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 next mornin' Pops slept in an' I woke up before Akane could douse me, so for once I got to wake up as a guy. It was a good but really strange feelin'. Between Pops wakin' me up by throwin' me in the koi pond an' Akane's buckets of ice water, it'd only happened a few times since Pops'd hauled me to Jusenkyo. Way I figured it, wakin' up dry was a good sign.

So I hopped outta bed, grabbed my clothes, locked myself in the bathroom so Nabiki couldn't try for photos while I got cleaned up an' dressed, then went downstairs to help Kasumi with breakfast. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm not usually 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 an' saw me with a book. At first she didn't seem to notice as she went by, but then her head whipped back around to really look at me an' she started coughin' an' spluterin'…

It was one of the funniest damn things I've ever seen. When Pops spotted me, after Nabiki went back upstairs to change, he started yellin' at me for bein' a pansy an' whining 'bout his son turning into a girly bookworm. Even though I wanted to swat him, I had a test to study for, so I splashed him with cold water, ignored most of his signs, an' ducked the ones he tried to hit me with.

When Akane finally came down, she started givin' me shit 'bout Dana Maxwell even before she sat at the table. I gave it right back, tellin' her I that saw the way she'd been lookin' at Chang. To tell you the truth, I was bluffin', but since she shut up right quick, I figured I was on to somethin' useful.

Instead of hammerin' it to death like I usually would've, I decided to keep it to use later when I really needed it. Instead I smirked at her before grabbin' my stuff an' takin' off out the front door. Akane tried to run after me, but couldn't keep up. Once I'd managed to loose her, I headed over to the house I'd seen Chang and Dana goin' in to the day before. Since school didn't start for at least another half hour, I figured Chang an' Dana, I'd already 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.

It kinda surprised me when they didn't jump when I landed beside 'em. As it turned out, Chang had spotted me before I spotted them, so they were expectin' me. I was kinda disappointed, I'd expected them to jump an' they didn't. In any case, they did seem to think it was a neat way to travel since Dana started askin' me questions and Chang didn't once tell her to be quiet. By the time we'd reached school Dana'd asked me if I could teach her to roof-hop, and Chang seemed pretty interested too. I could almost see his ears straining to catch what I said from where he was walkin' in front of us.

I told her it was really only a matter of trainin', so yeah, maybe she could learn to roof-hop at some point, but I couldn't really promise her anythin'.

That started Chang askin' questions about my trainin'. I answered his questions, but I could tell he didn't really believe me when I told him some of the stuff Pops had done while he was trainin' 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 for not bein' at school when she got there.

Huh, as far as I was concerned, that was her problem. I was tired of putting up with her bruised ego and the rest of her crap when ever I did something she couldn't.

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

Now back to the story.

As soon as we were through the gates, Kuno just had to shove his damned, pointy, 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, idot that he is, took he lack of response as speechless 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 ended up unconsious.

With Kuno out a the picture for a bit, Akane charged up ready to send me flyin'.

She was so mad about me payin' attention to another girl, especially one she didn't know, that if she'd hit me, I'd have ended up halfway across Tokyo. Instead she was forced to stop when Chang stepped in her way while checkin' to make sure that Dana was fine. When Akane shifted to go around him, he moved into her way again. He did this, all the while checkin' Dana for damage, until 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 hurt myself tryin' not to laugh.

That's when the warning bell rang an' we all rushed in to get to class on time. I ended up payin' a lot 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.

It was when the lunch bell rang an' we headed outside that my day started goin' seriously down hill. 'Ring-ring ring-ring CRUNCH!' and "Nihao airen!". Shampoo had arrived, an' as usual she landed on me.

"Hello Shampoo…" I groaned, 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, the guy with her is 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."

I was relieved when Shampoo finally got off of her bike, rolled it to the ground and placed a take-out box next to my head.

"Too, too, good raman for airen. Shampoo go now, finish deliveries." She then 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 told him I was fine, just waited for Akane to show up an' smack me. I could hear her stomping towards me, growling. This time Dana was the one who got in her way trying to check her intended victim for prior damage. Akane just got madder and of course blamed it all on me. "Ranma you pervert!"

For once I just kept my mouth shut. I was really kinda curious to see what Dana an' Chang would do this time.

From the corner of my eye I could see Akane start to swing at me even though by doin' so she would hit Dana too. I jumped to stop her as Chang cut the head off of the mallet. Akane nearly fell over onto her face without the extra weight behind her shoulder.

Sadly, all I could do was laugh. I did my best not too since I knew she was gonna hurt me for it later, but man, the look on her face!

She just about exploded, she was soooo pissed, an' all she could do was stand there an' fume while Chang lectured her about how attacking a defenseless man was dishonorable an' injust, an' how if she tried it again he'd destroy that mallet too.

I spent the whole time tryin' not to laugh out loud. I musta been damn near purple if the looks Dana was shootin' me said anythin'.

In any case, after havin' to explain to Chang the whole fianacee situation when he asked why Shampoo called me her husband while I claimed to be engaged to Akane, the rest of the day at school went pretty well. Akane stayed the hell away from me an' Ukyo gone for the day, so I spent the rest of the afternoon bein' laughed at by Dana an' bein' poked awake by Chang when ever I dozed off in class. I even passed the history test no problem thanks to the readin' I'd been doin' an' stayin' awake in class.

The trip home was somethin' entirely different. As soon as 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 because I can't help turnin' into a girl doesn't mean I'm a pervert.

But of course, just because the girl had issues she grouped me with the idiot Kuno an' that damn letch Happosai. Hell, wasn't my fault she ignored the damn in use sign an' walked in on me takin' a bath.

As I've said before, 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 just had to tell everyone her version of the day, which got Pops an' Mr. Tendo pissed at me, again, as usual.

What made me mad was that the morons refused to even listen to my side of things. Not that they 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 her favorite stirfry out earlier.

That evenin' Nabiki called in one of the favors that I owed her. To my surprise what she wanted me to do wasn't really all that bad. All she had me do was deliver a package to her second in command , a letter to a specific post office in Tokyo, and bring her back a pint of her favorite ice cream, bought with my money of course. Still, compared to what she usually made me do it was a walk in the park.

That night I went to sleep thinkin' about Dana, an' as a result my dreams were some of the best I'd ever had...

In the mornin'things were back to normal. Pops woke me up at the crack of dawn by tossing me into the koi pond, an' Akane an' Nabiki beat me to breakfast. I still managed to leave early with Akane tryin' to catch me.

I headed over to Chang and Dana's place as soon as I was sure that I'd lost her. We were nearly to school an' I can remember thinkin' that it was nice not havin' worry about the Ladle Lady splashin' when it happened.

Yeah you guessed it. SPLASH! An old mand soaked me with a bucket of water.

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 of 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 just stared at me, surprised as hell. I guessed it was the first they'd ever heard of much less seen a Jusenkyo curse.

I'm tellin' ya, it was damn funny, almost 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 actually too 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 changed after they saw that the same thing happened to Mousse an' Shampoo too.

AN: reviews are always appreciated, Flames will be used as Kleenex, and many thanks go my beta readers Honor and lilmizflashythang.