Okay, just a quick status report then on to the fanfic.

Oh my...Ranma?----Decided to revise the previous chapters since I wasn't
totally satisfied with them. If anyone has any idea on how I could
improve them, just email me. Also I scrapped chapter 8 and I'm going to
rewrite and am in the process of re-writing it.

Of Demongods and Men---- Tentative title. This is the X-over with Ranma
as an additional demongod. El Hazards history is largely changed yet
there's the old saying 'the more things change, the more they stay the
same.' Wrote up to the hot spring scene.

Hazard 1/2---- Tentative title. This is largely meant as a parody of El
Hazard, which should not really be taken seriously. Stars the regular
Ranma cast. Ranma, Ukyou and Genma as 3 travellers who end up in the El
Hazard world when one of Washu's inventionss goes wrong again...There
they meet Soun Tendo, king of El Hazard with three daughters.


And now on to the fic! Oh and I've been meaning to change the title to
Ranma 3/2. 1/2 demon, 1/2 boy, 1/2 girl but 100% martial artist. What do
you think??

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                             <Curtain opens>
                                Inu-Ranma
                                   II
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 "Mom, I'll be going out!" Kagome shouted as she quickly put on her
shoes and rushed out the door.

 "That's nice dear," she heard her mother reply just before she closed
the door. She could have chided herself for rushing out on a whim. Inu
Yasha was dead, she had seen him die with her own eyes. Yet there was
this nagging feeling that he was out there somewhere and she felt
compelled to find him.

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 "Damn it!! Get out of my head!!" Ranma yelled, clutching his head
fiercely in both his hands. Visions ran amuck in his head, of places he
had never seen, of people he had never seen. A sword, so battered and
rusted that it seemed more like garbage yet at the same time it was also
made out of what appeared to be a fang, so long and sharp that it seemed
like it could cleave through anything. Two women superimposed over each
other, both with long hair and looking like twins, except one wore a
modern school uniform and the other a traditional garb of a priestess
with her hair tied up into a pony-tail. Yet the most vivid was of a
jewel sphere which had a strange glow emnating from it. And still the
faint echoes, *It is you destiny...*

 "Get out! Get out!!" he yelled, raising enough of a ruckus that people
looked aglance at him. And, suddenly without warning it stopped as if
the voice had heeded his command.

 Trembling slightly, he looked into a puddle of water left by the recent
rainfall(which thankfully had been before he had gone for school). He
gave a sharp gasp as he saw his image, jerking back as if burned. What
was happening to him? Where his head yesterday had been a raven's hue,
it was now snow white, making look older than he really was. And his
teeth, he ran his tongue over them absent mindedly, they were getting
longer. In fact his canines had extended into fangs that could give
Ryouga's a run for their money. *Damn it!* he thought as he touched his
face tentatively with both hands, feeling it, *What's happening to me!*

 "Inu Yasha?" Kagome said, shocked. She hadn't expected to really find
but she had gone out because she knew that if she didn't, she would
never be able to sleep. But seeing him here, in the flesh brought back
so many memories, the painful memories of his death. She had to cry
herself to sleep for weeks after his death, only to be haunted in her
sleep by how Inu Yasha had taken the blow meant to kill her. "Inu Yasha,
is that you?" Kagome asked, her voice nearly breaking up as she reached
to touch him, to make she wasn't just hallucinating.

 Ranma turned around only to find a school girl of around his age
standing before him. He got a shock however when he recognised her as
one of the girls from his dream. He heard he say something that sounded
like 'inu yasha' and she seemed to day it as if she was saying his name.
He jerked back slightly as she reached out to touch him. "Look lady, you
must be mistaken. My name's Ranma Saotome not this 'Inu Yasha' guy you
seem to have me mistaken with," he said as politely as he could.

 Kagome couldn't understand it. The stranger looked so much like Inu
Yasha yet he said he wasn't. Also the stranger's eyes were a startling
blue instead of the burnished gold of Inu Yasha's. Had she been
mistaken? How could it be? She looked down dejected at the floor.

 Ranma couldn't help but feel a tug at his heart when he saw the girl
look down at the floor, all the spirit having gone out of her. It looked
like she had just lost her best friend in the world. Still there was
nothing he could do for her.

 Kagome panicked when she saw the stranger walk away. But why did it
matter, the guy's name was Ranma, not Inu Yasha....suddenly she
remembered vividly she met Inu Yasha. He had thought he was Kikyo at
first but she had said her name was Kagome, the same thing this Ranma
had done. And she had turned out to be Kikyo reincarnated, could this
Ranma be Inu Yasha reincarnated? That could explain why he looked so
similiar to Inu Yasha. But he was rapidly going out of view.

 Ranma had been walking perfectly fine one minute and then he heard the
girl shout "Sit!" and the next thing he knew, he was pressed against the
ground, feeling as if a small elephant was on his back.

 Kagome sighed as she rushed up to Ranma. At least that had worked in
stopping him. "Will you at least listen to me please?" she half pleaded,
half yelled angrily at Ranma, angry at him for just brushing her off
like dirt and pleading because, no matter what she didn't want him to go
without at least some questions being answered.

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 Akane fumed. Usually her anger had three levels, the first where she
hid it or ignored it, the second where she outwardly showed her anger
without doing anything else, and finally the third where she went into,
what was commonly called around Nerima as the 'Mallet-happy mood'. Right
now she was rapidly approaching the third level as she sat in the living
room, waiting for her errant, and  as far as she was concerned,
'unwanted' fiancee to come home.

 She had not seen Ranma since this morning, where he had somehow started
picking on Ryouga again, flaunting his new-found prowess in front of
Ryouga. And somehow he had to tease her even further, by breaking her
favourite mallet. *Oooh!! I bet he's off at Shampoo's or Ukyou's! How
dare he skip school to flirt with them!* Her battle aura started to
shimmer slightly at that thought.

 It was at this moment that a certain black pig chose to enter the room,
somewhat bedraggled with a flimsy thing tied around it's neck.

 "P-chan!" Akane cried, her anger forgotten as she welcomed her pig
back. She ran towards her oft-lost pig and bent down to pick him up. As
she did so, she noticed that he appeared rather beat up.

 *Ranma!! I thought I told you to stop picking on P-chan!* Akane thought
to herself, it had to be him. Who else could bear to hit such a cute pig
except an insensitive jerk like him? It was then she noticed the
pantyhose tied around P-chan's neck.

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 "Watch out!" Ranma yelled, grabbing Kagome as he leapt to the side. He
had been lying down, arguing about he had slipped rather than some sort
of 'mystical' enchantment had forced him dowm when he had felt his
danger sense react, except it seemed sharper this time. Usually his
danger sense was like a blunt knife, if he was concentrating too hard on
something else he could just totally miss the early warning his danger
sense gave him. But now, it seemed like a finely-honed knife, piercing
through any other thoughts he had.

 He landed just as water, which he suspected was probably cold, splashed
down on where he had been just seconds ago. He stared grimly at the
figure on top of the fence, wrapped as he/she was.

 "What do you want?" he yelled, irritated at almost having changed into
his cursed form. He waited for the figure to reply as he stood there, at
the ready to either evade or attack. Usually new people showing up in
town did not bode well for him, since they either a) out to kill him, b)
marry him or c)do both.

 When the figure finally spoke, it was not an apology or a statement of
challenge like Ranma had thought it would be. "You seem different than
the rest," the figure said in a cold voice that could freeze hell over,
managing to sound like Nabiki yet the voice possessed a ruthless edge
the middle Tendo daughter either lacked or managed to hide. Without
warning, the figure leapt backwards...straight into the canal.

 *What a chump--!!!" Ranma's eyes bulged out of his head as a
minotaur-like creature with wings and a snake's head for a tail burst
out from the canal, roaring as it charged towards him, it's fist
plummeting down at him.

 Ranma's first instinct was to leap away to avoid the attack but he
noticed Kagome beside him, staring speechless at the monster that had
seemingly risen from the deep. If he jumped away, Kagome would be
squashed and she seemed like an innocent party in all this, unless the
monster was really after her. Maybe it needed some kind of virgin
sacrifice. But then he couldn't let a girl suffer, innocent or not and
by now it was already to late to grab Kagome and leap away. So he
gritted his teeth as he placed his arms above him, crossed in an 'X' to
try and stop the monster's fist from descending.

 He closed his eyes as he waited for the blow to come. After a few
seconds, he opened them when he felt nothing. He nearly gasped in
surprise when his eyes saw that the fist was indeed being stopped by his
twin arms and he wasn't exerting too much effort at all. Grinning
suddenly with new confidence, he grabbed the monster's fist with both of
his arm,swinging it back and then forth, like a baseball bat before
throwing it into the canal.

 His grin widened as the monster, with look of almost human surprise on
it, crashed into the canal, sending water splashing everywhere.
Unfortunately, enough water splashed him to activate his curse. Almost
immediately, he felt himself shrink. Usually that was the extent to it
but now, his senses seem to dull as he changed. With a growing
suspiscion, Ranma-chan grabbed one lock of his hair only to confirm that
it had indeed turned back to it's normacl cursed-form colour. A scarlet
red...

 Authors Note: I remember clearly someone commenting on how the jusenkyo
curse would affect Ranma now and here's the answer. If you don't really
understand what's going with the curse, just wait till the next chapter.
This series may seem small in size comapared to others, but that's the
way I like it since I get to do chapters faster this way and I don't
have to sit at the com as long to finish one chapter.

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