The Old Amazonian Switcheroo!!

by wings4dreams

an Ranma/Akane fanfic

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2 and I am not profiting from this story.

Chapter 1

Shampoo smiled sweetly and calmly trying to hide her overwhelming anticipation from the elderly antique dealer as he rang up her item. She hoped that he would overlook her slight trembling for feminine jitters or something. She tried to appear as nonchalant as possible as he eyed her while taking her money. He did seem suspicious of her, but took the money from her anyway and let her get on her way. Apparently the old Chinese man was not about to turn down a great sell like this for anything even the dark Amazon magic in the item. Shampoo left the store quickly before he could change his mind.

Once outside she couldn't stop herself from giggling and twirling with glee. Acquiring the Whispering Vase was far easier then she had thought it would be. The old man knew the horrific dangers surrounding the vase, but since only the Amazon's could use it he thought it would be safe to sell it in Japan. He never would have guessed that there were any Amazons in Nermia, if he did he would never had come here. She laughed out loud as she ran home to find a place to use it. Shampoo was glad the man had guessed wrongly, this vase would finally get her everything she wanted, starting with Ranma.

The young girl reached the Cat Café in record time. Throwing a quick 'Nihoa' to her great grandmother and a raspberry at the half blind bus boy behind the counter she raced to her room. Chest still heaving from the exertion of running all that way, she wasted no time popping the cork from the vase. Shampoo frowned when nothing happened. "Hello." She called in the flowered vase's pit . "Someone talk to Shampoo."

A puff of smoke hit her in the face, she coughed and waved it away. "I am a terrible evil monster!" the vase sounded. "I will destroy you! You will only know despair and pain! I am evil! Eeeevill!! Bwah ha ha!!"

"Vase is too too rude." Shampoo scolded. "You no should treat mighty Amazon this way!"

"An Amazon you say?" The vase sweat dropped. "Well, that changes things…" Thick dark smoke filled the room and a figure began to take shape in the wisps. It wasn't long before a powerful torso solidified itself in the middle of the room. "Behold!" His voice thundered. "I am the enchanted Jin of the whispering vase!"

"Shampoo behind you." The girl deadpanned.

"oops…" He turned to look for her. "I haven't done this in a long…" the words caught in his throat the moment he saw the beautiful violet haired beauty looking at him. "…wow…" he breathed.

Shampoo rolled her eyes. "Stop gawking and give Shampoo her wish."

The Jin blinked out of his stupor, "Oh right! You have a wish coming to you…wink if the wish is for a boyfriend I might be able to help without magic…"

Shampoo snorted. "Shampoo have strong man already." She crossed her arms over her chest.

The Jin pouted. "figures. I spend a thousand years trapped in a lamp and when I finally meet the girl of my dreams she loves someone else…" He shook his head as if to shake the depressing thoughts from his mind. "So, what's your heart's desire, stunner?"

"Shampoo wish to trade place with Akane! Shampoo become Akane and Akane become Shampoo! If Shampoo live with Ranma… Aiya! Ranma will belong me in no time!"

"Your wish will be granted, ah yes ...I will swoop up and make it happen! That's right…your wish will be just as you say…" he paused to look at the violet haired beauty. "Exactly every word…uh… if you wanted to stop me now is the time…"

"Stop you stupid talking and make wish true!" Shampoo growled at him.

He sighed. "Okay but don't say I didn't warn you…" Magic began to swirl around the room and the Jin began to glow, as power surged through him. Yet something in his expression changed and a sweat drop formed on his face. The magic dissipated. He sighed " I can't do it."

"What you mean! Jin can grant wish! Shampoo follow all rules! No ask for kill, no ask for 'fall in love', no ask for impossible thing!"

The Jin shook his head. "It's not that, Stunner. Your wish won't get you what you want. If I switch out you and this 'Akane' chick, I really won't be doing anything. You become her in all since of the word and her you so…nothing changes. Except then you'll be one wish short…er, do you understand?"

Shampoo shook her head.

"Us Jins are supposed to trick mortals out of their wishes if at all possible, but I really like you so I'm gonna do you a favor instead."

"Shampoo listening…"

"Here's what I'll do, I won't change destiny like your wish states. Instead I'll make an illusion, I'll put you in Akane's place, but you will keep your own memories. Everyone else, however, will have their memories altered to believe this lie, her family's memories will be of you in her place. The same will go for Akane in your place she'll keep her name but not her memories. Still following me here?"

Shampoo nodded. "Think so."

"Before I do this I have a warning for you, This is only an illusion and not permanent. If someone were really clever they could figure out fairly easily the switch and your wish. Were that to happen that person will recover all their old memories."

"So is not forever…"

"No, but if the reason you can't get close to Ranma is because you don't live with him, then this will change that. If you guys fall in love, it will be for real, even if the old memories of everyone come back. That also means any feelings everyone already possesses won't change because of the memory altering. You still want to do this? Or do you want to change your wish?"

The Amazon grinned. "Is ready."

The Jin smirked. "Alright! And away…we…go!"

There was a bright flash and everything went blank.

OOOOOO

Shampoo awoke with a start at the loud rapping on her door. "What?!" She cried irritably. If it was Mousse she was gonna crack some skulls.

"Yo, Shampoo! Wake up and get ready or we're gonna be late for school!"

Shampoo gasped in pleasure as she sat up quickly. "Ranma!" She could hear his footsteps as he traveled further into the house. Shampoo grinned as she took in her surroundings. This was definitely Akane's room, that stupid Jin had done something right after all. Now it was up to her to work her magic on Ranma.

"Well, you look chipper this morning!" A cheerful voice chimed in the room.

Shampoo started. She looked around trying to find the annoying Jin who was still hanging around for some reason. "Where is you?"

"Right here, look down."

The Amazon did as she was instructed and found a small snowy haired ferret sitting on her lap. "Aiya! What you doing here?"

The ferret smirked cutely. "Just looking out for you, Stunner, I'll help you in any way I can, just in case you have any confusion about the oddities in this reality."

Shampoo smiled at the small creature, genuinely grateful for the assistance. "Thanks."

In a flurry of movement Shampoo was quickly dressed in a Furinkun High school girls' uniform and headed down the stairs to find her future husband. She smiled lovingly at him as she sat down next to him at the breakfast table. "Nihoa, Ranma." The little ferret on her shoulder snarled at him ferociously

Ranma barely grunted in greeting as he was too busy shoveling food in his face to pay her much attention.

Shampoo was unfazed, she knew that if she were patient he would finally belong to her and Akane would be completely out of the picture. She couldn't help the small thrill that zipped though her at that revelation. She was so deep in her thoughts that she did not notice Ranma finishing his breakfast, or him getting up and heading for the door.

Nabiki woke her from her inner reprieve. "Hey, sis, Ranma just left you know…"

Shampoo gasped. "Aiya! Why husband go?" Hurriedly she stood and moved to make her exit only to be stopped by Kasumi.

"Here's your lunch, Shampoo. Have a good day, okay? Make sure you study hard."

"Okay, thank you. Bye bye." The Amazon headed out the door in hot pursuit of Ranma.

Nabiki turned to Kasumi with a bored half lidded gaze. "Odd isn't it? How our little sister is Chinese while the both of us are Japanese?"

Kasumi gave Nabiki a look of surprise. "Hasn't it always been that way?"

Nabiki frowned. "Hm."

OOOOOO

Outside on the street Shampoo had finally caught up to the object of her affection. "Ranma! Why you no wait for Shampoo?"

"Huh?" Ranma turned his restless gaze toward Shampoo suddenly as if noticing her for the first time. "Oh, sorry, Shampoo." He immediately went back to searching his surroundings urgently.

"Ooh, sorry shampooo…bleh! I can't stand this guy…" The little voice of the ferret muttered in her ear. She shrugged the shoulder it was riding on to silence it. "What Ranma look for?" she asked the pigtailed martial artist curiously.

His face fell. "I guess nothing…"

Shampoo frowned at the crestfallen Ranma, wondering what it was he was waiting for. "We go now, yes?"

Ranma sighed dejectedly. "Yes…" he didn't appear to be in any hurry to leave.

Suddenly a sharp "Hya!" split the air and out of no where an angry figure descended upon Ranma, who just barely avoided being dropped kicked. The attacker was not happy about missing. "Grr! Hold still!"

Ranma laughed at the other's aggravation. "Yo, Akane! What's up?"

Shampoo was reeling, why the heck was Akane there and more importantly why was she attacking Ranma? "Akane, why you more violent then usual?" she queried toward the girl punching at air as Ranma danced playfully away from her fists.

"I already told you, Shampoo, I won't rest until I've defeated Ranma!"

"Why?"

Ranma decided to answer for the enraged girl. "Aw, she's just a sore loser. I defeated her last week, and she's all cross about it…" he leapt up onto a fence out of Akane's reach and began to make faces at her. "Dummy, it's not like I did it on purpose..."

Shampoo's voice became cold. "So Akane is Shampoo rival, She give Ranma kiss of marriage…"

The other girl froze mid punch, she paled visibly. "N-no it wasn't a real defeat so…"

Ranma became incoherent. "k-kiss?...M-m-m marraige!?" He fell off the fence onto his head. Recovering quickly he hopped to his feet and advanced on the girl who had been attacking him all week. She appeared to be trembling slightly and muttering something about keeping secrets from her grandmother. He got right in her face. "If you want to kiss me or something you can just forget it! There's no way I'm kissing you Nu uh! Nope! I'm not kissing an uncute…" his face was only inches from Akane's, and she had to back petal quickly, to avoid his forward momentum. "…unsexy, brutish, tomboy, like you!" that said he pinched his eyes closed and puckered his lips.

Shampoo suddenly booted Ranma in the general direction of Furinkun High, "No be late to school, Ranma!" she cried, before directing an angry glare towards Akane. "Ranma be Shampoo husband, no Akane husband!"

Akane stared strangely at the purple haired Tendo, as if seeing her for the first time. "How did you know about the kiss of marriage, Shampoo?"

Shampoo sniffed haughtily, "No be so dumb, Akane! Is too too obvious that Shampoo her self is a mighty Ama…Ah!" She reached up to rub at her bitten ear, a harsh whisper of 'do you want her to know everything!?' came from the ferret. Suddenly she changed the direction of her sentence. "…ah, ama-zing guesser!"

"I…see." Akane turned to glare in the direction of the school. "Tomarrow, Ranma, I'll defeat you then…" With that declared the short haired girl took off.

Shampoo looked down at the ferret crossly. "You better tell, Shampoo, exactly what things you change here."

OOOOOO

to be continued..

A/N sorry about any grammer or spelling mistakes you encounter.