Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma, I just rent him.

Chapter 2 :Relationships

Sanji And Choji sat on the futon with their backs against each other. It was something they did when the were trying to assess the situation.

They're orders and training had been cancelled.

There were people, the emporer included, who were afraid that they were only monsters.

Their father, Dr Hasakawa, had told them to use their infiltration training and to try and blend in.

Above all else, they had been told that the people here were not the enemy.

The two boys only knew to look at it like a mission. It was an indefinate one, but a mission none the less.

They needed to accuaint themselves if the lives and personalities of their new family.

Their old father... they had to stop calling him that, he hadn't know that the boys had been looking at the reports on the Saotomes for the last few months. They had gotten curious. The both fully understood the reasoning behind the process used to bring them to life. They knew that this brother they shared could have easily been either of them.

They had all talked last night about what had been happening in each other's lives for the last couple decades. Hearing Ranma talk about how most of his life had been spent training had given the boys a familiar footing with the young martial artist.

Later that night, the three of them had kept talking.

The listened as Ranma explained that he somehow found them easy to talk to. He didn't understand a lot about how people were suppose to act in normal society who weren't martial artists. He also couldn't figure out why nobody could understand his trouble. Even his father had spent his youth interacting with other people. He had met Ranma's mother and even Akane's father. He had lived with people and knew how to act around them somewhat. Ranma hadn't very much, so he always felt like he was always missing something.

But Choji and Sanji understood. They had grown up very similar to Ranma. The only difference was that they had recieved training on how to act around other people. It was suppose to aid them in covert missions where they had to pretend to be someone else.

Ranma had just looked at them when they explained it. They watched and expected Ranma to ask for some pointers. Instead Ranma made one simple request they had never expected.

"Guys, please, don't act around me. I have enough trouble trying to understand other people."

The boys looked between each other slightly confused. They made a decision and an agreement with a look. They simply turned back to Ranma and responded in unison.

"Affirmative."

Ranma had just looked at them for a moment, and then smiled. They had asked why Ranma wasn't more disturb by their pressence and Ranma told them about all the times he had to deal with other copies of himself. He joked that it was nice that they weren't out to screw him or kill him or something worse.

When they had all gone to bed, they had been apprehensive. After they had talked for a few hours, they were more relaxed all around.

That was last night. Now they had different problems. Their room was not secure. To who ever was watching they, it looked like the boys were simply sitting still. To anyone who has ever dealt with twins growing up, they know that twins form their own language. Imagine being trained to talk without words.

Finally Sanji got up and stretched while Choji layed back down and started rumaging threw his bags.


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Nabiki was curious. The boys had woken up, had breakfast, bathed, and then went back to their room. And had then sat down with their backs to each other quietly for about five minutes. Now they were seperating for the first time since they had arrived. She was curious where Sanji was going, but she wanted to know what Choji seemed to be hiding in his bags.

She watched as he turned to her hiden camera and held up a sign. It had one word.

Now.

Nabiki was about to get up, but felt a hand on her shoulder the moment the sign could be read. She turned to see Sanji standing there, but he had only just left the boys' room.

"I would like to humblely request that you remove all of the survallence equipment you have installed in our bedroom. We didn't want to disturb you last night, but we wouldn't want anything to happen to your equipment. I know quite well how expensive it is. If there is anything you need to know, you only have to ask."

And that was it. He let go of her shoulder, he hadn't even been using any pressure. Then he left without a word.

They were good. One day they had discovered her camera and not only discovered it was hers, but had also confronted her before she even knew what was happening. She smiled a little and decided to back off for a bit. Besides, she had last nights tape of Ranma talking to the boys...

Her hidden compartment was laying open on her bookshelf. Nabiki walked over and saw evenything there, except for last night's tape.

She heard a light sound outside her door. She waited a moment. When she heard nothing further she opened her door. When she looked down she saw her crumpled tape. She picked it up to discoveres it was wrapped around something, a magnet. Now Nabiki was impressed. She had never taken her eyes off Sanji while he was in her room, but she had taken her eyes off her screen and off Choji.

"Damn they move fast."

Nabiki went to remove the hidden survalience equipment. She'd play nice for now.


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Akane entered the dojo to see Ranma practising his katas. There seemed to be something differesnt about Ranma. Akane didn't know what the difference was, but she found herself blushing as she watched Ranma practice.

"Are we to assume that this is the Saotome family style of Martial Arts?"

"EEP!"

Akane hadn't even noticed the boys enter or even notice them sitting next to where she had been.

Ranma turned around and was about to joke at Akane for screaming, he caught a look from Sanji and almost understood him. He decided to answer the spoken question.

"Yeah. This is what pop's been training me for my whole life. I gotta lotta things I learned from other people, like the old ghoul, but pops taught me the basics. You guys want me to show you some?"

"I believe that would be highly acceptable. I request to go first."

Akane was a little more confused now. They had actually talked like normal people last night. She noticed that Ranma either was oblivious, or wasn't surprised.

"I could show both you guys at the same time."

"We find it to be more benificial if one of us has a personal instructor and the other watch for where we misinturpret our instructions."

"This has lead to our accuiring blackbelt in many arts that you informed us were the basis for many of the Anything Goes styles and methods."

Akane blinked. Ranma looked at the two boys for a minute. They were dressed in sweats and t shirts. He smiled.

Ranma never said a word. He took three steps back and moved to the side a little. Sanji soon stood across from him.

"High spped and impact training alright?"

"Sir yes sir."

Ranma just stared as Sanji took a loose stance.

Akane never saw Ranma throw the first punch. She suddenly realised that both fighters were going at each other. She had seen Ranma fight Ryouga, Kuno, Mousse, and his own father regularly. There was something different about this fight.

Ranma wasn't holding anything back. He wasn't using any of the special moves he had learned since coming to Nerima, but he wasn't holding back either. He also wasn't talking. He wasn't trying to goat his opponent.

Akane realised that she was missing something when Ranma and Sanji froze. Sanji was covered in sweat. Choji walked up and too Sanji's place as Sanji took a few steps back. Ranma didn't move a musscle until Choji was in the same pose that Sanji had stopped in.

"What just happened?"

"Ranma held a killing strike. Choji will now try to learn from the mistakes I made. I must now take my turn to obserse the training."

"Training? But You just said Ranma had a killing strike."

"I had a fatal hole in my defenses I never knew was there. It would take a martial artist of Ranma's caliber to see and exploit it, but I know such people exist and must train to over come such flaws."

Akane blinked. Sanji was doing it again.

"Why are the two of you suddenly talking like that?"

"Ranma requested us to."

"He wants you two to talk like old soldier movies?"

"... Yes. He does."

Akane realised that she had missed something, and she had the feeling that Ranma knew what it was.

She turned and was about to call to Ranma when he stopped. He had that famous smirk on his face.

"How the hell did I make the same mistake?"

"Anything goes holds it's strength in it's adaptability and it's misleading of one's opponents. It only looked to you like it was the same strike. You guys are good. Pops gonna be overjoyed. You guys'll be up to Nerima standars ina a few days at this rate."

"Ranma, what's going on? What happened?"

"I was showing them the basics and higher moves of the Saotome style of Anything Goes."

"How? By beating the crap out of them?"

"I never touched them Akane."

Akane paused and then looked closer to the soldier twins. There were to telltale bruises anywhere. She suddenly realised that she was looking at the bodies of effectively three sweating Ranmas. She felt herself blush in embassesment and left, fast.

"What happened to her?"

"Ranma, if I may?"

"Huh? Go ahead Choji."

"She finds you attractive. She most likely isn't sure about her own feelings or yours, so she was embaressed. She left because she became shy."

Ranma sweatdropped.

"How do you know that?"

"We were taught advanced forms of seduction and phycology. We are able to read a person's mind about her feelings and emotions in much the same way that you read an opponent in a fight. The difference is that most people aren't trained to hide there feeling too well. We noticed one person here actively showing signs of such training."

"Who?"

"I believe the boys are talking about little old me. I removed those things like you asked."

Ranma turned to Choji.

"Survailence equipment."

"Ah. Those things."

Nabiki felt an urge to facefault. Ranma knew about those things too?

"Anyways, I made a couple calls and confirmed that you two have been registered at Furinken starting tomorrow. You're even in Akane and Ranma's class it seems."

Sanji and Choji locked eyes for a moment. Choji smiled and turned to Ranma.

"I'd like to see some of these advanced moves that you mentioned."

Nabiki started to walk to the house. She was halfway when she realised that Sanji was standing next to her.

"Can I help you?"

"I'd like to see somethig as a normal high school student. Choji and I are suppose to be learnig to be normal."

"And that is?"

"A movie with a beautiful young woman."

Nabiki stared at him. She started to get an angry look in her eyes. All the while her eyes never left his. She could see understanding in them. Finally she sighed in defeat.

"How did you know?"

"Should I list the biological reations I noticed or just how you were acting?"

"Heh, I don't know you buster. I don't have any feelings about you like that."

"I know. Do you know what the first rule in a soldier's life about relasionships?"

Nabiki was starting to get a little nervous. That look was still in his eyes, and he was starting to hide it less.

"No, what?"

"Anyday you could die so never hesitate to enjoy life."

With that Sanji leaned forward and kissed Nabiki. Nabiki was shocked. She was outraged. She was... wrapping her arms around Ranm- Sanji. She knew that Akane would never forgive her if Nabiki had just once taken pleasures with the young stallion, even if it did cure him of his shyness around women. But here was someone with the perfect body that was shared by Ranma.

And he wanted her. He could somehow read her every thought and emotion. She had heard the boys talk about their training with Ranma. She knew that he was likely just using her. That was fine, she wanted to use him as well. Finally they broke off the kiss.

"Woah. So, should I assume that I'm going to be passed between you two like a piece of meat?"

"Despite overwhelming evidense to the contrary, my Brother and I are not the same person. It's true he was interested in you as well, but he backed down first when we talked about you. I was more willing to persue you."

"Wait, when did you two talk about that?"

"About thirty seconds before I left the room on your screen."

"You guys weren't saying..."

Realizasion dawned.

"Bingo. We can comunicate perfectly with each other with either a look or a touch. When our backs are against each other we speak much faster than normal. Imagine Ranma talking faster than he eats."

"Do I want to know how well you can read a woman's mind?"

"I'm not a virgin. Neither is Choji. Our lives weren't as sheltered as we made it out to be. It was mainly training on how to blend in, but we are soldiers. How far we go, Nabiki Tendo,I'll leave to you."

Nabiki just looked at Sanji and wanted to slap him. He had admited to just using women before and also that he planned to just use her.Nevermind that she had been planning the same thing.She was about to just leave him when he spoke one last thing quietly.

"I am a Saotome after all."

Nabiki paused and replayed the last few things in her head again. Her eyes widened slightly in understanding. She turned back around and walked up to Sanji.

"I'm not giving you an answer to that. If I tire of you, leave me alone. If you cheat on me I'll hurt you. If were going to try dating, then you better go wash up. I DO have standards."

Sanji calmly walked into the house towards the bathroom. Nabiki waited for him to be out of sight. When he was she bolted for her room to get ready. As she started to pick out her underware it fully hit her how far this date could go. Sanji was still a stranger. Nabiki thought for a moment and decided she didn't care. He wouldn't be a stranger after tonight, he'd be hers.


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Authors notes:

If many of you haven't caught on, I will be using more mature themes and scenes in this fanfic. It will not be a lemon, but there may be occasional rinds of lime lying around.

I promise to keep it a little taseful.

Now to Rant... I really hate trying to write dialog for soldiers. My main insperation was from Full Metal Panic.

If you wonder about how well they act when trying to blend in, remember this: Most soldiers recieve about a year or two for training. These boys have been training in how to act like soldiers for over a decade. They have full control over who they are.

Maybe they'll eventially give Ranma a leason or two in knowing who you really are.