Subject: [FFML] [Repost][ranma/Original]Ranma meets the Avatron's part 1
From: "peter A. Sehavilin" <sehavilin@comcast.net>
Date: 7/22/2005, 11:07 AM
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I almost done with chapeter 3 so i thight i repost the first 2 chapters

Ranma � and its characters are the creations and 
properties of Rumiko 
Takahashi. With some original characters by 
myself.



First fic warning, and comments would be helpful. 
I can be E-mail at 
starliner@comcast.net

Ranma Meets the Avatrons

By Peter A. Sehavilin


In a clearing in a nearby forest just outside 
Tokyo. 


It was a quiet night and only a light breeze was 
blowing. Suddenly with a 
flash of light a portal open up visibly and two 
forms stepped through it. A 
teenage girl and man. After they both had stepped 
through, the portal 
vanished from sight with another bright flash. 
Both stood only about 5 Feet 
in high but the girl was a little shorter than the 
man. They both had long 
hair and athletic builds, though the girl Had more 
even features to her. The
man was dressed in jeans and a denim jacket, while 
the girl wore a light 
flowing red dress made of a light material that 
seemed to flow with the 
breeze

The girl blinked as she looked around at the 
unfamiliar surroundings, turning
to look at the man beside her she asked, "Daddy 
can we go see Ranma now?"

The man carefully scanned the surroundings before 
being seemingly satisfied
that there was no immediate threat to either of 
them. "Later, there's a few 
things we need to take care of first," he 
answered.

"Daddy." the girl pleaded, tugging the man's hand 
but at same time staying
close to him, a bit afraid of the new, unfamiliar 
surroundings, "Ranma's sad 
and lonely, I can feel it."

"You can make him happy once we meet up with him. 
We just first need to find 
a place to stay right now and make an agreement 
for your schooling. Then we 
can see him." The man told the girl. 

The girl pouted for a while, not liking the 
seemingly necessary extra time 
that would pass before she could see Ranma again. 
"I guess it's good that 
way..." the girl replied.

As they began to walk towards the city lights, the 
girl asked, "Dad? Could I 
get into same school as Ranma?"

"We'll will see if you can. But I have to look 
into it first, you will most 
likely have a tutor just like back at home." The 
man said, smiling at his 
daughter as they walked to their destination.


A few days later. In a private investigators 
office.


The old man sitting behind his old wooden desk 
raised his eyes briefly from
his work to look at his visitor. The man put his 
papers carefully aside,
leaving some free room on the desk papers, before 
running a gnarled hand
through his dusty gray hair as he opened the 
drawer of the desk and pulled 
out a manilla folder and grilled through it.

"Here's the information you wanted. With what 
information you gave us, Mr
Starliner - and with what we were so far able to 
gather, I would say that you
have a very good case." 

"Thank you for getting the work done in so short 
time as I asked." Said Mr
Starliner his face remaining an emotionless mask.

"We still need to gather more information but it 
looks like Genma Saotome 
left a large trail of petty crimes and skipped 
debts behind him. Actually it 
would be in his best interest to honor the 
contract, the funds you provided 
it would pay off all of the debt, with plenty left 
over to boot."

"But if he does break it, you should have more 
than enough evidence you need 
to gain custody. Though being a gaijin might bring 
out a few problems." Said 
the PI.

"I don't see where that should prove to be a 
problem at all?" asked Mr
Starliner, giving the PI a puzzled look.

"Well, you got to admit the courts would be a 
little suspicious why a extra 
terrestrial would want to have a custody of a 
minor," the PI tolled.

"True," the man replied. "But it is for personal 
reasons, and if it does go 
to the courts I would then be willing to release 
more information than I am 
willing to relate at this time." said Mr Starliner 
to the PI.

"Actually, I doubt that will be a problem. I fully 
agree with your reasons 
for wanting to be discrete, your daughter is very 
special." Explained the PI.
"It is in her best interests if the facts of what 
your daughter is would be 
known by as few as possible." Said the PI.

"Oh? And how did you learn about this?" Said Mr. 
Starliner, looking at the PI
questioningly.

"Let's say, a few people who would also like that 
your and your daughter's
stay to be as pleasant as possible. They would be 
interested in talking with
you later." said the PI.

"That would be fine. I would be interested in 
talking to them." Mr. Starliner
said with a thin smile.


The next day.


The local mailman walked up to the Tendo Dojo, 
dropping today's mail into the
mailbox before leaving quickly. He did not want to 
be near when Genma Saotome
read his mail, things had bad tendency to get 
violent whenever that person 
got mail and he didn't want to be nearby when that 
happened.

A little while later Kasumi stepped outside to 
retrieve the day's mail. "Oh
my," she let out as she noticed that Genma had got 
a letter. As Kasumi walked
back into the house, she was wondering what 
trouble Genma had got himself or 
Ranma into this time.

"I hope it not another fiancee." Kasumi said to 
herself as she walked inside,
but already knowing that what it most likely to be 
what the letter was about.

Kasumi found both Genma and Soun playing their 
favorite pastime, Go, both 
doing their best to cheat during their turn - or 
even when it wasn't their 
turn. "Uncle Saotome you got a letter." She said 
with her usual smile, 
handing the letter to him.

Genma looked the letter over before quickly 
opening it and beginning to read.
As he read the letter his face turned pale and 
drops of sweat could be seen 
pouring down his forehead. After seemingly having 
read the letter he quickly 
crumbled it and threw it into the trash can. Soun 
seeing his friends uneasy 
look, frowned at Genma. "Saotome, this is not 
another fiancee, is it?" he 
asked his friend, looking slightly troubled as he 
wondered just what Genma 
got himself into this time.

Genma squirmed, trying to think of something to 
say, "Oh, nothing! No no no! 
I didn't engage Ranma to any alien girl!" Genma 
babbled quickly.

"What! You engaged my son-in-law to an alien 
girl?" thundered Soun, scooping
up the letter from the trash and looking it over 
himself.

An "Oh My" was heard from Kasumi as she covered 
her mouth with her hand in 
shock. "This is even stranger than the last one." 
She said to no one in 
particularly.


A while later in Nerima High School


It had all started two weeks ago, when a PI had 
been visiting at school, 
asking questions about Saotome family. A little 
bit later she had learned
that the PI had been part of a bigger, very 
expensive Investigation company
which probably meant that he had been experienced 
as well.

Then on same day, someone had just appeared out of 
the blue and bought one of
the most expensive properties. Nabiki had 
considered this strange enough to 
be worth investigating. All she was able to gather 
had been that a man had 
bought it. A single man and his daughter coming 
form out of the blue and 
having bought one of the most expensive properties 
in the neighborhood. 

All this had felt a bit mysterious, seemingly the 
girl got a home tutoring
too, which cost money, something that the man 
seemed to have more than enough
of. But where did he get it all? And who was he?

For the next few days she had tried to follow both 
the man and the girl 
shadows to find out something about their habits, 
to no avail. She had even 
tried doing that herself once or twice, without 
any more success. Simply, the
girl did not go out much and all the people who 
she sent out to follow the 
girl came back with no memory of her. She herself 
had no memory of it either 
after trying to follow her.

This was strange considering she was sure she 
would have found out something
herself one of the two times in the 2 weeks she 
was following her. only thing
she had found out was that someone in a black suit 
was always seen in the 
area when the girl did go out.

That had been the case with the girl, the man had 
been a bit different. He 
had seemed to know when someone was following him, 
almost like he had eyes in
the back of his head. The man also seemed to know 
how to shake a tail almost 
like he was trained in it. Which sounded odd, he 
wasn't a secret agent, was 
he?

So far, all she had found out was that the girl 
was supposedly the man's 
daughter, which again sounded impossible as the 
man seemed to be around 25 or
so, and the girl seemed to be around Ranma's age. 
Which probably meant that 
they were brother and sister, and just pretending 
for some reason. which was 
still odd, why pretend? what did they have to 
hide? Still, the fact that she 
had overheard the girl calling the man "Daddy" 
more than once was not 
supporting her logic. The puzzle just had too many 
incompatible pieces and 
even more were missing.

After that she had tried to have the place bugged. 
Using the contractor that 
fixed the place up and brought furniture into the 
place. The first attempt 
turned out to nothing. The equipment was probably 
broken, or found out about.

What worried Nabiki was when she heard that some 
local security firms van was
seen just outside of the house. And that the local 
police seemed to be 
interested in the incident as well.

Then, two days ago, she had called out quite few 
favors and got some of the 
most expensive listening equipment available to 
the open market and tried to 
find out what was being spoken in the house. The 
language she had heard had 
been weird, nothing she had heard before. Having 
used more favors she had got
a language expert to look at the taped speech. All 
the expert could got out 
had been that it didn't sound like any language he 
knew.

Under an hour later when Nabiki had installed the 
listening equipment, a 
black van was seen outside the home. The people 
that got out of it wore 
simple black suits as well. They stayed in the 
house for a few hours before 
leaving again. No attempt to hear what went on 
inside the place worked after 
that and Nabiki had to give up trying.


"I am going to find out about him and his so 
called daughter. The money this 
person must have is a beneficial resource that 
simply can't let be passed 
up." Nabiki mumbled to herself and most of all her 
curiosity had been 
sparked.

Nabiki was a bit surprised to see a courier from a 
local company walk into 
the school grounds. After the courier had talked 
with a random student who 
pointed Nabiki out, he walked over to her. "Miss 
Nabiki Tendo?" he asked. 
Nabiki nodded her reply.

"I have a package that was sent to you, the person 
asked us to deliver it to 
you at this time and while you were still at 
school." the courier told Nabiki
as he proceeded to hand her a Clipboard. "All I 
need you to do is sign here."
he said to her. 

After signing her name, Nabiki looked at the 
delivered package. It was a 
manilla envelope, from Mr. Noha Starliner. What 
shocked her was the return 
address, it come from the person that had bought 
the house. Nabiki opened the
envelope a little fearfully of what was inside, 
she was a bit worried that 
the man might have decided to take legal action 
against her.

What she found inside was even a bigger surprise, 
Nabiki would have never
guessed what it actually contained. As she browsed 
through the papers a large
sweatdrop formed on the back of her head as she 
read the contents. 'Genma is 
in trouble now,' she thought to herself. 

'This might mean trouble, big trouble. This guy 
has enough to ruin the 
Saotome name and maybe even the Tendos as well if 
father and the Saotomes
fight against this.' Nabiki thought as she read 
the papers, 'what the? Genma 
even signed that Nodoka was deceased and he had 
sole custody of Ranma! And 
this contract had been made on the Saotome clan's 
Honor and name!'

This was defintely a very smart move from the 
person that came up with the 
contact, a work of pure genius! Still even though 
Genma was a greedy bastard,
and not all that bright. She failed to see why 
Genma would have signed this. 
Moment later her eyes almost popped out of her 
head when she saw what the 
dowry was for, 2 million Avatron credits.

Nabiki was not quite sure what 2 million Avatron 
credits were worth but it 
was bound to be alot. 'Probably, Deutschmark in 
the late 20's were so weak 
that 2 million might buy you a candy bar.' Nabiki 
thought. Then her heart 
almost stopped when another paper answered her 
question, 10 Million in US 
dollars was a lot indeed, 'No wonder Mr. Saotome 
signed it.' Nabiki thought, 
guessing that Genma hadn't even stopped to read 
what he was signing. 

She was so stuck on reading that she didn't notice 
when Akane and Ranma
walked up to her after the classes were over.

"What's going on, Nabiki?" Akane asked her sister 
as she saw the shocked
look on Nabiki's face.

Nabiki looked at Akane, thinking for a second 
before tensing and saying, 
"Well, it looks like Genma arranged for a Lorena 
Starliner to marry Ranma.
And it seems that Genma ran off with the dowry 
again." Nabiki told the pair.

"WHAT-- not another one!" both yelled out.

"What did the old man do this time?" Ranma asked, 
almost bored. He was doubly
angry to find out the past was about to bite him 
on the ass again.

"This is all your fault!" yelled Akane to Ranma, 
her anger flaring.

"How can this be my fault, I knew nothing of 
this." snapped Ranma in reply.

"Well, if you weren't so much of a pervert and a 
jerk this wouldn't have
happened!" Akane angrily told Ranma.

"I am not a pervert, you tomboy. I haven't even 
seen her since I was five!" 
Ranma bitterly answered to Akane, He was startled 
when he realized that he 
actually did remember it.

"You were with her last evening, you two timing 
pervert!" Akane yelled at 
Ranma. Her battle aura flaring.

"I didn't see nobody. I went out to the roof, to 
think and get a way from a 
certain violent maniac!" Ranma sarcastically 
replied, feeling a little 
confused at the vague feeling of weariness that 
came over him, as if he was 
feeling someone else's aura. Usually it just felt 
like he was not alone, that
there was someone close to him but for the last 
week they seemed to have 
gotten stronger. It felt like there was someone 
out there that really did 
care about him and what he felt.

"That's it, the engagement's off. There's no way 
I'm going to marry a 
two-timing sex changing freak like you." Akane 
yelled, Her mallet appeared
in her hand as her aura flared into existence.

"Fine with me, I never agreed to marry a an uncut 
violent chick like you..."

'Just one more crack and I put that freak in his 
place,' thought Akane. She 
was the best martial artist in Nerima and if Ranma 
hurled even one more 
insult she would teach him again why she was the 
best. Then she would teach 
him just what a real martial artist could do, not 
like the tricks Ranma 
usually used.

"Why don't you just go marry this new bimbo, you 
freak!" she screamed, 
gloating at Ranma so she could give him what he 
deserved. What she got was a 
shock, it was something she would not have 
expected Ranma to say.

"I just might just do that, At least she'd not 
some uncute violent maniac 
like you." replied Ranma, a little surprised that 
he had said that. What even
was a bigger surprise was that he had meant what 
he said. If the girl was who
the feelings were coming from, he really wouldn't 
mind marrying her. It was 
clear now; She would always accept him for what he 
was and wanted to see him
happy. She would let him be what he wants to be.

Akane's temper exploded at that reply and she 
attacked Ranma with her mallet,
almost injuring Ranma severely with it. Akane 
didn't really care, she thought
that Ranma deserved it for being a pervert. Like 
she even wanted to marry the
freak, but he was hers and she'd never let any 
other girl to have him. 

'Apparently some slut of a girl must think she can 
have him, and when I'll 
meet that girl I'm going to show her place! I'll 
show that girl what a true
martial artist could do.' Akane thought, walking 
off and leaving Ranma 
writhing on the ground. 

Nabiki was shocked as well, having witnessing 
another beating of Ranma from 
her sister. 'P'd never expected this, the mystery 
is getting deeper and 
stranger fast. And Ranma, for him to actually say 
that he would not mind 
getting married to the girl was very strange 
indeed.' Nabiki thought as she 
watched Ranma twitch, mumbling about uncute 
Kagones was even stranger. What 
the hell was a Kagone anyhow?


At the Saotome residence


Nodoka was not having a good day. Her latest 
attempts at getting Ranma and 
Akane together had failed and all the talks she 
had with Ranma seem to have 
been a waste of time. Still, she could not fault 
Ranma for the disaster that
had followed, Ranma had tried to follow her advise 
and try to be nice to 
Akane and refrain from insulting her. All he had 
got for it was Akane 
accusing him of being up to something perverted 
even Ranma's attempts to 
avoid arguing with Akane had failed as she had 
just malleted him for annoying
her.

She had started to get concerned about Akane's 
behavior after that, it seemed
that after the Saffron incident and the failed 
marriage attempt Akane's anger
and violent temper had been getting worse. Most of 
Akane's anger seemed to be
towards Ranma as Akane used her mallet at any 
proposed insult or act real or 
imaginary.

She even remembered one of Akane outburst a little 
after the wedding attempt.
She had came over to the Tendos to have some time 
out with her son. She and 
Ranma had left for a walk, mentioning to Kasumi 
that she had wanted to be 
alone with her son. It was just a time to get away 
for a while and talk with
Ranma alone. During that time while they were 
walking, she had noticed that 
her son had become depressed with the way his life 
had been going. She had 
and still did want Ranma to be manly and a Man 
amongst Men but was it really 
worth it to see Ranma, a young man looking and 
appearing so worn out like he 
had been?

After they had got back to the Tendo home, Akane 
had confronted Ranma 
accusing him of seeing one of his other fiancees. 
Ranma's adamant denial had 
just got the Tendo girl more angry, not giving 
Ranma any time to explain she 
had attacked him with her mallet calling him a 
lying perverted freak. After 
Akane had beaten Ranma, she had told her that 
Ranma was being a insensitive 
jerk, showing no remorse of what she had just 
done. All she had said had been
"the freak deserved it" before going back to her 
room, slamming the door 
close behind her.

That had been quite unlike the nice girl she had 
met when Ranma was 
pretending to be Ranko. Though the Tendo girl seem 
to actually treat Ranma 
better while he was in his cursed form than while 
he was in his birth form.
Akane always said that she hated the freak for the 
fact that Ranma was just 
using the curse to be a pervert and her comment 
that Ranma was just a pervert
like all the other boys. 

What had confused her even more had been the 
fondness Akane seemed to have 
for this Hibiki boy, Akane usually claimed that it 
was Ranma who was always
being mean to the boy and enjoyed to start fights 
with him, usually by throw
insults at him and calling him names. Though when 
she had asked about this 
form some other people they had told that it was 
usually the Hibiki boy who
attacked Ranma. She had even started to suspected 
that it was Akane who was 
the one being unfaithful with this Hibiki boy. To 
her, it was Clear that 
Ranma was being faithful to the engagement with 
Akane. Simply put if Ranma 
would have been unfaithful with any of the other 
fiancees they would surely 
had used this fact to claim Ranma as their own.

Nodoka decided to have a talk about this with the 
Hibiki boy when she saw 
him next time. It seemed the Hibiki Boy also 
claimed that her son was a 
dishonorable coward, claiming that Ranma had ran 
out of some duel they had 
been supposed to have long ago. If that was true, 
it would have been a stain 
on Ranma and an act not befitting for a man 
amongst men.

Which led to the last of problems that came with 
the today's mail, after 
finding some more bills for skipped debts from her 
husband, Genma, she 
noticed a small package coming in a manilla 
envelope that was sent to her 
from Mr Noha Starliner. 

After opening it and looking through the papers 
inside, Nodoka left for the 
Tendo house containing to read the contents while 
she walked. It seemed that 
her husband had yet again gone and engaged Ranma 
to another girl and actually
went and signed a contract for this agreement. As 
she read it, her anger 
began to grow as she passed the part that said 
that Genma was the sole 
custodial parent and that she was deceased. what 
was even worse was that it 
was not the worst, the contract had been made on 
the Entire Clan's Honor and
name. This one was going to be a problem and it 
was going to be very hard to
fight it without drowning the Saotome name.

She also read that Genma had also signed that he 
had received the dowry, and 
as both the contract and the receipt for the 
dowery had been signed by 
witnesses intently put this claim in her mind as 
one having the best claim. 
The Tendos argument might be supported by both 
families but she knew of no 
witnesses to the agreement. She guessed that Soun 
and Genma had made the 
promise while drunk and half asleep in some bar.

Nodoka almost dropped the papers in shock as she 
opened a certified check for
10 Million US dollars and a note with it saying 
that the credit chip given to
 Genma was no longer valid. The included list of 
crimes and debts the Genma 
had gathered during the training journey he had 
been on with Ranma for 10 
years made her even more furious. She was going to 
have a real long talk with
Genma when she saw him. It even had an arrest 
warrant from New Avatron for 
theft, breaking and entering, child abuse and 
child endangerment. Strange, 
considering she had never heard of the country 
before.

On the way to Tendo home, Nodoka saw Ranma and 
Akane walking home from school
and Nabiki who was a little behind them intently 
reading something. As she 
got nearer, Nodoka could see that it was another 
copy of the contract.

Heading towards the middle Tendo Daughter, she 
called out to her. "Good
afternoon Nabiki."

Looking up from the papers she was reading Nabiki 
saw that Nodoka had come up
to her and had another set of papers which looked 
much like the ones she was 
just reading. "Hi aunty, I see you also got a 
package today." Nabiki replied,
her respect for this Mr Starliner kept growing. 
'This person is very good at 
planing this out.' she thought to herself knowing 
that a lot of planning had 
went into today's events.

"So what do you know abut my husband's latest 
transgressions, Nabiki. It 
seems that you got a copy of the contract as 
well." She asked wondering how 
Nabiki had got a copy of the document so soon.

"Yes Aunty, it was delivered to me by a courier 
just today while in school."
Nabiki explained to Nodoka, knowing that she was a 
little suspicious as to 
why she had a copy. " It seems that this Mr 
Starliner found out that I am the
one in the family that handles a lot of the 
family's legal dealings."

"And how did he know of this? His letter informed 
me that he only came to 
Japan in the last 2 weeks and was coming to 
Tendo's today so that the 
contract could be honored and to further discuss 
any possible problems in 
carrying it out." Nodoka wondered while Nabiki was 
a bit curious as to what 
she though of the contract.

Nabiki looked through the papers again, "This Mr 
Starliner, he seems to be 
very intelligent and well off. I am almost certain 
he had hired that PI which
was seen around here a few days ago," said Nabiki 
stopping for a second to 
think what she thought of it. "I begin to think 
that there's more than just
this new engagement. This person pretty much has 
what he needs to ruin the 
Saotome name if he was out for revenge."

"Do you think that is what this person is after? 
Revenge for something Genma
did?" Nodoka asked a little fearful, "That this 
person is seeking revenge and
is trying to ruin the Saotome name?"

"It could be just that Aunty, Uncle Genma did sign 
on the clans honor that no
other arrangements to marry Ranma existed and the 
Genma would make no other 
agreements once signing the contract." Nabiki told 
Nodoka.

"So the Tendo and Saotome agreement is in direct 
violation of the contract. 
Genma was basically lying when he signed to the 
fact that no other 
arrangements existed." Nodoka said with a sigh, "I 
also think you should see 
this." she added, handing the PI's report on Genma 
past integrations.

"What is this?" Nabiki asked while taking the 
report and the note that came 
with it. As Nabiki looked through it, her 
expression paled.

She never had really believed that Ranma was not 
good enough for her sister, 
when Ranma and his father first came she had 
thought that both of them where 
just some useless freeloaders. As time had passed, 
she had became to actually
like Ranma in the end unlike at beginning when she 
had thought Ranma had been
just some dumb Jock, Someone who was all too easy 
to take advantage of.

Nabiki still remembered when she had began taking 
pictures of Ranma and his 
female side. The pictures of Ranmas female side 
had brought in lots of money 
too, especially since Kuno was willing to buy a 
lot of them of his Pig-tailed
goddess. She even sold photos of Ranma's male form 
as well as a lot of the 
girls seemed to want photos of Ranma as well. Even 
though they knew they 
could never have him. After a while of doing this 
she had began to suspected 
that Ranma was actually letting her take the 
pictures of him. Ranma was just 
too good of a martial artist not to noticed her 
sneaking into his room late 
at night to take the pictures. It had been just a 
little while ago since she 
actually confronted Ranma with it. All he had said 
to her had been that he 
did not what to be a lazy good for nothing Panda 
like his father.

After that, Nabiki's respect for Ranma grew, Ranma 
was not the dumb jock that
she had first thought he was. As she started to 
look at Akane's behavior 
towards Ranma, and simply after the indecent with 
Saffon and the failed 
marriage, she began to believe it was actually 
Akane that did not deserve 
Ranma.

But the honor of the Tendos had been involved and 
Nabiki had very little she 
could have done, the honor could not be easily 
ignored. 

Stopping her reverie Nabiki read the additional 
papers that Nodoka had given 
her and was totally surprised by what she saw, to 
have believed that this was
person had attempted to ruin the Saotome's name. 
It wasn't that, but to 
finally show that Genma had no Honor at all. This 
Mr Starliner seemed to want
Ranma out of Genma's life totally. 

As far as Nabiki was concerned the Tendo-Saotome 
agreement was over. She 
would not allow the Tendo Estate to be lost 
because of some greedy Panda. 
Simply, even both of the families entire estates 
could not pay off all the 
debts that Genma had made over the years. Nabiki 
had always suspected that 
Genma was just after her families house and Dojo 
and just Using Ranma and the
agreement to get it, and lay off for the rest of 
his life, now she was 
totally certain of it. If any Tendo married Ranma 
it would most likely lead 
to the loss of the Tendo estate and the only way 
for the Saotome Estate to be
saved was for them to have Ranma marry Lorena 
Starliner or have him marry a 
Kuno but Nabiki knew that Ranma would rather 
commit seppuku than to do that.

"Aunty this is very disturbing to say in the 
least," Nabiki said to Nodoka.

"What do you think should be done about this?" 
Nodoka asked hoping that
maybe the middle Tendo daughter know of a way out 
of this.

"May I ask about the Saotome estate?" Nabiki 
asked, a little more nervous now
at the answer.

"The Saotome home has been in my family for a long 
time. Just like with your 
family Nabiki. My family are also descendants from 
minor noble blood and 
samurais." she informed Nabiki. 

"What would be most likely to happen now if Akane 
and Ranma where to marry?" 
Nodoka asks, fearful of the answer. She just knew 
that both Genma and Soun 
would still demand that their families had to be 
joined, no matter the costs.

"well, we would most likely loss both families 
estate and both families Honor
and name would be ruined as well." Nabiki informed 
Nodoka knowing she would 
not like what she was telling her.

Nabiki's answer was what Nodoka had feared, the 
only way out of it was to 
have Ranma challenge Lorena to a duel or have both 
her son and husband go 
through the Seppuku contract and hope that Mr 
Starliner would except the duel
or that the pledge would be exceptable to him. She 
did not want Ranma to be 
married to some gaijin girl. Gaijins, who simply 
couldn't understand the true
meaning of honor and were little better than 
barbarians, not at all civilized
like the Japanese were.

Nodoka was thinking about this to herself while 
they continued walking 
towards the Tendos home. With Ranma and Akane 
walking just a little bit in 
front of her, she could hear that both know of 
them knew of the pledge, Akane
yelling at Ranma about him being an two timing 
perverted freak and Ranma 
insulting Akane back by saying she was a violent 
uncute maniac.

Nodoka really did not see Ranma's behavior towards 
Akane to be befitting of a
man amongst men. Insulting his fiancee like that, 
but when Ranma actually did
what Akane had demanded of him, he remained quiet. 
A moment later Akane just 
malleted Ranma in the middle of the street for 
ignoring her, Nodoka was then 
concerned that no mater what Ranma would do, it 
would not satisfy the Tendo 
girl. 

After that had happened, Nodoka walked up to the 
youngest Tendo girl, telling
her that she should calm down and leave Ranma 
alone for a while. "But the 
pervert deserved it, getting himself engaged again 
like that! It's not like I
want to marry the freak but I hate it when all the 
other hussies think they 
can just have him." Akane angrily replied.

Nodoka was a little taken by her remark, did the 
girl hold honor in so little
regard?

"I was thinking of having Ranma challenging this 
new girl to a duel." She 
told Akane, irritated at Akanes reaction.

"I am a martial artist too! I can beat this 
hussy." Akane quickly snapped.

"I think it's best if Ranma handles the duel 
Akane, after all he has the best
skill."

"Ranma only wins because of some tricks of his or 
because he's cheating, 
unlike me. I'm way better than Ranma and it's 
about time I show why I am the 
best in Nerima, I don't need to cheat to win." 
Akane said angrily. She didn't
like it when people said that the perverted freak 
was better than her. She 
knew that she was the best, didn't she beat the 
freak every time she used her
mallet?

Nodoka could not believe what Akane was saying. 
She knew quite well that 
Akane had only the fundamental Basics of the art 
and was quite far the least 
skilled in the Art, all the other girls where much 
more skilled than Akane 
who was clearly not even remotely in the same 
league as Ranma. For Akane to 
actually claim to be better than Ranma was simple 
outrage. She was becoming a
insult to the art. 

That made Nodoka to decide that it would be better 
to have the engagement
switched to Kasumi, she was the only one of the 
Tendo girls that would be a 
proper Japanese wife to Ranma. Maybe she should 
also arrange for Nabiki and 
Ukyo to be Ranma mistresses as well, Nabiki might 
not make a proper wife but
she would still be useful as a mistress and having 
Ukyo as a mistress might 
satisfy her honor. Nodoka could not see how Ukyo 
could be a proper wife for 
Ranma, and Shampoo also shared the same fault as 
this Lorena Starliner. 
Nodoka didn't want her family blood tainted with 
gaijin blood.

As they neared the gates of the house they heard 
Soun loudly crying out how 
Genma had gone and engaged Ranma to an alien girl. 
All four stopped where 
they were, in total shock at what was just 
revealed.

"You perverted freak, you're now even sleeping 
with some Alien whore!" Akane 
yelled, whirling to face Ranma.

Akane then did something utterly destroyed any 
last thoughts in Nodoka's mind
to actually allow her son to marry her. Akane's 
battle aura blazed a bright 
red, as she proceeded to teach Ranma a lesson that 
he would never forget and
what she though he deserved for being unfaithful 
to her with a slut that was 
not even human. That in her mind, Akane delivered 
her punishment, something 
that no true martial artist would never do in any 
circumstances, she 
proceeded to kick Ranma in the groin.

"That's it, you sex changing freak, this is what 
you deserve for dishonoring
me with your perversion and for sleeping with 
something that is not even 
human!" Akane yelled out at Ranma who was lying on 
ground moaning in pain. 
"If I ever catch you even talking to that alien 
whore I will kill you both, 
and if I see that inhuman slut near my home I will 
kill her for her crimes 
against me. You belong to me, I can do anything I 
like to you, next time you 
insult me I will kill you for the perverted freak 
you are! I should have 
killed you back when I learned that you where 
nothing but some pervert boy!" 
Akane shouted before storming into the house as 
quickly as she could.

Nodoka and Nabiki looked at the remaining scene 
with horror. Nabiki was now 
afraid for Akane's life, she knew that Nodoka had 
a strict sense of honor and
Akane had just committed both a very dishonorable 
act and something that 
veiled the code of a martial artists in front of 
Nodoka in a very big way.

Nodoka sensing what Nabiki was thinking about, 
raised her voice. "I will not 
ask for Akane to take her own life but only after 
I have had a word with Soun
he has to forbid her to ever practice the art 
again and Akane has to have 
also agreed to this and swear on her honor that 
she will no longer practice 
or call herself a martial artist ever again." 
Nodoka told. Infuriated at 
seeing such dishonorable act being committed in 
plain sight. "After all this
is cleared up I will have Soun and Genma move the 
engagement to Kasumi, she's
the only girl in Nerima that would make a proper 
wife to Ranma." Nodoka 
continued to say to Nabiki, angered by the fact 
that someone of the Anything 
goes school would commit such a shameful act.

Nabiki didn't like what she had heard at all, she 
hated it when she did not 
have any control over the situation but if she 
wanted to save Akane's life 
she had to go along with this. She had never 
really wanted Kasumi to be 
dragged into this but they had no choice in the 
matter. "Yes Aunty. That will
be fine. I can see that it will be for the best." 
Was all she could say. Then
both she and Nodoka help the very badly hurting 
Ranma up and then went 
inside.

Genma looked very scared when they all came in and 
he noticed that his wife 
was with them.

"Husband what's this about you engaging our son to 
some alien girl." Nodoka 
said to Genma. Of all her husband's past 
indignations the some could not be 
ignored. It was one thing to have it happen with 
some gaijin, it was a whole
another thing to have it happen with some girl 
that was not human.

"It's not my fault," Genma said trying to find 
some excuse. "I thought he 
would not be able to get here, let alone to be 
able to find me." He said, 
looking extremely nervous at how Nodoka was 
fiddling with the katana she 
always carried with her. 

"And how did you meet this girl's father?" Nodoka 
ask her husband.

"It's all the boy fault, if he would only have 
listened to what I told him to
do, we would not have needed to run from the 
police through that portal." 
Genma said, using one of his old ways to try to 
get out of trouble, use Ranma
as a Pawn.

"You ended up on their world." Nodoka said, 
actually missing the part about 
the police, though Nabiki did not.

"Well if Ranma was better at his training he would 
have never have caught the
ungrateful boy." Genma said in his defense.

"Well, if my dishonorable son would not have got 
himself caught when I sent 
him to steal some gold from that house of Noha's, 
this would never have 
happed." Genma said, so intent was he on putting 
the blame on Ranma that he
actually confirmed that the Arrest warrant for him 
on New Avatron was Valid.

"And I suppose it had something to about this?" 
Nodoka said angrily to Genma,
throwing the arrest warrant to him.

"Damn that boy. It should have been him that 
should have had the warrant on 
him, that's what he was for." Genma grumbled.

"Whaaa! My son-in-law is a wanted criminal" Soun 
cried out, totally ignoring
reality that it was his long time friend who was 
the one who actually had the
arrest warrant out on him.

"There's no whey I going to marry a wanted 
perverted freak, I refuse to marry
a dishonorable criminal." Akane angrily added 
picking up what her father had 
said and using it as an excuse not to marry Ranma 
despite what her father 
said that the family honor told her to do.

"Well, when he finally gets here we will just have 
to have Ranma challenge
Lorena." Said Nodoka thinking that would solve the 
problem, Nodoka was quite 
confident that Ranma would win.

"That won't work, she's not a martial artist. 
Ranma would break the code if 
he fought her." Genma inform them. Despite all of 
Genmas crime's he did take
the code seriously and installed the code into 
Ranma since the time he first
had started to train him.

"I show that alien Hussy that I can defeat her 
then I show her just what a 
martial artist can do." Akane yelled out, 
oblivious to the fact all she was 
doing was showing to everyone that she was not.

"Akane you will not do such a thing." Nodoka said, 
fearing that she would
attack the girl while she was a guest at the Tendo 
home. The latter clear
stated he would be arriving soon under a state of 
truce. Attacking the girl 
on sight would be an act of dishonor on the Tendos 
name if she did do it. 
"They're coming under a truce and will be here 
shortly she informed." his 
youngest daughter.

"I don't care! I'm going to kill that inhuman 
hussy when I see her. she's not
human so I can do what ever I want to her."

Soun was shocked at Akane behavior and at how 
dangerously close she was 
getting to dishonoring the Dojo. "You will do no 
such thing Akane, I will not
have you stain the dojo's honor." Soun said to 
Akane not wanting the dojo 
ruined.

"I am the heir to this dojo, I can do whatever I 
want!" She yelled angrily at
her father.

Ranma was also shocked at Akane's outburst. Honor 
meant everything to him but
Akane had just seemed to just give it lip service, 
just as the Kunos' did. 
"You don't mean that Akane would do something so 
dishonorable?" Ranma said 
not believing what he was hearing.

"Did I give you permission to speak to me!" Akane 
let out. Grabbing a nearby 
vase and slamming it atop Ranmas head, knocking 
him out on the floor.

"Oh my." Kasumi let out, "And Akane promised on 
her honor that she would 
never again hit anyone in anger, ever again." 
Confused why her sweet little 
sister was acting this way.

"And just when did she make this oath?" Nodoka 
asked, she was quickly lost on
the oldest Tendo daughter seemingly obliviousness 
to what was happing around 
her.

"Just a little while after Ranma arriveda Aunty. I 
thought she would have 
grown out of it by now." Kasumi informed, "I'm not 
sure why Nodoka, it was 
not like Akane was overly violent, just a little 
excitable."

"Doesn't anyone in the family have any honor?" 
Nodoka asked herself. Kasumi
seemed to not care that her sister could not 
behave honorably at all, or so 
it seemed. But getting back to the matter at hand.

"Well then, we will just have to have Ranma duel 
this Noha Starliner." Nodoka
decided, not really knowing what she was getting 
herself into.

Genma paled at that, "He's a weapon user and 
claims to be a warrior!" He was 
fearful because he feared seeing some of Noha's 
skill as a warrior and 
figured that if Ranma used some of his ki attacks, 
Noha could see that as 
using a weapon and retaliate in kind.

"Is the any primarily bare handed fighter in the 
Starliner family?" Nodoka
asked her husband, not like this turn of events at 
all.

"No, Tanis would kill the boy, I won't allow him 
to fight him." Genma said, 
wanting to run now, there was no way he wanted to 
meet that thing ever again 
and his mate had said that she would use him as a 
scratching post if he ever 
harmed Ranma again and the Neko-ken training would 
be just that in her eyes, 
and Nime was just as terrifying as Tanis.

"You're not afraid of this man, are you husband?" 
Asked his wife, Nodoka 
could clearly see the fear in Genma's eyes. "I am 
afraid of no Man." Genma
boldly replied. "Better if the boy will be killed 
by him than me." He let 
out, getting ready to make a run for it.

Nodoka paled and decided to have another long talk 
with Genma, displaying 
such cowardness could not be tolerated. It was one 
thing for Genma to show 
fear to Happousai. But to an alien it could not be 
tolerated. Genma had to 
show why they had more honor and were more 
civilized than other people.

Ranma was getting angry, every one was deciding 
about his fate for him and he
was not getting any say in it and Ranma was 
furious at his father. He had 
always told Ranma that a member of Anything Goes 
must accept all challenges 
if they wanted to keep their honor. Now Genma was 
actually trying to run away
from a one, Ranma knew that if he ever said what 
Genma just did he would 
immediately disown him and claim that Ranma had no 
honor.

"If Tanis shows up then no matter who he 
challenges, especially if it was me,
you will fight him or you will be tossed out of 
the clan! I will not tolerate
a son who will refuse a challenge. Your honor now 
depends on it boy, prove 
your worth to me and I will no longer tolerate any 
disrespect from you." 
Genma let out content that he had thought up a 
good plan, let Ranma deal with
the problem and make certain that his honor was 
riding on it. Leaving him 
free to make a run for it. Genma thought before 
happening to look at Nodoka 
who was now drawing her sword. His skin paled has 
he knew she would take this
as an act of cowardice and now planned to remove 
the stain of honor from her 
family name.

"Husband you've gone too far this time. I cannot 
forgive this." She said her 
anger showing with the battle aura she was now 
displaying.

At that moment, Genma was getting ready to attack 
her and run. He made a 
guess that Noha sent his dowery in to Nodoka, so 
that she could use it. It 
belonged to him, not Nodoka, after all he had 
earned it after taking care of 
Ranma all these years and he was going to need 
that money when he made his 
escape. Once he had the money, he could live a 
life of luxury like he had 
always wanted, it was the only reason he had left 
New Avatron with Ranma 
anyway. He had needed the boy since he was 
returning to Earth to escape the 
law there after he realized that the credit chip 
would be worthless when he 
got back. 

Now if he grabbed the check, he could live the 
life of luxury he was trying 
to get and that had been why he had married Nodoka 
in the first place anyway.
He had dumped the woman he had actually had some 
feelings for, so that he 
could marry a rich woman and Nodoka with her 
thought of mainlines was just 
the most conventional one. The master's training 
had really paid off back 
then. Though she did take that earlier girl's 
address, he was always certain 
that he would never see her again. Simply because 
she tended to get lost all 
the time just like that Hibiki boy.

Just as both elder Saotomes were about to make 
their moves, the door bell 
rang. It was a surprise to everyone since most 
visitors rarely use the door 
bell. Let alone the front door at all.

Genma then knew his time was up, the Starliner's 
had arrived and everyone in 
the house knew that after this meeting their lives 
would never be the same 
again.

End of Chapter 1


I want to thank Pauli Savola and all the other 
People in the Fanfics Forum on
Delphi that help me with this fic.




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