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Ryoga: lessons best unlearned.

	This story starts about two years after vol.38 of the manga.

prouloge:
	Ranma Saotome walked into the pleasant home. "Oh Ranma is that you?" rang a
familiar pleasant voice. "Yea, I knocked but there was no answer. I hope you
don't mind." he said to the young lady who was standing on a ladder reaching
for something on a high shelf. "Oh not at all Ryoga will be so pleased to see
you." squealed Akari from her ladder. "Well it has been a while, he hasn't
been through Nerima in the past few months, and I was in the area." said
Ranma. "Well he went out to feed the pigs for me three days ago...he should be
back any time now!" she said turning on her side and starting down the
ladder,"You can be here when I tel..." she took a bad step. Ranma reached to
catch her, but it was to late she landed on his head and the two collapsed in
a heap. After a few moments she pushed herself up with her arms and groaned in
pain.
	
	Something hit the floor behind her. She turned to see Ryoga stairing at the
two wide eyed the gift he had brought her rolled by her leg and settled to the
floor. "Good bye." he said and turned wordlessly out the door. Akari looked at
him and checked herself...She was sitting on top of the equally shocked
Ranma's crotch her dress draped over them. "No." she said in silent horror.
Ranma lept up and after Ryoga.

	A few hours later Ranma returned and tried to comfort the histerical girl.
"Calm down Akari. look you can stay with a freind of mine in Nerima. When he
comes back well talk to him." he said softly. She looked at him like a
frightened deer. "What if he doesn't come back?!!" she sobbed. "You think he'd
let me get away with that? He'll come to Nerima looking for blood in a few
weeks and we can talk to him then." said Ranma trying to sound light. Akari
knew better, he might have enjoyed fighting with Ryoga from time to time, both
of them did even though neither would ever admit it. But Ranma knew Ryoga was
very dangerous when he was like this, if he lost it could mean his life.

	Ranma walked into Ucchans with Akari beside him. Ukyo looked at him oddly.
Konatsu was the first to notice the condition of the youg girl. "What
happened?" he said."Ukyo I need a favor." said Ranma with a serious look.

	After the story was told Ukyo looked at the crying girl and put her arm
around her. "I'd let her stay with me and Akane but..." said Ranma looking
guiltily at Ukyo. "You don't want Ryoga to show up and find her there."
finished Konatsu. Ranma nodded. "Of course we'll take her in for a while. But
why did you bring her? Her father..." asked Ukyo. "He'll need her here to
convince Ryoga, he isnt very likely to listen to him in the state he'll be in
when he does show up." said Konatsu. Ranma once again nodded silently. Akari
settled a bit, she seemed to take a small comfort in the way everyone was
talking about how upset he'd be about her.

	Three weeks later some where in the great plains of North America.

	Ryoga looked at his surroundings with a passing eye. He had boarded a plane
useing most of his money in Japan after he wandered into an airport. He didn't
care where he was he knew he would end up in Japan again in a few months at
most. Then Ranma would pay for his crimes. The anger seethed in him as he went
to his hands and knees gripping his chest from the pain. "It wasn't enough to
take Akane away, but Akari...my wife...my family..." he growled into the dirt.
"PERFECT SHI SHI HOKOU DAN!" he cried disintigrating a large hill and any
thing behind it for almost a quarter of a mile. 

	He struggled to his feet and walked on temporarily relived of his burden and
feeling completely drained. He walked through the ashes of the hole he had
placed in to the hill and stopped. An unbeleavable dread filled his heart. He
staired silently at what lay before him, Akari, Ranma, they didn't matter any
more nothing did. He walked on in silent horror. After a moment  he stooped
down and picked up a small delacate piece of plastic, a dolls head it was
charred and almost unrecognisable. His eyes burned with tears and he fell to
his knees in the center of what was left of the trailer park he had
disintigrated. Near him a small skeliton grinned at him from its melted 'Big
wheels' plastic tricycle. Another larger sat on a melted chair and seemed to
feed a tiny incomplete baby skeleton with its invisible breast. Every where
around the single blackened strip that went through the center of the trailer
park were Skulls pieces of skeletons and a few whole ones, the Remains of the
more than one hundred residents of the trailer park and their homes, all
families that once lived in it, not a single survivor. Ryoga screamed as the
lights and sounds of emergency vehicles screamed in his ears growing ever
louder.

	18 years later...
 
	36 year old Ryoga Hibiki walked into Tokyo international airport once again
he sighed and looked around. A part of him wanted to stay and wander around
Japan again as he had in his youth, but he knew he would not. He would see
them again. The people who he fought and lived with durring the best years of
his life, his friends his family, the people he no longer deserved to know.
Often he wondered about them, how there lives were going, things like that.
But in the past 18 years the only thing he saw of Japan was the veiw from the
airport windows. He prepaired to board a plane not knowing where he was going
in the world and not caring. He approached a ticket booth and was greeted by a
perky pretty young girl of about 17 years old. "Ohaiyou." he greeted noting
the time.

	Miyuki sat at her computer and smiled as her last coustomer walked away. "Ug
I hate acting this way." she grummbled as she flashed her fake smile. "Hey it
pays the bills." said her friend from beside her at the nieboring computer.
"Is that all you think about Kari-chan?" she grummbled. "Well that and your
brother. I all ready know what I'm getting you for your birthday next week,
but what can I give him?" Kari sighed. "Ug don't make me sick." grumbled
Miyuki. "I won't have you ridiculeing my engagement!" growled Kari. She
noticed the man approaching the counter. "OOh Kuwaii." squealed Kari. "He's
more than twice our age Kari." said Miyuki sounding disgusted. "You always get
the cute ones." grummbled Kari as he approached Miyuki. "I thought you were
engaged." said Miyuki from between her fake smile. The man seemed slightly
unerved by her smile and greeted her politely. He handed her his passport and
smiled weaklly. "Wow you've really been around." commented Miyuki as she Idily
noted the list of countries on the computer. "I travel constantly." said the
man idily. Kari looked at the mans passport over Miyuki's shoulder. She
stopped looked at the passport, then the man and then the passport again. She
bagan to make strange noises as if she was trying to say something but was to
shocked to get it out. "You are so weird Kari-chan." Miyuki grummbled under
her breath. "Well here you go Mr. Hibiki enjoy your fl..." Miyuki stopped mid
sentence. She wnet completely pale. She looked at the passport and then the
man. "O...OOOUYA...OOYAJJ.." she stuttered.

	Ryoga looked at the strange girl and became very uncomfortable, she was
looking at him oddly and had gone pale. "She's far to young for me to know
her." he thought looking at her as she stammered helplessly.  The girl lept
over the counter and grabbed him by the waist. "DADDY!" she cried. "What?!!"
yelled Ryoga looking dumbfounded.

	Ryoga sat with the girl in a small cafe just outside the airport. "I've
always wanted to meet you." said the girl looking at him with tears in her
eyes. "But I can't be your father." said Ryoga looking at the girl who grinned
back flashing her fangs at him. "It isn't possible." he said coolly. "I can
prove it." she said. "I left Akari years ago." he said looking at the girl
oddly. "You left the day Mom was going to tell you about me and Ryu." she said
saddly. "I had a reason for leaving Akari." said Ryoga defencively. "Mom talks
about you all the time, still after all this time." said Miyuki looking saddly
at him. "I'm not your father Kid. It's more likely your Saotome's kid." said
Ryoga bitterly as he got up to leave. "I'm not uncle Ranma's kid." said Miyuki
looking at him saddly. "Think what you like I'm getting the hell out of here
as fast as I can." said Ryoga coldly as he walked away. "Jusenkyo curses are
hereditary." said the girl calmly as she looked down saddly at her plate.
Ryoga stopped cold. "Pig?" he asked not turning. Miyuki nodded.

	Ryoga looked at the girl with a sort of disgusted horror, not at her but at
his own actions. "I never knew, I'm sorry...I" he started. "You have a
brother?" he asked trying to calm himself. "Yes. He's my twin." she said with
a small sad smile. "I guess I should meet him." he said looking at her in
wonder. "I have kids?" he thought. "I don't think he will be very friendly, he
never forgave you for leaving. I doubt if he's home any way." she said
quietly. "The other hereditary curse." said Ryoga bitterly with a small laugh.
"Yea." she said mimicing him with out even realizing it. "Your mother?" asked
Ryoga. "She remarried a few years ago, a vetrenarian in Hokiado." said Miyuki
noticing the saddened reaction. "I'm glad she got on with her life." said
Ryoga. "There is so much I want to ask you." said Miyuki. "Shoot." said Ryoga.
"What?" asked Miyuki. Ryoga laughed "It means go ahead and ask, American
slang." he said. "Oh, why did you leave?" asked Miyuki. "I suppose I do owe
you and your mother an exsplanation." said Ryoga coolly. "Thats not all you
owe her." said another voice from behind them.

	Ryoga whinced and turned to face who he already knew was there. "Hello
Ranma." he said bitterly. "Hello Ryoga." answered Ranma who was with the young
girl who was next to Miyuki in the Airport. "What do you want?" Ryoga asked
angrily. "An exsplanation." answered Ranma. "To you? the man who took every
thing from me?!! My first love! MY WIFE?!!" growled Ryoga as he sat down
again. Ranma looked at Ryoga saddly. "You never came back. You never learned
the truth." said Ranma. "The truth doesn't matter to me anymore, nothing
does." said Ryoga saddly. "Ryoga you-" started Ranma. "You honestly think I
would have just walk away from that? beleive me I had every intention of
coming back for you and beating the life from you." said Ryoga with tears in
his eyes. "Ryoga?" said Ranma looking confused. "Something opened my eyes to
what I was, to what we were. How many lives did we destroy in our mindless
battles? I stopped careing about you and Akari the day I lost my soul, the day
I became a killer." Ryoga looked sad and hardened. "Ryoga?" said Ranma looking
at him in horror. "Dad?" said Miyuki. "Oh man." said Kari.

	Ryoga looked at the people around him,then directly at his daughter. "I don't
deserve to be your father." he said saddly. "After I walked in on Ranma and
Akari I went to America. I wandered for who knows how long letting  my rage
and falling deeper into depression. I thought I was in a deserted wilderness,
It was the biggest perfect Shi Shi Houkou Dan I had ever made...It destroyed a
large hill, and the Trailer park behind it." Ryoga's eyes seemed to glaze over
as he told this story. The others looked on in silent horror. "It killed 114
people mostly women and children, everyone in the park not a single survivor.
They said it was struck by lightening. I told them I did it. They didn't
beleive me, I was commited for three years after that. I was never punished, I
got away with murder." Ryoga looked at the others. Ranma backed away from the
look in his eyes and covered Kari's eyes instinctively. Miyuki was in tears.
Ryoga continued oblivious to those around him "I realised what I was, how many
suffered because of our mindless battles? How many injured or killed because
of our carelessness? Stray weapons, debris, careless energy blast? So many I
couldn't count. All because I was to stupid to look at what I was doing.
Because I was blinded by Rage to the suffering I was causeing. I swore never
again to take up the arts, I have honored that to this very day." Ryoga looked
at his hands and sobbed.

	 "It wasn't because of us then." said Miyuki with a sad look in her eyes.
"What?" said Ranma. "Ryu beleives that he left us because he found out about
us." said Miyuki. "I never would have left in the first place had I known."
said Ryoga saddly. "I am truly sorry I left your mother alone to raise you."
he said trying to smile. "She was never alone Ryoga." said Ranma. "Thanks but
I'd better go now, my flight leaves soon." said Ryoga getting up. "Ryoga."
said Ranma looking at him sadly. "Don't go!" said Miyuki. Ryoga turned to her.
"I'm glad you grew up well but I don't belong here any more. Every one has
gone on with their lives." said Ryoga looking at her saddly. "But I just found
you I don't want to lose you again Daddy!" she said through her tears. Ryoga
looked at her sadly. "I...I..I promise to try to see you whenever I am in
Japan." he said finally. "I want to meet your brother." he said still unsure.
She broke away and nodded with a weak smile. "We have to get back to work
Miyuki-chan." said Kari softly and lead her away.

	"You should talk to Akari." said Ranma. "I'd like that but not by just
showing up." said Ryoga as the two headed towards the airport. "I'll set it up
for you if you want, and Ryoga...... we never did. It was just a bad fall."
said Ranma calmly. "For the first time in my life I believe you Saotome." said
Ryoga wistfully. "So that Kari she's yours?" said Ryoga with a smile. "Yea,
looks just like her mother did at that age doesn't she?" said Ranma with a
smile. Ryoga nodded. They arived at his flight and Ryoga took Ranma's hand.
"You really gave up the arts?" Ranma asked tentitively. Ryoga nodded solomly.
"I'll see you around." said Ryoga. "Your not coming back are you?" said Ranma.
"I haven't decided yet." said Ryoga "If you do come back get in touch with me
and we'll have lunch at Ucchan's or something." said Ranma. "She's still doing
that?" asked Ryoga. "You kiddin? Its a franchise now she owns one of the
largest restarant chains in Japan. Konatsu runs that one now in a sort of
silent partenership." said Ranma. Ryoga snorted in reply and smiled at Ranma.
"I meant what I said, if fate brings me back to Japan." with that Ryoga walked
through the door and into the plane. Ranma noted with some amusement That it
was the plane on the opposite side of the airport from where Ranma had brought
him, which was about three feet away from the entrance to the plane he was
supposed to be on. "Some things never change." he noted. "I guess I better
pick Kari-chan up from work. Her mother will kill me if we're late again."
said Ranma to him self watching the plane leave.

	Ryoga sat down next to a very attractive woman in her late thirties. The
woman made an anoyed face as she was forced to move her laptop so he could
squeeze in to the seat next to her. "Hello." he said sitting in his chair. The
woman ignored him. He idily watched The baggage being loaded below him from
the window. The woman looked at him for a moment and then turned away shaking
her head. "Hello again Mr.Hibiki may we have your ticket to make the nessisary
changes?" said a pleasant stewardess. Ryoga handed her his ticket and smiled.
He had made a small fortune in investments over the course of his travels, and
because of his frequency of flying they tollerated and respected him and his
direction sence. His children might not ever see him again but they would be
well provided for from now on. The woman next to him was stairing at him
oddly. "It figgures all it takes is one little meeting with someone from
Nerima..." he said sounding slightly amused. He extended his hand "Hello Ukyo
its been a while." he said pleasantly as the plane rose into the air.

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Finis.