The title is a rough working title until I can get a better one

NERIMA LIFE

By

Adam Winship

Ranma 1/2 is the property of Takahashi Rumiko, and 
several large companies that I don't know the name 
of.


*Warning* this is an authorfic, it's an authorfic 
because I'm to lazy to make an original character who 
would probable end up like me anyway, if you don't 
like it tough shit.  This is the first draft of part 
one.  I would appreciate any C&C be it good or *gulp* 
bad.  This is my second fanfic so I'm still new at 
this stuff, my first fanfic I'm not releasing to the 
FFML and am actually putting it directly onto my 
website.  Anyway on with the story...
I use -chan to indicate female for anyone with the 
Nyannichuan curse.
'' are thoughts.
** are sound effects or stressed words
[] are signs.

Part 1-New neighbor

	*SPLASH*

	"*Ghahh* what the hell are you doing" A now 
female Ranma yelled, after being rudely awakened by 
extremely cold water.

	"I tried waking you normally but you wouldn't 
get up.  Kasumi told me to tell you that breakfast 
will done in half an hour." Akane said, then turned 
and walked out the door.

	"Stupid, violent, Kawaiikune tomboy." Ranma-
chan muttered as she went into the bathroom.

                      * * * * * 

	"Come on old man can't ya do better than that." 
A now male Ranma taunted as he deftly dodged all of 
his father's attacks.

	The sparring session went on like that for a 
couple of minutes before Kasumi called out that 
breakfast was ready.

	Genma, expecting his son to be distracted by 
the call to breakfast moved to throw Ranma into the 
pond.  Unfortunately for him, Ranma had been waiting 
for him to do this and turning his father's throw 
against him, threw his father into the pond 
instead.

	Ranma stood laughing as the panda walked out of 
the pond and into the house.  "That's what ya get for 
getting into a routine." Ranma said, using the same 
words that his pop used to say to him.

	[SHUT UP BOY] the panda signed, as he sat down 
to eat.

	"Where the hell does he get those signs?" Ranma 
muttered as he walked into the house.

                      * * * * *

	After breakfast Ranma was going for a walk 
(actually he managed to piss Akane off again and she 
sent him flying with her mallet), when he heard 
someone yell at him.

	"DIE Ranma!!"

	"Aw, come off it Ryouga." Ranma said as he side 
stepped a group of flying yellow and black bandannas.

	"Never, you made my life hell and now you'll 
pay." Ryouga said as he pulled out his umbrella and 
started to attack at Ranma, who deftly dodged all of 
the attacks.

	"Aw I never did anything to ya, Pig Boy." Ranma 
said as he backflipped out of range of Ryouga's 
attacks.

"It's your fault that I'm cursed!" Ryouga yelled in 
rage as he jumped up then angled down at the ground 
his finger pointed at the ground. "BAKUSAI TENKETSU!"
 Ryouga yelled as his finger meet the ground.  Ranma 
jumped over the flying chunks of dirt and grass then 
launched into his chestnut fist as soon as he hit the 
ground.

	The fight went on for several minutes causing 
sever property damage.  Finally the two combatants 
had enough and charged their respective ki-blasts.

"SHISHI HOUKOUDAN"
"MOUKOU TAKABISHA"

	Ranma managed to barely dodge Ryouga's attack, 
but Ryouga wasn't so lucky.  Ryouga went flying 
through the air and landed a good kilometer away.

	The blast the Ryouga had let off flew down the 
street towards someone who had just turned the corner 
to see what the noise was. (Obviously it was someone 
who wasn't familiar with the going ons of Nerima.)

	Ranma seeing what was about to happen yelled, 
"Get out of the way!"

	"The person hearing Ranma's shout and seeing 
the ki-blast attempted to jump out of the way, 
unfortunately he wasn't fast enough and the blast hit 
him full in the chest sending him flying up against a 
telephone pole.

	"That's gotta hurt." Ranma said as he ran up to 
the fallen figure. "Man, I better get him to Dr. 
Tofu's, he should be able to fix up the burns."

                      * * * * *

	"So doc what's the word." Ranma asked as Dr. 
Tofu finished looking the stranger.

	"Well, aside from the burns and the broken rib 
he's remarkably healthy." Dr. Tofu said as he pushed 
several pressure points.

	"So when well he wake up?" Ranma asked as he 
eyed the stranger.  The person looked about his age, 
wore blue jeans, a 'The Far Side' T-shirt, and a Coed 
Naked Hockey ballcap.  He was Caucasian, with short 
dark brown hair, hazel eyes and looked to be about 
6'3.

	"Anytime now." Dr. tofu answered as he wrote 
several things done on a pad he was holding.

	That's when the stranger let out a groan.

	"God that bloody hurt, did someone get the 
number the truck 'cause I'm gonna sue." The person 
said as he sat up putting his hands on his head in an 
effort to block the pain.

	"Ah good, your awake.  My name is Dr. Tofu and 
this here Ranma, he was the one that brought you in." 
Dr. Tofu said, bowing his head slightly.

	"Yah, hi, good ta meet ya.  My name is Adam, 
where am I and if it isn't to much trouble could I 
get a drink of water." Adam said bowing his head 
slightly as he looked at the room and its two 
occupants.

	"This is my office." Dr. Tofu replied simply as 
he got a glass of water and handed it to Adam.

	"Thanks, so why am I here, I remember Ranma 
yelling at me, a ki-blast flying at me then I blacked 
out." Adam said as he drank the water.

	"Hey how'd you know what hit you?" Ranma asked, 
his eyes fixed on Adam.

	"I've studied chi and ki, of course I never did 
believe that it could be focused into an attack." 
Adam answered as he spun so that his legs hung over 
the side of the bed that he was on.

	"Aren't chi and ki the same thing?" Ranma 
asked.

	"No." Dr. Tofu answered before Adam could. "Chi 
is your life-force/aura, ki is the manipulation of 
it."

	"Ok, so why didn't you get out of the way if 
you knew what the blast was." Ranma asked Adam 
sarcastically.

	"Because. I didn't know. That the ki-blast. Was 
going. To hit me." Adam said slowly and brokenly in 
agitation.

	"Aw come on I was just joking." Ranma said, 
pushing Adam slightly.

	Adam smiled as he poured the half-full glass on 
Ranma.  Then stared bugged eyed as Ranma transformed.  
"T-That's impossible... he's the same... changes... 
female, like me... but that's..." Adam went on like 
this for nearly a minute until Dr. tofu hit a couple 
of pressure points to make Adam sleep.

	"Well, he knows about your curse now." Dr. Tofu 
said watching the sleeping figure.

	"How long will he be out?"

	"Oh, about half an hour."

	"Well I'll take him back to the dojo." Ranma 
said as he got some hot water and poured it on 
himself.

	"Ok, but tell me if he goes catatonic again." 
Dr. Tofu said as he got a towel and handed it to 
Ranma.

	"Ok, bye then." Ranma said as he picked up Adam 
and ran out the door.

                      * * * * *

	"Who's that that's draped over your shoulder?" 
Akane asked as Ranma came into the house.

	"Someone who got hit by Ryouga's shishi 
houkoudan." Ranma answered as he set him on the 
couch.

	"Bwei." A black pig said before it clamped down 
on Ranma's leg.

	"Dammit *P-chan*" Ranma said as he tried to 
shake the pig off of his leg, although he couldn't 
help but wonder how Ryouga had got here so quick.

	"Ranma what did you do to P-chan now." Akane 
asked as her aura flared into the visible spectrum, a 
bright blue.

	"Aw geez I didn't do nothin' to your pig, I've 
been out all day, you should know that 'cause it's 
your fault that I was out." Ranma said as he calmly 
pried the pig off his leg. "And you Ryouga I'll get 
you for this." Ranma whispered to the pig.

	Akane's temper had gone up considerable at the 
implied insult. "RANMA" Akane said as she brought her 
mallet into existence, "NO-" Akane was about to smash 
Ranma with the mallet when somebody yelled,

	"*WHAT* the *HELL* is it with the *NOISE*." 
Adam yelled as he looked at the Akane and Ranma.

	"Hey Adam sorry 'bout the noise but Akane here 
was accusing me of doing something that I didn't do 
again." Ranma said as he walked around Akane.

	"Oh shut up you pervert." Akane said as her 
mallet disappeared.

	"Either you two are brother and sister or you 
two are going out so which is it?" Adam asked looking 
at the two, will dipping his head so that they 
couldn't see his smile.

	"We're engaged." Ranma said in a small voice.

	"It wasn't our fault, our parents arranged it." 
Akane shot in.

	"Ouch, so you two don't like this fact and you 
hate each others guts, ok, I can respect that." Adam 
said, then turned to Ranma. "So you visited the 
Jusenkyou training grounds huh?" 

	"How did you know?" Ranma asked looking at me 
accusingly.

	"Got some cold water?" Adam asked meeting 
Ranma's stare.

	"You don't mean..." Akane said trailing off.

	"Yup, I fell in the same one that you did." 
Adam said.

"Nyannichuan." Ranma and Adam said together.

	Akane ran into the kitchen and got some cold 
and hot water.

Taking the bucket of cold water Adam immersed his 
hand into it.  As the familiar tingling of the 
transformation took hold he could feel himself shrink 
and his waist become narrow as two soft mounds 
pressed against his shirt and as the crowning touch 
his short brown hair grow in the span of a second 
into shoulder length red hair, pushing his hat off in 
the process.

	"See why I went into that fit at Dr. Tofu's." 
Adam-chan said as she put on her hat.

	Nodding in confirmation Ranma and Akane just 
stared dumbly at a perfect duplicate of Ranma's 
cursed form.

	"H-how is that possible?  I mean I thought the 
curse made you look how you would if you were a 
girl." Ranma said finally.

	"It does.  I look very close to my sister, 
every female on my mother's side has red hair and 
well I look like my mothers daughter." Adam-chan said 
the last bit with a helpless look.
(Author Note: It's true my sister looks very much 
like Ranma's girl form, that is if you simplified her 
looks to that of an anime character)

	"So it's just luck that you look exactly like 
Ranma in girl form?" Akane asked, not totally 
believing.

	"Yeah.  Anyway I had better get home, 'cause I 
need to be unpacked and I need to register my girl 
form at Fuurinkan High." Adam-chan said as she picked 
up the still hot kettle, and poured its contents on 
herself.

	"Um, that might cause a problem." Akane said 
hesitantly.

	"Why is that?" Adam asked confusion clouding 
his face.

	"Because almost everyone there knows about 
Ranma's curse." Akane replied.

	"That could be bad." Adam said understanding. 
"What if I went as Ranma's sister?"

	"That might work." Ranma said.

	"Ok, what name do you use in your cursed form?" 
Adam asked.

	"Um, Ranma or Ranko." Ranma answered, a shadow 
crossing his face for a split second at the mention 
of the second name.

	"Well then I'll register as Ranko, uh what's 
your last name?" Adam asked sheepishly.

	"Saotome, and Akane's last name is Tendo." 
Ranma answered.

	"Ok then I'll register as Ranko Saotome." Adam 
said, saying the name carefully not wanting to get it 
wrong.

	"Ok then, hey wait a minute why are you 
registering as a girl?" Ranma asked, who didn't think 
that he could handle having to be girl for that long.

	"Well you might notice that after the curse 
water seems to try to find you and since hot water is 
less common than cold water I decided to minimize the 
risk that someone finds out about my curse." Adam 
explained.

	"Yeah but a lot of people know about these 
curses." Akane said.

	"Yeah but when your cursed form happens to be 
female, people tend to think that your are a 
pervert." Adam said.

	Ranma shot a look at Akane who was doing a good 
impression of a tomato.  Adam looked at the two with 
a raised eyebrow. "Let me guess, Akane has called you 
a pervert because of your curse, right?" Adam asked 
Ranma, his humor evident in his voice.

	Ranma nodded.  Akane seemed very silent for 
some reason.

	"Well I had better go home, although I hate 
going home to an empty house." Adam said, his 
depression evident in his eyes.

	"Where do you live?" Akane asked.

	"Beside the Tendo Dojo." Adam replied.

	Akane and Ranma looked at each other then 
started to laugh, hard.

	"What?  What I say?" Adam asked looking back 
and forth at the two laughing teenagers.

	"T-this *HAHA* is the *HAHA* Tendo Dojo. 
*HAHA*" Akane said through laughs.

Ranma who had managed to stop laughing said, "You 
moved into the house on the right a couple of days 
ago aren't ya."

	"I guess so." Adam said. "Well I better get 
going." With that Adam got and made to leave.

	"Hey what why don't you stay for dinner?" Akane 
asked, finally breaking out of her laughing fit.

	"Um, I can't tonight but I'll be able to 
tomorrow, if that's alright." Adam said thoughtfully.

	"Ok it's settled then tomorrow here for 
dinner." Akane said.

	"Well ok, seeya around then bye." Adam said as 
he left.

	"Bye" Akane and Ranma said as Adam left the 
house.

	"Um, Ranma, I just thought of something." Akane 
began.

	"What."

	"Well I don't think we should tell anybody 
about Adam's curse but shouldn't we tell him about 
people who would mistake him in girl form for you in 
girl form?" Akane asked tentatively.

	"Um, that's probable a good idea." Ranma said

	Akane was beside herself when Ranma actually 
agreed with her.  Of course it didn't last long.

	"Um, since no one is home how are we gonna 
eat." Ranma asked.

	"I'll cook." Akane said cheerfully.

	"No way am I eating your cooking."

	"Well what's wrong with my cooking?" Akane 
asked as she began to glow a bright blue.

	Not noticing that Akane was glowing Ranma 
continued. "Nothing if you don't mind your food 
trying to eat you instead of the other way around."

	"RANMA NO BAKA" And Ranma was on a trip 
courtesy 'mallet airways' your one stop one way trip 
into the stratosphere or anywhere in the greater 
Tokyo area.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Please tell me how you like it so far.  This is the 
first time I have posted a story to the FFML and I 
have to guess how to do it.  I had to do this cause 
the idea wouldn't leave me alone, I had to exorcise 
the idea, of course now I have another idea god help 
me.

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