SSD: Konnichiwa, minna-san! I'm here with yet another fanfic. I've been hoping to start this one for a while and I hope you all enjoy it! (returns to sewing up a Bankotsu plushie)
Bankotsu: (appears in the studio) Hey, SSD! I just came to drop off this letter from—WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
SSD: (Looks up) This? (holds up plushie) It's a plushie of you for my friend Armando. Kawaii, ne?
Bankotsu: Get rid of it before Jakotsu sees it!
Jakotsu: Hello, I was wondering—OH! What an adorable Bankotsu doll! (runs up and grabs plushie from SSD) Ooh, how much do you want for it? (takes out wallet)
SSD: -.-() It's for a friend, therefore not for sale.
Jakotsu: Please?
Bankotsu: Hell no! Don't give it to him!
Kouga: (walks in) Yo, what's u—Is that a Bankotsu plushie?
Ayame: (pops up beside him) Oo, oo, where? (spots SSD and Jakotsu fighting over the Bankotsu plushie) Oh, it's so kawaii! (joins the fight)
Bankotsu plushie: RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP
SSD: (stares at the shredded plushie) Shit, now I have to start all over! (glares at Jakotsu and Ayame) OUT NOW!
Jakotsu: (cuddles ripped plushie) Even ripped to shreds, it's adorable!
SSD: Out of my studio, you psychopath! HAYATE! Get in here and away from AAF!
Hayate: (teleports in) What do you want, blondie?
SSD: (eye twitches) I'll ignore that comment. Get them (points at Jakotsu and Ayame) out of here, they completely ruined the plushie I was working on.
Hayate: Yeesh, all this over a freakin' doll? (obeys SSD anyway) Happy? Now, I have to get back to AAF before she flips out. (teleports away)
SSD: KOUGA!
Kouga: What?
SSD: Since it was your mate that ruined my plushie, you do the disclaimer.
Kouga: Aw, man!
Disclaimer: SilverSerpentDragon does not own Inuyasha or Ranma ½ with the exception of a few DVDs and Manga.
SSD: Not to mention to the Bankotsu plushie I finished earlier. Roll camera!
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Chapter 1: Dip
"This is Jusenkyo? Doesn't look like much." A raven haired boy with his hair in a low ponytail commented as he looked over the springs from the top of a cliff.
The fat and balding man beside him hit him upside the head. "Don't be ridiculous, boy! Those poles are perfect for working on your aerial combat!"
The boy shrugged, his pack shifting on his shoulders. "Yeah, yeah whatever, oyaji. Be prepared to be beaten!"
The boy's father dropped jumped off the cliff and started running for the springs. The boy quickly followed suit and easily passed his father. He stopped once he got to the edge of one of the springs that was near an old hut. He set down his bag and waited for his fat father. Oyaji reached his son a bit later, but was not panting for breath as one would expect a man of his size to do. He set down his pack next to his son's.
"Are you prepared, Ranma?"
Ranma shrugged his shoulders. "Can't be any worse than the other training grounds you've dragged me to."
The two leaped up to the bamboo poles sticking out of the springs effortlessly. Both stood in crane stances to better balance their weight on the skinny reeds. They both ignored the fat man in a Communist army uniform shouting warnings in Mandarin at them. Father and son then began to attack each other ruthlessly. Kick punch block roundhouse. With movements much like an elegant dance, Ranma hurled his father into the spring behind him. When he didn't come up for air, Ranma began to get worried.
"Oi, oyaji, are we done already? Oyaji?"
Air bubbles started to break the surface and then a giant panda burst out and landed on a nearby bamboo pole in a stance similar to Ranma's father's. Ranma hesitated in his surprise and was launched off the pole when the panda punched him. The black haired boy landed in the spring two springs away from the one he stood over. A giant splash and he was submerged.
Wha? Where am I? Underwater? The panda punched me and I fell into one of the springs but why do I feel different?
"Who are you? Kouga, is that you? You came to save me."
This presence, it feels nice, like home. Home. A flash of a cave with many wolves in it. I don't remember that, how? I feel so heavy, like I'm being pulled under. My chest hurts, my body…I'm shrinking! But I don't feel any different, not really. So why? Who am I? Where is he? Where's Kouga? Who is Kouga?
Ranma gasped in the air as his head was pulled up to the surface. Everything sounded louder and looked clearer than before. He could smell the panda's dripping wet and stinking fur, the panda who wore his father's glasses and bandana. Ranma raised a hand to his eyes and saw that he looked slimmer, more feminine. Wavy red bangs were plastered to his forehead.
Wait, red? My hair is black!
Ranma looked down and noticed two large protrusions from his chest. He placed a hand on one them and gave it a squeeze.
Soft, but firm. Oh my Kami-sama, I have breasts! I-I've been turned into a girl! A flash of a woman with bright red hair held in two pigtails and bright green eyes flitted through her mind. Is that what this body looks like? Wait, if I turned into a girl after falling into the spring, then oyaji must be the panda!
A growl resonated in Ranma-chan's chest. "Saotome Genma, you're a dead man!" A red battle aura sprung up around Ranma-chan as she lunged for her panda father's throat. He dodged and she landed in the spring behind him. Her aura reached the water before her and super-heated it. Ranma-chan could do nothing as she fell into the new hot spring.
Again? Why do I feel so different when I'm in the springs? I can feel something calling out to me, a man?
"Ayame, thank Kami-sama you're safe. I tried. I tried to help you, but you were dragged in anyway. I'm sorry, forgive me."
Arms, I feel arms around me. Strong, masculine arms. Arms that I had when I was a guy. Wha, I feel different again. These springs, what kind of magic is this? Since when did I believe in magic? Damn it! Who am I? Why do feel so incomplete? No, I am complete. I have Kouga and Ayame inside me. Their memories are mine. How do I know this? Who are Kouga and Ayame? Kuso, I'm just a sixteen year old boy! I haven't been to school much so how can I know these things? How do I know what happened in the past four hundred years like I was a part of history? WHY DO I KNOW THESE THINGS?
For the second time that day, Ranma was pulled out of the cursed springs, as a male this time. The boy coughed up water that had seeped into his lungs. Weakly, he looked into the spring and saw a very different male face looking at him. There was no baby fat; his face no longer had that boyish cuteness. His eyes were a lighter blue and the pupil was a thin slit. His hair was longer also. But the attributes that stood out the most were the pointed ears, fangs and claws.
"Young mister customer fall in Spring of Drowned Female Wolf Demon then fall in Spring of Drowned Male Wolf Demon. No know why curses not mix like normal." The man in the communist uniform stated.
Ranma barely heard him as he raised a hand to his face. "Kouga, I remember. I am you."
The panda growfed and held up a sign. 'Boy, we must find a cure for this! Stop examining yourself!'
Ranma flicked his gaze over to the panda. "I don't need a cure. I was meant to be this way. My incarnation and his mate are inside me. I share their bodies. I am complete and I don't need you to ruin this completion for me." He then returned to gazing in the spring.
"If Mr. Customer is looking for cure, Joketsuzoku might know of one. They have lived here for 3000 years."
"Growf" 'Hear that, boy, we are getting cured!' flip 'No son of mine will be cursed to be a weak little girl!'
The sign was suddenly split in half. Genma-panda looked at his son to see that he was glowing a bright blue with his hand outstretched.
"I am keeping the curses. This is my natural form now. I don't know how I know this, but I do. I'm an ookami youkai now, oyaji, and I'm not going to change. Also, Ayame was not weak; she was the princess of her pack."
"growf" 'Very well, boy, we will just head on back to Japan.' Flip 'I think this trip has lasted long enough.'
Ranma nodded. "Yeah, I can't wait to see kaa-san again. I wonder how much she has changed?"
The panda began to sweat at the thought of his wife. If No-chan finds out about the curse, I'm a panda rug! And the boy will have to commit seppuku. No, he cannot meet her. Tendo will surely help us, and there's the engagement.
"growf" 'very well, boy.' Flip 'but first we have to meet up with an old friend of mine.'
Ranma stood, still gazing into the spring and at his reflection. "Alright, oyaji. Then we'll go find kaa-san."
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SSD: DONE! A little short for the first chapter, but that's how most of my stories work. I hope you all enjoy this. Please review!
Kouga: We don't get any say at the end? This is bullshit!
Ayame: Watch your mouth, Kouga!
Kouga: Yes, koishii.
Ranma-ookami: She definitely has you whipped.
Kouga: You forget that you are my reincarnation so that spreads to you too. (smirk)
Ranma-ookami: …
Ayame: Cool, I have two hot men for my mates. Yatta!
Women: Damn you!
SSD: Calm down, girls. Here. (hands women hundreds of Ranma and Kouga plushies) I worked hard on those, use them well. Ja ne, minna-san!