Saturn's Guardians

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma 1/2 or Sailor Moon. Nothing in this fic belongs to me except for the kami Saturn and Sakura.

The next morning and you could hear the sounds of a normal Nerimian morning.

"RANMA! GET BACK HERE AND TRY THIS FOOD OR ELSE."

"Boy it is your duty to try your fiancée's coking."

"WAAAAAAHHHHHHHH how could you raise such a dishonourable son my friend." No guesses needed on who they were. As Akane was chasing Ranma around the table trying to get him to eat the newest bio weapon she had cooked up.

"No way am I eating that cooking its glowing a bright pink with red spots. There is no way that is edible." Ranma said to his psychotic uncute fiancée

"Ranma Saotome for insulting Akane's cooking prepare to die." Shouted an obsessed lost pig boy. So Ranma started dodging Ryoga's attacks and then started fighting back starting with a good Amaguriken which was concentrated solely on Ryoga's stomach which caused Ryoga to back up as his breath was lost but before he could do anymore along came Akane.

"RANMA STOP PICKING ON RYOGA." Shouted Akane as she ran up to Ranma and used her mallet-sama to send Ranma into LEO. While Ranma was up in the air he decided something.

"That's it I have had enough of this I have given them all many chances but they just don't change. So from here on I am not going back, I don't care what they say I'll talk to mother and ask her advice on things. Luckily for me no-one knows of how smart I really am, everyone just thinks of me as a martial arts jock. Only Doc Tofu and my teachers know but they keep it quite since I asked them too so that I could keep people like Nabiki from using it to there advantage and also so that I can disappear to a University next year and Akane wont be able to follow me as they think that I'm stupid and thus can't go to Uni so they wont be able to get any of my fiancee's to follow me. Also now that I am 18 I can leave them as I am now legally an adult. Hmm where to go though I can hardly go to Mum's as they would easily find it. Hey theirs always that house in Juuban that Grandmother left for me when she died as well as a large bank account. Looks like I'm heading for Juuban anyway." Ranma then notices that he is heading for a destroyed building that looks like it might have been a school. "OH CRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDDDD!"

Ranma then impacts into a pile of rubble and creates a small crater and just lies there unconscious. Meanwhile inside Ranma's mindscape "HELLLOOOOOOO ANYONE HERE?" shouted Ranma into the darkness he didn't hear any answer so he just explored for a while after a small amount of time he notices a glow in the distance and heads towards it. As he nears it he can see what appears to be the planet Saturn glowing and then he notices what appears to be a door in the planet which he goes up to and opens. When he opens it he starts images and they seem to be from the life of a girl who was bullied because she could heal people and was very lonely as no one liked her and her father was always busy in his lab. Then Ranma noticed that the girl started to become happier as a young pink haired girl came into her life. Then Ranma saw as the girl was possessed by a strange being and saw the pink haired girl lose her heart crystal to the possessed girl. Ranma then saw the scouts fighting the youma the inners trying to save Hotaru and Chibi Usa while the Outers trying to stop the evil even going as far as to try to kill the girl because she had the power to destroy the planet and had had Mistress nine inside her. Then the girl went towards the portal that Ranma could feel great evil coming from. The girl then used her power to destroy the being but was reverted to a child and covered in rubble so no-one found her. Ranma then realised that that building was the one he had fallen on. Then the images faded away and Ranma saw that he was in a plain room with an old man with a long beard watching him.

"What was that and who are you?" Asked Ranma a little disoriented from the events

"What you saw were some of the last memories from my avatar who sacrificed herself to protect the world even though most people wanted nothing better than for her to die. As for whom I am. I am Saturn."

"Avatar? Then you're a kami?"

"Yes and I am the kami of Saturn thus my name. Now Ranma I have an offer for you which will give you your greatest desire."

"What you'll cure my curse?"

"Sort of but you know that that isn't you're greatest desire is it?"

"No it isn't."

"You're greatest desire is to find someone who can love you for who you are and don't treat you as a trophy or a prize to be won or at the very leasty be a good friend who you can trust. I am happy to tell you that there is such a person but you can only get this if you accept my offer."

"Well what is this offer of yours?"

"My avatar who is called Hotaru who is Sailor Saturn one of the sailor scouts that defend this ward from youma. Well anyway when she used that final attack which she did last night, was turned into a baby and I need to find her a family and I wanted you to look after her as I know that you'll look after her well and help her through her trials as you understand what it is like to be lonely also I will have you made into avatars of the gods that represent my moons they have already agreed to it. Being an avatar will give you magical power to defeat youma's and keep sailor Saturn who is my avatar safe until such time as she is safe from possible threats from the other sailor scouts. Of course once you accept you will become an avatar for the rest of your life which will be extended by a lot. You could live for thousands of years or longer."

"Um I know this might sound stupid but while talking to me you said that I would be avatars but that's not possible for a single person."

"That is true but there are two souls within you. The first one is yourself; can you guess who the second one is?"

"The girl who drowned at Jusenkyo."

"Yes and she has grown quite fond of you. She has seen all of your life from inhabiting tour body and has fallen in love with you but she unlike the others understands that you are not a prize or trophy. In fact why don't you meet her since this is your mind that we are in so you can talk to her and think about my offer. Which is that you two once I have separated your girl side from you, become adopted parents for my avatar and become avatars yourselves of the gods representing two of Saturn's moons? I will help you in other ways as well like the adoption and name changes so people will have a much harder time hunting you down. I will discuss the details later but for now I'll summon up the girl so you two can talk once you two have talked about everything just call me and I will return okay? Oh and don't worry time does not pass here so you could spend an eternity here and only an instant would pass outside."

At Ranma's nod Saturn faded from view and then after a few moments he saw a young woman start to appear at first he couldn't place her then he realised that she was an older more mature form of his cursed form but with hair down to the back of her knees. She was wearing a yellow sundress and a pair of sandals. Then when she saw him she ran up to him and grabbed him in a Shampoo like glomp but Ranma could tell that unlike Shampoo's it was genuine feeling and not just trying to show off with a trophy. Ranma was still uncomfortable and stiffened when she hugged him half expecting an uncute tomboy to come along and whack him into LEO with a mallet. Ranma then noticed that the woman was sobbing in his arms and started to panic as he had no idea what was wrong or what to do so he just did something that he saw Kasumi do for her father as he had no idea what to do. So he just held her and whispered comforting words telling her that everything would be alright. This lasted for a few minutes until Ranma got her to calm down. The woman then decided to talk to Ranma.

"Thank you I know you have problems with things like that it's just that I never thought that I would get a chance to be able to talk to you or anyone ever again. I would like to be your friend if I could. I know that I would like it to be more but I know how uncomfortable around women because of your fiancée's treatment of you." While she was saying this Ranma was looking at her and noticed how beautiful she was and when he looked into her eyes he saw loneliness reflected in them that he had always felt because of having no real friends. Also he could feel a connection with her that he never had felt with any of the other fiancée's, so when he heard her offer to be friends he decided to accept.

"I would love to be friends with you. I don't know about anything more as it will take time for me to get to know you and to be perfectly honest I'm not sure I can trust you." Ranma then noticed that the woman was starting to cry again and begins to panic "Ahhh not that I'm saying that there is anything wrong with you or anything I'm sure that you are a really nice and beautiful person and everything its just that everyone who has said that they love me just treat me as a prize or trophy."

"Really you think I'm beautiful?" At Ranma's nod she decides to confess something "Ranma because I've been trapped in you're body I have all your memories and I fell in love with you a long time ago. Since I could see everything you could I saw how you tried to keep everyone else happy at you're happiness expense. I could see you're kindness and it touched my soul but I couldn't do anything as I was trapped inside you, I could feel you're loneliness and knew that you felt like me because you were trapped as well unable to do anything because of others forcing you to their ways."

"Well I would like to get to know you and you still haven't told me you're name you know."

"Oh I forgot to tell you my name is Sakura."

"I thought the girl was Chinese."

"No I was a traveller I was going to visit the Chinese amazons to learn from them when I drowned."

"Ah I see. Well how about we get to know each other. I know you have all my memories but how about we just talk about things discuss things tell me about you and what ever you want to talk about." So they decided to get to know each other better and spent what was the equivalent of a few days getting to know each other. After 4 days had passed in the mindscape you could see Sakura sitting across from Ranma while they discussed what was going to happen.

"Ranma what should we do about Saturn's offer?"

"We are going to accept it of course. I may not love you as such and I am still uncomfortable around women but I couldn't live with myself if you stayed trapped here plus you are my only real friend as I've realised that no-one in Nerima except possibly my Mum actually cares about me or anything and now that I know what a friend is like. I want all the ones I can get and I don't think you would want to be my friend if you were trapped in here."

"Ok so I guess we better tell him our decision then."

"Yep. HEY SATURN WE WANT TO TALKN WITH YOU." Then they both saw Saturn appear and sit down in front of them.

"Well then what would you like to talk about." Saturn said

"Well we want to accept your offer but there are a couple of things we want to know first."

"Well ask away."

"First if we accept your offer we don't have to get married do we, because even though I like Sakura and I might eventually love her at the moment I don't know and I'm not comfortable with such a thing especially after all the fiancées."

"you don't have to get married unless you want to you just have to look after Hotaru."

"Ok that's alright then. What will happen about Sakura because she has been dead for 1500 years and there wont be any identification for her or anything."

"Well I will make sure that Sakura gets identification so she wont be Ronin or anything like that she'll just be a young woman without any living relatives."

"That's a relief I didn't want to have lots of problems getting an education and getting a job in the future." Sakura says

"I'm kind of surprised you want to go to school Sakura I find it boring." Ranma comments

"That's mostly because Furinkan's teachers don't get paid much and thus don't try very hard to make it interesting and I know that you're a genius so you learn stuff practically instantly just pretending that you don't learn anything much."

"I suppose so it is kind of boring when it's so easy to learn."

"Was there any other questions you wanted to ask." Saturn said impatiently as he was being ignored while the other two chatted away.

"Um you know you said that you would be separating Sakura from me to make us two separate people does that mean that I wont be cursed anymore?"

"That is right to avoid creating a body from scratch and since there is no real cure to Jusenkyo, I will effectively take your cursed body change it a little to fit Sakura here and split it from you. So since you wont have a cursed body anymore you wont change when splashed with cold water."

"Ok then I think that's all my questions have you got any at the moment Sakura?"

"Um there is one. Saturn earlier you said to Ranma that if we accept that we would become the avatars of two other kami and that we would live for perhaps thousands of years and that it is a life long job so what would happen if Ranma and I don't love each other enough to get married and marry other people what would happen then because we would easily outlive them."

"Well you would have 2 or 3 choices depending on the circumstances. Choice one would be that you share your power with your life mate thus allowing them to live as long as you do. The second choice is to get a successor to your power and train them and then pass on your power to them. The third choice is that if there is no threat to Sailor Saturn from someone like the sailor scouts you could ask the kami that you are the avatar of to take back the power."

"Ok then I guess. I don't have any more questions."

"Ok now as I said to Ranma earlier I want you to be the adopted parents for my avatar. Also to help you, you will become avatars of two of the kami who represent the moons Rhea and Titan. You would become knights of Saturn whose responsibilities are to help protect against youma and to protect Sailor Saturn from those who would harm her."

"You're not getting me in one of those outfits those sailor scouts wear." Both Ranma and Sakura say.

"Well you won't have to worry as the knight's uniform is much more sensible as the knights came after the scouts and thus something more sensible was created though I still don't know who came up with those outfits it was just the design we were given. Well anyway your armour wont be like that as it is effectively just light armour with heavy protective enchantments." Both Ranma and Sakura then sigh in relief. "Well anyway I'll set up your adoption of Hotaru and all you will have to do is sign some papers which have been put in your house in Juuban. Also I have set up some accounts so that you will have money to live off for a while. I also have left identification for a Sakura Yamada at the house since I guess you will need some identification.

Now as for the other sailor scouts the only ones that are really a threat are the outers. Sailors Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Pluto is the biggest threat normally as she can use an artefact called the time gates to watch the past present and future but I've called in a favour from the kami Pluto and he's made it so Pluto can't find you but will not be blind from her vision just that she wont see the truth about you so she can't identify you, effectively she will see things that don't actually happen. The other two are trigger happy and would probably see you as a threat so don't be too bothered by them. Also over the next four month's Hotaru will have a couple of growth spurts which will bring her back to the age of about 14 and will regain her memories at that time. I think that's everything for now except that Ranma you should tell your mother everything, the training trip, life in Nerima and our conversation ok? Believe me it'll be a great help. Oh yes now to give you your powers." Saturn then stood up and so did Ranma and Sakura and walked over to the pair and held his hands to their foreheads and his hands glowed then you could see a symbol appear on both of their heads it was Saturn's symbol but with a circle next to it with the roman numeral representing which moon from Saturn they represented in it. The next thing Ranma and Sakura knew was that they were dressed in slacks and a breast plate. They both also had a simple platinum circlet on their heads Ranma noticed that he had a Bo-staff on his back and when he got it out he noticed that he could make 3 foot energy blades come out of either end of it. Sakura though had a great big 8 foot long halberd.

"Their now your clothes will protect you from attacks of any kind. Also your weapons are of a magical nature and can not be destroyed as well as being able to use them for magical attacks. To transform or de-transform just will it ok. You will receive some basic training in your abilities from the kami you represent in your dreams in a few days so you will have time to settle down. Now I am sure that that is all except to say good luck and that you will find Hotaru under a pile of debris 3 feet to your right when you wake up." Saturn then faded from view and then both Ranma and Sakura faded from view.

Back in the real world a second after Ranma crash lands he begins to glow then a sphere of energy surrounds him then after a few seconds disappears to reveal both Ranma and Sakura who both slowly begin to wake up.

"Uhhh my head that impact must have hurt." Ranma says. Both Ranma and Sakura then notice each other and both cry out "It worked." Then Sakura glomped onto Ranma who stiffened up. When Sakura noticed that she lets go and looks a bit sheepish and says "You know you don't have to worry about people hitting you for something like that as I'm not like Akane and I wont hit you."

"I know that but I keep on thinking that someone will come along and then whack me one for being with another girl. Plus you do kind of glomp similarly to Shampoo."

"Oh I'm sorry I should know better its just that I was so excited to be alive again and not trapped in your mind. Oh yeah we better find Hotaru and make sure she's alright."

"Yeh you're right. Hmm Saturn said she was about 3 feet to our right." Ranma then looked to his right and noticed a pile of rubble a little to his right. He then with Sakura's help pulled the rubble away to reveal a little baby girl with the most adorable purple eyes ever and a tuft of slightly very dark purple hair. Sakura picks her up and shows her to Ranma who looks at her happily.

"Well we had better go to the house that I have here in Juuban and get some supplies for Hotaru here. Then I'll call mother have a talk with her about this then sort out the Nerima wrecking crew."

"Ok lead the way then."

To be continued

What will happen when Ranma tells his mother about everything and how will the NWC react to what Ranma has to say? This will be revealed in the next chapter.

Authors notes:

If I have made a mistake with the Sailor moon timeline about the pharaoh 90 encounter please tell me as I haven't seen that episode in a very long time and have probably made a mistake somewhere.

Reviews very welcome whether Comments, ideas or constructive criticism

Thanks to the people who are reviewing and I think you are right and that I am rushing a bit so I'm trying to sort things out and slow it down a bit while I rewrite parts of it.