Ranma SI
A Ranma 1/2, Sailor Moon Crossover
Chapter 2

	Ranma whirled around to face the thing that had grabbed his shoulder, 
immediately going into a fighting stance as he faced it. He blinked a 
couple of times as he faced not an ugly youma, or one of the Senshi, but 
a short, slightly balding fat man in a suit. He allowed his body to 
relax. "Ummm... can I help you with something?"
	The man was frowning, then asked. "Young man, what are you doing out 
of school?"
	"Who are you?"
	"I happen to be the truancy officer. And answer my question. What are 
you doing out of school? As I recall, there are no holidays today, so 
you've got no reason to be out at the moment." He was looking at Ranma, 
a slight frown on his face.
	"Well, it's just that... I... well..." Ranma said, not expecting 
this.
	"Well then, I guess I'll have to bring you myself. Come along now." He 
said, motioning to his waiting car.
	"But look, I've got a good reason for being out at the moment, 
honest." He said, rubbing the back of his head with one hand.
	The man stopped, then turned to face Ranma with an annoyed expression 
on his face. "All right then, what's your excuse?" He said in a 
slightly bored tone.
	"Well, it's just that..." Ranma's mind raced for an excuse. "I'm on a 
training trip to improve my martial arts. I was just about to head 
out."
	The man looked at Ranma, an amused look on his face for a second, then 
the look seemed to fall off and he replied, "All right then, where's a 
signed excuse from your parents saying that you're allowed to leave 
school for your trip.
	"Well, I don't have one..."
	"Well then, where are your parents?"
	"Well, um... they're not here at the moment..."
	Ah, that was it. He was an exchange student. That would explain his 
Chinese style clothes, even though he did look Japanese. The man sighed. 
These exchange students thought that they could get away with hookey. 
"Look, just get in the car and go to school. I don't like this any more 
than you do."
	"But I haven't even signed up for school yet!" Ranma protested.
	The man shrugged. "I'll help you sign up, if that's what you 
want."
	Ranma smiled weakly, finding himself backed into a corner. He 
considered running away for a second, but considering that the guy had gotten a 
good look at his face, that would be a bad idea. He didn't want the 
whole police force after him.
	"Now look, just come along quietly and I promise that I won't press 
charges on you." He said, leading him to the waiting car.
	Ranma sighed. He supposed that it was inevitable that something bad 
would happen on his first day in Juuban.
	The man ushered him into the passenger seat, then climbed in the 
drivers seat. "So, what school were you going to go to? Juuban High?" He 
asked Ranma.
	"Yeah! I was going to go to Juuban high!" Ranma said, glad to know a 
school so he didn't seem like a complete moron.
	The officer raised an eyebrow, then shrugged and pulled out, going for 
the school.
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	Setsuna was now quite annoyed with this young man, pretty much for the 
fact that she looked up the name 'Saotome,' but there were no matches, 
not even one. She looked  back at the portal, and noted with some 
interest that he had been caught by the truancy officer, and was now being 
brought to the local high school, where Sailor Moon, Mercury, Jupiter 
and Venus went.
	She thought about trying to stop him for a moment, then brushed the 
thought aside. She didn't want to give herself away quite yet.
	As they pulled up to the school, Setsuna thought that she would watch 
and see if he gave any more hints for her search.
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	Ranma stepped out of the car, and looked up at the school as the 
officer got out and started walking up to the school, Ranma following 
behind, head drooped. *I guess there's no going back from here on.* He 
thought as they went into the building.
	The officer took a couple of turns, finally ending up in front of a 
door marked [Office.] He stepped in, Ranma following. He walked up to a 
desk, and the secretary turned to them and smiled. "Yes, may I help 
you?"
	"Yeah, I'm here to sign up this boy here for school. He's from the 
exchange student program." He said, motioning to Ranma.
	"All right then. Here's some papers for you to fill out." She said, 
handing the officer a couple of papers, which he then handed to Ranma 
along with a pen.
	Ranma filled in the info he knew, and paused for a moment on where he 
was born, finally filling in China.
	The secretary took back the papers, then nodded and asked, "By the 
way, where are your personal files?"
	"Well, um..."
	"It's okay." The officer said, stepping forward. "Like I said, he's an 
exchange student, and some of his files might not be in yet, if ever. 
You know how slow the mail can be around here at times."
	The woman rolled her eyes as she typed in her computer, then reaching 
under her desk and pulling out a printed sheet. "Tell me about it. But 
anyway, here's your schedule, and your homeroom." She said, smiling 
again. "Have a nice day!"
	Ranma and the officer left, heading towards the homeroom on the sheet. 
"Well, let's get going." The officer said, leading him towards his 
homeroom.
	Ranma sighed. *Now back to hell all over again. Oh well, at least I 
don't have any fiancees at this school, or any people trying to kill me. 
Maybe this won't be so bad.*
	The two rounded a corner, and went up two flights of stairs to the 
third floor. The officer stopped in front of a classroom door, looked at 
the paper, and then up at the door again. "Stay here for a minute. I'll 
talk to the teacher." Ranma then waited there as he went in.
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	All of the inner Senshi, (minus Rei) were all sitting in class, 
generally being bored, all except Ami, of course, until a short, slightly 
balding fat man in a suit stopped class and pulled their teacher to the 
side to talk.
	"Hey, who is that guy?" Usagi asked, sitting up from her customary nap 
in class.
	"I think that he's our local truancy officer. I've seen him bring a 
few kids to school before." Minako replied, looking intrigued. "I wonder 
who got busted this time."
	" I hope they finish it up soon. I haven't finished up these notes 
yet." Ami said, frowning slightly.
	The teacher stepped back into class and cleared her throat, silencing 
the whole class. "Class, it appears that we have a new student today. 
He is an exchange student from China, after a training journey, so lets 
give him the respect he deserves. Let's give a good welcome to..." She 
read a sheet of paper, scanning for the name, "Ranma Saotome." Ranma 
then walked into the room.
	The reactions were different with each Senshi. Usagi fell out of her 
chair, Ami got sort of wide-eyed, Minako thought that he looked better 
up close, and Makoto thought that he looked just like her old boyfriend. 
Ranma got to the front of the class and smiled, causing most of the 
females to whisper excitedly amongst themselves, then said, "Hi. I'm Ranma 
Saotome." He said as he bowed to the class.
	"Mr. Saotome, you may take a seat..." she scanned he room, "back 
there." She pointed to a seat just to the left of the four girls previously 
mentioned, right next to the window.
	Ranma walked over and sat down, looking uncomfortable with the 
lovesick stares of the various women in the room.
	When Ranma sat down, Minako suddenly raised her hand. "Sensei, do you 
think that someone should help Ranma out the first day?"
	"Yes, that would be good. Ummm... Mizuno-san, would you please show 
Ranma where we are in our lessons?"
	Ami blushed for a moment, then went over to the desk next to Ranma to 
help him out. Minako looks depressed. "I meant that I should help 
him..." She mumbles.
	The class seemed to go by very slow for Ranma, who, after Ami had 
finished helping him, tried to sleep in class every chance he got, and if 
not that was looking out the window. Ranma finally ended up standing out 
in the hall, soon joined by a blond girl, grumbling about how she 
wasn't sleeping, just resting her head after a long class.
	*Thank God I don't have to hold buckets of water.* Ranma thought, 
bored with standing. *But do I have to wear this stupid sign? * He thought, 
holding the sign hanging from his neck stating, ‘I was sleeping in 
class.’
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	A red sports car pulled up to a three story house, and two people get 
out, one with shoulder-length, green, wavy hair who is unmistakably 
female, and the other with short blond hair that looks to be male, and is 
not so-unmistakably female.
	Both of them walk up to the house with grocery bags, conversing, the 
one with the short blond hair fumbles with the lock, and they both go 
inside.
	As they set down their bags in the kitchen and start putting groceries 
away, the one with the green hair speaks up. "So, what are our plans 
for this afternoon?"
	"Well, I've got to go pick up Hotaru from school this afternoon, want 
to come along?" The one with the short, blond hair responds, wrapping 
an arm around her waist.
	She is about to respond when they notice another person enter the 
kitchen area. "Setsuna! We got some more of that green tea that you really 
like..." she stopped when she noticed the serious look on her face. 
"What happened, Setsuna?"
	Setsuna looks at them for a moment, then replies, "Haruka, Michiru, I 
think that we may have the beginning of a problem on our hands."
	"Who is it?" Haruka replied, immediately alert.
	"Only a young boy, but there seems to be something strange about him. 
He is giving off a lot of power, and lot of chaos. But the strangest 
thing is that he seemed to come out of nowhere, and I can't see anything 
about his future."
	All were silent for a moment. "Do you think he could be dangerous?" 
Haruka asked, cracking her knuckles as she did so.
	"Not at the moment. I just told both of you this to inform you. If you 
find any information on him, I would appreciate it greatly if you would 
let me know. And also to warn you..." She turned to them, her eyes cold 
as ice. "If you ever end up fighting him, don't hold back. I'm going to 
try to talk to him privately, try to find something."
	She began to walk off, until Michiru stopped her. "Do you at least 
know his name?"
	Setsuna stopped, and turned back to them. "His name is Ranma. Ranma 
Saotome."
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	At last lunch came, and not a moment to soon for Ranma, who was 
starving. Ranma went up in line, but then noticed that all the food in the 
cafeteria was rather expensive, so he went and sat under a tree to wait 
out the lunch period.
	Minako looked back at Ranma. "Do you think that Luna and Artemis could 
be wrong about him? I mean, he seems nice enough, and hasn't done 
anything to bother anyone yet. Well, except the teacher with his 
sleeping."
	"But it's strange." Ami said, looking slightly confused. "The other 
day, he was giving off enough energy to be a Senshi! And now, he's giving 
off not nearly as much. Maybe he is somehow connected with some evil 
force." she mused, her brow creased in thought.
	"So what should we do? Stare at him all day?" Usagi asked, looking 
over at Ranma. (As were all the others, and a few other girls around.)
	"I wouldn't mind." Makoto said, then perked up. "Hey! He doesn't have 
any lunch!" Makoto produced an extra bento out of nowhere. "Let's go 
see if he wants something to eat!"
	"Why does she have an extra bento?" Usagi asked Minako.
	"Just in case there's some cute guy at lunch who doesn't have a 
lunch." Minako replied, looking at them like they should have already 
known..
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	*Well, I guess that today hasn't been that bad.* Ranma thought as he 
watched the clouds soar past. *There's no Ryoga, no Kuno, no Mousse, and 
no Happosai! And there’s no one screaming about killing me or loving 
me, either.* Ranma sighed, and looked downward. *But there was something 
about this school! There's something that I remember... And those 
girls! They somehow ring a bell... Damn! I wish I'd at least seen one whole 
episode of this show!*
	Lost in thought, Ranma didn't notice the four girls approach him until 
they sat down.
	"Hello!" Usagi chimed in her always-cheery voice.
	"Oh, uh... can I help you with something?" Ranma asked in a sort of 
offhand voice, not really wanting them around too much.
	"No, nothing really, we just noticed that you didn't have any lunch, 
and we also wanted to welcome you to our school!" Makoto said, handing 
the bento to Ranma, who took it and began eating slowly until his eyes 
lit up.
	"Hey, this is pretty good." Ranma said, now eating with him normal 
gusto that left all four with sweatdrops.
	*He eats like Usagi!* Makoto, Minako, and Ami thought at once.
	*Man, what a pig! Glad I don't eat like that.* Usagi thought.
	"Well, Ranma, what did you do in China?" Minako asked as Ranma 
finished the bento.
	"Oh, just some Martial Arts training." Ranma said, hoping that none of 
the girls liked Martial Arts.
	"Really? You do Martial Arts too?" Makoto asked, now sounding like she 
liked him even more. *Wow! We have a common interest! That's very 
important in a relationship, I've heard.* Makoto thought, now having a 
daydream about the two of them training together in private sessions.
	"So, what kind of stuff did you learn?" Usagi asked.
	"China must have been very interesting." Ami remarked.
	"What kind of training?" Minako asked.
	Ranma was now looking for some escape, quite nervous now. He had 
wanted to make them less interested in him, not more. He was about to reply 
when the bell rang, ending lunch. "Oh darn. Gotta get to class! Bye! 
Thanks for lunch!" Ranma then sprinted towards the school, leaving them 
behind.
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	Ranma then had to endure another two-and-a-half hours of school, and 
then when he thought that he couldn't take the talking of the teacher 
and the glances Minako and Makoto gave his way every thirty seconds, the 
bell rang, signaling the end of school.
	Ranma got up from his desk and was about to leave the normal way until 
he noticed the four girls heading his way again.
	*Oh no! I don't wanna get stuck talking to them for the next 
half-hour. Better leave out the window. Probably won’t follow me out there.* 
Ranma thought as he opened up the window, and hopped out, ignoring the 
gasps of suprise from everyone in the classroom and yelled, "See you 
tomorrow!" To all the people watching him, most of which were wondering why 
he wanted to commit suicide..
	Ranma landed on the ground quite easily, to most people's amazement in 
his classroom and on the ground, and began to jog off. He didn't want 
those girls to catch up and do something like ask to be trained by 
him.
	After Ranma had jogged out of sight, Minako and Makoto came out of the 
building, Usagi and Ami trailing behind.
	"Damn! I wanted to ask him to train me." Makoto and Minako said at 
once.
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	Ranma was now running along the rooftops, almost bursting out in 
laughter at how all the people in school reacted to his jump-out-the-window 
stunt, obviously meaning that there was no really powerful martial 
artists here.
	He jumped on another rooftop, a particularly long and barren one. "I 
guess that I'm number one in two worlds." He said aloud, feeling 
confident.
	"So you say." Came a voice from behind him, causing Ranma to 
immediately turn around in a fighting stance, only to see another Senshi, but 
this one had a large staff that looked somewhat like a key in her 
hands.
	*She's good. I couldn't even sense her, much less see her.* Ranma 
thought, a small amount of respect rising for this one. "Who are you?"
	"I am the one who fights under the time space star, Pluto. I am Sailor 
Pluto." She said in a voice that reminded him of Nabiki's voice in 
coldness, making Ranma shiver slightly.
	“Oh, I get it. Look, if you’re some kind of fiancee or something that 
Oyaji promised me to, just forget it. I’ve got enough as it is.” Ranma 
said, looking peeved as he muttered about making panda steaks when he 
got back.
	Sailor Pluto blinked twice, confused at his statement. “No, I don’t 
believe that we’re engaged…”
	"Yeah? Well, what do you want?" He asked, shifting his stance into a 
more defensive one, ready to take what she could dish out.
	"I could ask you the same question." She replied, not moving. "But, I 
have come to tell you something. Watch yourself, Ranma Saotome. You do 
not want to make enemies out of us. You may not have done anything 
wrong yet, and you should make sure that you do not."
	Ranma relaxed, seeing that she meant no harm, but was still tensed, 
just in case. "Was that a threat?" He asked, a little bit annoyed at the 
way she was treating him.
	She turned around to say something, and was startled to find that 
Ranma was right there in front of her, his face a mere inch from hers, her 
garnet rod now in his hands. "...Because I don't like being threatened. 
Got that, Sailor Pluto?"
	She then got mad. "Give that back!" And made a lunge for it, and 
missed as Ranma sidestepped at the last second, and tripping on a loose rock 
in the process. She was about to hit the ground when she was caught by 
Ranma, who stood her up and gave back her garnet rod, then began to 
walk away.
	"And besides!" Ranma called back, making her look up. "Someone as cute 
as you shouldn't be making threats like that!" And with that, he 
continued roof hopping.
	She stood there with her garnet rod, a bit confused. He was obviously 
more powerful than she originally thought, and that this would require 
some more thought on the matter. She then quickly summoned a portal, 
halfway to get back to the gates of time and think, but also to hide that 
her heart was beating faster than normal and that she was blushing 
quite badly.
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	Author's notes: Ah... another week, another chapter. I've been 
getting a lot of positive feedback on this story, and I would like to 
cover something up right now about chpater 1. It seems that Ranma could 
do the Shi Shi Hokodan before, and its just that he adapted it to the 
Moko Takabishi later on. Thanks to all who sent in about this 
mistake!
	And also, I would like to apologize to dahran, to whom I said that 
there was going to be fighting in this chapter. Oh well... maybe next 
time.
	
	Next time, in Ranma SI Ch. 3! (Don't bees readings if yous don'ts 
wants spoilers.)
	Ranma gets a job!
	Makoto attempts to go out with Ranma!
	Ranma meets two more of the Outer Senshi!
	Ami acts intelligent! (Wait...)
	And finally, Ranma's fear of cats is shown!
	
	As always, you can e-mail me with any C&C you've got to 
armadillo@elhazard.net
	
	"Old heros never die; they reappear in sequels.--M. Moorcock.