Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Two Halfs Equal One Whole? ❯ The Contract that would not be headed ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

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A/N: Hello. Sorry it took me a while to update my fic. I was realy busy with work and my Internet connection was not working at the time. I would like to Thank Rabid Badger for his review and I hope that many more will be coming my way. Also I have changed the rating of the story to Teen because of the language that the characters would be soon, but not now, saying. Well on to the story.

A young Kasumi awoke an hour before the sunrise. She quickly rolls out of bed to change into her work clothes. She dons a simple yellow dress with a cute little white apron over it. Kasumi pauses to comb her long brown hair, until it is tangle free. After placing the comb back onto her desk she looks into the mirror with a happy girlish smile. With said smile in place Kasumi exits her room and heads for the kitchen.

Just as Kasumi begins to make breakfest for the family a young Nabiki is sitting at her desk going over the bills for the household. She sorts them into two piles, one pile is the "needs to be payed right away," and the other one is, "can wait a while." Nabiki sighs and mumbles, "I am to young for this," as the "needs to be payed right away" pile keeps getting bigger and bigger, until she gives up and decides to get dressed for the day.

The scent of food slowly makes its way to Akane's room. The smell of Kasumi's cooking was enough incentive to get Akane out of bed. She slowly rises to her feet and, with great grogginess, makes her way over to her dresser. She slides the top dresser door open and pulls out the clothes that is going to wear for the day. After getting dressed she reaches her hand inside the pocket of her dress and retrieves a recent picture of her mother.

As she stares at the photo, tears begin to well up in her eyes and then fall onto the picture. After many more tears strike the photo she takes in a deep breath and wipes the tears from her eyes and her most prized possession. After all, her mother would want her to be a strong girl, and strong girls do not cry, often…

A knock at the door snaps her out of her self-reprimand and she quickly stashes the photo back into her pocket before yelling out, "Come in."

Soun stood on the other side of the doorway waiting for an answer to his knock. As soon as he heard her shout for him to come in he took a deep breath and opened the door.

"Good mourning Akane."

"Mourning Daddy." Akane replies while wondering why her father decided to make a visit.

"Akane, I have not been a good sensei to you, have I?" Soun askes in a very shaky voice, as if he was about to break down crying.

"Yes you have daddy." Says Akane, trying to comfort her emotional wreck of a father.

"No my little Akane. I have been to busy dwelling in self pity for so long that your training has been nearly forgotten."

"But I am learning so much from you. I learned how to break a wooden board with my bare hands," she raises up her arm and brings her hand down onto her other hand as if she was mimicking breaking a wooden board. "If I did that to a board it would have broke in half, daddy."

Soun's chest swells with pride for a second before changing to one of deep regret. "Akane, breaking boards is not all the Art is about. There is discipline and other things that I cannot teach you at the moment. No ever."

"But daddy, does this mean that you do not want to be my sensei anymore?" The six year old asks her father.

"No, I would love to be your teacher for the rest of eternity, but sadly I cannot teach until I have learned to control my emotions better."

"I understand daddy, I think."

"Good. I have found a new teacher for you. He is a training partner that I had when I trained under the master," Soun shudders at the mere thought of his training before continuing, "His name is Saotome Genma, and he is going on a ten year training journey with his son Ranma. He has agreed to take you with him and traning you in the Anything Goes Ryu."

"But daddy, I do not want to go away." Cries a young girl.

"It is for your good, and the good of the school, so pack your traning clothes and be ready by breakfast." Soun says with a stern voice before retreating out of the room and down stairs.

It was quiet during breakfast, since no one talked. Soun was using all his mental strength not to break down in tears. Akane was fuming as she kneels at the table. Nabiki was to busy thinking of different ways to make money with out actually working, since she was way under age. Kasumi just kneels right there just smiling her warm smile while wondering why everyone was so quiet.

Kasumi preyed for something to happen that would break the silence. She did not have to wait for long. A loud knock reverberated from the front gate and into the house. Kasumi excused herself from the table and made her way to the front door. I hope it is not a salesman at the gate, she thought to herself.

Right as Kasumi stood up to go great the guests, Soun is hit with a tsunami-sized fit of emotions, so he to excuses himself from the table and heads for his room. This just made Akane even madder that she stood up and marched toward the furo.

Nabiki was the only one left at the table, which she did not seem to notice. She just sat there deep in thought going over different ways to make enough money to pay the bills. Nabiki lays her head on the table not to gently with a loud thunk and sighs.

At the front gate Kasumi opens it to reveal a rather large balding man in a white GI and a large backpack strapped behind him. A small boy wearing his own white GI and a small backpack and a woman in a very traditional kimono carrying a silk package accompanies the large man. These people are not salesmen, Kasumi thinks to herself.

"Greetings, and welcome to the Tendo residents. I am Tendo Kasumi." Kasumi politely greets the trio with a bow.

"Well she sure is polite. Is this the girl who will be acompaning my son on his training journey?" The woman in the kimono asked the balding man.

"I don't know No-chan. Soun and I just talked for the first time last night and the girls were not awake." Genma tried to explain.

"Mommy." The small boy tugs at his mother's sleeve. "Mommy, I gots ta go to the potty."

"In a minute darling." The woman referred as No-chan replies to her son, then looks up at Kasumi bows, then says, "My name is Saotome Nodoka, this man is my husband, Saotome Genma, and this is my son, Saotome Ranma. We are here to see your Father."

Kasumi nods and turns around to lead the Saotome trio into her home. On the way to the house Nodoka admires the beautiful landscape, while Genma admires the smell of the food coming from the house and Ranma keeps pace behind his mother while shyly stare at the older girl in front of the group.

This was the first time he has seen an older girl this close up. Whenever his mother took him to the park he would only play around boys his own age. Though sometimes he would even play with a girl, but that was rare and only for a short period of time.

The Saotome trio, and their guide, finally enters the house. Kasumi shows her guests to a seat in the tearoom and then makes her way to her father's room. As the Saotomes sit in the tearoom they notice another Tendo sibling with her head flat onto the table.

Nodoka looks at her with a displeasing eye as she stares at Nabiki. "Is this the girl that is going to go on he training trip with my son Ranma?" Genma just shrugged in reply to his wife's question.

All the while Ranma's little urge to use the bathroom rose in intensity so he decided to go explore and find the bathroom. Ranma's absence is not noticed as his mother and father examine the short haired girl.

Ranma enters the kitchen for a brief moment before leaving, as that was not the bathroom. After a few minutes of searching Ranma finally makes it to the changing room. He ignores the sign that says that it was occupied since he could barely read and that word was not one of the words he could read as of yet.

Akane was finishing up with her bath just as Ranma entered. Akane looked up at Ranma and Ranma looked back at a naked Akane. Akane's rage surged from being angry to down right pissed. She raps the her towel around her and screams out, "You pervert!"

Ranma is shaken out of his confused stare as Akane charged at him with a fist heading for his head. Even though Ranma has yet to go on his training journey, he has been training with his father and is quite good for a beginner. Ranma ducked under Akane's punch and darted out of the furo with an angry Akane right on his heals, all the while yelling out, "Wha'd I do?"

As Ranma bolted into the tearoom Soun and Kasumi was already there talking with his mother and father. He quickly ran and hid behind his mother, which Genma looks on with disapproval. Genma knew that if Ranma was going to be training with him he would have to be untaught those weak traits.

Akane, still in a towel, marches up to her father and says, "That pervert walked in on me."

Nodoka's eyes lit up with joy and grabbed hold of her son saying, "Oh my son is so manly."

"Is it true boy?" Soun asks.

"Is wha' true?" Ranma asked back.

"Did you walk in on my daughter while she was bathing?"

"Nope." He says with confidently. "She was done by the time I walked in."

Everyone facefalted except Ranma and the, by now, an unconscious Nabiki.

Genma shakes his sore head and says, "Is this girl the one who is coming on the trip?"

Soun nods and says, "Yes. This is my youngest, Akane. Akane, this is the Saotomes, who are going to be taking you on the training journey." He points to Genma and continues, "This is Saotome Genma," then he points to Nodoka and said, "This is Nodoka, though she is not going to go on the trip with you." He then points at Ranma and finishes, "And you have already met your training partner, Ranma."

Akane bows in respect and the Saotomes bow in return. Akane then quietly dismisses herself in order to get some clothes on herself.

"Now Kasumi go show Ranma around the dojo while us adults have a chat." Soun orders his oldest daughter.

"Yes daddy." Kasumi then takes Ranma by the hand and heads for the dojo.

"But I still gotta go potty." Ranma says as he is dragged off.

When Ranma is out of earshot Nodoka turns to Soun and says, "Now on to business." She then pulls out a piece if paper and shows it to Soun. "My husband and son have already agreed to this arrangement."

Soun turns pale white as he reads the terms of the condition. "But Nokoka, why does Ranma have to commit seppuku?"

"It is just more incentive to make him a man-among-men. Now that your daughter is going on this trip I am here to make a contract between you and my husband."

Soun waves his hand and says, "I do not need a contract. I have full faith in Genma."

Genma releases a deep sigh of relief making Nodoka look at him with concern. He just shrugs and looks away.

"We need to make a contract in order for your daughter to go on this journey." Nodoka states.

"Fine. How about this, If Genma does not teach my daughter how to be a proper Japanese woman, Genma will be forced to commit seppuku."

Genma stiffened and looked at Soun with a concerned eye. Soun just looked at the floor, not wanting to meet his friend's eyes.

"Good. Now I need some time to write out the contract."

"Right. Genma, why don't we go to the dojo and see what your son is doing." Soun stands and heads for the dojo followed by a reluctant Genma.

Inside the dojo Ranma is showing off a simple kata to Kasumi. Ranma punched, blocked, and kicked in a pattern as he danced across the dojo. Kasumi watched with a polite smile saying nothing as Ranma moved faster and faster in his kata.

Just outside the dojo a very nervous Genma stands next to Soun as they watch Ranma go about his kata. With the end of Ranma's kata Soun turns and puts his hand on Genma's shoulder and says, "Genma, I just want you to know that I would never make you commit seppuku."

"But the contract." Genma nervously looks around as if Nodoka was just around the corner.

"I don't care about the contract. I just agreed to it so my Akane could go on the training journey. Also I have to up most confidence in you." Soun confidently states.

"Thanks my friend."

"No thank you." Soun's emotions finally break through his shaky mental barrier and he begins to cry profusely.

Genma puts his hand on Souns shoulder trying to confort him.

A/N: Well this chapter is longer then my prolog. I hope you have enjoyed my little story and come back soon. I'll try to update it whenever I get that writing feeling and I am not at my job.

A/N Update 5-15: I fixed some spelling errors so reading is a little easyer. I think...

Peace,
Seguh.