Braids of a Feather
By AlantisB
Disclaimer: I do not own GundamWing or Ranma1/2 in away but I wished I owned Duo!
A/N: Hello everyone! This is my first Ranma/GundamWing x-over so be gentle! This takes place in the Gundamverse after A.C 195 and before Endless Waltz. In the Ranmaverse, this takes place after Saffron and the failed wedding. Yes, the colonies do exist, but only Rich people can afford to live in space. (The Exception is L2, but that is where the extremely poor live who stowaways go to.) They still have their gundams! But they are hidden away in the desert in an underground base. Please read and review! ^.^ E-mail me to encourge me to continue if you want!
'..' Is thought!
".." Is talking!
OoOoOo means next scene! Its a scene breaker. My word program is messed up so I couldn't do stars or anything.
On With the story!
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The sun shined brightly against the blue sky, no clouds in sight and the birds chirped like music. They sung of happiness and goodness. All was right in the world.
"RANMA!!! GET BACK HERE YOU BAKA!!" yelled a short blue haired girl as she ran after a boy with a red, Chinese, long sleeved shirt. His short braided ponytail waved behind him as he sprinted down the sidewalk running from the girl.
"Nyaah! You can't catch me, you flat-chested, macho tomboy!" He gave her the red eye and smirked. He jumped up onto the fence and with practiced ease and grace from twelve years of martial arts training, ran down the inch-thick picked fence.
'Ring, Ring. Ring, ring!' A girl with purple hair and a very revealing Chinese dress landed on his head with a bike tire. She glomped him and hugged him tight holding Ranma's face in her chest. "Niaho Airen!! Take Shampoo on date now, yes?"
The blue haired girl fumed in anger and jealousy. "RANMA HOW DARE YOU FLIRT WITH THAT CHINESE HUSSY!"
Ranma groaned and tried to get out of Shampoo's glomp. "But A-Akane! Its not what it looks like!" He struggled to get out her grip, his eyes wide as he sees the giant mallet his fiancée pulled out. 'Some days, I hate my life.' He thought, watching the mallet come down on him.
Akane pounded Ranma into LEO. "RANMA NO BAKA!!"
"UNCUTE TOMBOOOOY!" He yelled down at her, his voice trailing off in the distance.
Akane huffed and glared at Shampoo before she put the mallet away and walked to the Tendo home. 'What a jerk. Flirting with that bimbo! Hentai!' She stomped into the house and changed out of her uniform.
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'SPLASH!'
Ranma-chan groaned and slowly climbed out of the fountain. She shook the water off herself and shivered. It was started to get real cold out. It was almost winter. 'Two years.' She thought. Two years since coming to the Tendo home and nothing has changed. The fighting still continued and all of his fiancées he had still tried to win him like a prize. The curse was still with him too. It almost made him laugh at the mess called his life. Almost being the key word.
She started to walk back to the Tendo home still thinking, which was rare, but needed badly. She missed her best friend. 'When was the last time I heard from him?' she thought depressed. 'Two years, right? Before I got to Japan. I wonder if he's even still alive.' He blinked back the tears. Damn this stupid curse form, it's too emotional! 'He's in the Colony Wars ain't he? I wonder if he even got my letter.'
Ranma lowered her head sadly. She remembered when she wrote that letter. Right after she was cursed, when Pop and him stopped in a nearby town for a short rest. That Chinese Amazon was still chasing them and she needed the rest badly, but she couldn't sleep. So, she wrote a letter. Before they had to leave town, she went to the post office and mailed it to him.
She slipped into the Tendo home unnoticed and went to the bathroom. She slowly took off her clothes, wincing at the bruises that were sure to form from the mallet strike. She kneeled down and washed herself off, shivering at the cold water before slipping into the hot tub. Her body tingled as the curse was reversed and he sighed and sank lower into the water, relaxing.
He smiled sadly, it was rare he got to relax without someone walking in on him or smashing through the walls to attack him. He missed it, being on the road. It was nice to have a place he could call home, but the freedom called to him. 'I need to fix my messed up life somehow.' He looked up at the ceiling. He wished someone could help him, someone who won't use this as a weakness, or have a alternative motive for helping. 'Aw, forget it Ranma! I got no one like that.' He got out the tub and dressed again.
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Kasumi walked out of the house to the mailbox and took out the mail. She smiled and looked through the mail. "Bill, bill, junk mail." She blinked in surprize at one letter. 'What's this? Ranma has gotten a letter? I should go give it to him.'
She cheerfully walked back into the house, slipping off her shoes at the door and hummed to herself as she brought the bills to Nabiki's room before heading back to the kitchen, Ranma's letter still in her hand. She passed Akane who was heading out to the dojo. She frowned inwardly at Akane's angry expression. 'Another fight again.' She thought, 'They really should get along.'
Ranma walked into the kitchen, grabbing an apple from the refrigerator. He bit into it and looked at Kasumi curiously. "What's that Kasumi?" He chewed the apple piece before swallowing. He gazed at the letter in her hand and continued to eat the apple.
Kasumi looked at Ranma and smiled sweetly. "A letter came in today for you Ranma. It doesn't have a return address." The letter was soon gone from her hand in a flash and she looked surprized at Ranma who was gazing at the letter excitedly.
"Thanks Kasumi!" He smiled at her and ran upstairs into his and Pops room. His feet not making too much noise in his excitement as jumped onto the bed, shutting the door behind him. He tore at the letter and brought out the one piece of paper inside. He opened it up and grinned as he recognized the sloppy handwriting.
'Dear Ran-chan,
Hey Buddy! Long time no see! Man, sorry it took so long to write back to ya but you wouldn't believe how much as happened in two years! I feel sorry for ya, you gettin that curse an' all must suck real bad. I can't believe some chick wants to kill ya just because you defeated her in battle. What a wacko!
Anyway, life has been good for me I guess. I've been movin from place to place, ya know? I got four new friends who helped fought in the war with me. There okay I guess but no one can replace you buddy!
There's Quatre, who is a real cheerful kinda guy with blond hair and blue-green eyes. Hes got this innocence that calls for everyone to trust him. Then there's Trowa, he's a real quiet kinda guy. He has the funniest hair I've seen! It covers over one of his eyes and I think he has a crush on Quatre. They both play music, Quatre does the violin and Trowa plays the flute. He works in the circus by the way; he's real flexible. Then there's Wufei. Boy can he not take a joke! He always yells about Justice and he is easy to annoy. He thinks all women are weak and not worth his time. The last guy is Heero who is nicknamed "The Perfect Soldier". He earns that name so well! I met him when I shot him twice in the arm, not my fault mind you, I didn't know we were on the same side. He a freak, super strong. He fell from a 40 foot building once and stayed alive. He set his own leg too, which broke from the fall, and didn't yell or anything! Weird huh?
As for me, well, I still joke and stuff but you know me. I'll never change! It's hard to stay cheerful for these guys; they don't appreciate all that I do for them. After the war ended, we stayed together for a bit. Then I left 'em. I wanted to go check out the colonies after the war. I headed to each colony movin around and watching the people.
I worked as a mechanic for some friends for a while before I got bored of it. I'm on L2, which is still pretty depressing. I visited the Maxwell Church, said hi to my old friends, Sister Helan, and Father Maxwell in the graveyard. Well the real reason I wrote to you after such a long time is, well, I'm thinking of headin to Earth. I bet you wonder how I got your address right? You ain't too hard to find old buddy, your in Martial Art magazines all in Japan, they got a comic book about ya. Did you know that? It's pretty good, I read it. But they made you real arrogant in the comic. Its called "Ranma1/2" you should read it sometime. It was written under a cover name, I found out who the real person was though. Some girl named Nabiki Tendo.
I'm sure you won't mind if I stop by right? Well if ya do your too late! I'll be there in a week so get ready for me! Shinigami is after ya!
Your friend,
Duo Maxwell'
Ranma put down the letter. He smirked a bit and folded it up, hiding it under the floorboards before stretching and climbed out the window. He jumped up onto the roof and looked up at the sky after he had laid down. He watched the birds flying around and grinned some. Nabiki wrote a comic book after his life? Figures, it was too much like a comedy manga anyway. He'll have to get cut in on the profits somehow; it was his life after all that she drew about.
He sighed. His friend was coming, Duo Maxwell. He wondered how Pop would take to this guy? He grinned. Pops didn't like him too much after Duo stole his food. 'Watch out Nerima!' he thought. 'Shinigami is coming.'
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Two Days Later
Duo grinned as he stepped off of the spaceport and picked up his backpack. He whistled cheerfully as he walked out the port and down the street. His braid swung back and forth to the beat that was playing in his headphones. He wore black Kong-fu pants, slippers, and a black Chinese shirt. He figured since it had been a while since he practiced the art, he might as well look the part. 'Ran-chan would be disappointed if I got rusty on him! Heh. But all those sparring matches with Wu-man paid off. I haven't lost my touch.' He grinned at the thought and sat on the bench at the bus stop.
He remembered how shocked Wufei had been when he walked in on Duo who was practicing in the yard away from everyone. It was funny, Wufei looked like he was about to have a heart attack. He offered to spar with him, and they hit it off. They've been pretty close since then and became good friends. He made Wufei promise not to tell anyone he practiced martial arts, he wanted to it to be there secret. He smiled at the memories.
He took out a map and traced the way he had to go with his finger. It would take him four days to get to Nerima by bus and walking, one day to get to his actual house. His violet eyes twinkled in delight. He would get to see his best friend after two years again! This could be fun! 'And maybe,' he thought. 'He'll come live with me after its time to leave!'
Duo missed Ranma, it was like a part of him was missing when they weren't together. When he was together with Heero, he had hoped the hole in his heart would go away. But it never did. The breakup hit him hard, but he knew Heero just didn't love him that way. And neither did he.
He frowned. He couldn't like his best friend Ranma like that! It would ruin the whole friendship. Besides, Ranma was as straight as a line. He doesn't go for guys. Duo might scare him off if Ranma ever found out he goes both ways. He wiped the frown of his face and chuckled as his favorite song came on and waited for the bus.
The public bus stopped in front of the bench and the automatic door opened. Duo got up and grabbed his backpack. He climbed into the bus and paid the driver. He headed to the back of the bus and sat down alone where no one would bother him. He shifted around until he got comfortable on the old seat and looked out the window at the city as the bus passed through it. The sun slowly was going down, Duo could see, and that it was getting colder outside. He could see peoples' breath outside coming out their mouths in white puffs of moisture.
He grinned and made obscene facial expressions at the people in the cars passing them. He chuckled when one guy flipped him off. He sat back and relaxed in the seat. He yawned and turned his music down and folded his arms. He closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep from the comfortable rhythm the motors of the bus.
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"Ranma."
Ranma looked over at Nabiki who was holding an envelope in one hand. He gulped as he recognized Duo's handwriting. That was Duo's envelope! He must've forgotten to put it with the letter under the floorboard. Great, now Nabiki will be on his case.
"Y-Yes Nabiki?" He looked at her nervously, wondering what she was thinking about.
Nabiki smiled a predatory smile and looked Ranma in the eyes. She loved how she could bring this martial artist to his knees with a little bit of blackmail. Having that kind of power over him made her feel like a million yen.
"Who was this letter from, Ranma? In fact, who would write to you? And," she smiled a bit evilly. "Why did you hide it from me?"
He narrowed his eyes. He just remembered about all that money Nabiki hid from him and he smiled coolly. "I'm not the only one who was hiding something, Nabiki."
Nabiki looked at him coldly. "What all you talking about?"
Ranma smirked and through a book at her and by reflex, Nabiki caught it. She looked at the cover and her eyes widened a bit as she saw "Ranma1/2" written and she narrowed them and looked back at him. He layed back on the couch and looked at her. "Nice touch Nabiki, selling the story of my life in the form of a comic book. Since it IS my life you drew about, I get cut on the profits." He held out his hand. "I read up on how much the comic was making, You owe me 70% of all profits earned on the comic. I want my share."
Nabiki looked at him. 'Since when has he gotten this smart? Who told about it anyway? Hm.' She thought to herself. "Alright Saotome. You've made a point."
He stood up and walked past her toward the dojo. "Good to know! I don't want to money now, but when I do you better pay up Tendo." He grinned when Nabiki couldn't see and he walked out the house.
Nabiki fumed in anger. No one got the best of her! Especially Ranma! She blinked in surprize for a moment. 'He never answered my question.'
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Ranma smirked and practiced his kata. He got the best of Nabiki! The look on her face was priceless. He should have took her camara and snap a picture. He lost himself in the kata and went through his form of meditation, nothing could get through to him in this state of mind. He was finally getting the upper hand for some of his life and he felt wonderful. The best part was, his friend would be here soon.
He couldn't wait.
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