"Listen to me boy" talking
'He is such an idiot' thinking
(Crack) sound effects
What a worthless son panda signs
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Chap 2: A Cat Girl?!
Nerma 1 month later
As the rain falls to the ground, the people on the streets see two figures coming out of an alley.
"Why are we here daddy?" says the short, busty, pigtailed redheaded with cute, fuzzy, red, triangular ears on top of her head, a long, furry red tail, and icy-blue, slitted eyes. She's dressed in loose black kung-fu pants, a red silk Chinese shirt, blue cloth bracers, and black sandals.
To an old friend's house (flip) And stop calling me daddy (flip) You sound like a girl the giant panda signs.
Every one on the street stares, not at the cat girl, or the giant panda, but at the fact that the panda just flipped the sign three times with three different messages.
"And whose fault is that 'Daddy'?"
Oh to have such a worthless son (flip) He won't even listen to his own father (flip) To have raised him to .. (smack) The panda is in the ground and a bristling cat girl is on his head.
"I'll stop calling you daddy if you stop winning. It's annoying the hell out of me 'Father'"
That's better (flip) But not much
"Ya ya ya, lets get goin..... oooooo a butterfly" the cat in the cat girl just got distracted in normal cat fashion and starts playing with the butterfly.
Panda sweat drop.
I'm sure there are lots of butterflies (flip) at my friend's house (flip) Come along boy
"O.K. daddy. Er I mean father" she says dejectedly.
As the two round the corner, everyone on the street stares, then they shrug and cough it up as just more strangeness in Nerma.
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"FIANCÉE!!!!" the scream was herd over three districts.
"Yes. My old friend Genma and I made a pact a long time ago, before you were born, that if we had children of the opposite genders that they would be engaged to join the two schools of Anything Goes Marshal Arts" says Soun matter of factly.
"I hope he's older then me younger men bore me" says Kasumi.
'Oh great, some pervert is coming. He's probably going to pick one of us just to get in our panties' Akane thinks to herself.
"Is he cute?" asks Nabiki.
"Ha ha ha. I don't know." says Soun.
"You don't know?" Nabiki deadpans.
"I've never met him" Soun replies calmly.
Just as his daughter are about to interrogate him some more, there is a knock on the front door.
"That must be them" says Nabiki.
"Saotome, old friend! It's been so long!" Soun joyously calls.
They both run down the hall just in time to see the door burst open. A red and black blur flies through the now open doorway and lands on a very confused Nabiki.
"Where are the butterflies?" asks a smiling perky redhead.
Soun looks at the cat girl not noticing anything other than the fact she is human. "Are you?" he asks
"Ranma Saotome, sorry 'bout that." says the cat girl just before she is enveloped in a bear hug from the Tendou Patriarch.
"Oh how I've waited for this day. Now the schools will be......." Soun's eyes go wide as he notices the very slender frame of Ranma, not to mention a couple of things that have no right being on the male body.
He pushed her to arms length to get a better look at her and stops at the chest area. His eyes bulge and his jaw falls.
Nabiki comes up and pokes Ranma in the breast, "Ya know if ya really want ta do that you do have a set of your own to poke" says a slightly miffed redhead.
"That's what I thought I felt when he jumped me. He's a she dad."
And with that Soun goes to dream land.
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"I get all worked up over a fiancée and he turns out to be a she" complains Nabiki to her half conscious father.
"When my friend said he was blessed with a son I assumed it was a boy" comments Soun.
"Does this (poke poke) look like a boy?" she asks sarcastically.
At this point Nabiki notices she isn't the only one who is poking. She follows the finger touching her breast and follows it up the face of a scowling redhead, "I figured if you could poke me I could poke you"
To this, a very embarrassed Nabiki gives a weak "I'm sorry"
"No problem" shines Ranma "Just don't make a habit of it and we'll be fine"
"Ya sis, it isn't polite to fondle your guests" Akane says scowling slightly, and then she turns to Ranma and beams "Hi I'm Akane, want to be friends."
First a look of surprise, then a look of pure happiness crosses the cat girl's face "Sure!"
"Let me give you a tour of the house" Akane says with a smile that could melt the polar ice caps.
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"... and this is the dojo."
"Nice"
"You study kempo right?" asks Akane
"Of course, it's one of the basic forms of the Anything Goes style" beams Ranma.
"Then let's have a little match then. You might want to take off your costume off first"
"Cos..tume??" Ranma asks a little confused.
"Your cat costume. I don't think the contacts will interfere too much but that tail and those ears look expensive, I wouldn't want them to get ruined" Akane says.
"It's not a costume Akane" Ranma says in a serious voice while twitching her tail and left ear.
(gasp) "They are real, but how?" a concerned Akane asks her new friend.
"Long story. I'll tell the whole thing later. The shot version is my father put me through some really stupid training and this is the result," she says looking a little down. She brightens and says, "enough about that, let's spar."
At those words Akane smiles and gets into a basic stance while Ranma gets into her basic stance ie. no stance.
As the fight begins, Akane throws a punch followed by a snap kick, both of which Ranma doges by moving her body in odd angles while smiling. Then Akane tries a sweep kick which Ranma jumps over. 'How is she dogging my attacks? She must be reading my moves' she thinks as she starts to move faster. Ranma just doges faster and at even stranger angles with an even bigger smile. Finally Akane can't take it anymore "Here I come for real" and launches all her power behind her punch, misses Ranma completely, and puts a hole in the wall.
(tap, tap) Akane turns around slowly to see Ranma with a big toothy grin and starts to laugh, and Akane joins soon after.
"That was a good match, I'm just glad you're not a boy."
"Why's that?" asks Ranma nervously.
"I just couldn't stand to lose to a boy" and with that she walks off, leaving a slightly depressed Ranma standing there.
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Bounding up the stares with a pack only an elephant should be able to carry, Ranma smiles as Kasumi shows her the room she will be staying in. "Ranma, you really should go wash up after sparing with Akane."
"I am a dirty little kitty, aren't I" Ranma says jokingly. "Where's the washroom?"
"Down the hall and to the left"
"Thanks!!" Ranma says perkily and bounces off to get cleaned up.
"Oh my, she does have a lot of spirit."
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"Well here goes" Ranma says as she enters the warm water feeling her body shift, her tale retracted and disappeared, her ears slid down her head and took on a human appearance, and finally her body shifted from female to male.
(sigh) 'It's good to be a guy again even if my senses are dulled a little at least I don't have that whole annoying perkiness thing going' he thinks as he slips the rest of the way into the water.
'It sure has been awhile since I've been able to have a good long soak in hot water. It's been awhile since I've been male too, feels good to have all the pieces back in their right spots.'
"They are going to find out sooner or later so might as well go out like this" he says to himself as he starts to get out of the tub.
When he came to the standing position, he heard, with his slightly dulled, still sharper then everybody else's hearing, the door to the outer door to the changing room open. As soon as he heard this he froze, scared out of his wits. 'No, I don't want them to find out like this. I want it to be on my terms, not fates.'
"Please don't open the door, I'm kind of undressed in here" he says. 'Where did that come from? Must be a little of the cat spirit or the girls personality showing through'
He heard the door slide open and shut again. Breathing a sigh of relief, he thought 'It could have been worse, she could have screamed or something.'
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He spoke too soon.
He got into the changing room and put on a clean version of the clothes he had worn there. As he walks out to the dinning room he hears Nabiki say "What was that all about?"
"There's a pervert in the bathroom!!"
"Then why didn't you clobber him?"
"He scared me, that's why."
"Oh my, Ranma was in there. I hope she's all right."
He walks around the corner, hoping he is ready for what awaits him there.
"Who are you?" Nabiki asks him.
"Ranma Saotome, sorry 'bout this."
Ranma ½ is not owned by me. If it was I would be rolling naked in a pile of money not writing fan fictions in a bathrobe at 2am.
Proofread by: SilverBullet23
Note: Thanks for the good reviews. As for the last line in the first chapter as dana-san asked, that will come up in the middle of the next chapter. Half way done with chap 3 pulse needs to be proofread by my friend SilverBullet23. Hope to be done by Friday or Saturday. Unfortunately, I just got deployment orders for Iraq so the chapters will come out slow after that one (got a laptop to work on and lots of floppy disks to send to SilverBullet23 so he can post for me). Wish me luck.