dr ranma V2 ---------- Ranma's life is a constant hell. He no longer insults anybody, doges Ukyou's and Shampoos glomps, even akanes mallets no longer hits. Even thoug he wasnt doing anything, it was still hell. Ryouga still got furious for no reason, getting more angry as ranma dodged his attacks. Akane still accuses ranma of picking on ryouga and attempts to mallet him, which whilst doesnt hit, still causes emotional damage. Mousu and kuno still blame him for taking there girls. After a particurly bad day of ryouga and mousu attacking for no reason, and Akane attacking and screaming obscenities for ranma picking on ryouga, ranma gets mad and knocks tham all out except akane with one punch. Akane he just dodged and then leapted away saying nothing, knowing she would never listen anyway. when he reached home he had been splashed and was in female form, not that she minded much. It was the reaction everybody else had to the curse that she hated, but even that didnt seem to matter to her anymore. Nobody else cared about her so what do there oppinions matter? She walked by nodoka who was siting in the living room stroking her katana, whilst watching the two lazy men of the house playing shogi. Nodoka looked at ranma with a frown. "do you want some hot water dear?" She asked snidely. Ranma shook her head as she continued to walk by, her face downcast, not even looking at her mother. She just knew her mother was about to make a big deal about it but couldn't bring herself to care. Nodoka glared at her sex changed child. "Now Ranma thats not very manly." She said in a cool voice, stroking her katana threatningly. Her eyes narrowed and slowly burned with barely controlled rage that had been building up for months. She stopped and turned her gaze to her mother and glared back at her. "I thought you already declared me manly, MOTHER?" She slowly growled out. Her mother flinched at the barely disgused rage in her son turned daughters voice. "Im your mother, I decide whether your manly or not. Now stop this arguing, it's NOT manly." She slowly pulled her katana from it's sheath, the blade glinting, showing it's highly polished and deadly surface. Ranma sighed, shaking her head sadly. "You're not my mother." She said sadly to Nodoka. "My mother died when I was five. She traded being a mother for being a stranger and a slaver." Nodka gasped, looking horrified. She was about to object when ranma continued. "If I dont do what you want, then it's not manly and out with the katana." She glared at the drawn blade, which Nodoka embarrasedly placed back in the sheath ."If I object to marrying any of my fiance's, you tell me I'm not being honourable and manly." She glared at her father this time. "How is it possible to make an honourable decision when I can only marry one?" Genma chose this moment to join in. "You'll choose Akane boy, the schools must be joined." Soun started wailing. "Why dont you want to marry my wonderfull Akane?" It was Nodoka's answear that disgusted her the most. "You'll marry Akane and take the rest of the girls as you mistresses. It's the Manly thing to do." Ranma finally lost it and exploded in anger at her mother. "Your no better than that damn panda. You dont give a damn about honour, you just use it as an excuse to get whatever you want." "RANMA" Nodoka shouted. "How dare you speak to your mother like that. Apologise this instance or else." She drew the katana yet again. "Yes boy, apologise right now." Genma shouted, backing up his wife so he doesnt lose his head later. Ranma dashed forwards snatching the sword from the crazy red headed womans grip. She stopped by the patio doors and raised the sword horizontly in front of her. "Like I said, no dishonoble woman is my mother. She died years ago along with my father. All thats left in their place is a pair of dishonarable slave traders, intent on using me to get rich or grandkids." She scowled at her parents, flaring her aura a bright and dense white, daring them to contradict her. Genma rushed to his feet and tried to run away, he could feel the power was even more than the dreaded master. Ranma unleased a ball of white chi which flew straight at Genma's back, exploding and knocking him out. Nodoka and Soun were too shocked to do anything. She stood glowing for several minuites untill she was able to calm down a little "Im leaving." she growled out. "I no longer want to be a part of this dishonorable clan." She snapped the swod across her knee breaking it and the sheath in half. "It's honour is broken like this sword, mostly because of Genma's greed and Nodoka's misuse of honour." She stalked up the staires to her room. She quickly grabbed her pack, which in truth had never really been unpacked as she continued to use it to store her clothes, ten years of habit. She went back down and as she was about to leave the house for the last time, she turned back to her ex parents, tears trickling down her face. She started laughing hysterically as Genma looked disgusted at the tears and Nodoka frowned. "Normal parents would encourage their child to cry to let out their pain, instead you expect me to keep it bottled up, probebly because you dont know how to care for anybody." She looked down sadly, a frown slowly appearing. "I bet as a baby you couldn't understand why I cryed, I bet you knocked me out or something to shut me up." She was shocked when Genma smirked sheepishly, Nodoka stared at him wide eyed. "I JUST KNEW IT" Ranma exploded in rage. "I knew there was no way you two could have ever been good parents." She looked deeply into Nodokas eyes "Why are you so desperate for grandkids? If you cant even love your own child, what make's you think I would let you anywhere near any of mine?" She breathed heavily, trying to calm down. "Im going, nobodies going to stop me. I know somebody that is willing to adopt me, he has shown me more honour and love than you two ever could. He will be the grandfather my children will need growning up" With that, she finally left the house, slamming the door on her way out. Nodoka and soun burst into tears, and grabbed each other. Genma stared ahead blankly, he had lost his son. He had pushed and pushed his boys tolerance untill he pushed too far. He looked down sadly, he knew he had never been a good father, but when he thought back on it he realised he was worse than the master. The master had never actually put him or soun in any life threatning sitiauations, and he always bailed them out if it got too much. True they had too steal more panties as punishment but at least they were relatively safe. When he thought about Ranma, he knew he had almost lost him at least three times. Once to the neko-ken, once to the wolves when he rode on his sons back, and once when trying to teach the boy to swim with heavy weights. Nodoka was in even worse condition as she realised she had never been a mother to her baby, just a slaver. She had only thought of Ranma as her property and as a strong breeding machine. Now she didnt have him anymore and she would never get to see her grankids. Her sobbing increased and soun was forced to pass her off to her husband. ---------- Ranma walked away from the Tendo home, tears filling her eyes as she sobbed softly to herself. She had to get away from Nerima before she encountered anyone else. It was hard enough to disown her parents, she didnt have the strength to do it with the fianceé's as well. She knew she would need a good disguise if she were to avoid them for long, luckily Herb had told her a secret about the kaisafu and the kinjaiken. you can get volentarily controll of the curse, It just takes a lot of controll with chi to do so. The magics had changed the curse slightly, giving it the ability to be locked in either form if you knew how. Ranma had been practicing in secret for months and mostly had the techniqe down, the only reason she didn't use it before was she knew everybody else would demand an instant cure. Nobody else would have the patience to learn the controll, and would blame Ranma for there failures. She decided that her female form was best to hide out as, she didn't mind being in female form, in fact it was quite nice when people who didn't know her treated her nicer than she had ever been treated before. It was only her parents and Akane that made her object to being female. Still she would have to make some changes like a nice feminine hairstyle died a differant colour. Also she would need some more feminine clothes, nobody would expect her to were them so she wont be easy to find. She didn't mind wearing female clothes, they are actually a lot more comfortable for her girl body than her normal clothes, plus she had fun wearing them to tease Ryouga. She didn't normally wear them because of her parents, for the same reason as she couldn't like being female. Also She tended to look like a pervert if she changed into a guy while wearing a dress, which really put her off untill now. Having made up her mind she quickly searched for a salon, deciding to do her hare first so she doesnt mess up her clothes. She entered and noticed it was largely empty, the stylist quickly came up to greet her with a smile. Ranma shuffled her feet. "I need a new hairstyle." She said nervously, pulling at her pigtail. "Also I want to die it a differant colour." The stylist gasped and put her hand to her mouth. "Why? It's such a lovely colour. It really suites you, with a new hairstyle and differant clothes you would be really beautiful." Ranma twitched. "I hate standing out, I just want to blend in. My hair sticks out like a sore thumb, I can never get any peace." "Ok dear, I understand" she smiled sadly. "We arn't very busy at the moment so im free, if you want your hair done now?" Ranma nodded. The stylist led her to a chair, and placed a large cloth around her body and neck to keep the hair away from her clothes. "Ok what colour hair would you like?" Ranma thought about it for a moment, before thinking about kasumi. "Brown, I like dark brown hair." The stylist nodded and went to fetch the die. When she came back she turned the chair around and tilted the back so that ranma's hair fell into the sink. She untied the drangons whisker and unbraided the pigtail, allowing her hair to flow freely. She turned on a shower attachment and washed the silky red hair, cleaning it so the die would work fully. Once she finished she worked the die into the redheads scalp, covering the vibrant red with a more normal dark brown colour. She left the hair to soak in the die for around ten minuites as she talked to ranma about trivial things, just making small talk. Afterwards she rinsed the hair, washing away the excess die and leaving normal brown hair behind that looked like it was her natural colour. She had even used a small brush to die her eyebrows as well. She dried Ranma's hair with a towel and returned the chair to it's normal position. Ranma gasped when she saw her own reflection, already she couldn't recognise herself, a brown haired girl looking back at her, her hair flowing soggily down her shoulder. "So what sort of style would you like?" the stylist asked, breaking ranma from her trance. Ranma thought about it, then shook her head. "I dont really know, I've only ever had a pigtail. I just want to look more feminine." The stylist smiled kindly and got out her scissors. She stated cutting, asking her custemer if she like it from time to time and making small talk. When she had finished, Ranma had a cute and fenimine cut. Her bangs framed her face, and her hair flowed to her midback. "I love it" Ranma squeeled, looking at her self in the mirror, turning around to see her hair from all angles. "Thank you so much." She said happily whilst fishing out the payment from her backpack. 'No one will ever recognise me now' "Your welcome." The stylist replied happily, taking the payment. "Feel free to come back any time for a trim, and to re die you hair." Ranma nodded happily and left, she needed to find some nice clothes before somebody recognised her chinese shirt and black pants. She looked around and noticed a nice dress shop, she quickly entered and looked around. She discarded several dresses as being too frilly or the wrong colour before spotting a nice green dress. She quickly grabbed it and rushed to the changing rooms to try it on. It was a plain simple green sundress the reached to her knees, but she looked beautifull in it and nothing like the boy she had been. She grabbed several more of the same dress as well as some shoes, and happily paid for them. She changed into her dress in the changig room and left a changed girl. The assistant was stunned at how beautiful she was in such a simple dress. ---------- Ranma walked into Dr Tofu's office, knowing he would be taking his lunch break around then. "Hey, doc" She called out, looking around the waiting area. Tofu walked out of his office and looked at the pretty girl standing watching him. "Hello miss, can I help you? You dont look injured." She giggled and struck a sexy pose. "Surely you would remember me doc?" She watched him shake his head nervously. She broke out into full laughter. "I'm glad you dont recognise me doc" She finally got out as she calmed down. She looked nervously around the room checking for people."It's me, Ranma" she whispered. Tofu's eyes almost bulged out of their sockets. "Ranma? How? Why? you look so differant." She lauged again, before turning sombre. "True, I need to get away. Nothing ever changes, they all blame me for everything and treat me like dirt or a personal slave." She started shuddering, Tofu quickly gathered her into a hug, she burst into tears. "My father always sells me off to feed his fat stomach, and then expects me to take care of it when they show up again." She cries even harder. "My mother is a manly obsessed psycho, if I dont do something she wants, or if she thinks it's girly like cooking, swish, out comes the katana." *sniff* "I ended it with them, They aint my parents anymore." *sniff* "Dont think they ever treated me like parents should." "Shhh" Tofu tried to calm her down. "You can stay with me, my offer of adoption is still open." he gently cradled her and sat down on a chair with her on his lap. "You are the most honorable person I have ever met, even when you have been surrounded by dishonarable people like your father and Ryouga. I would be proud to accept you into the Ono clan." Ranma nodded happily, her tears easing at her new found joy. "Thank's doc, I knew I could depend on you. You the best freind I ever had." Tofu nodded "You too Ranma, you too." He looked down at her and a puzzled expression came to his face. "Why are you so... so feminine right now?" She giggled, then moved herself to the chair next to Tofu. "I never hated my curse doc, I hated my parents and Akane's reactions to it. Now that I dont care about them anymore, I can accept the curse." She smiled a bright sunny smile. "I never told anyone, but the locking ladle and the unlocking kettle gives people a chance to controll the curse." Tofu looked surprised. "How so? And why didn't you tell your rivals?" Her face scrunched as she thought about her answear. "Herb told be about it, in payback for saving his life on Mt Horai. They each add a bit of magic to the curse, triggers like the water trigger. The kettle doesnt get rid of the lock, it just adds a trigger to unlock the lock that the ladle placed on the curse." She looked at the doctor, satisfied that he understood. "I use my chi to trigger the lock, and it lock's me in whatever form I happen to be in at the time." She siged "I never told my rivals because it takes a lot of fine controll of your chi the find and manipulate the lock. They are too impatiant and would assume im lying." She looked down sadly. Tofu nodded. "They would most likely accuse you of trying to mislead them, and for finding a cure like nannicuan and not sharing it with them." She looked up. "Yea, thats true." She thought for a moment then she frowned with anger. "Besides why should I give them a cure after after all the stupid and dishonarable stuff they all do?" Tofu frowned at her. "Like you said they would never beleive me, besides it's not like I cursed them... well except for ryouga but him and pops are as much to blame for that. Besides he lost his right to a cre with the whole P-chan routine." Tofu sighed. "Yes, I suppose you're right." he said sadly before cheering up a little. "So I guess judging from your hair and dress that you locked yourself as a girl?" She nodded. "Yeah doc." She blushed "people who dont know me treat me a lot nicer when im a girl." She looked at his raised eyebrow. "I know, thats not much of a reason. It's just that when you spend your life with someone who treats you like dirt, and a lot of people who are out to hurt you or marry you like a trophy, being treated freindly, as a human being, it's really nice." She looked down sadly. "Plus it's easier to disguise myself this way and not be recognised." "Thats true." He sighed, then looked into her eyes. "Well if you are going to stay hear as my adopted daughter, you'll need a new name." He saw that she was about to object. "Your cover will be blown before we even start if you dont." "Fine." She rested her chin on her hands as she thought about what name to use. "How about Reiko?" "Reiko Ono?" Tofu sounded out the name. "Sounds great, I have most of the paperwork prepared so I'll it wont take too long." She looked at him, surprised. "Wha? How come doc?" He smiled at her. "Just in case, it was no trouble for a freind. I have some contacts that can push this through for me, so it should be fairly quick." He paused, looking at Reiko seriosly. "You still have to deal with the fiance's somehow." He watched her face suddenly become worried. "Dont worry I'll help you." He looked at the clock and noticed it was almost at the end of his lunch. He got up and went to his office, he rummaged around in a draw and produced a set of keys. These he handed to Reiko. "Here, these are the keys to the clinic." He pointed to a door in the corner she had never seen used. "that door leads to the living quarters, the spare bedroom is yours. You can come and go as you please, we'll discuss how to deal with the fianceé's later." She gratefully took the keys "Thanks doc." She gave him a quick hug then left to deposit her bag in her room. Tofu smiled happily while shaking his head. "Your welcome... Reiko." ---------- Ch2 ---------- A week later Reiko was getting settled. She had gone out and bought more clothes, placing them in her wardrobe instead of living out of the backpack. This made her feel more at home than she had ever been, that she was unpacking to stay instead of being ready to leave at any moment, like when she had lived with her father. She had even bought a Furinkan High girls uniform, she planned to blend in and pretend she's not a fighter this would keep her away from Kuno's attention as well as Akane's. No doubt Nabiki would notice the new girl and try to con her out of some money. Her new identification had come that morning, she was now Reiko Ono, daughter of Tofu Ono. She hugged her new father happily. "Dad?" He smiled down at her petite form. "Yes dear?" He laughed as she scrunched her face. "That doesn't sound right" She whined. "It sounds like were married." His face became controlled. "Of coarse were married dear." He watched Reiko's face as she became horrified. He couldnt hold it in any longer and burst out into laughter. "Your so easy." He caught his breath back. "Anyway, what did you want?" She scrunced her face in concentration, never realising it made her look cute. She looked down at her hand, noticing her id. "Does this mean I have to go to school now?" She asked, waving the id around. Tofu sighed. "I know what your father told you about school, just forget everything he ever told you except for martial arts." She nodded hesitently. "He wanted to keep you easily controllable, thats why he never wanted you to get much of an education." He paused thinking of his next words. "Could you get a job with just martial arts knowledge?" "Of coarse" Reiko shouted. "I could be a martial arts instructor." Tofu shook his head. "No you cant." Reiko was about to object but he cut her off. "Can you teach? Do you know how? How will you keep your records of what your students have learned? What about collecting payments? There is a lot more to teaching and running a dojo that you think. If you want any worthwhile jobs, an education is essential, otherwise nobody would hire you." He let his statements sink in for a moment. "How about if you applied your martial arts skills to something more usefull?" She looked at him excitedly. "Like what dad?" "How about medicine?" He asked, praying that she would say yes so he could pass on his skills. "After all your code is to protects the weak, so what if the weak are injured? Wouldn't it be better if you could heal them?" She nodded thoughfully. "That makes sense I guess." Her eyes suddenly lit up "Would you teach me? I could work for you, then I wouldnt be free loading anymore." "Dont worry about freeloading. I adopted you, normal parents provide for their children which is what im doing for you." he smiled brightly "However if you really wish to work with me, I would love to teach you." He smiled as her face expressed her joy. "However you still need to go to school." He burst out laughing when her expression changed to misery. "Go on, go get registered, you can start tomorrow." --------- Reiko found herself walking to school in a light blue dress, her hair tied into a ponytail with a blue ribbon. As she got closer she saw a group of boys huddled together dressed in sports equipment holding bats and raquets. 'Damn, I guess the hentai hord are back for Akane.' She felt a little guilty for leaving her in this situiation untill she remembered all the malletings and bad food. Then she smirked evilly at the thought of Akane facing everything alone. 'Just wait untill the next prince kidnaps Akane. I bet everybody will be looking for me to save her instead of doing it themselves.' She giggled evilly at the thought. She Walked through the gates largely ignored and walked around the hoard. She groaned as she walked by a tree and Kuno jumped out. "Do mine eyes deceive me or has an angel come down from heaven to bless me with her prescense?" He leered at her, his eyes roaming all over her body. "Allow my to introduce myself my fair angel, my name is Kuno Tatawaki, the Red Avenger of Furinkan High." Flames roared around his body for a second before dissapearing without a trace. Reiko was staring at him with surprise and disgust. She was shocked when he raised his bokken and prepared to attack her. A noise distracted her from behind, she turned to look and saw Akane looking angrier and yet more miserable than she had ever seen her. She was currently sending the boys flying everywhere. Kuno had continued his boring ranting speech while she ignored him. "If you beat me, I shall allow you to date with me." With that he swung his bokken to Reiko's ribs, hitting her fairly hard and sending her collapsing to the ground. At fist she was surprised at the hit, it didn't hurt at all, just took her by surprise. A plan suddenly formed in her mind in an instant, she allowed herself to collapse and bought tears to her eyes. "Why did you hit me?" She wailed "It hurts." "Oh my fair angel, you must date me, you are most delicate and need my protection." He dived for her, wrapping his arms around her and attempting to kiss. "HELLLPPP" She screamed. "RAPE" She twisted around trying halfheartedly to get free. "NOOOOOOO" She inwardly smirked as Akane ran towards them glowing a bright feiry red, a mallet held in her hands which she raised and punted Kuno into LEO. Akane calmed herself down and reached down to lift the poor girl to her feet. "Are you ok?" Reiko Looked at Akane, hiding her internal rage at the psychotic tomboy. "Yes, that you. I thought that boy was going to rape me." Her became seriose as she got to her feet. "Im Reiko, thanks for saving me." Akane smiled her gentle freindly smile, the one that makes her look like a nice girl instead of the viciose maniac she is. "Im Akane, Im glad to help. It's a martial artisist duty to protect the weak." Reiko sweatdropped. 'She cant be seriouse' She tought as she looked at the unsconsciouse bodies lying around. "Anyway, I need to know if this school has surveilance cameras installed?" "Yes I think so why?" She looked at the other girl, puzzled. Reiko smiled evilly and pulled out a cell phone Tofu had given her. She punched in a number and waited for an answear. "Hello? Yes I would like to report an attempted rape... Furinkan Highschool Nerima... His names" She looked questioningly at Akane. Akane was in shock, why hadn't she ever thought to try that. "Kuno Tatewaki." Reiko nodded. "Kuno Tatewaki... My names Reiko Ono" She heard Akane gasp. "He hit me with a bokken, them whilst I was down he grabbed me and tried to force himself on me. Luckily another student was around to take care of him... Thank you, I'll be at Dr Tofu's clinic." She put her phone away, ignoring Akanes questioning gaze, and started walking for the school. "Wait" Akane called out. "Are you related to Dr Tofu?" "Yep, He's my adopted father. I just moved into the area, im going to be apprencticing medicine under him." She smiled happily at Akanes shocked look. "I've got to sign up for class, bye." She ran slowly, for her, into the school leaving a shocked Akane behind.