Standard Disclaimer (Not that I'm into all this, but.)
Smarter? Chapter 3:
Magic in Medicine
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Ranma-chan wandered through the medical section of the library, looking for books on shiatsu points. As she rounded a corner, she bumped into another browser. "I'm sorry about that," she said, getting up.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Are you looking for anything in particular, miss?"
Ranma-chan's eyes turned to face the speaker, a woman in her apparent early thirties, with shoulder-length black hair and glasses. "I was looking for books on shiatsu points and curses, but I can't find any on these shelves!" She spun around, and felt her hair 'whap' something. She turned around again to see the woman rubbing her face. *I hit her again? I wonder why I seem so clumsy?* "I'm really sorry about hitting you again..."
"Oh, don't worry about it. It's not /that/ unusual." The woman smiled as she continued, "I think I know where all your shiatsu and magic related books went." As she spoke, the woman held out the bag at her side. An assortment of thirty or more different sized books slid out and thumped onto the ground.
"Shhhhh! Quiet!"
Ranma-chan jumped into the air and whirled around, just in time to see the old librarian round the corner with a smile. "She's a lot quieter than a normal person," Ranma-chan noted. "And why do you have all these books on shiatsu and magic?"
"I'm a doctor. I need to keep working on my skills in shiatsu points and I specialize in magical aspects of life. Since that includes curses and blessings, I do my studies on those as well."
*A shiatsu doctor? Knows Dr. Tofu maybe?* "Do you happen to know Dr. Tofu?"
"Why yes! He and I were classmates in medical school! In fact, he was here only an hour ago!"
Ranma-chan blinked for a while after hearing this, then decided to see if Tofu's colleague would be as accepting of a Jusenkyou curse as he was. "Can you come here for a moment? I have question to ask you about curses. Now don't freak out, okay?" Ranma-chan pulled the woman to the bathroom after grabbing a cup of hot and cold water from a water dispenser.
She splashed herself and grew into his male form. Then he immediately splashed himself with cold to save his underwear and clothing. Ranma-chan noted that the woman she had dragged in with her had come out of shock much quicker than most people. *Would she have heard of Jusenkyou before, then?*
"Let me guess. Jusenkyou. Am I right?"
Ranma-chan's eyes flew open in astonishment. Someone had actually heard of Jusenkyou before! Who /was/ this person? "Who /are/ you?"
"Dr. Ishiro Yuki, but I prefer going on a first-name basis. You would be Ranma?"
"Um... yeah. I am. How'd you know?"
"You're the only male-female Jusenkyou cursed victim Dr. Tofu has mentioned to me." Yuki pushed Ranma-chan back into the library, then guided her into a secluded corner. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, Ranma, but there's no cure for Jusenkyou. You seem like a fine person from what Tofu's told me, but you spend too much time trying to get a cure."
Ranma-chan nearly jumped out of his chair in indignity. How would /she/ know the despairing feeling Ranma had? Ranma had gone after every cure he could find to have a /normal/ life. Why couldn't he just lead a normal life anyway? Ranma-chan slumped down in her chair, before looking at the doctor. "As I was saying, there's no cure. I've met many people who've spent their lives trying to find cures. I've known people a hundred years old looking for cures for the Jusenkyou curse they'd received when they were twenty. That's eighty years, Ranma. You've only been searching for a few years! There are /that/ many fake cues out there in the world, and to be truthful, there aren't any /true/ cures to the curse. The Jusenkyou curse was made as a punishment system and came with no cure, to insure that the punished people couldn't escape punishment. You have to understand, Ranma, that you can't spend your life looking at all the fakes. Live your life to the fullest! Get used to the curse, or it will kill you. That's the true problem with Jusenkyou. It /will/ kill you from despair if you keep searching for a cure."
Ranma-chan sighed at hearing there were no cures for her curse, then sat straight up when she heard she was supposed to get /used/ to it. *Why should I get used to it? It's a curse! A /CURSE/! I'm not going to turn into a girl because this doctor just tells me to!* "I WON'T BECOME A GIRL!"
"Be quiet in here, or I'll throw you out!" The librarian shuffled away looking for new victims of her silent technique.
Dr. Yuki Ishiro blinked quickly and continuously for the longest time she had in the last ten years. *Tofu wasn't kidding when he said chaos happened around this kid. Where'd all those books back there go? And the librarian... she never could do that before... He's giving off chaos! His female form... Impossible! The last case was two-thousand years ago according to the history books... It's so rare for this to occur!* "Ranma- chan! Stop powering your aura, now!"
"Huh?" Ranma-chan sucked her aura back in, and sat down.
"Ranma, the near impossible has occurred to you. Your female form is a chaos generator. You're literally leaking chaos in both forms because of it! And when your battle aura powers up, it shoots chaos out and feeds it into everything around you! Be careful in your female form. It has much potential as a fighter."
"Feh, it can't be better than my-"
"Male side?" Yuki finished. "You're quite wrong there. You see, the chaos was absorbed into your female side when you climbed out of that Jusenkyou pool. Your female form's potential has greatly surpassed your male form's potential as a fighter in many ways, from all the chaos energy flowing in your female form's veins. I will tell you this now, but you are not to tell anyone else. Understand?"
Ranma-chan nodded, before saying, "I don't think that my female form is all that much stronger..."
"You're right. It isn't. But it has always allowed you to defeat your opponent when you needed to. You don't trust your fighting skills in your female form, that's why your abilities are weaker. Train your female form, and you'll see how much potential it can gain. Don't do simple training like your katas or ki techniques. Use these." Yuki handed Ranma-chan a few books.
"How to use magic? Harnessing Chaos? ... What are these books for?"
Yuki smiled a kind smile. "Your female form has the potential to become a sorceress of chaos. The last time one existed was over two- thousand years ago. You were probably chosen for your already existing field of chaotic energies. Study and learn from those books. When you learn about your female form, get comfortable with it, and your male form will be allowed to expand past the barriers Jusenkyou placed on you. Yes, there were barriers on your skills in your male form as well. I never said it couldn't get stronger as a fighter, just that it had no magic potential. Your two forms balance out in magic and strength, so train them equally. Neither will ever be truly stronger than the other, Jusenkyou made sure of that by placing what's referred to as an 'equal-limit barrier' in the history books. Now then, if you want to see me again, here's my phone number. I'll probably be staying at Tofu's place for the days I'm here. I need to be there anyway, to see why he wants me to treat him because of his emotional reaction to a girl."
Ranma-chan nodded and took the offered card, then turned and walked back to the train station, humming all the way, and giggling occasionally at what she thought Dr. Tofu's reaction to Kasumi might do to Yuki.
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-Tendo Dojo-
Nabiki was hard pressed to keep the fiancees away from her room. "Where mercenary girl hide Ranma?"
"Yes, Nabiki, where did Ranma go? Why are you helping him hide?"
"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO-urk!" Ukyou and Shampoo wiped sweat from their heads after hearing Kodachi laugh straight into their ears.
"I told you girls before, I don't know where he is!" Nabiki felt like tearing her hair out, but kept her face calm, cool and collected. Well, except for the rather large twitch that had managed to appear above her eye.
"Well Nabiki, if you don't know where he is, /find/ him! I'll give you 20,000 yen!"
"Ai-yah! Spatula-girl no get to airen first! Shampoo give 40,000 yen!"
Stomping was heard on the stairs as Akane appeared downstairs. She had heard enough. "Yes, Nabiki, why don't you tell us where Ranma is?"
"Nabiki! You hurt your father so! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Nabiki! You shou-urg, glowrf, rowf, growf!"
Nabiki was getting very tired of the noise, when her savior presented herself. "Hi everybody! Um, why are you staring at..." Ranma-chan looked down at herself. She blushed, turned toward the stair, and ran straight to her room. The only thing that she said was, "Gotta change, gotta change, gotta change, and you /never/ saw this!" Nabiki turned back to the fiancees as thumps were heard.
"I guess you all don't need the information anymore, then?" Nabiki went back into her room, with a content smirk on her face.
"Oh my." Kasumi said, looking at the bodies of the fiancees and fathers who were out cold on the ground.
"They all decided to take a nap! How nice!"
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Author's Notes:
Yes, I know that the last line was not needed, and may have been an exaggeration of Kasumi's innocent nature, but I needed a little laugh of my own, and I stuck it in. I felt like this was enough for one day. I don't know whether or not I'm going to be updating this as much as usual after this, as I'm in a pit of trouble from school.
How's the story, anyway? Still like it? Still think it should go on? Oh, and continue C&C/R&R! Thanks! (Btw: This chapter's outline was written with the idea of a chapter equal in size to chapter two. I went overboard. Hehehe.)
-Ayanami Rei
Smarter? Chapter 3:
Magic in Medicine
~~~~~~~~~~
Ranma-chan wandered through the medical section of the library, looking for books on shiatsu points. As she rounded a corner, she bumped into another browser. "I'm sorry about that," she said, getting up.
"Oh, don't worry about it. Are you looking for anything in particular, miss?"
Ranma-chan's eyes turned to face the speaker, a woman in her apparent early thirties, with shoulder-length black hair and glasses. "I was looking for books on shiatsu points and curses, but I can't find any on these shelves!" She spun around, and felt her hair 'whap' something. She turned around again to see the woman rubbing her face. *I hit her again? I wonder why I seem so clumsy?* "I'm really sorry about hitting you again..."
"Oh, don't worry about it. It's not /that/ unusual." The woman smiled as she continued, "I think I know where all your shiatsu and magic related books went." As she spoke, the woman held out the bag at her side. An assortment of thirty or more different sized books slid out and thumped onto the ground.
"Shhhhh! Quiet!"
Ranma-chan jumped into the air and whirled around, just in time to see the old librarian round the corner with a smile. "She's a lot quieter than a normal person," Ranma-chan noted. "And why do you have all these books on shiatsu and magic?"
"I'm a doctor. I need to keep working on my skills in shiatsu points and I specialize in magical aspects of life. Since that includes curses and blessings, I do my studies on those as well."
*A shiatsu doctor? Knows Dr. Tofu maybe?* "Do you happen to know Dr. Tofu?"
"Why yes! He and I were classmates in medical school! In fact, he was here only an hour ago!"
Ranma-chan blinked for a while after hearing this, then decided to see if Tofu's colleague would be as accepting of a Jusenkyou curse as he was. "Can you come here for a moment? I have question to ask you about curses. Now don't freak out, okay?" Ranma-chan pulled the woman to the bathroom after grabbing a cup of hot and cold water from a water dispenser.
She splashed herself and grew into his male form. Then he immediately splashed himself with cold to save his underwear and clothing. Ranma-chan noted that the woman she had dragged in with her had come out of shock much quicker than most people. *Would she have heard of Jusenkyou before, then?*
"Let me guess. Jusenkyou. Am I right?"
Ranma-chan's eyes flew open in astonishment. Someone had actually heard of Jusenkyou before! Who /was/ this person? "Who /are/ you?"
"Dr. Ishiro Yuki, but I prefer going on a first-name basis. You would be Ranma?"
"Um... yeah. I am. How'd you know?"
"You're the only male-female Jusenkyou cursed victim Dr. Tofu has mentioned to me." Yuki pushed Ranma-chan back into the library, then guided her into a secluded corner. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, Ranma, but there's no cure for Jusenkyou. You seem like a fine person from what Tofu's told me, but you spend too much time trying to get a cure."
Ranma-chan nearly jumped out of his chair in indignity. How would /she/ know the despairing feeling Ranma had? Ranma had gone after every cure he could find to have a /normal/ life. Why couldn't he just lead a normal life anyway? Ranma-chan slumped down in her chair, before looking at the doctor. "As I was saying, there's no cure. I've met many people who've spent their lives trying to find cures. I've known people a hundred years old looking for cures for the Jusenkyou curse they'd received when they were twenty. That's eighty years, Ranma. You've only been searching for a few years! There are /that/ many fake cues out there in the world, and to be truthful, there aren't any /true/ cures to the curse. The Jusenkyou curse was made as a punishment system and came with no cure, to insure that the punished people couldn't escape punishment. You have to understand, Ranma, that you can't spend your life looking at all the fakes. Live your life to the fullest! Get used to the curse, or it will kill you. That's the true problem with Jusenkyou. It /will/ kill you from despair if you keep searching for a cure."
Ranma-chan sighed at hearing there were no cures for her curse, then sat straight up when she heard she was supposed to get /used/ to it. *Why should I get used to it? It's a curse! A /CURSE/! I'm not going to turn into a girl because this doctor just tells me to!* "I WON'T BECOME A GIRL!"
"Be quiet in here, or I'll throw you out!" The librarian shuffled away looking for new victims of her silent technique.
Dr. Yuki Ishiro blinked quickly and continuously for the longest time she had in the last ten years. *Tofu wasn't kidding when he said chaos happened around this kid. Where'd all those books back there go? And the librarian... she never could do that before... He's giving off chaos! His female form... Impossible! The last case was two-thousand years ago according to the history books... It's so rare for this to occur!* "Ranma- chan! Stop powering your aura, now!"
"Huh?" Ranma-chan sucked her aura back in, and sat down.
"Ranma, the near impossible has occurred to you. Your female form is a chaos generator. You're literally leaking chaos in both forms because of it! And when your battle aura powers up, it shoots chaos out and feeds it into everything around you! Be careful in your female form. It has much potential as a fighter."
"Feh, it can't be better than my-"
"Male side?" Yuki finished. "You're quite wrong there. You see, the chaos was absorbed into your female side when you climbed out of that Jusenkyou pool. Your female form's potential has greatly surpassed your male form's potential as a fighter in many ways, from all the chaos energy flowing in your female form's veins. I will tell you this now, but you are not to tell anyone else. Understand?"
Ranma-chan nodded, before saying, "I don't think that my female form is all that much stronger..."
"You're right. It isn't. But it has always allowed you to defeat your opponent when you needed to. You don't trust your fighting skills in your female form, that's why your abilities are weaker. Train your female form, and you'll see how much potential it can gain. Don't do simple training like your katas or ki techniques. Use these." Yuki handed Ranma-chan a few books.
"How to use magic? Harnessing Chaos? ... What are these books for?"
Yuki smiled a kind smile. "Your female form has the potential to become a sorceress of chaos. The last time one existed was over two- thousand years ago. You were probably chosen for your already existing field of chaotic energies. Study and learn from those books. When you learn about your female form, get comfortable with it, and your male form will be allowed to expand past the barriers Jusenkyou placed on you. Yes, there were barriers on your skills in your male form as well. I never said it couldn't get stronger as a fighter, just that it had no magic potential. Your two forms balance out in magic and strength, so train them equally. Neither will ever be truly stronger than the other, Jusenkyou made sure of that by placing what's referred to as an 'equal-limit barrier' in the history books. Now then, if you want to see me again, here's my phone number. I'll probably be staying at Tofu's place for the days I'm here. I need to be there anyway, to see why he wants me to treat him because of his emotional reaction to a girl."
Ranma-chan nodded and took the offered card, then turned and walked back to the train station, humming all the way, and giggling occasionally at what she thought Dr. Tofu's reaction to Kasumi might do to Yuki.
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-Tendo Dojo-
Nabiki was hard pressed to keep the fiancees away from her room. "Where mercenary girl hide Ranma?"
"Yes, Nabiki, where did Ranma go? Why are you helping him hide?"
"OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO-urk!" Ukyou and Shampoo wiped sweat from their heads after hearing Kodachi laugh straight into their ears.
"I told you girls before, I don't know where he is!" Nabiki felt like tearing her hair out, but kept her face calm, cool and collected. Well, except for the rather large twitch that had managed to appear above her eye.
"Well Nabiki, if you don't know where he is, /find/ him! I'll give you 20,000 yen!"
"Ai-yah! Spatula-girl no get to airen first! Shampoo give 40,000 yen!"
Stomping was heard on the stairs as Akane appeared downstairs. She had heard enough. "Yes, Nabiki, why don't you tell us where Ranma is?"
"Nabiki! You hurt your father so! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Nabiki! You shou-urg, glowrf, rowf, growf!"
Nabiki was getting very tired of the noise, when her savior presented herself. "Hi everybody! Um, why are you staring at..." Ranma-chan looked down at herself. She blushed, turned toward the stair, and ran straight to her room. The only thing that she said was, "Gotta change, gotta change, gotta change, and you /never/ saw this!" Nabiki turned back to the fiancees as thumps were heard.
"I guess you all don't need the information anymore, then?" Nabiki went back into her room, with a content smirk on her face.
"Oh my." Kasumi said, looking at the bodies of the fiancees and fathers who were out cold on the ground.
"They all decided to take a nap! How nice!"
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Author's Notes:
Yes, I know that the last line was not needed, and may have been an exaggeration of Kasumi's innocent nature, but I needed a little laugh of my own, and I stuck it in. I felt like this was enough for one day. I don't know whether or not I'm going to be updating this as much as usual after this, as I'm in a pit of trouble from school.
How's the story, anyway? Still like it? Still think it should go on? Oh, and continue C&C/R&R! Thanks! (Btw: This chapter's outline was written with the idea of a chapter equal in size to chapter two. I went overboard. Hehehe.)
-Ayanami Rei