Disclaimer: Ranma ½ is not my property and never will be.

Summery: It's still AU. Ranma and Ryouga are having a morning talk.

[Sign] (Thoughts) *SOUNDS* ++++++++++Flashback++++++++++


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Ranma and Ryouga-chan?
Part II
Morning Talks


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Mornings are beautiful; the way the sun rises over the horizon and brings life to the world. Shortly after, you will hear the sounds of birds waking up to catch their first meal of the day. Nothing will ruin this picture, not even those two loudmouthed, high-spirited young people, having a friendly spar at this ungodly hour.

"DIE!"

Nabiki tumbled out of her bed and looked around her room. One minute she was having a pleasant dream, the next someone was yelling for murder outside her window. Pulling up the shades, she cast a look into the garden. She blinked as she saw the Saotome's and Ryouga's morning practice.

To say she was annoyed would be wrong. She had been able to ignore her little sister's yells in the morning when she practiced. But the sound produced by the three persons in the garden was just too much. Grumbling Nabiki stumbled out the door and towards the bathroom.



Ranma ducked under a kick from his father and had to jump back as a red umbrella tried to shatter his ribs. Following this, Genma tried to grab his son and toss him into the pond. Unfortunately Ryouga slammed her elbow into the side of the fat man and made a few swiping motions with her umbrella. Ranma calmly ducked all the attacks and grinned. Well, he grinned until Genma kicked him in the back sending him head first into the koi pond.

Ranma-chan jumped out of the pond, spluttering and spitting out water "Why you stupid old…"

Genma merely ignored her and turned to face Ryouga. "Now let's see how good you have gotten, 'girl'" A low growl came from Ryouga, moments before she crossed the distance between them.

Soun looked up from his newspaper and took in the spar. He could see that Genma and Ranma used mostly midair techniques. But this Ryouga seemed to prefer to remain on the ground and fight. From the looks of it, her style was based on strength and speed. For a split second, Soun could have sworn he saw someone else in Ryouga's place.

Outside in the yard things had gone wild as Ranma, after pouring hot water over himself, jumped back into the fight with a vengeance. Ryouga had to jump back a little bit and duck as Genma and Ranma tore over her, kicking and punching. As it was, this fight could last all day, but fate intervened in the form of the oldest daughter of Soun Tendo. Namely Kasumi Tendo.

"Ranma-Kun, Genma-Kun, Ryouga-chan! Breakfast!"

At that sound, all the fighting in the yard stopped and Genma and Ranma hung in the air for a split second, then they fell into the koi-pond. Ryouga jumped back and snapped open her umbrella, successfully deflecting the water away from her.

Ranma-chan and Genma-p slowly came up from under the water and glared at the other.

"Do you three always fight like that?" Ryouga turned her head and smiled as she spotted Akane standing next to her.

"I didn't I would usually go over a few kata's and then some strength techniques" Ryouga turned to look at Ranma-chan and Genma-p. "But these two. No matter where we were, it was always practice, practice, practice"

Akane shook her head and smiled "No wonder they're so good. So how long have you been studying the art? Who trained you, your father?"

Ryouga turned to look at the breakfast table "We should get going before they eat all the food."

Akane stared silently as Ryouga walked away (Was it something I said?)



The Tendo's stared at the carnage that was breakfast. Genma-p wept as he stared at the bamboo on his plate. Next to him Ranma and Ryouga crossed chopsticks as they tried to steal eachothers food. Living on the road for weeks with Ranma and Genma had forced Ryouga to become faster or starve.

Akane and Nabiki blinked as it looked like a piece of fish was floating around in the air. And then the two rice bowls spun around as rice pieces flew though the air. And then there was the cry of a surprised Ranma-chan as Ryouga emptied her water over her head. And to which Ranma-chan responded by dumping water on Ryouga. The girl and piglet started a small sparring match at the table as Akane and Nabiki sweatdropped at the sight of it.

Genma-p, seeing his son and student occupied, calmly swiped all their food from them. As he munched on a piece of fish, he suddenly got the feeling of doom. Turning he saw one angry red haired girl and a pissed off piglet staring at him. A moment later, Genma went flying out the door and straight into the koi pond. Then the girl and pig started to fight over the remains.

"It's so nice to see friends play."

Akane looked over at Kasumi "Play?" Somehow, she didn't think Kasumi saw the same thing as everyone else.

Across the table Soun took refuge behind his newspaper.

As the food fight died down, Genma-p dragged Ranma out the door in order to talk.

Ryouga-p sat calmly on the table. Kasumi smiled as she scratched him behind the ears "Ryouga-chan, I put some clothes that should fit you on the desk in your room. Please feel free to use the furo." Ryouga-p smiled and nodded his thanks as Kasumi walked down the hall with him.



"Ahh" Ryouga sighed as she looked at the ceiling. There was nothing like a warm bath to get her muscles to relax. Closing her eyes, she leaned back against the edge of the furo. As she lay there in the warm water relaxing, she started to feel her eyes droop, too bad the quiet didn't last long.

"Hey don't do that, furball!"

"Growf?"

Ryouga let out a small eep as the sliding door slammed open and a completely naked Ranma-chan and Genma-p fell in though it. Struggling with Genma-p's heavy weight, Ranma-chan looked over to see Ryouga's eyes poking up over the edge of the furo. Genma-p noticed the dark-blue aura around the girl and scrambled out the door. Somehow he had developed a healthy respect for her temper and silly demands of privacy. Of course, getting kicked though a roof and into low earth orbit a few times had something to do with it.

Ranma-chan quickly spun around, covered her eyes and blushed. "Sorry about that, Ryouga…" A splash of warm water hit her on the head and he felt the transformation. The sound of feet on the wet tiles told him Ryouga had left the furo.

"Ranma…" Ryouga asked as she stopped behind him "Hand me the towels will you?"

Ranma nodded and pushed the two towels backwards into the hands of Ryouga. A shifting sound followed and Ryouga stepped past him. Her hair was still dripping wet and clinging to her back. One of the towels was wrapped around her body and the other was used to dry her hair.

"Ryouga?" Ryouga looked over at Ranma as he sat in the furo "Want me to teach you how to braid your hair?" Ryouga looked at him for a second, before nodding. Ranma grinned. "Fine, I'll meet you in your room in a short while, okay?"



As Ryouga stepped into her little room, she noticed a neat folded bundled on her desk "Huh?" As she looked closer she noticed that it was a set of clothes, feminine clothes. Ryouga growled at the thought, but, not wanting to insult Kasumi, she pulled the shirt over her head and put the jeans on.

Looking in a small mirror on the desk revealed her worst fear. She looked even cuter then Ranma's girl-form. Pale blue jeans fit loosely around her legs and allowed full movement, tied loosely with a belt from her own clothes. A dark-blue T-shirt with a little bunny on it barely fit over her ample chest. Ryouga blanched and pulled the T-Shirt off.

Digging though her backpack, she didn't notice the shadow outside her window or its camera. It's amazing what the prospect of money could do some people.

Grinning, she pulled out a Chinese traveling shirt and looked at it. Slowly, she put it on. As she turned to stare at the mirror she nearly screamed. The shirt hung loosely around her shoulders, but it was the length of it that made her almost scream. It looked like she was wearing a small dress and black leggings. After ten minuets she finally settled for wearing the Chinese shirt. Of course, this was after small discussion with Kasumi.

As she finished dressing, Ranma poked his head in though the door and stared at her.

Ryouga sighed and looked at Ranma. "What are you up to?"

Ranma stepped in and closed the door "So have you heard about school?" Ranma turned her head around and split her hair in three parts, slowly braiding it as they spoke.

Ryouga smiled. "Hey at least we won't have to look at the panda for a while"

Ranma grinned "Well that is a plus. But I'd rather spend the time training."

Ryouga smirked "Oh, am I getting that far ahead of you?"

"Hey…" Ranma said as he looked at her.

Ryouga laughed as she saw Ranma's expression, then she closed her eyes and sighed. "Do you remember back when we were in high school. Things never seemed to be so stressful back then"

Ranma grinned. "You seemed serious enough in your grudge. Hey, give me one of your bandanas…"

Ryouga pulled off one, and handed it back over her shoulder. "Yeah… hey, what do you mean by that?"

Slowly tying the bandanna around the end of the braid, Ranma smirked. "I mean you were always angry or depressed. I think I only saw you happy when your mother was home, when we talked and when we sparred"

Ryouga tilted her head forward and sighed, "She was the only one who liked me back then. Everyone was afraid of me. And you showed up; you and your carefree lifestyle. You were so much like me" Ryouga grinned.

Ranma nodded "Well, I braided your hair. When we get from School I'll show you to do it." Ryouga looked at the long braid and smiled.

"Kami-sama, I look so damn girlish…"

Ranma grinned. "Hey, could that be because you're a girl?"

Ryouga's fingers cracked loudly as she glared at Ranma. "Ranma, PREPARE TO DIE"



Kasumi looked up at the sound of feet running across the floor. Seconds later the door slammed open and Ranma ran off, followed by a screaming Ryouga. "Those two are such good friends" Kasumi mused with a smile.

"Wait up!" Akane bolted out the door, trying to catch up with the two martial artists.



Authors Notes: Well if you're reading this it means my computer troubles are over. First the damn thing crashed and deletes everything. Then the modem decided it didn't want to work and then everything went down hill to another complete crash. Well, things should be working now. By the way, anyone knows off a good place to make a homepage.  


Ja Ne.

Dak, once know as Daki.