'Ah my head' Nodoka thought to herself as she awoke to find herself lying in her own bed back home where she lived with the Tendos.
'Was that all a dream I mean it could not have been as it was too really' she thought as threw off the cover to revealing that she was wearing her sleepwear thus further the notion that it was.
'Maybe it was as I was fully dressed in that dream where I find got to see my son again. Maybe it just my nerves getting to me as today is the day I suppose to see him again finally' she thought while yawning.
"Fear me…Melon Lord…." a voice mumbled from the side of her bed.
Looking over there she saw black hair teenage girl sleeping on the floor.
"You alright there, mom. You were out for the entire day and had everyone pretty worried" a second voice said only this time coming from the other said of her bed.
Yawning as they stood up with Aura clinging to their chest was Ranma.
Again she began to feel a light head as her son then placed his hands on her shoulder lightly shaking her a little.
"You are not going to faint again like yesterday are you?" he asked curiously.
"So all that really happened then" his mom inquired as the memories of the previous day came flooding back to her.
"Yup as you passed out and stay that way the rest of the day and since there was not enough rooms for all us. Me and Toph were told to sleep in here though Aura must have snuck in here sometime during the night" he told her.
"Hey Nodoka do you have any melons as I have the have the strangest craving for some at the moment" Toph said as all this talking woke her up from her slumber.
"I guess you would, Melon Lord" she chuckled remember what she heard the teen say in her sleep.
"Huh?" Toph said in confusion completely unaware of her sleep talking just before she woke up.
The peace and quite that they were all enjoying was broken by actions of a single person.
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHAT YOU DOING IN MY ROOM!!!" they all heard Akane yelled rather loudly as if anyone in the house or even those few property surrounding them were still asleep they were anymore at that outburst from the youngest Tendo.
Rushing over to see what Akane such scare they found her being held back by Shampoo who was trying to keep her from burning her own father who she forget again to crisp for trying to wake her up yet failing to do so. Since as soon as he got close enough to touch her that when her eye popped opened.
"AKANE CALM DOWN NOW!!" Nodoka yelled causing her to do just that as she might not have recognized her father but Nodoka's image ran clearly and true through her fragmented memory.
"Really man show some backbone. I am not too surprised that Akane forget you as the only thing you seem to share in common with her is taking your emotions too far" Toph said to Soun who was currently crying waterfalls at his daughter forgetting who he was…again.
"Who want breakfast as I have already prepared it?" Kasumi asked in tone far to calm consider what happened after getting everyone attention by banging on pan she was carrying.
" Both Akane and Daddy are acting in manner that so embarrassing to this family this early in the morning" Nabiki sighed in emotionless tone as she came out her room then heading downstairs.
"They were all pretty worried about you the other day thus have been like that since your fainting" Haruna said as she walked out what was the guest room at least for the moment to place her hand on Nodoka's shoulder.
As everyone was gather around the table eating breakfast after while all eyes were focusing in on three people closely.
"Why is everyone staring at us?" Ranma asked as eyes were on him, Toph, and Aura.
"Your eating habit…" Akane started
"….like completely normal people is they" Shampoo finished up.
"Well this is the first meal that Ranma has with his mom since he was little kid according to what we been told. Also I can eat normally as I chose not to do so on a normal base that all" Toph said as she gracefully went about eating her food.
"Toph is the one that taught me manners while I was learning to speak and write properly" Aura said as she seem to be mirroring Toph's actions.
This cause the Tendos (minus Akane) and Nodoka to look at Haruna.
"That pretty much true as Toph has large array of manner crapped into that head of hers that she can pluck and use whenever she wants more so then myself actually" she told them.
"Maybe she from some super rich family or possibility royalty to have such knowledge" Nabiki suggested.
"Me coming from high class family like that is true" the blind teenager said laughing lightly at the thought.
"Yeah I can not see that being possibly consider how she normal acts as if anything I guess she comes from a family no different then anyone of us" Ryoga spoke out.
"That true as normally she has less manners then Aura did when we all first met her" Ranma spoke out.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Toph asked glaring at her best friend rather darkly.
"Ahhhh…that is to…say ummm….Aura help your big brother out here" Ranma pleaded with his little sister who actually just made things worse for him.
'Those two sure are Saotome's kids alright. They both seem to have inherited my old friend's Foot in Mouth ability as they both tend to say things that just piss other people off even when they do not mean too'
Soun thought to himself as Ranma was earthbend into the ground by anger Toph.
'Though I wonder how Saotome is currently doing at the moment' Soun continued to think.
He was not completely aware of what had really happened to Genma over the years mostly from Nodoka choosing not inform him of her estranged husband imprisonment or how he later escaped ran off into wild. All he really knew was that Genma become separated from Ranma at one point and later probably because he got too drunk one night fathered a panda cub who eventually got the reverse of her father's curse and be named Aura.
Somewhere in Japan only about couple of days away from Nermia..
"Just great how I am suppose to get Ranma back and meet up with Soun with Nodoka's entire high school class after my hide?" Genma thought as things had been like this since Nodoka went to her last class reunion.
"Where are you, aru" a black Chinese woman with blond hair said as she looked around about hundred feet away from Genma's current location.
Panicking about where to go as Genma was rather strong martial artist yet that was only when he applied himself which sadly was hardly ever thus he chose to run away a lot making him somewhat of a coward at times such as this.
"Over here" Genma heard someone calling out to him as at this moment he was willingly to accept the help of just about anyone. His wife's old school friends were just as scary as his sister could be at times despite him being the older sibling.
Ducking into what appeared to be a small shop he managed to avoid getting spotted by his purser.
"Thanks a lot I…..I….I" Genma said to his savior only to realize that they were not as such when he took a good look at them that he might have been better off taking his chance with his wife's old friend.
"Its been such a long time since we have seen each other and we have so much to catch up on. I still remember that last day we saw each other clear as day. For its one that I will never ever forget for the rest of my life. Running after the two of you as you left me behind and to make matter worse I heard stories that allow someone else like me around years later before you got what was coming to you" the person said blocking Genma only escape with their hand.
Gulping Genma could only hope that he could somehow turn this dangerous situation around otherwise he was in for a world of pain.
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