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Cracked Eggs

Chapter 2

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The principal led the three siblings into his office. Upon reaching it, he opened the door, stepped aside, and held it open as he silently allowed the three to precede him. He noticed how Kenji also waited until his sisters entered before him, as well as how Usagi clutched a water kettle in her hand as though it were a weapon. After his charges were all inside, he himself stepped in and closed the door.

"I can see that you three are troublemakers," he pronounced.

"No, we're not, those boys were," Kenji said. "They were the ones who started the whole fight."

"We didn't mean to cause trouble, sir," said Kimiko.

The principal ignored them. "What are your names?"
"Saotome Kenji."

"Saotome Kimiko."

"Saotome Usagi."

"Siblings…hmm, trouble usually runs in families."

"Our parents weren't troublemakers and we're not also." Usagi didn't like it when her parents, or her siblings, were maligned.

"Saotome...Saotome, now why does that name sound familiar?" the principal asked.

"Our pops is a great martial artist." Kenji puffed up his chest with pride.

"So is mother, Kenji."

Kenji paused before nodding to Kimiko's statement. "You're right, mom is great, too."

The principal was racking his brain for the reason why the name was so familiar when it suddenly came to him. "Saotome Ranma and Tendo Akane are your parents?!"

He was greeted with nods and murmurs of affirmations. He paled at the thought of the name Saotome. And to think, after moving out of Nerima all those years ago, who would've thought that fate was so cruel as to have the children of those two entrusted to him? What was that saying? You can run but you can't hide--?

Kenji, ever his observant self, watched as the principal became paler and paler by the second. The older man's eyes began to dart here and there and Kenji could see the sweat running down his skinny face. The man looked like he was malnourished or something, he was that thin. And his eyes, it didn't look like he had any sleep at all, there were bags under them. He was probably kept awake at night thinking on his problems with the school, Kenji thought.

The principal did not reply for the longest time. Kimiko was getting tired of standing up and Usagi was getting hungry again.

"Sir? Will our parents hear about this?" Kimiko asked tentatively.

The principal finally looked up. "Hmm--wha? Oh yes, right." He puffed up with false confidence. "I will not tell your parents about this incident. However, you are considered warned, and if I hear any more outbreaks of fights on the school ground with you three involved there will be consequences to pay. You are all three dismissed at the moment."

The three sighed in relief. In unison, they said, "Thank you, Principal Gosunkugi!"

They left the office and went to their separate classes, promising to meet up after school and celebrate their release.

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"Did you see that?" Minako whispered to Ami in the classroom.

"You mean the Saotome kids?"

"Yeah, I swear, I saw a blue light just when everyone flew."

Ami nodded her head. "There's something weird about those three."

"Rei said the same thing."

"Hey, did you guys see how those three fought. Wild!" Makoto joined the conversation.

"Exactly. Too crazy, I think," Minako agreed. She nodded her head emphatically.

"Well, their father is the Master of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts in Nerima." Ami paused to think. "I heard that the school won second in the International Martial Arts Tournament."

"Only second? Maybe they're not as good as I thought."

"Actually, Mako-chan, they missed the first because the only competitor from the Anything Goes School missed the final bout."

"For what reason?" Minako asked, fascinated.

Ami shook her head. "I don't know."

Makoto and Minako groaned.

"I heard that the school is very selective of which students to take on."

"What do you mean, Mako-chan?"

"Well, the regime is really hard, and most of the moves are near impossible to do unless you've been trained since birth."

"So you think the new transfer students are that good?" Minako worried.

"I don't know. I haven't really seen them in action. Today looked more like all out streetfighting. But then again, I'm not the right person to ask since I have never seen the Anything Goes style before. If that's what I saw today, I have no idea how the school ever got to be so popular."

Ami and Minako nodded. A few moments later, the incident disappeared from their minds as more important issues were discussed.

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"So how was the rest of your day?" Kimiko asked her brother.

"The pits! I was treated like some monster or something. The others talked behind my back in loud whispers. As if I didn't hear them!"

**Huff, huff, huff**

Usagi panted up to them, water kettle in her hand.

"What's the matter with you?" Kenji looked Usagi up and down, noting how tired and out of breath she looked; totally not her usual self.

"I'm hungry," she said simply. Of course to all three of them, that explained it all. It seemed to be Usagi's curse to be always hungry. Out of the three, she was the only one who could tolerate their mother's cooking and still move afterwards. Even their father, Ranma, was not as immune.

Kenji sighed. "C'mon, let's go find a place to eat."

The three decided to find the nearest place to find food. Unfortunately, they got so lost in discussing the day's events that they realized too late that they were in the middle of a park, rather than a food court.

"How'd we end up here?" Kenji asked.

"Who cares, let's go find some food." Usagi was about to walk off when

"Usagi, wait!!" Kimiko called out. A wave of powerful energy crashed over her just as a man appeared in front of the three of them. Usagi was the closest and was nearly toe to toe with the intimidating man.

Although it seemed at times that Usagi had a one tracked mind, she wasn't stupid. She could feel the vibrations of negative energy emitting from the man. Angrily, she jumped back, instinctively placing herself in front of her older brother and sister. "Out of my way, you big jerkmeister!"

"Ah, mortals. I'll enjoy taking your energy," the stranger said. Suddenly a dark cloud formed around him, starting from his feet and spiraling upwards to encompass his whole body.

"Monster!" Kenji said in an awed whisper. "Probably something Great- Grandfather Happosai sent over as a present."

"Kenji-- He's in the way of our finding food! Let's hurry up and beat him."

Kenji and Usagi looked at Kimiko with determined glints in their eyes. All three nodded in silent affirmations, a plan already formed and communicated to each other in their minds

They split up, Usagi running right, Kenji charging to the left and Kimiko jumping sky high. Usagi jumped for an attack, her leg poised for a kick. The monster saw her coming and threw out his arm in defense. Upon contact, Usagi felt her leg go numb.

"Watch out, Kenji, he's built like a brick!" she warned her brother who was getting ready to deliver a barrage of roasting chestnuts.

"Got it, sis!" Kenji smirked before yelling, "Kachuu Tenshi Amaguriken revised-- "

Instead of punching at the monster, he threw several small blasts of chi, much like firing a machine gun. The monster was engulfed in a cloud of smoke.

"Aaaghh!!" the monster yelled. When the smoke cleared, the three siblings saw the damaged arms that he had used to defend himself. "I underestimated you brats! Take this!"

He fired his own brand of energy attack which diffused when all three countered it with their own. When the after effects of the energy field began to disperse, Kimiko threw her own attack.

"Here's one to send you back to hell, monster! Mouko Takabisha!!!"

"I'll get you for this!!" the monster threatened before he disappeared in a sudden ripple of space and time.

Kimiko sliced her arms in front of her, a technique she learned in the mountains of China, to gather back her unused chi from the attack. The light of chi changed their course and went back to the spell caster. Kimiko landed on her feet in a whirl of dust and waited for her two siblings to catch up to her.

"Wish I'd've learned to do that," Kenji muttered. He acknowledged that his impatience sometimes got in the way of him learning more complex techniques.

"No, you don’t," Kimiko said, laughingly. "You know how much you like being the indirect cause of destruction."

Kenji grumbled something intelligible then refocused his thoughts to what just happened.

"So who was that guy?"
"I thought you thought it was a present from Great-Grandfather Happosai?" Usagi said.

"The monsters he sends are always big, hulking dumb things, though."

"Not all the time," Kimiko disagreed. "I think we'll just have to wait and see what happens. The guy appeared and disappeared from out of nowhere. He didn't say much except for that he wanted our mortal energy."

"A demon, then," Usagi suggested.

"I'm not so sure," Kimiko said. She was about to speculate some more when a large grumbling filled the air. "I can tell you guys are really hungry this time. Better feed you two monsters soon or else I fear for this city and its inhabitants."

"Oh please! You are always so dramatic, Kimiko," Kenji said, then he tagged Usagi on the back. "Race ya!"

"Kenji, you cheat, come back here!!"

Kimiko ran after them without a backward glance to the clearing that they had just recently fought a battle in. If she did, she would have seen a black cat enter the clearing, gazing after them with intelligence in its eyes and a crescent moon sigil glowing on its forehead.

Its lips moved, uttering words that prove her to be more than a simple housecat.

"I found you at last, Sailor Moon."

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End

By Mia

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