Sekirei is owned by Sakurako Gokurakuin
Ranma1/2 is owned by Rumiko Takahashi
by tycel
Edited by Cat on a Shtick
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Last time on Birds and Wagtails…
“Yes, Ma’am. We’ll see you in a few days.” Tsukiumi hung up her cell phone, put it down on the counter in front of her very slowly, as if it was about to explode. Once it left her fingers, she screamed and ran up into her and Ranma’s room.
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Tsukiumi looked at the clock, in a few hours her and Ranma would end up over at her ‘mother’s’ house. She contemplated how Ranma would react to meeting her, and she shivered. That was a scary thought… She pictured Ranma and her ‘Mom’ getting into a argument; she could just picture it now, they’d be happy to go at it. She started to laugh at the thought of those two arguing, releasing anxiety [word check, anxiety may not be the best word] as if by built up pressure.
Ranma came down the stairs and went into the living room,where he found Tsukiumi trying to get her laughing under control. ‘Whats so funny?’ he thought, chuckling at the look on her face when she realized he was watching her.
“C’mon, we need to head out if we’re going to be on time.” Ranma said, after walking to the front door and waiting for Tsukiumi to follow.
Some time later in the streets of Tokyo…
“Where does she live again?” Ranma asked, while he was being pulled by his arm by Tsukiumi, who muttered about mule-headed boys who didn’t pay attention.
“We’re here.” She said, as she stopped walking which caused Ranma to walk nose first into her shoulder. Ranma rubbed the afflicted appendage before glancing up at the blonde.
Ranma looked at the house and shook his head. ‘Why does this place seem so familiar?’, Ranma shuddered, ‘I’m not so sure I wanna to know.’, Were the hesitant thoughts passing through his mind. Looking at the entrance, he noticed a small sign to the right of the entrance, with “Sahashi Residence” printed on it.
‘Sahashi…?’ [Giving it it’s own line to emphasize it, dramatize it.]
Ranma paled and started backing away very quickly, when Tsukiumi grabbed his arm and pulled him back beside her; she glanced at him curiously. ‘I’m dead.’ Ranma thought as the door opened, revealing the form of Takami Sahashi.
In a town house on the outer parts of Tokyo…
Takami smiled a little to herself, she was going to see Tsukiumi any minute now. The damnable child hasn’t called or shown her face in six months and she was ready to give her a tongue lashing that she wasn’t about to forget. Getting a ashikabi is no excuse to just disappear without even a goodbye; what was that girl thinking!
She sighed at the possibilities and opened the door, revealing Tsukiumi and a boy in Chinese clothing. Looking at the boy closely, she couldn’t help but think she had seen him somewhere before. It looked as if he was scared of meeting her. It clicked, which sounded awful a lot like a .338 caliber rifle cock, she indeed knew this boy.
“Tsukiumi, Ranma. Get in.” She said growling, at them both, clearly brokering no argument.
“Yes Ma’am!” They both yelped and practically jumped into the house. She was very curious how the boy she took care of for close to a month came to be Tsukiumi’s ashikabi.
“I do believe we need to talk, now don’t we children?” She said, closing the door behind them and dragging them both to the living room. She faintly heard a “yes, ma’am” from the two in front of her while she walked slowly behind them to gather her thoughts. They sat down on the couch across from her, she noticed Tsukiumi sat very close to Ranma. That made her smile, at least she got over that ‘I’ll kill my ashikabi’ phase. Honestly, you’d think she was mentally ‘slow’ or something, with as long as it took her to get out of that phase.
“Well, it’s a bit of a story and most of it… well you’d probably believe it after what brought us together the last time.” So, Ranma started to explain what he was up to since he was six years old. This would take awhile.
About Four Hours later…
Tsukiumi and Takami were staring at Ranma, jaws agape when he finally stopped his tale.
“You’re dad, to be blunt, is a fucking idiot.” Takami finally said after a long pause, with Tsukiumi nodding in agreement. She mentally started a list of things to do to Genma Saotome when she sees him
“Should drop him from a six story building, and see if he lands fine.”, Tsukiumi growled, “Or throw him to the wolves, covered in meat.” Takami added, the two girls continued on ranting like this for several more minutes. Ranma meanwhile was turning paler and paler after each suggestion and covered his private parts when they mentioned neutering him.
“Uh, girls…” Ranma started, and covers Tsukiumi’ and Takami’s mouths. “I really don’t wanna know wha’cha plan on doing.
Any way, that’s when I met Tsukiumi. Pops had planned on taking me to China of all places and then drag me back here to get married to one of his ‘friend’s’ daughters.” Ranma shivered. For all he knew that guys daughters could be a man-hating dyke, a money-grubbing bitch, or even a socially repressed closet psycho. That wasn’t to say they in fact were, but there was always that sliver of a chance.
In Nerima…
A blue-black haired girl sneezed uncontrollably. “You alright sis?” A girl with brown short hair asked, looking up from her manga, at her sister who was doing homework at her desk.
“Yeah, one of those perverts must be talking about me…” Akane said, going back to her homework after wiping her nose, a frown adorning her face.
Back at the Sahashi home…
Tsukiumi and Takami had finally gotten themselves under control.
“So, Tsukiumi. What about you? You left just over eight months ago; I’m assuming he is the reason why you didn’t come back.” She said, looking at Tsukiumi who gulped. She really didn’t have a reason for at least not stopping by and telling her.
“Well eight months ago, we had met when I fell off a three story building..” and so, Tsukiumi spent the next thirty or so minutes detailing what she and Ranma had been doing. Him training her, while she slowly broke him from his shell. Honestly, who was scared of women his own age?
After hearing both of the stories, Takami wasn’t really pleased with Tsukiumi, but at least she had kept herself busy doing something that would end up being useful.
“Why are you still nervous Ranma?” she asked, looking at the boy who still kept glancing between Tsukiumi and herself and back at the floor.
“I’m not nervous, just curious about what you’ve been doing since I last seen ya…” He started, which caused Takami to chuckle, since she had forgotten that he was on the road for so long. He wouldn’t even know who she was,
“I work for MBI, right under the CEO Minaka Hiroto” she said, after she stopped chuckling.
Ranma looked at her like she was crazy,
“Minaka? You mean that 1960’s reject?” he asked looking at her which caused another round of giggling, from both girls this time.
“Yeah, thats him alright. Though, I have never heard of him as a 1960’s reject before, it really does fit doesn’t it?” Tamaki said, in between her laughs. “But just because he does look like a reject from the ’60’s, he is also highly dangerous.” Tamaki said, looking at Ranma and Tsukiumi with a very serious look.
“I mean it, he will fight to make sure the sekirei plan takes off smoothly, with as little trouble as possible.” Ranma and Tsukiumi nodded.
“So I guess that means I don’t gotta worry about ya trying to take Tsu-chan here from me.” Ranma said looking at Tamaki, who nodded.
“No, you won’t be losing your ‘Tsu-chan’, not because of me at least. There are a few ways this could happen though. Most commonly being, if she were to be defeated in combat and lose her crest.” Takami said, pointing to the back of Tsukiumi’s neck where her crest was hidden by her blonde hair. “If she is defeated and loses her crest, you won’t be able to be with her again.” After she finished that last bit, she noticed Tsukiumi had grabbed Ranma’s hand and was squeezing it fairly hard, if the color of it was any indication. Ah young love, it reminded her of her own failed attempt. Poor Minato and Yukari never got to know their father.
Later that day…
Ranma and Tsukiumi were saying their goodbyes to Tamaki, thanking her for the advice she had given them. They now had a time table of when the Sekirei plan was going to go into phase two, and it was short. Four Months at the earliest when phase two was scheduled to begin.
Tsukiumi grabbed Ranma and pulled him close to her, as they walked away from Takami’s house. One could say that things were going good, until the battle royal initiation in four months.
In Nerima…
Happosai looked down at the two fools cowering before him, groveling at his feet, and tosses a time-delayed bomb at them before jumping to the roofs and started on one of his many panty raids.
The bomb went off about five minutes after the two realized that the master had let them live for another day.
At the Izumo Inn…
Matsu was happily typing away at her computer, absent-mindedly pushing her glasses back up from where they would fall almost off her nose. Right now she was in MBI’s main database when she had stumbled across MBI’s File on Tsukiumi and Ranma Saotome. It was interesting that the Sekirei that was famed for hating all ashikabi was among the first to be winged. She snickered when she thought about the bark being meaner than the bite. Such a interesting ashikabi as well. Ten years on the road, was raised to be a warrior. His father was a complete idiot, but no one was perfect. But, Ranma was definitely smarter than he let on, oh and did she mention he was a absolute hunk? Matsu wiped a bit of drool off her cheek and fixed her glasses again. Oh yeah, very hunky.
Shaking her head to clear her mind, Matsu started looking over the file again, noting his address and that Tsukiumi had used the MBI card to buy the place for them both. Eight months she had been winged? That must’ve been just a month after she was released.
End of Chapter
[A/N:] Yeah, I know I said that Tsukiumi would probably be mad at him, sorry.
Well I think I am going to end up putting this series up for adoption or something pm me or email me which ever you prefer and we’ll talk, I can give you some of the ideas I had but I just can’t seem to get this story to flow the way I want.
Thanks so much for the all the good reviews and thanks a ton to Cat on a Shtick for taking time and helping me thus far;)