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[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, but I'm not trying to make any money off this so I guess it's OK then.

This is a Ranma continuation and multi-cross-over with Sailor Moon, Tenchi Muyo!, Mermaid Saga, Ah Megami-sama and Mamono Hunter Yohko.

This is my first time writing a fan fiction, so please review and tell me what you think.

Chapter 1: The Cat-hunt begins


After Neko-Ranma-chan was out of sight Dr. Tofu hurries out to work on Ryouga, while Nabiki is calling for an ambulance, police sirens and fire trucks can be heard in the distance getting closer. Nabiki had warned them of the wedding, figuring things could get out of hand, as they did, flames ignited by the many bombs used were racing up the wedding decorations into the rafters of the Dojo, while the table with the sake was a large bonfire now.

Several news crews and reporters were already taking pictures and talking to guests, having made arrangements with Nabiki, there was even a Lloyd's of London agent making notes and shaking his head, 'We should never have insured a Neriman martial artist's wedding.' He thought as he handed a check for one million yen for preliminary damages to Nabiki.

"This will do for starters, arigato, I hope you will stay available, I wasn't counting on the fire from the explosives getting out of control. Excuse me, but I have to organize a manhunt for a cat." Nabiki says as she turns back to her agents. "Alright, get the reporters over here, I need to make a statement about Ranma. Also get me a police officer with a radio, we can't have the police or anyone else upsetting him, err her while she is a cat. Naoko, take six of the girls and find and buy up as much catnip as you can before the news breaks, we can corner the supply in the area. Yuma, use your pictures of Kuno and get him arrested for using a live blade, we can't risk having him bothering Osagi no Onna right now, she's not in a good mood." 'Akane, you really messed up this time, who knows where Ranma will end up in this state.' Nabiki thinks to herself as she continues her damage control efforts.

Kasumi is trying to calm Soun down as tears pour down his face as he cries "The schools will never be joined, my Dojo is ruined, whatever will we do."

Akane and Ukyo are sitting under a tree, still in shock over how close they were to being torn apart by Neko-Ranma-chan.

Nodoka is dragging a panda back toward the house yelling at it "As soon as I get some hot water, you've got a lot of explaining to do! Why is our son acting like a CAT?!! He attacked that Hibiki boy, scared the crap out of his fiancees, and has gone running off chasing that pervert!!"

While the fire in the Dojo is put out, and Ryouga is rushed to the hospital with Dr. Tofu, the police haul away both Kunos (Kodachi kept assaulting people with her ribbon), Nabiki has the ranking police officers and the reporters and news crews gathered in a huddle out in the street.

"OK, this is a sticky situation here. Ranma, the groom, is a little out of his mind right now and running loose somewhere. The problem is that he, or rather she at the moment, is extremely dangerous, but ONLY if provoked." Nabiki explains.

"What do you mean she? How can the groom be a she? And what do you mean by dangerous, How dangerous? What will it take to provoke her?" Asks the police officer in charge.

"Listen, most of that is too long a story to get into now, and we want it kept quiet. Let's start with a description, Saotome Ranko, 5 feet tall, 17-year-old girl, with red hair worn in a pigtail, wearing a white tuxedo, is running around on all fours acting like a cat. Now the bad part is that this Cat-girl is a little pissed off right now. However as long as she isn't provoked, she should leave everyone alone. But I wasn't kidding about her being dangerous, she can use Ki claws that will cut through metal, wood, concrete, and of course flesh like tissue paper, and she can jump over 20 feet high. So we need to warn people to stay away from the cat-girl, think of her like a tiger escaped from the zoo, but much faster and more dangerous. At least she doesn't think of people as food, as a matter of fact, I will cover the cost of any food the cat-girl wants, just let people know to let her have what she wants and don't upset her."

"But how do we catch this cat-girl?"

"I would advise against trying to capture her, she may be able to hide somewhere, go to sleep and wake up as herself, otherwise it's best to have someone she trusts calm her down." Nabiki says while thinking 'I hope we have someone who can calm Ranma down, Akane hit him as a cat, Ukyo threw bombs at him, he is still scared of his mother. Kuso, we better find a nice girl or kind old lady or something. Akane no baka.' Reaching into her purse "Here, I've got some pictures of her that you can put on TV and wanted posters, set of five for 50,000 yen or one for 15,000 yen. I've also got some footage from the wedding on my camcorder here." She offers to the police and reporters.

"Hey, she's really cute, is she single?"

"Nope, sorry, she's engaged already, besides, she likes girls."

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Later, back in the house the Tendos, Genma and Nodoka Saotome, Ukyo, and Cologne are gathered around the table.

Nabiki starts out "OK, I've got the police looking for Saotome Ranko the wild cat-girl with orders to keep people away from her and not provoke her, the TV and radio have Ranko on the news and are telling people to be calm, stay away, and feed her. That's the good news, the bad news is that they have picked up that the groom Saotome Ranma is also missing, and the last sighting of the cat-girl was her roof-hopping 10 miles east of here, so she's covered a lot of ground and is lost somewhere in Juuban."

"Juuban!? Isn't that where those magical girls fight with youmas?" Ukyo asks.

"Yes, the Sailor Senshi, nine girls named after the planets and the moon fighting for love and justice." Kasumi replies "Oh my, I hope Ranma doesn't get into a fight with them."

"That's right, don't most of those youmas look like women that turn into monsters? They're sure to think that baka is a youma!" yells Akane.

"I wouldn't worry about that too much, even if they attack Muko-dono, they are unlikely to be able to hit her, while in the Neko-Ken she is very good at dodging and is likely to think of it as a game, and leave after playing with them a bit." supplies Cologne.

"But how do we get my son back? He's out there running wild in Tokyo and we have to get him back!" Nodoka cries.

"Well, so far he has come out of the Neko-Ken when calmed down and petted by someone he likes and trusts, or when the curse activates. Unfortunately he is a girl now and getting splashed with hot water isn't as easy as cold, and the only person I think he will trust right now is Kasumi-neechan." Nabiki replies "So I think me and Kasumi-chan need to go to Juuban and find Ranma."

"Why you and Kasumi-oneechan, what about ME! He's always come to me before!" yells Akane.

"Ranchan is sure to come to me!" argues Ukyo.

"SHUT UP!" yells Nabiki, getting a little upset. "I've already thought about this. Akane, you malleted him twice today, once when he was a cat. Ukyo, you've thrown bombs at him, and hit him with a flour bomb as a cat. Auntie Saotome, I'm sorry to say that your son is still a little scared of you, and I'm fairly sure he doesn't trust me, but at least I don't hit him." Glaring at Akane and Ukyo. "Kasumi is our best girl, she can calm him down and bring him back. I'm going because I'm the best one to find him and keep him out of trouble."

After glaring down everyone Nabiki says "Alright, Kasumi-chan do you need to bring anything? I'll call us a Taxi to get us to Juuban."

"Oh my, I'll just get my coat, purse, an umbrella, and a change of clothes for Ranma, and I'll be ready." Kasumi replies, as she gets to her feet.

"You might want to bring running shoes. We might have to chase Ranma around some." Nabiki advises. "Akane-chan, you and Ukyo-san could go to the hospital, I heard that Ryouga-kun is out of surgery now, Akari-chan mentions that he is fine but has more than 200 stitches, and has been given 2 pints of blood, I guess he's lucky that Ranma didn't really tear into him when he jumped in front of you." She looked a bit scared at the realization of how dangerous an upset Neko-Ranma can be.

Of course, so did everyone else.


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Meanwhile, the news is spreading by radio and TV, and coming to the attention of many interested parties.

At certain shrine in Juuban an old Shinto priest saw the news on TV and went looking for his granddaughter. "Rei, I've got some interesting news for you!"

"What's so interesting grandfather? I'm doing my chores." says a pretty girl with long black hair in a shire maiden's outfit sweeping off the steps.

"You remember about nine years ago, we found that boy who thought he was a cat?" says the short old priest.

"Yes, I remember Ranma. He was taught the Neko-Ken by his awful father. Grandma caught me playing with him out in the yard during our picnic."

"You were teasing him with a chicken leg and he pounced on you to get it, I've never seen anyone else eat a drumstick bone and all. Then he curled up on you purring. It was so cute."

"Grandpa!!" Rei yelled at him while blushing bright red, "Why are you bringing this up?"

"Well he's on the news, he went missing from a wedding that was bombed, and his sister Ranko is on the loose acting like a cat, but I don't remember him having a sister."

"There is a girl running around in the Neko-Ken! Where is she?!" Rei asks becoming alarmed.

"The wedding was in Nerima, but she could be in Juuban be now from what was on the radio. They had her picture on TV, she's quite the looker, maybe she'd be interested in being a shrine maiden? You think?"
"Get your mind out of the gutter you old man. I'm going to go looking for her, I'll try and calm her down before she gets into trouble out there."

"Just be careful dear, you remember that tree that Ranma used as a scratching post."


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#Vrrrm# #Vrrrm#

"Excuse me mom, I've got to go check on something." Says a cute 15-year-old girl with blonde hair done up in two buns and long ponytails.

"Sure dear, not a problem." Mrs. Tsukino replied.

"Come on Luna." The girl called as she went into her room.

After she shut the door, she answered her communicator "Usagi here, what is it Rei?"

"We need to get all the senshi together, we have a dangerous situation, that needs careful handling. Have you seen the news about the cat-girl that ran away from a wedding?"

"Your dangerous situation is a cat-girl that doesn't want to get married? Come on Rei." Usagi says sarcastically into the communicator.

"Usagi, the wedding was bombed! A Dojo almost burned down, and that cat-girl put a boy into the Emergency Room to get more than 200 stitches. If she is what I think she is, she has claws that can cut steel like paper! And she is probably in Juuban by now! Just get all the senshi. I'll meet you on the roof of the arcade." yells Rei's voice out of the communicator so loud that Usagi drops it.

"OK, Ok, sheesh, don't have a cow, but what if one of the others finds the cat-girl? Do you think they could take her?" Usagi says into the comm after picking it back up.

"NO! Stay away from her, she's not a monster, she's just an insane martial artist. Besides, getting into a fight with her would be BAD."

"OK, alright, I'll call the others and get them to meet us at the arcade." Usagi says before closing the cover, hanging up on Rei.

"Mom! I'm going to meet my friends at the arcade, got to go, ja ne." Usagi calls as she runs through the house and out the front door, Luna hot on her tail.

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On the roof of the arcade nine girls in fuku, a guy in a tuxedo, and a couple of cats are having an emergency meeting.

"Usagi, is this about those big-eyed monsters and mutated corpses that have been showing up in the park the last couple of months?" asks Sailor Venus.

"No, Rei saw something on the news that we need to handle." Sailor Moon replies. "Mars, why don't you fill us in."

"OK, you probably heard the news about this cat-girl, well I think this girl is a martial artist that has learned the Neko-Ken." Sailor Mars tells them.

"Neko-Ken what's that?" Sailor Jupiter cut in, "Is she dangerous."

"The Neko-Ken or Cat-Fist is an ancient technique used to train an incredibly dangerous berserker for battle." replies Pluto. "The berserker's strength, speed, and senses are enhanced, and deadly Ki claws can be created that cut through anything with ease. So yes, she is dangerous."

"But, she is not a monster!" objects Mars. "She can be calmed down and become sane again. When I was seven, I met a boy who had learned the Neko-Ken, he wasn't vicious, he just acted like a cat. Apparently this is his sister, she shouldn't hurt anyone unless she is attacked. We just need to find her before she gets into trouble and hurts someone."

"She already put a guy into the hospital!" yells Uranus.

"That was at the wedding, there were bombs going off and he probably provoked her." Mars yells back.

"HEY! Quit it you two!" Sailor Moon yells at them. "Alright, now Mars, how do we handle this cat-girl if she is so dangerous?"

"It's not that bad. She thinks she's a cat, so we have to treat her like a cat." Sailor Mars explains her plan. "We should find a pet store and get some catnip toys, and drop by that new American KFC and get some fried chicken."

"That sounds like a great idea Mars, I haven't tried out their food yet." Sailor Moon says.

"The chicken is for the Cat-Girl! Not for YOU! You greedy gut." Mars yells at Sailor Moon.

"WAAHHH!! She won't let me have any chicken! She's so mean to me!" cries Sailor Moon.
"Its OK Moon, we'll just have to buy enough for us and the neko-onno." Mercury says trying to calm down the moon princess.

"Hey Mars, maybe I should live with you." Artemis says. "It sounds like you really know how to treat a cat."

Sailor Venus glares at her cat, and Luna swats him one.

"Hey, I was just kidding, sheesh. But knowing how a cat thinks, I think Mars's plan sounds really good. Yummy fried chicken and catnip MwuHahaha." Artemis says getting carried away.

"OK, well, since we are all here, I should tell you what I've come up with on those monsters and bodies in the park." Sailor Mercury says as she steps forward, setting up her computer to show holograms. "The bodies and monsters were all human. Most of them had been mutated by an unknown substance. Whatever it was mutated some of them, and poisoned some of them. Most of the victims were girls in-between 17 and 25 years old. The monsters we fought didn't have any powers except for fast healing, but they were really hard to kill. We also know that the Moon Wand was unable to reverse the mutation. They don't seem to be like any of our enemies, and don't show up on my scanners as anything besides a human or large animal. Mars, did you learn anything from you fire readings."

"The fire was a little confusing. I saw a small boy, monsters, dead bodies, and Mermaids, and glimpses of a young couple looking for the boy." Mars tells the others.

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#Aaachooo#

"Yuta, are you catching a cold?" a gorgeous young woman in a short skirted tube dress asks.

"Mana, we can't catch colds or get sick, I think someone was talking about me." Yuta replies.

"Are you sure this is the right park? Do you really think Masoto is doing this?"

"Well, we did find out that his body was missing from the morgue, after he was killed in that car wreck, and the pictures of the monsters look like 'Lost Souls', so it looks like that little 800-year-old brat is poisoning young women with mermaid's flesh trying to make an immortal mother for himself. What was it ten girls dead so far?"

"Ten is just the poisoned girls. Yuta, there were five 'Lost Souls' that killed eight people and put fourteen more in the hospital. Humph, even if he gets an immortal girl, who would want to take care of a psychotic little boy forever. If we find that little bastard I'll take his head myself! Wrapping me up in barb wire and using that cleaver on us. Grrrr." Mana growls with her teeth clenched and making fists. "Killing me is one thing, but that damn barbed wire HURT."

"Jees, Mana, calm down, we'll find him." And so a young looking couple of immortals entered the park looking for a little boy.


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#Aachoo#

"Oh, you poor kid. Are you catching a cold?" Asks a young woman. "Are your parents here?"

The little boy on the park bench says "No, my parents died a long time ago, and I don't have anyone to look after me anymore" #sniff-sniff#

"You shouldn't be here in this park anyway, I hear there have been monsters appearing here lately, although the Sailor Senshi usually show up to kill them, you never know when another one will show up. Why don't you come with me and we'll get something to eat?"

"But I have some special sushi right here in my bag, you want to try a piece? It's good." He says offering her a raw piece of fish meat from his bag.

Now if you were to look up, or step back further you would see a red-haired girl in a dirty white tuxedo laying on a branch up in the tree behind the bench, and she perks up when the boy opens his bag of sushi.

"Mmm, this is good, what kind of fish is this"

"Mermaid, it's very rare and hard to find, but it keeps really well."

Of course seeing them eating the good smelling fish, the red-haired girl jumps out of the tree, landing on all fours and asks for a piece, since she loves fish. "Meeooorrw?"

Both the little boy and the young lady are a bit startled to see a girl jump out of a tree and act like a cat. "Ano, . . . do you think she wants a piece of sushi?" the girl asks the boy as Neko-Ranma-chan came a bit closer looking at the bag, sniffing, then looking back at them asking politely "Mreeorrw?"

"Well, I guess it's OK. I still have plenty, and you never want to get a cat-girl angry." Masoto joked, taking a piece of mermaid flesh from the bag he tosses it to the cat-girl. "Here you go, that's a good Neko-Ken girl, that's right eat up. Heheheh."

Neko-Ranma-chan eats the tasty treat and wants some more, so she asks "Mreeoorrw?"
"Umm, she must be hungry. From the looks of her clothes she's probably been running around Neko-Ken all day. Here you go, niiice kitty." The boy says as he gives the cat-girl some more fish.

"Neko-Ken? Is that dangerous?" the girl asks nervously as the boy gives the cat-girl more sushi.

"Well, we'd be safer if she were on drugs and waving a machine-gun around. Niice kitty. Here have some more. Don't scream or run, cats chase things that run." Masoto is starting to sound really nervous, chances are one or both of the girls will be affected by the mermaid flesh any moment now, and he'll have to make a getaway. Never mind that the greedy cat was eating all of his stash of mermaid flesh, so he palms a few pieces and puts them in his pockets.

"Greedy cat. Here have the rest." He says as he tosses the bag with just a couple of pieces left for the cat-girl to paw through. After Neko-Ranma-chan eats the last of the fish and tears up the bag looking for more, the boy is backing away, and the girl screams and goes into convulsions as her eyes bulge out and veins pop out all over her face.

Mana and Yuta come running down the trail when they hear the screams. Mana says "I'll get that little shit, you keep the Lost Soul away from me." And they run toward their targets.

Masoto hears someone running and turns to see a furious looking Mana with two sticks joined by a strand of barbed wire. "Aack!" and he's off running, with Mana quickly making up the distance.

The poor girl has finished screaming and convulsing, and has mutated and bulged out into a blue-skinned bug-eyed monster and is looking at the cat-girl. Neko-Ranma-chan doesn't like the looks of this monster and growls and hisses at it as her pigtail sticks straight up and she huffs up her clothes.

Yuta stumbles to a halt, not wanting to draw attention as the two face-off against each other. Suddenly the Lost Soul moves and Neko-Ranma-chan jumps right at it yelling "RROOWWRR!!" as her battle cry, (translated from cat "Mouko Kaimon Ha Kaiteiban Neko Kaimon Ha" or "Fierce Tiger Opening Gates Blow Revised: Cat Claws Open the Door" a Neko-Ken revision of a Yama-Sen-Ken technique)
swatting its clawed hands away with her claws, then landing with her hands on it's shoulders and her feet in its gut, she rips her feet down with her claws out doing a quick evisceration while the claws on her hands tear into the monster's shoulders. As the Lost Soul screams in pain and fury, she leaps clear in a spray of blood and flesh.

"Holy Shit!!" yells Yuta, quickly deciding he doesn't need to stick around anymore, the cat-girl seems to have the monster well in hand, so he turns away and spots Mana as she tackles Masoto and wraps her barbed wire garrote around his neck, using one of the sticks to draw the wire tight as his face begins to purple and blood flows down his neck. As Yuta starts to run in their direction he says to himself "Note to self: Never ever get Mana angry." Then looking back to check on the cat-girl and the Lost Soul he adds, "Also never get in a fight with a cat-girl."

When Yuta walks up to Mana, she has the garrote tied off around Masoto's neck and he's not twitching anymore, so he figures she broke his neck.

Mana looks up at him and asks "What about the Lost Soul, did it die of the poison?"

"No, it got torn apart by that other girl. It was the strangest thing I ever saw. Check it out. She's just playing with it now." And they look over to see the blue-skinned monster laying in a pool of blood and guts, trying to get up. Its skin is covered with many long and deep cuts, some of them looking like they went through the bone. The cat-girl seems to be done with it and swats it's neck with one hand leaving the head barely attached as blood fountains from the cuts.

"Eeew! That's nasty, and that poor girl is covered in blood now, she's never going to get the stains out of that tuxedo, bloodstains on whites, forget it. Oh well, lets get out of here and dispose of this little creep somewhere."

"Sounds good Mana, let's stick him into my extra seabag and pack some sticks and leaves in there to make it look right, then we'll find somewhere to burn him after we get out of the city."

"OK, Yuta. Just as long as I get to cut his head off before we burn him. He came back after that flaming car crash. I don't want to have to hunt this little bastard down again. Besides I promised him I'd take his head if he messed with us, and I always keep my word."

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After picking up four buckets of KFC fried chicken and determining that no pet stores were open the Senshi split up to look for the runaway cat-girl, the Inners splitting up to check the schools and parks, the Outers going downtown and to the mall.

Twenty minutes later Sailor Venus was outside of the park when she first heard the screaming and yowling, and called the other Inners. "This is Venus, I'm almost at the park and I hear what sounds like a terrible fight, it could one of those monsters, it could be the cat-girl, hell it could be both. But whatever it is get your arses over here, I'm going to check it out, but I want some back-up. ASAP!"

Then the brave fuku-clad warrior ran into the park, to see what was making all the ruckus and came out of the trees in time to see the cat-girl still playing with the monster. She opens up her communicator as says "This is Venus, I was right, it was both, but it looks like the monster won't be a problem, Pluto wasn't kidding about the cat-girl being dangerous. #Gulp# By the time you guys get here the monster will be a pile of hamburger if she keeps playing with it."

A few minutes later the five inner senshi are gathered at the edge of the trees, looking at Neko-Ranma-chan trying to lick her bloody hands clean.

"Eeew! That's just nasty! She's going to get sick if she keeps doing that. I'm going to get sick if she keeps doing THAT. What are we going to do with her?!" Asks a pale looking Sailor Moon.

"Ugh, I guess we need to get her to the shrine. Gramps actually knows a bit about this, and she needs cleaned up. But how do we get her there? We can't just walk a bloody cat-girl down the street through town!" replies Sailor Mars.

"We need a truck or a van, we could call the Outers and see if anyone can figure out how to get one on short notice." suggests Mercury.

"Did someone say they need a van?" Pluto says as she walks up behind them. "I've got one of the school's vans at the edge of the park, so why don't we go out there and get our cat-girl before the police show up, ne?"

"Pluto, how did you know to be here with a van at just the right time?" asks Jupiter suspiciously.

"That . . . is a secret." Pluto smugly replies to the glares of the Inners.

"Oh well, I'll go get her, Venus, Mercury, cover me, the rest of you stay back." Mars tells them as she walks out into the open going "Here kitty kitty, that's a nice kitty, you killed that nasty monster all by yourself didn't you? Good kitty. Do you want some KFC?" She tosses out a drumstick, attracting Neko-Ranma-chan's attention.

The cat-girl leaves off trying to clean her hand and walks over the drumstick and sniffs it. Deciding that it smelled good enough to eat, she picks it up and bites off the top half. #CRUNCH# #Crack crack crack crack# #Gulp# #Rrrrummm vrrrrummm rrrummm# Then she pops the rest of the drumstick in her mouth.

"I didn't know cats could eat with their hands." Moon says from where they are watching.

"We usually don't since it takes both fore paws to pick something up, but she has thumbs so of course she would use her hands to eat." Luna tells her.

"So your saying it's all in the thumbs then?" Venus asks.

"Just try using your hands without curling your fingers in or using your thumbs and see how you do." Luna replies getting miffed.

"Shush you two." Mars whispers to them, then she walks toward the cat-girl with another drumstick ready to hand over. "Here kitty kitty, come here Ranko-chan. You want some more?"

Neko-Ranma-chan looks over Sailor Mars as she walks closer, he remembers a girl he used to play with, she sounds about the same, so he gets up and goes up to her, seems friendly and he rubs his face against her hand, before taking the drumstick from her hand and starts eating it, taking the meat off first before crunching the bone in two. While he is eating, the nice girl scratches under his chin and pets his head just how he likes it, this must the same nice girl, so he starts purring for her and rubbing up against her.

"Oh, you're a nice neko-onna aren't you?" Mars says to the cat-girl. "Well do you want to take a ride in a van? I'll take you home and get you all cleaned up, and you must be still be hungry after running around all day and killing that awful monster."

So Neko-Ranma-chan follows her down the path and lets her take his jacket and pants off, this is OK with him, they were wet and nasty and he wasn't looking forwards to licking them clean anyways. Then he follows her into a large box and lays at her feet so she can pet him. He gets a bit upset when the box starts moving, but the girl keeps petting and cleaning him with a rag so it must be OK.

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Major changes. 05-05-04 Extended scenes with more Senshi and Neko action.

Spell and Grammar check 10-24-04

Yuta, Mana, and Masoto are characters from Mermaid Scar, which most of you haven't read, but it's one of Rumiko Takahashi's other stories. Those who eat the flesh of a mermaid can become immortal, die of the poison, or become a monster called a lost soul. Masoto is an 800-year-old kid in the body of a 7-year-old, Yuta is a 500-year-old young man who has been wandering around, Mana is an immortal girl of about 18, and she's fairly new at this. As immortals they can be killed but usually come back to life in 12 hours unless their head is removed. Of those who eat mermaid flesh, about 2/3rds die, and the rest become monsters, only about one in a hundred becomes true immortals, but some of the monsters blur the line with the immortals, being very hard to kill and having rapid healing, sometimes even coming back from the dead unless the head is removed.

Yes, Ranma did eat the flesh of the mermaid and survived, what do you expect after eating Akane's cooking which is much more toxic. But this means I can kill Ranma! YES!! Unless his head comes off he'll just keep coming back for more punishment. MuhahHAHA! Not that killing Ranma would be easy, especially not after Saffron, but somewhere down the line expect him to wake up in a morgue or dig himself out of the ground.

I'd like to thank Targhan a.k.a. David Crawford for the letting me use part of the plot of 'Moonlight Kitty' for this story. An excellent short fanfic that has Hino Rei meeting Neko-Ranma as kids, and yes, they do end up engaged.

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