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 "You're Usagi's cousin?" Ami asked in surprise. The man in front of her
didn't seem to bear any resemblance to Usagi at all. While Usagi could
be klutzy at times, Ranma was almost the opposite. Every movement he did
possessed a certain grace and his very stance was that of a fighter's.
It was hard to believe that two people so different could be related.

 "Yep," Ranma said as he lounged in the one-seat sofa chair, his legs
spread over one arm rest and his head lying on the other as he lay
horizontally on it. Briefly, she wondered if he had any idea how...good
he looked lying like that and if he did, was he doing it on purpose? But
then she doubted he did, there was a certain casualness and honesty to
his movements and current posture. She blushed slightly at her thoughts
as she looked another way.

 "Apparently, her mother's related to my father," Ranma said casually as
he looked up at the clock and wondered when dinner would be ready.
Briefly he wondered what was taking his aunt so long to prepare the
table. Some of the girls had offered to help her but she had shooed them
off, insisting they sit back and enjoy themselves.

 "So where are your parents?" Makoto asked, not really sure what to make
of the person in front of them.

 That got Ranma's attention as his eyes turned thoughtful and sad.

 "My parents... are dead," he said, looking up at the ceiling as he
tried to ignore the questions that had plagued his mind ever since he
had realised that little fact. Questions like 'what if they had
survived, would his life have been better?', would he still have been
cursed?

 "Oh....I'm sorry," Makoto said in a small voice. She knew what it was
like to lose both parents and knew how painful it could be to be
reminded sometimes.

 "...It's okay, I can't really remember much of them. I don't even
remember how they died, it's like they're these perfect strangers to me.
I'll never get to know them although they gave birth to me," Ranma said,
sighing with a slight regret over the way things had turned out.

 "You know, it's wierd but I've never heard Usagi talk about you and I
bet she would have told us if she had such a cute cousin,"  Minako said
winking mischievously, as she watched Ranma blush,  trying to ease the
tension in the room; which earned her a playful punch on the shoulder
from Usagi.

 "Uh...um," Ranma said, flustered. "Actually, this is the first time
I've ever seen any of my relatives. I didn't even know I had an aunt
until that lawyer caught up with us. I've been on the road for ten
years, training in martial arts," he said finally, his cheeks still
slightly red.

 "Wow, ten years," they said, murmuring among themselves. Even Makoto
who was the most martially inclined of them couldn't imagine giving up
the comforts of her home and friends to train for ten years.

 "The same guy who adopted me also trained me. At first, he was pretty
nice to me but later..." Ranma said wistfully as he remembered the
better days of his journey with Happosai. "Finally he did something and
I couldn't take it any more...So, I ran away all the way to Japan." His
voice tightened as he remember the events at Jusenkyo. For a moment
there, Ranma wondered if he should tell them about his curse but decided
against it in the end. He didn't want to alienate himself from them.

 " What did he do that could be so bad?" Usagi asked in concern only to
wish she hadn't as Ranma's eyes narrowed to mere slits.

 "I don't want to talk about it," he said coldly.

 Fortunately, Tsukino Ikuko's appeared right then, telling them that the
dinner was ready and unknowingly saved them from a long uncomfortable
silence.

 _____

 The rest of the Senshi watched in shocked silence as Ranma fought with
Usagi. The speed with which their hands moved over their battleground
left a blur in its wake as their weapons flashed thru the air.

  It was like magic as the food vanished from their respective plates
and disappeared down the gullets of the cousins.

  "...Wow, now I know this guy's Usagi's cousin," Minako said, gaping
slightly as Ranma swallowed half a bowl of rice along with some
vegetables in one gulp.Barely pausing, he continued attacking the food,
swallowing the other half of the bowl down with some fish and meat.

  Belatedly it occurred to her to protect her plate, as a third of its
contents seemed to have disappeared as well.

  Rei, who had protected her plate, after losing half of it to Usagi,
glared at the dueling cousins. "Great. Not only do we have a ravenous
bunny but now we've got a horse that eats like a horse."

  Back and forth their chopsticks flashed as the food quickly dwindled.
It was easy to see that future meals were going to be much more
entertaining and would require a lot more food if the rest of the family
even wanted to eat.

  Ami tried to calculate their food intake, a sweatdrop appearing on her
head as she did so. This was definitely going to need getting used to.

  Mrs. Tsukino and Makoto were having mixed feelings of awe and horror
at the thought of trying to cook for the two ravenous mouths while Mr.
Tsukino's eyes had already glazed over in shock over future food bills.

  In fact, the only ones who didn't see this as a bad thing were
Chibi-Usa and Shingo. For them, it was a magic show and action flick
rolled into one. They were just lucky that minors weren't allowed to
participate as their plates were untouched.

 All this was interrupted when Luna made her appearance.

 When Ranma saw Usagi's pet, he screamed in terror and leaped into
Makoto's lap before scrambling up her shoulders.
"Ccccccaaaaaaaaatttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!" When Makoto's shoulders proved to
be insufficient distance, he leaped up to the ceiling and hung there,
trembling in fright.

 Everyone stared at Ranma in facination at his actions and his ability
to cling to the ceiling. It wasn't often that you see grown men being
scared by cats and acting like ninjas.

  "Aaaaaah!!!"

 As anybody could tell, no one had a clue as to what had gotten into
Ranma.

  Ami was the first one to figure out the problem, as usual. With a snap
of her fingers, she exclaimed her findings. "Ailurophobia! He's got a
severe case of ailurophobia!"

  "Huh?"

  Ami sighed in exasperation. Was she the only one here who read all
those magazines? "He's afraid of cats."

  "Aaaah!"

  Luna looked interested. It wasn't often when someone several times
bigger than her would run at the sight of her. This could be fun!

  Mrs. Tsukino shooed a reluctant Luna out of the dining room. After
all, if they wanted an explanation, they would have to get Ranma down
from the ceiling first. As soon as Luna was out of sight, Ranma dropped
down from the ceiling.

  "Gee, Ranma. Why didn't you say that you were scared of cats? I mean
it's pretty strange but kinda cute too." Usagi didn't mind that he was
scared of cats. It just made him less perfect and more human.

 "It's something I don't wanna talk about, ok? I mean it's pretty
embarrassing for a martial artist like me to be afraid of c-c-c..cats.
And there are other more important reasons why I don't like c-cats."

 "Oh? And what's that?" Minako was on the hunt again and wanted to know
everything she could about Usagi's cousin. Even if he did eat like it
was going out of style.

 "Never mind about that. It's personal." There wasn't any way that Ranma
was going to let them in on his personal problems if he could help it.
Especially his curse.

 Taking his chopsticks, he went back to his bowl only to find that his
cousin had already beaten him to it while he was busy with the ceiling.
His pitiful and innocent looking facefault cracked them up.

____

 _Images of darkness surrounded him, smothering him with their touch.
Struggling, he tried to escape from their touch in vain. Slowly, they
closed in on him, winding tighter and tighter around him as images
flashed past his mind. He could only remember one, the sight of a
blood-crusted hand reaching out to him from somewhere.... _

 With a jolt of fear, Ranma awoke, panting and sweating heavily from his
dream. Staring with still, unfocused eyes he looked at the clock on the
wall in front of him.

 2 A.M. It was hardly time for him to wake up and yet he had. Straining,
he tried to recall details of his nightmare but he could only remember
one thing....One image, that of the blood-crusted hand. He wondered, as
he had done for many years, what the dream meant. He had been having it
ever since he could remember, but when he tried asking Happosai if he
knew why, Happosai had refused to say anything.

 Wiping the sweat off his brow, he licked his parched lips. Maybe a
drink of water would help settle his nerves. With that in mind, he
descended down to kitchen.
_______

 Usagi stealthily raided the fridge under the cover of night. Her mom
didn't want her to eat in bed but she was SO hungry. You'd think they
wanted to starve their growing girl with the meager portions at meals.
Her cousin seemed to understand. Look at how he ate during dinner.

 With her arms full of food and drinks, she quickly made her way towards
the kitchen door. Usagi was in a hurry to get to her room to avoid being
discovered.

 Of course, she didn't count on running into said cousin.

 "Ooof!" The food in Usagi's arms went flying as they both landed on
their butts. One of the little items was a bottle of juice, whose cap
had mysteriously opened in its flight to Ranma's head.

 The transformation of Ranma to his alter ego was nothing if not
surprising for Usagi. So surprising in fact that she breathed in a huge
lung full of air to scream her head off.

 Ranma slapped a hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming,
frowning as he did so.  "Shhhh! Don't scream! It's me, Ranma!" he, or
presently she, said calmly.

 Usagi's eyes remained wide in disbelief. Although she had seen many
things that were supposedly impossible in her career as Sailor Moon,
having your cousin change sex in front of you was surprising to say the
least.

 "I can explain everything, just don't scream when I take my hand away
ok?"

 Let it not be said that Usagi was not the trusting sort as she nodded
her head in agreement.

 Finally, Ranma-chan took her hand away although the look in her eyes
suggested that she was ready to clamp it back into place if Usagi showed
any signs of screaming.

"What happened? How did you do that? Why did you do that? Are you really
my cousin? Does it run in the family? Why didn't you tell us?" Usagi
asked breathlessly, curiousity welling up from within her.

 "Shhhhh! Quietly! In order, I turned into a girl because of a curse I
picked up. Cold water turns me into a girl, hot water turns me back.
Yes, I am your cousin. No, it doesn't run in the family and I didn't
tell you because I don't want anyone to find out about it. It's
embarrassing enough that I do change."

 "Wow! That is like so cool! What does it feel like?" Usagi was afire
with curiosity and delight. Having Ranma being able to change was like
having a brother and sister in one package. He would be able to
understand what it was like from a girl's point of view as well as a
boy's.

 "It's hell. How would YOU like it if you were to change any time water
was to splash on you? Besides, it's also embarrassing when people catch
you doing it for the first time, like you just proved," Ranma said,
mirthlessly.

 Usagi thought about what it would be like to change into a man suddenly
and not being able to change back. No, it wouldn't be fun and Mamoru
might not like her anymore if that happened. Suddenly, Ranma's problem
didn't seem so funny any more. It wasn't as serious as Ranma thought it
was, but it wasn't a laughing matter anymore.

 "You've gotta promise me not to tell anyone, ok? It's bad enough that
you found out about it."

 Usagi looked into Ranma-chan's eyes and saw that he was sincere.
"Alright. I won't tell." Then a mischievious glint came into her eye as
she added, "But you gotta promise to treat me to some ice cream tomorrow
after school!"

 Now this Ranma-chan was familiar with, thanks to Happosai. "It's a
deal," she said, extending her hand to help Usagi back up.

 "Good! Now help me pick these snacks up. I'm still hungry!"

 Chuckling slightly in amusement, Ranma knelt down to pickup a sausage
from the floor.

 ________

 Usagi and the gang watched as several girls gathered around a
bewildered Ranma, asking questions about him and his social life. It was
easy to see that his newly formed groupies were overwhelming him with
there attentions.

 "Damn! They got to him first," Minako said, frowning cutely as she
stared the bevy of girls surrounding Ranma. If it wasn't for the fact
that there was practically no more space around him, she might have
considered joining them.

 Ranma tried backing away from the wall of girls in front of him but
soon found out he had nowhere to retreat as several other girls
surrounded him from behind, blocking off his escape. He wondered what
was wrong with them, he hadn't done anything to irritate them, Happosai
hadn't stolen their underwear and blamed him for it...... So why were
they trying to gang up on him?!

 "Say, isn't that Naru??? I thought she and Umino were going steady?"
Ami said, squinting as she made out a familiar red-head among the crowd.

 "I bet she's trying to steal my Ranma!" Makoto said as she prepared to
go over there and snatch Ranma away from those boy-hungry girls before
they could get their claws into him.

 "Your Ranma!? When did he become your Ranma!?" Minako said
incredulously.

 "Uh...." Makoto stammered, blushing as she realised what she just said.

 "Mako-chan, are you interested in my cousin??  I could help you get him
on a date....if you could just cook me one of your delicious meals,"
Usagi said, her eyes glazing over as she imagined a mountain of food in
front of her.

 "Deal!" Makoto exclaimed.

 "Hey! That's unfair!!" Minako said, before turning back to Usagi. "How
bout an all-you-can-eat coupon at Ice Cream World??"

 "Deal!" Usagi said as her stomach started to rumble at the thought of
the food.

 Ami big-sweated, unsure of what to do.  She opened her mouth to say
something when suddenly a black blur whizzed past them. It was shortly
followed by a gaggle of girls.

 "They are unusually persistant today aren't they?" Ami said, frowning
as she watched Ranma trying to lose the girls.


 "Wow!! He's more handsome than Tuxedo Kamen," several girls near the
windows said as they watched Ranma from a distance. This unfortunate
remark however made it's way to Usagis' ears.

 "Hey! How can you say that! He is not more handsome than Tuxedo Kamen!"
Usagi yelled as she turned to the rest of the girls for support. "Don't
you agree Tuxedo Kamen is much more handsome??"

 "......." None of the others deemed to reply.

 "Bwaaaaaa!! How can you say he's more handsome than Mamo-chan!" Usagi
said as she started to burst into tears.

 "Um.... well it depends if you want the refined scholarly look, or the
macho bursting-at-the-seams kind of guy," Makoto said, trying to console
their princess.

 "And Ranma is definately bursting-at-the-seams," Ami said unexpectedly,
causing the rest of the girls to face-fault.

 "What? I'm not blind!" Ami said, before she started blushing profusely.

 ____

 *Damn, these girls are persistant,* Ranma thought to himself as he hid
the tree, waiting for the last girl chasing him to pass. So far, it had
been five minutes since he had climbed into the tree and only now was
the steady stream of girls starting to show any signs of slowing down.
Not to mention his legs were starting to cramp.

 "Finally!" Ranma said as he jumped down onto the ground. He couldn't go
back into the school the normal way since there might be no telling
where those girls were waiting for him. So that left only one way he
thought to himself as he looked up. If his memory was correct, his
classroom was three floors directly above him.

 With a giant leap, Ranma landed on top of the window ledge of his
class. He noticed a bespectacled old man marking off something on a
sheet of paper as he opened the window to climb into class.

 "Ranma Saotome??" the teacher said as he looked around for the new
student that was supposed to joining this class.

 "Here," Ranma said as he balanced precariously on the window ledge. The
teacher took one look at him before his eyes glazed over and he fell to
the floor.

 "What??" Ranma said as he tried to understand the same incredulous
looks the other students were giving him.
 _______

 "Yay, school's over for the day!" Usagi said as she walked out of the
school grounds, a broad grin on her face. Half skipping, half walking,
she was about run off towards the nearest arcade when Ami stopped her.

 "Not so fast, we still have to study remember?" Ami reminded Usagi.

 "Waah! Must we?? Can't we just put it off for today??" Usagi whined as
she imagined little SD-game machines chanting her name and asking her to
play with them.

 "No we can't!"

 "Hey, Usagi, your cousin is coming," Makoto said, interrupting their
argument as she pointed behind them.

 "Now I remember! Okaasan wanted me to show him around town, " Usagi
exclaimed, her eyes lighting up. At least she could get out of studying,
she thought. Maybe she'd show him to the arcade....

 "Mm, that's a chore I wouldn't mind," Minako said as she looked Ranma
up and down as he approached them. He walked with a casual, nonchalent
grace. Just like a feline, although that was a word nobody who knew him
would bring up in his presence. Now if only he would open up more to
them.... but ,usually, the only time he would open his mouth was when
they asked him a question.

 "He _is_ rather cute," Makoto added as she turned to look at him too.
"But he's so quiet. It's like he's not used to speaking to other
people," she added as she watched his every movement.

 She wasn't the only one though. At least half of the female population
was staring at him with their hearts in their eyes, although none of
them made any move to approach him.

 Ranma glanced from side to side, noticing the same far-away look on
every females face as he looked at them. Several of them even seemed to
faint. He wondered what was wrong with them, maybe they were ill?

 "Sssh," Usagi said, hushing them as Ranma walked up.  Turning her head
back to him, she put a large smile on her face as she asked, "Ranma, are
you ready?

 Ranma shrugged, not really wanting to go out and see the town. What he
would have much rather been doing was searching for more monsters, like
the one he had fought yesterday. It had been some time since he had even
faced a challenge, even one as small as yesterdays'. Momentarily he
wished that Happosai was here so they could spar, at least Happosai was
a good fighter.

 But still....Usagi was family, if that word meant anything. Her parents
were kind enough to let him stay at their house and the least he could
do in return was oblige them slightly. He nodded, slightly.

 Makoto and Minako exchanged a glance. They weren't going to let Usagi
have all the fun while they studied. "We're coming along too," they
chirped simulataneously.

 Ami sighed before finally deciding to go along with them. Besides she
was as curious about Ranma as the rest were.

 "Well, we'll meet Rei first at her school okay?" Usagi said as she
started to walk in the general direction of Rei's school.

 "Fine," Ranma said although it meant nothing to him. As soon as they
were out of the school, he hopped up onto the fence and walked on it,
ignoring the looks that the girls gave him.

 _____

 " Why'd we come here anyway??" Ranma asked as he viewed the large
building in front of him. Squinting slightly, he read the sign in front
of the building. "Juuban...Mall," he managed to read out after some
difficulty. "What's a mall?" he asked in honest curiousity, only to have
Usagi and her friends facefault in surprise.

 "You don't know what a mall is!?" Usagi said, her voice trembling
slightly.

 "No, what is it?!" Ranma said, frowning. He had a feeling he was being
laughed at here and he didn't like it.

 "How can you? Even ten year olds know what a mall is," Rei exclaimed,
her eyes open with shock.

 Ranma was about to remind them he had been on the road for ten years,
when someone beat him to the punch.

 "He's been training in Martial Arts for ten years remember? I don't
think that gave him much time to find out what malls are," Ami explained
patiently to the rest of her friends.

 "Oh, that's right. I forgot," Usagi said as comprehension flashed in
her eyes. "Well, a mall is this very big building which has lots of
shops in it," she said slowly to Ranma, who nodded in understanding.

 *So, they're here to buy something* Ranma thought. That he could deal
with although he wondered how long it would take. "So what are you going
to buy??"

 "Buy?" Makoto said intelligiently as she looked at the rest of her
friends. "Well, we don't know yet. We'll have to go in to see," she
said, brightening momentarily at the thought. "Come on, let's go!" And
with that, she started to drag Ranma into the building.

 *Well, it can't take that long,* Ranma thought to himself. *How long
can they look for something without finding it anyway?*

 _______

 Ranma was in hell.

 Or at least it sure felt like hell, he thought to himself as he watched
his cousin and her friends giggle as one of them pointed towards a ring
in the display window of a jewellery shop. He caught a brief mention of
the name 'Mamoru', although he didn't know who or what a 'Mamoru' was.

 They had been shopping in the mall for three hours, three long eternal
hours in which they did nothing but look at products. It was the rare
occasion when one of them did buy something. It had been the-without a
doubt- most boring three hours of his life. *Someone just shoot me now
and get it over with,* he thought grimly to himself as he continued to
follow the girls.

 "Hey, Usagi," Rei whispered, bringing her head closer to Usagi's ears.
"I think your cousin's getting bored. He hasn't said anything for about
one hour," Rei said, sneaking a furtive glance back at Ranma.

 "Hm? Is he?? How long have we been here?" Usagi asked as she looked to
her watch for the answer. "Wow, it's been three hours already. Time
flies pretty quickly doesn't it?"

 *Please please, just a distraction! Anything exciting at all!* Ranma
thought, praying for a miracle and hoping that something would actually
_happen_! If it continued at this rate, he was likely to bore himself to
death.

 That was when he was aware of the screaming coming from around him.
Blinking, he looked around him to see what all the commotion was about.
He noticed a steady stream of people running towards him, terror evident
on their faces. He turned his head, only to notice what seemed to be a
human-sized mecha standing on top of a stage of some sort. Idly, he
noticed the torn sign, which fluttered half-heartedly above the stage
which read <New Beo Rangers toy release>

 He turned back to the girls, intending to tell them to escape while
they could -- only to discover they had already disappeared. Blinking to
make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, he turned back to the
monster. Only to see it extracting some sort of crystal from a kid.

 _____

 The daimon grinned to itself as it finished extracting the heart
crystal from the poor kid. With all the chaos going on right now, he
could be gone before those pesky Sailor Senshi arrived. Raising the
heart crystal to get a better look at it, he found it being knocked out
of his hand.

 Ranma grinned to himself as he kicked the monster's hand, causing it to
release the crystal. Still in mid-air, he grabbed the crystal with his
right hand while delivering a few extra kicks to the monster.

 Finally he landed smoothly on the ground, the heart crystal neatly
tucked into his grip. He couldn't believe his luck. Not only was he
given some excitement, he was also going to be given a challenge.  "You
know, I should thank you for saving me. I was bored to death, but since
you're a monster I don't really need to," Ranma said, smirking as he
dodged a blow.

 "Give me the heart crystal!!"

 "Nope, you didn't say pretty please," Ranma taunted as he leapt away
from the monster and landed besides the prone body of the unfortunate
kid. Remembering what he had seen the monster do, he held the heart
crystal near the kid's chest and tried to push it in. Finally, it seemed
to sink in of it's own volition.

 Grabbing the kid, Ranma jumped back, narrowly avoiding the monster's
fist.

 "Pah, you're must be some pretty pathetic monster if that's the best
you can do. No wonder you have to depend on picking on defenseless
little kids," Ranma said as he landed. Gently, he lay the
already-stirring boy onto the ground.

 Finally, the child opened his eyes and blinked as if he had just woken
up.

 "Kid, I think you'd better get going," Ranma said. The child nodded
once before running away.

 The daimon stared, in fury, at Ranma. How dare the human interfere with
his mission to collect heart crystals. Now, he would have to go back
without a heart crystal since all the other humans had escaped by this
time. Unless he... the daimon stared at the human in front of him,
surely he had to have a pure heart crystal? But it didn't really matter
as long as he brought a heart crystal back.

 "I'll take your heart crystal then!" the daimon roared as it decided
that Ranma's crystal would do as well as any others.

 "You're welcome to try," Ranma said, grinning cockily, as a strange
glint came into his eye.

 ____

 Sailor Moon and the rest of the Sailor Senshi rushed out to the sounds
of fighting. They had managed to squeeze their way through the escaping
crowd, and to the female toilets where they had changed.

 "Huh? It's you people again," Ranma said flatly as he watched the
arrival of the Sailors with a critical look in his eye. Didn't they have
anything better to do than to interfere with his fights? Not that the
monster was much of a challenge, it was too slow to even touch him, let
alone hit him.

 Or at least that would have been true if he hadn't turned his head to
regard the Sailors Senshi.

 The monster, sensing an opening in his opponent's defense, did what any
other fighter would have done and took advantage of it.

 "Bomb blast!" the daimon yelled as several circular objects shot out
from the holes in his chest.

 "Ranma!!" Sailor Moon yelled as she watched the enemy projectiles fly
towards her cousin. It seemed like everything went in slow motion as she
saw her cousin turn to look at the bombs just as they exploded before
him, covering the area with a burst of light.

 The rest of the Sailors watched in shock as the scene unfolded in front
of them. There was no way a normal human would have been able to survive
that. Someone had just been killed and they hadn't been able to stop it,
what made it worse was that it was someone they knew personally.

 They facefaulted in surprise a minute later as the smoke cleared as
they noticed Ranma standing in the middle of a small crater, his clothes
slightly tattered and torn but relatively unhurt.

 Ranma idly brushed his hair away from his face, flicking his pig-tail
over his shoulder as he looked at the monster. After living with
Happosai and getting Happodarikirined a few times, he had become nearly
immune to explosions. "Not bad," Ranma said.

 Ami typed away furiously on her mini-computer as she looked at Ranma
through her visor.

 "But now it's my turn!" Ranma yelled as a blue aura surrounded his
hands. With a shout, he released a ki-blast straight at the monster.

 If the Sailors hadn't been surprised enough, they certainly were now.
They turned to look at the monster lying on the floor and back at Ranma
as they tried to figure how he done that. Or even what he was.

 "Pfeh, this is too easy. Are you going to just stand there?" Ranma said
as he turned to look at the Sailors.

 Once they realised they had been doing nothing but staring at Ranma
with their jaws open for nearly the whole fight, the Senshi quickly
regained their focus.

 "Halt! I am the pretty soldier Sailor Moon! Toys are meant for a
children to play with, how dare you subvert their use! In the name of
the moon, I shall punish you!" Sailor Moon said as she recited her
normal speech and prepared herself to attack.

 Except that she was distracted by a sudden choking sound coming from
Ranma. Turning to look at him, she saw him holding his fist to his mouth
and trying to pretend that he was coughing.

 It failed miserably. Finally he couldn't stand it anymore as he broke
out into loud guffaws that filled up then empty mall. He was laughing so
hard that his sides hurt as he brought a hand up to his eyes and rubbed
them.

 Clenching his side, he muttered among the dying chuckles,"Sorry bout
that, continue." Turning his head to look at the Sailors, he broke out
into laughter again. This continued on for sometime until finally Ranma
managed to get his laughter under control and said, "That was the
stupidest thing I've ever heard in my whole life."

 "That was not stupid!! That was a herioc speech," Sailor Moon argued.
Cousin or not, he was going out of line insulting her speeches.

 "Yeah right," Ranma said, still in a amused mood and chuckling slightly
every now and then.

 The rest of the Sailor Senshi sweat-dropped as they watched their
princess argue with her cousin.

 The daimon, deciding that discretion was the better part of valor, was
attempting to sneak off. It would have made it too if Sailor Venus
hadn't spotted it.

 "VENUS LOVE-ME-CHAIN!"

 Reminded of the fight, Sailor Moon  and Ranma turned back to the
monster. With one final snort of muffled laughter, Ranma leapt towards
the monster.

 Just when he was within striking distance of the monster, he started to
kick the monster as he yelled out, "WuYing Jiao!!"

 The rest of the Sailors watched in shock--which pretty much summed up
their average mood as for the fight or at least the parts where Ranma
fought--as Ranma's feet started to blur and he struck the monster over
and over again.

 As Ranma finished his assualt on the monster, the Sailors took their
oppurtunity and finished the daimon off.
 _____

 "How did he do that!?" Rei exclaimed to the rest of the de-transformed
Sailors later, although she didn't really expect an answer.

 " How are we supposed to know??" Makoto said exasperatedly. Turning to
Ami, she asked, "Did you manage to find out anything about him with your
computer??"

 "Well....other than the fact that his power level is much higher than a
normal human's, there's nothing much else about him. As for
that....blast he did, my computer nearly went bonkers trying to identify
the energy," Ami said, frowning worriedly as she looked at the rest of
the Senshi.

 "I guess we'll just have to ask him," Usagi said, smiling at what she
thought would be an easy solution.

 ____

 Setsuna fumed. How did that boy manage to change the timeline even
further despite all her efforts to correct it!? Maybe if she knew more
about the boy's history, she might find a weak spot that she could use
to manipulate him....

Author's notes: Yes yes yes!! It's finally done! I'm getting back into
the groove of writing again.   Anyway, this chapter is set a day after
the first Sailor Moon S episode. Kudos to our   pre-reader, Lord Talon
<talon@sgi.net>

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And yes, it's time for another blooper section!

Blooper 1:

Director: Ok, cut! That's a wrap! I said that's a wrap! Hey! You girls
can stop chasing him now! Will you girls stop chasing Ranma?! He's got a
scene to do in a few minutes!
Girl 1: No way! We're tired of not getting a man!
Girl 2: Yeah! It's always those leading ladies that get a man! It's our
turn!
Girl 3: We want a man!
Girl 1: Hey! Where'd Ranma go?
Girl 3: There he is! Get him, girls!
Ranma: AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Blooper 2:

 With a giant leap, Ranma landed on top of the window ledge of his
class. He noticed a bespectacled old man marking off something on a
sheet of paper as he opened the window to climb into class.

 "Ranma Saotome??" the teacher said as he looked around for the new
student that was supposed to joining this class.

 "Hereeeeeeeeeeeee.......," Ranma said as the ledge he was balancing on
gave way.

 The director stared at the spot where Ranma was a moment ago before
turning to his assistant. "Make a note to change building contractors,
Mihoshi."

Blooper 3:

Director: Ok! Cue in the daimon!
Nothing happens.
Director: I said cue in the daimon!
Assistant director: Ah, we can't cue in the daimon, sir.
Director: And why not?
Assistant director: They're on strike, sir. Inhumane working conditions
they say.
Director: Strike?! They can't strike! We've got an ironclad contract!
Send in Akane!
Assistant director: Ah, we can't do that, sir. She's in her trailer
having some...ah...'quality time'...with her husband. The last person we
sent to interrupt them had to get his spine straightened by Dr.Tofu.
Director: Hmph. Well, how about her backup?
Assistant director: Kasumi's out there right now, sir. But you know how
she works, sir. It'll be days before she wears them down. Right now,
they're at the tea and crumpets stage.

Blooper 4:
Ranma: Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!!
 A mountain of food appears on Ranma's plate as he licks his lips.
Akane: Ranma no baka!!