So... How's it goin? I don't understand it.. 4 Chapters and 69 FREAKING REVIEWS! I never knew that my A Millenium story was so loved... I'm havin a hard time figurin out which will end up my masterpiece. But I still like this story more... after all it has a plot and a planned end. I suppose this will be an interesting chapter for those who love to hear the retelling of Ranma's story... Don't worry I'm kiddin.. This is the begining of Ranma's OOC. Where am I? Responses?
Ok first Neophilly, thanks for the review. It's not often I get enthusiastic Reviewers. Thanks alot!
Second. Xofia. As to your question about the 30 out fits and 43. This was a pun I made on the fact that I think girl shop WAY too much. I have a sister who's fourteen and would live, drink, eat, and breath the mall if she could. Basically Ranma doesn't have any clue as to how many outfits she's put on. However Shannon counted and knew Ranma had tried on around 70 to 80. I may be being too sexist saying this, but am I wrong? Possibly, but I doubt it. I know girls shop for hours at a time. I hope I dont' offend anybody... I'll also try to fix other errors.
I'm proud to be one of the few writers(I think) that has no way to use a spell checker. Everything is self checked by myself. I best not say much more or people will think I'm bragging.
I have a confession to make on this story. This is much more of a prelude. My main story that I truly want to get to will take place after this. I hope nobody minds... I hope to make this about half as long as Sarge's Couch Trips. I've never finished it but I know how long it is. Well I hit a hundred reviews and am very proud of myself. This may be the thirty thousand word chapter as well, I dunno, but i'm feelin' arrogent. On with the show.
Chapter 11: Apoligize to the World
Ranko sat on her bed. Various teenagers surrounded her. Namely, she would call them friends. She wasn't exactly sure if they would believe what she said but she was gonna tell em anyway. She figured they'd probably flip if they believed her. But she'd rather not be regarded as a lesbian. She'd had enough of this junk in her lifetime. She was glad she'd finally gotten away from shopping though. A few more outfits and she probably would have been brainwashed like the rest of the female population of the world into thinking that shopping was... actually, just a little bit... fun... GAH what WAS she thinking?
"Ok... what i'm gonna tell you, your not gonna believe. But it's still the truth. And that is all there is to it. But before I tell you, ya gotta promise not to tell anybody else. Ok?" Ranko asked.
They all agreed as Ranma had expected.
"First off, I didn't have amnesia. I know exactly who my parents are and frankly, I don't really like either of them." Ranma told them.
"You don't like your parents?" Shannon asked. "But? Why? What did they do?"
"Well I don't like my pop because he never did anything for me except sell me off to feed his stomach and then steal me back when I was a kid. I don't like my mom because she sent me on a ten year training trip with my pop. And because she would have me commit seppuku if I wasn't a "man among men."
"What's seppuku?" Aaron asked.
"Ritual self abdomon stabbing," Ranma replied.
"Oh," He said.
"Well, I guess I'll start from the beginning. First off my name ain't Ranko. It's Ranma Saotome. I was born a guy. I really am a guy and the whole reason I'm here is to regain my manhood..." Ranma started. (Here on in Ranko will be called Ranma again unless it's by someone who doesn't know Ranma's past...(Everyone else))
"So you got a sex change or something?" Shannon asked. "And you don't like being a girl so you came here to get money so you could change back right?"
"You come up with some weird ideas," Ranma returned. "No, I was first turned into a girl when I was 15.(I know it was 16. I changed it to fit a purpose) While I was on a training trip with my pop in China, he took me to an ancient cursed training ground of Jusenkyo. It has hundreds of springs and each spring has it's own tragic legend," Ranma said getting into a somewhat story-telling mode.
"We came to the springs. The guide warned us about what the springs would do but neither of us paid attention. We jumped on top of the various bamboo poles sticking up from the water and began our mid-air combat. I beat him first off. I knocked him into a spring and kinda taunted him. He came out as a Panda bear." Ranma told them.
"Yeah right," Leah said skepticly.
"If you don't believe me that's your perogative." Ranma replied. She then wondered where she remembered hearing the word perogative but decided not to think about it. "It must be a side effect of being a girl for so long," Ranma thought. Then she banged her head into the wall for thinking about it.
"Well, you might as well go on. We've got plenty of time." Jesse said looking at his watch. "Around 7:00." He told them.
"Ok then. Well, when a panda jumped out of the water onto a bamboo pole in a fighting stance just like my pop's, you can bet I was pretty surprised so he caught me off guard and knocked me into a spring... When I came out I was a girl." Ranma told them.
"My ass," Aaron said. Shannon hit him over the head for cussing.
"What's does, "My ass," mean?" Ranma asked.
Everyone in the room face faulted for the first time in their lives.
"Basicly... heh, it means your lying through your teeth." Aaron said.
"Heh, that's just the start. If you don't believe that I might as well stop now." Ranma said.
"Huh, well lets keep going. Ludacris as this story is, it might be entertaining.
"Just like my life." Ranma mumbled, "A great big joke."
"Well, After I screamed for about a minute in a newly saprano(sp?) voice, I chased the damn panda all over the valley aiming to kill him. While I was there I knocked a guy named Ryoga into a spring without noticing. After I was done chasing my pop I talked to the guide about reversing the curse. What he told me was that "Whoever fall in spring take body of whatever drowned there last!" It turned out that when I was splashed with hot water I'd turn into a guy but cold water would turn me into a girl. Same for pop only his curse was a panda." Ranma said.
"What an interesting story. Now if only it had anything in it that we could believe... But then again you don't appear to be a lesbian so I guess we gotta listen to this." Leah said exasperated.
Luc had been sitting in a corner listening to the story. He didn't believe it yet but that voice that had said it was a Jusenkyo spirit seemed pretty convincing. Apparently all of his "friends" didn't believe Ranma in the least. Luc himelf, while still unconvinced, was having doubts. Ranma acted like a girl. And while she was a tomboy type of girl... she still SEEMED to be a girl. While she hadn't worn panties and a bra and stuff like that, he knew a few other girls who did that. There were two that he knew off hand. Jordan, and Tera. While they wern't very popular they got along well and were abnormally good looking. The had problems with their tempers though and didn't seem to get along with other girls.
"Actually, I am a lesbian sorta. I'm really a guy in a girls body who still likes girls becasue I know I'm gonna be a guy again." Ranma told them confidently.
"Uh huh... scuse' me." Leah said as she scooted away from Ranma.
"Hey look, I don't like you like that. No offence but I get enough of that back home so don't you go getting any ideas! And ESPECIALLY DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS!" Ranma shouted.
"Ok...?" Leah said. That seemed to make her less nervous.
"Well, I've been stuck as a girl for a month and a half now... Lets just say I've gone where no man's ever gone before and come back. Ugh... Can't believe I used to make fun of women for stuff like periods. Embarrassing as hell." Ranma commented. The guys looked clueless.
"Damn Straight," Leah and Shannon said at the same time. While that seemed normal for Leah to say something like that Ranma definantly hadn't expected it from Shannon.
"Well... If your a guy, why did you go shopping then?" Shannon asked.
"Uh... cuz... well. When Leah guessed that she thought I was a guy, It kinda narrowed down my options. I don't like staying in places that find me an out cast because of circumstances that are out of my control. I saved there lives... big deal? Most people would still judge me by what I do... not who I am." Ranma said.
"You say that like a true girl." Aaron joked.
"I DO NOT!" Ranma shouted.
Aaron laughed untill he saw Ranma's face and then gulped.
"Look your not very convincing. Exibit A is right here. You can make guys shut up or be very afraid by just looking at them. Definantly a girls trait." Leah said.
"I.. I can?" Ranma asked.
"You just did." Luc said speaking for the first time since Ranma had begun her story.
"LOOK I'M A GUY AND DON'T GO TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE! YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW WHAT MY OWN GENDER IS?" Ranma shouted at him.
Luc backed away frightened by her outburst.
"God speed my friend. Never go against the thought of a woman. Fools arend." Jess whispered to Luc.
"You just did it again! Ranko... er Ranma!" Shannon said. "If you aren't a girl, "Ranma" then your becoming one whether you like it or not... At least that's what I see. And apparently without even knowing it!"
Ranma froze. Her worst fear? Coming true?
"No way!" She thought. "She was Ranma Saotome! Man among men. Wait... No "HE" was Ranma Saotome! Not "SHE" What the hell was happening to her! HIM! HE! MALE! MASCULINE! DAMNIT!"
Ranma remained frozen as she sat on her... no HIS, bed contemplating what the hell was happening to her... wait... "HIM!"
"Uh... could you guys... leave... I'll tell you whatever else tomorrow..." Ranma said. She stood up and walked to the bathroom, cursing her blonde bangs as they hung in her eyes, and the extensions that always got in the way and were permanantly glued to her chest... DAMNIT!!! HIS CHEST!
"Ranma?.... Your actin kinda funny, you know? hey? Ranma?" Shannon asked waving her hand in front of Ranma's face. Ranma didn't even notice.
"Ok, we'll leave. You look too preocupied to continue. Just think about what I said though. Is it really all that bad being a girl? You and I both know you are and will remain a girl unless you medically change your sex. Interesting story but just shy of real." Leah said.
Leah had no idea what to make of Ranma now. Was she a lesbian? Her story couldn't be true of course. She was a firm believer in the fact that magic didn't exist. People who could dodge bullets was one thing but magic? People turning from a boy into a girl with a splash of cold water? Nah! Not possible. She had her doubts though. Ranma seemed screwed up. She walked out of the room watching Ranma banging her head on a wall. Did she really think that she was a boy? With a body like that? Hmm..
Aaron, having no clue that Ranma was really not comprehending what anyone was saying while she was thinking back wondering when she'd begun to act like a girl, went to talk to her.
"Ranma... I kinda spar with Luc every now and then... and well, you know, I was kinda wonderin if ya could teach me how to walk on fences and dodge bullets and jump real high and stuff... Please?" He asked.
Ranma nodded. She was feintly aware that he said something about teach meaning she was probably for it.
"Thanks!" Aaron said as he left the room to talk with Leah, Shannon close behind.
"I guess we'll hear the rest tomorrow." Jess said as he left the room.
Luc was the last one in the room with Ranma as per normal. But this time, however, he simply left without a word.
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"Oh my god... I've been acting like a girl... The amnesia... I was kinda actin like a girl then I guess. Maybe, I didn't think I was... guys can do that too. If they glare at a girl the girl will shut up right? No... They never do that when I glare at them... (Thinking of Shampoo) What am I gonna do?... I'm turnin into a girl... I can't believe it's happinin in a month and a half! Maybe... maybe it's just a cause of the Jusenkyo curse. If you stay locked in it for long enough then... then it starts to make you like your cursed form!!! But... i've been locked before and the thought never crossed my mind. Never for quite as long... maybe it has something to do with... with uh... that monthly thing.
Ranma thought of what she had said not long ago.
=FLASHBACK=
"Uh... cuz... well. When Leah guessed that she thought I was a guy, It kinda narrowed down my options. I don't like staying in places that find me an out cast because of circumstances that are out of my control. I saved there lives... big deal? Most people would still judge me by what I do... not who I am." Ranma said.
"You say that like a true girl." Aaron joked.
"I DO NOT!" Ranma shouted.
Aaron laughed untill he saw Ranma's face and then gulped.
"Look your not very convincing. Exibit A is right here. You can make guys shut up or be very afraid by just looking at them. Definantly a girls trait." Leah said.
"I.. I can?" Ranma asked.
"You just did." Luc said speaking for the first time since Ranma had begun her story.
=END FLASHBACK=
"I did... I made him like... act like me. I made him afraid of me by getting angry. Intimidating him because I was a girl. Shouting an getting angry from a little bit of teasing... What the hell is wrong with me?" Ranma asked herself.
//Ranma...//
"Huh? Hello? Anybody out there?" Ranma asked the air. She could've sworn she'd heard somethng. Wait... HE'D done it again!
Ranma mentaly kicked himself. Thanked god that she thought of herself as a he... wait... and then mentally kicked HIMself again.
"This really sucks... I'm turning into a girl and now I'm hearing voices..." Ranma sighed.
//Ranma... You will bring my rest. It's time for you to complete the dragon mark. Your closer than the other two have gotten already... You will make it...//
"The dragon mark? Make it? Your rest? HEY WHO ARE YA AND WHAT'RE'YA TALKING ABOUT!" Ranma shouted.
//I"m the Jusenkyo spirit. Your on the right track... that's all I can tell you. The rest is up to you//
The presence was gone. All it left Ranma with was more questions than answeres.
"I... I think It's about time I spoke with Kasumi... I did say I'd keep in touch didn't I? But if someone else reads a letter I'm doomed. But Kasumi gets mail all the time from... someone and nobody ever reads it. (added. never really happens.) I know Kasumi knows English. My only problem is I don't know whether Nabiki knows... I think it's worth it to take a chance..." Ranma thought. She picked up a piece of paper and a pen and began to write in english.
My Only Friend Kasumi,
Kasumi... this is Ranma... please don't let anyone read this... I can't have anyone finding out... I'm having some troubles... I'm absolutly certain I'm on the right track to my cure but... I'm begining to have problems... Something is Wrong with me... I dont' know what it is... but I'm begining to... act like a girl. I've just been told this by some freinds who know of my curse. They told me I am acting like a girl... a tomboy, but still a girl. I don't know what to do or say... Do you, have any ideas as too why I'm acting like this? Why I'm changing... I went through a period and will never be able to make fun of Akane or any other girl for that again... I've also had a case of amnesia that was cured... (magically as always) It's only been a month and three weeks probably when you get this... Do you... do you think I'll actually change into a girl?
/R\a/n\k/o\ .Ranma Saotome.
Ranma sighed. She'd had to mark out the name Ranko. "Why does this shit always happen to me?" Ranma asked to no one in particular. Kami felt somewhat sad for his toy at the moment.
She stamped it... went out, found the local post office in about 10 minutes after asking a padestrian went home and went to sleep. She phoned in sick to school the next morning.
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"What a lovely day!" Kasumi exclaimed.
Ever since Ranma had left she had been.. somewhat happy. She didn't have to prepare so much food. Especially since no one seemed to show up at the dojo anymore.
Money was up and they were definantly in the black. Even though Nabiki had lost a major sorce of income she had others. Anyway, It had only been a month and three weeks! Ranma would be back even though they had been searching China for about a week. Nabiki had been sending money from China.
Akane, confident Ranma was still in Japan, had stuck around. Akane now was watching TV having nothing else to do... No Ranma to bother her about helping him study... no Happosai to chase off... NOTHING! She looked up and noticed a letter outside. (I think they hang letters on a string or something like that... I dunno)
She took a look at it and noticed it was for Kasumi.
"Kasumi! You've got a letter!" She called.
Kasumi emerged from the kitchen and was handed a letter by Akane. Akane then walked away. The was in English and everything about that damn language made her angry. Like how she failed the class while Ranma had made a B+ in it... It angered her to no end that he knew English. So she decided to avoid it... It would just make her angry.
Kasumi opened the letter. "To my only friend?" she said repeating the strange greeting in English.
She gasped when she realized it was from Ranma. She sat down and read the letter. She read it a few times and blinked a few times more... Ranma was starting to act... like a girl? "Poor Ranma... These things always seem to happen to him..." She sighed remembering that whatever had happened to him seemed to have been her fault.
She began to write her own letter.
Dear Ranma,
As you asked no one knows about this... I'm very sorry this has happened to you... especially knowing that it's my fault. I wish I could help. But my only advice for you is... Your a man so stay a man... If that's what you truly want... but if you find yourself not wanting that... perhaps you should try the other side of life? I'm not saying to like boys... but try being a girl for a while. Maybe... you'll find it worth it... I'd like to talk to you more securely then letters. I own my own computer. If you happen to have money, I recomend you buy one and figure out how to use an e-mail service of some kind. My e-mail address is Kitchen_habitual@aol.com. If you dont' understand this I'm sure someone there does. I'm still soo sorry for what I've brought upon you.
Not your only friend,
Kasumi.
P.S. I'm sorry...
Kasumi Immediatly left for the local post office and mailed the letter. She then returned to find Akane desperatly tryng to save her burning oven which she had forgotten to turn off.
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Black V... Dyne would never let it's meaning be known. If it were he would probably become a laughing stock. He was once a martial artist who would defend those who couldn't defend themselves... fight in honorable duels... never kill. But that all changed. When ever his V was murdered. He had killed the murdered in cold blood. He had messed with the wrong V. V... he hardly ever spoke it's meaning to himself anymore. The real name of his fortress and gang. Black Valentine (Val-en-teen). The girl of his dreams... the girl he had lost. "Why did you have to die? Why couldn't I protect you?" He asked the nothingness when he was sure know one was around. Seconds later his mask reattached itself. Not nearly as hard... That girl... he had kidnapped, looked exactly like his Valentine. She should die. He had Claust kill her... but he immediatly regretted it. When Dyne found out Claust had failed, while he hit Claust with the flail, inside he leaped for joy... Even though he was now old enough to be that girls grandfather... He felt something at the moment that he hadn't felt in a long time. He felt...
//Jusenkyo....//
// I wish there was a way to apologize to the world for it.//
//I will soon be free.//
//I will soon have my rest and finally rid the world of my mistake.//
//But to my poor victim, the cost is so high for him... for her...//
//How did do this?//
//How I managed to go into such a blind rage as to create something so cruel as Jusenkyo over something as petty as revenge I don't know.//
//Now all I know is that my fate rests in a boy turned girl who has a permanant migrain because of me...//
//I wish there was a way to apologize to the world and the 3000 years of pain I have caused it.//
//But especially, to Ranma.//
(I hope you like this chapter... as I said, major OOC on Ranma and kinda even dark. Abnormally long too. This is probably the twist actually, instead of the chapters ago where I said amnesia was. R & R PLZ! Lata!)
Ok first Neophilly, thanks for the review. It's not often I get enthusiastic Reviewers. Thanks alot!
Second. Xofia. As to your question about the 30 out fits and 43. This was a pun I made on the fact that I think girl shop WAY too much. I have a sister who's fourteen and would live, drink, eat, and breath the mall if she could. Basically Ranma doesn't have any clue as to how many outfits she's put on. However Shannon counted and knew Ranma had tried on around 70 to 80. I may be being too sexist saying this, but am I wrong? Possibly, but I doubt it. I know girls shop for hours at a time. I hope I dont' offend anybody... I'll also try to fix other errors.
I'm proud to be one of the few writers(I think) that has no way to use a spell checker. Everything is self checked by myself. I best not say much more or people will think I'm bragging.
I have a confession to make on this story. This is much more of a prelude. My main story that I truly want to get to will take place after this. I hope nobody minds... I hope to make this about half as long as Sarge's Couch Trips. I've never finished it but I know how long it is. Well I hit a hundred reviews and am very proud of myself. This may be the thirty thousand word chapter as well, I dunno, but i'm feelin' arrogent. On with the show.
Chapter 11: Apoligize to the World
Ranko sat on her bed. Various teenagers surrounded her. Namely, she would call them friends. She wasn't exactly sure if they would believe what she said but she was gonna tell em anyway. She figured they'd probably flip if they believed her. But she'd rather not be regarded as a lesbian. She'd had enough of this junk in her lifetime. She was glad she'd finally gotten away from shopping though. A few more outfits and she probably would have been brainwashed like the rest of the female population of the world into thinking that shopping was... actually, just a little bit... fun... GAH what WAS she thinking?
"Ok... what i'm gonna tell you, your not gonna believe. But it's still the truth. And that is all there is to it. But before I tell you, ya gotta promise not to tell anybody else. Ok?" Ranko asked.
They all agreed as Ranma had expected.
"First off, I didn't have amnesia. I know exactly who my parents are and frankly, I don't really like either of them." Ranma told them.
"You don't like your parents?" Shannon asked. "But? Why? What did they do?"
"Well I don't like my pop because he never did anything for me except sell me off to feed his stomach and then steal me back when I was a kid. I don't like my mom because she sent me on a ten year training trip with my pop. And because she would have me commit seppuku if I wasn't a "man among men."
"What's seppuku?" Aaron asked.
"Ritual self abdomon stabbing," Ranma replied.
"Oh," He said.
"Well, I guess I'll start from the beginning. First off my name ain't Ranko. It's Ranma Saotome. I was born a guy. I really am a guy and the whole reason I'm here is to regain my manhood..." Ranma started. (Here on in Ranko will be called Ranma again unless it's by someone who doesn't know Ranma's past...(Everyone else))
"So you got a sex change or something?" Shannon asked. "And you don't like being a girl so you came here to get money so you could change back right?"
"You come up with some weird ideas," Ranma returned. "No, I was first turned into a girl when I was 15.(I know it was 16. I changed it to fit a purpose) While I was on a training trip with my pop in China, he took me to an ancient cursed training ground of Jusenkyo. It has hundreds of springs and each spring has it's own tragic legend," Ranma said getting into a somewhat story-telling mode.
"We came to the springs. The guide warned us about what the springs would do but neither of us paid attention. We jumped on top of the various bamboo poles sticking up from the water and began our mid-air combat. I beat him first off. I knocked him into a spring and kinda taunted him. He came out as a Panda bear." Ranma told them.
"Yeah right," Leah said skepticly.
"If you don't believe me that's your perogative." Ranma replied. She then wondered where she remembered hearing the word perogative but decided not to think about it. "It must be a side effect of being a girl for so long," Ranma thought. Then she banged her head into the wall for thinking about it.
"Well, you might as well go on. We've got plenty of time." Jesse said looking at his watch. "Around 7:00." He told them.
"Ok then. Well, when a panda jumped out of the water onto a bamboo pole in a fighting stance just like my pop's, you can bet I was pretty surprised so he caught me off guard and knocked me into a spring... When I came out I was a girl." Ranma told them.
"My ass," Aaron said. Shannon hit him over the head for cussing.
"What's does, "My ass," mean?" Ranma asked.
Everyone in the room face faulted for the first time in their lives.
"Basicly... heh, it means your lying through your teeth." Aaron said.
"Heh, that's just the start. If you don't believe that I might as well stop now." Ranma said.
"Huh, well lets keep going. Ludacris as this story is, it might be entertaining.
"Just like my life." Ranma mumbled, "A great big joke."
"Well, After I screamed for about a minute in a newly saprano(sp?) voice, I chased the damn panda all over the valley aiming to kill him. While I was there I knocked a guy named Ryoga into a spring without noticing. After I was done chasing my pop I talked to the guide about reversing the curse. What he told me was that "Whoever fall in spring take body of whatever drowned there last!" It turned out that when I was splashed with hot water I'd turn into a guy but cold water would turn me into a girl. Same for pop only his curse was a panda." Ranma said.
"What an interesting story. Now if only it had anything in it that we could believe... But then again you don't appear to be a lesbian so I guess we gotta listen to this." Leah said exasperated.
Luc had been sitting in a corner listening to the story. He didn't believe it yet but that voice that had said it was a Jusenkyo spirit seemed pretty convincing. Apparently all of his "friends" didn't believe Ranma in the least. Luc himelf, while still unconvinced, was having doubts. Ranma acted like a girl. And while she was a tomboy type of girl... she still SEEMED to be a girl. While she hadn't worn panties and a bra and stuff like that, he knew a few other girls who did that. There were two that he knew off hand. Jordan, and Tera. While they wern't very popular they got along well and were abnormally good looking. The had problems with their tempers though and didn't seem to get along with other girls.
"Actually, I am a lesbian sorta. I'm really a guy in a girls body who still likes girls becasue I know I'm gonna be a guy again." Ranma told them confidently.
"Uh huh... scuse' me." Leah said as she scooted away from Ranma.
"Hey look, I don't like you like that. No offence but I get enough of that back home so don't you go getting any ideas! And ESPECIALLY DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS!" Ranma shouted.
"Ok...?" Leah said. That seemed to make her less nervous.
"Well, I've been stuck as a girl for a month and a half now... Lets just say I've gone where no man's ever gone before and come back. Ugh... Can't believe I used to make fun of women for stuff like periods. Embarrassing as hell." Ranma commented. The guys looked clueless.
"Damn Straight," Leah and Shannon said at the same time. While that seemed normal for Leah to say something like that Ranma definantly hadn't expected it from Shannon.
"Well... If your a guy, why did you go shopping then?" Shannon asked.
"Uh... cuz... well. When Leah guessed that she thought I was a guy, It kinda narrowed down my options. I don't like staying in places that find me an out cast because of circumstances that are out of my control. I saved there lives... big deal? Most people would still judge me by what I do... not who I am." Ranma said.
"You say that like a true girl." Aaron joked.
"I DO NOT!" Ranma shouted.
Aaron laughed untill he saw Ranma's face and then gulped.
"Look your not very convincing. Exibit A is right here. You can make guys shut up or be very afraid by just looking at them. Definantly a girls trait." Leah said.
"I.. I can?" Ranma asked.
"You just did." Luc said speaking for the first time since Ranma had begun her story.
"LOOK I'M A GUY AND DON'T GO TRYING TO CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE! YOU THINK I DON'T KNOW WHAT MY OWN GENDER IS?" Ranma shouted at him.
Luc backed away frightened by her outburst.
"God speed my friend. Never go against the thought of a woman. Fools arend." Jess whispered to Luc.
"You just did it again! Ranko... er Ranma!" Shannon said. "If you aren't a girl, "Ranma" then your becoming one whether you like it or not... At least that's what I see. And apparently without even knowing it!"
Ranma froze. Her worst fear? Coming true?
"No way!" She thought. "She was Ranma Saotome! Man among men. Wait... No "HE" was Ranma Saotome! Not "SHE" What the hell was happening to her! HIM! HE! MALE! MASCULINE! DAMNIT!"
Ranma remained frozen as she sat on her... no HIS, bed contemplating what the hell was happening to her... wait... "HIM!"
"Uh... could you guys... leave... I'll tell you whatever else tomorrow..." Ranma said. She stood up and walked to the bathroom, cursing her blonde bangs as they hung in her eyes, and the extensions that always got in the way and were permanantly glued to her chest... DAMNIT!!! HIS CHEST!
"Ranma?.... Your actin kinda funny, you know? hey? Ranma?" Shannon asked waving her hand in front of Ranma's face. Ranma didn't even notice.
"Ok, we'll leave. You look too preocupied to continue. Just think about what I said though. Is it really all that bad being a girl? You and I both know you are and will remain a girl unless you medically change your sex. Interesting story but just shy of real." Leah said.
Leah had no idea what to make of Ranma now. Was she a lesbian? Her story couldn't be true of course. She was a firm believer in the fact that magic didn't exist. People who could dodge bullets was one thing but magic? People turning from a boy into a girl with a splash of cold water? Nah! Not possible. She had her doubts though. Ranma seemed screwed up. She walked out of the room watching Ranma banging her head on a wall. Did she really think that she was a boy? With a body like that? Hmm..
Aaron, having no clue that Ranma was really not comprehending what anyone was saying while she was thinking back wondering when she'd begun to act like a girl, went to talk to her.
"Ranma... I kinda spar with Luc every now and then... and well, you know, I was kinda wonderin if ya could teach me how to walk on fences and dodge bullets and jump real high and stuff... Please?" He asked.
Ranma nodded. She was feintly aware that he said something about teach meaning she was probably for it.
"Thanks!" Aaron said as he left the room to talk with Leah, Shannon close behind.
"I guess we'll hear the rest tomorrow." Jess said as he left the room.
Luc was the last one in the room with Ranma as per normal. But this time, however, he simply left without a word.
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"Oh my god... I've been acting like a girl... The amnesia... I was kinda actin like a girl then I guess. Maybe, I didn't think I was... guys can do that too. If they glare at a girl the girl will shut up right? No... They never do that when I glare at them... (Thinking of Shampoo) What am I gonna do?... I'm turnin into a girl... I can't believe it's happinin in a month and a half! Maybe... maybe it's just a cause of the Jusenkyo curse. If you stay locked in it for long enough then... then it starts to make you like your cursed form!!! But... i've been locked before and the thought never crossed my mind. Never for quite as long... maybe it has something to do with... with uh... that monthly thing.
Ranma thought of what she had said not long ago.
=FLASHBACK=
"Uh... cuz... well. When Leah guessed that she thought I was a guy, It kinda narrowed down my options. I don't like staying in places that find me an out cast because of circumstances that are out of my control. I saved there lives... big deal? Most people would still judge me by what I do... not who I am." Ranma said.
"You say that like a true girl." Aaron joked.
"I DO NOT!" Ranma shouted.
Aaron laughed untill he saw Ranma's face and then gulped.
"Look your not very convincing. Exibit A is right here. You can make guys shut up or be very afraid by just looking at them. Definantly a girls trait." Leah said.
"I.. I can?" Ranma asked.
"You just did." Luc said speaking for the first time since Ranma had begun her story.
=END FLASHBACK=
"I did... I made him like... act like me. I made him afraid of me by getting angry. Intimidating him because I was a girl. Shouting an getting angry from a little bit of teasing... What the hell is wrong with me?" Ranma asked herself.
//Ranma...//
"Huh? Hello? Anybody out there?" Ranma asked the air. She could've sworn she'd heard somethng. Wait... HE'D done it again!
Ranma mentaly kicked himself. Thanked god that she thought of herself as a he... wait... and then mentally kicked HIMself again.
"This really sucks... I'm turning into a girl and now I'm hearing voices..." Ranma sighed.
//Ranma... You will bring my rest. It's time for you to complete the dragon mark. Your closer than the other two have gotten already... You will make it...//
"The dragon mark? Make it? Your rest? HEY WHO ARE YA AND WHAT'RE'YA TALKING ABOUT!" Ranma shouted.
//I"m the Jusenkyo spirit. Your on the right track... that's all I can tell you. The rest is up to you//
The presence was gone. All it left Ranma with was more questions than answeres.
"I... I think It's about time I spoke with Kasumi... I did say I'd keep in touch didn't I? But if someone else reads a letter I'm doomed. But Kasumi gets mail all the time from... someone and nobody ever reads it. (added. never really happens.) I know Kasumi knows English. My only problem is I don't know whether Nabiki knows... I think it's worth it to take a chance..." Ranma thought. She picked up a piece of paper and a pen and began to write in english.
My Only Friend Kasumi,
Kasumi... this is Ranma... please don't let anyone read this... I can't have anyone finding out... I'm having some troubles... I'm absolutly certain I'm on the right track to my cure but... I'm begining to have problems... Something is Wrong with me... I dont' know what it is... but I'm begining to... act like a girl. I've just been told this by some freinds who know of my curse. They told me I am acting like a girl... a tomboy, but still a girl. I don't know what to do or say... Do you, have any ideas as too why I'm acting like this? Why I'm changing... I went through a period and will never be able to make fun of Akane or any other girl for that again... I've also had a case of amnesia that was cured... (magically as always) It's only been a month and three weeks probably when you get this... Do you... do you think I'll actually change into a girl?
/R\a/n\k/o\ .Ranma Saotome.
Ranma sighed. She'd had to mark out the name Ranko. "Why does this shit always happen to me?" Ranma asked to no one in particular. Kami felt somewhat sad for his toy at the moment.
She stamped it... went out, found the local post office in about 10 minutes after asking a padestrian went home and went to sleep. She phoned in sick to school the next morning.
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"What a lovely day!" Kasumi exclaimed.
Ever since Ranma had left she had been.. somewhat happy. She didn't have to prepare so much food. Especially since no one seemed to show up at the dojo anymore.
Money was up and they were definantly in the black. Even though Nabiki had lost a major sorce of income she had others. Anyway, It had only been a month and three weeks! Ranma would be back even though they had been searching China for about a week. Nabiki had been sending money from China.
Akane, confident Ranma was still in Japan, had stuck around. Akane now was watching TV having nothing else to do... No Ranma to bother her about helping him study... no Happosai to chase off... NOTHING! She looked up and noticed a letter outside. (I think they hang letters on a string or something like that... I dunno)
She took a look at it and noticed it was for Kasumi.
"Kasumi! You've got a letter!" She called.
Kasumi emerged from the kitchen and was handed a letter by Akane. Akane then walked away. The was in English and everything about that damn language made her angry. Like how she failed the class while Ranma had made a B+ in it... It angered her to no end that he knew English. So she decided to avoid it... It would just make her angry.
Kasumi opened the letter. "To my only friend?" she said repeating the strange greeting in English.
She gasped when she realized it was from Ranma. She sat down and read the letter. She read it a few times and blinked a few times more... Ranma was starting to act... like a girl? "Poor Ranma... These things always seem to happen to him..." She sighed remembering that whatever had happened to him seemed to have been her fault.
She began to write her own letter.
Dear Ranma,
As you asked no one knows about this... I'm very sorry this has happened to you... especially knowing that it's my fault. I wish I could help. But my only advice for you is... Your a man so stay a man... If that's what you truly want... but if you find yourself not wanting that... perhaps you should try the other side of life? I'm not saying to like boys... but try being a girl for a while. Maybe... you'll find it worth it... I'd like to talk to you more securely then letters. I own my own computer. If you happen to have money, I recomend you buy one and figure out how to use an e-mail service of some kind. My e-mail address is Kitchen_habitual@aol.com. If you dont' understand this I'm sure someone there does. I'm still soo sorry for what I've brought upon you.
Not your only friend,
Kasumi.
P.S. I'm sorry...
Kasumi Immediatly left for the local post office and mailed the letter. She then returned to find Akane desperatly tryng to save her burning oven which she had forgotten to turn off.
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Black V... Dyne would never let it's meaning be known. If it were he would probably become a laughing stock. He was once a martial artist who would defend those who couldn't defend themselves... fight in honorable duels... never kill. But that all changed. When ever his V was murdered. He had killed the murdered in cold blood. He had messed with the wrong V. V... he hardly ever spoke it's meaning to himself anymore. The real name of his fortress and gang. Black Valentine (Val-en-teen). The girl of his dreams... the girl he had lost. "Why did you have to die? Why couldn't I protect you?" He asked the nothingness when he was sure know one was around. Seconds later his mask reattached itself. Not nearly as hard... That girl... he had kidnapped, looked exactly like his Valentine. She should die. He had Claust kill her... but he immediatly regretted it. When Dyne found out Claust had failed, while he hit Claust with the flail, inside he leaped for joy... Even though he was now old enough to be that girls grandfather... He felt something at the moment that he hadn't felt in a long time. He felt...
//Jusenkyo....//
// I wish there was a way to apologize to the world for it.//
//I will soon be free.//
//I will soon have my rest and finally rid the world of my mistake.//
//But to my poor victim, the cost is so high for him... for her...//
//How did do this?//
//How I managed to go into such a blind rage as to create something so cruel as Jusenkyo over something as petty as revenge I don't know.//
//Now all I know is that my fate rests in a boy turned girl who has a permanant migrain because of me...//
//I wish there was a way to apologize to the world and the 3000 years of pain I have caused it.//
//But especially, to Ranma.//
(I hope you like this chapter... as I said, major OOC on Ranma and kinda even dark. Abnormally long too. This is probably the twist actually, instead of the chapters ago where I said amnesia was. R & R PLZ! Lata!)