I'm kind of stuck on this story, so I thought I would send out this
teaser, and maybe get some fresh idea's on how to continue with it.
MOTHER'S GIFT
By
The DragonBard
This is a Ah My Goddess/Ranma 1/2 fan fic. And unlike my other
stories, this is not a part of any series that I'm working on. This is
a one-shot fic. When it's over, it's over! Though, if someone else
wants to write a continuation of it, that's their perogative, just tell
me about it, and give me the credit I deserve, and everyone will be
happy.
This happens sometime after the final manga issue of Ranma 1/2, and
after the last episode of the Ah My Goddess anime.
I don't own these character, and I'm just using them for
entertainment value, No copyright infringement is intended, so don't sue
me!
All my past fan fics can be found at RAAC archives.
I've never heard a name given to Mrs. Tendo in the official
storyline, and most of the stories that I've read give her the name of
Kimiko, so I decided to go with the flow.
And now, I give you, Mother's Gift.
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My e-mail address is
dragonbard@hotmail.com
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"Blech! And here I thought Kasumi cleaned everywhere!" Nabiki
Tendo muttered to herself. While her older sister was extremely tidy,
and thorough, the attic looked like it hadn't been cleaned in ages.
"Well, I guess even Kasumi has her limits, not that I blame her, Yuch!
But this is going to make it alot harder to find that stuff."
Nabiki had decided to go over some old family documents, hoping to find
something that her father may have forgotten to mention, like a secret
family inheritence that she could use to get some money into their
meager savings account. <Right!> Nabiki thought, sarcastically <And
it'll turn out we're actually richer than the Kuno's.> However, she was
having problems blackmailing her fellow students. She'd already
squeezed most of them dry of any money, and there wasn't anything that
she could do with the favors that they owed her until some 'opportunity'
came up. Sales of pictures of Ranma had gone down since the wedding
fiasco, Akane and Ranma were still mad at her for that one. At the
moment, the fact that the Kuno's were obsessed with their respective
loves, Ranma for Kodachi, and Ranma-chan and Akane for Tatewaki Kuno,
was the only thing keeping the family solvent, that and the many
investments she had made over the years.
Nabiki quickly sorted through several boxes of stuff, mostly
children's clothing from when the three sisters were younger. These got
a chuckle out of her, as she remembered how her younger sister had been
back then. Then, she opened one box, and on top was an official
document. <This looks promising> Nabiki thought. Intrigued, Nabiki
looked at it more closely. As she looked through it, she was stunned.
It was her father's birth certificate, but the name listed was for a
Soun Ohken. Quickly she replaced all of the boxes, dusted her jeans
off, and went in search for her father. She found him in his usual
place, playing Go with his best friend, Mr. Saotome.
"Dad, I was looking through some of my old things and came across
this." She said, handing him the certificate. Soun glanced at it,
while Mr. Saotome took the chance to move some of the pieces around.
"Why, that's my birth certificate. I haven't seen that in years."
he exclaimed. Mr. Saotome looked over his shoulder.
"Yes, Dad, I realized that." Nabiki said, "What I was wondering
was; why you changed the family name?"
Soun Tendo looked at his daughter, with tears in his eyes. "It was
part of our marriage agreement. Your mother insisted on keeping her
family name." Mr. Saotome nodded his head in agreement. After all, he
had been there for his best friend at the wedding.
"So. . . Tendo was 'Mom's' family name? I was just curious."
Actually, it would be safe to say that curiosity, aside from
intelligence, was Nabiki's most defining trait. After all, it was her
curiosity that had led her to find out those things that had lead to her
career in blackmail. She wondered why her mother had made her father
change the family name, was there something important about being named
Tendo? It was a nice enough name, though your family being named 'The
Way of Heaven' was a bit much, she thought. She would have to look into
this. <After all,> she thought to herself, <for once, this is
personal.>
All this time, Kasumi was upstairs cleaning, when two feminine
hands came over her eyes.
"Guess who, Kasumi-chan." The woman said.
"Mama!" she answered, and laughed as she turned to embrace her
mother. "I'm so glad to see you! But, why did you come? Nabiki and
Father are here. What if they see you?" Kimiko Tendo frowned. as she
sat on her daughter bed.
"Don't worry, my dear one, I put a small spell that will make sure
we aren't interupted." Kimiko shook her head. "Kasumi-chan, I wish I
could have told them that I was only leaving, not dying, but Father
would only allow me to tell you children, and then, only when you were
old enough. Then that mess in the other planes came up, and I had to
leave before your sisters were old enough to be told." Kimiko looked at
her oldest daughter and sighed.
"Kasumi, the time has come for your sisters to know about my side
of their heritage."
"Does that mean. . . ?"
Kimiko shook her head. "No. As much as I wish it did, I still can
only leave the other plane for a short time. I have talked with some of
my relatives living here in the mortal world, and they have agreed to
help explain everything." She handed Kasumi a piece of paper. "This is
the address where they are staying with the middle sister's human
boyfriend. It's a temple they rebuilt." At the phrase, 'human
boyfriend,' Kasumi winced.
"Does he know about . . . ?"
"Yes. He met Belldandy through a wish, and he ended up wishing for
her, but she was already in love with him. It's a long story. Anyway,
her sisters are staying around for their own reasons, and they'll be
able to help you." Kimiko quickly got up off the bed, and hugged her
eldest daughter.
"I have to go now. Remember everything I taught you, and I love
you." With a sudden gesture from her arms, Mrs. Tendo was swiftly
surrounded by a vortex of mist which engulfed her, then vanished,
leaving nothing behind.
* * *
"Hi Bell-chan." Keiichi Morisatto said. It always amazed him that
there was a woman in love with him. Even more so since, not only was
she kind, beautiful, and a great cook, she was also a kami (author's
note. Kami is a Shinto term used to mean god/dess, or a divine spirit
like an angel, at least I think that's how it's used.) Oh sure, there
were problems sometimes, such as when her older sister Urd tried to get
the two of them together using love spells, or with her younger sister
Skuld tried to break them up out of jealousy. Then there was Mara, a
demoness who just seemed to get some kind of perverse joy out of making
their lives miserable. One thing was for certain though, he would take
all that trouble and more, and all he would do would be greatful, just
to be with this divine woman whom he loved. "What's up?"
"Hi Kei!" Belldandy said with her usual cheerful air. "Some of
our relatives are coming over for a visit, remember?"
"Oh yeah, right. I forgot." A huge sweatdrop appeared on his
head. You may find it strange that someone could forget about his
girlfriends relatives coming for a visit, especially when those
relatives are likely divinities, but living with three goddesses, and
the assaults of a demon had made Keiichi somewhat matter-of-fact about
it. Unless it was her Parents, Kami-sama/God/Odin/Yahweh and
Gaia/Isis/Amaretsu (sp?). He had yet to meet them, since, according to
the goddesses, they rarely, if ever, left the Heavens. Especially their
mother.
"So, where should I expect them to pop out of?" Keiichi asked.
Every goddess that he had met had their own prefered medium of
teleportation, they said it required less of their own strength to do it
like that instead of simply appearing or disappearing. (Author's Note:
For an example of this, watch AMG OVA 2, when Urd shows up.) If you
didn't know that they were going to show up, it could cause some
embarssing situations. When Skuld first showed up, Keiichi had been
taking a hot bath, and Skuld's medium was hot water. Needless to say it
hadn't been pretty.
"Nowhere, really. They'll be walking." Belldandy answered,
putting the finishing preprations on a meal. Keiichi scratched his
head. <Walking, huh?> he thought, <Well that's a first.>
Well, that's it for the teaser.
C&C is appreciated and begged for. As for Flamer's, go eat Akane's
cooking and volunteer of Washu's experiments.
>From the Pen of the DragonBard:
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*"There are more things in Heaven and Earth . . . *
*then are dreampt of in your philosiphy." *
*Hamlet *
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*"I can summon spirits from the vast deep!" *
*"So can I, but will they come when you call?" *
*The Tempest *
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