Oh, no!!! I'm at it again!!! Somebody, shoot me!!!!!
Well, here's chapter 3.

     Black Lightning Design Group presents:
     Is This a Dream?
     Or a Nightmare?
          Chapter 3
     A Ranma 1/2 Fan-fic

     I wake up slowly.  *Who am I?*  I think.  I feel the bed moving.
Maybe that's what woke me up.  I look at the other person in the bed.
She's tall, has long brown hair, and is startled.  I feel some
connections making themselves known.  I remember some words.  What do
they mean.  Then I know.
     "Konnichiwa, Okkasan!"  I blurt.  The woman ... no, my MOTHER
     looks at
me, startled.  She says something, but I can't remember those words. 
She feels my forehead, and I relax.  She then starts going through a
... waking ceremony?  I'm startled, but I watch her, and try to follow
along.  Mother smiles at me, and I feel happy.  I feel more
connections making themselves in my head, confusing as they are. 
Mother asks me something.  I ... try to remember the words, then I
have it.  Mother wants to know where my parents are.
     I'm confused.  I search for the words, and I eventually find
     them.
[Authors note:  From now on all dialogue will be in Japanese, except
for the amazons, where their talking will be delineated by {this}.]
     "But mother, don't you remember?"  The words come slowly, but I
     _DO_
remember them.  Mother looks startled.
     "Are you sure that I'm your mother?" she asks.
     I'm confused, of course she's my mother, why can't she see that?
"Don't you love me anymore?"  I feel tears start to well up.  I hold
on to my piggy for support.  I feel hurt, and mother looks startled.
     Mother then looks pityingly at me, and then asks me, "Can you
     remember
your name?"  I shake my head, and she looks even more sad for me. 
"Well, I don't know if I'm your real mother,"  Tears start flowing
from my eyes, *Can't she see that we're related?  Please mother, try
to remember me, at least take me in...* Mother continues, "But if you
want me to, I'll adopt you, so that I'll be your mother in other
people's eyes, at least, is that okay?"  I nod, for having your mother
adopt you is better than having to mother at all.  I then notice
another woman standing at the doorway.
     "Hey, Kasumi, did you find out how she got all this money?"  The
     new
woman holds out a LARGE bundle of money.  I look startled.  Me?  Have
money?  I don't think so.
     "Who had the money?" I ask.  Then another connection is made. 
     Nabiki.
This is my aunt Nabiki.  "Did that person say you could take the
money, aunt Nabiki?"  She looks startled, as if she didn't expect me
to know her name.  Oh, well.
     Nabiki looks at me strangely.  Then she asks something that even
     I
don't know.  "Who's your father?"  I'm startled, I don't know.  I
can't remember my father's name, or mine, for that matter.  I'm
afraid.  Mother sees this, and holds me close, whispering comfortingly
in my ear.  "Did I say something wrong?  By the way, why did you say
Ranma's name when you came here?"
     I'm confused.  Ranma?  Ranma?  I try to remember him, calling up
     every
dredge of memory I can, then I find it.  Uncle Ranma, well, he will
be, after he marries aunt Akane.  I tell Aunt Nabiki this, and she
looks startled.  Then she asks why I find it hard to remember.  The
word is there somewhere.  I'm confused, but mother holds me tightly,
so it's not so bad. The word, I heard it before, somewhere.  I got it!
 "Amnesia"  I say confidently.  Mother and aunt look startled.  But
they then nod.
     Mother gets up.  "Nabiki, put the money back where you got it
     from.  I
have to make lunch."  Lunch?  I perk up at this.
     "Mother, can I help?"  Mother looks startled, but nods.  I
     happily get
up and throw on my clothes.  Aunt Nabiki looks startled for a second,
and then mutters something about Akane's cooking, or something like
that. Piggy just gets up and follows me.
     Mother waves at me to stay where I am for a bit.  I nod.  Mother
     goes
up to aunt and whispers something in her ear.  Aunt looks confused and
whispers back.  Mother whispers again.  Aunt looks at me, shrugs, and
nods to mother.  Mother comes back to me and says, "I know you can't
remember your name, but could you think of Naiko as your name?"  I
look at mother, and nod.  After all, she knows my name, even if I
don't.  "Well, shall we go to the kitchen, then?"  I nod happily, and
then hold onto mother's hand. I still can't remember our house.
     Oh, well.  It will come back to me.
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     Yeesh, three chapters in less than 24 hours, well I hope that
     it's
turning out fine for you.  For the emotionally disinclined and subtly
useless, it might take a few readings to get all the subtle
information down pat.
     Here ends another chapter in the fascinating travels of
     Once-mark,
Now-Naiko.
     Keep watching!
               Shadow Dancer
                    of
       Black Lightning Design Group
        danceshadows@geocities.com
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      Stress Relief
   All stressed out?  Sometimes it helps to think
of happy scenes.  Maybe a pastoral field, a field
with a babbling brook.  You're there on a lovely
summer's day...holding someone's head under the 
water.  Now you're letting them up for a second.
Then blam!  Back into the freezing water!  Over
and over again!  There.  Feel better?