AN1: At last, after two, count them, TWO, prologues in a row, the first chapter is here after how long? Don't answer that please.

AN2: I changed my mind about how I was going to do some things in this story, but luckily, what I had written previously in the story does not really conflict with these changes. Hell, some of them even can be seen as alluding to them. I got lucky I guess. What I did write that conflicts with these changes was all in author's notes, so, please disregard any expatiations you have from this story's future development from my previous author's notes.

AN3: I'll be covering all the major points in the training trip in this chapter, but a few of the timing of things may be off from your idea of when they happened. As I am confused on the order of a few things that happened in that trip, for it at times in canon was not very clear, I am just putting them in the order I think they happened in.

AN4: I'm still sick. Oh so sick. So updates will be about once a month until I'm better. But then again, I am updating multiple stories at once because of that though. So take your pick.

AN5: Thanks to GunnerRyu for going over this chapter.

TEN BAZILLION REASONS

ARC ONE

CHAPTER ONE

DOUBLE YOUR TRAINING

DOUBLE YOUR SUFFERING

Part 1.1

'Genma always said to us 'The path of a martial artist is fraught with peril.' It is more so when you're also a magical girl out to save the world and your instructor in the art is a grade A certifiable idiot that will try anything and everything to you in the name of training.

I thought I knew how bad the training trip would be. But I was wrong. Oh so very wrong.'

Quote from the Setsuna Meiou of the Time Line 4178

On a side road in rural Japan: five years and two weeks later

Setsuna was lying in her sleeping bag, while updating her mission log. She refused to call it a diary, so she called it her mission log. She had started it that first night she met the Saotome's and she was very lucky in the fact that no one would ever be able to find it and read it, for she had used her mental link to Chronos to set up a electronic mission log, IE a diary. And at the moment she was updating it with her thoughts.

'Well it's been two weeks since we have left the house, and the training is starting to get tough, nay, brutal. Ranma just takes the training with a big smile and an excited attitude, while I have to severely fake it. Being a part of this harsh training has given me a new respect for Ranma, for this is truly brutal, and it's only been two weeks! The truly tough parts are yet to come.

Surprisingly, Genma had set it up so while he's on this training trip with us, Nodoka will get all the checks for my care. He said we will 'Truly have to rough it.' It makes me wonder if all of those other Genma's I had watched did all that stealing with Ranma on purpose.

I'm looking at Ranma at the moment. He's asleep and looks so cute right now. He's also smiling happily at the moment in his dreams. I just hope that I can make this Ranma's life a little happier then his counterparts in the other realities I've seen.

Well, I'm tired, I'm going to log off now and get some sleep.'

And with that, a weary Setsuna Meiou went to sleep.

On a side road in rural Japan: about a year later

During the past year, Setsuna had been really trying to smarten Ranma up to the world and Genma's untrustworthiness. But it had taken this to happen for him to realize the truth that his best friend in the whole wide world, as far as Ranma was concerned, to sink in.

They had just spent two weeks playing with a new friend, U-Chan, and they had left her and taken their cart with them. And Ranma just found out the reason why from his best friend. Well some of it at least.

"You telling me that Genma promised to take U-Chan with us to her father, and she was running after us because of that?"

Setsuna nodded, glad she at least got Ranma aware of Uyko's gender in this reality. "And this cart we got, it was the payment from her father for taking her with us?" Setsuna nodded again. "Damn him! We gotta go back and get her!" Ranma said, turning around to wake up and confront his sleeping father.

Setsuna grabbed Ranma's arm and said "No! Don't" To which Ranma turned around and asked with a hiss

"Why not!?!"

"Because, your father never had any intention of ever honoring that pact!" Setsuna hissed out.

"What!?!" Ranma softly yelled in his shock.

"Ranma, your father, and I hate to say it to you, is not that honorable a man. Be quite and listen to me and then think back on things Ranma! Just think on how he's told you to act to be honorable, and then compare that to how he acts himself! Does he act like he tells us an honorable person acts? No he doesn't!" Setsuna hissed at Ranma.

Ranma looked shocked, then contemplative, and then he looked like his world had shattered.

"You're right." He whispered. "My dad acts almost completely opposite to the way he say's we should? Why?" He asked his best friend.

"I really don't know Ranma, I really don't know. I all do know is that you shouldn't confront him about this." Setsuna told Ranma.

"Why?" Ranma asked.

"Because, well, he never intended to keep his promise to Mr. Kuonji, and if he knows that you are getting wise to his less then honorable nature, I don't know what he will do." Setsuna said.

"What do you mean by that?" Ranma asked Setsuna.

"Can we talk about this later? We do need to get some sleep tonight, right?" Setsuna asked.

"Yeah we do, but this conversation isn't over!" Ranma said, and then he went into his sleeping bag.

As Setsuna went in to hers, she promised herself to do better in the future.

A field in rural Japan: a few weeks later.

Setsuna was crying, while Ranma was silent with shock. She had tried to stop it, she really had. Once Genma mentioned the Neko-Ken, she fought it tooth a nail, and Ranma, seeing her fright, had too. But it didn't matter. Genma wanted to teach them it, and he overpowered them and did so.

They had learned it at the exact same time, and then took to mauling Genma. As Setsuna turned her tearing eyes on him as he lay rapped in lairs and lairs of bandages, for they had tried to kill him in their feral rage, and had very nearly succeeded at that, her eyes narrowed in hatred.

Ands then her heart broke at the sound of Ranma whispering "Never again. I'll never trust him again."

The empty lot behind Ryoga's house: four years later

Setsuna prepared herself. She would stop this at least. She was tense, waiting for Genma to strike, yet she did not count on the double KO that he delivered to both herself and to Ranma at the same time. As she fell unconscious, she thought 'Damn.' Before she blacked out.

Jusenkyo China: six years later

Ranma and Setsuna were sitting outside the guides hut in the rain as to be nowhere near Ranma's father at the moment, least they kill him. Setsuna was in a funk, for she could stop nothing bad from happing on this trip. It was like reality it's self was against her. In fact that's what she suspected. That reality it's self really was conspiring against her, because it wanted these things to happen to Ranma. It was very disconcerting, because Setsuna was worried what this meant for her plans when they reached Nerima. She shuddered.

"What's wrong Set-chan?" A currently female Ranma was asking Setsuna.

Setsuna looked at him, no right now it was a her with teary eyes and said "I'm just thinking on what could and will happen in the future." She honestly said. Not that she had a choice in the matter. For while Ranma had fallen in the 'Spring of Drowned Girl', she had fallen in the 'Spring of Drowned Truthsayer' and now could not tell any lie after being splashed with cold water. But at least partial truths and omissions were ok.

"Yeah. Pop's sure screwed it up big this time, huh?" Ranma said with a scowl on her face. "I bet it will take me weeks to get used to this body and get it in top fighting condition." She said looking at her self.

'At least Ranma is not the chauvinistic asshole he was when he got the curse like he was in other dimensions. I mean, this Ranma has no problem with thinking girls are an inferior gender, thanks to my influence. I'm actually surprised he got the girl curse this time around. I mean the springs are a punishment and a teaching tool. I know this, and I can see why Genma got his curse, and why I got mine even. I'm lying to everyone and hardly ever tell the full truth even when I tell the truth. But Ranma? He or right now she, isn't the chauvinistic bastard he was when he first got the curse, so why did the springs choose Girl for Ranma? Why not something else?' Setsuna asked herself silently.

Then Ranma stood up and asked Setsuna, breaking her from her thoughts "I need to practice in this body. Care to spar?"

Setsuna then looked up at her and smiled and said "Sure."

A cliff looking over the sea in China: a few months later

"Jump and swim for it!" Genma shouted as he jumped over the side of the cliff to the sea below as the two Amazon hunters following them approached.

A currently female Ranma asked to a currently truth telling Setsuna "They sure are sore losers, aren't they?"

"Yes." Was all Setsuna trusted herself to say in a clipped tone of voice.

"Shall we beat them again and then follow the old fart?" Ranma then asked.

"Sure." Was Setsuna's reply as Shampoo launched her self at Ranma while the Amazon that Setsuna had accidentally beaten, Sink, launched herself at her.

EAN1: Well I'm not totally happy with the way this chapter turned out, but I'm posting it, for I don't think I can do better on it. I've been trying to for far too long as it is. But tell me what you think on it in a review.

EN2: Also, as I said last time, this chapter was short. I'll try to make the next one respectable in length, hopefully that is.

Well thank you for reading this, good bye for now.