So, I decided to make a larger fic out of that little bit.

Standard disclaimers apply

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                                    CHAPTER 1
                            A new problem for Ranma


      Sitting crosslegged in his room at the Tendo home, Ranma held a
gold ring, with a ruby gem inset.  Holding by the thumb and index finger
he studied the ring carefully.  Suddenly the door slammed open and Akane
was standing there glowing red with anger and holding a bokken.

  "RANMA!!" Akane yelled, "What do you think your doing?  We're going to
be late for class?"

       Ranma looked up and shook the daze from his eyes.

       "Err. Uhm. This ring just arrived from Jusenkyo.  The letter that
accompanied it said that it relates to my curse somehow."

       "Study it later.  We've got to leave for school."

       Ranma just nodded and slipped the ring onto his ring finger of
his right hand.  After a quick breakfast the two rushed off to school.
While running the old lady that cleaned her streets by throwing water
with a ladel managed to splash Ranma...again.  After, the
transformation, Ranma-chan grabbed her head with both hands.

       "Ranma," a concerend Akane asked, "are you all right?"

       "Just a headache, Akane.  I'll be fine"

       Looking closely at her face, Akane responed, "I don't think so.
I think we'd better get you to Doctor Tofu's"

       Ranma-chan looked up sharply, "I'm fine Akane.  I'm..........."

       Ranma's words got cut off as the ruby in the ring he was wearing
flashed a bright red and Ranma vanished.  The ring fell to the ground
with a ting.  Akane stunned looked around for Ranma.  She unconciously
picked the ring up and put it on her finger.

       "Ranma?"  Akane called while rubbing the ruby of the ring
nervously.

       A red smoke poured out of the ring and coalesced itself in the
form of Ranma-chan.  Ranma's clothes had underwent an alteration.  The
blue pants were not blue harem pants and   the shirt was a red halter
top with a red vest.

       "What is your wish master?"  Ranma-chan said invoulintary and
looking a bit stunned.

        "Ranma?!?!"

 Ranma looked down at herself and then Akane.  She put her hands in her
face and groaned.

 "What happened to me?"  Ranma muttered.

 Akane just stood there dazed.

 Noticing something, Ranma looked around in a panic, "The ring.  Where's
that ring?"

 "I…I h…h…have i…it R…Ranma," Akane stuttered, "I wish I knew
what was going on with you."

 The ruby pulsed red as soon as she said those words.

 A slightly dazed look came into Ranma's eyes and she said, "Wish
granted."


 Knowledge flooded into Akane's mind about what happened to Ranma and
what part the ring played in it.  Akane looked at the ring in horror.  A
bell chime distracted her and she looked at a distant clock.

 *Oh great there's no way we're going to make it to school on time.
Unless…,"Akane thought, "I'll explain it all to Ranma later."

 Akane turned to Ranma and said, "Ranma I'm going to be saying some
things.  I'll explain what happened later.  Please remain quiet on what
just happened until I can explain"

 "Er. Ah. Yeah," Ranma said still a little dazed at what she just said.

 *Please fogive me, Ranma,* Akane thought before stating, "I wish that
you were back in your usual clothes.  I wish that we were at school with
you back in your male form."

 "Wishes granted"

 After a blur of light streaked across her vision,  Akane noticed that
they were sitting at their desks at the school.  She noticed that Ranma
and her were the only two people in the room.  Looking over at the now
male Ranma, she wondered what was going through his head.

 Ranma thought to himself, *Man.  What is going on?  Until I changed
back, it felt like every word Akane spoke had some sort of power behind
it. I'd hate to have Kuno see me in that weird getup.  I'm just glad
it's over and done with.*

 Akane looked at the ring and thought, *Who sent you?  I hope Ranma can
take the fact that his female form is now a genie.*

 After school let out, Akane decided that the best place for her and
Ranma to have their little talk was somewhere other than home.

 "Ranma.  I think we had better head over to Dr. Tofu's office.  I don't
think you want anybody to know what has happened to you, Akane said.

 "hmmm," Ranma was puzzled until he remembered the incident he had that
morning.  He looked at Akane and wondered why she was being so
secretive. Ranma nodded his acceptance.

 The two of them headed over to the dcotor's office. Kuno, Nabiki & Ukyo
saw the two of them head over to Tofu's, but since neither one of them
was injured they must be making another attempt to get Tofu and Kasumi
together.

 Akane and Ranma enetred Tofu's and saw that only Dr. Tofu was there.

 "Ranma.  Akane," Tofu cheerfully greeted them, "What's the problem
today?"

 Before Ranma could say anything, Akane said, "Dr. Tofu, we need a place
that we can speak confidentialy and your advice."

 Dr. Tofu took one look at Akane's face, went over to the door and
flipped the sign around from open to closed.

 "What's the problem?" Dr. Tofu asked

 Akane looked at Ranma and said, while holding out her hand, "It's this
ring.  It did something to Ranma."

 Tofu looked at the ring curiously, while Ranma felt very nervous.

 "I can't see anything special about it," Tofu said

 Akane saw a glass of water nearby.  She quickly picked it up and
splashed Ranma.

 "What ya do that for?"  Ranma sputtered

 "To show Dr. Tofu something and explain what happened to you,"  Akane
said.  She touched Ranma with the ruby and Ranma turned into soft red
smoke.  The smoke was pulled inside the ring.

 Tofu asked, "What happened?"

 "I'd better get Ranma out first," Akane responde while rubbing the
ring.

 Smoke poured out of the ring and Ranma-chan reformed from it wearing
the harem outfit she wore the first time this happened.

 Ranma backed away from Akane nervously and said, "Wh..what's going on?"

 Looking at Ranma with sympathy in her eyes,  Akane said, "This ring
interacted with you Jusenkyo curse and turned your female form into a
genie.   While female you have to obey whoever weild this ring.  If you
touch the ring while female, you'll get sucked inside.  Whoever made
this ring, decided that everytime you come out of the ring, you will be
wearing clothes like those.  You can will them back to normal."

 Ranma quickly concetrated on changing her clothes back into the Chinese
clothes she normaly wears.  The clothing shifted and morphed until they
were back to normal.

 Ranma asked, "I have to obey all your commands?"

 "Only when I'm wearing the ring and you're female.  I think we'd better
keep quiet about this.  Think what would happen if Kuno, Cologne or evn
Happosai found out."

 Ranma-chan quickly agreed.

 Dr. Tofu said, "Akane, be careful.  Ranma, I am very sorry for you.  I
won't tell anyone about this."

 Akane nodded and headed for the door.  Ranma quickly caught up to her.
She looked at Dr. Tofu and hoped that he wouldn't babble in fron of
Kasumi about this.

 Wistfully, Akane whispered, "I sure wish that Dr. Tofu won't tell
Kasumi."

 Ranma smirked slightly and whispered, "Wish granted.  He won't remember
any of this while Kasumi's around."

 Akane glared at him and said, "Could'nt you have made it so that he
wouldn't go crazy whenever Kasumi's around."

 "That wasn't what you wished for."

 "OOOHHH!!" Akane said while she slapped Ranma with her right hand.

 Ranma was quickly sucked back into the ring.

 Akane glared at the ruby and said, "Fine stay in there.  See if I
care."

 While Akane walked home she wondered Ranma's new problem was going to
affect their lives.
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I know Ranma & Akane are a bit OOC, but they are dealing with a very
unusal situation.  The wishes Ranma grants are permanent unless the
magic is dispelled.  Ranma's genie costume is based on what she is
wearing before he gets sucked into the ring.(ie. if she was wearing a
one-piec orange bathing suit before entering, she would be wearing an
orange genie costume)  Since Ranma doesn't wear a hat, no fez.  C&C can
be sent privately or to the list.  Now onto Setsuna's Secret. It IS
finished.  I have just set it aside for a bit, before I go back  and
clean it up.