After breakfast things had went relative normal at the Tendo-Saotome household, Kasumi was leaving for her classes at the local community college seeing as she had graduated high school last year. Nabiki did not have to go to school today mostly because it was some strange holiday the principal claimed was happening today thanks to his unhealthy obsession with Hawaii. Really she wonder why he was even still in charge of her school in the first place as he was rarely there and whenever he did show up he rarely did his job properly. Always going on and on about something from Hawaii. If he really loved Hawaii so much then why did not he just move there as that where he spend most of his time anyway.

Ranma was busy catching up with his mom. Though he might only have clear memories of the last half a year, it really did not matter with Nodoka as she finally had his first born child back and that was enough for now. Haruna was also catch up on what her old friend had been doing as well since it had been awhile seen they talked in person like this. Things however were different between another parent and child reunion as while Ranma and Nodoka were busying catching up on long time. Akane was busy trying to get Soun to get lost as for some reason the fact that he was her father just was not sinking in. She had no problem remember who her sisters were or even who Nodoka was to her as well as the role she played in the Tendo sisters' lives since she had enter it well over seven years ago.

Shampoo was as usual hanging around with Akane as the two despite being benders of opposite elements were best friends after all kind like how Ranma and Toph were even though they were an airbender and an earthbender. However that still left three people uncounted for as Ryoga, Aura, and Toph were no where to be seen at the moment and no one was really wonder where they were either. That was until small boom rang out through the household catching everyone attention but Ranma, Akane, Shampoo, and Haruna.

Nabiki was about to check but Akane waved at her to sit back down as the show they were watching was just getting good and she did not want to her sister to miss it over something that could be explained to her easily after it was over.

"My yard!!!" Soun cried out as he rushed to the backyard.

As in the backyard he found Toph lying in crater that was in the outline of her own body dressed in only a light T-shirt and part of shorts. The rest of her clothes were being held by Aura while Ryoga stood nearby as he was not used to this place yet and until then he was going to stick by either Toph or Ranma to prevent himself from getting lost.

"What are you three…." Soun said before he was interrupted by sudden gust of wind that pulled him back in the living room area.

"Can not you see my friend is busy over there. She does not need you yelling at her while she trying to concentrate as this will not only help her out but Ryoga as well" Ranma told him as he used his airbending to pull Soun back.

"So what she doing anyway" Nodoka asked curiously more interested in what Toph was doing rather then seeing her son airbend. She may not be that used to bend but she had been told the basic and with her past experiences it was not that hard to accept it.

"Checking out this city as her way of seeing allow her to perceive surroundings all around her that includes what is in front, behind, even below her for at least half of mile. However it seem that unlike where she is from, the cities here in Japan are not made solely of things of that she can bend thus things she can use her seismic sense with. Thus it take awhile for her to adjust to various variety of earths and metals that make the building, streets, and various trademarks of normal suburban city. She still limited by the fact that she can not actually see with her eyes. Thus anything that not on the ground or anything made of something that does not have direct relation with her element like wood or water is not something she able to 'see' but need her other four sense to detect" Ranma explained.

"Make sense though how was she able to 'see' for most the yesterday and this morning if she can not use this seismic sense of hers to see since here as for the most part this is a wooden house with wooden floor" Nabiki asked.

"Simple the floors are wooden but the walls are not at least not completely thus she was able to get around by use the walls to get feel of the rest of the house. You did not notice how she always had on hand on the wall wherever she went yesterday while inside. Then while going upstairs when we were about to go to sleep she was basically shadowing Ranma" Akane said.

"Interesting so does that mean you have a resist to fire then" Nabiki asked as their father used to tell them stories about their ancestor who bend element of fire to their will.

She used to think they were just stories something that her father's side of the family just made up but here she had actually had couple of them right here in her own home with one of them being her Auntie's first born son.

"Well not a complete resist to fire though I do not burn as easily as most people do and I can maintain sense of normality with less oxygen then most as well" she told her older sister.

While hearing what Akane had to say about possible two of the abilities that she had gain during her three year absence from home, she saw Haruna had slight frown on her face. When looking at her old friend with worried expression she was mouthed the word 'later' and pointed to Ranma. Nodoka just nodded in respond as she took as sign that her sister-in-law/best friend would explain after she caught with her son some more.

After about five minutes Toph got out from the body crater she had made in the yard, stretching and yawning also as if she had fallen asleep again.

"You almost dose off again did not you" Ryoga sighed.

"You are one to talk as who the one that falls asleep almost instantly when I taught him how focus on his surrounding or mediate like that" she pointed out.

"Did not you both fall asleep that time" Aura asked curiously remember that day as she had wake both of them up for lunch.

"I….ummm….hey you over there Sniffles stop that crying already it not like I ruined your yard or anything" the blind teen said towards Soun in attempt to change the subject.

"How can you say that as there a….wait its gone!" Soun exclaimed.

"Of course its gone am I the best at what I do after all so doing something like this is simply child play to me, Sniffles" she told as she patted him on the shoulder.

"Sniffles that name kind of fit do not you think so, Akane" Nabiki asked.

"It seem so as that guy does seem easy to cry a lot" she agreed.

That really hit home as Soun could not believe that his two of his own daughters thought that nickname like Sniffles was an accurate for him.

"If you actually acted like their father all the time and did not leave me to raising them myself this would not have happened you know Nodoka pointed out.

Though she might not have been there for Ranma like normal mother should that was though no fault of her own as Genma was one hard guy to catch at times. Possibly something he learned to refine from his that master of his.

A couple of cities over, the bald martial artist who was battered and bruised let out a loud sneeze which earned him the scorning from his tormentor.

"What the hell are you doing!!! Sneezing on to the food like that are you trying to getting me closed down or something" they yelled loudly.

"I am sorry…I….owww" Genma exclaimed as he beamed in the head while the food in question was scrapped into the trash.

"Do it again and this time DO NOT sneeze into the food!" his tormentor demand.

Genma began muttering under his breath but all that earned him was another blow to head.

"I can kick you out on the street where you can deal with the black Chinese woman who still actively looking for you" they pointed out lifting the object they used to beam Genma with.

'Well I am going to do that anyway just not right now as this guy is my only ticket to finding Ranma at the moment' Genma's tormentor/employer thought.

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