Notes: thanks for all the reviews. Oh, twenty-four hours have passed since the last chapter

------------- Washu's lab ---------

Washu was in the zone, she had finally managed to combine Jurainian tech with her own. This was no small issue; it was huge, only she had no idea why it worked. To start things out she took the space tree seed that Sasami gave her and planted it. Then she put it in a chamber and after making a few adjustments on the genetic level, she placed it in a subspace pocket where it was aged from seedling to a thousand years old within minutes. Once that was done, she went and set out to make a cabbit. About halfway though the process she combined the space tree with the cabbit. She now was at the point where she needed to form a key, it was necessary because she had incorporated the space tree into the cabbits genetic makeup.

Now she was reminded of the whole point of what she was doing. She needed to form a link between Ranma and another in an attempt to ease his suffering. Space trees only bonded with one person, although they did have a semi-sentient ness to them. Cabbits on the other hand would link to whomever they were bonded with. It was because of that that she had decided to incorporate the two together. Hopefully it would allow her to bond the new cabbit with two people. The bond would be different than what she had with her daughter, the mental floodgates would always be open and it would be difficult for Ranma and whoever else bonded with it to turn it down without the cabbits permission. However, that could be overridden by herself, because there needed to be safe guards.

Now she was at the point where she needed to design the keys. She sat for a minute before she was struck with a thought, Ranma had a problem. He would change his gender whenever he was exposed to cold water; Washu thought about it for a minute and decided to design the key with some bonus features. The main feature she was adding was one that would change Ranma's clothes whenever he shifted forms. Unfortunately this meant that she needed to store a massive quantity of various cloths so when he grew it would still work and be functional.

Washu decided to form the keys as two matching bracelets, the one for Ranma would shift in design from male to female when he changed the other had this same ability but did not offer the many sets of regular clothes. After talking to Nabiki, Washu designed the battle armor for Ranma's bracelet, the other one could wait until after it was bonded.

Seeing that she was done with everything that she could think of Washu went upstairs to call a meeting so they can figure out who will be bonded with Ranma.

--------------------- In the dining room of the Masaki house --------------------

The entire group was assembled at the table, with the exception of Washu. Sasami was on route to go get her for lunch when the door to Washu's lab opened.

Washu looked around, saw everyone there, and said, "If you all don't mind before we eat I have something I need to ask you."

Seeing that everyone either nodded or gave verbal consent Washu continued, "Recently thanks to Tsunami, Ranma has been gifted with a space tree seed. Now that by itself is not a major issue, however I have managed to improve it somewhat."

"Improve?" asked a now slightly irritated Ryoko who was a little jealous that her Ryo-ohki might be upstaged.

Glaring at her daughter in annoyance for interrupting her Washu frowned and said, "Improved, modified, I was able to combine it with a cabbit. This new cabbit is able to bond with two pilots forming a link between the three of them. What I am looking for is a volunteer to share this bond with Ranma to help him deal with his memories."

Nodoka perked up, here was her chance to make amends for failing Ranma, and she went to speak up only to be interrupted by Nabiki.

"I'll do it."

Washu stared at the young woman, taking in her determination and asked, "Are you sure? There is a good chance that you will share to some degree his flashbacks, as well as any nightmares he might have. I am guessing from what we have already seen him put himself through that it will not be pretty."

Nabiki sighed and said, "There is no one else here that should do it. With all that has happened lately, I think that it is for the best for me to do this. With the exception of his mother I am the closest to him even though he shows a certain fondness for you and Sasami and I am sure that he shares similar feelings to you sister."

While Washu and Sasami attempted to hide a small blush Kasumi said, "Sister are you sure you want to do this, I could do this just as easily as you."

Nabiki smiled at her sister and said, "Kasumi, what do you think is going to happen when Ranma and I bond with this cabbit thing. We will share a bond and be connected to some degrees; in many respects, it will pretty much make us married unless I am mistaken. I know that you have your eyes elsewhere, and out of all the others here I am the best choice. I am more capable at controlling my emotions and I think I know Ranma a little better than everyone else here, well I understand him better." Silently to herself she added, "Besides it is the least I can do for all I have done to him."

Kasumi stared intently at her sister; she knew that Nabiki was feeling guilty over her past actions. She was looking for any sign of hesitation so she could be sure that this is what her sister wanted. After close scrutiny, she could only see resolve and something else, something that had been missing for a very long time in her sister's eyes. With a smile she said, "Very well sister."

------------------ Tendo dojo --------------

Akane was bored and hungry, her sister Kasumi had disappeared along with the rest of the household and she had attempted to make herself something to eat. It was unfortunate that every thing in the refrigerator had been spoiled. Well it had to be spoiled because whatever she prepared had turned out tasting awful and she knew that she was just as good of a cook as her eldest sister. Instead of a full course meal like she had imagined she grabbed a piece of fruit and ate that to alleviate her hunger.

After finishing her snack Akane was still bored, she decided to go into Ranma's room and see if Genma had any scrolls lying about so she would be more affective in dishing out her punishments when they dragged Ranma back. Stepping in the guest room, she noticed that Ranma's pack was laying in the middle of the floor with its contents strewn about, growling in annoyance she decided to clean up the Baka's mess. Sitting down in the middle of the floor Akane started to gather up Ranma's belongings, after a few moments she came across a few familiar looking packets. She knew that Ranma had been planning to meet his mother, and for the past few months had been using Shampoo to get some instant packets to override his curse. Thinking back to the other day she decided that Ranma no longer needed them, because his mother had already seen him transform.

She fingered the packets and was curious; since nobody was home, she stood up, picked out some of Ranma's clothing and went into the bathroom to change.

--------------------- Two hours later ---------

A six foot tall Adonis of a man stepped out of the tendo dojo wearing almost too tight black kung fu pants with a matching silk shirt. He stood at a little less than six foot, had the frame of a body builder. His chest was so muscular that he was unable to have the shirt fully closed; as a result, one could see his undershirt stretched over his rock hard pectorals.

Akane thought to herself, "I make one hell of a man; I think I might see about getting myself cursed so I can wear the pants in the family. Ranma is always saying how much better he looks as a girl than me, well I think I finally found my niche. Now I just have to make sure that I am a better man than him, let's see what to do, what to do? I could always go to the Cat café, no wait they closed down the other day. They probably went after Ranma, as if they have a chance daddy and Mr. Saotome will drag Ranma back here kicking and screaming. She belongs to me and no one else is going to have her." Images of a half naked Ranma chan being dragged into the house in chains caused Akane to falter in mid step, looking down at himself he said, "Down boy, you'll get your chance just be patient."

Akane stood in place for a while trying to figure out where she was going to go, she was hungry and needed something to eat. With a shrug, she decided to go over to Uchanns to put her manly charms into action, because she knew if she could get rid of the chef she would be that much closer to having Ranma-chan to herself.

------------------------- Washu's lab -------------

Nabiki stood nervously next to Ranma's body as he slept peacefully, with a nod she signaled for Washu to wake him.

"Ok Nabiki he should be awake in a few minutes, I just need you to keep him calm. Once he is fully awake, I want you to take his hand into yours and place it on this egg. That will start the bonding process, the feedback that Ranma would receive from you is going to be dulled at first, unfortunately I am going to have to leave your end open until the cabbit awakes. You will probably pass out from mental strain but after a half hour or so in your sleep you should start to feel Ranma's presence, about two hours from then you should be able to sense what he is feeling and to some extent see it as well. It is very important that you remain cam during this, we do not want to scare Ranma. I will probably have to sedate Ranma again to keep him from trying out the neko ken again. I am not sure to how long you will be sleeping but hopefully it won't last more than a few hours."

---------------------- Near the Amazon campsite ---------------

Happossi was walking steadily closely followed by his two disciples Genma and Soun, pausing in mid step he asked, "Did you slip Akane that potion?"

Soun answered by saying, "Yes master, I gave her the potion last night in her sleep, I even followed with the memory incense and repeated exactly what you told me to."

Happossi nodded and said, "Good, we are going to need his help if we are to bring back Ranma and set our plans into motion. Genma did you leave the packets in your room?"

"Yes master, I even went and spread Ranma's stuff around the room to make it look like a mess, but I placed the packets by themselves in the middle of the floor."

"Good, good, you have done well, for now we will let him stay there until we need his help."

Soun paused in mid step as a thought occurred to him with a slight uneasiness in his tone he asked, "Genma, what about the Habiki boy?"

Genma scoffed and said, "What about him."

Soun looked at his friend/conspiritor and said, "What happens if he gets to Ranma first?"

Genma laughed and replied, "Probably the same thing that happens all the time, he will get defeated or lost in the middle of the fight or something."

Happossi stopped and faced tweetle dee and said, "Are you stupid? Right now Ranma cannot fight at all. From what I have managed to get from Cologne the boy was given an ancient potion meant to break the strongest of fighters leaving them docile enough to be taken back to the Village."

---------------------- Amazon campsite at the same time -----------

"Elder Cologne, of the Chinese amazons."

Cologne shot her head up from meditation and turned her head to the entity speaking. The creature looked like a shadow, its inky blackness swilled in the light causing all light around it to fade. Her eyes wide she said, "I am Elder Cologne."

The shadow seemed to smile and said, "I have a proposition for you to achieve your greatest desires."

Cologne smiled this was her chance to restore the glory to the Chinese amazons, holding back a cackle of delight she said, "Go on."

------------------ Uchanns ----------------------

Akane swaggered in giving his best smile to ukyo and sat down in front of the grill.

Ukyo watched as a fine specimen of man walked in the door for some reason he looked familiar but she quickly shoved those thoughts aside in favor of staring at his impressive build.

Many would be surprised at her reaction but Ukyo had a secret that she never dared to say out loud. Many believed her to be in love with Ranma but they would be mistaken. She could never forgive the Saotome's for ruining her life. If it had not been for Genma's greed and Ranma's decision she would not of had to live her life as a boy. The pain from that incident had caused her never-ending grief. The only reason why she acted the way she does is to capture Ranma's heart and marry him, then as soon as she did that, she would slip something in his food and wash her hands of the entire mess. Despite her out ward appearance she held no love in her heart, she had even gone as far to somewhat befriend Akane in an attempt to show Ranma how nice she could be.

Everyone was a tool to her, some were just simply more useful than others. Take this young man sitting before her, he was above average height with the build of a body builder and if the tightness of his pants was any indication, slightly gifted. Many would think that she had led a chaste life but that was not the case, because of her living life as a boy they had become the forbidden fruit so to speak. And Uchan loved fruit.

Knowing that Ranma was not around as well as anyone that would rat her out Ukyo decided to indulge herself, opportunities had been scarce since she set up shop in Nerima. As she handed the man a menu she asked in her most sultry voice, "What can I get for you?"

Akane smirked this might be easier than he thought, trapping Ukyo's hand under his own he said, "I don't know, what do you have?"

Uchan giggled, and said, "Well everything on the menu is good, but if there is something else that you want that's fine too."

Akane looked down at the menu that was trapped underneath Ukyo's hand as well as his own and said, "So any thing on the menu eh."

Ukyo tracked the man's gaze and said, "Anything although if you want what I think you want that is going to have to wait until I close shop."

Akane smiled and said, "Well how long, is that going to take, I am hungry now."

Uchan looked around and saw that she only had a few customers with a wink she called out, "Every one I have to close, family emergency, thank you for your business but get out."

-------------------------- Masaki living room -------------------

Kasumi was sitting with Nodoka discussing the current mess of their lives. Kasumi had just finished briefing the rest of the family with what she had discovered and told them that she had went to go see a friend of Doctor Tofu's that was going to run a genetic test to prove the words her late mother had left her.

Nodoka felt ashamed, she knew that it was not her fault, but was still feeling the grief from the life her son had been forced to endure. The men in their life were nothing but monsters and dead set on destroying every thing that they touched. Nodoka thought briefly, on how many life's they must have destroyed to bring their plans into fruition. With a sigh she asked, "Are you sure that Akane is really your brother?"

Kasumi nodded and replied, "Yes but unfortunately there is only one way to absolutely positive."

"Is that why you went up to the shrine earlier?"

"Yes auntie, I figured that since everybody else was busy dealing with Ranma I should take it up with your father, he is a priest."

Nodoka nodded while stifling a giggle, knowing what she now knows she finds it amusing that the crown prince of a galactic empire lives a humble life of a shrine priest. Composing herself she asked, "So where did he send Ayeka, Ryoko and Tenchi?"

Kasumi smiled slightly and said, "Well a little while ago Ranma was locked in his female form by prince herb of the Musk. He had in his position an artifact that would lock a curse; it was because of the prince being locked in a woman's body that he came to Nerima and eventually locks Ranma."

Nodoka shot up from her seat fuming and exclaimed, "That bastard how dare he, do that to my son."

Kasumi laid a hand on the older woman's shoulder and said, "Auntie relax, and let me finish."

Nodoka after taking in several deep breaths sat back down and nodded for Kasumi to continue.

Kasumi seeing that Nodoka had calmed continued, "Well Prince herb came to Nerima seeking a map to another artifact that would unlock the curse. I am not certain on what happened afterwards, I just know that the mountain that they were on exploded and Ranma came back to us in his male body."

--------------- Washu's lab --------------

Washu paced nervously as she waited for Nabiki to wake up, Ranma had already woken up but she had been forced to sedate him again because he was still reliving his past. With a sigh she thought, "Well at least he wasn't trying to do the Neko ken again. Although the only reason he wasn't was probably the lack of cats or cabbits in the lab."

---- Flashback ----

As Ranma, stirred Nabiki clasped her hand over the large egg. The egg started to glow and as it cracked light began to seep from its seems. The show lasted only a few moments, Ranma was still somewhat doozy from the drugs in his system that had been done intentionally to keep him from noticing the form that the cabbit takes, that way they would prevent any Neko ken related flashbacks. After the newborn cabbit hatched a maroon light encompassed Nabiki and Ranma

When the light show was over Washu opened up a sub dimensional pocket and instructed the cabbit to go in there to feed. The pocket was a sort of warehouse for Washu's inventions, some of them worked, some did not the important thing was that it was full of the necessary minerals that the cabbit would need to take his ship form. Besides anything that the cabbit ate that was functional would be incorporated into its systems. There was a lot of impressive technology down there that would make Ran-ohki very powerful probably just a bit less powerful than the throne.

Washu figured that it would be several hours until the cabbit had its fill. Busying herself in the meantime, she went and examined the bracelets that were now attached to Ranma and Nabiki's wrists. After double checking Nabiki to make sure its added functions worked, she turned her attention to Ranma. For the next few minutes, she entered commands in her computer that were setting the defaults for Ranma's clothes. With a slightly wicked smile, she took a glass of water and carefully dumped it over the now redheaded girl. At first Washu frowned her clothes did not change that was not good. After double-checking her programming, she realized that she had not finished inputting the commands into the system. A few minutes later she watched as Ranma's clothes began to change coinciding with her commands. That was good now she just had to set the presets and instruct Ran-ohki on when to change them. That was only the temporary solution, when nabiki awoke she would be given access to it as well so she could teach Ranma.

----- Flashback end -----

Washu was brought out of her work by hearing aloud yawn turning her head she noticed that Ranma was awake again.

Ranma woke up slowly, after letting out a ferocious yawn; she used her hands to rub the sleep from her eyes. After she finished she looked around and noticed that she was cuddled up to Nabiki. For a minute, she was unwilling to leave her warm spot until she noticed that Washu was in the room with her. Quietly disentangling herself from Nabiki, she got out of the bed and crept over to Washu who was staring at her intently. As Ranma closed in she asked, "Is biki going to be alright?"

Washu nodded and replied, "Yes, she is just sleeping off a shock to her system."

Ranma smiled happily at knowing his friend was going to be ok and said, "That's good, I hope she wakes up soon so we can play some more."

Washu nodded while she searched for any clues on Ranma's health. After a pause she asked, "Ranma, how do you feel."

Ranma looked around nervously for a moment before she said, "Kinda weird, are you sure that biki is ok?"

Washu picked up the smaller girl, set her on top of a counter, and said, "Yes she will be fine, I am more worried about you."

Ranma shrugged and said, "Feh, I'm ok, see." After speaking, she started to flex her arm when she noticed something. Looking down at herself she shrieked, "Eeeewww, what am I wearing?"

Washu raised an eyebrow and said, "What, it's a dress. You are a girl right now and girls wear dresses."

Ranma pouted and said, "I'm a boy, and boys don't wear pink."

Washu nodded in understanding and replied, "Ok, I will change the dresses color but when you are in girl form you are going to have to wear appropriate clothes. Later after Nabiki shows you how to do it you can pick out your own outfits."

Still pouting Ranma replied, "Fine, but no pink, pink is for girls, and if I gotta be a girl I'm goin to be a tomboy."

Washu chuckled and said, "Ok, how about red?" Seeing Ranma nod in slight approval she typed a few commands and watched as his outfit changed into a red version of the dress. Seeing that the girl was slightly satisfied she said, "Why don't you go upstairs and see your mom, I know she has been worried about you. Oh I almost forgot, later when you turn into a boy you don't have to worry about your clothes they will change with you."

Ranma just nodded not really understanding what she was talking about and leapt off the counter to make her escape.

--------------------- Masaki living room ---------------------

Nodoka and Kasumi had finished their earlier conversation and were now busy trying not to worry about their loved ones.

"Momma, Momma, where are you?"

Instantly Nodoka rose from her seat and turned around to see her daughter with her hair disheveled wearing a red dress happily bouncing down the hall looking for her. With a bittersweet smile, she called out, "Ranma over here I have somebody that I want you to meet."

At the possibility of meeting a new friend, Ranma perked up even more and ran into the room coming to a skidding stop as she ran into her mother's leg.

Kasumi giggled as she rose out of her seat to greet Ranma. With a comforting smile she said, "Hi, I'm Kasumi."

Ranma peered from behind her mother's legs to examine the nice woman, after a minute and a nudge from her mother that earned another giggle from Kasumi she stepped forward and said, "I'm Ranma, nice to meetcha."

Kasumi was about to say something when she was interrupted by Ranma's stomach making it's self-known.

Nodoka heard the plea for nourishment and said, "Kasumi, could you take Ranma to get cleaned up real quick while I go see if I can make some snacks."

Kasumi nodded and took Ranma's hand to lead her to the washroom.

---------------- Half hour later ---------

Ranma restored to his chibi male form let out a burp of contentment as he finished his snack. Nodoka watched as her son started to place several cookies on another plate and wrap them up in a napkin. Raising her eyebrow she asked, "Ranma, what are those for."

Ranma let out a nervous laugh and replied, "These are for when Biki wakes up. She's gonna be hungry."

Kasumi stood up and said, "Let me take them Ranma-kun, I will make sure she gets them when she wakes up."

Ranma narrowed his eyes and said, "Make sure she knows that I got them for her."

Nodoka was slightly amused with her son's behavior but chose to admonish him for being slightly rude, "Ranma, that's not very nice, I am positive that Kasumi will save them for her sister."

As Ranma sulked Kasumi teased, "It's ok auntie he is just being nice to his girlfriend by giving her a gift."

Ranma unsure of what the term girlfriend meant other than Nabiki was a girl and his friend said, "Yeah mom. I'm just trying to be nice to biki."

At Ranma's proclamation, both women started to giggle initiating another pout from Ranma.

As Nodoka regained her composure, Ranma started to tug at her sleeve. Looking down at her son she asked, "What is it Ranma?"

Ranma looked up into his mother's eyes and asked, "Momma can I go outside to play some, please."

Nodoka considered her options, on one hand she was worried that Ranma would have another episode or run off but on the other hand; she was having problems saying no to the cursed rays of cuteness Ranma was attacking her with.

"Please momma, I'll be good promise."

Nodoka looked sternly down at her son and said with a sigh, "Ok, just stay in front of the window so I can keep an eye on you while I clean up the kitchen."

Instantly Ranma was outside practicing several katas. Nodoka watched with worry hoping that her son would be ok before turning to do the dishes.

Kasumi watched Nodoka and said, "Don't worry auntie Ranma will pull through, he never losses when it counts."

Somehow Kasumi's words brought little both women little comfort.

----------------- With Ryouga -------------

Ryouga was walking through some woods searching for his eternal nemesis. Somehow he could always find Ranma when he was about to explode. For some reason Ryouga had a rage buried within himself that he could not understand. The rage only ever subsided after he either fought Ranma or was in the presence of Akane. Deep down in his subconscous he knew that he was wrong for wanting to kill Ranma but the more he fought his feelings the greater his desire to do the pigtailed boy harm grew.

The only times he had problems recognizing Ranma was when he was in his cursed form. For some reason that Ryouga could not explain, Ranma's cursed form made it difficult for him to be angry and attack her. Those feelings deeply disturbed him, it was almost like he was attracted to her and that was just plain gross.

Ryouga stopped in mid stride his enemy was near, after adjusting his pack he charged in the direction of his pig-tailed nemesis.

-------------------- Outside Uchanns ---------

Akane stepped out of the doorway as he adjusted his pants with a satisfied smirk on his face. He thought to himself, "That way just too easy, who knew that she was into video taping herself. Oh well, it just made my life a little easier. Now all I need to do is see if I can get this curse permanent, that was way too much fun for me to just walk away and not want to do it again."

"Akane Tendo."

Akane instantly spun around to see who had seen through his disguise. At first, she failed to see anyone but after closer examination, she noticed a shadowy figure standing in the alley. She bravely strode forth and asked, "Who wants to know?"

The shadow replied, "A friend."

------------------ Masaki house -----------------

Ranma was in front of the kitchen window running through a few katas. Even though they were not as important as they used to be due to his lost memories they still held a lot of value to them, besides he still wanted to make his mother proud.

Ryouga came across a clearing and took in his surroundings; he saw a large lake with a house not far from it. His gaze stopped when he came across the house, right in front of it was his enemy running through some katas. At first Ryouga was hesitant to attack Ranma once he realized that he had been de-aged. With a snort he thought, "It's probably some trick to make me look bad." Pushing aside his feelings about how wrong this situation was Ryouga charged forward and yelled, "Ranma Saotome prepare to die, because of you I have seen hell."

Ranma heard the shout just in time to leap back narrowly avoiding being impaled by the large mans umbrella. Panicked he said, "Mister I'm not Ranma Saotome, my name is Ranma."

Ryouga snarled and said, "You're not going to trick me this time, I know it's you and I am going to finish you once and for all."

Ranma stared at the angry man blankly as a memory appeared in his head.

------------- In the Kitchen ------------------

Nodoka and Kasumi hear the yell and both women paled. Kasumi let out an, "Oh my, that's Ryouga."

Nodoka was afraid for her son and worried that she would not make it outside in time. As she ran out of the room she called out, "Kasumi go get Washu-chan, tell her we need her help."

------------- In the skies above -------------------

For the first time in his life Mousse felt worried for the foul Saotome, he knew that Ranma was in no condition to fight and that the only ones present at the house were no match for Ryouga. After circling once more, he remembered where the priest and the young girl went off to and headed out to get them.

----------------- On the ground ------------------

Ranma stared at the man in front of him; something was telling him that he knew him. It was a deeply hidden memory but he could feel someone else trying to help him remember.

As Ryouga dashed forward to deliver a blow to his nemesis, he heard Ranma call out, "Poppa."

Ryouga was unfazed and snorted out, "I'm not going to fall for that." Finished with his charge he delivered a blow that sent the small child skidding across the yard. With determination in his eyes, he slowly stalked forward to end this Bain of his existence.

Nodoka ran out of the house just in time to see her child sent flying across the yard. With determination in her eyes she screamed, "DON'T YOU DARE HURT MY BABY ANYMORE!"

Ryouga scoffed at Ranma's mother and just backhanded her away sending her sprawling back to the house. Ryouga was getting a headache, it had started as soon as he exited the woods, that combined with his anger and rage was making him confused. Sparing Nodoka a glance to make sure that she was incapacitated, he started his stride forward only to stop as he felt something tapping his chest.

------------------ A short distance from the others ---------------

Mousse finally found the two that he was looking for. Diving out of the sky, he started quacking frantically.

Katshuhito was confused, this duck came out of nowhere and just started quacking at him and Sasami like it wanted something. While he was racking his brain he started to get worried that there was something wrong."

Sasami stared at the duck and remembered a story that Nabiki had told them, seeing the eye glasses on the duck only confirmed it. At that moment Sasami also felt a plea coming from Yosho's tree. Turning to Katshuhito she said, "I think this is Mousse and there is a problem at the house."

Realization dawned on Yosho and he dropped his basket full of carrots to take off to the house.

-------------------- Back at the house ------------------

Ranma was confused and scared. He recognized the man in front of him as his dad. But his dad just hurt him and then hurt his mommy. Crying from pain and confusion, he ran forward and started to pound on his father's chest while wailing, "Why poppa, I'm sorry. Please don't hurt momma any more. Please."

Internally Ryouga was having conflictions, he knew this child but not as Ranma Saotome. But that was impossible. While he fought his own emotions, his body started to move on its own accord.

Kasumi exited the house with Washu just in time to hear Ranma call Ryouga poppa, they watched in horror as Ryouga's face took a blank look while he grabbed Ranma by the neck to strangle him.

Washu found herself helpless to do anything. While Ranma was in the way she could not risk taking action.

Kasumi was horrified, sure she knew Ryouga had his differences with Ranma it was never this bad. Frantically she called out, "RYOUGA STOP, YOU ARE KILLING HIM."

Internally Ryouga heard Kasumi's plea and something inside him snapped. As he opened his eye's he was unable to move, it felt like his body was overriding his commands. As he stared into Ranma's face he could see the pain and confusion in his eyes. Tears started to streak down his face as a memory made itself known to him. Looking down at his hand in horror, he dropped Ranma and started to take a few steps back.

Hearing a noise Ryouga looked up just in time to see a fist make contact with his face.

--------------- Notes --------------------

I know it is really dark in this chapter, I think I might have to increase the rating although I believe that law and order have the same rating and they show worse.

Some things to think about: is Ryouga really Ranma's true father, if so how did he know? What happened to Happossi and the dynamic dou. Find out next time when I add another chapter.