Ranma 1/2, Fatal Fury fanfic "Wolf in Nerima" by Julian Soullard (e-mail: jnsoullard@hotmail.com) Warning: All characters from this fanfic are copyright from Rumiko Takahashi (Ranma 1/2) and Masami Obari (Fatal Fury), I never claim them to be my own personal creation, so don't sue me! --------------------------------------------------------------------- AND NOW ON WITH... Chapter 3: Just your average day at school. "So let me see if I got this straight." Terry began "Ranma and Akane were engaged by Mr. Saotome and Mr. Tendou against their will." "That's right, sugar." Ukyou validated. "But then there's Kodachi!" Terry continued "Who was defeated in combat by Ranma and therefore must marry him according to her tribe's rules. Right?" "No, that's not it." Ukyou pointed out "Shampoo is the one who's supposed to marry him according to her amazon laws. Kodachi is only obsessed with Ranchan, but she's not engaged to him in any way." "All right then." he went on "But then there's Ryouga who's after Shampoo. And he hates Ranma for standing in his way because Shampoo is after Ranma. Right?" "Wrong again." Ukyou declared "Ryouga is after Akane. Mousse is the one who's going after Shampoo, but she doesn't take him seriously. Both Ryouga and Mousse hate Ranma though. But I think Ryouga hates him a lot more." "This is getting complicated." "Don't worry, You'll get the hang of it." she encouraged "Now for the next part of the lesson. Kuno Tatewaki, Kodachi's older brother, is in love with Akane and the female side of Ranma." "That's SICK!!!" "Wait! It's not what it seems!" Ukyou explained "He doesn't know that his pig-tailed goddess and Ranchan are the same person. We've tried to explain him everything, but he's too stupid to understand." "O...kay..." Terry said "So let me see if I can get this straight again. Ranma is engaged to Akane, Shampoo and you. On top of that, Kodachi is after him, and his brother Kuno is after his female side. Am I right so far?" "You're getting it already." "Then there's Ryouga who's got an old feud with Ranma, and Mousse who's after Shampoo. But Mousse can't get engaged to Shampoo because Shampoo is engage to Ranma. Therefore, Mousse hates Ranma also." "There you go." Ukyou declared "That wasn't so hard now was it?" "Looks like you guys don't get bored here too often." Terry stated "Anyone else I need to know about?" "Well, there's Nabiki Tendou and Cologne." Ukyou brought out "They usually interfere in everything so you might want to stay on guard." "Well I think I'll be able to catch up with everything that's going on in Nerima eventually." Terry said as he got up "I think I'll be going now. Dinner was great as usual, Ukyou." "Best okonomiyaki in Japan, sugar." After stepping out of Ucchan's, Terry headed towards the motel he's been staying so far. This had been a very busy day. First, he had to fix a shattered wall that according to the customer some-guy-with-a- black-and-yellow-bandanna-made-by-touching-it-with-his-index-finger. After that, he had to repair the interior of a public bath after Ranma and Happosai had a fight there. And then, he had to fix another wall who was a victim of Akane's bad temper. He wouldn't have believed it at first, but he was overwhelmed with work. The only thing he wanted for the rest of the day was having some dinner at Ucchan's and then going to sleep to gain back his strength and therefore surviving tomorrow's labors. *** Monday morning, we see Ranma and Akane heading to school. Ranma was walking on top of the fence like he usually does. Akane however was using the sidewalk like any normal person would. Up ahead, they spotted Terry walking along the streets heading towards the same direction they were (you have to admit Terry is easy to recognize, you don't see many people that look like him.). Both of them cached up with him. "Yo, Terry." Ranma called out "Where you heading?" "Oh, hi guys." Terry said back "I'm on my way to some school to fix their wall." "That school wouldn't be Furinkan high by any chance, would it?" Akane asked. "Well as a matter of fact..." Terry answered while consulting a piece of paper "Yes, it is." "That's our school." Akane declared. "Is that so? [Figures!]" he asked not very surprised "So what happened there anyway?" "Must be that hole Shampoo made at the cafeteria wall last Friday." Ranma explained. "The one she made when she brought you lunch?" Akane asked obviously annoyed. "Hey! I didn't ask her to fix me lunch okay!" The pigtailed boy responded. "Well you sure didn't seem too disappointed for her doing so." Akane added "Or by Ukyou making you lunch also." The rest of the walk went on with Ranma and Akane arguing, and Terry having to stand them both. Once they reached the school, Terry was the one who caught everyone's attention as they crossed the gate. This was due to: a) He fact he wasn't a teenager like everyone else. b) His unique combination of clothes that made him stand out in front of everyone. c) The fact that he was a new face in Nerima. d) His looks that captivated most of the Furinkan female cast. 'Wow! Who is *that*?' 'He's so dreamy!' 'Look at those eyes!' Nabiki stood behind a group of girls that were admiring Terry. As she predicted, most of the girls at school were attracted to him. Everything was going according to plan. Now came the moment to start making some money. She stepped in front of the group waving at Terry and calling out his name, driving his attention towards her. "Hey, Nabiki!" Terry said at her "How's it going?" Nabiki pulled an evil grin on her face. The rest of the girls didn't took long in noticing this and immediately gathered around her bombarding her with questions. Yes, everything was going according to her plans. "People, people. Calm down." She told the crowd "I'll answer to all of your questions... but you'll have to pay the right price for that." Terry was now in the principal's office, reporting ready to do his job. He had to admit that from all the principals he met before, this one definitively didn't fit in the *normal* category. Both of them started talking in a fluent english. After some minutes, and after Terry told the principal for the last time that he wasn't going to cut his pony tail, Terry headed to the cafeteria. The hole was in fact big. This job was going to take him most of the day to fix. Hours later, during school recess, Ranma and Akane are seen in the court yard. Akane trying to feed Ranma with some of the slob she prepared earlier this morning. Ranma was therefore looking preoccupied since his fiancee was looking very determined in making him eat whatever monstrosity she cooked. If Ukyou or Shampoo didn't show up soon, Ranma would be forced to eat what appeared to be "lunch" and spend the rest of the day at Tofu's clinic. "Well??" Akane insisted "Are you gonna eat it or not." Ranma took the chop sticks with trembling hands. He then proceeded to look for a piece of food that didn't look *too* toxic. Not finding it, he took a piece at random. He could only hope that Akane's cooking had improved over the last week. But deep inside, he knew that wasn't possible. He dangerously approached the doubtful food stuff to his mouth when suddenly... "RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAA!!!!!" shouted Ryouga from the other side of the yard as he ran towards him with no good intentions in mind "Fight me! Right now!" [Yesssss!!!!] Ranma thought relieved [I'm saved!] as he put Akane's lunch box aside, he then stood up to confront Ryouga. "Well, well, if it isn't P-chan himself!" he teased "And it only took you an entire day to find me too. I think that's pretty good for your standards." "Shut up!!!" Ryouga told him "You might have bought yourself some time with that stunt you pulled last Saturday, but you're not running away this time!" In the meantime, while Ranma and Ryouga were settling some of their several differences, another kind of riot went on the other side of school. A riot involving a short perverted old man, women underwear, and angry school girls. "What a haul! What a haul!" Happosai stated as he ran away from his pursuers. 'Come back here!' 'Somebody stop him!' 'Don't let him get away!' As this distinguished group ran along school, Happosai suddenly stopped as he noticed a familiar figure fixing the cafeteria wall. At that same time, Terry turned around to see what was all that racket about. Both of them stared at each other not very pleased for meeting again. "You again!" both of them said simultaneously. All of Furinkan students began to gather around the two challengers. If there's something the students of Furinkan knew better than anyone, that's when a fight was about to start. Terry "humph"ed and turned around ignoring Happosai, he began to fix the wall once again. "Hey! What's wrong with you?" Happosai asked "Aren't you gonna fight me?" "Get lost, old man." Terry responded not even looking at him "I'm too busy now." "What?" he asked in disbelief "How dare you ignore me? Me! Happosai, the greatest evil in all Japan!" "Don't flatter yourself, gramps." Terry stated "I've seen more evil than you. The way I see it, you're nothing more than a frustrated sick old man." Even if it didn't seem like it, that last insult Terry gave him, hurt Happosai's pride more than being trashed by the entire school body. Happosai clenched his fist in a mixture of hate and frustration, you could even see tears forming in his eyes. Someone finally did it. Someone hurt him with words instead of punched and he was completely defenseless. The students began to laugh at him after what Terry said. This only helped in making things worst. Happosai couldn't answer back. He was helpless. Never before was he helpless, and he sure didn't like the new feeling. This insult had to be washed away with blood. "You will PAAAAAAYYYY!!!!" he yelled as he launched himself towards Terry. Unlike last time, Terry wasn't taken by surprise. He jumped vertically and put his legs against the wall. He then pushed himself to the other side of the field not only avoiding Happosai but putting himself in a more convenient place to fight too. He was starting to get the idea that everything in Nerima was solved with violence. Meanwhile, at the other side of school, Ranma and Ryouga were still fighting. Actually, Ryouga did the punching while Ranma only dodged. Akane was looking at them a little annoyed. This was really getting old. Suddenly, she saw several students heading to the other side of school. One of Akane's friends stopped next to her. "Where is everyone going?" Akane asked her. "Didn't you hear?" said her friend "The old pervert is fighting that cute Gai-jin who's fixing the cafeteria wall!" "He's what?" Ranma asked as he spontaneously buried his foot in Ryouga's face "Are you sure?" "Yeah come on, let's go see!" The three of them ran to the other side of school. "Hey, Ranma!!!" Ryouga declared as he rubbed his face "Where do you think you're going? We still have unfinished business to settle!" as he ran after them. Once they all reached the cafeteria, Ranma, Ryouga and Akane clearly saw what was happening. As they were told, Terry and Happosai were fighting. The only thing they didn't knew was that the old freak was VERY upset. Ranma knew better than anyone what was the old pervert capable of when he got mad. That's why he decided to interfere. "Ranma! Stay out of this!" Terry declared "I can handle my own fights!" "Are you nuts!" Akane told him "Let Ranma and Ryouga help you out!" "Don't worry!" he said "I'll be just fine!" Even though Ranma and Ryouga didn't like the idea to let him on his own, they did what they were told and stood back with the rest of the students. Happosai was really mad. Out of nowhere, he took several Happo-Daikarins and threw them to his opponent. Not expecting they did any damage, but a chance to surprise his enemy and put himself in a more convenient/strategic place to attack. The bombs went off, and when the smoke cleared out Happosai had disappeared. Terry immediately took a defensive stance and sharpen his senses. He felt something approaching from above. When he took his sight upwards, that proved to be a mistake as he was blinded by the sun. Noticing his error, Terry jumped backwards and barely avoided Happosai's attack. The old goat was standing where Terry had been moments earlier with his pipe buried on the ground. Not wasting an opportunity and taking advantage of Terry's momentary blindness, Happosai sent a kick which successfully connected and sent his adversary flying against a tree nearby. Terry quickly reincorporated himself. Happosai quickly threw another attack, it was a snake-like ki blast that seamed to have the old pervert's head at front. Terry quickly sent his fist against the floor. "POWER WAVE!" he shouted. Both attacks made coalition creating a reasonably big explosion. Unfortunately (again!), Terry was closer to the explosion than Happosai, causing him more damage than his opponent. Even though he was wounded, Terry was far from having any serious injury. "That's it!" Ryouga declared as he snapped out of a trance "Now I remember!" "About what?" Ranma asked. "About Terry!" Ryouga explained "I knew I heard about him before!" "Where did you hear about him?" Akane asked. "It was when I was traveling in a place called South Town." He continued "That's where I first heard about Terry "Hungry Wolf" Bogard." "Er... Ryouga," Akane interrupted "what were you doing in South Town? Isn't that in America?" "I got lost and ended up there once." he told her a little embarrassed. "Figures." "Shut up, Ranma!" "Well anyway, what's his story?" Akane asked him. "Well as I was about to say," Ryouga continued "while I was in South Town, trying to find my way back to Japan, I heard stories about Terry beating up the king of South Town. Some guy called Geese Howard, he was a big mob guy or something like that. Nobody thought that Geese could be defeated. But Terry showed them wrong." "Well, he sure is handling himself well enough against Happosai." Akane pointed out. "That's not all." Ryouga continued "Then there was a time I got lost in Germany once..." "You ended up in GERMANY once????" Ranma asked in shock "How did that happened?" "IT JUST HAPPENS SOMETIMES OKAY!!" Ryouga declared a little annoyed for being interrupted once again "Anyway, while was I Germany, I heard about Terry again. Only this time, he defeated a guy called Wolfgang Krauser from the house of Stroheim." "So?" Ranma asked not very impressed. "So!" Ryouga went on "The members from the house of Stroheim are known for being the strongest fighters in the world. Looks like Krauser was the tuffest one of all of them. That is until Terry defeated him." "Heh heh, looks like there was more about Terry than we knew." Ranma stated interested. If what Ryouga told him was true, then this was going be a very interesting match. And he sure wanted to see it. Both challengers were standing a few yards in front of each other with their guard up. A short pause followed as they each examined the other. After that, they both dashed towards each other. Terry made a roundhouse kick but Happosai avoid it. He even managed in taking a hold of Terry's leg and smiled wickedly. This mistake was going to cost him dearly, but then he noticed that Terry was smiling also. Almost as if he was expecting him to grab his leg. Taking Happosai by surprise, Terry sent his other leg to join his first, therefore grabbing Happosai by the neck between both of them. Right now, Terry was going to fall on his stomach. But he arched himself ninny degrees and planted his hands on the floor to make a front roll. Having his neck stuck between Terry's leg wasn't just suffocating him. But on top of that, Happosai was going head first against the ground as Terry rolled. He tried to free himself but was unsuccessful. He only felt how his head painfully hit the floor. Still, Terry wasn't done with him. As soon as Happosai made that tortuous landing, he realeased his grip and sent his fist against the ground only a few inches away from Happosai's head. "POWER WAVE!!" The blue wave-like ki attack slid through the floor while taking Happosai as a passenger. Once the Power Wave reached a steady surface to make impact on (in this case a tree), it exploded sending Happosai a couple of feet upwards and then landing painfully on the ground *again*. "He got him!" Akane declared. "I wouldn't be so sure." Ranma pointed out as he saw how the old lech began to stand up. The old goat was looking very wounded, but that didn't seem in making him less angry. "You little punk!" He stated enraged with his I'm-gonna-kill-you voice "It's time I give you a lesson!" Happosai raised both of his hands as he gathered his energy. Terry didn't have the slightest idea of what he was doing until he felt how the wind currents began to change. Did he knew how to do the Sen Puu Ken? Happosai then joined both of his hands down front pointing to where he was standing. A large tornado began to form with great speed around him. Terry was suddenly caught in the tornado's current and was sent flying sky high. Once the wind dissipated, he fell to the ground not very ceremoniously. (For more information about this attack, watch Ranma 1/2's Anything Goes Martial Arts video "Good-bye girl type" from Viz video for only 24.95$. I know! It's a shameless advertisement, but I don't give a damn!) "Well, guess we can interfere now." Ranma said a little disappointed about the match. "Stay where you are!" Terry declared as he painfully got up "I can handle him!" "So... you want some more?" Happosai asked him mockingly. Terry dust of his pants and readjusted his baseball cap. Strange thing though, was that you could see him smile. It's been some time since he last fought Laocorn at the Dead Sea in Israel. He never had such a good fight after that time. He wasn't even sure that he was going to get any good challenges in the future. This was great. "Nice moves, gramps." he said "I have to admit I didn't see it coming. But now let me show you how it's *really* done." Terry extended his arms to his side with his fist closed. A blue aura began to form around him and the wind currents started changing. [Does he know the same tricks?] Ranma questioned himself. "SEN PUU KEN!" Terry shouted. He then made a brutal spin with his arms still extended and a tornado immediately formed around him. "Fool!" Happosai declared "I'm too familiar with that kind of technique! There's no way you're going to make me get near you now! You're just wasting your strength!" Much to the surprise of everyone though, the tornado began to move towards Happosai with great speed, as if it had a mind of it's own. As soon as the old lech noticed this, he began to run for cover while the crazy tornado gave chase to him. Everyone was looking amazed at such technique. [That technique is incredible!] Ranma though [not only he did it faster than the Hiryu Shoten Ha but you can move from side to side as well. How does he do it?] Terry finally caught up with Happosai and imprisoned him in the current. After being punched enough times to end up at the hospital, and spinning enough times to want to throw up, The old pervert was put into orbit ending up a couple of towns away. After the winds returned to normal, Terry was revealed at the center of where the Sen Puu Ken once was; he sat down to rest trying to regain his strength after performing such a demanding technique. Everyone cheered and clapped. Ranma, Ryouga and Akane joined Terry. "Way to go, man!" Ranma congratulated. "That last technique you used was incredible!" Akane pointed out "What was it?" "It's a secret technique of the Hakkyokuseiken called the Sen Puu Ken." Terry told her as he got to his feet. "Terry!" Ranma stated "You've got to teach me how to do that technique!" he was looking very determined in learning the move. "Wait a minute!" Ryouga interrupted "There's no way I'm going to let you get an edge thanks to him! If you're learning how to do it, then I'm learning it too!" "Get lost P-chan." "Who you calling P-chan???" Ryouga asked as he delivered a punch to Ranma's face. No need to say that a fight between both them didn't took too long to start. That is until Terry interfered putting an end to it. "Guys! Guys! Calm down!" he said "Listen, I hate to tell you this, but I can't teach either one of you how to do the Sen Puu Ken." "Why not?" both of them asked at the same time. "Like I said before," he explained "it's a *secret* technique. I can't give away the secret as if it was some sort cooking recipe." "Couldn't you bend a little on that?" Ranma insisted. "Sorry." he told them "My master had to give away his life in order for me to learn it. I couldn't ignore his sacrifice. It wouldn't feel right." "We understand." Ryouga declared a little disappointed. He wanted to learn the move just as bad as Ranma. But he respected Terry's decision and decided not to insist. "Well we might as well head back to class now." Akane pointed out "School recess is over, we have to hurry up or we'll be late." Everyone took a different route there after. Ranma and Akane went to class, Ryouga got lost while looking for his backpack, and Terry headed towards the wall he was intended to fix since the beginning. It was then that he noticed the incredible property damage that became as a result of today's fight with Happosai. This was something that was going to come out of his next paycheck. [Great! Just great!] he thought [I might as well find more desolated places to fight from now on. This is something I'll have to pay for. At this rate, I'll be working in Nerima for the rest of my life. I have to start saving some money to move on.] He then went to work again. His job was seriously delayed and was going to take him even more time to fix. A couple of hours after school was over. Terry was almost finished. In the meantime, at the Tendou household, Nabiki Tendou was doing her own work in her room. She was building up a list of girls that showed particular interest in the new martial artist in town, along with some of the questions they paid her to answer. Most of those questions were very similar. They wanted to know how old Terry was, what kind of music did he like, if he had a girlfriend or not, etc, etc... It certainly wasn't going to be difficult to get a chance to ask Terry a couple of questions, considering that he usually came by to fix their roof and/or wall. At that precise moment, a loud was heard over the training hall. Nabiki looked over her window to see Ranma rubbing his head outside the dojo. He must have been punched through the wall after making one of his rude remarks at Akane. "Well now," Nabiki said to herself "this is quite convenient." She then left her desk and walked out of her room, heading to the phone down stares. It was time for Mr. Mizuhara to send his handsome worker to fix a certain wall. Moments later, we seen Terry knocking at the Tendou dojo. He was really hoping to take the rest of the day off after fixing Furinkan's wall. Just as he was coming back from there, his boss gave him another assignment. He told him that it was going to be something easy and quickly done. Right now Terry was caring a couple of wooden boards, a hammer and some nails. Something Terry had noticed these past days was that "Mizuhara's wall and roof company" always had prefabricated parts for the Tendous. This was rather normal considering that he had to fix their house almost every day. It also made work a lot easier and faster. As the door opened Kasumi was revealed. "Why hello, Terry." she said "It's so nice of you to come in such short notice." "Hello, Kasumi." Terry said back "Did Ranma and Akane had another fight?" "I'm afraid so." she declared "Here, let me show you where the hole is." Once he was taken to the place needing fixing, Kasumi left towards the kitchen to cook dinner. Terry looked at the hole. It really wasn't much. Compared to his earlier job this morning, this was going to be a piece of cake. He just had to nail some boards and then head for home. He took off his jacket and turned the peak from his baseball cap around to see better. He began to work not noticing that Nabiki was hidden behind him with her camera while taking pictures. [That's the way to do it, Terry.] she thought [You just keep on showing those muscles off while I do my job. I think I'll get a really good price for these pictures.] A couple of minutes later, Terry finished his job (along with Nabiki for that matter). He picked up his tools and went to report with the Tendous. Almost everyone was at the balcony. "Well I'm done fixing your wall." Terry pointed out "My boss will send you the bill later. I think I'll be on my way now." "Wouldn't you like to join us for dinner?" Kasumi proposed. "Ranma told us about your fight." Soun added "We'd also like you to tell us your side of the story." "Well... er... sure. Why not." Nabiki smiled, her relatives were doing all of her work. It was really going to be easy to ask Terry a couple of questions while they were eating. During dinner, Terry unquestionably enjoyed Kasumi's cooking. That lonely life in the road he lived certainly didn't give him a chance to enjoy any good home cooked meals. He couldn't remember when was the last time he tasted such good food. As time went on, Terry was asked several questions, some of them about the fight he had earlier, but most of them were about his personal life. Nabiki was the one who made the most questions. Terry summarized the events of his life. He told them about his brother and friends and his several encounters. He was particularly brief when he was asked about his girlfriend situation. [Dead girlfriend, hun?] Nabiki thought [The man needs loving. This is something the girls at school will be very pleased in learning. My purse will be even more pleased.] "So, Terry..." Ranma began "About that match you wanted to have with me, when do we do that?" "Well I don't know." Terry responded "I'll have to ask for a day off. How about next week? Okay by you?" "Sure thing! Next week it is then." Ranma confirmed "But I'm warning you, I won't be holding back." "That's just the way I expect it to be." Terry declared "Because I won't be holding back either." "Perfect." "There's only one thing." Terry added "I think we should find a place were there's not much to destroy. Unlike today." "I think I might know of the perfect place." Nabiki suggested. "And how much is it going to cost us for you to tell us?" Ranma asked distrustfully. "Nothing at all!" Nabiki stated trying to look shocked "What's wrong with doing a favor to my future brother-in-law once in a while?" "Hum... Nothing I guess..." Dinner was coming to its end. The only thing that was left now was desert. Akane came out of the kitchen caring a big plate with some sort of green jello in it. She was looking very proud of herself. Everyone except Terry looked at the plate with horror in their eyes. "Er... Akane dear... did you cooked this?" Soun asked nervously. "That's right!" she joyfully declared "I made enough for everyone, so be sure to eat up." "Gee, I'd love too." Ranma lied "But I think I'm already full." "So am I!" "Yeah. me too!" "Same here." "I wouldn't mind in trying some." Terry said. "You would?" Akane asked delighted. Everyone except Akane and Kasumi (this last one being too oblivious) was giving Terry their well known *Don't eat it unless you want to die* look. Akane, happy to see that someone volunteered to eat her food, took Terry's plate and filled it with the thing she is the only one able cook in this world. Terry was so occupied trying to identify what he was about to eat that he didn't see Ranma making him signs from the other side of the table, obviously trying too tell him to stop before it was too late. Terry took a spoon and filled it. Then he put it into his mouth. About an hour later, at Dr. Tofu's clinic: "Is he going to be all right, Dr. Tofu?" Ranma asked him. "Well, he suffered from a serious case of food intoxication." he explained "But I think he'll be all right with some bed rest. How did this happened anyway?" "I... I think I'm the one responsible for this..." Akane confessed ashamed. "Don't worry, Akane." Tofu encouraged "You'll get it right someday." "Yeah, lets just hope she doesn't kill someone in the process." Ranma added. "Shut up, Ranma!" shouted Akane as she slammed a nearby chair against Ranma's face. This day to day argument was interrupted as the three of them suddenly heard Terry moaning in pain from the other room. "I guess he's conscious again." Tofu declared "Let's go see how he's doing." The three of them went inside the room. Terry was lying in one of the beds, he slowly began to open his eyes. His throat was feeling dry and his stomach was killing him. By the door he could see Ranma and Akane next to someone else who was wearing glasses and who looked around his same age. Terry tried to get up, but the pain in his stomach quickly sent him back in a horizontal position. "Wh... what happened?" he asked. "You just had your first encounter with Akane's cooking." Ranma told him "I guess you should feel lucky for being alive." "Shut up, you jerk!" Akane shouted as she punched Ranma away, then she turned towards Terry "I'm so sorry... I thought I had it right this time." "Don't worry..." Terry said to her "I think I'll be okay." "You suffered from food intoxication." Dr. Tofu spoke as he helped Terry out to put him in a sitting position "By the way, I'm Dr. Ono Tofu. Ranma and Akane brought you to my clinic right after you passed out." "After... I... passed out?" he asked. "That's right." Ranma confirmed "You went down right after the first bite." After being helped up, Tofu began to poke gently in certain parts of Terry's stomach. "Tell me where it hurts." he said. Terry answered with little groans each time Dr. Tofu poked him. Once that was over, Tofu readjusted his glassed and headed to a book shelf nearby. He took one of the manuals and started searching for something while he turned the pages. "As I said before," he began "you just suffered from food intoxication. Some bed rest will fix that, but I think there's a pressure point in your stomach to ease the pain... hum.... Here it is!" Tofu closed the book and headed towards his patient. With his index finger he began to search for the pressure point in Terry's stomach when suddenly... Kasumi showed up... "Hi, everyone!" she said "Terry forgot his tools at home. I just came to give them back. And how are you today Dr. Tofu?" Tofu's glassed immediately fogged up and a stupid smile had formed in his face. He violently poked Terry in the stomach to which the blond Gai-jin answered by a loud groan. Terry suddenly felt the urge to throw up. He immediately jumped out of the bed with both of his hands covering his mouth and began to run frenetically around the room in search for the bathroom. "K... Ka... Kasumi!" Tofu declared "What a coincidence of finding you here, of all places." "You're always so funny, Dr. Tofu." Kasumi pointed out "And how is Terry doing?" "Terry's doing fine." he responded as he started patting Ranma on the shoulder "Isn't that right, Terry?" "Doctor... I'm Ranma, Terry went to the bathroom." he told him. "He did?" Tofu asked "I thought he could barely move moments ago. He must be felling better already!" "Er... Doctor... You're talking to your skeleton now." Akane pointed out. "Oh, am I?" he asked again "Well in that case. Betty, please be so kind to bring Kasumi a cup of tea." Ranma and Akane decided to leave the room. When Dr. Tofu was like this, it was the wisest thing to do. So they decided to look for their friend. At the end of the corridor, right where the bathroom was, they heard a prolonged . Ranma knocked and opened the door once he assumed the throwing up had stopped. Inside the bathroom, Terry was seen on his knees embracing the toilet seat. "Well," Ranma started "that's *one* way to get it out of your system." "Terry are you all right?" Akane asked him. "That guy shouldn't play around with those pressure points." Terry declared as he finally raised his head from the toilet seat. "Do you think you're going to be okay?" Ranma asked him. "I'll be fine." he responded "But I think I'll be needing some fresh mints... ... Oh God..." as he immediately faced the toilet seat again "" End of chapter 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Author notes: Okay, let's put something clear here! Some of you readers might think that I didn't use Happosai correctly. That maybe he should've offered more of a challenge to Terry. First of all, I never said that Happosai was an easy picking. Maybe the problem with him is that he looses his focus easily (either by bad temper or because of some girl's underwear). That doesn't mean I think he's weaker than Terry. Still, I never said that Terry wasn't as strong, or even stronger, than Happosai either ^_^. After all, He did defeat the incarnation of the God Mars, didn't he? What I'm getting here at is simple. If you think that Terry is stronger than Happosai, that's fine by me. If you think that Happosai is stronger than Terry, that's fine by me also. End of topic! See you in chapter 4...