Destiny
Prologue
It was late in the night up in Heaven and while most of the Gods and Goddesses didn't really need to sleep. They still liked to have time to themselves in their homes whenever they weren't on assignment and liked to spend it sleeping for the shear novelty of it.
However there were some who are unable to sleep at anytime and one such being, named Kami-sama, was looking through a portal at the mortal world of Earth and was looking in particular at a young man lying on the roof of a certain Dojo we all know and love in Nerima Japan. Absently star gazing up at the sky trying to find solace and comfort from the stars as some were wont to do. Kami-sama could see the young man was thinking hard to himself about a lot of stuff going on in his life and trying without success to find a solution to all his problems.
Kami-sama could also see that the young mans heart was filled with loneliness and sadness and that he was struggling with his burden and could also see that the burden was getting harder and harder for the young man to fight against as it got bigger and bigger with every passing day. But he could also see that the young man wasn't giving up and that he never would and that he holding onto all the hope he possessed as hard as he could so that he never lost it.
Kami-sama chuckled slightly as he saw a sudden deluge of rain soak the young man completely, triggering his curse and was turned into a stunningly beautiful, curvy and busty short young woman with enchanting blue eyes and red hair with a long pig tail hanging down to the bottom of her back. This actually surprised Kami-sama and yet quite pleased him for the first time in a long while because the long pigtail was actually quite new and Kami-sama hadn't thought that the young woman before him wouldn't have started to accept her curse for while yet. Kami-sama smiled happily because he knew that this would make his plans for the young Aqua Transsexual much easier in the long run.
Kami-sama's smile dimmed a bit as he remembered the events that would have to take place before the young mans (currently woman) destiny could begin and he felt that the next few days would be rough on the young man and could break him but he felt that the young man was strong. And as Kami-sama started to turn away from the portal waving a hand to dismiss it, he took one last look at the young woman as she jumped off the roof in answer of a summons from inside and as he looked deep into her eyes he saw a fire that burned in her eyes never dimming but growing stronger and all of a sudden Kami-sama felt a lot better for the future ahead. A lot depended on that young woman making it through the tribulations that faced her and he felt that she would come through stronger than ever.
He took one last fond look at the young woman and dismissed the portal before saying "Take care Ranma Saotome, a lot depends on you making it through the next days as the future of your world depends on you but be sure your future shall be a bright one if you survive"
Chapter 1Ranma Saotome lay on the roof of the Tendo dojo absently gazing at the stars as he tried to think of a solution to his problems. He chuckled sadly to himself as he thought about just how many problems he had. He had his multiple fiancées all of which he didn't want and didn't know what to do about. 'Stupid Panda' he groused 'Why did you have to go and engage me to all those girls just to feed your fat stomach, Baka panda' and he sighed heavily thinking 'Oh well nothing much I can do about them and we don't even know how many fiancées I have left to be discovered and to be dealt with and it isn't even my responsibility or even my fault that I have this many fiancées, most of them probably aren't legal, Baka Panda' he groused again feeling very resentful of his stupid, panda Jusenkyo cursed excuse of a man that was his father.
'Too bad Akane doesn't see that' Ranma thought with regret 'That girl is so jealous that she misinterprets everything to do with me and she is getting worse especially since the wedding six months ago' Ranma thought back to the wedding. Akane had been so beautiful back then and Ranma would have married her in a heart beat 'But the others had to go and ruin it and ever since then she has been getting more abusive and accusing' Ranma thought back along the past few months. During the past few months Akane had been steadily getting more and more angry with every passing day and she was quicker to expressing her anger in the most painful way. A quick trip across Nerima via Akane airlines AKA a mallet to the head. Ranma just could not understand how he could not evade that bloody mallet of hers it almost seemed invisible.
Her anti-boys sentiment had reached new heights and Ranma considered it a miracle that she hadn't killed anybody yet. Ranma had even for the past few months been far more polite to her, hardly ever calling her 'Uncute Tomboy' for all the help that it did. She still called him pervert and hit him for no reason and the latest developments with Ranma's curse hadn't helped. For the past few months about two months after the wedding Ranma's curse had taken a wild, embarrassing and disgusting new turn.
Periods and Akane wasn't amused at all.
While it wasn't unusual for a girl to have periods and Ranma has the complete physical package. What made it unusual was that Ranma for the past two and a half years had never spent enough time in his girl form to experience a period and then all of a sudden once a month for the past three months he would experience a growing pain in his abdomen when ever he was in his guy form during the period and it only continue growing until whenever he turned into a girl and then it only turn into a vague discomfort that made her feel like she was growing bloated and it had made her very irritable. So imagine Ranma's surprise when one morning on the first month after spending a night in his girl form to avoid waking up in the middle of the night due to the pain that when she went to the Bathroom to clean up she found herself bleeding 'Down there'.
Ranma's scream was so loud that it woke up everybody else and they had all rushed up to the Bathroom only to find a naked female Ranma sitting on the floor shaking in fear with her legs open staring numbly in unbelieving horror at the blood coming out of her vagina. Fortunately Kasumi having already been up a couple hours cooking Breakfast and had just finished and having already gone through this with her younger sisters had immediately taken charge and shooed everybody out of the Bathroom telling them that breakfast was ready and on the table.
She had then gotten undressed and had proceeded to calm Ranma down enough to help her start to clean herself up and when it came to cleaning up the blood Ranma started to freak again. Only to have Kasumi distract her thoroughly by rubbing a washing clothe over the silky hairs that covered the very sensitive area that was the vagina completely snapping Ranma out of her stupor. When Ranma was cleaned up Kasumi had then proceeded to explain to Ranma about all the female parts she possessed using herself as an example and had then told Ranma all about the Menstrual process and about pregnancy. Ranma had never been so mortified or embarrassed.
After they were dried and dressed Kasumi told her about the different ways that girls dealt with the blood from the period with pads and tampons. Ranma had absolutely balked at the idea knowing that it required her to wear female underwear something she tried to avoid when ever possible. But when she tried to turn to a guy he immediately bent over in pain clutching his abdomen and Kasumi ever the astute one had immediately doused him with cold water turning him into a girl and the pain had instantly went away.
Kasumi had said wryly "Well Ranma it appears that you have to go through this anyway no matter what you do".
Ranma of course had been very upset but reluctantly accepted that she had to go through with it and consoled herself with the fact that every other female in the world went through this every month and afterwards she had hesitantly asked Kasumi if she had any underwear that might fit her and for some pads. Ranma didn't want to use tampons as it required her to insert them into herself and it reminded her of something she did not want to think about. Afterwards they had gone down to breakfast and when Ranma had sat at her usual spot at the table still female Genma had of course been suitably dismayed and had demanded that she turn back into a male. Ranma just shut him up with a few punches and pressure points and threw him into the koi pond in response to his demands. She wasn't in the mood for his stupid speeches.
Ranma smiled in remembrance of that day, Kasumi been very supportive of her on that day and afterwards their relationship with each other had evolved into a very close friendship.
'Kasumi is so good to me, she's one of my best friends, one of the few people who doesn't demand anything from me and one of the few people on whom I can depend on. Now that I actually think about it I think I'd rather be engaged to Kasumi' thought Ranma with a smile.
Akane of course mistook their friendship with each other the wrong way and whenever she saw them together she accused him of doing something perverted with her sister and to leave her alone and these 'conversations' (arguments) often resulted with a hole in roof from Ranma flying through it, a steamy Akane holding a mallet and an upset Kasumi scolding Akane for hurting Ranma for no reason which Akane in her anger doesn't hear.
Ranma frowned even more when he remembered another of his problems, which was related to Akane's growing anger. His two other long-term fiancées, Ukyo the okinamiyaki expert and Shampoo the Amazon.
Ranma scowled, those two girls are just aggravating the situation with Akane even more, playing on her jealousy of Ranma in hopes of making her break off the engagement.
The main problem with Ukyo's engagement to him was that was no way to honourably sever it. When Genma had engaged him to his old best friend whom at the time Ranma had thought was a boy Genma had run away with six year old Ranma and the dowry that came with the engagement and leaving Ukyo behind therefore breaking both her honour and making it impossible to resolve the engagement honourably. Shampoo was an Amazon who was engaged to him by an Amazon law called the Kiss of Marriage, which happens when a male defeats an Amazon warrior in honourable combat. Ranma's scowl softened into a light frown. He probably could have actually married Shampoo if weren't for the fact that at the time Shampoo had been hunting Ranma's girl half to kill her to fulfil a kiss of death that Ranma had incurred in china just a few scant days after getting cursed.
That and the fact that the way that Shampoo came onto him trying to gain his attention and using all those pressure points and potions and drugs to get him for herself just totally turned him off. Ukyo in way was the same Ranma considered her to be more a sister than marriage material and Ranma felt slightly off just thinking about Ukyo that way.
Between Akane's jealousy, anger and beatings. Shampoos past acts and the fact that Ukyo was more like a sister than a fiancée Ranma could never begin to consider marrying them.
But all three of them continued to bicker amongst themselves fighting to claim Ranma as their own. Ranma chuckled darkly; to them he was nothing more than a trophy, something that he did not want to be. Yet he could honestly admit to himself that he actually cared very much for all three of them because they were all very nice people when they weren't fighting and most of the reason that Ranma hadn't just out and broken the engagements was he didn't want to hurt them.
Then off course he had his other problems. The Kuno's, a shudder of revulsion ran down Ranma's back as he thought of them. Tatiwaki Kuno was obsessed with his female half and he was also obsessed with Akane so he couldn't decide between either the 'Pigtailed Goddess' or 'The fiery Akane Tendo' and he was also convinced that Ranma's male half was a black sorcerer who keeping them away from him so he was continually trying to date Ranma's girl half and kill his Male half. Kodatchi Kuno was the exact opposite. She was obsessed with Ranma Guy Half and wanted to get rid of 'The Red Haired Harlot'. She continually drugged Ranma with different powders and drugs to get him to become hers and then she was trying various different ways to get rid of Ranma's Girl half.
Another Problem Ranma had was with an old friend/Rival Ryoga Hibiki who was continually fighting Ranma in increasingly destructive fights across Nerima. Forcing Ranma to protect the innocent bystanders more and more and every time Ranma was getting more and more injures from Ryoga who was continually becoming more careless in his fights in his blind rage and hate against Ranma. His last main problem lay with the old Pervert Happosai current Grandmaster of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts. The Old Freak was still going round stealing all the woman's underwear in Nerima and just generally hassling everybody in the neighbourhood of Nerima and having a kick out of himself. But Ranma felt something was up. The old man didn't appear to be doing anything out of the ordinary and Ranma felt that it was just getting all a little bit routine. 'My instincts have never been wrong about something like this before and I'm getting worried, Cologne seems to be minding her own business but I feel something wrong there too, I'm going to have to be on alert at all times and make sure that Kasumi is safe when it happens' ThoughtRanma his eyes narrowing in determination.
'I haven't lived this long against all odds just too fall now, I survived The Orichi, I survived against Herb and I survived an all out battle to the death against that god Saffron on Phoenix Mountain' Ranma saddened at this thought of having to kill Saffron to save Akane from death although it almost killed him in the process but he knew that it had been necessary.
Ranma was suddenly soaked by an ultra quick squall of cold rainfall the kind that was common to show up around a Jusenkyo victim and turned into a girl. But Ranma surprised herself by not feeling any annoyance at the transformation at all. Just acceptance at the sudden change in gender. So all she did in response was to flare her Ki to dry herself, adjust her clothes before shifting herself so that she was more comfortable and to grab her now long Pigtail that hung to her bottom to play with it. Ever since she had started having to spend time in her female body she had actually started growing her pigtail on her female half and she had found that she quite liked her hair like this. As she lay there on the roof gazing at the stars contemplating her change in views concerning the curse she slowly came to the realisation that she no longer considered the curse, a curse. It was something else, what that was she didn't yet know but she knew maybe that after all this time she was actually accepting the curse, that she was forever more going to be half male half female and she was adjusting to it, she felt just as comfortable in her female body as in her male body something she thought would never happen. 'It's not as hard as I thought it would be and probably better than I thought it would be, I guess pops teachings about girls are finally wearing off, I think I might actually be beginning to like my curse, no it not a curse anymore' thought Ranma with a growing smile, hope growing in her heart that she can finally become… whole… who she was meant to be. With a growing conviction she said softly to herself "I am Ranma Saotome no matter what gender I am. I am both a man and a woman and I am quite happy and content to be so" one thing still hadn't changed though she still more attracted to girls than boys so she wasn't that far along.
Ranma lay there on the roof for a couple more minutes just star gazing, contemplating about how comfortable she felt in her female body where before there was always this undefined need to turn back into a guy. The need was gone. All of a sudden Ranma heard Kasumi walk out onto the patio to call out to Ranma.
"Ranma, dinners nearly ready, come set up the table the stuffs all there" said Kasumi giving Ranma a smile before heading back to her kitchen to make sure Akane didn't do anything.
"Coming Kasumi" called Ranma before jumping off the roof to go set up the table. Little did she know that this night would start off a chain of events that would have far reaching consequences.
