Hild's son
Chapter 3: The morning after the night before
Authors notes: Thanks to those that have reviewed and special thanks to the Dark Icon Writers that have had to put up with me.
Disclaimer: You all know the drill by now.
Urd wakes in her brother's room cuddling a bottle of sake and looks around before remembering where she is before getting dressed and leaves the bedroom and finds her brother talking to Mara "so, you're telling me that the pervert has escaped again?" Mara asked.
"Yeah, the senshi intervened and he got away."
"Do I know this pervert?" Urd asked making Ranma and Mara look at Urd "you remember Happosai?" Ranma asked and Urd fell to the floor and began twitching "we'll take that as a yes." Mara replied before she sat down and turned the TV on and Ranma goes to leave "where are you going?" Urd asked.
"Out, this'll give you some time to settle your differences."
Mara and Urd look at each other then at Ranma's back as he leaves, "well I guess we should our differences aside." Mara said and Urd nodded back. Ranma walks through Juuban before he stops outside a bar and goes in and orders a drink just as Setsuna walks in and sits beside Ranma.
Meanwhile in Nerima Cologne sits in her room meditating and trying to ignore the noise caused by Shampoo hitting Mousse with various heavy objects before giving up and checks through her books for exorcism techniques before coming to one particular technique and started to read the book. At the Tendo's Nabiki sat in her room staring at the mirror in her room "I can't believe he's gone." She said to herself when she remembered about the letter that Ranma gave her and read it. Kasumi sat in her room hugging her knees tightly to her chest with tears in her eyes.
Back in Juuban Urd and Mara had settled their differences and was now watching TV "wonder where Ranma is?" Mara asked and Urd looked at her "why, you love him?" Urd replied making Mara blush "no, we're just friends, we did have a relationship but that was years ago." Mara replied.
"Why' you two break up?"
"Ranma had a job to do and we both agreed to end the relationship." Mara replied, meanwhile Ranma sneezed before picking up his drink and started to drink from it, after a few drinks Ranma leaves and wanders around Juuban for a bit, the Inner senshi follow him from the rooftops and Ranma knows that they're following him so he decides to go down an alley with a dead end and vanishes into the shadows as the Inners head down the alley and Ranma watches the confused look on their faces as they wonder where he went before they leave and Ranma walks out of the shadows and looks up at the roof of the nearest building.
"I know you're up there Hotaru."
Saturn comes into view and jumped down off the roof and summoned the silence glaive when she landed and pointed it at Ranma "I know your not going to do anything Saturn." Ranma said when Saturn pushed the tip of her glaive to Ranma's throat and Ranma could see the tears in her eyes when Ranma pushed the glaive to one side and knelt down on one knee and put his hands on her shoulders.
"Look I'm sorry if I deceived everyone, but I've got a job to do then I'm going home for good."
Saturn drops the glaive and hugs Ranma as her tears start to flow freely "why?" she asked "I came here to get a rogue pervert demon and that's I'm going to do." Ranma replied just as the Outer senshi arrive "WHAT ARE YOU…"
"Oh do shut up Uranus." Ranma said shutting the blond tomboy up "this isn't her real age is it?"
"How can you tell?" Pluto asked as they jumped down "her aura shows a lot of controlled magic, how old is she meant to be?" Ranma replied, "We're not sure." Neptune replied as Ranma rolled his sleeves up "stand back." When the Outers heard what Ranma said and stood back as he started to chant a spell and the Outers look at Hotaru as she starts to age and Ranma stops the spell and the Outers stare in shock and awe at the new Hotaru who now looked seventeen "thank you…" Hotaru said when se noticed Ranma starting to fall and Setsuna catches him.
"Used a lot of magic, I'll be alright in a moment."
Ranma stands up and staggers away before collapsing and Uranus and Pluto pick him up and they head back to their apartment, when they get back to the apartment they put Ranma in the spare bedroom and Hotaru goes to her room and gets changed, the other Outer senshi talk about what to do with Ranma "the Inners are up to something." Setsuna said as she sat down on a chair.
"I wonder what the Inners have planned for him?"
"Well, knowing Rei she's probably going to use her demon wards on Ranma." Michiru added, meanwhile Hotaru sneaks into the spare bedroom and watches Ranma as he sleeps and recharges his magic, the now older Hotaru lightly touched his face tracing his demon markings and smiling slightly.
Slightly later
The Outers were sat at the table eating dinner when Ranma appears in the room startling the Outers "will you stop doing that?" Michiru said, "You're almost as bad as Setsuna." Haruka added.
"She never told you that our paths have crossed before has she?"
"What?" they all shout and look at Setsuna who sighed "yes, but it was a very long time ago wasn't it in Ireland?" Setsuna asked Ranma "yeah, from what I remember it was raining very heavily and I was caught out in the rain and so were you, you looked like you were going to die of a cold." Ranma replied as the other Outer senshi looked from Setsuna to Ranma "yes it was and you offered me your place to dry off and get warmed up and a change of clothes." Setsuna added before Ranma looked at the TV, which had switched itself on "if you see anyone coming out of the TV or any CDs don't worry."
The Outers wonder what Ranma was talking about until they saw someone appear out of the TV and they just stared at the person… well Setsuna, Michiru and Hotaru stared Haruka started to drool slightly at Urd before getting elbowed in the ribs gently by her lover "so, this is where you've been hiding." Urd said then looked at the Outers "well, I think mother will be happy with you."
"URD!"
"You know this woman Ranma?" Hotaru asked as Ranma put his head in his hands "my twin sister Urd." Ranma replied as Haruka slowly edged her way towards the embarrassed demon "is she straight?" she asked making Ranma want to crawl into the deepest darkest hole on Midgard "I can be any sexuality you want me to be." Urd replied and this made things worse for Ranma who now had decided to go to mini Ranma and started to walk away.
"Hey, where'd Ranma go?"
Hotaru noticed mini Ranma walking away and squealed in delight "kawaii…" Hotaru said as she bent down and picked up mini Ranma and Setsuna wondered what Hotaru had picked up and looked over the younger girls shoulder and saw mini Ranma standing in the palm of her hand muttering something under his breath with his hands in his pockets.
"Hello their Ranma."
"Not a word to anyone." Ranma replied before he looked up and saw Urd floating through the air "same goes to you." Ranma said to Urd as the other two Outer senshi came to look what was going on "how kawaii, I want to put him in a jar now." Haruka said "NO JARS!" Ranma shouted before Hotaru held him close to her chest "err, I think that Ranma needs to breathe." Urd said pointing to her brother who was going red in the face.
"I'm never going to hear the end of this am I?"
"You have no idea Ranma." Urd replied slyly as she took mini Ranma from Hotaru who pouted and made her way back to the TV and disappeared into it and the Outer senshi looked at each other, meanwhile mini Ranma and Urd arrived back at their apartment and mini Ranma jumped off her hand and returned to his normal size "hey, where's Mara?" Ranma asked.
"She got a call from the office about a new demon or something."
"Ah, I see." Ranma replied before continuing "you hungry?" Urd nodded her head and Ranma goes into the kitchen and cooks something for the both of them to eat and returns an hour later with two plates of food and hands Urd a plate "I never knew you could cook?" Urd said before she dug into the food on the plate and quickly finished the meal "now, where's the sake?" Urd said.
"You drank it all last night remember?"
"I WHAT?" Urd screeched as Ranma finished his meal and took the plate from Urd "you heard me Urd." Ranma replied.
"This is a very serious no sake situation."
"Well then, you shouldn't have drunk it all last night." Ranma replied, meanwhile in Nifelheim Mara had gotten her assignment handed to her by Hild herself and started to red the file on the person "looks like I'm going to have to rope Ranma in for this one." The blond demon said to herself.
Meanwhile in Nekomi Belldandy was summoned back to Asgard leaving Keiichi alone with Skuld and chaos ensued with Keiichi constantly being chased by Skuld's latest Banpei model.
In Juuban Setsuna and Hotaru were dreaming about Ranma, meanwhile Ranma was sleeping on the sofa and Urd slept in his room dreaming of more sake than she could ever hope for.
Pairing vote so far:
Megumi: 2
Setsuna: 3
Hotaru: 5
Mara: 1
All: 2
Setsuna, Mara & Hotaru: 4
Megumi & Hotaru: 1
Hotaru & Mara: 1
Usagi, Urd & Mara: 1
Authors note: Looks like Hotaru so far… but matchup won't be decided till chap 9 or 10.
Reviewers of chapter 2 in reviewing order:
Innortal: Sorry 'bout that but I've been busy with BlindFaith.
Reaper2040: I have seen a few Megumi/Ranma matchups on fanfic websites.
Neverwinter: All shall be explained as the story goes on.
Trent Rayner: You're the only one to mention a relationship with all the mentioned so far.
DAPC: You're vote has been registered.
Guyver111: Keiichi is an average person also but he's got Bell.
The end: You're vote has been registered.
Jerry Uinpeg: That was Team Wolf II's idea.
Lightsfaith: Thanks.
Bobboky: Good point.
Xtor49: All shall be revealed later.
Shinji the good sharer: Usagi?
ChaosLordRanma: You're vote has been registered.
Anon: Yeah, soz about that.
Rootathell: It is a very strangebond indeed.
ChaosRonin: You're vote has been registered.
Goku90504: Is it?
Artymis Terun: I'll try to get around to it.
Firkraag: You will see more soon.
Chi Vayne: You're vote has been registered.
Tony: Looks like I was wrong about the all vote.
Ranger5: You've hit the head on the nail about what will happen to one of the Tendo's.
Authors note: Tux bashing in chapter 4…. R&R!
Snootchie-bootchies.