Here is a revised version of Asuka 1/2 part 3. For one thing I realized I
made it way to short. Like I've stated earlier, I have no idea were this one
is going. Although I may have an idea for the next part. Anyway please send
C&C, ideas, etc... to JLee100441@aol.com

Previous parts can be found at Bloody Paintbrush Inc.

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Asuka 1/2

By: James Lee

Disclaimer: Insert standard disclaimer here.

Part 3

	Asuka walked down the street, thinking of where to go. 
Although she had told them that she was heading home, she had no 
idea where home was. Thus she started looking for someplace she 
could get her thoughts together. Asuka then stopped when she 
came to a phone booth. Opening the phone book, Asuka began
looking up the name Saotome. She thanked her lucky stars when
she found only one listing, Nodoka Saotome.
	*Cool! Now all I have to do is find out how to get to 
this address. This isn't so hard afterall.* Asuka looked up as the
sky rumbled. She shrugged, seeing no clouds in the sky. Looking 
at the phone, Asuka consider calling and asking for directions. She
decided against it however; she wanted a few minutes to think before
she talked to any of this girl's family. Seeing a police officer, Asuka
exited the phone booth and walked up to him.
	"Excuse me, can you help me?"
	The officer looked down at her "Yes."
	"I'm lost, can you tell me how to get to this address?"
	"Why yes this is in Juuben, it isn't too far from here. Just
follow this road....."

			*****

	A while later, Asuka stood outside a small house. Walking
up to the Saotome home, Asuka took a deep breath. All through her
walk there, Asuka had been thinking about how she was going to 
handle this. Would they suspect her? Asuka obviously looked like this
Ranma, but Asuka didn't know how to act like her. Should she do this?
It was starting to rain. This made up Asuka's mind, if anything she 
needed shelter now. *Will here goes nothing.* Opening the door, 
Asuka walked right in and immediately bumped into someone. "Ouf!"
	"Who in....Ranko? What are you doing here? You should 
learn to knock." Asuka looked up to see a women with dark red hair,
looking down on here. The woman's face looked like an older version
of the face Asuka had seen in the compact mirror. 
	*Ranko? Must be some pet name.* "Knock? Don't I live 
here,......Mom?"
	The woman looked to Asuka as if she was confused for a 
moment. "I-I'm not you mother dear and no you don't live here. Why
are you here? You're soaked, what happen?
	Asuka started to become very nervous. This was not going at 
all well. She didn't live here and this was the only listing for Saotome.
Which meant that she once again had no idea where she lived. Still the
woman did recognize her. *What do I tell this woman now, I wish I
remembered more about who I'm supposed to be.* That gave her
an idea. Asuka decided to tell the truth, sort of.
	"I-I don't remember anything. I-I found this place by looking
in the phone book. I t-thought my name was Saotome."
	"Oh?" said the woman as she walked up and felt Asuka's 
head. Asuka winced a little when the woman came across a bump. 
The woman frowned as she lead Asuka to a couch. "Did you hit your
head Ranko?"
	"I-I think so."
	The woman seemed to become concern. "Sit down Ranko, 
tell me what you remember."
	"Umm OK um...Miss?"
	"Saotome, Nodoka Saotome. You can call me Auntie."
	"Well Auntie I remember waking up somewhere on the street
in.....Nerima. This girl  with short black hair was yelling at me. Then 
this Chinese girl with purple hair hugged me." The woman raised
an eyebrow at that. "I-I didn't know what to do and then the other 
girl started beating up on me. Anyway, I put her ass down..."
	"Ranko, language! And you should know that girls shouldn't
brawl in the street."
	"Well what was I supposed to do? Let her beat the shi...I
mean beat me up? Anyway, I then left and found myself here. That's
all I remember."
	Nodoka seemed to become more worried. "I-I don't know
what to tell you, Ranko." She then remembered that 'Ranko' was
still soaked. "Here, let's get you out of those wet clothes and into the
bath. I'll see if I can find some clothes that will fit you. I'll also call
the
Tendo dojo and tell them you're here."
	Asuka froze as then remembered something.

Began flashback:
	"Yeah right, Look at the love notes he's been writing!" Yelled
the short haired girl. The teacher grabbed up the note book and looked
through it.
	"Oh I see, for once in his life Ranma's paying attention and 
you're disturbing him! Go to the hall Miss TENDO."

End flashback.

	"NO no no!" yelped Asuka. "I-I can't go back there!"
	"What are you talking about Ranko? They're your family."
	"Th-They are? B-but that one with the short hair that was 
beating me up was a Tendo." 
	Nodoka blinked. "A-Akane, I know she has a temper but.."
	"Please, you don't understand! When sh-she started beating
on me something happen. I was so upset, I sort of went nuts on her.
I beat her up real badly. They probably want me dead now."
	"I seriously doubt that Ranko."
	"Please don't call them."
	Nodoka sighed. "OK we'll talk about this over dinner, all right?"
Asuka nodded. "In the mean time why don't you start getting cleaned
up. I'll see about finding those clothes."
	Asuka nodded and followed to Nodoka to the bathroom.
She was sure a nice hot bath would do her good.

			*****

	Nodoka lead Asuka to the bathroom. Handing Asuka a few
towels and some soap, Nodoka turned to leave. "Now you just get
cleaned up and I'll see if I can find that change of clothes."
	Asuka nodded her head as she started to unbutton her shirt.
After she had taken off her wet clothes, Asuka moved to the bath, 
but stopped when she saw the mirror.
	Walking up to the mirror, Asuka decided to get her first real
good look at the body she was now occupying. She stretched her 
back in the sexist pose she could think of. She winced as a pain shot
up her back. *Oww, sore back. Hmm not bad.* The first thing she 
noticed was that this girl's breast were larger. Asuka wish that she
could find the now twelve year old Misato, and rub it in. The rest of 
her slender body appeared to be in good shape. Oddly her new body
didn't seem much taller then her old one. 
	She undid the pigtail and let her hair come down. She was 
surprised at how full it actually was. The red strains cascaded down 
her shoulders like a river of fire. Asuka was sure that with a new
hairdo it would look a very attractive. *Not bad at all.* The face 
although not her own, was still very beautiful. "Yep, I could get used 
to a body like this."
	Done with the mirror, Asuka started to scrub herself down. 
She looking forward to a nice long soak in the hot water. 'Bathing 
cleanses the mind and the soul' as Misato had put it and Asuka couldn't 
agree more. The Japanese bath, was one of the few things Asuka had 
come to enjoy about Japan.
	After she had finished scrubbing herself down, Asuka rinsed
herself with a bucket of cold water. She then walked up to the tub. 
*This is going to feel so good.* Slipping into the faro, Asuka felt the 
hot water surround her, then everything went black.

	"W-What the hell!?" Ranma blurted Ranma as suddenly came
to. Looking around, Ranma found himself sitting in the tub of an unfamiliar
bathroom. *Aw man, not again!* This was the second time he had 
blacked out only to wake up finding himself somewhere else. The
first time he had found himself in the girls locker room with Akane and
the other girls beating the shit out of him. *I bet this is Happosie's doing.*
Ranma then heard a voice that stopped him cold.
	"Ranko, I found some clothes for you."
	"M-M-Mom." Ranma jumped out of the fero and grabbed
the wash bucket. Putting the bucket under the faucet, Ranma started 
filling it with cold water. "Come on, come on!"
	Hearing his mother opening the door, Ranma poured the cold
water onto his head. He prayed that his mother didn't notice the
transformation.
As the cold water hit him every thing went black.

	Asuka gasped as the cold water rained down on her. Then 
it was dark again. For moment she thought she had blacked out again,
she then realized it was the wash bucket. Apparently she had been
holding it over her head; when she woke up she had let go of it and 
it had fallen onto her head like an oversize hat. Asuka took the bucket
off her head and looked up just in time to see Mrs. Saotome enter the
bathroom.
	"Are you finished with your bath Ranko?"
	Asuka looked nervously at the fero. "Umm yeah...I-I think so."
	"Well I'm afraid that this Kimono was all I could find. There
are some other clothes in the attic, but they'll have to be washed. Is 
that alright."
	"These will be fine, thank you Auntie." Asuka took the 
clothes and turned around to get dressed. She then heard Nodoka
gasp. She turned around to see that the woman looked slightly pale.
"W-What? Is there something wrong?"
	"R-Ranko where did you get those bruises?"
	"B-Bruises?" Asuka turn her head over her shoulder and looked
into the mirror. Sure enough, she could see several faded bruises covering
her back. *So that's why my back's sore.* "I-I don't know."
	"Well get dressed. I'll see about dinner." with that said Nodoka
left the room. So deep in thought was Nodoka, that she didn't even
remember to complement Ranko for wearing such feminine clothing.
	After Nodoka was gone, Asuka started thinking about what
had just happen. Somehow she had magically teleported three feet. She
looked back at the steaming fero. She then realized she may have found
the trigger. *Hot water! It has to be it.* Asuka finished dressing. She
decide she would try to contact her other half tonight.

			*****

	As Asuka got dress, Nodoka went to the kitchen to make 
dinner. As she work on making the night's meal, her she thought about
what she had seen just a moment ago. Nodoka thought of Ranko. She
had long believed that Ranko was adopted. She looked nothing like
any of the other Tendo girls and her relationship with them didn't seem
very close. But, could it be that Ranko was being abused by the Tendos?
	"No! That's ridiculous, I've known the Tendos for years."
But, she had heard of many child abuse stories were the abuser was
someone you wouldn't expect. Someone, like a respected teacher,
doctor, or even a police officer. Nodoka shook her head. *No!
Impossible, those bruises are probably from training. Yes, that's it, 
training.*
	However, the wheels in Nodoka's head were turning now and
the more she thought about it the more certain mysteries about Ranko
started to make sense. Whenever Nodoka visited, Ranko had always
seemed sad, depressed, and lonely. Nodoka had always thought it was
because the girl had no mother. But, could it be that there was another
reason that she was sad and depressed. Ranko had also seemed on
edge and nervous around Nodoka. Like there was something she
desperately wanted to tell Nodoka, but couldn't. Like Ranko was afraid
to tell her. Could it be that Ranko was afraid of being 'punished'.
	The phone rang, jarring Nodoka out of her thoughts. Picking
up the receiver, Nodoka answered the phone. "Moshie moshie, Nodoka
Saotome speaking."
	[Mrs. Saotome, this is Soun. Have you seen Ranko?] Nodoka
gulped, Mr. Tendo didn't sound happy. She was about to blurt out that
Ranko was there, but remembered her promise to talk with Ranko
before calling.
	"N-no she isn't here. Is there something wrong?"
	[She's run off. If you see her, could you send her home? She
has much to answer for....Also if you see Ranma tell him we needed 
to talk to him. We just need his...help to find Ranko.]
	"OK I will Soun."
	[Thank you, good day Mrs. Saotome.]
	"Good-bye."
	"So who's on the phone?" Nodoka jumped and turned around
to see Ranko. "Sorry, I was just curious."
	"I-It was nothing dear. Dinner is almost ready, why don't you
set the table."
	"Alright."

			*****

	The two sat down at dinner. Nodoka had made a simple rice
dish that Asuka found to be good. They ate Nodoka threw out various
names and places that Ranko might recognized, in hopes of getting her
memory back.
	"Kasumi?"
	Asuka shook her head. "Noo."
	"Soun?"
	"Nope doesn't ring any bells."
	"Furinken High School?"
	"Isn't that where I go to school?"
	"Do you know what year it is?"
	"Umm 1997?"
	"How do you know?"
	"I saw it written down somewhere."
	"Oh, Do know who the emperor is?"
	"No."
	Nodoka finished her meal and started gathering up the plates.
"Ranko, I've decided not to call the Tendos. You can stay here tonight.
Tomorrow however, I'd like to take you to a doctor to see about 
that bump on your. Maybe they can help you gain your memory back."
	Asuka sighed in relief and nodded her head. She didn't know 
how much good a doctor would do, but at least she had a place
to stay for now. She decided she'd wait for Nodoka to go to sleep, 
then sneak into the bathroom and try to contact Ranma. "Thank you
Mrs. Saotome."


To be continued.