The Saotome Blade

Disclaimer: They don't belong to me but Blade and Ranma are cool as hell.

* *: Thoughts

[" "]: Chinese Language

<" ">: Ancient Vampire language

Capital letters: Shouting or loud noises

{ }: Author's own thoughts

_ _: Stressed words

Chapter 5

Girl Problems and Werewolves.

Donny and Ranma walked down the streets of Nerima. They soon stopped in front of a large house. A sign was hung beside the large wooden doors that lead to the front yard of the house. "Woah!" Noted Donny. "That's a nice house."

Ranma shrugged. "I've seen bigger."

Donny opened the doors and walked through. "This is Japan Ranma. There's a lot more people here than in china. It would cost a lot more money to live in s house this big." Ranma just shrugged again and walked up to the front door with his friend He knocked on the door and waited. He heard a couple of voices from inside and then footsteps coming towards the door. A girl with long black hair tied in a ponytail answered the door and frowned when she saw who it was.

"Hello." said Donny to the girl. He extended his hand to her in greeting hoping to start his relationship with the people here with a good start. "I'm Donny, and this is Ranma." He said motioning towards his friend who was carrying all of the luggage and a bunch of weapons. The girl just stared at the hand disgustedly. Donny, seeing that she wasn't going to take the offered hand put it into his pocket and continued. "I'm looking for Nabiki Tendo."

Akane rolled her eyes and tilted her head back into the house and yelled out. "NABIKI! SOME OF YOUR _FRIENDS_ ARE AT THE DOOR!" she then slammed it and stomped off into the house.

Ranma and Donny looked at each other. "That went well." Donny said to his black clad companion. Ranma smirked and looked back at the door that the girl had slammed in their faces and chuckled.

"This...is going to be the place we're living? What were you thinking Donny?" Donny shrugged moments later the door opened again to reveal a slightly taller, slightly bustier, prettier, and shorter haired girl about Ranma's age.

"Sorry about that." The girl said. "That's my sister, she doesn't like boys that much she also has a huge temper. You are...?" Donny held out his hand, this time the girl grabbed it and shook it.

"I'm Donny, and this is Ranma." He said. "We're the exchange students from China. Nabiki smirked.

"Oooh China. Sounds nice, your Japanese is surprisingly good. You honor students or something?" Donny nodded

"I am. Ranma here was actually born and raised here in Japan when he was young he moved to China somewhere around the age of five." Nabiki nodded and motioned for them to come in.

"Does 'Ranma' talk at all?" She asked as she led them up the stairs.

"I noticed you have a dojo." Ranma said to Nabiki's back as he walked behind her. Nabiki stopped, turned and smirked at the hunter.

"Ah so the mystery man has a voice. What do you want to know about the dojo?"

"I want to know if I could use it. I'm a martial artist."

"Oh great. Another one." Nabiki said in a monotone. "You'll fit right in here I suppose."

The group continued towards the room. Ranma entered behind the other two and set the luggage down he then turned and exited the room. "I'll be back in a while, get all that computer junk set up Donny. I'm gonna go practice."

"Where are you going?" Nabiki asked. Ranma ignored her and just walked down the stairs.

Nabiki smiled as she put a hand across her chin and looked puzzled. *Hmm He's definitely cute, and quiet. This is a mystery that I think I'm gonna like unraveling.* Donny began setting things up in the room, he put his laptop over on one of the desks and hooked it up. He then took a certain bag and shoved it underneath the desk, making sure that Nabiki hadn't seen the contents of the bag.

Nabiki left shortly after and Donny began to study the inner workings of the Electromagnetic laser pistol tha t Ranma had picked up off of a fallen Vampire working for Toru.

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(Later)

Nabiki Tendo was being lazy. She didn't have anything to do today so she was spending most of her time lying on the couch reading Manga. Her older sister, Kasumi, was busy in the kitchen preparing supper, and the exchange students were off doing their own thing. Donny was still in his room and Ranma hadn't come out of the dojo for hours. Akane had left earlier after Nabiki had showed their guests to their room and then came back just recently.

"Nabiki."

"Huh?" Nabiki's thoughts were interrupted by her older sister calling her name softly. "Oh okay." She lifted her self off the couch and began to walk through the house to where all of the current occupants were. Just as she was about to head out to the dojo to get Ranma the front door opened.

"I'm HOOOME!" Called the masculine voice.

"Hi Daddy." Nabiki called to her father as he took his hat off and hung it up on a nearby coat hanger, along with his coat. Nabiki walked out to the yard and then opened the door to the dojo as her father and the others rushed to the table to eat. The short brown haired girl paused and gawked at the person in the dojo. Ranma was in the middle of what looked like a very complicated kata, and his shirt was off. She watched as his muscles flowed with every movement. Her eyes were wide and her mouth hung open as she stared at the masculine treasure that was now her houseguest. *Woah I can't wait to get to know him better.*

"What do you want?" Ranma asked as he turned around and eyed the girl with his hands on his hips.

"I-I-I...I..." Nabiki couldn't say anything her eyes were glued to the boy heaving chest. She was having trouble believing that this boy was only seventeen or so.

"Well?" Ranma said impatiently.

Nabiki was blushing furiously and she decided to get it out as fast as possible. "Dinner'sreadyKasumissaidtocallyouBYE!" With that Nabiki ran back into the house covering her reddening cheeks.

At dinner Akane's face was scrunched up in a scowl as she glared at Ranma, he was sweating a little and the smell was getting to her head. She wanted to pull out a mallet and smash him with it, like she did all the other boys, but Nabiki said she couldn't cause they were the exchange students that were arranged to stay here. That just made her even more angry. She was hoping that the exchange students would be girls.

"So," Soun said, trying to start a conversation with their guests. "What's your name's? I don't believe that Nabiki has introduced us yet." Donny wiped his mouth and set the napkin he had used to do so on the table.

"I'm Donny. I'm kind of a technical guy, I like to fiddle around with gadgets and make stuff. That there," He said, pointing to Ranma, "is Ranma. He's a martial artist and tends to beat up anything that's not human." Soun nodded.

"I see. I knew a boy named Ranma once. He was the son of a dear old friend of mine. I haven't heard from him for a long time though. We trained under the same master." Ranma nodded and continued eating his meal.

"So, Kasumi. Do you do all of the cooking and cleaning around here?" Ranma asked. Kasumi nodded.

"Yes after our mother began working she hasn't had time to prepare dinner and cook meals, so I've kind of taken it upon myself to do so."

Soun smiled brightly. "Yes, she's been very useful. Her mother and I both have full time jobs and don't get back until late. I got off earlier today so I actually get to enjoy my meal warm. Ha Ha!" Ranma smirked.

"I've got a full time job myself. Had it since I was at least six years old." Soun looked at the boy inquisitively.

"What is it you do Ranma my boy?" Ranma shrugged.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. It's the only thing that's kept me alive these past ten years. I've never known my mother and my father was killed in China while we where on a training trip."

Something clicked in Soun Tendo's mind at that moment. "China...you say? On a training trip? Ten years?" Ranma nodded.

"Yeah. So?"

Soun cleared his thought. "Ranma your last name wouldn't happen to be Sao...tome would it?"

Ranma blinked and looked a little confused. He didn't like the way Soun was looking at him hopefully like that. It looked like he was on the verge of a breakdown of some sorts. "Yeeeaah. So?" Soun jumped across the table and embraced Ranma in a crushing embrace.

"Oh Genma! I'm so happy! The schools will finally be united!" He said as tears flowed down his face. Ranma frowned, grabbed Soun's arm and flipped him over on his back.

"What's going on!? How do you know my father!? What do you mean 'unite the schools'!?" Ranma yelled at the black haired man.

Soun just stared at the ceiling wistfully. "HEY! YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO MY DAD!" Akane yelled at Ranma. Ranma just glared at her and flashed his teeth witch included a set of sharp fangs.

"Stay out of this!"

"Akane! Don't yell at Ranma. He could be your new fiancé!" Akane Ranma and all of the rest spun their attention on Soun abruptly.

"WHAT!" They all yelled simultaneously, except Kasumi who just opted for an "Oh my!" {as if there's any other response.}

"I'm HOOOOME!" Everyone looked over to see a woman with short cropped black hair walk through the door. She was carrying a brief case and a business suit. The woman looked over at all of the people in her house who were looking at her and smiled. "Oh I didn't realize we had guests."

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(Later)

The Tendo family, Donny and Ranma all sat around the table together with the half eaten meal still in front of them. "...and that's how I know your father Ranma." Soun exclaimed with a wide smile. "Now which would you like? My oldest daughter Kasumi. She's nineteen. My middle daughter Nabiki. She's seventeen. Or my youngest daughter Akane. She's sixteen." Ranma and Donny glanced at each other and then looked at Soun confused.

"HUH!?" They both questioned simultaneously.

Soun chuckled at the two boys reactions. "I'm not surprised Genma didn't tell you. He always did have a knack for leaving everything to the last minute. You see, I and your father made a pact when our wives first got pregnant. We vowed to unite the two schools of anything goes martial arts by marrying two of our children. We hadn't specified exactly which children but you were an only child so it's really up to which of my daughters you choose to marry."

Nabiki's eyebrow shot up and she smiled at her father. "Wow Daddy. He's quite the catch." She then looked back at Ranma almost hungrily. "I guess arranged marriages aren't so bad after all."

"Well count me OUT of it!" Akane said as she threw her nose in the air away from Ranma. "I'm not marrying any boy! No matter what!"

""Well he's certainly to young for me." Kasumi said. "I'm already three years older than he is."

"Actually I'm turning eighteen next week." Ranma added. "But what does that have to do with anything?! I don't want to get married!"

"But your father and I made a pact..." Soun protested.

"NO!" Ranma yelled at the man as he stood up from the table. "How do I know your not just making this up?!"

"Ranma." Nabiki began. "My father has been talking nonstop for the last eleven or twelve years about 'his good old friend Genma's son who one of us would one day marry. You really don't think he would say that without it being true, especially for a whole twelve years, now do you?" Ranma reluctantly sat down and tried to figure out a way to defuse this situation without breaking all of their necks, which is how he usually dealt with his people problems.

"Okay so you're probably telling the truth. But I hardly know any of these girls, and I'm way to young to be getting married now. I'm not saying that your daughters aren't attractive or that I won't honor your pact with my deceased father, I'm just saying that I would like to get to know them first and wait till I'm older to get married."

"My that's very mature of you Ranma." Noted Kasumi.

"That sounds reasonable now, doesn't it honey?" Asked Kimiko, Soun's wife.

Soun nodded "That sound's like an excellent idea! We'd be glad to put you up here for as long as you'd like until then. Your absolutely right, this is an important decision and can't just be decided with the flip of a coin."

Ranma nodded and folded his arms across his chest as he smirked. *No problem! Now the only thing I have to worry about is Toru.*

Jut then one of the walls to the Tendo house collapsed inward with a loud crash. Everyone jumped back surprised and a little scared except for Ranma and Donny who were just surprised. The dust and debris settled and everyone just sat there staring. A girl, about 16 or seventeen years old, with Emerald green hair and eyes, wearing a blue Chinese pantsuit with white sandals. She was holding some sort of war club and was smiling.

"Oh My!" Kasumi said.

The girl in the hole in the wall looked around and smiled when she spotted Ranma. "AIREN!" She said as she jumped at Ranma and held him in a bone crushing hug? Ranma was paralyzed by the single word that the girl had said. Donny smirked at Ranma. Nabiki was frowning, Kasumi looked confused, Akane was still upset that the exchange students weren't girls, Soun was furious.

"RANMA! What is the MEANING OF THIS!? WHO IS THIS GIRL!?" Kimiko put her hand on Soun's shoulder to calm him down.

"Soun, Let him explain. I'm sure there is a good explanation for this."

"Actually there is a very good explanation for this." Came a new voice from the hole in the wall. Everyone else in the room all looked towards the new voice. An old lady walked in and sat down at the table. "He is her husband."

"WHAT!!" Screamed everyone in the room, including Ranma and Donny. The old lady then smacked the young girl over the head with a large wooden cane that was about twice as big as she was.

"Speak Japanese girl!"

"Sorry." Dowel said. She then got off of Ranma and sat down beside him still clinging to his arm.

Ranma pointed at the girl and started stuttering. "I...I know...you." Dowel nodded.

"At the bar. You save me and kill all the enemies." Ranma nodded.

"Then you kissed me."

Soun cut them off. His frustration getting the better of him. "Ranma! YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED! THE PACT WAS FOR YOU TO MARRY ONE OF _MY_ DAUGHTERS!!" Ranma looked up at the man and shrugged his shoulders while gesturing at the green haired girl beside him.

"Mr. Tendo I don't even know this girl's name! I never married her! All I did was save her life and then she kissed me! I would have remembered some sort of ceremony!"

Soun was red with anger. "YOU MARRIED A COMPLETE STRANGER!?! OHHH THE SHAME!!" Ranma got angry and furrowed his eyes at the older man.

"WE'RE NOT MARRIED!"

The old woman who came with the girl spoke up again. "Actually you are by our laws."

Ranma directed a glare at that old woman and she could swear she almost saw his eyes flash red. "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE!" the two foot tall, shriveled up, old woman cleared her throat and began.

"First of all, My name is Cologne. I am a Matriarch to a tribe of Chinese amazons near the Biankala Mountain Range. This is one of my great granddaughters Dowel. She is an amazon warrior and wife to this talented young man."

"How the HELL can I be married to someone I've only met once!" Ranma growled at the old woman as he tried to shake off the amorous girl from his arm, with no luck.

Cologne smiled, "Three thousand years of Amazon tradition is how."

"HUH!?" Ranma asked.

"The amazon village has some very strict rules when it comes to marriage. It goes like this: When an outsider female defeats one of the females in our village than she must hunt the outsider down and kill them at all costs. If a male were to defeat one of our females than they must marry." Ranma looked disgusted. He stood up and violently shook the girl off.

"That is the biggest load of HORSESHIT I have EVER HEARD! I am NOT going to just sit here and be dictated as to who I have to marry! I'm out of here!" With that Ranma went up to the room that he was sharing with Donny, grabbed his Trench coat and swords and then jumped out the window into the cool night air.

Cologne nodded and watched as Ranma rushed past the front door and jumped over the outer wall. "That went better than I'd hoped."

"Husband?" Dowel said as she prepared to get up and go after him. Cologne put her withered hand on the girl's shoulder.

"Let the boy vent his frustration, we obviously came at a bad time. This is a delicate person I feel we need to take this slowly." Dowel nodded and then turned around to finally notice the six other occupants in the room staring at her, most with angry looks.

"My poor house!" Kimiko said with tears welling up in her eyes.

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Ranma grumbled as he walked down one of the busier streets of Tokyo. He felt like taking his anger out on a few dozen vampires. He couldn't believe this. He'd just virtually gotten engaged to four girls in one night without doing anything. Ranma sighed and looked towards a newspaper stand that was on the other side of the busy street. Ranma walked across the street, seemingly not paying attention to the cars that swerved passed him on either side. When the boy got to the other side and approached the newsstand the owner of the stand looked a little bewildered and worried.

"Jeeze kid! What are you trying to do? You could have been seriously injured, or even killed." Ranma just picked up a local newspaper and looked at the front page.

"No I couldn't have." He said to the stand owner just as he began to read an intriguing article. *Three newspaper reporters were brutally killed in an abandoned factory just on the outskirts of Tokyo in the Juuban area. This was after several people have reported seeing werewolves and other such beasts int the area. The local newspaper had sent a man to investigate but he never came back, two more were sent to investigate afterwards but they too disappeared. The police were finally contacted and an investigation was underway the next morning. They found the bodies in three different areas of the factory and had deemed that they were done by a large animal, probably a bear, one was reported to have escaped from a zoo earlier in the week. The factory had been deemed off limits to all civilians after three forensic investigators were found torn to shreds after finding a trail into the sewers below.* Ranma had read enough He had found the perfect place to vent his anger and frustration.

He put the paper down on the rack and leapt onto a nearby car, after that he spring boarded onto a low one story building and then gradually leapt from floor to floor and finally to the room he then began running towards Juuban, using the rooftops.

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Ranma walked towards the large factory with caution. He could see that there had been an electric fence erectec around it along with a guard station. Ranma walked directly towards the guard who stopped him from advancing once he caught sight of him. "Excuse me kid but this place is off limits. Your going to have to turn around and head back." Ranma looked the guard over and sneered. He wasn't much. The man was skinny, with short brown hair and light features. He could tell that the man wasn't a fighter from his posture. The most he was capable of was calling in a higher officer. Ranma moved forward and the man backed up and put his hand on his radio.

Ranma smirked and then rushed forward, giving the man a right hook. The man fell to the ground and held his face in pain. Ranma then booted him in the face and the man fell unconscious. Ranma then turned and walked through the guards station. Heading directly towards the factory. "Law enforcement is going down the drain." Ranma noted to himself as he approached the dark, silent structure. Ranma entered through a side entrance figuring that walking through the front door was as good as deliberately stepping in a bear trap.

The factory was dark, machinery looked over him in every direction, windows cast foreboding shadows and Ranma stalked silently through the structure. He unsheathed one of his swords when he heard a small sound off in the distance up ahead. He walked towards where he heard the sound and then came to a door, he opened it up and walked in, keeping low and close to the shadows so that he was harder to detect.

He was in a store room of some sort. Wooden boxes loomed up and towered over him, Ranma heard a slamming sound and looked back behind him to see the door he had entered through had slammed shut. He rushed over and tried to open in but it was locked from the other side.

"You shouldn't have come here." Ranma looked worriedly up at the boxes and in the shadows he could see hundreds of sets of glowing yellow and orange eyes.

"I think I'm in trouble." Ranma said as three were-creatures dropped down in front of him with menacing growls plastered on they're faces. They were' about three or four heads taller than Ranma and were all muscle.

"You have no Idea how much trouble you're in little boy!" One of the larger ones that looked kind of like a panther said as it leapt at Ranma. The boy's instincts kicked in and he stabbed the creature through the heart with his blade after he dodged the strike from the beasts claws. The were-panther's eye's rolled back in his head and his form shifted and turned into that of a regular Japanese male of about thirty years old. Ranma let the corpse drop to the ground and the other were-beasts looked in shocked horror.

Ranma unsheathed his other sword and got into a stance. Just then dozens of were-cats and wolves leapt from the shadows and began attacking the Dhampir boy. Ranma rushed into the fray and began spining around in complicated patterns. His sword sliced through the Lycanthrope like a hot knife through butter. The were-creatures didn't seem to be able to lay a finger on the boy.

Each time one would die by his blade they would revert back to a human form. Ranma saw another door and began to make a run for it, dodging and slicing any and all Lycanthrope that got in his way. *Gotta get out of here! There's too many of them I can't last long if they keep coming like this.* Ranma held a wound that he had acquired from the fight that was bleeding. Apparently one of the quicker of them had cut open his arm.

All of the Were-beasts stopped as did Ranma when a booming voice called out in the room. "STOP! THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR! TOO MANY OF OUR PEOPLE HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN THIS SENSELESS BATTLE!"

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU!" Ranma called out into the darkness. A figure began to walk towards Ranma, all of the other were-beasts moved aside to let the new one through. Ranma gawked. This one was huge. It was at least nine to ten feet tall. His muscles rippled like waved in the ocean as he walked towards him. The hair on this ones body was blue, and a bright white mane covered his head, he wore some sort of armor made mostly of leather and metal shoulder pads.

"I am Jun-zo Tomohiko Yoneue. I am the leader of the Were-race. WE have existed for thousands of years. Relying on our ability to live apart from humanity to survive. Those other reporters were killed merely because they knew too much. If word were to get out that Werewolves an other such creature existed than hunters would surely come after us and kill every single one of us. That is what happened 700 years ago and that is what would happen now." Ranma looked confused.

"What are you talking about? If you revealed yourselves now you'd more likely be treated like celebrities and get movie deals."

The larger lion like lycanthrope smirked. "In the eyes of one we may not be all evil but in the eyes of society we are a threat to humanity."

Ranma shrugged and sheathed his sword. "Fine! I'll leave you alone. I was just looking for some evil to kill. I read it in a newspaper and I figured that I could just go do that." Ranma then turned around to leave through the door he was originally heading towards.

"WAIT!" called Jun-zo. "You may leave on one condition."

Ranma turned and looked at the large lycanthrope quizzically. "And what is that?"

The large beast got into a fighting stance of it's own. "If you can defeat me. You may leave and we will publically reveal ourselves."

"And if I lose?"

"Than you will be turned into a Lycanthrope yourself and must give up your life and live with us in secret."

Ranma smirked and got into a ready martial arts stance, sans swords. "Your pretty confidant that you can win. I accept your challenge."

The large were-lion smirked and ran towards Ranma, "I wasn't giving you a choice boy!" Ranma ducked as Jun-zo's left fist swung at him. Jun-zo followed through with another swing with his right but Ranma spun inside the overgrown man-lion's defenses and then kicked the creature in the head twice as hard as he could.

Jun-zo stumbled back and rubbed his jaw in pain. "This is impossible! No ordinary human could land such blows on me and cause so much pain!"

"Your catching on." Ranma noted.

Jun-zo leapt towards the teenage vampire hunter with a furious snarl. Ranma had anticipated this and the Saotome school of martial arts was an aerial combat style. Ranma leapt at the blue lion man who didn't expect Ranma to react so fast or to meet him in mid air. Ranma reigned dozens of punches and kicks to the Were-creature's torso and head and Jun-zo came crashing down to the ground. Ranma landed lightly and got into a defensive stance.

Jun-zo winced. His face ached. Ranma's punches were damn near super human. "What the hell are you?" The Blue furred lord of were-beasts asked. Ranma smirked. "Wouldn't you like to know?"

Jun-zo stood up and smiled at the boy. "I'm not a mindless monster young man. Contrary to what you might think I can see when I'm beaten. I accept defeat and will honor my agreement."

Ranma shrugged his shoulders as he let his guard down. "It wasn't my idea. It doesn't matter at all to me whether you revealed yourself to the public. You don't have to. I'll keep your secret."

Jun-zo put up a large furred hand to stop Ranma. "I've made my conditions. I will live by them. The press have been very nosy and it is only a matter of time before we are revealed. I would rather we come out and live with the community than hide from them and kill them when they try to expose us."

Ranma nodded and turned towards the door. "Well I'm sorry that I jumped to conclusions. I hope you and your people can find happiness in coexistence. It kind of shocked me a little that were-wolves even existed. I was just trying to find something to occupy my mind with. I just got engaged to four women an hour or two ago. I was a little stressed out."

With that said Ranma turned and exited out the door.

One of the many were creatures, a were-tiger, looked up at Jun-zo. "FOUR fiances?"

Jun-zo just stared at the door that the Saotome Blade exited and had a shocked kind of bewildered look on his face. "That kid leads one HELL of a messed up life." Most of the were-creatures in the large room nodded in agreement.

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Ranma yawned as he walked towards the Tendo house. He had been walking for the last hour and a half and it was getting late. It had been at least three to four hours since he had left the Tendo dojo to go hunting. He opened up the front gate to the Tendo yard he then took out a key from his pocket that Nabiki had given him. He unlocked the front door and headed up to his and Donny's room after slipping off his shoes.

He yawned as he took off his trench coat and threw it in the corner of the room. He leaned his swords up in one corner of the room and then lay down on the futon. His eyes flared open when he sensed movement on the other side of the room. Just then out of the darkness a brown furred claw came crashing down towards the pony tailed boy. Ranma rolled out of the way but his fatigue got the better of him and he didn't catch the second claw coming at him from the other side.

The nails of the claws dug deep into the flesh on his arms. And he screamed in pain. He looked up at his attacker and sure enough it was a were-creature of the wolf type. "What the HELL do you want!?" Ranma asked through gritted teeth as he glared up at his assailant.

The wolf man stared at Ranma murderously. "I want your life BOY! Because you've just ruined mine." Ranma winced and gave a whimper of pain as the Werewolf dug it's claws in deeper.

"What the, Hugh!, Hell are you talking ...about?"

The wolf growled and then began explaining. "I had everything. I had power. I was a force to be reckoned with by the common man after I had been turned into a werewolf! I had to live apart from society killing anyone who got too much information about my new race! I ENJOYED killing those people! It was INVIGORATING and I couldn't get enough! I gave the newspapers and news people tips as to where there might be werewolves, then I killed them! I did it every chance I got and got away with it every time!" The wolf then leaned in closer to Ranma and breathed on his face. Ranma turned his head away to get away from the smell. The wolf continued. "Now we have to live WITH humanity! Now if I kill I can't get away with it. And it's all YOUR FAULT!"

The werewolf then lifted one of his claws up above his head and prepared to give the death blow. It stopped when he heard the door to the room they were in open. A sleepy Kasumi walked into the room, yawning and rubbing her eyes. "Ranma? What's going on in here? What's all this noise?" The wolf smiled down at Ranma evilly and Ranma got a horrified look on his face.

"No." Ranma whispered before the Werewolf jumped off of him and leapt towards Kasumi.

All of a sudden Kasumi was violently shoved forward. She couldn't see her attacker and struggled to get out of the iron hold that he had on her. All of sudden she screamed as loud as she could as the werewolf bit down on her right shoulder. The wolf man's maw was large and engulfed a good portion of her chest and back.

Nabiki awoke with a start when she heard the scream. She threw on a robe that she had lying next to her bed and threw open the door to see what was going on. She recognized the scream as Kasumi's and covered her mouth in worry. She saw Akane open the door to her room and exit out into the hall. She had an equally worried expression on her face and was obviously awakened by the scream as well. They ran towards Ranma's room which was where the scream had come from.

Back in Ranma's Room. Ranma ran to the corner and grabbed his swords. He unsheathed both of them and ran towards the werewolf that had just dropped a bleeding Kasumi to the ground. Ranma jumped at the wolf but was blinded by his rage and was swatted away like an annoying fly. He impacted the wall like a wrecking ball and fell to the ground like a ton of bricks. The wolf then jumped towards Ranma but the boy put his feet up to the wolves chest and shoved him across the room. "You sick son of a BITCH!" Ranma growled as his eyes glowed red and he ran towards the wolf again.

The wolf was a little disoriented from the kick he had received from Ranma and wasn't expecting another attack so soon. Ranma's blades both came down towards the wolf but it dodged. The attack wasn't all unsuccessful and it cut off the werewolves left arm. The wolf gave an inhuman cry of pain and rage and attacked Ranma with a swing of his remaining arm. Ranma dodged that as well as a few kicks and then rushed forward when he saw an opening. His blades stabbed forward and plunged deep into the chest of the beast.

The wolf looked down at the blades protruding from his chest and then fell to the ground reverting back into it's original human form as it died.

Nabiki and Akane stopped running when they heard an animalistic cry coming from Ranma's room. The two girls slowed down to a silent walk. Akane gasped when she saw a foot sticking out of Ranma's room. A slipper lay close by the foot and Akane recognized it as Kasumi's slipper. Akane ran towards the room at full speed. Nabiki tried to stop her but Akane had already made it to the room by the time she had gotten the chance. Nabiki ran towards her younger sister when she heard her scream.

Ranma was sitting in the door way cradling Kasumi in his arms she was bleeding profusely from many wounds across hr chest and back and her clothes were torn to shreds. Blood soaked the ground and Kasumi was coughing up blood as she desperately tried to breath. There was another man in the room and he had two swords protruding from the center of his chest. The man had brown hair and was muscular, and obviously dead.

Ranma looked up at the two girls with worried eyes. "CALL A DOCTOR!" He screamed at the two of them. Nabiki nodded and rushed downstairs to call doctor Tofu. Akane knelt down and began crying as she stroked her eldest sister's cheek. Just then Soun Tendo and his wife Kimiko ran upstairs and beheld the sight in front of them.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Screamed Mrs Tendo at the sight of her first child dying.

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Author's notes: {WHOOO! Bet nobody expected something like this to happen when I started writing this story. Lets recap for a moment. Ranma just uncovered a secret society of were-creatures, Kimiko Tendo is still alive, Kasumi was just bitten by a werewolf. What could I possibly screw up next on this story? How about uncovering Ranma's past and why he's half vampire? Oh you know you want it. And all will be revealed in Saotome Blade chapter six, Showdown! This was a fairly long chapter to Saotome Blade and I'm just getting started. I'm hoping to finish this story by January. I'm finally getting some good ideas concerning this. As for my other stories. I probably won't even work on them at all until I've finished this one. I don't want to be like animeaddiction and start story after story nd never get anything finished. I'll be mostly working on one thing at a time from now on. Doing three or four chapters before moving on to another story. I've always had the biggest plans for Saotome Blade and it's the first fic that I started so I thought it would only be natural to finish this one first.

Adamantium Rage also has big plans and it's got a cool finally also. I just got to get past all the stuff in-between. It's gonna be a pretty long story. I'm having lot's of fun screwing up the Ranma 1/2 universe. It's a great pastime. I've also started a band recently. I'm the drummer and the lyricist. I do most of the work and I keep the band from falling apart. We're called Filling the Void. That's not really important right now though. Once I finish this story I'll be moving on to Adamantium Rage.}

That's all from my big mouth and crooked imagination.

Syonara

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