Suikoden One Half

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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Ranma 1/2. The Ranma 1/2 cast belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Nor do I own Suikoden 3 or any other characters that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any.

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Chapter 22 Part One - "I Can Explain Really I Can!"

Ranma is in a much too familiar situation, stuck in the middle of two sides of an argument. On one side are the girls that he had met when he first came to this world, and on the other are the girls he had met when he was sent back to his own world. Now the two groups are glaring at each other, just waiting for the other group to make a move. The only other guy that is sweating as much as him is Thomas since the girls are still hell bent on making him pay for causing this mess.

"So…," Emily growled, seeing that these new girls can give Anne and Kathy a run for their money, and those two were the biggest competition at the castle before the new girls showed up! Who knows what challenge these girls will give! "THEY have been traveling around with you, have they!" Ronnie Bell could not believe how her little baby could sound so hateful. She felt like crying.

Thomas is hiding behind Ranma, trying to make himself as small as possible. 'This is not my day! This is not my day!' he thought to himself with despair.

Juan looked on with a bored expression. "I see that you brought more people…again." It seems as if Ranma is making his life miserable again by bringing more potential students to the training center. At this rate he'll NEVER be able to laze around the castle again!

"We are really going to have to make the castle bigger for all of these new people," Sebastian commented while wiping his brow with a handkerchief.

"Soooo…is one of you…um…with Ranma?" Milia asked. She had hoped her daughter wouldn't jump to the wrong conclusions, but from the snarl on her face it is pretty clear that she did.

Landis smirked. "What do you mean one? All of them lady! These girls are all over him! Even sleeping in the same bed with him!"

"WHAT!" The castle's inhabitants screamed out. The girls who wanted Ranma for herself GLARED at the ones who were able to claim him. The tension had already been thick when they saw their new rivals and some even better built then either Anne or Kathy, but with that sentence they declared war. "I'LL KILL YOU!" Throwing caution to the wind they ran to the other girls, intent on showing that they mean business.

The six fiancées of Ranma stood in front of their friends, knowing that this battle is meant for them. Viki is hesitant to fight her friends. However, with their popping veins and maddened eyes she is not about to let them tear her apart. She and the other five braced themselves for the incoming fight.

"PREPARE TO DIE!" The first of the maddened group is about to hit the six women at the front. Then something unexpected happened.

A yellow bubble of energy sprang up in between the two factions, effectively separating and disorienting them. The castle girls looked in confusion and irritation at the thing separating them from their targets while the six fiancées and the girls behind them recognized what it is.

Iris had walked up to her father to give him a hug to welcome him back, despite the tensions going on around her. She had given one to her older sister already. After doing so Ranma whispered into her ear to stop the two groups from killing each other. She nodded and focused her powers to create a shield between them.

Thomas, in a moment of bravery (some might say stupidity), ran between the two groups when Iris' shield went out. He stretched his arms out in a gesture to stop. "Stop it! Please! Stop this madness!"

The image of the visibly shaking and sweating lord of the castle is enough to drain the fight out of the two groups of women, much to Thomas' great relief. Both groups sheathed their weapons.

Thomas slumped down to the ground, looking around in wonder. He had stopped them! He did it! He is still alive!

"THOMAS! THIS IS YOUR FAULT! IF YOU HADN'T LET RANMA GO OFF WITHOUT US NONE OF THIS WOULD BE HAPPENING!"

'Oh man,' Thomas groaned as the castle girls descended upon him.

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Awhile later after a pounding-

Thomas woke up to loud voices arguing over what he does not know. 'What hit me?' He groggily tried to wake himself and remember what had happened to him. The return of feeling to his body let him know what had knocked him out. 'Oh yeah, that.' To help get his mind off of the pain he let himself relax and let the argument go on around him.

"I can't believe you girls! Why did you have to beat up Thomas like that for! Look at him!" Ranma shouted, definitely very mad. On the bed is Thomas' bruised body wrapped in bandages. They are in Tuta's office where everyone had squeezed in so Ranma can look over his friend and still talk to the girls. In the corner Tuta looked on, trying to stifle his laughter.

Too many voices for Ranma to differentiate spoke at the same time. They tried to tell why they had beaten him up until he shouted, "Stop! Stop! One at a time!" The girls realized what they were doing and became quiet. "That's better. Anne, tell me why all of you beat Thomas up will you." His voice is definitely irritated.

Anne did not like being put on the spot like that. "Well," she began nervously. "We were mad at him because…umm…mumble mumble…"

"What? Say that again?" Ranma stepped closer to her so that he can hear her.

Anne bowed her head in embarrassment. "We were mad at him because…mumble, mumble…" Her cheeks grew red as Ranma drew every closer to her.

"I can't hear you Anne. Speak louder will you." By now Ranma has his head right next to hers. In order to hear her he put his head as close to hers as possible, making Anne squirm from the closeness.

"We…we were…"

"WE WERE PISSED OFF AT HIM FOR NOT TELLING US YOU LEFT, ALRIGHT!"

Ranma and Anne jumped, surprised at the interruption. All around them the girl's battle auras are raging, again. "What? What did we do?" The two asked.

Emily, always the one with the physical approach, strode up to Anne and took her by the cuffs. She lifted the Karayan woman up, choking her. "You were doing that on purpose, weren't you!"

"What're you talking about?" Anne gasped out, the shirt choking her. She tried to free herself, but Emily is a powerhouse.

Ranma quickly went up behind Emily and pulled her off by putting her in a hold. He locked his arms around hers and pulled. "Stop it already! Get a hold of yourself!" Emily struggled, but Ranma had always been stronger than her. A few moments later she stopped struggling and controlled her temper. He let go of her and she faced him. "Better?" he asked her.

Emily looked down at her feet. "Sorry," she apologized, embarrassed at her actions.

Ranma turned her around to Anne, who had gotten her breath back and is glaring at Emily. "Don't say sorry to me, say it to Anne."

Emily repeated herself to Anne. After a few moments of glaring at her the Karayan woman nodded. "Okay, I forgive you. Now, as for if I was doing that on purpose I wasn't, okay. I was just embarrassed, that's all." Many of the girls looked relieved. (1)

Seeing the argument over, though not knowing what the hell is going on, Ranma asked, "Why were you mad at Thomas for not telling you I was leaving? I DID tell you, remember?" 'Yes I did, just not that I would be leaving early in the morning.'

Emily blew up again, this time grabbing Ranma by the cuffs. "YEAH! BUT YOU DIDN'T TELL US YOU WERE LEAVING SO EARLY IN THE MORNING!"

"Hey! Tina and the others figured it out I was leaving early!" Okay, so that was the wrong thing to say when everyone started glaring at those who had come with him. "Look, I just didn't want EVERYONE to come, okay. How am I suppose to DISCREETLY look for someone with so many people following me."

Slowly, very slowly, the girls lost their jealous expressions. They have to bow down to the logic of that. They are pretty sure all the girls would have forced him to take them with him. Having an army with you is hardly subtle.

Emily, as the supposed spokeswoman for those from the castle that wants Ranma for their husband, asked, "Then what about THEM!" She pointed to the girls that arrived with him.

Hinako crossed her arms underneath her ample burst and looked sternly at everyone around her. "To make things clear I'm not after Ranma. My name is Hinako Ninomiya and I was and am Ranma's teacher."

The castle's inhabitant's blinked. Ernie looked the woman over and then pounded a fist into her open palm. "Oh yes! You look exactly like the descriptions Ranma had given us of you! We're sorry, we were not thinking clearly." The girls looked shamefaced.

Hinako nodded. "Forgiven. Just so you know, if any of you girls start acting like a delinquent and I will suck the energy right out of you." She twirled a coin around her fingers. The castle's inhabitants gulped. From the stories Ranma had told them she would do it at the drop of a hat.

"Neither are we," Red Bean and Green Tea said in chorus. "Sorry, we think of you as a friend Ranma. Though, if you're up for a one night fling we juuuuuust might be persuaded to do it." The two girls slinked up to him with mischievous glints in their eyes, very much like Shampoo's.

Ranma backpedaled and became one with the wall behind him. "W-w-w-would you two cut that out!"

Before any of the castle girls, and also the fiancées, Orihime, Lachette, Sumire, and the rest of their group could pounce on the two former Amazons. Kohran their cousin grabbed one of each of their ears and pulled hard. "Ouch! Kohran, that hurts! We were only kidding around come on! Stop!" Kohran dragged her two cousins by their ears out of the room, screaming and pleading for her to let them go while everyone sweat dropped.

Everyone blinked at the scene. Then the castle girls turned to Ayame. The ninja noted their stares and returned it with one of her more deadly stares. "Do you even have to ask?" she deadpanned.

The castle girls shook their heads very fast, clearly no wanting to face a ninja that has been ticked off. Then they noticed something happening.

Two of the new girls had gone to Ranma and is now helping him. "Hey! Who the hell are you two!"

Natsume and Kurumi fixed them with deadly glares. "WE are Ranma's older sisters. Is there a PROBLEM, ladies?"

'Oh my god! Ranma's older sisters? He never said anything about that!' They already knew that Yun is his little sister but not that he has older sisters. All of the castle girl's inhabitants shook their heads rapidly again.

Natsume and Kurumi nodded, and then their glares turned into serious expressions. "Do not think that we are very…happy…with your actions so far. Perhaps we should prevent our brother from speaking to you again, hmm?"

The castle girl's faces turned white. "NO! There's no need for that!" They felt the urge to bow and beg for their forgiveness, but did not succumb to it. The two sisters nodded and they breathed a sigh of relief.

"Well how about the rest of you?" Sanae Y asked the rest of the new group of girls. Hopefully there will not be any more big surprises like that. His big sisters! Wait, that would mean if they score some points with the big sisters they might convince Ranma to go out with them! Glints came to the eyes of the girls after Ranma's heart.

Natsume and Kurumi felt shivers go up their spines.

Sakura and the rest of the others of her group all started blushing with everyone began looking at them with accusing glares. "Well…" Their glares increased the more the girl's blushes got bigger.

Viki's face looks like a ripe tomato as her friends looked at her with accusing glares. "Well, I got to know Ranma very well." 'I'm just not telling you how well, I know him now,' she thought with a blush.

Belle miraculously figured out what Viki's relationship is with Ranma and growled, "Well isn't that's nice to know Ms. 'I teleport myself into another world and sleep with Ranma'!"

"It's not like I can really control where, I teleport to Belle!" Viki yelled defensively. "Okay, so I got myself a fiancée! I just consider myself lucky, that's all!"

"…"

"…"

"…"

"…"

If it had been nighttime they would have heard crickets chirping.

"SAY WHAT!" a thunderous yell emanated throughout the castle and the surrounding lands. People in Brass Castle looked up when they swore they heard a yell.

The castle girl's auras raged again. They are about to pounce on her when they heard a throat clearing behind them.

When they looked to where it came from they spotted Ranma's two older sisters with frowns on their faces. "Perhaps you should know what has gone on." The situation between Ranma, Chris, Tina, Viki, Kodachi, Kasumi and Ranko is explained to them.

Of course the castle girls are NOT happy about it. They are about to declare war on them when Natsume cleared her throat again. "If any of you lay a hand on them I will not permit my brother to even SPEAK to you. As the oldest sibling I hold the power to do so." Ranma looked at his sister with an expression that said "Thanks." Out of the corner of her eye Natsume saw it and gave him a miniscule nod.

Emily and all the other girls froze in their place. Give retribution or face never being able to talk to Ranma. The answer is obvious.

They bowed their heads and said in chorus, "We're sorry."

Kurumi nodded, then got a mischievous glint in her eyes that made Ranma want to run away, very, very fast. "Good. If you behave yourselves I juuuuust might get my little brother and the girls involved with him to allow a few of you to join their little group. They seem to be pretty okay on sharing him after all." Ranma looked at her, feeling very betrayed. She patted his hands as if to say, "It'll be okay." The two sisters had changed since gaining new members in their family and are making up for lost time. Right now is the 'must pick on the younger siblings' phase.

Natsume rolled her eyes at her siblings and the reactions that garnered, especially from the six fiancée. She then blinked when she saw someone approaching her brother. So did Kurumi.

"So, Ranma," Jeane smiled mischievously as she 'walked' to him. "You seem to have…experience…now. Perhaps you would show me what those six girls have taught you, hmm?"

"I-I-I, err, that is, I mean…" Ranma began backing away from the way too sexy rune sage as she leered at him, swaying her hips enticingly.

"Hey! Back off!" Kasumi shouted, stepping in front of her Ranma.

"Yeah!" Sumire shouted, joining her.

Jeane gave them a grin. "My oh my. You two aren't thinking of having him ALL to yourselves, are you? You should learn to share."

An unexpected voice interrupted them. "With all of these girls Ranma can enjoy some girl on girl action!" shouted Branky, the loud-mouthed and obnoxious hand puppet of Mel.

Another total silence ensued, with those girls around Mel moving away from her.

"Branky!" Mel shouted, thoroughly embarrassed by what her hand puppet had just said out loud also that all of the other girls giving her weird looks.

"Oh come on! As if none of you girls had never once ever thought about what it would be like making out with Ranma when he could still transform into a girl!" Branky argued, making all of the girls blush a deep red. No one could tell if they WERE thinking it.

"It's a great way to get him to be interested in you girls since all he needs to do is walk in on you guys when you're playing around with each other," Landis said very scholarly-like, making all of the girls blush even redder than before.

"Cut that out!" shouted a very red Mel as she slugged Branky into Landis, knocking both of them into the meeting hall wall as she freed her arm from her puppet. Everyone blinked. How did a puppet do that?

"Well, that WOULD solve the problem of them trying to kill each other over you wouldn't it?" Gordon said/asked. No one knows how he got inside the room.

Emily punched him on the back of the head, knocking him out. "Shut up you!"

"Well, at least things won't be boring for awhile," Martha said with a smile. Things are about to get interesting again!

"Speak for yourself." Piccolo said tiredly. "I could use a breather after what we went through thank you very much."

"By the way, what in the world is that little sister of yours doing?" Meg asked Tina. Mind had been asking her about the underground tunnels and using some sort of gadgets she had never seen before.

"Have no idea better just let her do whatever she'll doing," Fight shrugged, knowing that Molly is doing what her older sister had told her to do.

Thomas, who had woken up, said, "Well, I guess everyone is welcome to stay then." That might have been the wrong thing to say when the castle girls glared at him. 'This is NOT my day!'

"Girls! Please leave Thomas alone, will you." Ranma asked of them, making them all stop fingering their weapons. He sighed tiredly. "Look, I know things are really complicated right now, but try to get along with each other, please?" Both sides looked at each other and let out a sigh, knowing that with the permission of the older sisters anyone can become Ranma's girl. 'I'm going to fight for his heart and expel those other girls if it is the last thing I do!' the castle girls thought to themselves.

Ranma started smiling when it seems like the war is over, especially when the castle girls started smiling. Oh how wrong he is.

Emily spotted Iris, and went ballistic again. "Oh yeah! Then who did you have a kid with, huh! Which one of them did you sleep with you bastard! You…you…(sob)…you were supposed to be my first…" In the middle of her shouting she started crying, along with many of the other castle girls.

At the mere mention of the word sex Ranma started panicking and reverting to his old speech. "Ba-ba-baka! I'm a virgin! Virgin! I ain't have no kids with no one! Iris and Reni are 'adopted I tell you! 'adopted! I ain't doin' that yet!"

"Yeah, that's Ranma for you," grumbled Ranko, very unhappy. Everyone turned to her, "Guy won't give it up no matter WHAT I try!"

"You too?" Tina and the other fiancées asked at the same time, making all six of them blink at each other. "Me too! No matter how much I turn up the heat he SOMEHOW won't sleep with me! Maybe we should get an answer from him now!" However, when they turned to where Ranma is supposed to be he is gone. Then they heard the door slam.

"Oh no you don't you jackass! You're giving us an answer NOW!" The six girls ran after him followed by the other girls after Ranma, laughter coming from the room they had just came from.

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Next Time- Life at the castle is not going to be ever be the same after this. And see the aftermath of the new girls of the castle. And how they help around the castle.

Author's Notes

(1) If your wondering what it was that it look like what Anne was doing you're too young then.

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