Subject: [FFML] [Fanfic][Ranma] Sacrifice For Manhood
From: RaeMowse@aol.com
Date: 8/5/2000, 8:42 PM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Much as I would like to say otherwise, Ranma 1/2 is owned by Rumiko Takahashi.

[Author note: This takes place in the "Nihao, My Concubine" movie.]

Sacrifice For Manhood
Fanfic

"Oh...my head..." Ranma moaned as he slowly regained consciousness.  He was 
dimly aware that he was draped over a tree branch like a cheap, wet rug.  
"What happened...?"

No sooner than he had said those words, memories flooded before his eyes.  He 
was fighting against Toma, the boy prince who had kidnapped Kasumi, Nabiki, 
Shampoo, Ukyou, and last, but not least, Akane in preparation for choosing a 
bride.  Thing had gotten bad in the race for Akane on the mine carts, then 
degenerated into worse; he and Akane had flipped out of the cart and plummet 
towards the permanent man-changing water pool far below.

His salvation, his one hope of remaining a guy once and for all... and he was 
going to throw it all away for her.  No way could he let those waters damn 
her permanently into a life of masculinity.  Despite his desire to be finally 
cured, despite her words telling him not to worry about her and just get the 
cure, he charged up to release a Moukou Takabisha and obliterate the pool.

However, the situation, which was thought to not be able to get any worse, 
grew even more dire.  Just as he started to release the yellow beam of ki, 
his arms were yanked to one side, sending the energy to carve a deep groove 
along the wall.  Furious, he glared to the source of the disruption...

...and found himself meeting Akane's teary, smiling eyes.

She kissed the bewildered youth quickly, and said something to him, but he 
didn't hear it.  

He didn't have the luxury of being stunned or puzzled at the moment; it was 
life or death now.  Everything else had to take the backseat.  He summoned 
confidence into the palm of his hands with the waters so close, too close for 
comfort.  "Moukou Takabisha!!" Ranma cried out, successfully firing the 
yellow beam into the surface of the liquid mirror below them, detonating the 
bottom of the pool, which would result in the loss of his cure.  At least 
Akane would be-

The water suddenly surged up, as if in an act of defiance, and Ranma realized 
that he made a critical miscalculation.  The void that the Moukou Takabisha 
left in its wake had to be refilled immediately by natural laws, and the 
force of the ki blast had created a large void.  Thinking quickly, he tried 
to shield Akane's body with his own from the impending spout that violently 
rose up to greet them both.  He felt a warm wetness engulf him, and then 
nothing.

Ranma's eyes flew open with revitalized alertness and fear.  "Akane, you 
idiot!!  Where the hell are you?!"

A groan answered his outburst above him.  Quickly, he sprang up the tree, 
leaping from limb to limb until he found the source of the groan.  He froze 
in horror upon revealing the identity of the person.

It was a boy with a crown of flowers tucked into his short hair, wearing a 
soaking wet white gown.

"Akane?" he asked, fervently hoping that it was really Tsubasa, or some other 
crossdresser that may have been on the floating island.

The boy's eyes fluttered open, and he smiled up.  "Ranma..." he said in a 
deep voice.  Then he blinked rapidly upon hearing his voice.  "Ranma?  What's 
going on?"

"Y-y-you're Akane?!"

"Yes, you idiot!" she growled in irritation.  "Who do you think I am?"

"...a...a guy..."

Akane blinked rapidly.  "A...a guy?"  Instinctively, he grabbed his chest.  
Eyes widened considerably, he hesitated a glance down the gown.  
"Gu...gu...gu..."  Disbelieving, he reached down between his legs, checking.  
Akane froze like stone upon his discovery.

"A...Akane?" Ranma asked warily.

The island shook under the force of the outburst.  "OH MY GOD!!  I'M STUCK AS 
A GUY!!  WAAHH!!!"

* * * * *
"Dear me.  This could result in some complications for your household, 
Tendo-san."

"WAAH!! My daughter's turned into a son!  The Tendo-Saotome union is in 
trouble!"

"There, there, Tendo-kun.  You still have two other daughters to fulfill the 
promise."

"Oh, my!  Akane, is that really you?"

"Damn, sis.  You would have to have all the bad luck, ne?"

"Violent pervert girl stuck as boy?  Shampoo want off island now!"

"Oh, Sugar..."

"Oh, my dear Akane!  How could this have happened to such a girl?!"

"What foul magicks hath thee cast upon the beatific Akane Tendo, Hounorless 
Sorcerer?!  And what hath becometh of the pigtailed girl?"

"Ranma!!  For allowing Akane to be cursed to live as a guy forever, I'll kill 
you!!"

"More importantly, you destroyed our only chance at getting a cure!  How dare 
you be so greedy Saotome?!"

Ranma was getting a headache.  "Why me?" he muttered under his breath.

"Look everyone," Akane began, rubbing his squarish, angular jaw 
experimentally.  "It's not Ranma's fault I'm like this."

Everyone, including Toma and his people, quiet down to listen to her.  The 
group had formed a mock circle on the shore, partly to help revive Soun, 
Genma, Nabiki, and Ryouga (who incidentally woke up just in time avoid 
getting a faceful of cold water).  The shock proved to be a bit much when the 
boy introduced himself as Akane Tendo.

"It's...I choose to get cursed.  For Ranma's sake."

"But why, Akane?"  Ryouga piped up.  "Why did you do it?"

"Yes.  That is something we all would like to know," Cologne said, tapping a 
smoking pipe on the heel of her tiny foot before taking a deep drag off it.  
"Why would you choose to sacrifice your femininity for his benefit?"

The boy turned scarlet, stammering something very low and to himself.

Nabiki spoke up.  "Let me guess.  You're in love with him, right?"  Ryouga 
fell over in shock at her inquiry.

Soun quickly snapped out of his depressive funk.  "Is that true, daughter?  
You love him?"

Akane eeped.  "Umm...ah..."  He glanced to her immediate left to Ranma who 
was looking at his own toes.  He seemed to be deep in thought.  At any rate, 
he wasn't much help.  "Well...I..."

"You're an idiot," Ranma said quietly.

Switching gears from scandalized to insulted proved to be a bit harder this 
time around, but Akane pulled it off anyway.  "What did you say?!"

He didn't look up.  "You're an idiot.  For giving up your girliness for me.  
That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen anyone ever do.  It's even dumber 
than oyaji teaching me nekoken."

He was hurt, as well as angered, by his words.  Akane balled up a fist out of 
reflex to slug him across the mystical island.  See if she would do something 
nice for him again!

"...thank you."

His anger deflated, replaced by confusion.  "Wha?"

He gave her a sidelong look and a lopsided grin.  "I know how much you like 
being a girl and stuff, and I know it ain't easy to be cursed to turn into 
the opposite gender.  But you really wanted to get me cured, even when I was 
trying to save you."  He shifted out of his prone position, then hesitated 
briefly before giving him a "guy hug," slapping him on the back.  Surprised 
at first, Akane returned the hug, trying to copy his actions.

"Thanks."

"You're...welcome."  Akane smiled a bit.  

"Aww..." the majority of the group said as one, embarrassing both Ranma and 
Akane.

"So," he started, changing the conversation.  "How does it feel to male all 
the time?"

"Well...it feels good so far."

For reasons unknown to even the modern sciences, it rained over the island 
without warning.  A minute later, it subsided, leaving most of those caught 
in its path drenched, or, for the Jusenkyou-cursed factions, changed.

Ranma gave them a wry smile.  "Well, that's at least one good thing about not 
becoming a girl."  Something didn't seem right, all of a sudden.  He felt 
different, and everyone was staring at him as if he just grew horns and a 
second head.  Even Akane looked like someone had just stepped on her grave.  
"What?"  Hearing a higher-than-normal-for-a-guy's voice come from his mouth, 
he began to sweat profusely.  "No way..."  He squeezed his eyes shut and 
grabbed his chest.  Instead of lean muscle, he squeezed two firm lumps 
protruding a ways from his chest.  Gasping, he opened his eyes wide and met a 
pair of breasts on his body.  A blink later, he found himself face-to-face 
with Happousai, who was vigorously rubbing himself between the two large 
mammary organs.

"Sweeto!  You're back, Ranma, my boy!  Pose in this brassiere for me, would 
you?"

The island shook again from an extreme auditory explosion.  "OH MY GOD!!  I'M 
BACK TO BEING A GIRL AGAIN!!"

* * * * *
"How sad, really," Ukyou mused, looking up at the stars.

"Why do you say that," Nabiki asked out of curiosity as she was fed a grape 
by the obedient dogman of Toma's troupe.

"Because Ranchan didn't know how that water and the Jusenkyou curse would 
interact."

"Mmm...true.  It didn't help that the man-changing water use to be known as a 
cursed hot springs.  Its waters could only change the outside form.  Not the 
same thing as canceling out a curse."

"Yeah.  And I know Akane must be a real pain in the fanny now.  Sacrificed 
being a woman just to find out it didn't work after all."

"Not nearly as angry as she is at their parents' suggestion that the schools 
can still be united if boy-type Akane married girl-type Ranma and she gave 
birth to their children."

"Stupid panda," Shampoo said, walking back to the quickly made camp.

"You said it, Sugar.  For once, we're in total agreement."

Somewhere off in the distance, a shout of "Yoganran Gidigan!" and a scream of 
bestial agony punctuated the night air.

"I guess Ranma, Akane, and Toma found Genma," Nabiki noted idly, then opened 
her mouth receive another grape.

"It was so nice of Toma-kun to help Ranma and Akane find his father," Kasumi 
said as she cooked dinner for the camp.

"Probably because their logic made him ill to think about," Nabiki said to 
herself.

"Too bad only illusion fire.  Would like panda barbecue now."

"Yeah, but he doesn't know that.  Besides, it'll be a good experience for 
that jackass to suffer some for all the dumb things he said and done over the 
years."

* * * * *
Off in the distance, Soun ran as fast as his legs could carry him.  His 
oldest friend had already fallen to that Toma boy.  "Come on...it...it was 
just a...thought!" he cried out, panting heavily.  "Have pity-!"

"Moukou Takabisha!"  A beam of yellow streaked past him, obliterating some 
botanical life.

"Akane--!"

"Shut up dad!"

"But, can't we...just talk about it?"

"NO!!" boy-type Akane and girl-type Ranma shouted at the same time.  "Get 
back here!"

"Waah!  My son is so scary!"

"Ooh!!  I'm a girl dammit!!"


End

The Muse strikes yet again, and I must write.

Actually, this was an idea I had for some time since I saw NMC.  The 
man-changing water was pretty interesting, but just how would a Jusenkyou 
curse interact with it, that is the question.

Quick News: Still slugging it out with Kasumi 1/2 Ch. 5, A Twisted Fate Ch. 
4, and One Man, Six Wives.  Also have an Eva oneshot in the works entitled, 
"One Wish."

Computer problems have been the bane of my existence for this month.  Dad 
dl'ed NetZero, and a few days later, the computer had to be reformatted.  
Computer tech I talked to theorized that it must have overwritten a required 
.DLL file (WINSPOOL.DRV, which ironically enough was needed so I could use 
WordPad, which meant I couldn't work on any of my stories for some time, 
among other things).  I am looking into a better computer, though (which 
would be almost anything other than this), so I hope none of this would 
happen again.

Well, enough out of me.  Time for food.

Keep on reading.




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