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Ranko'sBet: The Silent Master (Ranko's Bet)

Disclaimer: Ranma doesn't belong to me, Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me and El Hazard doesn't belong to me either. Sucks kind of.

Ranko's Bet is a FanFiction award by Duct Tape from the Temple of Ranma's Seifuku.

Warnings: If you think Ranma and Akane are the one and only pairing, think again or go away. This story is hopefully a first and it's a first time for me featuring anything with Sailor Moon inside. So you have been warned.


Ranma sighed, he did that a lot recently, again as he kept pace with his father, Akane and the old pervert. Happosai had found, had stolen, a treasure map in his collection of scrolls. What Happosai had translated was about a Demon Goddess, a beautiful female, great power, and a key of treasure. When they set out each of them had their own plans in mind. Ranma thought about getting out before the Daemon Goddess tried to kill him and marrying him once he survived, Akane wanted to proof that she was a god slayer too, Genma was there for the treasure and Happosai for the beautiful woman. Ranma was there to keep the Demon Goddess away or at least busy.

After two days of walking, since they didn't have enough money for the trains, they arrived at the place the map probably indicated. It was in front of a small hill. Akane volunteered to cook, while the males were supposed to search, since they were at their target.

"No, we survived coming here and I don't intend to die because of your cooking before the mess starts." Open mouth, insert foot, chew, all in one package deal by Ranma Saotome.

"Ranma no Baka, my cooking tastes great!" The offended female screamed and pulled her mallet out to smash Ranma.

Ranma's usual luck, or was it his Chaos factor?, decided to visit and by sheer coincidence Ranma managed to be at the right place at the wrong time, wrong place on the right time, right place right time or was it wrong place wrong time? Whatever it was, it meant that he was standing on top of the a weakest part of the ceiling of the tunnel they were looking for, weak considering the power of the mallet, it caused the earth to crumble away beneath him and dropped him into an underground stream that whisked her away while the others stared at the hole in the ground.

"Groaf" [He wants the treasure!]

"Ranma you ungrateful boy, how dare you go for the girl without me?" Happosai whined.

"You pervert, I won't let you add them to your harem" Akane fumed and prepared herself to follow her runaway fiancée. Nobody wondered that she used plural and seemed to think of the Demon Goddess and the beautiful women of the scroll in the combination with Ranma.

"Grof!" [Remember you can't swim!]

"Damn that pervert" the ever unhappy, jealous tomboy fumed.

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Ranma-chan would have fumed if she could but the cold water and the fast current kept her occupied. She went down a slope into what she thought was a spiral down, it reminded her of those slides in the water parks. Only that it felt really long, and it was dark. She doubted that it was natural since it felt regular and the walls seemed carved and very smooth. After ages of trying to get a grip on the wall she saw a small light at the end of the tunnel, and it was approaching very fast. Thanks to her battles she learnt a few nice tricks in water. First a Mouko Tabashia to damage the ceiling, next was a shark fist, that did another good deal of damage, now that the texture was roughed up Ranma-chan started on digging her hands and feat into the craters, more stones turned loose and she didn't stop but it slowed her down with the water pushing at her back. Uncoiling muscles shot her from the water to the ceiling that bore a good deal of damage too, slipping fingers and toes into cracks made it possible to stick to it. Like a Spider, or rather a Gecko Ranma-chan made her way towards the end of the tunnel, peeking out she looked into a great cave with no obvious light source. And then Ranma-chan saw it, a ledge camouflaged against the roof of the cave. Hidden from prying eyes that dared to come here, the end of the tunnel was probably the only place where you could see it from. At least that was the logical conclusion considering the amount of bones covering the ground of the cave, both in and out of water.

Ranma-chan pulled herself out of the tunnel and smashed a few holes into the wall, it was a complicated jump in these conditions, but she tried it. Her Ki started flaring outside her body while it was surging inside her veins following meridians and pathways preparing the body for what was to come, muscles compacted and tensed, than one last fast move, Ki flared, the wall caved in, muscles uncoiled and stretched in a moment that was to fast for normal people to witness and she was flying, at least it seemed like it, the apex of her flight would be a bit above the ledge.

Ranma-chan had expected another wall and having to follow another piece of ledge for while, she never expected another tunnel and went right inside, making a few rolls to take away speed and power she managed to stop pretty soon.

Ranma-chan got to her feet and looked around, symbols on the walls, what looked like a temple in the middle with a staff hovering above a pool with something glowing inside. Curiosity killed the cat was a very common saying, not that Ranma-chan would ever use it since she had a highly allergic reaction to felines, not that he knew what the word feline meant. So he went on not knowing that the saying applied to her cat side. Slowly the wet redhead approached the temple and looked into the pool. Finding the beautiful women in there seemingly sleeping was a surprise. He had expected the Demon Goddess first. Thinking back at what he heard from Happosai about the scroll the floating Staff would probably be the key. That left still the power and the Demon Goddess unaccounted for.

"To the hell, one thing at a time" she grumbled and took the staff, blue arks of what looked like electricity arched all over her, but without the usual effect of being zapped. Ranma once again had the feeling that she did something that she shouldn't have done. Especially when the blue haired female rose from the pool, completely dry. She didn't move and seemed only to float there. "Uhm, hello?" Ranma-chan tentatively asked.

Ranma-chan looked the figure over, enough Chi to blow cities and make Saffron hide, but all dormant, no traces of Ki, a well-built women, a bit taller than he was. She was dressed in some kind of a bodysuit, the material reminded Ranma-chan of rubber, the veils looked like silk. Ranma-chan walked around her, the clothes were kept in white and lighter shades of blue with a touch of grey. He decided that there was something missing. Waling around her Ranma saw her backside and on her backside and a bit above it, a metallic hole.

A thought crossed her mind "She is a wind up doll?" but to Ranma-chan it made sense in a weird kind of way. The staff was the key to the women, the women was therefore the treasure. All that was left was the power and the Demon Goddess. So Ranma-chan lifted the Staff and inserted the end into the hole, turning it clockwise again the blue arks of energy raced all over her body as she kept on turning. "Next thing I'll find out that I just powered the Demon Goddess" Ranma-chan giggled before her statement registered in her brain. "Oh shit!"

Ifuritawoke, the feeling of a new Master registering in her mind, she had fought battles before she became the stationary unit inside of the Eye of Terror, the greatest of all weapons of El Hazard. A quick check told her that it was 10.156 local years, and 286 days since she went to sleep after creating this shrine for herself. Now it was once again time to walk the path of destruction and obey her new Master, or to be specifically correct, Mistress.

"Welcome Mistress," she saw her Mistress wince "I am Ifurita-22, the most powerful kind of demon Goddesses. What are your orders"

"Oh no" Ranma registered a few thing that were very wrong to her. First, this was the Demon Goddess and therefore the power from the scroll, next was the fact that she was called 'Mistress' and finally that Akane was going to kill her for getting another beautiful women.

Ifurita stepped closer and saw her Mistress cringe away, she stopped contemplating this unexpected reaction. "Mistress I need my staff"

"Oh, sure, sorry, and call me Ranma" She handed the staff over and watched fascinated the small arcs of lightning inside the big crystal balls. "So I'm your Master? And what are you?"

"I am Ifurita-22, an android of the Ifurita series, called the most powerful of the Demon Goddesses, build by an ancient civilisation thousands of years ago in a different dimension. I was built to copy any technique that is used against me once my body experiences it"

Ranma-chan took a few moments to adsorb the information. "So you aren't from around here and stuck with me until you find someone else." Ranma-chan nodded to herself. "You wanna spar after we get out of here? I would love to learn techniques from a different dimension" At least this time there was no danger of being killed unless Ifurita had enemies and she survived Akane's first temper tantrum, marriage was also out unless... "Say you want to marry me?"

Ifurita would have facefaulted if she knew how, now she choose to to answer "If it is your wish, my body was created in similar functionality to the ancient ones who resembled your species very closely"

Ranma-chan jumped up and waved frantically with her hands "No, no, it's just that most girls want either to kill me, to marry me or both for one reason or another. I never asked for any of them." Ranma-chan said sullenly.

Ifurita wondered what to say, her Mistress was showing obvious signs of distress "Shall I destroy them?"

"What? No, no killing unless it is absolutely necessary to save lives!" Ranma-chan said far more forcefully than necessary.

Ifurita considered what her Mistress told her and made a rule out of it: Kill only if necessary to save more lives than are lost. "I shall not kill unless it is needed"

"Why are ya so casual about it?"

"I am a weapon of great power"

"I know but how much? I know it's a lot, but how strong are you?"

"I was used to race cities, destroy countries and eliminate opposing armies."

"Wow, that reminds me of Saffron" Ranma-chan exclaimed surprised.

"Saffron, immortal Phoenix God, regenerated damage without blinking, we destroyed a mountain together."

"You seem to be strong Ranma if you erased him."

"Naw, he got reborn as a child later, I didn't want to kill him but I had to, to save everyone."

Ifurita'srules were a bit updated since the story gave her more information on the 'no killing unless necessary' rule "I will be glad to serve you Ranma, anything else I should know immediately?"

"You have some hot water?"

Ifurita walked over to her shrine and cupped some water into her hand to heat it, Ranma looked interested, If he could use his Ki to heat water it would make things a lot easier, he just knew that it was going to be good having Ifurita around. "Pour it over my head and observe me"

Ifurita did and responded at once "Dual Mastership accepted, welcome Master Ranma"

"Only Ranma! What do ya mean, 'dual Mastership'?" Ranma now male and confused asked.

"Ifurita units may have more than one Master, to accept a new Master all Masters must be present and accept, to remove Mastership death or agreement of all Masters is needed."

Ranma mulled over the words for a moment "So we are stuck tighter till one of us dies since my girl- and my boyside are different"

"Yes Ranma"

"Great" Ranma had the feeling that he would keep her for ever and than some more. "How old are you anyway?"

"Describe local time units"

"Huch?"

Ifurita was a very patient android, and she just added two new rules: Explain and ask Masters in the most uncomplicated manner possible. Educate Master. "How do you measure time on this world in this age. I relate a year to one circle around the resident sun, is this correct?"

"Ah yes, we have 365 day in a year, twelve months, but the are mostly 30 or 31 days long, a week is seven days, a day has 24 hours, one hour 60 minutes and a minute 60 seconds."

"First activation of Ifurita-22 happened 14.035 years, 6 months of 30 days, two weeks, three days, 14 hours, 56 minutes and 12 seconds ago. Total activation time was one year, two months, 3 weeks, one day, five hours and 16 minutes. Last activation was 10.129 years ..."

"Enough, I don't need the minutes, days and so on, wow, you slept really long. So how do we get out?"

Ifurita stepped to Ranma and pulled the martial artist to herself "We fly"

Energy arched all over her staff as she lifted it and pointed it the ceiling, a bluish ray of light shot from the tip and tore through the ceiling, moments later Ranma felt and heard the explosion before he lost the ground beneath his feet and flew out of the new opening to the surface.

---

"He has been gone for half an hour, the ungrateful boy"

"That baka, always getting into trouble, or he is doing something perverted to the woman down there" Akane growled.

Happosai made a shocked sound before he came bouncing over "Don't worry Akane-chan I will save her from Ranma"

Anything anyone would have said was forgotten since a little further the ground exploded and the explosion threw all but Happosai of their feet, he just kept on snuggling into Akane's bosom.

When they looked up again the saw something flash through the dust and disappear high in the sky where it accelerated even more and created a visible white streak that went towards Tokyo.

"He must have released the Demon Goddess, why did I have to have such an inexperienced son?" Genma moaned.

Happosaiwept too, "No more Ranma-chan, I will make her pay for that"

Akane was torn between crying and being angry "That jerk, always doing everything on his own"

"We have to see if he is still alive" Genma said eyeing the hole.

"You go first Genma"

"Bur Master..."

Again all talk was interrupted, this time by a wet explosion coming from underground, Ifurita completely destroyed her long time sanctuary. The geyser of water and stone blasted the little group to all sides and turned Genma into a panda, Happosai avoided much damage but Akane and Genma were both knocked out. He pulled them from ground zero and came to the conclusion that returning to Nerima today was impossible.

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High up in the air Ranma was flaring his battle aura to lessen the stress on his body from the fast air current.

Ifurita'sspeciality was adaptation, she could basically learn anything that was used and came into contact with her body. Ranma's battle aura was in direct contact with her and got analysed, strengthening of the body, damage adsorption and high end senses were the first things she found out, Ranma's aura was blue, Ifurita's first try at generating a aura turned white and blinded Ranma who felt clearly overwhelmed by the power.

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At the Nekohaten Khun Lo looked up and shivered, the pure great power she felt just now should be impossible, pure Ki, the merging with Chi, pure power, untainted. "Oh Yes Son-in-law will find himself pressed this time" The cackle sent shivers down everyone's spine in the restaurant.

"Great great Grandmother scary" Xian Pu exclaimed from behind a corner.

"Quack" agreed Mu Tsu.

---

Herb blinked, that felt dangerous, but luckily, for her, Ranma was somewhere in that area. Too bad for him.

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Saffron woke with a loud wail from his nap, Kiima came literally flying and tried too soothe him. After a few frantic minutes Saffron was calmer. "Maybe I should make Ranma help in raising Saffron. After all it is partly his fault" Thinking of a about six year old saffron in Chinese clothes doing a kata made her giggle, the picture of Ranma watching Saffron while having her in his lap, made her blush.

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SetsunaMeiou was trying to keep a linear unbranched timeline, mostly unbranched. The great power that rippled above Japan caused a powerful backlash, that caused a powerful migraine, which caused her knock-out.

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Amy Mizuno had her Mercury computer on permanent scan on Juuban, reading on a great power source outside Tokyo high in the air incoming at a speed that was greater than military hardware was capable off made her frown if she could call all the Senshi before they would get attacked.

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The sudden burst off speed made even Ifurita wonder, very fast she pulled her aura into tight control, Ranma was barely conscious, such an aura should have killed, even evaporated him at once, but for some reason it felt familiar and he survived. The truth was that Ifurita Units were keyed to the Ki signature of a individual, this would be a small taint in the otherwise completely pure power of the Demon Goddesses and they were not allowed to endanger a Master unless directly ordered too. That made Ifurita unconsciously adjust her Aura to Ranma's so that the boy could survive.

Ifurita stopped, she was on the border of Tokyo, she felt that it took a lot of power but than again she had more power than she could usually use, maybe her new Master was capable of teaching her, in exchange she might try to teach him, he had a energy supply that was big enough to try some techniques that were usually only possible with technical help beyond the standard on this world. She decided that she liked her new Master.

"Where now?" she asked.

"Huch? Oh, over there, and Ifurita"

"Yes?"

"Never use your full battle aura unless you really have, I bet people all over the world felt that." Ranma explained.

"I shall learn to control it, Ranma" she agreed.

"Good, besides I want to learn about that pure Ki you have. It's damn powerful"

Ifurita allowed herself a small smile, a Master that that wanted her help and didn't see her as a tool of power, he/she wanted to learn from HER and would teach her. Yes she really liked him/her and would keep him/her alive as long as she could. If he/she would get killed, she decided to put his/her knowledge to good use and avenge him/her.

It wasn't love but the fiancées had just gotten a rival they could never even dream to defeat, not only in terms of power but also in devotion and in not accepting Ranma the way he/she was.

---

NabikiTendou liked to be on top and knowing everything, seeing Soun turned into a statue was not new, seeing Kasumi greet Ranma who was in the arm of a blue haired women was new. She took of for information and fun.

Kasumi had been hanging the laundry when she saw Ranma in the arms of a woman she didn't know, the interesting part was that the woman and Ranma were flying, they landed softly beside her. "Hello Ranma, who is new girlfriend here?"

Ranma blinked "She is not my girlfriend, she is a friend. Kasumi this is Ifurita, she will live with us from now on, Ifurita, this is Kasumi, she is the best cook I know and keeps the household here, I'm sure you will like, she can teach you how everything at home works." Ranma looked around "The statue over there is Mr. Tendou, he is Kasumi's, Nabiki's and Akane's father and this is his house. The girl coming is Nabiki, don't ask her anything, she will charge you for it, look out she makes pictures and sells them for money"

Nabiki looked at Ranma with interest "So who is she, another fiancée?"

"This is Ifurita Nabiki, I woke her at the place pops and the perv dragged me to"

Nabiki glanced at Ifurita "Any reason why she is clothed in such a futuristic outfit?"

Ranma hesitated "She is from another time and world"

Nabiki looked at Ranma in an unbelieving way.

"Nabaan Mirror?"

"Oh right ..." Nabiki thought about new ways to make money since there was another head in the house. "Martial Artist? Eat a lot of food?"

"I do not require food" Ifurita answered and followed Kasumi who invited her.

Nabiki eyed the Staff with interest.

Ranma interjected "No selling, she needs it"

Nabiki grinned, that was an interesting part of information.

Kasumi called out to Ranma "Ranma when may we expect Akane and your father?"

"Tomorrow I think, not before dinner probably, unless they take the train"

Nabiki shook her head "They don't have the money"

"You can always ride on the train" Ranma explained her

Nabiki just shook her head.

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Ranma was explaining Japanese sitting customs to Ifurita when Soun woke up "What is the meaning of this?" Soun went into full demon head mode.

To Ranma it wasn't really threatening after facing Saffron but the Ki Soun was radiating was unpleasant.

Ifurita felt the fear aura Soun was giving of and went into a Demon Head herself, with her seemingly endless supply of Ki and and her not perfect control of the needed amount of pure Ki went overboard.

She released the technique after second but found Kasumi and Nabiki on top of Ranma who was blinking at at her. "Ifurita"

"Yes Ranma?"

"We need to start training, best now"

Ifurita nodded as she saw Nabiki jump of Ranma with an unsure look on her face, Kasumi had a healthy blush on her face and left Ranma's lap with a lot more dignity.

Ranma got up and showed Ifurita the way to the doyo.

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Nabiki asked Kasumi the million Yen question "Do you think she really isn't a fiancée? She is a fighter and pretty, Heck Ranma seems to like her"

Kasumi nodded absently as she went into the kitchen "Nabiki do you think that she drinks tea if she doesn't eat?"

Nabiki sweatdropped "Ahm, ask her"

"I shouldn't disturb them now, Ranma-kun seemed so eager to teach her"

Nabiki considered, this WAS the first time Ranma ever seemed eager to teach a girl, she had to find out her secret, maybe it was because she was from a different world. But how to make money from someone who didn't have any, or at least none in the local currency.

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"All right, first we will meditate, even though I can't really help you since every time I try to meditate something goes wrong" Ranma started his lesson.

"Really? Meditation is a lesson in relaxation, calming and concentration on certain aspects of life. Why would something go wrong there?" Ifurita asked calmly.

Ranma snorted "You'd wonder, wanna see?"

Ifurita nodded.

Ranma took a seat and Ifurita copied him as he sat down cross-legged "Meditation is about controlling your power, making a full battle aura drains your power pretty fast, not that you really have worry about that part, after all you have so much that Saffron would piss himself"

Ifurita decided that Ranma really needed lessons in proper speech. But whoever Saffron was, he seemed to be powerful. She also understood the drain due to the aura, while it increased her power greatly it drained a lot of power.

Ranma started to glow softly, between his hands a pale glow started "This is a Mouko Tabashita. It is a Ki blast, I don't use all my power or it could blow the dojo. The same goes for my battle aura I control the amount of energy I put into it, the more the stronger, faster I get, but it takes more energy "

Ifurita nodded, it was a vague explanation but it worked for her. "When summoning the energy wants to flow, how do control that?"

Ranma nodded "Yes it wants to burst, that's why we have to control the rush, in my case I have to summon it, a little energy goes easily, if I want more power I have to push it into my aura"

Ifurita nodded again, she measured the Ki she had at her spontaneous disposal and compared it to the power she had felt from Ranma, it was almost what she thought to be his total power. She considered it to the power she felt from other people and decided that her Master was truly powerful.

Carefully she drew upon a little power and summoned a pure white ball of Ki in her hand. She knew that it wasn't completely as it should "Shoot me"

"What?" Ranma looked at her like crazy.

"Once you hit me I can analyse it"

"Why don't you just touch it?"

"That will enable me to feel it" Ifurita touched the ball and was surprised at the density, it was a good blast, nothing she was capable of, but she felt that his energy was different from hers, it felt more personal it was his. She couldn't figure it out, but it filled her with confidence, she simply knew that she could handle it and that she could master it all easily. Being the most powerful being around didn't hurt either.

Ifurita shook her head.

"It's a rush, that's why I try for the pure stuff you use, no such side effects" Ranma told her after Ifurita had collected her thoughts.

Ifurita summoned a Ki sphere in close size to Ranma's, but Ranma looked at it in awe. "Make it smaller, If mine could blow a wall out, your takes the whole dojo apart"

Ifurita blinked and complied. She tried for the smallest still stable Ki projectile and summoned one in the size of a marble, a very deadly marble. Ranma felt reminded of the martial artist he had to fight. The little girl and her goons with the toys.

This time it was Ranma that went for a feel and he felt, pure power, untainted Ki, power, the real thing. To Ranma it was a humbling experience, after all the time he was training he had to find out that there was a android, or was it synthetic life form? Made to fight, that had so much pure power that it could basically do what it wanted and nobody would be able to do a thing, what hurt him personally was, she was untrained, that he could remedy, if he managed to learn to control pure Ki, even better, but at the moment he felt the joy of having a pupil that could learn as fast as him or even faster.

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Shampoo was on a mission, she had to find out where Ranma had gone to, and later go there and warn him of the danger unless it was Happosai's fault that it escaped, in that case it was finding out what the evil little gnome unleashed.

After handing Mercery Girl 2000 Yen, Shampoo got directed towards the dojo.

When she broke through the dojo door she saw Ranma sitting there while a blue haired woman was standing beside him with a white ball of Ki pointed at him.

"Enemy Blue Haired girl die!" Shampoo exclaimed and jumped at the new woman.

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Ifurita had the sphere stable she wanted to ask Ranma for a target to test it's power but hesitated since he always complained about getting disturbed. He had explained her that he wanted to learn pure Ki. Now that he knew what he was looking fir it should be easier.

The exploding wall made her wonder if there really was something to his story about not being able to meditate.

The girl coming in and aiming for her was more familiar ground, the little Ki marble hit Shampoo straight on and the explosion shook the dojo. Shampoo left the way she came, the hole she made in the dojo wall, but this time flying at high speeds due to being ground zero from the explosion of Ifurita' highly dense Ki marble. The Amazon ended her flight in the Koi pond.

The Koi were affected by the Tendou's and Saotome's. Now that an enemy in a reasonable size was dropped into their pond they attacked. Shampoo-neko found herself hit with fins, bitten, tackled and drowned.

Kasumi stepped to the pond that looked like hundreds piranhas in a feeding frenzy came for a visit and lowered her arm into the mess. After only a few moment she pulled her hand out and in her hand a twitching purple cat.

Nabiki fell over laughing and wondering if kiss of death applied to fish.

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Ranma opened an eye and asked "Do you believe me now?"

Ifurita wanted too but such things were highly improbable "Coincidence?"

Ranma snorted "Just wait" He went back to meditating.

Several minutes into the meditation Kasumi opened the door and entered with a tea set. "I brought some refreshments, I know you don't eat Ifurita-san but would you like some tea?"

Ifurita saw Ranma's smirk as he gave her the 'I told you so' look. "Thank you, I shall enjoy the tea. I can eat, but it is not required"

Kasumi nodded "I made the cookies myself, if you will excuse me" She bowed and left.

"Third time's a charm?" Ranma asked the blue haired female super weapon.

She only nodded absently as she tried tasting a cookie, it was a first for her since she never required it and they were never offered to her before, she knew liquids, but solid food was something new, and she liked the taste.

Ranma's aura was flaring up and down, the colours were shifting but they were there, he even found a new way to increase the density of his aura and thought that he was close to finding a new way to hide his presence.

"Ranma Saotome prepare to die!" came a scream.

Not even a tenth second later Ifurita's staff was in her hand and she was aiming for the boy in the brown clothes with the bandanna on his head. Ranma registered the threat.

A tenth second and a bit, Ifurita fires while Ranma's brain decides that a sigh was that a sigh proper response.

Two tenth seconds, Ryoga gets hit by a strong, for normal humans lethal attack. Ifurita starts to rise. Ranma starts to sigh.

One second after Ryoga's trademark entrance, Ranma finished his sigh and wonders if Ifurita's presence is calming on his instincts. Ryoga has landed like Shampoo before him in the pond, he is left alone by the koi since they didn't want to anger the tomboy with the mallet. All wood splinters and wall parts have fallen to the ground.

One minute after the attack, Ifurita blinked. "Did he turn into the pig?"

"Yes that was Ryoga, he is one of the best around, not as good as me, but nobody normal is, you believe me now?"

Ifurita blinked again, she decided to accept defeat "Yes, you want some tea?"

"I would love to" Ranma responded and Ifurita filled a cup and handed it to him.

"Ranma, why did you blow a hole into the wall?" Nabiki entered in a bad mood due to the new financial problem.

"She did it," Ranma said pointing to Ifurita "she blew Ryoga into the pond when he attacked me"

Nabiki shook her head "What are you talking about, there is only P-chan there"

Ifurita interrupted "But what Ranma said is true, I shot the boy with the bandanna into the pond where he turned into the pig with the bandanna"

Nabiki paled "He is P-chan?"

Ranma gaped "I thought you knew, hell you all teased me often enough about it"

Nabiki analysed a few situations from the past "Let me guess, daddy knows"

Ranma nodded.

"Why couldn't you tell her who P-chan is?"

"I promised"

Nabiki nodded, things made more sense now. "We are not finished Ranma, right now I got a pig to talk to"

Ifurita observed Nabiki "She was threatening you"

"Yes, can't do anything about it, we will see what happens later"

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After a little sparring, which Ranma took seriously after Ifurita got her first ten hits in, Ranma felt the way he looked, beaten. She had taken more than a few hits, but adapted the striking techniques at once into her battle style, the Amaguriken she used was dangerous, it was worse than anything that Ranma got ever hit with, each strike as hard as Ryoga's but faster than his own. Oh he was happy to have an almost unbeatable sparring partner, or he would be once his ribs were back in one piece and his brain stopped killing him.

Ranma dragged himself up the stairs and undressed on the way, putting the clothes into the wash had to wait, as he stumbled into the bathroom he passed a naked Nabiki who had difficulty remembering seeing Ranma that beat up from a sparring since ages.

Ifurita followed Ranma wondering if she had went to hard on him, collecting the clothes on the way she came upon Nabiki who was dressing herself "Oh, Ifurita, put the his clothes in the hamper, he will be out in a bit, or you can try to join him, we have enough space for more than one person in the furo"

Nabiki left smirking, a camera was installed and would get a few good shots of Ifurita and Ranma together, it would be perfect.

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Inside Ranma-chan had finished scrubbing herself and decided to step into the furo when the door opened and the newest household member stepped in, naked but armed with her staff.

"Eeep!" Ranma exclaimed and waited for the hit.

"Do you require anything Ranma?" Ifurita asked wondering about her Mistresses response.

"Aren't you going to hit me?" Ranma asked cautiously.

"Am I required to do that?" Ifurita asked puzzling "My knowledge of interaction indicates nothing of that kind, usually thing like this situation may lead to sexual activity or one leaving the bath. Do you wish me to do any of these?"

Ranma's brain overloaded, girl walking in wanted sex unless they left. Than what was it with Akane? Did she think of hitting with a mallet as sex? Ranma really had to wonder. Ifurita said that she would do both, or something like that. "No you can stay, guess I'll have to show you how to use this kind of baths ..." Open mouth, insert foot, chew.

"It would be appropriate Ranma" Ifurita nodded and observed as the redhead turned to the small stools on the floor. She had a fully functional body, only she had never used anything beyond her combat abilities, if her Mistresses rising body temperature was any clue, Ifurita had the feeling that this time might be a bit different. Even though she wasn't thinking that her Mistress was interested in that.

---

Nabiki waited for Ranma-chan and Ifurita to stop bathing and for the first chance to collect her pictures. When the two left the bath in conversation, Ranma's expression was one of confusion, Nabiki entered the bath and went for her special camera, she took it and saw it lying broken, shattered and burned. Nabiki twitched, she couldn't really ask Ranma for money for the replacement since that would be admitting making pictures of the family. She kept the copies and never had had to sell them, until now.

She even kept a few nice snapshots of herself, for entertainment value. The saucy pictures of Ranma-kun and Ranma-chan were part of her private collection and were kept for personal entertainment. Kasumi's pictures were kept too, Nabiki never understood why. Akane's pictures were financial backup. She never had intended to sell those, after all that was what Ranma was for.

So she controlled her collection if everything was still there.

---

Ranma and Ifurita were talking with Kasumi and enjoying the evening tea. Soun was fidgeting around Ifurita since he considered her more dangerous than the Master himself.

"Ranma-kun, will Ifurita-san accompany you to school?" Kasumi asked as oblivious as usually.

Ranma stopped moving for a moment. He seemed to consider it. "Hey Ifurita, ya have been active for a year or so, wanna go to school with me? If you think this afternoon was weird, school's far worse" Ranma snorted and mumbled something about insane principals, stupid kendoists and perverted students that not even Ifurita managed to understand with her superior hearing.

"I would like that, I understand that this school is your educational centre, do I need any information to enter?"

Ranma blinked and tried to decode the sentence.

Kasumi giggled and answered "I can borrow you my old school books, they should contain everything you might need"

Ranma decided to agree with Kasumi "Yup, Kasumi never tells something wrong"

Kasumi blushed "Ranma-kun that's sweet of you"

Now it was Ranma's turn to blush.

Ifurita watched the interaction and briefly wondered just how many women were after her Master. She made a note to herself to ask him for his life story later.

---

As night descended onto the Tendou-Ke Ranma lay on the roof and watched the stars, Ifurita landed gently beside him and decided to break the silence "Ranma, I need to know your past, the interaction with the environment seems to based on that past and it is critical information"

Ranma blinked.

"Tell me you past"

Ranma nodded, he had forgotten that Ifurita was new to the bunch and didn't yet know what had happened.

"It all started about twelve years ago when ..." Ranma started talking, feelings started bursting forwards hidden thought, things he had told nobody before, he felt and knew that he could trust Ifurita, that she wasn't doing this only because he was her Master, he knew she wanted to know, and he realized that she would in turn tell him her story. So Ranma went over Ukyo, to insane training methods like the Neko-ken, the pain, nights full of silent tears and pain in body and soul, the loneliness, the hate, the fear, later being sold and not knowing it. The arrangements and all the fiancées, his stupid panda and the insane mother, the old pervert and the old ghoul. Enemies, one stronger than the other, Taro, Kiima, Saffron, Toma, The Seven Lucky Gods, Ryoga, Mousse, the Kuno's, the random challengers, new fiancées everywhere, the guys wanting and lusting after his girl side, the girls wanting and lusting after his guy side, the eternal chaos without a chance to relax. And now her, another girl/women by his side, but also a chance for peace since she knew new things, things that he wanted to learn and use, teach and being taught.

Ifurita watched Ranma weep openly, laugh, frown, smile and much more. Deeply underlining was something she couldn't fully understand, emotional pain. She was old yet young, so she had no possible reference to his problems since they were not something military in nature. She found herself telling of wars, raced cities, destroyed homes, murdered people and destruction and more destruction. She realized that her life was monotone and Ranma was a hope for her too, the hope for a life more peaceful than the last. He was her Master, she corrected as a small rain changed him into a girl, Mistress and while not peaceful life it wasn't centred on destruction. Like him she had hope on leading a life better than before, he wasn't going to control her every step and wanted her to act independently. She understood the principals but decided to ask him for his input on what to do if she wasn't sure.

---

The Fates fell over laughing, basically Ifurita just promised to become an even more powerful, but more balanced and less hotheaded, Ranma. In their opinion the universe now promised never to become dull. Considering it was Fates talking or rather laughing, all but L-sama felt a shiver going down their spines or something like that if they had none.

---

Morning found Ranma being woken by Ifurita who had been asked to do that by Kasumi. After a quick and peaceful breakfast, Nabiki, Ifurita and Ranma got up to go to school together.

"Ranma-kun, Ifurita-san would you be so kind and run an errand in Juuban for me?" Kasumi asked them with a soft voice.

They looked at each other and Ranma shrugged, Ifurita nodded.

"There is a certain teashop I love in Juuban, now that Ifurita can fly I would ask you get me some tea"

Ranma nodded, Kasumi's teas tasted great, and anything to help Kasumi.

Ifurita accepted the mission, the tea tasted great and maybe she could find one she really liked, she was still reserved towards food but tea was something she found herself liking.

---

Somewhere a few chaos gods screamed "Strike" and lovers of order shivered.

---

---

Somewhere else a green haired woman felt something Ranma felt regularly, someone walking over her grave.

---

School, Furikan High, home to loons, insane people, perverts and martial artists with a few completely normal in between.

SeeingRanma come to school wasn't anything new. Seeing Ranma with a new girl wasn't new either. Seeing Ranma come to school with a new girl and Nabiki was weird.

"So the foul Sorcerer hath enslaved a new fair women by using demons from hell. I shall free this beauty, the pigtailed goddess and the fair tigress from his hold, for I am the Blue Thunder of Furikan, undefeated champion of justice!" Thunder struck.

Ifurita looked at Ranma "Sorcerer? Pigtailed Goddess?"

"He thinks I'm keeping her as a pet or somethin'"

Ifurita smiled "I am Ifurita, called the Demon Goddess, Ranma is my Master by fate and I pledge my life to him of my free will. Flee or die" using a greater version of Soun's demon head technique was overkill but it served the image.

The fainted and cowering students were prove enough.

---

Ifurita calmly started filling out the entering exam, starting with the personal data.

Name: Ifurita-22
Born: ~12.047 B.C
Age: 1
Place of Birth: El Hazard, Neria, Nyrie
Sex: Female
Parents: none
Former schooling: none

The test itself wasn't that different in the topics, until the special questions came.

124: Are you a martial artist?
Ifurita considered for a moment, her master was one, or maybe a warrior, she was learning the art, as he called it, from him, so yes.
124: yes
125: Do you have more than one Dan ranking? Yes (she considered it probable since Ranma was good and she was learning fast, if not she would by the end of the week)
126: Are you engaged to Ranma Saotome? No
127: Do your actions cause property damage? Yes
128: Have you ever been attacked without apparent reason? Yes
129: Do you like coconuts? (Ifurita considered for a moment, her only indication was a coconut bomb thrown at Ranma) No
130: Do you think short hair should be required at school? No
131: Do you like pineapples? No
132: Do you know how to dance the Hula? No (Ifurita had no idea what that meant)
133: Why are you trying for this school? Ranma is here
134: What do you want to do after school? (Ifurita wondered, she was supposed to serve her Master, Ranma seemed to give her pretty free reign, she didn't know) unknown
...

After two more pages of such questions the clerk looked the answers over, since she was associated with Ranma the answers were simply accepted.

"Do you want to go into Ranma's class or Nabiki's?" better let someone that dangerous decide for herself.

Ifurita looked at the man in front of her.

"Your grades are almost perfect, present history is lacking, but your age indicates that you are young" the man stretched the word but got no reaction "So we are letting you decide were you want to go, you seem to know them both"

Ifurita wondered for a moment and decided that Ranma's class would do "I shall accompany Ranma"

"Here is your schedule, do you have a reason why a usual uniform won't work for you?"

Ifurita had realized that only Ranma, the teachers and her were using something else than the uniform. "I need free access to my back on the heigh of the lower spine upper tail bone, and the staff is a part of me"

The poor man wondered what to do, he went for the easy way out "Here is a paper that frees you from the clothing regulation"

Ifurita got up and left, not yet used to the custom Japanese bows.

---

Ranma wondered if he should drop dead or fall over laughing. He had resisted screaming like a girl at Ifurita's Demon Head, he had even brought the shivering Nabiki to her class, a fact that caused a lot of talk, than he had brought Ifurita to the principal and fought the fat weirdo of. Ifurita had learned to to make pineapples appear and he got blasted once.

In class everyone wanted to know about the new fiancée, Ukyo hit him once before he managed to explain that she wasn't a fiancée but he was still responsible for her since he woke her up. The girl went into fairy tale mode, talking about princesses woken by a kiss. The boys were perverted as usual, unless they were avoiding him since Ifurita seemed protective of him. Gosunki was preparing demon ward and researching a summoning circle, after all if Ranma managed controlling a Demon Goddess, he should at least get an imp.

At the middle of the second period Ifurita entered the classroom. Hinako who had drained Hiroshi and Daisuke for talking in class accepted the papers and looked the new girl in town over. "Class this is Ifurita, she is new in town and seems to be close to Ranma. I'm reading something about treat with caution here, any more questions?"

"Are you free?" a boy asked leering.

"No" the response was cold and efficient.

"What are your hobbies?" a girl asked.

"I never had the time to develop any, I find satisfaction in martial arts since Ranma started teaching me and in return learning from me"

Those words screamed dangerous, Ranma took Ifurita as a student, something that was a first in Nerima, that Ranma still had things to learn from her, the newcomer was even worse. Asking Nabiki seemed the best thing to do.

Class resumed with Ifurita sitting and holding her staff in one hand.

---

In the break Ranma decided to talk to Ifurita, the staff seemed impractical, he understood it's use but always looking after it an carrying it around wasn't practical.

"Ifurita, follow me to the roof please" Ranma jumped out of the window and down on the ground, a powerfully jump later he landed on the roof.

Ifurita followed flying, she landed softly and waited for Ranma to talk.

"Since you always carry the staff around and you need it, I decided to teach ya the Hidden Weapons Technique. Mousse is master in it but I know some, but now how to teach it the fast way ..."

"My staff is a part of my body, hide it and I should learn it"

Ranma blinked, it was cheap, but it worked. He accepted the staff and hid it, he felt the energy boiling inside it. He took it out again and hid it again.

Ifurita reached out to Ranma and pulled her staff out, a fact that made Ranma stare at her with his jaw hanging. She hid it a few times to retrieve it again. "Ranma please try to take it out"

Ranma decided to humour her, if she could take stuff from his pocket, why not the other way around too? He was still shocked when it worked, without thinking he hid it in her pocket again and froze when he processed the fact that he could hide things in the pockets of other people as well as take things from them.

"I really like working with ya!" he told his partner in training.

"Thank you" it wasn't a necessary response but it felt right.

---

As school ended Kuno was lying around in a blasted heap, caused by both, Ifurita and Ranma. Nabiki was walking with a happy bounce in her step and Ifurita had learned Kuno's Strike Technique as her had tried to vanquish the demon summoned by the foul sorcerer Saotome back to hell. Things were looking up since Ranma promised her that he had something far better than air pressure waves as a technique that was to deadly to be taught around. Since he considered Ifurita as reliable he thought that teaching her the Saotome Forbidden Techniques should work great and probably make her remember something worth learning. Know if he only could figure out how the pure Ki worked.

The pair waved goodbye as Ifurita gathered Ranma into her arms and took of towards Juuban.

---

The Senshi in Juuban were on the hunt, a youma was prowling the streets, it was one of those 'I am hungry' things that worked without higher cause. But that one was a bit annoying. It was running down a street, bouncing all over the place avoiding blasts, to bad it was running straight towards the real danger.

"No you won't endanger Kasumi's favourite tea shop!" came the exclamation from above as a blast hit beside is and caused it to slam into a car.

Ranma glared at the thing as he jumped out of Ifurita's arms who took down beside him.

Down the street the inner Senshi had seen the exchange and were wondering who the newcomers were.

"Are they friends?" Usagi asked.

"Whoever they are they have a good taste in Tea" Rei realized, seeing the shop they protected.

"He's a hunk" Minako chirped dreamily.

"I got dibs!" Makoto grinned.

Ranma shuddered.

"Oh my" Amy gasped.

"I don't want to die"
"Is he possessed?"
"Is he married?"
"Why is it always the cute ones?"
Guesswho said what.


"No, he is as strong as we are, I think" Amy explained.

Rei pulled out a ward "What is he"

"Human I think, he has some weird readings, so I'm not sure."

"What is she?" Minako wanted to know on the lookout for rivals.

They looked over to Ranma and Ifurita, Ranma just kicked the youma trough a wall and started talking to Ifurita about something the Senshi didn't hear. Ifurita's reaction was pulling out a weird looking staff and shooting the emerging creature. After a blinking flash and a strong gust of wind all left was a hole in the ground.

The Senshi gaped, Amy gaped at the computer "She could easily destroy the city"

"WHAT?" was the scream.

"She is below Saturn in power, and not much" the Senshi shivered.

"We have to talk to them" Moon decided.

Makoto nodded "I'm out of tea, besides he is cute"

Rei glared "What, you want to go there and ask them, 'are you enemies?'?"

Amy nodded "I think it's the best, I never saw them before and they seemed to come here for the tea"

Minako nodded happily "Do you think she is his girlfriend?"

"Where are they?" all further talk was interrupted by Setsuna with the Outers.

Usagi wailed "I know you are going to say they are a threat to crystal Tokyo.

"Yes they are!" Setsuna nodded "Where did they go?"

The answer came as Ifurita came out with a perplexed looking Ranma.

"Deep Submerge"
"World Shaking"
"Dead Scream"

Ifurita got hit by three powerful projectiles, she went through a few walls and had a house collapse on her. Ranma got hit by the shock wave and into a soda dispenser. The cold liquid turned him into a girl immediately.

Hotaruhad had a feeling of familiarity when she first saw the boy now that he was a girl the feelings increased and her head started to hurt, badly.

She saw the way he jumped to avoid the blast and call out to them. Usagi seemed to try to calm the situation, Setsuna, Michiru and Haruka called out to her to shoot.

She shot through the pain, she didn't want to but something forced her.

Ranma avoided being hit, he was angry but he still felt Ifurita under the rubble. Avoiding the shots was child's play, but he wanted to know why they were attacking her this time. At least some of them seemed to try to calm others. Then she saw her and stopped dead in her tracks. Purple eyes looked with hers and she knew that the girl didn't want to shoot her but that she was forced too. Ranma felt peace and security, the blast travelled for her but she wasn't afraid, it felt familiar.

The Silence Glaive Surprise hit.

Ranma Saotome ceased to be.

---

She was a child, a child that grew up in moments, she had knowledge and power. Her mother was Guardian of the Silence Glaive. She daughter of her and incarnation of the Silence itself. Her Mother had been lonely, being feared for power that dwarfed the power of the queen.

The Silence had been lonely, being feared by all as the end of everything. Everyone came from the silence into the noise and ended again in silence. But they only saw the end.

So the two of them were together in loneliness, in silence. They decided to bring noise into the silence. A child, a host for the silence in the world of noise, a child to mother for the Senshi of Silence.

The first years sheltered from a world that would fear her as she grew up faster than should be possible.

Than small trips into the world beyond Saturn, seeing the good and the bad.

Finally death, at the hands of those who her mother trusted, than back as the silence seeing her mother enslaved by her murderers. She waited for a long time for a body that could hold her essence, than she was born, born under darkness, born under the stars of chaos, a body that could grow powerful enough to hold the essence of the silence she waited for years as the mortal shell struggled.

And than finally the moment of truth, the awakening, the touch of the silence upon the body, now the choice was his, was hers.

---

I am Ranma Saotome, Martial Artist supreme.

I am Cisza, the Silence in a immortal body.

I am a boy, cursed to be a girl.

I am nothing, chosen to be a girl.

I want to be the best.

I want to live.

Who am I?

I am Ranma, the Silence reborn, Protector of the solar system, cursed to be a girl, immortal, child of Hotaru, Sailor Saturn.

What do I want to do?

Protect the weak, protect the world, be the best, even if it means being someone else than before.

---

Dark lightning and Silence were physical manifestations of the change.

Gone was the girl in Chinese clothes. In her place stood a girl, a girl in a fuku, that was if fuku's were pitch black and adsorbed all light.

She blinked and ran her hands over her new clothes. A black choker with an obsidian, the bright red hair tied by a black string, on her head a silver tiara with another obsidian. The gloves were black and reminded Ranma of leather, only that there were no seams. The boots were made of the same material, while they had higher heels they were by no means really girly, they were something a vampire would take pride in. Next was the fuku, did they actually make any with mesh sleeves, if you could that a sleeve, it was covered by a net, all black in different shades of black. Especially the net seemed to suck up the light.

Ranma sighed, such things always seemed to happen to her ... him ... whatever.

Ranma remembered something in the past life her hair had been black, now it was red, she pulled a strand forward and sighed again, the hair was longer, past her shoulder blades, tied in a low ponytail.

"Dead Scream"

"Nnnnooooo!" screamed a voice

Instincts toned by a new life kicked in, shifting a bit the energy ball sailed past an tore through the rubble containing Ifurita.

A bigger explosion followed. Debris was caught in winds flowing around the dirtied form of the female synthoid. Her eyes scanned the battlefield.

Ranma jumped up and floated beside the weapon "You are dirty"

Ifurita decided to make an obvious remark too "You are different"

Ranma sighed "Seems I'm a reborn magical girl from a past long gone, or something like that. I still can't think straight"

"Deep Submerge"

Ranma held her hand out "Silence Wall" and the projectile blew up without any damage.

Ifurita nodded "Mistress identified, new psychic and energy imprint accepted!" Ranma opened her mouth when Ifurita continued "Each Master is identified by his energy matrix, Ki frequencies, yours changed a lot so I had to make sure it was really you Ranma"

"World Shaking"

Again the barrier held.

---

Meanwhile Hotaru was on her knees, her head felt like exploding and she was screaming in pain. The Inners were surrounding her as Usagi and Makoto held her and Amy scanned her.

Amy came to a conclusion "She is fighting some seals, very powerful and from Silver Millennium. They are hurting her and seem to control her"

Usagi seemed composed for once "Why?"

"I don't know" came the reply.

---

"Ifurita, we will help my mother, can you take care of those three?" Ranma requested.

Ifurita smiled, her Mistress asked her to, not commanded "Yes, I can't copy their powers since they are as you said magical, but I can distract them if it is your wish"

"Let's go"

Ifurita summoned her battle aura, the full one and blurred into action the moment Ranma let the force field dissipate. She reappeared beside Sailor Neptune and did an open palm strike to the face. A hard blow but not to damaging, only that she still wasn't used to the power up the battle aura caused so that Neptune slammed trough a telephone pole into a super market and into the warehouse behind it. It was doubtful that she would be fit enough for action any time soon if she survived it. While Neptune was still flying the staff spew forward a compact shot, that was just as powered up as the hit with the hand, after all her staff was a part of her body.

Plutosaw her chances weaken, only the Inners and her were standing and the Inners were preoccupied with Hotaru. Seeing the Silence appear next to the thing the time gates warned her about made he worry. She opened her mouth to warn the Senshi when the blue haired woman aperead before her, Pluto only had time to contemplate the Time Stop when darkness fell upon her.

---

"Move!" Ranma told Minako and Makoto who stood in her way.

Usagi sniffed at he newcomer as the other Senshi complied the commanding and quite voice. Ranma knelt beside her mother from the past and put her hands on Hotaru's chest. "Those blessed by me are mine, may the seals be broken and your true form and powers came forth again"

Black lightning surged all over Hotaru who relaxed suddenly and went limp in Usagi's arms. Than her eyes opened and she saw Ranma "Cisza" it was a hopeful whisper.

Ranma smiled "Hi mom"

The silence was deafening, the loudest noise was a car somewhere not really close by and some shouting.

Minako squeaked first "Mom?" while looking from Hotaru to Ranma and back.

"Mission accomplished, Two seriously injured, one injured" Ifurita dropped the mostly broken body of Neptune to the ground next to Uranus who had a bleeding hole in her stomach. Pluto looked better off, her fuku was ripped and she was heavily bruised. "Power drainage beyond expected parameter as well as performance increase, medical attention for two of them needed before they die"

Ranma nodded and grinned "So my killers from the past need my help know after they decided I was to uncontrollable to be let alive they are at my mercy. How fitting. Mom, they controlled you with some geas, shall I heal they or let them die and rot in hell for the crimes they did?"

Rei decided to defend the outers, she didn't like them but they belonged to the team "Heal them, I'm sure they had their reasons"

Hotaru spoke up "Killing scientists since they could stop the great cold, removing people from our paths that could turn us from Crystal Tokyo, bending future so this was the only path. Walking over corpses and attacking innocents not fitting into the plans. Shooting first, asking questions later, Good reasons, ne?"

Usagi shivered while Amy swallowed, she always had had feeling that Setsuna was keeping secrets and not telling them a lot, but this was worse than she expected "Are you sure?"

Ranma and Hotaru nodded "Yes"

Makoto and Minako looked at each other "The reason why" Minako started "why never got any boys" Makoto continued "is her?" Minako ended pointing at Setsuna.

Amy answered "Probably, I didn't think she manipulated everything up to this point but it's possible.

Usagi looked at the downed figures "Heal them so no lasting damage remains"

She smiled at Ranma and Ifurita "I'm Sailor Moon, pleased to meet you"

Minako grinned at Ranma "Thanks for giving me a chance at love, I'm Sailor Venus, want to go boy hunting sometime?"

Ranma declined.

Makoto nodded "I'm Sailor Jupiter, you have some really nice moves if you took them out that fast, can you teach me?"

Ifurita pointed to Ranma "This is my sensei in the Art"

Ranma blushed "Ahm, can I talk to mom first?"

Makoto nodded.

Amy bowed lightly "I'm Sailor Mercury, what sort of energy are you using and you don't seem to be human, what are you?"

Ifurita looked to Ranma who shrugged "I will talk to you later and maybe explain in exchange for knowledge about you and the technology you are using" She thought it would be nice to have someone who might be able to repair her if her regenerative capacities were overpowered.

"I'm Sailor Mars and I think they are dying" Rei pointed out.

"Oh crap" Ranma exclaimed and went to healing.

Hotaru was by his side and healing Michiru while resetting an arm. Ranma was watching fascinated as the hole in Haruka's body was closing under her supervision.

Ifurita let her staff disappear and decided to introduce herself first since Ranma and his Mother were working on saving the two she had damaged more than wanted. "I am Ifurita-22, of the Ifurita series from El Hazard, a world far away and possibly in another dimension. I am one of the most powerful Demon Goddesses ever produced. My Master is Ranma and I am his weapon, friend or whatever he wants me to be. Call me Ifurita since that is what Ranma calls me"

Ranma straightened herself "I am Ranma, the Silence turned flesh, I strife to be the best and I am Sailor Silence, protector of this solar system"

The oat was sworn, the promise made, the point of no return passed. Ranma Saotome was Sailor Silence, Ranma the Silence now.



Authors Notes: I'm not finished with this oneshot, it kept on getting longer and longer, but real life was a bitch too. Being stuck on a camping in a caravan where the most advanced piece of technology is a mobile phone that is the only Internet connection is hard. Especially since AA is the only thing that works out there, luckily my aunt and cousin come around and being in the city to meet them gives me the computer time I need to post this.

The story is about half way done. I want to post some aftermath of the battle and settling in in the new family. As well as insert a few days between Ifurita arriving and her and Ranma going to Juuban. Akane's and Nodoka's reactions reactions to Ifurita are a must, as well as taking up life with Hotaru, after all Hotaru can't stay with the people that used her for their purposes only. Basicly this is a draft.

But it's all I got and once it's complete expect the true story for C&C.

Writing this took me 19 hours... wonder how much it will be once it's finished.