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Hey, he does have a good reason for missing this stuff. Up until now, literally the best experience he's had with a woman was "she was nice to me", and that was with Akane. Most people his age have treated him like crap, so it's entirely reasonable that he honestly thinks he isn't worthy of sincere affection on an emotional level. Plus he's just seen himself from the outside, and he did not like what he saw at all in the looks department. I can totally see why he would rationalize Ukyo's behavior as not being meant seriously.

Also, on the Soun = Danny Hebert, I've gotta say that Nabs = Taylor Hebert aka The Escalation Queen is a better comparison. I mean, she absolutely refuses to accept any loss without doubling down on the next round when she thinks it matters. Seriously, she's thinking about taking down the government over the fact that she's just been told that a minor resource is off limits to her. Really, I think that the willingness to constantly raise the stakes is a much bigger reason that she's dangerous than the amount of power she has accumulated.

You know, I bet that Sensei could probably trap Nabs in an honor-pledge not to do shit to Ranma and/or Akane if he wanted to if the limitation is on who she pledges not to fuck with rather than on if she has the stake she's wagering or if he can bind her to it. She really has no idea why shit went south, and to her it would just look like he's trying to expand his protections to them when to her mind accepting is just an easy way to make him lower his guard. Of course, he might be leaving her in play so that Hikaru gets some experience dealing with that kind of adversity in a controlled manner.

Edit: Man, I just realized exactly how high-school the situation they're in is. Ranma seems like he views Ukyo as a friend mainly, but also thinks she's attractive. However, there's no way he'll date her right now because he believes Hikaru's into her, and there's no way he could do that to a friend, even though I'm sure he sees her as the best of the fiancé options. Ukyo's totally into Hikaru, but views him as being too good for her and seems to think he's friend-zoned her, so she might start to go after Ranma (plus there's the thing where she somehow sees Hikaru as the desirable bad-boy and Ranma as the stable, safe choice). Finally, there's Hikaru who has no idea what they're thinking and has just gotten burned on the romantic front when he found out Akane was kinda nuts, with the result of him deciding that he's not ready to date and that he should just focus on friendship while interpreting anything flirty Ukyo does as her messing with him. So many misunderstandings and so many ways for it to end in angst...
 
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Also, on the Soun = Danny Hebert, I've gotta say that Nabs = Taylor Hebert aka The Escalation Queen is a better comparison. I mean, she absolutely refuses to accept any loss without doubling down on the next round when she thinks it matters. Seriously, she's thinking about taking down the government over the fact that she's just been told that a minor resource is off limits to her. Really, I think that the willingness to constantly raise the stakes is a much bigger reason that she's dangerous than the amount of power she has accumulated.
Bull.

Taylor would accept an insult without flinching. Sure, if things are important, being willing to push, yeah. But, even at her worst, Taylor was never a scummy selfish bitch. She'd escalate- to save lives.

Comparing her to Nabiki, that's a really big insult to somebody who was willing to sacrifice everything to save others.
 
Also, on the Soun = Danny Hebert, I've gotta say that Nabs = Taylor Hebert aka The Escalation Queen is a better comparison. I mean, she absolutely refuses to accept any loss without doubling down on the next round when she thinks it matters. Seriously, she's thinking about taking down the government over the fact that she's just been told that a minor resource is off limits to her. Really, I think that the willingness to constantly raise the stakes is a much bigger reason that she's dangerous than the amount of power she has accumulated.

The poster above covered it pretty well, but I would like to point out that Taylor accepted plenty of losses. She let the trio harrass and bully her for months without going Carrie on their asses. She allowed Flechette to brutalize her without reprisal. She walked away from everything she'd won and turned herself in to the protectorate, a tremendous personal loss, because it would help stave off the end of the world.*

Honestly? If she's like anyone, she's Teacher. She's utterly selfish and self-obsessed, playing her own little games even as the world crumbles around her, without a thought to how she effects others.

* - Granted, she totally flipped out and shanked a bitch afterwards, but there were some seriously extenuating circumstances.

EDIT: Also? This is becoming something of a derail.
 
Key words are "when she thinks it matters". Neither Taylor nor Nabiki are serial escalators in all facets of life--instead, they mostly confine it to their 'business', where they refuse to accept the sunk-cost fallacy or that anything is so far out of their weight class that the best strategy is to leave it alone.

I admit it's not a perfect comparison, and the general personalities outside of those facets are extremely different, but I thought it was a good bit closer than the Soun/Danny comparison.

Also, on a totally non-derail topic, is anyone else looking forward to the interactions between a Ranma who has been trained to think things through a bit and Colonge? And how much do you think Hikaru is going to see what could have been himself in Mousse?
 
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"A reinforcement of times 8, aura reinforcement of 3, combined reinforcement value 24 times normal strength."

I breathed heavily.

"This is as far as you can go with reinforcement before you get into deminishing returns. I would have prefered more, but you work with what you have."

Sensei crossed his legs.

"Now you have a choice, Chakra magic or wand magic?"

I sat down.

"Benifits, weaknesses?"

"Wand magic is tool based magic take away the wand, or your ability to make potions and other things and it's kind of useless. Think of it as like a radio tapping into a signal, if you lose you antenna then all you're going to get is static."

"and?"

"Capable of doing a lot more, I use want magic to fix things around the school, clean things, for utility its incredibly useful, Chakra magic is more limited its kind of similar to Ki."

"And?"

"Ki makes you a lot tougher but it is more limited, Chakra has more possibilities but you're a lot squishier. It's good at illusions, walking on water and walls, your elemental magic will take a boost but if you run out of Ki your just really tired, run completly out of chakra and you die."

I thought about it.

"Chakra, with wand magic every jerk is going to break my wand."

He touched my forehead and my body glowed.

"So, like Aura?"

"Oh no, this is going to be a lot harder to train."

He motioned for me to put out my hand and cut it, the blood was mixed with some thing and he studied it.

"and?"

"Chakra would have an additive effect on aura, a muliplication of 6, plus aura thats 9, with your current reinforcement your future max would be 72 times your standard level."

He did more calculations.

"Where does that put me?"

"Just under Ukyo's level, it's nowhere close to Ranma's level or Ryoga's but their special cases even in the martial arts community. You're going to have to rely on preperation, utility powers and illusions, more then brute strength."

"So fighting Kuno?"

"Kuno is 20 times stronger then a human being should be, if he ever learned even basic Ki reinforcement that would triple at the very least, and that's just the basic stuff, if he really studied? Well, then he has a crazy amount of potential."

"Ouch."

"He has raw power, but that isn't enough, once you get to a certain level, you're stronger then him because he's static, unchanging. There's a lesson in that."

He walked me to a circle and I felt my blood pop and boil.

"What's happening."

"We're growing a chakra network while getting the energies already inside you to play nice. Just wait it out meditate."

I did that, feeling the new energy come in, feeling it mix with the others. When he was finished I felt stronger, better.

"Now we're going to have to retrain you."

He brought out some eggs.

"Your current normal is 9 times normal human strength now you need to learn how to move with out breaking people."

I nodded and let the training continue.

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"Breaking point training sucks."

Ryoga must have learned something new, that happened every now and then.

"He's a lot tougher now, but you know the tea guy I fought?"

"Yeah?"

"Almost married a monkey."

I blinked.

"A monkey?"

"Yes a monkey, sure it was the pet of another rival martial arts tea ceremony faction."

I massaged my temples.

"There is more then one martial arts tea ceremony martial artist out there."

Ranma put up his hands.

"I know it's, its completly stupid, then there was the martial arts take out contest."

My jaw dropped.

"And thats a thing?"

"It really is, I had to feed Kuno and everything, but the Tendo's really needed the money, and it turns out there is a martial arts take out school."

I cooled down our drinks.

"Ok, that's actually less retarded then the martial arts tea ceremony thing."

"So that takes me to the next thing, Happosai, my dad's sensei was sealed under a rock and he's free and I kind of need, um your help."

I looked outside where a man was cacking he had a womans panties on his head and the crowd was angry. I gave Ukyo a shrug.

"Well at least he didn't steal your underwear."

She closed the door and we watched the angry mob go.

"He did."

I blinked.

"Then what are you."

"I'm not."

"Oh..."

She continued sweeping.

"So I guess Ukyo's in?"

She shrugged.

"My pretties, my pretties."

Ranma shook his head.

"At this point he's just showing off."

I couldn't help but agree with him.
 
Okay, also want to chime in on last jump. So, we heard he had a male student last jump that was an orphan and got screwed. My personal bet is Harry Potter--I think he used the reparo spell and the potions kinda fit, so odds are excellent he went there. As for it being last jump, well, without tinted lenses Harry's probably similar to the type of student McGuffin teaches (awkward, quiet, not particularly physical) that is an orphan, that has a long line of people waiting to try and fuck him over. It could even explain why McGuffin's worried about Nabiki--fanonical, and to a lesser extent, canonical, Harry Potter got royally screwed by her types of power.

Edit: ninja'd by story post. Naruto does make sense too I guess, could go either way.
 
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Okay, also want to chime in on last jump. So, we heard he had a male student last jump that was an orphin and got screwed. My personal bet is Harry Potter--I think he used the reparo spell and the potions kinda fit, so odds are excellent he went there. As for it being last jump, well, without tinted lenses Harry's probably similar to the type of student McGuffin teaches (awkward, quiet, not particularly physical) that is an orphan, that has a long line of people waiting to try and fuck him over. It could even explain why McGuffin's worried about Nabiki--fanonical, and to a lesser extent, canonical, Harry Potter got royally screwed by her types of power.

He did go to the potterverse but Harry wasn't his student there, his last jump was far, far, far worse then the potterverse.

Guess it and you get a free interlude of choice.
 


Legs day sucks. Like really, really sucks.

That said, Ukyo's rather bland admittance to no underwear is hilarious.

Does this mean the last universe he went to was the Naruto-verse?
It would fit, child soldiers, kids being trained in murder and theft from a young age, a body count of over a million in the final battle.....
 
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"So Mac, can-"

"No."

Sensei shut Ranma down cold.

"There are a grand total of three people in Nerima who are in my weight class, Myself, Cologne, and Happosai. If we fought all out, it would wreak utter havok with a lot of property damage and a good chance of innocent people dying, and even then there is a good chance I will straight up lose."

He paused.

"All of this to stop a panty thief."

Ranma frowned.

"You have to stop him, he's evil."

Sensei sighed at the three of us.

"Happosai is a lot more complicated then that."

Somewhere out there a hawk cried out, Sensei frowned.

"I fucking hate hawks."

Ranma blinked.

"Why, aren't they supposed to be noble and stuff."

"Kid take it from a man with experience, there is nothing noble or good about hawks."

We left and watched Happosai jump from rooftop to rooftop with his loot. The three of us chased him, but he was just that much faster. I was the first to get tired and collapse, the rest of the team stopped with me.

"This.... isn't...... working...."

Ranma frowned at the cackling old man.... he was toying with us.

"We need to talk with the old crone."

I limped with my friends to the Nekohanten.

"Airen, and ugly boy."

I felt my left eye twich. I switched to chinese, Amazon chinese.

("You know I'm a water mage, right? Do you want to become a cat?" )

The bright blue hair was natural, she cringed and then bowed, she responded.

(You actually speak Amazon?)

(Translation spell, mage remember? Don't screw with me and I won't screw with you.)

(That sounds fair, just stay out of my way when it comes to Ranma.)

(You fuck him over and we will have problems.)

(I don't like your tone, maybe I should-)

She was smacked with a stick and a short, old lady was there. She was about Happosai's size.

(Show some respect, he's a healer.)

(I could kick his-)

Another smack.

(The world has plenty of warriors and fighters and very few healers, go serve our guests something to eat.)

Shampoo smiled.

"I get food now, yum yum?"

The old woman shook her head.

(Sorry about Shampoo, she's a great fighter but she is dumb as a rock.)

Ranma watched the back and forth.

"Hey old lady, Happosai is causing trouble and we need help to stop him."

The old woman froze, a look of something over came her.

(Damn it, all I want you to do is to stop hurting yourself.)

The look of pain faded, and she steeled herself.

"Happosai is a very clever man and gains power by gathering the ki of irritated women, among other ways. I recommend setting a trap, buy some panties and put them in the open, he won't be able to resist it."

"Thanks old hag."

She smacked Ranma with her stick.

"A little respect."

Ukyo and Ranma left and as I got up to follow them, I was stopped. The crone looked at me.

"We need to talk privately."

The door shut.

"What is this about?"

"Greater and bigger things, you ever wonder why I'm trying to set Ranma up with Shampoo?"

"You want someone big and strong to go back to."

She stared at me like I was an idiot.

"The amazon village has plenty of strong men, no I want Shampoo to stay here in Japan where it's safe."

"Why?"

"The communists are crushing us one by one, we're dying. Sooner or later their attention will turn back to us again. Shampoo is loved by the village, the girls see her as an idol and would gladly follow her into battle and she would get them killed."

She sighed.

"We do have women who are competent leaders, and for the sake of the village I have to make sure they get power and not her."

"Isn't she your flesh and blood?"

"Child, I have committed countless atrocities to keep my people safe, my hands are firmly stained with blood. Exiling a popular girl because she lacks judgement is the least of my sins."

"And why do you need to talk to me?"

"Ranma is outside of the game, you and your sensei, like it or not play at that level. This is an introduction, you have enemies. Not that fool Tendo girl, but real, actual enemies, so be careful. You're a piece I wish to have remain on the board."
 
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"Meh, Ranma was impressed."

He froze his body language changing.

"Ranma as in Ranma Satome?"

This seems a little fast to me, she hears "Ranma" and immediately jumps to Saotome. It would make more sense for her to ask "Rranma? Ranma who?" first. Also as a general note, referring to someone by their first name with no honorific is pretty intimate/familiar in Japan

I'm not trying to say that everyone needs to have "San" and "kun" tacked on to their names but at this point Gosunkugi doesn't really consider himself and Ranma super close so it would make more sense for him to refer to him as "Saotome" and later a change in manner of address can help illustrate a change in their closeness. On a related note you seem to have forgotten about Ranma and Ukyo's nicknames for each other.

"Ryoga says he's coming after you."

Ranma rolled his eyes.

"Figures he would figure it out, who else has?"

They had basically this conversation two chapters in a row.

Also, in her first appearance (I forgot to grab the quote) you spelled Kasumi "Katsumi" which, while also a Japanese name, isn't her name and means something different.


Overall really enjoying the direction of this fic. I will say that pace-wise it feels liked you/the story are rushing to some kind of destination, like this part is setup for something you want to tell.
 
I'm not trying to say that everyone needs to have "San" and "kun" tacked on to their names but at this point Gosunkugi doesn't really consider himself and Ranma super close so it would make more sense for him to refer to him as "Saotome" and later a change in manner of address can help illustrate a change in their closeness. On a related note you seem to have forgotten about Ranma and Ukyo's nicknames for each other.

Also, in her first appearance (I forgot to grab the quote) you spelled Kasumi "Katsumi" which, while also a Japanese name, isn't her name and means something different.
Thanks for the feedback. I do my best, but since we have a bit of timezone difference (Cherico lives in the western USA, while I live in Sweden) I usually get around to edit during either late at night or early morning, making it easy to miss small things.

I totally forgot about the suffixes, if Cherico wants me to, I'll add them from now on.
 
Thanks for the feedback. I do my best, but since we have a bit of timezone difference (Cherico lives in the western USA, while I live in Sweden) I usually get around to edit during either late at night or early morning, making it easy to miss small things.

I totally forgot about the suffixes, if Cherico wants me to, I'll add them from now on.

Hikaru doesn't use Suffixes at all, uses peoples first names and is considered to be some what rude by japanese standards.
He gets it from his Sensei, as for the others fix away.
 
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I woke up in pain, everything hurt, I smelled something nice, and felt something soft next to me.

"Pain."

Yep, that's Ukyo, I heard some groaning from the corner.

"Just kiss already."

And Ranma is officially up, Sensei walked in and raised an eyebrow.

"So..... not going to do that again, are you?"

My eyes focused.

"Everything hurts."

He nodded.

"Well since you decided to fight him, you can heal yourself and your friends."

He put a bucket of water in the center of the room and left.

"So who?"

"Fix yourself first."

I closed my eyes and activated my circuits, my reserves were crap, let's see the damage. It's actually not that bad, lots of bruising, but mostly my problems with moving and pain are caused by pressure point strikes, pretty easy to fix.

"Owe."

"How bad is it Ukyo?"

"I can crawl."

I sighed.

"I can fix it, but it's going to be awkward, flip over."

She did so and I pressed my mouth against hers, my toungue touched her's, pressing against it and I was now hooked up to her nervous system. My energy went into her and fixed all the damage bit by bit until she was healed.

"So what was that about?"

Uyko blinked and moved her hands.

"Ever hear about true loves kiss? The toungue is full of nerves, more or less directly connected to the brain and is close by. Once I did that I could heal you a lot more effectively, uses less energy too."

For some reason she frowned.

"Oh."

"If you could bring Ranma here, I could do the same procedure."

Ukyo smiled.

"Can... Can I watch?"

"IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!"

"It's just a medical procedure."

"NOT HAPPENING!"

"Kissy Kissy, Ran-chan"

"YOU SUCK Ucchan."

I laughed and stared at the ceiling, I concentrated on healing myself, getting better and of course getting revenge.
 
Lol. Sooo. Ukyo has a thing for yaoi huh? Who'd a thunk?

Based on what i got from the prev 2 chappies, this is after a Naruto jump(hawks r not good = Sasuke has hawk summon)?
 
Lol. Sooo. Ukyo has a thing for yaoi huh? Who'd a thunk?

Based on what i got from the prev 2 chappies, this is after a Naruto jump(hawks r not good = Sasuke has hawk summon)?

Naruto, harry potter, were not the last jump, really Im hinting as hard as I can here, but heres another it was a anime/manga verse and it was a really really really crappy place.
 
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