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 4

So there I was, wakin' up in a strange place yet again after gettin' knocked out thanks to Akane an' her damn temper.

Later they told me I was out for 'bout a hour before I woke up. But to me no time at all passed between bein' knocked out an' wakin' up tied to a chair with a couple people arguing next taome. I kept my eyes shut an' tried to keep my breathin' regular, somethin' I'd figured out to fool Akane an' company.

Listenin' I heard Kat, Chang, Yuy, an' some guy who sounded a lot like Dana arguin' 'bout what to do with me. Of course, soon's I heard Kat tell Yuy to keep his mouth shut cause they certainly weren't gonna shoot me like he suggested my eyes popped open an' I knocked myself over tryin' to stand up. I musta yelped or somethin' cause I saw 'em spin to look at me just as I went over backwards. I know I yelled when I landed wi' my hands smashed between the chair an' the floor an' hit my head again.

This time I stayed awake but things got real blurry for a bit. I do remember bein' moved up off of the floor on to somethin' flat an' tryin' not to puke when they sat me up to untie my hands. Stuff was pretty fuzzy for a while there, an' I don't remember much, but I must fallen asleep 'cause I woke up on the couch back at the guys house. Wakin' up an' seein' Yuy messin' with a gun scared the crap outta me 'cause I still remembered what they'd been arguin' 'bout before, an' at that point even I wasn't fast enough to dodge a bullet. He glared at me an' left. He must have gone to get the other guys 'cause they all showed up a couple of minutes later.

Kat checked me out while the other guys, an' the guy who was Dana, just stood an' watched. Kat did the whole flashlight in the eyes thing an' the other stuff Doc Tofu does when Akane knocks me silly. He looked surprised for some reason when I seemed to be fine. 'Course by then I knew how to fake most of it an' did fine 'til he asked me to get up an' walk. Since I couldn't see straight, first thing I did was trip an try to land on my nose. Chang caught me an' sat me back down on that couch thing they had.

Yuy tried ta start askin' me questions but Kat told him to leave me alone for a bit.

Yuy just glared an' stood by the door with his back to the wall with his arms crossed an' his gun in one hand.

Kat rolled his eyes an' shook his head, before turnin' back to look at me again. He told me I needed to stay put for a several more hours 'cause I had a concussion. I watched his eyebrows shoot up when I told him it was no big deal, it was only the second one that week an' that I'd be fine in a couple of hours.

Wufei started sputterin' an cursin' in Chinese, Dana started cursin' Akane in English, an' Kat just stared at me in shock. I even got a raised eyebrow from the great stone face, Triton Bloom as he watched over Kat's shoulder. Yuy just shrugged.

In any case, they quieted down after a bit, an' Kat, Dana, an' Change decided that I was stayin' put for the night 'cause they didn't trust me not to get hurt worse if they let me go home.

I just figured I'd wait till they were asleep an' sneak back ta the Tendo's. I knew what Akane an' the old idiots'd do to me if I was gone all night without tellin' 'em I was trainin'.

Then Dana told me I'd better not try sneakin' out to go home, 'cause if I did he'd tie me up again just to keep me put. I could tell by the look in her eyes that he'd do it too. I'm just glad Chang mentioned callin' the Tendo's to tell 'em where I was so I didn't have to ask ta use the phone an' listen to Akane scream at me some more. While he left to do that, I finally remembered to ask Dana what he wanted me to call him now that he was a guy. Kat started gigglin' at the now he was a guy part an' even Yuy smirked.

Dana scowled at both of 'em an' grumbled while I watched, confused. Finally he said to call him Duo here in this house but to call him Dana any where else. He still looked pissed, so to cheer him up I told him about Ranko an' pretendin' to be a girl so my mom doesn't make me kill myself. Kat an' Duo laughed 'til I got to the last part, then they started lookin' upset again. I told 'em to forget it an' asked where the bathroom was an' if I could have some water.

That distracted 'em. Duo helped me to the bathroom to keep me from runnin' into the walls I guess, an' Yuy followed. Kat ran off to get me something; to drink, an' his boyfriend stayed put in that living room of theirs. Any way, by the time I was done in the bath room I was so tired an' dizzy I didn't even bother turnin' back into a guy when I got splashed with cold water. Yuy looked a bit startled when I came out as a girl for some reason but just followed us back 'til I just 'bout took a header down the stairs, almost takin' Duo with me. That's when he picked me up an' carried me the rest of the way. I didn't complain, I was too damn tired to fuss 'bout bein' carried for some reason.

We got back to the living room an' Chang raised an' eyebrow at me an' smirked before tellin' me that the Tendo's knew where I was an' that I'd be stayin' for a bit. I asked what he meant an' he said they'd decided to keep me 'til Kat was sure I was fine. I groaned. Akane was gonna kill me.

That night I slept on the couch an' one of the guys woke me up every hour, I guess to make sure I was ok. Doc Tofu use to have the girls do the same when I had a concussion 'til he figured out it wasn't needed long as I stayed awake for a couple a hours after I woke back up. I tried to tell 'em I was fine, but did they listen? Nope.

The next mornin' I talked Kat in to sendin' someone to get Doc Tofu after breakfast. Half hour later I could hear the Doc an' Chang comin' in the door.

"Landed head first on concrete last night you say and hit his head again an hour later?" Doc Tofu Hmm'ed when Chang agreed. "Well then, as long as he hasn't broken anything he should be perfectly fine by now."

I could see the doc grin as he came in to the room while listenin' to Chang as he asked the doc if he was sure.

"Of course I am, the same thing happened about two months ago," his eyes found me "didn't it Ranma?" He smiled as he pulled a chair up beside me. "So what did you do to make Akane mad this time Ranma?", he asked.

"I didn't do anythin'." I told him. "She got mad 'cause I've been goin' out at night to spend some time on my own this last week or so. She says I've been messin' around with other girls an' that I'm a pervert. Same thing as usual really, 'cept now she's accusin' me a messin' around with my friend Dana as well."

By that time the only one not in the room listenin' to me an' the doc chat was Duo. I figured he was listenin' in the kitchen or gettin' dressed up as Dana. When he bounced in wearin' a pair a pink shorts, a white shirt, an' a sock stuffed bra, I had my answer.

An' a 'course he had to start tryin' to flirt with the doc who took one look an' told him it'd work better if he used water balloons instead a rolled up socks. After a couple of seconds of bein' in shock, I just had to ask how the hell he knew that. Doc just waved it off an' said he'd had to dress up as a girl as part of a dare in high school an' that his sister had told him the same thing. I tried to imagine the doc in drag an' just had to laugh.

While the other guys were tryin' to decide what to do since the doc figured out Duo wasn't a girl, Duo's eyes narrowed, but he just grinned at him an' told him he'd have to remember that.

I watched Doc Tofu glance around at the five guys who looked like they were decidin' between attackin' an' runnin' away. He looked a bit confused, then smirked an' asked Chang ta greet some lady named Sally Po the next time he talked ta her. Chang glared more an' asked how he knew her. Doc just told him he'd helped train her. Then he packed his stuff up, told 'em ta come see him if they needed help, an' left.

Soon as the doc was out the door the guys started arguin'. I only caught a couple of words before Yuy glared my way an' made 'em shut up. What I heard didn't make sense 'til I remembered the gundams I'd seen in the warehouse. That was enough ta let me figure out who the guys were an' why Tofu figurin' out Duo wasn't a girl made 'em so nervous. An' a course, I couldn't keep my mouth shut.

"You're the gundam pilots! What the hell are ya doin' in Nerima? Ya lookin' for the Oz chick who showed up a couple a months ago?" came flyin' out a my mouth before my brain could tell me to shut up.

Next thing I know, Yuy's got a gun pointed at me an' all five a 'em are starin' down at me on the couch. Then Kat asked me in one of the coldest voices I ever heard just how I'd figured that out an' what it'd take to keep my mouth shut.

All I could do was stare at him an' try to sink into the courch. Kat'd always made me think of something cute an' fuzzy, but damn that boy could be scary!

I must a been quiet an' just stared for a bit 'cause Yuy poked my in the belly with that gun a his an' demanded a answer. All I did was squeak an' try ta move closer to Duo. I had ta stop 'cause I was still too doped up to do more'n wiggle.

Ok, I'll admit it, right then, as out of it an' doped up as I was, if my mom could have seen me she'd a made me kill myself right then an' there. I was actin' like a damn girl! But that seemed to make 'em realize that whatever the doc had given me made me too weak to do much of anythin' on my own. They seemed to relax a bit knowin' I was stuck where they put me. Chang raised an eyebrow an' asked what the doc had done so I told him 'bout the pressure points an' stuff the doc had figured out to keep me in bed when he wanted me to stay there, an' that I'd be useless for a couple of days 'til the herbs an' pressure points wore off.

Chang seemed impressed an' asked what kinda doc Tofu was. I told him Doc was real good, an' knew his stuff, but to get the hell away from him if Kasumi showed up or if someone mentioned her name.

The other guys had backed off, an' I'd forgotten they were listenin' so when Duo started laughin' an' Kat started gigglin' while I told Chang some of the stuff the doc did when he saw Kasumi or heard her name, I tried to twist to look at 'em an' damn near fainted because my chest an' neck hurt so bad tryin' to move 'em. Kat must a felt how tired I was by then, not that I knew he was empathic, 'cause he herded everyone out but Chang an' told him to let me sleep.

I watched Chang settle down with a book, an' then I was out like a light.

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