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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.

This is where the first of the 'real' Ranma 1/2 characters show up. I'd put Ranma's age at about 22 or 23, so as you can tell the story is set well post Ranma canon.

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The next day at 2pm sharp saw Seto Kaiba's personal limousine pulling up outside a small clinic in Nerima. Kaiba, who this time actually waited for his driver to do his job and open the door, stepped out onto the pavement and looked in thinly disguised disdain at the shabby looking building. Why on earth would Doctor Kenn send him to a place like this? But then Doctor Kenn had never done him any disservice in the past. He was one of the few people that Seto actually trusted, so he put his doubts to one side for the moment and stepped inside the clinic.

A woman with red hair sat behind the reception desk. "Can I help you?" She asked pleasantly.

"My name is Seto Kaiba. I am here to see Doctor Tofu," he said in a businesslike manner.

"Ah, yes. We have been expecting you. Please follow me." She got up from behind the desk and led the way into the next room, ushering Seto in front of her as she turned to close the door. A man that looked to be in his thirties, with brown hair and round wire framed glasses sat behind a desk that was covered in books and scrolls. In fact most of the book cases in the room and flat surfaces were covered in such a manner and Seto surmised that they were in the Doctor's private office rather than an examination room.

As the doctor noticed Kaiba enter the room, he stood up. "Good afternoon, I'm Ono Tofu. You must be Seto Kaiba. Pleased to meet you." He extended his hand in greeting.

Seto regarded the proffered hand for a moment before slowly taking it in a firm handshake. "I'd say it was a pleasure, but to be honest I would rather not be here."

"I understand," The doctor said agreeably as he sat back behind his desk, indicating that Seto should sit in the chair opposite. "Victims of Jusenkyo curses often have a hard time adjusting to their new circumstances." He paused a moment before continuing, "Doctor Kenn tells me that you have a most unusual curse. I've never heard the like of it before."

"So everyone keeps telling me," Seto said offhandedly. "Personally I'm still not convinced about the whole thing."

"I… see." Doctor Tofu said carefully. "Would you mind if we could see for ourselves?" he asked.

"Before I agree, can I ask why she is still here?" Seto gestured towards the red haired woman who was still stood in the room.

"She is my assistant today," Tofu said. "Don't worry, I can assure you that she is the height of discretion."

"Can I at least have a name if she is going to be here watching this... spectacle?" Seto said as he raised an eyebrow.

"Of course," Doctor Tofu actually facepalmed. "Where are my manners? This is Ranma Saotome of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts."

"Pleased to meet you," Ranma said with a cocky smirk that instantly rubbed Seto up the wrong way.

"Ranma?" Seto sneered, "Isn't that a boy's name?"

"Well that's the thing you see Kaiba," She drawled almost insultingly, "I have also visited Jusenkyo, although it was several years ago now."

"Really?" Seto said cynically, "And what are you supposed to turn into then?"

Ranma grinned. "I'm actually in my cursed form right now. I was born a boy and I fell into the spring of drowned girl when I was sixteen. Doctor Tofu asked me to be here today because my curse is the closest to what we were told of yours."

Seto still looked thoroughly unconvinced, so Doctor Tofu made a suggestion. "Maybe a demonstration is in order?"

"Good idea Doc," Ranma said as she crossed over to the sink. "Now watch carefully," she said as she put her hand under the freely flowing hot water. Kaiba gasped as the petite redhead in front of him suddenly gained several inches, lost the breasts and gained muscle. He also noted that her once red hair was now jet black. "Ah, that's much better," the now male Ranma sighed in relief. "Do you see now?"

Seto sat there with his mouth agape. He wasn't normally one to be lost for words, but what he had just witnessed was beyond belief. It was one thing to be told, but…

"So, Mr. Kaiba" Tofu brought Kaiba's attention back onto him, "May we see your curse please? I am most intrigued by what Doctor Kenn told me over the phone yesterday."

"Oh, yes. Of course." Seto replied, brain still in lockdown, struggling to deny what he had just seen.

Doctor Tofu simply nodded at Ranma, who carefully filled a glass with cold water and carried it over to where Kaiba was sitting. He grimaced as a little water splashed over the edge of the glass, turning him female again. "I should have made you do this bit," Ranma groused at Doctor Tofu, who just smiled innocently at her in return. "Now Kaiba, just dip your fingers into the glass. That should do it." Kaiba did as he was bid and both Ranma and Doctor Tofu were stunned when there was no change.

As Kaiba placed his fingers into the glass, the fact that they had brought him cold water snapped him out of his daze. "Idiots," Kaiba sneered as he got up and stalked across the room to the sink. "I need HOT water."

Tofu and Ranma looked at each other as the implications of that statement sank in. The person that they had been talking to was actually the curse!

"Right then," Kaiba said as he stood at the sink watching the hot water drain down the plughole. He gathered his courage and stuck his hand directly under the flow. This time the desired result was reached, Seto Kaiba shrinking down into the smaller form of Katsuya Jonouchi.

"Holy shit, that's hot!" the boy jumped and shook his hand around to cool it off. He looked around to see two people looking at him. "Ah, hey there," he said a little sheepishly. "So I take it that I'm in Doctor Tofu's office?" he asked the red-headed woman who was stood closest to him with an utterly fascinated look on her face.

"I'm Ranma Saotome. The guy with glasses over there is Doctor Tofu. Pleased to meet ya," she stuck out her hand and Jou shook it.

Doctor Tofu stood and crossed the room to shake hands with the blond haired boy. "And who might you be?" he asked.

"Name's Katsuya Jonouchi," Jou said simply as he grinned. "Hope Kaiba wasn't too much of a stick."

"I've dealt with worse," Doctor Tofu said with a grin in return. This young man was much more pleasant to deal with. He gestured to Jou that he should sit down and he went back to his chair behind the desk. "So, Jonouchi," he began, "how on earth did you come to be cursed to turn into Seto Kaiba?"

Jou launched into a much edited explanation of what had happened on the ill fated trip to Jusenkyo and a little of what had happened since. He deliberately left out certain elements of the story that he'd told Doctor Kenn, especially those pertaining to past lives and soul mates. It was one thing telling Seto's personal Physician about things like that, but these two, although they appeared on the surface to be trustworthy, he wasn't prepared to take a chance on just yet.

"Well, that is quite a tale," Doctor Tofu said as Jonouchi finished his story, "but I do have to say that I have no idea why the springs… malfunctioned in this way." He paused a moment. "I do know someone who could possibly give me some answers, but she is not a part of the medical profession, thus she is not bound by the same oaths as the rest of us. I believe she is trustworthy though as she holds the values of a martial artist and Amazon warrior and she has access to much more information on Jusenkyo than I could ever hope to lay my hands on. Do you think I could run it past her?"

"I don't know about that," Jou replied. "Personally I think that too many people know about this already and I don't want Kaiba to suffer because of it."

"I'm sorry you feel that way," Tofu said. "It could be the only way to find out what happened and if there is any possible way to fix it."

Jou considered his options for a few moments. "Alright, I tell you what. If Kaiba agrees, you can go and run it past her but you cannot mention any names or anything like that."

"I guess that's good enough for now," Tofu said agreeably, "and you have my word that no names will be mentioned."

"Can I make an observation?" Ranma asked.

"Sure go for it," Jou replied.

"I've looked at your aura, and while I can see the usual marks that Jusenkyo leaves, there is … something else like a dark smudge attached to it and I have no idea what it could be," she said, "can you see it Doc?"

Doctor Tofu looked closely at Jonouchi who began to sweat under the older man's gaze. "Yes, I see what you mean," the bespectacled man finally said. "It is kind of dark," he mused. "I wonder if that is connected to the strange circumstances of your curse."

"Uh, dunno," Jou replied. He could take a pretty good guess as to what that was likely to be a marker of, but he didn't want to mention Shadow Magic in any way, shape or form. Yami had cautioned him and his friends never to mention anything connected to shadow magic in case the wrong kind of person overheard. He decided instead on a redirection tactic. "So you can see auras?" he said. "I thought that kind of thing was a myth."

"Yes, we can, as can many of the martial artists in this area," Doctor Tofu replied. "It takes a lot of dedication and training to achieve though."

"Some of us can manifest our ki physically too," Ranma grinned as she produced a small glowing ball floating above her palm. She grinned at Jou's reaction as his eyes widened and his mouth dropped open.

"Ranma! Stop showing off," Doctor Tofu scolded the red haired woman.

"Sorry," she said, not showing any remorse at all as she dispersed the ball. Tofu just shook his head.

"OK then," Jou said, bringing the conversation back on track. "Do you have any advice on how to deal with the problems of getting splashed at inappropriate times?" he asked.

"There isn't really a lot you can do unfortunately," Doctor Tofu advised him. "One of the main problems with a Jusenkyo curse is the element that turns you into a water magnet."

"I really am stuffed then," Jou sighed. "Cold water is so much easier to come across than hot."

Ranma butted in, "That is true to an extent, but the water magnet part of the curse can be toned down a bit if you can come to terms with your curse and accept it. That is what I had to do."

"Wait, you are cursed too?" Jou said in surprise.

"Ah, yes. I'm in my cursed form right now actually." Ranma replied. She crossed to the sink and splashed herself with hot water. "See," he said.

"Wow, that is quite something to see," Jou said with even wider eyes, if such a thing were possible. "But you are the same person inside, right?"

"Yes," Ranma confirmed. "Jusenkyo curses don't normally change their victims into a completely different person. That is why we are finding you so unusual. I still get splashed from time to time, but since I came to terms with my curse it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be."

"Well, that's good to know, but to be honest," Jonouchi said, "it's not me that's going to have the trouble accepting it. Kaiba is the one that won't be able to accept things."

"Well, I'm sure that you'll be able to find some balance in time," Doctor Tofu said, not catching the 'not likely' that dropped from Jonouchi's lips.

"So… shall we switch you back now?" Ranma asked.

"I guess so," Jou said sadly. "There's no way the limo driver will take me anywhere if I'm not Kaiba and I don't fancy walking all the way back to Domino."

"Well, if it helps I can tell you this," Ranma said, "If I remember what Nabiki told me correctly, you are the one that holds all the legal rights. Kaiba will be considered a non-entity because he is a part of you, not the other way around."

"What? You aren't serious!" Jou exclaimed as the possible implications for Kaiba Corp and Mokuba flashed through his mind. "No, I can't do that to Kaiba. I really don't want him to hate me any more than he does already. You can't tell him about this." When the other two looked unconvinced about this, he pleaded with them. "Please, you don't know what you are saying here."

"Kaiba really means a lot to you, doesn't he?" Ranma said gently.

"Yeah," Jou looked embarrassed. "It's complicated though. And it's even more complicated now. Kaiba has way more to lose than I do and I just can't do that to him. He would never forgive me."

"Well, I guess that it is up to you," Ranma said reluctantly.

"Good, 'cos if I'm the one that gets to say how things go then that's the way I want it," he said with finality as he stormed over to the sink. "Remember what I said," he reminded them as he splashed himself with cold water.

"Well," the CEO said impatiently as he turned back to the other occupants of the room.

"That was most… interesting and informative." Tofu said.

"So what can you tell me?"

"Well, at the moment I don't think I can tell you much more than you already know." Tofu said. "The nature of the curse is way outside anything we've experienced before.

"So it was a waste of time coming here then?" Seto said with some exasperation showing in his voice.

"Oh, I wouldn't say that," Ranma said. "I think that you've come a long way towards accepting that you are actually dealing with a curse."

"I… suppose you are right," Seto said reluctantly.

"We also have the option of contacting someone who has much more experience with Jusenkyo curses," Tofu said, "With your permission of course."

"Hmm," Seto considered for a moment. "I suppose that would be acceptable. But for the moment I don't want any names mentioned. I think that too many people know about this already."

"Heh," Ranma smirked, drawing a sharp look from Kaiba. "Funny thing is, Jonouchi said exactly the same thing." The sharp look turned into a disbelieving one. There was no way that the mutt would show that much thought or consideration.

"Alright, we will find out what we can and get back to you via Doctor Kenn," Tofu said, bringing Kaiba's attention away from Ranma.

Seto simply nodded and turned to leave, then stopped and turned back to Ranma. "Is there a way to keep from being splashed at inopportune moments?" he asked in a demanding tone.

"No, I'm afraid that there isn't really..." Ranma tried to continue his reply, but he was rudely cut off.

"Fine. I'll just have to deal with it then," Kaiba said in disgust, turning his back on the medic and his assistant and walking out of the office.

Before he could leave the building altogether, Ranma caught up with him and grabbed his arm. "You might want to give some thought to finding a way to communicate with Jonouchi," he said quickly, knowing that Kaiba was in no mood to listen. "Things will be a lot easier if you can co-operate with each other."

"And why would I want to talk to that mutt?" Seto said with disdain as he shook his arm free. "Good day, I will see myself out."

Ranma watched as Kaiba stalked back to his waiting limousine, then walked back into Doctor Tofu's office. "What did you think?" The doctor asked the martial artist.

"I think that Jonouchi is a nice guy. He has the stance of a street fighter. Maybe he was in a gang at some point," Ranma observed. "As for Kaiba, man he is one cold fish! I can tell that he knows some martial arts, although I could wipe the floor with him without breaking a sweat."

"Ranma, you can do that to just about anybody." Tofu said as he shook his head.

"Ah, yeah." Ranma rubbed the back of his head in an embarrassed way. "They were hiding some injuries too. Both of their postures were quite... awkward at points. Plus they were wearing concealer, I guess to cover a black eye at least, and I definitely feel that Jonouchi wasn't telling us everything, but he still told us more than Kaiba did."

"Anything else, on the Jusenkyo front I mean?" Tofu made himself clear this time.

"I did see something," Ranma mused. "That weird black smudge on their aura is a helluva lot bigger when Kaiba is in control than when Jonouchi is, but what does it mean?"

Doctor Tofu simply shook his head in contemplation. "I have no idea."

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Later that evening found Seto contemplating what Ranma had said to him about communicating with the mutt. Well, before that he had to find some way of proving to himself that this was real and not just some weird conspiracy designed to make him think that he was losing his mind. After a few moments thought he decided on a course of action to achieve this and stalked off to his room to set things up.

A couple of hours later, Katsuya Jonouchi came to in what he remembered was Seto's bedroom. He blinked at the strange setup in front of him; a video camera to one side, clearly set to record as the red light was visible, along with two glasses of water marked with 'HOT' and 'COLD', and a note pad on the desk in front of him. Jou looked to read what was written on the paper.

"Mutt, if you are reading this then the curse is indeed real and you are currently in control," Seto wrote, "How in hell I came to be cursed to turn into a dog I'll never understand."

Jou paused here and looked sad. "Yeah, Seto, fall back on the insults. And I was cursed to turn into you, not the other way around, but don't let the facts get in the way of blaming me, eh?" he muttered bitterly.

"Once you've finished lollygagging, write something and change back." Seto instructed via the note.

Jou simply wrote the word 'something' on the paper and stuck his fingers into the glass of cold water.

Seto pulled his fingers from the glass of cold water with a flinch. He didn't think he would ever get used to that. He crossed to his laptop which was on the other side of the room, safely away from the water which he suspected the mutt would clumsily spill all over it otherwise, then pressed the playback button. He sat there utterly stunned as, upon application of hot water, Jonouchi took his place. He replayed the transformation over and over for several minutes, trying to get his mind around just what it was that he was seeing. It was one thing to hear about it from other people, but something completely different to see it with as close to his own eyes as he could get right now.

Once he'd finished watching that part of the recording, he took in Jonouchi's sad look as he read the note almost detachedly. Almost, because there was that familiar flare of pain that he stamped on just as resolutely as all the other times that it had occurred. Setting the camera to record once again, he crossed back over to where the notepad was and he scowled at the simple word 'something' written on the page. "Moron," he muttered under his breath as he wrote the other boy another note and slipped his fingers into the hot water again.

"Mutt, you had better not do anything to endanger my company or Mokuba. If you do… well… I'll think of something."

Jou laughed a little as he read the last part. If only Kaiba knew... He grabbed the pencil and scribbled back, "Don't worry Moneybags, you won't even know I'm here. All I ask is that you let me explain things to my sister. I don't want her to come looking for me." He was sure by now that he didn't have to explain the reason why.

Seto read that note and once again felt a small stab of something. It might have been compassion, but he wasn't about to admit it. He quickly wrote another. "So, Jonouchi," He used the blond's name for once, "Does your dad beat you like that often?"

Jou looked at the note as if it were a poisonous snake. This was the last thing that he'd ever wanted Seto to know about. He sat and thought about what to write for several minutes before he decided that he didn't really have any more to lose. "Oh, only when he's drunk. Or pissed off. Or just in that kind of mood. Why? You going to use it to put me down some more?"

Seto looked at the note that Jonouchi had just written and was taken aback. "Hardly Mutt. Even I wouldn't kick a dog when it's down." He paused as he considered what to write next. Communicating like this was harder than he had expected. "So, when you come to school covered in bruises…" he left that open for Jou to answer as he saw fit.

"Yeah, those are usually from my old man," Jou confirmed. "And lay off the dog comments will you? I'm not the one that drowned in the spring of drowned dog after all." Jou figured it was a bit of a low blow, but the bastard deserved it.

Seto ignored that last sentence. It wasn't something he really wanted to think about right now. Or ever if he could avoid it. "Couldn't any of your little friends help you out?" he asked.

"Didn't want to impose I guess," Jou wrote. "Plus I got my pride, you know?"

Seto sighed as he wrote the next part. "Well I hope you don't have anything there that you are attached to because you are not to go back there. I don't want to end up all bruised and battered because you can't defend yourself against a useless old man."

"Fuck you Kaiba," Was the only response that Jou could give.

"In your dreams, Mutt," was Kaiba's reply. Next time Kaiba came to, Jonouchi had not left him a note, but instead had simply screwed the paper up and thrown it across the room. Well if he was going to be like that…

With the conversation essentially over, Kaiba dismantled the camera set-up, closed down his laptop and got ready for bed. If he had stopped to watch what the camera had continued to record as they'd had that strange written conversation he would have seen a look of utter pain and devastation cross Jou's face before he'd screwed up the paper and stormed out of the room for quite a while before returning and changing back. If he had done that, then maybe things would have gone differently. As it was, this was the beginning of the chain of events that would nearly seal his own fate.

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So... that's chapter five done. I'll have to take a long look at the next chapter. I still need to work out where it would be best to cut it, amongst a few other things. We'll just have to see how it goes.
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