AN1: Well, it's only been a bit over two years for this story, right? It about damn time for an update.

AN2: Be sure to read the ending author's note.

ABSOLUTE POWER LEADS TO ABSOLUTE LONLYNESS

(THE AH, MY GODDESS VERSION)

CHAPTER TWO

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

The Norn's Temple: about an hour later

Ranma sighed as she looked at the food she had just taken a bit of. "Is something wrong with the food Ranma?" Belldandy asked with concern extremely evident in her voice.

Looking up at the worried Norn, Ranma sighed and replied with "No, this food is great, the best food I've had in almost forever. The last time I had food this good was when I ate some of Kasumi's cooking." Ranma then sighed again as she thought of her old sister in law.

"Who was Kasumi?" Belldandy then asked in a curious, but cautious tone of voice, for something told her that this would not be a happy story.

Ranma then sighed in response and said "Kasumi was my wife's oldest sister. She was the greatest cook I ever met, and she was so nice and sweet." Ranma said with a soft smile while remembering her old sister in law. "It was at Akane and my forty fifth wedding anniversary, which she was catering, that Saffron decided to get his revenge upon me." Ranma then started to tear up and she continued with "His opening attack almost killed everyone at once, my entire family, and myself included, for I was in my male form at the time, and I was totally unprepared for and defenseless. The few who managed to live through his opening attack died soon thereafter. But then, as that bastard just floated above the carnage he had wrought while laughing his ass off, I switched to my female form for the first time without water being used as the trigger and for the last time ever. I then killed him again, and permanently that time." Ranma then sniffled and continued on with "Afterward I found out that I was now stuck in the form of a young girl and my entire family was dead or dying. After holding Akane's hand while she died, and thinking that I had no reason left to live, I tried killing myself. It didn't take obviously," Ranma said with a small smirk through her tears, and then she continued on with "So I just kept trying for a while, until I sorta just gave up and accepted the fact that I was now an immortal, and that I was going to look like this forever." She slowed down her tears and then she said "And then about a week or so later, Saffron's mother showed up and she dared to attack me for killing her 'baby'." Ranma snorted and the she said with clear eyes blazoning with anger "Well, that finally snapped me out of myself self-destructive funk as I then went all out to kick her ass. It was tough, my toughest fight in my life up to that point, but I killed her. And then, after the other gods in my home dimension decided to declare a blood feud with me, I then had something to live for, my survival and their destruction." Ranma then sighed and said "I gave you the cleaner version of the feud earlier, sorry about that, but, I really didn't want to think about all that I had lost due to the gods and the demons of my old dimension." Ranma then told them with a sigh, and then she morosely began to eat again."

Belldandy had tears running down her face by the end of Ranma's explanation, while Urd and surprisingly, or maybe not, Hild had anger shining in their eyes, while Marller just looked on in sympathy, and Keechi and Skuld just looked shocked and horrified. The table was silent for quite a while after that.

The Norn's Temple: the next day: very early in the morning

Urd was many things, but an early riser she was not. So when someone came to wake her up at a time that was somewhere between 'Too Damn Early' and 'Way Too Damn Early' she was ready to rip someone's head off, until she saw her sister Belldandy and she saw the look on her face. Blinking herself awake, Urd asked in a bleary tone of voice "What's up?" as she sat up and stretched.

"Urd, you've got to come with me and see this!" Belldandy excitedly exclaimed, literally dragging her older sister out of bed and down the hall and out of the temple's house.

Now, Urd is a Goddess, meaning that she sees things on a regular basis that would not only make most if not all mortals jaws drop in awe, but that she has somewhat become, somewhat jaded, to awe inspiring things. So, you just know that if something can make a Deities jaw drop in silent awe, that it absolutely must be impressive. And this was. But what was Urd currently looking at in jaw dropping awe? Ranma practicing her art.

A long while later and Ranma stopped, and suddenly she heard soft applause coming from her left. Turning in that direction, she saw that the entire household had been watching her, and Belldandy said "That was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen." Ranma just blushed in response.

Nekomi town: later on that day

After a quick shower and nice breakfast prepared by Belldandy, all of the others currently in the household decided to take Ranma out on the town to see the sites, such as they were, meet some of their friends, maybe have some lunch out and also maybe do a little shopping, for if Ranma was going to stay, she really needed a few things.

Anyways, they were currently inside The NIT Motor Club where Keechi's sister Megumi was working on her bike after having to defend her title of being the 'Queen' yet again.

"Hi Keechi! Who are the new girls?" Megumi asked with some evident curiosity.

"Well, this is Urd's and Marller's mom Hild, and this is Ranma, she came to visit Urd" Keechi began.

Hild was currently pleased as punch at the way things were going. Urd's father had really knocked himself off his pedestal that her darling Urd had put him on, and she was now managing to connect with her daughter for the first time in millennia. And she wasn't even acting. She truly did care for her daughter, but her bastard father had kept her from her with his lies and warnings, but now, in less than twenty four hours, she was now the better looking parent, and she was now getting closer to her daughter because of it, a thing she had always wanted, but something that she feared would never happen. And she owed it all to Ranma here. While she wasn't quite sure about Ranma and Urd getting in a relationship, she, for one would just sit back and watch to see where things went, and only interfere if it was a desperately needed thing to do.

Hild was then shook out of her musing by Megumi's shocked exclamation of "WOW!!! You're their mother!?! You don't look any older than your daughters! What is your secret! And Marller, why didn't you ever tell me that you were Urd's sister!?!"

As Hild was scrambling to come up with a response to that, a very rare occurrence for her, let me tell you that, Keechi asked "Um, you know Marller well?"

"Oh sure. We hang out sometimes." That statement caused a few, secretive dirty glances to be aimed at Marller by both Keechi and Urd. "She's a pretty good friend." That statement caused the death glares to stop and sighs to start instead.

As Hild was just about to try to come up with some bullshit answer to Megumi's earlier question, they were interrupted by a female voice at the back of the room shouting out "This, this is an outrage! The Daimakaicho of Niflheim is now in league with the Godslayer!?! And the Norns are supporting this! This is an outrage and I will not stand for this any longer!" And then as all present in the room turned to see a squad of ten Valkyries and their leader whom was doing all the yelling, the leader continued on with "This is a travesty, an outrage! I will personally make sure that this…" The unknown Valkyrie leader never got to finish her rant as she, along with all of her squad, were suddenly vaporized. All turned to Ranma and saw her with her hand outstretched and she then lowered it with as sigh while she shouted out "AKANE!! I WANT KAMI-SAMA'S NUMBER, NOW!!!" And then she walked over to a desk with a phone sitting on it and dialed.

"Hello, Kami-Sama?" Ranma asked in a very obviously controlled tone of voice "You need better spies. Not only have I been able to feel them following me ALL DAMN DAY, but they now probably, and you'd better hope I find out that this was the case or your ass is grass, broke your orders of staying the Hell out of my way to not only insult me, but Hild as well. Now, needless to say, you won't be seeing THOSE inept morons again, and the next set of spies had better not get in my way, or I'll do the same thing to them, understood?" Ranma then listened to the response that she was receiving and then she slightly nodded and said "You really are a moron, aren't you. I really hope you can manage to grow at least a few brain cells soon, or else I really don't want to think about the consequences that will result from the lack of them. Goodbye you little piece of Deity shit." Ranma then hung up the phone with a sigh and looked over at Urd and said "I'm sorry, but your father is being a fucking moron. He had better get a lot smarter, and fast, or I might just be forced to kill him." Ranma calmly stated "And I really don't want to do that, and because he's your father is one of the lesser reasons, though still an important one."

And, before Urd could even hope to come up with a response to that, Megumi drawled out in a very sarcastic tone of voice "Ok, will somebody FINALLY begin to tell me what's really going on around here?"

Keechi just sighed and said "I think that our day out has been ruined, so let's just head back to the temple with Megumi."

The Norn's Temple: a few hours later

Surprisingly to most there, Megumi had not been shocked by most of what she had been told. The only things that had seemed to really shock her was Hild's position and Ranma's origins, and Ranma defiantly was the more shocking of the two.

"Ok, I just know that I'm going to regret asking this, but why aren't you that surprised by all of this?" Keechi asked of his sister.

"Keechi, I am not stupid nor am I unobservant. I have known for quite some time that there was something strange about your girlfriend and her sisters. Besides, Marller here's a very talkative drunk." Megami said with an amused smirk, to which Marller just stuttered in reply to as all the others there just looked at her strangely.

"Now, Belldandy," Megumi began with a dangerous purr in her voice "Is my brother here only an assignment to you, or do you truly care about him." She asked in a tone that said she had better like the answer.

Belldandy blushed and said "I have come to care for your brother quite a bit." She told her boyfriends sister.

"Care? CARE!?!" Urd laughed out. "She's fallen head over heels for him. If anything, the only reason that she hasn't married the poor dope is the fact that he's so cluelessly shy that he afraid to move forward at a pace any faster than a snail would go!"

Megumi's right hand then darted out to grab her brother's left ear, and she started pulling him away while saying "Brother dearest, let us go somewhere private and discuss just how to treat you girlfriend, ok?" As she was dragging him down the hall.

Urd just whistled and said "Wow, I think Megumi's going to make sure you get lucky soon sis."

Belldandy just blushed a deep shade of red that just should not be possible in response, while all the others, other than Skuld, laughed. Skuld was just in shock at the thought that her good friend Megumi was going try to step up the relationship between her brother and her sister. "Was I wrong? Skuld very softly whispered in confusion.

EAN1: Ok, now, it's been said in this story, in the last chapter in fact, that Ranma is right now one of if not the most powerful being in existence. So, that means any, confrontations, that involve Ranma, will be short and very one sided. But, this is ok, because this is not a story where physical confrontations are very important to it in most cases. No, this is a story of finding love and healing the pains of the past. So, yes this is both a romantic drama, and story of letting the past go to find a better future. You really don't need a lot of physical conflict in that kinda story, for the emotional conflicts take up so much time in its stead.

EAN2: Ok, so I managed to within a little less than twenty four hours revise three whole stories AND write new chapters for each of them. I'm on a roll here people! I think I'll be revising and then continuing as many different stories of mine as I think I'm able to, before I continue what I had continued. So look forward to lots of new stuff.

EAN3: I don't know just what will be updated next, but I will say this, What Was Once Forgotten was totally revised last night before I worked on this, it's just that it's been three damn years since I last worked on it. See you guys again soon, bye for now!