Ranma 1/2
A Bishonen Love Story
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"So, what is it you want, Kuno baby?" Nabiki asked as they sipped tea together. Kuno took out a pictures of the pigtailed girl and showed it to her. "I wish to possess this most beauteous of all creatures to walk this Earth." he told her.

"You must help me do this, Nabiki Tendo."

"Still got it bad for the pigtailed girl, hmmm?" Nabiki grinned.

Kuno scowled. "Not the pigtailed girl, you idiot!" Kuno snarled. "The one she's sparring with. Such beauty, such form, truly the angels must have wept with joy at the making of such a wondrous creature. I have no more thoughts for Akane or the pigtailed girl. This exquisite vision of loveliness is the sole heir to every part of my heart and soul."

Nabiki snatched the photograph and gawked at it.

//Kuno's in love with... with RYOGA?!//

She nearly fainted with laughter.

"Laugh all you want, Nabiki Tendo." Kuno scowled. "But know this. I will have this bandanna-clad bishonen, for he alone is truly worthy of my love."

Ryoga had never felt so low in all his life. Recently, while wandering lost in a city he'd never seen before and still didn't know the name of, he been pulled over by policemen, who'd taken him to the station. He had thought he was being arrested, until they had taken him into *that* room. Into the room everyone knows is there and everyone prays he or she will never have to enter.

And on that most terrible of all days, Ryoga, biting back tears, trying to be brave because he knew that's what she'd want, gave a silent nod that told the police that yes, this woman, the only now lifeless on one of their many tables, was his mother.

He kissed her forehead once, deciding that bravery was fine, but she was his mom after all, and whispered a final goodbye.

Since then, nothing made him happy. He had moved in with Ukyo, hoping that having someone there would help improve his mood. But it wasn't helping.

"You have to eat some okonomiyaki." she said, after he'd gone for a few days without eating. "Listen, sugar, I know you're upset about your mom. But you've got to eat something."

Ryoga didn't even reply. He just lie there, weeping.

There was a knock on the door and Ukyo rose to her feet and departed from Ryoga's room.

"Hello, Nabiki." She waved. "Oh, hello, Kuno." She eyed him, cautiously.

"Relax, Ukyo." Nabiki laughed. "He's gay."

"I am *not*!" Kuno protested.

"You're in love with Ryoga, aren't you?" Nabiki asked slyly.

//So that's what that means.// Kuno pondered.

"Ryoga's not feeling very well." Ukyo told them. "His mother just passed away."

"What's this?" Kuno gasped. "My dearest love is in pain! I cannot permit such a thing! I cannot!"

Ukyo and Nabiki watched as Kuno rushed into Ryoga's room.

"I'm not hungry." Ryoga said, not bothering to look up at door as Kuno walked into the room.

"Not for food, perhaps, my innocent flower." Kuno said, sitting cross-legged upon the floor and pulling Ryoga into his lap. "But thou art clearly starved for affection. Affection which I, Tatewake Kuno, shall give." He began to open Ryoga's pajama top, slowly and seductively.

A moment later, Ukyo watched as Kuno went flying out of Ryoga's room, followed by a very irate-looking Ryoga.

"How *DARE* you touch me!" Ryoga snarled. "My body and soul belong to Ranma, you jerk! I want *him* to be my first, not you!"

"What?!" Kuno gasped. "So, the evil sorceror Saotome is a seducer of men as well as women. Fear not, my bandanna-clad beloved. I shall smite the wretch and then we shall be..."

The rest of Kuno's sentence was cut short as Ryoga's shin made contact with Kuno's mouth.

"That hurt, Ryoga Hibiki." Kuno said, evenly.

"If you touch me again, Kuno," Ryoga said, just as evenly, "I'll kill you." Ryoga returned to his room and started to get changed.

"My bandanna-clad beloved," Kuno said to the now-Ryoga-less room. "I love you."

Ryoga was awakened in the middle of the night by a sensation of blinding pain that started in his nether regions and shot through the whole of his being. He tried to scream,but his face was held down into the pillow and he could barely draw in enough breath to stay alive. The hugeness plunged into him over and over. Then it spasmed inside him and he felt the rapist's seed filling him as he lie down flat upon him and kissed him.

"Shhh, my beloved." Kuno whispered in his ear. "Its all right now. I, the great and noble Tatewake Kuno have taken that which the foul sorceror Saotome hath sought to possess. Now you needn't fear him any longer."

Kuno lie there for another moment, then pulled out of Ryoga and left to room.

*****

"Twelve...!" a group of students counted the next day as Ranma arrived with Akane, as an explosion died away.

"What's going on?" Ranma asked.

"Ryoga Hibiki's really pissed off." He said. "That's the twelfth Shishi Hokodan he's done to him."

Ranma raced to the scene.

"Ryoga! Stop!"

"Stay out of this, Ranma. My honor's at stake. He took my..."

"Ryoga, you can't just go off the deep and every time someone gets something you wanted."

"Damn you, Ranma!" Ryoga screamed. "What he stole from me was my virginity!"

"WHAT?!" Ranma exploded. "Ryoga he raped you?!"

Ryoga nodded. "And he's going to pay for it with his life! SHISHI HOKODAN!"

Another blast struck Kuno, throwing him back several feet.

Then, exhausted from the multiple shishi hokodans, Ryoga passed out.

Ranma picked Ryoga up and carried him back to the Tendo Dojo.

"Ranma, my boy." Genma began.

"Forget it, Pop." Ranma said. "I'm marryin' Ryoga."

"Get...OUT!" Genma screamed.

Picking up Ryoga, Ranma grinned. "Sure thing, Pop." he said, draping Ryoga over his shoulder and carrying the lost boy out to a home in the woods he'd been building.

Ryoga woke some time later. "Where... where am I now?"

"We're home." Ranma replied.

-OWARI-