Declaimers: I own nothing so DON'T sue. The Inu-yasha characters and Ranma characters
belong to Takahashi Rumiko. And NO I am NOT making any money out of this!

Notes:

This is an AU story line of Ranma ½ crossover with Inuyasha. Beware of my rotten
spelling and grammar ^_^;;

Massive characters OOC! Change of story line! This is an AU story people!

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For readers out there who didn't like what I did with Akane in this story. Read this!
Talk to my hand! (Blew anyone who was angry about my Akane-bashing story an extra large
raspberry.) I don't like Akane. Period. End of discussion.

I told you guys that I don't like her and love to bash her! Read my notes people!

Dear reader:

I don't like AKANE! I don't like her one bite! If you have a problem with that DO NOT read this story!

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Care to dance?

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Book one:

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Awaken the Inu

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Part 5

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Kasumi hummed as she worked her way through breakfast. Ranma-sama didn't come
back to the dojo last night but she had that feeling that he will show up for
breakfast and she'll make sure the breakfast she made will fit his taste.

" I wonder where Ranma-sama stay last night…" She quietly asked to no one particular
since she was the only in the household who usually get up this early in the morning.

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Akane gleefully rubbed her hands together as she spotted that freak-of-nature-who
-invaded-her-home came through the front door with another cloaked figure followed
closely behind him.

That freak didn't seem to realise that she was here hiding in the shadowed corner
of the living room. She smirked as she took out the ancient exorcise crossbow that
had been pass down the Tendo family for many generations.

(This crossbow was suppose to able to purify any evil being and destroy them)

The crossbow though ancient but still workable was loaded with short steel arrows.
It could shot rapidly up to fifteen arrows in a row before it needed to be reloaded again.

Akane remembered that her mother used to told her stories about how the Tendo women
were brave demon huntresses back in the Feudal Era hundreds of years ago and how the small
Akane dreamed to become the renowned heroine just like her ancestors.

And now her long time dream is going to come true as the demon boy stepped in to the Tendo
Dojo and this crossbow was perfect for the evil exorcise she was going to do.

That foul demon will be destroy by the hands of Akane Tendo the Heir of the Tendo Anything
Goes Martial Art school and the most powerful martial artist in Nerima!

(And somewhere in the back of her delusional mind whispered the most beautiful martial
artist in Nerima as well, which she agreed full heartily.)

Akane sneered as she aimed the crossbow at the youkai-changing boy who dares to call
her uncute tomboy the day earlier.

" Go to hell Ranma Saotome." Akane spat the name out like venom as she pulled the trigger-

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Nabiki yawned sleepily as the shouting which sound strangely like her younger sister
awaked her from her slumber. The sound was coming from outside of her window.

What's going on? She lazily got off bed and pulled the curtain aside and peeked outside.
The sight greeted her eye make her jumped and wide awaked as she grab her sweater and
rushed out of her room. What was that brat thinking!?

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Herb narrowed her eyes dangerously as she aimed her chi blast at the strange girl who
dares to attack her husband infront of her. When Ranma ready to leave in the morning
she had insisted to come with him just to make sure that fat panda didn't try anything
dumb.

And this Japanese girl was hiding in the corner she had sensed the girl's presence
when she put her foot through the front door. And to think this stupid girl actually
think she could ambush her husband in her presence was laughable.

Herb let out a sadistic grin as she plan to take out all her frustration on this
pathetic female.

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"STOP! PLEASE STOP!" Nabiki stormed down the stair and ran across the garden as she
tried to prey the iron grip that was placed on her little sister's throat by the
shorter cloaked figure.

"Can't…breathe…" Akane's face was turning a nice shade of blue as the cloaked figure
was cutting off her air supply.

"Please stop this! You're killing her! Please stop!" Nabiki was worried as Akane's
face twisted into something real nasty looking as the stranger didn't show any sign
of letting go of the spoil princess of Nerima.

She turned as she spotted Ranma sitting on the hallway cross-legged and didn't seem
to care if the shorter cloaked figure killed her sister at all.

"RANMA DO SOMETHING!" Ranma let out a cold chuckle as he stood up and wrap his arms
around the shorter stranger.

"My dear there was no need to finish off someone pathetic as her…come I want you to
meet someone…" Nabiki was having a hard time trying not to blush. Ranma was practically
purring and it sound damn sexy for his own good. Her sister momentarily forgotten as
the Ice Queen of Furinkan High seemed too lost in the silken voice of the youkai-changing
Saotome.

"Hn." Herb finally let go of the stupid female and Akane was dropped to the ground so
very un-lady like style.

"Ignore them my dear we got no business to do with these two." Ranma leaded his wife
into the living room leaving still frozen Ice Queen and her younger sister who was
coughing her lungs out at the entrance of the dojo.

"Oh my! Ranma-sama you're back please come in breakfast was ready." Kasumi smiled
brightly as she watched her lord take off his cloak and sat by the table and her
gaze curiously turned toward the other cloaked figure that had followed her master
back to the dojo this morning.

"Herb, this is Kasumi, the eldest daughter of The Tendo family. Kasumi, this is Herb, my
wife."

Herb who had also took off her cloak sat by her husband's side nodded at the gentle young
woman that her husband wants her to meet.

"Oh my! That's why you didn't accept the engagement that our father arranged." Kasumi
looked surprised as she stared at the foreign beauty who was her master's wife.

The girl looked as if she was around the same age as her younger sisters but unlike
Akane who always show an aura of smugness or Nabiki who was always sharp and business
like the girl before her had an air of superiority just like her Ranma-sama.

Both of them were cold, composed, indifference and move with a natural grace and elegant
that couldn't be faked.

So this was her master's lady. Kasumi bowed down and greet the girl who had married to her
lord.

"Herb-sama I'm Kasumi Tendo I'm honoured to meet you today." Herb looked at her husband questionably.
Ranma nodded at her silent question, he had accepted Kasumi into his pack and the girl seems pretty
willing to join.

"I'm Herb of the Musk Dynasty. With your oath of sworn loyalty the Musk will be your ally from now on."

Kasumi looked into the princess' eyes as Herb took in the firm honesty of the eldest daughter
of the Tendo family.

"I, Kasumi Tendo will serve my Lord till the moment I die and I'll never betray Ranma-sama or the Musk Dynasty."

Herb nodded at the older girl as she leaned against her husband.

"Welcome to the family Kasumi." Ranma who was watching the whole exchange through amused
eyes smiled slightly as he noticed his wife was checking Kasumi's aura. The older girl had
potentials that had been greatly ignored due to her lack of training.

Herb nodded as she too realised that Kasumi could become a formidable fighter if she
was train properly in her early age but it didn't matter. It was still not too late to
train her in the art and both her and her husband will take over Kasumi's training from now on.

Ranma and Herb glanced at each other and nodded.

No pack mate of theirs will be defendless.


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Kodachi Kuno put down the tray of dinner on the night stand and glared at her older brother
who was lying on the bed in his room due to the bad case of shock he had received from school yesterday.

"Brother dearest your dinner is ready." Tatewaki Kuno glared back at his sister with equal fierceness.

No one in their right mind would eat anything Kodachi had come in contact with. He's not THAT stupid.

"Thank you sister but I'm not hungry at the moment you could leave the dinner here I'll eat them later."

Kodachi shrugged she could careless if her brother eat the food or not and she knew that her brother
dearest wouldn't eat anything she had touched and he had learn the lesson the hard way.

"So…I heard that bimbo Tendo had a fiancé?" Kodachi smirked as Tatewaki shout out in denial.

"Oh my poor beautiful maiden got enslaved by that monstrous Saotome! And sister dearest,
my fierce tigress was not a bimbo~" Kodachi waved her hand as if she would care about that good for nothing Tendo girl.

"Yeah, yeah what ever you say brother dear-" Then Kodachi snapped her head around as what her brother
just said register in her mind. She reached out and grabbed Tatewaki's collar and pulled him threateningly close.

"Did you just say Saotome?" The self proclaimed Blue Thunder of Furinkan High School was sweating
bullets. He was honestly scared, the last time his sister acted like this both he and their crazy
father had been send to the hospital and stay there for almost three months due to their massive injuries.

Tatewaki Kuno nodded his head furiously and spoke in a very small voice.

"Yes." Kodachi threw her frightened sibling back to his bed and left his room with out looking
back. She quickly went back to her room and sent an email message through her laptop.

Couple of minutes later a reply was send back to her. She read through the message and deleted it.

Kodachi shut off her laptop and took out her phone book from her drawer. She flipped through the pages
and finally found the number she was looking for and dial the number.

"Hello… Can I speak to Nodoka Saotome please?"

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Some where in Tendo Dojo Genma shivered suddenly as a cold wind blew behind his neck…

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TBC

I'm so sorry it took me this long to update~ I'm sorry~_~

And it will take me about sometime before I could update again...

*Shuo Ri ran away as some(you know who you are) readers chasing the little chibi Shuo
with varity of deadly weapons*