did in China?" She asked, rather curious. "If Ranma agrees then I agree. Ranma?" He said to his companion. "I don't know if we can trust them. If they spill we could be in trouble." Said Ranma, looking thoughtful. "Hey, don't we deserve to know? You're going to be living with us for a while if I'm right. Am I right?" Asked Naru. She had calmed down a bit after letting out some steam with insults. "She's right. Anyway, I'll take the blame if they spill it to anyone." Said Keitaro to Ranma. "Fine. First of all. What we are about to tell you will not leave this room in any shape of form, is that clear? You won't even talk about it to each other. You will listen to what we tell you, and you will never, ever repeat it. Understood?" All of the women and girls present nodded. Although some were rather irritated at being commanded like that. "Okay then. First of all I am Ranma Urashima of the Lin-Kuei, formerly Ranma Saotome of the Saotome school of Anything-Goes martial arts. My mother and I severed all connections with my father because of his cowardly and dishonourable actions. Which included theft, child abuse, slavery, torture and attempted murder, all of these crimes were committed against me." Ranma seemed to say all this with rather much control, although he was clenching his fists at the memory of his father. All the girls were very shocked to hear this. Especially Haruka. *Uncle Genma did all that to him?!* "Wait, hold up, you mean uncle Genma did all that to you? Who the hell in his right mind would do all that to anybody?!" She shouted out loud. "Relax auntie. All will be explained. Now it's my turn. I am Keitaro Urashima of the Lin-Kuei. I never gave up the Urashima name, but I left the clan three years ago. Me and Ranma are still though of as members of the family though." Said Keitaro. Calming Haruka down a bit. Just a bit. Ranma decided to continue for him. "First of all. We both went to high-school together three years ago. We graduated a year early because of something that happened. You see, some members of the Urashima clan have special powers. These powers are very rare and very hard to control without the right training. So, we went to China. There, after searching for many months we found the Grandmaster of the Lin-Kuei, Sub-Zero the VI." Said Ranma, giving Keitaro the word. "There we trained until we became 19 years old. After that we decided to come back here to greet our families. I also came here to try to get into Tokyo U because of a promise I made to a friend as a child. Ranma said he'd come with me, I don't know why though..." Keitaro trailed off, wanting some answers from Ranma. "I follow this guy where ever he goes. Until the day he gets hitched I'll be following him around all the time. This is something I promised to master Sub-Zero and Keitaro's parents. It's fun with him to boot, so I'll have a blast." Said Ranma, smiling. "Wait a minutes. That's all? What about what happened to Ranma? And your special powers, what do you mean?" Asked Motoko. Wanting some more answers. "I rather not talk about my past, too many painful memories. The latter I can tell you about though. You see, every memeber of the Lin-Kuei clan has some sort of power that they are born with. When the powers manifest however, is different for each person. I was born with the power of the shadows and darkness, therefore was given the name Shadow in the clan." Said Ranma, grinning. He was rather proud of his position as a member of the Lin-Kuei. "I was born with the powers of flame and magma. Therefore gained the name of Pyre. Every member of the clan wears special ninja outfits, we're not wearing them now since we finished our training." Said Keitaro. He was also rather proud of being a Lin-Kuei member. "Now if you'll all excuse us, we have to go and buy some books for studying." He finished. At that, both boys ran out the door before anyone could say a thing. Only one thought went through every woman's and girls mind in the house. *What have we gotten ourselves into?* Well, maybe except for Suu, she was thinking more on the lines of. *What's a Lin-Kuei? Is it tasty?* Yep, life in the Hinata Inn just got weirder and more exciting than ever. With the world biggest chaos magnets in the world staying there, who knows what could happen? -------------------- Next Time: Life is more fun than ever at Hinata Inn. Ranma and Keitaro decide to spar with special attacks when they think no one's looking, boy are they wrong. Wait a sec, the two Lin-Kuei are also hiding something? What's that? Authors Notes: Man, oh man. What the hell am I doing writing a new fic? Am I stupid or something?! Nah, ideas just tend to fill my head. I can't help it alright?! Give me a break. C&C please. And don't ask who to pair who with! I've already decided!