First answer is Fruits Basket. Second answer is the Haruna from Negima.
Chapter Thirteen
"Wait, you're my cousin?" Ranma asked.
"Are you Ranma Saotome?" The girl calling herself Haruna Saotome asked back. "Wait, you can't be. My cousin was a boy last time I saw him."
"I am Ranma Saotome. Who are you? I don't have a cousin. I've never seen you before in my life." Ranma replied.
"The Ranma I knew was a boy, not a girl." Haruna said, covering her breasts with her arms.
Ranma frowned in annoyance. "You've been to Jusenkyo right? Didn't you stop to think for a moment maybe I did too?"
Haruna looked surprised at that claim. "I... you have a point there. You're really Ranma? Son of Uncle Genma and Aunt Nodoka?"
"Genma's my old man's name, but I don't know anyone named Nodoka."
"You don't know your mother's name?" Haruna asked, confused.
"I don't know a thing about my mother. For all I know she's dead." Ranma said, trying not to sound upset by the theory.
"Trust me, she's not dead. I spoke to her a few weeks ago. She's the one who asked me to come here in the first place."
"What?" Ranma asked, not expecting that.
Haruna nodded. "Yeah, she had been getting letters from Uncle Genma on how your trip was going but last summer they just stopped. She asked me to come here in case Mr. Tendo got any from him since they were good friends."
"But then... why didn't she come here?" Ranma asked, not knowing what else to say.
"She's got her hands full with a student she's been teaching. Aunt Nodoka needed something to do while waiting for her husband and son to come back after all, so she took in a student to teach as well. They just haven't been traveling around. Not much anyway." Haruna answered.
"Please, can I see her?" Ranma asked.
"Can I get dry and dressed first?" Haruna asked.
Ranma got to her feet. "Oh right. Where's your clothes?"
"Probably outside and covered in dirt. The rain caught me off guard so I slipped and fell in some mud on the way here."Haruna answered.
"I'll go get them. Wait here." Ranma offered before leaving the furo room.
'This trip sure got more interesting.' Haruna thought as she dried off.
"So who is it Ranma?" Akane asked when she saw her fiancee come back. She and Shampoo had gotten most of the mud and dirt cleaned up by now. Right now Akane was scrubbing the floor while Shampoo was finishing the walls.
"It's a girl who says she's my cousin."
"Cousin?" Akane asked, bolting upright. "But... you never had any family visit in my dream, except for your mother."
"Well this time one is." She told her. "Her clothes are supposed to be outside."
Akane looked outside and saw it was still raining. "They're probably soaked by now. I'll go get some of my clothes for her to wear until they're cleaned."
"Better use Kasumi's, I think they'd fit better." Ranma told her.
"Is she Kasumi's age?"
Ranma shrugged. "I don't know. I didn't even know I had a cousin. But she did look like Kasumi's height so I'd go with that."
"Alright then." Akane said as she went upstairs.
Before Ranma could go outside, Shampoo came from outside back in carrying some clothes in her hands. "It's okay Airen, Shampoo got clothes. No need you get more wet."
"But now you're wet." She told her.
Shampoo handed the redhead the wet clothes she assumed had belonged to Haruna. "Shampoo no mind. Just water." She then began take off her school uniform right in front of her.
"Shampoo..."
"What? Is wet and dirty too. Why no clean too?" The lavender-haired girl asked as she handed the redhead her outfit, wearing nothing but a light green bra and panties before him shamelessly.
"Alright, but get dressed quickly. I think I still have that spare set of your clothes you left in my room, if no one moved it." She told Shampoo, blushing but not looking away from her.
Ranma and Shampoo went upstairs only to be intercepted by Akane and Haruna dressed in one of Kasumi's yellow dresses but lacking an apron. Akane immediately looked at Shampoo with wide eyes. "Ranma, why is Shampoo half-naked?"
"Her clothes got wet in the rain." She calmly told her.
"And this doesn't bother you?" Akane asked. 'The Ranma in my dreams could barely maintain look in the direction of a naked girl, and this Ranma gets flustered when I even offer kissing. How is henot bothered by this? Does he just like her more?'
"She did this practically every day on the trip back from China. At first I could barely even look at her, but I got used to it I guess." Ranma told Akane.
"That's it? Simple as that?" The youngest Tendo asked.
"Yeah, why wouldn't it be?" The pigtailed girl told her.
'Is that all I had to do? Just show him my body until he got used to it then he'd be more comfortable around me? Why couldn't I have known that sooner?' Akane asked herself.
"And who is this exotic girl here?" Haruna asked, also looking at Shampoo. "Nice ears by the way."
Shampoo was about to thank her, but she noticed the collar that Haruna was still wearing. "You dog?" She asked nervously.
"Not right now I'm not. And even if I was I doubt my little body could actually catch a fox like you."
"Could you please tell us who you are." Akane requested.
"Oh right, I really should. Why don't you go get your family while these two dry up and return to normal, then we can all hear my little story?" Haruna offered.
No one objected.
It didn't take long to get everyone gathered in the same room where the Tendo's had most of their family meetings. Ranma and Shampoo were both in their original forms with Shampoo wearing a silk cheongsam she left in Ranma's room for times like this. Haruna was back in her normal clothes, a brown jacket over a white blouse and a navy blue dress. She looked a lot like Kasumi if she wore an open jacket instead of an apron.
The first person she looked at was the older Saotome. "Wow Uncle Genma, you actually got balder."
"So you're my brothers daughter? You've sure grown a lot since the last time I saw you. When was that, twelve, thirteen years ago?" Genma replied.
"You have a brother?" Akane asked, understandably surprised. Her dream had never even hinted at Genma's family besides Ranma and Nodoka.
Genma nodded. "Yeah I have an older brother. He's called Ryoten Saotome and he lives in central Tokyo with my sister-in-law Toki. Or at least they did last time I saw them."
"Yeah Mom still lives there. But sadly Dad died three years ago." Haruna told him.
Genma looked quite surprised. "Really?"
Haruna nodded. "We tried to contact you when it happened, but you had already left the country by then. You should really visit his grave if nothing else as soon as you can."
Genma solemnly nodded. "Indeed. Ryoten was a good brother. How did he die?"
"He was crushed by a falling building during a bad earthquake. At least it was painless." Haruna answered with closed eyes and a sorrowful voice.
"How did you know to come here to find your uncle?" Akane asked.
"I come here occasionally to see Aunt Nodoka but this time she wasn't home. I called her to ask where she was and she gave me this address." Haruna answered.
"Wait, Nodoka told you to come here?" Genma asked. Haruna nodded. 'How did she know I was here already? I haven't told her yet.'
"No one's come by lately." Soun said, then looked to Genma. "Who's Nodoka?"
Genma looked surprised. "You forgot my wife Soun?"
Soun then hit his palm with his fist in realization. "Oh yeah, now I do. Sorry but it's been years so the name must have slipped my mind. Can you still recall my wife's name?"
"Kimiko. Maiden name Takahashi." Genma told his friend.
Soun closed his eyes and slumped in defeat.
'Losing a battle of wits to Mr. Saotome, somehow that sounds insulting.' Akane told herself.
"Wait, you came here to see my mom?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah, I do it all the time. Mom's often busy in the lab so I have a lot of free time. I'm just glad I was told to come here, who knows where I'd be now if I couldn't get out of the rain." Haruna told him.
"Umm Haruna, could you maybe not tell Nodoka about Ranma's curse? She might take it the wrong way." Genma requested.
Haruna looked at her uncle. "Why? She knows about mine. Why would his bother her?"
Genma was wide-eyed. "You have a curse?"
Haruna nodded. "Got it when we were researching Jusenkyo two years ago. I fell into the Xiaoquannichuan, Spring of Drowned Small Dog, which is actually one of the most recent springs made there."
"Researching Jusenkyo?" Ranma asked.
Haruna nodded. "Yes, you must realize that Jusenkyo is quite a mysterious and fascinating place we still have much to learn about. Not to mention the curses themselves give us golden opportunities to learn about other lifeforms directly. I could tell you so much about what it's really like to be a dog if you wanted."
"At least you don't turn into a cat." Ranma told her.
"Ah, not a cat person are you Ranma?"
"He's probably the furthest thing from cat person you could get." Akane replied for her fiancee.
Haruna glanced at Shampoo for a second. "Let me guess, he prefers foxes."
Shampoo leaned affectionately against the pigtailed boy. "Shampoo hope so."
"What curse is that? I don't recall fox-girl being on the list?" Haruna asked in Chinese.
Shampoo was quite surprised. "You can speak Chinese?"
"Of course. Who goes to a foreign country and doesn't bother trying to learn the language?" Haruna asked back.
Shampoo pointed to Genma. "That guy there."
Haruna looked at Genma for a moment then back to Shampoo. "But tell me, what is your curse?"
"I got hit with water from two springs at the same time. One from the Drowned Girl Spring and the other from the Drowned Pet Fox Spring. As you can see they mixed for me, but I can make it work easily. Watch." She then shifted into her pure fox form.
Haruna dropped her jaw at the transformation. "That's impossible. How did she change without cold water?"
"Let's just say our curses have a bit of a fluke to them." Ranma said before he turned into a she without water. Then she turned into a female centaur for full effect before turning back into a normal girl and then back into a boy.
"This is astounding! And you and the Chinese girl both have two cursed forms instead of one? I've never seen that before. How did you get a second form?"
"I fell in the girl spring and quickly jumped into the horse spring by accident when I was looking for the man spring."
Haruna looked confused. "But that would result in a single mixed curse, not two separate curse. That's what happened to all the test subjects."
"Airen say our curses have flukes." Shampoo pointed out.
"Please tell me everything about these flukes." Haruna begged, looking like a kid who wanted to open their Christmas presents early.
"Later. I want to know about my mom." Ranma told her firmly.
Haruna nodded. "I understand, but I think it would be better for you to see her yourself. I'll let her know you're here next time I see her." She then snapped her fingers. "Better yet I'll give you her address."
Genma looked nervous. "Umm Haruna, it might be better if you didn't do that yet."
"Why Mr. Saotome?" Akane asked, knowing his answer but hoping this was one thing the dream had been wrong about. "Why can't Ranma go see his mother? I mean it's not like you made some sort of promise to her where Ranma had to be some sort of man among man or else perform seppuku, right?" She phrased it rhetorically to hide the fact she knew it was for real.
Genma looked like he had seen a ghost. "How did you know that?"
All eyes were on him. "Wait, you did that?" Haruna asked.
Unable to avoid it, and no water in sight to turn him into an inaudible animal, Genma was forced to admit his secret. "Yes, I did. In order to get my wife to agree to the training trip I had to vow that thru my efforts Ranma would become as manly as she expected and should he fail to meet her standards we would both commit seppuku with her as our second."
"YOU WHAT?" Ranma and Haruna yelled.
'I'm starting to hate being right sometimes.' Akane thought.
Genma tried not to show weakness. "Ranma, if the curse wasn't a problem would you believe you weren't able to meet the requirements of the deal?"
"That's not the point? Why would you make such a promise? And how can you expect me to keep it? I didn't make any such deal so count me out!"
Genma cleared his throat. "Actually Ranma, since you were three at the time it was easy to trick you into signing a written agreement so you're bound to it. Just be glad I signed it too so we're both gonna suffer the same fate."
Everyone except Soun, yes including Kasumi, was directly some KI at the bald martial artist at that. "You tricked your own son into signing a promise he clearly could not understand and you except him to keep it?" Kasumi asked, feeling a rare sense of anger in her. "And your wife intends to uphold him to this as well?"
"What the fuck was Aunt Nodoka thinking?" Haruna asked. No one scolded her for her language.
Shampoo in fox form came up to Genma and bit his leg hard. "Yowch! Let go!" She refused and no one bothered to stop her.
"Genma, this is quite a revelation you've given us." Soun stated, for once being the calm one in the room. "With this in mind, I believe it will affect the deal you and I made."
Akane immediately looked at her father. "What?" She asked, worried more than anything.
"Akane, I will not let you marry someone only to become a widow if this were to happen. It would not be fair to you."
"I see your point, but what if him marrying me actually helps convince her that he is manly? Besides, once Ranma becomes my husband then his life isn't just his anymore but it's mine too." She then glanced to Ranma before he could object and gently held his hand. "Just like how my life would be his once I become his wife."
Shampoo released Genma and sat in Ranma's lap as Akane returned her attention to her father. "Besides, mother or not this woman hasn't had any interaction with Ranma for thirteen years. I don't think she should just be given authority over his right to live solely because she's his mother. That's not enough. We know Ranma better than she does, so who is she to decide if he's 'good enough' to keep living?"
"But there's still the matter of honor to consider." Genma pointed out. "Going back on a written deal is not honorable."
Akane glowered at her potential father-in-law in that way every male compared to kryptonite. "Mr. Saotome, don't you dare pretend that you've honored every promise you've made. Or do I have to remind you of the Kuonji's?"
Genma jerked back as if stabbed. "How did you know about that?"
Nabiki looked at her sister. "Okay Akane, tell me where you're learning these things. You obviously knew about the seppuku thing since there's no way that was just a random guess. You knew Kuno had a sister before I even did." Nabiki asked Kuno about that the next day and was surprised to know Akane had been right about that. "And you even agreed to a polygamous relationship with Ranma and Shampoo. What is going on with you?"
Akane sighed. "You want the truth?"
"Yes." Nabiki stressed.
"Fine, here's the truth. The night before Ranma arrived, I had a dream. In that dream I saw him arrive and what our engagement could have been like. I saw Ranma's curse, I saw Shampoo, I saw the third girl that will come here wanting to be Ranma's wife, I even saw the seppuku pledge."
"You're saying you saw the future in a dream?" Nabiki asked, skeptical.
Akane nodded. "My dream wasn't 100% accurate. Ranma had only the girl curse and Mr. Saotome turned into a panda while shampoo turned into a cat. Haruna never appeared and Ranma's mother wasn't even mentioned here until our next visit to Mom's grave."
"Can you prove this?" Haruna asked. Akane nodded then gave out Nodoka's address. "Wow, that's right. But not good enough. You could have looked that up."
"How? Ranma didn't even know her name and Mr. Saotome was obviously afraid to mention anything about her."
"Maybe you could tell us something that's going to happen soon." Kasumi suggested.
Akane thought it over. "Okay, here's something that's impossible for me to know otherwise." She looked back at Genma. "You met a father and daughter who owned an okonomiyaki cart when Ranma was a kid. they were named Kuonji and the kid was named Ukyo. she was a girl but Ranma was misled into thinking she was a boy. Her father came to you asking to set up an engagement between them and at first you said no because of your promise to Dad. But when Mr. Kuonji offered the cart as dowry you reconsidered. You asked Ranma what he liked more, Ukyo or okonomiyaki, and since he didn't understand in what context you meant he said okonomiyaki. With that you took the cart and fled even though Ukyo was chasing after you saying you were supposed to take her along. The whole time Ranma was unaware of what was even going on."
Everyone looked at Genma, wide-eyed to hear this story and wondering if Akane was indeed right.
"How could you know that if you saw the future? That sounds more like you saw the past instead." Genma asked her.
"Ukyo is going to show up in the next month or so, maybe earlier. She told me the story of why she was pursuing Ranma. You robbed her family but made an official engagement deal to them at the same time. If honor was as important as you claim you wouldn't have done that. So tell me Mr. Saotome, am I right? Ranma couldn't have told me this since you never told him about the engagement. The only way I could know this is if I did see the future. Am I right?"
Genma sighed, not liking having to admit what she had accused him of but if her predictions were true then lying now would come back to bite him on the ass later. "It's true. That did happen."
Everyone was shocked and turned towards Akane. The young Tendo just leaned against Ranma. "I'm just glad now I know how to make things work between Ranma and me."
"So is that why you volunteered to take the engagement? You already were in love with Ranma?" Nabiki asked.
Akane nodded. "Yes, and I can wait for him to fall in love with me."
