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A/N: First things first. I expanded the last chapter a little bit, not much, only like 500 words or so. It's mostly changed towards the end, and there really isn't anything important. If ya wanna go back and read it, that's fine, if not ya ain't missin' much.

THE CURSE WILL BE EXPLAINED IN THIS CHAPTER! He still has it, that's all I'll say for now. About the no-weapons thing, I feel I gotta explain this. It is MY view that Ranma was raised by Genma to hate weapons. He'll use them if he has to, like in response to a challenge, but 99 out of 100 times you won't see Ranma with a weapon unless it has to do with a specific challenge like the whole Tea Ceremony thing. He can use them, is proficient with them, but prefers not to use them. Again, that's just my view on it. Sorry if ya don't agree. I'm working my way through the Manga and might change my mind, who knows, I've only read the first 3, and 19-32. Plan on gettin' the rest, but I ain't made of money. Plus currently I can't find any volumes after 32 published in English and I don't know Japanese yet. Anywho, that's just my rant on that, now, onto the story.

Chapter 8

"Ok, let me get this straight, she's a 'cabbit' not a c-c…feline spawn of hell," Ranma asked nervously.

"That is correct," Washu replied somewhat exasperatedly, "In fact she has no feline genes at all. She was created using Mass DNA and the DNA of a mineral life-form."

"K, not a feline, gotcha," Ranma replied before calming down. They had just finished lunch and Washu took the chance to explain to Ranma what Ryo-Ohki was considering his reaction to her. From what Katsuhito said she didn't want a berserker running around.

"If you come to my lab I may be able to find a way to help you gain control of it," Washu tells him with a manic gleam in her eye making Ranma sweatdrop. He'd seen expressions similar enough to it to know he needed to avoid going into Washu's lab as much as possible.

"Maybe later Washu-chan, it looks like everyone is here and wanting ta know how I ended up on Jurai," Ranma pointed out. And indeed everyone was in the living room waiting, including Mihoshi who had finally managed to get dressed, and they were all 'patiently' waiting for Ranma to begin.

"Gotcha," Washu replied with a sweatdrop due to all the glares she was receiving, funnily enough, Sasami appeared to be glaring the most. That alone caused Washu to shiver, an upset Sasami wasn't something to take lightly.

"Alright, do ya want the long version or the short version," Ranma asked sitting beside Sasami and patting Ryo-Ohki on the head who was in Sasami's lap.

"I believe the short version will suffice for now, as I'm sure there are things you'd rather not tell us until you know us better," Katsuhito pointed out before anyone could say anything. He knew if he left it up to the others they'd have Ranma's life story out of him if they could.

"Thanks," Ranma replied with a thankful grin, "Alright, why don't I just start at how I got ta Jurai and go from there?"

"That sounds perfectly acceptable," Ayeka commented stiffly. She was still miffed about her view of Juraian politics being shattered, but she didn't hold it against Ranma. He was a victim in all of this.

"Alright, well, after some things happened back where I used ta live I decided I needed to just get myself lost for a while ta sort some things out. One of my rivals has a really bad sense of direction, so I figured I'd follow him 'til I was good and lost, well, needless ta say I was rather shocked that one minute we were walking down the street and the next we were in a castle surrounded by guards."

"Wait, are you trying to say that you got to Jurai on foot," Ryoko asked incredulously.

"Yep, although that void/tunnel thingy we walked through probably had somethin' ta do with it," Ranma commented nonchalantly before continuing his story, "Well, after Ryoga, that's my rivals name, ran off I was kinda forced ta defend myself against the guards. Didn't like the 20 to 1 odds too much so I used one of the techniques my Pop, I mean Genma, came up with ta turn myself invisible and escape after takin' down about 5 or 6 of the guards."

"Wow, really," Sasami asked with child-like enthusiasm, well, considering her age it made good sense that she acted that way.

"Yep, I can show ya later if ya want," Ranma replied thinking she was asking about the Umi-senken.

"I refuse to believe someone as small as you could beat even one of the Palace Guards, let alone 5," Ayeka commented as if it was the most absurd thing she'd heard of while she snuggled up to Tenchi. The sight of Ryoko and Ayeka pretty much suffocating the poor boy made Ranma sweatdrop while having a quick flashback to his old problems in Nerima.

"If ya don't believe me ask your Pop, he knows I did it, but anyway once I got away I kinda ran inta Lady Funaho and Lady Misaki," Ranma replied. Everyone in the room could guess what kind of reaction Misaki had upon seeing Ranma, and as one gave a collective shudder, especially Funaho as she'd seen it.

"After talkin' ta them for a little bit Misaki up and decided ta engage me ta Sasami," Ranma continued once the shudder had passed, "'Course, she kept that to herself until we'd gotten ta the throne room."

"Yes, that was quite amusing, Misaki made it sound as if she wanted to give Ranma to Sasami as a slave of some sort," Funaho told them with a little giggle, which made most of the people in the room blink-blink as they had never heard Funaho giggle.

"Anyway, we kinda decided ta put off the whole engagement talk until later and Azusa told me that I'd be shown a room I could use 'til later. On the way to the room me and Jiro met up with…I think it started with Aya or something like that. Anyway, she yelled at me thinkin' I was her son Kenji, and when I proved I wasn't she fainted so we carried her back to her room. We met up with her jerk of a son who showed us the rest of the way where I met my father," the word was spat like it was the foulest possible insult, "And he confessed shippin' me off to Earth. Jiro and I left and I kinda gotpartneredwithatree."

"What was that last bit," Katsuhito asked intrigued. He understood what Ranma said of course, but he could see confusion on the faces of everyone else.

"I kinda got myself partnered with a tree on our way back to my room," Ranma said this time clearly with a hint of resignation.

"Which tree," Sasami asked excitedly. Tenchi wasn't even partnered with a tree yet, but that probably had more to do with him not being on Jurai than anything.

"Kaikou-oh," Ranma told her. Just looking at her face he knew he wouldn't be able to deny her anything. She had an aura of absolute innocence and sweetness just like Kasumi did, and compound that with her liberal use of puppy dog eyes he was going to be wrapped around her finger rather quickly. When the name finally registered in the heads of the Juraians they all gasped, well, except Azusa. He hadn't gotten around to telling his wives yet and mentally added another month to the couch time for that slip. "That's about it, shortly after that we left to come here."

"That reminds me Ranma, you were rather 'excited' during the first few days of the journey, any chance you want to explain why," Azusa asked. He couldn't get the imagery out of his head of Ranma dancing around singing 'never gonna be a girl again'. It was quite disturbing.

"Ah, that, ya see a few years back during my training journey I was on Genma and I ended up in China at Jusenkyo, or the Pools of Sorrow, and whoever falls into one takes on the form of whatever drowned there last. Of course they're mostly destroyed now, but while we were there we both got cursed. He turns into a panda and I turned into what I woulda looked like had I been born a girl."

"That's rather difficult to believe," Washu interjected.

"What did your girl side look like," Sasami asked before Ranma could respond to Washu's claim. Ranma took a minute to think of what his girl side looked like as he hadn't seen it in a while and unfortunately found the new trigger for the change. Before their very eyes Ranma changed from a well built young man into a busty redhead.

"W-what," everyone said in shock causing Ranma to look around and see all the shocked faces. Seeing them all directed at him he, or rather she, looked down to see a rather well endowed chest that she thought was gone forever.

"Damn it, I thought I got rid of this," Ranma muttered. Her mind immediately thought back to what could have caused the change due to the fact that she was dry and she'd tried cold water before and it didn't work. Thinking of what her normal form looked like everyone was treated to the sight of Ranma changing back into a male. Of course Ryoko and Ayeka immediately took note of the fact that Tenchi had a river of blood flowing down his nose while he looked like he'd lost consciousness. This immediately angered them as they hadn't gotten a reaction like that out of Tenchi for quite a while.

"Amazing," Washu exclaimed breathlessly. Her mind only came up with one thing which it practically screamed loud enough for others to hear: guinea pig! "Would you like to be a guinea pig for my experiments," Washu asked excitedly.

"Um, huh," Ranma said completely baffled while everyone else were shaking their heads like Soun Tendo in an attempt to tell him not to.

"Ranma, would you consent to spar with my grandson Tenchi," Katsuhito asked with a Cheshire grin.

"Sure, um, wait, with or without bokkens," Ranma asked hesitantly. He hadn't really used one since his training with Katsuhito, at least not seriously.

"He'll be using one, you can fight unarmed if you prefer," Katsuhito told him with a manic gleam in his eyes.

"That's no contest, Tenchi'll win of course," Ryoko boasted with Ayeka nodding beside her.

"There is no way Lord Tenchi would lose," Ayeka replied confidently.

"Huh, what's going on," Tenchi asked finally coming back to the world after his lapse into the gutter.

"Tenchi, you and Ranma are going to spar," Katsuhito told his reluctant grandson. He knew Tenchi didn't like to fight, but if Ranma was truly capable of taking down Palace Guards then he felt that it would be a good match to help further Tenchi's skills. Tenchi nodded even though he didn't really want to and everyone stood up and headed towards the shrine where the spar would take place.

"Ground rules," Ranma asked knowing Katsuhito would put some in, he always did.

"Fight until three knock downs and try to keep the property damage to a minimum," he told them. Knowing the caliber of Tenchi if he release the Light Hawk Wings and guessing that Ranma himself had a few powerful maneuvers he felt that it was a good rule to impose. Both fighters nodded and took their places 10 meters away from each other. Knowing immediately that if Tenchi was trained by Katsuhito that he'd need to take it seriously Ranma went into a serious stance instead of his typical 'no stance' while Tenchi took up a ready stance with his bokken awaiting the signal. Ranma could immediately tell just by Tenchi's stance that his assumption was right. There appeared to be no gaping holes in Tenchi's stance, but the true test would be during the spar.

"Begin," Katsuhito announced after a moment of checking both fighters to see if they were ready. Immediately after he said it Ranma and Tenchi shot forward meeting at the center. The fight started out slowly with each probing the others defense looking for holes to exploit and just gauging the others ability. They slowly started speeding up until Ranma vanished from in front of Tenchi only for the spectators to see Tenchi flying forward the next moment while Ranma landed on the ground approximately right behind where Tenchi would have been standing. Tenchi hit the ground hard but rolled with it until he could stand himself up.

"Not bad," Tenchi commented while grinning. While he might not enjoy fighting this spar was definitely getting his blood pumping. Since it wasn't life or death and Ranma appeared to be at least equal to his ability he was quite getting into it.

"Not bad yourself," Ranma said with a cocky grin. Tenchi lunged forward only to disappear right before Ranma would have evaded the strike and reappeared behind him swinging his bokken in an attempt to catch Ranma off guard. Unfortunately due to his life in Nerima Ranma was quite used to attacks from behind so before Tenchi had even gotten halfway through the swing Ranma was already leaping over it and away to get a little room. Ranma was enjoying himself just as much as Tenchi, because it had been too long in his estimation since he'd sparred against someone just for the sake of sparring and betterment in the art. They began circling each other looking for an opportune moment to strike. Tenchi leapt up high feinting an overhead strike an Ranma as he came down only to twist and bring the bokken up from underneath catching Ranma under the chin sending him down into a backwards somersault on the ground for a few feet.

As soon as Ranma was on his feet he shot forward so he was within punching distance of Tenchi and after evading two swings shouted out, "Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken!" The first two strikes were blocked but the rest made it through, and luckily for Tenchi Ranma pulled back a lot of strength in those blows. Unfortunately there's only so much you can pull back from a punch that breaks the sound barrier so when Tenchi landed on the ground three seconds later he knew he was going to have quite a few bruises.

"Tenchi," Ryoko, Mihoshi, and Sasami yelled in fear while Ayeka yelled, "Lord Tenchi!"

"Are you okay Tenchi," Sasami shouted from the sidelines.

"I'll be fine Sasami," Tenchi replied with a grin that looked more like a grimace. While getting himself up he slowed his breathing as his grandfather had been teaching him and sent some of his Juraian power into the bokken to strengthen it due to the few cracks it now sported and for a new attack he had learned earlier that week. Once on his feet he let out a cry of, "Kasairyuu! (Stone Wind)" This sent the power infused into his bokken forward as a wall of wind at an incredibly fast rate, and Ranma reacted by firing off a ki blast to hopefully cancel out Tenchi's attack. Unfortunately while the ki blast did open up a hole that should have allowed the attack to pass by harmlessly the attack acted just like it's namesake and filled the hole rapidly by drawing energy automatically from the rest of it to fill the gap. Ranma was sent down in his shock of his favorite ki blast failing him.

"This is just amazing," Washu commented to herself while looking at the data her computer was receiving.

"What is," Funaho asked curiously.

"That blast, it wasn't composed of any Juraian energy, it was all what earthlings call ki or chi. There aren't supposed to be any humans capable of wielding it," Washu explained incredulously.

"Why is that," Funaho asked confused.

"They are basically wielding their life force and if they can throw it around then they can replenish it. Meaning that they could, in theory, live well beyond the human standard without things like being bonded to a tree or the life water of Jurai," Washu said as she continued working with her computer trying to get an accurate gauge of Ranma's power level. Seeing the power building at an incredible rate, as if to release a massive blast, Washu screamed, "HIT THE DIRT!" Just before they all heard Ranma yell, "Hiryu Shoten Ha!" The tornado of energy rising into the air with Tenchi shocked everyone immobile from their spots, including Katsuhito, but just as Ranma was about to crow about his victory something happened that shocked all the bystanders. At the apex of his flight Tenchi accidentally called forth the Light Hawk Wings immediately ceasing Ranma's attack. As he landed and prepared to attack he hesitated long enough for Katsuhito to get in-between them.

"I believe that we shall call this match a draw," he commented effectively stopping both fighters.

"Huh, why," Ranma asked perplexed. He had to admit the light show that Tenchi gave off was cool, but it wasn't anything special. At least he didn't think so.

"I believe it would be too dangerous to continue if either of you bring out larger attacks than you already have. The last attack you used was already bigger than I expected to be used during this sparring match, and I expect you to work very hard repairing the damage to the ground due to the attack," Katsuhito told him sternly, to which Ranma just sheepishly rubbed the back of his head before bowing in acceptance of his punishment. Seeing that the battle was over Tenchi released the transformation, much to Washu's disappointment, and headed towards Ranma.

"That was a good match," he told the pigtailed youth.

"We'll have to do it again soon," Ranma replied with a grin, "There's not too many people I can stop holding back with and I like to enjoy it whenever I can."

"When is the last time you didn't hold back," Katsuhito asked, expecting Ranma to say when he was fighting the guards.

"I'd have to say it was at Jusendo, when I fought Saffron," Ranma said thoughtfully.

"You battled Saffron," he asked in shock, "And lived to tell the tale?"

"Yep, unfortunately ta win I had to kill him, but thankfully he was reborn right after," Ranma replied a little sullen at remembering the lengths he had to go to rescue Akane.

"When was this," Washu asked even more excited seeing a bit of what Ranma was capable of.

"Probably about sixth months or so ago now," Ranma told her wondering why she wanted to know.

"Hey Ayeka, wasn't that about the time we saw that report on the TV about that mountain in China being blown up," Ryoko asked curiously.

"Why I do believe you're right Ryoko," Ayeka replied, before throwing in, "For once."

"Why you…"

"Uh, hehe, that got on the news here too," Ranma asked nervously.

"Of course it was, it's not every day that a mountain blows up that's not a volcano," Washu told him before noticing his nervous posture.

"Um, oops," was all Ranma could say.

"You don't honestly expect us to believe that was you do you," Ryoko asked incredulously.

"Well, if ya don't believe me ya can ask any of the martial artists in Nerima about it, well, any of the high caliber ones, and they'll tell ya," Ranma replied defensively. While he was a bit modest about what he did he didn't stand for anyone calling him a liar. He couldn't lie to save his life, and these people didn't believe him when he was telling the truth.

"Wait, did you say Nerima, as in avoid at all costs Nerima? The same town that has the best construction crews around, and not to mention the highest insurance rates due to massive property damage? That Nerima," Tenchi asked in shock.

"Um, oops," Ranma replied sheepishly while rubbing the base of his neck.

Well, here's a special treat for all of ya. I was in the mood to do some writing since I couldn't find a decent story to read that I hadn't read yet. I know I didn't really give Mihoshi a part in this chapter, but dealing with so many characters is quite a challenge for me. That's one of the reasons I wanted to do this crossover. It's rare in Tenchi to deal with only two or three characters at a time, and I figured that while I worked on getting better at writing fight scenes I could improve on multiple character scenes as well. Hope ya enjoyed it! And thanks again to all my reviewers!