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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 8: Ami tags in for Akane

Mizuno Noriko was worried about her older brother, she had seen the news about the wedding, so after she finally got off her shift at the hospital she picked up her daughter Ami and they took a taxi to Nerima. Her brother Tendo Soun and his family have such an exciting life, she remembered the first time they visited a month after the Saotomes had arrived.

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Noriko and Ami were going to spend a nice Sunday visiting her brother's family in Nerima, and were about a block away from the Dojo when they heard a load yell of "RANMA NO BAKA!!" and saw a young woman with her red hair in a pigtail, wearing a red Chinese shirt and black kung-fu pants come sailing over the wall and impact in the street about 10 feet in front of them, landing on her side and rolling with the fall, bowling over her daughter Ami and ending up with Ami laying on top of her.

"Oh man, did you get the number of the kawaiikune tomboy that hit me." the redhead mutters as she opens her eyes and tries to get up. When she sees Ami staring into her eyes, she whispers "Kawaii." just loud enough for then to hear and her face gets all red. "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't see you there. Are you OK?" she asks as she helps Ami get up by putting her hands on Ami's waist and lifting her to her feet as the redhead sits up, in a casual display of strength.

"Uhm, shouldn't we be asking that of you?" Ami asks the young girl. "After all you were the one that just took a short flight with a rough landing."

"Oh, I'm fine. I'm tough." she tells Ami, then mutters. "If I wasn’t, the damn tomboy would have killed me the night we met."

"Are you sure?" Noriko asks, while helping the girl to her feet "You have some scrapes from skidding down the road."

"Kuso, these were my best pants and they're ruined!" she exclaims, looking at the holes torn in the knees and seat of the pants ignoring the bloody scrapes and bruises underneath.

Both Noriko and Ami stumble from a massive facefault, and the red-haired girl catches Ami by the arms since she was still a little unsteady on her feet. Just then Akane comes out of the gate to look for her errant fiancé and comes running down the street as she spots them.

"RANMA NO HENTAI!! Get your hands off my cousin you baka!" Akane yells as she comes running toward them.

"It's not like that! I was just keeping her from falling." Ranma-chan yells back.

"SHUT UP!! DON'T even bother! Your always flirting with other girls you HENTAI!" Akane yells as she reaches them and unleashes a right cross into Ranma's cheek snapping her head around and leaving a large red imprint on her face.

"KAWAIIKUNE!!" Ranma-chan screams back at her holding a hand to her face, then dodges to the side of Akane's next punch, jumps over a leg sweep, leans out of the way of a jab, hops back to clear a side kick, then jumps 8 feet straight up to avoid Akane's reckless charge. "Kami, you are slow, and I always get plenty of advance notice when you try anything tricky like that bum rush." Then she takes off running back to the Tendo-ke.

"Get back here and hold still so I can hit you! You BASTARD!" Akane yells as she takes off running afer her, leaving Ami and Noriko standing there staring after them.

"Umm Mom, isn't Ranma the name of Akane's fiancé?" Ami asks Noriko.

"That's what Soun-oniisan said on the phone when I talked to him yesterday. But I got the idea that Ranma was a boy." Noriko replies.

"Well, she acts like a boy, but I can only wish for a build like that. I can't believe that she calls Akane a tomboy with the way she acts. Did you see how flustered she got when I was on top of her?" Ami asks as they start walking towards the gates.

"Well, maybe she likes girls. She did say that you’re cute, and that shows her good taste."

"MOM! I can't believe you, teasing me like that."

"There's nothing wrong with it Ami, and with a girl like that it'd be a lot of fun."

"MOTHER! You’re incorrigible, you know that I like boys. I'm just shy."

"I know dear. I was just joking. Now be careful around Akane-chan, she has quite the temper and tends to jump to conclusions."

"BIG understatement there Okaasan. Huge, massive, gargantuan. And did you see Ranma just take that hit as if it were nothing?! She wasn't kidding when she said she was tough."

"Now Ami-chan, what was it you were saying about massive understatements? Hmm?"

"Oh alright, you got me on that one. A hit like that would put us into the hospital with a broken jaw. How can she be so tough?"

"Well dear, some powerful martial artists have almost supernatural levels of strength, speed, endurance, and toughness. I would say that young Ranma has at least a third dan black belt in at least one style of martial arts, and she's tougher than your Uncle Soun was even in his prime from what I just saw." Noriko says as they walk up to the front door of the Tendo's house.

Nabiki opened the door just then and greeted her aunt and cousin. "Hello, Auntie Noriko, Ami-chan, Akane said she saw you coming down the street when she came in. And Auntie I would place Ranma-san at 5th dan or higher in Kenpo with high dan ranking in Kenjutsu, Jujutsu, Jeet Kune Do, Hapkido, Karate, and T’ai Chi Chuan."

"Wow, all that and she can't be more than 16 years old. How is that possible Nabiki-chan?" Ami asks her cousin.

"1000 yen" Nabiki says holding out her hand.

Noriko gives her a look then hands over a two 1000 yen bills, saying "I want the full story."

"Then give me three more, it's a long story." Nabiki replies. "That's after figuring in your favorite aunt discount."

"Alright, but it better be worth it young lady." she says handing over another 3000 yen. "Besides I'm your only aunt."

"Well, Ranma-san has been training since before he was taken from his home at the age of 5 by his father Genma. For the last 11 years he has been training almost nonstop, and some of his father's training methods are cruel enough to cause USMC drill instructors to puke. Two of Saotome-san's favorite sayings are The life of a martial artist is fraught with peril and That which does not kill you, only makes you stronger. Of course saying that, it's surprising that he hasn't killed Ranma or driven him permanently insane with some of the things he's done to him in the name of training." Nabiki explains to them. "They have been on the road up until a couple months ago, traveling thru Japan, Korea, and China, training at different Dojos and training grounds. Ranma-san has spent very little time in school or around other people except for his father and the occasional sensei that they have stayed with, so he has little common sense or manners, and is completely ignorant of somethings you take for granted as common knowledge. He has acquired at least one actual curse, a phobia of cats that can drive him out of his mind, and a few determined people out for his head and slash or his hand."

"His head and slash or his hand? What's that supposed to mean Nabiki-chan?" Ami asks.

"Some people want to marry him or kill him depending on the state of his curse. I'll have to give you a demonstration for you to understand. Follow me." Nabiki says leading them through the house to the back porch, picking up a glass of water and a tea kettle when she detoured into the kitchen. Stepping outside she yells up at someone on the roof. "Ranma! Come down here and meet my Auntie Noriko and my cousin Ami-chan!"

"Alright, coming down!" He calls before jumping off the roof to land in front of them.

"Auntie, Ami-chan this is my sister Akane's fiancé, Saotome Ranma." Nabiki says gesturing toward the young man standing there. "And this is his curse." she says as she flings the water out of the glass into his face.

"What'd you do that for?!" yells the wet red-haired girl standing there in the same clothes that the young man was wearing.

Then everything fades to black as Noriko and Ami both faint.

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These visits to Nerima were some of the best times that Ami got to spend with her Mom. A couple of times a month Mom would take a Sunday off, and they usually went to visit the Tendos. It was very entertaining watching and hearing about the chaos that surrounded Ranma, but Ami felt bad seeing her violent cousin Akane take out her frustrations on Ranma. Like when Akane cooked something for her fiancé, everyone knew how bad Akane's cooking was, but she would force Ranma to try it or even eat the whole thing, actually forcing it down his throat on one occasion, then she would get mad that he got sick. That Ranma insulted her cooking didn't help, he would get pounded and then forced to eat to Akane's toxic creation anyway, and then she would usually pound on him after he got sick if he was still capable of standing up.

After watching them for a week of Sundays Ami had worked out the pattern.

#1 if Ranma had anything to do with a rival girl Akane would get mad. This covered Shampoo, Kodachi, and later Ukyo, and sometimes included her own sisters, her cousin Ami and even complete strangers.

#2 if Ranma criticized anything she did, she would get angry. This included her cooking, her martial arts, her behavior, her sewing, and her appearance, even if he wasn't being insulting Akane would take it the wrong way.
#3 if Akane and Ranma got into any type of embarrassing situation, it became Ranma's fault somehow and Akane would get upset.

#4 if for some reason Akane became angry, she would verbally abuse Ranma and Ranma would return the insults instinctively due to his course upbringing and pride until Akane hit him.

#5 even if Ranma managed to apologize Akane would hold the offense against him or not believe his excuse or explanation, and would often get angry, see #4.


From talking to Kasumi and Nabiki she had worked out that Ranma got an average of 3 beatings from Akane, 3 fights with his father, 2 fights with Kuno Tatewaki, 1 bike landing and 2 glomps from Shampoo every day, with an average of 3 fights with Hibiki Ryouga per week. Kodachi didn't fit well into any patterns, and Ukyo rarely hit Ranma but did provoke a number of the fights between Ranma and Akane. This added to the more chaotic elements of Ranma's life, well using the metaphor with the camel, Ami estimates a load of 30 metric tons of straw have been loaded on it's back, and she has no idea how the camel has lasted this long.

It's no wonder Ami felt bad for him, and whenever they stopped by Ranma would take time to talk to her, and she often got him to study (Ami's favorite pastime) with her, even though it often got him a beating from Akane. With what they had heard of the wedding she was approaching the Tendo-ke like it was a freeway accident, something horrible that you just have to look at.

Thus they walked up to the Tendo's front door and knocked.

After a few seconds the door opens unleashing . . . Nabiki. "Auntie Noriko! Ami-chan! Speak of the devil and he shows up at your door, we were just talking about you guys. Come on in and join us." Nabiki says showing them to the den.

"So Nabiki-chan how is everyone taking this?" Noriko asks.

"Well, Father and Saotome-san are in the Dojo feeling sorry for themselves, Akane is crying on Kasumi's shoulder up in her room, Nodoka-dono is in here with her father and some of his friends, I've been handling damage control and profiteering all day, and Ranma is staying over at a friend's house tonight."

Nodoka gets up to greet them. "Mizuno-sensei, Ami-chan, won't you join us, you must be wondering at what has happened that didn't make it onto the evening news. Let me introduce you. This is my father Masaki Katsuhito, my distant aunt Masaki Ayeka, Hakubi Washu a scientist, and Hakubi Ryoko adventuress. Everyone this is Dr. Mizuno Noriko Soun's younger sister and her daughter Ami."

After a few minutes of polite small talk over tea and cakes they get down to the aftermath of the wedding.
"Well, besides the obvious destruction and Ranma's Neko adventure today, the union between the Saotome and Tendo clans and school of martial arts has been.. well, cast into doubt." Nodoka explains "You see I revoked Akane-san's engagement to my son Ranma after her baseless insults and assault against him today, and both Nabiki and Kasumi refused the engagement on the grounds that it would drive the sisters apart with Akane's jealousy added to other more personal reasons."

"My my, that does cause quite the problem with the wedding pledge doesn't it." Noriko responds.

"Yes, the only option that we came up with to salvage the pledge was to expand it to include all unwed female members of the Tendo clan." Nodoka tells Noriko and Ami.

"Oh Kami." says Ami to her mom "I guess that means me, unless you’re interested in a younger man Okaasan?"

#Cough# #Cough# "That's OK Ami, not that he isn't a fine young man, but the age difference might be a problem. So if you don't have any objections?" Noriko asks looking at her daughter. "None. OK, then I guess my Ami-chan will be engaged to Ranma-kun, they seem to get along well enough, but I won't force her into an early or unwanted wedding."

"That shouldn't be a problem Auntie." Nabiki responds "Ranma-kun feels that a courtship should be of at least one year, and considering that Ami-chan has rivals for Ranma's hand, he is unlikely to push for an unwanted wedding. However, we have recently become aware of an option for a polygamous marriage. So I hope that Ami-chan can share."

"Ahh, Nabiki-chan, tell me straight up, how many fiancees does Ranma-kun have?" Ami asks.

"OK, brace yourself Ami-chan." Nabiki says "Including you, there are . . . thirteen total. Five of them are amazons, so their engagements aren't recognized by our customs, and only Shampoo is here, and another four of the others have not come seeking Ranma-kun out, but Auntie Nodoka will be trying to contact them. Now Akane may try to make up with Ranma-kun and Auntie Nodoka, but I don't see Ranma wanting her back after this, and Auntie Nodoka isn't as forgiving."

Ami just hangs her head muttering about thirteen wives.

"Yes, thirteen wives are too many, even for my son." Nodoka says. "We will simply have to narrow down the field."

"Now Ami, I figure Ranma-kun will try to get rid of at least four of the amazons, and Kodachi. And four of the others he doesn't even know about yet, so I'm thinking there will be three to eight wives depending on how things work out. But if you stick it out I'm sure that Ranma will marry you. Mostly it depends on how many of the girls will be willing to share. That and our matchmaking skills."

"That's a great idea Nabiki-chan." Nodoka exclaims, happy at the idea of setting up girls with boyfriends. "Of course we will have to gather some manly young men to distract some of them from my son. There is that nice Kumon Ryu, and Mousse might be acceptable if wasn't blind and fixated on Shampoo."

"Hmm, I'll see what can be done about Mousse, but how about setting up Pantsuto Taro with Perfume or Lotion, maybe even both of them if we can manage it." Nabiki suggests.

"Nabiki-chan, could you set up Kuno Tatewaki with Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung?"

"I doubt it Auntie." replies Nabiki, "They have already beat up him and the Kendo team on their first visit, and they must have heard what a moron he is from Shampoo. We might be able to get him to fixate on one of the unknowns however, but I wouldn't count on using him for a match-up."

"What other martial artists do we have to fix up with the Amazons?"

"Well there is Konatsu, the ninja that works at Ucchan's."

"But isn't Konatsu a girl Nabiki-chan?"

"No Auntie, Konatsu is a cross-dresser. He was raised as a kunochi by his stepmother. Hmm, maybe we could set him up with Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung by sending them after Ukyo."

"How about you Ami-chan. Do you know of any good martial artists in Juuban?"


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05-02-04 Finished for now




Note: Using GURPS Martial Arts to guesstimate Ranma's skill level, I used Ranma's initial carving stunt on Kuno to figure a skill of 40 to perform a five stroke kanji on Kuno's forehead, giving Ranma a 12th Dan Black Belt. I've also seen a couple other fanfics recently that claimed a 12th Dan in Kenpo for Ranma at the start. I've lowered my estimate down to around 27 to 30.

I’ve written up Ranma as a GURPS character for this story, and designed the special techniques into GURPS terms. I’m basing external Chi powers on Psi powers, but with massive limitations on their use and special skills for them. If your interested in the GURPS material e-mail me and I can send you the write up.
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