Day at the Beach
A day at the beach
Started by: Kodachi Kunou
It was a bright sunny day in the land of the rising sun. School was out and everyone felt pretty content (And Hot). A trip to the beach would be just the thing on a day like this.
A trip to the beach was exactly was Kodachi Kunou was up to. She had just departed the old limo and the Kunou family car drove away. She was wearing a lavender sundress with an interesting bikini hidden underneath she had one hand on her beach hat to keep it in place in the warm breeze.. Sasuke walked beside her carrying all the things she would need to a beach day.
"Mistress" Sasuke began nervously "Do you really need all of this stuff for a trip to the beach?"
Kodachi looked at Sasuke like he was insane. "Of course I need all of that, Sasuke." She began to count off items on her fingers. "All I brought was a towel, an umbrella, a cooler, a picnic lunch, 2 changes of clothes, a radio, some suntan lotion, a few make-up essentials, my industrial strength blow dryer..." As she continued on Sasuke knew he had made a mistake in asking her that question.
The little ninja found a nice spot and began setting everything up as Kodachi continued to list the 'Few Essentials' she had brought along.
She finally stopped quoting her list and looked around the beach a bit while Sasuke set up her area. She thought she saw that Chinese healer, Alex and their pink haired companion. She wasn't too sure about that.
If she was here at the beach why wouldn't the other people from Nerima? She just hoped she didn't see that old Pervert.
As Sasuke finished his task, Kodachi settled in for some sunbathing. She removed the lavender sundress to reveal a lavender and Black string bikini. Swimwear that left very little to the imagination.
Not far from where Kodachi was set up with her 'few essentials' a game of Frisbee was being played by what looked like half of Nerima. Silk, Alex, Perfume, and a few others Kodachi didn't recognize right away flung the disk of hardened blue plastic back and forth across the sand, leaping and diving, each trying to outdo the last with a fancy maneuver in catching or throwing.
And not far from them, in turn, was a grill and some other stuff to help in cooking and of course, Ukyou Kuonji, grilling away orders from people like Daisuke and some other guys at school, who where drooling over the okonomiyaki she cooked and the bathing suit she wore. Even though it was conservative by most means.
Perfume was dressed in a tasteful one-piece swimsuit and was wearing a floppy white hat, pulled down at an angle to partially conceal the right side of her face.
She was still having problems with this 'Frisbee' game. She didn't train much with throwing weapons so her skills were lacking a bit. In other words Alex was having to run after more than one of Perfume's bad throws.
She tossed the plastic disk in Alex's general direction. The wind caught the little projectile just right causing it to veer of course. It bounced off of Daisuke's head, deflected off of Ukyou's grill, and finally landed on one psycho sunbather.
"Whoops!"
Happosai, Meanwhile was sitting on top of one of the beachside food stands. he was completely engrossed in watching all the beauties on the beach. It did his old heart good to see so much exposed flesh.
"Hot Diggity, where to start.. the Blonde.. the Brunette, the redhead, Perfume, Ukyou, Kodachi... Wait a minute, what am I thinking about that psychotic girl for, I don't want to end up poisoned again!"
For the most part he was currently content on just watching the beach. He was hoping that his favorite quarry, Ranma- Chan would show up.
Alex, who was in mid-dive for the Frisbee, didn't see where he was about to land until it was almost too late. He managed to do a tuck and roll as he grabbed the Frisbee, and landed hard on his back in the sand. He was wearing a pair of jet-black trunks with a racing stripe and a pair of shades. "Perfume, I think you could afford to work on this Frisbee thing."
Brush was sitting on a blanket under her umbrella, relaxing. She was wearing a red string bikini, which was very revealing. Several guys had passed out or been beaten up by their girlfriends from looking at her already. "Alex is right, Perfume. And Alex, I think you might want to get up and get back in the game."
"You know she's right." Silk said as she demonstrated once again to Perfume how to throw the Frisbee, tossing a green disk to Scarf, who caught it between his palms with the same ease. "Keep your wrist level and release just as your finger is pointed in the direction you want it to go." she demonstrated the motion again, then waved to Scarf to come over. "You try showing her. I'm getting nowhere."
Under Scarf's tutelage Perfume finally seemed to be getting the hang of this Frisbee throwing thing. She even managed to get the elusive little disk to the right target.
She giggled slightly to herself, "I guess you see why I specialize in Melee weapons, ne?" She then looked up at the sky, smiling in bliss as the warm rays touched her face.
Kodachi Kunou jumped to her feet at the unwanted interruption to her sunbathing. She was prepared the beat whoever it was that ran over her senseless.
Of course her angry expression turned to a smile when she noticed Alex. "Hello, Alex-san, what brings you to the beach today?" She was blushing while she spoke, her thoughts trying to keep their focus on Ranma-Sama. She always had a hard time keeping focused when Alex was around. Especially when he was dressed like he was today.
Alex, totally oblivious to the looks he was getting from Kodachi, got up and smiled at her. "It's kinda hot today, Kodachi-san. Seemed like a good time to go to the beach." He got up, and walked around her brushing himself off. Then he turned back and said, "Maybe you want to join us in our game?"
Kodachi usually didn't like to associate with two many other people, but Alex had a way of bringing out that trait in people. She noticed that he was here with Silk, Perfume, Brush, and Scarf, none of which she had any particular problems with. She just hoped that Silk didn't hold a grudge from her actions on Valentine's day.
She also noticed Ukyou, the Spatula girl herself. Normally, that would be enough to dissuade her, but she and Ukyou had come to an understanding. Of course that understanding came after Ukyou whapped her upside the head with the mega spatula.
She smiled sweetly at Alex. "If your friends don't mind, Alex- san, I would love to join you in your little game."
Perfume glanced over at Kodachi and Alex. "Silk wasn't kidding when she said Alex's charm attracts all sorts to him, weather he wants it or not." She thought wryly to herself.
She didn't hold a grudge either, except with Shampoo. She had already forgiven Kodachi for the club the gymnast had hit her with earlier.
"Silk" Perfume whispered to Silk. " I think Alex as attracted the attention of a certain psycho flower girl."
Scarf, who was wearing a gray swim suit and a white T-shirt, looked over at Kodachi and Alex. "Poor Alex" he said to no one in particular. "Hey, Alex, you playing, or what?"
Alex looked over and replied, "Yeah man, I'm on my way." He started back over. "Do you guys mind if Kodachi plays?"
Silk responded by sailing the green Frisbee straight to Kodachi, then looked from Perfume to Scarf, "Yeah, I noticed. Time to Grin and bear it." she put on her most dazzling smile and motioned for Scarf to come a bit closer, speaking softly to her housemates, "Let's show them what it means to be THE outcast amazons." she tugged at the strap of her tie died bikini, which, unlike Kodachi and Brush's outfits, managed to leave _something_ to the imagination, "How about it." she asked the others as they approached, "Alex, Brush and Kodachi against Me, Perfume, and Scarf? Ultimate Frisbee or any other game you'd care to play."
From behind Ukyou and the counter, Konatsu appeared. Unlike most people (except Ukyou-sama and Silk, it seemed) he was somewhat anti-revealed by his costume, which consisted of a light flowery sundress.
"Ukyou-sama, I chopped the carrots like you asked," he chirruped, starting to serve the waiting students. Daisuke leered at him, something Konatsu was used to. Seeing that the customers began to thin out, he whispered something to his boss who nodded. Smiling, Konatsu skipped over to where the Frisbee deathmatch was about to begin and sat down to watch.
Daisuke leeringly followed him, but was then transfixed by the girls in more revealing clothing. Konatsu sighed a sigh of relief.
Perfume was in total agreement with Silk, no body could defeat a team of Amazons, outcasts or not. Then she noticed Konatsu sit down to watch the game. She blushed slightly and smiled and waved to him.
She only hoped that she did not make too much of a fool of herself.
Kodachi easily caught the airborne disk that Silk tossed to her. She spun it on her fingertip with obvious dexterity and grinned at the trio of Outcast Amazons.
She began laughing insanely as she spun the Frisbee on her finger. "I'm certain that you shall discover that I am a fine opponent in this little game. With Alex and Brush assisting me we cannot lose."
Konatsu bought a can of cold green tea from a passing vendor. It cost him a days pay, but it was worth it in this sun. Sipping the beverage, he proceeded to watch the game-to-be and waved back at Perfume, silently wonder if there was any rules.
Ukyou looked up from her grill to observe the spectacle that was Frisbee-games.
Alex grinned. "Well, let's lock and load, boys and girls!" He quickly stretched his chest, and was ready to play. As he flex his body, a few girls down the beach behind Silk and her team turned beet red from looking.
Happosai was looking through a pair of binoculars at the group below. "Ohh yeah.. this is gonna get good.. Jumping, bouncing barely dressed young girls. I'm gonna have to interrupt soon.. I can't hold back much longer."
"So what are the exact rules for this little game of ours?" Scarf asked.
"Rules?" Perfume inquired, "I thought this was anything goes Frisbee." She laughed slightly, hoping that everyone caught her little joke.
Kodachi was a little surprised, Anything goes Frisbee? That was a new one on her.
"However you want to play is just fine with me, my Chinese friend." She made a fake like she was going to toss the Frisbee to perfume, but changed at the last moment tossing the disk to Silk.
Perfume reacted like the Frisbee was flying at her, but stopped short when she saw the change in trajectory. She frowned when she realized that Kodachi tried to embarrass her on Purpose. She would get her back for that.
Kodachi smirked when she saw the angry look on Perfume's face. "I've already angered the pink hared one." She thought to herself. "This is going to be a fun game."
Alex chuckled. "You snooze, you lose, Perfume!" Alex looked and saw Silk still hadn't noticed the incoming disc. "Hey Silk, heads up!"
Silk reached out and caught the disk between her palms, never touching the edge, "Object: keep it airborne until you can get in into the goal. You can pass between teammates, steal in mid air, but can't run with it, or tackle anyone." she pointed at the lines that had been drawn in the sand by a recent group of volleyball players, running over to mark a goal at the end of each teams territory. "Every Frisbee thrown to a teammate in the opponents goal is two points. Roughing, which includes any overt or covert martial arts technique perpetrated on either your opponent or your teammate is minus three points. If it touches the ground it's free for all. First side to ten points wins. No spiking, just good throws. play nice." She handed the Frisbee to Ukyou, "Toss it in for us, will you?" she ran over to join her teammates.
Alex stretched his chest, and waited for Ukyou to toss it up to start the game. "Works for me Silk. Let's go!"
Ukyou looked down at the Frisbee, then back up at the contestants. With a casual flick of her wrist, she sent the Frisbee flying into a place located between the two teams, a place that could be called middle, if there had been any real boundaries.
Konatsu cheered one of his feminine cheers as the Frisbee sailed over his head and onto the playing field.
"Yay!"
Using a bit of her tightly honed reflexes, Kodachi leapt into the air and caught the Frisbee on the tip of her finger. Using a lot of her dexterity she rolled the Frisbee down her arm, across her shoulder and into her left hand. Just as she was about to land she tossed the disk backwards to Alex.
"Heads up Alex-Chan!" She laughed a little when she landed.
"Got it, 'Dachi-san." Alex replied as he let the Frisbee run along the insides of his arms and across his chest. He let it loop around a few times before flicking it towards the goal. "Heads up!"
"Oh No" Perfume thought to herself. "No way am I going to let that Psycho outdo me!" She leapt forward intent on the same sort of aerial acrobatics that Kodachi performed.
Unfortunately, Perfume misjudged the jump a bit. The Frisbee nailed her in the forehead and bounced into Scarf's hands.
Spinning it on one of his fingertips, he looked downfield and saw Silk. He threw it behind his back to her and began running for their goal area.
Silk caught the disk with one hand then jumped. At the top of the arc she tossed the disk downfield with an upward projection, allowing the wind to catch it and carry it over the heads of her opponents, placing it to coincide with Scarf's entrance to their goal, provided he wasn't blocked or otherwise detained.
Scarf ran right by Kodachi, she couldn't stop him. Mainly because she was too busy laughing at Perfume's unorthodox block. "hohohohohoho That was just too much hohohohoho!"
Brush, however, managed to run back and catch the flying disc. She flicked it between Scarf's legs towards Alex. "Incoming!" Unfortunately, Scarf had a lot of momentum still, as he almost ran over Brush.
By the sidelines, Konatsu was still trying to figure out why someone would chose to block something with the head. Sipping, his soft drink, he could hear Daisuke breathing heavier as he watched the running girls. He moved himself a bit away from the teenage boy, just in case.
A few feet in front of Brush Scarf somersaulted and tapped the ground. "Bakusai Tenketsu!" He cried. The explosion from his technique propelled him back towards Alex and the Frisbee.
"Hey Scarf, what happened to no martial art techniques?!" Alex said as he scooped up the Frisbee and flipped backwards over Scarf. He tossed it to Kodachi. "Heads up!"
Looking at Silk, Scarf asked, "I thought that you could you techniques, just not on opponents?"
From Happosai's vantage point he was almost losing control watching those girls bounce around. Just as he was about to interfere he noticed the female changing rooms nearby.
"First a recharge, then I get involved."
Perfume glared at Kodachi for laughing at her so hard. "You can stop any second now!"
Then she looked over to Scarf. "yeah, Silk said that was roughing, but since you didn't hit anyone I guess it was alright?" She wasn't too sure herself.
Konatsu was a little ticked of at Kodachi for laughing at Perfume like that. She was trying so hard. Then he moved a little to the left as Daisuke had moved a little closer.
Kodachi finally stopped laughing at Perfume for the moment. She was certain that she would have more opportunities. catching the Frisbee as Alex tossed it to her she looked for an opportunity.
Noticing Brush make a run for the goal, she tossed the disk expertly to Brush, hoping for a quick score.
Brush hopped into the air and caught the Frisbee, landing in the goal area. "First score!" She grinned as she hopped up and down, drawing every male eye on the beach. A loud 'SLAP/THUD' was heard a moment later. "Well, Silk, it looks like we drew first blood for this game. What are we going to?"
Before anyone could answer their game was interrupted by female voices screaming "Get back here you dirty old man!" Sure enough, glancing back there was Happosai running with a bag of undergarments on his back with a hoard of screaming woman chasing him.
"WHAT A HAUL!! WHAT A HAUL!!"
"Great! The old Pervert again!" Perfume growled as she heard Happosai's voice. She spun in the direction Happi was running from and ran toward him with all her speed.
Just as she got close she reach out and cut his panty bag loose. Right into the horde of angry women.
From the sidelines, Konatsu applauded Perfumes action.
"My..My..My.. Collection!" Was all that Happi could mutter, horrified that he had lost the days work. "Perfume how could you! I've been nice enough to you lately. It's time you learn to respect your elders!"
Happosai began glowing with a red battle aura as he stared perfume down. he launched a flurry of attacks, just enough to keep Perfume off balance. Then he jumped back and landed out of her range. He was holding a one piece swimsuit in his hand.
Then Perfume realized that she was getting alot more sun than usual.
Silk saw what Happosai had done and gasped in Horror. She sprinted to Perfume while concentrating on how she was going to do this new variation on a trick she'd recently learned from Happosai. Grabbing the other girl's arm she pulled them both into Null-Space.
Nullspace was a place where a few people could go be disassociating themselves with other's reality with their Chi. Happosai was a master of it, and Silk had recently learned the technique from her 'mentor' when he had declared her heir to the founding school of Anything Goes Martial arts. In that place you couldn't be seen by those in the physical world, which was good considering Perfume's current state. It was to late to save her pride completely, but at least they couldn't stare at her here.
"Perfume, are you ok?" she asked quietly, though it hardly mattered where they were, only half her mind on the question, concentrating hard on keeping both of them in the altered reality.
Silk could see that Perfume was already crying with embarrassment. Her face turned six different shades of angry red and there was fire in her eyes.
"I'll KILL THAT LITTLE PERVERT FOR HUMILIATING ME IN FRONT OF KONATSU!!! I didn't want him to see my naked body like that."
That's when she noticed that the two of them were floating and disconnected from reality. Almost like they were in another dimension. She quickly grabbed onto Silk accidentally copping a feel as she did so.
"where the hell are we, Silk?!"
Kodachi Kunou was stunned and then very much angered by what Happosai did to Perfume. Just because she did not like the amazon did not mean that she would want to see her embarrassed like that.
Someone would have to teach the old leach a lesson about treating women.
"Happosai, how dare you do that to a young girl in front of everyone!" She produced a Ribbon from no where and began twirling it menacingly. "It's high time you pay for your transgressions!"
She first used the ribbon to snatch back Perfume's swimsuit, she then wrapped the long pink ribbon around Happosai and swung him around in a circle and dropped him and the ribbon into the ocean.
She grinned at the payback she was going to inflict on him. She waited for female Happosai to surface so she could take his clothes away.
Unfortunately, Konatsu was not as patient. Leaping into the air, he unleashed one of his most dreaded attacks. "HOT TOWEL HYAPPON RAIN!"
Happosai's body shook as the damp, warm towels impacted on him.
"That ought to teach you not to... huh? Were did Perfume go to?"
"We're in Null Space." Silk answered Perfume's question. "Now please relax." they pair floated over to where Kodachi was holding perfume's swimsuit and Silk let go of Perfume with one hand and furrowing her brows, reached out and took the one piece from the Gymnast, pulling it into Nullspace along with her and Perfume. She handed the Suit to Perfume without a word, sweat breaking out on her brow from the effort in keeping them both in the altered plane.
Perfume let go of Silk and quickly put her bathing suit back on, and then grabbed her hand again. She was just a little confused, She was ecstatic that Konatsu would defend her, but she couldn't believe that Kodachi had defended her also.
"Thank you Silk, I owe you another one. I'll defiantly have to thank those two when we get back there."
"I hope you've got your speech ready." Silk said, letting go of Perfume's hand, the pink haired Amazon found herself back in the normal world, landing on her feet next to Kodachi. Silk did not reappear with her though, but remained intangible as she bore down on Happi-Chan with a growl, movement much easier now that she wasn't dragging the 'dead weight' of Perfume with her. She was remembering an old phone company slogan... 'reach out, and touch, someone.'
Happi-Chan had faded into Nullspace to recover from Kodachi and Konatsu's attacks. She was wet, injured and certain that she had gone too far with Perfume. Ever since he started training with Silk-Chan he started feeling bad about some of his more unsavory actions.
"Hrmph, I guess that girl's good nature is starting to rub off on me." he turned around and smacked right into Null space Silk.
Konatsu reacted like most people would if someone just blinked into existence next to you. He broke a few records in high jump, credited to the power of surprise.
In Null space, Silk grabbed Happi-Chan's shoulder with one hand, and with the other delivered a slap across the cheek that Akane would have envied. "I don't care how much you think you were provoked, what you just did is inexcusable."
Happosai wasn't sure weather it was because of his current form or the person delivering the slap, but it hurt more than a thousand of Ranma's best punches. Happi-Chan touched her cheek gently, her lower lip trembling.
Happosai did something that he had never ever done before. "I'm sorry Silk-Chan, I know I went to far. My perversion is a curse, a curse that I can't resist sometimes. I'm VERY sorry."
In real space Perfume was recovering from her chance encounter in Null Space. "I wonder if that's where Akane's hammer is stored at?"
She turned toward Kodachi and bowed. "I saw it all Kodachi-San, Thank you so very much for avenging my dishonor. I am in your debt."
She then stepped over and latched on to Konatsu with a big hug. " Thank you for taking care of that old Pervert Konatsu-Chan!" She kissed the ninja on the cheek. "I knew I could count on you."
Silk blinked several times at Happosai's unprecedented apology, but she didn't let it show much, "I'm not the one you have to apologize to, Happi." she said softly. "You need to get Perfume's forgiveness, not mine." she pulled an extra female swimming suit out of nowhere (one doesn't live with Mousse as a cousin for years without picking up a few tricks) and handed it to Happi-Chan. "You go as a girl for the rest of the day, WITHOUT your perversion. And you apologize to Perfume."
While Silk was giving Happosai the orders of the day, Konatsu found himself embraced by a girl. That made him worried. Seeing that his stepfamily had gone out of their way to make him miserable, they just might appear at any time to reveal their ugliness and ruin everything for him. And everyone he knew.
"Ahahaha," Konatsu laughed nervously in his girly voice, "Perfume-Chan! How nice to see you, you disappeared there for a sec. And it's nothing just something any decent person would do."
A few meters away, Daisuke passed out from massive nosebleeds as the sight of one cute girl hugging another was too much for him.
Happi-Chan stared distastefully at the women's swimsuit. She took it out of Silk's hand and quietly changed into it. It was a cute yellow and pink polka dotted two piece. The outfit really exemplified Happichan's cute and petite figure.
She ran her fingers through her red hair and struck a modeling pose. "What do ya think, Silk-Chan is it me?" She laughed half-heartedly at her joke. Made one last check to make sure she was ready and winked at Silk.
"Let's knock 'em dead Silk-Chan."
Silk grabbed the posing pervert and dragged him over to Perfume, faded them both into regular space and slammed her into the ground at Perfume's feet. "NOW, Happi."
Happosai smiled inwardly when she noticed Konatsu and Perfume hugging. Then he winced at what he knew would happen next.
He Bowed before Perfume. "I'm sorry Perfume, I went way too far and humiliated you. I beg your forgiveness, and wish to atone by staying in my female form and behaving." She paused for a second. "I am truly sorry."
Perfume let go of Konatsu and Facefaulted. Was this the Happosai she knew and despised? An Apology is something that she never thought to hear from the old man.
"Forgiveness doesn't come easy, old man." She seemed to be contemplating the old pervert's fate. "You behave all day and stay in the form your in, and I might forgive you. I'll let you know at the end of the day"
Happichan stood up and nodded to Perfume. "very well, I'll abide by your terms." She walked over and sat near where Konatsu was sitting at.
Kodachi had remained silent the entire time. After seeing Silk and Perfume disappear and then a clothed Perfume reappear, and then seeing the old man apologize was just too much. She closed her eyes and massaged her temples to keep the migraine away.
"Maybe everyone is right, and I'm really going crazy?"
Silk walked over and put her hand on Kodachi's forehead, "No." the healer smiled and thought to herself, --Not any more than normal, anyway-- "I'm sorry if I startled you, but it seemed the fastest way to get poor Perfume out of sight."
"Silk, I don't even want to know how you did that!" she glanced over at Happi-Chan and laughed for a bit, he made a cute female. "But you sure can handle the old pervert, so that takes you to the top of my list."
Just then a stray piece of paper flew across the beach and slapped right into Kodachi's face. "What the..." She angrily ripped the paper away from her face when she noticed the writing on the flyer.
"All Japan swimsuit contest?"
Alex looked at the flyer from behind Kodachi. "A swimsuit contest? Sounds interesting." He looked at the group of girls. "Well, any of you going to participate?"
"Great" Happi thought to himself. " A swimsuit contest and I have to behave!"
Perfume smiled at Alex's question. "Silk, you should compete you'd probably win."
"hohohohohohoho" Kodachi interrupted quickly. "Silk would be good competition, You could join Perfume, but you wouldn't stand a chance against me! hohohohohoh"
Near the shoreline where the others were, Moria came riding on a wave, riding on board a windsurfer board floated onto the beach, her hair and wet suit dripping wet from the sea air, laughing as she pulled up onto the sand.
*That was fun. And worth every dime I spent to get this thing* she thought smugly, as she pulled the windsurfer onto the beach and away from the water so the water wouldn't catch it and cause it to drift, and brought it to where the rest of her stuff lay.
She turned around at the familiar sound of Kodachi's laughter.
Seeing Kodachi nearby talking with the others, Moria leaves her stuff and heads over.
"Hey guys, what's up?" she asked.
Silk looked over at Moria, snatching the flyer from the laughing girl's hands, she showed it to the Saotome girl. "Swimsuit contest, and Happosai has sworn to be good, so it's safe!" the healer gave Kodachi a withering look. "I'll be competing, I have another suit meant for sunbathing rather than Frisbee."
Perfume had a rather bitter expression on her face. *Come to the beach, she said* Perfume thought bitterly. *You'll have a good time she said, Bah! This isn't my idea of a good time.*
She then stared daggers at the Psycho-Girl. "Laugh all you want!" agitated as she was, Perfume managed a little self-confidence. "With a body like this I have a great chance of winning!"
"oh, she's confident too" Kodachi teased. "Then this shall indeed be a fun competition!"
Happi-Chan waved at Moria, still fighting to behave. She then smiled evilly when she thought about how much fun the catfight between Perfume and Kodachi was going to be.
Then another strange thought entered the martial arts master's head. He too was currently a cute girl in a bathing suit. This was too much!
"Were do WE join the contest?"
Moria smiled slightly towards Happosai as she read the flyer Silk gave her. "I'm signing up too. It sounds like it's going to be fun. But I believe that I'm going to win the contest, with the suit I've got on." she said, forgetting that she was still wearing a wet suit.
She paled slightly at Happosai-Chan's words, before turning with a slight frown on her features. "What do ya mean 'we', Happosai?"
Happi-Chan laughed evilly, this was going to be way too much fun. "Am I not in the body of a beautiful young woman also? Silk says I have to stay this way all day, so I am." She then smiled ruefully at Moria. "Afraid of a little competition, sweetie?"
Alex looked over the various females that were going to compete and arguing about who was the most likely winner, and grinned. "Well, it looks like it's going to be an interesting contest to see, that's for sure."
Perfume was still stunned by Happosai's statement. The old lech was going to compete. It scared her how easily the old man adapted to his cursed form. The thought of Happosai in the contest was funny in and of itself.
She could hardly stifle her mirth. "Your Going to participate, Happi?" She was laughing silently trying to keep her composure.
Brush grabbed the flyer and pointed to a stand down the beach. "We sign up over there." She looked at the flyer a bit further down, and grinned. "They're having a men's contest too. Alex, Scarf, are you guys going to compete?"
Ukyou looked from girl to girl as they argued about who was going to win the contest. Then she shook her head. "Oh I gotta see this," she chuckled.
Silk ignored the others for a moment as she read further down the flyer. "Hmmm... the grand prize is a paid weekend for two in the tropics." she looked up: no one had noticed her comment. "Reef snorkeling here I come..." she folded the flyer and grabbed her bag with her other swimsuit and headed up the beach towards the booth. "You guys coming?" she called over her shoulder. "If you don't, that's okay. I'll take the trip alone."
"Hey Wait up!!" Happi-Chan shouted as she ran to catch up with Silk. "There ain't no way I'm staying out of this one!"
Alex shrugged and fell into step with Silk and Happi. "I don't have anything better to do, may as well compete." He then grinned. "Besides, seeing Happi in a swimsuit contest should be worth a few laughs." Alex was also thinking, --Silk in a bikini will DEFINITELY be a nice sight.--
Ukyou followed the people, walking in a calm pace. This could be a fun spectacle.
Kodachi Quickly caught up with the departing group. She remained pretty quiet as she thought of ways to win this contest. Kodachi REALLY hated to lose.
Perfume ran up to join Silk and Alex. She was smiling and ready for the contest. There was no way that the Psycho girl and the old Pervert were going to beat her.
Konatsu tilted his head to the side, thinking deeply. Then, with a small smile on his face he stood up and walked after the group of parading girls.
Kodachi was grinning already celebrating her victory. She was half lost in her delusions when she noticed Konatsu following the group. She glanced up at Perfume and put two and two together. She had a thing for Ukyou's waitress, How very interesting. She began working on ways to use that information to her advantage.
Scarf ran after the crew. "Don't forget about me, Alex. Someone has to give you some competition." he said with a grin.
As the group arrived at the sign in stand they were greeted by 20 other competitors. Everyone signed their name to the list and waited with the others.
The announcer stepped up and informed the group that the contest would start shortly. men on one stage and women on the other, the judges were picked at random from the beach goers.
Just wait here until we begin.
Perfume stood close to Konatsu, and occasionally glared at the psycho flower girl. Now that the anger was gone, she didn't have quite the same amount of confidence that she had before. "Maybe this was a mistake, Konatsu-Chan?"
"Well... no," Konatsu said without really thinking first. "You'll probably beat all these girls. Confidence is attractive, I have been told."
"I wouldn't get my hopes up on that, Konatsu. Any of us could win this contest," Moria said as she came up to them after leaving the sign up table, before giving Perfume a friendly glance. "Besides, wouldn't you agree about how much fun or degrading it would be to rub it in to the others, especially Kodachi, if one of us happened to win the beauty contest, right Perfume?"
After signing up for the contest, Moria had stripped off her wetsuit and draped it over a nearby chair, to reveal a red and gold colored swimsuit, that had an opening in the back, her damp hair tied back into a pony tail, before turning around to face Konatsu and Perfume.
"So, how do I look, you two?"
Perfume made a clenched fist. "That's not all I'd like to Rub into Kodachi's face!" she growled before calming down a bit. "Thank you Konatsu-Chan, your words mean a lot to me."
She then glanced up at Moria in her swimsuit. "Wow! You look very good Moria. I'll have a hard time winning this one."
Kodachi meanwhile was fuming under Perfume's murderous gaze. She always lashed out at women that might be prettier than the black rose. The pink haired amazon was one such person. Kodachi took another look at the girl.
"Why does she always keep the right side of her face covered?" Kodachi thought to herself. " A weakness.. a weakness that I can exploit."
Silk looked confident as she rejoined the others, having quickly changed from her usual tie dyed suit into a emerald green and black tie on top (basically a piece of cloth wrapped artfully and tied around her chest) and a short wrap skirt in the same style. She was running her fingers through her thick black hair, having taken it out of its usual braid, it fell to her knees. She looked good. really good. "Everyone ready?"
"Hai, Silk-Chan" Happi Chan responded as she finished brushing her lustrous red hair. She'd gotten her hair done up nicely, so that it complimented her petite frame. Spending three hundred years as a pervert had given Happi some insight on what a woman does to look good.
She then noticed the look Kodachi was focusing on the right side of perfume's face. Happi knew old scarface's secret, but that was something he would never use to hurt her with. But it seemed to her that Kodachi was planning just such a thing.
"Need to keep an eye on her" Happi whispered to Silk.
"Whoa." Scarf said under his breath when he saw Silk. He quickly looked away before he was obviously staring.
Then he saw that all the male contestants had congregated on one of the stages, so he walked up there and joined them. After standing up in the group for a couple of seconds, someone tapped him on the back of his leg, and told him that he would have to remove his shirt. Upon hearing this he looked into the crowd and saw for the first time, at least 2 dozen girls who were looking back and forth between him and Alex. He got a chill down his spine when he imagined what might happen if he removed his shirt.
Alex was still checking out Silk in her swimsuit, eyes never blinking. His mental image went over her, and did a good imitation of a football ref showing a successful field goal. --It's GOOD!!!-- Then the nervous Scarf, and looked out at the crowd. He sweatdropped. He KNEW what happened the last time he took off his shirt, and with Scarf there too, it was likely to be a mob scene. "Well Scarf, time to face the music. Let's do this." Then he added with a whisper, "If this turns ugly, you go left, I go right, OK?"
Scarf nodded and replied, "On three, 1...2...3" and they both pulled off their shirts.
Brush, in the meantime, was standing on the stage with the rest of the girls, waiting. She didn't change, because she figured she was already dressed for the occasion, judging from the drooling in the male section of the crowd. She took a quick glance at the men's side, where Alex and Scarf had taken off their shirts. "Looking good, guys!"
Silk smiled; Alex and Scarf both looked really good, but she frowned when she saw the crowd of girls who were still staring at them, but starting to move forward almost against their collective will. She hated it when girls turned into mindless slavering hoards around her friends. ~Great, here we go again.~ she thought.
Konatsu looked around for a place to sit down. He settled for a piece of unused sand.
Perfume gave Alex and Scarf a sympathetic look. She had never figured out why the women went so crazy for those two. She was just glad that she didn't have the same problem.
She focused back on the contest. She was going to have to try extra hard to even be noticed in this crowd.
Ukyou managed to remain expressionless as Alex and Scarf played the exhibitionist's part. If she learned something during her ten years living as a boy, it was that a single glance on a male body could be veeery misunderstood.
Silently, she shook her head and crossed her arms in front of her and waited for the contest to begin.
Happi-Chan loved the attention she was getting. She wasn't getting all the male attention but she was getting some of it. For the first time in the old fools life she was getting positive instead of negative attention.
"I could get used to this!"
"Don't get used to it old man!" Perfume muttered "I think that only a REAL girl can win this one. If they knew what you really were.." She let the phrase hang threateningly in the air.
Before anyone could answer the announcer stepped up to the mike. "Welcome one and all to the first annual swimsuit contest. All the contestants are ready for your review at this point. We'll alternate one male then one female from stage one a two."
A male and female where brought forward first. The audience welcomed them with Applause and the judges rendered their score.
"Come forward as we call your names."
Kodachi's mind was working overtime. She had to find a way to win this. She figured she had a plan, just foul up the other contestants and she should easily win.
The announcer called the first two contestants. "Harriet (The name that Happi registered under) and Scarf!"
Happi-Chan stepped forward to the stage. She walked seductively out. She used everything in the 300 years or skirtchasing experience. She knew every step and pose to show off her lithe body.
"They Loved me, I know!"
From the audience, a few camera flashes registered. Happi... Harriet, grinned. Oh, they love him, ahem, HER!
Aoba Fue looked out from behind her camera and blinked a little. "Heaven knows, isn't that Happosai-sensei?" She asked the teenager beside her.
"Umm, huh." The girl taking pictures for their Summer exhibition oils gave her preoccupied non-committal sounds, obsessed with finishing her film on Scarf.
Fuu-chan looked at her fellow Art Club member. "Ne," She teased lightly. "Save some for later. I think I saw Alexander Funryu back there." The girl flushed bright red. Fuu-chan smiled that innocent look of amusement that Kasumi so often sported and pulled out a second camera. Nabiki had asked her to bring back a few rolls of interesting film. Happosai preening as a female in swimsuit certainly looks interesting. And not all bad, either.
"oh my word!" Kodachi was completely surprised. The old man/ Young Girl really knew how to strut her stuff. Who would have known! The petite martial arts master had the audience eating out of her hand.
'I've got to do something about this!' she thought to herself. That's when she noticed the rope tied next to her back stage. The rope led up to the rafters across the catwalks and to a sandbag. A sandbag that was hanging directly over Happi's head, right out of sight.
Looking quickly about verifying that no one was looking her way, Kodachi cut the rope.
Scarf, despite being deathly afraid of what the female half of the crowd might do, was out there flexing. He noticed that something was hurtling towards the old freak's head. Although he deserved to be hit, Scarf jumped, and kicked it over the crowd.
Happi-Chan noticed both the sandbag and the flying Scarf a half second before the bag should have squashed her flat. Still acting like a female she winked at Scarf.
"Thank you, your a true hero." She smiled playfully at Scarf, making his think that Happi Chan was going to react like a normal woman.
Kodachi was definitely irritated at having her plan ruined. She was trying very hard not to look irritated but look rather innocent and concerned.
"Oh my I hope she's alright!" She spoke with an almost too innocent voice.
"That was some excitement, huh folks?" The announcer's voice echoed over the crowd. "Give it up for Harriet and Scarf!" As the audience applauded Happi-Chan and Scarf retreated backstage.
"And our next two competitors are Moria Saotome and Alexander Funryu!"
Silk had seen Kodachi set loose the sandbag, and was less then pleased by the action, though her face didn't betray it. She moved silently to Kodachi's side then pressed a single pressure point behind the gymnast's ear. the cheating heart in Kodachi gave a little flutter as the psycho girl suddenly fell fast asleep while still standing. "Kodachi!" she yelped, catching the falling girl. "She must have a touch of sunstroke."
Happi Chan came backstage and helped Silk catch Kodachi. She was a little surprised that the gymnast fell to heat exhaustion without any symptoms.
She gave Silk a knowing wink. "Thanks Silk-Chan."
Alex looked out into the crowd. Seeing that Scarf didn't get mobbed on sight, he figured he'd be safe too. So he walked out onto the stage with the grace of a tiger, side-by-side with Moria, flexing his muscles to best effect.
As she looked out from Backstage, Perfume's confidence began to falter a bit. Happi had the audience eating out of her hand, and now they also seemed to like Moria. She was pretty sure it was hopeless. At least the Psycho flower girl wouldn't be participating.
As she held on to Konatsu's hand, he could feel her shaking with nervousness.
Moria and Alex both put on a great show for the audience and retired backstage. As the roar of the crowd died down the began to change the lineup.
"Ladies and Gentlemen! We have more women competing than men.. so now we will be presenting two women at a time for your approval." The male audience went wild, the female side of the audience was still reeling from the Scarf/Alex combination.
"Now we present two wonderful girls from China, PERFUME AND SILK!!!"
Backstage Sasuke was still trying to awaken his mistress. "Mistress Kodachi you have to wake up for the contest..Mistress?"
Kodachi's only response was to roll over and mumble, "Ohhh Ranma Sama!"
Silk followed Perfume out onto the stage, but her mind was obviously elsewhere as she smiled absently to the audience. She wasn't expecting to win this little competition. She rather hoped that Perfume would; it would be a great boost to her self esteem and confidence.
A large banner flew up from the crowd, in Chinese it wrote "GO AMAZONS: SILK, PERFUME, BRUSH, and SCARF" It was Rinse and several small pandas waving the banner to boost support for their friends.
Rinse waved to the nervous Perfume and to Silk. "Good luck both of you!" He yelled as the pandas waved their paws as well.
Perfume was really nervous as she stepped up on stage. This was definitely not her sort of thing, she was regretting letting Kodachi lure her into this.
She made sure that her hat was covering the right side of her face. Then she waved to Rinse. The younger amazon never failed to make her smile. She would remember to thank him later.
After Silk and Perfume left the stage, the announcer called out, "And our final competitor, Brush!" Brush walked out onto the stage, and did a twirl to show herself off. A few men dropped in massive nosebleeds, while others were being smacked by their girlfriends for ogling her. She left the stage and the announcer said, "We'll be back in a few moments with the results."
Perfume was shaking with post nervousness. She hugged silk and Konatsu trying to calm down. She then smiled at Brush and gave her a wink. "I bet you got this one, Brush."
Kodachi was still snoring away in the corner of backstage. She wasn't going anywhere for a while.
The announcer finished tabulating the votes. "Alright Ladies and gentleman the votes are in we have the winners. Please come back on stage when I call your names. "Scarf and Perfume, come back on stage!"
Perfume froze like a rabbit caught in a bright light. She could not believe she just heard her name called, it had to be some sort of mistake.
"No, They didn't just call my name! I must be imagining things." She was stunned and completely shocked.
Silk smiled, "You heard them, Perfume. Get out there!" the healer gently pushed her friend out onto the stage before moving over to Kodachi's sleeping form. "Ready to play nice now?" she asked the slumbering girl.
No answer except the girl rolling over, her head nodding as she moved.
"I'll hold you to that." Silk said, pressing a single pressure point on the girl's shoulder, and she sprung up as if bit. "Welcome back to the land of the wakeful, Kunou Kodachi."
Kodachi Yawned stretched and looked about still not quite awake. "Sasuke! Where's my morning Danish!" She shouted to her servant before realizing that it was well past morning.
"What the.. What Happened?"
"You slept through the contest dear." Was all that Happi-Chan said. She was disappointed at losing the contest, but somehow happy at the outcome.
Alex applauded for Scarf and Perfume. "Congratulations, you two!" Alex put his arm around Silk's shoulder, and said, "I hope Scarf enjoys himself."
Perfume stepped back out on stage, she was even more nervous than before. The audience applauded as she stepped out. Momentarily, enjoying the attention until the weight of the crowd's adulation began to press in on her.
"It is good honor to win contest" She smiled as she spoke, so excited for the moment that her Japanese slipped a bit.
Scarf stepped out moments later, with a grin. Of course his return finally broke the control the female half of the crowd had been exerting over themselves and the became a mob that chased Scarf down the beach.
Silk watched as Scarf was chased down the beach by the usual hoard of females, and almost laughed when she realized that Alex had ducked behind her when they'd stormed past, not wanting to be a co-victim in this particular rampage. She jogged quickly down the beach (with minimum of bouncing, since Silk is far from what you'd call busty) and lined up the hoard in her sights. "Wolf's Howl!" she cried, and sent a blast of chi generated sound energy straight into the mob, sending most of them tumbling into the surf and a few into the sand. She wondered if Scarf would notice that the mob had suddenly dissolved this time or not.
Upon hearing the blast Scarf looked back and saw the mob lying everywhere. He looked up at Silk, grinned, and waved. "Thanks!" he yelled as he began trotting back to the stage.
Silk smiled, waiting for Scarf to reach her and jogged back up the beach to the stage. "Not a problem. Discouraging your mobs allows me to practice the non-damaging techniques. We both get what we want, right?" her grin was completely oblivious to any ironies in her statement.
Perfume smiled at her friends from the stage. "the more things change, the more they stay the same. "
--Yeah, right.-- Scarf thought sarcastically. Then Scarf yawned, and said, "I think we should call it a day, don't you?"
"Indeed." Silk agreed, and they all packed up their belongings and headed home, discussing the day's events as they broke into smaller groups to return home. Another day, another contest, another fight, and another sand dollar