Hello everyone, this is skinnydude911 here with a new story. I saw this story up for adoption from King of the Fallen and asked him about doing this story with tweaks of my own. He agreed and here's what we got. His story had Ranma arrive at the Tendo residence with his father and brother. I have incorporated my OC into the Ranma 1/2 universe so I hope people are prepared.
BTW the title is meant to be a translation to their names Ranma meaning "Reckless horse." And Ryu's name means Dragon in Japanese.
I hope you guys get to enjoy this story.
It was currently raining in the city of Nerima, one of the many prefectures of Tokyo. It is a one of the more rural areas where people enjoy living in peace and not have to be far from some of the many local attractions as well. It is also home to quite the amount of Dojo's as well. As the rain fell down, some of the residents who were out in the rain swore that they saw a red haired girl running from a giant panda while it was carrying a big sack over its back.
The red haired girl, who was wearing a red Chinese kung fu shirt and matching black pants, was trying to dodge the panda's strikes at her. "Cut it out right now tubby." The girl told the panda. "You are so lucky that my aniki is unconscious at the moment or you would be so sorry." She added as she pointed to the sack the panda had placed on the ground.
The panda tried one more to swipe at the girl, but she was too quick for it as she kicked it in the face knocking the panda down. "I so don't have time for all this fiancé crap. I'm heading back to China to try and find a cure. Suck on that you lazy panda." The girl said as she walked away from the panda. However, a quick blow to the head from the panda knocked the girl out for a while. The panda then picked up the girl and the sack to head off to its destination as the rain finally stopped.
*Tendo Residence*
The Tendo residence looked like an old style Japanese building with a small area of the residential house having a second floor to it. The other part that was separate from the house was the dojo where people once trained to learn martial arts.
A beautiful woman was walking back into the main house area after collecting the mail for the day. She was wearing a yellow shirt with a pink long skirt under an apron. She also had the long brown hair that she kept in a pony tail most of the times and had lovely brown eyes as well. Not only that but she was hiding a DD size bust. This was the oldest daughter of the house and the one who is like a mother to her sisters, Kasumi Tendo, age 19.
"Oh father, the mail has arrived." Kasumi told her father as she placed the mail on a small table in the living room area as she went back to the kitchen to check on the meal she was preparing.
"Thank you Kasumi." A man said as he looked through the mail. He was a man in his mid 40's who had long black hair and wore a brown gi. This was Soun Tendo, the father of the house. He looked at the newspaper for a short while stopping at one peculiar article about some kind of lizard man reaching the shore on the other side of Japan. "It's probably some publicity stunt for a monster movie or something. I should give this to Nabiki, she has always been interested in things like this."
As he was looking through the mail he noticed a postcard with a panda eating bamboo on it. He looked at it over before reading the back. On the back it only read, 'Bringing the boys from China. -Genma.'
Soun was crying tears of joy, the pact he had made with Genma all those years ago will finally come true. Although he did not know that Genma had more than one son. He got up to tell his girls the news. He first approached the kitchen where Kasumi was, "Kasumi, please come to the living room. I have some big news." He told her.
After telling her, Soun went up to the second floor area where he can tell his other daughters. He had stopped at Nabiki's, his middle child, room and knocked on the door to see if she was in there. He heard a "Come in," before opening the door. He saw his middle child lying on her stomach reading one of her manga's. She turned the music on her iPhone off to see what her father wanted to tell her. She was wearing a teal short sleeved shirt with white short shorts. She too had brown hair but it was more in the short length side of things. She had a bust in the D size area and was only 17 years old.
"Come to the living room, I have big news." Soun told her.
"Sure. Let me tell Akane daddy." Nabiki told him as she went down towards the dojo area where she would find her 16 year old little sister.
"Of course," Soun said as he went down to the living room to wait for his daughters to come.
Nabiki walked down to where the dojo was with iPhone in hand. She opened the door to see her youngest sister with her long navy blue hair and yellow gi on hiding her C cup bust size. She had just broken two cinderblocks with her bare hand. Nabiki took a picture of it on her phone to use for another time. "There you go again Akane. This is the reason why boys think you are so weird."
"Well maybe the world doesn't revolve around nothing but boys!" Akane yelled back at her sister.
"Then I guess you may not like what daddy has to say then." Nabiki told her as she walked out of the dojo. Akane followed because she was curious as to what she meant by that statement.
As all three girls were sitting in the living room area, Soun told them the big important news about why his old friend is arriving today. "Fiancé?" Kasumi asked wondering if she had heard what her father said correctly.
"Yes indeed, my old friend Genma is coming here today with his sons, Ranma Saotome and Ryu Saotome. If one or two of you marry his sons, then the Tendo family legacy would be secure." Soun explained to his daughters as he didn't know how they would react to the news.
"Don't we have any say in who we get to marry? For all we know, they could be perverts who are just trying to get into our pants." Akane yelled as she was annoyed by boys for a long time.
"Akane is correct father," Kasumi said adding her two cents in. "How old are they? I hope they aren't too young." Kasumi didn't like the possibility of being married to someone who was immature and way too young.
"Are they even cute daddy?" Nabiki asked him as she became curious about the potential suitors for her and/or her sisters.
"They will be here any minute. They had just finished training in China after a while now." Soun told them.
"Oh, China you say." Nabiki said as she grew more curious about the Saotome's. It was expensive to go to China so it must mean that they must have some wealth to them.
"What's so great about China anyway?" Akane asked as more of being irritated about hearing what some boys have been doing.
"Well China does have many diverse martial arts that they must have been learning some tricks from." Soun told Akane hoping that would possibly change her mind on the matter.
"Father," Kasumi asked once more. "Just what kind of people are Ranma and Ryu?"
"I don't know." Soun replied back.
"You don't know?" Nabiki asked as she got curious as to what he meant.
"I've never met them before." Soun explained himself. This got the girls to look at him like he was crazy or something. Before they could even say something, they were interrupted by the sound of an angry voice.
"Let me go already you jerk."
"Oh, sounds like we have company." Kasumi said as she was about to get up before Nabiki and Soun went straight for the main entrance.
"It must be the cute guys." Nabiki said.
"Saotome, my dear friend," Soun shouted.
"I hope he's older, or at the very least mature." Kasumi wished to herself.
Akane was just stewing in her annoyance as both she and Kasumi heard a commotion in the hallway. They looked down the hallway to see what it was and saw their father and sister running away from a panda with a girl over one shoulder and a sack over the other.
"Dammit let go, your scaring them." The girl over the shoulder said to the panda as it stopped.
"Um, father is this your friend?" Kasumi asked as she got a head shake as a response.
"Oh okay so a panda just decided to come into our house with a person and a sack." Nabiki said in a sarcastic tone.
The panda placed the girl down on the ground gently as it dropped the sack with little care. "Ow!" A voice said coming from the sack, startling the Tendo's.
"Let me help you out aniki." The girl said as she went to open the sack to free the person.
The person who escaped the sack was a tall boy with brown spiky hair and one red eye and one green eye. He had on a red shirt but he also wore a white sleeveless karate vest over it. He had on a pair of blue jeans and a pair of matching red and blue sneakers on with two white belts that crossed over each other in the front. He a pair of finger-less gloves on wore a necklace that looked like a gold dragon's head with a blue gem in the middle of the dragon's forehead. He hid it back under his shirt for protection. He had to crawl as he was freed.
"Thanks Ranma." The tall boy said as he was stretching from being trapped in a sack for who knows how long. Nabiki couldn't help but stare a bit at the tall guy and blush a bit. Kasumi thought that he looked much older than what she thought he would look like, while Nabiki thought that he was attractive and wouldn't mind having him.
"Oh he's a cutie." Nabiki said as she looked at the taller boy causing him to blush from the compliment.
"I'm sorry, but did you just say 'Ranma'?" Soun asked the tall boy as he nodded yes.
"Yeah," the red haired girl said. "I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this introduction."
"And my name is Ryu Saotome. Sorry about being trapped in a sack here." Ryu said as he introduced himself to the family.
"At long last, you have arrived." Soun said as he hugged Ranma and Ryu at the same time. When Soun did hug them, he felt something off with Ranma. He let the hug go to get a better look at 'him,' only to realize that Ranma looked like a girl.
Nabiki went to check out Ranma and got a closer look at 'him.' She began to poke 'his' chest and feel it to check something. "Um, could you please stop groping my sibling?" Ryu asked Nabiki. She looked to him and saw that he was taller than her by a good six inches. She checked him out, felt his chest and went towards his waist before he jumped back a bit. "Whoa, I just met you. Can you try not grabbing me down there?" Ryu asked with a blush on his face.
"Well daddy, Ryu is definitely a guy. But Ranma is a girl." Nabiki told him. Hearing the news caused Soun to do only one thing, faint.
A while later, Soun had woken up and realized that he didn't have a bad dream at all and that Ranma is in fact a girl. He was at least happy that Ryu was a boy. "I cannot believe this."
"Poor father he must be disappointed by this." Kasumi said in a sad tone for her father. Ryu didn't want to say anything at the moment as he didn't know what to say.
"He's disappointed? Look at her, some fiancé choice." Nabiki said as she looked at Ranma. "At least we have one good looking choice in the fiancé department." She added as she looked at Ryu.
"I'm sorry, but what's this about a fiancé?" Ryu asked as this was the first he had heard about it.
"We can talk later honey." Nabiki told him as she flirted with him a bit causing him to blush more.
"I assumed that my dear friend had two sons." Soun said aloud as he was still trying to wrap his mind around what had happened.
"Well, it's kind of complicated to explain at the moment. Perhaps this can be discussed at a later time today, you know once everything has calmed down." Ryu said as he tried to defuse the situation a bit.
"As much as I don't want to agree with a boy, he's got a point let's try to deal with this later when we all calm down." Akane said as she then turned to Ranma. "Do you want to spar? My name is Akane by the way."
Ranma nodded her head silently and went with Akane to the dojo area, leaving Ryu with the rest of the Tendo family and the panda. "Should I be worried for Ranma?" Ryu asked as he acted like a normal big brother would, being worried about their younger sibling.
"Oh don't worry," Kasumi said as she got up to prepare to leave to head off to the kitchen. "She will go easy on your sister Ryu. Be glad she's not a boy, she hasn't had the best experience with boys for a while."
Ryu began to get worried about the safety about his younger sibling. He would have worried more if he didn't notice that the panda was gone as was Soun. "Um, Nabiki was it?" Ryu asked Nabiki, making sure he got her name right.
"Yup," Nabiki replied.
"Where did your father and the panda me and my sibling came with go off to?" Ryu asked her again.
"I think my daddy went off to point the panda in the direction of the bath. He did smell bad." Nabiki told him.
"Oh okay," Ryu said to her. "So just wondering, do you mind giving me a quick tour of the place? I'm just not sure how long we're going to be here for or if my sibling and I are going to need to find a hotel."
"Oh sure." She told him as she led the way. "Just wondering, why do you call your sister your sibling?"
"No reason. You may find out later." Ryu responded as he said the last part silently to himself.
After the tour and showing him around the place, Nabiki had him stay in the kitchen as she went to charge her phone. "So how was the tour?" Kasumi asked Ryu.
"It was nice actually. But I felt that Nabiki was also trying to tease me or something?" Ryu told her.
"Really why is that?" Kasumi asked.
"She showed me where the bedrooms and bath was. However when she did, she said something about her door would always be open for me, even at night." Ryu said with a blush on his face. Kasumi wasn't all that surprised as she knew Nabiki would tease him like that.
Kasumi told Ryu, "Don't worry, she does that sometimes. She won't bite, unless you're into that." This got a reaction out of him as Ryu was blushing a bit more and looked away to hide the blush. "I need to put some sheets in the guest rooms for you and Ranma, has Nabiki shown you those rooms?"
"Yeah she did." Ryu said as he waited for her to return from her trip. He noticed that some dishes in the kitchen needed to be dried, so he went over to dry them up. As he finished, he saw Kasumi was back after taking longer than he thought.
"Oh what are you doing Ryu? You don't have to do that, you're a guest." Kasumi told him. She didn't want him to exert himself.
"It's no problem really. I just want to help out and not seem like a freeloader." Ryu told her as she was surprised by that. She went over to the fridge to get some ingredients ready for dinner and a drink for her father.
"Hey Kasumi," Nabiki said as she got both Kasumi's and Ryu's attention. "Who's that strange man in the living room with dad?" When Ryu heard that, he became a bit nervous.
"Nabiki, what did this guy look like?" he asked her.
"Well he was an old guy like daddy's age, kind of portly, had a bandanna over his head a white gi and glasses that had the bands go over his ears. Why do you ask?" Nabiki asked after describing the person to him.
"Uh, n-no reason," Ryu said in a panic like tone and went off to see the man she described.
"That was weird right?" Nabiki asked her sister.
"Perhaps, go tell Akane that she can take her bath now." Kasumi told her as she went to give her father and 'friend' some food and drinks. As she reached the living room, she saw her father, his 'friend' and Ryu looking at him with an annoyed look. "Are you okay Ryu?" she asked concerned about why he looks annoyed as she placed the stuff on the table.
"Yeah boy," the other man asked. "You feeling okay?"
"Of course I am… Dad." Ryu said to his father.
"Oh my, this is your father?" Kasumi asked as Ryu nodded his head. Nabiki walked in and asked what was going on. "Nabiki turns out that this is Ranma's and Ryu's father. It's very nice to finally meet you sir."
"Actually, you already met him." Ryu told them.
"We have? When?" Nabiki asked as she began to get a bit suspicious.
"Well…" Ryu began to explain before he was interrupted by a loud scream that was getting louder. Everyone turned to see Akane in an angry mood enter the living room. She picked up the table with ease as the fathers picked up their drinks and food.
"I'LL DROWN HIM IN THE TUB!" Akane yelled as she stood there with the table in hand.
"What's going on sis?" Nabiki asked.
"There's a perverted boy in the bathtub and I'm going to kill him." She replied in an angry tone.
"I hope Ranma's okay. She was in there taking a bath." Kasumi said as she heard Ryu groan and palm his face. "Is something wrong Ryu?"
"I really hoped that this would have gone a lot better. I think it's time to explain everything." Ryu told them as the girls were wondering what he meant by that. "Ranma, I know your there come on out. It's time we explain things to them." Ryu called out as the girls saw a black haired boy come in wearing similar clothes to Ranma.
"I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry about this." The boy named Ranma told them as the girls got confused as to what that meant.
After an awkward silence and having the table placed back down on the floor, Soun began to tell the girls, "Girls this is my old friend Genma Saotome and his son Ranma, you already know Ryu." Akane was still glaring daggers at Ranma after what happened in the bathroom.
"This is really interesting." Nabiki pointed out. "How is it that you are Ranma, but the girl we saw was you?"
"Are you really the same girl?" Kasumi asked.
"Yeah I am." Ranma replied to her.
"It's such a long story I don't know where to begin," Genma said as he stood up. "We should perhaps start with this then." Genma picked up Ranma and Ryu and threw the both of them towards the koi pond in the yard. Ryu missed and landed on the grass but Ranma landed in the water.
When Ranma came back up for air, he was changed back into the red haired girl from before. "What the hell did you do that for yah jerk?!" Ranma yelled at Genma.
"Oh dear," Nabiki said as she couldn't believe it even if she saw it with her own eyes.
"I am so ashamed, seeing one of my sons turn into a girl like that. You break your father's heart Ranma." Genma said as he was kicked in the back by Ryu into the pond.
"And I break your spine. Why the hell did I get thrown to you jerk?!" Ryu yelled at Genma as he arose from the water and revealed that he was the panda from earlier.
"Well that explains what he meant by we met him earlier." Kasumi said. "Father you have some interesting friends."
"We weren't always like this." Ryu said as he walked back to the house and sat back down. "I blame the fat panda I call dad for that."
"What do you mean Ryu?" Nabiki asked as she tried to look away from girl Ranma fighting a panda.
"It happened two months ago back in China. We voyaged to China by swimming because dad was too cheap to by us tickets for a boat. We stopped by the Bayankala Mountain range, south of Mount Kensei, in the Qinghai Province." Ryu began to explain to the Tendo's as Ranma and Genma returned, back in their regular forms.
"Dad took us to this special training ground in the area. It was a valley of springs with some tall bamboo sticking out of the ground and springs. It's called the 'Cursed Springs' or Jusenkyo as the locals called it. The tour guide who lived their tried to warn us about the place, we should have listened to him." Ryu said the last part to Genma who grunted in response. "Anyway, we jumped up onto some of the bamboo poles to work on our balance and mid air combat. Ranma knocked dad into one of the springs and he came out as a panda. That freaked us out and he used that to his advantage and knocked the both of us into different springs, cursing us as well."
Kasumi was trying to understand what happened, "So Genma fell into a spring that cursed him into turning into a panda when he gets wet right?"
"Yeah, only cold water activates the curse. Hot water turns us back." Ryu replied.
"And Ranma fell into a spring that turns him into a girl," Ryu nodded when Akane asked that one. "Oh great, he's even a bigger pervert than I thought."
"Yeah they all have this tragic story about how someone or some living thing fell into the springs and drowned. Ranma turns into what he would have looked like if he was born a girl." Ryu explained to them a bit clearer.
"So Ryu," Nabiki said to him. "Which spring did you fall into?" she was curious as to what his curse was.
"Oh well, mine is kind of hard to explain." Ryu said before Genma picked him up and threw him into the pond successfully this time.
"Here let me help you." Genma said as Ryu went flying.
"Why did you do that?" Nabiki asked Genma.
"You wanted to know what his curse was, well here you go." Genma said as Ryu came out of the water but didn't look like himself anymore. He had light blue skin and a more muscular body frame on him than before. His arms and legs were quite muscular and made it look more humanoid with sharp black claw-like nails. His chest looked pale yellow with a hard muscular look to it as Nabiki looked impressed by that. His head area had a normal length neck and his face was what caught everyone's attention, it was in the shape of a dragon including sharp looking teeth and a horn on his forehead, he even had a long tail and two fin like wings coming out of his back. Ryu was very lucky to still be wearing pants after his transformation. It looked like Ryu had become something straight out of mythology, a dragon but in a humanoid form.
The girls were shocked to see what they saw happen to Ryu. Soun looked at his dragon form and realized that this was the image from the article that he read earlier. "So I guess it wasn't a publicity stunt after all."
Genma looked like he was going to cry once more. "Oh what horrors, I have one son who is cursed to become a girl and the other who turns into a monster." He cried until he received a kick to the face.
"You're a real piece of work dad. If you knew more words in Chinese than what was on their menus, we may not have been cursed to begin with." Ryu said in anger before realizing that the girls saw his cursed form. When he did, he became very afraid and shy as he went to hide behind a tree.
"Ryu, why are you hiding from us? Please come out." Kasumi told him as she wasn't sure why he was trying to hide from them now. Ryu continued to hide behind the tree.
"He's been like that after he got cursed Kasumi," Ranma interjected. "When he got cursed, he thought that his cursed form was the coolest thing ever. In all honesty, he got the better curse than me and pops did. He always thought dragons were amazing and awesome when we were young. One day, we were in a busy city and he got hit with cold water, he thought nothing of it until the people saw him and freaked out. He became scared as they ran from him, and called him a freak and a monster. It scarred him and he's been like that whenever he realizes that other people see his curse form." He explained to the girls as Kasumi felt really bad for Ryu now. To have that happen to someone is the worst thing that could happen to someone as kind as Ryu has been to them.
Akane didn't seem to care at the moment, thinking this was some kind of trick because he was a boy. Nabiki on the other hand thought he looked pretty cool. She had this secret side to her that she always liked things that were straight out of mythology and magic stuff.
Nabiki approached the tree that Ryu was trying to hide behind, his body was a bit wider than the tree and his tail wasn't hidden all that well. "Come on Ryu, come out from behind there." Nabiki said to him trying to get him to come out.
"N-no." Ryu said in a worried and scared tone.
"Come one man, we don't think of you differently. Besides I kind of like this look you got going for you." Nabiki told him sincerely as he blushed a bit at hearing that.
He turned to her and asked, "D-do you really mean that?" he wasn't sure if she was teasing or if this was a ploy.
"Of course I do. Not only that but I also like to see a more sensitive side to guys. Most of the ones here only think with their muscles and not their brains." Nabiki told him with a smile on her face. She may have used some boys' lack of thinking to her advantage a lot but she does like to see one actually use their brains. She would probably take pictures of him in both forms to appease a select group, but she would tell him about it later.
Kasumi was happy to see her sister help out Ryu and calm him down. She knew about some of the things she does to make money and help keep the home financially stable at times, she has even helped her out in making money a few times. She rarely got to see the sincere side to her sister, it was nice.
Ryu believed her and came out from behind the tree and shyly headed back into the house. Soun had walked back in after making a trip to the kitchen with a kettle of hot water. "So cold water activates the curse, and hot water turns you back." He said as he poured the hot water onto Ryu, turning him back into a human.
"Hot water yes, not BOILING!" Ryu told Soun as he tried to dry the hot water off. After gaining his human form again, his nervous nature had left him and became his calm self once more.
"Well then your problem isn't so bad then." Soun told Ranma and Ryu as he pointed their attentions at the Tendo girls. "My oldest daughter Kasumi, she's 19. My middle child Nabiki she's 17." Nabiki winked at Ryu slyly as he blushed again. "And finally my youngest one Akane, she's 16. Pick anyone you want and they will be your new fiancé."
"Wait, WHAT?!" Ranma asked out loud.
"Where did this come from?" Ryu asked as well.
"Your father and I made a pact together to have one of our children marry each other to join the two schools together and today is the first step in that direction." Soun explained to them.
"I think Akane would be the best choice for Ranma." Kasumi pointed out. Kasumi was more into older men anyway and they were too young for her.
"You got that right sis. Aw hell I'll take Ryu then." Nabiki said as she made her choice on who to marry.
"WHAT?!" Ryu asked as he wasn't expecting something like this happening to him.
"Why would I want to marry this pervert? And for that matter why are you marrying his freaky brother?" Akane asked, not realizing that she hurt Ryu's feelings a bit.
"First of all little sis," Nabiki explained to her in a determined tone. "Ranma is half girl so that balances out for being engaged to him. Second, I made the choice because Ryu needs someone to help him feel better and to come out of his shell a bit more. Also, he's not a freak, he's my fiancé and he's cute too." Ryu was still blushing from the compliment and from Nabiki telling everyone there that he's hers.
"Who the hell are you calling a pervert? You walked in on me." Ranma pointed out as Akane was the one who walked in on him.
"It's different when a girl looks at a boy pervert." Akane yelled at him some more.
"Wait, how is it any different?" Ryu asked as Akane gave him a glare that shut him up. "Shutting up now." He knew long ago to not anger a woman; they play mean and can hurt you more than any guy could. The fathers were just laughing at this and saw how much they acted like an old married couple.
"There's no chance in hell I will marry someone like him." Akane yelled once more at Ranma.
Ranma tried to walk away but Ryu held onto his shoulder and asked him, "Where are you going little bro?"
"Back to China; I'm going to find a cure." He explained to Ryu. He turned to Akane once more before saying, "By the way, I noticed you got a pretty good look at me too. It's no big deal for me to see a naked girl; I can just look at my reflection. And I have a better build too."
"Really Ranma," Ryu said as he felt disappointed in his brother. "Why do you say such stupid things? Can you at least say you're sorry before-" Ryu was interrupted as both he and his brother were hit in the head with the table thanks to Akane's anger, knocking them unconscious.
"Well Ranma had that coming, Ryu did not." Genma said as he was afraid of Akane a bit.
*Guest room*
Ryu and Ranma were both waking up about half an hour later regaining consciousness. "Oh thank kami, your awake. Are you two okay?" Kasumi asked as she and Nabiki were waiting to see if they would wake up. Ranma looked up to see they were in the guest room they are staying in. When Ryu looked up he saw that his head was on Nabiki's lap.
"Why is my head on your lap?" Ryu asked wondering why he was in this position.
"Because I wanted to take pictures of you in your sleep but Kasumi wouldn't let me." Nabiki replied as he got up to a sitting position.
"Only to make sure you don't do anything funny before marriage, you maybe 17 but you're not ready to do any of those actions yet." Kasumi told her as she made sure that the both of them were okay before leaving.
"See you later Mr. Fiancé." Nabiki told him as he began to be okay with her teasing nature.
"So," Ranma said out loud. "We both now have fiancés. Didn't think that would happen to us huh?"
"Yeah, you got that right. Dude, go take a bath you stink." Ryu told him as Ranma went to take a bath. Ryu sat alone in the room thinking about what the future may hold for them now. Both Ranma and Ryu are teenagers and they just met their fiancés today. He felt bad about Ranma because it may take him and Akane a while to become nicer to each other. Ryu felt that he may need to make sure Nabiki doesn't take things too far with her teasing, and what did Kasumi meant by pictures? It may take the new couples a while for them to get to know each other better.
After thinking about it for twenty minutes, Ranma came back from the baths once more with a red mark on his face in the shape of a hand print. "What the hell happened to you?"
"I got to the door where the bath was as Akane was about to leave, she bumped into me, we looked at each other for a while and she slapped me hard." Ranma told him about what happened.
"Damn, well that sucks." Ryu told him as he gathered his toiletries and his pajamas.
"Where are you going?" Ranma asked his brother.
"To take a bath myself, I need time to relax after what happened today." He told his brother as he left to take a bath.
When he arrived at the bath area, he noticed that there was no one in the changing area so he felt that the coast was clear. He got undressed and went to the bath tub when he saw the door open to reveal Nabiki in her birthday suit with a towel over her head. "GAH!" Ryu yelled as he tried to cover himself up and tried not to look at his fiancé.
"What's the problem Ryu?" Nabiki asked him, as she wrapped the towel around her body.
"What's the prob- you were naked and I saw you. Oh kami, you probably think I'm a pervert now." Ryu said as he still held his eyes shut. Nabiki saw how flustered he was and thought it was adorable.
"Oh come on now, were engaged now. You're gonna see me naked eventually so I just beat you to the punch big deal." Nabiki told him as he still didn't open his eyes. She then got a glint in her eye that got her smirking. "How about this then," She told him as he became curious as to what she was going to say. "You have my permission to see me in the nude if you promise me something in return."
"What do you mean by that?" Ryu asked her still covering his eyes.
"You see, I run a small business at school," Nabiki began to explain to him. "I take some pictures of people at the school and sell them to others. Mostly their pictures of some of the girls and we sell them to idiot boys. I want to take a few pictures of you in both human and dragon form." This shocked him as he wasn't sure about being okay with that. "Don't worry I don't do nude photos, mostly gravure. At the least you would only be left in your underwear those will be for the ladies only. For the dragon ones, those would just be for the fantasy geeks and those LARPer's that we have. Do we have a deal?"
"I-I don't know, maybe?" Ryu responded as he wasn't sure about it.
"That's fair, I just thought I could help boost your confidence so you won't be too afraid in a crowd when your curse activates." Nabiki told him as she walked past him
"Okay fine then, just let me choose which photos you can sell and can't." Ryu replied to her idea, if this would help him boost some self-esteem, then he should take it than.
"Great, I'll let you know when you can get ready." Nabiki told him as he opened his eyes to see that she wasn't in front of him. "Oh and Ryu," she said as he turned around and got a nose bleed as she flashed him her natural body. "Just a small taste of what's to come for you in the future." She told him as he hid his face as she got dressed and went to bed.
After she left, he went to the tub and drenched himself in cold water activating his curse. He had to take some deep breathes to calm himself down from what had happened. "Somehow I feel that things are going to get a whole lot crazier in my life." He said as he went to fill the tub with warm water to return him to human form and just enjoy the peace. Little does he and Ranma know however that their lives are going to get a bit more chaotic than they thought it would.
I know that somethings are different, I am trying to make the story a bit more modern, the series was set in the 80's so just trying to make things more relevant.
Ryu's character will try to be the voice of reason and he is one year older than Ranma. But we all know that in Ranma, no one listens to reason all the time.
Nabiki may seem a bit out of character, I tried to make her the same as she was in the series with a small change in her behavior towards someone she can generally be interested in relationship wise.
I hope everyone enjoyed the chapter.