Disclaimer: As before see the Prologue

Note to pre-readers: I apologise to those who didn't receive the chapter beforehand, the reason for this was that I was clearing out my Emails and the addresses accidentally got deleted when my computer crashed, I apologise for any inconveniences.

What happened last time: After his mother had reviled to him that he is a Devil Hunter and that he's got a soul mate. Meanwhile at a local part Yohko and Chi were discussing about Yohko's fiancée only to be interrupted by a certain individual plummeting into the local pond.

Key: "talking" "SHOUTING" 'Thinking' @communication@ *Action* **special technique** //change scene//

Warning: this MAY be a bit on the lime side but it's your call

Ranma The Devil Hunter

Chapter 2a: A meeting of the souls

//Local park near Nerima//

Chi was watching both Ranma and Yohko, after seeing Ranma fall into the pond like a missile exploding on enemy lands Chi was surprised that he wasn't dead, but then again this is Ranma "the god slayer" Saotome she's thinking about. 'Well it looks like things are REALLY going to get interesting now that Ranma is here' But the more important issue at the moment was the fact that both Yohko and Ranma were out unconscious for over an hour, she really wanted to go for help but she didn't want to chance her best friend being taken advantage of by some perverts that might come by.

While Chi was thinking about wherever she should go and call for help or not, she didn't notice that a head poked up from the surface of the pond which supporting a big lump on her head, the Ruby Red hair which was tied into a pigtail at the back dripping with water, the wild blue eyes shaped into an evil glare, all the time she was cursing to herself 'I cant believe this, how was I separated from HIM?!'

//Flashback//

As soon as Ranma's unconscious form hit the pond, two nearly identical bodies were formed; both had hair that tied into pigtails at the back, one was bigger and had a body that seemed to be carved from stone classifying the person as male, while the other body seemed small but had a chest that could make a supermodel turn green with envy obviously indicating that the person was a woman.

As the female body sank towards the bottom her eyes opened and with a mischievous smile she chuckled 'at last this will be the day that the human will be killed, there is nothing and I mean nothing that can disrupt the masters plan now, now all I have to do is.'as she turned around to swim back to the top she was in for a nasty surprise. 'WHAT THE?!'

What surprised her was the form of Ranma Saotome quickly sinking towards her, she summarised the whole situation in two words, 'Oh Shit!!!' with that she had a head on (literally) collision with the pigtailed martial artist's head, which knocked her out and rebounded Ranma towards the surface.

//End Flashback//

She couldn't think what could have happened, 'I don't get it, the assimilation process was going according to plan then all of a sudden I get separated, what the hell happened?' It only took her a few moments to realise what the problem was and boy was she pissed. 'GODDAMN THAT OLD HAG, IF IT WEREN'T FOR THAT PENDANT THEN I WOULD HAVE BEEN SUCESSFUL' she calmed down eventually even though she was still fuming, she turned around to see three individuals by the pond side area, two of which were unconscious.

Her eyes were on the girl with the chestnut brown hair and the glasses, she licked her lips as she was nearing towards them, with a feral grin she decided that she was hungry "aha Dinner Time" she whispered then without a sound she removed herself from the water and quietly snuck towards the distracted Chi, she was literally breathing down Chi's neck when she caught the sight of Ranma laid down next to a Girl around his age with her hair in two braided circles, her eyes widened in surprise and horror as she realised who she was looking at, it was that Bitch of a Devil Hunter which had locked away the Demon King Tokima for eternity, plus the fact that she had stopped her ascension to become the Dark Queen (1)

She quietly giggled at a rare opportunity 'Well, well, it isn't my unlucky day after all, I will dispose both of these Devil Hunters just after I take a quick..' She was interrupted as a voice she recognised as one of Saotome's mortal enemies, which seemed to be screaming directly towards her.

"RANMA PREPARE TO DIE!!"

The Demon Girl groaned in pure annoyance as she now realised whose voice it was. 'yep it's that pigheaded asshole Ryoga'

As Ryoga was descending towards them Chi turned around to see the back of a Red-haired Girl, who turned her head back to make eye contact with Chi's. The defenceless girl could tell that the woman in front of her was a Devil, she had seen the look countless times when the devils were attacking yohko and this girl was defiantly one of them.

The sight of a Devil in disguise and a boy leaping towards her made her want to scream out in terror, she never got a chance as a Green light flared from behind her.

//In another plane of Existence (half an hour earlier)//

Two bodies floating ominously through the reaches of nothingness, both nude with the colour of their auras covering their bodies, one a bright red while the other a shimmering blue. They both had what seemed to be Jewellery, one had a gold ring with a demon/Dragon design which looked liked it was attached to a bracelet; the other had a gold pendant which had the same Dragon/Demon design as the ring.

The one that was female was the first to awaken, opening her eyes to...well nothing; there was no sign of life at all except herself and a blue covered boy of her age that was wearing nothing at all.

"Wait a minute did I see what I thought I saw or are my eyes playing tricks on me?" She proceeded to bring her hands to her eyes when she noticed that she was also nude but she was bathed red from head to toe 'whoa talk about a full body blush' Yohko jokily thought, (A/N: sorry just couldn't resist that one ¬_¬!!)

She absent minded covered herself up with her hands and arms, all the while looking at the unconscious boy's physique, the feature that she recognised almost immediately was the pigtail at the back of his head 'that looks like the hair style that gorgeous looking boy had, I wonder if it's him?' at that moment the boy's eyes shot open scaring the life out of the girl as he shot straight up into a sitting position, bringing a hand to his forehead it seemed he was suffering from a headache.

"iiiiittttteeeee (2) what did I bump into when I hit that pond? The only thing that I can remember is that Kawaii girl" There was a cough behind him, the boy turned around to see the girl he saw at the pond side, once again their eyes made contact and a name of each other flashed through their minds. "Yohko?" the boy asked, Yohko looked shocked as she replied "t..that's right!, Is your name Ranma then?" yohko giggled when Ranma scratched the back of his head with a embarrassed look on his face, she moved herself so that she sat beside him and took one of his hands in to hers "there's no need to be embarrassed about me guessing your name right, well I didn't guess it rather came up in my head". "I know what you mean, it was like when I saw you your name just appeared in my mind" 'I wonder if this is what mother meant by me knowing her at first sight?' Yohko looked at Ranma with a puzzled look "Your mother said what about knowing me at first sight?", "hmm?, oh just the fact that I'll know who you are when.we.first...!!!" Ranma was looking at her with a shock on his face "how did you know what I was thinking?!" "i.I don't know I thought it was strange that I heard you even though you didn't move your mouth" "I think that it's got to do with the fact that we're soul mates and.."

Ranma never got to finish when Yohko tackled him to the ground hugging him at the chest, If it was any of the other girls Ranma would of freaked out and tried to escape but since it was Yohko that was doing the hugging he felt comfortable, he returned the hug as Yohko's eyes started to water up, "Finally!" she sobbed "Finally a boyfriend that isnt controlled by a demon" she felt like crying for joy when a finger wiped away a tear, she looked up to see Ranmas smiling face lowering towards hers "you know what?" Yohko looked up at him while inching her face closer "what?" "It's strange that out of all the fiancées that I have, you are the one that I feel most comfortable with" yohko was about to reply but she felt her lips made contact with his own as they shared their first kiss together, it was one of those kisses that you wished that you had to have a camera with you, the only thing missing is the fireworks in the background. The kiss lasted for about a couple of seconds as they drew their heads back and looked in each others eyes as if they've know each other their whole lives. "What do you mean by Fiancées?" Ranma looked at her with dread in his eyes, how was he going to explain this?, but then again it was his father that made those engagements not him. "Well you see.", @If you want to know Yohko, you will have to look into his past@ an aged female voice Spoke, interrupting Ranma in the process.

Both Ranma and yohko shot their heads around to see where the voice was coming from but to no avail they couldn't find the person. @Yohko, look down towards your hand@ Yohko sat up and proceeded to look at her hand, her eyes widened as she saw that her youma Ring's eyes were glowing. @don't forget about me too Ranma@ Another aged voice said which made Ranma look towards his Pendant which the eyes were also glowing. "who.who are you?, I know for a fact that you are contacting us through the Devil Hunter items cuz mom did earlier" @ah you are a wise one after all, yes you are worthy of being my descendent@ Ranma's face turned pale as the words made contact with his brain, especially the word Descendent. "s..so what you are trying to tell me that you are my Ancestor?" There was a gasp from Yohko who also made a realisation as to why the other Voice sounded Familiar as she muttered out "H.H..Haruka-Sama(3)?!"

@that's right Child, we are the souls of the first Devil Hunters that have been infused into the Devil Hunter youma Ring and Pendant, Haruka Mano and Megumi Hino@

Both Ranma and Yohko were looking at each other with wide eyes, while Ranma had only heard about Megumi from his mother Yohko had met her Ancestor face to face, hell she was fighting beside her when fighting Tokima

"So how shall we address you?" Ranma spoke up "Will it be by your first names or shall we keep calling you ancestor?" @well now that we think about it, what do you think Megumi?@ @ good point Haruka, hey I know how about you two just call us Great- Grandmother respectively?@

"Okay then Great-Grandmother Haruka *giggles* that has a nice ring to it" both Mano relatives giggled at that, which left both the Hino Relatives Sweat Dropping, Ranma broke the Mano's out of their little giggle by coughing loudly. "*COUGH* Erm sorry to interrupt but Haruka-sama what did you mean by Yohko learning about my past?" @oh that's easy to do, because you two are soul mates you have unique capabilities that only a few people have@ "and what is this unique capability you're talking about Great-Grandmother Haruka?" Yohko said with interest in her voice

@well the capabilities that you two have will allow you to achieve skills and powers that previous Devil Hunters, including ourselves could never hope to reach@ Megumi took over the explanation giving Haruka time to start preparing for what they were going to say to the soul bonded devil hunters.

@all you have to do to be able to learn of each others past is hold each others hands and concentrate on finding the door to your past, go ahead try it@ Ranma looked at Yohko who nodded in saying that they should try it, They put their hands together and concentrated on finding the door to their own separate past, after a couple of minutes searching Ranma and yohko had found the doors to each others past @Good, now at the same time open them on the count of three,..1..2..3@

At the Same time Ranma and Yohko opened the doors and were flooded with memories of each others past, For Yohko she was living through ALL of Ranma's hardships, being separated from his mother at an early age, the Neko-ken training, Jusenkyo, the Fiancées, Amazons, the Rivals, the special Techniques, the slaying of the Phoenix God Saffron and last but not least the failed wedding attempt.

While for Ranma he saw all the things that Yohko went through, the Training with her Grandmother, Her powers manifesting when she nearly drowned, the attempted Rape, Yohko's 1st transformation (which Ranma nearly developed a nosebleed), battling with Tokima which lead to her death, only to be brought back to life by Haruka, the sealing of Tokima and most recently her battle with Ayako and the demon that was accidentally awoken during their fight.

By the End of the Flashbacks Yohko was wiping away tears while Ranma's face even though was pale after seeing Yohko nearly getting raped and when she died, his face showed an anger that was used before at Jusendo, seeing those memory made Ranma swear to protect her at all times and if the other Fiancées and his Father don't like it, well they'll find out soon enough.

End part 2a

Author's notes:

(1) for those Devil Hunter Yohko fans out there, Reiko was originally a popular school girl that was inhabited by a demons spirit, so therefore she was the spirit from the spring of drowned girl that took her over. Well in this fic that's what happened okay!!

(2) ite = ouch. I don't know if that's the Japanese Romanji spelling or not.

(3) Sama = someone that is HIGHLY respected (I think)

Since this chapter is too long I've decided to split to into three sections instead The next part should be done shortly after this one, if not then I'm working on the other two parts of this Chapter a little more.