A/N: Well, i know i have two other fanfics out there and i'm working on them. It's just that, i only thought up the beginning and end for both. I'm trying to get in contact with zangetsu422 to help, but i don't know his/her email address. If anyone could help me with that, please do. Anyone who would like to help me with this fic or Little Cat Ranma, you are welcome to review or PM about it. Thank you!
A/N(2): This story was inspired by Born that way(great story. Can't wait for it to be updated!), in the sense that Ranma is born dual-gendered. So yeah, Ranma was born dual-gendered and that affected a lot of things. Read and review so you can tell me if i did a good job or not and if i made any mistakes. Rated T for some language. I think i'll do better on this than my other fics, but who knows? So here it is, folks! Chapter 1!(going to try to name the chapters again. need someone to help with that, please)
Chapter 1: Here's Ranma... Er... Ranko? Both?
"So where are we going, Dad?" asked a cloaked figure to the panda next to it. They were walking through the rainy streets of the Tokyo Nerima ward. People were staring. A lot. With VERY wide eyes. 'Can't blame them,' thought the hooded figure. 'It's not everyday you see a panda walking through the streets on two legs.' It was a good minute or two before the panda held up a sign. The hooded figure read it aloud. "'Somewhere?' Seriously, Dad? You're being childish. Now tell me where we are going or i'll beat you into the ground," the figure said, calmly. The figure was obviously exasperated. The panda pulled out another sign, seemingly from nowhere. [We're visiting an old friend of mine], read the sign. "You even HAVE friends?" The panda pulled out another sign. [Of course i do] he flipped the sign.[now stop threatening me.]*flip*[ah, here we are]*flip*[the Tendo School of Anything Goes] "you never told me there was a Tendo branch of Anything Goes." [Well there is] And with that, the panda walked up to the door and knocked on it.
"Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane! Family meeting!" Tendo Soun said, after reading the postcard his friend, Genma Saotome, sent him. The first to come in was Kasumi, his eldest daughter.
"What is this for, i wonder?" she asked no one in particular. The next to come in was Nabiki, the middle daughter.
"What is it?" she asked. Soun ignored her, however, and called for Akane again.
"Where is that girl?" he asked himself.
Meanwhile, Akane just got back from her jog. She went straight to the dojo, where she changed into a training gi, and set up cinder blocks to chop, and, with a cry of "HAH!," she did. Nabiki came into the dojo just then.
"Akane, Dad called a family meeting.
"What for?"
"He didn't say yet."
"I'll be there in a minute," she said, as she cleaned up and changed clothes again. After all of the Tendos were in the living room, Soun told them the great(for him) news.
"My old training partner and his son are coming over today," he began. "Me and old Genma promised each other that we would join our two schools together. One of you will marry Ranma." He waited for this to sink in. Akane reacted immediately.
"You engaged us to a boy!?" she exclaimed. Kasumi spoke up next.
"I hope he's not younger than me. Younger men bore me."
"Is he cute?" Nabiki asked.
"I don't know," Soun replied.
"You don't know!?" Akane yelled at him.
"I've never met him."
"So you engaged us to a man you(and we) don't even know!?" Just then, there was a knock at the door.
"That must be them," Soun said, getting up to go greet his old friend, Nabiki following behind. A few seconds later, they came running back, followed by a panda and a cloaked figure. The two of them stood in the middle of the room. The cloaked figure then started speaking.
"Do you have some hot water?" Dumbfounded, Soun nodded his head and Kasumi went to get a kettle of hot water. She came back a few minutes laterwith a kettle of hot water. She offered it to the cloaked figure. The figure bowed in thanks, then poured the hot water on the panda, who turned into a balding man with glasses and a bandana. Soun recognized him immediately.
"Genma?" he asked, hesitantly.
"Yes Soun, it's me," he said, tears streaming down his face.
"How do you turn into a panda?"
"That's a long story. It started when...," the hooded figure cleared it's throat. "Oh, i forgot. This is Ranma."
"Ah, Ranma. Good to see you, my...," as he was saying this, he hugged the newly dubbed Ranma. He stopped mid-sentence because he felt two mounds on Ranma's chest. He stopped hugging Ranma and held "him" at arms length. Nabiki came up and tried to poke Ranma's chest, but was stopped by Ranma's hand.
"Just because you're a girl, doesn't give you an excuse to grope me."
"Ranma is not a guy, Dad," Nabiki said. "He is a girl." Soun then fainted.
Soun came to, with everyone crowding around him. They were all still in the living room.
"Some fiancé, Dad," Nabiki told him.
"You told me you had a son," he told Genma, tears streaming down his face.
"I do," he said. "It's a long story. Maybe we could tell it at dinner?"
"Ok, but we deserve an explanation, Genma."
"And you'll get one, don't worry." Ad they we talking, Akane approached Ranma.
"Hi, i'm Akane," she said. "Do you want to be friends?"
"Sure," Ranma said with a smile.
"Do you want to spar? We've got a dojo in the back."
"Ok." And with that, Akane showed Ranma to the dojo. They each walked to opposite sides of the dojo and took a stance.
"Don't worry, i'll go easy on you," Akane said.
"Okay," Ranma replied. Just then, Akane noticed something.
"Why don't you take off that cloak? It's pretty hot in here, isn't it?" Ranma shook her head. "Okay, then," Akane said. She waited a few more seconds before charging at Ranma suddenly, hoping to catch her off guard. One second, she was running at Ranma, the next, she was on the ground, staring at the ceiling. She got up and looked at Ranma, who was standing in the same place as before, smiling. "How did you do that?" Akane asked. "I didn't even see you move!"
"I was trained by my dad to be the best martial artist in the world. No big deal."
"No big deal!? Being the best martial artist in the world is a HUGE deal!" Ranma shook her head softly.
"Anyway, are we going to continue?" She asked Akane.
"No. I don't think i have a chance against you, anyway. It's a good thing you're not a boy, though." Ranma frowned at that.
"Why?" She asked.
"Because i couldn't stand losing to a boy. All boys are perverts!"
"I'm not a pervert," Ranma stated.
"Of course not," Akane said. "You're a girl."
"But i'm also a guy." Now Akane frowned.
"You can't be a girl AND a guy," Akane said.
"I am, though."
"Prove it."
"At dinner." Akane grumbled a bit.
"Fine. At dinner." And so the pair walked back to the house to get ready for dinner, Akane looking at Ranma strangely the entire time.
After everyone sat down around the table, Genma launched into his explanation on how he turns into a panda.
"Well, a few months ago, me and Ranma found a training ground named Jusenkyo, and...," he was cut off by Ranma.
"To make a long story short, there were pools everywhere, i smacked him in one, he came out a panda, smacked me in another one and we were told by the guide that hot water would change us back but as soon as we got hit with cold water again, we change back into our other forms." Before Ranma could continue her explanation, Nabiki butted in.
"What spring did you fall into?"
"Spring of drowned cat," she said, taking off the cloak. Everyone(besides Genma) gasped. Ranma was a beautiful girl with red hair tied in a ponytail with Chinese clothes: red shirt and black pants with a red belt. The thing that REALLY grabbed their attention, though, were the two red cat ears on top of her head and her slitted eyes. They thought that was all there was that looked like a cat, until they saw that the belt wasn't a belt, as it unfurled and waved around. It was a tail. Something didn't fit right, though.
"If you fell into the spring of drowned cat, then why are you only PART cat?" Nabiki asked.
"I'm getting to that. The reason is that Jusenkyo curses mix." Akane gasped at this. "I was cursed when i was born. Dad tried to cleanse my body in water that turned out to be drowned girl Jusenkyo water. I've lived my whole life as a boy AND girl. So i'm NOT a pervert," she said, looking at Akane. Just then, Nabiki splashed hot water on her, now him. "This is what i look like as a boy," he said. He didn't look all too different(besides the obvious differences, like the cat ears and tail, and the girl parts). He was taller, more muscular, and had black hair, not red.
"I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this."
END CHAPTER 1
A/N: Just to kill off at least one question here, Ranma DID go through the neko-ken, but he learned to control it(since he would've gone crazy being half cat and all). Also, i've kinda copied off of Born That Way and this other fanfic where Ranma fell into the Spring of Female Saiyan, but i'll try not to copy any more than that. I thought about making a Ranma/Akane pairing, but i'll let you guys pick. I'll put a poll up, so please check that out. If you don't know how, or don't want to, than post a review saying who you want the pair with. So that's it for now, see you in the next chapter of whatever story a put the chapter in!