A/N: Sorry about the wait, it was my first case of writers block : (

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Dark Master: I know, I'm working on that.

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Disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and all original characters belong to me, inc. plot. Don't steal or sue.

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Call of the Hunt.

By Team Rockets Vaporeon

Chapter 3.

Ranma sighed. Akane had cooked dinner today and after he'd refused to eat something that was glowing green and moved she'd malleted him into the stratosphere. Deciding that it was better to lie low for awhile, he was currently on top of the Tendo dojo roof. 'Geez, she didn't have to hit me that hard. It's not like anyone else was gonna eat that goop anyway.' He lent back and gazed at the stars. 'Its been so quiet. Apart from Kuno, no ones challenged me at all. Even Mousse is leaving me alone. I wonder where Ryoga is. He's been gone for the longest time yet! Has he actually decided to give up?' Ranma hoped not. Ryoga was the only person in Nerima that kept him on his toes. Sure there was Happosai and Cologne but he rarely fought them for it to count. He smiled. 'Whenever I beat Ryoga, he leaves, learns a new technique and comes back stronger then before and fights me again. So I have to get better to beat him again. If it weren't for Ryoga, I'd probably not have half the skill I do now or most of the techniques I know. Still, he is the Lost Boy. He's probably in Kyushu somewhere.'

Ranma got up, deciding that it had been long enough for Akane to calm down and he could go inside without his face meeting the floor. As he jumped down from the roof, it suddenly started to rain. "Ah dammit!" she cursed before going inside to have a nice long soak in a nice hot bath.

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Somewhere on the outskirts of Nerima….

Two boys where staggering along a street. "We did it! We made it to Nerima!" one cried. "Yeah," the other said. "After two months. I think I'm getting better." The first boy opened his mouth to reply… as the rain hit them. 'Dammit!' Ryoga thought as he wriggled out from under his backpack.

Beside him, Ryugen was also scrambling out from under his own pack. They dragged their packs into the shelter of an alleyway. They then gathered their clothes and put them by their packs, as when they transformed their clothes could not stay on their animal forms. Only their bandannas stayed on and those fell to around their necks. Ryugen signed that he was going to look for some hot water (Being around each other for two months, most of which being in their cursed forms, had forced them to create a sort of pseudo sign-language so that they could communicate with each other). He padded out of the alleyway and bounded off. Ryoga walked to the mouth of the alleyway and watched the passerby's. It stopped raining after five minutes. 'Typical! It starts raining when we where so close to the Tendo Dojo so Ryugen has to find water! Then it stops five minutes later!' he bweed to himself. 'At least Ryugen can't get lost in his cursed form. He can follow the scent trail back.'

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Ryugen slowly padded along the streets. 'So this is Nerima. I wonder what Ryoga wanted to do here.' His thoughts on Nerima and Ryoga were suddenly cut off as his sensitive nose picked up the smell of chicken marinating in white wine. His thoughts were further cut off by the sound of his own stomach rumbling. 'Hmm… I'm supposed to be looking for hot water but I'm sooo hungry… Oh, I'm sure that there will be hot water where that smell is coming from.' With that reasoning in mind, he set off to where the scent of chicken was from. It seemed to be originating from behind a large gate, which happened to be slightly ajar. 'Heh, lucky!' he thought as he slipped through.

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"RANMA NO BAKA!"

Kasumi hummed to herself as she worked. The sounds of Akane and Ranma fighting had become so commonplace that they no longer bothered her. She had decided to cook chicken for dinner today and was now marinating it in white wine. Not even the splash of Ranma being hit into the koi pond distracted her. With all the strange things that happened in Nerima no one paid heed to a shadow as it slipped through the gate and into the undergrowth.

Ryugen grinned to himself as well as a wolf can grin. 'OK, the chicken smell is coming from that door there. So, if I can get round to it, using the bushes as cover, I could slip inside, grab some and run. I'd better get some for Ryoga as well. And I need to find some hot water.' His plan made, he began to slink round the yard, towards the door. It never occurred to him that someone might be in there…

Reaching the door, he nosed it open and went inside. Just as Kasumi turned around to call Ranma and Akane in from the actual dojo itself. Which, coincidentally, was located on the other side of the yard. Which meant that she had to go to the outside door to call them. Which was the same door that Ryugen had just walked in.

'Oh crap!'

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Once again, I'm sorry about the wait and thank you for your reviews. Its nice to know people are actually reading this. And on the same note, I need suggestions about what happens next as I never thought that people would like this as no one seems to like my other work so I never really thought of a plot ^.^;;;;;;;;;;;