Ranma groaned feeling his consciousness flooding back into her.
"Ranma! Are you alright?" akane exclaimed bending over her. Ranma
blinked slowly at first not recognizing her until she started
glowing with anger at having been ignored "a- aka-.... akane. What
happened?" she whispered closing her eyes against the pain. "A
trash dumpster hit you, we were worried." she said motioning to ukyo
who was in the room smiling not so sweetly at him. She nodded
looking away 'ya right, that damn dumpster rolled down that hill on
purpose, you bitch akane, you tried to kill me.'

Ranma sat up in bed the next time after akane had left and called in
the nurse. She smiled walking into the room "how may I help you my
dear?" she asked. Ranma smiled softly "has ms tendo and ms kuonji
left?" she asked softly. She nodded smiling "yes! They are such
good girls." she said happily. Ranma nodded blowing that off. "Is
my father here? I would like to see him." she said in a rough
voice. The woman bit her lip "I'm sorry dear, mr... saotome was
arrested yesterday when it was found that he was responsible for
your accident." she said sadly. Ranma blinked at her for a minute
then nodded "miss, do you have a cell phone?" she asked softly. She
nodded wondering why she asked. Ranma held out her hand "can I
borrow it please?"

After the woman wheeled her out into the hospital gardens ranma bit
her lip looking at the woman "please, you mustn't tell anyone I did
this, they'll kill me if they suspect, and right now I'm too weak to
fight them." she said flipping open the cell phone. She dialed a
number with her one unbroken finger on her good hand. She looked at
the curious nurse "no one is to know about this, please?" she asked
softly then looked back at the phone scanning the windows "hello?" a
voice said cheerfully "hello maam? I don't have time to explain
much to you right now but can you please come to the nerima medical
center today? I'm afraid your my last hope at this point." she said
softly. There was silence for a few minutes "and why would I do
that miss?" the voice said. Ranma cleared her throat "because I'm
checked in under the name ranma saotome, I think you'll want to
hurry maam I'm in a rather large amount of danger right now and you
need to hear what I have to say, your the only hope I got left."

Ranma handed the phone back to the woman with a fearful look on her
face "please, you got to keep this a secret, those two harpies visit
me all the time and I'm afraid they might just poison me if they
found out, please, help me." she asked holding onto the womans hand
as tightly as her weakened condition allowed, tears rolling down her
face "please, I don't want to die, I didn't deserve any of this
shit. Please, keep this from them."

The nurse walked back into the nurses station very troubled by what
the girl had told her and didn't know what to do until a rather
stately woman in a kimono and carrying a silk rapped bundle walked
up to the desk. "Excuse me, I'm looking for... saotome ranmas room,
a girl I believe." she said calmly smiling. The woman blinked at
her "you must be the woman she called." she said softly then after
looking about, walked out from behind the desk and led her off
to the side "maam, if what the girl told me is true you got to get
her out of here, shes in quite a lot of danger, I've seen the way
her visitors act around her maam, shes terrified by them and they
are in no way nice about it. Let me take you to her room."

Ranma looked up from the map of the hospital and jumped seeing the
nurse "geez! You scared me! I thought you were a tendo or
something." she said sighing in relief before stopping seeing the
red haired woman she was leading into the room "you came.... I
don't believe you came." she whispered. The woman nodded sitting
down next to her "please tell me why your listed here under my sons
name?"

Ranma breathed deeply and looked at the nurse "can you take us to
another room? Somewhere private? I don't what them suspecting
anything, and they get out of school in a few hours." she said
softly as she hopped out of bed on her one good foot and the womans
eyes widened seeing the bandages all over her "what did this to you
dear?" she asked. Ranma snorted "a trash dumpster filled with lead
fillings, they pushed it down the hill at me while I was passing, it
was sudden, but not sudden enough for me not to see that smug look
on their faces as the thing crushed me against that brick wall." she
muttered sitting in the wheel chair the woman pulled out for her and
wheeled her to the large shower room looking around for anyone
watching. The woman followed close behind looking troubled.


Ranma gasped standing up from the wheelchair and walked over to the
showers and sat down on the sink "nurse, you stay, I've gotten you
in enough danger, you might as well know why." she said pulling her
leg up then smashed the cast against the wall "oh god that hurt!"
she gasped almost passing out "what are you doing?!" the nurse
exclaimed. Ranma looked at her "the cast... will cut my leg off if
I activate the trasformation while its still on, I'm a fast healer,
but not from that type of wound. I'm listed here under saotome
ranma, because I am saotome ranma. Hear me out and I'll show you."

Ranma continued smashing the cast with a fist that didn't look like
it had the power "a year ago, pop and I were training in china, we
found out about a place that had... springs of magical water that
grants the person that jumps into them the ability to take on the
form of the person that drown in the spring, or so it said, from the
pictures I've seen, I look like my mother at sixteen. Pop decided
that having a second body to hide in at times would be a good idea.
So, he pushed me into the spring of drown girl then jumped into
spring of drown panda. We trained hard after the magic took effect,
learning to have cold and hot water on hand at all times, rapid
clothes changing, that sort of thing. Pop called it the saotome
school secret attack: rapid confusion. If your chasing a woman one
minute you wouldn't realize the man that just stepped out from
behind that fence is going to attack you until after hes downed you.
This was always a questionable attack to me at least. But its saved
our lives a few times, and we never abused it."

They were blinking at her as she finished pulling the cast off and
after thinking about it pulled the rest of the stuff off her as
well, even wincing as she pulled the bandage off the spot where the
trash can had smashed in her rib cage. She took up a towel and
blushed smiling "I would rather save my embarressment." she said
turning on the water and after a minute ducked under it bunching the
towel at her waist. The two women gasped in shocked horror as her
body shifted about and grew larger, her skin darkening to a deep
healthy tan as the wounds that had been all over her body
disappeared until he was standing before them a few seconds later
fully heal and a very beautiful man. He smiled at the awe on the
nurses face as well as the hope on the womans "yes, I am ranma
saotome, mother. Pop thought you would question my manliness just
because I can change into a woman, I don't see why, its just a part
of the art, I just wish I had my disguise kit." he cursed then
looked at the nurse "do you think you can get me a pair of doctors
scrubs? The mask and the hair net thing, they'll attack me if they
see me like this." he said. Looking very uncomfortable. She nodded
disappearing from the room "you really change into a woman ranma?"
nodoka asked softly. He chuckled drying himself "yes, you wouldn't
believe how real it is. Its a fully operational female body, gives
new meaning to espionage doesn't it? No one would suspect the man
that had just done the job was the woman that was necking in the
ball room. Its rather disgusting to kiss a guy but its a part of
the art, you have to endure even the most loathsome ordeal to pull
off the job." he said grinning. She frowned at him "have you slept
with a man?" she demanded. He shuttered "thank kami, no I haven't,
thankfully enough I haven't been forced to do that to escape."

He smiled "no the farthest I've had to go in that way was to knock
out a man and put him in a bed before stripping and getting under
him. It was rather funny, when the guards burst into the room I had
to play like they had interrupted us when the whole time the guy had
a bleeding nose, I was sure they would see the blood." he laughed
then shook his head as the nurse came into the room followed but
nibiki, who was holding a gun. "Impressive saotome. I didn't think
even you could have survived what akane and that witch ukyo did to
you. Ryoga didn't survive it, you must have wondered what killed
him?"

Ranma snarled at her "and of course you covered it up didn't you?
You framed my father!" he snarled then remembered he was naked.
Nibiki smirked tossing him a box "of course. Akanes my sister, but
shes gone too far this time. She always had a problem controling
her anger and after ukyo came to live with us she went bad. Ukyos
hell bent to kill any man that gets close to akane, she killed kuno.
I see akane wanting to get away from this ranma, please help me free
my sister."

Ranma snorted as he looked through the box and quickly pulled on a
pair of boxers "that sister of yours is nuts nibiki, shes caused me
no end of pain since pop brought me here the little 'accident' with
the meat grinder in the kitchen, pushing me in front of the truck on
the way to school and now the dumpster. Your sister is out to kill
me nibiki. I don't care if she is my fiancee, I'm out of here."

She snarled at him "no your not! Its your fault ukyo first showed
up on our doorstep, pouring her venom into my sister. Shes the one
that blinded kisumis left eye! Kisumi admonished her for telling
akane such bad things and 'accidentally' tripped her into the chair.
Slammed was more like! I keep the house bugged ranma, the whole
thing with video and sound. I saw that bitch hit her in the back of
the head and slam her eye down on that damned chair. Then she said
something snide like 'don't ever tell me what to do.' fathers useless
because hes too afraid of her! You were the only one strong enough
ranma to stop ukyo from killing my family. My father trained in
martial arts for twenty years and he still isn't half as good as you
are!"

Ranma looked down at the box in his lap "what would you have me do
nibiki? I can't hit her! Its dishonorable to hit a woman! I've
crusted boulders with these hands!" he said plantively holding out
his large hands. She nodded "might I remind you that ryoga could do
that too and she still suceeded in goading akane into distracting
him long enough to kill him, the way she did with you. I saw that
too you know, she pushed akane into knocking you into that wall hard
enough for you to be too dizzy to escape the dumpster then set it up
to look like genma did it. Isn't nearly killing you and sending
your father to jail on attempted murder charges enough of a reason
to get over your arrogence?! Yes! Its not honor that stops you
from fighting girls, its your arrogence and fear of hurting someone
that looked weaker then you."

He snorted "so your telling me that if I hit you the way I did ryoga
when we fought it wouldn't rupture your intestines?" he asked
snidely. She smirked "ranma, everyone knows ryoga was some sort of
superhuman. As are you, why the hell did you think you survived
being hit by a trash dumpster pushed hard down hill filled with four
hundred pounds of lead fillings." she remarked then pinned him with
a stare "tell me what would have happened if it had hit you as a
man?" she demanded. He shrugged "I would have shrugged it off. I
was hurt so bad because I only have about a sixteenth my normal
strength in that body and its more easily damaged. Maybe.... should
I mom? Is it right for a man to pit his skill against a woman you
know isn't anywhere in your league? I don't want to hurt akane!"

Nodoka bit her lip then nodded "its your duty to put a stop to this
ranma, this woman has already killed someone and is responsible for
maiming kisumi, how anyone could hurt that innocent girl I'll never
know!" she said then gripped the thing she was carrying and pulled
the rapping aside to reveal the hilt of her sword. Ranma looked
wide eyed at it as he held his hand out asking. She bit her lip but
showed it to him. Ranma looked reverently at the delicate workings
of the hilt and sheath "mothers sword. Pop said it was just as
beautiful as its owner, I see he wasn't mistaken." he murmured
grinning at her over the naked blade. He flipped it about then
grinned sheathing it "pop always spoke highly of you mom, he loves
you greatly, I missed you." he whispered hugging her. She hugged
him back "my son..." she breathed tears coming to her eyes when he
let her go "I have an idea."

Ranma walked back over to his box and started looking through it and
pulled out a kimono and compared it to his mothers "damn, wish I had
my sword." he muttered pulling out a pair of panties and a bra along
with makeup. He looked up at them and cleared his throat "can I get
dressed please?" he asked eying the door. Nibiki and the nurse
left. Nodoka blinked "can I help dear?" she asked. He smiled "you
can watch if you want." he chuckled pulling his boxers off and got
himself wet. She looked at her for a minute as she let her hair
down then with fingers flying put the amazing amount of hair into a
bun and then put on the panties and bra. She smiled reassuriingly
when she looked disturbed "mom, I have the body I might as well use
it to its best advantage. Pop and I run a very lucritive
investigation service, you wouldn't believe the kind of things a man
will tell a pretty woman. I really hate the cheating husband cases
since pop makes me run interference while he gets photos and other
things, but we have rich clients that value our work, of course they
don't know how we do it since they only meet us in our normal forms.
It still pisses me off that I had to search around to find your
phone number and address. Pop refused to tell me where you lived
for some reason." she looked up from the box and smiled serenely
"how do I look?" she asked in a soft happy voice. Nodoka blinked
not recognizing the girl although she had watched her change "thats
amazing."

Nibiki and the nurse looked up as nodoka walked out of the bathroom
and smiled at them. Nibiki blinked a minute later seeing the case
in her hands then seeing nodoka come out behind her shaking her head
"my son is a master of disguises." she stated softly. Ranma nodded
smiling "yes it helps to be very good in this trade. Shall we go?"


"Ok, heres how it is from my standpoint. Pop brings me to the dojo
saying I have two fiancees that live there. I was pissed, he said
one of them was a betrothal from birth while the other was pawned
off on him by her rather dishonorable father. The girl was mean as
hell and I was forced to restrain her often. Pop figures it would
be good practice, I didn't like it from the start. But after she
started poisoning our food he sent her to his friend, not the best
of choices since its also where my other fiancee lived. Pop took me
to see akane every few years and I really liked her, but the next
time we went to see them she hit me. Ukyo flat out attacked me.
Pop snatched me up and took off. We didn't come back until a year
ago."

She looked down from her glass "the change to that family was
horrifying mother. Kisumi was wearing an eye patch and was always
withdrawn, no one would tell me what had happened to her and I ended
up dodging scopal sharp spatulas and that damned hammer akane picked
up somewhere." she said then apologized to her mother. She nodded
smiling. Nibiki sighed "kisumis scared of doing anything ranma, she
doesn't want to lose her other eye. Ukyo threatened me saying that
if I told anyone about it she would put her other eye out before
they took her away. Father just went deeper into his depression."
she said sadly.

Ranma sighed sadly before looking at nodoka "pop did this mom. He
let that scumbag pawn his daughter off on us then sent her to ruin
there lives." she set down her tea cup and looked at nibiki "tell me
nibiki, do you have solid evidence that ukyo is the one that pushed
the dumpster? And your sister?" she asked softly. Nibiki nodded
"as well as a tape of her nearly tagging akane with the truck she
hit ryoga with. I've got everything needed to put her away for
ever, all I need to do is get her away from my family before I can
use it." she said cupping her face "I also got a confession of guilt
in kunos poisoning." she added then looked at ranma as she stood up
and walked across the room to look at the two swords sitting on her
mothers mantle. "Mom, do the tendos know your family well?" she
asked taking down the two swords and grinned at them. She blinked
"no, all they know is that I married your father."

Ranma nodded smiling as she looked at nibiki "go home. In about
three hours the dojo will get a call saying genmas wife and daughter
are coming for a visit, hoping to catch their errent men folk. If
pops there clue him in that I'm doing something but don't say what.
Miuki, it was nice meeting you, thankyou for your help." she said
bowing to the nurse who looked like she wanted to go. She nodded
smiling "it was very interesting meeting you saotome-san, both of
you. Good day tendo-san." she said walking out the door. Ranma
grinned rubbing her hands together as nibiki walked out the door "ok
mom, lets work on what pop calls a complimentary history."


Kisumi moved about and blinked hearing a knock at the front door.
She stood up and after flicking her eye to the two brooding girls
sitting in the den, she went quickly to the front door and looked
out. She looked wide eyed at the two women in the front yard "hello
is... kisumi!!?" nodoka exclaimed dropping her sword. Ranma caught
it quickly as nodoka backed the skittish girl into the house
reaching out with horrified anger on her face "kisumi what happened
to you?! Let me look!" she comanded as she backed kisumi to a chair
and gently touched her face. She nelt beside her and gently wiped
the tears from the girls eye as she soothed her "my god kisumi how
did this happen? Oh god I'm sorry! I can't believe I let this
happen under my nose!" she cried laying her head in kisumis lap.
Ranma came over carrying both bundles and rubbed her mothers
shoulder "ranma!" akane yelled in shocked happiness. Ranma blinked
at her blankly "where? Is my brother here?!" she exclaimed looking
about. Nodoka looked up "ranma?! My son?" she asked standing up
and looked around with ranma. Ranma rounded on akane "why did you
say his name if he wasn't here?"

Nodoka nodded looking reprovingly at akane "thats not nice young
lady, we've waited too long for them to come home for you to pick
fun at us like that. What happened to your sister?! I promised
your mother before she died I would look after you girls and this
happens! Tell me!" she comanded gribbing akanes shirt front. Soun
jumped seeing her "n- nodoka-san! R- ranma... went out on another
training trip! Ya, he and his father left a few days ago!" he said
happily, thanking god ranma hadn't come home. Ukyo smirked evilly
seeing the two slump slightly "oh but what are you saying mister
tendo?! Mr saotome is right there!" she said pointing at the pale
panda. They blinked at the panda for a minute then ranma got a
pained look on her face "I'm sure, yes, thank you for your help who
ever you are." she said anger barely contained in her voice. Nodoka
sniffed blowing the girl off "kisumi please tell me what happened, I
sware if someone did it on purpose I'll kill them myself!"

Ranma cleared her throat and nodoka looked up at her "yes ranko?"
she asked smiling slightly. Ranma smiled "I think I can find out a
lot easier then badgering the poor girl mother. Remember my gift?"
she said holding out her hand. Nodoka smiled in relief "I had
indeed forgotten dear. Go ahead." she said smiling. Ranma nodded
handing her bundle back to her as she unrapped hers and slung the
sword across her back. He held her hands out as light started
shimmering around them "theres a lot of violence that goes on
here mother, its hard to sort out." she murmured softly. Nodoka
blinked nodding. Soun came over to her "whats she doing saotome
san?" he asked calmly. Nodoka smiled "ranko has a gift. She can
tell what ever happened in a room by standing in it long enough its
like a video that replays in her head. She can even pick up
conversations."

Ranma let her hands down to her sides and turned about to glare in
rage at akane and ukyo. She walked towards them for a minute then
sniffed turning away as she grabbed a kettle of hot water off the
burner "whats that for dear?" nodoka asked, ranko didn't say a word
as she walked over to the chained panda and poured hot water over
his head. She stood back and looked calmly at genma "where is my
brother father. What is the meaning of engaging him to those....
psychos!" she yelled pointing at ukyo and akane. They jumped before
both pulled out weapons "care to repeat that!?" "just what do you
mean by that sugar?" they hissed. Ranma walked up to akane and
after deftly taking her hammer pounded ukyo into the wall with it
then slapped akane soundly.

"Ranko! What is the meaning of this?!" nodoka yelled angrily. Ranma
looked at her as she pointed to ukyo "this bitch is tainted mother!
Shes poisoned this girl" she pointed at akane who hadn't gotten up
"into hating ranma! No wonder ranmas never here mom! Both of them
take advantage of his honorable nature to beat him mercilessly! I
can count at least six hundred times ranmas been knocked senseless
by one or both of these girls! And I'm not even going to talk about
the the things the two talk about in here by themselves. Shes evil
mom! Only a demon can be so cruel as to get pleasure from ranmas
suffering." she declaired pointing at ukyo. The girl snarled getting
back up "your going to regret that bitch." she growled. Ranma
pulled her sword "just try me spatula girl." she hissed back. Ukyo
looked at the sword for a minute before stalking out into the yard
cursing viciously. Ranma glared at akane who was still sitting
there looking wide eyed at her. Ranma nelt down by kisumi "why are
you protecting her?"

She looked away in fear "you don't know what you say." she
whispered. Ranko looked at her "it was three years ago, you were
scolding ukyo for some of the bad things she was making akane do.
Do I tell your father what happened next?" she asked softly. Kisumi
broke down and hugged her tightly "it... she had convenced akane
boys were just something to hurt. I heard her say it in those
words. Akane left the room crying... I confronted her about it."
she looked at her father who was looking wide eyed "she struck me in
the back of the neck, tripped me.... she grabbed my head and....
shoved the..." she stopped looking at the rather tall orniments
standing strait from the top of the chair she was sitting in. "She
shoved my face into the top of the chair, and I blacked out from the
pain.... she threatened to do the other one the same way if I told
anyone."

Akane was gapping in horrified shock as soun quietly boiled. Ranma
nodded handng her mother the sword "I'd call that a closed case."
she murmured pulling her kimono open to reveal her normal chinese
clothes and undid her hair. She poured the rest of the water in the
kettle over her head as she looked at their stunned family. "After
you and ukyo tried to murder me akane I contacted mother and got her
help in setting this up, after talking to nibiki we found out about
ukyos role in ryogas death, kunos poisoning and maiming your sister.
We've got proof for all of it." he looked at akane with sad eyes
"maybe, kami willing, you won't go to prison for helping her." he
took the sword back from nodoka "where are you going ranma?" soun
asked "to capture a rabid animal."

Ranma ran fast to catch up to the running girl, she had bolted the
minute kisumi had confessed so didn't see ranma change or come after
her. She yelped as something hit her in the back and she hit the
ground hard. She got up and looked wide eyed at ranma standing in
front of her with the sword in hand. He brushed his hair out of his
face "your going no where ukyo. You have to pay for your crimes.
You've killed two people and attempted to kill two others. As a
martial artist I can't ignore that. I could ignore all the beatings
you gave me because thats normal in my family. But trying to murder
me ended my inaction. I've got proof of your crimes, your coming
back to the dojo with me." he looked up seeing a cop take notice of
them "officer! Can you assist me please?"

Ukyo got up and lunged for ranma. He whipped back about and
disarmed her with three strokes of the sword and knocked her out by
smashing the pommel into her forehead "you there what is this!?" the
cop yelled running over with his billy club out. Ranma smiled at him
"thank you, I hate hitting girls and couldn't make myself do it
unless she attacked. Can I borrow your handcuffs?" he asked rolling
the girl over and cuffed her after the cop retrieved them "mind
telling me whats going on?" he asked. Ranma held out his hand
smiling "saotome ranma, saotome investigations. This girl is
responsible for two murders and two attempted. When we got the last
bit of evidance, a confession from one of her victims she split.
Will you come back to the tendo hall with me? I suspect they've
already called the police but it would be nice to have a witness to
say she attacked me first." he said tossing the girl over his
shoulder before retrieving the spatula she had used with a news
paper to keep from putting his prints on it "you've been in the
business for a while?" the cop asked. Ranma smiled "for a few years
now sadly this case hit rather close to home. This girl tried to
kill me a few days ago, I was one of the attempted."


Everyone looked up as ranma tossed the girl onto the couch and
nodded to the cops "this officer asisted me in restraining the
suspect." he said and looked over the pictures, video tapes, and
cassettes nibiki had provided he looked sad seeing akane weeping
softly sitting in a chair, a pair of handcuffs pinning her hands
behind her back. He cleared his throat "if you need anything else
don't hesitate to ask guys. My father and I have been living with
them for the past year so I got to know the two rather well. From
what I know and personally saw ms tendo was present at one of the
murders, she and had been talking with the victim before he was
killed. I don't know if that was all she was doing, I had no
personal knowledge of that inccident. But I was present at my own
attempted murder and from what I could tell before the object struck
me was that she was being forced to help, it seemed it was too heavy
for the suspect to move herself. When I came to at the hospital I
called my mother and she helped me out of it. That was when tendo
nibiki hired me to help her remove the girl from her home."

The cop nodded writing lightning fast "and what did ms tendo, the
other suspect, do to get you to stand still long enough for the can
to hit you?" he asked. Ranma looked at akane calmly "she hit me
with an old fashioned war hammer sir." he said. The cop blinked
then pointed at the large hammer by the door "you mean that thing?!"
he exclaimed. Ranma nodded looking embarressed "akane hits me with
the hammer on a regular basis sir. She just hit me harder then
normal that time." he explained. The cop blinked a few time "she
hit you more then once with it?! Why didn't you just deck her?" he
asked confused. Ranma smirked taking his billy club and promptly
broke it over his own head "because I let her sir. Tolerance
training. If I didn't want her to do it she would never have layed
a finger on me. And... sometimes I deserved a good ass kicking.
I'm... not the easiest person to get along with. Plus she was
goaded a lot of the time into doing it by the suspect. She hated my
family like you wouldn't believe. She took pleasure in causing
pain. From what I hear she didn't even flinch when she put out the
eldest tendo girls right eye. Ms nibiki says she seemed to have
enjoyed doing it, I haven't seen the tape and I don't really want
to, everyone that knows kisumi knows she couldn't hurt a flea, ms
kuonji is a desturbed person to say the least. To be able to do
that.... well you all know kisumi, can you truthfully say anyone
that would do that to her could be anything but evil to their very
core?"

After asking a few questions had been asked the two girls had been
taken away and everyone sat around sadly. "I hope akane comes home
soon." kisumi said softly. Nodoka hugged her soothingly "there
there dear, everythings going to be ok from now on." she said softly
and she smiled trembliously at her. She let her go and walked over
to genma who was cheering up his friend, picking up her sword on the
way. She slid it up under genmas neck and held it there "how dare
you send that demon to our friends home? How dare you endanger our
friends, and our children like that?!" she snarled pressing the
sword into his throat to get him to look up at her "d- dear... I
didn't know what else to do! I couldn't just run her off! She was
only nine! I wasn't going to kill her!" he said in his defense.
Soun waved her off "no nodoka san, I understood his reason for
sending her to us then and I still do, I just wish I had known how
truely corrupted that girl was. I could have gotten her help.
Genma sent her to me in hopes I could find a kind way of getting her
the help she needed. He could not in the condition he and ranma
were in at the time. But akane wanted the girl to stay with us, we
had just lost their mother so I couldn't bring myself to say no. My
daughter lost her eye because of me." he sobbed burying his face in
his hands. Genma started to sit up to comfort him when he
remembered the sword. Nodoka removed it. She nelt and pulled both
into her arms and started crying on them. Both men, disconfited,
turned to comfort her.

Nibiki looked at kisumi as she mimicked the awe on her older sisters
face "moms a pro isn't she?" ranma asked softly as he nelt behind
the two girls. They looked at him and nodded "I'm so sorry it took
a four hundred and fifty pound object to wake me up. Can you ever
forgive me?" he asked softly, a sorrowfully pleading look on his
face. Kisumi smiled hugging him "its ok ranma, you couldn't have
known." she said softly holding him close "what about akane? We
can't let her go to prison." she whispered. Ranma smiled softly
"don't worry about that dear, I'll surely be called in as a witness
and I'll do my best to down play her role in it. But... I won't lie
to them, if shes found guilty..... it just means I'll have a longer
wait before I can marry her huh?"

Soun was suddenly in his face "d- do you mean that boy?" he asked
softly. He nodded "believe it or not, I love her. And ukyo trying
to kill me gives me hope that we'll have a relationship. Ukyo
killed ryoga because akane was starting to like him. So it makes me
think akane could like me." he sighed then grinned "lets see when
they'll allow bail to be posted." he said getting up and walked to
the phone. He dialed a number and blinked hearing noise on the
other side "hi I'm calling about the tendo girl that was brought in
a little while ago." he said and winced "alright sir, I'll be right
there. What? They're martial artists sir, theres not much we can't
do." he said hanging up the phone as he started for the door "akane
and ukyo are destroying the jail trying to kill each other."


The cops standing by the door was frustrated by the fact that he
couldn't get a good shot at either girl so was shocked when his gun
was snatched from him and put on the table next to him as a man
appeared out of no where and walked into the cell "ALRIGHT HOLD
IT!!!" he roared sending a few of the frazzled cops away in fear.
Ranma pulled up two cops and set them down away from one of the
piles until he pulled ukyo out and popped her in the face with a
rabbit punch and handed her to one of the cops "a strait jacket for
the insane lady please." he said waving the cops aside from the
crying akane and pulled her into his arms after she punched him "its
ok akane, everyones ok." He said softly and she rapped her arms
around him before starting to cry for real. He sat down on the
bench by the wall and pulled her into his arms. She sobbed a few
times "why are you being so nice to me? All I've ever done is hit
you and call you names." she cried. He chuckled softly and she
looked up at him. He smiled "akane, you aren't a bad person, your
really rather nice when that witch isn't sniping at you. You only
get mean when shes around. Shs not going to be around for long you
know."

She sniffed "I can't believe how stupid I was to think she was my
friend, a friend wouldn't do that to kisumi." she said softly. He
nodded holding her comfortingly "she had us all fooled. Its funny,
everyone back at the dojo is blaming themselves for not stopping it
before it got this bad." he said then smiled hugging her "remember
that time when we were seven when mom visited you guys the same time
pop and I did. Remember that?" he asked chuckling. She nodded
giggling "you took one look at her and started bauling the minute
she picked you up. Both of you cried for a good four hours, I
remember I ran to kisumi and cried on her, all three of us were
still grieving mothers death so seeing the two of you started dad
and I crying. We didn't pull it together ourselves until dinner, and
you didn't leave your moms lap for anything, not until she put you
to bed. I remember, she asked if you could join me in my bed,
didn't think you should be alone that night. You pulled me into
your arms and fell instantly asleep." she layed her head on his
shoulder "that was the first time I ever kissed you."

"Oohh! Akane how forward of you!" nibiki said grinning. Both of
them frowned at her "do you mind?!" both of them grumped then smiled
at each other. "Come on you two, bails been posted."


Ranma sat down on the couch with akane and listened to genma
explaining their business to their mother, hoping to impress her
enough so she wouldn't ask about ranmas curse "but what about his
curse! He turns into a girl! I admit he does make amazing use of
it, but how is it manly to understand the aplication of eye shadow
and lip stick?" she asked plantively. Genma saw no recourse, he
pulled his trump card "nodoka! I am ashamed of your close minded
attitude! The woman I married would have understood!" he stood up
and looked at her with rightious anger "you charged me with making
the boy the best. And he is! Every skill I set him he mastered!
He is the best at everything he puts his mind too. How many men do
you know that can utterly convence a room of people shes a woman
with a brief hand movement!? There is no man out there that is a
better actor then our son! He can shift roles as easily as you can
stand up. He's surpassed his father thats for sure! Learning to be
a convencing panda is childs play compared to what ranma has learned
to do with that body. Being a woman is hard when you grew up a man!
But he over came the obstical and today is a private investigator
first class, licensed! Besides that ranmas an acomplished martial
artist far exceeding both tendo and I. He might even be a match
for.... the master."

Nodokas eyes widened at that "your serious?! You think he might be
able to..." she stopped not wanting to invite trouble. He nodded "I
planned for his eventual return. I pray he is dead in that cave but
I doubt it. I trained the boy in everything that I could find, the
curse gives him an edge that will surely be the masters downfall
should he ever darken our door." she nodded thoughtfully "i guess
your right, but its just rather strange, i didn't know you had the
kind of imagination that would think of something like this." she
smiled warmly at him "lets go up stairs dear, i've missed you so
much and theres a lot we should talk abbout in private."