Hotaru was walking towards the park near her house, she has walked there everyday for a while now to just sit and think for a while. She was having strange dreams recently. She thought that she had all of her memories from the Silver Millennium, but recently she's been dreaming of… someone that she couldn't really identify. He seemed to be shrouded in shadows and every time she tried to see more of him, it seemed as if something tried to hide him more. So again she walked toward the park and tried to remember more of the person. So deep in thought she almost failed to notice the voice yell "Watch out!" She stopped walking and began to look around just as a large crater formed was she would have been if she kept walking. The crater was deeper than she was tall, that's when she noticed a young man inside who looked dangerously hurt. There were many large cuts on his body and had compound fractures on his legs. She began to slowly climb down when she realized that she had to help him. When she finally reached him she placed her hands over his chest and called the power that was her birthright from a past life. As her healing energies made her hands begin to glow purple, a halo of red energy began to form around the boy. She completely missed it as she had her eyes closed to focus more. She was soon finished and surprisingly not very tired at all. It wasn't long before the boy his eyes and muttered "kawaii."
Ranma woke up and saw two of the loveliest deep eyes he had ever seen. By all appearances they were a deep purple. That's when he remembered everything and groaned in predicting the pain about to assault him. He waited and began to realize he wasn't in pain. In fact, he felt as good as ever. That's when he looked over at the girl and saw her looking at him with a mixture of concern and fear.
"How long was I out," was his first question.
"A few minutes," the girl answered. Ranma knew something was wrong with this; he couldn't heal that fast even with the full use of his healing abilities. The injuries he had would have taken a few hours at least.
"I remember being hurt. What happened?" He asked. The girl's eyes began to water as she began to speak.
"You were hurt, badly. So I used my powers to heal you."
"Wow! You can do that too!!" The girl stared at him openly for a while before asking.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I can do that to. I could always heal myself really fast from as far back as I can remember. Of course, I had to make it look kinda normal since Pop's tried to abuse it. Idiot panda." The girl stared at him a moment, probably wondering about the panda comment, before tears started to fall. Ranma, of course, didn't have a clue about how to react to a crying girl but set about trying to fix her anyway.
"H-Hey now s-s-stop already. There's no reason for you to cry."
"Yes, there is. Y-Y-Your making fun of me, just like everyone." Ranma noticed how she said everyone and decided to check up on that later.
"No, I swear it's true. I use it to heal my injuries from my fights. You know torn muscles, broken bones, stuff like that."
She looked at him for a little while before simply stating, "Prove it."
"Well, you just healed me so I can't really." Oh look, more tears.
"I thought so," Ranma started to get happy that she believed him, "you're just teasing me like the rest of them," only to have it come crashing back down. That's about the time he actually took a good look at her. She seemed to be around his age, with long dark black hair that looked dark purple (Hey it's darker than Shampoo's). She only came to his shoulders in height and seemed to have a thin, sickly builds. There was something about her pulling at his mind but he couldn't quite place it. So he just ignored it.
(Maybe I could help her out. She seems so to look so weak. I've never been able to help someone else before but I gotta try!) Without another thought Ranma placed both his hands on her shoulders, he called on his healing powers and was soon glowing blue with a tinge of red around his body. He then focused on the girl and pictured her thin frame becoming healthier. The glow spread out from him and into the girl, who had stopped crying and was gasping as all the energy spread into her. Ranma pictured the girl's body becoming more muscular and her lungs and other internal organs becoming stronger and growing. He noticed that something was drawing away her ki and stopped.
The girl looked down at herself and muttered "Wow," before turning to look at him and thanking him.
"Oh, my name is Hotaru Tomoe, pleased to meet you." She all of this along with a little curtsy that boggled Ranma at actually seeing someone her age do it.
"Ranma Saotome, pleased to meet cha' too. Oh, almost forgot." He reached his hand out to nowhere and pulled out Hotaru's henshin pen, not that he knew that of course. "This little thing seems to be draining your ki. It won't no more." With that he severed the connection that was draining her ki.
"RRAAGGGGHHHHHHH"
"Oh shit."
