Ok here is my reposts... This is the my first fic so please dont be too
critical.
Toboholm@telusplanet.net
Author's Note: Hello. I am Brenon Kiyoshi Holmes. I am 16 years
of age and have recently been reading a lot of fanfics. In
doing so I have been inspired to write one of my own. I like
to write and I also like reading and watching Ranma ½. I've
been told that my stories are decent so ill let you be the
judge. In writing this fanfic I have tried to maintain the
spirit of Rumiko Takahashi's world... so please don't be
upset if I make a few mistakes. Just to let you all know
when someone is thinking or hears a voice in their head they
have the little - signs. I have also added the suffix chan for
when Ranma is in girl form. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: All Disclaimer's really are, are begging from the
author of the fanfic to the creator of the series not to sue
them for their measly attempts at a real story. So I beg the
creator of Ranma ½ not to sue me for this fanfic. People
usually don't actually read all of this crap so I’m not actually
going to write anything important in it... 'cause you wouldn't
read it anyway!
Anyway on with the story.
"The Gift"
Part one
It was another average say at the Tendou dojo. Akane woke to
the sounds of Ranma and Genma fighting.
"Ungh! Argh! Take that! Aaahhhh! Splash!".
-do those two ever stop fighting?- She wondered to herself.
Akane jumped up quickly and dashed over to the calendar. Yes. She did
have a reason to be excited. Tomorrow was her birthday. She quickly
got dressed and dashed downstairs. Then she sat down for breakfast.
"Good morning Akane" Soun greeted her.
"Good morning Akane" Kasumi said sweetly.
"Morning Dad, morning Kasumi!" Akane replied cheerfully.
Mr. Panda looked over at Ranma.
"Growr...rwarw...urrgrrr" he said.
"Awww... pop! Change back! How can I understand you when you're a stupid
panda!" Ranma picked up a tea-kettle that just happened to be lying
there and doused Genma with it.
"Ranma! Have I wasted sixteen years of my life raising a crybaby?!?"
Genma moaned in despair.
"Aarghh! Stupid old man! I shouldn't have changed you back!" Ranma
yelled as he booted Genma into the pond.
Splash!
"Well gotta go" Nabiki stood up "I'm working on a project at the school,
see ya" Nabiki left.
"Father will you come to the market with me?" Kasumi asked.
"Uh. Yes, Kasumi great idea! I don't know why I didn't think of it!"
Soun stood up and walked off with Kasumi.
Akane looked around at the suddenly vacant room, then looked at Ranma
and Genma. Genma stood up, grabbed Ranma and dragged him into the next
room.
"Have you gotten Akane's birthday present boy?!" Genma asked menacingly.
"No! You know I don't have any money" Ranma responded.
"Ranma I’m disappointed in you, I would have thought you would have
prepared for tomorrow a lot better!" Genma said admonishingly .
"Pop you know I don’t have any money!" Ranma said.
"Akane is your fiancé and therefore it is your responsibility to buy her
gift, besides I don't have any money to loan you." Genma said.
"Stupid old man! you could have just said so!" Ranma yelled again
booting Genma into the pond.
Later Ranma sat looking out over the city wondering how in the
world was he going to get enough money to buy Akane a gift by tomorrow?
He could get a job but where? Just then he heard a bike bell
ringing...
-huh? A bike bell... that should mean something to me...- Ranma pondered
Wham! A bike landed on Ranma grinding its wheels into his face and
body.
"Nihao Ranma! You date with Shampoo yes?" Shampoo asked looking down at
Ranma's face over the handlebars.
"Hcnnn mnyrn tkane urytg bidke ofak my fhmmr?" Ranma asked.
"What Ranma? You date with Shampoo?" Shampoo asked.
"No!" Ranma said losing his temper and lifting the bike off his face.
"I said can you take your bike off my face!" Ranma yelled.
Before Shampoo could respond to this however Ranma heard the sounds of
running feet he quickly looked over to see Ryouga, Mousse, and Kunou all
running across the roof towards him.
"Ranma how dare you not buy Akane a birthday present!" Ryouga screamed.
"Saotome I come to claim vengeance for my Pig-tailed goddess and for my
other significant other Akane!" Kunou yelled.
"Saotome what are you doing with my Shampoo?" Mousse screamed.
"What is going on up here?" Akane asked menacingly suddenly poking her
head over the edge of the roof.
"huh Akane?! Uhhh... nothing's going on..." Ranma said sensing an
explosion of anger.
"Ranma what are you doing?!" Akane screamed
"It isn't me it's them! Why do ya always gotta blame me for
everything?!" Ranma yelled back
"Because it's always your fault!" Akane returned "And why is she hanging
off you again?!" Akane said gesturing at Shampoo who was dangling off of
Ranma
By this time all of the charging menfolk had arrived and stopped staring
at the argument between Ranma and Akane. Shampoo had disentangled
herself from Ranma when he started gesturing at Akane. The argument
began to get more heated and Ranma and Akane were both obviously quite
pissed off. The three men looked at each other then at Ranma and Akane.
"I shall smite thee another day Saotome!" Kunou declared as he walked
off
"It isn't worth the effort to beat on you today Ranma!" Ryouga said as
he walked off in the other direction.
"Come on Shampoo, the mummy wants to see you" Mousse said
"Who is a mummy?" Cologne asked as she crushed Mousse's head into the
roof tiles with her staff.
"Come Shampoo, and take Mousse with you" Cologne said and pogoed off on
her staff.
The oblivious couple continued to argue until finally Ranma had had
enough.
"Fine then I’m leaving and I’m not coming back you stupid tomboy!" Ranma
yelled as he ran off.
"Good! I didn't want you around here anyway!" Akane yelled at his
retreating figure.
Akane stood there for a few minutes watching Ranma's figure getting
smaller and smaller as he jumped from rooftop to rooftop. A small tear
formed in the corner of her eye and slid down here cheek.
"Ranma..." Akane whispered.
Ranma jumped across yet another alley onto the adjoining rooftop. Anger
powering his actions he ran and ran till he got to the outskirts of
Nerima.
-Stupid Akane!- Ranma thought
-Why does she always have to get mad at me! And it wasn't even my
fault!-
-I'll show her!- Ranma thought then ran off into the wilderness.
End Part 1
"The Gift"
Part II
He ran, branches slapped against his face as he ran through the
brush. Finally, exhausted, he collapsed against an old oak. He had
absolutely no idea where he was.
-Now I’m acting like Ryouga- Ranma thought
He looked around himself and saw that he was surrounded by trees and
foliage, all around. He got to his feet and decided to look for a
place to spend the night. He walked forward pushing through the
branches.
-Sure is dark- he thought
-I can’t see all that well-
"Ahhhh!" Ranma yelled as he fell into an obscured hole in the ground.
It was dark, the smell of dank earth assailed his nose. He
walked forward on spongy earth, the forest slowly changing. He couldn’t
notice the change at first but it seemed that the forest was becoming
more... threatening. Ranma sat down under a tree. Looking around
nervously he wondered where he was. Then he noticed movement out of the
corner of his eye. He looked. He caught only a glimpse of a pale
garment ducking through some branches.
"Who’s there?" Ranma asked.
Silence.
"Wait!" Ranma yelled.
Ranma jumped up and ran after the person. He raised his arms
protectively in front of his head and ran, branches slapped his hands
and scratched them. Up ahead he saw a cave entrance. He entered
walking straight in. It was dark and somewhere inside he could hear the
dripping of water. Pendants hung from the walls at regularly spaced
intervals emitting a soft glow. He neared the end and found a figure
sitting on a throne. It was dressed in a dark robe that obscured it’s
form. It sat upon a throne carved of onyx. It smiled and Ranma from
deep within the hood and Ranma saw that it had long fangs.
"Uhhhh.... hi" Ranma said uncertainly
"You shall be mine" it hissed.
"Umm... I think I had best be going" Ranma said and turned to leave
The figure raised it’s hand. It was suddenly limned in power. Ranma
froze, a blank expression descending on his features. He turned and
walked up to the figure and sat down cross legged at it’s feet. The
figure looked up.
"He is mine now" it whispered harshly.
"AAAAhhhhhh!" Akane screamed waking.
Akane got up and went to the bathroom, she soaked a towel and wiped her
face which was wet with perspiration. Sighing she sat down on a stool.
-Ranma where are you?- she thought
Getting up Akane tried to remember her nightmare but she couldn’t call
it to mind it. All she could remember was that it had been about Ranma.
She got up and crossed the hall to her room. She sat down on the bed
thinking of her relationship with Ranma. They always fought and he
didn’t seem to like spending time with her. Sometimes he said a civil
word to her but immediately backed it up with an insult. If only he
weren’t so insensitive then...
-Then what?- a voice asked
"Well I wouldn’t get angry for one..." Akane muttered to herself
-That wasn’t what you were going to say- the voice said admonishingly
"Well then he and I...well we could... Aaaahhh!" She screamed in
frustration.
-You wouldn’t have to what?- the voiced asked gently
"I hate losing arguments with myself" she said to herself angrily
"I’m going to bed!" and with that she lay down.
But sleep did not come. She lay there worrying about Ranma. Staring at
the ceiling she saw his face in the patterns there. She closed her eyes
and thought. Finally when sleep came it was not as a friend but as an
enemy. For it showed all the times that Ranma had defended her or shown
her kindness. She fell into a nightmarish hell all of her own making.
He woke slowly. His eyes slowly adjusting to the gloom. He was
underground... that much he knew. But how had he gotten here and who
was he? He sat up and his head immediately started to throb. Oh! It
hurt. He felt his head and discovered a monster of a bump.
-Ow!- he thought
-I had best find a way to get out of this cave- he said to himself
He got up again this time much more slowly. As he got to his feet he
felt something dig into his pocket. He checked there and found a small
packet wrapped in paper. He scrutinized it in the dim light and found a
card. It said:
To my dearest Akane-chan
Love from Ranma
-Now where did this come from?- He wondered.
-And who is Akane and Ranma for that matter?- He thought.
-Well, I guess ill never know...- he said to himself.
He walked over to the wall and looked up. He saw a dim circle of light
about twenty feet up the wall. He looked about for handholds and found
some depressions in the wall that didn’t look entirely natural. He
didn’t question his good luck however and began to climb. He vaguely
recalled that there was a city of some type in the area and decided to
head out in that direction.
Soun and Kasumi were out shopping for Akane’s birthday party.
They walked around the market place picking out small gifts.
"Do you think Akane would like this Kasumi?" Soun asked holding up a
small stuffed bear.
"I think so father" Kasumi responded sweetly.
"Ill take it then" Soun said to the merchant.
Kasumi looked around for the next store to go and visit and chanced to
catch a glimpse of a familiar person.
"Father? Isn’t that Ranma over there?" Kasumi asked innocently.
Soun looked up and squinted.
"Why yes I believe it is" he exclaimed
"Why don’t we go see what he’s up to" Kasumi suggested.
They walked over to where Ranma was wandering around. His eyes had an
unfocused look and he had a bandage around his head.
"Hello Ranma doing some shopping?" Kasumi asked
Ranma didn’t seem to hear her.
"Ranma?" Soun asked.
Hearing a name repeated several times the boy looked up at some
unfamiliar people.
"Huh? Are you talking to me?" He asked the couple.
"Ranma are you feeling ok?" Kasumi asked looking concerned.
"Ranma... is that my name?" Ranma asked confused.
"Father we had best get him in to see doctor Tofu" Kasumi said.
"Right" Soun said.
They each grabbed one of Ranma’s arms and hustled him off to Doctor
Tofu’s.
Akane kicked high then followed it up with a reverse hook kick
that split the board in two. Tightening her belt she walked over to her
breaking area. She kneeled before the bricks and visualized them
shattering in her mind. Narrowing her concentration she drew her arm
back and focused beyond the bricks and struck.
"KIYAI!" She yelled.
The bricks shattered as pieces flew in every direction.
"Ah! That one was good" she said to no one in particular.
She got up and listened. Yes, she had definitely heard voices from the
house. She ran over wondering what all the commotion was about.
Sitting at the table was Ranma a very confused look on his face. He was
slowly eating out of a bowl of rice. That in itself was strange, Ranma
eating slowly, not to mention the fact that the whole family was
watching him eat every bite. Akane entered looking at no one but Ranma.
Relief flooded her soul, he was ok, nothing was wrong.
"Ranma you’re ok!" She said happily.
Ranma looked up at her.
"And who are you?" Ranma asked
"Ha ha Ranma very funny! You can be such a jerk sometimes honestly!"
Akane said
"You know you remind me of a tomboy I once knew when... when... damn it!
I can’t remember!" Ranma said
"Tomboy? TOMBOY?" Akane screeched she walked forward and grabbed Ranma
by the scruff of his shirt. Leaning forward she let Ranma’s weight
settle to the floor in front of her then she threw all of her weight
backward and pivoted while letting go of Ranma’s shirt. He flew.
Wham! Ranma went through the door.
Splash! Ranma landed in the pond.
"AAAAhhhhhh!" Ranma-chan screamed then fainted.
"Way to go Akane" Nabiki said dryly.
End Part II
"The Gift"
Part III
"What?" Akane asked.
"He has amnesia! He doesn’t know who he is!" Nabiki exclaimed.
"Oh" Akane said guilt surging through her.
"Yes, we found Ranma wandering around in the marketplace looking very
lost!" Kasumi explained.
"I see" Akane said subdued.
Ranma-chan woke staring at the ceiling. She shook her head
feeling her grogginess fade away. Getting up she felt an unfamiliar
weight on her chest. Looking down she was confronted by two mounds of
flesh rising off of her chest.
"Aaaaahhhhh!" Ranma-chan screamed then fainted.
"Ranma what is it?" Akane asked quickly running to the door and looking
in.
"You dolt! Get up! Are you a man or aren’t you?" Akane asked loudly
looking down at Ranma-chan. Ranma-chan shook her head.
"I’m not really sure anymore..." Ranma-chan murmured.
Just then Akane heard the sounds of feet running up the stairs. The
door opened with a bang and there stood Kunou.
"Is it true my Goddess in pig-tails have you truly forgotten your one
true love? That which was construed as I?" Kunou asked eagerly.
"Who are you?" Ranma-chan asked.
"Alack! Alack! I shall simply have to re-seed the seeds of love once
again!" Kunou declared jumping forward for to grope Ranma-chan.
"Not today Kunou!" Akane said simply. She reached back and pulled a
massive hammer with an iron head the size of Kunou’s body out of
nowhere.
WHAM! Akane drove Kunou through the wall.
"A-Akane? Your name is Akane right?" Ranma-chan asked.
Akane nodded.
"Why am I a girl? I thought I was a boy but... look at me..." Ranma
said looking at her breasts.
"Yes Ranma you are a boy, here" Akane said pouring hot water on Ranma.
"Ouch! That’s hot-Aahhhhh! I’m a guy again! What the hell is going on?"
Ranma exclaimed pale faced.
"You went to Jhousenkyou when you were little and got cursed, whenever
you are splashed with cold water you turn into a girl, when ever you are
splashed with hot water you turn back into a guy" Akane explained.
"Akane there is something about you... I remember... something about you
and me... it is a feeling?" Ranma said slowly.
"What? What feeling?" Akane asked.
"I felt something for you... something about you... I felt... I felt...
Akane what I felt was..." Ranma continued.
"Yes?" Akane asked excitedly.
"I felt horror, and wait... cooking? Yes that is it. Horror and
cooking although I don’t see how they-urgh!" Ranma was interrupted by an
elbow smash into his face.
"Amnesia or no you’re still as offensive as ever Ranma!" Akane said in a
huff and walked off.
"Stupid girl!" Ranma muttered to himself.
-That wasn’t what you were going to say... why couldn’t you tell her the
truth?- A voice asked.
"It would have sounded stupid telling a complete stranger that I felt
love..." Ranma trailed off.
-So instead you frantically searched your memory for anything else it
could dredge up? And not help the situation any?- The voice asked.
"Well... yeah... it would have been embarrassing..." Ranma mumbled.
Ranma lay down on a futon and tried to get some rest.
The door to Ranma’s room opened and there stood Nabiki.
"Hey Ranma! We’re going to have Akane’s party now and you’re welcome to
attend if you feel up to it" Nabiki said.
"Uhhh.... sure but should I have a gift?" Ranma asked slowly getting up.
"It’s ok Ranma, she knows you never have any money, or if she doesn’t
then at least I do!" Nabiki said.
"Well ok ill be right down" Ranma said.
Nabiki left.
Ranma vaguely remembered a present he had found in his pocket.
Perhaps he had bought it for this Akane? She seemed to be kind of an
angry person. Perhaps he should look at it to find out what it was...
"Ranma are you coming?" Nabiki shouted.
"Yeah!" Ranma said getting up. He stuffed the present into his pocket
and descended. The whole family was gathered around the table. Akane
sat there smiling radiantly... Ranma was stunned by the change in her...
she looked cute. He had never thought of her like that before in the
time since first meeting her. Now he looked at her in a new light.
Ranma sat down at the table. He looked around. Kasumi sat there
smiling holding the cake she had baked for Akane. Soun sat beside Akane
crying.
"Oh Akane! You’re growing up so fast!" Soun bawled.
"Cheer up Tendou! Perhaps with age will come culinary ability" Genma
whispered.
"I heard that Mr. Saotome!" Akane yelled throwing a large saucepan at
him. Genma promptly intercepted the saucepan with his face.
Wham! Genma fell like a pole-axed ox.
"Lets sing shall we?" Kasumi asked innocently.
So they sang.
Akane cut the cake and passed it around. It was a different sort of
meal, for Ranma wasn’t gorging himself and the only other one who would
eat everything was out cold.
"Ok now it’s time for Akane to open her presents" Nabiki said camera at
ready.
"Here Akane open mine!" Soun said passing a card to Akane.
"To: Akane Love From: Dad & Mr.Saotome" Akane read.
Soun looked over at the prone Genma.
"Saotome just how did your name get on MY card?!" Soun asked
dangerously.
"Growr..." Genma responded holding a panda mask in front of his face.
"Saotome you seem to forget you are not a panda!" Soun exclaimed
dangerously near becoming the Soun-demon head.
"Anyway Akane Daddy’s present is over here..." Nabiki showed Akane a
wrapped present about as tall as Akane’s chest.
Akane unwrapped the present tearing away the wrapping. Inside was a
Makiwara (board used for conditioning of the fists in karate).
"Thanks Dad, Mr. Saotome!" Akane exclaimed to her father who was busy
shaking Genma yelling "you’re not a panda!" over and over.
"Anyway Akane this gift is from me..." Nabiki said handing Akane a card.
"Yearly pass to the gym! Thank you Nabiki!" Akane exclaimed hugging
Nabiki.
"Here Akane this one is from me..." Kasumi said handing Akane a wrapped
gift.
Akane eagerly tore the wrapping from the gift to discover a cooking book
for klutzes.
"Thank you Kasumi!" Akane said hugging Kasumi.
"Ahem... I guess I have a gift for you too...Akane" Ranma said not
looking at her. "I’m not exactly sure where I got it but it was with me
when I woke up, so here" Ranma said handing Akane the gift. Then Ranma
got up and left.
Akane looked at the gift. She read the card. She read the card again.
She read the card one more time to make sure she got it right. Then
sat down heavily, and very confused. She didn’t know how to feel.
Ranma had just expressed some feeling for her. She didn’t know how to
respond to it. She was in a state of shock.
"Well Akane are you going to open it or not?" Nabiki asked impatiently
Akane quickly grabbed the card and stuffed it into her pocket.
Akane opened the gift slowly. She lifted the lid of the small box
within the paper. Inside was a cloth. The cloth was wrapped around
something... she unwrapped it and found a locket. It was kind of a
cross between a locket and a pendant. It had a gold chain with a
circular flat piece at the bottom. In the flat piece was a small
locket. All were decorated with strange symbols. Akane smiled and put
it back in the box.
-So does this mean he loves me?- Akane wondered.
"Well Kasumi dear how about supper?" Genma asked hopefully.
"Mr. Saotome, we have barely finished lunch!" Kasumi giggled innocently.
"So NOW the panda speaks!" Soun exclaimed.
"Growr?" Genma asked holding a panda mask in front of his face.
Ranma sat down on his futon. He lay back staring at the roof.
He thought about what Doctor Tofu had said. That the only cure for his
amnesia was time. He closed his eyes and sorted through the events
leading up to his memory loss (he could remember it now). He was
running through the forest when he fell into a hole. He remembered
falling for what seemed like forever. Then an explosion of pain on the
back of his head and then nothing. The next thing he remembered was
waking with a hell of a headache.
-So who am I really? Who is Ranma Saotome?- He wondered.
He thought about what he had said to Akane earlier. Why did he annoy
her so much? Maybe he should apologize. Yes, that would be the right
thing to do...
Akane lay on her bed clasping the gift Ranma had given her to
her chest. She lay there eyes closed dreamily.
-It’s all very well and good to know that THIS Ranma likes me..., but he
isn’t the Ranma I know...- she said to herself.
-They are essentially the same person but, it isn’t the same...-Akane
thought.
She heard a knock at the door.
Akane got up, first putting Ranma’s gift in a drawer. Then she walked
over to the door and opened it. Ranma stood there. Akane’s heart
skipped a beat.
"Umm... Akane ummm.... I just wanted to... to a-apologize for what I
said earlier, about you being a tomboy and not being able to cook... I
mean. I don’t even know where they came from." Ranma said looking at
his toes.
Akane’s mouth dropped.
"I mean, I can’t remember much but I can remember you. I have memories
of you smiling and laughing. They seem like good memories" Ranma
continued.
Akane stared at him.
"That gift I gave you... it came from someone who loved you... and that
person isn’t me. I don’t know who I am. I can’t be worthy of you... I
just need some time to remember." Ranma said staring into her eyes.
"Akane did you like the person that I was?" Ranma asked.
"Ranma...Ranma I uhhh...." Akane said turning her back on Ranma so that
he would not see her blush.
"I...I...I don’t know..." Akane stammered.
"I see...." Ranma said slowly. "Well goodbye then Akane... I need time
to think" Ranma said. He turned and left.
End Part III