"Alright you four, I just got off the phone with Nodoka, Ranma's mother and your guardian Akane" Haruna told the teens as they were gather in the living room.
Ranma and Toph were rubbing their heads as wherever they started getting into fight only three people have been able to stop them before they took too far. Ryoga who simply separate the two of them and keep them apart until they calm down. As Ranma maybe be better martial artist then Ryoga and Toph a better bender then him however their directional challenged friend was had more physical strength then both of them. Thus he was more then capable of holding then back. Aura who simply tells them to stop fighting and it acutally work because neither like making her sad. Then Haruna who would whack the two of them upside their heads with something and tell them to stop or else with creepy look on her face.
"What about my own parents? Did not they have anything to say about me" Akane asked.
"Well your father was unavailable at the moment. He is….how should I put it….very very emotional about certain things. Though your two older sisters were happy to hear that your safety and looking forward to seeing you again" Haruna told the youngest Tendo girl.
Since Akane could not remember her father it probably was not good thing to tell her that Soun had locked himself in his room as he taken Akane's disappearance almost as badly as his wife's death and the time she had ran away from home.
"Okay" Akane replied as she really did not know what to think of her father now but that quickly overshadow by her being told she had sisters...older ones thus making her a similar to Aura in being that she was the younger sibling of her family.
"Well now that Nodoka is back I am going to be sending Ranma and Akane over to her as she has not seen her son in almost a decade and Akane was originally living there to begin with. Since Aura is Ranma's half sister, she probably stay over there in Nerima with Nodoka too. However the same can not be said with you two" Haruna said directing her attention towards Toph and Shampoo.
"What about us?" Shampoo asked.
"She mostly getting at where the two of us are going to be staying from now on. Either we stay here with Haruna or go with Ranma and Akane to stay with his mom and Akane's family in Nermia" Toph told her
"Pretty much and since it big decision I going let you two think it over as I do not mind what you decide as I be fine with whatever choice that you make" Ranma's Aunt said as left the two of them to think over their choice while Ranma and Akane left to get their stuff packed.
Now alone in the living room alone Shampoo posed the question at hand to her blind friend
"So what are you doing to do?" Shampoo asked
"I do not know about you but I sticking with Ranma as he is my best friend after all and Aura going to be there too. Also I have feeling that Ryoga will stay around Nerima as well since he might end up turning up at whatever school we transfer to" Toph said shrugging her shoulders.
"I guess I be going too as it not like I have any real reason to stay here if all my friends leave. Haruna well probably be just fine without us here as she said so herself" the purple hair girl said.
Meanwhile with Ranma and Akane…
"Hey Ranma" Akane asked the two were in the basement getting suitcases.
"Yeah what is" he replied curiously.
"What is it like having a sibling" the dark blue hair girl said.
"It kind of hard to explain exactly but then again I might not be that helpful as I am an older sibling. While you are the youngest of three in your family. It might be better to ask Aura or even Haruna as she is my pop's younger sister" Ranma told her.
"Some help you turned out to be so how do you think your mom came to live with my family anyway?" Akane asked.
"How should I know as I did not even know that woman was my mom until Haruna told me so. Also according to her it been almost seven years since I last saw her. You probably knew the reason why she living with your family before we all loss our memories since she is your guardian after all" the pigtailed martial artist told her.
"Probably but I am sure that my sisters or your mom will tell us how it happened" firebender sighed they found the suitcase and were carrying them up their rooms to pack.
However as Ranma and Akane came to their room, Toph and Shampoo were standing nearby each of their individual rooms which they shared with each other as Haruna's house was not that big after all.
"Why do you only have one suitcase. Just where are my clothes going to go" Toph asked as Shampoo said something similar towards Akane.
"You two are coming with us?" Ranma asked.
"Of course we are! What do you think? That we would just stay here while our best friends leave us behind. We going where you are since there is nothing here that really holding us back. Haruna should be find on her own as she was find before we got here and would mostly be fine once we are gone" Toph told her best friend as she punched him in the arm.
"That right!" Shampoo said as took the suitcase Akane had from her with Toph doing the same with Ranma.
"Where you two going with those!" Akane yelled.
"To pack as you do not expected us to carry all of our stuff to Nermia do you" purple hair water bender told her.
"Yeah and Ranma make sure to get a suitcase for Aura as well since she already in Nerima thus you have to pack for her" Toph said the two disappeared into the rooms they shared with Ranma and Akane to go about packing.
Leaving the two them staring in shock for awhile as they brought those suitcase all the way up here just to have their best friends take them as there own. Sighing the teens then went back downstairs and got three more suitcase but as they were getting the third one a book fell out place knocking Ranma on the head.
'Huh? What this suppose to be' Ranma thought looking at book curiously.
"Hey Ranma! Stop playing around down there and come upstair already" Akane yelled.
As he did just that Akane noticed the book that was rest on the top of the suitcase he was carrying.
"What you got there?" the youngest Tendo asked looking at the book in question.
"Just something that hit me in the head as I was getting a suitcase for Aura" the airbender told her.
Quickly snatching up the book, she opened and started looking through as Haruna did not mind them looking though her stuff just long as they did not go in her room, her work station, or the attic.
She quietly found that the book was a picture album from Haruna's time at private school she went from grade school to college called Mahora Academy.
As she looked over the pictures they saw a number of pictures of Haruna ranging from very young to possibly her early twenties.
"Hey Ranma! Take a look at this one black hair girl that almost always around Haruna. She looks kind of familiar almost like I know her or something" Akane said.
"Yeah! I know what you mean. Her hair starts out completely covering her face but as time goes you can see more of her face which only make me think I know her more" Ranma replied.
"What are you two doing?" Haruna said as she managed to sneak up behind the two teen who jumped in shock.
Haruna's eyes then went to the album they were looking at and more importantly who they were looking at within the album.
"I see you managed to find pictures of Nodoka and me back when we were still going to Mahora Academy. Man those were some good times especially after Negi-sensei got there" the manga artist said reflecting back on those days.
"Nodoka, this girl has the same name as my mom. So was she someone that you happened to know back then as she does not appear anymore after you graduated from high school Ranma asked.
"What are you talking about? The Nodoka I went to school with and your mother are one in the same. I do not have two friends named Nodoka" his aunt told him.
This cause both Ranma and Akane to stare at older women in shock for moment.
"That girl and my mom can not be the same. This girl has black hair and my mom has maroon hair" Ranma stated as he flipped to the only picture with him as child and Nodoka and laid picture of the girl in question next to it.
"She used hair dye. Nodoka was rather shy as kid in fact she was scared of boys up until she was about 14 years old. So she hid her natural hair color which cause her to stand out too much with black hair dye until after she graduated from high school" Haruna informed them taking the book and flipping to page that almost at the end.
"Here take a look at this picture as this from our ten year high school reunion" she told the two of them.
Both Ranma and Akane were amazed as for some reason that they did not really understand other possible on the whim of Haruna and another woman with her hair done up in two pigtails that hung the side of her face. Nodoka had her maroon hair covering her face and was shocking the daylight out this guy with wolf ears while the friend laughing at him.
"That guy in the picture wolf ears is rival/best friend of our teacher who the one laughing. He came later so I thought be funny to shock him with Nook's real hair color. Which was shocker to everyone that saw it for the first time" his aunt told him.
"Miyazaki" Akane read a loud as she took closer looked at the picture that been take out the album which unfamiliar name on the back once she had flipped it over.
"That Nodoka's maiden name as Saotome is the name she picked up after having to getting married to Ranma's father" Haruna informed her
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