Kasumi in the time-loops.

Kasumi politely listened while her honored father explained the reasons for the arranged marriage between Clan Tendo and Clan Saotome. She might have heard it before but that was no reason to be impolite and interrupt. She knew about Ranma-kun and his curse and how he would fall for her youngest sister.

And she knew how easy it was to bring the two of them together. She just had to send him to the bathroom five minutes earlier to avoid that embarrassing encounter altogether and after they heard Saotome-san's tale of Jusenkyo, she would only have to ask Ranma-kun that he should wait a month before he chose his fiancée and after that she only had to remind Ranma-kun of his manners at the table and two weeks later Akane-imouto-chan and him would start dating and taking care of their problems themselves in a mature manner instead of acting like children again.

Which gave her the time pursue her interests in the arts of cooking, healing and magic. Ever since Saotome-san and Ranma-kun arrived and demonstrated their curses, Kasumi was aware of magic, but it took returning to this day to show her that she was destined for the mystic arts.

At first she had no idea where to start, but she remembered her youngest sister's tales of her brother-in-law's adventures and their encounters with various objects of uncanny power.

In China there was of course the valley of Jusenkyo with its eldritch curses, the Jusenkyo company with their various trinkets, and the villages of the Amazons with their collections of mystical artifacts, but all three were far away and offered only power, no understanding.

In Japan one could find a sword that would fulfill one's wishes, but every child had heard tales how such things would always do what was said and not what was wanted - how similar they were in that respect to computers - and how dangerous it was to reveal one's dreams to another. It was always best to keep wishes to oneself and work to achieve one's dreams in time.

There were foolish painters who would create cursed paintings to entertain the masses for a pittance. Those had doomed themselves and were to be left alone lest oneself would follow them to one's end. Kasumi was grateful that she had avoided such pitfalls in the past and hoped that she would do the same in the future.

There was a salesman who would sell his costumers the recipe for a cake that if baked by the costumer would tell if the consumer of the pastry was their destined love.

Another salesman who would sell paper dolls that once put on the body of another would force the wearer to follow the written orders. And a shop owner who would sell an instrument that would force the victim to love the bearer of this dark tool as if it was a harmless trinket. Kasumi mentally returned to the present and took care of those problems, before she continued her musings.

And there was another shop right in Nerima that once sold the egg of a Phoenix.

From her sister's tale she remembered how the owner had warned Tatewaki-kun of the dangers of the bird and how he was swayed by the younger man's disregard of money, a sure sign of nobility.

Back then in her first loop she had made her way to the small shop in a thoroughly ordinary street in her native Nerima, the district of Tokyo where she had lived all her life and never noticed any remarkable oddities before the arrival of her rather outspoken brother-in-law. Walking to the shop, she had tried to prepare herself for every kind of strangeness she could imagine and was somehow disappointed that her preparations were for naught. It was an ordinary antique shop in an ordinary building on an ordinary street corner. As was the norm for most antique shops it was filled to the ceiling with objects from Japan's glorious history. A suspicious person might have noticed the variety of items and the number of strange looking trinkets, but only for fear of damages by accident and having to purchase those items.

The shopkeeper was an old man bowed with age wearing warm clothing despite the nice spring weather and eager to help his costumers. He knew the properties of the items he was selling, despite his insistence that he did not believe in magic, possibly from a fear of being sued for damages when the purchaser inexpertly used the items. After a polite discussion and transaction of money, Kasumi was the new owner of a tome of healing spells.

Returning to her home, she began studying the book, but stopped when she began worrying about possible repercussions. She only wanted to help, but the experiences of the last year – or rather the coming year – made her wary of the consequences of her actions. After a week of meditation and introspection, in which she tried to mend fences between the youngest members of the household, she decided that like with medicine the spells she had chosen were designed to help people and should be used even if there were side effects.

Thanks to her diligent studies she could counter the magical side effects when they would show themselves, but there were also accidental personal side effects like Akane-chan's discovery of Hibiki's curse the day he arrived at school, Nabiki-chan's new interest in martial arts tea ceremony, Ranma-kun's friendship with Kodachi-chan, otou-san's yazunichuan curse, and Saotome-san's lengthy stay at the zoo. Despite all this changes the year ended more peacefully than the last and once again she found herself back at otou-san's introduction to the arrangement.

The following morning she found that she could still perform all the magic from the books she had purchased and decided to buy other ones, though she had feelings of dishonesty. This continued for a number of years until she found that the old man had only one other magic book to sell, but he could recommend shops in other parts of the city and over time Kasumi would have collected quite a library hadn't the books the habit of vanishing annually.

Her growing profiency attracted unwanted attention by other mages who saw themselves challenged by an upstart seemingly coming from nowhere with many years of experience. And like he always did before, Ranma-kun tried to help and became part of the challenges. Against impossible odds and insurmountable opponents with unpronouncable names, her young brother-in-law would rise to the challenge and defend his family.

Then again he would often arrive at the worst possible moment enraging her opponents to create even worse problems then those that he solved. She had sometimes wondered if he wasn't just acting to have fun at her expense.

Especially when she had found out that the timeloops were somehow connected to him. Many times she had tried to see if there was a concious connection and if she could break out of these loops but it appeared that magic powers could reach back and forward in time but not in the sideways direction that these loops took.

As her powers grew the number of challenges diminished and the last of her fights weren't even noticed by any human mages. They were completely outside the realm of their senses and even Ranma-kun did nothing to interfere even by implication.

Now she physically sat in the living room of her ancestral home looking forward to Ranma's arrival since she still hoped he could give her a clue to the nature of this strange phenomenon she has now experienced more than three hundred times.

But spiritually she sat on the throne of this creation trying to unravel the threads of existence to find the temporal loop.

In her mind she spoke to all that heard the flows of magic in this reality. "Hello dear Universe, my name is Tendo Kasumi. It's nice to meet you all again."

And the worlds trembled at the sound of their master's voice.

The book of Megami-Sama Kasumi. A quiet story, but it's very hard to imagine Kasumi fighting. Probably boring for everybody else, but at least it ends with an intro. :)

Part three of the Fics from Outside of Mainstream Accepted Opinion! Innortal wrote that Ranma has to be alive so the loop wouldn't start again, but he never said that he has to be Awake and I never mentioned that he had died.