Hello everyone, Marshalanime here. Ranma 1/2 is one of those series that I've been recommend but for one reason or another I just never got around to checking out, that is until now! It started out simple enough, I saw the first season for sale while shopping and picked it up on a whim, to which I quickly fell in love with the series. Now, I have only watched the first season of the anime so I may not be aware of anime exclusive characters and stories, but I did go on to read the manga. So if I miss anything from the anime try not to be too upset.

This is going to be a harem story, and yes, Ranma is a girl in this story.

I hope you all enjoy the story!

(Marshalanime does not own Naruto or Ranma 1/2)

With long red hair that reached her ankles, a slender, feminine build, and violet eyes a woman who could easily be described as beautiful walked into a small coffee shop that she had noticed while walking along the street. It had been raining earlier that morning and only now was the sun shining with full force as she walked up to the counter. Once at the counter the woman made a simple order, a single cup of coffee.

"Kushina? Kushina!" the woman heard as she exited the shop. Looking to the side a smile crossed Kushina's face as she saw a girl wearing Chinese-styled clothes with bright red hair tied into a pigtail running towards her. Coming up behind the red haired girl was quite the odd sight for the populous of Nerima, a panda.

"Ranma, Genma, I wasn't expecting to see you two until I got to Soun's" the red haired woman said as the two of them came to a stop next to her.

"That's where we're headed right now" the girl told her. With a few blinks however the young woman noticed that something was off. Without moving her legs Ranma tilted at the hip as she looked around older woman. "Hey, where's Naruto?" Ranma asked, still tilt to the side as she glances up at Kushina.

As she answered that Kushina turned to continue on to Soun Tendo's home, "He took off a little bit ago, he's probably at the dojo by now".

Within the training hall of the Tendo dojo knelt a young woman with long, dark blue hair tied off at the end with a yellow ribbon that matched the light yellow gi she was wearing. With her body focused the girl raised her hand up and then swiftly swung down, breaking through the pair of cinderblocks she had set up in front of her.

"Phew! That felt pretty good" the girl openly said, very pleased with herself.

"It sure looks like it did" the girl heard someone say. With an ever so slightly surprised expression the girl tilted her head up. In the doorway of the training hall stood a blond girl about her age tossing a chunk of cinderblock up and down in her right hand. Her hair was spiky and came down to just past her shoulders, and was kept out of her blue eyes with the help of a black headband. Her orange and black jacket was open, showing that she wore a black shirt underneath as well as displaying the curves of her body better than the jacket would've, unintentionally or not. Her pants were also orange and her shoes consisted of black, open toed sandles. It was also notable that adorning each of her cheeks were three whisker like marks.

"Who are you?" the girl asked as she stood up, her eyes locked onto this stranger. Being that this was a dojo it wasn't out of the question that this girl was here for a challenge.

"Name's Naruto" Naruto said with a friendly smile as she pocketed the piece of debris she'd been tossing around. "What about you? You are apart of the Tendo family, right?" the blond asked as she walked further into the dojo, looking around the place as she did.

"Yes, I am. My name is Akane Tendo" Akane told the blond as she adopted a fighting stance. "Are you here to issue a challenge?" the girl questioned, only to get a look of confusion as the blond turned her head back to her.

"Challenge?" Naruto asked with a slight tilt of her head. "Mom knows the guy who owns this place, Soun I think his name was. We were coming by to visit, I just got here before she did" Naruto told the girl, now getting a consisted look from Akane.

'One of dad's friends?' Akane thought as she dropped her stance. Stepping over the broken cinderblocks she began to apologize, only to regain her confusion when Naruto took a fighting stance of her own.

"What? I said mom wasn't here yet, might as well pass the time with a sparing match. What do a say?" Naruto suggested.

Seeing the blond's grin Akane's confused expression faded in favor of a smirk as she once more shifted into a fighting stance. "I'll try to go easy on you" Akane told her new blond acquaintance, full of confidence.

"I wouldn't recommend that" Naruto told her before moving forward, quickly closing the distance between them. On reflex Akane's head jerked to the side, avoiding Naruto's first strike as her hand moved harmlessly through a few strands of hair.

'She's fast, really fast' Akane thought to herself as she readied her own fist. Holding back might not be an option with that level of speed, she didn't even see the blond through her arm out.

As Akane threw her punch Naruto arm came up to block it with her forearm. 'She's got some strength behind that punch, but...' Naruto thought as Akane pulled her arm back while launching another strike with her other fist. '...She's not really all that quick' the blond thought as she easily moved and shifted around Akane's blows. Though to be fair, it's not that Akane was slow but that Naruto had gotten use to fighting opponents who could move much faster than the girl.

In response to Akane's speed Naruto's own movements slowed down in her desire to see what Akane could do. Throwing her own blows again Naruto observed as her opponent started to doge and block her moves. It wasn't the heart pounding, limit pushing fight Naruto had hoped she might find with this young woman, but none the less their sparing match was enjoyable.

As the two of them continued to throw punches and kicks a sudden flash from the doorway caught Naruto's attention, resulting in a full force punch from Akane striking her cheeks when she attempted to see what had happened. After Naruto landed on the floor a few feet away, her cheek already swelling up she got the chance to see what had distracted here. Tilting her head up she was able to see a new face standing in the doorway. This girl had chin-length brown hair that was in a bob cut, wore a loose fitting green shirt with a pink undershirt to maintain her modesty should the green one slipped down to far, her white short shorts left her legs on full display, and in her right hand was a camera.

"Are you okay?" Akane asked as she stood over the blond she'd laid flat with her punch. Fortunately Naruto wasn't so fragile that a single, albeit powerful, punch would keep her down.

"I'm fine!" Naruto told the girl as she hopped bak onto her feet. "I've been hit pretty hard more than once in my life" the blond said with a big grin on her face, her arms coming up to rest behind her head.

"Finally found a friend who loves to throw a punch more than finding a date, huh Akane" the girl standing in the doorway asked, getting her sister's attention.

"Sorry that my live doesn't revolve around boys!" Akane responded with an annoyed look on her face.

"That so? Then I guess this wouldn't interest you" the girl with the camera said as she turned around and started walking to the house next to the dojo.

Walking up to the doorway the two of them watched the girl go before Naruto finally asked "Am I missing something?".

Following Akane Naruto was lead to a room that looked out over the koi pound in the back yard, there sat Akane's older sisters, Nabiki, the one who taken the photo, and Kasumi, the oldest of the trio and a woman who looked like a young housewife. Sitting opposite from them was their father, Soun Tendo, a man with shoulder length black hair and a mustache. Apparently he had called his daughters together to inform them that one of his old friends was bring their son over so that one of them could be selected to become his fiance.

"Fiance...?" Kasumi questioned after her father's initial explanation. It was so sudden that it almost felt like she'd misheard him.

"Yes, the son of a very god friend of mine. His name is Naruto Uzumaki. If one of you three girl's were to marry him and carry on this training ha-" Soun was telling them when Akane cut him off.

"Hey, wait a minute!" the girl loudly said, getting her families attention. Aside from the whole mess of this fiance nonsense the fact still remained that she'd already met this Naruto guy and he wasn't exactly a guy. "Naruto's a girl!" Akane told them as he stretched out her arm towards Naruto who had been sitting off to the side.

Naruto had listened right along with the Tendo sisters, and like them this was all new information for her. As such she'd frozen up like she'd seen a ghost the moment she'd heard the man talk about marriage and fiances, mentally praying that this was all some kind of weird joke.

"You're... Naruto...?" Soun questioned with a look of disbelieve written all over his face. He had just assumed this girl was one of Akane's friends but if she really was Naruto then that would mean... that would mean...

As Soun and his two eldest daughters were coming to the same conclusion Ranma slid into view of the entrance. "What do you mean fiance!?" the girl demanded, surprising the Tendo family as she ran up to Soun and grabbed his gi tightly. "Why's he gotta marry one of your daughters, huh old man!?" Ranma questioned as she shook the man back nd forth.

It would seem that this situation was about to boil over as Akane got up to help her father and Naruto finally snapping back to reality at the sudden entrance of his red haired friend. As the blond got up to intercept Akane and try and calm down Ranma her steps became stumbles at the sudden feeling of hot coffee being poured over her head.

"Sorry if we're a bit late, we got caught up on the way here" Kushina apologized with a warm smile, gaining everyone's attention as they stopped to look at the woman. Though their attention soon shifted to the blond under her empty cup.

Spinning around on the spot the now taller and flat chested blond confronted his mother, "What's the big idea picking out a fiance for me?!"

"Big idea?" Kushina questioned, her hands coming to rest on her hips as a stern expression came over her face. "These are the big idea!" the woman told him as she reached into her pack and pulled out a small scroll. Unraveling the parchment the woman released the seal inside it, knocking down and burying her son in papers, stunning all present.

Sitting up Naruto picked up the first paper his hand touched and brought it up to his face. "What's this suppose to be?" the blond asked as he looked over the document. From what he could tell it was some profile of some girl he'd never met.

"These, are all marriage propositions" Kushina told the blond.

"Someone's popular" Nabiki remarked as her, Kasumi, and Akane leaned over a little more in order to get a better look as Naruto started to rummage through them, getting more frantic with each new paper.

Letting go of Soun's gi Ranma rushed over to Naruto, dropping down next to him as she started to go through them as well. "How many of these things are there!?" Ranma wondered after looking over half a dozen, eventually growing frustrated and crumpling up each new paper she grabbed.

"We stopped counting them a while ago" Genma told her as he walked into the room. No longer a panda the man had a stocky build, wore a white gi, light blue bandana over his bald head, and a pair of glasses with a frame that wrapped around his ears.

"The Hokage's advisors have been sending them nonstop for months. They're adamant that you find a wife and carry on the Uzumaki bloodline and I'm at my wits end trying to deal with it all. So please, pick at least one of Soun's daughters so we never have to see another marriage proposition!" Kushina said, almost begged in a way.

For a moment Naruto just sat there, staring at the paper in his slightly trembling hands. Sure, Naruto wanted a family of his own at some point, a loving wife, a few kids, but for gods sake he was only sixteen! How could they expect him to just pick a fiance at his age?

Opening his mouth to voice his frustration the blond found that Akane had beat him too it. "What do you think you're doing, deciding out future on your own! Don't we get a choice in you we're going to marry!?" Akane blurted out as she pushed herself up from the short table.

"Yeah! What if Naruto doesn't want to marry any of these girls?" Ranma added as well.

"I'm not getting married!" Naruto chirped in as he tore up the paper in his hand.

Hearing them Kushina's firm stance seemed to falter slightly. She loved her son more than anything in the world and she wanted nothing more than his happiness. If she thought these girls weren't fit for her darling baby boy she'd cut the engagement off immediately, but surely her friend raised his daughters properly. She just had to help Naruto see their appeal.

"Engagement and marriage aren't the same thing. If it doesn't work out then we'll cut it off before the wedding" Kushina told them, hoping a softer approach will be more convincing. After all, if she new her son then trying to force him into this will only backfire.

"Kushina! You promised me that your son would marry-" Soun was vehemently saying to the woman when a single glare from her had him closing his mouth. "As Kushina was saying, there's no need to rush into this. Take your time and get to know one another" Soun told his daughters, having a miraculous change of mind under Kushina's watchful gaze.

"That's fine and all, but can someone explain why he showed up at our house as a girl?" Nabiki asked with an incredulous look, bringing that little shock back to the foreground of her families mind.

With their eyes coming to land on Kushina the woman figured now was as good of time as any. It had to be easier than convincing Naruto to pick out a fiance and so she took a seat and started to tell them about how they ended up in Jusenkyo and of the curses that now afflicted Naruto and Genma.