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The Fox Siblings Ch 2

"Talking"

'Thinking'

[Written Words]

{ Memory }

The guards have left me in my cell again after escorting me from the lab where a most vile creature was doing tests on me for only God knows what. Whatever it is it can't be good. Anyways let's pick up where I left off before I was so rudely interrupted. Now where was I oh yeah here we go.

After Kushina was admitted to the hospital she had to stay in ICU for three months before she was stabilized. The doctors were baffled that she was even alive because due to the nature of the injuries suffered she should have been dead. After the hole in her chest had healed she was moved to the coma ward where she spent another nine months in a coma before she awoke. It was then discovered that she suffered from amnesia and didn't even remember her name. The elderly couple that brought her in had been unable to have children of their own and decided to adopt her giving her the name Nodoka. Three years later she fell in love with the wandering martial artist Genma Saotome and bore another son she named Ranma. She had always been bothered by the absence of memories from before she was twenty though she fuzzily remembered a few minor incidents throughout the years as similar circumstances presented themselves. When they occurred she suffered migraines almost making her not want to remember her previous life. Thinking back on it she remembered the most when she was unknowingly around her child. Before you ask it was me. I will not go into detail how even though I was born a boy I'm now female and married to a guy. If you wish to learn about that part of my chaotic life you will have to read the volumes I have written on the subject. Currently they are residing in the Konoha library Civilian section B Shelf D. Copies are also in the archives of the other allied nations.

Back to the story at hand it wasn't till after my fight with Kumon Ryu that mom fully remembered her past. After that even though she tried to hide it you could see that she was using all of her training that she could physically use to determine the whereabouts of her thought to be missing child. There were other factors conspiring against me that ultimately brought me to where I am today and I can confidently say I don't regret it.

OOooOO

"Grandma what this?" Shampoo asked holding up a small charm.

"That child is a dangerous item that given the right stimuli can send someone or something through a rift in the space time continuum to fulfill it's purposes." Cologne answered examining the heart shaped locket after snatching it from Shampoo.

'Yes just what I need to make Ranma stop chasing my beautiful Shampoo.' Mousse said to himself as he heard this go on behind him a stupid smile plastered on his face. 'First I need to find out how it works. I'll probably need help as well.' He thought as he was hit over the head by Cologne.

"Back to work." Cologne commanded.

"Yes elder." Mousse said quietly as he returned to washing dishes. All the while planning on how he was going to get the charm away from the Amazon matriarch.

While somewhere in the northern region of Japan Ryoga was lost as usual.

"I think this is Okinawa." Ryoga said as he was wandering around aimlessly. "I should probably find a souvenir for Akane."

"Hey kid care to learn what the future holds for you?" A freaky looking homeless old man asked the lost boy.

"No that stuff isn't true to begin with so I'll pass." Ryoga replied nonchalantly.

"Don't you dare bad mouth martial arts fortune telling." The old man bellowed doing a dance that strangely resembled a chicken with it's head cut off.

"Does it really work?" The naive boy asked curiosity peaked.

"Why of course it works I just trade blows with you and the energy you emit will tell me what will become of you." The old man said pausing his weird dance.

"If that's the case then ya I'll be willing to take a shot at it."

"Very good then prepare yourself to fight me to your fullest." The old man said falling into a stance

"I must warn you that I have issues with holding back." Ryoga said has he dropped his pack to the ground.

"Don't ever underestimate a master boy." The old man said not outwardly reacting.

"If all I have to do is fight you then let's get to it." Ryoga said falling into a stance.

'Holy crap he isn't even fighting and he's already emitting this powerful of a battle aura. I won't even have to fight him to get a reading.' The old man thought as Ryoga launched himself at the man. The last thing the fortune teller saw were stars erupting around his head.

'I hope I didn't kill the poor guy.' Ryoga thought worriedly a few minutes later after getting him somewhat comfortable. "Aaah!" Ryoga screamed in surprise when the old man shot bolt upright suddenly.

"Your future is clear to me." The old man said cryptically as he began to explain himself. "The person you are destined to make your home with will be revealed to you shortly but she's not whom you thought it would be. Furthermore you'll find yourselves in a strange place were the two of you will go through some changes that could bring you closer together. Whether she admits it or not she'll need someone familiar to lean on. To be there for her even when everyone else seemingly pushes her away. But you could just as easily push her away so choose your path wisely."

'So I'll finally be with Akane. I wonder what catastrophe is going to befall her that'll make even her family abandon her?' Ryoga thought rubbing his chin in thought.

"My work here is done so I must bid you adieu. Adieu." The old man said as he prepared to do just that.

"I've got to get back to Tokyo quickly." Ryoga mumbled to himself as he threw his meager belongings into his pack before taking off in the direction he wished to go for once.

OOooOO

Over the course of the next few days Nodoka spent every waking minute trying to locate Ranma namely by hanging around the Tendos place.

"Auntie why are you here?" Akane asked Nodoka the third day she had been around. "Um not that it's really a problem you being here and all."

"Well if you must know I'm trying to meet my son by ambush so to speak." Nodoka answered with a smile on her face.

'Oh man. I hope that doesn't mean that she suspects who I am.' Ranma thought as she shuddered even as she had a strained smile plastered on her face.

"Is something the matter Ranko?" Nodoka asked noticing the look on the face of Akane's supposed cousin.

"Oh nothing at all." Ranma answered waving her hands in front of her.

"You're hiding something aren't you young lady?" Nodoka asked suddenly getting into Ranma's face.

Shrieking in surprise Ranma jumped against the wall that wasn't to far behind her.

"Nope I'm just over thinking." Nodoka answered herself smiling.

'She's about to give me a heart attack.' Ranma thought as she help her hand over her heart trying to calm down.

Some time later found Akane and Ranma sitting on a park bench discussing things.

"It seems your mother is starting to suspect your true identity. Are you sure that it's not a good idea to reveal your curse to her?" Akane asked her fiancee.

"I'm beginning to think that that might not be a bad idea." Ranma said as she hung her head.

"Your hesitation wouldn't still be related to the seppuku contract would it?" Akane asked looking out over the pond that was in front of them.

"Mostly yes." Ranma replied nodding her head.

"We'll think about how to take care of that later let's go home." Akane finished as she stood up to do just that.

"I'll be along shortly don't wait up for me." Ranma said laying down on the bench looking up at the stars.

"So be it." Akane said as started walking away before stopping and looking back. "Don't be to long now. Ya hear?"

"Yeah yeah." Ranma replied.

OOooOO

"Finally I was able to retrieve this locket from the register where the mummy hid it." Mousse said to himself as he left the restaurant as quickly as he could. "You would almost think she actually wanted me to use it."

A few minutes passed when a kettle was emptied in Ranma's face. Sputtering He sat up and looked at the culprit. "Mousse what do you want?"

"I'm not here to fight if that's what you're worried about." Mousse said calmly removing what appeared to be a locket. "I'd like for you to tell me what you think of this."

"It's a locket." Ranma deadpanned.

"How observant. Now actually look at it." Mousse said.

"Fine if that's what it takes to get you to leave me alone." Ranma said as he took the locket from Mousse and opened it.

"What's so great about Ryoga's picture b-." Ranma stopped mid sentence when a picture of his girl side formed on the other half before the locket disappeared reappearing around Ranma's neck. Well half of it anyways the line where the heart was split had a jagged edge. "What is this how do I get it off?" He asked franticly pulling at the locket attempting to remove it but to no avail.

"You can't till its purpose has been fulfilled." Mousse said pushing his glasses up his nose. "I'm not completely sure what that purpose is but I'll let you be my test subject. Since not even Cologne knows the full extent of its abilities."

"Are you kidding me?" Ranma asked stopping his fruitless attempts to remove the locket from around his neck. "You don't know how this thing works and yet you used it on me? And what's with the picture of Ryoga in here?"

"All I know is that the locket works in leading you to the one that is your best romantic match." Mousse answered before laughing out right. "Your best match is Ryoga. That's just to much."

"Laugh it up duck boy. I'm going home now." Ranma said as he left the park. A short time later a sudden shower fell. "Dang it I hate these freak rainstorms."

"Ranma I've finally found you." A malicious voice said quietly.

Turning Ranma saw Ryoga standing with his umbrella open a little bit of the water from the sudden rain dripping off it. Though for some reason Ranma couldn't see his face for the umbrella. "Hey Ryoga how's it going?"

"How dare you push Akane away. You've gone to far this time. Finally you will pay for your trespasses." Ryoga said quietly and forcefully as he snapped his umbrella to the side as he closed it. "Ranma now you die." Ryoga said his face dark.

While Ryoga was rambling Ranma noticed something around his neck. 'Oh crap the other half is around his neck. But he's so mad he didn't notice it appearing.' Then she noticed that Ryoga had let lose a few of his ki hardened bandannas. She was too slow to completely dodge the first volley as one of them cut a line that started just above her right eye and ended at her chin. 'Damn it that's going to scar.' Ranma thought as she wiped the blood out of her eye. "What's the big idea? You could have killed me you dope."

"For a fiend like you that would be to good." Ryoga said his eyes glinting with their resolve to kill.

"Whatever you're thinking you're wrong Akane is fine." Ranma said unsuccessfully trying to reason with him. 'Great he's to far gone to listen and the closest weapon to even the odds is mom's Katana.' "Wait that's it." Ranma shouted as she ran for the Tendos.

"Get back here you coward." Ryoga yelled as he took after Ranma not letting her out of his sight as it started raining again.

"I hope she doesn't plan on staying out there in this much longer." Nodoka said looking out through the rain.

"Don't worry Auntie, Ranko is probably on her way back now." Akane said a forced smile on her face. 'Ranma get your tail back here now.' Akane thought angrily.

"Die Ranma!" Ryoga screamed as he jumped over the outer wall in hot pursuit of Ranma pulling his belt off to cut down Ranma.

"Hey mom can I borrow this? Thanks." Ranma said as she grabbed the Katana and intersected Ryoga over the koi pond where Ki hardened leather met sharpened steel in a shockwave that pushed the rain from around them for a good 40 feet or so and there they sat unmoving. "What the?" The pair asked Ryoga having come back to his senses as they collided. They both saw what looked like chains that where glowing yellow wrapped around them immobilizing them.

"It's been a while. That took more out of me than I thought it would." Nodoka said gasping for breath while the rest of the houses occupants looked at her frozen in shock because the chains originated from her back before running underground to the combatants.

Before anything else could be said or anybody recovered from shock the two halves of the locket began to glow with a blue light. The koi pond also began glowing before a shaft of light shot out of it enveloping Ranma and Ryoga seemingly dissolving them Nodoka not being far behind since she was connected to them.

"No!" Akane shouted breaking out of her trance but just barely missed grabbing a hold on Nodoka before she became intangible and blinked out of sight. "Ranma!" Akane screamed to the world as she broke down on the porch.

OOooOO

In a parallel dimension at this moment one Naruto Uzumaki was trying to evade a mob of villagers. 'Uncle Kakashi and Uncle Guy are currently out on missions leaving me to fend for myself for a few days. If the villagers don't kill me first that is.'

Naruto slipped into the back of Ichiraku's restaurant as it was the closest of the many hiding place he had in the village.

"Are they at it again Naruto?" Teuchi Ichiraku asked the cowering boy. "Since you're here you might as well try a new recipe I came up with before I put it on the menu."

"Really?" Naruto asked excitedly as he jumped over the counter taking a seat.

'This boy might be the one the sage spoke of.' The fox thought to himself. 'We'll see what comes of this. Who am I kidding I've been saying that for years.'

Meanwhile Hiruzen Sarutobi was in his office trying to catch up on paperwork pausing to stare out the window overlooking the village. "I hope Naruto is doing ok tonight since regrettably I had to send both of his guardians out on missions." While he was musing over this he saw a shaft of light appear in the sky in the direction of the site where the fox had been sealed six years prior. "Well I should probably check this out myself. I haven't really been out of this office for three days. Besides I could use the exercise." He said a smile gracing his features.

Meanwhile at the base of where the light had appeared springs had begun to bubble up surrounding one central spring which was the only one that showed activity.

"Where are we?" Ranma asked almost frantically as he looked around. A little black piglet was in the same state which would explain why he hadn't begun to attack his rival just yet even though he was clinging to his shoulder.

"Oh my head. I'm glad I was out of it last time if this is what happens when you cross dimensions." Kushina said aloud after she surfaced. "Well how about that. It looks like I've returned to the same point I left this dimension from." She observed as she crawled out of the water.

"Well even if we're in a different dimension from were we started this might turn out to be fun." Ranma said rubbing the back of his head with a big grin on his face not realizing he was in his birth form even though he was in water.

"You wouldn't be Ranma would you?" Kushina asked looking him over

"Huh?" Ranma asked surprised before looking down at himself. "I'm cured." He said quietly looking down at himself. "This is great." Ranma almost yelled happily at the revelation. "Look at this Ryoga I'm cured." Ranma told the pig as he scrambled out of the spring.

"Bwee bwee." Ryoga called out angrily batting at Ranma's now healed face.

"Stop that you little pig." Ranma said angrily as he lost his balance and fell into another spring.

"Yep that's Ranma alright his explanation will be interesting to say the least." Kushina said aloud as Ranma disappeared below the springs surface.

"Yes I'm cured of the pig." A very naked Ryoga yelled as he held Ranma who had turned female for some reason. Though suffice to say he still had the half a locket around his neck.

"Whoopee you can put me down now." Ranma said with an agitated look on her face. "Or did you forget you just tried to kill me a while ago.

"Uh Ranma why didn't your curse get lifted as well? I thought it was lifted when you came out of the other pool." Ryoga asked puzzled though truthfully he wasn't complaining about their current position.

"Cut the crap and let me go." Ranma yelled angrily as she jumped to shore slapping him in the process. "Here put your clothes on baka." Ranma added as she pulled his floating clothes and backpack from the other spring they came out of.

"Well Ranma you have some explaining to do." Kushina said looking at her child.

Before Ranma could answer Hiruzen Sarutobi arrived on the scene. "Who are you and what business do you have with Konoha?" Hiruzen asked standing at the ready.

"Hey old man long time no see." Kushina yelled excitedly.

"Only one person has called me that aside from Naruto and that was his mother Kushina." The third hokage said before carefully asking. "Are you saying you're Kushina?"

"That is the name I'm known by in this dimension." Kushina stated.

"No it can't be. You're supposed to be dead." Sarutobi said as he fell over in surprise. Unfortunately for him he fell into one of the newly formed pools.

'I hope these pools aren't what I think they are.' Was the collective thought shared by Ranma and Ryoga though they already had a good idea on that.

Their fears where realized when a monkey the same size as the third crawled out of the spring as well as wearing the thirds armor. "Ok what are you doing back from the dead?" The monkey asked.

"You know I never thought I'd be taking orders from an old monkey." Kushina said looking him over before adding. "And I was never dead."

"Who are you calling an old monkey?" Hiruzen asked before he saw his hands. "Ack. What's happened to me?"

"Well sir apparently us coming here has brought the springs of jusenkyo to your world." Ranma said Ryoga vigorously nodding his head in agreement. "But it appears in this world the curses retain the originals ability to speak."

"I see this will have to be documented as well as the springs labeled for those who wish to have another form." Hiruzen said rubbing his chin a minute before he ran through a series of hand signs. "Kakunin no jutsu." he called as he slammed his hand onto the ground as a seal array spread out from his hands covering the grounds. After the seal covered the area signs grew out of the ground at each of the springs. They all where blank except for the three springs who's properties had already been discovered.

"So that what they call this spring 'Spring of transportation'." Kushina read when the sign filled itself in.

"So you like my jutsu." Hiruzen asked proudly as he watched the jaws the two in front of him hit the ground. "It's something I came up with some years ago but I haven't had many opportunities to use it since then."

"Cool." Ranma mouthed awed as she watched the jutsu complete itself. Ryoga eyes where bugged out and he was speechless. "Can you teach us that technique?"

"It's known as a jutsu and there are more useful ones than that to learn daughter of Kushina." The third said.

"Daughter? I'm a boy." Ranma yelled jumping up from where she had sat down.

"I see a girl in front of me. I may be old but my eyes don't lie." Hiruzen said shunshining in front of her causing her to fall onto her backside in surprise.

"Third hokage are you alright?" One of the jounin that just arrived asked seeing Hiruzen's backside.

"I'm fine. Please escort these three to my office." He answered turning to leave making sure to not let the new arrivals see the state he was in. 'I need to have them tell me how to reverse the effects as there seems to be a way to do so.'

"Please come with us we'll assist you." The jounin told the three.

"Genma?" Kushina asked shocking the young man. "Genma Shiranui I thought it was you. I see you made jounin."

"Who are you?" The teenager asked before his eyes widened in recognition. "Kushina Uzumaki."

"That would be me."

"I'm sorry for not recognizing you earlier but let's dispense with the pleasantries so as not to keep the hokage waiting." Genma said bowing to his old sensei.

The group found themselves alone in the hokage's office a half hour later with the security seals activated.

"First off how do you cancel this transformation?" Hiruzen asked calmly though desperately.

"Hot water returns you to your original form but cold water activates the curse." Ranma answered absently like she had lived it hundreds of times. "And could I get some hot water as well?"

"I see." Sarutobi said as he heated some water and poured over his head reversing the effects. Then he handed another glass of heated water to Ranma. "I wonder if there's some way that this can be controlled with chakra?"

"Chakra this. Chakra that. Chakra chakra chakra that's all I hear. What is this chakra?" Ranma yelled out in frustration just before dumping the heated water over her head. "This can't be happening." She said in shock as the water failed to trigger the transformation.

"We deal with it later." Kushina said as Ranma appeared to be in a daze. "What about Naruto how is he doing?" She ask turning her attention back to the hokage.

"I would have to say not to bad for a six year old with two surrogate uncles watching over him."

"What?!" Kushina screamed leaping at Hiruzen not giving him time to react while the other two occupants cowered by the door while Kushina screamed. "You mean it's only been six years?! I've lived in another dimension for twenty-one years and I come back to find that my second child is ten years older than her first born sibling?!" While this was going on she appeared to be strangling the hokage her eyes a bright red and her hair looked strangely like nine tails flailing around after it escaped the bun it was in. She snapped out of it a few seconds after the poor guy fainted. "Uh Sarutobi what happened to you? I did it again didn't I?" She asked nobody in particular as the other two in the room where still clinging to each other scared out of their wits. In another part of the village Naruto felt an ominous presence causing him to shiver in his sleep.