ranma awoke the next morning and let out a low growl to awaken his freinds and once theytoo awoke they crept down the stairs and smelt something cooking. they then entered the dining area to see some food just been set out and everyone appeard to have already arrived at the table. the air then filled gasps at the sight of 3 wolves entering the dining room. ranma and his friends took a whiff of the bowl of rice infront of them and instantly turned away. ranma then took on his human, male form, he then pict up the bowl and using his chop sticks picked up some of the rice and placed it in his mouth he then chewed on the rice and swallowed it before replacing the bowl back on the tabla and then noticed everyone was watching him closely to see what he said. "i give my most humble of apologies but we can't eat this...we are wolves not people...even if we can appear so...well any way could we speak about this engagment?" inquired ranma after his most polite way of regecting food.

"i'm sorry boy but that will have to be spoke of later unless you want to be late to school...i took the liberty of enrolling you 3 ino furinken high after all we can't have children outside of education, unless we want authorities knocking on our door" soun said while he never stopped smiling once. ranma on the other hand was furiouse, he could bare going to school but he knew very well that dawn and crystal would struggle, however, the point of authorities worried ranma after all what if they came to the door and found out a pack of wolves lived nearby, he couldn't put the pack in danger.

ranma then nodded and rose to set off to school only to nearly knocked over by akane as she rushed by so she could get to school, while nabiki simply called in a favor from someone who oed her money and got a lift to school. ranma and his freinds then crept out into the street and began on the journey to school, they found akane waiting by the gate impatiently. akane was about to complain that she had to wait for him until she saw the anger, the danger in his eyes so she decided to hold her toung for now atleast.

half way to school...

"umm...ranma i was wondering..." ranma turned to see akane trying to find the words to ask something she thought may cause ranma and his freinds to lash out "why didn't...the wolves...kill you when they..." she trailed off.

"when they found me" ranma finished for her and saw her nodd "because one of the 2 wolves that found me had recently lost her cub to hunters and well she saw me as a miracle in a way, also she could smell my curse, you see my girl form came from the spring of drowned girl and when i looked into her personal history she seemed to have lived with the wolves and was raised by them, she nursed them and took care of the pack and the wolves swore after she drowned in that spring that when she returned to them she would be excepted and now 1500 years later i fall into the spring, which well instantly made me part of the pack, however, i did have to prove i meant no harm to the pack and so one day i did when hunters attacked the weaker members of the pack while strong ones were off hunting, i fought them while in wolf form and scared a few of them off by turning into a human and back all in all though i protected the pack from a seriouse threat and from then on i was truly a part of the pack" ranma explained to akane who all the while had been listening intentily.

"but why weren't you hunting" akane asked

"because they felt i'd be a libility on a hunt and would cost them the prey, and besides someone had to protect the elderly and pups and females of the pack even if they could protect themselves. ranma answered.

"but why can you turn into a wolf and your dad can't" was akanes next question.

ranma then went on to explain about the wolf bite and how it enhanced his curse to allow him his wolf forms "by the way akane, don't tell pop about this, otherwise he won't leave us alone until he can become a wolf too after all there a lot cooler than pandas" ranma added.

they were approaching the school gates and crystal and dawn had once again took on their human forms. however, the were suprised to see an army of school boys blocking their paths, all of which suddenly charged and attacked akane, what also surprised ranma and his freinds that it appeard normal to akane so they simply enjoyed the show and in no time at all they were all unconciouse. it was then someone with a wooden sword came into view. the brown haired boy was babbling something about dating thee by defeating thee when he saw ranma and his freinds enter the school and he instantly started to 'try' to date with them.

"oh my dark rose and fragile flower, allow me kuno the blue thunder of furinkan high to date with thee" he declared before attempting to glomp the 2 teens, to only to have his clothing grabbed by the back of the neck by ranma. "how dare thee try and keep me from my fair maidens who are obviously in 'love' with me, you shall pay for this you fool" kuno declared before attempting to strike ranma with his wooden sword only to have it shredded by claws and he then turned to see ranmas finger nails had become claw "thow are't a demon i shall strike thee down and win the hearts of thee fair maidens" kuno then tried to strike him with yet another wooden sword, only to have it caught in ranmas fangs and snapped in 2 so he pulled out another (A/N if martial artists can do it why not kuno too)

ranma began to growl and kuno instantly took a step back out of surprise and fear, he then heard the two teens behind him growl too. kuno then looked into ranmas eyes and so the promise of danger "get away from the," ranma growled his voice become deeper and a lot more threatening, kuno was about to slowly retreat to the school when ranma said something else which terrafied kuno to no end "and if you EVER try anything like THAT again then i will KILL YOU" ranma growled and kuno sprinted inside the school faster than every before, ranma and the others then headed to class and arrived just as the late bell wrung,