One Week Later…

Selena forced Genma into court with a couple thunder spells, she had used similar spells to stop him from running off, that and she offered to pay him if he could beat her in court and with his sexist belief that women were inferior…well, he took the deal and soon forced into court.

Court…

"The individual known as Genma Saotome who has been charged before with theft and not paying off debts is now charged with child abuse" The judge announced.

Selena then rose from her chair, feeling that she wouldn't need a lawyer for this case "I would like to call my first witness, Ranma Saotome" Selena announced, Ranma who had been sat next to his father then approached the stands and prepared himself for questioning. Selena then approached Ranma, who then swore to only tell the truth, his expression was without emotion, in the past month his entire reality had shattered he turned into a girl, was now terrified of cats and now he was in court.

"Ranma has your father ever abused you in any sense?" Selena asked.

"Define abuse" Ranma responded.

"Does he hit you, or tell you you're worthless that sort of thing" Selena clarified.

"Yes" Ranma replied, Genma had rose to his feet as fast as he could, knocking over his seat.

"That is lie I only train my worthless son in the art so he can become a strong martial artist" Genma cried.

"Sit down Mr Saotome" the judge declared, which he did, not even realizing what he'd just done.

"Ranma how often does your father abuse you?" Selena then asked.

"Daily, we train every morning before breakfast then after breakfast, until lunch then we train more and throughout each meal we would train, pop would try to steal food off my plate while I try to stop him, eat my lunch and try to grab his" Ranma admitted.

"Now Ranma, I understand you went through the Neko-Ken training not so long ago am I correct?" Selena asked.

"Yes"

"And correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that involve throwing a child into a pit of starved felines, wrapped in fish sausage until they either learn the technique, which rarely happens, or go insane or die?" Selena asked.

"Yes"

"How many times were you put through this training" Selena then asked.

"I was put through it every day for a month" Ranma answered.

"Ranma could you please show the court room some of the injuries this training caused you?" Selena requested, Ranma just nodded and removed his top to reveal his young muscular body, though malnourished covered in scabs from deep cuts as well as the odd the scar, Ranma maybe a fast healer but he'd need more than a week to recover from the Neko-Ken training, gasps filled the court room, Ranma then replaced his top.

"Also may I point out that Genma referred to his son as and I quote 'Worthless' and from what I saw of this man and judging by how easy the words fell off his tongue I'd say this isn't the first time he's said this leading me to believe that he has abused Ranma emotionally, mentally and physically" Selena stated.

"Objection, I've only been training my son to make him stronger" Genma declared "I was put through worse training under my master" Genma yelled.

"Ah yes, according to the records on you Mr Saotome you were in your late twenties and an able martial artist when you were trained by Happosai and even then your training wasn't as bad as Ranma describes his, you see the authorities have been gathering information on you wherever you've been so don't think you can lie to us Mr Saotome" the judge declared as she looked over a few sheets of paper.

"Also your honour I would like to draw the courts attention to this contract I found on him, this is a copy of a seppuku contract stating that if Ranma didn't and I quote 'Become a man amongst men' they would both commit seppuku" Selena declared before handing it to the judge "Also I'd like to point out that the third person who signed this, the one who agreed to cut off their heads with the family sword was Ranma's mother Nodoka Saotome" Selena.

"WHAT!" Ranma cried, everyone then turned to him "My own mother who I thought dead my whole life signed a contract to say she'd kill me if I didn't meet her standards" Ranma stated as tears swelled up in his eyes and began to fall, the first time he'd cried in years, he hadn't even she a tear when he was put through the Neko-ken, but this was just too painful, Ranma had stared into hell and had gone there and back and never had he shed a tear.

Genma saw this and for a second forgot where he was "Stop crying like a weak little girl Ranma men don't cry" Genma yelled.

"Mr Saotome" the judge yelled.

"If I may approach the bench?" Selena asked to which the judge nodded, she then approached her "I'd rather not say the rest of my findings here, I feel the truth could further damage the boy, but just so you know this was only the tip of the iceberg, there's more in my report" Selena stated before handing her report to the judge who looked it over, Genma tried to defend himself, even had a good lawyer but no matter what he did now it didn't change anything, he'd shown everyone who and what he was.

The jury then left the court room to discuss their verdict before returning and for the first time in a long time they all shared the same opinion "GUILTY" they all declared, Genma then bolted, attempting to grab his son only to have Selena block his path and security begin to block the exits so he ran through a wall deciding he'd get the boy later.

"What's going to happen to me?" Ranma asked.

"Your honour I would like to take custody of Ranma and legally have him as my son" Selena stated, the judge looked over her records, not much there and found she was a single mother with criminal record with three daughters and thought it a good idea, since she was the one who freed him and Ranma was beginning to like her anyway.

"Well from your background you're a pretty good candidate for him" she replied, Selena then thanked the judge before approaching Ranma.

"Ranma, you're now a member of our family" Selena stated before taking Ranma's hand and leading him to her daughters, who then teleported back to their own realm.

A/N Hope you liked the chapter, please review, open to suggestions