A/N: from this point on, a good chunk oh this story will be in the third person for 2 reasons, first, is that I don't like writing in the first person, second, Ryu is already diverging from my personality, while my core personality will remain in him he is morphing into what I want to be, not what I am. I hope you enjoy.
Chap 2: A New Life
(Ring Ring)
"Hello, Saotome residence, Nodoka Saotome speaking"
"Mrs. Saotome, this is customs, we have a boy here that clams to be your son, we were wondering if you could come down and confirm this."
"...YES!! Er, um, I mean yes, I will be down there in fifteen minutes." 'I can't believe Ranma is home, this is wonderful. Oh I can't wait to see him. He must be so manly. I wish his brother was here.'
"Good we'll see you then, good bye"
(click)
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"Your mom said she'd be here in fifteen minutes so sit there till then and don't talk," says the customs officer.
' I wish I was my actual age, so that these idiots would stop treating me like a piece of shit,' Ryu thinks.
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15 minutes later
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"Where is my son! You said he was HERE!" Nodoka screams.
"Calm down Mrs. Saotome, he went to the wash room, he'll be right back."
"Mom?" Ryu says feeling an instant connection with the light red haired woman in front of him.
(GLOMP)
"Oh, my son, please never leave me again."
(wheeze) "Can't breath, need air."(wheeze)
"Oh, I'm sorry Ranma, I'm just so excited!"
'I wonder how she will take this one' "Mom, I'm not Ranma, I'm Ryu."
(THUD)
"Mom?" Ryu says as he kneels down next to his now unconscious mother.
She groans as she gets up and mumbles, "I had the strangest dream, Ryu came home, it was wonderful."
"It wasn't a dream mom, it's real," Ryu says hoping that he doesn't get another mega glomp.
"B..b..but how did you find me, you were so young when you were kidnapped?"
"It's a long story and there is something else I have to show you in private so is it O.K. if we get this test they want us to take and go home so I can get to know my mom?"
"What test?"
"DNA test ma'am," says a short, mousy man in a lab coat, "We have to be sure that he really is your son."
"I already gave them a sample, it only takes a second," Ryu says.
"Hurry up so I can get to know my son that I haven't seen for over sixteen years."
"We'll only need a few hairs, O.K. Now sign here, here…......and here, all done. We'll have the results in a few days, have a nice day.
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"So son tell me about yourself," gleams Nodoka, beaming that her long lost son has returned.
"Well," he says as he remembers his cover story that the paperwork he found in his backpack pointed to, "when I three I was adopted by a family in the U.S. through the foreign adoption program, when I was five I stumbled across an old sword master from Japan and took lessons in the art of swordplay until I was ten when he passed away in his old age, leaving me as the heir to his school because he had no children. When I was fourteen my adopted parents died in a car accident, I was devastated so I decided to try to find my birth family, I didn't know if I was Japanese, or Chinese because I look Japanese but I was adopted from China, so I went to China first, there I was wandering the country side, taking a break from my search when I stumbled on a valley with hundreds of springs with bamboo poles sticking out of them, a place called Jusenkyo, an ancient cursed training ground, I went down to look around and found an old bald man and a boy sparing on the poles. Now before I go on let me tell you about the curses, if you fall in a spring you take on the form of what last drown there, if you fall in the spring of the drown tiger, you turn into what you would look like if you were born a tiger."
"That's horrible, to be trapped in an animal's body for the rest of your life," Nodoka says mournfully.
"Actually, you aren't stuck, hot water deactivates the curse, so hot water human cold water tiger, that's the main curse, the other curse is a water magnet curse, when you are cursed you have to expect to get splashed four or five times a day no matter what. Now back to my story the boy and the man was were sparing and the boy knocked the man into a spring, don't think they knew about the curses because when a panda jumped out the boy was in shock and the panda took advantage of his distraction and knocked him towards a spring, the one behind me, he flew into me and we were both knocked into the spring."
Nodoka leaps to her feet, "YOU'R CURSED!!!!!!! I'll kill the bastard who did this to my son!!!!!!"
"Sons," Ryu says.
"What?," she says confused.
"After I woke up from passing out from the shock of someone hitting me and changing into something other then me, I found out that the boy was my long lost brother, Ranma, and the old man was my father, Genma, that's how I learned my family name and found you."
"No," she says in a weak voice as she falls back into her chair, "both my sons cursed to turn into ..... what do you turn into?"
"Can I have a glass of cold water and a glass of warm water."
"Yes, just a second."
'I hope she doesn't faint again,' Ryu thinks.
"Here is your water son."
"Please don't faint," Ryu says weakly before dumping the cold water over his head, "we fell into the spring of the drown girl," the now redheaded girl says.
Ryu is enveloped in a soft caring hug (instead of a glomp this time), "Oh my son, are you alright? Did it hurt? Are you still ... you?" rapid fires Nodoka.
"I'm fine, no it doesn't hurt, and as far as I can tell the change is all physical, the only strange thing is when I change this body feels natural but mentally I know it's wrong, which is just creepy," Ryu replies.
"So where is your father? Surely he would want to return home after that."
"I'll finish my story and maybe you could tell me why he left me there"
"HE LEFT YOU THERE!! After finally finding you he just LEFT YOU THERE!!"
"Please calm down, I think he thinks it's for my own good. I sparred with him and won, barely, then he knocked me out and Ranma left me this note."
Nodoka, eager to read anything written by her still wayward son, takes the note and reads it quietly, then asks "They are coming home? This is wonderful. We can be a family again!"
"I hope so," Ryu says skeptically.
"What do you mean, son," (when she says son, she beams with happiness.)
"Before I was knocked unconscious, I seen 'father' with two pieces of paper, one was a letter to a Soun Tendo, the other was a what looked like a seppeku contract between Genma and you, what was that contract about?" Ryu asks as she fakes innocence 'Genma is too stupid to know I didn't see them if it ever gets brought up.'
"It was a contract that if Ranma didn't come home as a m..a...n, oh my god. Genma is going to keep my son away from me until he finds a cure," she says horrified.
"There is no cure." Ryu says, "I asked the guide and some of the locals, they said that 'even the gods cannot remove a curse from Jusenkyo', one said they knew this from experience."
"Genma will never let me see my son again." Nodoka says dejectedly.
"May I see the contract?"
"Let me get it," she gets up to look through a desk and comes back with an old, yellowed piece of paper.
Ryu accepts the Nodoka's copy of the contract and starts to read, "Yes! Loophole!" she says, "It says that your 'son' Ranma will come back a man among men."
"I don't see where you are going with this," Nodoka says curiously.
"Well, technically I'm not your son right now, I'm your daughter, so as long as he is a manly while he is a guy the curse doesn't matter."
Nodoka's eyes widen, "You're right!" her eyes widen even more, "I have twin daughters now as well as twin sons!"
'Oh shit,' Ryu thinks as 'her' eyes widen in fear, 'I've read way too many fan fictions where mom tries to get Ranma to be a girl as well as a boy for this to be good.' she doesn't even realize that she is already considering Nodoka her mother.
"I'll have to teach you how to be proper women, and we'll have to go shopping, I won't have my daughters looking like they're tomboys or easy because they don't wear the proper undergarments," she rattles off even more things she has to do.
"Hold on mom, I may be in a girl's in body now but I'm still a guy in my mind, remember, and though I may not put up 'too' much of a fight, Ranma was raised as a man among men, he will NOT want ANYTHING female on him when he is one, just give him some time to get use to being a girl some of the time and he might come around." Ryu says hoping to quell her mom's 'forced feminization'.
"I guess I see where you are coming from, but I was so lonely while your father and brother where gone, I wondered how it would be if I had a daughter to keep me company, I guess I got carried away."
Ryu waves it off, "Don't worry about it, I've only had two months to get used to it myself, I'm sure that when I finally fully accept the curse that I'll have to get used to being a girl sometimes, and looking the part naturally, but until then please let me just be me," then she thinks 'I was raised in the U.S., I AM going to be me even here, screw that 'the nail that sticks out must be pounded down' bullshit.'
"How are we going to find you're brother though," Nodoka says slightly down again.
"Well he did write to this Soun Tendo, why don't we start there?" Ryu says with an evil smile, unfortunately on a girl it looks like a cute smile, and thinks 'Soon I will be part of the solution instead of the problem.'
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In heaven Loki laughs his ass off at that last thought, "The only way you will be the solution is if you get the avatars of order to help you, my new little friend, too bad your cousin is too busy dealing with my chaos avatars to come to your rescue. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Disclamer: I don't own Ranma ½, Oh my goddess, or any other anime ,manga, comic books, cartoons, or anything of actual value, so please don't sue me.
A/N: btw i go to kuwait on the 21 so it might be a while before i can udate again, wish me luck
