AN: The first chapter! This is inspired by the F4 Challenge, but I won't be able to submit it. Why? I more than likely won't be able to finish the story by the entry due date.

Ranma Saotome and Haruna Saotome being related was inspired by Lord Mortiya.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½, written by Rumiko Takahashi, OR Mahou Sensei Negima, written by Ken Akamatsu.

Act One

The meeting was within a darkened, second-story classroom, one of the smaller rooms used for electives or club meetings at the Mahora Academy Middle School for Girls, one of the sections within the even more illustrious Mahora Academy Campus. The room itself had to long, brown tables which could be used to have twenty people seated in similarly colored, collapsible chairs. The only light that entered the room was from the two windows, both on one side of the room.

The current occupants of the room don't want anyone knowing of what they were planning, so they had sound-proofed and warded the room itself through their personal abilities. The occupants names are Haruna Saotome, Kaede Nagase, Mana Tatsumiya, Evangeline McDowell, and Chachamaru Karakuri. They all were wearing their personalized nightgowns, and Haruna was the one who had enlisted them to meet with her.

Evangeline was the first of the group to ask Haruna, "So Saotome, what have you called us together for?" The brown haired manga-style artist began speaking, "I called you here because I have a mission that I need all of you to collaborate together to accomplish. You all have met Auntie when she comes to visit me, correct?" The other four girls nodded, remembering the eccentric Nodoka Saotome when she came by to visit her niece. They all had their own kind of encounter with the woman, and she was a model of traditional Japanese femininity.

Haruna pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose, "However, I have learned recently that my cousin, her son Ranma, is having a traumatic life. She told me, as she cried, that his life was a continuous chain of chaotic misfortune." She paused, her face visibly expressing her own distress over the situation. "I called you here to tell you about his situation, first. I will tell you about what Auntie and I are willing to pay you for capturing him."

The resident kunoichi questioned, "Is his situation bad enough that you gathered the four of us, though?" Haruna pulled out manilla folders, each about half an inch thick. "I'll be skipping some of the details so that I can make this meeting short, but I did gather this information together for you from one Nabiki Tendo." She slid the three folders, only three since Evangeline and Chachamaru would only need one, to each of the girls.

As the four girls began to open the folders, the artist continued, "My cousin Ranma has been trained in martial arts by my...despicable uncle, Genma, since he was able to walk. He's been traded off for anything by that lazy bastard, and has had more troubled passed onto him than anyone else I know, maybe even Negi-sensei." She sighed, "There are three major issues that my uncle has caused for Ranma. Engagements, a major curse, and mental trauma."

"The engagements began before Ranma's birth, and also along the way they both went for a training journey. There are over thirty engagements that the fool has made for Ranma, none of them being his choice. The main engagement is to Akane Tendo." She spit the name out as if it were poison, but continued. "I dislike this bitch because of how she treats Ranma, and her personality in general."

"She has a very sexist view of all males, no matter what age or individual character. She views all men as perverts in some way, and takes one action: physical violence. Now, if it were only in self defense I would condone it. However, she has abused Ranma, who tries his best to coexist with her and the rest of those around him."

The four girls nodded, and mentally questioned if the girl was lesbian. The Saotome girl continued once again, "The second issue that I'll tell you about is that of Ranma's curse. While on his training trip, his father, the idiot that he is, decided to go to a training ground practically boasting about its cursed status."

Pulling out two pictures within her own copy of the folder, she showed them a Japanese teenage boy wearing Chinese silks, his black hair tied in a pig-tail, blue eyes holding a proud air. The second photo was similar, but instead of a black haired boy, it pictured a busty, red-haired girl. "They went to Jusenkyo, where Ranma was cursed to become a girl when cold water touches him, and returning to being male when hot water touches him. Genma also got cursed to turn into a panda."

The other girls stared at the photographs, and nodded, all of them familiar with magic by now. They returned their gaze to Haruna, who began her finishing thought. "The final thing that Ranma has issues with is his mental state. One: he has issues with social interactions and has poor manners, mainly because his father never bothered to act properly or teach him anything along those lines."

"Two: Genma's idiocy was at a peak when Ranma was growing up, resulting in him training Ranma in a fighting style called the Neko-ken. While Ranma is very skilled in martial arts, this fighting style was supposed to be an 'ultimate fighting technique'. The training for the technique is where Ranma has gotten the most traumatized." She calmed herself, as the others looked on with some level of worry.

"To train someone in Neko-ken, one must dig a large pit, and gather a large amount of cats. Proceed to dump these cats inside the pit, and allow them to starve for at least a week." The other girls gaped, and Chachamaru, with her love for felines, experienced no small amount of anger toward this Genma Saotome. "Once that time is up, get the trainee, making sure that they are wearing a traditional martial arts uniform, and tie them up in some form of meat product."

Haruna gritted her teeth, but kept speaking, "Throw the trainee inside the pit at daybreak, and cover the pit, keeping the trainee within the pit for twenty-four hours." Even Evangeline did a double-take, "What!?" The brown-haired artist nodded, and leaned forward on the table, crossing her arms and laying her head down.

While attempting to calm herself down enough to finish, she stated, "Ranma survived the training, but acquired a very severe case of ailurophobia. If even a kitten approaches Ranma, he will either run off screaming 'Cat!', or will start shivering violently. However, if he's terrified enough, his brain will shut itself down, and he will go into Neko-ken." She pulled another photograph from her folder.

The picture had Ranma crouching down on his haunches like a big cat, his pigtailed unruly and spiky at the end. His blue eyes still blue, but the pupil was slitted slightly, a feral gleam contained within the eyes. But they then noticed that he rested on his feet with only with the front of his feet, and his hands curled slightly, as if he had claws.

Mana asked, "While in this 'Neko-ken', what is Ranma-san capable of doing?" She answered, "He acts like a kitten, wanting to play with those he deems friends, but viciously attack anyone he perceives as a threat. The only ways to get him out of this form is for him to either fall asleep or knocked out." Mana nodded, and questioned, "So you asking us to kidnap Ranma away from Nerima, and bring him back to campus?"

The brown-haired Saotome nodded, "Yes, Auntie and I have agreed that this is for the best, and I doubt Ranma himself would object to this. We are willing to pay whatever price that you all ask for, though we only have a total of fifty thousand yen." They nodded, but Evangeline questioned, "Would you want Ranma to be free of his curse?" Haruna blinked, but nodded, "Yes, he had to secretly reveal to Auntie that he had it because of fear that she would reject him. Even though he has toned down his ego, which was quite an issue, only a little bit because of this curse..."

Evangeline finished her statement, "It is doing more harm to his psyche than you would like, correct?" Haruna nodded, and Evangeline smirked, showing her sharpened canines, "I know a way that is able to cure transformation curses, after all, I have researched curse-breaking for the last decade or so." She didn't expect a hug nor a glomp, but Evangeline was embraced by the now ecstatic brunette.

The vampiress pushed the artist back with a huff, "Don't thank me yet, though. We first have to find a way to capture your cousin." She got a smirk in return, "Oh, that I already have planned, Eva-chan~." They four girls listened closely to the plan, smirks appearing on their faces as they began to solidify the plan into fruition.

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Elsewhere, in the prefect of Nerima, resting within the Tendo home, Ranma Saotome slept quite a bit better, not knowing that his cousin Haruna was planning alongside his mother to get him out of his own personal hell. However, all of his antagonistic acquaintances within Nerima suddenly felt a chill overcome them, a sense of impending doom settling about their minds. In contrast, Ranma turned over on his futon mat, and enjoyed dreams of his childhood before having to go on his accursed training trip.

AN: Hope you enjoy the story and its premise. The F4 Challenge contains the premise which is, "Ranma is kidnapped by protagonist/antagonist 'X' as fiance material, chaos ensues..."

And as for what time in each story this is taking place, well...you'll find out soon enough.

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