SISTER TO
THE AMAZONS
By Wray Loflin
Chapter two
Disclaimer: Ranma and company belong to Rumiko Takahashi. Please don`t sue me as I have no money. This is just for entertainment only.( ) indicates thought, * * indicates Mandarin or Chinese, bold letters are shouting, indicates writing. Credit to Dark Jackel for part of the furo scene.
A light cold rain had just begun to fall over Nerima, when Soun Tendo was handed the mail by his oldest daughter. As he sorted through the mail he came across a postcard with a panda on the front. After turning it over he read, Bringing Ranma, some complications, expect to arrive on the fourth, will explain when we get there, Genma. Soun looked at the calender and saw that the day`s date was the fourth. When he saw this he jumped up and started to run around as he yelled.
"They`re coming, they`re coming."
He went into the kitchen, and found his oldest daughter, Kasumi. She had just started to prepare dinner for the evening.
"Kasumi, I want you in the family room in thirty minutes for a family meeting. Do you know where your sisters are?"
"Nabiki, should be in her room, Akane, should be back from her jog before to long, father."
Soun then preceded upstairs to tell Nabiki about the meeting. Nabiki was on her bed reading a manga when her father entered her room.
"Nabiki, I want you to go find Akane, both of you be in the family room in thirty minutes."
"Is it something important, father?"
"Yes it is, I`ll tell all of you when we have the meeting. Now go find your sister for me and tell her."
"Yes father, I think I heard her go into the dojo, I`ll go and get her for you."
Akane had just changed into her gi, after she`d gotten back from her jog. She was in the process of breaking bricks, when Nabiki entered the dojo.
"No wonder all the boys at school think your weird, Akane."
"Not everything revolves around boys, Nabiki."
"One of these days, Akane, your going to change your mind about boys. Unless you like girls better instead, do you?"
"Nabiki, I am not gay."
"You could fool me with the way you act."
"What did you come in here for, Nabiki?"
"Oh, just to tell you that father wants all of us in the family room in about twenty five minutes, sis."
"Any idea, what it is about?"
"No idea, though I did hear him yelling awhile ago, they`re coming, they`re coming."
"Now who could they be, sis?"
"You will find out when I do, Akane."
At the same time this was going on a trio of travelers entered the outskirts of Nerima. The trio consisted of two beautiful girls, and a giant panda. The two girls were walking under an umbrella when the shorter of the two girls turned to the other girl and said to her.
"Shampoo, even using an umbrella I still manage to get wet."
"Sister, it`s probably a part of your curse."
"Yeah, I guess it is, sis. Pops, where are we heading any way?"
The panda stopped and pulled out a sign which has written on it, We are going to visit an old friend of mine.
"Well pops, don`t you think that it is a better idea, if you don`t show up as a panda?"
"Sister have point, Panda-man."
"Yeah pops, let me stop and get some hot water for my thermos. That way we can change back just before we arrive at your friend`s place, and you won`t scare him."
That would probably be better, boy.
Ranma then proceeded to a nearby restaurant that she had just noticed to fill up her thermos. When she got back they proceeded on their journey to see Genma`s friend. After searching for about an half hour they noticed a sign that had Tendo Dojo written on it. When they had gotten up to the gate Ranma pulled out her thermos and poured some over her head. He then poured the remainder over his father`s head transforming him back to normal. They opened the gate to the grounds to enter.
Just before Ranma and company had arrived at the Tendo`s gate, Soun was inside the house having his meeting with his daughters.
"Daughters, an old friend of mine is coming here today with his son. One of you three will be his son`s fiancee."
"How old is he, father? Younger men are so young."
"Is he good looking?"
"I`m not going to marry him, boys are all perverts."
"I think he`s about sixteen or seventeen, I`ve never seen him. They just returned from China after a ten year training trip."
Just then they heard the bell on the gate ring as it was opened. Nabiki went to the door to see who had entered. What she saw was a older man around her fathers age accompanied by a handsome boy and a beautiful girl about her own age.
"Mine!" exclaimed Nabiki at the sight of Ranma. In her opinion Kasumi had the local doctor, and Akane had all the boys at school after her. So Nabiki deserved someone as good looking as the young man that had just entered the yard. With his looks, and her know how they could be rich.
Soun, having followed Nabiki to the door, saw his old friend who he hadn`t seen for almost twenty years. He rushed outside and embraced his old friend in a hug, streams of tears flowing down his face.
"Welcome old friend, I see the years have been kind to you."
"That they have, Soun."
"Let`s go inside so that you can introduce yourselves to my three daughters."
With that they all proceeded to enter the house. Inside they went to the family room and started to introduce themselves.
"I am Saotome Genma, and this is my son."
"Saotome Ranma, glad to meet you, and this is my adopted sister."
"Xian Pu, but you may call me, Shampoo."
"These are my three daughters, Kasumi, she`s nineteen, Nabiki, she`s seventeen, and Akane, she`s sixteen, choose one and she`ll be your fiancee."
"Fiancee? What`s the meaning of this old man?"
"It`s a matter of family honor, son, now pick one."
"I`ll take him, father."
"That`s right father, Nabiki already said that she wanted him."
"Don`t look at me father, I`m not going to marry any pervert."
"It`s settled then, Ranma shall marry Nabiki."
"Hey! Don`t I get any say on this, old man?"
"Yes Panda-man, my sister should have some say in who he is married to."
"It`s matter of honor, you will marry Nabiki, son."
Nabiki just having realized what Shampoo said asked, "Ranma, Why did Shampoo call you her sister, and not her brother?"
"Get me some hot and cold water, and I`ll show you why."
Kasumi went into the kitchen and came back with two glasses of water. She then handed them to Ranma, who then turned and handed the cold water to Shampoo.
"Would you do the honors, sister."
Shampoo then proceeded to pour the cold water over Ranma`s head transforming him into a girl.
"I was a girl when Shampoo here, adopted me into her tribe as her sister. So in her tribe I am considered a girl."
"So Ranma, are you really a boy, or are you a girl?" asked Nabiki as she felt Ranma`s breast.
Shampoo then proceeded to slap her hand away saying, "No groping of sister until after married."
"I was born a boy, this is my cursed form, I got it when my old man took me to the cursed springs of Jusenkyo, because he can`t read a lick of Chinese. He turns into a giant panda."
"Is there a cure?"
"No there is no cure, but hot water returns me to my male form until I get hit by cold water again." Ranma then poured the hot water over his head changing back to a boy.
Soun having watched this spoke up, "I see no problem with the curse, your really a man so the engagement stands."
Akane grinned and said, "Better you than me, sis. Well Ranma , you want to spar some? I`m the best martial artist in Nerima."
"Shampoo, do you think she would be much of a challenge for me?"
"Probably not much, spar with her as a girl to make it more fair to her."
"Hey! I don`t need any favors from a pervert boy to beat him."
"Okay, you asked for it, I`ll spar with you as a guy then. Lead the way to your dojo, and prepare to get your butt trounced."
"I`m the best in Nerima, there`s no way you can beat me."
"I was the best fighter of my age in my village, and Ranma beat me easily."
"Now sis, you were tired after the tournament. You are still getting better, but I`m the best."
Having entered the dojo and stretched, Ranma stood in a loose stance waiting for Akane to begin the fight. Akane thinking that he was no better than the boys she fought at school came out swinging her fist at his stomach. He easily dodged the punch by twisting his body, so she missed by an inch. He then grabbed her arm, and easily tossed her halfway across the dojo.
As she got to her feet, she exclaimed "I wasn`t ready."
"You threw the first blow, and say you weren`t ready, thats pathetic."
She ran towards him, trying to take Ranma off guard. He sidestepped her at the last second, and did a spinning heel kick to the back of her head sending her back down to the floor.
"Don`t telegraph your moves, whoever trained you was lax in your training."
Akane got up madder than a wet hen, and just started swinging wildly at Ranma. He avoided all her blows, until he had gotten tired of playing around with her. He then leapt up and somersaulted over her kicking her in the back of her head sending her once again to the floor of the dojo.
"This match is over, if your the best martial artist in Nerima, the rest must be pretty pitiful. You do have some potential, so if you want me and sis will train you. First thing you need to work on is getting your temper under control, wouldn`t you say so Shampoo."
"What my sister said is true, Akane, but we`ll train you, if you want to get better. Maybe not as good as me and my sister, but better than what you are now anyways."
With that said, Ranma and Shampoo left the dojo, and returned to the house. Akane just sat on the floor fuming over how she was beaten so easily by Ranma. She then remembered that both, Ranma and Shampoo, said that they would help her train to become better. She decided to do just that. She would train with them, and then show them just who was the better martial artist.
When Ranma and Shampoo, had entered the house Kasumi stopped them.
"Would both of you like to take a bath?"
"I guess after our trip, and the light sparring I just did, we could use one, Kasumi, thank you for asking us. Can you show us where the bath is?"
"Just follow me."
"Let us get some clean clothes out of our backpacks first, Kasumi."
After they had gotten clean clothes, they followed Kasumi to the bath. They stood just outside of the bath as they tried to decide who would go first.
"Shampoo, you go first, it`s not like when we were on the road and we only had cold water to bathe in. We were both girls, but I don`t think we should bathe together now."
"You are my sister, Ranma, I don`t care what they think, sisters do bathe together."
"Yes, I know that sis, but with the hot water in the furo I`ll be a boy, and don`t think the Tendo`s would like us bathing together, as a boy and a girl."
"So you`ll just have to be a girl when we take a bath together, we`ll make the water lukewarm so that it won`t change you into a boy."
"Okay sis, I just can`t to seem to win an argument with you."
"Well, you are both a boy, and a girl now for the rest of your life. You sleep with me as a girl, you are learning to live with your curse."
With Ranma losing the argument with Shampoo, they entered the bathroom. He then undressed and poured cold water over his head to prepare to wash up. While Ranma started to soap up, Shampoo was running cold water into the furo to make the water lukewarm. She then undressed so she could bathe.
"Ranma, do you want me to scrub your back for you?"
"Yeah sis, if you don`t mind."
"That`s what sisters are for, now relax while I scrub your back, then you can scrub mine for me when I`m done."
With that said she started washing Ranma`s back. When she was done with that she undid Ranma`s pigtail and proceeded to wash her hair for her. After Shampoo was finished, Ranma returned the favor. By then the water in the furo was cool enough to not trigger the change, so they slipped into it to soak for awhile.
"Well sis, looks like we`ll be staying here for awhile. Tell me what you think of the Tendo`s."
"Kasumi seems nice enough, Nabiki, I`m not sure of yet, and Akane, she has a bit of a temper. If she could ever get over her illusions of grandeur, she might make a good fighter. Their father seems to lack any control over his emotions, but overall they seem to be a decent family, better than your father anyways."
"Yeah, they seem okay, but I`m a little young to get married."
"Ranma, in the village you would probably already be married. In fact if I hadn`t mistakenly adopted you as my sister, I would be when I found out that you were a boy, your wife."
Out in the hallway Nabiki was ready to take a bath, when she stopped outside of the door to the bathroom. Only hearing female voices inside she entered to get undressed. After undressing and putting her clothes in the hamper, Nabiki entered the bathing part of the room. Ranma had her back to the door as she talked to Shampoo, so she didn`t notice Nabiki enter the room.
Shampoo having noticed Nabiki asked, "Would you like to join me and my sister, Nabiki?"
"How come Ranma`s still a girl, I thought she turned into a boy with hot water?"
"I do Nabiki, but the water is only warm, it`s not hot enough to change me."
"Why are you bathing together anyways?"
"Well, when we were on the road, most of our baths were only with cold water, so Shampoo convinced me since I was a girl at the time it really didn`t matter if we bathed together. I guess we just got in the habit of it, also I sleep as a girl. Because we sleep together in the same tent or room, there`s no trouble with two sisters sleeping together is there, Nabiki? Sis has really gotten me over a lot of my shyness towards girls."
"She has, well that`s good to know. Let me wash up, and I`ll join you for a soak, since it`s just us girls it doesn`t really matter."
"My curse doesn`t bother you, Nabiki?"
"Not much, it will add a little spice to our engagement. Now let me ask this how much of a girl are you in this form?"
"Completely, but I only like girls."
Nabiki having finished washing up, stepped into the furo to soak. At this point Akane entered the room.
"What in the hell is going on here, Nabiki?"
"What does it look like? I`m soaking in the furo."
"Yeah, but Ranma`s a boy, that`s perverted."
"Not right now, she`s a girl, and a beautiful one at that. Besides, Akane, we`re engaged so it`s okay if we share the furo. Shampoo`s here, she can be the chaperon to ensure I don`t ravish her sister, while we bathe together. You want to join us Akane, there`s plenty of room?"
"That`s sick, Nabiki, I`ll just leave now, and come back when all of you perverts are gone."
With that she turned around and left the room muttering, "They`re all just a bunch of perverts. I have to remember to drain,scrub, and sanitize the furo before I use it, no telling what they`ve been doing in it. My own sister too, I would never have thought she was like that."
After Akane had left the room Nabiki erupted in laughter. She was laughing at what she thought was probably going through her baby sister`s mind.
"What`s so funny, Nabiki?" asked Ranma.
"I was just thinking about what was more than likely going through Akane`s mind. She was probably thinking we were having a three way sex orgy in the furo."
"What does she have against Ranma, Nabiki?"
"It`s not only against Ranma, Shampoo. She does not like most men right now."
"How come?"
"It`s mainly because of school. She has most of the boys fighting her everyday."
"Why are they wanting to marry her?"
"No, they just want to date her, Kuno, a boy at school told the rest the that to be able to date Akane, they had to beat her in combat. Why did you say marry for?"
"Because in the village where I come from, if a man beats a woman in combat, she has to marry him."
"Yeah Nabiki, from what my sister has told me, if I had been a guy when I beat her, I would have been her husband. Since I was a girl at the time sis had two options, first, give me the kiss of death, or second, give me the kiss of sisterhood. Luckily I bowed my head to apologize for pop`s behavior, and she kissed me on the forehead making me her sister."
After soaking for around thirty minutes, they got out of the furo and got dressed, then went to the dining room to eat dinner. While they were eating , Akane just glared at the three of them. She had just put a mouthful of rice in her mouth, when Nabiki smirking at her said, "Well sis, my fiance here is a natural redhead, and she`s quite the looker in both forms don`t you think."
When Akane heard this she spewed her mouthful of rice all over Genma, who just happened to be sitting across from her. "All three of you are perverts, I knew Ranma was a pervert, because she`s really a boy, but my own sister! All of you stay away from me."
Shampoo asked, "Don`t you want me and Ranma to help you train?"
"I don`t want any training from you two perverts."
"Why do you keep calling us perverts?"
"Shampoo, Akane`s got an over active imagination, remember what I said in the furo. She probably imagined that we were having hot passionate sex between the three of us."
"Maybe I did, but Ranma`s still a pervert."
"Why do you consider my fiance a pervert, sister dear?"
"Because he`s a boy that turns into a girl, no telling what he does to that body."
Soun and Genma, only hearing what they wanted about Nabiki and Ranma, already having sex. Jumped up and started dancing around, going on about their house`s being united.
"Genma, They will be married tomorrow morning, I`ll go call the priest now."
"Right Soun, we won`t take no for an answer either, they will be wed, or Ranma will commit seppuku for his dishonor."
"Nabiki, what is seppuku?" asked Shampoo.
"It is ritual suicide."
"My sister will not commit seppuku, Panda-man."
"He will for his dishonor!"
"What dishonor?"
"Having sex before he`s married to Nabiki."
"Who said we had sex, pops?"
"Nabiki just said it."
"Pops, she said that Akane probably imagined that we were having sex in the furo."
"Yes that`s what I said, Mr. Saotome. Ranma was a girl to, there`s no problem with three girls bathing together."
"If you try to hurt my sister, Panda-man, I will just have to skin me a panda for a new rug. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Soun, I think we better hold off on the wedding for a while, she means it, I don`t want to be a rug."
"Why are you so sure she means it, Genma?"
"She`s highly protective of Ranma, I learned that the hard way on our trip from China."
"What happened?"
"Let`s just say, I got more than a few lumps on the head."
Since the matter was effectively over, and dinner was done with. It was time to decide where they were going to sleep.
"I will sleep with my sister, Panda-man can sleep in the yard."
Kasumi said ,"I don`t think that it is proper for a boy and a girl to sleep together, Shampoo."
"I sleep as a girl, Kasumi, I have for the last two months."
"Why have you been sleeping as a girl?"
"Because we only had two tents, and pops slept as a panda taking up one tent. So, me and sis had to share the other one, it`s okay for two girls to share the same tent, correct?"
"Yes it is, I guess if you sleep as a girl, it won`t matter if you two share a room then. You and Shampoo, can use one guest room and your father can use the other."
"Good, cause pops snores loud enough to wake the dead."
"I`ll show you which room you will be sleeping in, just follow me."
After being shown to the room, Ranma and Shampoo had gotten ready for the night. Ranma was dressed in a tanktop and shorts, Shampoo a nightgown, she had brought with her from her village. Having rolled out the futon on the floor, they had laid down on it and were talking.
"Looks like we will be here for a while, sis."
"I will send a message to great grandmother tomorrow to let her know where we are. Maybe she has found some information about your curse, sister."
"I hope so, sis. We need to keep my ability a secret from the Tendo`s too."
"I won`t tell, and I know Panda-man can`t remember about it."
"Good, hopefully he won`t ever. Goodnight sis."
"Goodnight sister," Shampoo said, as she kissed Ranma, on the forehead, and then laid back down to go to sleep.
By Wray Loflin
Chapter two
Disclaimer: Ranma and company belong to Rumiko Takahashi. Please don`t sue me as I have no money. This is just for entertainment only.( ) indicates thought, * * indicates Mandarin or Chinese, bold letters are shouting, indicates writing. Credit to Dark Jackel for part of the furo scene.
A light cold rain had just begun to fall over Nerima, when Soun Tendo was handed the mail by his oldest daughter. As he sorted through the mail he came across a postcard with a panda on the front. After turning it over he read, Bringing Ranma, some complications, expect to arrive on the fourth, will explain when we get there, Genma. Soun looked at the calender and saw that the day`s date was the fourth. When he saw this he jumped up and started to run around as he yelled.
"They`re coming, they`re coming."
He went into the kitchen, and found his oldest daughter, Kasumi. She had just started to prepare dinner for the evening.
"Kasumi, I want you in the family room in thirty minutes for a family meeting. Do you know where your sisters are?"
"Nabiki, should be in her room, Akane, should be back from her jog before to long, father."
Soun then preceded upstairs to tell Nabiki about the meeting. Nabiki was on her bed reading a manga when her father entered her room.
"Nabiki, I want you to go find Akane, both of you be in the family room in thirty minutes."
"Is it something important, father?"
"Yes it is, I`ll tell all of you when we have the meeting. Now go find your sister for me and tell her."
"Yes father, I think I heard her go into the dojo, I`ll go and get her for you."
Akane had just changed into her gi, after she`d gotten back from her jog. She was in the process of breaking bricks, when Nabiki entered the dojo.
"No wonder all the boys at school think your weird, Akane."
"Not everything revolves around boys, Nabiki."
"One of these days, Akane, your going to change your mind about boys. Unless you like girls better instead, do you?"
"Nabiki, I am not gay."
"You could fool me with the way you act."
"What did you come in here for, Nabiki?"
"Oh, just to tell you that father wants all of us in the family room in about twenty five minutes, sis."
"Any idea, what it is about?"
"No idea, though I did hear him yelling awhile ago, they`re coming, they`re coming."
"Now who could they be, sis?"
"You will find out when I do, Akane."
At the same time this was going on a trio of travelers entered the outskirts of Nerima. The trio consisted of two beautiful girls, and a giant panda. The two girls were walking under an umbrella when the shorter of the two girls turned to the other girl and said to her.
"Shampoo, even using an umbrella I still manage to get wet."
"Sister, it`s probably a part of your curse."
"Yeah, I guess it is, sis. Pops, where are we heading any way?"
The panda stopped and pulled out a sign which has written on it, We are going to visit an old friend of mine.
"Well pops, don`t you think that it is a better idea, if you don`t show up as a panda?"
"Sister have point, Panda-man."
"Yeah pops, let me stop and get some hot water for my thermos. That way we can change back just before we arrive at your friend`s place, and you won`t scare him."
That would probably be better, boy.
Ranma then proceeded to a nearby restaurant that she had just noticed to fill up her thermos. When she got back they proceeded on their journey to see Genma`s friend. After searching for about an half hour they noticed a sign that had Tendo Dojo written on it. When they had gotten up to the gate Ranma pulled out her thermos and poured some over her head. He then poured the remainder over his father`s head transforming him back to normal. They opened the gate to the grounds to enter.
Just before Ranma and company had arrived at the Tendo`s gate, Soun was inside the house having his meeting with his daughters.
"Daughters, an old friend of mine is coming here today with his son. One of you three will be his son`s fiancee."
"How old is he, father? Younger men are so young."
"Is he good looking?"
"I`m not going to marry him, boys are all perverts."
"I think he`s about sixteen or seventeen, I`ve never seen him. They just returned from China after a ten year training trip."
Just then they heard the bell on the gate ring as it was opened. Nabiki went to the door to see who had entered. What she saw was a older man around her fathers age accompanied by a handsome boy and a beautiful girl about her own age.
"Mine!" exclaimed Nabiki at the sight of Ranma. In her opinion Kasumi had the local doctor, and Akane had all the boys at school after her. So Nabiki deserved someone as good looking as the young man that had just entered the yard. With his looks, and her know how they could be rich.
Soun, having followed Nabiki to the door, saw his old friend who he hadn`t seen for almost twenty years. He rushed outside and embraced his old friend in a hug, streams of tears flowing down his face.
"Welcome old friend, I see the years have been kind to you."
"That they have, Soun."
"Let`s go inside so that you can introduce yourselves to my three daughters."
With that they all proceeded to enter the house. Inside they went to the family room and started to introduce themselves.
"I am Saotome Genma, and this is my son."
"Saotome Ranma, glad to meet you, and this is my adopted sister."
"Xian Pu, but you may call me, Shampoo."
"These are my three daughters, Kasumi, she`s nineteen, Nabiki, she`s seventeen, and Akane, she`s sixteen, choose one and she`ll be your fiancee."
"Fiancee? What`s the meaning of this old man?"
"It`s a matter of family honor, son, now pick one."
"I`ll take him, father."
"That`s right father, Nabiki already said that she wanted him."
"Don`t look at me father, I`m not going to marry any pervert."
"It`s settled then, Ranma shall marry Nabiki."
"Hey! Don`t I get any say on this, old man?"
"Yes Panda-man, my sister should have some say in who he is married to."
"It`s matter of honor, you will marry Nabiki, son."
Nabiki just having realized what Shampoo said asked, "Ranma, Why did Shampoo call you her sister, and not her brother?"
"Get me some hot and cold water, and I`ll show you why."
Kasumi went into the kitchen and came back with two glasses of water. She then handed them to Ranma, who then turned and handed the cold water to Shampoo.
"Would you do the honors, sister."
Shampoo then proceeded to pour the cold water over Ranma`s head transforming him into a girl.
"I was a girl when Shampoo here, adopted me into her tribe as her sister. So in her tribe I am considered a girl."
"So Ranma, are you really a boy, or are you a girl?" asked Nabiki as she felt Ranma`s breast.
Shampoo then proceeded to slap her hand away saying, "No groping of sister until after married."
"I was born a boy, this is my cursed form, I got it when my old man took me to the cursed springs of Jusenkyo, because he can`t read a lick of Chinese. He turns into a giant panda."
"Is there a cure?"
"No there is no cure, but hot water returns me to my male form until I get hit by cold water again." Ranma then poured the hot water over his head changing back to a boy.
Soun having watched this spoke up, "I see no problem with the curse, your really a man so the engagement stands."
Akane grinned and said, "Better you than me, sis. Well Ranma , you want to spar some? I`m the best martial artist in Nerima."
"Shampoo, do you think she would be much of a challenge for me?"
"Probably not much, spar with her as a girl to make it more fair to her."
"Hey! I don`t need any favors from a pervert boy to beat him."
"Okay, you asked for it, I`ll spar with you as a guy then. Lead the way to your dojo, and prepare to get your butt trounced."
"I`m the best in Nerima, there`s no way you can beat me."
"I was the best fighter of my age in my village, and Ranma beat me easily."
"Now sis, you were tired after the tournament. You are still getting better, but I`m the best."
Having entered the dojo and stretched, Ranma stood in a loose stance waiting for Akane to begin the fight. Akane thinking that he was no better than the boys she fought at school came out swinging her fist at his stomach. He easily dodged the punch by twisting his body, so she missed by an inch. He then grabbed her arm, and easily tossed her halfway across the dojo.
As she got to her feet, she exclaimed "I wasn`t ready."
"You threw the first blow, and say you weren`t ready, thats pathetic."
She ran towards him, trying to take Ranma off guard. He sidestepped her at the last second, and did a spinning heel kick to the back of her head sending her back down to the floor.
"Don`t telegraph your moves, whoever trained you was lax in your training."
Akane got up madder than a wet hen, and just started swinging wildly at Ranma. He avoided all her blows, until he had gotten tired of playing around with her. He then leapt up and somersaulted over her kicking her in the back of her head sending her once again to the floor of the dojo.
"This match is over, if your the best martial artist in Nerima, the rest must be pretty pitiful. You do have some potential, so if you want me and sis will train you. First thing you need to work on is getting your temper under control, wouldn`t you say so Shampoo."
"What my sister said is true, Akane, but we`ll train you, if you want to get better. Maybe not as good as me and my sister, but better than what you are now anyways."
With that said, Ranma and Shampoo left the dojo, and returned to the house. Akane just sat on the floor fuming over how she was beaten so easily by Ranma. She then remembered that both, Ranma and Shampoo, said that they would help her train to become better. She decided to do just that. She would train with them, and then show them just who was the better martial artist.
When Ranma and Shampoo, had entered the house Kasumi stopped them.
"Would both of you like to take a bath?"
"I guess after our trip, and the light sparring I just did, we could use one, Kasumi, thank you for asking us. Can you show us where the bath is?"
"Just follow me."
"Let us get some clean clothes out of our backpacks first, Kasumi."
After they had gotten clean clothes, they followed Kasumi to the bath. They stood just outside of the bath as they tried to decide who would go first.
"Shampoo, you go first, it`s not like when we were on the road and we only had cold water to bathe in. We were both girls, but I don`t think we should bathe together now."
"You are my sister, Ranma, I don`t care what they think, sisters do bathe together."
"Yes, I know that sis, but with the hot water in the furo I`ll be a boy, and don`t think the Tendo`s would like us bathing together, as a boy and a girl."
"So you`ll just have to be a girl when we take a bath together, we`ll make the water lukewarm so that it won`t change you into a boy."
"Okay sis, I just can`t to seem to win an argument with you."
"Well, you are both a boy, and a girl now for the rest of your life. You sleep with me as a girl, you are learning to live with your curse."
With Ranma losing the argument with Shampoo, they entered the bathroom. He then undressed and poured cold water over his head to prepare to wash up. While Ranma started to soap up, Shampoo was running cold water into the furo to make the water lukewarm. She then undressed so she could bathe.
"Ranma, do you want me to scrub your back for you?"
"Yeah sis, if you don`t mind."
"That`s what sisters are for, now relax while I scrub your back, then you can scrub mine for me when I`m done."
With that said she started washing Ranma`s back. When she was done with that she undid Ranma`s pigtail and proceeded to wash her hair for her. After Shampoo was finished, Ranma returned the favor. By then the water in the furo was cool enough to not trigger the change, so they slipped into it to soak for awhile.
"Well sis, looks like we`ll be staying here for awhile. Tell me what you think of the Tendo`s."
"Kasumi seems nice enough, Nabiki, I`m not sure of yet, and Akane, she has a bit of a temper. If she could ever get over her illusions of grandeur, she might make a good fighter. Their father seems to lack any control over his emotions, but overall they seem to be a decent family, better than your father anyways."
"Yeah, they seem okay, but I`m a little young to get married."
"Ranma, in the village you would probably already be married. In fact if I hadn`t mistakenly adopted you as my sister, I would be when I found out that you were a boy, your wife."
Out in the hallway Nabiki was ready to take a bath, when she stopped outside of the door to the bathroom. Only hearing female voices inside she entered to get undressed. After undressing and putting her clothes in the hamper, Nabiki entered the bathing part of the room. Ranma had her back to the door as she talked to Shampoo, so she didn`t notice Nabiki enter the room.
Shampoo having noticed Nabiki asked, "Would you like to join me and my sister, Nabiki?"
"How come Ranma`s still a girl, I thought she turned into a boy with hot water?"
"I do Nabiki, but the water is only warm, it`s not hot enough to change me."
"Why are you bathing together anyways?"
"Well, when we were on the road, most of our baths were only with cold water, so Shampoo convinced me since I was a girl at the time it really didn`t matter if we bathed together. I guess we just got in the habit of it, also I sleep as a girl. Because we sleep together in the same tent or room, there`s no trouble with two sisters sleeping together is there, Nabiki? Sis has really gotten me over a lot of my shyness towards girls."
"She has, well that`s good to know. Let me wash up, and I`ll join you for a soak, since it`s just us girls it doesn`t really matter."
"My curse doesn`t bother you, Nabiki?"
"Not much, it will add a little spice to our engagement. Now let me ask this how much of a girl are you in this form?"
"Completely, but I only like girls."
Nabiki having finished washing up, stepped into the furo to soak. At this point Akane entered the room.
"What in the hell is going on here, Nabiki?"
"What does it look like? I`m soaking in the furo."
"Yeah, but Ranma`s a boy, that`s perverted."
"Not right now, she`s a girl, and a beautiful one at that. Besides, Akane, we`re engaged so it`s okay if we share the furo. Shampoo`s here, she can be the chaperon to ensure I don`t ravish her sister, while we bathe together. You want to join us Akane, there`s plenty of room?"
"That`s sick, Nabiki, I`ll just leave now, and come back when all of you perverts are gone."
With that she turned around and left the room muttering, "They`re all just a bunch of perverts. I have to remember to drain,scrub, and sanitize the furo before I use it, no telling what they`ve been doing in it. My own sister too, I would never have thought she was like that."
After Akane had left the room Nabiki erupted in laughter. She was laughing at what she thought was probably going through her baby sister`s mind.
"What`s so funny, Nabiki?" asked Ranma.
"I was just thinking about what was more than likely going through Akane`s mind. She was probably thinking we were having a three way sex orgy in the furo."
"What does she have against Ranma, Nabiki?"
"It`s not only against Ranma, Shampoo. She does not like most men right now."
"How come?"
"It`s mainly because of school. She has most of the boys fighting her everyday."
"Why are they wanting to marry her?"
"No, they just want to date her, Kuno, a boy at school told the rest the that to be able to date Akane, they had to beat her in combat. Why did you say marry for?"
"Because in the village where I come from, if a man beats a woman in combat, she has to marry him."
"Yeah Nabiki, from what my sister has told me, if I had been a guy when I beat her, I would have been her husband. Since I was a girl at the time sis had two options, first, give me the kiss of death, or second, give me the kiss of sisterhood. Luckily I bowed my head to apologize for pop`s behavior, and she kissed me on the forehead making me her sister."
After soaking for around thirty minutes, they got out of the furo and got dressed, then went to the dining room to eat dinner. While they were eating , Akane just glared at the three of them. She had just put a mouthful of rice in her mouth, when Nabiki smirking at her said, "Well sis, my fiance here is a natural redhead, and she`s quite the looker in both forms don`t you think."
When Akane heard this she spewed her mouthful of rice all over Genma, who just happened to be sitting across from her. "All three of you are perverts, I knew Ranma was a pervert, because she`s really a boy, but my own sister! All of you stay away from me."
Shampoo asked, "Don`t you want me and Ranma to help you train?"
"I don`t want any training from you two perverts."
"Why do you keep calling us perverts?"
"Shampoo, Akane`s got an over active imagination, remember what I said in the furo. She probably imagined that we were having hot passionate sex between the three of us."
"Maybe I did, but Ranma`s still a pervert."
"Why do you consider my fiance a pervert, sister dear?"
"Because he`s a boy that turns into a girl, no telling what he does to that body."
Soun and Genma, only hearing what they wanted about Nabiki and Ranma, already having sex. Jumped up and started dancing around, going on about their house`s being united.
"Genma, They will be married tomorrow morning, I`ll go call the priest now."
"Right Soun, we won`t take no for an answer either, they will be wed, or Ranma will commit seppuku for his dishonor."
"Nabiki, what is seppuku?" asked Shampoo.
"It is ritual suicide."
"My sister will not commit seppuku, Panda-man."
"He will for his dishonor!"
"What dishonor?"
"Having sex before he`s married to Nabiki."
"Who said we had sex, pops?"
"Nabiki just said it."
"Pops, she said that Akane probably imagined that we were having sex in the furo."
"Yes that`s what I said, Mr. Saotome. Ranma was a girl to, there`s no problem with three girls bathing together."
"If you try to hurt my sister, Panda-man, I will just have to skin me a panda for a new rug. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Soun, I think we better hold off on the wedding for a while, she means it, I don`t want to be a rug."
"Why are you so sure she means it, Genma?"
"She`s highly protective of Ranma, I learned that the hard way on our trip from China."
"What happened?"
"Let`s just say, I got more than a few lumps on the head."
Since the matter was effectively over, and dinner was done with. It was time to decide where they were going to sleep.
"I will sleep with my sister, Panda-man can sleep in the yard."
Kasumi said ,"I don`t think that it is proper for a boy and a girl to sleep together, Shampoo."
"I sleep as a girl, Kasumi, I have for the last two months."
"Why have you been sleeping as a girl?"
"Because we only had two tents, and pops slept as a panda taking up one tent. So, me and sis had to share the other one, it`s okay for two girls to share the same tent, correct?"
"Yes it is, I guess if you sleep as a girl, it won`t matter if you two share a room then. You and Shampoo, can use one guest room and your father can use the other."
"Good, cause pops snores loud enough to wake the dead."
"I`ll show you which room you will be sleeping in, just follow me."
After being shown to the room, Ranma and Shampoo had gotten ready for the night. Ranma was dressed in a tanktop and shorts, Shampoo a nightgown, she had brought with her from her village. Having rolled out the futon on the floor, they had laid down on it and were talking.
"Looks like we will be here for a while, sis."
"I will send a message to great grandmother tomorrow to let her know where we are. Maybe she has found some information about your curse, sister."
"I hope so, sis. We need to keep my ability a secret from the Tendo`s too."
"I won`t tell, and I know Panda-man can`t remember about it."
"Good, hopefully he won`t ever. Goodnight sis."
"Goodnight sister," Shampoo said, as she kissed Ranma, on the forehead, and then laid back down to go to sleep.