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Chapter One

Jerrica sat bolt upright, scared by the restraint keeping her down. She looked around wildly. 'An airplane' she thought 'I'm on an airplane. Going to Japan. Ti live with an uncle I've never met.'

"Are you alright? Must have been some nightmare there Miss Tendo."

"Uh-huh. Oh, please, don't call me that."

"Serenity, then."

"I told you before, Mr. James, I prefer Jerrica. That is the name I go by, not Serenity."

The pilot announced that they were about to land in Tokyo. Jerrica automatically checked to see if she was still belted in.

"Well, I guess we'll be at your Uncle Soun's house soon. He lives in Tokyo, right?"

"The letter said Nerima Mr. James."

"Daddy, how could you? Another gueat? We've no room! And with the insanity that goes on around here...oh, what were you thinking?" Nabiki glared at her father.

"She is your cousin," Soun said beginning to tear up. "My dear older brother's only child. And we are her only living relatives. Kasumi, have you made a new guest bedroom, as I asked?"

"Yes, father." Kasumi wandered into the kitchen. "I wonder how much I should make?Ranma and Mr. Saotome aren't here, but a new guest, and what if someone comes with her..."

There was a knockat the door. Nabiki looked up, surprised. Who would ever bother to knock? Kasumi re-emerged to open the door.

A teenagfe girl with long blonde hair that hung down in ponytails that emerged from balls of hair at the top of her head, and vivid blue eyes, stood at the front door.

"Excuse me," her japanese was flawless, Nabiki noted. "Is this the Tendo residence?"

"Oh my, yes."Kasumi said "Do come in."

A man in a dark suit came up behind the girl. "What did she say?" he demanded in irritable english. "That's what I hate about travelling, all these stupid foreign languages. People who can't speak decent english like-"

"She said" Jerrica interrupted, "That this is the Tendo's."

"And I wouldn't assume," Nabiki said sweetly, in perfect, unaccented english, "that everyone here won't understand you."

"Well, that's all. She's already taken these japanese tests, so you can place her in your local high school. And money will be coming in quarterly to the bank account you've given me"(Kasumi's, but he didn't know that)"and to the bank account made out to you, Serenity."

"I told you, it's JERRICA."

A week later, Ranma and his father returned. Jerrica had settled in to life in Nerima- she was in Akane's class, inspite of her being almost a year younger, and she had made friends with Akane, and used the dojo every day to practice the chi her sensei had taught her.

"What's that?" Akane asked, coming into the dojo.

"Meditation. I'm supposed to practice every day. It clears the mind and cleans the aura, and it puts me in the right frame of mind to practice."

"I didn't know you did martial arts."

"I don't really, but my master said that learning the arts would help me, not that it's always necessary, but the thought that I was probasbly one of those who do better learning Chi and the Art. Mom was dead set against the idea and I never got the chance-"

"I'll teach you!" Akane interrrupted eagerly. "And you can show me the stuff you were taught. Fair, right?"

"Yeah, I guess..." Jerrica's voice trailed off, as shenoticed the loud sounds coming their way."Um, what's that noise, Akane?"

"...so we want to introduce her to you both- oh, hi. Jerrica." Soun smiled at her nervously. "I'd like to introduce you to my friend Genma, and his son-"

"C-C-C-cat!!!!"he word erupted from two throats at the same instant.