Later that night Toph was sleeping soundly on her bed with her headphone hanging on the banter. Since she need to have her feet on the ground or floor to 'see' it meant that as long as she slept with her feet off the ground she would not be bother by people or cars that were out despite what time.

Roll over after feeling someone shaking her she brushed them off trying to continue her sleep. However the shaking did not stop as sat up and swung at whoever decided to disturb her slumber. Toph was not worried about hurting anyone this way as she felt it was only right that she hit the person that disturbed her slumber.

"What it is? Can not you see that I am trying to sleep" Toph said growled softly as she sat up straight in her bed waiting for a respond as she could not tell who they were and had no plans of place her feet on the floor to find out herself.

"You really need to drop that habit of striking those that mess with your sleep. What if you accidentally hit Aura on of these days" the person said.

"Aura would not have shook me from the side of my bed. She normally get on the bed itself, sits on me then starts shaking, Ranma" Toph said her head shifting towards the direction of his voice.

"Still we moving in with my mom and Akane's family. What if you end up hit one of them as those strike can hurt normal people who do not have any training in martial arts or taking a hit" Ranma said.

"Your mom is one of Haruna's best friend and apparently whatever she went through as kid so did your mom. Also this Nerima place seem to be similar to here as your mom was seem to be pretty accepting of Aura and her curse. More so then I thought she would be" the blind girl said.

"What if Haruka taught that creepy look of her to my mom" Ranma said as that thought just cross his mind.

This cause both of them to shake as even thought Toph could not even see Haruna's creepy look because she was blind and could not see in detail. It still just as effective against her as it was Ranma or anyone else she used it on.

"Was that all you woke me up for. Thanks for wasting my time, Ranma as if I can not get back to sleep you are going to being staying up with me" Toph told him.

"Actually what I want to ask was what do you think my mother going to be like as I do not remember her and according to Haruna I only seen her once in during some training trip my dad took on before we met somehow and then later ended up with Huo" the pigtailed marital artist asked.

"How should I know as I have no idea about my own parents so why should I know about yours" Toph said glaring at what she hoped was Ranma's direction.

"I was just wondering if you had any vague memories of your own family as Akane nor Shampoo do not have any of theirs" Ranma asked as his friend's glare lost some of effectivness since she looking few feet to his left rather then directly at him.

"Look it not like your mom going to lock you up from the world and keep you there for the next ten years saying it for your protection" she replied sighing. Having no idea that what her own parents had done for the first twelve years of her own life.

"I guess you are right as unlike the three of you I do have one vague memory of my mom and she does not seem like she would be that type of person. However you know what Haruna said about jump to conclusion base only on our vague memory of the past" the sixteen year old teen said.

"Do not. I know now lets go back to sleep already" the Earth bender said plotting back down on her pillow.

Ranma had done the same yet shortly after lying down on his pillow he got up as he could not sleep. There was one more thing he wanted to get of his chest in regards to meeting his mom soon.

Knowing what it would mean yet regardless heading over there the teenager girl 's bed again.

Though just as he was about to shake her, Toph started speaking in her sleep which she did from time to time. Mostly she spoke mostly of people with really strange name like Captain Boomerang, Sugar Queen, and strangely enough TwinkleToes which was her trigger word to her mind control state they all had.

However this time was different as she was talking about any of them but her parnets.

"Love fighting…..Earthbender…..really, really good at it…..trying to protect me…twelve years old….never….real friend, mom and dad" Toph mumbled in her sleep.

This cause Ranma to back off as did not want to disturb whatever dream she was having at the moment.


In Akane's and Shampoo's room…

The youngest Tendo was tossing and turning in her sleep though that was not anything that out of the norm for her as she was usual a restless sleeper. For some reason Shampoo had no problem with that probably because she too was restless sleeper as well, however instead of tossing and turning she strike at thin air with fist and feet like she was shadow fighting or something. Both were unaware of their sleeping habits and adamantly denied that they do such things while they were sleeping. Akane was played off as her using being like that while Shampoo's is thought to be reaction to some kind of training she had when she was young. Haruna could tell that unlike their other friends Shampoo had been training almost as much as Ranma for around the same age as him. Toph was similar story as she did not really have tall tale signs of person who trained in martial arts for long time but she had feeling that the girl had been using her bending way long then any of her other friends from the how detailed and how much control she had over her element.

Akane woke up worrying how her bed got so mess up as regardless of how she toss and turned at night she always ended in the same exact position she went to sleep in.

"Hey Shampoo, you awake?" Akane asked as the purple hair teen stirred for second and awoke wondering the same exact thing as Akane.

"Shampoo awake. What Akane want? It too early to be awake" she asked as being tired in addition to being nervous, surprised, and couple of other emotions would cause her to speak in broken Japanese.

"I been wondering why is Ranma's mom living with my family. What happen to my mother and why am I getting this feeling that my dad cries too much" the firebender asked.

As the dark blue hair girl spoke Shampoo started dosing off again as her head began drooping.

"Shampoo! Hey Shampoo! I thought you said that you were awake" the Tendo girl demand.

"Shampoo awake great grandmother. No fall asleep during training again. Huh!? Akane?" the purple hair teen asked curiously as she fully awake again.

"You were talking in your sleep as you did not hear a word I just said a minute again did you" she asked somewhat angry.

"Its early. Too early so it not my fault" her friend protested.

However the tables were now turned as it was Akane whose head was drooping this time.

"Daddy come out I want to train. Stop crying and train me Daddy!" Akane muttered.

"Akane!" Shampoo yelled softly yet loud enough to shock her awake.

"Huh Dad…Shampoo!?" she asked.

"Now whose the one ingoring the other now" the waterbender asked with smug look on her face.

"Okay I guess we are even now but do not tell the others about this. I have strange feeling I said something embrassing while I was sleep" Akane pleaded.

"Only if Akane promise to do the same" Shampoo replied having the same feeling.

Shortly after that the two fell back asleep and fell into their usual routine as they slept.


Meanwhile in Nerima…

"Now I can not sleep. Better go get some milk that always helps me sleep" Aura sighed as saw in the bed that her new mother (since her original mom is panda from China) provide for her and Ryoga.

After guiding Ryoga to the bathroom and bringing him back to their room mostly because she wanted to insure that the Lost Boy did not end up someone where else Nermia. Though he had gotten better at finding his way around he still needed Ranma or Toph to be in the general idea in case he did make a wrong turn somewhere. The two of them were like homing beacons for him as if he could find one of them then he most surely would not end up wondering off to another part of Japan before he realized it.

As Aura was coming from the kitchen after having a nice glass of milk, she noticed someone other then her was still up.

"Why are you still up, mommy?" Aura curiously walked off to her mother.

"I was just thinking about my son and how he has changed since I last saw him. When I last saw my son he was about your age" Nodoka replied.

"Ranma is the best big brother there is. He is strong, powerful, can playing around with the wind , and he can fly too. Out the six of us only Akane and him are able to fly. It so cool being able to fly in the sky like bird" young Saotome girl said making the motion of flight with her arms.

"Flying? My son and Akane can fly but how and why?" Nodoka asked shocked over here that her child and girl that become like her own child could fly.

Nodoka just sat there in shock as it was not that she was not used to the strange things like this as her middle school was full of people you would exactly call normal. A Vampire, ghost, ninja, time traveling Martian, internet pop idol, a half demon that is a master swordswoman, a robot, a gunner for hire, and more was what her class back in school was made of. However that was her class as she did not expect her son and Akane would become mages did they inherited magic from her at least with Ranma. While Akane possibly getting it from her own parnets.

"So my son and Akane are mages and good with wind magic just like Negi-sensei" Nodoka asked.

"Magic! Magic is real! Like on the TV show with all the magical girls and boys!" Aura asked excited

"Yeah but did not you already know that since you saw that Ranma and Akane can fly?" Ranma's mom asked confused.

Though after telling Aura that magic really existed it took awhile to get her to calm down and stop asking if see could meet Negi and become a magical girl too if possible.

"Okay you they do not know magic but how can the both of them fly and Ranma controls the wind" Nodoka asked.

"That easy we are all benders. I am waterbender like Shampoo, Toph and Ryoga are earthbenders, Akane is a firebender, while Ranma is an airbender. Ranma and Akane can fly through because their cursed forms allow them to do so" Aura explained.

Confused this time it was Nodoka who sat back and listen as Aura went back explaining as best she could what a bender was and later what everyone's (minus her own) cursed form looked like.

As the older Saotome sat there listening she wondered if the all the craziness and strange occurrences that happened during her younger days had only stopped happening not just because she moved away from her Mahora Academy sure Nermia was strange but had nothing on her school. Only to learn that somehow the years of relatively normal life was made possibly because she somehow pass over those days of her youth to her son and now Akane who like surrogate daughter had been drawn into that world as well. This left her wondering that when Ranma finally did come home to her would he be bringing all that strangeness and craziness with him. Not that it would matter as she would welcome it with open arms and huge smile on her face if it meant that her son and Akane would be there with her. She had missed almost a decade of her son life and the last four of Akane's so she was about to give up the chance to have them both back again regardless of what came following after them.

Nodoka then felt someone leaning on her shoulder and looked to see that it was Aura fast asleep.

'All this talking must have tired her out as still late better get back to bed and then good back to sleep myself' she thought.


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