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************** Beginning of time ***************
A vortex opened up in front of the house of Setsuna Meioh, creating a loud bang as the fabric of space and time itself were ripping. Setsuna, in her home, grabbed her head in agony as a onslaught of unpredictable future lines sprang into place. When the throbbing stopped, she heard a soft crying coming from her front yard, and went to investigate. When she opened up the door, she looked down and saw a baby in a basket with a note tied to the basket.
Setsuna *reading* : Dear Setsuna, i know this is rather weird for you to find a baby here of all places, but please bring him up with all the motherly instincts that you can, please do me this one favor, he won't remember anything from before until he is Seventeen. Signed, Setsuna Meioh.
Setsuna looked at the note, then to the baby in shock, not knowing anything about kids. Despite her being over three thousand years old, this is one trial she could not understand. She looked around for any indication of the kids mother, hoping that it was just a prank, but found none. She sighed to herself and looked down at the baby boy in the basket.
Setsuna : Looks like it's just you and me kiddo
She picked up the basket and brought it inside of the house, closing the door behind her. As the door shut with a click, a flash of light was seen in the alley beside her house.
--- 3 years later ---
It was Ranma's birthday today, and there was nothing that could bring him down, he was going to kidingarden today, and getting a party later. It was a good day to be Ranma. He half whistled as he headed toward the gate of the Juuban kidingarden school. As he rounded the gate he saw a little girl coddling a dead bird with interest. The kids around them seemed to circle around her, as she glowed a slight purple, before the bird started flapping and dissappeared into the horizon. The kids around her backed away, afraid that the girl would turn against him.
Boy : You sick twisted girl, you freak!
Girl : Yeah! FREAK!
The crowd dispursed and left the girl crying on the ground. Ranma walked up to her and smiled, giving her his hand and helping her stand up.
Ranma : Hi! My name is Ranma, Ranma Meioh.
Hotaru : I-i'm hotaru
Ranma : Hi Hotaru-chan!
Hotaru blushed slightly as this boy introduced himself and went on talking about how cool that trick that she did was.
Ranma : Was that a martial arts trick?
Hotaru : N-no, i've had this power since i was born.
Ranma : Oh
Hotaru *angered a little* : So you think i'm a freak now too huh?
Ranma *confused* : Why would i think that?
Hotaru : You mean you aren't scared that i have this power? You aren't scared that i'm going to 'eat your liver'?
Ranma : ewww, you like liver?
Hotaru looked at the boy in interest. Either he was really brave and smart, or just curious and stupid. Ranma scratched his head and looked around him, seeing all the kids staring hated glares at him.
Ranma *outloud* : What the heck are you staring at! Your just jealous you aren't talking to a pretty girl!
The boys seemed to go red in the face with anger, and started to burst out comments on how much of a freak the girl was. Hotaru silently started to cry, and Ranma, out of the corner of his eye, noticed. He growled a little bit and ran to the closest boy, kicking him in the shin and then punching him in the face, knocking him to the ground. All the boys around him were shocked at the punch, but easily ganged up on Ranma, punching and kicking him until the bell rang for the first class. Hotaru, now sobbing, ran over to Ranma's prone form and held him.
Hotaru : Why? Why did you do that?
Ranma *coughing up a little blood* : I can't stand seeing girls cry.
Hotaru : Baka, you should be watching out for yourself, not me!
Ranma : If i weren't here to watch out for you, who would?
Hotaru : Papa-san and Momma-san care for me, don't worry about me. PLEASE!
Ranma : Nope, sorry, i can't do that! I care for all women, and something about you and your power seems familiar.
Just then there is a large explosion that destroyed part of the front gate leading to the school, kicking up dirt and dust. Ranma and Hotaru coughed slightly and watched with interest as the smoke cleared. Then Hotaru nearly screamed as she saw a monster walking out of the crater, rage apparent on it's mortified face. It stood up to it's full height, and seemed to be around seven feet tall. It flexed it's muscles, making them tense and untense as they seemed to grow bigger and stronger per second.
Hotaru : W-what is that?
The monster looked over at the two kids and grinned, then flicked his wrist out, making long nail type claws appear. He ran toward the kids intent on killling them slowing and ripping their flesh off. As it raised it's claw to swipe down on Hotaru, Ranma quickly pushed her out of the way, and the monster clawed down on his backside, spilling his blood.
Hotaru *mortified* : RANMA!
As the monster raised it's claw to kill it's victims, however a large blast suprised it and threw him back and embeded him inside the concrete wall. Sailor moon, Sailor Venus, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars and Sailor mercury walked out from a shadow, and over to the two cowering kids.
Mercury : Are you two ok?
Hotaru : I-i am, but Ranma!
Moon : Here, let me see.
Sailor moon knelt down next to Ranma and looked over his body.
Moon : I see nothing wrong with him.
Hotaru nearly crying again, rolled him over, showing two large claw marks slashed deep into his back, blood spilling out from them. All the inners gasped at the site of the blood on the little boy, that is when the outters decided to show up.
Uranus : Sailor moon, ignore the kid and destroy the monster
Moon : How can you be so cold hearted, this boy is going to die if we don't do something!
Neptune : In case you don't realize your highness, he's already dying, he won't last the time to get him to a hospital.
Then Sailor pluto appeared next to the outters and looked around confused at why the monster wasn't destroyed and why they were standing around. Then she noticed a little boy on the ground, dying in the hands of sailor moon. Her blood ran cold as she ran toward the dying kid and turned him over and screamed in horror.
Moon : Pluto! What's wrong!
Sailor Pluto didn't answer, she stood up insanely calm and started toward the monster. She growled under her breath and brought her staff out from thin air, then charged the creature. As she got close the monster grabbed ahold of pluto's staff and drew back it's claws to slash her. Pluto closed her eyes and wondered how she could have been so stupid and believe to defeat a monster in close combat, and waited for her death. The last thought she could think of was, at least she could rest with her son now. She waited for a strike that never came, and when she opened her eyes, she looked around her and saw nothing but air. Then she looked down and noticed she was flying and being held by someone. His arms were strong and he was dashingly handsome, but that wasn't what she noticed. She looked into his eyes and saw concern for her safety.
Pluto : W-who are you?
Ranma : Aww, i'm hurt mother, you don't recognize your son?
Pluto : But he's dying on the ground, let me go, i have to kill that monster!
Ranma smiled and landed next to the inners, placing pluto down before he started to walk toward the monster with a menacing grin on his face, that promised pain. In a blink of an eye, he was in front of the monster and punched him with a one two combo, throwing the monster back into the wall and blowing him through the other side of it. Ranma sneered as he walked through the hole, only to be met with an energy blast that blew him backwards, past where the inners and outters were standing and into the other side of the school yard. All the scouts screamed in concern, looking at the innocent who seemed to have had the advantage, but then got brutally put in his place by a magic attack. When the dust settled, Ranma's powerful form walked out through the hole and continued toward the monster once again.
Ranma : Not bad, you almost hurt me. Now try mine!
Ranma cupped his hands in front of him as he summoned forth his aura, energy filtered into the cupped hands and shimmered into view, becoming vibrantly more powerful as the seconds passed. The monster, sensing the power build up, ran toward Ranma intent on stopping the blast before it could leave his hands. When it got right in front of Ranma, he nearly crapped his pants when he saw the smirk and his lips moving in a voiceless taunt.
Ranma : Too late.
Ranma pushed his aura forward in a tremendous burst of power, blowing the monster into pieces. The girls present nearly lost their lunch as pieces of the monster landed around them. Ranma walked toward the sailors and smiled a friendly smile.
Uranus : World shaking!
Ranma looked at the girl and shook his head as a weak magic blast came from her, Ranma just stood there and let it hit him. Once it made contact the area around him became a crater as the blast ripped up the land and parts of Ranma's clothing.
Ranma : Are you done yet?
Uranus was speechless, he had just taken one of her most powerful World shakings she has ever created, in stride! She powered up again, but was stopped when pluto stepped in front of her.
Pluto : You will not hurt my son!
All the scouts became suprised, and it was obvious by the looks on their face, seeing how they were the size of tea cups at the moment. Ranma snickered to himself and then grabbed his head in pain, his body feeling as though he was on fire.
Ranma : Ah, shit!
Ranma's image slowly dimmed out of sight, leaving nothing to indicate that he was even there, except for the mass destruction of the school yard. At that moment the younger Ranma came around, and shook his head.
Ranma : Where am i?
Hotaru : Ranma!
Hotaru lached onto Ranma's figure and started to cry, sobbing into Ranma's chinese tunic. Ranma, not knowing what was going on, returned the hug and smiled, then wiped her tears out of her eyes.
Ranma : Hey hotaru-chan, why are you crying?
Hotaru didn't say anything as she got up and looked at his back and at the non existant slashes in his back side.
Moon : What the heck? How did that happen?
Pluto kept quiet as she stared at where the slashes were supposed to be, before she got ahold of herself and ran over to Ranma, and cradled him in her arms protectivelly.
Pluto : Ranma, I don't want you ever to do that again!
Ranma stared at her defiantly and then softened, before returning the hug and whispering into her ear.
Ranma : If i didn't, Hotaru would be dead.
Pluto : What would happen to me if you died?
Ranma : Me? Die?
Ranma laughed out loud at the humor that wasn't shared among the group of people. They all looked at Ranma with a shocked look on their faces.
Ranma : Mother, do you really believe i can die? I've tried, trust me i have tried. Not even Saffron the pheonix god could kill me. I have too much power.
Ranma looked downcast at his hands and wiped away tears that he wouldn't shed. Ranma growled to himself and muttered.
Ranma : Men don't cry.
Pluto then picked up Ranma and teleported them back to her apartment in the middle of Juuban, leaving a group of confused Sailor scouts and a blood covered Hotaru.
Hotaru : What just happened here?
She looked the sailor scouts but found no answers, seeing how they were all confused.
--- Setsuna's apartment ---
In a flash, Ranma and Setsuna appeared in the middle of the room and Ranma sat on the sofa, before looking to his 'mother'
Ranma : So what do you wanna know?
Pluto detransformed and sat next to Ranma, putting her arms around him in a protective manner, holding him against her as if reassuring herself that he was there.
Setsuna : What do you mean you can't die?
Ranma : It's simple, and yet it's complicating.
Setsuna : Try me, you'll find i've been through a lot.
Ranma : well, ever since i fell in the jusenkyo springs in the last dimension i was in. The girl side of my curse was a god, seemingly from the past, where he reincarnation was from the silver millenium.
Setsuna : What! Why wasn't i told of this?
Ranma held up his hand silenced her.
Ranma : Because, it wasn't necessary. When was the last Youma attack before today?
Setsuna : Mistress 9, about a year ago. Why?
Ranma : Doesn't that tell you, why i wouldn't tell you?
Setsuna : not really, your my son and if your from the Silver millenium then i should've known about it!
Ranma *shaking his head* : Your not listening to me. My CURSE was from the silver millenium, not me. I inherited her god like powers and her past memories. In fact i remember what you wore to the queen's ball before the attack on the kingdom.
Setsuna was speechless, in the past hour she had found out that her 'son' was actually a god, and his cursed form was from the silver millenium, and even more confusing, is that he doesn't believe in death!
Setsuna : But, that doesn't explain how you got your god powers from your cursed form.
Ranma : That's the confusing part. I'm not quite sure myself, you see, when i saved Akane from Saffron by using the Hiryu shoten ha revised technique, the water in the dragon's spring ended up transfering the powers of my cursed form over to me, as well as changing Akane back to her real form.
Setsuna nodded her head and followed Ranma's every word as he told her the tale of his past life and then nodded again as he finished his story. The only thing she could say was.
Setsuna : Oh.
Ranma : Yes, i know, it's too confusing to really grasp at the moment, and to tell the truth. I'm not sure i'm a god in this life.
Setsuna : Well, what was that thing that attacked you then? Do you know?
Ranma : Nope, don't have a clue. I do know that it didn't have a Ki signature, so it was from the magical based realms.
Setsuna : Actually that helps quite a bit, seeing how there is only a select few of evil from the magic realm.
Ranma : Oh, so what's for dinner?
Setsuna facefaulted at her sons hunger in the time that he had almost died. Well not almost, or did he. Setsuna grabbed her forehead as she tried to contemplate all that Ranma had told her in the past two hours and then looked up at Ranma.
Setsuna : Ranma, be a dear and get me the asprine.
Ranma : If you get a headache, imagine me. How did i get here, who am i really, why was i sent here, Why am i young, Why did i have control of my full grown body when this one was unconcious, and What is for dinner.
Setsuna growled and slapped Ranma in the back of the head as the last of the questions hit home in her mind. Ranma grinned and then got up, proceeding to the shower to change and take a shower after the long and bloody fight.
Setsuna *thinking* : So, Ranma is a god. That is why the time stream is so messed up, and that is why all the futures play around his aura. Hmm, this could prove quite interesting. Hey!
Setsuna got up and went into the bathroom and looked at the naked Ranma as he stripped down, his back to her.
Setsuna : So why do you have one of the scars and not the other?
Ranma nearly jumped out of his skin, as he didn't hear her come up behind him, and grabbed a towel throwing it around him and lowered a glare at his mother.
Ranma : I'll have you know, this is a old scar from the other dimension.
Setsuna : How come you know all this anyways, if i remember correctly, the note said you wouldn't remember anything until you were Seventeen.
Ranma : If i'm correct in my thinking, then i believe it was when the monster attacked Hotaru and I. Also when my other body became mobile, everything flooded back into place. Everything except how i got here.
Setsuna : well i found you on the ground in front of my apartment, with a note attached to your basket, from me.
Ranma : From you?
Setsuna : Yeah. Anyways, back to the question, how come only one scar is there.
Ranma : This scar was from, one of the sailor scouts named Saturn. Her glaive accidently dropped from her hand when she was trying to hug me, and it sliced down my back. I don't know why it's still there and none of my other ones are.
Setsuna *deathly scared* : It came from Saturn?
Ranma : Yup!
Setsuna : Shit, she's known as the senshi of death. Her glaive has a very powerful poison on it Ranma.
Ranma : oh, well it's obvious that is doesn't work on me.
Setsuna : Either your memories were altered when you met Hotaru, the future Saturn, or she has branded you her protector. The latter would make more sense.
Ranma opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out despite what he tried to say.
Setsuna : As i thought, but shower up and come to the table and i will make some Sukiyaki.
Ranma grinned ear to ear and jumped into the furo, scrubbing furiously. Setsuna shook her head and walked out the door, once it was shut she allowed herself to smile.
Setsuna : I love you Ranma.
--- Next day ---
Setsuna woke up earlier than normal and looked out the window, and saw Ranma dancing in the wind of the morning. His punches and kicks sliced the air without hesitation, as if the air was bending to his will and allowing him to use it's current. Ranma then dropped to his knee and grabbed his chest and started to breath heavily.
Setsuna : RANMA!
Setsuna ran out to Ranma and caught him just as he was about to pass out, and
she picked him up, dragging him into the house and calling an ambulance.
Setsuna : please hang in there Ranma.
--- four hours later in a hospital ---
Doctor : Ms. Meioh?
Setsuna : Hai, that's me.
Doctor : Ms Meioh, there's something we need to discuss and i will be rather blunt in my accusations.
Setsuna : Yes? Is Ranma ok?
Doctor : At the moment, yes he is fine. Howerver, have you or will you ever poison your son?
Setsuna grew red in the face as she got angered beyond even what she thought was possible.
Setsuna *screaming* : Why the hell would i poison my son!
Doctor : We found traces of a rather unique strand of poison. More rather than dark spots in your sons blood stream. We don't know what it is, but whatever it is, he won't last long without treatment for it. As we speak he has lost movement in his legs.
Setsuna : So what the fuck are you out here for, get in there and help him!
Doctor : I'm afraid it's not that easy Ma'am. Since it's such a unique brand of poison, there is no treatment for it, and therfore deamed uncurable.
Setsuna wailed out at the unfairness of it all, as she raced past the doctor and breezed past security and into Ranma's room. Then stopped short as she saw him hooked up to a breathing machine and unconcious. The doctor came up behind Setsuna and put his hand on her shoulder.
Setsuna : Will he die?
Doctor : Eventually, but not for around ten or eleven years. Tops.
Setsuna *quietly* : When can i take him home?
Doctor : He can leave anytime you want.
Setsuna nodded and walked over, picking Ranma up in her arms and walked silently out to the cab that she had wait for them. They then drove back quietly to the apartment, paid off the driver and she carried Ranma into the room. She sighed at his figure and laid him on the couch that was against the wall.
Setsuna : With all my powers of three thousand years, and i can't help him.
Setsuna laid her head on his chest and started to crying, and eventually crying herself to sleep on his tear stained shirt, listening to the soft beating of his heart.
--- 3 A.M the next morning ---
Ranma woke up to Setsuna laying on chest and smiled to himself, picking her up lightly he laid her on the couch and covered her with a blanket that he found laying on the side. Ranma smiled again as he looked down at her sleeping figure and then turned and walked out of the apartment, taking his keys with him.
Ranma *thinking* : Man, when did it get so dark, i must've used a lot of Ki to be passed out for this long.
Ranma walked through the desilate streets of juuban and whistled to himself, feeling at ease in the peaculness of night, and feeling in his element. Ranma looked up as he walked down the street and stared at the stars. A girl across the street looked at Ranma as he walked, seemingly in another world as he stared at the sky. She smiled to her friends and motioned for them to follow her as she crossed the street and walked up behind the boy.
Minako : HI!
Ranma backflipped over the group and got into a ready stance as the girls stared at him wide eyed. Ranma then relaxed as he recognized them.
Ranma : Oh, hi there Minako. Who are your friends?
Minako : This is Rei, Usagi, and Makoto. How come you are out so late?
Ranma : Ah, i fell asleep a long time ago, and just woke up, so i decided to take a stroll.
Rei : You know this is a bad part of town little boy.
Usagi : Yeah, some mean men might try to kidnap you
Minako and Ranma snickered a little bit, then laughed out loud at the abscurity of it all.
Makoto : What's so funny about that?
Ranma : I'm the best.
Usagi : Best?
Minako : You guys have never seen martial arts, until you've seen Ranma fight.
Ranma : Speaking of which, seems i might have the chance to show them.
Rei : huh?
Thug : Hey ladies, care to dance with a real man?
Makoto : Ugh, i hate conceded weirdos.
Thug : Hey bitch, did i ask for your shit?!
Ranma : leave now and i won't hurt you...... too badly.
Thug *laughing* : What can a kid like you do to me, i can bench two hundred easily.
The thug laughed at Ranma, that is, until Ranma dashed forward at speeds a human shouldn't have and was in his face. Ranma grinned before spinning and slamming his heel into the thugs jaw, sending his spiralling into a lightpost and knocking him into unconciousness.
Minako : That is why he is the best. Although he still gets hurt. Remember two days ago Ranma?
Ranma : Huh? You weren't there were you?
Rei elbowed Minako and whispered to her.
Rei : You were sailor Venus remember?
Ranma : Wow, you guys are the sailor scouts?
Before the girls could answer Ranma gripped onto his chest again and collapsed to the ground in pure agony. His body writhed on the ground as pain entered throughout his body. Then as quick as it started, it had stopped and Ranma's body dissolved into thin air.
To be continued.............
Lol, i know it just got confusing, but please deal with it for right now, until i figure out where i'm taking this story, and i was just in the mood to write today. So don't expect a update out tomorrow as well :). Ja.
