AN: the characters and settings of Gundam Wing AC and Ranma ½ do not belong to me, I'm just borrowing them to play with. OOC, AU, Yaoi, and X-over warnings.

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Chapter 2

The mornin' after the two new kids showed up, Pops slept in an' I woke up before Akane could douse me, so for once I got ta wake up as a guy. Strange feelin', it's only happened a few times since Pops drug me to Jusenkyo the first time. Way I figured it, this was a good sign.

So I hopped outta bed, ran to the bathroom, got cleaned up, dressed, an' went down to help Kasumi with breakfast. Yeah, yeah, I'm not usually so helpful, but why not? I was in a real good mood. An' this way, I got to pack my own lunch.

I was sittin' at the table eatin' my breakfast an' readin' when Nabiki came in with her coffee saw me with a book. She started coughin' an' spluterin'… one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen. Pops of course started yellin' at me for bein' a pansy an' whining 'bout his son turning girly when he sees me readin'. I simply splashed him with cold water and ignored the signs.

Akane started givin' me shit 'bout Dana Maxwell as soon as she sat down so I gave it right back tellin' her I saw the way she was lookin' at Chang. I was bluffin', but she shut up right quick, an' I figured I was on to somethin'.

Instead a hammerin' it to death like I usually would, I decided to keep it back to use later and left for school early. Akane tried to run after me, but couldn't keep up. When I'd lost her, I headed over to the house I'd seen Chang and Dana goin' in to the day before.

Since school didn't start fer at least another half hour, I figured Chang an' Dana, I'd started callin' her that in my head, hadn't left yet an' I might be able to walk with 'em. Turns out I was wrong, an' I spotted 'em already on their way. So I joined 'em.

Kinda surprised me when they didn't jump when I landed beside 'em. Turns out, Chang had spotted me before I spotted them, so they were expectin' it.

Dana asked me if she could learn to roof jump. Chang seemed pretty interested too, I could almost see his ers strain to catch what I said from where he was walkin' in front of us.

I told her it was a matter a trainin' so yeah, maybe she could at some point, but I couldn't promise nothin'. That started Chang askin' questions about my trainin'. I could tell he didn't really believe me when I told him some of the stuff Pops had done to train me.

By that time, we'd arrived at school, an' there was Akane, dealin' with the last of the hentai hoard an' lookin' royally pissed. I figured it was because she was mad at me fer not bein' at school when she got there.

Huh, as far as I was concerned, that was her problem.

Lookin' back, I can tell that at that point my crush on Akane had really started ta die. Of course havin' Dana around kick started the process an' sped it up, but any good feelin's I had for Akane had already started to die before then. Still, by the time the guys left Nerima, the only reason I saved Akane from stuff was cause I knew mom'd kill me and Kasumi would be upset if the tomboy got hurt.

Now back ta the story.

Just after we gone through the gates, Kuno had to shove his damned nose into things. After his usual speil about the fierce tigress Akane and the pigtailed goddess, he spotted Dana and added a third girl to his list to free from my 'terrible grasp'.

He walked up to her doing his noble samurai act grabbed her hand, bowed and kissed it. She stood there shocked into silence. He took that as admiration and tried to kiss her. Just as I was about to knock the moron into the sky, Chang beat me to the punch. 'Course, he didn't punch the idiot, he struck him across the back of the neck with his own bokken while pulling Dana out of his grip. But hey, that counts right? After all the moron still got knocked out.

With Kuno out a the picture for a bit, Akane charged up ready to knock me into the sky. She was so mad bout me payin' attention to another girl that if she'd hit me, I'd a ended up halfway across Tokyo. Instead she was forced to stop when Chang stepped in her way while makin' sure Dana was fine. When Akane shifted to go around him, he moved into her way again. He did this a couple more times while makin' sure Dana was ok 'til Akane, red in the face an' pissed as hell, stomped away.

At first I thought Chang had done it all by accident, but then he looked at me and winked.

I nearly bust a gut tryin' not ta laugh.

That's when the bell rang an' we all headed in ta class. I paid more attention in class that mornin' than normal, what with Chang pokin' me awake when I started noddin' off an' Dana giggling every time he did it.

When the lunch bell rang we headed outside and things went down hill. 'Ring-ring ring-ring CRUNCH!' and "Nihao airen!", Shampoo had arrived, an' as usual she had to land on me.

"Hello Shampoo…" I whimpered, my face planted in the dirt as she sat on her bike, front tire planted between my shoulder blades.

"Who new girl?" came the icy question above me.

" That's Dana Maxwell, he's Chang Wufei, met 'em yesterday." Was my breathless reply.

"Oh." I felt her feet shift as she turned to look at Dana. "Just remember braid girl, Ranma mine." Shampoo got offa the bike, rolled it ta the ground and placed a bowl next ta my head. "Too, too, good raman for airen. Shampoo go now, make deliveries." She got back on the bike and zoomed off.

I stayed where I was an after a moment of silence Chang asked if I was OK, I said yeah I'm fine, just waited for Akane ta smack me. I could hear her stomping towards me, growling. This time Dana got in her way trying to check me fer damage. Akane got madder and of course blamed it all on me. "Ranma you pervert!"

I just kept my mouth shut for once. I was kinda curious to see what would happen this time. Akane started to swing even though she woulda hit Dana too. I jumped to stop her when Chang cut the head off of the mallet and Akane just about fell over without the extra weight.

All I could do was laugh. I knew she was gonna hurt me for it later, but man, the look on her face! She just about bust a gut she was soooo pissed, an' all she could do was stand there an' fume cause Chang lectured her about how attacking a defenseless man was injust an' that if she tried it again he'd wreck that mallet too. I spent the whole time tryin' not to laugh out loud, musta been damn near purple if the looks Dana was shootin' me said anythin'.

In any case, the rest of the day at school went nice. Akane stayed the hell away from me an' Ukyo wasn't there, so I spent the day bein' left alone for once an' bein' poked awake by Chang when I dozed off. I even passed the history test thanks to the readin' I'd been doin' an' stayin' awake in class.

The trip home was somethin' else. Soon's we'd split from Chang and Dana, Akane started yellin' at me and pullin' out that damn mallet of hers. I mean sure, I got all of the normal drives an' urges of a guy my age, but come on, just cause I can't help turnin' into a girl don't mean I'm a pervert. But of course, just because the girl had issues she's gotta class me with that damn letch Happosai. Hell, wasn't my fault she ignored the damn in use sign an' walked in on me takin' a bath.

That girl has issues, an'one of these days she's gonna really hurt someone. An' you know what? Even if I ain't anywhere near her the little bitch is still gonna say it's my fault.

Anyway, we got home an' Akane jus' had to tell her version of the day. That got Pops an' Mr. Tendo pissed at me, an' the morons wouldn't even listen to my side of things. Not that the morons ever do… In any case I think Kasumi at least heard me out 'cause supper was somethin' I liked an' Akane hated an' I know I saw the fixin's for stirfry out earlier.

But, back to the story.

In the mornin' Pops woke me up as usual. An' after breakfast I went to join Chang and Dana on the way to school. I can remember thinkin' that it was nice not havin' to go by the Ladle Lady an' getting' splashed when It happened. Yeah you guessed it. SPLASH!

Damn curse was back in effect.

I could feel my body changin', shrinkin', parts disappearin' or getting bigger some places, an' smaller in others. One a' the creepiest feelin's I know. It didn't help that both Chang an' Dana were lookin' at me when It happened, though to tell ya the truth the looks on their faces was damn funny. They jus' stared at me, surprised as hell. Guess it was the first they'd ever heard of or seen a Jusenkyo curse. I'm tellin' ya, it was damn funny, almos' worth the change. Both of their eyes was so wide they was like to pop outta their heads. Chang's mouth was hangin' open in shock an' I could see red creepin' up his neck as he stared at my new shape. Dana was to surprised to say anythin' at all at first. Her mouth was hangin' open too, an' she kept makin' squeakin' noises like a little mouse.

All I could do was roll my eyes an' start to explain 'bout Jusenkyo. I could tell they didn't really believe me. That started to change after they saw Mousse an' Shampoo change too.

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