Disclaimer (of course)- I do not own .Hack or Ranma 1/2, obviously. They are owned by someone else, who probably doesn't write fanfiction, especially crossovers like this.

Online Personalities

By Phantom Dragn

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Chapter 3- Enter Password, Wandering4ever

It was a beautiful Saturday in November, with the sky clear with only a few puffy clouds visible. As the birds chirped, Nerima became alive with people going to school, to work, to play. It was the beginning of a new day, with new adventures and new friends, in a way. (yes, I know you're getting sick of this...)

A bell chimed as the door to Ucchans opened. The restaurant had expanded from a small okonomiyaki place to a large restaurant, with enough staff so that Ukyo herself didn't have to always work, and could relax or supervise her expanding chain of Ucchans. It was still way too early for lunch, and the workers were still getting ready, and starting up the fires.

Ryoga walked in, with his everpresent backpack on his back. Looking around, he noted that Ukyo was missing. "Oh well", he thought. Shrugging, he went to the backroom without too much navigation trouble, where the computers were. To attract more people, computers had been added to the back, much like other internet cafes.

Trying not to be noticed, he started up the computer himself instead of waiting for the employees.

A new waiter looked into the room at the bandanna clad boy, "Uh, sir, you aren't allowed to.."

Another waiter walked up, and saw Ryoga. "Don't worry, he comes here all the time. I think Ukyo-san lets him on whenever he wants for some reason", he informed the other waiter. They exited and continued preparations, setting out chairs and menus for the lunch rush later.

Ryoga ignored them, tapping his fingers on the keyboard impatiently as the program loaded. Looking around one last time, he slipped on the interface (what am I supposed to call the thing they cover their eyes with!) and logged in.

Password: Wandering4ever

Password correct, logging in.

Sighing, Ryoga felt the troubles and problems he had in abundance slipping away as he slipped into the cyber world, at least for the moment.

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Ah, jeez, if I had known how annoying having the same basic format for 4 chapters would be I would have taken a different approach...it SEEMED like a good idea at the moment...Sorry to those reading this, waiting (im)patiently for better chapters...

Good news is that I will get the becursed Enter Password chapters done. I realize how torturous this could be, I'm really sorry...Also, I will spend more time writing chapter after EP chaps for a longish chapter. The reason EP chaps were so small was because A)They each cover about 10-20 minutes each, not much to write about and B)Originally, I wanted them all in one chapter.

The meeting IS planned out, has been the whole time, but I realized that it reduces a lot of possibilities, so I might replot the story to have something big happen BEFORE the meeting instead of after, though that would mean slower writing. But then, haste makes waste, so if I do, so be it. Reviews are your way to influence the story, go for it.

Basically, not much is set in stone, storywise. I thought of names for the characters, and types of character though maybe "Ranko" should be changed, too obvious...

Ranma- Ranko (Long blade, like Crim from /sign, is that the right name?)

Akane- Shizuka (Wavemaster)

Ryoga- Katsu (Heavy blade)
Ukyo- Umeko (Twin blade)

Any comments on names, speak now or forever hold your peace. Just so you know, the names do show something about how I plan on changing how they act online, how so I'll say sometime..later.

As for time, this is a while after Saffron (Ranma timeline) and a while after Sign/Dusk (Hack timeline) I like Hack, but I don't know sequence of games/shows/etc very well so problems might occur...yell at me if that happens, I will fix it as well as I can.

Eh, forgot what else I was going to say, will say it next chapter, I guess.