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Chapter 4: Kiyoja and her Spells

"Your mother was a delinquent?" Akane gasped.

"Yeah. She wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either." Ikuyo sighed. She looked to the side and sniffed.

"Was she a…good mom?" Akane asked.

"Wonderful. No problems about that." She said with a smile. "It's just that she…was...a little careless."

Ranma snorted and walked ahead. I'm gonna be all man again! I hope she wasn't bluffin', he thought.

"Rana-chan!" he heard Ikuyo call from behind him.

"Rana-chan?" he asked.

"Got your attention didn't it?" she asked. "Anyway…we need to turn this way." She said pointing down a dark dirt road.

"Kay." He said and turned.

"So docile." Ikuyo whispered to Akane.

Akane just snorted and walked ahead. "Only to you." She muttered when she was out of hearing range.

Ikuyo caught up and looked around. "My sister was half demon." she said quietly.

"Wow. You had problems." Ranma said rudely.

"Ranma! Shut up!" Akane hissed. "Why do you think that?" she asked softly.

"She had them piercin' red eyes," she said as she pointed to her eyes and crossed her eyes, "Her hair was bright silver also. She was real docile and there was this angelic presence 'bout her. She, like my mother, was a little bit-a a delinquent, always causin' trouble. I'm the only sweet normal person in the whole family." She said proudly.

"Not by the way you talk." Akane muttered.

"I went to Kansai I'll have you know!" she snapped. "And I usually hold the urge to talk with my accent when I'm around people."

"Kansai? That's not anywhere near China. Why were you there?" Ranma asked.

"Why are you being so polite lately?!" Akane snapped.

"Ikuyo's injured. I gotta be nice." He said and stuck his nose up. "Not to tomboys like you though."

"Stop it Ranma-kun." Ikuyo said. "It ain't Akane's fault she's got no girly qualities yet." She said as she put her hand on the fuming girls' shoulder.

"Yet?" she grumbled.

"Don't take it seriously, girl." Ikuyo said as she patted her back. "Don't you get tired of bein' mad at people all the time? It sure annoys me."

"Ranma said the same thing!" Akane snapped.

"I guess lovers think along the same lines." she said as she winked at Ranma.

Akane rolled her eyes. "Your mother, what did she do to be called a delinquent?" she asked.

"Um…beat up kids for money, got suspended from school, talked back to her elders, teachers, and parents; although they weren't very great parents she respected only them in the tiniest bit. 

"When she was 18 she gave back all the money she stole ad apologized for the beatings she gave regularly. She also signed up for animal care and rehabilitation because she had a very very large soft spot for animals." Ikuyo explained.

"So she redeemed herself? Are you listening Ranma? You can redeem yourself." Akane called to him.

"Redeem myself for what?" he asked.

"Your rudeness toward your fiancé. " Ikuyo said.

"I'm not rude to you." He called back.

Akane lowered her head. Ikuyo saw this and ran up to him. She pulled her clarinet off her back and knocked him out, making the tape rip and the clarinet to hang in half. "Ya insensitive jerk!" she yelled but nonetheless she picked him up and piggybacked him the rest of the way.

*--*Three Days Later because of Ikuyo's and Ranma's fast running and Akane on Ikuyo's back*--*

"Pop!" Ikuyo called as she let Akane off her back and jumped form rock to rock to tackle her father who was just throwing more rocks into the field, for no apparent reason.

"I-Iku!" he said, obviously surprised.

She slapped him in the face. "Snap out of your spelled state!" she yelled and started slapping him some more.

"Ikuyo! I don' think this is the way to get him out of his spelled state!" Akane yelled as she held back Ikuyo's hand which was formed into a fist now.

"What was that for?!" her father yelled.

Ikuyo got tears in here eyes. "Pop! That horrible woman! How the hell didja ever think it was gonna work out?!" she yelled.

"Why are you talking like your mother?" he asked.

"'Cause I accidentally went to Kansai. I couldn't read the map and kept crashin' into trees and stuff." She explained.

"Wasn't Koyaga with you?" he asked angrily.

"Uh...well…ya see…I had ta bribe the man in Korea to let us across but he only let me 'cause I opened my shirt." She said with a blush.

"Alright. At least you have an excuse." He said as he got up and brushed himself off.

"What are doin' throwin' rocks around?" she asked.

"Um…I have nothing else to do." He said miserably.

"It was Kiyoja. Right! I was gonna kill…her…today…" she started to shiver and sway.

"Ikuyo!" Akane said as she caught her.

Ikuyo shivered and opened her eyes slowly. "I pushed myself." She said quietly.

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"Maybe it's a human?" a boy asked in Chinese.

"Maybe it has rabies." Another said.

"What's up Suichi?" Ikuyo asked in Japanese as she walked over with her arm around Akane's shoulder again for support.

"Ikuyo-kun! Look. This mouse keeps saying to kiss it." he said as he pointed to the flea-infested looking rat on the floor.

"Me, kiss that thing? It probably has rabies!" she said as she made a disgusted face as did Akane.

"C'mon. Just look at it." he prodded.

Ikuyo sighed and shakily released her grip on Akane's shoulder to walk slowly over the 'mouse' on the ground.

"Yuck! That thing is like a sewer rat." She said as she fell to her knees in front of it.

It jumped over to her and crawled into her lap.

"I ain't kissin' no rabies filled rat." She said as she slapped it off her knees.

"Kiss it." A voice hissed in her ear.

"I'm not fallin' into any old spell." Ikuyo whispered back and did a back kick making the woman behind her go flying.

"How did you__?" she stammered as she pushed herself up.

"Kiyoja, makin' my pop marry a demon like you? What were you thinkin'?" she asked as she stood up and pulled a sword out of one of the young boys' belts.

"You know?" she asked.

"Duh." Ikuyo muttered.

"Why did you want him?" Akane asked as she took a stance next to Ikuyo.

"Because, he's the only one who knows how to milk the magical cows." She said as she stood and walked forward. "My daughter. I wish to take you in my arms. Why not come to me." She said as she opened her arms.

Akane looked confused. "What the hell?" she muttered.

Ikuyo shook her head and pointed the long-sword at her. "I ain't fallin' for somethin' like that! You aren't my mother and you never will be!" she almost shouted.

"How is it that you are unaffected by my powerful spells?" she thought aloud. She snapped her fingers and smiled. "Get them boys'." She said to the boy's behind Ikuyo and Akane.

They walked forward and pulled their own weapons out and ran forward.

"Where's Ranma?!" Akane called to Ikuyo.

"I don't know." Ikuyo said as they backed up next to each other. She stopped and pulled a few reeds out. "Stupid me! I forgot about these." She said as she threw them and grabbed Akane's hand. She tugged Akane along as she ran toward her house.

Knives and such flew after them and the rabies infested rat was riding on Ikuyo's shoulder.

Ikuyo dodged the blades but Akane missed one, getting cut on the shoulder.

"Dammit! Here! Get on my back!" Ikuyo yelled to her.

Akane nodded and obediently climbed onto Ikuyo's back as she jumped from roof to roof to her fathers' house.

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Please review!! This was an okay chapter, some of the wordin' I couldn't get out just right so I tried my best, okay?

Next Chapter:

Chapter 5: Saisai the Rabies infested Rat