Fenris: nobody likes me because I write such sick and twisted things.
Little voice: whew, yah, everybody, come look at these reviews, it's like acid mixed with the blood of superman- SUPER ACID!
Fenris: who are you?
Voice: the voice that tells you too write… and burn things…
Fenris: right... well, maybe ill write something less dark and twisted for this chapter, some kinda comic relief.
Voice: that'd be great; we could have ranma get his memories back.
Fenris: Yah!
Voice: THAN BURN HIS FLESH AND HAVE THE PIG COMSUME HIM.
Fenris: No! Must resist… twisted and sinister writing… not resisting well….
Voice: HMM PIG SLOPS YUM, YUM, YUM
Fenris: Noooooo!
Chapter: 8 PIG SLOPS!
Lol ha, uuuhhh whew. Hmm, I needed that, anyway, I plan on making this chapter less dark and twisted and with a hint of fun, a new character added to the mix, and maybe a scene change. My praise to Dana-san for the Idea, but I will require help because I have no idea on how the two I pair up at the end would get along in said situation.
Ryoga's injuries had healed nicely (following the 2nd law of ranma physics: characters are never injured two episodes in a row without mystical aid.) and he was up to trying to apologize to Akane as she waited on the couch for Ranma/Ranko to get back from her first day of preschool.
"Akane." Ryoga was dressed in the robes of the Saotome School, "Can't you see that things are pushing us to be together."
"Yes Ryoga," Akane kept her eyes level on the TV, "It's as if some divine
Power-" Ryoga's spirit's rose "has been pissed off by me and you are my punishment." Ooowww… shot down.
Ryoga sank back down and began nudging closer at such a slow pace that Akane didn't detect it until his arm was on the couch behind her neck. He was slowly…. Slowly going for the wraparound when… The front door slid open. Everyone expected an excited little girl returning from her first day of pre-school. What they got was a middle aged woman holding a sword.
"NODOKA!" Explained Akane loudly, somewhere Genma was splashing himself with cold water, "What a surprise."
"I suppose, has Ranma returned from his trip yet…" she trailed off as she saw the young man with his arm almost all the way around Akane's neck and automatically assumed, "Ranma! You look so manly, stand up please!"
"Say what now?" Ryoga was pulled onto his feet by Nodoka and hugged hard, "Uhh, sorry, my names Ryoga…"
"What? If your not Ranma, why are you snuggling with his fiancée!" her eyes lit with anger, "Stealing my son's bride to be while he trains! You filthy excuse for a human being!" Nodoka unsheathed her sword and progressed to chase a screaming Ryoga, swinging wildly with her katana.
This was bad from what Genma saw when he walked in as a panda. All hell broke lose however, when the front door opened and Kasumi walked in with a small smiling girl who saw the woman her mind registered as being safe with because 'she' was not Ranma.
"Mommy!" Ranko ran up to Nodoka and wrapped her arms around her waist.
"Oh hell." was Genma's thought, "Well; at least I outlived the dangers of drinking."
"That's cute little girl" Nodoka looked at the little girl that had a death grip on her hip as she spoke, "But I only have one child, Ranma."
"Uh-huh, and Ranko."
"No no no… wait, you're Ranko?"
"Come on mommy, it hasn't been that long since you last saw me, has it?"
"Sweet little girl." Her hands shook with rage as she kept a happy face, "What's your daddy's name?"
"Genma."
You could see the blood vessel burst in Nodoka's face, "Oh, alright, do you know where your daddy is?"
Ranko glanced at the family room and saw a puff ball of a tail disappear into it, "In there mommy."
"Thank you baby."
Nodoka stiffly made her way to the door and ripped it open. Not slid, ripped the door off its track.
"GENMA!" her scream blew out the paper walls, "Where are you, you cheating sack of crap?"
"He's right there mommy." Ranko gently pointed to the panda eating bamboo in the middle of the room. Nodoka looked depressed.
"That's nice little girl," Nodoka slumped back into the hallway.
"Didn't you want to talk to daddy?"
"That's not your daddy, Ranko, and I'm not your mom. That is a panda."
"When splashed with cold water, like me with hot water."
"Say what?"
"Here, let me show you." Ranko ran to the tap and filled it with hot water. Running the pail back to Nodoka she drenched herself. Ranko's hair turned black and she grew a centimeter or two, Ranko was now obviously a boy.
"See mommy?"
Nodoka's eyes nearly exploded as she recognized the boy that stood before her.
"Ranma…" Nodoka turned her back and nearly shot steam as she grabbed the panda and dragged it to the bathroom. The signs the panda was waving were along the lines of Good Kami, help! and Oh god I'm going to die! as well as a few profanities that shouldn't be mentioned. After a few seconds a fierce cry rang out.
"Genma!" a naked middle aged man ran downstairs followed by a screaming, crying housewife with a sword, "What did you do to my son you bastard!"
"Mommy! Stop!" Ranko ran in-between them and Genma crouched behind her, "What happened to Ranma?"
"You're Ranma!"
"No, I'm Ranko, mommy."
"No!" Ryoga held her arm and walked her towards the living room, "you're Ranma! Ranma!"
Akane comforted the small girl as Ryoga and Genma explained the situation. Several times the sound of a sword being drawn cut the silence, followed by yelling. Soon Nodoka broke through the door into the family room with hard eyes that melted as they met the face of her new daughter.
"Ran…ko" Nodoka spoke softly, "How old are you?"
"Four." Ranko held up 4 fingers and held out her hand.
"Right" Tears welled up in Nodoka's eyes, "do you remember your prom ise to mommy?"
"I made a promise to you?" Ranko's face scrunched up in a way that brought laughter to Nodoka's lips.
"No, I guess not. Do you remember Ranma's promise to me?" Ranko nodded, "Did he live up to it?"
"Yep Ranma's real strong, and brave too!'
Now here's a point that confusulses me. Sooo… I'm going to let you, the reader take a crack at it, ill make two divergences, and whichever I get more reviews asking to continue, ill do it that way, okay then.
The WAFF divergence- (not really, just more so WAFF than the other.
"That's great Ranko." Nodoka stood up and walked over to Akane and Ryoga and motioned for the pig boy to leave them alone, after he left Nodoka spoke, "Is their no way to cure this?"
"We were hoping the memories would restore themselves, then try and find some more mushrooms." Akane looked depressed, "But they are incredibly rare, and even the location of their growth is a mystery."
"One that you are going to solve" Akane's head snapped up and saw Nodoka's deep penetrating eyes, "Go. Find those mushrooms and bring my son back. I beg of you."
"I-I wouldn't know where to start I'd be lost and-" she cut off as she saw the broken heart of a mother and sighed, "I'll begin the search, I may need some help and supplies though."
"Kasumi has packed that other boy's backpack with all the supplies you should need, Oh, and Genma told me about the other fiancées, I took the liberty of calling them. I can't get a hold of the Amazon, but the okonomiaki chef, Ukyo was it? Is more than willing to go and will meet you at the town square in 4 hours."
Akane swallowed deeply as she looked at the little girl who was talking with her father, then out the window, and into the horizon.
weeks later--------------------------------------------------
"Akane, hon?" Ukyo said as she used her massive battle spatula to cut a path into the low hanging trees as they entered another forest, "You're absolutely certain they went this way?"
"Positive." Akane was clearing a path using her new found ki techniques (gained from the super soba), "They have a pretty distinctive look and the guilds gave us a good description."
"Still, I would have expected them to cut a path or something."
"Hmm, probably jumped over the trees"
"You think?"
"I've seen Ranma do it."
Akane and Ukyo continued cutting trees and tall grass until they came onto a path that looked like it had been made by every type of weapon imaginable.
"Looks like he caught up with them. C'mon, he made us a short path."
After three hour of resting and intense soba speed Akane and Ukyo (lets say Ukyo got a piggyback ride) came into a camp roughly strewn into a scorched clearing. Akane and Ukyo stood, bent over and exhausted from their travels, but they had finally caught up with the rest of their group. A familiar figure came out from the tent.
"Tomboy and spatula gils?" Shampoo, her Grandmother and Mousse came out of their tents, "Why you here?"
And now the dark, sinister one my work is known for.
"That's wonderful Ranko." Nodoka's eye's teared up as she seized the small girls hand and walked towards the door, "come on, let's go home."
"I am home." Ranko planted her feet and tried to struggle out of her grasp.
"You've been gone for so long, I want my baby back!" Nodoka plucked Ranko up and held her to her chest, "Now come."
"No! I want to live with Akane a-and Ryoga, and Daddy! I don't want to go!" Ranko kicked and screamed as Nodoka put her into the backseat of the car and drove away.