Devils Child

by chikane-chan

The devil is sick of Ranma evading him, and he creates a clone of Ranma's girl side to frame him. But things don't go as he planned as the girl breaks away from his control. Ranma gains a sister from the after math, that sticks by his side and there for him and his mother. As well as the usual cast here and there and some other oc's and appearances from some lesser characters.

15. Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Say it isn't so

Meanwhile Ranma decided he had been in the tub long enough, he stood up and stepped out of the tub walking over to the shower area. He grimaced as he turned the cold water knob on and instantly felt the change occur. She sighed as she rinsed off and turned off the cold water knob, and grabbed the near by towel and started to dry herself off. Then she pulled on her undergarments grumbling and yanked on her sky blue chinese shirt, and pulled on her black chinese pants, before exiting the bathing area and walking off into the kitchen where her mom was. She looked around and at not seeing her sister present she wondered if her mom knew where she was. "Hey mom. Where's Ranka?"

Nodoka finished setting the table and all the food, and looked up at Ranko. "She went out for awhile.."

Ranma then noted how upset her mother looked, "And you just let her go all alone?" She looked at her mother and into her eyes, reading them knowing what she had to do. "I'll go follow her." She started to take off, but was held back by Nodoka."Please Ranko..bring her back safely.."

Ranma sighed and calmed down, till Nodoka let go of her arm and reassured her gently. "Don't worry i won't let anything happen to her mother.."

Nodoka smiled slightly. "Remember to come back soon, i have a full schedule planned today and i made breakfast..but I'll just wrap it up and save it for when you both come back."

Ranma smiled despite knowing how upset her mother was at the moment, and that she herself was just smiling to make her feel better. She was grateful to her mother for saving the food and not just eating it while she was gone, like her father had always done to her. "I'll be back soon with Ranka, don't worry ok." She hugged her mother quickly and dashed out of the house and down the street disappearing from Nodoka's view.

Ranka made her way down random streets, till she passed Asadaiba High and she stopped and took a moment to look at her school. 'Ivory..' She frowned and looked down at the ground, the wind blowing slightly, moving her loose hair about. She felt really bad that she hadn't called her sooner, but with all the commotion that had been going on that wasn't really on her mind. Hopefully her friend would understand, but there was a chance that she would probably be mad at her and she couldn't really blame her. She sighed and started walking towards her destination once again.

She yawned as she walked down the long street, lost in her thoughts about her friend, till she bumped into someone. She snapped out of her daze and started to apologize to whoever she had bumped into, when she realized that it was Ivory and she was wearing a black tank top with the word EVIL written in red, and red leather pants, and white and black sneakers. "Ivory! I was just going to your house, oh I'm sorry i bumped into you, i wasn't paying attention for a moment there."

Ivory smiled at how well things had been going for her so far, how her master had told her where to go and to do things any way she'd like to as long as she got her revenge. "That's so like you Onna..you left me hanging you know.."

Ranka shuffled her black boots on the pavement, and her face flushed slightly. She was embarrassed that she had left Ivory hanging and that she just bumped into her like that. "I'm really sorry, but you know you didn't have to do that for me. You could've told the truth so that you wouldn't get in trouble."

"Well i guess I'm just stupid like that, always sticking up for people..but i really shouldn't have, since well your not really a person.." She glared at Onna intently.

Ranka looked at Ivory with a shocked expression. "What? Oh well I'm not Onna anymore, it's a long story but now I'm known as Ranka."

Ivory laughed at her and then glared at her once again. "Big deal..you changed your name, that still won't change what you are..a she devil.."

Ranka blinked at how odd Ivory was acting, she never acted this way, and what was all this talk about her being a she devil. "Ivory..I'm not a she devil, what makes you think that?"

Ivory began to get quite irritated by how ignorant Onna was being, and decided to take action. "Shut up! Because of you i had to become a monster!" Her dark purple gem glowed brightly, and her eyes flashed bright red.

Ranka gasped as her eyes fell upon the eerie looking gem that hung off of the necklace around Ivorys neck, and she closed her eyes tightly at seeing her friends eyes flash bright red. Now she knew why she was acting so weird, Satan must've done something horrible to her, she knew this instantly seeing the gem. Her own gem flashed bright red, as if to warn off the other one. She opened her eyes and knew there was no going back.

"Ivory..what has he done to you.."

Ivory snorted and crossed her arms. "You mean what have you done to me, it's your fault Onna..oh no i mean Ranka. You can change your name, and pretend your normal, but the truth is your not! Your nothing, and you'll always be nothing!" She slammed her fist into Ranka's gut, seeing that she distracted.

Ranka whinched and jumped away feeling hurt that her friend would attack her like that. The words that which she uttered, hurt her the most, but she had to try and remember that Satan had corrupted her and probably even more then that. That there was a good chance that the Ivory Sanchez she had known, was no more in a way. She lowered her head, and started to get into an attack stance.

Ivory smirked and flexed her shoulders. "Well i see your finally getting serious, that you know that i hate you..but before that he has something to say to you..Onna." Ivorys gem lit up brightly and a voice started to speak through it.

"You see Onna, this is what you get for defying your Master.. Now your friend has to pay for your defiance, that doesn't seem fair does it." The voice laughed and then disappeared. Ivory took the chance and charged into Ranka, slamming her fist into her stomach even harder then before, then she grabbed her by both sides of her stomach with both her hands and lifted her up into the air and started swinging her around faster and faster. "Behold my monstrously new strength!" She then let her go flying into the wall of Asadaiba High, slamming through into a good amount of walls.

Ranka gritted her teeth as she felt her back side make contact with the last wall, and she coughed up abit of blood from the impact. Her eyes were half closed, meaning she had taken quite a beating and the dust caused by the friction wasn't helping either. She lowered her head, and slowly found strength from her gem to lift one of her arms up to wipe the blood from her lips. For now she would have to go back to her old ways, but if she could avoid killing Ivory she would, but she wouldn't let herself be taken down so easily again. It was because she had been in shock and was too slow in acting before her opponent. She also had to win this battle no matter what, not for herself but for her new family that was waiting for her to return to them. She slowly pushed herself up somewhat, getting herself out of the debris pile, and kept working at it till she was standing up somewhat.

Ryouga in the meantime had found himself in some sort of building, that he had randomly walked inside of. He looked around at all the different directions to take, and finally picked one and started walking down that hallway till he hit a cloud of dust. He shrugged his shoulders and walked right through it, and kept walking till he spotted someone through the dust. 'What luck.' He thought to himself, that now he could ask this someone where he was.

"Excuse me, but could you tell me where i am?"

Ranka blinked and peered through the dust at the figure that was talking to her, slowly the form and shape became visible and she knew who it was. She had no time to for this, he was the last person she wanted to come across right now. But her being polite to a degree, decided she could atleast tell him where he was. "Your in Asadaiba High School, now if you don't mind i have to be going.." She started to walk off in the other direction, her mind focused on finishing the battle with her ex friend.

Ryouga's eyes became all big and teary, as he recognized the person's voice and he started to follow after the blurry figure trying to talk to her. "Your Onna aren't you! It must be my lucky day, i just suddenly found you like that."

Ranka crossed her arms, getting very annoyed by Ryouga's interruption. He was keeping her from her battle. "Right.. i'm busy right now ok."

She started to run off leaving ryouga in the dust and steadily gained more speed, till she spotted Ivory and charged at her at full speed. This time it was her that caught her opponent off guard, as she slammed her fist into Ivorys gut, and then before she could react, she slammed her knee into her gut as well, causing Ivory to stumble backwards. "Well now you know I'm serious.." She cracked her knuckles, as she waited for Ivory to regain her stance.

Ivory grabbed her stomach and glared at Ranka, she didn't think that she'd be so serious and so quickly. She thought that she'd be too upset and that victory would've gone to her. But now she could see the fire that was burning in Ranka's eyes, and she knew that she intended to hurt her. No this wasn't what she had planned on, and at the moment she had nothing to go by now. She would have to runaway and plot abit more before acting. Right now she needed something to distract Ranka with, so that she could make a break for it. She scanned the area till she spotted a boy with a yellow bandana around his head, he would do perfectly for now. She phased over to where he was, and grabbed him by both sides of his stomach, lifting him up into the air before launching him straight towards Ranka. She then dissipated into thin air while she had the chance.

Ryouga blinked as he flew through the air and knocked Ranka down onto the ground, as he lay ontop of her. Ranka grumbled and tried to shove him off her, she was in no mood for this. First he interrupted her, and now he had stopped her from finishing off Ivory. She sighed and put her hand to her face, although she didn't really want to fight with her, but in reality the sooner she stopped her the better. Then Ivory's true soul could be freed, and she could atleast find relief in the after life.

Ryouga shook his head about to stop everything from spinning around, and looked down at where he had landed. He blushed and jumped off from her chest and tried to help her up, but found she wasn't responding. So he thought that perhaps talking to her would help. "So who was that girl?"

Ranka pushed herself up off the ground and brushed herself off, and shook her head around to get the dust out of her hair. Then she looked down at her outfit and growled as she noticed some parts were torn up pretty badly, it really pissed her off since it was a fancy dress. She decided to try and be calm with Ryouga, perhaps she could get rid of him faster that way. "Well you know how you have your enemies, well she was my enemy." She pushed her hair out of her face, and started walking back towards the direction of Nodoka's house. "Now like i said..i have to be going."

Ryouga just followed in a daze, he was talking to her face to face. "Well um..I..you think i could follow you? I don't know how to get to the Tendou's.." He twiddled his fingers nervously, expecting her to laugh at him like Ranma usually did.

Ranka gave him a look, and shrugged her shoulders in defeat. He had a legitimate excuse so she'd let it go. "Yeah sure..why not." She kept walking at a steady pace, knowing that it'd be an interesting walk.

Nearby Ranma came across the remains of the one side of Asadaiba High school's wall, but what startled her was the shape of the imprint through the one wall. 'It was shaped like her sister!' and by the looks of things, it looked like she must've gotten into a fight with someone. She looked around her heart racing, hoping she was alright. She spotted footprints on the pavement, and came to the conclusion that her sister must've gotten dust or debris from the walls and was unknowingly making a path. So she followed after the footprint path steadily, till they seemed to disappear.

Ryouga stopped walking as he sensed someone was following them, he grabbed his umbrella from his back and thrust it out at their pursuer. "Show yourself!" He glared at the shadowy figure that came around the corner.

Ranma kicked the umbrella out from Ryouga's hand, and glared back at him. "Jeez Ryouga.. your so uptight.."

Ranka tensed up as she heard her sisters voice behind her, she didn't want her to see that she had been in a fight. But then she'd be alot more angry if she ran off, instead of fessing up to what had happened. Plus she was pretty happy to see him, she really needed her family right now. "You guys.." But right now she didn't want to deal with any more fighting.

Ranma stopped bickering with Ryouga long enough to notice her sister was there, and her clothes were torn up in various spots. "Ranka..jeez what happened to you, and where were you going? And what's with Ryouga tagging along huh?"

Ranka's expression on her face went to sullen one, talking about the recent event wasn't something she wanted to do. "Oh well i was visiting a friend, but we had a fight..and Ryouga happened to be in the area and he's going to the Tendou's so i thought I'd show him the way..."

Ranma gave Ryouga a look, before returning her attention to her sister and her expression on her face. She could tell that from seeing the disaster caused from the fighting, that it wasn't a normal fight between friends. She would talk about it with her later, but right now they had to get back to their mother. "Well as long as your alright Ranka, but I'd like to talk about this with you later on in more detail."

Ranka nodded her head in agreement, not necessarily happy that she would have to tell the truth about the incident. But right now she had to get around, letting her mother see her all roughed up. She wasn't a total mess, but messy enough that it would upset Nodoka greatly. "Yeah later.."

Ranma sighed and shook her head, she really didn't want to go to the Tendo's, especially after that nightmare she had. But Ranka was a mess, and going back to their mother with her in that shape was not an option. Atleast by going to the Tendo's she could clean up and borrow something from one of the Tendo sisters for the time being. "You should take a shower when we get there, I'm sure akane or kasumi will lend you an outfit for the time being..you can't go around like that.."

Ryouga couldn't help but let his eyes wander, after hearing what Ranma had to say. He eyes bulged as he caught sight of part of Ranka's boob through one of the holes in her dress, and he covered his eyes quickly. But it was too late, Ranma had noticed and started in on him. "Oh you like breasts huh..you can stare at mine all you want..but not at my sisters!" She whacked him on the head with her fist, giving him a warning that if he kept oggling her the next time would not be so pretty.

Ranka was so out of it that she wasn't paying attention to their sqwabbling or much else where she was going, as she bonked her head into a road sign. Ryouga noticed before Ranma and rushed over to aid her, but before he could say anything Ranma butted in and took over shoving him out of the way.

"Jeez Ranka are you feeling alright? You just walked right into a sign face first.."

Ranka looked up at Ranma with a bright red face, a combination from her being embarrassed and from the impact. "Um yeah i was just spacing." She pulled herself together and started walking again, paying more attention then she was before. Ryouga pulled his face up, out from the pavement wall that ranma had shoved him into and uprooted the sign from the ground, whacking Ranma over the head with it before chucking it away and running off to catch up with Ranka, leaving Ranma behind.

Meanwhile in the depths of hell's fiery caves inside Satan's castle, Ivory lay sprawled across the large bed in her new room. Satan sat on a chair that was next to the bed and stroked her hair gently, and talked to her soothingly. "Now now my dear, everyone runs away at one time or another. But there will be another chance for you." He smiled at her gently, and gazed into her eyes. Ivory gazed up at him and at how nice he was being to her about failing. She sniffled and wiped the tears from her eyes and enjoyed the attention she was getting.

Alley on the other hand was not enjoying the site, from her hiding spot behind the door outside. She had been watching through the crack in the doorway and listening intently. 'How dare that little brat butt in on my territory! He loves me and only me wench!' She dug her nails into the wood of the door as she watched satan comfort the girl. She stayed still as she knew that she had drawn too much attention to herself, and Satan was aware of the noise. She moved away from the door after he stopped looking around, and she walked off quietly down the hallway thinking to herself. 'There has to be some way for me to please him more then her.. I just have to think about how to plan this out.'

Meanwhile Ranma finally caught up to them and immediately paid Ryouga back for his sneak attack. Ranka snapped out of her trance like state of mind as she noticed the dust ball and the curse words coming from it and tried to stop it as it went tumbling by a person tossing some water out onto the street, but it was too late. Akane suddenly poked her head out from the doorway as she heard p-chan squealing violently. "P-chan!" She stormed over to the dust cloud and yanked Ranma and P-chan off each other and then whacked Ranma over the head with her mysterious mallet and held p-chan affectionately. "Ranma! What have i told you about picking on poor P-chan! You jerk!" She stamped her feet as she went back inside holding a struggling p-chan, slamming the door behind her.

Ranka relaxed herself after Akane was gone and went to her sisters side. "You alright Ranma?" Ranma had her face planted in the sidewalk and a bump on her head from the mallet attack. "More or less.." She grumbled in reply as she yanked her face off the pavement and pushed herself up off the ground looking annoyed.

Ranka's eyes went wide as she noticed they were at the Tendo's and all the memories of what she had done in the past couple of days rushed through her head, a strange feeling emerged from within and she started to act very weird and put her hand to her heart feeling it beating rapidly. She had to get away from this place before she had a mental breakdown within. She stumbled backwards but caught herself and tried to walk away, but Ranma had grabbed her hand after noticing her trying to get away.

"Come on it's this way Ranka." She dragged Ranka towards the front door impatiently.

Ranka yanked her hand away from Ranma suddenly, and her heart kept beating faster as they approached the front door. "I can't..I'll just go back the way i am, it won't be so bad."

Ranma looked at her funny and suddenly noticed how bewildered she looked. "i guarantee it'll be bad...your better off cleaning up here. Ranka what's the matter you look like you've seen a ghost.." She asked in a concerned tone.

Ranka grabbed her head and felt her heart pumping rapidly, as if it was going to burst if she didn't get away,and the memories just kept repeating themselves over and over in her mind. She did the only thing she could do to keep from going crazy she took off in the blink of an eye, without looking back. At the moment she really didn't care about other people's feelings and such, she just had to get away from that place. She ran by random places, not even taking notice of the names or where she was going as her heart kept beating faster and faster. She kept running till she reached the woods and then she collapsed onto the ground, her eyes started to tear up and she covered her face with her hands in shame at what she was thinking. Hoping that Ranma hadn't come after her, she didn't want to be found at the moment. She pulled herself up off the ground and leaned her back against a tree and closed her eyes as she tried to calm herself down by meditating.

Ranma swung down from the tree branch, hanging upside down near Ranka, looking quite irritated but more upset then anything. "That was real nice running off and leaving me in the dust.." She crossed her arms over her chest, showing that she was not happy.

Ranka snapped out of her short mediation, somewhat startled as she spotted Ranma hanging upside down from a tree branch near her. No matter where she ran off to Ranma would probably find her, so she decided she had no other choice but to share what was on her mind, since if she didn't her sibling wouldn't leave her alone. "I'm sorry i just had bad memories..from what i did when i was under his control..and my heart felt like it was going to explode if i didn't get away.." She quickly looked away from Ranma feeling ashamed.

Ranma uncrossed her arms and sort of laughed, then she rubbed at her head. "Well it's not like i really want to go back there either after the nightmare i had, and akane's nagging..etc etc. But as i recall you really didn't do anything that bad so don't let it get to you. Beating up dad was priceless he deserved it, and nabiki was bound to piss off happosai sooner or later."

Ranka hung her head in shame, she hadn't told Ranma about how she almost had beat up akane as well. "I was mean to akane.."

Ranma had to laugh again, and swung up onto another tree branch right side up and then jumped down to the ground. "Akane well sometimes i want to push her around as well, but i can't since I'll be going against the code..but you don't need to worry about that. Girls can beat the crap out of other girls without worrying about the code." She patted Ranka's shoulder showing off a big cheesy grin. "But seriously i know this isn't the only thing that was enough to make you breakdown Ranka.."

Ranka shifted her gaze to Ranma slightly showing how annoyed she was. "I hate how intent you are on bugging me.." She sighed and leaned her head all the way back against the tree and looked up towards the sky. "I guess seeing my friend from Asadaiba completely changed and willing to kill me, well i guess it was too much.. I thought that me and Ivory were best friends, and she was one of the first people to care about me..but now she hates me.. but that's because she's not the Ivory i knew and i know that, it just..it really hurts." She covered her face with her hands as she felt her eyes get watery.

Ranma rubbed Ranka's head with her hand gently, trying to comfort her as best she could. "Oh don't worry I'm sure there's a way to bring the old Ivory back."

Ranka shook her head, though she was grateful at how Ranma was trying to think positive she knew it just wasn't possible. "No..she gave away her soul Ranma..she gave her whole self away knowing that she would never be able to go back.. The only thing i can do to return her to how she was would be to kill her, so atleast her soul will be free.." She sighed and felt the trickle of tears fall down her cheeks, then she uncovered her face and wiped them away defiantly.

Ranma wasn't quite sure what to do now, trying to think positive didn't do any good since the situation couldn't be remedied in a good way. "Well um..i guess your right, but I'm sure you'll make new friends Ranka."

Ranka looked down at the ground. "No..he'll just corrupt them like he did Ivory.." She grumbled and whacked her head back against the tree roughly.

Ranma stopped her from whacking her head against the tree a second time, and looked her straight into the eyes sternly. "Whacking your head open against a tree won't help..so lets get back to the Tendo's, we'll explain what happened and you can apologize and start over ok. I'm sure kasumi or akane would gladly be friends with you so stop this bullcrap!" She hauled Ranka up off the ground by grabbing onto her arm and dragged her up into a standing positron, then tossed her over her shoulder and started walking off. Ranka was completely red in the face and in shock otherwise she would've objected.

Akane sat outside on the porch nuzzling P-chan, she was also worried since Ranma hadn't come inside after she had pummeled her. She had been so mad that she had forgotten how Ranma had left the other day and not come back for a whole day. Her eyes widened as she thought she heard Ranma's grumbling nearby, she stood up abruptly still holding P-chan and ran off to the front door before Kasumi. She slide the front door open and starred in awe at seeing Ranma standing there with his sister the Asadaiba girl named Onna slung over her shoulder and not looking to happy either.

Ranma noticed that Akane had calmed down, and ignored the fact that P-chan was sneering at her. "Sorry Akane..things have been hectic, I'll tell you about it all in a second."

Akane looked bewildered at how Ranma was acting, and she hadn't noticed till now that recently Ranma was in girl form more then usual. But right now what she wanted to know was why the other girl was slung over her shoulder. "Ranma i see you found your sister, but why are you treating her like a sack?"

Ranma rolled her eyes and started to get a little annoyed with Akane. "I already told ya I'd tell ya in a second, jeez your so stupid sometimes.." She trudged inside past Akane and straight into the dining room and took Ranka off her shoulder and laid her on the floor before sitting down at her usual spot at the table.

Kasumi poked her head in from kitchen, and her eyes widened as she saw two girl ranma's. Then she remembered what Akane had told her and she smiled at Ranma. "Welcome back Ranma, would you like some hot water? That must be your sister there next to you."

Ranma nodded and smiled somewhat at Kasumi. "I'd appreciate that Kasumi, and yes this is Ranka."

Kasumi put on a kettle of water on the stovetop, before continuing her conversation with Ranma. "I'll go tell father and Mr Saotome that your here." She walked off in the direction of the koi pond outside to tell the two fathers the news. While Kasumi was busy, Akane made her way into the dining room and sat down in her respectful spot, looking pissed at Ranma and clenching onto an equally pissed off P-chan. P-chan's eyes darted around till he saw Ranka laying on the floor looking upset and he burned with furry knowing that Ranma was probably the cause. He tried to squirm out of akane's arms but her death grip was too much for him and he had to stay put.

Ranka pushed herself up off the floor into a sitting position still looking quite urked and crossed her arms, while she looked around cautiously for either Nabiki or Happosai. She looked up nervously as Soun and Genma and Kasumi entered and sat down in their respectful places, while Kasumi went off to kitchen and took the kettle off the stovetop before it started whistling and turned off the stove top quickly. Then she came back in and poured some of the contents of the kettle ontop of Ranma's head, before going back into the kitchen with the kettle. Ranma smiled as she felt the change, it had been awhile since he had been a guy.

Akane was loosing her patience and was ready to slam her fist down, but before she could Genma was the one to do so. "What's the meaning of this boy!" He pointed his finger accusingly at Ranka.

Ranma smacked his finger and glared at him. "That's my sister Ranka, don't worry i didn't find a cure if that's what you were thinking old man.."

Genma rubbed his hand and was ready to retort back, but at hearing the words sister he became startled. "Sissster?" He managed to stutter out some words.

"A sister? Boy don't play games with me!"

Soun sipped his tea and nodded his head. "It's nice to meet you Ranka."

Ranka nodded and tried to ignore Genma's presence completely, but with her being so nervous she wasn't able to fully tune him out. Kasumi came back into the room with a bowl full of rice crackers, setting them down onto the table, before filling up everyone's cups that had already been set. Then she took her respectful seat near Akane and her father.

Ranma grumbled and rolled his eyes at his father. "She's actually a clone of me made by the devil, originally she was being controlled by him but she's free now, and since my DNA was used that makes her my sister. You got that old man!"

Genma glared at Ranma and then looked over at Ranka seeing a good opportunity since he sort of had a daughter now. Since she looked exactly like Ranma in girl form she was quite stunning in the beauty department and she would easily fetch alot of money if he married her off to some rich guy. He chuckled and rubbed his hands together, then he ran over to where she was and embraced her tightly. "Oh Ranka you make your father proud, such a fine young lady I've raised." Ranka gritted her teeth and buried her fist into Genma's face faster then lightning, making him loose his grip on her. "I am not your daughter..." She still had her fist clenched, and her hand was shaking from being so nervous.

Ranma got up and dragged Genma outside and tossed him into the koi pond, before going back to his seat at the table. Ranka shuddered and brushed her shoulders off, being disgusted that, that man had touched her. Kasumi shook her head back and forth at what had happened but more so about the condition of the outfit that Ranka was wearing. "Oh my oh my, Ranka you shouldn't wear such attire.."

Akane suddenly homed in on what Kasumi was so upset about and her face became red and she instantly blamed Ranma. "Ranma you pervert! How could you do that to your own sister!" She was ready to slam her mallet down ontop of Ranma when Ranka interrupted her abruptly.

"He didn't do anything to me Akane.. i got into a fight and it just so happened to tear in this spot.." She was really red in the face as she knew that they were all starring at it.

Kasumi couldn't take it any longer and grabbed Ranka, pulling her up out of her seat into a standing position and dragging her off towards the furo area. "Oh dear..oh my a young girl your age shouldn't be wearing that, now you come with me and we'll get you all cleaned up."

Ranka tried to protest but she was no match for Kasumi at the moment with her being so nervous, and so she had no choice again but to be dragged along.

Genma sat on the porch in panda form shaking off, and trudged into the house and ran up to where Ranma was and whacked him on the head with one of his wooden signs that appeared from nowhere. Ranma grumbled and rubbed his head looking annoyed. "What the hell did you do that for?"

Genma grumbled and held up another sign. 'That's for tossing me into the pond." Then he pulled out another one. 'Where'd Ranka go?'

Ranma sneered at him and grabbed the sign from him and whacked him on the head with it. "That's really none of your business old man, and by the way if you want to marry her off you'll have to take it up with mom."

Genma eyes bulged and he fwailed his arms around and made upset panda noises before taking out another sign. 'Nodoka has her?'

Ranma nodded and smirked at the panda. "That's right, she lives with mom. So you and mom should talk about any kind of marriage deals first, because I'm sure she has some guys already lined up for Ranka."

Akane got up and her battle aurora sizzled around her in flames at what she heard. She kicked both Ranma and Genma into the sky with one of her famous brute force punts without asking any question's or letting them explain themselves. "You jerks! How dare you treat her like a possession!" She huffed and went off to the furo to where Kasumi and Ranka were, still holding onto P-chan tightly.

Kasumi had Ranka rinse off the soap and shampoo, then ushered her to get into the tub where she relaxed as Kasumi scrubbed her back gently, and she slowly became less nervous. Akane entered and looked really pissed. Ranka shrinked back at seeing the sizzling fire like battle aurora all around Akane. "I'm sorry about before.."

Akane blinked and her battle aurora fizzled out. "About what? Oh that, well i was being annoying..i mean Mr. Saotome did deserve that beating. I was more upset because i thought it was Ranma being mean to me.."

Ranka shook her head slightly. "No Ranma won't be mean to you, if your not mean to him anyways.."

Akane was about to say something, but Kasumi started pushing her towards the door. "Now now Akane lets let her finish her bath in peace shall we. Ranka when your finished come up to Akane's room."

Akane nodded and waved at Ranka before being pushed out the door with Kasumi, she lost her hold on p-chan without realizing it.

P-chan shook his head feeling all out of sorts from being in Akane's death grip for so long, he stumbled around not paying attention to who was in the bathtub as he hopped up onto the tub and jumped into the water. Ranka had her head laid up against the wall and her eyes closed as she relaxed in the hot water of the furo, it felt very good on her aches and pains from her battle with Ivory. Ryouga surfaced and looked around through the steam and gulped as he slowly started to spot a curved body and heard a girls sigh. Ranka opened her eyes slowly as she thought she heard someone make a noise, she peered through the steam in the room and noticed that someone else was in the tub with her.

Ryouga started to panic thinking that it was Akane and she had seen him change, he fwailed his arms around nervously and didn't pay to attention to where they went till he felt something warm and squishy, also kind of round. Ranka's eyes went wide and her face bright red as she felt a man's hand on her chest, she instantly started to scream. Ryouga panicked again and slapped his other hand over the girls mouth, after removing his other hand from her chest. "I'm so sorry akane..you must hate me now.. I didn't mean to touch you there..i just got scared and wasn't paying attention.." His face went white as he saw who it was starring back at him with a pissed off expression on her face, and his nose started to bleed from the excitement, and he removed his hand from her mouth to cover his nose. "Ahahaha Ranka.."

Ranka growled and turned the water on to cold and sprayed Ryouga with the facquet, by sticking her hand into the water making it squirt all over the place. Then she turned off the water and unplugged the drain, and jumped out of the tub running out of the furo after grabbing a towel and wrapping it around herself.

In the meantime Ranma snapped out of his unconscious state, and looked around and growled as he was now a she floating in the koi pond. 'Just great' she thought to herself, 'i finally get to be a man again and then akane undoes it in less then 2 minutes..' She pulled herself up out of the koi pond and shook off before heading off to the furo, stripping off her chinese shirt as she entered the bathing area, followed by everything else as she went over to the tub looking in it seeing that it wasn't filled. She turned on the warm water knob and plugged the drain, while she was waiting for the tub to fill up she went and showered off with some cool water. She stopped as she thought she heard some bweeting from the tub, and looked around through the steam till she bumped heads with Ryouga and fell over.

Ryouga panicked once again, as he saw who it was who had bumped heads with him. He guessed that Ranka had forgotten something and came back to fetch it, at the moment he had forgotten about Ranma's girl side since he was so absent minded at times. "Ah um..Ranka I'm sorry.."

Ranma-chan bounced right back up from the floor after hearing Ryouga, and glared him straight in the eyes. "And what does this have to do with Ranka hmm? What are you sorry about?"

Ryouga blinked in confusion, he stared at the redhead in front of him till he noticed her hair was tied back in a pigtail. "Ranma?" Then he clenched his fist tightly at remembering how Ranma had stopped him from talking with Ranka alone. "How dare you interrupt my only chance for love Saotome!"

Ranma-chan still had a fixed glare on Ryouga, and grabbed him by his neck. "Answer my question! What the hell did you do to my sister!" She shook him around violently.

Ryouga's nose started to bleed again at remembering what had just happened between him and Ranka a couple minutes ago, and he fell into a daydream like state where he admitted everything openly. "I touched her boob by accident.."

Ranma-chan growled and tightened her grip on him. "You fondled my sister! You were in the bath with my sister!" She gritted her teeth and let go of Ryouga's neck, then tightened her fist and planted it straight into his face full force, slamming him into the wall leaving an imprint. Then she yanked the shower head off it's holder and turned on the cold water knob and sprayed ryouga with it, before putting it back and turning off the water. She would've done worst to him but they were sort of friends, and the other thing was she had already caused damage to the Tendo's bathroom wall, and she had to get back to her mother's as soon as possible. But she wasn't just going to let this one slide, she'd have to beat the crap out of Ryouga at a later time, for now her fierce warning was enough. "Stay the hell away from my sister Ryouga..."

She grabbed p-chan and squeezed him tightly before opening the bathroom door and tossing him out harshly, then closing the door and getting into the furo.

Meanwhile up in akane's room, Ranka sat on the bed with a towel wrapped around herself as kasumi came into the room with a pile of clothes that she sat down on the bed. She picked up one of the outfits and held it up to Ranka. "What do you think of this one Akane?" Just then it hit kasumi as she remembered them doing the same thing to ranma when they met his girl side and couldn't help but smile at the memory. "Oh my i remember when we did this for Ranma, don't you remember that time Akane?"

Akane was busy looking through the pile of clothing as well, till after hearing Kasumi's comment she stopped as she found the i love china outfit. "Yes i remember, but Ranka isn't rude like Ranma..atleast i hope not.." She clenched her fist at remembering how ranma had insulted her figure, and she tossed the jumper outfit aside angerly. Ranka flinched as Akanae did so, and this caught akane's attention. "What? I'm not going to hit you.."

Ranka eyed her uncertain that the girl was telling the truth, because she had ranma's memories so she knew how suddenly she flew off the handle over little things. "Well I..um you can hit me if you want to..since i almost hit you before.." The guilt from when she had pretended to be Ranma was getting to her, especially since she was face to face with Akane she couldn't escape it.

Akane blinked and forgot her anger towards Ranma as she saw this timid girl in front of her, telling her to hit her.. "I'm not going to hit you..i told you i deserved it since i was butting in. But Ranka you've really changed since that time, your not all angry like you were."

Ranka tilted her head back and forth till she understood what akane was getting at. "Oh..well i was angry..ranma's dad he just brings out all my anger.."

Akane found one of nabiki's leather skirts and pulled it out from the pile of clothes and set it down next to Ranka. "Well he's your dad too though Ranka, now here try this on."

Ranka wrinkled up her nose at what Akane had said and ignored that comment altogether as she looked the leather skirt with a chain belt going around it. Then Kasumi pulled out a sky blue long sleeved shirt with a low neck line from the pile and set it down next to Ranka. "Oh it seems we've found an outfit for you Ranka, now don't worry about your dress i'll patch it up for you and wash it as best i can, but in the meantime you can borrow that outfit." Kasumi gathered up the pile of clothes and left the room humming a happy tune.

Akane started to unpack her school books from her bag,and setting them down onto her desk while Ranka was getting changed. Ranka finished pulling on the leather skirt, and her socks that she had on before, then she stood up and walked over to the dresser's mirror and checked herself out. Akane looked up from her homework to glance at Ranka in the outfit, and she smiled happy how Ranka hadn't insulted her figure like Ranma had, but then again the top was kasumi's and the skirt was Nabiki's. Kasumi poked her head in from the hallway catching sight of Ranka in the outfit and she clasped her hands together happily. "Oh my oh my that looks so stunning on you Ranka, now that your in better atire would you like some tea?" Ranka nodded and followed after Kasumi, leaving Akane alone with her homework.

Ranma was all sprawled out on the tatami mat floor, watching tv and munching on a rice cracker till he caught sight of Ranka walking by with Kasumi, and after seeing the outfit that she was wearing he spit it out and starting choking for awhile. Genma looked up from his game of shogi that he was playing with Soun, his eyes bugged out of his head as he looked her up and down and he plotted on how many men he could marry her off to, and started daydreaming of being rich and well fed. Ranka dissapeared into the kitchen with Kasumi for a moment before emerging carrying a tray of tea's and tea cakes, that she sat down onto the table and sat down near Ranma, eager to get going back to their mother as soon as possible, and faraway from Genma she blurted it out making it obvious that she wanted to leave. "Well i've got a temporary outfit, so we can go back to mom now."

Ranma rubbed at his head nervously and started out with a lame reply. "Well you can go on ahead if you want, i'll catch up later."

Ranka scowled at him, and flopped down onto the tatami mat down to his level and eyed him with a serious face. "I know your not going to stand her up, and that your not going to get away with carrying me here by force if you slip out of going back to her.." Her red gem flarred up bright red as it sensed how serious she was towards this person, the red light reflected from the gem to her eyes, making it look like she had a glint of red in her eyes.

Ranma gulped at how dead set serious Ranka was being at the moment, she was acting like she had been when they had first met and it was bothering him greatly. He had gotten use to her new attitude with her smiling more and joking around, not the old her and he knew that if he didn't go back now, that he would have to deal with that side of her. He sighed inwardly to himself, knowing that he'd have to go back to being a girl again, he had wanted to stay and just relax as himself for awhile longer but he knew that his mother was waiting for them to get back to her.

Soun interupted the siblings conversation abruptly, with the hopes of getting Ranma to stay and spend some time with Akane. "Now now, Kasumi has just made some tea and some snack's, you two could atleast stay for that can't you? And Son i'd like an explanation from you later on." With what he wanted to be said he went back to finishing the shogi game with genma, then he got up and went over to his usual spot at the table, and picked up his newspaper and started reading while he waited for the tea to cool down abit. Genma huffed at loosing the shogi game, but then rubbed his hands together as he spotted Ranka and scooted over to where Ranma and her were. He put on a happy face and had the words in his mind that he wanted to say to the girl, hoping that he could win her over with them.

"Ranka dear i'm so sorry about how i acted before, it's just that i was stating the obvious and that punch before it was magnificent, worthy of the name Saotome." He smiled with his sly grin that was creeping across his face.

Ranka immediately scooted away from Genma as she knew what he was up to, since she had scanned Ranma's memories and seen all the times he had tried to butter Ranma up and then tried to marry him off to random suitors. She rolled her eyes at the man's pathetic attempts to win her over, and then she looked at him out of the corner of her eyes. "Please you don't think i'm that stupid do you..you can drop the act i know what your up to.." With that being said she stood up and went over to the table and sat down, and put her hands around the hot cup of tea, enjoying the warmth it was giving off.

Kasumi came back into the room and sat down next to Ranka, holding a comb and a bottle of hair detangler just in case, and set them down onto the floor. "Oh my Ranka you forgot to comb you hair out, if it's alright i could do it for you?" Ranka blinked and after hearing what Kasumi had said, she sweatdropped at forgetting to do her hair after taking a bath. "Um..yeah i'm sorry.."

Kasumi smiled and shook her head. "Don't be sorry i enjoy doing this sort of thing, and you have such nice hair Ranka." She started to smooth it out and picked up the comb and started from the bottom and up to top combing the silky tresses out.

Ranka was very content at the moment, it felt nice to have someone fuss over her and complement her kindly, instead of having orders thrown at her and having to do them or pay the price of free will. She picked up her cup of tea and sipped from it slowly.

Genma tried to make his move once again, but before he could Ranma tackled him and they both started wrestling around on the floor, both looking very serious. Ranma was particulary looking the most serious out of the two. "Jeez give it a rest, you heard her she's on to you so butt out old man.."

Genma fought back intensely, and looked around the room for some cold water so that he could go into panda form and use the cradle move on Ranma. "Would you rather it be you boy! What do you have to complain about, your off to hook with your girl side."

Ranma growled and pinned Genma down in place roughly. "What do you mean my girl side's off the hook? Your still going to try and marry me off to a bunch of girls though aren't you!"

Ranka ignored the noisy atmosphere as she was too content while being groomed and talking with Kasumi, she felt at ease when talking with her, her calm and soothing voice and her kind demenor were both the perfect medicine. Kasumi finished combing out Ranka's hair finally and set the comb down onto the floor and picked up her cup of tea and took a sip from it gracefully, before setting it back down. "So Aunt Nodoka is your mother now, is that right?"

Ranka nodded happily and took another sip of her tea, before setting it down. "Yes since you've obviously heard i was living with the devil, kind of hard to believe that isn't it. But now i'm living with her and it's very peaceful." She ignored the dust cloud that went tumbling by them and towards the porch.

Kasumi smiled sweetely and took a bite of her tea cake slowly, and wiped her mouth off with her napkin as she finished swallowing. "I'm so glad to here that Ranka, but what i'm most pleased to hear is that now Ranma has a sister. He's always needed someone to be there for him that could understand him more then anyone else, and lets be honest akane really doesn't understand him as well as you do."

Ranka found herself blushing somewhat at what Kasumi was saying, and she quickly retorted back nervously. "Well that's because i'm bascially him, so of course i know him better then she would..but i can't be there for him in a lover kind of way that'd be well it'd be weird and wrong.."

Kasumi nodded contently as she nibbled away at her tea cake and sipped at her tea, as she listened to Ranka going on about random things, then she asked a random question that was on her mind.

"Well what kind of boy's do you like then Ranka?" She smiled softly and waited for an answer.

Ranka's face turned bright red as the word 'boy' kept going around in her mind, then she remembered all the incidents with Ryouga, the one that got to her the most was the most recent bathroom incident and she found herself getting very mad. "Well i don't like Ryouga! Peepers and body fondlers aren't my type that's for sure.." She huffed and crossed her arms across her chest.

Kasumi put her hand to her mouth quickly and waved her other arm about trying to fan herself off. "oh dear oh dear..Ryouga was in the bathing area with you? And he touched you in an inapproriate manner!" She covered her mouth entirely when she realized how loudly they had both been talking.

Akane looked up from her textbook as she had heard kasumi talking so loudly, and blushed after hearing that Ryouga had peeped on Ranka and muttered to herself worriedidly. 'No ryouga wouldn't do that..would he?' Just then she heard muffled bweets outside her door and scratching on her door, and she jumped up out of her chair and ran to the door to let him in, welcoming him by taking him into her death grip hold once again and snuggled him. "Oh P-chan, where have you been, i've been so worried about you."

P-chan looked up at her and bweeted happily, and snuggled back into her bossom till an image of Ranka appeared briefly with her looking upset. He stopped snuggling suddenly stayed quiet. Of course Akane noticed that her beloved pet pig was acting strangely, and she started asking questions. She walked back over to her desk and sat back down into her seat still holding him. "What's wrong P-chan? Did you see Ryouga peeping on Ranka in the furo? I mean can you believe it? Ryouga peeping..i mean i never thought he'd do that sort of thing.."

After hearing what she had said P-chan tried to squirm out of her clutches to runaway somewhere faraway, but he was not match for Akane's brute strength in his current form. Akane wondered if ranma was in on it with Ryouga, or if he knew why Ryouga would so such a thing. She tossed her pencil aside and jumped up out of her chair, her mind made up as she trudged out of her room with p-chan and downstairs to find Ranma.

Ranma had stopped wrestling with his father after both of them smelled the tea cakes and promptly started eating instead of fighting. Kasumi was silent after her loud outburst and was tending to filling the empty tea cups back up, while Ranka munched on her tea cake and sipped her tea while ignoring genma till he tried to steal her tea cake from her,she immediately slapped his hand and glarred at him.

Genma rubbed at the smack mark on his hand and started to say something, but he was interupted by akane's loud footsteps that pounded the floor as she entered the room. Akane looked around till she found Ranma and then she started the way she usually did, all angry at him for nothing. "Ranma! How dare you make poor Ryouga into a pervert like you!"

Ranka and Ranma chocked at the words, and Ranma jumped up to defend himself from being wrongly accused. "I didn't do nothing you go that! He's the one that looked in on my sister not me!"

Ranka stuck up for her brother as well from the sidelines. "That's right, so you shouldn't be calling Ranma a pervert and wrongly accusing him before you know the facts Akane."

Akane glowered at the two siblings for the moment, before huffing and sitting down in her usual spot and grabbing a tea cake and devouring it, Kasumi tried to say something but then she stopped thinking it was better not to, since it could make things worse. P-chan kept trying to head his face by sticking it inbetween akane's boobs, so that he wasn't looking at Ranka or anyone else for that matter. Ranma immediately caught onto this and gave P-chan the coldest glare he could muster, then he downed his tea in one big gulp and stood up. "Well it's about time me and Ranka get going, thankyou for the tea and snacks Kasumi." Ranka noticed that Ranma was finally ready to go and she stood up as well, happy to be leaving. "Yes thankyou Kasumi, and it was nice to meet you all on a better scale, next time i'll vist longer but were on a schedule right now." Then she walked over to the door where Ranma was waiting and they both took their leave quickly, before Akane or Genma could say anything.

Akane looked hurt and surprised at the same time, that Ranma had left again and who knew when he would be back. It seemed that he was staying with his mother for his sisters sake, and this made her a little jealous as she thought about it. She reminded herself that she would have to check the situation out for herself,without letting Ranma know. P-chan meanwhile had managed to squirm about and kicked around so that he had slid downwards, and since Akane wasn't paying attention her grip had let up quite abit, so he made a run for it as he had fianlly gotten free. The first thing he had to do was find Ranka and apologize to her for what had happened, so he ran off to the Tendo's furo which he seemingly could always find and jumped in without looking to see if anyone was using it.

Nabiki who had just gotten home from one of her outings, had went off to the furo to take a relaxing soak and she spotted p-chan who dived into the water and Ryouga popped out from the water and walked out of the furo with a blank face on. Nabiki shrugged her shoulders and went back to her bath with a smug smile on her face, she already knew from hearing Ranma going on about Ryouga and Ukyou that P-chan was Ryouga, but she could use what she saw to blackmail him for some cash. Ryouga had his clothes back and he was wandering around the streets looking for Ranka, hoping that his lousy sense of direction would give him a break till he found her.

Ranma and Ranka walked down the streets side by side as they discussed the recent event that had transpired awhile ago, as they walked back towards the house. Ranma was still quite angry from seeing P-chan and how he had been acting, and also at Akane for jumping to conclusions. "I can't believe she thought i was in on it with him, jeez..she can't think things through before talking." Ranka nodded her head in agreement, she was still mad about Ryouga walking in on her in the bathing area but she was happy right now since they were away from Genma. "Yeah that's akane for you, she always seems to think that your the one who makes Ryouga do bad things." She smirked and playfully teased him. "Maybe your Ryouga's devil." She gave him a smug smirk and then stuck her tongue out at him.

Ranma wrinkled up his nose and gave her a look, that told her not to joke around about things like that. "I'm not..and you raz me again i'll grab your tongue you smart ass devling." He smirked and put his arms behind his back as they got closer to the house.

Ranka made a poutie face and then smacked him on the back of his head and ran off ahead of him,till she made it to the front door, she had a pissed off expression on her face and her arms were crossed. Ranma blinked and rubbed the back of his head as he neared the front door, forgetting that he was still a guy. "Jeez what was that for Ranka?" Ranka rolled her eyes and sighed. "Think about it you idiot..and also think about turning back into a girl, or do you want mom to see you as a boy."

Ranma frooze up like a stone statue after hearing that, he had forgotten that he had to play the role of Ranka when he went back to his mother, all kinds of images raced through his mind is his state of shock as the door started to slide open and he heard his mother's voice. "Ranka, Ranko is that you two?"

Ranka give a hmpf before grabbing the nearby water bucket and tossing the contents over his head, just as the sliding door was kept sliding open and the only thing Nodoka caught sight of was the bucket clattering down to the ground and seeing a wet Ranko and a pissed off looking Ranka.

From what she had seen, she had gathered that Ranka was mad at Ranko since she thought she had heard a male's voice outside the door for a short time, and perhaps the girls were fighting over this man and Ranka had tossed the contents from the fire bucket at Ranko. She was happy to see that the two girls had made it back to her at a reasonable time, but the thought that they were fighting and that Ranka who was usually so ladylike would do something like this to her sister. "Ranka! I'm very ashamed of your behavior young lady..you and your sister should not fight over such things." She looked over at Ranko worried since it wasn't a sunny day and the temperature wasn't too warm, and grabbed her by the arm and hauled her inside gently leading her off to the bathing area. "Now come along Ranko i don't want you to catch a cold from being all wet.."

Ranka huffed and still had her arms crossed, she closed the sliding doors shut before leaping up onto the stone wall, and with another sprint she made her way to to top of the roof where she sat herself down indian style, with a pissed off expression on her face as she fished her red gem necklace out from her shirt and stared up at the sky as she was thinking. She had just saved Ranma's ass, and now she was in trouble..she expected alot of apologizing from her sibling later on. For now she looked to her only companion that knew her for who she really was, and smiled gently at her red gem and started talking to it about what had happened to her. The gem was full of magic but it was also part of Ranka, you could say that it had a soul among other things. As it listened to it's master's woe's it lit up in response and glowed brightly to show that it was listening. Ranka closed her eyes with a small smile on her face as she felt the warmth coming off of the gem, and grabbed onto it. She sighed inwardly to herself as she thought about having to go back to school tomorrow, about how sad it would be without Ivory then she found herself cursing to herself as she started to nod off.

Ranma on the other hand was trying to talk Nodoka out of bathing with her, but her mother was very persistant on the matter for some reason. "I'm telling you i'm much more comfortable bathing alone mom.."

Nodoka who had started to catch onto the little things, tried to probe further but she could tell that she was getting on Ranko's last nerve, and besides she had the information that she had wanted. "Oh alright..well maybe some other time then dear." She then walked out of the furo area closing the door behind her, but now she would have to deal with Ranka. She shook her head thinking to herself about how her sweet little girls had suddenly become troublesome little girls in less then one day.

Ranma who had backed herself up against the wall, after Nodoka had stripped off her shirt during the small argument about bathing together, let out a loud sigh and slid down against the wall relieved that her mother had left her alone. She just stayed against the wall for awhile before stripping off the rest of her clothes and hopped into the shower.

Later on after changing into her usual attire Ranma came down the stairs and saw his mother with her head down on the kitchen table, she paused for a moment wondering if she had been crying over not being able to bathe with her. Nodoka lifted her head up after hearing Ranko come down the stairs, she wiped away her tears from her eyes and tried not to sound too upset. "Oh Ranko..i can't find Ranka anywhere, she must've runaway because i said i was ashamed of her.." She put her hankie back over her eyes as she felt the tears pouring out again, Ranka disappearing on her was the worse thing she could imagine since she knew the basic truth about her now, her greatest fear was that she would dissapear and now it seemed like it was happening.

Ranma rubbed at the back of her head feeling quite ashamed of herself as she recalled that it was her fault that Ranka had gotten so mad, and also she couldn't bear to see her mother cry she was used to seeing her cheerful. Of course the same thing was on her mind as well about her sister just disspearing, but she tried to think positive for both her and her mother. "Oh i doubt she she ranaway, she's probably just hiding somewhere. So cheer up i'll go look for her."

Nodoka took a moment to stop crying and dabbed up her eyes, before looking at Ranko. "But i've looked all over the house for her Ranko, and she's not here.."

Ranma continued to rub the back of her head as she tried to think rationally about this, she kept forgetting that Ranka was just like her and she would probably be hiding in the same spot that she would usually go to getaway from everything. She pounded her fist down onto her other hand, after she had figured this out. "Don't worry she's my sister i'll find her, since i know her the best." Then Ranma dashed off back upstairs to the room and opened up the window and poked her head outside looking around, till sure enough she spotted Ranka on the other side of the roof asleep,still sitting indian style. Ranma crawled through the window outside ontop of the roof, making her way towards Ranka, and when she got there she whacked her on the head with her fist fairly roughly. Ranka woke up suddenly after something hit her in the head, she looked around half awake and rubbing her head with a pissed off expression on her face as she homed in on Ranma standing in front of her. "What the hell do you want..?"

Ranma had a sullen expression on her face mixed with some anger as well, and had one of her hands balled up into a fist. "That's for upsetting mom, she thinks you've dissapeared, heck i thought you did for a moment..now go apologize to her.."

Ranka glared at Ranma as she stood up, and her red gem flarred up brightly as it sensed the turmoil going on. "Jeez i'm not allowed to get away from people, especially people who don't seem to understand why i'm mad! Hmm maybe because they said something and i had to save you ass! So yeah i want to be alone.." She started to turn around to walk the other way, but she lost her footing on the tiles and started to slip. Ranma lashed out and grabbed her by one of her arms before she fell off the roof, and pulled her forward so she fell flat on her butt.

"Not when you don't tell anyone..and i'm sorry you had to save my ass, and for whatever i said that made you mad..but you have realize that people care about you.. I almost thought you had been taken by Satan again, and that's what mom's thinking right now while she's crying her eyes out..."

Ranka had her head down after hearing how upset she had made everyone, because she had wanted to get way from them for awhile. Her red gem's brightness dimmed out suddenly, she pushed herself up off the roof tiles and jumped down off the roof landing onto the ground gracefully. Ranma sweatdropped and pointed to the open window on the other side of the rooftop, till she heard the sliding door below open and shut. "She used the door?" She pondered this as she crawled back inside through the window, and closed it behind her. Maybe Ranka wasn't exactally like her after all she thought to herself as she made her way back downstairs.

Nodoka was hugging Ranka tightly and lecturing her about running away and many other things, but she was smiling while she did so. Ranma smiled somewhat as she entered the room, being squeezed to death by her mother was punishment enough for Ranka. "See i told you i'd find her didn't I?"

Nodoka nodded and glomped onto Ranko fiercly as well. "Oh thankyou Ranko." Ranma managed to squeek out an answer. "Your welcome.."

Nodoka smiled cheerifully once more and let go of the two twins, and clasped her hands together. "Now i know we haven't had a good start today, but lets just forget about that shall we? Because i have some very good news to tell both of you."

Ranma scratched at her head wondering what her mother was up to this time, while Ranka just blinked having no idea what her mother was talking about. Nodoka noticed the blank looks on their faces and couldn't contain herself any longer. "Well it's not that much of a surprise to Ranka as it is for Ranko, but tomorrow you'll be going to Ranka's school! I even took the time to get you your new uniform Ranko, isn't it adorable!" She pulled the cloth that had been hiding the packaged uniform off from ontop of it.

Ranma meanwhile was in shock, as she stared at the adorable low cut skirt and the girly-ness of the uniform. That was it..now she would have to wear a girl's uniform, and she wouldn't be going to furikan anymore. Her mouth hung open and she just stared at the outfit.

Nodoka looked worried for a moment as she saw the shocked expression on Ranko's face. "Now i know your used to going to furikan dear, but Asadiaba is more convient to get to from here and besides you'll be with your sister. And i know you don't want to hear this, but this uniform is a good thing for you. You need to dress more like a girl anyways." She got up from her seat and patted Ranko on the head before leaving the room to let the two sister talk things out.

Ranma snapped out of her shock and fell to the ground onto her knee's, with a blank expression on her face. "A girls..uniform.." She found herself shaking somewhat as she said this.

Ranka was still mad at Ranma, but seeing how much it effected her twin made her anger melt away. Because everything Ranma was doing was for his mother's sake, that she wanted a man among man but now she was making him wear a girl's school uniform unknowingly. She also felt bad since Ranma had to give up his old life at Furikan and the Tendo's, because he was so deep in he couldn't get out now. She knew that eventually Ranma would also have to find out that Asadaiba was an all girls school, but she couldn't rub that into her siblings face at the moment. She also didn't know what she could do or say to Ranma to make her feel somewhat better about the whole ordeal, and before she could Ranma made her own move.

She pulled herself up off from the floor and staggered out of the kitchen, and before going upstairs she had passed by her mother clenching her teeth together into a smile. "I'm not feeling well so i'm going to bed early, goodnight.." Then she managed to make her way up the stairs and into the room where she landed down onto the ground like a rock onto the futon and went under the blankets to be alone in her miseary.

Ranma had slept the whole day and night away, and just started to wake up as the morning sunlight shined in through the window, since during the course of time she had been sleeping she had poked her head out from the covers at some point. Ranka on the other hand who had already been up and changed was fixing up her hair, and noticed that Ranma had woken up somewhat, but kept going about doing her own thing. Ranma rubbed at her eyes and yawned grogily, before setting her eyes on the Asadaibai uniform that was hanging up above the closet, making her more then wide awake. "Ugh.." She shuddered at the pleated short skirt, and sailor like collar that stared back at her mockingly.

Ranka looked down at Ranma, she wasn't smiling or frowing really she just had a blank looking expression on her face. "Well you can't wear a boy's uniform so your stuck with that, besides it's not wise to go up against your mother." Then she grabbed her backpack and left Ranma alone as she went downstairs to eat breakfast.

Ranma sighed and whacked herself on the head, and kept staring at the horrid uniform that she despised more then anything at this very moment. Then she smelled the aroma of her mother's cooking, and she knew she wouldn't be allowed to eat if she wasn't wearing that god awful uniform. So she pushed herself up out of the covers and stood up stretching, she would have to swallow all of her pride for this one. She took off her tanktop and boxers and started to change into new undergarments all the while making a fuss about it, then she grabbed the uniform off of it's hanger and closed her eyes and started to put it on much to her displeasure. She finished putting it on and opened her eyes without looking at it, or in a mirror for that matter and made her way downstairs towards the smell of her mother's home cooking that she yearned for.

Nodoka's eyes sparkled as she set her sights on Ranko who was wearing the cute little school uniform. "Oh Ranko you look beautiful, except for your hair it's a mess.." After saying that, Nodoka whiped out a comb from her pocket and started to comb out Ranko's hair while she was sitting down and making herself a plate. Ranka kept to herself and ate her breakfast at a steady pace, her mind was still caught on how different everything would be at her school, she herself was different, she wouldn't have her friend greeting her, and now Ranma would be going with her to school everyday.

Nodoka finished combing out Ranko's hair and tied in a ribbon to her ponytail to add to her cuteness. "Now i don't want you two fighting today, like you did yesterday alright?"

Ranka nodded and finished her breakfast, getting up from the table to wash her dish off. Ranma was still eating at a fast pace, too busy and too happy with the food to notice that she had a girly ribbon in her ponytail, that made her that much cuter in the uniform. Nodoka smiled warmly and handed each one of them their own bento box for lunch at school, and some money just in case they wanted more. Then she pointed to her watch to remind them that they didn't have much time left, and walked off to do her morning chores while she hummed a tune.

Ranma finally finished her second plate and patted her stomach quite satisfied, and for the time being she had forgotten about what she was so upset about. She got up from her seat and put her dish into the sink and started to make her way towards the door, when she sat down in the entrance way and put on her shoes, and grabbed her bag before going out the door. Ranka trailed behind Ranma as finished pulling on her usual boots and slung her bag over her shoulder as she caught up to Ranma as she noticed she was walking in the direction towards Furikan. "Um where are you going?"

Ranma rolled her eyes and stopped walking for a second. "Well duh i'm going to school, where are you going?"

Ranka gave Ranma a dull look. "To school..but your going the wrong way, Asadiaba is this way." She started walking off towards the direction the school with her head down. Ranma bite her lip as she made the mistake of looking down at her uniform and she started to panick. She had been trying to walk towards Furikan in a girls uniform, and she had forgotten that she had to go to Asadaiba with Ranka from now on. She grumbled and caught up to Ranka looking pissed off, and also looked around the area nervously.

Soon they stood in front of the school, and Ranma's mouth hung open as she saw nothing but girls hurrying into the building. "Ranka..what kind of school is this?"

Ranka looked up at Ranma who sounded very nervous. "Well don't you remember when my school visted yours, do you recall seeing any boys in our group? No..that's because Asadaiba is an all girls school."

Ranma frooze up and silently replied in shock. "An all girls school? I I I..I can't do this!"

Ranka had the same blank look on her face as she walked by her sibling. "Fine by me, then go back to Furikan." She dissapeared inside the building, the doors closing behind her as she trudged towards her classroom slowly.

Ranma just stood there like a deer caught in the headlights for a moment before becoming angry. "Hey! pft fine by me i didn't want to go inside anyways, i'll just go play hookey." She started to turn around to walk away from the school till a girl came up to her and smiled. Ranma looked around nervously and just stood still again.

The pink and blue long haired Asadaiba girl circled around Ranma, and kept on smiling till she held out her hand. "Hi new girl, you need some help?"

Ranma stared at the cute girl in front of her, she sort of reminded her of shampoo somewhat and the strange thing is since the girl was being so nice she wasn't so nervous anymore, and slowly extended her own hand. The other girl smiled mischievously and grabbed onto Ranma's hand and dashed off inside the building dragging Ranma along with her. She skidded to a stop in front of the principals office, and let go of Ranma's hand. "Here you go new girl, you just need to tell the principal your name and then she'll show you to your classroom."

Ranma's face was bright red and she gulped as the other girl let go of her hand.

"Um..err what's your name?" The girl smiled again and had her hands behind her back in a cute sort of way. "I'm Trishta Starling, and you?"

Ranma shook her head to stop daydreaming about the cute girl in front of her and started by saying the wrong thing. "I'm Ranma..Ranko Saotome." She laughed nervously at almost slipping up.

Trishta laughed as well and then giggled abit. "Ooh Saotome, that sounds like Satomi don't you think? Well maybe we'll be in the same classroom huh, see you later Ranko." She waved and skipped off down the hallway leaving Ranma alone.

Meanwhile in a different hallway on the opposite side of the school, Ranka walked into her classroom towards her desk, till she caught sight of who was sitting next to her desk with a smile on her face. Ranka frooze up and her heart started racing, and her eyes went wide in alarm, for a split second however she almost believed her friend was back to normal but she snapped herself out of that delusion and sat down in her seat cautiously. Ivory gave her a wicked smirk before she began toying with her feelings and breaking her apart piece by piece. "Ranka why didn't you call me? I was so worried about you.."

Ranka closed her eyes for a moment, she knew that the new Ivory was just putting on an act, one to toy with her further. Some of the other kids in the classroom knew that Ivory had made friends with Onna aka Ranka now, but she really didn't care about acting. "Yeah right..your just pretending.." She was wise enough to whisper this to her enemy.

Ivory put on the sweetest smile in return hoping that it would crush her opponent. "I can't wait for lunch time, me and you can talk alot more." Then she turned her back on Ranka.

Ranka looked so miserable at that moment, she knew from Ivory's sweetly tainted words that she and her would be fighting come lunch time. She sighed inwardily to herself as the teacher came into the room and class began.

Some time had passed between classes and now it was time for gym class, the last class before lunch. Ranka trudged into the lockeroom looking utterly depressed as she started to play with lock on her locker unware of another locker swinging open the door knocking into her, making her fall down onto the floor. Ivory had a smirk on her face as she closed the astray locker door, and innocently put her hand to her mouth pretending that it was an accident. "Ooh i'm so sorry Ranka i wasn't paying attention." Then after everyone else had left the scene she let out a short laugh before exiting the lockeroom as well.

Ranka had her hand to her nose, as she got up off the floor, then she glared at Ivory's locker and with all the force she could muster she slammed her fist against the door making a dent appear. Then she grabbed her backpack out from her still open locker and kicked the door shut, as she gritted her teeth together. She was different from how she used to be in someways yes, but with the current situation going on she wasn't about to go to gym class and fall into Ivory's traps. She knew her new mother would be dissapointed once she found out that she had skipped class but she had, had enough for now. She wiped away a tear that had appeared, then she pushed open the doors that lead from the lockerroom to the hallway and walked out and just kept walking down the hallways with her head down till she reached a door that lead outside near the front of the school on the sideview, she tossed her backpack down onto the ground before sitting down on one of the stoops of a staircase and putting her head down on her knee's, hugging them to her chest.

In the meantime Ryouga who had been wandering since yesterday, and after waking up from one of his random camp outs he resumed his wandering which had brought him to Asadaiba High coincidently. His eyes lit up as he spotted what looked like Ranka nearby with her head down, then he felt sad as he noticed that she was upset, but this was his chance to apologize for yesterday. He managed to clear his throat and stuttered out the words slowly. "Umm hi..Ranka, i'm ah..sorry about yesterday." His face was bright red and he felt like he was in anartica.

Ranka lifted her head and eyed him blanky, but she had heard what he had said and right now it meant alot to her that someone was there, but she was still in no mood for much of anything. "Well atleast you said sorry, but if it happens again i'll punch you so hard that you won't be able to walk straight for months..."

Ryouga's mouth hung open in shock, he was happy that she had accepted the apology but scared stiff at the other part since her voice had changed completely on the last part. He wondered if he could find out what was causing her to be like this. "Um..Ranka..you seem like your in ah bad mood or something."

Ranka turned her head to a different direction and just stared off into the distance. "Have you ever had a friend, and then suddenly they aren't your friend anymore.."

Ryouga scratched at his head and gave her statement some thought before he replied. "Well..Ranma and me are like that, hmm but then that Mousse is more like that.."

Ranka sighed and layed her head back against her knee's with her eyes half open, as they were still gazing off into the distance. "I guess thats somewhat true, but my situation is quite different..you remember when you stumbled into my fight with that other girl?"

Ryouga scratched at his head some more, and thought back to that event and nodded as he pictured it in his head. "Yeah she used me to get away from the fight."

Ranka nodded in reply as well. "Well she used to be my friend, but now she's not my friend at all..she's a demon, who's sole purpose is to tear me apart inside and out blaming me for what's happened to her.." She could feel the tears gathering up in her eyes, but she defiantly pushed them back. "I don't even know why i'm telling you this... i'm just an emotional basket case at the moment..."

Ryouga rubbed at the back of his nervously, he wasn't used to girls and their emotional break downs, and he really didn't know how to deal with it. So he just nodded to let her know that he understood, and wasn't quite sure what to say to make her feel better. He thought on it for awhile, and was about to say something when the bells for lunch break chimed. Ranka lifted her head suddenly and her eyes widen abit as the chimes echohed across the area erriely, and before she had a moment to prepare she felt a sharp pain dig as a large banister slammed into her body, and sent her sprawling across the pavent.

Ryouga looked alarmed for a moment at the sudden interuption, but that feeling suddenly turned into anger as he was able to dodge the attack, but he saw that the attack was meant for Ranka. He wanted to run over to her and see if she was alright but then he thought better of it, since she was similar to Ranma he knew that she would get mad if he did that.

Ivory set the large banister down as she still held onto it, she had ripped one of the large banisters from the cement staircase that was attached to the small porch like rooftop to use as her weapon. She smirked at seeing Ranka's body crumpled and laying flat on the asphalt and she threw back her head and laughed. "That's what you get for running away from me Ranka! I did keep my promise by the way, i waited till lunch time to beat the crap out of you!"

Ranka struggled with her body's pain as she pushed herself up from the ground, and coughed up some blood since the blow from such a large and heavy object had slamed into her backside, but it still managed to hurt some of her organs slightly. She staggered up into a standing positon, with her head still down but her red gem flarred up brightly. She managed to tighten one of hands into a fist, but her arm was shaking shightly as she was scared of what she had to do. She would have to rely on her gem and release her powers, which she didn't want to do if she could use martial arts but her body was in no shape to be used like a weapon and so she had to use it. She lifted her head and glared at Ivory, then she looked around the area to see if any bystanders were around before she clasped her hands together slowly and in her mind she chanted some words, and seperated her hands from one another and threw them apart. Just as she did so, a large red barrier appeared around the half of the school area that she was in. It was meant to shield the fighting area from regular people's eyes, so that no one would see her using magic or fighting, or be able to come into the fighting area. A shadowy figure that had been watching Ranka from the time she had come outside, went back inside silently.

Elsewhere on the other side of the school, Ranma was happily eating at the cafeteria, till she noticed that Ranka was nowhere to be seen. Maybe she's eating lunch in her classroom, or somewhere else she was still in a bad mood from the other day, ranma thought to herself and shrugged her shoulders and went back to eating. Ranma was too busy eating to notice that someone else had sitten down near her, till she heard a somewhat familar voice.

"Hiya Ranko was it?"

This made Ranma look over at who was sitting with her, and as she saw who it was her face blushed slightly at seeing the cute girl from before. "Um..yeah..trishta right?"

Thrista smiled and nodded her head. "Bingo! She giggled cutely, then she started to unpack her rather large bento box, which had a wide range of foods inside of it. She noticed that Ranko was drooling somewhat, and starring at the large assortment of foods. "Hey want to share? My mom always makes me way too much food, she kind of spoils me."

Ranma wiped the drool from her mouth and nodded. "I wouldn't mind sharing, um you can have some stuff from my bento too if you want.." Although there wasn't much left in the bento, and the cafeteria food well Ranma payed for it and was enoying it too much to share that. Thristha waved her hand about, turning down the offer nicely. "That's ok i'm not that hungry, so just help yourself." She started to nibble on some rice from one of the compartments, and decided to reveal things without letting Ranko know anything about her.

"So remember how i said Satome and Satomi sounded similar?"

Ranma nodded while her mouth was full of food, then she swallowed it and sipped some of her juice before replying. She had after all learned some manners from staying with her mom. "Um yeah..why?"

Thrishta finished eating and then started to reveal things to Ranko. "Well it's funny one of my friends told me that there's a girl who's name is Ranka and her name used to be Satomi but now it's Saotome, so you two related or something?"

Ranma blinked dumbfounded by how quick this girl had caught onto things, and it made her nervous that she might catch onto her secret as well. "Well um yeah she's my sister, they must've messed up on her last name before..so why are you asking?"

Thrishta played with some of her hair while she was sipping from the straw of her juicepack. "Well i was just curious that's all, and i thought i saw Ranka and some guy with a weird yellow banadana outside before i came to lunch that's all." She started to eat the first part of her bento, satsified at getting her attention.

Ranma twitched violently and dropped her chopsticks, as she heard that Ryouga was near Ranka again. She grabbed the rest of the breads and devoured them and drank the rest of her juice, before bidding Thrishta goodbye and leaving the cafeteria in a rush. Thrishta stopped waving as she watched Ranko dissapear from the cafeteria, she had done what she could for the time being.

Ranma skidded down the hallway in a furry filled state of mind and kicked open the first door that lead outside, looking around till she spotted Ryouga who looked dumbfounded. "RYOUGA! what the hell are you doing here!" She stalked over towards where ryouga was only to be thrown back by something that blocked her path. She growled and tried to walk in the same spot again, and the same thing happened. She grumbled and scratched her head wondering why she wasn't able to get over to where Ryouga was, then she saw Ranka and some other girl who was laughing at Ranka. Ranma was smart to realize that girl was fighting with Ranka and from the looks of Ranka's chi aurora her body had been damaged, also it wasn't hard to tell since the other girl was holding a huge banister. Ranma's eyes widened in fear quickly forgetting her anger as a horrible thought entered her mind, that other girl that was attacking Ranka, she must be one of Satana's servants.. and the reason she couldn't get near them was because their was some sort of magical barrier around the area that prevented others from entering. Ranma slammed her fists down onto the barrier, since she could see it by it's aurora.

"Ranka runaway!" Then Ranma realized that she had interupted Ranka's concentration and that had put her in danger, she cursed herself for being so stupid.

Ranka's eyes widen as she heard Ranma shouting at her from outside the barrier, at that moment Ivory took advantage of her opponent being distracted and swung the banister around like a baseball bat that was ready to strike the incoming ball and slammed it into Ranka making her go flying through a glass window and a couple of walls before slamming into one last wall. After Ranka went through the one glass window she was smart enough to throw up a defense barrier around herself as she was thrown through four different walls before smaking into a fifth one.

Ranma panicked after seeing her crash through the glass window, and ran back inside towards the window and gasped as she saw Ranka's imprint through one of the wall's, and she peered through the hole only to see some more. She ran around to the otherside of the hall and skidded into the fifth room where Ranka was laying on the floor. "Ranka! Ranka are you alright? Speak to me!"

Ranka was still in a good amount of pain from the crashing through the window, but most of it was from the first impact. She noticed that some shards from the broken window glass had dug into her skin embedding themselves, which didn't help the amount of pain she was feeling. Her vison was somewhat blurry as she was bleeding in some places, and going through glass at such a speed and so fast put her body into shock, but she could still talk. She eyed the blurry figure standing near her and shouting her name, she knew it was Ranma and that she was worried. "I'm alive aren't I.."

Ranma looked angry for a moment, at how she had replied with such a lie. Anyone could see that she was in bad shape, and yet she tried to lie through her teeth about it. "No your not damn it! Let's get you to a hospital before you die!"

Ranka smiled slightly, then her expression turned blank. "Leave..i'll be alright, but you won't if you butt into this fight.."

Ranma growled and tighten her fists at how stubborn she was being. "Like hell you will! Your bleeding, don't you see that small puddle of blood you idiot! I'm not leaving! Were going to the hospital right now!" She started to grab for one of the Ranka's arms, so that she could haul her up off the floor and toss her over her shoulder.

Ranka looked upset, knowing that she would have to use magic in front of Ranma and against her as well. But she couldn't have Ranma getting involved in this fight, it was hers for one thing, and for another even ranma's martial art's skills wouldn't be enough to defeat Ivory the way she was now. She closed her eyes and chanted in her mind, a magic teleport symbol appearing underneath Ranma unknowingly, her gem glowed brightly as it completed the spell making Ranma dissapear ontop of the schools rooftop.

Ranka slowly pulled herself up into a sitting positon up against the wall, and coughed up a small amount of blood again. She closed her eyes and put her hands around her gem communicating with it, the gem responded to it's masters order and lit up brightly the light enveloped Ranka inside of it and started healing her. Just then the door slammed open with a thud as it broke right off it hinges, and Ivory came walking into the room with a sneer on her face. "Well look at what i found, it really wasn't that hard to find you either since your helpless." She knelt down near Ranka, and dipped the tip of one of her fingers into the small pool of blood and licked it off of her finger with her tongue. "It'd be so easy to kill you right now, but that's not what i want oh no i want to torture you much more then what i've done. So i'll be seeing you tomorrow." She got up from the floor and snapped her fingers making all the damages done to the room and walls, and window and everything else go back to normal, since her fun would be ruined if the school were to find out about the damages, then she walked out of the classroom and closed the fixed door behind her.

Ranka laid her head back against the wall, starring up at the ceiling blankly. Everyday would be a living hell for her at school thanks to Ivory's painful games, and what was worse is that they were working, she could feel herself falling apart emotionaly as her mind sunk deeper into despair.

Up ontop of the rooftop Ranma looked around confused as hell, since just a moment ago she was down on the first floor with Ranka and then she was up here. Ranma cursed and flung the door open and ran down the stairs that lead back into the school, it had dawned on her what had happened. Ranka had used magic! There was no other explanation since she had seemed to be concentrating and that symbol that had lit up on the floor underneath her, which had become brighter the same time the gem had and that was when she dissapeared. Right now the most important thing was to get back to her sister and get her to the nurse's office, since going to a hospital without the nurse's help was just plain stupid, but afterwards she would intergate Ranka about the magic. Ranma sped down the hallways as fast as she could, not paying attention to who was there as she smacked head first into someone who was going equally as fast as she was. The impact from the speeds sent both of them sprawling across the hallway a good ways, Ranma grumbled and shook her head before getting back up and stomping over to the other person. "What the hell! Can't you see that i'm in a hurry!"

Ryouga grumbled and rubbed at his head, and looked up at the angry redhead, and seeing that she was wearing the Asadaiba uniform he didn't take into account that it was Ranma, and thought that she was Ranka. "I'm sorry..but i'm glad to see that your not too beat up?" He found himself blushing again.

Ranma did a double take as she noticed it was Ryouga who had smacked into her, and apparently he thought that she was Ranka. Urghh..that stupid pigheaded..' She stopped herself short, as her face flushed bright red as she remembered the predictament that she was in. If she said that she was Ranma, well Ryouga would laugh at her for wearing such a girly outfit and he'd never shut up about it. If she told him that she was Ranko, Ranka's sister that would lead Ryouga on thinking that he could have a chance with her as well, so the logical thing to do was to act like she was Ranka. After she came up with the conclusion she smirked to herself, since she could tell him off and he would think that it was Ranka, oh yes she was going to enjoy this and make it as fast as possible since she had to get to Ranka. "Uhuh..now buzz off pigboy.."

Ryouga gasped and felt himself freaking out emotionally, but then he calmed himself down telling himself that she was just angry from fighting. He would let her be till she cooled down, then maybe he would try to talk to her about what happened. "Alright i understand." Then he walked off in a random direction, dissapearing down another hallway.

Ranma quirked her eyebrow at how Ryouga had just taken the insult and left like that, but now wasn't the time to dwell on his odd behavior. She ran off down the hallway again, and haulted to a stop at the door throwing it open panting from running so fast. Her eyes darted back and forth as she looked around the room till she found Ranka just starring up at the ceiling blankly, and oddly enough the room wasn't all messed up like it had been. Magic must've been what had cleaned up the damage that was done to the room and so on, but at the moment just by looking at her sister she could see her aurora wasn't it's normal color. "Ranka!" She said it in a stern an angry tone, hoping that it would reach her, but she didn't budge. She tried a couple more times in different tones soft and loud but still no reaction. Ranma thought for a moment, and then an idea came to her she had almost forgotten that she had another name and perhaps saying it would shake her awake. She tightened her fists and yelled it pretty loud. "ONNA!"

Ranka snapped out of mindless state at hearing her old name being called, and automatically thought that it was one of her enemies till she saw who was yelling it. She felt ashamed to look at Ranma after she had used magic on her, but she knew if she didn't respond it'd just make her more angry. "you've got my attention you can stop now.." She put her head down on her knee's, looking down at the floor.

Ranma still looked irritated since she could tell that Ranka was starting that emotionaless state from before. She was determined to break her out of it. "Well i'm not going to stop dumbass, now lets go see the nurse or someone who's a doctor.."

Ranka eyed Ranma for a moment before looking back down at the floor. "I don't need to..and you really shouldn't care about me, originally i tried to kill you among other things.."

Before she could say anything more, Ranma made sure she couldn't since she knew what she was going to say next. "Don't you dare say such things! I won't listen to your nonsense, you were controled before that's the only reason why you wanted to kill me, you know you had no intention of doing anything to me..now get up and lets go to the nurse!" She tightened her fist at how stubborn and idotic Ranka was being.

Ranka found herself getting angry, since of course she was still angry about before, and now Ranma yelling at her that didn't help. "Shutup! I told you i don't need to see any doctors or nurse because i'm healing myself!" She huffed and crossed her arms defiantly.

Ranma growled and tried to grab her only to be repelled by the defense barrier that was around her. "God damnit turn that thing off! I know you use magic now!"

Ranka smirked tauntily at Ranma. "Yeah and you can't make me go to the nurse so there." She stuck her tongue out at Ranma mockingly, since she knew she couldn't break throught the barrier.

Ranma cracked her knuckles a couple of times and had her teeth gritted. She wasn't about to give up, even though Ranka was being a royal pain in the ass at the moment. She knew that people couldn't touch the barrier, but what about objects! She smirked to herself and looked around the room and grabbed one of the desks, and pushed it under Ranka so that she was ontop of it. "Hah! Your going to the nurse!"

Ranka shook her head. "Maybe but she can't touch me either."

Ranma glarred at her and swung the desk out from under her, letting her fall back onto the floor. "Alright fine..i'll just go get mom!"

Ranka gasped knowing that if her mom knew she had gotten hurt, and that she was using magic she'd really be in trouble, she also knew that Ranma was dead serious about telling her. So she lowered her head in defeat and released the defense barrier grumbling to herself. Ranma smirked and scooped her up off the floor holding her in both of her arms. "Heh heh i win." She was irritated as hell with her sister, but she was quite happy that she was fighting back it showed that she had gotten her normal spunk back somewhat. She waited till someone came out from the nurses office and then made her way into the room while the door was open, and laid Ranka down onto one of the beds. "Hey nurse you have a patient."

Later after the nurse had examined Ranka, and removed the shards of glass from her body, and cleaned and disinfected her wounds Ranma had carried her on her back and left school early to go home for the day. Ranka rested her head on Ranma's shoulder slightly since she was pretty worn out, and found herself nodding off, and eventually she fell asleep.

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