Copy writes.  Ranma 1/2 is a creation of Rumiko Takahashi 
and is owned by Viz video and all that.  None of the 
characters belong to me and I just used them to expand 
my own creativity.

Note:  Well, I took a poll and people who answered it was
encouraging about me writing a sequel to the Giver of Heart,
so I am going to grant that girl her wish and write the sequel
to the fic Giver of Heart.

Ranma1/2

Return of Love

In a dark room, you could just see a outline of a person
hugging her knees and rocking back and forth.

Even though you couldn't see the person's face and it's
expressions you knew that the person was suffering a lot.

"Please come back, please come back"

The person was whispering those words again and again,
like a mantra, or like it was a spell that will make something
happen.

There was a knock and door opened, spilling the light into the
room, and for the first time we got to see the person in the
room, clearly.

It wasn't a pretty sight, the girl who was in a room covered
with a picture of someone looked like she needed to eat,
take a bath, brush her hair, and sleep.

"Akane, dinner is ready"

"I'm not hungry"

"Akane, please you have to eat something"

"I'm not hungry"

Kasumi tried to talk Akane to eat something, to start to 
live her life again.

It has been 6 years since Ranma made his sacrifice, showing
everyone that he truly loved Akane.

Days following that even was unlike anything Nerima had
seen ever since Ranma showed up.

There was quite, peace, and sadness.  None of the joy,
happiness, and laughter, or destructive sounds, that 
almost became part of everyone's daily lives.

There was quite tears, sad sobs, and quite words of
love, and promises.

Ukyou was devastated, that she disappeared, and later
they learned that Ukyou went on top of Mt. Fuji to
clear her mind, to clear her head.

She came back down as changed person, she was more 
accepting of Ranma's feelings and his sacrifice for Akane.
She, also accepted the fact that she is a woman and started
to dress like one.

The change was radical, and actually for the better for Ukyou.

Shampoo was almost as equally as devastated as Ukyou.
One guessed that if given the opportunity she might have
ran away like Ukyou too.  But, other person who was even
more affected by what Ranma did was Mousse.

He saw what true love finally meant and decided to beat
Shampoo.  He went all out against her, and both were
sent to hospital after that fight, but Mousse won.

However, he didn't accept the kiss of marriage, but he
talked with her.

He started to talk with her about his feelings, Shampoo,
and Ranma. 

It took almost 2 years, but he finally earned Shampoo's 
true love for him, and after that, they got married and 
now, they are happy and expecting their first daughter.

Of course they already had a son, but Cologne wanted
a daughter, and Shampoo was not about to refuse her
great-grandmother, and Mousse was not about to
go against his Shampoo.

Kodachi, with her already fragile hold on sanity,
broke down.  She wanted to reach in and rip the 
heart out of Akane's chest.  However, the combine
effort of Ryoga, Mousse, Shampoo, and Ukyou put
a stop to even her mad berserker attack.

She was sent to the mental institution, and go the help
she needed.  She is as close to becoming normal without
her drugs that she used to inhale or put in her and her
brother's own food.

Another delusional Kuno was in the next padded room next
his sister.  He was put in there, when he started to go
after Akane and babbling about magic, curses, evil and such.

However, Kuno was so far gone that even the best medical
facility could not help him.  He is now living in a 
mental institution in England, believing himself to be
a noble samurai who had been tricked by dead spirit
of the evil sorcerer, and had to break through this
illusion to once again reclaim his true loves.

Nodoka Saotome, was hurt.  She, the woman who gave birth
to Ranma, thought less of him when in fact he proved
beyond the shadow of doubt that he is truly man
among men.

She was so ashamed that she could not even be present at
Ranma's funeral with everybody else.  When everyone was
gone, she stayed there, all day and all night, crying
and asking forgiveness from her dead son.

She became changed woman, she was now even gentler 
and more understanding.

She visited the Tendo's everyday, trying to help them
with what they are going through because of Ranma's death.

Genma became almost completely broken man.  If it wasn't for
Nodoka and Soun, he would have gone crazy.  He lost his son,
his reason for living, besides food.  He trained his son to
be the best, he lived to train his son, but now that son
was gone.  And even at the end, he proved to everyone that
he was better man then Genma ever was, at age 16.

For a while, it seem like Soun would have gone worse from
where he already was, breaking out to tear for littlest things.

However, when he saw how devastated, and how hurt his little
Akane, was he felt something in his heart, and he somehow 
got better, he pulled himself out and once again became a
pillar of the family that he was before the death of his wife.

Nabiki, for the first time since her mother died, cried a real
tear, and felt truly regretful to everything she had done to Ranma.

She only saw Ranma as money source, and someday, maybe a brother
in law.  She also knew that Akane, if not loved him, had strong
feelings for him.  But, she played those two against each other
because she was entertained by him, she was making too much
money off of him.  Now, Akane will never get the chance to 
marry him, they will never get the chance to live a happy life
together.

She blamed herself for this, and she started to help out 
everything and anything that she can.  

She wanted to destroy every picture that she ever took of Ranma,
but Akane stopped her.  Akane wanted it all.  

Nabiki helped her move into Ranma's old room, and Nabiki helped
Akane cover that room, wall to wall, with the picture of Ranma.

Although, she didn't have that many picture of Ranma's male side
she did have few, she made extra copies of those and put them on
Akane's new room walls, along with every female Ranma's pictures.

Kasumi was hurt, and she was sad, but she was even more hurt
by how this was hurting her little sister Akane.  She tried
to help her by being there, like how she did it with her
when their mother died.  However, this time, it didn't seem
to help at all.

Akane changed when they actually had a funeral for Ranma.
When they buried his body.  It seems that Akane still
had some hope that Ranma wasn't really dead, that they
were all playing some kind of prank on her.

Then later, she had other hopes that it was only Ranma's
girl side that had died, and that Ranma's boy side ok.

However, when they were done with the funeral, and Ranma
didn't show up to greet, her, something about her changed.

She became quite, her eyes were dull, and she was like
the walking dead.

She came home that day and moved everything she owned to
Ranma's old room, and asked Nabiki for all the pictures
she had of Ranma.

She even had that picture that Ranma gave Akane as Christmas
present, the only picture with her and Ranma in the same 
picture poster sized.

Akane barely came out of her room.  She stayed there,
and she ate only when she had to.

Akane actually tried to commit suicide.

It was a raining night, and the peace and quite was too
much for her.  She needed to hear Ranma's voice, she
needed to see him again.

She went to the dojo, and found a tanto that she will use
she sat kneeled down on the ground.

Usually, you are to stab yourself, if you are a female,
killing yourself, you would stab yourself at your heart,
but she didn't wanted to damage Ranma's heart.

So, she decided to stab herself little blow her heart.
She brought the knife up and stabbed herself, but she 
didn't feel any pain.  She didn't even feel the knife
going inside of her.

She opened her eyes and looked down to see, Happosai
stabbed through with the knife, embedded in her chest
with that silly grin on his face.

Happosai was completely unaware of the fact that Ranma
was dead.  He was away stealing panties and such from
different city, and just got back to see Akane sitting
in the middle of dark dojo dressed in her nightgown.

He made a glomp for it, and felt a stinging sensation
at the back of his neck.

Akane cried for help and when the families came down,
saw what was happening, and called an ambulance.

Happosai didn't die.  The fact that he didn't die was
testament to his martial arts abilities, his ki control
and his will to live.

However, the knife cleanly cut through his spine.

It cut the spine from just base of his skull.  The old
perverted master will never be able to move anything
below his neck again.

This was to him, the greatest torture ever, and he slowly
started to get weaker.  And now, he was nothing but an old
man.  Dying old man.

It was now six years later, and Akane was getting worse.


The family had seen Akane go through many stages.  First was
the Akane who would sit in the room, looking out the window
expecting to see Ranma come back.  She just sat there and
waited.

Next was Akane who would get up every morning claiming that
she had a bad dream where Ranma died, and when hearing the
truth, break down.

Next was Akane denying that Ranma died, that Ranma was 
just gone on a training trip and nothing happened.

Next was Akane who swore that Ranma came to her the night
before.

It went on and on, and every time Akane changed her tactics
the family suffered because of it.  They saw how much the
death of Ranma, and the ultimate sacrifice that he made
for her was affecting her.

They all wished that doctor Tofu was here to help Akane,
but he disappeared right after the funeral and no one 
knew where he went.

Now, Akane was in some kind of stage where she started
to forget about the world.  She will just sit in her room
and not come out, do nothing, but mumble all day long
or have some kind of imaginary conversation with someone,
probably Ranma.

The family knew that Akane won't be able to go on for
much longer if this kept up.

Kasumi tried one more time to get Akane to come down
and eat.

"Akane, please?  Won't you join us for dinner?"

"I'm not hungry"

Kasumi left the room, closing the door before her.
She was about to start crying again when she heard
and excited knock on the front door.

She wondered who it was, since no one visited her home
anymore.

Ryoga stopped coming around about a year after Ranma's
death.

It seems that Ryoga was trying to get Akane to fall
for him, but he had to give up when Akane showed no
feelings for him, or P-chan. 

She actually gave P-Chan the cold shoulder, and
sometimes actually hit him.

It seems that she blamed Ryoga and P-Chan as one of
the major sources at Ranma and her not being together now.

When Kasumi went to the door, rest of the family,
Nabiki, Soun, Genma, and Nodoka was there with her.

When she open the door, everyone was surprised to find
doctor Tofu standing there, along with Cologne who went
back to China.

"Oh my!"

Almost everyone expected doctor Tofu to go insane seeing
Kasumi, but he didn't do that.  He actually reached her
gave her a hug and a kiss, which surprised everyone once
again, and causing Kasumi to faint.  Who had never been
kissed like that ever before.

Later...

Kasumi opened her eyes to looking to the eyes of doctor
Tofu and knew that she didn't dream what happened.

"OH MY!"

That got everybody's attention, and now the explanation
that doctor Tofu was putting off till when Kasumi wakes up
could be heard.

"So, doctor Tofu, where have you been, and how come you
don't go crazy seeing Kasumi anymore?"

It was Nabiki who asked the question.

"I see that Akane is doing much worse"

It was puzzling how doctor Tofu just changed topic, and 
Nabiki didn't like that.  She was no longer the Ice Queen
but she still didn't like it when someone didn't answer
her questions.

"Doctor Tofu"

"I found it"

"You found what?"

"Way to bring back Ranma"

"WHAT!!!!!"

The whole entire family yelled so loud the house shook.

"Of course I couldn't have done it with out Cologne's help"

"HOW?!?!?!"

"That was what I went to look for, way to bring Ranma
back"

"HOW?"

"I've read somewhere, that those who are cursed are tied
to the cursed springs.  I also read somewhere that those
who are cursed, if they die of unnatural causes, their 
spirits are sent to the cursed springs"

Now doctor Tofu had everyone's attention.

"I needed to make sure if that was really the case
and if it was, there might have been a way
to bring Ranma back.  So I left for China.  And I
visited the cursed springs, and I felt the souls
of many people there.  Then I knew that Ranma's 
soul must be there as well.  Then I started to
look for a way to bring him back"

He paused there to look around the room and to
see the expression on everyone's face.

They all either had excited, disbelieving, or
rather shocked expressions on their faces.

"Well, I traveled through all the lands of China,
the Musk kingdom, the Mt. Phoenix, and I even 
went to lands of India, and lastly I ended up
in the Amazon village.  During these times
I learned many things, and I learned self
control"

"That's how you were able to kiss Kasumi"

Nabiki deducted it.

"Yes, it was.  But I also learned that when
Ranma died, his spirit was defiantly sent
to the springs, and because of it, he is
now magical being as well as spiritual being"

"What does that mean?"

"If we use a magical means, we can bring him
back, but he will not be the same Ranma we knew,
he would be changed.  I don't know how much
and just how he will be changed, but he will 
not be the same Ranma we knew"

That silenced everyone.  They started think
what it would be like to have Ranma back, 
to have him again in their lives.  But mostly they
had to wonder what Akane would do.

"So, you can bring Ranma back?"

Asked Nodoka, who now had hope.

"Yes, Mrs. Saotome, with doctor Tofu's findings,
and my knowledge, we can bring him back"

Cologne stated, and as soon as she said it, they were
greeted with a yell.

"HOW!!!!"

They all turn to look at where the yell had come from
it was Akane.  She heard the loud commotion, and came
down, hoping that perhaps, it was Ranma, but
she heard that they can bring Ranma back from the dead.

"I can have him back, HOW!?!"

"Akane, are you sure about this?"

Asked doctor Tofu, but he already knew the answer by
looking at her eyes.

"YES!!!"

"Ok then.  But we need two things"

"What are those?"

"We need a holy bird, and we need you Akane"

"Holy bird?"

Nabiki asked, and it was Cologne who answered.

"It is something that is necessary and I know where
to get it, do not worry about it"

"LET'S GO!!"

It was Akane and she started to drag doctor Tofu out
side.  He had to push her sleep point and knock her out.

"Sleep Akane, sleep.  And when you wake up, will be
ready to start"

China, valley of cursed springs...

The gang was standing in front of one particular
spring.  It was the spring of drown girl.

This was the pool where Ranma got his girl
curse, and this is the pool where they will 
get Ranma back.

They were now waiting for Akane to wake up
and Cologne to show up with that holy bird.

Akane slowly opened her eyes, and saw that
she was surrounded by her family and also
she was in rather unfamiliar place.

She looked around and knew that this was
the cursed springs.

She got up, and looked at the pool that the family was
gathered in front of.

"Is that?"

"Yes it is Akane"

"Then what are we waiting for?"

"It's not that simple Akane, we need the holy bird"

Just then, they felt a breeze and also wings flapping.
They all looked up to see, people with wings, coming
down, and Cologne on one of their back.

They landed, and Cologne hopped off the one's back, holding
onto a cage that is nearly has big as herself, containing 
a pure white bird of some kind.  When Cologne was on the
ground, the people with wings, flew up again and was gone.

"Is that it?"

"Yes child this is it"

Doctor Tofu, decided to ask Cologne something.

"Cologne, the holy bird is rare bird of Phoenix people
how did you get one?"

"Ranma is my heir in the art of martial and now, he
might even be able to be my heir in magical arts"

"That's not an answer Cologne"

"Promise of alliance to destroy the Musk and also one of
our woman as bride to the king Saffron"

Although it sounded like a good deal to Nabiki, doctor
Tofu knew what it must have felt like for the Amazon.

Amazons does not abandon their own, and they don't
allow slaves.  However, this was what they were doing
abandoning one of their own, and giving one of them
as basically a slave.

"Cologne"

Tofu was about to say he was sorry, but Cologne raised
her hand to stop him.

"We should get started now"

They were ready to start, and Tofu had the bird next to him
in the cage, and he held a knife, and also there was a
barrel on the other side of him.

He walked towards Akane, and looked her in the eyes.

"Akane, do you know why you had to be here?"

"To bring back Ranma"

Answer was simple, and it was said with all her heart.
She wanted nothing more then to bring back Ranma, to see
him again, to hear his voice, and to feel him.

"Akane, the reason I needed you here was that I needed your blood"

"What?"

"Akane, it seems that some of his spirit is inside you"

"It is?"

"It stayed with you, with his heart, I needed your blood, to
release his spirit into the water, I need you to spill your
blood into that pool.  Can you do that?"

Akane looked at him, and looked at the pool and made up her mind.
Before anybody can stop her, she took the knife from his hand
grabbed the blade part of it in her left palm, and made a 
cut in her hand and started to bleed on the water.

As she was bleeding on the water, water started to change color
to red, but it started to swirl as well.

It was strange sight, but it everyone there felt like something
magical was about to happen, and it was.

Tofu then, grabbed the bird out of the cage and lowered it to
the spring.

When the bird was completely submerged under the water, something
strange happened. 

There was bright light and no one could see anything.  Except
Akane.

Akane heard a voice.  It was a deep voice.  It was the voice of
the cursed spring.

"What do you want?"

"I want my Ranma back!"

"Why?"

"Because I love him!"

"Why?"

"What do you mean why?"

"We have seen the spirit of this one you call Ranma.  We have
seen how you and he was like.  We have seen what you have done
to him and how you have mistreated him"

"No!"

"Why should we let his spirit go?"

"I LOVE HIM!!"

With that Akane poured all her soul and spirit into whatever
was keeping Ranma there.

The spirit of the cursed springs felt her pain, felt her
loss and it saw how it was for Akane for the past 6 years.

It understood and it let one of it's spirit go.

"I understand"

With that everything became normal again, everybody could
see again, but something had changed.  The water which was
red because of Akane's blood was back to it's original color
and Akane was no longer bleeding or was she cut.

They were staring at Akane and her hand when something made it's
way out of the water.

It was a female version of Ranma, except the hair was not in it's
pig-tailed style and it was also white, not red.

She just stood there looking around, and finally saw Akane.

Their eyes met and they just stared at each other.
Akane with tears in her eyes, and Ranma with slow recognition
dawning upon him when she felt a splash and changed.

She was now a he, with black hair, and looked exactly like how
Ranma did before he died, except for pigtails

Akane didn't even care now, she grabbed him and pulled him out.
She gave him strong hug and surpassed the strongest glomp Shampoo
ever did.

Everyone was happy that Ranma was back and they were all crying.

Ranma just looked at Akane.  He too felt her love for him when
he was part of the spirit of cursed springs.

"Akane, you really love me?"

"Oh, Ranma, I love you lots!"

Ranma was about to say something more, when Akane kissed him.

As kiss got deeper, one part of Ranma made itself known about
few facts.

That he was a guy, and that he was naked.

Akane felt the same thing and pulled out and looked at him.

Ranma now cringed, expecting a mallet blow, which never came.
He looked up to meet a tearful eyes of Akane.

"Akane?"

"Ranma...did you really think I will hit you?"

"Um...yeah?"

When he answered she hugged him hard again.

"Never again Ranma, I will never hit you again"

"Um...ok"

He looked around to see everybody, the Tendo Family, his pop
and mom, Cologne, and doctor Tofu holding onto and empty barrel
of water of spring of drown man.

The end

Note:

This I didn't send it to pre-readers.  I didn't wanted to 
bother them with a oneshot fic.

This was a sequel to the Giver of Heart.  Someone asked me to write
a sequel and I decided to write it.  Hope you all enjoy it.

Questions and comments are always welcome.

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