As always none of the character belong to me and this story in not to
be used for profit as it is intended for entertainment purposes
only. Bless Rumiko Takahashi for creating the Ranma1/2 universe
and my father for buying me a computer. May he rest in peace.

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Going home

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By Ryanko

Ranma awoke to the bright sun beaming down on his face threw the open
window, he smiled as it was a kind change to the bucket of cold water
he had grown accustomed to. But as of late he was having some odd 
dreams, he had recently begun dreaming of a place surrounded
by trees and bamboo huts, scary enough it seemed allot like the 
Amazon village, but he was never afraid there, he also saw the figure
of a person with blue hair. It almost seemed like... home.

Strangely enough these dreams started when Ranma awoke in the middle
of the night and heard his father talking in his sleep.

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Ranma awoke lazily to the continuous ramblings of his father. "Damn
it old man let me sleep." He groggily said. Preparing to punt his 
father into orbit he stood and paused for only a second but that’s
all it took for him to hear what his father was saying; "Run...
No-Chan.... get to Japan... Take Ranma and.... hurry... I'll try...
to hold them off..." The talking stopped and Genma remained silent.
Ranma stood there motionless and silent; "What was that all about?"

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After that night Ranma had questioned his father about it but to 
Ranma's surprise Genma got angry and ordered him to never talk about
it again, this confused Ranma as his father rarely ever got angry,
oh sure he raised his voice and put on a show but Genma rarely ever
got genuinely angry.

Now Ranma was very curious and decided to ask his mother, "Mom, was
there ever a time when you and pops had to flee from China?" Nodoka
who had been drinking tea nearly choked on it. "Why, No Ranma, 
whatever would give you that idea? Oh Kasumi do you mind if I help
you with dinner?" That said she got up and left for the kitchen.

Ranma knew now that there was something up and decided to talk to the
only person he knew who could get information. Nabiki.

Knock Knock Knock

"Come in."

Ranma entered the room and shut the door behind him. Nabiki was 
sitting in a chair by her desk looking at a file. As Ranma entered
she closed the file and turned to face him; "Ah Ranma, what can I do
for you today and please, do hurry I'm going to meet with a client
in 30 minutes."

"I want you to find some information for me." Short quick to the 
point, Ranma learned that that was how you had to operate with Nabiki
in order to keep your yen in your pocket and not hers.

"Hmm what kind of information?" Nabiki asked raising an eyebrow,
unusual that this was coming from Ranma of all people. "On my 
parents, I want to know if they ever went to China and what they did
there. Just ignore the information I told you about my past I’m 
looking for before that."

Nabiki thought about it for a few moments then finally said, "10,000
yen."

"7,000 and keep it to yourself."

Nabiki almost fell over, Ranma bargaining!?! Smirking she said, 
"Silence cost extra, 15,000."

"10,000 is all I got, take it or leave it, keep it to yourself
though." Holding out her hand she said "Deal." Ranma shook her hand
and then reached into his pocket pulling out a wad of about 15,000
yen.  Peeling off ten he handed it to her. "You said you only had 
ten." Nabiki said raising an eyebrow again.

Ranma smirked "And you believed me."

That said Ranma stood and headed for the door. Nabiki laughed "So I 
did, I never thought you the type to con someone Ranma, looks like
I’m gonna have to keep my eye on you." Ranma closed the door behind
him and Nabiki went back to her folder.

Nabiki had been looking through some files in the public library,
it had been 3 weeks since Ranma had asked her to find this 
information and she had to admit it had peeked her interest. So far
she had tracked the Saotome’s across China and now she found out that
they had been in some mountains near Jusenkyou. Jusenkyou this scared
her, had Mr or Mrs Saotome been cursed prior to the events Ranma and
his father explained!?!? She found that they stayed in those 
mountains for a bit than suddenly vanished and than Nodoka reappeared
on the edge of China when she bought a plane ticket for two to Japan. 

Genma wasn't with her.

"Who was the second?"

Genma later reappeared at Nodoka's homes in Kyoto where after six 
years Genma left with Ranma on a ten-year training trip. 

But wait... thinking back to Ranma's birth date she thought about
it, according to his birth date he would have been born while Genma
and Nodoka where in China, yet on his birth card it clearly said 
'Kyoto, Japan.'

"Something’s not right here." Nabiki said aloud.

On a hunch, she got up and left the library her next destination
already in her mind she walked down the street for a while before
coming up to a large white building with a single sign "Clinic"

"Dr Tofu are you busy?" she said as she entered the clinic. "Not at 
all Nabiki, follow me, what can I do for you?" The young doctor and
Shinto expert said with a smile. She was led into the examining
room where she sat in an empty chair. "Dr Tofu, I’m looking for 
information on Mrs Saotome." Dr Tofu frowned slightly, "Now Nabiki
you know I can't just..." "Please doctor its very important!"
she said almost pleading. Dr Tofu sighed, "I won't guarantee nothing
but what is it your looking for?" Nabiki stood and whispered into his
ear. His face suddenly went serious. "Nabiki do you know what your
saying? If what you say is true than Ranma... Hold on I'll check."
Dr tofu left the room and Nabiki sat back down, he returned shortly
after his face had lost all colour.

Nabiki left the clinic and walked home in silence, the news was a 
complete horror for her. 

Nabiki entered the Tendou compound; she looked around and found Ranma
sparring with Genma, "Ranma we have to talk. Now." Seeing the 
seriousness of her words Ranma quickly knocked out his father and 
left the dojo.

"Find anything?" Ranma asked as he and Nabiki entered her room. He 
sat on the bed while she moved her chair in front of him. "Yes, I 
have. Your father and mother where in China when you were born. 
But..." Ranma into her eyes and say shock in them she found something
very important indeed. "But..." Ranma said urging Nabiki to continue. 

"Ranma your mother is barren."

Ranma just sat there in shock his mother was barren? He wasn't her 
son? 

"Then who?" he asked. Nabiki just shook her head, "I don't know. If 
the times are true then I'd say there were about here when your 
supposed birth happened." Nabiki had pulled out a map of china and 
pointed to a region Ranma knew only too well. "Jusenkyou."
Nabiki nodded. "How long where they there?" Nabiki looked into 
Ranma's eyes and said "About two weeks according to my research." 

Ranma stood and began to leave the room. "Thanks Nabiki for all your
help." Nabiki stood quickly "What are you going to do Ranma?"

Ranma looked down then looked forward with his eyes anger and 
determination in his eyes. "Find the amazons."

"The amazons? Why?" Ranma turned his head and looked at Nabiki out of
the corner of his eye. "My father talked in his sleep, he and my 
mother were running from something and you don't have a baby in two
weeks." He then left the room.

The full implications of what had happened hit Nabiki like a freight
train. The Saotome’s desperate for a son to fill the pact find out 
Nodoka is barren, traveling across China they come across the Amazon
village, there they find a place no ones ever really heard of and 
they find a newborn child, a boy just what they want, they take him
and run. Genma knowing the Yamasenken and Umasenken is able to throw
to lure the Amazons away from his wife as she flees to Japan, he 
returns later and little Ranma is theirs. The second person she had
gotten a ticket for was Ranma.

"Ranma where are you going dinners almost ready." Nodoka says with
a smile as Ranma walks towards the door. "I'm going out." he says 
coldly and walks out the front door. 

Ranma walked alone and deep in thought as he made his way to the 
Nekohanten and his past, "What am I gonna say? What am I gonna do?"
he asked himself. "Only one thing I can." He said looking forward,
his face a mask of grim determination.

He entered the Nekohanten and was treated to the customary 'Ranma
take me on date' glomp courtesy of Shampoo airways. "Maybe later."
he said "but for now I need to talk to Cologne." Shampoo let go of 
her Airen and smiled finally Ranma was beginning to see the others
weren't as good as Shampoo and was here to talk about marriage.
"Shampoo got get Great Grandmother, then shampoo make to to delicious
Ramen for Airen ok?" Nodding she bounded of and Ranma sat down. 
Shortly afterwards Cologne came out and sat in front of the young
man. "What is it son-in-law? Have you finally seen the futility
of your struggles and decided to come back peacefully?"

"I’m here to talk about the stolen child from your village sixteen
years ago, stolen from the woman with the blue hair... what was her
name again?" Colognes staff came up quick and the point stopped
an inch before his throat.

"How did you know about that?" she said with a scowl. 

Ranma smirked. "I only know some of it, two people, a man and a 
woman, went into your village and stole a child I want to know the 
whole story."

Cologne stood, "Follow me."

She led Ranma into the back where she asked Shampoo for privacy
and then after Ranma had sat down she began.

"It was late, raining hard when they came in. At the time we offered
them shelter from the rain and they gladly accepted. The young couple
stayed with me at my home and were very hospitable in helping me 
around the house. The rain hadn’t let up for two days on the third
day my friend’s daughter Lavender went into labour. I rushed over 
there and ten hours later a healthy young boy was born, she called
him Toe Wel, or Towel, as you would say. I will never forget that 
child it’s had the same eyes as his mother and was destined for great
things. Shortly after his birth the rain stopped, we considered
this a good blessing for the child, but it was not to be as shortly
after the young couple disappeared and so did Toe Wel. We tracked
them across the lands and found that yes they had in fact taken Toe
Wel. The male turned out to be a capable martial artist and fended
off the scouting party, I took up the trail myself but in my 
arrogance I was led down some false trails and we lost the child 
forever."

Ranma sat and shifted slight through out the whole story, "Would
you know this child if you saw him today?" Cologne looked away for a 
second then back to Ranma. "I would know your face anywhere Toe Wel,
in your right eye you have the same three silver dot as your mother
and all in her line, does."

Ranma didn't know what to think. Cologne had known that Genma and 
Nodoka weren't his parent all this time and she never said anything? 

"Why didn't you ever say anything?" he asked.

"Come now Toe Wel, would you have honestly believed me? You would
have thought it was a trick and denied it all; we would have lost you
forever. Did you know that Lavender saw you when you went to China
to fight Saffron? She recognized you and they nearly had to knock
her out just so she wouldn't grab you or kill Genma?" 

Ranma sat there and asked for some time to think Cologne obliged
and left the room.

As Cologne left the room Shampoo bounded in front of her and asked
"What Airen doing?" "Quite child, Son-in-law has much to think about
and need not be disturbed, it is a most troubling time for him. 
Please close the Restaurant." 

Three hour later Ranma left the room and found Cologne sitting down
smoking a pipe in the closed Nekohanten. "I've come to a decision.
I want to go home. Genma and Nodoka have been my family for the 
longest time and I love them allot but they cannot reap the benefits
of their crime, I want to go home to the village."

Nodding Cologne asked for the others to get packed, "We will leave
tomorrow Son-in-law, please gather your things." Nodding Ranma looked
over to Shampoo who sat quietly in a chair looking at him, he could
see she was trying desperately not to jump up and glomp him. He 
thanked her silently.

Ranma returned home that night and was bombarded by questions
from everyone except Nabiki and Kasumi. Oddly it was Nabiki who put
a stop to it all in telling everyone that she had conned Ranma into
working for her in one of her schemes and then nodded to Ranma and 
she was then scowled at by Her father, Nodoka and Kasumi.

Ranma walked upstairs and into his room where he quickly packed his
bags and was placed it back into the closet. He was about to go train
when there was a knock at his door. It was Nabiki. "So your gonna
leave?" Ranma slowly nodded. "Thanks for the help earlier, with the
others I mean." Nabiki walked over to him; "Hey no biggy, I'm used
to it after all." Ranma looked at Nabiki and smiled; "You know, I’m
glad I met you Nabiki Tendou, I never met someone as caring as you."
Nabiki grinned like a cat "Yeah well don't let it get out, might ruin
my rep." She then kissed Ranma who stood there stunned. "Just don't
forget about me." She said as she put 10,000 yen into his hand and 
left the room.

Ranma left the next day and no one ever found out where he was going,
only Nabiki knew and she was as good as her word, Ranma had asked
her never to tell and she would take it to her grave.

Ranma arrived in the village a week later where he met a crying woman
who grabbed onto him and held him tightly as she cried. He returned
her hug and smiled at her. 

"Hello mother." He said in mandrin, "I'm home."

THE END

This story was just a little idea I decided to write up and it only
took me about 2 hours to write. I was gonna put a bit more but 
decided to stop there.

NE-ways Sybersmilodonm sorry I didn’t send this to ya first but first
this is a oneshot and that means its not a big thing. Second I lost
your email can ya gimme it again?

Comments will be appreciated, Flames will be shot.

"In the light I found a darkness that is my soul, I found it and 
left."

- Ryanko -