Secrets of the Past
By: Koryuu Cialce
Disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 isn't mine, its Rumiko Takahashi's, and Naruto's not mine either Its Masashi Kishimoto's. And please...be kind.
"Talking"
Ranma talking to Kitsune+
'Genma-panda signs'
'Thoughts'
/Sound effects\
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Chapter 4
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After Ranma, Kitsune and Kasumi got back inside the house, Ranma headed for the bath+First the neko-ken and now Kasumi knows about you, What next?+
+Who knows...let's just hope that we get a break first.+ Kitsune said.
+Yeah.+ Ranma said and began getting ready for his bath+A long break.+
+Hey, Ranma?+
+Yeah?+
+Don't turn around...theres a cat here.+ Kitsune said.
"Ca-ca-ca-cat!!!" Ranma screamed and dove for the tub, the cat following close behind.
"Nihao!" Shampoo said as she came up out of the water, instead of a cat, "So Ranma...you are a man!"
"Why...where you a cat...?"
"I so happy!!!" Shampoo shouted and hugged Ranma.
"Ranma?" Kasumi said form out side of the bathroom, "Ranma?" She called again and opened the door, pausing at the sight of Ranma with Shampoo latched onto him, "I'll come back later..." She said and left.
+I think you can kiss any food, for the rest of the week, goodbye.+ Kitsune smirked and left the room.
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"The next day, after Ranma completely dominated Genma in they're morning fight, he went searching for Kasumi+Kitsune? Have you seen Kasumi?+
+She's over by the garden watering the plants with Akane. Akane.+ Kitsune replied.
+Thanks.+ Ranma said and walked around the house to where the garden was, "Hey Kasumi, About last night..."
"Yes?" Kasumi smiled.
"I'm sorry..." Ranma admitted.
"What happened?" Akane asked.
"Shampoo decided to join Ranma in a bath last night." Kasumi said.
"You pervert!!! How dare you cheat on my sister!?!?" Akane shouted, pulled out her mallet and launched Ranma into the air.
+I thought you weren't going to let her do that anymore.+ Kitsune called to the retreating little speck in the sky."
+I thought I deserved this one...+ Ranma sighed+What the heck!?+ Ranma said as he noticed a small blur coming right at him.
+What's wrong?+ Kitsune asked.
+Talk later!+ Ranma shouted and barely managed to maneuver around a wooden staff, wielded by an old lady, she had long white hair and a green robe...she was also two feet tall.
"You're not too bad...son-in-law." She said and roof-jumped until she was out of sight.
+What did I miss?+ Kitsune inquired as he finally arrived.
+I have no idea...+ Ranma said and made his way back to the Tendo dojo.
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Ranma got back to the dojo at the same time as Shampoo showing up, "Nihao!" She smiled as she carried two large boxes into the house.
"Oh, Shampoo, you haven't been around here lately." Kasumi said.
"Coming home dinner." Shampoo said as she pulled a few bowls of ramen out of her boxes.
"Coming home-you're moving here!?" Ranma demanded in shock.
"Yes, she's opening a ramen shop in the neighborhood." Kasumi smiled and began eating.
"I've heard the entire story from Shampoo." The old lady, who attacked Ranma, said, "Be a man. marry Shampoo."
"Excuse me, have we met?" Kasumi asked.
"Oh no...It's that old...thing" Ranma said.
+Old thing?+ Kitsune asked.
+She attacked me after Akane sent me across the city.+ Ranma explained.
"She's great-grandmother, Cologne!" Shampoo said.
"Ranma is Kasumi's fiancée!" Soun glared at Cologne.
"Our way is to marry a strong man." Cologne said and glared back.
"You're Japanese is quite good." Kasumi observed.
"I haven't lived a hundred years for nothing!"
"Just get one thing straight. I'm not even thinking about marrying Shampoo." Ranma said as he finished his ramen.
"Ranma? You come here for second." Shampoo said and led him to the bathroom, where she threw off her clothes.
"If-if-if you think you can get to me like that..." Ranma stuttered and turned away...which didn't help due to his natural byakugan ability.
"What you talking, dummy? What you do about this body!?" She demanded and sprayed herself with water, changing herself into a cat. Shampoo watched as Ranma beat himself senseless on the wall, to try to escape. After changing back and waking Ranma up Shampoo began her tale about her curse.
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Flash back
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Two weeks ago, at Jusenkyo, Shampoo and Cologne stood on top of the bamboo poles which grew it the springs, "You dare to return to China without killing Ranma? You have broken our laws! You must be trained again...here I come!!!" Cologne shouted and jumped at Shampoo, who joined her in the air. After a few seconds, Cologne found an opening and knocked Shampoo into a spring.
"Ohh...too bad. She fall in spring of drowned cat." The Jusenkyo guide said. "There is tragic legend of cat who drown there eighteen hundred year ago. Now whoever fall in spring...take body of cat." The guide finished as a small cat crawled out of the spring.
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End flash back
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"And so it happened." Shampoo said, "Is your fault!"
"How is it my fault!?" Ranma demanded.
"You're the cause of all this, yes?" Cologne said as she entered the bathroom and bonked Ranma on the head.
+I'm gonna kill her...+ Ranma growled, "I've had just about enough of you're loony talk!" Ranma said and tried to kick her. Cologne just chuckled as she knocked Ranma's other leg out and hit him into the wall as he was falling.
+She dies...+ Ranma declared.
+Just don't do it all over the floor.+ Kitsune said from the tub as he watched with Shampoo.
"Get back here!!!" Ranma shouted when Cologne ran out of the room.
"Snot-nosed kid...why don't you catch me...? If you can!" Cologne said as she jumped the Tendo's wall and ran down the street. After running a mile or two Cologne stopped, "If you're this desperate I might as well show you your place, splitting cat hairs!" Cologne shouted and created a few illusionary clones.
'This is interesting...' Ranma smiled, "That looks fun...mind if I try?"
"Foolish child...this technique is only used by masters, you wouldn't be able to do it without a week of practice!" Cologne smirked.
"Really...? Splitting cat hairs!: Ranma said and also made some clones, though not as many as Cologne, "It's easier then I thought."
"Impossible. Ohh...you're the one." Cologne said.
"The one?"
"The same day that you and you're two pets came to our village, I felt a powerful demonic aura."
+I remember that!" Kitsune said as he arrived, "That was when you got cursed and I fell over laughing, I laughed so hard that I let some power out by accident.+
+I hate you...+ Ranma said, "Sorry, I'm not the demon..."
"If that is the truth...then with you're speed of learning the splitting cat hairs, you'll make an excellent groom for Shampoo."
"I'm not her groom!" Ranma shouted.
"In a day or two...you'll be begging me for the chance to be Shampoo's groom." Cologne said and poked Ranma with her staff before roof-jumping away.
+Are we going now?+ Kitsune asked.
+Just a sec...+ Ranma said and took off the blindfold, "Byakugan!" He said and examined the spot where Cologne poked him+Thought so...she did something...best I can tell it has to do with...heat?" Ranma said and put the blindfold back on.
+We can worry about that later...it's almost time for you and Kasumi to make me supper.+ Kitsune said and ran for the dojo, Ranma right behind.
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The next day Shampoo was making a ramen delivery when she remembered Cologne's words that morning, "I did a job on the groom-to-be's body...He'll be begging to marry you within a few days."
Shampoo decided to make a quick visit to Ranma's school, "Nihao!" She said as she got there and saw Ranma playing soccer, "Hurry and ask me to marry you."
"Tell that old...thing, That I've never been in better shape!"
"But how long will that last?" Cologne said from right beside Ranma, causing him to jump in shock, "See you soon!" She called and jumped over the school fence.
+Not if I can help it.+ Ranma grinned and kicked a nearby block of cement at Cologne...before he stopped and watched as a man dressed in a white robe jumped and met the block in the air and moved his hand, causing the block to be cut in half...quarters...eights...etc. By the time he landed there wasn't anything left of the block.
"Shampoo!!!" He shouted and hugged Ranma, who kicked him across the field and into the soccer goal.
He got up with no apparent injury and put on a pair of glasses, "Hey...you're not Shampoo." He said...and hugged Akane, "Shampoo!!!" He spent the next three minute climbing out of the hole he made when Akane used a mallet to pound him into the ground.
"Who are you anyway!?" Ranma demanded.
"I am Mousse. I am the man who is it be Shampoo's groom." Mousse said.
"What you talking about? We only friends from child times." Shampoo said with a bored look.
"Mousse! Weren't you once spurned by Shampoo?" Cologne said as she came back to the school.
"But...that was...when we were only three!"
"Age makes no difference!" Cologne said, "It has already been decided, This man it to be Shampoo's groom." She pointed at Ranma.
Soun Tendo materialized out of nowhere with a megaphone, "Have you no ears!?!? Ranma is engaged to Kasumi!!!" He shouted.
"You have a fiancée...and yet you...with Shampoo." Mousse said and pointed at Ranma, "Enemy of all women!" He said and kicked at Ranma Who jumped over his leg, "Blow of the swan-fist!" He waved his arm and Ranma went flying back into a wall.
"Swan-fist...? He's carrying a weapon." Akane said.
"Be careful...Mousse is a master of hidden weapon." Shampoo said as she helped Ranma back to his feet.
"Just as the swan floating quietly conceals it's feet beneath the water...so it is impossible to see what's in my hands!!" Mousse waved his arm at Ranma again.
"Impossible!? Ha!" Ranma shouted and punched the incoming arm, Ranma just stared at the swan training potty that Mousse dropped.
"A training potty? What an insult. An insult too grievous to bare." A student said.
"That does it..." Ranma growled and kicked the potty, destroying it on contact.
"Then you'll fight...?" Mousse said, "These are my terms! If I win-"
"You can't have Shampoo." Cologne interrupted him.
"...then I will take you're women!" Mousse finished and pointed at some random student.
"Umm...why don't you put you're glasses back on? And she's not up for grabs...how about my fox?" Ranma said and gestured towards Kitsune.
+If you lose on purpose I'm going to kill you...+ Kitsune growled.
+Don't worry, I'm only doing this because I don't think Kasumi would be very happy if I bet her.+
"What's so great about a stupid fox?" Mousse asked.
"He holds grudges." Ranma said as Kitsune leapt at Mousse and got his glasses.
"...Ok...the fox is the prize. Now give me back my glasses!" Mousse sighed.
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That night, Ranma and Kitsune were about to take a bath+So what do you think?+ Kitsune asked as he jumped in the water, sending a small splash at Ranma, who was still getting cleaned.
+I don't think he'll be a prob-+ Ranma stopped when the water hit him+Ouch! how hot is that!?+
+Not hot enough." Kitsune said and began glowing, after a few seconds he stopped+Much better. Something wrong?+
+You said it wasn't hot enough and yet it felt like it was boiling...+ Ranma said and poked the surface of the water+Ow!!! Thats too Hot!!!+
+It's the same temperature as normal...you said that when Cologne poked you it had to do with heat, right?+
+I forgot about that.+ Ranma admitted, "Byakugan." He said and took a closer look+Yeah...it's about heat...looks like it made my ki extremely vulnerable to heat. Just a sec.+ After a minute of standing there Ranma got in the water+Thought so, If I completely stop my ki flow then I'm fine. I just hope nothing happens, it's harder to keep myself like this then you'd think+
+this could be trouble if you get splashed during the fight, they're not going to let you take a break to get hot water and stop you're ki flow.+ Kitsune said.
+This could be bad...+ Ranma said and finished his bath.
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Three days later, near the Furinkan High's soccer field, a bunch of people gathered to watch the fight, "Where's the groom?" Cologne asked when she noticed that Ranma was late.
"He offered to run a few errands for me." Kasumi smiled as she ate a bowl of ramen that Cologne had given her, "I don't think he'll be much longer."
"Too bad he can't have a man-to-man fight...I would have liked to see that." Cologne said.
"Why can't he have a man-to-man fight? He was just fine this morning."
"He's still a man!?" Cologne asked, "He hasn't gotten wet in the last few days!?"
"He has...yesterday Mr. Saotome knocked Ranma into the pond."
'Has he found a way around the full-body-cat-tongue pressure point? No, That's impossible!' Cologne thought.
"Hey Mousse! Ready to fight?" Ranma asked as he walked up to the arena.
"Finally here, Saotome?" Mousse asked.
"Yeah, gonna use you're potty again?" Ranma smirked and got into a fighting stance.
"It's time you learned the true terror of the hidden weapons! Blow of the chicken egg!" Mousse shouted and raised his hand to the heavens...with a chicken in his hand. The chicken layed some eggs, which Mousse caught and threw.
"What's so scary about a few eggs?" Ranma asked and caught them...a stupid move because they blew up in his face+Ok, He's dead.+
"Take this!" Mousse shouted and threw dozens of bladed projectiles, all of which also had some type of rope or chain attached, allowing Mousse to manipulate their flight.
"Hey! Watch it!" Ranma shouted as he received a few small cuts.
Off to the side Cologne watched intently, "Ranma won't win, Mousse is not only a master of hidden weapons but he is quite skillful at using them in interesting ways."
"Oh? How so?" Kasumi asked.
"Just keep watching."
"Are you finished?" Ranma asked as Mousse stopped his barrage of throwing weapons.
"Just getting started." Mousse smirked and pulled out eight shurikan and started juggling them, "Fear the attack of the infinite shurikans!" He said and threw them at a bunch of different angles. After throwing them Mousse ran up to Ranma and started fighting...until, without warning, he jumped and caught one of the shurikans and threw it again.
+Infinite is right...he keeps throwing them so they'll come back...this is getting boring.+ Ranma said as he dodged the eight projectiles again.
+Just beat him already.+
+Easier said then done, He's good. I can't find a place to attack and not get hit.+
+So just get rid of what would hit you.+
+...I knew that...+ Ranma said, caught a shurikan and used it to knock three more out of the air.
"Not bad." Cologne said, "Normally, when one is in that situation, one doesn't think to do that."
"Eat this!" Ranma shouted and punched Mousse in the face, knocking his glasses off.
"You won't get me that easily." Mousse said and threw a smoke bomb at the ground.
+I'm just going to raise the difficulty up a notch.+ Ranma grinned and took off his blindfold, "Byakugan." Ranma said as his white eyes became much more intimidating, and he saw Mousse sneaking around through the smoke+Got any idea how to end this quickly without anyone seeing anything that I could use against them later?+
+Yeah...before the smoke clears...obliterate him.+
+...works for me.+ Ranma said and ran through the smoke, straight for an unsuspecting Mousse. To all spectators, Mousse just flew out of the smoke, crashed into a tree and was buried under a mountain of weapons, but to Ranma and Mousse he got punched in the face five times, kicked everywhere else more then enough times and got all sixty four ki/chakra points hit twice. Ranma quickly put his blindfold back on and waited for the smoke to clear+Where did all the weapons come from?+
+My guess is that he was somehow using his ki to hide all his things...when the ki was sealed the weapons appeared.+
+So that's it...+ Ranma said and turned to Cologne, "I won."
"Yes you did...very impressive. Now how did you get over the full-body-cat-tongue?"
"Is that what it's called...? I didn't do anything to it, I just found out how to get around it until I get the antidote from you."
+You could just take some time and figure it out yourself.+ Kitsune stated
+It's more satisfying to beat her at her own game.+
"Around it?" Cologne asked.
"I just stop my ki flow and I can take the heat." Ranma smirked and walked over to Kasumi, who was checking the pile on Mousse.
"Hello Ranma, do you think you could dig him out while I start dinner?"
"Yeah, I left the groceries on the counter. See ya." Ranma waved before he started moving the mound of metal.
+I'm going with Kasumi. See you later.+ Kitsune said and left.
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The next day, at a local pool, Ranma was competing in a contest to see who could make the biggest splash+Watch this!+ Ranma said as she climbed up the ladder to the diving board, "Bonsai!!!" Ranma shouted and pulled a triple double-front flip with a 1440 degree spin and finished by axe-kicking the water.
+Not bad...however, you got rid of a third of the water in the pool.+ Kitsune said and shook the water out of his fur+Oh no...not now.+
+What?+ Ranma, still under water, asked and turned to see Shampoo's cursed form swimming right beside her, "Yaaa!!!" Ranma shouted and swam for his life.
"Wow, Ranma can swim!" Some student said as Ranma broke every swimming record ever made.
+Get to the edge so you can get out!+ Kitsune shouted.
"Yaaa!!!" Ranma continued and swam towards Kitsune, looking for a way out.
+...If anyone asks, I will deny knowing you.+ Kitsune sighed as Ranma rammed the side of the pool and got her head stuck in it.
After getting Ranma out of the pool, Kitsune found a kettle of hot water+Here's the water to change her back.+ Kitsune said as he walked into the shed where Ranma and Shampoo were.
+Thanks.+ Ranma said and threw its contents at shampoo. "Did you want something?"
"Yes!" Shampoo smiled, "Very happy news! There is brand-new pill...can cure full-body cat-tongue."
"Really!?" Ranma practically teleported to her side, "What's it called!?"
"Is called phoenix pill."
"As in the bird of fire?" Ranma asked.
"Champion of heat resistance!" Shampoo smiled, "Great-grandmother has one."
"Where is she!?" Ranma demanded.
+Here we go again...+ Kitsune sighed and followed them out of the shed.
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"Here we are." Shampoo said when they got to a restaurant.
+Nekohanten?+ Kitsune read the sign+Cat cafe...you're worst nightmare.+
+Not quite.+ Ranma said and stepped inside.
"Oh, groom...you've finally decided to marry Shampoo?" Cologne asked.
"No...just hungry, I'll take eighteen bowls beef ramen and the phoenix pill." Ranma said.
"...So Shampoo told you...9800 yen for the ramen, but you'll have to work for the pill."
"Work?" Ranma asked and set a ten-thousand yen bill on the counter.
+If Genma ever found out how you made you're money...either he'd do it or steal yours.+ Kitsune said.
+Whats wrong with winning a few fighting tournaments and getting twenty-thousand yen every week or two?+ Ranma asked.
"To get the pill, you'll have to steal it." Cologne said and gave Ranma 200 yen change, "Tell you what...I've been looking for an extra waitress or two, how about you?"
"What do I get?"
"A reason for staying around the restaurant, a thousand two-hundred yen an hour and five bowls of free ramen a day." Cologne said.
"...Or two...? Mind if I bring a friend?" Ranma asked with a look of revenge on his face.
+If you mean...+ Kitsune growled.
+I mean...+ Ranma smirked.
"It's fine to bring a friend...deal?" Cologne asked.
"Deal." Ranma said and sat down to wait for his ramen.
+I am going to kill you...+ Kitsune growled.
+Hey, you're always looking for more money, plus it's five bowls a day, free!+ Ranma grinned.
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The next day, Ranma and...Kitsuna entered the Nekohanten, "We're here." Ranma called into the back of the building.
"Ah, groom...this is you're friend?" Cologne asked as she came into the room, "I'm Cologne, elder of the amazons, nice to meet you...?"
"Kitsuna Uzumaki, nice to meet you too." Kitsuna smiled, a Kasumi-like smile+I am sooo going to kill you for this.+
+But you do nice-girl so well.+ Ranma snickered.
"Nice to meet you Kitsuna, you're uniforms are in the back."
"Thanks." Kitsuna said and followed Ranma to the back, "hemm...two Chinese uniforms, different colors too...flip a coin for the red one?"
"Fine, heads!" Ranma called as Kitsuna flipped the coin.
"Tails." Kitsuna confirmed, "Ok, I get the red outfit and blue apron and you get the pink outfit and white apron.
After changing, they began the cruel, life-threatening event of waiting tables. "Groom, Here's some ramen, for table six." Cologne set a bowl on the counter.
"Coming." Ranma said and tried to grab the pill, on a chain around Cologne's neck.
"No Groom, Take the ramen." Cologne kept trying to give Ranma the bowl, coincidentally thwarting Ranma's attempts to get the pill.
"Here's five more orders for table five." Mousse said and tossed the bowls at Ranma.
"Hey Kitsuna, help." Ranma called as she tried to balance the six bowls, two on each arm, one on her head and one on a pair of chop-sticks she had in her mouth.
"Ranma, we agreed...you get tables one though seven and I get eight though fourteen." Kitsuna said as she set two bowls down for two people.
"Groom, Three more bowls for table one." Cologne called as Ranma set down her first bowl.
+I hate you all...+ Ranma growled.
+I love revenge...+ Kitsuna smiled.
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A week later, Kasumi decided to visit the Nekohanten, "Hello." She said as she entered...and stopped to watch Ranma walk past. She was balancing twirling bowls of ramen on sticks, five in each hand, had a tray, with six more bowls, balanced on her head and somehow managed to juggle six more bowls with her feet as she walked, "Ranma?" Kasumi asked.
"Don't...if you break her concentration she'll probably drop all that ramen all over the place." Kitsuna said, "Want a bowl?"
"Yes, thank you...excuse me, weren't you the girl who was skating with Ranma?"
"That was me." Kitsuna said as she handed Kasumi a menu.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Kasumi Tendo."
"I know." Kitsuna smiled and walked away after taking Kasumi's order.
"Groom!" Cologne called.
/Crash!!! Splash!!!\ "Yaaaaa!!! Hot hot!!!" Ranma quickly poured a cup of water over, now his, head and jumped around trying to cool off, "Why did you do that!?!?"
"Never mind that...come with me." Cologne said and walked out the back door, trying to hid a smirk, "You can come too." She called to Kitsuna and Kasumi.
"Why do you want to make a fire in the middle of summer?" Ranma asked as she saw the camp fire shampoo was tending to.
"You'll see. Here I have a bag of sweet chestnuts." Cologne said and held up a small bag," Watch carefully." She said and tossed a hand full into the fire...and shot her hand in the fire. A second later she had all the nuts she had just thrown in.
"Ah! That is legendary technique, Kachuu tenshin amaguriken." Shampoo exclaimed.
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? That's a weird name." Kitsuna said and went back inside.
"Amazing, I couldn't see her move her hands." Kasumi said as she tried one of the nuts, "Mmm...would it be ok if I took some of those home for the family?"
"Go ahead." Cologne smiled and turned to Ranma, "If you can master this then taking the pill will be no problem." She said and followed Kitsuna back into the Nekohanten.
"...Kachuu tenshin amaguriken...? Wasn't that the attack Ryoga used?" Ranma thought to herself and started towards the door, completely forgetting that the fire was in the way."
"Um...Ranma?" Kasumi asked.
"Yeah...? Is something burning?" She asked after a few seconds.
"Is dangerous to stand in fire." Shampoo said and poured a bucket of water over Ranma's leg.
"It's a good thing Kitsuna isn't here..." Ranma sighed.
+What happened-?+ Kitsuna started.
+-Nothing! Nothing at all!+ Ranma said and searched for another bucket to soak her foot in.
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A few days later, all the Tendo's were getting dressed up, "Everybody ready!?" Soun shouted from the front door.
"I'm ready, father." Akane said.
"Do you know where Ranma is." Kasumi asked Nabiki.
"Probably setting fires in the yard with his friend again."
"Come on Ranma, Hurry up." Kitsuna said as she sat on the porch and watched Ranma burn herself again.
"This is harder then you'd think." Ranma grumbled, "I have to use ki to increase my arms speed and I also have to keep the ki out of my hands so I can stand the heat."
"Hello groom. Have you mastered the kachuu tenshin amaguriken yet? Lookie Lookie! Heres the pill that will let you take the heat without any effort." Cologne smirked and side-stepped Ranma's first lunge, and simply batted away any further attempts at getting the pill, "You're still too slow." Cologne said and picked all the nuts out of the fire in less then two seconds, just to show how superior she was, "I'll see you again...soon." She called as she roof-jumped away.
"Ranma..." Soun said, "Thats some lady you've gotten mixed up with."
"And to get over this annoying pressure point...I've gotta get fast enough to snatch those chestnuts." Ranma stated.
"Too bad it's twice as hard with the pressure point." Kitsuna said.
"Hot...so...darn...hot..." Ranma sighed and punched the ground hard enough to make a small crater, "What do I do!?"
"Buck up, Ranma." Soun said, "You'll find you're cure at the fair! It'll help you forget all this craziness."
"Oh, right! Like forgetting is going to fix anything." Ranma grumbled but still went to the fair.
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Half an hour later, at the fair, Ranma and Kitsuna were walking down the street, "Give me a break." Ranma said as she munched on a candy-apple.
"Oh, come on! It's too boring around the dojo, have a little fun." Kitsuna replied.
"This is no time to be having fun!" Ranma grumbled and she and Kitsuna went on to dominate every game the fair had. As they stepped up to the last game Kitsuna smirked, "Hey Ranma, I'll race you, who can catch the most fish." She said and accepted a small, paper net to try to catch the fish with.
"Catch one fish and win a hundred yen, catch them all and keep 'em." The guy behind the fish tank said..and stared as Ranma and Kitsuna used the nets to skim the surface of the water, creating a small splash and catching the fish as they were bounced into the air. 'At this rate these girls are going to ruin me!' "One last thing!" He said and pulled a larger tank out of nowhere, "Bare handed piranha catching! If you can't catch 'em all, give back the goldfish."
"Very interesting..." Ranma said and cracked her knuckles.
"You catch them and toss them to me, after that I'll take care of them, ok?" Kitsuna smirked.
"Ok! Bring it on, a new type of training! Kachuu tenshin amaguriken!" Ranma shouted and began plucking the piranhas out of the tank. After the tank was emptied, Ranma turned toward Kitsuna, "Did it!"
"Good for you." Kitsuna said without any enthusiasm, instead she watched the fish cook over a fire she had created, "Want one?" She asked when they were done.
"Yeah-...we don't have time for this, we need to go and get the pill now!" Ranma shouted and ran off.
"But I'm hungry..." Kitsuna sighed, "Ok, I'm coming." She called, finished eating two dozen fish in five seconds and then ran to catch up to Ranma.
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At another area of the fair Shampoo stood, dressed in a kimono, in front of a haunted house and held a lantern, "Ramen vendors association welcomes to haunted house." She said and saw Ranma running straight at her, "Nihow, Ranma!"
"Hey Shampoo, I've come for the phoenix pill! Where's Cologne!?"
"I'm right here, boy." Cologne said and ran inside the haunted house, "A showdown in the haunted house."
"Fine by me!" Ranma shouted as she chased Cologne through the entrance...and was jumped by a large pig with a metal rake, a monkey with a quarterstaff and a Chinese dragon which was obviously fake, "Stay out of this!" She said, faded from sight and, before anyone could react, roundhouse-kicked the pig, sending it crashing into a wall, upper-cutted the monkey's jaw, instantly knocking it out, and tied the dragon into a knot. Ranma faded back into sight just in time to be engulfed in a fire ball. The minotaur, who had breathed the fire, stopped to survey it's work and failed to find Ranma anywhere, "Hey ugly! Over here!" The minotaur turned just in time to see the monkey's staff approach it's face, "Bull's eye!" Ranma shouted when it fell over.
"Actually, you got between the bull's eyes." Kitsuna said as she entered the house.
"Whatever." Ranma said and went on ahead. She soon stopped at a giant indoor-pool where she saw Cologne riding in a wooden washtub.
"If you want this phoenix pill, cross this boiling lake." Cologne taunted.
"You want it that way? Then here I come!" Ranma said and launched herself at the washtub, After one swing of her arm, Ranma overshot Cologne and was heading straight at the water, head first.
"Hahaha! It's really hot boy! Really hot!" Cologne laughed.
"Ranma!" Kitsuna called and threw the staff, which the monkey had, at Ranma.
"Thanks!" Ranma caught the staff and stuck it in the water, when she came to a halt her face was mere centimeters from the boiling lake, "Hehehe..." Ranma chuckled, "Know what this is?" She asked and held up the phoenix pill.
"The pill!?!? How...how..." Cologne stared in shock.
"I win!" Ranma grinned and ate the pill, "It tastes like candy." She said and let go of the pole.
"It is candy." Cologne stated.
"Yaaaa!!! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!" Ranma screamed.
"Next time don't get so excited about winning that you forget to check the spoils." Kitsuna stated, picked up a nearby rock and threw it at the sprinkler on the ceiling, setting it off.
"I changed the contents just in case...so you've finally mastered the kachuu tenshin amaguriken? You're the right man for Shampoo, all right!" Cologne said.
"Hey Ranma, If you fell for that trick then you really did deserve what you got." Kitsuna said and left.
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A week later Ranma, in girl form, stood on top of a telephone pole at a beach+See her yet?+ Ranma asked.
+Not yet.+ Kitsune replied+She picked a perfect time to move to the beach.+
"As soon as I find her I'll make her give me the pill.+ Ranma growled+That's it.+ She said and took off her blindfold+Byakugan! Hmmm...there she is! Go north until you see her, I'll meet you there.+ Ranma said, put the blindfold back on and ran down the side of the pole, before hitting the ground and dashing off at fifty miles per hour.
+I see her.+ Kitsune said.
+Yeah...me too.+ "Yo! Cologne!"
"Ah, groom!" Cologne barely spared him a glance.
"Are you going to give me the pill yet!?"
"Oh, forget that, groom! wouldn't you like to compete in that?" Cologne said and pointed to a sign.
+Martial arts melon splitting?+ Kitsune read.
"The rules are simple." The announcer said, "Contestants run while trying to split each other's watermelons. The first to reach the finish line with his melon intact wins!"
"What a stupid Idea." someone mumbled as eighty percent of the crowd turned away.
"-And the prize is...Miss Shampoo!" The announcer finished as Shampoo appeared in a bathing suit and had a small pendant with the words, phoenix pill, written on it.
"Win the race and get the pill." Cologne smirked.
"And I thought you were smart." Ranma smiled as she went to get her bokkon and watermelon to race with+Kitsune, do you know the easiest way to win a race?+
"On your marks!"
+Kill the opponents?+ Kitsune perked up.
"Get set!"
+...That or disqualify them.+
"Go" The announcer hadn't finish the word before Ranma had destroyed over half of the melons.
One second later Ranma was one out of two contestants left, "You're playing too?" Ranma smirked at Cologne.
"Of course." Cologne smiled, "As an amazon, it would be foolish not challenge you after seeing you defeat so many, so quickly."
"Sounds fun." Ranma said and instantly turned around, swinging the bokkon at insane speeds, "What are you doing?" Ranma glared at Soun and Genma, who were sneaking up on her.
Soun and Genma stared at the handle of their bokkons, the blades was now mere splinters mixed in with the sand, "Ranma, How could you!" Soun said, "You're engaged to Kasumi! How can you be trying to win Shampoo!?"
"Father..." Kasumi said, "Isn't it obvious? Ranma's after the phoenix pill, not Shampoo."
+Now that everyone is distracted...+ Ranma grinned and snuck off. Just before Ranma reached the finish line she stopped, "Going to come out?"
"Amazing." Cologne said as she seemed to appear out of nowhere, "You noticed me. You keep surprising me, but now, since we're the only ones left, the winner of the fight wins the race.
"Just the way I like it." Ranma grinned like a maniac, "I've been waiting for this for weeks!" Ranma swung her bokkon and as Cologne jumped with her watermelon Ranma kicked up a nearby pebble and nailed it like a baseball. Cologne managed to deflect the rock, but not without leaving her melon open for attack, deciding that the melon was a lost cause, she abandoned it for a quick strike at Ranma's melon. Both melons exploded at the exact same time.
"I-it can't be," The announcer said, "It's a tie! Both players are eliminated!...But they're still fighting."
"I can't believe it! You split my melon! Since when are you that good!?" Cologne said as she just managed to keep her footing under Ranma's onslaught.
"Whats wrong!?" Ranma shouted, "Are you really this weak!?" She smirked and back flip-kicked Cologne's staff, knocking it into the air...where it came down into Ranma waiting hand, "I guess old age is finally catching up with you. Now are you going to give me the pill!?"
"How about one more round? if you win I'll give you the pill and any one other thing of you're choice, but if I win...then you'll marry Shampoo and do any one thing I want."
+Ranma, This could work out for you quite well.+ Kitsune said.
+In what way?+
+She taught you the amaguriken, imagine what else she might know.+
"Ok! Deal!" Ranma said and threw Cologne's staff back to her.
"Just remember...a deal is a deal." Cologne said and charged at a rate that even Ranma couldn't react in time before having her bokkon broken and being kicked across the beach and into a beach shack.
"I see! She was only pretending to be beaten!" Soun realized.
"Do you surrender, groom?" Cologne smirked.
"Never!" Ranma said as the remaints of the shack exploded around her and she charged at a pace almost equal to Cologne's
Cologne sighed before using her staff to redirect Ranma's momentum and send her flying into the water, "Now that we're in the water," Cologne said as she jumped in after Ranma, "let me show you a fun trick." She said and spun her staff, creating a small spiral current, which soon grew to the size of a waterspout.
"Hey look!" One of the spectators shouted, "They're up there!" He said and pointed at Ranma and Cologne, about fifty feet above sea-level, inside the water-spout, Cologne trapped Ranma in a head-lock.
"Give up." Cologne somehow said underwater.
"Never" Ranma said+Kitsune?+
+Yeah?+ Kitsune asked.
+She's going down!+ Ranma shouted just before snapping the staff, which held the head-lock, and throwing Cologne out of the water. Ranma fell straight into the water while Cologne landed on top of it.
"impossible!" Akane shouted,
:"If any one can do it, That old lady can!" Soun said, "For a true master of martial arts, it's possible to find a foothold even on a floating stick." He said and saw the water under Cologne build up and a shark flew out of the water.
"It's a shark."
"Heh...it is isn't it?"
"That's cheating!"
"Heh," Cologne smiled, "I only use the shark as a foothold! Now...feel..the shark fist." She shouted and hit the water into the shape of a shark.
+How much did that hurt?+ Kitsune asked in a board tone after the water impacted against Ranma.
+Not as much as she's going to feel.+ Ranma said as she flew through the air from the force of the hit...before flipping backwards and landing on the water.
"Impossible!" Cologne shouted, "There was only one shark in the area!"
"Who needs a shark?" Ranma said before taking off the blind fold, "Byakugan!!!" Ranma shouted as her eyes went from a calm to a piercing white
"What technique is this!?" Cologne said as she used the shark fist again.
After a few hand seals Ranma shouted, "Suiton, Suiryuu dan no jitsu" The water coiled up around Ranma and molded itself into a Chinese water dragon, which charged the shark fist and tore it apart before attacking Cologne. +So...do I use the cat fist or just beat her down?+
+Do you see a cat? No? just win, these people will see a few attacks sooner or later.+
+May as well have fun then...+ Ranma said before running across the water and trading blows with Cologne. After a few seconds Ranma found an opening and kicked her all the way back to shore+She's good, even with the byakugan I can only stay, at max, one step ahead of her.+
+She didn't become the elder for nothing.+
+I know.+ Ranma said and did a few more hand seals, "Suiton, Tsunami no jitsu!" Ranma said and the water in front of her built up and jumped at Cologne, completely engulfing her.
"Good job, groom." Cologne said after the water cleared, "I wasn't expecting such...different attacks. My ignorance, my loss." She said before chuckling, "That was the most fun I've had in years...Shampoo, give him the pill."
"But, Great-gra-" Shampoo started.
"Did you not hear me?"
"...Yes Great-grandmother. Here, Ranma." Shampoo said, "Is phoenix pill..."
"Thanks." Ranma grinned and ate the pill+Ahhh, now bathes don't need effort to have.+
"See you later...Ranma." Cologne smirked and ran off."
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A week later, Ranma was checking the mail, "What's this? A letter from Ryoga, let's see. I've been training in the mountains, tomorrow I shall come to the dojo...prepare to die." Ranma read, "Looks like I'm safe for at least a week, Think I should train to beat him?"
+No...if he really got that good that fast then you would only have to go full-force.+ Kitsune said as he lay on the roof.
"I guess so..." Ranma mumbled before returning to watching tv.
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Meanwhile, at the Nekohanten, Cologne had just returned from shopping for the day, "Shampoo, look who I found." She said and held up a small black pig.
"Very lucky today, great-grandmother." Shampoo smiled.
"Just a second." Cologne said before going into the back room and setting Ryoga down and dumping a kettle of water over him, "Hello, Ryoga."
"Cologne." Ryoga greeted her, "What are you doing in America?"
"Idiot..." Cologne said and bopped him on the head, "This is Japan, and I'm here to try to help Shampoo get Ranma as her husband."
"Shampoo's still after him?" Ryoga asked, "Too bad, I've been training to beat him and now he's going to die!" Ryoga said before getting up and trying to leave, he made it in only four tries.
"If you can still win..." Cologne said...and went to watch a few soap operas on tv.
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Meanwhile, at Tofu's clinic, Ranma, Kitsune and Tofu watched a bunch of eels swim around in a large bucket of water, "I was wondering if you'd consider taking an eel to Mr. Saotome, he's been a good assistant."
"No problem, Tofu." Ranma said and after getting the fish and a bowl, he set off+Any idea what to do after this?+
+Not really, Ryoga's letter came this morning so he'll be gone for a while, That fast-food place would probably go out of business if we went there again in the next four of five weeks. Kasumi wanted to try a new recipe so we need to be home on time.+ Kitsune listed+I'd say that the only thing left is beating your dad into oblivion and take a nap.+
"Ranma I've found you!!!" Ryoga shouted.
+...I wonder if Kasumi wants to try that ice skating thing again...+ Ranma said and walked right past Ryoga, not even realizing that he was there.
+Ranma?+
+Yeah?+
+Don't ask why, just jump...High!+ Kitsune said and watched as Ranma jumped and the sidewalk where he was standing ceased to exist as Ryoga slammed his umbrella into it.
"What the-?" Ranma shouted, "Ryoga!? What are you doing here!?!? You're actually on time!"
"Shut up and Die!" Ryoga shouted and dashed up to Ranma and began attacking at an incredible speed.
"Just a second." Ranma said and calmly walked over to a bench to set down the eel, as he dodged every strike without noticing that he was doing so, "Ok, let's fight!" He said and vanished. Ryoga was being knocked around by Ranma, he would reappear hit him with a powerful attack and disappear again. "Come on Ryoga!" He said, pausing his attack, "You've been training right? Then why are you so slow?"
"Shut up! Kachuu tenshin amaguriken!" Ryoga shouted and began punching at inhuman speeds.
"Amaguriken." Ranma stated and blocked all of Ryoga's hits with one hand, using the other one to attack.
"When did you learn that?" Ryoga asked after he picked himself out of the wall Ranma punched him into.
"Old lady named Cologne." Ranma said, "Anyway when are you going to try to win? I'm still just getting started." Ranma grinned.
'Cologne!? when did she teach him?' Ryoga thought, "I need to check something-I'll be back." Ryoga said and ran off.
+That was weird.+ Kitsune said.
+Yeah...oh well, it was fun for a while. We've got to go back now.+ Ranma said and picked up the eel before heading towards the dojo.
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Ryoga stopped running after twenty minutes, "Cologne. where are you!?" Ryoga called.
"Right here." Cologne said from two feet to his side, "I saw the fight...what did you think?"
"Why did you teach him the amaguriken attack?"
"He's an interesting one...I want to see how far he can go. And If you are willing to help I'll train you some more."
"More!? You helped me for a week last time and I increased my strength by ten times, how much can you help this time?"
"How much power do you want and how fast?"
"As much as possible as quick as possible!"
"Then it would take about two months of training and I don't think you'll survive...do you want to try...?" Cologne asked in all seriousness.
"...If I can defeat Ranma...yes!"
"Then let's go, I found a nice forest which would be perfect for this." Cologne said and walked off...Ryoga right behind.
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"The next day, Ranma sat on a boulder near the pond and read another letter, "Let's see, from Cologne? Ryoga's going to come back after two months of training with me, be prepared." Ranma read+Sounds interesting. let's just hope Ryoga lives long enough to fight.+
+If it's her training him you might need to train to win...+ Kitsune said.
+I could take the chance to take a vacation...let's ask Kasumi if she'd want to come.+ Ranma got up and went inside, "Hey, Kasumi?"
"Yes?" She asked as she looked up from the TV.
"Ryoga's going on a training trip and I thought I'd go on one too...want to come?"
"I'm not sure...I still need to cook-" Kasumi started.
"I can do it!!!" Akane jumped up and rushed into the kitchen.
"And the house cleaning-"
"That's taken care of!" Soun said as he walked past with a broom.
"And the laundry-" Kasumi watched as Nabiki and Genma, currently in panda form, played rock-paper-scissors.
"Taken." Nabiki grinned as Genma slumped over and sulked about having a chore.
"In that case, I'd be happy to come." Kasumi smiled.
"I'm going to go pack." Ranma said and went to his room. +I never thought they would take the chores like that.+
+You didn't hear? just after they left the room Soun and Genma started celebrating about the schools being joined.+ Kitsune said.
+...tell you what, If you can punish them-thoroughly-before I finish packing...I'll give you eight hundred yen.+
+Done.+ Kitsune smirked and left.
Ten minutes later they gathered at the front door, "Ready?"
"Yes. Thank you." Kasumi smiled when Ranma grabbed her bag as well as his own.
+Did you do it?+ Ranma asked.
+They won't be happy for a while. As of five minutes ago there is no sake in the house, the dojos a wreck, and there's several large holes in the walls that they need to fix...large holes.+
"Let's go!" Ranma said and walked out of the house.
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Cologne and Ryoga were just beginning their training, "What are we going to do?" Ryoga asked.
"Start off with this." Cologne said and pointed to a wooden box.
Ryoga stared at the contents, "Bracers?"
"Yes, bracers made for training. There are different types of bracers for different levels of training, these are the highest level of all. The Akuma bracers."
"Demon bracers?" Ryoga asked.
"Yes...this is the last warning...if you put these on you'll under go a test the likes of which you've never seen. If you survive the first day then you'll be safe, but that day will be the most dangerous of you've life." Before Cologne finished Ryoga had already put them on.
"If it meant I could defeat Ranma then I'd go to hell and back." Ryoga said as the bracers flashed for a second and Ryoga's ki started draining out into the air at an astonishing rate, "What's happening!?"
"They remove the ki from the person wearing them. As I said if you can survive this day then you're body will learn to keep ki, at least enough to live by, from the bracers. Good luck, I need to check something." Cologne said and left Ryoga struggling to keep enough ki to stay alive.
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That same hour, Ranma and Kasumi arrived at a clearing at the base of a mountain, a cool lake fifty feet away, "Here we are."
"Such a beautiful place." Kasumi said as she looked around in awe, "How did you know about this place?"
"Pop brought me here before, I just remembered where it was and here we are." Ranma said as he set up the two tents that he brought.
"Well, I'm going for a swim, see you later." Kitsune said, out loud, and went off.
"I'll be there soon." Kasumi said and went into the first tent that was set up.
"Let me think," Ranma said, "First the tent then the fire-place then catch dinner and then I can relax...for the first day." Ranma said as he began putting rocks in a circle.
"Ranma? If you don't need any help I'm going to go swimming with Kitsune, ok?" Kasumi asked as she came out of the tent in a white one-piece bathing suit.
"That's fine I'll be there as soon as I'm done here." Ranma said and waited until she was gone, "Going to come out now?" Ranma asked.
"I didn't think you'd notice me" Cologne said as she hopped out of a tree, "I came to see how you were doing."
"I'm fine, I just have two questions, one: when did you stop calling me groom?"
"When you won the pill, I decided you deserved to be called by you're name."
"Two: why are you training Ryoga?"
"I want to see the rest of you're techniques and how far you can go...against a person of greater strength then you you'll be forced to use them." Cologne said, "Now a question of my own, where did you learn those techniques?"
"...If you can get Ryoga strong enough that I approve of him, then I'll tell you." Ranma said and went off to catch a rabbit for dinner.
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five hours later Cologne sat by a camp five, cooking some fish she had caught, "How's it going?"
Ryoga sat at the base of a tree, sweating profusely and managed to reply, "Not so good..." Before a burst of ki exploded from him and he went back to concentrating on holding onto every bit of ki he could.
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Six hours later Ryoga was breathing heavily and losing focus on the task of retaining his life-giving ki.
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seven hours later he had nearly terned white from lack of ki.
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five hours later Ryoga was barely hanging on, the thought of beating Ranma the only reason of his survival.
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one and a half hours later Ryoga stopped breathing...until his final strength gave him the energy to breath, the final stretch had begun...
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Twenty five minutes later Cologne was cheering Ryoga on, "Only a few minutes left, the last ones are the hardest but if you can live then you'll be one of two to ever survive the Akuma bracers." Cologne watched as the bracers flashed again and Ryoga fell over, not moving, "No...that last minute was too much..." Cologne went to tell Ranma the bad news when Ryoga inhaled a large breath of air.
"Did...it..." He said before passing out.
"But...that wasn't a full day." Cologne said and stared at Ryoga in shock.
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That same minute Ranma and Kasumi were talking, "Hey Kasumi."
"Yes?"
"Uhh...yeah...the real reason I asked you to come out here."
"Yes?" Kasumi asked with a confused look on her face.
"I wanted to teach you how to use chakra."
"That sounds interesting." Kasumi smiled, "I think I would like to learn."
"That's good." Ranma said and started explaining how to create chakra, Kitsune correcting him whenever possible.
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A week later Kasumi could make enough chakra to make two clones without wasting too much chakra, "Very good," Ranma said, "Now we move on to the most helpful skill of all, kagebunshin."
"What are shadow clones?" Kasumi asked.
"They're like normal clones except that they are real people and everything they learn is transferred to you when they vanish."
"So if I make a kagebushin then it will help me in whatever I'm doing?" Kasumi asked.
"Exactly, very useful, aren't they ." Kitsune said.
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Three days later while Cologne was catching some fish for lunch Ryoga woke up for the first time in a week and a half, "What's for breakfast?"
"Fish...Good job." Cologne smiled.
"What?"
"You're alive...that has only happened once before...ok, after we eat then we go straight to training."
An hour later They were standing in a clearing, "Nothing much yet, just a demonstration of the attack you're going to learn," Cologne said and raised her hand, one finger extended, and pointed at a tree. Then she thrust her finger forwards, a half second later part of the tree exploded and the rest of it fell over, "I created this when I saw the bakusai tenketsu the first time, it doesn't have a name...I thought, in honers of you passing the test, I'll allow you to name it." Cologne said.
"Really? Thanks...let's see, bakusai tenketsu...I know. konzetsu tenketsu!"
"Eradication point? Very accurate, I approve. konzetsu tenketsu..." Cologne smiled and proceeded to explain that instead of using ki to hit a rocks breaking point, if you use the ki to hit the airs breaking point, which is much harder, then it flys through the air with insane amounts of power, speed and raw destructive ability.
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two days later, Ryoga was beginning to use the konzetsu tenketsu with decent reliability, "This attack is incredible." He said as another tree ceased to exist, "Ranma's a goner for sure!" He grinned.
"Maybe..." Cologne said, "I think it's time to start the next phase I'm going to use the konzetsu to attack you...try to block it with you're ki." She said waited for a few seconds and fired...Ryoga only managed to reduce it to a level where it blasted him through a dozen trees and into the side of a mountain, "Time to see if he's alive..." Cologne said to herself and walked over to where Ryoga was lying, after confirming that he was alive she dragged him back to camp.
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A week later Kasumi, with Kitsune's chakra, had managed to make five shadow clones, "Good." Ranma smiled, "Next: walking up tree's."
"Walk up trees?" Six Kasumis asked in sync.
"Yup, you gather chakra at the bottom of you're feet and clime the tree. This is practice for creating chakra and using it precisely." Ranma said and walked up a nearby tree, "Don't worry," He made five clones, "If one of you falls one of me will catch you." He said and the training continued.
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Five days after that Ryoga was able to defend the konzetsu and stay conscious even after taking multiple shots in a row. "Now this is where it gets dangerous again." Cologne said and pulled out a strip of cloth, "Use this as a blindfold and I'll attack at random times and angles, without warning try to defend. We'll go until you pass out."
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By the end of the first month Kasumi was walking up trees like it was normal and Ryoga's ki was learning to react on it's own even when Ryoga wasn't paying attention.
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Ranma grinned, "In just a month you learned how to make kagebunshins and walk up trees, just two more and this will be a very success full trip. The next one is walking on water, this one's like the tree but instead of just holding the chakra in you're feet you need to release a certain amount at a constant rate." Ranma demonstrated by walking out about twenty feet onto the water.
"it doesn't sound too hard..." Kasumi said after a second.
"Then try it." Ranma said as Kitsune slid past on the water just like ice skating.
"Ok." Kasumi said and slowly stepped onto the water...and simply stood on it. "See? Not too hard."
+Kitsune...+ Ranma growled.
+Saw that?+ Kitsune said and let his chakra, which he was using to hold Kasumi above water, disappear, Kasumi quickly started sinking.
"This may take a while." Ranma said to himself as Kasumi climbed out of the water and failed to stand on it again.
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Two weeks later, Ryoga had completely mastered the konzetsu and using ki as a shield, "What's next?" Ryoga asked.
"All that's left is increasing you're strength...here, I had this unsealed a few weeks ago." Cologne said and led Ryoga to another wooden box. Ryoga opened the box and pulled out a jet-black umbrella which had strange red-glowing characters on it.
"What's so special about this?" Ryoga asked.
"It's a normal umbrella except that increases the destructive power of the swing by absorbing the ki of the user. with you're new amount, it's the ultimate weapon for you. Until the fight, just learn how to use it." Cologne said.
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At the same time Kasumi had also learned to water-walk, "Good job, three skills in only six weeks...I don't think there's enough time for four but trying won't hurt." Ranma said and went over to his backpack, returning a minute later he held up a piece of paper, "This is chakra paper, Kitsune made it, anyway if you put chakra into it it will show you the element that you're most suited for." Ranma said and gave her the paper.
"Ok." Kasumi took the paper and focused for a second.
"Water." Ranma said as the paper became damp, "Ok! the first water training is to take a leaf and try to change chakra into water and have it accumulate on the leaf." Ranma said and held up a leaf, before long it was dripping a few seconds later it was encased in a sphere of water.
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The final two weeks of training came and went and the fight was about to start.
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Ryoga glared at Ranma, "Today, Ranma, is the day you die!"
+How many times has he said that?+ Ranma asked nonchalantly.
+Fourty-two.+ Kitsune said and yawned.
Cologne started explaining the rule, "This fight will continue until someone is knocked out. Oh and one warning, Ranma, go full force, you'll die otherwise...begin!" Ryoga charged in with the force of a tank and punched Ranma in the face, sending him flying into a tree where he left a noticeable indentation.
+Dang, he's a heck of a lot faster then last time.+ Ranma said and pushed his blindfold up onto his forehead.
+Not taking it off...you're serious.+ Kitsune observed.
"Sharingan!" Ranma's eyes became blood red and he gained three little, tailed, dots in each eye, "Eat this!" Ranma ran up to Ryoga and kicked his jaw then shouted, "Amaguriken!" and did a few dozen punchs straight into Ryoga's gut before stopping to catch his breath and wait for Ryoga to get back to his feet+Kitsune, did you see what I saw?+
+What?+
+Every time I hit him I could have sworn that I saw a small flash.+ Ranma said before picking up a basket-ball sized stone and threw it at Ryoga, with Ranma knowing what to look for he soon saw the little green flash that he was expecting, "Got a little shield, Ryoga?" Ranma grinned, "Let's test it!" Ranma picked up another stone and a second later it started glowing, making everyone pause. When the glow had died away Ranma stood with two rock-shurikans, one in each hand and each had a three foot diameter. He then slowly faded away and Ryoga barely caught a glimpse of one of the shurikans as it flew through the air, straight at him, He had barely caught it when the second one hit the back of his head, a split second, and a small burst of ki, later it shattered, when Ryoga looked to where it came from another one came from the side and hit his left leg, same results as the second one, "Up here!" Ranma shouted from a branch above Ryoga and threw two more shurikans and disappeared again. Ryoga threw the first one he had caught, destroying one of them and had just caught the second one when a flicker of light made him look down where he saw Ranma crouched down with a eight-foot rock-greatsword, "I win." Was all Ranma said before jumping past Ryoga, the blade heading right for his neck. "Hey, Cologne! I win."
"No, You don't!" Ryoga shouted as he got back to his feet.
"You're still alive?" Ranma asked and stared as the sword started cracking and then crumbled away, "Oh, snap." Ranma said+Got any ideas?+
+...Chidori. Chidori.+
+I don't want to kill him!+ Ranma said and missed Ryoga glance at Cologne, who nodded.
"Ranma." Ryoga raised his hand, one finger extended, "Bang." Ranma just looked puzzled before his blindfold exploded and he went flying back and through a tree, "Odd," Ryoga said to himself "That should have sent him farther then that...anyway, now I win!" Ryoga grinned until a sudden spike of energy brought everyones' attention to Ranma, who had just gotten to his feet.
"Aaaaaaahhhh!" Ranma shouted as both ki and chakra burst forth in amazing quantities.
"What's happening?" Kasumi asked.
"The blindfold's existence was, what some might call, a limiter." Kitsune said, drawing Cologne's attention but she didn't say anything. After a few more seconds of the ki and chakra going out of control it finally faded away and as every one watched his left eye went from it's normal calm white to the piercing white of the byakugan and the vains next to the eye bulged a bit as if full of ki. His right eye, however, became the blood red of the sharingan, it's vains also bulging slightly, "The true byakugan and sharingan." Kitsune said.
"True?" Kasumi asked.
"They are much more powerful then before. Last time they were not even at twenty percent power."
Ranma glared at Ryoga with a look that could kill, then he did a few hand-seals, "Chidori..." He said quietly, as if it was the end of the world, and a sphere of blue electricity formed in his hand. Ranma then dashed straight for Ryoga, much to fast for any normal person to ever hope to see, and slammed it into Ryoga's stomach. Instead of stopping, Ranma carried Ryoga along with it and smashed him into at tree...and through it...and half a dozen more before the chidori finally faded away. Then Ranma picked him up by his arm and threw him at a tree before disappearing, reappearing infront of the tree, he punched Ryoga, completely changing his direction. This continued for a minute before Ranma created a chidori to use as the last hit. After finally coming to a stop, Ryoga tried to get up, not succeding very well, "Still conscious? Give up, there's no way you could possibly still fight." Ranma said and turned away, "I win."
Ryoga looked at Cologne again, again, she nodded...slowly. "Ranma...don't...run...away." Ryoga said and slowly reached for the Akuma bracers. When he took them off nearly everyone was blown away by his aura, "The...fights, just starting." Ryoga smirked as the extra ki started healing his wounds, and he stood up, "You were wrong, Ranma." Ryoga disappeared, Ranma only saw him because he was using the sharingan and byakugan at the same time, but that didn't help his reaction time, which was way too slow too keep up. Ryoga reappeared right behind Ranma, "The fights not over yet." He smirked and batted Ranma aside as if he was an insect, "It's just begun." He sneered as Ranma managed to correct himself in time to land sideways on a tree, cracking it in the process. "Konzetsu tenketsu!" Ryoga shouted and thrust his hole hand straight at Ranma, who jumped as far to the side as he could. After Ranma came to a stop he had a perfect view of the lack of anything that was where he had been a second ago, "Hemm." Ryoga stopped, "A little bit to strong." He pointed one finger at Ranma and let loose another konzetsu.
Ranma saw the konzetsu only because of his eyes, he then created a small sphere and shouted, "Rasingan!" Before slamming it into the oncoming wave of destruction. Ranma was blow twenty feet from the explosion and he crashed into the nearby mountain, creating an indentation. Ryoga walked over to where Ranma was lying, surrounded by rubble, and picked him up by the neck.
"Done already?" He grinned.
"Not yet..." Ranma said and punched Ryoga in the face. Ryoga just smirked and let Ranma hit him, his ki shield not only deflected Ranma's punch but it broke his hand too.
"That's pitiful, Ranma...This is how you punch!" Ryoga said and began breaking Ranma's bones, one by one, slowly as possible.
"Ryoga! That's enough!" Cologne snapped, "Are you really trying to kill him."
"I would say yes...but if I kill you, Ranma, then I can't have the pleasure of beating you again." Ryoga said and raised his finger to Ranma's unguarded forehead, "Konzetsu tenketsu..." Ryoga said and the attack threw Ranma like a rag doll and towards the largest tree in the forest...Ranma hit the twenty foot-diameter tree and it gave way like paper, the rest of the tree collapsed on top of him.
"Ryoga you Idiot!" Cologne shouted, "There's no way he could have survived that!" Cologne started bopping Ryoga on the head, repeatedly, and shouting about how she never should have trained him.
"Kitsune...Is Ranma...?" Kasumi looked on in fear.
"He's not dead but I can't get hold of him." Kitsune said+Ranma! Answer me!+
+...+ Was the reply.
+...!+ Kitsune stopped, "Kasumi, you might want to back up...and hide behind a tree...or a dozen."
"What do you mean...?" Kasumi said and stopped when felt another incredible power, on the same scale as Ryoga. Ryoga and Cologne felt it as well and turned towards the remaints of the tree, Ryoga took the time to grab his new umbrella, The logs seemed to pick themselves up and levitate into the air. After a few seconds an eery crimson chakra became visible among the wood. After a few seconds later a pulse of the energy blew the rubble away like leafs in a hurricane, revealing Ranma sitting on the ground, he seemed to be calmly looking at the ground but everyone there could feel his barely suppressed anger. "Kitsune, whats happening!?" Kasumi asked.
"Ranma and I both have access to my vast reserves of chakra, he's just using some of it. as for the tree, it's the same as walking on water, you put chakra into it to make it dense enough to hold you, he's letting enough out into the air to lift wood..." Kitsune said as the red aura around Ranma compressed itself into a fox, "it's about to begin." Kitsune said as Ranma stood up and glared at Ryoga.
"Impossible!" Ryoga shouted, "I broke you're legs!"
"I know..." Ranma said, vanished from sight and reappeared right behind Ryoga, "It's time to repay the favor." Ranma said and used his tail to lash out and grab one of Ryoga's arms and then dealt Ryoga a devastating upper-cut. After landing, Ryoga quickly got back to his feet, He had felt that hit...even with the shield. "Chidori." Ranma said and created two balls of electricity. Ranma then got down on all fours. It made an intimidating picture, Ranma with a crimson, fox shaped aura and the claws crackled with the blue chidori, which merged and the red aura to create violet, electrically charged chakra claws, each one at least five inchs long and capable of cleaving through solid steel. And Ryoga stood there, he almost looked like a demon in a human disguise, his aura, a sickly green, was about as large as Ranma's and the red characters on his umbrella began to glow as they came into contact with his aura. At some unknown signal they both dashed at each other, the clash of Ranma's claws hitting Ryoga's umbrella created pulse of ki and chakra which, as it slowly expanded, destroyed everything that it touched. Kasumi and Cologne were about to run for it when Kitsune jumped infront of them and after a bright flash they were all surrounded by Kitsune's chakra, which condensed itself into a shield and protected them as Ranma and Ryoga's ki past by.
'What is that fox!?' Cologne thought to herself, 'It has more ki then even myself!"
"Thank you, Kitsune." Kasumi said and turned back to the fight. Ranma and Ryoga were practically dancing around each others attacks, each attack that missed only tore up the battle field, by this point almost every thing in sight looked like it had been hit by a bomb...which wasn't far off as Ranma used another rasingan and managed to clip Ryoga's arm, sending him flying into the mountain, where he got up and jumped back into the fight as if nothing had happened. After a few minutes Ryoga landed a solid hit with his umbrella, knocking Ranma straight into the ground...twenty feet into the ground. Ryoga then started shooting konzetsus into the hole at a rapid pace, after the fourteenth shot he suddenly jumped away from the hole just in time to avoid a explosion of pure chakra. When the dust had cleared away Ranma stood in the center of a thirty foot crater, except for his arm and mouth bleeding a little he looked like he was fine, just annoyed at Ryoga not staying down.
"Kagebunshin!" Ranma said as he put his hands together and formed a plus-sign, after a smoke explosion there were five Ranmas, one with a tail and four with just the red cheek-marks and eyes, "Here we come!" They all said at once and three of the clones dashed up to Ryoga, Ryoga easily thrust his umbrella through one of them, making him disappear in a cloud of smoke, then he turned to the second one and kicked him in the face sending him flying where he also vanished. Ryoga saw the last one close in and couldn't react in time before the clone planted a rasingan into Ryoga's stomach by means of an upper-cut. before even pausing, the Ranma-clone made another rasingan and used it it hit Ryoga even higher. After that Ranma-clone shouted, "Rasingan, amaguriken!" And created and used rasingans so quickly that his arms appeared as nothing more then a blur. Three seconds later Ranma-clone made an absurdly powerful rasingan and used it to send Ryoga flying. While falling back to the ground Ryoga combined the konzetsu and the amaguriken to send a volley of shockwaves at the Ranma-clone, completely annihilating the clone and leaving a crater at least ten feet deep.
Ryoga landed and turned to see Ranma and the last clone doing hand-seals, "Katon!" Ranma said.
"Doton!" The clone also said.
"Ryuuseiu!" They both shouted at once. Ryoga looked around, expecting some huge ball of energy or something...after failing to see anything he looked at Ranma again and saw the ground behind him rising as if it was holding something down. The ground blew up and fired hundreds of boulders, each one was at least three feet in diameter, into the air where they caught fire and started raining down on Ryoga. He jumped straight at the oncoming flame-boulders and fired a konzetsu, the shock of one bolder exploding diverted a few of the others while Ryoga opened the umbrella to use as a shield to withstand the rest. A small flash caught Ryoga's attention and he threw his umbrella at it...cutting Ranma in half...until he proved himself to be the last clone and disappeared in a puff of smoke. Ryoga was still falling when he caught his umbrella and felt something land on his back, before he could react Ranma had sliced five deep gashes across his back with his chidori-claws. After landing they both regarded each other and surveyed their injuries, Ranma, even with so much chakra, still hadn't fully recovered from Ryoga's earlier assault and Ryoga wasn't going to last much longer with his back the way it was now, "Think it's time to finish this?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah." Ryoga agreed, "One final attack, the last one standing is the winner." They both nodded and started their attacks. Ranma made a rasingan and just poured chakra into it until it became a blood-red, then poked his arm in a few places, the opening points are normaly used to seal ki/chakra but they can be used to increase the amount used, and it tripled in size and got multiple times stronger. Ryoga concentrated on his right hand, used it to make a konzetsu and managed to contain the shockwave in his hand as he started charging it with his ki, it started out looking like a small distortion in the air, hovering above his hand, then he super-charged it, which heated the air and caused it to ignite into a small green fireball, he finished by strengthening the konzetsu until it caused so much static friction that arks of electricity began to dance across the the green flame.
+Dang...he's practically got an elemental rasingan.+ Ranma said.
"It's not as focused as a rasingan, but yes, that thing is probably capable of destroying most anything.+ Kitsune said as he released more chakra, strengthening his shield.
"Let's go!" Ranma and Ryoga shouted and made a mad dash at each other. The super-charged rasingan and electrically charged flame-konzetsu, clashed...the two attacks seemed to fuse together and increase in power, until it exploded and if Ranma hadn't had one tail of chakra, Ryoga using his freaking-huge amounts of ki and Kitsune shielding Kasumi and Cologne, they all would have died instantly.
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Ranma awoke to Kitsune shouting in his ear, "Ranma!!!...You're shirts on fire..." Kitsune grinned as Ranma jumped up and started trying to put out his shirt...until he relised Kitsune was joking.
After Ranma sat down something dawned on him, "I was unconscious...I lost didn't I?" Ranma asked.
"Not quite, Ryoga was also knocked out...It was a draw." Cologne said.
"...Truly impressive..." Ranma said after a second, "You managed to get Ryoga that powerful in only two months...you had a question for me if I thought he was strong?"
"Yes, Two actually. One: Where did you learn those techniques?"
"Kitsune." Ranma said.
"Two: What is Kitsune and where did it come from?"
"That's two at once...but I'll answer them anyway. Kitsune's the nine-tailed demon fox spoken of in legends, he was sealed inside of my grandfather and after nearly dying he sealed Kitsune inside of me. During the neko-ken training I met Kitsune and he taught me how to summon him, since then he's been teaching me and acting as my own battery, as you saw in the fight." Ranma explained.
"I have a duty to slay all demons I come across." Cologne said and glared at Kitsune.
"That's fine, but don't you also have a duty to repay depts? Kitsune saved you're life during the fight, twice I believe." Ranma grinned.
"True..." Cologne sighed, "Ranma, would you consider teaching those attacks to me in exchange for me to teach you?"
"Maybe some other time." Ranma said, "Right now I'm hungry and tired."
As if on cue, Kasumi stood up from where she was sitting, in front of a camp fire, and brought Ranma and Cologne some cooked fish, "Just tell me if you will want seconds." She smiled and gave Kitsune a fish before returning to the fire to fetch some for Ryoga.
"I'll get you next time, Ranma." Ryoga said as he finished putting The Akuma bracers back on, his incredible aura faded away almost instantly and his wounds were already non-existent.
"Sounds fun. maybe in the meantime I could teach you some things." Ranma was excited at the thought of Ryoga being even more powerful, soon Ranma might have to go full force and try to kill Ryoga just to win a fight.
"One more thing, Ranma." Kitsune said, "Why do you still have the byakugan and sharingan active?"
"What are you talking about?" Ranma asked, "I stopped using them when Ryoga destroyed the blindfold, You told me it was a limiter so I thought it would be dangerous to use them." Ranma said.
"But you are using them." Kasumi said and picked up a flat rock, "See?" She said as she used water to bend the light to make the rock into a makeshift mirror.
"I am using them?" Ranma asked, "What would happen if I tried to use them?" Ranma grinned.
"Let's not try that right now." Kitsune said, "For all we know it could overload you're eyes and burn them out."
"...time to eat!" Ranma declared and began eating, completely missing everyone else face-fault.
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Authors notes: Ok...there's chapter four. I took forever, sorry about that...family vacation there, new game here and soon I almost forget about the fic, again, sorry. Anyway, about this chapter, personally, I think I did a lousy job on both the Mousse and Cologne fights...I can only hope that I redeemed myself during the Ryoga fight. Sorry if Ryoga seemed too strong, I gave Ranma the byakugan, the sharingan and the kyuubi...I had to give Ryoga something to allow him to still be Ranma's rival...enough ki to power japan for a week seemed right...Moving right along: The attacks, I decided that every chapter I'll give the full list of all the previous chapters as well as the current one, so you don't need to load up old ones if you forget an attack.
Katon - fire element. Suiton - water element. Fuuton - wind element. Doton - earth element. Raiton - lightning element.
Ninjitsu - ninja techniques. genjitsu - illusion techniques. taijitsu - unarmed combat techniques.
one person
Henge no jitsu - Transform technique - changes user into a different form.
Bunshin no jitsu - clone - creates a clone of the user, clone disappears after a few seconds or when touched.
Kagebunshin no jitsu - shadow clone - makes a clone of the user, the clone is a real thing so it can fight, use techniques and what knowledge it has is transferd to the user when the clone disappears.
Kawarimi no jitsu - Replacement - the user quickly replaces their body with a nearby object, confusing the attacker and creating an opening.
Rasengan - Sprial sphere - chakra formed into a ball where it spins like a typhoon and gains power.
Arashi rasingan - Spiral storm sphere - Multiple rasingans hover around and attack the enemy randomly.
Zenryoku kurikosu - Energy transfer - Allows the user to transfer chakra/ki to another.
Fuuin kurikosu - Seal trasfer - moves seals.
Jigenseisokuka mon - Dimensional gate - opens a portal to another dimension, If the user has a destination in mind the portal leads them there, if not they go to a random dimension.
Bijyuu fuuin - Seals the powers of the bijyuu...kyuubi, ichibi, nibi...ect.
Kuchiyose no jitsu - Summoning technique - uses chakra to open a type of worm hole and call a creature from a different place, world, demention.
Shishi randan - lion combo - a taijitsu attack that Sasuke created. the user kicks the foe into the air and jumps so that theyre right beneath them and pulls a quick three hit attack followed by an axe kick just as they reach the ground.
Byakugan - White eyes - able to see nearly everything within a 360 degree area as well as
pressure points and ki/chakra openings.
Sharingan - Mirror wheel eye - a eye technique used by the Uchiha clan, Allows the user to see through nin, gen and taijitsu and even copy it.
Mangekyou sharingan - kaleidoscope mirror wheel eye - the ultimate form of the sharingan, it easily sees though techniques and the genjitsus used by the mangekyou sharingan happen instantly so there is no 'getting rid of the genjitsus.'
Katon techniques
Goukakyuu no jitsu - Grand fireball - launchs a massive fireball around five meters across.
Ryuuka endan - Fire dragon napalm - a liquid like fire of amazing destructive ability.
suiton techneiques
Suijinheki no jitsu - Water barrier - water forms a protective shield around the user
Suiryuu dan no jitsu - Water dragon missile - creates a dragon out of water to preform a suicide attack.
Tsunami no jitsu - Giant wave - water charges forward with the force of a tank.
raiton techneiques
Chidori - Thousand birds - makes a ball of pure lightning chakra, the sparks give off a sounds which sounds like a thousand birds, hence the name.
Chidori nagashi - Thousand birds current - Chidori which flows along the users body like a stream.
two people requierd
Makyou hyoushou - Demonic ice mirrors - creates mirrors which the user can enter then practically teleport to another mirror and attack anything between them.
Fuuton, Rasenshurikan - Spiral shurinkan - Naruto's rasengan merged with wind, multiplying it's power by at least ten times, the wind blades are so small that it dameges at the cellular level.
Katon, Doton, Ryuuseiu - Meteor shower - causes pressure to build up under bolders, which shoots them into the sky where they catch fire and rain down like meteors.
Mokuton, Jyukai koudan - Forest genesis - causes trees to grow and damage anything they touch
three people requierd
Katon, Raiton, Kagayaku rasenbakudan - Sparkling spiral bomb - Electricly charged fire rasengan, has enough power to rival the sun in terms of heat.
four people requierd
five people requierd
Fuuton, rasenshurikan guhuu - spiral shurinkan typhoon - Naruto's rasenshurikan at such a high level of power, Naruto has dubed it the final attack.
other
Kachuu tenshin amaguriken - chestnuts roasting on an open fire - a technique that the user fills thier arms and hands with ki/chakra and uses it to speed them up to the point that they could pick objects out of a fire without being burned.
Bakusai tenketsu - breaking point - the user stabs a rock with thier finger and uses ki/chakra to hit the breaking point, causing the rock to explode.
Konzetsu tenketsu - eradication point - the ultimate breaking point, it is used the same way as the breaking point but it travels through air. It's on the same level as chidori in terms of power.
That's all the techniques so far, not all I've thought of...but a lot of them. See you next chapter, I don't think it will take as long as this one...(I hope...)