Ranma Saotome; heir to the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts, heartbreaker, life-wrecker, dead

Not Like You

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Episode One: The Program

"Wake up Ami, you have school today."

Slowly Ami woke up; the voice from her computer sounded different then normal. Usually it was a male voice that woke her up in the morning, but this time it was a female voice. Opening her eyes, and sitting up in her bed she saw that the person on her computer monitor was a busty redheaded instead of the well defined raven-haired young man that should have been there. "Ranma is that you?"

The digital boy turned girl frowned. "Yeah, your perverted old man changed my gender while I was offline. Do you think you can fix me, 'cause he's already left."

"I'll see what I can do, but remember your program is fairly complicated and I don't want to mess it up." Getting up from the bed Ami went to her closet to grab her new school uniform. Today was her first day at Juban Number 10 middle school. Her father recently brought her to Juban for his new job teaching at Mugen Academy. Picking out a bra and pair of panties from her dresser, she started to take off her pajama top.

"AMI TURN OFF THE MONITOR BEFORE YOU GET UNDRESSED!"

"Why you have the same parts right now anyway." The blue hair girl smiled. She suspected Ranma hadn't really spent the time examining how his digital body was altered.

Looking down at his chest, Ranma didn't want to know what was under the black Chinese silk shirt he wore. "I don't care what shape I'm in I'm still a boy."

Ami turned off the monitor then continued to disrobe. "Will you be okay at home alone today?"

"If you at least decrease my bust I should be. These stupid things are such a pain in the butt, why do so many girls want big boobs?" Sure he wasn't much more then computer data, but to him the feelings were real. This morning after coming online he had notice what Shou had done to him, and tried to go about his normal morning routine anyway, but it was too painful. So instead of spending the hour before Ami got up practicing the art, he did some studying of his clothing programs. He was thinking about designing a new outfit based on something he saw on TV last night.

After buttoning her blouse, Ami sat down at the computer and turned the monitor back on. "Boys like big breasts, so girls want to have them. It's actually painful?"

"Very." Watching the girl genius type away at the keyboard, Ranma wondered if Ami wanted bigger breasts. He thought she was perfect the way she was; she was about the average height for a girl, her breasts weren't very big, and she wore her blue hair short. If he wasn't a computer program he'd definitely ask Ami out. Feeling his breast shrink Ranma gave a sigh of relief. If he had to be a girl for the day at least he'd be comfortable. "Thank you, any chance you can completely fix me?"

"No, I think that's the most I'll be able to do before school, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, like I said I can at least survive like this. I'll probably still need to put a bra on, but I'm glad I don't have to take off my clothes to put it on." Although he could get dressed by normal means, as a program he could also just access the clothing files and change what he was wearing instantly.

"Ranma, there is nothing perverted about seeing your own body you know. You should use your present state as a learning experience." Of course as shy as the redhead was she wouldn't, but it would be a waste. "I'm going to make myself breakfast; I'll see you in the kitchen monitor."

Looking down at his breasts, Ranma though about opening his shirt, then he decided not to, there were some things he just didn't need to learn. Accessing his clothing file he shrank the clothes he was wearing to fit him better, and then added a bra beneath the shirt. Now he was off to the kitchen.

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"Good morning Shou, you're here early "Souichi had left his office to use the restroom and was surprised to find Professor Mizuno typing away after he relieved himself.

"Good morning Professor Tomoe, I didn't want to be present when Ranma came online. She probably wasn't going to like what I did to her program last night after she went offline." Certainly he was aware Ranma wasn't a paper doll for him to play with, but he was worried his daughter might be falling for him. When he performed the experiment that transferred the dieing boy's mind into his computer, he did it because Ranma had saved Ami's life, however, he didn't need his daughter becoming too attached to a boy who now only existed within the family's computer.

"Ranma, that's the name of the AI you made, right?"

"Yes, originally her program was male, but I decided to make her female now. I'm more then a little worried about the way my daughter has been interacting with her lately." The last thing his superior needed to know was that he kept a ghost in his machine.

"Just how realistic is Ranma?" Maybe he could get the professor to design a playmate for his daughter. Poor little Hotaru was shunned because of her special gift, and it be nice if she had a friend, even a digital one.

"Real enough to confuse my daughter." He wouldn't let that happen though, Ranma was not allowed to be anything more then her friend.

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It was two years ago today… that's how long he had live this life inside the Mizuno family's computer. Thinking about it he wondered what his life would be like if he hadn't pushed Ami out of the way of that car.

Two years ago he was with his father walking along a street; they were on their way to a shrine to get some special training in the art of ki. His pop was going on about the path of a true martial artist, and he wasn't paying attention; although since he became a computer program he could remember it clearly. Instead of listening to what his old man had to say he was watching a girl crossing the street, and then he saw a car speeding towards her. Moving as fast as he could, he pushed the girl out of the way, but got hit himself. When he tried he could vividly remember the cars bumper hitting him and the great pain he was in before the world went black.

The next thing he knew he was here, inside Professor Shou Mizuno's computer. The Professor told him that he died, but before the spark of life left his body, Ami's father transferred his mind into his computer. Honestly thinking about it he wondered how his mind fit inside his computer. Now that he was a program he learned things pretty quickly and the human brain is more complicated the even the most advance computer of this age.

As impossible as it was, all of his life was there; his father taking him from his mother, signing the seppuku contract, Ukyo the strange boy who acted like a girl, the Neko-ken, Haruka the strange girl who acted like a boy, and the crash. There were things he wanted to remember, things he didn't, but nothing he couldn't.

Over the last two year he grew very close to Ami and her father. Maybe that's why he was a girl right now. Did Professor Mizuno think he was getting too close to Ami? They were fourteen, they weren't ready to be in love. True because he was a computer program he was more mature then a normal fourteen year old, but enough to be in love? Yes he found Ami attractive, but was that wrong?

Ranma accessed his clothing files and closed his eyes. After opening them he, she looked down at what she chose. It was a simple green one piece bathing suit. She had no intentions of examining her new body naked, but like this was fine.

Summoning a full length mirror to her digital world she looked at her reflection. As she was, she kind of reminded herself of her mother. Nodoka Saotome, was a beautiful woman, how she ended up with her pop she'd never know. It was probably for accuracy that she had a large chest this morning, if she had been born female; taking after her mother, she'd be that large. However she wasn't born a girl, she was a guy.

For now she'd accept what she was, after school she was going to have some words with Shou. Closing her eye and accessing her clothing files again she put herself in a white t-shirt and a blue-jean skirt, with the appropriate underwear. Now to design that outfit she saw last night.

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That test had been easy, Ami put the paper face down and thought about what Ranma might be up to. One thing she was pretty sure of, unless her father altered more then just his appearance, Ranma wouldn't be inspecting his new body. The digital boy turned girl was terminally shy, always making sure she turned off the computer monitor in her room while she got dressed. If the redhead was still alive maybe she'd worry about him seeing her naked, but since Ranma was just a ghost in their computer it wasn't that big of a deal to her.

If Ranma wasn't a cyber-ghost, if he was still alive, she was having thoughts about him that were improper. Was that why her father had altered Ranma, was he worried she was getting to close to him. She'd have to remind her father of his promise to Ranma, and she also had to let him know she knew the difference between a computer program and a real person. Although Ranma had been a real person at one time, she understood he wasn't anymore.

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Ranma looked herself over in the digital mirror once more. What she now wore was ridiculous. It had no practical application for fighting what-so-ever, never the less it was in this outfit that a girl her age fought monsters and demons in England.

Sailor V was the name of the blonde heroine, and now that she was wearing her uniform, the deceased Saotome couldn't help but wonder if the girl was crazy. High heel, a super short skirt, and a blouse that showed off her belly button; sure it looked cute, but is had no practical battle application at all. What was worse in her own opinion is she looked better in it then Sailor V.

Vanity aside, the redhead banished the mirror and summon up a few of the sparing partners the professor programmed for her. If a fourteen year old girl could fight in this get up, then while she was female she was going to do it too.

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Shou needed an excuse not to go home right away; working in his office just wouldn't cut it. Since he wasn't a good liar, Ranma would be even more annoyed if she knew he was avoiding her. Looking around his class while the student sat studying, he tried to find one he could give detention. Then he saw just the student, Haruka Ten'ou, she was out of uniform. "Ten'ou can you come to my desk please?"

Damn, the professor must have caught her looking at her female classmates instead of studying. Haruka sighed, got up, and walked to her teacher's desk. "Yes sir?"

"You'll be staying after school today for detention, your other teachers may ignore the fact that you choose not to wear the proper school uniform, but I will not."

Now the blonde was annoyed. "What do you mean; I'm wearing the proper school uniform."

"You are wearing the proper school uniform for a male student; however Miss Ten'ou, we both know you're a female. Now you will have detention with me after school today, and if choose to wear that uniform tomorrow you will have detention again." The cross-dresser stared him down with an evil glare; however he had gotten far worse from Ranma in the past.

Haruka walked back to her chair, Professor Mizuno had just made himself a dangerous enemy.

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Ami walked from school alone. One of her teachers bragged about her scores from a mock exam and the other students seemed to shun her. Was being smart such a bad thing? Why was it that no one could look past her brain?

She was half temped to skip out on the cram school her father enrolled her in just to spend time with Ranma, he at least saw her for who she was. Still if she wanted to follow her father's footsteps there was allot she still needed to learn. She also needed to figure out away to get past her fathers programming blocks and fix Ranma's gender. Maybe she could make a program that could allow him to change genders for when her father was around.

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Ranma had a new respect for Sailor V; it was difficult to take on the programmed sparring partners in her uniform. Creature that could think for themselves must be allot harder to fight. Then again, the blonde normally only had a quick battle with one monster at a time, she herself had just spent hours battling a hundred or so enemies.

Accessing the clothing files once again, Ranma changed into a blue blouse, a long blue flowered skirt, and sandals. Maybe if the professor came home and saw how easily she accepted things he might worry about accidentally altering her personality and fix things. He did promise he wouldn't change the core of who she was no matter what. Although that included not erasing the memories of the Neko-ken, it also meant he couldn't add things to her like manners.

Not that she hadn't picked up any manners on her own, being around Ami influenced her allot. Ami was kind, smart, and cute. Why was it she didn't have any friends aside from herself? Everyday Ami would come home from school alone, sometimes crying even. A lot of students picked on her for her intelligence, although Ami could put up with it to a degree, sometimes it was just too much for her.

Maybe it was the fact that she always tried to comfort Ami that her father confused for deeper feelings. Maybe if he tried comforting her himself, she wouldn't need too. It wasn't that Shou was a bad father it was just he tended to bury himself in his work. In turn Ami ended up burying herself in her studies. If it wasn't for herself Ami might not have any idea what fun was. If only she could get her interested in the Art.

Where was Ami, her school should have been out by now, she should be home already. Sighing she sat down in a chair she summoned. Then she summoned a desk and a computer. Since she was all practiced out, she might as well study her own program. Maybe she could fix herself.

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This was ridiculous; because she chose to not wear a skirt she got detention? Because she chose not be an object of male lust she had to stay after school. Haruka would have her revenge, somehow, some way Professor Mizuno would pay.

"So tomorrow will you be in the proper uniform, or will you be staying with me again."

"I refuse to wear a skirt! What does it matter what uniform I wear. The other teachers don't care!" Before the professor, no one ever gave the fact she was in the wrong uniform a second thought. The Principal even ignored her cross-dressing.

"I assume you're going to tell me you refuse to be an object of male lust? Tell me something Haruka, if it's wrong for boys to look at girls lustfully, why is it okay for you to look at them and have erotic fantasies? I've taught high school and middle school off and on since my daughter was two. I may not be able to read minds, but the stares you give them tell me everything I don't need to know." Why such a beautiful young girl would chose to hate men so early in life was beyond him. The blonde was only fourteen, only a few months older than his own daughter. She shouldn't have had any life changing experience yet.

...the blonde really had no answer for that, other than she probably should have been born male. Not that she truly wanted to be one of those vile creatures, but they got away with their perversions and the teacher pretty much just said she wouldn't. Maybe she should try to get with his daughter that would probably hurt him a lot. During school she'd play the part she was supposed to, but after school, she'd get her revenge.

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Ami sneezed, first the crystal disk she was given to help her study was giving her a headache, and now she was getting sick.

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Complaint department:

Sorry for the short first chapter, I will try to make the chapters a little longer as the story progresses.