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	Ranma propped herself up in a sitting position taking in her current 
situation. Besides hearing a voice from a person who existed only in her 
dreams, she was now in a hospital talking to a complete stranger who 
apparently had horrible news for her. If things could get any worse, she 
wondered how it could possibly be so.
	As if to prove that it could be done, she heard what was possibly the 
worst from him. <Please do your best to stay calm, ne? Listen to all I 
have to say before you jump to conclusions.> Considering he probably 
wouldn't tell her otherwise, she nodded her approval.
	<Your Jusenkyo curse is now unreversable.>
	The complete shock that prepared to consume her, had yet to sink in. 
She just sat there, staring dumbly at the young man. His words floated 
in her mind, slowly being pieced together. Her Jusenkyo curse was 
unreversable. Taking a deep breath she looked down at herself then 
closed her eyes. Unreversable. She could now no longer turn back into a 
male with a douse of hot water.
	In one of her rare moments, Ranma fainted into unconsciousness.

	Waking to piercing steel-gray eyes, she pulled herself into a sitting 
position again. Remembering every word that had been spoken before her 
faint, she calmly started breathing deeply. Removing all conscious 
thought, she went into deep meditation. 'I am a warrior. I can find a 
way to reverse it, no matter what he says.' This repeated in her mind, 
nothing else.
	Opening her eyes, she saw him sitting on the bed, arms around her. 
Though she felt slightly comforted by his warm treatment of her, she 
pushed out of his grasp.
	<Tell me who you are, now.> This was not a question; it was a command.
	<You probably don't recognize me, do you?> She shook her head at his 
question. <You may remember me by the name I discarded over ten years 
ago.> An unearthly silence loomed over them as Mr. Nishiyama prepared to 
finish his statement.
	<I was called Happosai.>
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Next time, Happosai explains everything that has
happened and how he came to be in his current
youth. Will he tell him the truth, or will he lie
to further his own ends? Find out in the next
installment of A New Life.


Ryan Erik
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