This is the disclaimer that never ends; yes it goes on and on my friends. Yes, this is the disclaimer that never ends; yes it goes on and… (SMACK) Ouch. No, not the head! Don't pull that! Why I ought ta… Ite! Okay, I don't own anything but the plot. Happy now? Sheesh! Hey, put away the chainsaw! Mommy!

This isn't going to be a long chapter.

Chapter One

Akane had only stopped crying long enough to tell her family that Ranma was gone and wasn't coming back. She then locked herself in her room. There, she finally left everything come out. You see, she had in fact loved him. The problems came from her jealousy and her frustration at not being able to tell him.

Nabiki was shocked at first. She never expected him to have the balls to leave. Then she started to get upset. How dare he leave, he was her greatest source of income! Now what was she going to do to keep the Dojo in the black? She got a gleam in her eye as she left to use the telephone.

Kasumi's cheerful mask fell for a little bit. If anyone had bothered to look, they would have seen the face of someone who had lost a brother, for that is how she had felt about him. He was the brother that she never had. He was also one of the few people who would talk to her and treat her like a real person. Then she saw Nabiki head towards the telephone and she put her façade back up. They were about to have company.

The fathers', well Soun started crying like never before and Genma started bemoaning the gods as to why they gave him such an ungrateful child. Kami-sama didn't like that, so he decided to thin the lining of his stomach so that he'd have one very painful ulcer.

It was about two hours later, that everyone was seated in the Tendo house. Nabiki had charged ungodly high amounts for this information, but she had assured everyone that it was worth it (Nodoka wasn't charged, of course). Once everyone was seated and Kasumi had finished passing around refreshments, Nabiki stood up to give the bad news.

"As of two-and-a-half hours ago, Ranma Saotome is no longer in this world," she told them solemnly.

"What?" shouted almost everyone.

"Is Ranchan dead?" asked a teary Ukyo.

"No, he just left using the Nanban Mirror's counterpart," clarified Nabiki.

"But the Nanban Mirror has no counterpart," said Cologne, confused as to what Nabiki was talking about.

"Well, apparently, Happosai gave Ranma what he claimed to be the Nanban's counterpart," said Nabiki calmly.

As one, everyone turned to where Happosai was sitting. He chuckled nervously and then tried to give them his most innocent look. No one bought it, so he sighed in defeat.

"It's true that I gave Ranma the mirror, as well as saying that it was the Nanban's counterpart," he told everyone.

"Why? Why you lie to Airen?" asked Shampoo, who was on the brink of breaking down in tears.

"Because he kept interfering with my plans!" Happosai yelled in anger. "That little brat didn't show any respect for the founder of his style. He never posed for me and was always disrupting my panty raids. I had to do something to get rid of him, so I waited until he was so depressed he'd do anything to get away from this mess he called his life. Then I suggested the Nanban's counterpart. He was suspicious at first, but I got him to use it. Now he can never return!"

"Well, we'll just go and bring him back!" said Ukyo confidently.

"You can't, especially after Akane destroyed it," Happosai told them evilly.

"Great-Grandmother, you can fix it, yes?" asked Shampoo hopefully.

Cologne just shook her head. "I'm sorry, Shampoo, but Happosai is correct. If it had been cracked like the real Nanban Mirror then we could go and bring Son-in-Law back, but Akane smashed it into too many pieces. It has lost all of its magic," she told them all sadly.

Her face then hardened as the girls started crying and the boys started partying. Her gaze found its way over to the smug Happosai. She would have her revenge.

Later, after everyone had left, Happosai decided to go for a late night panty raid. His bag was half-way full with stolen panties when his danger sense went through the roof. He quickly dropped his bag and took up a defensive stance. His eyes darted around, looking for anything unusual. His eyes widened when he saw Cologne walking towards him, her staff slung over her shoulder. He gulped when he saw her face. She looked PISSED!

"Hello, Happi," she said as she got within ten feet of him.

"Nice night isn't it, Cologne?" he replied.

"A good night to die," she told him.

This shocked him beyond words. Sure she has always been after him for stealing her village's treasures, but she had never been so serious.

"Let's finish what we started all those many years ago, Happi," she told him firmly.

"As you wish, Khul-chan," said Happosai as he got back into his defensive stance.

The two of them waited, each one waiting for the other to make the first move. Then Happosai darted forward, hoping to make this a short fight. However, Cologne moved forward at the same speed, both of them blurring. All one could hear for the next two minutes was the sounds of pipe hitting staff, as each fighter struggled to win.

Happosai was starting to get scared. Since when was Cologne this good? He broke away from the fight to take a quick breather, Cologne doing the same. He noticed that she had tears in her eyes.

"Why, Happi? Why did you give him the Blood Mirror?" she asked.

"It was the only way to make sure that he didn't come back," Happosai replied.

"But now I have to kill you, Happi," she told him. "Why couldn't you have waited for him to leave on his own accord?"

"Because he was never going to leave," he nearly shouted.

Cologne just shook her head at his ignorance. Even she had seen that it was only a matter of time before Ranma left for good. She let out a sad sigh.

"Let's finish this," she told him as she started to glow, her white aura streaked with red and green, as her anger and depression showed in her aura.

Happosai nodded as he too started to glow, his aura mainly yellow with streaks of red.

They both disappeared from normal sight as they both moved too fast to be seen. Like before, all that was heard was Cologne's staff hitting Happosai's pipe. However, this time, one of them wasn't going to walk away.

Time slowed down for Happosai as Cologne poured on the speed and disappeared from his sight. Suddenly, he felt her appear behind him and a burning sensation formed on his back as she struck his Moxibustion Pressure Point. He fell to the ground in front of a frowning Cologne, too weak to even move.

"I wish that we could have settled this differently," he whispered.

"As do I," she told him as she slung him over her shoulder and walked back to the Nekohaten. There, the rest of the Council would handle things, as they had arrived not two days prior to check on her progress in getting Ranma into the tribe. They were the ones who had demanded Happosai's death. She would have preferred just leaving him useless for the rest of his life.

Happosai was never seen again.

There, now you know what happened afterwards. The rest of the story will follow Ranma. That means no more Nerima. I still want to know what Pokèmon you think Ranma should have.

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