Hi all, This is just, well I'm not actually sure why I started writing 
it, I had a few ideas for how to write a piece like this and it flowed.  What do 
you think?
	

Legal: The characters of Ranma 1/2 were created by the 
great Rumiko Takahashi.
There are no characters from 3x3 eyes, but it is the sorce of some concepts.  
3x3 eyes was created by Yuzo Takada.
I am using them without permission, hopefully for the 
purpose of entertaining someone.  If anyone who has a right 
to sue me has that desire, I have almost no money.
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	"Not bad Son-in-Law"  Cologne said as she landed on her staff 
a few feet away from Ranma.
	Ranma landed facing her, ignoring the bruises she had just given 
him.  He glanced at the unconscious form of Mousse lying a few feet 
away from him.  "Allright old ghoul, Mousse said you were cooking up 
some sort of magic, now what are you up to?"
	"I have no idea what you're talking about Son-in-Law,"  
Cologne responded, grinning slightly.  "And I am surprised that you're 
here with me instead of cheering Shampoo to victory."
	Ranma scowled.  A few days ago an argument between 
Shampoo and Akane had sparked a formal challenge.  The winner 
would get to cook lunch for Ranma for an entire week.  If Akane won 
he'd have to face a week of her cooking.  If Shampoo won he'd have to 
deal with the look in Akane's eyes when Shampoo went after him every 
day.
	"It should be a intriguing match."  Cologne added with a smirk 
that chilled Ranma's blood.
	"You and Shampoo are up to something.  What?"  Ranma 
asked quietly.
	"Actually it's just me, Shampoo's shown herself to be a bit too 
soft hearted to get rid of Akane like she should have right from the 
beginning.  So I've summoned the spirit of one of her Amazon ancestors 
and corrected the problem.  It should be done by now."  Cologne's 
smirk intensified.
	Ranma took a step toward the Amazon matriarch, then he 
turned and exited the Nekohanten as fast as he could move.  He knew 
that the duel was in the park and he sped there as fast as he could.

	The park was crowded.  Ranma saw Nabiki standing at a 
opening in a roped off area filled with people surrounding a ring.  
Looking over the crowds he could see the top of the ring.  Shampoo 
was standing at one end holding her bonbori.  She had a bruise on her 
cheek, and was breathing heavily, but it was clear that Akane had taken 
the worst of the damage.  One arm was hanging limp, blood seeping 
from a cut on her cheek and another above her eyes.  Ranma began 
forcing his way through the crowd.
	Shampoo looked at him.  It was a calm imperious look 
completely different from any look she had directed at him before.  She 
turned back to Akane, and dropped her Bonbori.  Pulling out a sword 
she stated "Obstacle is for killing."  She started toward Akane at a run.
	"Shampoo NO!!"  Ranma screamed.  A surge of pain flickered 
at the front of his head, and some part of his mind was analyzing the 
options, It would take five more seconds to get within jumping distance 
of the ring without hurting anyone in the audience.  That would take to 
long.  Ranma stopped and focused his confidence, gathering his energy 
as fast as he could.
	Akane had narrowed her eyes as she saw Shampoo advancing, 
and stepped forward, jumping into the air to meet her rush.
	Ranma raised his hands, a sphere of yellow light shimmered into 
existence between his hands.  Looking at the ring he saw Akane and 
Shampoo about to meet in the air.  Shampoo was thrusting forward 
with her sword, Akane was twisting to kick at her.  He could see that 
both strikes would hit, and Shampoo was striking to kill.  "MOKO-
TAKABISHIA!"  Ranma screamed as he unleashed all his energy 
against Shampoo.  Akane's kick impacted with Shampoo's chest, 
shattering several ribs.  Shampoo's sword thrust hit the right side of 
Akane's chest, penetrating easily.  Ranma's chi blast hit Shampoo, 
throwing her out of the ring.
	Ranma jumped into the Ring, and advanced the three paces to 
Akane's side.  She was lying still, the sword lying on the ground in front 
of her, it's blade stained crimson.  She coughed, spilling blood from her 
mouth to trickle down her chin.
	"AKANE!"  Ranma turned and screamed as loud as he could, 
"NABIKI GET A DOCTOR FAST!!!"  He fell to his knees by Akane.
	She looked up at him.  "Ranma."  She said quietly, her voice 
distorted by the blood in her throat.
	"Don't try to talk.  Save you're strength, we'll talk after the 
Doctor gets here."  There was a strong constant ache in his forehead, 
Ranma ignored it.
	Akane winced as she lifted her left arm.  "I'm sorry, Ranma.  I 
want you to know I love..."  her arm dropped, and she closed her eyes.
	"Akane..."  Ranma said, leaning forward and looking into her 
face.  A drop of blood fell onto her cheek, from the red horizontal line 
that had appeared in his forehead.  Akane's breathing was becoming 
shallower.  "no."  Another drop of blood fell.  "No."  Ranma had to 
wince at the searing pain.  "NO!"  He screamed to the heavens.  The 
line of blood in his forehead split, revealing the eye beneath.
	Ranma didn't know what had happened, his body suddenly felt 
as though it was filled with power.  A wave of euphoria swept across 
him, and was shattered by the reality he saw before him.  Akane was 
lying on the ground, and he could see her life flowing through her, could 
see it dimming as she died.  Ranma knew he had to save her.  And a 
means to save her formed in his head.  Not questioning it's source 
Ranma leaned forward and put his effort into the task.
	Light exploded around Ranma.  Then the light became 
concentrated, focused into a beam from his third eye to Akane's chest.  
A glowing sphere emerged from her and traveled up the beam to be 
absorbed by the eye.  The eye closed, the light was gone.
	Ranma felt more tired than he had ever felt before.  But he 
knew that Akane would not die and the joy this thought brought swept 
away exhaustion.  Then he felt hostility, and looked up to see Shampoo 
pulling herself to her feet.  With his third eye open he could clearly see 
the spirit in her, the spirit that had enabled her to try to kill Akane.  
Ranma raised his right hand toward her, fist clenched.  Then he shifted 
his grip so that his thumb was pressing against the fingernails of his two 
middle fingers.  His outer fingers straightened, and he struck forward 
with his hand.  A wave of force blasted from him, striking Shampoo and 
throwing her onto her back.  The Spirit possessing her was torn from 
her body by the full force of the strike, retreating from the human world 
in incredible pain.  In a room in the Nekohanten, a candle burning with a 
blue flame suddenly went out.
	Ranma looked down at Akane.  "Akane..."  he whispered, then 
all three eyes closed and he collapsed beside her.

	Shampoo woke feeling pain and confusion.  She could 
remember waking up, her day up to a point in her final preparations for 
her duel with Akane Tendo.  However from the moment Cologne had 
insisted that she make an offering at the small shrine to the Amazon 
ancestors, her memory became dream like and vague.  Until now.  She 
tried to lift herself with her arms, and gasped at the sudden pain in the 
right side of her chest.  *Broken Ribs,*  She thought to herself.  *How 
did that happen?*
	"Hold on, sis."  Turning at the sound of this voice she saw 
Nabiki kneeling on the ring.  Before her lay Akane, and next to her was 
Ranma.  Shampoo pulled herself to her feet with her left arm, ignoring 
the protests from her ribs.  She walked quickly up to the ring and 
jumped up to land by Ranma.  Nabiki looked at her, and fixed her with 
a gaze filled with more hate than she had ever seen in her life.  Shampoo 
felt an overwhelming sense of guilt, and a sense of confusion, over both 
the guilt and the hatred.
	"What happen to Akane?  And to Ranma?"  She asked, her 
voice quiet with her confusion, and fear as she saw the blood on the 
platform.
	"You."  Whispered Nabiki.
	"Nabiki, Shampoo not remember since prayed for luck in 
contest.  What happen?"
	"RANMA!!"  Genma's voice echoed through the park as he ran 
forward and jumped onto the stage.  "Oh, my son!"  He turned to 
Nabiki and started "How is..."  Then he looked down and saw the 
blood.  He blinked a moment, then he looked closer, and his eyes 
widened.  The blood was flowing back into Akane's wound.  Turning to 
Akane, he reached out to brush the hair away from her forehead.  "Oh 
Nodoka."  He whispered.  Then he reached down, swung Akane over 
his left shoulder, Ranma over his right, and stood.
	"MR. SAOTOME!!"  Nabiki screamed as she watched him 
manhandle her critically injured sister.
	Genma looked her in the eye.  Nabiki had never seen this 
expression on him before.  It was a combination of fear, sorrow, and 
relief.  "Nabiki, Akane's not in any danger.  I'll explain it to her and 
Ranma back at the Dojo once they wake up."  He turned to Shampoo 
and added.  "You'd better come too.  What I'm going to say...  well I 
want everyone who's after my son too know what's happened."
	Genma turned, and started toward the Dojo at a run.

	Ranma groaned slightly, and blinked as he awoke.  He 
recognized that he was lying in his and his father's room.  He 
remembered what had happened just before he fell asleep.  "Akane!"  
He cried as he bolted to his feet.  Looking to his side he saw Akane 
lying on a futon a few feet away from him.  She was wearing the same 
Gi, it's top cut and bloodied by the killing slash from shampoo's sword, 
however he could see through the rip the unmarked skin underneath.  
Reddening slightly, Ranma looked away from her chest, and looked at 
the familiar contours of her face.  He had seen Akane in many moods, 
and even sleeping like now, he knew her face perfectly.  There was 
something different about it.  On his forehead there was a Chinese 
character.
	"Ranma."  Said a womans voice from the doorway of the room.  
Ranma hadn't heard the voice very often, but he knew it very well.  His 
mother's voice.  He looked down at himself and saw that he was male.  
Expanding his observation he saw that he was in the Tendo Family 
room, the Koi pond was outside, and his mother was looking directly at 
him, and there was no way he could run or change.  "Don't worry 
Ranma."  His mother said as she walked across the room to him.  "I'm 
not here about Jusenkyo, or the promise of Sepoku you've feared so 
much."
	"Mom?"  Ranma responded as he turned to her.  He could see 
a smile on her face and tears in her eyes.
	Nodoka responded by grabbing him into a fierce hug, 
whispering "I missed you so much."
	"Oh Mom."  Ranma responded as he returned the hug.  For a 
minute that was all that mattered to either of them.
	Nodoka separated them and brushed the tears from her eyes.  
"Now, let me look at you."  She said as she observed him carefully.  "I 
see you do take after me.  In ways I had not wanted."  She said with a 
sigh.
	Ranma was about to ask when he heard Akane moan.  
Spinning and kneeling beside her, he quietly said "Akane," as he 
watched her wake up.
	"Uh,"  Akane stated, opening her eyes, and looking around.  
She stopped when she saw Ranma and said quietly "Ranma..."  Then 
she blinked in memory.  She glanced down at the bloodstained Gi, and 
putting her hand into the slashed portion she felt the undamaged skin.  
"How?"
	"I can answer that."  Nodoka stated quietly from the door.  
Ranma and Akane both looked at her, her joy at being reunited with her 
son was being overcome by some unknown Sorrow.  "Mom?"  Ranma 
said quietly.
	"Mrs. Saotome?"  Akane added, sitting up.
	"Come on, I think I'd rather explain this to everyone."  She said 
as she turned and walked out the door.
	Ranma looked after her, then looked back at Akane.
	Akane looked at Ranma, looked down at her gi, and said "I, uh 
I think I ought to change into something else."
	Ranma glanced down at his own outfit, then responded.  "Yeah, 
me too."

	Ranma walked down the stairs with Akane right behind him.  
Akane was wearing her yellow dress with a floral pattern, Ranma his 
Red shirt black pants.  They both paused as they overlooked the family 
room.  Nodoka was siting at the head of the table, Genma beside her.  
Surrounding the table were: Soun, Nabiki, and Kasumi, a very sad 
looking Shampoo, beside a worried Mousse, and a concerned looking 
Ukyo.
	Everyone turned their head to look at Ranma and Akane.
	No one said anything.
	Nodoka indicated that the two of them sit at a open space to 
her left.
	"Ranma, there is so much to tell you.  So much you need to 
know..."  Nodoka trailed off looking down at the table.
	"I think it would be best if I tell him how we met."  Genma said 
to her.
	Genma turned to Ranma and began.  "I met Nodoka in the year 
1895.  I was at that time only a few years older than you are now."  He 
looked at the incredulous looks from around the table.  "It may be hard 
to believe but at the time she wasn't human."
	Nodoka looked up and started talking, "My people were 
known as the Sanjiyan Unkara, or sometimes as the Triclops.  When 
we existed, at least.  For a very long time we sought to end our 
immortality and attain humanity.  To the best of my knowledge I was the 
last to find a way to become human."
	Nabiki looked at her and said in a skeptical voice, "So you 
were Immortal, and you wanted to give it up?"
	Nodoka sighed and looked at the table.  "You can only see our 
longevity, our power.  You don't know the terrible prices they require, 
or the gifts of humanity that you know too well to see."
	"Be that as it may, it doesn't explain how Akane recovered from 
being almost killed by Shampoo."  Nabiki continued.  Across the table 
from her Shampoo winced, and a tear rolled down her cheek.
	"If you listen to the rest of our story it will all make sense."  
Genma responded.  "To shorten the tale; I met Nodoka on the road, 
and agreed to show her the way to Kyoto.  However on the way there , 
there was an... accident."
	"An inn was on fire, and Genma was severely injured trying to 
save the people inside.  I had only known him a short time, but I knew 
that I couldn't allow him to die.  So I used one of the most basic and 
potent powers of the Sanjiyan and made him my WU."  She paused to 
take a sip from the cup of tea Kasumi had given her just before Ranma 
and Akane had arrived.  "You see, the Sanjiyan posses great magic 
power.  However when we use that power to it's utmost, it weakens us, 
often leaving us powerless for a time.  So long ago even by immortal 
standards, we learned how to take the soul of another and merge it with 
our own.  The one who's soul we have taken becomes our WU, our... 
protector and servant.  As the soul is kept safe within our own, the 
WU's body becomes immune from harm, all injuries heal at fantastic 
speed, and they share our own longevity, and a portion of our power."  
Nodoka stopped and looked at her tea.
	Genma resumed the narrative.  "For a very long time I traveled 
with Nodoka, helping her search for a way to become human.  And 
eventually we found the Nyanichuan."
	Ranma blinked.  He looked at his father with a disbelieving 
expression.  "YOU KNEW?!"
	"We knew, Ranma."  Nodoka responded.  "You see, I became 
human in the Nyanichuan, and within a few hours the character marking 
your father my WU faded forever.  We traveled apart for a few years, I 
wanted to get a feel of humanity, you're father met Happosei and Soun, 
and decided to relearn fighting without the power he had gained from 
me.  After disposing of Happosei, we met again, he proposed and I 
accepted."  She smiled at the memory.  "We bought a house with the 
savings of centuries, and in a few years, I had you."  She looked at 
Ranma her eyes glistening, and a smile on her face.  Then the smile 
faltered.
	"However even from the beginning, I wondered if my Sanjiyan 
nature was gone or merely suppressed.  I was uncertain whether or not 
you might have inherited my former nature.  Then when you were five I 
knew.  You were at the playground, and a group of bullies was picking 
on you.  You had enough training to handle any one of them one on 
one, but they were threatening you all at once.  When I was coming to 
help you, I saw you're forehead begin to spontaneously bleed, here."  
Nodoka said extending her finger and tracing a short line in the center of 
Ranma's forehead.
	"Here you were in a situation where a young Sanjiyan would 
have tried to call forth his power, and there was blood where you're 
third eye would have opened.  That was when I knew you had inherited 
my former nature from me."
	Genma glanced at his wife, then started talking.  "Anyway, 
Nodoka didn't know what to do.  Remember it hadn't been that long 
ago when she gave up the power of the Sanjiyan forever.  Now she 
discovered that the power she had spent most of her life trying to 
escape was part of you.  We talked about what to do for a long time.  
Nodoka was desperate to enable you to grow up and live you're life as 
a normal human, but she had no idea how to.  I hoped she could 
succeed, but I also knew that if you did become Sanjiyan, you needed 
to be able to handle it.  After about a week, Nodoka decided that her 
presence risked empowering you're Sanjiyan side and she insisted that I 
take you and raise you till you were a man.  I accepted her judgment, 
and we began our long training trip.
	"I was determined that if I failed to keep you human you should 
at least have some experience with travel and Martial Arts in 
preparation for life as a Sanjiyan.  And as you were about to turn 
sixteen, I decided to hedge our bets and take you to Jusenkyo to add 
an extra bit of insurance that you're Sanjiyan nature would remain 
sealed."
	"So what about that promise?  The man among men thing?"  
Nabiki asked.
	Nodoka looked at her.  "That was my idea.  Genma told me 
that he was coming home after Jusenkyo, I wanted to see my son again 
so much, but I was still terrified that I might awaken the Sanjiyan nature 
within him.  I chickened out at the last moment, and Genma decided to 
come here instead."  She sighed and looked down.  "I kept planing to 
come, but the fear kept holding me back.  Eventually I contacted 
Genma and we tried to think up a way for me to see Ranma with the 
Jusenkyo curse as a buffer.  Genma and I thought up the man among 
men promise as a way to keep you in you're cursed form without having 
to burden you with the knowledge that you weren't fully human.  Genma 
told me that there was no sign of you're Sanjiyan side manifesting, so I 
was planing a way to reveal your secret and accept your manliness.  
However before I could, Akane was attacked, and your pain and anger 
at seeing her dying awoke my side of you're heritage.  You made her 
WU, exorcised the spirit possessing Shampoo, and fainted from the 
strain of the spellcraft."
	Ranma looked at Akane, then said quietly "Hai."  Akane looked 
back at him, a somewhat surprised expression on her face.
	"Akane."  Nodoka said, turning her attention to her sons 
Fianc�e.
	Blinking back her surprise Akane looked at Nodoka.  "Hai?"
	"You aren't sure you believe what I've said, are you?"
	"Well..."
	"Give me your hand a moment."  Nodoka responded.  Akane 
looked at her a moment, then extended her open right hand toward 
Mrs. Saotome, palm up.  Nodoka touched the fingers of her own right 
hand to Akanes, then in a second drew a Tanto dagger with her left 
hand and stabbed it into Akane's palm.
	It took everyone a moment to overcome the sense of shock 
enough to react.  Ranma was first, grabbing his mother's wrist, and 
yanking it back.  Before he could do anything more, Nodoka said 
"Hold up your hand a moment, Akane."
	Akane was looking at her just wounded hand, and looked at 
Nodoka she held it up.  As everyone watched, the blood that had 
poured from the wound flowed back into it, as her skin closed itself.  
As everyone watched the wound healed and faded without a trace.
	"Hmm, getting soft in you're old age I see."  Genma 
commented.
	Nodoka glanced at him with an annoyed look, "She is my son's 
fianc�e, not some slow witted wanderer I just met."
	Genma turned to Akane and said, "She illustrated my newly 
gained healing power to me by chopping off my head."  He rubbed his 
neck and winced somewhat.

	Suddenly a small object blurred into the room.  "Ranma-Chan!"  
It called out, as it resolved itself into Happosei long enough to splash a 
bucket onto Ranma.  A second later the old pervert had clamped 
himself onto Ranma's newly acquired breasts.
	"GRRAA!"  Ranma replied.  Her clothes were whipped by an 
unseen wind, her hair raised by an updraft that only affected her, then 
there was a blinding flash of light and a crash.
	Ranma had risen to her feet.  Her right arm was extended from 
throwing Happosei into the garden.  Her third eye was open and glaring 
at the old master.  "You disgusting old freak."  She said, her voice 
vibrating with power.

	When this had happened a few hours ago, all of Ranma's 
attention had been directed to Akane.  Now she no longer had that to 
worry about, or the pain that had accompanied her initial awakening to 
distract her.  She could feel the power soaring through her body, 
focusing in the eye that had just opened in her forehead.
	What's more, this third eye didn't see what her other two saw.  
Through it she saw the spirits in the earth and everywhere.  She could 
see the cloud of dark spiritual energy surrounding the old man she had 
just thrown into the backyard.  And despite the newness of this new 
sight, she knew instinctively what she was seeing.  And as she looked at 
the wind, actually seeing it for the first time; she just knew that he was 
not limited to sight.  Taking a step toward the garden she raised her 
hands.

	As Ranma lifted her hands, wind swirled around her, picking up speed.  
Ranma shifted 
her hands, once again extending the two outer fingers while bringing her thumb 
to meet the other  
two.  She jabbed her hands forward, and as the wind around him died down, a 
dramatically 
stronger wind formed around Happosei, lifting the old pervert into the air.  
Ranma quickly 
gestured away with his right hand.  Happosei was hurled into the distant sky.