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Chapter 9 – Confidence

Ranma was headed to the dojo to kata out her frustrations after coming to some realizations about the conversation that ended almost an hour and a half ago. She was steered. They knew her buttons and pressed them very well. She had a short argument later with her mother. Ranma was trying to come up with some form of proper retaliation against her manipulators, but was drawing up blanks, she had no ideas yet.

Her mother had already purchased the uniform and Ranma was unhappily in it at the moment. She decided that if she had to wear the accursed thing she would learn how to fight in it. She tried not to grin at the possibility of it being damaged beyond repair by a Youma attack. 'Now that would be satisfying,' she thought to herself.

She opened the back door and saw someone standing there. Her first instinct was that it was 'a sneak attack' when she had seen the fist, then she noticed the startled, but very familiar face. Her own face brightened as she cheerfully chirped, "Deki-chan!"

Dekiko took a moment to compose herself before she had replied in kind, "Ran-chan!"

Ranma spoke happily, "How'd ya get here? I didn't think you were coming. Hows things on Siren?"

Dekiko replied with a smile, "There is a portal between the temple and your lot, apparently. It was tied to you so when you powered up it activated. Nobody noticed it or realized what it was for until now. Things are pretty normal on Siren; however rumors have shot across the moon at your return. I know you tried to keep as few people in the loop as possible, however a few too many people saw Sailor Siren and knew who you were in the Silver Millennium. You were remembered more than we thought."

Ranma asked, "Where's the portal?" And Dekiko pointed at the old shed. At which Ranma chuckled and shook her head.

Ranma then proceeded to escort Dekiko inside to meet her family, and find a room for her.

Two hours before Dekiko arrived, Ranma had been in the library with her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. They were sitting around a round table with a tray of tea in the middle. Eriko had insisted that Ranma be in feminine form for this talk. Ranma was not too happy, that phone call was a cowardly way to tell her that she had to undergo that training. However she had the definite feeling she was being steered. It was very unlike his mother to come up with an idea this ludicrous, actually she would do this but only if she had an ulterior motive.

Ranma decided to play along; after all she did know how to act like a girl. She even wore dresses in public occasionally. However as much as she knew her mother, which was not too well, she did not know her other family well enough. She did know that they were like a more mature version of her mother, however that was not help beyond further hints of her being trapped.

Ranma was raised on the road with a person who felt that acting without thinking was happiness. Thus this particular attribute was engrained into Ranma. Added to the Saotome style of making your opponent so mad that they lose all style, also known as 'Saotome foot in the mouth disease,' Ranma had the tendency to come off as an unthinking, loud mouth jock. This was very un-feminine.

Ranma remembered the conversation that followed the phone call back at the meeting. After everyone stopped laughing the other girls apologized but explained that it was just the absurdity of the situation that incited the laughing. Usagi offered to undergo the princess training with her, but when Rei made a comment about needing to learn to act like a girl, and Haruka snickered at that statement, Ranma asked for them to give her tomboy lessons. In the end everyone was laughing and teasing each other; except for the cats, Mamoru, and the suspiciously suddenly absent Setsuna.

After that Ami had suggested ways to get out of the training or at least get the training into a form that Ranma would be able to tolerate. The main point she had that Ranma remembered was spending all that time on Siren, she had acted as a socially acceptable girl there.

Ranma focused on the meeting now happening. Everyone had taken a sip of tea and was preparing for the dance that was about to happen.

Keiko started what promised to be a long talk, "Ranma, I am sure you are not happy with the way we notified of your coming training." A glare was her only answer. "I only ask you to believe that we have your best interest in mind."

Ranma continued glaring at his grandmother. Eriko then continued for her daughter, "I am sorry that you feel you will suffer unnecessary hardship by this Ranma, but we need you to be ready for what is to come." The glare moved to her but had softened a bit. "Do you feel that you are ready as you are now to rule Siren?"

Ranma's glare slowly stopped until she sighed and replied a soft and reluctant, "No."

Eriko was worried about her granddaughter fumbling her line; however, she was relieved when Nodoka didn't. Nodoka spoke next, "Now Ranma do you think that the people of Siren will accept a male ruler or will they only accept a female one, even if she is male part time."

Ranma thought for a moment, she nearly said that they would accept her regardless, as her old Silver Millennium memories informed her. However, since the decline of access to guys, the mostly female population would likely reject the idea of a male leader now. Obviously, once travel becomes more common they might change, but at the moment her mother was right. Ranma had to give her mother a negative head shake.

Keiko continued pressing the argument, "You see Ranma, even you must admit to the fact that your people need and want a princess right now, not a prince. So you will need to learn to act the part, or am I wrong?"

Ranma then realized something important and spoke up, "But I won't even be ruling any time soon, they don't need me anyway."

Eriko countered, "How could you know that, you were there only three months, do you really know what is happening there in their government?"

Nodoka interjected, "If you weren't needed then you would not be Sailor Siren, you would just be my manly son."

Everyone ignored the manly part, but the elders made a mental note that this would have to be addressed. If she kept pushing him to be manly she could do untold damage to Ranma, and, by proxy, Siren. Ranma may have been the rightful ruler but they were the royal family, they had to lookout for their people's best interest. He could be manly later; right now he needed to be properly focused.

It was time for the end to this little dance, everyone knew this, however, only Ranma did not know the steps to follow.

Eriko began finishing this discussion after everyone took a sip of tea. "Ranma you may not need that particular training now, however, later you will. We shall see how things progress. In the mean time let us talk about your girl training."

Ranma was ready for this part, the princess training she had no decent defense, but girl training she was ready, she was prepared, she was sure she could sneak out of it. She interrupted, "I do not need girl training, I know how to act properly as a girl in public. I have done so in the past." She was very careful here to avoid improper speech which would be used against her.

Then her mother gushed, "Excellent, than you will not mind attending school as a girl, in proper uniform of course." She signaled to the others 'hook.'

The indignant reply came, "I do not need a uniform, why should I have to attend school as a girl"

Keiko answered, "All nice girls wear uniforms, or are you saying you need to be properly trained, bridal training perhaps?" She followed with a subtle signal 'line.'

Ranma blanched and made an, 'urk'-like sound

Eriko finished it with, "Wonderful, then you agree with the uniform, as to attending in girl form, you told us that you can lock yourself as girl right?" Without waiting for the confirmation she continued, "Well unlike your last school you can avoid perverted boys switching your gender in the locker room." Final signal was made 'sinker.'

Despite having to go to school as a girl in a uniform that scored little better then her sailor fuku, actually since the sailor fuku had a leotard it gained bonus points for better hiding of underwear, but as the school uniform had a longer skirt, Ranma decided he came out ahead. No girl training or any obvious advanced classes of the type. Ranma simply nodded.

Everyone drank their tea and after a few minutes went their separate ways. It took almost until Dekiko arrived for Ranma to realize that the entire discussion was staged.

A few minutes before Ranma opened the door and saw Dekiko, Nodoka was reminiscing about how she got Ranma into that girl's uniform. Although she wouldn't dare say it, the reason she gave her approval to this stupid 'go to school as a girl' idea of her grandmother's was the fact the Ranma was still a guy under her skin, and it was very manly to sneak into a girl's locker room.

The whole setup, including the girl training and princess training, was mostly a ruse, well the girl training anyways. She smiled as she knew her son was very headstrong and determined. He hid his obvious intelligence well. If she paid any less attention than she did now, as she had in the past, she would have missed it. Ranma was obviously very focused on what his intelligence was used for. She heard the stories of his various challenges, and how he eventually over came them. But when she looked at him when he was tense, she realized that the constant pressure only causes problems in the long run. He would bury his potential when he was nervous or bored.

Her grandmother was right. Since Ranma let it slip that he could lock himself in girl form, but not guy form, he could in all essence attend school without the threat of an accident. Without that stress of humiliation he could relax, and by going to a different school nobody should recognize him. With no distractions he should be able to get decent marks, perhaps even impress that smart girl, Ami. Her mind slipped into grandchild land for a moment.

She sighed as she remembered the reason for the call. Ultimately it was because of his headstrong personality. They, her mother, grandmother and herself, knew that he was able to function socially as a girl; they had seen it themselves. No, the reason they brought up girl training and princess training was that they wanted him to attend school as a girl in the proper uniform. Both were, by definition, not very Ranma-like. So they needed grounds for negotiation. He probably would accept girl training, but princess training would be the limit.

In the end they traded: giving up on princess training for going to school as a girl; and the girl training for the uniform. He was stubborn about the uniform, not as much as she expected, but that was mostly because of why he hated girl clothing; he hated girl's clothes because of what happened when he transformed. Since that was not a problem anymore he more easily accepted.

Now for the last part of her plan… grandchildren, she had again drifted off to that fantasy of Ranma being manly and getting her some grandchildren to spoil.

As she sat there with that silly grin on her face her grandmother walked by shaking her head, her grandmother remembered that particular grin on her daughter's face as well.

Ranma led Dekiko into the guest reception room. After the rest of the family was rounded up Ranma made the introductions.

After the introductions were made, Ranma, still in girl form, glared at the giggling Dekiko. Ranma asked, "What's so funny Deki-chan?"

After she regained her composure, Dekiko answered, "I was just imagining what they had to do to get you in that skirt." Everyone but Ranma giggled; Ranma tried to look as annoyed as she could, unfortunately it came off as a cute pout, which only seemed to help increase the giggles.

After everyone composed themselves, Dekiko filled Ranma and her family in on the current events on Siren. Although it had only been three days since Ranma left, to those on Siren it had been almost two weeks. "Word of your resurrection and subsequent awakening has reached the populace. There have been mixed reactions. Most feel that it is simply a rumor, others feel that it is a government cover-up. Only Senna and I know the truth, though. However, you were seen and identified before you left. Nobody reacted until you left. The temple grounds are beyond government control, however the government does know that you came back and lived at the temple for a time."

Ranma asked Dekiko, "How, did someone tip them off?"

"Senna did, this was before you arrived." Dekiko answered, "She tried to get the government ready for your arrival but she meet heavy resistance. I am afraid that the government is a bit corrupted and not willing to return control to you. You may have to return and show everyone you are back and take control."

Ranma inquired, "Why do I have to 'take control?' Wouldn't it be better for the people to be self-governed?"

"Being a Sailor Senshi is more than being a monarch and warrior. In fact the people would be mostly self-governed and have representation. You would have the power to override the normal processes but when you take control the traditional thing to do is simply add a level to the current level. Most people would prefer for you to return anyway. Right now there is not much to worry about, however we will have to do something some time soon, even if it is only as much as you appearing briefly and telling the people to go on with their lives for now."

"I never asked for this. Why does it have to be me? I am a warrior, not a princess."

"No, you did not, but you have to be both. It is your responsibility, it is your duty, and it is your destiny."

"Why not just let things settle for now? I can go back later, when we rebuild the moon kingdom." Although Ranma had not yet been told about Crystal Tokyo and the great ice, rebuilding the moon kingdom is ingrained into every Sailor Senshi. Even though most of them could not put it into words until Pluto did, Ranma had more time for the Silver Millennium memories to return by comparison.

"The people will not wait. Eventually, and soon, this will have to be addressed. Remember too the time differential. Until Siren and the Earth are in sync again it will be a problem. We can have you make an appearance, just saying that Senna, or someone else will speak for you and I can act as a medium for that person. But you will have to make that appearance. And rebuilding the government will be a must. As it stands Siren needs unification. It is on the brink of another war, and I fear it is because you appeared and have not taken control. Some people, religious leaders to be specific, feel that because you are awake again and have not taken control of Siren as a whole, that you have abandoned Siren, that Siren has become corrupt. They may inadvertently start an all out war between the provinces."

Everyone sat quietly listening to what was said, until Ranma asked meekly, "I saw none of what you were describing when I was there. So where is this happening, and why didn't I see any of it?"

"Because the temple is neutral ground. It is the place where you ruled in the Silver millennium. It is your palace, now a temple to you."

Ranma was speechless, and she looked it, she had paled at the implications. Her great grandmother was the first to regain her ability to speak after all that was said. She spoke with a note of pride in her voice, "So my great grandchild will simply have to go there and get things straightened out. The need is too great to stand back and let people die when a simple appearance will do." To this Ranma only nodded, nothing else needed to be said.

Ranma was in the dojo with his cousin. This time he was learning the double bokken. This training was easier than the twin bokken training, since a double bokken was a lot like a Bo staff. However there were a lot of differences. First she could not hold the bokken anywhere but the handle, well she could, but that would not be safe in normal combat with a double katana. However the style was again in a circle or spiral for most of the techniques.

About a month before Ranma was taken to Siren, Kuno had attacked him. Ranma had been in a bad mood at the time, when Kuno swung the bokken, at Ranma he caught it just as a brief shower had occurred changing Ranma into his girl form. Ranma then lifted the bokken, and Kuno, who was too stunned to see his pigtailed goddess holding his bokken to let go, over her head. Adjusting her grip, she slammed him on his back into the dirt. Then she repeated it two more times.

For some reason, that Ranma could not understand, Hiroshi, who saw the scene, called Ranma, "Bamm-Bamm" for a week until Ranma convinced him otherwise. Ranma never figured out where that nickname came from.

The most unusual thing about the practice bokken she was using in this session were the red lines on it. These were used to signify where the blades would be on a real version.

After four hours practice, Ranma began studying some of the scrolls that Dekiko had brought with her. Dekiko herself had left to go shopping with Ranma's mother, great grandmother and cousins. One of the scrolls had a technique called 'Shadow Imitate'. It could create a shadow of a weapon, it would appear and have some strength, however when encountering any resistance it would dissipate quickly. It had the consistency of normal glass. So to be effective it needed something else, otherwise it just looked menacing and intimidating as hell.

It worked magically, utilizing her power as Sailor Siren to draw it into a shape. However, she used Ki to give it the strength needed to allow it to have more substance than a ghost. Unfortunately, since magic and matter were so different, it made it very hard to actually make it stronger. With the Iron Cloth technique it was a simple matter of using a little Ki to make cloth hard, like iron. With a magical construct, the amount of Ki needed was increased exponentially. To make a sword that was even as hard as glass took more Ki than it would take for the Iron Cloth technique to make a ribbon act like a blade of steel.

Ranma transformed into Siren and tried several things to make it stronger. Finally after a two hours worth of effort she had another idea, she tried using magic instead of Ki. The results of the experiment were a tired redhead, a hole in the wall and one in the floor, an amused grandmother, and several choice curses. She sighed when she looked at the clock and realized that there was only a half an hour before she had to meet the others at the shrine.

Nine short skirted girls and one over dressed guy were in an open field in Hokkaido. Pluto had opted to stay behind and try and use the gates to find their enemy. They had teleported here to test their powers so that Siren could look for ways to improve their effectiveness. Unfortunately they all had the same problem Siren had, they were magically preprogrammed. Siren sighed and thought, 'This will take a lot of work.' Siren decided to start with worst case first: Moon.

Siren decided to get back to basics, Moon's first attack. Sure Siren had seen it before, but never paid any attention. Now was different, Siren pointed to a rock and asked Moon to touch it without breaking it with her Tiara Action attack.

Sailor Moon raised her hand and followed the old habit motions of the attack, she yelled, "Moon, Tiara, Action!" Siren watched as she casually removed her tiara and got ready, then as it charged she noticed something she did not expect. Moon completed the task perfectly. Of course now that Siren saw and felt that she could do it, but she looked confused and got Moon to do it again and a third time. After the third time Moon wondered what was wrong.

Siren saw the confusion in the other Senshi and decided to show them. She had Moon step aside and Siren took her place and mimicked the moves and attack perfectly, only difference was she called out 'Siren, Tiara, Action!' instead of 'Moon, Tiara, Action!'

Everyone stared at the redhead, and Moon was wailing about 'sneaky loud mouths stealing her attacks.' After the tiara was put back on her head, Siren looked at Moon and said, "Interesting, I didn't notice before but your Tiara attack is actually a Ki attack."

Everyone including Moon stared at the redhead. Siren continued, "No wonder you eat like me, to power that attack you would have to have a large energy store. And eating a lot of food at normal pace would waste too much time."

Venus sputtered and said, "You mean that she eats like a pig because she has to?"

Siren simply replied, with a smirk, "Obviously."

Tuxedo Kamen shivered at the thought of all the money he would have to spend in the future. He had hoped that this eating habit of Usagi's was just a phase.

As Siren studied the various attacks the other Senshi were doing, she made mental notes of what to get them to try, so that they could improve their arsenal. Siren's musings were interrupted by the Mercury Computer's beeping. Mercury reported there was an attack in Juuban.

Moon led the teleport back to Juuban near the attack.

The Senshi appeared just inside the edge of a park in Juuban. The Kimera were on the other side and the Sailor Senshi were about to head off to fight when Siren stopped them, "I detect Kimera, three of them, in the other direction."

Mercury confirmed, "Yes, I detect them also. I think we should send someone to deal with those three since it appears they are using their previous tactic." Their tactic she was referring to was a primary big loud attack covering a smaller energy raid.

"I'll go." Siren volunteered

Sailor Moon thought a moment and nodded, "Go, but be careful. This enemy is unpredictable, it may be a trap. If it is, call for backup"

Siren nodded and left, then the rest turned and entered the park. When they reached the other side they found there were a lot of Kimera. More than they expected. It was an intense battle, but, with skill, power, and the practice they had accumulated in killing demons, they were winning. Early in battle Mercury's computer beeped, unfortunately Mercury was too busy fighting to check it. If it were important it would have made more noise anyway, or so she thought.

After the fight, the Senshi were exhausted and Uranus commented, "Where the hell is Siren? She could have killed those things with her eyes closed and got back here by now."

Mercury checked her computer when Moon started looking worried. What she saw made her eyes widen and she gasped. There was a very powerful Kimera near Siren, one that was more then a match for her, one that the computer had an ID on file for, Ryuuko.

Mercury stated urgently, "Siren needs help now. She encountered Ryuuko, and her power signature is weakening. We fell for their trap. Apparently Siren tried to call for help but she was jammed some how."

Moon took charge of the situation and shouted, "We better move, I don't want to see another Sailor Senshi die." With that they all ran towards the remaining battle.

The other Senshi arrive and see Ryuuko hovering about five meters above the ground. Triple threat was in Twin Katana form on the ground, and Siren's tiara was next to it. Siren was beaten badly. Her Senshi powers were on the verge of failing. Her uniform was in tatters, and obviously her right arm and both her legs were broken. She was being held up by Ryuuko's right hand holding her neck. Her left eye was swollen shut.

Siren was cursing herself mentally for depending on that weapon too much, 'Kuso! Pops was right, if I'd only adapted my powers better for hand-to-hand combat this wouldn't have happened.'

"Well, well, well. What do we have here? I see a bunch of little children here to watch the fall of a friend." Ryuuko had boasted.

Mars, Venus, and Uranus started charging attacks when Ryuuko waggled her left hand's index finger and said, "I wouldn't do something so stupid if I were you. You might hit your friend, and in her current condition I doubt she would survive." She watched as the attacks powered down. "That's better, now just wait your turn and I will deal with you in a moment…" before she could say anything else, Siren took the opportunity to move.

Siren screamed, or rather whispered, "Siren Shocking Wave!" despite it being said so quietly everyone still heard it. Ryuuko was very distracted by the move and reflexively threw Siren. As she fell Siren tried to think of something to do, she thought of her options and had nothing that could do any damage. She was wishing that she had mastered that shadow weapon technique but at this distance it would be too late. She couldn't even do a returning wave with it because it was so different from her normal weapon.

As she fell she remembered her training of the Senshi looking for something that might help. Then both eyes shot open, she had remembered saying, "Interesting, I did not notice before but your Tiara attack is actually a Ki attack." Her Tiara may be lying in the ground below but perhaps…

She gathered her energy into her one good hand and cried out,

"Shadow…"

everyone looked on wondering what was coming,

"Returning…"

Ryuuko started laughing thinking that Siren was so badly injured she forgot she was unarmed,

"Wave!"

A spinning mass of darkness appeared by her hand which suddenly turned into a spinning mass of white energy. It flew toward Ryuuko and tore a hole in her wing. The other Senshi started firing off their attacks as soon as Siren hit the ground.

Siren's attack was using Moon's Tiara technique to power it. The difference between the Iron Cloth technique and the Tiara action was in execution. Moon's tiara, and the others' for that matter, were magical constructs given form. Similar to the Shadow weapon. The Iron Cloth technique worked on a basis of enhancing the strength of an object by winding Ki around and through it. The Tiara attack was different in that the Ki surrounded the Tiara instead of infusing it. Thus the 'Shadow Returning Wave' would be a super powered, disposable, Tiara attack.

As soon as Ryuuko realized she was beaten and had teleported out in her usual flash of darkness, the Senshi rushed to their fallen comrade. They were relieved when Mercury and Saturn said she would be alright, but they needed to get her home. Mercury called her mother and told her to meet them at the Kinseino home. Siren might not like it but it would take a week to repair that damage and that was with both her innate healing and Sailor Senshi powers.

While this was happening Venus, Mars, Kamen, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune were talking. Neptune started, "I doubt that any of us feel that this was not a trap. However, the question that I have is: Was Siren the target of the trap?"

Kamen looked at Siren and grimaced at the unnatural angles her limbs were in. Mercury was setting her bones while Moon and Saturn were using their healing powers to help with the damage. He looked at the others and spoke, "It looks that way, but we should not count on it since this is the first time they seem to have singled one of us out."

Mars added with frustration in her voice, "True, yet we cannot discount that she was the logical choice for the job." There was a minute of uncomfortable silence.

Venus asked concerned, "So what now?"

Neptune answered, "Nothing yet. However I think we will need to guard Siren until she recovers."

Venus and Jupiter both chirped, "I'll do it!" They then glared daggers at each other.

Uranus ignored the boy obsessed girls and interjected, "From now on we should work in pairs to prevent this from happening again."

Pluto appeared and looked frantic as she demanded, "What in the name of Pluto happened! One minute I was watching the gate and it showed you were in Hokkaido training, and when I looked again you were here with Siren in this condition!"

Moon walked up to Pluto and said in her Serenity voice, "I will tell you everything later. Right now we need to seriously think about this mess and how to fix it." She looked back and saw Uranus picking up the unconscious Siren and then said to the others as Mercury and Saturn joined her, "we heard your conversation earlier and agree, we will work in pairs and Mercury will guard Siren."

Mercury looked at Venus and Jupiter. She smiled slightly and blushed then said in a quiet voice, "Siren is my fiancée."

Across Tokyo an uncute tomboy shuddered and out of sheer reflex generated a mallet and nailed the nearest object, which happened to be a panda. She muttered, "Jerk!" under her breath, then walked off, leaving a twitching, now sleeping, panda, face first, in a bowl of unidentifiable contents.

Ukyo wiped the sweat from her brow as she sealed the last box. She took a minute to relax, and she reflected on recent events. Her family was scattered, but had lots of connections and resources. She already had a building in Juuban for the new Ucchan's; however, it was the same kind of connections that her father used to have her legally a boy.

After she finished her break she saw her friend Konatsu. In recent times she upped his pay from the peanuts it was, and she was glad she did. It felt good to help a friend instead of simply using one. He had some friends himself that he was going to get to help her move, and she didn't even need to rent a truck. Konatsu assured her that the stuff would be moved quickly so she could just go on ahead.

Ukyo headed to her new restaurant which was about six blocks from the high school and seven from the Kinseino family home. She went by way of roof hoping where she could. She decided to go around the center of Tokyo and although it would add an hour to the trip she would avoid drawing attention to herself.

She had finally reached her new store she was exhausted. She may have trained since childhood to be a fighter but more then a year of not training had degraded her endurance. She looked at the store and saw Konatsu waiting for her; she grinned and shook her head. All her stuff was, as her Ranchan would say, 'ninja-ed' here. She and Konatsu started prepping the store to open. It would take a week for all that paper work to be processed, and she would be ready.

Author's notes

(Rant time, please read before posting any comments about the family behaviors, this will explain, I hope.)

OK about Ranma's family, I have received more than a couple comments saying that they seem too manipulative and are bad for him, etc… Well in truth they are manipulative but remember it falls to them to make sure that Sailor Siren is ready to rule Siren when she appears. Think about how the amazons are, Ranma's family comes from the same origin, but they were not isolated for the last 3000 years. They hold to duty and tradition as much as the amazons have but they have adapted to the times.

Also about the school thing, as I have stated, I believe Ranma to be very smart. There is enough evidence to support this. School marks do not play as much a factor as you would think. As an example in history Albert Einstein failed Math in school. There is an effect of super intelligence that causes people of high IQ to do poorly in school, its called boredom. Genma also seemed to have pulled Ranma out of school rather abruptly, during the Ryoga incident, but this did not seem to affect Ranma's marks enough to hold him back. This says to me he did very well in school prior to Genma's sudden trips with Ranma. In Nerima, with the chaos, Ranma is often out of classes but he maintains passing (if barely) marks.

One other thing to note is that they know how much to push from Nodoka, thus they know of Ranma's limits. They do want him to be happy, but he DOES need to be ready for his role in the future. This time family life will have people who will actually help him, instead of whining about him not being honorable, or patronizing him, or even making him feel too stupid to bother. Again they will do what they can to make him happy, although some of this seems overboard they are short on time right now. As time progresses they will focus more on a happy Ranma, since a happy Ranma is less likely to just walk away.

Once again I want to add here that this will not be a Ranma/guy pairing, nor will it be a Ranma/multi girl pairing. I wanted to add that as a reminder not to head off any reasked questions.

By the way the "Bamm-Bamm" joke should be obvious to most that I am referring to that character on the Flintstones (which is owned by Hanna-Barbara and not me). Some Japanese watch North American TV like we watch theirs.

Reviewer reply

I am giving a general thanks to all reviewers, I have been noticing some repeat questions, to cut down on waste I will only reply specifically where I can without revealing too much and where it is not a question asked repeatedly. This was on the suggestions of pre-readers. I am also going to add that I am going to not comment on match-ups beyond Ranma will not end up with a guy. As stated earlier I plan on adding a lot of chapters to this story.

Trugeta

Thanks, but for most of those innovative ideas they were seemingly part of the Cannon of Girl's Bravo, there is no direct evidence of it though.

That Ryoga scene was too tempting to pass up, but I bet he would have died of blood loss before he would over come his shyness.

The fiancées not seeing what they had until it is gone is human nature.

Lord Aries Greymon

Yes, Ranma will teach each Senshi new attacks and combo attacks, Ranma was not satisfied with his own skills and probably never will/would be.

Ar-Kaos

Although it is not apparent or said in the story he is spending a lot of behind the scene time training. However as you said, it is not apparent enough.

Jason

Sorry for the misdirection about how people feel about him and treat him, I made a few errors in making some things not apparent enough.

The rest of your comments made me actually rewrite this chapter from its original form to help make it seem that they really do care for him, but sacrifices are necessary for growth. Some of them are hard to see and accept, but Ranma will be a better, happier, person because of it.

dogbertcarroll

"Ranma! Will you please quit defiling the laws of physics? At least use magic

if you are going to do something like that."

I was wanting to use that line for months, I was just looking for a time to add that in somewhere.

We won't have an Akane clone here so don't worry, but we will have a few word wars. Like tactic discussions and getting Ranma to actually learn his school work.

I agree with girl training being over done, however I needed an irate Ranma to confront his/her elders.

SlickRCBD

This comment inspired me out of my writer's block, and for that I thank you. Ranma did put his foot down, and although still lost on the school as a girl thing (this is hard coded and is important later in the story) he won against any extra training, even though it was planned for him to win. He is dealing with 9 times the life experience, between his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, than he has.

As to friction, wait and see.

Slade3

Hehe sorry, but there are actually two fights there, I used misdirection. One was the Kimera vs an unnamed kendo-ka and one was Kuno vs Kodachi.

Gangsta Spanksta

Your opinions on the training were noted but I felt that Ranma actually going through something like that would cause too much friction right now.

After some thought I think you are right to a point, but remember that although they are not all competitive toward him, the fiancées are competitive about him.

The 'C' thing was random decision based on my attempts to come up with something for titles. I needed some inspiration or focus so that is what I chose.

TheWhiteMonk

I am glad you enjoyed it, I hope you continue to do so. I read Girl Days several times and feel that it needs more chapters. In truth it is one of the fics that inspired this one. As to my portrait of the Senshi I am glad, I have a IC reviewer for them and since he did not say I was doing anything wrong it is comforting to get second opinions. I prefer to plan for I screwed up bad situations so feedback like that helps with confidence.

Jerry Unipeg

Sorry to disappoint about the training, but it will be worth it in the long run.

Innortal

No training, but nobody says there will be no shopping.

Nodoka… she is a hard character to understand. But what she wants more than anything from my feeling is for her genetics spread as much as possible. Thus why she would push Ranma but hold back Genma.