Chapter 1: Into the Breach

Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko or Ranma.

This is an old fic that I had started some time ago when I first thought of making an account. If you want more of this, let me know. Otherwise, I'll be working on Two Kinds heavily until I get to about chapter 5.

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A little red-haired girl was walking down the hallway led by a gray-haired man as he talked about the school they were in. "...and as you can see, this is the auditorium. It's..." She tuned him out again as she watched some small birds start chasing a hawk outside. She let out a sigh that blew a stray piece of hair out of her eyes. She was still mad that the gray-haired man had told her that her pigtail was not acceptable and that she had to undo it. He had called it something like a rat tail. It's not like she hadn't ignored people like him before. It's just that she wasn't supposed to get in trouble or she would be facing dire consequences.

As they stopped in front of a room labeled 'Science,' the older man knocked on the door and an old woman appeared. They spoke for a moment and the old woman looked the girl over before nodding and returning to the room. The older man motioned for the little girl to enter.

She blinked as she entered. She had never really seen this many different children in a school. The many different races, clothing styles, and personalities in the class were a big change from the majority of the Japanese classrooms she had been in, but she also had two years of experience in one of the not so standard schools and just shrugged the change off. She was brought out of her thoughts as the teacher began introducing her.

"Students, we have a new addition to our school with us today. Her name is Ranma Saotome and she comes to us all the way from Japan. I've also heard that her father has taken her around most of Asia and some parts of Europe as well. Would you like to tell us a little about yourself?"

Ranma let out a little sigh as she tried to come up with something appropriate. She found that the personality of a little girl didn't work for her very well but her mother had insisted that she act like an appropriate young lady. She'd just have to wing it. "It is a pleasure to be here. I've been trained in my family's style of martial arts since I could walk and have rarely gone to an actual school. I am in your care."

Ranma hoped that would be enough for the woman and bowed to the class. When she looked up, the woman actually seemed to smile. "Take note of this class. This is the proper way to behave. Now for a seat."

Ranma watched the woman look around and then frown when she focused on one spot. Ranma looked over to the spot and raised an eyebrow when she saw the boy sitting next to the empty seat. He wore a purple sweater. His hair was combed straight up with purple highlights. He also seemed to be drooling while looking at her. Ranma frowned as she thought about his antics. She looked down at her chest and the frown deepened. She hated that she shrank some after the incident, but even at her new height of 3' 7", her chest barely fell from its D-cup to her 'less-pronounced' C-cup. She shuddered at that thought as she remembered what her mother told her would happen as she 'grew up.'

The teacher coughed once before speaking. "Mr. Della Robbia, please raise your hand." The boy enthusiastically raised it and waved it around. The teacher sighed before speaking again. "Miss Saotome, would you please sit in the empty seat by Mister Della Robbia."

Ranma sighed as she walked over to the seat and plopped down in it. The teacher turned around to start her lesson and Ranma sat back getting ready to snooze. While her mother had told her the conditions of going to this school and what was expected, she couldn't change her habits in one day. Her eyelids just started to shut when she felt a jab in her ribs. She looked over to the smiling face of the weird kid with purple highlights. "Psst. Hey, I'm Odd Della Robbia. What's a cute girl like you doing in a place like this?"

Now Ranma would have pounded him into the ground if it weren't for the second and third parts of her promise in coming to this school. She wanted to scream at him and sock him across the room for that comment, but she didn't have much of a choice now. She simply gave him a menacing stare and was satisfied when he backed off. "I'm not in the mood for this."

Ranma then promptly buried her head in a book and fell asleep.

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Odd sat down at the lunch table with Ulric, Yumi, and Jeremy. He had a broad grin on his face. Ulric shook his head. "It's the new red-haired girl isn't it."

Odd's smile grew wider. "Yep, she's even got that fiery soul too. I'm going to win her over with the old Odd charm."

Ulric snorted as he played his spoon through the bean curd served for lunch. "Yeah, she looked real happy with you when you hit on her during science class. In fact, she fell asleep before you did in science lab."

Odd stuck his nose up in the air and crossed his arms. "Hmmph. I'll have you know that was just a misunderstanding. Besides, anyone who can catch Ms. Hertz dreaded ruler of doom while soundly asleep is cool in my books."

Yumi giggled some at Odd's expense. "I dunno she's starting to sound a lot cooler than you Odd."

Jeremie meanwhile was typing away rapidly on his computer. He had barely paid attention to anything that was being said. He was so out of it, in fact, that when an errant glob of bean curd was hurdled into the air when Odd slammed a fist down onto his spoon, he almost got nailed in the head with said glob. All four of them were startled when something shot out in front of him and the bean curd disappeared. They all turned and saw a short red-haired girl with a large bust licking off a spoon.

The girl looked back at them and shrugged. "Hey, nobody was going to eat that anyways. Couldn't let it go to waist."

There was a pause of silence which was then broken by Ulric. "You actually like that stuff enough to save it. I mean what they serve here is like toxic waste."

What they didn't expect was for the girl to double over laughing at Ulric's comment like it was the funniest joke in the world. They were beginning to worry about the girl when she brought herself back up from the floor. She grabbed the tray which the others hadn't noticed sitting on the table next to her and sat down next to them. They also saw that the plate was piled high with food. She wiped away some tears from her eyes before speaking.

"Now that is funny. I'd rate the food here above my Pop's cooking and below my cooking which is reasonable. I don't think I'll like eating like this every day for the next few years but I've lived through worse."

Ulrich looked at her like she was crazy. "What do you mean? This food is horrible and you can't deny that. Now pizza or taco day is ok, but not bean vegetarian day. I bet you can't name one person or dish that's done worse than this. Say a date with Odd if I win vs. some of my candy stash if you win."

Ranma whipped her head around to him and produced a cheery smile that sent shivers down Ulrich's spine. "Akane Tendo, my er... former friend. The dish was a simple stir fry. She added Drano instead of oil because and I quote 'I thought it would liven it up.' We had to get our stomachs pumped after that one."

All four at the table stared at the girl before Jeremy spoke up. "And you're still alive after that?"

Ranma shrugged her shoulders. "Hey, it's not half as bad as the time that Akane tried to make Miso soup that nearly put me in a coma or the time with the spaghetti that actually came to life." They all watched Ranma shudder at the mention of that creation.

Yumi coughed once to get everyone's attention. "I don't think we've formally introduced ourselves yet. I'm Yumi Ishiyama. I'm from Japan but my parents moved here for work."

For some reason the name Ishiyama rolled around in Ranma's head for a second, she was sure she heard it somewhere before. "My name is Ranma Saotome. I'm also from Japan but my parents aren't here. My mother sent me here because there were some uh... issues in Japan."

Ulrich shrugged, not like he hadn't gotten into trouble or had issues in the past. "Names Ulrich. I'm a lifer in this institution."

Jeremie rolled his eyes. "I'm Jeremie Belphat. I'm the genius of this little group."

Odd stood up and bowed on one knee before her while grabbing her hand. "And I'm Odd Della Robbia as you already know, but would like it if we got to know each other better."

Ranma quickly removed her hand from his grip. She was about to deck him when Yumi spoke up. "You know I don't think she likes you very much Odd."

Odd crossed his arms as he pouted. "What do you know Yumi?"

Yumi smirked as she hung an arm around Ranma. "It's a girl thing and if you don't understand it yet then you never will."

Ranma was curious as to what Yumi meant as she hadn't actually been trying to act like a girl at the time and she was worried that she was unconsciously starting to act like one. She was about to ask what Yumi meant but the bell rang ending lunch.

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Ranma was bored until gym class rolled around. A rather pudgy man turned out to be their coach for PE. He had introduced himself as Jim. She was sitting there giggling as Jim demeaned Jeremie as he couldn't climb the rope. Jim shook his head before turning back to the class. "Isn't there anyone here that can get to the top of this rope?"

Ranma stood up with a grin on her face until Jim spoke. "Uh, are you supposed to be in this class? You look short enough to be in elementary school."

Oh that did. Ranma turned red as she angrily marched up to the rope hanging from the ceiling. "Elementary school huh? I'll show you elementary school!"

Ranma then squatted down an launched herself up to the top of the rope in one leap. She grabbed onto the rope and then let go to fall back down to the ground. "That good enough for ya."

The class was staring at the little girl that had seemed to defy gravity as she leaped to the top of the rope and falling back down no worse for wear. Ulrich was the first to speak up. "Holy shit! That was just like a kung fu movie or something."

The rest of the class started making noise until Jim calmed them down. He turned back to Ranma. "I told you to climb the rope, not jump. Sit back down. Anyone else want to try?"

No one raised there hand as the angry visage of Ranma moved to sit back down.

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Ranma sat on her bed fingering through a manga. The dorm room didn't offer much but she had slept in worse places. Her first day wasn't good but not bad either. She had resolved to prank the man Jim though as soon as he had his back turned. She turned off her light for the night when she was finished and resolved to start practicing tomorrow to keep up her training. She didn't rest long as music started blaring in the room next door. Ranma sat up, turned on the light, and got out of bed. She quickly opened her door and proceeded to knock on her neighbor's door.

A girl with rolling pins in her hair and some kind of green stuff on her face came out as the music blared louder. "What do you want?"

Ranma frowned. It was that girl named Sissy or something. "Could ya turn the music off? I'm trying to sleep."

The girl put a finger to her lips and seemed to think for a moment before speaking. "No."

She then slammed the door in Ranma's face and turned the music up. Ranma's eye twitched for a moment before she smirked. "Guess I ain't gonna wait this time."

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The next day proved to be as boring to Ulrich as any other day until he reached the front lobby of the school to find a crowd of students. The students were all murmuring and looking at something. Ulrich pushed his way through to find out what was going on. He froze when he saw it. Sissy was tied to a support post with a sock in her mouth. What was more funny was that she was wearing curlers, a mud mask, and a fuzzy bathrobe. The sign was the icing on the cake though as it read: "I'm a loud, obnoxious bitch." Once all of this ran through his mind, he fell over laughing as Sissy stared wide-eyed at him.

His laughing was stopped as the principle and Jim rushed onto the scene and took Sissy down. He was about to leave when a hand landed on his shoulder. It was the principal. "You are coming with me son."

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Ulrich sat down next to Odd at the lunch table as he muttered darkly to himself. Odd slapped him on his back. "Wow, I mean never in a million years would I have thought someone could pull that off and get away with it. Too bad you stuck around too long after the principal showed up, huh Ulrich."

Ulrich stared coldly at Odd. "Yeah, well you didn't have an angry father breathing down your neck all morning. He was going to call the police and have me arrested until Sissy came back in and said that I didn't do it. She said she really couldn't remember who did it though."

Yumi giggled while shaking her head. "Wish someone had a picture of that. It sounds like someone finally got her good."

It was then that Ranma approached their table while skipping and whistling. Four eyebrows raised at her happy gate. When she sat down, they could see a genuine smile on her face. She looked around at their stares. "Oh uh, how are you guys doing?"

Odd was the first to speak up. "Cat catch the canary?"

Ranma looked puzzled at his statement. "Huh? What's that got to do with anything?"

Yumi caught onto the line of thought. "He means you seem more enthusiastic than yesterday."

"Oh, I just had a really good uh... sleep last night." They all watched as Ranma rubbed the back of her head.

Ulrich caught on next. He was still a little angry but was now intrigued as to how this was playing out. "Right, a fun night with Sissy perhaps?"

Ranma started to sweat a little. "Uh, not quite. I told her to turn off her music so I could sleep."

All they could do was nod at that statement. They all knew Sissy never listened so there was only one way to get a good nights sleep around her. They all had a tinge of respect for the girl as she had just accomplished something they thought was impossible without expulsion or jail time. Odd patted her on the back. "Man, we're going to have to get you on the team now. Anyone who can do what you did deserves it."

Jeremie was the one to whack him in the back of the head. "Exnay on Xanastay!"

Odd rubbed the back of his head. "Sheesh Einstein, I'm not..."

They were all interrupted as Jeremie's computer started beeping and the Lyoko warriors turned to Jeremie and Ranma looked around confused. "Uh, what's got all of you worked up?"

Jeremie shook his head and stood up along with the other three. "Nothing to worry about. We just need to go do something we forgot."

Ranma watched as they left. She inhaled her food and then jumped up to follow them. She was bored and they were going to do something so that was that.

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Ulrich was skating down the sewer line looking around. "Something doesn't feel right."

Yumi shook her head. "I don't see anything. Look we're almost to the factory. Let's get inside."

They didn't notice as a shadow emerged from the corner. This is great. They've got some hideout to go to so they can skip classes.

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Ranma snuck quietly through the vault door before it shut and jumped into the mess of wires that surrounded a big computer. Ranma frowned when she saw that they were just going to mess with a computer. Pssh. Maybe this wasn't worth missing class.

She watched as Jeremie sat down at the computer and put on a headset. He then started talking to someone. "Hey, Aelita... I know... Okay forest sector... Yeah it's weird not to send something. I hope it's not another trap... I'll send Odd and Ulrich this time and keep Yumi in reserve."

She watched as Ulrich and Odd headed for a tube that went down. She shrugged her shoulders and proceeded to follow them as soon as Yumi and Jeremie turned their backs to her. When she reached the bottom she carefully stuck her head out of the tube and looked around to see Odd and Ulrich enter two separate tubes before they closed around them. Ranma saw a third tube and decided to look inside. She scratched her head as she banged and tried to figure out why the tubes were special when the door closed and a light came on.

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Jeremie initialized the virtualization program. "Virtualizing Odd... Virtualizing Ulrich... Virtualizing, huh? Virtualizing unknown! Who's in the other tube?"

Both Yumi and Jeremie watched as a picture of Ranma appeared on the screen. Both of them looked at each other. "Uh oh!"

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Ranma shook her head. She had been enveloped in a light and then she ended up falling on her butt with a massive headache. She then looked around to see she was in a really strange forest. She shrugged her shoulders and brushed herself off but froze when she saw that she was wearing a red Cheongsum instead of her school dress. She also noted that she had two tonfa attached to her waste and a bo staff on her back. "The hell."

"Who are you?"

Ranma turned around to see a girl with pink hair and long ears. She was wearing some kind of brownish-red wrap around suit. "Uh, hi. I'm uh Ranma. Do you know where I am?"

The girl put on a cheery smile. "Yes, you're in the forest sector of the Lyoko world. I'm Aelita by the way."

Ranma let out a sigh. Of course, her first few days in a new school and she ends up in some other world or dimension. At least she wouldn't get bored again. Now that had been a disaster. "Okay, so what uh do you do here?"

Aelita put a finger to her lips. "Not too much. I mostly surf the net, read emails, and activate towers after Ulrich, Odd, or Yumi finish fighting Xana's forces."

The word 'fight' stuck in Ranma's mind. "So where do I go to fight these forces?"

She watched Aelita point to a red tower nearby. Ranma grinned as she grabbed the girls hand and dashed towards the tower as Aelita screamed behind her.

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Meanwhile...

Jeremie was worried. The new transfer student had just become the sixth member of the Lyoko crew. Unfortunately, he hadn't had enough time to link communications with her before he noticed that she had grabbed Aelita and was rushing toward the red tower. She was either in league with Xana or an amateur that might of thought this was a game. It was a bad situation.

"Ulrich, Odd get to the tower now. It's not far to the east of your position. We've also run into a snag. That transfer student somehow ended up in the virtualizer and she is currently dragging Aelita to the tower. I don't know why so hurry up and find out."

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Ranma stopped and the screaming Aelita hit her in the back. She was looking at what had to be the strangest demons. One looked like a giant eyeball or just ball, two others looked like crabs with long legs, a dozen were flying wasp-like things, and there were hundreds of little bug-like things. When Aelita pulled herself up again, she looked at the sight and screamed before hiding behind a nearby tree.

Ranma put a finger to her lip and tapped her foot. "Now which of ya'll wants to go down first."

She was answered as volley of laser blasts centered on her location. Aelita hid her eyes as the lasers converged on Ranma's location and a large shockwave was felt. Aelita turned back to see only a fuzzy spot where the data had been fragged in the former red-head's location. Aelita prayed she had only logged off and not been deleted. It was then that she heard a cry. "Yeehaw! This is fun!"

Aelita looked up and saw that Ranma was riding on a wasp as it fired blindly. This in turn destroyed numerous kankrelites (little bug thingies) as she steered the wasp around. Ranma fell when another wasp deleted the one Ranma was riding. Ranma landed on her feet and looked at the wasp indignantly. "Hey, that was my ride."

Ranma cupped her hands together and aimed it at the wasp. Aelita's eyes went wide as Ranma produced a blue energy blast. "Moko Takabishi!"

Both of them were surprised when the blast connected with the wasp and not only deleted it but the energy arched out and hit all of the other wasps, deleting them as well. "Ranma looked at her hands and smiled. "Cool!"

She then turned to the 50 or so kankrelites that were currently trying to scurry away. Ranma smirked and fired off another blast and watched as they all exploded. She almost missed the claw and a giant wall of light trying to hit her. Almost. Ranma dodged to the side and looked at the ball and the crab. The crab lost it's leg and fell over and the ball tried to run over Ranma as she landed. Ranma smirked as she removed her staff and vaulted over the ball. She then hit it's side with the staff only to here a resounding clang.

Aelita started to come out of her awe as she saw the red-haired girl having trouble with the tank (the ball creature). "Ranma aim for the eye with your staff when it opens up."

Ranma nodded her head. Apparently the girl had some inside knowledge on how to defeat these demons and Ranma always exploited her enemies weaknesses. Ranma noticed the shell opening again and aimed her staff for the eye on the inside. What she didn't expect was to be blown backwards as the tank exploded. She flipped in mid-air and landed on top of the crab-like creature using her staff to penetrate the symbol on top. That only left one opponent.

Ranma turned just in time to block the shot from the creature with her staff. She then put the staff back and charged the crab with her bare hands. She flew through techniques trying to cripple the creature but got only as far as tripping it up. "Hit the symbol on its head."

Ranma once again followed the voice of experience and jumped up to see the same symbol she had seen on the other crab. She then laid into it with a simple stone fist punch she had learned as a kid. The crab then exploded. Ranma pumped her fist in the air. "Sweet!"

"I know, that was like one of those kung fu movies." Ranma turned around to see a samurai in a yellow outfit and a purple... "Ca-C-CAT!"

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Ulrich and Odd had arrived halfway through the fight and were stunned by what they saw. The girl had just entered Lyoko but had taken on an entire army without breaking a sweat. They could see that Aelita was alright and that she was in awe just as much as they were. "Whoa!"

Odd nodded to Ulrich's comment. This was just awe-inspiring. No words really needed to be said. When the fighting ended they stepped forward. Odd spoke up first. "I know, that was like one of those kung fu movies."

They watched as Ranma turned around. Her gaze stopped on Odd. Her eyes widened in... fear? "Ca-C-CAT!"

Ranma promptly raced off the edge of a cliff. They all blinked and then Jeremie yelled. "Aelita to the tower now. We've got to return to the past before she lands in the digital sea."

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Ranma rubbed the glare of whatever light had washed over her out of her eyes. She was walking in a hallway and listening to... "...and as you can see, this is the auditorium. It's..." Her mind tried but failed to kick into gear. Didn't this happen already?

She was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice that she had just been pushed into a classroom. She looked around and then spotted... Odd was his name looking intently at her. She then heard the teacher. "Students, we have a new addition to our school with us today. Her name is Ranma Saotome and she comes to us all the way from Japan. I've also heard that her father has taken her around most of Asia and some parts of Europe as well. Would you like to tell us a little about yourself?"

Ranma repeated what she had said before. "It is a pleasure to be here. I've been trained in my family's style of martial arts since I could walk and have rarely gone to an actual school. I am in your care."

Ranma knew that would be enough for the woman and bowed to the class. When she looked up, the woman actually seemed to smile. "Take note of this class. This is the proper way to behave. Now for a seat."

The teacher coughed once before speaking. "Mr. Della Robbia, please raise your hand." The boy raised his hand. The teacher sighed before speaking again. "Miss Saotome, would you please sit in the empty seat by Mister Della Robbia."

Ranma warily walked over to the seat and plopped down in it. The teacher turned around to start her lesson and Ranma sat back but turned her gaze to Odd. He was sort of impassively looking at her. "Meet us at lunch today."

Ranma turned back to class. She actually couldn't go to sleep this time and paid attention. He already knows who I am.

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Odd sat down at the lunch table with Ulric, Yumi, and Jeremy. Ulric looked over at him. "She's coming right?"

Odd nodded his head. "Yep, she's coming. I want to know why she freaked out when she saw me on Lyoko."

Ulric snorted as he played his spoon through the bean curd served for lunch. "At least she'll eat this goop. Maybe I'll trade her a cup of fruit for it."

They were interrupted as the girl sat down at their table. Jeremie coughed once to get everyone's attention. "So Ranma, do you remember what happened and who we are?"

Ranma raised an eyebrow as she scanned them over. "Yes."

Jeremie nodded his head. "Alright. Whether you like it or not, you've accidentally become a member of our group. Be careful about what you say or do now because we've just gone back two days in time."

Ranma's eyes widened a bit. Aww shit! More magic mess. I don't need this. "Look, I've had enough trouble with time travel and magical bullshit in the past. I don't need more of it so leave me out."

Ulrich looked at Ranma like she'd grown a second head. "Magic? Magic doesn't exist. This is technology."

Jeremie had a different thought. "You've experienced time travel before now? How?"

Ranma shrugged her shoulders while sighing. "The Nanban Mirror. Until it was broken, it allowed you to travel back in time to the place you wanted to visit as long as you wept onto its surface. Too bad you really couldn't change anything with it though."

"That's amazing! Do you know how it worked?" Jeremie was almost pressing into her face. Ranma pushed him back and frowned. "Magic! Sheesh."

Yumi put down her spoon after licking the last of her pudding off and pointed the spoon at Ranma. "You won't get these guys to believe in anything mystical, except maybe Odd but telling him a napkin could grant wishes would make him a believer. I'm not sure I believe you, but given how we live our lives, I won't not believe you."

Jeremie recomposed himself after noticing some people staring at his previous display. "Well what you experienced on Lyoko wasn't magic. It was a digital world. Right now we're trying to save Aelita and keep Xana from taking over our world. The side benefit to helping us would be the ability to go back a maximum of three days to fix mistakes that you've made. No one else remembers what happens."

Ranma thought about it for a second. "So I get to fight huh? And it's just taking out those demon thingies."

Jeremy sighed. "Uh yah, you get to fight the demon thingies."

Ranma smiled as she twirled her spoon. "Alright."

"Why were you so afraid of me on Lyoko? You ran off a cliff and almost died." Ranma turned to Odd.

"Huh?"

"You don't remember?" He saw Ranma shrug.

"Remember, big purple cat?" When he said the word cat, Ranma tensed up and started looking around. Everyone raised their eyebrows at that.

"You're afraid of cats aren't you?" This time it was Jeremy.

Ranma shook her head. "I ain't fraid no c-ca-ca- those furry things. Just had some bad experience with them is all."

They all watched as Ranma pouted. Yumi pointed her spoon at Ranma. "What's got you so spooked about cats. It's not like they'd maul you or anything like that."

They all watched as Ranma flinched at Yumi's comment. She raised an eyebrow. "You actually were mauled by a cat?"

Ranma shook her head. "More than one. Pit."

Yumi blinked. "So you were mauled by cats in a pit. How did that happen?"

Ranma buried her face a little behind her arms. "Pops threw me in and closed the lid."

The group stopped eating at that point. Odd spoke next. "Wait, your dad threw you in a pit of cats. Why didn't you crawl out and call the cops or something."

Ranma sighed and sat back up. "Fine, I'll tell you. Pops found this book of supposedly unbeatable techniques and one of them was something called the Neko-ken. You take the trainee, bind the trainee so they can't move, tie fish products to the trainee, toss the trainee into a pit of cats that you starved for a week, and close the lid. Repeat until the trainee learns it or dies. Damn pops threw me in I don't know how many times."

Yumi turned a little green; Odd got a strange glazed look on his face; Ulric pushed his lunch tray away; and Jeremy cleared his throat. "He's in jail right?"

Ranma shrugged her shoulders. "Last time I saw him, he was running away from mom while she was swinging a sword at him. Eh, he'll probably show up here in another month or so. Easiest way to pick up if he's around is if people start complaining about somebody stealing lots of food and alcohol nearby."

They all stared at the girl. Ulric shook his head. "Let me guess. International criminal."

Ranma shrugged. "I don't know about that but I'm sure every country from England to Japan wants him for some kind of crime. He tried to teach me how to steal, but I got wise to it when I was about eight. When I stopped stealing stuff for him and people started to recognize that he wouldn't pay for anything, he started selling me more often to people to pay off his bills. He'd always steal me back at night but it's left a lot of people coming after me to pay off my father's debts."

Ulric whistled sharply. "Alright, I'm not going to complain about my dad ever again. Sure he's a drunk and he hit me sometimes but damn. Your father takes the cake."

Ranma shrugged again. "Eh, it's not that big of a deal. He's usually drunk all the time too, but I'm strong enough now that he can't beat me anymore." Even though I had to work back up to that point. "Heck, I got my Master's certificate for our school. Even the old man can't claim that since he never truly got the Master's certificate. Heh, all that time on the road claiming he was a master of the school when he was never certified. Dumbass."

The group was quiet for a moment before Yumi slapped a hand on Ranma's back. "Tell you what Ranma. Why don't you come over to my place tonight?"

Ranma nodded her head. It would be better than listening to Sissy's whining and have to tie her up

The bell rang and the group dispersed. Ranma wondered what a sleepover was and why Yumi smiled the way she did when she said it but shrugged it off. What was the worst that could happen.

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Yes, this is a lock fic. I know it annoys some people, but I've always got some reason for it. Anyways, until the next chapter. Toodles.