Lord CBoD presents: Fun and Games
Disclaimer: Most characters in this story belong to Rumiko Takahashi or Naoko Takeuchi, some are actually mine, but they aren't very important. This story is mine; don't post it anywhere without contacting the Evil Bunny Empire first.
Episode One: Here's Ranma
"On the dark side of moon sits an obsidian palace. Like all palaces, this one it contained a throne room; sitting upon the throne covered in shadows…."
"You summoned me my lord." Ancanous kneeled before the throne of his master. He knew it was a bad thing to interrupt the lord's monologue, but sometimes they could go on forever. As expected, a bolt of light stuck him in the shoulder. Ignoring the pain, he awaited his lord's words.
"Go to Juban, Japan. Cause trouble and bring me back some human energy."
The kneeling wizard raised his eyes to look at the shadow covered thrown. Unable to meet his emperor's eyes, he wondered what the human energy was needed for. Still, he could only take so much pain, and it was best not to ask questions. "As you command"
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"I don't think this is anytime for fiancés!" Ranma yelled at his father. The two walked along the streets of Juban fighting back and forth. A freak storm triggered the fruits of their training in China. At present he was a girl, and his old man was a panda. After landing a kick, he was sure he knocked the panda out. The blackout he experience next proved him wrong.
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Akane looked at the foreigner talking to her father. He was waiting for his old friend, but the foreigner was at the door instead. The gentleman was dressed in a casual suit, had long purple hair, and deep black eyes. After he finished discussing whatever it was with her father, he left and was replaced at the door by a… panda?
"Friends of yours father?" Nabiki couldn't believe a panda would just pop up for a visit in the middle of a city. Let alone a panda carrying a girl over its shoulders. Still, her father was just as surprised as she was.
The Tendo patriarch was at a loss for words, here at his door, was a zoo animal. He watched as the bear put down its passenger, who had been beating it and screaming all the while. He couldn't quite make out what the passenger was saying, but as it was placed in front of him he noticed it was a girl. The two large breasts almost hanging out of her white gi made it very clear what gender she was.
"I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry about this."
The middle Tendo daughter watched her father fall to the ground. The old man had fainted; upstairs in their apartment he had told them about his old friend Genma Saotome bringing his son to marry one of them. Now this girl at their door introduced herself as a Saotome, was she supposed to be the son? "Akane, can you help Ranma here carry father upstairs?"
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Ancanous needed a way to gather human energy. He wanted to use the dojo he had just stopped by, but things would have gotten messy if he tried to replace its master with a rabimon while his two daughters watched. What could he do to drain a lot of energy with little effort?
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Ranma was very uncomfortable at the moment. After helping the youngest Tendo daughter carry her father upstairs he now sat next to her and her sisters in front of their father, laying on a couch with a towel on his forehead.
"Poor father, he's so disappointed."
"He's disappointed? What kind of a fiancé is this?" Nabiki said, looking over at her older sister. With one hand she squeezed the redhead's breast, and with the other, she hit her father on the head. "Don't you know the difference between a boy and a girl?"
"Could you please stop that?" It was not only uncomfortable, but disturbing as well. The red head didn't like being so directly reminded of his current state. Then again, he wasn't exactly sure how to tell the Tendo girls that this was his cursed form. What would they think if they knew he could change genders?
"Really Nabiki he…she is our guest." Akane couldn't believe Nabiki was being so rude to the girl the panda brought in. Whether she was their fiancé or not, there was no reason to be treating her like that.
"Boy, how long do you plan on just sitting there?"
The now black haired boy looked up at his father just in time to get a kettle of hot water poured on his face. Well, now he'd find out how the Tendo family would react to his curse. "What'd you do that for?"
It was very hard for the eldest Tendo daughter to believe her eyes. One second the person next to Nabiki was a girl, and the next, she was a boy. Only two words came to her head. "Oh my."
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Genma now sat on the Tendo couch with Ranma next to him. Now that Soun had finally awakened, he could explain the situation. Soun's eldest handed him a tray with two glasses of water, as he requested. "Thank you. Now my name is Genma Saotome, and this is my son."
"Ranma."
"The boy and I have just completed a long and dangerous training journey. While in China, we stumbled upon a training ground called Jusenkyo. Jusenkyo appeared to be an excellent place for us to practice. The Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts specializes in aerial combat, and Jusenkyo had a great many springs with bamboo poles for us to fight upon. However, unknown to us, each spring held a terrible secret." The Saotome patriarch closed his eyes as he recollected the events. Then he felt himself get hit in the head.
"What do you mean unknown to us? The guide told us the springs were cursed! But you said, 'Surely boy you're not afraid of a curse,' and we fought anyway." The pony-tailed boy said angrily. Sure, before then he hadn't believed in magic himself, but still, it wasn't like they weren't warned.
Ignoring his son, Genma poured the contents of one glass onto his son. "During our spar, Ranma knocked myself into the 'Spring of Drowned Panda', and then when I arose from the spring transformed, the boy's shoddy guard allowed me to knock him into the 'Spring of Drowned Girl'. The cup I just splashed on the boy contained cold water; cold water triggers our cursed forms."
"I see, so you and Ranma were transformed when arrived." Soun looked at Ranma, before his old friend had poured the glass of water on him, he had been muscular with long black hair tied back in a short pony tail. Now the muscles had melted away, and a busty redheaded girl was sitting there.
"Yes." Pouring the contents of the second glass, Genma watched his son become a man again. "Hot water restores us to our true forms, but only until we are splashed with cold water again."
"Hmm, well then things aren't so bad, the schools can still be joined." The Tendo Patriarch stood up and walked behind the chairs his daughters had been silently sitting in. "Ranma, these are Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane. Kasumi is nineteen and an excellent cook. Nabiki is seventeen and very good with money. Akane is my youngest, and she is sixteen. Choose the one you want, she will be your bride."
Ranma watched as his old man's friend hovered over each of his daughters. He took particular note to the fact he didn't mention Akane was good at anything. She was his age though, and was pretty cute. Looking over each girl on his own, he noticed Kasumi seemed a little too cheerful, and he didn't quite like the look Nabiki was giving him. The youngest daughter seemed to be the only one who hadn't reacted to his curse yet. Maybe….
"He wants Akane." The oldest daughter said as she got up and pulled her sister out of her seat.
"Definitely." The middle daughter said, pushing Akane towards Ranma.
"Wha…why me?" Akane couldn't help but stutter a little. Sure Ranma was handsome when he was a guy, but he turned into a girl, one that was better looking then herself too.
"You don't like boys, do you?" Kasumi beamed.
"You're in luck. Ranma is half girl." Nabiki smiled.
The pony-tailed boy wondered what he'd just gotten himself into, maybe he should think about heading back to China and getting himself cured of the curse.
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Ranma got up from the bed in the guest room and put on his gi. The last night was uneventful after his fiancé was chosen for him. He honestly didn't know much about Akane: she had long black hair that was worn down for the most part but tied at its end, beautiful brown eyes, and her figure wasn't much. Still, as a total package Akane was cute. The problem was, what did her sisters mean by she didn't like boys. Stepping out of the room, he came face to face with the subject of his thoughts.
"Good Morning."
"Uh yeah, good morning." The pony-tailed boy couldn't really think of anything else to say. This was his first fiancé after all. How was he supposed to deal with her?
"I was wondering if you'd like to spar." Akane looked at Ranma pleadingly. She needed to know the boy, and she learned quite a lot about her perverted classmates by beating them up every morning. Speaking with her fist was just easier for her.
"I guess, I should warn you though, I don't lose."
"Neither do I." The youngest Tendo smiled. It seemed Ranma didn't mind fighting girls. That meant he could see her as an equal. Maybe he was different then the other males she knew, just because he was part girl.
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Nabiki watched as every one of her sister's blows missed its target; in exchange her opponent was hitting her often. It barely looked like their guest was even trying. Akane was just no match for him. Then came the final blow, it knocked the youngest Tendo into the Dojo's wall. "Wow Akane, you finally lost to a boy."
"Ow." Akane rubbed her head as she got up. Ranma was good, she didn't even touch him. It seemed as if he was reading her like a book, how had he done that? "You know, you could have hit me harder. Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean you have to take it easy on me."
"We were just sparring right? There really wasn't a reason to hurt you? By the way, I could tell you were losing your cool towards the end. If you can't control your emotions, you don't stand a chance at beating someone on my level." Although the bulk of his training came from his father, Ranma had paid attention to the other old guys his father had teach him at times. Lots of them droned on and on about containing your emotions, and through his fights, Ranma had learned there was something to what the said.
"Your level, Saotome?" Sure her sister's fiancé appeared to be pretty good, but Nabiki didn't think he was that great.
"Hey, I'm one of the best, Akane is okay, but trust me; if this was a real fight she wouldn't have lasted nearly as long."
"So you were holding back!" That annoyed her. She was the best of her School and he went easy on her. What kind of ego did this 'boy' have? Akane glared at him, he wasn't any better then a normal boy after all.
"Look, I wasn't hitting you as hard as I could, but I wasn't holding back any of my skills. We were just sparring; I didn't want to hurt you needlessly. It doesn't matter if you were a boy, I would have fought you the same way I did just now." Not that he had sparred with many boys in the past. Most of his opponents had always been female classmates or friends.
"He has a point there Akane, how many times has dad complained when you've beaten up his students when you were supposed to just be sparring with them?" Not that the middle Tendo had decided to like Ranma, but she wasn't really in the mood for one of her sisters rants about how strong she was. "Tell me something Saotome, is that the same gi you wore yesterday?"
Akane calmed down a little, if he hadn't held back his skill, maybe his ego wasn't that big. He had, after all, scored a lot of hits, even if the only one that really hurt was the one that sent her flying. Since her sister went and changed the subject, she took notice of what Ranma was wearing. It did seem like the same clothes he wore yesterday.
"This is all I got. I used to own a few more but Pops and I had to leave China in a hurry and we lost our packs." Ranma thought back to the trouble they had with the Musk, their Prince had started to hunt him down for his bride despite the fact he knew about the curse.
"I don't want to know when those were last washed. Akane, do you think you have anything that might fit him?"
"Why does he have to borrow my clothes?"
"Wait a second I'm a guy!" He didn't at all like where this was probably going. Then he was splashed by a bucket of cold water.
"Now you're a girl." Kasumi smiled. "Your father mentioned you didn't have a change of clothes, and we wouldn't be proper host if we allowed you to continue to wear that filthy gi."
Ranma turned to see the oldest Tendo daughter with a bucket in one hand and some clothes in the other. "Honestly, I haven't been wearing this too long, just a day or …"
The youngest Tendo daughter watched her oldest sister drag the female Ranma away. She wondered just what Kasumi was going to do to the pony-tailed girl.
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Genma sat across from his old friend on a Shogi board he brought out. It took him a bit to track down his old friend once he and Ranma arrived in Japan. First, he had gone to where the Tendo Dojo once stood; now there was a Mini-Mall. His surprise at finding the mall caused him to let slip why they went there in the first place, and he had to knock out his son several times to keep him in tow. "So Tendo, what happen to the Dojo and the House you had in Nerima."
"After Kimiko died, I was depressed and let things go to ruin. I lost the Dojo and our family home to debt. Then, as we were being forced out of our home, a foreign business man took pity and gave this building to us. The rent is actually rather cheap for its location and size." After loosing his family home, Soun got the motivation he needed to start living again. He may have lost his wife, but he would live for his daughters.
"So there's the Dojo on the ground floor, the kitchen/dinning room and living room on this floor, three bedrooms and a full bathroom on the third floor, and three more bedroom and another full bathroom on the fourth floor. You pay rent on this place Tendo?" Saying this, he moved his piece on the Shogi board.
"Yes well, Mr. Hare wasn't so generous as to just give this building to us. I have a several decent sized classes in the dojo downstairs that allow us to survive. I would suggest you get a job too though, if your boy eats anything like you do, old friend, we may run into money troubles soon enough. That, and I'm sure he'll get tired of barrowing my daughters clothes." The Tendo patriarch moved a piece and thought about something. "Are you sure you want to register Ranma as a girl for School?"
"Yes, I doubt the boy has to worry too much about hot water while in school, and because of our problem he's been going to school as a girl anyway, since long before his curse."
Soun nodded in understanding. "Hmm, I had forgotten about that because I only have daughters, but should 'he' ever find out you have a son, he could take Ranma for his daughter, and our schools could not unite."
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Ranma sat in the tub thinking. He temporarily escaped wearing the clothes Kasumi had brought for him by saying he needed a bath, however, he could tell the oldest Tendo was outside the door, waiting for him to come out. It appeared he couldn't escape his fate, getting out of the tub he sighed as he sprayed some cold water upon himself, once again becoming a girl.
As he went through the clothes Kasumi had brought for him, he sighed even more. Not only had she provided him with a dress, but a bra and a pair of panties as well. Honestly, he wasn't sure what bothered him more; the fact that this wasn't the first time he had worn these types of undergarments, or the fact that this time he actually filled them out naturally.
Stepping out of the bathroom, he saw that not only Kasumi was there but Nabiki as well. "Gee, the both of you had to stand guard."
"I was just curious. I still am, why is it Saotome, you didn't need any assistance." The middle Tendo looked over the boy turned girl. Kasumi's bust was about the same size as Ranma's, so it wasn't too surprising the top of the sun dress fit fine. What was surprising was the skirt came just above Ranma's knees, since her sister was taller than the redhead, which meant the skirt came higher on her.
"Ranma you don't have experience talking off a girl's clothing do you?" The eldest Tendo stared down her future brother in law. He was way too young to be doing those kinds of things.
"What! No, I've worn girl's clothes before, even before I got curse pop has always made me go to school as a girl." When he was younger, it wasn't too difficult to keep his true gender a secret, but the last four years had been very hard. Fortunately, only one girl ever found out and she kept his secret.
"And why did he do that?" Now this was some interesting information she was learning about Akane's fiancé. Still, since he was going to be family, she probably wouldn't abuse it for cash. Nibiki couldn't help grinning though.
"Who knows? Pop has two favorite phrases. 'The path of a martial artist is fraught with terror' and 'a true master of the martial arts is a master of stealth.' What cross dressing has to do with stealth is beyond me." Both phrases seemed more like excuses then motto's, Ranma sighed again and undid his ponytail. "The only positive thing that's really come from the whole cross dressing thing I've been stuck with is I know for a fact what Pop has said about girls being dumb and weak is wrong. In elementary school, one of my female classmates was even stronger then me. After I came home beaten up, I got another beating from the old man for loosing to a girl."
"So there are girls at your level Saotome?"
"Well I was seven when Makchan beat me up." And it wasn't as if he didn't deserve it either. She had just lost her parents and he said something really dumb. The redhead absently wondered how his old friend was doing these days.
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After visiting several businesses, he finally found one easy enough to take over. The small Jewelry store was only ran by a single woman. After locking her up in the basement and replacing her with the rabimon, Lojew, he smiled. In a few hours the store would open up with a sale, and then the unsuspecting humans would buy the jewelry that would take their life energy from them. The plan was perfect.
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Complaint department:
Welcome to the first chapter of "Fun and Games". This section is where I'll answer things that turn up in the reviews. Most of the changes so far should be self explanatory.
The biggest change is that Genma and Soun did not run into Picollet's family, but another one that has a daughter. Both Genma and Soun agreed if they had a son that they would have him marry the daughter. However Genma would rather Ranma marry one of Soun's daughters so he's been trying to keep the fact Ranma is male a secret publicly.
This chapters has been revised with the gracious help of Howling Wind.