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.

16. Chapter 16

Chapter 16: I can't take it

The sunlight shined in through the window and into the room where Ranka was sleeping, the brightness made her slowly open her eyes. Then as suddenly as the sunlight had appeared it disappeared resuming the gloomy grey sky, Ranka looked over at the time on the alarm clock and held her hand to her head, she had fallen asleep on Ranma's back and hadn't woken up till the next morning. Even now she felt like going back to sleep and not waking up, but she knew that her mother was worried sick and ranma as well. She sighed and pushed the blankets off of herself and pushed herself up off the ground, stretching her arms while she yawned. She started to undress and change into her school uniform, she stared at the light night gown that was now on the floor, figuring that her mother had taken off her other clothes and dressed her for bed last night. She walked over the dresser and picked up her brush and started brushing out her hair while she looked into the mirror at herself. She didn't want to go back to school after what had happened yesterday, since she knew Ivory would have an abundant set of traps ready for her today as well.

She finished her hair and set the brush back down on the dresser, and left the room, heading down the stairs to thank Ranma and her mother for whatever they had done for her yesterday while she had been sleeping.

Nodoka looked up catching sight of Ranka, jumping up from her seat suddenly and running over and hugging her tightly. "Oh Ranka we were so worried about you last night? You still look out of it dear, maybe you shouldn't go to school today.." Ranka looked away for a second, as she processed what her mom had just said and she was all for it, but she would be endangering her mother if she did that. The best thing to do which she didn't want to, was to go to school and confront Ivory. "Thanks mom..but I'm ok, going to school is an important thing." She looked around the kitchen seeing no signs of Ranma, and wondered where she had gone off to. "Where's Ranko?"

Nodoka was busy packing a paperbag with breakfast snacks, and handed it to Ranka. "She's outside waiting for you dear, you've overslept. Are you sure you don't want to stay home today?" Ranka shook her head and pulled on her backpack and shoes at the doorway. "I'll be alright mom, thanks for the breakfast." She opened the sliding door and made her way outside, sliding the door shut behind her.

Ranma jumped down from the roof, landing onto the ground right infront of Ranka making her jump. "About time sleeping beauty woke up."

Ranka shook her head about to put herself back into a good state of mind.

"You startled me..and thanks for what you did yesterday.." She found herself getting red in the face feeling embarrassed.

Ranma smiled at her somewhat, and started walking out of the yard towards the street. "You would've done the same for me, besides after what happened yesterday I'm surprised you lasted that long. Don't do anything like that again.." Her expression on her faced suddenly became serious.

Ranka nodded understanding, but if she had to go all out she would. She started munching on the contents of the paper bag and walked towards school, lagging a ways behind her sister.

Meanwhile at the school gates Ivory waited to greet Ranka, she had so much planned for her today. On the other side of the gates Thrishta watched Ivory from afar,waiting for her to make her move. Ranma and Ranka arrived at the gates, when Ivory tried to say hello to Ranka, Ranma pushed Ranka past her and into the school. Ranka was thankful but also abit urked since this wasn't going to help any. "Why did you do that? It's not going to solve anything by running away.." Ranma was busy scratching her head, and acting like she hadn't heard her. "Hmm? Oh..well, you should get to class." Ranka had a pissed off expression on her face. "Were you even listening to me?" Ranma scratched at the back of her neck like she wasn't paying attention to her, then while she was yammering on she shoved her into her classroom and closed the door behind her with a smirk on her face as she walked off to her own class.

Thrista was standing outside the classroom and smiled as Ranko walked up, and glomped onto her without thinking. "Good morning friend."

Ranma's face was bright red, and she just stood there frozen for a moment till she snapped herself out of it and unhooked her arms and hands from herself, and pushed them back gently. "Don't do that.."

Thrishta blinked and rubbed at her chin thoughtfully. "What's wrong giving my new friend a good morning hug huh?"

Ranma's face was still red and she looked really embarrassed. "I don't um..like to be touched..we just met each other yesterday.."

Thrista nodded in agreement and bowed her head down as far as she could so respect to Ranko. "I'm sorry, i won't do it again unless you want me to." Then she lifted her head up and had a smile on her face again, as she backed into the classroom and skipped off to her desk leaving Ranma out in the hallway.

Back in Ranka's classroom, after having a good amount of her classmates laughed at her sudden entrance she had when she went to sit down at her seat, which unknown to her Ivory had booby trapped already. As she sat down into her seat she felt something sticky, and saw Ivory with a large grin on her face. She then knew what had happened and her face became flushed as she yanked herself off of her chair, and ran off to the bathroom to try to get the gum off of the bottom of her skirt. Then when she went to open the bathroom door a bucket of red liquid came crashing down ontop of her, staining her uniform in some spots. She tossed the bucket off of her head, and continued making her way towards the sinks where she started to run the facquet and dabbed some cold water onto where the red stains were. She looked around after she thought that she had heard a noise, then she happened to look up at the ceiling and covered her mouth before she screamed. The ceiling was covered with vampire bats and they were all starring at her, they started to fly around swarming around her. She quickly turned off the facquet, hoping that since the noise was gone that they'd settle down, but they didn't they kept swarming her till she backed into the door which swung open and she couldn't move around too well since they were attacking her. Ivory stepped out from the shadows and shoved her down the nearby stairs, and snapped her fingers making the bats disappear. Ranka hit the last step with a thud, as she landed onto something soft. She whinched as she felt the sudden pain that shot up one of her legs, she slowly lifted her head and her eyes went wide as she looked into the dead's open eyes that starred back at her.

Ivory descended down the staircase and looked down at Ranka mockingly. "Were you surprised? I was up all night planning it out perfectly, how i timed you going to the bathroom to get the gum off, then i just waited and gave you a little a push. You know he might forgive you if you go back to him, or i can continue?" Ranka glared at her defiantly. "Never.." Ivory smirked and laughed a little. "Good it wouldn't be fun for me if you gave in that easily, so prepare yourself." She smiled at her one last time before screaming as loudly as she could, then she bent down and grabbed the dead girls hand and pulled down on the fire alarm switch with it, leaving a bloody trail. Before she left the scene she put the bloody knife into Ranka's hand, then she disappeared laughing as all the students came out of their classrooms into the hallway.

Ranka tried to fight off loosing consciousness but she lost as she felt herself drift off, the last thing she heard were screams from the alarmed students. Among them Thrishta was the first to notice Ranka, she surveyed the crime scene and frowned at all the evidence. Then Ranma came out from her classroom and heard random classmates crying, and teachers murmuring amongst themselves. She heard one of their conversations and pushed her way through the crowd towards the staircase, ignoring her teacher who was yelling at her to stay with the class. Her face turned pale as she caught sight of the dead body and her sister laying ontop of it, with a knife in one of her hands.

Ranka slowly opened her eyes somewhat, she could see a bunch of teachers in the room and two girls arguing with them. She sighed heavily and closed her eyes and drifted back to sleep. Ranma and Thrista kept on arguing with the one group of teachers, while the other group stood with them.

"She didn't do it!" Ranma explained once again to the opposing teachers.

"Yes she did! She was holding the knife, and her clothes and face were covered in blood! One of the teachers shot back angrily.

"That's right and she laying ontop of the other girl.' Another teacher explained.

Thrista rubbed at the temples of her head, while the arguing went on. "Clearly Ranka didn't murder that girl, she was set up."

The group of opposing teachers shot back. "We'll let the principal decide if she's guilty or not!"

Just then the principal came walking into the nurses office with a stern look. "Enough! I've come to a decision." Nodoka walked into the room following behind the principal with a sad expression on her face, as her eyes met with Ranko's. Ranma was struck with the grim realization that dawned in her mind, her mother knew from the half truth told that Ranka had demonic background and that she would believe it more so with this situation. Her eyes darted around the room, trying to find the real criminal and her heart pounded nervously. Her eyes met with Nodoka's once again and looked into them pleadingly, she had to try to change her mother's mind, Ranka was always sticking her neck out to save her and she owed to her to atleast try to get her out of this mess. Ranma pushed her way through the crowd of teachers to where her mother was, and ignored the protesting teachers making accusations about her since she was Ranka's sister. "Mom could we talk alone for a minute.." She looked away shyly and rubbed at her arm nervously.

Nodoka noted how upset Ranka looked, and she might know what had really gone on. So she excused herself and Ranko asking for a brief moment alone before they decided, much to the principal and teachers discontent.

Nodoka and Ranko went into an empty room, both took a moment to calm their nerves before discussing the matter. Ranko was the first one to start the conversation assertively. "Mom she didn't do it! I know your probably thinking that she did because she has a demonic background, but i know she wouldn't do something like that.." She looked down at the ground embarrassed for blurting it all out at Nodoka. Nodoka had a sad expression on her face, and embraced Ranko comforting her. "After i got the call from the principal for a split second i thought about that, but after thinking it over on my way over here I know she didn't do it. But Ranko understand, the principal's mind is set on her decision." She ran her hand down her daughters head in a petting motion.

Ranma looked up at Nodoka sad for a moment, then her sadness turned to anger towards the teachers and principal. "So without knowing the facts their going to assume that she's guilty!"

Nodoka closed her eyes for a brief moment, and patted Ranko's head gently. "I know it's not fair, but what happens, happens. But i will not allow them to have Ranka, i may however have to agree to certain things Ranko..but that doesn't mean I'll carry them out if there too extreme." She looked up as she heard knocking on the door, knowing that their time was up. "It's time, remember what i said Ranko." Ranma let go of Nodoka and they both walked out of the room, and back into the nurses's office.

One of the teachers looked over at Nodoka and Ranko as they entered the room and huffed. "It's about time." The principal cleared her throat before she announced her decision. "We the faculty of Asadaiba find Ranka Saotome guilty, and expelled from this school as of right now."

Nodoka bowed her head in agreement. The one group of teachers all glared in Ranko's direction, the principal coughed to warn them. "As for Ranko Saotome she can still attend this school for the time being, but she will be monitored for safety measures you understand Mr's Saotome."

Nodoka gave the principal and the group of teachers a stern glare, and tightened her fist. "You don't need to worry about that, Ranko won't be attending your school any longer. Why should she if your going to lay judgement upon her, because you assume she's dangerous. We'll be leaving now, you can rest at ease." She scooped up Ranka from the bed gently, carrying her in her arms as she walked out of the room with Ranko following next to her.

Ranma stayed by Ranka's side, while Nodoka went off to find a new school for them to attend after she had changed Ranka and taken care of her bloody uniform. Ranma finished stirring the soup that Nodoka had made before leaving, and set the tray down on the floor as she just stared out the window blankly. Ranka suddenly woke up from her nightmare that she had been having, her heart was racing as she looked around frantically. She started to calm down somewhat as she realized that she was in her room, she caught sight of Ranma who was just starring out the window. Ranma heard Ranka moving about and shifted her gaze towards her. "Ah your awake finally, mom made you some lunch you should eat it." She went back to looking out the window.

Ranka looked down at the tray of food, and then back at Ranma rubbing at her head. She tried to move one of her legs and whinced at the pain, unable to move it. She sighed as she understood that one of her legs was broken, and that her nightmare had really happened, that it wasn't a dream. "So i bet they all think i did it right.."

Ranma was still starring out the window, and tightened one of her fists full of anger again. "Yeah..they kicked you out of school."

Ranka pretended to laugh for a second, to attempt to make herself feel better. "I had a feeling that they'd do that, that's ok i didn't have any friends there anyways.." She sat herself up straight and pulled the tray of food closer to her, grabbing the bowl of soup and sipping some of it. She actually had no appetite at all but she knew it would make Ranma and Nodoka less worried if she ate. It would also give her more strength so that she could use her magic to heal her leg in a day or so.

Ranma had a good idea of how Ranka was actually feeling, and that she was just trying to lighten the mood. "Don't worry you'll find friends at whatever new school your going to.. Mom's out looking for one as we speak, I'll probably be going to the same school as you again.."

Ranka finished her soup and set the bowl down onto the tray. "They kicked you out? You didn't do anything wrong.."

"I didn't get kicked out, but they were going to watch my every move, so mom told them off and took me out of Asadaiba as well. I would've quit anyways, those bastards jumping to conclusions like that." She slammed her fist down onto the window frame, and gritted her teeth somewhat.

Akane who had seen Nodoka at Furikan, had rushed off to go tell Ranma that she had seen his mother there. She had to ask some people for directions but she had made it to Nodoka's house finally and knocked on the door. While she was knocking she had forgotten that Ranma was probably in school like she should be, but instead she had skipped out of her class to warn him. The more she thought about it the more her anger started to show, and she let it out in one kick to the door and screamed Ranma loudly.

Ranma stuck her head out from the window, starring down at Akane with a puzzled looking expression on her face. Her expression changed to a freaked out one when the door fell down with a crash from the strong kick. "Oh crap.."

Akane had noticed Ranma and was starring up at her till she hard the door fall down with a crash, leaving her with a stunned expression on her face. "Oh no.."

Ranma got up from the floor and raced downstairs to where the front door used to be, and gave akane a look. "Jeez..what are you doing here Akane, and why did you kill the door?"

Akane looked sheepish for a minute, then she glared at Ranma. "Why aren't you at school huh!"

Ranma glared back at her with a smug expression. "Well why aren't you?"

Akane grumbled and crosses her arms trying to calm herself down, she was still angry but at the same time excited that Ranma was there. "I came because i saw your mother at Furikan, it's not like her to be there."

Ranma rubbed at head for a moment. "Well i don't know maybe she wants Ranko to go to Furikan."

Akane gave Ranma a weird look. "Ranma you as a guy attend Furikan, what if she finds out?" Ranma thought about it for awhile, and didn't really see it as a big deal since she could just tell Nodoka that he was off on another training trip.

"She'll just think that he's out on another training trip."

"Oh so meanwhile Ranko will go to Furikan and that will make it all ok, you know Ranma your always a girl i never see you as a guy anymore. If i didn't know better I'd say that you like being Ranko.."

Ranma growled and tightened her fist, but didn't raise it at Akane. "Look you think this is easy for me! I have to pretend to be someone else, and i can't runaway from this lie because I'm so deep in it.."

"Why don't you just tell her then Ranma.." Akane looked at her pleadingly.

"Oh and get killed by my own mother, I'd rather keep pretending to be her daughter Ranko and keep her happy that way.."

Akane looked away for a moment, before looking at Ranma again. "So your not going to come back to the Tendo Dojo?"

"I really don't have that choice Akane, but that doesn't mean i won't visit." She looked down at the ground and grimaced at the door. "I've had rough day so far, so i really don't need this.."

Akane suddenly remembered that someone was missing, for awhile she hadn't remembered Ranma had a sister now. "Ranma..where's your sister?"

Ranma looked away and tightened her fist. "Upstairs resting, like i said it's been a rough day so far.."

"Is she alright?" She could tell by the expressions on Ranma's face that something really bad had happened to Ranka,and that's why they were both home and not at school.

Ranma nodded and was still looking down at the ground. "Remember how i told you how she was created, well Satan's got her friend working for him and she's been harassing Ranka constantly.. I thought it was cooling down and i let my guard down and she hurt her again, and got her kicked out of Asadaiba..and those damn teachers all put the blame on her without getting evidence.."

"Ranma I'm so sorry, i kind of understand now..your mom is trying to find a new school for Ranka."

Ranma nodded again and stepped over the fallen door, and bent down picking it up and putting it back into place carefully. "You can go see her if you want, I'll be up in a sec."

Akane nodded and went inside and upstairs to the room where she saw Ranka starring at her leg. "Ranka.."

Ranka looked up and saw Akane and smiled somewhat. "Oh hi Akane, what brings you here?" Akane knelt down near Ranka and eyed her leg that was all bandaged up. "Ranka did you break your leg?" Ranka looked at her leg and then back at Akane. "Well i guess Ranma told you what happened then, that i supposably killed a classmate. Oh the leg..yeah i fell down the stairs."

Akane suddenly embraced Ranka to her chest hoping to comfort her, Ranka was taken back by this and just stayed still for awhile. Her eyes didn't tear up but her face was partially red and her eyes had a sort of blank look to them for a moment before she looked at Akane. "Akane you don't need to force yourself ,I know your not crazy about me, nor am I crazy about you." She gently shoved Akane's embrace away and fell back down onto the futon where she just stared at the wall. Akane had her hands where she had been embracing Ranka and just sat there in a frozen state as her mind told her that she had acting so abruptly because she was thinking that Ranka was Ranma and her face flushed bright red as she realized this. It was hard though since Ranka did look exactly like Ranma's girl side, but she had to get past this. "Well i know, but if you end up going to Furikan maybe we could become friends?"

Ranka eyed her somewhat for a minute and then turned her head away from her. "I'd rather not have any friends, now if you don't mind I'd like to be left alone." She managed to pull the covers up over her head and closed her eyes. Akane sighed and stood up leaving the room and going off to find Ranma.

After getting both the girls accepted into Furikan she hurried home to tell them the good news as she made her towards the house. Ranma had just finished testing out the door a couple of times before she spotted Nodoka coming up behind her, she jumped back and laughed while she was rubbing the back of her head nervously. "Hey mom." Nodoka eyed Ranko suspiciously for jumping back so suddenly. "Ranko is there something your not telling me?"

Ranma knew that she was onto her, and she would probably find out about the door sooner or later. "Um well my cousin akane came by and she broke the door, but I fixed it.."

Nodoka smiled and patted her on the head before going inside the house. "I see, well I'm glad you told me the truth about the door. Is Akane-chan still here?" She smiled as she spotted Akane coming into the room. "Hello Akane."

Akane smiled at Nodoka and greeted her before walking over to where Ranma was. "I just stopped by to see Ranko.." Nodoka noted the expression on Akanes face and the sudden pause during her sentence. "Akane did you by any chance visit Ranka?"

Ranma eyed Akane's expression as well, wondering what went on between her and her sister while she had been upstairs. Nodoka was quite good when it came to finding things out and pin pointed the cause for akane's expression. "Akane was Ranka mean to you?"

Akane shook her head and pleaded with Nodoka. "No she's just upset, she just wanted to be alone that's all."

Nodoka had a stern look on her face. "Still that's no reason for her to be rude to you, besides i don't want her going into that state of mind again." With that being said she made her way out of the room and upstairs.

Ranma smacked her hand to her forehead. "Aww man this isn't good.."

"I'm sorry i didn't mean to get her into trouble with your mom.." Akane rubbed at her arms feeling out of place. Ranma shook her head and starred at Akane. "I didn't say it was, I'm just worried because she gets into these weird moods and tries to do some crazy things.. I'm going up there, you coming or not?" Ranma walked out of the room without looking back to see if she was following or not and made her way upstairs. Akane had of course decided to follow after Ranma and followed her into the room.

Nodoka's anger had melted away when she saw Ranka just laying on the futon starring blankly her head half way under the covers, she knelt down beside her and ran one of her hands through her hair. "Ranka i heard you were being rude to Akane, I know your not in the best of moods but that's no excuse." Ranka didn't look at her but she did reply to her in a quiet tone. "Why does it hurt so much.." Nodoka looked alarmed and jerked her hand away. "Is your leg in a lot of pain dear?" Ranka was quiet after that and wouldn't talk no matter what her mother said to her, and this caused Nodoka to become upset. She looked up at Ranko and Akane trying her best not to cry, then back at Ranka. "Ranka i got you and Ranko into Furikan High, so you'll both be going to the same school as Akane-chan now." She managed to smile somewhat, but noted that Ranka wasn't responding and she couldn't take being in the room at the moment and left the room hoping that Akane or Ranko could snap Ranka out of her lifeless state, but no matter how hard they tried no one was able to get through to her and they let her be.

Ranka eventually drifted off to sleep and her mind was still conscious and as she slept she found herself confronting herself, the other her looked very angry. Ranka starred blankly at her. "Who are you?"

The other her replied in an angry tone. "I'm you, but you can call me Onna. You know your being really pathetic over loosing Ivory."

Ranka glared at the other her and tightened her fist. "She was my friend!"

"Keyword she was, your friend is no more and yet you let this shell push you around." She snapped her fingers and the recent events rolled by on a large screen. "So your just going to sit back and let this fake do what she wants to you, to humiliate you and upset you to the point where your upsetting everyone else. If it were me I'd fight back brutally and save Ivory like you said you would." The other her walked up to her and slapped her hard across the face. "Wake the hell up already! Fight back Ranka!"

Ranka's eyes shot open and she gasped as she looked around the room for the other her, her heart was racing as she realized that she had woken up and that the other her wasn't there, that it had been a dream. She looked down at her red gem necklace and closed her eyes as she gave it the commands, it lit up brightly and a beam of red light shot out from the gem to her broken leg, engulfing it a bright red glow. She opened her eyes and had a serious expression on her face, she knew that her inner self was right and that she was ready to fight this fake Ivory with no remorse. She slowly started to unravel the bandages that were wrapped around her broken leg, and pushed herself up to a sitting position.

She slowly wiggled her toes about for a moment, then she slowly started to remember what her mother had been saying to her yesterday when she had been in her life less state. "Furikan.." She hugged herself tightly as she thought about it, all of Ranma's friends and enemies showed up at that school and some even went there. She really didn't want to go through any of that, but she also knew that Ivory would follow her to Furikan or wherever she went to school, this made her sigh inwardly to herself.

Nodoka who had been worrying the rest of the day yesterday and the whole morning finally went upstairs to check on Ranka and peeked in through the doorway. "Ranka are you alright dear?" She was afraid to walk into the room and see the girl in that life less state again, but she pushed herself forward into the room and to her relief Ranka was sitting up and looking quite lively. She couldn't help the overwhelming feelings that engulfed her and she ran over to her daughter and embraced her tightly. "Oh thank kami your alright Ranka..me and Ranko were so worried about you.."

Ranka sighed again but she was quite happy to be in her mothers embrace, but upset at herself for making her loved ones worried about her well being again. "I'm sorry about yesterday mom, I don't know what came over me, I guess i was in shock over the whole ordeal."

Nodoka smiled and released her embrace, and picked up the garment that she had dropped and showed it to Ranka. "Remember what I told you yesterday about going to Furikan from now on? Well here's the cute uniform that you'll be wearing from now on."

Ranka almost fell over from seeing such an uncute school uniform, but she steadied herself before she did. She usually sugar coated things with her mother but this time she couldn't and she didn't care if she was being rude. "It's butt ass ugly, I'm not wearing that thing.." She crossed her arms and had a serious expression on her face.

Nodoka put her hand to her mouth at hearing such a response from her daughter, she was pretty upset but at the same time appreciated that she told her the truth about how she felt and that she was feeling better since she was expressing her self. "Ranka..It's a very lovely dress, you should be flattered to wear it."

Ranka shook her head and she twitched violently just from looking at the dress. "I just can't see it..besides how come i can't wear my Asadaiba uniform instead. Akane showed me some pictures of this boy at her school and he doesn't have to wear their uniform, and I'll feel more comfortable wearing my old one.." She put on a sad poutie face hoping that she could persuade her mother to agree with her.

Nodoka gave in only because she wanted Ranka to feel as comfortable as possible and she wasn't asking much. "Oh alright dear you can wear your old one, but I would've thought that you'd want to wear one that covers you more since tatewaki kuno goes to Furikan." She giggled before leaving the room, and going downstairs.

Ranka found her eyes twitching as it dawned upon her, that annoying, loud mouthed kendoist went to Furikan and with her old uniform she'd be asking for it.. She bit her lip slightly as she understood the predicament she was getting herself into, but damn it she wasn't going to wear that Furikan uniform. She thought to herself that Akane wears the Furikan uniform and kuno still chases after her, so it wouldn't change the situation regardless of which uniform she wore or how she did her hair etc etc. She grumbled and pushed herself up off the floor gently and stood on both of her feet since the healing process was nearly done, and left the room not noticing that she was wearing pj's and carefully descended down the stairs.

Ranma was sitting by the tv laying on her side munching on rice crackers just starring at the tv, her mind was blank since she had been so worried about Ranka's condition. Ranma gagged on the rice cracker she was eating as someone sneaked up behind her and hugged her tightly, when she looked up and saw who it was she almost spit it out. Ranka giggled and let go of Ranma so she could swallow what she was choking on. "Sorry did I freak you out much?" Ranma finished sipping her glass of water and cleared her throat, but not before slugging Ranka on her arm with a playful punch. "You seem like your in a completely different mood, so what happened to you hmm?"

Ranka smiled and rubbed at her arm somewhat, since she had been caught off guard. "Well i had myself talk some sense to myself I guess you could say. So do we have to go to school today? Because i really don't want to.." She flopped down next to Ranma and grabbed a rice cracker from the bowl and started to munch on it. Ranma rubbed at her head thinking for a moment. "Um no we don't go till tomorrow, so why are you so hesitate to go hmm?" She smirked at Ranka and grabbed her head putting her into a headlock.

Ranka tried to remove herself from the headlock, but she was still healing somewhat so she wasn't at her full strength. "Nothing.."

Ranma smirked again and started to give her noogies. "Is it because Kuno goes to Furikan hmm?" Ranka was finally able to get free from the headlock and tackled Ranma pinning her down on the floor, and she started to tickle both sides of Ranma's stomach. "Well would you want to go with that lunatic hanging around there?" Ranma laughed and gently shoved her off of her and then both grabbed each other in headlocks till Nodoka came into the room giving them both a stern look which made both of them release one another and try to look innocent. Ranma rubbed at the back of her head nervously since this might lead her mom to investigate her behavior. "Um we were just kidding around with each other that's all."

Nodoka hadn't noticed that Ranka's leg was better and was upset that Ranko was rough housing with her in her condition. "Ranko you shouldn't be so rough on your sister.."

Ranka jumped in to defend her sister, since her mom didn't know that she wasn't hurt anymore. "No it's okay mom my legs not broken anymore I heal really fast." She had a smug grin on her face as she waited for Nodoka to notice that she had walked down the stairs on both of her legs, and timed it just right as Nodoka ran over and embraced her tightly. "You shouldn't have come downstairs without any help though Ranka, you might've upset your leg by using it so rashly and so soon." Ranka shook her head and reassured her mother that her leg was fine and that it wouldn't be unsettled by her coming down the stairs. Nodoka was still embracing Ranka for awhile before she stopped and then she clasped her hands together. "Let's all go out and celebrate for the new school and Ranka's fast recovery, we can even invite that kuno boy and akane and whoever else you two would like to invite."

Ranma and Ranka grimaced at the mention of kuno, and Ranma was the first to protest. "But mom..I'm sure too many visitors would overwhelm Ranka, so we can just all go out and she won't be overwhelmed. Right Ranka?"

Ranka nodded her head appreciating how fast Ranma had talked their mom out of inviting kuno. "Yeah..i don't feel like having visitors just yet, but if just we went out I'd be ok with that."

Nodoka sighed somewhat and then put on a happy face once again, she couldn't help but notice how both of her daughters acted when kuno was mentioned. But perhaps in time they would act differently towards him since her and Kalu had high hopes that one of the girls would marry kuno some day. "Alright dear I wouldn't want to overwhelm you, so just the three of us will go out somewhere nice to celebrate. But Ranka tomorrow is a school day, and you will have to be around alot of people."

Ranka rubbed at the back of her neck nervously not wanting to be reminded that she would have to attend Furikan tomorrow. "I know..but it's still overwhelming.."

Nodoka put one of her hand on Ranka's shoulder and patted it lightly. "It'll be alright dear your sister will be going with you and Akane, but today you don't have to think about it. Now it's almost past lunch time so go upstairs and get dressed your still in your pj's and you can't go to a restaurant in your pj's." She giggled somewhat and took her hand off of Ranka's shoulder and went off to get ready for the outing.

After her mother and sister had gotten ready and they were all walking down the street into town where the restaurants were, Ranma was deep in thought after realizing that tomorrow she was going back to Furikan, but her mother had enrolled her as Ranko Saotome.. She really had no intention to go as Ranko and get even more attention then she did as a guy as Ranma, and Ranka was going which would make things easier for Ranma. If he happened to change into a girl and people caught glimpses of him, he could have Ranka say it was her, but that could cause problems for Ranka in the long run. Ranma sighed to herself as she agonized over what to do tomorrow, but she figured that eventually she'd come to a conclusion. Nodoka snapped Ranma out of her thoughts as she came to a stop near the NekoHanten. "This looks like a nice place doesn't it you too?" Ranka made a face as she realized who's restaurant they were standing in front, and Ranma twitched and grabbed her mother and sister by the hands and zoomed off to a random restaurant that was further away and without looking pointed at it. "Lets go eat here instead it looks nicer then that other one!" She put on a happy puppy dog face to lure her mother away from the restaurant where shampoo and Cologne worked as well as mousse at times. Nodoka was quite surprised at how fast Ranko had rejected and ranaway from that other restaurant and would have to make a note of this at a later time, she then turned her attention to the new restaurant they were standing in front of. "Uchans..we'll it does smell really good alright Ranko we'll eat here then." Ranma face faulted after noticing that they were standing in front of Uchans, but her mothers mind was made up and Ukyou was better then Shampoo meeting her mother. But first she had to talk to Ukyou about some things. Ranka instinctively knew what Ranma was worrying about and stepped up for her since she had been doing that for her lately. "Ooh mom can we go to that store while Ranko gets us a table, i really want to go." She put on the cutest face possible and made Nodoka melt while Ranma went off to speak with Ukyou while Ranka went off with Nodoka to the store across the street.

Ranma entered the restaurant thanking Ranka over and over again in her mind. Ukyou had just finished cleaning up a customers plate as she spotted Ranma coming towards the counter. "Ran-chan! What brings you here? I haven't heard from you in a couple of days.." Her happiness turned to a serious mood as she crossed her arms waiting for an explanation. Ranma sat down on one of the stool chairs and put her hand to her head. "Listen Ukyou i know i have alot of explaining to do..but right now just listen i don't have much time.. My mom is coming in here soon with my sister Ranka, she doesn't know that I'm Ranma..I'm Ranko her daughter, so please Uchan I'm begging you to just play along.." She looked up at Ukyou and into her eyes pleadingly.

Ukyou couldn't contain herself after hearing Ranma's mother was coming to her restaurant. "Your mother! Oh Ranma huney I'll try to play along, but you owe me details later on." Ranma sighed. "Thanks..I guess i can tell you more at school tomorrow since I'll be going to Furikan again." Ukyou clasped her hands together still holding a tiny spatula and twirled around all excited. "Oh Ranchan that's great news, I'll expect a full explanation tomorrow then." Ranma nodded and tapped her fingers on the counter as she waited for her mom and sister to come in.

Nodoka and Ranka finally came out of the store, Nodoka holding two bags and gushing over the hair accessories that she had bought. The two made their way across the street and entered Uchans, Nodoka smiled as she spotted Ranko and took a seat next to her on one of the stools as well as Ranka on the other side of Nodoka. Ukyou couldn't help but stare at Nodoka and how beautiful Ranma's mother was, that and how Ranma and his sister both looked like her in many ways. Ukyou still wasn't all that fond of Ranma's new sister after what she had done to her restaurant, but the girl seemed different from how she used to be. Nodoka looked at the menu listings that were hanging from the wall on wooden slabs, and waited for her daughters to put their orders in then she put hers in as well. After the orders were made and served everyone started eating their meals. After finishing and paying the bill they left Uchans and went back home to get ready for the big day tomorrow.

The sun pushed it's way through the clouds that kept trying to block it's path, and Nodoka sent the girls off to school after she had fussed with their outfits and hair as well. Ranma trudged down the street after they were far enough away from Nodoka's sight and took the bow out of her hair and stuck it in her pocket grumbling, Ranka on the other hand kept her black bow in her hair and walked along side her sister. Ranma waited till they were far enough away from the house and on a different street till she started to talk to Ranka about her plan. "Ranka would you mind um..taking my place while were at school? It's just..I've been stuck as Ranko for so long.."

Ranka looked up from the ground and at Ranma noticing how depressed she looked, and she knew that this pretending to be Ranko was draining Ranma so this wasn't a big deal to her. "Sure I'll take your place while were at school, but I'm still Ranka not Ranko."

Ranma's eyes sparkled and she grasped Ranka's hands and her eyes were all teary. "Oh thankyou Ranka your an angel, I really need this."

Ranka nodded and pried Ranma's hands off of hers feeling insecure from the way Ranma was acting. "Yes yes I know, so we'll just say that mom made a mistake with the transfer then?"

Ranma snapped out of her desperate state and rubbed at her head. "Well that idea does sound good, but what if they call her up and tell her that we told them that?" Ranka shrugged her shoulders and put one of her fingers to her lips. "Well your forgetting that I know magic, so don't worry about it. I owe you from many occasions so I'll handle it."

Ranma's eyes got all big and puppy dog like and if she had a tail it would probably be wagging. "Oh your such a good sister, I need to stop off at Doctor Tofu's on the way and change. You can change into the furikan outfit if you want it won't attract as much attention."

Ranka crossed her arms and gave Ranma a stern looking expression on her face. "I don't care if my Asadaiba uniform attracts more attention, I am not wearing that butt ass ugly thing that they call a girl's uniform.." She made a gagging noise to show her sister how dead set she was against the uniform.

Ranma sweatdropped and couldn't help but laugh at how silly Ranka was acting, but it made her happy since she seemed like she had gotten over the events that had happened in the past days. "Alright already i get it, but yeah the uniform for Furikan girls are outdated. Maybe they do that so the guys will be less likely to bother with them." Ranma smiled as Doctor Tofu's clinic came into view and she quicken her pace to get there as fast as possible. Ranka followed behind as usual at a steady pace and played with her hair absent mindedly. "You go on ahead I'll wait outside for you." Ranma nodded and ran into the back of Doctor Tofu's clinic and disappeared inside.

Ranka laid back somewhat against the brick wall and let her mind wander while she waited for Ranma to come back. She really wasn't looking forward to going to Furikan and dealing with everything Ranma had to deal with, that and she would also have to deal with kuno pestering her about his pigtailed goddesses where about's, or that the people that she had wronged while she had been controlled would appear. She sighed and hung her head while she ran her fingers through her soft silky red hair, another thought that ran through her mind was that Ivory would eventually find her and probably transfer to Furikan just to make her life a living hell. But Ranka's dream her had talked alot of sense into her and she wasn't going to let this fake Ivory get to her anymore, she would ignore it if she acted like the Ivory she knew as well because she knew that it was just another trap. Ranma came up behind her and pushed her away from the wall gently startling her and snapping her out of her daze. "What the hell was that for!" She whacked him on the head with her bookbag looking quite irritated. "Pull another stunt like that and I wont' pretend to be Ranko for you..."

Ranma eeped and apologized to her. "Sorry I'm just all excited, I mean look at me I'm a frickin guy again!"

Ranka's anger quickly melted away at seeing Ranma so happy and excited. "Alright I get it already. Heh your sly you packed your boy outfit in your bookbag you had this all planned out huh."

Ranma rubbed at the back of his neck and gave off a cheesy grin that answered Ranka's statement. Ranka smiled back at him but felt herself getting very nervous as they reached the distant gates of Furikan High School. Ranma was also kind of nervous since he had to stop going for a couple of days, and he knew Kuno was going to start with him big time. Both siblings let out a big deep sigh as they entered the school gates and wandering students that caught sight of them started chattering amongst themselves.

Then it came like a flash of lighting, the dramatic entrance of Tatewaki Kuno and his famous rose that he threw at his loved ones, Ranka dodged it quite skillfully and grumbled to herself since she knew what was coming next. Ranma had his hand to his head looking aggravated since he was going to get into a fight with Kuno. Kuno stepped forward and started the argument. "Oh lovely Ranka such a treat to see such a goddess attending the same school as me." Then his gaze shifted to who was standing next to his goddess Ranka and he started with his usual argument. "Ranma Saotome you vile sorcerer get away from the lovely Ranka, is it not enough that you have enslaved the pigtailed goddess now you must have them both!"

Ranma facefaulted and groaned, then he shot back at Kuno. "Why the hell would I enslave my sisters!" He had almost said sister instead of sisters and that would've been worse.

Kuno took out his kendo stick and pointed it in Ranma's direction. "Lies you just want them both for your sick naive fantasies."

Ranma grumbled under his breath. "Oh yeah like you don't.."

Ranka had heard enough and stepped in finally. "Kuno stop accusing my brother of such things, like I said before he's not a vile sorcerer..."

Kuno suddenly popped up behind Ranka and embraced her. "Oh sweet and lovely goddess Ranka your naive mind has been tainted and he's making you say these things, but do not worry I Tatewaki Kuno shall save you and we can live happily ever.." Ranka slammed one of her legs into Kuno's pelvic area making him loose the embrace, and Ranma plowed his fist straight into Kuno's face sending him flying and grabbed Ranka by the hand and ran into the school looking pissed off.

After they had stopped by the principals office and found out Ranka's schedule and Ranka worked her magic on the principal so he didn't say a thing about Ranko, they walked off towards class with Ranma kind of excited that she was in his class, but in other ways he wasn't which were Ranka's thought's as well. "You know were both going to get swarmed with questions.."

Ranma nodded in agreement at what his sister had just said and had his hands in his pocket as they got closer to the classroom. "Yeah i know..I'll go first." With that he opened up the door and just like they had both predicted all the students were swarming them with questions. Daisuke and Hiroshi were one of the many that started with their questions. "Hey Ranma your absent for days and then you come back with a hottie, so details man who is she?" Hiroshi kept trying to pry some information out of his friend. Daisuke wasn't as forward as Hiroshi was about it but he was curious just the same. "Where have you been Ranma? Who's the girl with you?" While Ranma was being bugged by his friends and random students, a good amount of male students had managed to slip by and had crowded Ranka shouting out random things. "Hey cutie pie you wanna go out with me!" Others just stared at her short skirt and how much skin her uniform showed off compared to Furikans, one of the shy ones fell over with a nose bleed. Ranka was beet red in the face and also a little annoyed at how the obnoxious boys were crowding her. Finally the teacher came by and cleared out all the curious students, she then apologized to Ranka and lead her to the front of the room to introduce her after the students settled down some. Ranma ended up having to sit down in his seat since he wasn't a new student, and his friends were still trying to ask him questions.

Akane and Ukyou tried to focus on both the Saotome siblings, and both were happy that Ranma had returned to school as a guy. Ukyou was anxiously awaiting the explanation from Ranma about yesterday. Akane was also ready to swarm Ranma with wanting answers that she hadn't gotten yet. The bell rang and that meant that class was in session, the teacher then introduced Ranka to the class and had her take a seat next to Ukyou, this disappointed Ranma a little bit but on the otherhand if she had sat next to him Daisuke and Hiroshi they would've swarmed her. But she was still close and Ranma could keep an eye on her since he knew what a good amount of the guys were thinking or what they might try.

When the bell for lunch rang, Ranma grabbed Ranka and dragged her off with him before any of the guys could bother her. Akane was furious that he had just taken off without talking to her about anything, but she put on a happy face for her friends. Ukyou on the other hand was content since she knew Ranma would tell her when he was ready to, but if it wasn't today then he'd regret it.

Ranma stopped when they were at the bread shop, and let go of her hand and caught his breath. Ranka knew what he had done since she could read his mind if she wanted to, and she wasn't too mad just a little startled. "I'm not wearing the furikan uniform.." She crossed her arms dead set against it, since she had a feeling that's what he was thinking. Ranma groaned and brought some bread and gave Ranka the fruit filled ones. "I know but you wouldn't attract them as much." Ranka huffed and put her hands on her hips. "Really i don't think it'd make a difference, do you think happosai would care? No he'd just flip the furikan skirt, and besides i wore shorts underneath I'm not that stupid.." She looked at the breads that her brother had handed to her and then back at him. "You don't like the fruit filled ones?"

Ranma shook his head and munched on his soba noodle bread as they walked back to the classroom after getting drinks. Ranka shrugged and opened up the banana one and started munching on it happily and ignored the students as they sat down at the table group with Daisuke and Hiroshi. Ranma had pulled out his bento lunch box and warned his friends ahead of time that if they bothered Ranka too much he'd have to hurt them. Daisuke eyed Ranka and then started talking to Ranma. "So Ranma who is she?" "Yeah Ranma were you best buds you can tell us." Hiroshi piped in as well.

Ranma finished eating one of his breads and started opening up one of the other ones. "She's my sister, she was going to another school for awhile and well she lives with my mom so I didn't know about her till I ran into her a couple of days ago." Ranka nodded content with the explanation Ranma had given to his friends and kept munching on the banana bread at a steady pace enjoying it. Hiroshi decided to try and talk to Ranka. "It's nice to meet you Ranka, so your other school was it an all girls school?"

Ranka nodded and finished her banana bread and started to unwrap the melon one. "Yes I guess the uniform say's it all, and it's nice to meet you Hiroshi and Daisuke." Then she started to munch on the melon bread with a happy face.

Hiroshi and Daisuke blushed and Ranma gave them somewhat of a glare to keep them in line, the rest of the lunch went by with them trying to talk to Ranka every now and then and some other students as well with Ranma fending most of them off. Akane was fuming mad but kept it under control till she could go blow off some steam, Ukyou still stayed content telling herself that the school day was far from over and Ranma would fill her in before the end of the day.

Meanwhile at the Nekohanten Shampoo had received a tip off for her revenge against Ranma's sister Onna, a letter signed by anonymous had mysteriously arrived telling her that the girl that she seeked revenge upon was now attending Furikan High school. Shampoo made sure that her great grandmother didn't know about the letter and went off to Furikan where she watched the girls every move from the shadows, and it pained her how close the girl and her airen were.

A couple of classes later gym glass came and Ranma had to leave Ranka alone, but Ranka told him that she'd be alright and they'd see each other after they changed. Ranka looked around the locker room and found an empty locker and put her bag into it after pulling out the Furikan High gym outfit, which she wasn't fond of but she'd rather where that then have to wear the uniform. She groaned and changed into the outfit, and blushed as she noticed some of the girls were staring at her. One of them was quite forward. "Oh you have such big boobs and a nice figure Ranka." Ranka's face turned bright red at what the girl had just said. "Um well yeah I guess so, so do you." She closed the locker and ran off outside and found she was feeling really hot in the head and went off to sinks that were in a deserted area and ran the cold water and splashed her face over and over again till she felt she had cooled down.

Shampoo hid behind a tree plotting to make her move against the girl that had deceived her and made her think that she was her airen. She tightened her fist the more she thought about it how those joyful words that had been uttered to her were fake and that she would not be shamed again. She jumped out from behind the tree and lunged her bonbori's at the girl. "I kill you!"

Ranka was quite startled at seeing shampoo and her martial arts instincts took over and she quickly ducked and jumped over the second attack, and jumped up into a nearby tree faster then shampoo could follow her. She watched the battle hungry amazon stalk around looking for her. She sighed and then a thought hit her and she remembered what she had done to shampoo when she was being controlled by Satan and groaned. It wouldn't be easy to apologize for what she had done since shampoo was out to kill her, and it took alot to get through to shampoo. Shampoo zoomed in on the girl's sigh and pulled out her sword and leaped up into the tree and slashed her sword about furiously. "I kill!" Ranka eeped and jumped down from the tree and ran off as fast as she could, Shampoo followed hot on her trail saying the same thing over and over again slashing her sword around.

Ranka ran by a few by standers and kept running till she ended up in the field and looked around not seeing any sign's that shampoo was still following her. "Oh man this isn't good." She tried to catch her breath till she saw shampoo come down from out of the sky swinging her sword around wildly, Ranka jumped away and avoided the swipe from the sword but lost her balance and fell back onto the ground into the grass. Shampoo rushed towards her and slammed her sword down towards Ranka, Ranka rolled away at the last minute and shampoo's sword hit the sprinkler's metal top and made it go off making Ranka sit up and cry out in surprise from getting sprayed by the water. Shampoo felt herself changing and cried out but it turned into an upset meow as she fully turned into a cat. That wouldn't stop her from getting her revenge with the girl so close, she lunged at Ranka with her claws all out and hissed at her, Ranka eeped and her gem started to light up ready to counter attack. But before it could a blur appeared and a large whack could be heard as the kendo sword smacked down ontop of the cat's head making it fall down onto the ground with a thud. Shampoo groaned and gave out a small meow before falling unconscious.

Ranka looked up at who it was and groaned and covered her shirt with her hands since her shirt was soaked as well as her since the sprinklers were still on. Kuno looked down at Ranka. "Goddess Ranka are you alright? I saved you from the jealous feline, no doubt she was jealous of such a goddess such as yourself." Ranka sweatdropped at his pathetic speech, if he hadn't have butted in she could've used her barrier against shampoo. But he did save her and she knew it'd be rude if she didn't thank him somewhat. "Um sure..anyways thanks but just the same I could've handled myself." But Kuno was too busy rambling on about the usual about his goddess and other things he normally chattered about, Ranka rolled her eyes and pushed herself up off the ground and stood up started walking off while Kuno was lost in his fantasy world.

Ranka stopped walking till she was off on the other side of the field towards the woods and sat down underneath a tree taking off her soaked and wet shirt and wrung it out tightly and shook it before pulling it back on. Ukyou stepped out from the woods where she had been watching and thought that the girl was Ranma and had her hands on her hips. "It's about time sugar..now I want an explanation." Ranka blinked and looked up seeing Ukyou and her face turned bright red. "Ahh um did you see?" Ukyou sweatdropped at how weird Ranma was acting and then she looked again and noticed the girls hair was longer then Ranma's and loose which he never did, she realized it was his sister Ranka and her face turned bright red. "Sorry I thought you were Ranma..what are you doing out here anyways?" Ranka smirked slightly at Ukyou since she thought she was her brother for a second there. "Oh because of the having no modesty thing? I do but a wet shirt makes it kind of hard.. Well that's a long story and I know your still mad at me for what I did to your restaurant.."

Ukyou was still somewhat mad but since Ranma had explained to her and helped clean up the mess she wasn't furious anymore, and the girl she was looking at now looked and acted totally different from the one she had helped Ranma fight against. She was Ranma's sister after all and from the looks of it she felt that she was going through alot. "Well I am still a little mad but we can work that out I'm sure, so why are you all wet?" She sat down near Ranka and looked up at the sky. Ranka looked down at the ground for a minute and then sort of looked at Ukyou. "I'm really sorry about that..It's not like I wanted to do that, but I'll do anything to make it up to you. Um well Shampoo was attacking me and she set off the sprinklers.." Ukyou found herself getting angry at the mention of her rival and the fact that shampoo would attack Ranma's sister, but this was a good thing in a way making her the better fiance. She found herself smiling for a moment but then shook it off. "Why was shampoo attacking you?" Ranka sighed and put her head on her knee's. "Well when i was being controlled I pretended to be Ranma and told Shampoo a bunch of lies about marrying her and such, so amazons are really touchy about that sort of thing. So now I'm her number one enemy and she wants to kill me."

The more Ukyou heard from the girl the more she felt sorry for her, that she had done such horrible things and she knew she was doing them but she had no control. She was starting to understand Ranma's sister, and it angered her that Shampoo didn't even bother to think about it like Ukyou just had, but then Shampoo wasn't too bright she just lashed out. "Well I know Ranma huney won't like that. Now about paying me back I'll just have you do what I usually make Ranma do when he owes me." Ranka nodded and didn't mind dressing up to attract more customers for Ukyou's restaurant or to help her out for awhile. "So what are you doing out here?" Ukyou took out one of her smaller spatula's from the holder on her uniform and a cloth and started polished it. "I had study hall and decided to take a walk. So your name's Ranka now and not Onna, the last time I saw you Ranma referred to you as Onna."

Ranka's eyes widened somewhat as the name hit her like a ton of bricks and she looked away from Ukyou for a second. "That was the old me, Ranka has more of a meaning."

Ukyou had something on her mind that she wanted to ask Ranka but she didn't want to offend her or upset her by asking so she was quiet for awhile, Ranka caught on to exactly what was on her mind. "You want to ask me If I know everything Ranma does right? The answers is yes I have all his memories so I know everything about you." Ukyou wanted to jump up and do a little dance but she kept that inside her mind, by knowing this she knew that Ranma and Ranka were in sync most of the time and Ranka would know how he felt about her and all the things she wanted to know. She also felt like she was talking to Ranma and that made her happy as well. "Hey since your in my class and you we sit together why don't we be friends Ranka?"

Ranka's eyes widened and she just sat there frozen in a state of shock and tears started to form in her eyes. Ukyou noticed this and wondered what she said that made Ranka freak out so much. "Ranka are you alright?" Ranka unfroze and wiped the small tears out from her eyes and looked down at the ground. "It's not wise to be my friend or safe that's why.." Ukyou put her hand on one of Ranka's shoulders gently and patted it. "Did something happen to a friend of yours, and now your afraid to make new ones?" Ranka hugged her knee's together tightly and hid her face from Ukyou. "My first friend, Satan he corrupted her and turned her against me.." She found herself suddenly blurting out everything about what had happened with her former friend Ivory. "and she'll keep hurting me and torturing me because she's not the same anymore, she's not Ivory anymore." She found herself fighting back the overwhelming tears that started pouring out. "That's why I can't have any friends they'll get hurt by being with me." She kept trying to stop herself from crying till a loud voice interrupted and made her stop, she slowly recognized that it was the other her from her dream her inner voice. "Jeez look at you, your being so damned pathetic! You didn't listen to a thing that I said did you? Listen and listen good damn it you have the power to protect your friends and family, have you forgotten that you can use magic.." Ranka wiped away her tears again and gave some thought to what the other her had just said, she put her hand to her red gem and closed her eyes. Ukyou was a little startled when she saw a bright red glow come from underneath Ranka's shirt for a moment and then it disappeared. Ranka opened her eyes and breathed in and then out slowly and leaned her head against the tree. "I'm sorry I got a little emotional, and my gem reacted to my feelings." She pulled out the gem from underneath her shirt for a second and then put it back under. Ukyou's eyes almost bugged out of her head at seeing the cursed gem that she with her own eyes had seen Ranma break, she shook her head around and couldn't hold back as she pointed at it. "That can't be the same cursed gem that Ranma broke!" Ranka blinked and looked down at where her gem was and then back at Ukyou and smiled. "Oh i get it you think it's the same one, no I made myself a new one it's not evil like the other one Satan made me." Ukyou stopped pointing and a surprised expression was on her face for a second till she thought about and realized that she must've gotten a new gem and made a new necklace. "Oh I see..so it's not evil." Ranka shook her head and put her hands to where the gem was and felt the warmth from it. "No it's not, it's my friend you could say." Ukyou sweatdropped and rubbed at the back of her neck nervously. "Um well atleast it's not evil, so do you need a gem to survive I've always been curious about that."

Ranka eyed her with a weird expression and took her hands away from the gem. "I used to when I was in Satan's possession, but once I made myself my own gem I was freed and I can take it off and still survive but I still feel that it's part of me. I'm quite attached to it you could say." Ukyou nodded as she slowly took in everything Ranka was telling her and then she thought that since they were slowly getting closer to one another that she could ask her. "Ranka do you think Ranma will keep his promise and tell me what's been going on." Ranka eyed her and the sadness aurora was flaring around Ukyou as she looked off towards the school with hope in her eyes. "I'm sure he'll come, but you know Akane's all on him as well." Ukyou sighed and hugged her knee's together. "Figures.." Ranka scratched at her neck unsure of how to go about things with Ukyou. "Well if he doesn't get to you before the end of school, I'm sure he'll stop by your restaurant and tell you about it, I'd tell you what you want to know but I know you want him to and he should be the one to tell you."

Ukyou felt alot better from hearing that from Ranka and she knew that she could trust her and smiled. "Thanks Ranka." Then she noticed the gym outfit that Ranka was wearing and sweatdropped. "Um Ranka are you supposed to be in gym class?" Ranka started freaking out and flailing her arms around and jumped up quickly. "aaah i forgot all about gym class, Ranma's probably looking for me." She sighed and calmed down suddenly and smacked her hand to her forehead. "Gah I'm so stupid missing gym on my first day, well thanks Ukyou I'll talk to you later." She said goodbye to Ukyou and disappeared faster then lightning, leaving Ukyou quite happy as she walked back towards her class.

Ranma had been constantly trying to check on the girls side of the gym class trying to spot Ranka but the teacher always interrupted him and he had to go back to concentrating on completing the task. He finally spotted her with the rest of the girls and felt at ease. Ranka sighed with relief that Ranma hadn't been able to notice that she was missing, Akane on the other hand caught Ranka sneaking back from wherever she had disappeared off to and was quite curious. After the class ended shortly after Ranka had snuck back Akane approached Ranka in the locker room. Ranka looked up at Akane from where she was sitting and blinked. "Oh hi akane.." Akane had her arms crossed and looked a little miffed. "Ranka where did you go, you missed most of the class?" Ranka started undressing and tossed off the damp gym shirt and shivered somewhat, and Akane took quick notice of the shirt being damp. "Why is your gym shirt damp?" Ranka sighed and kept changing while she told Akane what had happened much to her discontent, but if she hadn't told her she just would've kept nagging and getting more and more angry. Akane sweatdroped and then she became quite angry. "Shampoo was here?" Ranka nodded and finished changing and started brushing out her almost dry hair. "Yes she was chasing me so that's why I missed gym class..." Akane felt content with her explanation, that just left Ranma's, with that she went back to her friends and left Ranka to herself.

The next couple of classes went by and then the end of school came as the bell rang, Ranma walked out of the room with Ranka after saying goodbye to his friends and he looked kind of upset. Ranka blinked and decided to poke and prod. "So why do you look angry?" Ranma had his hands in his pocket like he did when they had arrived. "Well the news of the day that's been going around the school is that you and shampoo were fighting.." Ranka sweatdropped knowing that she had been caught out and had no escape. "Ah it's not my fault she just came out of nowhere and started attacking me.. Someone must've told her that I was going to Furikan or something, she's still mad about what I did to her when I had no control.." She had her head down looking at the ground.

Ranma still looked angry but he wasn't mad at Ranka. "I told her it wasn't your fault and now she's trying to kill you..I guess I'm going to have to go see her and straighten her out.." Ranka shrugged. "If your going to do that I'd suggest stopping by Ukyous since you never explained to her about yesterday." Ranma almost tripped after hearing that. "Oh man I totally forgot, well I guess I'll have to see both of them..." He scratched at his head nervously. Ranka quirked an eyebrow at him. "Do you want me to come along?" Ranma was still scratching at his head. "Yeah if you showed up without Ranko mom would freak out." Ranka nodded in agreement. "That she would, so don't forget to change back into a girl before we go back."

Ranma rubbed at his head till and an idea popped up and he looked at Ranka with a strange smile on his face. "Hey why don't you keep Akane busy while I'm off talking with Ukyou and Shampoo?" Ranka threw her head back and laughed and gave him a smirk before she smacked him on his back really hard and flipped her hair like a prissy girl. "Ahah no way." Ranma's smile disappeared instantly replace with a frown. "Jeez thanks alot.." Ranka smacked him on the back again. "Hey now i said i wouldn't keep her busy, but I'll get Kuno to keep her busy." She had a devious smirk on her face and quirked one of her eyebrows at Ranma. Ranma's smile suddenly came back bigger then before. "Your the best sister ever, I'll go on ahead then."

Ranka nodded and watched Ranma take off like a bat out of hell, and then she went into the gym storage shed and rustled through her bag till she pulled out the blonde wig and put it on. Her and Ranma had brought the wig incase they had needed it to get out of the Ranko and Ranka thing. But Ranka's magic spell had worked, so it was still a good thing that they had taken it. She had also taken her furikan high uniform just in case she needed a change of clothes, and her other clothes were in the wash so she had to take it. Again it had turned out to be a good thing for the time being, she undressed out of her uniform and grumbled as she pulled on the furikan one and put hers into her bag after she pulled out the pair of glasses that went along with the wig. Then she reached back in and pulled out one of her notebooks and a pen and started writing really fast and signed it with Akane's name, she put the notebook and pen away after ripping out the page with the note on it and folded the paper and stuck it into one of her pockets.

She looked around before leaving the shed and went off to where Kuno usually practiced wearing her perfect disguise. She soon spotted him meditating in his spot and walked up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. "Excuse me Mr. Kuno I have a note from someone for you." Kuno looked behind him at the unusual looking blonde girl with geeky looking glasses and took the note politely. "Why thankyou miss." After he had taken the note Ranka smiled to herself and snuck off back to the shed where she changed back quickly and left the school grounds swiftly.

In the meantime Ranma had surprised Ukyou by showing up at the restaurant waiting by the door for her, then they both went inside and she started up the grill and happily gathered up the usual ingredients. Ranma sat in his usual chair and smiled as he watched Ukyou go through her usual routine, watching her cook her okonomiyaki always brought back happy memories of their childhood to him. Ukyou started pouring the dough mix out onto the grill and gathering the seasoning's and toppings. "So Ranchan I heard from Ranka that you were too preoccupied to talk to me at school, it means alot to me that you stopped by to tell me though."

Ranma rubbed at his head nervously and smiled somewhat. "Yeah like she said Akane's been up my ass all day pestering me.. So Ukyou your not mad at my sister anymore?" Ukyou finished up the first okonomiyaki by pouring the sauce on it and putting it on a plate and handing it to Ranma. "No you could say were friends now, she said she'll help me out with getting more customers the same way I always asked you to help. With a real girl were sure to attract alot of customers." She giggled and huggled one of her spatula's for a moment before becoming embarrassed since Ranma was watching. Ranma gave her a look before he started eating the okonomiyaki and devoured it in a matter of seconds. "Yeah i suppose she would, that's nice to hear that your not mad at her anymore. She's been going through alot lately and she needs more friends." Ukyou smiled and found herself blushing somewhat while she was pouring a glass of water for him. "Yeah i found that out when I saw her near the woods today. Moving on..lets discuss what happened yesterday.." She handed him the glass of water and started to gather up some more ingredients for a couple of oknomiyaki's just in case.

Ranma sipped some of the water from the glass and set it back down on the counter. "Well I've been pretending to be Ranko and I'm stuck since my mom told Ranko that she has to stay. Besides it'd break my mom's heart if Ranko suddenly disappeared, and if I told her the truth about my curse she'll make me commit seppuku.." He rubbed at one of his shoulders uncomfortably. Ukyou's smile disappeared at what she heard him say, that his own mother would make him kill himself if she found out about his curse. Also she had no idea that Ranma's mother was that sort of person, and she felt bad for her friend. "Well sugar I can understand why your stuck, and I'll do my best not to blow your cover. So Akane's all pissy because your not living at the Tendo Dojo anymore." She smiled inwardly to herself finding this a great chance to get on Ranma's mother's good side since she was now Ranka's friend and could easily get invited over. Ranma nodded and looked very gloomy after she had mentioned the Tendo Dojo. "Although it's kind of nice not being there, but then there's some things that I miss.."

Ukyou nodded and a thought occurred to her as she tried to pry some more information out of her fiance. "So do you have your own room at your mothers?" Ranma shook his head. "No Ranko shares the room with Ranka, at first it was really hard for me but it's actually alot better then sharing that small room with my dad back at Tendo's." Ukyou couldn't wait to get invited over by Ranka since she knew she'd be in the same room as Ranma and maybe she'd even get to be in the same bed with him or even next to him. Ranma sweatdropped as he noticed her blushing and smiling. "Um Uchan?" Ukyou snapped out of it and smiled at him. "Oh it's nothing Ranchan you know the grill is pretty hot." She went back to making the new batch of okonmiyaki's humming happily to herself.

Ranka walked into the restaurant and smiled as she spotted Ranma and Ukyou looking very happy. She took a seat next to Ranma and nudged his arm with hers. "Hey mission accomplished." Ranma noticed that Ranka had finally caught up and that she must've done what she said she was going to do and smiled at her. "Glad to hear it, so you and Ukyou are friends now huh." Ranka smiled and gave him an innocent look. "Well I guess so." Ukyou looked up from her cooking and smiled at Ranka. "Ranka hey you want some okonomiyaki too?" Ranka thought about it for a moment before answering. "Ok sure thing Ukyou." Ukyou seemed puzzled since Ranka she was expecting her to say the same thing Ranma would say. "Why just one?" Ranka smoothed her hair down from having the wig on top of it. "Well I'm sure mom's making a nice dinner so I don't want to fill up and disappoint her." This made Ranma think about not eating anymore okonomiyaki's, but one more couldn't hurt since he could never get enough of Ukyou's cooking. Ukyou realized then that Ranka wasn't exactly the same as Ranma in alot of ways, she had more manners then he did for one thing. She decided to try to get Ranka to invite her over for a sleep over while she had the chance. "So Ranka maybe we could have a sleepover one of these days hmm?" Ranka seemed startled again like she had when Ukyou had asked to be her friend, but she shook it off quickly. "Well I guess we could do that, but first I want to repay you for what I did like we talked about before."

Ukyou rubbed at her chin thoughtfully with one of her hands, while the other one finished up the batch of okonomiyaki's while she was chatting. "Well there's no set time, so you can come in and help out when you want to."

Ranma jolted up out of his seat as the words sleep over finally hit him, and in his mind he saw him stuck as Ranko and Ukyou trying to get into the same bed as him. He looked over at Ukyou and it suddenly made sense to him and he decided that it was time to go after he had his second helping. Ukyou served each one of the siblings their own dish and she started to clean up the mess on the grill while she hummed to herself.

After they had finished they both thanked Ukyou and said their goodbye's as they headed off towards the Nekohanten. Ranma shuddered at the thought since he knew the usual greeting he'd receive. Ranka on the other hand didn't look worried, but that didn't mean that she wasn't. Ranka stayed behind Ranma as they came up to the front entrance of the restaurant. Ranma braced himself as the door slid open and shampoo threw herself into the air and latched onto ranma snuggling against him. "Aiya Ranma finally come to see Shampoo, I so happy airen." Ranma just stood there like a statue for a minute before he started trying to get her off of him. Shampoo kept snuggling till her eyes locked on Ranka. Ranka slowly started to back away since she had a feeling what was going to come next, and it did as Shampoo released her love hold on Ranma and had already pulled out her sword and stalked towards her. "I kill..." Ranma grabbed shampoo by the hand that held the sword and looked at her sternly. "No your not, shampoo we talked about this before..." Shampoo looked distrut since her airen had stopped her. "Ranma she deceive amazon, that is disgrace and so I must kill.." Ranma slowly tighten his grip on her wrist and had an angry expression on his face. "And I told you that it wasn't her fault, now stop trying to kill my sister.." Shampoo's eyes widened as she took in this new face that Ranma had on, he had never looked at her with such anger before and she knew that, that girl was to blame for it.

Cologne had been watching from one of the windows and came hopping out on her stick and blocked shampoo's path from the other girl. Shampoo became outraged that her great grandmother was protecting the girl as well as her loved one. Cologne gave shampoo a stern glare telling her to back down, if she didn't she knew that Ranma would not hold back at hurting shampoo. The girl meant that much to him, and shampoo was on his last nerve. The old amazon monarch put a stop to it by speaking. "Shampoo that's quite enough." Shampoo grumbled as she put her sword away, she could not go against the old amazon that was how the amazon law worked. She hmpfed and crossed her arms walking back into the restaurant. Cologne shook her head and apologized to both Ranma and the girl. "Son in law forgive Shampoo's rudeness, she can be quite stubborn." Ranma had his arms crossed and still looked very ticked off. "I came here to talk some sense into her but now I'm having second thoughts, and yes I know quite well how stubborn she can be.." He recalled the time she was after his girl side for disgracing her in her village, and that it took alot to get her to change her mind and realize the truth. Cologne nodded her head and hopped to the door. "Do not worry son in law Shampoo will come to understand, please come in." She hopped into the restaurant motioning for the two siblings to come in.

Ranka looked at Ranma for a second. "I think I'm going to go.." Ranma didn't let her finish and grabbed her by her hand and dragged her in with him. "If I have to go in so do you.." Ranka had a pissed off expression on her face, but then it disappeared and was replaced with a sad one as she was in her thoughts. She really didn't want to be here, but it was her fault and she needed to be here to apologize and explain things. She couldn't just put it all on Ranma, she'd just have to deal with the consequences. They both sighed as they followed Cologne and took their seats at the designated table. Cologne started hopping towards the back room, but before she went she told them to wait while she talked to shampoo. Ranma rubbed at his head with an annoyed look on his face. "I knew we shouldn't have come here.." Ranka looked down at the table looking out of it. "Well then lets go home then." Ranma gave her a look and had his arms crossed. "Well sure we can go back if you want shampoo to keep trying to kill you.. is that what you want?" Ranka looked over at him with a depressed look on her face. "No of course not.." Ranma took quick notice of how out of it his sister was looking and that weird mood she had been getting into lately, he didn't want to see her go into that dead like state for a day or more again like before. Or for her to start thinking about dying and going on about how she was nothing but a clone, to him she was his sister. He also recalled that whenever she started to slip into her old ways that love seemed to reached her, so he put his arm around her back and patted it gently. "Mom would be really upset if you just let shampoo kill you, you know that right."

Ranka looked up at him with a startled looking face and her eyes were wide. She realized that she was starting to slip, that she was letting her crimes get to her psychically and emotionally. She knew that she would have to set everything right with whomever she had wronged in her uncontrolled state. She also realized just how much Ranma cared for her, that she wasn't a clone at all and had to stop thinking that way whenever her past occurrences surfaced. She smiled and nodded. "I know... but Ranma it wasn't just shampoo and ukyou that I deceived..." She sighed and looked down at the table and gritted her teeth, because she really did not want to see Kodachi or have to apologize to Kuno as well. She had already apologized to Ryouga but he hadn't been listened of course, and he still thought that she cared by doing that worm thing. She rubbed at her head and gave Ranma a distressed look. "I burned kodachi's pictures..." Ranma couldn't help but laugh, all those pictures of him that kodachi had were all gone now. "That's not too bad, that's actually a good thing." Ranka rolled her eyes at him. "She'll just get more, but that's not the point I wronged her and need to ugh apologize to her as well.." Ranma laughed again and whacked her on the back playfully. "Have you lost your mind, we share the same memories and you want to go and apologize to her? She hates my girl side, and no matter what you or I tell her she'll see you as the a cursed pigtailed girl." Ranka sweatdropped and scratched at the back of her neck nervously. "Yeah I know but I should apologize for what I did just the same..even if it was a good thing and I'll probably regret apologizing to her.." She found herself shuddering just from thinking about how that would go. Ranma shook his head and picked up one of the menu's that was laying on the table and thumbed through it while he waited for cologne to return.

Cologne had talked some sense into Shampoo and the two of them came walking up to the table and shampoo took a seat next to Ranma not looking at all pleased. Cologne stayed perched on her stick and started the conversation. "Son in law I've talked some sense into Shampoo, so you can enlighten her with the details." Shampoo nodded and then looked at Ranma. "You come to tell shampoo something yes?" Ranma put the menu down and looked directly at Shampoo. "Yes I did, do you remember a few day's ago that I told you that it was my sister and that it wasn't her fault..and that I'd tell you about it later.. We'll I'm here to do just that." Cologne eyed the girl that Ranma had referred to as his sister. "So son in law she's your sister?" Ranma nodded. "Yes she's my sister Ranka and she was being controlled by the devil before, so shampoo she had no control over what she was doing. It's not just you that she deceived, and if you don't want me to be angry then stop trying to kill Ranka.." Shampoo looked over at Ranma's twin and then back at him. "Shampoo understand, no kill Ranka anymore.." Ranma smiled at her. "Thankyou Shampoo." Shampoo felt her anger melt away as she saw her airen smiling at her, but she still didn't like that girl. She'd let him and her great grandmother hear what they wanted to hear, but she had other plans. She'd make nicey nice with this sister of his for now, but she would still stick to her plan. She looked over at the girl and put on a smile. "Shampoo so sorry she over react, can you forgive?" She extended one of her hands out towards the girl and kept smiling.

Ranka looked nervous and extended hers and both girls shook hands. "Only if you'll forgive me, I'm sorry I did that Shampoo.." Shampoo kept smiling and finally let go of Ranka's hand. "No no is ok I understand, you and Ranma want free ramen is on house." Ranma smiled and nodded. "Of course we do." Ranka gave him a look. "Ranma..what about mom's dinner?" Ranma smacked his forehead. "Oh yeah I keep forgetting, speaking of we really should be going." Shampoo tilted her head and looked at Ranma with puppy dog eyes. "But you just got here, why you want to leave?" Ranka saved Ranma the trouble of telling shampoo that they had to go. "Yes but we can't spoil our appetites before dinner, our mom wouldn't like that if we came home full and didn't eat any of her home cooked meal. That's what he's trying to tell you, so we really do need to be going." Shampoo hmpfed and crossed her arms and got up out of her seat and stalked off to the kitchen. Ranma sweatdropped as he watched her run off in a huff and rubbed at his head. "Sorry but we do need to be going." Colonge nodded understanding full well what Ranma's sister had just told shampoo and would try to explain that to her. "Please stop by again son in law, and you as well Ranka it was nice meeting you." She hopped off into another room and the two siblings got up and made their way out of the restaurant and headed back home.

Ranma and Ranka were half way there when Ranka spotted Nodoka coming down the street on the other end towards them. She panicked and looked around for any water, then she spotted part of the fence that was missing and had a 'Do not cross' sign across that area. She also noticed that by the looks of things Ranma hadn't noticed their mom coming towards them, and she knew he'd be mad at her for awhile but he'd understand later. With that she shoved him through the area where the fence was missing and watched him fall down into the water canal below with a loud splash. Ranma surfaced spitting water out of her mouth and looking pissed as hell. "What the hell was that for Ranka!" Ranka looked down at her and whispered. "Mom was coming." Ranma rolled his eyes and pushed her wet bangs out of her face. "Yeah right like I'd believe that.." Nodoka who could only see the shadow's of two figures and saw the one push the other one came running over and as the figure came into sight she gasped and grabbed Ranka by the hand sternly. "Ranka!" Ranka looked startled as her mother came into view and at the current situation she had put herself in. Nodoka looked down into the canal and spotted Ranko looking angry and wet and then she gave Ranka a stern look before letting go of her arm. "Young lady what has gotten into you?"

Ranka rubbed at one of her arms nervously, trying to think of something to say.

It was after seeing her mom's face that Ranma realized that Ranka wasn't lying and that she had just saved his ass and put her self into the frying pan. Ranma tried to think up something fast so that Ranka wouldn't get into trouble for it. While Ranma sat there thinking, Nodoka took her wrapped katana off from her holder on her back and lowered the handle part down towards Ranko and waited for her to grab it and she pulled her up with a smile on her face as she remembered that this was how she had first met Ranko. Nodoka put her sword back into the holder and gave Ranka a stern look once again, but Ranma jumped in to save her. "It was an accident mom I said something kind of rude and she shoved me way not seeing the broken fence. So please don't punish her, it wasn't her fault." She looked at her mom with the girly ish face she could muster and tried not to grit her teeth. Nodoka listened to what Ranko said and then looked over at Ranka who looked miserable. "Ranka is what your sister just said true?" Ranka nodded and blushed playing the embarrassed part quite well, and watched her mother's anger vanish. Nodoka looked back at Ranko and wondered what she had said that made her sister so embarrassed, from what she could tell it must've been quite rude. She really couldn't blame Ranko for it since she had been brought up by Genma and in a bad environment, so she apologized to Ranka and then took both of the girls home.

Back at the house Ranma had another struggle with Nodoka about her bathing with her and finally talked her out of it and locked the door for her own safety. Nodoka rubbed at her chin in deep thought about why Ranko was always so nervous around water, and how she kept finding Ranko in water. Ranka on the other hand had no problem with letting her bathe with her. Today's scene had her quite perplexed as she could of sword that the one figure from faraway looked like a man, and that other time she had heard Ranka arguing with a man and then when she opened the door Ranko was there. She finished stirring the soup while she pondered things about the two girls, she wondered if Ranka knew something but she had a feeling she wouldn't tell her if she was trying to protect her sister from something. Either way she was going to get to the bottom of this one day, but for now she would sit back and observe abit more closely the two girls behavior's. Ranka came walking into the kitchen wearing her chinese pajama's and had her hair up in a ponytail. Nodoka decided to try and ask her and observe her reaction. "Ranka dear is it just me or does your sister not like water?" Ranka tried to keep her cool as the words struck her, she wondered if her mom had found out about the curse. She had never asked her something like this so bluntly, or was it that she slowly starting to notice Ranko's behavior towards taking bath's with other people. Either way she had to try and steer her mother's attention away from seeing that. "No Ranko's just embarrassed I guess." Nodoka took notice of how it had taken awhile for Ranka to respond and that her response did not sound legitimate, it sounded like she had made it up. So she decided to keep playing along and wait for her to eventually slip up. "About what dear? Were all girls here." Ranka found herself getting nervous as she could clearly tell that Nodoka was not buying her excuse, and tried to make a better one. She recalled that Ranma had told his mother that Ranko had been raised by Genma, so she could say something that related to that without making it sound suspicious. "Well Ranko's used to bathing with guys I'm guessing, since she lived with one.. But I really don't know since I was living with my parents and not with her." Nodoka found that some of what Ranka said made some sense, she decided to test this theory in the near future with a trip to the bathhouse. "I see well we'll have to try and change that, it's just not right." She shook her head and started to put the food out on the table, Ranka started helping putting stuff on the table as well happy that Nodoka had stopped with the questions.

Ranko eventually came into the kitchen with her hair combed out and wet hanging down her shoulders, and she had her fishcake pajama's on as she took her seat at the table and started helping herself to the food. Nodoka took note of how manly Ranko's actions were, especially in how she ate her food. She had improved a great deal but she still had a long way to go, and she would have to break her of her poor habits that her husband had taught the girl. She sighed as she found herself thinking about her son Ranma, and wondered if her husband had raised him the same way as Ranko. Ranka looked up from her plate and at her mother noticing that far off look in her eyes and her sighing. "Mom you ok? You haven't eaten anything yet." Nodoka blinked and looked over at Ranka and started to make a plate for herself. "I'm sorry my dear I was just thinking of my son Ranma." Ranko gagged on what she had in her mouth and started coughing, and grabbed her glass of water and gulped down a good amount of water nervously. Ranka gave Ranma a quick look and then focused on Nodoka. "Oh I see." She went back to eating her food at a steady pace and glanced over at Ranko for a second. Nodoka looked over at Ranko. "Ranko are you alright? You need to eat your food at a slower pace, your just like my son like that.." Ranma felt herself getting extremely nervous and wanted to leave the room immediately, but she knew better then to do that. Then she remembered the soul of ice technique that she had used before and what she had told her mother about her and she started to relax. "I know I can't help it that's how uncle Genma raised me, he raised me just like Ranma." Nodoka stabbed her fork into the meat on her plate angrily and kept stabbing at it. "I'm sure he did..." Ranma decided that she had said enough and went back to eating the rest of her meal.

After dinner and everyone helped with the clean up they all sat in the living room and watched a movie before they went to bed. Nodoka had felt happier since she atleast had the two girls and in a way she felt that by having Ranko with her that she still had Ranma with her as well. After the movie she hugged both the girls and said goodnight to them before she retired to her own room, while they went off to their room after they had both finished getting ready for bed. Ranka laid down with her head on the pillow and closed her eyes as she snuggled up into her blankets. Ranma turned off the light and laid down as well and closed her eyes. "Ranka I'm sorry I didn't believe you before about well you know.." Ranka listening to her sisters sincere apology and smiled with her eyes still closed and a smile on her face. "Yeah well next time you'd better believe me, I wouldn't shove you in for no reason. You though you need to be more careful she's starting to catch on.." She was wise enough to whisper all of what she was saying in case Nodoka was listening in, since her room was right next door to theirs. Ranma rubbed at the back of her head for a minute before putting her arm back under the covers. "Yeah..but it's ok, just read my mind and you'll know what I'm talking about." She yawned and rolled over. "Goodnight Ranka." She pulled the covers up over her head and concentrated on sleeping. Ranka nodded and said goodnight to Ranma before rolling over and thumbed through Ranma's mind to found out what her sister was talking about, before she fell asleep.

Unknown to them they hadn't noticed that Shampoo had followed them back to Nodoka's and had been hiding out in backyard behind some bushes. She had watched the light in what she thought was Ranka's room go off and sprinted up onto the roof quietly and slid the window that was opened slightly, slowly so that she had enough room to get into the room. The only light that was in the room was from the moonlight shining in through the window, which Shampoo used to her full advantage as she crept into the room through the window sure of herself that she hadn't made any noise. She stood still for a minute and waited to see if the girl had heard her come in, she didn't notice that Ranma was there since she under her blankets. She concentrated on the sleeping girl that she stood before, and slowly unsheathed her sword and raised it into the air aiming it at the girls head as she brought it down swiftly. Ranka unconsciously dodged the blade rolling over just in the nick of time and the sword caught the floor with a soft thud, Shampoo gritted her teeth and yanked the sword's tip out of the floor and started to raise her sword up into the air again taking aim once again. She started to bring the sword back down again, till she heard the door to the room slid open quietly and a she couldn't see what had dashed into the room as her blade headed towards the girl's head. Shampoo yelped as she heard her blade clash with another blade out of the blue and then she saw a woman's face through the moonlight gripping a katana tightly that was locked with her own sword. Shampoo tried to keep a tight grip on her sword's handle but this woman that had suddenly appeared so fast and quietly was much more experienced with the sword and stronger it seemed. Nodoka glared at the strange purple haired girl that stood in front of her locked in a sword battle, she wanted to know why this girl dared to raise a sword against her daughter Ranka. Shampoo finally lost her grip and Nodoka's sword smacked it out of her hands and down onto the ground, which made shampoo fall back thudding against the wall. Nodoka pointed her katana's blade at the purple haired girl's neck and she whispered in a low and angry voice. "Leave my daughter alone.."

The noise that shampoo made had woken Ranma up, and her head popped out from the blankets as she looked around half awake and spotted what looked like shampoo against the wall and her mother standing near Ranka with her katana pointed at shampoo. She rubbed her eyes to see if she was dreaming and when she opened them again she saw the same thing and realized that this wasn't a dream. Shampoo spotted girl Ranma and cried out to her. "Ranma!" Nodoka who still had her katana pointed at the girl, looked over to see Ranko awake and wondered what this purple haired girl had meant. She remembered what Ranko had told her that she acted and looked like Ranma because she was raised by Genma and had been with Ranma for some time, so this strange girl was confused but it seemed that she knew her son Ranma. "No that's my daughter Ranko you confuse her with her brother Ranma..now tell me why you tried to hurt my other daughter Ranka before I hurt you.."

Ranma started to panic since she hadn't told Shampoo about staying with her mother as Ranko and gave Shampoo a pleading look. "No I'm Ranko his sister." Then she gave shampoo a hard glare since she had gone back on her word and lied about forgiving Ranka. Nodoka eyed Ranko with her katana still pointed at the other girls neck. "Ranko do you know this girl?"

Ranma rubbed at her head and nodded. "She's a friend of Ranma's.." That still didn't change Nodoka's mind about lifting her blade from the girl's neck till she knew that she wasn't going to attack Ranka. "Ranko do you know why this girl is trying to hurt your sister." She glared directly at the girl she had pinned against the wall. Ranma really had no choice but to tell her mother the truth. "Well remember how I told you Ranka had done bad things because our father was controlling her?" But she couldn't tell her the truth because it would expose her curse, she hoped that shampoo would keep her mouth shut about it. "and I told her that and she said she had forgiven Ranka and then she does this..." She gave shampoo a hard cold stare to let her know that she was in some hot water.

Nodoka nodded remembered that Ranka had done bad things, but this girl was wrong for going back on her word and still trying to kill her daughter after she had apologized for whatever she had done to her. "Listen and listen well whoever you are, if you try to harm my daughter Ranka again I'll kill you...now get of my sight and never come here again.." She took her katana away from the girls neck but still gripped onto the handle tightly. Shampoo's eye's started to tear up and she glared at Ranka's sleeping face and tightened her fist. That girl had turned Ranma against her, she was nothing but trouble in her eyes. Nodoka took quick notice of the girl's anger and raised her katana back at her neck and glared at her sternly. "Did you not hear me, I told you not to harm my daughter!" Nodoka hadn't realized how high she had raised her voice and that she had woken Ranka up. Ranka looked around groggily till she spotted shampoo and her eyes shot open wide awake as she spotted her mother standing above her with her katana pointed at shampoo.

The thoughts that ran through Ranka's head were upset ones, that Shampoo had lied about forgiving her and tracked her down to her mothers house and tried to kill her in her sleep. Not only that but now she had upset her mother greatly, she had her head down and she tightened her own fist and glared at shampoo. "What do you want from me I apologized to you, and you go and do this.." Nodoka noticed that she had woken up Ranka and felt bad, she also felt bad because so many bad things had happened to her and it seemed that they still were. "Ranka.." Ranma smacked her forehead feeling very frustrated and that shampoo kept looking at her with a frightened expression that said 'save me ranma.' At this point ranma just wanted to wash her hands of the back stabbing amazon, but if she let her mother go on eventually shampoo's great grandmother would find out and then mousse would find out. So she decided that she had to save shampoo's ass from her mother. "Mom let me talk to her..she doesn't understand.." Nodoka took her katana away from shampoo's neck again and lowered it, then she sheathed it and held it one of her hands. "Fine but Ranka's staying with me until I know that, that girl won't harm her." She grabbed Ranka by the hand and helped her up leading her out of the room, leaving Ranma alone with Shampoo who started crying.

Shampoo glomped onto girl Ranma and buried her face into her chest, making Ranma blush furiously. "Er um ah shampoo I'm still mad.." Shampoo kept crying with her face planted in Ranma-chan's boobs, and hugged onto her tightly. Ranma was trying very hard not to let the fact that she had Shampoo's face in her boobs and tried to push her off but she was too nervous. Shampoo finally lifted her face out and off from the other girls chest and wiped at the tears on her face trying to compose herself. Ranma sighed and felt her face getting less hot since shampoo wasn't touching her anymore. "Shampoo if you hadn't broke in and attacked my sister my mom wouldn't have attacked you..." Shampoo looked at Ranma with a mixture of a sad and angry face. "That scary woman is your mother? You let that girl lead you around, she is evil girl.."

Ranma grumbled and smacked her hand to her forehead and gave shampoo a glare. "Listen Ranka isn't evil anymore, she's my sister and if you want me as a friend you can't keep trying to kill her.. it makes me hate you.." She looked away from shampoo elsewhere with her arms crossed. "You'd understand if you had another you.." Shampoo crawled over towards Ranma looking sad. "Shampoo kill other shampoo if there was one, can only be one shampoo." Ranma sighed and looked over at her somewhat. "Ok how about this..if there were two shampoo's, you could tell the other you to like mousse and then you could have whoever." Shampoo rubbed at her chin thoughtfully, and she smiled. "So Ranma tell other Ranma to like Akane, so that you can love only shampoo! Aiya airen I so happy." She tackled Ranma and glomped onto her rubbing against her. Ranma grumbled and slammed one of her fists down onto the floor. "No! I just gave you an example of how if you had another you..it's different with me and Ranka ok.. Jeez I think I like ukyou more atleast her and Ranka made up and are friends now." She gave shampoo a bored look.

Shampoo felt the anger boiling up inside, as usual Ukyou was one step ahead of her in the love game. Then an idea popped up into her head suddenly and she smirked for only a second, she would give up on killing the girl but for a price. She looked up at Ranma with loving eyes. "Shampoo make deal with Ranma then." The smirk appeared across her face again. Ranma sweatdropped and gave her a look. "What kind of deal?" Shampoo giggled somewhat and crept closer to Ranma. "Shampoo give up on killing Ranka, if Ranma go on date with Shampoo and I get to choose time, day etc. Also just me and Ranma no one else. Is deal? Or you want shampoo to keep chasing after Ranka."

Ranma tightened her fist and had her head down, it figured that shampoo would stoop so low. Ranma sighed and ran one her fingers through her hair somewhat, she knew Shampoo wouldn't give up unless she gave in to her demands. But what bothered Ranma was the fact that Shampoo couldn't be trusted, she herself smirked as an idea hit her. She looked over at shampoo with the smirk on her face. "Fine but if you break the deal after I've gone on the date with you, well...I'll want nothing to do with you ever again." Shampoo's eyes went wide as she felt her heart beating fiercely as she caught the evil smirk Ranma had sported, even she knew that Ranma was totally serious and that she would loose her airen forever if she didn't keep her side of the deal. Shampoo sighed, but she was quite happy that she would be going on a date with Ranma atleast. Giving up on killing the girl was a small price to pay if she could have time alone with Ranma. "Is deal." She pressed her breasts up against Ranma's backside an d wrapped her arms around the frontside of Ranma. Ranma found herself getting very hot and her face was bright red again. "Um er Shampoo you should go home now.." Shampoo pressed further earning a small yelp from Ranma and she smirked and put on a sad face. "But Shampoo too scared because scary woman will get her.." Ranma sweatdropped and sighed knowing that she would have to let the amazon have her way again. "Fine..I'll go get another bed.." Shampoo pressed her boobs further till they were squishing hard into Ranma's backside and she put on a sad face with puppy dog eyes. "No leave shampoo I scared..we can share bed yes." Ranma gulped and tried not to think about shampoo's body pressed up against her backside and not to back down. "I'll go get that bed." She unlatched shampoo's hands from around her and got up making shampoo fall down, she went outside the room and fetched another bed set and plopped it down faraway from her own. "There now go to bed Shampoo." Then she flopped back down into her own futon and pulled the covers up over her head grumbling. Shampoo pouted and set up the bedding and laid down and closed her eyes with a smile on her face.

Ranka woke up and pushed herself up out of bed yawning and stretching, she looked around half awake and noticed that she was in her mother's room. But Nodoka had already gotten up and put her bedding away, and was downstairs preparing breakfast. Ranka rubbed at her head wondering why she was in here, then she snapped her fingers remembering the sudden attack on her last night and that her mother had fought shampoo. She frowned at that thought, that shampoo had snuck into the house to sneak attack her, "How low could she get." She thought as she walked out of her mothers room and into hers to go get changed, she froze up at what she saw as she walked into the room. There in Ranma's bed was shampoo cuddled up against her sleeping with a smile on her face. Ranka found her anger rising, she wasn't mad at Ranma, she was mad at Shampoo. She walked over and grabbed her pillow from the floor and went over to where Ranma was and smacked the pillow down on her face. "Wake up lovebirds.." She finished grabbing her things and rushed out of the room

Ranma grumbled and yanked the pillow off her face and tossed it at the wall. "What the hell is wrong with you.." She stopped as she looked over to see Shampoo sleeping snuggled up against her and figured out why Ranka had woken her up. Shampoo yawned and rubbed at her eyes as she started waking up and smiled at seeing Ranma when she opened them. "Good morning airen." Ranma gave her a stern glare and pointed at the other futon. "Didn't I tell you to sleep there.." Shampoo giggled and snuggled up against her. "Shampoo walks around in her sleep sometimes." Ranma groaned and got up out of bed. "Shampoo you need to go now..unless you want my mom to catch you here.." Shampoo's eyes went wide and she jumped up out of the bed and was already at the window. "No of course not, no want to make Ranma's mom upset. But Ranma you stop by Nekohanten after school and we have date yes?" Ranma rolled her eyes and rubbed at her head. "Yes as long as you keep your part of the deal." Shampoo smiled. "Yes shampoo well, but if you no show then deal is off." She vanished out the window after that, and Ranma went over to the window closing it and locking it. "Just great..what have I gotten myself into.." She sighed and grabbed the furikan high uniform tossing off her night clothes and changing into it, then she fixed her hair while she grabbed her bookbag which had her change of clothes within. Everyday she had to leave the house as Ranko dressed up in the furikan high uniform and then she'd stop at doctor tofu's clinic and change her clothes and become Ranma once again. She sighed as she left the room and headed down the stairs, she had a gut feeling that one day her mother would catch on to the game.

After they had both finished eating the nicely prepared breakfast that Nodoka had made, they said their daily fair wells and left the house and made it to Doctor Tofu's and then to school. Ranka and Ranma walked through the gates of Furikan as usual and the boys starring at her from afar. Akane stood at the front of the school with her arms crossed waiting for Ranma. Ranka looked at Akane and then back at her brother. "You know you'll have to handle this right? I helped you out yesterday but the result is still the same." Ranma nodded and sighed. "Yeah I know you did, I'll see you in class then since I have to put the flames out." Ranka giggled and nodded and walked off ahead of him and walked by akane. She shortly spotted Ukyou walking down the hallway towards the classroom and waved at her and ran over to catch up to her and they both smiled at each other and started chatting as they walked to class taking their time. Ranma rubbed at his head as he came to a stop with akane facing him. Akane gave Ranma a hard cold stare before speaking. "So where were you yesterday that was so much more important then explaining to me what's going on.." Ranma was still rubbing at his head and trying to think of something to say, then he came up with something. Shampoo owed him after what she had put him through and better her then Ukyou. "Well shampoo came and snatched me away to the Nekohanten, she wanted me to try some new ramen they made and wouldn't take no for an answer. I was waiting for you till she came along.." Flames danced around Akane which only people who could see battle aurora's would be able to see, and unfortunately for Ranma he was able to see them. Akane had her fists tightened and her teeth clenched. "Shampoo..." Ranma laughed nervously and waved his hands around trying to calm Akane down. "Now calm down akane, I'll explain what's going on like I said. The reason why I suddenly left the Tendo dojo and didn't come back is because my mom thought i was my sister for awhile, but then I told her a half truth and the lie of me being Ranko was still there. After I told my mom about Ranka and Ranko's dad being a demon well..that's when she told me straight that I had to stay with her.. So it's kind of hard for me to get out of this situation Akane, whether or not you understand it's what I have to do for now.."

Akane's anger melted away somewhat as she got her explanation that she had asked for. She still wanted Ranma to come back to the Tendo Dojo of course, but the situation he was in was too dangerous for her selfish needs. She sighed and uncrossed her arms looking up at Ranma with a sad face. "If you just told your mother the truth then it wouldn't have to be like this. What do you do every morning? Pretend to go to school as a girl and then go and change into a guy?" Ranma grumbled at how on to him she was, that and she was telling him to kill himself basically. "You know I can't do that, and what I do and how I do it is my business. I'll do what I have to, atleast Ranka understands that." He looked away from Akane before he started to bash talk her.

Akane was ready to comment with an angry reply but she yelped as she saw kuno racing towards her with his arms outstretched. "My lovely Akane Tendo admitting your true feelings for me yesterday was a day that I shall never forget. The gods themselves are jealous of how happy I am, but fear not I will not let them have their way!" He laughed as he sped towards Akane at full speed, she in turn before finishing her argument with Ranma made a mad dash as faraway from the area that kuno was in. Kuno skidded to a stop and leaped off in the direction Akane had. "My love you cannot deny your true feelings any longer." Ranma smiled and thanked Ranka in his mind for getting him out of that jam, and walked off towards the classroom quite happy.

Ranka entered the classroom with Ukyou and they both took their seats, shortly after Ranma came in and took his own seat. Akane showed up right before the bell rang looking exhausted as she plopped down into her own seat, her two friends questioned her about what had happened. The teacher meanwhile cleared his throat as the bell rang. "Class we have a new student joining us today." A girl with pink hair came walking into the classroom with a smile on her face as she waved to all the students and stepped up onto the platform next to the teacher. "Hello everybody it's nice to meet you, my name is Thrishta Starling." She giggled cutely and wrote her name on the board as instructed, then the teacher pointed out a seat for her. Ranma and Ranka's eyes went wide as they noticed that this girl looked familiar, she had been at Ranka's old school Asadaiba. Ranka's heart started thumping as the pink haired girl walked down the aisle wearing the same uniform that she was and took her seat near Ranma smiling. This wasn't a mere coincidence that this girl had come here, the possible conclusion that Ranka had come to that this girl might be a spy sent by Satan. She looked uneasy at that very moment, or this girl could even be Ivory or even her old guardian Alley in disguise. She would have to observe this girl for the time being to see if she was an actual threat, her red gem necklace caught onto her uneasiness and dimly lit up, flashing on and off for a minute or so before it stopped. Ranma looked over at the girl as well, remembering that she had been in the same class as Ranko back at Asadaiba and that they had been friendly towards one another. But then he remembered when they had met 2 days ago that he had slipped and said his name was ranma at first, but caught himself and said Ranko. This made him nervous that Thrishta might have caught on to his slip up, that and she had been around the incident that Ranka had been involved with at the other school. He also didn't know if the girl would start telling everyone about that incident and cause problems for Ranka. Both siblings were thinking along the same lines as the teacher started his lecture on the edo period, Thrishta just smiled and acted the same as she had before, but she had so much planned.

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.