Disclaimer:  I don't own any of these characters, but I'm not trying to 
make any money off this so I guess it's OK then.

This is a Ranma continuation and multi-cross-over with Sailor Moon, 
Tenchi Muyo!, Mermaid Saga, Ah Megami-sama and Mamono Hunter Yohko. 

This is my first time writing a fan fiction, so please review and tell 
me what you think.

            Ranma Crossing Over to the Wild Side
   
            By Paul Bennett aka Shadowbakasama


Chapter 6: Will this day never end?


When Akane got home after having dinner with Ukyo, she noticed that they 
had company.  So she went into the front room to met them.  Nodoka was 
sitting at the table having tea with an older man, two young women, one 
with a fine kimono, the other with thick, spiky cyan hair, and a girl 
with lots of spiky red hair.

"Oh, Tendo-san please come in." Nodoka welcomes her coldly. "I'd like 
you to meet my father, Masaki Katsuhito, father this 'was' one of 
Ranma's fiancees, Tendo Akane, she is supposed to be the heir of the 
Tendo school of Anything Goes Martial Arts and the Tendo Dojo."

"Um, how do you do Akane-san." Katsuhito says a bit nervously "I'm sorry 
to hear about what happened at your wedding.  Nodoka-chan, why isn't she 
Ranma's fiancee anymore."

"Well, she 'obviously' meant to break off her engagement when she 
insulted my son's honor before striking him with her trusty mallet 
sending Ranma into the koi pond holding a cat. 'That' started the whole 
'cat-hunt' into motion.  How she can blame him for the wedding disaster 
I can't understand.  And that 'she' can insult 'his honor' after 
'everything' he has done for her is 'UNFORGIVABLE'!"

Upon hearing Nodoka say this Akane goes white and runs up the stairs to 
her room while bursting into tears.

"Nodoka-san wasn't that a little harsh?" asks Ayeka.

"I'm afraid not Ayeka-hime, Ranma and Akane have been engaged for a year 
and a half, and have never stopped fighting.  Ranma will tease her, or 
be critical of the talents, or even do nothing and she will get upset, 
and the insults will fly between them until Akane strikes him with her 
mallet.  Ranma has never raised a hand against her, and she pounds on 
him daily.  They had just gotten back from China, Akane had been 
kidnapped and Ranma rescued her at great risk, and killed Saffron to 
save her life.  Yet she still has no faith or trust in Ranma, it could 
never work out, her temper controls her.  I had such hope for her, she 
is a sweet girl, but she looses her temper with little or no reason.  
No, I'm afraid this was the last straw, and that the camel's back is 
broken.  She hasn't even heard of the new fiancee, and that news will 
cause her to explode in hatred for Ranma, even though he didn't even 
know of the arrangement."

"It's no wonder that Ranma didn't come home tonight then, he might as 
well step into a rabid tiger's cage and start poking the beast." Ryoko 
replies.

"Yes, and Ranma must also be very upset, if they got into an arguement 
tonight, they might level the house." Nodoka replies.

"Could they really do that much damage Nodoka-chan?" asks Katsuhito.

"Not Akane, she usually just hits Ranma with her damn 'Mallet-sama' 
smashing him through a wall, floor, or ceiling." Nodoka says, "Ranma, 
however can do ki attacks that have left 6 foot wide holes in the stone 
wall that's around the property."

"We're home!" Nabiki yells as she and Kasumi come in.

"Come join us in here girls, you havn't met our guests." Nodoka calls back.

"Tendo Nabiki and Tendo Kasumi, I'd like to introduce you to my father 
Masaki Katsuhito, and his sister Masaki Ayeka, First Princess of the 
Jurai, and his friends Hakubi Washu the scientist, and Hakubi Ryoko."

"Oh my, royalty, it's very nice to meet you.  I've never heard of the 
Jurai, is it one of those magic kingdoms?" Kasumi asks.

"Right, if it is then Ranma is a prince out to marry Akane just like 
Kirin and Touma. Mhu hahaha." jokes Nabiki.

"Ahem, the Empire of the Jurai is a group of star systems ruled by my 
father, Emperor Masaki Azusa." Ayeka replies a bit miffed.

"OK, so that makes you an alien princess looking for a husband then." 
Nabiki says sarcastically.

"Bingo, that's her alright, she's been trying to get my Tenchi, her own 
nephew." supplies Ryoko.

"He's my half-brothers grandson that's far enough apart, you monster 
woman!" yells Ayeka.

"Oh my, that makes you Ranma-kun's Great Auntie Ayeka, and Tenchi-san is 
Ranma-kun's cousin, it's so nice that Ranma-kun has more family." Kasumi 
says sweetly.

"Well, Ayeka-hime, that means that Ranma-kun is Jurain royalty and also 
distant enough to marry.  So does this make you another of Akane's 
competition for Ranma-kun?" Nabiki asks.

"Not Akane-san's competion, Nabiki-chan, she would be 'your' 
competition." Nodoka replies.

"Nani?!  My competition!" yells Nabiki, shocked at being thrust into the 
dangerous position of Ranma's fiancee.  "Oh no ..., what's Akane done now?"

"Well, I felt that Akane-san broke off her engagement when she insulted 
Ranma-kun's honor and assaulted him without cause at the wedding, and 
feel that her temper has made her an unacceptable match for my son." 
Nodoka replies.  "And since I know that Kasumi-chan is seeing that nice 
young doctor, that/"

"That leaves me as Ranma-kun's fiancee." Nabiki interupts, sounding 
really put out as she sits down to join them for tea.

"Oh dear, how did Akane take the news?" Kasumi asks, going to the 
kitchen for more cups.

"Not very well, she ran upstairs crying." Ayeka replies.

"Oh my, poor Akane." says Kasumi as she joins them at the table.

"Come on Kasumi, you know that this has been coming for a long time." 
Nabiki tells Kasumi, sounding a bit tired, like this is an old argument 
between them.  "Akane has been insulting and hitting Ranma-kun since the 
day he arrived.  At some point it would be too much or go too far, this 
did both. Ryouga-san got a trip to the hospital, and we had to track 
down Ranma-kun like a tiger on the loose."

"Yes, I know, she was just so jealous of Ranma-kun." says Kasumi 
sounding a bit defeated and sad.

"I'm sorry for her to Kasumi." Nabiki says, then to Nodoka, "I'm sorry 
Nodoka-dono, but I'll have to decline the engagement to Ranma-kun.  
Wait!  Let me finish, I have my reasons.  Several, in fact.  I havn't 
practiced martial arts for several years, and am already looking forward 
to a career in journalism.  I do like Ranma-kun, but he's not my type, 
and if I was engaged to him, Akane would be jealous of me having him and 
it would split the family apart."

"I see your point Nabiki-chan." replies Nodoka, then after thinking for 
a few seconds. "In that case Ranma-kun can't live here anymore, and the 
goal of uniting the schools comes to nought."

"Oh dear, father will be so disappointed." says Kasumi, becoming 
worried.  "Isn't there some other way.  Nabiki, what about cousin Mizuno 
Ami?"

"Hmm, cousin Ami-chan, now if Ranma-kun were to marry her, he would be 
our cousin and part of the Tendo clan, and could teach both styles in 
our dojo." says Nabiki, deep in thought.  "But I don't think Daddy will 
put up the Tendo Dojo for her dowery, maybe a contract to operate the 
dojo as a partner."

"Oh, I remember her, Mizuno Ami, she is Noriko-sensei's daughter." 
Nodoka say, giving some thought to the match up.  "I remember when I saw 
her here, she was so nervous for some reason.  That must be it, you had 
to get her to pretend Ranma was Tendo Ranko and was her cousin as well.  
I always thought it was odd, every time I came over to visit Ranko would 
be in the koi pond with her pet panda, or she'd be at the table all wet 
from someone throwing water on her.  She was always so happy to see 
'Auntie Saotome' but still a little sad and nervous to be hiding from me 
in plain sight.  It's so funny to think about it now."

"Yes, it was terrifying and hillarious at the same time, Ranma-kun would 
risk his life to be near you, I think there was about a dozen times that 
he changed almost in front of you, and three where you actually did see 
it, but it happened to fast or you fainted and thought it was a dream."  
Nabiki replied.

"What are you talking about, how was Ranma-san risking his life?" Ayeka 
asks.

"Oh my, this story is going to take awhile, so I'm going to go up and 
check on Akane." Kasumi says getting up from the table.

"That's a good idea Kasumi-oneechan." Nabiki says.  "We'll tell the 
guests a few Ranma stories and keep them entertained."

"Ranma stories, I guess that's a good way of putting it." Nodoka says.  
"Ranma-kun has such an exciting life that we could make a fortune with 
the movie rights."

"I'm already looking into that Auntie." Nabiki says, excited about the 
idea of all that money.  "I figured that letting too much of the truth 
get out would get even more trouble knocking on the door.  But it looks 
like the cat is out of the bag now."

"Yes, we'll talk about you being his agent later." Nodoka says to 
Nabiki.  "But, back to the story, Genma took Ranma on a 10 year long 
training voyage almost 12 years ago, but to convince me to let him take 
Ranma for such a long time he and Ranma singed a contract to commit 
seppuku if he didn't raise Ranma to be a 'man among men' and after 
Jusenkyo he had stopped sending me letters and postcards, about six 
months ago I found them living here with the Tendos.  But they hid in 
plain sight the whole time whenever I visited, using their cursed forms 
and pretending to be 'Ranko' and her pet panda, telling me that Ranma 
and Genma had left on another training trip and would be back soon."

"Oh, he didn't even know if you were alive, Genma never talked about you 
on the road." Nabiki tell her.  "He met you for the first time in that 
canal, and found out that you were his mother just before you showed up, 
Genma was trying to drag him out of the house, they ended up in the koi 
pond and Ranma-kun got loose and was right behind you when you told us 
about the contract, and that you carried the contract and the sword 
around hoping to meet your 'manly' son, and he was standing not 6 feet 
away as a girl with the blood draining out of her face in horror and 
disappointment, and told you her name was 'Ranko' and we claimed she was 
our cousin.  Everytime you came over we would quickly find Ranma-kun and 
his father and tell them, and they would be in the koi pond by the time 
you came to the yard.  When he went to meet you in the park he kepting 
getting wet and when you were in that hot water spout he rescued you as 
a man, then when you came to it had just started raining."

"Your right, that is horrible and funny!  How did you find out about the 
curse without him getting killed?" asks Ryoko.

"Yes, how did he prove himself manly enough, when he changes into a 
girl?" Katsuhito asks.

"Well, as a man there is no question that he is manly, but he proved it 
to me as a girl." replies Nodoka.  "I was always trying to get 
'Ranko-chan' to be more of a proper young lady, she never wore a dress 
unless I forced her into it, and she acted like such the tomboy, always 
talking like a rude boy and fighting with Akane-san.  But Ranma-kun was 
also very heroic, 'Ranko-chan' went to get a family treasure that Genma 
stole from me and fought with him, and Ranma-kun ended up diving off a 
cliff after me when I had fallen, 'he' caught me and stopped us from 
hitting the rocks by jamming my sword into the cliff and landing on it.  
But the sword came out of the scabbard and dropped us into the ocean, I 
was holding his hand trying to keep him from falling when we both went 
in and then I was holding 'Ranko-chan's' hand in the water.  So even as 
a girl, Ranma-kun is very heroic, brave, and manly, even if she is a bit 
too much of a rude tomboy."

"That's very strange Nodoka-chan, but I think strange is the norm here." 
says Katsuhito.

"Yes, I'm still getting used to it, but I think the Tendos have fallen 
into a strange routine and get nervous when there isn't at least one 
fight a day or a little property damage. I think Nabiki-chan here 
thrives on making money from the chaos, taking bets, selling 
information, keeping secrets, and taking pictures." says Nodoka, then 
addresses Nabiki.  "I can see you with a bright future as an 
investigative journalist Nabiki-chan, as well as a bookie, and agent."

"Can't blame a girl for trying to make a little cash." Nabiki says 
trying to excuse her actions.

"No, I suppose I can't." says Nodoka surprizing Nabiki who didn't think 
she would be so forgiving of her taking advantage of Ranma.  "Since you 
use the money to support your family, as you have since your mother died."

"How did you know?" Nabiki asks.

"Ranma-kun told me, when I found out about some of the pictures that you 
sold that Kuno boy." replies Nodoka.  "I was upset until Ranma-kun told 
me that he lets you take those pictures, and that the scams you run on 
Kuno-baka keep the food on the table."

"Well, you might as well know that I've made a ton of money from the 
chaos today." Nabiki says, excited to be off the hook and back on the 
subject of money.  "More than enough to fix the dojo and pay for the 
wedding, Ranma-kun is getting a share of the profits from the news, I'm 
going to use some of it to start Kasumi in college to be a nurse.  I'm 
trying for a scolarship, and should be able to support myself.  But with 
all this publicity we should start classes in the dojo after the repairs 
are done.  So even if you take Ranma-kun with you, could you leave Genma 
here if he will teach classes.  I want to get both of them working some 
of the time, instead of playing Shogi.  If they don't go for that I'll 
make a deal with Natsume-san and Kurumi-san."


----------


*Knock*  *Knock*

"Who's there?"

"Kasumi."

"Kasumi who?"

"Imoutochan, are you alright, can we talk?" Kasumi asks as she comes in 
the door.

"Come on in." Akane replies from the bed, where she is crying over a 
picture of Ranma.  "Oneechan, I really screwed up this time. *sob*  What 
am I going to do?  Waaaaah!"

"Oh imoutochan, I'm sorry, but I'm afraid you have lost him." Kasumi 
replies as she goes to hug Akane.

"I was so awful!  *sob*  I insulted him and hit him, *sob* and it was 
Shampoo and Ukyo fighting over him, *sniff* but I blamed Ranma.  
Waaaaah!  Then I hit Neko-Ranma, *sob* I didn't even think, b-b-but I 
got Neko mad at me, *sniff* Ryouga got hurt, and Ukyo saved me.  *sob*  
But Neko ran off, Neko hates me now!  Waaah! *sob*  Ranma hates me now!  
Waaah!  Where is he, *sob* did anyone find him?"

"Yes, he's fine, a girl found him in Juuban after he killed that monster 
and took him home."

"I saw that on the news *sniff* he just 'butchered' it.  If Neko had 
wanted to he could have killed us all.  *sniff* He went easy on Ryouga, 
did you know that Neko used a headbutt to KO Ryouga.  Tofu-sensei said 
that because of us fiancees 'training' Ranma that his head is much 
tougher than Ryouga's, and Ryouga smashed himself into boulders to 
become tough, but Ranma's training was worse.  Waaaah!"

"What training caused Ranma-kun to become so tough imoutochan?"

*sob* "Us 'fiancees' have been making Ranma tougher *sob* by beating him 
'everyday' sometimes several 'times' a day.  Waaaah!  Kodachi-san with 
her drugs, ribbon, and clubs, Ukyo with her spatula, Shampoo with her 
bike and bon-bori, and ME most of all with my fists, feet, and 
'mallet'!  Waaah!  Kuno-sempei can never hit Ranma, Moose always misses 
even with everything he throws, Ryouga can sometimes get a lucky shot 
in.  If all of them ambush Ranma, they can rough him up.  Everytime he 
comes home beat all to hell it was us 'fiancees' that did it. *sob*  I 
have hit him over the head with Mallet-sama *sob* so much that I have to 
hit him three or four times to get him to stay down, Waaah! and even 
then he gets up in a few minutes.  Waaah!  When he first showed up the 
table put him down for over an hour.  *sob*  Neko KOed Ryouga-kun with a 
leaping headbutt and wasn't even fazed, he didn't have to shake it off 
or anything.  Waaah!  The reason that Ranma's head is harder than a rock 
is because I 'pounded' on him everyday!  Waaah!"

"Oh dear, that would make Ranma-kun's head very tough."

"Where is he? *sniff* You said a girl found him.  Is he coming home?"

"He is staying in Juuban tonight, with an old friend of his."

"Ranma has a friend in Juuban? *sniff* The girl that found him?  That's 
the only way Neko would go with her isn't it?  Who is she?"

"Hino Rei, she's the one who found Neko-Ranma after he escaped from the 
pit, he lived with them for 2 weeks before Genma found him.  She would 
play with Ranma-kun and Neko-Ranma everyday, until Genma took him away."

"NO!  Please Kasumi, tell me SHE'S not another FIANCEE!!"

"Gomen/"

"NO!!!" screams Akane in the sound of Ultimate Suffering.

"Akane! Imoutochan!  Calm down, Ranma-kun told me he's not going to get 
married for a year, you can make up with him."

"But Kasumi-oneechan, *sob* Auntie Saotome, she says I'm not his fiancee 
anymore, *sob* she said I've gone too far.  Is Nabiki his fiancee now?"

"No, Nabiki refused, she said it would tear us apart if she took Ranma.  
I think she's right, we can't take Ranma, but Cousin Ami can.  They are 
going to discuss that later, Daddy will have to talk to Auntie Noriko."

"But Oneechan, how could I compete against Ami-chan, she' so pretty, 
she's nice, sweet, and really smart.  Waaah!  What chance would I have."

"Now Akane-chan, Ami-chan is a bit of a bookworm, studying all the time, 
and going to cram school, she might not like Ranma-kun, he doesn't like 
school, is unmannered and rough, she might get scarred off by the other 
girls."

"Right, Ami-chan and Rei-san live in Juuban, and Ranma lives here, they 
can't visit that often."

"There's more bad news Akane-chan.  Auntie Saotome and Ranma-kun will be 
moving out, her house is almost fixed."

"No, no, no .... you were supposed to come in here and cheer me up 
Kasumi, but you keep on telling me bad news.  Is there anymore bad new 
Oneechan?"

"Ranma-kun considers Rei-san's engagement valid, and considering the 
dowery that Genma took she has a better claim than Ukyo-san, since Daddy 
can't put up the house and dojo for Ami-chan's dowery, she will have a 
lesser claim than Ukyo, just a partnership with Daddy to run the dojo, 
and whatever else they can come up with."

"Oh no, what was Rei-san's dowery?" Akane asks sounding really worried.

"50,000 yen and some scrolls."

"What was on the scrolls Kasumi?"

"Ki techniques, the techniques that have let Ranma build up and control 
his ki, and develope his danger sense.  The techniques that allowed him 
to build up enough ki to defeat Herb and Saffron." Kasumi tells her 
sounding a bit defeated, she hates, well at least doesn't enjoy giving 
out bad news, but there was no good news left.

"Kuso, he owes her, it wasn't just food, or money that he that never 
saw, it's a bunch of techniques he's been learning and using for the 
last 9 years." says Akane, a bit shocked.  "The whole deal of combining 
the schools is a joke, what techniques do we have that Ranma might want, 
I don't know of any, Daddy has never shown any of us anything that would 
impress Ranma-kun, except that stupid Demonhead to scare people."

"Hmm, yes, if Daddy could teach Ranma-kun some valuable techniques that 
would help our clan's engagement."

"Well, if you don't have anymore bad news, I'd like to get some sleep."




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