"Hey Ryoga, I can't fight you now."

"Nice try, Ranma. I saw you fight those guys."

"Yeah, but that was against doctor's orders, and if it wasn't for that girl healing me, I'd be on my way to the hospital right now."

"Enough of yo..." Ranma cut him off.

"Look-it moron. I haven't recovered from Saffron and the failed wedding. These last few fights took a lot out of me. Heck YOU broke my arm a few days ago. I am sick of fighting. I am sick of "Because of you I've seen hell" and "Saotome prepare to die." Do you honestly believe that if you kill me all your problems will be fixed?"

"Yes."

"Well they won't and you'll be a murderer. I'm sorry you got cursed at Jusenkyo. No one deserves that (maybe the Panda). But I didn't make you go there. I'm sorry about your family curse but I didn't give it to you. You think your life is so miserable but at least you have a woman that loves you no matter which form your in."

"..." Ryoga swallowed. "I...I need to go think. Later Ranma."

It didn't take long for Ranma to get back to her Grandmother's, as it was getting close to dinner and she wanted to get cleaned first so she grabbed her bathing supply's and headed to the bathroom which, although a little larger, was much like the Tendo's bathroom. The furo was separated by a wall from the rest of the bathroom/change room, but the outer door had a lock on it.

However that was unfortunate for Ranma who didn't hear her cousin Brittany announced that she was changing to her cheetah form so when Ranma opened the door she froze. In her mind she started chanting 'Not a cat not a cat not a cat' but that didn't help when the Cheetah moved causing Ranma to scream "C...c...cat!" as she backed up towards the outer bathroom door she fell onto he butt landing against the door.

Brittney looked a bit hurt at the reaction. She walked up to the shaking Ranma, who was at war with herself. Brittney put her head into her lap and started purring. Over the next few minutes she noticed the temperature drop. Then Ranma moved her hand towards her cousin only for her to lick it which sent Ranma back into her frozen state as someone started pounding on the door.

"Everything alright?"

The door opened revealing Brittney in her hybrid form holding a towel wrapped Ranma. "Yeah Setsuna, I just spooked Ranma" she said before carrying her cousin to her room and putting her in her bed. She then headed off to have a tuna based snack.

Back at the beach Akane spent the last several hours, since waking up, thinking about everything that had happened since Ranma arrived and decided to talk to her main rivals. When they met, she told them she needed to know if what her sisters said was the truth.

"Shampoo does not get why Airen stays with Violet girl when could be with Spatula girl or come to wife."

"She has a point sug. The only exercise you get aside from breaking bricks is stretching the truth and jumping to conclusions."

"I'm really not..." she was cut off by Shampoo and Ukyo's as they let out a laugh. They then told her of a few times where she either blamed or hit Ranma for something he had no part of. Hearing this made a decision to see if Nabiki can get her into an anger management program.

Meanwhile in Crystal Tokyo/Gates of Time.

"This is Vesta calling Pluto."

"Go ahead."

"According to the video logs, Small Lady teleported down to Castle Charon."

"Why would sh...she went to the past."

Pluto entered the gates and after several hours found that there was an unauthorized usage, but the where and when was heavily encrypted. This caused her to let out a string of curses in several different languages before going and talking to her past self.