Family Reunion 2

by Michael The-Zorch Haney

Complete! Tenchi goes to Nerima to attend college when a newComplete enemy arrives to threaten the world.

2. Part 2: Fureinken Daze

DISCLAIMER: "Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki" is a registered trademark and copyright of AIC Inc. and Pioneer. "Ranma 1/2" is a registered trademark and copyright of Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Communications and Kitty Productions.
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T E N C H I 1 / 2: FAMILY REUNION II

By Michael "TheZorch" Haney
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PART 2: Fureinken Daze

The Goddess of Springtime opened her arms over the skies of Nerima, a small prefecture of Tokyo, Japan, and covered the land in a blanket of renewed life. The trees awakened after a long winter, which in this region of Japan wasn't very severe, and spring flowers stretched up through the soil reaching out towards the life giving rays of the morning sun. All seemed so calm on this spring morning in Nerima, but in a small section of the city near Fureinken High School that was about to change.
By this time Ranma's arrival at the high school, with three lovely young girls in tow. every morning didn't draw much attention. Except if you were one Tatawaki Kuno that is. The Blue Thunder of Fureinken High stood at the gates awaiting the arrival of the four with his trusty bokken in hand. When they showed up and walked through the gate, the bokken boy made his move.
"Foul sorcerer, today your hold over the lovely ladies of Fureinken High shall come to an end!"
"He really needs to come up with better lines." Akane muttered under her breath.
"Face me cur, and prepare to taste the righteous sword of Kuno!" Kuno swung at Ranma's head only to gasp as it passed through thin air. Ranma materialized above Kuno's head, landing on it, causing the blue Thunder of Fureinken High to bend over from the added weight.
"Just how much more stupid can you get, Kuno?" Ranma laughed.
"Fiend!" Kuno reared up throwing Ranma off and turned to attack. Ranma didn't move, the bokken swung hard, and impacted an invisible barrier just inches from Ranma's face.
"I mean, its no fun kicking your butt anymore, you make it too easy." Ranma raised his hand and flicked his fingers at the Bokken Boy, the compressed air from the move was enough to knock Kuno off his feet.
"How dare you speak to me in such a tongue!" Kuno recovered and swung again only to have Ranma reach out, grab the bokken in his hand effortless, reverse Kuno's move senting the boy skidding along the ground face first.
"Dirt sandwich! YUM!" Shampoo spoke up, giggling.
Ukyo and Akane chuckled.
The four continued on their way into the school as Kuno struggled to pull himself out of the trench his head made in the ground. Nabiki sighed, nobody was interested in betting on Ranma and Kuno's fights anymore, it was starting to bite into her profit margins. "You know Ranma, this is getting bad for business." She commented to him.
"I can't help it if Kuno's a dweeb." Ranma replied.
Nabiki waved at him dismissively. "Whatever, Saotome." Inwardly, she was suppressing an urge to run up to him, throw him to the ground, and ravish him right there in the middle of the hallway. Her urges and visions of her and Ranma together were getting stronger, so strong that Nabiki was starting to have trouble sleeping at night. She kept all of this a secret, though, she didn't want her sister to dismember her for having secret desires for her fiancé.
The rest of the day was semi-normal for a day at Fureinken High School. Ranma was making a real effort to stay awake during his classes, especially Miss. Hinako's English class. Ukyo and Akane were helping him with his grades, and the teachers were impressed with his turnaround. Shampoo was attending school also on a student visa Nabiki helped her obtain, since the Amazons were technically in the country illegally. Her attendance at school wasn't really to learn, she just wanted an excuse to be near Ranma more often during the day.
Lunch time came around and the four gathered under their customary tree in the school yard. Akane has been learning to cook with the help of Shampoo, Ukyo, Kasumi, and occasionally Sasami when she came to visit. Akane was getting better, but Shampoo still called her "Kitchen Destroyer" to get a rise out of the girl from time to time. Today, she made them all lunch, it was simple, and it actually tasted good.
"You're getting better, Akane, that was good." Ranma commented after inhaling his bento box.
"Thanks." Akane beamed him a bright smile that could have outshined the sun.
"Luckily I brought my grill, Ranma honey has a bottomless pit for a stomach you know and there is no way that'll fill him up.." Ukyo said as she worked her portable grill making okonomiyaki.
"You got that right, he swallowed his lunch in less then five seconds." Akane laughed.
"Aiya, Shampoo never seen food disappear so fast."
"Hey, remember when you two tried to trick me into thinking you were married?" Ukyo asked as she flipped one of the sizzling okonomiyaki effortlessly in the air.
"Seems like a million years ago." Said Ranma.
"Ranma and I really got off on a bad foot in our relationship, we would have been together a long time ago if not for several problems, and our fathers." Akane explained.
"That's ancient history, we're all together now." Ranma smiled at her and his other two fiancés.
"We never really apologized for the mess we made of your wedding too." Said Ukyo. She slid a finished seafood okonomiyaki onto a paper plate and handed it to Ranma.
"Was stupid to do that." Shampoo added sadly.
"It's water under the bridge, girls." Akane told them, taking an okonomiyaki form Ukyo. She liked hers with tropical fruits and tofu.
Ranma sat up and leaned closer to the three. "Listen, I ain't no poet like Kuno, well that's a good thing I guess, but these past few months of us living together have been really great." The girls looked at him with stars in their eyes. "I won't trade any minute of it for nothing, and I love all of you and I hope things can stay like this for a long time."
"Oh Ranma." The three swooned.
"I am being silly for thinking like that, aren't I." Ukyo laughed.
Akane looked up at the clock tower on the school. "Better pack it up, Ukyo, lunch is almost over."
Ukyo had her portable grill stowed in its special carry case within seconds. "Seems like lunch time is getting shorter and shorter everyday."
"I wouldn't doubt if that old creep principle of ours messes with the clock." Ranma spat.
"You know that's something he'd actually do." Akane realized. She decided to have a talk with Nabiki later to look in it.

School was finally over for the day, to the relief of the four lovers. Ranma was in his customary position up on the chain link fence, when he noticed nobody around he gestured for Akane to come up. She looked around to make sure nobody was looking since she was wearing a dress. With one jump she made it up to the top of the fence.
"Ok, just like I showed you." Ranma said.
Since the beginning of school Ranma took it upon himself to train Akane in the Anything Goes Martial Arts. Her deadbeat father wouldn't, so he decided to do it himself. Ukyo and Shampoo assisted by sparing with her, eventually she got good enough to hold her own against a three way attack by Ukyo, Shampoo, and Ranma in girl-form. Roof Hopping had taken a while to master, but she was able to do that now without much help. She still needed to learn balance, and these fence walking exercises after school were helping dramatically.
"Hey, you're really doing good, Akane, no wobbling today!" Ranma cheered her on. Akane looked back at him, blushing, and giving him a look that promised a rewards for later when they were alone. Ranma welcomed that chain of thought.
Since their arrival back at Nerima and the return to school Ranma had several more intimate encounters with Ukyo, Akane, and Shampoo in the onsen Washu built for them. He was becoming more accustomed to sex, becoming less nervous and shy about it like many times before. Akane had grown out of her own misgivings, she had been raised to wait for marriage before sex, but its temptation proved too great to resist. She was thankful to Washu for teaching Ranma how to control the fertility of his loins at will, an ability that Juraians appeared to possess as a racial trait. What they didn't need right now was a bunch of babies while they still had high school to finish and college classes to start.
Speaking of college, Akane and Ukyo had already received letters of acceptance to Nerima University, Ranma's letter didn't arrive until some time later. Curiously, it came after the school became affiliated with Tokyo University via a buyout deal. Even more curiously, Nabiki had been deeply involved in some kind of negotiation with unknown parties via telephone for weeks before the deal was announced on the news. She would deny having anything to do with it, but the girls suspected she did since not long after she quickly ran out and bought herself a brand new wardrobe. Now where did all that money come from?

Akane and Ranma squared off in the Tendo dojo. Ranma, for obvious reasons, held back a majority of his power. Akane came at him with a series of punches and kicks aimed at his vital areas. Ranma swiftly blocked each and returned them with his own. Akane dodged most of them, including the Chestnut Fist attack, then surprised Ranma with a similar attack. After being pummeled in the chest eighty times in five seconds he stumbled backwards.
"Where did you learn Chestnut Fist?" he asked in surprise. "I didn't teach that technique to you yet."
There was a giggle from somewhere else in the dojo, Ranma turned to see Shampoo sitting on the floor watching them. "No fair teaching her new stuff behind my back." He waved his finger at the Amazon beauty.
"Shampoo only trying to keep airen on his toes." She laughed.
"It surprised the hell out of him alright." Akane joined her.
"Alright, you want to learn new techniques do you." Ranma grinned evilly at Akane. "SAOTOME SCHOOL OF ANYTHING GOES FLYING DRAGON TICKLE TORTURE!!!"
Akane squealed as Ranma pushed her to the floor and began tickling her with Chestnut Fist speed. "HAHAHAHA!!! STOP!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! I'M TICKLISH THERE!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! RANMA!!! HHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I'LL GET YOU!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"
Ranma leaped off the girl, flipped in mid air and ran out of the dojo. "You gotta catch me first!" Akane composed herself, leapt up and gave chase. Shampoo ran out to watch the spectacle. Ranma was bounding over the rooftops with Akane following close behind, she was catching up to him despite her shorter legs. Of course, Ranma wasn't running at his full speed, or he would have shattered every window for miles with a sonic boom. Giggling and laughing the two fell into the backyard at the Tendo house after making a circuit of the neighborhood. They ended the race with a quick make out session in the grass, when the two came up for air Shampoo raised a sign with the score "9.5" written on it over her head.
"Would be ten, if Ranma had given Akane more tongue." She said.
Ranma and Akane looked at each other, nodded, then leapt towards Shampoo. "FLYING DRAGON TICKLE TORTURE REVISED: DOUBLE DRAGON TICKLE ATTACK!!!!"
"ACK!!! STOP!!! TTTTEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!! SHAMPOO TOO TICKLISH!!!! TTTTEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!! SHAMPOO THINK SHE PISS PANTS!!!!! TTTEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!"
They eased of their 'devastating' assault to let the Amazon get up. Kasumi, Soun, and Genma watched the whole thing from the back porch of the house. "They are so much in love, don't you think so father?" Kasumi asked innocently.
The elder Tendo was wiping tears from his eyes. "Love is a wonderful thing, Kasumi."
"Grrrr! Those girls are making him soft, that's no way for a martial artist to act!" Genma growled.
Ranma and the girls went back into the dojo and the sounds of fighting ensued soon after. A few hours later the three came into the house drenched in sweat. Akane was on cloud nine, she was progressing by leaps and bounds at the Art, and Ranma had agreed to start teaching her chi techniques.
Back in the dojo, moments before, he looked into her eyes and realized for maybe the millionth time just how beautiful Akane really was. "Ya got really good lately Akane, you got Roof Hopping mastered, you can walk on the fence fine, and you already know Chestnut Fist." He told her. "I think you're ready for chi techniques."
"REALLY?!" Akane cheered.
"Easy, remember these ain't easy to learn and they can be very dangerous. Watch." Ranma stepped back and concentrated. Akane and Shampoo saw a blue aura surround Ranma, then a wave of intense cold hit them. Moisture on the windows of the dojo condensed and froze into ice, the same happened on Ranma's skin until his arms and chest was covered by a thin coating of frost.
"BRRR!!! It Soul of Ice Technique!" Shampoo gasped.
"Feels like a meat locker in here." Akane said shivering, her breath misted air.
Ranma opened his eyes and shook off the ice off his body. "See what I mean, this stuff can be very dangerous if used improperly, so I'll teach you but lets take things slowly until you get the basics of control."
"Sounds good to me." She replied, still shivering.
"Lets warm up with some katas, then maybe Kasumi will have dinner ready by then."
The two frozen girls nodded and followed him in the motions of the exercise. After several minutes the dojo was warm again and the three were sweating heavily.
"PEW! You three reek!" Nabiki said holding her nose as the three went past her.
"Sign of a good workout, you should try it sometime Nabiki." Ranma told her.
Oh, I'd like to give you a workout alright., Nabiki said to herself. She stopped suddenly realizing what she was just thinking and stamped on her own toe. Bad, Nabiki! Bad Nabiki! If Akane learned you wanted to jump Ranma's bones she's turn you into a living pretzel., she told herself.

The next day at Fureinken High was pretty much no different from the last, Ranma had his predictable confrontation with Kuno, and the rest was just boring. The four sat in Miss. Hinako's class listening to her give a lecture about use of vowels in the English language. Ranma was doing his best to stay awake. Unseen at the back of the class sat Hikaru Gosunkugi, or what the world considered to be Gosunkugi. Kun Lao was fascinated by this strange tongue, English, belonging to nations allied with Japan in this new modern age. He was also fascinated with the interesting creature that taught the class. He'd observed Miss. Hinako's unique ability to absorb battle auras, a skill he also possessed but rarely used. Where was the fun in pummeling an opponent that could not fight back?, he thought. He enjoyed the many months of his new found life, he absorbed knowledge about his new world like a sponge. Back in his day he never dreamed of men walking on the moon, machines journeying to the bottom of the ocean, machines that could think and calculate numbers faster than any human being could, and all of the others incredible wonders science made possible. But, when the time was right he was going to show the world what magic could do, its potential would eclipse the accomplishments of science, and he would be the one to make it possible. Until that time came, he was content to wait, but something more urgent needed his attention first.
Kun Lao had been without the pleasures of a woman for a very long time, he suppressed his urges as long as he could not wanting to draw unwanted attention until he acclimated himself to his new body better. Now, he was settling into this new host very comfortably, and had been performing various chi body hardening techniques to improve its strength, speed, and endurance. Now, he was ready to answer the urges of his flesh and reward himself for his minor accomplishments. Miss. Hinako, who was at the head of the class, was in her child form. She stopped her lecture, raised her hand towards one of the boys who had fallen asleep.
"Happoh Fifty Yen Satsu!"
Kun Lao grinned when the child filled out her skirt and blouse as she took on adult form. In this form she was quite a specimen to behold, long supple legs, ample bosom, long blond hair and a not too unattractive face. Her transformations were brief however, she would soon revert to child form. He couldn't allow that, not yet. The Chi Sorcerer closed his eyes and envisioned the ebb and flow of chi throughout the universe, then focused on this small portion of the world surrounding Miss. Hinako's classroom. He channeled the chi energy around him into a spell, opened his eyes, and pointed his finger at the voluptuous teacher. The spell was silent and devoid of any of the pyrotechnics usually associated with magic, by Kun Lao's own design of course.
Ranma sat up, he felt something really strange happen just at that moment, a surge of chi energy. He stretched out with his senses trying to tell where it came from, but could not find the source. "Weird." He muttered.
The end of period bell rang. "Alright, lunchtime!" Ranma cheered, he waited for Akane, Ukyo and Shampoo at the door and they all left together for their usual place out in the school yard. All the students left the room, except for one that nobody even noticed. Hikaru Gosunkugi.
"Oh, Mr. Gosunkugi, did you have a question about today's lecture?" Miss. Hinako asked him in her deep, sultry tone.
"Actually, I had something quite different in mind, Miss. Hinako." Kun Lao said in Gosunkugi's voice.
"If you're looking for extra credit work I do have some verb exercises I can give you."
"What an interesting idea, but I had a different form of exercise in mind." Miss. Hinako saw the hungry, lustful look in Gosunkugi's eyes, she gasped, and stepped back.
"Mr. Gosunkugi this is totally inappropriate behavior!" She raised her hands, her fingers forming an "O" for her energy attack. Gosunkugi, or the person who appeared to be him raised his hand, an invisible force pulled the woman's hands apart and locked them down at her sides.
"I don't think so." He said.
Miss. Hinako was in a panic, she turned to run, but suddenly felt herself become paralyzed where she stood. "I like it when they struggle, but we need a more secluded place for our entertainment, my dear." Gosunkugi said, lust thick in his voice.
"Oh, Kami, no Mr. Gosunkugi, you wouldn't, please no, don't!"
"There is nothing to be afraid of, we're just going to have some fun for a little while." He walked up to her, cupping her generous breasts in his hands, concentrated on the right spell, and teleported himself and Miss. Hinako to another part of the school.

Lunch period was almost over and Ukyo was putting away her portable grill. Ranma finished off his fifth okonomiyaki, and none of the girls were at all surprised. They loved having this free time with the man they loved everyday. Ukyo especially enjoying cooking for the man she adored, and would one day marry. Akane was nibbling on her own second okonomiyaki.
"After school Shampoo have to go to Nekohautan, great grandmother says Shampoo is getting lazy in her work." Shampoo said.
"I hear ya, sugar, I haven't been to Ucchan's in over a week." Ukyo told her.
"That's ok, it'll give me and Akane more time to work out in the dojo." Ranma smiled.
"You mean more time to 'make out' in the dojo." Ukyo smiled.
Akane blushed a fierce red. I hope so., she told herself.
"Hey, you three get equal time with me." Ranma said defensively.
Ranma was trying his best to give all three of his loves the same amount of attention. It made him wonder how Tenchi was able to handle his five, and thinking about Seina's nine gave him headaches.
"Ranma honey, you're doing great, and we have nothing to complain about." Ukyo said beaming him a smile. Akane was amazed with herself, she wasn't entirely sure if she could handle sharing Ranma, but after a few months it became like second nature.
"Anyway, I was going to say this before, the annual Nerima Park Fair is coming up and they're going to have rides and stuff, I thought we could all go together." Ranma suggested.
"Sounds cool." Akane cheered.
"Shampoo would love to go."
The sound of loud sirens pierced the air startling the four. Many of the students still out on the school lawn got up and ran towards the sound. "That sounds like an ambulance, at the front gate to the school." Said Akane. The four got up and hurried to the front of Fureinken High. They arrived to see a mass of students gathered near the front entrance. They squeezed through the throng of students and stopped as a pair of EMTs came out of the building, in between them supported by their arms was Miss. Hinako, in adult form, wrapped in a blanket, crying hysterically.
"What the hell happened?" Ranma asked, shocked.
Yuka, one of Akane's schoolmates pushed her way towards the four. "Akane!" she called.
"Yuka, what's going on?" Akane asked her.
"Oh, Akane, its awful, somebody raped Miss. Hinako, right inside the school!" The girl was almost in tears.
"WHAT?!" the four explained in complete disbelief.
The EMTs put the hysterical teacher on a stretcher inside the ambulance, closed the doors and raced off. Several uniformed and plain clothes Nihon Police officers were working the crowd for information. The school PA system squealed and a female voice announced, "Will all students who attended the 11 am English class in homeroom 1-L please come to the school main office."

Ranma and the girls arrived to see a crowd of their schoolmates from Miss. Hinako's class gathered outside of the school office. A uniform officer let them in one at a time, when it was Ranma's turn the girls gave him a squeeze on the hand and shoulder. Inside a brown haired woman in her thirties wearing women's business clothes was waiting for him. She had a police badge on the breast of her gray blazer.
"You are Mr. Ranma Saotome, right?" the woman asked.
"Yes, ma'am." He replied.
"My name is Lt. Katari Myamara, from the Nihon Police Department, Sex Crimes Division." She extended her hand and Ranma shook it.
"What were you doing at about five after twelve this afternoon?" she went on to ask.
"Having lunch on the school lawn with my fiancé and friends." He answered, truthfully.
"Did you go anywhere immediately after leaving room 1-L?" Lt. Katari asked him.
"No, we all went straight to lunch." Ranma told her.
"We've been told of some interesting things concerning your history with Miss. Hinako by some of the students and faculty." Said Lt. Katari. Ranma suppressed a wince, he knew what that history probably entailed especially with that pressure point incident.
"Hey, wait one damn minute, you can ask my fiancé and her friends and they can tell you I was with them the whole time we had lunch. Her name's Akane Tendo." Ranma said defensively. "I ain't no damn rapist!"
"If they all corroborate your story Mr. Saotome you have nothing to fear from me, until then I suggest you remain here until my interviews with the students is over." The police woman told him.
"Fine, but you're wasting your time, I ain't the one who did it." Ranma spat as he took a seat. Akane and the others saw the look on Ranma's face as they were ushered into the room.
"You are Miss. Akane Tendo, correct?" Lt. Katari said.
"Yes, I am."
"I understand you are Mr. Saotome's fiancé?" she asked her.
"Yes, ma'am, it was arranged by our parents, but we really do care for each other and want to get married eventually." Akane replied. The other two girls remained silent and made no change in their expressions. They decided a long time ago to keep their real relationship with Ranma a secret from the rest of the world after the dinner debacle. It kept things from getting complicated.
"Was your fiancé with you the entire time from the start of the lunch period until the time we arrived?" Lt. Katari asked her.
"Yes, he was with all three of us." Akane told her, gesturing to the other two girls.
"And you are?"
"Ukyo Kuonji."
"Xian Pu, exchange student from China."
"Will all three of you sign an official statement attesting to the fact that Mr. Saotome was not inside of the school building between noon and one o'clock?" the police woman asked. All three girls nodded.
"Mr. Saotome, it appears I owe you an apology, it's my job to be suspicious especially when sexual assault is concerned." Lt. Katari said to him, a friendly smile on her face now.
"How did it happen, who found her?" Ranma asked.
"A janitor found her naked and crying in a broom closet at twelve thirty today, she was so hysterical that we couldn't get any information out of her." Lt. Katari said, concern on her face.
"Kami, a rapist loose in Fureinken." Ukyo gasped, clamping a hand over her mouth.
"Obviously our first thought is it must be one of the students." Lt. Katari said. "We will be interview all the student body in the school over the next week."
"Poor Miss. Hinako." Akane said quietly.
The police woman took a business card out of her blazer pocket and handed it to Ranma. "Mr. Saotome, if you recall anything out of the ordinary that happened today, anyone who looked like they didn't belong in the school, please call me at my office anytime."
"Yeah, I'll do that." He said, taking the card.
"Also, I would suggest you escort your fiancé to and from school for now on, unless you already do that."
"Uh, we all four walk to school together, we live in the same neighborhood." Ranma replied.
"Good, we're suggesting students who walk to school, especially girls, travel in groups until we find the person who did this."
"Sounds reasonable." Said Akane.
"I'm sorry to be keeping you, I have other students to interview, remember if you see anything strange call me, oh, and the rest of the school day is cancelled by police order so you can all go home." Lt. Katari told them.
"Thanks, hope you catch the pervert." Ranma replied as they left the room.

Akane, Shampoo, and Ukyo knew something was really bothering Ranma. He wasn't up on the fence as usual, and his eyes were darting around every corner and dark alley they passed. He had his arms folded behind his head, as if he was relaxed, but the expression on his face was anything but.
"Ranma honey, you look strained."
"Somebody raped Miss. Hinako." He said.
"We know." Akane said.
"No, you don't understand, somebody 'raped' Miss. Hinako, and didn't end up getting blown into next Tuesday." He said.
"You know something, she drained Daisuke for sleeping in class again, so she was in adult form when we went to lunch, and she was still in adult form when we saw her being taken away in the ambulance." Akane observed.
"But, I thought her change was like temporary and didn't last very long." Said Ukyo.
"Shampoo think this is very bad omen."
"I didn't tell the cops this cause they wouldn't believe me anyway, but I felt something in the room just before the lunch period bell rang." Ranma told them.
"What was it?" Akane asked.
"A release of chi energy, silent and invisible, and whoever did it masked it so I couldn't tell where it was coming from." He said. "That takes a very special kind of chi technique mastery to do that."
"But who else in Fureinken High besides you, Ranma honey, knows how to use chi techniques?" Ukyo asked.
"Besides me, nobody that I know of."
"This is bad." Akane commented, slipping her arm around Ranma's waist.
"Whoever did this was able to take on Miss. Hinako in adult form without getting blasted by her Happoh Coin Return technique." Said Ranma, the worry in his voice was heavy. "That would take somebody with a strong mastery of martial arts and advanced knowledge of chi techniques."
"Oh Kami, you don't think the little pervert could have done this?" Ukyo asked with a shocked expression.
"Happosai may be a pervert and a creep, but I can't imagine he'd ever stoop so low as to rape somebody." Akane said.
"Besides, his thingy is probably way too small." Shampoo laughed. The others joined her, the laughter breaking the dark mood they were in just a little.
"But seriously, whoever did this has formidable chi and martial arts ability." Ranma warned them. He stopped and turned to them. "For now on, no unescorted trips outside of the Tendo dojo for any of you."
"Hey, we aren't defenseless little girls!" Akane exclaimed.
"Neither was Miss. Hinako and look what happened to her." Ukyo told her.
"You got a point, sorry Ranma." Akane said shyly.
He hugged her and kissed her on the forehead. "It's ok, lets get home before the sun goes down."

"We're home!" the four called from the entryway as they took of their shoes.
Kasumi poked her head out from the kitchen. "Oh, you're all home early, I didn't know you were having a half a day."
"Something happened at the school, we were let out early." Akane told her.
"Oh my, I hope it wasn't serious."
Ranma looked at the three girls and turned to Kasumi. "Somebody, attacked and raped one of the teachers during lunch period." He told her.
"OH KAMI, NO!" Kasumi shouted in shock.
"Uh oh, we forgot about Nabiki!" Akane realized.
The girl in question poked her head into the room. "I'm already home, a cop gave me a ride, he owed me some money."
"Who doesn't?" Ranma rolled his eyes.
"I'll ignore that Saotome, for a fee."
"Did you say a teacher was raped at the school?" Genma asked as he stomped into the room.
"Yeah, Miss. Hinako." Ranma told him.
Genma raised his fist and sent Ranma flying across the room. "I'm disappointed in you boy, I raised you better than to take advantage of a girl like that!"
"HEY, WHY DOES EVERYBODY THINK I'M THE ONE WHO DID IT!?" Ranma yelled back at him after recovering from the blow, and pulling himself out of the Ranma shaped depression on the wall.
"Ranma was with us during lunch period, the police suspected him too, but we cleared him." Akane explained.
"The only reason why that stuff with her happened before was because I was trying to hit her pressure points to stop her powers." Ranma explained. "Its all Happosai's fault she has them in the first place."
"Did somebody say my name?"
The group turned to see the diminutive pervert in his usual peeping tom outfit holding a bag of recently acquired panties. "What?!" he said seeing them stare at him.
"Were you anywhere near Fureinken High today?" Akane asked him, afraid that Ranma's suspicions about the man were true. She would never be able to live in a house knowing a rapist lived with her.
"No, I was over near the university today." He said. "Why?"
"Somebody raped Miss. Hinako and did it without getting blasted into next week." Ranma told him.
A look of intense rage crossed the old pervert's face. "Someone hurt my little Hinako-chan!!!!" His battle aura surged into life with fierce intensity. The old pervert had a soft spot in his black heart for the girl, he befriended her and taught her the devastating Happoh Five Yen Satsu to help her heal herself, she was in a hospital for the terminally ill and not expected to live much longer, but it saved her life. The whole thing backfired later on, and turned her into a vampire who was addicted to battle auras.
"I'll kill the bastard who hurt my little Hinako-chan, I'll castrated the son-of-a-bitch!!!!" Happosai continued to rave.
"Geeze, I've never seen him this pissed off." Akane gasped.
"We don't know who did it." Ranma told him.
The little pervert turned and bound out of the house. "I'll find the bastard and make him pay with his life!!!"
"I'd hate to be the guy who did it to her." Ukyo commented.

School was cancelled for the rest of the week so the police could interview the rest of the students. It turned into a real media circus, and was on the news almost every night. Ranma and Akane took the free time to continue their training and to teach her chi techniques. Nabiki, meanwhile, got her group together.
"Ok, girls, this is serious, we got a real creep wandering around our school." Nabiki told them. They all nodded in agreement.
"I need info on all of the new freshmen students, most of all I want to know if they study martial arts, that is the most important thing." She went on. They nodded in acknowledgement.
"No heroics, don't put yourselves into undue danger, this creep raped Miss. Hinako, and you know how tough she can be." Again the girl nodded in understanding.
"I need that info by this time tomorrow, met here at my house since school is closed until next week, and I'll give you extra for hazard pay on top of the usual rate." Nods all around.
"Get going, remember, tomorrow at this time."

Kun Lao sat in his bedroom at Gosunkugi's house and wondered about the events that took place after his episode with the lovely Miss. Hinako. He didn't anticipate the speedy reaction of the local authorities. In his day and age he could do as he pleased, take who he wanted, and nobody was the wiser or dared to question why. Today in this modern age crime was taken seriously, the police were everywhere, and they used many new modern technique to locate those responsible for those crimes. The concept of DNA finger printing was new to him, but he could understand the simplicity of the concept. The building blocks of life, how quaint. He looked at the vial filled with a white, mucus like substance and the manila folder he took from the police station shortly after the investigation started. The vial was labeled, "Sperm Sample". It had been extracted from inside of Miss. Hinako by the hospital, the folder contained other information. He held both up, summoned the proper spell, and they disintegrated into a thin cloud of gray smoke. He had also gone to the hospital where Miss. Hinako was admitted. She was under police guard, but that didn't matter. The officer assigned to watch her door never noticed him walk right by and enter the room. The lovely woman was asleep, it took all of his will not to take her a second time. He reached under the covers and pressed his hand to her groin, all remaining evidence of his seed within her vanished without a trace. He then shifted his hand to her forehead, she saw him, knew who he was, he saw it in her memories, it would not do for her to announce to the world that Hikaru Gosunkugi had done this to her. He had to find a way to cover his tracks, so he manipulated her memory. He recalled some of the more savory publications Gosunkugi liked, the Hentai Manga, they were called. An image he liked from one of them entered his mind, it was a one-eyed tentacle monster. It has its many tentacles wrapped around a young girl in a school girl's uniform, her face was contorted in an expression of horror and ecstasy as one of the tentacles took advantage of her more interesting areas.
It was this that he implanted into the woman's mind, erasing the image of himself, and replacing it with a false memory of a monster attacking and raping her. He had noticed the reaction from the one called Ranma Saotome, a boy of considerable martial arts and chi technique ability. He knew one day he would face this formidable man, who was rumored to have killed the God of Phoenix Mountain, Saffron. After sending a spectral eye to the site of the rumored battle, Kun Lao was surprised to find the rumors were true. Phoenix Mountain had been reduced to a pile of rubble, and Saffron's powerful presence could no longer be felt. Ranma sensed him release the chi energy, but because he masked it he could not find out who released it. He wasn't ready to face someone as powerful as him, not yet. He needed a way to distract the boy from figuring out it was he who did this, and this was an excellent way to do it.
Kun Lao reached under the mattress of his bed and pulled out the manga in question. He flipped through the pages, the images on them aroused him, until he reached the one he was looking for. He took it to the desk, picked up a short strip of paper, and drew runes on it in the ancient language of chi magic. With the runes complete he touched the paper to the image of the tentacle monster in the manga. The image of the monster wavered, then the tentacles began to writhe about. Kun Lao closed his eyes, and began to chant the ancient works of the spell. "NIKTU KLAKSU MAKATA OBATA SA YETA SHATO!!!! AWAKEN AND HEED MY CALL, SPAWN TO LIFE, HEAR MY CALL, FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE NINE RINGS OF HELL I SUMMON THEE, RAKSHAZA!!! DEMON OF LUST, ARISE AND OBEY!!!!"
A bright light erupted from the runes and the pages of the manga. A whirlwind raced through the bedroom tossing books about and throwing papers every which way. A sound like the clash of thunder filled the air, then the manga caught fire, burning along the outline of the monster's shape on the page until it was gone and the rest of the page remained untouched. Soon, the wind died down, and Kun Lao staggered backwards reeling from the force of the spell he just cast. In the distance he could feel the presence of the malevolence he just released upon the mortal plain. It was where he wanted it to be, the high school. A wicked smile crossed his lips and he laughed manically.
That night he made his way out of the house, the parents of the foolish boy he inhabited didn't even notice him leave, even if they looked directly in his general direction. He walked some distance, making sure to put some considerable distance between his house and where he was going. He found what he was looking for, a pretty young girl was carrying a bag of garbage out to the dumpster in her back yard. She looked to be about the age of many of the girls from school, and was quite lovely. He reached out with his chi powers, touched her mind, her name was Ikara, he could tell this the moment he touched her consciousness. It took little effort to manipulate her thoughts and lure her from her home to a secluded dark alley. Remembering his mistake with Miss. Hinako, he would not allow this one to have any memory of what took place. He took her in the tall grass behind a shed until his urges were satisfied, removed any evidence of his seed, and sent her home with no memory of anything that transpired. On his way back to his home, he sensed the presence of another desirable young girl, and delayed his return home to repeat what he did with Ikara.

Ranma sat upright in bed, he could feel it, a powerful burst of intense chi energy, but again it was masked. It was somewhere in the city, and it was immense in scale. It was almost as if Ryoga had let loose the mother of all Shi Shi Hokodan's, but all he could hear outside of his window was the sound of the city at night. He threw the cover aside and went out into the hallway, there was no sound in the house. He went downstairs to get himself something to drink, a soda maybe, and he needed to think. He knew whoever did those chi bursts was the one who raped Miss. Hinako, but he could not prove it without hard evidence. He certainly couldn't tell the police, they'd try to lock him up in a mental ward. As he left the stairs he noticed somebody was already awake and sitting in the dinning room.
Nabiki couldn't sleep, the dreams of her in Ranma's arms, their bodies moving against one another was too much for her. She felt as if she was going crazy, insane. She looked up at the sound of somebody coming down the stairs.
Oh, Kami, it's Ranma, what the hells do I do now?, she asked herself. In her state she was likely able to do anything, even rape him if she didn't keep a rein on herself. He went into the kitchen, grabbed a couple of cans of cola, and joined her at the table.
"Couldn't sleep?" he asked her, handing her a can.
"No." she replied.
"Me neither."
They sat quietly together, Ranma sipped his soda quietly, thinking about what he felt upstairs. Suddenly, Nabiki throw her arms around his waist shocking the hell out of him and making him spit his drink across the room.
"Nabiki, what the-"
"I can't take it anymore!!!" she cried, burying her face into his chest.
"Uh, oh, umm, can't take what anymore?" he asked her nervously.
"Make it stop, I can't eat, I can't sleep without thinking about it!!!"
There came a sound from the stairs, Akane rubbed her eyes, she had heard the sound and came into the dinning room. When she saw Nabiki clamped onto Ranma her jaw dropped, then when she saw the girl's tears she immediately became concerned.
"Ranma, what happened?" she asked.
"I-I-I don't know, she just glomped onto me and started wailing."
"Nabiki, wants wrong, whatever it is we'll help you with it, please tell us." Akane pleaded with her distraught sister.
Nabiki tightened her grip on Ranma and shouted at top of her lungs with every ounce of courage and will she could muster, "PLEASE FORGIVE ME AKANE, I WANT TO BE WITH RANMA TOO!!!!!"
Akane's eyes went as wide as sauce pans and her face turned as white as a ghost. The upstairs hall light came on and Ukyo and Shampoo came down groaning about people making noises in the middle of the night.
"I-uh-I-I mean-" Ranma stammered, his brain experiencing the equivalent of a Federation Starship warp core breach.

The girls sat around the table listening to a sobbing Nabiki tell her tale of how her dreams and daydreams of Ranma began sometime before their return home from Ohkayama. Ranma was grateful that Akane hadn't hit him into next week. He was also happy she didn't give Nabiki the mallet treatment also. The girl was being almost understanding about the whole thing. Ranma wasn't sure what to make of it all. So, for a long time now Nabiki has been having nasty dreams about him, even during the day. She desired him, bad. So bad that she kept it a secret all this time out of fear of what would happen to her. Finally, it had become too much for her to handle, and she had to tell.
"Wow, and I thought I was obsessing over Ranma." Ukyo commented.
"Ukyo!" Akane scolded her.
"Please don't hurt me, Akane, please, I love him, I want to be his wife too." Nabiki was pouring tears from her eyes, she wasn't acting like herself, it was like she was another person.
"I'd never hurt you Nabiki." Akane told her.
"What we do?" Shampoo asked.
"Its up to Ranma honey." Ukyo said.
"Me?"
"Yes, sugar, you're the one in the driver's seat here."
"But-"
"What's with the noise, can't a genius sleep." Came a voice from the other room. Washu walked out of the closet door rubbing her eyes. She took in the scene before her and the gears started turning. She joined them and listened as Akane recount Nabiki's tale.
"Oh damn, I forgot to warn you girls about that." She said.
"Warn us about what?" the three girls asked in unison.
"Heh, well, you see Tsunami has been manipulating the bloodlines of the Jurai Royal Family for centuries." Washu explained. "The end result was Tenchi's birth, Ranma was unexpected, but not unwanted. In order to ensure that the strongest Juraian males mated with as many powerful women as possible she modified the physiology of the males. Their energy coronas act as an attractor to females who possess elevated amount of Jurai energy, all Juraians possess this energy, but only the royals can use it."
"Wait, but we're not Juraian." Akane told her.
"Ah, but good old Katsuhito has been having little kiddies with several wives over the seven hundred years he's lived on Earth, and Earth was a colony of Jurai thousands of years before that." Washu explained. "A fair amount of the Japanese population has a small amount of Juraian blood, its likely one of your ancestors was related to someone from Jurai."
"So, Nabiki is infatuated with Ranma because of his Jurai power?" Ukyo asked.
"Yup, but also other mental factors effect how a female is effected." Washu went on. "I am a female, but I won't be effected by Ranma's energy because I'm already in sync with Tenchi's wave patterns. The same goes for Ryoko, Aeka, Sasami, Mihoshi, and Ryo-Ohki."
"But someone not synced with someone's wave patterns, like Nabiki here, will be attracted to him like bugs to a bug zapper." She continued.
"Isn't there a drug or something to stop it from effecting her?" Akane asked.
"There is only one way to stop it." Washu told her, her face serious.
"What?" the girls and Ranma all asked her at once.
"She has to become in sync with him, or the effect of the corona will drive her insanity." She said.
"And, that means?" Akane asked, wishing the little genius would get to the point.
"He's gotta boink her."
The three girls face faltered, and a trickle of blood ran down Ranma's nose. "You gotta be kidding." Ukyo said, being the first to recover from the shock.
"As a Prince of Jurai he can marry how many wives he wants, so it's up to Ranma if he wants to add her to his little collection. He doesn't actually have to boink her, but since he's already had all of you, well-" Washu smiled like a Cheshire cat.
"UH-" By this time Ranma's brain resembled scrambled eggs.
"We really gotta think about this." Akane said, unsure about the whole situation.
"Ranma honey, we don't wanna pressure you, its up to you, ok." Ukyo told him, but she wasn't sure if she really wanted Nabiki to be his fourth fiancé.
Akane wasn't sure what to think. She remembered the abuse she gave Ranma when he was her fiancé for a short time once. Would he be able to overlook that, could she handle this? Everything was happened too much too fast, first Miss. Hinako's attack, now this.
Shampoo liked Nabiki, she respected a strong woman, and Nabiki was one of the strongest she knew. It wasn't a physical strength, it was a strength of the heart. The young girl was the only thing keeping the family from being thrown out on the street, using her considerable skills to keep the bills paid while her father wallowed in his own self-pity after his wife's death. Such strength of character and honor deserved to be acknowledged and cherished.
"Shampoo have no problem with it." She said.
"Ranma honey." Ukyo waved her hand in front of Ranma's face, but there was nobody home.
"Akane, look Ranma's out of it, what do you say?" Ukyo asked her.
"Well." Akane pursed her lips then look at her sister who was still clinging to Ranma.
"Nabiki, if we give the ok to this, there will be some rules." Akane told her sternly. "For one, no taking advantage of him, no exploitation of his curse unless he is ok with it, no trying to sell him like you did before, and you are to treat him with all the love and respect we treat him with."
"I promise." Nabiki said, whipping tears from her eyes.
"Swear it on the honor or our mother's memory." Akane told her.
"I swear on the honor of our mother's memory." Nabiki replied. Akane knew Nabiki would never break such a promise, they both loved their mother deeply and missed her twice as much.
"Ok, I guess you're in sugar." Ukyo told her.
"I-I-I-I-I-" Ranma stammered, his brain still not quite responding yet.

Ranma woke up the next morning hoping what happened last night to be all a bad dream. When he saw Nabiki sitting with the girls downstairs waiting for breakfast he knew it wasn't.
"Morning, Ranma." They all chorused.
"Uh, Nabiki, listen, about last night-" he started to say.
"Ranma, I was a real bitch to you in the past, I used you, took advantage of you, blackmailed you, all sorts of stuff." She said.
"Your point is?"
"I want to make it all up to you, I want to prove my feelings are real, I want you to trust me." She said it in a meek tone, totally uncharacteristic of Nabiki Tendo.
"Well, I, uh, do care about you Nabiki." He said.
"Please, give me a chance!" she pleaded, grabbing his arm.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt, it would probably make Aeka happy." He commented.
"I can just imagine what daddy's gonna say." Akane muttered.
"Speaking of daddy, where is he?" Nabiki asked.
"I haven't seen him or Mr. Saotome since they got up this morning." Ukyo told them.
"Listen, I got my girls gathering info on all the freshmen at Fureinken to see which of them has any martial arts backgrounds." Nabiki told them.
"Is not that job of police?" Shampoo asked.
"If this guy is what Ranma thinks he is the police are dead meat if they try to catch him." Nabiki explained.
"I gotta agree with her." Said Ranma. "I felt a really powerful release of chi energy last night, immense, I mean really immense, but masked like before."
"Maybe Shampoo and Ranma should speak to great grandmother."
"The old ghoul probably felt the same thing last night like I did." Ranma said.
"I could check the police scanner to see if there were any more incidents." Nabiki suggested.
"I'd like to go visit Miss. Hinako too, maybe she can tell us what happened." Ranma told them. The girls nodded in agreement. "But, no going out alone, understand me." He waved his finger at them.
Akane folded her arms across her chest, for a moment the old Akane was surfacing, but one look at the fear and concern on his face made it fade away. "I promise." She said.
"Me too, Ranma honey."
"Shampoo promise."
"So do I, and I'm not even going to charge you for it."
"Gee, thanks."

The Nekohautan, a.k.a. the Cat Café, was just opening for business when Ranma and Shampoo arrived. Several of the Amazon waitresses were washing the table in preparation for the lunch crowd that would be coming in soon. They smiled when they saw the two enter. In the back, balancing on her cane, was Cologne busily cooking ramen. She sensed her great granddaughter and Ranma enter the building and turned to smile at them.
"This isn't really a social call." Ranma told the old woman.
"We're here about what happened at the high school." He went on.
Cologne nodded. "I heard the unfortunate news, such things should never happen to any woman."
"I think whoever did it is a very powerful martial artist." Ranma told her. Cologne nodded. "I feel a presence in the city, malevolent, and powerful." Her tone was serious.
"I was wondering if you knew of anyone who might possibly do something like this?" Ranma asked her.
Cologne shook her head. "None, but the presence I sense I fear is not mortal."
"It feels, like, like the essence of a demon." She went on.
"A demon." It made sense to the Saotome youth, perhaps it wasn't a powerful martial artist who did it after all. A demon, if it was powerful enough, could have taken on Miss. Hinako. He had to be certain, if it was a demon the cops investigating the assault were potentially in a deadly situation, deadly for the cops that is.
"Are you absolutely certain?" he asked her.
Cologne nodded. "I have a great deal of previous experience with demons, son-in-law."
"Only way to know for sure is we talk to teacher at hospital." Shampoo interjected.
Ranma ran his hand through his hair. "This detective stuff is giving me a headache."
"Beware, son-in-law, even the weakest of demons are nothing to trifle with, tread lightly when dealing with them." Cologne offered her sage advice with a tone of concern.
Ranma was well aware of how powerful demons were, even the weakest of their kind. "I'll remember that, granny."

Soun Tendo and Genma Saotome walked through the streets of Nerima with nervous expressions on their faces. They approached a rather unassuming house, it looked somewhat like the Tendo home, but was just a little smaller. Genma approached the front door and rang the door chimes. They were just the way he remembered them. Soun stayed back at bit, wringing his hands. The sound of a lock being undone on the inside came through the door, and then it opened revealing a rather strikingly beautiful middle aged woman in a floral print kimono.
"Husband, this is a surprise." The woman said.
"Hello Nodoka."
"Nr. Tendo, I see you are doing well."
"Thank you Mrs. Saotome." The elder Tendo replied nervously.
The woman ushered the two inside and retreated to the kitchen. She returned with a silver tray and a tea service. "Why the unexpected visit?" she asked them as she finally settled down in one of her sitting room chairs.
"Its about Ranma." Said Genma.
Nodoka eyes lit up. "Is he coming here?"
"No, he still thinks your deceased." Genma told her, and the woman sank back down onto her seat. "Actually, we came to tell you he's getting married."
"I already know of the marriage agreement between the clans, Genma." She waved at him dismissively.
"No, he's marrying my daughter Akane, but he's also marrying Ukyo Kuonji, and that Amazon girl Shampoo." Soun explained.
Nodoka's face brightened up like a radiant lamp. "My son is marrying Akane, and having two concubines!" she cheered. "Oh how manly our son has become."
"We've seen Katsuhito." Genma came out suddenly.
"My-My father, when did you see him?" Nodoka asked nervously.
"He invited all of us to his place last summer to meet Ranma's cousin, Kiyone's son Tenchi, and to bring the two families back together."
Nodoka was shocked, she knew of her father as a stubborn man, she never knew he's ever change his opinions so completely. "Does he forgive me?"
"Only because he thinks your dead." Genma nodded.
"I learned he was trying to find my whereabouts and I had my people send him a false death certificate." Nodoka said.
"That was just before he found us." Genma told her. "Nodoka, Kiyone passed away many years ago."
Nodoka suppressed the tears that threatened to come to her eyes. Her beloved little sister was gone, and she never knew. "I see." Was all she said.
"I did just come to tell you this stuff, I came because of the agreement." Genma said.
Nodoka reached around behind her chair and pulled out an ancient but well kept katana sword. "From what you have said Ranma has kept his end of the agreement quite well, husband."
The two men appeared relax a little, just a little. "We came to also ask if you still intend to go through with what you told us last year?" Soun asked.
"I haven't seen my boy in over ten years Mr. Tendo, he's lived all his life thinking I'm dead, plus there is this hanging over my head, I want to put as many of the barriers between us to rest." When she spoke of something hanging over hear head Nodoka raised the katana slightly. "The Seppuku Agreement was my husband's idea, I really didn't want my Ranma to be taken from me, but the agreement was a matter of honor and I have little choice."
"Well, he's certain become one heck of a man." Mr. Tendo said, smiling and scratching the back of his head.
"That is why I want to meet my son, eventually, soon perhaps." Nodoka told them.
"Tenchi is coming to live in Nerima at the Tendo place to attend college this fall." Genma told her. Nodoka brightened. "Kiyone's son, really, he's going to be here?"
Soun and Genma both nodded. The two decided not to tell her about her father's unusual origins. The old priest had already told them she didn't know about Jurai, and she would likely not believe them. She would have to find out on her own, and when she learned Ranma was a Prince then maybe she could overlook the one thing that made the two men nervous, Ranma's curse.
"Well, then, I do it this fall then when the two of them are both here in Nerima, and then I can work on seeing my father again."
Soun looked at his watch. "Mrs. Saotome, we have to get back, I don't want to leave my little girls alone too long."
"Oh yes, I heard about what happened at Fureinken High, terrible."
"Ranma's making the girls stay in the house unless he's with them." Soun told her.
Nodoka nodded in approval. "Like a good man, protecting his loved ones."
"Thanks for the tea." Genma said as he stood.
Outside the two men sighed with some relief. "That went better than I figured." Genma commented.
"Maybe she will forget the agreement." Said Soun.
"That woman, I didn't expect her to take that things this seriously."
"You are the one who suggested it, Saotome."
"Yeah, but I didn't really mean we'd actually commit seppuku for real."
"That katana looks real to me."
Genma took off his glasses and ran his hand down his sweaty face. "I just hope that boy of mine doesn't hold a grudge when he learns I lied about his mom being dead."
"That would be a bad thing." Soun replied, knowing that Ranma was now superior to Genma by leaps and bounds because of his Jurai power.

It was the night before school was to start up again, and everyone decided to go to bed early. Ranma climbed into his bed, a real bed and not a tami mat or a bed roll like when he shared a room with his father for over a year. He wasn't sure how long he'd been asleep, but something woke him up. Ranma knew he slept like a log, and almost nothing short of a cold splash of water would revive him from his slumber. Yet, recently even the slightest disturbance around him was awakening him. The feeling of chi energy being released the other night was one case, and tonight was another. Somebody entered his room and climbed into his bed with him. They were right next to him now. He didn't move, or open his eyes, he could feel the person moving and they weren't very heavy. A warm body moved close to his and an arm draped over him. He could feel who soft mounds press into his chest. It was one of the girls, but he didn't know which one. Ranma hadn't gotten good enough yet at sensing auras to know who it was yet.
"Hi." He said softly, and the person next to him stiffened.
Ranma opened his eyes and let them adjust to the darkness. He could not really see the girl's face in the dim light of his bedroom, but he could make out the outline of her bowl-shaped hairstyle.
"Nabiki?"
The figure started to get up. "I'm sorry, I'm taking things to fast aren't I-" she started to say. Ranma reached out, drew her into his arms, and brought her back onto the bed.
"Remember that day we were alone in the dojo together?" she asked.
"Yeah."
"Remember when you feel on me and I took that picture?"
"I remember, you tried to blackmail me with it."
"At the same time, I-I-I wished what happened was real." He could see her look away although even though he couldn't see her face clearly in the dark.
"I've liked you longer than before we made the trip to Ohkayama, before your powers started to manifest." She admitted.
"I thought you said-" she turned back around the put a finger to his lips.
"It took that for me to realize how I really felt, I mistook my feelings for a desire to want to exploit you, but after Ohkayama I realized it was a different kind of desire." She was sounding more like the Nabiki he knew. Ranma was deeply hurt by the way she treated him in the past, what happened when they were briefly engaged, and the incident when they were alone one night at the dojo. Conflicting thoughts and emotions washed through Ranma's head at that moment as he held Nabiki in his arms. He was torn between giving her the benefit of the doubt and trying to forge a relationship with her, or refusing her out of distrust.
"Please don't hate me, I know you have every reason to hate me, but I couldn't live with myself if you do." She added, her voice breaking a little.
"I don't hate you." He told her truthfully.
Nabiki snuggled close to his chest and put her arm around him again.
Ranma's inner self struggled, but quickly he made a decision. "Nabiki."
She looked up at him, barely able to see him in the dim light.
"What you did to me in the past really hurt, it hurt me bad, but I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt." He told her.
She tightened her grip and buried her face into his chest. Ranma felt her body start to shake as she wept. All he could do was hold her gently until her sobs stopped. It was some time before she ceased and wiped her eyes.
"I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I were your fiancé from the beginning." Nabiki said.
"Who knows, maybe we would have gotten along better than I did with Akane." He told her, also wondering the same thing, but also at same he was glad that Akane was his fiancé anyway.
"Some Ice Queen I am, huh?" she sighed wiping more tears from her eyes. "More like Melted Ice Queen."
"I never did like that nickname the goys at school gave you, even after all the stuff you did to me." Ranma replied sincerely.
Nabiki squeeze him tight, resting her head on his shoulder. "I'm so sorry I hurt you, I promise never to ever hurt you like that ever again." Ranma was surprised that was believing her. She was opening up to him like she had never opened to him before, and she was telling him the truth. She once told him she loved him, back when they were engaged for a short time, but it hadn't been real. Now, now it was real. He hoped it was real. Nabiki wasn't an altogether unattractive girl, she was in fact very beautiful, had a shapely figure, generous bust, and very long, supple legs. He remembered seeing her in that black dress that barely covered her on Togenkyo Island, the one she wore for Prince Toma's Martial Arts Married Contest. She was, she was gorgeous, a goddess. Akane was cute too in that Roman Princess style dress, but Nabiki was more than cute, she was sexy and alluring.
For some reason that never dawned on Ranma until now. He knew the girls were pretty, even Shampoo, but their beautiful never effected him like it does now. He chalked it all up to his 'encounter' with Akane in Washu's lab. That one experience opened him up to the pleasures that could be had with the species called "woman". He could remember very little of that day, that moment, except for perhaps that his mind and body were subjected to sensations that were beyond anything he'd ever experienced before. Ever since that day the thought of being intimate with Akane or any other girls wasn't so-difficult-to envision without suffering a massive hemorrhage in his nose. It was like that one experience opened the door for him to a whole new world to explore. The world of sexual intimacy. He was intimate with Akane, Ukyo, and Shampoo. He enjoyed every minute of every second with them. Yet, sex was just a piece single piece of the jigsaw puzzle of love that formed the building blocks of his relationship with the three girls. As he held Nabiki, it dawn on Ranma that there was more than enough room in his life for one more love.
Ranma leaned forward and kissed Nabiki's hair. She looked at him in surprise and didn't shy away when he kissed her on the forehead. He shifted her around, laying on his back and bringing up onto this chest, then pulled her up until they were face to face. Their lips met in a tender, passionate kiss that made the world fall away around them so that all could perceive was their own bodies held close to one another. Nabiki felt her heart racing in her chest. She wanted desperately to ravish him right there and then without abandon, but she was too afraid her forwardness might drive him away. The clouds outside had parted some, and the light of the full moon flooded the bedroom so now Ranma could see Nabiki's face more clearly. He could see the hunger in her eyes, he recognized that look, and he'd seen it many times in the eyes of the other girls. Ranma slowly ran his hands down the sides of Nabiki's body to gauge her reaction. The touch sent shivers down Nabiki's spin and her body shuddered slightly. Ranma smiled when he felt it, he moved his hands to the middle of her back and ran them down her spin. His experience with Akane, Ukyo, and Shampoo told him that girls were very sensitive there. If he ran his hand down their back ever so lightly it seemed to jumpstart their sexual drive into turbo mode. He remembered do it to Shampoo after getting a reaction out of Akane, and the Amazon sigh and shivered before literally raping him in an uncontrolled burst of sexual lust. So, he moved his hand slowly down Nabiki's back.
He saw her head lean backwards, she loved her eyes, and from her lips came a soft moan. Ranma contemplated calling this his Saotome Anything Goes Instant Horny Girl Technique, but then realized with horror what Happosai would do with such a technique. The thought of it almost ruined the mood, almost.
Slowly he slid his hands to her buttocks, remarking at their smooth roundness. He brought them back up along her sides, every so slightly touching her, and his fingers grazed the sides of her generous breasts.
"Oh Ranma." Nabiki sighed as her body twitched.
"You like that?" he asked softly.
She moved down slight and started to kiss him on the neck. "I loved it." She whispered. This brought to the surface an interesting, not unpleasant, and altogether not unwelcome sensation to Ranma's body.
"Are we taking things too fast?" she asked him, looking into his eyes.
"I'm willing to, if you are." He told her softly. "If you really want to."
Nabiki literally melted into his embrace. Ranma was opening himself to her, freely giving himself to her to make love to her. The soft ministrations of Ranma's hands were only fueling the flames that were already raging out of control inside of her. Nabiki didn't even waste the time to answer him, the fire within her was too great and she acted by instinct alone. In one swift motion to pull off her night shirt, exposing her generous endowments for her love to admire and hopefully fondle. She wasn't to be disappointed as Ranma's hands, surprisingly soft for the hands of a martial artist, slowly made their way to her chest. As his hands encircled her mounds she gasped as a shock ran though her. Nabiki frantically grabbed the front of Ranma's nightshirt and began to undo the buttons. In seconds she had his shirt off and was working the thin rope that tied his pajama trousers. With soft motions Ranma slipped Nabiki's pajama pants and panties off and dropped them onto the floor. Nabiki moved and felt something against her leg that told her Ranma was now quite aroused.
The fire was intense and was building with every second. Ranma was quite ready to lead in this dance of ecstasy, but before he could draw Nabiki down onto the bed she sprang into action. Nabiki raised herself up into position and made her move. Ranma's surprise was coupled with a sensation that made him suddenly see stars. Pure animal lust was what drove Nabiki, brief pain from loosing one's virginity quickly gave way to indescribable pleasure. Her body knew no pain, no fatigue as she moved in the rhythmic dance of desire. Without conscious though Ranma's hands lovingly delivered tender ministrations to Nabiki's body and her soft endowments. They had no perception of time or anything else around them, just the two coupled together drinking the sweet intoxicating juices of ecstasy.
Neither knew how much time went by. It seemed like an eternity had passed. Suddenly, immense, crushing fatigue struck Nabiki. She collapsed onto Ranma's bare chest and was immediately wrapped in his loving arms. Both panted for breath, their hearts racing, and their blood roaring in their ears. They stayed that way for every minutes, the sweat on their bodies began to cool until they started to get cold. Ranma reached out and pulled a blanket over them, and slowly laid Nabiki on the bed next to him.
"I love you Ran-" she began to say in a whisper, but she was so exhausted that her words were lost as she immediately feel into the depths of sleep.
Ranma kissed her forehead, feeling his own body calling out desperately for rest. He drew her into his embrace, snuggling up close to her body, then closed his eyes and let his own fatigue pull him down into unconsciousness. He didn't have to wait long.

Ranma and his fiancés were returning to school for the first time in a week. Walking beside them was a young girl, about Akane's age, with reddish pink hair, and a Fureinken girl's uniform. Next to her, his hand over her shoulder, was a handsome young man with short black hair, and wearing a Fureinken boy's school uniform.
"A demon you say." Washu said scratching her chin.
"That's what Cologne said." Ranma replied.
"I could take readings of the school grounds, find out if there are any residual energy particles."
"How is the teacher?" Tenchi asked.
"She's still in the hospital, but they say she can leave in a few days." Said Akane. "We went to see her the other day and what she told us was weird."
"Oh?" Washu closed on eye and looked at the girl curiously.
"Yeah, she said she was attacked by one of them tentacle things you see in those hentai anime." Ukyo explained.
"A hentai tentacle monster!" Tenchi gasped.
"Weird, huh?" Ranma told him.
"That's why I asked the two of you to help, this thing took on Miss. Hinako by itself." Ranma went on. "Ever 'I' had trouble dealing with her."
"Well, Ranma, if it's some kind of monster, you can be sure it will not get past my instruments." Washu smiled smugly.
"Its pretty good at masking the chi energy it releases." Ranma warned her.
"Oh, my equipment is way too sensitive for that to work more than once."
"Shampoo hope you right, great grandmother once fought demon, very powerful, very deadly."
Nabiki hadn't left Ranma's side since that morning, she was holding his left arm as they went down the street. "Be careful Ranma, please."
The girls looked at her. The bright glow on the girl's face despite her worried expression told them all they needed to know of what happened last night. It wasn't hard to tell what was going on, with all the screaming, most of it being done by Nabiki herself.
"I will, but I don't want any of you walking off alone anywhere in the school." He said.
"Don't you worry about that, sugar, the only one who's gonna touch this body is you, Ranma honey." Ukyo replied, gesturing to the huge Baker's Peel slung over her back.
"That's all well and good, but Nabiki is the only one of you who isn't a martial artist." Ranma explained.
"Shampoo and others watch over her." Shampoo interjected.
The gate to the high school came into view. There were several students milling about, some giving the newcomers appraising looks. The girls looked at Tenchi with interest while the boys gawked in awe at the girl who walked with him. Some immediately beat a hasty retreat as one particular student walked into view. He swung his bokken out, its tip came within a hair's breath of Tenchi's face.
"Hold, fowl monster, enemy of women!" Kuno roared.
"No now." Ranma groaned.
"Like your deranged relative you too seek to enchant and ensnare beautiful women of Fureinken High." Kuno continued on, taking a regal pose.
"I, Tatawaki Kuno, the rising star of the Keno world, the Blue Thunder of Fureinken High, and defender of the innocent virginal purity of the lovely ladies of his educational establishment will rain righteous fury upon your countenance of evil!"
Akane whispered into Ranma's ear, "His lines are getting better, not!"
By this time it was clear to the other students that Kuno was challenging the new kid. Washu could clearly hear, via her advanced micro sized technology, all the comments made by the students around them.
"Hey, Kuno's challenging the new kid!"
"He's kinda cute."
"That girl with the pink hair is a babe."
"I wouldn't mind a roll in the hey with him."
"I wonder if they're engage like Ranma and Akane?"
"The new kids seems kinda skinny to me."
"Will he fight Kuno?"
"I bet Kuno mops the floor with this guy."
"He doesn't look as tough as Ranma."
"Nobody's as tough as Ranma!"
"Well, I hope kicks Kuno's butt."
"Speaking of butts, his is fine."
"You and your butt fetish Kimiko."
"Her bra size has gotta be in the high D's, or low E's."
"She's got bigger tits than that Shampoo babe!"
Ranma seemed to pull a bokken of his own from out of nowhere. What nobody noticed was the small black portal that opened up between Tenchi and Washu that produced the weapon. It would not do for Tenchi to whip out and ignite the Master Key out in public. Not yet at least.
"So, you're a Kendoist, so am I." Said Tenchi as he fell into a fighting stance with his bokken.
"I am the captain of the Keno Club of Fureinken High School, and the current reining champion of Nerima." Kuno announced with inflated pride.
Without saying any more Kuno launched himself at Tenchi with a series over overhand strikes that the young Masaki deflected with ease. What happened next surprised everyone in attendance. The fight between the two escalated into a fierce sword battle worthy of a Star Wars lightsaber duel, only the combatants were fighting with wooden bokkens. Ranma's jaw dropped as he watched Kuno execute a series of complex sword strikes, jumps, and flips. Tenchi matched his aerial acrobatics with several breathtaking moves of his own.
"What the!" Ukyo gasped.
"How did Kuno get so good all of a sudden?" asked Ranma in surprise.
"Bokken boy only know Kendo, Shampoo airen not fight with Kendo, have advantage over stupid bokken boy, so you beat him all time." Shampoo explained.
"But, when he's fighting within his own element against another Kendoist he's-" Akane started to say. "Actually a pretty darn good fighter." Washu finished for her.
After nearly a dozen aerial maneuvers and near strikes the two combatants alighted to the ground at the same time and turned to one another. Kuno looked at Tenchi with a look of awe and respect. Tenchi was a bit surprised that this buffoon who Ranma was always beating turned out to be a better than average sword fighter. He was good, Tenchi could tell from his moves, but nowhere as good as his grandfather.
"You fight well, your sword skills are most impressive." Said Kuno.
"You're not too bad yourself." Said Tenchi.
"Unlike your foul sorcerer cousin, you Tenchi Masaki have been the most worthy opponent I have ever had the pleasure of dueling against." Kuno replied with a smile that was almost friendly.
"Hey!" Ranma retorted.
Akane put her hand on his shoulder. "Let it go Ranma."
"Come, the tolling of the school bell is upon us, we can continue our duel at a more convenient time once our studies have concluded." Kuno suggested.
Tenchi scratched the back of his head saying, "Uh, yeah, sure."
"Gee, that was-" Said Ukyo.
"Weird." Akane finished.
"Whoever thought Kuno baby was such a good fighter." Said Nabiki. After seeing Tenchi and Kuno go at it the gears I her head went to turning. She made the decision to assemble her staff at homeroom for a quick business meeting.
When Tenchi joined them they hurried into the school building so they wouldn't be counted late. "You impressed Kuno out there, I didn't know he could fight like that." Said Akane.
"Its in his mind, against a non-Kendoist he's not sure how to attack so his moves are clumsy and awkward, but against someone who fight on his own level using Kendo he knows what to do." Washu explained. "That's why Ranma beats him so easily, it's all in Kuno's head."
"Figures." Ranma snorted.
The rest of the day went by without incident. Tenchi and Washu joined the others at their usual place under their favorite tree in the school yard for lunch. Everyone was thankful because the box lunches they had today were made by Sasami's loving little hands. As much as they thoroughly appreciated Kasumi's wondrous cooking, Sasami's culinary prowess made her pale in comparison.
As they ate Washu summoned her translucent computer. The group made sure to sit in such a way that no other students could see what she was doing.
"I've done a scan of the school building, I do detect residual chi energy but no trace of anything else." Washu explained.
"Maybe who or whatever attacked Miss. Hinako left." Nabiki said guessing.
"No, I can feel something, like a prickling feeling at the back of my neck, something is still here." Said Ranma.
"I can feel it too." Tenchi added.
"My instruments don't detect a thing, only residual energy. Hmmm."
"The day is over yet." Ukyo spoke up.
"Aiya, Shampoo and Akane have gym class today." Ranma's eyebrow went up. He had gym class the same time as Akane. He often wondered what Shampoo would look like in one of those tight girl's gym shorts. He also knew the boys would be thinking the same thing, but wasn't worried. If they couldn't get anywhere with Akane they sure as hell couldn't get anywhere with Shampoo.
Washu began typing on her computer and smiled. "We all have gym class today." She said.
"Huh?" everyone said at once.
"I adjusted our afternoon class schedules a bit, nothing a genius like me can't accomplish." She beamed.
"You hacked the school computers." Said Akane.
"How do you think Tenchi and I got registered at Fureinken High?" Washu asked her.
"What if you get caught, they've gotten good at tracing hackers you know." Akane warned. Washu looked at her with an expression of total exasperation. "Me, get caught, me, by some mundane computer nerd who thinks he's Kami's gift to computers-"
Tenchi was quick to cut her off before she decided to turn Akane into a Kappa or something rather non-terrestrial. "Ah, Akane, trust me when I say there is no force on Earth that can locate or trap Washu." He said.
"You wouldn't happen to be able to pull up on the Nikkei Stock Exchange with that could you?" asked Nabiki. A ticker display of stocks appeared with just one press of a key on the translucent computer.
"I think you and me are going to get along just fine." Nabiki beamed.
Everybody but Washu and Nabiki face faltered. Somewhere in Tokyo seismographs registered a 6.5 Richter scale tremor in the vicinity of Nerima.

Ranma and Tenchi observed the school yard carefully as they ran around the basketball court. Tenchi executed a near perfect Michael Jordan-style slam-dunk maneuver winning three points for his team. Ranma, who lead the opposing team, captured the ball made a mad dash for the net. He leapt nearly 30 feet in the air, and was surprised to see Tenchi right next to him. The Masaki youth wiggled his eyebrow at him before snagging the ball. The next few minutes of a free-for-all between Ranma and Tenchi for possession of the ball. All the while the student body was watching with wrapped attention. Even the girl's volleyball team stopped in mid practice to watch the spectacle.
"Boys will be boys." Washu sighed, admiring Tenchi's swift graceful movements.
"Aiya! Tenchi almost good as airen!" Shampoo exclaimed in surprise.
"They sure look happy out there." Said Ukyo.
"What Ranma's needed for a long time was somebody his age he could relate to." Akane explained.
Unbeknownst to everyone, Akane's schoolmate, Yuko, headed off towards the girl's locker room. She wanted to watch the show herself, having a slight crush on Ranma and wanting to get a better look at the boy was apparently his cousin; however, she remembered she had to leave school early to go visit her grandmother in the hospital that day. She was the only one in the girl's locker room. After looking around to make sure she was alone Yuko went to her locker to get her clothes before heading for the showers. She worked the combination lock and opened her locker. Carefully she took out her neatly folded Fureinken school girl's uniform, a small bottle of shampoo and conditioner, and container with her favorite peach fragrance body wash.
She reached down to begin pulling off her tight shorts when she heard a sound. It was like a grating or scraping sound. She looked both ways down the line of lockers but did see anything.
"Hello?" she called out. "Miss. Kobiashi?"
Silence, then the same sound again.
"Mr. Kopi, ah there's somebody in here, you can sweep the floors later."
No response, only that same strange sound again. By now Yuko was in a panic. Visions of a strange man leaping out of the shadows to savagely ravish her on the locker room floor filled her mind with terror.
"I know karate, you'd better watch out!" she lied.
It was then that she realized the sound wasn't on her level, it was coming from above her. Trembling with fear, Yuko peered upwards. What met her eyes made her respond in the only way her terror stricken mind could, she screamed.

Ranma and Tenchi halted their basketball battle almost immediately as a high pitch scream traveled across the school yard. All of the gathered students and teachers looked around to see where it came from. Washu instantly had her computer out, regardless of being seen or not. Akane looked around at her schoolmates as if taking inventory then gasped. "Where's Yuko?!"
A second scream peel across the school yard, this time the boys focused in on where it came from. Ranma tossed the basketball towards his teacher and ran along side Tenchi towards the girl's locker room. Instantly everyone else was on their heels including the girls. Tenchi withdrew the Master Key and sliced the door to the locker room's outside entrance down with one swipe and race into the darkness within with Ranma close behind.
The two discovered a terrifying sight. A gelatinous creatures with multiple slime covered tentacles was literally oozing out of one of the air vents in the ceiling. A young girl, who Ranma recognized as Yuko, was hoisted into the air by a powerful tentacle while another forced its way under her shirt and writhed about where her breasts would be. The boys recovered from their initial shock at seeing the hideous creature when they realized another tentacle was trying to pull the girl's shorts off. Another tentacle was zeroing in on the girl, and as it moved it morphed into the shape of something Tenchi and Ranma know the girl wanted to part of.
"KKKKKIIIIIYYYYAAAAA!!!!" Tenchi cried as he launched at the offending tentacles with the Master Key raised to strike.
The slender blue blade of the magical weapon effortlessly sliced the girl free from the monster and Ranma caught her as she fell. The girl was crying hysterically in Ranma's arms as she clung to him. She realized who it was she was being held by and her terror eased. She knew what Ranma was capable of doing, and felt safe in his arms. Ranma ran from the locker room with her to the waiting arms of her feeling students.
"Ranma, what is it?" Akane cried, seeing Yuko's disheveled state.
"Don't come in here!" he warned as he ran back in.
A loud inhuman roar issued from inside the room and the sounds of battle ensued. The fight inside seemed to go on forever as time seemed to slow for the girls as their love interests did battle with some unseen menace. Suddenly, the wall next to them exploded, and they all saw Ranma flying through the air. He landed on his back nearly fifty feet from the school.
"RANMA HONEY!!!" Ukyo cried out as she and the rest of the girls ran to him.
Ranma slowly climbed to his feet and took a fighting stance. "Why, you son of a-OOOFFFFF!!!!" His words were cut off as Tenchi's body slammed into him knocking the two of them back another twenty feet.
"Ouch, that-didn't go-so well." Tenchi groaned.
"No shit." Ranma groaned a reply.
The girls reached them and immediately began untangling the boys. "Ranma, Tenchi, you both alright?" Akane asked worriedly.
"That thing can pack a wallop." Tenchi commented as he struggled to sit up.
"What was it?" Washu asked.
"A green, slimy, disgusting tentacle monster." Replied Ranma.
"Aiya! Great grandmother say it demon, maybe she right, yes." Said Shampoo.
"Whatever it is, it's toast!" Ranma snarled through clenched teeth and leaped to his feet ready to rejoin the battle.
Washu put a restraining hand in front of him. "Whoa there Mr. Jett Li, we don't know what we're up against, and my instruments still don't detect a thing."
"I could detect it battle aura." Said Ranma.
"What did it feel like?" Washu asked.
"Can't really describe it, it felt, felt dark." Ranma told her struggling to find the right words to describe what he felt.
"That 'thing' is what raped Miss. Hinako, and it tried to rape poor Yuko!" Akane growled looking towards the locker room that was now thoroughly demolished.
"Before we try to take that thing again, we need a battle strategy." Tenchi suggested.
"Yeah, we all go in there and kick its sorry ass!" Ukyo said fingering her super-sized Spatula.
Shampoo produced her bombari maces out of thin air and looked towards the lock room with a malicious grin.
"Wait, this thing likes girls, right?" Nabiki asked.
"Yeah, so." Said Ranma.
"If it overpowered Ranma and Tenchi, imagine what it would do to the rest of you." She went on.
That sobered the girls up almost instantly. None of them were a match for Tenchi and Ranma, not with their immense Jurai powers. If they were beaten by this monster, they didn't even want to imagine what it would do to a bunch of girls that attacked it unsuccessfully. The thought of being viciously violated by a bunch of tentacles wasn't a very appealing prospect.
Washu looked at the data on her computer and still didn't see anything inside the high school. She looked over at Tenchi and then realized something. She kneeled down and plucked something off the front of his shirt. He looked down and saw that it was a piece of tentacle he had cut off of the creature during the battle.
"This could prove useful." Said Washu as she deposited the tentacle piece into a specimen jar.
"Can that help you locate where that monster is?" Akane asked.
"It might." Said Washu as she tossed it into a black portal behind her. She turned to her computer as data about the sample instantly appeared on her screen.
"Fascinating, amazing!" she said.
"WHAT?!" everyone said at once.
"That creature is a one-cell organism, but incredibly it's on a macro level." Washu explained. Everyone just looked at her and blinked.
"It's bigger than it's supposed to be." She groaned in exasperation.
"The creature is the source of the residual chi energy I am detecting in the school." Washu went on to explain. "Now, where the creature is right now should be the location of the highest concentration of excess energy. So all I have to do is write a small subroutine to check for this, and---boom, there he is!"
A three dimensional view of the building appeared on the screen, a flashing blob of white appeared in the ventilation system. Everyone noted that it was moving very fast.
"It uses the air shafts." Akane observed.
"So, it probably sneaked up on Miss. Hinako and took her from behind." Ukyo surmised. "Poor little creep didn't have a chance."
"Still doesn't explain why she's stuck in adult form." Ranma told her.
"The sample is absolutely permeated with chi energy." Sand Washu. "It could be that this creature has powers we haven't seen yet."
"It would explain Miss. Hinako." Said Nabiki.
"Ok, so how the hell do we kill it?" Ranma asked.
"Well, being a one-cell organism it will regenerate very fast." Washu lectured them. "The wounds you gave it are will like be healing right about now, or could be healed as we speak. Attacking the body isn't the answer, you need to hit the nucleus."
"Nucleus?" Shampoo asked.
"All cells have a nucleus, it's the brain of the cell so to speak." Washu explained. "It directs the functions of the cell whether it's a part of a larger organism like yourself, or the brain for a simple one-cell creature like an ameba or that thing in there. Disrupting the nucleus can either disrupt the functions of the cell or kill it. Viruses disrupt the functions of a cell by invading the nucleus and reprogramming it's DNA with it's own to create more copies of itself using the functional parts of the cell like a biological factory."
"So we find it's brain, destroy it, and the thing dies." Ranma replied.
"Exactly, but you need to know where the nucleus is first." Washu told him.
Ranma looked back at the school then at his girls. He didn't want them here now that he knew the monster was real. "I think we'd better go home, Tenchi and I will come back after school is over to finish this while nobody else is around."
"Is that wise, I mean that thing clobbered you guys good." Akane said worriedly.
"Nah, we underestimated what it could do, we won't make that same mistake twice." Ranma reassured her.
"Besides, demon or not, that thing is no match for the Light Hawk Wings." Tenchi spoke up.
"That's likely very true." Replied Washu.
Ranma put his arm around his cousin's shoulder and said proudly, "Together we're gonna rip that monster a new one and then some!"
"How do we draw it out?" Tenchi asked.
Ranma flashed him his best wicked smile. "This thing likes girls, right?"
Tenchi nodded. "Well, we'll give it what it wants." Ranma told him.
"Huh?" Tenchi was a bit confused, then when he realized what Ranma meant he also grinned wickedly.
"Ranma honey, I hope that strategy doesn't come back to bite you on the ass." Ukyo said with concern.
"Hey, what could go wrong?" Ranma asked.
"Plenty." The girls all replied at once.

Night fell over the (semi) peaceful suburban town of Nerima. A hush fell over the city leaving only the low roar that was the usual background noise from a major modern metropolitan area. Unlike Tokyo itself, the prefecture of Nerima wasn't active all day and night with activity. Unless, of course, you were a member of usual Nerima Wrecking Crew. One member of that exclusive group crouched low on the wall surrounding Fureinken High School. Another who would soon become a part of that group stood at the main gates accompanied by a girl with pink hair wearing a green uniform-style dress.
"According to these readings its somewhere on the second floor." Washu told them looking at her computer display.
"Ok, we gotta draw it out." Said Ranma.
Tenchi looked over at the school and looked in wonder at the wall that they had both sailed through. It was fully repaired.
"That didn't take long." He said in surprise, pointing to the repaired wall.
"Oh, that, the Principle of this place may be a total loon but he's a rich loon." Tenchi explained.
"Shall we." Washu said as she headed for the school. Tenchi grabbed her shoulder and look at her sudden upturned face.
"No, you're staying here, outside away from that monster." He told her.
"I can take care of myself, Tenchi dear." She reassured him.
"I don't want to take any chances, please just this once let us handle this." Tenchi pleaded with her.
Washu looked up at him with an expression that was for most part unreadable, then she smiled. "You know, you're cute when you get all accretive like that." She said, beaming at him. "You should do it more often with Ryoko and Aeka when they fight."
"At least my girls can't lay waste to a city when they get mad." Ranma commented, then on second though he realized that they could easily lay waste to a city. "Never mind." He added.
"Ready?" Ranma asked his cousin.
"Ready." Tenchi replied gripping the Master Key in his hand.
"Before you go." Washu spoke up. She took out a small jewelry box out of her vest, popped it open, and produced two small objects.
"Communicators, lets you keep in touch with me." She told them. The two look the objects that looked like they fit behind the ear. After putting them in place Tenchi and Ranma smiled at each other and ran towards the school.

Tenchi found a place of concealment inside the girl's locker room that gave him a clear view of the showers. In his hand he gripped the Master Key awaiting the arrival of the monster. As it was, he wished the thing would show up already! He learned some time ago that Ranma used the name Ranko when in girl form around people who didn't know about his curse. Ranko was bathing leisurely in the girl's showers, with cold water of course. Tenchi watched intently for any sign of the monster, but a war was being waged inside of him. He repeated in his mind over and over again that the person he was seeing was his 'male' cousin and not a 'real girl'. The mother-of-all nose bleeds was threatening to expel his entire blood supply in one massive burst. Ranko was a vision of beauty beyond any possible mortal description, perhaps was even supernatural in nature. Not even Ryoko's formidable looks could not be compared to the elegant grace and beauty of Ranma's female form. She was like a piece of sculpture somehow brought to life by the Kami and instill with a beauty once only reserved for the angels of heaven. There was only one person in Tenchi's life who could possibly be adequately compared to what he saw before him; Tsunami herself.
Ranko slowly watched herself, humming in her soft toned voice that to Tenchi's ears sounded like a chorus from the heavens. Ranko peered up at the air vent that was almost directly overhead. It was over an hour and the monster had not arrived yet. Washu told them via their communicators that the creature had not moved from its resting place all that time.
"Oh I hope some horrible monster doesn't come along and ravish my incredibly beautiful virgin body!" Ranko shouted towards the ceiling.
"What gives?" Ranko asked softly.
"Maybe it hasn't sensed your female hormones yet, either that or it somehow senses you're not really a girl." Washu replied via the communicator.
"That would be problem." They heard Tenchi via his communicator.
"Wait, he'd on the move." Washu told them.
"About damn time, what he's not horny enough?" Ranko snorted in exasperation.
"Get ready, you're about to have company." Washu warned them.
Ranko went back to doing what she was doing, washing and humming softly as if totally oblivious to the fact that a monster was about to attack. A second shower head across the room was turned on, this one with hot water. The plan was to draw the monster out, Ranko would change back with the hot water, and then Ranma would grab and hold the monster while Tenchi impaled it with the Tenchiken. The plan seemed simple enough.
With a speed that was unbelievable the monster broke open the air vent and squeezed its body through the small opening. Ranko jumped to her feet and performed a series of flips to dodge attacking tentacles. She unleashed with the "Chestnut Fist" to deflect several attacks to clear her say to the hot water. As she turned to run a tentacle snagged her leg and yanked her into the air. Other tentacles formed out of the creature's body to wrap around her body, and Ranko screamed with disgust as she felt something fondling her breasts and buttock. A look of absolute horror crossed Ranko's face as a large tentacle approached her and morphed into the shape of a certain male organ. She struggled with all of her strength to get free.
NO, NO, NO, NO, NOT GONNA GET RAPPED, NO, NO, NO, NOT A GIRL, NOT A GIRL!, Ranko's mind screamed. She could not cry out as a tentacle wrapped around her head gagging her.
A snap and a sizzling sound filled the air. Tenchi leaped into view swinging with the Master Key. He aimed for the offending tentacle that threatened to endanger Ranko's purity. The monster squealed in pain and rage and struck with several tentacles. Tenchi held his ground, cutting down every attack that came near him. Ranko watched all this is morbid fascination as she struggled to free herself despite the sickening sensation of being fondled by dozens of sucking tentacles. She jerked her head about until the tentacle that covers her mouth went flying. With the one arm that wasn't completely immobilized Ranko pointed towards the bundle of tentacles that held her.
"MOKO TAKABISHA!"
A blast of blue energy lanced out from her hand searing the tentacles and forcing the monster to release its intended victim. Ranma alighted on the shower room floor and made a mad dash for the warm water. She dodged several attacks intended to grab her arms or legs, but made it to the water just in time. Ranma turned around with a wicked grin on his face as he regarded the monster.
"You're going down!" he screamed and threw himself into the writhing mass. Meanwhile, Tenchi was being pushed back by the intense attack of a seemingly endless supply of tentacles.
"BAKUSAI TENKETSU!"
The ground beneath the monster seemed to literally explode. Shards of concrete and ceramic tiles ripped through the monster's body tearing it to shreds. Ranma appeared out of maelstrom without a scratch and alighted on the floor next to Tenchi. When the dust and smoke faded the two boys gasped in total surprise. In place of the tentacle monster there now stood a creature that could be described as otherworldly. It was a tentacle creature itself, but it seemed to be more solid than the other form it had taken, and wasn't covered in slime. The tentacles each ended with an appendage like a hand, and a few were formed as certain male organs. This creature had eight tentacles, and in the center of it all a huge lidless eye that seemed to radiate intense malevolence as if it were a physical force.
"What the hell is that?" Ranma asked.
"Rakshaza, Demon of Lust, denizen of the Fifth Ring of Hell." Came a voice from above. The boys looked up to see Cologne perched on top of one of the rows of lockers.
"How long have you been there?" Ranma asked her.
"Long enough to know my dear Shampoo is a very luck woman, if only I were a few hundred years younger." Ranma realized for the first time he was still totally naked and blushed intensely.
"Beware son-in-law, this creature is a higher demon, far beyond my meager understanding of the arcane arts." Cologne warned.
"Silence Amazon Witch!" the creature spoke in a deep, inhuman voice that made a shiver run down Ranma's spine. It was at this moment he knew he was in the presence of 'true' evil. Cologne threw him a pair of shorts and a t-shirt he donned quickly at amazing speed.
"Now what?" Tenchi asked, still in a fighting stand with the Master Key at the ready. The monster hadn't even moved since the Breaking Point attack.
"I've never fought a demon before, have you?" Ranma asked.
"Uh, does Ryoko count?" Tenchi chuckled, scratching the back of his head.
Ranma turned back towards the monster. "We're in deep shit."
"You both give a good fight, interesting you used a Josenkyo curse to lure me out into the open." Rakshaza said. "You're persistence is to be commended."
"We're just full of surprises!" Ranma shot back.
"As am I." The demon said as it unleashed a tremendous blast of energy from its eye. Tenchi and Ranma dodged out of the way as the blast vaporized the row of lockers behind them and took out several walls beyond that.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Ranma cried out in shock as debris showered on top of him from the blast.
"Pitiful mortals, did you truly think you could defeat me so easily." Said Rakshaza as it floated out of the showers and unleashed another blast.
Tenchi and Ranma ran as fast as they could out of the locker room and out into the school yard.
"Ok, at what point did we loose control here?" Ranma asked.
Tenchi looked back at the monster and his face hardened. "Ranma, go back to Washu, I'll deal with this."
"Nani?"
"You heard me, RUN!" Ranma couldn't believe his ears, then he noticed something about Tenchi. The same three-triangle symbol appeared on his forehead that he saw when Kagato attacked the Ryo-Ohki. Three white, blade like formations of pure energy formed in front of Tenchi's body.
"THE LIGHT HAWK WINGS! IMPOSSIBLE!" the demon cried. It unleashed another massive blast of power, but it splashed off the Light Hawk Wings like the surf splashes off the rocks on the coast.
Tenchi began to merge with the wings, the two touching his hands forming the white armor, and third materializing into the shimmering Light Hawk Sword.
"Wow." Was all Ranma could say.
From the sidelines, Matriarch Cologne watched also in total disbelief of what she was seeing. Even the great Saffron could not control the power of the Light Hawk Wings, yet this mere mortal boy wields them like one would an appendage of their own bodies., she thought.
The demon struck again with greater force than before. Tenchi deflected the blast with his sword, but the impact made him slide backwards a few feet.
"You may possess the power of the gods, but do you know how to use it." Rakshaza growled. Its many hands waved in the air in intricate patterns, a glowing aura began to surround its body.
"A spell!" Cologne called out.
"I will crush you like so much flotsam, then I'll take your cursed companion and teach him to deceive me." Rakshaza said threateningly. "Perhaps after I've had my way with his exquisite cursed form he'll learn respect."
"Over my dead body!" Ranma yelled.
"Would not be the first time I've pleasured myself with a corpse." The demon said menacingly. "Though I prefer my women living."
"I'm not a woman you deranged, whatever you are!" Ranma shouted back.
"That can be remedied, and with the proper magic it can be made permanent." Ranma's face turned a deathly white at that revelation. This creature could lock him in his female form forever.
"ENOUGH!" Tenchi yelled and launched into an attack. The monster's four tentacles that ended with hands finished the magical patterns they were forming, and with a bright flash of light each one now brandished a gleaming sword that appeared to be made of pure crystal.
The weapons moved with incredible speed as it deflected Tenchi's Light Hawk Sword. The impacts sent a shower of sparks flying with each hit, and an ear piecing ringing noise. The fight was furious with neither combatant giving up nor gaining ground.
"Incredible, not even Tokimi could stand up to the Light Hawk Sword, but this thing is." Washu said as she ran up to Ranma's side.
"I gotta help him!" Ranma shouted as he dashed off to his cousin.
"Son-in-law, no that foe is beyond you!" Cologne cried out in terror.
Ranma ran until he knew he was at the right distance, and raised his hands. "MOKO TAKABISHA!"
The chi blast lanced out, then did something Ranma had never seen before. The chi energy flowed around the demon and swirled around it like a ring, then just as quickly it was suddenly absorbed into the four crystal swords. Rakshaza struck with all four weapons at Tenchi, when they connected with the Light Hawk Sword they burst with immense energy releasing their stored chi. The impact knocked Tenchi off his feet and sent him flying several feet back.
"Fool!" the demon spat as it glided towards Ranma. "Those parlor tricks the Amazon Witch has taught you cannot harm me."
It raised its weapons as if to strike at Ranma. The Saotome youth raised his hands as if to protect himself. The faces of the girls he loved more than anything else flashed before his mind. He could see Akane, Ukyo, Shampoo, and Nabiki all looking at him smiling happily. Forgive me., he said silently to their images as he awaited the deadly blow that was coming.
"NOOOOO!!!!! LOOOVVVEEEE!!!! I CAN'T STAND LOVE!!!!"
Ranma looked up, the death blow he was expecting didn't come. Instead the demon was cowering away from him as if in terror. It was in that instant that Ranma realized two things. First, he was surrounded by a bright white glow that radiated from his body like a battle aura, but somehow seemed much stronger than any battle aura he's ever seen. Second, the faces of the girls he had seen were not illusions in his mind, they really were there surrounding him.
"You ok, sugar?" Ukyo asked.
"Yeah." Ranma asked, a bit stunned.
"Rakshaza is the Demon of Lust, a creature of incredible evil, but even the greatest of evils can be crush under the righteous power of pure love." Cologne said in solemn tone.
"Quickly, hold hands and surround him, as long as you are touching he cannot harm you." Cologne called out.
Ranma and the girls ran towards the demon and formed a round around it. The creature screamed nearly every curse know to humankind and many more known only to demons.
"Do you feel that?" Cologne asked the monster. "That is the power of love you are feeling, the power that breathes life into the goddesses of the heavens! You, denizen of hell cannot comprehend even this most basic of feelings, and that is why you are powerless against it!"
"Amazon Witch, you and your entire lot will suffer for this!" Rakshaza cried.
"Give my regards to Loki, tell him if he wants a rematch he knows where to find me." Cologne laughed. "Now Tenchi, drive your sword into his eye and finish him!"
Tenchi ran up and joined the circle of love. Ranma reached out his hand to Tenchi's sword arm, Shampoo gripped Tenchi's other hand. The white glow of love surrounded the blade, then Tenchi raised it above his head and struck.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!"

Kun Lao winced in agony as he felt intense pain radiating from the creature he birth into this world from the depths of hell. When summoning a demon, you also bound yourself to it. After writhing with unspeaking agony for several minutes on the floor, Kun Lao slowly pulls himself up to his bed. Of course, he knew what this meant. Rakshaza was defeated, and his essence was returning to the nine hells. What surprised him was how quickly the higher level demon was defeated. Kun Lao knew from Gosunkugi's memories that the Amazon's were here and that one of their Matriarchs sought Saotome to marry her great granddaughter, but he did not think she had the skill to destroy such a malevolent monster.
Kun Lao grabbed one of the many mixing bowls the foolish boy used for mixing useless love potions and filled it with water. He concentrated, summoning the chi he needed for the spell, and weaved a glowing pattern on the surface of the water with his finger. When the pattern was finished the water ripple and form an image. There was Saotome, the young Tendo girl Gosunkugi was obsessed with, the Amazon, a woman name Ukyo Kuonji, and the middle Tendo sister Nabiki. There was another Kun Lao had not seen, a young boy, a strange girl with pink hair, and the Matriarch herself. There was something strange about the young boy, he was wearing white robes and in his hand...
"The Light Hawk Sword!" Kun Lao gasped in horror.
He watched as the boy dispelled the sword and his white armor faded away to reveal his more normal modern day attire.
"So, Saotome has an ally who possess the power of the Light Hawk Wings." Kun Lao said as he dispelled the image. "This complicates matters."
He walked over to the bookcase of tomes the boy kept. Kun Lao was surprised and a bit appalled at the fact that the boy knew little of the raw power he possessed at his fingertips with these books if only he had the wits to properly use them. After finding the proper book he took it to the desk and leafed through the pages until he found what he was looking for. The Chi Sorcerer raised his hands above the pages and concentrated. A passage of text on the page began to glow with a spectral sheen. Slowly, glowing Kanji pictograms rose up from the book and began to travel in a swirling pattern around the room. The text swirled faster and faster until they became a whirlwind of light. Within the light an image formed, first faint and discernable, then sharper in contrast. It was a landscape, an ancient cemetery with tomb stones that were far older than the city that surrounded the hallowed land. In the center was an ancient structure, a mausoleum of stone. Kuno Lao could feel the presence there and smiled.
"So, old friend, you have endured even until these strange modern times." He said, then dispelled the image with a wave of his hand. "Soon I shall have a need of your services one again, very soon."

"I thought you said it was some one-cell thing."
Ranma looked at Washu with some irritation as they all walked back to the Tendo dojo from the ruins of Fureinken High. The girls were all hovering protectively around Ranma, the fierce white glow that surrounded them before when facing the demon was now gone, but they could feel its power nonetheless.
"That's what my instruments said it was." Washu shot back defensively.
"Because you ignore that which you cannot see." Said Cologne.
"What are you saying?" Washu asked her, at bit irritated.
"You made a mistake in your diagnosis." The Amazon Elder told her in a matter of fact tone. Tenchi winced, to Washu those were fighting words.
"A mistake, me, I never make mistakes." Washu growled. "I'm the Greatest Scientific Genius in the Universe."
"That may be, and it is not my place to dispute your claim, but nonetheless you made an error." Cologne replied calmly.
"Alright, in what area did I make my error?" Washu demanded.
"You made an error because of your ignorance of that which science refuses to let you see." Cologne told her.
The group stopped as they reached the front gates to the Tendo dojo, but nobody was ready to go inside just yet.
"You're speaking of magic." Washu said, not as loud but still with some irritation.
"You are adept at science, that I have seen, but your knowledge of the arcane is, well, inadequate." Cologne said. "Had I not arrived with the ladies here, Tenchi and son-in-law's confrontation with the demon may have had a less than favorable conclusion."
"Tenchi would have eventually beaten that monster." Washu snorted.
"True, eventually, but at what cost?" asked Cologne.
Washu fell silent and was unable to answer. She didn't know anything about magic other than the mere scientific laws that govern it existence. Most of which deal heavily with Quantum Mechanics, a subject for which was most adept.
"Perhaps next time when dealing with the supernatural you will leave it up to those who know what they are doing." Cologne added.
"WHAT?!" Washu fumed with clenched teeth, but she calm when Tenchi put a hand on her shoulder.
"Don't be mad, Little Washu, she is right though." He said. "You're expertise is science, and hers is magic. Maybe you two can learn to work together."
Washu pointed to diminutive old woman. "With her?"
"Why not?" Tenchi asked, puzzled at her behavior.
"Where are you going?" Tenchi asked as Washu headed for the house.
"Going home, I got a sudden irresistible urge to go scrub in the onsen, very, very hard."
"I'm going to stay here for a bit, I'll be home soon." He told her.
"Ok, Tenchi dear." She smiled and flashed am almost lethal look towards the Amazon before disappearing into the house.
"That one has a great deal of potential, assuming she can take control of her rather over inflated ego." Cologne commented.
"Uh, yeah, well ego is one thing Washu certain has a lot of." Tenchi laughed.
"I heard that!" Washu shouted from the house.
"Opps." Tenchi said and sighed. He wondered what sort of punishment, no experiment, she was going to subject him to for atonement for his transgressions.
"Man, I feel like the floor of a taxi cab." Ranma groaned, the fatigue of his battle finally getting to him.
"Yeah, I'd better get home too." Tenchi said.
"Don't let her beat you too hard, Masaki." Nabiki winked at Tenchi as he left for the house.
"Let's get Ranma into a nice warm bath and to bed." Said Akane. "He looks like death warmed over, and smells just as bad."
"I wash his back." Nabiki piped.
"No way, I wash Ranma honey's back this time." Ukyo protested.
"You both wrong, it Shampoo turn." Shampoo snorted.
"What gods have I pissed off to deserve all this?" Ranma asked towards the heavens. The girls all laughed as they ushered him into the house.
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To be continued...

Next time...
Part 3: The Resurrection of Hikaru Kuno
The incident with the Demon of Fureinken High was long over and Ranma and Tenchi have begun college. Now the family has become concerned with Kasumi's strange behavior, its almost as if he's becoming another person. Unknown to them, memories of another life are awakening inside of her. And, on one dark and stormy night Kasumi's life suddenly changes forever.

Moko takabisha
Bakusai Tenketsu