Blinded Stars

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½ or Sailor Moon. They belong to their respected creator/ owners and I not making a cent of this. So keep the layers in their cages. We all know the rest….

Chapter 3: It's Nerima!

"I'm home" Nabiki said as she entered the house.

"How was school?" Kasumi asked coming to greet her.

"The usual… But what's happened with Ranma? I saw him leave this morning with his mom and two other guys," Nabiki asked, setting her pack next to the dinning table.

"Well he's going to be staying with his mother for a little while," Kasumi replied putting one of her fingers up to her chin in thought.

"So I take it that Ryoga found Ranma since he's not here?" Nabiki asked, taking note that both her father and Genma where playing Go. She also took notice of a stack of papers three inches high on the table as well as a sheet at the far right corner clearly labeled 'PLAN'. So she promptly sat down and started to glance over the top page to the stack.

"Um... Yes I do believe so. I heard them shouting at one another before they left," Kasumi replied in turn. "Where is Akane?"

"She had to stay after because of some new club started today. She'll be home in time for dinner," Nabiki responded, turning to the second page and reading its title and the first few sentences before she completely knew what the document was. Her eye twitched at the idea that the two had actually signed off on it but it soon went away when she read a bit further down to the point that mentioned that one Miss Nodoka Saotome would be given control over all engagements claims and there approval as well as Ranma's custody. Nabiki then set it to the side to look at all the other forms that lay underneath it.

She noted that they were mostly signed by Genma alone. She then picked up the stack with the paper labeled 'PLAN' and went to her room so she could read them in private and make a few phone calls. After reaching her room, Nabiki closed the door and turned the lock. Setting the bundle of paper on her bed she pulled the blinds closed. (She caught Genma once spying on her.) She then pulled out a notebook, pen, and highlighter out of a drawer and set them next to the papers. 'Now let's see what is going on,' Nabiki thought sitting down on her bed next to in all.

"Oh, that was a complete waist of time!" Akane shouted as she entered the house. "I should have figured that Kuno would try that!"

"Oh my," Kasumi said coming out of the kitchen to greet her younger sister.

"How was your day at school Akane?" Soun asked seeming a tad concerned which isn't normal. Akane didn't catch it though.

"Terrible! After we watched Ranma go somewhere with his mother, everyone wouldn't stop asking questions about him. The next time I see him, I'm going to give a lesson on why not to skip out on me! He didn't even eat the breakfast I made for him either!" Akane yelled unconsciously summoning her mallet. "Oh! I'm going to break some bricks!" she said as she stomped out towards the dojo. A few seconds later there was a nock on the front door and Kasumi went to answer it.

"Ah Genma! Can't you see it? It's only been several hours and she misses your boy already!" Soun said turning back to their game of go.

"Yes, my friend. It's a good sign our plan will work; this time I know it!" Genma declared switching some of the pieces on the board as Soun's eyes began to fill with tears of gladness. "All we have to do is make sure that Akane realizes that she can't do without Ranma and she'll be married in no time once he returns."

"Right you are," Soun replied dreaming of how his life would be after the two are married. He didn't notice Genma switch some more pieces.

At the front door, Kasumi was having a nice talk with several police men about property damage claims that lead them here, but they were in awe at her ability to be so angelic, nice, a tab naive, and well mannered, that they forgot why they were even there.

"So you did say that this was the Tendo Dojo, and that there are several people living here other then your family?" the first officer asked.

"Yes, but I doubt that they would do any of those things that you claim," Kasumi responded in her completely innocent tone that everyone had to believe.

Upstairs, one very old grand master had awakened from his long slumber and was going through his preparations for his nightly outing with his favorite sack. He decided that because he was getting bored of the standard chase, he was going to do something special tonight. He shuffled around his belongings until he pulled a small wooden box out; the lid was decorated with carvings of a dragons. He casually flipped open the lid and grabbed the contents with in it. He was a bit puzzled that there was a piece of paper tucked tightly in the corner of the box that lay under of orb that he now held. He grabbed it and carefully opened it to see what it said. He read the title 'Gender Changing Spell' and then read the list of materials needed for the spell.

Now if it were any other spell, he would probably put it back or use it to stir up a bit of fun. But this one had some other effect on him. Happosai sat down and pulled out his pipe to think. He knew he had put it there for a reason and not with the rest of his other scrolls of spells. In his pondering, he scanned the room trying to see if any thing jogged his memory. He knew that it had to do with his students or at least one of them. Glancing over to Genma's pack he knew which one it was as some of the memory came back. He them turned his attention to where Ranma's pack should be, but found that it was missing. He got up and went over to the spot; then turned back to face his own stuff. "Oh! That right. I put it there because it didn't work and I didn't want my students to find it." He said putting his fist into his hand in front out him. "I guess I'll have to try it get it to work on Ranma after I find out where he went off to..." the image of a complete female Ranma dancing through his head serving him dressed in his silky darlings. That when the door opened and a panda named Genma entered the room.

"Where's Ranma? I've got something for him," Happosai asked extending his finger at Genma.

'With his Mother,' said a sign held by a shivering panda.

"When will he be back?"

'In a few days…' said another sign. Flip 'Hope the boy doesn't let her know about the curse.' The Panda gave a mighty shutter at what that would entail.

"So where are they?" Happosai asked; but only got a shrug from the panda man. So he opted to find Ranma himself and see if Ranma would play with him. Happosai jumped out the window and was gone over several houses in seconds.

The panda just sweat dropped. The rest of the evening when on pretty peacefully on Nerima standards; which meant that if a normal person looked at them they would have to buy a gun and shoot then selves before they were attacked by some strange school of art. (Hehe)

The only thing that was to note was the fact that Nabiki was going through her notebook furiously in to the late night. She was going to have to have a word or two with the two idiots that called themselves fathers.

Nabiki awoke early the next day before any one else and started to make several calls that lasted in total of a half an hour. Then in another hour she found every one that she called at her door with large amounts of money in their hands and a contract in the other. She noted that there are even some people that aren't even part of the normal group that showed up; which intrigued her slightly as she could see the race for Ranma getting even wider and will make it even greater to watch. In the back of her head she was going to hit Genma because they were probably more fiancées that got tipped off by other than she sent the word to. She was surprised that Kuno hadn't shown up after call him about that she had information of Ranma and his pigtail goddess. Fifteen minutes later, Genma came down to see what all the noise was about found himself tied up and hanging from a pole that wasn't in the yard last night. At the entrance to the gate, Nabiki pulled out a load speaker and called "All accounted for and paid for round one!"

This brought every one else in the house to the back door to see what was going on. Genma looked all round him only to find that he was surrounded by 17 teenaged girls with evil grins on their faces and cracking their knuckles or brandishing a blunt weapon. Nabiki couldn't believe that she only thought this up last night. She could have been making a killing if she did this earlier. Right know she had gained enough to repair the house and buy plenty of new things such as a cell phone for the entire family, excluding their fathers of course. For her, everything was going according to schedule and wit in several hours she would have to confront the police sent to take Genma away and press charges about many things that she was prepared to dodge, or solely stick on Genma if she couldn't pay it off cheaply.

Of course at about noon, came a knock on the door and Kasumi went to answer it. (She didn't like watching violence, but had fun since it was Genma getting the pounding.) Of course Nabiki made sure that they didn't use cold water to bring Genma back to the world when he did pass out; she didn't want a panda, but she was thinking about a panda rug that might be on the table if some one did go too far…

Kasumi lead five men in the backyard where everyone was and then went to go get tea. Three of the men where police officers and the other two looked like lawyers judging by the way they were dressed and had a briefcase at their side. Nabiki was about to call another round of 'beat on Genma' when she noted them standing at the door.

"May I help you gentlemen?" Nabiki asked walking up to them with her notebook handy and several other documents.

"Yes we are here to for several reasons. One happens to be the capture of a Saotome, Genma for several crimes and possibly more. Also we have come to inspect and bring formal charges against your family for property damage, underage pornography, robbery and theft, and housing of the panty thief and other criminals," One of the officers said as the other surveyed the yard full of girls.

"Well the Genma you're looking for is right there" Nabiki pointed to the very beat up fat man hanging from a poll.

"It looks like you all got several good hit on him," one of the lawyers said, turning his gaze from Genma to all the girls in the yard. Genma was kept bound as he was tossed into the back of the police vehicle, unconscious. The five men noted the displeasure the mob of girls showed while they did so, so they kept their distance from them.

"I take it that you're Tendo Soun?" one of the Police officers asked Soun showing him several papers for the capture of Genma and several for others for charges brought on his family.

"May I see those?" Nabiki asked as she tapped the policeman on the shoulder.

"Umm... sure," the officer replied handing the packet of papers to Nabiki, which she quickly flipped though to make sure of the certain clauses were in them and others were not. She smiled to herself, realizing that she had over prepared herself the night before. Sure Genma was a loss to then at the moment, but she will deal with that later.

All she had to do to keep the government out of their lives was call in a few favors and hire a few people to do some cover-up work, and this mess would fix itself.

The officer watched as she dialed in a number on the cell that she pulled out of her pocket. Within seconds, she was talking in code and gained a mischievous grim that meant that she got more then what she had asked for. Nabiki walked to the front gate and leaded up against it, obviously waiting for something.

Within five minutes a limo pulled up to the house and a woman in a black work-dress stepped out and walked up to Nabiki holding a briefcase.

"Good afternoon Mrs. Shair. I thought that your husband would be the one coming to help out?" Nabiki asked the woman as they shook hands.

"Yes, so did I. but he felt that I would be able to handle it since he's right now cowering in the corner of the office," the woman replied with a smirk on her face that said power shark.

"Well, we have some claims and other outrageous things put against us that I would like to have them swept away by tonight," Nabiki said, leading the woman and motioning the needed people into the living room so they could talk about the problems at hand.

Soun could tell that it was going to be a long night by the way the lawyers handled themselves and opened their suitcases.

At the Nekohanten, Shampoo was getting ready to go deliver a bowl of ramen when Mousse come rushing in screaming.

"My dear Shampoo! Ranma has finally fled and we cam be together at last!"

He then promptly got hit by several large plates from Shampoo.

"Great Grandmother say we should stay at Café and let her deal with problem right now," Shampoo said walking over to Mousse and continued to serve the costumers their food. "Grandmother going to meet with person about Ranma. So quiet, duck!" she continued as she walked back into the kitchen.

In the back of the kitchen, Cologne was going through several books that she noted were about curses and spirits. She was mussing over several aspects that seemed very similar to each other within the books. She realized that the two were not very related, but she was thinking that the energies might be worked the same way. If so, then removing a particular cat curse from her great-granddaughter would be nothing and then they would have son-in-law in China in no time. All she would have to do is say that she would cure him for a price... her work would be going much faster if there wasn't a ominous felling looming over her about Ranma spending time elsewhere.

This of course presented several different options for her. She could have someone follow son-in-law or they could move the Nekohanten closer to where son-in-law was staying... she could even send a scout party after son-in-law to watch over him.

That was when she heard Shampoo scream and a duck quacking furiously. Bouncing over to the noise, she found Happosai being punched away from Shampoo's chest and flying in her direction. Cologne stepped out of the way as he flew by and into the wall. She hopped over to him as he got himself up. He looked up and was eye locked as they stared at each other for several moments reading each other.

To each it was apparent that the other was going to ask if they knew anything on Ranma's current location.

OK i know that this is short but i had to cover what was going on back here and set the mode for later interaction with these characters and put people in different places.aka Genma... also you will hear more about the other girls that showed up in this chapter. they're play some more rolles in events to come. plus we will start to see some of Kira's abilities and the powers that both have gained from their awakening.