What You Wish For 3

[LawOhki]

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Morning

Trudging down the steps and rubbing her eyes blearily, Akane struggled to identify the sounds she was hearing from the kitchen. She also ignored that Mara had invited herself into her bed once again. There was no school today but she had still woken up early to get a good workout in before breakfast. It also gave her some time alone before Ranma and Genma woke up to battle each other like idiots.

Peeking her head through the noren into the forbidden zone of Kasumi’s kitchen, Akane found that everything was normal. Kasumi was taking a moment to instruct Kagami on how she wanted some vegetables cut while a male Ranma was frying something at the stove.

‘Ah food.’ Akane sighed in happiness and left them alone to head out to the street to start her morning jog. If Kasumi alone produced such excellent meals then having two competent helpers could only make things better. She was nearly two blocks away before realization on what she had been thinking hit her. Not just Kagami, who she could accept as a girl, but Ranma helping Kasumi cook over her!

Leaving a light pole bent over from a punch, Akane’s anger bubbled just under the surface as she forced herself to finish her jog. Even adding several extra blocks, trying to curb her anger at her sister’s betrayal. How could Kasumi do that to her? Letting Kagami help her was one thing but Ranma too? Ranma was a boy!

Storming into the home, intent on demanding that Kasumi let her help as well, she found that the kitchen was empty. In the living room she found that breakfast was over, Kasumi was sitting with her father and Genma as they chatted.

“You ate without me?” She asked, feeling like her righteous angry wind had been taken out of her sails.

“Akane, you’ve been gone for over an hour.” Soun answered her question.

“It would have gotten cold.” Genma added.

“Well why didn’t you ask me to help you?” She rushed over to kneel down next to her older sister. “I could have helped you make breakfast.”

“You were on your way out.” The homemaker answered. “And Ranma and Kagami had already offered.”

“But--.” She sputtered.

“I saved you some, how about you get cleaned up, and I’ll warm it up for you?” Kasumi offered.

“Sure.” She nodded, eyes narrowing in anger at the two who were taking up valuable time with her sister. “Where are Ranma and Kagami?”

“Oh, they went out to pick up some more things that Kagami needs.” Her older sister answered.

“Then I need to hurry!” She exclaimed, earning a strange look from her father and sister. “What? I need to-- give them a hand.” Wringing her hands together, she quickly left the room to hide her evil giggle. ‘Oh yes, I need to help them.’

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Basic gist of this chapter is going to be Ranma/Kagami shopping (Ranma trying to cheer her up) and encounter Nodoka (who never finds out who Ranma is) Ends up having a nice day with the twins/inadvertently causing a whole bunch of random nice things to happen and create a cascading effect to spread happiness. Negating some of the imbalance Ranma caused.

Mara/Akane keep trying to find them for Akane to give them a piece of her mind and get constantly foiled whenever they get close.

[LawOhki]

Soun watched his youngest daughter leave the room in a hurry and wondered if there was something that needed his attention. Sitting deep in thought for a minute, he decided that there was nothing to be concerned about. Akane was just dealing with the changes in her life and this kind of thing would be a welcome return to normal day to day life. Chasing her betrothed around town was just the thing she needed.

Noticing that Genma had suddenly become very sullen, he decided to find out the reason. “What’s the matter, old friend?”

“Kagami-- she took all my money.” The Jusenkyo cursed man moaned pitifully.

“It happens.” He shrugged.

“How?” Genma demanded. “She just did the cute act the boy always does and then-- and then-- I just gave it up.” He stopped and blinked several times. “When did I get a daughter?” The sometimes panda asked in a daze.

“A couple days ago.” Soun answered.

“Tell me, Tendo! Is it as bad as it seems? You’ve had three.” Genma pleaded, desperately grasp at the front of Soun’s shirt.

“Worse!” He bemoaned, tears threatening to spill from his eyes. “At first they’re so cute and adorable, but then they change-- they want money-- and clothing, and jewelry, and-- boys.” He finally allowed his tears to overwhelm his control as he desperately hugged Genma in manly suffering. “I’m sorry, my friend, to have to learn about this now!”

“Kasumi, should we feel insulted?” Nabiki asked over his crying.

“No-- well a little.” Her eldest daughter answered. “Do you remember the last time father bought us something nice? I would love to have a tennis bracelet.”

“Ooh! Me too!” Nabiki agreed.

“See!” He cried even harder.

[Dumbledork]

Ah yes, the horror of having daughters. Never happened to me but I feel for Soun.

[Blackcat101]

Are you going to post this story in fanfiction.net or any other fanfiction site?

[LawOhki]

Are you going to post this story in fanfiction.net or any other fanfiction site?

It's been on ff.net since 2010 if you had just checked my profile.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6006871/1/What-You-Wish-For

[WG_Writer]

So far it looks good, good to see this continued. I am interested in what you have planned for this, poor poor Kuno...

[LawOhki]

So far it looks good, good to see this continued. I am interested in what you have planned for this, poor poor Kuno...

No no, poor Kuno in Cliched Fantasy.

Didn't really have a plan for Tatewaki or Kodachi in this but it seems too weak to have them become demon pawns or worshipful towards the gods. I would like something different with at least Tatewaki. Neutral rather than just using them as a joke.

Oooh but that would be cruel if after everything Ranma has to man the wish station and it's Kuno who gets a wish.

"Pig-tailed girl I want for us to be together forever!"
"NOOoooo!"

[WG_Writer]

heh that would be funny, but it gets worse for Kuno

The Ultimate force would remove any romantic drive he would have for 'Ranma-chan' entirely. It was outlined in recent chapters of the Manga. As such he would still care for her, but it just might tone him down. If she really wanted to be rid of him, take him to the gate of love. It would fail obviously and they would be seperated forever.

[LawOhki]

heh that would be funny, but it gets worse for Kuno

The Ultimate force would remove any romantic drive he would have for 'Ranma-chan' entirely. It was outlined in recent chapters of the Manga. As such he would still care for her, but it just might tone him down. If she really wanted to be rid of him, take him to the gate of love. It would fail obviously and they would be seperated forever.

From the wording it seemed to be more something specifically done to Keiichi since his wish required Belldandy to stay with him. Something that would have lead to naughty activities eventually since gods/demons usually don't stick around one person long enough to develop relationships. Besides that whole retcon is such a huge amount of horse shit that I couldn't care less about it. Demons would have already used that to try and break the two, yet it's only being put in now?

Which makes me think how Ranma would deal with Velsper/Welsper an actual demon cat.

[frice2000]

Yes that whole Belldandy could never be with him...and she knew it kind of soured almost EVERYTHING in AMG for me. That means she was lying from the beginning really and just stringing him along until she legitimately grew feelings for him at some point. It's quite dark if you think about it and comes quite close to ruining the entire mangas run for me.

[LawOhki]

“I can’t believe we got the old man to pony up for this.” Ranma glanced at the bill once again as he exited the store into the sidewalk with Kagami near his side. He had loaned her some clothes, simple black pants and a green button up shirt, both of which were too big but created the same cute image as when he was a girl.

“It’s a lot of money.” The catgirl grimaced, shifting her purchases. “I feel bad about manipulating him like that to take his money.”

“He’ll get over it.” He nodded sagely. “Just remember all the times he’s stolen the money I earned, anything valuable I didn’t hide well enough, any food not in my mouth.”

“Still, I think we should both do something nice to thank him. He gave us so much that I could have bought another.” Kagami smiled brightly, clearly consumed by some girly notion.

“Yea that was weird.” Ranma just shrugged, not understanding why she would want to give Genma anything. “Never seen him do that before. Wonder where he got it all.”

“He does work for Dr. Tofu, and has worked at other places when I-- you were growing up. ” She pointed out helpfully.

“And he never pays for anything.” He grumbled as they both came to the same conclusion.

“Mystery solved-- I guess.”

“Wonder how much else he’s saved up over the years.” He mused, knowing that it must be a very large amount.

“He must have a good reason for saving. I’ll be sure to give him the extra back.”

“You’re going to need more than a couple school uniforms and that dress.” He pointed out.

“That’s all I have isn’t it?” The catgirl’s ears drooped. “I forgot.”

“Listen, raid my stuff whenever, but let’s see what else we can get you before we offer Pop anything back.” It felt strange to be offering someone else the use of his closet but Kagami didn’t have anything and in a strange way was himself. So if Genma of all people was going to be so generous to his new pseudo daughter then he wasn’t going to be outdone when it came to his new feline look alike sister.

"Thank you."

zx

Akane’s vision narrowed into a tunnel as she focused on Ranma and Kagami as they exited a shop that sold Furinkan school uniforms. Just the night before she had graciously loaned Kagami one of her uniforms. A gesture of trust and acceptance towards the clone who had nothing, that was being thrown back in her face.

“She tricked me.” Akane growled with her fists tightly clenched. “And he’s helping her do it.”

“Troubles?” Mara asked as she stepped in her line of sight, interrupting her train of thought before she could be fully driven into a blind, pervert smashing rage. “Oh dear!” The Demoness covered her mouth in mock shock as she turned to glance down the street towards the two Saotomes. “Have the Gods shown how hypocritical they are?”

“What do you want?” She asked slowly.

“Me? I’m here to help of course.” Mara crossed her arms. “Our job may be to cause discord in the mortal world but that doesn’t mean we have to do it to each other.”

“I’m not one of you!” Akane desperately wanted to smack around the Demoness who had caused all this.

“Tsk tsk, Akane-- you know that’s simply not true.” The blonde waved a disapproving finger in Akane’s face. “You want to get back at that conniving clone-- don’t you?”

“Of course I do, she lied to me and is spitting in my face!” She snarled but looked away from the pair, ashamed to admit that Mara was right.

“But you don’t want to go too far?” Mara patted her on the back. “Causing chaos doesn't always mean hurting humans.”

“I just want to teach them a lesson they won’t forget.” She answered. If she had to be a Demon that didn’t mean she was going to violate her morals. “So they’ll actually respect me.”

“Want me to help?” The Demoness asked seriously, seeming to be sincere for once. “If you focus on training then it should be no problem for you to get better than that Godling.”

“Okay-- but just this once.” Akane nodded, wondering if that could possibly be true. Ranma was infuriatingly good at anything he put his mind to. Could she actually be better than him at something? ‘Well-- no way to know unless I try.’

[LawOhki]

Kagami struggled to keep her ears from flicking in annoyance as a street cleaner drove noisily towards Ranma and herself. She had enough trouble with random people thinking she was cosplaying some character and didn’t really need them realizing that she was an actual catgirl. Especially Nerima’s overly hormonal and excitable young men. Luckily the sidewalk was mostly clear, of shoppers at the moment so at least they didn’t have to deal with the crush of often out on Saturday.

Noticing that a group of three high school boys were giving her a noticeable once over, she felt her feelings twist into a distressing knot. She knew that she was attracted to men. But a lifetime of Ranma’s memories of being interested only in women and a vague disgust towards the male form was making things difficult. Actually that wasn’t right, Ranma’s disgust originated post Jusenkyo, which had been given a major booster shot by Mikado stealing his first kiss.

Looking away demurely as one of them seemed to gain enough courage to move in her direction, she quickly tried to come up with ways to politely rebuke him if he asked her to do anything. Kagami didn’t need to as the boy caught sight of Ranma next to her and quickly swerved to head towards a nearby vending machine as though he had always meant to. Depressed that he was so easily dissuaded but happy that she avoided having to clumsily crush his hopes, she tried to push it from her mind until she could think on her feelings more.

It was far easier to focus on how little she wanted to spend more money. She really did feel bad for taking money from Genma even though she could think of hundreds of incidents of her father pilfering anything and everything from Ranma. That didn’t make it right in her mind to do the same. She wanted to be better than that and if Ranma really was a God then he should aim higher as well.

‘Then again.’ She gazed longingly at a woman in her mid to late thirties wearing a beautiful white kimono with soft pink cherry blossoms decorating the sleeves and bottom, and a pale red obi. ‘I would love to have something like that to call my own.’

Having something to call her own had an incredible amount of appeal. She wanted to find her own sense of style as a way to discover more about herself. Was she really more conservative and traditional, or more plain and sporty like Ranma and Akane? Maybe she was into more modern and revealing styles like Nabiki?

‘I’ll have to borrow a few things so I can test it out.’ She decided, noticing that the woman in the kimono was lost in her own world and would be walking out in front of the street sweeper. Looking to the driver, she saw that he was distracted by something in the opposite direction.

“Ma’am! Watch out!” She called to the lady, already rushing down the sidewalk to pull her out of the way. Her attempt to warn the distracted women and help her avoid injury had the opposite effect, causing her stop and look away from the danger.

Kagami didn’t know when Ranma had seen the woman in danger, but the new God had cleared the distance with an inhumanly quick leap. Before he could even be seen, Ranma had lifted her up and out of the way back on the sidewalk. That the water coming from the street sweeper was completely blocked by Ranma’s body was a small detail as it activated his Jusenkyo curse.

Crossing the distance at a painfully slow pace, Kagami almost felt winded by the short jog as she came to a stop next to her counterpart. “Are you alright?” She asked the older woman in concern.

“I am, thank you both very much.” The woman wavered on her feet as she took a step away from the now female Ranma. “I really should really pay more attention.” She added smiling genially.

“It was no problem.” Ranma answered casually, finally noticing the change of forms and wincing.

“Oh my, you’re twins.” The woman noted in pleasant surprise.

“Well--.” She fumbled with a way to respond, not wanting to volunteer herself into Ranma’s family. Noticing right away how the woman’s eyes made their way up to Kagami’s ears.

“Uh-- yea-- twins.” Ranma nodded and reached behind her back to gather up her shirt to squeeze the muddy water from it. “Yuck.” The red head flicked her hands to try and get rid of the filth.

“Oh no! Your clothes are ruined.” The kimono clad woman fretting over Ranma’s red shirt. “These are silk too.”

“No big deal, they’ve been through worse.” Ranma waved off the woman’s concern. “I’m a martial artist, it comes with the territory.” She boasted.

“But it is a big deal! Let me repay you both. I know a nice little shop near here where I can replace your blouse.”

“You don’t have to.” Kagami said at the same time as Ranma, standing close together, and with similar postures.

“You’re both so adorable!” The woman gushed, lightly biting her lower lip, and clapping her hands together.

“Th-- thank you.” She looked away shyly, her ears swiveling back in response to her uncertainty.

“I guess if you insist.” Ranma said with a similar shy tone to her voice. “I’m Ranma by the way.”

Kagami’s eyes widened in horror at being so rude as to not introduce herself. “My name is Kagami, it’s nice to meet you.” She bowed politely to the older woman.

“Such polite young girls, it’s a pleasure to meet you as well, I’m Saotome Nodoka.” The kimono wearing woman bowed to them.

“Uh-- right.” Ranma muttered under her breath too low for Nodoka to hear.

“It shouldn’t take too long and if you have the time I would love to have company for lunch.” Nodoka smiled widely as she rushed to stand behind them and practically herded them down the sidewalk.

[Dumbledork]

You're evil.

Can't wait to see how much chaos you have in mind.

[LawOhki]

You're evil.

Can't wait to see how much chaos you have in mind.

Chaos? Why none at all! The three Saotomes are going to have a pleasant day out on the town.

[Maximara]

Yes that whole Belldandy could never be with him...and she knew it kind of soured almost EVERYTHING in AMG for me. That means she was lying from the beginning really and just stringing him along until she legitimately grew feelings for him at some point. It's quite dark if you think about it and comes quite close to ruining the entire mangas run for me.

Ugh. That nearly puts things on par with Slayers Try where the battle between gods and demons is on par with two crime families rather then good vs evil. On that note I have always wondered if the whole 'destroy the world' thing in Slayers was meant metaphorically ala Reign: The Conqueror because destroying the world literally would mean the demons destroying themselves and I can't really understand how entire race would be knowingly suicidal.