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Chapter 5 All in the family

"Hello Nodoka. Yes, I am you. If you are watching this then Chi has arrived. I will not allow anyone in our family suffer anymore than they already have and I know that you feel the same way. I have much to tell you.

"It all started for my family when Shampoo and Cologne confronted Ranma about is Honor. They said that even though Our husband had made many promises, Ranma himself had only acquired one such obligation of honor."

Chi watched the screen while his 'Mother' sat next to him with her arms around him. She was still crying and it had been simplest for him to just watch the message that had been sent by the woman that had raised him as her own.

"Our son lived by one thing that he would never allow to be taken from him. His Honor. Cologne admitted that the penalty for Shampoo to go home without Ranma would be her death, or so she claimed. Ranma, in the end, gave in and married Shampoo. On the night he left with them to go back to China I over heard Ranma talking to Shampoo. He told her that in winning, she had lost. He said that even though his Honor demanded him to be her husband in name, he would never be her husband in spirit and even declared that he would NEVER touch her. She would never bare Ranma's child.

"The last I saw of Shampoo as she got on their plane she had the look of a broken woman in her eyes. I knew I would never have grandchildren. By this time, I didn't care. What happened after this I only know what I have been told. It seems that Ranma slept on the floor in his own home in China and Shampoo never pushed the issue. Cologne was upset but pretended that she knew nothing of what happened behind Shampoo's door."

"Ranma spent his time training and learning about the village. It seems he actually began making friends there. One of them was a young man named Wing Tsu. You will only need to look at Chi's face to know what Wing looks like. Chi's birth mother insists on that and would thank Kami that she had something too... I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.

"Wing had a crush on a warrior in the village but she wouldn't really have anything to do with him because she was the third greatest young female warrior in the village and Wing was simply a farmer. After weeks of being friends, Ranma offered to train Wing so that he can do a proper Amazon proposal. Wing accepted and after nearly a year of training Wing challenged Ling Pi and won, but many things happened during that first year while they trained.

"Ranma had been approached by a few of the other weaker males of the village and asked for training. Our son was happy to share his skills with dedicated students. It seems that they also had girls whose hearts they wanted to win.

"After a month of training with Wing and almost two months since Ranma moved into the village Mousse arrived. A shiatsu called Xi Fa Xiang Gao had been used on him to get him to forget about Shampoo. He eventually broke free of it. When he tried to confront Ranma he received a shock because Wing stood between them and would not let him attack his teacher. It seems that Wing Tsu was Mu Tsu's brother. He was only a year younger. When Mousse went for training, Wing stayed behind and took care of their family's farm which was one of the village's larger sources of food. Their family did well because of this. Wing had been supporting Mousse's training while Mousse was after Shampoo. Now it was Wing's turn to be trained to face the woman he loved.

"In an attempt to stop all fights between Ranma and Mousse, Ranma offered his house as a place for Mousse to stay. He said that Shampoo would like the company. That night Mousse saw The broken woman that Shampoo had become. He stayed in the guest room that night. He was woken the next morning by Ranma yelling at Shampoo. It seems that Cologne had seen Mousse arrive and had given Shampoo one last potion to give to Ranma in an attempt to acquire a child. Ranma had found the potion, unused, and started yelling at Shampoo. The last thing he told her before he left was that if another potion even entered his house, he would kill himself and remove Shampoo's chances of ever being a mother.

"As Ranma left, Shampoo broke completely. Mousse could do nothing more than to try and comfort the woman he had loved. The last thing Shampoo needed was a man spouting about love, she needed her oldest friend back, and Mousse gave it to her. Mousse continued to live with Shampoo and Ranma, he helped Shampoo with the chores and they talked for long hours at a time. She eventually started to return to her former happy state.

"I know that I'm making Ranma seem like a bad guy, but you must know that when Cologne confronted him and forced him to marry Shampoo, he admitted to everyone he loved Akane and would never forget her. He was HERS and she was the only one he would willingly give himself too. While Mousse stayed in his home Ranma actually started to be friendly to Shampoo again and it began to seem like just a house full of old friends.

"Until one night. They all finished dinner and were getting ready to go to bed. Shampoo went first, but when he got to the room he shared with Shampoo all he found was a note that said : 'The bed is yours tonight.' The next morning he was up early and saw Shampoo leaving Mousse's room. As he looked at her she suddenly became afraid of him and froze with a pale look on her face. She didn't have the look of someone who had done anything other than sleep, but she was still afraid of being seen leaving another man's room by her 'Husband.'

"Ranma simply walked up to her and put his arms around her. He held her and told her the following : 'When I said I didn't want you to have my child, I never meant you shouldn't ever be a mother. I just wanted us happy. HE makes you happy.' She cried in his arms and Ranma looked up to see Mousse looking out his door with an apologetic look on his face. Ranma just smiled and lightly moved Shampoo over to him. Ranma released Shampoo and Mousse took over holding her. She never slept in Ranma's room again."

"Thing were fine until Shampoo discovered she was pregnant. Instead to being happy, she was terrified of what could happen if people found out she had a child that was not her husband's. Ranma offered to allow others to think it was his. He said he deserved to save as much face for Mousse and Shampoo as he could.

"Finally the day of Wing's challenge arrived. It had been a hard year and many of the women had found out about the training men and some had even watched them secretly. A few women had even gone so far as to start taking picks from the very promising students that Ranma was training, but first challenge had been reserved for Wing and Ling. Ling, it seems, also had a crush on Wing but never thought that they could be together, she was a warrior and he was a weak farmer. She was crying tears of joy when she lost... honestly.

"That was only the beginning of the end of the Amazons. They are dead now, many killed by Ranma and his friend Ryouga. You have to hear everything before you can pass judgment. Many of the elders were not happy about Ling's marriage. They believed that they couldn't breed strong warriors for their village if 'weak' males were marrying their strongest warriors.

"They confronted Ranma and demanded that he stop training the men. They said that if he wished to train warriors he could train any of the women in the village. To their surprise, and especially Cologne's, he easily agreed on the condition that he pick the women he trained. The elders watched for weeks as he trained the women. They could tell Ranma's former male students were still training themselves, but they could never catch Ranma training them when he was busy training some of the prettiest single female warriors in the village. The truth is the men were being trained by Mousse now.

"Ranma had given Mousse the Saotome family scrolls to train the men with as an act of trust and family. Finally the day arrived to show off how much the women Ranma trained had learned. The elders were impressed. They never expected their warriors to improve this much. Mousse suddenly appeared with the men they he and Ranma had trained. The elders finally realized they had been had when they saw that the number of trained men was the same as the number of women Ranma had trained. All of the men challenged a warrior to a marriage fight.

"None of the men lost. Ling said that she even believed that a couple of women actually threw their fights, but that might have just been female pride.

"The elders were furious. They held a meeting and most of them chose to annul all of the marriages. Ranma tried to confront them about their decision but they refused to budge. And then they forced our son's hand.

"Someone discovered the truth about the father of Shampoo's child. She was attacked and beaten. She lost her child and had a leg crippled, and had even been blinded. When Ranma discovered this he confronted the elders again. None of them would claim responsibility and many had not even known about the attack.

"Ranma told them that they had made a grave mistake and that they would pay. Everyone could tell that war would be soon when Ranma was followed by Cologne and a couple of other elders, a civil war among the amazons.

"About this time Ranma learned that Ling was pregnant with Wing's child.

"The first thing Ranma did that night was to go to Wing and Ling. He knew that both would want to fight together with him, but Ranma would not allow another child to be lost. Wing convinced Ranma to let him stay, but both Ranma and Wing convinced Ling to leave for the sake of the child. Ranma sent her to the one place he trusted them to be safe.

"He sent her to us. She arrived one day shortly after lunch with a letter from Ranma. It had been almost four years since Ranma had left. I still have that letter and I put a copy on this DVD. It told us everything. It also said that the only man that Ranma would truly trust to be able to protect the child was his father, our husband. He told Genma that he would need to unseal the Umi senken and the Yama senken. Genma vowed that Ling's child would come to no harm. He would die for the child. It had been obvious that Ranma saw Wing and Ling as family for him to ask for this.

"I don't know many of details about the war, just what caused it to be ended. I was with Ling when she gave birth to Chi. She had grown into family for as well. Genma and I were surprised when she told us to adopt Chi. She was going to return to her husband's side and if need be, die by it. She wanted Chi to grow up in a real family though.

"I know we gave birth to Ranma, but we didn't raise Ranma. We raised Chi."

The screen cut to several picture of Chi with either Genma or Nodoka or both. They were in the order he grew up in and it was basically like seeing his life flash before his eyes. Only one picture of Chi showed him alone with someone other than Genma or Nodoka, Mina. They had been thirteen. It had been taken only a few weeks before Chi had begun his quest. The screen turned back to his Mother.

"After Ling left, tragedy struck here in Nerima. The elders were trying to cause Ranma to lose control. They felt if he lost control they could defeat him. They were wrong and it cost them their lives."

There were tears in her eyes and Chi knew what she as about to reveal.

"They sent an assassin. She killed Akane. The Tendo's fell apart and Ryoga left for China to tell Ranma. The last we heard was that Ranma and Ryoga blow up Jusenkyo where the final battle took place. His last act as a man was to avenge the death of the woman he loved."

Chi sensed someone behind him and turned around. There was Ranma, crying. From his posture Chi could tell that he had been in the Umi Senken, but Ranma could not hold back the tears hearing what his 'Mother' on the screen just revealed. Nodoka realized that her 'son' was looking at something behind them. She turned around and saw her first born son standing there in tears.

"Ranma!" Nodoka jumped up and rushed to Ranma and held him as he began crying. He began mumbling and ranting under his breath. Chi got up and walked over to the mother and son. He stood in front of them and wonder what he could do for them. Ranma looked up into Chi's face and suddenly punched Chi with a strike that was so strong that it drove him into and threw the television as well as the wall behind it.

Chi awoke later on the couch and looked up to see his mother looking down on him. She didn't look happy.

"You attacked Akane..."

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