Disclaimer: The Ranmaverse and all of it's characters are property of the brilliant Takahashi-sama and Sailor Moon characters belong to Takeuchi-sama and I claim no ownership of them. Only the story belongs to me.
"I'm okay." Rei said with a half smile as she made herself a cup of tea.
"You sure you shouldn't stay home today?" Akane asked after a moment looking over at her with concern.
"No I think the kids at school are going to need someone to talk to like I did last night. The least I can do is be there for them like you were for me." Rei said with a smile as she walked over and startled Akane by hugging her.
"Glad I could help." Akane said softly after the shock wore off and she returned the girl's hug.
"I'm going to leave a bit early today, going to see if the teachers need my help with anything." Rei informed her after letting her go a moment later.
"Okay Rei. Here." Akane said with a smile as she handed her her bento box.
"Thanks." Rei called over her shoulder with a wave as she headed out to put her shoes on.
"She gonna be okay?" Ranma asked as he walked into the kitchen a moment later.
"I don't know Ran-kun. Only time will tell." Akane said with a sad smile as she handed him his box and started out with her own. After a quick breakfast, they put on their shoes and grabbing their bags headed off for school.
"You really surprised?" Ranma asked shaking his head as he looked down at her.
"No but that doesn't mean I can't complain about it." Akane grumbled as the obnoxious laughter rang out around them.
"Ranma-sama fear not, your darling Kodachi is here to save you from that wretched peasant." Kodachi called out as she saw him and tried to glomp him but missed when he stepped out of the way.
"Get lost Kodachi, you aren't wanted here." Ranma spat at her as he moved over to stand next to Akane.
"Oh Ranma-sama that wretched girl has put a spell over you, but fear not my love, I shall break it when you taste from my honey lips." Kodachi promised as she once again tried to latch onto him, but this time was stopped when Akane pulled Ranma away. By now a crowd had gathered around them including the girls who were staring at Kodachi as if she had grown at second head.
"I will only tell you this once Kodachi, stay away from Ranma!" Akane yelled as she placed herself in front of him and settled into a stance.
"I will teach you manners peasant and then I shall take Ranma-darling back into the arms of his one love." Kodachi cried out as she pulled her ribbon out and got into her own stance.
"He already is!" Akane yelled out as she jumped into the air and attacked Kodachi with a kick aimed at her midsection. Kodachi caught Akane's ankle with her ribbon and swung it away from her to try and send Akane flying, but Akane grabbed onto the ribbon and used Kodachi's own momentum to pull herself back into Kodachi and connected with her stomach in a double leg kick.
As she pushed off of her she back flipped away and landed facing her just as Kodachi hit the ground. "Stay away from us Kodachi. Ranma doesn't want anything to do with you." Akane said as she stood over the girl and looked down at her shaking her head.
"You dare mar this beautiful body?!" Kodachi shouted as she started to get back up.
"Moron." Akane said shaking her head as she reached out for her mallet and swung it toward Kodachi just as she finished righting herself and sent her flying out of the school yard.
"I swear the Kunos have something seriously wrong with them." Ranma said shaking his head as they started toward the school doors ignoring the questions that the students were throwing at them as they passed.
"No kidding." Akane said nodding in agreement. "Who do you think will be next?" Akane asked after a moment as she turned to look at him.
"Not sure, but if I have to take a guess I would say Shampoo and the old ghoul." Ranma answered after thinking for a moment.
"You're probably right." Akane agreed after a moment.
"Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, sai, zen. Akuryo taisan!" Mars called out sending one of her wards to the forehead of the first Youma to keep him busy for a moment while she turned her attention to the other. "MARS FIRE WHIP!" Mars called out as she grabbed a hold of the fire whip that appeared and started to swing it at the Youma like she was a lion trainer.
After a moment she tried to click on her communicator to contact the others but by then the first Youma had gotten loose from the ward and attacked her before she was able to. "Damn Youma." Mars growled as she jumped away from the Youma who were now closing in on her.
"There's a fight near by." Ranma said as he jumped off of the fence and took off running in the direction of the battle.
"Of course there is. There always is." Akane said rolling her eyes as she shook her head and took off after him. "It's one of those scouts." Akane said as she caught up to where he had stopped at the edge of the park.
"Yeah and she's losing." Ranma said shaking his head a moment before charging in to help.
"And here we go again." Akane said with a snort as she took off into the battle with him.
"'Kane help her with that one, I'll get this one." Ranma called over his shoulder as he squared off with the Youma in question.
"Youma no baka!" Akane cried out as she pulled her mallet out and hit him over the head to give the girl a breather. "You okay?" Akane asked not taking her eyes off of the Youma as she stood between it and the scout.
"Yeah Akane I'm okay. Just a bit out numbered." Mars said with a laugh as she stood up and dusted herself off.
Akane? Why doesn't she use formal speech since she doesn't know me? Akane wondered to herself before shaking her head and turning her attention back to the Youma in front of her.
Some where off to the side she could hear the cry of "Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken!" and knew the Youma Ranma was dealing with was about to be in some serious pain.
Forgetting about Ranma for now, Akane swung her mallet again hitting the Youma and sending it flying back a bit. "Damn these things have a hard head." Akane said sighing as the Youma stood back up and started charging after her.
"Duck!" Mars called over her shoulder and Akane quickly did as she was told. "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" Mars called out as she readied her bow and let the fire arrow fly. It pierced the Youma's flesh in between his eyes causing him to fall backwards screeching in pain.
"Back up you two!" Ranma called over to them and as Akane turned to look noticed he was moving in a spiral.
"Get down!" Akane shouted to Mars rushing over and pushing her down as she hit the deck.
"Hiryu Shoten Ha!" Ranma called out as the whirl wind started up around him and the Youma lifting them all into the air. A few moments later, Ranma landed safely on the ground next to them and they watched as the whirl wind died down and the two Youmas crashed to the ground.
"Thanks you two." Mars said with a smile as she stood back up. "You two should head back to the temple. I'll watch them 'til Sailor Moon shows up." Mars said with a smile before walking off toward the Youmas. Akane and Ranma stare at each other confused before shaking their heads and heading back to the temple.
"That was Rei wasn't it?" Ranma asked as he turned to her with raised eye brows.
"It had to be." Akane said as she shook her head to try and clear it. "I'll make a snack." Akane said more to herself than to Ranma as she turned and headed into the kitchen.
"I'll watch." Ranma said with a smile as she followed after her. A little while later they were sitting at the table munching on their afternoon snack when Rei came in.
"Hey you two, how was school?" Rei asked with a smile as she came in and sat down at the table.
"Well we had to deal with Kuno's sister Kodachi and we learned something interesting after school." Ranma said as he looked over at her with raised eye brows.
"Yeah very interesting. I'm sure you would think so too Sailor Mars." Akane said with a smirk. Rei looked up at her startled and stared at her in shock for a moment.
"How did you know?" Rei asked shaking her head confused.
"Oh let's see. You called me Akane as if you knew me. And you told us to go back to the temple." Akane pointed out laughing when she saw Rei face-fault.
"Oh crap I did didn't I? Damn and I thought Serena was the ditz." Rei said shaking her head at her slip up.
"Does that mean the girls are...?" Akane let the question hang in the air as she raised her eye brows at Rei.
"Yes but you can't say anything to anyone. None of our families know." Rei explained as she pleaded with both of them to keep their secret.
"Hey no worries we all got our secrets." Ranma said with a smile as he reassured her.
"Thanks. And by the way, Ranma those attacks you were using, do those happen to be chi based?" Rei asked after smiling and then turning serious.
"Yeah why?" Ranma asked looking a bit confused.
"These new bunch of Youmas that have been attacking, they are stealing chi now on top of energy like they normally do. And for the first time people are starting to die.
"We figure if we can find some way to fix the problem with their chi we might be able to save some lives, plus if we can add chi to our attacks it will make them stronger against the Youma." Rei explained as the phone started ringing in the background. She went to stand to go get it but heard her grand father answering and so stopped.
"Well Dr. Tofu taught me some pressure points ta help the flow of chi, I can teach you girls that plus I should be able to show you how to do chi attacks, shouldn't be too hard to add that into the attacks you have already." Ranma informed her after thinking for a moment.
"Sorry Sensei, yesterday it was Kuno and today Kodachi was waiting at the school for us to arrive. They are two of the people we were trying to get away from. We tried talking to them but they didn't want to listen and attacked first. We were only defending ourselves." Ranma explained as he bowed to him.
"Ah I see. Well do try to keep fights away from school." He said with a bow to them before heading back out of the room.
"Hai!" Ranma and Akane called back after him.
"Of course." Akane said matching his smirk as Rei watched from off to the side. After a moment they jumped into the air and began trading punches and kicks at lightning fast speed. As Akane went to try a round house her attention was pulled away by a scream coming from Rei.
They both turned to find her hunched over holding onto her head. "Rei!" Akane cried out as she landed on the ground and rushed over to her.
"Rei you okay?" Akane asked worried as she gently shook the girl's shoulders.
"Rei?" Ranma asked softly when she still hadn't answered Akane.
"An evil is coming." Rei answered after a moment as she turned and looked up at them.
