Chap 14 Identities

Ranma 1/2 is the creation of Rumiko Takahashi, 3x3 eyes (Sazan Eyes) is the creation of Yuzo Takada, Sailor Moon is the creation of Naoko Takeuchi. All are used without permission. This fan-fiction isn't intended for commercial use but is rather a tribute to Ranma 1/2, 3x3 Eyes, and Sailor Moon.

Oni grabbed Okuminushi, the ruler of Meido and slinging him over her shoulder followed Ranko and company to their homeroom class room were she sat her nephew in a chair and proceeded to shake him awake.

"Come on, Okuminushi, wake up. You're the first person to know who I really am and I need more than just the name Omikami Amaterasu and the stories the moral humans tell."

The teacher in the room had been ignoring the new arrivals as more friends of the 'Divine Demons' as the staff called the Sanjiyan Unkara but took acute interest when he heard those names.

Okuninushi opened his eyes "Amaterasu? What in the spirit world happened to you?"

Oni smiled "Very simple, I lost my memory. I have been wondering around both this world and a ghost world with no idea of my identity for over a century."

"Then you don't know what happened to your fellow kami. The only ones I have been able to find are the Shichi Fukujin and they had no idea that anything had happened and that was some 50 years ago. No surprise there as they prefer to live in this realm rather than yours or mine."

Okuninushi pushed himself out of the chair he was in and looked at what Amaterasu. "What are you wearing?"

Oni smiled sadly "Leather armor. The white dragon Merlin knew that despite my best efforts he was dying and he noticed that my kamono was little more than a rag held together by decades of sewing repairs. He willed me his hide and wrote down the process on how to make leather armor out of it." Oni looked down "It was enough to properly cure it but not enough to make good armor. I just didn't have that kind of skill."

Okuninushi smiled gently "Without your memories you didn't know what clothes were yours and so kept repairing the only clothes you knew to be yours." he then frowned "There would be some narrow mined baka that would say working leather would make you unclean."

Oni bristled "I met those over the years including the one today; the first was quite enough thank you. Perhaps Omikami Amaterasu cared about such things but as Pendragon Oni I could care less. A person should be judged on their own merits not those of a long dead ancestor." Oni then got a very sinister smile "Besides if working leather has made me unclean then since the Emperor is my decedent wouldn't that make him unclean as well?"

Okuninushi blanched at the remark, "Actually you were about as angry as I had every seen you when the Shogun said that. You told the Shogun that one day the people of Japan would realize how foolish and narrowminded his idea was and they would curse him and his dynasty. You then teleported away and became the most depressing person to be around for the next century. The steel I saw that day is there but not the emotional fragility, you are not the Amaterasu I know."

Oni snorted, "If I was a walking example of Saotome Genma's idea of a woman than I am perhaps better off without Amaterasu's memories." Oni narrowed her eyes "Perhaps that is why I can't remember anything before 120 years ago, Amaterasu ran into something she couldn't handle and so ran away from the world in general."

Okuninushi frowned "You may be right in that. A few insults by my father combined with the fear he might rape you and you hid in a cave threatening to turn the world into a ice block."

Pai nodded her head "Setsuna said something about the last references she found in Oni's world were to someone named Commodore Perry. Perhaps his arrival caused her to face something she didn't want to."

"Commodore Perry's arrival did cause a lot of problems." Nabiki said "He shattered the idea that we Japanese were the most advanced people in the world and were superior to 'barbarians'. His influence led to the revolution that ended Japan's feudal period."

Pai rubbed her chin in thought "Omikami. Sounds almost like Onikami." she muttered out loud.

Okuninushi scowled, "Onikami? What made you think of that?" he said in a harsh tone.

Pai frowned, "Akane wondered if Japanese kami were related to Sanjiyan Unkara. We are also called Divine Demon which could be represented by the term onikami." Oni cocked her head to one side and touched her necklace. "You think I might be related to your people?"

Okuninushi looked at the necklace which glowed a very faint red and frowned. "And just what is her people?" he asked in a harsh tone.

Akane bristled and opened her three eyes. "Don't take that tone with us." she said as her three eyes bored into Okuninushi. "You may be the ruler of the Japanese spirit world but as her necklace shows you owe your very position to the fact you are related to us Sanjiyan Unkara."

Nabiki shifted nervously in her seat. Coughing slightly to break the confrontation between Akane and Okuninushi that seemed on the edge of getting physical she said, "While Akane's method is overly blunt she is right in the respect that we are kami in our own right and as such are deserving of the proper respect."

Okuninushi held his ground and snarled back at Akane, "Perhaps but just because you are kami does not mean that you are equals to the likes of me or my aunt."

Akane smiled sarcastically, "Oh really? And just what would being chosen by Parvati, one of the Hindu gods, to be part of their pantheon make us if not your equals?"

Okuninushi's expression changed immediately from anger to surprise. "Parvati? As in wife of Siva, Parvati?"

"Actually sister Parvati was the fiancé of Siva. He went nuts and it took the lives of everyone but Pai and sister Parvati to put him in a dreamless sleep." commented Pai in an unusually somber tone.

Okuninushi blinked his eyes in astonishment. "You mean your sister is trying to rebuild her pantheon and has chosen you people to start with?"

"Her pantheon? What do you mean her pantheon?" asked a familiar but tired voice from the door. Everyone turned to see Kuno still in his underwear, looking a little dazed though there seemed to be a loss look in his eyes.

Okuninushi frowned as he looked at the kendoist "Parvati is one of the major powers of the Hindu kami. I would dare say that in many regards she is the equal of my aunt in terms of authority."

Kuno seemed to try and digest this, "Then when I called you goddesses I was actually being literal rather than figurative."

Ranko shook her head, "No, Kuno. I will acknowledge us being kami due to our immortality, eternal youth, and power. And because of this you mortals regard us as gods but as far as us actually being gods is concerned... Well that simply is not the case."

Oni looked down at at her necklace nervously fingering it as she talked to Ranko causing it to glow blue. "Does that mean that the idea that I am the embodiment of the sun was nothing more than a self delusion?"

Nabiki tapped her cheek in thought, "I doubt it. We already know that Sanjiyan Unkara normally live in another reality separate from this one. Perhaps in one of those other worlds you really do have all the power we attribute to you." Nabiki then shrugged, "But how much of that power is available in this world. Now that question I have no answer for you any more than I can tell you why you lost your memory."

Kuno frowned as the tried to reason through what he had heard. Unfortunately the result was typical Kuno. "Then if your powers are limited here on the Earth plane then the vile sorcerer Saotome Ranma could imprison you."

Ranko put her head in her hands. "Great just when I thought we were finally getting through to the True Blunder."

Kuno then took a dramatic stance "Never fear I the great Blue Thunder will find a way to release you kami form the clutches of the vile sorcerer Saotome Ranma." Kuno then looked down. "But first the great Blue Thunder needs to get some new clothes." Kuno said as he dashed off.

Okuninushi and Oni stared where Kuno had stood. Oni finally spoke, "Is that normal?"

Nabiki smiled. "For Kuno? No." noticing that Oni sighed in relief Nabiki decided to have a little fun. "If he had been behaving normally he would have proclaimed that Oni was heads over heals in love with him but would not admit it so he would have to defeat her in combat to take her on a date."

Okuninushi and Oni both turned and looked at Nabiki and said in unison "You have got to be kidding!"

Ranko nervously laughed. "Nope she is not kidding. Fact is he had the majority of the male population of this school trying to defeat Akane here for a date. Despite us arriving early and her becoming Sanjiyan Unkara a few still try."

Akane grumbled, "I have got to start coming to school in my human form so I can punch the baka's lights out without fear of accidentally killing them."

Ranko smiled evilly "True but just pounding them doesn't seem to work. Perhaps a few more Flying Numb Nuts is in order. It seems to be what they're thinking with any how."

Nabiki snickered "Just what this school needs; a bunch of males that walk funny."

Okuninushi shuttered as Oni chuckled "Can I help?" This was definitely not his aunt. Amaterasu had been greeted with something she couldn't handle and instead of going catatonic she had simply hid her personal memories from herself. In the resulting void a new personality had formed; an aggressive assertive person that called itself Pendragon Oni. It had taken nearly all the major kami to get his aunt out of the last cave she ran into but now including himself there were only eight kami and he had not seen the Seven Lucky Gods in nearly 50 years. Okuninushi went deep into thought on how to get his aunt out of her mental cave and what to do about the new personality as the teacher started class desperately trying to ignore that his class room had effectively become 'heaven on earth'.

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Gym was the one course Ranko and Ranma equally enjoyed but it was also the one where they had the most problems. There were countless efforts at splashing Ranma during his week and Ranko's first week had been a trial as she had to convince the other girls that she and Ranma were two different people. Not all believed it but with people like Kuno running around she understood their reluctance. Weird was normal in this school as demonstrated by the fact Setsuna had shown up in demon form and was conducting class in it with few problems.

"Hello, Ranko." said Ukyo in a friendly voice.

Ranko turned and smiled at her brother's childhood friend, "Hi Ucchan." looking over at a few staring girls Ranko frowned, "They still seem to think that Ranma is some how using me to peek."

Ukyo smiled, "Well you did say that you and he do share everything."

Ranko laughed, "Come on. Pops told my brother so little about girls that without Sham Pu's and Parvati's input he would have needed a manual to know what to do on his honeymoon. Besides he still freaks a little during my period."

Several girls in the locker room giggled at that Ranko snickered, "Besides the best way I know to beat him is to act like I want to do it with him. Scares him nearly as bad as a ccccat."

"It? You mean it it?" asked Ukyo appalled.

"Of course, not that I would really do it but it is fun to see brother's reaction. Besides I only do that when he goes off and does something really baka." Ranko's eyes hardened "Like mess around with my emotions so he can beat me."

'Baka is as baka does.' quipped Ranma mentally.

Ranko's expression fell, "Ok, Ranma, so it isn't the smartest move I ever came up with. But it works and it sure is a lot safer than some of the training Pops came up with."

'Ok, I grant you that.'

Ukyo shook her head, "Good grief."

Ranko smiled, "Ucchan, what do you think of the idea we came up with regarding Pop's idiocy."

Ukyo frowned, "I would have preferred to be Ranchan's wife but you say he regards me more like a sister. I guess it is the best way to deal with the mess but will your father approve of the idea?"

Ranko smirked "Don't worry about panda for brains. If he has learned one thing is that his 'girls are weak weepy little things' garbage doesn't apply to me."

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Setsuna had been so enthralled by trying out her demon form that she had forgotten to get hot water for the start of class. Now on her lunch period she was troubled by with the ease the classes had accepted her appearance; it had been fortunate that the attacks by the various enemies of the Sailor Senshi had not been here in Nerima. If they had been it would have been a long time before anyone would have known something was wrong.

Setsuna frowned as she focused on the fact that the Ningen No Zou was going to be a major trouble magnet with everybody from the Doom Tree on going to be after the thing. Benares, Kaiyanwang's Wu, was another concern as his methodology was totally different from any other foe Setsuna was aware of. In the other timeline he had let Pai live as a human for nearly four years; by contrast the other foes Pai, Ranma, and the Sailor Senshi faced in the other histories wanted immediate results. In a real way Benares was like a twisted mirror image of herself--an immortal patiently striving toward a goal. Only his goal was the reawakening Siva, a being who would make the likes of Stalin and Mao look like pikers by comparison.

"How can you support Black Lady?" hissed a familiar voice.

Setsuna sighed. She knew that this confrontation was coming but she had hoped that it would be later. "You certainly have a one track mind. Must be the result of thinking time is like string rather than a tree." Setsuna stared at Sailor Pluto her mouth a thin line, "I support Black Lady because she is right. Your Crystal Tokyo is a mistake. A horrible well meant but totally misguided mistake."

Sailor Pluto hand tightened on her staff to the point Setsuna saw the knuckles turn white. Setsuna smiled at that reaction. "One thing Ranma figured out in the other timeline is an angry opponent is a sloppy opponent. Since we are different versions of the same person I know just which emotional buttons to push to get you mad." Sailor Pluto's face was now a mask of frustration and anger. "Forget about the Death Scream. Shi-Yao-Chong will be as effective at shutting it down as it was with the attacks of Sailors Uranus and Neptune." Sailor Pluto yelled in frustration as she tried to hit Setsuna with her Time Staff. Setsuna smirked as she effortlessly caught the Time Staff. "Shi-Yao-Chong."

The result was immediate as Sailor Pluto depowered her jaw opening in surprise as the creature fell off the staff as if drunk. Setsuna smiled "Appears the Shi-Yao-Chong not only can feed on our magical attacks but our magical transformations as well. At least now you cannot do any damage." Setsuna let Sailor Pluto pull the Time Staff from her hand as she dismissed the Shi-Yao-Chong. Sailor Pluto furrowed her brow as she concentrated and finally vanished. Setsuna narrowed her eyes and tried to summon the Time Staff even though she had not powered up. When it appeared she nodded. 'The Time Staff is part of my mother's power and not part of my Sailor Pluto transformation.' she thought to herself. 'That could come in handy, in the future.'

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Pendragon Oni was not happy. She preferred to be treated as an equal not as someone superior and the deep bows she had been getting were starting to wear on her nerves. She wanted to learn more about martial arts but the reactions she was getting made the chances of learning from someone other than Ranko and Pai somewhere just above nil. On top of it all her nephew was trying to figure out how to bring back Amaterasu. In disgust Oni had returned to the Tendo Dojo and saw Soun and Genma looking over the Sazan Ryu manual. "Saotome Genma, I would like you to teach me your Ryu."

Genma looked up and nodded, "You want to broaden your skills."

Oni nodded "That and I found out that originally I was a walking example of a 'weak, weepy, little thing.'" Oni narrowed her eyes, "There is no way I am going back to that."

Genma nodded "Let's see how good you are without a weapon." he said getting into a fighting stance.

Meanwhile in Juuban district Usagi was nervously fiddling with her hensen stick. 'Were any of the Sailor Senshi of the Moon Kingdom even human?' she thought. 'What was I in my previous life? Sanjiyan Unkara or Wu? What would happen if I called on either of those powers, now?' Usagi was snapped out of her self questioning by a daimon attacking the school trying to gather pure heart crystals. Gripping her hensen stick Usagi realized that if she transformed now everyone in the room would know who Sailor Moon was but if she didn't then people would be hurt perhaps even killed. In desperation Usagi raised her hensen stick and called out "Sanjiyan Unkara power make up!" To her relief a transformation did occur but not into the outfit she wore as Sailor Moon. Instead the outfit consisted of a richly detailed robe not too dissimilar to those worn by the Emperors of China, on her head was an equally rich headdress lined with pearls. Usagi shook her head as a whole host of new attacks and defenses filled it as she ran outside.

The outside of the school was total chaos as the daimon was looking for the best subjects to pull heart crystals from. Usagi frowned as she recognized Sailors Neptune and Uranus in the distance. Hopefully she could dispatch this daimon before those two could cover the 10 blocks between them and the school. 10 blocks?! Since when could she see that far this clearly? Never mind dispatch the daimon then deal with the two overzealous Sailor Senshi. "For attacking innocent children trying to improve themselves in the name of the Sanjiyan Unkara I shall punish you."

The daimon promptly shot an energy beam at Usagi. Instead of her normal reaction of dodging the attack Usagi found herself gesturing. "Shi-Yao-Chong." she said and saw a strange looking one eyed octopus like creature formed between her and the daimon. Her eyes widened in surprise as the bug absorbed the daimon's attack and then ran straight to the daimon. 'Ok that is definitely useful." she thought. Pointing at the daimon she said "Kuan-Yaa."

Sailors Uranus and Neptune arrived in time to see Usagi literally blow the head off the daimon, it return to its natural state of a motorcycle, and the Shi-Yao-Chong on it blow up from too much magical energy. They looked at Usagi who simply waved at them and then at each other trying to figure out how to deal with this development. Usagi pouted at the two Sailor Scout's distrust; at least they weren't attacking her. But from what she had seen before anything they saw as a threat became a potential target.

"Well I must say you look less ridiculous in that get up than you did in the sailor fuku, mother." said a voice just behind her.

"Hello, Black Lady." said Usagi in a calm voice turning to face her daughter.

The reaction of Sailors Uranus and Neptune on the appearance of Black Lady was a replay of their reaction of Sailor Saturn. "Deep submerge." "World shaking." they yelled.

The result was also a replay of their conflict with Sailor Saturn. "Shi-Yao-Chong." said Usagi without even turning to face the two Sailor Senshi. "Do you two mind? I am trying to have some quality time with my daughter here and its kind of hard with you two attacking her." Sailors Uranus and Neptune watched as their attacks again were absorbed before even getting close to their intended target. They both left the school grounds to find Pluto and try to come up with another idea.

Usagi gestured to a big tree where she sat down motioning for Black Lady to join her. Black Lady cautiously sat down next to her mother. "If they are that hot headed in your time no wonder the Black Moon Family doesn't like us much."

Black Lady frowned "They died in the Great Disaster that lead to my timeline. We didn't have to deal with them."

Usagi sighed, "What was up with my mother in thinking that kind of behavior was the proper way to deal with a possible threat?"

Black Lady held back a stinging retort curious in the way her mother was handling the situation. "Well you are certainly more open mined then the Usagi I know. What is with that outfit?"

Usagi sadly smiled, "I was needed to defeat this daimon but to do so I needed to transform in front of my classmates. I desperately grabbed into the idea of calling on the power of the Moon Kingdom's founders, the Sanjiyan Unkara." Usagi frowned as she furrowed and unfurrowed her brow.

Black Lady looked at her mother's antics with amusement. "Just what are you doing making all those funny faces?"

"I am seeing if I have a third eye I can open. I guess that the transformation only gave me part of the powers of my past life rather than turning me into a Sanjiyan Unkara." she looked down at her outfit and smiled "At least this outfit is less revealing then the Sailor Scout one."

Black Lady sweatdropped at her mother's comment about not changing into a Sanjiyan Unkara. "Mother, what do you know of the Sanjiyan Unkara?"

"Not much other than they were the founders of the Moon Kingdom and their magics are responsible for all our powers." Usagi cocked her head to the side "I wonder, does being a reincarnated Sanjiyan Unkara make me human or Sanjiyan?"

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Ryoga scowled as he dealt with Hotaru's solution to him wanting to go attend his schedule with out her holding his hand all the time. Perhaps it was better be in his Hong-Nyang form than have a human sized Fey-Oh as a guide. Worse the angrier and more depressed he got the more the blasted thing liked him and now it was cooing and chirping all the way to the bathroom.

'Perhaps a splash of cold water would help' he thought turning on the faucet. The moment the cold water touched him he looked at the Hong-Nyang in the mirror. Unfortunately Ryoga had forgotten that intense anger could trigger his transformation into Ran-Pao-Pao and so was soon looking at the befuddled expression of a very female seven foot giant with four arms. Ryoga sighed, his clothes never lasted this transformation and left very little to the imagination not to mention little of him decent. 'Could have been worse I guess. I could have fallen into a pool of drowned pig or something and be in constant fear of winding up in someone's stew pot.'

Ryoga remembered the first time he had changed into his Ran-Pao-Pao form in a cold river somewhere in China. The very female nature of what he saw had nearly caused him to have a nose bleed and pass out until he realized it was his reflection. It had helped in dealing with women to some degree as simple seeing one in a swimsuit didn't cause him to pass out anymore. Another thing that Ryoga also liked about both his Ran-Pao-Pao and Hong-Nyang forms was he never got lost in them. The main problem was his Hong-Nyang looked like a seven year old girl and the Ran-Pao-Pao one had gotten him in several problems in both China and Japan.

'Oh well I better change back and put on my...' Ryoga frowned "Put on your what baka? You don't have any clothes to put on once you go back to warm water form." Ryoga signed to himself, "Let's see, nearly everybody you currently live with is either Sanjiyan Unkara or Wu, oni are summoned on nearly a daily basis and your teacher comes to school in her demon form, and the most reaction the school puts forth is 'OK that is different'. So going back in Ran-Pao-Pao form won't be a problem," said Ryoga aloud as he returned to class.

Sadly Ryoga was missing one vital piece of information in his logic which is why nearly the entire male part of his class either had silly grins on their faces for the rest of the day or wound up going to the nurse's office because blood loss. Of course like Ranko Ryoga didn't understand why being basically naked from the waist up was a problem. As none of the teachers wanted to antagonize a seven foot female who looked like she could toss a sumo wrestler around like a flapjack Ryoga kept the nurse's office busy for the rest of the day.

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Ranko, Ukyo, Akane, Nabiki, Hotaru, and Pai were greeted after school by the sight of Ryoga in Ran-Pao-Pao talking with his Fey-Oh guide without a stitch of clothing above the waist.

"Looks like you and Pai aren't the only ones who need some tips on modesty." Nabiki quipped.

"Hey I simply wrung out my shirt. I may have only Ranma's memories to go from by even I know girls are not supposed to run around in public without something on their chests." Ranko scowled, "You are really close to another amorous sister encounter brother. 'You mean something besides their breasts?' indeed."

Akane stopped in midstride, "Ranma said that?"

Ranko smiled wickedly "When it's his week you can be Sanjiyan Unkara for a day and train with him."

Akane returned the smile "I make sure it's a real learning experience."

Pai cocked her head to the side, "I don't understand what the problem is. If males can run around without something above the waist why can't females."

Nabiki sweatdropped as her sister's and Ranko's shark like smiles dropped and stared at Pai.

"Pai we really are going to have to talk about female modesty in industrialized countries." said Ranko.

'Not to mention concepts on family. Pai has gotten some really weird ideas. Likely from hanging around Pops too much.' said Ranma mentally.

Okuninushi walked briskly up to the group. "Have any of you seen my aunt?"

"No, but I imagine she has gone back to the dojo." commented Nabiki.

Okuninushi nodded and continued walking briskly finally breaking into a run.

"Ranma says it may not be a good idea to have him around Oni alone and I think I agree. Come on." Ranko said as she broke into a run followed by the rest of the group.

Okuninushi slowed down in front of the house the familiar sound of laughter from the dojo area allowing the rest to catch up. Smiling he walked around to the back to the dojo but stopped the moment he could see into the back yard his smile changing to an expression of stunned shock.

"Thank for not treating me like a china vase" said Oni.

Genma nodded, "My children may call me baka-sama but I do learn. I was wrong that all girls were weak weepy little things and there are definitely women with metal that rivals that of any man." Genma then put his hand on Oni's shoulder and pulled her arm. Ranko had barely heard the sound of a shoulder being snapped back into place when Okuninushi ran across the yard, grabbed Genma by the gi, and slammed him into the house wall.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY AUNT?!" Okuninushi yelled in Genma's face.

"You leave my Sensei alone," yelled Oni as she grabbed Okuninushi by the shoulder and followed up with a punch to the stomach. "He is the only person besides Ranko and Pai that doesn't bow horizontal to me nor treat me like I priceless crystal."

Okuninushi stumbled to keep to his feet. "You're not Am-chan!"

"It took you this long to figure that out?" snarled Oni "Furthermore I am not going to let her back out if it means becoming a pathetic weak weepy little excuse for a woman." grabbing Okuninushi by his neck Oni slammed him into the house wall. "I don't care if you are Okuninushi ruler of Meido or that you are my nephew. I am Pendragon Oni and at least I have the backbone befitting one of the bushi class. That is more than that pathetic kami Omikami Amaterrasu could say. She crawled away from the world and left me to wander around a deserted ghost town of a reality for over a century." Oni let Okuninushi go trying to reign in her anger, "Yamato Michinomiya Hirohito faced with the prospect of his country being destroyed behaved with greater bravery. 'We must endure the unendurable.' I believe that with the right tools he would have been able to stop Tojo's mad ambitions though not without a high cost."

Okuninushi shook his head. "And as the Europeans say if wishes were wings pigs would fly. You can never know what might have been."

"Can't we?" asked a shaky but familiar voice.

Everyone turned to be a totally bedraggled Sailor Pluto. "I mean my world my history of 1000 years from now still exists even though none of this happened in my world. Doesn't that mean that all possible histories in someway actually exist independent of each other?"

"Took you a while but you finally got the basic idea." said a tired voice.

"Setsuna? I guess I owe you an apology," said Sailor Pluto as she frowned "Who's your companion." gesturing to the man in a WWII US Army brigadier general's uniform standing beside her counterpart.

"While I cannot see the present or future of this Nerima I can see its past as well as the futures and pasts of other Nerimas. It didn't take a genius to see how the situation between Okuninushi and Oni was going to go given Genma training her. So I decided that this man created by events in a now impossible future could defuse things.

Okuninushi snorted "And just how would bringing General Douglas Macarthur here defuse things?"

"You're not listening very well because you are letting you anger cloud your senses. Setsuna-sama said I was the result of events in a future. General Douglas Macarthur died in 1964, which is the past. Besides," continued the man pointing to the lone star on his left shoulder, "I am the wrong rank."

Okuninushi stiffened and his face paled "Your voice. But that is impossible!"

The general nodded "Impossible in this world this history. But a lie about an ancestor led a young man to wish for him to be taken to a time and place where he would be judged on my own merits not on those of his ancestors. In that new time and place he befriended a young kid with an abusive father and taught him and others martial arts. That one action triggered off a whole series of events different and I might add better from your world. Eventually I decided that this young man who had so shaped Europe would be my teacher. You can see the results."

Pendragon fingered her necklace. "So you are from another history?" she asked with one eye on the necklace which glowed as bright a blue as it had with Genma. Pendragon beamed at the general "Look at this Ranko. It means that he is related to me the same way Genma is."

Okuninushi stared slacked jawed looking between Genma and the general, "It can't be. It can't be."

The general smiled removing his hat "But I assure you my world and its history is just as real as this world and its history. Just as assuredly as I am US Army Brigadier General Hirohito Michinomiya Yamato."

At which point Okuninushi fainted for the second time in one day.

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[Author's note: Yamato Hirohito is the formal name of Japan's Emperor who reigned from 1926 to 1989. In keeping with ancient Japanese tradition he has several names: his childhood name was Michinomiya, his name during his reign was Hirohito, and his after death name is Shown. In our history he toured Europe May-October 1921 and to date is Japan's longest reigning Emperor. I should note that General Yamato's perception of Emperor Hirohito echoes those most Japanese had before 1989.

Also the Shichi Fukujin are the basis for the 'seven lucky gods' martial artist Ranma encounters in the first film.