Great old master Ranma (Ranma-Naruto crossover)

[Nekomata-sensei]

The idea of this fic is that Ranma is banished by some means (like Kuno with a magic item, or a spell of Gosunkugi's working, or Happosai's punishment), sometime after the failed wedding, and winds up in the world of Naruto around the time of the forming of the 5 great ninja countries.

Rather than settle down in one of the forming countries, Ranma is generally disgusted with the idea of ninja, and becomes something of a traveling martial artist/troubleshooter who evades ninja who seek him out related to power reasons, wanting to be taught by him or try to force him into working for their village.

One of the core pieces to this fic is that Ranma can use the 3 types of energy separately even before leaving Nerima, body energy is most of his regular techniques, it is the 'stamina' and the power that most of the ninja use, and what Ranma used exclusively up until the battle with Herb, during which Ranma managed to use nature energy combined with body energy for the first time in his final attack when he gathered the surrounding energy in the HSH into a new energy blast, after this, while it isn't explicit, Ranma learns to use body energy without certain emotional focuses or having to make a hot or cold aura, although he can make those sorts of auras at will no matter his emotional state, and he can also combine it with nature energy to a degree for more powerful techniques. On top of this, even before coming to Nerima Ranma had some limited ability to use chakra, basically just a bastardized version of tree climbing, using chakra to help his jumps and running, and a bastardized version of substitution technique without hand seals, which weren't discovered in Ranma's world. Ranma used some wonky and unmastered sage energy in his final attacks against Saffron. Finally, he is able to use spirit energy in only one minor way, to use ofunda, which he did during the possession oni arc, and it was mostly automatic, the ofunda forced it out.

His early training in the Naruto world, he manages to get his hands on enough research to learn the basics of ninja arts and the use of hand seals and basic sealing arts, which he researches the sealing arts seeking a way home initially, as it sounds like the most certain way to discover a path through dimensions. He learns to master sage energy while seeking out forbidden techniques and sealing arts lore, some of which he reluctantly steals, and learns genjutsu mostly to defend himself from it. Ranma is sought out often, either for his theft of techniques and lore, or his power or knowledge, but generally evades those seeking him out, although he does make a sort of friendly relationship with Konoha, since they are the most peaceful and morally responsible of the ninja villages, for the most part he is, however, an outlaw, wandering through the elemental countries helping out the regular folk, protecting them from the oppression of villains like bandits and ninja, and he becomes world famous as a traveling sage.

Ranma eventually gives up on returning home, and up to someone who might chose to write this fic, he might find out how to do something concerning his curse and/or the neko-ken using his sealing arts research, like sealing himself so water of certain temperatures usually can't touch him, or sealing the curse out of his body, or sealing the neko-ken which might turn out to be some sort of lesser cat-demon. Another option could be that the neko-ken becomes some sort of psychological condition that gives him a weird genjutsu defense, and perhaps that Ranma's attempt to seal the curse backfired and she wound up stuck a girl/woman. By the time the fic starts, Ranma is older than the 3rd, and it should be early in the Naruto series, preferably before the time-skip, but it could be during the time skip.

Ranma should know from his/her past when first entering the world both Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, and should more recently be something of friends with Jiraiya and Tsunade, and have been pestered for secret ninja arts or something or targeted for assassination by Orochimaru, and Akatsuki should have tried, and failed, to recruit Ranma and failed to kill him after that. Ranma doesn't really know much besides some rumors about what is going on in the various ninja villages, but is familiar with traveling the world, and depending on circumstances of the curse, is either more friends with Jiraiya or Tsunade, but considers both to be something of peers as far as being traveling masters, although egotistically and somewhat truthfully believes him/herself superior to them. Ranma should have some sort of summon, possibly having mastered the neko-ken in some way and become a cat summoner, or perhaps something else, but nothing too crazy like dragons or anything, and like Jiraiya, shouldn't get along perfectly with his summons, although they respect his skills. Ranma should also have mastered manipulation of at least one element, but not all of them, probably wind or water, and possess some sort of artifact, like a legendary weapon, and while he's killed before, especially against more dangerous and serious villains, he should still be the type to avoid killing in fights.

The theme of the fic would have Ranma winding up teaching Naruto or Sakura, possibly both, and being a generally annoying but talented and knowledgeable teacher who is somewhat rough with the training, but not as bad as stuff like the neko-ken, although still bragging about having survived worse training, and teasing about how easy he is taking it on the student, and being reluctant to talk about his past while the student is curious as to it. Ranma's eventual objective should be a degree of martial arts mastery, general ninja skills, a single element mastery, some moral lessons, and sage mastery for his student. Ranma should also be noticeably old like the 3rd or Chiyo, but still spry due to stuff like yoga, tai-chi, and sage mastery. Ranma's personality should resemble Jiraiya's, but without being a pervert or drunkard, a lot poorer monetarily due to lack of earnings and giving away to charity, rather than due to gambling like Tsunade, and his main vice should be his huge ego over his skills, and tendency to be a braggart and get into trouble with authorities for being unpredictable, powerful, and rebellious. Something of a Lina Inverse type reputation concerning bandits would also be nice, with some sort of nickname like bandit-killer, but he doesn't usually actually kill the bandits, just beat them up and steal their stuff, but they spread horror stories about him to excuse getting beaten up and look tough for surviving him among villagers and other bandits. He should also be seen as something of a hero by most common folk, but not by the nationalists of the more amoral countries, but nicer countries should have somewhat friendly relations with him. He doesn't deal with everything, as he isn't into overthrowing governments and such, and he's always very reluctant to take on students, and should not have had many, if any at all, before the story takes place.

Options for interest to integrate Ranma into the world could include that Ranma may have had kids at some point, who may or may not be still alive (perhaps he's Sakura's grandparent in the side she gets the pink hair from, or Naruto's grandparent on Kushina's side, or even both and they find out they are cousins) but should have been a somewhat distant parent who avoided their kid to protect them. He could have been the originator of some fighting styles, perhaps the modern Uchiha-ryuu is based on Sharingan copied anything goes moves, or he taught one of the past members of the Kyuuga clan but left when they went all evil and battle hungry, or he taught some sort of fast movement training to the 4th. Perhaps he's been on the run from Cloud, ever since they got given the Nekomata by Hashirama, because they like to use it as a weapon to try and catch him, since he's terrified of it, and all the past Niibi jinchuuriki have harassed him at some point. Maybe he's joked about the Hachibi and Pantyhose in a sort of inside joke that nobody gets, but has the Hachibi jinchuuriki hating him with a vengeance and generally chasing after him to attack him for the slights to his masculinity.

Ranma should not be the be all end all great super ninja in this fic, for one, he is a reluctant battler who tends to hold back, and most of his opponents are still alive, either because they are too strong for him to kill without serious motivation or at all, or because he would prefer to just run away, he is very powerful, and not to be taken lightly, but doesn't really understand what it means to be a ninja, and is still more of a martial artist, and refers to himself as such, and should be respected mostly for his taijutsu and sage powers, and not be significant as far as his other skills go besides having elemental manipulation skills, but such isn't unheard of for ninjas of his level, nor should he have any incredible super techniques like the gates or the rasengan or the 4th's teleporting attack. He'll have some knowledge and perhaps defenses against such techniques, but he doesn't have any special attacks of such a level. Primarily, he just has great destructive power with his wind and energy blast and vacuum blade attacks and elemental manipulation, but it's hard to get him to fight to kill.

Other old Ranma stories I'd like to possibly see would be Ranma in a Dungeons and Dragons world, Ranma in Slayers, old Ranma going to the past of another Ranma world and teaching young Ranma, old Ranma in YuYuHakushou, and old Ranma being one of the masters of Ryozampaku or one of Kenichi's rivals' master, and old Ranma becoming a teacher to Sakura (Street Fighter).

Edit: I took out a paragraph that I didn't like much anyway.

[pspinler]

Neko:

Can you please break that into readable paragraphs? I gave up reading part way through.

Thanks,
-- Pat

[Nekomata-sensei]

I took out the overly large paragraph near the end, as it went into too much detail and looking back on it I'm not certain about the details. Sorry I had accidentally posted this thread twice, something weird was happening with my connection and it didn't seem to have posted the first time.

[Zwzn]

Why wouldn't you want to have Ranma become some sort of unbeatable master? Ranma doesn't go out bragging how good he is, and actually down plays how good he is. It could be a running joke. No one believes Naruto, and Naruto is the only one to see Ranma in action. Ranma could even drop hints that no one but Naruto notices.

Why wouldn't you want to have Ranma have eternal youth, and use some skill to make himself look old?

[lcpoketoon]

Hmm how about this. Ranma old but don't really look nearly as old as he is. also as he travels around he tend to tell people he is a Wandering Artist. He even picked up sketching and painting as a hobby. Ranma's trip thru worlds had him pass thru the sorce of the mystic waters that create the cursed springs.

This leaves Ranma with a connection to those waters able to summon them at will an use them in battle. He is also able to change form into any of the forms held in the cursed springs. He also can use the waters to curse people with diffrent with diffrent triggers and time limts too them. Another power is Ranma can create a veiwing orb of water an see anything happening around someone he had cursed.

As for the neko-ken it is awind spirit that bonded to one of the cats that had been in the pit an then bonded with him. Learning seals allowed him to create a seal to hold the wind spirit an he can summon it when he needs it to act as a scout or aid in battle. Also Ranma gotten over his fear of cats but he's still not overly fond of them.

Ranma's skill set could be all his anything goes training, seals, summoning and controling the mystic waters, Master of water based jutsus, advarge with wind based jutsu, a few ice based jutsu he created on his own and a skilled painter.

JAI