Author's Notes

So anyway, as you may have noticed, I decided to rewrite this whole thing after being inactive for years. Not that anyone cared. Anyway, it was old. Plot will be almost completely different, if I even had a plot to begin with (I forgot), but I'll keep some stuff.

Anyway, I haven't written fanfiction in 3 years, and I've hardly touched this series at all in the same amount of time, so if there's any out-of-character-ness or discrepancies with the canon anyone notices, please let me know! Other types of reviews are also very, very welcome.

"Quotes": dialogue
Italics: Thoughts
(In parenthesis): Panda signs.

Disclaimer
I don't own Ranma ½.

Chapter 1: Here are the Saotomes

"Old man!" A young man with long, navy blue hair in a ponytail yelled. "You sure this is safe?"

It was their tenth, and last, year in training, and Genma was leading them towards the ocean—seaport—to China, where destiny will take place, in the near future.

Genma looked back impatiently, yelling, "Safe? There's never safety in a martial artist's life! Hisoka, I didn't think you'd be such a coward!"

"Who you calling a coward?" The boy named Hisoka snapped, jamming his elbow into Genma's bald head.

"So are we goin' to China or not?" Ranma asked, staring off into the glittering surface of the ocean. The determined expression on Ranma's face told of his willingness to even swim there if necessary.

"Dammit!" Ranma complained. "Just because I looked like I was ready to swim across doesn't mean I actually meant it!"

The trio was, at the moment, floating on some logs that magically appeared in the middle of the ocean when they were about to die from exhaustion. (The Takahashi wizards did it!)

"It's part of the training!" said Genma cheerfully. His younger companions glared four daggers at him.

"Would getting chased by over thirty hungry sharks also be part of the training?" Hisoka remarked sarcastically.

"Well, then you can be thankful that it didn't happen."

Ranma pulled himself onto a log. "Oh, it did, but you were sleeping. We were gonna feed you to them…"

"Then decided it wasn't a good idea to rouse their appetite, so we made a break for it," Hisoka finished. "You need to lose some weight."

"This ain't so tough, Pop!"

"Ready, boy?"

"Oh sirs! What you doing?!"

Splash! Splash! Splash!

Tendo Dojo

"FIANCÉ?!"

Almost on cue, they heard a polite knock at the door.

"They must be here!" Soun exclaimed. He and Nabiki rushed to welcome whatever was there. Nabiki slid open the door and stared into the face of a handsome young man who, unfortunately, was soaked to the bone.

"Um…this is the Tendo dojo…right?"

"Yeah!" Nabiki grinned widely. "You must be a Saotome?" Soun sprinted to the doorway.

"Are you Ranma or Hisoka?" He asked.

"Hisoka..."

"Where are your father and brother?" Soun questioned. Hisoka smirked at the word "brother."

"Oh, they'll be along in a few days." He replied casually. "I think. May I come in, perchance?"

"Lemme go, Pop! I said, I don't want to!"

Soun looked around. It had been two weeks since the first Saotome arrived. Annoyed at his old friend's lack of timeliness, he wanted to take a stroll around the neighborhood. Unfortunately, five minutes after he left, it started raining, so he dejectedly went back home and sat at the table.

"Visitors!"

Soun and Nabiki were the first ones at the door, Nabiki with the thought that with a brother like Hisoka, Ranma had to be even cuter.

"Leggo of me, ya ol' fart! You're scarin' 'em spitless!"

Soun and Nabiki ran back to Akane and Kasumi without even slowing down, the latter who had stayed behind because they weren't as looking forward to meeting Genma and Ranma as the others.

"This is your friend, dad?" Nabiki asked incredulously. Soun violently swiveled his head from side to side. "So then who is this, huh? Don't expect us to believe that a random panda just showed up at our door, I mean, hey: happens all the time!"

Soun ignored his daughter and looked closely at the redhead the panda set down. "You wouldn't be…"

"Ranma Saotome. Sorry 'bout this."

"I knew it! He is cute!" Nabiki commented happily.

Soun pulled Ranma into a big bear hug when he noticed something's wrong. "A g-g…girl?!"

Soun finally woke up.

"Um…Mr. Tendo? Are you all right?"

The voice was unfamiliar, but almost unmistakably male. At least, to Soun it appears so.

"Ahh! Ranma! I just had the strangest dream that you were a—" He stopped talking when he sat up and saw an extremely buxom redheaded girl, with his daughters sitting on her left. "It…wasn't a dream?"

"Ranma? What's wrong with Saotome? He specifically stated two sons!"

Meanwhile, one very fat, tire-kicking panda was barely resisting the strong urge to whack its—or should we say his—old friend on the head.

"Well… I guess at least we have Hisoka…"

Akane approached Ranma. "Hi! You wanna be friends?" Ranma looked up hopefully. "Do you know kempo?"

"A little," Ranma replied.

"Well why don't we have a little match? I promise I won't hurt you."

"Okay."

After a few quick dodges, Ranma leaped over Akane's head and tapped the back of her head. They suddenly both started laughing. "I'm just glad you're a girl."

"Huh?" Ranma looked up, surprised.

"It's just…I'm glad you're not a guy. I would hate to lose to a guy."

Hisoka sat Indian-style outside the dojo door, admiring the koi pond while grinning to himself, imagining what Ranma's face must look like.

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Slam.

"There's a PERVERT in the bathtub! Ugh! As if one boy in the house isn't enough already!"

The young man we all know as Ranma Saotome was found, dressed now and standing in the hall, scratching his head. "Um…'scuse me…"

The whole family was sitting at the table once again, for the second round of awkward introductions, to the same people, in the same day.

"Who are you?" Nabiki demanded.

"Ranma Saotome. Sorry 'bout this."

"Are you really the same girl we saw before?" Kasumi asked.

"I am." Ranma didn't sound like his usual self.

"So what happened? How?" Nabiki asked. Akane was on the farthest left, still in her kempo uniform. Both her fists were clenched and her expression was a mixture of being betrayed and just plain mad.

Genma spoke up. "I'll explain—"

"You were too busy admiring getting beat up to know what was going on. Let me," said Hisoka mildly.

/Flashback

Ranma, Hisoka, and Genma finally arrived at the infamous cursed springs of Jusenkyo. "Well here we are, boys. The training grounds of Jusenkyo."

The short guide humbly walked up to them. "Here, sirs, are legendary training grounds of Jusenkyo! Though no one use anymore."

"Eh…" Hisoka's voice faltered. "This place gives me a bad feeling."

"What, son? You will stay here and train along with Ranma and I! No excuses!"

"Yeah, little brother, ya scared you'll fall and get eaten by big bad sharks or somethin'?"

Yashi shot him a dirty look. "You're the one who almost got eaten, not me. I'll show you scared!"

Ranma laughed as he switched his gaze back to the training grounds. "Hey this place ain't so tough, Pop."

"You ready, boy?" Genma jumped onto one of the poles sticking out of the clear water. Ranma followed. "I won't go easy on ya."

"Feh! That's just the way I like it!"

As Hisoka followed suit, the shrill voice of the little Chinese man startled him.

"Oh Mister Customers! What you doing!" The guide yelled. "There very tragic story in over a hundred spring here! Each spring very cursed!"

Ranma and Genma chose to ignore the scrawny guide, and continued sparring. Danger takes a different meaning for martial artists and weaklings. Hisoka, on the other hand, tripped on a small pebble as he tried to jump onto a pole, did a front-flip to regain his balance, and proudly performed a perfect landing in the direct center of a cold pool of water.

"Ah, that Nanniichuan, or Spring of Drowned Man! It good luck to you, sir, no affected!" The guide shouted with relief as he held up a wooden sign. "Very tragic story of man who drown in—"

Before he could finish, Ranma knocked Genma into the sign, shattering it into splinters. Carried by the momentum of Ranma's strike, he also fell into a large spring.

"Oh! That Shonmaoniichauan, or Spring of Drowned Panda!" The guide shouted to the martial artist, Holding up another sign that said "熊猫溺泉." "Very tragic story of rather large panda who drown in spring two thousand year ago!" Meanwhile, Ranma was staring intently at the rather large and almost panda-shaped spring.

"Hey Pop! We done already? You drown in there?" Ranma shouted impatiently at the pool. Ranma's eyes bulged at what he saw. A very large panda wearing a form-fitting gi and broken glasses rose from the water. "Wh-what the crap isthat?"

"That curse of spring! Now whoever fall in spring, take body of rather large panda!" The guide yelled to Ranma.

"Hey you never told us about—"

"Growlf!" Ranma flew backwards as the panda sucker-punched him. Ranma landed in a much smaller spring. The Jusenkyo guide rushed over and looked down at the pool.

"Ooh, too bad. You fall in Nyanniichuan, or Spring of Drowned Girl!" The guide said, holding up a sign that said "娘溺泉。" "There very tragic story of young girl who fall in spring, one thousand five hundred year ago!"

"Hey! That wasn't fair, I wasn't ready!" A feminine voice protested.

"Now whoever fall in spring, take body of young girl! See what I mean?" Meanwhile, Ranma was feeling rather strange. She looked down and saw bulges that should not exist. She closed her eyes and opened the front of her gi.

"-Insert manly scream in a girl's voice here-"

/End flashback

Hisoka looked at Ranma nervously. Genma had thrown him into the koi pond earlier for a demonstration and he had just changed back. Everyone's had unreadable, mixed expressions on their faces.

"I… see," Nabiki broke the silence. "So basically, you turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, and back into a guy when splashed with hot water? And Mr. Saotome turns into… a panda?"

"Yup."

Akane saw the glint in Nabiki's eye, and knew at once that this would not end well.

Author's note: Once again, reviews are appreciated! Even flames! Although flames make me a little sad. But I still appreciate them! It means people are actually reading my stories. Also, it'd be great if you note any grammatical errors, that you let me know!

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