Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters portrayed within the following story. All Ranma ½ characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi, bother trying to sue me, you wont get much. This story is strictly non profit. Growing up the right way ------------------------ "Speech" 'Thoughts' (Sound effects) /Panda signs/ The first part of this chapter has been re-Written and is now chapter one. The rest of this chapter is waiting to be re-written. This chapter is NOT an update. This chapter is the original chapter one so dont expect it to come close to matcing the first chapter in terms of quality. Chapter Two ----------- 'I wonder if the mirror worked?' she steps outside and notices it's still dark. Having nowhere to go until at least a reasonable hour she decides to head to the park and wander around, after nearly circling the park she bumps into someone and falls down. The person she bumped into turns around and she sees he's a large man dressed in tough clothing and a scowl on his face. Upon seeing her he smirks nastily and picks her up "Let me go" she shouts, the thug laughs "No little girl, you and me are gonna have a little fun." Ranko pales and hangs limp for a moment in his arms before twisting free and spin kicking him in the face. She doesn't do much damage and the thug is only forced to take a step back, he punches back. Normally Ranko would be able to dodge easily but her new young body is pretty weak and she hasn't gotten used to her new centre of gravity yet to the blow impacts with her ribs, she spits out blood and collapse to the ground. The thug leans over her checking to see she's down, Ranko jumps up and delivers a blow to his nose with all her might which manages to break it. The thug howls in pain and clutches his nose, he glares at Ranko and starts kicking at her. She avoids most of his kicks and jumps up to deliver a spin kick to his groin, reacting fast the thug removes a hand from his nose and backhands her into a tree breaking her leg. Ranko rolls on the ground in agony, she realizes too late that she has neither the weight or the strength to do much damage. Feeling desperate she calls up all her chi into a shi shi houkoudan and blast's the thug into unconsciousness before he can hurt her any more, she nearly passes out herself as her chi reserves are drastically reduced as a four year old. 'Damn maybe this wasn't such a good idea' she thinks as she slowly recovers enough to start moving. Ranko decides she needs to leave the park as soon as possible before the thug wakes up. She looks down at her broken leg and frowns, looking around she sees a branch nearby which she crawls to and uses as a makeshift crutch to stand up. She slowly makes her way out of the park and starts looking for a phone booth to call for some help. Normally Nodoka wouldn't wake up so early but for some reason she was feeling restless. Feeling hungry and not wanting to wait until breakfast she heads towards the kitchen to make a snack, she quickly glances out of the window and almost misses the bloodied little girl limping down the street, almost. Nodoka rushes outside to help her, the girl turns her head and sees her, her eyes widen in shock and then she collapses into Nodoka's arms unconscious. Nodoka picks her up and carries her inside. Once in the light Nodoka gasps in shock at all the cut's and bruises covering the little girls body as well as the broken leg, she quickly phones for and ambulance as well as the police and then sets about to caring for the girl. After about five minutes Ranko starts to wake up, her whole body feels like it's on fire. She groans in pain and is startled at a soft female voice "don't worry, you're safe now. well take you to the hospital OK?" Ranko nods and winces as her head starts to swim around, "got attacked at the park" she mumbles "Thugs knocked out, I escaped." Nodoka stars at her in shock 'who could do such a thing to a poor little girl?' A minute later the police arrives followed by the ambulance. Nodoka explains to the police about how she found Ranko and what Ranko said and they go to check out the park whilst the paramedics load Ranko into the ambulance, Nodoka follows intending to make sure nothing else happens to the poor girl. After waiting several hours, Nodoka is getting agitated and worried for the poor girl. The Police had been by earlier and told her they'd arrested an unconscious thug in the park but they are curious about what knocked him out. since then nobody would tell her anything. Finally when a doctor comes up to her Nodoka jumps to her feet and demands to know how the girl is. The doctor shakes his sadly, "she's out of danger, she's cracked several ribs and broken her leg. she was bleeding internally but we've managed to stop it. other than some minor cuts and bruises theirs nothing else wrong with her, she should be free to leave in a few weeks." Nodoka pales at hearing how badly the girl was hurt, "How did your daughter get so badly hurt?" the doctor asks, "I'm sorry but she's not my daughter... I found her staggering by outside my house, she said she was attacked in the park. The police ave caught the thug who did it." Nodoka then starts crying and the doctor comforts her for a while. Nodoka finally calms down and asks if she can stay with the girl until her parents can be found, the doctor says yes. Ranko slowly wakes up several hours later, the pain she'd felt is now a numb tingling sensation. She slowly opens her eyes and looks around, she notices she's in a hospital bed and several other children are lying in nearby beds. She continues to look around and notices a figure to her left, it's Nodoka smiling down at her "Mom?" Ranko whispers. Nodoka shakes her head slowly "No dear, I found you outside my house and brought you here." Ranko shifts closer to Nodoka and tears start to stream down her face "Sorry, you look just like my momma... She died a few months ago. She and poppa crashed in a car, I've been alone since." Nodoka gets teary eyed and hugs the little girl. "what's your name?" Nodoka finally asks after several minutes hugging, Ranko looks up and stares into Nodoka's eyes "Ranko... I don't know my last name." Nodoka nods and hugs Ranko again "don't worry Ranko I wont let anything else happen to you." Nodoka visits every day for the next two weeks whilst Ranko recovers in hospital. The doctors tell her that Ranko will be released soon to an orphanage, having grown close to the girl she decides she cant let that happen and decides to adopt her. The doctors agree happily, glad the girl will get a nice home and will be taken care of. On Ranko's last day in hospital, Nodoka approaches her and asks her is she would like to live with her as her daughter Ranko Saotome. Ranko gleefully accepts and packs her meagre belongings. She happily waves to all the nurses who have come to like her due to her happy outlook on life despite what's happened to her. They check out and take a taxi back to her new home. Back at the house Nodoka hugs Ranko and says welcome to your new home my daughter. Ranko beams back at her and hugs her, "thank you mommy". Nodoka gives the grand tour, Ranko Knows her way around of course but she acts like it's the first time she's been here. When she gets to Ranma's room Nodoka looks downcast. Ranko knows what's wrong of course but She'd have to ask anyway to be believable. Nodoka explains about Ranma's training trip. Finally they get to her new room, Nodoka tells her she'll buy her some new things tomorrow including a bed. Ranko weeps in gratitude. Next morning Ranko is awoken to the smell of breakfast, she slowly gets up hobbles over to the bathroom to wash up. After she's dressed she heads to the kitchen. "That smells yummy, mummy" she says with a huge grin. Nodoka smiles back and thanks her and says it'll be ready soon. After breakfast they head out shopping for some new clothes and accessories for Ranko as well as arranging for a bed to be delivered. At lunchtime they stop for a rest outside a café and eat dinner during which Ranko hears a familiar voice. "Excuse me miss but do you know which way Kyoto is." Ranko boggles at Ryouga amazed he hasn't recognized her before remembering he doesn't know her as a she yet plus she's four years old. Ryouga thanks her mother and then goes in the opposite direction. Ranko giggles thinking 'Ryouga'll never change'. Nodoka giggles at Ranko giggling. Back at home Ranko falls asleep on the sofa and Nodoka looks at her with love and awe 'she really could be my daughter, I'd bet we could fool anyone into thinking so'. At supper time she tries to wake Ranko up but nothing works until she mentions the foods getting cold. Ranko shoots up and heads straight to the table, Nodoka chuckles and mentally tells herself to remember that method of waking her up, she must really like food. Nodoka tries to talk to Ranko about her parents but Ranko always tears up and cries she cant remember much about her mother and whenever she thought of her father she claims she keeps seeing his death in her mind. Not wanting to hurt her any further Nodoka drops the subject. Later that night Ranko lies awake in her new bed (too soft) and is glad her plan worked but she would need something to do later when was fully healed. She made new plans to get to know the Tendou's, train with Akane and sample Kasumi's cooking again. Next morning at breakfast Ranko asks her mother if she knows anybody who could teach her martial art's. Nodoka argues with Ranko that young ladies shouldn't practice martial arts but Ranko tells Nodoka she's frightened she'll get attacked again so she wants to know how to defend herself. Plus her father taught her some and she likes it. Nodoka finally agrees and tells her she'll take her to visit the Tendou's when she is all healed up. Later on in the day several of Nodoka's concerned friends come to the house, they haven't seen Nodoka in several weeks and are worried about her. Nodoka apologizes to them and greets them into the house. Inside they all gasp at Ranko who is sitting watching tv, Ranko turns around and smiles nervously at her mothers friends. "Nodoka, you never told us you had a daughter?". Nodoka smiles sadly and explains everything that happened to Ranko and that she's adopted. Her friends all gasp at several parts of the story and they tearfully hug Nodoka before moving onto Ranko. They gasp at faint cuts on her arms and face, as well as her broken leg. Her ribs are pretty well covered up. They hug her whilst introducing themselves. Ranko is pretty uncomfortable but accepts the hugs whilst trying to remember the names. Most of them just tell her to call them auntie which she does happily (less names to remember). After fussing over her for a while they finally leave her alone to watch tv again. After several more hours they leave. Afterwards, any time any of them would come around they would always have a present which makes Ranko really happy. After several more weeks during which Ranko is fully healed and the bond between her mother has grown to a normal mother daughter love, Ranko is finally well enough to visit the Tendou's. At the Tendou house Nodoka and Ranko knock on the door which is answered by a 17 year old Kasumi who talks and behaves the same as she does when she's 19. Nodoka asks Kasumi if her father is home, Kasumi says yes and invites them in. Sitting at the table reading a paper is Soun, also at the table is a 14 year old Akane and a 15 year old Nabiki. Akane eyes Ranko and says what a cute little girl, Ranko just rolls her eyes. Nabiki looks at her with that cold calculating look before softening realizing she shouldn't take advantage of a little girl. Nodoka clears her throat, Soun looks at her and puts down his paper. Nodoka introduces herself and her daughter. Soun perks up at hearing the name Saotome and asks Nodoka how Genma and Ranma are doing. Nodoka tells him what was written in the last few postcards which Ranko listens to with her full attention trying to figure out where she would be in her training trip at this time. Finally she asks Soun to train her new daughter. At first Soun declines but after Ranko gives him the big puppy dog eyes and says that her new papa cant train her cause he's off training Ranma Soun finally agrees. Nabiki is happy about this because Ranko is the first student who could persuade her dad to train them since his wife died. Akane asks Ranko if she knows any Kenpo already, Ranko nods. Akane leads Ranko to the dojo, Ranko feels deja vu. Akane slowly tries to hit Ranko but she dodges, Akane speeds up her next attack and Ranko dodges again. Akane's next punch Ranko sidesteps and jumps up punching Akane several times in the ribs. After several minutes Akane is on the ground amazed at Ranko's skills having been hit all over. Ranko is only out of breath having dodged all of Akane's blows. Nodoka, Soun, Nabiki and Kasumi are all amazed at Ranko's skills, Nabiki's mouth hanging wide open. Ranko laughs at the sight and Nabiki quickly closes her mouth. "How did you get so good?" Akane asks, Ranko blushes and explains that she picks up skills quickly and easily and her father started teaching her from when she could first walk, plus her small size makes her hard to hit making her look better. Akane agrees with this as she doesn't look as bad when she thinks of it like that. From then on, for two days during the week and the weekend Ranko spent several hours at the Tendou's Sparring with Mr Tendou or Akane. Several times Ranko sensed Nabiki nearby trying to take photographs so she simply stops and pulls out a sign saying "No photographs pleas Nabiki" covering her face. Nabiki fumed at first but then eventually took it good naturedly and stopped trying to take photos of her. Ranko always stopped for dinner as her mom helped Kasumi in the kitchen and the food was delicious, Kasumi appreciated the extra help. Soon Ranko was just like a little sister to all the Tendou Daughter's and every so often One of the sisters, usually Akane, would take her for some ice cream or a walk in the park to the swings. They got on so well that sometimes they would spend a whole weekend together sparring, eating ice cream, watching movies and other things sisters like to do together. Chapter 3 --------- Two Years Later --------------- Ranko is now six, she's spent two wonderful years with her mother and the Tendou's, All the Tendou sisters call her sis and her mother auntie. She had even improved in the art having learnt all of Mr Tendou's moves from the anything goes school. She can even use Ki blasts without worry having expanded her ki reserve in secret, she now has almost has much ki energy as Ranma when he first arrived in Nerima which is enough for two moko takabisha's to be safely fired. She was doing well in school but not as well as anybody else would do if they had done the same thing as she never learnt much in the first place having missed most of her schooling the first time round as Ranma. Nodoka is proud of her daughter, having taught her manners and how to speak like a proper young lady and also she had just started her daughters sword training so that she can pass on the family honour blade to her one day. Ranko had been getting excited for the past several weeks as she realized that her other self should be arriving at the Tendou's soon and she planned to be there (Without her mother of course). She planned a sleep over with Akane and would be spending the weekend there (Ranma arrives Saturday morning). After Nodoka drops her off she says hello to everyone except Akane who is out jogging, when she gets to Mr Tendou she notices him reading a post card and crying his eyes out, she rolls her eyes. Akane Comes in from her jog, she sees Ranko smiles and says hi sis before heading to the dojo, Ranko follows and watches Akane destroy bricks. Ranko picks up a brick and uses the bakusai tenketsu which she had figured out in secret a few weeks ago. Akane is flabbergasted and demands to know the secret, Ranko smirks and tells Akane she'll teach her soon as she's only just figured it out herself. Akane agrees and goes back to smashing bricks in her normal way. soon Ranko hears Mr Tendou calling for Kasumi, Nabiki and Akane. "Come on Akane it might be important." Ranko urges knowing what's coming up. They both enter the living room and sit down, looking at Mr Tendou to start. He explains about one of them being engaged to his best friends son, Ranko's brother. Everybody is shocked except Ranko but she does her best to act that way. Finally after the shock has worn of a little, they all make there thoughts know about the situation. "I hope he's older" says Kasumi "I cant stand younger men", Nabiki doesn't seem that interested, knowing that the Saotome's aren't that rich plus she's not a martial artist. the only thing she can think of to say is "Oooh China, I wonder what he's like?". Predictably Akane blows up, "I hate BOYS, theirs no WAY I'm going through with this... No offence to you Ranko". Ranko simply shrugs, "It's OK Akane, it's not like I've ever met him." "What kind of guy is this Ranma?" Kasumi asks her father, knowing Ranko wont know. Soun shrugs "no idea" Nabiki glares at him "no idea?" Soun sweat drops and looks nervous "I've never met him" Akane explodes again, "How can you expect us to marry some jerk we've never met?" Soun looks around in a panic when a voice is heard crying out "leggo you old fool" Kasumi gets up "oh we must have visitors" Nabiki cheers up a little "ooooo it must be Ranma" and starts running for the door. Soun follows shouting Saotome my friend we've been waiting. Kasumi cant help hoping he's older whilst Akane is slightly depressed "How depressing, boys", Ranko sits still hiding a smirk that threatens her face. Nabiki and Soun run back into the room running away from a panda with a kicking and screaming bundle on it's shoulder "Hey pop's, you're scaring' them spit less" Ranma shouts, the panda ignores it's cargo and continues walking. Soun gets into a protective stance in front of Ranko, 'Nodoka would kill me if anything happened to her' Kasumi looks at the panda "Daddy is this your friend?" Soun shakes his head vigorously Akane glares at him "Oh so this panda just decided to visit! Happens all the time!" Soun shakes his head again. The panda places it's bundle onto it's feet. Soun looks at the person, "You wouldn't be?..." The person looks away "Ranma Saotome, sorry about this." Soun gets excited and starts shouting "At last! you've come" Nabiki looks on with admiring eyes "oooo! he's cute". Soun then grabs Ranma into a bone crushing hug "It's so good of you to come so..." He then notices the breasts pressed into his chest, he pushes Ranma away and examines her, he moves his hands down her side feeling her feminine curves. He then goes into shock, Ranko who is watching this closely trying not to laugh is feeling a huge sense of deja vu but in this case she Knows it's happened before. Next Nabiki gets closer and examines Ranma's breast's and starts poking them "Hmm" Ranma looks at Nabiki embarrassedly "could you stop that?". Nabiki turns around "He.. is a girl" She continues prodding whilst Soun faints. Ranko feeling the time is ripe for some revenge walks over to Nabiki and starts prodding her breast. Nabiki blushes and stops prodding Ranma whilst Ranko says "She's.. a girl" and the bursts out laughing. Ranma gives her a grateful look. Akane walks over having seen the look Ranma gave Ranko "Hi I'm Akane, you want to be friends?" She asks whilst holding out her hand. Ranma looks at her gratefully and takes her hand. "do you practice Kenpo?" Ranma relies a little and they head into the dojo followed by Ranko. Akane asks for a little match just for fun and promises to go easy on Ranma who simply replies if you say so. Akane tries to hit Ranma but she simply dodges out of the way time and time again making Akane get frustrated. 'what's wrong? Hit me." She fights some more but Ranma continues to dodge. Akane gets really angry and focuses all her strength into one punch which goes through the wall as Ranma back flips and taps Akane on the back of her head. Ranma then laughs and Akane joins in. "You're pretty good, I'm glad your a girl... Id really hate to lose to a boy" Ranma gets nervous at this. Akane leaves the dojo and Ranma is about to follow when Ranko shouts out, "Hey... Fight me" Ranma looks at her and thinks she looks kind of familiar, she shakes her head "Sorry I don't fight children." Ranko starts to look indignant and starts muttering about cowards. Ranma hears her and changes her mind about fighting. "Ok little girl, lets see how good you are." Ranko fight Ranma using the Tendou Anything goes martial arts as well as some Amazon moves but leaves out the Saotome moves 'too much of a give away'. Ranma relaxes into a stance as does Ranko. Before Ranma knows what's hit her Ranko has moved across the dojo and hit Ranma with a fast amagurikan before retreating again. Ranma pulls herself of the floor and stares at Ranko in shock, Ranko moves in again and uses normal moves, punching and kicking. Ranma has to dodge faster than she ever had to before and some moves she had to block which left Ranko with an opportunity to get a hit in around her block. Ranma is flabbergasted at the young girls skills and is even more shocked when she backs off and forms a glowing ball of ki in between her hands and blasts her out of the door into a shocked Akane who was coming to investigate the sounds coming from the dojo. Ranko calmly walks out with a smug grin on her face "That'll teach you to take me seriously." She then goes inside to find something to eat, ki attacks are really draining. Later Kasumi walks out to the porch were Ranma sits sulking 'I cant believe I lost against a little girl' "Ranma?... Come on wouldn't you like to go take a bath?" Ranma looks up from her depression "Huh? Oh.. No, not really, I mean it's OK." Kasumi gives her a stern look "No It's not OK, you must be all sweaty from your workout!" Ranma gives up and heads for the bath. "Akane, Ranko your bath is ready" Nabiki says as she walks by. Ranko looks at Akane who gives a slight nod. They head off for the Furo stripping off in the change room. Ranko quickly glances at Ranma's clothes and the occupied sign which Akane hasn't noticed and flinches at what's coming. Akane opens the door just as Ranma-kun is climbing out of the Furo revealing both her and Ranko naked for Ranma to look at. They all freeze until Akane calmly closes the furo door. Ranko pretends to faint and slumps to the floor. Akane calmly puts on her robe, walks out of the change room and then screams "YAAAAAAAAAA" she runs into the living room and picks up the table for a bit of pervert bashing. She mumbles to herself about killing him and bashing him senseless. "Akane what's wrong" Nabiki asks Akane shouts "theirs a pervert in the bathroom" Kasumi puts her hand to her mouth and looks towards the furo "that's odd, Ranma was in the bath just now" Ranma walks up carrying Ranko in a small robe. "Who are you?" Nabiki asks. Akane looks Ranko in his arms and starts seeing red "What did you do to my SISTER?" she screams dropping the table and running up to Ranma, grabbing Ranko from his arms and then malleting him into the ground with her free arm. "Erk... I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry about this. Later after everyone has calmed down Ranma and Genma explain the curse whilst Akane Glares at Ranma and Ranko sleeps on, this includes the practical demonstration in the pond shocking everyone and the long winded Jusenkyou story. After several fights between Ranma and the panda and Kasumi scolding Genma for taking Ranma to Jusenkyou Ranko finally wakes up just as Mr Tendou pours water over the panda, feeling mischievous she decides to scream shocking everyone. Kasumi runs to comfort her and tells her the panda is a cursed man. Ranko stops screaming "Oh OK, that makes sense I guess" Everybody face faults and Ranko laughs. Soun pours water over Ranma changing her back to male. Ranko simply shrugs at this whilst Akane glares at him muttering pervert. "Well Ranma" Soun starts, clapping a hand onto Ranma's shoulder "Your problem isn't so bad after all" He then points to each of his daughters in turn "Kasumi 19, Nabiki 17 and Akane 16" Both Nabiki and Kasumi clap Akane on the shoulders "Oh he wants Akane" Kasumi says. "Oh definitely" States Nabiki. Akane starts getting red "You've got to be joking" she shouts "Why Would I want That..." Nabiki gives Akane a cool look "Well you hate boys.." Kasumi beams "So you're in luck He's half girl" Ranko is only just containing her giggles whilst Akane is ready to blow "Me marry that Pervert? NO WAY" Ranma starts getting angry "Waddya mean PERVERT?" Akane and Ranko glare at him and in stereo shout "You looked at my body PERVERT" Nabiki and Kasumi look shocked at Ranko's outburst and they both glare at Ranma along with Akane and Ranko. "Hold it, you both walked in on me!" Akane glares at him harder and is about to respond when Ranko pipes up "Yea but we thought You were a girl, you should should have told us you was a boy instead of using your curse to get a free look... Plus it's different when a girl sees a boy!" Ranma looks at Ranko in shock whilst everyone agrees with her. Akane looks at her gratefully. Soun and Genma ignore Ranko and laugh and Ranma and Akane "They're already a perfect couple Saotome" Genma nods his head "That they are Tendou." "he's a couple by himself" Akane shouts, Ranma gets up and heads for the door "And If you ever.." Akane continues whilst Ranma shouts "goodbye". Genma gets up and starts shouting "Where are you going boy?" Ranma spins around to talk to everyone in the room "Back to china to find a way to change back for good! This is no time for fiancées." Akane glares at him silently and Ranma continues, looking at Akane "Oh and you took a pretty good at me too, besides it's no big deal for me to see a naked girl.. I mean I've seen myself plenty of times right? And I'm better built to boot" He says as he splashes himself with cold water and stretching out. Ranko Fires of A ki blast just for fun and it fries Ranma Before Akane's Table of death flattens her. "Now that he had coming" Soun says as everyone but Genma nod. Genma was too busy looking at the small redhead in shock at having seen her shoot off a Ki blast "H.. How?" he stammers, Akane glares at him so he just shuts up. Later on Ranma finally starts to wake up "Oooohh my head", She looks at Kasumi who starts talking. "Are you okay?" Ranma nods "don't think too badly of Akane or Ranko" Kasumi continues looking sadly at Ranma "They're really sweet girls, it's just Akane's A violent Maniac and Ranko likes to copy Akane." Nabiki shakes her head "Oh good Kasumi that makes a lot of sense" Ranma gets up for another bath having been tossed into the pond twice. In the change room she strips off and opens the Furo door to see Akane and Ranko on the other side naked... again. Ranma flinches back whilst both Akane and Ranko slap one of Ranma's cheeks, Ranko having to jump up. 'This is fun tormenting myself' she thinks. The next day, a Sunday after there morning spar, Ranma and Genma gang up on Soun and start asking questions about Ranko who is sitting at the table, grinning after barbecuing the panda for trying to steal her breakfast. "Genma, meet your new daughter Ranko Saotome, your new sister Ranma" Ranko giggle at seeing there gaping mouths. "h.. h.. How?" Genma finally gets out, he then starts getting red and fuming "I bet she went behind my back whilst I've been faithful all these yea..." He stops at seeing the glowing energy in his new daughters hands. "Mummy would NEVER do that you old fart". Ranma laughs and decides he likes his new sister. "Genma my friend, Ranko is adopted". Genma's Anger finally leaves him. "heh, heh.. I knew that" he says whilst sweat dropping. "Right, I'll be sure to tell mummy how much you trust her" Ranko says and is amused at Genma's panicked reaction. Ranko laughs and Genma calms down again "Its not nice to tease your father, daughter" Genma says nicely, Ranko glares at him "It's not nice to take away mummy's son for ten years because she would love him, but you did" Ranko states flatly whilst glaring a hole right into his forehead. "He, he" Genma chuckles trying to be nice again "So Ranko, who were your real parents?" Ranko gives him an evil grin and trying not to laugh she says calmly,"Happousai" Both Genma and Soun fall over in shock and start trying to crawl away until they notice her laughing hysterically "I'm sorry" she says wiping a tear from her eye "That was just too easy, I don't know who my parents are" she says at last, still chuckling. Genma and Soun stare at her in shock whilst Akane, Nabiki and even Ranma chuckle at how scared there fathers had been whilst mentally reminding themselves not to cross Ranko even if she is a little girl. Later on, Ranko is staring into the pond thinking of how much fun she's going to miss when she returns home, still Ranma and pops deserve a chance to rest before the fiancée brigade show up. She scowls as she feels a familiar presence sneaking up on her. When he's right behind her she flips backwards and kicks him into the pond, seconds later a soggy panda surfaces the pond "Grollf?" Ranko shakes her head "Nobody sneaks up on me panda" she smirks. When Genma gets out of the pond she offers him a kettle from a portable heater she had nearby. "What do you want old man?" she asks with a scowl. Genma flinches, he can tell she doesn't like him much, imagine it, him a full grown martial artist scared of a little girl, yet she has Ki attacks and could get Nodoka to force him to commit seppuku. No he isn't scared of her, he's terrified. He's just about to speak when Ranko interrupts "Let me guess... don't tell mummy you and Ranma are here because Ranma's curse will make you and him commit seppuku." Genma stares dumbly and nods slowly "don't worry old man" Ranko sneers "If Ranma's hand print wasn't on that contract I would tell in an instant but I don't want my new brother to die" She thinks for a while before coming up with a perfect plan. "I know, Every time me and mother come around you can be Kikuko Tendou and her pet panda" Genma nods, seeing no other way out of this without leaving which he cant do because of the engagement. Ranko continues to outline her plan which involves her calling out before they enter and Both Ranma and Genma hiding. Genma tells the plan and the reasons for hiding to Ranma who kicks his panda butt into the pond to Ranko's glee. "Sorry about this bro" Ranko says to Ranma who looks at her forlornly. "You can come visit me at home, say you're my friend or something after all I already consider the Tendou's my sisters and if you marry one the she'll be my sister in law. Anyway you'll probably have to call her auntie but at least you'll get to know her without killing yourself." Ranma sighs and agrees. Later It's time for Ranko to go as Nodoka has come to pick her up. Genma jumped into the pond as soon as he heard the gate. Ranma just sighed and tipped a glass of water onto his head. Nodoka entered and noticed Ranma, she looks at Ranma and Ranko and scratches her head "Who's this Ranko? is she a relative of yours?" Ranko shakes her head, "No mummy, this is Kikuko Tendou, she's Akane's cousin. She lost her parents like me and she moved here yesterday." Nodoka beams at Ranma and gives her a hug. "I'm sorry to hear that Kikuko dear, I'm Nodoka but you may call me auntie, after all I've grown close to the Tendou's thanks to Ranko here." Ranma smiles at her mother and Ranko, "Nice to meet you auntie, Ranko sure talked about you a lot." Ranko blushed as Nodoka smiled at her. "Well we must be going Ranko dear, Bye Akane, Nabiki, Kasumi and of course Kikuko." Ranko waves bye and follows her mother out of the door. She talks to her mother about Kikuko and her panda all the way home. The next time Ranko visits the Tendou home she finds that Ranma has been forced into girls clothes, she remembers the incident and chuckles to herself. She greets her sisters who have missed her, they all give her a big hug. Especially Akane who is getting annoyed at Ranma and wants backup to help tease him. Ranko goes off Ranma hunting and finds her in her room. She gasps and starts squealing in delight "Oh Ranma, I just knew you wanted to be a big sister to me" She squeals whilst hugging her tightly. Ranma tries to back off making warding signs, "It's not like that sis, I swear." she babbles out "All my clothes are in the wash so I..." Ranma stops as she notices Ranko rolling around on the floor in hysterics. Akane smirks from behind the door. Ranko's revenge is way better than her own although malleting Ranma does feel nice. A long weak later for Ranma, Ranko and Akane keep tag teaming to torment him, Ranma gets a challenge letter from Ryouga. After explaining the whole bread feud (Akane says it's silly, Ranko says Ranma's mean) they all go to the challenge site where Ryouga is camped out so's not to get lost. Ranma walks over to Ryouga whilst Ranko and Akane stay back to watch. "So Ranma, you finally had the guts to show" Ryouga sneers. "Listen up Ryouga, I didn't come here to fight you so just... Take this" Ranma throws several packets of bread at Ryouga. After arguing for a while they fight, with Ryouga's umbrella and bandanna's going everywhere. Akane notices a guy trying to pick up Ryouga's umbrella "Geez, this thing weighs a ton" Ranko looks at what Akane's looking at and notices the umbrella as well. Ranko walks over and picks it up single handed, all the guys face fault that a little could pick up something a guy couldn't. Ranko walks back to Akane and hands her the umbrella "Here Akane you hold it." Akane is pulled down to the ground, she drops the umbrella and stares at Ranko in shock, 'Wow I knew Ranko was good but I didn't know she was strong too' she shout's to Ranma "Careful Ranma, he has the strength of a monster" 'Just like Ranko' She mentally adds. The fight continues with impressive feats of strength, skill and taunting. Ryouga even manages to get his umbrella back from were Akane dropped it. They fight some more until Ranma accidentally cracks the water fountain. He turns to a she whilst Ryouga blocks with his umbrella. Ranma tries to convince Ryouga she's got it worse because of the curse. Ranko knows better though, Ryouga's curse is way worse. "How dare you Ranma, whining about you misery with a perfect figure" Ryouga shouts, Ranko silently agrees with him. The next thing Ranko didn't expect, Ranma was standing in a different position from where he was in the original fight so Ryouga's steel sharp bandanna's flew in Ranko's direction. Akane tries to make it but she had moved too far away and cant get there in time. Ranma hears Akane's shout and looks behind at Ranko who was watching a crazy girl in a black leotard roof hopping. Ranma tried to knock the bandanna's off course but there are too many and Ranma gets a few cuts, Ryouga grins at Ranma's injuries but then grimaces as he sees that the rest of the bandanna's are heading towards an innocent little girl. He shouts and the girl turns her head just in time for a bandanna to miss her neck and cut off her ponytail. Several other bandanna's strike her in the side leaving bloody gashes and one cuts into her just above her knee forcing her down to the floor. Akane screams and rushes to Ranko's side. All the spectators either gasp or scream, several girls fainting. Ranma goes into a boiling rage whilst Ryouga continues to stare in shock, 'I cant believe I did that to that poor girl, what kind of monster am I?' his eyes tear up as he begins to seriously hate himself. Ryouga takes two steps before he is bombarded by an intense beam of red Ki which slams into him and completely knocks him senseless bruising every part of his body but still leaving him conscious. Ranma relieved of her anger turns back to her little sister who is slowly starting to stand back up. Ranko then pick up her pony tale from the floor and grabs her hair with her other hand. Both Ranma and Akane watch in horror as Ranko's face contorts in pain and tears run freely from hers eyes. She lets out huge sobs, she was really proud of her hair and she lost it just like Akane did originally. Akane grabs her and comforts her, letting her cry on her shoulder. Ryouga looks on and he's never felt lower, hurting a poor little girl like that, then again it was Ranma who had tormented him, and it was Ranma who had made him throw his bandanna's in that direction. that's it next time I see you Ranma PREPARE TO DIE. Ryouga decided to leave before anyone else tried to get revenge for that poor little girl. All the girls watching looked at the poor girl with sympathy, hair IS pretty important to a girl and she just got a bad cut. Ranma walks up to Ranko and tries to comfort her. "hey I'm sorry kiddo, next time I see that jerk Ryouga he's dead OK?". Ranko's sobs ease a little, "It's... not your... fault... bro.... But don't blame... Ryouga too much... After all you... you did tease him a lot." Ranma looks down in shame as what she said was true, he had taunted Ryouga into a berserker rage. Ranma then noticed the blood from Ranko's sides, "Hey Akane, we'd better take Ranko to Dr Tofu." Akane numbly nods and picks up Ranko. Ranma offers to carry her but Akane tells him it's no trouble. Besides she's known Ranko longer than Ranma has so Ranko would be more comfortable with her. Ranma realizes he hardly knows his little sister 'Maybe I SHOULD visit mom's as Kikuko'. At the clinic Dr Tofu gasps as he sees Akane carrying a gently sobbing Ranko covered in blood. He shakes his head and smiles sadly 'How I hate seeing that poor sweet girl in here, she's always getting injured in some way.' He leads Akane into an examination room and begins to check her for injuries. He gasps at how deep one of the side gashes is, it would need stitching up. The other cuts will be ok with a bandage. Tofu presses a few pressure points and Ranko falls asleep. He then injects her with an anaesthetic, and an antibacterial serum. He cleans the wound and stitches her back up. He then cleans and bandages the other cuts. After he is done he hands her back to Akane and tells her to let Ranko sleep. Akane and Ranma thank him before heading home, a sleeping Ranko cradled in Akane's strong arms. Upon seeing Ranko's sleeping bloodied form in Akane's arms, both Kasumi and Nabiki turn pale. "I.. Is she OK Akane?" Kasumi finally gets out. Akane nods and says it's just a few cuts but her hair needs straightening out. Nabiki starts to fume, "Who, did this to her?" she asks Ranma angrily. Ranma flinches at Nabiki's intensity 'Wow she really is like a sister to them' "Ryouga Hibiki" Ranma finally says, gulping at Nabiki's fierce look. "That boy who challenged you?" Ranma nods, "ooohhhh he is so dead". Ranma flinches again and backs away 'Nabiki's pretty scary when she's angry. When Nodoka came to pick Ranko up she was surprised at the gloomy atmosphere hanging around everywhere. "what's wrong? Why is everybody so down?" She looks around and notices everybody averting her gaze. Then she notices that Ranko hasn't run up to her and hugged her like she always did. "Where's my daughter?" she asked in a harsher tone than before. Akane finally looks up and speaks softly. "Ranko's asleep... we went to see a martial arts battle near school" Akane pales a little and she gulps before continuing "One of the battlers got angry and started carelessly chucking blades around. Ranko got badly cut" Nodoka goes pale, and cries out. "Where is my baby?" Akane points upstairs "My room" Nodoka was gone faster that anybody could blink. In Akane's room Nodoka could see her baby sleeping soundly, in a small pair of pyjamas. She notices her hair which had been cut much shorter that it was before. Looking around Nodoka notices a small pile of clothes covered in red stains, she blanches at the sight. Picking up her daughters jumper she notices two cuts in the side which are covered in blood. Pulling the cover back Nodoka unbuttons the top of Ranko's pyjamas. One side is lightly bandaged whilst the other has heavy padding. Nodoka grabs Ranko and holds her close sobbing for her child. Akane enters after a few minutes and tells her she needed stitches on her right side and that she also has a cut on her leg. Nodoka nod's and continues to cuddle Ranko to her body. After an hour Ranko wakes up and moans softly. She looks up and sees her mothers face looking at her in concern, she bursts into tears and hugs her mother. "Mommy... I was so scared." She cries for a while longer. When she is feeling a little better she pulls out of her mother embrace and grabs her hair, she sighs. "don't worry dear, Kasumi will even it out and make you look pretty again." Ranko nods, she loved her hair, it was so long and beautiful. Mother and daughter head downstairs for tea, everybody looks at Ranko with concern. Ranma asks Nodoka if she can stay with Ranko when Nodoka takes her home, Nodoka nods gratefully that Ranko had such caring friends and sisters. Back at the Saotome house Ranko looks in the mirror and sighs at her short ponytail, before it had reached halfway down her back, now it only reached the bottom of her neck. Sighing again she leaves the bathroom and heads for her room where Ranma (Kikuko) waits for her. Ranma has to sleep with her seeing that the only other spare room is for a male Ranma. Ranko calls goodnight to her mother before heading to bed. Inside Ranko's room Ranma-chan waited to talk to her "Hey sis, how ya feelin'?" Ranko looks at her gloomily "Just fine... sis." Ranma winces at the female designation, Ranko laughs causing Ranma- chan to Glare at her which causes her to laugh even more. "Sorry sis" Ranma- chan flinches and Ranko laughs again "It's just that's really funny." Ranma-chan sighs and settles down into her Futon. Ranko settles into her bed and soon both are fast asleep. The next day at school was torture for Ranko. Her short school skirt didn't cover up the cut on her leg, all the girls were surprised at her shorter hair but worst came when it came to P.E, Ranko had forgotten to get a Dr's note and the teacher wouldn't believe her about the cut so Ranko had to lift her school blouse and slightly remove the bandage revealing the stitching and blood but unfortunately the teacher fainted. Still it got her and everyone else out of P.E. but when the teacher recovered she kept asking questions about how it happened and Ranko kept repeating it was an accident. Still at least she had Akane's sleep over party to look forwards to. Most of Akane's friends would be there as well as her sisters, luckily they all knew her so they wouldn't treat her too much like a little kid. After school Akane came by to pick her up instead of Nodoka (Yes she could take care of herself but she didn't want anybody to worry.) They went straight to the Tendou dojo. Both got changed straight away and relaxed around until the party started. Ranko notices the panda trying to get her attention, she narrows her eyes and gives the panda an evil glare "What do you want pop's?" The panda sweat drops and is about to pull out a sign when Ranko glares at him. "Oh yea I've something I need to tell you" She gives him an especially nasty glare that reminds him of Nodoka and makes him shiver "If you ever engage me to anybody and try to trap me with that honour crap, I will be your second as you commit seppuku... got it?" The panda nod's furiously, feeling far more than a little afraid of this girl. "I swear, no selling me for a pickle, a bowl of rice and a fish" Genma sweat drops and shivers slightly in fright "And no accepting dowry's like a Yattai either" All of Genma's fur went white in shock making him look like a polar bear. Ranko leaves him frozen to the spot and walks off. Soon Ranma walks in and notices pop's still white and unmoving form, "Hey Akane what happened to Pop's?" Akane pokes her head in from outside and starts sniggering at the polar bear "I think Ranko's been frightening him again." Akane heads back outside but she just hears Ranma mutter "Damn, I gotta get her to teach me that." She sniggers to herself, Ranko is always full of surprises. Ranko has a lot of fun at the sleep over party in the dojo, it's her first one. She keeps herself covered up in her pyjamas all night to hid the cut's. She would have liked to have stripped to her undies like the other girls. She enjoyed talking to girls about girl stuff and about Akane and Ranma but whenever a girl started talking down to her about childish things she would shut up and go to talk to somebody else. When asked about it, Akane always says that Ranko has always seemed older than she actually is and doesn't like being talked to like a child. Most girls accept that and Ranko has no more problems with them. Ranko joined in with the games like truth or dare and it seemed to be going well until one girl asked Ranko why she was wearing pyjamas. Akane gasped, hoping Ranko's feelings wouldn't be hurt. Ranko simply shrugged off the question and asked for a dare, the girl dared her to take of her pyjamas. Akane gasped again and told Ranko she didn't have to do it. Ranko simply shrugged it off and kicked of her pyjama bottoms, a dare is just like a challenge. Several girls look shocked at the cut above Ranko's Knee. When Ranko took of her top, most of them went pale at the large bandages on her sides. Ranko sighs, she knew this was going to happen. She quickly puts her pyjamas back on and challenges the next person. After several hours she was blissfully asleep, finally no more sympathetic glances or "Ranko, I'm so sorry". Her peaceful slumber doesn't last too long however as a loud battle takes place outside between Ranma-chan and Ryouga. It's raining so Ryouga is using his umbrella Whilst Ranma had transformed. Hearing the fight Ranko knew that P-chan would be showing up soon. Akane leaves the dojo sleepily to investigate, Ranko follows her. At the entrance to the house Kasumi is watching the fight whilst shivering with fright. "What is it sis?" Akane asks, Kasumi trembles slightly "It... It's a burglar with a pack for stolen goods." Ranko blinks at this as she looks at the fight, sure enough the umbrella does look like a sack "I'll beat his brains out" Akane says enthusiastically. Kasumi shakes her head no and says it's too dangerous, she then hand's Akane a weight which she throws into Ryouga. Kasumi and Akane both glare at him "It's Ryouga, He'd better keep away from Ranko" Akane growls. Ryouga having dropped his umbrella, runs off followed by Ranma-chan. Ranko runs inside and Akane follows her, curious were Ranko is running of to. She runs up the stairs stops outside Akane's room. "what's wrong?" Akane asks, Ranko looks up, "Theirs something in your room sis", Akane nervously opens the door and a black blur shoots out at her, before Akane gets a chance to bat it away, Ranko catches it. She holds it out and sees a little black pig 'Yep that's Ryouga all right' Akane looks at it and sees a bump, "Oh you poor thing" Akane's says while fussing over his injury. Ryouga still feels guilty about hurting Ranko so he snuggles into her arms (Ryouga has a strange value system). Ranko carries Ryouga down to the living room and begins rummaging around for a first aid kit. She completely ignore Ranma-chan sitting on the floor talking with Bess the neighbours dog as she knew she'd burst out laughing if she did. Akane comes in and asks Ranma-chan about the dog. Ranma is about to answer when a squealing is heard, Ranma looks at Ranko who is holding a struggling pig. Ranko passes the pig to Akane who pushes it up against her bosom. It stops struggling immediately as Ranko knew he would. Ranma notices however and sees that the pig is blushing. "Hey did you know that pigs blushing?" Ranma asks, she them grabs Ryouga and holds him up "Dirty minded pig, I knew it, it's a male" Akane looks at the pig "So it is." Ryouga close to Ranma's head starts batting his trotter against Ranma's head so Akane takes him back. She turns back to the dog "isn't that Bess, the Yasmines dog" Ranma looks dumbfounded and pours hot water on the dog whilst Akane's head is turned, nothing happens. Feeling stupid Ranma-chan gets up to take a bath. "Where are you going?" Akane asks, "To take a bath." Akane picks up the pig and tells Ranma to give it a bath. Ranma leaves with the pig, Ranko inwardly laughs at what's about to happen. After waiting for around five minutes Ranko heads upstairs again and sees Ryouga being chased by Ranma. Ranko grabs Ryouga and tries to protect him but Ranma manages to grab him from her grip and slams him to the ground. Akane pushes Ranma-chan away using her breast's as leverage, Ranma-chan freaks out giving Akane enough time to pass Ryouga to Ranko. "Stop picking on that poor little pig Ranma" Akane shouts. Ranma starts to protest "Bu.. But the pig is" Ranma gets cut of by a slap from Ranko who has passed Ryouga back to Akane. "don't worry little baby" Akane coos to the piglet "You're going to bed with us aren't you." Ryouga cries so Akane gives him a kiss on the nose. Ranma-chan shouts, and starts trembling with jealousy mixed with rage. "What" Akane snaps. "Idiot... SEE IF I CARE" Ranma-chan shouts as she runs off. Akane passes the pig back To Ranko who feels like they've been playing pass the pig or something. 'Honestly, jealous of a pig' Akane thinks. They head back to the dojo and fall asleep, Ranko cuddling Ryouga. In the middle of the night, Ranma sneaks in with a kettle of water and finds Ryouga in Ranko's arms. Ranma snarls, that's even worse than him being in Akane's arms because Ranko's Ranma's sister. Ranma wakes up Ryouga and threatens him with the water, Ryouga escapes and bounces around knocking Ranma onto Akane who wakes up and screams. All the other girls wake up and attack Ranma who is trying to protest and claim his innocence. The only other person who knew the truth other than Ranma and Ryouga was busy picking Ryouga up to keep him safe. Ryouga (Bweees) in gratitude and Ranko smiles. After Ranma is dealt with everyone goes back to sleep except Akane who is too angry to sleep for a while "Ranma no Baka" Akane whispers. The next morning all the girls give Ranma an Angry Glare before heading out. Ranko feeling in the need of being cheered up and fancying some ice cream decided to bug Ranma to take her. Sure she's still got several hundred thousand yen stashed away but she's saving that for important stuff. Besides if they team up they can get way more ice cream than normal. Ranma agrees as soon as he hears the words 'ice cream' but is curious when Ranko dumps a glass of water on him "More ice cream" was her only answer. Just before they enter the ice cream parlour, Ranko coaches Ranma on the puppy dog eyes. Open your eyes real wide, make them all teary, get a big smile and put your fists to your chin. They went in and Ranma only had to pay for one ice cream but got two ice creams, each with several extra scoops. Ranma is truly amazed and wonders what other neat trick's his amazing little sister could teach him. As they are walking away they hear several girls screaming, Ranma is about to go to help when Ranko holds her back. "Watcha doin' lil sis? That girl needs help" Ranko laughs, "Yea you're right sis she needs help... but not the kind you're thinking of, she's crazy as a loon" Ranma looks at Ranko, shocked that she would say something like that. "Ranko, how can you say that about her?" Ranko laughs again "Easy, she's Kodachi KUNO" Ranma shudders "she's just as crazy as her brother, If you ever save her in boy form she'll think you belong to her and if you ever fight her in girl form and win, she'll always be after you to hurt you with poisons, paralysis gas and god knows what other drugs... Trust me you're better off without another Kuno after you." Ranma-chan sighs and agrees, walking away quickly. When they get back to the dojo after a slow walk, Ranko notices the Furinkan rhythmic gymnastic team in Akane's room. Not wanting to get involved in anyway with Kodachi she wisely decides to avoid the meeting and the dojo for several days. Later on in the dojo Akane is practising Rhythmic gymnastics. She gets tangles up in her ribbon again and calls a break. Whilst she is resting P-chan trots up to her "Oh P-chan, Ranko has been looking all over for you" Akane says whilst hugging the pig. "P-chan?" Ranma asks, his eyebrow raised. "P for pig and chan for little. Ranko and I named him." Ranma looks a little disgusted. Akane leaves P-chan near Ranma and goes to practice, P-chan and Ranma eye each other "Yo, Ryouga looks like your brains down to pig level now." Ranma says as Ranko was walking in. P-chan bites Ranma's wrist whilst Ranko mallets him, "Stop picking on poor P-chan" she says as she scoops her poor piggy up. 'that was fun but I need to expose Ryouga soon' Ranko thinks to herself. She drops P-chan who runs of to train Ranma as Ryouga, unfortunately for said piggy, Ranko dropped him of outside so he'll be way too late to help Ranma practice for the match. Later on Ranko follows Akane into her room, ready to be knocked unconscious in order to make Akane mad enough to defeat Kodachi easily. Ranko walks in, Kodachi falls from the ceiling and mallets Ranko unconscious. Akane rushes in afterwards "How could you?" Akane asks Kodachi through tear filled eyes "I can understand attacking martial artists before a match but how could you hit a poor innocent girl?" Kodachi is now looking panic stricken and her usual craziness does nothing to cover her guilt for her horrible act against a poor little girl. Crying Kodachi runs away and feels so guilty she forfeits the match and sends Ranko five million yen in compensation (Which Ranko immediately hides from Nabiki and pop's). Anyway after Kodachi leaves, Ranko gets up and brushes herself of as if nothing happened. She grins sheepishly at Akane "Sorry Akane, I knew she was there and I knew I could take the blow. I wanted her to feel guilty for once and I think it worked." Akane looks like she wants to strangle Ranko whilst hugging her. "Ranko no baka, just don't do that to me again ok?" Ranko laughs and agrees. Still it's a good job Kodachi cancelled the match because Akane and Ranma both suck. A few weeks later, Akane and Ranma are taking Ranko ice skating. Inwardly Ranko is laughing at how bad Ranma is, it's a good she'd practised. Even P- chan wanted to go skating, 'Actually I think he's just keeping an eye on Akane to keep Ranma away' Ranko thinks, 'still at least P-chan is going, I wonder if I can guilt trip Azusa like I did Kodachi?' feeling happy at the thought of a worthy challenge that doesn't involve fighting or competing Ranko cant wait to get to the rink. Five minutes later and they are there, Ranko puts P-chan down and tells him to stay put. P-chan nods causing Ranma to glare at him for some reason. They all put on there skates and Akane asks Ranko if she needs any help, Ranko shakes her head and skates off, calling back "Help Ranma". Akane looks back to see Ranma doin a windmill impression before falling down. Stifling A giggle Akane helps him up, Ranma looks around and rushes off, a minute later Ranma comes back female. When Akane asks why Ranma replies that she'll look less stupid this way. Akane watches another windmill impression "Nope, still looks just as stupid" She helps her to her feet and they skate together. Ranko is enjoying herself on the ice for once, 'Ah no fiancées or enemies can really brighten one's outlook on life, even being female is worth it. At least I wont have to go through periods for a while' Ranko shudders and decides not to think about that any more. She skates around the rink pulling off a few ice skating manoeuvres, nothing complex just a few beginners moves. She skates circles around Ranma literally, scaring her and making her fall over again. As she makes her way around the rink again she notices Azusa holding something black. 'I bet she's gone and nabbed P-chan' she skates over and sees P-chan trying to escape 'Ok guilt trip time, two can play the crybaby game' "excuse me" she says in a quite voice, tugging on Azusa's jumper, Azusa turns around to see a cute little girl, giving her puppy dog eyes. "Can I have my P-chan back please?" she asks pointing to the pig in Azusa's arms. "No, she's my widdle Charlotte" Ranko's arm drops and tear's form in the corner of her puppy dog eyes, Azusa gulps "He's my little P-chan" Ranko says again, this time in a louder trembling voice "Look he's a guy, and that bandanna on him means it's P-chan" Azusa nearly loses her resolve and hands the pig over but she stops herself just in time "Charlotte, is going home with me now. Bye." Azusa is about to skate off when the little girls legs gives way and she's sobbing hysterically. Azusa can hear everybody muttering what a cruel monster she is for tormenting the poor child. She bends down to pick her up and falls over as well. They both sit there for a minute until Ranko's crying softens down a bit. "He... He was given to me by a... a jerk named Ryouga" The pig bwees and tries to escape Azusa's grip "Ryouga felt guilty for attacking me so he gave me his pig... I know it's his pig because that's his bandanna on him" Azusa is nearly in tears herself, feeling ashamed for stealing from a little girl. Ranko pulls up her shirt and jumper revealing the cut with the stitches in, "He cut me, both sides, and my leg too" She points at a line above her knee "And that pig is the only good thing he did for me" Azusa finally breaks down crying and hands the pig back over. Ranko gladly thanks her and skates back to Akane and Ranma who is skating slightly better. "What were you doing over there Ranko?" Akane asks. Ranko simply shrugs "I had to trick that girl over there to give P-chan back, I told her some soppy story about Ryouga attacking me and leaving me this pig to make up for it. I even said they had the same bandanna" Ranma's eyes light up at this news, maybe Ranko knew of Ryouga's curse and was about to reveal it "But that cant be right because Ryouga's a total jerk, he never even apologized to me." Ranma face faults, Ryouga would face fault as well but he was held to tight. Ranko skates away and starts whispering to P-chan "Well I just save you're butt from Azusa, and figuring that you attacked me I guess that two you owe me, ey Ryouga" P- chan of course faints whilst Ranko chuckles, seconds later a high pitched scream is heard from Ranma 'I guess she just got kissed by Mikado, stupid jerk' She skates over to him and high kicks him right in the nuts, all the guys wince but all the girls cheer. "Nobody Kisses my sister without her permission.". Mikado slumps to the floor, Ranko looks to Ranma who is trying to scrape her mouth clean. Ranma stops for a moment and gives Ranko a real look of gratitude, "Thanks kiddo" Ranko looks at her watch as she skates around 'hmm Shampoo should be coming soon' she skates back to Akane and countdowns to shampoos arrival. Five, four, 'is that a cracking sound?'.two, one, CRASSHHH shampoo kicks the wall down. "Ranma I KILL". 'Right on time' thinks Ranko as she watches her try to kill Ranma. Everybody else is too shocked to notice a lack of reaction from Ranko. Ranma takes her cue to leave and Shampoo follows quickly. "What was that about?" asks Akane, Ranko looks up and wonders how much to tell. "Um, she's a Chinese Amazon who gave female Ranma the kiss of death and now has to hunt her down and kill her or she'll be dishonoured." Akane stares at her like she'd grown another head "How do you know that Ranko?" Ranko giggles, "I used a tactic to find out that was so sneaky, so devious that even Nabiki would never think of it" Intrigued Akane urges Ranko on "I snuck into there room and listened to pop's mumble in his sleep, All I needed was some hot water and all his secrets were mine." Ranko tries her best to do an evil laugh but it just sounds funny, even Akane laughs. "Oh and one more thing, beware for someone named Ukyou, he or she has somethin' to do with Ranma I know it. . ---------- next up Male Ranma, Ranko and Akane arrive home to meet Shampoo. ---------- Please review my story, tell me if you liked it or not and if not, what didn't you like? Also feel free to send in ideas as nothing is set in stone for a particular chapter until it's finished and published on-line, even then it's fairly flexible. The first part of this chapter has been re-Written and is now chapter one. The rest of this chapter is waiting to be re-written. This chapter is NOT an update. Oh and before people start complaining about temporal paradoxes or something, the Nanban mirror sent Ranma into a parallel world that is the same except it's four years behind Ranma's world so it looks a lot like time travel (I think I might have read something like this in another fic.) PS. Due to certain feedback and reviews which I totally agree with, I'm going to split this chapter into several chapters and flesh them out more as I re-write this.