Wandering Spirit
Chapter 1 - The First Day of the Rest of Your Unlife.
by Lord Archive
Legal Babble: Characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video,
etc..., and are used without permission. I'm only borrowing them. I'll
return them. I can't afford the overdue charge Nabiki insists on.
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Duty, honor, loyalty. Three concepts that I've devoted my life to.
Concepts that allowed me to survive twelve years alone. Alone, waiting
for my husband and my son to return.
I lived, I hoped, I dreamed. When my husband left with our son, he was
to be raised as a manly child. Someone I could be proud of to call my
son.
I knew there was a chance I might set my standards too high. I decided
as long as there wasn't anything too feminine about him, I would
consider oath fulfilled. The truth of the matter was not something I
could tolerate. It violated the oath in a way I never dreamed.
I spent twelve years waiting to be reunited with my son. Twelve years!
When I found him, he was a GIRL!! Bosoms and all, he was a girl. He
was not my son. He was my daughter.
Anata, how could you have made such a mistake? To fail so miserably?
How?
How can my son be a man amongst men if he is also a girl?
What's this? I'm being pulled somewhere. Finally I get to see...
"Hello, Nodoka," Happosai greeted.
...my maker? "What the hell?"
"You have done something truly atrocious, my dear. You turned your son
into a miserable wreck and suicidal. Made him marry Akane-chan. And
all my successors for the true art of Anything Goes Martial Arts are
no good. All of that thanks to you," Happosai sneers. "For what you've
done, I've granted you eternal life... as a ghost. You will be able to
see and hear everything, but will never be able to interfere."
I'm a ghost?! Impossible. It's a simple matter to prove. All I have to
do is lift my kimono and look at... my... feet?! I DON'T HAVE LEGS!!!!!
I'm a... ghost. By all that is honorable... I'm a ghost.
"Seeing a ghost pale. A truly sickening thing," Happosai jokes, then
his face takes on a malevolent look. "Now, you over-honored bitch, you
are cursed with your new existence. And since you'll only be able to
go to places where Ranma and Akane have visited at least a couple
times, I can easily find and watch you suffer."
"Why is that?" I asked.
"To curse you, I need certain things to cast the spell. The primary
ingredient besides your blood, was tears from one who is part of your
family, tears from the one who killed you, and tears from someone who
curses your very existence. Ranma supplied the first two, and Akane
the third. I'll let you think about your new life." That evil man
leaves me alone in the Tendo dojo.
I am a ghost now. The living dead. I will be able to see everything
that happens and not be able to interfere. How can anyone be so evil
as to do this? Why did he do this?
Sigh. Might as well as see Ranma. I hope Happosai was exaggerating
about how Ranma was.
I walk to the house and into the kitchen. "Hello, Kasumi." She keeps
humming. "Kasumi. Hello." Nothing. Why isn't she responding. I wave my
hand in front of her face. "Kasumi?"
"Hmm... it seems a bit colder than usual today," Kasumi commented like
she doesn't... know... I'm... here. She doesn't know.
Hopefully I'll find someone besides Happosai who can see me.
I look around the house for a little while and find Ranma's room. How
do I get in the room, if the door is closed? Maybe I can pass through
the wall.
A door down the hall opens and Nabiki stagers out. "Hello, Nabiki?" I
ask hopefully, but she doesn't respond in the slightest.
Ranma's door opens and SHE exits. What was Ranma doing in his room as
a girl? And why is she so happy? "Mornin', Sis."
Nabiki blinks. "Er, good morning."
"Hurry up, Akane," Ranma calls.
"Give me a moment. Why don't you make sure the bath is ready," Akane
replies.
"Okay." Ranma nods and skips down the stairs.
Akane exits the room, and Nabiki stares at her.
"Is it my imagination, or did you spend last night with Ranma while he
was a girl?" Nabiki asks.
Akane sighs. "It's not your imagination. Ranma decided he is both yin
and yang, he feels that he's both a man and a woman. Which means he
wanted to be treated as my wife as well as my husband."
"So you two went at it, girl-to-girl?" Nabiki asks.
Akane nods.
Ranma is no man! I run down to the bath finding Ranma there. I made a
mistake letting him live. No man should ever force a girl to make love
like that. I attack.
"Brrrr. What's with that cold breeze?" Ranma asks.
Damn it all to HELL!!! I can't only make Ranma feel a little cold. She
doesn't even know I'm here. There has to be something I can do.
I watch Ranma prepare the bath, and Akane enters the room.
"So, how's my perverted wife?" Ranma asks with a grin.
"You better not repeat that when someone can overhear you," Akane
warns.
"Hphm. Like they didn't suspect that you like girls that way."
"That may be so, but I don't want them to know I'm bi-sexual." Huh?
Ranma is bi-sexual, he changes genders after-all. "Do you have any idea
what'd happen if the girls in my gym class found out I might find them
sexual attractive?"
Ranma nods. "I can make some pretty good guesses. Considering what
happened when I tried to sneak into the girls locker room."
Blink. Ranma did that?
Akane sighed. "Now, um how often do you want to make love like we did
last night?"
"Which form do you like better?"
"When your a guy."
Ranma nods. "Yeah. I kind of prefer it that way myself. Why don't we
just see how the mood takes us."
Akane nods. "And I'm in the mood for a man right now."
Ranma grins. "Of course."
"Oh, dear." I don't want to see this. I leave, but I can't escape the
sounds they are making.
Probable line used somewhere:
If Happosai thinks he can torment me, I shall haunt him until his
final days. I may not be able to touch anything, but he can hear me. I
wonder how he'll like it if I kept him awake at all times and generally
annoy him to death.
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