Subject: [FFML] [Ranma 1/2][Xover] Reincarnation - Prologue part 1/2 (updated)
From: "Vamp" <vamp.666@wanadoo.fr>
Date: 9/5/2001, 9:25 PM
To: "ffml" <ffml@anifics.com>

Reincarnation
" " are speaking
' ' are quotes
< > are toughts
[ ] are panda sign
* * are sounds
^_^ is me ... oups ?

well, I'm back... I corrected most of the typing mistakes myself and updated
this part a little... the prologue is already writed, but in french... ^_^
can't have it all...
I'm taking my very sweet time to translate it... and most of the first
chapter (mostly done too)

I had a complete week at the beach where I could work all the time on this
fic... but I did a lot of work on the start of the future 'books'...
I plan to make more books AFTER the Ranma 1/2 manga story is finished (after
Saffron and the failed wedding, even if I don't know if there'll be a
wedding or if it'll be failed... ;) )
the next books will definitly be others animes universes crossovers. well,
it will mostly (I live this word... oh, you already saw it !!) follow the
others animes canon story... I plan first for a Ranma/Sailor Moon crossover,
but I'm not sure for the others... Saint Seiya, Evangelion, Yuyu hakusho,
Vandread, Flame of Recca, Guyver, Gate Keeper, Hokuto no Ken ... I don't
know... each one will be a different book
there is some plot that need to be done on a certain order and on a certain
anime universe... so after the book 2, I don't rally know how to do it...
I'm mostly (one more!!) done for Yuyu hakusho and Saint Seiya, but I don't
know which one will be the 3rd...

but for now, I need to write the entiere first one...
I added since last time the aftermath of Ranma and Ranko separation...
I planned this fic for two year already... and since then, I red lots of fic
that have some plot part VERY similar to mine... well, what can I say... on
the huge fanfic writer number, it's pretty normal that some ideas are more
or less repeated... it was long ago too and I forgot the name of the fics
(and I really don't remember the author's name... I have a BIG problem with
names in general ...)

all I can say is : as I worked on this fic, the plot have been very much
changed... at first it was a simple self insertion fic with me as a second
Ranma with blue hair ion male form and black in girl form (the cold/hot
water effect was inverted too, but my mind stayed male)
the principal plot point for this double Ranma story resolve on the curse
magic's nature...
We have two Ranmas, one is lightly modified from the canon (I'm basing it on
the manga, I don't have the anime...) and the other much more modified, but
how much ?

theirs powers and techniques will be differents one from the other... If
Ranma will be a lot like the canon, the second one (Ranko for now on) will
develop her own technique, but based on her brother's ones...
I'll use japanese names for the techniques, even the one I'll create
(cool... a french/japanese translator !!)

There is some manga part (more shortstories) that I won't develop... I will
just insert them as reminder of the manga history advancement...

I have a prereader for my other story (Gaia's awakening, I'm still working
on it, but I have more material for this one for now on) and I need more...
for the two stories...

I'm trying to build a website to post my fanfics on it when I'll reach the
final draft for each chapter... (I'm trying myself on the PHP... but for
now, pure HTML will suffise)

End of author troubled mind's rambling ... ^_^

and now, here is the story

---
This is a story of Yin and Yang
Light and Darkness
Good and Evil
Fire and Ice
---
Prologue - part 1
---

Everybody is seated in the sitting room. M.Tendo has his three daughters on
his right and two mens on his left, each facing the others.

"I present you once more... my best friend..." starts Soun Tendo.

"Genma Saotome." says the man dressed in a dirty white gi. He wave to the
young boy sitting beside him. "This is my son..."

"...Ranma." finish the boy, dressed in a pale blue sleeveless chinese shirt,
with matching black troussers and red bracers.

He and Akane look at each other, one with a questionning look and the other
more suspecting.

"It's a joke, right?" Nabiki steps in.

"You are... the girl from back then?" asks Kasumi, completly lost.

"Hum. How to start?" Genma asks himself. "I know! Hyah!!" He throws his son
on the koi pond located in the middle of the Tendo garden.

"Hey!!" is groaning Ranma while airborne. "A...Argh!.... Aaaaargh!!" he
screams just before reaching the water with a loud *SPLASH*

For a while, bubbles are noisily showing on the water, then he breaks the
surface water, splitted in pain and holding his head.

"Huh... Nyaah!... Ahh... Ahh... AAARGH!!"

For a second that seems to never end, while he bents himself, his head makes
the impression of ripping in two, then all his chinese shirt's wooden studs
burst at once, a naked flesh mass, or it is a body, is ejected from his
torso and vanish in the pond.

"Ahh... Ahh... Pff..." He gets his breath back, taking support on his knees,
his head dangling. "It's stopped. That much pain..." He raises his head and
glares a questionning look at his father and the Tendos.

"What happened?" the only response he gets is a stupefied look. He finaly
registers the infos his body is sending to him and he looks down his bare
torso... definitly male. "I... I don't change into a girl? I... I'm cured?"
he asks when suddendly...

*BLOOSH* A young fire haired girl emerge a few feets from him.

"Ouch..." she groan. "It hurts!" She looks quickly around her. "Where...
Where am I?" she takes a step back... then another... and she bumps against
Ranma.

She gently turn toward him and he gets the confirmation he feared : it's his
female self. The shock keeps him to make any sensible tought, like it maight
be the case for his father and the Tendos, none of them having told a word
yet.

She hold a finger out slowly toward Ranma while lightly backing of,
trembling. "You... you are... imposs... I..." like any other present person,
all rationnal thinking seems to leave her. nonetheless, the fact that she
identify Ranma is undeniable.

"Who... are you?" succeed to say Ranma without muddling.

"Who I am?" she repeats. "I... I..." her look going from surprise, "I...",
to reflexion, "I...?" and then to panic.

Seeing her emotionnal state, he attempts the question that is consumming him
: "Are you me?"

"WHAT?" if the result attained is not the one looked for, the question as
the benefits to have apparently calmed her. "If I'm you? You are just before
me, how can I be you?" she answers him like he asked a supid question.

Her declaration, in addition to relax Ranma a little, restarts the thinking
machine that is Nabiki's brain.

"You are not Ranma?" she ask while coming close to the pond.

"Ranma? Ranma... RANMA! YES! It's your name!" she shouts, pointing her
finger toward him again. "I know you! Ranma Saotome, heir to the Saotome
school of Anything Goes martial arts!"

"Y...yeah. That's me"

"If you are not him, then who are you?" ask Nabiki a second time.

The redhead tour toward Nabiki and look at her silently. "I... I don't
know!" she conceed. "I see things, memories, but they are so foreign to
me... the more I seek, the more I find events linked to the life of... of
Ranma... but I cannot remember my name... my house... my familly..."

Slowly, her posture change, falling to depression.

"I don't know why... but I know that all these memories are Ranma's and not
mines.

"Ranma..." cut Nabiki. "Give her your shirt."
"Hu? oh..." he removes it and give it to his female self.

"Thanks..." she aswers him back while putting the shirt on, suddendly awared
of her nudity.

"So, if I resume, you don't know who you are, but you are sure of not being
Ranma, even if you have the same memory than him?" Nabiki compute while
speaking, her hands on her hips.

The girl nod, her moral starting to sink anew.

"Hum... We may not be able to resolve this tonight." Nabiki looks at the
two, still waist deep in the water. "Says, you can exit the pond now. You'll
catch a cold if you don't."

They see that, yup, they had stayed on the water during all the chating.

"Hum, if you are not Ranma, and you don't remember your name, you'll have to
choose a new one until you get your own memories back. Any ideas?" pursue
Nabiki.

Ranma-chan stop immediatly where she stand, than look back to Ranma-kun.
"Ranma... Ra...n...ma... it's strange! I get the impression that... that..."
the tries to remember something. "Is there not a girl name starting like
Ranma?"

"Let me see... Ranma? Ran... Ran... There : Ranko... it the female for
Ranma." declare Nabiki.

"Ranko? I seem to have heard it before somehere..." say 'Ranko'.

"I don't ring a bell for me..." Ranma cut het.

"Yes? Maybe your memories are already coming back..." Nabiki pause a little
then "I think that maybe this name can help you to quicken the precessus,
even maybe get some indications..."

"Ranko... yes, after all, it's just a name. Anyone will do the trick."

"I will have do to some research... hey, it'll be a real challenge..."
Nabiki song-song while returning to the house, followed by the others two.
"How do you know that your are not Ranma, by the way? If you have the same
memories than him, even if it seems stranger, you should have believed that
you were him, no?"

"Well, these memories I got might be mines, but there is this thingy that
tell me : that memory is not yours! I dunno... but then, my memories are so
clear, so well ordered... normally, someone can't recall anything that
clearly... this too tell me that's not MY memory." asnwer back Ranko

The three come back on the house and Nabiki sits back at her place,
thinking. When Ranko were going to sit too, Ranma put a hand on her
shoulder.

"Ran...ko? Can you come with me, I want to try something."

"Hu... ok!" She follows him and they exit the room.

"What... the... hell... happened?" ask Akane to her sister.

"I don't know for sure. But I think our guest have just started to surprise
us."  declare Nabiki, half-anxious for the problems to come, half-delighted
for the spice that the Saotome will put in her life.

---

Ranma takes Ranko to the room where he and his father had put theirs
belongings. He gets his bag and poursue the walk in the Tendo household.

"We are here!" he says, entering in a room.

"This is the bathroom? What do you want to do here?" she asks.

"First, I wanna try the curse to see if I'm cured for good or not. Then try
to see if you are cured too. Lastly, just dry myself and change my wet
clothes for dry ones."

"Okay..." She walk toward the furo, still full of hot water. "You changed
back with hot water, and we stayed on the pond's cold water long enough to
know that it doesn't change us. My case will be quickly resolved." She got
in the furo et immerge herself in the hot water, warming her body from the
pond water's coldness. "I think that's clear. Your two forms seem to be
really separated from one other." She exit the water, take a towel and start
to dry her hairs.

"That's... that's... THAT'S GREAT! I get rid of this curse... hu..." He
stops his euphoria to look at his female double. "If I don't change into a
girl..."

"I don't change into a boy... where is the problem?"

"The problem? your are locked in my cursed body without memories... so how
can you know if your are a guy or a girl?"
"Oh! That... That's right... I didn't think of it." she says as she stop
rubbing herself. She thinks a litthe, then start back to rub her hairs. "I
can't remember. That's not important."

"How's that 'that's not important'? If you are a girl in a girl body, okay,
but if you're a guy?"

"If I'm a guy, then I'll know easily. I'll just have to look what's the more
attractive to me : guys or girls. For now, there is a more pressing than
that."

"Say what?" he asks with a challenging tone.

"Well, look at this, I don't have anything more than this body, and it was
yours less that an hour ago..." She drop the now wet towel and take the
shirt off. "I can't see myself taking a walk like this..." she tell him,
showing off her nudity.

"Hu..." He turns backward to stop looking at her. "Yeah..." He goes his back
and takes out some cloths. "There sould be... yes..." he gets his clothes
ready, and continues to search on the bag. "I think that... hehehe, your
problem is ended..." he says, giving her a second pair of pants and a shirt
similar to his, if not for the shirt which is red. "I like the blues one
better, they bring my eyes out more." He adds with a mischievious smile.

"You are lending them to me? thanks..." She quickly finish to dry up and put
her new clothes on, copying Ranma. "Says, you wouldn't have a small ribon or
a string for my hairs? I want to fasten them."

"You're gonna make a pigtail too?"

"Nah, I was thinking of your old ponytail, before Jusenkyo..."

"Let me look... Yes, I still got the one I used back then. Here." He gives
her a black little ribon.

"Perfect!" She fasten her hair. "You already looked to your reflect on a
mirror? While a girl I mean." she says as she look at theirs images on the
great mirror on the bathroom wall. "Look at us... One might think that we
are twins... TWINS?! excellent!!"

"Hu? What?'

"Look, I haven't anywhere to live, so before my memories come back, I might
as well live here... as your twin sister, no?"

"EEHH? My sister? But..."

"The only life I know, it's yours. If we were really twins, then your father
would have to take me on the training trip too. That will explain why I'm a
tomboy if I'm really a guy too...

"Yeah... that can work but..."

"I can't loose anything to try because, precisely, I have nothing!"

"That's true."

"now that we are refreshed, let's get back there, I have a request to make.

---

(to be continued)

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