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Are you serious?

Chapter 14

by Gabriel R. Lopez

Ryu Kumon really had no one to blame for the current situation other than herself. As the young moon cat pulled a plant sticker out of her paw with her teeth, she noticed something that smelled absolutely heavenly. Ryu's attention was immediately drawn to the city of tents across the street, that seemed to appear just beyond the horizon. Ryu's mouth salivated as the smell of barbeque chicken, popcorn, cotton candy, and pineapple filled the air… "yum, yum"

Akane was preparing to test for her drivers license, Kasumi was sitting in the passenger seat of the Audi 80, reading the road, and monitoring Akane's violent tendencies. Making sure Akane drove around the defenseless animals instead of through them… of course when driving in the Mall parking lot and surrounding surface streets of Nermia no one expects the unexpected. Nermia was the peaceful serene district of Tokyo (or wherever) known for its laid back suburban lifestyle. Nermia was a happy place, with no monsters or sailor senshi, and had the lowest crime rate in all of Japan. Akane downshifted the automatic…this seemed odd to Kasumi, because Kasumi didn't know you could downshift an automatic. Toward the Audi's immediate right, was the Numa Numa Outlet Mall. And, on the vehicles immediate left the Tendo sisters had a nice view of Moral Park (a beautiful public woodland area known for its lavish green grass, it's beautiful cherry blossom trees, and its seasonal allergens). As it was on the border between the two districts of Juuban and Nermia it was frequently used for public events. Today the park was being used for the Polynesian heritage celebration… Hawaiians and others of Polynesian decent flocked from all over Japan to participate in the Kuno family sponsored event (or they would, if they actually knew about it). Mostly the Kiosks were visited by local Nermians and Jubbanites who treated the whole event as a community fair more than anything.

"Now Akane, I want you to ease into the left lane…good, now when we get to the stop sign, I want you to use the blinker and…why are you accelerating?" Kasumi asked.

Spotting the Audi in the distance the young moon cat estimated that she had just enough time to make it to the park, and the pineapple shaped kiosk selling warm milk and spiced chai without getting hit. It was a calculated decision based on weeks of being a cute little kitty cat; and, Ryu was going to take advantage of her newfound feline cuteness to weasel as much food and warm milk from the merchants at the Polynesian festival as she could. Which, considering the current size of her stomach, would take a full two minutes. Had she known a violent maniac was behind the wheel of that Audi, or had she more experience in her cursed form she might not have taken such a daring- "ACHOO!"

"SKWERCH !" The Audi stopped centimeters from making Ryu a pancake.

"I said ease into the right lane not run over some defenseless kitty!" Kasumi panicked, unbuckled her safety belt, and was about to get out of the car when "EEEEEK!"

The Tendo sisters screamed in unison as a ghostly white arm reached over and onto the hood of the car. The ghostly white arm was followed by a very familiar looking pink haired girl, who was looking over the hood at both driver and passenger in total confusion. Something was definitely not right in Ryu's opinion, something was not right at all. Kasumi for one was shocked… Granted it made sense that if Ranma could turn from human to cat the same would hold true for Genma…however, this isn't what caused Kasumi's initial shock. Quickly Kasumi Opened the car door and chastised Ryu in a mothering tone "What do you think you're doing out here without any clothes on?" Kasumi quickly took off her apron and approached the thoroughly confused Ryu Kumon.

Ryu double blinked a few times as Kasumi rushed towards her. Kasumi wrapped her apron around Ryu to protect her modesty. Ryu was still very confused about the situation, the cobwebs of shock and confusion were beginning to clear as the soft warm apron was wrapped around the formerly feline martial artist.

"Are you alright?" Kasumi asked of Ryu.

"I'm " Ryu wasn't quite sure how to answer the question. "…a girl?" of course she had already discovered her cursed form was female in the several days since she'd meet Luna, but becoming human and female was slightly more jarring. As an animal it really didn't matter what gender she had because she could disconnect her human self and her animal self. Ryu thought of animals scientifically, being a human and a girl meant she was going to have to think of it physically and mentally until the shock wore off.

Kasumi hugged Ryu tightly. "We were so worried about you when you when you ran off yesterday. Don't you ever run off like that again." Kasumi used yesterday in the general sense as it had actually been almost a week since Genma had disappeared from the mall…

"Again?" Ryu asked, puzzled, as Kasumi escorted her to the back door of the car. Opening the car door Kasumi helped Ryu into the backseat. Fortunately, Kasumi had already bought Genma several sets of clothes and underwear beforehand, and they were still waiting for the pink haired martial artist in the car. Of course, while there were many clothes in the car that a young boy could wear without feeling too embarrassed , a majority of the clothes were chosen by Kasumi . As such, a majority of the clothes were modestly feminine.

"Now wait right here, and I'll get your bathing suit." Kasumi said this as sweet as a little bird chirping on a summer day.

"what!?" Now Ryu was really confused, she didn't want to run around naked, but this woman was crazy with a capital C'. "uh… no thank you, I-I don't think the clothes would fit me anyway." Ryu tried to escape the Audi and the two Tendo siblings, but Akane had grabbed her wrist and Ryu's other arm was holding up the apron.

"Oh no, you ain't getting away this time" Akane snarked.

Ryu didn't know what to do. She couldn't use the Yama sen ken because there wasn't enough room in the vehicle and she really didn't want to hurt Kasumi…The driver however, was fair game. Twisting her wrist while simultaneously delivering a hammer strike to Akane's right eye, Ryu was able to free herself and squirreled her way to the other rear passenger door. Ryu wiffled the door open as Kasumi baby tapped her on the back of the neck. Ryu managed to get out of the car while running naked towards the crowd at the Polynesian heritage festival. What Ryu hadn't accounted for however was Kasumi was also a martial artist and had a knowledge of pressure points that rivaled that of Dr.Tofu and Haposai.

"HELP!" Ryu screamed gaining only the attention of Tatewaki Kuno who was sipping a strawberry shaved ice slushy. As she ran naked in the street Ryu's body suddenly went numb and collapsed to the ground mercilessly… Ryu couldn't feel her legs, and she couldn't move her arms. She turned her head and craned her neck back in fear and watched as Kasumi approached from the car.

"I'm sorry Genma, you didn't leave me any choice"

"G-genma?" Ryu asked horrified, incapacitated as she was, as small as she was, she briefly remembered the horrors of being covered in sesame sauce and thrown into a pit of starved rodents.

"Excuse me, May I ask what's going on here?" Tatawaki asked, his bamboo blade at the ready.

"Oh My!" Kasumi said, realizing what this must have looked like. "I-um well, you see…" How does one explain away a kidnapping? "This our cousin Rini, from…. Honolulu. She's staying with us at the dojo, but she- she heard about the Polynesian festival and was so exited she ran off without a stitch of clothing."

Kuno wasn't sure he bought the story since the dojo was five miles away. "How did she manage to get so far from the dojo?"

"Um…she's really, really, fast." Kasumi then kicked Genma in another pressure point between the ribs preventing her from speaking …well mostly.

"Nooooo! Don wisten, Shief liering, shieve rying " Rini tried to say 'Don't listen, she's lying' but being mostly paralyzed made speaking rather difficult.

"She's a little retarded" was Kasumi's rushed explanation for the gibberish, not bothering to be politically correct .

Kuno looked down at Rini, then looked at Kasumi…Rini looked as if she was completely and totally terrified, but Kasumi looked so sweet and innocent…. So much like Akane, his fierce tigress, his-

"Would you like to help me get her into the car?" Kasumi asked.

"sure!" Kuno said. Akane was strong and powerful , whereas Kasumi was sweet and beautiful. Hefting Rini over is shoulder like a sack of fertilizer, Tatawaki Kuno made his decision… he would have them both, and if it somehow turned out that this was a kidnapping, he'd get Kasumi and Akane the best lawyers money could buy...