Legal Note: Once again I don't own the Ranma only this story. Technically I don't even own that.
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"Ah! Home sweet home." Ryoga said with a satisfied smile as he entered his house. "Strange I haven't seen Ranma around town. Plus Akane said he left weeks ago. Where did he go?" Ryoga questioned entering his living room, which was a complete mess. "What the?" Ryoga dropped his bag and umbrella getting into fighting stance. "Come out whoever you are!" Ryoga yelled.
"Huh? Oh it's you." Ranma said popping his head up from a bunch of clothing. "I didn't think you'd be here for another week or so." Ranma said standing up and shaking off the clothes and takeout boxes.
"What are you doing in my home Ranma?!" Ryoga asked in an outburst.
"I had no where else ta go. Didn't 'ya hear?" Ranma asked with a grimace on his face.
"I heard everyone hated you, but I didn't know they left you on the streets. That's pretty much leaving you to die." Ryoga said calming himself and forming a casual stance. "You can live here only if you keep it clean." Ryoga said with a grunt entering the bathroom. "Ranma you put a toilet in my kitchen!"
"Idiot that's your bathroom. The kitchen's over there." Ranma said pointing to the room across the way.
Ryoga looked back to Ranma with a sneer and grumbles going into his kitchen. "Just because I said you could live here that doesn't mean forever."
"What do you care? You're only here every half of a year." Ranma said sitting on the couch and turning on the TV.
"Still it is my house! Actually it's not mine." Ryoga said drinking from the milk carton. "What if my parents actually come back and find you messing their place up?" Ryoga said looking at Ranma with disgust. "So turn off that TV and clean this place up!" Ryoga said bursting into the living area and punching Ranma in the head.
"Yeah fine!" Ranma retorted turning the TV off and picking some junk off the floor. "Man I can't believed it's come down to me living with you. It's like a martial art version of the 'Odd Couple'." Ranma said throwing the trash into a pile.
"Odd What?" Ryoga questioned looking to his rival.
"Eh, shut up pork butt." Ranma said throwing all the garbage in a plastic bag.
"If I offer you kindness you don't insult me!" Ryoga said in anger. "No wonder Akane was always beating you up. You're so inconsiderate to people who give you hospitality." Ryoga said with acid in his voice.
"Really? Is that why she dumped me like that?" Ranma said to himself. "I think you're wrong Ryoga. I think she was a bit stubborn. I think she had selective hearing and she didn't notice obvious things." Ranma said with a frown. "Still she was great." Ranma said with a warm smile.
"Is that so? Then why are you here?" Ryoga said with a mocking look.
"I went by there two weeks ago and she already has a new boyfriend. She forgot me that quickly." Ranma said with a stern look.
"A new boyfriend?!" Ryoga said in anger and surprise. "Will I ever be able to be with Akane?" Ryoga muttered.
"Ryoga just be happy with Akari. At least you got friends, and family. All I got, actually I own one outfit, and I'm living in the house of my rival. I don't got nothing." Ranma said with a said expression.
"Did all this bad luck start when I defeated you?" Ryoga asked concerned.
"Actually, it did." Ranma said sitting up in revelation. "What did you do to me?"
"I didn't do anything. A few days before I came to you with that challenge I met a boy who gave me that temporary cure, and told me to go defeat you in a swimming match. Then I went to Mousse and said to defeat you in something you can't win at. That was all." Ryoga said in defense.
"Wait. A boy told you?" Ranma said struggling to put two and two together. "Then, that boy, is" Ranma stops to pound on his head. "is the guy who ruined my life." Ranma said in victory.
"It took you that long?" Ryoga said with a mocking smile on his face.
"Shut up you didn't know that either." Ranma said in defense.
"I don't know who that guy was though. So we only know it was a guy and he doesn't like you." Ryoga said with a straight face.
"There's a lot of guys who don't like me. How do we narrow the search?" Ranma questioned rubbing his chin in thought.