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Only Human

By Verse12

Verse12 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com

Disclaimer:

I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shougakukan, Pioneer LDC, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoe Tsukimura, Akira Toriyama) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.

Note: Revised 3/26/06. Grammar and spelling mostly with some minor dialogue changes.

Prologue

Beginnings One

Or

Lives Change

Ifurita slumped against a fence and wept quietly. The sun rose and a golden glow cast it's light on Shininome High School.

'The teachers should be here soon, and then the students, I wonder what they will say', she thought.

A teacher and three students disappeared in the night, she knew from the memories she gained from Makoto that it would not be a well-received event. With her head down, she wondered how much time she had left, even going into a suspended animation state her last wind up was over ten thousand years ago.

'At least Makoto is safe and happy that will have to be enough for me. We met and his love set me free, free of thousands of years of control by various masters. I still can't believe that he could look beyond what I was and see me on the inside.'

She looked up at the sun once more and thought that it would be nice if Makoto could be here with her to see its beauty. A sad smile adorned her face as her pale hair covered her eyes when she looked down.

After a second though her face crinkled up in confusion as the light on her changed as if cut off by something. She glanced up so as to see what had changed, the thought that maybe she should leave the area before anyone showed up for school crossed her mind. As her eyes rose though she had to stop in wonderment her heart froze in her chest, she could not breath for fear of dispelling this thing of beauty before her. For there before her stood her Makoto, as quick as she could in her current state she took off in a stumbling run straight for him. Tears streamed from her eyes as she raced for him and threw herself in his arms and cried her eyes out.

As she cast her gaze up to his smiling face with and the tears that trailed down his cheeks, "I told you I would come for you." Is all he was able to say, before he leaned into her tear streaked face to kiss her and the most powerful feeling she could imagine burst within her chest from the emotions that were almost too strong for her to believe.

After an eternity of bliss with the lights of trans-dimensional transit that still flickered about them from Makoto's trip the kiss ended though much to quick for the both of them. After a time her mind slowly restarted, the only thing she could utter was a mumbled, "Wow."

"What happened? How did you get here?" The combat android woman asked in confusion.

Makoto smiled at her and replied, "well it's something like this."

Five Minutes Ago in El-Hazard:

Nanami Jinnai straightened Makoto's coat and smiled at her childhood friend, she'd loved him for a long time but as time went on and he never faltered in his love for Ifurita she gradually accepted it. She didn't like it mind you but she accepted it unlike Shayla Shayla who never had, but Nanami had come to realize that she wanted Makoto to be happy even if that is not with her.

She smiled up at him; "Now you go get her and bring her back, okay?" she said and kissed him on the cheek.

Makoto looked down at her "You know you could come with me and see your family and stuff."

Nanami looked away and mumbled "I know . . . but now that you have finally mastered the staff we can go back at anytime . . . I just don't want to disturb your reunion with her." She may have accepted his love for Ifurita but she still didn't want to see it.

"All right everyone stand back, I should be back before too long" he smiled at all his friends Mr. Fujisawa and his family, the priestess', the princesses and Aliel "Goodbye." He stated before he waved the power key staff and disappeared in a flash of light.

Meanwhile hidden in some bushes while they watched the proceedings the self-proclaimed ruler of El-Hazard Katsuhito Jinnai seethed in anger. "Why that no good rotten Makoto, he's going to go get Ifurita from Earth, in order to defeat me, I have to do something, but what"

"Gregrang mur grong tang" whispered the Bugrom named Groucho in a gravelly bass tone of voice.

"I know that you fool, and I am keeping quiet, we just have to keep him from returning with her somehow."

His musings were cut short by a quiet buzzing. "Grangg fre" Groucho said as he handed a small Bugrom about the size of a hand to Jinnai.

"What, Oh Diva's on the telebug? Why now of all times, Uh, I guess I better give her the news."

"Yes Diva what is it," he muttered?

"Mr. Jinnai, what is your report on your reconnaissance of Roshtaria," the Bugrom Queen stated regally.

She and Jinnai were both holding a matching set of Bugrom recently breed to duplicate a device Jinnai described from earth. The two bugs take sound and change it to a telepathic signal that is then sent between the two, they are then converted into sound once more.

"Diva it seems that the wretch Mizuhara has gone to get Ifuri..." the rest is cut off as they are blinded by a flash of light.

Everyone thought that this must mean that Makoto had returned. His friends and Jinnai from the bushes looked over to see his arrival only to be rendered unconscious as the light grew and a familiar sensation of flying down a tunnel occurred.

Back on Earth a couple of minutes before.

Ifurita looked on in wonderment as she touched his face "you look older?"

"Well it's been three years for me Ifurita," he replied as he reached out and caressed her cheek with his hand.

He doesn't notice her shock as he continued; "I thought it would be harder to find you after so long. You didn't look so good when you sent us to El-Hazard so long ago."

He used his thumb to wipe away her tears "I've been so worried about you, about how you were doing on Earth," he continued.

Then in confusion he asked her "Why are you still here at the school after so long?"

To his bewilderment Ifurita replied, "Makoto I just sent you to El-Hazard last night?"

"LAST NIGHT!" He exclaimed in shock.

After some time a thoughtful look appeared on his face "I see" he mumbled "some kind of time dilation effect maybe."

Makoto realized that Ifurita was still leaning against him to hold herself up, "Oh jeez Ifurita I'm sorry here turn around let me wind you up I'm sure you need it."

"Thank you Makoto" she replied with a shy smile as she turned around and lifted the tails of her waistcoat out of the way.

Rising the power key staff, Makoto inserted the tip into the socket at the base of her spine. "Just hold on a second Ifurita you'll be all right in a bit" he said while he placed a hand on her shoulder reassuringly.

"Thank you," Ifurita said and put her hand on top of his and gave it a loving squeeze "I love you so much Makoto. You are too good to me," she said while she looked down "I sometimes think that I don't deserve you."

"Ifurita," Makoto began as he came around in front of her and gave her a hug as she cried on his shoulder.

"I don't care about the things you did before, you didn't have a choice and you know it. The important thing is that when you did have a choice you did the right thing."

They looked into each other's eyes and kissed once more "I'll never forget what you've done for me Makoto."

He smiled at her to try to change the mood, "Enough of that Ifurita I love you for who you are . . . Now," he said as he placed his forehead on hers "lets get you wound up and go back too everyone in El-hazard, okay?"

"Okay Makoto" Ifurita replied as Makoto stepped back and grasped the power key staff once more.

"Alright now hold on," Makoto smiled before he began to turn the staff

"One," he said. Light began to flicker inside the incandescent globes attached to the staff.

"Two," lightning started to flicker up and down the staff.

"Thr..." he began to say before a loud "CRAAAPPPPP" resounded from above them. Makoto looked up to see a red blur as it came straight at them.

With a loud boom the blur crashed between him and Ifurita, right onto the power key staff. The staff was ripped from Ifurita's back and caused her to cry out in pain, energy spilt out of the socket set in the base of her spine.

As Makoto fell back the staff was ripped from his hands and a red headed figure could be seen lying motionless at the bottom of the newly formed crater before him. After a moment the red headed girl got up slowly, several bandages that were wrapped around her from old wounds began to fall off.

As she stood there she began to feel around in her pants pockets and muttered, "Ah crap made me lose my wallet, stupid tomboy."

She shook her head disgustedly but stopped after pain from the action caused her to wince. Then with disgust that oozed from her voice the busty red head exclaimed, "she didn't have ta hit me all the way out here, 's gonna take forever ta get back."

"This's been the worst day in my life can it get any worse?"

Just as Makoto was about to ask what in the world was going on, a hiss and flicker of light caught his eye. He and the girl looked down, and saw that the power key staff was sitting at her feet and was cracked and sparking energy while it mixed with the still flickering inter-dimensional energy that surrounded the area. Their eyes rose to meet each other as the red head muttered, "Ah crap, I had to say that and jinx everything." Before a blinding flash resounded and filled the area, and caused Makoto to raise his hand to his eyes to protect them from the flash.

When the light cleared the girl was gone, with wide eyes Makoto looked at the crater in front of him before he looked over to Ifurita as she sat up from where she had fallen.

"Oh, Oh" was his only statement as he locked eyes with his love.

That is till Ifurita pointed a shaky finger behind him. When he turned around his eyes, impossible, as it seems got even larger. Because lying unconscious on the ground behind him were all of his friends that were supposed to be in El-Hazard, plus Jinnai and a half dozen Bugrom

"Oh boy."

Meanwhile somewhere else,

"Hey, Hey, you okay" a voice vibrated in the head of the red headed girl lying in a crater. She rose onto her hands and knees and then into a sitting position slowly and in obvious pain she asked, "What's going on? I feel so weak." As asked as she sat back, her eyes alighted on a small boy in a bluish / purple gi with a wild mane of black hair that stuck up in all directions and he had a brown tail that wagged behind him.

"What did you say kid," the girl asked.

"I said you okay? Where did you come from anyway? You just popped outta nowhere. How did you do that? Hey what are you anyway? Why do you have a butt on your chest? I'm Goku, what's your name?" The boy babbled at about a mile a minute.

Eyes wide the girl looked at the boy with confusion, her eyes crossed in confusion at the multitude of questions, "what's that? Butt on my chest? Goku? What?"

He leaned into her face in an innocent way and looked on questioningly, "so what's your name?" His close presence caused the girl to lean back "I ...I...don't know? ...I can't remember... I can't remember anything!" Exclaimed the girl in confusion her eyes were wide as she looked at the boy.

To Be Continued in:

Chapter One: A Simple Little Trip

A Scene from Chapter One:

She looked down at Cell as he stood some distance away from the others, the woman pointed the tip of the staff at him, it's multiple prongs crackled with power. "DIE" she screamed as a blast of power lanced down at Cell faster than even he could avoid.

End Notes:

In case you did not know yes Ranma is in Dragonball. It's about 2 years before Bulma shows up.

Let me know what you think, later.

Signed: Verse12