Note: Yes, a Ranma/SM cross over. I know. Lame, common. Don't blame me! I
found this in my computer...I remember writing this some odd years ago. 2-3.
I finished two chapters of it. It's not bad....for my writing at least, which
totally sucks, but hell....O.o; Anywayz, I figured, since it's not bad I may
as well restart this old fic, or at least try to re-obtain my ideas. Also I
need to re-spark my interst in Sailor Moon. Oh, BTW, the formatting got
screwed during the doc.-txt. So....bare with it. I did absolutely no editing
to it. All errors are strictly 2 years old at least. O.o;
-Satoshi
Born from Darkness
A Ranma 1/2-Sailor Moon Fusion
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon or Ranma 1/2, or any other animes that
happen to make minor appearences in this story. SM belongs to Naoko Takechi
and Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. English versions of both belong to
Toonami and Viz Com. respectively, I think.... Any other animes belong to
their respective creators.
Note: This story takes elements from the SM manga as well as the anime.
Chapter 1; Curses! The Dusty Nekohanten!
Usagi swung her legs from the edge of the cement wall. To her right stood
Minako balancing on one foot and to her left sat Rei her nose in a book of
ancient priestess rituals. On the ground Makoto was busy with a form, while
Ami dodged the complicated array of kicks as they neared her patch of ground
where she was typing furiously on her computer. Off to the distance there
stood a somewhat shadowy image of Setsuna as she stood hidden amoung the
trees.
"Whaaaaaa....I'm bored...and hot," Usagi whined fanning herself with her hand.
Minako stopped and placed her sandaled foot onto the cement wall. "Usagi,
quit complaining. It's the summer be happy!"
"But Mamo-chan is in Chiiiinaaa!!" she moaned and buried her face in her
hands.
Rei glanced up from her book. "He said he was coming back soon, so don't
worry."
The 20 year old Ami looked up from her computer and ran out the way of
Makoto's flying side-kick. "Whaaa!" she cried barely escaping the attack.
The sight of Ami running threw Makoto off, resulting in her lack of balance
on the landing the succeded in rolling into the cement wall. The impact
caused the wall to shake every so slightly, but even that amount of movement
caused Minako to loose her sense of balance and fall off the wall into a pile
in front of Ami, who was clutching her laptop to her chest.
Rei tried to stand up to yell at them and she too slipped and fell ontop of
Makoto. She, however was still sore and screamed while throwing Rei off her
on reflex. The priestess flew into Minako, who tumbled into Ami. The pile of
girls groaned painfully.
Usagi, on the other hand missed all this because she was still wailing.
"Look at this display!"
Every looked up at the voice and saw Haruka standing there, an eyebrow raised
hands in her back pockets. Michiru was behind her, arms folded across her
chest.
Michiru clucked her tounge and said in a teacher like voice, "20 year old
girls still acting like a bunch of 14 year old children."
Haruka nodded. "Quite right Michiru."
Makoto stood up painfully. "It's not OUR fault!"
"Yeah, it's just YOURS," Minako spat pointing at the brown haired martial
artist.
Makoto shook her head violently. "It was Ami's!"
Everyone turned to looked at Ami, whose face turned a bright red. She
carefully hid her face using her computer.
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"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Oh too bad, you fall in Nyannichaun, Spring of Drowned Girl. There very
tragic legend of young girl who fall in spring 1500 year ago. Now whoever
fall in spring take a body of a young girl." The Jusenkyo guide explained to
the unfortunate traveller. He fixed his communist hat. "Now, I explain about
curse, you come." He gestured towards the small hut not to far away.
The sopping teen climbed out of the pool of water and graciously took the
towel that the guide was holding out. "What's this about a curse?"
"You see." The guide opened the door, and began a kettle. "Plum! Come and
bring long mirror! We have another customer!"
"Ok Papa!" A young 12 year old girl came out from behind a curtain, wheeling
a full length mirror. She too was wearing what looked like a Chinese
communist outift, but it was smaller and had a skirt instead. "Aiya...." she
moaned as she got a glimpse of the cursee. "You want to see?"
"Yeah!" The young adult ran to the mirror and gasped at the sight. Where once
stood a tall, mascuiline, black haired, boy, now stood a small, curvy, buxom,
redhead. She turned around a couple times, still in shock "Is...it permanent?"
The guide didn't answer and proceeded to pour the contents of the kettle over
the girl's head.
"WHAAAAAAAA!!!! That's HOT!"
The older man nodded. "Of course. You see?"
The girl looked into the mirror and found herself to have been reverted to
her usual state...err...his usual state. He did however fail to notice the
faint reflection of Sailor Pluto. He turned around. "What...happened?"
The guide nodded. "Yes...Plum, explain. My Japanese soo bad."
The girl smiled. "Yes papa." The girl took a seat. "Please, sit."
The man sat down. Plum folded her hand. "Is very intersting. See, these
springs are cursed. Things drown here and somehow they're...how can I say...
appearance still remains. What I mean is that when someone falls into a
spring they take on their appearnce..or at least something close to it.
However, the girl that fell into the Nyannichaun could actually have been
blond, not red head, so study still needs to be done. In anycase, what
happens is that cold water triggers curse, like so," Plum doused the boy in
cold water. "See? Now you're a girl."
She looked down. "I guess so."
"Now, you go back to normal with hot scalding water...sort of scalding. It
has to be very hot." Plum proceeded to douse the girl in boiling water. "Now
you back to normal. See...so far there no cure, some think, 'Jump in spring
of drowned man, girl etc. But it doesn't work. Sooo sad." Plum stood up and
picked up a peice of paper. "Here is town where lots of cursed live. Maybe
they help you deal. Oh yeah, and water seems to follow all cursed."
Plum scribbled the kanji of the name of the town and the name of a cursed
fellow and gave it to the boy. On it said, "Nermia; Ranma Saotome."
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"HIYA!!" Akane launched a powerful punch towards her bobbing husband. She
proceeded to release a flurry of kicks, each one skillfully avoided.
"AHHH!!!!" she cried and cupped her hands. A crackle of ki sputtered from her
outstreched hands. "ARGH!!" Akane growled and tried again. This time a small
and feeble ball was launched and vanished before it got farther than an inch.
Ranma flipped over her and touched her shoulder. "Okay, enough of that. You
still need work."
Akane sat down on the ground. "Damn, how do you do it?"
"Ki? The same way you do. I've just had more practice...besides, you don't
really have a specific part of you to draw from? Do you?" Ranma thought for a
moment. "How long have we been practing with ki attacks? This one in
particular."
"About 2 weeks now," Akane answered.
"Well? It takes time. Don't think you'll learn it in a couple days. I mean,
it took you 3 months to learn the Amaguriken." Ranma wore a crooked grin.
Akane growled. "You! I'm not like you!!! It's not like I can learn a
technique in a week, like a certain someone!" She pulled out her mallet.
"Ahhh...I didn't mean it Akane! Honest...I.."
"Hurry it up!" Ukyou shouted.
"I'm trying," answered a muffled voice coming from someone that appeared
completely buried beneath a large pile of okanomyaki boxes.
Akane waved as they walked past the training area of the dojo. "Hey Ukyou!
Ryouga!"
Ukyou stopped. "Akane! Hey!"
The boxes of okanomyaki quivered. "Oh right...I can't use my hands," Ryouga
murmured then called out, "Hello Akane Saotome! Hey Ranma! Can you give me a
hand?"
"I would...but I just don't seem to have a saw on me right now...and Doctor
Tofu is out of town," Ranma answered with a grin.
"Not literally! I need help!"
"Fine." Ranma ran over there and took half the stack, revealing Ryouga's face.
"Where are you taking all these too anyway?" Akane asked counting the boxes.
Ukyou sighed. "The Kuno estate. Something about a family reunion. I don't
really know, all Nabiki told me was that she wanted 50 special okanomyaki."
Ranma held up the 25 he was holding. "Shall we go?"
"Let's make a trip out if it!" Akane announced.
Ukyou grinned. "Great idea!" She walked behind Ryouga and gave him a push.
"Off you go!"
"You too Ranma," Akane said mimicing Ukyou's movements.
The two black haired boys took off in a quick jog, the very top boxes
bouncing with each step.
"Hey Ranma?"
"Yeah?"
"Have you seen Shampoo recently?" Ryouga asked.
Ranma slowed down a bit. "Not since.." he began to answer.
"SLOW DOWN RANMA!!!!!!" Akane shouted from behind them. Ukyou was waving her
arms in the airs to signal the two. Ranma and Ryouga screeched to a stop.
"Don't need to be so loud Akane," Ranma said, sticking out his tounge.
"Yeah...but you were going too fast!" Akane retorted and proceeded to stick
out her own tounge.
"You told us to go faster!"
"Not that fast!"
"Should have told us to walk then!"
Akane growled and looked away, arms crossed. Ranma stuck out a tounge and
whirrled around so they were back to back. Ukyou and Ryouga shared a look and
sighed.
"Hey you guys! I gotta deliver these now!" Ukyou shouted, "The Kuno Estate is
only a block away from here. Can't you just get along until then?"
Ranma whirrled around and planted a kiss on Akane's cheek. She spun around
and answered him with a punch to the nose. He looked at his wife while
rubbing his injury and mumbled, "That hurt."
"Stupid darling," Akane teased.
Ryouga stared at the boxes of okanomyaki that Ranma was holding and gaped at
the fact they were still standing in a neat pile, while his were wobbling
unsteadly. Ukyou noticed this and hefted about 6 off his pile.
"Better sugar?" she asked, balancing them on one hand, and straightening his
pile with another.
Ryouga nodded. "Yes, very."
"Good." Ukyou dumped the 6 back onto the pile.
"HEY!"
The foursome turned to find Nabiki, running towards them waving her arms.
"Hey! Ukyou! I've been waiting just down the block!" She caught up to them,
and bent over, breathing heavily. "Why has it taken you so long to reach my
home?" she asked, pointing to her watch. "Ukyou, dear, you should be very
happy you don't have a, 'Delivered in 30 minutes or it's on the house,'
motto."
Ukyou blushed bright red from embarssement. "Well, I....heh..."
Nabiki grinned. "Come on. Everyone's getting hungry."
Ranma leaned over and whispered in Ryouga's ear, "A Kuno family reunion...
Now that's scary." Ryouga shuddered in agreement. (senninriki)
(naseihokubatsu) (SSH, MT heigou)
All five headed down the street, the two men lagging behind, not because of
the wieght of the packages, but the fear of the Kunos all gathered together
in one place. They had a strange feeling that it was going to be like
entering a mental insitution. They neared the estate, and to everyone's
surprise, except for Nabiki, the entire place was silent.
"Come on," Nabiki said gesturing towards the door.
Suddenly, emerging from a bush, appeared to be Sasuke, only much younger,
maybe only 19 years of age. He was perhaps taller, and his face was smoother,
but the boy was still small and dressed as a ninja.
"Mistress Nabiki," he said, his voice more refined compared to the old
Sasuke. "Everyone is waiting," with that he opened the door to the front
hall, then with a bow, scurried off, vanishing into the bushes.
"Shall I take the Okanomyaki to the kitchen, m'lady?" a small female ninja
asked, appearing out of nowhere. This one was definately taller than the last
one, and she was definately older. Nontheless, she was dressed like a ninja,
but she had a strange accent, as though she had just learned Japanese not to
long ago.
Nabiki nodded towards Ranma and Ryouga. "Give her the boxes," she stated.
"No, that's okay. We can do it," Ranma insisted, looking down at the woman.
The ninija smiled up and him and looked over her shoulder and shouted in an
obscure language, one Ryouga recognized to be German.
A whole bunch of men and women, dressed in suits appeared, holding out their
arms.
Akane stared at the site, not recognizing any of the servants. "Hey, Nabs.
Who are they?" she asked, pointing to the people.
"They are Noukou's servants. He's Tatewaki's coursin. He's lived in Germany
for the past 10 years," she explained. Then turned to Ryouga and Ranma. "They
can take care of the boxes."
Suddenly, as if on cue, the suited people began to move, like soldiers taking
one, two, three of the boxes off the stacks the boys held, until all of them
had be removed. And with the lead of the female ninja, the servants marched
into the kitchen.
Ranma scratched his head and shook Nabiki's hand. "Well it's good to be here,
but I had better go," he mumbled and moved to the door.
Ryouga nodded and followed in suit, saying, "See you again Mrs. Kuno."
Ukyou nodded. "I had better go as well." With that said she moved over to
Ryouga. Akane sighed and hugged her sister goodbye.
Ranma stood their trying his best to pry the door open. "Argh! It won't
budge!" Just as he was about to ram the door, it creaked open, an old ninja
stood there with a large toothy grin.
"Good night sirs," he said.
Ryouga, Ranma, Ukyou and Akane all shared an identical look of confusion,
before rocketing off of the estate.
"Whoa," Ranma puffed after running a great distance from the place. "That was
creepy."
Akane shook her head. "No creepy...just...Kuno."
"Hey!" Ryouga pointed up at the building. Every looked up and saw the red
sign, Nekohaten, showing through the faded sheet.
Ranma walked up to it and tried to peer through the boarded windows. "I can't
see anything," he stated, when suddenly the sheet fell ontop of him. He broke
into a fit of coughing, while pulling it off.
"This is horrible," Ukyou noted observing the conditions of the building.
"How long has it been?"
"I think....3 years since Colonge's disapperance, and the Nekohanten's
closing," Akane stated, a hand at her chin.
Ryouga pounded his fist in his hand. "That's right! Colonge vanished a week
after Happosai disappeared. Shampoo locked herself in her room, and Mousse
had to run the resturant on his own. After a month, he had to close down, and
no one had seen any of them since then." He told it like an ancient legend,
that had been passed on for generations.
Ranma nodded thoughtfully. "I wonder what happened to the old wrinkled pieces
of jerky?"
"Ranma!" Akane scolded.
"What?"
Suddenly there was a rustling in the bushes, and something lunged out of
them, pinning Ukyou onto the cafe's wall. It looked like a woman, with black
skin and white Chinese characters scrawled all over her body. It had no hair,
and a face like a snake, with sharp teeth and fangs. She dug her claws into
Ukyou's shoulders, and with her long tail, she touched Ukyou's chest, and
both of them began to glow.
"Ukyou!" Ryouga cried, and charged towards the creature, head first.
The monster turned it's head and hissed, a wall of energy blooming around
her. "I don't think so, boy," it hissed.
Ryouga hit the wall and snapped backwards, the force of the energy throwing
his back. He fell into Ranma, with a grunt.
Ranma caught Ryouga expertly, then announced, "That thing it taking Ukyou's
ki!"
Akane looked in his direction, then at Ukyou. She closed her eyes, and
positioned her hands in front of her. A blue glow began to spread over her
body.
Ryouga and Ranma caught sight of this, then proceeded in assisting Ukyou.
Ryouga ran towards the creature then stopped short, shouting, "Bakusai
Tenchu!" and touched the ground with one finger. He lept backwards to be away
from the vicinity of the blast.
The ground exploded into pebbles, breaking the creature's concentration. It
dropped the pale, limp Ukyou to the ground, then ran towards them. A blast of
energy exploding from her hands.
Ryouga took the full power of the attack and was crushed against a wall. He
stood up, shaking, and held his hands in front of him, crying, "Shishi
Houdoukan!" A wave of ki struck the creature in the chest.
It seemed to bend backwards, then snap right back, with a grin. "Nice try,
boy!"
Akane wrinkled her nose with concentration, then a ball of red ki began to
build in her hands. Her eyes snapped open and she shouted, "Hinotama!" The
red ball of ki burst forward engulfing the creature in flames.
It screamed, and began to roll around on the ground, writhering. The fire
died down and it stood up, obviously charred.
"Fire ball?" Ranma asked his wife, one eyebrow raised.
Akane shrugged, with a grin. Ryouga ran to Ranma, and pointed at the weakened
monster. They nodded in unison, then braced themselves.
"Shishi Houdoukan!" Ryouga cried.
"Mouko Takabisha!" Ranma shouted.
The two of them gathered the ki in their hands, then together they shouted,
"Heigou!" They released their attacks, and they wound together, into a spiral
of ki. It struck the creature in the chest.
It flew backwards, shouting, "Dammit!" before turning into dust. Akane ran
towards it and found a small piece of paper that looked like an anti-evil
sticker, only instead of the characters that read, "Aku Ryo Tai San," it had
ancient Chinese scrawl written on it.
Ryouga looked at the space where the creature died, and noticed that suspened
in the air was a ball of pulsating blue energy. "Hey you guys! I think this
is Ukyou's ki!"
Ranma picked up Ukyou, only to find that her pulse was faint and her skin was
cold to the touch. "She looks, kinda dead. But she as a pulse."
Akane stood up and stared at the ball of ki. "Hmmm...I wonder how to return
this to her body," she mumbled, thoughtfully.
Ryouga wrapped his hands around the ball, and found to his surprise that it
was cool to the touch, and had a very solid feel. He moved to Ukyou and
positioned the ball where the tail of the creature was sucking up her ki.
Carefully he let go, and the ball remained suspended in mid air.
Suddenly a loud whoosh sounded and the ball of ik was sucked back into
Ukyou's body. Ranma staggered back a little from the force of the ki, then
dumped her in Ryouga's arms.
Ukyou opened her eyes, with a moan. "Ry...ryouga? What happened?"
He shook his head and held her close to him. "Nothing, nothing," he whispered.
Ranma wrapped and arm around Akane, and she rested her head on his shoulder.
"Excuse me?"
Ryouga put down Ukyou carefully, and Ranma and Akane turned to look at the
person speaking. To their surprise they found a petite red-head. She had a
tomboyish look about her, with short hair and a formal outfit of khakis and a
blue button down. Everything, however looked extremely loose, and she looked
like she was once very wet, and had begun drying off.
"Excuse me," she repeated.
"Yes?" Akane answered.
The girl started looking through her pockets and pulled out a small slip of
paper. "Is this Nerima?"
The foursome nodded.
"Oh good!" The girl stared at the paper for a bit then looked up. "Do you
know where I could find a Ranma Saotome?" she asked.
Ranma and the others slid backwards, their hands held in the air middle and
ring finger bent, the rest sticking straight up into the air. Ranma regained
his composer quickly and walked over to the girl.
"I am he," Ranma announced. "Why you lookin' for me anyways?"
The girl sighed with relief. "I finally found you!" She stuffed the paper
into her pocket. She bowed formally and greeted him, "I am Mamoru Chiba, and
I have been searching for you for some time now."
Author's note: Some story, ne? Okay, so this was a bit slow. I think you can
figure out what's gonna happen! Anyways, I've been meaning to say that the
Sailor Moon part of this will encorporate elements from the Anime and the
Manga, more so with the Anime, including the movies. This isn't a spoiler, so
I'll tell you: I'm including the exisitance of the Barazuishou, The Earth
Gaurdians/Inner Senshi relationships and the Asteroid Senshi, but it will be
slightly edited to fit the Anime series. (whoa...)
Also, about the Ranma part. It takes place 4 years after the last season.
Akane and Ranma(22) have married and graduated college. Nabiki and
Tatewaki(23), Kasumi and Tofu(25/28) are also married. Ryouga dumped Akari,
and is now "friends" with Ukyou.(18) His sense of direction has not improved,
though it seems that way. In fact, he's just learned to follow. Pantyhose?
Well, you'll see...in fact I'm not sure where he is! Gosunkugi is plum crazy!
No I'm kidding. Actually, he's become a world traveller. Oh yes! I forgot.
Soun, Genma and Nadoka, have moved to Osaka to live in the Saotome Dojo.
That's about it really! ^_~
See you soon!