Reincarnated Brothers

A Ranma ½ Oh My Goddess Crossover

Chapter One: Meeting For The First Time Again

A/N: Having problems putting my thoughts to paper for my other stories. I never had a problem with writers block before and I find this new feeling disturbing. Hopefully it will go away soon and I will be able to put out updates to my other stories.

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Many people believe the day we are born will have significant impact to our lives. Horoscopes and astrology center around using the stars in the sky that were visible during the birth of a child to predict his or her future. Using this line of thought two children born on the same day would have similar paths in life. Try telling that to Hiroshi Tendo and Daisuke Saotome. Both eight year olds were in the Tendo dojo staring each other down waiting to pound the other into the ground. "It's been awhile Roshi," Daisuke growled.

Hiroshi sneered. "I hate stealing other people's lines, Dai, but there's no better way to put it. Because of you Saotome I've seen hell!"

Daisuke tightened his stance. "You've seen hell? Look who I'm living with. Nodoka Saotome. The rumors only scratch the surface of her insanity."

Hiroshi cracked his knuckles. "Try living with the Tendos for a few years. You think Nabiki learned her moneymaking schemes overnight. I haven't had more than one hundred yen to my name in five years! And Akane's temper doesn't differentiate between family and foe either! I've developed a skull a golem would be envious of."

Daisuke pointed towards Hiroshi with his bokken. "At least you haven't been under Nodoka's wing. Try listening to her 'How To Be A Man' lessons daily. I don't know whether to be glad or mad about not being with Ranma during his training trip. That woman is insane."

"So you didn't stop that did you?" Hiroshi asked. "Slacker."

Daisuke raised an eyebrow. "Oh, so now you're insulting my ability to change current events. If I'm so bad, then why was there a funeral today?"

Hiroshi's mood darkened instantly. "You take that back now," he growled from between his teeth.

Daisuke took up a basic kunjutsu stance. "We're in a dojo. Come and make me."

Instead of replying verbally, Hiroshi quickly closed the distance between him and Daisuke and threw a quick punch to the face. Relying on lessons Genma taught him before he took Ranma on the training journey, Daisuke quickly dodged and started to strike back. Daisuke quickly realized Hiroshi wasn't kidding about that comment with the skull. Hiroshi was absorbing many of Daisuke's attacks and returning them two fold.

The battle was intense but brief. After a few minutes both fighters separated and stared each other down. Daisuke stayed in his fighting stance. "Okay, I take that comment back. Happy?"

"Fuck you Daisuke," Hiroshi said.

Daisuke noticed Hiroshi was fighting back tears. "Maybe we can talk about this like civilized people," he said while dropping out of his fighting stance. "We are, after all, not eight year old children."

Hiroshi slowly relaxed out of his stance and stood there with his head lowered. "I tried Dai." Hiroshi sat down where he was standing before. "I tried to stop her from leaving, begged her not to go. She told me everything was going to be okay and there was no need to worry. Who listens to an eight year old boy anyways?" He asked that last question sarcastically.

Daisuke sat down next to Hiroshi. "I know what you mean. I tried to stop Genma from taking Ranma, but I was only five. Genma keep calling me a sissy and a wimp. Nodoka and Genma struck a deal where I stayed and Ranma went with Genma. Luckily I was able to stop Ranma from hand painting his signature on that seppuku contract, but that was all I was able to do."

Hiroshi nodded. "I hear ya man. Some wish, ey?"

Daisuke chuckled. "I totally agree with you on that."

Hiroshi and Daisuke sat in silence for a few minutes. "So, is Akane really that bad?" Daisuke asked.

Hiroshi shook his head. "No, but she doesn't hold back during spars though. Scary thing is that during a weapons demonstration we went to once she nearly drooled when a kung-fu master did a war hammer demonstration. She was instantly hooked."

Daisuke shook his head. "You know, that explains a lot."

Hiroshi looked at his companion. "So how about Nodoka? Is she that crazy?"

Daisuke lowered his head in depression. "Yes."

Hiroshi blinked once. "Wow."

"I think I could commit her with no problem." Daisuke looked towards the ceiling. "You wouldn't believe what she wants out of Ranma. I truly believe she wanted Genma to give Ranma all those fiancés. More than likely she made Genma commit seppuku due to the crimes and that's it."

"Damn," Hiroshi said simply. "I'm not going to envy your job."

"Look who's talking," Daisuke stated. "Your job just started. Think you can handle it?"

Hiroshi chuckled. "Maybe. Being the youngest really has its disadvantages. You should have said the oldest sibling instead."

Daisuke glared at Hiroshi. "And you had to counter with me being the younger sibling as well." Daisuke softened his glare and smirked. "At least I'm not going on that training trip."

Hiroshi nodded. "True, but what should we do when Ranma gets here? Between what we do know and what we want don't, there's a lot of places we simply have no idea what happened."

Daisuke patted his friend on the back. "Not to worry. Remember, we're here and since it'll be about another six years before Ranma arrives, we should have plenty of time to prepare."

Hiroshi nodded. "Yeah." Hiroshi smirked. "Since our ninth birthday is coming up what do you think you're getting?"

Daisuke's face went beet red. "I overheard Nodoka talking about giving me 'the talk'."

Hiroshi stared at him blankly. "But you're just turning nine."

"You see why I think she should be committed. So how about you?"

"Actually I've been getting into these spirit wards." Hiroshi said while pulling out some homemade wards from his pocket. "Hopefully I can go to one of the local shrines and give me some pointers on how to make them better."

Daisuke raised a curious eyebrow. "Do those actually work?"

Hiroshi shrugged. "Maybe not these, but I will learn how to make better ones. And with the demons Ranma faced in the other timeline, these should help."

"Do you think you'll be able to go to shrines now that Nabiki is picking up the expenses?"

Hiroshi nodded. "I believe so. It's very inexpensive, which will help my case. Now as to how often I'll be able to go is a good question." A light bulb lighted in Hiroshi's mind. "You know, I just though of something. What if Nodoka and you moved here? That way Nodoka can help with the household and we'll be close so that we can make our plans easier."

Daisuke thought that idea over. "It's possible, but I would need to convince her to come. Being eight years old has its disadvantages."

Hiroshi nodded. "The best way to convince her to come is to show her how bad things are here first. Once she sees that evidence it shouldn't be too hard to convince her to move here."

Daisuke looked up at the ceiling. "I wonder Roshi, hypothetically, would Genma turn tail when he gets whiff of the fact that Nodoka is staying here? That would set us back in a huge way."

Hiroshi nodded. "I agree. That would be cause for alarm. With the seppuku contract hanging over him Genma might run off even with the Tendo agreement." Hiroshi hugged his knees to his chest. "I hate to say it, but it might be best if Nodoka didn't come here then."

Daisuke looked at Hiroshi with a sad look. "You know what that means, right?"

Hiroshi nodded. "I'll try to help my sisters, but how much can I do?"

Daisuke raised an eyebrow. "Your sisters? You consider them family?"

Hiroshi smirked. "I know it's strange that even though I was born physically into this family that mentally I am way older, but nothing can change the experiences I've had with them. They're so much different than how we knew them in the other timeline. I may be only growing up physically here, but I've grown close to them. I don't want any harm to come to them, even if that means I have to get hurt in the process."

Daisuke chuckled slightly. "I would like to say I can relate, but the truth is I can't. Ranma and me really didn't spend large amounts of time together. Genma constantly trained Ranma while only teaching me some basics. It was apparent from day one who was going to inherit the Saotome School of Anything Goes. I ended up spending most of my time with Nodoka."

"And yet you don't feel a bond with her?" Hiroshi asked curiously.

Daisuke shook his head. "Now really. Every time I see her I see either the crazy woman she is now or the bitter woman she was in the other time line. I never really considered her family in any way. It may seem a bit cold of me, but what else can I say? Both Genma and Nodoka are poor excuses for parents, and I've seen first hand the stupidity of the two. If it wasn't for Ranma, I would easily say they are classic examples of people who should not reproduce under any circumstances."

Hiroshi chuckled. "And here I was saying I've seen hell. You got it bad."

Daisuke glared at Hiroshi. "And who wished me to be a part of that family?"

Hiroshi put his hands up in a defensive position. "Hey man, remember you were the first to spit out a wish."

Daisuke nodded. "True. That reminds me, have you seen Urd at all? I haven't seen not even a trace of her since being born again."

Hiroshi shook his head. "No I haven't and for some reason that worries me. I get the strange feeling something screwed up during our wishes."

Daisuke smirked. "I knew we hung around Ranma too long. His luck with magic rubbed off on us."

"There you two are." Daisuke and Hiroshi looked up to see Nodoka Saotome opening the dojo door. "Everyone's been looking for you two. It's almost time for dinner. Please wash up."

Daisuke stood up. "Yes mother." A thought struck Daisuke. "Mother, can I spend the night here with Hiroshi?"

Nodoka smiled. "If it is alright with Hiroshi's father, then yes you can stay."

Daisuke smiled and bowed. "Thank you mother." Daisuke ran into the house followed by Hiroshi.

Nodoka watched the two run off. "And here I was thinking Daisuke was going to have trouble making friends."

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Daisuke and Hiroshi laid on the futons Soun provided. "Dai," Hiroshi said while staring at the ceiling.

"Yeah?"

"What if we fail? What if Ranma doesn't get a better ending, or gets a worse one?"

"It's hard to get worse than he got Roshi," Daisuke replied. "Besides, with us two working the reins, things will work out for the best."

"So what do you think Ranma's doing now?" Hiroshi asked.

Daisuke thought about it for a few moments. "Well… he's already learned the Neko-ken and if I remember correctly he should have met Ukyo already." Hiroshi started to laugh. "What's funny?"

"You know many of the promises Gena's going to make are going to include you as well, right?"

Daisuke paled. "Shit, you're right. Not good."

Hiroshi smirked. "Well, as you said we have six years to plan. We'll think of something."

Daisuke groaned. "I know I said I would love to be in Ranma's shoes before, but I didn't mean it."

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Six years later…

Hiroshi answered the ringing phone. "Tendo residence."

"Hey Roshi."

Hiroshi smiled. "Dai, how's it going?"

"Tomorrow's the day."

Hiroshi nodded. "Yep. Planning on coming over?"

"Not immediately. I'm talking with Nodoka about coming over this weekend for a visit. That will get everything going on my end. How about you? Everything set?"

Hiroshi sighed. "Yeah, but not how I wanted it to be."

"You can only help them so much Roshi."

"Yeah, but you should see it Dai. It's almost like nothing's changed. Probably the only difference is that Nabiki trusts me enough to be open around me. Except for that no change at all."

"Roshi, I have a question. Have you ever felt that maybe there's an outside influence on all this?"

Hiroshi nodded. "I would have said no years ago, but now I am not so sure. It can't be coincidence that the pieces are falling in the same place as before. Something's pulling strings around here and whatever it is I bet you it's responsible for the tragedy. What made you think of this anyways?"

"Using the few spare moments I have to myself I watched this movie where the main hero was being led around by beings using things like mistruths and misdirection. That made me realize something. With everything that happened then, you think someone was manipulating the play from behind the scenes?"

Hiroshi nodded. "I agree. Now here's the billion yen question. Who's doing it and why?"

"Of course this could be paranoia tricking us."

Hiroshi shook his head. "You forget. We're in this now neck deep, and you know how chaos surrounds Ranma. Paranoia is only a figment of our imagination, disguising the danger that's lurking behind us."

"You've been hanging around those priests way too long Roshi."

Hiroshi chuckled. "Maybe, but it sounded cool, didn't it?"

"A little. So how are you going to handle Ranma's arrival?"

Hiroshi smirked. "Oh I have a few ideas floating around the endless abyss known as my mind. I'm sure I can fish one out to use during our destined meeting."

"That's it, I forbid you from going to those shrines ever again. You're sounding like a loon, and I am already constantly dealing with one as is."

Hiroshi chuckled. "You seem stressed Dai. Didn't your mother teach you some form of stress relief by now?"

"If I could reach your neck through this phone and strangle you I would."

"Ah but the impatient man resorts to violence first. The calm and wise reflect upon their knowledge and procure a peaceful solution to their troubles."

"I am so going to make you pay for this Roshi."

Hiroshi heard Daisuke hanging up the phone. "So much stress in one so young. Not very healthy for his body, mind, or soul." Hiroshi chuckled. "God I love irritating people with this speech. If it weren't the fact we all know Tatewaki's crazy I swear he was doing the same thing."

A/N: I officially declare this fic a full-fledged work of art and one that I will try to regularly update. I like the story idea too much to just update it every now and then.

Questions, comments, concerns, complaints, you know how to send them. Until next time, Peace!