A New Beginning
Anything retaining to Ranma ½ or Negima is being used without the permission of the respective owners. I am but a humble college freshman with no relation to either creator save my love of their works (and in Ken's case, appreciation of his neko mimi maido wife! XD). Layman's terms: Don't sue!
"Yo!" Spoken speech
Oi! Thoughts
0Genma smells like-Hey! Who writes these things?!0 Panda signs
Tokyo Japan, Nerima ward
From the air, Nerima almost looked like a normal ward. There were no bodies, pig tailed or otherwise, attempting to earn frequent flier miles, no large explosions of various colored energy, and, amazingly enough, not a single crater nor a plume of smoke. Today, there were no fights, save the ones between husband and wife, sibling and sibling, parent and child. Normal fights, normal dramas, a normal day.
And the events that were unfolding in the house of Soun Tendo could also be considered normal. Normal that is, until one looked at the distinctly unnormal cause for said events.
"You've really done it this time, you old idiot." Ranma growled. Right now, Ranma Saotome was not happy. In fact, she was as far from happy as you could get, and the one responsible for her lack of happiness was currently quivering at her feet.
0You ungrateful son!0 Genma signed. 0Everything I did was to make a strong, no, a Man amongst Men! How dare you treat me like this?!0
"Oh I dare." Ranma said as she grabbed her panda of a father by the loose fur underneath his chin and hoisting him up until they were both face to face. "Everything was to make me a man among men?! Hah! The Cat fist? Jusenkyo? You call what you've done to me training?!"
0W-well, there may have been a few small mishaps, but nothing that stops you from-0
"MISHAPS?!" Ranma shrieked, not noticing as Genma's eyes widened and he started to notion for her to stop. "Of course you'd see everything as a mishap! After all, it doesn't matter if I freeze up whenever I see a c-c-cat! After all it doesn't matter that I turn into a girl! After all it doesn't matter when a Man amongst Men is forced to lie to his own Mother!"
"Well. I'm certainly glad you feel that way Ranma."
At the sound of that voice, that voice that was at once yearned for and feared, Ranma froze.
"Please turn around Ranma."
And she did. Slowly, she turned around to face…her mother.
"I, Mo-I mean Aunt, no, um I…" Ranma stammered as she stared at her mother, Nodoka Saotome, with the same expression of frozen fear and horror that one would expect to see on a rabbit when face to face with a hungry mountain lion. Seconds or perhaps minutes or even hours passed as the two of them stood there facing each other, motionless. Looking for all the world like a pair of statues.
Finally Nodoka broke off, bowing her head as if in shame."Please don't look at me like that, Ranma. I know I truly deserve that, but please…I, I just can't stand having my child look at me like that."
Awkward silence filled the room once more, silence only broken by the tiny plips of a mother's tears raining down to the floor. Fidgeting slightly, all Ranma could do was stand there, her mind completely blank at the sight before her.
"Mo-mom, hey. There-there's no need to cry. It's all right."
"No. No it's not all right. I-I let you go! I-I betrayed your trust in me! I'm, I can't call myself your mother."
All of a sudden Ranma's mind, in which any semblance of thought had been bulldozed from the shock, presented a very clear picture of what to do. Which was to go up to her mother and hug her. Stopping in mid-sob, Nodoka looked down at her currently redheaded daughter.
Ranma forgave her. That was the only thought going through her mind. She had been forgiven! All the pain, the suffering, the confusion that her child had suffered since they had been separated, the weight of which she had only just now realized. All of it was wiped away.
They were together. That was all that mattered now. And so, her face wet but absolutely glowing, her eyes once more brimming with tears, Nodoka hugged her child. Hugged her like she would never let go.
Translation:
Neko: Cat
Mimi: Ear
Maido: Maid
Long story short, she cosplayed as a cat-eared maid to tell people that cosplay isn't good. I think she was just joking, though.