Neo- Saiyans

by Night Hunter MGS

Author's Notes: Things are about to heat up, people. Hang onto your seats!

Disclaimer: Oh, come on. Do you honestly believe that I'd be spending hours a day writing this stuff for free if I owned these series? I'd be too busy doing the Scrooge McDuck thing and swimming through piles of cash.

Chapter 2: Changes

Everyone was settled in the living room, while Kagome explained Dr. Tofu's discovery to Ryouga. The Lost Boy nodded thoughtfully as the young girl concluded her tale. "It makes sense. Unlike you, my parents let me know that I was adopted. I think that's why I started becoming so angry and depressed all the time, because I didn't have any real family. And because of my blinding rage, I couldn't focus, which is why I get lost easily. I'm sorry to have woken everyone up, please go back to bed, I'd like to talk to Ranma and… my sister… privately."

As the still drowsy Tendos and Ranma's father nodded in agreement and went up the stairs back to their disturbed slumber, Ranma called up after the middle Tendo sister. "And hey, Nabiki, if you eavesdrop or make a recording or anything of our conversation, I swear that I'll use the Hiryu Shoten Ha in your room and melt all of your records and files with a few Mouko Takabishas. Understood?"

Nabiki might have been half-asleep, but she couldn't possibly miss the seriousness behind Ranma's threat, so she made sure to turn off all of the listening devices in the living room before going back to sleep. As soon as they were sure that everyone else was back asleep after the aborted fight, the three occupants of the room turned to face one another, solemn expressions on their faces. Ryouga breathed deeply, trying to stay calm. It wasn't easy to control your emotions after a lifetime of giving them free reign, but he didn't want his long lost sister to think of him as some sort of barbarian. He'd gotten good enough with energy signatures to determine that Kagome really was his sister. That made him so happy, knowing that finally he wasn't alone anymore! Of course, that joy was somewhat offset by a certain event that he'd happened to walk in on. Barely suppressing his rage, Ryouga turned to his rival and asked the question that had been haunting him ever since Kagome's revelation about their relationship. "Alright Ranma, why in Kami-sama's name were you kissing my little sister?"

Kagome flushed crimson at Ryoyga's barely civil question. "Gomen ne, oniisan, but I really don't think that it's any business of yours who I do and don't kiss."

Ryouga smiled gently at his newly discovered sister. It was strange, but she had a calming effect on him, like a part of his soul had been restored. "Hai, imouto, of course I don't. I haven't been a part of your life for as long as the two of us have been alive, I'm not about to tell you how to live your life. However, as you might already know Ranma has a fiancée, it was dishonorable of him to cheat on her by kissing you."

Ranma was amazed that Ryouga was managing to stay calm and reasonable, so he wasn't going to ruin this moment of understanding by sticking his foot in his mouth as usual. "I know Ryouga, it was dishonorable to cheat on my fiancée, but remember that by no fault of my own I have several. If I took Akane on a date, I'd be betraying Shampoo and Ukyou. No matter what I do, honor will be stained, all thanks to my worthless father. Even the disagreement between the two of us is because of him! I waited for you for three days before my father knocked me out and dragged me off to China; it was never my intention to run from our duel. I considered you a friend back then Ryouga, why else would I help you to your house and back? The way I do things, our spars and those times in the cafeteria were friendly fights. My father raised me, so I don't really know how to show friendship or caring, I can only do my best with what I understand. Please understand that Ryouga, I don't want to hurt anybody but I can't see any way out of this mess. Kissing Kagome was… well, it just happened. For the first time since I reached Nerima, something felt right, and if it was dishonorable than honor be damned!"

Kagome blushed while Ryouga studied his rival carefully. Slowly, the bandanna clad martial artist nodded in agreement. "Alright Ranma, I'll admit it, you're between a rock and a hard place with nowhere to go. I forgive you for missing our duel, and I'll try to act more like a friend than an enemy; I owe you that much at least for all the kindness that you've shown me and I've ignored. As for kissing Kagome… well, as I said, it's none of my business as to who my sister is interested in. Just be warned, if you break her heart I'll break your spine. Clear?"

Ranma smirked. "You mean that you'll try, P-chan."

Ryouga growled as Kagome looked on in befuddlement, certain that she must have missed something. "Ranma, do not call me P-chan, it's insulting."

The pigtailed youth had the decency to look sheepish. "Gomen, Ryouga, I don't mean it, it's just another side effect of my father's methods of teaching and raising a child. I'm sorry, and I'll try not to insult you like that again."

The two fighters stared at each other before finally they smiled and embraced one another in a friendly hug. Kagome felt a tear track down her cheek as she smiled, knowing that she was witness to a momentous event. As the two ended their embrace, all three people present in the Tendo living room smiled at one another before Ranma spoke. "Well, it really is late. Ryouga, you're welcome to spend the night in my room, alright?"

The Lost Boy considered Ranma's invitation for only a moment before smiling brightly. "Alright, thank you for the offer… friend."

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Kagome yawned as she slowly woke up to greet a new day. The Tendos had graciously extended their hospitality for several days now, wishing to give her a chance to get to know Ryouga before deciding on whether she'd stay with her brother or not. She smiled fondly. Ryouga was such a nice, good-natured person once his all-consuming rage had been dealt with. Admittedly, he and Ranma still fought at least three times a day, but anyone could tell that they did it for the pure enjoyment of a good fight. She'd expressed interest in learning to fight as well, something that had never interested her until recently, and the two of them had been training her in the mornings and after school. It really was nice of the teachers at Furinkan High School to let her sit in on lessons so that she could keep up with her schoolwork during this visit. However, if that Kuno character called her his "raven-haired angel" just one more time then she was going to go ahead and let her brother fracture his skull! The days were busy and enjoyable, while the nights…

She couldn't help but blush. The nights were spent with Ranma. She'd somehow managed to talk Ryouga into running interference so that nobody could find them, and while he kept the rest of the so called Nerima Wrecking Crew occupied she and Ranma went off on dates. They both knew it wasn't right to be sneaking behind the back of Ranma's fiancées, but he didn't want Kagome to become embroiled in the battles over him. So for nearly a week, they'd been seeing each other secretly, and it was the happiest time of her life. Ranma was so strong, and noble, and kind, and it certainly didn't hurt that he was a hunk and a great kisser. Neither of them understood the bond between them that drew the two of them together so quickly and firmly, but it was undeniably there and they weren't about to question it. It seemed like nothing could go wrong as long as the two of them stayed together. Of course, all good things have to end, and Kagome gasped as she suddenly detected a familiar presence approaching fast. "Inu-Yasha…"

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Ranma was so totally focused on the complex training that he was putting himself through that he didn't notice the person approaching him until he found himself staring into two golden orbs. Instinctively, he leapt away and prepared himself for battle as he studied the… man in front of him. Suddenly, one of his talks with Kagome came to mind, and he had a name to place to the being before him. "Inu-Yasha, I assume?"

The silver-haired hanyou glared at Ranma with a look capable of killing lesser men from fear. "Who the hell are you buster? And why do you reek of Kagome's scent?! Where is she?!!"

Ranma glared back at the half demon with equal intensity. He wasn't about to let this worthless excuse of a warrior come along and drag his mate off whenever the fool felt like it! Ranma crouched down, preparing to spring forward as he growled deeply in the back of his throat. "The name's Ranma, you pathetic half demon wannabe fighter. Why I smell like Kagome is my business, dog boy. And if you want to know where she is, you could try to get the answers out of my decaying corpse. Of course, you'd need somebody else to do your dirty work for you to have a chance of beating me, so why don't you just run on home with your tail between your legs? That dead girlfriend of yours is calling."

Inu-Yasha's mouth hung open in shock before he screamed out and sprung for Ranma's throat. Ranma smirked; this guy was just too easy. With only a few sentences the half demon had forgotten all about Kagome in his rage and desire to attack him. He'd managed to buy his mate… er, Kagome, some more time of not having to deal with the infuriating hanyou. Now to take the arrogant son of a bitch down a peg or two. Ranma bent back far enough to make a character from The Matrix green with envy, allowing Inu-Yasha to go soaring over him as he lashed out at his pressure points with subsonic speed and pinpoint precision. Inu-Yasha suddenly went crashing to the ground as he felt his joints and muscles lock up and freeze. He couldn't move, couldn't even twitch his fingers; he was even more helpless than he was after one of Kagome's sit commands! What did that guy just do?!!

At that point, the very person that they were fighting over interrupted the battle between the two. Inu-Yasha's nostrils flared and his eyes widened in shock; Kagome smelled just as much like this guy as he did like her! Finally he was able to put two and two together. He growled lowly in his throat, glaring at Kagome as he slowly flexed feeling back into his muscles. "So bitch, that Hojo clown and the wimpy wolf aren't enough for ya', you gotta go get yourself another pretty boy while we're all thinking that you were here resting. Ha! Selfish wench! I knew that you couldn't be up to any good!"

Ranma felt burning rage flood into his veins as he listened to the half-blood rave on and on. Not even Kagome noticed the invisible wind that seemed to be trying to lick Ranma's hair upwards and the aquamarine glaze that was beginning to cloud his pupils. The young priestess just looked sadly at the boy that she had at one time been madly in love with, a love that had slowly decayed as she realized that he simply did not care for her as much as she did for him. In his eyes, she was Kikyo, no more and no less. "Inu-Yasha… you have no right to control my life. I have followed you and stayed beside you out of love, a love that you've never been able to return. But now I've found someone to love that feels the same emotion for me. Even though I haven't known him long, Ranma has made me happier than I ever was with you, and he needs me just as I need him. It's over Inu-Yasha. I will complete my duty and collect the Shikon Jewel fragments, but that's it. Leave now, Inu-Yasha. Goodbye."

With that Kagome turned to walk into the house and Ranma slowly began to calm down. Inu-Yasha however only saw red and felt boundless rage as his demon blood responded to his anger and overrode his conscious mind. With a bloodcurdling howl, he freed himself from the paralysis inflicted by Ranma and leapt for Kagome, claws extended. Before Ranma could warn the girl that had so quickly come to mean everything to him and she could call out the three letter word which contained the violent half-breed, Inu-Yasha's razor claws tore into the soft fabric of Kagome's blouse. The talons raked against her tender skin and left springs of blood flowing from her back as she collapsed, screaming in pain. The rage that had been fading inside of Ranma suddenly sprung anew with greater ferocity than he had ever known and his vision suddenly exploded into a golden and aquamarine haze of brilliant light. Someone had dared harm his mate in his presence! The hanyou would pay dearly for this outrage! Screaming to the heavens, a golden nimbus of light engulfed the pigtailed martial artist as across the world dozens of people suddenly paid rapt attention to the massive surge in energy coming from Nerima.

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In a small Tokyo shrine near Nekomi Technical Institute…

Bellandy gasped as she dropped the bowl of soup she'd been preparing, Urd did an impressive spit-take with the fine sake that she'd managed to get a hold of, and Skuld yelped as she accidentally skewered Banpei's new robotic brain in her surprise over the sudden energy spike. Even Keichii paused and looked up to the sky in puzzlement. What was that energy just now? It seemed mortal in nature yet defied the powers of even higher level deities. And why did this energy seem so familiar to him?

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At the Gates of Time…

Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of Time, gasped as power greater than anything she had ever known sped across reality. The power was so great, that when she tried to lock onto the source of it with the Time Gates, the powerful artifact shut down as the overwhelming energy flooded it. Setsuna, the Senshi of Time, started praying fervently that whomever this new power belonged to did not have any grudge against the Sailor Scouts.

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In a pocket dimension connected to the broom closet of the Masaki household…

Washu, self-proclaimed greatest scientific genius of the known cosmos, cackled in glee as her sensors lit up like a Christmas tree, indicating a powerful new entity somewhere in the Tokyo area. At last, a new guinea pig!

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In a Tibetan monastery…

Yakumo recoiled in shock as he felt a powerful presence that put him, Pai, and Beneris combined to utter shame. He could only hope that this was the energy signature of a recently emerged ally rather than a new enemy. Now to figure out why this presence seemed to upturn half-buried memories.

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Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters, New York…

Charles Xavier, the man with the world's most powerful mind, cried out in agony and threw the headset for Cerebro away from him as though he'd been burned. What power! The energy signature had very nearly burned out all of the computer's circuits, and the professor's brain along with it! But what puzzled him was not the power of the occurrence, but rather the fact that he could have sworn before Cerebro shut down that it was saying that this wasn't a mutant signature.

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Titan's Tower…

At the exact same time, Raven screamed as she was wrenched out of her meditation. Cyborg's sensors started going haywire. Starfire felt a powerful presence not of this planet. Beast Boy sensed the sudden panic in the animal world as they detected the birth of a mighty new predator. And Robin shielded his eyes as computer consoles blew out from the pure strength of the energy signal that they were receiving. What had just happened? Whatever it was, they could only hope that it didn't mean more trouble.

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And, in the special training facilities of the famous Capsule Corps compound…

The prince of a lost race froze in shock; not even bothering to dodge the incoming energy blasts headed his way. No, it couldn't be! He and Kakarott were the only two left, seven if you counted Kakarott's two brats and grandchild, as well as his own two children. There couldn't be another Super Saiyan!

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Ryouga rushed into the yard upon hearing his younger sister's cry of pain, only to be blown back by Ranma's sudden power surge. As the Lost Boy gaped in awe at the wildly spiked golden locks and pure aquamarine eyes of his best friend and rival, a long submerged memory came into focus. A single, simple phrase, but one that Ryouga felt sure held great meaning and significance. Super Saiyan…

Before anyone could say or do anything, Ranma was across the yard with his fist buried firmly in Inu-Yasha's gut. A normal human's spine would have shattered at the massive impact, but thanks to his demonic blood Inu-Yasha only felt every rib break into dozens of pieces and lacerate his inner organs. Ranma still wasn't finished though; he was determined to make this fool pay for harming his mate! The next thirty seconds blurred into speedy blows as the brutal massacre commenced. Hammer blow to the spine, followed by a snap kick to the left kneecap, proceeded by a nerve strike to the collarbone, and so on. By the time thirty seconds had passed, the mighty Inu-Yasha was a mess of spewing blood and broken bones. Finally, Ranma snapped out of his enraged trance to stare in horror at his deeds, flinching back as Kagome approached him cautiously. "Ranma…"

The pigtailed martial artist couldn't stand to look at her. Look at what he had just done! To somebody that Kagome had long considered a friend no less! Shivering in shame, Ranma took off, not even noticing that instead of jumping from rooftop to rooftop he was blazing across the sky faster than any jet. Kagome watched in shock as he fled, surprised both by his new appearance but also by the fact that somehow a tail had sprouted from Ranma's back during his transformation. Without thinking about it, she launched herself into the air after her mate, leaving her brother to tend to the injured hanyou as he puzzled over forgotten memories.

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The waters slowly lapped at the canal's sides as late trains rushed by on the bridge overhead. This was his special place, where he would come whenever he needed to think, and oh boy did he ever need to think right now. He wasn't scared about beating Inu-Yasha to a pulp since in his opinion the half-demon deserved it; no, he was scared that when he looked at Kagome just then after his blood began to burn from the heat of battle, he wanted to take her right then and there. He had to run away, to protect her from himself. Idly, Ranma noted the aggravated twitching of the light, tan colored tail that had somehow appeared after his fight with Inu-Yasha. Peering into the waters of the man made river, he growled in irritation as he saw that his hair and eyes still hadn't changed back to their normal color. Well, looked like all of those times that Akane had called him a freak were finally coming back to haunt him. He wasn't sure what he was right now, but it was definitely not human. True, he knew that he wasn't normal, but up until now he'd been able to explain it away as the effects of years of hard training. Like how he reasoned that his acute senses of smell and hearing were simply results of living on the road despite the fact that they more than quadrupled normal human levels. Now, there was no denying the fact that he was a freak, just like everybody said. Suddenly his sixth sense picked up a familiar energy signature speeding towards him, and he looked up into the sky just in time to see the surprising sight of Kagome descending down towards him from the heavens. All he could think as she floated down to Earth surrounded by pure, blinding white light was that she looked just like an angel, an angel far too good and pure for the likes of him.

Kagome touched down to the ground gently and started walking towards the young man that had somehow stolen her heart in under a week as he refused to meet her gaze. Wrapping her arms around his waist, she leaned into his back as his muscles tensed in fear, worry, and… anticipation? Luxuriating in the feel of his heavily muscled torso, the young shrine girl found comfort and peace leaning into his back before she broke the tender silence between them. "Ranma… it wasn't your fault. And my injuries aren't even that bad. Why… why did you run away?"

The young martial artist lowered his head to stare at his feet, relieved when he felt his hair and eyes return to normal under Kagome's care, although the tail remained. What could he tell her? Could he truly let her know that he ran because if he didn't he would have taken her virginity then and there? Would she turn away from him in fear and disgust? But no matter what… he knew that deep down, for reasons he couldn't explain, he loved this girl that had found her way into his life only a week ago. And what was love, if not truth? He would not lie to her; he would bare his soul before her, and pray that she still cared for him in spite of it. "When… when I saw your blood fly and heard your scream tear through the air… I lost it, because I let the girl that I… that I love, be hurt despite my presence. The resulting fight was one expressing desperate love for a girl that I've known for only a few days, but means everything to me nonetheless. My blood boiled, I felt my spirit sing, and everything was as it should be for I was in battle. And I looked at you, and I felt a new fire, a fire even greater than the lust for battle; the desire of a man for his mate. I had to flee, to protect you… from myself."

Silence reigned as the two stood there, before Ranma suddenly felt himself roughly spun around and Kagome's lips pressed against his with all the power of a mighty typhoon. His mind sputtered for a moment before it was silenced by the instincts that told him this was right, and the two joined their lips with a desperate strength possessed only by those who are young and in love. Finally, after a small eternity, the two parted and Kagome looked into Ranma's hopeful eyes with her own shining in love and lust. Trembling, she spoke of things that had never come to her before she met this young man who'd stolen her heart. "Ranma, don't be ashamed of the feelings you speak of. They flow through my veins as well. We both know deep down that we aren't human, we are something so much more. We shouldn't deny the feelings and instincts that scream to be let loose, because if you search within yourself you'll see as I do that such restraints aren't a part of our nature. Did you think I would be horrified to see you beat Inu-Yasha, to hear you speak of lusting after me? When I saw you triumphant over your opponent, the only thoughts in my mind were pride, pleasure, and love for the mate I had yet to claim as my own, just as you haven't claimed me as yours yet. Pride at your strength and skill, love for who you are, and pleasure at the thought of making love to you, to be one with you. Ranma, we've denied what and who we are our entire lives, let's not do it anymore. Let's not deny our love."

Without another word, Kagome's mouth slowly traversed over Ranma's shoulder blade and he trembled as her teeth gently broke through the skin. Instinctual memories flooded into his mind, telling him of the significance of this mark, the mark shared between mates, a declaration of love and respect more deeply binding than any marriage. In her own way, Kagome had just said "I do". The question now was, how would he respond? He'd fought for so long to avoid a hasty marriage to various people; did he care enough about this girl to finally surrender himself? As she tenderly, sweetly lapped up the blood welling from the freshly made mark, he came to his answer; yes, he did.

As Kagome's mouth left her work completed, Ranma's own mouth darted towards his mate's shoulder, and there he repeated the process that she had administered upon him, neither of them noticing the tail slowly emerging from Kagome's backside in their excitement. Within a matter of minutes, it was done, and the two new mates stared into one another's eyes before leaning in for a slow and tender kiss as hands raced across fabric and skin, searching for elusive clasps and zippers. They were a part of each other, now and forevermore, and nothing could change that.

End Chapter 2

Author's Notes: Woot! Houston, we have mating going on! Tune in next time to see what series I'll crossover with next, read my other fics in the Ranma and Gundam Wing sections, and please review! Reviews make me feel warm and fizzy inside!