Here we go, I hope I expanded it enough.  All suggestions welcome
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                                CHAPTER 1
                          A new problem for Ranma


      Sitting crosslegged in his room at the Tendo home, Ranma held a 
gold ring, with a ruby gem inset.  Holding by the thumb and index 
finger he studied the ring carefully.  Suddenly the door slammed open 
and Akane was standing there glowing red with anger and holding a 
bokken.

 	"RANMA!!" Akane yelled, "What do you think your doing?  We're 
going to be late for class?"

      	Ranma looked up and shook the daze from his eyes.

      	"Err. Uhm. This ring just arrived from Jusenkyo.  The 
letter that accompanied it said that it relates to my curse somehow."

     	 "Study it later.  We've got to leave for school."

      	Ranma just nodded and slipped the ring onto his ring finger 
of his right hand.  After a quick breakfast the two rushed off to 
school.  While running the old lady that cleaned her streets by 
throwing water with a ladel managed to splash Ranma...again.  After, 
the transformation, Ranma-chan grabbed her head with both hands.

      	"Ranma," a concerend Akane asked, "are you all right?"

      	"Just a headache, Akane.  I'll be fine"

      	Looking closely at her face, Akane responed, "I don't think 
so.  I think we'd better get you to Doctor Tofu's"

      	Ranma-chan looked up sharply, "I'm fine Akane.  
I'm..........."

      	Ranma's words got cut off as the ruby in the ring he was 
wearing flashed a bright red and Ranma vanished.  The ring fell to the 
ground with a ting.  Akane stunned looked around for Ranma.  She 
unconciously picked the ring up and put it on her finger.

      	"Ranma?"  Akane called while rubbing the ruby of the ring 
nervously.

      	A red smoke poured out of the ring and coalesced itself in 
the form of Ranma-chan.  Ranma's clothes had underwent an alteration.  
The blue pants were not blue harem pants and   the shirt was a red 
halter top with a red vest.

      	"What is your wish master?"  Ranma-chan said invoulintary 
and looking a bit stunned.

       	"Ranma?!?!"  

	Ranma looked down at herself and then Akane.  She put her hands in her 
face and groaned.

	"What happened to me?"  Ranma muttered.

	Akane just stood there dazed.

	Noticing something, Ranma looked around in a panic, "The ring.  
Where's that ring?"

	"I...I h...h...have i...it R...Ranma," Akane stuttered, "I wish I knew 
what was going on with you."

	The ruby pulsed red as soon as she said those words.

	A slightly dazed look came into Ranma's eyes and she said, "Wish 
granted."


	Knowledge flooded into Akane's mind about what happened to Ranma and 
what part the ring played in it.  Akane looked at the ring in horror.  A 
bell chime distracted her and she looked at a distant clock.

	*Oh great there's no way we're going to make it to school on 
time.  Unless...,"Akane thought, "I'll explain it all to Ranma later."

	Akane turned to Ranma and said, "Ranma I'm going to be saying 
some things.  I'll explain what happened later.  Please remain quiet on 
what just happened until I can explain"

	"Er. Ah. Yeah," Ranma said still a little dazed at what she just said.

	*Please fogive me, Ranma,* Akane thought before stating, "I wish that 
you were back in your usual clothes.  I wish that we were at 
school with you back in your male form."

	"Wishes granted"

	After a blur of light streaked across her vision,  Akane noticed that 
they were sitting at their desks at the school.  She noticed that Ranma 
and her were the only two people in the room.  Looking over at the now 
male Ranma, she wondered what was going through his head.

	Ranma thought to himself, *Man.  What is going on?  Until I 
changed back, it felt like every word Akane spoke had some sort of 
power behind it. I'd hate to have Kuno see me in that weird getup.  I'm 
just glad it's over and done with.*

	Akane looked at the ring and thought, *Who sent you?  I hope 
Ranma can take the fact that his female form is now a genie.*

	Akane found it hard to pay attention in class.  She kept thinking about 
what Ranma was able to do now.  Everytime she thought about the 
difficulties that she and her family had, the finger that the ring was 
on itched.  

	*It would be so easy,* Akane thought, *But, what would Ranma feel about 
it."

	Ranma himself kept trying to tell himself that is was over, but 
failing.  He remembered being inside the ring, trapped until Akane 
rubbed it, releasing him.  What concerned him the most was the way ha 
had called Akane master after being released from the ring.  Ranma 
glanced at Akane and saw the ring.  He shuddered and decided to pay 
attention to the teacher, hoping to get that morning's incident out of 
his head.

	Ukyo and the rest of the class noticed that Ranma was 
uncharacterisitcally paying attention class and wondered if he and Akane 
had a fight, but decicded against that since it seemed that Akane wasn't 
mad just a bit uneasy.

	While eating lunch together, Ranma and Akane ate in a nervous silence 
each wanting to talk about what happened that morning, but kwoning they 
would be eavesdropped on.  Nabiki and Kuno als noticed this strange 
behavior and wondered what was going on.

	After school let out, Akane decided that the best place for her and 
Ranma to have their little talk was somewhere other than home.

	"Ranma.  I think we had better head over to Dr. Tofu's office.  I don't 
think you want anybody to know what has happened to you," Akane said.

	"hmmm," Ranma was puzzled for the moment, but quickly realized that 
what Akane had suggested was the best option.  Nodding his acceptance, 
Ranma walked alongside Akane

	The two of them headed over to the dcotor's office. Kuno, Nabiki and 
Ukyo saw the two of them head over to Tofu's, Kuno and Ukyo breathed a 
sigh of relief.  To them, the nervousness was just because they were 
trying to think of a way to get Kasumi and Dr. Tofu together.  Nabiki 
wathced them with narrow eyes and tried to figure out what her sister 
and Ranma were up to.

	Akane and Ranma enetred Tofu's and saw that only Dr. Tofu was 
there.

	"Ranma.  Akane," Tofu cheerfully greeted them, "What's the 
problem today?"

	Before Ranma could say anything, Akane said, "Dr. Tofu, we need a place 
that we can speak confidentialy and your advice."

	Dr. Tofu took one look at Akane's face, went over to the door and 
flipped the sign around from open to closed.

	"What's the problem?" Dr. Tofu asked

	Akane looked at Ranma and said, while holding out her hand, "It's this 
ring.  It did something to Ranma."

	Tofu looked at the ring curiously, while Ranma felt very nervous.

	"I can't see anything special about it," Tofu said

	Akane saw a glass of water nearby.  She quickly picked it up and 
splashed Ranma.

	"What ya do that for?"  Ranma sputtered

	"To show Dr. Tofu something and explain what happened to you,"  
Akane said.  She touched Ranma with the ruby and Ranma turned into soft 
red smoke.  The smoke was pulled inside the ring.

	Tofu, startled, asked, "What happened?"

	"I'd better get Ranma out first," Akane responde while rubbing 
the ring.

	Smoke poured out of the ring and Ranma-chan reformed from it 
wearing the harem outfit she wore the first time this happened.

	Ranma backed away from Akane nervously and said, "Wh..what's 
going on?"

	Looking at Ranma with sympathy in her eyes,  Akane said, "This 
ring interacted with your Jusenkyo curse and turned your female form 
into a genie.   While female you have to obey whoever weild this ring.  
If you touch the ring while female, you'll get sucked inside.  Whoever 
made this ring, decided that everytime you come out of the ring, you 
will be wearing clothes like those.  You can will them back to normal."

	Ranma quickly concetrated on changing her clothes back into the Chinese 
clothes she normaly wears.  The clothing shifted and morphed until they 
were back to normal.

	"I have to obey all your commands?" Ranma asked while thinking, *Oh 
man.  What did I do to deserve this?  If pops or even the lech get hold 
of that ring�* 

	"Only when I'm wearing the ring and you're female.  I think we'd better 
keep quiet about this.  Think what would happen if Kuno, Cologne or even 
Happosai found out," Akane responded

	"Right,"  Ranma-chan said.  The thoughts of any of thos getting the 
ring was enough to make her sweat.  Even the thoughts of Shampoo and 
Ukyo getting ahold of that ring were nerve racking.

	Dr. Tofu said, "Akane, be very careful with that kind of power.  Ranma, 
I am very sorry for you.  I won't tell anyone about this."  Dr. Tofu 
sorrowfully looked at Ranma.

	Akane nodded and headed for the door.  Ranma quickly caught up to her.  
She looked at Dr. Tofu and hoped that he wouldn't babble in front of 
Kasumi about this.

	Wistfully, Akane whispered, "I sure wish that Dr. Tofu won't tell 
Kasumi."

	Ranma smirked slightly and whispered, "Wish granted.  He won't 
remember any of this while Kasumi's around."

	Akane glared at him and said, "Could'nt you have made it so that he 
wouldn't go crazy whenever Kasumi's around."

	"That wasn't what you wished for."

	"OOOHHH!!" Akane said while she slapped Ranma with her right 
hand.

	Ranma was quickly sucked back into the ring.

	Akane glared at the ruby and said, "Fine stay in there.  See if I 
care."

	While Akane walked home she thought to herself, *Ranma, you jerk.  What 
kind of mess have you brought upon on us now.*

	Akane brought her hand up so she could examine the ring.  After a 
second she clenched her right hand into a fist and swung her arm down to 
her side.  An itch had developed under the ring.  Her anger disipated 
towards Ranma while she continued walking.

	*It would be so easy to just wish away all the problems, but it 
wouldn't be fair to Ranma,* Akane thought to herself sadly

	Inside the ring, Ranma was thinking, *Great.  I'm the slave of that 
violent tomboy.  Well, let's see what other options are there.  Kasumi? 
No, she'd let Nabiki use my power.  Dr. Tofu?  Everytime Kasumi is 
around he could babble some weird wish that I would have to fufill. 
ARRGH!!! I have to wear this crazy costume while I'm in here.*

	Ranma remained silent for a second, before she realized something, 
*Well at least here's one good thing about this entire mess.  It's 
peaceful in here.  Maybe I can practice my martial arts in here without 
being interrupted by Shampoo's 'Wo no dai airen' and Ryoga attacking me 
for the slightest provocation.*

	Ranma-chan looked around her enviorment and decide to start with basic 
katas to get the feel of her new home.  She looked up at the red sky and 
hoped she would be up to the new challenges that faced her.


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