A/N: This is the chapter that introduces the Ranma cast, for now all but one is Japan. I'll talk more about it later...
Chapter 15: Enter the Saotome
It was a normal day with the Journal finding team. Just looking around. However what they didn't know was that close to them were a pair of travelers.
One of them was looking at a map, he was a man in 30s, with a large backpack, wearing a yellow shirt and had a yellow and black bandana. On his backpack was an umbrella.
The other was a girl in tweens with short red hair. She was wearing a martial arts Gi and also had a large backpack on her.
"(Um… I don't the map will help.)" said the girl in Japanese.
"I'm sure we're somewhere around Kyoto.)" responded the man also in Japanese.
("Um… Can we finally ask for direction?)" asked the girl, "(We've been walking around for the past two weeks without any.)"
The man sighed, "(All right, I think it's time.)" sighed the man.
At the same time, with the Journal searching team, they heard a growl.
Turns out it was the pack of wolf like creatures.
"These things again!" yelled Kitsu.
"This is what thaw fifth or fourth time?" asked Grenda.
"I don't know." Sighed Dipper.
However they weren't the only one how heard the growling, the man and the girl also heard them.
"(Look like they use our help.)" Said the man.
The girl nodded.
The took off her backpack while grabbing his umbrella.
The girl ran over and kicked on the wolves away.
The Journal Finding group looked at her.
That was when the man showed up and whacked white a few with his umbrella, which somehow sent him flying.
Several of the wolf things began to chaise after the girl, however she took it in stride in that she went to a tree.
She jumped to a low hand branch and used her momentum to kicked away the wolves.
The man however took off his bandana turns out he was wearing more than one.
He tossed them at the wolves who were cut by the strange bandanas.
The meanwhile performed a flip and kicked one of the wolves hard send it to the ground.
"(Time to finish this off!)" called out the man.
"(Yeah!)" resounded the girl.
The girl faced the wolves, she took a breath.
"Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken!" she called out.
They watched in she at her punches seemed to disappear from sight and the wolf like creatures seemed to fly away from her.
The man found a rather large rock.
"Bakusai Tenketsu!" called out the man.
HE touched the rock which exploded into pebbles knocking away the wolf like creatures.
All of them started running away.
Those searching for the journal.
"Well that happened." Said Pacifica.
"Oh… man I was hoping to use my new laser on them." Said Mabel.
"(Um…)" said the girl, "(Are you guys okay… you're not hurt are you?)"
They all turned to the girl who managed to grab her backpack after beating the wolf like creatures.
They realized something. They met her before.
She was the girl they met in the future.
However they knew they had to calm down as the girl didn't know them yet.
"Sorry…" said Dipper.
"We don't speak whatever you were speaking." Said Kitsu.
"Sorry about that." Sid the girl speaking English, "Wasn't sure if you did since you are foreigners…"
"What?" asked Mabel.
"Hey." Said the man who could also speak English, "Can you give you give us directions?"
They handed them a map.
A map of Japan.
"This is a map of Japan." Said Dipper.
"Why do you have a map of Japan?" asked Mabel.
Both of them stared at the group.
"Where are we?" asked the girl.
"The U.S." answered Mabel.
The girl started laughing.
"(I knew it…)" laughed in the girl, "(I knew this was going to happen)"
Tears started welling up in her eyes.
"(Mom and the others were right, I should have just been honest and not save face by going with you… We're not even in Japan anymore… let alone Asia!") laughed the girl.
She girl start to walked away.
"(Sayaka)" said the man.
The girl reached into a her backpack and took out a water bottle, she tossed it at him, strangely leaving a pile of clothes and then she ran away crying.
"What just happened?" asked Grenda.
That was when the man's clothes began to move and suddenly a small black piglet wearing the man's bandanna's around it neck popped out of the man's shirt.
"A pig!" said Mable with her eyes sparkling.
"You have Waddles." Pointed out Dipper.
"Oh… right." Said Mabel.
"Wait… didn't the girl splash him with water?" asked Candy.
"She did." Said Grenda.
Dipper took out a thermos of water.
"Hey! We know about Jusenkyo. "said Dipper.
The man turned pig was surprised, and went back in his clothes so that he was dressed when he turned back.
"Thanks." Said the man.
"So… what was that about?" asked Mabel.
The man sighed.
"She's my friend's daughter." Explained the man, "She wanted to go on a training trip with her dad."
"Training trip?" asked Dipper.
"Martial Arts." Explained Ryoga, "Almost her entire family is dedicated to martial arts."
"That foes explain the martial arts suit." Said Mabel.
"So then what happened?" asked Grenda.
"He was busy so he asked me instead." Explained the man, "She said "yes" to save face."
"Let me guess, she just wanted to spend time with her dad." Said Kitsu.
The man nodded.
"You know that doesn't answer the biggest question." Said Dipper.
"Which is?" asked the man.
"Why did you think this is Japan?" asked Dipper.
The man sighed.
"I get lost very easily." Said the man.
"What?" asked Dipper.
"It's a family problem." Said the man.
"And you walked all the way from Japan?" asked Kitsu.
"Yeah…" said the man, "It's the main reason why no thought it was a good idea, everyone kept joking that we'd end up in South America by the time we finally got directions."
"You were half right." Said Dipper.
"And now I lost her." Muttered the man, "Ranma's going to kill me."
"How about we find her." Said Mabel, "And I have an idea so she doesn't run away in case she recognizes us."
"What?" asked the man.
"Please don't." muttered Dipper.
"You still need to do a final check." Pointed out Candy.
"That doesn't mean I should talk to someone as a girl." Said Dipper.
"She's going to find out anyway." Whispered Mabel.
Dipper sighed.
"Fine…" said Dipper.
Both Dipper and Mabel activated their curses. The man blinked and shrugged.
"We'll stay with him and make sure he doesn't get lost." Said Kitsu.
The man sighed, he was too used to people saying things like that.
Ursa did the final check.
"It's not here." Said Ursa.
Candy crossed out the area on the map.
"All right! We'll go find her." Said Ursa.
Ursa climbed onto May Belle and she ran off to find the girl.
"Hey… I have a question for you." Said Kitsu.
"What?" responded the man.
"Why don't you use a GPS?" asked Kitsu.
The man didn't respond.
"That's a very good question." Said Candy.
"It would solve that problem." Said Grenda.
Meanwhile with Ursa and May Belle they managed to find the girl crying near a fallen tree.
"Hey are you okay?" asked Ursa.
She looked up.
She looked at Ursa.
"I'm fine…" she managed to say.
She looked at May Belle.
"I'm just a unicorn." Said May Belle.
"We're friends." Said Ursa trying to figure out a good lie for now.
"That sounds reasonable." Said the girl.
"What?" asked Ursa and May Belle.
"Sorry, but I'm not stranger to… well strange things." Said the girl blushing a little.
"Okay…" said Ursa.
He sat down next to her.
"So… what's wrong?" asked May Belle.
"I wanted to go on a training trip with my dad." Said the girl, "But my dad was too busy training my brother Ryuu since he's the heir. So he asked Ryoga to train me instead."
She sniffed a little and whispered away the tears.
"But he didn't get it wasn't about the training! I just wanted spend some time with him…" she cried, "And now I'm stuck half way around the world all because I couldn't tell him the truth…"
She punched a nearby log, breaking it a little.
She sighed.
"Do you feel better?" asked Ursa.
"A little." She sighed, "I should find Ryoga."
"We'll help." Said Ursa.
"Thank you." Said the girl, "Ano…"
"What?" asked Ursa.
"Sorry it's just that… why are you a girl?" asked the girl.
"What?" asked Ursa.
"I mean I saw you as a boy earlier…" said the girl.
"Wait you knew?" asked Ursa.
"Whoa!" said May Belle.
"How… how did you know?" asked Ursa.
"Well you are wearing the same clothes as earlier." Said the girl.
May Belle started laughing.
"Also my dad turns into a woman too… so I guess I was able to tell because of that." She said blushing quite a bit.
May Belle was laughing hysterically now.
"We should really find Ryoga!" said the girl.
"Oh yeah…" said Ursa.
"Oh I'm Sayaka." Said the girl, "Sayaka Saotome."
"Dipper Pines." Said Ursa.
"Though we call him Ursa as a girl." Laughed May Belle.
"Stop it!" said Ursa.
Sayaka laughed.
They both got on to May Belle and rode her to where the others were with the man who was named Ryoga.
"(I'm sorry…)" said Sayaka surprised to see he was still human.
"(It's okay.)" Said Ryoga.
"(I'm sorry that I have to turn you into P-Chan again.)" said Sayaka.
"(It's okay.)" said Ryoga who then realized what she said, "(Wait… what?)"
Sayaka once again splashed him with a water bottle.
"(They told me if we somehow ended up in another county I had to turn do this so I can keep a better eye on you… I'm so sorry! But it was the only way…)" said Sayaka.
Pig Ryoga or as she called that form P-Chan came out of his clothes and a oinked something that would have translated a grown.
She picked up him and then looked at his backpack.
"(Oh man…)" said Sayaka.
She tried to pick it up.
"I got it." Said Grenda.
She easily picked it up.
Both Sayaka and P-Chan were surprised.
"Wow! That's amazing! Ryoga's backpack is so heavy!" said Sayaka.
"It's not that heavy." Said Grenda.
"So what do we do?" asked May Belle.
"I should call my parents." Said Sayaka, "But I didn't bring a cellphone."
"Maybe it's better if we use a landline." Said Ursa.
"Hopefully we can convince Grunkle Stan." Said May Belle.
Ursa grabbed the thermos and used them on herself and May Belle.
"Wait you have Jusenkyo Curses?" asked Sayaka.
"Yeah." Said Dipper.
"You know about Jusenkyo?" asked Mabel.
P-Chan oinked.
"Oh… yeah…" said Mabel.
As they walked to the Mystery Shack, they told the two about American Jusenkyo.
"I have to ask Grandma Cologne if she knows anything." Said Sayaka.
"Wait mentioned your dad turns into a woman, does that mean he's cursed?" asked Mabel.
Sayaka nodded.
"My Grandpa on my dad's side turns into a panda and one of my step moms turn into a cat." She said.
"One of your step moms?" asked Kitsu.
"Well my dad… more than one wife." Said Sayaka.
"What?" asked Mabel.
"Seriously?" asked Kitsu.
"Is it a Chinese thing?" asked Grenda.
"I'm Japanese." Said Sayaka, "And it's not a normal thing… When my parents were young my dad was in the middle of a love triangle, so the only way to settle it without them killing each other was to find a way to marry them all."
"You're serious?" asked Dipper.
"I am." Said Sayaka, "I have 10 brothers and sisters thanks to my dad. But I have an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother from my mom."
"Wow… your life is pretty crazy." Said Mabel.
"That's only half of it." Said Sayaka.
"By the way, you speak English pretty well." Said Candy trying to get topic away from the awkwardness of Sayaka's family.
"Yeah, my aunt encouraged all of us to be bilingual." Said Sayaka.
"why?" asked Mabel.
Sayaka paled, "You don't want know…" said Sayaka, "By the way I know I game my name to Dipper… and…"
"Mabel!" said Mabel.
"But I'm Sayaka Saotome." Said Sayaka.
"Candy." Said Candy.
"I'm Grenda!" said Grenda.
"Kitsu." Said Kitsu.
"Actually her name is Pacifica, she has a Jusenkyo Curse too and turns to a Kitsune." Said Mabel.
"Mabel!" said Pacifica.
"She's from Out of town." Pointed out Mabel, "She doesn't know who you are."
"Are you and Dipper related?" asked Sayaka.
"Yep! We're twins!" said Mabel.
"That's so cool!" said Sayaka.
Soon they made it to the shack.
"Okay we're in the Pacific Time Zone… so what time would be in your home town?" asked Dipper.
"What time is it?" asked Sayaka.
"About 2:45." Said Dipper.
"I think it's 8:30 back home… it's summer vacation so it should be fine to call." Said Sayaka.
"First we have to convince Stan to use the phone." Said Dipper.
"What's a Grunkle?" asked Sayaka.
"Great Uncle." Said Mabel.
"Oh… okay…" said Sayaka.
They made it to the Mystery Shack and Sayaka told Stan her story.
"Please… just let me call my family…" said Sayaka.
"Who's going to pay me back for how much it costs?" asked Stan.
He looked at Kitsu.
"Seriously?" asked Kitsu.
"I'll ask my aunt to transfer over money. She's rich.f" Said Sayaka, "Just please… I want to get in contact with my family."
"How did you even walk from Japan?" asked Stan.
"I don't know…" said Sayaka, "And I was there…"
Stan sighed, "Fine you can use the phone."
They showed her to the phone and Sayaka took a breath as she called her family remembering the international codes.
In the Nerima Ward of Tokyo at the Saotome-Tendo dojo the rather large Saotome family ate breakfast.
That was when the phone rang.
"(I'll get it.)" said a girl who was around 10 and had purple-ish hair put into twin burns.
She went and grabbed the phone.
"(Hello!)" she cheerfully greeted.
"(Hi Perfume.)" sighed Sayaka on the other end.
"(Sayaka! Oh it's been so long!)" the girl named Perfume said, "(How is the training going?)"
"(You know how everyone joked about us ending up in South America?)" asked Sayaka on the other end.
"(Of course… Wait…)" said Perfume.
"(I'm in North America… we somehow walked all the way to North America!)" cried Sayaka on the other end.
"(I'll go get daddy! Okay!)" said Perfume.
She went back to the living room.
"(Who is it?)" asked a man with black hair put into a braid.
"(It's Sayaka! And she and Ryoga made to North America!)" said Perfume.
The man froze.
He looked at his three wives, one of them had black hair that seemed to be almost blue put into a ponytail.
The second had actual blue hair put into a hair style with buns with most of free flowing.
And the last had dark brown hair that was put into a bun.
All three of them looked at him with identical expressions.
"I told you so" was the what the expressions said.
The man sighed and went to get the phone.
"(Hey Sayaka…)" said the man nervously, "(So you made it to north America… are you sure?")
"(I'm in… wait a second…)" said Sayaka.
He heard some speak English on the other end.
"(Gravity Falls, Oregon.)" said Sayaka.
The man sighed.
"(I'll talk it over with your mom and the others and we'll figure out a way to get you home…)" said her father, "(Don't worry… we'll find a way to get her back. You turned Ryoga in P-Chan)"
"(I did…") said Sayaka.
"(You promise not to leave the town in you're staying in?)" asked Ranma.
"I won't leave…" sighed Sayaka.
"(Good." Said Ranma, "Stay safe)"
"(I will… love you…)" sighed Sayaka.
"(I love you too)" he said.
The man hung up the phone and then turned around his three wives were already there.
"(Come on, I hate it when you're the same page.)" said Ranma.
"(Ranma…)" sighed the one with the bun, "(We told you dump her on Ryoga was a bad idea.)"
"(Ukyo's right)" sighed the with the ponytail.
"(Look, we all thought it was a joke... I don't think any of us really expected them to wind up on another continent.") pointed out the man named Ranma.
"(He's got a point…)" said Ukyo.
"(Look she's fine.") said Ranma, ("It sounds like she put the got really lost… so we don't have to worry.)"
"(I guess Ranma's right)" sighed the one with blue hair.
"(Seriously Shampoo?)" asked the one with the ponytail.
"(Shampoo's right Akane, Sayaka is one of more capable of the kids.)" said Ukyo, "(I'd trust her to take care of herself more than say Kimiko or Lotion.)"
"(Do you have toy bad mouth our kids?)" asked Shampoo and Akane at the same time.
Ukyo sighed.
"(So where are they?)" asked Ukyo.
"(In a town called Gravity Falls.)" sighed Ranma.
"(Gravity Falls… interesting.)" said something who was standing behind Ranma.
Ranma's hair immediately went up straight.
"(Don't worry, I'll make sure Sayaka's safe.)" said the person.
The person left the room.
"(You forgot she was here… didn't you?)" asked Akane.
Ranma didn't answer.
Back in Gravity Falls, the phone rang. Stan grabbed it.
"Hello, you reached the Mystery Shack." Said Stan.
"Hello, Stanley." Said a voice on the other end.
Stan immediately paled.
"Nabiki Tendo." Growled Stan.
"The one and only." Said the woman on the other end (who was named Nabiki).
"What do you want?" asked Stan.
"I have a job for you." Said Nabiki, "One that only you can do."
"Look, do you think wait, my niece and nephew are visiting for the summer…" said Stan.
"A niece and nephew, are they Shermy's grandkids, if I remember correctly they turn 13 by the end of the summer." Said Nabiki, "IF they're the ones then that's actually perfect for this job."
"Don't' you dare get them involved!" yelled Stan.
"Oh… I haven't told you the job yet… don't worry it's not that dirty, yes it breaks laws but it's laws you wouldn't mind breaking. And don't worry your little twins will be safe." Explained Nabiki, "After I have nieces and nephews I care about…. In fact it's about that."
"What do you mean?" asked Stan.
"See my younger sister is an a rather interesting situation, her husband's a polygamist. I consider all my bother in law's children my nieces and nephews, though I'm closest to my sister's children obviously…" said Nabiki, "And other interesting thing is that my family has a history in martial arts. My father ran a dojo, my brother-law and sister inherited it."
"What does this have to do with anything?" asked Stan.
"See my niece went on a training trip with my brother in law's friend. A friend who has no sense of direction. In fact we were joking that he would end up South America before they noticed they weren't in Japan anymore…" explained Nabiki, "Turns out we were half right. She now inform neck of the woods."
Stan's eyes winded, he remember Sayaka from earlier. And the fact that she mentioned that her aunt was rich.
"Wait… she doesn't have red hair does she?" asked Stan.
"Oh you found her?" asked Nabiki, "Is she still there?"
"I think so." Said Stan, "Let go check."
Stan put the phone down hoping she was still with the twins.
Sayaka playing video games with the others in the living room, deciding to stay put for a bit before settling on where to stay in town… after all this situation was weird.
"Hey! New kid! The phones for you." Said Stan.
"Really?" asked Sayaka, "Who is it?"
"You're aunt." Said Stan.
Sayaka blinked then paled.
"Okay…" she said getting up clutching P-Chan.
She went to get the phone.
"How did you find her again?" asked Stan.
"We met her in the forest." Said Dipper.
Stan sighed, "To of all the people you had to meet in the forest, you just had to meet the niece of the Black Queen of Japan…"
"Oh wow… that explains why her aunt wanted her to be bilingual." Said Mabel.
Then she processed what Stan said.
"Wait her aunt is who?" asked Mabel.
"You mean… that woman… you mentioned…" said Dipper.
"Wait… you know the Black Queen of Japan?" asked Kitsu, "I thought she was an unban legend!"
"She's real all right and unfortunately I owe her money." Said Stan.
Sayaka sighed and picked up the phone.
She gulped.
"(Aunt Kasumi…)" she asked hopefully.
"(You know it's me.)" said Nabiki on the other end.
Sayaka sighed.
"(Ho did you get this number?)" asked Sayaka.
"(Oh… Stan owed someone some money and that debt eventually transferred over to me… and of course he does shady dealings.)" said Nabiki, "(It's just a coincidence that you were at his house… I just know you were in Gravity falls.)"
"(And how did you know that?)" asked Sayaka.
"(I'm visiting for the week)" said Nabiki.
Sayaka sighed.
"(Don't worry you can trust Stan, he might be a criminal, but he's a criminal I can trust. Wait can you put me on Speaker? I might want to say some stuff to Ryoga.)" said Nabiki.
Sayaka sighed and did so.
"All right, Ryoga you don't have worry about taking care of Sayaka, I'm putting Stan in charge taking care of her." In English.
"(Um… he's not here…)" said Sayaka.
"Then go get him." said Nabiki.
She sighed and went back to the room they were playing video games.
"My aunt wants to talk to all three of us." Said Sayaka.
"Three of us?" asked Stan.
"The pig she's hold is really a man." Said Grenda.
"What?" asked Stan.
"Jusenkyo." Said Dipper.
Stan was surprised then shrugged it off.
"Okay! Listen Stan, I'm putting you in charge of taking care of Sayaka until me and my family can figure out a way to bring her back to Japan. " said Nabiki.
"Okay what do I get in return?"" asked Stan.
"I'll cut off your debt." Said Nabiki, "How much depends on how good of a job you do, and if you do a good enoguh job, then I'll completely call off your debt."
"Oh boy!" yelled Stan who began to dance.
"(Is he dancing?)" asked Nabiki in Japanese.
"(He is.)" sighed Sayaka.
Stan realized what he was doing.
"Remember I expect none of my enemies kidnaping her or worse." Said Nabiki.
"Yeah, yeah, I doubt any of you enemies know about this town." Said Stan.
"Did you once get the town removed from the map due to some incident?" asked Nabiki.
"Look that's not important." Said Stan, "If anything it helps keeping her safe."
"Fine…" said Nabiki, "By the way Ryoga, you don't have to stay. You can get lost for all I care."
P-Chan oinked something.
"Sorry P-Chan I don't speak pig." Replied Nabiki.
Sayaka was quiet.
"(Sayaka, yes he is a criminal, but I wouldn't put him in charge of you if I didn't trust him. He knows what's imprint in life and one of those things is family. Trust me, it's not my place to tell you his secrets but I can tell you one thing, he loves his family. Make friends with his niece and nephew… I'm sure you'll get along. We should be lucky you chose English as your second language.)" said Nabiki to Sayaka.
"(Okay Aunt Nabiki…)" sighed Sayaka.
"Okay Stan, remember this is a big job. So I trust you with her safety." Said Nabiki,
"
Don't worry I'll treat her like Dipper and Mabel. Said Stan.
"Also house Ryoga when he's in town… he'll come and go… Don't expect him to b there longer than a week."
"Fine…" muttered Stan as P-Chan sighed.
"Good… hopefully I'll see you soon." Said Nabiki, "Good luck…"
The other kids were in the door way listening in.
Sayaka just covered her face in embarrassed.
Back in Japan, Nabiki ended her call.
"(You left her with a criminal?)" asked Akane with her eye twitching.
"(I wouldn't have done it if I didn't completely trust him)" said Nabiki, "(And that thing about Family… it's 100 percent true. To be honest, our of all of the people in my debt he's the one I admire the most.)"
"(But you still left her with a criminal!)" said Akane.
"(And for free might I add)" said Nabiki.
The other three decided to let the two bicker.
After all Akane was Nabiki's sister.
And so they finally met that girl they met in the future… but none of were expecting her to be related too the Black Queen Japan… AKA one of the few people in the world that knew Stan's true identity.
Well it's a small world after all…
A/N: Yeah... I went with the Marry them All option... Because last time I did story with the future Ranma cast I got complaints... that and I figured it would be an interesting plot point about the Saotome Family...
Also I won't say who Sayaka's mom is for now... Other than it's not Shampoo (as stated in the chapter), I want ambiguous for now, but I have chosen who her mom is...
Also cookies to The Keeper of Worlds, Plumalchemyst and foxchick1 They all got the identity correct!