AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!
	I did it,  it's here!  And only a day late too!  I am Awsome!!!
		[More maniacal laughter ensues]
	
		[Author finally regains control, barely]
	This is chapter 3, if you want Chapters 1 or 2 drop me an
	E-mail.  

	Thanks to all those generous individuals who wrote me C&C on
	this thing so far.  I most humbly beg for more.  
		[pitiful display of groveling in the dirt]

Disclaimer:  I am completely unoriginal!  None of these
	characters are mine, Please don't sue.

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Ryoga: Possibilities
by Cat

Chapter 3

	"Class, I'd like you to welcome a new student today.  This is 
Ryoko Hibiki," Ryoga tried not to wince at the introduction, and as 
soon as the teacher finished she almost ran back to her seat.  Trying 
desperately to make herself invisible, she wondered what gods she had 
offended to deserved this.  
	She had had absolutely no intention of ever reaching school 
when Akane had so unceremoniously dragged her off this morning, 
but, like everything else in her life lately, things hadn't quite worked 
out liked she had planned.  
	It seemed that they had left a little later than was actually a 
good idea and Akane had been in quite a hurry to make it to school on 
time.  Not only that, but thanks to Ranma's big mouth Akane knew all 
about the slight directional problem Ryoga suffered from, thus she 
didn't let her new friend out of her sight for even then instant Ryoga 
had needed to get away.  So, entirely against her will, she had made it 
for her first day at her new school almost completely without incident, 
and, coincidentally, on time.  
	She tried once again to make herself inconspicuous, but it 
seemed to no avail.  This was much worse than any situation she'd 
been forced into before.  Sure she met a lot of people on her travels. 
Recently quite a few of them in her cursed form, however she rarely 
saw many of them twice, and she was completely unprepared for the 
sheer number of people present, or the intense scrutiny she was being 
subjected to.  
	She would have been even less happy to know that among a 
majority of those present, there were only two main evaluations which 
she was receiving.  These could be broken down into the male 
evaluation which consisted mainly of shock, joy, and desire, followed 
closely by copious amounts of drooling, and the female evaluation.  
The was much less centered around Ryoga herself and more aimed at 
the male members of the classroom who were obviously about to make 
completely fools of themselves over some new girl, who was, after all, 
not all *that* pretty.
	Class progressed and the students were forced to return their 
attention to class.  Ryoga, not having been in school in quite a while, 
and consequently very behind in just about all of her school work was 
almost completely lost from the very begging, and can therefore be 
forgiven for allowing her attention to waiver. 
	"Ryoko!" Ryoga's head shot up from off the desk.  She 
realized with a start that she had fallen asleep, already.  A blush began 
to creep across her face, notably, increasing her cuteness factor by 
several points.
	"Young lady, I don't know what the schools are like where 
you are from but here at Furikan we do not sleep in class!" the teacher 
seemed rather annoyed.  Ryoga swallowed, hard, "You will stand in 
the hall," the teacher finished.  Resignedly, Ryoga stood up and, 
taking a bucket from the still annoyed teacher, proceeded out of the 
room.  On her way she had just enough time to see a very smug 
looking Ranma get clobbered by a sympathetic Akane, who just had 
time to give her a reassuring smile before she left the classroom.
	
	Lunch was even less enjoyable than class, no mean feat.  As 
soon as she and Akane got their lunches they were almost instantly 
surrounded by a majority of the male population of the school, saved 
from completely smothering only by Akane, who, for some reason, 
seemed to make them nervous.  
	"Ryoko, doing anything Saturday?"
	"Ryoko, can I get you something to eat?"
	"Ryoko, can I walk you home?"
	The petitions bombarded her from all sides. Ryoga, with her 
extremely limited experience with people in general, and especially 
people trying to be nice to her, was at an almost complete loss.
	"Um, well, I.I don't.maybe." thankfully Akane came to 
her rescue.
	"Leave us alone!!!" she yelled.  There was a brief pause, and 
then almost as if on cue, the area surrounding the two girls cleared 
with amazing speed.
	"I can't believe them!" Akane said to no one in particular, 
even though Ryoga was the only one present.  "I HATE BOYS!!!" she 
was still yelling, this time much louder.  Ryoga, still rather confused, 
didn't have much to say to this.
	"What'ya yelling about now Akane?" Ryoga jumped as 
Ranma dropped out of the tree directly above their heads.  
	"None of your business Ranma." Akane was not feeling very 
generous. (Not that she ever was when it came to Ranma, but still, it 
needed to be said.)
	"Whatever," he said, somehow able to convey both annoyance 
and disdain at the same time.  Dropping out of the tree and turning to 
Ryoga he continued.
	"So Ryochan how do ya like Furikan so far?" his tone was 
deceptively pleasant.  Ryoga, however, hadn't missed anything.
	"What do you mean `Ryochan?'", Ryoga didn't know what he 
was up to but she knew if it was Ranma it couldn't be anything good.
	"Oh, you know, us being so close and all, and seeing as how 
you forgave me for dumping you." Ryoga began to steam, this was 
taking it way too far.  Ranma ignored her and continued ".I didn't 
think you'd mind me calling you that again.  You can still call me 
Ranchan you know," he added generously breaking out in a grin, he 
was obviously loving this..
	"Ranma!!! Don't you call me that ever again!" Ryoga was 
yelling now.  She should have expected something like this from 
Ranma.  
	"What'sa matter, is widdle Ryochan angwy," he answered 
back in his most patronizing voice.  Things would have probably 
become rather animated at that moment, however, Ranma's glorious 
plan had failed to take into account one small detail.  That detail was 
annoyed, had long black hair, and was currently standing right behind 
him.  
	"DIE RANMA!!!" Akane yelled as she punted him into the 
stratosphere.  Ryoga watched as a very surprised Ranma flew into the 
air.  She was impressed, that was some pretty good loft.  
	"Come on Ryoko, let's go eat,"  Akane walked off without 
even looking back.  Ryoga stared into the sky for a few more seconds 
until Ranma completely disappeared from sight.  Then seeing Akane 
walking off quickly caught up with her.  Soon the new girl was 
surrounded by Akane's friends.
	Once again the eternal lost girl was completely.well, lost.  
This was even worse than the guys.  She knew, in general how to 
handle guys.  If one of them did something she didn't like, she beat 
him till he stopped.  Girls however, were unexplored territory, and 
even the smallest amount of interaction could overwhelm her.  
	This shyness served her better than just about anything else 
could have.  The girls at Furikan could not be said to be unfriendly, 
however Ryoga's almost instant popularity with the opposite sex, 
combined with the fact that she was, as one girl had put it, `cute to an 
unnecessary degree,' had not made the others favorable disposed 
toward her. However, her obvious nervousness, combined with 
Akane's defusing of the previous situation, was enough to settle most 
of the girls fears, at least enough to give her chance.
Thus they welcomed her with semi-unfeigned sincerity.  This 
didn't help Ryoga much, but it's always nice to know.  A few minutes 
of silence followed while the girls ate, soon the topic of conversation 
naturally turned to the new girl.  After some careful questioning the 
inquisitive girls had determined the following facts.  Ryoko was 
staying with Akane.  She was an ex-girlfriend of Ranma Saotome 
(Akane graciously helped out in filling in the details), she didn't know 
how long she would be staying, and no, she didn't have any different 
clothes. (Furikan girls tended to be somewhat direct.)
	"You'll have to get a school uniform.  It's required by the 
school," Usake said helpfully.  Akane, who had been studying Ryoga 
quite closely for the past few minutes took this opportunity to lean over 
and whisper.
	"Ryoko, why aren't you wearing a bra?", she was not quite 
able to prevent about half of the others girls from hearing this 
exchange and soon a bright red Ryoga was flooded with questions she 
was in no position to answer.  After some stuttering and a lot of 
blushing she was able to convince them that in her travels she had 
never before had the need.
	"Well your with us now and if you don't want every boy in 
school drooling all over you your going to need one," Akane said 
firmly.  "After school, I'll take you shopping, it'll be fun," she added 
with a smile that served to completely derail anything Ryoga could 
have possible said in protest.  With that settled the rest of the lunch 
period turned to other things, with a very disconcerted Ryoga trying 
once again to render herself completely invisible.

	The second half of the day passed without incident, rather 
amazing for Furikan, if a bit of a letdown.  Soon, the final bell rang 
and Ryoga shot out of class with speed born of desperation.  She 
wasn't getting caught by Akane, not now.  There was no way she was 
going on that shopping trip this afternoon.  Within moments the 
school building was almost completely out of sight.  Breathing a sigh 
of relief she slowed to a walk and began to look for the nearest 
convenient source of hot water.
	"Hey!  Ryochan, is little miss cute a little lost?" Ryoga spun 
around instantly to see Ranma not ten feet away.
	"What do you want Ranma!" she asked in a very annoyed 
tone.  She didn't have time for this.
	"I want you to tell the truth,"  Ranma replied flatly.
	"Look, I don't have time for this.  I'll take care of it as soon 
as I get back.  Right now I'm off on a training mission," she replied 
her impatience becoming obvious in her voice.
	"Oh no you don't!   There's no way I'm letting you go off on 
one of your `training missions,' and leaving everyone thinking you 
and I were goin' out," as he spoke his cool demeanor began to be 
replaced by increasing frustration.   "Until you clear that up, or admit 
your curse, your not leavin."
	"And whose gonna stop me!?" Ryoga countered, there was no 
way she was letting Ranma order her about like this.
	"I am!" Ranma returned with equal vigor.  Ryoga had had 
enough, it was time she taught this freak a lesson.
	"DIE SAOTOME!!!" she yelled as attacked throwing a series 
of kicks and punches that would have leveled a lesser opponent.  
Ranma was not a lesser opponent though, and he simply dodged them 
with what appeared to be almost no effort.
	Ryoga continued her attack without pause, throwing kick 
after kick, punch after punch.  Ranma dodged each one in turn never 
letting the enraged girl hit him.  Soon both combatants were breathing 
equally heavily.  Ryoga had been expending quite a bit of effort, 
however her stamina was almost beyond belief.   Ranma, for his part, 
had been forced to do more work than he had to for even Pop.  She 
was fast, not as fast as him, but not bad.  Add to the fact that each of 
those punches was incredibly powerful and you come up with someone 
who was probably as close to an equal as Ranma had ever encountered.
	"Fight back!!!" Ryoga couldn't figure it out.  She had never 
met an opponent who could have dodged all of those punches.  Much 
less one who refused to even counter attack, why wouldn't he fight 
back.
	"I don't fight girls!" Ranma responded levelly.  This was very 
true, and although Ranma didn't actually consider Ryoga a real girl, 
he still didn't think he could hit her.   Not only that, but he figured 
saying something like that would probably annoy his enemy to no end.
	Ranma was right.  Ryoga had previously been mad.  Mad for 
Ryoga is no surprise, she got mad many times a day, mad at rain, mad 
at life, mad at vending machines, mad is something normal.  Now, 
however, she became more than mad, more than angry.  She went far 
passed angry and soon out on the other side.   Perhaps a good phrase, 
though not completely able to describe the sheer passion she was 
feeling at that moment, would be `completely, totally, and utterly 
enraged beyond all human comprehension.'  
	Knowing this one shouldn't be surprised that she completely 
lost all self control and began a rather more destructive attack than one 
would previously have believed possible.  Ranma, quite wisely, 
decided that this particular pony-tailed girl was not someone he felt 
like spending overmuch time with began a strategic withdrawal.  In 
other words, he ran like heck.
	Ryoga's anger level was far too high for even her too keep up 
for long, thus it was that a mere thirty minutes and several million yen 
in damage later, that the two combatants once again faced each other.  
In the interim several things had taken place.  One Ranma had 
managed to get a small nick on his arm from one of Ryoga's many 
headbands.  Second he had been lucky enough to have an encounter 
with a rather large amount of di-hydrogen oxide ( that's water) and 
was now rather angry herself.
	The two, now extremely attractive, martial artists were so 
caught up in their fight that they failed to notice their surroundings.  If 
they had they might have noticed a rather large crowd of their fellow 
students who had come out to view this amazing spectacle.  Nabiki, 
never one to pass up an opportunity, had also decided to charge 
admission.  This was quite an amazing feat seeing as how the two 
were currently in a vacant lot which Nabiki had absolutely no right to 
be charging anyone anything to enter.   This fact was overshadowed, 
however, by the even more amazing fact that she had been able to 
discover that they were going to be fighting there in the first place, 
seeing as how the two hadn't even known themselves until a few 
minutes before.  
	The party was not to last.  The two had only just began to 
fight when they were suddenly stopped by a yell from the crowd.  
	"Ranma!!!  Ryoko!!!  What are you two doing!" Akane was 
not in a good mood.  She had lost both her fiancee and her friend even 
before she had left the school, not only that, but her own sister had 
charged her 500 yen to find out where they were, and now it turned 
out that they were fighting,  again!
	"Uhh, hi Akane!" Ryoga began to sweat, she really tended to 
loose it whenever Akane was around.
	"Don't look at me, it was Ryoko's fault, she attacked me!" 
Ranma yelled sounding rather more defensive than she had initially 
planned.  She had wanted to sound cool and collected.  This was rather 
ambitious in that Ranma, though often cool, was never collected, 
especially not when it came to Akane.  
	Akane wasn't listening, "Come'on Ryoko, we're going 
shopping! This PERVERT, Can go find other girls to chase." Akane 
said, somehow managing to sound cool and collected (much to 
Ranma's annoyance) even whiling yelling `PERVERT'.  
	She dragged the slightly damp, and very flustered Ryoga off 
the field by the arm.  It should be noted that she got almost no 
resistance at this point, the girl being much too afraid of her 
disapproval at this point.  As the two left the lot, Ranma could be 
heard yelling something about `stupid tomboy,' but Akane didn't seem 
to be in any mood to listen.  A few minutes later Akane began to calm 
down, and, finally noticing her rather tight grip on the smaller girls 
arm, released Ryoga with an apology.
	"Sorry Ryoko, I guess I got a little carried away.  I know it 
wasn't your fault," Ryoga began to feel better as Akane spoke.  She 
was off the hook. Akane continued, "Sometimes that Pervert just 
makes me so mad," she gritted her teeth and clenched her fists as she 
spoke.  Ryoga was careful to keep a discrete distance between her and 
the still annoyed girl. 
"What happened anyway?" Akane asked, once again reigning 
in her temper.
	"Umm.well.I guess I got a little mad when he said he 
didn't hit girls." Ryoga admitted in a small voice, a little embarrassed.
	"That jerk!  What a...a.BOY!!! I can't believe he can be so 
stupid!," Akane's response was instant as she began fuming once 
again.  The two girls were silent as they continued to walk.  Ryoga 
being careful not to say anything lest she once again arouse Akane's 
fury.  She was very thankful that it was aimed at Ranma and not her.  
After a few more minutes Akane once again began to cool down, and 
by the time they reached the shopping district she seemed back to her 
normal self.  Soon they were joined by several of Akane's friends from 
school, and, much to Ryoga's discomfort, the shopping trip began.
	The next few hours were extremely difficult for her.  As they 
entered one store after another the girls would not only force her to try 
on clothes she hadn't even previously suspected existed, but would 
also model outfits of their own.  One by one they hit each of the stores, 
at almost every one they would force a consistently blushing Ryoga to 
try on outfit after outfit.  Finally the reached the last stop in their trip, 
Lingerie.  
	"I can't believe she just collapsed in there," said Asoki as 
they supported an unconscious Ryoga on a bench outside the shop.  
	"She's really shy," Akane said defending her friend, "I don't 
think she's seen her parents in years, and she only wears boys clothes.  
She'll get over it, she just needs a little help." The other girls nodded 
in agreement all determined to help out the tiny shy girl they were 
starting to count as a friend.  Soon Ryoga woke up.
	"What happened?" she asked as she awoke.
	"You fainted," Usaki supplied helpfully, "We brought you out 
here for some fresh air." The other girls helped Ryoga sit up as she 
began to take some deep breaths and stop the spinning.  
	"I think we've got just about everything you need for today," 
Akane added.  "If you want we could head home now," Ryoga silently 
nodded her agreement not yet trusting herself to say much more.
	After some quick good-byes the other girls headed back home 
with their purchases.  Akane and Ryoga also began the return trip, 
both laden with box of box of Ryoga's new wardrobe.  Akane had 
graciously forgone buying anything knowing the problems they would 
have transporting even what Ryoga needed.
	Upon arriving back at the Tendou's the two girls headed 
immediately to Akane's room.  Well, Akane did, Ryoga got lost on the 
way and somehow ended up in the bathroom but Akane found her 
pretty quickly.  Once again making the supreme sacrifice for her 
friend Akane cleared out closet space to store her new clothes.  A few 
minutes later they were all hung up neatly.
	"Well, that's good, do you think it's time to eat now?" Ryoga 
tried to sound nonchalant but only ended up sounding nervous.
	"Don't be silly, don't you want to try on some of your new 
outfits?" Akane asked pleasantly.  Ryoga wanted to say `NO WAY! 
Those are girl's clothes, I'm never wearing anything like that ever!'  
However in the grand tradition of the Hibiki family when faced with a 
female smile, she `wussed out' and simply nodded her assent.  Soon 
she was dressed in not only panties and a bra, but a rather cute looking 
outfit, with a yellow blouse and a tan skirt.  
	Why on earth did almost everything have to be yellow and 
tan?  Akane wondered silently to herself as she helped Ryoga finish 
buttoning up the blouse.  She had to admit it did suit her, but still, 
there were other colors.  She sighed, oh well, you can't win them all.  
She had also wanted to get the girl to take off her headband, it was 
true it didn't look bad, but Akane was convinced that if she wore her 
hair loose she would look about a thousand times more feminine.  She 
had told Ryoko as much, but even that hadn't been enough to get her 
to part with her pony tail.  (If the truth be known, upon hearing that 
statement Ryoga had sworn never to remove her headband for any 
reason, ever.)
	Finally Akane added the final touches, and Ryoga was ready 
for presentation.  She grabbed her by the shoulders and gently turned 
her around so she could look in the mirror.  The effect was stunning.  
Before her, Ryoga once again saw the tiny attractive girl she had so 
often seen before.  This time there was a difference though.  This girl 
was dressed in a very attractive shirt and skirt, as a matter of fact, she 
looked just like a normal girl.  This was definitely not something 
Ryoga wanted, she was guy! 
	This person in the mirror, however, looked to be most 
definitely, one-hundred percent, female.  Ryoga began to panic, what 
was she supposed to do, there was no way she was ever going to let 
anyone see her like this.  No way!!!
	"Come on, Ryoko, let's go eat I think I hear Kasumi calling,"  
Akane said, both ready and willing to show off Ryoga's `new look'.  
Ryoga tried desperately to get out of it.
	"OK, I'll go change," she said quickly.  Akane had been 
expecting this, she knew her friend was extremely shy, but she also 
was learning how to manipulate her rather easily.  All for her own 
good, of course.
	"Don't you like the clothes we got?" she asked, putting just a 
hint of worry in her voice.  Ryoga immediately became terrified she 
had hurt Akane's feelings.
	"Of course-," Akane cut her off in mid-sentence.
	"Great then!  Let's go," grabbing Ryoga by the arm and not 
giving her even the slightest chance at protest she dragged her out the 
door soon the arrived in the dining room.  Upon entering everyone 
simply stared at the now transformed girl before them.  All except 
Ranma, he simply began to choke on his rice.
	"Oh my," Kasumi said, in the back of her mind Ryoga 
wondered if Kasumi had been dropped as a child.  "Dear, you look 
lovely," she said giving the girl a disgustingly happy smile.
	"Yes, lovely," Nabiki said, also with a smile, though it did 
not seem quite as innocent as Kasumi's.  
	Soun began to cry, or, to use a better phrase, blubber like a 
baby, "Oh, you are so beautiful!  Such loveliness gracing my house!  I 
am so blest."
	Genma, currently in panda form, held up a sign, <<Very 
pretty>> seeing Ranma still choking on his food he slammed the sign 
into his sons back.  As soon as Ranma began to once again get control 
of himself the panda turned over his sign, << Well say something boy! 

 For a few Ranma seemed to be at a loss for words, then breaking 

out in a wide grin, and idea came to him.
	"Ohhh Ryoko!,  you are sooooo cute!" Ranma could barely 
keep control of himself as he spoke, and soon broke out in almost 
uncontrollable laughing.
	"Ranma you take that back!"  Ryoga may not be able to do 
much about the others, but Ranma was another story.
	"Ranma!" Akane said through clenched teeth.  "Stop 
laughing, she really is cute, admit it!" After a few seconds Ranma 
began to calm down, mainly out of self preservation, but probably 
more from a desire to say something rather insulting to the yellow 
skirted girl.
	Ryoga however was not completely without recourse, she 
didn't think the Tendou's would like it to much if she started a fight 
right in the middle of dinner, but Ranma had other weaknesses.  
Grabbing a glass of water off the table she tossed it's contents all over 
the still slowly recovering Ranma.  For some reason, probably 
something to do with the fact that the shift served to remind Ranma of 
the current situation, but more likely due to the fact that he, now a she, 
finally took another look at her enraged classmate, Ranma once again 
immediately broke out into hysterical laughter.  
	The rest of dinner did  not go much better.  It mainly 
consisted of Ranma making some sort of comment along the lines of 
how cute Ryoga looked today, followed by Ryoga yelling some sort of 
threat at Ranma, who would then break down into laughter once 
again.  Finally Akane got fed up and, after flattening Ranma, punted 
him once more into the stratosphere.  (Ranma was a little to far gone 
to do much about it.)  
	Soon they finished up dinner.  Ryoga, saying she needed 
some sleep, decided to head off to bed.  Or at least tried to, she was 
forced to get directions several times from various Tendous (such as 
`That door!'  and `No not that door, that one.  I said that one!') until 
finally Akane took pity on her and led her to their room.
	Ryoga got undressed in record time.  Soon she was once 
again wearing her standard yellow shirt/tan pants combinations 
(without a bra or panties).  After some indecision she also packed on 
of the blouse skirt combinations she had picked up with Akane along 
with several female undergarments.  She would be returning pretty 
soon and she knew she would probably have to answer some rather 
uncomfortable questions were she to once again return with her 
standard gear.  Akane's approval was fast becoming very important to 
the pony-tailed girl.  After some thought she pulled out some paper 
and began to write.

Dear Akane,
	I am very thankful to you and the Tendou's for your gracious 
hospitality.  I am going off on a training mission and will return soon.  
I think what I need most right now is some time to think.  I will return 
as soon as possible.
			Your friend,
			Ryoko

	Satisfied with her writing she placed the letter on Akane's 
bed, picked up her pack and, after a brief search, exited through the 
window.  She had some thinking to do. 

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There it is.  I hope you like it.  As an aid to those of you who would like
to send me C&C but really can't think of all that much to say I will attach
several examples of completely acceptable C&C immediately folling this 
paragraph.

To: Cat
From: Freakboy
Date: Who cares
Subject: Ryoga: Possibilities = CRAP

	This is CRAP!!!  You are CRAP, CRAP, CRAP, CRAP, CRAP.

				Your fan,
				Freakboy.

To: Cat
From: Freakboy
Date: Who cares
Subject: Ryoga: Possibilities = JOY

	This is wonderful!!!  I worship you!!!  You are great!

				Your hated enemy,
				Freakboy


Though I would perfer more of the second, the first is also very 
acceptable.  

				Cat (Lesser God of Ryoga Fanfics)
				travis.mcintosh@student.oc.edu