On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Barry Cadwgan wrote:

Especially those of us who aren't quite as familiar with the series as
they could be ^_^  (eg Sailor Moon)

Ok, I guess I do do things like that.

How's this?

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	"Forget it pop!  You're not going to take me down today."  said
the young man confidently as he countered an inside snake strike to his
abdomen.  "You've been using that variation too often for me to fall for
it." 
	A handsome man in a dark, almost black gi answered him with a
smile, "Son, you've got to start thinking of various possibilities instead
of only a small number of circumstances.  As the sole heir to the
Musabetsu Kakutou Ryu, you have to be ready for anything." 
	Tendo Soun then reached in again with the snake strike, but with a
small nerve variation that allowed him to grab his son's gi between his
thumb and forfinger, allowing him to pull his son slightly off balance for
a quick inside strike to the underarm for the take down.  "Kaneda, you may
be the best martial artist of your generation, but you are still too damn
overconfident.  Remember that each variation can have a thousand different
endings." 
	Groaning from where he was on the tatami, Tendo Kaneda, sole heir
to probably the greatest school of the martial arts replied, "OK pop. 
Point well taken." 
	Soun smiled as he thought of all that he had put his son through. 
While it was difficult initially, Kaneda had surpassed all expectations
and had become a great martial artist.  The only problem he had was the
tremendous ego.  Hopefully, there would be someone who would undermine his
son's overconfidence before it became a deadly weakness. 
	"Father, you have a phone call" came a female voice from the dojo
entrance. 
	Soun looked up, "Thank you Kasumi-chan.  I'll be right there." 
	Looking at his son, he said, "Practice the seventeenth Kata for
the next hour." 
	Kaneda groaned as he thought of the seventy five moves in that
Kata. 

	Soun picked up the reciever.  "Moshi, moshi.  Tendo Soun." 
	The voice answered, "Moshi, Moshi Tendo-san.  This is Saotome
Nodoka, and it is time." 
	Soun's eyebrows raised, "You mean you are bringing her by today?" 
	Nodoka answered, "Yes, it is time for old promises to be
fulfilled." 
	Soun smiled, but he answered in a neutral voice, "Nodoka-chan, the
agreement was between Genma and myself in order to continue the school. 
Are you sure you want to subject your daughter to this, especially since
you have told me she doesn't really know much about the martial arts?" 
	Nodoka's voice replied, "Yes.  It was my husbands wish that our
families be united in fact as well as in feeling." 
	Soun noded to himself, "I understand, and his wishes shall be
honoured.  May I suggest something more however.  No matter what happens,
will your daughter and yourself move into our home.  I have always felt
bad that you would not accept our proposition before, and I know it must
be hard on you and Ranko.  Since we are now uniting the families, I must
insist you accept this." 
	The woman on the other side of the phone said, "I will accept
Tendo-san.  We will close the house here and after my daughter and myself
move in, we will arrange to rent it out to provide income." 
	The man looked sad, "As you wish Nodoka-chan, but that is
unnecessary.  We are family." 
	Nodoka's voice became firm, "I insist on this.  The children will
need some form of income until they can marry and take over the school. 
We will arrive this afternoon." 
	Soun hung up the phone after the good byes and went to the dining
room table to remember his old friend and training partner.  A brother
that had died almost ten years before.  "I wish that your wife would have
accepted our offer old friend.  It would have made life easier on her as
well as providing a burden of relief for me.  I have worried about both
her and your daughter since you passed on to the next life." 

Ranko's Life: 

Chapter One: 

Who is this girl...??? 

A fan fiction based on Takahashi Rumiko's Manga series, Ranma 1/2

Saotome Ranma, Saotome Genma, Saotome Nodoka, Saotome Ranko, Tendo Soun,
Tendo Kasumi, Tendo Nabiki, Kuonji Ukyou, Kuno Tatewaki, and Tofu Ono
Sensei are copyright 1987, 1997 by Takahashi Rumiko. 

Tendo Kaneda are copyright 1997 by unknown

Publishing rights:

Japan:		Shogakukan Inc. Tokyo
Hong Kong:	Jademan (Holdings) Ltd.
North America:	Viz Inc.

By Ichinohei Hitomi

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Hitomi

Ichinohei Hitomi
Hitomi@terminal.autobahn.mb.ca
http://204.112.189.3/~hitomi
"The beginings of wisdom is the ability to always ask questions."