Disclaimer: The Ranma and Sailormoon cast does not belong to me. I am just borrowing them.

Chapter Six: Martial Artists in Juuban

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The red-orange fire burst larger and lighted the raven-haired girl's face sitting in front of it. The girl's eyes were closed and a stream of sweat dripped down the side of her soft face. Rei Hino's amethyst eyes snapped open as a vision appeared before her.

This was the hardest vision she had ever done but she had managed to conjure several short and seemingly unrelated images.

First, she saw never ending darkness that slowly revealed a dark male figure. She couldn't see his face clearly but unreasonable fear gripped her heart and she knew that this man could not be good. The male soon dissolved again into darkness.

The immense darkness didn't mean that she had failed to bring up a vision. No, that wasn't it. She had called to bring up the future. There had been no fighting recently, no big ones. There was the occasional youma that wanted to try its chance of ruling the Earth. They had one more big battle before Crystal Tokyo. The last time she checked she saw a beautiful vision of Crystal Tokyo. This time all she saw was darkness and indecipherable images. But how? Didn't Setsuna say that the battle with Metallia wouldn't be for another year? It had only been two months since their battle with the Dark Circus.

She concentrated harder. This couldn't be right! She was about to sigh in relief that there was no longer just darkness and that black man when she stopped herself and stared at the Sacred Flame.

In place of the ominous darkness was a young girl their age. Her face was simply beautiful! Her exotic red hair and blue eyes made her look so innocent. But she had a malicious frown on her face, marring her angelic beauty. She gasped as held in her hand was the Ginzousho firmly placed in a star brooch. Why did she have the Ginzousho? Is she the enemy? She frowned as the image went away. She pondered several minutes before pressing the button to her communicator.

"Ami? It's Rei. There is something wrong.."

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Ranko gasped as she stared at the transform Kaneda. Oh no. She called her mallet, slammed Mousse into unconsciousness and ran over to her friend's fiancé.

"Kaneda! Are you okay?" She immediately regretted her words as her 'almost-fiancé' fainted.

"KANEDA!"

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He groggily woke up as he rubbed his temples. What was he last doing? His eyes widened as he hurriedly patted himself down. Kaneda's face brightened as he exclaimed, "I'm still a guy!"

He felt a soft movement on his bed and he finally noticed that he wasn't alone in his room. He lifted his head up and his eyes met the peaceful sleeping face of Ranko. She sure looked angelic like that with her head resting on her arms and her luxurious red hair forming a halo around her.

Just why was she sitting in his chair and sleeping with her head on his bed? Could it be that..?

He felt her stir and open her innocent blue eyes. "Kaneda," she said worriedly, her voice soft and sweet. "How are you feeling?"

Her soft tone alarmed him. She always acted a lot more tomboyish than this. "No, it couldn't be. It was a dream right? Please tell me that it was all a dream!" He only absently noticed that when she bit her lower lip slightly it made her look adorable.

"I'm sorry Kaneda-kun."

"No!" He shook his head in denial. He felt a soft grip on his shoulder.

"Get a hold of yourself Kaneda. I know how you feel, it's not that bad though. You only need to get past these next three months and you will be rid of this curse forever." She smirked sadly. "Besides, you have got to be a man about this. If 'I' can do this then surely YOU can do it too."

As a determined look replaced the depressed one he had, Ranko smiled inwardly. Typical Kaneda and masculine pride. As long as she carefully said a few well-chosen words she could get him to do almost anything. She had to cure him of that weakness soon or else someone without a good motive would take advantage of him for something bad.

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"How's he?" Shampoo asked worriedly as she sat down on the Tendo roof next to her friend.

"Fine, he was shocked at first but once I pushed a few buttons he got back to his arrogant self." Shampoo nodded as Ranko laid down to stare at the stars. "Did you punish Mousse too hard? I still need him to teach me the Hidden Weapons technique."

Her violet-haired friend continued to frown. "I didn't hurt him TOO much, he'll be able to teach you tomorrow. At least he was sorry. The blind fool never realized what he did until I yelled it at him."

"He doesn't seem THAT bad, he is actually kind of cute once he takes off his glasses." Ranko stated matter of factly to her friend.

"Maybe but he is still a blind and obsessed fool." Shampoo said, sniffing slightly.

Ranko saw something at the corner of her eye and turned her head. She only saw a flash of a white Chinese robe.

Mousse. She stared at the space he had been. Poor Mousse.

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From what I can tell of your fighting ability, you have a very high learning curve. All I need to do is show you the technique several more times and you will get the technique." Shampoo didn't notice Mousse's change in behavior but she did.

Mousse had worn his glasses on the whole time and didn't even attempt to glomp Shampoo even once. He was avoiding her. She would too if she realized that the one she loved thought that she was a blind and obsessed fool.

She sighed slightly as she watched him perform the Hidden Weapons technique. She replayed the technique in her mind, much slower, since she had a photographic memory. With almost a lazy sigh, she performed the technique flawlessly, successfully hiding a ten feet staff.

"Good job." The longhaired boy told her, a slight awe in his tone. He had expected her to learn the technique much faster than he did but not that fast. She was really a prodigy of the art.

"Thanks, so..how are things going for you Mousse?" She asked tentatively. She didn't want to outright ask him how bad things were since he heard Shampoo voice her thoughts about him.

He blinked as if surprised that she even cared. "Uh..fine."

"Oh okay good." She cocked her head slightly. "Did you ever think of getting your eyes fixed and cutting your hair?"

He shook his head. "No, there really isn't a way in a village in the mountains."

"Hmm.." She snapped her fingers and smiled brightly. "Why don't we go to Juuban? Mother lives there and I remember there being a very well known eye doctor there. We could both go with Shampoo and Kaneda since Shampoo needs some clothes and I'll probably need to buy a uniform for Juuban. Baka Oyagi said that we would finally be going back home once the semester is over. Since we would be moving back to Juuban, I would be attending Juuban."

She noticed that he seemed to stiffen slightly when she mentioned Shampoo and Kaneda. She almost thought that he was going to refuse when he nodded his head.

"Sure." Mousse was usually pretty good at hiding his feelings but today his unhappiness showed through clearly.

Ranko sighed slightly. "Tomorrow then."

As she walked away Mousse stared blankly at the spot she had been. He held his hand to his chest trying to calm his furiously beating heart. Why he was feeling this way he did not know. This had never happened before. Was he sick?

All he knew as he walked back to the Amazon's home, the Nekohaten, was his quickly beating heart and the thought, 'Was it me or did I actually hear some..concern for me?'

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"This isn't faaaaiirrr!" Rei growled at the sound of her princess' whining. Usagi sniffed and whined shaking her head side to side, which caused her two long pigtails swing back and forth.

"Watch it Usagi!" Usagi immediately became quiet as Rei snapped angrily at her after having to dodge Usagi's deadly locks.

"Oohh...look at him! He's so cute!" The other blonde of the group stared adoringly at a handsome boy that passed by them.

"Yes, he looks just like my old sempai." Minako glared slightly at her friend, Makoto, a tall brunette.

"Too bad because he is mine."

"Not!"

"YES!"

And the battle was on.

Oh yeah and Ami and Luna and Artermis all sweatdropped as they watched the other inners fight amongst themselves. So this was the reason why all three felt a chill go down their spine when the others wanted to go to the mall.

Extreme embarrassment.

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Once again Ranko leaned her head slightly. "So Kaneda, do you want to go shopping with us or stay with Mousse until his surgery is finished?"

Kaneda glanced at the various shops and then back at the two beautiful girls waiting for his answer. "Uh, I'll stay with Mousse."

Ranko smirked slightly. "Smart choice. C'mon Sham-chan let's go shopping."

He breathed a sigh of relief before giving Mousse an odd look. Mousse had mixed feelings about the blue-haired boy staying with him. For one, he was glad that he wasn't going to be alone waiting for Ozaka-sensei to come back and take him to the operating room. However, he DID curse the Tendo boy to become a..*shiver* girl.

He expected Kaneda to yell at him and try to get revenge but what Kaneda did simply amazed him.

"Scary isn't it? Waiting for the doctor to come and operate on your eyes."

He blinked and nodded slightly. Kaneda didn't seem mad nor did he seem tensed around him at all. Instead, he seemed rather relaxed. Mousse stared confused at Kaneda and after a long time of staring asked, "Why aren't you killing me?"

Kaneda frowned. "I would be if it weren't for Kasumi. I suppose it WAS an accident. I just wish that these next few months would go by faster." Kasumi was too observant sometimes. He was no longer moping around but she knew that he had some revenge on his mind. She had a long TALK with him about how revenge would lead to disaster and sin on his soul.

"I'm sorry for all the troubles I've caused you." Kaneda gave him another odd look.

"It's okay, you're forgiven."

For the second time today he blinked in shock. Kaneda was a lot more like Ranko than he thought.

He had never met anyone so..forgiving.

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"Hmm..." She examined her friend carefully. "That looks cute on you!"

Shampoo blinked at Ranko's comment. "Really?"

"Yeah!" Ranko exclaimed her eyes shining brightly. "And the good thing is that it isn't even revealing!"

The Amazon princess sweatdropped. "What is wrong with my usual outfits?"

The redhead delicately raised her left eyebrow. "Need I reply?"

"No, no."

Ranko smiled. "Well...if you want something a LITTLE bit revealing then how about this one?" Shampoo took one look at the maroon dress and immediately fell in love with it.

The dress was made for her. It was sort of like her usual dresses except that the dress was a lot longer and had a long slit on the side. The collar was the same as her usual ones except that the dress was backless.

"It's too..beautiful to wear for normal occasions.." She gasped out.

Ranko smirked. "Well, we are gong to have a ball soon and...you will need something to wear for that occasion won't you?"

Shampoo nodded her head. "Good then it's settled. I'll take these clothes!"

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After they bought Shampoo her clothes they went and got their new uniforms. The outfit resembled a Sailor's outfit a lot more than Furinkan High's. They grumbled slightly about the uncomfortable feel of the uniform and made a silent vow to make some 'changes' to it.

Ranko stopped walking and was about to sidestep the stranger blocking her way when she recognized the stranger's voice.

"Ranko." She looked up and gasped along with Shampoo. They stared at the handsome short haired boy wearing a white t-shirt and jeans. His short black hair threw them off but his dark gray eyes made them realize just who he was.

"Mousse?"

He smiled. "Yup it's me. Like the new look? I thought about what you said the other day, Ranko, and I figured why not?"

Ranko smiled back at him. "That look matches you a lot! You're eyes are fixed aren't they?" He nodded and glanced at Shampoo.

She followed his gaze and saw that Shampoo showed indifference to his changed appearance and was hugging Kaneda's arm. His smile faltered and she frowned slightly.

"Baka." She mumbled softly. She turned away to walk towards the refreshment stand as Mousse snapped his head towards her direction in shock. She didn't know that he had heard her soft whisper.

'Ranko..' Mousse thought silently. 'Maybe I am an idiot.' He took one more glance at Shampoo and the remaining foolish crush he had on her disappeared. He smiled as his perspective changed mentally this time and not just physically.

'Goodbye Xian Pu.'

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The worker sweated slightly as a beautiful frowning redhead headed towards his stand. "M-may I help y-you?"

She stopped several inches from him and nodded her head, her frown disappearing. "Yes, I would like a strawberry sundae."

"Coming right up." He turned around immediately before he could make a fool of himself more.

"Make that two." He turned around at the male's voice.

Standing next to the redhead goddess was a boy their age with short hair. He felt a little anger as the redhead softly said, "Mousse?"

He wanted to burst out laughing at the boy's name but stopped himself before he could. Boss would kill him if he found out that he had laughed at a customer. "Sure." He turned around sharply and went to get the two strawberry sundaes.

Ranko stared at Mousse slightly confused. "Where's Kaneda and Shampoo?"

He pointed his hand in back of them. "Over there, Shampoo is still busy hugging him." She nodded her head. Mousse took a deep breath. "Ranko, thank you for getting me out of my stupid crush on Shampoo."

"What?"

"If it weren't for you then I would be still following Shampoo around like a love sick puppy. Thanks."

She stared at him for several minutes and then said, "You're welcome." And then she smiled.

And his heart skipped a beat.

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"WAHHH!! Rei you are sooo mean!!" Usagi whined as Rei glared at her.

"It's true though. You are always thinking about eating. You are always such a klutz and you are never thinking about what I am saying seriously!" Rei snapped back irritated. They had a senshi meeting several hours ago and Usagi didn't do anything but eat. This was serious. The future was at stake but what did she do? Eat muffins. Eat chocolates. Eat ice cream. Eat chips. Eat. Eat. Eat. Eat.

Usagi sniffed and heard a shout. "Usagi watch where you are going!" The shout was too late as she bumped into something hard and fell.

A pair of hands grabbed her and stopped her fall. She opened her eyes and met the face of a beautiful girl with blue eyes.

"Are you okay?" The redhead asked.

She nodded her head as she stood up and glanced at the redhead's companions. Next to the redhead were another beautiful girl with long violet hair and two handsome boys, one with blue hair and the other with black hair. She smiled at them. "Thank you, I'm Usagi Tsukino."

The redhead smiled. "Ranko Saotome." She pointed towards her companion. "That's Mousse, Kaneda Tendo, and Shampoo."

She stared confused at Mousse and Shampoo. Such weird names. For once she did not voice her thought out loud.

She felt a tug on her arm and turned to see an anxious Rei. Was Rei worried for her?

Apparently the answer was no when the shrine maiden whispered into her ear, "Usagi! That redhead, she's the enemy!"

She stared back at Rei in shock. "No." She gasped quietly.

Rei nodded her head. "We need to transform and destroy her."

She shook her head and glanced back at her friends. Usagi felt relief when she found them acting normal and not agreeing with Rei. "No." This time her tone was hard and left no room for Rei to argue. For that one minute that day, the Princess Serenity in her came out.

Makoto and Minako were busy drooling at the two handsome boys. "He looks like my old sempai! No he looks better than dummy sempai!"

"He's mine! I saw him first!" Minako yelled back at the brunette.

Shampoo growled slightly and attached herself to Kaneda's arm. "You can have stupid Mousse but Kaneda is my fiancé! If you try to touch him I will kill you!"

"Shampoo!" Ranko yelled as Shampoo flushed in embarrassment and anger.

"Fine, I won't kill you but I'll do something unpleasant."

Ranko shook her head. "She's just kidding. It would be wrong of you to seduce Kaneda though because he is engaged. I'm sure none of you are that low and disgusting. Mousse isn't engaged but you shouldn't think of him like meat. He's not anyone's."

Mousse nodded his head. Makoto and Minako looked down. "Sorry."

"It's okay." Suddenly both Ranko and Rei turned their heads to the left.

"Evil." They both said in unison before turning to look at each other in mild surprise.

"Evil?" Usagi asked.

"Youmas." Rei replied to her leader.

"Not youmas. Demons." They turned to look at Ranko. "Youmas are things or people in this world that have been possessed by the demons. Youmas are weaker than demons."

Ranko turned to her friends. "I'll go destroy that demon. You guys go ahead and hide somewhere." She turned to leave, but as an afterthought, turned around to face Mousse. "Protect Kaneda and Sham-chan, ok?" Mousse nodded his head while Kaneda and Shampoo looked indignant.

"Why would I need Baka-Mousse's protection? I am much stronger than he is!" Ranko just rolled her eyes at the Amazon warrior.

"I can take on those demons! I am a lot stronger than you take me for, Ranko!" He was about to go on and on when Mousse pressed the sleep pressure point on him.

Ranko gave him a look of gratitude while Shampoo increased her glare at him. She sighed and kissed her ring. Immediately her outfit changed into a tight silver tank top with leather jacket and pants. Her left eye twitched slightly. "Stupid ring, I wish that I don't have to kiss it or wear these clothes to get my magic. Baka ring!" She kissed the ring again and her outfit changed. This time she had on a tight silver long sleeve with leather skirt and boots. "Not his one!" She kissed it again. Her hair became loose and fell down her shoulder. She was wearing a silver tank top and leather jumper. She nodded her head in satisfaction as she ran towards the demon's location.

Throughout the whole scene the senshis were all gaping with shocked eyes. Rei stammered, "W-what t-the?"

Shampoo calmly shrugged. "She's a demon slayer. Her ancestor made three choices of outfit in case the ring holder didn't like tight pants or dresses."

They continued to stare for a while before remembering that they had a demon to kill. Saying a quick bye they all ran behind a nearby store.

"Moon Crystal Power, Make Up!"

"Mercury Star Power, Make Up!"

"Mars Star Power, Make Up!"

"Jupiter Star Power, Make Up!"

"Venus Star Power, Make Up!"

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Naru didn't know why but these things always happened to her. Ever since Sailor Moon appeared all the youmas in the world just had to go after her. She sighed.

This one was new though.

Usually the ordinary youmas was some kind of weird female object or animal. There was one that had been made out of Legos too. This one seemed to be very inhuman. It wasn't even a silly looking female youma. It actually looked menacing.

Cool. Look at those slimy arms it has. Black gooey things were falling from its body parts, especially its wide mouth.

She made a half-hearted, "Uh oh, it's coming after me." It happened so many times that she wasn't even surprised. The Sailor Senshi would always get to her before it would do anything. The demon turned its attention towards her and lifted two of its arms to choke her.

"STOP IT RIGHT THERE DEMON!"

Oh and here comes the Sailor Senshi. She was surprised to find out that it WASN'T the Sailor Senshi. Instead it was a beautiful redhead wearing the coolest leather jumper with her hair down. She had some sort of head peace on her forehead that wasn't like the tiaras the Senshi had. It was a pretty cute light blue star crystal.

The girl jumped down from the stall that she had been standing on. This day was sure eye opening. First of all there was no silly looking youmas. Second, the person to save her was a pretty ordinary redhead NOT wearing a revealing fuku. The girl surprised her in the fact that she was dressed fashionably cool and not revealing.

Naru decided to hang around and watch the new supposedly-heroine that was going to take care of the demon. It would be nice to know that there was another heroine in town.

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Ranko's blue eyes flashed silver. Jumping down from the stall she threw several magically enchanted daggers at the demon. The demon roared in pain as it clutched the stumps of the arms that had been cut.

"Tell me demon, who is your owner?" Ranko's only response to her question was a menacing growl.

"Fine then, di-" She was cut off by several new voices.

"Hold it right there!"

"What?" She asked incredulous as she turned to face the source of shout. What happened next made her facefault.

"I am Sailor Moon, the champion of justice! For disturbing the fun and wonderful day of these mall shoppers, I shall punish you, you demon!" Ranko's jaw dropped in unison with the demon's. Sailor Moon, the 'champion of justice,' was a blonde with her hair up in the weirdest meatballs and was wearing the tightest swimsuit on with a short blue skirt. She had a red bow and a tiara of her forehead.

"I am Sailor Mercury." She looked like Sailor Moon except for her hair being short blue and her outfit being the same color like her hair.

"Mars." Mars had the red outfit and long raven hair.

"Venus." She looked awfully identical to Sailor Moon but her outfit was orange and her hair was down and tied up half way with a red bow.

"Jupiter." She was a tall brunette and her hair was tied up in a ponytail and her outfit was green.

"Together we are the Sailor Senshi. Prepare to die!" The Senshi was shocked to find Ranko and their 'demon' rolling around in the ground laughing.

"Hey!" The inners glared at the two 'weird' fools rolling on the ground indignant.

Ranko wiped away a few tears at the corner of her eyes and giggled slightly. "Sorry, but that was just...so...stupid." She laughed some more. "I mean, if you were intending to make the demon laugh to death, then that would have been great..but who ever heard of killing a demon by making it laugh?"

All the senshi growled, including the usually timid Mercury. "You will pay for that you evil girl!" Rei snapped out, the image of the redhead frowning menacing while clutching the Ginzousho in her hand appearing in her mind.

Ranko stopped laughing before saying incredulously, "What?"

"That's exactly what I mean! You are on that demon's side and plan on stealing our Princess' crystal!"

Ranko stared at the raven girl. "Me? On the DEMON'S side?! Are you blind AND stupid?!"

"Argh!" Rei glared at the insolent evil, STUPID girl. The others all made similar sounds, images of the girl rolling around and making fun of their speeches playing over and over again in their mind.

Usually they wouldn't have blindly attacked their supposed 'ally' but that girl was too rude and EVIL to be their ally.

Therefore the inevitable happened.

"DIE!"

Ranko was unprepared for the thunder blast that Jupiter sent her and could only raise her arms up as fast as she could to block it. She blinked when nothing happened. "What?" She looked up and her eyes hardened. "Mousse!" Mousse had followed her, despite her orders for him to hide with Shampoo and Kaneda. Stupid Mousse was on the ground in front of her charred from receiving the thunder blast that was meant for HER.

Her eyes flashed. "Stupid PIGS!" The senshi glared at her. First things first. She sped towards the demon raising her right hand up and yelled, "DEATH BLIZZARD!" Her hand glowed silver blue as an ice blizzard surrounded the demon and froze it. She pulled out a staff and smashed the demon statue.

The ice demon broke into pieces and disintegrated. She snapped her head towards the stupid, arrogant, undisciplined, conclusion-jumping, PRETTY SOLDIERS.

"From now on you have better wish that you don't make any stupid mistakes again or the next time I'm not going to let you get away with hurting my friends. Some champion of justice you are. YOU just thunder blasted an innocent!"

The senshi stepped back unconsciously as the redhead's blue eyes flashed silver. They gulped.

"I don't know why you have this huge amount of magic but you surely don't deserve it." Ranko walked over towards her unconscious friend, her leather outfit changing back to her regular outfit.

Rei and Makoto snapped out of their temporary fear. "Who are you to say? WE saved the earth many times! YOU haven't and now you come out of no where and dare say that WE don't DESERVE it?!"

Ranko looked at them, Mousse in her arms. "It doesn't excuse you from hurting Mousse. If you are indeed the champions of justice and deserve all that power then you would give up your life to PROTECT innocents. Just because you think that you are right and that you know everything doesn't mean that you are right. Did it occur to you how pathetic it was of you to accuse me of being on the demon's side when I had been the one to HURT him? You're pathetic and that is all I am going to waste my breath on you."

Before they could come up with a comeback Ranko had already disappeared with the unconscious Mousse.

Ranko's words stung at their ego. Their pride stopped them from seeing that THEY had been wrong for once.

That was why they all said in unison angrily, "Stupid demonness."

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"Mousse?"

He slowly opened his eyes as his vision cleared. "Ranko?" The redhead nodded her head, a relieved face.

"Thank you Mousse."

He just smiled. "No problem."

End Chapter Six.