Azusa-chan
mimzy@ie.netcom.com
A Ranma / real life crossover =)

Okay, in case you can't tell, this here is my very first fanfic.  
I got the inspiration from a little daydream I often have.  If 
anyone should have been and anime character, it should have been 
me!  Ranma 1/2 and all of it's characters are property of the 
wonderful Rumiko Takahashi.  All rights reserved.  All of the 
non-Ranma characters are either my own creativity doing it's 
worst or real people.  There is some mild cursing.  I would just 
like to state that this is not, may I repeat and stress *NOT* a 
hentai fic, nor do I plan for it to be any time in the near 
future.  |Gomen|.  Bare with me in the beginning!  I just wanted 
to establish some sort of life for the two main characters.  It's
probably gunna be boring, but this is actually like a normalish 
day in my life.  You should see our lunch time...I know it's 
kinda vain to put myself and my friends in the Ranmaverse, and 
you probably think I am a pathetic loser with no life and too 
much spare time (which I wont deny) but I am not writing this for
fame and glory.  I'm writing this cuz this is my daydream and I 
wanted to share it.

   Keep an eye out for these...
	}...{ Authors notes
	|...| Translated at bottom
	:...: Character thinking

*****Reality is a Matter of Opinion*****

Episode One:
Fresh Life

*ring*
   "Hello?"
   "Ruth, I did it.  I know how!"
   The next five minutes were filled with screaming and yelling 
for joy.
   "Oh, that is so totally great!  When will we be able to go 
through with it?"
   "Not for a week or so.  It leaves you a little drained, but 
coming and going as quickly as I did, I'm really tired."  Miriam 
sighed.  "I'm so exhausted.  I need to get some sleep.  I'll see 
you tomorrow?"
   "You bet your life you will!"

Miriam hung up the phone.  She had finally done it!  So sick of 
normal life, she had finally drawn all her will power together 
and wished hard enough to enter into the realm of anime!  But so 
tired...so...tired...

The next day at school, Ruth slithered up to Miriam.  "When are 
we gunna go?"
   Miriam took a breath.  "Not for a week yet.  I need to rest,
because I lost a lot of energy, though it may be a bit easier
now that I've got the hang of it.  It's gunna take a lot of 
effort, I don't know if you'll make it."
   "I'll make it!  You know I will!  I don't see the point to all
of this," Ruth said, gesturing around her.  "Real life sucks, 
it's so boring."
   "Yeah, I know..."  Miriam's sentence kind of wandered off, as 
in walked Mike and Lauren.  "Ah, roller-coaster relationship of 
the year award, walking right towards us.  Okay, so maybe that 
all in itself is interesting."
   Lauren was talking to Mike in a very scolding manner, and he
was blatantly on the defensive.  "But not in a good way,"
Ruth put in.
   "You can say that again..."  The bell rang, and Miriam walked
to class after parting with Ruth as she walked down the
science hall.  Miriam continued down the main hall and saw Mike
storming down the hall, apparently just parting ways with Lauren.
As usual, she ignored him.
   When Miriam got to class, she asked Lauren what had happened 
*this* time...
   "He lied to me.  *Again.*  He cheated on me this weekend.  
*Again.*  But that's okay, because I was flirting with you-
know-who all weekend."  Lauren winked.
   Miriam slapped her on the back good naturedly.  "Ah, you go 
girl!  Honestly, I sometimes don't understand why you put up with
Mike..."
   Lauren scowled.  "Well, this time I'm not taking him back."  
:Just like every *other* time,: Miriam thought, rolling her eyes.
"I have warned him time and again, that if he decided to break
another one of his promises to me, it was *over.*  For good this
time.  Maybe I'll go out with..."
   Lauren was interrupted by the bell.  She winked to let Miriam 
know who it was, not like she couldn't guess already.  Lauren 
turned to her seat, but realized someone was already sitting in 
it.  She shrugged and pulled up a chair.

The week lingered.  And lingered.  And lingered.  Mike and 
Lauren's relationship was patched when Lauren heard that Mike's
friend lied about what had really happened.  No one was 
surprised.
   Ruth kept bugging Miriam.  "When can we go?"
   Miriam sighed and pushed her cute glasses up her nose.  "Today
after school.  Don't bother asking anyone's permission to come 
over.  If we don't make it, what's the big deal?  You've gotten 
in trouble for worse."  Ruth gave her an 'Oh, gee, thanks,' look.
"If this works, we'll be long gone before anyone ever thinks to 
look for us."
   Ruth slid in closer.  "How do you do it?"
   "I don't know if this is the only way but...I start watching 
the show I want to go into and then I just concentrated REALLY 
hard on how much I wish I was there and...Then there's this weird
weightless feeling, like the floor fell out from under you.  Then 
you hit the ground there, but it's like falling on a pillow.  
Though after that, it's hard.  I should know.  I got dizzy and 
toppled over!"  Miriam rubbed her head at the painful memory. 
   Ruth contemplated laughing at her, but thought better of it.

The day passed slow but fast.  She did her best to say good-bye 
discretely to everyone she would miss.  Not that it was enough 
to keep her here.  Lauren, her best friend, was the only one that
she told.  Lauren was shocked.
   "Why are you doing this?  I can't believe you'd want to go!  I
thought you were in love with..."
   "I *am*," Miriam cut in.  "But he's leaving soon, and I doubt 
he loves me back.  So what's the point in staying?  I don't want 
to be here when he goes," she murmured.  When she saw a tear 
glimmer in Lauren’s eye, she hugged her.  "Don't worry," Miriam 
whispered.  "I'll come back to visit you.  And I'll even teach 
you some time how to visit me."
   Lauren smiled, though the smile was forced and a bit wobbly.
"I'll miss you, Rob-chan," she said, using her nickname.
   Miriam melted and nearly lost her resolve.  "|Wo ai ni|, 
Bob-chan," she said, tears streaming down her face.  She hugged 
her again and kissed her on the check.  "I'll think about you 
every day.  Don't...Don't forget me..."  Miriam ran off, sobbing,
to find Ruth.

Ruth in the meantime was really happy.  The only thing she 
regretted leaving behind was this one cute guy she enjoyed
staring at on occasion, but she was going to a much better place 
with a good friend!  She didn't have any tearful good-bye's
because she didn't want to tell anyone where she was going.
   She saw Miriam running down the hall toward her.  She was 
crying, *hard*.
   "Miriam, what's wrong?" Ruth asked, worried.  Worried about 
Miriam and also worried she'd lose her nerve and change her mind.
   "N...Nothing.  I just said good-bye to Lauren.  I told her.  I
couldn't leave without telling her."  Miriam looked at Ruth and 
gave her a watery smile.  "You ready to go?"
   "You bet!" Ruth said, initiating a high-five.

An hour (and a good cry) later, Miriam and Ruth were sitting 
lotus-style in front of and episode of Ranma 1/2.
   "So this is the best anime show to go into?" Ruth asked,
looking skeptically at the box for Ranma 1/2.
   "Of course.  The laws of anime physics there are amazing!  No
matter how bad someone gets hurt, none of them die.  Some get hit
and bounce right back like it was noting.  They rarely sustain
damage.  And they can jump from roof to roof and..."
   "Jeez, it looks like you're picking it out just cuz you like
to try to fly!" Ruth scoffed.
   "I have more sense than that," Miriam said, turning her nose
up at Ruth daintily.
   "Sure," Ruth mumbled.  "Whatever."  They both grinned.
   "Now, at this point, you've got to be really *sure* you want
to go.  You can't have any loose strings or you won't make it, 
and even if you do, you won't last a day."  Miriam thought about 
*him* for a second...Then she thought, with determination, :I 
*will* go.  He won't be my loose string!:
   Ruth bared her teeth in a savage grin.  They both had 
back-packs slung to their backs carrying the things they needed 
and wanted most.  Miriam was carrying clothes and the candle 
Lauren gave her for Christmas.  She opted against bringing her 
cat, considering where they were going.
   "I'm more ready now than I have ever been for anything in my
*life*."
   Miriam took a deep breath and tried to clear her mind of all 
thoughts.  Especially about...:Don't think about him, dummy!:  
"Okay, close your eyes and concentrate."  She took Ruth's right 
hand in her left hand and squeezed it encouragingly.  Five 
minutes and a near brain aneurysm later, the 'floor' dropped out 
from under them.  Ruth all of a sudden decided to squeeze 
Miriam's hand tighter.  Much tighter.  If they weren't already 
part-way in the anime realm, she suspected something would have 
been broken by now.
   }Note: The person I count on for my 'second opinion' wasn't
sure exactly how they got there.  Its kinda like in Magic Knight
Rayearth, how the princess prayed for peace.  They focased their
will power on what they wanted.  Don't try this at home, kids.
You'll pop a vein trying to do something  even I haven't managed
to get to work yet. =){

*Thump!*
"Ow!"
   Saotome Ranma turned around.  Two young girls he could have 
sworn weren't there before were kneeling down and rubbing their 
rumps in obvious pain.
   "I thought you said it was gunna be a soft landing!" one girl 
yelled at the other, who winced.  The yelling girl hand long 
brown hair that fell strait down in a beautiful tangle.  She had 
warm brown almost puppy-doggish eyes.  She was medium tall and 
had a full figure, and moderately clingy clothes.  Her eyes were 
wide and she had a medium sized mouth.  She looked like she 
couldn't hurt a fly.  The other girl had slightly shorter brown 
hair, but she wore it in a pig-tail just like his own.  She had 
the bluest eyes that you would ever see.  They caught the light 
in different ways and seemed to change shades at a whim.   She 
had pouty lips and an even fuller figure.  :I didn't think girls 
like that existed,: he thought, wonderingly.  She was wearing a 
thin black shirt with long sleeves that just touched the top of 
her *short* shorts.  She was somewhat tall for a girl, but not 
too tall.  :Feisty,: he thought
   "What'd you go and do *that* for?" she yelled in the other 
girl's ear.  "It *was* a soft landing last time, but I think 
you..."
   Ranma cleared his throat.  "Are you two...Okay?"
   Ruth turned and gaped at what had to be the *BEST* looking guy
she had ever seen.  He was tall and *quite* well built, without 
looking like an ugly overstuffed mattress.  He was wearing a blue
Chinese shirt and black pants.  He had a pig-tail just like 
Miriam's and oh my *GAWD* was he fine...
   Miriam, while also instantly in love, had much better self 
control.  She already knew who this was (Saotome Ranma of the 
anything-goes school of martial arts!) and she expected to turn 
around and see him.  "I'm...|Kawaii| |Yume| and this is |Kawaii| 
|Hana|.  We're sisters.  I'm older by a year.  I'm...16 and she's
15."  'Hana' was now awake enough to glare at 'Yume' for making 
*her* the younger.  "And you are...?"
   "I'm...Saotome Ranma."
   "Konnichiwa, Ranma-san.  Could you help us?  We're new to the 
area and we need a place to stay." 
   Ranma smiled.  "Well, Yume-san..."
   "Just Yume, please."
   "Well, Yume, I could see if you could stay at the Tendou Dojou
with the Tendou's and my father and me."
   Miriam winked down at Ruth as if to say, See?  I have 
everything in the bag!
   "That would be wonderful!  What kind of dojou is it?  I'd 
really like to learn some form of martial arts."  Yume smiled up 
at him in her cutest possible manner.  }Note: At this point, she 
no longer has glasses, even though she was cute in them too.  She
is wearing her contact lenses.{
   "Yeah, I'm game!" Hana jumped in, with a little too much 
enthusiasm.
   :Great,: Miriam thought.  :First sentence and she's already 
embarrassing me.:

The 'sisters' were walking several paces behind Ranma and 
whispering among eachother.  "Are you certain we're in anime?" 
Ruth whispered.
   "Look at your boobs, Ruth."
   Ruth looked down than back at Miriam.  "Yeah?  So what?"
   "They *exist*."
   "Oh.  Yeah."
   "Look at it this way.  We don't have to shave.  Our bodies are
perfect.  We're broke, but we're still getting a place to stay.
We get to live with a fine guy!  Not to mention, I'm beautiful,
where on earth I don't even think I classified as cute.  I don't 
even think that bodily functions exist here!  If we're not in
anime,  I'd say we died and at least *I* went to heaven!"  Miriam
threw a devilish grin at Ruth.  "I think I'm gunna like it here."

Akane was pacing back and forth in the Tendou Dojou.  :Where the 
hell *is* he?: she thought angrily.  :He was supposed to be here 
an *hour* ago!:
   Ranma walked in the door of the dojou with two *very* cute 
girls.
   "...And this is the Tendou Dojou!  And over here is...Uhh..."
   "RANMA!"
   "Yume, Hana, meet Akane, my uncute fiancee."
   The fiancee in question pulled a mallet out of god-knows-where
and smashed it *hard* into Ranma's cranium.
   "Ranma!" cried Yume and Hana in fear.  *No one* could possible
take a hit like that and survive!
   But Ranma bounced back quickly and yelled at Akane, "What'd 
you go and do *that* for!"
   "Jeez, Yume, he sound's just like you."
   Miriam blushed.  "Actually, Hana dear, I sound like *him*."
   Ruth gave her an odd look.  "Wannabe."
   Akane attacked Ranma.  He ducked and dodged each hit as if it
were no big deal.  He flowed like water over stones, but Akane 
never once touched him. 
   "Fight *back*!" she screamed at him in fury.  "How am I ever 
supposed to get better if you don't *fight back*?!"
   "I don't fight girls," he said calmly, not even winded.  Akane
was panting and gasping for breath.  "Even tomboy's like you."
   Thus the return of the dreaded, infamous mallet.  This time, 
Ranma just stayed where he landed, twitching.  "Un...cute...
tomboy!"
   Akane turned to the two visitors.  "Hi!  I'm Akane.  Want to 
be friends?"



Authors Notes:
Ah, how long I've waited to type that!  Anyway...This is 
actually a fairly accurate telling of how it would be.  These are
all actual people (that aren't anime characters) and those are
actual nicknames.

Translations (All Japanese unless specified otherwise)
|Gomen| - Sorry
|Wo ai ni| - I love you (Chinese)
|Kawaii| - Cute
|Yume| - Dream
|Hana| - Flower
|Konnichiwa| - Hello

The reason that the girls are called Kawaii Yume and Kawaii Hana
is because in Japan, the family name comes first.  Cute Dream
and Cute Flower!  (Ruth is a little POed cuz she thinks I named
her after a skunk.  Ya know, from Bambi.  Heh.)

Okay, so should I continue or call it quits before the fanfic 
police come out and shoot me for such a terrible fic?