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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 2: Where did the cat-girl go?



The news was spreading all over Japan by rumor, newspaper, radio, and television about the bombed wedding, the missing groom, and the cat-girl loose in Tokyo chasing a pervert. Most people find this very entertaining if a bit hard to believe, and lots of people in Tokyo, and especially in Nerima decide to be extra friendly to any cat-girls that are around. Few people know who Saotome Ranko is outside of
Nerima, but Saotome Ranma, son of Saotome Genma and Nodoka draws the attention of several people outside of Nerima. Several young women found out their fiancee was missing, but still single, just barely.


In Ohkayama, at the Masaki Shrine, Noboyuki turned on the evening news to watch the story about the cat-girl on the loose in Tokyo. "Everyone, come in here, you'll want to see this. There is a dangerous cat-girl on the loose in Tokyo. I heard about it at the office."

"Cat-girl? I've got to hear this one. You don't see that many of them on this planet." says Washu.

Everyone gathers in around to watch the evening news as Noboyuki turns the TV to channel 6.

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The TV shows the Channel 6 News room, with a very young anchorwoman reading the news from a hidden Teleprompter.

"Earlier today in the Nerima district of Tokyo the wedding of Saotome Ranma and Tendo Akane was interrupted by explosions and fighting. While this isn't that unusual for Nerima, this time the police have become involved because of an insane cat-girl on the loose in Tokyo." The picture changes from the News anchorwoman to a snapshot of a redheaded girl in a white tuxedo crouched down with one hand on the ground, the other hand raised to strike with glowing red blades projecting from her fingers. "The neko-onna goes by the name Saotome Ranko, and she is a powerful martial artist suffering from a form of temporary insanity caused by traumatic exposure to cats. In her current mental state she believes that she is a cat, and can even manifest ki claws that can cut through steel. Her behavior is similar to that of a house cat and it is unlikely that she will attack anyone without provocation. To avoid problems with the cat-girl we are advising people to avoid the cat-girl but don't run or make loud noises, if you have food that she seems interested in just set the food down and back away from it, don't worry you will be reimbursed. The Tokyo Police department is tracking the cat-girl’s movements, so you can dial 911 to report cat-girl sightings, at this time the last report had her leaving Nerima going into the Juuban district 20 minutes ago. Now switching over to Namaguchi Jiro at the scene of the wedding."

The scene changes to the backyard of the Tendo-ke facing the dojo. The dojo has sustained heavy bomb damage, as well as having several sections of wall missing, and the wooden floor is scorched and cratered in several spots. A pile of smashed wood and burnt wedding decorations sits in the yard in front of the dojo.

"This is Namaguchi Jiro, at the Tendo Dojo of Anything Goes Martial Arts in the Nerima district of Tokyo. Behind me you can see the aftermath of a failed wedding. This one wasn't just a bride being left in front of the altar. No, this wedding ended up in a battle royal over the groom, the bride, and the wedding presents. The combatants used fists, feet, swords, bombs, mallets, ki blasts and even the dreaded Neko-Ken in a fight that wrecked the Dojo behind me, sent one boy to the hospital, and unleashed a wild cat-girl on Tokyo."

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Noboyuki catches the names of the groom and cat-girl and points at the woman wearing a kimono, carrying a long bundle and says "That's your daughter Nodoka, isn't it Katsuhito? The means my niece is a wild cat-girl. Bwuhahaha, and my nephew Ranma is the missing groom."

"That's her alright, I haven't seen her in 22 years since she ran off to marry that no good, rogue Saotome Genma, but I thought Ranma was an only child? Who is Ranko the cat-girl?"

"If Ranko is your granddaughter, then she is Juraiian royalty, and she is missing after her brother's wedding was ruined. We should go to Nerima and find her." Ayeka suggests.

'Hmm, if this Ranma's wedding was bombed he's probably still single, and he is Juraiian royalty, maybe I can get Ayeka to go after him, and I'll have Tenchi.' thinks Ryouko. "That's right, Auntie Ayeka should go find her missing niece and nephew."

"Hey, they're my cousins, I've never even met them. Otousan can we visit after they turn up?" asks Tenchi.

"Hmm, sorry, son, you still have to attend school, and I can't take any more time off work right now." Noboyuki tells him.

"Damn, shot down." Tenchi says in a 'You don't let me have any fun' tone of voice.

"Don't worry Tenchi. Ryouko-san, Ayeka-chan, Ryo-ohki, and I can go to Tokyo tonight to look for our missing princess of Juraii." Katsuhito tells him. "We just need to pack enough clothes for a week, then we are off to Tokyo. Washu-chan do you want to come along?"

"Sure, this wild neko-onno sounds interesting." Washu replies, getting that mad scientist look in her eyes. "WHAT! I might be able to help the poor girl."


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At Nerima General Hospital two girls are on their way to visit Ryouga. They find Akari sitting in the visitor's lounge.

"Hi Akari-chan, I thought you'd be in with Ryouga-kun." says Akane.

"Oh, Tofu-sensei is in there right now Akane-chan." Akari replies. "I'm just waiting out here until he's done. So Akane-chan, who's your friend?"

"That's right. You haven't met yet. Akari-chan meet Ranma's cute fiancee, Kuonji Ukyo. Ukyo-san meet Ryouga-kun's girlfriend, Unryuu Akari."

"Hello Akari-chan, it's nice to meet you." Says Ukyo, greeting Akari. "How is Ryouga-chan doing, it looked like Ranchan ripped him up pretty badly when she went into the Neko-ken."

"Well, Tofu-sensei said it looked worse than it was, the cuts were all shallow, and made by something very sharp, so the scarring shouldn't be that bad if he will leave the stitches alone and use the waterproof soap for at least a week." Akari explains.

"Why does he need to use waterproof soap?" asks Akane.

"Yeah, it's not like Ryouga-chan has a curse like Ranchan." says Ukyo.

"Umm, well . . . " says Akari trying to come up with a good excuse. "Umm, they used water soluble thread for the stitches. Yeah, so that they don't have to be pulled, if he gets lost, he can just wash them off when the cuts are healed. But until the cuts heal up he has to use waterproof soap."

"Oh, OK, that's neat." replies Akane, remaining completely oblivious to Ryouga's little problem.

"Right, another of the wonders of modern medicine." says Ukyo, not really buying the story.

"But what happened to Ranma-kun! To make err her attack like that and run off." says Akari trying to divert the conversation. "I've never seen anyone act like that, it's just not like him, I mean uh her, to do that."

"Oh, we can blame his bakayarou father for that, right Akane-chan?" Ukyo tells her.

"Right, Genma-baka made Ranma learn a horrible martial arts technique called the Neko-Ken or Cat-Fist, because of it he is terrified of cats, and can go insane and think he is a cat, even to the point of running around on all fours and having claws made from his Ki." Akane explains.

"From Saotome-san explaining it Neko-Ranma-chan must have gone easy on Ryouga-chan. His claws sliced Akane's mallet into pieces, and he must have shortened his claws when he hit Ryouga, so he wasn't trying to kill him."

"Yes, I suspected as much when I was giving Hibiki-san first-aid." say Dr. Tofu as he enters the lounge. "His strong aura and the Bakusai Tenketsu training probably also helped to keep the cuts shallow. Hibiki-san also has a large bruise on his forehead and a moderate concussion. I think Ranma..chan used a head butt when she pounced on Ryouga to knock him out."

"Would that have worked? Since that Bakusai Tenketsu training Ranchan usually has to hit Ryouga-chan hundreds of times to beat him." Ukyo asks.

"Ah, but Ranma-san has also learned the Bakusai Tenketsu, Saotome-san took him to a demolition site just a week after Hibiki-san learned it and toughened him up with a wrecking ball, then made Ranma use the Breaking Point to destroy the condemned building, Saotome-san and Nabiki-san made quite a bit of money underbidding the demolition crew on that job. Ranma-san has been toughened up even further by continuing advanced training supplied by Akane-san. Ranma-san's head should be very tough by now."

"What are you talking about Tofu-sensei? Ranma doesn't like to spar with me, and when he does he dodges all my punches." Akane asks him, missing the point.

"Well, actually, Akane-san, Ukyo-san. You with Shampoo and Kuno Kodachi have been toughening up Ranma-san with mallets, spatulas, clubs and bon-bori hits, mostly to the head, ever since you met him. The daily beatings have increased his toughness and recovery rate far beyond what Hibiki-san achieved by smashing himself against boulders. Why the head butt that knocked out Hibiki-san must have hardly fazed Ranma."

"Umm, right, I guess I have noticed that I have to mallet Ranma several times now to get him to stay down, and he does get back up much faster than he used to." Akane replies in a small guilty voice. "But he deserved it! That baka hentai!"
"Well, you can go visit with Hibiki-san for a while, but don't get him excited or depressed. I've used acupuncture to reduce the pain and keep him from moving around, and to concentrate his Ki near the cuts to heal them faster, so don't touch the needles." Dr. Tofo explains before letting then into Ryouga's room.

The girls enter to see Ryouga laying in a special hospital bed, constructed from heavy tube steel and a large steel plate with a futon pad on it with holes for restraints through the plate and the futon. The restraints look like the nylon tie-down straps used on flatbed trucks. Ryouga has his chest heavily bandaged and has acupuncture needles sticking out of his chest, an icepack was resting on his forehead, and an IV tree with three bags stood at the side of the bed with tubes leading to Ryouga's right arm. In addition to the bandages and restraints, it looked like someone had decided to plastic wrap him, except for his head which had a clear tent over it.

"Uhm, Sensei, why is Ryouga-kun plastic wrapped?" Akane asks.

"Oh well, we have to keep water away from Hibiki-san or all the stitches, bandages, and straps will come loose aggravating his injures and making us all start over." Dr. Tofu explains.

"Wow, where did you get this bed Tofu-sensei? It looks like the shock-table from that new Frankenstein movie that they did in Yokohama!" Ukyo exclaims, being a closet horror movie otaku. "Look at these tie-downs and the massive steel frame, why the copper grounding straps are even hooked up! It is the one from the movie isn't it?"

"Actually it is Ukyo-san. I saw the movie, and it looked like just the thing for restraining a person of incredible strength, and knowing how strong some of you martial artists are, I had Nabiki-san acquire it for me, she didn't even gouge me too bad on the price, and had the heavy-duty swivel wheels installed so that it can be moved around." Tofu explains to Ukyo, happy to have found another horror movie buff. "Of course she also bought the plans and put a patent on the design and is advertising the bed to certain hospitals and prisons."


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In a taxi leaving Nerima.

"Nabiki-chan, where are we going to look for Ran'ko-chan?" asks Kasumi when the taxi enters Juuban.

"Hmm, well the police scanner hasn't mentioned a cat-girl sighting since we started." Nabiki explains. "So she's probably found somewhere to rest. I looked over the map of Juuban on the computer before we left, and there are a couple parks, and a few open lots where she might be, but one of the parks rang a bell, and I looked it up and there have been several monsters killed there recently. So I think we can start there."

"But Nabiki, why the park with monsters?" Kasumi asks nervously.

"Well, I think Neko-Ranko will like the park because she likes to climb trees and stay away from cars, and if there is a monster the odds are pretty good that Ranko will end up fighting it." Nabiki tells her, explaining her logic.

"Oh my, well I guess I can't really argue with that." Kasumi replies. "Her life is so exciting."

When the taxi lets them out at the park Nabiki tells the driver "Remember, don't run from the cat-girl, toss the catnip ball to her and she'll play with it and ignore you. If your carrying food that she can smell give that too her as well. She's just like a cat, not a vicious monster, and thanks for the free ride."

"Oh my, that was nice of you to tell him how to deal with Neko-Ranko, Imouto-chan."

"Yeah, but did you see the taxi fare I saved Oneechan, besides the more people that know how to deal with her cat side, the less likely she is to get into trouble out here." Nabiki replies starting to walk toward the small grove in the park. "Lets check in here first. Here kitty kitty, Ranko come here kitty."

"Oh my, lets ask this nice couple if they've seen him er her." says Kasumi pointing out a young couple walking out of the trees, the girl carrying a couple of small duffel bags, the man carrying a full sized sea bag on his back like a backpack. "Excuse me, have you seen a red-haired girl acting like a cat? She should be wearing a white tuxedo."

Mana and Yuta exchange some weirded-out looks and Mana replies "Actually yes. We saw her about 30 minutes ago on the other side of the grove near the benches."

"Yes, she had just finished killing a monster when we left. I don't think the monster stood a chance." Yuta tells them. "She's very dangerous, are you sure you should be going after her?"

"Yep, that's our Ranko-chan, she's quite the fighter. Don't worry, she knows us, we're practically family to her." Nabiki explains to the nice couple. "Come on Kasumi-oneechan, if we hurry we might catch Ranko-chan before the police show up and scare her off."

"Thank you so much for the information, have a nice evening." says Kasumi as she takes off running after Nabiki.

"Yuta, about that cat-girl, do you think she ate any of the mermaid's flesh that Masoto had?" Mana asks.

"I'm almost sure of it, he only had a few pieces left in his pockets. He must have given her all the rest, and you know what that means."

"Yes, there is a dangerous immortal cat-girl on the loose in Juuban. How weird can this place get?"
"Well, I heard that they have a group of fuku clad magical girls that fight youma here in Juuban, and over in Nerima they have a bunch of martial artists that cause lots of property damage."

"Yuta, have you ever thought about learning martial arts. If we can learn to be that strong, we wouldn't get killed as often."

"That's a good idea Mana, and they say the best martial artists are in Nerima. We'll come back and check it out after we get rid of this body."

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"Wait up Nabiki-chan!" #Huff# #Pant# "I'm getting out of shape, maybe I should take up jogging."

"Kasumi! Over here!" Nabiki yells from over by a park bench. "I found that monster they were talking about."

"Oh my! It looks like Neko-Ranko-chan really did a number on it." says Kasumi, looking a bit green as she checks out the dead body of the monster.

"Yes, since it wasn't a person, Neko-Ranko didn't hold back like she did with Ryouga-kun. This is what her Ki claws can really do, scary ne?" Nabiki says as she circles around the body looking around and takes a few pictures with her instant camera.

"Oneechan, I found some bloody hand and foot prints heading down this path, Ranma must have gone this way." Nabiki says pointing down a paved foot trail headed toward the street. Then they follow the blood trail out to the street.

"Oh my. Do you think someone gave Neko-Ranko-chan a ride?" asks Kasumi when the bloody trail ends at the sidewalk in a large bloody smear like she had rolled around a bit.

"Or she jumped on top of a car, but I don't think Neko-Ranko likes cars. Can you look around a bit to see if the trail starts up again? I'll go ahead and call the police about the monster." says Nabiki while thinking 'I'll call those reporters that offered money for tips first, I'll just have to ask for them to triple the yen.'

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Kasumi and Nabiki are standing in the side door of a Tokyo 6 News van watching the TV for their story to air.

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"We have a news flash, just over an hour ago the missing cat-girl Saotome Ranko killed a monster in Juuban River Park. We can see the police with the body covered behind us, and they are marking off the bloody hand and foot prints of the cat-girl walking away from her kill." says the TV reporter standing outside the police line. "We have managed to acquire some pictures of the body from the person who found it. Be warned these pictures are extremely graphic and may be unsuitable for some viewers, so take a moment and send the kids out of the room. We have talked to Tendo Nabiki who knows Ranko the cat-girl and Nabiki-san tells us that Neko-Ranko-chan would never attack a person like this, but felt no need to hold her claws in when fighting a monster. OK, the pictures are ready. This first shot is a whole body shot of the monster, notice its blue skin, bug eyes, and clawed hands. Also, the body is in a large pool of blood. This shot is of some deep slashes on the back, in this shot you can see that the claws actually cut cleanly through several ribs, and in this last shot is what must have been the finishing blow to the neck, the cuts go from 20 to 30 centimeters deep, almost completely severing the head from the body, killing it instantly."

"Well, that was certainly quite graphic." says the TV anchorman. "From what was reported from the hospital, the young man who was wounded at the wedding received many cuts requiring more than 200 stitches, lost over a liter of blood, and has a serious concussion, but the cuts were quite shallow, certainly nothing like the wounds that the monster received, and while serious the wounds to the young
man were not life threatening. This is a picture of Ranko." Showing a picture of Ranma-chan wearing a black tank top and shorts doing a kata. "And this is a picture of Neko-Ranko taken earlier today." The screen now shows a snapshot of the same redheaded girl in a white tuxedo crouched down with one hand on the ground, the other hand raised to strike with glowing red blades projecting from her fingers. "She should still be wearing a white tuxedo, and at this point is probably dirty and covered in blood. If you see her please call the police or the number on the bottom of the screen, there is a reward of 50,000 yen for information that leads to the capture of the cat-girl, but you should not attempt to capture her yourselves. And now we will return you to you regular TV show."

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"Nabiki-chan, did you have to call the news crews as well as the police?"

"I made a lot of yen from those reporters, more than enough to cover that reward I put on Ranko-chan, and cover the wedding expenses."

"But those pictures, Nabiki, did you have to sell them to the news."

"I didn't sell the pictures Oneechan, just the rights to use them on TV for the next three days, I'm planning on selling them to a few magazines as well. I might even get a prize for them. Hmm, what is that award called a pull-it-zer?"

"Really Imouto-chan."

"I might get a journalism scholarship, besides I'm making Ranma-kun famous, think of the business for the Dojo."
"Hmpf, infamous is more like it, and without anyone teaching classes how can we get money from the Dojo."

"I'll work on that, don't worry. We can also start you taking some nursing classes, Kasumi, at least correspondence courses, but with Auntie Nodoka around you should be able to attend some classes as well."

"Oh my, you really think so Nabiki-chan, can we afford it?" Kasumi asks getting exited.

"Just leave the money up to me. I think we should go home Oneechan. I don't think we are going to find Ranko-chan tonight."

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05-02-04 Extended the hospital scene and revealed that Ranma has learned the Bakusai Tenketsu technique in a different manner than Ryouga, also new broadcast news footage.


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