Ok here is chappie number 3. Thank you all for giving me the chance to explore this world of fanfics.

Disclaimer :I do not,have not, will not own either the Ranma 1/2 or the Naruto franchises. In other words, this is a simple work of fiction.

Review reply:

Peter Kim: Thanks for the review, and i am planning this indeed between the three year lapse.

Fattyaddy-99: Thanks, yeah i plan to update as soon as i can every time.

Sacio: Ranma will be metteing them all, not at once though. Thanks for the review.

Smith 119: Ya he was of guard so a nin did take him out. Thanks for the spelling check. And yeah i plan to finish this fic.

The violent tomboy: Thanks for the review, i will do my best.

Kagome13Chan: I will keep the chappies rolling out as fast as my mind makes 'em. Thanks.

Naruto-sama the kyuubi: I plan to indeed finish this one.

Now on with the show

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Ranma awoke feeling his muscles still sore from the shuriken training of the day before. As he leaped out of bed his eyes wandered to the calander-25th of July. It had been a year now since that fateful day he had been made into a citizen of Konoha. One year since he gave up his wandering, one year since he had left Nerima and one year since he was last a girl.

Yes, Ranma did not know why but in his coming to this place his curse was cured. No more was he an aqua-transvestite. Though he did miss the perks of being a girl sometimes. Today was even more important for another reason: Final Examinations. You see, Ranma had joined the ninja academy upon Tsunade's suggestion. He truly did enjoy it but found it difficult to make any friends as people called him an outsider. "Oh well, their loss", Ranma always consoled himself. He gathered his things with a smile on his face, something he had done more and more often over the last year. He locked the door behind him and as he walked downstairs he felt a slap on his shoulder, turning round he came face to face with his best friend over the past year, the green beast himself. "Well Ranma-Kun, I shall come along to support you in your quest for your TRUE YOTUH", Lee said putting Ranma into a headlock. "Strange as ever", Ranma thought with a smirk before dislodging himself from Lee's grip. Ranma though was very thankful to Lee. Lee's training had helped Ranma assimilate chakra into his attacks which made him very powerful indeed.

"-No Ranma-kun, you are giving your opponent too much room, your movements are too wasteful" Lee shouted from the trees as Ranma dodged another rain of kunai. "Shit!" Ranma cursed under his breath as he barely dodged a windmill shuriken. Ranma's body, and not to mention his ego, was taking a serious battering. Ranma knew that he could handle anyone in Taijutsu but when he came to long range fighting he was indeed hopeless. As another rain of kunai fell he did not notice the single kunai coming from behind. Needless to say, if it had not been for Lee catching that kunai he would have been done for. Ranma's face turned red as a girl's laughter could be heard. "No need to laugh Ten-Ten, Ranma-kun is still in training", Lee said in a way that was a little too much like Gai. "Sorry Ranma-kun, but you need help. Do not worry, we will train you", she said with a smile.

And indeed their help had been invaluable as Ranma had a particularly tough test today, Bunshin-No-Jutsu. "Well, I suppose it's now or never" Ranma thought to himself with butterflies in his stomach.

Three hours later:

"Here you go, one Miso Cha-suu Ramen". Ranma turned around and was greeted with the lovely sight of piping hot noodles. "Now this of for Ranma-kun's passing of the exam, welcome to the world of the genin", Maito Gai said with a smile on his face. Ranma still could not believe it, he had actually passed, and well. He smiled to himself as he remembered his Henge-no-Jutsu, a buxom red-head. It seems that his girl side would never leave him and in all honesty, he was happy about it. He once against touched his forehead feeling the cool metallic texture of his forehead protector.

He was now an official ninja, tomorrow he would be assigned teams and he really was not that thrilled about it. "Sorry, I have to get going; Hyuuga-Sama is expecting me. Congratulations Ranma-san, I wish you the best", one Hyuuga Neji said before walking off. Now Ranma felt closest to Lee's team. They had helped him train on a number of occasions and Ranma had deep respect for the Hyuuga branch member. He was to Ranma the best fighter among the young of the leaf. He had heard stories of Neji's defeat at the hands of another but he did find that impossible to believe.

Very soon one by one all of time Gai had left until he was left with only Ten-Ten. "Well Ranma-kun, lets go back its staring to get dark". Ranma agreed and followed closely behind hr. Over the past year Ranma had got over his phobia of females. Even though he still thought that Akane's mallet was close by every time he did talk to one of them.

"Ranma-No-Baka", I hope you are having fun with your 'cute' fiancée", Akane said as she saw Ranma and Ukyo in a compromising position bought about by an alley cat. "Dummy! It was because of a c-ca—feline".

"BAKA!" could be heard throughout the quiet streets of Nerima as Ranma was plastered across the street courtesy of Akane's inter dimensional mallet.

"Ranma-kun, you ok?" Ten-Ten said trying her best to choke back a chuckle. "Huhh, wha-Akane?" Ranma groaned as he rubbed his nose. It seemed that in his day dream he had walked head first into a fence. Ten-Ten started laughing as she helped Ranma back to his feet. She could not stop laughing even though Ranma started pouting like a kid. As they neared his apartment he thanked her and took the long walk up the stairs. He was amazingly, still hungry. As he warmed up some rice he took a seat on a chair remembering the taste of home cooking. He had not eaten anything like Kasumi's cooking.

"Come on you two dinner is ready". Genma heard it first and ran to get the larger portion but was stopped as he suddenly noticed that he was fat…well fatter than before, and that he was furry and startedto cribble something on a wooden board. "Nyahh", Ranma taunted before reaching the table first where Kasumi would put the rice in his bowl with a warm smile.

"Crap!" Ranma launched forward turning of the stove, but it was too late. The rice was beyond help. Cursing his rumbling stomach he plopped himself on the bed and stared out the window at his new home feeling quite at peace be fore he finally decided to retire to bed.

"You have all now become genin; today you leave my care and will be under new Jounin instructors. Ok, the teams are as follows…" Ranma of course did not bother to listen and instead just dozed of waiting for his name to be called. One by one all the names were called but Ranma still couldn't hear his name,

"Sensei, what the hell why wasn't my name called?"

"Err, Ranma-kun, the Hokage would like to see you in regards to that". "The Hokage, crap, did they find out that my story was a fake?" Ranma wondered waiting earnestly until the class was over before running all the way to Tsunade's office. As he entered the office he saw the Godaime at her desk.

"Ah, Ranma I guess you know why you are here. Well let's say that I have a special team for you", Tsunade said with a small smile. "Come in", she shouted and in entered three people: a middle aged man with silver hair with a mask covering his mouth and one eye. The second was a pretty girl with pink hair and a cheery smile the third was a young boy of blonde hair and deep azure eyes.

"Hatake Kakashi, Haruno Sakura and Uzumaki Naruto", Tsunade said pointing to them,

"welcome to your new team Saotome Ranma"

Kakashi looked at Ranma with a look of perpetual coolness, "This the kid? Looks weak." "Shut up geezer, fight me if you dare to talk" came the words from Ranma. "Lets celebrate with Ramen, Ramen and more Ramen", the blonde one piped in. "Naruto. SHUT UP!" Tsunade shouted before ushering them out of her office. "Naruto? Doesn't that mean fish cake?" Ranma wondered aloud.

"You are talking to the future Hokage so I would watch out if I were you Ranma looked at the three of them; a new team? What did that mean? Ranma had never really been part of a team; it had always been him fighting alone. "Whats the matter Ranma-kun?" Sakura said before giving Ranma a smile, "Err, nothing just thinking". They followed the Jounin to the top of the Hokage monument before kakashi gave his usual introduction speech and Ranma was properly introduced to them.

"Well, now that formalities are over the Hokage informs me that you are quite the Taijutsu specialist, why don't we try something fun as your first evaluation test", he smiled before holding up two small bells. "Not again Sensei, we did that twice already, you are just trying to bully Ranma-Kun", Sakura groaned.

"He-he, I accept, I will show you, call me weak will ya", Ranma said confidence radiating of him. "Ya, we will beat the pervert jounin" Naruto said before shaking hands with Ranma both laughing loudly. Kakashi looked at this scene with a smile but that expression suddenly changed as he remembered what the Hokage told him.

"I will be putting a new guy into team seven. Make sure he does not leave your sight 'cause there is something very suspicious about that kid, it seems his alibi about being from the hidden stone was false so we need to make sure that he is not a threat. His name is Saotome Ranma and some of his skills are of the kind that we have never seen before". Kakashi looked at the hokage when she finished, painted on a stoic expression and nodded.

"Oh before you go, here is something else for you to chew on: his chakra is totally different, why might that be?" Kakashi just turned back and said "I will look into it Hokage-Sama" before flying out the window.

"Different chakra?

Weird skills?

Might be interesting. I look forward to meeting you Ranma-kun.

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Thanks for reading. Ok i know this chappie was not the most exciting but it was necessary. Do not worry, i have a lot more deeper and darker material planned for this fic. You see, i want to emphasize on Ranma's happiness in Konoha before bringing the main Storyline in, makes it more powerful. I am still unsure about pairings, any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks again.