AN: Seeing how there will be fighting in this chapter, I'll go over what every one has learned so far in the five month gap.

Both Ranma and Xain-Pu have learned the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken technique and have undergone the Bakusai Tenketsu treatment from Kon-Loh. Ranma has also learned the basics of Ki manipulation from her, while Xain-Pu is still learning that. And Since Kun-Loh does know the dangers inherent in emotional fueled Ki manipulation, she is teaching both Xain-Pu and Ranma non-emotional Ki manipulation techniques. And finally Xain-Pu has advanced into the ending stages of the advanced teachings of Amazon-Wu fighting style itself and is approaching getting trained in the beginning of the master's level. While Ranma is just at the ending stages of the basics of the style. (I consider the other things she's teaching both Ranma and Xain-Pu to not be so much a true part of the Amazon-Wu style, and more truly being special and unique techniques that anyone of sufficient power and skill can learn, regardless of their style. They are really, in my opinion, universal style moves.)

So yes that means no Hiryu Shoten Ha for Ranma yet. Ranma only has the bare basics of Ki manipulation down at this moment. She still has a little trouble even throwing her non emotional Ki blasts around. Right now the main thing Ranma is doing with her Ki is pumping up her body's power, strength speed and all around potential with it. While Xain-Pu can only pump up her body's power, strength speed and all around potential with it. And that is with some difficulty and for a shorter time then Ranma can as well.

From Kaliflowera, Ranma is now just starting to learn what to do for the physical training a Saiyan must go through before even being taught the basics of the Saiyan fighting style which I shall be naming Seedru. Ranma is now wearing at this time on her person at all times one hundred and eighteen pounds. And she has been increasing the weight at very irregular intervals instead of under a normal faster progression. Which Kaliflowera does not yet totally understand why, but she suspects it is due to the other things Ranma is learning from Kun-Loh. And Kaliflowera is having to heavily change her thinking on how to teach Ranma, for Saiyans as a rule only use Ki as blast attacks. They, as a whole, never thought of using it to pump up their already formidable physical moves. So Kaliflowera is thinking on how to incorporate what Ranma is learning form Kun-Loh into what she will teach Ranma of Seedru.

Now that that's out of the way, lets move on to the fic.

HELPING OUT

CHAPTER THREE

HELPING OUT FAMILY IS A TWO WAY STREET

Archie's Hamburger Palace: Juban Japan: five minutes after Ranma's party entered it

Ranma, Xain-Pu and Kun-Loh had to wait about five minutes to be seated, then it took ten more for the waitress, who was dressed in a poodle skirt, a letter jacket and warring a pair of old fashioned key locked roller-skates over a pair of tennis shoes, to come over to take their order. This place had the honor of being considered the most authentic 1950's American style hamburger restaurant in all of Japan, if not all of Asia. They even trained their employees on the correct slang to use.

After going wide eyed and white at their order, fifteen the works burgers and three vanilla shakes for Kun-Loh, twenty five double cheese burgers and five strawberry shakes for Xain-Pu, and fifty Triple Decker bacon and cheese burgers with ten chocolate shakes for Ranma, plus a hundred side orders of fries and a ocean of ketchup for them all to share, the waitress said "that will take about fifteen to twenty minutes for the first batch to come out, ok?"

"That is fine." Kun-Loh told the waitress.

"Um, not to be rude, but you can pay for all this, right? I mean, this is a lot of food." The waitress asked nervously at her semi rude question.

"Now need to worry, we can pay." Kun-Loh said totally not insulted.

"Ok, fine. I'll just go give your order to the chefs." The waitress said relieved.

After the waitress was gone, Kun-Loh looked at her two dinning companions and considered on how to address what she had found out about Ranma's cousin. Finally nodding at her approved plan, she started to speak.

"Ranma, I don't know if you noticed, but your cousin was quite shocked when you asked him if he believed in magic. And that is because he has a quite large and very unrefined magical aura about him, one that I suspect he is just now beginning to learn how to use. The really annoying thing about this is, I know that energy signature for some where, yet I can't place it for the life of me." Kun-Loh said with a frown.

"That's strange." Xain-Pu said, having gotten much better at Japanese thanks to both her grandmother and Ranma.

"Yeah. I wonder what kind of magic he's using?" Ranma asked, a little worried and intrigued.

"I don't know, but it would be best to be on our guard around your cousin, incase it is dangerous." Kun-Loh told Ranma.

Ranma went wide eyed, but she nodded to show her understanding. And then, their first course appeared, and food replaced talk, for now at least.

Juban Park: nine PM at night

Ranma, Xain Pu and Kun-Loh were walking towards the park bench next to the fountain when they heard the sounds of battle and a feminine scream. Kun-Loh froze as she felt the power levels of magic being thrown around and the presence of Demons, while Ranma and Xain Pu raced off to help out whomever had screamed. Kun-Loh then cursed quietly in Mandarin as she raced to help out her charges.

Ranma and Xain Pu stopped cold at the site that greeted them. Several girls about their age in short and ridiculous looking Fuku's were getting their asses handed to them by a bunch of female looking Demons. The young girls were throwing magical blasts off like they were going out of style into the hoard of Demons that were attacking them, but with the Demons numbers, it was a semi-futile effort.

Looking around for the source of the scream, Ranma saw a young man in a tux standing protectively over one of the girls who had a deep and profusely bleeding slash on her left leg. He was throwing roses of all things at the approaching demons while holding off the Demons that had already gotten too close with a cane.

At first Ranma didn't want to believe what her Ki senses told her, but she said to Xain Pu "I think that guy in the Tux is Mamoru."

Xain Pu replied "Yes. And I think that girl is Usagi."

Nodding, Ranma said "You're right. I wonder why I don't want to believe it though? Ah well, I'll lay down some cover fire while you get up close and help them, then I'll join you, ok?"

"Good Plan." Xain Pu said.

Ranma then prepared to do the more powerful of her two Ki blasts to start things off. After learning to throw a small ball of Ki at her opponents from Kun-Loh, which she had named the Moko Takabisha, Kaliflowera showed Ranma the most basic of her Ki blasts, a move named Kali-Shot. She had only shown it to Ranma to show her a sample of what she would be learning from her at the start of their first lesson together, yet Ranma practiced it while awake and had the move down it two days, utterly surprising Kaliflowera, and Kun-Loh who had been secretly watching at the time. Kaliflowera then decided to step up Ranma's training.

Ranma could only do the Kali shot five times without feeling drained, and at the max ten times without draining so much Ki that she couldn't use anymore for fighting for a day at this point in time due to her Ki reserves not being as large as they needed to be to use the move properly, at least that's what Kaliflowera told Ranma. Ranma felt that she'd NEED all five times, and maybe a bit more for this fight.

Calling out "Kali-Shot!" she blasted a Demon who was about to swipe Mamoru in the side while he defending against one of it's brethren in the lower back, killing it, Xain Pu ran for Mamoru and Usagi while all eyes on the battlefield locked onto Ranma.

Ranma then cried "Leave My cousin alone you bitches!" Shocking Mamoru and Usagi that she could see through their disguise fields, and all the other girls, who thought he had no family.

Then the Demons got over their surprise, and then the back ones ran at her en-masse, and Ranma cried out "Moko Takabisha!" Three times in a row before the hoard got to her. Screaming out "Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken!" she started to pummel all her approaching attackers.

A girl in a red skirted Fuku called out "Fire Soul!" killing one of her opponents with a surprise attack, signaling the restart to the brawl.

Xain Pu arrived just in time to stop a claw swipe a Mamoru's back by caching the Demon's forearm and then breaking its arm at the elbow. Following up with a hard shot to its solar plexus, pushing it back, she got out a double bladed glaive from her hidden weapons space, and chopped the maimed Demon in half.

"Are you two ok?" Xain Pu called out while chopping another Demon in half.

Mamoru stared at her for a second until an approaching Demon caught his eye and died to a rose, and he said while firing out roses, taking care of the long range threats, since it was obvious that Xain Pu could handle the short range ones. "I'm fine, but she's…"

He was interrupted by Kun-Loh, whom seemed to blur in out of nowhere, saying, "Got a very nasty slash on her leg. Oh, dear, it looks like it went through the artery. Luckily her magical healing ability is supplying blood as fast as she losses it, but I'll have to stop the blood loss for her magic to heal the wound. Xain Pu, Mamoru, please keep these pests off me while I work, if you would be so kind. And Mamoru, we need to talk later." Kun-Loh said deceptively sweetly.

Pulling out a rose in each hand, Mamoru said "You got it. Xain Pu, I'll take them at range, and you get any I miss, ok?"

"Can do." Was all Xain Pu said in a very business like voice.

"Good." Mamoru said, throwing both rose out into the hoard off Demons.

Ranma in the mean time had finished off all her opponents. Looking over at Mamoru and seeing both Xain Pu and Kun-Loh over there with him and Usagi, she correctly assumed that they were well taken care of. Looking over the field of fighting, she saw that two of the other girls were back to back throwing off magical attacks in a strategy that seemed to work well. One was throwing up a smokescreen of bubbles, while the other through off bolts of lightning into the bubble cloud, electrocuting all within it.

The last girl however, was in deep shit so to say. She was surrounded on all sides, just like all the others, but was all alone, and had no way to keep all the Demons off her. Seeing this, Ranma ran strait at her calling out "Kali-Shot! Kali-Shot!" Taking out two of the back Demons out of the battle and drawing the Demons attention. Jumping high in the air, she leaped over the Demons, while gathering a Moko Takabisha in both hands. Calling out "Moko Takabisha Double!" She blasted two Demons at the apex of her jump. On her way down she called it out again, knocking two Demons who were in her landing space down, then killing them by landing on their necks, snapping them. Spinning around while slightly crouched from her landing, she called out "Moko Takabisha Double!" again, launching the attack point blank into two of the Demons stomachs, making them the first Demons to actually die just from a Moko Takabisha attack.

As the red skirted girl just watched with her jaw hanging open, Ranma called out "Bakusai Tenketsu!" Stabbing her finger into the ground and shredding the front line of approaching Demons from the south with rocks. Narrowly missing being clawed from behind, the red skirted girl turned around and called out "Fire Soul!" Burning her attacker to the death. Ranma and her then stood back to back, taking all comers down.

A short while latter, all the Demons were dead, and the sounds of police sirens could be heard. "Oh, NOW they decide to show up, NOW THAT ALL THE WORKS DONE!" The red skirted girl screamed in out rage.

Kun-Loh then spoke up, saying "Mamoru, why do we not retire to your apartment before the authorities arrive, to discus things? Usagi still needs some care as well. I have stopped the bleeding for now, but her magic has not yet healed all the damage."

Nodding, Mamoru said "Ok, come on, lets get out of here!" and gently gathering up Usagi, Mamoru sped off, followed by everyone else.

AN: Next time on Helping Out, Explanations abound! See you then!