Hey peoples...
Wow I actually finished a fic...that's good for me, well as of late anyway.
Before I start the stuff about the fic I thought I might do a little stuff
about
what I'm up to...for the fics anyway...you really don't want to hear about
my
life it's dull and boring ^_^

Anyhoo, Letters to and from Nabiki is in progress I hope to work on the next
part soon. Um, all of my other stuff I haven't put on the FFML so you don't
really
need to know about that unless you want to, and then I'll just say I'm
working on it.
Also I have come up with a couple of ideas for a Tenchi fic and a couple of
FY fics.
That's about it, so let's get on to the fic.

It's the King an dI spoof that I posted a teaser for a while ago. Well I got
enought response to actually work on and finish it...well the first part
anyway. I'm planning on
continuing Ranma's side of the story and starting one from Akanes POV.
That's about it, enjoy the read...C&C are welcome and appreciated.

Crikit ^_^ \/,  crikit@geocities.com
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"But he that does not grasp the thorne,
 should never crave the rose."

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No
 barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet,
 gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me
 without embarrassment or awkwardness."
 Helen Keller
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Insert disclaimer here...

Akane and I
A Ranma � fanfic by Tracy Garnett AKA Crikit

There's a song that goes "Let's start at the very beginning, a very good
place to start�" They're right you know! Who ever wrote that song was right
by saying the beginning is a good place to start from, so that's where I'll
start my story. From the beginning. You see ordinarily I like to start in
the middle and just go from there, but if I were to do that everyone, and I
mean everyone would be confused.

Now let me think�when did this really start? I guess it started when I was a
little kid. You see my pop decided to take me on a training mission. He
wanted me to be a man among men. In fact that's what he told my mom when he
talked her in to lettering me go with him. He said "I'll make Ranma into a
man among men, and if I don't we'll both commit seppuku."

Needless to say my pop was unable to keep that promise. He didn't make me in
to a man among men. Nope he did the exact opposite. I'm guessing your
wondering what I mean right? Well due to an unfortunate accident and my
pop's natural stupidity I feel in to a cursed spring. So now when ever I'm
hit with cold water I turn into a girl�it's not like I'm stuck like that
though, a touch of hot water and then I'm back to my normal self�my normal
self of course being a guy. I don't like to think about that much anymore.
Sure the curse is still a part of me, but with the help of my mom I've come
to accept it.

My pop on the other hand wasn't so lucky. He fell into the cursed spring of
drowned panda, so every time he got hit with cold water he turned into a
panda. That was a problem when we were traveling, but it wasn't the biggest
problem that he had to face. That was when me and pop returned home to mom.
After avoiding her for months, no make the years pop decided that it was
time to go home, time for us to show her what the old man had made out of
her precious son.  I didn't know when we went home about the seppuku deal,
pop didn't tell me. It wasn't until mom brought it up that I found out, by
then it was to late. Oh it wasn't to late for me, mom found out what
happened in China and about how I got cursed and she put all the blame on
pop. She said that it wasn't fair to punish me for something that wasn't my
fault. So, mom sent me out of the room, and helped my father commit seppuku,
promising him that she would help me to become an even better martial artist
then I was.

That was two months ago. Two months before we moved to the palace. Two
months before I meet that, infuriating uncute princess and her freaky
family. You see after pop�Well you know, after pop did what he did. Mom
decided that she needed a job to support us. She didn't want to cart me all
over the world for the training. She said I could learn the same things by
staying at home and training there. So what does she do after she says that?
Well she takes a job for a king of an island called Kinjo�it's some where in
between China and Japan. Anyway as I was saying mom took a job on this
island, she wouldn't say it at the time but I know she took the job for me.
She thinks I have poor social manners, but that's not my fault is it?

The job was to teach the two of the kings three daughters. Mom said she
would take the post only if she could bring her child along. She hardly ever
refers to me as her son now, I think she's a little confused.  Of course the
king agreed, I think my mom was the only one who would accept the post, I
could be wrong there, but that's doubtful. So, mom took the job, sold the
house and we moved to Kinjo.

Only there was one problem with the move, we had to cross a large body of
water. You can only guess what happened to me. If you're thinking that I got
splashed and turned in to a girl then you're one hundred percent correct.
That wasn't the biggest problem though, that would happen when we hit the
port. You see I changed back every time I got splashed, only just as we were
entering the port one of the sailors thought it would be fun to splash me
and get in a goodbye grope. Let's just say that after he splashed me he
wished that he didn't�Anyway as I was saying, we were just coming in to port
when I got splashed. I didn't have time to change back before we docked so I
stayed as a girl and hoped that I would be able to find some hot water
before we went to the palace. My plan would have worked out if it wasn't for
Joshu; he's the king's right hand man. It turned out that the king decided
to send good ol Joshu to the dock to meet mom and me.

What were we going to do? Mom and I both knew that if we were to show Joshu
my curse he would tell the king and faster then you could say, "Tenchi's
your uncle" there would go the job. I didn't want mom to lose her job
because of me, and mom didn't wanna risk my safety by revealing the truth to
a complete stranger. So, mom did the only thing that she could think of, she
introduced me as her daughter, Suiren. I was a little shocked at first but I
realized why she did that, it was to keep me safe, and it's not like she was
using my real name. Instead she choose a new name, a rather ironic name at
that. Waterlilly� yeah mom you have some sense of humor. Pick a flower that
blooms only in the water. So that settled it, I was stuck as a girl at least
until we thought up a better plan.

As we arrived at the castle I saw my mom go all misty eyed, and she started
acting really strange saying stuff about a brick house that we would live
in. She was also saying some stuff about a guy named Tom or something like
that, to tell you the truth I stopped paying attention when she started to
sing about getting to know me.  It was odd very odd.

We were taken into a room and told to wait until Joshu came to fetch us.
That's exactly what he said to. It took all of my training and a threatening
glance from mom to stop myself from pounding that jerk in to the ground. I
mean what right did he have treating us like were common dogs or something
like that? He didn't, we aren't dogs, we're people like him. True at the
time I was trapped as a girl and mom was acting like she was trapped in an
old musical or something, but wouldn't that add to our charm?

While we were waiting for Joshu to come back for us, I tried to talk to my
mom about what were going to do. Unfortunately she wasn't willing to talk
back, she was to busy trying to teach an imaginary partner how to polka. You
never would have guessed that this was the same woman who forced her husband
to commit seppuku, would you? I mean, there she was just hopping around
screaming at the top of her lungs something about dancing.  It was at that
moment in time that Joshu returned to escort us to the king, he didn't even
blink at seeing my mom act like a crazy person...ooo, just had a scary
thought, things like mental problems and stuff like that, can be passed down
from generation to generation right? What if I start to act like mom? I
won't think about it that's it, maybe it's the stress of our situation
getting to her, yeah that's it. It has to be stress after all in the past
two months she's found out that her son can be her daughter, she's lost her
husband, and moved to a strange country. That's enough to make the sanest of
people go a little of their rocker. Isn't it?

Anyway as I was saying. Joshu didn't even blink when he saw mom dancing by
herself, in fact it almost seemed as if he were used to stuff like that.
That got me wondering about how weird the king and his daughters might be.
Sure mom and I had heard that the family wasn't like most other royal
families, for one thing they weren't a bunch of in-breeders, but other then
that we didn't know a lot about them. For all we knew they could have been
cannibals or homicidal maniacs, or even worse door to door sales men�Oh, the
horror�Um, yeah sorry about that.

The first thing I noticed when we entered the throne room was that fact that
it didn't look like a throne room at all. It looked more like the common
room of our old house back home. After the room I noticed the family, at
first I thought that they were the servants but when Joshu bowed to them and
looked at us to do the same thing I soon clued in on to who they were.

I bowed slightly, and then returned to stand beside my mother, all the while
observing the four people in front of me. Suddenly Joshu started to speak.

"Your majesty, this is the new teacher, and her daughter. If you do not
require anything more of me I will go and supervise tonight's feast."

"Um, yes Joshu, what ever. Now why don't you two take a seat and we'll get
to know each other a little better." The king said as he offered my mom and
me a seat.

So there we were sitting in front of the king and his three daughters. The
royal family of Kinjo, didn't look anything like I expected they would. The
king for instance was what you could call lanky. He was a tall, skinny, wimp
of a man�please don't tell him I said that. He was wearing a brown gi, which
was something that threw me off�aren't kings supposed to wear robes of silk,
and crowns of gold? I always thought so, but nooo we had to get the king who
decided to defy the status quo.

"Your majesty, my daughter and I are honored to be here."

"Oh please don't call me that. You my dear can call me Soun, while your
lovely daughter can call me Mr. Tendo."
I could tell that my mother was taken aback but the way the king talked to
her. After all she was just getting over the loss of her husband and she now
had a king hitting on her...at least I think he was hitting on her. That's
why I was surprised with what she said "Oh, well then please call me Nodoka
and my daughters name is Ra�Suiren. Isn't that right Suiren?"

"Suiren? Oh, yeah that's me all right�good ol Suiren. Not Ranma, Suiren�just
like the flower." I didn't realize until I finished talking, how stupid what
I said was.

 "Oh my, what an unusual girl."

"Unusual is not the word I would use sis, I think she's more weird then
unusual. What do you think Akane?"

"I'm not sure Nabiki, the red hair is a little odd, but at least she's not a
guy."

Were they talking about me? I know that I might not have very good social
skills, but I at least know that it's rude to talk about someone in front of
them.  Obviously, the princesses didn't know that.

"Personally I would have preferred her being a guy. Just because you think
that all men are pigs, and should be treated like that Akane doesn't mean
that the rest of us do. After all I'm getting sick of teasing the guards�we
need some fresh meat around here."

"Oh Nabiki, you're to young to be saying things like that."

"Girls, will you please be quiet so I can introduce you to your new
teacher?"

As their father spoke the girls seemed to lose interest in me, at least for
the moment.

"Much better, now girls this is Mrs. Nodako Saotome and her Daughter Suiren.
Mrs. Saotome will be your new teacher, and Suiren will be learning with you.
Nodako Suiren these are my daughters�"

"�Kasumi�"

The Mr. Tendo pointed to the tallest of the three girls who gave a polite
bow, and a cheerful smile. Looking at her I couldn't help but think that she
was the motherly type. With her long brown hair tied back in a ponytail, her
smile warm and inviting and her brown eyes revealing the gentleness that I
thought she contained in her heart.

"�Nabiki�"

Mr. Tendo said as he indicated the girl next to Kasumi. Just by looking at
her I knew that she was capable of causing trouble, I wouldn't find out
until later how much trouble. With shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes
to match, she was pretty, I have to admit that. But there was just something
about her, something that made me think twice about trusting her.

"�And my youngest daughter Akane�"

Looking at the girl I had to remind myself to breathe. She was beautiful, in
an untamed sort of way. Unlike her sisters she wasn't carefully made up, but
yet something about her intrigued me. I couldn't explain what, maybe it was
her short black hair cut in to a cute little bob, or her eyes which were
brown as those of a little puppy. Or maybe, just maybe it was the look of
defiance on her face. Whatever it was I knew that there was a slight
possibility of me falling in love with this girl.

"Now, that you have been introduced to my daughters I have a favor to ask of
you and your daughter." As the Mr. Tendo talked he leaned closer to my
mother and I.

Following Mr. Tendo's cue my mother leaned forward, dragging me with her.
"What is it your majesty? Oh, I mean Soun!"

"Well Akane has a little problem with manners and grace�basically she has
none and she isn't. I was hoping that your daughter, being the flower that
she is could help her. You know teach her proper manners, and make her more
graceful."

Upon hearing the kings request mom looked at me, looked at the king, then
looked at me again before speaking. "Why Soun, I think that's an excellent
idea. I know Suiren will be more then happy to do it."

Wait. What just happened here?