Chapter 8: Feelings

Onna jumped down off the fence and landed gracefully onto the ground, in what looked like an empty lot. Then the memories flooded through her head as she spotted a simple tent, the red gem lit up brightly. She walked over to the tent and peered inside at the contents. In the corner of the tent were ramen cups piled up in a rather large pile, no one seemed to be using the tent at the moment. She got down on all fours and crawled into the tent and grabbed a bunch of the ramen cups and brought them outside setting them down next to her as she sat on the ground.

Grabbing a nearby stick she has spotted and started to dig into the ground till she found a good amount of earth worms, then she popped open part of each of the ramen cups just enough to be able to put something small inside. She picked up a good handful of the worms, and dropped two or three at a time into each small opening in all the cup covers she had made. With her hands she smoothed the covers back down as best she could, and returned them to where they were inside the tent. She couldn't help but giggle at her dirty work, but of course she felt guilty but couldn't show it since she was being watched and with that she walked off to her next destination.

After they had both finished their breakfast Ukyou and Ranma started off towards the school, they walked side by side talking about different things together. Ukyou had never felt happier, not that she could think of at the moment. She also thought she had forgotten about something, but she was too happy to remember. At last she was enjoying a quiet moment with the man she loved, with no interruption from any of the other fiancés. Ranma felt the same way she did, because he seemed very happy as they walked into the school yard.

Akane stopped walking as she spotted Ranma and Ukyou smiling at one another. She found herself getting very angry as she looked at the two, and stormed up to them. "Ranma where the hell have you been! First you tried to make me think you were permanently stuck as a girl, and now your hanging all over Ukyou!"

Ranma stopped smiling as Akane appeared and started to rant up a storm, about everything she had on her mind. But the part that had caught his attention was the permanent part, he would eventually have to let Akane know about his plan. Of course then it would be spoiled since she wouldn't keep her mouth shut about it. He decided he had a lot of advantages working with Onna is secret and to keep it that way. "Jeez Akane calm down, I didn't try to make you think anything. If you had asked I would've been able to tell you that Shampoo used one of her tricks on me by accident."

Akane listened to Ranma's excuse and tried to give it some thought like Nabiki had told her awhile ago. "I guess that makes sense, but if I find out your lying about this, you'll be sorry.." Akane started to walk off towards her class room, not giving ranma a second thought.

Meanwhile Nabiki stringed kuno along slowly as she teased him with each new picture. Flashing it front of his face quickly and then pulling it back just as quick. She waited for him to start naming prices for each picture, but as she looked at her watch and noted the time she would have to make this fast, or chance a skipped class. "Kuno baby I don't have all day, are you going to buy them or what?"

Kuno glared at her. "I haven't really seen much of them, you flash them by so quickly. Now if I could gaze at them, without them moving that'd be a different story." Nabiki shrugged her shoulders and laid down a good amount of the photo's near kuno, but not too close so she could snatch them back. "Like I said Kuno baby, I don't have all day so make it quick or we'll have to continue this later."

Kuno gazed upon the beauty in the pictures, rubbing his eyes in disbelief. He wondered what had gotten into his pigtailed goddess, why she suddenly started to dress more like a girl and pose differently. Oh well it wasn't as if this was a bad thing, he found he really liked seeing her wearing different hair styles and pretty dresses. Finally he decided. "I shall take them all, I have never seen my pigtailed goddess like this." He started to write out a check to Nabiki, but couldn't help it as he stared intently at the pictures on the ground.

Nabiki noted this as well as she looked at the amount of money on the check, she was quite pleased at the price. "Thankyou Kuno baby, but I do have more pictures to show you. At the moment though I have to be getting to class." She grabs the written check from kuno and runs off towards the school building.

Ryouga opened his eyes and looked around the small room. He stretched his arms into the air and pulled himself out of the covers. That's right he had spent the night at Ukyou's, only because she had insisted upon it. He looked around the room for her, and suddenly remembered she had school to attend unlike him. That's where she must be, and she probably thought that it'd be rude to wake him up so she didn't. He got up and walked downstairs into the restuarant area and looked on the counter seeing an extra okonomiyaki on the grill.

Ryouga blushed furiously and started to laugh nervously. She had cooked him an extra helping, he felt happy but also very embarassed. He figured he should eat it since she had gone through all that trouble for him. He sat down on a chair and started to eat quickly. No sooner had he started he was finished and got up and walked out the back door, he ran as fast as he could towards his temporary home in the lot.

He skidded to a stop as he arrived in the vacant lot where his tent was. He felt so embarrassed and guilty about being alone in ukyou's restaurant that he had to get away. Being back at his tent he began to calm down, and headed inside to his futon where he flopped down and grabbed one of his ramen cups. Even though he had eaten he was still very hungry, not that the okonomiyaki wasn't good it was wonderful. He pulled out a banged up kettle from his pack in the corner and went outside to go find some water.

Onna walked with her head down, as she neared the Asadaiba school, she stopped and glanced at it for a few moments. Satan's voice echoed through her head and told her to keep going or there would be consequences. She sighed taking one last look at the school and started walking off toward's the Tendou Dojo as instructed. As she walked in the direction of the Tendou's dojo, she wondered what her friend Ivory was thinking about and doing. Ivory had been her first and only friend she had made at her school, she wanted to be more of a friend to her but she really couldn't at the moment.

Ivory sat outside on the stair steps near one of the back doors of the school, as she sipped her tea and watched people pass by the school yard. The class she had been in was so boring without her friend, she wondered why she hadn't come to school today. Many thought's crossed her mind, but as she was thinking she saw a redhaired girl go by with her head down. Her eyes widened as she saw the girl who walked by. Getting up she started to run after the girl and called out to her friend. "Hey Onna!"

Onna stopped walking and looked around and fear hit her as Ivory raced towards her. She just stood there unsure of what to do, if she didn't listen to her orders she'd be punished. Also she didn't want to chance getting her new friend hooked up in any of this, but she couldn't just run off from her now. Thinking about the matter as her friend ran up to her and hugged her, perhaps she could hang out with Ivory for awhile and then go back to what she was supposed to do. "Oh hey Ivory."

Ivory had her hands on her hips looking upset. "What's with the not coming to school thing huh? You don't look sick to me at all, and why are you wearing clothes just like Ranma.. for a second there I couldn't tell if it was you or him." Onna smiled at her somewhat. "I guess I felt like it, and I'm sorry but I have other things to do so I'm not going to school for awhile." She started to walk off.

Ivory grabbed her by the shoulder. "Why don't I skip with you then, whatever you've got to do I wouldn't mind helping you."

Onna shakes her head lightly and takes the girl's hand off her shoulder. "No I need to do these things by myself." Ivory's attention shifted to the horrible wound on her friends right arm, it looked like some animal had slashed at her arm repeatedly. "Oh my god girl, what happened to your arm?"

Onna looked over to what ivory was so upset about. "Oh this.. yeah my cat scratched me up pretty good, sorry but I need to be going now."

Ivory wrinkled up her nose finding it very hard to believe that a cat did all that, but decides not to argue about it. "Atleast let me wrap it up for you, then I'll let you be on your way." She pulled her purse off her shoulder and fumbled around till she found a handkerchief and starts to tie it around her friends arm where the wound is. "Goodluck with whatever it is you have to do, and call me on my cell phone once in awhile ok." She pulled out a piece of paper and pen from her purse and scribbled her number down, then handed it to her friend. Onna grasped the paper in her hand tightly and waved goodbye to her friend and started walking off. "Thankyou for understanding Ivory, I'll try to call you if I get a chance."

She stops walking as she nears the Tendou Dojo, and sighed to herself as she looked at the Hello Kitty handkerchief tied around her arm. Hopefully she wouldn't be instructed to take it off, it made her feel somewhat better since her friend had given it to her. She shook her head as she tried to forget all the mean things she had just done, and now she would have to do another one. This life of that she had been given was very unfair, the more she dwelled on it the more she wanted to die. Of course she'd never be allowed to do such a thing, no he'd never let her get away with that. She walked up to the front door of the house and entered it.

Kasumi looked up from her cleaning, as she spotted ranma in his girl form walking inside. "Oh hello ranma, do you feel alright today?"

Onna looked up at the girl. "No the school nurse sent me home early again Kasumi." She walked past her and eyed the sliding doors that lead to happosai's room, and slide them open as she stepped into the room, closing the door's behind her.

Happosai looked up at Ranma while he sorted through his collection. It surprised him greatly that his student had willingly entered his room. He noticed though that Ranma looked upset as he studied her face.

"What seems to be the problem my boy?"

Onna sits down near happosai. "Nothing at all master happosai, I just decided that it's foolish to go against you."

Happosai's eyes widened at what ranma had just said. "So you mean you'll put on the bra's that I've gotten for you, and the silky darlings?"

He watched as ranma nodded her head in agreement, he almost face faulted into the ground after hearing what ranma had to say. "Alright then get to it, if you really mean it." He watched again as ranma unbuttoned her shirt and slipped it off, and picked up the bra that he pointed out and slide it on into place. Happosai was amazed at this sudden change in behavior and liked it. "It's about time you listen to your master, you'll make a great student of the anything goes martial arts." He jumped up and glomped onto ranma's breast's and snuggled into them.

Onna blushed as the little old man glomped her breasts and snuggled them, she had done the task that had been instructed and it was time to leave, she pulled happosai off her chest gently and set him down on the floor.

"Forgive me master happosai but I have some things I need to do, we'll continue this later." While she talked to him she pulled the shirt back on and buttoned it up getting up. Happosai nodded. "Since you were so nice about it, and didn't defy your master I'll let you continue your training later."

Onna smiled at the litte old man as she walked out of the room and out the front door of the house.

Alley waited in the front doorway as Satan had instructed her to do, though she wished he was there with her. He had other important things he had to do, and he had told Alley what he wanted done. She remembered how he had assured her that he would come back shortly, and hoped he would come back quickly. She had made an enemy out of the girl she was supposed to watch over, and now she had to try to fix it. For all she cared, she'd rather abuse the girl once again but she had been given her orders and had to follow them whether she wanted to or not. With that thought she watched as the girl walked up the driveway with her head down. Alley has her human disguise on and she faked a smile at the girl, since the neighbors were around. "Why hello dear, back from school so early?"

Onna walked past her and slammed the door shut, she didn't want any of the neighbor's listening in or to pretend for them. She lifted her head and glared at Alley. "You can stop the fake act now." Alley smirked at what the girl had said. "Your right dear, now listen and listen good, I don't like you and never have I just do whatever he commands me to do."

Onna sneered back at the she devil. "You still have to pretend that were a family though, so why not make your daughter something to eat."

Alley growled quietly and walked into the kitchen and started to prepare something for the girl. While alley is preoccupied, onna eyed the necklace around her fake guardian's neck, and she remembered how she killed the girl back at school. She stepped into the kitchen silently to where Alley cooked, and reached up and grabbed the back of her necklace tightly and yanked it so the chain tightened it's hold against Alley's neck. Alley coughed and turned her head to see the girl behind her. Her eyes widened as she felt she couldn't breathe anymore as the she felt the chain tighten and pushed down onto her wind pipes. Onna smirked at Alley and yanked the chain as tight as possible and watched as her victim clattered to the floor, then she kneeled down and grabbed Alley's head and twisted it till a sickening snap is heard, as the neck breaks.

Satan stepped out of shadows in the corner and applauded. "Well done my child, your hatred grows more each day it seems." He knelt down to where Alley's dead body laid on the floor and pushed some hair out of her face.

Onna eyes widened as she spotted Satan and wondered if she'd be punished for her action. Satan smiled at the girl. "I didn't much like her, so no harm done. But I will have to replace her." He noted the girl wasn't looking at him at all, and this bothered him greatly. "Are you mad at your master for any particular reason? I'm sure you are, but I have to tell you that I'm a little angry at you as well." Onna looked up at him. "You have no reason to, I did what you ordered me to do." Satan grabbed her by the neck and slammed her up against the refrigerator as he growled. "You took your sweet time, and stopped to talk to your friend, you thought I'd let that go didn't you!"

Nodoka took her afternoon stroll around the neighborhood, and looked around at the house's as she walked. She stopped suddenly as she heard yelling and followed where it was coming from, then her eyes widened greatly as she looked through the large windows of one house. She saw a man slamming a red head girl against the refrigerator repetitively, and that the girl was wearing the same clothing that Ranko wore. What if that girl inside was Ranko, she quickly decided to take action regardless. She ran up to the front door and checked if it would open, and to her relief the door opened.

Nodoka pulled the cloth that covered her katana off, and gripped it tightly as she raced into the kitchen. "Let the child go!" She waited for the man to say something or if he had listened to what she had said. The man kept slamming the girl who looked like Ranko against the appliance, she had to take action and with that she charged and slashed into the man's arm with her katana's sharp blade. She watched as he yelled out in pain and dropped the girl to the floor. Nodoka took the chance and picked the girl up off the floor and slung her over her shoulder, then she raced out of the house with her katana readied in her hand to attack if the man pursued them. She fled the area quickly as she carried the unconscious girl to her house.

As they reached the house, nodoka laid the girl down on the ground while she opened up her door and then she picked her back up and carried her inside. After setting the girl down on a futon, she ran back towards the front door and closed the sliding doors, and locked them. She finally laid the katana down and put it back into it's sheath. Kneeling down by the girl she studied her face and she knew it must be Ranko, but why would the girl's father have abused her so harshly. She shamed Soun silently for letting the girl go back to such living conditions. Then she noticed that the girl was waking up, and looked relieved. "Hello Ranko." She smiled at the girl.

Onna looked around and noticed a woman with reddish brown hair was kneeling besides her. She wondered what had happened, all she could recall was Satan slamming her into the refrigerator and then nothing. After thinking for awhile about what had happened she hears the woman saying a name she recalls from Ranma's memories. That's right she recalled ranma's memories and found that this was Ranma's mother and she knew ranma's girl side by the name of Ranko, and she really couldn't tell her the truth. So again she had to play along. "Auntie Saotome.. what are you doing here?"

Nodoka reached out with her hand and placed it against the hello kitty handkerchief with a worried expression. "Ranko what happened to your arm? I'm sorry dear but your father if that's who he was, was hurting you and I was on my afternoon stroll through the neighborhood and I heard the yelling."

Onna became abit annoyed at the woman for sticking her nose in. "You should've minded your own business Mr's Saotome.." She looked away from the woman. Nodoka pushed past the girl's rudeness, her main concern was the state she was in. "I apologize Ranko, but you were in trouble. Enough about that, I want you to soak in the bath alright, so we'll have to take this necklace off." She pulls the red gem necklace off around the girls head and lays it somewhere before she can object.

Onna eyes widened as the woman pulled the necklace off her, she felt very odd not wearing it but she was in too much pain to go after it. So she decided if she didn't listen to Ranma's mother, she probably wouldn't get her necklace back. "Alright auntie Saotome.. I'll soak in the bath.."

Nodoka smiled and lifted the girl up and walked off with her to the bathing area. It had been awhile since she had a child to care for, and she was not about to let the girl go back home.

Author's notes: Yeah I'm sure I made some mistakes again, and in the next chapter you can kinda tell what's going to happen without me saying anything.

I do not own Ranma ½ or any of it's characters the great and powerful Rumiko Takahashi does, Kitty, Shogukan, and Viz video and whoever else I forgot.