Here's Part 2 of Forgiveness and Forgetfullness

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your greatness!)

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FORGIVENESS, AND FORGETFULNESS
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By LizMUN
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Chapter 2
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Messages from beyond sanity.
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	"I'm Hooome!"
	"Why, hello Akane! Welcome home! Oh, and I see you brought Ranma with you! 
That's good. Well, Dinner will be up in just a few minutes."
	"Dinner? But Kasumi! I already made dinner!"
	"Yes. But as I went to check on it, it had disapeared. It was very strange. 
  I'm sorry Akane."
	Akane stood there, blinking, then suddenly was crackling with a small, yet 
noticable ki around her.
	"I don't think it disappeared on it's own Kasumi." Akane eyes Uncle 
Saotome, and Soun, who nervously return back to their game.
	"Akane, maybe Ranma would care to "change" before Dinner, hmm?"
	Akane looks down questionably at Ranma, and see's that he, somehow became a 
'she' again, durring their trip home.
	"Sure, Kasumi." And with that, Akane drags the still unconsious Ranma-chan 
up the stairs, not to gently.

	Tatsuhito walked beside Tomaranai after departing from Ucchan's.  The food 
didn't really agree with him, so he was feeling crankier than usual.  He 
then lets out a huge sigh of fustration and bows at Nagai.
	"Empress, why did you want to invite that human to "hunch" or whatever it 
was they called it! You know how your father feels about these Humans!"
	"Jaison, The last time my Father aquainted himself with a human, was when 
they still lived in caves! Painting walls with dirt..."
	Jaison scowls.. suddenly turning toward a grafiti-decorated area, and 
points it to Nagai, as if exclaiming his point.
	"So they got better paint! I still see no difference!"
	The emperess sighs, stops, turns, and looks sternly at her friend and 
advisor, showing her metalic-grey eyes.
	"Tatsuhito, I understand that you are uncomfortable with these humans, but 
you must know that we were sent here to retrieve the Ichi-Eranda!  And we 
found him!"
	"H-Hi-him? The "Chosen-One"? But he looks nothing like the scrolls have 
mentioned!"
	"The scrolls were made before my father's time, they know nothing of a 
human's looks, so of course they're to be wrong in that aspect! But, when I 
saw into Hibiki-san's soul, it was there! He carries with him the blood of 
the Ichi-Eranda even though he's human! That's bound to bring some 
side-effects. I've read that disorientation is one! I.. forget the other."
	"If he is who you say he is, Nagai-sama, then we may as well find him and 
prepare him for the ceremony. Of course, if he is cursed with a lack of 
direction, it might be harder to find him!"
	Nagai, looks up, and smirks.
	"I have an idea where we may find him."

	Ranma's eyes slowly creaked open.  *Where am I? How'd I get back to the 
Dojo?* He knew the answer, and it hurt his pride like hell. *Stupid 
Kawaii-kune Akane! Why'd she have to hit so hard?*  Of course the notion of 
the "great" Ranma Saotome being defeated with just one wack with a wooden 
mallot, when, occasionally, he has faced of, and survived near death by 
countless others, was disturbing enough, he gave it no further thought.  
Something inside him snapped. His senses peaking to it's maximum.  Something 
was making his instincts screaming for his attention.  Something in the air 
was arousing him, with an uncontrolable desire.
	"Alright! Kasumi made Chinese!"
	Ranma jumped up from the futon, as graceful as years of on the road with 
his pop could allow him to, which wasn't that graceful as you think.  He 
rushes down the steps and is about to plop down in his usual seat when...
	"BWEEEEEEE!!"
	*WACK!*
	"RANMA! YOU IDIOT!! YOU WERE ABOUT TO SIT ON P-CHAN!!"
	Of course, had Ranma been able to, he would've just moved the disgustingly 
cute pig away, but he was busily peeling his face from the northern wall. 
After doing so, he was about to give that free-loading, perverted pet of 
Akane's the beating of his life.
	*Knock Knock*
	"Huh?" Ranma looks up from glaring down at Ryouga's cursed form, also 
putting down his raised fist, which were cracking with the slightest of his 
movements.
	"Oh My! Visitors!" Kasumi wipes her hands on her apron, and heads toward 
the front door to great the new guests.  Akane, with P-chan on tow, follows.
	Kasumi opens the door and finds two young women, dressed in elegant 
kimonos.  One of them, wore a silky-white dress, with cream-color leaves 
embroided into the kimono.  Around her athletic waist was a Ivory sash.  
Angelic in looks, all except the upper half.  Her skin a dark, tanish color. 
  Her long, straight hair was black as midnight, as well as her eyes.  Dark, 
blood red lips, gleemed with the moonlight.  Her companion was more like the 
negative of the afore mentioned.  Dressed in a silky black kimono, with a 
smoke-colored flowers decorating the cloth, and an onyx-colored sash tied 
around her slender waist.  Yet the skin of the wearer, was pale as milk.  
Her eyes a translucent, crystal blue, her short, curly hair as white as a 
cherry blossom, and her lips were that of bubble-gum.
	After a few moments of uncomfortable silence, they bow respectably low at 
the dwellers of the household.
	"Forgive our intrusion," said the darker-skinned girl, "I am Pau-Paurei, 
and this is my sister Yencense, We are looking for a Hibiki Ryouga. Does he 
not dwell in this address?"
	Ranma, Akane blinked at the two's names.  What was it with parents naming 
their kids after objects? Of course, Kasumi just smiled broader.
	"Please.. won't you come right in?" Kasumi spoke, with one of her 
ice-melting smiles. Akane, Ranma, and Nabiki (who curiosity getting the best 
of her, came to find out what the deal was, and if there was a chance for 
economical profit,) moved in order to give way to the two young visitors.
	"NO!"
	"No?"
	Akane was shocked, to say the least.  Hardly was one that would ever deny a 
request made by her older sister.  She was pissed nonetheless, at 
Yencense's, if that was her name, at her lack of manners.  She was about to 
let the blondie have it when..
	"Someone looking for me?"
	Everyone looked up and saw Ryouga, leaning against the wall in the hallway, 
striking one of those "cool" poses he's seen many do in various mangas! Of 
course he would've been sooner, but you know the story. Ranma blinked.  He 
didn't notice that somehow, Ryouga had slipped out of Akane's arms to 
'change,' probably to busy counting his lucky starts that his Pop didn't 
name him after a vegetable or something of that matter.
	"Hey Pig-boy! What took you so long?"
	Ranma blinks as he suddenly finds himself hovering a few inches above the 
bamboo floor.
	"What did you call me?" Ryouga seethed.
	"HIBIKI RYOUGA?" A voice called out. "Prepare Yourself!"
	This of course, caused Ranma and Ryouga to stop what their name calling 
battle. Ryouga let Ranma drop, not too gently, and turned to the two girls, 
who were, although quite elegantly, in fiersome battle stances.
	"Who are you two?"
	Yencense stepped foward, a malevolent gleam in her azure-ish eyes. She 
smiles mockingly at Ryouga and points at him.
	"No time for Chit-Chat, Hibiki Ryouga! Prepare yourself...!"
	"So what you do this time, P-chan?"
	"Shuddup Ranma! ::turns to Yencense:: Um, listen.  I don't know what your 
problem is, but.."
	Suddenly, without warning, not even a battle cry, Pau flings several 
objects at Ryouga, who catches them with the slightest of ease.  He looks at 
the object and blinks. Pau just bows and smiles at the confused boy.
	"Hibiki-san! You, and and guests of your choosing, are coordinarlly invited 
to attend Nagai-sama's Union Ball. Forgive us for the late notice, but you 
were a last-minute addition on the Emp*oof*" Pau glares at Yen, who rudely 
jabed her sister with an elbow.  Yen glares at Pau, and Pau nods, 
understanding.
	"Forgive me! But we are delaying you.  We shall come to take you to your 
destination in one hour.  Tomaranai-sama will be most disapointed if you do 
not come. Thank you." And with that, Pau jumps high into the air, 
disapearing into a blurr.  Yen, smiles/sneers at Ryouga, and bows, then 
disapearing the same as her sister.
	Ryouga, Ranma, Akane and Nabiki just looked at each other.  Confused by the 
turn of events, they blink similtaniously.  Kasumi on the otherhand, unfazed 
by what just occured, smiles.
	"What nice young ladies!"

	"Yencense, Pau-Paurei! Report!"
	Knowing they had not been followed, they get on their knees in front of 
Tatsuhito, who was standing on top of a random rooftop, as if he'd done it 
regularly.  Pau looks up, flinging a strand of black hair unconsiously 
behind her shoulders, and smiles at her sensei.
	"The Message has been delivered to Hibiki-san, Tatsuhito-sensei!  They will 
be ready by the hour!"
	Tatsuhito scowled. Something was definitly wrong.
	"They?  What do you mean, 'They'?  It was to be only the Hibiki boy!"
	This time Yen, looks up at her sensei, her sharp, crisp blue eyes, acting 
like razors, cutting into one's soul.
	"Tomaranai-Sama said Hibiki was allowed to bring a guest.. or three.  
Something about studying them?"
	This made Tatsuhito, growl even louder.  He clenches his fist, ready to 
strike anyone who even crosses his path. He looks down, mumbling to himself.
	"Nagai! You and your stupid experiments will ruin everything! ::screaming 
to no one in particular:: How does she expect the plan to run smoothly, if 
she screws it up like so!?"
	"Um.. Sensei?"
	Jaison, spins and glares at Yen, who, after years of experience, forces 
herself to look away, or face emabarrasing consequences.
	"The Emperess knows that perfectly well! She just wishes to study the 
Humans, that is all. In fact, it be better if he brings his friends with 
him.  For afterward, she speaks of removing any memory of Hibiki-san from 
them.  It's all part of the plan."
	"And why was I not aware of this part?"
	"Did not Deishionerie tell you? Ugh! That Boy! You always have to ask him 
for information! Never will he tell you on his own account!" Pau just shakes 
her head. Yen, on the other hand, was observing her sensei, cautiously, she 
nudges to her sister that maybe it would be best, for their live's sake, to 
retreat back to their quarters, less face Tatsuhito's tantrums.  With the 
quickness of a blink, they disappear.
	Tatsuhito, unaware of their departure, sits down on the roof, 
crossed-legged, and rubs his temples.
	"I hope he's worth it!"

((To be Continued...))

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