Nodoka catches Genma trying to take her son away on his ten year training trip, to pay him back she takes his itinerary and takes Ranma herself. Not being stupid or dishonorable like Genma, she makes many different choices making Ranma both better yet worse than with Genma. One choice takes them to Jusenkyo early where Nodoka is changed into a Kitsune and a seven year old Ranma is changed into a girl, failing the seppeku contact. Nodoka changes the contract to woman amongst women as well as man amongst men, and teaches Ranma how to be a girl.