A Third Chance at Life

The Voice told me to…

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma or Inuyasha, they are the property of Rumiko Takashi and some companies I can't remember, I am making no money of this work.

Author's notes: Well, I decided to write the next chapter right away so I didn't get the chance to read any reviews yet so, I think I'll just head right in. ,Edit Note, I think I fixed the problem with paragraph spacing.

'Hmm, where are all my appointments. No ones come in since Kasumi…' Dr. Tofu thought to himself right before he started dancing with Betty the skeleton.

"Hey Doc you in here?" Ranma said as he entered the front of the office.

'Huh, wha, oh a patient' Tofu thought as he quickly recovered from his Kasumi-itis. Tofu quickly set down Betty and hurried to the front. "Oh hello Ranma, what could I help you with today?" Tofu asked.

Ranma shuffle his feet nervously causing Tofu to raise an eyebrow. 'I'm not sure I should tell anyone this' Ranma thought.

"Ranma is something bothering you?" Tofu asked the edgy teen.

"I um uh well that is…sigh I think I might be going crazy."

'Personally I'm surprised it took this long' tofu thought to himself, out loud he said "And what makes you think that?"

"Can we sit down first? This might take a while." Ranma said.

"Right this way." Tofu gestured to his office and once Ranma was seated began making some tea. As tofu walked towards his desk with the tea he noticed Ranma was staring off into space with a dejected look on his face. "So Ranma, care to talk?" Tofu said startling Ranma out of his thoughts.

"Well umm I've been hearing a voice in my head for awhile now." Ranma paused to look at Tofu who motioned that he could continue. "At first it would just be a twinge when I did something as if letting me know it disagreed or wanted me to continue with what I was doing and I generally tended to ignore it thinking it would go away. Then when I was sleeping I would dream of hearing a voice, but when morning would come I'd rarely remember the words, yet it felt as though the message was still received."

"Can you clarify what you mean by the message was received?" Tofu interrupted.

"Well if I did something really stupid during the day and I had the dream about the voice I'd wake up feeling I disappointed someone important to me. Or in the reverse if I did something really good, especially if it got blown of by everyone else as Ranma just doing his job, after a dream with the voice I would feel great like when someone you care about says good job or congratulates you for doing the right thing. But the dreams I remember the most with the voice start out as the Neko-ken nightmare, I'm back in the pit and those damned beasts are scratching and biting me when the voice shouts out and the cats jump away. I don't open my eyes cause I'm afraid a cat will be standing there tryin to scratch them out again, and that's when I feel it the voice comes forward and just kinda holds me for awhile then she tells me it'll be okay that I'm safe now…"Ranma trails off.

'She, I wonder if Ranma even realizes he just gave the voice a gender' Tofu thought.

"So if you've had the voice for a while, why are you bringing it up now?" Tofu asked.

"Well, it's cause the voice is getting stronger, before I said I only felt twinges while I was awake, recently I started hearing words. When the words first started coming as I was up it be a fragment like someone trying to say something over a phone with a bad connection, but then after the battle with Saffron, Akane still wasn't waking up I had been worried that she wasn't going to come back to life that it had been to late, when the voice clear as day told me how to draw on my spiritual energy for healing purposes and told me to force a little into Akane as focal point to draw her own back. Ever since the voice has been getting stronger and more understandable. There are times I can hear it talking, but it's more like how someone would mumble to itself then talk to another person."

"So what has it been saying at those points?" Tofu prodded. "Mostly it's about the people in the NWC like how she would like to get a hold of that wretch Kuno and show him what would happen to a REAL samurai that failed in combat so often. How she would like to practice her archery on a blind duck when she gets a hold of him," Ranma said before he started got louder, "how I would like to beat Xian Pu and Ukyo down for hanging off of Ranma when they know he doesn't like it, on top of him getting hit because of it. Then there's that Bastard Ryoga who constantly goes on about how honorless Ranma is and how it's his fault that he's seen hell, when it's Ryoga who's the honorless scumbag using a promise Ranma made on his honor as a martial artist to keep him from spilling Ryoga's secret even as he does perverted things, and finally that Spoiled Brat Akane, she got everything she wanted as she grew up, her sisters took care of everything her father did not neglect her as he did her sisters, and because of that she thinks she can do whatever she wants. She insults and beats Ranma for anything and everything. Then even after he saved her from death she still doesn't trust him."

Ranma seethed for a moment as Tofu looked on in shock. "Wha, what the hell was that? Did the voice just talk through me?" Ranma asked

"Ah, yes I believe she did." Tofu said.

"She?" Ranma asked.

"I did not think you had noticed but you referred to the voice as a girl a couple times. When did you first feel the twinge?" Tofu asked.

"Um I think right around the point I got to Nerima." Ranma said.

"In most cases I would say you were hallucinating this voice, but with you getting a curse that turns you female and the voice teaching you things you did not already know, I think it may be because your curse. With your permission I would like to talk to Elder Khu Lon about this." Tofu said.

"If you get her to promise that she won't tell anyone about this and not to use any information to manipulate me into something I don't want to." Ranma said.

"All right Ranma, come back at the end of the week we can talk more then alright?"

"Yeah thanks doc."

Well here's the next chapter hope ya enjoy it.