Disclaimer: These characters are not mine. They belong to the wonderful Romiko Takahashi and her licensees (Viz Communications in North America). This work is strictly for the non-profit enjoyment of fans. No copyright infringement is intended. Deserted No longer Part three: Rock-a-bye-baby by RJ It was three days after the birth of Kohana Saotome. She laid in her back watching the strange objects dance above her. Ranma looked over the crib to see his baby girl look at him. "Well looks who’s up." He softly said. Akane came over and picked Kohana up. She lightly rocked the newborn in her arms. Ranma’s former room was now the nursery. Genma had moved back with Nodoka. His son was married with a child, there was no need for him to hide from his wife anymore. "I still can’t believe that we made her." "Well, those are the facts of life." Akane said. "Come on it’s time for her feeding. Let’s go downstairs." Akane, the baby, and Ranma went down stairs and met their family. Soun eyes began to tear as he saw them. "Daddy, I believe you cry more then the baby does." Nabiki stated. "Here you go Akane." Kasumi came out of the kitchen holding a bottle. "Thanks Kasumi." "Your not going to nurse?" Asked Nabiki. "Well not all the time, this is breast milk, but it was pumped." "Oh." "What do you mean, pumped?" Ranma asked. "Well Ranma…." Nabiki explained the process of nursering and a breast pump. Ranma then fainted before Nabiki could finished. Ryoga has been walking for days. He was lost, again. He stared at a map, which did him no good. Finally he gave up and crumbled the damn thing up and throw it out. When he looked up he saw he was standing in front of Ucchan’s. "I here, finally." He walked into the restaurant, and saw Ukyou behind the counter pouring some battle on the hot grill. "Umm, Ukyou?" He asked. She looked up and the lost boy, the father of her child and answered, "Yea." "Umm, can we talk." "Sure, talk." "Alone." That was the cue for everyone in the restaurant to pay their bills and leave. After the last customer left Ukyou came around the counter and locked the door and put the "be back soon sign." She stood in front of Ryoga waiting for him to speak, but he was just staring at her. "What?" "Ukyou, WILL YOU MARRY ME!" Ryoga yelled getting down on one knee. A huge spatula then came crashing down on his head. "Is that a no?" he said disoriented. "What kind of jerk are you?" "Jerk! What do you mean?" "Asking me to marry you. Why? Because you knocked me up?" "Ukyo that’s not why…" "Then what Ryoga? I was careless and I’m paying for it!" "NO! We were careless and I want to help anyway I can." "Ryoga, helping doesn’t mean marrying me." She said helping him up from the floor. "I’m not going to marry anyone that I’m not in love with. Don’t get me wrong Ryoga, your my friend and I like you, but not love, not in that way anyway." "Oh." He said with a disappointed yet relieved look in his eyes. "But if you want to help me you can stick around and help with the restaurant. Especially when I get into my later months. You can stay in the spar room." Ryoga smiled when she said that. "I will give you as much money as possible also." "Thanks Ryoga." Ukyou hugged him and gave him a light kiss on the cheek. "Now why don’t we reopen and you can start with the dishes." "The dishes?" he panicked "Don’t worry you can wash them in warm water." "Warm water, why would that matter?" He asked unconfortably. "Oh Ryoga, I know your P-chan. Please, like who doesn’t, besides Akane." "Who told you? Was it Ranma?" "No, I found out when I saw you get hit with a bucket of water about a year ago. I just never told you." "You…You won’t tell her will you?" "Of course not, but Ryoga I think you better do it soon." "I will, when the time is right." "Come on let’s get going." Ukyou unlocked the door, put the "Open" sign up and smiled. The moonlight shone through the shear curtains in the nursery. A blue cast filled the room. The baby was sleeping soundly in her crib. All was fine in the Tendo house. The window began to slide and foot emerge. Kodachi slipped into the nursery undetected. She was wearing a black leotard and twirled her ribbon whip around her finger. She walked over the baby and stared at her. Ranma shot straight up from the bed he and Akane was sharing. Her room, no their room was dark with only the light from the moon highlighting objects. "Ranma? What’s wrong?" Akane asked in sleepy voice. "Something’s wrong. I know it." "What?" Akane asked now more wake then before. "The baby!" Ranma darted for the door and ran into the Nursery. Akane followed. Inside Ranma saw Kodachi holding the baby. "What do you think your doing!" "Oh hello Ranma darling, isn’t she beautiful?" "Yes, put her down!" "Shh, Ranma you’ll wake her." "Akane finially made it the room. A scream was then heard in the Tendo house. Nabiki, Soun and Kasumi rushed to where they heard the scream. They all stood behind Ranma, as he held Akane’s arms, preventing her from killing Kodachi. Baby Kohana began to cry from the sudden increase of noise. "Ranma isn’t she beautiful?" Kodachi said "Yes, Kodachi, why don’t you put her back in her crib. "So beautiful." She said again consoling the crying baby. "Isn’t our baby beautiful?" "What! Akane and Ranma both yelled. "That’s it, she’s lost it." Nabiki said. "And what are you to say who has it? You cold hearted ice queen! Ranma darling, make her stop she is upsetting our baby." "Now Kodachi, that’s not your baby." Ranma said clenching his fist together as he inched closer. "But of course my beloved, I gave birth to her four days ago. Don’t you remember, you left that harlot and married me. I had little Mika, you said you need to keep the baby here until I got our nursery painted and done. I was just taking her back to her home." Nabiki and Soun held Akane back, covering her mouth. "Akane you have to be quiet. Can't you see she has lost it. If she’s this far gone who knows what she’ll do to Kohana." Nabiki told her sister. Akane was frustrated and angry. She wanted to reach out and strangle Kodachi for touching her baby. Ranma was slowly making his way to her and she didn’t notice. "Oh yeah that’s right. I totally forgot. Of course you gave birth four days ago. I must still be recovering from the stress." He inched closer. "That’s right, you were so full of stress." She said falling deeper into her fantasy. She continued to rock the crying baby, but Kohana didn’t stop. "Here let me try to calm her." Ranma said holding out his hands, but Kodachi had a weary look. She didn’t want to, she wanted to hold her baby forever. "Please, she’s crying, why won’t you let me try to help." He said with a slight pout. Ranma got close holding out his hands, "Kodachi, my wife….Please." Kodachi smiled, looked at the baby and gave it to Ranma. Ranma quickly began to rock his daughter back to sleep. Sure enough she was sleeping soundly in his arms. He walked over to Akane and gently place the baby her in arms. Kodachi began to walk towards her. "Ranma, what are you doing?" She asked. Ranma stood in between Akane and Kodachi. "Nabiki please call the police." "Okay." Nabiki left the room and was back in less then a minute. "Ranma, I don’t understand, I thought you loved me?" "Listen to me Kodachi, you need help. I married to Akane, that’s her baby, my baby Kohana. Akane and I love her." "NO!" Kodachi cracked her ribbon whip, causing the baby to wake. She started to attack but Ranma wasn’t going to let her. As quick as light he disarmed her and had both her arms held behind her back. Kodachi struggled under him, but he was clearly to strong. "LET GO OF ME!" she yelled. Blue and white lights shone through the window. Nabiki went over and saw the police and big white truck had finally showed. The next thing Kodachi knew was that they were trying to force a white jacket on her and putting her into a padded van. "NOOO! GIVE ME BACK MY BABY! MY BABY!" The police cars drove away and so did the white van. "Don’t feel bad Ranma it had to be done." Nabiki said. "I don’t, that’s what bothers me. When she had Kohana, it was like this fear washed over. It was something I couldn’t control." "But you did control it Ranma, much better then me. You got our daughter back without a scratch on her." Akane said hugging her husband with one hand, holding Kohana in the other. Ranma sat with Ukyo in the empty restaurant. Ukyo was tired. Her feet hurt and her backed ached. She was in her sixth month and was showing more then Akane did. Akane walked out of the bathroom carrying Kohana in her arms. "There a nice clean diaper. Ranma take her for a minute." She handed the baby to Ranma as Akane sat down across from Ukyo. "You’re gonna have to show me how to do that." Ukyo said patting her stomach. "Sure anything to help out a friend." "So has Ryoga been around lately?" Asked Ranma. "Yea, he was here about three months ago. He should show up sooner or later." "Hopefully for the birth." "Yeah. I kind of miss him." "Are you falling for him?" Akane asked Ukyo. "I don’t know, maybe. He sends me postcards where he’s been. The last one I got was from Canada. He sends money too. Not a lot, but it adds up. "That’s nice of Bacon bits." "Ranma, why do you keep calling him that?" Akane asked. "Umm, no reason, just messing with his mind." Ranma responded. The three of them sat and talked of old times and what will happen in the future. Will the ir children have such a life styles as theirs, will their children be friends and so many possibilities. As they talked Ranma notice Ryoga walk pass the windows of Ucchan’s. "Well, looks like he’s back." Ranma said getting up and walking outside. "Hey Ryoga!" Ranma yelled waving his hand. "Uh?" Ryoga said. "Ryoga, what are you sleepwalking?" "I don’t know? Maybe?" "Well come inside get something to eat, take a load off." Ranma escorted Ryoga into the restaurant. He looked around and saw Akane holding the baby and next to her sat Ukyo. She stood up and he couldn’t believe how big she had gotten in three months. Ukyo smiled at him, "Hey stranger." "Hey." He replied. "Come sit, you look tired." "I’ve been walking for 36 hours straight." "Ryoga that’s not healthy." Akane scolded. "I know, but I wanted to get back here to show you something. When I continue to walk without stopping I tend to get where I want to be." "I bet I know what he wants to show her." Ranma said softly laughing, but Akane didn’t find it funny and elbowed him. "Oof." "Well what did you what to show me?" Ukyo asked. Ryoga sat down and fished through his backpack. He pulled out a magazine that was folded to a certain section. "Travel Times? So what?" Ranma said. Ryoga pointed to the top article. Ukyo picked up the magazine and began to read aloud. "The Wanderer. The world seen through a man who travels it everyday, by Ryoga Hibiki. Ryoga when did this happen?" She asked. "About two months ago I was eating at a dinner at the counter. Next to me was a man who was cursing about the crap some reporter wrote. "Roving Eye my ass!" he yelled. Then he starts talking to me telling me that this guy travels around sleeping in nice hotels, meeting beautiful women and writing pure crap. "Look at this, he writes how people lost the love of camping in the wild, where he didn’t even spend on night out in the Outback." The big man yelled. "The Outback, I’ve been there. A lot better then trying to sleep in Siberia. It’s just to cold." "Now wait just a minute, are you telling me you have camped there?" "I usually sleep outside, with the amount of traveling I do." "Are you on some kind of cross county hike?" "No." "Then why do you do it?" "I have no choice?" "What does that mean son?" "I have, umm, a tendency to get lost. So I bring what I can carry on my back and I wander." "Really? My name is Hunter, Bob Hunter." He stuck out his hand for Ryoga to take it. Ryoga took it. "Damn boy you got a grip! Tell me, how do you survive on the road? I mean your pretty young, what are you nineteen?" "Eighteen, "Play any sports?" " I’m a martial artist." "Really?" He said again with curious eyes. "Listen here boy, you say you tend to get lost that’s why you travel a lot. So it must be hard to hold down a job, right?" "Yea?" "Well, I’m looking for a new perspective. A new fresh look. You seem to have an interesting life style. How would you like to make your parents proud." Ryoga eyes drop, "I don’t know where there are. They tend to get lost too." "Well a girlfriend maybe?" "Kinda, well no, well yeah..." "Well, what boy?" "Well she’s my friend, who’s a girl and is umm...pregnant." "Yours?" Ryoga nodded his head yes. "Gonna help out, money wise?" "Yea" "Well, damn boy I think I have a way you can do that for them." Bob said. "And that’s what happen. I write down what happens to me in a journal, then I mail it to the magazine head quarters. They do a little editing, but mostly spelling and grammer. The rest is me. This was the first one I did. So just to warn all of you all Bob wants everything that happens to me written down." "Ryoga that’s great!" Akane and Ukyo screamed together hugging him. "Yeah, no kidding Ryoga" Ranma congraduated patting him on the back. As Ryoga was being hugged by Ukyo her stomach pressed up against him. He then felt it. "Whoa!" he back away, "What was that." Ukyo smiled, "The baby just kicked, it must know your it’s daddy." "Daddy." Ryoga said before fainting. "I wish he’d stop that. Ranma can you give me a hand?" "Sure thing." Ranma picked up the fainted lost boy and took him to spar room. Ryoga awoke to the smell of breakfast being made. He got up out of bed and walked to the door. On it was note. "Ryoga, to go to the bathroom follow the yellow arrows on the floor, -Ukyo." "Okay." Ryoga followed the arrows and surprise surprise! He made it the bathroom. On the mirror another note from Ukyo. "To go downstairs to restaurant follow the red arrows on the wall. With keeping his hand on the wall with the red arrows he actually made it down stair in five minutes. He couldn’t believe it. There he saw Ukyo making breakfast. "Hi." "Good morning." "Good morning." "I see you made it down for a hot breakfast." "Yea, thanks for that." Ukyo served him the breakfast she made. "Hurry up and eat, we gotta go." "Where are we going?" He said with a mouthful of food in his mouth. "We’re going to get an ultra sound done." "Gulp! We are?" "Yes, now come on finish up." Ryoga took the last bite of his meal right as Ukyo grabbed him by the shirt and dragged him out the door. An hour later Ukyo laid on her back as the doctor poured an orange brown liquid over her stomach. Ryoga stood right behind Ukyo watching the doctor with intense eyes. "Please relax Mr. Hibiki, this won’t hurt the baby or the mother. Okay are you ready?" She asked Ukyo. Ukyo nodded. The doctor place a device upon Ukyo’s belly. "It’s cold." She said. "Yes, it is. Okay hear we go, do you see it?" "Yea I do, that’s my baby?" "Yes." Ryoga looked at the screen more confused then ever. "What? Where? I don’t see anything." The doctor pointed to the strange television set that emitted a whooshing sound. "Here’s the head and here’s the hands, and...Would you like to know the sex?" "T..The what?" "The gender of the baby Ryoga. Man, you are dense." Ukyo answered. "Oh…I don’t mind, it’s up to you." He said to Ukyo. "Yes, I would like to know. Ummm, we would like to know." She said smiling at Ryoga. "Okay it looks like you got.." The doctor moved the device over Ukyo’s stomach again. "Hello....It looks like you have boy." "A BOY! DID YOU HEAR UKYO! A BOY! Ryoga yelled. "Yes I did!" She yelled back grinning at him. "And," The doctor interrupted, "A boy." At the same time Ukyo and Ryoga asked . "What?" "It looks like you two are having twin boys." Doctor smiled. "Ryoga promptly fainted when heard that. "Ryoga?" Ukyo said looking at the fainted guy. "Does he do this often?" The doctor asked. "More then you’ll ever believe." "Here try carrying this around." The doctor went over and opened a draw, pulled out a small item, uncapped it and waved it under Ryoga’s nose. Ryoga suddenly woke up. "Whoa, what was that?" She asked. "Smelling salt, here have a few, I have a feeling you’ll need them. "Thanks." "Twins huh? Well that’s good news. Right?" Ranma asked. "Yes and no." Akane said patting Kohana on the back to make her burp. "What do you mean by that?" "Well, She won’t be able to attend college like she wanted to. There will be no one to take care of the babies. Not to mention the extra cost." "She has Ucchan’s. She has always made plenty of money." "Ranma you’re not listening." Instead of just one person to take care of, she now has the restaurant, herself and now two babies. That’s a lot." "Ryoga’s helping out with that article." "Only if they print it." "Oh. It won’t matter. Ukyo is one of the strongest people I know, she’ll be fine. When’s she due? " "Soon, I think." Akane lifted her daughter and made a funny face to make the baby smile. "I hope they become friends." She stated. "Who?" Ranma asked. "Who do you think? The twins dummy." "Dummy? I don’t think so." He said laughing. "Oh I do." She set laughing back. "Ha!" Ranma got up from his seat and hugged Akane from the back, rocking both his wife and his daughter in Akane’s arms. "Oh, please! Get a room." Nabiki sarcastically said. Ranma and Akane smile. "Your just jealous." Akane said to her sister. Nabiki rolled her eyes as she opened the refrigerator door. She disappear behind it as she looked for something to eat. "Honestly Akane, I don’t know how you can even walk in the morning after the INTENSE workout you get from Ranma." "NABIKI?" Akane yelled as she and Ranma started to turn red. "Don’t Nabiki me. We share a wall remember. Why don’t you try a pillow, it’ll muffle the sound." "And how would you know?" Akane asked raising an eyebrow. Nabiki cocked a sly smile, "Let’s just say, I know." And walked out of the room. "Hey, wait…" Akane said but Ranma interrupted "Just let her go, it’s none of our business. "But?" "But nothing." He said bringing his lips to hers. A few days later Ranma was outside practicing his katas, when he noticed the familiar black pig run by. He shook his head as walked towards him. "Hey P-chan. I bet you’ll like some hot water?" "Beeeew" "What will you give me?" he said with smirk. "Grrrbeeww Bewee Bewee! He growled at Ranma. "Come on!" he said lifting his enemy/friend up. Ranma took the kettle of hot water off the burner and poured it over Ryoga. Within seconds a naked Ryoga kneeled in the kitchen. "Thanks." He said getting up and reaching behind the refrigerator and grabbing a spare set of shirts and pants. As Ryoga dressed the phone rang. Ranma walked over and answered. "Hello." "Yeah he’s here." Ranma handed the phone over to the dressed Ryoga. "Hello? Uh huh…uh huh…. WHAT!!! WHEN!? OKAY!" Ryoga hung up the phone and looked at Ranma. He gritted his teeth and said. "That was Ukyo, she’s in labor. Will you bring me to the hospital so I can be there when our babies are born." With a huge smile on Ranma face he slapped Ryoga on the back. "Sure thing bacon-bits!" "Don’t call me that." Ryoga growled walking out of the door with Ranma. At 5:01 Ukyo delivered a baby boy and at 5:05 she delivered his brother. Ryoga fainted twice. Once awake he held one of his sons. Water started to escape from his eyes, running down his cheeks Ukyo, holding the other, giggled softly. "What?" he asked her. "I don’t think I’ve ever seen you like this before." "Like what?" "Oh I don’t know...I’ve just never seen you like this before." "Is that a good thing or bad thing?" "a good thing." She said smiling slightly, exhausted from giving birth. "So have the proud parents thought of theirs names?" Asked a nurse. "Names? I totally forgot!" Ryoga moaned. "That’s okay, I’m on it." Ukyo said. "I think this one," rocking the baby in her arms, "I think he’s name will be North. And his," She said looking up at the baby Ryoga was holding, name will be South." "North and South…I like that." Ryoga smiled. "Let’s just hope they don’t have your sense of direction." Ukyo giggled. Ryoga laughed nervously, "Yeah let’s hope they don’t." "Let’s hope they are just like their mother." He said quietly. A month later a postcard arrived at the Tendo house hold addressed to Ranma and Akane. The post mark read some post office in China. Dear Ranma and Akane, Hello and greetings from China. Shampoo wanted me to write this, so it would be easier to understand. She says hi and sends her best to everyone. It is kind of strange being back in the village, but old habits are hard to die. We would like to thank you for writing us about Ryoga and Ukyo having twins. Speaking of babies, Shampoo and I are now married and expecting. Needless to say my dreams have come true. However, the old ghoul still treats me like dirt. She doesn’t like the idea that Shampoo married me. Anyway, keep us updated and hope to hear from you soon. Your former rival and fiancee’ Mousse and Shampoo. The end of part 3. ************************************************ Author’s note: Hello! Hope you like my little story. If you can’t tell by now I like Ukyo and Ryoga together and of course Ranma and Akane. What lies ahead for the Ranma cast? Well you’ll just have to wait and see. Until then, Later. :) RJ
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