Title: Secrets

By: alasriad

Summary: Raman has to revel a years long secret

Disclaimer: I own no show used in this fic.

Distribution: if you think its good enough take it

Chapter 1

Secrets. In this world there are many kind of secrets. Everyone has secrets; many secrets are merely of the harmless kind, about ourselves, things we've done, that we have no wish to share with others, these only affect us. Yet there are the other kinds of secrets, secrets of a darker nature theses affect not just ourselves but can spread to affect everyone we care about, mother, father, sister, brother, fiancé and so on.

In Nermia, Tokyo Japan, there is one young man sometimes girl that has kept one these secrets from those he cares about. This secret is about to come out in usual Nermian way, the place was Tendo Dojo of Nermia. This event was quite common in Nermia of all things it was a martial arts challenge and so our story begins.

"So Nabiki when exactly did this guy say he's coming to challenge us?" Ranma Soatome asked the mercenary Tendo.

Nabiki rolled her eyes, "I've already told you five times today Soatome, the guy said he'd be here at sunset."

Ranma sighed and leaned against the walls of the dojo and looked around the strange gathering of people, Soun and Genma were playing shogi in a corner of the dojo each with their customary cheating. On the opposite side of the room was the Tendo fiancée Akane fuming that the pervert had been challenged and not her. Strangely enough Ryoga had shown up earlier and instead of attacking Ranma as usual he'd just walked in nodded to Ranma without saying anything and went to stand next to Akane. Everyone had given him a strange look except Ranma who'd just nodded in reply. Ranma's musing was interrupted by a loud knock on the dojo door.

To the watching Nabiki it seemed that both Ranma and Ryoga got a surprised and strangely fearful looks as if they'd sensed something they wished they hadn't. The looks only lasted a second yet when they passed she'd wish they stayed, as the looks that replaced them were the hardest and coldest she'd ever seen either of them wear not even in their rivalry.

The man that came through the dojo door wore a heavy black clock that hid all his features yet did nothing to quiet the powerful presence he put out. The man had just stepped through the door when to the surprise of everyone both Ranma and Ryoga attacked him without warning. Nobody had ever seen either of the two martial artists as focused as they were now. What was also worrying was that both of them had gone in for very obvious death blows. They were all too shocked to do anything to stop them as these were two very different people than they were used to dealing with both had looks of pure rage on their faces as they were obscured from view by a large cloud of debris.

End of Chapter 1