Subject: [SPAMfic][How-Come] Lookalikes
From: yoiko@earthlink.net (C. Toler)
Date: 1/15/1998, 6:11 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com


Yoiko:  Hey, Makoto, how come you and Fatora look alike?

Makoto:  Do we have to do this?

Yoiko:  Yup.  ^_^

Makoto:  *sigh*  There's a SPAMfic in that...



Lookalikes

A How-Come fic by Cindy Toler

        "Ranma, what are we going to do?" Akane turned away from the
window, drawing the curtains closed against the spectacle of her husband's
fans gathered in the Tendo yard, waiting for a chance to see their hero.
Her large, dark eyes raised to plead with him, as one delicate hand came to
rest over the swell of her growing stomach.  "I want our baby to have a
normal life.  Or as close to it as we can manage..."
        "Akane, it'll be Ok," Ranma said, wrapping one arm around her
shoulders and walking with her toward the bed.  "Our kid's gonna be great."
        "I... Ranma, I think we should change our name," Akane blurted out.
        "No way.  I'm sorry, Akane, but I'm not changing my name to Tendo."
        "No, I mean, both of us.  You know, change names, live like normal
people...  Raise our son or daughter in a normal school..."
        "But the Saotome name..."
        "Ranma, I don't want our child growing up under the burden of your
fame.  It's hard enough for US to deal with the lack of privacy, and we're
adults!"  Akane's eyes were filling with tears, and she looked up at him
earnestly.  Ranma heaved a big sigh as his heart melted.  He never had been
able to deny her when she got that weepy look...
        "Whatever," he said reluctantly.  "I'll change my name, if it's
that important to you.  Heck, I'd even change it to Mizuhara!"  Akane
smiled, and all was right with the world.

        Five months later, a boy was born to Ranma and Akane Mizuhara.  He
was in excellent health, a beautiful baby with his mother's eyes and his
father's smile.  They named him Makoto, and took him back with them to
their normal, ordinary home.  It was several weeks before they discovered
that a splash of cold water turned him into a healthy baby girl, with her
mother's eyes and her father's smile.  Akane was appalled.  All that work
to create new identities, to give their son a chance at the normal life
they had never had, and now this!   Ranma, resourceful as ever in a dire
situation (and facing an unhappy Akane was as dire as it got), somehow
obtained some Jusenkyo water.
        "It's the Nannichuan!" he cried triumphantly as he returned home.
In the noblest gesture of sacrifice he had ever made, he poured the water
over his son, giving away the cure he had looked for all his life...
        Unfortunately, Ranma hadn't found the Nannichuan.  He had found
some water from the Cursed Spring of Drowned Twins.  When the water touched
Makoto, he gave out an ear-splitting shriek and promptly divided into two
babies, one male and one female.  Akane was overjoyed to have uncursed
twins in the place of her cursed son.  Over time, however, it became clear
that Makoto had kept all of the sweet and noble nature he had had since
birth, where his sister had acquired a foul disposition (which Ranma
suspected she had inherited from her mother).  When she disappeared in the
middle of the night, Ranma and Akane searched for her and grieved, though
each secretly wondered if they weren't better off to have her gone.  The
authorities were of no help in the matter, since all the records showed
that the Mizuharas had had a baby boy, and the baby boy wasn't missing.
Therefore, there was no missing person.
        Akane prayed for her daughter constantly.  Makoto grew to be as
athletic as his father, and as good at his studies as his mother.  He was
in every way the sort of person to make his parents proud...yet, Akane
couldn't help but wonder whatever had become of her daughter, Fatora.

Yoiko:  That's it!  ^_^  Whaddya think?

Makoto:  "Foul disposition?"  I can't believe you SAID that!  If Fatora
        ever sees this...

Fatora:  Makoto, I'd like to have a word with you.

Makoto:  I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!

Yoiko:  (shuffling out of the way as Fatora drags Makoto off)  That's it,
        folks! ^_^  Comments, if you have any, are very welcome at
        "yoiko@earthlink.net"   Hopefully, there will be more How-Come
        fics.    How come Ryoga gets lost ALL the time?  There's a SPAMfic
        in that... ^_~

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