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[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
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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.
When the van pulled up in front of the shrine it was already starting to get dark. Rei and Setsuna had already changed back into their normal clothes, and dropped off the other Inner Senshi at their homes. Rei opened the side door of than, got out and turned saying "Come on kitty, this is our stop. Come on in and I'll get you some food and then a bath. Come on Ranko-chan, come here."
Neko-Ranma-chan gets up, hops out of the van and follows the nice girl into the house, as the van pulls away.
"Rei-chan is that you?" asks the old man that meets them at the front door. "Oh, I see you've found a half-naked cat-girl. Did she just follow you home?"
"Ha ha, very funny Grandpa. We were all over town looking for her. Mina found her in River Park killing a monster. I had to peel her out of her bloody clothes and clean her up some, but she still has blood in her hair, so I'm going to give her a bath. How did we break Ranma out of the Neko-ken before Grandpa?"
"Hmm, he came out of it when he woke up after falling asleep in your grandmother's lap. So she should be fine in the morning, or after a good cat nap."
"Ok, then it should be no problem, but I'll have to give the kitty a bath. I'm not letting that blood dry in her hair anymore than I have to, it's going to be a real mess as it is."
"Come on kitty, its bath time." 'Hmm, I'm going to have to use lots of hot water and soap to get her hair clean.' Rei thinks as she leads Neko-Ranma-chan to the bathroom.
Once they are in the bathroom and she starts filling the furo Rei says "Lets get the rest of those nasty clothes off you." Rei gets the cat-girl to sit up and manages to take off her T-shirt. "What? No bra? And wearing boxers? And wearing a tuxedo at a wedding? Why are you dressing like a boy? Hmm, no bindings, so you can't be trying to pass for a boy as well endowed as you are. OK, up, lets get these boxers off you, that's a good kitty. Roll over, all right, now it's my turn." As she finishes getting the boxers past the cat-girls feet.
Rei finishes getting undressed and puts all the clothes into the hamper, then turns off the water into the furo, and adjusts the water temp for the hand-held showerhead. Then she sits on the bench and sort of wrestles the cat-girl around until she is sitting on the floor below Rei. "All right, now I'll just undo this pigtail and wash your hair."
Once she has the pigtail undone, Rei uses the showerhead to soak the bloody hair, and uses shampoo to work up a lather, not noticing the color change, or that Neko-Ranma-chan was now boy-type Ranma, until Ranma says "Oh, that feels good."
The voice caught Rei's attention, the girl had come out of the Neko-ken, but the sound wasn't what she was expecting, and she began to notice a few things, like the black hair, the broad shoulders, the extra 9 inches of height.
Ranma was also thinking 'Someone is washing my hair. Where am I? /In a bathroom/ How did I get here? /Don't know./ Who is washing my hair? /Don't know, let's look and find out./ Alright.' He turns his head to look and sees a naked girl very, very close to him. "Wow." 'She's naked! /and gorgeous!/ I'm NAKED!! I'm in deep SHIT!! /You got that one right, should we run for it?/ No, I'll take the hit.' After staring for a second he quickly turns his head back, curling up and grabbing his nose because of the nosebleed saying "I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry. Ididn'tknowyouwerethere, Ididn'tmeantolook . . . How did I get here?" Thinking 'Why hasn't she started screaming and hitting me? /Maybe she fainted? Maybe you should look and see./ No, lets wait a bit longer.'
Rei was confused and in shock, but she was also thinking 'The cat-girl came out of the Neko-ken and changed into a boy? /Alright lets think about this. The naked cat-girl is gone./ Check, where did the naked boy come from? /Don't know, maybe the same place the cat-girl went./ That's possible, but no portal, no flash, he has soap in his hair, and is sitting in position she was. /And you fingers are still in his hair./ Right, so the cat-girl did turn into a boy. Got it. /You are naked in the bath with a naked boy./ I should scream and hit him! /Do you want Gramps to run in here? Besides, you stripped him/her./ Right, I'll try and stay calm and figure this out.'
"Alright, stay there and keep your eyes closed. Got it!"
"Yeah, not a problem."
"Who are you?"
"Saotome Ranma, sorry about this."
"Were you that cat-girl?"
"Uhm . . . Yeah, so that's how I got here."
"I know about you and the Neko-ken. But how were you a girl?"
"You know about the Neko-ken?!" Ranma turns his head to look at her.
"Close your eyes! Turn around."
"Sorry, about that."
"Yeah, nine years ago we met when you were a cat, and we played around until you went to sleep in my Grandma's lap, we took care of you for a couple weeks, then your dad showed up. Now tell me why you were a girl."
"OK, long story short, I got dumped into Nyanniichuan, Spring of Drowned Girl, cursed to turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, hot water changes me back."
"Wow, an actual magical curse. Alright, scoot forward, and keep your eyes closed. I'll get out so that you can wash your hair, No peeking."
"OK, thanks Rei-chan." He says as he gets out of her way.
"You remembered."
"Well, you were one of the few friends I had while growing up on the road."
"I'll get dinner ready, so take your time and get your hair clean."
After she closes the screen door, Ranma opens his eyes and notices that the water around him is red, and runs his hands through his hair and sees the blood on his hands and under his nails.
"Urk, Rei! I'm all bloody! What did I do?! Oh God! Did I kill someone?!"
"Ranma, it's OK! You didn't kill anyone! You fought a monster here in Juuban, that's where the blood came from, you killed a monster, not a person. I'll tell you about it at dinner."
"OK, thanks Rei-chan, sorry I freaked out."
"It's OK, anyone would freak out finding themselves all bloody, you should have seen your clothes when we found you. I'm leaving you some of my shrine clothing, it's loose enough you should be able to wear it, I guess I'll have to go borrow some of gramps's underwear though, I don't think you want these panties now."
"No panties, no bras, and no skirts! Other than that if it fits, I'll wear it, Unless it's Pink. No Pink!"
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"Oh, Rei-chan, can you leave the food and come here for a couple of minutes?"
"Yes, what is it Grandpa?" Rei says as she walks into the living room.
"I just caught a news update about our cat-girl. I got it on the VCR. You should really see this, just rewind a bit more . . . Here it is, watch this." He says hitting play on the remote.
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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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"I guess you weren't kidding about her killing a monster. We knew the Neko-ken was dangerous from seeing Ranma rip up that tree when he was a little boy, but this." Grandpa says.
"Yeah, Kami-sama, 30 centimeters deep through skin and bone, clean perfect cuts. She must have gone really easy on that guy." Rei say is a quiet, shocked voice.
"So, how is the Neko-Ranko-chan doing?"
"Well she came out of the Neko-ken and is washing his hair now, he should be out in a couple minutes."
"He?" asks Gramps.
"Uh yeah, I guess I'll let him tell you when he comes out, I'll bring out the food." Rei says quickly making her escape into the kitchen.
Rei brought out the food and set the plates, keeping her mouth shut until Ranma walked in with is hair back in a pigtail, wearing white and red shrine clothing.
"Hi, I'm Saotome Ranma, sorry about this."
"Right, it's been nine years, and you've grown up, but I recognize you. But where is that girl Ranko? She must be your sister."
"Yeah, about that, Rei-chan, can I have a kettle of hot water and a pitcher of cold?" Ranma asks. "I need the water to demonstrate my curse."
"Not a problem Ranma-kun." Rei says going into the kitchen and returning with the water.
"No one believes it without seeing it, but about two years ago when Genma and I were training in China at a place called Jusenkyo. We were both cursed when we fell into different cursed springs. The curse is to assume the form of whatever drowned in that spring when splashed with cold water, and hot water is needed to change back to normal. Genma fell into Shonmaoniichuan, spring of drowned panda. I.." Ranma says while pouring the cold water on his, now her head. "fell into Nyanniichuan, spring of
drowned girl."
"... Um, wow. So does it hurt?" Rei asks.
"Nope. Sometimes I don't even notice I've changed right away." answers Ranma.
"Then it's just the body that changes? You don't think like a girl or remember the girl who drowned in the spring?" asks Gramps.
"Just the body, I don't have any memory of the Chinese girl who fell in the spring 1500 years ago. I probably don't look like her, I look like a younger, shorter version of my Mom, thank gods I get my looks from her and not Oyaji."
"That's incredible, Genma turns into a panda, serves him right. Hahaha."
"Yeah well, he doesn't seem to mind that much, he spends about half the time as a panda, pulling out those damn signs for nowhere, he usually sleeps as a panda. It's not as bad as some of the other curses, I know people who turn into a pig, a duck, a c-c-cat, a huge Minotaur beast with wings and octopus tentacles, and a six-armed three-faced fire-throwing woman."
"Wow, sounds like you're the lucky one. So, Rei, what do you think of Ranma's curse?" Rei's grandfather asks her.
"Yeah, yours doesn't sound that bad Ranma."
"You Have No Idea! It's made a Hell out of my life at times."
"Well, since Rei doesn't mind I have some news for both of you, nine years ago before you left Ranma, Genma and I made a pact that you and Rei would marry."
"OH KAMI-SAMA!! Not another one!" Ranma yells grabbing his hair and beating his head into the table.
"RANMA! What do you mean another one?" Rei asks, a little startled at his reaction. "And WHY didn't I hear about this arrangement before GRAMPS!"
"Uh well, after Genma got the dowery, he sort of grabbed Ranma and took off, we hadn't seen or heard of him or Ranma until the news of the wedding. Ranma that was your wedding wasn't it! You were wearing a white tuxedo, what's the idea when you're engaged to Rei!"
"Oh man. It never stops. OK, here is the deal, no interruption's OK. I'm engaged to Tendo Akane or one of her sisters, to unite the Tendo and Saotome Ryuus of Anything Goes Martial Arts. I'm also engaged to Kuonji Ukyo, and my father took her family's yattai as her dowery. I was engaged to a Kaori, but got out of that one. I have a Chinese Amazon girl named Shampoo who has to marry me because I defeated her in a fight. Kuno Kodachi is a crazy girl who want's to marry me, but I'm not engaged to her thank the Kami. And then, there is you, Hino Rei. You got a better shot than Kodachi or Shampoo, because I'm not going to marry them, one is crazy, and the other would drag me back to her small village in China."
"So Hino-san, what did my old man take for Rei's dowery?"
"Well, there were three priceless scrolls covering Ki-building techniques, Ki-based self-healing techniques, and Ki-sensing for increased perception in battle. As well as about 500,000 yen and what provisions he could carry."
"So, that's where those came from, it wasn't as stupid as most of Oyagi's training, and those techniques helped me a lot. So that makes Rei's engagement legit. I'll have to discuss this with my mother. Of course, I'll need time to court Rei properly, I believe a year is customary."
"But, weren't you too marry Tendo Akane earlier today?" Rei asks.
"Well, that wasn't my idea, we had just gotten back from an adventure in China when I was knocked out and dressed in that tuxedo, and dragged in front of the priest before the bombs started flying. But with a new fiancee ANY weddings will have to wait another year." Ranma explains to her.
"Yes, yes, I guess that is the best you can do under these circumstances." Gramps agrees with Ranma. "And you're both still young and you have another full year of high school."
"Alright let's eat." Ranma says before tearing to his food with his chopsticks becoming a blur between his plate and his mouth, occasionally snatching bit of food from the serving dishes.
"RANMA! (Kami, he's worse than Usagi.) Where did you learn to eat like that? Don't you have any manners?" Rei yells at him.
"Eheheh, sorry about that Rei-chan, it's a bad habit from being with Oyaji for 10 years on the road. Everything was training, even dinner. We would fight over the food with our chopsticks, defending our food while stealing off the other's plate while eating as fast as possible. Excellent speed training by the way, I even beat Picolet Chardin in a Martial Arts Dining contest, and the Chardin Ryu training includes stretching the mouth out to hold a watermelon and lengthening the tongue till it's over a meter in length as well as incredible hand and mouth speed. I had to rely on better speed and special techniques to defeat a deformed mutant eating machine like that." Ranma explains.
"Special techniques?" Rei asks in curiosity.
"The Gourmet de Foie Gras, a technique relying on incredible speed and misdirection that allows you to feed your opponent the food off of your plate without anyone noticing."
"I'm sorry I asked. But could you eat slower, we don't fight over the dinner table here."
"Sure, no problem Rei-chan, my Mom is also trying to break me of the habit." Ranma replies.
After they finish dinner. "Ranma-kun, Grandpa taped some news you should see. Watch this." Rei says as see hits the play button.
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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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"Oh Wow, I really messed that monster up. I don't remember anything I do in the Neko-ken, so when I came to I thought I might have killed someone. Wait. I did put someone in the hospital. Excuse me Hino-san may I use your telephone to call home and get Nabiki-san to call off the manhunt."
"Of course you may, Ranma-san. But we should let Rei call first to claim the reward. Don't you think?"
"Reward, yeah, 50,000 yen, but I'll have to split it with Minako at least. Ranma-kun, what's the phone number?"
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05-02-04 Extended some scenes explaining Ranma's curse and eating habits, also removed some OOC material about Rei's engagement.
Also the scrolls from the Hino dowery explain some of why Ranma is better than his father, Ranma has been learning and using these Ki techniques and exercises since he was eight years old.
Spell and Grammar checked 10-24-04Converting /tmp/phpSYBaAV to /dev/stdout
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.
Ranma Crossing Over to the Wild Side
By Paul Bennett a.k.a. Shadowbakasama
Chapter 3: Here's Ranma, again.By Paul Bennett a.k.a. Shadowbakasama
When the van pulled up in front of the shrine it was already starting to get dark. Rei and Setsuna had already changed back into their normal clothes, and dropped off the other Inner Senshi at their homes. Rei opened the side door of than, got out and turned saying "Come on kitty, this is our stop. Come on in and I'll get you some food and then a bath. Come on Ranko-chan, come here."
Neko-Ranma-chan gets up, hops out of the van and follows the nice girl into the house, as the van pulls away.
"Rei-chan is that you?" asks the old man that meets them at the front door. "Oh, I see you've found a half-naked cat-girl. Did she just follow you home?"
"Ha ha, very funny Grandpa. We were all over town looking for her. Mina found her in River Park killing a monster. I had to peel her out of her bloody clothes and clean her up some, but she still has blood in her hair, so I'm going to give her a bath. How did we break Ranma out of the Neko-ken before Grandpa?"
"Hmm, he came out of it when he woke up after falling asleep in your grandmother's lap. So she should be fine in the morning, or after a good cat nap."
"Ok, then it should be no problem, but I'll have to give the kitty a bath. I'm not letting that blood dry in her hair anymore than I have to, it's going to be a real mess as it is."
"Come on kitty, its bath time." 'Hmm, I'm going to have to use lots of hot water and soap to get her hair clean.' Rei thinks as she leads Neko-Ranma-chan to the bathroom.
Once they are in the bathroom and she starts filling the furo Rei says "Lets get the rest of those nasty clothes off you." Rei gets the cat-girl to sit up and manages to take off her T-shirt. "What? No bra? And wearing boxers? And wearing a tuxedo at a wedding? Why are you dressing like a boy? Hmm, no bindings, so you can't be trying to pass for a boy as well endowed as you are. OK, up, lets get these boxers off you, that's a good kitty. Roll over, all right, now it's my turn." As she finishes getting the boxers past the cat-girls feet.
Rei finishes getting undressed and puts all the clothes into the hamper, then turns off the water into the furo, and adjusts the water temp for the hand-held showerhead. Then she sits on the bench and sort of wrestles the cat-girl around until she is sitting on the floor below Rei. "All right, now I'll just undo this pigtail and wash your hair."
Once she has the pigtail undone, Rei uses the showerhead to soak the bloody hair, and uses shampoo to work up a lather, not noticing the color change, or that Neko-Ranma-chan was now boy-type Ranma, until Ranma says "Oh, that feels good."
The voice caught Rei's attention, the girl had come out of the Neko-ken, but the sound wasn't what she was expecting, and she began to notice a few things, like the black hair, the broad shoulders, the extra 9 inches of height.
Ranma was also thinking 'Someone is washing my hair. Where am I? /In a bathroom/ How did I get here? /Don't know./ Who is washing my hair? /Don't know, let's look and find out./ Alright.' He turns his head to look and sees a naked girl very, very close to him. "Wow." 'She's naked! /and gorgeous!/ I'm NAKED!! I'm in deep SHIT!! /You got that one right, should we run for it?/ No, I'll take the hit.' After staring for a second he quickly turns his head back, curling up and grabbing his nose because of the nosebleed saying "I'msorryI'msorryI'msorry. Ididn'tknowyouwerethere, Ididn'tmeantolook . . . How did I get here?" Thinking 'Why hasn't she started screaming and hitting me? /Maybe she fainted? Maybe you should look and see./ No, lets wait a bit longer.'
Rei was confused and in shock, but she was also thinking 'The cat-girl came out of the Neko-ken and changed into a boy? /Alright lets think about this. The naked cat-girl is gone./ Check, where did the naked boy come from? /Don't know, maybe the same place the cat-girl went./ That's possible, but no portal, no flash, he has soap in his hair, and is sitting in position she was. /And you fingers are still in his hair./ Right, so the cat-girl did turn into a boy. Got it. /You are naked in the bath with a naked boy./ I should scream and hit him! /Do you want Gramps to run in here? Besides, you stripped him/her./ Right, I'll try and stay calm and figure this out.'
"Alright, stay there and keep your eyes closed. Got it!"
"Yeah, not a problem."
"Who are you?"
"Saotome Ranma, sorry about this."
"Were you that cat-girl?"
"Uhm . . . Yeah, so that's how I got here."
"I know about you and the Neko-ken. But how were you a girl?"
"You know about the Neko-ken?!" Ranma turns his head to look at her.
"Close your eyes! Turn around."
"Sorry, about that."
"Yeah, nine years ago we met when you were a cat, and we played around until you went to sleep in my Grandma's lap, we took care of you for a couple weeks, then your dad showed up. Now tell me why you were a girl."
"OK, long story short, I got dumped into Nyanniichuan, Spring of Drowned Girl, cursed to turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, hot water changes me back."
"Wow, an actual magical curse. Alright, scoot forward, and keep your eyes closed. I'll get out so that you can wash your hair, No peeking."
"OK, thanks Rei-chan." He says as he gets out of her way.
"You remembered."
"Well, you were one of the few friends I had while growing up on the road."
"I'll get dinner ready, so take your time and get your hair clean."
After she closes the screen door, Ranma opens his eyes and notices that the water around him is red, and runs his hands through his hair and sees the blood on his hands and under his nails.
"Urk, Rei! I'm all bloody! What did I do?! Oh God! Did I kill someone?!"
"Ranma, it's OK! You didn't kill anyone! You fought a monster here in Juuban, that's where the blood came from, you killed a monster, not a person. I'll tell you about it at dinner."
"OK, thanks Rei-chan, sorry I freaked out."
"It's OK, anyone would freak out finding themselves all bloody, you should have seen your clothes when we found you. I'm leaving you some of my shrine clothing, it's loose enough you should be able to wear it, I guess I'll have to go borrow some of gramps's underwear though, I don't think you want these panties now."
"No panties, no bras, and no skirts! Other than that if it fits, I'll wear it, Unless it's Pink. No Pink!"
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"Oh, Rei-chan, can you leave the food and come here for a couple of minutes?"
"Yes, what is it Grandpa?" Rei says as she walks into the living room.
"I just caught a news update about our cat-girl. I got it on the VCR. You should really see this, just rewind a bit more . . . Here it is, watch this." He says hitting play on the remote.
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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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"I guess you weren't kidding about her killing a monster. We knew the Neko-ken was dangerous from seeing Ranma rip up that tree when he was a little boy, but this." Grandpa says.
"Yeah, Kami-sama, 30 centimeters deep through skin and bone, clean perfect cuts. She must have gone really easy on that guy." Rei say is a quiet, shocked voice.
"So, how is the Neko-Ranko-chan doing?"
"Well she came out of the Neko-ken and is washing his hair now, he should be out in a couple minutes."
"He?" asks Gramps.
"Uh yeah, I guess I'll let him tell you when he comes out, I'll bring out the food." Rei says quickly making her escape into the kitchen.
Rei brought out the food and set the plates, keeping her mouth shut until Ranma walked in with is hair back in a pigtail, wearing white and red shrine clothing.
"Hi, I'm Saotome Ranma, sorry about this."
"Right, it's been nine years, and you've grown up, but I recognize you. But where is that girl Ranko? She must be your sister."
"Yeah, about that, Rei-chan, can I have a kettle of hot water and a pitcher of cold?" Ranma asks. "I need the water to demonstrate my curse."
"Not a problem Ranma-kun." Rei says going into the kitchen and returning with the water.
"No one believes it without seeing it, but about two years ago when Genma and I were training in China at a place called Jusenkyo. We were both cursed when we fell into different cursed springs. The curse is to assume the form of whatever drowned in that spring when splashed with cold water, and hot water is needed to change back to normal. Genma fell into Shonmaoniichuan, spring of drowned panda. I.." Ranma says while pouring the cold water on his, now her head. "fell into Nyanniichuan, spring of
drowned girl."
"... Um, wow. So does it hurt?" Rei asks.
"Nope. Sometimes I don't even notice I've changed right away." answers Ranma.
"Then it's just the body that changes? You don't think like a girl or remember the girl who drowned in the spring?" asks Gramps.
"Just the body, I don't have any memory of the Chinese girl who fell in the spring 1500 years ago. I probably don't look like her, I look like a younger, shorter version of my Mom, thank gods I get my looks from her and not Oyaji."
"That's incredible, Genma turns into a panda, serves him right. Hahaha."
"Yeah well, he doesn't seem to mind that much, he spends about half the time as a panda, pulling out those damn signs for nowhere, he usually sleeps as a panda. It's not as bad as some of the other curses, I know people who turn into a pig, a duck, a c-c-cat, a huge Minotaur beast with wings and octopus tentacles, and a six-armed three-faced fire-throwing woman."
"Wow, sounds like you're the lucky one. So, Rei, what do you think of Ranma's curse?" Rei's grandfather asks her.
"Yeah, yours doesn't sound that bad Ranma."
"You Have No Idea! It's made a Hell out of my life at times."
"Well, since Rei doesn't mind I have some news for both of you, nine years ago before you left Ranma, Genma and I made a pact that you and Rei would marry."
"OH KAMI-SAMA!! Not another one!" Ranma yells grabbing his hair and beating his head into the table.
"RANMA! What do you mean another one?" Rei asks, a little startled at his reaction. "And WHY didn't I hear about this arrangement before GRAMPS!"
"Uh well, after Genma got the dowery, he sort of grabbed Ranma and took off, we hadn't seen or heard of him or Ranma until the news of the wedding. Ranma that was your wedding wasn't it! You were wearing a white tuxedo, what's the idea when you're engaged to Rei!"
"Oh man. It never stops. OK, here is the deal, no interruption's OK. I'm engaged to Tendo Akane or one of her sisters, to unite the Tendo and Saotome Ryuus of Anything Goes Martial Arts. I'm also engaged to Kuonji Ukyo, and my father took her family's yattai as her dowery. I was engaged to a Kaori, but got out of that one. I have a Chinese Amazon girl named Shampoo who has to marry me because I defeated her in a fight. Kuno Kodachi is a crazy girl who want's to marry me, but I'm not engaged to her thank the Kami. And then, there is you, Hino Rei. You got a better shot than Kodachi or Shampoo, because I'm not going to marry them, one is crazy, and the other would drag me back to her small village in China."
"So Hino-san, what did my old man take for Rei's dowery?"
"Well, there were three priceless scrolls covering Ki-building techniques, Ki-based self-healing techniques, and Ki-sensing for increased perception in battle. As well as about 500,000 yen and what provisions he could carry."
"So, that's where those came from, it wasn't as stupid as most of Oyagi's training, and those techniques helped me a lot. So that makes Rei's engagement legit. I'll have to discuss this with my mother. Of course, I'll need time to court Rei properly, I believe a year is customary."
"But, weren't you too marry Tendo Akane earlier today?" Rei asks.
"Well, that wasn't my idea, we had just gotten back from an adventure in China when I was knocked out and dressed in that tuxedo, and dragged in front of the priest before the bombs started flying. But with a new fiancee ANY weddings will have to wait another year." Ranma explains to her.
"Yes, yes, I guess that is the best you can do under these circumstances." Gramps agrees with Ranma. "And you're both still young and you have another full year of high school."
"Alright let's eat." Ranma says before tearing to his food with his chopsticks becoming a blur between his plate and his mouth, occasionally snatching bit of food from the serving dishes.
"RANMA! (Kami, he's worse than Usagi.) Where did you learn to eat like that? Don't you have any manners?" Rei yells at him.
"Eheheh, sorry about that Rei-chan, it's a bad habit from being with Oyaji for 10 years on the road. Everything was training, even dinner. We would fight over the food with our chopsticks, defending our food while stealing off the other's plate while eating as fast as possible. Excellent speed training by the way, I even beat Picolet Chardin in a Martial Arts Dining contest, and the Chardin Ryu training includes stretching the mouth out to hold a watermelon and lengthening the tongue till it's over a meter in length as well as incredible hand and mouth speed. I had to rely on better speed and special techniques to defeat a deformed mutant eating machine like that." Ranma explains.
"Special techniques?" Rei asks in curiosity.
"The Gourmet de Foie Gras, a technique relying on incredible speed and misdirection that allows you to feed your opponent the food off of your plate without anyone noticing."
"I'm sorry I asked. But could you eat slower, we don't fight over the dinner table here."
"Sure, no problem Rei-chan, my Mom is also trying to break me of the habit." Ranma replies.
After they finish dinner. "Ranma-kun, Grandpa taped some news you should see. Watch this." Rei says as see hits the play button.
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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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"Oh Wow, I really messed that monster up. I don't remember anything I do in the Neko-ken, so when I came to I thought I might have killed someone. Wait. I did put someone in the hospital. Excuse me Hino-san may I use your telephone to call home and get Nabiki-san to call off the manhunt."
"Of course you may, Ranma-san. But we should let Rei call first to claim the reward. Don't you think?"
"Reward, yeah, 50,000 yen, but I'll have to split it with Minako at least. Ranma-kun, what's the phone number?"
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05-02-04 Extended some scenes explaining Ranma's curse and eating habits, also removed some OOC material about Rei's engagement.
Also the scrolls from the Hino dowery explain some of why Ranma is better than his father, Ranma has been learning and using these Ki techniques and exercises since he was eight years old.
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