Donny Cheng <chengdo@shaw.wave.ca>


Disclaimer:  All characters portrayed in this story are owned by their
respective creators and company.  Please don't sue me.

This story takes place after volume 38 of the Ranma manga.  It draws
ideas from both the Ranma manga and anime and the AMG manga and anime.
This is a sequel to my other story, Sailor Moon R 1/2.

Author's note:  Due to a crash in the yggdrasil system that happened
sometime in the manga, the goddess's need moon rocks to function
properly.  They can also recharge using alternate power sources.  Urd
needs sake.  Belldandy needs sleep.  Skuld needs ice cream.

C & C welcomed.  Flames not.

A Ranma and Ah! My Goddess crossover.

A Goddess's Kiss

by

Donny Cheng

        Ranma sighed to himself as he struggled to get to his room.
His back ached with the effort.  Today had been a particularly grueling
day.  Akane had malleted him a few times for being glomped by Shampoo.
Shampoo had retaliated forgetting that Ranma was in the way.  Ukyo had
then come by to 'save' him from Shampoo.  Kodatchi, of course, just
happened to be in the neighborhood.  The fun really started when Kuno,
Mousse, and Ryoga caught him 'flirting' with the four girls.  Ranma
groaned again as he recalled the beating he subsequently received.
Yes, today had definitely not been a good day.  Was it really too much
to ask for a quiet day with the people around him?  The day's strain
caught up to him the moment he reached his bedroll.  Ranma fell fast
asleep.

                               * * * * *

Fade in...

        Ranma, about the age of eight, is standing alone in the street
crying.  He felt so alone.  Where was his father?  Never in his entire
life had he been alone.  He was scared.  Everybody around him seemed so
frightening.  He could feel tears starting to form in his eyes.

        "Don't cry."

        A voice came to him.  It was soft, almost angelic to his young
ears.  He looked up to see who it was.  It was an older girl with shiny
long hair.  Her face was not quite clear to him.  A hand reached out to
him.  It was dark in color.  The boy tensed up ready to strike out.
The hand that touched his was soft.

        "I'll stay with you until someone comes to pick you up."

        Ranma let himself to be led a park nearby.  The next few
moments were the happiest of his young life.  The girl stayed with him
and kept him company as the day wore on.  The day came to a close as
his father finally showed up.  The girl yelled at his father using
words that he didn't understand.  Genma was shamefaced as he apologized
for accidentally leaving him behind.  The girl had then turned to
leave.  Ranma cried for her to stay.  He feared being alone once again.

        "Don't worry.  I will always be with you in your heart.  You
will never really be alone."

        "Promise?"

        Ranma stopped crying as he felt the girl kneel to kiss him on
the forehead.  His heart soared as he heard her whisper, "I promise."
He again tried to look at the girl's face.  The haze that seemed to
surround her face slowly lifted...

Fade out...

                               * * * * *

        "Ranma!  Wake up!  We're going to be late for school."  Akane
quickly left his room to get ready for school.

        Damn it, Ranma thought to himself as he got up from bed.  It
was that same dream.  Every time he had a very bad day, that dream
would come to him.  He had been so close to seeing the face of the girl
this time.  Despite the fact that Ranma missed the girl's face again,
he couldn't help but feel happy.  That dream always did that to him.
He could still hear the softness of the girl's voice ringing in his
ear.

                               * * * * *

        "Belldandddyyy!"  Urd whined to her sister as she tried to
think of excuses.

        Belldandy quickly cut Urd off.  "Urd, you must help us find
Skuld.  She forgot to bring her moon rock bracelets when she left the
house this morning.  She could be in serious trouble right now."

        "Oh, alright."  Urd reluctantly agreed.  She never could
disagree with her younger sister very well.

        Belldandy smiled winningly at Urd's acceptance.  "The first
place she'll go when she notices her bracelets aren't with her is an
ice cream parlor.  Let's split up and search all of them."

                               * * * * *

        Ranma smiled to himself as he thought of the ice cream that
waited for him at the ice cream parlor.  Ice cream was one of the few
pleasures Ranma could now enjoy with a second body at his disposal.  He
would change into his girl form when he got to the shop, so that his
male body would not be ruined with sweets.  Ranma gave out a startled
cry as he felt a hand grab at his leg.  It was a young girl seemingly
in pain lying on the ground.  "Hey!  What's wrong with you?  Are you
sick?  Are you in pain?"

        "Ice cream!  Must have ice cream!"  The young girl cried out as
her body fell limp.

        Ranma rolled his eyes.  Some kids were just so melodramatic
these days.  He considered whether or not to treat this weird kid to
some ice cream.  Well, why not?  He was in a good mood.

                               * * * * *

        Ranma could only stare, as the girl came to life and started to
shovel bowl after bowl of ice cream into her mouth.  He quickly came
out it as he noticed the girl was going for the last bowl.  "Leave some
for me!"

        The girl, who called herself Skuld, looked shamefaced as she
stopped her hand in mid reach.  Her stomach grumbled.

        Ranma sighed as he pushed the last bowl towards Skuld.  "Here
have it.  You sound like you need it more than I do.  Besides, who
could refuse a cute girl like you?  Look, I've got to leave right now.
I've already paid, so you can just leave when you want."  With that
said, Ranma quickly left for home.  Kasumi and mother should be
starting dinner soon.  Also, he knew it wasn't good for him to eat ice
cream in his male body.

        Skuld looked adoringly at the retreating back of the boy, name
Ranma.  What a nice guy!  He said I was cute.  Wait till I tell
Belldandy about him.  Her trained senses screamed at her as she
continued to watch Ranma leave.  There was a haze surrounding him.
Skuld quickly pulled out her specialized glasses to look at him from a
different angle.  Skuld gasped in shock.  Bugs.  Dozens of them.  All
of them were surrounding Ranma.

                               * * * * *

        Urd grumbled as she followed Belldandy and Skuld around Nerima.
"Skuld, are you sure you saw bugs around here?"

        "I think I know what a bug is.  I have been system debugger of
the most powerful computer in the universe."  Skuld was worried.  The
bugs she had seen seemed to be abnormally attracted to Ranma.

        Urd's eyes twinkled as she looked at Skuld's worried
expression.  "You're still worried about that boy you met, aren't you.
Young love what a beautiful thing.  I, the goddess of love, will help
you win the heart of your man."  Urd stopped in her tracks and raised
her arms in the sky.  All the while, laughing hysterically.

        Skuld bigsweated as she continued walking with Belldandy.
Maybe if she ignored Urd, nobody would think they were related.

        Belldandy was oblivious to what was happening between Skuld and
Urd.  She concentrated on the area around her, trying to find any trace
of bugs in the area.  Within a few moments of concentrating, she felt
the trail of mayhem left by a bug.  Opening her eyes, she saw the sign
of an okonomiyaki restaurant in front of her.  "Uuchan's".  "Urd,
Skuld, this is a place where there was a high concentration of bug
activity recently."

        Going inside the restaurant, the goddesses are startled to see
mass destruction all around them.  Skuld whispered to Belldandy as she
looked towards the owner, a sixteen-year-old girl.  "There's a bug
around that girl.  I'll bop it, while you find out what happened."
Skuld immediately pulled out a huge mallet at tried to sneak towards
the creature.

        Urd and Belldandy slowly walk to the girl, who was busily
cleaning up the place.  Urd was the first to speak.  "Wow!  What
happened to this place?"

        The young okonomiyaki cook, who appeared to have a giant
spatula strapped to her back, grumbled as she recounted to them what
had happened.  It seemed her fiancˇ had come to visit her when his
other fiancˇ came and a catfight started.

        Belldandy did a double take as she heard this.  "Your fiancˇ
has another fiancˇ!?"

        The girl, Ukyo, grimaced as she corrected them.  "Actually, he
has another two girls after him.  Also, he may have a ton of other
girls after him that I don't know about.  His father had been known to
have given him off for food at times."

        Belldandy looked sympathetically towards the girl.  She has had
a rough life in trying to be with the one that she loved.

        Urd in the meantime was off in her own little world.  A guy
with four girls after him!?  If all of the girls looked as good as this
one, that meant he probably had a lot of rivals.  This was the most
tangled up web of love that she had ever heard of.  Thank you,
Almighty!  As the goddess of love, it was her duty to see that this
mess was fixed up.  "By the way, what is your boyfriend's name?"

        "Oh, it's Ranma.  Saotome Ranma."

        A hammer hitting the ground very hard could be heard.

* * * * *

        Inwardly Urd was fuming.  Contrary to popular belief, she did
care for Skuld a lot.  After going around Nerima and talking to various
people, the goddesses had a vivid impression of what this Ranma was
like.  Two kids, Hiroshi and Daisuke, had been particularly
informative.  Who did this Ranma think he was?  Flirting with every
girl that he met.  Building a harem for himself.  He was probably
playing around with her kid sister.  Looking a Skuld, Urd could tell
that she was still secretly harboring a crush on Ranma.

        Skuld tried to look optimistic as she looked towards Belldandy
for support.  "He can't be all bad.  I'm sure those to classmates of
his are just exaggerating."

        Belldandy, of course, answered back as helpfully as she could.
"Well, if he does have four girls after him and all the girls know
about this, it shows that he must really be a great guy.  Why else
would they stay with him?"

        Urd gave Belldandy with exasperated look.  "Oh, please.  There
are lots of girls out there that fall for the wrong guy.  This guy is
probably leading each of them on.  Anyway, it doesn't matter what this
guy is like.  We came here to take care of the bugs.  When we're done,
we'll just leave."

        Skuld did not say anything as they continued on their way to
the Tendo Dojo, Ranma's home.  He did seem like a nice person to her.

                               * * * * *

        The three goddesses stood nervously before the door to the
dojo.  With their glasses they could see hordes of the normally
invisible bugs converging to this one dojo.  Skuld swallowed hard.
Just what was so special about Ranma?  Mustering up her courage, she
cautiously walked up to the door and knocks.  However, before she even
moved, the door is smashed as a body flew right through and crashed
into her.

        "Boy, you're getting sloppy.  You should have been able to
easily dodge that kick."  A gruff voice could be heard coming from
inside.

        Said boy could not answer back as he was now tangled up with
Skuld.  The boy's head somehow managed to get caught underneath Skuld's
skirt.  Coincidentally, a girl with short hair stepped through the
doors at that moment.  What happened next was one that truly astonished
the goddesses.  The girl called out "Ranma, you pervert!" and then
pulled the boy up to her and punted him high into the sky.

        "Uh, what just happened here?"  Skuld was in a daze as she got
up.

        "You were hit by a boy.  Then this girl here kicked him away."
Belldandy could not quite believe those words were coming out of her
mouth.  "Excuse me miss.  Was the name of the boy you had hit named
Ranma?"

        "Yes.  Why do you want to know?"  The girl looked at them
suspiciously.  "You wouldn't happen to be more fiancˇes of his?"

        "No, we are not.  However, we do have a matter of importance
that is directly related to him."

        The girl breathed a sigh of relief.  "Come inside then.  He'll
be back in a short while.  My name is Akane."

        Belldandy followed Akane into the house.  Urd stayed outside to
look at still visible boy's body that was flying away from her.  She
didn't get a good look at his face.  Looking around with Skuld's
glasses she could see that most of the bugs had left, though some
stayed at the house.  Whatever it was that the boy had, it rubbed off
on things and people that he was around.  What an interesting person
this was.

                               * * * * *

        Akane could not believe her ears as she heard these three girls
tell them about a problem that Ranma might have.  "Wait a minute!
You're telling me that the reason so much destruction happens around
Ranma is because of invisible bugs?"

        Belldandy looked apologetically at her and rest of the family
as she answered with an affirmative.  "You see the universe is like a
giant computer.  When something is this big there are usually
disruptions in the programming.  Bugs.  Never before have we seen so
many of them concentrated around a single person for no particular
reason."

        Nabiki could not help but feel curious.  "May I ask how you
know all this?

        "You could say that we are maintainers of this big computer."

        "In other words, you're goddesses."

        Urd choked on her tea.  That girl was shrewd one.  To her
surprise, they all seemed to be indifferent to the fact that they were
among goddesses.  They must really have had interesting past
adventures.

        "I'm home."  A somewhat soaked girl cried out as she entered
the room.

        "Ranma, where have you been?"  Akane asked with concern as she
took in Ranma's appearance.

        "The old woman across the street managed to splash me again
with her ladle and Kuno happened to be there.  He chased me all over
Nerima.  Every time I found hot water, cold water would come out of
nowhere and hit me.  Kuno finally got the picture that I wanted to be
alone after the twentieth hit to the head I gave him."  It was then
that Ranma noticed there were three extra people in the room.  "Skuld?
What are you doing here?"

        Belldandy, Skuld, and Urd stared at the new comer for awhile
before they asked at the same time, "Ranma?"

                               * * * * *

        The Goddesses had listened with rapt attention to Akane as she
told them of Ranma's adventures the past year and of his curse.  Their
awe increased with each successive story.  They now sat in wait for
Ranma to finish his bath so that they could talk with him properly.
When Ranma finally came out to greet them, he was in his boy form.  Urd
had to admit to herself that he did not look bad at all.  Those baby
blue eyes alone could cause many a girl to feel weak in the knees.  In
fact, she found herself staring at Ranma whenever he wasn't looking.
She had the oddest feeling of that she knew him from somewhere.

        Ranma felt conflicting emotions within himself after listening
to the goddesses.  He was happy to know that there was a reason for the
many mishaps he had endured.  He also felt angry and sad that he
nothing about it.  The goddesses had consulted with the Almighty (over
the phone) and discovered the reason for the bugs being attracted to
him.  It seemed that everybody had a purpose in the natural order of
things, except for some people like him.  People with no destiny.  They
had the ability to change the fate of others, as there were no controls
placed on their behavior.  These people were thus disruptive to the
universal program.  Bugs were naturally attracted to faults in the
system.  "So, in other words, you're saying that I'm damned if I do and
damned if I don't."

        Belldandy winced at Ranma's choice of words.  "Actually, I
think there may be some hope for you.  Most people without destiny die
at a very young age simply because of all the accidents that happen
around them.  However, you seem to be different.  From what I have
heard from your history, you seem to always manage to come through in
life threatening situations.  I think that you should come back with us
to our temple so that we may study you."

        Ranma grimaced.  "I don't feel up to being some sort of lab
experiment.  I think I'll just stay and figure it out on my own.  I
mean I got this far without any help."

        Oh, for the love of god.  Urd had enough.  Here they were going
out of their way to help him and he complained left and right.  She was
going to put an end to this.  Walking up to him, Urd poked him in the
forehead.  "Hey, listen here.  We came all this way to help you and
this is how you rep...!"  Urd suddenly stopped talking as she felt a
force of energy emit from Ranma's body after she touched him.  Ranma
gave a startled gasp and held his chest as if it hurt very badly.

        A small poof could be heard in air as a diminutive woman seem
to pop right out of Ranma's chest.  "Finally, I'm out of there."  The
woman then proceeded the stretch.  Bones cracking were very audible.
"That feels so much better.  You can't believe how cramped it could get
in a person's heart.  It sure took you long enough to come pick me up
Urd."

        By now everyone can see that the ultra-small woman that sprung
from Ranma's body is Urd.  Or rather, mini-Urd.  Urd stared at the
little version of her.  She couldn't believe it.  After all those years
of avoiding this issue, it came back to haunt her.  "You mean to tell
me that this womanizing jerk here is the same sweet little kid I met
eight years ago and gave a part of my soul to?!"

        Mini-Urd cringed at the taller Urd's tone of voice.  "Hey!
It's not my fault he turned out this way.  Blame his father.  And he's
not as bad as you make it him out to be.  Sure, he's rough around the
edges, but I'm sure you'll still like him.  After all, I do."

        "From what I've learned from the people around here, he's a
complete and total washout as a person."

        "Hey!"  Ranma tried to protest, but Urd ignored him like he
wasn't even there.

        "Well, most of the people here are biased.  It doesn't matter
since you will know all of what I know when we join back up.  Let's do
this somewhere private."  Urd and mini-Urd then turned and left the
house before anyone could follow.

        The two remaining goddesses were immediately bombarded with
questions.  Nodoka was worried for Ranma.  "What happened to my son?
Why was there a woman that looked like your sister inside of him?

        Belldandy sighed.  After seeing mini-Urd, every thing had
become clear to her.  "I'll explain what I can.  Now, if you will all
sit back down I will tell you what is happening.  It all started eight
years ago."  The Almighty had told her of Urd's adventure on earth all
those years ago.

        Unknown to everyone, Ranma slipped out of the house intent to
find Urd.  He didn't know why, he just needed to see her.

                               * * * * *

        Mini-Urd looked wearily at Urd.  "Are you absolutely sure you
want to rejoin with me?  Remember you will be getting eight years worth
of memories.  And I meant it when I said that I like Ranma.  I LIKE
Ranma a lot."

        Urd looked incredulously at mini-Urd.  "You don't meant that
you, I, we LOVE this guy do we?"

        Mini-Urd does not answer.  She had a sad expression on her
face.  Slowly she phased out into a ghostlike apparition and entered
Urd's body.

                               * * * * *

        Belldandy sipped at her tea as she began her story.  "Urd had
been given leave to visit earth about eight years ago.  When she had
landed, she met a young lost boy.  Ranma.  She had stayed with him
until his father showed up to pick him up.  This was the first time she
had stayed with a single human for such a long amount of time.  Ranma
had apparently left a lasting impression on Urd.  So much of an
impression, that Urd agreed to a promise with Ranma.  Promises with
goddesses are like contracts.  They are very binding.  However, Urd did
not yet have the right to make a contract with a mortal yet.  Urd
promised that Ranma would never be alone as long as she was in his
heart.  Amazingly enough, the Almighty allowed this contract to be
made.  The Almighty had then proceeded to merge a part of Urd's soul
with Ranma's.  It is this reason that Ranma is able to survive the
certain death bugs bring.  He is blessed by a goddess."  Everyone in
the room nodded to themselves.  This answered many things that plagued
them about Ranma.

                               * * * * *

        Urd cursed herself bitterly.  She could feel him inside of her.
Everything around her reminded her of him.  She already missed seeing
his face and hearing his voice.  She tried to deny that these feelings
were hers.  However, mini-Urd was as much a part of her as her hand or
her heart.

Mini-Urd was right about how her perception of Ranma would change when
they rejoined.  Being in his heart, Mini-Urd experienced every single
emotion he ever felt.  Now, Urd also felt the same experiences.  She
could see how so many girls fell for Ranma.  Despite the many times
Shampoo had tricked him, Ranma still helped her when she needed it,
whether it was against the dreaded ghost cat or against Pink and Link.
Outside of Cologne and Mousse, Ranma was the only one who was nice to
her in Nerima.  With Ukyo, Ranma tried to remain friends with her
without having this fiancˇe business getting mixed in.  Ranma couldn't
even stand the thought of hurting Kodatchi when she cried.  To
Kodatchi, Ranma was probably the only boy who ever gave a thought to
about her feelings.  Though Ranma sometimes treated the girls poorly,
Urd could tell from his memories that the girls saw that deep down
Ranma did care for each of them.  This was the reason all of them
fought so hard for him.

        Urd could sense someone walking up to her from behind.  She
knew it was Ranma.  She waited for him to speak first.

        "Hi."

        "Hi."

        "So, nice day isn't it?"

        "Yes, it is."

        "Um..."

        "...yes?"

        "I wanted to thank you."

        "Why?"

        "You know, for staying with me all those years."

        "It was nothing."

        "..."

        Urd tensed up.  Ranma had stopped talking.  Urd could not, for
the life of her, figure out what to say.  What could she say to a
person eight years younger than she was?  A mortal at that.  A person
she loved.  A person that hadn't seen her for years.  A person who
didn't know how much she had changed.

        Ranma finally spoke up again.  "You're wrong.  It was
something.  It was something to me.  Over the years I have been by
myself a lot of times.  Never, though, have I felt alone.  Every time I
felt sad, I would dream of you.  I would dream of the way you never
left my side even after everyone else had left that park.  I may not
have seen you, but inside I think I knew you were there."  Seeing that
Urd was not responding Ranma turned to leave.

        "Wait!  You don't have to leave yet.  I wouldn't mind the
company."

        Ranma nodded and sat beside Urd.  Both did not say anything for
awhile.  They are content to just be with each other.

        "How did you know where to find me?"

        "I didn't.  This bridge is the place where I come when things
become too hectic."

                               * * * * *

Way into the future...

        "1, 2, 3!  Rock beats scissors.  I win!"  Urd looked evenly at
Skuld.

        "Arrgh!  That makes it three times in a row that I've lost.
Fine then, have it your way.  Have him for another year."

        "What are you complaining about?  You've got the lifetime
record of five hundred and forty eight wins to my four hundred and
fifty two wins."  Urd looked triumphant as she watched Skuld storm off.
She had another year of being with Ranma without her sister
interfering.  She couldn't wait to be in his youthful strong arms.  His
martial arts conditioning and cursed form had allowed him to live a
millennium.  A little help from Urd's magic stopped him from aging in
body so that he was technically an immortal.  Urd loved him and
everything, but she didn't think she could take the thought of him
looking like Happosai.  She laughed at the thought of a shrunken old
Ranma.  Now that she had won, all she had to do was find where he was
on earth.  If only those sailor-suited brats would leave her Ranma
alone, life would be perfect.

                               * * * * *

The End. (maybe)