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Part 4

Genma nodded at Ranma and Lilith as they walked out of the school. "We're leaving tomorrow morning." Both of them nodded at him. "Go say your goodbyes tonight, we'll be gone by dawn." With that, Genma walked into the school building to begin the process of withdrawing the children from school. "It never gets easy." He muttered, knowing that it was hard on his kids to make friends. "...When did I start thinking about her like that?"

He supposed it didn't matter, she was an excellent sparring partner for Ranma and having a companion to talk, explore and play with when not training was more beneficial than Genma had first thought. 'If I had known that, I would have brought that one girl with us.' He tried to remember her name before sighing and shaking her head. "Then again, that was a few years ago." He shook his head and smiled as he walked into the principal's office.

(-)

"EH?!" Arisa yelled as she, Suzuka and Nanoha all got the news that Ranma and Lilith were leaving in the morning. The small group was at the Midoriya Cafe, which had only a couple of customers looking around. "You're leaving?!"

Ranma nodded and scratched the back of his head. "Yeah. Pops said that it's time to go. It's been a fun month though."

"So soon." Suzuka said and looked at Lilith, who looked away from her. "Although..."

"Oh!" Lilith smiled nervously at Suzuka. "I ran into your big sister the other day when she was shopping and we got to talking. Turns out that your family and my family had a falling out a long time ago." Ranma gave her a confused look as Suzuka's face had a look of understanding on it. "Don't worry, that was a long, long time ago, it was just some stories that I heard when I was younger is all."

"Oh." Suzuka smiled at Lilith. "I'm glad, I'm sorry that I didn't know."

"Hey, it's okay." Lilith smiled at her. "And I wasn to say that I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have been such a meanie to you."

"Now if only she'd get rid of those evil furry demons." Ranma muttered before she got a smack on the back of the head. He glared at Arisa, who let out a noise of annoyance as she turned away from him.

"Now, now..." An older woman with a supple body, long, reddish-brown hair, said as she came up to their table and put a small tray of food on the top for them. "Here, have some food. And Ranma, Lilith..." She smiled and handed them two bags. "A going away present from us to you. You two have been good friends with Nanoha, I know that she'll be sad to see you two leave."

"Thanks, Mrs. Takamachi." Lilith smiled at her.

"Your mom is really pretty." Ranma said to Nanoha, who just laughed.

"Oh goodness me!" Nanoha's mother smiled at them. "You keep saying that about me. Even though I'm old enough to be your mother."

"But it's true." Ranma protested and the older woman just smiled at that.

"Just for that, you two can call me Momoko, okay." She winked at them. "But please remember, I'm a bit too old for you."

Nanoha, Ranma and Lilith all laughed while Suzuka and Arisa just looked on in confusion.

(-)

It was an hour later that found Nanoha, Yuuno, Ranma and Lilith at the shrine where they all discovered each other had access to magic. "Sure is nice when someone isn't corrupted by alien magic stuff, huh?" Ranma asked, getting a nod from the others.

"So..." Nanoha began, her voice soft, "what are you going to do next?"

Ranma shook his head. "Not sure. We're going to be traveling, eating under the stars, training and moving around. Unless the guy who taught me and Lilith magic shows up again." He looked at Lilith in confusion. "So, what's the real story with you and Suzuka anyway?"

"Yeah!" Nanoha pouted at Lilith. "Was that a lie?"

Lilith shook her head. "No, it's true..." She looked around before nodding. "See, Suzuka's family, like four or five hundred years ago, used to live in Makai with my dad."

"Your dad is that old?!" Nanoha's eyes were white and blank, her twin pigtails were standing on end.

"Yeah." Lilith nodded at her question. "I've never met him, but anyway, Suzuka's big sister recognized my family name. She wanted to make sure that I wasn't here to try and do something bad to her sister since apparently Suzuka's ancestor did something that made my dad super mad and he kicked her family out of Makai."

"Why would Suzuka-chan's family be in Makai?"

Lilith shrugged. "I dunno, but she's apparently got some ancestor from Makai, so she has some demon blood in her family. Shinobu asked me not to tell Suzuka for now and that she'll find out in the future on her own."

"Well..." The ferret spoke up from where Nanoha was holding him. "Suzuka seems like a nice girl, so whatever her family did in the past shouldn't be held against her."

"I'm not." Lilith shook her head. "I just felt like "eww" when I first met her. I don't feel like that now." She looked at Yuuno. "So, when are you going to show them your real form?"

Nanoha looked confused and Yuuno just laughed nervously. "Well, I guess I've healed enough now." He jumped out of Nanoha's hands and glowed, transforming from a ferret to a young boy with short, blond hair and green eyes. He was wearing cargo shorts and a tan shirt. "What gave it away?" He asked Lilith.

Lilith just grinned. "Ferrets can't talk."

"Ah, good point." Yuuno nodded. "Though..."

"AHHH!" Nanoha screamed as she pointed at Yuuno. "F-f-ferret! Boy! Not boy! Not ferret! AHHH!"

"...Didn't I show you this form when we first met?" Yuuno asked in confusion.

"NO!" Nanoha shook her head, her eyes white and blank. "How come?!"

"Uh..." Yuuno thought about it before his eyes went white and blank. "AH! That's right! I was injured and turned into a ferret to heal before I contacted Nanoha for help!"

Ranma looked confused as he looked at Lilith, who was right next to him, and then back at Nanoha, who was still was screaming. "I don't get it. He was a ferret, so what? It's not like he saw you naked."

"But he did!" Nanoha protested and rushed up to Ranma and grabbed him by his shirt. "He saw me! And Miyuki-onee-chan! And mama! And Arisa-chan! And Suzuka-chan! And Falin-san! And Shinobu-san! And, and and and..."

"Calm down, I get it." Ranma pulled her hands off of his shirt. "Sheesh, I don't get why you're upset. It ain't like you got much of anything to look at."

There was a crack that echoed in the distance and Nanoha lowered her head. "Oh? Is that so?" Her voice, which had been borderline hysterical a moment before, was suddenly deeper and quieter.

"Uh..." Ranma gulped as he saw a pink aura surrounding Nanoha as she looked up at him, her eyes glowing brightly. "...Yes?"

"RANMA YOU DUMMY!" Nanoha yelled as the area was surrounded by pink orbs that bombarded Ranma. Sadly for Lilith, as she was right next to Ranma, she was caught up in the pink explosions.

When the explosions were over, Yuuno sweat-dropped as he saw Ranma and Lilith face-down in the dirt, smoking from the attacks. "Ah, Nanoha... That was too much, I think."

"Don't make fun of a girl's figure!" Nanoha huffed in anger.

"N-noted." Ranma groaned.

"What the hell?!" Lilith yelled as she pushed herself up to her knees. She was covered in soot and dirt. "I get that you're upset, but you don't need to blow up people who tease you." Nanoha pouted and Lilith stood up and walked over to Nanoha and threw her arm over Nanoha's shoulders. "Come on, I'll show you the best way to get back at someone for teasing you."

Yuuno walked over to where Ranma was and crouched down, poking him with a nearby stick. "Hey! You okay?"

"Yeah..." Ranma groaned as he pushed himself up. "She's cute but scary."

"Well," Yuuno smiled at him, "in my clan, there's a saying, the cuter the girl, the more likely she'll have a temper on her, so don't make them mad."

Ranma glowered at him. "Could have warned me."

Several minutes later, Nanoha and Lilith came back over to where Ranma and Yuuno were at. For some odd reason, Nanoha was looking at Ranma oddly. If he was older, he might have called it coy. "So..." Nanoha smiled at Ranma. "You think I don't have much to look at?"

Ranma and Yuuno looked at each other in confusion and then back at Nanoha, who was tugging at her collar, pulling her shirt down slightly and exposing more of her body than either boy was used to seeing. "See?" She winked and bent over before reaching down with her left hand and tugging at the waist of her skirt, showing a hint of her white panties. "Are you sure that I don't have anything to look at?"

"That is..." Ranma sputtered as he saw the way she was showing skin and her panties, along with the amused look on her face. "But, I..."

"Butt?" Nanoha gasped in surprise. "You want to see my butt?"

"No, yes, I, ARRGH!"

Suddenly both Nanoha and Lilith started laughing as Nanoha pulled her hands away from her clothes. "See?" Lilith told her. "That's better, isn't it?"

"Y-yeah." Nanoha nodded, though her face was red from what she had done. "You were right."

Lilith smiled at her and put her hands on Nanoha's shoulders. "Keep practicing your teasing and soon it'll be second nature to you."

For some reason, that made both Yuuno and Ranma terrified.

"Anyway, I need to go." Lilith told them. "I gotta go meet with someone and tell her goodbye."

Both Ranma and Nanoha nodded as Lilith extended her wings and flew up into the air. "You know, I don't know how no one sees her." Nanoha wondered.

Ranma shrugged at that. "People don't bother to look up."

Nanoha nodded, that sounded reasonable.

(-)

Landing in the penthouse where Fate and Arf were staying, Lilith sighed as she saw Fate sleeping on the bed with Arf, in her wolf form, laying at Fate's feet. Walking over to Fate, she gently shook the blonde awake. "Hey..."

Fate yawned and blinked a few times. "Lilith?" She looked around blearily. "You're here early. You usually come after dark."

"Yeah, well..." Lilith sighed softly. "I have to tell you that I'm leaving in the morning." Fate gave her a surprised look. "Yeah, it's time that I left with Ranma and Genma."

"Ah." Fate had a sad look on her face. "I'll miss you."

Lilith paused as she looked at Fate and then at Arf before an idea came to her mind. "Fate!" She grasped the tiny blonde's hands. "Come with us."

"Huh?" Fate gasped in surprise. "What do you mean?"

"I mean it!" Lilith told her. "Forget your mother! She hurts you. Come with me, Ranma and Genma! You can travel with us! See Japan! We'll protect you from her."

"But..." Fate pursed her lips and shook her head. "Mother will know if I leave and she can attack you from where she is. I don't want her to hurt you."

Lilith smiled and pulled Fate into a hug. "Fate, if you want to leave, just say so. Ranma and I can call our magic teacher and he can either take all of us out of this world or he could even fight your mother for you."

Fate trembled and hugged Lilith back. "Thank you, my friend. I want to help mother though."

Fate just knew that if she got the Jewel Seeds for her mother that her mother would give her the praise and happiness that she used to give her.

Lilith sighed and nodded. "Alright." She smiled as she heard Fate yawn. "Do you mind if I stay here with you for a bit?" Fate shook her head and the two snuggled into bed. "I'm not going to be here when you wake up though." She whispered and kissed Fate on the forehead. "Have some good dreams." Lilith hoped that Fate's dreams would come true and that her mother really could be saved by those Jewel Seeds.

It was too bad for Fate that she would soon discover that she was a clone of Precia Testarossa's real daughter, Alicia Testarossa and Precia never cared about Fate the same way she did her daughter.

Fortunately for Precia, she only revealed this after Ranma, Lilith and Genma were gone. It was never a good idea to make a Succubus angry after all.

End Part 4

And thus the tale of how Ranma met Nanoha, Fate and Yuuno comes to an end. There's one more part of the flashback, where they meet Hayate and Co.