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Part 23
Potions and Devils.
Ranma Saotome walked calmly into the gates of Furinkan with Kuno following 
closely behind her. The pair remained relatively silent after leaving the Café 
and walking to the school Ranma had briefly considered skipping for the day to 
continue her research, but quickly dismissed it. She didn't want to worry Akane 
and Ryoga unnecessarily. She sighed as she walked into the building, a few 
moments later she was standing out in the hallway with a bucket in her arms. She 
could see Kuno lazily reading a book while holding a pair of them in one arm 
down the hallway.
"Since when did he become such a book worm?" she wondered idly, she really had 
no room to talk, when she wasn't with Ryoga or Akane she also had a similar 
hobby, at least she had a real reason for it though. Despite the distance 
between them she could still make out the title, 'Birds of Japan.' She snorted 
in mild amusement and looked out the window across from her. "It figures."
Class was relatively silent for the rest of the day and lunch came quickly. 
Ranma found herself standing next to Ryoga again. "Go eat with your fiancée."
The boy merely looked at her and frowned. "No."
"You can't ignore this forever, I know you've been avoiding her. It won't last 
long, just accept it," said the girl with an evil, yet amused smirk appearing on 
her face for a moment.
"Watch me," replied the boy stubbornly as he sat down next to her. "I've got 
other business Ranma. We need to talk about Akane."
"I'm not breaking the engagement," replied the red head lazily.
"I don't care, something's up with her, she's a lot stronger than she should 
be," replied the boy with a shrug. It was easy to hear the slight anger in his 
voice.
"So? She's been busy since I arrived in Nerima," replied the girl with a shrug.
"I don't think so, she's improved too much," Ryoga dropped off the conversation 
as Akane approached them cheerfully.
"Hi guys!" Ranma frowned when she noticed Akane wasn't looking at Ryoga at all.
"So, that's how it is eh? Oh well, it's not my problem, let Tendo deal with 
them," she returned to eating once again and peacefully exchanged pleasantries 
with both of her friends.
That evening Ranma sat in her room with a small pouch with Chinese writing on 
it. She smiled and poured the concoction onto a small piece of cloth and rubbed 
it in while wearing a thick pair of rubber gloves.
"Ranma, how are you doing? Will you be working tonight?" asked Cologne as she 
poked her head through the door.
"Sorry, not tonight, I've got other work to do," replied the girl simply as she 
focused on the task she was performing.
"What are you doing?" said the old woman as she hobbled into the room and looked 
down over Ranma's shoulder.
"It's something I picked up in China, the old man has a serious weakness. He's 
extremely perverted, and he gets most of his power from that," replied Ranma 
with a shrug.
"Did those spirit's tell you that last night?" asked Cologne.
"Most of them weren't very helpful, they thought he was a good student. I had to 
deal with a few guardian demons too. A few of them were pretty miffed and a 
little vengeful," said the girl without paying much attention.
"Guardian Demon?" the term seemed contradictory to her.
Ranma smiled. "Special demons, they keep tortured souls from escaping hell. Not 
really all that evil actually. They are a bit imposing though, and if you summon 
a spirit up from hell one of them comes with it, to make sure it doesn't get 
away," explained Ranma. "Most of your crack pot sorceresses and mediums either 
don't see them or ignore them. That's where I found most of the people I talked 
with last night."
"I see, tell me what are your plans for this evil pervert?" asked Cologne 
warily.
Ranma handed her the packet and smirked. Cologne couldn't help herself as she 
snickered and gave it back. "I like the way you think child."
"Yea, well I think I can whip up something to make sure it doesn't just wash off 
of him or wear off."
"Are you certain you can't kill him?" asked the elder hopefully.
"Pretty sure, he isn't a demon, and he isn't a threat to humanity, or anyone 
else for that matter, he's just annoying. With a record like his I don't think 
anyone will mind if I torment him to death though," replied Ranma with a shrug.
Happosai jumped from the rooftops of Nerima and glanced around in search of more 
of his ill-gotten prizes. A large sack of panties and bras was thrown over his 
shoulder and he cackled to himself as he spotted another clothes line nearby. 
He easily hopped along the tops of cars and signs to reach the line and hummed 
merrily to himself as he plucked the undergarments off of the rack. He stopped 
cold and looked at one of the pieces in his hand. Caught between two bras was a 
pair of silk boxers. "Gah!" he tossed it do the ground in revulsion. "How dare 
someone make a pair of those out of silk! A waste of good material!"
He froze in place while balancing on the line as he felt a presence behind him. 
He slowly turned around to see a cloaked figure with glowing yellow eyes 
standing on the line behind him.
"Happosai," said a warped and inhuman voice as the creature stared him down. The 
old man wasn't sure what it was exactly, but he didn't really want to find out. 
"Bye now," chimed the pervert as he jumped from the line and landed neatly on 
the street. He looked up only to find the mysterious figure was gone. He spun 
around, quickly jumping away barely in time to avoid a well placed punch that 
shattered the pavement.
"Who the heck are you?" snapped the old man angrily.
The thing merely laughed and stalked forward. Happosai saw the cloak flutter in 
a slight breeze for a moment and gasped as the gentle peek of cleavage was 
visible for a moment. 
"Sweeto!" Happy found himself sailing away as soon a he jumped towards the 
prize, easily swatted away by the creature.
"Hey!" A new voice entered the fight and the cloaked woman stopped for a moment 
turning slowly around.
"You leave that sweet little old man alone!" cried a young blonde as she stepped 
forward pulling what looked like a broad sword from her side. The creature's 
eyes dimmed for a moment as she glared at the newcomer.
The girl was dressed in a green Chinese style dress and had her hair put up in a 
ponytail. She also had a strange design on the chest of the dress, a circle with 
a twin dragon embroidered into it. The girl took up a fencing stance and smirked 
at her. "Youma Slayer Keiko is here to be your opponent now!"
The girl looked down suddenly as Happosai rested between her breasts. "Thank you 
for saving this defenseless old man from this evil monster!" She planted her 
elbow in his head and he fell away for a moment. "Hands off pervert!"
The creature wasted no time, it quickly charged forward slamming it's fists into 
her face before jumping up over her head and onto the top of a neon sign waiting 
to see what she would do.
Keiko reeled from the blow momentarily and staggered back, she turned and looked 
at it for a moment growling under her breath as she jumped upwards after it 
swinging her sword with amazing skill and slicing the sign into small sparkling 
pieces.
The thing reached around her strikes and twisted both of them into the air using 
her body to cushion the landing. Keiko seemed out for the count and it turned 
towards Happosai again. Happy jumped away and onto a rooftop laughing madly as 
he vanished into Nerima. A low curse was muttered under the thing's breath as 
she walked towards a patch of shadows leaving Keiko alone on the ground.
The girl woke up slowly and stood just as she vanished into the shadows. "No you 
don't! I'm gonna kick your ass for that!" she screamed as she reached into the 
front part of her dress and tossed several throwing stars into the shadow where 
it had vanished. Jumping to her feet she raised a spell ward over her head and 
gasped as the light from the paper revealed nothing. 
A crackling sound erupted in her ear and she winced. "Keiko, did you get it? Are 
you all right?" called a high pitched voice from the small earpiece that rested 
in her ear canal.
"No, sorry Auska-chan, the Youma got away. I met this really weird old guy, I 
think he's the one that's been in the papers lately," said the blonde with a 
heavy sigh.
"Did you get him?" said the voice with a small hint of hope in her voice.
"No, he got away, besides it's not my job to catch him," retorted the girl 
lazily as she replaced her sword and turned away.
"If you see him again, cream him! My favorite pair got stolen last night!" 
retorted the angry girl on the other end.
"I'll remember that Auska," said the girl with a sigh.
Happosai sat on a rooftop looking thoughtful. "Hmm, why would I have a monster 
after me? I haven't done anything to them in a long time." He tried his best to 
think, after a moment he slapped his palm. "Maybe it's that power orb I 
stole...nah...could be that time I got my hands on the queen of hell?...nope, 
she's the only one who actually enjoyed it. Hmm," Happosai would have sat longer 
trying to remember, but the call of the lingerie was too much for him to resist. 
"Oh well, maybe I'll remember later!" He forgot about it completely within five 
minutes.
Ranma stood in the Tendo home and handed the patch to Akane. "Why me?" said the 
girl with a heavy sigh.
"Because he won't trust me enough to do it, he knows what I am," replied the red 
head angrily.
Ryoga sat nearby at the Shogi table ignoring the events around him. Soun looked 
up from the game they had going and frowned. "It isn't wise to anger the master 
Ranma."
"What's he gonna do to me? I'm a sorceress," replied the girl with a shrug.
"Remember Akane, put it on him real good, once it takes hold there isn't 
anything he can do to get rid of it so get clear." The Tendo girl nodded 
reluctantly and looked at the patch. "Don't hold it too long either, I don't 
want any of this stuff to get on you."
Meanwhile, Hikaru Gosunkugi stared at a book in frustration. "Damn it!" He 
fumbled through the pages, he had found a spell that boasted it grew arms. His 
shoulders where killing him and he felt like his back was about to break. The 
seven arms, and one stub flailed about wildly. He could only control two of them 
at a time and the others grabbed, smacked, and basically destroyed anything they 
touched. Including him. "Ow! Quit it!" he snapped as one of the hands repeatedly 
slapped him in the face. It stopped and went off looking for more interesting 
things to do as he desperately searched for the counter spell. The arms did 
everything they could to stop him, flipping pages randomly and basically making 
a pain of themselves. 
Tatewaki Kuno stood admiring the fine morning, it was a weekend and school was 
out for the day. He sighed contentedly and looked out over the porch of his 
newly constructed home. It was a small house for the grounds, only slightly 
larger than the Tendo home; he didn't need such a grand home as he once had any 
longer; he lived alone now. The thought was very unpleasant, but much more 
bearable than it had been before. At one time he had actually been afraid to 
think about his tragic family, especially on the grounds. Now he was strangely 
contemplative. 
After a few moments he had a whim, he opened his wings and jumped upwards 
catching an air current and sailing out over the rooftops of Nerima. He dove and 
rose flying where the winds took him and not really caring. After about an hour 
he slowly descended and landed quietly on the opposite side of Nerima ward. 
"Hello," said an aged voice.
Kuno turned slowly and saw the creature staring him down with a smirk on his 
face. "You were late for your training today." 
"Pardon?" asked the boy in confusion.
Happosai merely smiled at him and sat down smoking his pipe. "Oh well, it can't 
be helped, we'll start now."
Ranma stared down at the broken and beaten form on the ground and sighed. She 
lifted him off the ground and frowned as his wings hung limply behind him as she 
dragged Tatewaki Kuno away from the mob of angry women. "What the hell is wrong 
with you Kuno?"
"It isn't my fault!" snapped the boy in anger as he struggled to sit down on the 
bench she had led him too. 
"What the hell were you thinking running around with that old fool?" snapped the 
girl as she sat with him and looked towards a fountain in the center of the park 
they had stopped in.
"That thing had apparently decided that I am to be his heir," snorted the boy in 
disgust. "Whether I want to be or not."
"I see, hopefully that will be taken care of tonight. I don't know if it will 
help you or not, but if we're lucky he'll leave Nerima altogether."
Akane smiled at her work and looked on nervously. Somehow she had managed to 
screw up the beautiful patch Ranma had made for her to put on his back.
"Oh, Akane! Thank you! I'll never take it off!" cried the old man with tears of 
joy on his face as he planted himself firmly between her breasts. 
Moments later he was sailing into the air above Nerima. Akane huffed for a 
moment and turned away. "I hope she knows what she's doing."
A few minutes later Happosai looked on in confusion as he struggled to walk. 
Everywhere he went women ran screaming away. That in itself was not unusual, 
what was unusual was the fact that he hadn't done anything to them yet. The aged 
pervert turned slowly around when he heard an unfamiliar laughter. 
Ranma stood over the scene laughing hysterically as she watched the pervert 
dance around in confusion. Happy turned slowly towards her and simply stared. 
"How do you like my woman repellant old man? It's a very special mixture I put 
into that patch," she smiled even wider as a slow dawning crossed his face.
Happosai snorted, "I'll just take it off then!" he took off his shirt and pulled 
at the patch ripping it off easily.
"You old fool, you don't really think I'd let you off that easily do you?" 
called Ranma playfully. "There is a spell around you that will hold that sent 
for years."
Happosai froze and stared at her in disbelief. He shook with rage and anger, 
there was nothing more horrible that she could have done. He burned angrily 
letting his aura show before resorting to his final attack. He sat down on the 
ground and cried.
"Boo hoo! How could you do such a thing to a poor little old man!? What have I 
ever done to you?" 
Ranma turned away from him never once losing the smile on her face. "Your 
perverted and pathetic existence is enough Happosai, you can thank Kojiro 
Hadoshi for that patch by the way. He asked that I use the symbol of the school 
you abandoned." With that said Ranma jumped away vanishing into the streets of 
Nerima.
Happosai's eyes went wide with shock. "Kojiro? He's been dead for years!" The 
old man slowly began to realize that this young sorceress might be a bit more 
trouble than he had originally planned. He had to do something fast, but there 
wasn't much he could do without a recharge. Weakly he staggered off in search of 
a young girl, even an old one would do. "Damn you Ranma."
Inside the Cat Café, Cologne sat in front of the crystal howling with laughter 
as she watched the events play out in front of her. Ko li watched the scene 
uncomfortably nearby and turned away.
"She always act that way when borrow Ranma's ball?" asked Talcum.
"You would know as well as I do," replied the other girl with a shrug. 
Talcum blinked and continued her work.
Soun Tendo walked along the street with his arms full or groceries. He stopped 
cold when he saw a strange sight, in front of him was Happosai. The old man 
looked almost dead, he was crawling on his hands and knees reaching towards a 
young girl who staggered back as if she had been hit with tear gas. 
"Master, are you all right?" he said as he dropped the bag and rushed to the 
man's side.
"P-p-pretty g-g-girly!" managed the old man.
Soun looked around and saw a box nearby, thinking quickly he rushed over and 
grabbed it. When he returned Mr. Panda was standing with Happosai in his claws. 
He blinked and stopped for a moment as the panda made an attempt to smile at 
him. "T-thank you," he said dumbly as the animal put the old man in the box and 
produced a book of stamps, a marker, and some tape.
"What are you doing?" said a weak voice from inside the box.
"Why, we're express mailing you to the North Pole Master!" replied Soun 
cheerfully.
Ranma stood on a rooftop and frowned as she watched the scene play out below 
her. She felt a twinge of anger as she watched Genma and Soun package the old 
man away and attempt to stuff him into a mailbox.
"You stupid old man! Stop acting like that, he might figure it out dope," she 
snorted and mentally noted that she'd have to have a talk with him later about 
this. Fortunately Soun didn't seem to notice.
Ryoga sat at the table and sighed as Ranma, sat with Soun toasting the end of 
the evil master together. He glanced at Akane and sighed, something wasn't right 
with her and he couldn't figure out what it was. After a moment he tore his gaze 
away from her as she passed him a warning glare and said nothing.
"Man she can be frigid when she want's to be," he thought privately as he went 
back to watching Ranma celebrate her victory. She wasn't drunk, but Soun 
insisted that she have a glass with him after what she did for him. She had been 
very polite and accepted, the glass still sat half full in front of her as Soun 
steadily became more and more loose. 
Ryoga seemed to notice that she seemed more reserved than usual tonight. A 
thoughtful look stayed on her face as she sat with the older man. She turned to 
gaze at him for a moment and he turned away in disgust shutting off his mind to 
her. He didn't particularly want to hear what she had to say right now.
Something did slip through though and he froze. "It's not over yet," he 
whispered quietly repeating what the girl had told him. 
For the first time that night Akane looked at him without trying to hide it. She 
remained silent and sipped at the cup of tea in front of her. Her thoughts that 
evening had been preoccupied with trying to get out of this mess Ranma had seen 
fit to place her into. The evil was gone for now and she had other concerns to 
deal with. She liked Ryoga well enough, and he was a good friend, distancing 
herself from him had been difficult. Fortunately he seemed to have the same 
plan. She wanted to spend more time with Ranma and try to talk her way out of 
it; unfortunately, the girl wasn't very receptive and seemed to be hard to get a 
hold of. Akane suspected she knew what was going on between her and Ryoga and 
was trying to keep to herself more. She had a lot of feelings to sort out and 
all this excitement wasn't helping that process any at all.
Ranma looked back at her as she watched her and her father. She could see a 
small amount of pain in the girl's eyes, but something else was there too. It 
almost looked like hope, and desire. She shook uncomfortably at that, but the 
feeling quickly faded and she realized that it was never there to begin with. 
"What the hell am I thinking?" she thought as she shook her head and turned away 
from the girl once again. 
TBC...
Next time: Wheee! I get to play with some new characters! You may be wondering 
what the hell is going on right now, but don't worry it will get cleared up 
soon. Ranma has a new problem to deal with and Happosai is nowhere near dead. 
You'll just have to read and find out for yourself!
Ja ne!
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