It was a rather sunny, warm day as they finished packing their supplies into the boat. They figured that they would reach China in about a day of sailing, and it would take a few days to reach the village. Planning for this they had a few extra days of food, tents, and other survival supplies.

Ranma was standing away from the others when Kagome walked over to him, they exchanged a quick glance before looking away.

"So, I guess after this we won't be seeing each other again…" Ranma said after a few minutes of silence.

"I guess it is… But me and Inuyasha really have to get back, we've been away for awhile now. Ranma… Why are you helping so much? Is it just because you want to get rid of Inuyasha?"

Ranma stiffed a laugh before responding, "Kagome… I'm doing this for you; I promise that I'll get you home no matter what. Because well, Kagome I-"

"Yo Kagome, cross dresser let's get going already!" Inuyasha yelled, efficiently stopping their conversation. The both of them said nothing as they walked back to the boat.

"Faster heathens, row faster! China awaits us!" Kuno sprouted orders from the bow of the boat. Beside him sat the still girl Ranma, with a rather disgruntled look on her face.

"Ya know, you could help Samurai boy!" Ryoga yelled from the midsection of the boat, struggling to row against the powerful waves that pushed against them.

"And why isn't Ranma helping? Instead you're making the both of us row while you two lounge up there!" Inuyasha said from right beside him, however he wasn't having as nearly much trouble due to his superior half demon strength.

Kuno shook his head in distaste. "You two disgust me! Do you really want to make a women do the work?"

"Yeah but Ranma's not a-"

"Silence demon! You insult my future bride again and I'll keelhaul you!" Inuyasha shut up for awhile after that, not wanting to bother with the egotistic bokken boy.

Kagome, who was at the stern of the boat, watched the waves rush by as they went. The boat itself was rather rickety at best, made of a cheap wood she was surprised it didn't break the minute she set foot on it.

Some yacht this is… She thought to herself when looking back at the others. Ryoga and Inuyasha were only a few feet in front of her, and Kuno and Ranma were probably only a few meters away. It really was more of a dinghy.

"Why are you sad my love? Is the company of these barbarians bothering you?" Kuno asked, noticing Ranma's displeasure.

"No, just a little seasick…" She lied before retreating to the back of the boat. On the way however, when she was stepping over the midsection of the boat she shoved Inuyasha's face away. He growled at her, and would have done more had he not been forced to row.

"God this is turning out pretty bad…" Ranma commented as she took a seat beside Kagome.

"Yeah this 'yacht' isn't that great, but at least it's getting me home." She smiled, noticing the silver lining in things.

"I just wish I could turn into a damn guy, but with Kuno around he'd probably search the entire Sea of Japan thinking I went overboard along the way…"

"You know I never really thought about it before, but just how did you get your curse? I know I travel through time and all but that is still pretty weird."

"Well…" Ranma's voice turned to annoyed tone, it still made him pissed whenever he remembered just how he came to get his cursed body. "My pop took me out on a 10 year training trip; we traveled all across Japan so I could get stronger."

"Wow, sounds like your dad's a pretty loving guy. He doesn't really look like it though, when I saw him all he did was lounge around and sleep. "

Ranma laughed at the mere thought of it, "Yeah right! My dad once traded me for a hot meal! Anyway, he's the reason I'm like this. We swam to China not too long ago and went to this ancient training ground, well since my dad doesn't know a word of Chinese turns out they were these cursed springs. I fell in one and well, here I am." She motioned to her feminine body.

"And I thought my life was tough, it must be hard having to deal with that!"

"You don't know the half of it…"

Suddenly a massive wave hit the port side of the boat, sending freezing salt water raining down on Inuyasha and Ryoga. When the mist cleared only the half demon remained, with a black squealing pig beside him.

The dinghy lurched left; with only Inuyasha rowing it was spiraling out of control. "God damit, someone grab the other oar before we flip!"

Due to Kuno inadequate navigation, he had sailed them into the middle of a storm ten minutes ago. It had been relatively calm, until now at least.

"Haha! No mere storm can capsize my beauty! We continue on, now row onward fool!"

Ranma rushed forward to grab the oar Ryoga was using, grabbing it just before it fell overboard. "Alright, I think were good now…" She sighed in relief.

However when another wave hit the small boat, nearly flipping it over, Shampoo was doused with water transforming her into a purple cat. "C-C-C-CAT!" Ranma squealed, running to the front of the boat. The sudden shift in movement sent the bow deep into the water and they quickly began taking water.

" Look what you did you idiot!" Inuyasha yelled, his voice just barley audible over the roaring winds. "You're scared of a cat?"

"Y-Y-YES! Now do something Kuno before we sink!"

"Alas my beauty it is too late, our efforts would be in vain. Now let us embrace in a passionate kiss before we are forever swallowed by the sea." The bokken boy went to kiss her, but she quickly pushed him away.

"This isn't the time!" The water was now up to their knees, and if they didn't do something soon they'd be on the bottom of the ocean. Another wave sent them lurching to the right, the boat capsized and with a crack of lighting she blacked out.

The next minute Ranma was hearing the calming noise of the tide. She could feel the warmth of the sand around her body, and the heat from the sun beating down on her. As she opened her eyes she took a gander at the enormous blue sky above her, the puffy white clouds standing out like lights in a sea of black.

"Ranma! We've been looking for you for the past hour!" She heard a yell, turning her head she caught sight of Ryoga running over to her.

"Ryoga?" Pushing herself up he stopped in front of her, taking a second to catch his breath. "What happened?" She asked, rubbing her head to sooth the raging headache.

"Kuno's stupid 'yacht' sank, don't you remember? We washed up a few hours ago, since then we've been searching the beach for the others."

"Who else have you found?"

"Just Inuyasha and Kuno, their off looking for Shampoo and Kagome right now. They reckon were on the mainland of China now, but who knows, we could be on some random island!"

"We should probably go look for Kagome," She suddenly tripped and fell forward. She realized how sore her body was, no doubt from being tossed around by the waves for hours.

"Don't tell me you can't walk! Even you're not that big a weakling!"

Ranma growled at him, "I'm fine, just didn't realize how sore my body is, I'll get use to it. Now where are the others?"

"Huh….."

"You don't know, do you…" Her voice turning to a very annoyed tone.

"Of course I do! We agreed to meet at someplace, but I can't really remember how to get there…"

"You idiot! Of course I get stuck with the idiot who can't tell left from right! We might as well just wander around looking for them; it'll be more productive then trying to find the meeting point…"

So for the next hour the gender changing girl and hopefully lost boy wandered the beach line. On both sides all that could be seen was sand; it was like it was the Sahara desert.

"Do you think they went into the tree line?" Ryoga referred to the dense area of trees on their left.

"I doubt it, if there looking for the others then they'll be on the beach. Wouldn't make sense for them to search the trees."

Finally after quite awhile of searching they caught sight of something further down the beach, running over to it they found the others.

"Finally, where the hell have you two been? We've been waiting here for hours." Inuyasha asked with a rather pissed off look on his face.

"Don't look at me, pig boy here forgot where we were supposed to meet you. Anyway, now that we're all here we should probably head to Shampoo's village."

She surveyed the group with a quick glance, finding all of the people she had departed with. Kuno was currently on his knees bawling, obviously upset over the loss of his precious 'yacht'. Shampoo was looking along the tree line, probably trying to determine where they were. Kagome had a smile on her face, it had formed the moment she had caught sight of them. Finally Inuyasha was standing impatiently, the angry look still on his face.

"Yeah I guess you're right, sooner we get going the sooner were in the Feudal Era." Shampoo took the lead from here, getting to the front of the group and began leading them through the forest.

"So I was thinking, could we stop off at Jusenkyo? We could finally get rid of these damn curses." Ryoga asked the excitement in his voice easily noticeable.

"It off path from Village, but yes. We can go, will have to stop for rest soon though. Chinese forests very dangerous at night…" Ranma's heart leapt at this, he would finally be rid of his girl form.

"So my pig tailed goddess, our we now looking for a nice spot to get married? I'm thinking of a nice mountain, surrounded by cherry blossom trees!"

And Kuno…