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.

20. Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Warming up

After getting back to the house, Nodoka made up a quick breakfast for her and her two girls. The meal was met with silence. At finishing hers and setting her chopstick down, she cleared her throat. "I don't think I need to say very much, about "what" happened, back there." She was focused on Ranka, who was shuffling her feet about in her chair and clearly the guilty party. She then turned her attention to her other daughter Ranko, who hadn't acted up this time and decided she shouldn't have to deal with how tense the environment would be. "Ranko dear, if you'd like, since our weekend plans have changed, if you'd like you may go spend the night at the Tendo's. As long as you agree to call me if anything happens, of concern." Her concern being the demonic influence within the twins lives.

Ranma-chan was quite surprised at what was said, causing her to blink. She thought the offer over and decided to take it. "Yeah I wouldn't mind doing that." Though she wanted her sister to come along too and decided to try to ask. " Can Ranka, come too?" She mustered up a really cute looking puppy eyed look, directed at her mother.

Nodoka firmly put her foot down on the matter. " I'm sorry Ranko, but she cannot. I will not reward her bad behavior. So you may go visit the Tendo's and we will come by for a small visit, when I come to pick you up. Whether your sister comes along tomorrow or not, depends on her." With that being said she got up from her seat, going off to the kitchen with the dirty dishes, but not before looking over her shoulder. " Ranka, help your sister pack appropriately, then come back downstairs, as "we" have lots to do and talk about."

Ranka had her head down some and nodded. " Yes mother." She got up from her seat and went off upstairs with Ranko.

Upstairs in their room, Ranma-chan gave Ranka a concerned look as she was packing up a bag for the night. " Hey, you gonna be okay? I could try to.."

Ranka shakes her head, sitting in the chair at the small desk. " You don't have to do that, just go, I'll be fine." She wasn't upset with her sister, or her mom, she knew she had to face up the consequences of what she had done. Her attitude of just sitting there and taking the corporal punishment from the mother, was frustrating Ranma-chan. "Cmon at least let me try."

Ranka shook her head again. "Enjoy your visit." She said with a smile, as she got up from the chair, leaving the room before Ranma could try to protest further. Going back downstairs to where her mother was waiting.

Soon after, Ranma-chan left after saying goodbye to her mother, making her way towards the Tendo's. She could tell her sister wasn't in the best state of mind, but it wasn't like the other time. Still she felt bad for her, having to deal with her mother and part of her worried how extreme the punishment or punishments would be. It had to be intense, with Nodoka sending her off. The other part was partially excited to just to be able to go back, so she could change back to being a guy for awhile. Hopefully it wouldn't be too insane over there.

Akane looked up from the living room table as she heard the front door slide open and at seeing Ranma. Her older sister Kasumi, beat her to greeting Ranma as usual though. Then Nabiki butted her way in, looking rather annoyed. " Where's your twin, huh Ranma?" Kasumi also wondered the same and chirped in as well, since Nabiki had given her the chance to. " Yes Ranma, is Ranka not with you today?" Ranma-chan rubbed at the back of her head sheepishly. " Sorry she's not."

Genma at hearing Ranma was there, looked up from his game of shougi with his friend Soun, and hmpfed at his son, ignoring him. He was very angry about the other day, how things had gone. Soun on the other hand smiled at his son in law, greeting him as well, before turning his attention back to the game.

Akane fidgeted some where she was sitting, trying to remain calm. " So, are you staying, or what?" Ranma-chan rubbed at the back of her head nervously. " For the night , yeah. My moms coming to visit tomorrow, maybe with Ranka too. Anyways, I'm gonna go take a bath, first." She left the room going off to the bathroom to do so.

Not much later after changing back into a guy with a hot bath, he had Akane come out on the back porch with him to sit and talk. Akane gave him a somewhat annoyed look. "So, are you staying for good or not?" He gave her an annoyed look. " You know I'm stuck, so no." She looked upset as she looked off the other way, trying to keep herself from boiling over, and managed to direct it enough. "What happened the other day, do you know? You know with your dad. He went out and well when he came back, he was very upset, in more ways than one.." She was also curious about his sisters absence. "And I'm surprised you didn't have your other half with you.."

Ranma couldn't help but laugh about his dad. "Well he was butting in, and trying to cause me trouble." He wasn't sure if he should tell her the rest. He really didn't want to tell her about having to go visit the Kuno's. Then he saw her getting impatient and her angry chi starting to rise. He sighed in defeat, looking annoyed. " We had to.. go visit the Kuno's. My mom's apparently friends with Kuno's aunt.." He groaned, just thinking about it. Akane definitely wanted to know everything and her eyes burned into his, demanding he tell her. She also imagined that it didn't go over very well at all, judging how upset and reluctant he was being about talking about it. He sighed and knew she wanted to hear more. " Well long story short Ranka beat up the creepy principal and shaved his head." He couldn't help but grin about that. "So, my mom called off the rest of the rest of the visit and she's in a hell of a lot trouble now.."

Akane's mouth was hanging open in awe, at hearing how their crazy principal had been dealt with. She shook her head to bring herself from it and demanded to know more. Unfortunately Nabiki and Kasumi were also listening in. Nabiki chimed in. " About time someone did." She then took her leave for the time being. Kasumi walked by shaking her head. " Oh dear, oh my."

Genma having heard, as he was also eavesdropping, having finished his game. Stepped out into view, looking angry. " That girl's evil, boy! Pure evil!" He looked to Akane to try to get her to side with him. " Right Akane dear." Akane tensed up some, un sure at the moment. "Did she hurt you, Mr Saotome?"

Ranma had his arms crossed. "Nope just taught him a lesson, right Pops?" Genma crossed his arms as well and walked off in a huff, going back to ignoring his son again. Akane's curiosity was peaked. " Ranma, what happened between your dad and sister?" Ranma grumbled, knowing she wasn't going to stop pestering him. " Pops tried to come to my moms and expose me to danger so close to my mom.. So Ranka did the same back to him. He started to chuckle some. " And Mr Panda well he had the best burnt food around." Akane's eyes widened with what she had heard, and also at how he seemed a lot more cheerful and that seemed to be the result of his new sister. She had mixed feelings about things, but she was glad to see him in good spirits.

Back at Nodoka's house, she had Ranka do the dishes, and then after that they had relentlessly began very intense katana training. She was impressed with her daughters speed and reflexes and how quickly she took to the training. She was being harder on her today though, as she clashed her sword against hers and relentlessly attacking her. Ranka had a bit of hard time trying to keep up and fend, while having to wear a traditional kimono and sandals. Nodoka quicken her pace and turned up the intensity, as she came down extra hard with her blade against her daughters. They had been going at it for over an hour or more. Ranka struggled some to keep up with the intensity from her mothers blade into hers, while navigating her footing and movement with the heavy sandals.

Nodoka gasped as her daughter lost hold of her katana, and hers was coming down on her fast, too fast for her to stop her attack now. Then she saw a flash of red light thru her daughters kimono and her katana clashed against something, as Ranka tumbled over from the impact. Nodoka threw her sword down, looking pale in the face, realizing she went too far, as she rushed over to where Ranka was. " Ranka!"

Ranka pulled herself up from where she was on the ground, having put up a defense barrier in the way of the impact. " I'm okay, mom." Nodoka looked on bewildered, as she knew that she had aimed with the intent to kill, and yet, it felt like she hit a shield. Regardless that was enough for awhile. "Let's take a break for awhile."

They went inside to get some drinks and a snack, sitting down at the table. Nodoka pondered something on her mind, she knew Ranka and Ranko's real parents, at least their father was a demon. As she thought deeper and back on how protective Ranka was of her red gem necklace, then how she swore she saw a red glow thru her kimono. That was it! Her eyes widened as she looked at her daughter intently. "Ranka dear, can you use magic?" Ranka blinked dumbfounded at her and started to get all flustered. " Ah um.." Nodoka had her answer, and she couldn't be mad at her daughter, especially since she just almost killed her, and if it wasn't for the magic she had used to block the attack, well she didn't want to think about that. Ranka nibbled at her lip some before responding. " Yeah.. I can." She blushed as her mother had bolted out of her chair and had pulled her up from hers into an embrace. Nodoka wept some before wiping her tears away. " I'm so sorry Ranka, do you forgive me?" Ranka nodded and a relieved Nodoka let go of her hold on her.

Nodoka put a smile on, feeling a bit more relieved. " Well I think I'm going to go take a nice bath. Would you care to join me, Ranka dear?" She said hopefully. Ranka looked flustered but nodded and both her and her mother went upstairs to the bathroom.

Nodoka was tickled pink that at least Ranka didn't mind bathing together, unlike her other daughter Ranko. Though her girls were twins, they were not exactly the same in many other ways. She blamed that fact on how they were both separated from each other and raised very differently. Since Ranka had forgiven her brash actions and also allowed them bonding them, she decided to be a bit more lenient with her punishment. It was then that she tried to remember what her friend Kalu had said about her brother, who Ranka had attacked. She looked over at her daughter. " Ranka.. was there a reason why you attacked Mr. Kuno?"

Ranka looked deep in thought for a few minutes before answering. "Yes, he attacked me first for one.. and the other is he does attack everyone at school, when he's around.."

Nodoka looked perplexed as she took what her daughter had just said and what her friend Kalu had said and that they matched up. She sighed, as she was starting to see there was a lot of mixed feelings between her daughters and the Kuno's. She confirmed that by asking. " Ranka, what happened between you and Kodachi?"

Ranka tensed up some. " When I did bad things, I messed up her room, but she's crazy. She tried to feed me to her gator.." She grumbled looking rather annoyed. Then she remembered. "Um mom, the Kuno's servant Sasuke, he gets treated really badly, and he helped me out from the gator pit, so if he needs help, can he come here?"

Nodoka clasped her hands together, beaming at how thoughtful her daughter was for an unfortunate soul. " Of course he can, I'll figure something out." She smiled to herself quite content, and she knew she definitely had to add on to her house, sooner or later she hoped that she could see her son again and be able to have a place for him as well.

After their bath and chat, after having gotten dressed, they were in the kitchen. Nodoka fussed over the ingredients she was after, for them to make themselves a nice little dinner together. Ranka noted her mother looking displeased, looking thru things. "If there's something missing, I could go to store and get it." Nodoka looked thoughtfully at her daughter. "I suppose you would be able to get to and from, quicker." She decided she would try to trust her with running the small errand. " Alright, but be back before it gets too dark and I expect you back when the street lights come on. Just to the store and back." Ranka nodded in agreement, and her mother gave her the small list and some money for the items, as well as directions to the store, before sending her off.

Meanwhile back at the Tendo's, Ranma was off practicing in the dojo with Akane. Akane as usual grew frustrated with him, as he would only practice with her so much, keeping to his martial artist code, not to harm girls. She balled her fists annoyed. " Come on, just fight me for real!" Ranma ignored her outburst, and went about to training on his own. She huffed in frustration, but then after hearing a bunch of noises, it turned to confusion. Ranma stopped in his tracks as well. They both ran out from the dojo and back inside to the house, to see Soun crying and Genma bowing and scraping on the ground, as Happosai kept taking out his rage on the house. The old man, jumped up and kept poking holes in the paper screen doors. There was also doodles all over them as well. "Apologize!" He fwailed his arms about in anger. Nabiki sat at the table, munching on a rice cracker. " I didn't do anything wrong, you old creeper." Happosai roared in anger. " YOU know exactly what you did! Now be a good girl and just bow your head and apologize."

Soun tried to plead with his stubborn daughter as best as he could, without angering her. " Please Nabiki, do it for your father.." Nabiki let out a long sigh. " No can do daddy, I'm going to go see my friends." She got up and left the room, going upstairs to her room to get ready."

Akane sighed and went over to where Happosai was. " Please grandfather Happosai, won't you stop this?" She tried to plead with him. Kasumi had her hands together in prayer. Happosai took a puff off his pipe. " Sorry my dear, but this is between me and Nabiki, but well I suppose maybe I'd change my mind if you'd wear "this" for me." He pulled a bra out from his clothes, holding it out in front of her. Akane grew flustered and felt herself getting angry. Ranma slapped it out of the old masters hand. " She's not going to do that, you old freak. So stop acting like a brat." Happosai huffed, pulling out a bucket of cold water in a blur, splashing Ranma with the water, turning him into a girl. " Then I guess you'd better wear it for your master!" He leaped up at her chest, holding the bra, only to get slugged down into the floor. Ranma-chan wet and enraged spat back " Dry up and die you old perverted freak!" Akane shook her head as they ran around the house, clashing, back and forth.

Elsewhere, Ranka finished getting the items from the store and started on her way back towards the house. Sensing an incoming item, directed at her, she put her hand up in the air and snatched the plunger arrow, that had a note tied to it. Pulling it off it, and opening up the piece of the paper she read the note, getting an annoyed look on her face, before crumpling it up and throwing it away. She made her way to the meeting place, which was behind the Nekohanten.

Shampoo looked up with a smile, from the chair she was sitting in, next to Sayuri who was tied up and gagged. "Aiya, Shampoo see Ranka got Shampoo's note and come to see Shampoo."

Ranka throughly annoyed, rubbed at the temple of her head. " Come on Shampoo, this is no way to call me out. Now, let the girl go and let's finish this quickly, I'm on punishment." She acted like she didn't know who the girl was, not wanting to attract more danger on Sayuri, if Shampoo wasn't aware of who she was, by name.

Shampoo smirked evilly holding up a shampoo container. "Only if you go on date with Shampoo, or girl get this. You know what, "this" is, yes?" She wanted to test her great grandmothers theory about the girl. Ranka twitched and almost fell over at hearing what the amazon girl had said. Then she had a stern look on her face, recalling from Ranma's memories how Shampoo had pulled this on Akane in the past. "I, unfortunately do.. it's the Hissatsu Shiatsuken attack, that messes with targeted memories of certain people.." Shampoo had a look of awe on her face as she put her hand to her face. " Aiya.." She had just confirmed what she was after and continued her plan. "So you go on date with Shampoo, or she erase girl's memories of Akane."

Ranka rubbed at her head angered. " Fine, whatever, just let her go and let's make this quick."

Shampoo smiled as she un tied Sayuri and removed her gag. Earlier she had used another amazon technique on the girl, the " remote control acupressure." She told the girl to leave and go back home, which Sayuri did as she walked off in a dazed state. Ranka had her arms crossed with a stern look on her face. "Well what the hell do you want Shampoo? I'm busy and I thought you wanted to kill me, now you want to date me? If you want to talk then let's talk, don't bring others into this." She tapped her foot impatiently, still holding the shopping bag. Shampoo scratched at her head, wondering if she had confused things. " Yes we talk, you come with Shampoo." Ranka grumbled as she followed after the purple haired amazon girl, as she took her up to her room, having grabbed some tea before that. Sitting down on the floor at the little table, with the tea's. Ranka took a seat, putting her shopping bag down, beside her.

Shampoo had sparklie eyes " Shampoo want to sleep over." Ranka had her arms crossed. " No." The amazon tried her best to not get angry at the red head girl. " You let spatula girl.." She huffed.

Ranka gave her a blank look. " Yeah well Ukyou didn't try to kill me in my sleep.. so my mom doesn't hate "her." She sighed and took a small sip of the tea, testing it to make sure it was safe. " You think I want to date you after that? Much less talk to you like we're friends? I mean, I told you I was sorry for tricking you when I was being controlled by the devil.. And you lied.." Her red gem lit up brightly, showing she was very angry.

Colonge who had been listening in, let herself in as she interrupted the conversation. ""Pardon my intrusion, and my apologies to you Ranka, for my great grand daughters actions. She's a stubborn one, but she is trying to repent for her mistake." She gave a wink at Shampoo, before hopping off on her staff to the door. " I'll have the blind idiot, bring you girls up some snacks."

Shortly after Mousse had done so, knocking first. Shampoo answered and took the tray of snacks from him, shutting the door behind her. Mousee was about ready to launch in and attack who he thought was Ranma Saotome, but then he noticed she wasn't dressed like him at all and had her hair loose. So that couldn't be him, but she did look exactly like his girl side, he thought to himself as he went back downstairs and back to work.

Shampoo decided to keep advancing with her plan, to see how similar to Ranma his twin sister was. Ranka was getting more and more annoyed, as she stood up. " Okay I've had enough of this, I'm leaving." She then noticed that Shampoo had swiped her shopping bag.

Shampoo held out the bottle of soy sauce and shook it around tauntingly, before putting it down her shirt, in between her boobs as she smirked. "You want?" She watched as the red head girl got flustered and annoyed. She remembered she had pulled the same thing in the past on Ranma. Ranka gave her a flustered glare, before she swiped the bottle right out from them. Shampoo giggled and stuck a different bottle back in between them. "Aiya, so you do know everything Ranma does."

Ranka grumbled and threw her head back ughing. " I don't have time for this.." Shampoo smirked. " Then you tell Shampoo if Ranma like me, and I give it back." She blushed. Ranka tried to make a grab for it again. " You scare him." She nabbed the bottle back from her, almost face faulting as the amazon, stuck the small salt container down under her shirt, giggling.

Ranka ruffled up her hair frustrated. " Come on, I told you what you wanted to know, now hand it over!" Has her hand out, demanding she bring it out. Shampoo taunting her some more. " Come get." Ranka growled at her and stuck her hand down her shirt, yanking out the container of salt. Shampoo held up the shopping bag. " Have tea and then you can go." Ranka grumbled sitting back down and sipping her tea. Shampoo then disappeared and reappeared sitting next to her, and pressing up her chest into the red heads arm, that she was holding with her hand. She studied the look on the girls face, clearly seeing that she was bothering her, just like she got Ranma all bothered. This amused her. Ranka finished drinking her tea, pulling Shampoo off her and snatching her shopping bag back from her. " I'm going now, okay!" Her face was flustered as she took off.

Shampoo giggled as she got up and went off to see her great grandmother, off in the kitchen. "Great grandmother, you was right about Ranka." Cologne multitasked while they chatted. " I see, so it's just as I thought." Shampoo helped her great grandmother out with her tasks. " Is true she know's everything Ranma does." She kept gushing over that fact. Cologne smirked smugly at her.

Ranka having made it back, just in the nick of time, skidded to a halt at the front door, as she got inside just as the street lights went on. She was cursing Shampoo for what she put her through, but pushed back her anger as she greeted her mother. Nodoka was very impressed that her daughter had gotten back with a few seconds left. Taking the shopping bag from her, they both went into the kitchen to start prepping to prepare dinner together.

Back at the Tendo's, Ranma was snacking on a rice cracker, sitting at the table. Kasumi was busy in the kitchen, preparing dinner and Akane was attempting to help with small things. Soun was happy crying, since Ranma had after a bit of clashing, and turning back into a guy, had beat up the master and stopped him from destroying his house any further. Genma sat down at the table, grabbing the bowl with the rice crackers, pulling it over to him on the opposite side of where Ranma was sitting. Ranma gave him a look. Genma shoved a bunch in his mouth. " Ranma! Listen to me and listen to me good boy, you should stay away from that evil girl."

Ranma rubbed at his ear uninterested in his fathers rambling and ignored him. Genma kept going. She's corrupting you boy, just like the other one did."

Ranma gave him a tired, annoyed look. " You're just mad because she put you in your place. right Mr. Panda?" He said with an smirk.

Genma growled in anger at his son, then pointed his finger at you. " You watch boy, she'll do you in, like she did me!"

Ranma rolled his eyes in response at his father's pathetic attempt to try to sway him. He completely blocked him out after that, and he wondered how his sister was doing with his mother. They were both still figuring out how far they could go with linking. So far they couldn't be too faraway from each other, to use it. They were far enough away that it didn't seem to work.

Ranma looked up and over to the porch as he heard a pig bweeting, as P-chan who looked tired was dragging some kind of box behind him. His eyes met the pigs. " Hey Mr. P." Akane came flying out from the kitchen, as she heard pig sounds and very happy at spotting the little black piglet. " Ah, P-chan, where on earth have you been?" She picked him up into her arms, giving him a snuggle. Then she noticed the box attached to him, releasing it from around him. "What's this? Another gift you randomly bring home?" She giggled as she hugged him tightly. Ranma had his hand to his face, trying not to get too angry, watching the sickening display.

Genma was still ranting about Ranka, trying to sway his son, to side with him. P-chan's eyes glared as he spotted Genma, remembering what Ranka had told him about him. He snorted in anger, leaping out from Akane's grasp and landing on Genma's face. Bweeting furiously, he attacked his face with his hoofs in a fast fury. Genma yelled and fell backwards, fighting to pull the angry pig off his face. Ranma held his sides as he fell over laughing. Akane ran over and yanked P-chan off his face. " I'm sorry Mr Saotome, I don't know what's gotten in to him." She held the pig tightly in her arms, to make sure he couldn't get away. Genma grumbled as he pulled himself up and went off to the bathroom.

Shortly dinner was ready and served and everyone was sitting at the table. After they were all done, they all sat around, watching some tv together. Not long after that, everyone went off to their rooms, mainly. Genma and Soun were playing another game of shougi.

Ranma was relaxing in his and his fathers room, reading a manga. He looked around the room sighing, he was finding himself, missing his twin. He rubbed at his head and decided to try to see if he could link with her. After a few seconds he found he was getting no where and went back to focusing on the manga he was reading.

At Nodoka's house, after their lovely meal they had sat together on the couch, watching some tv together. After awhile Nodoka turned off the tv and took Ranka's hands into hers. "Ranka dear, you've been doing amazing with your katana training, in such a short amount of time, you make your mother so very proud. I wish I could teach your sister Ranko too, but it's too much for her. I need at least one of my daughters to carry on the art of the katana." Ranka looked flustered but nodded in understanding. Nodoka still held her hand and smiled gently at her. " It's time for the next step." Then she let go of her hand and looked a little concerned. " If it's too hard on you, do let me know. It's up to you if you want to or not, it would be inconsiderate of me."

Ranka blinked not understanding what her mother was going on about. "I'm sorry I don't get what you're saying?"

Nodoka held her hand again. " I know your father's a demon, and I am trained to hunt and kill them. I'm trying to teach you the art, and take you along with me on a hunt. So I'm asking if you're okay with doing so."

Ranka's eyes widened at what was said, and she gave it some thought. Her inner self was egging her on. "Oh wouldn't "he" just love this." She was inwardly smirking in agreement, but just smiled some on the outside. " I don't have a problem with that at all, mom." She was also excited, as she had been worrying about the fact that Satan wanted her back and needed a back up plan, if she should loose her gem. As she had no idea how to find more demons, but now her mother had just given her access to that. Nodoka smiled lovingly at her daughter as she embraced her. " Alright then, let's get going then."

They left the house with their katana's, moving around swiftly through out the neighborhood. Nodoka slowed her pace as they got to the park, she could feel the evil presence near as she un sheathed her katana. She motion for Ranka to follow her lead as they advanced about the demon lurking about. Nodoka moved about swiftly, almost like a dance, swinging her weapon about gracefully as she skewered the demon. She retrieved her blade from it's body as it staggered backwards. She smiled sweetly at her daughter. " Go on Ranka dear, finish him off." Ranka smirked as she followed the motions her mother had made before and did so. Before they had left, knowing they were going to kill demons, she had brought a jar, which she now used, as she collected most of the fallen demons blood. Her mother was too busy, cleaning her blade off to notice. Ranka finished her task quickly, going back over to her mother. Nodoka beamed proudly at how well her daughter executed her directives so quickly. " Excellent job, Ranka. Alright, let's keep looking a little longer." Ranka nodded and followed after her mother.

Morning came as Ranka woke up to smell of food being cooked. She got up and went off to the bathroom, before coming back, with a needle. She went over to where she had stashed her two jars of two different demon's blood, opening them both up and taking some of the ones in her hand. She rubbed her hands back and forth as the blood hardened up a bit. Taking some of the other demon 's blood from the other jar she did the same, then she jabbed her arm with the needle, so she was bleeding. She let a a good amount of drops happen, before rubbing her hands back and forth over it, till it hardened some like the others. Then she took the two demon blood balls of blood and smushed them into her hand with her own blood ball, rubbing her hands back and forth till there was a bright glow as the new gem formed. She smiled at her success, before putting away her jars and the new gem. Touching her hand to her current gem necklace, as it lit up brightly, surrounding her in a soft red glow as she healed what she had done her arm. Then she got up, getting dressed for the day.

After lunch, Nodoka locked up the house after her and Ranka had left to head out towards the Tendo Dojo. She was excited to go and see her other daughter Ranko, but the excitement was also at the possibility of seeing her son. She still missed him, but both the girls made it easier on her. As they got closer to the Tendo's, Ranka was able to link and let Ranma know they were coming. She sighed as they got closer, with her eyes shut, and the events that went on playing thru out her mind. She then curled her lip at knowing she'd also have to see that despicable man, that called himself a father to her twin. She then smirked inwardly, knowing he'd be getting his today, as he'd take the cowardly way out and be Mr. Panda. Part of her really just wanted to bolt and run off, but she knew better than to even try it, her mother would never allow it.

Ranma having been warned by his sister, had made sure he was in girl form, after that and kept the fact that his mother was coming, quiet to himself. So, when Nodoka entered thru the front door with Ranka, much to Genma's dismay, he bolted up super fast and threw himself off the porch and into the pond, changing into his panda form. Kasumi excitedly greeted the both of them, as did Akane and Soun. Nodoka looked over to the koi pond outside, seeing Mr Panda sitting in it. She excitedly put her hand to her face and giggled at him. " Oh my Mr Panda, you sure do love water, don't you?"

Genma in panda form laughed nervously. Ranka gave the panda a cold glare, and he glared back at her. She then turned her gaze to Nodoka. " Hey mom, I think Mr. Panda is hungry." Ranma-chan smirked at her dad. " Yeah mom, you should've heard his tummy growling." Yep she was glad to see her sister again.

Nodoka smiled at Ranko. " Did you have a nice visit with everyone, Ranko dear?"

Ranma-chan nodded. Nodoka smiled back. " I'm glad to hear it. Well I suppose I could make him some thing." She asked Kasumi and Soun if that would be alright, first before she went off into the kitchen to do so. " Oh Akane dear, would you like to help me?" Akane beamed as she got up and went off into the kitchen. " Of course Mrs. Saotome." Not soon after there were flames and you could hear the harsh cooking going on in there.

Genma in his panda form gulped and was sweating, deciding to try to make a run for it. Ranma-chan sensing his intent, grabbed him by the back of of his fur, so he couldn't leave. " You're not going anywhere."

Nodoka and Akane came out from the kitchen. Nodoka set the large wok of super burnt food scraps down on the porch with a smile. " There you go Mr. Panda, Akane helped make it extra burnt just for you. Please enjoy."

Ranka chirped in. " Yeah, enjoy it, Mr Panda." Said with a super cute look on her face. Mr Panda made upset noises and a long hard sigh as she bent down and started eating the disgusting food. He stopped a few times making gagging nosies.

Everyone else was sitting at the table, talking amongst themselves. Akane was for once excited to see Ranka, hoping that she would be a better sparing partner than Ranma. She asked if her and the twins could go spar. Nodoka at first disapproved, but Akane's puppy dog eyes, got her to falter and allow it. Ranma-chan went off upstairs to go pack up her bag, leaving them alone.

Akane pleaded with Ranka to spar with her. " No holding back, okay?"

Ranka gave her a look and rolled her eyes. " Don't worry I won't."

Akane gave her a worried look. " Okay but also don't kill me." Ranka found herself laughing for a second. "Would you make up your mind, hmm Akane? I won't do that. So, which is it, hold back or don't?" She then peeled off her long sleeved top, so she was just wearing a tank top, with her skirt.

Akane gave her a stern look. " Don't hold back, I want a really good match." She got into a fighting stance, as did Ranka. Akane launched herself at Ranka, and was happy when she fought back at her.

After awhile, of intense sparring back and forth, Akane was sweating and throughly enjoying herself. Ranka hadn't even broken a sweat yet, but could tell that Akane was done. Of course the tomboy protested otherwise and tried to launch a clumsy attack at her, which she side stepped and then swiped her foot under Akane's, knocking her off her feet to the ground gently. Then she stretched her arms. " I think you've had enough for now." Akane grumbled from the ground, sitting up annoyed. She didn't want to admit it, as she was having too fun, going "full out" with a person. She usually had to spar with a dummy or other items. Yes, Ranma would spar with her but you could hardly call it that. Ranka grabbed a towel and tossed it over Akane's head, to further her point. Akane found herself getting flustered, Ranma's twin was very much like him, in how dealt with her, but also very different. She actually said things a loud, that were on her mind. It was like the first time she had met Ranma in his girl form, except that she carried through and sparred the whole way thru and earnestly and she hadn't insulted her. Now that she thought about, Ranka had never insulted her figure or boosted about how her body was better.

Akane pulled the towel off her head and used it to wipe away her sweat. Then she noticed Ranka take her tank top off and give a whip in the air, standing there in just a bra. Akane blushed " Ranka, you can't do that.."

Ranka gave her an annoyed look. " Why not? We're all girls here and I was just airing out." She pulled her tank top back on.

Akane shook her head at the red head, thinking to herself, yep she was definitely like Ranma in the way of not being aware about modesty. Though she did at least have a bra on. "Didn't your mother ever teach you about that?" She then realized what she had blurted out and felt bad some about it.

Ranka pulled her long sleeved shirt back on " Oh yeah my fake mom, nope of course not." She then thought about her new mother. " Oh yeah Mrs. Saotome, if she caught me then yeah.. she would.."

Akane looked guilty as she hung her head. " I didn't mean to say that.." She then found herself curious as she sat down on the porch with Ranka. "Do you have any childhood memories?"

Ranka hmmed. " Fake ones, and their foggy." She left out that after her original gem, with Satan's hold on her was destroyed, that most of her fake altered memories were as well. Not that, that was any kind of loss, fake memories with a fake family.

Akane found herself feeling more guilty, about having blurted out something like that, with out thinking and for judging the girl. I'm sorry I said you were evil, before.."

Ranka waved her hand about. " Don't be, I am." She said somewhat sarcastically. Akane wasn't sure if she was being serious or not. " Don't say that. I just had a hard time, I thought you were Ranma's evil girl side and.." Ranka cuts her off there. "The one that Happosai invoked, that was more like a vampire. It's true though, I was created by the evil of all evils."

Akane gives her a stern look. "Maybe but you would've let my friend die, if you were as evil as you say you are, but you didn't." Ranka decides to drop to conversation, as it's not going anywhere and Akane's taking her too seriously. Getting up she leaves the dojo area, giving her a shrug in reply.

Ranma-chan comes back in having finished what she was doing, looking around the dojo and only seeing Akane. " What' d I miss?" Akane huffed annoyed at her fiancee. " Everything." She rubbed at her arm looking kind of concerned. "Ranka was going on about how she's evil, even though I told her she's not." Ranma-chan gave her a weird look. " She was probably just messing with you." Akane found herself starting to get mad. " And what does THAT mean?!" Ranma-chan put her hands up in defense, looking around. " Oh, I think I heard my mom calling for me." She then made a hasty retreat out from the dojo area.

Nodoka looked up as she saw Ranko come into the room. " Ranko dear, are you all packed up and ready to go then?" Ranma-chan nodded. Kasumi fussed about how they should all stay for dinner. Soun nodded his head in agreement. Nodoka couldn't say no. "Alright, but please let us help with it." Kasumi smiled brightly and nodded her head in agreement. Akane came back in from the dojo, and at hearing about helping with dinner, beamed brightly. " I'll help too!" Ranma-chan almost face faulted into the ground, at hearing that. Ranka went off into the kitchen to help, and do damage control.

After prepping, Nodoka went about to chopping up some ingredients. Kasumi was prepping things on the stove. Akane started to get really excited, and more so as with Ranka there, it felt like Ranma was there cooking with her. She went to grab the cooking spices and oils that Kasumi was asking for. Ranka grabbed her hand gently and shook her head at the wrong oil that she was about to use, before handing her the right one. Akane got all flustered, and went on to flavor one of the pots of food, and felt her hand get grabbed again and Ranka giving her a " seriously" look, before handing her the right thing again. "Also, make sure you taste what you're putting in." Kasumi nodded in agreement.

Soun felt calm, at not hearing the intense cooking battle cries, of his youngest daughter, perhaps she really was cured. Ranma-chan felt a little bad that she wasn't helping out, but it was way too risky and her mother hadn't asked her to either. Genma in panda form was sitting at the table, looking pensive, knowing that Akane was in the kitchen.

Not much later, the girls came out from the kitchen, laying out the dishes out on the table. Ranma-chan helped by setting the table with dishes and silverware, so that was taken care of before the food came out. Nodoka after setting down one of the side dishes, and at spotting Mr. Panda sitting at the table, grabbed him by his fur and pulled him off to the outside porch. " I'm sorry Mr. Panda, but no animals allowed at the table." Ranma-chan and Ranka were both snickering. Nodoka patted the panda on his head. " Are you still hungry, Mr Panda? I could make you another helping." Genma panda sweated and started playing with a tire, he pulled out from nowhere.

After dinner and helping clean up, Nodoka and her girls said their good byes as they took their leave, and made their way back home. Getting back home, as it was already starting to get late, Nodoka sent the girls to bed, and retired to bed herself.

Ranma-chan finally having some alone time with her sister, wanted to hear how things had went with her. " So, how were things, while I was at the Tendo's?

Ranka was laying down on her futon in her pajama's. " Busy, mom trained me really hard." She decided to turn the conversation around, not wanting to talk about things further. "How was your time at the Tendo's?" Ranma-chan rubbed at the back of her head. " Not bad aside from pops being a jerk." Ranka rolled her eyes. " When is he not?" This caused Ranma to snort, to try to keep from laughing. She then decided to address Akane's concerns. "So Akane and you were talking earlier, huh. She was saying, how you were saying you're evil." Ranka rolled over on her side, before cozying under blankets partially. " It's called being blunt." Ranma decided to drop it, going with what she had thought earlier, that Ranka was just messing with Akane. That and she could tell the colder side of her sister was there, and didn't want to incite that side of her further. "Yeah it was nice, mainly at the Tendo's, but I missed you and mom too." Ranka tensed up some. " You were missed too."

Ranma-chan could still tell that something was off with Ranka, but getting her to tell her was a different matter, especially when she was being on the colder side. It made her wonder how hard her mother had come down on her. She wanted her to tell her, instead of having to link and look for herself. Pondering to herself, and just throwing things out there. "So, Shampoo didn't bust in here again, while I was gone,did she?"

Ranka stayed really quiet,tensing up and still had her back to her sister, as she was flustered, having Shampoo brought up so suddenly. Ranma could tell she hit a nerve, with how her sister was acting and decided to keep going. "She did, didn't she? She started with you again, huh."

Ranka ughs at the interrogation and rubs at the temple of her head, more flustered eering, embarrassed. "No.. she didn't.." Ranma-chan was started to get annoyed. "She obviously did though, so spit it out or I'll look." She has a stern look on her face. Ranka tensed up more and grumbled, putting her face into her pillow, not wanting to argue and feeling more embarrassed as she knew, her sister would get her way, but still tried to talk her out of it. " You don't want to do that.." She mumbled. Ranma-chan's looking mad now. " Well I'm gonna!" She did as she linked with her sister's mind and saw the events with Shampoo that had un folded. After seeing what she saw, she was really flustered herself, and decided to lay off her sister and how she really should've have listened.

Nodoka finished up in the kitchen and was just setting things out on the table, as she spotted Ranko come downstairs. She smiled at her. " Good morning Ranko dear, you're just in time for breakfast." Ranma-chan greeted her mom back, before she was setting up her plate and eating. Nodoka took notice that Ranka hadn't come down yet and went upstairs to check on her.

After eating, Ranma-chan who was more awake, noticed her mom come down the stairs, looking a bit worried. Nodoka caught on to the fact that Ranko was looking confused. "I'm sorry dear, but your sister doesn't seem to be feeling too well today, so she's going to stay home from school today." She took a look at the time, and started ushering Ranko out the door, before she could try to protest. " Now run a long dear, or you'll be late." After sending her off, she went back inside, taking a seat on the couch. She sighed, as she was upset with herself, having gone too far with Ranka. She was being understanding of the fact that she wasn't feeling well and also feeling guilty the reason could've been how she nearly cut down her own daughter. So she would allow her to rest for today.

Upstairs, under the covers of her futon, Ranka sighed deeply. She really wasn't feeling the greatest, her gut was telling her something bad was coming. Like when she had her premonition about Ivory, suddenly being at Furikan and then sure enough, it had become reality. She wasn't able to concentrate on all the crazy ness at school, or all the people, right now she had to focus on more important things. The way she was feeling, and knowing the devil was intent on getting her back, in his grasp, she had to be ready for what could happen and there was no telling when it would happen. The most important thing was planning ahead, in case she was found out, by "him", that her gem was her own.

It didn't bother her directly, how if her current gem was destroyed it could possibly make her disappear. She wasn't sure if that was true or not, but while she knew it wouldn't hurt her, it would hurt her new family. So she went to making up two new gems, as she could hear her mother was busy downstairs, for the moment.

Meanwhile Ranma came out from Doctor Tofu's clinic, as a guy and made his way to school, alone. He was worried about his sister, that was on the back of his mind, as she seemed to be be ignoring him, when he tried to link to with her after finding out she wasn't feeling well, or going to school. It couldn't all just be about Shampoo. He lost track of his thoughts as he got nearer to the gates of the school. God he hoped he'd be able to get thru, without having to deal with Kuno.

Thrista happened to be on her way to school, and then she spotted Ranka's brother, Ranma, but she wasn't with him today. Though being part demon and hearing things, she had a feeling as to why she wasn't there. She strode up to the handsome boy wearing chinese style outfit. " Hey, you're Ranka's brother, Ranma aren't you? I'm Thrista Starling, I just transferred here, I was at the same school as your sister's." She smiled cheerfully.

Ranma sweatdropped at seeing Thrista, knowing full well who she was, feeling nervous if she knew who he was. He wasn't even sure if the girl and his sister were friends or not. " Ah yeah, that's me. You don't say." Thrista shuffled her feet about shyly. " So is Ranka, not feeling good today? That is what it would seem like, since she's not here." She said still smiling. Ranma was about to answer, but then he heard Kuno's voice, making him cringe.

Kuno pointed his wooden sword at him. " Ranma Saotome, what have you done with my two goddess's? Was it not enough that you had the lovely Ranko, but you now dare to take away the beautiful Ranka as well. I will not stand for this! I won't, I wont!" He bellowed. Ranma groaned at Kuno, having his baby tantrum. Thrista put her hands on her hips and gave Kuno direct eye contact. "Or maybe she''s just home sick." This caused Kuno to ponder what the pink and blue haired girl had just said.

Thrista then kept talking to Ranma, so they walked inside. Then she cut herself off and went off to her desk, after entering the classroom.

All eyes were on Ranma as she entered the classroom, and went off to his own desk. His two friends were fussing already, about where his sister was. Ukyou was also looking perplexed, as was Akane. Thrista cleared her throat. " I heard she's not feeling well and stayed home from school today." Sayuri looked the most upset, at not seeing her.

Back at Nodoka's, she had checked on Ranka and got her to agree to eat something, but she also had to go out to the store to get all the ingredients she needed for the soup. She had told her daughter she would be going out for a bit, to get things she needed. As she hurried along to the store, trying to make it quick, not wanting to leave her alone too long.

After hearing her mother leave the house, she pushed thru how she was feeling to get herself up and go take a warm soak in the tub. She went back to the room, while she waited for the tub to fill up. After a few minutes she came back in, seeing the tub was now full, she undressed and stepped in. Laying back, feeling a bit more relaxed. That is.. until Shampoo burst up and out from the water giggling and glomping onto her. Ranka's face turned red and she yelped from being startled by the amazon's sudden intrusion. Looking around, wondering how the hell did she get in here and why? Then she spotted the window, slightly open. She gave the amazon girl a frazzled look. " Shampoo, what the hell are you doing here?! And why, in here?! My mom comes back and finds you, she will kill YOU.." She gave a frustrated look to Shampoo. " More importantly.. WHY are you suddenly all over me?! Don't you like my brother anymore?"

Shampoo giggled, enjoying Ranka's reaction. "Shampoo figure it out, you also Ranma. Having two Ranma's is not bad thing. Still love Ranma."

Ranka manages to pull her off her, looking angry while also blushing. " Why are you bothering me, then?!" Shampoo presses herself up against Ranka giggling some more. " Shampoo take what she can get, when she can get."

Ranka slaps her hand to her face. " Oh my god..' Shampoo chuckles and presses up more, making Ranka yelp. "You like." She says smirking, being able to tell. Ranka bright red in the face but also angry as well. " No, I don't like!" Shampoo kept playing around, pressing Ranka further, waiting for her to lash out. " You think Shampoo ugly?" Makes a sad face, making Ranka tense up and blush more.

Ranka looked away some, flustered. " No.." Shampoo smirked knowing that she knew Ranma, thought she was beautiful and hard to resist, seeing that his sister thought the same. Ranka groaned as she rubbed more at her head. " I thought you hated girls, especially Ranma's girl side." Managing to move a bit further away from the purple haired amazon girl, to distance herself from her. Shampoo moved right back where she was, in the blink of an eye. "That in the past, Shampoo take any Ranma." Ranka grumbled to herself, still bright red in the face, before facing Shampoo thru her embarrassment. " I don't care, you need to leave, right now, or else.." She said as she was pointing at the window. She tensed up as she heard the front door open downstairs.

Nodoka shut the door behind her, as she set her shopping bag down in the kitchen. Then she went over to the stairs and yelled up " Ranka dear, I'm back from the store."

Ranka put her hands to her head, looking very frazzled as she motioned for Shampoo to scat. At hearing her mother come up the stairs, she turned the shower head on and pulled it off it's holder, spraying Shampoo with it, activating her curse, as she turned into her cat form. Nodoka opened up the bathroom door at having heard water and not getting a reply back. "Ranka dear, are you alright?" Ranka had bolted out from the tub, wrapping a towel around herself and meeting her mom at the door. " Yeah I'm okay, I'm sorry I didn't hear you, mom." Nodoka nodded her head in understanding as she shut the door. "I'll have some some nice soup ready for you in a bit, alright dear." She smiled as she went back downstairs to start kitchen prep.

Ranka let out a long deep breath, before getting dressed, and pulling out a thermos from a cabinet, filling it up with some hot water before capping it off. She also grabbed a bag, stuffing the thermos and Shampoo's clothes in it. Then she grabbed up Shampoo kitty by scruff of her neck gently, making her way into the room. The window was already open, so she slipped out thru it, onto the roof and hopping off into the air on top of a few rooftops in a blur, before finally stopping. Setting Shampoo kitty down, and taking out the thermos, uncapping it and dumping the contents on top of the cat, turning her back into her human form. Then she took her clothes out, tossing them at her. She had a very stern look on her face,although she was still flustered. " I told you to leave… Come back again and you will likely be killed.." With that being said, she grabbed up the bag and went leaping up into the air, jumping in a fast blur, from rooftop to rooftop until she was back on hers. She pulled herself back thru the window, back into the room, tossing the bag down on the floor, with a very irked look.

After school was over for the day, Ranma said his goodbye's more hastily than normal, as he was in a hurry to get back home. Not that far off from the school, who should appear out of no where and glomp onto him, none other than Shampoo. Shampoo giggled as she hung off him. " Airen!" Ranma groaned while also blushing some as she tried to pull her off him. "Cmon Shampoo, I'm in a rush." He noted she seemed extra happy, making him wonder what had her so giddy. Shampoo gave him puppy dog eyes. " You tell Shampoo to go away, then?" She hugged up on him again. Ranma got more flustered. "Well um.." Shampoo kept clinging. " You go on date with Shampoo then, yes?" Ranma managed to un tangle himself from her grip. " I told you I'm in a rush today, Shampoo." He said in a some what stern tone. Shampoo chuckled at him, before taking her leave.

Ranma stood there in awe, blinking at the fact that she had. Rubbing at his head in confusion, he found himself wondering. He thought about it for a minute, before he started walking off towards Doctor Tofu's clinic, to go change back into his girl form as Ranko, to go back to his mothers.

Shampoo made her way back to the Nekohanten, humming all happily to herself, as she went off to the back of the kitchen. " Great grandmother, I home!" She announced cheerfully. Colonge was multi tasking as usual as she smiled back at her great grand daughter. " Welcome back Shampoo, why are you so happy today hmm" Shampoo started to help out in the kitchen while they chatted. "Shampoo understand now about other Ranma." Colonge smiled back at her. "Is that why you're in such a good mood? What mischief were you up to hmm?" Shampoo blushed putting her hands to her face. "Went to see other Ranma." Colonge corrected her. " Ranka, you mean." Shampoo nodded in agreement. "She much rougher than Ranma." Colonge threw her head back and laughed. "Well, it sounds like you don't hate her anymore, now do you?" She could tell the answer from how Shampoo was acting. "This will work in your favor."

Nodoka looked up as she was finishing up making a snack up in the kitchen, as she heard her other daughter Ranko come in thru the front door. " Welcome home Ranko dear, I hope you weren't too lonely at school today, without your sister." Ranma-chan rubbed at her head nervously, as she looked around not seeing her sister downstairs. " How is she doing?" Nodoka finished up as she washed her hands. "A lot better, I think she just needed a day to rest. Would you be a dear and wake her up and let her know, I've made a snack." Ranma-chan nodded as she went off upstairs, first she went off and got changed, before going back into the room. She thought for a minute on how to go about waking Ranka up, then decided to give her a little pay back, for how she had woken her up before. Picking up a pillow, she smacked it down on Ranka's face. " Mom says wake up and come down for a snack."

Ranka woke up with a yelp, pulling the pillow off her face, looking grumpily at Ranma. " Haha, very funny." Ranma-chan shrugged her shoulders. " I just paid you back, for doing it to me."

Ranka sat up looking very annoyed with her sibling. " Right well, you know I didn't have Shampoo sleeping in the same bed as me. Or should I have left you two alone and NOT have woken you up?"

Ranma-chan put her hands up in defense getting flustered. " Alright already, I get it.. Jeez, why are you so grumpy? Does that mean you're feeling better then? Everyone was bugging out because you weren't in school today."

Ranka was busy brushing out her hair as she listened. "I guess so.." She stayed quiet about the rest, as she got up and went downstairs, not wanting to keep her mother waiting.

After they had their snack, Nodoka fussed about getting homework done if there was any, sending the girls upstairs to do so. They both finished up about the same time. Ranma-chan could tell by Ranka's silence and her chi aura was off in some way, that there was a lot more going on. Thinking about the other day she recalled how she had linked with her sister and seen how Shampoo had suddenly changed her tune about not liking her. The light bulb went off as she realized, that Ranka started acting off around then, and would try to address it. "Are you still upset about Shampoo?"

Ranka's eyes went wide and her face flushed as she tensed up. "I don't want to talk about Shampoo, okay.."

Ranma-chan had hit the nail on the head, what she was thinking was correct. Then she thought further and tried to push a bit more. "Hey it's not like she was bothering you, you had the day off. Me on the other hand, she ambushed me after school, she was super happy too, I still can't figure out why."

Ranka's face turned bright red. " I told YOU, I don't wanna talk about her!" She said in a flustered and annoyed response.

Ranma-chan blinked a few times, as she started to realize. " Oh no, did she, come here again?"

Ranka put her head down on the table all flustered as she grumbled. Ranma-chan rubbed at the back of her head un sure of what to say exactly, but still tried in an effort to cheer her sister up. " Hey, at least she's not trying to kill you anymore, right?"

Ranka sat up flustered and annoyed. " Oh yes she is! Just.. in a different way.." Ranma-chan found herself realizing more, about what Shampoo had said to her, as she added it up. " Did you, tell her to go away? She was bugging me to tell her that." Ranka sighed annoyed. " Yeah I told her off." Ranma-chan kept rubbing at the back of her head confused. " She looked really happy, for being told off.." Ranka shot back, red in the face. " That's because she's a pervert!" She got up from the where she was sitting, putting her school stuff away. " I don't want to talk about Shampoo anymore, today, okay." She said as she left the room, looking very annoyed.

The rest of the evening, Ranka stuck with her mother, helping her out in the kitchen. Nodoka was impressed as usual with both the twins, culinary skills. While they prepared dinner together she chatted with her daughter. " Now Ranka dear, I hope you haven't forgotten about how badly you acted at the Kuno's." Ranka hung her head some. " I haven't.." Nodoka smiled some. " So you should do the right thing and apologize to Tatewaki for what you did to his father." Ranka faked a smile, while she worked. "Okay I'll be sure to do that." Nodoka shook her her head some. " An apology of words isn't enough, you should do the womanly thing and bake him a nice cake." Ranka made a grossed out face really quick, making sure to hide it from her mom. "I think an apology would be just as good." Nodoka gave her a stern look. " Ranka, it'll mean more if you bake him something nice. So, I want you to start on baking your apology cake for him, alright." She patted her on the head. Ranka ughed in disgust at having to make that annoying, idiot, a cake, but knew better than to argue with her mother.

In the living room, Ranma was watching tv as she heard the conversation between her mom and sister and grimaced at the fact. Though as usual she was glad it wasn't her in her sister's shoes, but she also was not happy she was being forced into having to make something nice, for Kuno. Right now, her mom was trying to set her sister up with Kuno, it seemed. She was keeping to herself, as Ranka was keeping away, and she could tell her twin was still very grumpy. Honestly she had to blame Shampoo for that reason, even though Ranka wouldn't tell her the full story, she got the jeest of it.

Back in the kitchen, while she worked on making the stupid cake, Ranka was tempted to mess it up. She tried to be sly as she grabbed a really hot spice to slip into the batter. Nodoka caught on to the fact, grabbing Ranka by her hand with the hot spice in it. " Ranka!" She took it away from her, giving her a disapproving look. "We do not poison our baked goods, that are apology offerings.." Ranka grumbled but then put on a super cute looking face. " I'm sorry mother, I thought he'd like it, since he likes spicy stuff." Nodoka shook her head. " Regardless, that doesn't belong in the recipe. I don't want to see another mishap like that, alright." She gave her daughter a stern look. Ranka faked another smile and nodded, going back to making the batter.

Nodoka meanwhile, called in Ranko to help set up the table. "Ranko dear, you can make a cake if you'd like to too." Ranma-chan made a face, before covering it with a smile. " That's okay, I'm good." She finished up setting the table. Nodoka didn't press her further, as Ranko hadn't caused the trouble at the Kuno mansion. She went and checked up on Ranka and that she was making the cake correctly, as she wanted it to make a good impression on the boy. After getting the batter off into the oven, Ranka helped her mother set the food out on the table.

After she was done eating her dinner, she went back to working on the stupid " apology cake." Also working on helping her mother with the dishes. Nodoka kept checking on how she was doing. She taste tested the frosting, to make sure she hadn't put anything she shouldn't have in it. Once she started frosting the cake, Nodoka guided her, disapproving of how sloppy she was doing it. "You should make it prettier, so it has more meaning, because "this" dear, does not look like you are being sincere." Ranka was starting to get very annoyed with her mother. " It's a cake, isn't that what's most important?" Nodoka shook her head and started suggesting a bunch of things, ranging from using different colors and decorations. Ranka grumbled annoyed, holding back on wanting to slam her fist down on the stupid cake.

Ranma-chan could feel the angry aura from her sister and decided to try to help out, getting up and going off into the kitchen. "Looks like a nice cake to me." Nodoka decided to drop it, since Ranko sided with her sister, it was two against one. She was defeated. She sighed. " It's not bad for your first one, but next time you really need to try harder, alright Ranka." She quickly caught Ranko, trying to grab a chunk from it. " Ranko! You just had dessert, this cake is an apology offering for someone else." Ranma-chan rubbed at the back of her head at being caught, trying to mess it up. " But it looks and smells so good." Nodoka sighed and shook her head at her. "Alright then, I'll make a cake up, so you can have some after school tomorrow, alright." Ranma-chan sweat dropped and smiled. " Yay!"

Ranka excused herself and went off to bed early. Ranma-chan could tell she was in a very bad mood, though she couldn't really blame her. If she was in Ranka's shoes, she'd probably be in the same bad mood. Especially having been forced into making an apology cake for Kuno. She grimaced just thinking about it. She sat and watched some tv with her mother for awhile, before they both turned in for the night.

The alarm went off, waking both of them up. Ranka sat up yawning and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, as she got up and went and got her clothes for the day, going off to go get changed and ready. After coming back, to get the rest of her things, before going downstairs. She was at least glad that her old school uniform was all cleaned up and her mom allowed her to choose which uniform again, with the compromise of wearing proper shoes with it. Ranma-chan came downstairs not much later, and they had their breakfast and were sent off on their way.

Nodoka grabbed Ranka by her shoulder. " Ranka dear, let's not forget the apology cake." She put the package with the cake in her hands. Ranka forced a small smile. " Ahaha silly me, how could I forget that.." Then she followed after her sister, who was a bit further ahead.

After going to doctor Tofu's clinic and making the daily switch a roo, turning back into a guy to go to school normally as himself, they made their way off to school. To Ranka's dismay, Kuno was ready to greet them. She did what her mother had asked and offered up the cake with her apology, begrudgingly. She was going to give him the cake peacefully, till he started talking crap about her brother and going on about idiotic things as usual. She glowered as she took the cake and plowed it into his face, to shut him up. Ranma couldn't help but laugh. She had used a lot of force, so much so that plowing the cake into his face, knocked Kuno clean out. Students chattered amongst themselves, at how she had "murdered" Kuno again. Some guys were wishing they could get the same treatment. Ranka rolled her eyes and walked off ahead, as Ranma was busy talking with Akane. Thrista caught up to her. " So, do you think maybe today you could hang out?" Ranka gave her a cold look. " I'm much too busy."

Nabiki looked down at the ground at a knocked out Kuno, with cake smashed into his face. " Oh Kuno baby, it looks like you're really enjoying yourself." She walked by him as she went off inside the building chuckling to herself.

Ranka had her head down at her desk in the classroom, as she was in her own thoughts. "Ugh, I was supposed to give him the cake and apologize." She hoped Kuno would be delusional and think she had given him the cake, and word wouldn't get back to her mother, about "how" she had given him his "apology cake." She was interrupted from her thoughts at being poked by someone. Looking up she saw Ukyou with a concerned look on her face. " Hey good morning Ranka, are you doing okay? I heard you weren't feeling well yesterday and stayed home. Are you sure you're feeling well enough to be here today?"

Ranka smiled a bit at the other girl. "Good morning Ukyou. Thanks for your concern. I am feeling a bit better, just annoyed with a perverted kendoist.." She grumbled to herself.

As more and more students came into the classroom, more people greeted her, saying the same thing. Sayuri came in looking down, but at seeing Ranka was back at school today, she lit up and went over and greeted her, as others did, letting her know she was glad she feeling better and back and missed. She also set down a new bento box smiling as she went off to her own desk.. Ranma and Akane came into the classroom, shortly after. Not much later after that, the teacher came in and told everyone, to settle down and that it was time to start class.