Hello again,

I made a minor change to the story and added some more to it, plus
I turned Genma into another creature instead of a panda.  I do believe
you'll find it fits his personality perfectly.  Also, note this is now
titled _part 1_.  That means it's now a series....  <*evil laugh*>


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                       Ranma 1/2: Looney Tunes
                         Part 1 : Here's Pepe

                           by Shunsuke -|||

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It was a rainy day in Nerima when Genma Saotome knocked upon the door
of his old friend, Soun Tendo, to fulfil an agreement they had made
many years earlier.  He made this visit with some trepidation over
whether it would be successful; he hoped for the best, but was still
worried, and with good reason.  When the door opened, he was greeted by
a young, beautiful and warm teenage girl.  This made him grimace
internally even more that he already had, knowing she might be a
victim in all of this.

"Hello, how can I help you?"

"Hello, Miss Tendo, I would like to speak to your father.  Please tell
him it is an old friend who has come to fulfil a matter of honor," said
Genma, closing his umbrella as he walked in from the rain.

Kasumi led him inside to the main room where Soun Tendo stood.  Upon
meeting, they embraced each other like old friends.

"Saotome, my friend, how good it is to see you again," began Soun as
he let Genma to the table to be seated.  "I can take it you are here
to complete our agreement of many years ago?"

"Yes...yes, I am," said Genma who was clearly trying to find a way to
say what he needed to.  "My son has grown into a manly man, so much so
that he insisted that we see his mother before I brought him here.
She was very impressed at my success, though I fear it has not been
without a price..."

Genma went on to explain about their trip to China, and about Jusenkyo,
going as far as using cold and hot water on himself to demonstrate the
true horror of the curse.

Genma also went on to explain about the Amazon village of Joketsuzoku,
and how the two had barely escaped with their lives; after what Ranma
had done to that girl Shampoo, most certainly the amazons would have
had Genma for dinner and a dead teenage boy (though they would not
have known that) on their hands.

Once Soun recovered, Genma explained Ranma's curse to Soun, who
realized a possible difficulty with it when he told his daughters;
unfortunately for them, he had not mentioned anything about the
arranged marriage as of yet, so he decided to do so before Ranma
arrived.

"Kasumi!  Nabiki!  Akane!  Come here, I have some important news
for you!"

"What is it, father?" Kasumi said while drying her hands on a
dishtowel.

"What do you want, Daddy?  I was negotiating on the phone with
Kuno-baby."  Nabiki entered dressed in shorts and t-shirt with a
pencil lodged behind her ear.

"Yes, Dad?  What is it?" Akane entered wearing a gi, having just
finished her workout.  She joined her sisters at the table, and
listened to what their father had to say.

"FIANCE?!?!?" the girls shouted in unison as the rain continued to
pelt outside but drowned out by their collective scream.  Genma
cringed, wondering if this was the best time to have Ranma come over.

"Daddy, how could you arrange for one of us to be married to a guy we
don't even know?"

"It was an agreement between my friend and I, many years ago, to join
our two families," Soun said while Genma sat there.  The girls looked
at Genma and could see that something was up, though they could never
have guessed what.  Soon enough, there was a knock on the door.

"That must be my son, I asked him to come a few minutes after I
arrived," Genma announced.

Kasumi rose to answer the door, and as she went around the corner,
Soun turned to his friend.

"Why didn't you bring him with you?"

"It was...it was better that he arrive here wet due to his curse,"
Genma whispered to Soun, "He's not one for the ladies in his normal
body."

Kasumi dashed back into sight from the hallway holding her nose, a
look of fright in her eyes.  She ran past everyone to hide in the
kitchen behind the door.

"My sweet, where have you run to?  Mon dieu, I must...Hellooooo, my
pretties," said Ranma as he entered the room.  Nabiki and Akane both
gasped in horror at the sight before them that slowly walked in their
direction.  "Ah, mon cheri," he cried as he first saw Nabiki, "How I
have longed to see ze face of an angel."

Nabiki cringed and pulled back as Ranma advanced toward her; in doing
so, Akane came into his view, and Ranma was overrun by new feelings
of affection, almost as strong as his odor.

"Attirant!  Oh, my little blossom, come with me, we shall make ze
beautiful music togezzer..." Ranma cooed as he glomped her.  In total
fear, Akane kicked Ranma in the head and ran over the engawa for dear
life.

Dazed, Ranma turned to his father and said, "She is ze flirt, no?" and
then ran after her.  Once he was gone, Soun stopped holding his breath
and Kasumi came back into the room to where Genma hung his head,
crying.

"Oh, the shame of it...my son, my son, how could you fall in the
Spring of Drowned French Skunk...?"

"Somehow," Soun gasped, as he waved the fumes away with his fans (he
knew they'd come in useful someday), "I don't think my daughters will
want to marry him now.  Saotome, how could you do this?"

Kasumi had reentered the room with a mister to air out the place, and
before Genma could answer Soun's question, the cold water hit and
changed him into his cursed form.

"Now, listen here, my good friend," Genma said, putting a wing around
Soun's shoulder, "It ain't all bad news, and such.  You just gotta put
a positive light on the situation.  I mean, really, don't you want a
boy to marry your daughter who is willin' to show her he loves her?
Well, I brought you that, didn't I?"  Genma smiled as he continued to
blather on to himself, Soun by now unconscious to his words as he
turned to look out on the yard.  Ranma was still chasing Akane who
now had grabbed a clothespeg and put it over her nose while she tried
to find a means of escape.

It finally came in the form of Nabiki throwing hot water on him as
he ran past.

"Oh, jeez!" Ranma shouted as he turned back into a boy.  "What was I
doing?"  He bent over to catch his breath and come to his senses.  He
was interrupted in this endeavor by Akane running up to him and
smashing him with her mallet.

"PERVERT!" she shouted at full roar.  "What do you think you're doing
chasing me around like that?"

"Hey, I ain't got no interest in a tomboy like you!  The only reason
I chased you was because of that dumb curse!"

"Tomboy?  TOMBOY!?!  Arrrgh!"  The mallet came down on Ranma's head
a second time, turning the lights out for certain.

     * * * * *

When Ranma awoke, he found himself in a heavily perfumed room, a
deep throbbing in the back of his head.

"Nnnnhh, she's not a normal girl," he moaned out loud, "Who'd want
anything to do with a macho chick like that?"  He tried opening his
eyes for a second but quickly regretted that decision.

"You'll have to forgive Akane, Ranma, she doesn't take too kindly to
being chased by boys."

"Boys, Kasumi?  Boys are one thing, a skunk is another!" Nabiki laughed
aloud.  "I don't blame her one bit for what she did."

"Hey, gimme a break," Ranma howled, "No yelling, please, and besides,
it's not like *I'm* choosing to do this, it's the curse that makes me
do it.  Man, it just ain't normal for a girl to be that violent."

Against better advice, Ranma got up and went to the bath hoping the
water would make him feel better.  Bad idea.

He got undressed and opened the door just as Akane was preparing to
leave, and they found themselves standing there naked, face to face.

"Uh, wait a minute, this ain't what it looks like," Ranma pleaded,
trying to protect himself with his hands and back up in what little
space was available to him.

"You...PERVERT!" Akane screamed, and using a conditioned reflex, threw
the first thing she could get her hands on at the boy before her.  It
was a bad decision.

<*splash*>

"Ah, mon dieu!  How I wanted to be with you alone, my little cupcake!
Let us share the pleasures of each other's presence."

Akane's face grew a very pale colour as she turned and ran.  Before he
resumed the chase, Ranma made sure the door was closed and locked so
she couldn't get out.

"Now, my sweet, let the games of love begin, anon...."

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                        E         N         D
                              of Part 1

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