Disclaimer: I should have mentioned this in the first chapter but I own neither Hellsing nor Ranma and make no monetary profit from this fanfiction whatsoever. This is done for pleasure, pure and simple.

Previously on To Fly Free in Shadows

"So what set off the alarms Walter?" she asked him curiously as she pushed back from her desk and tilted her chair so that the front legs left the floor.

Walter waited a few seconds to judge how Sir Integra had balanced her chair. She used to sit like this as a child but he thought he had broken her of the habit. Fortunately he remembered how he broke her of it before. When the chair seemed to be just short of causing Sir Integra to topple backwards, he answered her question. "It appears Miss Kasumi Tendo has arrived to visit along with a young man I presume to be her boyfriend."

Walter smirked at the loud thump as Sir Integra toppled backwards out of shock and bumped the back of her head on the floor.

and now the continuation...

Integra quickly got to her feet and looked at Walter with a look of shock still on her face. "Kasumi is here!" she half-shrieked at him, "What is she doing here!"

Walter did his best to keep his face neutral but the sight of Integra looking flustered and about to panic was too much for the old man. A small smile crept onto his face which went unnoticed by Integra. "Yes, Kasumi is downstairs in the living room with a young man who seems to be her boyfriend though they might be more then that, I haven't asked them any details regarding the matter. I thought it might be best if they were made comfortable before doing so. The rain has been coming down quite heavily tonight."

Integra was already at the door and about to head downstairs when she caught sight of her reflection in a mirror. The business suit that she customarily wore to help project a modern, assertive and somewhat masculine appearance seemed to leap out at her. "I can't see her like this!" she said in a panic stricken voice as she turned towards Walter, "Quickly find me a dress! I need to change immediately."

"Sir Integra, I doubt any of your old dresses would still fit you." Replied Walter slowly, "You haven't worn anything remotely…erm…feminine since you took control of Hellsing." He saw her face fall. "Perhaps one of the maids may have something you can borrow?" A hopeful look bloomed on her face. "I shall go inquire about the matter shall I?"

"Yes please, Walter." She replied with some more composure then she had seconds ago, "and thank you, I'll be waiting in my room but please be quick about it, I don't want to keep Kasumi waiting."

She quickly went to her room and began shedding her business suit as soon as she closed the door. She looked at her reflection in the mirror of her dressing table. She frowned at the state of her hair and picked up her hair brush before sitting down. Her mind began to wonder back to days long since past while she brushed her hair, trying to straighten it. Her mother had been good friends with Kasumi's mother and despite the long distance, the two women had kept in close touch and her mother regularly visited Japan to see 'Aunt Kimiko.' Integra would sometimes accompany her and that was how she first met Kasumi and later, Nabiki. The death of Aunt Kimiko had occurred a year before the death of her own mother. Their visits had stopped since then but Integra had tried to keep in contact with Kasumi and Nabiki.

Kasumi may have been two years younger than Integra but she had always looked up to Kasumi. There had always been a 'big sisterly' quality to her that always made Integra do her best to meet Kasumi's expectations of her. Kasumi had helped ease Integra's worries when she had taken over Hellsing. The phone bills that arrived from the long chats the two of them had shared had almost given poor Walter a heart attack. Sadly, she had had little contact with either of the two Tendo sisters in the past three years due to the freak chip incidents. Thankfully things had quieted down in the past six months. The two sisters had also been involved with something that had kept them busy as well. Integra wondered whether the man Kasumi was with had had anything to do with it.

Integra remembered that Nabiki was always the smartest out of the three of them despite being the youngest of the group. Nabiki was also the one who more often than not got the three of them into trouble. When Nabiki had learned about the value of money, the three girls had wound up getting into even deeper trouble than they had before. Nabiki had convinced Kasumi and her to start a monster hunting business to get enough money to buy the ice cream shop down the street. Integra really regretted telling Nabiki the same stories her father used to tell her about her family after that fiasco. Their club managed to solve their one and only case right before their mothers found out about it.

In any other city, a group of three little children setting up a monster hunting club would have been just a case of childish imagination. In Nerima, the three girls had found themselves getting caught up in a case almost immediately. Their mothers had gone beyond merely being angry when they found out about it. They were justifiably enraged, at both the girls and the man who had actually hired them. Their club was promptly shut down and the reward money, they had actually managed to catch the monster who had turned out to just be a disgruntled ex-employee in a realistic but silly looking costume; was used to repair all the damages that had occurred from the girls earlier attempts to catch the so called monster.

Integra had truly enjoyed spending time with both sisters during her visits. She had even met Akane when she was still very young though she didn't think Akane would remember ever meeting Integra. It was shame that Akane had turned out…differently…then her older sisters, at least according to the letters and e-mails they had exchanged. Now, out of the blue, Kasumi shows up at her home, with a man no less! Integra couldn't wait to hear what Kasumi and Nabiki had been up to in the past three years. The e-mails that the three of them had sent each other hadn't been very informative and often months in between replies. Integra was definitely curious about what was going on. Now they could talk face to face for the first time in years.

Integra stopped brushing her hair and looked at her eyes in the reflection of her mirror as a thought struck her. 'I wonder how she'll react when she sees me? When she sees what I have become?' She was broken out of her thoughts by a knock on the door and the voice of a maid telling her that Walter had asked the maid to see her. Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing tore her gaze from the red eyes in the mirror and asked the maid to enter.

Curtain Call

R-Kives: I would like to say before anyone points out how short this is, that unlike MMSS, To Fly Free has no definite end in mind.

Arcee: So you don't know where you're going with this story?

R-Kives: Nope, just a few vague ideas. I wrote this story because even though I am temporarily stumped on MMSS, I just needed to work on a story. This is the result, because of this the chapters may wind up being kinda short from time to time eheh

Arcee: Sounds more like an excuse to be lazy to me...

R-Kives: Oh keep quiet! Anyway, this story probably won't be quite as serious as MMSS since I hoping to add some humour into it although whether I can pull that off remains to be seen.

Arcee: Right...(looking guilty) um hey boss...you remember how you wanted me to do some research for you on Hellsing?

R-Kives: Yeeeesssssss...I wanted to get a better idea on the characters so I went back and watched the anime again while I told you to look for more detailed information on them. Why?

Arcee: Um, well the thing is...I sorta...made a minor mistake and um...

R-Kives: (Sees a few hundred ghouls stumbling towards them) Arcee, when we get out of this, you and I are going to have a 'talk'...but for now...lets get out of here! (runs away from the ghouls as fast as possible)

Arcee: Wait for me! (Quickly follows as the ghouls start heading in her direction)