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.

28. Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Fractured

Once they got back to the house, it wasn't too long after that they were all sitting at the dinner table having their meal. Not long after that they cleaned up and were relaxing on the couch, watching some tv. Ranka still looked really annoyed and was about to call it a night early, until the phone started ringing. Nodoka sprang up to go answer it. The call was quick as she hung up the phone, not soon after she had answered it. "Ranka dear, hurry up and get ready, we're going hunting." Ranka nodded in reply, getting up and going off upstairs swiftly, to get ready as quick as she could.

Nodoka rushed off upstairs not soon after her daughter had, as she went about to getting herself ready as well. Downstairs on the couch, Ranma-chan tightened her fist as she griped to herself about the situation.

Not much more than a few minutes and Nodoka came back downstairs swiftly in her demon hunter outfit robe, getting her things together. "Ranko dear, this shouldn't take very long, so watch the house while we're gone." She then noticed how frustrated Ranko looked, making her concerned. " Ranko dear, are you alright?" Ranma-chan gritted her teeth as she tightened her fists more. " I want to come too.."

Ranka came down the stairs wearing her black hoodie sweatshirt jacket and sweat pants, stopping in her tracks at hearing what her sibling was saying. Nodoka put her hand to her face. " But Ranko dear I thought you didn't like.." Ranma-chan steeled herself through, as it was more important to be there. Of course she was only able to do so as she knew Ranka was also going, so it wasn't just her alone with her mother and the katana. " I.. just want to come too.." Nodoka smiled some and patted her on the head. " Are you sure?" Ranma-chan nodded with a stern look on her face. Nodoka smiled a bit more. " Hurry up and get ready then." Ranma-chan went upstairs really fast, grabbing the sweatshirt jacket hoodie, that Ranka helped pick out for her and the green gem necklace, before coming back downstairs.

Nodoka armed herself with her sheathed katana, and tossed Ranka her sash belt with the other sheathed katana. "Alright, let's go then." Ranma-chan nodded as they all left the house, locking it up before they sped off in a blur.

They slowed down once they made it to their destination. Ranma-chan made sure to stay out of the way, as she hid up in a tree to keep watch on the situation. The parks seemed to be one of the demons, favorite spots to prey on people. Nodoka took in what the report for the job had said, a demon in disguise was trying to prey on a woman, at the local park. She took in her surroundings as she spotted the target and his prey, sitting on a bench. She signaled to Ranka as they closed in. Nodoka signaled again a bit differently, as they both danced with their blades in sync, making the ceremonial dance movements, that would expose the demon. Nodoka recited the demon hunter dialoge to the offender, as he hissed from the blessing, his eyes glowing red, as he started to expose his true nature. The girl who was horrified, took the chance to run off as fast as she could. The exposed demon, called over more allies, which Nodoka was expecting.

Ranma was watching from up in a near by tree, where she was perched and watching intently. Nodoka went after the exposed demon guy with her blade, while the group of ally demons tried to close in, only to be brought back in a whirl wind motion by Ranka and her blade, as she spun about in a long sweeping motion, cutting them all down. Ranma-chan tensed up some as she gulped some, and very glad that she wasn't on her sisters bad side. It was also crazy to watch her mother just cut a disguised demon down.

Nodoka sheathed her katana at not sensing any further danger, as did Ranka, after she whipped the blood off hers. Nodoka beamed proudly, knowing her katana training with Ranka, and of the family arts would be passed on. Ranka was looking off in the distance with a really serious look and her red gem was faintly glowing. Not too far off in the shadows, was Alley and they had both locked on to each other's precense. Alley lost her nerve at the intensity of the glare she was getting, which made her buckle and back away.

Nodoka snapped Ranka out of her glare battle, taking her attention back as they started to make their leave from the area, with Ranma-chan jumping down from the tree, meeting back up with them.

Alley breathed a sigh of relief, as she held up her hand that had a purple gem ring on it, that she spoke to. " Did you see that "traitor" in action, my master" Satan's voice came thru the gem, which also acted like a mirror, so he was able to see everything that had gone on. "I did, indeed.. now Alley, get back here." Alley nodded as she disappeared into thin air, reappearing next to her master.

Satan stroked his goatee from his throne in hell, with an amused look on his face. Even though that demon hunting woman was a bad influence on his creation, her "killer instinct" hadn't changed and once he gained his control back on the girl, he would put it to his own use.

After getting back to the house, they celebrated with some ice cream for dessert. Ranka excused herself after as she went upstairs to go to bed. Nodoka and Ranma-chan hung out for awhile. Ranma-chan was watching some tv with her. " So, that's what you do huh." She said, referring to her mother, hunting demons. Nodoka blushed some. " It is, it's part of my families tradition, it is also rewarding in more ways than one." Ranma-chan nodded as she sipped her drink. " Do you think it bothers Ranka?" Nodoka took in what was said and concluded what she meant, by that. "How could it not, when she was in the middle of it." Ranma-chan looked a bit concerned. " Then why are you pushing her to do it?" Nodoka shut her eyes as she sighed. " I did express to her the reality of the under taking and she still did it. I push to keep her on the right track." Ranma-chan mulled over what her mother just said, before she bid her good night as she went off upstairs.

Once she was all done getting ready for bed, she went off to the room and to her own bed. It looked like Ranka had already gone to sleep, as she was all curled up under her blankets, but Ranma was still going to nag her. "So, how'd your date with Ryouga go?" Ranka groaned as she poked her head out from the blankets, knowing the nagging wouldn't stop. "It" really wasn't, okay and I don't plan to do it again." Ranma-chan could see by her aura and tone she was pissed. Ranka clenched her fist back and forth. " I don't want to talk about " that" pervert anymore." Ranma-chan sweat dropped at how angry she was. " Yeah okay, so you're going out with that Thrista girl tomorrow huh?" Ranka grumbled. " Yeah I guess I am." She said good night before disappearing back under her blankets.

After getting up and getting ready, Ranka came downstairs and helped her mother with making breakfast. Not much later Ranma-chan had gotten up and they were all eating at the table. Nodoka sipped some of her tea. " So what are you're plans for today?" Ranka finished as she set her chopsticks down. "I'm going out with a school friend for awhile." Nodoka nodded in agreement, before she turned her full attention to Ranko, waiting for her answer. Ranma-chan sweat dropped. " Ah yeah me too." Nodoka nodded in agreement again. " Well don't be all day, there is school tomorrow." Both of the girls nodded in reply.

Not soon after they had left the house and split off on their separate ways, with Ranma going off to go see Ukyou to kill some time. Ranka met up at the shopping plaza, near a cafe with Thrista. Thrista beamed brightly as she spotted Ranka, closing the distance. "Hey, Ranka!" Ranka has a less than amused look on her face. " Hey.." They went off to the cafe as they took seats at the outside tables.

They ordered and while they were waiting, Thrista tried to make small talk. " For a few minutes there, I thought you weren't going to show again." Ranka had a dull look on her face with her hand to her face. " Well you are associated with the devil, so.." Thrista pouted as she balled her fists. " I told you the truth and not really." Ranka started to find herself getting annoyed. " Yes, really, you said you were sent to spy on me…" Thrista blinked. " Not really. I told you my dad works for him, as an office assistant type and he's a very low rank and hardly even see's him." Ranka still looked pretty annoyed with the other girl. " Uhuh.. excuse me for not being very trusting of anything with ties to the likes of "him." There was silence for awhile as the waiter brought out their drinks and food. Thrista looked upset as she pouted. " That's fair.. I get it, but I really do just want to be friends with you Ranka. Not just because we're from similar backgrounds." Ranka gave her and odd look. "Right.. so you were cloned from someone else and worked with the devil then?" Thrista sighed and sipped her drink. " No.." They ate in silence.

Ranka couldn't easily ignore the sad puppy dog look that the pink and blue haired girl was giving off and it was also annoying her. "So, you're telling me you want to be MY friend, even if there's a risk you could be manipulated and turned into Satan's minion or worse.." Thrista had a serious look on her face with pumped fists. " It'd be worth it!" Ranka sweat dropped at her tenacity towards this. Thrista smacked her hands down on the table suddenly. " I know you keep saying you don't want friends, but you still have them, so why can't I be friends with you too?" Ranka sighed as she ran her hand thru her hair as she sipped her drink. " Maybe because of how annoying you've been, about it…" Thrista got up and got up in her face. " You've been just as annoying, with being a big meanie towards me!" Ranka was all wide eyed at how close she was in her face, almost falling back out of her chair, but catching herself before she did. "It's complicated.. " She then got a really serious look on her face. "I didn't really have any intention of being friends with anyone else again, I even warned Ukyou.. but it still happened and she was, put in danger.. anyone who gets too close to me does.."

Thrista snorted like a bull with her arms crossed. " I can take it!" Ranka blinked a few times, taken back at her persistence, which also made her laugh some. "Suit yourself then, but don't blame me later on.."

Not far off Ranma was visiting with Ukyou at her restaurant, after getting some hot water to change back into a guy. Ukyou was delighted to see her fiancee and served him up a nice helping of okonomiyaki. "So Ranma huney, where's your sister today?" Ranma after he had finished eating, answered her back. " Out with a friend." Ukyou hmmed as she recalled hearing at school about a date with Ryouga. " Is it true she went out on a date with Ryouga?" Ranma tensed up some at hearing that and got a little annoyed. " It wasn't really a date." Ukyou gave a little smirk to him. " Don't tell me, you were interfering, like you did with Akane's date with him in the past." Ranma got a little frustrated as he sipped some of his water, which was all Ukyou had to see to know he had. "So, is she mad at you?" Ranma gave her a confused look. " For what?" Ukyou smiled with a hand to her face. " For interfering." Ranma sweat dropped looking off the the other way some. " I didn't say I did.." Ukyou giggled. " You didn't have to, I figured it out. So, is she?" Ranma grumbled and rubbed at the back of his head. " Well no I don't think so." Ukyou started to shut down things, as there wasn't any customers. " Well if you did that to me, I know I would be." She could tell he was annoyed and dropped it. " Yeah yeah I know she won't, because she's your girl side."

Ranma took notice of her shutting the grill off. " Huh, you closing the shop early?" Ukyou smiled. " Just for an hour or so, I have to run an errand, do you want to come with me?" Ranma thought about it for a minute and decided he would to further kill time. " Yeah okay, what errand are you running?" Ukyou smiled back. " I have a few items I need to get." Ranma nodded back, as Ukyou went and grabbed her shopping bag, before they took their leave from the shop.

Back at the shopping district, Ranka and Thrista were at a clothing store, browsing through a bunch of things. After finishing up with some purchases, at seeing a photo booth, Thrista dragged Ranka off inside it with her. After that she was super giddy, as they were starting to walk back, holding the pictures with sparkling eyes.

An arguing couple was too busy arguing as they bumped into Ranka and Thrista. Ranka shook her head from the bounce back. "Hey, watch we're you're going!" She said looking pretty annoyed. Mikado's eyes widened at seeing the red headed girl before him, making him drop his guard on the item he and Azusa had been fighting over. Azusa took the chance to nab the item, running off to add it to her collection. He was too busy being transfixed on the girl. " Ah my pig tailed pretty!" He then noticed however her hair was not in a pig tail but a ponytail instead and she was dressed very differently from how she had in the past. Ranka gave him a dull look as she could tell from Ranma's memories, this was that perverted " girl kisser" ice skating guy Mikado Sanzenin of the golden pair. "I think you have me confused with someone else.." The next thing she knew he had taken his hand to her chin, about to make his move. Ranka grew angrier. " I wouldn't if I were you, unless you WANT a fat lip.." Thrista had her hands to her face all wide eyed and making a squeaking noise.

Meanwhile not too far off was Ranma and Ukyou, with Ukyou making the rounds to street vendors. Ranma was looking off the other way, while she was mingling with another one. As his sights set on spotting a very familiar scenario, he bristled in anger at seeing that pervert Mikado trying to pull the same thing he had on him, when he was in his girl form in the past. He dashed over, balling his fists up. " MIKADO! Leave my sister alone!" At the same time he tried to nab a kiss from Ranka, he got a punch in the mouth from her and a punch to the side of his face from Ranma, which knocked him off to the ground. He recovered enough to jump back up with a very intent look. " You're sister huh." He rubbed at the punch she had given him to his mouth, before turning his back to them and making himself up, then taking a mirror out to admire himself. He gasped at his "fat lip", which made him disappear, as he couldn't play his "kissing" games with a such an atrocity on his beautiful face.

Thrista winced at seeing the brown haired guy, get punched at the same time by the siblings. "Ouchie.." Ranka gave her an annoyed look. " He" had it coming!" Ranma curled his lip. "He" definitely did.." He then panicked at realized he had bolted off without a word to Ukyou and rushed back over, hoping she wasn't too mad.

Thrista sweat dropped at how fast he tore off. " "That" was a bit rude, don't you think?" Ranka blinked at her. " How so?" It was Thrista's turn to blink back. " Well you know, he just ran off." Ranka gave her a confused look. " So?" Thrista sighed as she shook her head. " Never mind." They both resumed walking, until Ranka got into her face, making her a bit nervous at how serious she was looking at her. " NO "never mind", just spit it out! " She had her hands on her hips. Thrista sweat dropped more. " You really don't get it, huh?" She sighed as they started walking again. "I mean aren't you annoyed that he just ran off like that? He didn't even ask if you were okay." Ranka blinked at her again. " No, it doesn't need to be said. We kicked the pervert's ass, what more is there to say?" Thrista just shook her head at the red head for a minute, before smiling as she held her shopping bag behind her. "Anyways, thanks for finally going out with me, I had a nice time. I'll see you tomorrow at school, unless you wanna come visit at my house for awhile?" She said with big bright and hopeful eyes. Ranka backed away some with her own shopping bag. " Well.. I really can't, I have to be getting back." Thrista's eyes got bigger as she latched onto her arm. " Aww just a little while won't hurt." Ranka sweat dropped as she tried to pull her off. " It will hurt me, guaranteed."

Down the street a ways, Shampoo had just finished delivering an order as she spotted Ranka, then she spotted another girl with her "other" airen and it made her jealous. She rushed over faster than lightning, grabbing Ranka by her other arm pulling her away from the other girl, then to show her where she stood in the play of power, she glomped on to Ranka and kissed her in front of Thrista. Thrista was wide eyed, as was Ranka. Shampoo pulled off and sneered at Thrista. " Ranka is Shampoo's airen, not yours." Ranka had her hand to her mouth, really red in the face as she bristled in frustration. " Shampoo, you can't just go kissing me, whenever and wherever you want!" Shampoo giggled and stuck her tongue out in reply. Thrista blinked some. " Airen? What's that?" Shampoo huffed and took out the translation guide, showing the other girl. Thrista's eye's widened more. " Oh, I see, "fiancee" or " it's you I love", "my love." She nodded her head in understanding. " I get it, but I still want to be Ranka's friend, and your not going to stop me!" She said pointing at Shampoo. Shampoo glared at her and started to stalk towards her, only to blocked by a panicking Ranka. "Shampoo, no!" Shampoo grumbled as she tried to get around her. ""She" interfere.." Ranka waved her hands about " No, "kiss of the death" okay!"

Shampoo gave her an annoyed look. " You like "her?" Ranka sweat dropped still pretty red in the face from Shampoo's forced kiss. " No! She just want's to be friends, okay.." Shampoo hmpfed as she crossed her arms. " No can have my "other" airen!" Thrista blinked " other?" Shampoo nodded. " That right, both Ranma's are mine." Ranka had a giant sweat drop on her head. Thrista sweat dropped as well. "Ranma? You say that but Ranka's not Ranma." Shampoo sneered again at the girl. " Stupid girl." Ranka cut her off before she could say more. " Okay, well I gotta go now." She then pushed Shampoo off a head of her.

Shampoo frowned at her with her arms crossed. " That girl.." Ranka sweat dropped. " She's just someone from school okay." Shampoo smiled at her. "Okay, I go now, still have other deliveries." She then disappeared in a blur.

Colonge looked up as an angry Shampoo, came storming in. " What's wrong dear?" Shampoo huffed with her arms crossed. " This girl getting too close to my " other airen, so I was going to give her " kiss of death." but Ranka said no." Colonge laughed some at the irony or it all. Shampoo pouted. " It no funny, great grandmother.." Cologne gave her a smile back. " Oh but it is, but I understand your frustration, but you should also understand that Ranka doesn't approve." Shampoo hmpfed. " I make sure that girl, no get too close to " other airen." Colonge laughed. " I'm sure you will, but right now there's more deliveries to be made."

Back at the Saotome house, Nodoka poked her head out from the kitchen at hearing someone come in thru the front door. She smiled and greeted Ranka. " Welcome back, how was your outing with your school friend?" Ranka looked flustered as she greeted her back. " Fine, I'm gonna go take a bath." She said as she went upstairs, to do so, after she put her shopping bag in the room.

Not much later after Ranma had smoothed things over with Ukyou, by helping her bring her supplies back to the shop, he made sure to change back into a girl, before taking his leave and getting back to his mother.

Nodoka greeted her other daughter as she got back in, as she poked her head out from the kitchen again. She took notice of Ranko looking around and answered her question. "Ranka's upstairs taking a bath, if you're looking for her." Ranma-chan sweat dropped at how scary her mother was getting at being able to read her. " Ah yeah, thanks."

A bit later Ranka came downstairs in a casual outfit and her hair down. Nodoka took notice of how she didn't seem as upset as she had before and asked her to help her out in the kitchen, while she asked Ranko to set the table up. Once dinner was made up, they were all enjoying it at the table. After she was done eating and finished taking a sip of her tea, she addressed them. "I was thinking after you two finish, that we all might take a nice little stroll around the park, if you'd like to." Ranka finished as she set her tea down. " Does that mean, you have a job?" Ranma-chan was too busy still eating. Nodoka smiled softly. " My aren't you smart Ranka dear, though it is just patrolling this time around." After Ranma-chan finished they all agreed to go together.

Once they got to the park, they just walked around. Nodoka observed if anything seemed out of place as they did. She peered through the shadows, until she heard a scream, which prompted her to take off after the offender. Ranma-chan and Ranka caught up to where their mother had bolted off to, seeing her pointing her blade at the shadowy figure. Both of them almost fell over at seeing the scene up close, their mother pointing her blade at who she thought was a demon, was just the nutty Azusa Shiratori of the golden pair. Nodoka kept her sights set on the shadowy figure. " Return what you took from that person demon!" Azusa clutched onto the cute anime mascot figure keychain, she had swiped from the walking couple, from the girl friend. " You can't have Josette!" She glared daggers at Nodoka. Ranma-chan rubbed at the back of her head and decided to step in. "That's just a crazy girl from another school mom, she's not a demon, unless you count how she steals anything she deems cute.."

Nodoka sheathed her katana, which made Ranma-chan a bit more calm. " Oh, I see.." She turned to try to reason with Azusa but she had already taken off in a blur. " Oh my.." At not finding any real threats, they walked back to the house, and after getting back she sent the girls up to bed, as it was a school night.

After getting all ready and once in bed, they had their time to talk alone. Ranma-chan was as usual laying back in her bed with a manga. " So how did it go with Thrista today?" Ranka tensed up some from where she was laying back in her own bed and reading a magazine. "It was annoying.. but she swears she's not up to anything. And then.. Shampoo saw her.." She hid her face with the magazine as she started to get flustered some. Ranma-chan sweat dropped at hearing that and was able to imagine how that went. " Oh boy.. don't tell me she tried to give her the "kiss of death." Ranka grumbled some as she went back to reading the magazine. " It's her "go to" answer for everything.. and then she almost blurted things out.." It was Ranma-chan's turn to get flustered, but more so frustrated as she set her manga down. " What is the matter with that girl.. I really would rather not have Thrista finding out.." Ranka sighed as she flipped to another page. " I know, but she may have said too much already." Ranma-chan groaned. " Fantastic..

Ranka changed the subject around some. " So how were things with Ukyou?" Ranma-chan sweat dropped as she rubbed at the back of her head. " I got off with helping her carry all her stuff back for her, but she wasn't too mad. Hey, you okay from the pervert Mikado?" Ranka nodded as she kept looking through the magazine. " Yeah because "we" kicked his perverted ass." Ranma-chan smirked. " Sure did, it felt really good too." Ranka smirked back some. " Revenge is sweet." They both had a laugh over it before settling back down and saying good night to each other.

Getting up and going through the daily motions and the usual stop off at Doctor Tofu's, before going off to school. At entering the gates, Thrista glomped on to Ranka with a big smile on her face. " Good morning friend!" Ranka got all flustered. " Don't do that!" Ranma got flustered at the whole thing as he had gone through it before when he was in his girl form. Thrista giggled at how cute she was. " You're just like your twin sister Ranko." This made Ranma tense up some. Silence hit as Kuno made his appearance and started spouting off nonsense, until he spotted Ranka and another girl latched onto her. " Fair ones, no! I Tatewaki Kuno will save you from the bonds of.." He didn't finish as Ranka planted her boot into his face, with a swift kick. "Shove it, Kuno!" Thrista had let of her all wide eyed as she applauded in awe, before she snapped out of it, at spotting her new friends boots. " Ooh I really like your boots." Ranka smirked some. " Yeah, me too." She kept talking as they walked off into the building. Ukyou was walking with Ranma. Akane wasn't too far behind with her friends, and found herself a little annoyed at seeing how clingy Thrista was being with Ranka. It bothered her, but she was trying not to let it bother her.

In the classroom Sayuri was a bit bothered by it as well and noticed that Akane was too, so she tried to calm her some. " It can't be helped, Ranka is really popular." Akane huffed some as she crossed her arms. " Who said I'm jealous, because I'm not.." Sayuri sweat dropped and didn't say anything more as the class started.

Cut to gym class, the girls had listened to what was said before, letting Akane be the hero as she checked lockers to make sure they were safe. After most of the girls had changed and headed off to gym, Ranka finished up changing herself as did Akane. She heard a noise as she was finishing pulling her gym shoes on, making her look around till she spotted what looked to be a stuffed animal frozen in place. She walked over and whacked it in the head with her fist. " Gimme a break, I know it's YOU, you old pervert.." Happosai grumbled and rubbed at his head as he sniffled. " THIS is ALL your fault you know!" Ranka gave him an annoyed look. " Excuse me?! HOW is it MY fault that you're a raging pervert?!" Akane ran over at hearing arguing. " Grandfather Happosai.. what are you doing here, you know better.. or should by now." She grumbled. Happosai changed his tune at seeing her as he leapt up into the air with his arms out, ready to glomp onto her chest. " Akaannne!" Ranka intercepted him, with a punch to his face. " Knock it off, will ya!" Happosai was back to pouting with

tears. "It's ALL your fault.." Ranka put her hands on her hips. " Shut up already.. and go cry somewhere else!" She grabbed him up, going out the back door, where she punted him off into the sky like a star. Happosai sailed high off into the sky. " You'll be sorrry!" Ranka hmpfed as she went back inside and off to the gym class.

The class went by normally for awhile, with the girls side playing badminton and the guys side playing basketball. Until one of the girls was screaming, as Happosai was latched onto her chest cackling. Ranka grumbled as she went over to try to whack him over the head, only for him to leap off onto another girls chest, and repeated himself, playing leap frog as he kept leaping away before he could get slugged.

The boys side thought about trying to go help, but also thought better of it, not wanting to get mixed up in the perverted man's trouble. Ranma's thoughts were along the same lines, but came up with a plan. He grabbed the ball when he got it, throwing it so that plowed straight into Happosai as he was leaping in mid air, knocking him down to the ground. Then all the angry girls proceeded to stomp down on him, making angry noises.

The rest of gym class went by without any further problems and soon it was time for them to go back to the locker rooms to change out of their gym outfits. Akane and Ranka went around and helped some of the girls check that their locker was safe. A few minutes later most of the other girls had changed successfully. One girl who hadn't asked for help, finally got her locker opened, only to have what looked like a monkey jump out and latch onto her chest, making her scream. Akane yanked Happosai off the girl. " Honestly, enough's enough!" Both her and Ranka had finished changing, as she came over and whacked him on his head, making him pout. " Yeah enough, already!" Happosai's eyes teared up as he was still being held by the scruff of his outfit by Akane. " It's all your fault Ranka, for making me loose my lovely girlfriend, Ivory! She kept me happy and content, but now… she broke up with me because YOU wouldn't keep your promise with her.."

Ranka gave him a dull look. " She's a she-devil you know.. she'll say whatever she needs to say to string you along gramps." Happosai furrowed his brows at her. "It's still your fault I lost such a beauty, so you'll have to make it up to your master." Ranka glared back at him. " I'm not making up nothing, you got it!" She grabbed him away from Akane, as she went out the back door to go punt him off into the sky again, before coming back inside grumbling.

After leaving the locker room and walking off to class, with Akane she tried to make some conversation. "I guess he doesn't care that he was dating a devil.." Ranka rolled her eyes. " As long as she's hot, he'll date whatever." Akane groaned at hearing that. " Still he shouldn't be blaming you." Ranka kept walking while they were talking. " Its what he was told to do."

As lunch time came around, everyone was all gathered and chatting away. More so the girls, the guys were mainly just eating, though there was a bit of tension now that Thrista was being so close with Ranka. It upset the others to a point, as well as Akane who didn't want to admit it.

Soon after that classes went by and it was the end of the day, as they made their way out of the school building, only to hear girl's screaming. Ranka groaned at spotting the cause of the screaming, Happosai was back at it again. Ranma grumbled as he spotted him. " Where the heck is he getting all this energy?!" He picked up a pebble from the ground, tossing it so it air projected right into the old perverts head, stopping him from his smoozing session with a girl. He hopped off her, turning his head to glare at Ranma. " Ranma, how dare you treat you're master this way!" Ranma didn't give him a chance to finish as he charged at him, pulling his fist back to slam down on him.

Happosai disappeared in a blur, before he could hit him, reappearing as he glomped on to Ukyou's chest, making her yell. Ranka went to go after him, this time, with him releasing his grip on Ukyou, then latching on Ranka who yelled and smacked at his head with her fists. " Get offa me you old pervert!" Happosai chuckled with an evil smirk. "I told you Ranka, you'd make it up to me." Before Ranma could react, a furious Akane ripped him off of Ranka, before punting him off into the sky. " You're unbelievable!" Both siblings were taken a back by how things went down. Ranka blinked looking a bit flustered. " Ah thanks for the save, Akane." Akane nodded in reply. " He's just been so out of control today." Ukyou breathed a sigh of relief. " That's for sure."

After things calmed down a bit after, the siblings said their good byes as they went off on their way towards the clinic. Ranma was grumbling about the old freak. " I mean why does he have so much more energy, suddenly?" Ranka sighed as they walked. " It's apparently my fault, because.. Ivory dumped him." Ranma looked annoyed at hearing that. " How is that you're fault?" Ranka kept walking as they talked. " It's what she told him." Ranma had a perplexed look on his face. " He does know she's a she-devil, right?" Ranka scoffed some. " I know! I told him that but he pretty much ignored that, ignore is bliss or he doesn't care, as long as she was fulfilling his perverted needs. Which may be why he had so much energy." Ranma made a grossed out looking face.

Not too far off Ryouga had been wandering about, as he spotted Ranma and his sister. Who he was looking forward to talk to, as he waved and called out her name as he jogged over. Both the siblings gave him annoyed looks, with Ranma speaking up first. " What do you want, Ryouga? Haven't you done enough already?" Ryouga wasn't really sure what his rival was talking about. "I uh, just wanted to say hi." Ranka had her arms crossed. " Hey yourself.. now I'm sure you're quite busy, now aren't you P-chan." Ryouga blinked looking dumb founded. " I am?" Ranma blocked him off more. " Yeah you are." Ranka grumbled in a low tune. " I'm going to go ahead first." Ranma nodded letting her know he had heard her. She then did just as she had said, taking off down the street. Ranma cracked his knuckles. " I believe WE have a score to settle eh, P-chan?" Ryouga sweat dropped as he took off running the other way, not wanting to get into it with Ranma right now, it was more important that he try to talk to Ranka. Ranma growled and hollered after him. " YOU coward, running away from a fight!" He would've pursued him but he had limited time, if he didn't want to feel his mothers wrath, he had to stop off at Doctor Tofu's and change back into a girl and get caught up with Ranka.

Not too far off Ryouga's path had ended up crossing into Ranka's. He tried to keep up with her as he gave chase. " Hey Ranka, wait up I just want to talk." She jumped down from the fence she had been on top of, launching a kicking attack at him, as she landed down on the ground. Ryouga sensing the attack, jumped back in time, looking confused. Ranka glowered at him. " I don't want to talk.. now buzz off P-chan, I'm sure Akane's missing you." She then jumped back up on to the fence, taking off in a blur, before jumping up onto a few roof tops as she disappeared from view.

After a few roof top jumps, she landed on top of her mother's roof top, where she took a seat as she waited on Ranma to catch up with her. Once she spotted Ranma-chan coming from down the street, she jumped down from the roof top just in time to meet up with her. Ranma-chan gave her a thumbs up as they both went off inside to greet their mother.

A bit of time passed by between them changing into casual outfits and having snack time at the table together. Nodoka had just gotten up and gone over to the kitchen sink, as she heard a knock on the door. She went over and looked thru the peep hole to see who it was, that she had installed the last time the workers had been there during renovations. She pulled opened the door and smiled at the young man known as Ryouga, who she greeted. " Well hello Ryouga, what brings you here?"

Ryouga tensed up at his bold tactic he had taken. " Hello Mrs. Saotome, I uh well.." He was too flustered to get the words out. Nodoka had taken notice of this and she knew he likely wanted to see Ranka, and put the words out there for him. "Please join us for dinner." Ryouga bumbled about nervously as he bowed and took the elder woman up on the invitation. Nodoka smiled as she showed him inside, before shutting the door behind him. " Girls, Ryouga Hibiki will be joining us for dinner, so I'd like you two to be on your best behavior."

Both Ranma-chan and Ranka had their arms crossed and annoyed looks on their face. Ryouga rubbed at the back of his head nervously as he tried to say hi to Ranka. Ranka grumbled and went off outside off the back porch. " I'm gonna train for a bit.." Nodoka took notice of the way her daughter brushed off the boy, so suddenly. She let it pass because training was important. She set a bowl of rice crackers down on the living room table, next to the couch, as well as a drink. " Please help yourself. I'm sorry about Ranka, she seems to be in a bad mood." Ranma-chan grumbled and was munching on one of the rice crackers. Nodoka focused on her. " Now Ranka dear, no fighting with our guest." Ranma-chan sweat dropped. " Yeah okay.. mom." She smiled before going off into the kitchen to start preparing the dinner.

Ryouga sweat dropped at the burning glare he was getting from Ranma. Ranma-chan quirked and eyebrow at him. " You've got some nerve coming here, huh P-chan, because I'm pretty sure Ranka told you she didn't want to talk to you.." Ryouga gave his rival an annoyed look back. " Gee I wonder why that is. No doubt you're the cause of it." Ranma-chan glared back at him with a tightened fist. " I still owe you a royal beat down pig.." Ryouga fell into his usual habit of taunting Ranma back. " Ohh I wouldn't try it if I were you Saotome, didn't you just tell your mother that you'd behave." He said with a fanged smirk. Ranma-chan growled at him with a tightened fist, trying to keep her fury in check, then instead turning to taunting him back. " Ooh yeah you'd like that huh wouldn't you YOU pig."

Nodoka had stuck her head out to ask Ryouga about something and caught Ranko calling him a pig. " RANKO!" She had her hands on her hips as she reprimanded her. Ranma-chan eeped and slunk down in her seat on the couch. Just then Ranka came in from outside, flicking her pony tail back as she glared at Ryouga. " Don't be mad with Ranko, it's true.. he is a pig.." She hmpfed as she went off upstairs. Nodoka's mouth was wide open as she turned her attention from Ranko to Ranka. " Ranka! I can't believe you.." She sighed as she turned her attention to Ryouga and bowed as she apologized for her rude daughters behaviors. "I just don't know what's gotten into the both of them…" She said giving Ranko a stern look. She then addressed him on if he had any problems with what she was cooking, before she went back off into the kitchen.

After she had left the room, Ranma-chan and Ryouga butted heads again. Ryouga was too confused though to care about that. " What did you say to Ranka, huh Saotome?!" Ranma-chan gave him a dull look from where she was sitting on the couch. " I didn't have to say anything, why don't you ask yourself Ryouga, why you're such a pervert." Ryouga growled as he tightened his fists. " Oh that's funny Saotome, coming out your mouth." Ranka came back downstairs after freshening up some, going straight off into the kitchen. Ryouga tried to say something, only to get a kick to his foot from Ranma-chan, which made him growl at her and he started to get into an attack to release his "Shishi Hokodan." being blinded by anger, only to be slapped in the face by a pillow from Ranma-chan, stopping the attack and knocking him back, making him sink into the back of the couch back some. Ranma-chan twirled the couch pillow around with her hand. " Remember, no fighting, stupid." Ryouga grabbed up the other pillow with a fanged smirk. " Two can play that game." Ranma-chan sneered back as they attacked each other back and forth with the pillows.

Not too much later Ranka came out from the kitchen and started setting up the table, until she spotted the massacre of feathers flying thru the air. She sweat dropped at Ranma-chan and Ryouga smacking at each other back and forth with the pillows, and waved her hands about trying to signal them to stop, but it was too late as Nodoka came in. Nodoka put her hand to her mouth as she spotted Ranko giving Ryouga the last smack to the face with the pillow. " RANKO!" Ranma-chan frooze up and dropped the pillow as she pointed at Ryouga. " HE started it!" Ryouga had dropped his pillow as well and shook his head back and forth furiously. "No, YOU did!" Nodoka ahemed loudly as she cleared her throat. " Ranko I told you no fighting with our guest.." Ranka stepped in again to the defense of her twin. "It was a friendly pillow fight, that went a bit too far, Ranko doesn't know her own strength you know." Nodoka sighed as she put her hand to her head, knowing that was true of Ranko. " Perhaps but you still should've known better.. I expect YOU to clean this mess up after dinner, young lady and to apologize to our guest." She said to Ranko, before she walked back off into the kitchen.

Ranka finished up setting the table and went back into the kitchen to help bring things out. Ryouga gave Ranma-chan a smug fanged smirk. " Well I'm waiting "young lady." Ranma-chan curled her lip at him, giving him a kick to his leg. "I'm sorry P-chan.." Ryouga hmpfed as he wanted to say more but wouldn't dare, he didn't want to risk any further anger from Nodoka.

Once dinner was all set up on the table and everyone was seated with their plates, the meal began. Ranma-chan pretty much ignored Ryouga while she was eating, knowing better to make a mean face or gesture in front of her mother. Once again she was grateful for being saved from her mother's full wrath, by her sister. Mainly the meal was silent, the only chatting going on was between Ryouga and Nodoka, here and there, mainly with him gushing on about how good the food was, making Nodoka blush some.

After dessert was done, Nodoka and Ranka cleaned up in the kitchen, while Ranma-chan was busy trying to clean up the feathery mess. Ryouga was sitting on the couch with a smug fanged smirk on his face. " Serves you right." Ranma-chan growled at him then smirking evilly as she dumped the dust bin full of feathers on top of his head. " It's a good look for you." She said as she snickered at him. Ryouga was about to blurt out the name "Ranma" , but before he could was stopped at "Ran..", by a rough, wet, slap to the back of his head. He shrunk back at seeing a very furious Ranka, glaring dead serious at him, and her red gem was lit up, reflecting the red glow to her eyes. She then hmpfed at him and stormed back into the kitchen. Ranma-chan made a snide face at him, sticking her tongue out at him. " Way to go, stupid." Ryouga was really red in the face, at having almost broken one of his promises with Ranka.

Nodoka stuck her head out from the kitchen smiling at Ryouga. "Ryouga why don't you stay the night, it's already pretty late anyways. You can use the phone if you need to let your parents know." Ryouga sweat dropped at the kind offer and just nodded his head. Nodoka put her hand to her mouth at spotting feather's all over Ryouga's head, then turning her gaze to Ranko. "Ranko.. this is not what I meant by cleaning it up.." Ranma-chan put on a cute face as she stuck her tongue out. " Sorry." Nodoka shook her head as she went back into the kitchen.

Ranka came back out and started getting the vaccum ready. "Mom said to help you clean up." She then turned it on and sucked the feathers up off Ryouga's head, also suctioning his hair with the hose, making him make some noises. Ranma-chan couldn't help but laugh at her rival's predicament. Ryouga shook his head about as he regained his senses. " Ranka, can we talk?" Ranka put the vacuum hose down after turning it off with annoyed look. " And why do YOU think I'd want to do that? I mean, you just keep going over my head.." Ryouga blinked in confusion for a minute then thought about how he had almost blurted out "Ranma" instead of saying Ranko. "Oh um, I'm really sorry about that." Ranka gave him a cold glare before taking the vacum away to put it back in the closet. " Are you?" Ranma-chan had a smug look on her face. " Ooooh." As she was enjoying, watching Ryouga get burned by her sister.

Once she made sure everything was done in the kitchen for the time being, Nodoka went and joined everyone on the couch, where they watched tv for a bit, before sending the twins off upstairs to get ready for bed. She then extended the invitation to Ryouga of how he should take a bath, if he'd like to and she showed him to a room to stay for the night. Making sure he had a futon and other things, before showing him where the bathroom was and what not, before taking her leave. She had taken notice how it seemed obvious that both her girls weren't too happy with Mr. Hibiki, but that Ranka in general seemed her attitude towards the boy had drastically changed, and then there was Ranko's, she seemed like she was always picking a fight with him. Which she found odd for a person that she didn't know, but then the other thought that crossed her mind was it could be jealously, since he was getting close to her twin sister.

After Ryouga had his nice relaxing hot bath, he bumbled off into the wrong room, earning getting himself kicked out by Ranma. Nodoka was too busy taking her turn for the bath, to be able to police things. Ranma-chan shoved him off with a push to where his room was. " Don't be getting any idea's, you hear.." She glared daggers at the lost boy as she smacked her fist into her other hand. Ryouga got a bit flustered before getting frustrated. "Like you're one to talk, Saotome!" Ranma-chan snorted at him as she crossed her arms. " I'm a girl, so what's your excuse huh! I better not catch you trying to come into OUR room again! It's bad enough you're still here… And you damn well better not go near my mother.." She said in a very dark and threatening tone, making him get the shivers for a second, before she shut the door behind her. " Good night.. Ryouga."

He laid back on the futon with a heavy sigh. He was a guy after all, so the idea was tempting, but he knew better. Maybe he couldn't do anything, but his dreams and imagination had no bounds and Ranma didn't say anything about that. So he could picture himself getting into random romantic scenario's with Ranka. He laughed some as he settled under the covers, going into his own mind.

Back at Ranma-chan and Ranka's room, she was trying to plot something. " We could set him up and make him look bad to mom." Ranka was looking thru a magazine in her own bed. " I'd agree with you but you've already put too much attention on yourself with mom tonight. If you hadn't then it's possible such a plan would work, but doing so right now.. I don't think she'd believe it." Ranma-chan almost fell off her bed, taking in what her sister had said, as she thought on it, she was right. She had kept bickering and fighting head on with Ryouga and been caught a few times by their mother. She groaned as she slumped down in her bed. " Dammit.." She then got flustered thinking about how things could've gone if Ranka hadn't spoken up for her defense. " Thanks for bailing me out from mom's wrath.." Ranka nodded as she flipped a page. " Though I can't say she won't punish you more or not. Of course, we help each other out, and that make's Akane jealous." Ranma-chan rolled her eyes. " She get's jealous over every little thing." Ranka grumbled as she turned another page. " She really does.. Can you imagine if she found out that Sayuri went out with me?" Ranma-chan sweat dropped as she picked up her manga. " I can and I don't want to.." Ranka nodded. " That's fair." After awhile they said their good nights before settling down for the night.

After she had sent her girls off to school, she went upstairs and knocked on Ryouga's room door. " Ryouga you'll be late for school if you don't get up, Ranko and Ranka already left." Ryouga woke up springing up as he sat up some, looking half awake. " Oh um.." He had forgotten half of what they had said about him going to school or not. Nodoka paused for a minute as she listened. " Don't wait too long, or breakfast will be cold." She then went back downstairs.

After a bit of time and waking up a bit more, a dressed and a bit more awake Ryouga came downstairs looking flustered as he sat down at the table and thanked Ranma's mother for the meal. Once he was done he gathered up his things and took his leave, making it look like he was headed off to school a little late.

With a bit of time between when he left, shortly after Nodoka set out to do some shopping. Ryouga had walked down the street a bit before finding himself being splashed by and old lady, tossing water out on the street as he had walked by, triggering his curse and turning him into a little black piglet. He squealed at her in annoyance as he shook his hoof at her. He then sighed as he started to wander aimlessly around, hoping maybe he'd find his way back to the Saotome's or Tendo's to get some hot water.

Luckily for him, once Nodoka had finished her shopping and was walking back that their paths crossed. She knelt down on the ground at spotting a little black piglet. " Oh my, you're Akane's little pet pig, P-chan aren't you? We just keep running into each other don't we?" She said as she smiled and picked him up by his little yellow bandana. She held her bag of groceries in one hand, while she held P-chan to her chest with the other one. " Look at you, you're a mess again, we can't return you like that to Akane."

Once she got back to the house, she sat him down on the ground, while she put away her shopping. " No one else here, so I suppose I will have to give you a bath." P-chan's eyes bugged out as she tried to make a run for it, only to be snatched up by his bandana again by her. " Now now, a bath isn't so bag Mr. Pig." She took him off upstairs with her to the bathroom, shutting the door behind her, where she started to run the hot water as she hummed to herself. P-chan kicked about furiously, squealing loudly, making Nodoka set him down for a minute. " Come now, it's not so bad." P-chan was scratching and smacking at the door frantically, before he tried to shove his head under the door, only to get snatched back up by Nodoka. " That's enough now, be a good boy and get clean for your owner Akane." She dropped him gently off into the warm bath, as she turned to get the soap, which she ended up dropping onto the floor, as well as dropping down on the ground to her knee's, as she spotted what appeared to be Ryouga surface from the water. It was too much for her to handle as she fainted to ground.

Ryouga panicked as he got out from the tub, wrapping a towel around himself. Then he picked up Ranma's mother, taking her downstairs, where he laid her down on the couch. Then he went back upstairs, where he used the shower head's cold water to turn himself back into P-chan, before wandering about awhile, before sneaking out through the back porch that was open.

Nodoka mean while was having odd dreams while she was out, she'd see Mr. Panda and then she'd also see Genma, and the two were walking side by side. Then she saw P-chan and then she'd see Ryouga, then it went back to her seeing tons of Mr. Panda's all over the place, before she suddenly came too, sitting up and breathing heavily as she wiped sweat from her fore head. She looked around a bit bewildered as she had thought she was in the bathroom before with P-chan. She got herself up as she went upstairs to the bathroom to check if she hadn't been dreaming. Upon looking around, the soap wasn't on the floor, it was in it's proper spot. She put her hand to her face looking perplexed as she went back downstairs.

Before Ryouga had turned himself back into P-chan, he had tried his best to cover his tracks, by putting the soap back in it's proper place and making it look like no bath had occurred, hoping that would be enough, as well as putting Nodoka in a different spot.

After a while she woke up at hearing what sounded like noises coming from upstairs, making her bolt up and speed upstairs with her sheathed katana at her side. She cautiously entered the bathroom, where she had heard the noise, looking up to spot a pretty purple and pink haired cat. She took her hand away from the sheath at seeing a cat had gotten in through the open bathroom window. Shampoo kitty wasn't expecting Ranma's mother and couldn't stop her decent from the window, as she fell into the tub of hot water, that was full enough to change her back into her human form.

Nodoka's eyes widened at seeing the cat change in front of her eyes to the amazon girl, putting her hand to her mouth, before she fainted again. Shampoo timed things right, so that she had jumped out from the tub in time to catch Nodoka, setting her down on the ground gently. She grabbed a towel wrapping it around herself, before she carried the elder woman downstairs, where she laid her on the couch. After that she went upstairs to dry off and borrowed some clothes to change into, before going back downstairs and leaving thru the porch area. She was nervous of what had happened and now that she had to tell her "airens."

Elsewhere Ryouga was wandering about as P-chan, when he spotted Ranka and Ranma walking back from school, about to head over to Doctor Tofu's. He was about to try to get their attention, but spotted Shampoo swoop in before him, making him hide in some bushes. Shampoo looked really nervous as she got their attention. Ranka blinked at noticing she hadn't tried to glomp onto either of them yet and noticing how upset she looked. " Hey Shampoo, is something wrong?" Ranma took notice of the same thing. " Yeah, usually well ya know." Shampoo bowed her head nervously. " I sorry Ranma, Ranka, you're mother saw me change.." Ranma's eyes went really wide, looking a bit panicked. Ranka on the other hand wasn't looking very surprised, she on the other hand had her arms crossed with a bit of an annoyed look on her face. " And why is that? Is it maybe because you were trying to sneak in thru the bath?" Shampoo had a nervous smile on her face, at being totally caught out by her.

Ranka sighed as she played with her pony tail. " Well you've just hurried things a long more, now haven't you." Shampoo blinked at her. " You no mad?" Ranka laughed a bit. " Not really no, now about you trying to ambush one of us in the baths again.. well.."

P-chan listened from his hiding spot, feeling relieved that Shampoo had ended up taking the fall as well. He knew it would come out about him as well but for now, the amazon would deal with it.

Ranka gave Ranma a pat to his back, to snap him out of his panicked state. "Hey, you okay? It's up to you if you want to tell her right now or not." Ranma sighed, feeling a bit torn on the subject. " I think I just need a little time to think.." With that he went off inside to Doctor Tofu's to go get changed. Ranka shook her head at Shampoo.

Once Ranma was changed back into a girl, they all walked back towards the house, with her deep in thought. It could be the last time she had to walk back wearing the girl's uniform if things went one way. On the other hand if she did have to tell her mother the truth, a lot of things could end up broken. Ranka could tell Ranma-chan was worrying about a lot of things. "Hey, don't worry, you know I've got your back." Ranma-chan smiled a tad. " I know but like I've said before, I don't want you and mom fighting.." Ranka sighed as they kept walking. " I get that, but if it happens, it happens." Shampoo nodded in agreement. "

At getting back to the house, Ranma-chan went off upstairs to get changed really fast, into her usual chinese outfit, before coming back downstairs, preparing for when her mother woke up. With Shampoo there, it was likely she could wake up freaked out at seeing her. Nodoka finally started to come to, as she sat up some, putting a hand to her head. " Oh my.. " Ranka went off into the kitchen and came back with a glass of cold water for her. Once more awake she spotted her girls. " Oh girls, when did you get back from school?" Ranka smiled some. " Just a few minutes ago." She handed the glass of water over to her mother. Ranma-chan nodded in agreement. Shampoo looked a bit nervous as Nodoka spotted her, making her put her hand to her head as she started to recall Genma had shown her.. yes.. with cold water. She took a sip of the water, as her mind was telling her, to try it on the amazon, which she did, as she splashed the contents on her, her eyes going wide as the girl changed into the same cute pink and purple cat she had seen. The water being splashed, made Ranma-chan jump back on instinct and more so at their being a cat present.

Ranka scooped up Shampoo kitty and the clothes, taking her upstairs to the bath, dropping her into the tub of warm water, so she could change back. Then getting herself back downstairs, while Shampoo borrowed more clothes.

Nodoka's eyes were wide, as she had her hand to her head, recalling how Genma had shown her he.. was a panda? Then what happened earlier with the pig, that must've really been Ryouga? And now Shampoo, who seemed to turn into a cat? She then recalled how Ranka had warned her about Genma and how things he put Ranko through he could've done the same to Ranma, which made her panic. Ranka waved her hand about in front of her mother's face, making her snap out of her thoughts, but also helped her to fill in the blanks. " Don't you remember your husband came and told you about the Jyusenkyo curse before? And turned into a panda." Ranma-chan started to get a bit nervous. Nodoka shut her eyes for a moment as she did start to remember that had happened, then going back to looking upset. " He did, didn't he.. and he still won't tell me where my son is.. For all I know.. he might be a panda too." She started to tear up, which made Ranma-chan tighten her fist and hung her head. Ranka had paved the way for her to be able to tell the truth.

Ranka went off to the kitchen to put on a kettle of hot water, coming back a few minutes later with it as she sat it down on the table to cool down some. Shampoo came back downstairs. Nodoka noticed Ranko looking really upset. " Ranko dear, what's wrong?" Ranma-chan tightened her fist more. "It's ah.. Ranma's not a panda, because.. I'm.. Ranma.." Nodoka's eyes went wide as Ranko took the kettle and dumped the hot water on top of herself. Her eyes teared up as she put her hand to her mouth at seeing the change. " Ranma.." Ranma tensed up as he nodded. Nodoka cried as she embraced her son for a few minutes, before pulling herself off him as she wiped some tears from her face, she started to go for her katana sheath.

Ranka gave her mother a serious look. " Blame your husband, the whole thing is his fault. He's the one who made all the promises, not Ranma." Nodoka took her hand away from it at feeling the heavy truth. Ranka wasn't finished there though, as she was going to make sure she knew who to blame. "You want to know why Ranma hid the truth and from you? Because your husband told him to, because of how you'd kill both of them. So, like I said blame him not your son."

Hearing what Ranka had to say, and with her son's reveal, that Ranko was really him this whole time.. Suposively Ranka was a clone of Ranko, but now she could tell she was her son's clone, in the form of a girl, which really did make her, her biological daughter. While she was happy to have found her son again, it was a bit upsetting to also find out that Ranko wasn't really real. Her and Ranma had a lot to talk about as they went and sat down at the table together. Shampoo then seized the moment to cuddle up next to Ranka on the couch.

At the table she was holding her son's hand as they talked. She knew Ranka was right, it was Genma who was to blame and obviously with her being Ranma's other side, those were his thoughts as well. Though she wasn't too pleased about some of the lies and let that be known. "So all this time you were staying in the same room as a girl.. well we can't have that anymore, and you have your own room now." Ranma looked a little upset. " Yeah but I was a girl too. Ah yeah.." He didn't want to argue with his mother right now, so he didn't raise a fuss about things. Nodoka smiled at him. " Well I'm sure you'd like to go and tell Akane about things." Ranma looked a little flustered as he rubbed at the back of his head. " I guess so.." Nodoka took her hands away from his. " You can go talk to her for awhile then, but I'd like you to come back before it gets too late." Ranma nodded. Nodoka could tell what her son was going to try to ask next. "I'd like Ranka to stay home, this is between you and Akane, alright dear." Ranma looked over to Ranka, who gave him a shrug, they both knew better than to argue with their mother right now. He sighed and took his leave.

Nodoka stuck her head outside after him quickly. " Oh Ranma dear, do tell your father if he touches you, or keeps you from coming home, I will deal with him personally." Ranma sweat dropped at the intensely angry smile his mother had on her face as he nodded, understanding she was dead serious. After that, she shut the door and went back inside, flopping down on the couch with her hand to her face, looking stressed. Shampoo took notice. " No worry Mother I will make dinner." Nodoka sighed at the purple haired girl, putting on a smile. " Thank you Shampoo that is very kind of you, to lend a hand." Shampoo smiled back, she could tell Nodoka wanted to talk with Ranka, so she went off into the kitchen to start getting things together.

Nodoka sighed heavily at everything she was taking in. " Ranka, you're not Ranko's clone are you?" Ranka shook her head. " Technically not.." Nodoka cut her off there. " Right because you're Ranma's other side." Ranka nodded. Nodoka smiled and took her hands into hers. " Even if you weren't, I still would've adopted you, but it's very clear you are my daughter." Ranka smiled some and tried not to tear up, as she wiped at her eyes with other hand. " You're not going to hate Ranko now, are you?" Nodoka shook her head. " Of course not, but now I see how close you and Ranma are." Ranka looked a little flustered. " I know you're not happy that we we're sharing a room together.. or find it hard to believe that your son is also a girl. So it's really not fair to place such high expectations about being a man among men, on him."

Shampoo sticks her head out from the kitchen. " Oh yes Ranma is man among man, even when a girl." She then went back to her cooking frenzy. Ranka nodded in agreement. " He" really is." Nodoka couldn't help but gush at hearing this as she nodded. "He" really is.. even when faced with such a curse." Ranka could tell her mothers gaze was on her as she sweat dropped. " I may be all girl body wise and mainly mind, but I also am Ranma's other side, so.. I just can't be as prim and proper like a lady, like how you'd like me to be.." Nodoka smiled and shook her head. " Well at least you are willing to compromise and I can only be so greedy with my desires." Even though what Ranka was saying was partially true, she was still very much more lady like when compared with Ranko and she had to be thankful for the little things. "I suppose then that I cannot expect you not to fight then." Ranka rubbed at the back of her head, sheepishly. "Sorry.. I really can't help it.." Nodoka leaned back on the couch as she patted her daughter on the head. "I suppose you can't, but you still make me very proud Ranka. Now, let's go make something for dinner, before Shampoo does everything." Ranka nodded and got up with her mother as they went off into the kitchen.

At getting in at the Tendo's, Kasumi smiled as she greeted Ranma at the front door. "Oh Ranka's not with you today?" Ranma rubbed at the back of his head some as he greeted her back. " Um no, my mom wanted her to stay with her." Kasumi nodded as she smiled. "If it's Akane you're looking for she's up in her room." Ranma nodded his appreciation as he went off upstairs to where her room was, knocking on her door.

Akane heard a knock at her door, prompting her to get up from her desk and go and answer it as she heard Ranma's voice. " Ranma, what are you doing here?" Ranma rubbed at the back of his head a bit more. " Uh can we talk?" Akane nodded and let him come in, as she sat on the side of her bed and he sat at the desk chair. " I uh ended up telling my mom about the curse.. because well apparently Shampoo let the cat out of the bag, first.." Akane put her hand to her mouth. " How did your mom take it?" Ranma leaned back some in the chair. " Well since she's seen pops and Shampoo change, not too badly and Ranka made sure she understood things." Akane hmmed as she thought on that. " If I had to guess that means she put all the blame on Mr. Saotome." Ranma nodded. Akane rubbed at her chin thoughtfully. " That sucks for him but it kinda is his fault." She then smiled a bit. " I'm really happy for you Ranma, you were finally able to tell your mother the truth."

Ranma rubbed at his arm some. " Ah yeah, just now she probably won't let me stay in the same room as Ranka.." Akane was about to say something but thought better of it and switched herself about at the last minute. " Well.. she might as long as your in girl form." Ranma shrugged. " I didn't want to get into it with her right now, she's already got a lot to take in right now.." Akane nodded in agreement, making her think that's likely the reason Ranka wasn't tagging along with Ranma, as auntie Saotome's view of Ranko had been changed so drastically and so fast, that she likely needed Ranka to keep herself anchored.

Ranma took notice, suddenly as he spotted P-chan curled up Akane's pillow, which made him bristle in a bit of anger. Akane heard him making some cute little noises in his sleep, as she pet him on his head. "Can you believe it, P-chan hasn't really run off in a few days." Ranma had an annoyed look on his face. " Uhuh.." He watched as the little black piglet started to wake up and upon fully waking and spotting Ranma, it jumped up, launching itself at him, as it chomped it's teeth down on his arm. Ranma gave P-chan a whack to his head. " Little runt!" Akane grabbed him away from him, holding him. " Aww poor baby, are you okay?" Evil P-chan smiled and stuck his face really deep into her chest, making smirking noises. Ranma tightened his fist at how far fricking Ryouga was taking things. " Stupid pig.." Akane rolled her eyes at him. "Honestly I can't believe you're jealous of a little pig. Isn't that right, P-chan? He's so silly being jealous. We were having a nice little nap earlier." She then sweat dropped as she realized something felt off. "P-chan did you mess with my bra?" Ranma had heard enough as he lunged for the pig, which jumped away from Akane and the chase began around the room, which ended up leaving the room.

Akane sweat dropped as she shut the door behind her and checked her bra, noticing it had been chewed off from the back. She found that to be out of character for her little pet pig, as she went and changed into a new one, wanting to get P-chan away from Ranma as soon as she could. She heard them both race downstairs in the mean time.

Evil P-chan darted off into Happosai's room as the door to it opened. Mean while the real P-chan who had wandered in a little while ago, was wandering and ended up crossing paths with Ranma who seemed more angry than usual as he grabbed him up and took him to the bathroom, where he dropped him into the hot tub of water. " Ryouga! You'd better start talking!" Ryouga surfaced, looking confused, thinking he meant about his mother finding out. " I didn't mean to, it was an accident." Ranma scoffed at the lost boy. " Oh yeah I'm sure.. " He tensed up as he heard Akane yelling his name in anger. " This isn't over with, ya got that!" He then ran off really fast to avoid getting caught by Akane, as he took his leave from the Tendo's, after saying good bye to Kasumi on his way out.

After getting back to his mothers house, he was greeted by her and then glomped onto by Shampoo. " Aiya, welcome back Ranma, we all make big celebration dinner for you." Nodoka nodded in agreement. " She's right, we did, so come sit down at the table, it's a big night." Ranka smiled as she set down another dish on the table. " Yep it's a feast fit for a king, Shampoo made double sure of that." Shampoo nodded with a big smile on her face.

Most of the time Shampoo kept trying to feed Ranma, and when he wouldn't let her spoon feed him, she'd make sure she could feed him another way. Nodoka fussed some about the amazon's intensity. "Oh my, you'll have to tell Akane soon about your other engagements."

A little later after cleaning up, Shampoo took her leave. Nodoka didn't have much of a problem adjusting to having her son back, since Ranko and Ranma were one in the same. Once it was time for bed time though, Nodoka went upstairs with Ranma and showed him where his room was. He was thankful but also expressed how he didn't want to be separated from his sister. Nodoka was able to compromise with her son on the matter. Where as she didn't quite understand, she could clearly see how close to two other sides were. She then left her son so he could have his privacy.

Back down stairs she sat on the couch with Ranka. She knew the girl wasn't completely against being lady like, and that she could share womanly likes with her. So while Ranma was having a nice bath, she put on a drama, romance for her and Ranka to watch. Ranka sweat dropped at all the cheating going on, like a love triangle. "So why doesn't she just kick the other girls ass?" Nodoka put her hand to her mouth. " Ranka.. language, and ladies do not solve problems with violence." Ranka blinked. " Why not?" Nodoka sighed as she shook her head back and forth. This must be how her son thought about such things as well. Ranka also seemed to turn to violence and she should be grateful that her daughter wasn't a complete tomboy, she had a bit of a violent streak, but she wasn't opposed to wearing dresses at least.

Not much later the siblings were reunited in their room, with Ranma in his girl form, taking up the compromise he had made with his mother. As long as he was in his girl form he could still be in the same room as his sister and of course they were allowed to visit each others rooms. Ranka could sense this as she was laying back in her own bed, reading a magazine again. " I guess you were able to come to a compromise with mom huh." Ranma-chan was laying back on her bed with a manga. " Yep, boy I didn't think that this is how the night would go.." Ranka smiled some at her. " Maybe not but you got through it and it was worth it, right? Now you don't have to pretend with her anymore." Ranma-chan smiled back. " Yeah, that is nice. I don't think it would've gone as smoothly as it did without your help, so thanks sis." Ranka smiled and gave her a thumbs up. "I'm just glad that you're happy." Ranma-chan grumbled a bit as she turned her manga page. " I would've been happier, if I was able to kick that perverted Ryouga's ass, earlier.." Ranka blinked at this. " Did something happen while you were off at the Tendo's earlier then?" Ranma-chan nodded with an annoyed look. " That pervert took a nap with Akane in the same bed! That's not even half of it, he took her bra off!" Ranka tossed the magazine down, before she ended up ripping it in half at what she was hearing. "He".. definitely is a pervert.." She muttered in annoyance. "I get what you're saying, but try to focus on the fact that you can be yourself with mom now. You'll pay back the pervert ten folds when you can." Ranma-chan nodded in agreement and went back to reading her manga, before they said their good nights.

As they all took their seats at the table, Nodoka made sure to address what was on her mind. "We had a nice celebration for Ranma last night, but I'm sure the Tendo's would also like to have one as well. So some time this weekend we should do that." She got a nod out of Ranma as he was too busy eating. Nodoka smiled a tad at the next thing to address. " I'll make preparation's with the school about Ranko." After that she made sure they had everything they needed for school, as she sent them off.

Ranma was really enjoying that he didn't have to wear the girls uniform or have to change back, that is until it started to rain, much to his dismay. Ranka was already prepared as she held the umbrella out over her wet sibling. Ranma-chan grumbled. " If it's not the old lady and her water, it's mother nature.. well I guess we still gotta stop at Doctor Tofu's after all."

After getting inside, Ranma-chan went off to go change. Ranka took a seat, while she was waiting and looked up at sensing someone standing over her. The tall girl with long blonde hair smirked. " Well well, if it isn't "red hot." Ranka blinked and pointed at herself with a confused look on her face. The blonde girl with green eyes nodded. Ranka blinked again. " Do I.. know you?" The blonde girl hehed. " I hope so, you kicked my ass, and my brother's ass." Ranka sweat dropped as she got a better look at the girl. " Oh.. yeah.. I guess I did, but you attacked me first so.." The blonde girl smiled a bit. " I'm Chrissy, but you can call me Chriss, yeah you really messed me up good, so good I had to come here. No one's ever messed me up that bad." Ranka wasn't quite sure what to make of the whole thing. " I'm Ranka, and well it's your fault you got messed up.." Chriss laughed haughtily. "I know. Yeah I like " red hot." better though." She winked at her as she took her leave out the door with her umbrella. " See ya around "red hot."

Once she was gone, Ranma came back from a back room and groaned at seeing from a window it was still raining. "Aww man.." He noticed Ranka looked weirded out. " Hey, did something happen while I was gone?" Ranka sweat dropped. " That girl I beat up, was happy I " messed her up."? It was Ranma's turn to sweat drop. " Sounds like a freak.." Ranka looked a little flustered. " Yeah.." Ranma grumbled and decided to borrow an umbrella for the time being, letting Doctor Tofu know and he'd return it after school, as they took their leave.

Since it was raining, Kuno wasn't outside and they were able to get inside without a fight. Ukyou greeted the siblings as they took their seats, and noticed Ranka looked a bit weird out. " Hey, whats eating you?" Thrista nudged her way in too. " Yeah, what Ukyou said." Ranka blinked. " I dunno, should someone be happy they got their ass kicked?" Thrista hmmed. " I wouldn't think so." Ukyou rubbed at her chin some. " Sounds like a weirdo." Ranka hmmed. " That's what Ranma said too." Ukyou hmmed back. " Sounds like you have another admirer." Ranka grumbled. " Cmon don't joke around about that, it's not funny.." Ukyou smiled back. " It is though, you and Ranma huney just have such bad luck with being admired."

Ranma and his two friends were chatting amongst themselves. Hiroshi jabbed Ranma with his elbow to get his attention. " So uh hey Ranma, what's your sister upset about?" Ranma swatted away at him for elbowing him. " Some girl she beat up before, seems happy about it, in a freaky way." Daisuke hmmed. "So she's weirded out by the other girl's reaction." Ranma nodded at his other friend. Hiroshi rubbed at his chin. " Well I can't really blame the girl, being beat up or saved or anything by Ranka is.." Ranma gave him a good kick to his leg, with an un amused look on his face, telling his friend to shut his mouth.

Cut to gym class and the usual trade off of checking the other girls lockers, split between Ranka and Akane, before the girls felt safe enough to change. Akane smiled as they both finished changing, being in a good mood, since she was needed as well. "So now your mom knows about Ranma huh." Ranka nodded as she finished tying her shoe laces. Akane finished tying hers as well. " I told him he should've just told her." Ranka gave her a dull look. " Yes but it needed to be done cautiously. Did you know after he told her, she was starting to go for her katana hmm?" Akane sweat dropped. " I didn't.. why would she do that?" Ranka shook her head. " Doesn't matter, what does is that I was able to reign her in, so she thought twice about it. As in blame the old man.. that's fair I'd say since the whole mess is "his" fault." Akane nodded. " No argument there."

The class went by without problems and soon it was time for lunch, with everyone putting their desks together. Hiroshi pouted as the girls were all sharing lunches. " Maybe I want some too." Ranma and Daisuke just ignored him. Thrista on the other hand having noticed the other day, didn't want the guys feeling left out either. She set down a pretty big lunch box, next to Ranma with a smile. " I'll share mine with you guys." Hiroshi had heart in his eyes as he tried to take the whole thing, only to be thwarted by his friends. Daisuke putting up a fight. " You heard her, it's for ALL of us to share." Hiroshi pouted. " But I don't want to." Ranma grumbled. " Too bad, that's what we're doing." Thrista giggled and went back over to the girls side, where she tried to share some of her lunch with Ranka, but also had another one for the girls to share.

Sayuri was impressed and tried not to let it get to her. Akane felt the same way to a point. Ukyou helped herself to some and was also impressed but it wasn't getting to her. " Wow Thrista, you really out did yourself, making so much food for everyone." Thrista smiled back. " No one should be left out and I don't mind sharing. It's worth it if it makes everyone happy and I like cooking." Ranka sweat dropped at her as she sipped on her juice box. She wasn't complaining but boy was she "over kill", going so far. Sayuri sighed as she ate her own lunch. " I can't top that.." Akane tried to make her friend feel better. "Well I can't even top you, so, don't feel too bad." Ukyou smiled as she munched. " You'd better not bring any cake's." Ranka shuddered at hearing that and being reminded of the huge fighting frenzy that had caused. " Yeah, you'd better not unless you have enough for the whole school.." Thrista blinked. " Why not the whole class?" Ranka shook her head at her. " Nope, because the whole school will want in on it."

Soon lunch had ended and the rest of the day went by, till it was time to go back home. Ranma was happy as it had stopped raining. The siblings said their good byes as they went off to Doctor Tofu's, to return the borrowed umbrella, as he ran off inside to do so. Ranka waited outside with her barrier up, making her jump as something smacked into it. Ryouga rubbed his head as he felt like he had walked into something, when he was trying to get closer to her, to say hi. Ranka glared at seeing who it was. "You've got a lot of nerve.." Ryouga waved his hands about. " Just hear me out." Ranma had come out and at spotted the lost boy, ran over and whacked him over the head. " YOU sure do.." He started cracking his knuckles. " Let's go Ryouga, you and me, I owe you a lot of beat downs.." His battle aura was flaring up around him.

Ryouga waved his hands about, thinking they were mad about something else and not knowing what they were really mad about. " I'm sorry it just happened.. it's not something that I wanted your mother to know.." Ranka furrowed her brow at him. " Oh what, that you're a pervert!" Ranma threw a punch at him, that he evaded. " Ooh yeah right, like it just happened how you took Akane's bra off her in her bed!" Ryouga jumped away with his face bright red. " Whaaa?! I would NEVER do that!" Ranma launched a kick at him, that knocked him back some. " Don't you lie man, I know you did! " Ranka had her arms crossed. " You do love Akane's boobs, you just can't keep yourself off them." Ryouga ducked another attack. " Whaa?! But I haven't, we made that promise the other day." Ranka's expression on her face turned deadly serious. " Did WE? It's like it went in one ear and out the other, and then every time I see you as P-chan, you've got your face in her boobs, so I don't want to hear it. Not to mention, you frickin bit me!"

Ryouga tried to fend off a furious Ranma as he blocked off a punch that was hurled at him. Ranma threw a few kicks at him as well. " Bad enough you were all over my mom!" Ryouga was able to avoid them. " But I haven't, I swear! Whaa? I didn't.." Ranma has his arms crossed. " Oh sure yeah, like you weren't in both our dressers!" Ryouga got red all over his face. " I wasn't! I swear!" Ranma glared daggers at him. " Oh yeah, like it was some other P-chan huh, or maybe you went and got some pig rabies or something."

Ranka just shook her head at him. " I know you wanna kick his ass but we only have so much time for that, unless you want mom's wrath on you." Ranma grumbled knowing she was right. " This isn't over with Ryouga.." They both started walking off.