Within the limits of what is considered the city of Nermia...

One Ryoga Hibiki was had just wandered back into the area after being lost who knows where and for who knows how long. He was resting in a wooded area that he was unsure if was within a park or a part of the forest. He could not tell exactly as he had been lost within it for quite some time after all. Though he was aware that he was within Nermia still somehow just not sure how nor why that was. Though he was called the Eternally Lost Boy he had recently seemingly found himself constantly ending up back in Nerima quite often for some reason.

He was not sure as to why this was nor how as no one was leading him here like before and he was not usually this lucky to land in the same place that often. He had been to Nerima more in the recent year than had his own house for a rather long time. Though then a sudden presence was had alerted him one that had he had never left before as it was something that causes every hair on his body to stand up as well his very skin starts to crawl.

Looking out from his tent he noticed two small bottles that were just sitting have rolled out a crate that had fallen from the sky.

'Good thing this did not fall on my tent' Ryoga thought as he was not aware that he picked up the two bottles and stored them away within his things.

The presence that he had left before no longer seemed to be on his mind though as he merely thought the danger was from the falling crate as it looked rather sturdy and for to break like that it must have fallen from quite a high distance. Thus that probably was what had worried him in the first place as regardless of how tough his body had become over the last year, taking a hit like that when he was expecting it. It could have proved to be not just harmfully but fatal if it had struck him in just the wrong place and/or angle.

A few days later...

Ryoga was once again within a battle with Ranma over something. Whatever it was neither one of them knew anymore as they got into many battles like this recently. They cross paths and just look at each other wrong causing conflict to start as if something was provoking the two of them into doing so. It was strange that the only one this really still happened with within those that we're staying in Nerima was Ryoga himself though. Though normally someone would be around to stop them from getting too out of hand like Akane who would come by for whatever reason. Getting them both to quit it or they would on their own because she was there or they made her angry.

That did not happen this time around as there was no one to stop them and things were just getting worse and worse by the minute as the fighting just kept getting more and more serious. With Ryoga being knocked into his thing and all of sudden, those two bottles that he had unknowingly picked up came rolling out and within his line of sight. Once again he unknowingly picks them up just as he noticed Ranma had somehow doused with cold water that changed him into his female form.

However, the only thing on Ryoga's mind at the moment was winning and with the bottles in hand he forced Ranma to sallow the contains of one. Without being aware of what he was doing took the content of the other and scrubbed Ranko's head as hard as he could before dealing him a punch to the stomach that was so hard it cause her to void the contains of her stomach out of the ground. The fact that he was able to do this was what cause Ryoga to snap out of whatever daze he had been in to cause this battle between the two of them to start with. Then that was when he was shocked to see what had accorded while he was too focused on winning against Ranma.

A red hair girl around 6-7 years old was looking at the older guy with what seemed like fangs and bandana punching her in the gut so hard she threw up the contents of her stomach. Though his mind had cleared up the girl could tell because the look on his face was still such rage that she scrambled to her feet and just started running tripping a bit as she did but nevertheless continue to run. Her head was hurting as well as if someone aggressively rubbed her head for whatever reason. Though none of that mattered as she just had to run fast run hard but above all, she just had to run. As she disappeared into the distance before long not to be seen anymore after that by Ryoga.

Ryoga was in such shock over what happened that going after her never once crossed his mind as he merely looked down. This just added to the shock of what he saw before him. The two bottles he was not even aware that he had picked up were lying at his feet, the first one had a picture of pail and ladle while the other had 411 written on the front of it. Also nearby was the content of Ranko's stomach that she had thrown up after taking his serious gut punch. It was mostly water but mixed in was a familiar looking mushroom. One that Ryoga thought he would never see again.

Ryoga then wanders off in shock himself not really caring where he was going nor even noticing it until Akane managed to bump into him...literally.

"Hey, Ryoga have you seen Ranma. I was looking for you guys but got knocked out somehow" she asked

"Ranma...is dead. He can not ever come back" Ryoga replied

Thus Ryoga became the strongest person in Nermia. Though many upon many would ask him how or even why he just knew Ranma was dead. They would never get an answer out of him as this led to many fights against him a lot being from Akane and his other now former fiances. Which eventually lead to all of Nermia being destroyed in battle that would cause Ryoga to become a legend that surpassed Ranma. However, that is all a story for another day and another time.

The present story will continue following Ranko as now amnesiac red hair girl that just wandering around the country of Japan for the time being.