Seeing their youngest members walking in with a very cute boy between them caught the attention of everybody in the room. The young was around thirteen and had the darkest blue eyes. His hair, which was black with blue highlights framed his boyishly cute face. His body also looked to be as firm as marble. He was cute, but with one close look you could tell who his father was.
“Okay, from the memories I got from Ami and knowing who exactly Usa there is and where she comes from, and with the way fate loves to toy with me, I'd say that you're probably my son from the future, right?,” Ranma sighed. He would be shocked if this wasn’t so tame in comparison to what he was used to encountering nearly every day.
“Wow, Otou-san. Mama was right! You were pretty much jaded to the paranormal when you two met,” the future Mizuno answered.
“Son, if your life is anything like mine, you get used to it after a couple years,” Ranma as usual, was taking a situation and adapting quickly to it.
“Umm... excuse me, but could you tell us who exactly who you are?,” Usagi was curious why her soon to be daughter and Hotaru snuggling up to this boy.
“Oh, sorry. I am Tenma Mizuno-Kino, the son of Ranma and Ami Mizuno-Kino. It's a pleasure to meet ya, your majesty,” the son of the pigtailed warrior seems to have mixture of proper etiquette and a little roughness around the edges, apparently another trait he got from his dad.
Makato was confused when she heard Tenma’s last name “Why are my family name and Ami's mixed together? Shouldn’t it be just Mizuno?”
“Well the easiest way to say this is that Papa took Mama's name and yours cause he wanted nothing to do with Grandpa and he wanted me and my siblings to think each of other as full blooded brothers and sisters. Despite being from two different mothers, we were still one big family." Tenma said.
“You mean me and Ranma break up?!!” Ami was scared, since she couldn’t imagine wanting to get a divorce from Ranma, let alone losing him to Makoto. She turned to glare at the one who might be responsible for her future divorce.
“How could steal your best friends husband Mako-chan?,” Usagi was tearing up, thinking that this was going to tear the team apart. Makoto was shaking her head, denying that she would do anything like that.
“But she didn’t. Mama said that mother Makoto was her best friend, and she didn’t want her to be alone so she talked Papa into marrying both of them,” Tenma trying defuse the up-roar but made it worse by mistake.
“Yeah, that sounds about right,” Ranma was taking this for what it was, chaos, pure and simple. Though maybe he should show Tenma to his mother, knowing his mom, she would be screaming about him being manly in a heartbeat and maybe finally getting rid of the stupid seppuku pledge.
By this point, Ami was traumatized, shocked was still as a rock, but Makoto wasn’t, and grabbed her friend into a bear hug.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you, you're the best friend that a girl could ask for,” Makoto was beside herself with glee while the others were again sending random comments.
“Hey Ami, is there room enough for one more?”, Minako wouldn’t mind sharing at all, especially with this hunk. Who knows it could be fun?
Ami at this point gave her a glare that was cold as her powers.
“Don’t push it, Minako. I’m not in the mood!,” Ami shouted. There were times to be cool, calm, and collected, but this sure as hell wasn’t one of them.
Rei, trying to keep her wits about her, tried to move on to another subject, “So Usa, why are you holding onto Tenma so tightly?”
“He’s my boyfriend,” Tenma just blushed and rubbed the back of his head. “I don’t care Rikku says.”
“What? You mean Chiba Usa gets a boyfriend before me?” Minako started tearing her hair out.
At this point any chance for calm conversation was gone, so Ranma, with the help of Ami, answered as many questions as they could. By the end of the frantic conversation, it was decided that Ranma would start training them as soon as the weekend.
Artemis, wanting to see if he was a real knight of the silver millennium, did his little back-flip and out came a set of golden bracers that had the all seeing eye on it, which was the symbol of the sun. “I don’t believe it. Only someone with a pure heart and great warrior skills is ever given the powers of the Sun,” Artemis commented, while thinking that Luna was almost certainly going to flip when she heard about this. For some reason, she a lot more paranoid than usual and this wasn’t going to help matters. But there was something about this guy, he seems so trustworthy and not to mention his smell sort of reminded Artemis of one of his own.
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“Papa, why are we going to Grandma Nodoka’s?,” Tenma was walking next to his father, who seemed to be taking this too well.
“It's like this, my life has so many strange things happening that my mom will accept them. And protect you from some crazy rivals of mine.” The one thing the pigtailed boy promised himself was that he would never be like his father. So making sure that his son was protected was a priority. The lard-ass always put his own interest before Ranma’s, even if it meant that he was beaten half to death. Tenma was not going to be treated like that. The pigtailed fighter was determined to be the best father he could be.
“Hey I don’t need to be baby-sat, I’m thirteen, I can take care of myself,” Tenma blustered up.
Ranma just turned toward his son, grinned and ruffled up the kid's hair. “Oh yeah you are definitely my kid. Come on, your grandma is going to love you,” Ranma laughed as they both jumped off the fence that was in front of the new Saotome household.
It was nearly an hour later that Nodoka was trying to control herself seeing her son transform into and out of his knight form and explaining everything what happened.
“Tenma,” Nodoka asked in her calm state.
“Yes obaba,” Tenma didn’t know why his grandmother smiled at him like that but it crept him out.
“How many brothers and sisters do you have?” Nodoka eagerly waited for the answer to this question.
“Mama has 4, including me, mother Makoto has five, so I say about nine,” Tenma does not know what his innocent words unleashed.
Ranma put wadded up cotton balls into his ears, then did the same to his son, who was confused by this action. That was until his grandmother showed her reaction to the fact he had so many brothers and sisters. “My son's so manly!!!!,” From the house, Nodoka’s cry of joy was an ear-piercing scream of glee that hurt the neighbors ears.
After taking out the cotton balls out his son ears as well his own. Ranma calmed down the Saotome matriarch from her patented fan dance, then started discussing some pressing matters.
“So mom, I know you wanted for me to marry Akane, but I love somebody else. And no offense, but I wouldn’t leave a baby in Akane’s care. It'll die one day one unless she fixes that temper of hers,” Ranma held no illusions of Akane’s temper.
“Ranma, sweetie, of course I support your marriage to both girls!,” Nodoka was no fool, she knew that things were bad between the youngest Tendo and her son, but she thought she could move the engagement onto another daughter if it became too bad.
“I kinda figured you would, but I need you to keep pop and Mister Tendo under control,” the new knight was glad, to say the least. With his mom's support, he figured he had all the backup he needed. Nabiki was on his side, so no problems there, except that she said he had to do one more thing to be out of her debt.
“Understood,” Nodoka threw the seppuku pledge into the air and with quick display of swordplay cut it into confetti. As she slid her sword into her sheath, both father and son applauded.
“Obaba, since you're not busy, you think you could teach the Dragon's Talon school?, Back home, you're fighting alien armadas that attack any ally of ours,” Tenma look hopeful at a chance to continue his sword lessons.
“As soon as I see your father's progress with his lessons from the scrolls I gave him,” Nodoka wore a warm smile that could melt butter. The thought of teaching her grandson her family art almost had tears coming out of her eyes.
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