Title: Love For All Time	Part 13

Author: Jade Hunter

A.N: It seems my streak of writing luck has run it's course.  Now, it's
       back to short chapters.  Darn.

Disclaimer: The standard disclaimer is on parts 1, 4, 8, and 12.

"talking"
**thoughts**
_emphasis_
<<telepathy>>
////memories////

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	"When can we go see them again?"

	::sigh::  "When _he_ tells us that we can."

	"Oh."  ::sigh::  "Why not now?"

	"Because _he_ hasn't told us to yet."

	"I wonder when _he_ will tell us."

	"As soon as possible, would be my guess."

	"Yeah, _he_ knows how much this will mean."

	"And that's why we have to wait."

	"For them to get their memories."

	"Yeah, we don't want them to kill us."

	Silence reigned, the quiet echoing in the large penthouse they were in.

	"When can we go see them again?"

	::sigh::  

	"Arrgghh!"

*****

	Ryuujin sighed as he lounged in the Hikawa Jinja with the others,
waiting for the really important memories to surface.  The Inner and Outer Senshi,
excluding Hotaru and Setsuna, were all milling about, eating Rei's Grandpa's muffins
and drinking their tea, waiting for the memories.  Hotaru was quietly sitting in a
corner, talking with the two Mau advisors.

	Ryuujin shuddered.

	Setsuna, who was leaning against his back, noticed, and settled back down
more comfortably.

	<<What's wrong?>> he heard her send.

	He tried to lie through their bond, <<Nothing.>>

	Amusement and a slight hint of hurt came through, along with, <<We have
a bond that cannot be controlled, not all of it.  You can block out my thoughts, I can
block out your thoughts, if we wanted to.  But no matter how much you try, or how
much I try, we cannot block feelings, you know that!>>

	<<I know,>> Ryuujin sighed.  <<I just.....it's silly.>>

	<<Tell me and let _me_ decide if it's silly or not,>> Setsuna demanded a
bit crossly.

	He sighed again, loudly this time, and then admitted reluctantly, <<It's Luna
and Artemis.>>

	<<What about them?  They remember you now,>> Setsuna wondered.

	<<I...>> Ryuujin hesitated for a moment and then began again, <<In this life,
the one where I was born to Genma and Nodoka Saotome, I went through a lot of
things.  Trouble, mostly.>>

	<<And?>> Setsuna urged, knowing this was major.

	<<It was mostly because of Genma, my _father_,>> Ryuujin scowled.  <<He
was a lazy panda.  Literally.>>

	Setsuna raised an eyebrow at that, fixing her blank eyes at the wall so that
the other Senshi didn't think her weird, <<Literally?>>

	Ryuujin turned his head to the entrance of the shrine for the same reason
as Setsuna, <<Yeah.  Anyways, when I was six, he got a hold of this Martial Arts
training manual for an ultimate technique.  If learned, the technique would render
the trainee with super speed, super agility, and would be, for the most part, invincible.>>

	Setsuna, sensing that it was a touchy subject, kept quiet as Ryuujin gathered
his thoughts.

	<<He didn't read the warning that said that the trainee could suffer severe
mental trauma.  The technique was called the Neko-ken - the Cat-fist.  So, he did to
me what the handbook said to do.  He wrapped me from head to toe in fish sausages
and threw me into a pit of starving cats.>>

	<<What?!>> Setsuna asked, astonished and angry.

	Ryuujin winced as he relived that memory, <<Yeah.  And when I didn't learn
the technique, he did it again and again with various foods: fish cakes, sardines, half
salmons, full salmons, cat food, fish paste.......and so on.  Eventually, I snapped.  It
turned out that the only way for the trainee to leard the technique was to snap.  I started
acting like a cat, meowing and hissing and everything, except that my speed was increased,
my agility was increased, and I could shred a steel bar with my bare hands, or, as my
cat-side thought, claws.  Most trainees are that way forever.  I was lucky.  An old lady
found me, and she calmned me down enough for me to fall asleep in her lap, and when
I woke up, I was normal again.  For the most part.  Ever since then I've had an irrational
fear of cats.  And once that fear overwhelmed me, I went into the Neko-ken.  When I
recieved my past memories, I wasn't so sure if I was still able to be induced into the
Neko-ken.  I'm not that terrified anymore, but seeing Luna and Artemis like that..... it
still kind of makes me uncomfortable around them, like I don't trust them because 
they're cats.>>

	Setsuna was sending out waves of pure fury, making Ryuujin wince again
and stirring up his own anger as well.  She was sitting ridgedly, and was no longer
staring at the wall.  Her eyes were glowing with her power, focused on nothing, and her
hair was starting to lift up from her Plutonian aura.  Usagi was terrified, and was 
slowly inching to the wall.  Rei, Minako, and Makoto were all 'one with the wall', sticking
to it like glue.  Ami was frozen in disbelief, her jaw working, but no sound coming out.
Mamoru was trying to be unnoticed as he slowly crept into a corner.  Michieru and
Haruka were both gaping at the normally unemotional Senshi of Time.  Hotaru was
concerned mostly, but was nervous as well.  Luna and Artemis were cowering in
Hotaru's lap.

	"HOW DARE HE?" Setsuna screamed.  "I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!  I'LL..I'LL
EVICERTATE HIM!  I WILL......"

	The Ptutonian Princess began to curse Genma in every language she knew,
which was quite a lot.  She then switched back to Japanese, and began to, in exact
detail, describe what she would do to Genma.  By the end, Ryuujin was feeling sympathy
for Genma, the Inners were trying to keep from throwing up, and the Outers were all
terrified.  

	And impressed.

	Well, _Haruka_ was impressed.

	They were confused, until Setsuna, with permission, described what had
happened to Ryuujin when he was Ranma.  Then, Luna and Artemis were ready to
join Setsuna, Makoto and Haruka were wanting a piece of him also, Rei was thinking
about ways to torture a man without getting arested, Michieru was wondering if
'accidentally' locking Genma up in chains with cement and throwing him out into
sea was legal, Usagi and Mamoru were boiling with fury, especially Mamoru who
had suddenly decided being an orphan wasn't the worst way to grow up, Hotaru was
quiet, but her eyes had gone hard, like when she was Saturn, and Ami, dear sweet
Ami, was listening to all the plans to kill Genma and was offering sugestions on how
to make the torture more painful, and that she could, in a jiffy, call up someone who
knew how to get rid of a body with no questions asked.

	Suffice to say, Genma Saotome was not feeling well at all in Nermia; for
some reason, multiple chills had gone up his spine, several sneezes had shook his
form, and his danger sense was blaring overtime.

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To be continued in Part 14.

~~~~~Jade Hunter~~~~~