I wonder if anybody has proof positive that Jusenkyo exists?
Then why don't you ask Shane.
I could couldn't I. Well readers if you have answers please put it in your review or PM me.
Ya that'll do the trick now let's get on with the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything pertaining to Rumiko Takashi's work. Nor do I own the DBZ elements I use. Tokyo Mew Mew is also on the list of things I don't own. Ok I do own this story and characters not in any of the series by the authors of said stories. Anything that sounds like someone else's work is purely coincidental.
Blessings in disguise Ch 36
"Talking"
Shouting
'Thinking'
*Sound Affects*
{Written Words}
' Memory '
(Chinese)
Bring Bring
"Coming coming." A middle aged woman said as she headed for the phone. "Moshi moshi. This is she. Yes I have a child named Ranma." Gasping the woman dropped the phone that was in her hands as she went into shock.
"Mrs. Saotome? Mrs. Saotome you there?" Came the voice from the other side of the line as Nodoka Saotome buried her face in her hands and wept.
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"What a haul. What a haul. This is so much easier now with Ranma and her fiancé out of the way." Happosai yelled grinning as he hopped from roof to roof with a bag of female undergarments over his shoulder that night only to feel it get removed. "Hey don't take what I worked so hard to gather.
"Sorry but until Ranma recovers I'm taking over her duty of keeping you in line." Genma said as he danced around keeping just out of Happosai's reach till the old lech stopped the weight of what Genma said having sunk in.
"You mean the poison I fed the girl didn't kill her?" Happosai asked clearly shocked.
"First off it wasn't poison." Genma answered. "Second I have to go and comfort my wife and don't have time for this."
"Where is she?" Happosai asked angrily.
"You'll find out. When the time is right." Genma said before he left the fuming former grandmaster.
"Damn you Ranma I will find a way to have my revenge." Happosai muttered to himself his eyes blazing.
OOooOO
Nodoka hadn't moved from the spot she had collapsed since she had received the call from the school nurse. Her grieving was interrupted by a knock on the door. Reluctantly she got up to answer the door as the knocking became more persistent. When she opened the door she had to blink a few times before she recognized her husband. Tears falling anew she buried her face into her husbands chest.
"There there No-chan it's going to be alright." Genma said trying to comfort her.
"How will it be alright? Our son is dead. Tell me how that makes everything all right?" Nodoka asked looking up at Genma tears tracking down her face as the volume went up every other word till is was just short of a shriek.
"Our child isn't dead and you can see her soon."
Catching this slip even in her distraught state Nodoka lashed out at Genma who was using the soul of ice in it's fullest to keep his composure. "Baka we have a son not a daughter you know that better than anybody."
"I'm aware of my child's gender. And as you just said I know our child better than anybody. Regrettably more than her own mother." Genma replied doing his level best to encompass Nodoka in the soul of ice to calm her down. Fortunately for him it seemed to be having an effect. "It would do you good to come with me to stay with the Tendos a few days."
"Ok husband if you insist." Nodoka answered in resignation as she left in a daze to gather what she contemplated needing.
"You don't need anything more than yourself." Genma said as he picked her up and proceeded to run to the Tendo Dojo the fastest route he knew. Specifically roof hopping as he hadn't mastered the art of levitating yet.
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"But I don't understand why I wasn't affected." Kasumi said in her conversation with Cologne whom was currently examining the girl.
"Well child it would appear that the reason that you don't feel like you were affected is because you where genetically compatible with it like so few are." Cologne said completing her examination declaring her a healthy though now immortal young woman before turning to Tofu who was unaffected by Kasumi. "Am I right old man?"
"Huh? Oh yes indeed." Tofu answered absently not looking up from the scroll he was studying. It had been decided that he would be watching all of them. After he had gotten Ranma and Ryoga from the hospital on the grounds that he was the family physician and should be the one to take care of their bodies.
"Um she just called you old and it doesn't bother you?" Kasumi asked stunned.
"But I'm older than her. So it shouldn't bother me that she calls me old." Tofu answered not looking up.
Kasumi just stared in surprise for a minute before speaking. "Are you sayin that you're like Yuta and Mana."
"And have been for about 900 years." Tofu answered the look in his eyes telling Kasumi that he wasn't lying. "I have seen more pain and suffering then any one person should ever have to deal with. Ever since I unknowingly partook of the flesh of the mermaid when I was twenty-one I have carried on my father's life work after he became a lost soul.
"So you killed your own father?" Kasumi asked on the verge of tears.
"After he transformed he was no longer my father. I had to do it to protect the villagers he cared about." Tofu answered his voice steady but his eyes crying hurt longing and loneliness. All emotions that Kasumi read before she embraced the man that had long since buried his emotions only letting them show in the presence of a select few people.
Tofu was somewhat surprised when Kasumi hugged him allowing him to lay his head on her shoulder before he broke down for the first time since his father died that fateful day those many years ago.
It was to this scene that Genma and Nodoka walked in on. And Nodoka being the mother she was felt she had to lend her support to someone who was so obviously suffering. "Whatever you're holding in just let it go you'll feel better." Nodoka said in a soothing voice causing Tofu's control to completely break releasing all of the raw emotion that he had kept bottled up for almost a millenia. Soun and Genma feeling out of place left the room. Cologne just sat and observed.
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"I don't know if I should kill you or hug you. You big goof." Nabiki said smiling as she sat watching a female Ranma and a human Ryoga sleep away. Though as far as the world was concerned they were dead. "I wonder what demons the other three were spawned from." Nabiki said to herself as she looked over at the other three dead occupants of the room. Their demon features where beginning to show themselves. "Well we can relax anyways because they are definitely out of danger."
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It took a good half hour before Tofu calmed down enough for coherent speech. "It makes perfect since now you know."
"What's that?" Kasumi asked curious.
"Why you where the only person that I was attracted to that didn't cause me to go completely catatonic." Tofu answered before adding as an afterthought. "After I perfected that mental block approximately 500 hundred years ago that is."
"Well to tell you the truth I was curious as to why you where more in control of yourself on our date than you used to be when I was in your presence."
"The lock on your demon blood had been released meaning that you would live for a long time and not have to suffer through aging while I didn't change. But now that you are truly immortal it has no affect on me in your presence anymore. That's my theory anyways."
"Aren't you the one that came up with it?" Nodoka asked.
"I did and I didn't." Tofu answered.
"Elaborate." Nodoka prodded.
"It's a collaboration of what I and a few other doctors came up with." Tofu added.
"Now that that is out of the way please show me my son." Nodoka all but ordered.
"Your Daughter is this way." Tofu answered emphasizing daughter.
"Genma said the same thing. I repeat I don't have a daughter." Nodoka said exasperated before asking. "Has everyone gone crazy?"
"I see that you don't truly believe me about my age or you wouldn't be hard pressed to believe that you just might have a daughter." Tofu said as they entered the room of which Nabiki was the only one conscious.
"Is this my child?" Nodoka asked walking up to Ryoga's side of the bed he and Ranma were currently occupying.
"No that's her fiance Ryoga Hibiki." Nabiki answered waving her hand as if trying to dispel the misconception. "That there is Ranma." Nabiki added indicating the red head.
"No I have a son not a daughter." Nodoka denied as she noted the family resemblance between her and the girl on the bed. "It can't be." Nodoka said as darkness claimed her.
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Well she took that well.
I believe Nodoka will be fine.
We'll see next time.
Yes we will see.