Azusa-chan
mimzy@ix.netcom.com
A Ranma 1/2 fanfiction =)

Ranma 1/2 is the property of the wonderful Rumiko Takahashi.
All rights reserved.

*****Watashi wa Ranko*****
Part one:
I'm a girl!

I opened my eyes.  Where am I?  I'm looking up at circle of
faces that I don't recognize.  There's three young girls and
two adult men.
   They looked worried.
   "Are you...okay?" asked a girl with short hair.  "I guess I
shouldn't have hit you so hard.  Sorry."
   "Who are you?" I asked.  If it were fair to make an
observation of oneself, I would say that I have a soft, pretty
voice.
   The girl glared down at me.  "You know damn well who I am!
You don't have to act like a jerk just because I hit you!  I
said sorry," she added, in almost a pouting tone.
   "What ever do you mean?" I asked.  I am at this point very
confused.  I don't know why she is acting this way.  "Can we
sort all this out in a civilized, womanly way?"
   The girl's eyes filled with tears suddenly.  "Oh.  Oh!  No!
Not again!"  She grabbed a pot that I suspected had already
been used to hit someone today, as it had numerous cracks in
it.  A metal pot!  She raised it over her head.
   "Sorry about this, but I have to hit you to get you to be
normal again!" she said.  I think she honestly meant it when
she said she was sorry.  But that pot looked hard and I didn't
want to mess up my hair.
   "No!  Please don't hit me!  I'm against violence!  It's
unfeminine!"  I tried to back away, but the two men came
around behind me and grabbed my arms.
   "I'm sorry about this, Ranma 'm boy."  It didn't much sound
like he meant it.  I started.  Boy?!
   "What do you mean?  I'm a *girl*!"  Just then, a pot was
brought down on my head and I couldn't see anymore.

I woke up, fuzzy.  I still didn't understand why that girl hit
me, but she was certainly violent!  I'll have to keep out of
her way.  She's liable to hit me for no reason.
   I tried pushing myself into a sitting position.  The second
I moved, I realized that she must have hit me even harder than
I thought.  I had a blistering headache.  I collapsed back
down on the futon.
   "R...Ranma!  Are you okay?"
   I rolled over slowly and looked up to see the violent girl.
"No," I said.  I know, I know.  Unladylike and blunt, but it
was true.
   "You...You're back to normal again, aren't you?"  The girl
looked worried.  I regretted thinking of her as a violent
girl.  It was mean of me.
   "What do you mean by normal?" I asked.  "You hurt me bad, I
think I may need medical attention."
   She immediately looked angry again, like a cat spitting and
hissing.  "What's with that whole soft voice?!  Are you just
trying to piss me off and make me feel even more guilty!?  I
mean...Uh...I..."
   "What is your name?" I asked.  "What's my name for that
matter?"
   "Ranma..."  She turned her head away, her eyes filling with
tears.  "You've forgotten.  I can't fix you like the last
time."
   "Ranma isn't a very feminine sounding name," I said.  "Is
that really my name?"
   The girl looked over at me, still sad.  She looked like she
almost accepted what was going on.  "Yes," she said, like a
sign on the breeze.
   "Could you please call me Ranko?  I think it's so much
cuter.  You still haven't told me your name...?"  I smiled at
her.  "We should be friends."
   "Akane," the girl said.  "I'm...Akane.  And I'm sorry for
hitting you, Ran...Ranko."
   "That's all right, Akane-san.  I forgive you."  I put my
hand on her shoulder to try to comfort her.  "I forgive you.
Just please don't be sad."
   "I'll get you something to wear," Akane said softly.  I
couldn't figure out why she was so sad.  She felt guilty, yes,
but there seemed to be more.  Oh well, she would tell me in
due time if she wanted.

Later that day, I was wearing a cute yellow summer dress.  I
thanked Akane for letting me borrow such a pretty dress, and
she winced.  I wonder why?
   I was properly introduced to the rest of the residents.
Akane said it was okay that I stay here, that I can sleep in
her room.  The two men were Tendou Soun, which was her father,
and Saotome Genma, who turned out to be my father.
   They kept trying to dump hot water on me, but Akane came to
my rescue every time.
   "Don't traumatize hi...her!" Akane yelled.  "You *do*
remember what happened *last* time, don't you?"
   The other girls were Nabiki and Kasumi.  During the
introduction, there was a lot of whispering.  I caught the
words 'amnesia' and '*again?!*' a few times, but I wasn't
quite sure what was going on.  I didn't want to be rude and
ask, though.
   Akane told me that I shouldn't be going to school.  I
think it was just an excuse, but she said that I might get
hurt worse and forget what I had already learned.  She
hugged me as she left, and a lot was said in that hug.
   I wasn't sure what was going on.

When Akane got home from school that afternoon, I greeted her
at the door.  She looked a little run down and sad, so I
suggested that we go out and get something sweet to eat.  My
treat.  She agreed.
   We talked over parfait.  "Akane, why are you so sad?  I
don't know why, but when I think of you, sad doesn't seem to
fit in right.  Is something wrong?"
   Akane looked up at me.  She seemed like she was about to
say something, then she just looked back down at her ice-cream
and mumbled a brief 'no.'
   "If there is any way I can help, just let me know, ok?
We're friends, right?"  I smiled reassuringly at her.  But
Akane reacted oddly.  She got up without finishing her
ice-cream, and left the restaurant.  "How odd," I murmured.

Authors Notes:
Don't ask me why, but I have some kind of...fascination with
Ranma losing his memory and thinking he is a girl.  I don't
know why.  I guess because he is just as attractive as a he or
a she.  And it also gets more interesting when Ranma, who
usually is so insistent that he is a guy, acts like a girl.
Or maybe it's just my twisted sense of humor coming into play
=)  Let me know what you think so far =)
*****Watashi wa Ranko*****
Part two:



I got quite a shock this morning when I took a bath.  I turned
into a boy!  I was scared and horrified!  It was a good thing
Akane hadn't left for school yet, because I doubted that
anyone else would have explained it to me.
   "You fell into a cursed spring in China.  When you are
splashed with cold water, you become a girl.  When you are
splashed with hot water, you become a boy."  Akane seemed like
she wanted to say more, but she didn't.  She just left for
school.
   That second day, Akane took me to see Doctor Tofu after she
got home from school.  She said he was a very good doctor, and
might be able to help me recover my full memory.
   "So, you say you just hit Ranko in the head like you do
everyday?" Tofu-sensei asked Akane.
   "Yeah, and I don't understand why this would happen now.  I
mean, Ranko has been boinked in the noggin so many times that
I would think that by now he...she wouldn't even notice it.
Why did this happen now?"  Akane took a breath and look to the
doctor expectantly.
   Tofu-sensei paused for a while before answering.  "I'm not
sure.  I think it may be that the damage accumulated, but..."
He frowned.  "I don't understand...Why would Ranko decide to
be a girl rather than a boy?"
   "What do you mean?" I asked.  I've always been a girl,
haven't I?"  I was puzzled.
   "Actually..."  Tofu-sensei was awkward a moment.  "You were
a boy originally.  I think you may have some discrete kind of
brain damage that may be a result of repeated, as Akane puts
it, boinks in the noggin."
   I think I may have face faulted.  I don't know.  Is face
faulting even ladylike?  "But...I'm a girl, Tofu-sensei!  I
don't remember anything about my life, but I was a girl when I
woke up, so I'm a girl.  I didn't even know I turned into a
boy until this morning!"
   I blushed.  Akane blushed in sympathy.  Tofu-sensei gave me
a sympathetic look.  "Doctor," Akane pleaded.  "Please!  You
have to help her!  I don't want her to be a her anymore!"
   Noooow I was confused.  Was Akane in...?  But no, that just
couldn't be.  Or could it?  "Doctor, can I talk to you alone
for just a moment?" I asked.  Maybe he would know.
   "Sure.  Akane?"  Akane nodded and left the room.
   "Why is she acting this way?" I asked.  "If I were a guy, I
would swear she was in...in..."  My sentence wondered off.  I
may not remember my previous life, ya know, but the thought of
Akane being in...well, it embarrassed me for some reason.
   "I...believe so.  Do keep in mind that you only recently
made up your mind to be a girl.  I have suspected that the two
of you have been in love for a while, but her worrying like
this confirms it."  I blinked at him.  "You were a boy," he
repeated.
   "Is that why I've been...Well, I think that I may have...
uh...leanings for...Uh..."  I blushed.  I couldn't finish what
I was saying.  "That’s part of the reason that I invited her
for ice-cream yesterday.  That, and she is so nice to me."
   The doctor continued to look at me with sympathy.  "Oh,
doctor!  Please!  Either make it go away or make me normal
again!  I'm scared!  I think that I'm in love with Akane!"

Akane and I walked most of the way home in silence.  She asked
me, "Did you...uh...mean what you said to Tofu-sensei?"
   "You overheard?" I said, weakly.  I knew the answer, but I
had to hear her say it.
   Akane blushed.  "Yeah.  It's not that I was eavesdropping,
but you did yell it awfully loud.  I'm sorry."  Akane took a
breath.  "I just want you to know, I feel the same way.  I
want you to be a boy again, because I don't want to be thought
of...in that way, ya know?"
   I nodded.  "Yeah.  I know."  I gave Akane a hug.  "Until I
am better, though, we're just friends, okay?"
   Akane gave me a watery smile that made me feel much better.
"Okay.

"Okay, stop me if I'm wrong," Nabiki said.  "You *know* you're
a boy, but you still are thinking you're a *girl*.  You are in
love with Akane.  And you're asking *me* what you should do?"
   I nodded faintly.  I had come to Nabiki for help.  Kasumi
always looked to busy, I wouldn't dare talk to men about this,
and how could I talk about Akane to Akane?  I was desperate
for help.
   Nabiki looked at me sideways.  "You still love her.  Even
though you lost your memory.  You two are both girls and yet
you love eachother.  Amazing."  For some reason, that hit me
in an odd way.  It began to summon a memory, but Nabiki was
speaking again, and the memory vanished.
   "I'd say go for it.  I mean, if you're in love.  Get your
memory back, and propose."  *That* one really hit me.  But
Nabiki continued before the memory could surface.  "I would
charge you for this, but it'd be like charging someone for
charity.  Which I rarely do."
   I looked at her and blinked.  I stifled a giggle, and
thanked her for help.  "You're really nice when you want to
be, Nabiki.  You've really cheered me up, thanks."
   "Oh, there is one more thing," Nabiki said.  She handed me
a bottle of pills.  "Tofu-sensei dropped these off for you
while you and my sisters were out getting groceries."
   I took the bottle.  It was a small prescription bottle, and
it said on it, 'Special Chinese Herbal Memory Regain.'  It had
instructions to take one every six hours.  I thanked her and I
went to the room I was now sharing with Akane.
   I opened up the bottle of pills.  They were little yellow
pills with red dots in the middle.   }Note: This is not
patterned after any kind of pill.{  It didn't say anything
about having to take with food or water, so I gave one a try.
   All of a sudden, I was dizzy.  I blacked out for a moment,
then I stood up like nothing had happened.  I had a faint
image in my mind.  Of a pretty ring.  I had a feeling that I
had bought it, but it was a male that was holding it.  No!  It
was me!  That's my male half!
   The memory ended.  I had no clue what the pretty ring was
for, but I did remember where I put it.  I smiled.  Things
were picking up.

Authors Notes:
Ah, I finally figured out how to explain the fact that Ranma,
sorry, Ranko, lost his/her memory.  I'm proud of myself now =)
The next piece should be out soon =)
Azusa-chan
mimzy@ix.netcom.com
A Ranma 1/2 fanfiction =)

Ranma 1/2 is the property of the wonderful Rumiko Takahashi.
All rights reserved.

*****Watashi wa Ranko*****
Part three:
Pretty ring

After dinner that night, I went up to the room that I used to
share with Pop before I lost my memory.  I was really happy
that I had that memory.  That I had any memory.
   I went into a drawer that had appeared in my memory.  Deep
inside, there was the pretty box that the pretty ring had come
in.  I pulled it out.
   It was a thin gold band with a sapphire.  Looking at it
made me think of Akane.  Of her blue eyes.  Maybe that was why
I had bought it.  I wouldn't know until the rest of my memory
returned.
   I put on the ring and admired it on my finger.  I decided
to put it away so that Akane wouldn't see it.  If it had been
for her, it would be better to really surprise her.  That was
when I got an idea.
   Whether it was for her or not, I would give it to her.  Not
yet, not until I remembered.  All I knew about the ring was
that it was important.

The next few days passed.  I didn't learn any more about the
ring, but my memory was returning a bit at a time.  I saw
Ryouga today.  He came over for lunch.  He was trying to get
somewhere, but he decided since he was in town he would drop
by.
   "Hi, Akane," he said.  He got a better look at what was
going on in the room.  He got mad for some reason when he saw
that I was sitting next to Akane.  Akane explained my memory
loss to him.
   "You don't remember...Anything?"  I looked up at him.
   "I remember a few things.  I'm slowly getting my memory
back.  I know who people are."  I sighed.  "I just...I still
feel like I'm a girl."
   Ryouga looked at me with pity.  I knew from the memories of
him that I had regained that I would have more expected him to
gloat.  "I'm sorry, Ranma.  Let me know if there is anything I
can do to help."
   Ryouga had honour, I realized at that moment.  Suddenly, a
memory came back to me without me even having to use a pill.
Of Happosai making me lose my strength, and Ryouga helping me.
   "You are very honourable, Ryouga.  Thank you," I said.
   Akane felt my forehead.  "You're definitely not back to
normal yet.  You just said something nice to Ryouga!"  We all
got a good chuckle out of that.
   Ryouga sat down and the three of us talked for a while.
They recounted some of their favourite memories of me, and I
joined in whenever I knew what they were talking about.  I
remembered a few things during this time.
   I think Ryouga and I are friends now.  I remember enough of
him that I know that we used to fight, but now I was glad to
have an honourable friend like him.  I realized I had often
misjudged and underestimated him.  He was just misunderstood.

Ryouga got up to get something from the kitchen for us, but he
got lost and wound up leaving.  That was okay though, because
I was getting a little tired and it was time for me to take
another pill.  I was getting worried.  There weren't many
pills left, and I was still forgetting so much.
   Akane asked me how my memories were coming along.  "I'm
getting little flashes now and then, without even needing a
pill sometimes.  I think I'm recovering."  I looked at the
bottle.   "Well, I've been taking these for five days, and it
says that I'm supposed to regain my entire memory in seven
days."
   Akane smiled.  "I'm happy for you," she said, and gave me
a kiss on my forehead.  "Good-night."

That night, I dreamed.  I was a boy in this dream.  I was
traveling in China with my father, and we came to a training
ground.  The guide was trying to warn us of something, but we
ignored him and began to train anyway.  Pop fell in a pool of
water and...
   The dream changed.  I was a girl now.  I was being carried
by my dad, who was a panda.  I was kicking and yelling.  He
plopped me down in front of three girls and a man.  The man
hugged me, then noticed I was a girl.  A girl with brown hair
that I recognized as Nabiki poked at my chest and made the
announcement that I was a girl.  The man fainted.  Then...
  The dream changed one more time.  I was a guy and I was in
the bath.  A beautiful, naked girl with long blue hair walked
in on me...
   I didn't dream anymore.

Authors Notes:
I'm really beginning to have fun writing this one and I don't
want it to end!  Unfortunately, I just set myself up to have an
ending soon.  Oh well.  So, what do you think?  I'm having so
much fun with this one, even though this is an overused plot
line =)
Well, here's the last part.  Everything I wanted to say here I put in the
authors notes, silly me =)
Azusa-chan



Azusa-chan
mimzy@ix.netcom.com
A Ranma 1/2 fanfiction =)

Ranma 1/2 is the property of the wonderful Rumiko Takahashi.
All rights reserved.

*****Watashi wa Ranko*****
Part four:


I yawned.  The sun was shining and it hurt my eyes when I
opened them.  I mumbled an unlady like curse that I suspected
was my male half trying to emerge.
   "Ranko?  Are you awake?"  Akane looked down at me from her
bed.
   "Unfortunately," I said.  I reached for the bottle of pills
and popped one in my mouth.  I swallowed quickly so I wouldn't
have to taste it.
   A memory flashed by, as they usually do.  What I saw got me
soooo angry!  "Arrgh!" I yelled.  Akane looked back over at me
in surprise.
   "What is it, Ranko?" Akane asked, worried.
   I growled some more.  "Ryouga!  You pervert!  I take back
what I said about you being honourable!  YOU FIEND!"
   Akane blinked.  "What did he do to you?"  I blushed.  I
think she got the wrong idea.
   "Its...nothing," I said, also remembering my honour, not
that I had forgotten it.  "Nevermind."
   Akane looked hurt, but she didn't press me any further.

"Ranko!" Kasumi called.  "Ryouga is here to see you!"
   Time for the confrontation.  I went out to meet Ryouga.
"Ryouga."
   "Ranko."
   "I remember.  P-chan."
   Ryouga winced.  "I...figured you would remember sooner or
later.  I wanted to say I'm sorry.  Would you please give this
letter to Akane-san?"  He handed me an envelope.  I eyed it,
not sure whether to trust him or not.  "It tells her the truth
about P-chan."
   I looked over at him, wide-eyed.  "R...Ryouga?"
   He looked away from me, ashamed.  "The other day...When you
said I have honour..."  He paused to take a breath.  "I began
to think.  I didn't deserve your compliment.  I still probably
don't.  But I'm trying to make up for what I've done.  I
realized that even though I have held several grudges against
you, I've thought of you as a friend for a long time now."
   I was touched.  I realized that my memory loss had affected
people in ways I wouldn't have imagined.  It made Ryouga stop
and think, and I was...Honoured.
   "Thank you, Ryouga."  I gave him a hug.  "I won't be a girl
forever, and hugging you as a guy wouldn't seem right."
Ryouga covered a nose bleed.  I suppressed a grin.  "I just
want you to know that what you said meant a lot to me."
   Ryouga smiled at me.  I smiled at Ryouga.  I think that we
were finally friends, after years of him hating me.  It made
me happy.

Akane and I went out shopping.  She and I both figured that it
was my last day as a girl, assuming I didn't suddenly regain
my male mind during our trip.  We picked out a dress for her,
then I bought parfait for us both.  I had my pill and got a
few fighting and fiancee memories back.
   "Jeez, with some of the things I'm remembering, I wonder if
I want to remember any more!"  She looked at me.  "All the
fiancee trouble.  A lot of my memories of you are back, and I
have loved you throughout everything."
   A waiter walked by, and overheard what we were saying.  He
looked at me funny.  "Don't look at me like that, you wouldn't
understand," I said.  The boy blushed and ran off, embarrassed
at being caught eavesdropping.
   Akane shook her head.  I stared off into space, thinking.
I wanted to remember more about the pretty ring.  I hadn't had
another memory about it since the first.  Maybe it was the key
to my remembering.  "What's wrong?" Akane asked.
   I looked up.  "Nothing," I said, smiling reassuringly.  "I
just hope that everything happens smoothly."

The next morning, I woke up.  I looked up at the ceiling and
just stared.  I moved to get up, but realized that something
was making it difficult to move.  I looked down.
   "Eww!  What's this...girls thing I'm wearing?!"  It came
back to me.  I've been a girl the past few days.  "I need a
hot bath," I grumbled.
   Akane looked over at me.  "Ranma!  You have your male mind
back!"  Akane jumped off her bed and hugged me.  "I'm so happy
for you!"
   I hugged her back, though now I was a little unsure.  I had
confessed my feeling frequently and easily to her the past few
days, because I had the mind of a girl.  Now that I was back
to male, I was insecure again.  Damn gender roles.
   "I'm going to take a hot bath," I said, taking my bottle of
pills with me.  It was almost empty.  I could hear it rattle
as I made my way down the hall.  I wanted so badly to get out
of this uncomfortable garment and back into some of my loose
Chinese clothes.
   Ten minutes later I was happy, wet, warm, and male.  I took
a pill and settled down, waiting for a memory, or a handful of
memories.  I got only one brief image.  I was in a store that
sold Chinese herbs and spells.  I bought a one-use thing of
shampoo, and a bottle of pills that looked exactly like...
   Exactly like the bottle of pills I was using to regain my
memory.  I got one thought from the memory.  'The ultimate
test...'

I was silent, pondering, all through breakfast.  I was going
back to school today.  I had a note from Pop saying that I was
sick.  I guess I was, wasn't I?  In the mind.
   Akane kept looking over at me.  She was worried about me,
but she didn't say anything.  I didn't know what to say.  I
wondered why I had bought the pills that Nabiki had said came
from Tofu-sensei.  I asked her about it and she acted like she
didn't know what I was talking about.
   At school, people kept coming up to me asking if I was all
better.  I shrugged and told them to ask a doctor, not the
patient.  The pill I had at lunch showed me more about the
ring.  The woman I bought it from was pretty.  Not that I was
really paying attention.
   I had my eye on it for a while.  I finally saved up the
money to buy it, and I was happy.  I got many images of myself
giving it to Akane, it being on her finger.  The finger that
an engagement ring would go on.  So I guess it was for her.

That night, I took out the last pill.  I looked at it for a
long time before swallowing it.  I didn't know what to expect.
This pill was different from the others.  It was supposed to
be the last one taken.  It was purple with a yellow dot in the
center.
   I swallowed it and I was instantly dizzy.
   I fell into a dream...

I was walking down the street.  I had a wad of yen in my
wallet and a dream in my heart.  I found the perfect ring to
give Akane as an official engagement ring.  It was a beautiful
sapphire.  It made me think of her.
   I bought the ring and still had some money left over.  I
was thinking more now that I had actually bought the ring.  I
wasn't sure enough of the love I felt.  I didn't know if it
would last, really last.  And that was what I wanted.
   I had to test it.
   I passed by a store that sold Chinese herbs and spells.  I
figured I could go in and take a look.  They always have an
interesting trick or two.  I might just find something that
will help.
   Then there it was, staring out at me.  A shampoo that makes
it so the next time you get hit on the head, you lose your
memory.  A little note to the Jusenkyo victims was at the
bottom of the shampoo container.  It said that if you were in
your cursed form, that is what you would think you were.
   I bought it, along with the version of the antidote that
took a while to work.  I thought a lot and planned ahead very
carefully.  I told only two people: Tofu-sensei and Nabiki.
Tofu-sensei, because if I lost my memory and couldn’t' get it
back, I knew I would be brought to him.
   Nabiki was...kind of my accomplice.  I told her what it was
for and she told me that 'just this once' she wouldn't charge
me for her assistance.
   I washed my hair with the special shampoo, them turned to
a girl.  I picked a fight with Akane, and she hit me.  The
last thought that had echoed was what I thought when I bought
the stuff from the Chinese shop.  The perfect test...

I woke up.  I knew what I had to do now.  I knocked on Akane's
door.  She called, "Come in."
   I explained everything to her.  The spell, everything.
Except for why.  I got down on my knee and produced the ring
from my pocket.
   "Akane, I want you to marry me.  I have been in love with
you for a very long time.  I did all of this for you, to see
if our love could last through anything.  I think it can."  I
continued staring into her eyes, which had tears in them.
   "Yes, Ranma!" she said, hugging me tightly.  "Yes!"
   She pressed her lips against mine and I knew what it was
like to be happy.

*the end*

Authors notes:
Man, it sucks doing first person as the opposite gender!  I'm
considering taking a break from writing.  I've become a major
hermit crab, and even though they are few, the negative
comments I receive really drag me down.  Plus, I'm beginning
to get headaches from staring fixedly at a computer screen. =)
Just let me know what ya think, about me taking a break and my
story.  Thanks =)