A Third Chance at Life

A gift from a curse

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: First off thank you everyone for the reviews, I can't respond individually because I'm pretty sure does not like this so I'll try to answer everyone from the broader topics that came up in the reviews. Thank you for pointing out what I did with the paragraphs, I was ready to smack myself for that. I'll try to make this chapter a bit longer and slow things down a bit. To those questioning the pairings or what's going to happen, I'm not entirely sure yet. It could be Kikyo or it could be some one else, I still haven't decided on whether they should share a body for good or eventually break apart. I'm just writing this as the ideas come to me. To those who liked my story and thought it was original, thank you very much and thank you for taking time to review

Ranma began his walk back to the Tendo Dojo, on the ground instead of the fence, still worried about what he told Tofu. 'Guess its outta my hands now, have to pray it doesn't blow up in my face.' Ranma thought 'still its better that someone else knows in case she snaps.'

"Hey Ranma, how's it going?" Hiroshi said as he and his buddy Daisuke walked towards the troubled teen.

"Oh hey guys." Ranma said to the two semi-perverts.

"Something bugging ya?" Hiroshi asked.

"Cause you look a bit lost." Daisuke chimed in."

"Nah, I'm doin great" Ranma Grinned, "So what are you two perverts up too today."

"I am most shocked that you would dare call two find upstanding young men such as us perverts." Daisuke said in mock indignation.

Hiroshi laughed "Nothing much just hanging out, play some video games, watch T.V., the usual stuff ya know."

"Er, not really never did much of any of that, my usual stuff is training, more training, and avoiding getting pummeled by the rest of the Wrecking Crew." Ranma shrugged.

"Well I think it's about time you start." Daisuke said.

"Yeah, get away from the hoards of people trying to kill or marry you and play some games, it's a good way to mellow out, with none of the nasty side effects you get when you eat drugged food from Kodachi or Shampoo." Hiroshi said

"Why not, I guess I could use the break." Ranma said.

A few hours later Ranma was walking home. Hanging out with those two actually did serve as a good break from everything, Akane's probably gonna be pissed I'm getting home late and I forgot to call, prolly assumes I'm with Shampoo or U-chan.' 'She should trust him more' 'there it is again.' Ranma thought.

'Ah there he is I wonder what he's been up too all day.' Nabiki thought as she looked out her window 'Well since Akane decided to stay the night by Yuka's I can grill Ranma for information without any interruptions.'

"I'm home" Ranma announced.

"Welcome Home" Kasumi said as she smiled at Ranma, "How was your day?"

"Not to bad, stopped by Doctor Tofu's and then hung out with a couple guys from school, How bout you Kasumi?" Ranma said.

"I had a nice quiet day, thank you for asking, now dinner will be ready in twenty minutes so go ahead and get washed up." Kasumi said.

"Yes, ma'am" Ranma saluted then turned on his heal and strode off causing Kasumi to giggle at his antics.

"So Ranma what were you doing at Tofu's clinic this morning?" Nabiki said from around a corner startling Ranma.

"H-How did you know I went to the Doc's?" Ranma asked worried.

"Just overheard you tell Kasumi is all." Nabiki said, "So what were you doing there?"

"Just a check-up." Ranma said quickly. Nabiki gave a dangerous looking smile causing Ranma to sweat.

"Now Ranma, you know I don't like being lied to right?" Ranma nodded apprehensively. "And you know I am very good at seeing through very lame excuses right?" to this Ranma nodded again as he began to sweat worse then before. "Well then do you want to retract that last statement and tell me what's really going on or do I have to force it out of you?" Ranma audibly gulped, he knew that Nabiki forcing it out of him would not be physical violence, that he could take, what Nabiki could dish out was much much worse.

Ranma sighed, "All right fine, but you can't sell this information or tell anyone else alright?" Nabiki pouted for a second before nodding her head. 'Can't believe I'm doing this.' Ranma thought before he began telling Nabiki what he told Tofu, but leaving out the part about the voice being angry. Nabiki looked at Ranma closely for any hint of deception.

'Well I don't think he's telling me everything, but it's enough… for now anyway.' Nabiki thought to herself. "Everything in your life is chaotic as hell isn't it." Nabiki said. Ranma nodded his head in agreement. "Well let's go eat, we shouldn't keep Kasumi waiting."

"Is that all your going to say about it?" Ranma asked surprised. Nabiki cocked her head in confusion. "I mean about the voice you don't have anything else to say?"

Nabiki smiled at that, "Ranma I have been dealing with the insanity that is Nerima for quite sometime now, and either it's some magic side effect of your curse where the spirit of drowned girl is giving you advice or you've got a case of split personality disorder caused by either your formerly messed up views on women being weak and you then turning into a women or it's been caused by the stress that all the crap that falls on you causes, either way I've dealt with insanity and magic in the past, and I'll probably do it again in the future. Now come on, Kasumi is probably wondering what's keeping us."

As Ranma sat down for dinner he looked around confused the only ones there were Nabiki and Kasumi. "Hey Kasumi where's everyone else at, I don't want the food you cooked them to get cold." "Well our fathers went out drinking tonight" Kasumi said with a slightly displeased look on her face, Grandfather Happosai is still at that swimsuit competition in Okinawa, your mother said she would not be here to night, and Akane is comforting her friend Yuka."

"Comforting?" Ranma asked.

"Oh my I forgot you weren't here when Yuka came over sobbing." Kasumi said sadly.

"What had Yuka so upset?"

"Her mother was hit by a drunk driver." Nabiki said.

Ranma turned to Nabiki, "Is she alright?" "She's alive and stable, but she's still in critical condition, they're not sure she's going to make it."

"So Akane is going to stay the night by Yuka's?" Ranma asked.

"Yes she said she didn't want to leave her friend when she was so upset." Kasumi said, "Anyway no more depressing talk let's eat." With that they all dug in and the conversation switched to lighter topics, but the thought of Yuka's mom never strayed far from anyone's thoughts.

The next day at school Ranma walked up to Akane "Hey Akane, is everything okay with your friend?" Ranma asked.

"Oh hey Ranma," Akane yawned, "She's still really upset, but me and Sayuri stayed up most of the night with her so she has stopped crying."

"Was her Father okay with you being over after what happened?" Ranma asked.

"She doesn't know her father he abandoned Yuka and her mother Yuna when she was four." Akane said, "Miss Yuna is the only family that Yuka has left." They both stayed quiet for a moment

"Oh I almost forgot, here ya go." Ranma said as he pulled out a bento and handed it to Akane, "Kasumi said to give this to you."

Akane smiled "Thanks, I'm starving, I didn't eat anything except some junk food yesterday."

"How bad was her mother hurt?" Ranma asked. "There's a good chance she'll die, but even if she does wake up she will never be able to move like she once did if she can walk at all." Akane said.

"What if they move her to one of the better hospitals in Tokyo?" Ranma asked.

"Yuna's insurance won't cover the cost that a better hospital would charge, and even if they would it doesn't matter until she's stable enough to begin physical therapy." Akane said, "Hey Ranma thanks for the bento, but Yuka and Sayuri are back from the bathroom, I think I should go hang out with her to make sure she's okay."

"Alright Akane, talk to ya later." Ranma said a lot more somber then usual.

The rest of the day went by fairly smoothly with Kuno only attacking Ranma twice and a run in with The Lost Boy that was ended quickly. Ranma sighed as he lay down on his Futon his thoughts still on Yuka's mother, 'Why is this bothering me so much I barely know Yuka and I've never met her mother, and yet, I feel I should be doing something about this. I wish I could just heal her somehow and fix everything.' 'You might be able to.' 'What, the voice?' Ranma thought 'If you want to try we should go now the longer someone remains critically injured the harder it is to heal.' 'Who are you?' 'We will talk more later, but we should hurry to heal this woman if that is what you wish to do.' "Alright then let's go for." Ranma says softly as he exits the window and roof hops across town.

Ranma made it to the hospital and snuck inside. 'I don't think the doctors would allow me to see her because a voice in my tells me I can heal people so I better just find out what room they got her in then sneak over' Ranma thought to himself. 'There's a nurse station' Ranma walked by and quicker then the eye could see he snatched a clipboard and found out which room was Yuna's.

Ranma snuck in Yuna's room and looked over the woman and saw she was a mess. 'Okay how do I do this?' Ranma thought 'Remember how I told you to heal Akane, well this will be a bit more complicated but uses the same principle, since Akane had been in the healing water all she needed was a spark of spiritual energy to call her own soul back. In this case you will have to spread your spiritual energy through out her body and her own body will then spread it to the damaged areas, remember to summon your spiritual powers instead of your ki you must focus more, Now try it.'

'Here goes' Ranma thought as he placed his hand on the injured woman's shoulders and began focusing the spiritual energy into the person in front of him. He watched in awe as her wounds healed in front of him. Feeling all the wounds were healed Ranma stopped pumping spiritual energy into the woman and removed his hands. Yuna stirred and opened her eyes

"Who?" Yuna asked weakly still very tired.

"Don't worry about that just get some rest" Ranma said as Yuna fell asleep again. 'Guess this means I'm not just crazy' Ranma thought as he left.

Well here it is hope ya like it.