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Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh! or Ranma 1/2. Those belong to Kazuki Takahashi and Rumiko Takahashi respectively. This is a product of my warped mind wanting to cross EVERYTHING over with Ranma 1/2 and actually writing it down this time. Of course, this is just for FUN and I'm not making any money out of this, so please do not sue me.

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Katsuya Jonouchi was numb. His world was grey and it felt like he was walking inside a bubble, cut off from the rest of the world. The utter pain he had experienced when he'd felt his soul mate, Seto Kaiba, die had been crippling, like his soul had literally been ripped in two, which in a sense it had been. It had made the permanent ache caused by Kaiba's utter rejection feel like a gnat bite in comparison, but after the initial realisation a sense of numbness had set in. The only thing he could feel now was something pulling at him, urging him onwards towards the spot where his soul mate had perished. He wondered if he would die when he reached that spot, but if it meant that he could follow Kaiba into the afterlife then that would be fine with him.

Absently he noted that his friends were staying with him, but even their upset and concern could not penetrate the foggy bubble that surrounded his mind and no matter how much it would hurt them, he knew that he could not stay in this world without his soul mate.

As he crested the rise that led to the valley of Jusenkyo, he saw the remains of Kaiba's chopper for the first time but he did not approach it, knowing in his soul that Seto had not died there. Instead he began to trot towards the pools that covered the base of the valley, hearing his friends frantically calling after him, but paying them no heed. However, as he finally approached the pool that Seto had clearly drowned in, a loud cry from Anzu finally broke through the fog and he stopped to turn towards her with a surprised and pained look on his face. As relieved looks covered their faces, the edge of the pool gave way and he could not, would not stop himself from falling in.

As soon as he hit the water, Katsuya Jonouchi knew no more.

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"Jou!" Honda yelled as Jou sank beneath the water and, contrary to Yami's instructions, began running towards the pools, quickly followed by a panicked Otogi and Anzu.

Yami, who had stopped a little way away from the pools, simply held out an arm to stop them as they reached him. "It is not safe to go any closer. You should not even have come this close."

"But Yami," Honda yelled, "What about Jou? He hasn't come up yet and I can't just let him drown!"

"Honda! You must not go any closer," Yami snapped in a commanding tone of voice that left no room for questioning, "There is something strange going on. I… believe that he will be alright, but…"

"What is it Yami?" Anzu prompted shakily, wiping at her eyes as the spirit tailed off.

"I… feel the presence of my cousin once again," he replied. "I feel Jonouchi too, but his presence is somewhat muted."

"You can feel Kaiba's presence?" Honda was incredulous.

Otogi added to that thought, "But I thought you said he was dead?"

"I did. His light was gone from this world," Yami mused. But before he could say anything else the spring in front of them, the one that Jonouchi had fallen into, erupted and a bedraggled Seto Kaiba climbed out, wearing Jonouchi's clothes.

As the group stood there in mute shock, mouths hanging open, Kaiba started speaking. "What the hell is going on?" He paused for a moment as he took in his attire, "and why am I wearing the mutt's poor excuse for clothing?"

"I… have no idea," Yami said, for once completely stumped. The rest of the group looked just as dumbfounded. "All we know is that Jonouchi fell into that pool and you climbed out in his place."

Kaiba looked sceptical at this, but he didn't have a chance to answer as a portly Chinese man puffed up to them. "I believe I can explain," he said breathlessly.

"Please do," Kaiba said coldly as he crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes, his change of attire not lessening the impact of his presence in the slightest.

"These cursed springs of Jusenkyo," the strange man explained. "Very bad fall in spring. Whoever fall in spring cursed to take form of whatever drowned there last."

The group of friends looked stricken. Did this mean that Jou was gone forever?

"Oh tell me another one," Kaiba scoffed, cutting through the despair that the rest of the group was feeling, thinking that they would probably never see Jonouchi again. "You can't really expect me to believe that, can you?"

"Well, it would explain what just happened," Anzu observed with a sniff. The rest of the group murmured agreement.

"What? You are taking this charlatan seriously?" Kaiba said with derision, "but then I shouldn't expect any less from you losers."

"Honoured customer," The Guide brought the group's attention back onto him, "I am Jusenkyo Guide. Not charlatan. When fall in spring take new form. Hot water return to normal until hit with cold water again. There things you need to know..."

"Forget it, I don't have time to listen to this mumbo-jumbo," Kaiba cut him off as he turned to walk towards the wreckage of his helicopter. However, Honda, upon hearing the Guide's explanation, got his Thermos flask out of his backpack and proceeded to throw hot water over the tall brunet. He prayed that what the Guide had said was correct or he was about to find himself face to face with one pissed off CEO.

He breathed a sigh of relief, even as the rest of the group gasped in shock as Seto Kaiba became Katsuya Jonouchi.

"Wha…? What the hell?" Jou said in shock. "Where the hell am I and why am I soaking wet?"

"Oh god Jou, you're alright!" Anzu exclaimed as she threw herself onto the damp teen, the rest of the group following suit.

"Dammit Jou, don't scare us like that again!" Honda exclaimed.

"What are you on about?" Jou asked in confusion, "I remember that we were walking along then…" He caught sight of Kaiba's crashed helicopter. "Holy crap!" He took in the sight of the helicopter with some detachment, wondering why he wasn't feeling the crippling pain that he'd experienced earlier. Before he could contemplate on it too much, Yugi called his attention away.

"Jou, we need to explain something to you," the smaller teen began carefully, Yami having relinquished control back to Yugi once the Guide had appeared.

"What, that Kaiba is dead?" Jou asked sadly, "I don't need you to tell me that Yug'."

"Well, yes he did die, but…" Yugi wasn't really sure how to explain.

"Spit it out Yug'," Jou said, "Whatever it is it can't be any worse than Kaiba being dead."

Honda spoke up as Yugi struggled to find the words, "I don't know about that Jou, and what I'm about to say is going to sound insane. You fell into that pool over there, right? But you didn't climb out. Kaiba did."

"What? That doesn't make any sense," Jou exclaimed in confusion.

"Excuse me sirs," the Guide intruded into the discussion, "Which spring you say he fell in again?" The group pointed at the relevant pool of water and the Guide shook his head. "Very strange. That spring not supposed to do that," he muttered as he wandered off towards a small wooden cabin situated at the edge of the valley.

"Would someone please explain to me just what the hell is going on?" Jou asked with some exasperation.

"The springs are cursed, apparently," Otogi said. "Whoever falls in will take the form of whatever drowned there last."

"So what you are telling me is that Kaiba drowned in that pool? And I fell in and turned into him?" Jou's eyebrows were attempting to climb into his hairline as he tried to make sense of what he was being told.

"Yeah, that's about the size of it," Otogi confirmed. "Being splashed with cold water will activate the curse, making you turn into Kaiba, but hot water will reverse it."

Jou thought about this for a few seconds as his brain analysed the new information. Eventually he came to a conclusion. "Shit, this is bad."

The Guide returned. He was holding a small white mouse in his hand. "You sure he fall in this pool?" he asked.

"Yes, it was definitely that one." Yugi confirmed confidently.

The Guide nodded and dropped the mouse into the pool. A few moments later, a medium sized brown dog climbed out.

"What the fuck?" Jou exclaimed. This sentiment was echoed by both Honda and Otogi.

"Very very strange," the Guide said worriedly. "That one is spring of drowned dog, not spring of drowned arrogant teenager."

Honda snickered at the description the Guide gave to Kaiba. He thought it was very apt, but he brought himself under control quickly as Jou gave him a sharp look.

"What do you mean?" Yugi asked the Guide.

"Every spring have specific curse," the Guide explained. "That one your friend fall in is spring of drowned dog." He gestured to a different pool, "That one spring of drowned cat, that one spring of drowned panda. I never hear of spring that change curse like that in all recorded history of Jusenkyo. That it was one time thing only make it even more strange."

"Hmm… I wonder if that might have had something to do with the shadow magic that Yami sensed," Yugi muttered to himself.

"What was that young sir?" The Guide asked.

"Oh, nothing important," Yugi said quickly. He had the gut feeling, and so did Yami, that mentioning shadow magic around these parts might not be the best idea.

"Hey you, Guide person," Jou brought the Guide's attention away from Yugi. "Tell me more about the curses, like, why is that dog acting weird like that?" Jou had noticed that the dog that had come from the spring was still very much acting like a mouse and this had him intrigued.

"Yes honoured customer," The Guide said. "When fall in spring is normal to take body of what drowned there. Personality usually remain intact so someone cursed to be an animal would still retain their knowledge and personality. There are a few personality changing springs, but they are rare. These don't change body, but mind becomes a completely different person. I have never seen such complete transformation of body and mind. I don't understand how spring behave so…"

"Is there a cure?" Anzu asked, interrupting the Guide's rambling.

"Sorry. No known cure for Jusenkyo curse. Many have tried and failed to cure."

Jou sighed. "Well, I guess that's it then. My life is officially over. It might have been better if I had died in that pool."

"Don't be like that, Jou" Honda said, putting a sympathetic hand on his friend's shoulder. "You are still here and Kaiba can't be in control all the time…"

"Come off it Honda," Jou said in a defeated voice. "You know as well as I do what Kaiba can be like. To start with he'll write it off as some kind of joke or fantasy. If you do get through to him; especially if you can get through to him, I'm stuffed."

"Jou?" Anzu prompted as the blond hung his head.

"Come on Anzu," Jou said with some exasperation. "Just how much easier is it to get splashed by cold water than hot? One small rain shower and POOF, I'm gone again. I'll probably never be out."

"We can try to talk to him if you like," Yugi offered.

"He won't listen," Jou said simply.

"It can't hurt to try," Anzu said encouragingly.

Jou thought about it for a few moments. "OK, I guess it's worth a go. It's not like I have anything to lose and he's not going to be leaving here any time soon…"

"Alright then," Otogi reached into his bag and pulled out a bottle of water. "You ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be," Jou replied. "I think it's more a question of are you ready? You are the ones that will have to deal with Kaiba after all."

"I guess we'll just have to wing it," Otogi replied with a small smile. "Brace yourself." With that he threw cold water over Jonouchi. The group gasped again as Jou became Kaiba. "I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing that," Otogi muttered.

"What the hell is going on?" Kaiba snarled at the group.

"Jou warned us that you would be like this," Honda said. "He wanted us to talk to you. He's worried that you are just going to take over and we'll never see him again."

"Are you still going on about that?" Kaiba said in an annoyed tone. "Curses and magic do not exist so you can stop playing your little prank now. You better get the mutt out here with my clothes and if he's shed on them I'll kill him!" He stalked off towards the smouldering wreckage of his chopper without waiting for anyone to reply.

"Is honoured customer usually so hard headed?" the Guide murmured to Anzu.

"Oh, he's usually much, much worse," Anzu said with a smile on her face, "Why, he's practically being friendly." The Guide looked at her quizzically, obviously missing the sarcasm inherent in her voice.

"I heard that," Kaiba shot back towards her as he continued to walk away. "I knew I shouldn't have come on this waste of a trip," he muttered as he went.

"Well, we knew he was going to be like this," Yugi sighed, "maybe he'll listen to us later on."

"He'll have no choice but to accept it eventually," Anzu said in an attempt to to reassure, "and he'll have to change back into Jou at least occasionally. After all, he has to bathe sometime."

"Yeah, and as soon as he realises that we have been telling the truth about the curse he'll start taking cold showers. I can just see that," Honda said with disgust.

"Won't be that easy," the Guide interjected. "There a lot to know about Jusenkyo curses. Not least of which is to become water magnet. Spend too long in either form and water find you. Cold water more common as you say, but can happen with hot too."

As Kaiba finally moved away from the mangled wreck, having managed to retrieve his seemingly indestructible briefcase, the sound of another helicopter approaching made the group look up in shock. Kaiba also took notice of this and took off at a trot for the top of the rise that separated the valleys.

"Kaiba wait!" Yugi called even as Honda took off at a run, flask already in hand. However, Kaiba had quite a head start and there was no way that Honda would make it in time to stop the CEO from boarding the approaching aircraft. As he realised that he would not make it, he took the last ditch attempt at throwing the water at Kaiba, even though he knew that it would fall woefully short.

Kaiba gave Honda a derisory look and grabbed the ladder that was dangling down from overhead, throwing his briefcase up to the opening where Mokuba caught it. Honda, seeing Mokuba's face peering out of the door above Kaiba, shouted as loudly as he could, "Don't go Mokuba! It's important!"

"Don't listen to that fin head," Kaiba commanded as he reached the passenger compartment. "Let's get out of this God forsaken place."

As soon as the helicopter door was shut and Seto Kaiba was safely inside, he found himself with a lap full of distraught brother.

"Oh Seto, thank goodness that you are alright!" The black haired boy cried into Seto's already damp chest. "When the distress beacon activated on your helicopter and we couldn't contact you, we all suspected the worst."

An uncharacteristically soft expression came over Seto's face as he held the boy close to him as he attempted to give comfort. "It's OK Mokie, I'm fine." He resolutely pushed away the images of drowning that flashed through his mind, keeping them at bay by concentrating on reassuring his brother.

After a few more minutes, Mokuba pulled away and looked at Seto with a quizzical stare. "Seto, why are you all damp and what are you wearing?" Mokuba cocked his head as he looked at Seto's attire. "That looks like something Jonouchi would wear. What is going on?"

"It's nothing Mokuba," Seto replied, some irritation seeping into his voice. "The geek squad seem to be playing some kind of prank on me. They'll regret it later, I assure you."

"What kind of a prank ends up with you being all wet and wearing Jonouchi's clothes?" Mokuba was genuinely curious.

"I have no idea and to be honest I don't really care," Kaiba replied, "but I will be glad to get home so that I can get out of these… rags." He finished the sentence with a contemptuous sneer.

"OK, big brother," Mokuba said as he decided to drop the subject for now. He couldn't help but to look sceptically at Seto. He suspected that his brother knew more about the so called prank than he was letting on. Not that it was anything new for Seto to keep things that he thought Mokuba didn't need to know from him, but he had a bad feeling about this one. He tried to put it out of his mind as he settled in next to his brother for the flight home.

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Back at Jusenkyo, Yugi and the others looked on in despair as the helicopter that had picked Kaiba up gained altitude then flew out of sight. Honda slowly made his way back looking despondent. "Sorry Yugi, I just wasn't quick enough."

"That's OK Honda, don't blame yourself. I don't think any of us were expecting for Kaiba to be picked up so soon." Yugi tried to reassure the taller boy.

They spent the last of the afternoon discussing the effects of Jusenkyo with the Guide. They went over several topics including the temperature of the water needed to effect the change and other cursed individuals in Japan. Anzu brought up the issue of the difference in sizes between Jonouchi and Kaiba, and that Jou's clothes should not have fitted Kaiba as well as they had seemed to. The Guide had simply shrugged and put it down to Jusenkyo's magic.

Soon it was getting towards evening time, so they said their thank yous and goodbyes to the Jusenkyo Guide as he gave them the addresses of people experienced with Jusenkyo that lived in Japan. The group resolved to visit them as soon as they got back home in the hope that they could help Jonouchi and Kaiba somehow, but Yugi stayed quiet as he and Yami weren't so sure. Yami advised Yugi not to say anything about it for the moment as there would be plenty of time to discuss it with the others once they were safely away from this area and back in Japan.

With that done, they made their way quickly back towards the camp site. They arrived to find the teacher about to send search parties out to look for them.

"There you are, finally," the teacher said irritably. "What on earth took you so long to get here?"

"We were talking to the Jusenkyo Guide sir," Anzu replied as they had discussed between themselves on the way.

"Getting a head start eh?" the teacher said with some surprise. "Good, good. But next time could you come and check in first? I was about to send the search parties out."

"Yes sir, sorry sir," the group chorused even as they blanched at the thought of one of the search parties potentially stumbling into the cursed valley as the light waned. They were about to head into the camp-site and set up their tents when the teacher called them back.

"Hold on a moment, wasn't Jonouchi with your group? What happened to him?"

"He went back to Domino with Kaiba, sir," Yugi volunteered.

"Kaiba? I was wondering where he had got to as well," the teacher mused. "So do you know why he went back?"

"He had an accident and crashed his helicopter," Otogi spoke up this time. "Some of his staff and his brother came to pick him up when they received his distress signal."

"Hmm… you'd think we'd have noticed two helicopters coming and going…" the teacher mused again. "I do take it that Kaiba wasn't injured?" It wouldn't do for the teen CEO to be hurt on his watch.

"No sir," Honda picked up the story, "He was just shaken up a bit. No obvious injuries."

"Good, I'm glad to hear that, but why did Jonouchi go back with him?"

"It's not like he had much of a choice sir," Yugi said with a shrug, hoping that answer would be enough.

"Hmm, fair enough. I'll have to take it up with them once we return to Domino." The teacher then ushered them on. "Now you'd better hurry up and get your tents pitched. It'll be dark soon."

"Yes sir," the group chorused as they raced off into the camp-site before the teacher could think of anything else to ask them about the afternoon and Jonouchi's absence.

The teacher stood there silently for a few more moments as he looked in the direction the group had disappeared off into. He was still wondering why Kaiba would take Jonouchi back with him. Something did not add up there. It was well known that Kaiba could not stand Jonouchi and that Jonouchi felt the same way about Kaiba. Admittedly Jonouchi had stopped fighting with Kaiba recently but the animosity was still there, from Kaiba's side at least. It was a shame that they couldn't get on. They could probably learn quite a bit from each other.

The teacher was brought out of his musing and nearly jumped out of his skin at a touch on his shoulder. "Excuse please?" the Jusenkyo Guide was stood right behind him.

Once the teacher had got his racing heart back under control, he spoke. "I'm sorry, can I help you?"

"I Jusenkyo Guide," the man introduced himself, "You teacher in charge here?"

"Yes I am," the teacher replied. "Oh, did those students who were with you earlier cause any trouble? If they did I would like to apologise."

"No apology necessary," the Guide replied, "they good students. No I just came to pass on warning. Very dangerous you stay here."

"How so?" the teacher asked.

"Jusenkyo much cursed place," the Guide said, "Not place for school trip."

"But the curse is what we came here to research," the teacher objected, "I'm sure that as long as we are careful…"

"Sir no understand," the Guide cut him off. He looked at the teacher and could see clearly that he was fighting a losing battle. He sighed. "Jusenkyo Guide do job and warn teacher. Can do no more as no one ever listens." He turned to leave, took a couple of steps and looked back. "Is not just springs you need worry about. This area under dispute between Amazons and Musk, has been so for centuries." He narrowed his eyes at the clueless teacher. "You pray that Amazons get to you first." With that he turned away and finally left.

"Hmm, living in a backwater place like this for so long must have affected his mind," the teacher mused. "Amazons indeed," he scoffed as he walked back into the camp-site. He'd wanted to come here ever since the first weirdly fantastic stories had started coming out of Nerima and now that he was finally here he was not going to be scared away so easily!

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So that's the second chapter down. There will be more over the next couple of days as I catch up to where I have posted elsewhere.
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