Okay, I'm happy everyone likes the idea. I didn't get any sort of criticism so I must be doing something right. Luffy and the others won't be showing up for a little while. Start the fic.
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Unfortunately Ranma's new mother died three days after him and his sister were born so Ranma and Ranko lived with just their father for now.
Ranma now at the age of six was doing some basic training. When Ranma wished for a second chance he never thought that he would have to start his training at the very beginning.
Ranma knew that he probably shouldn't chance learning any of his trademark techniques until he got a little older like ten or something. Then he felt like his body could handle it. However, he could still use his ki to strengthen himself but because he was so young it wasn't as big as it used to be.
Ranko, amazingly enough, had no interest in martial arts what so ever. She'd rather just sit and quote unquote 'look pretty'.
"Ranma…lunch is ready." Called his new father.
"Coming Pops." Shouted back Ranma.
Ranma ran inside his new home and sat down for dinner. His new father was the Sheriff of Whale Island. People called it Whale Island because the island itself looked like a whale.
His father's name was Darius but Ranma just called him Pops.
"Where's your sister?" asked Darius.
"I think she's playing tea party again." Said Ranma.
"Well could you go get her before her food starts to get cold?" asked Darius.
"Okay Pops but I won't let her try to talk me into a dress like she always does." Said Ranma.
Ranma went to the edge of Whale Island's forest and found Ranko wearing a girly girl dress pretending to drink tea.
"There you are Mrs. Nezbit! You're late for the tea party!" said Ranko.
"For the last time Ranko I'm not playing tea party with you! Never have, never will." said Ranma.
"You never want to play anything! Not tag, not hide and seek, not dollies…"
Ranma sweat dropped at that last one. Did she honestly expect for him to play dollies? Sometimes Ranma could hardly believe she was his sister let alone the girl who drowned at Jusenkyo.
"Not anything! It's almost as if you were born a grown up or something!" said Ranko.
Ranma rubbed the back of his neck and laughed uneasily.
"Where do you come up with this stuff?" asked Ranma.
Ranko eyed him incredulously for a moment or two.
"Come on. Pops has lunch ready and it's probably getting cold." Said Ranma.
Ranko sighed and started to follow her brother back to the house.
However, their eyes filled with horror as they saw the house lived in was on fire.
"Pops!" shouted Ranma.
Ranma ran up the hill and into the house despite his sister's protests.
Ranma called out for his new father despite the smoke and fire. It was so hot; it was at times like this he wished he hadn't given up the Ice Staff. The building was coming down around him but he didn't care he had to find the person he called 'Pops'.
His new father was a better father than Genma could have ever hoped to be. And damn it; he wasn't about to lose him so easily.
"Pops!" shouted Ranma.
A fiery support beam landed in front of him blocking his path.
Ranma was about to give up when he finally saw his father. He was trapped under a support beam.
"Don't worry Pops! I'm coming!" said Ranma.
Ranma almost reached him when the wall collapsed right in front of him. The wall was acting as a blockade now keeping him from his father.
"It's going to take more than that!" said Ranma.
Ranma channeled his ki and plowed through the wall. However, because of his small size and age he quickly lost his balance.
But Ranma had not time for that now. He quickly got up and moved over to his unconscious father.
"Pops wake up! Pops! You can't die on me!" said Ranma.
Ranma shook his father a couple of times but he didn't move. Ranma slapped his face a few times to try to wake him up. At first it seemed as if it didn't work but Darius slowly opened his eyes.
"Ranma…" stammered Darius.
"Come on Pops. We need to get you out of here. I think we can move this support beam if we work together." Said Ranma.
Ranma quickly moved under the beam.
"On the count of three. One…" said Ranma.
"Two…" said Darius.
"Three!"
With one mighty push they were able to get the beam off. Ranma got his father to lean on him as he begun to get him out of the burning building.
Ranma was beginning to think that wouldn't make it out of this alive. This just very well might be his last day on Earth.
But luck was on his side that day as a wall collapsed giving them a way out.
"Don't worry Pops! We're almost out!" said Ranma.
Ranma and Darius managed to get out of the house and Ranma laid him on the grass. The villages were already there trying to put out the fire.
One of the villagers made their way over to them.
"Darius! Who did this to you?" asked the villager.
Darius flinched with pain.
"Remember those pirates yesterday who I wouldn't let into the village?" asked Darius.
"You mean to say THEY did this? But I just saw them set sail!" said the villager.
"Shut up you stupid moron! Can't you see how badly he needs a doctor?" asked Ranma.
The villager ran off to find the doctor.
Darius turned to Ranma and smiled.
"Ranma, I am so very proud of you my boy." Said Darius.
Unfortunately the fire had left Ranma's father with some internal bleeding. The doctors would try but could not be able to stop it. The condition is terminal.