Beginnings: Eden Academy

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Please R/R. I've read tons of fanfics, but this is the first fanfic I've ever written.

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PROLOGUE

"WHOA..."

That was the only thought in Ranma's head as he faced the enormous black ivory gates enclosed with aged ivy. Eden Academy was no Furinkan High School. Aside from the towering brick buildings and the large luscious greenery, there was an aura of prestige, class, intelligence and order. No indeed.

Standing at the entrance, Ranma can't picture this picturesque foundation to be anything chaotic, and smiled at himself. 'Finally'

Ranma still felt cautious. Over a year of preparing for spontaneous battles, it was still in him to feel his surroundings. Nope. He wouldn't need it here. There would be no sudden glomps from a purple-haired Amazon, or an unexpected mallet from a rage-filled blue-haired tomboy, or the shouts of "DIE SAOTOME!!."

Again, he couldn't help but smile at the freedom. But a certain part of him would miss the excitement and adventures from constant battles with expert martial artists, faraway princes that kidnapped his fiancé, and the many rivals he unknowingly accumulated over his 11-year span as a martial-artist. But the feeling of being free and normal outweighed it all. "I can finally live like a normal teenager. No fiancés, no rivals, no fights. Nothing but me."

With that, Ranma Saotome took a long deep breath and entered the gates of Eden Academy, the most prestigious international school in Japan, and the beginning of his normal life.