Ch2: A history lesson.
Usagi slumped against the wall, tears flowing down her face. She had heard the rumors, but that's all she thought they were. But now, thanks to one of the girls he had tried to date, she now knew that it was all true.
She couldn't believe how naive she had been to believe all the lies he told her, all the while pretending he loved her. "What did I do wrong?" She asked out loud.
"You did nothing wrong, except fall for a man that just wanted to use you to gain power." A gentle voice said, causing her to jump slightly.
Looking up, she was surprised to see the girl that had opened her eyes to the real Mamoru dressed exactly like her, save for the colors. Her eyes widened when she noticed the Golden Crystal pinned overthe girlsheart, and her mind began to race. "Who are you?"
"I...I am Sailor Terra, I think." She said looking down at her hands. "I was once the Senshi of Earth, that is, until Earth's royal family tried to transfer my Senshi powers to a male. It worked partially, sealing part of my soul in the Golden Crystal, while the other half wondered the ethereal plains until it was reborn.
In this era, I was reborn as Ranma Soatome, and male. It's funny how I always thought of my female side as a curse, but now that I'm restored, no thanks to that no good Chiba, I feel whole."
Usagi sat there and dried her tears as she absorbed what Ranma told her, but something didn't make sense. "If you were born a boy, then how come you're a girl?"
Ranma sighed and sat down beside her before telling her about her current life. How she had spent the first sixteen years of her life as a boy, the Neko-Ken training, which renewed Usagi's tears, about Jusenkyo, the fiancés, all the way up to where she had been disowned.
"After the failed wedding, my Mom, Akane, and I sat down and had a talk. We told her that we had decided a long time ago that the only love between us was that of siblings and nothing more. After a while, we decided on a way that would allow me to keep my personal honor intact.
Knowing that my Pop's wouldn't follow through with the seppeku contract, Mom gave him two choices. One,we could commit seppeku or two, he could disown me.
With his own greedy life on the line, he chose to disown me. That was when Akane began her part of the plan by telling her father that since they no longer had an obligation to me, that there was no reason for me to stay there any more.
So packing what little I owned, I headed over to my Mom's place where she gave me my cousins address and said that she'd see me after taking care of some things.
It started to rain shortly after I left my Mom's house, so I ducked in to a convenience store to wait out the storm and get some hot water to change back to my male form. After waiting around for about twenty minutes Chiba showed up. After telling him to leave me alone several times, I got fed up and snapped his wrist.
After he ran off, I got some hot water, changed back, and continued on my way. Cutting through a park, I was splashed by that daemon you saw me fighting earlier. About two hours into the practice session-"
"Practice session?" Usagi interrupted.
"Well, yeah. I could have destroyed that thing any time I wanted, it's just that I needed something to release my frustration on. As I was saying, about two hours into the session, you guys showed up. And you know the rest up until you took of.
After you ran off, he attacked me; I blocked the blow and countered it with a punch to his stomach. That's when the world around us exploded. I don't know what caused it, but I think that the other half of my soul realized who I was and retuned to me, along with my Senshi powers and most of my memory of the Silver Millennium and some of Chiba's recent ones, but I can't fully remember some things. But I do remember that we were close friends, Sere-chan."
Usagi nodded as Ranma finished her story. She had trouble remembering certain things too. "I know what you mean. It gets so frustrating sometimes. You're about to remember something important, but it just slips away."
Helping Usagi up, Ranma looked to the sky and said, "It's getting late. Do you want me to walk you home or something?" Looking down, Ranma suddenly noticed that she had been holding Usagi's hand and quickly released it, blushing furiously.
Usagi felt a warm feeling spread through out her body when Ranma didn't let go of her hand right away, and when she finally did let go, she missed the warmth of Ranma's hand in hers.
She was about to speak when her communicator went off. Pulling it out, Ranma watched curiously over her shoulder as she flipped the top up. Seconds later, the worried face of Rei Hino appeared. "Usagi! Where are you? Mamoru just showed up here saying that some girl stole his powers!" She said all in one breath. "We're having a meeting at the temple, so hurry up." With that the picture fade to black.
"We better head over there and explain what really happened." She said looking up at Ranma. Upon seeing the stunned look on her face, she became worried. "Ranma? What's the matter?"
Blinking a few times, she turned to Usagi with a look of shock. "That was Rei Hino, right?" Getting a nod, she said, "She's my cousin!"
Going over this new information, Usagi felt that things might go a little smoother than she originally thought. "Come on, we need to hurry. By the way, can you shift back and forth between your female and male forms?"
Rei was about to call Usagi again when she walked through the door. "Finally! What took-" She stopped speaking as a black haired, pigtailed guy walked in and set down next to Usagi as if he knew what was going on.
"Who are you?" She hissed out as politely as possible. She knew she had seen this guy some were before, but she couldn't be bothered with that at the moment.
Ranma slowly turned his head from watching Mamoru to look at her and cocked his head to the side. "An old friend of Usagi's." he simply said before returning his gaze back to Mamoru.
"Hmm. I don't know Usagi, he doesn't look like that big an idiot, but appearances can be deceiving." He said with a smirk before shifting to his female form. "Right Chiba?"
Everyone besides Usagi stared at the guy turned girl in shock, well except for Mamoru, who looked as if he couldn't decide on being anrgy, shocked or sick.
"Y-You! He's- She's the one that stole my powers!" Mamoru screamed, bringing everyone out of their shock.
Usagi scoffed. "More like she was taking back what you stole!" She said venomously, which surprised everyone but Ranma. "I can't believe I ever cared for you, Chiba!"
Shifting back to male form, Ranma spoke. "The way I see it, Chiba, is that you have two choices. We could either finish the fight from earlier, or you could leave here and never bother these girls again. Your choice."
Hearing what the guy was saying, he finally settled on being angry. "We finish our fight! Follow me." He stood up and walked out the door with out seeing the maniacal grin on Ranma's face.
Turning to Usagi, he whispered just loud enough for the occupants of the room to hear him, "So, how much do you want me to hurt him, princess?"
"Just enough so he'll think twice about treating another girl the way he treated me." She said, her grin matching Ranma's.
After watching Ranma walk out of the room, Rei began to drill Usagi for answers. "Usagi! Who was that? And how did he change like that?"
Usagi just sat there with a n amused look on her face before saying, "I'm shocked Rei! Don't you recognize your own cousin?"
"Cousin?" She asked blinking a few times.
"Yeah, you know, Ranma Soatome?" Usagi said standing up and heading out the door.
Rei's eyes widened at that and she quickly followed after Usagi, leaving the others in confusion.
Rei and Usagi walked out side to see Ranma holding a tree limb and standing over an unconscious Mamoru and looking around slightly puzzled. "Ranma? What's wrong?" Usagi asked, drawing his attention.
"Um, we were getting ready to fight, when this limb fell on him." Rei face-foulted, bring Usagi with her.
