The Long Road

OLD AN: Wow I got around to writing this sooner than I thought I would have time for. Oh well either way I hope you enjoy my work

NEW AN: The first chapter did have some bad humor in it but that’s life, I thank those actually reading the second chapter of this story, though they are probably doing it to just complain. This will be a Love Hina crossover eventually but not for now.

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Kasumi went to answer the door and found Nodoka standing outside. She let the older woman in, making sure no one else was in the doorway.

“Is my son here?” Nodoka asked as she was taking off her shoes.

“Why yes he is, I believe he’s outside the living room on the walkway.” Kasumi said, not thinking of what might happen if Nodoka saw Ranma as he was right now. As Nodoka walked off Kasumi went back to the kitchen and continued preparing food for dinner, making sure that there was enough for Ryoga and Nodoka as she hummed away in her usual ignorant bliss. That was until the sound of a katana being pulled from its sheath.

Kasumi sighed and went to make sure Genma was all right after his wife was done with him. It has been said many times before but ignorance is bliss. As she entered the living room looking out the door she saw Nodoka standing over a Chibi-Ranma with her sword drawn ready to strike.

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Nodoka was walking on the walkway towards the living room to meet her manly son. Upon reaching the designated spot she looked around and only saw a child that looked like Ranma did when he was younger and still in her arms. She immediately thought that the only way that this could have happened was if Ranma had gotten a girl pregnant and didn’t tell her about the incoming child. After her brain processed that information she ran toward the young child tears flowing from her eyes while holding her victory fans. The child saw his impending doom and jumped away from the insane woman rushing towards him.

“WAAAAAAAH! MY GRANDSON DOESN’T LIKE ME! WAAAAAAAH” Nodoka wailed after she tripped and fell on her face when Chibi-Ranma had dodged her.

“Um, mom…I’m Ranma,” the little child told his mother.

“Ranma?” Nodoka asked incredulously. A nod was all the reply she got before she went into a full blown rampage ranting about how her son wasn’t manly and needed to kill himself; it was bout this time she pulled out her katana and charged at her now three year old son with the intent to kill him.

“Oh my!” Kasumi said as she watched the spectacle unfold before her. Ranma hearing her exclamation turned to look at her losing his focus on dodging his insane mother. Kasumi was forced to watch as the blade came down onto Ranma cutting part of his back but not deep enough to cut the spinal cord.

“AAAAAGH!” Ranma yelped in pain from the sharp edge cutting his back open. Blood quickly flowed from the wound; not spraying, but it was enough blood for Ranma to lose consciousness due to his new smaller body.

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Ranma slowly opened his eyes; the light hit his pupils making him close his eyes extremely fast at the sheer intensity. ‘The light, it burns, turn it off.’ Ranma heard the door on his right close, making his gigantic headache rear its ugly head; it was almost as ugly as Akane’s last attempt at cooking, the poor floor boards didn’t stand a chance. He slowly adjusted to the pounding in his head and the brightness of the light, after what seemed to be hours he shakily stood up and hobbled over to the door to his right. He opened it to find himself looking out into Dr. Tofu’s office but could not see or hear the good doctor anywhere in the building.

He got up and began to look around the building looking for any sign that he doctor was here or had left him and was going to come back soon. Then he remembered, the doctor wasn’t here anymore, he had run away and hadn’t come back since; that could only mean that he had been brought and left here. He eventually found his pack in the room he had been laying in with a note on it.

‘Dear Ranma,

I have decreed that you have not been manly enough and have cast you out of the Saotome clan and have canceled the engagements. Mr. Tendo wishes to never see you again. You can find Ryoga in his cursed form out in the back of the office his pack is next to the cage.

In hopes of never seeing you again,

Nodoka Saotome’

Ranma let the note fall to the ground; he fell on his knees and began to weep at his new predicament. No one would help him and he was not welcome anywhere, he had nothing left except for what he could carry in his pack. He slowly got up and went to his pack to see what was inside, after some digging he found a box that was labeled to him with a letter on the outside. He took the box out of his pack and read the letter.

‘Dear Ranma,

I have included some waterproof soap and a way to order more. Consider this an apology for all that we have put you through. By the time you read this we will have gone back to China.

The best of wishes,

Ku Lon’

With that he grabbed the box and put it back in his pack. He then picked it up while grabbing the kettle he had put on for Ryoga and walked outside. He walked over to the cage and saw with much relief that the piglet was in it like the letter had said. Bending over to open the cage he felt a sharp shooting pain across his back where he had been cut by the katana and accurately guessed that it wasn’t completely healed and that it might leave a scar. Finishing the motion he opened the cage and pulled out the squirming pig before pouring the hot water on it. The pig shifted to Ryoga’s two-year-old body before Ranma threw some clothes at his rival making the boy snap out of his dazed trance and quickly dress. When Ryoga had finished dressing Ranma handed Ryoga the letter that his mom had wrote.

“Fbk blargh.” Ryoga swore still not able to talk completely in the body he had at the moment.

“Here use this paper and here’s a pen,” Ranma said pulling the paper and pen out of seemingly nowhere.

‘FUCK YOU! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU BASTARD!” Ryoga scribbled on the paper before shoving it in Ranma’s face.

“Actually its both of our faults, if we hadn’t been fighting this would have never happened. Since you can’t really care for yourself I guess your going to have to come with me,” Ranma said introspectively.

‘NEVER!” Ryoga scribble down quickly.

“Sure, like you would be able to take care of yourself looking like that.” Ranma said sarcastically. With that he picked up a glass of water and splashed Ryoga, effectively turning the lost bot into a piglet before shoving him in the cage. Ranma picked up his and Ryoga’s packs and the cage before setting off into the world.

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NEW AN: My old beta reader ran away from me, and now I have a new one. XD Yes this chapter is different the off color humor from the first chapter isn’t here; I just put it in the first one because it fit.

OLD AN:I hope you all enjoyed this and for those of you who didn’t get the WMD joke last chapter you take a look I fixed part of it and added a definition for it. Thanks to my beta reader Jordan.

Sincerely,

SS4LINK

Random Quote

“I’ll get you to safety-or whatever passes as safety these days.”