This is another of my little what if fic's.  I hope you like what i've got so
far!
again, sorry about the spelling!

Ranma 1/2 is the propriety of Rimiko Takahashi, and I do not claim to have
made up the characters she ingeniously created.

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Journey to the states
Part 1: Parting is such sweet sorrow!
By: Katie-chan
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	Ah yes, Life was good! The one problem in her life was at last gone!  Well at
least for a year, but a year was better than nothing!  He was at last going to
be out of her life, He wouldn't come to school everyday, and bring hell with
'em.  She had dealt with him for two years, two years of his consent
disturbance.  The girl chasing moron would be out of her class for the entire
jr. year!  And she had made it happen all by herself.  It just took a little
persuasion on her part to get that stupid principle to give up on the boys
hair and make him a foreign exchange student, and to bring along that violent
girl, Akane, too.  All in all, Mrs. Hanko thought the year would be a pleasant
one!

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	A group of five teenagers stood in the airport, near the bagege ramp.  They
were the welcoming comity.  Actoly they were five friends who, on a whim,
decided they would greet the new students from Japan.  They were pritty normal
kids, although they where in the schools Anime club. (That was the main reason
for welcoming the new students, it was more than likely that they brought the
latest Anime with them, and they could always use more recrutes for the club!)
They had the name 'Ranma Saotome' writen in Japinese on a small peace of
cardboard, but besides looking for two Japanies teenagers, they had no idea
what to look for.
	"Dose anyone know how long we've been here?" The boy who spoke was holding
the sign, and wasn't really all that tall, but hadent had his growth spirt
yet, he had a mop of light brown hair, and wore glasses, he had all the
charictor traits of a nerd... at first glance. If his hair was a little better
kept, and if he didn't have thouse terible glasses he could be quite the
looker, but such things had not really come into his mind, even though he was
in highschool he had never really been intrested in his looks. 
	"We've been here roughly five hours." The girl next to him looked drasticly
diffrent. She wore a short skirt whitch had a slit that came up her left
thigh, and didn't leave much to the imagination.  Her top was an Evangilon T,
with a picture of Eva, she looked very attractive with short red hair that
barly came to her ears, and she seemed very impatient.
	"Sandy, don't you know the diffrence between a retorical question and a real
question?"
	"Well I'm sorry, Steve, but your the one who thought we should be here bright
and early in case these people came early!" Sandy snaped.
	"Will you two shut up I've got a headache!" That came from another boy, a
jock, sitting in a nearby chair with a bord expresion on his face. He was
captin of the resling team, and had short brown hair. As always he was waring
his jacket, his best acomplishment, he had lettered freshman year, and that
was no small task!
	"Yeah, shut up like Andrew said!" Sandy stuck her toung out a Steve.
	"You know what I don't get, why are we here?" This was uttered by a girl who
had undoughtablely good taste.  Here layered brown hair came to about her
shoulders, she wore a dark red skirt with a black dragon on it, and a wight
button up shirt untoucked making a fasion statment. "What are we doing,
waisting our saterday at the airport?" She stood up, "I mean, shouldent the
exchange parints be here?"
	"Do you even know who the exchange family is?" a mean looking guy said. His
lether jacket and torn jeans gave him a 'bad boy' image, but realy he was
pritty close to being vadictorian.  "I heard it wasen't going to be an
exchange."
	"What are you talking about Ace?" Steve asked.
	"Well, the princable from the school in Tokyo was so desprate to get rid of
thease two that he sent them here, but we never sent anyone there." Ace said.
	"If he's bad enough to get under a princables skin, he must be cool!" Sandy
said.
	"I don't know, he sounds like trouble." Steve said, watching the turminal.
	"Oh come on!" Ace said, "Aren't you guys more miture than that!"
	"So," The yet unnamed girl said, walking up to Ace. "Who's the family our
wonderful new buddys are going to be staying with?"
	"Come now Kay, you know how thease thing work with me..." Ace said with a
cool smile.
	"Ace, I'm not kidding, tell us who the family is." Kay said with a smile that
compaired to Ace's, could only be described as friged.
	"Ok, ok, the new kids'll be hanging round Chandler's pad." Ace said.
	"Chandler!?!" the four other's said, including our silent jock.
	Sudenly a guy that had been standing, unobserved, beside Sandy during this
entire conversation, decided to speek. "You know I just wanted to say
something, all be it, compleatly off topic,but... I can read English, and the
Japinese write from right to left, not left to right." the boy said.
	"Huh?" the five kids were caught compleatly off guard by this.
	Steve looked down at the sign he was still holding, then blushed "My bad." he
said sheepeshly.
	"Hey, no problem!" the boy said with a casuel smile.
	"Are you, um Ran-ma?" Sandy asked.
	"Yeah but it's pronounced Ranma, don't stress the A too much." Ranma said.
	"Oh, sorry." Sandy ansured, she seemed nirvouse for some reason.
	"So who's this Chandler guy?" Ranma said as he scaned the crowd around them
casualy.
	"Oh, his father is independently wealthy and is a 'suporter of the school and
comunity.' He thought it was his duty to house an exchange student." Ace said.
	"So, tell me more about Chandler." Ranma said, his eye's not leaving the
crowd.
	"He's totaly full of himself, not a bad looker, but thinks every guy in
exsistance wants to be him, and thinks every girl in exsistance wants to be
with him." Kay said casualy walking closer to Ranma, you see Kay is someone
who could easaly be classifyed as a flert, because, although she's not as
straight forward, or as plan slutty as others with this title, she dose know a
good oprotunity when she see's it! And, let's face it, if Ranmas not a good
opritunity, why dose he have three fiances, and a crazy girl after him?
	"Oh, I've met that type.  Rich boy, who can't seem to get his head out of
his.... um, what's it called?"
	"I belive the word your serching for is ass." Ace said casualy.
	"No, that dosen't	sound right." Ranma said. "But then again, I don't know as
much about the english language as you do." Suddenly a cry came out over the
mumbilings of the crowd.
	"Ranma no baka!"
	"Hey, that sounded like your name." Steve said.
	"That's because it was my name." Ranma said casualy.
	"And if I'm not mistaken, 'Baka' is an insult of some sort." Ace said, with a
small smile.
	"It basicly means jerk, or stupid, but the litteral translation is 'horse
deer.'" Ranma shruged.
	"Baka! Baka! Baka! Henti!" the same female voice screamed.
	"And what was that other word?" Sandy said, smilling at Ranma's noticable
frown.
	"Well, I think the proper translation is Pervert." Ranma said.
	"And what exactly did you do to gain that title?" Ace said.
	"I don't think it my place to tell the story." Ranma smilled weakly.
	The strange girl continued to scream out Japinese profanity, and Ranma
decided it was time to stop translaiting them, whan suddenly the enraged girl
found her target, and a huge malet apeared in her hand.
	"Oh shit, now I'm gonna get it!" Ranma said as he jumped out of the path oth
the malet.
	"Wow, look at him move." Andrew gaped. "He's gotta be a gymnest or somthing!"
	"Nope, Martal Artist!" Ranma said as he doged the crazy girls blow.
"Conichiwa, Akane-kun, baka kwikiwani!"
	"Ranma!" The enraged girl yelled.
	"Akane! Your gonna kill everyone here, now put your mallet away, and speak in
english." Ranma said, standing on top of a sculpture in the middle of the
room.
	Akane actoly seemed to blush, then her mallet dissapeared, she wiped the dust
and dirt off her skirt and smilled at the five americans, "Oh I sorry." she
said in broken english, "I do not know why I act like that, but you can un-
der-stand, that this baka," she indicated Ranma "deserve it."
	"Wow, for a phyco killer, she sure is cute." Andrew said.
	"Did Ranma say I was phyco killer?" she asked, geting noticably mader.
	"No, we just kindda got that from the fact that about three seconds ago you
were running around like a wild woman with that big mallet." Ace said, and
Akane blushed.
	"Hey, what happened to that thing anyway?" Steve asked.
	"What thing?" Akane asked.
	"It's just one of lifes little mysterys!" Ranma said, "Now let's get outta'
here!"
	"Ok, my car's this way." Ace said.

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	They all pilled into Ace's mini van, and started off for Chandlers house.
	"So let me see if I've got this straight, me and Akane are goine to be living
in a Mansion with a guy named Chandler." Ranma said.
	"Yep, you might just get along with him too, he's been donig Martal arts
scince he was really young, he's a black belt, and it's one of his favorit
things in the world." Andrew said.
	"I'd even go so far to say he's obsessed with it!" Sandy said.
	"Really, how good is he?" Ranma asked.
	"I said he's a black belt." Andrew said.
	"Hei, but how good is he?" Akane said.
	"Well, he hasent been beated by anyone but his teacher scince he was five."
Ace said.
	"That change soon." Akane said confidently.
	"I wouldn't fight him if I where you Akane, he breackes bricks with his bare
hands!" Kay said causously.
	"I break five brick at one time!" Akane smiled. "And if I no can beat him,
Ranma can beat anyone." Akane said inderfently.
	"Five bricks?" Kay said sckepticly.
	"Hei."
	Why do you keep saying 'Hi' Akane?" Steve asked.
	"'Hei' means 'yes' Steve." Ranma said.
	"Oh, I'll remeber that." 
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that's it!