So far a Ranma 1/2, Ah! Megami-sama!, and Sailormoon Crossover.
Disclaimer: If I owned these characters then you’d a thought I would have
made some money!
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In the hospital room, a fair skinned lady with auburn hair held an infant in
her arms while a man stood by her bed. Nodoka kissed her newborn daughter while
her husband fussed over her...
"Is she alright, dear?" the husband, who's name was Genma, asked anxiously. He sat on the edge of the hospital bed looking at his daughter.
...child. The woman, who's name was Nodoka, sighed, and said, for the hundredth time, "Yes, Genma dear." She was beginning to lose her patience with her idiot husband. Ever since he had entered the room all he asked was if her daughter was okay. Not a single word of, 'Are you okay, my dear?'
"You sure?"
"YES!!! OKAY???" Nodoka yelled. Genma visibly withdrawed.
"Nodoka-chan?" Genma asked nervously, removing his white handkerchief to wipe his baldhead.
"What?!" Nodoka snapped, clearly annoyed.
"What should we name her?"
Nodoka slowly calmed down. "Hmm... Keiko, nah. Kyoko, nah." Then an inspiration struck her. "How about Ranko?"
Genma smiled. "Yes, Ranko." He kissed his wife on the cheek and Ranko on the forehead. "Ranko Saotome. I like the sound of that." Husband and wife chuckled happily.
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"Good job Ranko. You're improving." Genma stared appraisingly at the bubbly six-year-old redhead happily jumping around.
"Lunch!" Nodoka yelled from inside the house.
"Yes, dear."
"Yes, mom." Genma and Ranko straightened out their white gi before walking back in.
Nodoka placed the last dish on the table before sitting down to join her family at dinner. Before she was fully seated, her daughter and husband were fighting each other for food. "Ranko! Your manners! What have I told you before? When you are not practicing the art then you are to be polite and respectful." Genma snickered softly. But not soft enough. "Genma! It's not all Ranko's fault, you must set a good example!"
Ranko's hand stopped in mid-air. After a while she started eating again, but this time slowly. So did Genma...
Nodoka smiled in approval. "Much better you two. Even though you are martial artists, you still have to learn your manners."
Ranko and Genma nodded in union and said, "Yes, Mam."
Nodoka picked up her own chopsticks, and began eating while asking her husband, "Genma, how is Ranko doing?"
Genma straightened up immediately, a look of pride evidently on his face. "Ranko is doing very well, she has surpassed the level that I was at that age."
Nodoka smile widened. "I'm so proud of you Ranko. Genma what do you think about letting me take over her training for now? I want Ranko to learn armed and unarmed combat. A weapon is good and knowing how to fight without them are helpful."
Genma thought about the suggestion for a while until he answered. "I think it's a good idea. It is only fair that Ranko knows your family's art too. The more you know the better."
Ranko stared at her parents in curiosity. "Does that mean that I'm gonna learn a new art?" Both her parents nodded. Ranko's expression changed from curiosity to excitement. "Great!" Ranko jumped up and down her chair.
"After you finish your lunch, change into your kimono. We're going to see how well you've progressed in the tea ceremony." Ranko slumped in her chair while Nodoka smiled innocently. She knew Ranko hated to act all traditional, but she must be prepared for later on.
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Nodoka wiped away her tears as she gave her eight-year-old daughter one last hug. "Take care of yourself, Ko-chan."
Ranko nodded. "Yes, mother. I'm going to miss you a lot. Don't worry because when I finish the training trip I will get back to you as soon as possible." She stood back to let her father talk to her mother.
"Genma." Nodoka's face became stern. "I want you to take good care of Ko-chan. None of those crazy techniques of yours and she has to go to school." Genma nodded and her face softened. "I'll miss you too."
Genma kissed his wife good bye before walking off with his daughter on a training trip that would last eight years ...
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Mist shrouded the forest of bamboo poles that sprouted, seemingly at random, from the hundreds of pools that filled the deep valley, protected on all sides by the high mountains of the Bayankala range. As the sun rose high into the sky, the mists thinned out and revealed three figures standing by the pools of Jusenkyou. "Sir and Mam, we are at Jusenkyou." A plump man wearing a green Jusenkyou uniform stood next to two people while gesturing to the hundreds of pools. The man was middle age and a bit on the big side. He wore a white gi and had a bandanna on his head. The teenage girl with him had shiny red hair styled in a long braid that went down to her waist. She wore a blue tank top and beige slacks that showed her figure.
"Ko-chan are you ready?" Genma said to his daughter while putting down his large pack.
The petite redhead next to Genma pondered a bit before answering. The word Jusenkyou sounded familiar to her but she couldn't pin it down. It was something springs. Blessed springs? Nah that didn't sound right. It was just too bad that she understood Cantonese better than Mandarin. "Y-yeah. Ready, Oyagi." Genma leaped to one of the poles and Ranko followed his lead. Soon Ranko brushed aside her worries and decided to relax. Besides, her father wouldn't bring them here if it was dangerous. The two eager martial artists totally ignored the guide’s warnings.
The two stared at each other for a moment before charging. Ranko, gaining the upperhand in speed, knocked her father into one of the springs. She waited for her father to come back and charge at her. Instead, a ferocious looking and wet panda emerged from the spring and attacked.
The Jusenkyou guide buried his head in his palms. "Ohhhh... Very sorry sir but you fall in Shanmoaniichuan, 'Spring of Drowned Panda'. Very tragic tale of Panda who drowned there two thousand year ago! Now whoever fall in that spring...take body of panda."
"What?!?" Ranko exclaimed. Now she remembered what Jusenkyou meant. It meant Cursed Springs! She dodged the attacks her transformed father threw and tried to get his attention. "Oyagi! Look at yourself!" Her father hadn't even noticed the transformation and kept on attacking. She tried to block or dodge all of his attacks but one managed to get through her defenses. She got knocked off the pole she was standing and flew across several springs. She hastily twisted her body to land on the narrow strip of land but missed by mere inches.
*SPLASH!*
Ranko gasped as she broke the surface of the water and sighed in relief that she hadn't turned into an animal. Her mind went numb though when she looked down.
"Oh, no Mam! You fall in Nannichuan, 'Spring of Drowned Man!' Now Mam become handsome boy no?"
Panda-Genma gulped as he saw his daughter-now-turned-son shake violently. "OYAGI!!!" He growled pitifully and ran away from his furious 'daughter.'
Behind the two Saotomes the Jusenkyou Guide tried to stop them to explain that
the curse wasn't permanent. "Wait, wait Customers! Hot water-" His
words were wasted on the preoccupied Saotomes.
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Ranko brushed back her bangs in annoyance and glared at her father. He lucked out only because the curse was cured with hot water but activated again with cold water. BAKA! She thought. They had been walking again! She wasn't actually tired or anything. It was because she was really, really hungry. GRUMBLE! Her mother made the best curry. *Sigh* Ranko fingered the gold ring she worn ever since she had went on the training trip. First on a string around her neck, and then, when she grew into it, on her finger.
*Flashback*
Nodoka opened the jewelry box and handed it to her daughter. She smiled and promptly asked her what she thought of it. "Do you like it, Ko-chan? Your Grandmother got it for you before she died and I kept it until now."
Ranko nodded and stared at her ring in awe. She touched her it gently, careful
not to break it or anything. It was a sapphire stone that was shaped like a
star and on the inside of the ring was the kanji word for her name. "It's
beautiful, okaasan. Thank you." She hugged her mother and kissed her one
last time before leaving with her father.
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Ranko snapped out of her daydream when she bumped the back of her father. She looked around her father's back and saw that they were in front of a village. She saw that all the villagers were gathered in the center. There were two women in fighting stances standing at either end of a huge wooden log that was hung high off the ground A very round lady holding a sword at her opponent, and a slim girl, with long purple hair, holding a bonbori on each hand.
The guide turned toward them and smiled. "Sirs, it seem that we lucky. Today Amazon Tribe holding tournament and this is the last round." Ranko watched with mild respect as the purple girl knocked her opponent off the log and declared winner. While Ranko and the guide were busy watching the tournament, Genma had decided to sit down and find something to eat first. Something labeled, "Grand Prize."
End Chapter One.