Mario: Well here we are at the third chapter, you'll find those guys at the end, oh and by the way "Disclaimer, the author does not own the characters from Ranma1/2. They are property of Rumiko Takahashi." Okay there enjoy.
Chapter 3 Uhhh…
She looked at him he was barely breathing. It had been bout half an hour since she had managed to save him.
"Haaaah." She sighed. 'Dammit this wasn't what I wanted. I mean sure I wouldn't mind if I reabsorbed you, but… but not like this.' She put her hands behind her head and rested on the pillow that she had materialized behind her. There was nothing that she could do right now, except rest, she had already given him the energy that he would need to survive, and now all she could do is rest, he was a part of her after all, and the faster she allowed herself to heal the faster he would heal. "heh" It was funny to her, there she was in her own mind trying to save apart of her self that she would have been better off having already reabsorbed. 'Hmm… things like that would be better left to when I'm a bit more awake' she thought as she began to doze off.
--Eight Hours later--
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!" Ranma screamed as he woke up. He looked down at himself.
"Haaaaaah…." He breathed a massive sigh of relief, he was alive, he had actually survived it. A part of him wanted to question whether what had happened to him was real or not, but he knew it was. The pain, the fear, the loss, it was all real and he knew it. He also knew what it meant.
'She was right, she was right all along, I'm not real, I'm… just a… piece, not a whole, just a piece.' He thought, resting his head on his knees he sighed again, he had a lot to think about and was glad for a little bit of solitude, but he really didn't know what he was going to do now. "Haaaah"
"Nice to see you're awake." She said.
"WAH!!" Ranma yelled, surprised by her sneaking up on him.
"Oh… it's you…" Ranma scratched the back of his head. "So, umm… uhh… yeah…."
"So how are you feeling ?" She asked.
"Wait, you're asking me how I feel, I thought for sure you'd be gloating at me, about the… well, you know." Ranma said uneasily.
"Believe me, there's nothing better that I would like to do than to rub it in your face that you were wrong, but I'd have rather it be under different circumstances, like that old ghoul trying to exercise me out of my body and failing, or something else you know, but not when it would nearly kill you." She said.
"Ranma listen." She said with a small smile on her face. "You're a part of me right."
"Yeah." Ranma said grudgingly.
"And are you a bad person ?" She asked, the smile still on her face.
"No." Ranma answered.
"Then is it crazy to assume that since you're a good person, and you're a part of me, that I'm a good person to." She said in a way that sounded more like a statement than a question.
"Well…" Ranma said, thinking about it. 'Hmm… I'm a good person, yeah so if she is in a way me that would make her a good person as well, yeah.'
"Nice to know you think I'm a good person." She said.
"GAH!" Ranma yelled "Don't do that."
"Sorry, but you were taking to long." She said. "And it is nice to know that you've accepted the truth."
"So… what now ? I mean, are you going to absorb me, or something ?" Ranma asked, it had been bothering him a lot, what was going to happen to him, now that he had been force to accept the truth.
"Personally, I have some things I'd like to think about right now rather than reabsorb you. So yeah I think it would be best if maybe we just went back to the Tendo dojo for now ok." She said.
"Uh huh, and just what do you need to think about ?" Ranma asked annoyed.
"Oh nothing just some techniques I learned in the scrolls, which you would definitely like to learn."
"Wait what techniques !?" Ranma yelled out.
Sitting straight up Ranma found himself on a chair in a train. 'Dammit she, kicked me out again, hmm… oh great I'm on a tram heading where ever, great just great." Ranma leaned backwards to rest on the back of the seat.
Crackle
"Hunh" Feeling his pants pockets Ranma fond a piece of paper with a note written on it
–Ranma, listen this train is headed towards nerima, ok so for right now just sit back and relax, we went pretty far when little miss tomboy decided to deck us for no real reason. Ok, see ya-
'Oh yeah it is the tomboy's fault that any of this happened in the first place.' Ranma thought. "Heh, heh heh." 'Her calling Akane a tomboy is a good one, especially when she's… wait a second, she's a girl and a bigger tomboy than Akane, and I'm a part of her so… that means… I'm a bigger tomboy than Akane!?' Ranma's mind proceeded to try and wrap itself around the fact that he could possibly be a bigger tomboy than Akane through out the entire trip, as the train sped towards nerima.
--Scene Change--
While Ranma was riding the train back to Nerima Akane was being woken up by having a pitcher of cold water was tossed onto her. Sputtering awake she looked around to see that she was in the dojo. Spotting him standing there she quickly made her feelings known.
"Who the heck are you ?" She had yelled at him.
He however didn't answer and just smiled at her, his arms crossed.
"Hey when, you break in and wake someone up you're supposed to answer them, so answer me who the heck are you ?" She asked again.
"You have fifteen seconds." He answered her, still smiling.
"Fifteen seconds, before what ?" She asked feeling uneasy, her combat instincts, while not on the scale of Ranma or the people that he usually fought with, were still better than most other people, had become active and they were telling her that she was about to be in for a big fight.
"Times, up." He said, as he launched a punch straight into her stomach.
Akane felt the wind rush out of her as the fist impacted her stomach. Staggering back from the unexpected punch she looked forward at her attacker. Ducking down quickly she managed to avoid a kick that was aimed for her head, standing up, Akane quickly took a defensive.
'Dammit who the hell is this, and why the hell is he trying to beat me ?' Akane wondered as she looked at her attacker. 'Arrr… who cares, if he's going to attack me for no good reason then, I think it's time I showed him what a real martial artist is capable of.' She thought as her anger began to overwhelm her.
Rushing towards him she launched her fist to deliver a haymaker, but he quickly dodged it. Following it she aimed a kick at his gut however he dodged this as well, and counter attacked with a cresent moon kick that she just barely managed to avoid.
'Dammit' was the thought that went through Akane's head as he easily dodged her attacks 'why can't I hit him, is he reading my moves.' The possibility of him reading her moves, reminded her of Ranma, which set her off even more. Launching into a flurry of punches and kicks, she was furious when he dodged them all with ease. 'Dammit, how the hell am I going to win if I can't land a single-' Akane's thoughts were cut short as she found her self on the defensive side once more. The first few punches she was able to keep up with but as he sped up his attack he began to get through her defense.
'Crap' was the thought that went through Akane's head as more and more punches got through her defense. 'Dammit, I'm not going to last much longer at this rate. Dammit, there has to be someway I can get things in my favor, Ranma does it all the time so it can't be that hard, come on think Akane think!' Another punch got through. 'Wait that's it.' Lowering her guard Akane let a punch get through, she was going to attempt to grab it but her instincts told her not to. Letting two more punches get through Akane fought to hang on to her consciousness, as her opponent launched what she was sure to be the punch to end this fight, she felt her instincts, telling her this was the one to catch.
Grabbing his hand with both of hers Akane launched her knee in to his stomach knocking him away, continuing to follow her instincts she moved forward towards him to land a fist in his face, and was surprised to find her arm being held behind her in his grip. Releasing her he jumped back so that there was a good amount of distance between them.
Breathing hard Akane stared at him. She hurt all over he had done a number on her, it was hard for her just to stand. Wondering what he was about to do next Akane was shocked by what he said.
"Pretty good, pretty good, you've definitely got potential." The young man said.
"What in the world! You barge in to my house, wake me up with a pitcher of ice cold water, and then try to beat the hell out of me and that's all you have to say ?!" Akane yelled incredulously.
Before he could answer however the door to the dojo opened up.
"Oh, Akane here you are, I was wondering where you were. You weren't in your room when we came back, by the way what are you doing in here ?" Kasumi asked, looking at the display before her.
"What was I doing?! I was trying to keep myself from being killed by this jerk!" Akane said, shocked that her oldest sister could look at her in this shape and be so calm.
"Oh, hello there sir, may I assume you are the person sent to train my sister?" Kasumi asked calmly.
"Yes, yes I am, my name is Makishi Heishiro, nice to meet you." Heishiro answered.
"Oh well, then I won't keep you." Kasumi said.
"Hold it! When was anybody going to tell me about this?" Akane asked, shocked once more.
"Oh, I'm sorry Akane. I was going to tell you yesterday when we got the letter from Kami-sama yesterday, but you said not to disturb you." Kasumi explained, as Akanes' face turned red as she thought about how she had missed her appointment with the ruler of the universe.
"Oh… well… you should have told me anyway." Akane said sheepishly. 'Crap, how could I have forgotten yesterday, I nearly died.'
"Anyway Akane lets talk about this somewhere else." Heishiro said walking out of the dojo.
Akane stood there as she watched the man who had nearly killed her walk out of the dojo and into her house, thinking one thing 'What the Hell?!' Sighing Akane followed them into the house.
--Scene Change--
Akane sat down and looked across at the person who was going to train her. 'Ugh… I can't believe this, I mean he's not even that much older than me. How in the world can he be the person to train me?!'
"So… what do you like?" Heishiro asked.
"Hmm… well I guess I like plays, cooking, and martial arts." Akane answered surprised that he had asked about her. After all it was rear that anyone would ask specifically about her and not have something to do with Ranma.
"Martial arts huh, you know for a martial artist-" Heishiro began.
"Hey I am to a martial artist!" Akane yelled angry that someone would doubt her skills after fighting her.
"Hey! I'm not saying you're not a martial artist, I was just going to say that you had a lot of potential." Heishiro said hastily in his defense.
"Umm… well umm… thank you." That single compliment deflated Akane of her anger. It was one of the few times that a person had actually acknowledged her skills as a martial artist, instead of telling her of how she was just a child or that she was out of her league. It was quite a nice departure.
Knock Knock
Hearing the knocks on the door Heishiro quickly excused himself. "I'll get it." He said getting up and heading towards the door.
'Geez, I hope Kami-sama knows what he's doing with this one. She definitely has a temper on her. Although she is kind of cute.' Reaching the door Heishiro and greeted the person infront of him.
"Hello, may I ask who you are?" Heishiro asked.
"Me, I'm Ranma Saotome." Two voices answered at once.
--Few Minutes Later--
Nabiki sighed as she looked around the table they were all sitting around. 'Jeez, we just get from heaven and what do we have happen? We have Akane getting beaten up by her teacher and now we have two people claiming to be Ranma, one of them a child, the other looks more like Ryoga than Ranma.' Taking a deep breath Nabiki decided to try and make some sense of what was going on. "Ok, so who are you two?"
"I told you I'm Ranma Saotome, you shouldn't even be listening to this kid, I mean she's like six years younger than me." Ran said, a bit in apprehension of the possibility that they were even considering that this kid could be him.
"Oh please," Ranma shot back. "Nabiki he's not me I'm me."
"Um hm, and what proof do either of you have?" Nabiki said a bored look crossing her features, 'Jeez this is going to take a while.'
"Proof, why the hell should I need proof just to tell you who I am, I mean this is a freakin kid!?" Ran said angrily.
"Proof, you want proof !? How about the fact that I'm engaged to the tomboy, and whoever else knows how many fiancées the panda sold me for." Ranma said tiredly.
"Grrrrrr… Ranma…." Akane began but was stopped as Kasumi put a hand on her lap.
It was a small gesture but it did its job and kept Akane from crushing what would be their only chance at getting some answers to their questions.
"Hmm…point for you." Nabiki smirked.
Ran was shocked, this couldn't be happening was the general thought that went through his mind, they couldn't actually believe this kid, could they.
"But, this kid's freakin eleven and she's a girl." Ran said, flabbergasted.
"Actually, that helps my case more than it hurts ya know." Ranma said.
Nabiki's eyes immediately narrowed. "That is a good point he makes, you got any good reasons as to why?"
Kasumi and Akane looked at Nabiki as though she had grown two extra heads. There's no way she could have forgotten about Ranma's curse.
"Jeez" Ranma smirked "How about the fact that I have a curse that turns me into a girl with a splash of cold water, and besides we've already dealt with those mushrooms that change a persons age, and with my luck, it would only be a matter of time before I ran into one that would lock me as a girl and make me a kid."
"Heh… that definitely sounds like your luck." Nabiki said smirking.
"But Ranma, why didn't you go to Cologne-san?" Kasumi asked.
"Go ask her, please Kasumi, she'd try to force me to marry Shampoo in a heart beat." Ranma said.
"Hmm…True." Kasumi said putting a finger to her chin.
"So, any way, can we get rid of this fake?" Ranma said. Nabiki and Kasumi immediately picked up on the change in speech.
"Me?!" Ran said angrily.
"Yeah, you, I already had to deal with that stupid Kumon guy." Ranma said, crossing his arms.
"Me, the fake, listen kid, I've had to take on things and people who could kill you in an instant and a lot of other stuff I would rather forget. So stop trying to impersonate me and get out of here!" Ran said furiously.
"Yeah, sure, you're probably worse than Akane." Ranma said.
"RANMA!" Akane yelled.
"Oh, is that a fact, then why don't we see who the real Ranma is." Ran said, growling.
"Hmph, fine by me. Let's settle this in the dojo." Ranma said standing up.
Following Ranma and Ran to the dojo, Akane, Kasumi, and Heishiro all took seats against the wall. Nabiki stood between the two combatants.
"Okay this is a fight between two combatants the winner will be the last combatant standing. Is this appropriate for both combatants?" Nabiki said.
"Yeah!" Ranma said taking a fighting stance.
"Fine by me." Ran said taking another fighting stance.
"All Right then, Begin!" Nabiki said.
Ranma eyed his opponent, before launching from his position. He dashed toward Ran. The next thing Ranma knew was that the air was rushing out of his lungs as Rans' fist placed its self in his stomach.
'Sh…Shit! I…I didn't even see him move.' Ranma thought as he stood up. 'Jeez, he's even stronger than Ryoga, oh well, can't let that stop me.'
Looking at his opponent Ran felt embarrassed. 'This is who decided to impersonate me, geez come on, oh well, this kid made her problem, she'll have to deal with it.' Smirking Ran looked at Ranma. "Aww, what's wrong? Are you tired after just one hit? Although I guess I couldn't blame you, after all you're the fake."
Ran found a punch in the gut to be the result of his little jibe. Staggering back only slightly Ran smiled, "Wow… I've had hits from a bug hurt more than that."
"Hmph, an ant packs more of a punch than you." Ranma shot back. 'Shit! Who the hell is this guy, I almost broke my fist using the Amaguriken,' grrr… 'Dammit, I Will Not Be Defeated By This Fake!' 'Ranma, you can't win against this guy, let me take him down.'
'No! This is something I have to do myself.' Ranma thought as he went on the offensive once again. Seeing Ranma rush up to him Ran took the offensive and met him head on. Ranma felt a knee embed itself in his chin, as he next felt a fist hit him once more in the stomach, leaving him breathless. Ran backed off as he looked at Ranma.
'Dammit!' Ranma thought, 'the Amaguriken doesn't work, and I can't use the Hiryū Shōten Ha in this area, with the way he attacks he knows he's in control, dammit, okay Ranma calm down you can win this Ranma you've still got the Mōko Takabisha.' A bit of his confidence restored Ranma smiled. 'Yeah, I'm definitely going to win this.'
Bolstered by the fact that he had a chance at winning Ranma smirked, ducking a kick that was aimed at his head. Attacking Ran with the Amaguriken, Ranma followed it up with a kick to his gut. 'Heh… he may be tough but I can get through, now I just gotta make an opening for the Mōko Takabisha.' Ranma thought as he dodged another attack from Ran, who was smiling all the while. 'Smile while ya can, you won't have much to smile about soon.'
Ducking down to dodge another kick, Ranma performed a fast leg sweep knocking Ran off of his feet, grabbing him before he had a chance to catch himself Ranma tossed Ran through the dojo wall and onto the ground outside.
"You better be ready to pay for that hole Saotome." Nabiki said, as Ranma headed outside. "Sure just as soon as I get through with this guy." Ranma said smiling.
Jumping through the hole that he made, Ranma saw that Ran was already up and smiling. "Hmm… a change of scenery, well I do have to admit, the dojo was a bit stuffy." Ran said.
"Well, I figured you'd want to see something a bit more colorful when you lose." Ranma said smirking.
"Well then I guess we better get going." Ran said, rushing towards Ranma.
Ranma, smirked as he ran towards Ran. Ducking a punch aimed at his head, Ranma hit Ran with a punch to the jaw. Following it with an Amaguriken powered punch to the gut, as his opponent stumbled back. Bringing his hands together, Ranma smirked, "Well, I guess we know who the real Ranma is now, Mōko Takabisha."
The chi blast of confidence at Ran, Ranma allowed himself to relax a little bit. Ranma's eyes widened and his confidence dropped as he saw the chi blast get stopped and then lifted up one handed by Ran into the air. His confidence waned even farther after Ran smiled, and then with a single kick launched the sphere of chi into the air.
Seeing what had happened to his Mōko Takabisha, Ranma dropped into a battle stance once more. 'Ok, Ranma, let's see, this guy just got rid of one of you best attacks, you can't use the Hiryū Shōten Ha in this area, besides which it probably wouldn't do that much good in the long run, and worst of all, he knows that he is in complete control of this fight, and judging from what he just did, he's definitely holding back.' 'Dammit Ranma you can't beat this guy right now. He isn't human.' 'Oh please I've been in worse situations, not many but still worse, and besides I have.. to… win… this!' Ranma said as a look of determination etched itself on his face.
"Well, I guess I've wasted enough time, I need to finish this." Ran said as he smiled.
A blood red blur was all that Ranma saw as his vision faded.
--Later That Evening--
"So what do you think?" Kasumi asked.
"About what?" Nabiki answered with a smirk on her face.
"About which one is Ranma." Kasumi replied.
"Oh yeah that, well… if I had to place a bet, I'd like to say that it's that girl but…" Nabiki said.
"Oh, what?" Kasumi wondered.
"Things about her don't add up, the way she acted, it wasn't like Ranma." Nabiki answered.
"What do you mean by that?" Kasumi probed.
"Okay, remember when I asked her about how she got stuck like that?" Nabiki questioned.
"Yes, she said it was because of something she found." Kasumi answered.
"Yes, she did but, did you notice how she reacted when I questioned her, she was to calm, to comfortable, to ready for the question. The Ranma that we know would have been much angrier, and would have sulked more, besides even if it did mean marrying Shampoo, you and I both know Ranma would have gone to the old ghoul first, besides he would be sure to find a way out." Nabiki said.
"While that would be true, I actually happy that Ranma came to us, it was actually quite a smart idea and it means we'll be able to avoid a big fight, for once, it is hard to get the house fixed so often you know." Kasumi said.
"Yeah, but that's the thing, Ranma maybe a genius when it comes to martial arts but when it comes to other things he's usually ignorant beyond belief." Nabiki stated.
"Hmm… well it is true that he doesn't tend to think things through, but even he can have a good idea every once in a while. Besides, I didn't notice anything wrong with the way Ranma acted with the other one." Kasumi reasoned.
"Actually that kinda makes me wonder as well?" Nabiki said.
"And that would be because?" Kasumi wondered.
"Well the way the girl acted before focusing her attention on the other guy, and then after, well it reminded me of two separate people. The first being a calm, confidant, and smart person, while the second one was much more like the Ranma we know, brash, rude, and frustrated with his new problem." Nabiki stated.
"Hmm… well, while I don't really think there was any thing wrong with the way that Ranma acted, but then again you do have a much better eye for details." Kasumi mused.
"Yeah I did," Nabiki smirked, "and as any detective can tell you two people claiming to be the same person, with one of them having something close to a split-personality is not a good thing."
"But then what do you think would cause Ranma to develop a split-personality?" Kasumi asked.
"Hmm, that is a good question, when you actually think about it with all the stuff that usually happens to Ranma, you'd think that something like this would have happened a lot sooner. Of course there is the fact that this is Ranma and normal things don't really happen to him, and when you consider that something like a split-personality seems a little to tame for Ranma." Nabiki stated in a matter of fact manner.
"So then… you don't suppose…?" Kasumi wondered, as her mind began to come up with what could have possibly caused Ranma's current problem.
"Ranma being possessed, yeah that's the gist of what I'm guessing has probably happened but…" Nabiki trailed off.
"But what?" Kasumi asked once again.
"But the way that the girl acted throw's a wrench into that possibility." Nabiki said.
"How?" Kasumi questioned.
"Well, you see if Ranma were being possessed, do you really think that the possessor would take Ranma to people that would probably try to help Ranma get free and get rid of said possessor? No, you'd think the possessor would try and find a way to either get rid of Ranma, or make it so that we couldn't get rid of it. So the possessor coming here, essentially walking into the lions den wouldn't be a very smart thing, and as we've seen the possessor is definitely not that stupid. Then there is the fact that we have another person who is claiming to be Ranma, and after that fight neither of them really has a whole lot backing up their claim of being Ranma." Nabiki said.
"Oh, but I thought that Ranma used many of the same techniques that he always used."
Kasumi stated.
"Yeah, the girl did use a lot of the same techniques that Ranma usually uses but those new techniques really destroyed her credibility. They seemed more like spells than techniques in truth, and with what I found out recently about myself, and everything that usually happens around Ranma it doesn't seem to far off that a spirit could use magic through Ranma's body and use it to learn Ranma's techniques. Although when I think about it, it just doesn't seem like that's what's going on." Nabiki said as she sighed.
"Hmm… maybe we should try looking at this in a different way?" Kasumi said.
"Huh, what do you mean by that?" Nabiki asked, her curiosity beginning to show.
"Well, we've been assuming that Ranma is the person being possessed but what if it was actually the opposite." Kasumi said.
"Wait, your saying that Ranma's the one doing the possessing, not the one being possessed?" Nabiki asked, her mind considering what that could mean.
"Yes." Kasumi answered.
"Hmm… Ranma being the one doing the possessing…" Nabiki rested her chin on her hand as she considered that possibility. "Hmm… well I can't say it's something that wouldn't have happened. We have had to deal with spirits, controlling people, but for Ranma to become spirit… and besides that still doesn't explain the other guy calling himself Ranma….
"Actually Nabiki, I've got an idea about that." Kasumi said.
"Hmm…" Nabiki looked at her sister, her curiosity enticed.
"Well" Kasumi began after seeing the look of interest on her sister's face. " With the idea of Ranma being the one doing the possessing, we could assume that Ranma isn't actually in his body, right ?"
"Correct." Nabiki stated.
"Well if his spirit wasn't in his body we could state that his body would be like an empty shell, and since his body would be empty it would be easy for another spirit to take control of it since there wouldn't be anything to stop it, right?" Kasumi said.
"Well that is definitely possible, but it still leaves a lot of wholes that need to be filled in such as, why in the world would it come here, and then there's the fact of who in there right mind would let Ranma possess there body?" Nabiki said.
"Why do you think it was someone letting Ranma take there body?" Kasumi asked.
"Simple as I stated before, the way that girl acted states that she's to comfortable with this. If Ranma had forcefully tried to possess the girl then there would have been much more fighting and she would have been angrier, then there's the fact that she probably wouldn't have even come to this area, or probably wouldn't have been here so soon, if you remember Akane only hit Ranma about a day or two ago, and besides while Ranma may sometimes be a jerk, he isn't evil." Nabiki said.
"So then if Ranma hasn't been possessed, and isn't the possessor then what do you think happened?" Kasumi asked.
"Hmm… as much as I would rather not say it I don't really know, it could be something that we have proposed or it could be something that we had never considered, and besides…" Nabiki trailed off.
"And besides what?" Kasumi asked.
"I just keep getting the feeling that we're missing something, that we aren't getting the full picture."
"Hmm… What do you think it could be?" Kasumi wondered.
"I don't really know, and besides it's getting late I think I going to head in." Nabiki said, rubbing her eyes.
"Hmm… oh well, it is getting late, but you know this was really fun, and… it's nice to see you helping Ranma with out charging him anything." Kasumi said smiling.
"Oh he isn't getting this done for free, after I get through with all this, he's going to owe me so much for figuring out how to get him out of this mess." Nabiki remarks, a smug smile on her face.
"Aww… oh well," Craka Boom "Hmm… that's strange I hear thunder, but… there isn't a cloud in the sky, oh well." Kasumi said. As she began to clean up, not even noticing the twitch Nabiki had developed as she passed her sister by.
'Ok, ok, I won't charge him any thing.' Nabiki thought, 'Jeez, I thought I was only supposed keep an eye out for Ranma and Akane. Ugh, I am really not going to like where this is going, humph, I wonder what Akane's doing right now anyway?'
--Scene Change--
Knock, Knock, Knock
"Who is it?" Akane asked as she got ready for bed.
"It's me, Heishiro." Heishiro answered.
"Oh…oh! Umm… hold on just a minute." Akane said, quickly finishing putting on her pajamas, she opened the doors and greeted her new master. "So, what do you want?"
"I just wanted to check up on you, you are my student after all." Heishiro said.
"Oh, well I'm doing just fine." Akane told him.
"Oh, that's nice… so…?" Heishiro trailed off.
"So what?" Akane asked becoming slightly annoyed.
"So, do things like what happened today happen a lot?" Heishiro asked.
"Yeah, actually, although we've only had one person try to impersonate Ranma so far." Akane told him.
"So is Ranma the cause of a lot of things happening around here?" Heishiro asked.
"You don't know the half of it." Akane said, exasperatedly.
"Heh… he causes a lot more problems than just this doesn't he?" Heishiro asked.
"Yeah, he does." Akane said.
"Hmm… so what's he like?" Heishiro asked.
"What's he like…heh… he's a jerk, he always has to be the best, and is always insulting me, then there's all his other fiancées, like that amazon bimbo shampoo, and his "cute fiancée" Ukyo he hangs around with. He's also always fighting everyone." Akane said.
"So, why do you put up with him if he's a jerk?" Heishiro asked.
"Because we're engaged, due to some stupid thing our fathers came up with." Akane said.
"So you only put up with him just because your dad tells you to huh?" Heishiro said.
"Completely." Akane answered.
"So he has no good points what so ever." Heishiro mused.
"Well, not totally… he can be nice when he really wants to, and he is there to save me when ever I get into big trouble." Akane said quietly.
"Oh, so he does have some good points, that's nice." Heishiro said. "So… what do you think about… today?" Heishiro asked.
"About what?" Akane replied.
"About me, Ranma, your training, that stuff." Heishiro told her.
"Well, truthfully you surprised me, I mean it's not every day that a person drops out of the blue, attacks me and tells me that he is going to be my trainer, and with Ranma well it's not really that surprising since this sort of thing happens a lot, and … well for my training, well I'm curious and a little bit excited." Akane answered.
"Hmm… that's nice, well I guess I should let you get some sleep, I'm going to be getting you up early tomorrow, so nite." Heishiro said, getting up and leaving the room.
"Yeah, nite." Akane answered.
Stepping out side as she closed the door, Heishiro walked to the furo. Knocking once to make sure that no one was inside Heishiro quickly entered. With little effort he was quickly disrobed and soon he was inside the warm waters of the furo.
'Ahh… this feels nice. Heh, I guess I should enjoy it, since if what I'm thinking is going to happen that Akane is going to be a handful, although she is cute. Hmm…she has a lot of power, she just needs some ways to use it. It is a good thing she has some basic training, heh, with a little training from me she'll be able to show up Ranma any time… hmm… I wonder what he's doing."
-- Scene Change--
"Uuuugh…geez what the hell hit me…wait..wait…Shit! The fight, I gotta get back into the fight!" Ranma said, jumping to his feet frantically, looking around for his opponent.
"He's not here." She said.
"What where is he?" Ranma asked, wanting to get back into the fight, back into his element.
"You know if you looked around you'd actually realize where you're at and what happened." She said.
Looking around Ranma confirmed his suspicions. "Great I'm back inside my mind."
"You mean my mind." She said, smirking.
"Hey, if I'm a part of you that makes this my mind to." Ranma said in retaliation.
She laughed, and Ranma cocked an eyebrow. "What's so funny?"
"Oh nothing, it's just that you admitted this to being my mind not yours." She said, a smug smile on her face.
"Ugh…." Ranma moaned.
"Hey what's wrong, I thought you'd be angrier that you lost the fight." She said as she looked at him he was looking more and more sullen, and she didn't like to see herself so sad.
"Yeah, whatever…." Ranma said, not really caring.
She looked at him and sighed. "Okay Ranma I'm sorry for taking over your fight, but you know I had to it was the only way."
"Is that all?" Ranma said, a bored and sullen look on his face.
"No, I'm sorry that things had to turn out like this, I mean you're a part of me, but until you rejoin with me, I can't completely feel what you feel, but I do have a general feeling," Ranma looked at her, "You feel lost, you want to feel angry, that this guy has come to take over your life, but since you're a part of me, you wonder what point you even have to this life. You wonder what the hell has your life been all this time, all this training, all of your sacrifice, everything you've had to endure, and what do you have to show for it, nothing other than being a fake person who couldn't even win a fight against a fake who's trying to take your life."
"Yeah, well, ugh!" Ranma put his face in his hands, he had no clue as to what to say or as to what he should be doing.
"Ranma," She said walking over to him, "Listen I really am sorry things had to turn out like this, but I don't think you should give up."
"Yeah, and what would you know?" He said a sour look on his face.
"I know that you're stronger than what I'm seeing in front of me."
"Yeah, and I'm also supposed to be a man among men, but how am I supposed to do that when I'm just a part of a person." Ranma said.
"Simple just do it, a man among men wouldn't just give up like with out a fight would he, no, he'd find a way to win, no matter what." She said.
"And how do you expect a man among men to find a way to win in this?" Ranma said a skeptical look on his face.
"Simple, a man among men, would be smart enough to ask for help." She said.
"And who do you expect me to get help from?" Ranma said crossing his arms.
"Simple the person standing right in front of you." She said, smiling softly.
"You…help me… yeah, umm I'm a little skeptical about that?" Ranma said looking at her incredulously.
"Ok, look I know that I was going to reabsorb you but being your own person is really important to you so I've decided to completely split you off so that you'll be your own person." She said.
"And how in the world would you do that?" Ranma said eyeing her.
"Well truthfully I don't really know how, but… well… I figure with the luck that I have, a way to do that will eventually show it's self." She said.
"Humph and how do you know that's going to happen?" Ranma asked a skeptical look on his face.
"Heh, I thought you would have been able to figure that out. My luck is your luck, and like before, how you always came so close to getting the Nannīchuan water, we'll come close to getting a way to separate our selves." She said smugly.
"heh…heheheheh…Hahahahahaha!!" Ranma laughed. "Geez for a second there I thought you were actually smart. Turns out I was wrong you're just another fool, heheheheh." Ranma continued to laugh.
She looked at Ranma as he continued to laugh about how stupid she was. After a few minutes she had finally had enough.
"Ranma, stop laughing." She said.
"I can't, It's just that you're supposed to be me and you think I'm gonna get lucky enough to actually get what I want, it's just… so … funny." Ranma said.
"Well Ranma, I guess you can continue to laugh, but don't forget, I can reabsorb you at any point in time." She said, a smug smirk appearing on her face as Ranma immediately stopped laughing.
"What!" Ranma said.
"Figured that would get your attention, and besides we do need to set some ground rules." She said.
"What, what ground rules?!" Ranma said, shocked.
"We're going to be together for a while, so we do need some ground rules for dealing with each other." She said.
"Tch, I don't really see any need for any rules. It's not like I'm going to follow them any way." Ranma said.
"So then, you won't care about the rules that I'm making?" She said.
"Nope." Ranma said disinterested.
"Fine then, here's the one rule. I'm going to take over my body when ever I feel like, but until then you're in control."
"Wa..wa…wait…What!!" Ranma said, as she began to disappear.
"To late, I gave you a chance and you didn't take it." She replied to his shocked face with a smirk as she completely disappeared.
"Dammit, now I'm stuck with her, in an even bigger problem, and I don't even know her name, dammit!!" Ranma shouted.
"My, name's Diamond, D-i-a-m-o-n-d , got it memorized?" Was the last thing that she said as Ranma woke up.
--On The water Tower--
"Dammit, she just had to pull a trick like that on me." Getting up, Ranma looked around. "Whoa." Ranma said as he looked over the water tower. "Well… this is definitely higher than my normal water towers. Jeez where did she take me?" Looking up Ranma saw the stars shining out above him. "Well at least I can see the stars… they sure a nic- wha… what the hell is that?!"
--End of Chapter--
Sonic: Finally the third chapter is here. Enjoy.
Shadow: How can they enjoy, no one knows what the hell is going on here.
Silver: Oh, I know, heheheh.
Knuckles: Yeah right, I bet even the author doesn't know where this is going.
Silver: Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong.
Shadow: Oh God! Shut up!! Jeez, this is like watching one of those multi-arc shows, hell I'm probably better off waiting till the author writes up a recap chapter and shows how everything is connected by dues ex machine.
Silver: Actually you'll be surprised at how it actually turns out in the end.
Knuckles: Brrrr… For some unknown reason that leaves me with the feeling this can only end badly.
Sonic: Any way how do you know all this?
Silver: Simple with this.
Sonic: Whoa, the original plot… hey this was supposed to be a sprite comic…?
Silver: Yeah, it was, but the author didn't have the skills, and was lazy.
Sonic: Oh well… hey do you have the original plots for the other fics?
Silver: Yeah there over here.
Sonic: Sweet.
Knuckles: Great, just great, well until next time see you.
Shadow: Which will be hopefully never.