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Tainted Honor

Tainted Honor is the longer of my two Ranma stories, written in late 1997. The story revolves around Ryouga. The story was initially inspired by reading Nicholas Leifker's "Journeys", but it goes in a decidedly different direction than that story.

Ranma and Ryouga have gone off on an adventure in hopes of curing their curses... but even as they are successful in this end, tragedy has struck. Ranma is killed, and Ryouga holds himself responsible. Now Ryouga is sworn to protect Akane, but does that mean protecting her from himself as well?

Tainted Honor is more a psychological story than it is anything else, dealing with Ryouga's efforts to come to terms with the person that he has been and the things that he has done, and the things which have happened for which he feels that he must bear the blame. It is again one of my older works, though more recent than Bubblegum Collision or Bubblegum Collapse, and is not quite up to my current standards for my work... but I've been told that it's a good story nonetheless, so you might want to take a look at it. There are five chapters.
Tainted Honor Chapter One - Ill Tidings
Tainted Honor Chapter Two - The Shadow of the Past
Tainted Honor Chapter Three - Battlegrounds
Tainted Honor Chapter Four - This Dream You See
Tainted Honor Chapter Five - Wanderings' End