89Chaotic Fate
A Fate/Stay Night & Ranma ½ crossover
Disclaimer: The characters and setting of Ranma 1/2 belong to Rumiko Takahashi. Fate/Stay-Night is a product of Kinoko Nasu, and Type-Moon. I am merely playing with their creations and not making any money in doing so.
Author's notes: This story is set after the end of the manga in Ranma ½ and the beginning of the Fifth Grail War in Fate/Stay Night. I've only gone through the first two routes in F/S N and so will largely ignore the Heaven's Feel route. That aside I'll try to be as accurate as I can be, so point out something if it doesn't match canon, but in the end I have a pretty clear idea on where I want this story to go, so I might have to ignore canon at times. Otherwise this is my first story, so let me know how I can improve and let me know what I'm doing right.
Prologue:
Fuyuki city in the days leading up to the Fifth Grail War was a troubled city, what with all the people hospitalized due to "gas leaks" and the occasional bloody murder caused by some lunatic with a blade. It stands to reason then that Fuyuki's city council would seek some way to deal with these mysterious and dangerous events. As some of those same councilmen are rather old and had been on the council ten years ago, during the Fourth Grail War, they remember that the last time mysterious events of this nature occurred the end result was a huge conflagration that claimed hundreds of lives. So it should come as no surprise that there was a great deal of anxiety at the weekly council meeting as they all tried to come up with some solution to this problem. Amid the usual cries for increasing the police budget, firing the police department for being utterly incompetent, and bemoaning the falling standards of society there was one voice, not of reason, but of hope. This lone councilman offered a plan that not only had the potential, however small, of dealing with the crisis, but, more importantly, it would provide an excellent scapegoat if, as was much more likely, everything went to hell. This plan was actually very simple and even, perhaps, traditional.
"So you want to call in some random martial artist in the hopes that he can succeed where the entire police department has failed? I know how fascinating you find that stuff but let's be serious here" Councilman Hideki Kikugawa said in response to this rather audacious plan.
The instigator of the plan, one Jiro Nakahara, retorted "Not some random martial artist, no. What we need is some way of drawing out this killer and whoever is behind these comas right? Well from everything I've heard about this particular martial artist it seems that he can't go a week without getting involved in some major, and generally weird, situation. Not only that but he is a true prodigy that recently gained the title 'kami-slayer' after he killed some phoenix king in China, destroying a mountain in the process. He should be able to deal with this killer."
"We don't have time for your tabloid fantasies, we have a serious crisis here and certainly aren't going to hire some martial artist when we could be using that money to hire professionals" Kikugawa stated in disgust.
As might be imagined this bickering continued on for awhile, at least until a key point was brought up. This all important point that managed to sway all the naysayers was that martial artists are dirt cheap and will often help out for a small pittance and thus it couldn't hurt to have this martial artist wander around town for a couple days if only to get Nakahara to shut up. With that decision the Fuyuki city council managed to, without anyone knowing it, change the fate of all those involved in the fifth Grail war
"Hello, this is Jiro Nakahara, I'm on the Fuyuki city council and I have a request for one Ranma Saotome, can I speak to him?"