Through the Life Stream

FULL SUMMARY: After falling in the Spring of Drown Girl in Jusenkyo, Ranma awakens memories of being a summoner in a different dimension. A FEMALE summoner. After deciding that, to keep suspicion down, she should try to act like her old self would. After the failed wedding attempt, she's finally fed up, and decided to end it. Not by suicide, but by entering the Life-Stream (NOT RELATED TO THE FFXVII LIFE-STREAM), the flow in which all souls wait until they are reborn. Now, Reborn as Uzumaki Naru, daughter to the Fourth Hokage and Haku's Aunt (NO FREAKIN IDEA WHAT HER NAME WOULD BE) with all her memories as well as skills from her past two lives, she's going to try to make a name for herself.

Author Note: Hi, guys! Well, this is the one I'm starting on. It's a Naruto/FFX/FFX2/Ranma Fanfic. I COULD leave Ranma out of it, but all my stories have at least something of Ranma in it from one point or another… so it's in.

I don't know any Japanese jutsu names, so instead of Fuuton: Ryuu Endan (I think that's right. If it isn't, I don't care) you get Fire Style: Fire Dragon Jutsu.

Ok, one more thing. In Final Fantasy X-2, Yuna Can learn Al Bhed, so it's in the story. E'mm tu cusadrehk mega dryd, yht drah bid drec yvdan ed... (I'll do something like that, and then put this after it...)

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'Thought'
"Telekenetic Chat"/
"Telekenetic Chat from Demon/Summon"
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Chapter One

The Life and Times of Ranma Saotome… Ends.

As soon as he hit the water, he knew something was wrong. After seeing his father leap out of a spring a panda, Ranma Saotome just KNEW something incredibly weird or stupid was about to happen. Probably both. Hearing 'Spring of Drowned Girl' right before he hit the water confirmed his thoughts. Suddenly, his body was now HER body.

Before the pseudo-girl had the chance to get mad at her father for dragging her off to this damned place, he vision started flashing as memories started rushing back to her, giving her a major headache.

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She was five, playing on the beach of an island surrounded by vine-covered ruins.

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She's about sixteen, praying to a large statue in a round chamber, the Fayth of Besaid.

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She's sitting around a large bonfire, talking with a boy about the same age as her. He's got blond hair and is wearing a yellow shirt with black shorts.

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She's dancing atop a pool of water with the caskets of the dead above them. She rises on a pillar of water as light swims out of the caskets with red flowers before disappearing. The Sending.

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She watched as several people swam in a water-filled sphere throwing a blue ball between each other. She was yelling 'TIDUS!' as the same blond man from before came out to the field. The Star BlitzBall Player

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The strange woman in the orange jumpsuit shed the outerwear to reveal a young girl with blond hair and swirling green eyes. She's vaguely aware of Tidus exclaiming 'Rikku!'

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She's fighting Maester Seymour in the Macalania Temple after getting her fourth summon, Shiva. He's just summoned Anima

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She wakes up in an unknown place, with people around her talking in a strange language. Then she remembers, she's in the Bikanel Desert, home of the Al Bhed.

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She's performing the sending again, sending the Aeons, and Auron to the Farplane, making Sin weak for the first time in a thousand years.

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She's running at Tidus, crying as he disappears. His final words to her were 'I love you'. He never heard her say 'me too'.

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She's just joined the Gullwings, a sphere-hunting group lead by her cousins Rikku and Brother. Her new partner is a quiet girl named Paine.

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She's in a costume, watching an imposter of her sing one of her favorite songs, 'Real Emotion', on stage in the Luca Stadium.

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She's aboard the Airship, watching the Sphere that she just recovered from the Floating Ruins of Mount Gagazet, Silent Guardian of Zanarkand, City of the Dead. (Those were her words from FFX-2)

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She's just stolen the Awesome Sphere from the Temple at Kilika Port. It shows some type of large machina.

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They're recovering the stolen half a sphere from the LeBlanc Syndicate dressed in the tackiest costumes.

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She's in the caverns under Beville. They've just come face to face with the corrupted Bahamut. Hopefully, defeating him in combat has uncorrupted him.

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She's standing in the Thunder Plains, singing 1000 Words with Lenn, in hopes to unite all of Spira.

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She's at the final Battle with Shuyin and Vegnagun. It's all up to her, Rikku, and Paine now.

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She's leaving the Farplane, only to be stopped by the same boy in purple. He asks if she wants to see 'Him' again. She does.

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She returns to Besaid to find Tidus waiting for her.

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She, Rikku, and Pain join back up for one final adventure. (AN- This is Final Fantasy X-2 International Version… and I can't find it anywhere. Even a friend who went to Japan last summer couldn't find it. However, Psychic and MAYBE Festival-goer Dressphere will be in the story.)

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She's holding her new daughter. Tidus is smiling in the back-ground.

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She's laying in bed. Her time has finally come. Her job is done here, but not in other places. Silently, her spirit leaves her body and slips into the Life-Stream, waiting for when it will be needed again.

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She now knows who she is. She is no longer Ranma Saotome. She is the defeater of Sin. She is the Bringer of the Eternal Calm. She is the daughter of High Summoner Braska. She is the One Who United All of Spira. She's the Slayer of Vegnagun. She is the cousin of Rikku. She is half Al Bhed. She is the friend of Paine. She is High Summoner Lady Yuna.

However, with the awakening, the memories of Ranma Saotome are still hers. As are some of his attitude. Knowing full well that just accepting being female would be a bad idea, she decides to pretend to still be the Ranma Saotome that her father has known. She gets out of the water with an aura of rage about her.

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Ranma, or should I say Yuna?, currently in female form, sat on the roof staring out into the infinite abyss known as space, thinking of how his, now her, life had turned. First, she had to save Akane in an utterly pointless attempt to help 'save' her 'cure' source she never wanted in the first place. Then, Akane had somehow deluded herself into believing that she told her that she had loved her back on Jusendo Mountain. Ranma/Yuna almost snorted. Even though she WAS Bi, there was no way Akane would be her love.

Then was the wedding attempt. One of the only reasons she hadn't left yet was because she had hoped she could have remained friends with at least ONE of the people here. But after taking a good look at her standing with everyone, she knew it wasn't to be. Akane was getting even more violent with everything, Ryoga was still as delusional as ever, Kuno couldn't accept facts, Shampoo saw her as more of a prize than anything else, Ukyo only saw her goals in mind and had, in her opinion, killed the slight friendship between them with the exploding Okonomyaki. Nabiki was still greedy and selfish, and neither Mousse or Cologne could see the facts laid out in front of them.

Kasumi was the only person she could compare to a friend, but even she wasn't enough to keep her here. She liked being a powerful martial artist, but with the lack of privacy, she never got a chance to even LOOK at her Garment Grid, much less use it. Not to mention summoning.

She tired of the anger. She was tired of the fighting. She was tired of the hate. She was tired of all the seduction attempts. But most of all, she was tired of the loneliness. She thought that she was the perfect embodiment of that old expression, 'alone in a crowd'. She was just tired of it all. But fortunately, she had a plan.

A couple of months ago, when a large part of Ranma's old habits had shone through, she had snatched up several of Cologne's old scrolls and replaced them with blank ones. Using Anything Goes Calligraphy, she had all thirty or so copied down and returned in an hour. The old Ghoul had never noticed them missing.

Most of the scrolls contained the Amazon Wu-Shu style of Martial arts, which she had promptly mastered, having nothing better to do. Several also contained things like charts of the human body, including pressure points and Ki Flow Charts. Some even had both magic, which she avoided for the most part, only learning things she didn't already know, and several either stolen or 'lost' styles of martial arts. While not mastering them, she had the scrolls memorized from top to bottom. However, one particularly old scroll had mention of something called 'The Life-Stream'.

The Life-Stream in the spiritual embodiment of time-space. It is believed that souls who love adventure and have saved mankind from destruction at least once is able to enter the Life-Stream for the first time. The Life-Stream is the waiting passage for souls who wish to be reincarnated to a life of adventure. Normally, if someone was to enter the Life-Stream by death, their memories of the old life was to be locked away, only to be awoken under special circumstances. However, testing has shown that there is a way to enter the Life-Stream with your memories, but only if you have been in it once before already. The Ritual is Described below.

Yuna had figured that she had originally entered the Life-Stream after her first life was over, and was reborn here. And finally, Yuna had come to a decision. Tomorrow, she was leaving Kasumi a note, and she was entering the Life-Stream again. There was nothing for her here anymore.

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"WHERE IS HE!?!" Shouted the resident hot-head and loudmouth of the Tendo Dojo. She had planned to splash Ranma awake again, but to find that he wasn't here for her to beat up on made her mad. Kasumi had just walked over to the table to set down breakfast when she spotted a note. It was from Ranma.

Dear Kasumi (And any bastards that may be reading this over her shoulder),

I'm sorry I have to leave so suddenly, but I've come to realize that there is nothing for me here anymore. None of the girls care about me for me, and the constant fighting is wearing me down. I'm exhausted, both emotionally and physically, and can't bare to put up with it any more. Don't bother to look for me, as you'll never find me. This is the last time we will meet. I just want to say I'm sorry for any of the trouble that I've caused being here.

Kasumi, I do have one wish. I want you to stop being a slave to your family. Taking care of them isn't your job alone. I know that you wish to be a nurse. Go to medical school, find the right man (wink wink), get married, have a kid, and live your life like YOU want to, not like anyone else wants you to.

This is where I end it. JA NE, Kasumi-Chan

Ranma Saotome

One by one, each member of the family read the letter as Kasumi passed it around. Their reactions all varied. Akane stormed out holding a giant mallet, muttering something about 'perverts spending time with his floozies' while basking in a crimson aura.

Nabiki read it twice before getting an evil grin and muttering 'so, you think you can run, Saotome?' and going into her room, probably to get her contacts looking for Ranma. Both fathers continued to play Shogi.

"Your son has run off Saotome." Said the resident waterfall on legs.

"It seems so. Why have I been cursed with such an honorless son?" whined Genma. "Hey, is that him?!?" He asked, pointing off behind Soun. When Soun looked, Genma slipped several tiles out of his sleeves and placed them on the board.

"Were those pieces…. Whatever. What shall we do about this, old friend?" asked Soun, taking a moment to rearange pieces when Genma looked at the ceiling to think.

"Nothing. Your girl will find him soon, and he'll be dragged back here, where we'll force him to marry Akane." 'And that letter sounded much too mature for him. I'll have to beat that out of him when he gets back.'

Kasumi was the only one who knew, without a doubt, that Ranma was never coming back again. After quietly excusing herself to her room, her mask cracked, and she broke down crying for the first time sense her mother had died. 'I'm sorry I couldn't have been there for you, little brother. Please, enjoy the rest of your life. I will honor your last request. Thank you, for everything you've done for this family.'

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In a small shack in the forest two miles south of Tokyo, a female Ranma was currently sitting in the lotus position in a circle of Kanji, written in her own blood. The only other thing located in the circle was a bag full of personal that her father never knew she had. It ranged from some money to scrolls, to some extra clothes, to her iPod she had bought right after the 'Ultimate Weakness Moxibation Point' fiasco. The reason that there was nothing else in the circle was because anything in the circle when the portal opened would be brought with her, and put in a time-space pocket until she accessed it. She had used one during her advetures in Spira, and hoped it would be added to that one, which she could access later.

(AN- How else could she have carried huge swords, staves, daggers, potions, spheres, grids, and tons of other misclanious things in a small pack)

The circle itself was constructed of a circle with eight different 'spokes' of kanji running through it, all converging in the center, right infront of where Ranma currently sat.

Suddenly, after sitting in the lotus for about an hour, seemingly doing nothing, Ranma started chanting in a forgotten language. It flowed and was melodious. As the chant reached a climax, Ranma started to glow in a golden aura. Screaming the last syllible, she slamed her had down on the Kanji symbol for 'portal' located in epicenter where the eight kanji spokes were.

Suddenly, the kanji started moving. The eight spokes started slithering along the ground until they disappeared under her hand, while the circle of Kanji on the outside started spinning so fast that it turned into a red blur before it appeared to be a solid line. Suddenly, blackness spread out from Ranma's hand until it reached the spinning circle of Kanji, where it opened with a poof of black light in the shape of a mushroom cloud. (Think the Stargate opening in StarGate SG-1) When the cloud died off and the portal closed again, no sign of either Ranma or the Kanji circl was left in the shed.

CHAPTER END

YES!!!!! I did it! First chapter out in officially eight hours after I started, allowing for dinner, destractions, and little brothers. And, now I get the rest of the week off as this weeks chapter is already finished! Ok, Chaotic Rebirth Saotome Style is next week, so expect it sometime between 1-20-08 and 1-27-08.