Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Ranma and the Outers ❯ Decisions, Decisions, Decisions ( Chapter 16 )

and the Outers. After reading “All My Outers” by PsyckoSama, I got this idea. While his was a good idea, I had to change it slightly and then wondered where it would go. Hopefully, it will turn out pretty good. This is Rated “R” for language and adult situations. This will have lime-ish content, but will not be a lemon as I will not be describing or detailing those things.

Note: When it comes to Greek mythology, it all depends on what source you use for the relations between the gods. From one source, Aphrodite or Venus was Zeus’ daughter. In another, she came about after the castration of Uranus by Saturn, seriously.

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Chapter 11: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions.

you live in an area as strange as Nerima, Tokyo, you get used to a certain level of strange happenings. So when he stepped outside the Cat-Café, a place that had been his home for some time, he was not surprised to find himself nearly running over two girls. “Oh sorry!”

“Yahh!” the taller one with brown hair cried out as she attempted to carry her blonde haired friend.

“Sorry! I didn’t see you there, are you ok?”

Trying to pick her tired friend back up the girl replied. “Yeah… just perfect…”

“Um, is your friend ok?”

The girl sighed at that. “She’s just tired, and we’re tying to get back home.”

“Oh, well do you need any help?”

She looked at him a moment and as she did, she realized who he was. “Mousse! You’re Mousse!”

“Ah, yes, and you are?”

The girl then began mumbling something that he did not catch, but the girl finally looked up at him in resignation. “No, you can go back to Shampoo…”

“How do you know about her?”

“Ah… a friend told us about the two of you.”

“Is that friend Ranma?” He quickly asked, but when he noticed her getting nervous, he began to worry why. “If you know where he is, I really need to find him. Some things have happened lately and I’ll never be able to go back to the Amazons.”

“What? Why?” She asked.

“It’s a long story, but I’m no longer an Amazon, and I need to talk to Ranma… I… I’ve been wrong about him, and I need to apologize.”

“You do?”

“Yes. It seems I’ve been wrong about a number of things lately…”

“Oh… um…” She hesitated for a minute then asked, “So… do you still want to marry Shampoo?”

He gave her a curious look then sighed. “At one time I would have said yes… but… but now that I think about it, I know it’d never work out.”

“Oh… I’m sorry.” When her shoulders drooped slightly, she almost dropped her friend.

“Here. Let me help,” he said and quickly scooped the longhaired blonde-haired woman up into his arms.

“Umm… nice…” the girl mumbled and snuggled closer to him even though she appeared to be asleep.

For a moment, the brunette was silent, then with a shrug she decided to let him help. “Well, you can help me carry her to my place for now. I’d like to talk to you for a little bit and hear this long story.”

“But…”

“And in return, I will help you find Ranma… but only after you listen to my story, ok?”

He smiled at that. “That sounds good Miss…”

“Oh, I’m Makoto, and you’re holding Minako.”

“Ok, I’m Mousse of the… well… I guess I’m just Mousse now.”

Makoto giggled at that, and decided to take a chance and see what happens. “Ok Mousse, let’s go.” While she knew that this was the Mousse that Ranma had told them about, and how hung up he was over Shampoo, to hear that he has given up on the girl and wants to apologize to Ranma gave her a little hope that perhaps Mousse wasn’t a lost cause. Giving him a smile, she started walking towards her home.

He was about to follow her when he noticed that he did not know where he was, and he definitely did not just step out of the café. ‘What the… oh… these two must have been who that goddess wanted me to help.’ With a slight grin himself, Mousse counted this unusual occurrence as nothing to be worked up over, and walked beside Makoto, still carrying the sleeping Minako in his arms.

Ayamenten Kuno, formerly Tatewaki Kuno, was not having a very good day. It all started when that horribly pig had smashed his face into the ground, and then things took a turn for the worst when that ‘girl’ had shown up, and cursed him! Him, the great Tatewaki Kuno, scion of the House Kuno, rising star of the kendo word, the Blue Thunder himself! And yet she claimed to be a goddess and cursed him… to be a HER! And what’s worse was that she had said that only after giving birth to her first child would the curse be broken. And then… then that pervert showed up and dared to grab HER chest like that… and then… and then the little freak had started throwing those bombs at her. “This day hath gone from bad to worse. But alas for the day is over and cannot get worse.”

“Hold! Who dares to sneak into the home of the Black Rose!”

Looking up, the girl sighed as she saw her sister. “Verily it is I my twisted sister.”

“Oh, so some homeless harridan thinks she can just walk into my home and claim to be my sister! HO HO HO HO!” So saying, and then laughing like a maniac, Kodachi jumped towards the new girl while striking out with her ribbon.

“AAHH!!” the former Tatewaki Kuno shouted and jumped back away from her sister.

“HO HO HO HO! So you think you can escape me!”

“HALT!” Ayamenten cried out.

“And why should I?” She insisted.

“For I, scion of the house Kuno have gone through much this day and require rest.”

“HO HO HO! So you claim to be equal to me now!”

“Just leave me be my twisted sister. For today I have been victorious in that the foul sorcerer Saotome has been forever vanquished!”

“What?” she yelled in horror.

“Verily it is so, but alas, my victory came at a high price and I have been cursed with this woman’s body…” the girl began to cry at that while Kodachi seethed. “And now… the pig-tailed girl is forever gone as well and my fierce tigress Akane will not have me. Cursed to be a woman!”

“You!” Kodachi shouted in rage. “You dare to hurt MY Ranma-sama!”

“Leave me be…” she said and had to move out of the way quickly as Kodachi began attacking her again.

“You!” Kodachi screamed. “I’ll never forgive you!”

For the next ten minutes all the neo-girl could concentrate on was trying to avoid her sister’s lethal attacks. However, after having been chases all over Nerima by a disgusting little pervert, Ayamenten was not in her top form. Panting for breath, the girl wondered what good her new chest was as it certainly did not help her hold more air, nor did the protrusions from her chest allow her better balance. With these problems, it was no wonder that she suddenly found her feet bound by a ribbon and several razor sharp hoops flying towards her head.

“AHHH!” She screamed and fell over backwards and only then realized her true peril.

With her opponents feet bound and now lying on the ground, Kodachi moved in for the kill, or at least she tried before she was suddenly struck by lightning.

Both Kuno siblings then heard a voice in their minds, “One that is cursed by the gods will not have their lives shortened until their lesson is learned. For what good is a lesson, if the one to learn it is no more.”

Kodachi looked up towards the sky and was amazed that there was not a cloud in sight, and for having been struck by lightning, she was not only still standing, but also very much alive. “What is this?” She asked aloud.

While Nabiki had stayed behind and talked to that Amazon and the pervert, Akane decided to head home. This time, she had a slight smirk on his face. “This day wasn’t so bad after all,” she said happily just remembering the look on Kuno’s face as he, found out that he was now a she. ‘I won’t ever have to worry about that pervert trying to date me, or fight me every morning. This is amazing!’

“Oh my, aren’t you home early Akane?”

“Sorry big sister!” Akane said happily.

In reply, Kasumi only blinked.

“Ah, Akane! What are you doing home?”

“Oh, I don’t think school is going to continue for today.” She told her father with a bright smile.

“Oh… did something happen?”

“Oh yeah!”

“What did Ranma come back?” Soun asked excitedly.

“Ranma!? Has that ungrateful boy come back?” Genma asked loudly nearly causing the smile to slip off Akane’s face.

‘Time for a little revenge,’ she thought and smiled not realizing that her emotions were spiraling out of her control. “We all found out at school today that Ranma is dead.”

“What?” Both fathers asked.

“Someone very powerful showed up at school today. Do you wanna know what they said?” Akane’s grin was beginning to waver and her eyes began to hold a strange manic gleam.

“So what, powerful martial artist show up all the time and the boy gets rid of them,” Genma huffed.

“Not this time. They told me that Ryoga is P-chan…”

“Is that all?” Her father asked in confusion.

“You… you knew?” For the past several days, Akane’s emotions have been pushed to their limits. To find out that Ryoga is p-chan, as well as seeing Kuno turned into a girl on top of finding out that he was the cause of Ranma’s disappearance was taking its toll on her, and she was mere moments away from a complete breakdown.

“Ah, well you see…” Soun stammered out.

“You… you both knew… and you never told me? My own FATHER! My own flesh and blood! You… you… I HATE YOU!”

“Akane!” Soun and Kasumi shouted in surprise.

“I took that pig into my room… and into MY bed… and you knew? You knew and didn’t do anything?”

“It was the boy’s responsibility,” Genma said as though he was some mystic sage.

“HIS Responsibility? You fat pompous lazy ASS!”

“AKANE! You will not talk to a guest like that!”

“I can’t believe this! Don’t you care at all? Don’t you care that some boy saw me in my underwear? Don’t you care that Ryoga kept getting between us?”

“And it brought you closer together too,” Genma told her and gave her a gruff look. “Now see here little girl, if that boy…”

“SHUT UP!” Akane shouted and slammed the head of her father’s friend into the floor using a very large mallet.

“I’ve had enough of this!” Akane shouted in tears. “It doesn’t matter any more… Ranma’s gone…” Slumping to her knees, she barely registered Kasumi pulling her into a hug, though she did hear her father mutter one word.

“Gone?”

“Yes gone!” Akane shouted through her tears. “Ranma’s gone! ‘Sent away from this world’. Does that sound familiar ‘daddy’!”

“No…” Kasumi said and began to cry as well.

“Isn’t that what you told us about mommy? She’s been sent away from this world! She can never return!” Akane’s voice was beginning to hurt and her vision was becoming blurry from the tears in her eyes. “Because you thought so little of us… of me! And let that stupid pig get between us… it over… he’s gone….gone… just … just like mommy…”

Kasumi pulled her sister into a tight hug as the two of them cried over this news. And while Genma lay with his head in the floor oblivious to everything around him, Soun found that for once, he had no tears. ‘Gone…’ he thought to himself.

Ranma awoke with a start. ‘What was that?’ he asked himself. ‘It’s like… someone… someone’s hurt…’ Right after that thought passed though his mind, he quickly looked to his right and left to ensure Michiru and Haruka were there. ‘Good… they’re here… they’re fine… and…’ he grinned, ‘Haruka’s smiling.’

‘Ok… so… if it wasn’t them then what was that?’ he wondered. ‘It felt… cold… lonely…’ Slowly extracting himself from his wives, Ranma moved to the edge of the bed and sitting in a lotus position, he began looking inward. ‘Ok, I know I felt… something…’

For several minutes, he sat there just thinking, and searching. Finally, he found it, though he was confused. ‘Someone… someone close to me feels hurt… scared…’ he thought and looked over his shoulder at his sleeping wives. ‘It’s not them… then who is it?’ He was beginning to get very concerned, but before he awoke either of his wives, he concentrated more trying to find the source.

After several more minutes, Ranma cursed to himself. Moving closer to his wives, he called to them softly. “Michiru, Haruka…”

“Ummmm” seemed to be the common consensus between them.

Shaking them again this time at least had them opening their eyes. “Hay, how are ya doin’?”

Michiru sat up and stretched while Haruka moaned and rolled over. “What’s wrong?”

“I’m not sure… but... I… I feel somethin’…”

“Something? Are you hungry?”

“Naw, this is… um…” Sitting in a lotus position facing her, he closed his eyes to concentrate, as she was still nude and he wanted to concentrate on this, and not her… though he told himself there would be time enough for her later… which would explain the wry grin on his face.

“This is?” Michiru asked with a grin as she looked over his body.

“I need ya to concentrate. I felt somethin’… someone was hurtin’ a lot.”

“Oh… oh dear.”

“Yea… I felt it while we were asleep… whoever it is… they… they ain’t doin’ very good.”

“Ok, then Ranma, why don’t you turn around.”

“Um… ok…” Turning around, he was tempted to look over his shoulder, at her again, but when he felt her hand on his right shoulder, he felt calmness spread thoughout his body. “Thanks.”

“No problem, now… Haruka, are you awake?”

“Umm… Awake…” the blonde said and sat up. “Heard what ya said… need more sleep…”

Michiru giggled at that. “You can get more later, first we need to help Ranma.”

“Ok ok…” she said and yawned before placing her hand on Ranma’s left shoulder.

“Ah… hehehehe I…” He was a bit nervous as something inside him was telling him to turn around, and do some things that he knew were definitely perverted. Taking a big breath, he tried to calm himself. “Ok… now just concentrate…” For a moment, not a sound was made, and then first Michiru, then Haruka gasped. “Ya feel it?”

“Yes…” Michiru said softly. “It feels like… fear… afraid of being rejected…”

“Yeah, and afraid of being accepted.” Haruka added.

“Um… that’s kinda strange.”

“Yes…but who? Who is this we feel?”

“No clue,” Haruka said then furrowed her brow. “But who ever it is… they… they’re trying to push us away.”

With his wives supporting him, Ranma reached forward and felt his connection to Neptune. “Michiru… I feel… the planet feels it too.”

“Oh my…”

Concentrating, Ranma stretched out his arms before him and let the power of Neptune flow freely from him. At first, nothing happened, but then a small glowing light appeared just outside his reach. Then the light began to expand out forming a circular portal before them. “Wow…” the three of them said softly.

“NO! Damn it!” they heard being shouted, and then a figure suddenly ran though to portal at them. However obviously they were surprised as the figure ran right into the trip knocking them over and back onto the bed.

“Ouch…” Ranma muttered and opened his eyes to a sight that he didn’t think he’d ever see. “Setsuna!” He cried out before sitting up with the Senshi of Pluto in his arms.

“Please… let go…” she said between tears.

“But…”

Michiru sat up and looked at her friend who was being held by her husband. “Setsuna… it’s you… isn’t it. You’re the one we feel in pain.”

This got Setsuna’s attention. “What?”

Haruka sat up and placed her hand on Setsuna’s back. “It is you, what’s wrong?”

“I…”

“Setsuna, we can feel it… your pain.” Ranma told her as he held her tightly. “Michiru says yer afraid of bein’ rejected, an Haruka say’s yer afraid of bein’ accepted.”

“How… how do you know that?” She demanded and tried to move out of his arms, but he held her to him.

“I don’t know, but we do.”

“We…” Setsuna said and heard both of his wives say yes. ‘Oh no… no no no!”

“What, what’s wrong?” Ranma was getting scared, she wasn’t normally like this. She was strong, confident, mysterious, and somehow though it all she kept herself poised, and beautiful. ‘Gah!’ he thought as that last bit crossed his mind. ‘What the hell?’

In his surprise, Ranma’s grip relaxed allowing Setsuna to sit up; though she knew, she had nowhere to run.

On Earth, a confused Hotaru blinked at where one of her adoptive parents had been. “Setsuna-mama?”

Hades raised a brow as he looked at where Setsuna had been. “Chronos, what have you done?”

“Why am I being blamed for this?” Hotaru giggled at that despite herself. “Anyway, I cam to see my Avatar, not her.”

“Me?” Hotaru squeaked.

“Yes, though you have no need to worry about her, she’s in a safe place right now.”

“You mean at the gates?” Hotaru asked. As it seemed the most logical place.

“Nope, she’s on Neptune.” Hades told her with a grin.

“On Neptune?”

“Yes, it seems the others finally felt their connection to her, and brought her to them,” Hades told her with a smile. “I believe my work here is done, so I will leave you two for now. I think my wife is expecting me.” Hotaru giggled and bid him farewell, as the former Lord of the Underworld seemed to sink into the ground and disappear.

On Neptune… Setsuna sighed and began her explanations.

“In the past, when Ranma took the potion from Kuno and then was subsequently hit by a large hammer and sent into the middle of your picnic, originally there were two others there. Because of the chaos that surrounds Ranma, I was unable to predict it, and Ranma found himself married to more than two girls.”

“What?” Ranma nearly screamed.

“However, after a short time I was able to return to the gates, and while I could not stop some things from happening, I could stop others.” Sighing the Senshi of Pluto tried not to look at any of he others, as she was the only one still clothed. “And so I made sure that there were only two at the picnic this time.”

“You mean us,” Haruka asked, and was beginning to get angry.

“Yes, but something changed… I am not sure when or how. But the potion, which was just supposed to be a love potion, suddenly became a goddesses potion and with the kami stepping in, everything has become mixed up and I have just been speaking with the god of my planet.”

“You don’t seem too happy about that,” Haruka observed.

“Hardly, as my power has been stripped and…”

“What!” Three people demanded.

“He says that my powers will remain sealed until I accept my feelings and…”

“It was you…” Ranma suddenly asked.

“What?”

“You, I feel you… you were scared… and… and…”

“You were at the picnic,” Michiru stated evenly. “You were marred to him too, weren’t you?” She kept her voice even to hide the fear she felt in her own heart.

For an answer, Setsuna said nothing, though she was surprised to see Ranma take Michiru’s hand in his.

Haruka sat in thought for a moment before looking at her lover, and her husband before turning her eyes to Setsuna. “She’s right, I can feel it. You were there, and then you used the gates to remove yourself. Why?”

“Why?” Setsuna asked incredulously. “Why shouldn’t I? Ranma only has two arms in case you didn’t notice. Someone will always be left out, be left out of his embrace, left out of the…”

“No,” Ranma told her flatly.

“What?”

“I won’t turn my back on you. An I know they won’t either.”

“He’s right,” agreed his wives.

Ranma took Setsuna’s left hand in his left. “I can feel it… I know you felt you had ta do it. But I still feel ya…” as he spoke, he placed his right hand over his heart. In his mind, he could feel several words forming, and agreeing with them, he began to speak. “Setsuna Meiou. I, Ranma Saotome, husband to Michiru Kaioh and Haruka Ten’ou promise to always care and love you.”

“What…” the Senshi of Pluto asked with wide yes as his ring began to glow and a similar glow appeared around her ring finger.

“Our souls were once connected, let them be connected again. I won’t abandon you or forsake you.”

“Ranma…” Setsuna said with tears beginning to form in her eyes.

“Setsuna Meiou.” Michiru said and placed her left hand against Ranma’s. “I, Michiru Kaioh, do so promise to love, honor and cherish you the same as Ranma, my husband. Never shall we turn our backs on you, or leave you alone.”

Haruka then placed her hand on the others. “As Haruka Ten’ou, wife of Ranma Saotome, and co-wife of Michiru Kaioh. I agree with them and promise to never forsake or abandon you. You are a part of us weather you realize it or not. Already we can feel you; we knew you were hurting before you even came here.”

“Please,” Ranma added. “Don’t push us way, we will be there for you. You are a part of us, a part of our hearts, our lives, and our souls.” Though Ranma wondered how he thought of this or even what to say, he had to admit that he agreed with it.

“I… I…” Setsuna looked nervous as she saw their glowing hands, but then she smiled. “Ranma Saotome, Michiru Kaioh, and Haruka Ten’ou, I… I accept and promise to love, honor and cherish you just as you have promised me. As one shall our hearts and souls be joined.”

As soon as she stopped speaking, she felt her connection to Pluto open up again, but before she could contemplate that, she felt Ranma’s lips against hers.

“So you say that Setsuna-momma is on Neptune with everyone else?” Hotaru asked of her patron god.

“Indeed, and I think soon things will be much better around here.”

“Oh… why’s that?”

“I’ll let them explain it, however, I have something for you.” So saying he pulled out a small flash and removed the cork. “Originally you were one of Ranma’s wives.”

“ME!?”

“Yes, but you have to remember that he is not your father, nor are they your mothers. They are merely your guardians until you are older.”

“But…”

“That is why I have this for you. Aphrodite made this especially for you. This should counter the effects of the first potion, so that your soul is not bound to them. Since Setsuna is outside of the normal flow of time, which somehow Ranma has been playing with unawares, the original potion has had a stronger effect on her even though she was not there this time.”

“My head is starting to hurt…”she complained as she tried to keep all this straight.

“I’m sorry, but time travel is a pain. But since you were not there, nor do you remember the original occurrence, you should be safe, but we’d feel better if we can ensure things a little better.”

“Oh… so… I’m supposed to drink this?”

“Correct, but it is your choice,” he told her and handed the vial to her. “By drinking this, you will not have your soul bound to them, and you will be free to look for someone on your own time. However, if you refuse, then in the years to come the love you feel for them now, will change.”

“So that I… um… I…”

“Yes, so that you, like Setsuna, will wish to be married to him and if you do not accept your feeling, then it could cause more harm than good.” Hotaru looked at the potion and gulped at the implications. “Now, I must leave you Hotaru, be well and if you need me, I shall not be far.”

Nodding the girl turned her attention back to the vial and wondered what she should do.

When Happosai made his appearance in Furinkan, Ukyo bit a hasty retreat to the relative safety of her Café. However, once there, all she could do was sit in one of the chairs and think about what she had heard. “Ranma’s gone…” she said softly as the tears began to fall.

‘…He cannot return to this world’ was repeated in her mind again. “No…” she said softly as the words rang out in her head again. “NO NO NO! I won’t accept this! I won’t!” She suddenly screamed out as the tears continued to fall. “Ran-chan won’t give up on me… He won’t… he’ll come back. I know he will.” Yet no matter how hard she denied it, the emptiness remained.

For so long she had her dream of revenge keeping her going, and then it was the dream of being married to Ranma and leaving this town. But now, now there were no dreams, no hopes no visions. With a breaking heart, Ukyo looked over at the phone and decided to make a call she had never wanted to make. With a trembling hand, the girl reached out for her phone.

Would he even talk to me… will he even help me now? What do I tell him now? What of Ranma… I… I know he’ll come back… but when?

Taking a deep breath, Ukyo forcefully calmed herself before dialing the number. And then it began to ring. Once. Twice. Three times and then again before it was answered.

A male voice could then be heard over the phone, “Hello?”

“Daddy…”

“Ah Ukyo, son, what may I help you with?”

She winced with tears filling her eyes again; taking a calming breath she then began again, “Daddy… something’s happened…” While she told her father of everything that has happened since meeting Ranma again, Ukyo hoped that she wouldn’t upset her father too much as the years since this arrangement was made he’s not been in good health. She’d hoped that by bringing Ranma home that it would make him, happy. Now she wasn’t sure what to expect.

To Be Continued…