by Vahn » Thu Jun 26, 2014 12:04 am
Ok so apparently this discussion was taking place with Law Ohki in another topic of mine. Which is cool. The air walking I was unsure of myself but i kind of wanted to keep it using the jet principle. Of course I wanted something to make Ranma stand out but maybe air walking on top of herb like floating later one would be too oped so...
Here an Alternate Take , tell me which scene works better .
************* ALTERNATE TAKE **************
Tsunade had been very surprised when Ranma learned tree water within a few minutes of being shown, then to her further shock , the girl had been able to do water walking with relative easy after a few minutes of trying. Of course that was not to say that Ranma was walking on water all that well, the red head face showed great concentration as she took step after tentative steps over the water.
If Tsunade did not know any better, she said that the girl was able to grasp the principle behind the technique and all she needed to do now was apply it via trail and error.
"WAHHH!" Ranma shouted as she plunked down into the water and broke the surface a moment later before swimming to shore with her tiny arms.
"You tried too much too soon," Tsunade told the red head girl as the little girl made her way out of the small lake. True, Ranma had been molding her chakra coils diligently for the past few months but without having any natural chakra to begin with her reserve were smaller then most.
"Che," Ranma complained as she dragged herself out of the lake before falling flat down onto her face. "Stupid tiny reserves." She grumbled. She knew the reason why she fell, she ran out of chakra which was the main energy that would let her support herself over water.
"Well if you keep at it pretty soon you would be able to do it pretty easily," Shizune with little Tonton in her arms told the disappointed red head.
"Of course I will!" Ranma said confidently as she rolled onto her back and stared at the sky. "I'm gonna master this sucker in no time just you wait and see!"
Tsunade had to crack a smile at that, the little redhead confident attitude reminded her of another similar redhead with her resolve. "Sure sure, keep molding chakra and you MIGHT make a half decent ninja some day." She teased the little girl.
Ranma however snorted at the woman comment. "Who said I ever wanted to be a Ninja? I rather be a martial artist." She countered.
"It's called Taijutsu get it right!" Tsunade lectured the girl. "Honestly, learn the classification of a shinobi at least!"
"Pff, we ain't no body teaching me," Ranma shot back before getting back up again and to both women surprised stat in a meditative position and started to do the chakra molding seal a look of intense concentration on the little girl face. "Ox..Rooster...Boar...Dragon.."
Nodding , Tsunade and Shizune left the girl alone as they also went back to their own training for the day. It was time for the sage to teach her apprentice about all the more exotic type of poisons found only in this area. Strong enough to put down even the hardiest of shinobi while at the same time make a strong analgesic if mixed correctly.
++++ Later that Evening ++++
Tsunade and Shizune who had left hours ago finally returned with their leave basket filled to the brim with the exotic plant.
"And if you chew it and keep it seal on the inside of your cheek you can spit it out a moment notice, the trigger of course would be up to you," Tsunade told her apprentice who was nodding.
"Hai Sensei," Shizune replied as she burned the knowledge into her mind to experiment with later.
"Now this little bad boy will sell for quite a high price once we do a bit of refinement, I am thinking capsule form," Tsunade said grinning thinking of the new gambling money she'd have and all for plucking some plants in the wilderness.
"T-tsunade-sama..." Shizune said in a strain voice, of course gambling was her main motivator.
"Hey, I taught you stuff so it wasn't all for me!" Tsunade defended herself before looking around for her little redhead hellion only to find her still in the same exact position by the edge of the lake.
"Is she still molding her chakra?" Shizune said in genuine surprised. Usually children of the shinobi village weren't that diligent. In fact only the bloodline family would force their children to train this diligently which explains the gap between civilians and the noble's of Konoha when they finally went to Shinobi school.
Shrugging her shoulders, Tsunade lay down her haul and set about setting lighting up a camp fire. They weren't near any villages today so camping out was their only option.
An hour later when dinner was prepared Shizune looked over at the still occupied girl and called her name. "Ranma, dinner's ready."
To Shizune surprise who knew the little girl had a voracious appetite, she still sat in the same position her hand still doing the seals as she was taught. Her mouth mumbling it's incantation.
"Hey brat, food!" Tsunade in a raised voice but still saw the red head unresponsive , her hand still set on it's task.
Taking a pebble from the fire Tsunade bounced it on her hand a few time before smirking evilly as she flicked the rock at the little girl head.
To both the sage and her student surprise the redhead tilted her head aside letting the pebble miss her completely before righting herself. Her hand still performing the molding motions.
Narrowing her eyes, Tsunade took several pebble and shucked them toward the redhead faster this time.
Ranma sensed the multiple attack homing in her her head and let out a frustrated breath as she was forced to stop her practiced. Turning only her upper body slightly around and with only one hand she intercepted all the tiny pebbles between her fingers and showed them off to her blond attacker.
"Blehh!" Ranma said as she pulled down her eyelid at the legendary sage before dropping spreading her fingers wider letting the caught projectile fall right next to her.
"Wow," Shizune said blinking. "That's really good reflex."
Tsunade cocked her head to a side studying the little red head girl as if trying to determine something. "Hey brat, " She said as she scooped up a hand full of tiny pebbles form nearby. "Catch."
Ranma turned around as she saw dozen of projectiles headed toward her and was force to stand up to duck, weave, dodge, and bat some of them away. Yet many of them were able to get through her defense and tagged her leaving a stinging sensation where it struck.
A moment later the barrage ended much to Ranma surprised still she decided to stop practice for the day, clearly they wanted her to join them for dinner.
Tsunade looked at the little red head as she approached the campfire a thoughtful expression on her face.
"Itadakimasu," Ranma said politely as she began to chow down on the what she like to call Wild's Soup.
Looking over at Shizune , Tsunade beckon the girl over and the two started to whispered conspiratorially to her apprentice.
Ranma sweat dropped when she saw the two women huddled up talking to one another while glancing at her from the corner of her eye. It was a few minutes before nodding to each other they turned back to face her.
"Okay Ranma," Tsunade said non-nonchalantly looking at her fingernails in a bored expression. " I have decided to generously allow you to become a probationary student, you want to brat?"
"What?Really?" Ranma asked shocked. The woman had been adamant about not teaching her anything so why now? "Why?"
"I have to admit," Tsunade said after a few thought second. "You might have some skill and it would be a shame to see just how far you could go with some guidance."
"Really?!" Ranma asked incredulously again. She had only been bugging Tsunade about it for the past couple of week but received a firm no each time.
"Yes, really," Tsunade said with an amused smile. "So what's your answer brat?"
Eye widening at the offer, Ranma grinned. "Well I ain't gonna say no!" She retorted as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Who know maybe she could refine her anything goes even better with these two women training her.
"Of course Shizune is your senpai, so you'll have to listen to her," Tsunade said giving Ranma a grin.
"Let's get along well together Ranma-chan," Shizune said smiling at the little girl.
"Hey, I ain't got no problem with that Shizune-Senpai," Ranma responded eagerly. Finally, real training from capable teachers in this world but saw Tsunade hold up a hand. "Yeah?"
"Aren't you forgetting something?" Tsunade asked smirking and smiled even wider when she saw the little girl confused look.
"Umm..." Ranma raked her brains but couldn't come up with anything, what did Tsunade want? "Okay , I give up."
Smirking Tsunade stood tall in front of the redhead towering over her. With her arms folded across her impressive bust line, the slug princess looked down upon the little girl with a imperious look. "You forgot to bow to your master to make it official Ranma-chan ."
"Urk!" Ranma said but since this was ancient Japan-ish, she knew they use to do it like this back in her own home country. So she prostrate herself in submission to Tsunade as respectfully as she could.
At that point Shizune couldn't hold her laughter in anymore and laughed hard only to be joined a second later by Tsunade.
Ranma head shot up and looked from the Shizune to Tsunade before narrowing her eyes at the busty woman. She just been hazed! "Tsunade no baka!"
**** 3 years later ****
"Soo damn cold!" Tsunade complained as she was covered in a thick fur coat shivering . "Damn it Shizune when is it my turn with Ranma-chan?!"
"Not for another hour master," Shizune said happily as she snuggled the red head into her body some more.
Ranma just groaned as she had to deal with it. Three years, three years she had been with these two women and they were still the same as before treating her like a cuddle toy!
Currently the three had been on their way to the Land of Snow because Tsunade had been banned temporary from the Land of Fire gambling dens. Who knew criminals sticks together?
For some odd reason Ranma body as if in reaction to the cold changed and started to warm up protecting the girl from the oppressive cold. In fact she didn't even need to wear a coat like her Sensei and Senpai. When the women had found out that Ranma became a mobile heater they decided to take turn as they passed her back and forth between them for warmth.
Ranma had a sneaking suspicious that this had something to do with what Herb did to her.
Tsunade however chalked it up to a Uzu bloodline trait, she had long ago explained to the little redhead that she was a Whirlpool survivor.
During the intervening years Ranma had decided to corrected the two women on the issue of her gender and that she was actually a having Tsunade give her an impromptu biology lesson, stuff that Ranma still shuddered in horror of having learned, about the difference between male and females Ranma dropped the issue. She'll show them one day that's for sure. Her past however , was none of their business and they most likely wouldn't believe her anyway. Still if they want to keep on thinking she was an Uzu survivor then so be it, it'll make it simpler for her to integrate.
"Buu~ You're so nice and warm Ranma-sama," A tiny pink and white strip slug said right next to Ranma neck.
"I do concurred Atsuko-chan," A tiny blue and white strip slugged on the other side of Ranma neck.
"How could you abandon me Katsuyuu!" Tsunade said miserably as she shivered out in the cold alone looking very pitiful.
"I would never abandon you Tsunade-hime," Katsuyuu answered gently. "You know I wouldn't be able to survivor without Ranma-hime warmth."
"Bah!" Tsunade replied, technically Katsuyuu was there to make sure Ranma was okay, Ranma own slug summon had been out and about also ready to heal the girl in a moment heart beat if her new ability to stay warm was some fluke.
"I already told you two, stop calling me Hime Katsuyuu, and you Atsuko, some adding sama to my name." Ranma said tiredly. From her posture, one could tell that this was not the first time she had this debate with the two gastropods.
"Of course Ranma-hime," Katsuyuu replied as politely as possible.
"Oh~ ! Not a problem Ranma-sama!" Atsuko replied happily.
"I give up," Ranma said finally in a flat tone and hug her head dejectedly.
An hour later and it was Shizune hugging Tonton for warmth while Tsunade had mashed the young red hair girl to her bosom. That was the place that needed the most warmth in her opinion. Now that Ranma had grown taller and bigger, there was no longer any worries of Tsunade killing her via suffocation.
"Ahhh, Ranma! You're so warm! You skin is soft and silky!" Tsunade said happily as she snuggled rubbed her cheeks against the redhead own.
"Uhh...you're kind sounding a bit pedophile-ish there sensei," Ranma said flatly at her mentor's tone.
"Mmmm if you're this warm I might not care," Tsunade replied as she now had Ranma awesome warmth all to herself.
Sighing Ranma accepted her fate for now and let the Sannin continued to hug her. She had to admit learning medical jutsu from Tsunade was an eye opener and while she could perform it, she would never use it on herself unless she absolutely have to, her ki itself is good enough for that however she did learn Ninjtsu , that was really helpful especially the seals to hold things into scrolls.
Sealing was something Ranma took to like a duck to water mainly because it reminded her a lot of martial arts calligraphy and partly because the ability to store things away without having to use her hidden space , like water and food, was a big motivator.
Unfortunately Ranma aptitude in the sealing arts only further made Tsunade insist that she was an Uzu survivor, even her using the anything goes skills in hand to hand was attribute once more to being an Uzu clansmen.
While Ranma didn't mind the mistaken identity they act like if one weren't part of a blood line that they would be less superior. She found out later from Shizune that that was how Shinbo's generally thought of dojutsu and that bloodline traits were highly prized among the hidden villages.
That had began Ranma impromptu lesson about the various known bloodline clan a lesson that had left her shocked. Ranma had assume incorrectly that the bloodline traits Tsunade had been talking about was like in Japan, nobles marrying one another and calling themselves better then commoners.
Apparently in this world, a blood line is an actually boost in power and ability. First she learned about Konoha bloodline, the village she apparently belonged to now thanks to Tsunade inducting her as her student. People that could talk to dogs? People that uses bugs and can order them to spy? People that could take over others minds? Even people that could see your chakra energy and even copy your skill upon one viewing?
What kind of bullshit cheating abilities was that?!
Next Ranma was educated about the other villages and their known bloodline ability. Water controllers? Sand controllers? Mist controllers? Fire controllers? Wind controllers?! What was this? Avatar the last air bender?! Ranma seen the series before and to her it was just as similar.
Then there were the one with the physical traits, tough skin, bones as weapons, animal like traits...the list went on and on. Thank to Tsunade being a medical ninja she was able to break down the biology and traits for Ranma to learn.
At first Ranma had scoffed at being what was called a medic-nin, To her medic-nin didn't sound like the fighting type but after learning from Tsunade, Ranma now realize a medic-nin could be one of the deadliest enemy another shinobi face due to all their intimate knowledge of the shinobi's body.
Ranma later found out that Tsunade great strength came from her bloodline but her Taijutsu,Ninjutsu and Genjutsu were all of her own ability. That made Ranma respect her that much more.
Of course the one ability that Ranma had yet been able to master , one that she really wanted to learn was genjustu. She did not know why but tried as she might Ranma couldn't create any fake illusion her only consolation was that direct illusion type attacks does not work on her. She could be fooled to see a hamster as a rock but when trying to turn her into said rock or trap her into an illusion it simply felt as if it grabbed hold of her for a second before being burnt away.
Tsunade said Ranma should be thankful for having such an immunity but lamented that she wouldn't be able to teach her some of her better Genjutsu move like disguising herself. Which was the real reason why Ranma wanted that skill set. To be able to create an illusion of her male body would have been a god sent but it's been three years and she still show no aptitude for it.
"Tsunade-sama," Shizune said as she looked at the forest area.
Ranma had also stiffen whens she felt the presence of several dozen people surrounding them. Tsunade was already in alert mode. Judging by the way the group was moving in to encircled them in the blizzard Ranma knew that these weren't passer by.
Still, they knew exactly how to deal with these kind of stragglers. Ranma had also learn that in this world it a brutal dog eat dog kind of world. You either die or you live, it was just her luck that she was found by Tsunade who had yet kill anyone on their journey but Ranma knew that one day she herself would have to kill. After all she wasn't stupid, Shizune poison abilities were obviously meant to be fatal while all the technique Tsunade was teaching her were all killing moves.
Suddenly the bandits sprung their trap and surrounded the group or so they thought, looking confused the bandit leader started to search for the three women.
"Alright , hands over all your valuables if you want to live!" The Bandit shouted in a demanding voice, a katana in his hand pointing at the trio.
Already other furred made a loose circle around the trio of woman, some of them even leering of the older two with unconcealed lust.
"Oh! Can I take them out please?" Ranma asked from between Tsunade bosom. Fighting these bandits were a good practice of her skills.
"There's like eight of them,you think you can handle them runt?" Tsunade asked, she had taken to call Ranma runt when she noticed that the girl was shorter then other girls her own age.
"Just wait until I'd turn back into a guy," Ranma grumbled.
"You said something?" Tsunade asked not hearing what Ranma had said due to the noise from the blowing wind.
"I'm sure I can!" Ranma replied confidently.
"Hmm," Tsunade said musing. The eight looked weak and Ranma did need field experience. "Okay, they're all yours."
A moment later much to Tsunade disappointment, Ranma warmth left her.
"Okay, you want our money?" Ranma said looking at the confused bandit who witness their whole exchanged. "Come take it of you can."
"Get them!" The bandit leader yelled as all the men rushed the two grown woman, the leader himself running toward Ranma.
"Arggh!" Ranma shouted as she grabbed her her. They were all suppose to fight her! Didn't they know the rules?!
"I'm gonna fetch a good price for you wench!" The bandit leader said menacingly as he swung the flat of his blade at the little girl hoping to knock her out. To his surprise the little girl rushed him and the next think he knew there was an explosion of light in his eyes.
Kneeing the man in the face, Ranma grabbed the man hood and yanked down on it hard making him fall face forward. Onto the snow, making the handseals quickly she touched the snow on either side of the man.
"Koori seihonsuru No Jutsu!" Ranma shouted as she infused the chakra into the snow making it harden into ice before watching the glacier attack imprison the man tightly.
"You done already brat?" Tsunade asked as she sat on one of the defeated bandits with Shizune doing the same.
"God damn it!" Ranma pouted as she looked up to see the other seven bandits had been defeated with ease. She wanted to test out other jutsu and this was her best chance.
"Awww, it's okay maybe another time," Tsunade said with a sympathetic nod. It was not her fault the men did not few the little slip of a girl as a bigger threat then the two adults with her. "Now come jump into my bosom, I need your warmth Ranma-chan."
Shizune watched with confusion on her face as Ranma broke down in a gale of laughter holding her stomach while pointing at Tsunade saying something about a "reverse Happosai "before doubling over in laughter again laughing as she laughed at their teacher.
Tsunade just looked at the red head strangely, she swore the smallest thing set the girl off laughing. In fact it like that one time she wanted to name a little black pig P-chan.