""Talking ''Thoughts

In this fic Ranma is 16 about to turn 17 instead of being 18 after the fight with Saffron. Just for the record. Kagome is also 16 in this because some time has passed since the beginning of Inuyasha. And I am naming the school Kougaku high until I found out the real name of the school.

I do not own Ranma ½ or Inuyasha.

Chapter 1

Ranma awoke as the suns rays beamed down onto his face. Ranma sat up from his bed and rubbed his eyes to get the sleep out of them. Looking at his alarm clock noticing that it was ten in the morning. He threw the covers off of himself and jumped out of the bed.then he stopped in mid step.

'This is odd.' He thought to himself. 'I don't own a bed or an alarm clock.'

"Ranma, are you awake yet? Breakfast is ready!" came a voice from down stairs.

Then Ranma remembered everything. After the fight with Saffron and the failed wedding attempt, Ranma's mother _insisted_ on Ranma staying at her house for a while. She hasn't seen him in ten years. It was about time she made up for that. Of course Ranma's father didn't like it very much, but there was always that blasted Katana!

"Yeah! I'll be right down!" Ranma yelled down happily. Now that the seppuku contract had been torn up, he didn't have to hide anymore. Not to mention that the bed had been comfortable.

Ranma practically ran down the stairs and strait into his seat at the table. The table surprisingly had four chairs, even though Ranma and his mother Nodoka are the only ones living in the house. Genma, Ranma's father, isn't with them for one reason. Nodoka is mad at him for keeping Ranma away from her all this time.

"Thanks for the food!" yelled Ranma as he inhaled his food.

"Ranma! What have I told you about table manners? No one here will steal the food off your plate."

"Umm.are you sure?"

"Yes. I'm sure."

Ranma then forced himself to stop eating as if this were his last meal and if he didn't eat it all in ten seconds it would be taken away. The rest of the meal was basically silent. No one said a word. When it was over Ranma put the plates and bowls in the sink and prepared for his first day at a new school. He could only hope that it wasn't like Furinken.

Ranma was just about to walk out the door when his mother stopped him. She was holding up what looked to be a small broken piece of glass tied onto a string.

"Ranma. I found this at an antique shop the other day. The man didn't know what it was called, but he said it could stop the affects of a curse, just as long as the cursed person wore it around his neck. I don't know if this will work, but."

Ranma took the broken piece of glass on a string. He looked at it for a bit then put it around his neck.

"I might as well try it. It couldn't hurt. Thanks!"

"Your welcome, Ranma. Now button up your collar."

" *Sigh* Okay." Ranma did as he was told then left out the door.

Believe it or not, Nodoka had actually gotten Ranma to wear the school uniform. Though Ranma didn't like the uniform, due to the fact that it restricted his movement when in battle. He really didn't mind wearing it. He was excited to go to a normal school for a change, though he would never admit it.

Ranma was pretty happy right about now.then it started to rain.

"Aw crap!" Ranma checked himself, and found that he was still quite male. "Yeah! Never gonna be a girl again.when the.glass thing is on anyway."

Ranma looked down and noticed that it was glowing. That would be a problem when going to his new school. So he just put it in his shirt. No one would see it and everything would be fine.

Ranma finally arrived at the school and was now being introduced to the class. The teacher not seaming to care that he was soaking wet told him to tell the class about himself.

"I'm Ranma Saotome. I am the heir to the Saotome School of anything goes martial arts, and lived with my dad for ten years. I'm now living with my mother in Tokyo to get away from the stress of my usual life. I'm very pleased to meet you." Ranma said with a short bow after the last sentence. 'I hope Mom was right about being polite and stuff. I feel stupid acting like this.'

"Very good Mr. Saotome. Please take the empty seat next to Ms. Higurasi."

"Uh.okay." Ranma said, walking to his desk trying to ignore some of the girls that were staring at him. It was really making him nervous. Especially that Higurasi girl, her stare wasn't like the others. It was more like she knew something he didn't. Ranma sat down then turned to the girl.

"Hi.nice to meet ya." Ranma said, trying to get the girl to stop staring at him.

"Hi Ranma, I'm Kagome. It's nice to meet you too." Kagome then looked toward the front of the class. She was falling behind in school and she didn't want to miss any of the teachers lecture. 'I sense a shard. Does he have it?'

'At least she's not staring at me anymore. I hope my old man didn't rip her family off.that would be bad.'

The rest of the day went on like a usual school day does. Ranma falls asleep a lot. Classes go on, then its time for lunch. While Ranma was inhaling his food, a boy about his age decided to be friends with the new guy. It was just the right thing to do. So he walked over to introduce him self.

"Hi Ranma, I'm Hojo. How are you doing today?"

This caused Ranma to look up.after finishing his food of course. Nothing got in between him and his food.

"I'm doin' okay. You?"

"I'm doing just fine, thanks."

"Uh.is there a reason why you're talking to me or something?"

"Yeah. You're new here so I thought we could be friends." Hojo said holding out his hand for Ranma to shake.

Now Ranma didn't really know Hojo all that well, but that could be over looked. They just met, and how do you become friends with someone anyway? Ranma stared at his hand for a few seconds then smiled before shaking his hand.

"Yeah, that would be great. Friends."

"Right. So, how do you like this town Ranma?"

"It's okay. It's quiet."

"Really. Sometimes it gets pretty noisy when cars drive by and stuff."

"It's just that, where I lived got really hectic every now and again."

"Oh. So you're a martial artist huh?"

"Yep! The best there is.Literally." Ranma said with complete confidence. 'At least I'm pretty sure I am. Especially after Saffron.'

"Really? I know some pretty strong martial artists Ranma?"

"Yeah, but I bet those martial artists never went on a ten year training trip."

"." Hojo brilliantly answered. "Your kidding right?"

"Nope. Even swam to China."

"Riiiiiiight."

"I'm not kidding." Ranma deadpanned.

"That is impossible." Hojo said. He was starting to think that Ranma was insane.

" *Sigh* Just forget about what I just said."

"Sure."

Lunch eventually ended, and Ranma went to his next class. Again, Things went on as they normally do.in normal school anyway. This went on until P.E. This was the one subject Ranma excelled at. And today's sport was baseball. Ranma was in the outfield.

Kagome and her friends were supposed to be playing volleyball but there were to many people. So they just sat and watched the boys base ball game. Kagome was kind of bored, but at least she had some time away from collecting the shards. Kind of like a small vacation.

The game went on until Hojo hit the ball really high. Normally it would have been a home run, but Ranma wasn't about to let that happen. Especially when the bases were loaded. Ranma jumped up twenty feet and caught the ball; he then threw the ball to home plate causing most of the people running to get out. He then did a flip and landed on his feet, getting back where he was supposed to be. Then he noticed that everyone was staring at him.

"Uh.what?"

"You just did the impossible and your asking "What?" The coach yelled.

"Oh, that? The ball wasn't all that high." Ranma said, remembering that this wasn't Nerima.

"What do you mean it wasn't all that high? It was at least fifteen to twenty feet!"

"._And_." Ranma answered. It wasn't that big of a deal.

"Never mind."

Everyone went on playing the game. Though everyone except for Ranma was a little shaken.

"Did you see that Kagome! That was amazing! RANMA IS AWASOME!" Yuki yelled, bouncing up and down.

"Yeah! And good looking.Right Kagome?" Natsumi said, a bit calmer than her friend.

"Right, That was great." She said, laughing to her self. 'Now I know he's got a shard. I hope he's not going to be any trouble. I don't think he's a demon, but I know he's using the shard to become stronger. I'll talk to him after school. I'm sure he'll give it to me.'

School has now ended, and though Ranma enjoyed the peace and quiet. School was still school. So he was happy it was time to go home, but he was stopped by Kagome when he was half way there.

"Hey, Ranma can I talk to you for a sec.?"

"Sure.My dad didn't rip your family off did he?"

" *Blink blink* no."

"Good. Okay, what did ya want?"

"Um.can I have your shikon shard?" Kagome asked. 'Well, it's worth a shot.'

"My what?"

"You know, that thing around your neck." Kagome said pointing to wear it was under his shirt.

"This piece of broken glass?" Ranma said taking it from wear it was so that it could be seen. "Wait a sec., how did you know it was there?"

"Call it a hunch."

"Well anyway. I'm going to keep it for a while. Right now I need it." Ranma said, walking off. He had a bad feeling about this. Especially when she started running after him.

"Wait! I know that your using the shard to enhance your power but."

"WAIT ONE SECOND!"

"Okay." Kagome said, stopping mid sentence. She didn't expect him to yell like that.

"I AM NOT USING THIS SHARD.THING, TO ENHACE MY POWER!"

"But I saw you jump twenty feet!"

" *Snort* I could do that before I got this shard."

"What.that's impossible." 'He sounds just like Inuyasha. Stubborn jerk!'

"That's what everyone seems to be saying today. Look. I don't know what this shard is. All I know is that it gets rid of a.problem I picked up in china. So far I haven't been able to find a cure for it. This shard is a temporary cure until I can find the real thing. If and when I find the cure, I'll give you the shard then."

"What "problem" did you pick up in china? Maybe I can help."

"Sorry. I'm not telling. No offense."

"But I really need that shard." Kagome whined.

"Why do you need it so bad?" Ranma said, cocking an eyebrow.

"That.I can't tell you.Sorry."

"Well then. I can't give you the shard unless it's a good enough reason." Ranma said, walking off again.

"Please.I really, really need it. I can't tell you why, but it is very important."

"Sorry. It's not that I'm a jerk or anything, but.I hate my curse. Did you know that if it weren't for the fact that I had this shard around my neck, my curse would have been triggered when it rained this morning?"

"What do you mean?"

"My curse is water triggered. Not only that. I'm a water magnet because of my curse, so until I find a cure, I'm keeping it. See ya." Ranma said, walk off once again.

Kagome was about to follow, but decided against it. Ranma wasn't evil, and she didn't need that particular shard yet. She didn't know why she pressed so hard. But for some reason, through out that whole conversation she wanted to yell sit, maybe because his personality seamed to match Inuyasha's almost perfectly. Oh well. It was about time she went home anyway.

"I think that.I shouldn't tell Inuyasha about this shard. We don't need it until we collect the rest anyway. By then he should find a cure."

Ranma ran home. Not because he was scared or mad. He ran because he was annoyed. He didn't know that the broken glass thing was some shikon shard. All he knew was that it kept his curse in check, and that's all he wanted right now.

Ranma opened the door and slung his backpack onto the table and began to walk up the stairs to his room so that he could change to his regular clothes.

"Ranma. How was your first day at Kougaku high?"

"It was okay. A lot better than Furinken.I think I made a friend too. And an enemy I'm not sure."

"Well introduce me to her then!"

"Why would you want to meet my enemy?"

"I mean your friend dear."

"My friend is a guy.his name is Hojo."

"Oh! I know him. He lives a few houses down. He's a nice boy but sometimes I don't think he's all there."

"Yeah. I know what you mean. he was totally freaked when I told him that I swam to china."

"Well that's very uncommon for a boy your age.or for anyone for that matter. You did defeat a phoenix god Ranma. Not many people can do that. I suggest you tune down your power a bit."

"Okay. I keep forgetting that this isn't Nerima."

"So who is your enemy?"

"I'm not really sure if she's my enemy or not. She seemed ticked when I didn't give her the broken glass thingy. She said it was a shikon shard or something like that.anyway her name is Kagome Higurasi."

"I know her also. She's a friend of the family."

"Really?"

"Yes, She lives at the Sunset shrine, along with her brother Sota, mother, and grandfather."

"Oh.Then I hope she's not mad at me."

"I don't think she is. She really is a good girl. Though she has been sick lately. Maybe we should go visit her."

"Right.she seemed pretty healthy to me. Oh well. I guess it couldn't hurt to visit her. She did seem nice enough. I'm not engaged to her am I?"

"No."

"Good."

"Anyway. You should get dressed out of your uniform. Knowing you it will get torn if you wear it for too long."

"Your probably right." Ranma said, heading up the stairs to change into his regular red Chinese shirt and dark green pants.

"Might as well put this uniform back in the wardrobe." Ranma said, opening the wooden wardrobe that was in his room. Right when he was about to hang up the uniform he tripped and fell into the wardrobe. The shikon shard glowed for an instant the returned back to normal.

"Ouch." Ranma said, rubbing his head. "Hey, this isn't my room.Great! Why does this always happen to me!"

Ranma was now in what seemed to be a one-room house, and the door seemed to be made of straw. Not to mention that there was fire wood in the middle of the room that looked like it had been set on fire recently but put out.

"Toto, I don't think were in Tokyo anymore."

"Who are you?" a short old woman wearing the traditional Shinto garb demanded as she walked into her home.

"Uh.I know this is going to sound really weird, but one minute I was in my house.and the next thing I knew I was here."

"You wouldn't happen to come out of a well would ye?"

"Nope. I came out of the wardrobe."

"It makes sense. Like the well, the wardrobe was made out of the wood from the time tree, but to travel between times you would need a great deal of power and a shikon jewel fragment."

"Like this one?" Ranma said, holding up his shard.

".Yes. So you are from the future."

"Yes.does this happen often?"

"No. But my sister reincarnation travels between the two time lines through the bone eaters well."

".Right."

"It is a long story. There must be a reason you are here." 'He reminds me of Inuyasha, but he can't be his reincarnation. Inuyasha is not dead. Odd."

"I just fell through the wardrobe that's all! *Crash* what was that?"

"It be a demon! And without Inuyasha here we are in deep trouble."

"Ya got me! That's better than an Inuyasha or whatever."

"But you are human. What can you *crash* do?"

"That doesn't matter right now!" Ranma said, running out of the small house.

Sure enough, there was a demon. It looked like a snake with arms and a human head. It was kind of freaky really.

" *Sigh* I could have done this in Nerima. Hey Ugly!" Ranma said, causing the demon to turn towards Ranma.

"You, have a shikon shard.Human, give it to me!" It said lunging towards Ranma.

It was surprisingly fast, and it took Ranma off guard. It didn't hit him though, but it did knock the shard off his neck when he dodged the blow. A wasp demon then picked it up and carried it off. Ranma tried to follow, but was stopped by the snake demon.

"Where do you think you are going human?"

"Get out of my way.never mind, the dumb things too far away now!"

Ranma jumped up in the air cupping his hands. He then fired one huge Mouko-takabisha. The snake demon tried to dodge but was disintegrated before he could move. Ranma then landed silently on his feet.

"Stupid jerk. Now what am I gonna do about my curse?"

"Young man. You wouldn't happen to be half demon would ye?"

"No.I'm human."

"How were you able to do that?"

"I just trained for it. That demon was actually kind of weak, fast though."

"Well, I would like to thank you. I am Kaede, and this is our village."

"That's nice and all, but I would really like to go home. So I'll just go back through the wardrobe and."

"I'm afraid that, that is impossible."

"Why?"

"You need a fragment of the shikon jewel to travel between the times."

"Oh. You wouldn't happen to have one laying around would ya?"

"No, they are scattered around this world. Unless you can find one, you're stuck here."

"Um, do you think you could give me some supplies so that I can search for one?"

"I don't mind at all, but you really should stay the night. It is getting dark out, and demons come out in the dark."

"Lucky me. Well, thanks."

"Your welcome. It be the least I can do, for someone who saved our village while Inuyasha be away."

"Right. Why do you talk like that?"

"Like what?"

"Never mind."

A few miles away, the wasp dropped the shard it stole from Ranma in the hand of a man dressed in white ape fur. He pocketed the item then turned around to go back to his castle.

"So, a human who can slay demons with his bare hands. Interesting indeed." The figure then disappeared into nothingness. This man was no man, but the demon Naraku.