Hello folks what's up? Besides the usual sky and stuff like that. Okay I
know
that was corny I accept that, for I am secure with my corny, outcast,
slightly crazy,
sometimes retro self.  Honest I am. Why are you all looking at me like that?

Let's see this is a fic, a Ranma fic no less. Well actually it's the start
of a fic.
I'm trying to decide if I should go through with it and stuff like that, and
I thought
that you kind people could help me....decide that is. So let me tell you a
little
something about this here thing y'all are about to read. It's sort of a
spoof of
Rodgers and Hammersteins, The King and I...I'm a sucker for those musicals,
and movies.

I'm thinking of telling it from Ranma's perspective and then maybe doing the
same
thing from Akane's perspective so you get both sides of the story. Oh by the
way,
Genma isn't going to be in it, I thought it wouldn't work very well if he
was. So the
part of Ranma's parent figure has been taken over by Julie Andrews...opps I
meant
his mom.

Anyhoo C&C are welcome and greatly appreciated. Enjoy the fic!!

Crikit ^_^ \/,  crikit@geocities.com
www.geocities.com/tokyo/harbor/6508

"I don't break rules, I bend them a lot...*evil grin*"

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I don't own Ranma, and I don't own the King, besides it's pointless to
sure me because I got no cash.
Akane and I
A Ranma � fanfic by Tracy Garnett AKA Crikit

There's a song that goes "Let's start at the very beginning, a very good
place to start.." They're right you know! Who ever wrote that song was right
by saying the beginning is a good place to start from, so that's where I'll
start my story. From the beginning. You see ordinarily I like to start in
the middle and just go from there, but if I were to do that everyone, and I
mean everyone would be confused.

Now let me think�when did this really start? I guess it started when I was a
little kid. You see my pop decided to take me on a training mission. He
wanted me to be a man among men. In fact that's what he told my mom when he
talked her in to lettering me go with him. He said "I'll make Ranma into a
man among men, and if I don't we'll both commit seppuku."

Needless to say my pop was unable to keep that promise. He didn't make me in
to a man among men. Nope he did the exact opposite. I'm guessing your
wondering what I mean right? Well due to an unfortunate accident and my
pop's natural stupidity I feel in to a cursed spring. So now when ever I'm
hit with cold water I turn into a girl�it's not like I'm stuck like that
though, a touch of hot water and then I'm back to my normal self�my normal
self of course being a guy. I don't like to think about that much anymore.
Sure the curse is still a part of me, but with the help of my mom I've come
to accept it.

My pop on the other hand wasn't so lucky. He fell into the cursed spring of
drowned panda, so every time he got hit with cold water he turned into a
panda. That was a problem when we were traveling but it wasn't the biggest
problem that he had to face. That was when me and pop returned home to mom.
After avoiding her for months no make the years pop decided that it was time
to go home, time for us to show her what the old man had made out of her
precious son.  I didn't know when we went home about the seppuku deal, pop
didn't tell me. It wasn't until mom brought it up that I found out, by then
it was to late. Oh it wasn't to late for me, mom found out what happened in
china and about how I got cursed and she put all the blame on pop. She said
that it wasn't fair to punish me for something that wasn't my fault. So, mom
sent me out of the room, and helped my father commit seppuku, promising him
that she would help me to become an even better martial artist then I was.

That was two months ago.  You know what the funny thing is? I don't miss my
pop�I did at first, but I started to think about all that he forced me to go
through and well that feeling of loss just disappeared. Does that make me
cruel? I hope not because if me cruel, it makes my mom cruel as well. At
first mom missed him, she cried day and night, night and day. But as I told
her more about the trip and what pop had put me through that sorrow turned
in to hatred. I made my mother hate my father. That's sort of funny, me a
sixteen-year-old boy made my mother hate the man that she pledged to love
for all time. I'm getting sidetracked though. Where was I?

Oh yeah, that was two months ago. Two months before we moved to the palace.
Two months before I meet that, infuriating uncute princess and her freaky
family. You see after pop�Well you know, after pop did what he did. Mom
decided that she needed a job to support us. She didn't want to cart all
over the world for the training. She said that I could learn the same things
by staying at home and training there. So what does she do after says that?
Well she takes a job for a king of an island called Chiapana�it's some where
in between China and Japan, the monarchs weren't very original when naming
it. Anyway as I was saying mom took a job on this island, she wouldn't say
it at the time but I know she took the job for me. She thinks I have poor
social manners, but that's not my fault is it?

The job was to teach the two of the kings three daughters. Mom said she
would take the post only if she could bring her child along. She hardly ever
refers to me as her son now, I think she's a little confused.  Of course the
king agreed, I think my mom was the only one who would accept the post, I
could be wrong there, but that's doubtful. So, mom took the job, sold the
house and we moved to Chiapana.

Only there was one problem with the move, we had to cross a large body of
water. You can only guess what happened to me. If you're thinking that I got
splashed and turned in to a girl then you're one hundred percent correct.
That wasn't the biggest problem though, that would happen when we hit the
port. You see I changed back every time I got splashed, only just as we were
entering the port one of the sailors thought it would be fun to splash me
and get in a goodbye grope. Let's just say that after he splashed me he
wished that he didn't�Anyway as I was saying, we were just coming in to port
when I got splashed. I didn't have time to change back before we docked so I
stayed as a girl and hoped that I would be able to find some hot water
before we went to the palace. My plan would have worked out if it wasn't for
Joshu; he's the king's right hand man. It turned out that the king decided
to send good ol Joshu to the dock to meet mom and me oh sorry that should be
mom and I.

What were we going to do? Mom and I both knew that if we were to show Joshu
my curse he would tell the king and faster then you could say Tenchi's your
uncle there would go the job. I didn't want mom to lose her job because of
me, and mom didn't wanna risk my safety by revealing the truth to a complete
stranger. So, mom did the only thing that she could think of, she introduced
me as her daughter Suiren. I was a little shocked at first but I realized
why she did that, it was to keep me safe, and it's not like she was using my
real name. Instead she choose a new name, a rather ironic name at that.
Waterlilly� yeah mom you have some sense of humor. Pick a flower that blooms
only in the water. So that settled it, I was stuck as a girl at least until
we thought up a better plan.

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That's it for now. Should I continue this or what?