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Ranma – Dragon of Chaos

Chapter Six: Some Nice Days At A Shrine

"..." Speech (Japanese)

"..." Thought

"..." Inner voice, telepathic thought

(...) Explanations, remarks,...

"(...)" Speech (English, Chinese)

"((...))" Ancient language

In some forest ,I didn't want to research, in Japan

Ranma had been in control of his body for a few months. In those months, he continued his training trip without his father. During those months, he traveled through Japan searching his father with no success.

At the beginning of those months, Ranma tried to find the Live-Link, with success, but at the moment the Live-Link was offline. It was just too confusing to know Milan's thoughts. There were just many voices in his head and Ranma heard all of them. His sight was really bad, too. There were always those double pictures. Ranma mainly saw light in three dimensions (known as space). Milan, however, mainly saw life energies in many more dimensions ,even the future, though Milan explained that it wasn't as useful as it sounded. By the time, you arrived at the future, it could have already changed and since Milan and Ranma were chaos beings, it was sure that something would change.

All in all, the Live Link was more of burden than something useful for Ranma.

At the moment, he spend most of his time studying chaos energy. He could move it around. No. That wasn't the right word. It was more like forcing the chaos energy to move in all possible directions (even some he didn't know) instead of in his arm for example. Some of the chaos energy moved in his arm, but most of it didn't. In the end, it was also hard to stop the chaos energy again. All in all, chaos energy was the life energy that sucked the most. Since Ranma's life energy was chaos energy, he had been weaker. He was slower, less durable, had less endurance and felt kinda restless and awkward.

At the moment, Ranma was doing exactly ,what he did the other days. He tried to find a way to control the chaos energy. Ranma knew that if he didn't, he could forget his dream of being the best martial artist. Just moving the chaos energy a bit around, was a difficult.

Ranma tried to get a lock on the life energy,he knew, and found out that his ki was evenly distributed inside of him. When he tried to move the ki, there was a lot of resistance. The 'liquid' ki had to move through all those other life energies ,which wanted to stay ,where they were. Ranma thought about the problem. The problem was that chaos energy didn't consist of one life energy. It consisted of many different life energies with many different characteristics.

Ranma had to think of a solution for that problem. He did a kata ,even if it didn't feel as good as before, when he only had ki. He recognized early that he could think the best ,when he was in motion, when he was in a fight. He couldn't just sit all day and think about something.

Ranma walked on a forest track until he found a clearing.

Ranma took a breath in and slowly breathed out. He closed his eyes. Then he moved. First he punched his imagery opponent with his right fist. He blocked a punch from his opponent with his left arm. Next he tried to kick his opponent on his left knee, but the opponent jumped back before his left leg connected with the left knee of his opponent. Ranma followed his opponent. The rest of the kata was done automatically.

Ranma thought of ways to make the chaos energy. Right now, it was practically useless, but what could he do with the chaos energy. What techniques did he know ,that could manipulate chaos energy? Only one. That was the Splitting, but he already did that all the time. Besides of that, he could feel his ki along with many other unknown life energies and he could move his ki inside of him though with a lot of resistance from the other life energies.

He tried to make special channels for his ki, so that he could use his ki without much resistence from the other life energies. That was only a temporary success. He could maintain that state for about one minute before he lost consciousness because of exhausion.

His next attempt was trying to shove the chaos energy out of his body which failed horribly. He landed in Milan's soul. Milan explained to him that he had shoved his entire life energy of his body out ,including his ki.

At the moment, he came up with another idea. Maybe he could split the chaos energy again. It wasn't very creative ,but that didn't matter. Chaos energy was so bad. It could only get better. So Ranma shrugged mentally. "Might as well try that." Ranma increased the Splitting rate.

Ranma felt that the chaos energy changed. It became more liquid. He could move the energy better. He could channel it into his arm and legs. His punches and kicks became faster. He could jump higher and do a backflip. Ranma smiled. The chaos energy still felt weird and it still made some weird movements, but he was one step closer to mastering his life energy.

Ranma did another kata. This time, he did it with euphoria of having some more control over his chaos energy.

A few meters away

A few meters away was an old man. He watched Ranma performing several katas. He was really impressed by what he was seeing. At the beginning, the execution of katas was perfect but he sensed that Ranma felt uncomfortable. Something was blocking him. He assumed it had something to do with the weird life energy coming from Ranma. Then he felt how Ranma's aura changed. His life energy was suddenly different and he saw what that did to Ranma. Ranma was faster and could jump higher. Ranma noticed that as well. He smiled.

The old man could have watched Ranma for a long time but Ranma finished his series of katas.

Ranma ran. Then he seemed to duck. Next he placed his hands on the ground and pushed himself up. He did a backflip in the air before he landed elegantly on the ground.

The old man clapped with hands.

Ranma heard the clapping. He turned towards the source of the clapping. An old man stood a few meters away from him. Ranma walked towards the old man.

"Thanks. My names Ranma Saotome. Whatcha doing here?" Ranma noted that his speech pattern was different than usual but shrugged it off as something that happened just this one time.

"I am Katsuhito Masaki, a shinto priest. You are on the land of the Masaki shrine."

"Oh, I can leave now if you want. I have to go search my father anyway and I can find other places to do martial arts."

"No, you don't have to leave. I watched you for a while. Those katas were impressive for someone your age. You can stay at my shrine if you want. You seem to be troubled."

Ranma scratched the back of his head. "A lotta things changed in the last few months. You would think I'm crazy if I told you some of the things that happened."

Katsuhito nodded and didn't ask for more information. He looked at the dark clouds in the sky. "I think we should go to my shrine. It's going to rain soon."

At the Masaki Shrine

Tenchi was watching TV ,when he heard the door open. He turned his head towards the door. He saw Katsuhito and Ranma enter. Tenchi went to them. "Hello, Jiichan." He turned torwards Ranma, who looked a lot like him with his pigtail. "Hello, who are you?"

"My name is Ranma Saotome. Your old man found me ,while I did some katas, and he offered me that I could stay here until the rain stops. So I ain't stayin here for too long but I'll help a bit at the shrine while I'm around."

"You are a martial artist?"

Ranma grinned confidently at Tenchi. "Yep, I'll be the best martial artist on the world and surpass all martial artists that ever existed. I want to fight against your old man by the way."

"Against Jiichan? You have no chance against him."

Katsuhito replied calmly. "We can have a sparring match after the rain stops. Maybe you can get to know each other and become friends. I still have to do a few things." His feelings inside however were different. Katsuhito really was excited about the sparring match. He wanted to see that weird life energy of Ranma again. During the kata, Katsuhito sensed a mix of many different life energies ,but when Ranma talked with him on the way to the shrine, he only felt ki, very unfocussed ki but still ki.

Katsuhito left the room which left Ranma and Tenchi alone in the room.

Ranma glanced at Tenchi. "Your old man is really good. He is far better than my old man. My father, I mean."

"Where is your father anyway and why are you calling your father and my grandpa old man?"

"My father is not with me right now. I have to search him. All because of that stupid dragon." Ranma muttered that last part but Tenchi heard it.

"You met a real dragon?"

"Yeah and I don't want to meet him too often. He is annoying and his world is really weird."

"Are you sure you didn't just have a bad dream?"

Ranma shooked his head. "Definately not. I guess, you still want to know why I call my father and your grandpa old man. It comes down to the martial arts style I use. It's Anything Goes Martial Arts or Musabetsu Kakuto Ryu. Like the name says, anything goes to defeat your opponent. So insults are allowed to break your opponent's concentration. I watched your grandpa. He moved with the elegance of a master. I tried to break his concentration but it didn't work. I know that when I call my father old man, he gets annoyed. I can use that against him. It's different with your old man. He shows no reaction. He concentrates on what's important. I guess I have to think of tactics and insults for the sparring match. I won't call him old man anymore. Are you any good at martial arts?"

"No. I have been starting to learn the Juraian Swordsplay since one week. It's our family art. At least that's what Jiichan has told me. He showed me some stances and moves and I copied them. I don't even know if I should really learn it."

Ranma stared at Tenchi. Tenchi began to sweat under Ranma's stare. "Of course, you should! It's your family art! You have the honor to learn a secret martial arts style! Your family art! And you tell me that you don't want to learn it! I can't believe you." Ranma shook his head. "I would agree immediately. I would be honored to learn it. And you just throw it away."

"It's only martial arts."

Ranma looked at Tenchi. "It's far more than that. It's a way of life. It's my way of life and I'll show you my way of life. Come to the sparring match and you will see." Ranma left the room.

Tenchi was the only one left in the room. He couldn't understand why martial arts was so important to Ranma.

At dinner

Katsuhito put his bowl down. "Ranma, you can slow down. No one is going to steal your food. We still have plenty of it."

Ranma put his bowl down, too. He fingered his pigtail. "Errr, sorry, I was used to having to protect my food from my father. It's training. It should improve my speed and my defense."

Katsuhito frowned. A dinner was something you should enjoy. You shouldn't have to fight for your food.

Tenchi asked next question. "How can he do that?"

Ranma shrugged. "Everything can be turned into training."

"Like what?"

"I wrapped up with fish products and thrown into a pit filled with cats and a tiger."

Katsuhito blanched. "You were taught that dreaded technique."

"It isn't such a big deal. I was in there for one day, I think."

Katsuhito sighed in relief. "You were lucky that you had only been in the pit for one day. If the technique had been successsful, you would have either been dead, thought that you were a cat or had an irrational amount of fear of cats."

Ranma gave Katsuhito a disbelieving look. "You are exaggerating. Besides, it didn't happen. I'm fine. I beat the tiger."

Katsuhito just nodded. He didn't want to ruin dinner by having to explain the Nekoken.

Katsuhito saw that Tenchi wanted to ask another question. "Not now. It's dinner. You can ask Ranma after dinner."

"Okay."

The rest of the dinner was quiet and uneventful.

Next day in front of the shrine

Tenchi stood in front of stair that led to the shrine.

Ranma and Katsuhito were preparing themselves for the fight. They did some stretching. At some point, they both stopped their preparations. Ranma and Katsuhito took a defensive stance.

Ranma looked at Katsuhito. "Why don't you use a sword? Your style is the Juraian Swordsplay after all."

"The style focusses more on fighting with swords ,but I can fight with swords and hand to hand."

"If I beat, you have to fight with the sword against me."

Katsuhito nodded.

"Oh, yeah, anything goes?"

"No death or crippling blows. Anything else is okay."

"Of course no death or crippling blows!"

"Then it's anything goes."

Ranma and Katsuhito eyed each other. They both waited for the right opportunity. Ranma made a few steps forward. They were a few meters apart from each other. Ranma attacked first. He made a few punches and kicks to test Katsuhito's guard. They were blocked easily by Katsuhito (not that Ranma expected anything else).

Then Katsuhito made his first attack. He threw a right straight punch at Ranma's head. Ranma moved his head a bit to left ,so that Katsuhito barely didn't hit him. Katsuhito made a kick with his left leg. Ranma ducked under the kick. He jumped forward and tried to kick his kidneys. Katsuhito recognized ,what Ranma wanted to do. He jumped back.

Ranma ran to him. He jumped up and tried to punch Katsuhito's head. Katsuhito sidestepped. He turned around and kicked Ranma in the back ,when he was about to land. Ranma had to react quickly as to avoid planting his head in the ground. He placed his hands on the ground and did a forward role. He looked to Katsuhito. They were some meters apart again.

Ranma smiled at Katsuhito. "Not bad for an old man."

Katsuhito smiled back. "You are not bad either but still a hundret years too young to beat me."

Ranma shot back. "Ha! I promise I won't strain your weak bones for too long."

"Are you all talk or will you continue fighting?"

Ranma increased the Splitting rate. "Ready or not, I'm comimg!"

Katsuhito noticed the change. Ranma's aura was still filled with excitement and happiness ,but it became more chaotic and less structured. It could still be identified as a human aura ,because most of the aura still consisted of ki ,but there were some other life energies as well. "I will have to talk about that strange aura with Ranma after the match."

Ranma ran to Katsuhito. Then he suddenly dashed to right. He passed Katsuhito. Katsuhito was confused ,when there was no kick or punch. Ranma ran to the tree behind Katsuhito and then jumped away from it. When Katsuhito turned around, he saw Ranma flying at him the right foot forward aiming his head. It was too late for Katsuhito to evade Ranma's kick. The only things ,he could do, was bringing up his arms and make a few steps back. Ranma jumped away from Katsuhito's arms. He did a backflip in the air. He landed in a crouch and started his next attack.

Ranma wanted to kick Katsuhito's left knee with his right leg, but Katsuhito moved his left leg to right, so that Ranma's leg passed harmlessly by Katsuhito's knee. Katsuhito countered with a kick on his own, this one faster than those before. Ranma was surprised at the speed of the kick. He brought down his arms too late. Katsuhito kicked him in the stomach. Ranma stumbled back.

There was no break for Ranma. Katsuhito followed up with a series of punches and kicks. Ranma had some serious problems from then on. He was on the defense. He could still deflect or evade some of the punches and kicks from Katsuhito, but he also got some hits in.

Ranma had to think of a solution on how to get out of that situation quickly or the match would be over in a minute. Then he got an idea.

Ranma saw right Katsuhito's fist coming at his head. He grabbed Katsuhito's arm and directed it to the right, so that it missed his head. Ranma let himself fall, but he didn't let go of Katsuhito's arm. Katsuhito lost his balance, too. When Ranma landed on the ground, he kicked Katsuhito in the stomach. Then he let go of Katsuhito's arm and rolled to the side.

Ranma stood up. He went a few meters away from Katsuhito who got up after that surprising action of Ranma. Ranma was sweating heavily and he breathed fast. The Splitting and defending took a lot out of him, but he was ready for the next round of the sparring match.

Katsuhito was sweating a bit and he breathed faster than usually. He saw that Ranma was nearly at his limit. "I think we should stop now. We can continue tomorrow. You should be proud. You surprised me two times during the sparring match ,Ranma."

"We can still continue. I ain't tired or anything."

"You have earned your break. You can rest for a while."

"But we can really go on. I'm used to train until I can't feel my arms and legs." Ranma looked into Katsuhito's eyes. Then he sighed. Argueing more, wouldn't help. He sat on the ground. Ranma looked over at the side to Tenchi.

Tenchi's eyes were widened. He was leaned forward. Tenchi mumbled some things Ranma couldn't hear. Ranma could tell that Tenchi was impressed by what he saw. Ranma smirked. He definately got the right reaction from Tenchi. "Tenchi. Sooo, what dya think o martial arts now?"

Tenchi looked at Ranma. He never expected to put up such a good fight against his grandfather. He had never seen his grandfather going all out ,but Tenchi thought that the sparring match would be over in a few minutes with no problems for his grandfather. He was clearly mistaken. Ranma was determined from begin on. He wanted to win even if he had no chance. He was passionate and managed to at least surprise his grandfather two times. Now, Ranma looked at Tenchi. He was exhausted but happy. "I want to do that ,too."

Ranma's smile got wider. "I couldn't hear ya. Could you say it LOUDER !"

Tenchi shouted back. "I want to do martial arts ,too !"

Katsuhito smiled. Ranma managed to make Tenchi want to learn martial arts. He really had thank Ranma for that. At the moment, he wanted to speak with Ranma alone. "Tenchi. I think the sparring match was interesting to watch, but you still have duties at the shrine. Cleaning the entry ,where visitors come, and greeting them."

Tenchi sighed. He went to the shrine to get a broom. Tenchi mumbled. "Stupid shrine duties."

Katsuhito shouted back. "You can clean the rest of the shrine, too."

"ACK!" Tenchi stumbled. He turned around and saw Katsuhito talking with Ranma. Katsuhito made a gesture for Tenchi to go. "How can he hear those things?"

Meanwhile, Katsuhito talked with Ranma.

"Thank you for the match, Ranma. I enjoyed it a lot. Also thank you with Tenchi."

"No problem. He challenged me."

Katsuhito raised an eyebrow. "Tenchi wanted a match against you."

"No. It was more like his life against my life." Ranma saw Katsuhito's confused look. "Tenchi didn't know ,if he should really learn martial arts. His life is without martial arts. So I showed him my martial arts ,I worked hard for. That is my life."

Katsuhito nodded in understanding. Then he looked Ranma deeply in the eyes who began to squirm. "I came here for another reason. Do you know what ki and an aura is?"

"Yes. Ki is the life energy of the body and an aura is the life energy around you."

"That's about right. I have felt your life energy and aura and they are different."

"I know. I was like that since a few months. My entire life energy was changed. It's still mostly ki ,but the other life energies disrupt the feeling I had for ki before, though I have been working on it for the last months."

"So, you already know about your weird aura and the other life energies." Ranma nodded. "Maybe I can help, if you tell how you got that aura and life energy."

"Okay, it was like that ...."

Sometime later

Ranma told Katsuhito his story from the Nekoken on. He left nothing out, well not really. He left out how he got exactly got out. Ranma looked at Katsuhito, who had a thoughtful expression.

Katsuhito believed that Ranma told the truth ,even if the story sounded not very believable. Katsuhito watched Ranma's body language and aura closely. He could tell that Ranma didn't lie to him. He only left some parts out that might have been embarrassing.

Katsuhito understood most of the story except for part of the behavior of the dragon. The part ,where Ranma told ,what was important to Milan, not just ,what he said, but what he thought as well, was interesting. Milan held his few living friends (Kyuubi and Demitrius) as his valuable things. He would never, in no situation, betray them. Then came his freedom. That was the contradiction. Freedom was Milan's second most valuable thing, yet he made Ranma chose the tests instead of the fight against him, so that Ranma could get his body back. Ranma had to be important for Milan in some way. The question was ,if all of Milan's intentions were good.

Katsuhito looked at Ranma, who expected that he say something. "First of all, I believe you. You carry a great burden. I fear though that I can't help you much. You already know ki manipulation, even if you can't use it outside your body ,because you don't have enough ki. About that dragon, Milan, how you discribe him, is far stronger than anyone ,I have met so far. He probably listens to this conversation at the moment. The only way ,you will have a chance against him, would be to use the Live-Link in a fight, so that at least, he doesn't have that advantage over you. I also think that Milan will only really fight you, when you are ready to fight against him. I don't know why though. You will have to find that out yourself. I think his lab would be a good start."

Ranma nodded. "Thanks for the help. I'll do that. Can I help at the shrine? I want to be too much of a bother for you and Tenchi."

"You don't have to, but if you want to help, you can go to Tenchi."

"Will do that. Then I'm gonna train again." Ranma waved at Katsuhito before going away.

"Wait!"

Ranma turned around. "What is it?"

"I think I figured out ,what the real message behind the tests is."

"Really? I thought using your surroundings was the message."

"That is a part of the message. The message is that not everything can be solved with martial arts."

"I'll think about it." Then Ranma went to Tenchi to help him.

Next day

Ranma had told Katsuhito and Tenchi ,what he wanted to do. Ranma wanted to enter Milan's lab. Ranma offered Katsuhito and Tenchi to come, too.

At the moment, Ranma and Tenchi were standing in front of a door. Ranma was holding the key to Milan's lab that he had summoned before. Tenchi looked at Ranma. "So, care to explain, why we are standing in front of the closet under the stair, again ?"

Ranma shrugged. "I have the feeling that will be a huge coincidence later. A huge lab in a much smaller house, ye know." Ranma ignored Tenchi's 'Not really.'. "Anyway, I dun wanna stand here too long." Ranma put the key of Milan's lab in the lock. He turned the key clockwise and opened the door.

Ranma stepped into the lab. Tenchi followed him.

In the lab

When Ranma and Tenchi entered the lab, they were surprised. Tenchi imagined that there would be chemicals from some experiments, big machines ,which were for something ,he didn't know anything, lots of metal and maybe some living experiment, but the first thing, he saw, was ...

"One meter long grass?" Tenchi turned to Ranma. "Are you sure, you have used the right key?"

"Yeah, I've used the right key, I think. I just wonder ,why all this stuff is so big." Ranma thought about it. Then he slapped his forehead. "Of course this is so big. Milan is a dragon all the time ,but I think I can change that. It will be our size."

Tenchi looked disbelieving at Ranma. "Our size? You mean like shrinking?" Ranma nodded confidently. "I know you can do a lot of things ,other people can't do, but shrinking this lab. No. Never."

"I'll show you." Ranma then spoke some language Tenchi couldn't understand. "((Sequence start. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It gets caught in a hurricane and sliced and diced and torniced and fileticed. Yummy, yummy, melon pieces in winter. Sequence end.))" After Ranma finished the sequence, he had some thoughts about Milan's administrator password. "What kind of crappy password is that! How could Milan have ever come up with that! Does torniced even exist?"

Despite that ridiculous password, the password was accepted. The lab shrunk to normal size (for humans).

Tenchi gaped at the changes. The grass became smaller. The walls of the lab came nearer. He watched how ,what he thought, was a large building without windows became a table, though an unusual one. Tenchi went to the table, when all the changes were done. The table surface consisted of two displays ,which were off, and many switchs and buttons between and around the displays.

Ranma came ,too. He touched one of the displays. The display was on immediately. Tenchi watched how Ranma was typing something. "What are you doing, Ranma?"

"I'm tryin' to find a way to get to the anime and manga section of the lab. I forgot it all the time."

"I didn't know you were an anime fan."

"I'm not. Milan collects that stuff. He said ,I should go there, if I wanted to know a big secret of his, though I don't know, what it could be and that dragon wouldn't just tell."

"Maybe he collects hentai mangas."

Ranma smiled. "That were my thoughts ,too. No, I think it's something bigger." Ranma typed in a few more things. "Done."

The lab shifted again. This time, Ranma and Tenchi were some sort of library.

Tenchi walked to one of the huge shelves in the library. He touched and then punched the shelf. "How is that possible. It's completely solid."

"Multiple alternate timelines, chaos cores and transcription of materia and energy in other dimensions."

Tenchi looked cluelessly at Ranma. "And that means..."

Ranma shrugged. "I dunno."

Tenchi facefaulted. "What's that supposed to mean?!"

"That I have Milan's memories, doesn't mean that I understand them all."

Tenchi just shook his head. "But you do know how to get us out?"

"Of course."

"Good. Well, since we are here, we might as well look for some interesting stuff."

Ranma nodded. "You go to the left and I go to the right."

Tenchi nodded. So they separated. Each of them went to their sections.

With Ranma

Ranma was in the section of the animes and mangas that began with the letter 'T'. Ranma walked in the corridor between the shelves. He glanced to the left and to the right ,to the shelves. From time to time, Ranma randomly grabbed a manga from the shelves and flipped through the manga. Some of the mangas ,he found , were funny, but mangas about fighting would be more interesting to him.

Ranma yawned. He wiped his eyes. While he did that, he saw a small disc in the corner of his left eye ,lying on the ground. He picked the disc up. Ranma's eyes widened, when he saw the words written on the disc 'Tenchi Muyo Universe - Episodes 1-26'. "Holy fuck!"

Ranma looked around to make sure that nobody heard him. He looked down at the again. Then he searched a place ,where he could play the disc. After a few minutes, he found a display, which was enough in Milan's lab.

Ranma watched the first episode. He recognized the people in the first scene. "Those are Tenchi and Katsuhito!" He watched the rest of the first episode very concentrated.

"Wow, that's really interesting, though mine is better."

Ranma jumped at hearing Tenchi's voice behind him. He turned around. He glared at Tenchi. "Don't sneak up behind me! How long were you here, anyway?"

Tenchi shrugged. "About fifteen minutes."

Ranma calmed down from his little outburst. "You look amused. Shouldn't ya be shocked or somethin'."

"Why should I be shocked? It's only an anime. It's not real."

"Yeah, I guess, you are right. That link with Milan, the normal one, makes me all paranoid."

"See, it's not a bad thing, just coincidence. That could never happen to me. Besides," Tenchi grinned at Ranma ,who didn't like the way Tenchi grinned at him. It promised something really bad for him. "your anime is infinately worse. Here is the disc."

"Ranma 1/2 ? What's with the 1/2?"

Tenchi had to bite his lip to keep himself from laughing at Ranma. "You will understand it."

Ranma hesistantly played the disc.

When Ranma saw the first scene, he was confused. "A red-headed girl and a panda fighting on the street. That girl is going to lose for sure against the panda, though both have a good technique. Hey, that's anything goes! That girl really beat the panda. Or not." Ranma shrugged at walking panda. Then the panda and the girl arived at a dojo.

A man with mustache asked the girl. "Are you Ranma Saotome?"

The girl nodded. "I'm sorry." The man then hugged the girl out of happiness before he noticed that he hugged a girl and not a boy how it should be.

Tenchi laughed at Ranma's face. Ranma's mouth hung open. His eyes were following the girl. "What the fuck!" Ranma pointed his finger at the red-headed girl on the display. "This girl should be me?!" Tenchi nodded. Ranma shook his head. He smiled. Then he laughed because of that absurdity. "You know what. You've convinced me completely. Those animes are just animes. We have found out Milan's secret. We can go now."

"Wait! You still have to find out how that girl can be you."

"Couldn't you jus tell me?"

"No, you have to see it."

Ranma sighed. "Might as well try to enjoy it. Besides that girl isn't me."

"Exactly!"

Ranma told himself to enjoy the rest. It wasn't him. So he could laugh.

Tenchi and Ranma watched the rest of the episode. They laughed throughout all scenes. When the episode ended, Ranma and Tenchi, both, had smiles on their faces. They watched a few more episodes before leaving the lab. That was a nice day for both of them.

At dinner

"So how was Milan's lab?"

Tenchi told Katsuhito ,what had happened. Katsuhito said nothing all the time, because he was shocked that the Tenchi-ken, Ryoko, Ayeka and Sasami were mentioned. The Tenchi-ken really existed. Ryoko really was a space pirate that was entrapped in a cave on the land of the shrine. Ayeka and Sasami were really princesses of Jurai.

At the end, Katsuhito tried to do some damage control. Katsuhito laughed. "That was quite an adventure you had. I would like to come with you next time to see the lab and those animes. They sound funny."

Meanwhile, Ranma thought about the animes and mangas. "And I took those animes and mangas seriously. Neither Tenchi nor Katsuhito did. Like hell the animes and mangas ever gonna become true."

Inside of Ranma

"I hope I misheard or Ranma's life will get really crappy. What's with Ranma's grammar anyway? It must be my memories. I hope Ranma can keep himself like he is and not how my memories want him to be." Milan sighed. He had to wait for now. "I hope it works. Then it will end. Just a few more centuries or millennia if everything works out." Milan sighed again. "Waiting that something happens. The biggest waste of time. Might as well train. I have nothing to do anyway."

A.N.

One chapter in 21 days. Two chapters in this month. Not bad.

There are a few things to clarify in this chapter.

(1) Katsuhito doesn't know any characters personally from Ranma 1/2. Nadoka is not related to Katsuhito. Katsuhito never met Genma. He knows that someone called Happosai exist but neither his school nor his disciples. Katsuhito knows that somewhere in China is Jusenkyo and the Amazons, the Musk and the Phoenix people live there.

(2) About Ranma knowing what to do in Milan's lab. Milan was often his lab, doing experiments, playing games and working at the computers (though the only visible part of them are the monitors). Ranma has some of Milan's memories, so that he basically knows ,what he has to do in Milan's lab. Ranma will have trouble, when he has to use a normal computer though.

(3) Ranma doesn't take the animes seriously. I really pondered ,if I should really do that. In the end, I decided that Ranma should not believe the animes. He is still naive and above all not that paranoid, because he has not lived in Nerima yet.

That's about everything for now.

Next chapter: Ranma meets Genma again. The training trip continues with him, but I will skip many years. The story has to go on and I want to reach Nerima.

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