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((Thoughts))

"Dialogue"

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"I hate these dreams..."

muttered Ranma as he walked through the streets of Nerima. He was wearing his usual Chinese shirt, black pants and slippers. The sky was full of stars even though he was in a town and the streets were completely devoid of life except for him.

Since his fight with Saffron one month ago, Ranma had those strange nightmares and he couldn't sleep at all after them. It wasn't like they were terrible enough to keep him awake but all of his sleepiness faded away after he had them.

Almost every night since his return from China he has been wandering through the prefecture of Tokyo now. No one in the Tendo Dojo noticed this not even Genma, who slept in the same room as his son. This wasn't very surprising though, since the panda seemed to be too busy with his own dreams about retirement.

Ranma was about to round a corner when he heard a loud scream coming from an alley a few meters ahead of him. Without wasting a thought he began to run into the direction of the cry.

When he reached the scene he saw two thugs holding a girl by the arms while a third one tried to open his pants. The frightened young woman screamed again and the thug who was about to pull his jeans down slapped her with the back of his hand,

"Shut your mouth bitch or I will make it even more painful for you!!" shouted the leader, "And you two, try to gag her with something. I don't want to hear that scream again."

"Okay, Izubuchi-Sama!" replied one of the idiots

The thug had the perfect idea for a gag and started to fumble at the zipper of his slacks with his free hand. Having seen enough Ranma made himself known.

"Hey you bastards, leave the girl alone!" yelled Ranma

Izubuchi turned around and started to chuckle when he saw Ranma, "Go away little boy or you could get hurt."

"Oh really?" Ranma grinned as he dashed forward with blinding speed, his initial step leaving a crack in the ground, and kicked the man in the groin. Izubuchi clutched what remained of his balls and slowly sank down to the asphalt.

On his way to meet the pavement the gang leader yelled to his companions in a high and pain-filled voice, "Get the little pest and rip him apart!"

The two henchmen dropped the girl and each of them pulled a knife out of their pant pockets. Slowly they edged nearer towards Ranma attempting to figure out how to attack the halftime-female without ending like their leader.

As Ranma saw the two now armed men, he got a strange feeling that something similar happened to him before. Suddenly his world became dark and a strange vision played out before his eyes.

>>>>>>>>>>>>Vision>>>>>>>>>>>>

It was a dark and stormy night in the village of Ziegsturhl.

A young noble just walked out of a tavern, where he was thrown out and was about to find an inn when someone grabbed him from behind. He struggled but couldn't break the hold the man had on him. Another guy with a hood approached him, he was holding a sword in his right hand and noble realized the situation he was in.

((Robbers…)), he thought, ((I just came to this town and I'm already being robbed.))

He ended his struggling when the hooded figure stopped before him and threatened him with the sword. With his left hand the robber took the gold pouch hanging from the young man's belt and impaled him with his blade.

((Why...why did he ki...)) were the last thoughts of the noble before the darkness took over and he fell to the earth.

>>>>>>>>>>>>End Vision>>>>>>>>>>>>

Ranma snapped out of his stupor and saw the idiots running at him using the moment he was distracted. His eyes narrowed and only two words came over his lips,

"Vae Victus."

Ranma sprinted forward executing a perfect roundhouse kick to the jaw of Idiot#2, sending him flying to the trashcans lining the alley. Idiot#1 stopped in his advance to stare slack jawed at what the boy did to his friend.

Ranma took this opportunity to send a quick jab to the man's solar plexus knocking the wind out of him and making him bend forward. The jab was soon followed by an elbow to the back of the head that sent the man to the ground. His nose made a crunching sound as it was smashed against the concrete.

Idiot#2, who in the meanwhile stood back up, began to sneak up on Ranma... at least he tried to. He accidentally stepped on a can which alarmed the cursed boy to his presence. Ranma jumped up and made a flip, landing behind the thug. The man quickly tried to turn around but the last thing he heard Ranma say before everything went black was something about chestnuts and an open fire.

The Amaguriken sent the mugger crashing into his friend, who was struggling to stand up, while trying to prevent his nose from bleeding. Needless to say the impact knocked both men out.

Ranma walked up to the unconscious men and looked them over. They were still holding their knives but the young Saotome took them out of their hands and broke them into several pieces so that the men could never use them again.

Standing back up, Ranma looked around to see where the girl was and saw her huddled up in a corner of the alley. He proceeded to walk to her when he heard a squeaky voice yell behind him. Ranma turned around only to see Izubuchi leaning against a wall with a gun in his hands.

The face of the man was pale and covered in sweat; his whole body was shaking as he tried to aim his pistol at Ranma. It seemed that the pain from before didn't subside yet.

"So what are you going to do now Mr. Martial Art...Argghh!!" the man's sentence was interrupted when Ranma shot a brightly glowing ki-blast towards him.

Izubuchi was pushed backwards, to the street the alley led to and into the wall opposite of it. After the blast subsided, the unconscious man's smoking body dropped to the ground.

The gun which was knocked out of the gangster's hand landed on the pavement and let loose a shot. The bullet striped Ranma's right arm which caused him to yell at the sudden pain.

"Damn it that hurt..." muttered Ranma while clenching his teeth and looking at the wound, "...and the shirt was new too." turning around again Ranma shrugged, dismissing it, "I got more serious wounds from the uncute tomboy."

Now being finally free of the thugs, Ranma turned his attention back to the girl; he kneeled down to comfort her but then his eyes widened when he recognized the young female.

"Nabiki?" he whispered not believing who he saw. Soun's daughter was wearing a blue tank top and a black mini. She was also wearing a light blue jacket.

"R...Ranma?" said the girl, who was indeed Nabiki, as she looked at him with teary eyes, "Is it really you?"

"Yes it's me..." was the only thing Nabiki heard before she fell unconscious from fatigue.

Carefully Ranma looked her over to see if she was injured; his eyes widened a little when he noticed a nasty bruise forming on her cheek.

"Where did she..." whispered the boy and then remembered, ((That bastard slapped her...!))

Slowly Ranma picked her up, one arm under her knees and the other supporting her back. He stood up and made his way out of the alley and back onto the street where he saw the blacked out gang leader lying.

"Hmmm... should I? Nah... I have to get her home first." quickly the Saotome heir dropped the thought of kicking the man one last time for what he did to Nabiki. After almost half an hour he finally reached the dojo.

"At least I didn't meet anyone on the streets." whispered Ranma, ((It would have been pretty hard to explain why I had an unconscious, injured girl with me this late at night. At least for me... with the tendency of people giving me the fault for everything...))

He entered the Tendo compound, when a sudden thought popped up in his brain, ((Should I enter through the front door or over the roof? With my luck someone comes out of his room when I carry her inside... the roof it is then...))

Tensing his leg muscles slightly, he made standing jump onto the roof. He landed with almost no sound and walked to Nabiki's window, careful to be very silent when he walked past Akane's room. This worked out fine and he finally reached his destination.

To Ranma's luck, the window was slightly opened so he put one of his feet into the gap and opened the window further so that he could enter with the unconscious girl.

Once inside, he laid Nabiki on her bed and took of her jacket, which he put next to her. Nodoka's son then closed the window and started waiting for the girl to wake up.

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