10 Years Later…

Soun Tendo sat on the porch, tears streaming down his cheeks as he read the postcard in his hand, the picture on it been one of a nine tails sitting in a the middle of a large field surrounded by trees as it drank from a sparkling stream.

Dear Soun and Kimiko

My old friends I am sorry to ask this of you but we are desperate, we've been running all over China all for the last two years, I fear for our lives and I hope this letter reaches you in time as of now we need a place to stay until we can plan our next move, I am sorry to be such an inconvenience, oh and I have someone I'd like you and your daughters to meet, we will be arriving soon.

Sincerely

Nodoka

Soun grew a large smile, his tears began of sadness at seeing his wife's name on the postcard but now they were tears of joy, Nodoka was bringing Ranma to them he knew it, she had taken him all those years ago and he'd lost all hope at uniting the schools only to have it restored by receiving the postcard. Soun's expression became one of deep thought for a few minutes, considering how long it would be until their arrival, he knew the postcard would have taken a couple days to get there and in that time Nodoka had been making her way to them with Ranma meaning it wouldn't be too long, it could even be that day.

Soun leaped to his feet, no longer considering that Nodoka and Ranma may not be arriving that day and could in fact be arriving in a couple more days or even a week or two.

"KASUMI, NABIKI, AKANE" Soun hollered as he climbed the stairs in search of his daughters, he found Kasumi in her room reading one of her mother's spell books, sat atop her bed.

When Kasumi heard the door opened she glanced up and greeted her father with her usual smile of pure innocence.

"Can I help you with something father dear?" Kasumi asked, fighting the urge to gag, acting to sugary sweet.

"Family meeting downstairs" Soun replied.

"Okay father" Kasumi replied as she stood from her bed, placing her book mark into the book before placing it on the dresser, Soun slipped out of the room and headed to Nabiki's room, making sure to knock first with her.

"Come in" came Nabiki voice through the door, Soun slowly opened the door and entered the room.

"Family meeting downstairs" Soun responded.

"Okay daddy" Nabiki replied, Soun slipped out of the middle Tendo daughter's room and headed to the room of his youngest daughter, he pushed open the door.

"Akane..." Soun trailed off once he noticed the room was empty, his shoulders slumped "Oh great, now where is she?" he asked the empty room before exiting the third room and going out in search of his youngest daughter. Soun headed down the stairs, closing his eyes, reaching out with his aura, trying to locate his daughter's magical signature, it didn't take too long to find it, Akane's signature felt like pure unadulterated rage and anger, she was and is the only person he'd ever met who relied on a single emotion when practicing her spells and the angrier she got the more powerful she would become.

Soun followed his senses all the way to the dojo, sliding open the door to see his youngest daughter testing out his strength on a pile of cinder blocks, pounding them into dust, Akane glanced to the door and gave her father a friendly smile.

"Did you want something dad?" Akane questioned.

"Yes, family meeting" Soun replied before leaving the dojo and heading to the dining table where his elder daughters had already gathered and were awaiting to find out what this was about, he took his usual seat at the head of the table, Akane soon entered and took her usual seat.

"Okay, now that we're all here what is all this about?" Nabiki questioned.

"Today I received a postcard from the wife of our house guest Nodoka is coming to stay for a while and she's bringing her son Ranma" Soun said before going into a detailed explanation about the honor promise between the Saotome and Tendo families about uniting the schools through marriage.

"WHAT?!" Akane practically screamed.

"Hold on Akane marrying this Ranma might not be so bad after all" Nabiki interjected "So is he cute, a strong magic user?" she then asked.

"I don't know, I've never met him, Nodoka took him and ran ten years ago and has no doubt been training him in the art and in magic, in fact back in school Nodoka had been one of the stronger magic users and one of the fastest fighters, she may not be that strong but she sure is fast" Soun responded.

"So you're forcing us to marry a guy you've never met before" Akane spat.

"Akane this is family honor we should give Ranma a chance" Kasumi responded 'Besides I'm interested to see how this will turn out' she thought to herself, inwardly smirking darkly.

"You see Akane your sisters seem to accept the engagement so why don't you give it a chance?" Soun responded, Akane let out a small sigh before slightly bowing her head.

"Err father...where's Uncle Saotome?" Kasumi questioned.

"He's out 'training' he should be back tomorrow" Soun replied.

That Night...

Rain began to pour throughout Nerima, triggering the curses of three certain travelers, Nodoka led the two adolescents through Nerima, remembering the towns routes, focusing on the way to the Tendo dojo, she glanced back at Ranma, his or rather her face hidden by the hood of her scarlet cloak, something they had picked up while on the run in China, Ukyo walked beside Ranma wearing her own dark blue cloak, hiding her expression as well as her cursed form and the same went for Ranma and Nodoka herself, her cloak purple.

Nodoka's gaze lingered on Ranma, she craved for her baby boy, she wanted to hold him in her arms...but she couldn't, not anymore, her little boy died in the massacre of the Chinese Amazons, he grew up in so many ways, he sealed himself off from her and purely focused on training in the art and in magic and yet refused to fight but she could understand that, after Genma Ranma would definitely want to be able to defend himself and after the Amazons...he never wanted to hurt anyone again.

'Ranma...it wasn't your fault it happened you couldn't control it...it was the stigma not you...you didn't kill them' Nodoka thought to herself before letting out a depressive sigh and redirecting her gaze to where she was going.

A/N Sorry it's so short, hope you all liked the chappie, plz review and as always I am open to suggestions.