Ranma's New Curse
A Ranma 1/2 Inu-Yasha Crossover

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters.  This is a work 
of fanfiction, which means I get to play god and change the 
characters around as I see fit.  HA HA HA!

Notes: In the Ranma Universe this story starts out at the end of 
the battle with Saffron.  I have decided to change the view for
the Inu Yasha universe from this point on.  After doing some 
research on the characters I decided to put Rin, Sessho-maru and 
Sango into the story line.  I was going to put Sessho-maru in the
story anyway but the way I'm putting him into it now is better 
than before.  I hope you enjoy!

	Ranma watched as his friends and enemies dissapeared from 
right in front of his eyes.  He felt the magic of the Nanban 
Mirror surround him as he and his unwanted passenger were whisked
away to god knows where in a flash of white light.

Chapter 4: Happousai's Secret

-----------------------------Present------------------------------
		      Outside Baba's Cottage

	Baba looked out of her window as she sipped her tea and
wondered what was taking Happousai so long to collect the boy.

	"That pervert better not have gone panty raiding again."
she said to herself as a white light flashed from outsides the 
cottage and revealed two figures, one tall and with a pig-tail
and a smaller one riding his shoulder.

	"Finally it took them long enough." she said as she 
hopped off of her chair and headed toward the door.  From behind
the piece of warped bark she could hear the two arguing.

	"What the hell did you do that for old man!" snapped 
Ranma.  "I was planning on going somewhere and you show up from
nowhere and kidnap me."

	While Ranma was yelling and shouting at Happousai for
their hasty exit from the Tendo Dojo, Happousai sat down and 
lit his pipe as he waited for the boy to quiet down.

	"Are you quite done now Ranma." he asked as he exhaled.

	"No! Why'd did you take me away.  I had someone I needed
to find."

	"Oh really? Who?" he asked with a smirk as he continued
to smoke.

	At this Ranma turned around and stated, "None of your
business."

	"Were you going to go looking for me Ranma-san." asked 
Baba from behind him.

	Ranma spun around as he heard this new voice and found
himself face to face with the old woman he had seen in his 
memories.  "You, it's you." he stated dumbly.

	Baba continued to walk around the boy as she examined his
body and aura. She was a little shocked to find that his human
aura were almost as strong as his demonic powers.  She was also 
shocked at the other bit of magic she felt radiating off his 
body.  She turned to Happousai.

	"The boy has been to Jusenkyo?"  she asked already 
knowing the answer.

	Happousai nodded as he continued to smoke.

	"Then that is why his powers awakened a little earlier."

	"Excuse me?" Ranma asked feeling like a piece of meat.
"But who are you?  I remember seeing you in my memories but just
tell me who you are."

	"I am the descendant of a family that served under the
mortal mistress of the Great Demon Dog of the West, a youkai who
used to live before the warring states period.  I was the woman
who saved your life ten years ago."

	"With that pearl containing the powers of the Demon Dog, 
right?"

	Baba nodded and continued to analyze Ranma as he 
continued to speak.

	"Great that means you can take this thing out of me,
right?"

	"Take it out of you?  I'm afraid we can't do that." she
said as she shook her head.  "The pearl has already matured and is
fully bonded to your life force.  If I remove it you would die."

	"Why'd ya put a thing like that in me anyway?" Ranma asked
in irritation.

	"Ranma!" Happousai stopped smoking his pipe and stood up.
"Do you know what an honor it is to have the power that you have
been given?  You treat it like another curse."

	"Of course it's a curse!  When I accessed the power of
this thing I felt so cold and evil.  I know you're used to feeling
that way old man but it ain't for me."

	"That's true, the pearl is powered by a demonic source but
once you get control of it those urges and feelings can be
eliminated." spoke up Baba now done with her evaluation.  'Genma 
has done an adequate enough job in raising you, for the bumbling
fool that he is.'

	"Okay so how do I learn to control it?"

	"That's where I come in!" Happousai stated as he hopped 
forward.

	"Oh, and how do you know? Do you have the jewels of a 
perverted old dog inside you old man."  Ranma said smirking.

	"I highly doubt that." spoke up Baba with a smile on her
face. "He is just a flea."

	"I don't get it, what's that mean?" asked Ranma confused 
as Happousai snorted.

	"Just as my family has served the Demon Dog's mistress,
he is descended from the retainers of our master," as Baba said 
this she turned to Happousai, "the flea demons."

	"Flea demons?" Ranma asked with a confused look on his 
face.  He looked at Happousai with a grin on his face.  "You're 
descended from an insect!?" 

	At this Ranma laughed at Happousai as the short man took 
a deep breath from his pipe to calm himself down.  'He's your
new master, you can't kill him.' he repeated to himself like a 
mantra. 'But you can make him suffer during the training.' he 
thought with a wicked smile.

	Baba looked at the old and young men before her and 
couldn't help the look of dissapointment, true she wanted to start
laughing at Happousai as well, lord knows he deserves it, she 
didn't have time for this.

	After laughing for a while at Happousai's true lineage, 
Ranma came back to his senses and asked Happousai a question. "How
come you don't suck blood?  If you're a flea wouldn't you die 
without it?"

	Baba looked up at this because she was curious about this
as well.

	Happousai looked at the curious faces of his new master 
and fellow servant and took another smoke from his pipe before
explaining.  "I don't think that going around and sucking on 
peoples blood is seen as socially acceptable so I developed another
way to sustain myself.  That's why I am so big!" he said with a 
smile while patting his chest.

	Ranma sweat dropped as he walked over to the diminuitive
man/oversized flea and looked down and found that he came up to
Ranma's knee.  "You call this big?" asked Ranma putting his hand
above Happousai's head as though he was measuring his height.

	Happousai, tired of being treated like an insect (even
though he technically was one), addressed his "master" in a calm
voice laced with venom.  "I am a 'flea' demon you idiot.  For a
'flea' I AM big."

	"Oh yeah that's true." said Ranma cooly as he shrugged off
Happousai's anger.

	"So Happousai, what do you use to sustain yourself, if not
blood?" asked Baba.

	At this Happousai looked toward the ground and did not
answer.

	"Well old man, what's yer secret?"

	Happousai just continued to look at the ground.

	"Well it's got to be something he does often." Baba said,
deep in thought with her hands on her chin.

	"The only thing he does every day is steal panties and 
fondle girls."

	At this statement Happousai stared at the ground even 
harder (if that was possible).

	Baba noticed the forlorn look on the old man's face and
snorted.  "Hmph, figures."

	Ranma, having figured out the truth behind Happousai's 
perversion, bopped him on the back of the head.  "And yet it IS
socially acceptable to steal womens underwear!"

	"Can I help it if the bodily secretions of young maidens
are more potent than blood itself?" Happousai said, his eyes
wide and shiny as imaginary bras and panties danced around his 
head.

	Alas his vision of lovlieness was interrupted by Baba's 
gnarled cane impacting his skull while a muttered sound of
"pervert" could be heard under her breath.

	"But if you're a flea, where are your other hands." asked
Ranma as he walked around him.

	"Right here." said Happousai calmly as the extra arms 
emerged out of his torso with an audible *POP*.  "Since I have 
more mass then normal flea demons I can stretch my skin to cover
my arms."

	"I KNEW IT!!" shouted Ranma.      

	At this Happousai was a little shocked as was Baba.

	"You knew he was a demon the whole time Ranma-sama?"  asked 
Baba.  She had thought Happousai had hid himself pretty well.  If 
she had not known him, she would have mistaken him for a normal old
pervert.

	"No!  I always knew the freak had extra arms.  He was way 
too fast and it always felt like more hands were groping me." Ranma
said proud that he had found out the secret to Happousai's speed.

	Baba reeled back in shock as she looked at Happousai in
disgust.  "You grope men?  And worse yet your own your own master?"

	At this Happousai's aura burned brightly as he shouted to 
the woman "I DO NOT GROPE MEN!!!!"

	"Yeah he just gropes my cursed form." Ranma responded with
disgust.

	"oh yes Ranma-sama, I've been meaning to ask you, what is
your cursed form?"

	At this Ranma frowned and answered softly, "a girl."

	At this Baba's eyes widened, 'then he is the one!' she 
thought to herself.  "If you don't mind I would like to see what
your cursed form looks like."

	"Sure, all I need is some cold water."

	"Then we will head back to the house, please follow me."

	Ranma walked up to the warped piece of tree bark that 
served as the door to the old womans home and stopped.  He had 
remembered the last time he had been in the small house and it made
him shudder.  With slight hesitation he walked into the house with
Happousai behind him dumping the ashes from his pipe onto the 
forest floor.	

-------------------------Sengoku Jidai---------------------------
			  In a Forest

	In the middle of a vast forest the cries of terror and pain
could be heard for miles around.  Sesshomaru leaned against a tree
mindless of the screams as he watched Rin, 'play' with Jaken.

	"GET OFF ME YOU ANNOYING HUMAN!! I AM NOT A HORSE!!" yelled
the small demon as Rin continued to run up to Jaken and jump on his 
back.

	A ghost of a smile found it's way onto Sesshomaru's face as
he watched his servant shrink back in fear.

	'Sesshomaru-sama is smiling again.  Surely this is going to
be a bad day for me.'  Jaken thought as Rin now started to play with
him like a doll.

	For the last week Sesshomaru has been preparing himself for 
yet another attack against Inu Yasha in order to get the Tetsusaiga
for himself in place of the Tenseiga that his father left him.  He
looked to the sword at his side and cursed his father and thought 
about why he never through the thing away.  'Even though it cannot
kill anyone it does have it's uses.' He thought while looking at 
Rin.  'Her entertainment value is worth more to me than Jaken.' That
thought once again made him glance at his his sword.  'Curse you old
man you're making me soft.' that was his last thought for the day as
he tuned out the pleas of help from Jaken, the giggles of Rin and 
fell asleep. 

-------------------------Sengoku Jidai---------------------------
			Bone-Eaters Well
	
	Inu Yasha was pacing back and forth outside the Bone-Eaters
Well waiting for Kagome to come back.  Even though he never told
anyone, whenever Kagome wasn't near him he couldn't sleep.  It had
been two days already and she had not returned.  His eyes were baggy 
and he was even more irritable than ever.  "Damn Wench!  How am I 
supposed to sleep when she has my jewel shards!!"

	"He's going to form a rut in the ground if he keeps doing 
that." said Miroku as he, Shippo, Shango, and Kirara with Myoga 
riding her looked on.

	"I think he's gone insane." said Sango with a look of 
confusion on her face.  "Does he really expect her to come out of a
well?"

	Shippo and Miroku both responded without looking back at her
"of course."

	She looked at the two strangely as she thought. 'I need to 
get some new friends.'  

	Inu Yasha couldn't take it anymore.  'Where is she!?'  His
mind up on his course of action he jumped into the well while 
screaming "DAMN WENCH!"

	Sango hearing Inu Yasha scream turned to look at him jumping
into the well.  "Where the hell did he go?" she asked as she ran up 
to the well only to find dirt.

	"To get Kagome." said Miroku calmly as he turned around and
went back to Kaede's house.  "I suggest you not hang around there 
when they get back, it's usually pretty violent."

	"Yeah, sure." Sango replied uneasily as she backed away from
the well and continued on to Kaede's house with her companions.

	"If you want I can find something for us to do to keep busy
while we wait for them to return." Miroku said as he absently placed
his hand on Sango's rear.

	At the contact Sango bristled and smacked him in the head 
with the flat of her boomerang.  "HENTAI!!"

	From below the boomerang you could hear Miroku sigh and 
mumble, "hey it was worth a shot."

	"You know Kirara," Shippo said to the cat demon next to him,
"I think we're the only normal ones here."

	Kirara gave a small growl of agreement as Myoga hopped out 
of her hair and shouted "What about me!"

	With a bored look Shippo responded "Like I said, the most
normal ones."

	Once again giving her growl of agreement, Myoga had no 
choice but to continue the journey simmering in anger.  'Just wait
till tonight, when you wake up tommorrow you'll be a couple of 
pints of blood less than before.' 
  
-----------------------------Present--------------------------------
			Bone-Eaters Well

	"Well that's the last of it!" Kagome said with an *umph* as
she lifted up her large knapsack and threw it over the lip of the 
well.  Only to hear a thud and loud cursing coming from the bottom of 
the well.  "Inu Yasha?"

	"DAMN WENCH!" Inu Yasha cursed as he jumped into the bone-
eaters well and landed in Kagome's time.  As soon as he felt the 
dirt under his feet he felt a huge weight fall on his head.  The heavy
object caused him to fall to floor with the same force of a 'Sit', 
knowing that only one person could possibly cause him so much pain he
shouted, "DAMN YOU WENCH!!!"  He looked up to see the culprit and 
looked into the eyes of a surprised Kagome.

	"Inu Yasha what are you doing down there?" asked Kagome 
concerned.

	Inu Yasha bit back a retort as he saw how concerned Kagome was
"I'm fine wench!" he replied with little venom in his voice as he removed 
from the bag from on top of his body.  "Next time, look before you throw 
things."

	"It's not my fault that you were there!" Kagome replied angered
by Inu Yasha's stubborness.  "Why are you here anyway!?"

	"I came to see what was taking you so damn long!"

	Kagome smiled slightly as she knew that this was Inu Yasha's 
"subtle" way of saying he was worried about her.  "As you can see I was
on my way back.  I just had to go back for some books."  She remembered
the reason she went back for the books and decided to tell him her news.
"Inu Yasha I have something important to tell you."

	Inu Yasha looked up at Kagome and saw her with her head down.  
'This can't be good.' he thought to himself as he asked her, "What?"

	"I got into a high school." she said with a shy smile.

	Inu Yasha, not knowing what a high school was, thought that by
the way she was standing that it was a bad thing.  "Um, is that bad?"

	"Not really, I want to go, but it's going to cut into the time I
spend searching for the Shikon Shards.  I'll only be able to come back 
once a week."

	As Kagome started her explanation of a high school, Inu Yasha had 
decided that high school was a bad place and voiced his disagreement in 
his usual calm fashion.  "HELL FUCKING NO!!  I'm not going to let you go
to this 'high school' if it keeps you from doing something important!"

	"Are you saying my education is not important!"

	Inu Yasha, not knowing what an education was and too mad to care,
replied, "YES!  How are we supposed to collect shards without you.  And
you know that it's just as dangerous here than it is in my time."

	Kagome had already known what Inu Yasha's reaction would be to her
news so she had steeled herself to not get hurt or angry by his remarks.  
"I expected you to say something like that." she said with a small smile 
even though her eyes were beginning to tear.  "So I thought of a solution."
she said as she held out a couple of textbooks to Inu Yasha.

	"What the hell are these?" he asked confused.

	"Prepare to learn Inu Yasha." she said as she struck a Sailor Moon 
type victory pose.  "You're going to High School!"

END CHAPTER 4

Oh my God it's been so long!  I have to apologize for not finishing this 
earlier.  I was almost finished with it when fanfiction.net went down for 
that long period and than I had to spend most of my time with my mother who
had suffered a brain anoirism and is in the hospital.  With visiting the 
hospital and college I haven't been able to type as much as I wanted to.
I am aware that Ranma's departure from the dojo was rather sudden but with 
the way i was going with the chapter I couldn't figure out anyway to let him 
leave.  What happened after he left will be answered in the next chapter.
I have up to chapter 8 of this story written I just have to find the time to 
type it up. (I write everywhere, in the train, bus, between classes, during 
classes and on my work breaks) I know that my chapters are still short but I'm
working on that.  Sadly this is the longest chapter to date *sigh* they look 
so much longer on paper. Oh well see you next chapter.

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