saotome complex...
"nodoka he has signed the sepuku pledge and now we must leave on ranmas training journey to become a man among men, i think we should start with china..." declared genma, ever since ranma had been born he had trying to trick ranma into the sepuku pledge so that he could make him a man among men, but really all he wanted was to take ranma on his journey so that he'd be a man when it came to marrying one of his friends daughters.
"don't you give me that, all you did was give him some ink and paper and he put some hand prints on it, he didn't know what he was doing, he doesn't even know what sepuku is" argued nodoka her voice full of worry and anger.
"he has to go through with it, he signed the pledge and he must go through it, we can not let him out of it after all what example is that setting for the boy" genma responded smugly.
" don't give me that genma, if you ranma to go on a training journey at least have the dignity to wait until he's sixteen, let him have a happy childhood and an education...i've seen how you train genma and i won't let you put our 5 year old boy through that...hell..." nodoka replied getting more furious.
"fine nodoka I'll wait 11 more years..." genma said his voice full of disappointment.
"good...and if you try anything i'll divorce you and make sure the authorities won't let you anywhere near our son" nodoka warned before storming out of the room.
later that evening...
genma slowly slid out of his bed that he shared with nodoka and crept out out of the room carefully so not to wake his sleeping wife, he slid the door open stepped through it and slid shut again and once it was shut he let out a breath of relief. genma then crept towards his sons room and slid the door open and crept into the room and gently shook the boy awake and dressed him black kung fu pants and a red Chinese attire and put the oy on his back and crept out of the room before gently sliding it shut and making his way to the top of the stairs.
"dad 'yawn' where are we going 'yawn'" asked the tired ranma a little too loudly which was when genma heard a creaking from the room he had shared with nodoka along with a 'clink' sound, genma began to sweat with fear he knew what the sound was, his wife, unsheathing her katana.
"genma...why are you taking my son in the middle of the night?" asked nodoka from the top of the stairs in a fake, sweet voice as she finished unsheathing her katana, above her head, genma then made a mad dash for the door with his wife close behind, however, by the time she reached the door all that was left was a cloud of smoke in the shape of genma with the smoke version of a little ranma on its back, nodoka then slashed at the smoke cloud with her katana until nothing was left of it. she then packed some things while using a technique she learned while at school (same as mouse) she then began on her journey.
meanwhile...
genma had arrived at the beach and was getting ready to swim to china 'nodoka won't be able to find us in china he he he' genma thought to himself as he let ranma off of his back, "come on ranma we have get to china, for that is where your training journey shall begin" genma declared.
"but 'yawn' dad i'm 'yawn' tired" ranma complained, genma couldn't be bothered with this, nodoka would be upon them with the authorities soon, he then grasped ranma's right arm and tossed him into the sea before diving after him.
"come on boy...it's time to swim to china"
about 5 miles from shore...
genma looked back and saw a small shadow figure looking out to see and some how he knew who it was, his angry wife, he grabbed his sons arm again and began swimming at full speed, no one had seen him move that fast before.
china...
"okay ma boy according to this book in order to master the cat fist you must be covered in food and tossed into a pit of starving cats...ready?" genma didn't wait for his sons response, as soon as genma had finished speaking ranma was already half way down the pit. ranma screamed in terror at what occurred in the pit, the minute the cats finished eating the food, several of them began biting ranma, that was all ranma needed to start his desperate attempts to escape.
2000 pits later...
it had been 2 years until ranma finally decided to take a look at the training book his dad had picked up. "yo pop give us that book" ranma said angrily as he snatched it from his grasp and opened to the page about the cat fist "pop, this book is in Chinese...you can't even understand a word of Chinese...err" ranma growled, however, fortunately ranma had been listening to people while genma had been stealing food in town and could speak some Chinese now, after all living in china for 2 years allowed him to pick the lingo, "strap food to the person...toss into pit of starving cats...may take several attempts...what! warning on the next page! 'turns page' warning the learning that cat fist has been known to cause insanity, nekofobia, 'many other side affects later' furthermore those who have learned the cat fist are unable to control it and the cat fist is now outlawed in several states and in tournaments and all who know the cat fist are to be thrown into endless therapy until it is purged from their mind" ranma had become ferocious, his pop had been teaching him an illegal move that was known to cause insanity, furthermore he was using a training book he couldn't even read.
several hours of ranma chasing his pop...
"well come on ranma, we have one more stop to make in china before we can move on in your training journey and that is the jusenkyo training ground." declared genma as they were approaching the training ground.
"welcome honored customers, come with me" said the short, plump guide, he ware a green uniform and hat, he then led them to an area with poles of bamboo surrounded by several pools "now let me tell you about jusenkyo before you do something stupid..." the guide was unable to finish his warning of the jusenkyo curse as genma and ranma jumped a top of the bamboo poles and had begun sparing while ignoring the guides warnings of the danger of falling into the cursed springs.
Genma was knocked into one of the springs when ranma rebounded off one of the bamboo poles and kicked genma in the back after he failed to strike ranma.
"oh no customer fall into spring of drowned panda..." the guide was unable to complete his sentence as an angry panda jumped out of the spring surprising ranma. Before ranma could even respond to what he had seen he was knocked into a different spring and emerged to see the guide looking down upon him.
"oh dear customer fall into spring of drowned girl, very tragic story of how girl drowned in spring 1500 year ago, now who ever fall in spring take on the body of a young girl" ranma then looked down at his now partially larger chest and closed his eyes and audibly gulped before opening his attire and instantly closed it again at what he saw and instantly filled with anger and embarrassment especially since genma had raised ranma to believe that women were weak.
guides hut...
the guide was explaining to genma and ranma, now changed back, about there newly acquired curses, however, as soon as the guide had said how to turn back he stopped paying attention to the guide and started looking around the hut and spotted several scrolls genma then quickly grabbed one of them and put it inside the sleeve of his GI and soon after made his way with his newly cursed son.
about 5 minutes later...
A 7 year old ranma in his usual red Chinese attire and black kung fu pants and his pop wearing his usual white GI was making his way from the jusenkyo training ground having being turned back to normal, however, they didn't make it far when ranma noticed the guide of jusenkyo running after them and he didn't look happy, little did ranma know, genma had taken a scroll that had within it secrets of jusenkyo and what abilities its victims would have. as soon as genma noticed the chubby, short man running and yelling after them, he grabbed his sons hand, then bolted away, however, about 20 minutes after losing the guide, genma passed the scroll to ranma and was about to climb a nearby cliff, he grabbed onto the cliff side and begun to climb using the rocks that stuck out to prevent himself from falling, it was then he heard a loud, angry growl, genma turned to see 2 giant wolves one black and one a light blue, both bearing their sharp, white teeth and they didn't exactly look happy about genma been on their turf, until this point the only thing that kept genma moving was getting to his old friend, soun tendos house and getting a good meal and engaging his son to one of his friends daughters, however, now fear kept him going on, you wouldn't have believed how fast he got up that cliff.
the wolves then turned to ranma who still healed the scroll, ranma didn't seem worried about the wolves and looked into the scroll and saw that ranma wasn't limited to his girl form, he could turn into other stuff too and even had a slight possibility of merging his forms, although he would always become a girl with water, however, anything that bites him will allow ranma that form, which made him cringe as he remembered all the cats that had bit him. he then looked up to the 2 wolves who appeared to be speaking with each other (not actually speaking though) even though ranma didn't understand what they were saying, he knew they were deciding his face, ranma then realized something, he looked back at the scroll and found a piece of the text referring to his curse and read it, it appeared to be how the girl had been raised before drowning and what shocked ranma was the fact that she was raised by wolves and he was willing to bet his family's honor-what was left of it-that she was raised by the ancestors of these wolves, the blue wolf then picked ranma up with it's jaws and flung ranma onto its back and headed into a forest with the black cranky one following behind it constantly watching ranma's every move, ranma than caught a glimpse at the face of the blue wolf and realized it was a female and then turned to the black wolf and noticed that one was a male that made ranma feel uneasy, as he knew that when another male no matter what species went near a female of a the same species that was already with a male would end up fighting the current male and normally dieing in the process. the only thing ranma could do was make himself known to the other wolf that he wasn't a threat.
2 hour later...
ranma arrived at a clearing at the center of the forest and instantly noticed that there was about 50 wolves here, the pack. the female then turned her head and got ranmas shirt in her mouth and dropped him into a cold spring instantly activating the curse and all the wolves around watched and bowed/nodded their heads before returning to what they were doing before. the black male wolf then approached ranma and when ranma looked into the eyes of the male he saw that he was the alpha of the pack, the wolf then bent it's head and bit ranmas arm, the wound inflicted on ranmas arm instantly healed leaving a scar where it once was, ranma then felt the wolf within him awaken, thanks to jusenkyo.
9 years later...
ranma was migrating with the pack while in male form, although the wolves preferred female ranma. they were migrating to japan and the alpha wasn't happy as to why they had to leave, ranma foolishly in his girl, human form defeated an amazon which gave her the kiss of death and in order to protect the pack they had to leave and japan was the last place anyone would look for wolves.
upon arrival of japan (they got their by following the hidden tunnels beneath the ocean that their ancestors from japan dug 5 millennium ago to escape the hunters, you'd be surprised what wolves that were from nerima could do) the pack were tired and rested hidden in the forest near japan and afterwards found a similar clearing with caves, rocks (like pride rock in lion king but smaller, the clearing is like the one from jungle book) once they settled the pack rested while ranma head off into nerima, he had heard rumors that his father was here and wanted to see if they were true. ranma then picked up a scent that he would recognize anywhere, he then followed it some dojo, he entered cautiously to see a bald man begging for forgiveness from another man with long black hair and a black mustache, with 3 younger girls behind him looking from annoyed to disappointed (no prizes for guessing who was the annoyed one). ranma then approached from behind using his predatory skills he gained with his wolf transformations, a blue haired girl then saw him creeping up to the open door. "hey who are you" she yelled and everyone turned to see the pigtailed martial artist.
"names ranma saotome" ranma said cockily as he strolled inside noticing everyone's gawking faces, he then realized he'd just walked into a trap as his pop had always been ranting about marrying him to one of his friends daughters and these were the ones he was talking about, ranma then gulped and turned to leave to see his pop shut and block the only way out.
"ranma, my son and heir...i thought you were dead when those wolves...those beasts cornered you" genma gasped "why didn't you look for me?" demanded his father but ranma knew he wasn't concerned for him the only thing he cared about was marrying him off. ranma growled at genma causing everyone to gasp and step back as ranma actually sounded like an angry wolf.
"how dare you call them beasts...they raised me taught me how to survive" he yelled back
"so you were raised by wolves...oh by the way names nabiki" nabiki said after making her sarcastic remark
"yeah what of it" ranma growled back, causing the mercenary, like tendo to take a step back, it was then genma remembered ranmas curse and how he always hated looking like a girl and how it was his weakness, genma then took of his bandanna thing and slipped it outside for a few seconds, already hearing the newly pouring rain he then sneakily pulled it back in and tossed it over ranma who was glaring at the tendos while his eyes darted around looking for a way out. the next thing he knew he was soaked and female, everyone except the saotome's gasped, however, even genma gasped when ranma concentrated and willed himself into his back wolf form, slightly smaller than the alpha, he then growled at his father and approached him menacingly, it was then another growl was heard outside, genma then slid open the door and saw a pure white wolf, with another wolf, fur as dark as the night sky.
wolf speak...
'ranma what are you doing here' white wolf
'came to see if the rumors were true about my pop being here' ranma replied while indicating to the bold man who had his bandanna thing back on. 'besides what are you doing here...dawn (black wold) crystal (white wolf) yet alone in wolf form (ranma had given these two the ability to take on human form by biting their front knee/paw like how he got his wolf forms)' ranma inquired.
'we were looking for you, we did notice you were gone...also we are n wolf form because we can track you down easier' answered dawn
human speak...
"so ranma...who are your friends?" asked soun after genma had told them about their curses while still trying figure out the wolf thing. ranma then turned back to soun and took on human form, as did his friends (if you hadn't figured it out yet the wolves were female), crystal now had long brown hear and ware a blue kimono, the one known as dawn now had long black hair while also wearing a blue kimono.
"we'll get to that later now boy me and soun have decided you are to marry akane" declared ranma, this infuriated akane but not half as much as ranma and his Friends, in fact ranma and crystal had to restrain dawn from mauling them.
"ranma...we'll talk about this more in the morning, why don't you stay here with your father so we can discus this further" soun suggested, while thinking they'll be planning the dates and themes tomorrow, when in fact they were going to be arguing about why he should be engaged to akane and how he can get out of it. "oh and your friends can stay as well if you wish, I'm sure we can come to some arrangement" added soun not really wanting to be on a wolfs bad side, especially since he knew they tended to travel in packs. everyone nodded in agreement to this, ranma then reverted back into a guy and ranma the headed to the dojo as did akane. ranma the watched akane breaking bricks with her bare hands, this didn't impress. akane noticed this and turned to him.
"what you looking at" akane yelled at him, ranma only shook his head in reply while closing his eyes "you want to fight or something" akane yelled her anger had already peaked in the dining room an she had being looking for an excuse to pound this guy for thinking he can just stroll in here and marry her, they haven't even said two words to each other. ranma then stood up and cracked his knuckles preparing for their fight, akane then got in her fighting stance and gasped at what ranma did, he grew claws on his finger, his teeth became fangs, incredibly sharp, his ears melded into his skin and vanished, two wolf ears then truck out of his head. akane quickly shook off her surprised mind and launched at ranma who simply side stepped her attack and punched the back of her head causing her to fall over she then turned and glared at ranma and launched at him again only to be lifted off the floor by ranma and thrown to the other side of the dojo all the while he didn't even turn around to look at her, he then glared at akane as she clambered to her feet and launched at ranma again only this time changed course when she noticed ranma begin to move and punched from the side into his left eye instantly causing it to go purple. akane smirked at her hand work until ranma turned toward her and akane watched in amazment as the black eye instantly healed itself in front of her and once it had, you would never have guessed there ever was a black eye, ranma the struck her belly and while she bent over in pain he came up from behind and force palmed her lower back sending her to the ground, only this time she couldn't bring herself to get back up.
"hm...pathetic...the girls in the pack can fight better than that even the little cubs can" ranma declared as he took on his human form again and went up the stairs to bed followed by the wolf forms of crystal and dawn, once in his room ranma dragged his mat to a corner in the guest room and then ranma took on his wolf form and curled up and went to sleep on the mat and the 2 she-wolves did the same and snuggled up close to ranma, feeling safer when they were near him.