Title Follow the Breadcrumbs

Author landofthekwt

Prompt Absence (Masquerade)

Word Count 270

Fandom Ranma 1/2

Warning none

Summary

Ranma kicked around the dojo The old man was missing. That always meant trouble. Since his arrival at the Tendo dojo he had yet to miss a meal .

What in the world would lead a major leech like his father to leave a sweet deal like the Tendo dojo where he received all the food he could eat without lifting a finger.

The only one thing could lead him away from a sweet deal was a sweeter deal. Ranma just needed to find someone who offer him more food than the Tendos.

It did not take long to follow the trail of breadcrumbs. His father had ins with his two other fiances. Shampoo and Uchan. Sooner or later he would show up looking for free food.

When he reached Uchan's shop, he heard her tale of woe. Yes, she had hired his father to act as a sandwich man in his panda form advertising the shop in exchange for food, but he had scared all of the customers away when he entered the shop for lunch so they had to fire him

The next stop was the Cat Café. Ranma found Shampoo steaming outside the shop. She let him have it full blast. His father had been there and she had hired him to deliver food, but he had wrecked the bike in his panda form and escaped with theirs food.

There could only be place left for his father. The only place where he could obtain food without doing any work. Sure enough, his father was there at the dinner table. Until of course Kasumi announced that Akane had cooked the meal. His father tried to escape but after all the trouble he

had put everyone through Ranma was going make sure that he got his just desserts.