Life of Chaos

Prologue - An Insane Day

Chapter 5 - The Battle At The End Of Lunch

Characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz Communication, and some
other companies. Used without permission. I'll return them as soon as I
finish my other series, and... well... that might take a while. I lent
Ryoga's mom a copy of story plots and well... she's a Hibiki... it'll
take some time before I see her again and find out what she did with
them.

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"You wanted to see me, sir?" Ms. Hinako asked coldly.

"Why yes, little wahine. I've got some information on some baaad
students."

Chibi-Hinako glared at him. "Oh?"

Principal Kuno grinned. "Just watch dese tapes. You'll see how behaved
dey truly are when you're not around."

"I won't punish them for things that occur outside of class."

"Dis happened while dey were in class."

"You taped them in class? Isn't that illegal?"

"Dey on public property and hidden cameras are allowed by de new school
rules. De school board even approved it!"

Ms. Hinako gave him a look that could kill. "Okay. Give me the tapes."

Principal Kuno nodded and happily handed them over. "Just watch de times
I marked down. Dat's when dey at dere worst."

Ms. Hinako stomped out of the principal's secret room, down the hall and
into her office. She first placed a call to the school board to confirm
that the tapes were legal to use. She frowned hearing that they had
approved it.

The school disciplinarian went to the school's electronic room to use a
VCR to view the tapes. Her frown grew watching how her students had
behaved. She'd have to punish the delinquents. All of the delinquents,
even though she'd rather not punish one of them.

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Tsubasa crawled outside, clutching his lunch protectively. This had been
a horrible day so far. He couldn't see how it could get worse. Then he
then looked at the Furinkan swimming pool.

In the deep end of the pool was something out of Lovecraft. A minotaur 
with wings and octopus tentacles was practicing a kata. Tsubasa wet his 
dress and ran off the school grounds. He didn't stop running until he 
made it back home and was cowering under his bed.

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"Kuno-sama! Where are you?" Mariko called out.

"What do you want with my brother?" Kodachi asked. She couldn't stomach
watching Ranma talking with Akane, and maybe this... cheerleader would
be a good distraction.

"Brother?" Mariko asked wide-eyed.

"Yes, I'm Kuno Kodachi, the Black Rose of Furinkan High. What do want
with Tatewaki?" Kodachi asked with a superior tone.

"I'm Konjo Mariko." She bowed. "I've fallen in love with your brother
and I've been trying to find him so we could eat lunch together."

Kodachi smirked. The girl might have been lowborn like Akane and the
pig-tailed girl, but she, at least, respected her superiors. She would
be better for Tatewaki than those vile girls he chased after. "Would you
like my help to win over my brother?"

"Would I? Kodachi-sama, I would be in your debt f-o-r-e-v-e-r!" Mariko
cheered.

Kodachi frowned. Mariko might have been better for Tatewaki, but she
would need a good dose of a strong sedative. "Let's talk over how you 
should proceed with your advances."

Mariko grinned and nodded.

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"Hey, Mallet-girl!" Azusa called out cutely.

"Huh?" Akane questioned. She only heard that phrase from Shampoo before;
why would Azusa call her that?

"Not you, that violent maniac," Azusa stated, pointing at Akari.

"Guess she doesn't know you very well?" Ranma smirked.

Akane scowled at her fiancee.

"What do you want?" Akari asked.

"I, Shiratori Azusa, challenge you for Charlotte!" She pointed at Ryoga.

Akane blinked. 

"Um, Akari, you're not...." Ryoga started to say but Akari silenced him
with a stern look.

"Why are you challenging her for...." Akane began to ask.

Akari interrupted. "I accept. You're not taking Ryoga-sama from me."

 Akane wondered. She quickly forgot about it, since something
else seemed more important. "Um, Akari, Azusa is a martial artist. You
can't fight her."

"Just trust me, Akane," Akari said sweetly.

"It'll be okay, really," Ryoga assured Akane. He wished he could
convince himself that.

"We fight at ice ring, Sat...." Azusa started to say.

"Nope," Akari said flatly. "Right here and now. I'm not going to give
you the advantage of being on ice. If you're such a good martial artist,
you shouldn't be afraid to fight against a measly little farm girl."

Ranma smirked. He knew from his travels how farm girls tended to fight.
This could be interesting.

Akane looked at Akari like she had grown a second head.

Azusa glared at her opponent. "If you want your death sooner, so be it."

The two girls circled and sized up each other. The call of 'cat fight'
quickly drew a large crowd, even as it caused Ranma to go rigid for a
moment, until he realized what they had meant.

Akari wanted Azusa to make the first move but the buriko skater showed
no sign that she was going to initiate an attack. Well, there were ways
to goad someone to strike first. "I don't see why you're attacking me.
Why would Ryoga-sama want a flat-chested, ditzy, uncute girl like you."

Steam blew out Azusa's ears. "Un-un-uncute! I'm going to kill you!"
Azusa charged like an angry bull.

Akane was very worried watching Azusa rush towards Akari, but her friend
just stood her ground. She wanted to know why Ryoga's girlfriend was
taunting like Ranma.

Akari struck as Azusa was almost on top of her. She moved her body out
of the way and grabbed Azusa's shoulders. Akari twisted herself as to
almost be riding the ice-skater piggyback style.

Azusa wasn't prepared for the move and with the added weight of Akari,
fell face first into the ground. The forward momentum they had generated
caused them to slide a few meters.

Azusa really hated Akari now. She swung her arm back, elbowing the pig
farmer in the gut.

Unryu rolled off the skater, holding her side. "Gee, what a cute
attack," she said sarcastically.

Azusa leapt at her opponent only to find Akari's foot in her flight
path. She twisted herself to avoid the foot, however it prevented her
from striking. Akari however was able to sock her in the jaw, and
continued to punch.

Azusa did not like this. She grabbed the pig farmer's arms and placed
her foot into the girl's gut and launched Akari into the air.

Akari glared at her opponent while getting up. "So, you do know more
than how to steal and ice skate. I guess you're not a complete ditz,
just an uncute one."

Azusa was seeing red. She would kill Akari slowly just to savor it. All
that would remain when she was done would be the girl's hair since it
was the only cute thing about her. Shiratori charged her opponent again.

Akari smiled sweetly. She knew her last trick wouldn't be as effective,
so she'd have to do something else. She dodged and then grabbed Azusa as
the girl passed. She then flung her body around the cute thief and spun
the ice skater into the air.

Azusa crashed into a school wall, cracking it. She got to her feet.
"Azusa dizzy."

"You normally are," Akari quipped.

Azusa shook her head to clear it. She would not charge again, no matter
what the bitch said.

"Gee, you wouldn't even make a cute dog now," Akari taunted.

Azusa just glared.

Akari leveled her gaze, and approached Azusa. When she was less than two
meters from her opponent, she dropped her head and charged.

Azusa was surprised by the move. It'd be easily stopped, but it was so
unexpected, she didn't move. Akari's head rammed right into her breasts.
She staggered back, clutching her chest. "Why don't you fight like a
martial artist?"

"Because that'd be stupid. But if you insist." Akari punched Azusa in
the face.

"Why you bitch!" Shiratori kicked Unryu in the gut.

Akari had had more than enough. She grabbed Azusa around the gut and was
rewarded with several punches to her back. She then suplexed the ice
skater headfirst into the ground, planting Azusa up to her waist.

Azusa's legs kicked in the air as her skirt flowered around her blue
panties, which had a baby chicken and 'Piyo Piyo' embroidered on them.

Akari dusted herself off. "I'm going to bathroom to clean myself. Be
back soon, Ryoga-sama." She waved daintily.

"Akari-chan, are you okay?" Ryoga asked.

Akari nodded curtly. Her right arm clutching her side betrayed her
answer.

"Nice legs," Hiroshi commented.

"Cute panties," Daisuke said.

"Great ass," Hiro drooled.

"That is no way to talk about a lady." Kodachi hit each of them with a
gymnastic club. Azusa was a minor noble and deserved some respect from
the commoners, but it didn't mean she would demean herself by pulling
the ditz's head out of the ground.

"You heard K-o-d-a-c-h-i-s-a-m-a!" Mariko added baton strikes to the
back of the boy's heads.

"Guess this school has lots of fighters, Migi."

"Certainly seems that way, Hidari. I think we could take either of these
two though."

"Most definitely."

Hidari and Migi were surprised to hear the shout of, "Shampoo, my love!"

Mousse had only caught the tail end of the fight. He saw a long-haired
girl fighting, and she had pulled off an amazing feet of strength; she
had to be Shampoo. He glomped onto her.

Akari eeped feeling as if an octopus had just latched onto her.

"Shampoo?" Hidari and Migi questioned. They then noticed a rock bounce
off the guy's head. He fell unconscious. They looked at where the rock
came from and saw Akane with two guys. They assumed their rival threw
the rock even though she looked shocked.

"Are you okay?" Ryoga called out.

"I'm fine," Akari answered. She was thankful that Mousse had somehow
avoided touching any of her injuries.

Sayuri blinked for the umpteenth time. "Well, my world-view's shattered.
How's yours?"

Yuka looked at her friend strangely. "I've long since stopped trying to
figure out what reality is. Besides, what's so unlikely about the
walking tank having a girlfriend that can fight? She'd be in trouble if
she couldn't."

"I guess you're right, but still she's so... demure."

"So is Konatsu."

"Um, virginal and innocent," Sayuri added.

"She's living with a guy," Yuka retorted.

"So does Akane."

"With no one else there?" Yuka asked.

"Ukyou lives with Konatsu alone."

"And he could dance next to Ranma naked and she wouldn't notice. That
hardly counts."

Sayuri scowled. "I just don't see how she can be that good of a fighter
or fight that dirty, okay? It doesn't seem right. She seemed like a
normal girl."

Yuka blinked. "She came to school riding a one-ton pig, and you think
she's a normal girl?"

"What the hell?" Akane couldn't believe what she had seen. Akari, sweet
and cute Akari, beat the crap out of Azusa. "How did she fight like
that?"

"She's a farm girl," Ranma answered.

"How else do you think she can train her sumo-pigs? If they get out of
line, she has to stop them. The take down moves are what she uses to
flip a pig upside down," Ryoga replied. "I taught her how to punch,
though."

"You mean she can take down Katsunishiki?" Akane questioned.

"Of course. She wouldn't be able to control him otherwise."

"Okay... but what about her taunting?"

Ryoga shrugged. He had been rather surprised at what Akari had said in
the fight, and didn't know how to answer that.

"You haven't seen farm girls fight over a guy, have you?" Ranma asked.
"I learned how to taunt from a farm girl. I had seen her fight over a
guy and she knew how to fling insults better than anyone I've met, and
that's saying something. Unfortunately, the other girl knew how to fight
really dirty. That girl... well...." Ranma shuddered. "Not goin' to say
it. It hurts to think about it since now I have some idea of how much
that can hurt."

Akane noticed how Ranma shifted in posture, giving her some idea of what
area had been injured and shuddered herself.

Ryoga looked confused.

Azusa froze, feeling a pair of hands grab her hips. She felt the hands
press into her as the person lifted her out of the hole.

"Are you okay?" Konatsu asked. He didn't like it that no one had moved
to help Azusa. She couldn't stay there like that. If that had happened
to him, he'd die of embarrassment. So, he had decided to pull her out.

Azusa blinked dirt out of her eyes and looked at her benefactor.
 She then registered his question and answered.
"Y-yes."

"That's good." Konatsu walked toward Ranma and Akane, while replaying
the fight in his mind. Azusa offered little in the way of potential new
techniques, but Akari had a very unusual fighting style. Her take down
moves were quite... interesting to say the least.

"Hey, catch the fight?" Ranma asked.

Konatsu nodded. "It was very interesting. Ranma-sama, it seems I, too,
have lined up an unintentional fight this afternoon. I'd like to spar
with you to help prepare."

Ranma shrugged. "Sure. Normal sparring or try out new techniques?"

"The latter. There are a couple techniques I would like to perfect."

Ranma nodded and walked into the field where the catfight had just
occurred.

"All right! Now for the main event: Ranma verses Konatsu!" Hiroshi
cheered.

"Place your bets!" Nabiki called out. Today was proving very profitable
for her, and there was yet another fight after school. Who needed
college; if this kept up she wouldn't have to go. She could retire from
all the money she made from the betting pools.

"You first," Ranma said.

"If you insist.... Kamaitachi!" Konatsu repeated a move three times in
rapid succession.

A whirlwind surrounded Ranma. He almost commented that it was like the
one the ninja had used before, but he noticed a difference. The tornado
was caused by shurikens, not restaurant bills. Ranma's movement blurred.
When the wind died down Ranma held the throwing stars in his hands.
"Real cute. Try this."

Konatsu watched as Ranma flung the shurikens in a similar manner as he
had, but only did the move twice. The whirlwind that formed was a lot
more intense than his. Konatsu saw the shurikens move in an inward
spiral. He jumped out of the tornado, avoiding the throwing stars before
the whirlwind collapsed in on itself. "How did you do that?"

Ranma smirked. "Applied a little Hiryu Shuten Ha to your technique."

Konatsu looked confused, but doubted Ranma would explain what he meant.
He'd have to ask Ukyou if she knew anything about this 'Hiryu Shuten Ha'
technique.

"All right. My turn again. let's see how you deal with all of me."
Konatsu split in four mirror images of himself, and all charged Ranma.

"I already know about that technique.... and its weakness." Ranma
smirked confidently.

The four attacking Konatsu looked a little worried.

Ranma waited for them to get into range. "Moku Bakuhatsuteki!" Ranma
gathered a chi blast into his hands, but rather than throw it at one of
the ninja he slammed the gathered chi into the ground. The resulting
explosion enshrouded all of the combatants.

When the smoke cleared, Ranma, being confident in his attack, was only a
little dirty from it.

"Ite!" Konatsu, hadn't been nearly as confident, and lay on the ground
smoking. His mirror images had disappeared. The blast wouldn't have been
nearly as painful to him, but he had felt the injuries inflicted to all
four of images, not just his true body. "Still need to perfect that."

Ryoga looked at Ranma in dismay. Ranma had done worse than duplicate and
improve one of Konatsu's moves, Saotome had developed a new version of
Moku Takabishi. A move based off his Shi Shi Hokodan, and that jerk had
improved on it. Ryoga walked away from Akane and everyone else. He just
couldn't stand the idea of Ranma expanding on a move that was rightfully
his.

"Shi Shi Kyobo!" Ryoga slammed a chi blast into the ground in front of
himself. He fell on his ass from the resulting explosion. He smiled a
little. "Needs work."

Ranma noticed that Ryoga had copied him, but couldn't complain. He had
taken his chi move from pig-boy in the first place. He turned back to
his sparring partner. "It's your turn, again."

"Right." Konatsu wasted no words and began his new attack. He charged
towards Ranma but changed direction at the last moment. He continued his
run and jumped toward the shadow of the tree.

Konatsu seemed to vanish for a moment, but then he was flying out of the
shadow straight towards Ranma.

Ranma had barely caught the ninja's movement. Konatsu had made a tight
flip and then put all the force he could muster into a jump. His
movements were very fast, but Ranma was still able to dodge it.

"Almost got it. That might work better with your ninja outfit," Ranma
commented.

Konatsu nodded. A white shirt didn't help much when trying to hide in a
shadow.

Ranma paused for a moment. All he had wanted to do was test his new chi
move. The other moves he wanted to test were just variants of standard
techniques. However Konatsu had gone for three rather flashy high-end
moves, and he didn't want to look cheap considering the crowd they had
generated.

Ranma thought of various fighting games he had seen. Maybe he could pull
off a rapid kick and pass it off as a new attack.

Before Ranma could decide, the school bell rang signaling the end of
lunch. The students that had watched the fight rushed for the doors.

Some of the martial artists decided the windows were the better option.
Akane 'eeped' when Ranma picked her up and also leapt through the
window.

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Author's Notes:

Thanks to Freemage, Michael Chase, John Go, JJang, and to the rest of my
pre-readers. And thanks to you the reader.

C&C is greatly appreciated. Especially in reference to my treatment of
the one-shot Ranma characters. archive@mich.com

Non-negligible School damages so far today:
Three large potholes, one destroyed bucket and a cracked wall.
The two damaged desks in room 2-D won't be replaced since it's still
relatively minor.

Why did the school board allow for hidden cameras? Because of the large
amounts of school damage in the past year. They want to find out who the
culprits are and punish them appropriately.

Japan has a caste system recognized by many of the more traditional
families. For this series Kuno, Shiratori and Sanzenin clans are low
level Shogunate/high level samurai clans. Tendo and Konjo are lower
level samurai, which makes them nobility but of a lower caste than
Kodachi thus Akane and Mariko are lower born than she is.

Kodachi's nobility helps makes her feel superior to others, and she
knows it enough about it so that when she actually runs into someone who
is the same level or better, she won't act like a common peasant but act
appropriately for her caste.

Buriko: a girl that goes beyond trying to look cute, but also act cute
in everything they do.
Kamaitachi: cut caused by a whirlwind.
Moku Bakuhatsuteki: explosive or tremendous fierce tiger.
Shi Shi Kyobo: lion rage or lion frenzy

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