Ranma and the Talismans chapter 6

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Hair Trouble & The Intruder

The three girls had finally made it back to the house, but the site that welcomed them was downright bizarre. Ranma was still in female form with a smile even brighter than that of Kasumi. With a cheery voice, the redhead said, "welcome home Jade! I hope my favorite student had a wonderful day! I have set out a plate of cookies just for you in the dojo. why don't we start our one-on-one practice right now"?!

This site was so bizarre that the girls barely even registered the fact Ranma in the span of two or three hours went from having the shortest haircut in the household (excluding Genma) to easily having longer hair than Kasumi or Akane. A weirded out Jade said, "Ranma are you feeling all right? You were definitely upset the last time I saw you. Now you're acting like you woke up from a nap on a bed of clouds".

Ranma chuckled, at this and responded, "I am filling just fine Jade. Now let's get some master and student alone time". The redhead after saying this promptly grabbed Jade's arm and began dragging her out to the Dojo. However, she was stopped by Jade's two cousins.

Nabiki worried about her fiancé said, "Ranma, even though I have only known you for less than a month I can tell some things got you shaken up. Tell me and maybe I can help. Besides if you don't tell me, I'll figure it out myself and sell the information to the highest bidder".

Akane added, "Ranma I know how long hair takes to grow. I also know for a fact you would be rocking a shortcut after what Ryoga did earlier. So you need to fess up right now on what's going on with your hair"?!

Ranma took a deep breath, and said in a voice more reminiscent of her own, "fine I guess you two at least deserve an explanation. Although not right now, we need to get somewhere the P-a-n-d-a won't hear us. Follow me to the dojo and I'll give you all an explanation".

Dojo

Ranma scanned her surroundings before closing the door. Immediately after the girl looked carefully at the rafters for any sign of her father. When Ranma made sure the coast was clear the redhead quietly began telling her story.

"About a week after leaving the Jusenkyo valley region me and my father decided to split up for a few hours. Pops would set up camp and collect firewood, meanwhile, I would look for food. The problem was thanks to an incident involving a relentless Chinese girl with a sword I wasn't able to get any food in my stomach for at least two days".

Jade glimmered in excitement after hearing this and immediately raised her hand. However, Ranma dismissed the idea by saying, "Jade I'm only willing to disclose one traumatic event right now. So you just have to wait before I tell you the story about me and the village of Chinese Amazons". Jade immediately lowered her hand at this explanation and annoyed grabbed a cookie from the plate Ranma had set up. Seeing there were no more questions the cursed victim continued their story.

"In my female form, I managed to stumble upon a small village, nestled in the mountains. Immediately after entering the village, I heard a man call out the Chinese word for thief. Which is one of the few Chinese words I know. Regardless, it took me a second to stop the thief, but what he's stolen, set my stomach growling. The criminal had stolen a bowl of porridge, but after not eating for a few days, the food looked so good I immediately devoured the whole thing before the porridge's owner catches up. However, instead of thanking me, or asking me to pay for the food the guy checked my gender the same way as Akane here, by ripping my shirt open".

Akane annoyed interrupted the story. "How does this in any way relate to the pigtail Ryoga cut off, and you suddenly getting over a foot of luscious red locks"?

Ranma glared, and then replied, "I was just about to get to it. Now can you three save all your questions for after I am done telling the story? I want to finish my explanation before Pops gets here"!

The gender-bending, martial artist promptly continued her tale. "luckily for me the man was able to speak Japanese and forgave me for eating the porridge. In fact, he was even nice enough to sell me some takeout".

"At the restaurant, the man told me that the porridge I ate had magical properties and that it had no effect on females, but to some men, it would bring indescribable happiness. In curiosity, I decided to get some hot water and change back, but then I realized I made the biggest mistake in my entire visit to China on that day. Because the magical porridge I eat didn't contain a miracle or harmless ingredient, it contained a curse 1000 times greater than that of Nyannīchuan"!

Ranma shivered at the memory before continuing. Within a minute after turning back, I grew so much hair that the restaurant flooded with my black locks. It only stopped when the restaurant owner tied a Chinese magical, relic known as the dragon's whisker around my hair. The dragon's whisker if used as an ingredient gives the food miraculous hair growth properties".

"I am not sure if the magic of the dragon's whisker works only on men, or the dish itself works only on boys. All I do know is that if a bald man eats dragon whisker porridge they will instantly grow A-grade luscious hair. However, if someone with hair like myself eats it they will grow hair at a rapid rate to the point that they will be in a sea of hair in a minute, and will continue to grow hair for a week and then go bald! Luckily, the dragon's whisker can also act as a seal for my hair curse, or at least it used to before Ryoga shredded it"!

Nabiki while chewing on her fourth cookie muttered, "no wonder you were in such shock Ranma baby. Without the dragon's whisker, you are forced to experience a fate some would consider worse than death, or stay in the body you dislike for the rest of your life. This also explains why you were trying to butter up Jade earlier. You were trying to convince your student to get the supposed wizard to fix your hair curse. The one thing I don't understand is why were you being so secretive about it".

Ranma huffed, and said, "have you met my father? If Uncle has a dragon's whisker Pops would instantly try to steal it and use it on himself. The panda would then take the whisker again sometime in the future, and sell it to whoever can provide him with a good lunch".

Ranma in anger quietly shouted "Genma Saotome is second only to Nabiki when it comes to greed. However, unlike my fiancé, the guy is willing to literally sell his family to make a quick buck, without any thought of the consequences! A few years ago, I had to stop him from trading me for a few happy meals"!

Jade grimaced at her sensei's words before replying, "I will go call Uncle right now and see if he can help with the hair curse".

Akane followed up with, "no worries Ranma I'll try to keep the secret away from Genma. It's the least I can do after you solved my hentai horde problem".

Nabiki added to her sister's comment by saying, "no worries Ranma I know how to keep a secret. Besides, there's no money to be made from selling this information. Even if there were I already made a promise to you to keep the secret, and I truly want to stay in your good graces, beautiful".

Ranma's eyes began to tear up in joy, but the look on the redhead's face quickly switch to shock as she began to stammer at Nabiki's last comment. Meanwhile, the middle sister laughed as she left the room along with the other two girls.

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Dinner

Everyone sat around the table in silence enjoying their meals. However, the silence was broken by Kasumi when she cheerfully said, "Ranma that longhair style you're trying out looks wonderful. I never knew you had so much hair in that pigtail".

Nabiki with a slight blush added, "your male form might be able to make braided hair look charming. Although, you rock the long hair in female form.

Ranma in response to the sister's praise rubbed the back of her head in pride. Although, a grumpy Genma had to pop his current daughter's joyful bubble by saying, "Why are you still a girl, boy!? do you have any pride"?

Ranma quickly countered by saying, "I saw you walking around as a panda for two days straight last week. Besides, at least I'm still human"!

Angry Genma commented, "I at least get my hair back as a Panda. what's your excuse for being a weak girl"?

All the Tendo sisters and Jade began staring daggers at Mr. Saotome. Battle auras even began to manifest behind Nabiki and Kasumi. Genma scooted back in fear and quickly apologized by saying, "sorry girls I have been a little on edge since the panda exhibit at the zoo got destroyed by two teenagers earlier today". Genma's focus and rage quickly shipped it back to his kid when he said, "although my attitude doesn't explain why Ranma isn't changing back"!?

Ranma began to sweat at this, but luckily his student has an explanation already set up and was more than willing to pull her sensei out of the oven. "You know I just got off the phone with Uncle and he said he was coming within the next 24 hours". Jade pause for a second to wink at the redhead before continuing. "Uncle also said he wanted Ranma to stay in his curse form to help with his examination. I told this fact to my sensei earlier, so unless you want to lower your chances of being cured uncle Genma you may want to prepare to have a daughter instead of a son for a little while".

Genma after hearing this hugged his currently female son in joy before saying, "why didn't you say so sooner, boy? By tomorrow night we're going to be cured"! However, this happy mood quickly vanished as the part-time panda took some pickles off of his kid's plate. This began the two's normal food-stealing ritual from each other".

Meanwhile Soun just handed his oldest daughter ¥20,000 and said, "why don't you make something nice for when Uncle gets here".

Kasumi calmly replied, "father this is a little much for just one quick visit. I'm sure I could make do with what…".

However, her father interrupted with tears running down his face. "Please Kasumi if you want Jade to stay we have to make sure Uncle's visit goes well"!

The Tendo matriarch confusedly nodded her head and said, "in that case, I will cook a meal fit for a King when Uncle arrives".

Middle of the night, Tendo house

A still bruised Ryogahad finally found the Tendo household and all it took him to find the place was at least 12 hours. Pretty impressive if he says so himself. He had even managed to stay dry despite the pouring rain to boot. Ryoga muttered to himself these words, "2:07 AM will be the time of my revenge Ranma Saotome. My revenge wouldn't be delayed by the time of day, a few injuries, or by the elements around us".

Mustering all of his stealth skills the eternally lost boy jumped over the fence and saw a problem. There were three buildings inside the property and he didn't know which one Ranma was in. Randomly choosing one Ryoga's luck continued when he saw his rival sound asleep right beside an snoring... giant panda?

The boy shrugged his shoulders thinking Ranma and Genma smuggled a panda out of China. He might have not known Ranma's father that well, but he was sure the guy has done worse than moving animals across borders. This however wasn't the time to contemplate crimes the Saotome family had done. It is time for his revenge.

Ryoga whispered, "wake up Ranma It's time to fight me". Yet the Saotome just continued to snore. Ryoga spoke up once again but louder, "come on wake up already". Yet all the traveler got was a louder snore. The yellow-clad boy had enough launched a powerful punch to Ranma's forehead, and yelled at the top of his lungs, "wake up"! However, Ranma avoided the attack by rolling over in her sleep.

Ryoga's efforts didn't wake up his rival, but he did wake up a very angry panda. The animal pulled out a sign that read, [quiet!] Then with one mighty swing, the creature sent the two teenagers flying outside, before closing the door.

Ryoga was able to open up his umbrella just in the nick of time, but Ranma wasn't so lucky. The sleeping girl got flung straight into the koi pond, and this finally woke her up. An irritated redhead came climbing out and snarled the words. "Ryoga what are you doing here in the middle of the night? This has gone on too far what could I have possibly done to make you so mad"!?

After being asked the same question why he is out for revenge at least 10 times Ryoga finally realized Ranma truly doesn't know the full story. So, he decided to enlighten his rival before he beat her into a stain on the ground. "Listen! These may be your last moments on this earth, so the least I can do is tell you why I am out for revenge! After you skipped out on our duel, I followed you to China".

Ranma in shock said, "how did you follow me to China Ryoga."?!

The boy holding the umbrella angrily answered, "It takes everything I have to avoid accidentally getting lost in other countries. So traveling to China and following the greatest source of chaos I know was surprisingly easy".

This answer seemed to make Ranma a little worried when she then asked, "don't tell me you went to Jusenkyo". Ranma then giggled before saying, "and now you transform into something when you get wet"?

Ranma's assumption was right on the money as Ryoga lunged in anger at his adversary. However, even with wet clothes sticking to her body she effortlessly avoided the attack. If Ryoga had difficulty hitting Ranma before, then him trying to hit Ranma while holding an umbrella with one arm would have been nearly impossible. Yet this didn't stop the eternally lost boy from trying.

Under normal circumstances Ranma would have dragged on the fight, but since she was mad about the dragon's whisker. This particular fight was especially brutal. Ranma purposely targeted spots on the body she was sure was still in pain from the earlier battle. All the anger of having to deal with the second curse made each hit twice as powerful. With no more than a minute. Ryoga's grip on the umbrella notably slackened, and the redhead seeing her opportunity took her rival's spare weighted umbrella. Quickly noticing the drops of rain falling on his body the boy ran hoping to make distance before the curse took effect. The eternally lost boy successfully leaped over the fence before disappearing. This was quickly followed by Ranma trying to keep track of his fellow cursed victim.

The red-haired girl looked all around the streets yet she couldn't see a single living being wandering the roads. Yet all her searching eventually bared fruit when she saw Ryoga's bag abandoned. looking around Ranma also found her rival's clothes discarded. Figuring there must've been an animal close by she continued searching. At least she had Ryoga's umbrella to keep her partially dry.

However, even with the umbrella's help mug began to cling to her bare legs. Yet Ranma has spent enough time hitchhiking that a little mud wouldn't slow her down. What's a little mud to stop her from finding Ryoga?

Akane's room

Akane was sound asleep until she heard the sounds of a pile of books on her desk dropping. She quickly got up and hollered out, "who's there, come out". Yet no matter which way she turned her head the girl either saw nothing or only got a glimpse of a blur zipping by.

She got out of her bed and frantically try to catch the intruder. With one lucky slap Akane manage to knock the creature out of mid-air and the intruder's identity was revealed. The creature was a little black, soaking-wet, piglet with a yellow tiger-striped bandanna. The animal was startled and slightly territorial, but to Akane, all she saw was an adorable black bundle of Joy.

She calmly got on her knees and held out her hand to the pig. In a calm voice, the youngest sister said, "where did you come from? Come on, don't be afraid". With those words spoken Akane was finally able to pick up the piglet and began to dry it off. She held the animal close and said, "you're Drenched! Were you in the rain all this time"?

After successfully drying the pig off. Akane noticed the bruises dotting the pig's body and said, "those are some nasty bumps you have. I have some words to say to whoever is the insensitive, violent jerk who did this to you. At least I can put some medicine on those boo-boos. But first, let's give you a name, how about P-Chan"?

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Meanwhile in the house

Jade awoke from a ruckus in the yard, yet when she looked outside, she saw the yard was empty from her window. Yet before she could fall back asleep the girl from Hong Kong heard the sounds of someone moving downstairs. Quietly Jade Chan made her way down the stairs. luckily, it only took a single look to put her nerves at ease. The girl then said "So what got you up so early in the morning Ranma? By the way, what's the dog doing here"?

The redhead simply replied to Jade's comment by saying, "oh nothing for you to worry about. Ryoga came by looking for a fight, but I chased him off in like two minutes. While I was up I saw a lost dog. Can't leave the animal out in this weather". After saying this Ranma leaned forward and whispered into the Dog's ears, "no worry Ryoga I'll keep your secret. It's the warrior's code. even if you don't deserve it after what you did".

Jade at that moment decided to take a closer look at the dog, saw its caller, and said, "it appears the Yamane's dog has gotten out again".

Ranma couldn't help but say, "what" in response. Quickly rushing to the kitchen she grabbed a hot kettle of water, came back, forced Jade to turn her head away from the canine, and poured the content of the kettle onto the hound. Yet no transformation took place, just a dog trying to shake itself dry twice in one night. All Ranma could say to this was, "well don't I feel stupid".

Meanwhile, Jade couldn't help but start laughing at this scene. "Hahaha. You thought that dog was Ryoga?! If the dog was Ryoga he would be looking a lot more lost right now, and be trying to bite your legs off". However, Jade immediately stopped laughing when she realized the most important fact about Ranma thinking Ryoga was a dog, "don't tell me Ryoga has a curse like you and Genma"?!

Ranma in shock spat out the words, "how on earth did you figure that out, Jade"?

The black-haired girl simply replied, "Tch, why else would you pour hot water on a dog, and make me turn my head? besides, I can't think of any other reason you would risk being so close to a warm kettle unless you were planning on making Kasumi and Akane even more jealous. Although if you were planning on doing that you would've done it when you were alone".

Ranma couldn't help but nod her head in affirmation. "Yes, you were right on the money. Ryoga has a curse like me and Pops. That guy somehow followed me to China. The one problem is I have no idea what animal he transforms into. All I know is it must be something pretty weak and defenseless if he is willing to go through all this trouble to kill me for it".

Akane finally made it downstairs and announced, "look at the precious baby I found curled up in my room". She held The little piglet up for the two awake members of the household to gaze upon. Jade almost immediately began cooing and aaahing the piglet. Meanwhile, Ranma was indifferent to the small black creature.

The piglets seem to of gotten extremely agitated when he got a glimpse at the pigtailed girl. Akane in response quickly help the pig close to her chest and began rocking the creature back and forth. Akane muttered

"what got you so mad? Hush now, if you don't calm down I wouldn't be able to put some medicine on those injuries".

P-Chan in response to this action seem to calm down and nuzzled into Akane's bosom. Ranma at that moment saw the oinker had a warm glow on its cheeks and amazed said, "what? the pig is blushing".

Dismissively Akane replied to her fiancé, "don't be silly. Animals can't blush".

Jade took a look herself and said, "Akane it's only a superstition that animals can't blush, and that pig is definitely blushing with those red cheeks".

Ranma then took the pig from Akane and victoriously yelled, "dirty little hog! I knew it, this pig's a he". The two girls then took a peek themselves and Ranma was right on the money. However, this type of attention seemed to have got the farm yard animal agitated as it tried to claw at the redhead's face.

Akane seeing this quickly grabbed a hold of her new pet and began treating P-Chan's injuries. Meanwhile Jade stood there with a skeptical look forming on her face. Strangely, a farmyard animal would find itself in Akane's room, but for a male pig to blush near her cousin's chest and act aggressively when near Ranma was just weird. However, before Jade's mind could form any conclusions Ranma announced, "well It has been fun, but I am going to take a hot bath". Yet after those words left the girl's mouth Ranma growled, and said, "never mind I am going back to bed.

In response to this, the little pig sneezed, and Akane took a closer look at the animal. P-Chan may not be all that dirty for an animal known for wallowing in the mud, but the pig had more dirt on it than Akane liked when treating its wounds. The youngest Tendo hollered to her fiancé and asked "why don't you wash P-Chan for me? Surely it wouldn't be too much trouble and besides, it looks like you need a bath yourself".

With those words said the resident redhead angrily shouted, "have you forgotten that I need to steer clear of hot water, Akane"?!

Akane rolled her eyes and said, "you don't have to make the water that hot just room temperature. Besides I know you want to get that mud off your legs. Might as well clean yourself along with this little guy".

Ranma being too tired to start a fight grabbed ahold of the pig and made her way to the washroom. Akane's simple request prove to be more trouble than what the youngest Tendo sister would care to admit. As it took Ranma keeping one leg on the pig, or both arms fully stretched well holding on to it, to keep the animal from escaping or clawing her face off. By the time Ranma had successfully gotten inside the furo, she had enough.

The redheads shouted, "squealing won't help you so why don't you just enjoy the water and take a bath". When the pig emerged from the water it began to swimming to the plug and let the water drain out. P-Chan then began to mess with the hot water knob with its hooves. Ranma's anger subsided for a moment as she said, "I will give you this you little oinker you are smarter than I thought. You got the hot water flowing, and made sure you didn't overflow the tub. Maybe you belong to one of those pig sumo trainers I heard about"?

Ranma seeing Akane's pet was cleaning itself and not trying to claw a hole through her decided to leave it alone for a while. The redhead within a few minutes had successfully washed all the dirt and grime off her legs when she heard the piglet chuckle sinisterly. These chuckles quickly switched to that of a human and Ranma's blood went cold. She slowly turned to the tub and P-Chan had disappeared, and in its place stood Ryoga.

Ranma was so shocked and Ryoga was so vengeful that the two didn't even realize the black-haired boy was naked. With anger boiling more than the water around him Ryoga hiss, "Ranma you are dead". The boy sent a punch at the girl, but Ranma was able to block the attack with a nearby wash bucket, and subsequently said, "hold on. Why on earth would you go anywhere near Jusenkyo, Ryoga?! Please give me the full story before you start trying to punch my face in again"!

Holding back his rage Ryoga was able to hiss out the full story, "I've endured unbearable torments chasing after you. China is a big place, but it's even bigger when you're crossing it on foot. Mile after mile after mile,

I wandered looking for any lead or hint about you and your father. I even traveled to India, Russia, and Mongolia a few times just for a shot at our rematch. Until that terrible day".

"I had finally tracked you down to the cursed training ground of Jusenkyo. However, a tragedy struck me before I can meet up with you".

"Overlooking a cliff a Panda came out from the under grove straight at me. I was able to jump out of the way, but some crazy red-haired girl in a GI also came from the foliage. The girl was screaming like a banshee at the panda and knocked me out of the way in mid-air. I tried to correct my course but it was too late. I fell off the cliff and into one of the springs below".

Ryoga had to stop to grit his teeth in rage. After a few dozen deep breaths, he was finally able to spit out the rest of his story. "I don't know how, but somehow I enter the pool as a man and came out as a pig. I had no idea how long I helplessly splashed in the water trying in desperation to keep myself afloat, but eventually, the panda from before came and took me out of the water. However, that panda was no savior. It was a harbinger of doom".

"Gleefully the beast skipped me over to what looked to be the Jusenkyo guide. The guy prepared his cooking instruments and sharpened his giant butcher knife. The Chinese man continuously either talked about how he was going to make me into Sweet and sour pork, or that I might be someone who fell into the spring of drowned pig. However, no matter what I tried to do to convince him the panda somehow convince the Chinese man that the piglet he found was just a normal delicious animal".

"Luckily the man decided to drop me into the pot of super-heated water before cutting me up. I immediately transformed back after making contact with the water, and the guy refused to cook me. However, the burns from the hot water left my entire body scarred, and in extreme agony for two weeks. I would have sworn vengeance against the guide if he and his family didn't treat my burns".

"This is all your fault Ranma if you'd only shown up to take your beating like a man".

However, Ranma finally decided to interject by saying "hold up! didn't you say that it was some weird girl who kicked you into the cursed spring? Why don't you just go after the girl with the panda instead? I'm sure they deserved…".

At that moment Ranma realized the identity of the girl responsible for Ryoga's curse. However, at that moment her father in panda form decided to walk in, and subsequently give Ryoga the same realization. Even for someone as dense as Ryoga, it didn't take him long to realize the girl and panda that were responsible for his curse were standing right in front of him.

Seeing Ryoga was completely naked the panda held up a sign that read, [pardon me] and left.

Ranma flinched back and instinctively tried to look cute as the ceramic tiles and wood under Ryoga began to splinter and crack under the internally lost boys growing rage. "That girl was you Ranma! You're the one who knocked my life into hell!" Ryoga screamed in unholy vengeance, his voice barely able to give form to the emotions coursing through his veins. "I'm gonna kill you!"

Ranma frantically tried to crawl away, but Ryoga grabbed onto her hair and shouted, "now you die"! Under normal circumstances, a girl in Ranma's position would find her worst nightmare was being realized. However, thanks to years of training under life, and death situations by her father Ranma was able to find a method of survival through rapid, eternal panicking.

Ranma narrowly avoided Ryoga's blow and dove backward to get splashed by the hot water, and immediately turned back into a guy. His plan was risky, but if it worked the Tendo house could avoid being damaged by his rival. The eternally lost boy shouted, "don't think just because you transformed back into a guy you could. avoid.. my… wrath"?

Ryoga was left speechless by the site in front of him. Ranma's hair was growing at least one foot every few seconds. Ranma seeing his rival distracted rushed to the cold water tap, immediately turned it on, and subsequently turned into a girl. With her hair no longer growing at a ridiculous rate, she pulled the hair to herself, dragging Ryoga along. The boy didn't fly far, but he flew out of range of the hot water, and into the spray of cold liquid.

Just like that, the seemingly unstoppable force that was threatening Ranma became a helpless piglet. The young Saotome smirked at this before saying, "for a moment you had me scared there Ryoga. However, when you're like this, even my butt could stop you in your tracks".

Ryoga's rage seemed to have disappeared for a moment as he looked around at his surroundings. He was snout first into a cute girl's rump. This realization quickly rushed through P-Chan's mind as he fell over with blood dripping from his nose. Ranma hesitantly, picked up the pig from his bandanna and walked back to the laundry room. She knew Ryoga might be down, but when he eventually regained consciousness, she at the very least, wanted to be dried off and be outside when the fight inevitably occurs.

Ranma's suspicions soon became realized. Because she barely had time to turn off the hot water and dry off before the piglet regained consciousness, and was ready to brawl. The farm yard animal wailed a battle cry and began bouncing around the laundry room. Despite being less than a foot long the pig scratched up the walls and knocked over everything not bolted to the floor, all just to do as much damage as possible to the anything-goes practitioner.

Ranma in rage shouted at the pig, "You scratched me, you little beast! You ruined my perfect complexion! You even trashed the house that I'm staying at". Angrily the gender-bending martial artist pinned her rival to the ground with her foot to stop his rampage.

Akane and Jade hearing the ruckus decided to check up on the two and the sight in front of them left the youngest Tendo boiling mad. Hoof and scratch marks dotted the floors and walls, various cleaning supplies laid knocked over, and hampers filled with clothes both cleaned and dirty lay scattered and mixed up. Meanwhile, Akane's new pet pig was underneath her fiancé's foot.

"Ranma! What do you think you're doing?" Akane howled in outrage. She angrily thought, "what does my vile fiancé think he's doing!? Bullying my pet-to-be like that"?! Yet in her musings, P-Chan slipped out of Ranma's foot and began continuing its rampage knocking over more stuff just to leave mild scratches on Ranma.

Angrily the redhead caught the animal from mid-air and knocked the animal to the floor.

"Stop it!" the youngest Tendo wailed. Charging forward she used the forbidden anything-goes technique, the Falcon of Pestilence. The black-haired girl grabbed one of Ranma's breasts in her hand and squeezed and twisted it as hard as she could. The results were quite satisfying to Akane, as Ranma let out a shriek of excruciating pain before crumpling limp onto her knees. Akane then punched the dazed girl on the head with all her might. Leaving Ranma a complete mess on the floor. Akane then held the happily weeping piglet to her chest and said, "Oh, poor thing let's go to bed,".

However, an upset Jade spoke up, "Akane are you seriously going to knock out Ranma like that and walk away, again"!

Akane snippily responded, "that jerk tried to harm P-chan. He had what was coming to him! In fact, I let him off light for destroying the laundry room".

Jade quickly countered by saying, "You handed Ranma a wild animal that was trying to scratch and claw at her. Then you got mad at Ranma for defending herself, and blamed your fiancé for the actions of the pig!?"

Akane simply replied, saying, "Jade it's good of you for trying to defend your master, and I don't expect a kid to understand my complex thought process"

All Jade could respond after hearing this was to annoyedly say, "complex thought process? You literally jumped to conclusions, and attacked Ranma with the girl equivalent of a nut shot, before even getting the full story"!

All her cousin could do after hearing this was angrily, huff and walk away to her room. As if to taunt her Jade could've sworn the pig started laughing. Meanwhile, Jade was left growling at the night's events.

I was originally planning on finishing the Ryoga arc and by extension the welcome to Nerima saga in one chapter, but seeing this chapter was over 10,000 words long I decided to split it in two. I know you guys are all excited to see Uncle and get to the talisman hunt, but at least this way the eventual 2 to 3 week break between chapters has been delayed.

Reviews:

James Birdsong- Thank you

Guest- I think you misunderstood what I was trying to convey during chapter 3. I was trying to convey that Anything goes is essentially a crockpot were they use their own distinct blend of many different martial arts

As for the multiple different enemies at once. Fans of the series has speculated that the Tendo school surpasses the Saotome school when it comes to fighting multiple enemies for years. This theory is heightened by the fact Akane handled a horde of men with no problem, and Ranma at the end of the neko-ken arc took a notable beating form Kuno, Gosunkugi, and P-chan. (As a side note Ranma got better at fighting against multiple enemies of the series went on). If this theory is incorrect then this means the Tendo school in over 400 chapters has nothing noteworthy to offer the Saotome school in terms of martial art improvement. Plus, I am adopting this weakness as it can provide me with a more intense fight between Ranma and the shadow khan, and provides a cool moment of Soun fighting against an army of ninjas.

As for the strength of punches part I was referring to a difference of quantity over quality. Let's say a practitioner of the Tendo school can hit notably harder than someone of its sister school at a equal skill level, but a Saotome school practitioner could land twice as many hits in a fight.

AsheTDust- In flashbacks Ranma used a pony tail, but stuck with the pigtail after the dragon's whisker in canon. As for Nabiki's hair preference she certainly mentioned it in the story.

Djinn- thank you

Next time: Ranma, Jade, and Nabiki deal with the most slippery enemy yet, P-Chan.

Next chapter will be on March 8. Have a great night.