Sonic: Yo everyone Sonic the hedgehog here, along with Knuckles the Echidna and Shadow the Hedgehog. Were here to give you the low down on some things and to introduce this fic. However first we need to get one thing out of the way.
Shadow: Ugh… I'll do it, you're not smart enough. Disclaimer: The Author of this fic does not own Ranma ½, Tenchi Muyo, Negima, or any of the other series that appear in this fic. They belong to their respective owners and authors.
Knuckles:Good now lets get this show on the road.
Sonic:He did not seriously just say that did he.
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WTH: Diamond And Pearl
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Chapter 1: Huh
Smoke rose from the fire as the flames continued to burn brightly. The pieces of wood feeding the fire were moved gently as they were poked lightly by a twig. The wielder of the twig was sitting in front of the fire was gently staring into it thinking about his life so far and how far he had come.
"Haaaaah…So this is where I end up in my life. Sitting in front of a fire when I should be training." Said the owner of the voice annoyed. The owner of the voice as it turned out was none other than Ranma Saotome.
Ranma Saotome who is he? He is the greatest martial artist ever. He's mastered multiple martial arts techniques and styles, and he has managed to defeat a massive congo line of challengers and villans finally ending with a demi-god. Of course with these accomplishments he's also managed to get more than his fair share of problems. He has to deal with four fiancées (that he knows of), numerous alienated love rivals, deal with his fathers massive amount of debt that he accumulated under his name, be a man among men or commit seppuku for his mother, and deal with the complications of having a water based curse that causes him to turn into a girl with cold water but back into a guy with hot water, and terrible bad luck. Any of these things separately would be enough to drive any normal man crazy but Ranma had to deal with all of them, but if you asked him if it bother him any he'd tell you of course not after all he was Ranma Saotome martial artist extraordinaire, and to a man among men like him all of this stuff was child's play, with a cocky smirk on his face and brimming with confidence.
So now one must be wondering why in the world would a martial artist like Ranma would be out in the wilderness training for, a big challenge at the dojo he was living at, to beat a dojo destroyer, or learn a new technique. In truth it wasn't for any of those things. Lately he had been feeling off of his game. He never lost though, after all he was Ranma Saotome and he never loses, but he just wasn't feeling like him self these days. He reasoned that it must have been the failed wedding but that just didn't feel like it was the source of the problem he was having. Of course it might have been the because of the weird dreams that he had be having and the strange power that he discovered with in himself which had actually created a circular connection. When ever he felt or tried to use the power, he thought about the dreams, which caused him to feel more of the power with in himself, which caused him to think more about the dreams and feel more of the power that he felt and so on, it was very disturbing to him, especially when what happened in the dreams felt like it was the way things were supposed to be. Or it could be because of either Ryoga, Kuno, Mousse, or some other rival was out to get him and had done some thing to him with out his knowledge. Of course when he thought of this he immediately decided to rule out the first possibility, it was just way to weird even for him.
As he sat there thinking about what might be wrong with him and why it might be wrong his thoughts drifted to earlier that day the events that had led him to be there.
---Earlier that day---
Ranma was sleeping, dreaming of new techniques that he could learn, fighting strong rivals being free of any promises the his dad had made for him and being free of the damn jusenko curse, and not having to deal with any of those love rivals as well, and having a heartfelt moment with his mother. Of course for him as soon as the dream began to feel safe and comfortable, the weird feeling had returned. He had begun to become accustomed to it, he knew that the feeling signaled the change of his dream into the weird and unknown. He closed his eyes in his dream hoping that it would make the weirdness that would happen to his dream go away. When he opened his eyes he knew he had failed as he looked at his dream once again, the challenges, the rivals, and his mother were gone. Instead he found himself inside a field looking at one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen and a young child that was with her.
The woman had silver hair, and beautiful platinum colored eyes. On her fore head she had a platinum thirteen point star which was surrounded by a ruby, sapphire, emerald, golden, sliver, crystal, and diamond and pearl jewels on her forehead. She was wearing a long sapphire blue dress, with ruby colored lines weaving them in intricate designs and patterns, while emeralds dotted the dress. The middle consisted of a silver obi with golden lines drawn across it, with crystals woven into the obi in an very beautiful pattern. The top of her beautiful garment consisted of something akin to a sleeveless vest in the center with the cloth was drawn over her very generous bosom in a crisscross fashion, while her arms were covered in a way that was similar to a kimono, but all of the top was diamond with pearls going around in beautiful fashions.
All of this made her beautiful, especially with her figure, if she had been seen by a man she probably would be considered a goddess, or possibly something even more beautiful. But while all of those things would garter her attention the aspect of her that would most likely draw peoples stares were the small pair of wings on her back, they were beautiful and shifted between emerald, sapphire, ruby, infact they shifted through all of the colors in a beautiful array. She was sitting down in the grass carrying a two babies close to her, the babies were young and didn't have a lot of distinguishing features but one thing that stood out was the star shaped fiery red jewel on the lefts forehead, while there was a sparkling blue jewel on the right baby's forehead. While the woman was nursing and taking care of the babies, a young girl, probably in her early teens came up to her. The girl was wearing a was wearing a sapphire colored top with ruby colored sides, it had a zipper that only went down to the middle of it which was unzipped, The top clung to her figure showing that while she was a child she was very well developed for her age. The bottom of her outfit had a short skirt with the same color scheme as her top, and had a pair of onyx shorts coming down to just above her knees. The end of her outfit consisted of two shoe like dark sapphire slippers, and just like the woman next to her she had a jewel on her forehead, but unlike the woman next to her, who Ranma assumed was her mother, her jewel was a shining ruby color. Then three more children came, one was a girl who was the same age as the girl he had just seen and whom Ranma assumed was her sister, the next two children were girls who looked who looked to be about the same age, of about five maybe six years old. Like their mother and sister they also had jewels on their forehead, but unlike their two other family members they had on only long shirts. The two girls had a diamond and pearl on their for heads respectively. While they all interested Ranma for some reason unknown to him it was the young girl with the diamond on her head that caught Ranma's attention, as she did something none of the other people in the dream did, she walked right up to him, followed by the young girl with the pearl on her head, as if they could see him and interact with him.
As they got closer to him the dream seemed to dissolve leaving a lightly lit darkness with only him and the young girls and as the young girl with the diamond proceeded to try and talk to him he heard Akanes voice, saying his name, come from the girl with the pearl on her forehead. "ranma…Ranma…RANma…RANMA WAKE UP YOU BAKA!!!"
"Jeez, Akane, can you keep it down I'm trying to get some sleep." Said Ranma annoyed.
"Well FINE THEN! You can just be late for all I care. Baka." Akane said angrily.
"Wait, we have class, OH CRAP!!" Ranma yelled as he jumped out of his futon. He quickly ran and put on a couple of his favorite clothes. Running down the stairs quickly grabbing a piece of toast.
"Thanks for the toast Kasumi." Ranma said as he ran out the door and hoped onto the nearby fence speeding down the street.
"Crap, crap, Crap" Ranma said while running down the street on the fence. In truth he didn't really care about being late, he just really didn't want to get his chi drained from him by ms. Hinako.
"Oh look at Ranma running off." Said Kasumi with a smile on her face.
"Yes, it fills me with joy to see my little girl on her way." Said Soun with tears on her face.
"Right, Tendo." Said Genma.
Unknown to them Kasumi's smile soon disappeared and was replaced with a look of deep concentration. Akane had turned seventeen last week and now that she and her sisters were all over sixteen she was going to have to tell them the truth. 'Well at least we'll finally be able to see mother again after such a long time.' Kasumi thought her smile returning to her face.
----Noon----
Ranma was worried. It was noon and he hadn't been sent flying by Akane, neither had he been harassed by Ukyo or Kodachi trying to get his affections, but that might be due to the fact that they were out sick today, and he hadn't seen any of his rivals, even Kuno had been out sick. All in all, these specific things allowed him to have a very good morning. Which is why Ranma was so worried. Good things just don't happen to him, good things happening to him meant that soon something very bad that would probably change his life forever was about to happen, so it was understandable that he was beginning to get paranoid
'Okay, Ranma just stay clam, just because nothing bad has happened to you doesn't mean anything, this could be a good day, after all, with all the crap I usually put up with I deserve one.' Ranma thought with confidence as his previous paranoia began to disappear.
Unfortunately as soon as he thought those words in his mind, Murphy's law decided to make itself known as Shampoo showed up.
"Nihao, Husband, Shampoo come to bring lunch." Shampoo said happily, on her bicycle after crashing through the school wall. After she got off of her bicycle she walked up to Ranma and gave him the food that she had made.
"Uh…Yeah…hi Shampoo." Said Ranma a bit relieved and at the same time annoyed, as he took Shampoos lunch, since he had forgotten his when he had rushed out the door to get to class.
"So Husband take Shampoo out on date today? " Asked Shampoo hopefully.
"Huh, what… uh, yeah whatever Shampoo, just let me eat." Said Ranma as he began to dig into the ramen Shampoo had brought him not really caring if she had drugged it as he was far to hungry.
"YAY!!!" Shampoo squealed as she jumped up and down happily.
"Ranma, what did you do to make Shampoo so happy?" Akane asked as she walked next to him.
"Huh…wha..-"
"Husband say he go on date with Shampoo today." Shampoo said interrupting Ranma as he continued to eat.
"You did what?!?!" Yelled Akane.
"Huh…what Akane?" Asked Ranma still focusing on his food.
"You said you were going to go on a date with Shampoo after school today, are you?" Asked Akane getting angry.
"Huh…uh, yeah whatever Akane." Said Ranma finishing up his food.
Only as he finished eating his food, did he finally take in his surroundings and saw Akane, Aura glowing a dark red.
"Rrrrrrrrraaaaaannnnnnmmmmaaaaa…" Akane said slowly.
Ranma was wondering what he had done now, as Akane loomed over him, still glowing a dark red.
'Crap, crap, crap, crap…' the word repeated itself in his head as he wondered what he had done to get Akane angry at him now. Just then he felt something latch onto his arm. When he looked he saw the reason and immediately knew that he was about to be sent flying on a free one way trip courtesy of Akane air lines. As Akane prepared to send him into LEO(Low Earth Orbit) He couldn't help but notice that something was different about her aura. It didn't seem weak or anything, in fact it seemed to be even stronger, if this told him anything it meant that he was going to be flying far when she hit him. 'Oh great, just great, well at least things are back to normal, or what ever passes for normal is this loony bin.' He thought, just as she hit him and sent him flying far into the sky.
"You idiot." Akane said angrily as she walked away. Leaving Shampoo to fume angrily. "Stupid pervert girl send husband away."
----With Ranma----
'Okay, what the heck did I do now, I mean all I did was eat some food from Shampoo, I mean I didn't even do anything. Jeez uncute stupid tomboy.' Ranma thought as he continued to fly over Nerima. 'Uhhh… ok, something's wrong here I mean I know she's strong but this is ridiculous. I've been flying for how long ?' He wondered he then decided to look downward. What he saw wasn't Nerima but forest and hills.
"Okay!!! What the HELL!?!?!" Ranma said out loud. "There is no way in hell that she could be that strong, I mean she's strong for a girl but not this strong, this is insane."
As he continued to look down something caught his eye, suddenly he saw a bright flash and then a crater.
'What the heck was that? Well what ever it was it had to be powerful, I can still feel all the power in it.' He thought.
Fortunately or unfortunately for Ranma, he began to descend and was headed straight into the crater.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"CRASH
"Hmmm…" The man said.
"Dammit, I freaking hate landing when she hits me." Said Ranma
"Excuse me young man but who are you ?" The man said.
It was at this point that Ranma got a good look at the man. He looked old but was still in good shape he had shaggy grey hair on his head which was pulled in to a light ponytail in the back of his head, with a small beard on his face also grey. His clothing consisted of sleeveless white karate gi. The gi seemed to be in tatters which seemed to be a testament to the amount of training the man did.
"Me, I'm Ranma Saotome sorry about this." Ranma said as he got up from the fall.
"Hmm… yes and I am Gouken. So young man may I ask how you got here."
"Well ya see it's all the tomboys fault, I was just eating some food and she comes and smacks me
all the way here." Said Ranma
"Hmmm, that's quite interesting how did you ever become acquainted with a girl like that ?"
Gouken asked.
"Well ya'see it all goes back to my training…" Ranma said as he proceeded to tell Gouken of his story. Telling Gouken of the adventures he's had, the people he's met, gaining curses and rivals, getting a multitude of fiancées, and the events that led him here from his point of view.
"Hmmm…he heh heh ha ha ha ha." Gouken laughed out loud.
"HEY!! What the heck's so funny ?" Ranma asked angrily.
"Oh it's just that well, your life seems more like some twisted fairy tale." Gouken said while still laughing.
"WHAT!!! You mean you don't believe me ?" Ranma yelled getting angrier.
"Oh no no no… It just sounds so unbelievable, but then again they say that the truth is stranger than fiction." Said Gouken still laughing.
"What ?" Ggrrrr "Don't mock me." Ranma said.
"No really, I know one of your friends." Said Gouken calming down.
Tch "Yeah right." Ranma said not believing Gouken.
"Hmmm…well I guess I wouldn't call him a friend of yours but I do know him."
"Yeah whatever." Said Ranma still not believing him.
"I believe you know him as Happosai." Said Gouken.
"What! You know the old perv how ?" Said Ranma shocked.
"How do I know him, well I was the one who trained him." Stroking his chin and beard.
"What ?!?! You're joking right I mean there's no way you could have trained him, I mean he's older than you." Ranma said.
"Hmmm, well I guess I would look better than him, of course then again I didn't go and upset monks by stealing their valuables and fondling priestesses." Gouken said, with a light smile on his face.
"Yeah…I wouldn't put it past him. The old freak has probably caused more trouble and problems than he lets on." Ranma said, scratching the back of his head, as he remembered his dealings with Ms. Hinako, Taro, and all the pranks Happosai pulled when he was angry. "Jeez, I freaking hate dealing with that chi vampire."
"Hmmm… chi vampire, you mean the Happogoensatsu techniques ?" Gouken asked.
"Yeah, that's it. I freaking hate dealing with it, how'd you know its name ?" Ranma said.
Sigh. "Haven't you been listening, Happosai's the creator of that technique, and I taught him so of course I would know about it, it was even one of the moves that he used when he fought me to prove his mastery. It was a good move but I managed to beat it." Said Gouken tiredly.
"Wait, you mean you beat the old perv ?" Ranma asked shocked.
Sigh "Yes, Ranma I beat him after all I Trained him!!!" Gouken said, his patience wearing thin.
"So… you wouldn't mind having a fight would ya ?" Ranma asked getting up. 'This'll be perfect if I can beat this guy then I'll finally be strong enough to beat the old perv, and I might be able to learn some new moves.' Those thoughts ran through Ranma's mind as he took up a battle stance.
"Are you sure, I would rather not." Said Gouken.
"Awwww…Are you scared, I didn't think that the man who "SAYS" he trained Happosai was a cowered." Ranma said with a smug smile on his face.
Seeing the smug, overconfident smile on Ranma's face told Gouken a lot. 'Heh…it's been awhile since I saw that kind of smile. I guess the kid needs to get some humility and sense beat into him. Heh… reminds me of myself when I was younger.' "All right," Gouken said getting up "But don't say I didn't try to stop you and while we're at it why don't we make this interesting."
"Heh sure, what you got in mind ?" Ranma said smirking.
"How about the loser has to agree to any conditions and orders that the winner makes, and we'll base this on honor." Gouken said a smirk forming on his face as he got into a battle stance of his own.
"Sure, fine with me, after all Ranma Saotome never loses." Ranma says, as they both rush into battle.
----Meanwhile with Akane---
'Stupid baka, why does he always have to be a jerk.' Thought Akane as she sat in class, listening to the teacher as she drawled on but not really paying attention. 'Stupid jerk, he could have said no to her, and asked me for some of my food, I mean I would have given some to him, it's not like I'm heartless.'
"Haaaah." Akane sighed.
'I wish he would just choose, then maybe we could actually get out of this ridiculas circus, I mean how hard is it to choose someone. I mean it's not like his life would become that bad if he just choose someone.' Akane continued to think.
Ping
"Huh…" Akane said out loud.
"Ahh yes, Ms. Tendo, Would you like to answer our question." The teacher said indicating a complicated problem, on the board.
"Ahhh…ummm… he he he, umm the answer is 42." said Akane nervously.
"Ahhhh… You weren't paying attention were you." The teacher said.
"No sir." Akane said.
"To the hall for the rest of class." The teacher said annoyed.
"Yes sir." Akane said as she went out to the halls.
Luckily for her, though that was the last class of the day and was soon on her way home. Still in thought she was surprised when she ran into Kasumi, and Nabiki.
"Hey sis, hmm… Ranma's not here, did he do something stupid again?" Nabiki said as she saw Akane walking towards them with out Ranma in tow.
"The stupid jerk is taking Shampoo out on a date." Akane said angrily.
"Oh my. Well it's is a good thing that he isn't here right now." Said Kasumi quietly.
"Hmm, why's that sis?" Asked Nabiki, feeling that she was going to get on to something that would make her a lot of money.
"Oh it's because I have something that I just want to show you two." Kasumi said with a smile on her face, as she began to walk. Looking at each other with confusion evident on both of their faces, Nabiki and Akane both decided that it would be best to just follow her. Since it wasn't every day that Kasumi came to their school and told them their was something that she wanted to show only them. As they walked Nabiki and Akane decided to talk.
"So what do you think, sis wants to show us?" Asked Akane quietly.
"5000 yen." Nabiki said.
"Ugh… Come on this is serious, if you don't want to be serious then fine just forget it." Akane said angrily but quietly.
"Haah…fine I have no clue as to what sis wants to show us it could be anything it's not like she says a lot all the time, you know as well as I do that she doesn't talk a lot unless it's very important." Nabiki said tiredly.
"Well you have to have some idea right ?" Asked Akane curiously.
"Sorry, but truth is when she wants to Kasumi can easily be smarter than me, she just rarely feels the need to use it. Truth be told she could easily get into some of the best schools or places on the planet, even Todai, but never went for some reason, I always figured it was to take care of us, because dad was to much of a wimp to actually get back up and start making money using the dojo or get a real job after mom died, I never really forgave dad for that, you know." Nabiki said, starting out calmly but ending sadly.
"Wow" Said Akane. 'I never knew that onee-chan had given up so much to take care of us. There has to be something that I can do to help her out.' She thought
As they continued on in silence, Akane and Nabiki began to notice that they were heading into area's of Nerimia that they had never seen before.
"So Kasumi, where are we going ?" Nabiki asked as she continued to look around.
" Oh just a very special friends house." Said Kasumi Happily.
'Hmm I wonder who this special friend could be,… well whoever it is they obviously have a lot of money to spend, these houses are huge.' Nabiki thought.
"We're here." Kasumi finally announced.
Both of her sisters were roused from there thoughts as they looked at the house in front of them. The house was huge, it had a silver gate in front of it and a stone wall all around it. It was three stories high and had beautiful flowers and trees in front of it. As her two sisters looked around the compound Kasumi led them up it, taking in the beautiful sights around them the two young girls never noticed that they had reached the door until Kasumi made a fake cough to get there attention.
"Nabiki, Akane, I would like to reintroduce you to someone very special."
As soon as Kasumi said those words both Akane and Nabiki began to rack their minds for who Kasumi could be showing them. As They racked their brains for who this person could be, Kasumi opened the doors to the house.
Gasp
"N…n…no way… it can't be, i-it's impossible."
They both said as they looked into the house.
----Mean while (back with Ranma)----
WHAMCRASH
'S.' Was the thought going through Ranma's mind as he was slammed through a tree by Gouken's punch. It was a testament to all the battles that he had been in with Ryoga that his arms and legs were not broken, and an even greater testament that he was able to get right back up.
'Well, the guy punches hard, heh… with a punch like that maybe he'll be a challenge after all.'
Ranma quickly settled back into a battle stance as his eye's scanned the area for his foe. A blur moved from one tree to the next, to any one else it would have been impossible to see, but to Ranma, whose eye's had been trained since childhood to see such things, it was child's play to spot him.
'Hmm… from the left.' Ranma quickly turned in the direction of his opponent and charged, deciding to go with an old saying that had always stuck in his mind and stayed with him through
fight after fight.
'The best defense is a good offense, heh… ain't that the truth.'
Ranma met his opponent halfway and dodged his left punch by, jumping over it. He proceeded to try and deliver a kick to Goukens face, but Gouken ducked under it and retaliated with a swift uppercut to Ranma's chin flipping him backwards. Ranma however landed on his feet and immediately launched a counter attack, launching multiple punches, feeling a sense of satisfaction as they connected with Gouken. That sense of satisfaction soon turned into pain as Gouken caught the last of his punches and proceeded to toss him through a tree.
"Jeez this guy really is good, guess I'll have to start playing for real.' Ranma thought. Settling into a more offensive stance than before Ranma let Gouken make the move.
'Hmm…so he's beginning to get serious, well I guess I've beaten up on him enough, I should get a real measure of his strength.' Gouken thought, as he ran towards Ranma.
Ranma saw Gouken running towards him, a punch was launched at his head, which Ranma easily dodged, however instead of rushing in to deliver a counter attack Ranma backed away.
Gouken smiled. 'So he's not an idiot.'
'What's his game? He telegraphed that punch so much that even Akane, could've seen it and dodged it.' Ranma wondered.
'Well since he want's me to hit up close, I'll have to hit him at a distance.' Confidant in his planning, Ranma let that feeling flow threw him and empower him, smiling at what he was about to unleash he balled up both of his fists.
"Moko Takabisha!" He shouted. The attack erupted from his hands as a massive ball of ki, and rocketed towards Gouken.
'So he's managed to start using ki, good, but not good enough.' Gouken thought as he held his hand out stretched and began to gather his own ki.
Ranma's eyes narrowed as he saw Gouken gather up his ki, something was wrong. This ki was different form the ki that he normally saw used, it seemed to be mixed with something else, something that was similar and yet different. He didn't have the time to continue to ponder it as Gouken had gathered it into a spiraling sphere with a whole in it. It was moderately large, but no where near as large as the moko takabisha.
Ranma smirked as Gouken launched the sphere from his hands. 'Wow the old man must really have some guts, to try and take on a moko takabisha with such a weak attack, man this is going to be fun to watch.' Ranma thought as he saw the moko takabisha collide with Gouken's sphere. Ranma's confidence soon turned to shock, as he saw the moko takabisha get swallowed by the sphere Gouken had launched, which grew larger, as the energy within the sphere spiraled even more.
'What the heck, h…how the hell did he do that, I…I've never seen a technique like that in my life, I… Oh SHT!!' To wrapped up in seeing what Gouken's technique had done to his moko Takabisha he had ignored where the attack was heading and now he was going to pay for that error, in a very painful way, as the technique slammed into him. Pain coursed through him as the attack ground it's way at him, it was painful and felt like a group of a hundred large sharp knives grinding them, all the while being hit in the back again and again as he was launched through the trees.
'N…no way, this guy is ridiculously strong, strong as Herb, maybe even…as strong as saffron… no I need to stop thinking like that I'm just going to psyche myself out, I need to stay calm.' Ranma thought.
'From the left!' Ranma heard the thought in his head, and listening to it on instinct quickly dodged Goukens attack.
'Oh…. This is just what I need, to hear voices in my head while I'm fighting one of the best fights in my life, and damn it's hot here.' Ranma thought, but then he began to take in his surroundings
'Hmm…maybe I can use this to my advantage, yeah I can pull off a HiryuShoten Ha here.' Ranma began to focus his chi to change the temperature around him to a colder level.
'Hmm… he's changing the temperature with his chi, that would have to be the Hiryu Shoten Ha, he told me about, guess I should oblige him and then I'll end this.' Gouken thought smirking.
Rushing towards Ranma, Gouken smirked as he began to prepare a counter attack to Ranma's Hiryu Shoten Ha. Ranma moved in a spiral around the area, quickly forcing the heated air of the area into a spiral. Smirking confidently as Gouken followed him, Ranma launched corkscrew uppercut sending Gouken, and most of the surrounding area into the sky.
"Heh… you might be strong old man, but Ranma Saotome never loses." Ranma quietly whispered to himself, as he saw Gouken fly into the air.
'Huh…what the ?' Ranma was looking at where Gouken was, it didn't look right, it was sparkling. Ranma's eyes grew wide in shock, "WHAT THE HELL?" was the only thing Ranma could get out.
BOOOM
"Sorry kid but even the best, have to fall like the rest." Gouken smirked as he watched Ranma
twitch unconsciously.
A few minutes later "So did you, get everything set up?"
"Yeah, I left him a note on what to do to honor our deal."
"Good, so did you enjoy the fight."
"Yes actually, I did enjoy fighting with the kid, he's got a lot of potential, not just in martial arts. Well I guess I'll be on my way, oh and by the way be sure to give the kid a chance."
"Don't worry, I will, I will."
Gouken, looked back and smirked, bending over he grabbed a staff, with a snap of his fingers, Goukens form changed. No longer was there an old man, in his place was a young man, he had brown hair and brown eyes, was tall, and lean but had a hint of muscle.
"You're gonna have on hell of a revelation, and one hell of a life, kid, enjoy." Nagi Springfield said as he disappeared in a flash, smirking all the while.
----Meanwhile with Akane---
Leaning on a open window sill Akane looked outside onto the city. Nabiki and Kasumi were talking to their mother. When they had first seen her, She had immediately run up and hugged Nabiki not letting go and crying tears, only letting go when Akane had tapped her on the shoulder and said "Mom…?"
What happened next left a lasting effect on Akane, expecting her mother to hug her she was shocked when her mother had just looked at her with the expression of a dear caught in a cars headlights. After a few seconds the light of recognition sparked in her eyes. "Oh, Akane." She said and quickly hugged Akane, but not as long as Nabiki, and with less sincerity. Akane didn't know how she knew, but she just knew. The knowledge of her mother not being as sincere with her as she was with her two sisters struck something within her leading her to the window sill to think while her mother and her sisters caught up with each other.
'What's wrong with me, I should be happy that she's even alive, but all I feel is this emptiness. Jeez, what the heck is wrong with me, why am I so sad, I've got my mother back, who is supposed to be dead. I mean, I've known people who would give anything to have a person they lost returned to them so why am I so damn sad!' Akane yelled at herself in her thoughts, growing angry at herself as she was unable to answer them. 'Damn it! Why the hell am I even here, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Ranma being a jerk, if he hadn't been a jerk then I would not have gotten angry and hit him, and then I wouldn't be in this mess.' She said to herself as she convinced herself that Ranma was the cause of this problem. 'Damn it I'm going to find that jerk and give him a piece of my mind!' Standing up in a huff Akane started angrily her eyes looking for what she was convinced was the source of her misery, instead however her eyes landed on her sisters and her mother. At the sight of her mother and her sisters chatting happily, enjoying each others company, genuinely happy, Akane's temper performed a miracle it cooled down, allowing Akane to think rationally.
'Oh who am I kidding, even if Ranma hadn't made me angry or had been there I'd still be here, after all when a request comes from Kasumi, it's not like you can refuse it. Although it would be easier if he were here, then at least I could have some one to talk to. Jeez I can't even remember why I was angry at him in the first place. Hmm it's funny Ranma has always helped me out and made me feel better when I was down. Heh if he was like that more often then maybe this engagement would actually workout. Maybe…maybe…I did overreact, maybe I should say I'm sorry.' Looking out the window as she continued to muse Akane saw the familiar form of a man with a yellow, and black, bandana. 'Humph… Ryoga's back, guess I'll have to beat him up in my sleep again, maybe he and Ranma won't fight this time, and maybe they'll finally confess about Ryoga being P-chan.'
"Hey Akane, come over here, mom wants to tell us something." Nabiki called out to her. Leaving the window Akane smiled completely oblivious to the changes coming into her life.
----Mean while (where ever Tenchi lives at)----
"So today's the day right." Tenchi says.
"Yep today, your cousin's going to be coming back home." Washu say's happily, as she types and presses buttons on her computer.
The entire household had gathered into Washu's laboratory.
"So just what are we doing again ?" Ryoko asked.
"Ugh… did you not just listen to Washu, she just said that we're brining lord Tenchi's cousin back." Ayeka said exasperated.
"Yeah…yeah, so, Tenchi, what's the deal with this cousin of yours ?" Ryoko asked curious.
"Oh well, you see, when my cousin was young his dad had decided to train him in his family's martial arts. So after signing this contract with his mom, my cousin and his dad, began to travel around learning new martial arts. Unfortunately as my cousin told me when I talked to him his dad was the biggest idiot in the universe." Tenchi told them.
" Wow did he really call his dad an idiot, I always thought that a dad was supposed to be smart." Mihoshi said.
"Well he didn't say that exactly…" Tenchi said sheepishly.
"Oh well then what did he say ?" Mihoshi asked curious.
"Well…let's just say that it definitely is not for young children's ears." Tenchi answered.
"Well let's just forget about what he called his father, lord Tenchi could you please continue your tale." Ayeka said.
"Well as they traveled around, his dad had him learn a ton of martial arts, of course on the way he made a lot of friends, unfortunately he always had to leave them. Eventually he happened to find out that his dad was constantly using him as a bargaining chip and engaging him to multiple women, his dad even engaged him to triplets, from what he told me. Well eventually he found that his dad was going to teach him a forbidden technique called the cat fist. I don't know the whole deal but from what he told me when he found out he decided to bolt, and while he was running he ran into this strange girl, he told her his story, and she decided that he deserved better and sent him to a place where he could really get some training, or well that's what he told me." Tenchi said as he finished his story.
"And so now were bringing him back ?" Mihoshi asked.
"Yes, yes, now be quiet and sit down, I'm about to bring him back." Washu said harshly, really not wanting Mihoshi to do to much especially when there were some really precious equipment in the room.
"So now with out further ado, Here We Go." Washu says as she presses the button.
Flash
A blinding light filled the room, as the light died down everyone saw a black dot begin to form, three sparkling rings formed around the sphere rotating and flipping around it. Bolts of electricity shot from the sphere into the rings as the sphere grew larger changing color from black to a shining white. The rings around the sphere rotated faster as the electricity arced and shook more and more violently. A dark shadow appeared on the sphere, as a large figure stepped out of the sphere.
"Wow… so this is your lab Washu, gotta say it's a lot larger than I thought it was." The figure said.
"Wow, Ranma it's nice to finally see you in the flesh." Tenchi said as he greeted his cousin.
"Yeah it's nice to see you to cus, but could you call me Ran, it just sounds better to me you know." Ran said.
"So what have you been doing anyway?" Mihoshi asked, curious about Ran.
"Oh nothing much, I just usually trained, fought, won a tournament, fought off a super villain… ya know that kind of thing." Ran told them.
Yosho chuckled quietly. "So it does run in the family." He said quietly to himself, as everyone left the room talking excitedly to each other.
"Ya know, you didn't tell him about the person impersonating him, the other Ranma." Washu said as they were alone.
"Well some things you just got to find out for yourself. Besides he does kind of owe that person one, I mean you've seen the kind of life he would have lived if it wasn't for that person and her older sister." Yosho said.
"Yeah, but when they meet, there's going to be nonstop chaos. Especially when you consider the impersonators state of sanity." Washu said.
"Well, just think of it like this, it'll be and excellent research opportunity. Just think beings that outclass even the chosin. I'm surprised that you never told Tokimi or Tsunami." Yosho said a light smirk on his face.
"Well… this is more of my thing, and besides those two have their eyes set on Tenchi, and besides I don't think they have the necessary…hmm… how do I put it, stability, will and curiosity to stay with that kid, and all her friends, especially when you take into account their sanity, along with that kids." Washu explained.
"Hmm…well I guess we'll just have to sit back and enjoy the show then, won't we." Yosho said, his smirk transforming into a smile.
"That we will, that we will." Washu answered.
Looking at the screen, an image of girl was shown, she was laying unconscious next to a fire, with a twig clutched tightly in her hand.
------scene change----
Ranma woke up. "Oh god…what the hell was that ?" He said to no one in particular. Standing up he looked around. All he could see was darkness. "Ok what the hell… where the hell am I?" He said. "HELLOO!!!" He yelled out, getting no response. "Grrreeaat…just great…well I guess this isn't the worst thing that's happened to me." He said exasperatedly.
"Ranma."
"Huh… who's there, who said that ?" Ranma said bolting upward looking around, his eyes straining to see if there was a figure in the darkness.
"It was me Ranma."
"Yeah and where are you who are you?" Ranma questioned the voice.
"Well as to where am I, I'm right here and, well as to who I am, well…I'm you, and we seriously need to talk."
-----End Chapter-----
Sonic:Well boys and girls here's the first chapter, of what the author likes to think of as a train wreck fic.
Knuckles: What the hell are you talking about?
Shadow:Ugh… It means that the author has deluded himself into believing that if he writes bad enough people will read, due to the fact that their in shock that a person can write so badly that they keep reading, like a train wreck, where you want to stop reading but can't, still doesn't change the fact that this is a piece of crap.
Sonic: Yeah, yeah, what ever, its still an accomplishment that the author wrote something like this. I mean, I've seen the first version of this, and that was crap man. Well any way, See yah next time boys and girls. I gotta jet.
Knuckles:He did not just say that.
Shadow:Yes, yes he did. God I hate my life.