Dance of Ice and Rain of Blood

Disclaimer: Not mine, nope, not at all. But I like Art-chin, she is really cute.

Warnings: Just to prove Mc wrong I'll make this one a bit more serious than my usual ones. This is a Fukufic! That means that Ranma will spend time in female form and hunt demons. Anything else I should mention? Ranma is going to kick butt! Oh Vampire alert.

Timelines: Tsukuyomi Moon Phase at the beginning, Ranma before at the beginning, Sailor Moon in the first Nehelenia Arc, the Amazon quartet.

Story: This story can be blamed on by WarGiver's Ranma Senshi Generator. A pet project for the Temple of Ranma's Senshi Seifuku. I tested version 1.5 and got this. I'll have to rewrite the whole Ranma timeline before I can get to the Sailor Moon part. My life sucks so much.

Generator Results:

Ranma is a Fake-Senshi.

Ranma became a Senshi because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ranma's opinion on being a Senshi is "Well, since I am a girl anyways."

Ranma joins the Senshi when Nehelenia and the Amazonian Quartet attacks, and after the failed wedding.

The Nerima Wrecking Crew is aware of his extracurricular activities.

Ranma decided to stay a Senshi because he does not think those cheerleaders have what it takes to save the world and they need someone that does.

Ranma fell in the cursed spring of drowned hybrid girl. (Animalgirl, catgirl, etc)

Optional Generator Results:

Ranma falls in love with Chibi-Usa.

Old Engagements are still on.

This story also crossover with Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase.

Comment on the Generator Results: I should have worked without a love interest. Fitting Hazuki in and Chibi-Usa will be hell. Got to thank ... I think it was Mc for bringing up Black Lady, she is a good looking female after all. I guess Hazuki will help Ranma get out off his old engagements somehow. Well I'll see how this will develop. Even if I helped with ideas for the thing it's still hard to use. Merging the three timelines will be fun. And remaking Ranma and Tsukuyomi will be hell. By the time I'll enter Sailor Moon Ranma and Hazuki will be together (living) for about a year and a half. And till I get there, well, I expect some thousands words, even if I narrate only.

Special Thanks to: Mc, Light, Herb, WarGiver, Nukem

First Kiss - Becoming a Foxy Mother

Ranma Saotome was in a bad mood. She had kicked her stupid father into a spring, he hadn't watched where he was going after all. The panda coming out tossed her into another spring, when she had gotten out and realized that she was a girl she had frozen. That was when her father had gotten a second hit in, Mr. Great Martial Artist had failed to realise that She was a girl. That she had landed in another spring and the two curses had mixed was the present source of her ire. "DIE!" Snowstorms were something rarely seen in Jusenkyo, blizzards were even rarer. Flash frozen Pandas were a step beyond this. Something powerful enough to freeze all springs and grant safe passage for walking on them. This was unique, at least since the Arctic Kyuubi had drowned. "Stupid panda. Stupid me, I knew he was moron!" Ranma-chan grumbled as she walked to the guides hut, casually blowing the snow covering it away. That she had left the panda on top of the spring of drowned girl was personal revenge. If Genma managed to get out of this before the spring melted, good for him. Otherwise pandagirl or female panda.

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"So hot water makes me male, cold water female." Ranma asked to make sure he remembered correctly. "You know about cures?"

"Me not know, but Mister Customer may go to Amazon village." the guide replied.

"Anything I should know about them?" Ranma asked with a rather pointed look.

A panda entering broke the moment.

"You are still a male panda."

[How did you get cured?] A sign asked.

"No cure, hot water makes you human, cold water turns you a panda." Ranma answered before glaring at the guide. "Any weird spells, customs we have to look out for?"

The guide sweated, he was supposed to get the customers to the Amazons first thing, but someone who could flash freeze Jusenkyo was more dangerous. "The have dangerous customs for outsiders. When outsider women beat Amazon, Amazon give Kiss of death and must hunt outsider woman and kill her. When Outsider man defeat Amazon woman she give him kiss of marriage and they marry and stay in Amazon village."

Ranma frowned, no he did not like this, not at all. "What about males? Are only girls fighters?"

The guide nodded. "Amazon men take care of children, it's woman that are the warriors. Males no good fighters."

Ranma twitched. "So if I beat some girl I'm her husband and I have to stay at home and cook, clean and everything."

The guide agreed. "It is as you said Mr. Customer."

"I don't like it. Pops we are NOT going there."

"Are you a weak little girl? Afraid of some women?" Genma challenged.

Ranma snapped back. "I'm not some girl! And I ain't afraid of nothing, fine we will go there,but you have save your sorry furry butt yourself this time."

Ranma changed into the Kyuubi five minutes later and found out that the backpack wasn't meant for people with nine furry plushy tails. Neither were normal clothes. The solution were loose pants that she wore really low, and a shorter shirt, at least when female. Since the differences were rather big for both bodies Ranma-chan was in a bind. The bad weather made her settle on staying a female demon right now. "Tell me a good reason why I shouldn't freeze your furry butt again."

[You are a weak girl] A sign said.

Said icing over and shattering when Genma let it go since it started freezing to his hand made him make another one [You resort to your powers to fight]

A furry fist embedded itself in the pandas side and it went straight into the forest and through a few trees. "Undeserving baka, if he messes up again I'll go where I want." Ranma-chan snarled. Except for three whitish blue furry stripes her face was free of any fur. She was smaller than her male form and really busty, and curves in all the right places, she was mostly covered in soft fur that was mostly white with a bluish tint, Ranma-chan had the feeling it became stronger at times. Than were the nice foxtails, they were really soft and easy to control, but they made sitting on a chair with a lean rather hard. As well several other things, they were like a living curtain that was following her.

The guide was rather sorry that he had to take the Customers to the Amazon village. He knew that it was a mistake, but those were the rules, if they went with him, they were supposed to go there. And since he had taken up the task of leading them it was a bad thing. He just hoped he managed to talk to an elder or matriarch before the younger ones, what was the wording?, jumped the gun.

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The guide sighed as they entered. "Ahh we lucky, today is tournament of village, it is to decide the best village, winner is new village champion."

Ranma-chan nodded pulling her cloak tighter around herself wrapping the tails all around herself. It made for a rather weird figure. Not that she cared one bit. At least her appetite in this form was lower, especially since she had hunted earlier. Who would have guessed that raw deer could taste so good. Ranma-chan sighed, staying human was kind off hard. All those new instincts were distracting to him, her whatever. The weird thing was that they were present in her human form as well. She had heard of mind influencing springs from the guide but this was ridiculous. Maybe it had something to do with the crazy power level she was handling when being a fox?

"Baka panda." she mumbled as she saw him sitting at a table alone, eating what looked like a feast. If Ranma-chan hadn't eaten she would have joined him too probably. Just then the blue haired Amazon kicked her butt ugly challenger from the log. Seeing her glare and threaten the panda, who started looking for him at once, she decided to hightail out of there. The guards barring the way out were jumped over. Of course one of them managed to cut the robe. Ranma-chan hissed, and uncurled her tails, as they were hindering her movements.

That was when the screaming began.

Ranma-chan didn't need anyone to translate for her as she dodged arrows and such, child's play at her normal level, absolutely boring in this body. She summoned a huge snowball and shot the panda. Than she left. She hadn't been challenged and she wasn't out for blood.

It took her starting to fly to loose them. In the air she decided that it wasn't like a bird but it had it's good points. She was crossing huge distances in seconds and wasn't bothered by the ground. It wasn't even denting her energy reserves. Now only where to go? The panda had told her of his plans, that being going to a Tendou dojo somewhere in Japan, Nerima in Tokyo probably. Well she would search for a cure first. The way he understood it the biggest chance in China for a cure was with the Amazons, how they liked her new body was obvious, even with explanations, the panda had probably already botched any chance they had left at a peaceful encounter. She had always wanted to go to Europe, the Martial Arts were different there. There were a few fighting styles, but they were way different from what she was used too. She heard that Europe had some pretty strong mythology too. Maybe they had something that could break this curse.

--- five months later ---

"Already 16 and still a fox." Ranma sighed as he stood in a German town close to Schloss Schwarzwald, a castle that was rumoured to be cursed. "Well this is perfect, a castle that's cursed for someone like me who is cursed as well." As the rain ended he ran off, into the night.

At the same time a small crew working for a Japanese mysticism tabloid arrived and went for lodging. Things were getting interesting, for this area things were going to change. For ever.

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"So this is it?" Ranma wondered. He had worked hard and managed to do the trick he did with Youki with Ki. Making Ki balls was easy now. Depending on what power he was using the Kyuubi's fur was more white or more blue. Wind went more to white, while Ice and cold went more to blue. Things were definitely for the martial artist. He considered the western people weird. Okay a foxgirl with nine tail was wandering around. Upon explanation a long time off disbelief. Later acceptance and mostly the offer of help, sometimes they wanted something from her, well there were perverts everywhere. Only those scientists were weird, but they paid rather well, some blood, X-rays and other things. Than there were the historians who used her to prove that there was something behind Mysticism after all. And they were really helpful in researching local legends and pointing her towards rumoured hotspots. Usually after some showing off, Ice magic was so fascinating to someone who had his head buried in science.

He stepped closer and felt it, his alternate knowledge kicked in, 'Kekai' a barrier, he wasn't sure what type it was, but it wasn't enough to keep him out. "I'm letting myself in."

Ranma jumped on some statue, held onto a small carving and pulled himself on the top of the wall. He looked around. Big dark castle, girl sitting on the top of a tower ... this was bad, girls tended to act weird around him, no matter what form he was in. They wanted to have their way with his male form, some scientist had explained sexuality and such concepts to him, and cuddle his female side. He had gotten herself talked into joining a sleep over off some scientists daughter one time, it was weird, the fourteen year old girls were going nuts over his male side, than over his foxy version. Why they were aroused over a girl was something he couldn't understand. But the cuddling and petting was really nice, those girls had used soft brushes on her fur and ... Ranma found himself fighting once again the urge to purr. Ever since he had gone kitsune the Neko-ken seemed to be a part of him. Purring at pleasant memories and napping in sun rays. He had asked some scientist about this, that one had sent him to a psychologist, that one had been appalled at what he had gone through and told him that if he was still sane, he was probably integrating it into the instincts, even if it was a rather stereotypical cat personality he had. They really wondered about that, since it was even worse than what cats were usually pictured. It was like some parody of a cat.

So he went inside, no one was greeting him, no one was there but all those ghosts and spirits. They were attacking him, but usually dispersed upon contact with his exceptionally strong Ki. Oh yes things were really weird in here. Now where was this girl, he felt someone upstairs, no really human but rather strong.

He watched the room he was in and decided that the table in the middle meant that this was the dining hall. The smell of food still lingered. Than he heard it, a voice, it was a girls voice. "Wer ... bist du?" Maybe he should have taken a flash light with him? Seeing her sitting below a painting, of her he looked her over. And fixed his gaze on the ears on top of her head.

"I'm Ranma, those ears real?" That could have gone better. Especially since he had asked in Japanese.

"No, why should they?" she answered as she jumped from her perch and landed with an inhuman grace, she had a soft smile on her lips.

"You are a normal human aren't you?" she turned to face him. "I'm surprised you made it in."

Ranma blinked, normal human didn't describe him. "You are?"

"Pleased to meet you, my name is Hazuki." She looked cute in that white dress of hers. "Pardon me but, your name."

Ranma grinned and scratched the base of his ponytail, ever since that transformation his hair had grown longer and went past the shoulder blades. "I'm Ranma, sorry about this, and a few spirits ain't keepin' me out."

"Ranma-onisama?" She smiled at him.

"No sama." Ranma automatically responded.

Hazuki smiled. "Want to go outside?"

Ranma shrugged, and batted a minor spirit out of the way. "Just lead the way."

Hazuki went ahead and wondered what to do, he was way different from what she had expected. He wasn't falling for her cute act and such. After the contract and the kiss he would still be hers. She would have to smoothen out the edges than.

"How come you know Japanese?"

This had startled her. "Before I came here I was living in Japan."

Ranma nodded as he followed her out and to a few crumbling statues and a stone table? Or maybe a pedestal. "Why are you here?"

Hazuki fell silent.

"The barrier is here to keep you in?"

Hazuki froze.

"Well, another bust. What are you that this was made? I know that you ain't human."

Hazuki was clearly unsettled. Things were not going the way they should, not at all. "Will you help me, please, I want to get out here."

"Sure, why not. What do I have to do?" Ranma asked.

"Let me kiss you."

"What?"

"Kiss." She jumped at him, actually it was more like gliding.

"Mistress, I must put you in your place." A deep voice came and vines ensnared Ranma and the girl, pulling them apart.

"Vigo." Hazuki recognized the thing that had kept her from kissing him.

"The Master instructed me to protect you, Mistress." The male manifestation of the guardian responded. "Please forgive my rudeness."

Ranma wasn't happy, being pulled at full speed into a column or something like that hurt. Oh he was going to kick that guys ass once he got out of this.

"Release me." Hazuki commanded.

"It seems that he ignored the barrier, now what shall we do with hi? Shall I smash him to pieces?"

"Water." Ranma called out. "But than again this might do the job as well."

A halo of power surrounded Ranma as he strained his power, in female he was so much more powerful, even beyond comparison. But this should do! "You annoy me!" A bluish Ki blast came forth and slammed into the guardians avatar.

Hazuki blinked, that had been pure life energy. So sweet and alluring, pure health. This much casually thrown out. She truly wanted to make him hers, he was perfect.

"So the maggot wants to fight." Vigo had returned. A column separated and the part flew to crush Ranma.

No he wasn't looking forward to it, so he dodged. "To slow, here." Another Ki blast flew and missed.

Vigo wanted to laugh, but than Hazuki jumped past him. That mongrel had freed her. Vines were launching themselves at her only to burn away as he destroyed them again. This time he was breathing harder.

Hazuki jumped into Ranma's arms, and immediately bit down.

"Ahh, stop that, you a vampire?" Ranma called out.

"My first taste." Hazuki said, a tiny drop running down her chin.

Ranma decided to ignore it. "Well, if you want him gone the fast way, do you have any cold water Hazuki-chan?"

Hazuki stared. "Not Hazuki-chan. Goshujin-sama or Hazuki-sama." That she was pulling his cheeks was annoying Ranma to no end.

"Let me guess, because you kissed me, meaning bit me, I should be your slave?"

"Not slave, servant, I wanted you to be my servant, I went through all this humiliation for nothing?"

"I will crush you, Luna-sama, stand aside."

"Deal, I get rid of him and you get me some cold water."

"Like that?" the little Vampire pointed at the broken fountain.

"Perfect, just you watch." Ranma jumped and blew a stone slab, that was about to hit him, to pieces. He hit the water, and changed.

Hazuki stared, her mind told her to run. This thing in the fountain was a Youkai. No it was way more than just a Youkai. The fountain glazed over and shattered as the creature inside it straightened.

Light blue hair in slight waves pooling past the shoulders, two blue ears with white tips on the top of the head, and then came the tails. She knew that the tails spoke of power. And she was a lot of them. This being was wearing Ranma's clothes. "Ranma-niisan?"

"The one and only, but I can't blame you if you call me neechan in this form." The girl replied.

She made a throwing motion and a huge snowball darted out and nailed Vigo, blowing him into the castle wall and making it collapse on him. Clouds started to gather as Ranma-chan raised her hands to the sky. "I am a Kyuubi, a nine tails, I am an Arctic Kitsune, a being of ice and cold. I am a martial artist. It is a martial artists duty to protect those weaker." She stepped from the ice.

Hazuki shivered, this much power was frightening, she wanted to run, but the cold and the barrier were holding her in.

"Oh sorry, you are cold. Now my little vampire, or maybe I'll call you Hime-chan." Ranma-chan was gliding to her. "Where do I find him. Where is the main seal?" Several tails spun and waved, a small vortex of snow and ice formed and ploughed into the re-emerging Vigo. This time blowing him away into through a tower, that promptly collapsed. Several other tails wrapped themselves around Hazuki, they were surprisingly warm.

"This way, we need to get there." She pointed back the way they came and to a huge glass front.

Ranma-chan nodded and took off. She flew at the glass wall, a snowball causing it to shatter.

Hazuki was impressed, maybe he/she/it ... whatever wasn't obeying her, but it still did what she wanted. Looking back she was a snowstorm battering the barrier. "The ball there is him. Shatter it and I will be free."

Ranma gently put her to her feet. "There is still something missing."

"What?"

"I mean, you didn't say the magic word."

"Magic word?"

"Please?"

"But ..."

"I'm not your servant."

Hazuki growled. "Please" she said with as much honey as she could muster.

Just than the ground shook and broke apart, showing a stone dragon. The dragon roared at them.

"Luna-sama, please step aside." Vigo appeared in the crystal ball.

Hazuki glared at her so called guardian. "I am not her, I am not Luna and I will do anything I have to, to get out of here.

"That's the spirit." Ranma-chan responded. The furry stripes on her face turning a deeper blue. A wave of her hand rained shards of ice on the stone beast, cracking it, and throwing it off balance.

The dragon roared and swung forward, mouth wide open intending to bite the kitsune.

Ranma-chan smirked, "I win" and jumped past the the vampire that had jumped in front of her. Right into the stone dragon, her fist smashed into it, shattering it. A tail flicked and a huge icicle flew forward at the seals focus and hit it. The crystal shattered into thousands of pieces.

Vigo screamed in rage.

Ranma dropped as the seal took physical form and started breaking in the physical world.

"Shatter." Ranma-chan said, all tails spreading apart.

Hazuki saw the crystal form of the barrier freeze and than shatter, even before the seal itself had deteriorated it shattered, the magic of the seal being broken by the youki that the Kyuubi had released.

Ranma-chan turned to the girl. Showing off the three furry stripes along her cheeks and the one along her jaw. "All done Hime-chan, I guess I'll be heading to Japan now, want to tag along? I'm supposed to meet some people in Tokyo, at the Tendou-dojo."

Hazuki smiled and bowed. "Thank you." She threw the amulet she had been wearing away. "Goodbye Luna, you can only exist inside the barrier."

That the amulet froze in the air and shattered upon impact was a rather nice touch Hazuki thought. "Are we going by plane?"

"I don't have the money, or a passport. Do you?" Ranma-chan asked thoughtfully. "But with you walking by day is impossible, well, we will just have to see."

"I can get us there by plane." Hazuki smiled, showing off a fang and trying to use Jagan on .

"Won't work on me, no need to try, I am to powerful to be controlled like that." Ranma-chan smiled. Wrapping a few of her tails around the vampire. "Now first we have to get some hot water, the people in this town haven't seen me like this yet. No need to set them off and delay our departure."

Hazuki nodded. "You don't need money when you have me."

"Well let's no try to abuse your power to much, the next airport is Hamburg am Main, or so I heard." Ranma-chan responded and jumped with girl wrapped tightly into her tail into the air. To Hazuki flying like this was great, however when Ranma-chan sped up she buried her face in the kitsune's shoulder. The air current was stinging in her eyes.

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Ranma-chan landed two hours later. She was in front of a house, a small garden and a little pool, it looked rather cosy.

Hazuki stared when the kitsune stepped to the door and rang the doorbell. Minutes later when she already wanted to rant the door opened.

"Ah, the cursed one with the messed up mind." An elderly voice said.

"That's me, I found someone and we need to stay the day over, she can't handle light all to well."

Hazuki froze. He was simply telling that man what she was, this was bad.

"It's a pity I'm so old and not working any more in the research, teaching the young ones that such things exist, they always called me a dreamer." The man smiled and waved them inside.

Hazuki was stunned. "You mean you have been here already?"

"Yep, I show them my curse, the more exotic martial arts like the Ki blasts and you really wonder how interested the scientists in Europe are. They taught me English, for a so called beast the kitsune sure learns pretty quickly once you find out how to teach her. I think some of the papers on that are being used to create the some new learning techniques or something like that. They managed to teach me English in a two months session. I have the basic active vocab of 6000 or so. Whatever that is, I think it was what you can use when speaking or something ... I think I zoned out at the end of that literature. Well, they tested my male side, I think my harsh training and the results fascinated them, and the meteorologists had a field day with me making it snow in the middle of summer." Ranma-chan smiled at these memories. "There are even several case studies on the psychological damage I have, the mixture of learned stuff, the Neko-ken and my normal mind ended up on his desk and we made contact when I journeyed here. Actually I think he told me of a legendary castle haunted by ghosts and unapproachable."

Hazuki stared as she followed inside. So this man was the cause of her freeing.

"Is this room good? The curtains are heavy and you should be able to sleep fine, I have another one in the basement but it's a bit dusty."

"Leave the dust to me if you want, I finally have the wind control down, I think."

A rough laugh was their response. "So entertain this old man."

Actually Hazuki found herself very impressed by the controlled wind tunnel that charged through the basement, up the stairs, through the hall and out of the door and on the street. It was a rather controlled vortex that never touched the walls.

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"Evenin'" Hazuki greeted. She saw Ranma and the old man sit by a table and play chess. Old man was winning. "So ready to go?" She asked.

"Foods on the table, I heard the stuff in planes tastes crappy." Ranma responded.

"Checkmate."

"Not again!" Ranma whined.

Hazuki snickered. "So you are not all powerful?"

"There is always someone better, stronger, more powerful, or just plain lucky that will get you." Their host told her. "I can beat him in mind games, but he could snap my spine without even trying."

Hazuki nodded, she absently used Jagan on Ranma, trying to control him.

"You know your eyes are glowing." Ranma told the vampire.

"Jagan or evil eye, it's said to control the mind. Only those of strong heart are supposed to be able to ignore it." The old man said.

"All my tests said that I'm rather open to suggestion and such." Ranma responded.

"Your mind might be open but it is very strong, convincing you with words is easy, but I think that so called Neko-ken mixed with the new instincts from the other body bleed into this form and make it safe. You act less like a fox and more like a kitten at times."

"Hey."

"I think the sunny spot on my porch proved it."

Hazuki had to ask. "Sunny spot?"

"He fell asleep in the sun on porch purring like a kitten." The Professor emeritus laughed.

Hazuki fell over laughing. Ranma was blushing.

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"Two tickets to Japan - Tokyo, night flight, arrival before daylight." Hazuki ordered, using the Jagan.

"Business class." Ranma added, at Hazuki's look he responded. "If we use it we might just as well enjoy it, it's wrong first place so don't worry about it."

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"So this is Tokyo?" Hazuki said as they were soaring through the air.

"Yep, smelly big, loud, millions of people, makes me want to freeze it and enjoy the peace and quiet." Ranma-chan responded, she had transformed once they left the plane in order to avoid to much work with the controls. Now Hazuki was holding a map and trying to get them to Nerima.

"I think more to your left." Hazuki said, sitting on Ranma-chan's stomach as Ranma-chan flew looking at the sky instead of the ground. "Up, there is a skyscraper up ahead."

"You offered directing me, but you could do it in a nicer way."

"Shut up, without me you would crashed into that tower."

"And wrecked it."

"Yes, your hard head is so indestructible since there is nothing inside that can get damaged." Hazuki responded.

"Hey, it's not I'm worried about. I know I'd survive the fall, you however." Ranma-chan made as if she wanted to turn around.

"Don't you dare!" Hazuki screamed latching onto her.

"Hey, those are sensitive."

Hazuki turned beat red. "It was an accident."

"So was you kissing my throat in the plane?"

"I wanted to kiss you, not that kind of kiss!" Hazuki screeched.

Ranma-chan waved it off. "Sure, sure, heard it all before."

"Okay, go down, it should be Nerima now." Hazuki told him.

"Let's get me changed." the fox said suddenly dropping like a stone.

"Aaaahhhhhh" went Hazuki.

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"Never ever do that again."

"It was fun."

"You call something like dropping from the hight of a sky scraper fun?"

"Yes, you only life once."

"I am to young to die."

"Don't worry, you are alive after all."

"Once I find my mom I'll leave you and never look back."

"I'm hurt, at least you have a mother, or you can remember her. All I have is a good for nothing Panda and a hole where everything from before 10 years, stupid Neko-ken." Ranma answered.

"He didn't lock you away in a castle." The vampire was feeling ignored.

"He dragged me through stuff that's considered child abuse? I showed you my medical history."

Hazuki remembered that one. Ranma's father was no vampire, he sounded more like a demon. "Well you are healing now."

"Only seven more months or so to go and it would be like I had never broken anything and all scars will be gone." Ranma smiled, he actually sounded happy.

"So will you be my servant and help me?"

"No."

Hazuki looked down.

"I won't be your servant, but I would love to help you. Friends?" Ranma offered.

Hazuki was actually baffled when she heard the slightly pleading tone in his voice.

"You ever had one?"

"I thought I did, the psychiatrists told me what it's supposed to be like. I'm rude, unmannered and a jerk with no manners." Ranma looked at the night sky. "Damn, I'm proud of myself. I actually managed to admit that aloud."

Hazuki laughed. "Only you could be proud of something like this."

"Yep, worked hard for it."

"Showed off your foxy body I bet."

"Hey, it was hard work, I froze the whole lab the first time."

"They were probably ecstatic."

"Yes they were, I proved them that some of their instruments don't work in the conditions they were supposed to." Ranma admitted.

"Morning is coming." Hazuki pointed.

"We are here anyway, I can feel someone up."

"Feel?"

"I learned that from my Kitsune side. There are seven people in here. Only two are awake, one is downstairs. Great the panda is here."

"Let me handle the talking."

"No Jagan if you can help it!" Ranma ordered.

They knocked and a young woman with brown hair and a serene smile opened the door. "Hello, may I help you?"

"May we come in, my companion needs to speak with Genma Saotome." Hazuki said.

"Oh my, may I offer you some tea? I'm afraid that he was drinking long with father last night."

"No worries, I just need a dark spot for Hazuki to sleep, she can't handle sun." Ranma cut in after a look back at the horizon.

"Is it a curse?" Kasumi asked wondering what it would be this time.

"No it isn't, however I am cursed. She's a vampire."

Hazuki felt ready to rip Ranma's throat out.

"I think my room should be suitable, please enter, the sun is coming out."

"Thank you." the two responded.

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"Sorry, I'm Ranma's, unfortunately the panda is my father." Ranma looked really depressed by this. It was bad enough to cause Hazuki to hug him.

Kasumi stared at her might be fiancé. "What do you transform into?"

"Let's get Hazuki to bed first." Ranma smiled.

"Oh, sorry, my name is Kasumi." she responded.

"No harm done, we were in a hurry after all." Ranma reassured the girl.

Kasumi and Ranma left Hazuki in the older girls room and went down the stairs. The ignored the mostly naked girl coming out of the bathroom.

"I turn into a Kyuubi no Arctic Kitsune." Ranma responded and adjusted his pants for the transformation. Then he used a glass of cold water and there she stood. Nine tails floating behind her, at the moment mostly white fur. She was short and had fur all over her body. Kasumi counted four furry stripes on her cheek and saw the bluish, white tipped, fox ears stand proudly. The hands had some fur an the back and longer nails that looked very sharp. With some slight jealousy she saw that the chest was rather big. It made the vixen look both, sexy and cute at the same time. There was a sensual air around her.

"Oh my, you look pretty." Kasumi told the girl.

Ranma-chan bowed. "Thank you."

"Youma no kill too too nice house girl." came a voice in rather weird Japanese.

Ranma-chan jumped up and landed on a weapon. Further inspection told her that she was on one of two bonbori, the girl was the Amazon that had attacked the panda. "Yo, are you here with the panda?" She just hoped that this wasn't her stepmother. "You didn't marry the panda." Somehow seeing the girl pale and shake in revulsion was soothing on her nerves. "Look I want to help Kasumi, we can spar later."

"Shampoo kill demon." The girl, obviously Shampoo, responded.

"Shampoo, please don't attack our guests." Kasumi told the buxom Amazon.

Ranma-chan watched the girl deflate. "Hai, servant girl."

"Servant girl?" Ranma-chan inspected Kasumi, and sniffed.

Kasumi smelled clean, but mostly of the house, her scent was all over the house too, it was as if it was a part of her, or was she a part of it. "You are doing everything in here?"

"Yes." The smile was pleasant.

Ranma-chan shook her head. "I heard that using people is wrong. I think it was one of the psychiatrists I met."

"Are you alright, Ranma-kun?"

He gave her a a smile. "No, have never been for as far as I can remember. All thanks to that no good for nothing panda. I guess I'm here to break ties, unless he has a good reason why I should listen to him."

Kasumi decided that telling about the engagement would make Ranma leave, he looked very different from the boy Genma had been telling them. "May I touch your tails?"

A spike of interest rose behind Ranma-chan. "Shampoo, if you can cast your outsider laws aside you may touch too. However this is not your village and as such I won't recognize them, I defeated nobody at the village and I will do everything necessary to keep my freedom. I am too powerful to be bound to someone and endanger others." A wave of her hand had Ranma-chan form a ball of ice in her hand, than it shifted and formed a sword, it easily sliced the top off an empty sake bottle off. Kasumi ran her hands through the tails, causing Ranma-chan to purr softly. After a moment of hesitation Shampoo dropped her weapons and did the same. The fur felt silky and soft. Ranma-chan practically melted when Kasumi rubbed her under the chin. "The ears are off limits." She said, causing the other girls to pout.

"Well let me change back and I'll help with breakfast." Ranma-chan offered.

"Shampoo help too."

"You don't need to change back." Kasumi offered.

A wet Ranma shook his head. "I want to speak to pops first before I introduce myself. What happened at the village anyway after I left?"

"After demon leave hunters follow but no find. We want to kill panda when lost boy appear, lost boy defeat me, me have to marry him but no find him. Hear that lost boy is friend of you and from Japan. Go to Japan meet lost boy. Always faint when try to enjoy marriage. Shampoo ordered to kill demon or catch for tribe." the girl ended.

"Lost boy, why does that feel familiar?" Ranma asked as he tasted the miso.

"His name is Ryoga, he has a bag sense of direction, he needed half an hour to get out of the bathroom." Kasumi supplied.

Ranma yawned. "Well, maybe it'll come to me later, my mind is all messed up thanks to the panda, mind if I sleep by Hazuki? I can feel the jet-lag. I was in Germany some 16 or so hours ago."

"Is that proper?" Kasumi asked.

Shampoo looked puzzled. "Vixen have daughter?"

"Sort of I guess, if it calms you, I'll do it in the other shape."

Kasumi was blushing. "May I ..."

Ranma just sighed. "Yes, just keep it a secret."

Shampoo looked puzzled.

"I need to talk to the panda first, night, morning, whatever."

Akane blinked as she came down the stairs, a young boy greeted her and then trudged up the way she came down. This was weird. She decided not to dwell on it, ever since Genma came with that girl and later with that boy things were weird. The last four months were not good. Ryoga had walked in on her several times. Shampoo was a cheater and wasn't treating her seriously. She growled. "Who was that?" Than there was the fact that one of them was supposed to be engaged to the stupid panda's son.

"A new guest, I'll introduce him once you are back. Try not to be late."

"I'm meeting Yuka and Sayuri after school." Akane defended.

"Well than be in time for dinner please." Kasumi said.

Nabiki slowly trudged down the stair, the hairbrush still entangled in the messy mop of short brown hair, the page boy cut was not recognizable yet.

"What is it?" Nabiki slurred.

Shampoo sighed and untangled the offending object from the girls hair.

All in all the last typical morning in the Tendou household for a rather long time.

Nerima prepare, Hazuki and Ranma are here.

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Kasumi entered the room and smiled at the cosy sight in front of her. Ranma-chan was lying on the end of the bed curled up. The tails all over the bed and two being held by the little vampire. Kasumi wondered if it only looked as if she was chewing on one of them. Kasumi slipped out of her clothes silently and into bed. Snuggling into the tails she let a serene smile cross her lips, one that reached her eyes and fell asleep.

Ranma-chan woke due to some racket. She had trouble freeing her tails from the strong grips of the two girls, unfortunately she woke Kasumi. "Oh my, time to start lunch."

Ranma-chan sighed. "Mind if I take a bath, I still have one last clean change, might as well use it now."

"Feel free, the furo should be full."

He left the room and ran into Shampoo, who looked annoyed. "What happened?"

"Lost boy got lost." She answered.

Ranma shook his head. "I still can't remember where I met him. I'm off to take a bath."

"Shampoo join."

"Nani?"

"Shampoo no take bath yet, you female half-time, so no worry. You come to village? Yes?"

"Nope, ain't going, I froze a whole valley and than some, it's too much. One of the historians I met told me, with power comes responsibility. I'm too dangerous to be part of a warrior tribe, you have enemies and such. I could end all your problems, it's not fair to the others." Ranma ranted. "I and I don't like your laws, once I'm an Amazon they'd apply to me too?"

"Yes, laws are for all Amazons." Shampoo said as they entered the dressing room.

"That's why I will never be an Amazon. Even if it means dying or killing. Because I know that I'd be forced to kill." Ranma started stripping, he never had the chance to really develop modesty, and at one sleepover he had been forced to bath with them anyway.

Shampoo shuddered. If it was Ranma that froze Jusenkyo that the Elders had seriously under-estiminated the situation.

"Shampoo have to report." Shampoo eyed Ranma, she wished she would have been defeated by him, however it was to late now, maybe she could make him beat Ryoga?

"I don't care, however I promise on my life that I won't belong to the Amazons or anyone like that."

Shampoo nodded to herself. That actually meant that the legendary Phoenix and the Musk would be in the same condition. Only someone normal would be able to get him, she was supposed to be on the lookout for the demon and kill her or get her. But somehow what he had said before was making her worried. "Shampoo think this good promise." She showed her body off to him when she caught him looking.

"Actually someone told me not to get into others messes, I have enough of my own." Ranma said blushing and fighting his body's reaction. "Something about letting them fight their own battles and not helping unless the line between good and evil is clear. Something actually a lot like the martial artists code. Help those weaker than you." He used cold water on himself and sat down.

"Shampoo agree, help sisters that are weaker."

"I meant those that can't defend themselves, that need help." Ranma corrected and decided that all that fur would need too much time and too much soap.

Shampoo enjoyed male Ranma washing himself. "Shampoo wash back."

"Thanks."

Oh yes it was worth it, especially when he returned the favour.

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Genma trudged downstairs, hung over and mumbling about ungrateful sons behaving like girls.

A very hard kick sent him out of the open living room into the koi-pond. A rather surprised panda rose from the water.

"You finally got up you no good for nothing panda." A male voice told him.

[You are finally back boy] The panda waved a sign.

"And leaving for good once I paid you back for a few things. I met some very interesting people out there you know." Ranma nodded. "They explained a few things to me and told me all I needed to know about child abuse and honour."

[You will do the honourable thing] flip [and marry a Tendou, boy]

Ranma started to glow and and jumped the panda, shattering the sign. "What was that about marriage?"

[There is a marriage] flip [agreement with the] flip [Tendou's]

Ranma stared and then stared some more, he looked at Kasumi who flinched but nodded. Without looking he slammed his fist into the panda. "Explain and I'll kill you fast."

The panda sweated and accepted a kettle. "You see even before your birth it was agreed by our Soun and me to join the schools."

"So it's to join the schools." Ranma wanted to clarify.

Genma nodded. "So marry one of the girls and the schools will be joined."

"Not gonna happen, the know nothing about me and I know nothing about them." Ranma shook his head and found himself flying into the pond head first. "What did you do that for?" A blue white glowing figure emerged from the pond that froze over. "DIE!" A huge snowball hit the man and ripped the clothes to pieces. Genma found himself lifted from the ground by a a hand around his throat. "I'm not taking your shit any more old man, if you want to survive I want you to act like a human not like some mindless beast."

Genma was familiar with the feeling of cold burns, that was exactly what he felt where his daughter held him. Those lashing tails were throwing winds around. "Let's be reasonable ..." He choked out.

"Only if you are." Was his reaply as he dropped to the ground. All but the head was encased in ice. "Now you expect me to marry some girl I never met and force her to live with someone that turns into a girl half time, a girl that's no even human?" The way Ranma-chan growled at him made him almost loose control over the bodily functions. "I know off several other engagements, the people at the Japanese embassy, I think it was in Finland, were really helpful. I know of two registered engagements. One Hayate Yagami and one Nanoha Takamichi. Both currently two years old."

Silence except for the winds.

"Oh my."

"Genma is this true." Something huge and dangerous looking stared at the frozen martial artist. "Did you really engage your son to other girls?"

Genma screamed like a little girl. "I never intended to hold them."

The head faded away. "I knew you wouldn't betray our promise." A man with a beard and black hair exclaimed.

Ranma no Kyuubi-chan blinked. These two wanted to ignore an official contract ... were they completely out of their mind? Her father had said that he had never intended to hold them ... maybe there were more. Suddenly all those nice people made more sense. He had been engaged many times for whatever. One of those nice Japanese Professors had explained him what honour meant. Since he wasn't able to uphold both engagements he would have had to commit sepuku, or go ronin.

Genma became worried when the girl left him frozen where every other bit of snow and ice in the garden started to evaporate. He was still frozen in a block of ice.

"Well I have to stay at least ill dinner. Kasumi-san I thank you for your hospitality, if you would please take care of us for a few days I would be really grateful." Ranma no Kyuubi bowed to the oldest girl.

Kasumi for her part looked around, the grass was growing back at incredible speeds, well the koi were dead but she couldn't blame Ranma. "I apologize for not telling you."

Ranma-chan waved it off. "Don't worry, it's not your fault anyway, I would have stayed all the same. You have some hot water? Oh, thanks Shampoo."

The Amazon had handed him a kettle, after witnessing the power she seriously doubted the intelligence of trying to get Ranma for the tribe, or trying to kill him. They would only have one chance for this.

"Who is this?" A short haired girl asked.

"Don't molest my sister you pervert." A longer haired girl screamed.

Ranma dodged a mallet and stepped down on it. "I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry about my father."

"I'm Nabiki, is that him frozen in ice out there?" The girl with the page boy cut introduced herself.

Ranma nodded absently, straining a little to force the mallet to stay underneath his foot. "He had it coming that moron."

Nabiki nodded and seemed to rte him like a piece of meat. Probably he was something like that for her.

"Don't try to seduce my sisters!" The youngest girl screamed, and tried to hit him.

Ranma was dodging around blows, dancing all over the living room.

Shampoo solved the situation as she hit Akane over the head. "Violent girl no think before act. Ranma have to forgive violent girl for not having control of herself."

"Daughters the time has come, we will wait for Akane to wake up and then I have an announcement to make." The man was clearly happy.

Ranma just shook his head.

Second Kiss - Legends in Nerima