Why did I do this? I've been jumping from fic to fic like a frog on speed for the past two months. My question, why not? Anyways, to anyone who likes this fic, enjoy the new chapter!

Chapter 10, Kuno's turned tables and Tofu's test!

Ranma grumbled as the rain fell down on her head, causing her clothes to become drenched, and her obvious change in gender.

"What's wrong Ranma, don't like being a girl?" Ranko grinned, as she stood under the dry safety of her umbrella. "You should have brought one of these."

Ranma grimaced, looking at her younger sister. She WANTED to say that of course she didn't like being a girl, but the younger redhead would probably become sad, or even angry about it. Deciding to go for the middle ground, she spoke. "Well, would you wanna be a boy?"

Ranko contemplated that for a moment and shook her head. "No way!" She said, vehemently. The certainty, not to mention loudness, of Ranko's exclamation caused Ranma to laugh.

"Then don't go anywhere near Jusenkyo." Ranma advised, solemnly, as the two walked up to Ranko's school. Most of the children there were inside, but Ranko's two friends, and the new addition of Yoiko, were standing and waiting for the red haired girl to show up.

"Hey Yoiko, how'd you get here?" Ranko asked, curiously.

"Ryoga brought me." Yoiko said, proudly.

Ranma raised an eyebrow. "And how did Ryoga find his way here?" She asked, noting that Yoiko was holding tightly to the hand of one of Ranko's friends.

"Well, we erm…" Yoiko said, blushing. "We were trying to get here yesterday." She muttered, looking at the ground. Ranma just nodded knowingly before running off to her own school. That was when Yoiko realized something. "Hey Ranko, how'd that girl know about me getting lost?" She asked, suspiciously.

"Well," Ranko said, realizing that no one here would know about Ranma's curse, and they'd probably all laugh at her if she tried to tell them. "She's my cousin. I guess Ranma must have told her." She hoped that would fly, as she wasn't a very good liar.

"Really? Your cousin is really pretty." One of her friends, a girl by the name of Kagome, said.

"Yep," Ranko said, some of the pride she had in Ranma's new abilities coming forth. "She's a really strong martial artist, too."

"Really?" Yoiko asked, grinning. "Maybe I could set my brother up with her…"

"I thought you said Ryoga liked Akane Tendo." Ranko asked, looking confused.

"Yeah, he does but…" Yoiko said, trailing off. Ranko was about to ask more about this, but the school bell rang and the four girls headed into the building.

HR

At Furinkan, Ranma jogged up to the front gate, only to see, and ignore, the Hentai horde. That was, of course, until she heard Kuno's voice. "There she is, the pigtailed demoness. Attack, so that we may free our comrade Saotome!"

"Wha…" Ranma asked, as the crowd of boys in various school sports uniforms charged at her, causing her to jump back in surprise. "What's goin on here?" Jumping out of the way of a sumo wrestler who apparently wanted to flatten her, Ranma kicked backwards into the boy's head, sending him to the ground. That was the scene Akane walked in on, as Ranma came around and knocked two soccer players' heads together. Akane had woken up late this morning, due to a malfunctioning alarm clock. Fortunately, she was early enough to make it to class, but only if the Hentai horde was cleared out really quickly. Seeing that the group was distracted by fresh meat, she tried to sneak past. Unfortunately, Kuno spotted her and was about to send the crowd after her as well when it's red haired target crashed into him with both feet, knocking him to the ground. Seeing their leader taken down, the hoard quickly gathered their many fallen and retreated into the school.

"Um, thank you." Akane said, uncertainly, as she approached the form of the person who had saved her from being late today.

Ranma turned towards Akane as she heard this, looking surprised. "Oh, no problem Akane." She said, scratching the back of her head.

"Do I know…" Akane started, before getting a look at the redhead's face. This was the girl that Ranma Saotome had changed into yesterday. A mixture of conflicting emotions whirled around in her stomach, but the one that won out was the residual anger from her fight against Ranma in the Saotome dojo. "Oh, it's you." She said, before walking past Ranma's surprised form. Internally, she felt like a bit of an ass for doing it, especially when she heard Ranma's resigned sigh.

Looking after Akane sadly, Ranma kicked Kuno in the head before walking into the school.

HR

Later on that day, at lunch, Ranma had returned to male form, and was eating lunch in his classroom. As he did so, he thought about what had happened this morning. Kuno had sicked the Hentai horde on HIM. Well, more accurately, he had sicked them on her but the point was the same. Admittedly, that group had to be pretty stupid in order to follow Kuno's orders, but he would have thought they would buy info on his curse from Nabiki, rather than believe what Kuno said. Deciding to find out for himself, he closed up his Bento half eaten, something that would have caused the students in his class to whisper about the apocalypse if they had only known Ranma better, and headed for Nabiki's classroom. It was way too miserable to eat outside.

As he walked up to Nabiki's desk, Ranma noticed that the middle Tendo sister was looking truly annoyed, writing down values in a book. "What's wrong, Nabiki?" He asked, sliding into the desk in front of hers. He had only seen her look this annoyed that time he'd accidentally destroyed her concert tickets, and was only coming anywhere near her because she didn't look annoyed at him.

"Oh, Hi Ranma." Nabiki responded, scribbling yet another figure in her book. "So what do you want?"

"I was wonderin, did you tell all the sports teams about my curse?" Ranma asked, hoping that Nabiki wouldn't ask for too much money. To his surprise, she just answered straight out.

"Yes, I told some of them but someone's been circulating this stupid story about you and Kuno." She answered, with a crooked grin.

"Me and Kuno?" Ranma asked, cracking his knuckles. "They haven't been sayin anything like we're a couple or something have they, 'cuz if they have I'll…"

Nabiki snickered. "No, nothing like that. This voodoo nut in your class started telling everyone that Kuno must have the magical power to turn boys into girls with a water gun. You should have seen what Kuno thought of that."

"Kuno gettin called a foul sorcerer for once, sounds like that's okay to me." Ranma said, snickering.

"Yeah, that would be fine, accept everyone's believing this little candle wearing pissant instead of me!" Nabiki growled, actually showing anger for one of the few times in her life.

"Oh," Ranma said, looking uncertainly around the room. It did seem strange that people would believe Gosunkugi, because it was pretty obvious that was who Nabiki was talking about, in sted of Nabiki, but he supposed it made sense. What was more believable? Ranma Saotome, the school's resident pervert, suddenly acquiring a curse that turned him into a girl out of nowhere or Tatewaki Kuno finding yet another magical artifact, much like the phoenix egg he'd found last month, or the cursed sword he'd found three months ago, that could turn men into women? "So what, now half the school's in fear of Kuno turning them into girls?" he asked, snickering.

Nabiki just nodded sullenly. This was quite possibly one of the worst days in her life, second only to the day her mother died. She had always taken pride in her information dealing, and to have the entire school take the word of some nobody over her drove her truly up the wall.

Seeing Nabiki's bad mood, for once, Ranma pulled his lunch bento out of his school bag and offered her some of it. The middle Tendo proceeded to grab a couple of sticks of pocky that Ranma had wanted to save for dessert and start munching on them. Ranma shrugged and began to eat the rest of his lunch with Nabiki, co-incidentally fueling a few rumors that were floating around the school.

HR

Tatewaki Kuno sighed as he saw the men of his Kendo club flinch away from him as he berated them for their failure to capture the pigtailed demoness this morning. They were not ducking in acknowledgment of an honest rebuke, but were afraid that he would perform some sort of vile magic upon them. He was Tatewaki Kuno, a Samurai. To think that his own teammates thought him capable of performing foul magic tore at his heart. As he walked out of the Kendo club's practice hall, he saw the candle wearing twerp that had started all of this kneeling by the door. "Master Kuno, will you speak with me now?" The candle wearing boy asked, bowing profusely.

"I am not your master." Kuno growled, walking past the boy. "I shall not bother to entertain the notion of you as a student of Kendo, and the thought of my noble self being a sorcerer from whom you may learn the dark arts is truly insulting!"

"But master Kuno!" The boy asked, as he chased Kuno down the hall, the Bokken wielding boy trying his best to outdistance him. "Then how did you do that to Saotome?"

"I told you it was holy water which exorcized the Demon, now be gone!" Kuno said, spinning to strike at Gosunkugi with his sword. Somehow, the spooky boy had disappeared, however. "GAH!" He yelled, demolishing a wall in his frustration.

"Kuno, suspended, a week!" A teacher, who had happened to be behind said wall, snapped as she glared at the hole in her classroom.

"Yes sensei." Kuno said, meekly, before walking down the hall with his head held low. Sometimes, he thought, it just didn't pay to get up in the mornings.

HR

After school that day, Ranma opened the door to Dr. Tofu's clinic slowly, looking around the entryway to see if there were any patients around. As he walked towards the long term patient rooms and Tofu's office, he heard two people arguing in slightly raised voices from within the office. One was male, and one was female. He couldn't really peg the voices, but one was probably Dr. Tofu. Knocking on the door, Ranma heard the argument continue for a moment, before quieting down. A second later the door opened and Dr. Tofu was standing there, a female figure behind him with her back to the door.

"Ranma, you're here for your lesson, right?" Tofu asked, as he waved the pigtailed boy into the room.

Ranma nodded uncertainly, before looking at the girl on the bed. "Doc, why's she here?"

Dr. Tofu smiled. "She will be your patient for a little test. You see, she dislocated her shoulder in a fight recently, and I want you to put it back in by use of paralysis points on the shoulder."

"But doc, there're better ways of putting a shoulder back in than that, and what if I screw up?" Ranma asked, uncertainly.

"Don't worry, I'll be watching." Tofu said, moving over to one corner of the room.

Ranma nodded slowly, and placed one hand on the woman's shoulder, feeling around. He wasn't a medical expert, and Tofu hadn't given him a very hard problem. He did notice, however, that the woman stiffened up as he touched her. Frowning, he felt around the shoulder, but couldn't get the pressure points down right. "Um, I'm sorry to have ta ask this, but could you please take off your shirt?" Ranma asked, beginning to blush. The woman twitched visibly, but Tofu just walked out in front of her and nodded slightly. With a sigh, she fiddled with something on the front of the shirt and opened it up, causing the blue fabric to fall over her shoulders and expose the skin of her back.

Ranma's blush got slightly worse, and he actually had to suppress some rather inappropriate thoughts as he put his hand back on the woman's bare shoulder and found the pressure points needed, first numbing the pain, loosening up the muscles and placing the ball of the shoulder back into place. Reversing the pressure points he had used, he quickly slapped the woman's shirt back over her shoulders, sighing in relief.

"Congratulations Ranma, you pass." Tofu said, from directly behind Ranma. The pigtailed martial artist jumped about three feet, slamming his head into the roof of the room. He hated how Tofu could still sneak up on him, even though he was able to detect Chi voids now.

"Don't do that!" Ranma yelled, as he returned to the ground. Then, he processed what the doctor had said. "Wadda you mean I passed?"

"Yeah, what do you mean he passed?" The woman asked, as she turned around. "I mean he made me take off my shirt, that's not exactly innocent behavior." Ranma gaped, as he saw the face of Ukyo Kuonji glaring at him. Fortunately, he had the good sense not to just say "Ukchan?" out of the blue, or things could have gotten messy.

"Actually, Ranma needed to remove the fabric in between his fingers and your skin to feel the proper point." Tofu explained. "I knew he would have to do that to begin with. That's why I chose you as the test subject. It seems that Ranma was telling the truth though, since I didn't sense a bit of perverted Chi in his aura when he was working on you."

"He wasn't feeling anything at all?" Ukyo asked, feeling a little insulted for some reason.

"Oh, he liked what he felt." Tofu said, smiling slightly. "But lust Chi is different from perverse Chi. Everyone has some degree or another of lust Chi. It's when you let it take over that it becomes perverted. Any emotion can be perverted, uncontrollable anger, even love."

"So this whole thing was a test?" Ranma asked, confused.

"Still slow on the uptake, aren't you Saotome?" Ukyo asked, annoyed, as she picked up the battle spatula that had been stored under the bed for her examination.

Ranma flinched a bit at Ukyo's harsh tone, but shrugged it off. "So are we done for today doc?" He asked, curiously.

"No Ranma, I've still got some things to teach you today." Tofu said, as he lead Ranma out of the room.

HR

In another part of Tokyo, A man lay by a camp fire, a large wooden cask sitting next to him. He was pretty tall, and wore a pair of pantyhose around his forehead. As he tossed a log onto the fire and turned the piece of fish he had caught, he smiled. Tomorrow, he was going to get the old bastard to change his name, and the water in the cask next to him would ensure his success. Getting up from his position next to the fire, he carefully moved the cask away as well and began to set up camp.