Ranma ½ Red, Violet and Black

Author notes: Warning this fanfiction contains involuntary changing of genders (as is normal for the Ranma franchise), some violence (as is normal for the Ranma franchise), attempted rape (in the first chapter) and also lesbian interactions and eventually also a lesbian relationship with female Ranma and another other girl. Either Shampoo or Kodachi, I'm still quite uncertain with which of these two I want to go with. So as usual if you do not like to read about any of these I cannot recommend reading this fanfiction. If you do read it, I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1

Ranma Saotome sighed heavily as she kicked a stone out of her way. The currently female teenager wasn't having a very good day today. First his father Genma had caught him off guard in their usual morning sparring session, which lead to him getting knocked into the Tendo's koi pond. As a result, the cursed martial artist had to first change back into boy and then also had to change his, now thoroughly soaked, clothes before heading off to school. Naturally Genma was constantly nagging him about how ashamed he was about his wimp of a son.

Due to this holdup Ranma was almost late for school, but did manage to make it on time. This fooled him into thinking that maybe this day wasn't going to be too bad after all at first. He was however promptly proven wrong when Shampoo came barging into his classroom during the first break. To be fair, Shampoo actually was meaning well and only wanted to surprise her reluctant fiancé with some home cooked food. Unfortunately for said fiancé this sent Akane flying into a fit of her usual uncontrollable rage which she promptly vented on Ranma by hitting him over the head his own desk.

While the rest of the school day went by fairly uneventful trouble soon started up again at the Tendo residence. To Ranma's chagrin Ryoga, or rather P-Chan, had returned once more. While Akane wasn't in the same room the martial artist turned pet pig attacked Ranma for a snide remark the latter had made. After Ranma had successfully removed the angry piglet from his now scratched face the young Saotome was preparing to send his rival turned pig flying. Unfortunately for him Akane choose this exact time to enter the room and immediately hit her fiancé again for "picking on P-Chan". The following argument escalated further and further until it eventually ended with Akane literally kicking Ranma out of the Tendo dojo and yelling after him to not come back.

The pigtailed martial artist had decided that it was probably the best course of action to listen to Akane and wait for her to calm down a bit before returning back home. And then as if the universe itself was out to get him, a short but very sudden downpour drenched the teenager before he, or rather she now, could find a shelter from the rain. At least the rain only lasted for a few minutes and soon enough the evening sky was devoid of any clouds again.

So now the redheaded girl was sullenly walking down the streets of Nerima while grumbling to herself: "Stupid tomboy. Why does she always have to hit me? It's not my fault that Shampoo brings me food. And how has she still not figured out that Ryoga is P-Chan? I dropped so many hints."

Ranma was just pondering what to do when she suddenly heard someone wolf whistle, followed by someone calling: "Hey baby. Yes, you with the red hair. What is a sexy lady like you doing all alone on a beautiful evening like this?" As she looked up Ranma saw three boys, maybe one to three years older than herself, walking towards her. All of them could probably be considered to be somewhat handsome and were flashing her their most suave smiles, which might have actually seemed charming to a girl that had any actual interest in boys. The redhead was completely unimpressed though, her face on the contrary scrunching up in annoyance and distaste.

Oh great, on top of everything else now some dudes were hitting on her. As the trio strode up to her she brusquely answered them: "None of your business."

One of the boys, a rather tall and athletic, brown haired one who seemed to be some sort of leader, just tried to give her another winning smile and replied: "Hey now cute girl, no need to be rude. Me and my two friends here are planning to get a drink somewhere and have a good time. Want to tag along? First round is on me. Come on, we could have some fun together." After saying that the guy tried his best to look seductive, which again might have actually succeeded at charming an ordinary heterosexual girl.

However, the currently red haired heir of the Saotome school of martial arts was entirely unfazed by it. Well maybe unfazed was the wrong word, since she was rather actively annoyed and put off.

"No thanks. Not interested in whatever fun you guys have planned whatsoever. Now excuse me," Ranma retorted while making a dismissive hand gesture. Then she continued walking, opting to leave her unwelcome suitors just standing. Sadly, the three teenagers proved to be stubborn and unwilling to take a hint.

They started walking after her with some difficulty since the redhead was walking quite fast. One of them, a rather muscular broad one with short black hair, tried again: "Oh don't be shy girl. You just got to party sometimes in life."

"Exactly," agreed the leader: "Don't you want to have a good time? Just wait for a second." During that last part he reached out and grabbed Ranma's left arm in order to try make her stop. The pig tailed girl abruptly came to a halt.

Suppressing her anger and rising desire to just beat these stubborn fools into pulps she turned around to look the boy holding her arm in the eyes: "I said, I'm not interested. Now let go of my arm. Right now you stupid jerk."

The face of her counterpart darkened with anger: "How dare you speak to me like that? Do you think you are too good for us you arrogant bitch?" His grip around Ranma's arm tightened to a degree that would have been painful to a normal person. Too bad for him that the teenage girl was far from an ordinary person. It was over in less than a second.

First Ranma yanked her hand out of his grip with ease due to her superhuman strength. Right afterwards she delivered a powerful punch to his gut, that knocked all air out of his lungs. He groaned in pain while slowly sinking down to the floor and rolling up in a whimpering ball. Meanwhile Ranma glared at his two companions.

"Anyone else who wants to try me?" She challenged them while cracking her knuckles. They both paled and quickly shook their head. "Good. I'll be going then," said the redhead satisfied and then stomped away fuming. "Stupid jerks. This day just sucks," the martial artist grumbled while she took up her aimless wandering of the streets again.

After a while she decided that maybe Akane had already had enough time to calm down again. The sun had almost completely set and the streets were starting to empty. Ranma should probably return to the Tendo's anyway. If Akane was still mad her she could always find refugee on the rooftop of the dojo. Deciding on that course of action the pigtailed girl started to make her way back. That lasted until she saw something that made her reconsider spontaneously. Namely an ice cream stand, which brought out her inner sweet tooth.

The young martial artist walked up to the elderly ice cream vendor and asked: "Could I have a big ice cream cone with two scoops of strawberry and one scoop of chocolate?"

The vendor smiled at her and replied: "I was just about to close shop for today, but for a cute girl like you I'll make an exception."

"Thanks!" Beamed Ranma and tried her best to look extra cute. Hey, from time to time curse did come in handy. Why not benefit from that?

"That would be three hundred yen." The vendor said friendlily. The redhead nodded and shoved her hand in her pockets in order to grab her money, only to pause in shock. Her pockets were empty. Damn it, she had been in too much of a hurry this morning to think of taking her money with her. This was awkward.

Embarrassed the pigtailed girl started to stammer an apology, when all of a sudden a familiar voice rang out: "We'll pay for the ice cream."

Ranma's head snapped around and spotted the three guy s from earlier. They walked over to the read haired girl and the ice cream stand and one of them handed the shrugging vendor three hundred yen, while Ranma glared at the leader of the three boys.

"Didn't I make myself clear enough yet?" She asked threateningly.

Her counterpart scratched the back of his head in a self-conscious way and then answered in an apologetic tone: "Well, yes. You did make yourself very clear. We don't want to bother you anymore. But when I just saw you again I felt the need to apologize for my earlier behavior." The redhead blinked in complete bafflement. Someone apologizing? To her? That was something new. Usually she was the one who had to apologize. Not without reason most of the times but even when she hadn't done anything wrong it was often her that somehow ended up apologizing.

"Back then… well, suffice to say that I behaved very shamefully. I'm sorry. I should have taken the hint much sooner. Sorry again for bothering you." The brown haired boy continued. Meanwhile the ice cream vendor handed the ordered ice cream cone over to the boy that had paid him. While Ranma was still listening to the leader's apology and the vendor was busy putting the money away the teen quickly pulled out a small vial and emptied its contents over the ice cream.

Ranma in the meantime got over the surprise of someone actually apologizing to her and retorted: "Uhm… okay. Apology accepted. And to think I already thought you three were complete jerks."

The leader of the trio laughed while looking extremely bashful again: "I honestly can't fault you for that. Our, especially my own, behavior was utterly unacceptable. Please, in order to make amends I'd like to cover the expenses for your ice cream." At this moment the boy that was holding the ice cream handed it over to Ranma.

The young martial artist took it gleefully and said: "Oh well, if you insist. Thanks, and no hard feelings."

"You are very kind. Have a nice evening." Came the reply, while Ranma was already walking off, waving back at them.

"Looks like something is finally going right for me today after all." The redhead was stating to herself and then took the first lick of her ice cream. She had no idea just how wrong she was about that.

By now the sun had fully disappeared from the sky and the stars were starting to come out. The streets on the other hand were, Ranma herself aside, practically deserted. The young material artist was just taking a shortcut through a dark back alley while happily devouring her ice cream cone when she started to feel somewhat weird. All of a sudden her vision became blurry. She blinked a few times, to no avail. Then to make matters worse she suddenly felt very unsteady on her legs. It was as if something was sapping all of her strength out of her, not unlike being hit by Hinako's Ki draining attack. In horror she felt her legs starting to tremble and stumbled a few steps forward with shaky steps. During this the rest of the ice cream fell to the ground, not that Ranma particularly cared anymore. She had more pressing problems right now. Her head felt groggier every second and she could barely stay upright due to her sudden weakness.

Desperately she leaned against a wall in order to stay upright. "Wh… what is happening?" She managed to stutter out. That was when she heard malicious laughter behind her. The pigtailed martial artist slowly turned around and saw three blurry human shapes approaching. After some effort to somewhat clear her vision she could eventually make them out better. It was the same trio of boys she had already met twice today.

One of them laughed again and asked in a mocking tone: "Oh my, you look kind of pale baby. Are you not feeling alright?"

A second one chimed in: "He's right. You don't look to healthy. You should consider eating less ice cream. It's bad for you."

"What… is going on?... What… have you jerks… done to me? I swear… yo… you'll regret this." Ranma sneered at the trio. Or at least tried to sneer. However, her voice came out way shakier than intended.

The three laughed again as they closed in on her. Next their leader spoke up: "You know, I really don't appreciate being punched in the guts, you stupid bitch. Let's see how you like it." The red haired girl tried to react but whatever they had mixed into her ice cream had sapped her of all strength and made her move sluggish even by normal standards. The leader of the trio slammed his fist into her stomach with full force. It hurt a lot more than it should. Normally Ranma would easily take a punch from a normal human without much problem. But right now it was enough to make her cry out in pain and make her loose her balance. The martial artist fell to the ground and due to her drugged out state only barely managed to catch her fall and prevent her face from slamming full force into the concrete of the street.

Desperately she tried to regain some strength and get up but it was in vain.

Over her the three boys leered down at her sadistically. "Oh look, now you are exactly where you belong bitch. In the dirt at our feet." Proclaimed the leader.

"Shut… up… you creep." Ranma managed to spit out.

"Still so haughty? Well, I'm sure that will change soon enough." Came the reply. The leader gave a nod to the muscular one of his companions. The latter grabbed the redheaded girl by her pigtail and brutally yanked her to her feet again. Ranma yelled out in pain until he slammed her face first against a wall. Now both of the leader's friends each took hold of one of her arms and held her constrained tightly against said wall.

"Let me go." The martial artist demanded and feebly struggled with little effect. They ignored her and their leader stepped up behind her.

With a lecherous grin he grabbed the poor girl's ass and gave it a rough squeeze. Now, Ranma had often enough already endured similar things by both Happosai and Tatewaki Kuno. However, that didn't make it any less revolting for her. What made it even worse was that she wasn't in any position to fight back right now. The young martial artist felt like vomiting and redoubled her efforts to free herself. Sadly, they were still unsuccessful. The iron grip of her captors didn't loosen at all. By now Ranma was slowly starting to panic. She cried out: "Hey, stop that you pervert."

"And what will you do if I don't, bitch?" Came the mocking reply. Then her tormentor took hold of her pants and pulled them down beneath her knees.

The guy holding her left arm laughed lewdly: "Hey, look the little tart is wearing boxer shorts. Do those belong to your boyfriend? What a little slut." The others joined in on cruelly mocking their victim, while the one behind Ranma pulled down her boxer short as well. Now Ranma was definitely panicking.

"No! Stop. Stop that." She cried with all the currently limited strength of voice she could muster.

"Oh no. I don't even think of doing that." Whispered the leader of the trio in her ear with sadistic glee, while he started to grope the unfortunate redhead's now completely naked ass again: "On the contrary you stupid cunt. I'm going to have some fun with you now. Then my friends will have some more fun with you and then we'll see if I want to have even more fun with you afterwards. How does that sound, you dumb slut?"

Ranma tried everything in her might to break free. She struggled as much as she could, but whatever they had intoxicated her with made it impossible to put up much of a fight. Tears of shame, helplessness and pure terror were starting to stream down her face.

"No. Please stop. Please…" The young redhead was whimpering in fear, her usual bravado forgotten in face of the nightmarish situation. The only response was laughter and the sound of a belt being opened. Once more the pig tailed martial artist begged: "Please no."

Then all of a sudden a very familiar voice rang through the alley: "Didn't you filthy commoners hear the girl? She clearly said no." Surprised the three would-be rapists turned around. Rama, praying for the best, managed to turn her head around to see the newcomer. It was no one else than Kodachi Kuno in her usual green Leotard, her ribbon twirling in her right hand.

The leader of Ranma's assaulters, who by now had his semi erect junk hanging out from his pants sneered at the black haired girl and mockingly asked: "What? Do you want to join her girly?"

That was his biggest mistake yet that night. With a disgusted noise Kodachi dashed forwards and kicked him directly in his exposed groin with full force. The wannabe rapist howled in pure pain and fell to the ground, rolling up into a whimpering ball. His two goons reacted to this immediately. They let their redhead victim fall to the floor and attacked Kodachi with their fists. Being quite a competent martial artist herself, even though she was often overshadowed by Ranma and her more competent enemies, easily dodged their punches and effortlessly danced a few steps back. Then with a flick of her wrist her ribbon snapped forwards and ensnared the right leg of one of the guys. He could only look down in confusion before the black haired girl pulled on the ribbon, yanking his foot away from beneath him. With a mangled shriek he toppled over and hit his head hard on the pavement of the alleyway which knocked him out cold. The second boy, either due to bravery or more likely stupidity, continued pressing his own attack. He aimed a heavy blow with his fist at Kodachi's face. Almost nonchalantly she sidestepped the attack, grabbed his arm and then with a swift motion twisted it around.

A sickening snap could be heard and the would-be rapist screamed out in as his arm broke. Kodachi's face twisted into an unnerving slasher smile and she gave him a light kick in the back, which sent him stumbling headfirst into a wall. Combined with the pain from his injured arm that resulted in his unconsciousness. With a satisfied grin the self-proclaimed Black Rose of St. Hebereke's school for girls turned her attention back to the leader of the trio, who was still whimpering on the floor.

He paled as her gaze fell on him. "Have mercy." He pleaded feebly.

Kodachi let out her trademark insane laughter and replied: "The Black Rose shows no mercy to filth like you."

In a fluid motion the young noblewoman delivered a series of further increasingly hard kicks to the would-be rapist's groin which resulted in more squeals of agony with increasingly higher frequency on his side. After the girl finally had enough of that another kick to his head finally knocked him out. Having singlehandedly massacred all of her opponents Kodachi sniffed haughtily and turned her attention to Ranma.

The drugged out boy turned girl had managed to get herself in some sort of sitting position. However, she still wasn't faring to well as she could barely muster the strength to stay conscious. Warily she glanced at Kodachi. While Ranma was immensely relieved that she had been saved from her assailants, the Black Rose was, to be blunt, not the most stable individual and sometimes prone to fits of craziness or violence. Furthermore, Kodachi, unaware of Ranma's curse, for some reason thought of Ranma's girl-form as a rival for the male Ranma's affection. As a consequence, the redhead feared that the Kuno girl might do something unpleasant and painful to her right now. As Kodachi was kneeling down next to her Ranma was mentally preparing for the worst. But to her great surprise Kodachi didn't attack her, or did anything nasty at all. Instead the black haired girl simply asked: "Hey peasant girl, are you alright?"

The pure surprise of this combined with the drug effects and the stress caused on Ranma's psyche by this whole ordeal just were too much for the pig tailed martial artist and she promptly lost her battle to stay conscious.

Further author notes: So with this Chapter one is done. I have to admit that I haven't watched the anime or red the manga in some time. So I'm not entirely certain if I managed to replicate the character's personalities too well. Anyways as said this will end up being a Ranma X [either Shampoo or Kodachi, maybe both?] fic. Not because I dislike the other girls or anything, but mostly because there are more Akane X Ranma fics than anything else and I want to write for a less represented couple. Also poor Ukyo got randomly picked for not being considered due to the fact that I don't want to spend time on developing Ranma's relationship with three suitors. If you actually liked this to my own surprise, expect chapter 2 to be up within the next 24 hours, since I've almost finished it. So, if you have read this until here, thank you and I hope you liked it.