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hey its been a while and my muse finally decided to pay me a visit with a sledge hammer to help me break through my writers block and this came out I know its been forever but life happened. So with my excuses… I mean… explanations out of the way lets move on.

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She looked around the street she was running down and making a split second decision ducked into a little Café hoping that Ukyo wouldn't check here to find her.

She peeked out the door only to see her run right passed her Kagome sighed out of relief and thanked the gods that this woman didn't have Inuyashas sense of smell.

She turned around feeling eyes on her. And came to face a young woman and older woman staring at her strangely.

"Ummm…" began a little uncomfortable 'although I probably did look a little suspicious just darting in here and immediately peeking outside, almost like I was hiding from someone…' Kagome almost smacked herself at that thought 'I am hiding.'

At this point the younger woman stepped forward with a smile tailored just for waitressing "welcome to cat-café. Am Shampoo I take order?" she asked in botched but understandable Japanese.

"Sure." Kagome said a little hungry from all the running, she let the young indigo haired woman lead her to a table after skimming the menu she placed her order and as shampoo walked away she let her thoughts wander she scowled to herself thinking about her earlier fight with Inuyasha 'that Idiot…" she thought to herself.

'I know it was stupid, not like I hadn't heard it all before but it still made me mad… it still hurt…I guess that's why reacted so badly earlier… the anger had worn off.' Thinking over her reaction to Ranma's comment on him being stronger than her. (Which he is but…)

She sighed at her own thoughts 'I have more important things to worry about!" she reprimanded herself and suddenly a plate of noodles was set in front of her and looked up at the waitress and thanked her after looking back down at the noodles she realized she felt something nagging at her, her instincts had been whispering to her something about that girl… she should be careful around her... she noticed she had a similarity with both Ranma and Ryoga admittedly she thought the similarity she felt between the two boys had to do with their training, but this girl, while kagome could tell she was trained by the way she held herself, there was something else she couldn't place.

"Something wrong?" shampoo asked.

That's when Kagome realized she had been staring 'crap.' Thinking fast she came up with an excuse "I'm just surprised that this place isn't absolutely flooded with guys with how pretty you are, Shampoo; to be completely honest I'm a little jealous." At Shampoo and the older women's laugh she relaxed.

"So what's keeping the men away? jealous boyfriend?" Kagome asked jokingly with a teasing smile, although she wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

"nah," the old woman began "while quite the number of our male customers come here purely for Shampoo she's engaged by Amazon law and is here to marry the dear son in-law, the stubborn boy."

Kagome swallowed the noodles in her mouth and asked "by law?" 'what kind of law forces one person to marry another?'

"law states that if a man is to beat an Amazon woman in a fight the two must marry. But that boy refuses to cooperate." The old woman stated.

"does he want to marry Shampoo? No offense to you, your laws, or your beliefs but doesn't he get a say in the matter?" she asked a slightly incredulous voice. "I mean Shampoo is a beautiful girl and is very cute but there's more to love than that, unless this has nothing to do with love and you couldn't care less about it."

"in not just law Shampoo love airen!" Shampoo exclaimed getting in Kagomes face.

"I didn't say you didn't, I'm asking if he has a choice in getting married to you, or making his own decision whether it's you he chooses or someone else." She stated calmly and sucked more noodles into her mouth.

"its centuries of Amazon history and law he;s trying to thwart simply because he's getting cold feet." Shampoos great grandmother said.

"oh so he was aware that beating her meant he'd have to marry her?" Kagome asked wondering who the heck this guy was although something about this story and… Amazons, it was just something about it…

"well, no but three-thousand years of Amazon laws can't be evaded by such a silly little thing." Great grandmother sighed.

Kagome was flabbergasted "Silly?!" she asked "please excuse me if you find me out of line but he had no idea he was going to have to marry her after he beat her therefore probably had no intention of doing so, so what if her was already married?"

"he would simply have to break it off." Shampoos great grandmother answered without hesitation.

Kagome was appalled at this "so you would break up a happily married couple because the husband beat up some unwed girl?"

"when you put it that way it does sound a little silly and inappropriate…" she thought it over for a second having never had her views and cultures questionedthe way the girl just had had at a bit of a loss but she simply brushed it off. "love is ephemeral." She answered.

"that's a pretty bleak out look on it, and kind of cynical thing to say." Kagome said.

"either way it's a moot point Shampoo will marry the son-in-law no matter what I will not allow him to back out of it previously engaged to another or not." She old woman finished.

"wait he's already engaged and still plan on forcing him to marry shampoo!?" quickly looking to the younger woman "no offense you beautiful an would no doubt make a wonderful wife but…"

"he does constantly insists that his previously engaged fiancée is un-cute and doesn't seem to even consider the other one more than a friend."

'that…sounds farmiliar…' Kagome was beginning to feel her intuition kick in and finally she knew what was wrong as shampoo spoke.

"what problem you have with shampoo marry fiancé, with Shampoo marry Ranma?" Shampoo said getting right in her face.

Kagome went pale 'I just had to be engaged to a guy with three other fiancées'

Kagome fought down the fear and cleared her throat knowing just dropping the argument would be suspicious but also wanting to get out of there as fast as possible she quickly threw in "I just thought he should have a say in the matter that's all…" she said closing the argument and shoving as many of the noodles as she could in her mouth so she wouldn't have to talk and so she could finish her meal faster (not wanting to possibly insult the two women by not finishing)

Cologne noticed the unusual behavior andslightly panicked feeling about the girl and looked at her suspiciously.

After finishing her noodles and quickly paying for them she tried to leave but was stopped when Cologne asked "would you happen to know Ranma?"

Kagome froze and without turning around asked "what makes you say that?" unfortunately the way her voice squeaked and waivered when she asked this was entirely too telling.

"so you do." The old woman said Shampoo caught on and quickly drew her own conclusions "you be in love with Ranma too!" she yelled enraged.

"now who said any thing about-" Kagome began while turning around, but was cut off as Shampoo thrust one her chui towards her head.

Kagome barely dodging, then felt something soft pressed against her cheek and was confused to find Shampoo had just kissed her on the cheek, but decided to ignore the strange gesture (considering the situation) for now as Shampoo attacked her again, the poor girl sprinted her way out of the cat café with a highly jealous Amazon on her hot heels.

Only a few seconds after she began her panicked departure of the little café it began to rain and in no time she was soaked and had to wonder what it was she had done to disserve this kind of karma, while chancing a look back only to the young woman who had been chasing her was missing.

"huh? What happened? Where is she?" she wondered 'maybe she doesn't like the rain and so she headed back?' whatever the reason Kagome wouldn't complain. Just as she stopped running she felt a sharp pain near her ankle an looked down to see a small cat trying to dig its claws into her calf.

She reached down grabbing the cat by the skin on the back of its neck not paying any attention to the small claw marks on her leg, she's dealt with worse, and held the cat higher and at eyelevel but far enough away as to not be hurt by its swiping claws.

"huh, you don't have a collar so maybe you're a stray?" she wondered but the cat seemed to healthy to be a stray.

Just then she heard and saw a duck barreling it way towards her 'is that duck wearing glasses?' she thought as it flew straight for the cat she was holding.

Dropping it, it let out a wild yowl and ran away from the duck that took off after it.

Kagome left standing there blinking and bewildered quickly brushed off thinking it was none of her business anyways.

Deciding that it was probably safe to head back to the Tendo dojo started on her way intent on getting some answers.

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Wow it been like forever hasn't it well either way here's the next chapter I hope you enjoyed.

Please review (I can improve with critiques) please excuse my poor punctuation (I'll try to fix that later.)