Chapter 2
Ranma and Kasuga had got home via Ranma's SUV and Ranko rode her bike home. "Well welcome to 'Eden's Garden'," he said. Then he parked the vehicle and helped her out. They headed inside the manor and went in to the dining room. "Mom?" He called, just then a young woman walked out. She had auburn hair and blue eyes, she was dressed in a midnight blue kimono with a white obi stockings and slippers. "Mom, this is Kasuga."
"Nice to meet you Lady Saotome." She said with a bow once again Ranma was feeling uncomfortable.
"Please, call me Nodoka." She said, "my you are a beautiful thing aren't you?" Kasuga blushed.
"Thank you mi lady." Nodoka grabbed the young kunoichi and sat down with her. They talked about everything, her favorite subject was Ranma. "Why is it that Ranma-sama doesn't like formalities?"
"Our family are of the people." Said Nodoka, "it's been said the reason why the people follow the Imperial Family is because we follow them. The people follow us." Ranko spoke up.
"By the way Ranma's my twin, we make compromises to the people because we are entertainers." She said.
"Entertainers?" Ranma nodded.
"They actually call us 'Adam' and 'Eve'. We own an entertainment company, play music, we host parties, run theaters, created games we try to keep people entertained." He said, just then Kasuga's stomach started talking to them. "Um, I better make dinner."
As they were eating another research team was in another mountain range in what looked like a refugee camp. The banners and flags had a wagtail on them and the team was making sure they didn't trip any traps making their way to the main base. The leader walked in and saw a canopy bed. "I'll go and see if someone is in it or not." She said, so she did and saw a young woman, like in her mid-20s, with red hair, nude, covered only by the sheets. She was very well built, double-d cup bust-line and very curvy. She checked her pulse and it was thready. "She's alive? Get a stretcher in here NOW!"
"Ma'am!" Said one of her subordinates. So one came in and they placed her on it with a sheet and they took her to the hospital. The woman that found her was a doctor and set her up by giving her fluids and making sure she lived.
"Okay, let's get her out of here!" She said, "I'll call Lord Ranma." So she does.
/Yeah?/ He said.
"Ran-kun, it's Jun." She said.
/Hey Jun-chan, what's up?/
"We found this old base and..."
/The general is still alive?/
"How did you know." She could hear to stunned silence on the other end.
/I just guessed. You mean that the general of that base is alive?/
"Yes sir."
/Bring the general to the hospital. Male or female?/
"Female sir."
/This is great. Okay, was she frozen?/
"No sir, but her pulse is thready."
/Did you give her the 'Mix'?/
"Yes."
/Okay, so she'll owe the clan a debt for life. I'll see what I can do to make it reasonable. Bring her to the hospital and I'll have my people give her the once over./
"You got it!"
/Good, we'll see you in two days./
Later Ranma, Ranko and Kasuga were walking in the orchard talking. "So, you guys basically run all of Japan?" the kunoichi asked.
"That's right," said Ranko. "And almost all of Europe as well." Kasuga was impressed by them. Ranma just shrugged. "Via conquest, but we had wanted the Imperial family on the throne. So we made a deal with them; we get total control of the army and we help them if they need us."
"It's what we do," he said. "We even met a religious leader while we were in Europe on a tour." Then Ranma started to pick some apples from the trees, they were green and a strange blue colored placing them in basket. "The blue ones, can cure almost anything." Kasgua's eyes widened.
"Really?" Ranma nodded and tossed Kasuga, an apple she caught with one hand.
"Looks like you haven't lost a step in those 400 hundred years." She smiled and took a bite of the strange apple. It had a sweet taste to it.
"Mmmm, this is so good." She said as she took another bite.
"Tasty huh?" Said Ranko.
"Very," she said.
"Our gardeners and scientists came up with that apple, we had a lot of that formula left that destroyed that bio-weapon and mixed it with a 'Granny Smith' apple. Which are these green ones by the way. You enjoy that," said Ranma as he was still picking blue and green apples.
"Why are you picking apples anyway?" Ranko said.
"Making a pie."
"Oh can I help?" Said Kasuga as she took another bite of the apple.
"Sure," he said. "If you want to." So they went in and made a couple of apple pies which were delicious.
Later the young woman that Jun had found started to awake. "Where am I?" She said, just then a nurse went over to her.
"Are you alright?" She said, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you."
"It is alright." She said, "where am I?"
"Eden Mercy hospital."
"Why am I in a hospital?"
"When we found you, your pulse was very thready." She cocked an eyebrow.
"Thready? I should be dead," she started to look around and saw the room she was in. "What year is it? It's not the 18th year of the Tenbun era is it?"
"Nope, it is Heisei 24 or if you want to be technical, Saotome 1. (1)"
"Saotome?"
"Yes, Ranma Saotome or as most people knows him as, the 'Eden Emperor' and his family saved all of Japan and Asia."
"All of Asia?" She said.
"Yep and we are also allied with Western Countries as well."
"What's he like?"
"Y'know, I'm not the person to ask. I'm just a lowly nurse, let me get a doctor and I'll let her tell you." So she did.
The next morning, Ranma and Ranko were in the backyard training and sparring against each other. Kasuga was watching in awe. "No wonder they are as good as they are." She said, Nodoka came up behind her.
"Yes they are," she said. Kasuga turned around to see her, "good morning Kasuga."
"Good morning Lady Nodoka." She said.
"Ranma and Ranko are really good aren't they?"
"Yes mi Lady." They knew that they were talking about them so Ranma looked at Ranko and nodded. They headed right for each other and tried for a jump kick at each other, barely missing each other. "Oh my, it's like an art."
"Yes it is."
Later, Ranma and Ranko got cleaned up and ate breakfast. Ranma was now in a tank top and cargo pants. Ranko was in a T-shirt and jeans, "so who is this person Jun-chan found?" She asked as she put a piece of toast in her mouth.
Ranma swallowed his food and washed it down with some milk. "Her name's 'Magoichi Saica'," Kasuga gasped. "You know her Kas-chan?"
"I have heard of her," she said. "Keiji Maeda had a crush on her."
"Well, I going to meet her."
"I will be going with you, as protection."
"You can come, Ko get some clothes ready."
"For Saica, done and done." Ranma got up after breakfast with Kasuga then he grabbed a bag with some clothes in it for Saica.
"Come on Kasuga, let's roll." So they took off.
TBC