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Two days before the Challenge for the Dojo, just after 8pm; the ice cream shop...

"It involves the time I get to spend with my mom."

Those words filled her heart with a warmth she had not felt sense she had learned that she was pregnant. "Want is needed, my daughter?"

Ranma set aside the 'Delight' so she could look at her mother. "When I returned from China with everyone, I had received a book of skills and lore, thought lost to the winds of time. That was what I doing these past four month, learning what that book could teach me. It also included a reason for the Cursed Springs. They are to create a balance between the precursed form and what one will become if one were to embrace the so called curse."

Ranma reached out and took Nabiki's hand. "Genma is a wonderful teacher of the Art. He has trained me to be the best in only a third of the time it takes to master even one school. I am Dan. level in at least 20 separate schools. Unfortunately that is all he is good for. He has harmed my growth in social graces, academics, and in the basic understanding of what goes on between a male and female." Smiling at the girl next to her, Ranma turned to look at her mother.

"For the crimes against me, Saotome Genma will pay. He will be forced to life on the skills that he holds so dear. He will be marked as a thief, lair, and cheat. He will be forced to mend his ways, or die in the gutter like the filth he is." Her Eyes were cold.

"For the crimes against me and mine, Tendo Soun will pay. He will learn what it means to be lost in this cruel world. Where he was once happy, now he will find only Cold."

"For the crimes against me, Tendo Akane will pay. She will learn what it takes to be the best. What Anger and Rage cost you in combat. What Pride and Honor can mean when they are all you have in the World."

"For the Crimes against me. Saotome Nodoka will pay."

Nodoka paled. "what?" Everything had been going so well. Ranma was becoming a man, knowing what had happened to him, who was responsable, and then he proclaims her as one of the ones who hurt her son...

Ranma continued. "She will learn there is more to life then honor, That Honor, while a staple of a samurai's life, can be scarified, should be sacrificed when the life of loved ones are in the balance. It is a fine line to walk, but She will learn that there are some things more important then honor."

Looking at her mother, tears in her eyes, "You have no idea what your actions and words have done to me. You have reinforced half of what the Panda has pounded into my head about the concept of manly, and warped the rest with a sick and twisted need for grandchildren. I will bring heirs to the Clan, One way and the Other."

"What?" both woman asked Ranma.

'could he mean?' the thought was almost to far from the man she knew as her son.

"It was not an easy Question to ask my self, and the answer was even harder to find, let alone give voice to. Can I live with being a Mother as well as a Father?" Ranma's eyes had melted and were now soft and gentle. "Nabiki, Will you serve me as my wife, my lover, and the mother of my first born?"

'Yes, say yes, girl and make the three of us so happy' Nodoka scream out in her mind.

"Ranma?" Her voice had caught. "I do not know. You have been different sense China, You have grown in power, graces, and thought." She looked at 'Auntie' and then back to Ranma. "Yes, but you will woo me, Chase me as is proper for a man in our times, and I have final say on what is going on with the Others."

"Done on all but the last. As my Wife, you are first in all matters, but to claim that you can control my life, is not going to be allowed. I do expect you to push where you can and will to guide me into the light of bliss, but I have the final say. Ukyo, I want Mother to adopt as my sister. Not knowing the clout of our Clan, nor the impact should my 'Sister' become with child with no Father, But She will know the Love I have for her. From the Second night after me and my wife have said 'I Do', I fully intend to be sleeping with both my wife and my mistress."

"Ranma!" Nabiki slapped Ranma across the face.

"Please 'Biki-chan, save that for our wedding night." Ranma shook her head. "As I was saying. Male Ranma will be needing both his Wife and his Mistress at night. Both because of my abilities and gifts would be too much for me to bed just one female at a time. And because I will need you both for when the Nightmares come."

'My son is manly!' She smiled dreamily, then frowned. "Nightmares?" Nodoka asked.

"They are the result of some of what Genma has put me through. Worry not Mother. My Wife will see to my health."

"Ah, Ranma?" Nabiki had a worried look on her face. "Who are you taking for your Mistress?"

"Shampoo."

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A purple cat was snuggling down in small shipping crate, lined with lush pillows. Both she and Mouse slept in their Animal forms as it caused the 'Water Magnet' magic to become more dormant.

A sneeze flipped her onto her back, while causing her smaller body to be flooded with endorphins.

'Wow! What was that? ... I do not know, but I want another one.'

and with that thought Shampoo drifted off to dream about ducking Ranma in the spring of drowned rat and hunting and other things of a furry nature

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Ranma pulled a Scroll from her cleavage. "This is what I copied from my book. It lists why I am choosing Shampoo as my Mistress and why the Kisses that She and her Grandmother hold me to are no longer valid. But to free Shampoo from Mouse, which she wants, I must make arrangements with Him. For me to Find my balance I must take a Husband as well as a wife. My choices for a good male, on the thought what is good for my Line, is limited to Mouse, Ryoga, and Konsu."

Nodoka frowned "And the Reason you are discarding Ryoga? he a fine lad, strong, solid enough to take a hit"

"He is P-chan. Akane's pet." Nabiki spoke quietly "He sleeps in her bed with her. Has a warped honor code, and is trying to kill Ranma. He uses lethal Arts and cares not if those around him and Ranma get hurt, as long as Ranma goes down. He also is involved with a girl who raises Sumo pigs. They are the only things bigger then Genma, and smell worse then him too."

"Ok, and the other one?" not even a blink.

"He loves Ukyo, will most likely marry her if Ranma is not available." Nabiki answered.

Ranma snorted. "If Ukyo still wants to try me out, fully knowing that it is to invite scandal to our Door, I might spend the night with them both. To enjoy them both." Then Ranma cooled again. "Only one male will share my bed, and only when my wife is there to share in my joy as woman."

"Ranma, You seem to have given this a lot of thought." Nabiki spoke softly, "Why? how? and why me?"

"Why; I need to find the balance. How; not that easy, but Mouse has honor, has suffered at the hands of the one he loves, and should be open to a chance to have something that is denied Shampoo."

Looking at Nabiki, "Why you? that is easy. For the crimes against me, Tendo Nabiki will pay.