On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Hitomi Ichinohei wrote:

Well, how is this for a begining?

	Looking good...

	A handsome man in a dark, almost black gi answered him with a
smile, "Son, you've got to start thinking of various possibilities instead
of only a small number of circumstances.  As the sole heir to the
Musabetsu Kakutou Ryu, you have to be ready for anything." 
	Tendo Soun then reached in again with the snake strike, but with a
small nerve variation that allowed him to grab his son's gi between his
thumb and forfinger, allowing him to pull his son slightly off balance for
a quick inside strike to the underarm for the take down.  "Kaneda, you may
be the best martial artist of your generation, but you are still too damn
overconfident.  Remember that each variation can have a thousand different
endings." 
	Groaning from where he was on the tatami, Tendo Kaneda, sole heir
to probably the greatest school of the martial arts replied, "OK pop. 
Point well taken." 

	So Soun has been a bit more attentive to his child's martial arts 
training in this world?  All for the better...

	Looking at his son, he said, "Practice the seventeenth Kata for
the next hour." 
	Kaneda groaned as he thought of the seventy five moves in that
Kata. 

ouch!

	The woman on the other side of the phone said, "I will accept
Tendo-san.  We will close the house here and after my daughter and myself
move in, we will arrange to rent it out to provide income." 
	The man looked sad, "As you wish Nodoka-chan, but that is
unnecessary.  We are family." 
	Nodoka's voice became firm, "I insist on this.  The children will
need some form of income until they can marry and take over the school. 
We will arrive this afternoon." 

	Thus explaining pocket money...

Saotome Ranma, Saotome Genma, Saotome Nodoka, Saotome Ranko, Tendo Soun,
Tendo Kasumi, Tendo Nabiki, Kuonji Ukyou, Kuno Tatewaki, and Tofu Ono
Sensei are copyright 1987, 1997 by Takahashi Rumiko. 

Tendo Kaneda are copyright 1997 by unknown

Presumably the first person to do a fanfic where a male Akane was called 
"Kaneda"...anyone know?
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Looking forward to this and all your other stories!
SKJAM!