Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong


Just Won't Die Spinoff 2


 



     "What a dump," Ranma commented, looking up at Ikkoku-kan. He placed 
the duffle bag down on the ground. It was dark out, somewhere near ten 
at night.
  "I don't understand why we came back in time. I mean, you're supposed 
to write a history report, not experience history itself," Asuka 
muttered.
  "Well, I don't understand why you came alone with Shinji and Rei and 
me anyway?" Ranma retorted, all ready annoyed. "You could've stayed at 
home. It's not like we're gonna miss ya or nothing,"
  "Jeez, I would have never had tried to convince to you go back to 
school if I knew you were going to end up in the same class as me," 
Asuka commented, crossing her arms over her chest. 
  Shinji said, "Well, all four of us have been grouped together to write 
this report. It's a group grade, so I guess it's natural that all four 
of us come to this time,"
  "Was I talking to you, stupid Shinji?!" Asuka shouted at him.
  A young girl emerged from the somewhat run down building. She looked 
like she was in her early twenties and had blue-black hair that came 
down to the bottom of her shoulder blades. 
  Shinji's eyes widened a bit at the sight of her. He seemed to 
straighten up a bit.
  She smiled. "Hello,"
  "Um, do you know of any good places where were can spend the week?" 
Ranma asked. He noticed several tenants looking at them from behind the 
young girl. There was a short stocky woman that was smoking a cigarette 
and a man wearing a trench coat.
  "There's is one vacancy here at Ikkoku-kan," Kyoko replied politely.
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, "I mean four vacancies. One room for the 
each of us. I ain't gonna sleep in the same room as her," he said, 
jerking a thumb toward Asuka.
  Rei smirked. Shinji chuckled.  
  "W-well, I wouldn't want to stay in the same room as you anyway!" 
Asuka retorted. She tured toward Shinji, "And if you don't stop 
laughing, I'll kick your teeth in. You, too, Wonder Girl!"
  Kyoko said, "I'm sorry, but we only have one vacancy. We actually have 
three rooms, ever since we changed part of the attic to a apartment, but 
two of them is currently being renovated,"
  "All right, nevermind," Ranma said, turning around.
  A girl emerged from the building. She had curly reddish brown hair. 
She noticed Ranma, "Ooh, who's that?"
  Ichinose said, "I dunno. I think he's one of those people that had 
children at a young age and those three kids behind him are his 
children,"
  Kyoko twitched a bit. She ignored her nosy tenant and said, "Um, the 
two extra rooms will be fixed by tomorrow. You would only have to room 
in one room for only a day. After that, there will be three vacancies to 
split among the four of you,"
  Ranma looked at Asuka and then back at the young girl, "Um, no thank 
you. I ain't staying in the same room with this girl,"
  "Ranma!!!"
  The young woman smiled, "You're welcome to sleep in my room tongiht," 
she said, walking up to Ranma. 
  "Akemi!" Kyoko said, embarrassed.
  Ranma looked at Akemi for a short moment. He then said, "All right." 
he turned toward the three children behind him and said, "Rei, Asuka, 
Shinji, you three can sleep in that free room tonight. I'll sleep in her 
room,"
  "What?!?" Kyoko and Asuka seemed to say at the same time.
  A young looking college student, getting home from his tutoring job, 
noticed the four people. He noticed that the young man looked to be the 
same age as himself, perhaps a little bit older, like around Mitaka's 
age. He didn't like that man already.
  "Um, what's going on Kyoko?" Yusaku asked curiously.
  "Akemi's boyfriend is here to sleep with her and he's brought his 
three children," Ichinose said.
  "What?!?" everyone seemed to say at once.
  
  Ranma leaned against the door of the room that was part of the attic 
that they were going to use for the night.
  "All right, how are we gonna do this?" he asked, "Tomorrow, there's 
going to be three vancant rooms but there's four of us.  Someone's gonna 
hafta room with the other,"
  "I'm not going  to room with you, that's for sure," Asuka quickly 
said, "And I'm not going to room with Wonder Girl nor Stupid Shinji,"
  Ignoring Asuka, Ranma said, "Shinji, you and I can room together. Rei 
and Asuka can have their own rooms. Is that all right with you?"
  "Um, sure," he said. Deep down inside, he wouldn't mind being roomed 
with Rei.
  "Or would you and Rei like to room together?"
  "W-what?!" Shinji said, blushing a deep red. His heart started to 
race.
  "Do you mind, Rei?" Ranma asked her.
  She said, "I don't really care. It doesn't matter to me,"
  Ranma said, "Y'know what, I don't think a girl and a boy should be 
roomed together. Shinji and I will split the room together,"
  "What about me? Don't I h-have a s-say in it?" Shinji piped up.
  "Well? What do ya want?" Ranma asked.
  Shinji was silent for several long moments. After a while, he opened 
his mouth and said, "I'll room with you, Ranma," He wanted to kill 
himself. Why was he such a wimp? Rei didn't mind but Shinji couldn't 
seem to get the right words out that would get him and Rei to be rooming 
together for the next week.
  Ranma got up, "Well, it's getting late. I'm gonna goto sleep. We'll 
sort everything out tomorrow,"
  "Where are you going?" Rei asked softly.
  "To that girl's room," he said, "I forgot her name. I think it was 
Akemi. Four people sleeping in one room is too much. I'm gonna sleep in 
hers,"
  Ranma left the room. He knocked on Akemi's door.
  She answered and was dressed in a very revealing night gown. The 
outline of her breasts could be seen through the somewhat transparent 
top half and so could her panties.
  She smiled at Ranma, "Hi. Please, come in,"
  "Thanks for letting me sleep here," Ranma said, entering. He looked 
down and noticed that there was only one futon. "Um, is that one yours 
or mine?"
  "Ours," she said with a grin.
  Shrugging his shoulders, he climbed in and said, "All right." 
  He closed his eyes. He was dead tired.
  "Let's fool around," Akemi said sliding into the futon next to Ranma.
  "Let's not,"

  Yusaku was in the hallway brushing his teeth in front of the hallway 
sink when Akemi emerged from the room. She looked like she hadn't slept 
a wink all last night. "You look like hell," he commented. "You should 
also wear something else besides that damn night gown,"
  "I feel like hell," she muttered, turning on the faucet and splashing 
some cold water on her face, "I didn't get a single minute of sleep last 
night,"
  "Y-you had sex all night long?" Yusaku asked, his eyes widening, his 
nose threatening to bleed.
  Akemi glared at Yusaku. 
  Ranma emerged from Akemi's room, feeling refreshed. He stretched his 
arms out and said, "Man, that felt good," He had a good night's sleep.
  Yusaku looked at Akemi. A trickle of blood started to flow from his 
nose.
  Ranma looked at Yusaku and smirked "Your nose is bleeding," 
  "I know,"
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders and walked over to the children's bedroom 
and knocked, "Hey, you guys awake? You better not be having some 
threesome in there. You're too young for stuff like that,"
  The door opened to reveal a zombie like Shinji.
  Ranma smirked "Lettme guess, ya didn't get any sleep,"
  "You're damn right I didn't," Shinji muttered, grouchy. He looked like 
he could rip Ranma's head off. Actually, he looked even more grouchy 
than Akemi. "I was stuck sleeping between Asuka and Rei. And both of 
them kept twisting and turning and I kept getting woken up!"
  Ranma chuckled, "Ya want me to hit a pressure point?
  Shinji said, "Nah. I'm okay. I can last the rest of the day," He 
stepped out into the hallway where he saw Akemi, who was clad in a 
revealing night gown.
  His nose started bleeding. Ranma chuckled. Shinji ran back into the 
room.
  "Where the hell are we?" Shinji asked. "P-people walk around in that 
kind of attire during this time?"
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders, "Forget about it. Let's wake the girls 
up. We have a lot of information to gather about this timeline if we 
wanna get a hundred on that report.
  Shinji and Ranma looked at Rei and Asuka. They were both sleeping in 
separate futons.
  Ranma smirked, "Hey, Rei and Asuka are sleeping. Now's your chance to 
steel a kiss,"
  Shinji blushed beet red. But then he realized that Ranma's teasing 
wasn't all that bad. Ranma was a guy, just like himself. That seemed to 
ease the embarrassment.
  "I'm not sleeping," Rei said, sitting upright. "I woke up about a half 
hour ago," 
  She looked at Ranma. Ranma smirked and looked at Shinji, "All right, 
so, Rei's awake. Asuka's still asleep. You can still kiss her,"
  Shinji blushed.
  Rei got up out of her futon, "I will go take a shower."
  Shinji's nose started to bleed again. Rei was clad in pajamas but the 
front of her shirt was wide open, allowing Shinji a good view of her 
breasts and flat stomach.
  Ranma smirked at Rei, "You cold?"
  Rei looked at Ranma curiously and then looked down. She realized what 
Ranma meant by that. She blushed a deep shade of red and closed her 
shirt. She looked down at the floor and said, "You embarrass me,"
  Ranma chuckled. Shinji left the room, his nose nose bleeding like a 
jugular vein. Outside in the hallway, he clamped his thumb and index 
finger around his nose and looked up at the ceiling.
  Yusaku and Akemi looked at Shinji as the young boy looked at the 
ceiling. 
  "Akemi, get dressed," Yusaku said.
  Akemi stuck out her tongue. She looked at Shinji for a short moment 
before shrugging her shoulder and going into her room. 
  Ranma emerged into the hallway again. He looked at Shinji, "Nosebleed 
again?"
  Shinji nodded slightly.
  Ranma laughed, "Oh, this week's stay here's gonna be some fun," After 
a short moment, he realized something. He turned toward Yusaku and said, 
"Hey, you have any shaving cream?"
    
  Kyoko was outside sweeping the sidewalk. She was wondering who in the 
world that Ranma Saotome was. And who those three children were. All she 
knew was that their names were Ranma, Rei, Shinji, and Asuka and that 
that were going to be staying for a week, give or take a day.
  She didn't really know if Ranma was Akemi's boyfriend or if Ranma was 
those three children's father. When Ichinose had said that, Ranma had 
seemed surprised at first, but simply shrugged his shoulders and made no 
mention of it. 
  Kyoko looked up toward the second story windows and saw Yusaku 
standing there, brushing his teeth. When their gaze met, Yusaku quickly 
turned his attention elsewhere.
  Her eyes widened when all of a sudden, she saw Ranma's  top half of 
his body pop out of the window. He was being choked by a very angry 
looking red haired girl. A small part of her face had a white foam on 
it.
  "I'll kill you!!!" Asuka shouted, trying to push Ranma out the window 
while simultaneously choking him. "How dare you put shaving cream in my 
hand and tickle my nose like that!!!!"
  Ranma was laughing. "Hahahahaha, that expression on your face was 
priceless!!!"
  Asuka cocked a hand back and punched Ranma right in the jaw. Ranma, 
being in such a precarious position, already half out the window, fell 
out the window when she puched him.
  Kyoko gasped as she saw Ranma fall out the second window. What shocked 
her even more was when Ranma twisted in mid air and landed on his feet 
gracefully. And after he landed on his feet, he looked up at the fuming 
red haired girl and grinned, "C'mon, Asuka, you know you can't hurt me,"
   "Fuck you!" Asuka shouted.
  She ducked her head back in the window. A moment later, her head 
popped back out as she threw a buck of water out, the contents dumping 
all over on a shocked Ranma, drenching him.
  Asuka grinned as she gazed down at the soaking wet Ranma, "I don't see 
you laughing now, oyaji!!!" She ducked her head back into the building. 
She walked over to Yusaku, who was staring at her in shock, and handed 
him the buckle back, minus the water. "Thanks,"
  Ranma was silent. He then smirked and took of his soaking shirt, 
exposing his well defined back for Kyoko to see.
  When he turned around, he caught sight of Kyoko. 
  "Hi," Ranma said, right before walking past her and back into the 
building.
  Kyoko stood there for a moment, wondering if she had just made a big 
mistake. So far, this Ranma and Asuka person seemed worse than all her 
tenants combined.
  "Who are these people?"

  Kyoko and everyone else were gathered in front of the complex. This 
was when everyone had been formally introduced everybody else. She had 
found out that Ranma was twenty five and that the three children were 
fifteen, Ranma the children's guardian. 
  Yusaku seemed to dislike Ranma a bit. Perhaps he viewed Ranma like 
Mitaka, as competition for Kyoko's affection. The young boy, Shinji, 
seemed to have developed a small crush on Akemi and glanced toward her 
whenever she wasn't looking. Kentaro has developed a crush on the blue 
haired girl, Rei. It seemed obvious to everyone that Asuka seemed to 
have very strong hostility toward her guardian, Ranma. 
  "Um, I'll see you later," Yusaku said nervously. He wished he could 
kiss her goodbye like the way a husband and wife would do. "I'm off to 
school,"
  "Goodbye," Kyoko said with a warm smile.
  Yusaku said goodbye to the three children and left.
  After he left, Akemi left for work and so did Yotsuya, where ever that 
was. Ichinose left with Kentaro, Kentaro saying goodbye to Rei before 
leaving, to take him to school and buy some groceries afterwards. All 
that remained at Ikkoku-kan were Ranma, Kyoko, and the three children.
  There was an awkward silence among them as they stood in front of the 
complex. Ranma didn't seem to notice because nothing seemed to bother 
him nowadays.
  "Um, the renovations for the other two rooms should be done by 
tonight," Kyoko said.
  "Good," Ranma said. 
  "So, what are we going to do now?" Shinji asked.
  Ranma reached into his pocket and pulled out a massive wad of cash, 
probably enough cash to build Ikkoku-kan. Kyoko's eyes widened at the 
sight. If this man had this much cash, why was he rooming at a place 
like this. Sure, it had a cosy feeling to it, but there were much 
better, better maintained, complexes where he and the three children 
could stay.
  Ranma split the wad of bills four ways, "All right, here's some money. 
Go buy some clothes, enough to last the week. I'm gonna go buy some 
clothes also and some food. We'll meet back here in two hours. Is that 
all right?"
  The children nodded.
  Ranma smirked as he handed Asuka a bit more money than the others, 
"Here's some extra money, go buy yourself a personality,"
  Asuka's glared at Ranma. She took his money and threw it in his face, 
"Here's what I think of your money, oyaji!!!" 
  The money fell to the ground and fluttered away when a strong gust of 
wind. What surprised Kyoko was that Ranma nor any of the children bother 
to go after it. It seems that money didn't really matter to them. Kyoko 
wondered if she should go after it. It was a lot of money, afterall.
  Shrugging his shoulders, Ranma said, "I was just joking around. 
Anyway, I'll see you back here in two hours,"
  Asuka hmphed. Rei and Shinji nodded. Together, all three children 
left.
  Ranma turned toward Kyoko and smiled.
  "Um, so you're only staying here for the week?"
  He nodded, "Yep. We're here to do some research. Once we're done, we 
leave,"
  "Oh,"
  "Well, see ya," he said, walking off, "I'll be back later....and you 
like Yusaku."
  Ranma disappeared around the corner.
  "W-what did he just say?"

  Two hours later, Ranma and the three children arrived at Ikkoku-kan, 
all three children coming from one street while Ranma the other. Shinji 
was carrying several bags that seemed to heavy for him.
  "Here let me help you," Kyoko said. She had been outside, about to 
feed Soichiro-san when she noticed their arrival. She rushed up to 
Shinji and took several bags, noting that the few she took was quite 
heavy. She was a bit surprised that Shinji was stronger than he looked.
  "Jeez, whatcha got in those bags?" Ranma asked. He had his own bag.
  "All of the girls' clothes," Shinji muttered, adjusting the bag. His 
arms were tired. He wished he hadn't bumped into them around town. Leave 
it to Asuka to take advantage of him and telling him that he must carry 
the bags because he was a guy and that was what guy's do.
  Ranma took several bags, looking into one of them. His eyes widened. 
There must have been twenty panties in there.
  "Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" Asuka nearly shouted at him. 
Of all the bags he had to look in, why did it have to be that one?
  "Jeez, what the hell do you need so many panties for?" Ranma asked, 
"We're only staying here for about a week. What's with you women. Do you 
wear different kinda panties depending on your mood? Jeez,"
  Kyoko glared at Ranma. This man was such a sexist pig.
  "What did you buy?" Shinji asked.
  Ranma reached into his bag and pulled out a pair of a pair of boxers.
  "That's it? We're going to be staying for a week, right?" Shinji 
asked, confused. He figured there should at least be some more.
  "Nope, that's all," Ranma said. "I'm gonna wear the clothes on my back 
for the week,"
  "That's so disgusting. You're going to wear the same clothes for a 
week?" Asuka nearly gasped.
  "Hey, I have no gripes with wearing the same pair of pants for a month 
if I had to," Ranma said, "However, I did buy a pair of boxers. That 
way, I won't be wearing the same pair twice in a row. I'll wear these 
boxers when I'm washing these clothes and the boxers I'm wearing. Y'see, 
problem solved,"
  "Gee, we sure have a real genius at work," Asuka muttered 
sarcastically.
  "Anyway, now that we have clothes," Ranma said, ignoring Asuka, "Let's 
go out and get something to eat," He turned toward Kyoko and asked, "Is 
there any good place around here to eat?"
  Kyoko was momentarily startled. She had been transfixed on the scene 
playing out in front of her. From what she had seen, all she could 
surmise was that Ranma was a sexist pig, which made her wonder how he 
and the polite Shinji could be part of the same gender and that Asuka 
seemed to hold some kind of feelings toward hims, what with that 
contemptuous exterior she had toward him.
  "What was that?" she asked.
  He repeated his question.
  "There's a really nice restaurant down the street, Star's Restaurant, 
that you might like," she replied. "It's just around the corner,"
  He smiled, "Thanks," 
  He turned toward Shinji and grabbed all of the bags out of his hands, 
holding them all with one hand, taking the other bags in a somewhat 
shocked Kyoko's hands before he entered Ikkoku-kan, emerging several 
moments later.
  "All right, let's go, my treat," he said as the three children 
followed him.
  Kyoko was silent for a moment. Maybe Ranma wasn't such a bad person 
afterall.
  "Hey, Asuka, maybe you shouldn't come with us because you look like 
you're gaining weight," Ranma teased, wanting to get a stir out of her.
  "W-what?!" Asuka nearly exploded.
  Kyoko face faulted.
  Perhaps not.
 
  Ranma and the kids sat down in the restaurant.
  "So, what do you want to do after this" he asked, nearly inhaling his 
meal. 
  Asuka watched him in disgust, and commented, "You're such a pig, 
Ranma,"
  "So?"
  "Well, I think it's a good idea if we chek out the newstands and pick 
up as many newspapers as we can" Shinji said, eating slowly, "If we read 
enough of the articles, we'll probably find some real good event for our 
group project,"
  "Good idea," Ranma said.
  Shinji smiled slightly, liking the praise. 
 "Hey, why are you praising Shinji?" Asuka said, eye narrowing, a tinge 
of jealousy flooding through her system, "I was the one that suggested 
it. I should be the one getting the praise,"
  "Ya want me to praise you instead?" Ranma asked dumbly, more 
interested in his food.
  "No! Not from you!" she replied, hiding a blush.

  Ranma and the children arrived back at Ikkoku-kan shortly after five 
in the evening, right around the time when everyone else was coming 
home. They were greeted by Yusaku who had happened to have come home 
from tutoring Kyoko's niece.
  "Hello. How're you doing?" Yusaku said polited. There was a 
nervousness in his voice because Kyoko's niece was everybit as in 
factuated with him as he wished she wasn't. It had made him high strung 
from the tutoring lesson.
  "Hey. Fine. You?" Ranma said. 
  "Okay," Yusaku replied.
  Ranma then walked past Yusaku and into the building.
  Yusaku watched as Ranma entered the house and made a left turn. Left 
turn? That would lead to Kyoko's apartment. Quickly, he rushed after 
Ranma, pretending he was also heading into the building. Once inside, he 
walked up to the phone and picked it up, pretending he was going to call 
someone as he wondered what Ranma wanted to see Kyoko about.
  Ranma knocked on the door, "Hey, Kyoko, you there?"
  Yusaku's grip on the receiver tightened. Kyoko! How can Ranma just say 
her name so casually? They don't even know each other!
  Kyoko answered the door. Her eyes narrowed a bit at Ranma as he smiply 
grinned.
  "I'd appreciate it that you don't call me 'Kyoko' like that. We don't 
even know each other," she said, her voice a bit harsh. She was angry at 
Ranma for what he had said to poor Asuka earlier, about her needing to 
lose weight. That was so mean of him to do something like that.
  "All right," Ranma said, a bit taken aback. He was surprised that 
Kyoko had this air of authority to her that he hadn't noticed before.
  "Now, how can I help you?" she asked after a deep breath.
  "You said the rooms should be fixed by now," he said, "I wanna drop 
some stuff off because the other room's getting crowded,"
  Yusaku found himself straining to hear. He was too far away and they 
were talking too softly now.
  "Come in, I'll go get the keys,"  Kyoko said.
  Ranma entered Kyoko's apartment.
  "What the?" Yusaku muttered, his eyes widening. Ranma was hear for one 
day and already he was making his move. He was just as bad as Mitaka.
  "Why are you so angry?" Asuka asked, nearly giving Yusaku a 
heartattack. She and the other two had finally come in from outside and 
had noticed how angry Yusaku looked. Funny, because he didn't look angry 
a second ago when he was outside.
  "Um, er, it's the person on the other line," Yusaku quickly liked.
  At that moment, the receiver started letting out a loud ring to signal 
that it had been off the hook for too long.
  Asuka smirked a bit. Shinji was confused. Rei remained silent.
  "Strange," Asuka said, smirking, "You must have been so angry that you 
haven't realized the guy had hung up on you about three minutes ago,"
  Yusaku gritted his teeth. Why did this red haired girl have to be so 
observant and smart? 
  He said nothing. It was best to say nothing and her think he might be 
a bit foolish than say something and erase all doubt of it.
  Ranma emerged from Kyoko's apartment. "Thanks for the keys, Kyoko,"
  Yusaku gritted his teeth. Kyoko? It's Karinin-san to you buddy!
  "Saotome-san, please, call me either Otonashi-san or Karinin-san," 
Kyoko said. She didn't like the casualness of Ranma calling her by her 
first name.
  All right!! Yusaku thought, nearly jumping up and down. You tell him 
that!! You show him who's boss!!
  "All right," Ranma shrugged his shoulders.
  "Are you still going to hold that beeping phone," Asuka asked, 
smirking still.
  Yusaku hung up the phone and simply walked by the three children and 
up to his room. It was no use, he couldn't hear what Ranma and Kyoko 
were talking about. He had a good idea what it was though. It was most 
likely Ranma trying to ask her out on a date, that cad.
  "What's with him?" Shinji asked as he watched Yusaku head up the 
stairs.
  "Beats me," Asuka replied with a shrug of her shoulders. She suddenly 
realized she had been around Ranma too much because she never shrugged 
her shoulders like that. It annoyed her that Ranma's personality was 
rubbing off on her.
  After Kyoko went back into her apartment, Ranma walked up to the three 
children and showed them the key, "Well, I got the keys to the 
apartments," He jerked a thumb at the two vacant room downstairs. He 
handed a key to Asuka and a key to Rei, "There ya go, your own 
apartments for the week,"
  Rei looked at her keys and then back up at Ranma.
  "It's about time," Asuka said, "I was getting sick of sleeping in such 
a cramped room. Now I can at least stretch out," 
  She walked up to the door with the room number that corresponded to 
the key. She opened the door and entered. The room was just like the 
other one she had been staying in. However, since this would be her own, 
it would be a lot better. 
  Looking around, she found it a bit below her high standards but 
tolerable. 
  At that moment, the ceiling opened up and a head popped through.
  "Eek!!!" Asuka screamed.
  Ranma and the others came rushing in. Asuka pointed at the head up on 
the ceiling. It took a moment before they realized it was Yotsuya's 
head. Somehow, he had made a hole in this apartment that lead him down 
Asuka's.
  "Hello," Yotsuya said, waving. 
  Ranma said, "It's only one of the tenants. It's nothing to worry 
about,"
  "But there's a hole!! He could peep on me!!" Asuka shouted.
  Shinji's nose almost started to bleed. He wondered what it would be 
like if he had Yotsuya's apartment and Asuka was changing downstairs. He 
left the room, as if uninterested in Asuka's problems.
  "So?"
  "So?!" Asuka's eyes widened, "What the hell do you mean by 
'So?'?!?!?!"
  "We're gonna be gone in a week so what does it matter?" he replied 
matter-of-factly.
  Asuka turned toward Rei and took her keys, "I'm going to take your 
apartment. You can have this one," She shuddered as she left the 
apartment. She went on over to the other apartment, the room right next 
to the one she had just been in. Shinji was looking out the window, 
standing pretty close to it for that matter.
  Not really caring about what Shinji found so interesting about looking 
out the window, she went into the other apartment.
  "There better be no peep hole," she muttered, "Even though I have a 
body worth peeping in on, I don't want anyone peeping in on my. That 
damn pervert. How the hell did he put a hole up there?" She started to 
meticulously check the walls for any holes, finding none. After that, 
she climbed ontop of the kitchen counter to check the ceiling more 
closely.
  "Nice panties," Ranma said, entering the room. He was just teasing, as 
always.
  "You pervert!!!" Asuka shouted, trying to hold her dress down. It 
didn't even occur to her that her dress came down to her ankles, making 
it impossible for Ranma to see her panties. In her attempt to block out 
Ranma's attempt at sneaking a peek, she ended up slipping and falling 
forward off the kitchen counter.
  Ranma quickly lept forward and caught Asuka. 
  "Let go of me!!" Asuka nearly shouted, more furious than grateful. "I 
wouldn't've fallen if it weren't for you!!"
  Ranma let her down and started looking around the room. He ignored her 
remarks about how much of an asshole he was as he looked out the window 
in back. 
  "Do you like it?" he asked.
  Asuka knew it was useless to insult Ranma. He never seemed to pay 
attention anyway. Well, she was going to find a way to get back at him.
  "Hmph, I guess it'll do," 
  
  The handsome Shun Mitaka, a tennis coach of a local tennis 
recreational center, decided to drop by unannounced that evening. Kyoko 
had accidentally left her watch there after she had left. It just so 
happened that Kyoko had been looking around for it in her apartment 
shortly before Ranma had knocked, asking if the rooms were ready.
  Since he had a phobia of dogs, it took him several minutes before  he 
managed to make his way past the dog. Entering into the apartment 
complex, he took several minutes to get his heart to stop racing. Once 
calm, he walked over to Kyoko's apartment door, gripping the watch 
tightinly in his hand. He was grateful that he had a reason to stop by. 
He would simply tell her he wanted to drop the watch off and perhaps ask 
her out on a date.
  He knocked on Kyoko's door. The door opened to reveal Kyoko, in all 
her slendor, making Mitaka grateful for having come here in the first 
place. Seeing her again made the trip worth it. 
  "Mitaka-san," she said a bit surprised.
  Ranma looked up from the table and gazed at the man standing in the 
doorway.
  "Oh, I'm sorry, you have company," Mitaka said, thoughts racing 
through his mind. Who was that guy that was in there, he thought. He 
couldn't help but notice that the man looked young, around Kyoko's age, 
and quite handsome. 
  He noticed three children sitting next to the man, all three of them 
probably around fifteen or so. They were all staring at him.
  Ranma shrugged his shoulders and turned back onto the newspaper on 
laid out in front of him on the table. He would have been looking 
throught he papers up in his apartment, but it didn't seem to bother 
Kyoko. Rei had asked Kyoko if she had any newspapers, and she said she 
did. However, she didn't want Rei to carry all the newpapers to her room 
so she offered to let her look through them in here. Shortly after that, 
Asuka and Shinji came around looking for Rei, the both of them ending up 
staying.
  When Ranma came around, it took Kyoko a short while to allow him to 
stay. It only seemed polite to let Ranma stay along with the children. 
However, now she was having her regrets now that Mitaka had dropped by 
unannounced.
  Asuka's eyes lit up at the sight of the handsome tennis coach. Rei 
showed no form of interested and Shinji simply turned back onto the 
newspapers.
  "Um, I came here to drop your watch off. You left it at the tennis 
courts today," Mitaka said, handing Kyoko her watch.
  "Thank you. I've been looking around it," Kyoko said gratefully.
  There was a moment of awkward silence. Mitaka would have asked for 
Kyoko if they could perhaps take a little walk, but now that she had 
company, it was totally different.
  Asuka smiled warmly as she extended her hand, "Hi. I'm Asuka. Soryu 
Asuka Langley."
  Mitaka smiled sheepishly as he took her hand and shook it. "I'm Shun 
Mitaka. It's a pleasure meeting you,"
  Asuka blushed slightly the shook hands. She then sat back down, gazing 
up at him.
  "This is Shinji Ikari," Kyoko said, guesturing, "Rei Ayanami. 
And....Ranma Saotome,"
  Shinji nodded, acknowledging Mitaka's presence. Rei looked at him for 
about a second before turning back to her newpaper. Ranma didn't bother 
looking up, already having seen Mitaka a second ago. He continued to 
stare down at the newpapers.
  "Um, I guess I came by at a bad time," Mitaka said, chuckling a bit.
  "I'm sorry," Kyoko said, "But I really appreciate you having dropped 
the watch off,"
  "I guess I better get going," he said, turning around and leaving.
  "I'll walk you out," Asuka offered, getting up and walking over to 
Mitaka's side.
  Mitaka's visage grew a bit nervous, "Um, there's no need. I can see 
myself out," He quickly turned around and left, while Asuka just stood 
there, watching Mitaka before he disappeared around the corner. After a 
moment, she sighed.
  "He your boyfriend?" Ranma asked Kyoko.
  Asuka glared at Kyoko. Competition....
  Kyoko nervously said, "Um, no. Not at all. He's the t-tennis coach of 
the local tennis club,"
  Ranma grinned at Asuka, "Hey, ain't that nice to hear, Asuka? Now you 
can have him all to yourself,"
  Asuka blushed, "You shut up!! It's none of your business anyway,"
  Shinji continued to concentrate on the newpaper. Or at least tired to 
concentrate. Rei seemed like she could care less.
  Kyoko said nothing but some thoughts ran through her mind. First off, 
Asuka looked too young for Mitaka. It also seemed like a crush which 
would most likely go away given some time....hopefully. Oh my god, how 
can I be thinking of such things?! Why am I getting jealous?!
   Akemi came into the room, "Was that Mitaka-kun I saw leaving in his 
car?" She was clad in her nightgown, which was odd because it wasn't 
even night time yet. It was only nearing twilight. As soon as her head 
peeked into the room, her eyes lit up at the sight of Ranma, "Ranma, 
you're back!"
  "H-hi, Akemi," Shinji said nervously. He took several glances at her 
but made sure his gaze didn't linger on her that long.
  "Hey, kid," Akemi said, to Shinji, winking as she entered the room, 
sitting down next to Ranma. Shinji blushed while Asuka glared at him. 
Shinji, seeing this, glared back at her, challenging her.
  Ranma said, "Aren't ya cold in that thing? I mean, you might as well 
wear nothing at all,"
  "Ranma," Kyoko said, "Don't go given her any ideas,"
  "Yes, yes," he muttered with a wave of his hand.
  Akemi stuck her tongue at Kyoko. She leaned against Ranma and said in 
a sultry voice into his ears, "I'll do as she says, not unless you want 
me to wear nothing, Ranma-kun," 
  She placed a hand on his lap.
  "If you two are going to engage in sexual acts, go elsewhere," Asuka 
said, glaring at Ranma and Akemi.