A Ranma ½ and Inu-Yasha Crossover
Ranma's New Curse

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. This is a work of
fanfiction, which means I get to play god and change the characters
around as I see fit. HA HA HA!

Notes: In the Ranma Universe this story starts out at the end of the
battle with Saffron. I have decided to change the view for the Inu
Yasha universe from this point on. After doing some research on the
characters I decided to put Rin, Sessho-maru and Sango into the story
line. I was going to put Sessho-maru in the story anyway but the way
I'm putting him into it now is better than before. I hope you enjoy!

------------------------------Unknown Place-----------------------------

He awoke to find himself surrounded by darkness. Looking around
he found that he could not even see his hands through the blackness.
Out of the corner of his vision he saw a bright light flare into life
which pierced the darkness. He tried to move toward the light but no
matter how long he ran, he couldn't seem to get any closer to it. After
running for what seemed like hours he collapsed from exhaustion. He
kept his eyes focused upon the light in fear that if he looked away it
would disappear. He silently vowed that he would reach the light as he
sat down on the cold floor of nothingness to rest.

After resting for a while, he started running toward the
tantalizing light, more determined than ever to reach it. After once
again running to the point of exhaustion, he looked at the light and
grinned. He was getting closer. 'Just a little more. I'll escape this
prison and make that mortal landwalker pay for his crimes!' This was
his last conscious thought as Saffron succumbed to the darkness around
him.


Chapter 7: Inner Demons and Buried Secrets


-------------------------------Tendo Dojo-------------------------------
Present

Inutaisho sat in a lotus position in the middle of the Tendo
Dojo as he prepared himself for the grueling task ahead. It was time to
test the boy. He watched as the Tendo patriarch and his daughters sat
down alongside Cologne and Shampoo. Akane was lying in Nodoka's lap
with a cold compress on her head, still unconscious. Genma had
disappeared. 'Probably made a break for it when I turned around.' he
thought as he uttered a low growl. He then did a double take as he
looked at the Tendo daughters. 'Odd I thought there was a third. Must
be my mistake.' He shook off the odd feeling as he closed his eyes
and concentrated on his inner self as he searched around for the boy
that was hiding within.

Inutaisho looked around him as he found himself surrounded by
darkness. "Well it's good to be back." he muttered to himself. The
darkness was broken by a TV-sized image that seemed to be miles away.
The light was broken by the silhouette of a person who seemed to be
sitting in front of the image. "Damn! He made it there. This just got
harder." Since he had spent the last 10 years in the blackness that made
up the human psyche, he knew that running toward the light was pointless.
With but a thought he felt the darkness bend and move around him as the
light grew closer while he stood perfectly still.

He looked toward the figure that was sitting in front of the
light. "I see you've been watching."

The figures only response was a slight nod of his head.

"Have you found it entertaining?"

This time the figure shook his head.

"Good." In the TV-sized image of the light he observed the
people that were watching him meditate in the dojo. He saw Nodoka, Soun,
Ukyo, Nabiki, Akane, Shampoo and Cologne were still moving around as if
it was a live program. He looked away from the light and looked towards
the figures face which was filled with tears.

"I killed her."

"You didn't kill her Ranma, it was just a mistake. She's just
knocked out."

The figure, which was revealed to be Ranma in his male, human,
form. He cringed away from the demon as it spoke. "IT'S THE SAME THING
TO ME!" he cried as he held his head in his hands and pulled on his
hair. "I thought it was Saffron! I thought I was doing a good thing! I
didn't save her from dying just to hurt her myself! And to make it
worse, I liked it! When I felt her blood on my fingers I felt excited
and I wanted more! What kind of sick freak have you turned me into?!"


Inutaisho sighed and sat down next to the hysterical boy. "I
understand how you feel, but you shouldn't be angry with yourself or me."

Ranma sneered at the demon, "How would you know what I feel?
You're a fucking demon, killing people is a normal occurrence for you.
It's not for me." Ranma's aura was on, full blaze, as he glared at the
demon.

Inutaisho merely stared at him through lidded eyes as he turned
toward the image in the light. "You're scaring them you know."

Ranma turned toward the light to see the people in the dojo
cringing and backing away in fright.

"When you flare your ki in here, it flares out there as well.
Normally that wouldn't be much of a problem, but that's your demon form
out there. Instead of human ki you're giving youki. Which feels pretty
evil. Now be a good lad and calm down so we can talk like civilized
demons."

Ranma's breathing slowed down and his aura slowly winked out. "I
am not a demon like you." he spat.

"Oh really? I think you're wrong. You're exactly like me, and
trust me that's a good thing."

"I'm human damnit!"

"That's what I said when I recovered from the rage." the demon
said with a sigh.

"What are you talking about? Are you telling me you used to be
human?" asked Ranma with a skeptic look on his face.

"A long time ago, I used to be human, yes." Inutaisho responded
as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"If you were a human, why are you a demon?" he asked his
curiosity piqued.

"I was cursed to become a youkai." his fist clenched in anger as
he answered the boy's question.

"Who did that to you?"

"I used to be a high level mage in my youth. According to your
history text book, the area I lived in was the tenth century."

"Wow you're old!"

Inutaisho hit Ranma on the head.

"Hey what was that for?" he asked in anger as he rubbed his head.

"First of all, don't interrupt me. Secondly, I've been dead for
over 500 years. I don't age anymore, idiot."

"Fine, whatever you say. You're still an old bat." he muttered
under his breath as he waved his hand for Inutaisho to continue.

"Anyway, I was part of a mage guild that specialized in taking
back the Japanese land from the youkai that inhabited them. We were
successful in driving out and killing many youkai in the years that I was
a member. However, many of the other mages were jealous of my powers
and did not like me. I didn't think that any of them would act against
me since I had been a member for so long. That was before I met her."

"Her, her who?" Ranma's only answer was another bonk to the
head.

"What did I tell you about interrupting?" a mumbled sorry was his
only response. "Anyway like I was saying, I fell in love. Unfortunately
the girl I fell in love with was a youkai. She used to beat me up every
time I would try to get close to her, but I would never give up. Heh, I
guess I was a masochist at heart." he stated with a small chuckle. "She
was so beautiful, her hair was like fire, her skin smooth and silky, she
had the longest legs I've ever seen on a woman and a really nice raACK!!"

Ranma broke through Inutaisho's description with a smack upside
the head. "I'd rather you just get back to the story you horny old dog."
'Jeeze what a pervert!'

Looking a bit embarrassed, Inutaisho cleared his throat and
continued his story. "Okay you get the picture she was really hot. I
honestly have no idea what happened that changed her mind but she started
to miss me."

"Why? Where'd ya go?"

"What? Oh no. I mean she literally would miss me. Like when
she tried to punch me, or kick me, or throw me... well you get the idea."

"Why were you fighting her in the first place? I thought you
liked her?"

"I was a mage and she was a demon. At that time I thought that's
all we could do. Boy was I wrong about that, we found out there were
other things we could do and in so many positions... but that's a story
for another time. Anyway the other mages found out that I had fallen in
love with a youkai and used this knowledge against me. They brought my
case to the council and banished me from the guild. This would have been
a dangerous move for them since a rogue mage with my power could cause
quite a bit of trouble. All of my creations, the Nanban mirror being
one, were taken from me. The guild cursed me to become a low level
youkai and wiping me of any power that I had left, left me in the middle
of a forest."

"That was their first and last mistake. What the guild didn't
know is that I had sealed my powers before even coming into their
service. They also didn't know that I was a Hanyou."

"What's a Hanyou?"

"It means I was a half demon, half human."

"How did that happen?"

"When I was younger, I was very curious about what made Demons
and Humans so different. I was able to decipher the very element of a
demons aura that could enhance a regular human to enormous proportions.
Creating an extremely strong hybrid. Hanyou are usually the result of a
demon and a human mating, which was a rare occurence, and I was always
interested in why Hanyou's seemed to be more powerful than some normal
youkai."

"So you were the son of a human and demon?"

"No. I was the first hybrid. I was affected by my experiment
and I became a Hanyou. I was able to mask the demon traces in my aura
from the guild and when they cursed me my energies mixed and I was able
to become an extremely powerful Tai-Youkai. What happened after that was
something I still hope to forget. I went out of control. I destroyed
anything and anyone that stood in my way. The youkai power was too much
for my human energy to control and I was lost to darkness for 300 years.
I had destroyed the guild, all of the surrounding villages and...her." he
said with a tear forming in his eye which he quickly rubbed away.

"Oh, um sorry."

"Yeah well you should be. You of all people should know not to
judge people by what you see, right fem-boy?" the demon said with a
cocked eyebrow.

Ranma's eye was twitching in anger but he miraculously kept his
mouth shut.

"You should feel lucky that the girl was only slightly harmed."
Ranma opened his mouth to protest but was halted by Inutaisho's raised
hand. "Even though I know she shouldn't have been harmed at all."

"So how do I control this power? I don't exactly feel like going
crazy for 300 years. How'd you beat it?"

"You train."

"Train?"

"Yes, train. I learned that the youkai/human hybrid I became was
very powerful and hard for me to control. Most youkai do not face this
problem because they are born with their powers and only have one type
of life energy, youki. However you and me are different. We were not
born with youki, we were born with human ki. When our youki is used
for the first time we become consumed by it."

"If a human is born with ki and a youkai is born with youki how
come you didn't go crazy when you became a hanyou?"

"Since my human life force exceeded that of my youki, I was able
to take control. However I was prone to fits of rage in which my youki
would take over for a short period of time. I was able to raise the
level of my human ki to a strong enough level that it overrode my
youki. When I was successful in that, hiding my demon traits were
easy."

"What demon traits?"

"Basically my ears, claws, eye color and aura." He said while
pointing out the various parts of his body.

"How much would I have to train in order to control my youki?"
Ranma asked nervously.

Inutaisho looked Ranma up and down and sighed. "As you are now,
forever."

"WHAT? ARE YOU SAYING I'M WEAK!!"

"No no no. Not weak, you're just using so much of your human ki
fighting off your inner demons you don't have enough to fight off the
effects of my jewel."

"Aren't you my inner demon?"

"No, you're inner demon is over there." Inutaisho pointed to
vast expanse of darkness that lay behind Ranma.

"I can't see anything? Are you sure?"

"Oh I'm sure alright. I've fought that thing enough to know it's
real." he said while absently rubbing his arm.

"Are you telling me not even you could beat this thing?" Ranma
asked dumbfounded.

"Hey I'm a guest! This warped place is your mind not mine! You
defeat inner demons by yourself! Trust me, only you can defeat the
demon that's out there. I have faith in you. If I thought you
couldn't do it I'd kill you myself." he said with a smile as he
vanished.

"Hey old man where did ya go?" asked Ranma as he frantically
swiped at the darkness surrounding him. After a while he calmed
down and thought about his dilemna. 'He said I can't control my youki
unless I defeat whatever demon's in here. Heh piece o' cake. I took
out a God how hard could this be.' He thought to himself arrogantly as
he puffed out his chest and walked into the vast darkness.

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While Ranma was having his heart to heart chat with Inutaisho,
there was another important conversation going on not to far away.

"I am sure of it mistress. He was a demon." said a girls voice.

"Well this shouldn't be a problem for you. I have you trained you
hard these past 10 years. I know you will not dissapoint me." said
another voice which seemed to echo off of everything at once.

"There is a problem mistress." the girls voice said with slight
hesitation.

"Oh what?"

"The demon was once a boy that I took care of."

"So. You'd be doing him a favor by killing him then."

"According to the demon, the boy will be able to control his
demonic powers and use them for good."

"Are you telling me you trust this demon child?!" the voice
snapped in irritaion.

"No mistress! But I know the boy very well and have faith in him.
If any human could learn to control youki it would be him."

"You have enough faith in this boy to put the lives of you and
your family on his shoulders?"

"We have done so many times before and he has never failed us."
The girl stated sternly.

The voice seemed to think about her students request for a while.
"And you are confident he WILL succeed?"

"Yes, very much so."

The voice sighed and then answered. "Then watch him. Follow him
everywhere he goes and if he even shows one sign that he is tainted then
you will kill him without any hesitation. Understand?"

"Yes mistress."

"And one more thing."

"Yes Mistress?"

"I want to meet him as well. I want to meet the boy that seems to
have made such a good impression upon my student."

"Yes mistress." the girl answered a little shakily and then
thought to herself. 'Oh my. I need to get packed.'

END Chapter 7

A/N:Okay people I know it's been a long time but I got some seriously heavy
duty shit happening in my life right now. Both of my parents are in the
hospital and I have to take care of them. And I also have finals to
study for. ARGH!! Anyway I hope that chapter 8 doesn't take so long to
come out. And I can't believe no one knew where the counting song came
from in chapter 6. Tell you what I have a new page up on my website
called the mix and match cd Anime corner, the first 5 people to email
me the answer gets a free cd full of whatever they want. Later :-)

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