You know the drill. I don't own anything that's not mine. Well duh.

Ashes To Ashes

Chapter 1

Prelude

Ranma finished putting all his clothes into his pack and threw it onto his back. He had enough supplies to last him for a month, and he was also going to be getting things along the way. He sat down at his desk and looked at his clock.

"Two thirty five. Good, I still have enough time to write these notes." He said quietly, not wanting to wake the sleeping panda next to him. He wrote on note and then folded it up and left it on his futon. When he finished writing the other note, he folded it up and slid it into an envelope labelled 'Akane' and walked out of his room.

"Well I won't be seeing this place for a long time." He said over his shoulder and walked to the living room and left the envelope on the table. He walked out onto the porch and turned to face the Tendo dojo one last time.

"Good riddance." And he left the gates.

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The next morning was absolute chaos. After frantically searching for Ranma, and after Genma failed to notice the note on his bed, they all gathered into the living room.

"I don't know where he could have gone off to, do you Saotome?" Soun said, obviously confused. Then Nabiki came running down the stairs.

"Daddy! Look at this! I found it on Ranma's bed!" Nabiki said catching her breath. Soun looked at the note and then at Genma. He opened it and read it out loud.

"Dear everyone,

I'm gone and I'm not coming back for as long as I can help it. I deleted all of Nabiki's files on me and most of the good people she has blackmail dirt on. Yeah take that Nabs. Don't even try to find me because you won't. I can hide from anyone, so don't even think about it Nabs. Sorry Kasumi, but I had to.

Sincerely, Ranma Saotome."

Soun started to cry. Kasumi put a hand to her cheek and sighed. Nabiki had a look of disbelief, and Akane just stood, staring at the note. Then she noticed an envelope with her name on it sitting on the table. She picked it up and opened it, then closed it. Everyone looked at her.

"It's from Ranma." She said.

"What's it say?" everyone asked.

"Nothing new." She said as she walked to her room. When she got inside she locked her door and lay down on her bed. Tears making their way down her cheek. She opened the letter and read it for real.

"I didn't want them to see me cry." She thought.

"Dear Akane,

Yes I have left you and I don't care at all how you feel now. I just want to tell you, that you have been the biggest bitch in the world to me, Akane. You never took the time to actually listen to me explain things in the entire three years that I have stayed here. And now I'm taking my final bows. Oh and another thing. I'm a fucking genius. All of you, even that slut Nabiki fell for my guise. I can run circles around her with my mental skills. I only played the dumb jock around all of you to read how you people work. Well guess what. You work like a beat up truck. I used to actually hold some care for you. But every time you hit me with that damn mallet of yours, a little piece of it went. Pretty soon I had no care for you at all, except maybe if you lived or died. I toyed with you just to see if I could piss you off. Man did it ever work. I can't believe how bent out of shape you got over the name tomboy. It's not an insult really, more of a description. I have to say that you are a very good looking girl, but you are also a maniacal psychopath. So here's where I take my leave. I just have three words left for you. Can you guess what they are? Fuck. You. Bitch.

Ranma.

P.S. I also left my REAL school marks in the envelope. Oh guess you didn't expect to see me already graduated university with a masters in graphic design now did ya?"

Akane put the note down in her lap and stared at the floor. She took the envelope and pulled another piece of paper out. It was Ranma's University marks. He had gotten his degree through a mail in course and scored a 1598 on is LSAT and had a 4.5 GPA.*

(* Daaaaaaaaamn!)

To be continued…

Authors notes:

Oh God that was great. I've always wanted Ranma to just get up and smack that uppity bitch every time I read stories like these. Not that I am for violence against women or anything, but I mean how could you NOT when some chick brains you with a fucking 100 pound (or more) mallet of death? So now I just wrote a cool one. Yeah so Ranma's taken off and is heading out into the world. He's smart. He's strong. He's sexy. He's also some what rich, which I will get into later. Where will he go now? Well that's easy. Jusenkyo! Then time for some dimension hopping with the help of the Nan Ban mirror he stole from Happosai. Yup, you guessed it. Ranma - Master of Time! Has a nice ring to it, huh?

Till next time.

Shine In The Storm Baby.