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"Dialogue"

((Thoughts))

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"Her name is Haruka Tenou." said Nodoka

"Where does she live?" asked Ranma excitedly, ((I hope not too far away.))

"...she actually lives here in Juuban with a friend of hers."

The young man blinked, "Err... when was the last time you've seen her?"

"Around a year ago."

"If she lives here in Juuban than why don't you visit each other more often? I mean you must've been lonely during these ten long years, when Oyagi and I weren't here."

His mother sighed, "We had an argument over her lifestyle... We haven't been on good terms since then."

"Her lifestyle? What do you mean?"

"That's not for me to say, Haruka may tell you if she wants."

"So... when should I go meet her?"

"Tomorrow morning. I called her when you brought Hotaru home."

"Okay then, if it's okay I'll go to my room now."

"Of course, I don't want you to sleep in."

"Good night, mom!"

"Sleep well, my son."

Ranma walked upstairs and left Nodoka in the living room, "I wonder how he will take it that his sister likes the company of other women..."

Same day, a few hours ago...

"Who was on the phone?" asked Michiru curiously

Haruka sat down next to her on the couch and replied, "My mother."

"Really? What did she want?"

"She asked me for a favor."

The Senshi of Neptune groaned, "Come on, can't you say more than one sentence?"

"She asked me if my half-brother could live with us for some time and I said that it was okay."

"W-wait a minute... you have a half-brother? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Well... I've never met him before. His father is a martial artist and took him on a ten year training trip."

"And why does your mother want him to live with us?"

"Seems that his father brought him into some kind of trouble and he wants a little pause from all this."

"What about our duty as Senshi? We have to find the talismans."

"You know that most of the time we don't transform here in the house."

"That's true... but still..." then Michiru's looked into Haruka's eyes, "You want to meet him, don't you?"

"Of course I do. He's the only family member left I'm not alienated with at least not through the fact that I'm lesbian."

"Good luck then."

"Thanks, Michiru."

The next morning...

Ranma was on his way to his sister's house and he was nervous beyond believe. Last night he didn't think much about it but today after his mother gave him the directions and he set out, he finally realized that he was going to see his sister.

((God, I hope she accepts my curse... and my other powers.))

Half an hour later he finally reached his destination and he was quite frankly speechless, ((T-that's not a house... that's a frickin' mansion!!))

The cursed boy gulped and walked up to the front door; he took a deep breath and ringed. After a few moments he heard two voices coming from the manor.

"He's here, he's here!"

"Calm down, Haruka. Just open the door."

She did that and opened it. There he was standing, her brother, he was dressed in a purple shirt and black pants; a red sash was wrapped around his hips and he wore black slippers. On his back he was carrying a huge backpack. Haruka also noticed the long white hair he had.

"Good morning, I'm Ranma Saotome." greeted Ranma and bowed slightly

"I'm Haruka Tenou, nice to meet you." replied the young woman

"And I'm Michiru Kaio." said the other girl

Ranma blinked, "You're Haruka?"

"Err... yes?"

"But you're a guy!" exclaimed the cursed boy, ((Did she go to Jusenkyo?))

The two Outer Senshi facefaulted when they heard this. Some moments later they stood back up again and Michiru was laughing slightly. Haruka glared at her and then turned back to Ranma,

"I'm not guy... I just like to dress this way because it's more comfortable."

"Oh! You're a cross-dresser, why didn't you just say so!"

The aquamarine-haired girl laughed even harder when she heard this and her girlfriend's cheeks were almost beet-red.

"J-just come in now."

"Okay."

The two women led their guest towards the living room and he was awed by what he saw, this room alone was almost four times as big as the Tendo's living room. They even had a piano standing in there.

"Wow..."

"Impressive, isn't it?" said Michiru when she noticed Ranma's expression

"Yeah... is that really your house?"

"Partially, we bought it together." explained the violinist, "Take a seat, please. You must be tired from carrying that huge pack of yours here."

"Not really..." said Ranma but complied anyway

Michiru used the moment of silence and said, "I'll leave you and your sister alone for now and make some tea."

The two siblings were now alone in the room, sitting across from each other. They didn't really know how to start talking to each other

"So..." started Ranma

"Well..." said Haruka at the same time

"How are you?" both of them asked

They looked at each other for a moment and then broke out into laughter. Some minutes later both of them were breathing hard and had tears in their eyes.

"God, I never felt this tense before... well... except for the first time I met mom again." said Ranma

"It's the same for me." replied Haruka, "So, you're a martial artist?"

"Yeah, I'm the best there is." exclaimed Ranma cockily

"You really think so?" asked the woman with a raised eyebrow, the way he said it, it almost sounded like a challenge

"Of course I do, twelve years of constant training and fighting for ones life tends to improve someone's skills."

"Fighting for your life?"

"Yeah... the last two years were really hard, almost daily attack by some rivals of mine..."

"You really have to tell me more about that."

"I will have to, or else you wouldn't understand my curse..."

"Mom already mentioned something like that... what is it about?"

Michiru took that moment to come back with the tea, she placed the tray she was carrying on the table between Ranma and Haruka and sat down next to her lover.

"What were you two talking about?"

"Well, it seems that Ranma has some kind of 'curse'... I don't know what it is yet though."

"Okay, I explain. Two years ago, Oyagi and I were wandering through China were we came across the cursed training ground called Jusenkyo, which means Springs of Sorrow. Anyway... it was a valley full of different springs and all of them had bamboo poles sticking out of them.

Pops decided that we should train there and jumped onto the poles, we started a sparring match and after a while I knocked my father into one of the springs... ... well, he jumped back out again a few moments later, only that he turned into a panda. Seems that I knocked him into the 'Spring of Drowned Panda', I was so surprised that he caught me off guard and knocked me into another spring."

Ranma took a vase full with flowers from a small cupboard standing next to the couch, he took the flowers out of the container and splashed himself with the water in it. To the shock of Haruka and Michiru, he turned into a red-haired girl.

"That idiot knocked me into the 'Spring of Drowned Girl'... now every time I'm splashed with cold water I turn into a girl."

Ranma then placed the vase along with the flowers back to their old position and picked up one of the cups of tea Michiru brought from the kitchen. Now he splashed himself with the hot liquid and turned back to male.

"Hot water reverses it."

The jaws of the two young women dropped, they didn't expect anything like that. They looked at each other, then back to Ranma, then to each other again, finally their gaze settled back on the cursed boy.

"Whoa..." was the only thing they said

"Yeah... I know that feeling..." stated Ranma

"H-how do you live with it?" asked Haruka, ((It must be pretty confusing for someone to change their gender just like this...))

"Well, at first it was very weird but I got used to it... sometimes it's pretty useful too."

"It may sound rude but could you tell us more about your life?" questioned his sister

"Okay... but don't you two have school or something?"

"No, we took the day off..."

"Since when can you take a day off at school?"

Haruka scratched the back of her head, "We pretended to be sick."

"Just because of me?"

"Well, it would have been rude to let you alone here on your first day." explained Michiru

"So, what about your story now?" said the other girl

"Oh well... it started like this..."

Three hours later...

"... and then mom told me that you were my sister and here I am."

Haruka and Michiru didn't know what to say, his story was completely mind-boggling. It sounded like it was taken out directly from a martial arts anime or manga. Well the two couldn't complain since they themselves could very well come out of a magical girl anime.

"Ranma that is... that is... unbelievable! How did you stay sane through all of this?" asked Haruka disbelievingly

"I have no idea. Maybe I had luck... wait... I doubt you could say that my life was filled with luck."

"What do you plan on doing next? Are you going to accept Professor Tomoe's proposal and try to get into Mugen Academy?"

"Do you know that guy?"

"Yeah, well... we go to his school."

"Really? Maybe I should try it then..."

"Just think about it, you don't have to go to the same school as we do." said Michiru and stood up, she picked up the tray with the teacups and walked out of the room

"Come Ranma, I'll show you to your room." Haruka said to her brother

"All right." Ranma moved to pick up his backpack but his relative beat him to it

"I'll carry it for you, you are our guest after all." explained the Senshi of Uranus

Haruka took both straps into her hand and pulled, it goes without saying that she almost dislocated something.

"What the hell is in this thing?"

"Not much, only some clothes and scrolls and books."

"That's not possible! These things can't weight that much."

"Well... there are also the steel weights that were worked into the backpack. Maybe that is why you can't lift it."

"Just how heavy is that thing?"

"Hmm... I think it was 500 pounds. I really need to make it heavier; it's too easy to carry around."

"Wait a minute... steel can't weight that much, I doubt that even lead is so heavy, unless the backpack is full of it."

"Well... there is something I didn't tell you about me. I have special powers."

"What kind of power?" asked Haruka curiously

"I can control and create magnetism, that's why the pack is so heavy. I'm doing it unconsciously now so the weight is not changing anymore, unless I'm on the verge of fainting that is."

Haruka looked at her brother doubtfully, "You can do what? Did I understand you right?"

"Well, if you heard that I can create and control magnetism then you heard right."

"You're not joking, right?" asked the girl, seeing the serious expression on Ranma's face

"Nope."

"Prove it."

Ranma raised an eyebrow and then snapped with his fingers, "Try lifting the pack now."

Haruka did just that and to her surprise it was almost weightless. Her eyes widened as she looked at her brother, who stood there with a smirk.

"Believe me now?"

"Err... yes. Since when can you do that?"

"I don't know when it started exactly but I think it was around the time I hit puberty."

"Man... your life is really fucked up..." then her eyes widened as she realized what she just said, ((Did I really say that out loud?))

"Ha ha... very funny." stated Ranma wryly

"Err... sorry about that. My mouth is sometimes faster than my brain..."

Ranma laughed and shook his head, "Yeah, I know how that is. Something like this happens all the time to me, only difference is that I'm the one to put my foot in my mouth."

"Come now, you can tell me later about your powers. We should go to your room now." said Haruka, happy that her brother didn't take what she said wrong

"Okay, I'll carry my pack though." replied Ranma and lifted the pack

"Oh well... it's yours anyway."

Haruka led her brother upstairs and into his room, it was fairly large and it was fully furnished.

"Wow... nice room. Can I really live here?"

"Of course you can." replied the young woman, "Well, I'll leave you alone for now, so that you can settle in a little. Before I forget it, the bathroom is two doors down the hall on the left side."

"Thanks, sis."

"No need for that. It's going to be nice to have a brother." and shortly before she exited the room, "and sister!"

Haruka left her brother, who was muttering something about 'tomboys' and went back down again. Michiru was already waiting for her in the living room. Haruka sat down next to her on the couch Ranma previously occupied.

"So, what do you think?" asked the aquamarine-haired woman

"That's a good question... his story is just so weird."

"Yeah, do you think anything he told us was true?"

"Well... my mother said that I should believe everything he told me about his life. She must have known that it would have been completely unbelievable."

"That would mean that he beat a half-dragon and phoenix-god."

"True... and not to forget these weird ability of his." added Haruka

This statement got Michiru's interest, "What powers?"

"He can control magnetism... he even showed it to me by making his backpack almost weightless with a snap of his fingers. Before that I couldn't even move that thing."

"Control magnetism? Now that is really strange."

"You're telling me? I have the feeling that his life isn't going to get much easier here. With all those daimons running around in Juuban, he'll get into contact with the Inners in a very short time."

"Maybe he could help them? The tuxedo guy is not the most competent fighter."

"I don't really want him to get into our fights... that wouldn't be fair. He has enough troubles as it is."

"I doubt that this is our decision to make." replied Michiru, "We'll see what fate brings."

"True..."

Michiru decided to change the topic to get Haruka on other thoughts, "His girl-form is cute though."

"Hey! That's my brother you're talking about!"

"He's still sexy..."

"So you choose him over me?" asked Haruka with mocked grief

"Of course not... but a threesome would be interesting."

"Pervert."

"You're one to talk."

Suddenly they heard someone cough and looked towards the doorway; Ranma was standing there with a raised eyebrow and looked at them questioningly.

"Uhm... is there something you didn't tell me?"

"Heh, heh... what do you mean?" asked Haruka, ((Why is it suddenly so hot in here?))

"Well, that stuff about you, Michiru and my girl-form having a threesome."

"Err..."

Michiru took her lover's hand and squeezed it in support, "Just tell him."

Haruka looked at the other woman and nodded, then her gaze went back to her brother, "Michiru and I are lovers, Ranma – I hope you can accept that."

"Oh... well, okay."

The two females facefaulted at his reply, they didn't expect this at all.

"Are you two okay? That must have hurt. Anyway could someone show me the way to the backyard? I want to train a little."

First Haruka stood up and then her lover, "You don't have anything else to say?"

"No, what do you expect me to say?"

"You don't seem surprised at all that I'm lesbian."

"I am surprised, I didn't expect this at all but who am I to complain about the lifestyle of someone else? Wait a minute... lifestyle... is that the reason why mom and you argued?"

"Yeah... she desperately wanted grandchildren and... well, it doesn't work with two women. Can you imagine someone getting upset because of that?"

Ranma looked at his sister incredulously, his whole body radiated the message 'Did you forget who you are talking to?'.

"Oh... sorry 'bout that." said Haruka sheepishly

"Come now you two." disrupted Michiru and then turned to Ranma, "You wanted to go to the backyard?"

"Yeah."

"We'll lead you then."

They walked through the house and into the kitchen, were the door to the backyard was. All of them went outside and while Ranma strode further to the middle of the yard, the two women sat down on the porch and watched the cursed boy as he started his kata.

Slowly he went through an attack pattern, his hands and feet along with the rest of his body moving as graceful as predator on hunt. The speed of his moves gradually started to increase and by the time he finished his standard kata, he started to make something up on his own.

For Haruka and Michiru his training seemed more and more like an exotic dance and not like the art of fighting. Unfortunately for them he soon became too fast for their eyes to follow. A purplish aura formed around him, giving his blurring form the look of a shooting star.

After some minutes of doing this, he went back to his starting position and spread his arms out to the side. He balled his hands and began to concentrate, little by little the aura around him seeped into his fists. Soon they were set ablaze with a violet corona and made a low humming noise; he pointed them to the sky and shouted,

"Moko Takabisha revised: Magnetic Torrent!!"

A blast of purple energy shot up into the atmosphere and a crack of thunder spread through the neighborhood. The two Outer Senshi had to hold their ears shut, so that they wouldn't go deaf. They watched in disbelieve as the mixture of ki and magnetism reached up far enough to part the clouds and reveal the blue sky.

There was something Ranma didn't count with though, the recoil of the attack. First he was pushed to his knees and when he tried to regulate the energy flow, the force lashed out against him, which knocked him completely to the ground and into unconsciousness. The stream of power subsided and Michiru and Haruka rushed towards Ranma, checking him for any wounds.

They noted that the joints of his legs started to swell up. They didn't find any wounds that could have been caused by the blast though, not even a single burn. This relieved them and for the first time they noticed something else, while Ranma's body was not affected by the energy, his clothes were. He was lying there as naked as on the day he was born.

And while that wasn't so bad for Haruka, since she strictly liked only women, it was a very impressive sight to behold for Michiru, who was bisexual.

"Oh my... ..." her cheeks were colored crimson

"Hey! Stop staring at my brother!"

Michiru shook her head and focused her gaze back on Haruka, "Sorry, he's just so... impressive."

"Spare me... now help me carry him inside."

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