Disclaimer: None of the characters depicted in this story are of my own creation. They are all the property of their respective owners. Since this will be a multicrossover, I will not be mentioning the other characters yet for fear of spoilers. For now, Ranma 1/2 and all related characters are property of Rumiko Takahashi, and Super Smash Brothers and all related characters are property of Nintendo.

SAOTOME RANMA AND THE WARRIOR'S HEART

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PROLOGUE: A FATEFUL DISCOVERY

[Tendo Dojo, Friday, 8PM, Two months after the failed wedding disaster]

"YOU DAMN PERVERT! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" *SMASH*

"Stupid tomboy. That's the fifth time this week!" Ranma muttered to himself as he flew through the air courtesy of Mallet Airlines. It wasn't his fault that someone had swiped his clothes from the bathroom while he was taking a bath, forcing him to walk out of the bathroom clad only in a towel, whereupon he had almost immediately bumped into Akane, with violent results.

Alas for the young pig-tailed warrior, his relationship with the erstwhile heir to the Tendo School of Anything Goes Martial Arts was at an all-time low, to put it mildly. It felt like such a disappointment for Ranma, especially now that his two other fiancées – the okonomiyaki chef Ukyo Kuonji and the Chinese Amazon Shampoo – had apparently cooled their heels and were no longer pursuing him as vigorously as before. They were seemingly content to cultivate, or in Ukyo's case re-establish, a closer friendship with him. With them less inclined to harass him with amorous intentions, he had vaguely hoped to cultivate some sort of positive relationship with his Tendo betrothed instead of the repetitive cycle of violent arguments and vitriolic name-calling, interspersed with quick moments of tenderness, which they had developed.

But Akane, upon being made aware of the situation with the other fiancées, had not reacted as Ranma had hoped. Paranoid at what to her were 'underhanded tactics that only an idiot wouldn't be able to see', she had expressly forbidden him to have any sort of contact, friendly or otherwise, with the other girls. She simply did not trust a 'perverted, womanizing jerk' like him to refrain from doing 'perverted, womanizing things' to his other fiancées.

This was something that Ranma, as starved for friendship as he was, simply could not allow. It did not help matters that Ukyo and Shampoo had extended offers to be his sparring and training partners, both on the pretext of wanting to improve their martial arts skills. He had taken them up on their offer warily, but had been pleasantly surprised after several sparring sessions had gone by with neither of the girls attempting to glomp, kiss, or otherwise touch him in any way that did not involve martial arts.

Even more surprising was that Ukyo and Shampoo seemed to have developed a friendship of their own, especially after a small series of adventures that involved Ukyo rescuing Shampoo from another abortive attempt by Maomolin to make her his bride, and Shampoo repaying the favour by taking a blow for Ukyo during a scuffle with Pantyhose Taro. Ranma had soon found them sparring together and casually chatting with almost no hint of hostilities between them. Although Ranma was still suspicious when they occasionally conversed and giggled between themselves in hushed tones while sneaking glances at him, he had quickly grown to be much more comfortable in their presence – something that drove Akane, Genma, and Soun mad.

Ranma was pulled out of his thoughts as he felt himself begin to descend. Taking a glance at where he was going to land, he saw that, by sheer coincidence, Akane had managed to send him flying on a direct course to a small campsite just outside of Nerima that he and the girls used as a sparring ground.

"Lucky I have a tent and some clothes stashed away there. Mebbe I'll camp out for a while before going back to the dojo. I just hope neither Ucchan or Shanchan are at the campsite. Better brace myself, this is gonna hurt!"

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As it so happened, both Ukyo and Shampoo were indeed at the campsite, fighting it out with gusto. Although their recent training sessions with Ranma had been very fruitful, he preferred to fight exclusively hand-to-hand. As they both preferred using weapons, it was something that they could train each other in and bond over better without Ranma.

The past two months had been both strange and surprisingly fun for both girls. After the fiasco at the wedding, they had both been advised (Ukyo by Konatsu and Shampoo by her great-grandmother Cologne) to attempt to use the soft approach – that is, develop a friendship that would eventually bloom into a romance. The sparring sessions were their idea of a peace offering, as well as proof that they were sincere in their offer of friendship. Ranma had taken the bait, although the gambit had nearly been destroyed when the girls both realized what the other one was up to during one sparring session. But a glance at Ranma's frown had them making peace, and his resultant smile at them was well worth it. Initially it had been like pulling teeth as they both forced themselves to get along with one another, but after a while it became easier. After the incidents with Maomolin and Taro, the girls were surprised to realize that they had truly become the best of friends, both coming to consider the other as a sister they never had.

Any onlooker watching the on-going sparring session, however, would have thought that the girls were mortal enemies hell-bent on killing each other. The girls had been training and sparring for the better part of the afternoon, and as such the both of them were bruised, bloody, and bone-tired. Ukyo's right arm was shaking as she wielded her battle spatula one-handed, her left arm having been temporarily paralyzed by a powerful blow from the flat of her opponent's dao. Shampoo, on the other hand, was limping slightly due to a massive hit that Ukyo had scored on her right upper thigh. In addition, at some point during the fight Shampoo had made a comment about "letting the girls breathe" before delivering a vertical slash that cut through Ukyo's blouse and chest bindings. Ukyo had responded with a diagonal slash that cut open Shampoo's dress from shoulder to hip. The rest of the fight continued in a similar manner until both girls were nearly naked save for their panties and a few scraps of clothing. Now they eyed each other, slowly gathering strength for one last attack. Just as they were about to clash for the final time, however, Ranma landed with a boom at the base of a tree just behind Shampoo.

Ukyo and Shampoo blinked in unison. Ranma let out a muffled groan of pain. At the sound, the two girls dropped their respective weapons and rushed over to their mutual fiancé who laid face-up at the foot of the tree, his eyes swirling in a daze.

"Ohmigod, Ranchan! Are you okay?"

"Airen! What happen to you?"

Ranma groaned again and shook his head slightly to stop it from spinning. Blinking wearily, he looked up and saw the two girls bent over him, worried looks on their faces. Despite the pounding in his head, he couldn't help but smile at the sight, even if a little voice in the back of his head was telling him that they were topless and he was getting a free show.

"Ucchan… Shanchan… You girls look so cute… But why're ya both naked?" At Ranma's comment, Ukyo squealed and raised one hand to cover her bosom. However, Shampoo merely smirked and thrust out her chest proudly.

"Airen like what he sees? Shampoo have better bust than Ukyo-jie, yes? Besides, Airen no can talk. You naked too." Ranma glanced down at himself and saw that Shampoo was right. Ukyo squealed again and covered her eyes with her other hand, only to peer through the gaps in her fingers a moment later. Ranma half-heartedly tried to cover himself while trying to remember where he stashed his extra clothes. Spotting his satchel hanging from a tree branch up on the tree he was laying at the foot of, he made to get it while attempting to explain himself to the now giggling girls.

"Hey, it ain't my fault Akane malleted me right after I got out of the bath! And close your eyes so I can get dressed, darn it!" Ranma tried to get up when a powerful dizziness overtook him. His vision suddenly blurred, and he found himself slumping back down on the ground. Noticing his distress, the girls stopped giggling and drew closer to him in concern.

"You okay, Ranchan? You hit the tree pretty hard with the back of your head. Don't move much, I think you might have a concussion." Ukyo grabbed a rucksack she had brought with her containing a change of clothes and placed it under Ranma's head to serve as a pillow. Shampoo, noticing where Ranma had been looking earlier, leapt up to the tree and took down Ranma's satchel. She was about to hand it to Ranma when a particularly naughty thought entered her head. She turned to Ukyo, grinning like her cursed form.

"Ukyo-jie, Shampoo not sure Airen can dress himself while he like this." She opened the satchel and took out one of Ranma's Chinese shirts and a pair of pants, tossing the shirt to Ukyo with a smirk. "We should help him, yes?" Ukyo looked momentarily unsure, but when Shampoo started feeling up Ranma's legs while placing them inside the pants and Ranma responded with a low moan, her resolve strengthened.

We may be friends now, but I'll be damned if I let Shampoo get Ranchan all to herself! I'm his fiancée too, damn it! With that thought, Ukyo decided on a course of action. Moving behind her fiancé, she began to run her hands up and down his arms, trying to get him to open them from where he had them crossed protectively over his groin.

"That's a good idea, Shampoo. C'mon, Ranchan. Open those arms so we can put your clothes on you." When Ranma resisted, she began to rub her breasts along his bare back. She felt his resolve begin to weaken, and moved her head forward and began nibbling on his ear. When that didn't work, she decided to go for the kill. Her hands cupped the sides of Ranma's face, and she pulled him close for a searing kiss. Ranma's eyes, which had started to close due to Shampoo's massage-like caresses on his legs, snapped open. Ukyo took advantage of his surprised state and forcefully shoved her tongue into his mouth.

Ranma's hands went limp with shock, giving Shampoo a clear view of her prize. To her consternation, it was still limp. A quick glance up showed that Ukyo was preoccupied with trying to extract Ranma's tonsils with her tongue. Nice going sister! Now, let's really blow our husband's mind! She grabbed Ranma's cock and gave the tip a lick.

Ranma abruptly tore himself away from Ukyo as a white-hot lance of pain ripped through his groin area. Rolling away from the girls, he curled into a foetal position and gritted his teeth. Another lance of pain stabbed through him, and this time he could not prevent a cry of agony from escaping his lips.

"ARRRGH! It hurts! By Kami, it hurts!"

Shampoo and Ukyo watched in horror as their fiancé started to roll around in pain. Shampoo in particular was almost in tears. She had only wanted to make him feel good, not cause him terrible pain. She glanced over at Ukyo, half-expecting an attack, but to her surprise the okonomiyaki chef looked every bit as surprised as she was.

Ukyo was confused as hell. One moment, she had been making out with Ranchan, the next he was screaming as if someone had stabbed him in the nuts. She had turned to blame Shampoo, but one look at the girl's horrified and tearful expression convinced her that it wasn't her friend's fault. So what the hell had happened?

After a few moments, Ranma stopped rolling around and was now only breathing heavily. The pain had ceased, and now he had to find out exactly what had caused. Struggling, he managed to get to his hands and knees. He looked up at the girls. Ukyo had an expression of confusion and concern on her face. Shampoo looked to be about an inch from bursting into tears.

"What," he croaked out, "the hell just happened to me?"

The sound of his voice galvanized the girls into action and they rushed towards him. Shampoo reached him first. Kneeling down, she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and helped him to his feet, all the while whispering repeated and tearful apologies. Ukyo crouched down and pulled up his pants, managing to catch a glimpse of his crotch. What she saw only increased her worry. Around his groin area were several circular marks. They were reddish and inflamed, as if someone had taken a heated pellet and pressed them at certain spots.

'That looks a lot like a… but how the hell did that happen?' Ukyo finished pulling up Ranma's pants and then helped Shampoo carry Ranma over to where he had first crashed. They all sat down at the foot of the tree, Ranma's back leaning against the trunk while both of the girls were under his arms. All of the lustful thoughts had been driven out of their minds with what had happened to Ranma. They sat quietly for a moment, until Shampoo started sniffling. Both Ranma and Ukyo turned to find the girl slowly beginning to cry. Ranma's arm around Shampoo's shoulder tightened, which prompted Shampoo to start speaking.

"Sh-Shampoo s-so sorry, Airen… I not know what happen! Shampoo only want to make Airen feel good! Not cause him terrible pain!" Feeling a bit chagrined at seeing Shampoo's tears, Ukyo spoke up in her defence.

"It ain't your fault, sugar. We had no idea he would react like that. Ranchan isn't mad at you, aintcha, Ranchan?" Ranma nodded in agreement.

"Ucchan's right, Shanchan. But I would like to know what it was you did. Mebbe we can find out why it hurt so much." Shampoo blushed briefly at Ranma's request.

"Sh-Shampoo massage Airen's legs, get him to relax. When Ukyo-jie and Airen kiss, Airen hands loosen, let Shampoo see little-Ranma." Shampoo gave a teary smirk. "Or maybe Big-Ranma be better name. Shampoo remember village lessons on pleasing husbands, kiss Big-Ranma's head, then suddenly Airen start roll around screaming." At Shampoo's explanation, Ranma had a confused look, while Ukyo's expression seemed to be one of someone slowly putting together the pieces of a puzzle. After a few more seconds, Ukyo asked her fiancé a question.

"Ranchan… This may sound somewhat crude, but you've got to answer me honestly, because I think I know what's going on. Have you ever masturbated before?" Ranma's face turned bright red in embarrassment at the question. A look at Ukyo's face showed him that she was being completely serious though, so he answered as seriously as he could, even if the answer was horrifyingly embarrassing.

"Once. When I was just 10. But Pops caught me doing it and told me never to do it again. Said it made people weak and that it was bad for the Art." Ukyo's eyes narrowed, and when she spoke again there was a razor-sharp edge to her tone.

"Did he do anything to you afterwards?" Ranma furrowed his brow in recollection, and then slowly nodded.

"Yeah. I remember he said he needed to correct the damage I had done, so he pressed a couple of points on… SONUVABITCH!" Ranma's anger exploded as it dawned on him what his father had done. Ukyo nodded in confirmation.

"Hmm. Yeah, I'm almost sure of this now. But I need to check something to be certain. Ranchan, lie down will ya? Shampoo, pull down his pants." As the two complied, Ukyo went over to the other side of the clearing, where she and Shampoo had stashed their own packs. Opening her own, she rummaged through it for a moment before pulling out a scroll labelled "Kuonji Hijutsu #5". Taking the scroll in one hand and both of their packs in the other, she turned around and was met with the sight of Shampoo taking advantage of her momentary distraction to straddle Ranma's chest and kiss him senseless.

Irritation bubbled up within the chef, but she decided to put it aside for now. Making her way back to the pair, she sat down beside them, cleared her throat, and waited for them to notice her. A tic mark formed on her brow when they ignored her presence and continued kissing. When Shampoo started grinding herself against Ranma's chest, Ukyo decided enough was enough and unceremoniously yanked the Chinese Amazon off of their shared fiancé's lips.

"Alright, alright, knock it off, Shampoo." She waved the scroll in her hand at the two. "Now, this is one of the Kuonji secret family scrolls. Only family members can see it, but for this once I'll make an exception." She unrolled the scroll and showed it to her fiancé and best friend. The top, sides, and bottom part of the scroll contained writing, but the greater majority of the scroll was dominated by the detailed outline of a human, with several points running throughout the body and lines connecting those points. Shampoo noticed the drawing's similarity to her great-grandmother's pressure point chart and commented on it.

"That look like chart for pressure points, Ukyo-jie, but with lines. You cure Airen using pressure points?"

"It's not a pressure point chart, although it is something similar. It's actually a chart showing the tenketsu, or chakra points, in the body." At that point, both Shampoo and Ranma looked confused. Ukyo gave a sigh. "Chakra is a combination of physical energy and spiritual energy. It flows throughout the body through pathways, and can be released through the tenketsu, or chakra points. Knowledge of them is something that has been passed down through the Kuonji family for generations, dating all the way back to our ninja ancestors." After taking a moment to let her friends digest this little tidbit about her family history, Ukyo continued.

"Anyway, when I was pulling up your pants earlier, I noticed that there were several red circle marks around your crotch. They correspond to where the tenketsu are located in that part of the body according to the chart. I think that Genma might have done something to your tenketsu and that's why you're feeling pain when you should only be feeling, err, pleasure. I'm going to use a secret Kuonji technique to check."

Ukyo clapped her hands together, closed her eyes, and then concentrated momentarily before murmuring in a low voice.

"Kuonji Secret Technique: Hands of Revelation."

A green shimmer formed around her hands. She pulled her hands apart, the green shimmer still remaining, and slowly placed them palms-down a few inches over Ranma's groin area. Ranma gave out a muffled moan as the warmth from Ukyo's technique caressed his lower regions. Shampoo gasped as small, reddish circles similar in appearance to a bee sting began appearing around Ranma's crotch. As Ukyo moved her hands around, it revealed other circles near Ranma's abdomen, only these ones were blue, not red. When Ukyo moved her palm away from the area, the circles also disappeared. Looking over to Shampoo, Ukyo motioned with her head towards the scroll.

"Quick, get a pencil from my pack and mark the circles on the tenketsu chart that look red. Hurry, sugar, I can't keep this technique up for very long!" Shampoo quickly searched through the chef's pack and after locating the pencil, quickly did as Ukyo instructed. When Shampoo indicated that she was done, Ukyo raised her hands up from Ranma's crotch and then clapped them together again. The green light disappeared and Ukyo fell forward onto Ranma's chest in exhaustion, making him "Oof!" in surprise.

Ukyo did not mean to collapse on top of Ranma, but the technique had taken more out of her than she had expected. She was breathing heavily and her entire upper body was covered in a light sheen of sweat, indicative of how exhausting that technique was. To be fair, I have been fighting all day with Shampoo. My stamina's just about had it. She took a moment to feel the contours of Ranma's muscular chest while she tried to catch her breath. Ranma stiffened for a moment and turned a wary eye at Shampoo, but she simply smirked and began searching through her pack. In a second, she found what she was looking for and pulled out two large blankets. She took one of them and spread it out over the ground then using her prodigious strength lifted both Ranma and Ukyo up. She placed them down gently on the blanket, lay down on Ranma's left side, and then took the other blanket and covered all of them with it. Ukyo shifted off Ranma's chest and then snuggled down under his right arm. Ranma blinked twice, and then after realizing that the girls were not going to fight, slowly began to smile. He drew both Ukyo and Shampoo closer to him, the girls using his shoulders as pillows as a comfortable silence descended on the three. Ukyo was about to fall asleep when Shampoo spoke up.

"Ukyo-jie? What that technique you use? What wrong with Airen?"

"It's a secret Kuonji technique called the Hands of Revelation. Basically I channel chakra to my hands and sort of scan the body to show the tenketsu. If the tenketsu is normal, it shows up as a blue circle. But if there's something wrong with it, it will show up as either red or black. Red means the tenketsu is blocked, black means it's been destroyed. Since Ranchan's tenketsu glowed red, it means his tenketsu have been blocked."

"Can you fix it, Ukyo-jie?"

"Sorry, sugar. I don't know how. The only way I know of to unblock tenketsu is to force chakra through them or to have the one who did the blocking perform a counter-technique. Only Ranchan or his dad can remove the block." At this point, Ranma spoke up.

"Meh. I'll do it tomorrow. Right now, all I wanna do is sleep. Uhh… you girls aren't gonna leave, are ya?" He felt both of them shake their heads.

"Shampoo get permission from great-grandmother to leave Nekohanten this weekend. Tell her I do much training with Ukyo-jie."

"I told Konatsu that I was going on a weekend training retreat with Shampoo. He has the Ucchan's handled while I'm gone." At the girls' reassurance, Ranma gave a sigh of relief.

"Oh. Good." And to the delight of both girls, Ranma's arms moved from their shoulders down to their waists as he hugged them both to him. "I don't wanna go back to the Dojo anytime soon. Let's stay out here for the next couple of days, alright?"

"Okay, Airen."

"Anything you say, Ranchan."

The clearing fell silent for a few moments, until Ukyo spoke up again.

"Ranchan, did you just cop a feel off my ass?"

"No, Ucchan. I didn't."

"Oh. Was it you, Shampoo?"

"Sorry. Thought it was Airen's. Ukyo-jie have nice ass."

"Oh. Uh, thanks, I guess."

And the clearing fell silent again as its three occupants drifted off to sleep.

Author's Note: The prologue is up on this planned epic-length Ranma 1/2 story. Chapter 1 should be out sometime within the next two weeks. Until then, I welcome any comments, criticisms, reviews, and wild guessing on who or what will be making an appearance. Suggestions will also be considered, as although I have the general story planned out, there's always room for a sidequest or two.