Kim Possible ½ 4

Disclaimer: I am a lawyer who has never lost and have a budding corporation that would make Bill Gates green with envy, I am a powerful fighter and can crush a human head like a zit, I am the best you will ever see in your pathetic little lives … nah, not really, I am just a fourteen year old boy living at home with 5 Euro to his name, but you are welcome to take it.

On with the story.

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Gliding to the side, Kim checked her heart beat regulator on the screen and sighed, taking it off as she turned off the treadmill, it was harder than before to put up with the severe weight of her bones and muscle density, and the gravity belt was a pain in the butt, but when she looked back at it, she could see that it was for the best as she wiped away the sweat from her forehead and looked around the gym she had recently joined, it was a quite life compared to Nerima, and, on occasion, wrote to Herb and Saffron who were more than happy to be on her good side rather than have themselves killed, as they could feel the power coiling around her in a tight ball, ready to strike, and were wary, but once they had seen her and knew that she just wanted to be friends, they had become accepting. She looked at her watch and sighed before going to the showers, she had to go meet Ron this evening to do their homework and she was really pushing the edges of her patience, even when she was happily living the quiet life of America. Now she just needed some sort of chaos to come by this week and…

"WHERE THE HELL AM I NOW?" came the roared question from inside the girls bathroom as she had stripped away her gym clothes to show her bikini bottoms and nothing else, what was much more surprising to anyone that was from Nerima or knew Ranma was that it was a G-string bikini bottom showing off way too much flesh.

Kim covered herself with a towel, walked in and looked at the guy there who was looking around curiously then sighed, moved beyond him and turned on the cold water, the water hitting the Lost Boy and getting no change that made the old Ranma inside Kim to lurch and want to lash out and get the cure for her gender changing, but now…

"Get out," she said in a cold voice, her eyes hard "and wait outside the door, if you don't, next time you see me, your voice will be several octaves higher and you will have no means or reproduction for the rest of your life."

Ryoga, needless to say, didn't get lost and waited outside the door.

When Kim arrived in the locker room, she quickly pulled on a bra, a shirt, some panties and a pair of khaki pants-shorts, turned and gave Ryoga a glare "what are you doing here?" she hissed "this is the girls locker room."

Looking around nervously, Ryoga said in near perfect English "I was looking for my way back to Nerima, Japan," he frowned slightly, his eyes narrowing on her "I wasn't trying to get into the girls locker," he narrowed his eyes even more "do I know you from somewhere? You look familiar."

Sighing, Kim gave him a hard look "maybe in another life, another time, that may have been true," she retorted casually, a hard edge telling him to drop it "but this is neither the time nor the place, and I don't have to explain myself."

Of course, Kim had forgotten that regular visitors and locals of Nerima had absolutely no clue when to give up and were utterly bull headed when it came to doing something (AN: Remind you of anyone?) and Ryoga continued "you look very familiar to someone I used to know," this was met by Kim's eyes narrowing slightly and her ki to flare around her slightly in agitation and anger which she tried to keep under control, managing, for the most part, to keep anything major from getting out "yeah, now that I mention it, you look a lot like this girl I used to know, she came from Nerima, was the best damned Martial Artist that you will ever see," this caused some of her agitation and anger to fade, and made her sit straighter, her eyes still narrow though as she hadn't forgotten that Ryoga had turned around emotionally in an instant from praising someone to trying to kill them "somehow, I think I have known you for years, almost like I should be greeting you in some way."

Kim casually pulled out her wallet and looked at it cautiously before opening it "if I tell you how you know me, promise me on everything that you hold dear that you will never tell a soul, practice this on the Martial Arts that you study, and, if I am right, on what little honour you have left."

Ryoga frowned at that, it was disconcerting to know that someone would ask him to make a pledge like that but agreed and Kim opened her wallet, slit open a small sewn patch in the nylon and opened the pocket space inside, pulling out a photo that she had taken just before graduation with the entire group, about three months before she had left Nerima, and set it on the table face down, sliding it over, pulling out another photo and sliding that one over as well, that one was of one of the rare times that Ranma and Ryoga had gotten along well together, but that photo was with a female Ranma and Ryoga sitting together, talking together, that photo had never been known about by anyone bar the two and Nabiki who had taken the shot with a wide range telescopic lens "before I became Kimberly Anne Possible, I went by the name Ranma Saotome, my best friends outside of school were Ryoga Hibiki and Ukyo … Ukyo Kuno I should say," she shuddered at that, it was slightly disturbing that her best buddy was married to the local idiot and had two children while Konatsu had finally gotten his wish to be a full girl with some Nyanniichuan, still, it could have been worse "those pictures were taken three months before I left Nerima, the other photo is of myself and you taken by Nabiki in one of the only times that we had been friendly with each other."

Ryoga stared at the two photos before snarling "I bet Ranma put you up to this, didn't he? Where is he?"

Kim stared at him for a second, then said with a calm intensity that would have shocked any Nerimian to the core "I assume that nobody outside of Nerima knows that Ranma turns into a girl when splashed with cold water," then, turning on her old voice of gruff standards, not willing to change because it hurt like hell to have panties on as a guy, she also changed to Japanese as it was easier for him to understand and hear her voice in her natural language "and Moose turns into a duck when splashed, Shampoo turns into a cat, and you turn into a pig, though apparently not any more,"

Since the last five words were said in a snarl, Ryoga flinched, narrowed his eyes at her then went wide eyed "Ranma, is that … you?" he asked cautiously, and when she nodded, he gave her a bear hug, using all his strength which winded her slightly but would have killed lesser men or women, and moved back quickly "so, what have been doing?" he asked cautiously, then stopped, grinned and pulled out a phial of green liquid "here, this is the curse remover, everyone thought you might want one, so we each got one to give to you when we saw you, now you never have to be a girl again."

Those last seven words struck a cord in the old Ranma which was screaming to take it and use it, never having to change again on the slightest whim of whatever Kami was having a laugh at his expense, but the new Ranma, the calm and collected Ranma, was simply asking about how she thought of her life now, and what she thought on the situation, and, if she did take the cure, wouldn't she be obligated to marry Akane, since she was the last legal Tendo female, she did not want to get married yet, she wasn't even sure she ever wanted to get married, and, if she wanted, she could have a family all on her own, but the voice also argued that, should she do that, it would make all the sacrifices she had made and the deaths of her parents in vain, since, in one way or another, they had died for her freedom, maybe not directly, but indirectly, they had done exactly that.

Old Ranma argued with the new Ranma about how he had dominion over that choice, and that he was the first one there and he could finally be freed from having to change into a weak little girl again.

New Ranma argued calmly and strategically that, if she was so weak, then why did people give her praise and she was known around the world through crime syndicates and the Martial Arts community, even to the normal people, whereas the boy Ranma was simply known in the Martial Arts community as being the best there was until he had vanished.

Old Ranma argued that it was because he had all the power and none of the chances to do it in.

New Ranma argued that the choice and ability was always there, but he had been repressed and, if she took the cure, that they would be forced to go back to Nerima.

Old Ranma retorted angrily with a snide remark that she couldn't possibly know any better because she was just a stupid, weak, silly little girl.

New Ranma sharply retorted that, if she was so weak, stupid and silly little girl, then how come she was faster and more flexible, and even had a better capacity to understand emotions than Old Ranma did or ever would have.

Old Ranma was stricken by that and retorted in a near rage that it was only because emotions were easily manipulated people and made them weak and stupid.

New Ranma just calmly asked whether he planned on being an emotionless person that was bent on being cold hearted and ruthless, finally snapping and killing all those around him.

Old Ranma could not reply for a moment, and then said somewhat reluctantly that he thought it was a bad idea to change since Jusenkyo brought her a semblance of balance that she wouldn't have achieved before.

New Ranma was pleased and said not to take the cure.

Old Ranma agreed somewhat hesitantly.

"I don't think I will," Kim said tiredly after ten minutes of silence "I found my balance, and with my being a girl most of the time, I managed to gain a lifetime of being a girl and I found that I was happy to simply be myself, I even grew to like both forms, as they were opposite sides to the whole."

Ryoga smiled at that and tossed the bottle to the side, the contents splattering onto the floor "yeah, I figured as much," he said, grinning slightly "but then, you always seemed to have no hesitation when in either form."

"Why do you think I never changed back immediately like you did when you weren't near Akane or Akari," she replied with a faint smile, then stood up, looking at his left hand and holding it up to the light, looking at the gold band there, whistling slightly and smiling at his blush "c'mon Ryoga, I wanna go out with you," and when Ryoga hesitated, she said "yes, I do like guys and girls, but also, I happen to know you are married and I just want to go out on a date with you as a friend, even if you are one sexy looking devil that I wouldn't mind getting into my bed for a night of furious rutting about like bunnies."

Ryoga stepped back with wide eyes at the sultry smile which faded into blasting guffaws seconds later "that wasn't funny y'know" he replied testily.

Kim just smiled slightly then sighed, looking downcast "I don't even think I will ever be ready for that, but I am trying to get used to the idea that I might end up with either a girl or a guy, or even both, but you know me, chaos follows me everywhere," her gaze turned to the ceiling, but she frowned and gripped him, her hand phasing through her locker and held his hand "don't let go, I want to show you something that I learned," and with that, she phased through the ceiling and let him fall to the floor when she looked to the night sky, hovering on her back "y'know, I still wonder what would have happened if I hadn't left, I know the Nanban mirror had vanished, I took it so that none of you could follow me, as well as other things that would have helped find me, and even things that had been used against me and had my aura or essence on them, I removed myself as much as possible from everywhere just to escape, and it worked, but…" she sighed deeply again and looked to Ryoga who was sitting cross legged, looking at her attentively as if she was the most important thing in the world "y'know, I never really thought about how, even with all the changes in my life and the release from the constant chaos of Nerima could have given me, I would still be the same person."

"But Ranma Saotome would have never refused the cure to his curse" Ryoga replied, a smirk on his face.

Kim nodded, but then, she knew that she was pushing the limits on that section of thinking, it had already tired her out mentally "maybe, but still, I just wonder, had I known this was going to happen when I left, would I have left, or would I have stayed? Would I have still left but stayed a guy without accepting myself as who I was and who I would have become? Would I have accepted and moved on or would I have simply refused and run away? Guess those answered will never be known."

"Ranma, don't you think that, had you been able to see the entire outcome before you left, that it wouldn't have changed you anyway?" Ryoga asked, tentatively ignoring the gawking look on her face "I mean, if I had known there was a cure earlier on, I could have stopped it from being made by changing things, right?"

Kim stared for a second, before nodding slowly "yeah, I s'pose you're right for once," she replied with a laugh, not flinching or moving when his fist collided with her face which would have crushed it before the medical nanites, and after her toughening up, she had built up a high resistance to damage, so she simply smiled in reply and muttered "ouch Ryoga, that hurt," and smiled at his smirk of victory, which turned into a frown as the next bit was uttered "did you have to hurt my feelings by punching me," and fell face first into the floor, pulling himself up a second later "I still wonder though, what would have happened had I know that all this was going to happen?"

"You could try the Nanban mirror, and you look completely different than you did back then, so it could help you, besides that, I overheard from Cologne that the only reason it was dangerous was because you could enter other realities where one decision made would have changed things, oh, and drop the Ki disguise, I can see right through it."

Kim sighed and lowered her disguise field, her eyes becoming slitted and her teeth growing slightly so that, when she smiled at him, fangs poked out, and her muscle was much more defined, her skin was alabaster smooth and her breasts had shrunk slightly, fitting her body perfectly, her face became defined and angular, her Japanese heritage showing by the way her angular eyes peered at her, and her smoky blue eyes peered at him with the same intensity that she always held in battle, that calculating glint was there now and it was like rendition of Nabiki, as he looked into her more, he found that she was heavier than she looked and was the reason why she floated, he had also noticed that she did it all the time, like her weight was immeasurable. As he noticed all this, he also noted that her rips, which were once a light pink, were now a deep red and not as chapped as they were before, and the skin on her face didn't look so weather beaten, her eyes didn't look so sad, alone or frightened of the world as they had been, and her posture, which he could've told anyone was a mask for her scared attitude and her severe depression, was now filled with real confidence and he shuddered when he thought about her using real confidence in her chi, because her aura, while it had been a light blue to show that she had confidence in her abilities, showed no confidence in her life, and now that she had it, it was rewarding to see something like that, even if he still disliked her.

She looked at him with a grim smile and said "this is from the training I pushed myself through and the changes are because I mastered the Neko-ken," she paused to let him shudder then continued "and I have learned how to harness and expand my Ki, my pure ki, and use it like a weapon without the use of emotions, I have become … I guess you could call me whole," she sighed at that, looked at Ryoga and ginned to herself when she saw him going stark white "yeah, I can cause just as much, if not more damage with Pure Ki now than I could with chi just by flexing it like a muscle, but it comes at a price of being limited because the body can only yield so much pure energy before it collapses in on itself, burns out or explodes from accumulation, that is why I push my body to the limits and hover like this, while it deepens the pools of ki until it fills the body completely turning the entire body into a Ki battery, gradually growing in density, but until that happens, I run the risk of killing myself, see, when I defeated Herb, I noticed that my chi had spiked up in intensity and I started manipulating Ki to a small point, just enough to make crude shapes in my palm, when I defeated Saffron and destroyed the dragon statue, it was nearly all the Ki I had built up in my life exploding out in one huge outburst, obliterating the statue, or what the technique ploughed through anyway," at this, she sighed deeply and sat on the floor, releasing any floating and sitting deftly on the floor as soon as she did so, she sighed and said softly "my body is far stronger than I could imagine, think Saffron and Herb moulded into one being and multiply it by ten, anyway, after Saffron, I began digging more into my Ki and less into chi as it became more stable, much more concentrated and readily available, I had looked into some shrines in Japan, going to some of the Ki masters that were there, found that my Ki was breaking through the self imposed barrier of emotions that formed my chi, you know about that right, how chi covers the innate Ki in the body of every living being and at times, it is larger than most, but never breaks free?" at his nod, she continued "well, it was growing, turns out that I absorbed power from Saffron when I killed him, and even though he is still alive, have the same power and all, I started to notice that I had grown powerful in my Ki, started to get," here, she whimpered involuntarily "Empathy," at his confusion, she elaborated "I can … I guess you can say that I can read emotions of others by simply being near them, and it makes it very hard being a teenage girl with hormones being in a school with teenagers with hormones, I feel horny half the time the time, angry another part, depressed, and even bloody over the hills, whacked-out-on-weed happy," she paused, noting his disbelieving look and frowned when she 'felt' his scepticism, pushed it aside and said "I know, unbelievable, but hey, if ya wanted to know something, gotta tell ya right, ne?" she grinned, then turned serious "anyway, I started to notice that my Ki started expanding and I started doing training exercises to help keep it under control while I suppress it which only made my Ki reserves deeper, I started to notice this about eight or nine months after I defeated Saffron, and it became worrisome when I started to develop in my senses, but I managed to keep it level so that my chi was shielding and repressing it into a tight ball, that is why my chi attacks were so weak in the last year and a half, I was trying to repress the Ki while doing battle, it was hard, but well worth it since I didn't kill anyone with an explosive outburst…"

"Do you realise how unbelievable that is?" he asked in indignation at being taken for a fool.

Kim, in response, flares her Ki blades on her knuckles making four black and blood red blades flicker to life then vanish as she noticed his fear "yeah, I know, scary, ne? Anyway, about six months before I left, I started to have my chi pools back and it became something that I was happy about, but I found that my Ki had simply melded into it and, while fused with the chi, it was separate, so I was wary of using chi attacks because I had no idea how powerful they were, but I repressed it yet again," she sighed at this, pulled out a crystal and looked at it intently, before setting it to the floor and pulled out three more, one being blue, another white, the last a deep purple, almost black, and said "okay, here is a representation of it, here, you have the three pools of energy, the white is physical, the black is Ki, and the blue is chi, usually, the black is only a fragment or a chip of what is represented, only enough to fill up a small thimble, the blue is chi, usually enough to fill up a cup, the white usually has enough to fill up a large coffee mug if it was to be measured with normal people, in Martial Artists from Nerima and the Amazons who haven't started chi training, the thimble is replaced by a matchbox or a ring box, the white is enough to be the size of a small melon, roughly the size of my head, and you remember my breasts when I graduated, how large they were?" at Ryoga's deep blush and nod, she continued "the white would usually be the size of a basketball," she held up the crystals and said "this would likely only fill up half the crystal, which is what you have, the chi is something you would have maybe up to a third of the way completely filled up, and the ki is likely only one eight all the way up," seeing and feeling his indignation, she continued regardless "someone like Herb had taken his chi to the maximum as well as his physical energy, but was just tapping into his Ki which was starting to build up, as is natural, Saffron was completely filled up on all these levels, but he was unused to it, so it was easier, plus, he hadn't the body to channel that type of power around for long without being completely burned out," at this, Ryoga's eyes went wide in realisation and dawning appeared in his eyes "yeah, he could have killed us all very easily if he wanted to when he was fully grown," Ryoga whimpered as he grew humbled "anyway," she continued with a faint smile "about a week or two before I left, this happened," with that, she crushed the blue crystal in her hand easily and held it, looking around before spying Ryoga's ever present bag and pulling a tin cup away, pouring the crystal sand into the cup, showing him exactly what she was doing, grabbed the black crystal and shattered it before pouring it into the cup then throwing the white one in after breaking it up slightly "my chi became completely broken and it was in disarray, my Ki had broken through the barriers and my physical energy became so high that I literally could not sleep at all, but after a few days, I managed to suppress it further by wearing heavy weights on my limbs and expending my chi and, to a lesser level, my ki as well, to bearable limits where I could carry on in a normal day, then, I just decided to leave after I had taken the time to look at my life, so, after leaving Nerima, I began studying in whatever roles I wanted, doing things I had never dreamed, learning things I had always wanted to learn, listen to real music for the first time, I even learned to play the flute, the violin and the piano, and I learned that I could have a feminine side and still be considered a Man amongst Men, that the ideal that my father wanted was a lying, manipulative bastard who would not work for money and beat up others to be superior and lord over them, my mother wanted a womanising pervert who would use and toss aside women on a whim while my wife was left to suffer out in the cold, doing house work and being a good mother with the additives of being an emotionless robot that shows no femininity at all and on top of that, wanted me to emulate my father as well," she sighed then said "anyway, I managed to keep myself under control, even after I used the de-aging mushrooms which actually helped, since it repressed the process more, but the problem was that, while my body was younger, my mind, energy and power were not, so my Ki and chi grew with my body which began showing affects just after my second eighth birthday, hardening my muscles and making me faster and more flexible, after my eleventh year, I noticed that my chi had all but vanished, only to appear melded with my Ki completely in a tightly woven pattern which was easy to separate after I started training even more, pouring myself into these videos I saw a few years ago about that lady from Tomobiki, you remember the one? Fired energy around with one hand and blew up a school single-handed, so I used that as my basis, managing to copy most of the abilities, but there is one I have never tried, and that was limb regeneration and everything, anyway, after a while, it became too difficult to simply hold the ki into a small ball and restricted it to a shell around my body, giving off the most bare amounts just to simply stay visible."

"How did you manage to do that?" Ryoga asked with shock.

"Remember the Hidden Weapons, Folded Space, Stuff Space, Pocket Dimension, Quick Hands and Ki Shifting techniques were done?" Ryoga nodded hesitantly "well, I used the Hidden Weapons technique to hold much of the things I needed to use for school or male clothes, this took up a part of my energy, still does, I folded space around me and inverted it so that I could hold the more extreme parts of my aura inside, Stuff Space came as little more than an entertainment gimmick since it used lots of Ki to use, but under the constant stress, it helped to keep my aura down to a minimum, stored things like small arms and school things like rulers, rubbers and smaller things I need for everyday life, Pocket Dimensions was something I used for holding things like jetpacks and things that I use for my new persona of being a teen superhero, the Quick Hands technique was actually something that was a mix of Folded Space and Hidden Weapons, but very draining when used by others, so not as practical as other things, and the Ki Shifting was simply used to make my disguise as you were able to see through it, means you had enough Ki and will to not look beyond the will bending it does to make you see that image, I kinda learned it from this Shinto priest in Tomobiki about a year or two after I left, met a cute girl there as well."

Chuckling at that, Ryoga looked to the side, looking at the stars "you still can't sleep normally?" he asked, and when she shook her head with a grin, he replied "still look at the stars at night time?" she nodded faintly.

"They are my constant companions, besides the moon, and tells me that, while things might be tough, I can push through things to become better than before," she said in a solemn tone, then grinned at him "I wanna take you on that date, you are a sexy, handsome hunk of a man, married, sure, but you are also healthy, if I didn't know that you were married and were my best friend, I would have asked you to bed me right now" she said seriously, her eyes showing nothing but seriousness.

Nervously backing away, Ryoga tried to get away when Kim burst into laughed and vanished, appearing behind him and wrapping her arms around his neck and placing her arms around him, whispering hotly in his ear, a breathy voice, tickling the hairs on his neck "I was joking Ryoga, I can't do that to you, I like to tease these days, but only with my closest friends, I know that I love you, but only as a brother, if I had you in my bed, I wouldn't be doing anything other than sleeping, but still, I just wanted to say that I love you, got it?"

He nodded and turned, wrapping her into a hug and grinning at her "I love you too little sister."

"HEY! I'm a man goddamnit!" she replied for old times sake.

Poking her breast with a raised eyebrow, he smirked at seeing her red face "you don't look like a guy to me" he said plaintively.

Kim sighed as she turned and leaned against him "it has been a while, and I never thought that you would be anything but angry towards me," she sighed wistfully at that, then looked at his hand which was on her stomach and raised it up to the light "so, who did ya marry?" she asked curiously.

Ryoga coloured and said faintly "Akari, she was … she was the best there was and…"

"Akane dumped you out in the street because you told her you were P-Chan, after that, you both gave it a shot because you both hated me, then you got tired of being beaten by a jealous girlfriend and left, right?" Ryoga nodded against her and she slipped the ring off his finger, looking at it for a second "y'know, I woulda been married to that female dog before…" she paused slightly "well, besides that, I guess I can honestly say that I am happy, I knew something was off, and it was my so called curse, it helped me to maintain some order and, once I had accepted it, water didn't find me nearly as much and I could even control it to a point, but I found two things that I liked to do."

"And," Ryoga asked in a patient tone, having absorbed all this was fine to him, but he was wondering what the point to all this was "what were they?"

Kim blushed deeply and said "I like to flirt mercilessly with both guys and girls with a few flashes of flesh, I … I found it … arousing," she blushed even deeper as Ryoga tightened his grip "and I found that, while I had no real interest before with sexual thoughts, I had been suppressed by Genma and Happosai, they made me impotent by pressure points and kept me immature so I would age 'gracefully' in my girl form, but this had the down side of keeping my mind in the frame of a twelve year old, and my learning capabilities were stunted, they had also suppressed my aggression and anger to the point where it was lethally bottled up and would burst, making me go homicidal, I made it out just in time."

Ryoga tightened his grip, finally realising that Ranma, for all the times he had acted immature, was no fault of his own, merely the bumbling acts of some Martial Artists who had too much knowledge and not enough sensibility to use it all. Ryoga turned her around and kissed her forehead lightly as she slipped the ring back on and smiled at her as she blushed faintly "I won't tell anyone where you are, but you do know that the Amazons are in America, right?" Kim nodded at that, reluctantly pulling away from one of the first companions and people who had known her, the whole her "well, your Ki masking faltered about three and a half years ago, so you should keep an eye out for them and, if you can, stick to Amazon Shu, Kim Possible was taught that right?"

Kim nodded slightly "yeah, it was a hunting party that got cornered by a bear when I was tracking some girl that got lost in the wilds, they taught the lower and middle tiers of their style for aerial combat, turns out it is a variation of Anything Goes that I did in the village, said it was a style made by the only male ever honoured by the Amazon Nation and had defeated two of their main rivals, the Musk and the Phoenix, still, comes as a surprise that they only got the lower levels of the kata at the intermediate Anything Goes Aerial style, and it had massive holes in it that was filled by Amazon Shu, they claimed it as their own though."

"Well, if you use that, mix it in with some gymnastics, pull back your Ki and strength, fall down when hit by their heavier punches and act hurt, then you could get away from Cologne and Shampoo without them killing you or marriage, and we know that power of Ki and chi increases longevity, and because you are so young, I would say you used the de-aging mushrooms which, if you wanted, could live forever with minimal uses of the mushrooms."

Shaking her head, she smiled faintly "it would be nice to see lots of little Saotome's running around, but I would have to make my wife or husband be sure to know that I couldn't marry them unless they were willing to have immortality as well, also, it seems a bit trivial to do something like that, I want someone who can fight and take care of themselves in case something bad comes our way."

Ryoga smiled and said softly "it was good to see you again Ranma … I mean Kim," he replied with an easy grin at her slight glare "besides, I got a home to get to, so I will see you later on."

Kim just watched him walk off in a random direction, a black portal appearing in front of him and him vanishing into it. She shook her head and pulled up her disguise again, wrapping herself in the towel she had brought with her and vanished down into the floor, one last whisper of "it was good to see you Ryoga" glancing across the air.

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Kim just knew this had something to do with Happosai as she looked at her sparse panties and bra drawers and screeched in indignation, charging down the steps and into the shed, pulling out the chainsaw and revving it up, screaming, "I AM GONNA KILL THAT LITTLE FREAK!"

She ran to where the screams were and made a passing cut at the old troll, slicing off a lot of hair while the chainsaw narrowly missed cutting his ear off "hey! Didn't your parents teach you to be respectful to your elders?" he asked in a wail.

Snarling, Kim lunged again "they did, but they taught me that being a pervert requires a beating, and I am gonna beat you into the floor then punt you all the way to Japan where you can be deported to Alaska via courier to a Wolverine den!" and she dropped the chainsaw, making sloppy punches and kicks for Happosai, but very coordinated and fast for normal people.

"You really are slow, you know that?" Happosai laughed loudly.

Kim screamed in rage and a blue aura filled with streaks of black swirled around her and she punched the ground where he used to be, the concrete slabs being tossed into the air by the extreme pressure of the hit. She panted, but not from exhaustion, and looked up at the troll "pervert" she muttered before falling to her knees, emotionally exhausted.

Happosai giggled and lunged at her, nuzzling her breasts when he stopped, shocked at the power this girl held, and took a step back wearily "who are you?" he asked suspiciously as he readied himself for a battle.

Kim just stood and adjusted her shirt where the bra had been removed and sighed "I am nobody but your imminent executioner, ya old pervert" and with that, she charged and attacked with the style that the Amazons taught her, keeping her speed and strength down so she didn't kill him, just made sure that she would beat him into the ground.

Observing her as he dodged through her slow and clumsy (to them both) punches and kicks, faint traces of Amazon Shu and Anything Goes in the style "how is it that you came across that style of attacks?" he asked as he jumped over a kick.

Attacking again, Kim didn't answer him as she fed some Ki into her fist and drove it into the wall where a faint crack appeared where Happosai was and she clutched her hand as her image gave it the look that it was bleeding, she was happy that, after a month, she had revised and tightened the control of the image and made it impossible to sense without being a family member, and since she was the last of her family, that she knew of, it was impossible for Happosai or Cologne to detect her without her revealing herself. She managed to poke a Shiatsu point in his left leg which made him fall to the ground and mentally berated herself for using that point, it was one that only Masters of the Art knew about, and the Grandmaster was the only one she knew of with records of that point in the left, just behind the knee joint while the back was turned, causing the blood to clot and rupture the vein to create a large bruise that would make it very painful to walk for a week or two, maybe even a month if she hit it right, which she knew it wasn't. She dropped into an Anything Goes stance as Happosai's eyes widened and smirked just like she had before, she knew she had been caught the moment she had touched that point and that Happosai had lured her in, allowing her to get in those hits which she couldn't have gotten before and her speed was much more, she had let her anger get the better of her again "so, you old pervert, ya found me, good for you, now leave me alone, I am happy, so leave. Now."

"No, I don't think I will, not that I found my Ranma-chan" he said, grinning pervertedly.

Kim sighed and flared her chi slightly, forming a black ball in her palm the size of a walnut, holding it and moving her arm experimentally "see, I haven't used my chi in so long, I can't remember how to modulate it correctly, you see, I have been so out of practice that I can't channel it the way I used to," at this, Happosai visibly shuddered, even he couldn't kill the Phoenix King at his best and in his prime, and not for lack of trying, he had barely gotten away with his skin in tact "so, what say you just be on your perverted little way before I punt you to Los Angeles where there are quite a few people who would love your taste in … clothing, mainly the men."

Happosai wilted at that then noticed that nobody was looking at them "what happened, how come nobody is looking at us?"

"A little trick I picked up from watching an Anime, I just used my chi to blanket us like my fathers Sealed Techniques but on a wider scale, like a shell, but it also has a mind altering additive that makes people avoid this spot because all they see is a load of garbage in the middle of the street, and if you look closely, you will notice the very thinly stretched sheet surrounding us which provides the image of garbage, quite simple illusionary tactics I picked up from you, that, and the sheet has Girl and Boy Away patches on the outside and I have become used to using them to the point where the teargas doesn't effect me so much as it simply has no effect" she said, grinning smugly at the sweating that Happosai was doing as he looked at the patches in the large sheet.

"When did you get it up?" he asked casually, hoping to find a way to beat the girl into submission like always.

"Well, when I came at you with the chainsaw, that provided the distraction so I used the Quick Hands technique to cover us up and push everyone away, set up the chi to cast the illusion and waited to enjoy the effects, I also used the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken to sew on a patch to your back and it won't come off unless you know how to stitch with extreme precision, I only need to remove one stitch and the whole thing falls off, but each time one falls apart and you don't get it right, it becomes interlocked tighter since I infused chi into the stitches."

Happosai grimaced "how could you do that to your Master?" he cried out.

Kim smiled and shifted to the side slightly and said "I put the Girl Away patch and the Come Guy patch, should be quite an inventive thing to use, since guys everywhere will want to hug and grope you mercilessly, and girls will run away in disgust, oh, and to make things even more interesting…" here, she pulled out a potion bottle and uncorked it, holding it on her finger then breaking away the neck, holding it on the tip of her finger then tossing it, the bottle breaking over his head "you are now cursed with the Spring of Drowned Girl, since I have a few dozen casks of both the Spring of Drowned Girl and Boy, but you are cursed, and just to make things even more interesting Happosai, I can grant you your dream of having your youth restored to you, here!" and she pulled out a mushroom and shoved it down the old goats throat, de-aging her to twenty.

Happosai looked down at herself and gasped in rage "Ranma, you have gone too far!" he growled as he, now a she, looked at Kim.

Yawning arrogantly, but keeping her defences up, she placed her hands behind her head and kept an eye on him "you aren't worth my time."

"You have gotten sloppy Ranma!" she shouted as she charged the red haired girl, launching kicks and punches so fast that it took Kim by surprise that she was tossed to the floor.

Kim sat up, a bewildered look in her eyes, then she grinned "seems like you have some fight in you, see, I remember what you did to me, those pressure points that made me stay young and immature, but also, something that took away my aggression and anger, and you know what? I managed to reverse them and release everything, I even managed…" here, she giggled lightly "to grow up as I was supposed to before all the pressure points you touched were there, even the ones that Genma put on me," Happosai's eyes widened "and guess what, I am having my periods," Happosai winced at that, knowing a beating was in order "and another thing, I just happen to have increased my intelligence to that of someone my proper age, and even past that, I am also a lot stronger, flexible and faster than I was when I fought Saffron, I believe you felt the tight weave that was my energy core?" Happosai nodded with wide eyes "good, because you were wrong, I am feeding several pockets of space, dimensional pockets, my disguise field and several other things, my body is literally saturated with pure Ki and chi," Happosai's eyes went so wide that they threatened to drop out of her skull "oh, I suppose that I should also tell you that Saffron would have as much difficulty fighting me now as he would if I were just arrived in Nerima all those years ago, and that is in power alone, I still have to learn more styles, control and ways to pull my punches and kicks, otherwise I am a walking tank."

"Ranma…" she started.

"Kim" she replied absently, looking at the sky but Happosai could tell that she was also watching him from the corner of her eyes and, because they were under the sheet, she knew where she was all the time.

"Right, Kim, anyway, I can train you if you like, all you have to do is wear this little number" and she held out some black lingerie.

Kim snatched it away quickly and stuffed it in her pockets, looking embarrassed "it was mine anyway" she replied shakily.

Happosai grinned widely, a perverted glint in her eyes "well, let's get to training!"

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Since then, it had been rough and tumble, Kim would show how much Ki she had in both forms and would literally blow a small crater into the ground after having removed the masking tools just by standing there, and when powered up, she would level the area, good thing they trained in the desert when she was on a mission and he would stay away while she worked on some of the things people asked her to do. Sometimes, they felt Cologne following behind with a whole battalion of Amazons that, while Kim would be hard pressed against all sixteen Matriarchs of the Amazons plus the champions form the past fifteen years, she was wary, but Happosai had no chance if that was to happen, and she knew that every Ki user in the world would have felt her power and each time it went off, it was likely to disrupt their senses and screw with their concentration. She also felt that, while she was using pure Ki, she was undetectable as to who she was unless she used Ki, which was likely to happen less that two percent of the time. Training had involved how to suppress the level of Ki she had in her body by making it much more tightly woven and packed in with the chi, creating a shell of chi and Ki just under her skin to keep it all balanced. She had to agree with Happosai, that while power was good, you had to understand how to use that power because it was nothing to be sneezed at, and even with how Kim had used her abilities, she was wary when Happosai had learned of them, but felt relieved when he said that they were actually something he had been trying to do for a little over two hundred years and had no idea on how to do it, but when he was shown the Beam Cannon, Beam Shot and Beam Blade techniques, he became nervous then showed her some scrolls of some weapons styles that he had seen but put little to no heed on them, one was even the scroll detailing quite thoroughly, the Hiten Mitsurugi Style and the Kamia Kasshin Styles quite in depth, following on styles that the swordsmen used to freeze their opponents and sub styles that someone named Kenshin had experienced and wrote about to keep his styles alive despite his inability to have children. While she was learning those and also how to create the feeling of extreme bloodlust and fear around her, Happosai was learning more about Kim than he ever would have thought, he knew she was hiding things back in Nerima, but to the depths that she had experienced things astounded and awed him, and since he was learning, he was also wary that Kim could become negligent in her style because of her power, and he knew personally that people who became used to their power also lost most of their skill because they became reliant on that power.

As this happened, Cologne was nervous as were the rest of the Matriarchs of the Amazon Tribe, the Musk and even the Phoenix had come and asked for an alliance to see if this new power was a threat, and if it was, they would likely all be the first to suffer because they were the strongest in the world besides those in Nerima who were also quite powerful, but not united, so they were meeting today to see if they could either get an alliance from the being who had that power or kill it if it didn't want to ally with them.

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Four Months Later:

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Kim had just come back from having a bomb on the tip of her nose and had seriously fallen into one big crush over Shego, she had never felt this way, the green skinned girl had managed to tag her with her hands once and it hurt! She had someone who could take as much as she could dish out and had no restraints against hurting her, but problem was, she is a criminal. She really, really needed to get better taste in women. She sighed slightly and chuckled when she found that she had some serious aversions to fighting against women, but it wasn't that, it was fighting against women who were weaker than her, she found out, because she had unconsciously ingrained that it was not becoming of a guy to hit a woman who couldn't take it and hit back just as hard. She found herself wondering slightly and checked her senses, it was okay that her Ki and chi had become so tightly packed that she only needed to use minimal fields and pockets of space, but she supposed that, even with everything as it was, it was only a matter of time before the Amazons found her because of how much power she had released in the scant few months that she had been trained by Happosai who she was unwillingly and begrudgingly accepted that, when he was concentrating on training, she was worked like a dog into the ground to become better and to absorb techniques and styles faster, and when he gave praise over all the insults, it was actually heartening to receive it and she had found a renewed passion in learning Martial Arts. She had also learned that the perverse acts of panty raids wasn't so much a perversion as his way to prolong his life because his ki and chi was screwed up royally because of a bad accident with a Chinese Amazon and an outsider woman who had stumbled in on game they were playing as children, and had to use the perverse acts to regenerate what Ki and chi he loses while he lives, saying that he wanted an Heir to the style before he passed away, someone that could learn all his techniques and pass them on. After a brief glance, she had found the problem, the Ki and chi strands which were supposed to weave together around the body from the centre were in knots and took her five days to untangle and unimaginable pain to Happosai, who woke up two weeks later, cursing the Amazons when he realised how bad it really was. After that, he became well mannered, but reverted to his perverted self after training, saying that it wouldn't do to ruin his reputation as a beleaguered little wimp of a Martial Artist with too much power and not enough entertainment on the considerable time he had on his hands. She sighed again, the old goat was really annoying, but it was interesting and quite funny that he had taken to showing her the reason why he took the panties and bras, saying that, before, when he didn't have control of his ki and chi pathways, it was used to keep them energised, open and filled, but now that they were open and full, he could regenerate normally, but the control it took needed to be considerable when she was showed a wooden training dummy with balloons filled with water for tits and a bra covering the mannequin, clothed normally, found out that, without the right amount of chi, you blew the tits off the woman or shredded the clothes, blew their hips apart or destroyed the clothing, if you didn't get it right, it would kill the woman and latent Ki and chi in the clothes was absorbed by Happosai who used them as batteries, but he could go into a mediative state which was a near death point so the food and water in the body were preserved and slowly consumed, that also showed her how the old goat had managed to survive in a cave for over fifteen years.

Still, she had mused to herself while watching the children in the halls of her high school, they had come quite far, but the old man had been able to beat her by sheer skill alone when she wasn't using any Ki or chi to enhance her body like Happosai, who relied on nothing but his body for so long, which also explained because it was a handicap, so she had been beaten soundly into the floor, and when Happosai asked her to so the Amaguriken without any Ki or chi to enhance her body, she said it was physically impossible, and Happosai proved her wrong by pounding her into the floor with it quite quickly as well, so their training in un-enhanced hand-to-hand fighting was progressing, albeit slowly because Happosai suggested that she keep her weight and gravity belt on to help surprise a foe when, where you were once punching at a thousand punches a second, they would have to deal with five times that amount, she had also found that she was unconsciously bracing her body with her Ki and chi which allowed the gravity to be so damned high and the weight on her limbs from the highly compacted lead bracers and greaves were too heavy for her to move in, still, it was worth it as she now had control in her abilities and wasn't so much as out of control as she was insanely powerful with little control over her abilities, and Happosai had mentioned quite humbly that the Amazons were much more experienced, as were the Musk, on chi and Ki control, and he knew the bare minimum, which had already been taught, as he had the need to only absorb energy, not use it. She looked to the side where her parents, the Doctors Possible, were standing, sharing a brief moment with the teacher, talking over her grades, and mentally groused that, spiritually as well as mentally, she was older than they were by a few years, and it was likely that they wanted to put her up a few grades. She hated that idea; she wanted to have a childhood, not be treated as a geek, which was what she really was, as she had taken to books since she had 'learned' to read. She sighed again and absently punched the wall, creating a crack, and modified her strength a bit, looked at the hidden weights and sighed once more, she would never know how she had managed to control her power as much as she had, and frankly, she was scared as to what she could do.

And at that moment, fate decided to intervene when sixteen old biddies on sticks hopped in followed by a multi coloured haired man with two servants had appeared, strutting through the halls and her eyes tracked them as they passed her and, for kicks, flared some ki as she shot up and moved away quickly, stood on a chai and settled herself into a crouching position which was not known to the group. They paused and looked at her curiously, Cologne just a little longer than normal, as did Shampoo when she appeared in the halls in a dignitaries robe, Kim just looking at them silently, she reached behind her back and pulled out a weapon that was well known within the tribe, a small metallic fan that was no bigger than her head, but the ends of the fan were razor sharp and they had fashioned it for only one person. Ranma Saotome. It was a gift to him, or supposed to be, when he joined the tribe. She held it in her hand, but didn't extend it, as she held it in front of her body, there was another one besides the black steel fan, its partner, for Shampoo, marriage gifts, and Kim's hand reached for it, pulling the gleaming silver metal out.

"Where did you get that child?" Cologne asked seriously, remembering the girl who had passed by the village in search of a girl they had found in the wilds.

"Some guy gave it to me years ago, said that it was once a gift to someone who had died long ago, when I asked what he meant, he said that he wanted to do a little searching for his place in the world" she replied, knowing she couldn't lie to save her life, so she bent the truth and said what she thought in a third persons view.

"Interesting," she mused as she looked at the fans, when she saw the look in her eyes, Cologne sighed "you may keep them child, but they were a wedding present for that boy you met and my Great Granddaughter Shampoo, he was a great warrior and a great man, unfortunately, we…" she was stopped by a hard look from the others and a cough from Herb, she nodded once and turned to face her again "Miss Possible, the boy you saw, did he seem powerful to you?"

Kim smirked mentally, time to drop the hammer and make them all regret ever making her life hell "he seemed to radiate power and I felt either burnt or chilled whenever he touched something, but he also had this radiant glow around him for a few months before he moved on, funny thing was that he had a sister travelling with him, she looked almost exactly like me, except for the eyes, they were the most beautiful smoky blue-grey eyes I had ever seen, they were so expressive."

Shampoo and Cologne nodes while Herb smirked "we are on the right trail" he mentioned casually.

Kim frowned at this and said "I still see him from time to time, but he is usually with this really small man and sometimes a woman, it is a comedy act sometimes."

Cologne's ears perked at that "really small you say, he wouldn't be as big as us would he?" she asked, standing on the ground.

Kim was having way too much fun and found that she realised why Nabiki did this so much, it was fun to make others smarter than you were to run around on a wild goose chase. Kim sized her up and said, "well, he was before, but now he is a little taller than that, but the other one, I think his name was Rambo or Rancan or something."

"Would that be Ranma?" asked Herb quickly.

Frowning, Kim thought of the best way to answer the inevitable without revealing who she was "yeah, I think so."

'Here it comes,' Kim thought to herself in amusement as she saw emotions of happiness and sadness ripple through the crowd 'in a few seconds, they will ask where he is and I have to think up an answer real quick or I am busted and ordered to be served up with a side of slavery for the Amazons, petty old biddies.'

"Can you tell us where he is?" asked Cologne.

'And there it is, the clincher of my life, I know that, however I answer it, at least two will stay in Nerima to keep a watch out as more often than not, the power came from here, well, here goes' "Well," Kim started, looking thoughtful, trying to think rapidly, schooling her features like the book Nabiki had given her had talked about "I remember seeing him a few months ago, he was running down the street, away from women who were chasing after him, he seems lonely, not really the type to get into trouble, he isn't in trouble, is he?" she asked in a casual tone, placing a hint of worry for herself into the speech so they wouldn't think her to be lying, this he had learnt from Kasumi.

Cologne regarded her for a second, examining her, she had a faint suspicion, but the girl looked really close to what Ranma looked like as a girl but she was too fair and was much more feminine than Ranma would ever get, she even had light makeup on. Sighing inwardly, Cologne tried to gauge her chi and Ki levels and was in a massive storm of highly condensed power that filled the body making her step back in shock, this was the girl that they were looking for, the girl who had so much power that it was felt all around the world by chi and Ki users everywhere. She took another step back when her eyes glowed briefly and her power became nearly invisible to all the scans they conducted, she also noted that all the others gathered had also taken a step back "so, you are the one with too much power then."

Kim grinned before she stood up "no, I was practicing my skills and while I was watching Ranma, I learned how to condense my … I think it was chi, anyway, I found that it made me slightly faster and stronger when I accessed it, so I kept it tightly bound" she said, hoping they would believe her, then she recalled that the first few times she had trained in chi, her clothes were ruined and falling to pieces.

Cologne eyed her "where is this Ranma who taught you?" she asked cautiously.

Thinking really quickly, Kim said "well, he is usually by the lake, watching it and camping there, but I could be wrong, he moves around a lot, that is where he has been for the last four weeks though, and he is due to leave soon, he only stays to watch over me a bit and teach me some moves before moving on again."

Kim employed the poker techniques he learned from Nabiki and kept her face straight and neutral as Cologne and the others looked at her with an examining glare, she held their gazes for a few seconds before nodding, leaving, Cologne stopped and hopped back, handing her a note "when you see Ranma, if we don't see him first, will you give this to him?"

Kim nodded and pocketed it "just wondering, why do you want to speak to him so much?"

Eying her again, Cologne thought that this girl learned Martial Arts too fast and was too inquisitive of Ranma and their being here to be normal and replied cryptically "he and out tribe have unfinished business and we wanted to talk to him about someone we might need help with later."

Nodding at that, Kim sat down and held up the fans "anything to do with these?" she asked casually.

Narrowing her eyes at the girl, she asked, "a little too curious for your own good, aren't you?"

Forcing a blush, Kim stuttered for a bit, then whispered, "I just wanted to know more about him, he is so mysterious and handsome, I wanted to know more."

Cackling wildly, Cologne said "so, Ranma Saotome managed to snare another girl then?" Kim forced a deeper blush "well, it has some things to do with those fans, but it also concerns his standing in the Amazon village and his heritage."

Kim nodded and pocketed the fans, Cologne hopping off to meet with the others. Kim thought for a while then said softly "hope you never find out about me ya old ghoul, you won't like what I've become."

With that, she stood up and walked off with her parents, she hated this place right now, what with the Amazons and Prince Herb in Middleton, now all she needed was to wait for Cologne to make her move and hopefully never see her change into a guy, or if she does, vanish quickly and quietly, need to look at that camp she had set up and look into why there were here.

So many things to do, she just hoped that they weren't going to force the marriage, she really didn't want to marry into the Amazon village, and what was that about her heritage, could they have found out that she was an honorary Amazon through birth? She didn't know, but she was going to find out.

One way or the other.

She just hoped it wasn't the other.

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Authors Notes:

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Well, here is the fourth chapter, after much trouble because of the power, I made it known that she has even less skill, but an abundance of power, think of this like DBZ and the Sayains, only Ranma reached the pinnacle of human power because of a series of accidents, sound like him, anyway, the power is not the problem, it is the control and the skill, which he will likely get later on.

Male Ranma will make another appearance and Onna-Ranma will be back, changed with a disguise field to make her look older, something like thirty five or something. For those that think Ryoga was too nice, I just watched Season Six of Ranma ½ and found that he isn't that much of bastard as I thought, in the Manga, it is a little difficult since a lot had been cropped away, but the anime is much more expressive, that, and it helps with visualisation. I had read this in the Manga just recently, but I am only up to book 17, so, all I have to do now is try and regulate her progress and hope for da best!

Stupid me.

Anyway, now that the mushy crap of the series is partially done with all the angst and emo tripping, I have an announcement to make!

Kim/Ranma and Shego have been voted as the most popular pair by fifty eight votes! I got heaps of PM's from people who voted and it was close until the ranting chapter had come up, and with that, many people decided to push the Shego/Ranma-Kim pairing and having them do the nasty, well, since I got some people who also wanted Ron/Kim in a VERY close second, I decided that I might do either or both, depending on how it works out with the next few chapters, I might do a bit more xover with Tenchi other than the minor mentions I have made, but hey, we can all dream.

As to the power and control issue, in the entire series, out of everything which he learned, how much control did he show on anything he learned himself compared to anything he copied or changed? He had very little, if none at all, and the Yama-Sen-Ken and Umi-Sen-Ken is proof enough.

After careful thought on this situation, he won't have perfect control, and his power will be limited in use, but he will also get skilled enough to use it sparingly.

So…

After that, I want to thank all the reviewers and am happy that people have made such … er … generous donations to my funding, so, Genma my friend, have you found their houses so we can rob them even further … sorry, I mean … thank them for their generosity?

Genma: Growf.

Lazy bastard.

Genma: Growf growl grouw growf.

You too you baka teme. So, see you all next time where I can hopefully update quicker than before.