Ranma ½: Little sister saga

Summary:Ranma's twin brother falls into the spring of drowned girl and is locked early on. Adapting to life as a girl she meets Ryoga. See where I'm going with this? Nudge-nudge wink-wink...

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Chapter1:Kenji's despair part 1: the terror of Jusenkyo!

Four figures entered a large valley. A remote valley located in the Quinglong province of China, in the Byankala mountain range to be precise. The first one spoke. A rather large man with a green uniform. "Oh sirs, you two very strange ones indeed, is more then one hundred spring here and each one own tragic event happen there..."

The other three...well, two of the three...paid the uniformed guide no heed at all as they carried their own conversation. "Well, here we are boys." the tallest one stated triumphantly. A large man by the name of Genma Saotome.

"Ah, this place aint so impressive. I still think that public place in Shanghai was better." one of the younger ones jeered. He was Genma's eldest son and successor, Ranma Saotome. The pair jumped up on to the bamboo poles that protruded from the seemingly endless grid of small natural springs. The third member, Ranma's younger twin brother and the logical thinker of the family, Kenji Saotome sighed as the Jusenkyo guide called after his brother and father.

"Hey wait! I no finish my tragic story!" he cried out in poorly learned Japanese. Kenji and Ranma could easily be mistaken for each other if it weren't for the difference in hairstyle. Ranma had his hair in a low ponytail. While Kenji had longer bangs that went down to his chin and let his hair down freely. As well their personalities were quite different. While Ranma was, as far as a few people who'd known them were concerned, rather arrogant and stubborn, Kenji in contrast was quite modest and polite. The two brothers stood as equals in the art. While Ranma was slightly faster, Kenji was slightly stronger as he preferred to keep to the ground because he couldn't match Ranma in mid-air combat.

Kenji rolled his eyes as he jumped up to join Ranma and his father on the bamboo poles, jumping from pole to pole. The two boys would take turns at their father in midair combat as was the forte of the Saotome School of anything goes martial arts. Ranma went first. The two launched forward, a flurry of punches and kicks were landed and blocked by both fighters. They came down on different poles, only to jump forward once again. Ranma was victorious. He landed a kick square on his father's chest sending him into a spring.

Everything seemed to stand still for a moment before a giant Panda...I will repeat this...a freakin' PANDA jumped out of the spring and balanced on one foot expertly on a bamboo pole. Both Kenji and Ranma yelped in shock, causing Kenji to stumble slightly, but regain his balance an instant later. "What the hell is THAT!" Ranma demanded.

The guide looked nervous. "Oh! Not good sir, you fall in Shanmaonichuaan, the spring of drowned panda! Very tragic story of panda who drown in this spring 1500 year ago. Now who ever fall in this spring take body of panda."

Kenji looked in astonishment at the panda. "...Dad...?" as if unaware of it's predicament the panda sprang into action, nailing the dumbstruck Ranma, sending him flying...right into the dumbstruck Kenji. The two teens collided and plummeted down to the spring just below Kenji's perch.

Water filled his mouth and lungs. The sheer impact had left him almost completely winded. The burning sensation that was the result of water flowing rapidly up his nose and down his throat was perhaps one of the more painful experiences of Kenji's life as he flailed franticly to resurface. With Ranma on top of him, however, this was proving very difficult. No! It couldn't end like this... it just...couldn't...

Ranma took hold of Kenji's collar as he resurfaced. Being sandwiched in between himself and the bottom of the spring must have knocked him out. Not noticing the strange new feel to his body he hauled what he thought was his brother Kenji out of the water, he was shocked to see an unconscious girl with long fiery red hair soaked to the degree that it was clinging to the skin of her face, completely blocking it from view. Ranma parted the girl's bangs. This girl was quite beautiful, and yet...so...familiar... he took hold of her wrist. Dammit! Her pulse was weakening fast!

He heard voices, but they didn't register. He wasn't going to let her die! He tilted her head up slightly and began to force air down her throat, Mouth to mouth. Then he quickly began pushing down on her chest. Avoiding hand contact with her ample cleavage, for obvious reasons. If she should wake up and be coherent enough to realize that his hands were touching...there...she'd rip him a new one. The pushing on her chest didn't work. He tried the mouth to mouth again. Pushing on her chest for the second time, he jumped back as her eyes snapped open and she sprang up. He immediately relaxes slightly as she turns over onto her hands and knees and violently coughs up water. After she seemed to cough herself out, she dropped and was unconscious once more.

Only then did he look at himself. "WHAT THE HELL!" he shrieked in a voice that wasn't his own. It was a high pitched girl's voice. He looked down to his white garbed chest to see a girl's chest. A rather well endowed girl's chest.

"Weren't you paying attention boy! He just said you were in the body of a girl!" Ranma spun around to see his father standing over them, a dark expression on his face as he knelt down to examine the red haired girl. After a couple times of looking back and forth between them, he said in a somewhat amused tone. "Even in these forms, you two look almost exactly alike..."

Ranma did a double take. "What? This is Kenji?"

Genma sweatdropped. "You didn't make that connection?" Ranma shook his head dumbly. Genma slapped his palm to his forehead before pointing to the unconscious girl's waist, or more accurately, the colourful Chinese sash that was wrapped around her waist. Ranma's eyes widened. "That's right! Kenji got that while we were still in that port town!" Ranma said excitedly.

Genma nodded as he picked the comatose teen up, bridal style. "Were heading out soon..." he said turning to walk over to the guide's small cabin. Ranma stared after her father "Hey, Pops! Shouldn't we wait for Kenji to recover?"

Genma looked back over his should. "That's the problem, boy! She might NOT recover! There's a village of Amazon warriors to the north of here. We're going to ask if a healer can take a look at her. According to the guide...this has happened before..." Genma's face darkened further. "...and it didn't end well..."

Ranma swallowed hard against the lump forming in her throat. "Whaddaya mean Pop?" She asked nervously.

"I don't know the details, but apparently...last time someone came so close to drowning..." Genma tilted his head in a manner that made his glasses shine ominously. "...the change was permanent..." He finished, barely above a whisper. Ranma looked at his brother, and prayed he could still call him as such when all was said and done...

To be continued

Queue Akane's voice, as per usual at the end of an episode...

Akane:Last time was permanent huh? What about Kenji? What's going to happen to her-um...him...? Who is that wrinkled old prune? Wait Kenji's waking up what's his fate going to be? Don't the next chapter of Ranma ½: Little Sister Saga! Kenji's despair part 2: Life with the Amazons. Never be a man again!

Author's notes:Well, what do you think? Love it? Hate it? Just tolerate it? Please review...and keep an eye out for another one of my creations. Lost with a with a capital T! A Ranma+Teen Titans crossover inspired by The Titans and the lost boy by Lathis! If you ever read this Lathis, Thanks for the great fic!