Chapter 1

Saiyan Exchange

Four years have gone by since the battle with Cell had taken place, eight if you count the time in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. Gohan had turned thirteen four days before the Cell Games well technically he turned nine and I turned thirteen. At any case the Hyperbolic time chamber through our ages completely out of whack, so mother in a fit of brilliance put Gohan at age 16 while, she dropped my age to 17. Personally I think she was just as confused as we were and wanted to simplify it. I had no argument in the logic; that was until she forced us to take High School exams. Then I started objecting it, until she brought out her frying pan I don't know how she can still get that thing to hurt, but she does. The entrance exams went by quickly and we got our lists in the mail, needless to say they were all pretty far away for normal teens, but for the two of us, it was no problem. Gohan was going to choose Orange Star High School, in Satan City and I told him he was a damn fool for going anywhere near that wind bag, Hercule Satan. "We need to be as far from that wuss as possible," I stated to him looking at the list until I came to a very familiar name near the bottom, and I knew why it was near the bottom, "Let's go here, Furinkan High," I stated pointing to it.

Gohan looked at the school, and what was listed on the side, "This school, Shiro the place is the second worse school in the country, only one worse than that is Juuban high and that's only because it's always under construction." I blinked looking at the school on the bottom and sure enough it was Juuban. I started getting images in my head of every Sailor Senshi attack that involved the school and started laughing.

Gohan looked at me raising an eyebrow, "What are you laughing about?"

In a blind panic I quickly thought of a comeback, "A joke Yamcha told me a while back, only now just got it," I stated and Gohan didn't look convinced but didn't say anything. I sighed, "look according to this the place is a whirlwind of martial arts activity, heck there we can use our skills and not be considered freaks," I paused. "Cept maybe the flying part but meh."

Gohan pursed his lips and nodded, "Okay I agree with you, Orange Star we would need to hide our powers, and I don't think I could."

I smacked Gohan on the back causing him to crash into the table, mom entered with a sigh seeing us act like we usually do, following her was a mini Goku wearing a towel. "Had fun in your bath squirt?"

Goten smiled brightly and nodded. "Yeah, but mom's got different parts than us, she's got a butt on her chest."

I couldn't help but laugh at this while my mother, mother tried in vain to cover her blush, "Ya know mom, you're going to have to explain things eventually, so he don't learn things the hard way like dad did," I stated then winced slightly. None of us were completely over losing Goku. I heard them both many nights crying and Chichi was really effected after she found out she was pregnant. Anyway Goten brought us all out of the funk which was good.

He is a regular bundle of energy, and during his teething months I spent time with him helping him get over it, which was easy, Saiyan's have unbelievable lung capacity, and he used it a lot during those months. After those months things settled down and went back to the way things before the Cell games. I when I wasn't doing my homeschool homework I trained, Gohan was forced to train with me since I didn't have anyone to spar so his Super Saiyan powers didn't lax as they did originally if anything they got stronger, as for me. I was trying to push through the envelope he did so far nothing happening.

Goten ran over and looked at the school we picked since he couldn't read yet, he just looked at the picture, "um, is that where you're going?" he asked.

"Yep, place where two fighters can learn and kick butt at the same time," I smiled in turn Goten's own smiled erupted into childish giggles. It took a few days to get everything done with the school, buy the necessary equipment, namely books, pencils, pens, paper, uniforms and other supplies. When we gathered them all, Gohan and I were standing out front. Mom gave us each a warm hug and told us not to get into trouble. Then the two of us proceeded to fly off.

On the way there I took time to ponder what time frame we were entering as we got closer to Nerima, the more I wondered. The two of us landed in a vacant lot and walked from there, the school was easy to find, and we entered the front gates. The fact that I didn't see a group of boys nearby keyed me in on two things either this was before Kuno made his stupid declaration or after the horde declared Ranma's claim legit.

"You there," turning along with my brother spotted a guy about my supposed age walking up, dressed in dark blue samurai style robes. Tatewaki Kuno had made his presence known just as someone walked by, "Ah, Nabiki Tendo, I would have words about my beloved pig-tailed girl," I looked passively at Nabiki Tendo for the first time in living flesh and I must say she was something to behold. Gohan elbowed me giving me a knowing smirk.

"See anything you like bro?" He asked me. I glanced at him before my senses picked up a whirlwind of Chaos energy coming up. I looked at Gohan who nodded, he felt it too. "What was that?"

I smirked, "Probably this Pig-tailed girl the poetry spoutin' dingbat was talking about," this got three desired effects, one it Kuno and Nabiki stopped bartering over whatever pictures Nabiki was trying to sell him, two it got Kuno royally steamed at me, and three caused Nabiki to give me her rather traditional calculating glance. I would have said something else but Kuno's power level rose and he drew his sword, charging at me, I could see Gohan just shaking his head.

"You dare to mock the great Blue Thunder of Furinkan High Tatewaki Kuno, I shall smite thee!" he roars lunging at me, as his sword came down I simply grabbed the sword between my middle and forefinger stopping it cold. "Let go on my sword this instant you knave," he shouts. By this time Ranma and Akane had arrived, to see Kuno struggling to pull his sword free from my fingers.

My face no doubt hadn't changed much except I looked bored, I turned to Nabiki, "Um, which classroom is he in?"

Nabiki pointed to the fifth window on the right of the main building, with a nod I grabbed the sword this time spinning around in place tossing the sword, Kuno, and all like you would toss a baseball, directly at the window. The only thing bad for Kuno about this was, the window was shut, so Kuno went crashing through a glass window and then slammed into the chalkboard.

"Come on Gohan, time to get registered," Gohan nodded dumbly following me; I got about four step before turning to Nabiki and giving her a smile. "Thanks for the assist," with that I gave her a two finger salute over my left brow and followed my brother in.

I'm a firm believer of making a good first impression, though most of the time in my life that only happened once. After getting my schedule I walked into my home room, when I saw the broken window and a smudged up chalk board I knew I was in the same home room as Luno. Groaning slightly I stepped in time to see the teacher stand up and walked over I gave him to the note the councilor gave me. He nodded. "Class we have a new student joining us today, please introduce yourself."

With a nod, I walked up next to the teacher's desk and bowed to the class, when I came up from my bow I saw Nabiki giving me a good once over, which sent a shiver down my spine, she was actually checking me out. Kuno was also there and glaring at me but I made it a point to ignore him. "My name is Son Shiro, my father was the 23rd World Martial Arts Champion, Son Goku and two years ago I took part in the Cell Games," this gave everyone the round eyed look. One student raised her hand. "Yeah?"

"Um, I don't remember seeing you in the Cell games, we just saw Hercule, a blonde guy, two blonde kids, a green man, a guy with purple hair," she went on to list the rest of the Z fighters, Android 16, and Vegeta.

I nodded, "Maybe this will clarify things," with that spoken I went Super Saiyan, causing everyone even Nabiki to gasp in shock. "Happy?"

"How did Hercule beat Cell?" Nabiki asked causing everyone to wait on baited breath for my answer.

I snorted crossing my arms looking very Vegeta-ish, "No, though thankfully he only took credit for it, allow me to explain you see after the television feed went out..," I then proceeded to tell the class what happened, how my brother ascended to a new platform of power, making sure to keep the words Super and Saiyan out of my tale, I also told them about my father dying to save us, and finally my brother injured an all turning Cell into dust. After I finished explaining everything many of my fellow students looked skeptical, but to my surprise both Nabiki and Kuno didn't fall under that skepticism. Which brought me to believe that Ryoga and Ranma had already learned their ki blasts. I took my seat which was next to a rather pale looking kid with blood shot eyes. "What's up with you?"

The kid blinked nervously, "Um not sleeping much," he stated meekly.

Checking his aura I notice that a lot of negative emotions were swirling around him, but chose to ignore it for now. As the day went along before lunch I realize to things about High School I had forgotten, one how boring it could be, unlike my high school though this one didn't take breaks before and after lunch instead to make up for it, lunch was an hour long. Pulling out a Dyno cap given to me by Bulma on my tenth birthday, I pushed the top and a huge fridge appear, Gohan simply shook his head. "What I'm hungry," glaring at Gohan made him chuckle as he wolfed down his own lunch. I rummaged around for a moment before finding what I wanted and was about to chow down a familiar pig-tailed boy had appeared.

"Yo," he stated with a friendly smile. I love many anime characters in my former life, and I always put Ranma at the top of many of those lists next to Goku and Vegeta. The reason was the sympathy I had for him, he is engaged to two fiancées and has one Amazonian wife, a curse that turns him into a girl, no social skills to speak of because of his father, force to hide from his mother because of his curse. Regardless of all this he has one of the most noble and purest hearts there is. Yet because of those lack of social skills he is often putting his foot in his mouth.

"Hey, want some?" I asked.

Ranma nodded vigorously and I tossed him a few things. Gohan looked at Ranma and shook his head, "Hey Ranma," Gohan stated.

"Hey Gohan," he states sitting down next to us, as I collapse my capsule and stuck it back in my pocket, I sat down to eat. "So you guys martial artist?"

Apparently the rumor mill hadn't reached Ranma's ears yet, or Nabiki was keeping surprisingly everything about what I said quiet and made sure no one outside of homeroom talk. Which meant she was going to try to get more information out of me at a later date. "Yeah, if ya want we can show you our stuff after school?"

Ranma nodded again, "Sure, can follow me to where I'm living."

I nodded though Gohan looked a little apprehensive, "What's wrong Gohan?"

Gohan shrugged, "Nothing much just that girl who was with Ranma this morning is giving off a lot of dark power, it's almost like she bathed in anger."

Ranma looked at Gohan and then seemed to become a bit downcast, "That girl is Akane, my fiancée well one of them anyway."

I raised an eyebrow, "One as you got more than that?"

He nodded slumping his shoulders somewhat, "Yeah got three I know about, good lord knows how many I don't know."

In Juuban a girl with brown hair done in a ponytail sneezed, a girl with red hair fighting a girl in a skimpy looking outfit with blue-grey hair paused a moment, both sneezing. A girl with long black hair walking through feudal times standing next to someone with white hair dressed in red, sneezed.

I notice Ranma shudder at something, it made me wonder if some of the engagements that Genma made won't still come back to haunt the pig-tailed martial artist. I looked at Gohan for a moment who seemed to nod, "hey maybe we can help her out, any reason why she's got this angry aura around her?" Gohan asked.

It wasn't the most tact question he could ask but I needed some info on where in Ranma's timeline Gohan and I showed up in. If it was too soon, I couldn't help much since after Shampoo using her little shiatsu memory eraser technique on Akane I'm basically clueless.

Ranma sighed heavily, "Kind of started with this Herb guy, I get locked in my curse," he expected to know about by now. I knew but Gohan hadn't, so I explained it to him , then told Ranma I heard about it from some students while walking through the halls. He nodded and went on to explain everything involving Herb, Shinnosuke, and the things involving his mom and Mrs. Tendo's cooking journal, he also talked about the two girls that claimed to be Soun Tendo's daughters. After finishing his tale I came to the conclusion that Ranma only had four major events left, Prince Toma, reuniting with his mother, Saffron, and the failed wedding. I was bound and determined to get Gohan and myself involved those events. Of course that would mean that Gohan and I entered school near the end of the school year, but was okay, we both had credits enough it wouldn't affect us too much. We then exchanged our own info with him, telling him about the fight against Nappa and Vegeta, Gohan told him about the things that happened on Namek. Then both explained things during the four year lull battle with Garlic Junior, the training with our father and Piccolo, then the things involving Android 16, 17, 18, and Cell.

"So you guys beat Cell, figured that, you guys had ki blasts, and Hercule didn't," Ranma puffed up proudly. Another thing I like about Ranma is while he isn't exactly book smart, he made up for it by being very battle smart.

I rub my chin thinking about the things I could do to help Ranma in his upcoming trials, "Say how would ya like to take part in the training Gohan and I underwent?"

Ranma's eyes got big and he nodded looking ready for the training already. After a long lunch talking between the three of us, we went back to class. After school though was something I should of anticipated but didn't, Kuno came running at me seeing he was going to give me an over hand strike, I ducked it planted my foot in the middle of his stomach and with one firm shove sent flying backward, he continued flying until he crashed into the swimming pool. "Nice distance," Ranma stated with a whistle.

"Look on the bright side Ranma, the dope is now trying to kill me instead of you," I smiled my foot still in the air before I dropped it and the three of us walked off of the school grounds. A few minutes later we were joined by the Tendo girls, Akane looking upset leading to wonder what was causing it, because she came to school with a reasonably neutral attitude. Now however I could feel the anger rolling off of her, and what was more frightening it wasn't directed at Ranma, but at me and Gohan. We walked in relative silence with Nabiki talking animatedly to Gohan asking hundred questions, which in turn he gave me a withering glare.

As we entered the Tendo training hall, changed our shoes, Ranma notice that Gohan and I's shoes made a loud dull thump when we dropped them, "Their weighted Ranma," Gohan explained, as Ranma tried to lift one. We were introduced to the rest of the household, each person had their own reaction, Kasumi's reminded me of my father, kind and friendly, Soun jovial and welcoming, something I could never understand of the man is why he was friends with Genma, but I figure he's easy to manipulate. The last Genma, was looking like he was about to wet himself, which is easy explain both Gohan and I were glaring at him and our massive battle aura's were being shown. If anything Genma Saotome wouldn't be having regular bowels for a long time, which is the least he deserved and if I had anything to say about it, he'll be having a nice long chat with his wife in a few weeks.

After the introductions were done, Ranma quickly asked for a demonstration of the Kamisennin style, which I was only too happy to oblige, though it took some prodding to get Gohan to get his butt up since Kasumi brought in some after school snacks which were unbelievably delicious. Now mind you I've read fan fictions, manga's, and watched the anime series, everyone one in the series had high praise for Kasumi's cooking. Now I could see why, the stuff she makes seemed to melt in your mouth and left a beautiful after taste. But being a Saiyan through artificial means I already filled half of my criteria, eating now I wanted to fill the other half, fighting. Picking Gohan up by his collar I dragged him into the backyard and tossed him about fifteen away. He stood up glaring at me, which gave me a enough since to wince a bit. He wasn't happy I interrupted him and I'll probably pay for it during our demonstration.

We stood for a moment gauging our opening responses before Gohan flew at me, I met his incoming fist with a wrist tackle and then to the eyes of our spectators we vanished. Or I should say most of them, Ranma was tracking us pretty well. Gohan was coming at me hard, throwing punches and kicks as we flew around the yard, until finally he nailed me in the back sending me flying into the koi pond, and with a huge splash I was submerged. Coming up gagging, I threw a glare at him, "This was for pulling you away from your food, right."

Gohan simply smirked and didn't say anything as he walked back to the dining area. He was also walking to a five very shocked faces. Akane, Kasumi, Nabiki, Soun, and Genma had never really witness that kind of level of martial arts, neither did Ranma but he wasn't shocked if anything he looked excited. It wasn't the first time that I think Ranma had been created for the wrong series. After I climb out of the koi pond and rejoin my brother wringing out my school uniform. "You know Gohan, mom's going to kill me for getting my uniform wet, and I'm going to tell her you're the one that kicked me into the water."

It was funny to watch Gohan grow all pale then start apologizing which I quickly accepted. "You're going to teach me how to do that stuff?" Ranma asked.

I nod, "Sure, heck it's not all that hard," I state, and it's not really I was taught simple basic martial arts by Goku and Piccolo then we went into the gravity training, which increased our density and mass without changing our body shape. It also raised our power levels to extreme heights because we were getting years were of intense back breaking conditioning by the added weights and gravity. Ranma had gotten that at an early age and as much I loath to admit it, Genma trained Ranma's body pretty well, by adding weights to his back pack during hikes, was already given the fundamentals, it was now time to go on to the next level. But I wasn't planning on training Ranma alone. I turned to Akane, "Want to try your hand in this as well?" this caused Soun, Genma, and Gohan to spit out whatever they were eating or drinking. I don't know why Gohan did it, but I could tell why Soun and Genma did. Soun spit out his tea because the thought of his baby girl getting hurt during training, as for Genma well he's a sexist, lying, egoistical sack of crap, and the very idea of a girl becoming stronger than him made him sick. I mentally added in the fact that I could train Akane to be better than Shampoo was as an excellent motivational tool.

I glanced at Ranma to judge his reaction, and he looked relieved. This is what would be considered proof that Ranma cares for Akane, if not loved her. Sure he would openly protest it whenever someone asks or he jumps clear of Akane when someone catches them about to kiss or have a moment. Heck I've seen the best moments, I know they love each other it's just that those around them either want to break thme apart or crash and burn all together. "So when are we getting started?"

I look at Gohan who shrugged, "I'd say we do this on weekends, until summer break then go all out during the summer," I suggested and Gohan agreed. "Think Vegeta will let us borrow his Gravity trainer during the weekend?"

"I don't know, depends on his mood," Gohan stated finishing his meal, "thank you Kasumi that was delicious."

Kasumi smiled, "Your quite welcome Gohan," she turned to me and gave me the same smile. My heart melted a bit was a huge understatement, I've seen that smile on the anime several times even the episode involving the phoenix egg, and it never amazed me as it did now.

"Your better than any cook that I know, even my mom," Gohan nodded in agreement. I sighed looking at the time and feeling a cold shiver down my spine. "We better get home Gohan before mom, gets too worried. See ya guys tomorrow," with that we bid a fond farewell and flew home. Mom wasn't very happy that we came home later than we should, but was glad we made some friends. I called Bulma and asked her if Vegeta would lend us his gravity trainer on weekends. He agreed but only if he can sit in on the training, I agreed to that but I had mixed feelings about it.