Ranma and his twin sister Sakura, share in the curse that befalls Ranma and his father. The relationship between siblings is tested as Ranma and Sakura learn more about each other despite being twins. Can the schools be united under one banner when the Saotome's are in the equation?
I do not own Ranma ½, this is the sole property of Rumiko Takahashi
Reviews would be greatly appreciated since they'll give me ideas of how to proceed with the story. I am trying to make this different, yet funny. I have read too many where the characters are at each other's throats. This is just a different point of view.
The Saotome Twins by Jusenkyo (Manny Miller)
Chapter One: Sibling Rivalry?
"I thought you and pop were the ones that got cursed, why does this have to happen to me as well?" Sakura asked. "I never fell into the freaking cursed spring!"
Ranma watched as his sister fumed at the recent turn of events that caused the Saotome family's current problem. "I have no idea, but somehow this is affecting you as well sis." Sakura grew more and more pissed with each passing moment. Ranma tried his best to comfort his sister and as usual, he failed miserably. "I guess it's because we're twins and share everything."
"Brother dear…" began Sakura, "I can understand you and I sharing everything, but don't you think this is a bit much sharing the same curse, when I didn't even fall into the water, like you two idiots did!"
"I don't understand how the heck this is possible.", Sakura yelled to no one in particular.
The twins were lost in their thoughts as they walked through the town of Nerima in Tokyo, Japan. "This is going to take some getting used to."
Looking around they both noticed their father was missing and asked each other. "Where's pop?" They both laughed at their simultaneous question.
Ranma recovered first. "I have no idea sis; he was right behind us when we entered the city a few minutes ago."
They both heard gasps and screams coming from the area in the center of the city where the zoo was located. They both bounded over the buildings jumping as quickly as they could. In the distance, they could see the people that were making gasping and screaming sounds.
They also saw a giant Panda wearing glasses hanging from his ear reaching into the panda exhibit grabbing a couple of stalks of bamboo that was laying within the enclosure.
"This is no time for a snack, we have to be at the Tendo's before sundown," thought Ranma, as he watched his father helping himself to another panda's food. Ranma didn't notice but Sakura nodded her head as he finished his thought.
"What are we going to do with him?", Ranma asked himself as he shook his head. "This is what we're going to do about it.", mentioned Sakura as she vaulted the fence and kicked their father from the enclosure and back onto the sidewalk. "Hey, what did you do that for?", read the sign the panda held.
"You need to be more considerate of the food of others father dear.", chided Sakura when she landed outside of the enclosure next to their father. Ranma watched this exchange and wondered how Sakura knew what he was thinking. He distinctly remembered that he had not spoken out loud just a few seconds ago.
As he thought this, he noticed Sakura was looking at him and smiling. "I wonder if she heard that as well?", he watched as Sakura straightened her shirt with her head cocked in his direction.
I guess that will be something I will have to ask her about when I get a chance. Whenever that will be since we are going to have to explain this situation to the Tendo's when we get there.
"I have no idea why we're going there in the first place.", Ranma thought as they walked along from the zoo to the outskirts of the town where the Tendo's dojo was located. As they traveled, Ranma was watching Sakura, he wanted to know if he was right in believing that she could read his mind. So far, he did not see any outward signs that she either read his mind or heard him when he had been speaking.
Unbeknownst to Ranma, Sakura heard every word he not only spoke but thought of. Since Ranma and Genma had been cursed in Jusenkyo, she now could hear Ranma's thoughts as well as share his curse. Which she still found to be a mystery since she had no idea how or even why she was affected.
********** FLASHBACK TO JUSENKYO **********
Mt. Quanjing,
Bayankala Range,
Qinghai Province, China
"Here Lady and gentleman is the Legendary training ground of Accursed Springs.", plainly stated the guide. "This training ground is dangerous, no one use anymore", he proclaimed.
"Are you two ready?", Genma asked as he jumped onto one of the bamboo poles jutting out from the nearest spring. "I'm always ready old man!" Ranma yelled jumping on one of the other poles jutting out from the same spring.
"Lady, please talk to the gentleman this is a very bad idea.", pleaded the guide as Ranma and Genma sparred above them. "You do realize talking to them at this moment is like talking to a cinder block?", Sakura related to the guide as they both watched Genma falling into the spring. A few seconds later a giant panda with glasses hanging from one of its ears jumped onto the pole recently occupied by Genma.
"What the hell is that!" Ranma yelled and Sakura blanched. "Is a tragic story of a panda that drowned in this spring over 200 years ago." "Now anyone who falls into spring turns into a panda.", finished the guide.
"You never said anything about that happening." Sakura watched as Ranma was talking to the guide, the panda threw a thrust kick that knocked Ranma off the pole and into a nearby spring.
Sakura had no idea what had happened. The other thing she noticed was that she was on the floor and her head was hurting. She looked around and saw that her brother was in the water and when he had surfaced his hair was red. At the same time, she also noticed that her underwear felt tight as she sat up from the floor where she was laying down. As she reached for her pants, she noticed that she had a bulge in her pants that was not there earlier.
Hearing a scream, she turned her head and looked at her brother in the spring. She saw her "brother" was now a redhead and was sporting an ample pair of breasts that rivaled hers. Instinctively she looked down to compare and noticed hers' were gone and her chest was flat yet muscular.
What the hell is going on here? Sakura wondered as Ranma was looking at his chest and wondering what the heck had happened. A moment later he heard a scream coming from Sakura. He saw her sitting on the floor nearby and he also noticed she was also looking at her chest. Ranma noticed she did not seem to have any breasts.
"You fell into Spring of Drowned Girl, she drowned in spring over 1500 years ago. Now you take on the form of a young girl." Mentioned the guide holding up a sign.
"Son of a bitch, what the hell happened to me?" thought Ranma as he looked himself over and then to his sister. "I'll tell you what the hell happened, you and dad are freaking idiots!", yelled Sakura as she ran her hands over herself/himself. "You can't read Chinese and now it seems you and I have switched bodies." "This can't possibly get any worse!"
Sakura woke a few seconds later with another splitting headache. She noticed as she came to that Genma was standing over her holding a sign that asked, "Why did you hit me into the spring!", Sakura was instantly angry, she then yelled back. "He kicked you into the spring, not me you idiot!", as she pointed to Ranma, as he exited the spring.
The panda looked from one to the other and back again. The next moment he is holding a sign with nothing but question marks on it. Sakura massaged her head then walked over to Ranma and stood next to him. "He's Ranma, I'm Sakura," indicating her brother/sister and then herself/himself. The panda does a double take a few times before his eyes rolled in the back of his head and he passed out.
"Why does my head hurt so much?", asked Sakura. "Well, dad just hit you on the head with his sign.", Ranma mentioned. "I meant before then, dumbass.", retorted Sakura smacking him upside the head. "I have no idea, but I'm just glad he got you instead of me.", chuckled Ranma. "You are so lucky I don't just kick your ass right now, for that.", thought Sakura. Ranma was walking away as he was laughing. "On second thought", Sakura runs up to Ranma and kicks him in the groin and is astonished when she barely doubles over. As she thinks about what just happened. Ranma kicks him back. Sakura instantly hits the floor and clutches her new "nuts" as she experiences a pain in her abdomen she had never felt before in her life.
"Hurts like hell doesn't it, I bet you won't do that again.", Ranma pointedly told Sakura. "Holy shit, that fucking hurts. I'll never kick him there again, now that I know how painful this is.", pondered Sakura. "That shit is painful. That felt like they were going to come out of my mouth. I'll never do that again, son of a bitch that hurt.", whispered Sakura as the pain subsided, and she was able to sit up again.
"Ok bro, you and I now have an understanding, I'll never hit you there again." Ranma watched Sakura saying this with tears in her eyes, as she was still holding herself.
********** END FLASHBACK **********
Soun Tendo shed tears of joy as he read the postcard, he had just received from his old friend Genma Saotome. "Hi. Bringing Ranma and Sakura from China. Saotome"
"Ranma, and Sakura coming here? Oh, how I've waited for this day!" Soun remarked clutching the postcard to his chest as his tears of joy continued rolling/gushing down his face.
"Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane please come to the Washitsu." He called out.
"Yes Daddy," Kasumi called from the kitchen. Nabiki barely heard him since she was on her bed listening to some music. "I wonder what he need now?" wondered Nabiki as she continued sucking on her lollipop. "Has anyone seen Akane?" Soun asked as he ran from room to room looking for his youngest daughter.
A few moments later Akane Tendo, youngest daughter of Soun Tendo had just finished her morning run and entered the house. "Hi, I'm home" she shouted in a singsong fashion, she stripped out of her clothes. In a flash, she was out of her running clothes and into her Gi and went into the dojo and started her workout in the martial arts.
Nabiki watched as her sister, placed a cinder block on a couple of boards, and commenced to smash it to smithereens. "There you go again Akane." Nabiki sighed. "No wonder the boys all think you're so weird."
Akane fumed as she placed another block on the stand and prepared to smash it. "So, why should I care?" Akane started rearing back with her hand. "Not everybody thinks the world revolves around boys, Nabiki." She punctuated by smashing the block into even smaller pieces than the previous one.
"No, then I guess this shouldn't interest you all," Nabiki mentioned as she turned and walked away from the dojo. Akane was puzzled. "What did she mean by that?" She quickly cleaned up the dojo and left to meet in the Washitsu.
"Daddy, what do you mean by fiancé?" Kasumi wondered. "Don't we have a say in who we can marry?" yelled Akane. "She's right daddy, we've never even met him." Included Nabiki.
'Well, that's easily fixed, they just crossed over from China and will be here soon." Mentioned Soun, holding up the postcard for all to see. "Who are they, exactly?" inquired Nabiki as she finished her lollipop.
As he danced around the room Soun continued, "My good friend Genma, his son and daughter. Their names are Ranma and Sakura." The girls thought about this a few moments as they watched their father dancing as if he had just lost his mind.
********** ANOTHER PART OF NERIMA **********
In another part of Nerima, just a few blocks from the Tendo house, two teens were being chased by a giant panda. "I've already told you old man, I'm going back to China and get this fixed!", Ranma yelled as he dodged his father, the panda, as he swiped at him and Sakura.
Sakura jumped to the side and watched as her father and brother were running all over the place in the street. "I wish these two would get a grip and talk this out." Sighed Sakura, as she looked down at her boyish body and thought about how much she agreed with Ranma that they do need a cure for this problem they were all having.
"Who knows maybe the Tendo's will have an idea of how to fix this since our idiot father doesn't have a freaking clue." Sakura's head snapped up when she heard the sound of metal on concrete.
She walked over and saw her father holding a sign that said, "Let's go!" She noticed the panda was carrying Ranma over his shoulder. She also saw the knot on his head. "Oh boy, this is going to be interesting."
Unfortunately, Ranma did not think anything before he was knocked out. Oh well, she'll talk with him when he comes to.
********** TENDO HOUSE, NERIMA **********
"Daddy, you mentioned they just arrived from China. Why were they in China?" Kasumi asked as she folded up her dish towel. "They were on a training mission they had just finished and are on their way here."
"What do you know about them, since you just said one of us is going to be engaged to Ranma?" Nabiki asked. "I have never met them." Akane fumed, and Nabiki faceplanted. "You can't be serious you want one of us to marry Ranma and you have never seen or met him." Soun smiled as he looked at the ceiling.
There was a strong knock at the door. Soun took the time to quickly get out of the room. Nabiki still wondering if her father had been hitting the Sake again, followed him to the front door.
"I hope he's older" Kasumi pondered. "How depressing, a boy, at least there's a girl," Akane stated as she stood to welcome their guests.
"Saotome, my friend we've been waiting!" Soun exclaimed as he ran to the door. A few moments later, both Nabiki and Soun were seen running back into the Washitsu. Behind them, a teenaged boy and a panda carrying a girl walked down the hallway.
"Daddy, this is your friend?" asked Akane. Soun emphatically shook his head. "Oh, so this Panda just decided to visit! This must happen all of the time!" screamed Nabiki as she hid behind her father.
The girls watched as the Panda stopped before the family and placed the teen, he had been carrying in front of them. "You wouldn't be?" Soun asked as he pointed to the teens. "We're Ranma and Sakura Saotome, sorry about this."
Without thinking he walks over to the male teen and hugs him close. Sakura freezes and doesn't move a muscle as she feels him hugging her. "He thinks you're me." Ranma thought as he snickered.
Sakura turned her head and faced her brother/sister and gave him the meanest look she could muster despite being hugged by Soun. She mouthed to Ranma, "I am so going to kick your ass when he lets go of me." Ranma quickly backpedaled as he lets her go but still held her shoulders.
"Dad, you're scaring the crap out of them, let them come in and get comfortable before you glomp onto them." Reprimanded Kasumi, as she steps between Sakura and her father.
As she watched her sister, Akane walked up to the female teen "Do you want to be friends?" Ranma not having too many friends besides his sister shook his head yes. "Come on to the dojo, we can practice a little." Akane reached forward and took Ranma's hand and led him to the dojo.
Kasumi having separated Sakura from her father, let him know that he should go to the dojo as well, while the rest of them get settled in before dinner would be ready.
Sakura walked in the same direction she had seen Ranma and Akane. Before entry, she bowed to the shrine just in front of the entrance.
She then walked in and saw Ranma and Akane sparring. Well not sparring, she saw Ranma dodging and weaving around Akane's punches and kicks not touching him. "Is she reading my moves? How come I can't hit her?" exclaimed Akane redoubling her efforts. A few moments later she realized that even then she still could not hit her.
Sakura watched as Akane lunged forward and punched through the wall of the dojo. She also saw her brother leap over her, touch the wall and land on the other side of her and touch her head.
"Now he's going to get it." Thought Sakura, but to her surprise, she saw that Akane was laughing. "Cool, she's laughing, I thought I was going to get hit for sure.", laughed Ranma looking from Akane to Sakura. He watched as Sakura nodded her head and then laughed herself.
"Good thing you aren't a boy like your brother, I can't stand losing to a boy," Akane mentioned scowling at Sakura. Ranma winced as he put his hand behind his head "Yeah, good thing huh?" Sakura raised an eyebrow at Ranma, which he failed to see since he was taking a deep breath and looking at the ceiling.
"Boy, have you got your signals crossed missy, you just lost to a boy, and you don't even know it," thought Sakura. Sakura watched as Akane walked to the side of the dojo and grabbed a towel and handed one to Ranma. He gladly accepted it and dabbed at his still wet hair and clothes.
Nabiki checking on dinner walked past the washitsu and noticed a man in a beat-up Gi sitting and talking with her father. "Who is the man, talking to dad?" she asked Kasumi. "I have no idea, I guess it's a friend of his." Stated Kasumi as she was stirring a pot of noodles. Nabiki watched as Kasumi walked out of the kitchen and walked to the dojo and watched as Akane was giving the towel to Ranma.
"You must be sweaty from your workout, go and have a bath." Smiled Kasumi and Akane. "I'll be up there in a few minutes myself."
Sakura watched as Ranma walked out of the dojo and into the house. She passed Akane and could feel the sense of loathing coming from her as she walked past. "I need to take a bath myself and also talk with Ranma," thought Sakura.
As she made her way into the house, she passed the Washitsu and noticed her father talking to Mr. Tendo. She then continued and saw Ranma going up the stairs and then turning and entering the furo. She walked inside and saw him taking off his shirt. She had seen him many times since their unfortunate "accident", but it still surprised her how well-endowed her brother was compared to her.
"You seem upset about something," asked Sakura. Ranma just shrugged his shoulders and continued to undress. Sakura whipped off her shirt and took off her pants. Ranma was a girl wearing boxer shorts, Sakura was a guy also wearing boxers since that first day she changed was very painful.
She noticed they were loose and did not fit her well. "Is there any way to tighten these things up so they're not so loose-fitting on me?" Ranma pointed to the bag he had brought when he had come to the furo. He then sat on the stool and proceed to soap himself up.
Sakura walked over to the bag and saw that Ranma kept an adjustable belt in there. "Is this an extra one, Ranma?" Ranma nodded his head and thought "Yes, it is, I keep one handy just in case the clothes seem loose on me as well." "Cool, thanks bro." smiled Sakura. "No problem," thought Ranma.
Once she placed the belt with the rest of her clothes, she walked over and took the soap from him she started to do his back and watched him as she worked.
"What the hell am I going to do? She going to find out sooner or later, and then she's going to be angry." Thought Ranma. Sakura just listened as Ranma's entered her head just as loudly as if he had spoken the words. "You know there's no way around this, we're going to have to tell her." Added Sakura. Ranma shook his head slowly and turned slightly towards his sister. "You do realize that all hell's about to break loose when they find out?" "Yes, I am also expecting the same thing." Added Sakura.
When she finished his back, she filled a nearby bucket and poured the cold water over his head. "Woah, that is cold." Shivered Ranma as he shook out his hair spraying Sakura. "Think about it this way, you can get me back when you do me."
Ranma nodded and stood and watched as Sakura in her male form sat on the stool and lathered herself up. He waited until she was done and then scrubbed her back and filled the bucket with water again. Before she could say anything, he poured the water over her head. She didn't say anything about the water. She then instinctively reached up to wring out her hair and realized it was short like her brothers. "Like I said when we were first cursed, this is still going to take some getting used to."
"Akane, the bath is ready." "Thank you, Nabiki." Answered Akane. "I guess she's already here. I think I'll join her and ask her about what kinds of martial arts she knows." Thought Akane as she disrobed and grabbed a fresh towel from the rack by the shelves.
Before she opened the door, she heard voices in the furo. She listened but couldn't make out what was being said. She slid the door open a little and noticed that Sakura was in there with Ranma. "Oh, I didn't know he was going to be in there, I'll wait until he leaves before, I join her."
Akane waited for a few moments, as she heard them continue talking. "Ranma, could you hurry up, I'd like to take a bath as well." Replied Akane. Ranma heard her and finished up quickly.
"Boy is she in for a surprise." "I know Bro, I hope she does not go ballistic when she finds out," stated Sakura sitting in the tub.
Ranma wrapped a towel around himself and exited the furo and opened the door and looked and smiled at Akane. Akane just grimaced and turned her nose at him and walked into the furo and placed her towel on the towel rack and proceeded to sit on the stool and lather herself up while Sakura watched her.
"How many different types of martial arts do you know Sakura?" Akane asked as she was putting shampoo on her hair. "My brother and I both know many forms of kung-fu, Kempo, jujitsu, as well as kickboxing, karate, and a few others.
We've been training with our father for a little over 10 years without a break." Finished Sakura as she leaned over the side of the furo talking to Akane.
Akane grabbed the full bucket and upended it over her head and shook her head trying to get as much of the shampoo off as possible. "You missed a little on the ends Akane." "Thanks, Sakura, I like your name."
Sakura thought about this for a sec before saying "thanks." "You have a pretty interesting name too." Akane thanked her again and mentioned, "Yes, it means deep red, yet I don't have red hair." Sakura thought again about what to say before mentioning, "My name means Cherry Blossoms." "I know, that's why I like your name, we have a cherry blossom tree in our yard. When we're done, I'll show it to you after dinner."
Akane smiled at Sakura and then joined her in the furo and soaked for about 15 minutes before Sakura stood and got out, just as the water was turning colder. Akane also noticed the water temperature was getting colder.
"Water gets cold pretty fast doesn't it, Sakura?" "Yes, it does, I just didn't want to have any surprises while we were bathing." "What are you talking about, what could surprise us? Your brother is not in here with us."
"I do remember one time I was in the water when it got really cold, and my nipples were so hard you could see them when I put on my shirt when I was around eleven or twelve." Akane reminisced as she got out of the water. "Has that ever happened to you? Sakura thought about this and decided to join the conversation. "Yes, it's happened to me a few times, I'm just glad pops never noticed it."
"Ranma, on the other hand, noticed it and thankfully didn't say anything about it, since he know it happens. Just like when he gets hard, I know it just happens sometimes."
"Speaking about your brother, how old and you and your brother?" asked Akane. "We're both 16 years old, we're fraternal twins. He is older by about 7 minutes." Confided Sakura. "Oh, so then we're all the same ages. Kasumi is 19, and Nabiki is 17." Akane said mentioning her sisters as well.
Grabbing her towel Sakura started drying her body and hair before wrapping the towel around her hair and then getting another towel for her body. Akane also standing up did the same thing. "I like how long your hair is Sakura, mine is almost as long as my sister Kasumi's." smiled Akane showing off her wet long hair before wrapping it up in a towel. "Very nice, do you like long hair?"
"Yes, I have always wanted long hair like my sisters, hers is just beautiful and I hope to have hair just like it." Smiled Akane. "I think you might be there already since your hair is just as long as mine and it a beautiful shade of black." Smiled Sakura. Akane heard what she said and beamed as she thought about her sister Kasumi and how much she idolized her.
"Thanks, Sakura, that is the most honest thing I've heard in a long time. I hope we're friends for a long time." Sakura hoped that Akane was right about what she just said, but she knew that it might not come to pass before the night was over.