Ranma 1/2 and Inu-Yasha crossover fanfiction (under Ranma 1/2)

"Enter the Prayer Beads"

summary: When Akane and Ranma end up in possession of a pair of prayer beads (exactly like the ones around Inuyasha's neck, in case you haven't caught on yet) and they end up on Ranma, what hilarity and chaos will ensure then? RanxInu crossover. RanxAka, InuxKag pairings.

disclaimer: I do not own any of Rumiko Takahashi's works. She's too good at what she does.

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CHPATER ONE: Occurrence of the Prayer Beads- the Prayer Beads Emerge

Akane came home from school to find a package for her sitting on the family room table. She picked it up, curious. There was no return address, which was odd, but it looked harmless enough, so she decided to open it. But, as experience had taught us, nothing is ever as it seems.

Akane untied the string around it and unwrapped the plain brown paper. An equally plain, narrow white box was in the paper. It looked exactly like a necklace box that you would get from a jewelry shop. Akane was just about to pull the top of the box off when Ranma startled her by asking

"Hey, Akane, what'cha doin'?"

from right behind her.

"Yaargh!" Akane screamed, and accidentally fling the box into the air. The top flew off and both it and the bottom half clattered to the floor. And, as things in Nerima tend to happen, what had been in the box flew through the air and landed right around Ranma's neck.

That was the first time that Akane got to see the string of what appeared to be prayer beads that would soon change her life. Of course, at the time, she had no idea of the significance of what had just happened.

"Ranma! Don't scare me like that!" she shouted at her fiancé, who was staring down at the necklace that had fallen on him, pulling it away so that he could look at it and fingering it with mild interest.

"Hey, I wasn't the one who screamed and threw this necklace at me."

Ranma chuckled, amused at her irrational fear, his hands moving to the necklace to take it off.

"What is this, anyway? Some sort of present?"

He pulled upwards and gave out a surprised grunt when his hands met some resistance with the beads halfway off of his neck.

Akane huffed, folding her arms angrily and looking up at him before saying

"I didn't throw them at you!"

She watched him for a minute, who appeared to just be holding the necklace (but was actually trying to take it of), before speaking again.

"Now give me my necklace back."

"I'm tryin'." Ranma grunted, again trying to pull the beads off him.

"It won't budge."

"Stop joking." Akane said, annoyed.

"How hard can it be to take off a necklace? Give it back."

"Fine." Ranma said, getting annoyed with the string of beads and its refusal to move more than a couple of inches.

"Then you try it."

Akane huffed in annoyance before taking hold of the necklace with both hands and began to lift them off of him.

"Honestly. Can't you do anything?" she said.

"What. It's not my fault it won't move." Ranma said, slightly annoyed.

Akane had gotten the necklace only halfway off of him (below where Ranma had met resistance) when her father came barging into the room, immediately assuming the scene to be what he wanted it to be.

"Oh happy day! Look, Saotome, Akane is giving Ranma a present! Surely the schools will be joined now!"

Genma Saotome followed right on his heels, holding a fan in his hands with the character for love written on it, which he flourished at his side.

"Aye, Tendo! Indeed it will! Look at them! So much love!"

Immediately, Ranma and Akane turned red and leapt away from each other (Akane releasing the necklace as she did), both forgetting about the innocent looking piece of jewelry as they began to profusely deny that either of them were doing anything even remotely couple-like.

"I wasn't giving Ranma anything!"

"Yeah, Pops. An' besides, why would I accept a gift from a macho chick like her?"

"What did you say?"

"Uh, I, er..." Ranma stuttered as he began to back up, hand up in a visible sign of surrender.

"You jerk!"

"I didn't mean it! I didn't mean it!" he said frantically, but it was too late.

And Ranma was sent crashing through the roof and into the air.

A cry of "Uncute tomboy!" was heard fading into the distance then, and Akane slung her mallet over her shoulder and turned to glare at the two fathers, who both made a hasty retreat to another part of the house.

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Ranma returned some time later, rolling his shoulder in an attempt to ease its ache from when he crashed back to earth. That mallet sure packed a punch. Why, despite all his martial arts training, was he never able to avoid it? It was like there was a homing device on it or somethin' that made it impossible to dodge.

He had just reached the Tendo's porch when he sensed danger, and sidestepped just in time as a figure appeared from nowhere, narrowly missing him, fists flying and umbrella brandished.

"Ranma, prepare to die!"

It was Ryoga.

"Hey, Ryoga, long time no see! Got lost again, huh pork-boy?"

"Shut up! You're not getting away this time! I've got you for sure!"

And then Ryoga tripped and fell flat on his face. When he didn't immediately get up, Ranma began calling his name.

"Ryoga. Ryoga?"

He poked him with his foot, before bending down to examine the eternally lost boy, only to discover that said boy was knocked out cold.

Ranma sighed, disgusted.

"Great. Now even the floor can beat 'em up." he said as he dragged Ryoga inside.

end chapter.

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end chapter notations: I have yet to really figure this out. Well, I sort of have an idea or two, but I want readers input. What do you either think that I'm going to make the necklace trigger word be, or what word do you want it to be? I'll take suggestions, obviously, and if I find one that I like better than what I had planned to use, I'll use it instead. Also, tell me how you like the story so far. I'll continue it whether you like it or not, really, but I'd still like to know. Thanks for reading this first chapter! Hopefully, I'll see you next time too. :)