Nerima Life

Nerima Life

By

Adam Winship

Part 2-The Curse

	"Ranma no baka"

	*SMASH*

	"Ha, ya missed you kawaiikune tomboy."

	*Shatter*

	"What in the name of--" Adam said hearing the sounds of Ranma's 
and Akane's fighting. "I can't believe that I can hear them in my own 
house."

	"RANMA"

	"Uh, Akane..."

	"NO"

	"...you think we could talk about..."

	"BAKA"

	"...this?"

	*<sound of mallet hitting somebody rather hard>*

	"Guess not."

	*CRASH*

	"Good morning Ranma.  You are going to replace that wall and 
fence you just went through, right?" Adam asked sipping his coffee and 
watching as Ranma slowly gets up onto his feet.

	"Sorry 'bout the wall man, I'll get Nabiki to help you with it." 
Ranma said, as he sat down on a chair across from me.

	"So what'd ya do now?"

	"ME?  I didn't do nothin'." Ranma said a little to quickly.

	"Yah right."

	"Ok, Akane came down stairs and asked how she looked and I told 
her she looked like a tomboy." Ranma said shrugging his shoulders.

	"Nice and what was yesterday's reason for your trip to Tokyo 
Tower?  Oh ya, you bashed her cooking.  You know you should keep your 
mouth shut, then you wouldn't have to spend half your time at Dr. 
Tofu's." Adam told Ranma as he finished his coffee.

	"Hey you can't blame me for her cooking, I was telling her the 
truth." Ranma protested.

	"Hey I don't blame you." Adam said remembering the beef that was 
chasing Ranma in the dojo's yard.  "But there are times you should keep 
your opinions to yourself, that way you don't have to worry about that 
mallet of hers."

	"Ya, ya, what ever, just forget it, hey you wanna go to the 
movies?" Ranma asked as he stood up from the chair he was sitting on.

	"Ya sure, just let me get my hat and wallet.  Hey after the movie 
wanna stop by the Ucchan?" Adam asked as he stood and got his hat and 
wallet off a coffee table in the next room.

	"Sure." Ranma said as the two walked out the door.

                      * * * * *

	Adam and Ranma were walking down the street when--

	*SPLASH*

	"Well, that was pleasant." Adam-chan commented sarcastically.

	"No kidding, this always hap--" The last part of what Ranma-chan 
was going to say was cut off by the ringing then crashing of a bicycle.

"Airen."

*GLOMP*

"Help!" Adam-chan squeaked out as a purple haired thing glomped 
onto her.

	"What do you want Shampoo?" Ranma-chan asked as she threw the 
bike off of herself.

	Now, Shampoo is not dumb, she's actually quite intelligent, her 
only problem is that she is a bit slow on the rebound.  This is the 
reason why Shampoo let go of Adam-chan and just stood there, staring 
dumbfoundly at the identical looking girls.

	"Who is that?" Adam-chan asked pointing at the shocked girl.

	"Her name is Shampoo, one of my fianc�s." Ranma-chan answered 
watching Shampoo's face as her brain slowly started to fire again.

	"One of your fianc�s?  How many do you have?"

	"Um, let's see now, there's Akane, Shampoo, Ukyou, and Kodachi 
thinks that she is my fianc�, of course those are the ones I know 
about.  My father hasn't told me how many fianc�s I actually have, then 
again I don't think I want to know." Ranma-chan said counting the 
number of fianc�s on her fingers.

	"You have four fianc�s!  Why didn't you mention that Ukyou was 
your fianc� when we where at her restaurant yesterday?" Adam-chan 
asked, remembering the cheerful okonomiyaki chef.

	"Because she wasn't hanging all over me and I didn't want her to 
start." Ranma-chan answered.

	Finally Shampoo came out of her trance.  "Aiyah, you both Ranma?"

	"No, he's Ranma and I'm Adam." Adam-chan answered, pointing to 
Ranma-chan then herself.

	"Oh, you fall in Spring-Of-Drowned-Girl too, right?" Shampoo 
asked, pointing at Adam-chan.

	"Hai, I did." Adam-chan answered uncertainly.

	"But you look like Airen, Shampoo confused."

	"Big Coincidence." Adam-chan answered quickly.

	"That's right." Ranma-chan piped up. "Uh Shampoo, me an' Adam 
have to go now 'cause we have something important right now but we'll 
talk to you later."

	With that Ranma-chan picked Adam-chan up and jumped across roofs 
towards Dr. Tofu's office.

                      * * * * *

	"You know you didn't need to carry me here." Adam said grumpily 
as Ranma and him emerged from Dr. Tofu's.

	"Oh you can jump across roofs then?"

	"Well no..." Adam admitted sheepishly.

	"Aw forget it, let's go to that movie."

	"Uh, I think we missed the movie, because of our detour."

	Ranma stopped, looked at Adam who showed him the time then swore.  
"Aw, damn it, and I wanted to see the movie.  All well we can still go 
over to the Ucchan."

	"Alright then let's go."

                      * * * * *

	"How the hell did you avoid that water?" Adam-chan asked grumpily 
as she drained water from her clothes.

	"I didn't need to avoid the water, you blocked it from hitting 
me." Ranma answered grinning as they stopped out front of the Ucchan.

	"Um, do you think it's wise for me to go in there considering 
that Ukyou doesn't know about me being cursed?" Adam-chan asked staring 
ominously at the door.

	"Hey, this the closest place to get hot water, unless you like 
being a girl." Ranma said, a smile tugging at his mouth.

	"Hey, it isn't that bad being a girl." Adam-chan shot back, then 
adding, "As long as I can change back to a guy at anytime, but I do 
prefer being a guy.  Let's go in so I can get some water."

	With that the two walked into the Ucchan.

                      * * * * *

	Ukyou looked up Ranma-chan walked in then nearly fainted as Ranma 
followed.

	"W-what the hell is going on?" Ukyou asked as the two sat down at 
the counter across from her, not knowing that Ranma-chan was Adam-chan 
and not Ranma-chan.

	"Um, do you have any hot water Ucchan?" Ranma asked, looking over 
at Adam-chan.

	"Uh, yeah just a minute." Ukyou said slowly, as she picked up a 
kettle that had hot water in it from her making some tea.

	"Here you go." Ukyou said, understanding slowly dawning.

"Thanks." Adam-chan said as she took the kettle and proceeded to 
dump it on herself.

	Ukyou had sort of expected that the girl-Ranma was cursed but 
what she saw still shocked her.  The girl grow to be 6'3, became male, 
her or rather his red hair seemed to retreat under his hat, while 
turning dark brown.

	Ukyou said the first thing that came to mind which was, "..."

	"Guess you'd like an explanation, huh Ucchan." Ranma said, 
looking at Ukyou's shocked expression.

	"That would be nice, sugar." Ukyou said breaking out of her 
shocked state.

	"Well you see, my name is Adam, and I fell in the same spring 
that Ranma here fell in." Adam explained as Ukyou started to make some 
okonomiyaki.

	"So why do you look exactly like Ranma's girl-form." Ukyou asked 
as the food cooked.

	"Actually that is a coincidence." Adam answered as Ukyou served 
the okonomiyaki to Ranma, Adam and herself.

	"So what is your story behind your curse." Ukyou asked as she 
began eating her serving, while laughing at the way Ranma was wolfing 
done his food.

	"Yeah how did you get cursed." Ranma asked, actually slowing done 
enough to say the sentence.

	"Well ya see it went sort of like this..."

                     ***********
                     *FLASHBACK*
                     ***********
2 years ago

	"...take him for a trip to China." Adam's mother said skeptically 
to Adam's father.

	"Yes me and Adam hardly ever see each other and I wanted to take 
him on a trip." Adam's father said, sitting across a table from Adam's 
mother.

	"Well I don't think it a good idea." Adam's mother said 
hesitantly.

	"It's only for a week."

	"Well if Adam agrees I'll let you take him along." Adam's mother 
finally relented.

	"Well what do you say Adam?" Adam's father asked as he turned to 
Adam who was across the room sitting on a couch and watching TV.

	"A free trip to China, hell yeah I'm gonna go." Adam said not 
turning from the TV.

	"Well it's settled then." Adam's father said proudly.  "We can 
leave in three days."

	"Not so fast I have just one word of warning, if Adam doesn't 
come the way he leaves, physically I mean, then I'm gonna cut off a 
vital part of your anatomy." Adam's mother said, the look in her eyes 
showed that she meant it.

	One week later...

	<Welcome to the cursed training grounds of Jusenkyou.  Please be 
careful and don't touch the water.> The man said in Chinese.

	"Pardon me but we don't speak much Chinese." Adam's father said.

	"Ah, forgive me.  I Jusenkyou Guide, welcome to accursed springs 
of Jusenkyou." The guide said in broken English. (Yes the guide has a 
root knowledge of a lot of languages because he had to learn them in 
Jusenkyou guide school.  How else does he know all of the tragic 
stories.)

	"Nice place lets look around." Adam commented as he started to 
walk around until he stopped in front of a bamboo pole with a small 
sign attached with something written in Chinese.

	"Hey son what are you looking at?" Adam's father asked as he came 
up beside him the guide looking a little nervous about being so close 
to the water.

	"Nothing ya withered old man." Adam said teasingly.

	"Please sirs, be careful around springs, if fall in then you will 
be curs-" The guides last part of the sentence died away as Adam's 
father pushes Adam into the water because of the withered old man joke.

	"Ahhhh" *SPLASH*

	"Why you..." A now female Adam said as she jumped out of the 
spring then pushed her father towards a spring on the left.

	That's when Adam realized that something was wrong, he was a 
great deal shorter then he remembered, his reach was shorter and his 
hands were slender like a... Adam looked down at his or rather her 
chest and let out a high pitched scream.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

	Looking over at her father Adam-chan saw her father fall in then 
disappear.

	"Oh dear, your father fall into Spring-Of-Drowned-Ant, very 
tragic tale about a-"

	"Spring of drowned ant?  Then he's probable dead, right?" Adam-
chan said horrified at the thought.

	"I'm very sorry sir." The guide said hanging his head.

	"M-my father i-is d-de-dead." Adam-chan said, her face draining 
completely of blood as she went into shock, forgetting about her own 
problem.

	The guide took a hold of Adam-chan's arm and led her back to his 
hut.

                      * * * * *

	"So I'm stuck being a girl then?" Adam-chan asked after coming to 
terms with her father's death, she didn't like him that much but the 
trip had helped Adam-chan to respect her father.

	"Oh no you turn back to boy with hot water, but cold water turn 
you into girl." The guide said as he took some hot water from a pot 
that he was heating and threw it onto Adam-chan.

	"Ow, that's hot.  Hey I'm a guy again." Adam said felling his 
chest to make sure.

	"Just remember cold water turn you back to a girl, such is the 
way of curse." The guide said matter-of-factly.

***************
*END FLASHBACK*
***************

	"I'm sorry about your father." Ukyou said as Ranma nodded 
agreeing.

	"Hey don't worry about it, in a way he was lucky as soon as mom 
found out she was going to kill him until she found out that he was 
already dead, then she laughed about him getting cursed to become an 
ant." Adam said shaking his head at the memories.

	"Uh we had better get going it's almost time for dinner." Ranma 
said looking at the clock on the wall.

	"Do you think that I could actually come over for dinner this 
time?" Adam asked looking at Ranma with amusement twinkling in his 
eyes.

	"Huh oh sure I don't think that Akane will be cooking tonight." 
Ranma answered.

	"What are you two talking about?" Ukyou asked watching the 
exchange.

	"Well you see, Adam was invited over to the dojo for dinner and 
to meet everybody but Akane decided to cook for our guest." Ranma 
explained.

	"Yes and I had seen Ranma running away from what looked like a 
clump of burnt beef that looked like it wanted to eat him so I agreed 
to go someplace else to eat and hold off meeting everyone." Adam 
finished.

	"Ah I understand sugar.  Well you two come back." Ukyou said as 
they walked out the door.

	<End of Part2>

	Well there ya go.  Sorry 'bout the wait but the dreaded thing 
called life reared its ugly head.  Part three should be out in a couple 
of days (famous last words) and I'm not too happy 'bout the Shampoo 
scene but there's still a running gag there that I can use.  I think 
that part four or five will have Adam start going to school but lets 
wait and see, also I can't wait for Kodachi see Adam-chan, oh the 
ideas, the ideas.  Well that's all for now...

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If I could, I'd make a suggestion
Without sounding preachy
Or begging the question
Melt with your minds
Melt with each other
Don't be surrounded Don�t be so alone

 -So Alone, Offspring, Smash