Love Found

Rating: T

Genre: Romance/Humor/Drama

Disclaimer: I Don't own Ranma and Co. just other characters you may read. Please don't sue. that's it for tis disclaimer.

A/N: So I haven't updated in a while (scolding *bad me bad me*) sorry but I confess. I don't have internet so yeah! Anyway I'll just say that sorry for the wait. Oh and I like this chapter because after this I'll start picking up the pace.


Chapter 3: Things change

Happosai went downstairs to his bedroom. It was just like he had left it long ago. He put away a few souvenirs he had brought with him . Things he had brought from the years he was on the road, all mostly stolen. After he put his collection in the closet like he promised, he went to the bathroom to wash up.

"Not much has changed" he mumbled to himself as he looked at his reflection in the mirror. When he stepped out of the bathroom though he was tackled to the ground by…

"AHHH" Happosai screamed "Get this beast off of meee!" Chess was growling at the intruder of her home. She bearded her fangs; her hair was standing on end, making her look devilish. Her barking was low and menacing. Happosai was scared at the sudden attack more so, since the dog was pinning him to the floor in a way that he could not move. Thankfully someone called her.

"Chess come here girl" the voice said. The dog's ears perked up at the sound of her name then she gave Happosai one last growl and trotted happily to the place she was called.

Happosai quickly dusted himself off and went into the dining room. There the table was set and Ranma and Akane were already seated. Happosai then did the same while admiring the food.

He was so preoccupied that he didn't hear Akane yell…"You guys dinner"

Happosai was back to reality by two questioning children.

"Mom, dad who is that" Ranko asked looking at her parents

"Yeah and what is he doing on my seat" Kataro complained coming from behind his sister into sight.

Happosai just moved and looked at Ranma and Akane expectantly.

"You remember Ranko, don't you?" Akane spoke up. Happosai nodded. "Well this is our son Kataro" the little boy waved in acknowledgement.

They all ate in silence for a few minutes. Happosai though was starting to get a little impatient by the strange looks the kids were giving him.

"Sooo, is he an ummpa umpa?" Kataro finally asked pointing.

"There called umpa lumpas, Kataro" his sister corrected then took a sip of her tea, a thought occurred to her. She gasped. "If he is can we keep him dad please" She turned to her father. Ranma though was sipping tea, and upon hearing this request did a major sit take. After Ranma started laughing, Akane couldn't help but giggle, earning a glare from Happi.

"No, no he's staying to live here sweetheart. His name is Happosai" Akane corrected them.

"You can call me Happi" Happosai cheered

"Yeah I'm mean sure he looks like one but-" Ranma started to say but was cut off by Akane.

"Ranma be the adult here, will you" she warned as she elbowed his gut.

"Sorry gramps" Ranma apologized while rubbing his sore spot. Then he winked to the kids, they just smiled knowingly.

After dinner Ranma and Akane were washing dishes while Ranko and Kataro were in their own rooms. Ranko was building a big tower of blocks, so big she had to be standing on a chair to put the last one in the top. She was about to anyway when the tower fell over after being crashed into by a remote control monster truck. Ranko just stared opened mouthed. Kataro came in after, running with Chess behind him. He saw what he did, for once not on purpose.

"Wow" Ranko said plainly as she got off the chair

"Ranko I'm-" he tried to apologize but was cut off

"That was Awesome" she said excitedly as she dragged her brother in her room. "Come on lest do it again, but build it bigger"

"All right" he answered grinning and they both started building

Midway through their almost finished tower they heard Chess braking, and loudly too.

"Get off of me" screamed a voice

They both looked at each other and back at the door.

"Wanna check It out?" the girl asked

"Yeah lets go" the boy said getting up

They both went downstairs fallowing the sounds of the barks, and found Happosai pinned again by a very angry Chess. The dog was enraged completely, just as before.

"Get away…It's dangerous" the old man said

"She is not dangerous" they both said together with a laugh

Then they both touched the dog. She stopped growling at contact. They petted her and she rolled over so they could giver her belly rubs. She looked completely adorable and innocent.

"Chess he's going to live here so be nice" Ranko said "So give him a kiss and apologize"

The dog got up and obeyed, and left. Happosai was still a little dumbstruck.

"Why did she attack me?" the old man ask figuring they wouldn't know the answer but asked nonetheless

"Daddy trained her. She probably thought you were an intruder" Kataro responded

"So there you are I've been looking everywhere for you two" Akane said as she entered Happosai's room. "Time for bed"

"Aww do we have to?" they both wined

"Yes, now come on" Akane stated and took them to their respective rooms and tucked them in. Moments later Ranma came into their rooms to make sure they were asleep, but they weren't. Instead they were jumping on Ranko's bed in her room.

"Hey, you two. I thought you were in bed already" Ranma said from the doorway, where he was leaned into, arms crossed.

"Daddy we aren't tiered" Kataro said

"You two are going to bed no if's, and's, or but's about it understand" Ranma said sternly as he made his way into the room.

"Oookaayyy" they both drawled out then Ranma sat on the edge of the bed.

"Kids listen to your father or else I'm coming in" all three heard Akane warn in a menacing tone. It made them gulp and immediately stop their childish actions.

"Woah dad what did you do this time?" Kataro asked innocently as he laid on the bed his eyes seemed real heavy now.

"I don't know" Ranma responded looking at the doorway

"Riiight" Ranko said not believing her dad and yawed as she settled down under the covers

"Well your mother's been acting strange all day" Ranma stated "for a while now actually" he finished as a second thought.

After a few moments Ranma looked back to see both children fast asleep. "Little weirdoes" he said as he sighed and chuckled a bit.

Ranma carefully tucked Ranko in and took Kataro carefully in his arms. He kissed his daughters forehead and took off her hat, turned off the light and shut the door. He made his way to Kataro's room and did the same and took off his head band. Ranma yawned himself as he shut the door and went to his own room with Akane.

Happosai saw Ranma's little demonstration of affection, it surprised him. The way he remembered Ranma was angry and resentful, specially the night he and Akane kicked him out after giving him a savage beating. 'Maybe things did change after all' Happi thought as he retired to his own room.

The next morning the whole house was silent. Since it was Saturday Ranma and Akane would sleep in. Ranko and Kataro tough were up already, and they were bored. After they both checked on their parents, who where peacefully sleeping, they went downstairs. Ranko knowing how to work the remote of the T.V set skimmed through the channels for something interesting but failed to find anything. Then she noticed that she was alone, there were no signs of her brother anywhere.

"Kataro?" she called while looking for him. She could hear him giggle it was coming from the guest room.

"Hey come look at this" Kataro motioned her to the room. There, Happosai was on his futon sleeping.

"What?" she asked in a whisper as she stepped closer

"Look" He said as he took a feather he had in his hand and tickled the old man's face making him smack himself. They both giggled, both glad to find something to do. They continued like that for a while until Happosai showed signs of waking if bothered any further.

They both went to the dining room again. They switched on the T.V. again and found a cartoon to watch. They just sat there for a few moments but when the commercials started they groaned. Kataro then felt Ranko tap him as she tried to look for the remote. Kataro then got an idea he tapped her but a little harder and that got her attention.

"Hey stop it" she said hitting him again but this time intentionally and a bit harder.

"You stop" Kataro said and continued his attack.

"oww"

"Owwww"

In a few moments they were chasing each other and trying to get a hit, TV long forgotten. Kataro then pulled Rankos hair.

"Oww don't touch my hair" she threatened at him. Kataro of course didn't listen and did it again. "Ahhhhhh" she said "That's it come here" she said as she chased him in circles around the small table.

After a while she stopped and waited for him to come out. She had lost track of him. 'I know you're here Kataro'

Akane slowly woke up; she fluttered her eyes open just to stare into an endless sea of blue. She smiled lovingly to the person lying next to her, he obliged. They stared at each other for a few moments until Ranma spoke.

"Morning" he said in a soft voice while taking a small strand of off her hair to the back of her ear.

"Morning" she answered in the same tone. She sighed and blinked. "We have to get up come on" she ordered as she uncovered them.

"Awww come on 5 more minutes" Ranma protested

"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh" they heard two voices in unison.

Ranma and Akane looked at each other and decided to go downstairs. When they reached downstairs they found Happosai scolding Kataro. Interesting to see what would happen they hid so they were unnoticed.

"You should stop it you little brat" Happi said in a harsh tone to the boy.

Kataro only looked at him with a hurt expression; if there was one thing that he and his sister hated was to be called a brat. Ranko though was wearing a different expression, one of anger. 'No one can call him that except me' she thought. Not having the quiet-keep-to-yourself personality she spoke her mind.

"Hey stop it" Ranko said getting in front of her younger brother protectively, arms extended. "Who gave you permission to yell at him…" she started pointing at the old man "…only I can yell at him. Me." she said then thought for a second "…and mom and dad when he is bad, but you can't". Ranko finished crossing her arms with a humph, and a glare.

Happosai was surprised, stunned really at the toddler's outburst. Here he thought he was helping too trying to defend her, who knew she was that protective of her brother. Kataro stuck his tongue out from behind his sister with a satisfied look on his face.

"Why you…" Happosai was about to say something but cut himself off as he felt like he was being watched.

"What's going on here?" Akane said stepping into the room

"Nothing mommy" both of her children chorused together after Ranko gave her brother a look. This was unnoticed by Akane, but not Ranma who was currently using the umisen ken standing next to Happosai.

"Then come on babies, let's have breakfast, we are visiting aunt Kasumi today" Akane said as she walked towards the kitchen. Her two children trailing close behind, but before Ranko was out of the room she turned and made an 'I'm watching you' jester to Happosai, though half-lidded eyes, then turned back and left. Happosai was surprised at the jester but didn't take it seriously.

"You're in trouble now old man" Ranma said out loud as he appeared beside Happi who jumped a bit at the sound.

"What do you mean?" Happosai asked not understanding and starting to sweat.

"That right there" Ranma pointed out "you're nervous"

"No I'm not" Happosai denied

"Yes you are" Ranma insisted "And, in case you didn't notice, Ranko caught on to that and she will use it against you"

"Really?" Happosai answered with a higher voice that he would have liked, he cleared his throat "How?"

"I don't know" Ranma laughed "You should take her seriously" he suggested and made his way to the kitchen. Something smelled really good in there. Ranma stopped before he was out of ear reach and gave the unmoving Happi a last look as he added "Don't worry they just want to decide if they like you or not, I guess you started on the wrong foot already" then he left.

Just as she had promised, Ranko looked intently at the old man with an unnerving look. Happosai would shift in his seat from time to time. This only lasted for a few minutes though because Akane was interested on his whereabouts of the last 4 years.

"So Happosai, where have you been, for the last 4 years?" Akane asked with honest curiosity. Happi only looked at her with an inward gratitude, he was starting to see what Ranma was talking about.

Happosai thought for a moment seeing that he had all the attention "Uh… I was in… Spain" he finally answered.

"Spain?" Both Ranma and Akane repeated then looked at each other and back.

"Yeah" he responded

"Where you there when we were looking for you last time?" Ranma asked recalling the reason why the needed him in Nerima during that time. Cologne, the Kuno family, and all of Ranma and Akane's contacts failed to find him.

"Ah no actually I was collecting in a small department store in a town near Osaka. I traveled to Spain after you kicked me out and I left Nerima" Happosai said

"Why?" Akane asked as she and Ranma finished eating "I mean there has to be a reason you decided to travel so far for right?"

"Well…" Happi paused to sip tea "It's the best place to get high quality lingerie" Happi said smiling lustfully "Plus the muchachitas-"

"Okay that's enough" Ranma cut off seeing that the old letch started to drool

"Uhg…sorry I asked" Akane said with a grossed out expression

About two hours later Ranma and Akane were walking down the street, hands intertwined, they were on their way to Dr. Tofu's clinic. It was a nice, crisp November, Saturday morning. They were both looking at their little ones, which were steps ahead playing leap frog. After Akane made sure they were fine, she turned her eyes to her husband.

"Ne, Ranma?" Akane asked looking at him.

Ranma did not take his eyes off of his son and daughter, but answered "Yeah"

"Do you think that your mom will be okay with all three?" Akane asked.

"Humm" Ranma replied finally looking at Akane. "Yeah the real question is will pops, and your dad, survive Happosai?"

"I know" responded Akane "Remember their faces?" Akane exclaimed with a laugh

"Yeah" Ranma said with a laugh. "It looked like they saw the very devil, not that it's that far off. Ha ha oooh I wish I had a camera. Their expressions were priceless"

Ranma and Akane were talking about what had happened just a few moments ago.

After breakfast they had received a call from Nodoka, asking for some kind of help. She stated that she had, had enough of the two lazy men in her house. They did absolutely nothing except get on her nerves. So Ranma took the opportunity to inform his mother of the reappearance of Happosai.

Nodoka was more than happy to hear this and actually suggested Ranma to send Happosai over right away. Happosai was happy to oblige to the request and agreed to spend the day in the Saotome home. He was just itching to try new 'training tactics' on his favorite students, which he had learned along his way. (He should have said 'Ways to torture' instead).

Ranma and Akane of course found that it was a chance of a life time, they wouldn't miss their reaction for anything in the world so they decided to tag along, and accompany him on their way to the Ono clinic.

Moments later, they found themselves at the door of the Ono clinic. Akane ringed the door bell and they waited for the door to be answered.

Suddenly, the sound of small footsteps could be heard. Then the door was slid open….

"Hi, please come in" a little 6 year old boy said. He stood in the doorway. "Oh auntie Akane, uncle Ranma" he said as he noticed the adults in front of him.

"Hi Kamiya-kun" Akane said "Is your mom home?" she asked

"Daddy is with a patient and mommy is in the kitchen" Kamiya answered politely

"Kamiya-kun!" Ranko said and gave him a hug.

"Hi cousin Kamiya" Kataro said afterwards

"Hi…. Do you want to go to my room?" He asked

"Mom, Dad can we go?" Ranko asked for which she received a nod and then all three children ran in the direction of the stairs like a flash.

"Kamiya…. Who is it?" Came the soft voice of Kasumi as she approached the entrance. "Oh my… Ranma, Akane would you like some tea?" she offered and led them to the kitchen.

The day went by, during the visit with Kasumi, they were informed that the Kunos would be arriving that night. Akane watched through the kitchen window as the sky became painted bright with colors ranging from bright yellow to dark red. She was barely starting to make dinner, making sure that the stove was on low, she went to check the dojo, which was very loud to her surprise.

Ranma despite canceling all of their classes for the weakened, still had one more duty that he oversaw, he was in charge of improve the skills of the cadets of the Nerima police department. He and Akane trained the officers and new recruits in self defense without weaponry every other week to keep them on their toes.

Akane shook her head. 'Baka' she thought as she heard him yell out of anger, suddenly all noised stopped, not to her surprise. 'Figures he forgot to cancel them and got stuck with all the jerks' Akane sighed and headed for the kitchen. Sometimes she wondered if it was worth doing Hiroshi and Daisuke the favor of training the cadets at all even if the pay was generous.

Ranma paced the dojo in front of the crowd of people who were talking without a care. He was loosing it; these people were wearing his patience dangerously thin. That's why it was so much easier with Akane she had something that made people do what she wanted, but she was making dinner and so he was left alone with about 25 smart ass people. The only reason that they didn't listen was because of one thing, his age. Most of the crowd of people were much older than him and didn't take him seriously. They knew very little about him including the power and experience he possessed. The others were young and had learned from previous classes to not get on his bad side so they just watched him nervously. Fine if that was how it was going to be, so be it, he was tired of being nice.

So he snapped….

Ranma stopped in front of the room and took in a breath….

"ALL OF YOU SHUT UP!" he roared out, instantly all eyes were on him. Seeing he got the attention he continued in a quieter but more stern, menacing voice.

"If you all came here to just stand around get the hell out!" he pointed at the door.

"But if you do good luck getting a job, cause you wont get one here in Nerima if I have anything to do with it"

"But you can't get us fired" he heard someone in the back yell out.

"Oh I can't, can I? Well in case you didn't know your handbook states that if you don't pass MY class you can't be accepted to the academy" all occupants turned wide eyes at him. "If you ask any one of your commanding officers, they would tell you it's easy but thanks to your lack of respect I will make sure it's the worst 5 weeks of your lives" he was now letting his aura show making his students shrink.

"So anyone want to leave?" Ranma waited a few moments

Silence…..

"All right ladies drop give me 200" Ranma commanded pointing at the floor. But no one moved, just looked at him dumbly. "COME ON, COME ON I DON'T HAVE ALL NIGHT!" Ranma practically roared to the crowd while he rapidly snapped his fingers.

He pleasantly noticed that after his voice vibrated through the dojo walls, that all of them scrambled to the floor panicked. Some of them even looked as if a rug had been pulled from under them. It looked pretty funny, Ranma inwardly laughed, but he didn't let it show on his cold hard expression.

Smiling a devil-like-smile he started to make them count out loud and start over whenever someone complained.

Akane sighed, all that she needed to do was wait for Ranma to finish class. She was sitting on the table looking at nothing in particular it sort of put her in a blissful trance. Then she snapped out of it she heard the front door slide open followed by the screams of her little ones.

"What in the-?" Akane wondered looking at them questioningly but was cut off

"It's a skeleton man" was all they said while clutching to her skirt.

Akane then heard loud barking followed by pitiful frightened screams. Moving towards the ruckus she could only stand there and stare. Her mouth hanging open she whispered…

"Gousonkugi?"…..


A/N: Ja ja ja jannnnnnnn So new character here that will trigger something. Maybe uhhh….. Need reviews to up date so please do OK …..Bye-bye J