Chapter 2 Minor Revision: Reunited friends

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The day of the arrival…

The Tendo Household was extraordinarily clean as everyone waited for the arrival of the guests. Everyone was on their best behaviour. Akane was sporting a yellow sunflower dress and Ranma was in his usual Chinese sleeveless vest and black pants. Genma and Soun were in a game of shogi each focusing with so much power, the tension in the air was thick enough to cut it with a plastic spoon. Happosai hadn't returned, Kasumi and Nodoka Saotome were in the kitchen preparing dinner for their guest (and they were making a lot since there would be two people with near-bottomless stomachs and two guests), Nabiki was in her room doing some reading and Ranma and Akane were in their rooms waiting for their guests to come.

Then the doorbell rang and Ranma and Akane raced down the stairs to greet their guests.

Akane opened the door. She looked at the guests. They both were about her and Ranma's age. One seemed as though she'd been body-building. She said, "Welcome to the Tendo Household. My name is Akane Tendo and this is Ranma Saotome. We hope that we can make you feel as much as home as possible." She bowed.

Ayumi replied, "Thank you Akane. My name is Ayumi and this is my friend Kagome Higurashi. We feel very honoured to be staying at the Tendo Dojo. Thank you for letting us reside at your home."

Akane then realized that Ranma hadn't said a single word so she looked at him and was about to stay something when she realized that he was staring at the girl next Ayumi. She followed his gaze and saw that the girl he was staring was staring back at him. Both were slightly surprised and relieved.

Kagome broke the silence. "Ranma; is that really you?" she asked. She was scared that she had made a terrible mistake.

Her fears were unfounded, however.

Ranma smiled. "God, how long has it been since I heard that voice, Kagome?"

She squealed, and went to embrace him, which he returned whole-heartedly, leaving two stunned and very confused people at the door.

"It's been way too long, Ranma. Oh, it's good to see you again."

"Great too see you too, Kagome."

They said all this whilst still embracing each other, further confusing the 2 people standing there.

Ranma then let go of Kagome and told Akane, "I'll explain once were inside, Akane."

They went inside into the main room where they sat down and Kasumi came out with some tea.

Genma decided to risk the shogi game in order to see if the mysterious girl really was her. He looked up saw Ranma and Kagome standing there. 'Yep, no doubt, it's her. I'll never forget that radiant smile she gives Ranma. I've never seen Ranma this happy before.' He then went back to the game to discover that the board had been rearranged and that he was now in checkmate.

Once everyone was seated at the table, Ranma and Akane on one side and Ayumi and Kagome on the other they started talking, Akane opening up discussions with the most obvious question.

"Ranma, Kagome, how did you two meet?"

Kagome and Ranma looked at each other before Ranma said "I'll answer that. It all started back to when I was about 8 years old, just after I met Ucchan. Pops ditched the Okonomiyaki Cart and we were travelling into town one day and we heard a scream for help."

"HELP! PLEASE! SOMEBODY PLEASE, HELP ME!"

"Pops 'n' me then ran to where the scream came from. It seems that a young mother was calling for help because her daughter was drowning in a river. So, seeing a chance to get some free grub and use this chance as "training", Pops said to me 'Boy, this is a great part of your training of being a martial artist: The ability to save lives. Now, GO!' and he throws me into the river."

An eight-year old Ranma was now dragging a coughing seven-year old Kagome on to the riverbank. We can see the distressed mother now checking her own daughter for injuries and Pops was looking at me for injuries. When they were both satisfied that we were fine, the mother went to thank us and invited us to stay for the night which Pops 'graciously' accepted. The two of us quickly became friends with each other.

"Hey, are you alright?" Ranma asked the little girl.

"Yeah, I'm fine, although just a little cold," said the little girl and shivering at the same time.

"Hey, what's your name?" asked Ranma.

"I'm Kagome. Kagome Higurashi."

"I'm Ranma Saotome."

"Hey, do you want to be friends?"

"After that, sure, why not?" said Ranma enthusiastically.

"We ended up doing everything together. We played and ate together and sometimes, she would accompany us on our sleep outs outside in the tents. We spent so much time together and had so much fun together, she cried when it was time for to leave."

"HEY!" yelled Kagome.

"Well, it was true; you poured your eyes out when I left. Although as compensation, I sent you letters about once a month, although that stopped when I was six because I heard that you had moved and I didn't know your new address."

"And I think it's time for you guys to start telling us about yourselves," said Akane.

"Well, what can I say, I went to school, and I met Kagome in middle school. I then met our other two friends, Eri and Yuka when I was in high school and now, I'm here," said Ayumi.

'Wow, did she lead a boring life, compared to me,' thought the other three.

"Well, my life was pretty similar to Ayumi's, so I don't have much to say, except that I live with my mother, brother and grandfather," Kagome said to Akane and Ranma, but to Ranma, she flashed a meaningful look, to tell him that she was lying. Ranma gave a small nod. The entire exchange went unnoticed by the other two.

"Now, how about you two?" ask Ayumi. Ranma and Akane gave huge sweat drops.

"Now, how about you two get comfortable and we'll start," said Akane.

Kagome's eyes narrowed in suspicion. "How long?" she asked.

"Kagome, you have no idea," Ranma simply said.

"Okay, it all started on a day two years ago…" began Akane.


After the explanation, there was a stunned silence. The two couldn't move. They were simply too stunned after hearing about two years worth of kidnappings, fights, rivals, curses and in Ranma's case, fiancés.

"So, let me get this straight, you're an aqua transsexual with 4 fiancés for your guy side, and one for your girl side, you can act like a girl whenever you want, Akane keeps getting kidnapped by princes and monsters and gods and who knows what else, your father turns into a panda, you turn into a cat because of some induced psychosis thanks to a fear of cats, one of your fiancés turns into a cat, his suitor turns into a duck, her grandmother is a three hundred year old Amazon Matriarch, another fiancé has a mental problem and poisons all her food, her brother is in love with both your girl side and Akane and he hates your male side and doesn't know about your curse, their father is the nut job principal at your school who goes on about shaved heads and bowl cuts for all, your last fiancé is an okonomiyaki chef who spent most of her life posing as a guy and to top it off, Akane is your first fiancé because of some agreement your fathers made all those years ago before you were born and you have a three 

hundred year old perverted grandmaster living in your house. And your entire group is called the Nerima Wrecking Crew because most, if not all of you are proficient in some form of martial arts," said Kagome in a stunned voice.

"That about sums it up, Kagome," said Ranma.

"Oh, dear, was one of your fiancés named Ukyo Kuonji?" asked Ayumi.

"Yeah, why?" said Akane.

"One of my friends said she was staying with him."

"Her. She only posed as guy to get revenge on Ranma."

"Oh, dear, she'll be disappointed; she thought she was a hot guy."

"Well, she fooled Ranma as well; he didn't know that she was a girl until he met with her in Nerima."

"Really? She fooled everyone. What were her parents thinking, naming a girl with a boy's name?" questioned Ayumi.

"I never asked: I was thinking that I had a friend back," said Ranma.

"Huh. Oh! About that curse, is it real?" asked Ayumi

Both Ranma and Akane sighed. "Akane, can you go boil some water for me? And could you also get a bucket of cold water?" asked Ranma.

"Sure, just make sure your outside when you do it, I don't want Kasumi to mop up any excess water," replied Akane.

So, as Akane went to the kitchen to boil that water, Ranma, Ayumi and Kagome went outside on the lawn in order to prepare for the "magic trick".

A few minutes later Akane returned with a bucket and a steaming kettle of cold and hot water respectively.

"Alright then, here it goes," said Ranma and he up-ended he bucket on himself.

The next few minutes, a lot of pouring was done as Kagome and Ayumi were trying to get used to the fact that Ranma was half-girl.

"Wow, I never thought that this would be real," said Ayumi looking very surprised.

"Well, one thing you learn about this curse is that they turn into water magnets," said Akane.

"Is there a cure?" asked Kagome, who was looking a lot less surprised than Ayumi.

"I'm still looking for one. I'm not sure if there is one," said Ranma.



"Anyway," said Akane, trying to change the subject but a call came out. "Dinner's ready!" said Kasumi. There was a mad rush as Genma and Ranma ran towards the heavily laden table.

"There's enough for everyone here, even for our two bottomless stomachs," said Nodoka.

"Thanks mom! It looks great!" said Ranma.

"You say that to everything you lay your eyes on that even remotely looks like food!" burst out Akane.

"No, not everything."

"Name one thing that you haven't said that to," said Akane.

"Akane, I don't even need to answer that question. Everyone knows the answer to that."

An uncomfortable silence followed that statement.

"Anyway, how about we stop talking and start eating," said Nodoka, desperate to change the subject before a fight broke out.

"Great idea, Wife. Everyone, let's dig in!"

"Itadakimasu," said everyone.

Dinner was quite eventful. Kagome and Ayumi were acting very surprised at how someone could literally inhale food, before turning to Nabiki, Kasumi and Mrs. Saotome to talk to them. Soun and Genma were drinking sake, Ranma was stuffing his face and Akane had a very angry look on her face, because Ranma had insulted her cooking. Then Ranma stole one of his father's fish cakes and a fight broke out over the pond, giving Kagome and Ayumi a demonstration of the Saotome Anything-Goes Style of Martial Arts. Ranma won the fight when Genma was kicked into the small pond, turning him into a panda and making Nodoka sigh, excuse herself and went to the kitchen to put the kettle on.

Dinner ended pretty quickly soon after and everyone was preparing to go to bed. It was soon figured that Kagome and Ayumi would sleep in Akane's room because the guest room was being used by the Saotome family.


Ranma was on the roof of the Tendo home in his favourite place: the roof above Akane's room. Then he heard his name being called.

"Ranma? Where are you?" asked a very familiar voice.

'Kagome,' he thought and he jumped of the roof towards the source of the voice, which was on the lawn.

Kagome was already in her pajamas and was standing on the porch when Ranma appeared from the heavens.

"Ranma! You scared me. Where were you?" she asked.

"I'll show you," he replied and he picked her up bridal style and leaped onto the roof and put her down.

"Ranma! Next time you do that, at least give me a warning!"

"Sorry, but I just wanted some privacy."

She laughed. "Same old Ranma: Daring and risky. What for?"

"What was with that look from before?" he asked.

"Ah, that. Well, you see, I haven't told anyone this secret. I wasn't planning on telling anyone because they'd never believe me," said Kagome.

"Try me. I've seen so much magic; I'll believe anything even remotely plausible."

"Alright then. I can travel 500 years back into the past, into the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States Era). I have priestess powers and I fight demons."

Silence. Then…

"HA HA HA HA HA HA! Kagome, I've also travelled through time, what makes you say that I won't believe you?" said Ranma with a smile on his face. "In fact, if you said that to anyone in Nerima, they'd probably believe you, with all that's been going on."

Kagome was really surprised. The first reaction she expected from someone was that she'd be asked to have her head checked.

"Well, tell me, what being going on in the Feudal Era?"

"Well, it started when my brother Souta asked me to get my cat Buyo from the well when…"


"Well, your life's almost as interesting as mine was. The difference is that it's not in this world and there is a lot more magic involved in your story," Ranma said.

"That's true. And your life has been completely up-ended by the fact that you have a curse which turns you into the opposite gender," replied Kagome.

"Do you think I can go there?"

"You know, I'm not sure. I've never tried. Perhaps if you have a Shikon no Kakera (Shikon Jewel shard). We'll try it out once we get there."

"Okay, thanks."

They both looked out to the night sky and glowing city.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" asked Ranma.

"Yeah. How did you come across this place anyway?"

"Well, one day, Akane was chasing me with her cooking and I decided to hide up here, knowing that Akane couldn't reach up here without a ladder. And, I saw this and I decided this would be something for me. I also come up here if I need to think."

Kagome smiled and then shivered.

"Are you cold?" asked Ranma. "We'll go back inside."

They both landed on the ground in the same manner as they went up. They then said good night and left for their rooms, Kagome into Akane's room and Ranma into the guest room.