DISCLAIMER:  I do not own any of these characters.  They all belong to
Rumiko Takahasi.  All I want is for you to have as much fun reading this
as I had writing it.

   Time notes:  This series of stories does the old alternate time line
thing that Marvel comics and Star trek seem to love so much.  This
series assumes that Ranma's mother knows about his condidtion, it also
assumes that up to this point Ranma and Akane have never actually said
the wrods I LOVE YOU , even with a  YOU IDIOT on the end.  Their
feelings for each other are still undeclared and unsure on both sides. 

  BEHIND BLUE EYES:   A ranma 1/2 Fan fic by Makato

  I awoke to the sounds of plates being set on the table.  The aroma of
Kasumi's cooking gives me new life.  I and pop have slept through the
morning, so there won't be any sparring today.
  Cool with me, not that I couldn't kick his butt, but I just want to
eat.  I slip downstairs.  Kasumi is finishing setting the table. 
  "Good morning Ranma." she says.  Suddenly she looks concerned.  "How'd
you sleep last night?"  I really don't know why everyone thinks Kasumi
is on constant happy gas.  She often sees when I'm feeling like crap.
  "Uh...not well.  I ..I had a bad dream again."
 Understatement city man.  For the past week I'd been dreaming that I
was stuck as a girl and married to Kuno!!! Uggh I could hurl.  Kasumi
puts down the plates and walks over to me.  She wipes her hands on her
apron and then she hugs me.  I really like Kasumi, she's the only one
here who has ever been nice to me. Akane wasn't bad that frist day,
until she found out I was a boy.
  "You know you can tell me, when you are ready." she says.  Her hair
smells of flowers and for a moment I have a mother. I hug her back and
try to keep my voice even as I say "Thank you.  For everything Kasumi."
"I just want you to be happy Ranma." she says as she lets me go.  I
believe her, everyone else want's something out of me.  " I hope you
trust me with it soon."
  Trust you with what Kasumi?  That evey day I get up I'm scared
spitless that I'm going to be a gril for the rest of my life?  That I'm
not sure what ' happy ' feels like?  That some times I cry myself to
sleep in the attic of the dojo so dad won't beat me for not being a man?
  The rest of the gang comes down for breakfest.  Nabiki looks at me
wierd, "You okay today Ranma?" she askes.  She must have seen Kasumi
hugging me.
  "I'm fine.  Really."
  "Mmmmm.  Right."  she sits down and Akane is right behind her.  She
sits down without saying good morning.  One more little slight to start
the day.  Well I won't take the bait.
  "Hello Akane."
  She's silent.
  Arrghhh. Uncute, Unsexy, flat as a board Tomboy!!!  Why they'd have to
engage me to girl that's a border line...you know...
  I sit down and Pop gets beside me.  The rest of breakfast goes as
usual, except that I notice that Nabiki keeps looking at me.  But It's
not the usual cat like look.
  I don't know what it is. 

  The walk to school is wierd.  For one thing Nabiki is behind Akane and
I.  She's about eight feet back.  Close enough to hear, not close enough
to interfere.  Gossipping distance.
  We managed to avoid water, what is with that old woman any way?  But
we walked right into a fight.
  "I heard someone say they saw you and Ukkyo talking in the library
yesterday." Akane says.
  "Yeah, so?"
  "What did you talk about?" she asks.
  I can see where this one  is going.  I don't get it, she says she
doesn't care yet she gets jealous of someone whose only a freind.  I
wish Akane and Ukkyo would understand that I don't love her THAT way.
  "Stuff." i reply.
  "Oh.  Then why'd she kiss you?"
  Yep!  It wasn't my idea but Ukkyo snuck it in.
What Akane is leaving out of course is the ten mintues Ukkyo and I spent
argueing afterward when i compared her to Mikado.  Urrghhh. Uncute
jealous tomboy.
  "She was trying to be cute and get me to go out with her again.  I
said no.  Most adamantly no."
  "Mmmm.  That must have made you feel like a man huh?" Akane asks.
  I stop walking.  I hear Nabiki say "Uh-oh."
  "Do you like doing this to me Akane?"
  "Doing what Ranma?  Talking to you Ranma, I should be able to talk to
you.  You are my finacee. " she draws a breath, then she shouts, "SO I
THINK I HAVE TO BE A LITTLE UPSET WHEN A GIRL KISSES YOU!!!"
  Oh I'm really ready to blow on her.  I'd love too I really would, but
then I hear Kuno.  And Akane's face gets wierd. 
  "Thanks for hearing my side of it Akane!" I reply.
  "Your side of it.  Now peapole around school will be talking about it
and I'll have to deal with it!" she complains as she takes a swing at
me.
I dodge with ease and land by Nabiki.
  "maybe now isn't the best time to be fighting with her Ranma.  Poetic
swordsman alert!"
  Nabiki says.
 
  "Ah.  The Aspirations of all things heavenly are made flesh incarnate
here. In the presence of Akane Tendo." kuno says as he steps closer.
"And the dreams of hell made apparent in the presence of the foul
villian Saotome."
  "Good morning to you too Blue Thunder." I begin.  He bows.  Suddenly
I'm drenched.
  "What'd you do that for?" I scream at Akane.
She smiles.  She suddenly looks a lot like Nabiki.  I'm in trouble.
  "Kuno.  The big tailed girl told me that she like a kiss from the
mighty blue thunger of furinken high." Akane says, " I cannot deny her
the chance to partake of such manly lips.  You have my permission to
kiss her."
  Oh Akane...do you really hate me THAT much.  Mikado was bad enough,
now you'll throw me to Kuno!!! 
  " My ears!  O blessed day to be alive!  Come to me my love that i
might hold you in my arms..."
  Phoenix eye fist to the throat.
  "Akane that was uncalled for...urk!"
  I MISSED him?  Oh god oh god oh god not again... He's got me in a bear
hug.  I kidney punch him both he stays attached and we both go down and
his lips...
  "AAGHHH  GET YOUR MOUTH OFF OF THERE !!!"
  Oh god he's on top of me...he's too heavy I can't get him off of me!!!
Relax relasx, force yourself to think instead of feel.  When you're a
girl your emotions are stronger.  Fear....can be a good thing..
yeah...Adreline!  Okay, if I can just...that's IT!  I palm heel slam the
kendo captian into the sky.
  He's muttering something poetic but I can't make it out.  I've got the
shakes.  The thought of having to kiss.....HIM...I throw up.  Oh great.
Now the whole school sees how girly i am.
  Some of them are laughing at me.  do you really hate me this much
Akane?

  I'm late for the frist class.  Big surprise.  I'm sent out into the
hall.  Act shocked.  Hiroshi and Daisuke have gotten into the habit of
bringing extra notebooks to take down what I miss.  daisuke even brought
a tape recorder.
  It's a nice hall really.  I've seen it often enough.
Holding buckets of water.  You'd think they'd come up with something
more orginal wouldn't you. 
  Why'd she have to do that in front of everyone? I'd rather she'd hit
me.  I won't cry.  I'm a guy I won't cry.

 Lunch.  If you could call it that.  I still think it's rations left
over from world war 2.  Hiroshi and Daisuke are talking to Akane.
Probably trying to get her to talk to me.  Fat chance. 
  "Can I join you?" someone asks.  It's that new girl with the green
eyes.  The one that says she can see the future.  Miyo or something.
  "Sure.  I'm not exactly in high demand right now."  I say.
  She sits and I see Akane's head turn...oh man on man why ME!  Akane
says something to Hiroshi and Daisuke.  They run.
  "Something wrong?" she asks.
  "Girl trouble." I reply.
  "More than you know." she says.
  Uh-uhh.  No way am I letting this freaky witch work her mojo on me.
Everyone else may think she has major insight but I still remember that
cure Akane made of hers that I had to drink.
  "I am concerned for you Ranma." she says.
  "Why's that?"
  "I did a reading for you this morning and I found threesets of Lovers
cards in your spread."
  "Sorry, I don't follow." I reply.
  "There is only supposed to be one Lover card in a deck."
  "So your cards got mixed up."
  "I only own one deck of tarot cards."
  "Oh....still don't follow."
  She smiles.  "You are about to have a massive upheavel in your life."
  "Happens every week lady.  THINK about who you're talking about here.
What's it this time?  yet another homicidal finacee?"  gods I could cry.
  "I have come to help you rid yourself of your self deceptions."
  Self deceptions?  Man who does this chick think she is?
  "You are pregnant with new ideas and hopes, if you are not ready to
grow the labour pains could kill you." she says.
  Parts of the table splinter in my hands. 
  "I AM NOT A GIRL.  STOP TALKING AS IF I WHERE ONE!"
  Eveyone looks.  I don't give a care.
  She just keeps smiling and replies "You are a girl Ranma."
  " take    that    back "  I say in a quiet, dangerous voice.  Forget
this chick being a girl, if she says I'm a girl one more time I'll slap
her.
  Woah...major identity crisis in that last thought somewhere.  My
head's starting to hurt.
  "No.  It's the truth.  If you are not willing to accept the truth you
won't survive this chance to grow.  Here."  she hands me a copper
bracelet.  It's in the shape of a coiled dragon.  It's slima nd light
and very preatty.  I could wear this as ...
   Oh man what am I thinking!?
  She puts one more thing on the table.  A tarot card.  "here's my
number and address if you ever want to talk.  Drop by or call anytime,
I'll be expecting you."  She leaves, her green eyes seem amused.  The
card is the Fool.
   Yep, that's me alright.

   P.E. Class.  BOREING!!! Man I can run rings around any of these
hosers.  The game today is baseball.  The class spilts up into two
teams.  No one's real happy about having me on a team.  Seems some of
the guys are still scared they might turn into a girl if they touch me.
Great.  I get to play left field.  I sit down in the grass every inning.
I watch as most of the pitches go short.  The guy playing short stop is
good so theirs nothing for anyone else to do unless they are the frist
base man.
  Then Osana steps up to the plate.  With a loud Twhackp the ball goes
flying toward me.  It has no arc, it's just going in a line.  Itll pass
about ten feet above my head. 
   Piece of cake.
   I leap and snag the ball.  Osana's rounding second when he see's me
in the air with his ball.  He's pissed.  Big deal, I can take him.
  "Saotome!  you have shamed the Kendo club for the last time."
  "I don't know Osana.  If you swing a shinai as well as you dream up
insults I can probalby shame you all year." 
  Eat that you blue-thunder wanna be.
"Prepare yourself for punishment." He says as he stomps off. 
  "I am Soooooo scared." i taunt.

  I think I like baseball.  It's not too bad.  Bit lathargic, but we are
talking about an american game here.  Ah.  The showers.  It was a bot
day to day and I really need a soak.  Get these clothes off and...
    AGGHH  That's cold. " What did you do that for?" I ask.  My voice is
too high.  Great.  I'm a girl.  I grab for my clothes and someone
snatches them away.  I'm a girl in a boys locker room.  I'm a naked girl
in a boy's locker room.
  I gotta get out of here, run somewhere...
  But a cicrle of the kendo club is surroundding me.  I can feel the
cold lockers up against my back.
  "what's the big idea?" i ask.
  "Why Saotome.  This is your punishment." Osana purrs.
  Punishment.  Naked girl, ten to tweleve losers who can't get dates and
the rumors I've heard about the kendo club egual

     Very very bad.  I gotta get out of here.
The ceiling is too low.  If I leap i'll hit one and he can grab me.
 
  "Nice tits Saotome." one says.
  "Nice legs too."
gotta get out gotta get out gotta get out gotta get out....
  "Would you go out with me tonight honey?" one asks.
  "give us a little kiss!" one says as he comes foreward.  I punch him.
  I slap him.
 What?  I remember telling my arm to hit him with a jab not a girly
slap!  He pinches my hip.
  "GET OFF OF ME!" I knee him and throw him into the others.. This is
bad, I'm so scared I'm starting to make mad judgements...
  gotta get out of here gotta get out of here
"Pose for us Ranma!"
"Show us how preatty you are."
  I try to cover myself but I'm too big.
"Please...just give me my clothes back or I'll..."
"Do what girly-girl?" Osana asks, "You can't fight us all like that.
We'll get you."
 No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
"IT was just a baseball game man, there's no reason for this...I can't
believe they're gonna do THIS over a baseball game.
 "Look, just give me my clothes back."
 "Give us a kiss frist." Osana says.
 "No way!" I scream
 "You want to come to the movies with me red?" another asks.
I sink to the floor, the locker on my back.
 "Stop it!" I cry out.
 "Come on honey, just a quickie?"
 "  stop    it    please...."
 "you really must be a girl Saotome.  A man would have fought back.  A
man would have died fighting rather than suffer humiliation.  Maybe you
should just do eveyone a favor and put on a dress.  Stop pretending
you're a guy."
Osana says as the pack of them leave.
  I'm rocking back and forth on the floor of the locker room. 
  "get some lingerie" one yells as they leave.  I should attack them now
that their backs are turned.  I should do something. I should be a man!
instead I gather my clothes and go cry in the tool shed.  Crying like a
girl.

  Some one opens the door and looks down at me.  I'm still a mess. 
  "Ranma?" a familer voice asks.  Nabiki?
  "Hey. what happened to you?" she asks as she kneels.
  "What's it to you, other than money?"
  She swallows.  Was that guilt I just saw?
  "Did it ever occur to you that since you are family I might want to
help you?" she asks.
  "Me and Akane aren't married yet." I point out.
  "You just can't let me do something nice for you can you, fine sit
here and cry!!"
 She slams the door.
   why do I have the feeling I missed something.

  I'm late for my next class, big surprise.
  They've left the door open though so I can hear.
  "Welcome to Biology class.  Today we are going to talk about genes and
dominance.
  For those of you who haven't read your textbooks..."
  I kept meaning to get around to it, but the old freak at home
(happosai) kept pinching me.
  "All living vertabretes are inheirtly female."
 What?  What was that?
  "A certian chemical at the right time changes their sex.  Giving an x
and y chromosome to the new egg.  So all males are half female in a
way."
  Okay teach, this is the frist thing you've said all year that I can
relate too, what else have you got to say?
  "Dominance.  All traits that make you look the way you do are in each
of your D.N.A. codes.  Each of you has ressive traits that never come to
the surface.  This is because dominant traits over power them and make
themselves seen in the phenotype, that's  "looks"  for all the kendo
clubers.  For instance.  Eye color.  Brown eyes are dominant over blue
eyes.  This is why almost the entire population of japan has drwon eyes
and black hair."
 
  My mind cracks.  The implications of what the teach just said have
sunk in.

 "If even just one of the parents has teh dominant trait then the
children will have the dominant traits."

  Pop has brown eyes...He's not my pop...
I run as fast as I can for home.

  The old bear is sleeping in the sun.  I grab a tea kettle and dowse
him.

 "BOY...you got some...uh-oh."
 "You lied to me!"
 "About what?  There have been so many unfortunate misunderstandings..."
he pleads.
  "Can it Genma.  Who's child am I?"
  "You're my son..."
  "really, how many nice little japanese boys do you know with BLUE eyes
old man!?"
  he stops.  his jaw works but now sounds come out.  He didn't know.
All that time I let him take away from me becuase I thought he was my
pop.  I could kill him if he knew...lucky stiff.

  I run to Mom's next.  I blow by her butler and walk straight into her
reading room.
  "Mother!  Why did you lie to  me!"
  "Ranma?"
  I point to my eyes.."You have some explaining to do please, ...mom."
 
  she began after i was seated.
 "it was shortly after we were married that your fath...that Genma went
on a training mission with Soun.  They  were gone for many weeks at a
time.  Right after they left there was an earthqauke.  I was trapped
under the rubble with a pair of americans...

  That explains baseball, I think bitterly.

"we were there for almost a day in the half dark.  Unsure if anyone
would hear or screams.  They spoke some japanese, but not enough for a
in depth conversation.  Her husband went frist.  He'd blocked most of
the rubble for you...

  I couldn't picture Genma doing that, he'd probably use me as a shovel
or eat me for food.
 "She went next.  She asked me to raise you.  They had no family in the
States.  I accepted.  We were found a day later.  Since you had some
oriental features I took you to the hospital and passed you off as a
Ainu baby orphaned in the rubble.  You became my son."

 "Did they ever tell you my name?  My real name?" I ask.
  "They hadn't chosen one yet.  They were having an arguement about it
when the earthquake hit.  Ranma...are you mad with me for holding this
back for so long."
   " A little."  I sigh,  "I guess I'll get over it mom."
  "Mom?"
  "Well calling you by your name just seems wrong.  I guess you really
are my mother, even if you're not around that much.."
  The second I said it I knew I'd blown it.  Why do I do that?  She ran
into another room to cry.

  I wandered back to the school.  I slumped by the doors to the school.
There are some bushes there that can hide you from view when you want
it.  My mind was spinning.  I was wondering what else life could throw
at me to make me feel worse.
  Me and my big mouth....

  "Hey Akane, did you hear what your freak finacee did today?" someone
yells.  A girl.  Why does it always have to be girls?
  "What's he done this time?" Akane asked.
  "He ran out of school today about midday without an explanation."
  Akane's inside the door, she can't see or hear me.
  "Yep, that sounds like my  ' freak ' . " she said.
  Had I been having a better day, i would have heard the exhaustion in
her voice.  But I was MAD.  Madder than hellfire
  "FREAK!!!" I yell as I stand up.
  "R-ranma...hey how long have you been spying there?" Akane asks.
  "Is that what you really think of me Akane? I'd expect that out of
them! " i say as i point to the students, " goodness knows they all say
it enough with their sneers and jibes.  We'll  I can take it from them.
They don't mean a spit!  They aren't family,  But from you...don't you
know how important it is to me what you think of me?!"
  "Ranma?"
  If I'd been calm I'd have heard the note of care.
  "It's not fair!  Why'd they have to engage me to someone who hates
me!!!"  I leap away before she can say anything else.

  IT starts raining.  There isn't going to be any end to the badness of
this day.  I take shelter in an alley.  I spend a lot of time thinking
about what she said.  If only I'd never fallen in the damn spring I
wouldn't have this body.  Then I'd be a man.  Then I wouldn't cry so
much.

  Why'd I come here?  what the heck can cards tell me that I don't
already know?  Life sucks and you deal with it.  So why am I knocking on
the door...
   She opens it.  Her green eyes half slits.
  "Right on time." she says.  Come in before you catch a cold.
  I step inside.  Warm clothes and a kettle of warm water are there.  I
look up confused.
  "At least dry off and change.  I really don't want you to get sick."
Miyo says.
  "Okay.  Could you ...uhm...turn around for a sec."
  "Ranma, are you shy?"
  "Not normally...but I'm a girl right now...and my mind doesn't work
right when I'm a girl."
  "Well.  I see part of the problem." She spins.
  I dry off and change.  It's a dress.  I cringe.  But I don't see much
other choice.  I've wron dresses before, and it doesn't count when i'm
in a my girl form.  IT DOESN'T COUNT

   I end up wrapped up in a blanket.
   just a blanket.
  What can I say, some things still just really wierd me out.

  She leads me to a room in the back of the house.  I can't help but
notice the touch of her hand against the small of my back, and the way
it feels.....I hate being a girl i hate being a girl...
  It's even worse once we sit down.  I can't help but notice how
bueatiful she is.  Great not only am i cursed but when I'm a girl I'm
also a lesbian!!  Looks like Akane was right about me, I am a pervert.
  "I don't think you're a pervert.  There is nothing wrong with
appreciating another's bueaty." she says.
   Okay...major wierd city I did NOT say that out loud.  The room looks
like something from a bad B movie.  How'd she know I was looking anyway?
   "Girls notice." she says.
   Okay, just ask her and get it over with and we can get out of here.
"You said you could help me be happy.  What do  gotta do?"
   "peace of mind is not the same as Happiness Ranma.  I can only guide
you to it, and it will have it's up and downs."
   "It's gotta be better than this." I say.
   "Alright.  Give me your palm."
   I give her my left hand.  Her eyebrows shoot up.
  "Instresting.  The left hand is the difficult path, a most unusal
choice for someone who's japanese.  This society places importance on
comforming, going with the flow.  The right hand path in short.  Left
handers have hard lives, they refuse to do something just becuase fate
says they should.  Sometimes they even break free of fate.  This puts a
major spur up the old witch's butt.  See here."
  She starts tracing the lines of my palm with her finger, I can't help
but feel it tickle. the waves of pleasure flow up my arm.  I'm so
ashamed.
  "There is nothing to be ashamed of Ranma, men have the same type of
feelings, they are just centered in different parts of the body.  This
feels good I take it?"
  "Y-yes...like a long hot bath."
  "Good.  Honesty at last.  Now we can make progress.  Here is what Fate
has done to get back at you." she pointed to my palm.
  "This is your life line.  You'll notice it stops.  This does not mean
you are dead, but to fate you are.  You are one of the few people that
fate hasn't sinked even one of her many hooks into.  To  try and bring
you back under her infulence she has given you a tortureous love life.
But she didn't realize the blessing she gave you.  See here, you have
two extra lines in your palm."
  She was right. 
  "This one is a woman you will love with all your heart.  This one is
the woman you will love with all your soul, and this one is the woman
you must love with all your dreams and mind."
  "Great...more finacees."
  She laughs.  "No.  You know all these women."
  "who are they?"
  "Sorry, I won't tell you, you might miss them out of your innate
stubbornness."
  She was right.
  "One of them however you wake up with every morning."
  "Myself." I answer.
  "Good.  Do you still have that bracelet I gave you?"
  "yes."
  "Put it on." she asks.
  I slap it on my wrist.  She sighs.
  "What?" I ask.
  "It goes around your ankle."
  "oh." I unclasp it and place it around my right ankle.  It's at that
moment I notice how much more feminine it makes me feel.
  "Good.  Most peapole have two halves of their soul.  A dominant half
that matches their sex, and the recessive half that matches their other
sex.  This allows the body to generate ki in accordane to it's physical
needs.
  "But in your body the halves are equal. This is why you generate a lot
more ki, both sides are warring for dominance, and neither one will ever
win."
  "I'm ...i'm going to be a half man forever?"
  "Why not say a half woman?  It's all in how you view a thing Ranma.
Tonight you will dream, the bracelet will let you know you are dreaming.
This way you can act inthe dream instead of beind a slave to it.  You
willknow what you have to do.  That's all I can do."
  I thank her.  Get dressed in my old clothes.
 
  It starts raining again.  I run home via the roof tops.  I come to a
stop on the top of the outer wall of the Tendo property.  I can see them
all eating dinner.  They are all talking and laughing.  Kasumi wrings
her hair ever once in a while.  Big sister's worried about me.  Nice
someone is. Genma is eating like the hog he is. Akane is laughing it up
with her Pa. 
  Nabiki is acting wierd still.  She keeps looking to where I should be
and sighing.  Then she picks at her food. 
  I will never understand women.

  When the lights go out I can see a certian little cute piggy trying to
find the dojo.  He's right in front of it of course.  I pick him up.
  "Don't you dare bite me Ryoga, I'm just going to put you in Akane's
bed.  She's probably worried sick about you."
  Sqeeulll?  ( why?)
  "I don't know,  because one of us deserves to be happy.  And if your
the pig for the job your the pig."
  Sqeulll  Qoink Sqeeeulll? ( what about the engagement, what about the
competetion for Akane?"
  "I don't think I was ever in the same race." i say. 
  For once in my life the little pig is nice to me. 
 
  We sneak into the house.  I'm about three steps from the stairs when
the lights come on.
 "Damn.  Look Kasumi I was saf....Nabiki?"
  She sits there in a pose like a tiger smileing.
  "And where pray tell were you?"
  "I was...uh,...looking for P-chan!  I now Akane would want him back
and all..(ham it up pig boy.) it's just that he keeps running away from
me...." he bites me.  He didn't have to ham it up that much.  I drop him
he goes running for her room. 
  "Do I look like I was born yesterday Ranma? Next thing you'll be
telling me is that you're from some foreign country with yet another
finacee!"
  Please Nabiki, don't ever say that again.
  "Why should I answer you?" I ask
  She gets up and I'm struck by how similar she and Akane are built,
their faces have some of teh same look but are different in small ways i
couldn't begin to count.  She walks over to me and stops about a foot
from me.  Much closer than she usally uses for a talking distance.
  "Listen. I really don't care if you were off paradeing around China.
All I care about is that you hurt my sister.  You ever do something like
that stunt you pulled near the door to the school again and I will
vidoetape you takeing a bah so that the girls at school can see how
unmanly you really are!."  She finished by pokeing me in   the chest.
Then her voice softens and she gets that wierd look again.  Guilt maybe?
  "I was afraid you'd run away." she says.
  "Over an uncute, unsexy, flat chested tomboy?!   No way that's
something a girl would..." I close my eyes at my own words.  Great, it's
not enough everyone else picks on me, now I'm doing it to myself.
"Beside's, when did you ever really care about anyone in this famliy
other than Brother Yen?"
 "How dare you..."
 "How dare you!  You were the one who sold those pictures of me and
Akane to Kuno, you where the  one who charged me MONEY for hot water
when Shampoo was trying to kill me REMEMBER?"
  Her eyes go wide.  Then they close.  I keep going, "In fact, I doubt
there's any room in that withered black prune of a heart for anyone
other than Nabiki Tendo!" tears are rolling down my cheeks again.  Damn
it why do I have to cry so much in this form?

  Nabiki reaches up and wipes my tears.
"Yeah get a good look so you can figure out what makes the freak tick."
I mutter.
  "Your cheeks and eyes are really puffed up.  You've been crying a lot
today haven't you?"
 I don't answer. 
 "Believe me or not, I really just want to help." she says.
  "I...I guess I believe you."
  proof that being a girl makes me dumb.  Trusting NABIKI!!!

  She goes to bed.  I pour some hot water over me and climb into my bed.
I'd forgotten about the warnings of dreams.

  I was underwater, chained down, and female.
The water was cold and I felt the desperation in my viens.  I would not
die this way....wait a second.  My ankle's burning...The bracelet.  I'm
dreaming.  Okay, I'm dreaming.. I don;t have to drown.  I'll just break
free like this.  Hah! and swim to the surface.  I get there my lungs
bursting.   A layer of ice is over the water.  I can't get through it.
Then I see someon falling into the lake.  He falls and falls and the ice
splits with his impact.  I grab him and swim to the shore.
  We are both naked.  Great, I'm going to have another screamer of a
night I can tell.
  I set the heavy guy down...It's me.  in male form.  And the beach has
become a tropical one.  He's not breating.  I start CPR i learned in
school.  He starts to cough out the water.  Whe he's well I can see that
a piece of ice has punctured his side, looks like a stomach wound, a
long painful death I can do nothing for. 
  "Kill me." he asks " the pain is to great."
  "Alright.   No.  hang on." I cry.  I find myself holding myself to me.
"Hold on," I whisper in my ear.  "If you can make it until we wake up
it'll be alright."
  "I'm fadeing away, you don't need me, you are so much more than me..."
I say.
  "Don't you dare talk that way!  I need you Dummy, don't you leave me
in here alone!"
  "What's there to live for?" I ask, my wound makeing me gaso in pain.
  I brush my red hair out of my eyes.  I lean foreward and I kiss I.
 
  Woah.  Major identity crisis here.
I awake.  I feel preatty good.  My lips however sting.  Oh man am I a
sick puppy.  If Akane ever knew about that dream she'd never let me live
it down.  Akane....she's right...I am a freak.

  TO BE CONTINED IN  BBE  Between Sisters.

Manga, Anime, Manga!  Anime!  Manga! Anime!     
   Two ranma fans argueing over which is more of an authority.




Back to the Ranma 1/2 Library Fanfic Archive