Disclaimer: If you think anything besides the story is mine, you're very very wrong.
Chaos in the Moon by Lioconvoy
Chapter Two: Forgotten Ties
Nabiki got up bright and early the next morning. Since Furinkan and Juban both had five day school weeks she'd take advantage of the weekend and have the shop open the full day. Hopefully she and Mamoru could take care of enough customers to offset the fewer hours they'd be working during the school week.
After going down stairs she expected to see Genma and Ranma sparring already, but only Genma was sitting on the porch.
"Nabiki have you seen Ranma?"
"No, did he ever come home yesterday?" When she had gotten home it was late and only Kasumi was still up.
"I don't believe he did. Where could the ungrateful boy be?" Genma frowned as he thought about what today was.
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Akane laid in her bed thinking about yesterday afternoon. It was nice seeing Ryoga and Ranma getting along. It hurt though that Ryoga would try to fix Ranma up with his cousin. What was he thinking?
It was probably for the best that Ranma went home with Ryoga. She didn't want to see either of them right now.
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As Ikuko came down stairs she could see that her husband and sister-in-law had already gone out. Last night must have brought terrible nightmares for poor Kasumi. It never failed that the night before this day she and her twin would swap dreams. The two must have gone out for a walk to try and clear their heads.
Twin of the Tsukino clan had very deep psychic connections. It was for that reason when Usagi's twin came out a boy, Kenji named him Ranmyaku. He knew the brother would cause chaos for the sister. Despite the fact it was thirteen years ago that Ranmyaku was kidnapped by his uncle, he still manage to cause quite a bit of chaos for Usagi. What ever it was her brother was doing to her son, it caused Usagi an unreasonable fear of cats, terrible eating habits, and talents she tended to hide from her friends.
Where was her son right now?
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"Think Ami's up by now?" Ranma said as he and Ryoga got off the train that took them to Juban.
"Probably not, but there's a park around here that we can spar at for a little bit." Or at least Ryoga hoped there was. With Ranma as his compass he wouldn't get lost, so things might not be where he remembered them.
"So this is where you went Saotome?"
Ranma turned to see Nabiki getting off the same train they just had. "Yeah what about it?"
"Just curious, your father is looking for you." Nabiki smiled. Although something seemed wrong about Ranma and Ryoga getting along.
"Who cares what his old man wants. Ranma and I have business here." Ryoga snarled. He liked Akane, but her sister got on his nerves.
"We're going to see Ryoga's cousin about my dream. She's a bit of a 'know it all' so she might be able to help." Although Ranma agreed with Ryoga's statement, he was going to try and have a little more faith in Nabiki.
"A 'know it all'? You wouldn't be talking about Ami Mizuno?" Picturing the blue haired genius as Ryoga's relative was almost impossible, but Ami did once mention that the reason her parents were separated was because her father was lost.
Ranma tilted his head. "You know Ami?"
"She some times comes with her friends to the photography shop. Normally Usagi uses her to ward off the stray cats that like to hang around the front." Nabiki broke her ice mask and giggled. Usagi had a way of bringing a smile to anyone's face.
"Ranma there must be something terribly wrong with today. You and I are getting along and Nabiki just giggled." Ryoga had a sinking feeling maybe he should just gave Ranma directions to Ami's place.
Ranma nodded "Not to mention we haven't had any run-ins with cold water since yesterday."
"SEMPAI IS THAT YOU!"
Ranma had never seen Ryoga move that fast. The lost boy was gone in an instant. He looked to see the source of the shout and it was a taller girl with long brow hair in a pony tail. She was beautiful, but not his type. Probably because of his crush on Ami, but the pigtail boy preferred girls with short hair.
"Nabiki, did you see where Ryoga just got off to? " Makoto frowned.
Ranma looked at Nabiki and saw that she had fallen face first into the ground. "Did I miss something?"
Picking her self up the middle Tendo was still in shock. On and on Makoto would talk about her long lost Sempai. Of all the people for it to be, it was Ryoga? "Mako-chan Ryoga is your sempai, but you're both in the same grade."
"Ryoga-kun is a month older then me though so I've always called him sempai." Makoto smiled it been forever since she last seen Ryoga. "I wonder why he ran away."
"Who knows, he's probably half way to China by now. How am I supposed to get to Ami's?" Why did Ryoga run away? There must be something wrong with this girl if he preferred Akane to her.
"You two were going to see Ami. How come?" Makoto frowned to think her sempai liked her nerdy friend.
"Ami is Ryoga's cousin and they wanted to see her about a dream Ranma had." For the life of her Nabiki couldn't think of one reason for Ryoga to flee in terror. He almost had the look Ranma wore when Kodachi was around. Makoto was nothing like the female Kuno though.
"Dreams? Have you met Ami before?" Putting her thoughts of Ryoga on hold Makoto wondered if this boy had something to do with Usagi's odd dreams.
"Yeah, I met her in middle school. She was at Ryoga's a few times when I brought him home."
"Maybe we should go to Usagi's place instead. She has had odd dreams too." This could solve the mystery of Usagi's dreams and this cute guy's at the same time.
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Genma had a dangerous feeling. Jumping into the kio pond he took on the form of a panda and none too soon. A moment later there was a knock at the door.
Akane got up from the breakfast table and opened the door. Outside of it was a young man about Kasumi's age. He was dress in black jeans, a white button down shirt, and across his back was a sword. "If you're here to challenge Ranma he's out right now."
"I'm not here to challenge anyone. My name is Ranma Saotome and despite the dishonor my father has brought to my family, my mother feels I should honor the agreement between our two houses. You don't happen to have an older sister do you? I'm not really into younger women."
"YOU'RE RANMA SAOTOME?" Akane couldn't help but shout. How could this person be Ranma Saotome
"You don't have to shout. Yes I'm Ranma Saotome."
"Oh my" Kasumi said as she joined Akane at the door. If this was Ranma Saotome she wouldn't be pushing him on either Nabiki or Akane. However if this was Genma's son, then who was Ranma-chan? "We already have a Ranma Saotome though."
"Already have one…Genma is here?" Ranma growled and unsheathed his sword.
Soun now arrived at the door having over heard what was transpiring. The sword this Ranma was carrying was the Saotome honor blade. He looked over to where the Panda was sitting moments ago and saw the space was now vacant. "Exactly what is going on here?"
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Kenji and his sister returned home to find Makoto and young man arriving at his house. "Makoto, who's your friend?"
"I'm Ranma Saotome sir. Mokoto said your daughter might be able to help me with a dream I've had." Something about this house was familiar. Had he been here before? Not only the house, but the man he just talked to was familiar as well.
"You're Ranma Saotome?" Kasumi looked at the boy. He could be a male version of Usagi, but his hair was off and Genma would never allow the boy to come here. "Tell me is your hair dyed?"
Kenji was amaze how calm his sister was. Letting down his mental barriers he let her calm wash over him. If not for her he'd probably scare away the boy, who very well might be his son.
"I think I'm Ranma Saotome, that's what Pop's has been telling me all my life. He's lied about everything else though. Um, yeah my hair is dyed though, I'm a natural blonde." The fat panda was a notorious liar but he was pretty sure who he was. Although, the way the lady asked the question, was there another Ranma Saotome.
Kenji let a small smile slip from his face. "You said you came here about a dream? Tell me in your dreams are you a girl?"
"Um, do we gotta talk about this out here?" Hopefully the adults would dismiss Makoto. He wasn't comfortable with too many people knowing about his dream. Wait, the adult had just said dreams, plural. Did that mean all the odd dreams he got every once in a while came from here.
"No it's probably best we go inside. There allot we need to talk about." On the outside his expression was calm, on the inside Kenji was about to burst in tears. This really was Ranmyaku. "Makoto, thank you for bringing Ranma here, but I think it'd be better if this is handled inside the family."
Makoto tilted her head as Ranma and Kenji entered the house. "Inside the family"
"Ranma is the son of Usagi's uncle." Kasumi left Makoto with that as she followed her brother inside.
As the door closed Makoto couldn't help but wonder what was going on in there. Then Ryoga popped into her head. He must be somewhere near by maybe she could find him again.
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"I see so the boy with Genma isn't Ranma?" Soun said with disbelief.
"No he's not. Unless my father has gotten another boy, he should be my cousin Ranmyaku. When my mother wouldn't let father take me he stole his sister's son." Ranma extended his senses; his old man could still be near by. After much sorting of the hundreds of claims that had reached the Saotome home his mother decided the only true agreement was with the Tendo Family. How odd that his father would be here of all places.
"Oh my. Poor Ranma." Kasumi gasped.
"I'm Ranma, he's Ranmyaku."
"Well we've known him as Ranma and it's hard to think of him by any other name." Kasumi decided maybe she would push him on Nabiki or Akane after all. She didn't quite like his attitude.
"Is Ranma with my father?" Calling his cousin by his name wasn't enjoyable, but he'd humor the oldest Tendo daughter. If he was engaged to a beautiful woman like her maybe this arranged marriage wouldn't be so bad.
"Ranma's with Ryoga, they went to see Ryoga's cousin in Juban." Akane said this with a bit of a frown. Two timer or not, she did have some feeling for who she thought was Ranma. Who knew what his real family was like, maybe he was arranged to someone else by them.
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Genma feared for his life. If the real Ranma was here that meant Nodoka was around too. She promised if he ever left her he be dead. Really what was he supposed to do, the art needed an heir and her motherly love would have made the true Ranma imperfect for the job.
By now Soun knew the truth; he'd have to fall on a back up arrangement for the perfect Ranma. But first he needed to find the boy. Where could that ungrateful brat be?
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Ranma sat one of two couches in the Tsukino living room wondering what was going on. After he was seated the two adults he came in with went to the kitchen to talk with a third. He had overheard the woman he came in with say that Genma was the uncle of whoever Usagi was. Finally the three adults came back into the living room. The third adult who had been in the house looked at him with tears in her eyes. Like the man, she seemed very familiar to him.
"Kasumi, would you wake up Usagi." Kenji said still keeping an eye on Ranma. "I asked this earlier, but Ranma in your dreams are you a girl?"
"Um, some yeah." Ranma watched more tears fall from the eyes of the woman. "Is something wrong?"
"No, for the first time in thirteen years every thing is right." Ikuko said quietly.
Ranma rubbed the base of his pigtail. He could barely make out what the woman was saying. "Um am I missing something?"
"Allot of somethings." Looking down and closing his eyes, Kenji decided to Ranma the truth. Hopefully the boy would accept it. "You see like you said outside, Genma's lied to you about everything. You're not his son. He took you when his wife wouldn't allow him to take his own."
Ikuko continue where her husband left off. "I stupidly left my brother watching over you and your sister while I went shopping and your father was at work. When I came home Usagi was all alone."
Ranma knew Genma was a bastard, but this…. Could the Panda stoop so low? Somehow he believed it, he didn't know why but he did. Then a blonde girl with odango's in her hair came down the steps. Their eyes met and suddenly her life flashed before his eyes. Then everything went black.
Kasumi caught Usagi as she collapsed. "They connected."
"Will they be alright?" The mother of three said looking at her lost son.
"They should be fine. I'm going to have to teach them how to block out each others feeling and thoughts; it may take a while though it's something best learned young." Kenji stopped being strong and let his own tears flow.
Kasumi smiled "When you two are done crying, can I have some help putting your daughter on the other couch?"
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Ryoga knocked on the door to what he hopped would be a safe haven. That is if he was even in the right town. He was happy to see the door be opened by his genius cousin. "Ami, I need a place to hide!"
"From who?"
"A girl, an evil girl that wants to ruin my life." He should be safe from Makoto here. Ami probably kept people from visiting her under the threat of studying. Ryoga was willing to suffer through that to escape his hunter.
Ami let Ryoga in and watch him pick up a book to hide behind. "Does this evil girl have a name?"
"Makoto Kino"
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Shingo rubbed the sleep from his eyes as he saw Usagi laid out on one couch and a boy laid out on the other. He went over to the boy and looked at him. Then he heard someone come from the kitchen and turned to see his mother. "Mom, who's this?"
"That's your older brother. After thirteen years he's finally home."
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From the gates of time a sixteen year old girl watched what was going on in the Tsukino home while munching on some Pocky. Behind her an older woman stood to see what she was watching. "Ahh, so Crises has been returned to his family."
"Crises? You never talked about him before. Who's he?"
The guardian of time looked down at her daughter and smiled. "He, Setsuna, is Serenity's twin. In his past life he led the Royal Guard. In this one you haven't told me what he'll accomplish, only that when he returned it would be time to gather the Outers."
"Does that mean your going to be passing the mantel of Sailor Pluto on to me now?" Setsuna hoped.
"Yes, as the re-incarnation of your ancestor it's only right you fight along side the re-incarnations of the others Sailors. My time as Pluto has come to an end." Sailor Pluto looked down at her daughter. She hoped Setsuna would be ready for the task at hand, she knew who her daughter had been and who she now was, and from what she saw of what she would become there was a bit of uncertainty.
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Lio's Corner:
-Akane has always misunderstood Ranma when it came to girls. If I left that out I don't feel I'd be portraying her right.
-Usagi's aunt is Kasumi do to lack of imagination. Her father's name is Kenji so I went with the first female "K" name to come to mind.
-What Ryoga has against Makoto will either be explained next chapter or soon after.
-Crises is the name of another sea on the Moon, so I chose that as the name for Serenity's twin. Luna and Artemis didn't think he got sent forward since it was Serenity that would succeed her mother, and he had no role without the Royal Guard.
-In this fic Pluto died with the other Senshi, however she had a daughter that took over her role after her death. Not having the same convictions as her mother, she had married an earth man and had a family of her own. The role of Pluto has been passed on to the eldest daughter since, and training begins at thirteen.