What if Ranma neko-ken training had awoken something sleep inside Ranma? What if because of the neko-ken Ranma stooped caring about what his father or about what everyone else thinks? And Why Ranma eyes sometime become gold colored and now both of his forms have red hair?
*Also I decided I would be funny to make Ranma have a lot of girls chasing him, and a lot of boys after his female form. This story is a crossover with Gold Digger by the way, but it will take some chapters until we get to that.
Blood in the water chapter 1 beta 2
Ten years ago...
"No please, Pops! Not the pit! Anything but the pit!" A six year old Ranma screamed as he was pushed toward a deep pit full of starving cats, while covered in fish sausage.
"Ranma! Don't be such a little girl! Now get in there and learn the Neko-ken!" Genma shouted as he shoved his only child into the pit of starving cats and shut the lid. Because of that he didn't notice how Ranma eyes became golden for less than a second. It seemed that while the result of the training would be considered a complete failure, only leaving Ranma with a great fear of cats, the trauma of the neko-ken training had awoken something inside Ranma, but only time would tell what it was.
IIIII
Ranma Saotome frowned as he looked at Jusenkyo. "This is it? Just a place with pools of water and bamboo sticks? I swam to China for this?" Without looking back, Ranma slowly started to walk away, truth be told, there was a voice inside his head that told him to leave as fast as he could, and every time he had ignored that voice so far he had ended in trouble. For once, he decided he would listen to that voice, unfortunately, his father had other plans.
"Oh sirs, please listen to me, this in important." The Guide said and he gestured to the pools. "This place is very dangerous. No one use it anymore since there is over one hundred springs here and each one have own terrible curse."
"Ranma, lets spar a bit!" Genma said as he leap up to one of the poles that stuck out from the pools. Then finally noticed his son walking away "Where do you think you are doing? It took us over a week to find this place even with a map!"
"Well..." Ranma said without looking back "I am leaving, this place is not worth my time. "
"What? Foolish son, you think you can just leave me after all the time I invested in you?" Genma jumped back to the ground and ran to his son trying to hit the back of Ranma head. He couldn't understand why his son was doing this, he had done every possible thing to make his son love the art and only care about martial arts.
Ranma easily ducked away, and used his left leg to make Genma trip, all that without even looking back. Of course, it wasn't gonna be that easy to win. Soon the fight escalated and both fighters ended jumping into bamboo poles, while they guide screamed at them to run away before it was too late.
Ranma was now focused on the fight, once again ignoring that little voice in his head, the two fighters keep jumping around the bamboo poles, trying to make the other one fall, finally Genma was kicked into one of the springs.
"See? This place is a waste of time!" Ranma shouted, just then Genma resurfaced as a panda, while that surprised Ranma he had been trained to fight by instinct, so he ducked in the way without thinking, only to fall into a damaged bamboo pole that snapped under his weight. The boy was sent plummeting toward the large pool below and splashed down into it,
"Oh sirs, what a great tragedy, sir felt into the Shonmaonichuan, spring of drowned panda, very tragic story of panda..." The guide speech was cut out as the water where Ranma felt started to glow in a golden aura.
"What? Other customer felt into the Nyannichuan, but why is the spring glowing?"
"Gruff?" Asked a confused Panda who just moments ago was a bald martial artist
Then Ranma jumped out the spring and landed into the ground. Strangely, he still seemed to be a boy.
"Very strange, why didn't customer change into a girl?"
"I... I don't feel so well..." Ranma felt down fainting, his body painfully changing, becoming taller and muscular, with red hair.
The Panda took a sign out of nowhere that said "*What happened to my son?*" said the sign. While the change seemed to have made his son have a body a lot of warriors would envy, the fact that he had fainted and wasn't moving was bad.
"I.. I don't know... " The guide said shocked, he would have to consult his books and scrolls to see if there had been another case like this.
It turned out that while hot water changed Genma, Ranma wasn't waking up no matter what they did. Panicking for fear of having his future plans of Ranma running a Dojo and maintaining him ruined, Genma asked the guide if there was any place where they could get medical attention for Ranma.
Two days later...
Ranma woke up, he seemed to be in comfortable bed, placed inside some kind of hut or cabin, as the place was made of wood.
"Finally, now we can talk." said an old sounding and female voice, looking in front of him Ranma saw a very old woman that for him looked like some kind of ghoul or monster. However, considering that his whole body hurt, and he had no clue where he was, he decided to save the insults for later. He have himseft a quick look over and noticed he looked more muscular somewhat, and all the scars from years of training seemed to be gone. Also he was only wearing his shorts.
"Who are you?" Ranma asked, "Where I am? Why my body hurts so much?"
"My Name is Cologne, you are in Nyuchiehzu, the village of the strong warrior women, know as Joketsuzoku, but foreigners tend to call us Chinese amazons because we are a tribe of warrior women. And your body hurts so much because you had a strange reaction at being cursed."
"Cursed?" Ranma asked, surprised
"Yes, you felt into a cursed spring, but instead of turning into a girl like you where suposed to, you turned into a hunk."
"Uh?" Ranma didn't like the way the old woman was looking at him, then she trew cold water at him.
"What the hell was that for?" Ranma asked
"Just cheeking." She then proceeded to hit him with hot water, Ranma just looked at her in digust.
"Amazing, you aren't cursed at all. You see, normally when a person falls into one the cursed springs of jusenko, with cold water they turn into whatever creature drowned there, while hot water changes them back to normal. For example, your father got cursed to turn into a panda."
"I see, serves him right, where is he?"
"It turns out than after leaving you with a doctor, he ate food that was supposed to be the price for a winner of a martial artist tournament, said winner happens to be my granddaughter Shampoo. So we are forcing him to work to pay for the food he ate."
Cologne forgot to mention that had Genma been younger and handsome, she would have allowed those two to fight, so the kiss of marriage could be used. Also Genma already had a son, so that complicated things since it could mean that he was married and his wife was alive somewhere. Plus Genma have her a similar imprecision than that of a pervert she had know long ago, meaning he wasn't the kind of man she wanted Shampoo to marry.
"Sounds like him all right, so let me guess, there is no cure for the curses?" Ranma was hoping for that, it would be a fair payback for the stupid neko-ken, that so called ultimate technique just left Ranma wiith a great fear of cats.
"In theory, bathing into the spring of drowned man could cure your father, but the springs of the Jusenkyo valley seem to have a mind on their own, trying to find a cure always ends in disaster. That makes you very special, not only you didn't get cursed, you became... well..." Cologne had to try hard to focus on what he was saying.
"Yeah I get it." While Ranma was grateful that he wasn't cursed, if this old woman was reacting to him like that, he would have to run away of the place as soon as he could, or every woman in the village would be after him. Is not like he was ugly before, but now...
"Can I get a mirror to look myself?"
Cologne just took one hand mirror out of her robes and have it to him "Here you go."
Ranma looked his face, it still looked familiar, but with less baby fat, and looked more like a man than a boy also his hair was now red some some reason. He then stood up, his balance slightly thrown off since he was now taller. Since the sheets weren't covering him anymore, Cologne looked away. In an island far away, a strange woman had the urge to say "My son is so manly!" while she was doing grocery shopping.
"So my old man is cursed and can't be easily cursed, serves him right." Ranma said and have her the hand mirror back.
"You don't seem to like your father very much." While Cologne was grateful for that, respecting your elders was one of the rules of the village, good warrior or not, having someone with no respect would cause more problem than it was worth. Still... maybe she could travel to Japan looking for those legendary age changing mushrooms she once read about? No! What she was thinking! She was a respectable elder of... damn, if Ranma had that effect on her, then she was glad the young girls had yet to see him.
"Well, to be honest, my father did some stupid training to me when I was six, and I almost died. I may also have got hit in the head or something, because since then, I don't seem to care much about what he thinks. He talks about honor and that, but what he says and what he does are two different things."
"Do you feel strong enough to walk?" Cologne asked and Ranma stomach growled, but that made sense since the boy didn't eat for two days.
"Yes, I guess I could go and get..." Ranma started to walk to the door but was stoped by Cologne "Oh no, you stay here. I will tell my granddaughter to bring you lunch."
"Okay..." Ranma felt that voice in his head telling him to run away again, but there was also another voice, one that told him to stay.
'Yes that would work' Cologne was too old to claim him, but Ranma would make a good husband for her granddaughter. She had to focus to avoid felling envy of her, maybe that body swap scroll might work? She slapped herself in shame for what she just thought and left the room.
Now that he was alone, Ranma did a basic and slow kata to get the feel of his new body. He also felt something was off, but it was something besides being taller and more muscular.
'Okay, whatever you two voices are, wanna talk?' Ranma thought, not really expecting an answer.
"Finally! You have any idea how long I have been waiting for you to listen?" Said a voice that sounded like a little kid.
"You can keep complaining later, there are things we must fell him. I would have preferred it was after he had some fun, but whatever." Said another voice, this one sounded like a woman.
"Right, so Ranma, the thing is... remember how Cologne said the curse was supposed to turn you into a girl?" Said the boy voice
'Yes, what about what?'
"You are still cursed, we are just blocking the curse for now and changed it." Said the woman voice
'Ah great, changed it how?' Ranma might not care about what his father thought, but changing into a girl was gonna be annoying at least.
"Is now activated by the full moon instead of cold water. Unfortunately, that will make the change way more painful, but is better than a water trigger curse that could activate at any moment." Said the kid
"That's not all, you can also change at will if you focus on it." Said the woman
'And why would I want to do that?' Ranma regretted asking that as he suddenly had the mental image of being a naked, busty and tall redhead being surrounded by naked women in a changing room.
"Stop being a pervert!" Protested the kid while Ranma just blushed.
'Just who the hell are you two and why are you in my head?'
Before any of the two voices could answer, the door opened again...