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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 7: Rei's friends come over

###This chapter I'm using the back story from 'Hell Hath No Fury' by Bob Lobster to have Sailor V be very upset with Ranma. Thank you Bob for giving me the OK to do this.###



Minako was at home watching the evening news, when they showed the picture of the missing groom Saotome Ranma the blood drained from her face as she stared at the screen in shock and recognition. "It's Him."

"Daddy, are you done with the newspaper?" asks Minako as she walks into the den. "I want to see the front page about that bombed wedding, I think I may have seen the groom somewhere before."

"Here you go sweety." He says handing over the front section of the paper. "Don't they know they are supposed to throw rice, not gunpowder okonomiyaki and explosive pork buns? But it's just as well they did."

"Thanks daddy, I'll be in my room for a bit, then I'll probably go and visit Rei." Minako says.

"Hey Mina, I've got some good news for you." Aino Daishi called out to his daughter. "I found some information on your missing fiancé.”

"Fiancé!!" Minako screams in shock "I'm engaged! When did this happen? And why is this the first I've heard of it?"

"You mean I never mentioned it? I thought you knew and that was the reason you didn't have a steady boyfriend."

"DADDY!! You just love to keep secrets and surprise me way too much. ... Your not going tell me are you?"

"Heh heh, I'll take you to meet him this week."

"Argh! Will you tell me who he is? Have I met him even? At least tell me what he's like!"

"OK dear, I guess I can give you a few details without ruining the surprise. He's almost 18 and he is very into sports and fitness, uhm he's quite the hunk. He's from a good samurai family too."

"Have I ever even met him?" Minako asks here father in an angry tone.

"I don't think so. Every time his family visited you were out doing your own thing, your mom and I set this up for you before they returned to Japan."

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Back in her room Minako reads through the front page looking for the information she needs. "Saotome Ranma, son of that thieving lowlife Genma, the cat-girl is his sister Ranko." She mutters as she reads, then. "We rescued that Bastard's sister!"

"Mina-chan, what wrong?" asks a white cat with a gold moon on his forehead.

"I'll tell you what's wrong Artemis. This is Him!" She yells showing the cat the picture of the groom on the front page.

"What, you saw the groom somewhere today. That's great/"

"No, I know the groom! He's that bastard from three years ago, Him and his thief of a father were in England." She yells at her cat. "I'll have to go to the Tendo Dojo in Nerima and beat the crap out of him when he shows up. But I know where his sister is, she is the cat-girl that Rei took home."

"Kuso! We've been here over a year, and he lives just a few miles away. Huh, the senshi never have had to go into Nerima after youmas, I wonder if they avoid it for some reason." Artemis muses.

"From what I've heard about Nerima they have enough trouble with martial artists tearing up the place." Minako replies. "But I'm going to call Ami and get her to dig up what she can on Ranma and meet me at Rei's shrine so that I can have a talk with his sister."

Grabbing her communicator, she calls up her friend Sailor Mercury. "Yo Ami-chan, can you get me some information on the missing groom from that wedding, I think I saw him somewhere."

"You saw Ranma-kun, that's great, my cousin Akane-chan must be so worried about him." Ami replies.

"That was your cousin's wedding!" Minako yells into the communicator, "So you actually know Ranma?"

"A little, he's a real hunk, but him and Akane are fighting most of the time. It seems like one of those love/hate relationships, but I've only seen the hate part." Ami explains. "Akane-chan has a real temper, and Ranma can be a bit of a rude jerk at times."

"Uh yeah, can you get the others together to meet at the shrine? I have a few ideas about finding Ranma."

"Hey, that's great!" Ami exclaims. "But I can't come, me and mom are going over to visit the Tendos as soon as she ends her shift. I'm going to the shrine in the morning, Rei is going to get Ranko to demonstrate the Neko-ken for the police, and I want to see it."

"Thanks Ami-chan, I'll see you later then."


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Minako, Makoto, and Usagi are walking to the shrine from meeting at Usagi's house.

Usagi seeing that Minako is upset about something asks. "So you've got some idea about finding the missing groom?"

"Yeah, I've got an idea, when I find Him, I'm going to beat him black and blue." Minako replies in a cold angry voice. "I've met up with this bastard before, when I was in England fighting crime as Sailor V."

"Is he a criminal?" Usagi asks.

"No, Ranma isn't." Minako replies reluctantly. "But his father Saotome Genma is a thief and a con-artist, and when I caught him stealing from a church and put him down with a Venus Crescent Beam then Ranma ambushed me and we got into a fight over his father."

"Ranma? You fought with The Saotome Ranma?" Makoto asks rhetorically. "Ouch. So how did the fight turn out?"

"Well, he kicked me, knocking me to the ground and told me that he wasn't going to let a two-bit crime-fighter in a stupid looking costume send his dad to jail, even though he called his own father a fat, useless, thieving bastard.” Minako says, starting to get red in the face and holding a white knuckled fist in front of her. “Well that did it for me, and we started fighting. He was faster than me, and I was outclassed for skill, and he was almost as strong as my Sailor form. He blocked or dodged everything I threw at him and the cocky bastard even criticized my style and gave me tips while fighting, but then he said that I was dumpy-legged and that I had a fat ass! and hit me several times so that my arms and legs gave out then he threw me into a pile of garbage!"

Usagi was shocked and horrified, and backed away from her scary friend who was starting to glow red. Makoto wasn't shocked at least by the story, but still gave the angered blonde some extra room as she said "So, Ranma-kun left you disabled on a pile of garbage, and now you want revenge."

"It wasn't just the one time Makoto!” The enraged blonde says in a harsh whisper. “He was around for three months! Once or twice a week we would fight. He always beat me. He always insulted me. I was humiliated so many times, that I've got to hunt that bastard down and make him pay! It's a mole's prerogative!" Minako yells raising her fist in the air as a hot wind swirled around her blowing her hair around.

"Surely it can't have been that bad." Usagi says trying to calm her down. "That was the worse one right?"

"Heh heh heh. Not even Usagi, it got worse.” Minako says in an evil tone, calming down a bit, lowering her fist as the wind and the red glow fade. “One time he tossed me through a broken skylight and I landed in a vat of fish guts and he looked down and laughed at me swimming to the side."

Usagi and Makoto are both horrified at hearing about this. "Maybe he didn't know it was there, and you have to admit it could be considered funny." Makoto offered as a lame excuse.

"It might be funny if you aren’t the one swimming in STINKING FISH!!” Minako yells stepping up to Makoto and screaming in her face.

Makoto backs up to the wall, waving her hands apologizing to the red glowing blonde girl as the hot wind picks up again.

“Gomen, Gomen, Gomen-nasai. I shouldn’t have said that.” Makoto babbles trying to appease the obviously demonically possessed friend of hers. “That was very insensitive of me, and I apologize.” she says looking around for Usagi to help her out, only to spot Usagi 10 feet away falling backwards while trying to escape.

“Ite!” Usagi yelps as she hits the sidewalk with her butt. “Waah! You scared me!” she yells at Minako, distracting her from Makoto.

Minako lets her aura die down again and walks over and helps Usagi up. “Sorry about that Usagi-chan. Thinking about Ranma tends to get me a little upset.”

Makoto gets off the wall and comes over to them saying. “That was more than a little upset Minako-chan. Can you calm down and tell us what else he did?”
“Yeah! We’ll help you get even with this bakayarou for what he’s done to you.” Usagi cries out taking up one of her Sailor Moon poses. “Tormenting a bishoujo senshi calls for justice and we’re just the ones to punish him!”

“O...K.” Minako says with a sweatdrop going down her head. “But this one is personal. You guys can back me up, but I’ve got to be the one to kick his ass. But what he did well, there was this one time he left me hogtied with the ribbons from my uniform, but I did insult his mother and he got upset about that."

"I didn't even know the ribbons came off." Usagi mutters.

"Well, insulting Ranma-kun's mother probably wasn't a good move." Makoto says.

“Yeah, he got on my case about that.” Minako says a bit guiltily, as they start walking to the shrine again. “Said it was OK to insult his old man cause he deserved it, but he remembers his Mom as being a nice, proper Japanese lady. I got the impression that she probably died when he was young.”

“That’s not right.” Usagi says. “The news showed both his Mother and Father at the wedding.”

“Umm, from what I remember about Ranma, his Father took him away from home when he was 5-years-old to train him in the family school of martial arts.” Makoto tells them. “He never mentioned his Mother, so I don’t think he had seen her for several years and Saotome-obasan would always go on about how manly he was from the letters she got from her husband, and how much she missed him.”

“Auntie Saotome!!” Minako yells, whipping around to look at Makoto. “You know Ranma’s Mother?” she asks grabbing Makoto and shaking her a bit, then she realizes. “You knowRANMA!” Minako yells and really starts shaking her tall friend trying to shake loose some answers. “How do you know Ranma?”

Makoto pries loose of Minako’s grip and says. “Take it easy. That hurts you know. I met him a few times when I went to Shinjuko Junior High School, about 3 years ago. He would always be fighting with my Sempai. It was sort of a game of his, Ranma-kun would be leading him home and insult him and Sempai would get mad and start a fight. Ranma would keep teasing Sempai during the fight and lead him around until he got him home. When they got to Sempai’s house He would trip Sempai or do a throw and hit a few pressure points, then jump up to the rooftops and roofhop away before Sempai could go after him.” Makoto gets a thoughtful look on her face and says. “One of the things Ranma teased Sempai about is that he didn’t even fight as good as this cute girlfriend he had in England.”

“HE called ME HIS GIRLFRIEND?!” Minako yells with several different emotions flashing across her face. “I wouldn’t mind since he’s so strong and handsome.” she says dreamily, then her expression turns to hate. “If he wasn’t such a COMPLETEBASTARD!!” she yells with glowing hate and hot wind whipping around her again.

“Woah! Minako take it easy.” Makoto says trying to calm down the volcanic blonde. “You’ll get your chance at him soon enough. Now calm down and tell us the rest of it.”

Minako goes and leans on the wall for a minute, taming the wind and the red glow

"Another time he left me hanging upside down from a fire escape. The bastard bent the iron straps around my legs. It took me awhile to get out of that one, and he stayed for a minute or so admiring his work and leering at me."

"I don't even want to know how he did that one." says Makoto a little shocked, Usagi was speechless.

"Then there was the last time I saw him, he was all excited about this new martial arts style he had finished learning and decided to test it out on me. I thought he was teasing me again, it was the silliest thing I ever heard of."

"OK, I'll bite." Makoto says curiosity getting the better of her. "What style was it?"

"He was excited because he had learned Martial Arts Ballroom Dancing." Minako says. "And said that even an under-dressed kawaiikune crime fighter should now how to dance."

"Martial Arts Ballroom Dancing? He actually fought you and beat you with a style like that!" Makoto says not really believing in such a silly style.

"He called you uncute!" yells Usagi.

"YES!" screams Minako. "Every time I attacked he would dodge and grab my waist or my hand, I'd get spun or dipped, He'd spin me out to arms length, then spin me back in, not giving me the chance to get the footing for a kick, and blocking and turning aside my free hand. He put me into a long spin and stomped on a manhole cover flipping it up, then kicking it out of his way, then he dipped me while I was dizzy and tossed me into the air. During my air time he freed the ladder with a couple of kicks and pulled it out. When he caught me, he put me over the hole and let me slip right through his arms into the sewer, even grabbing my hands at the last and lowering me down so I only dropped 4 feet. Then the bastard put the cover back and I had to go a couple blocks down the tunnel to get back up after I recovered from being so dizzy."

"OH NO! He dropped you into the sewer, that's vile and unforgivable!" Usagi cries.

"Damn, that's BAD, but I've got to warn you, Ranma-kun is even tougher now. You know all those crazy stories we hear about the fights in Nerima?" Makoto asks.

"Yeah, I've heard of some very strange stuff about those martial artists." Minako replies. "Roof hopping, smashing walls, fireballs, tornadoes, some angry girl with a mallet, and the latest was bird people kidnaping someone. Like I believe all those crazy stories."
"Oh, and I suppose magical girls fighting demons isn't crazy." Makoto remarks sarcastically. "I like to keep up with the news over there, most of the crazy stories are real and they are about Ranma, the girl who was kidnaped was Ami-chan's cousin Tendo Akane, she was the bride at that bombed out wedding, so I guess Ranma-kun got her back, but rumor has it that most of the powerful martial artists over there have been in China for a couple weeks, they must have just got back for that wedding."

"Uhm, how strong could these martial artists really be?" asks Usagi.

"Compared to us?" Makoto replies. "I'm not sure, but we've never had to kill any youma in Nerima, and it's right next to Juuban. They must show up there sometimes, so some of them must be strong enough to kill at least weak youma."


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"Well, Rei-chan, Hino-dono, I guess we should talk about this." Ranma says after the Tendo girls leave with the detective.

"Not that much to talk about." Gramps says. "You and Rei-chan have a year, at the end of the year if you both want to you get married, from the sounds of it you haven’t picked any of the other girls and you've known them for over a year, so unless more fiancees show up I don't think Rei-chan needs to worry about the other girls."

"Well, it's just that Rei-chan does need to worry about the other girls." Ranma replies a bit sarcastically. "Akane-san is unlikely to hit anyone other than me, but Ucchan, Shampoo, and Kodachi will probably come out here and challenge you to a fight, or just ambush you. All of them are talented martial artists, so Rei-chan can you fight?"

"Gramps has taught me some."

"Well then we can spar tomorrow and then start your training again if you want to be able to stand up to them."

"Hey, I'm tough/"

"We'll see how you are tomorrow." Ranma cuts in. "Lot's of people think they're good, but only a few of them are up to Neriman standards. Akane-san is the least skilled of my fiancees and she holds a 2nd Dan Black Belt in Kenpo and likes to break stacks of cinder blocks with her brute strength, Shampoo has the most skill, I’d place her at 4th or 5th Dan in Amazon Wushu, a hard acrobatic style that includes dual-weapon usage, and she’s even stronger than Akane."

“Oh dear Kami, I’m still working towards a Brown Belt in Jujutsu.” Rei squeaks. “I’d be lucky to last a few seconds against them.”

"Well, from your aura earlier it looks like you certainly got some use out of those scrolls, you've probably mastered every technique on them to become this powerful." The old priest tells him. "It looks like you have the power to rival the Sailor Senshi that kill all the youma that show up here in Juuban."

"Yeah, those youma show up in Nerima too, you just don't hear about it, at least six of us martial artists can feel their evil auras and track them down and kill them, no need for outside demon hunters. It's the only time we let loose with the really deadly stuff. It’s almost a race to see who gets to kill the critter. Not to mention at least a dozen other martial artists that can at least give them a good fight, some of the styles get really weird, but they still work."

"Weird martial arts styles, like what?" Rei wants to know.

"Well, I saw the old granny that does Martial Arts Tea Ceremony kill a youma with a couple of stirring spoons. Boy was it surprised." Ranma explains. "The youma looked like a woman crossed with a b-b- lynx and had sucked the energy out of her grandson, sort of like my English teacher Ms. Hinako does, but she only drains excess chi, not a person's actual life force. Anyway she started out throwing napkins at it, then beat it about the head and shoulders with her ladle when it laughed at her. While it was dazed from a couple of good head hits that left her ladle bent out of shape and useless, she flung the boiling water from her tea kettle into its face. As the poor thing was screaming and covering its eyes the old lady whips out a couple of stirring spoons and reverses them, stabbing one through the ribs into it's heart and using the other to slash both sides of it's throat before stabbing it through the youma's voice box to shut it up. Who would have thought that she would grind down the spoon handles into knives like they do in those prison movies."

"Gah, ugh, . . . , little old grannies killing youma." Rei sputters, looking stunned and confused.

"So, you up for your first lesson tomorrow?" Ranma asks her.

"Yatta! I'd be delighted to learn martial arts from you, Ranma-sensei." Rei says as she glomps onto his arm with a possessive look in her eyes that just screams “MINE!” thinking, 'With Ranma teaching me I'll be able to kick some serious ass! and Minako, Makoto, HA even Usagi will be green with envy when they see my fiancé! Hell, even Michiru and Haruka will be jealous when they see Onna-Ranma.'

"So Ranma-kun, we know about the Neko-ken and Jusenkyo." says Gramps. "What other awful training did Genma put you through?"

"Well, there was the time he stole the poisonous snakes from a zoo so that I would build up a resistance to their venoms, and the one where I was chased through a swamp by wolves while carrying a couch on my back to work on my strength, speed, and endurance."

"Oh, and where was Genma during this, running with you?" Rei asks.

"Your kidding right, he was on the couch."

"... Is that the worst of it?" Rei asks.

"I'm just getting started, there was the Lion's Cub training where he would push me off a steep slope of a hill and I would have to climb back up after falling, rolling and hitting stuff on the way down."

"But that was a joke from a children's book!" Rei screams in shock.

"Oyaji said it was to build toughness and willpower. Then for speed blocking he would throw beehives at me, and I would have to hit all the bees without being stung. After that he improved on the amazon Bakusai Tenketsu training by taking me to a condemned building and using a wrecking ball on me to toughen me up, then sending me into the building to destroy it from the inside from the top down. I had to think of the best way to knock the building down without letting it fall over or burying myself. Just recently he has started throwing me off of the roofs of the tall buildings, and trying to get me to fly."

"WHAT!! He's . . . that's insane!" Rei yells "Why do you listen to your father. He's an idiot!"

"Now Rei-chan, most of his ideas sound stupid, insane, and dangerous, but they actually work. The Neko-Ken was the mother of all fuck-ups, but I learned it and I've had to use it in a fight once. Most of the rest has built up my speed, strength, endurance, and toughness to beyond that of any human I've ever seen, and I think I'll get the trick to flying in another week or so. I've seen Herb and Saffron do it, so it can't be that hard."

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#Knock# #knock#

"Oh, some of my friends must have come over to check on you." Rei says pouring herself a glass of water before she gets up to answer the door.

#Splash#

"What'd you do that for?!" Ranma-chan yells.

"They are here to check on Ranko-chan." Rei replies. "They helped me track you down earlier, so they know about the Neko-Ken already. The curse won't be too much of a shock for them, we just need to work up to it so they don't think you're a shape changing youma or something."

"Well boy, I'll leave you with the girls." Gramps says getting up from the table. "I'm going to go through my scrolls, and see if I can find anything to help with any of your problems."

"You're not going to start me on Neko-Tolerance training again?" Ranma asks nervously.

"That's a good idea! A couple of Rei-chan's friends have well-behaved cats." Gramps replies. "Your Neko personality still likes Rei-chan, so she would be safe getting you used to the cats. But I was thinking to checking out exorcism, hypnosis, and meditation techniques as well."

"That sounds great Hino-dono, the Amazons couldn't help me at all with the Neko-Ken." Ranma tells him as he leaves the room.

Rei comes in with three girls, two blondes, one with a weird ball and pony tail hair style, and a tall girl with brown hair in a high ponytail. They all looked about 16-years-old, so they probably go to school with Rei. The beautiful blonde with the normal hair style was ringing some bells but he didn't recognize her yet.

"Ranko-chan, these are my friends. Tsukino Usagi with the odangoes, Aino Minako with the nice blond hair, and Kino Makoto the tall one. Girls this is Saotome Ranko the neko-onno." Rei makes introductions as they sit around the table.

"Well, I hope you like cookies." Makoto says unwrapping a bento filled with lots of cookies.

"I'll make some more tea, while you get to know each other a bit." Rei says heading into the kitchen.

"So Ranko-chan, do you know where your missing brother is?" Minako asks.

"Uhm, actually he'll probably be showing up pretty soon, since he knows I'm here." Ranko replies nervously, getting angry vibes off the blonde.

"I've been looking forward too seeing him again." Minako says in an angry tone.

"Oh no, you’re not his fiancee, are you?" Ranko asks, a little scared at the thought of more girls after him.

"FIANCEE! With HIM!! Never!" Minako explodes at the idea of going out with HIM. 'Not that he wasn't really cute.' she thinks saying, "Why would you even think that?!"

"What did Ranma do to you?! Or was it Oyaji? Did Genma steal something from you?" asks Ranko, getting upset at the outburst.

"Minako! Calm down. Ranma-san isn't here. There is no need to yet at Ranko." Usagi says, trying to calm her friend down.

"Damn Oyaji, always getting in trouble and having it come back on Ranma. At least you’re not a fiancee, he's got four girls that fight over him, and he just found out about a 4th fiancee that Oyaji set him up with." Ranko explains. "So, you want revenge on Ranma-oniisan, for what."

"Four fiancees!" Makoto cries. "He's got another one? Poor Ranma-kun. Who's the lucky girl?"

"I am." says Rei from right behind them, they all turn and look to see Rei holding a platter with a good tea set. She seems a bit upset. "Now Aino-san, tell me what you have against my fiancé?" She says as she sets the platter on the table and takes her seat.

"Wow, scary like mom, and she doesn't even have a sword." Ranko whispers to herself.

"Uhm, maybe we . . . should discuss this in private." Minako says meekly looking over to indicate Ranko.

"I don't think we'll need to keep secrets from Ranko-chan or Ranma-kun. They are powerful martial artists who can help us a lot. Ranma-kun is probably a lot better in a fight than someone's boyfriend." Rei says looking at Usagi with the last comment.

"Hey Mamo-chan has helped us out lots of times." Usagi yells at Rei.

"Oh, he's not useless, but he rarely fights until it gets desperate." Rei tells her, softening the blow, just a little, while twisting the knife.

"Wow Rei-chan, how did you get engaged to Ranma-kun?" Makoto asks, jealous of Rei snagging such a hunk.

"Well, I told you that I had seen the Neko-Ken before." Rei explains. "Ranma-kun was the boy that I found acting like a cat nine years ago, and we took care of him for two weeks. We were great friends. I used to play with Ranchan, and Neko-Ranchan every day. Gramps even came up with a Neko-Tolerance technique."

Ranma shudders remembering a younger Rei coming towards him with a cat.

"It helped poor Ranchan build up a tolerance to being around cats, towards the end he could actually hold a cat without going Neko. But when his father came to take him back, Gramps and Daddy made a deal with Saotome Genma for Ranma-kun to marry me, and Saotome-san took my dowery and Ranma, and we never heard from them again, until today."

"Saotome Genma took off with your dowery and your defending Ranma!" Minako yells at Rei in disbelief.

"Oyaji is a thief and a con-man, not me! I'm doing the best I can with the deals he has made!" Ranma-chan yells at Minako.

"Ranko-chan, I know he's your brother, but/" Minako starts but is cut off by Ranko.

"Ranma's problems are MY problems, his honor is My honor, his fights are My fights." Ranma-chan tells her in a cold hard voice, with the room's temperature dropping several degrees, and a barely visible blue aura and mist surrounding Ranma-chan. "So what is your problem with ME."

Minako, is a little scared by Ranko's little display, and looks at Rei and Usagi before answering. "It was three years ago, when I was living in England/"

"V-chan!" exclaims Ranko in sudden recognition.

"That's right! That bastard even gave me a nickname, he . . . HE must have told you all about it Ranko, for you to know who I am. Why don't you tell us what he did to ME?!" Minako ends up yelling at Ranko.

"OK Sailor V, Ranma told me that he fought with you about 20 times to protect his father.” Ranko says. “Yes, Oyaji was a thief, but he was the only family Ranma ever knew, he couldn't let him get put in jail. How would Ranma ever be able to get home to Japan? You would have left him alone on the streets in a foreign land. I..he really did enjoy your fights with him, you were a great opponent, and he was sorry that he didn't get a chance to say goodbye when he left. He actually thinks your very pretty and a skilled opponent and you really improved over those three months. I know he did get carried away a few times, but it wasn't meant to hurt you. The thing with the ribbons, well you shouldn't have said that about Mom. But he is sorry about dropping you into the fish guts, and the river uh three times, and the garbage umm four times, . . . and the sewer that one time, and leaving you hanging from that fire escape." Now she is smiling an evil grin as she recalls some fond memories. "Oh how you screamed at me. Who would think such a pretty girl like you could swear like that. Heh heh heh."

"RANMA!! I can't believe you did all that to V!" a very angry Rei yells at Ranma-chan, "Here!" Throwing her cup of tea in her/his face. "Now apologize!"

Seeing Ranma turn from girl to guy, shocked the three guests, Usagi and Makoto had the usual wide-eyed jaw drop reaction, Minako had the wide eyes all right, but they narrowed down real fast and she tried to dive across the table at her nemesis, screaming "You Bastard!!" but was held back by Rei.

"Mina! Sit down and let him apologize." Rei says while holding her friend back. "Ranma, apologize then we'll tell then about the curse."

"V-chan, I'm sorry," Ranma apologizes, "I had to fight you, but I shouldn't have been so cruel and insulting to you. I didn't mean any of the insults, my dad always taught me to taunt my opponent until they became so angry that they would loose control and fight sloppy, once they were sloppy I would find and exploit a weakness to win the fight. I'm also sorry for leaving you in such horrible places and positions. I was always careful not to hurt you, but it was cruel of me to drop you into the sewer, and the fish guts, and the garbage, and the river, and hang you upside down on that fire escape, and hog tie you with your ribbons."

"By the Kami! Ranma, no wonder Minako was pissed, couldn't you just knock her out or something?" Rei asks.

"Well, no, I couldn't knock her out and leave her unconscious, that would hurt her and something could happen to her while she was out, I had to come up with someway of getting a couple of minutes to make a get away, without actually hurting her." Ranma explains to Rei.

"OK, Ranma, I'll accept your apology." Minako says in a controlled angry tone. "BUT, you are NOT off the hook for this, I want a rematch next weekend, and I'll have to come up with ways to torture you a little, because I NEED some payback for this."

"Bring Artemis over in the morning and you can scare Ranma-kun out of his mind." Rei tells Minako in an evil tone.

"Oh great, thanks Rei-chan. But why would Ranma be scared of Arty?" Minako asks Rei.

"Well, you see.. he's scared of cats." Rei tells her.

"Cats!" Makoto exclaims. "Ranma-kun is scared of cats. Not just lions or tigers, but house cats?!"

"Hey! I'm right here, you know. It gives me the heebee-geebees just hearing people mention cats." Ranma says with a shudder. "I still have nightmares about that horrible pit, filled with hungry c-clawed death. It happened when I was only eight years old. Day after day he tied me up w-with f-FISH! Day after day He forced me to t-that pit, with the horrible Howling and me-meowing. Day after day, HE pushed me into that pit with Twenty starving CATS!!" At this point Ranma was staring across the table, but not seeing the girls seated across from him. They could all see the horror behind his eyes, and Rei was scrambling to get around the table too him.

Rei lands on her knees and hugs Ranma to her, crooning "It's OK, there aren't any cats here. Your safe Ranchan. The cats can't get you while I'm here. I'll never let your dad throw you into the pit ever again." as she rocked him back and forth while tears ran from her eyes.

"It was dark in that pit." Ranma whispered, "But I could see all those glowing eyes looking at me. My hands were tied behind my back with fish. So I would lay face down in mud and shit with my eyes closed until they ate enough of my ropes and I could get my hands free. I would rip the fish off and give it to the cats, then huddle in the corner slapping the cats away until HE let me out of the pit."

While Rei hugged Ranma and tried to calm him down, Usagi scrambled to her feet and ran for the bathroom hoping to make it before she lost her dinner on the floor. Minako broke down into tears that she had wanted to torture Ranma, when it was obvious that he had already been to Hell and barely escaped with his sanity. Makoto was staring with horror filled eyes while praying to the Kami above that they could help Ranma, and wondering what sort of monstrous father could throw his son to the cats.

"I don't know how many times, but HE didn't know why it wasn't working. HE would try different types of fish, HE would add more cats, then . . . the last time . . . HE tied my hands with WIRE and put the fish INSIDE my gi. I couldn't free my hands and they were ripping at my clothes and chest, fighting to get IN MY GI!! ... Then next I knew I was on an old lady's lap with a girl petting my hair."

"She was really cute, and thought it was cool that I could become a cat-boy and play with her." Ranma was whispering and Rei's face was going red. "I don't think I would have made it without her. Arigato Rei-chan." and Ranma hugs Rei back.

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When Usagi came back from the bathroom, Ranma was releasing his grip on Rei, and Minako was wiping the tears from her eyes. Rei finally released Ranma from her hug and turned his head to look in his eyes and asks "Diajoubu?" ("Are you OK?")

"I... I'm better. I'll be OK in a minute." Ranma answers her in a hoarse whisper. "Thanks Rei-chan. I... I needed that. That's the worst it's been in years."

"Well, you have been through all kinds of hell today Ranchan. Just go into the kitchen and relax. I'll finish telling them about it." Rei says as she separates a little ways from Ranma and wipes her eyes and collects herself for telling the rest of the tale.

"Are you ready to hear the rest of it?" Rei asks the other girls, as Ranma gets up and leaves the room.

"I don't know Rei-chan, does it get any worse?" Minako asks Rei, hoping it doesn't.

"No, that was the worst of it." Rei tells her.

"By the Kami. Rei-chan! Why would anyone do that to a boy?" Usagi asks in a quiet voice, still looking pale and shaken as she begins to sit back down at the table.

"THAT is how the Neko-Ken is taught. THAT is also why the Neko-Ken has been banned from being taught by any organized Dojo in Japan." Rei explains to the others. "The student is tortured by cats until they are driven INSANE. The INSANITY is the Neko-Ken. Not all the students survive the training, even fewer ever recover their sanity afterwards and those that don't have to be hunted down and killed. Many of those that recover become vicious feral animals when they go berserk, killing friend and foe because they can't tell the difference and have been hunted down or slain in battle. Ranma-kun is one of the few that isn't vicious, that only attacks when provoked, and even then holds back, not hurting his opponents more than he has too. Ranma-kun is also lucky that his Neko personality will trust some people and can recover his sanity relatively easily."

"Imagine what a vicious Neko-Ken berserker would be like." Rei whispers to them. "We would have to hunt down and kill a human wildcat faster and more dangerous than any youma we have ever faced." Then louder she says "But Ranma-kun is a nice kitty cat, I used to play with Neko-chan when we were kids. I knew he would never hurt me back then. I guess that's why I didn't object when I found out that I'm his fiancee." 'Or freak out when I found out I was in the bath with him.' she thinks to herself.

"Oh how romantic! I'm so jealous Rei-chan." Minako squeals. "It's a classic case of a girl falling in love with a cat? Never mind, that didn't come out right."

"Mina-chan, you and Artemis? What will Luna think." Makoto says teasing Minako.

"No! It's not like that! We're just friends! Really, Mako-chan how could you even think that!" Minako yells becoming flustered and embarrassed at her slip.

Rei, Makoto, and Usagi bust out laughing at Minako. This attracts Ranma from the kitchen, and he comes in with a glass of water asking "What’s so funny?"

"Oh, it was just girl talk, you wouldn't want to know, besides it's embarrassing." Minako tells him, while Makoto is taking a drink to stop her giggling.

#Splash#

"But it's just us girls, come on you can tell me. Please." Ranma-chan asks using her uber-kawaii technique complete with puppy-dog eyes and hyper-girly voice.

Makoto spews her drink across the table at Rei, while Usagi and Minako bust out laughing.

"Oh Rei-chan, I'm sorry haha, I couldn't help it. Tee hee hee. The uber-kawaii attack got me when I was taking a drink. BWU HAHAHA. Saotome Ranma the God slayer HAHA doing the kawaii girl shtick. I couldn't help it, he's my idol HAHAHA and he turns into a gorgeous redhead and acts all cutesy. HAHAHAHA." Makoto gets out as she rolls on the floor laughing.

"God slayer? How do you know about that Makoto-san?" Ranma-chan asks her as she sits down besides Rei.

"Oh that, I have a subscription with Nabiki-san to get all the interesting details of your fights and stuff, but she always referred to you as Ranma or Ranko. I always thought Ranko was your sister, not you HAHA." Makoto manages to get out before laughing again.

"Wait. God slayer? Is that serious?" Rei asks becoming serious. The other girls manage to stop laughing to hear this.

"Well, I suppose he isn't that much of a god, and he didn't stay dead, but yeah I killed Saffron, the Immortal Phoenix God-King of the bird people of Phoenix Mountain and he was reborn from his ashes as just a little kid." Ranma tells her. "He was trying to kill me and I had to kill him to get to the magic water I needed to save Akane's life. That was just two weeks ago."

"But . . . I think me and Akane-san are over." Ranma explains. "She doesn't trust me. She has a horrible temper and gets most of her exercise by jumping to conclusions about me and other girls. The wreckage of the wedding seems to symbolize our relationship. Our father's trying to push us together come Hell or high water, and everyone else trying to tear us apart, with her screaming "Ranma no baka!" and pounding on me whenever she has the slightest excuse."

"That's horrible Ranma-san." Minako says "I don't think you need to worry about my revenge! It sounds like you've had enough trouble for a dozen lifetimes and I couldn't stand myself if I caused you any more."

"Well, do you want to beat up the Old Man? I could set him up for you. He deserves it." Ranma offers nicely with an evil grin.

"Yeah, I'd like that, after all this is mostly his fault." Minako says accepting his offer.

"Uhm, excuse me." Usagi butts in. "Could you explain to me how you were that girl, then a guy, and now a girl? Just make up your mind, girl or boy."

"Here we go again. Rei-chan could you get the water?" asks Ranma. "I'll let Minako do the honors this time. My father took me to a training ground in China called Jusenkyo. It has more than a hundred cursed springs. Each spring has a shape changing curse, the victim takes to form of the last thing to drown in that pool when splashed with cold water, and hot water returns you to your normal form."

Minako takes this as her cue and pours hot water on Ranma, changing her to him. "Wow."

"We were sparring on the bamboo poles sticking out of the pools, I kicked my dad into Shonmaoniichuan, spring of drowned panda, and when a giant panda jumped out of the spring and attacked me I was knocked into Nyanniichuan, spring of drowned girl."

Then Minako pours the cold water on his, now her head. "It doesn't hurt does it?"

"Not unless the water is too hot, or if I get hit with hot and cold at the same time, Kami does that hurt."

"Why?" Rei asks "What happens?"

"Well, you've seen the how a werewolf changes in a horror movie, all slow and painful, with bones, muscles, and skin stretching and shifting." Ranma explains, "It's like that because your trying to turn into both forms at the same time and you end up stuck between forms until the water is just hot or cold."

"That's Horrible!" Usagi says, "But you sound angry like someone ahh tortured you?"

"Yeah, my uncute fiancee, Tendo Akane. Shampoo sometimes sneaks into the house to visit me, she'll try and seduce me, bring me dinner, or just come to talk. One time she snuck in as a c-cat and jumped into the furo turning back into a naked girl in the bath with me, but Akane saw the cat and followed her, she hit us both with cold water from the shower head. I was in incredible pain. Boy from the waist down, girl from the chest up, and my guts twisting between the two. Shampoo, she was screaming and yowling stuck in a werewolf like transformation, her bones were twisting, parts of her were shrinking, her fur and claws came out, while her hair pulled in. I fired a quick Ki Blast and put Akane through the wall. When the cold water stopped we both returned to normal, but Shampoo was in shock from the pain. I propped her up in the tub, then put my pants on and went after my vicious bitch of a fiancee while yelling for Kasumi to call the doctor and the Old Ghoul for Shampoo. Akane was mad at me for defending Shampoo and tried to hit me with her damn mallet, but I blocked it and went after the bitch. Our father's pulled me away from her after I hit her a couple times."

"What happened then? Did she get punished?" Makoto asks.

"Ha! I got a lecture about hitting my fiancee, and being unfaithful to her. But the Akane, Princess of the Dojo, she didn't even apologize. She said I deserved it for being a pervert. Shampoo however threatened her with the Kiss of Death if she ever did that to me or her again and Cologne backed her up on the threat. It turns out that Shampoo almost died of the shock and pain. Of course her transformation is much more drastic that mine. Getting stuck half-male and half-female is really painful, getting stuck half c-cat half-human must be like being torn apart and smashed together at the same time."



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05-02-04

When I added Ranma having a flashback of the Neko-Ken training while explaining it to the Inner Senshi, I actually cried a little several times. If you have the imagination to feel with the story you might drop a couple of tears yourself.

05-04-04

Added Ranma telling Rei of more of his training, Minako's dad is keeping a secret, more horror from the pit and Ranma does something romantic.

05-08-04

Expanded the Jusenkyo explanation and added water torture story

11-27-04

Took out one line and saved the Senshi’s secret identities to spring on Ranma later.


So far I've used parts of 2 fanfics with permission of the authors. Thank you Targhan and Bob Lobster for Moonlight Kitty and Hell Hath No Fury. Both very original stories, now if they would only continue them, because they were both too short. Write more, please. I have used a few jokes and punch lines from other stories. One person spotted the heterosexual lesbian thing which probably first appeared in 'Girl Days', and liked my monogamous bi-sexual addition to the joke. One of the funniest things about Ranma 1/2 is using gender confusion in the plot.

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