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	Ryoga: lessons best unlearned. 

	This story starts about two years after vol.38 of the manga. 

	prologue:
	Ranma Saotome walked into the pleasant home. "Oh Ranma is that
you?" rang a familiar pleasant voice. 
	"Yea, I knocked but there was no answer. I hope you don't mind."
he said to the young lady who was standing on a ladder reaching for
something on a high shelf. 
	"Oh not at all, Ryoga will be so pleased to see you." squealed
Akari from her ladder. 
	"Well it has been a while, he hasn't been through Nerima in the
past few months, and I was in the area." said Ranma. 
	"Well he went out to feed the pigs for me three days ago...he
should be back any time now!" she said turning on her side and starting
down the ladder, �You can be here when I tell..." Then she took a bad
step. 
	Ranma reached to catch her, but it was to late she landed on his
head and the two collapsed in a heap. After a few moments she pushed
herself up with her arms and groaned in pain. Something hit the floor
behind her. She turned to see Ryoga staring at the two wide eyed the gift
he had brought her rolled by her leg and settled to the floor. 
	"Good bye." he said and turned wordlessly out the door. 
	Akari looked at him and checked herself...She was sitting on top
of the equally shocked Ranma's crotch her dress draped over them. "No."
she said in silent horror. Ranma lept up and after Ryoga. 

	A few hours later Ranma returned and tried to comfort the
hysterical girl. "Calm down Akari. look you can stay with a friend of
mine in Nerima. When he comes back well talk to him." he said softly. 
	She looked at him like a frightened deer. "What if he doesn't
come back?!!" she sobbed. 
	"You think he'd let me get away with that? He'll come to Nerima
looking for blood in a few weeks and we can talk to him then." said Ranma
trying to sound light. 
	Akari knew better, he might have enjoyed fighting with Ryoga from
time to time, both of them did even though neither would ever admit it,
but Ranma knew Ryoga was very dangerous when he was like this. If he lost
it could mean his life. 

	Ranma walked into Ucchans with Akari beside him. Ukyo looked at
him oddly. Konatsu was the first to notice the condition of the young
girl. "What happened?" he said.
	"Ukyo I need a favor." said Ranma with a serious look.
	After the story was told Ukyo looked at the crying girl and put
her arm around her. "I'd let her stay with me and Akane but..." said
Ranma looking guiltily at Ukyo. 
	"You don't want Ryoga to show up and find her there." finished
Konatsu. Ranma nodded. "Of course we'll take her in for a while. But why
did you bring her? Her farm..." asked Ukyo. 
	"He'll need her here to convince Ryoga, he isn�t very likely to
listen to him in the state he'll be in when he does show up." said
Konatsu. Ranma once again nodded silently. 
	Akari settled a bit, she seemed to take a small comfort in the
way everyone was talking about how upset he'd be about her. 

	Three weeks later some where in the great plains of North
America... 
	
	Ryoga looked at his surroundings with a passing eye. He had
boarded a plane using most of his money in Japan after he wandered into
an airport. He didn't care where he was he knew he would end up in Japan
again in a few months at most. Then Ranma would pay for his crimes. The
anger seethed in him as he went to his hands and knees gripping his chest
from the pain. "It wasn't enough to take Akane away, but Akari...my
wife...my family..." he growled into the dirt. "PERFECT SHI SHI HOKOU
DAN!" he cried releasing his rage into the sky. It came down and
disintegrated anything around him for almost a quarter of a mile. He
struggled to his feet and walked on temporarily relived of his burden and
feeling completely drained. He walked through the ashes of the hole he
had placed in to the ground and stopped.
	An unbelievable dread filled his heart. He stared silently at
what lay before him just beyond what used to be a hill, Akari, Ranma,
they didn't matter any more nothing did. He walked on in silent horror.
After a moment he stooped down and picked up a small delicate piece of
plastic, a dolls head it was charred and almost unrecognizable. His eyes
burned with tears and he fell to his knees in the center of what was left
of the trailer park he had disintegrated. Near him a small skeleton
grinned at him from its melted 'Big wheels' plastic tricycle. Another
larger sat on a melted chair and seemed to feed a tiny incomplete baby
skeleton with its invisible breast. Every where around the great
blackened circle that engulfed the trailer park were Skulls pieces of
skeletons and a few whole ones. The Remains of the more than one hundred
residents of the trailer park and their homes, all the families that once
lived in it, not a single survivor. Ryoga screamed as the lights and
sounds of emergency vehicles screamed in his ears growing ever louder. 

	18 years later... 

	36 year old Ryoga Hibiki walked into Tokyo international airport
once again he sighed and looked around. A part of him wanted to stay and
wander around Japan again as he had in his youth, but he knew he would
not. He would see them again. The people who he fought and lived with
during the best years of his life, his friends his family, the people he
no longer deserved to know. Often he wondered about them, how there lives
were going, things like that. But in the past 18 years the only thing he
saw of Japan was the view from the airport windows. He prepared to board
a plane not knowing where he was going in the world and not caring. He
approached a ticket booth and was greeted by a perky pretty young girl of
about 17 years old. "Ohaiyou." he greeted noting the time. 
	
	Miyuki sat at her computer and smiled as her last customer walked
away. "Ug I hate acting this way." she grumbled as she flashed her fake
smile. 
	"Hey it pays the bills." said her friend from beside her at the
nieboring computer. 
	"Is that all you think about Kari-chan?" she grumbled. 
	"Well, that and your brother. I all ready know what I'm getting
you for your birthday next week, but what can I give him?" Kari sighed. 
	"Ug don't make me sick." grumbled Miyuki. 
	"I won't have you ridiculing my engagement!" growled Kari. She
noticed the man approaching the counter. 
	"OOh Kawaii." squealed Kari. 
	"He's more than twice our age Kari." said Miyuki sounding
disgusted. 
	"You always get the cute ones." grumbled Kari as he approached
Miyuki. 
	"I thought you were engaged." said Miyuki from between her fake
smile. The man seemed slightly unnerved by her smile and greeted her
politely. He handed her his passport and smiled weakly. "Wow you've
really been around." commented Miyuki as she Idly noted the list of
countries on the computer. 
	"I travel constantly." said the man idly. Kari looked at the mans
passport over Miyuki's shoulder. She stopped looked at the passport, then
the man and then the passport again. She began to make strange noises as
if she was trying to say something but was to shocked to get it out. 
	"You are so weird Kari-chan." Miyuki grumbled under her breath.
"Well here you go Mr. Hibiki enjoy your fl..." Miyuki stopped mid
sentence. She went completely pale. She looked at the passport and then
the man. "O...OOOUYA...OOYAJJ.." she stuttered. 
	Ryoga looked at the strange girl and became very uncomfortable,
she was looking at him oddly and had gone pale. "She's far to young for
me to know her." he thought looking at her as she stammered helplessly.
The girl lept over the counter and grabbed him by the waist. 
	"DADDY!" she cried. 
	"What?!!" yelled Ryoga looking dumbfounded. 

	Ryoga sat with the girl in a small cafe just outside the airport.
"I've always wanted to meet you." said the girl looking at him with tears
in her eyes. 
	"But I can't be your father." said Ryoga looking at the girl who
grinned back flashing her fangs at him. "It isn't possible." he said
coolly. 
	"I can prove it." she said defensively. 
	"I left Akari years ago." he said looking at the girl oddly. 
	"You left the day Mom was going to tell you about me and Ryu."
she said sadly. 
	"I had a reason for leaving Akari." said Ryoga defensively. 
	"Mom talks about you all the time, still after all this time."
said Miyuki looking sadly at him. 
	"I'm not your father Kid. It's more likely your Saotome's kid."
said Ryoga bitterly as he got up to leave. 
	"I'm not uncle Ranma's kid." said Miyuki looking at him sadly. 
	"Think what you like I'm getting the hell out of here as fast as
I can." said Ryoga coldly as he walked away. 
	"Jusenkyo curses are hereditary." said the girl calmly as she
looked down sadly at her plate. 
	Ryoga stopped cold. "Pig?" he asked not turning. Miyuki nodded.
Ryoga looked at the girl with a sort of disgusted horror, not at her but
at his own actions. "I never knew, I'm sorry...I" he started. "You have a
brother?" he asked trying to calm himself. 
	"Yes. He's my twin." she said with a small sad smile. 
	"I guess I should meet him." he said looking at her in wonder. "I
have kids?" he thought. 
	"I don't think he will be very friendly, he never forgave you for
leaving. I doubt if he's home any way." she said quietly. 
	"The other hereditary curse." said Ryoga bitterly with a small
laugh. 
	"Yea." she said mimicking him with out even realizing it. 
	"Your mother?...How is she?" asked Ryoga. 
	"She remarried a few years ago, a veterinarian in Hokkaido." said
Miyuki noticing the saddened reaction. 
	"I'm glad she got on with her life." said Ryoga. 
	"There is so much I want to ask you." said Miyuki. 
	"Shoot." said Ryoga. 
	"What?" asked Miyuki in confusion. 
	Ryoga laughed "It means go ahead and ask, American slang." he
said. 
	"Oh, why did you leave?" asked Miyuki. 
	"I suppose I do owe you and your mother an explanation." said
Ryoga coolly. 
	"Thats not all you owe her." said another voice from behind them.
Ryoga winced and turned to face who he already knew was there. 
	"Hello Ranma." he said bitterly. 
	"Hello Ryoga." answered Ranma who was with the young girl who was
next to Miyuki in the Airport. 
	"What do you want?" Ryoga asked angrily. 
	"An explanation." answered Ranma. 
	"To you? the man who took every thing from me?!! My first love!
MY WIFE?!!" growled Ryoga as he sat down again. Ranma looked at Ryoga
sadly. 
	"You never came back. You never learned the truth." said Ranma. 
	"The truth doesn't matter to me anymore, nothing does." said
Ryoga sadly. 
	"Ryoga you-" started Ranma. 
	"You honestly think I would have just walk away from that?
believe me I had every intention of coming back for you and beating the
life from you." said Ryoga with tears in his eyes. 
	"Ryoga?" said Ranma looking confused. 
	"Something opened my eyes to what I was, to what we were. How
many lives did we destroy in our mindless battles? I stopped caring about
you and Akari the day I lost my soul, the day I became a killer." Ryoga
looked sad and hardened. 
	"Ryoga?" said Ranma looking at him in horror. 
	"Dad?" said Miyuki. 
	"Oh man." said Kari. Ryoga looked at the people around him, then
directly at his daughter. 
	"I don't deserve to be your father." he said sadly. "After I
walked in on Ranma and Akari I went to America. I wandered for who knows
how long letting my rage and falling deeper into depression. I thought I
was in a deserted wilderness, It was the biggest perfect Shi Shi Houkou
Dan I had ever made...It destroyed a large hill, and the Trailer park
behind it every thing for almost a quarter of a mile around me." Ryoga's
eyes seemed to glaze over as he told this story. The others looked on in
silent horror. "It killed 114 people mostly women and children, everyone
in the park not a single survivor. They said it was struck by lightening.
I told them I did it. They didn't believe me, I was committed for three
years after that. I was never punished, I got away with murder." Ryoga
looked at the others. 
	Ranma backed away from the look in his eyes and covered Kari's
eyes instinctively. Miyuki was in tears. Ryoga continued oblivious to
those around him "I realized what I was, how many suffered because of our
mindless battles? How many injured or killed because of our carelessness?
Stray weapons, debris, careless energy blast? So many I couldn't count.
All because I was to stupid to look at what I was doing. Because I was
blinded by Rage to the suffering I was causing. I swore never again to
take up the arts, I have honored that to this very day." Ryoga looked at
his hands and sobbed. 
	"It wasn't because of us then." said Miyuki with a sad look in
her eyes. 
	"What?" said Ranma. 
	"Ryu believes that he left us because he found out about us."
said Miyuki. 
	"I never would have left in the first place had I known." said
Ryoga sadly. "I am truly sorry I left your mother alone to raise you." he
said trying to smile. 
	"She was never alone Ryoga." said Ranma. 
	"Thanks but I'd better go now, my flight leaves soon." said Ryoga
getting up. 
	"Ryoga." said Ranma looking at him sadly. 
	"Don't go!" said Miyuki. Ryoga turned to her. 
	"I'm glad you grew up well but I don't belong here any more.
Every one has gone on with their lives." said Ryoga looking at her sadly.

	"But I just found you I don't want to lose you again Daddy!" she
said through her tears. 
	Ryoga looked at her sadly. "I...I..I promise to try to see you
whenever I am in Japan." he said finally. "I want to meet your brother."
he said still unsure. 
	She broke away and nodded with a weak smile. "We have to get back
to work Miyuki-chan." said Kari softly and lead her away. 
	"You should talk to Akari." said Ranma. 
	"I'd like that but not by just showing up." said Ryoga as the two
headed towards the airport. 
	"I'll set it up for you if you want, and Ryoga...we never did. It
was just a bad fall." said Ranma calmly. 
	"For the first time in my life I believe you Saotome." said Ryoga
wistfully. 
	"So that Kari she's yours?" said Ryoga with a smile. 
	"Yea, looks just like her mother did at that age doesn't she?"
said Ranma with a smile. Ryoga nodded. They arrived at his flight and
Ryoga took Ranma's hand. "You really gave up the arts?" Ranma asked
tentatively. 
	Ryoga nodded solemnly. "I'll see you around." said Ryoga. 
	"Your not coming back are you?" said Ranma. 
	"I haven't decided yet." said Ryoga 
	"If you do come back get in touch with me and we'll have lunch at
Ucchan's or something." said Ranma. 
	"She's still doing that?" asked Ryoga. 
	"You kiddin? Its a franchise now she owns one of the largest
restaurant chains in Japan. Konatsu runs that one now in a sort of silent
partnership." said Ranma. 
	Ryoga snorted in reply and smiled at Ranma. "I meant what I said,
if fate brings me back to Japan." with that Ryoga walked through the door
and into the plane. 
	Ranma noted with some amusement That it was the plane on the
opposite side of the airport from where Ranma had brought him, which was
about three feet away from the entrance to the plane he was supposed to
be on. "Some things never change." he noted. "I guess I better pick
Kari-chan up from work. Her mother will kill me if we're late again."
said Ranma to himself watching the plane leave. 

	Ryoga boarded the plane and looked back at the door way and
sighed. He sat down next to a very attractive woman in her late thirties.
The woman made an annoyed face as she was forced to move her laptop so he
could squeeze in to the seat next to her. "Hello." he said sitting in his
chair. 
	The woman ignored him. He idly watched The baggage being loaded
below him from the window. The woman looked at him for a moment and then
turned away shaking her head. 
	"Hello again Mr.Hibiki may we have your ticket to make the
necessary changes?" said a pleasant stewardess. Ryoga handed her his
ticket and smiled. He had made a small fortune in investments over the
course of his travels, and because of his frequency of flying they
tolerated and respected him and his direction sense. His children might
not ever see him again but they would be well provided for from now on.
The woman next to him was staring at him oddly. 
	"It figures all it takes is one little meeting with someone from
Nerima..." he said sounding slightly amused. He extended his hand "Hello
Ukyo its been a while." he said pleasantly as the plane rose into the
air. --------------------------------------- Finis. 



Yet another all cleaned up fic from my old archive. Came out pretty well.

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