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Chapter 11.5

Part 1

The clicking sound of gears and a watch was heard in the distance.

"Uminari City." Ranma said.

As he said that, the gears and watch started to spin in reverse, going faster and faster as images through Ranma's life ended up going on rewind into the past by seven years before the gears and watch stopped moving and then started to move forward at a normal speed.

"Um-in-ari?" Ranma, a young boy of ten years old wearing a white training gi, frowned in confusion. "Pops, what are we doing here?"

Next to him, a small girl with short, purple hair who was wearing what looked like a tube top and black shorts that clung to her, for her age, wide hips, giggled at the question. "Ranma, your dad probably spent all the money he had while we were training with the old magic man."

Genma, who had thinning hair, which was covered by his bandanna, rolled his eyes. "Boy! Girl! You both need to realize that you always need a source of money to do anything in the world. And no, I didn't spend it all." Genma huffed. "But as for why we're here, well, we don't have enough money to make it to the next part of our trip, so I need to spend the next few weeks here to gather up enough money and supplies to continue our journey." Adjusting the backpack on his shoulders, Genma pointed at them. "And you two need more education. A martial artist that can only use his hands and feet is defeated by a warrior who can use his head and think up new plans on the fly."

Ranma gave Genma an annoyed look, but didn't argue. After all, as dumb as Genma's ideas were at times, like making him learning to swim while throwing him into the middle of a lake, they seemed to work out in the end.

Lilith just grinned at Genma. "You just want someone to watch us while you work all day so that you don't get in trouble with the cops again, huh?"

Genma twitched, remembering the last time he had stopped in a city for more than a few days and nodded reluctantly. "Yes, but that's neither here nor now. Let's go and see if we can't find a good place to camp before I figure out what school to get you two into for a couple of weeks."

(-)

After locating a park that was near the edge of the city and that allowed camping, Genma nodded. "Alright, get your tents pitched here and then explore the city. Meet back here in a couple of hours." He said that to Ranma and then looked at Lilith, who grinned. "Just do whatever you want to do."

"I always do." Lilith said as she stretched and popped wings out of her back before flying off.

"How does she do that without being noticed?" Ranma asked and looked at Genma.

"Most people spend their lives looking straight ahead." Genma told him. "Very few people look up. It's why I've taught you how to fight in the air and jump to roofs." Genma got up and left. "Anyway, hurry up or you'll waste all your time putting your tent up."

"Already done." The ten-year-old Ranma told his dad. Genma looked at Ranma's tent and nodded. "See ya."

"Just don't get into more trouble than you're worth." Genma muttered as his son ran off. "...I'm getting too old, I'm starting to actually worry about him." Idly, Genma wondered what his life would have been like if he hadn't summoned Lilith before laughing. "I'd probably have more hair."

(-)

Nine-year-old Arisa Bannings was having a bit of a rough day. She was supposed to meet up with her friends and go to the park. Instead, when she got to the meeting point, she got a call from Suzuka that she was running late but would be there with Nanoha in five minutes. Which wasn't too bad, but it was annoying.

However, after two minutes, two large guys in street clothes walked up to her and she gulped, taking a step back.

"Miss Arisa Bannings?" The first said as he looked at her. "You'll have to come with us."

Arisa shook her head, turned and ran as fast as she could.

Which only got her half a block before the two men caught her and a car zipped up to them. "HELP!" Arisa screamed before one of the guys stuffed something into her mouth and she was thrown into the car. The two men got inside and the car zipped off. "MMMPH!" Arisa screamed and thrashed, but her thrashing was stopped as the first guy grabbed her by her throat and gave a squeeze. Not hard, but enough to make breathing hard.

"You behave, or you're going to find today gets a whole lot worse for you, got it?" The man asked gruffly and Arisa nodded, tears streaming down her face as she was dropped to the ground. As she laid there, she reached up and pulled out the item that had been stuffed into her mouth...

...Which was a paper bag.

Arisa didn't know what was going on, or why they were doing mean things to her. All she knew was that she was scared...

And she was missing a shoe!

Arisa didn't know how long the car ride was, but she did notice when the inside got dark and the car came to a stop. The men in the car got out and reached to grab her, but she kicked at his arm and scrambled out of the other car door, only to get grabbed by a couple of new people before she was picked up and slammed against the car. "OWWW!" She screamed as her arms were pulled above her head and she was tied up. "Let me go! Let me go!"

"Dang it, Bob! Bill!" The one tying her up glared at the two guys. "Why didn't you tie her up?"

"She was good and quiet over here." One of them replied back as he got up and walked over to Arisa, who was struggling even as another guy grabbed her legs and tied them up. "Listen, girl." The big man said as he grabbed her by her throat and lifted her up. "I guess we're going to have to get rough with you, since you won't shut up."

"Hey!" A new voice spoke up and a man wearing a casual suit walked into the center of the room. "Careful with the merchandise. We can't have her hurt or we can't get the full price for her."

'Full price?' Arisa thought to herself before she was dropped on her butt, coughing.

"Fine, fine." The big guy told the person in the suit.

"You know..." A skinny man said as he looked at Arisa and licked his lips. "We just have to make sure that nothing's permanent or visible, right?" Most everyone groaned but no one stopped him as he approached Arisa and pulled out a knife. "Let's have some fun, little girl." He grabbed her by her hair, getting a scream from Arisa as she was dragged away from the car. "Don't worry, I'll get her to shut up."

The boss rolled his eyes. "Freak. Anyway, I'll give those Bannings a call. If they don't hurry with the money, well, I can't stop you from having more fun with her."

The man chuckled and tossed Arisa into a pile where she cried out. "Now then..." He put the knife against her cheek and Arisa stiffened, staring in surprise. "Shh...shh... I don't want to hurt you. You'll be a good girl, won't you?" Arisa nodded and he grinned as he slowly and lightly scraped the knife across her cheek and down to her shirt. There was a tearing sound as his knife cut her shirt open, revealing her still developing body. "I love 'em when they're young."

"NO!" Arisa screamed, tears in her eyes as she realized that she couldn't get away while he cut down to her dress, leaving her in her panties and tattered clothes.

"Now, let's have some fun with you, girl." He licked his lips as he leaned in.

"NO! HELP!" Arisa screamed. "PLEASE!"

A soft crackle filled the air and suddenly the man who was tormenting Arisa jerked and spasmed before falling straight down.

"Huh?" One of the guys asked, before yelling in pain as something that looked like blue-white lightning slammed into his body and caused him to jerk as he fell over.

Arisa had no clue what was going on as some sort of white and black blur bounced around the place that they were in. Eventually the blur stopped, revealing a boy around Arisa's age with messy black hair that was tied up in a single rat-tail to keep it out of his eyes, in the center of the room with lightning crackling around his arms while people laid on the floor. Arisa didn't know what to make of what she was seeing. She had never seen anyone have electricity running across their arms and she had never seen anyone moving so fast and she had never seen someone get hit by electricity, get up and pull out a weapon. "LOOK OUT!" Arisa screamed as the boy turned as the guy pulled out a gun and fired it. While he was able to dive out of the way, the bullet stll hit his arm.

"That hurts!" The boy screamed as fire seemingly erupted from him and started to engulf the area.

Arisa watched as the boy rushed forward and struck the adult in the stomach several times, causing him to fall to his knees and grabbing his stomach before coughing and falling over. "W...wh...what?"

The boy hissed as he looked at his left arm and felt it. "That sucks." He muttered as the fires around him died out. Shaking his head, he ran over to Arisa. "Are you okay?" He asked and untied her.

Arisa stared at him before she started to sniffle and she hugged him. "WAAAAAH!"

"ACK!" The boy had a disgruntled look on his face and his cheeks turned pink as he realized that he had a nearly naked, crying girl clinging to him. "Knock it off, will ya?"

"WAAAAHHH!"

(-)

It was nearly half an hour later that found Arisa, now wearing the boy's shirt, trembling while she hugged him. The boy looked extremely uncomfortable as the police sirens pulled up to the side of the building.

"ARISA!" Two adults, who had come in their own vehicle, cried out as they saw the girl. The male of the two was rather tall and wearing a blue shirt and white pants. He had blue eyes and short, blond hair. The female of the two had honey-brown hair that hung down past her shoulders, light colored eyes and was wearing a casual mini-skirt and top with a short-sleeved jacket over her shoulders.

"M...mama?" Arisa sniffled as she recognized their voices. "Pa-papa?" She looked up and started bawling as they pulled her into a hug. "IT WAS SO SCARY!"

A young woman dressed up as a nurse walked up to the group. "I apologize, but if it's okay, may I make sure that everyone is okay?" The woman frowned as she saw the boy trying to walk off. "Excuse me, young man, your arm."

"It's fine." He waved her off before wincing. "Ah."

"Let's at least make sure that you get wrapped up, I don't think you want to get an infection, do you?" The nurse smiled as she pulled the boy to the side while another nurse took Arisa to a nearby ambulance and did did discreet checks on her body as she saw the state her clothing was in.

The adult man who had came to check on Arisa, nodded to his wife and she went to go with Arisa while he walked over to the boy who was getting his arm treated. Seeing the boy hiss and try to get away from the stinging ointment that was being put on his arm made the man chuckle. "Hello, son," he smiled at the shirtless boy as the nurse wrapped up his arm. "My name is David Bannings, and you seem to have saved my daughter, Arisa."

"Ah, that's her name?" The boy asked him and David nodded. "I just saw her getting thrown in a car and calling for help, so I ran after the car and ended up here."

"My, you seem to be quite good if you can do that." David smiled and looked up as he heard some footsteps. "Ah, officers."

"Morning." The taller of the two said and looked at the man. "I don't know what happened in there, but it looks like all of the crooks were taken out." He looked at the boy. "Son, I'd like to ask you some questions." He frowned in confusion as the boy shuffled away from him. "Hey, it's okay."

The shorter of the two elbowed his partner. "Just stay here." He walked over to the boy and crouched down to look him in the eyes. "Listen, son, I just want to know what happened here."

The boy nodded and backed up. "Sorry, don't got a lot of good experience with cops."

"Ah," the officer nodded, knowing many reasons why that was. 'Kid might be thief or something.' It didn't matter to the officer, "don't worry, I just want some information. Do you know what happened in there?"

"One of them had a knife and cut that girl, um..." The boy paused, "Arisa, right?" He looked at David, who nodded, "yeah, he cut her clothes off and looked like he was going to do something more, so I hit him in the head and knocked him out."

The officer raised an eyebrow. "You probably don't even weigh twenty kilos. How'd you knock out a full-sized man?"

The boy scoffed at him. "I'm a martial artist!" He said like that explained everything.

Shockingly, the officer who was kneeling in front of him nodded. "Ah, a training journey then?" He asked and the boy nodded. "What school do you practice?"

The boy's eyes lit up as he stood to his full height. "I'm Ranma Saotome of the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts!"

"Anything Goes?" The man stared in shock. "Oh, okay, now I believe that you could do that."

"You do?" David and the officer's partner asked as the man stood up and nodded.

"Yeah, I saw some crazy stuff when I was younger. My sister told me stories about a garden gnome that stole her panties when she was in the public baths." He shook his head. "Anyway, kid," he handed Ranma a card, "if you need help, give me a call on that number there, okay?"

The officer then walked away from Ranma and got his partner to go with him to check on Arisa.

David waited until they were gone and looked at Ranma. "You said you were on a training journey?" Ranma nodded and he paused. "Hmm... Well, I can't just turn down someone who saved my daughter." He smiled at Ranma. "How about I treat you to dinner?" The boy's eyes lit up. "Oh, you're not alone, are you?"

Ranma shook his head. "My pops and... I guess leech are with me too, we're supposed to meet at a park in a bit."

David nodded and smiled at Ranma. "How about I give you a ride there?" He looked at his wife, who held Arisa in a blanket. "Jodie!" The woman looked up at him. "Could you call the servants to bring another car down here? I'm going to give this young man a quick ride and then be back to the house."

She smiled and nodded. "Of course."

It was another few minutes before another car showed up and David shuffled Ranma into the car and it took off to go to the park where Ranma and his father were staying.

"Are you sure about letting him go, Lou?" The taller of the two officers asked.

"Yeah." Lou said with a nod. "Listen, Mal, if you want to live a good, long life, you have to realize that there's some things out there that you don't go digging too deeply into. We take care of normal things."

"But..."

"If he had said he was practicing any other style of fighting, I would have said he was a liar." Lou continued on. "When we get back, I'll give you the files on that fighting style that we have on record." He chuckled. "When you're done reading that, you'll understand why I didn't bother to detain him or anything."

(-)

Genma frowned in confusion as he saw Lilith, with her wings hidden, poking the ground with a stick. "Where's the boy?"

"I'm not his keeper." Lilith snorted dismissively. "How should I know where he is?" She smirked at Genma. "Maybe he ran away?"

Genma snorted, he doubted that. "Well, whatever, if he's not here, I guess I'll..." He paused as he heard his son's voice. "Hmm?" He turned to see Ranma running towards him while another man, with blonde hair, walked behind him. "Boy! What's going on?!"

The man behind Ranma smiled at Genma. "Let me thank you for raising such a fine young man, sir." Genma and Lilith both had confused looks on their faces, "your son saved my daughter from criminals who kidnapped her for ransom."

"Oh?" Genma looked at Ranma and then back at the man. "Well, I'm glad that your daughter is safe."

"Yes, from what your son told me, you'll only be in town for a few weeks and he mentioned something about school." Genma nodded slowly and the man smiled and bowed to him. "My name is David Bannings and I would be quite willing to help these two kids get into school for a few weeks and even ensure that you have enough funds for the next leg of your training journey."

Genma blinked in confusion and looked at Ranma. "Boy, what did you do?"

Ranma explained what happened and Genma nodded. "Ah, good job then." He looked at David. "Well, I'm not one to turn down hospitality." He smirked at the blond man. "I hope you have a large enough food budget."

David chuckled and nodded. "That's not a problem."

End Part 1

If you can't figure it out, this is a mix of Lyrical Nanoha and Triangle Hearts 3.