CHAOS SQUARED - FIRST ARC

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Chapter 1

In Asgard

Ranma was promptly dumped onto his back, "OWWW!" he yelped as his tail bone was promptly smashed against the hard ground. His first thought was, 'How come I didn't land on my feet?' The second thought was when he saw Nabiki falling down at him, "Oh shit, Nabiki!' and caught her.

There was a commotion around him and he looked around quickly to find... strange looking people.

There was a woman who walked up to them and said, "Saotome Ranma?"

Ranma nodded.

"I'm Belldanday, Goddess Second Class, Second Category, Limited, . Follow me. Kami-sama would like to meet you."

"... What about Nabiki?"

"Oh my, another person will take care of her."

"Who?"

"Her mother."

Ranma nodded and followed Belldandy. They were walking when he noticed that he had gotten different looks from others as they passed, like hositiity to lust to curiosity to indifference. Belldandy said, "Don't worry about it. You're the first one to get here via System Bug."

"System Bug?"

"Yes, my younger sister was chasing a System Bug..." the young girl with black hair in the background blushed, "...that was on your chest at the time and that caused you to go into cartiac arrest."

"What?! You mean I died!" Ranma exclaimed, "... Wait a minute, why am I talking better?"

She just smiled and held her hand to the door. Ranma understood, the answers would be waiting for him by Kami-sama Himself.

As he walked throght the door, what he saw surprised him. It was just like a normal office. A a few plants, a chair, and a man sittign behind a big desk. Ordinary enough.

When the man looked up, Ranma froze. In the man's eyes, he saw stars. He saw constallations. He saw the nevereding stretch of space itself. What broke him out of his reverie was when the man started to laugh.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha." Ranma looked a bit embarrassed at being caught staring, Kami-sama inclined his head and started, "Well, Ranma. It's a pleasure to finally meet you."

"Uh, my pleasure, sir." Ranma said, but felt a twing and thought, 'Something's wrong.'

"Oh yes, something is wrong." Ranma froze as He continued, "Yes, I can read you mind too. Right now, the doctors and nurses are trying to revive you from complications from the training trip and your body should get restarted right about now." Ranma suddenly felt a pull on him, but that was it as she continued, "The other reason why you are talking better is that the shiatsu points that your 'father' had put on you have been removed when your ki stopped flowing when you died and is now reset."

"What shiatsu points?"

"As you know, shiatsu is a very powerful on the human body. What happened was that your father 'found' and ancient scroll stating how to arrest or block certain things. One of those things, believe it or not, was to puberty."

Ranma's eyes went wide, "What?!" It did not look good to him.

Kami-sama sighed, "Well, let start at the beginning..."

At another place in Asgard,

A mother and daughter were hugging like there was no tomorrow. Nabiki said after the long hug, "I miss you, Mother."

"I miss you and everyone else too." Nabiki's mother said, "I'm sorry."

"Why?"

"For the trouble that I have caused." Nabiki was about to protest when she continued, "It's not dying. I knew that my time was up, but for the WISH."

"Wish?"

"Yes, a goddess came to me before I died and gave me a wish. I wished for my family to have happy lives and strong spouses, but something went wrong. It was only know when the System Bug was killed on Ranma and Ranma died that the wish problem became known."

"What went wrong?"

"It seems that the wish was processed, but not until later was it discovered that only partially done. Akane was the only one who received benefits. The WISH actually took your luck with Nabiki and Soun's and transferred it to Akane. Also, the Ultimate Force, the one force that drives the universe. The Ultimate Force cannot directly influence anyone, so it could do something like push a person on a different road by having an avalanche cover one road or have a large swarm of bugs push the person to a particular path. It made it so that Akane would have the best life and the strongest husband, so it used our family and the Satomes to fullfull it. It kept you at home for Akane's sake, you became the money-maker, Kasumi became the housewife and it forced Soun to be the nominal head. If any of you were to grow up and leave the house then Akane-chan would not get the best therefore all of you had to be sacrificed." Nabiki looked stunned as she continued, "You was supposed to work in working mangas, Kasumi was supposed to go into medicine, Soun was supposed to be a head of a prestigious Dojo, Akane was to marry Dr. Tofu because he couldn't tell Kasumi that he loved her. Also, he was also there to stop Akane from being attached to someone else. That is why the Satomes were also affected. Ranma was seen as the best choice, but too headstrong. He had to be 'controlled' so that Akane would have a good life."

"Controlled?"

"Akane's idea of a good life is to be in the limelight. Ranma was mainly there to back her up and be her outlet for her anger and insecurities."

"Mother..."

"Don't 'Mother' me because I saw what she did to Ranma. Her ability to hit Ranma and her ki-mallet was given to her by the Ultimate Force to control him. Heck, she lived with him, the Satome's were indebted to the Tendos since they didn't pay rent and had hot meals, and the Tendo-Satome Agreement were big things. The biggest occurred when Nodoka took Akane's side to be Ranma's bride and that only started because the Ultimate Force made Akane come at her very best.

"It made it very, very easy for Genma to steal and become lazy. Ranma suffered the most since he was to be 'strong', but had to be controlled by Akane. Situations like Genma 'finding' the Nekkoken Scroll and missing the last part because he was drunk and then getting pages that had the warning 'coincidentally' stuck together. He brushed off the fact that he put Ranma at age seven though the training schedule that he had when he was under Happosai when he was in his twenties, etc. His plan to take away Ranma's social aptitude to make him easier to control The fianc es, rivals, and unusual happeneings were part to get them together. Even Jusenkyo was part to keep Ranma in check. The biggest crime was when Genma used the shiatsu to stop him from going into puberty."

"WHAT!!" The yell could be hear all over Asgard.

Back in Kami-sama's office,

Kami-sama continued, "Genma blocked off the places where puberty would begin, but it wasn't really his fault." Ranma skeptically looked at Him, "An... interfering individual gave him the scroll and told him that you would learn better. Plus that it will let you focus more on martial arts than girls. Also, the Ultimate Force knew you would overcome this eventually, so it made an extra obstacle... brain damage in the area where puberty would have originated. Right now you are 17, but have not started puberty yet. Now that your ki had stopped for that brief moment, the blocks diappeared. The doctors are going to give you a full examination, find the damage and will be able to repair it." Before Ranma could question why, Kami-sama answered his question, "The main reason was to stop you from becoming close to a girl and away from him and Akane. It's only now that all of what you should have know has come together. Now that the block has been removed you are now experiencing what you should have known. Only here in Asgard will you experience what you SHOULD have been. When you go back, you will have to go through everything to learn how to be Ranma, the socialized person."

Ranma put his hand over his his bent head, "Didn't he realize that Mom would kill him for that. No wonder I had so much trouble and had been so clueless about girls and being too focused on Martial Arts." As this happened, his mind went back to the skimpy outfits of his fianc es and other girls and a sudden huge nosebleed launched him into the air and he knocked him out when he came down.

The gods and goddesses in Kami-sama's waiting are were startled when they heard Him laugh maniacally.

Kami-sama smiled as Ranma started to come too. He shook his head in sympathy because of what Ranma would experience now. Normally, once you are passed the age, you go through a mind mini-puberty. Ranma, on the other hand, will be get the full bout of it in a very short period of time as a legacy from the wish.

Ranma asked, "What happens now?"

"Well, " Kami-sama said, "You have some choices to make. The wish affected everyone in your life. Ryouga was taken care of by Akari." Ranma looked surprised, "Come on, how many girls out there who loves pigs, especially piglets and is really the only one to break Ryouga out of his obsession to Akane. His part was to keep you interested in Akane."

"The Kunos now will get help with their madness."

After a pause, He continued, "Ukyou's father will call her and tell her that he wanted her back. It seems that she left before he could tell her that he didn't care if she married Satome or not, but what happened was that later was that Genma returned the yatti."

Ranma stared in disbelief, "Returned?"

"Yes, it seemed that your father had a change of heart. Your father isn't ALL bad, just that he had a harsh life too and the Ultimate Force made being greedy and lazy so easy for him, otherwise these things would never have happened to you. Ukyou disappeared before her father could tell her. Miscommunication at its best. However, the Ultimate Force did some fancy changes so that he couldn't reach her until after the wedding. Shampoo would been killed because she failed to get you, but now will have something much worse. She will be an outcast from the Amazons because of 'politics'. It seems that Soap, the Hidden Weapon Mistress and Cologne's rival, enacted an obscure law that effectively stripped Cologne's family of their Amazon Heritage and all their possessions in the village. Shampoo will no longer have any reason to marry you now."

"Wow, that was harsh for Shampoo. I think that she has started to like Mousse."

"Indeed, it is bad, but things will be changing."

Ranma was surprised when he saw Nabiki coming in with a woman who he assumed was her mother. He couldn't help, but see that her mother resembled Akane and that dampened his spirits. He spoke to Kami-sama, "Why?"

"The wish that Mrs. Tendo had made has been removed, but it is up to you as to how it will proceed." Kami-sama said and held up a hand to forestall Ranma's question, "The wish affected you more than any other person. You went on an insane training trip, got ripped away from friends and family on a failed dream of your family, physically and emotionally suffered what no child should endure, got blamed by others for their own failings, and on top of that you got killed because some delusional people made by us. Throughout all this, you have persevered with a pure heart and made the most of your opportunities, even thought the Ultimate Force manipulated you on many occasions by dangling a cure in front of everyone's eyes." Ranma remained silent then nodded, "There are other... darker things you will find out, but it not the place for me to tell you."

They stayed back when Kami-sama said quietly, "Ranma, you have two choices. The first is to redo your life since the wish or to keep going with your old life. Both comes with consequences. If you choose to start over, you may not be as good as you are now in martial arts, but you will be more social. Events that had shaped your lfe will be different and therefore you may be different. You may or may not like what you will eventually become. The other is that you will be going through some changes that will probably get you into more trouble, but in the end everything will be alright."

As they all waited for his answer, Ranma looked at everyone else. Kami-sama was patiently waiting for his answer like Mrs. Tendo, but Nabiki had a gleem in her eye. He may have been dense, but he still recognized the look when she knew something. A look passed betwen them and Ranma made his decision...

Author's note:

I know, Akane was in a bad light, but not too bad. She was just a spoiled brat. Ranma isn't really much better, but at least he does have good reason as to why he is that way in his WAY too interesting life.