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A fanfic by Sean D'anna [Catbert25]

Ranma 1/2 and all related characters
are owned by Rumiko Takahashi and are used without permission.	
 
A sort of moody fic that I churned out today. Came out pretty good so far hope
fully will get more action oreiented later on...


	Ranma Saotome sat by the window of the small appartment she had rented and
sighed. In the past year she had not spoken unless it was absolutely
nessesary. Ever since the incident in China. Her father sat in the corner and
snored loudly, Mr. P wandered into the room looking lost as usuall. it had
been hard to find a place that would accept pets, especially a giant panda.
The Manager bad been so impressed with the human like manners of the panda
that she had allowed them to remain. 

	She only did two things now a days, train and work. She had mannaged to get a
job in a local diner as a waitress barely kept open by its clientel of old men
and women  and had thus far been able to pay the bills and keep her and the
old man fed.  The place was going under and she didn't think it would last.
She watched the rain hit the glass on the window as a small shower began. Mr.
P jumped up beside her and watched intently, she reached down and tightened
the bandana around his neck. She saw the people scurry away into the cover of
buildings. He watched couples dive into secluded corners together. Something
she would now never know. She stood and walked into the center of the room and
began her Kata. The panda rolled over to watch her. "Again?" said its sign.
She intencified her Kata growing faster and stronger with each blow. "Your
obsessing boy." said the other side of the sign. Ranma knew it must be bad if
his father thought he was obsessing over martial arts. "What else have I got
left?" she asked herself in her mind. No answer came. 

	Tomorrow she would begin school. She did not like har fathers decision but
she did not want to argue with him. It seemed to be a waste of her breath,
lately every conversation seemed to be a waste of her breath. She passed a
table with one of her regular costomers and smiled. She didn't really feel
like smiling but it was part of her job.

	Mr. Daimoko watched Ranma scurry about the tables with exspert grace and
seeming unatruall dextarity. But something was not right, she was depressed
from the moment he saw her. She did what she had to and more in her work often
seeming to take to a task as if it were a challenge. She was quiet and never
rude to the costomers. She was a modle employee. But the air of depression was
still there. "I hope she pulls through a young girl like that should enjoy her
life." said a costomer to him. "Yup, she is an excellent employee." said
Daimoko.

	Ranma walked home and sat at the table with her father and Mr.p as they ate
dinner in the usuall way, a free for all battle, although Ranma occasionally
sided with Mr. P to be fair. She had picked up the pig from Jusenkyo after she
and her father were cursed. The guide and her father had dropped into a pot of
boiling water alive to cook it for supper. Ranma had walked in and saved it
after it refused to die after several minutes. She had beat her father for
trying to eat anything he had caught near the springs even after knowing about
the curses. She nursed the pig back to health and found her suspicions true,
it had been a man once. The two had a sort of bond between them, almost like a
rivalry each understanding and sympathising with each others situation. Mr. P
was a name they both just sort of adopted over time, as opposed to "pig." and
the like.

	The next day Ranma changed into her uniform the skirt was longer than it
needed to be and the blouse loose. Then she put on a thick pair of glasses and
tightened her bindings around her chest her red hair was in a loose pony tail.
She walked towards the door only to find Mr. P waiting for him. "I supose you
want to come." she said looking at him. The pig nodded with a look that said
"you are not leaving me here all day with him."  Ranma offered a rare smile
and scooped him into the bag with a warning glare. Mr. P knew what it meant.
"Don't wander off." Ranma walked out the door and onto the street. She
imediately jumped onto a fence and walked pourposefully towards the school. "I
suppose he's trying to cling to some sort of humanity." she thought as she
felt the pig move around in her bag.

	At the school a large group of boys had gathered and was attacking a lone
girl who was wipeing the floor with them. Ranma watched for a moment and moved
through the crowd silently until she was inside the building. 
	
	Nabiki Tendo watched the new arival walk silently through the crown
unnoticed. "Who is that?" she wondered aloud. "What?" said one of the girls
next to her. "Find out who the new girl is." said Nabiki to her. "New girl?
sure thing boss." replied the girl.

	"Class this is miss Saotome, a new transfer student who has just returned
from a trip to China." Ranma bowed as the Teacher introdused her to the class.
"So miss Saotome tell us about yourself." said the teacher to her. "No." said
Ranma as she walked to her seat in the back of the class. She surveyed the
room around her and noticed that the girl who had been fighting the boys in
the court yard was in the front row. The teacher began class and Ranma sat
silently as the students watched her for a while and then forgot about her.

Three weeks pass...

	Mr. P had taken to doing the assigtnments the teacher had given the class.
Ranma watched as he wrote with a small ink bottle and the tip of one of his
hooves. Ranma had long ago learned his real name but Mr. P had stuck even
then.  Ranma frowned as he signed his paper "Ryoga Hibiki" and looked at her.
she had been beaten again by the pig. She supposed School work made him feel a
little human again. Ranma got up and walked towards the door again, "Off to
work." she thought a little sourly.

	The next day a group of girls approached Ranma as she sat in her corner of
the court yard durring lunch. "Hello." said the one in front that she
recognised as the fight girl. "I'm Akane." she said to her. "I've seen you
around but never really gotten to talk to you." said Akane to Ranma who looked
at her evenly. "Ranma is it? I was wondering would would like to go with us
for ice cream after school or something?" she said looking amazingly cute.
Ranma felt herself blushing and tried to stop it only makeing it worse.
Akane's smile broadened. "You don't have to be shy." she said to Ranma
sweetly. "No thanks, I have to work." she said and walked away after smiling
politely for a moment.

	Later after gym class she stood in the shower stareing at the wall. He waited
for most of the girls to leave before entering. Every one had just assumed she
was just shy. She watched the water drain into the hole in the floor. She
could not get that girl out of her mind. "Perhaps its because she was the
first to speak to you for a long time." she resoned. She turned off the water
and leaned on the wall. "Mabey its time you got over this." said a voice in
her head, a voice that was no longer hers. She put a fist through the wall and
growled. "Never." she whispered bitterly. The remaning girls in the shower
shreeked and walked out quickly. She pulled her hand from the hole to see a
frightened looking boy on the other side stairing at her face through the
hole, she grinned at him with a dark look in her eyes. She wraped her towel
around herself and walked out.

	Daisuke could not beleive his eyes the most beautiful girl he had ever seen
had almost punched him in the face...by puting her fist through the wall. "Who
Was that?" he wondered. He knew he would have noticed a girl like that walking
around.

	It would be almost three days before Daisuke was proven not to be insane. He
wandered around asking about the girl who had put her hand through the wall.
For the rest of the week. Then on friday...

	Tatewaki Kuno stepped out from behind a tree in front of Akane Tendo. Ranma
was less than three feet behind her. "Shit." thought Ranma as she snuck around
to avoid the fight. As she had planed Kuno did not notice her, he also did not
notice sliceing her bag in half as he swung at Akane. Ranma stopped wide eyed
stairing at the bag half in her arms. The pig was gone.

	"Ryoga!" cried Ranma as Kuno's foot came down on the other half of her bag.
She lept at him and hit him away from the bag. "Who would Dare?!" roared Kuno
as he turned to see a small average looking girl bent over half a bag holding
a small pig. "How dare you interfear-" Started Kuno, then she looked at him.
"He's cut." She said to him with an angry stare. The pig had a shallow gash
along its side. "What?" said Kuno. "You hurt my freind." said the girl
standing tall, removing her glasses, loosening the tight and restrictive
binding on her chest and clenching her fist at her side. She did not do this
with emotion she had spoken evenly and coolly the whole time as if she was
giving the time. 

	Kuno and the rest of the student body gasped as the girl went from average to
stunning in a matter of seconds. The girl looked at the pig as it glaired at
Kuno angrily nurseing its side. "I challenge you." said Ranma calmly. 

	Kuno laughed and smiled his best smile at her. "Very well if you win I shall
alow you to date with me." he said. "If I win there won't be any of you left
to date." growled Ranma. 

	Kuno swung once, that was all. Ranma was on him imediately. She crushed him
easily. She pounded on him for almost a full minute strategically placeing
blows to keep him standing although he wanted to fall after the first. Kuno
collapsed in a heap when it was all over. "Wow." said Akane as she looked over
Kuno and noted he had a long red mark in the same manner as the pig did along
his side. It would make a rather nasty bruise for some time. Ranma walked
towards the school with the pig cradled in her arms. She held it in a
respectful manner not that of a young girl comforting a pet. Akane watched as
she disapeared towards the nurses office.

	Nabiki Walked up to Akane and frowned. "We have to find out where she lives."
she said coldly. "Why?" asked Akane after clearing the daze frome what she had
just seen. "Akane are you blind?" asked Nabiki with a suprised look. "What do
you mean?" asked Akane. "She was useing the anything goes style, you of all
people should know that." said Nabiki coolly. "Only two families practice that
style that is rediculo-" Akane stopped. Nabiki was right. 

	Ranma walked towards her home and watched the two girls follow her silently
as they could. "Come on out." she said after a moment turning to face them.
Akane stepped out of hiding and blushed at being caught. "And the other girl."
said Ranma coolly. Nabiki grummbled and stepped from her own spot. "What do
you want?" asked Ranma evenly. "Where did you learn to fight like that?" asked
Akane. "My father taught me." said Ranma turning away. "Wait!" called Akane
after her. "What is it?" sighed Ranma. "Why do you act like that? Would it
hurt you to smile?" She said looking at Ranma with a sad exspresion.  "You
wouldn't understand." said Ranma looking at her saddly. "How do you know?"
asked Nabiki. Ranma sighed again and turned to face the girls again. She had
not spoken this much in a long time. "Well what do you want to know?" she
asked. "Where did you learn the any thing goes style?" asked Nabiki. Ranma
gasped. "How do you know what its called?" she asked. 
	Akane smiled as Ranma gapped at the sign on the gate to her home. "Weird eh
Mr. P?" she asked the pig. Akane was a little suprised when the pig nodded in
reply. "Your pet pig is so cute! can I hold him?" asked Akane smiling at the
pig. "If he wants to let you, he isn't really a pet. Just don't put him down
or he'll get lost." said Ranma not really paying attention. "Hello young lady
are you interested in takeing a class with us?" said Soun who had walked out
after seeing the girl stareing at the sign. "No thanks I already know the
style although I am a bit suprised to see some one else teaches it." she said
to him. "Soun looked at her oddly. "Well now I doubt that miss...?" said Soun
warrily looking at the girl. "Saotome, Ranma Saotome." said the girl. Soun
gasped. 

	Soun sat across from the girl as she nervously looked around. "So how is old
Genma san?" asked Soun Cheerfully. "Gone." said Ranma casually. "Oh, I'm sorry
to hear that." said Soun looking a little pale. "You have a brother I
understand?" asked Soun trying to sound cheerful. "I am an only child." said
Ranma. "And your Mother?" asked Soun. "Haven't seen her in ten years." said
Ranma. Soun looked at the girl in shock. "That is truly sad." he said trying
to look dignified. "How did you know my father?" asked Ranma. "We were best
freinds for many years training under the same master for many years." Said
Soun holding back tears. "I see." said Ranma. Akane looked at her softly it
exsplained alot about her her family was gone and she had to work to support
herself and who ever she was living with. Desparate to end the tencion Akane
piped up. "Ranma you want to go spar in the Dojo?" she asked. Ranma turned to
face her and a small smile formed on her lips, "sure." she replied.

	Ranma recognised Akane's style from earlier fights and never gave it a second
thought. But now u[ close and personal she saw that it was indeed anything
goes style. Even though it was a little rough and inexspirienced. Ranma fliped
over Akane as she Charged at her screaming "This time for real!" She landed
behind her and tappped her on the back of the head. "Wow your pretty good."
said Akane laughing. Ranma sooned joined in. It was the first time Ranma had
laughed in a very long time. "Its getting late, won't somebody get worried
about you?" asked Akane. "I live alone." said Ranma, "Well just me and the
animals." she corrected. "Oh" said Akane after a moment looking suprised. 

	 Soun walked up to the pair. He had been watching for some time now and spoke
up. "Some one as young as you living alone?" he asked. Ranma turned pale if
she was turned over to the govornment now who knows what would happen to her
father and Ryoga. "I-I uhhh..." she stuttered. "I feel responcible for you
young lady. Your father was a good freind who helped me keep my sanity over
those terrible years of training with the master. If Genma had had a son then
our two families would have been joined through Marrage. Therefore I would
like to think of you as family, I would be honored if you would stay with us."
said Soun crying a river of tears. "You just met me, and I uh..."

	 Ranmna did not know what to say to the man. "It would help her considerably
to have a stable home and not have to worry about scratching together enough
to pay the rent and feed herself and her 'family'." she frowned and thought
for a moment. "I accept...on two conditions, One is that you allow me to keep
my animals and two is that you allow me to pay rent." she said finally. "Very
well. I hope they are well trained." he said as they walked into the home.
Nabiki was sitting with the pig at the table going over some problems in her
note book and doing the budget. "Your right that is wrong." she said to the
pig who nodded and pressed some numbers on her calculator. "Right that should
do it." she said to it and it sqealed happily. Soun saw this and sweat. "Lets
go Ryoga we have some stuff to talk about at home." she said to it walking out
the door. The pig lept into her arms and the two walked out into the night.

 TbC...
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