STOP HITTING MY BRAIN WITH MEAT PATTIES! I swear I own only the clone. Only the clone. Aranel belongs to me and that's it.

Ranma puts his clone to work, but is it too soon for a clone still trying to understand the world to be out unaided? Will Ranma's plan backfire? What kind of a name is Aranel anyway? This and more in chapter three.

Aranel looked at herself in Ranma's mirror. He had insisted that they wear the same thing so his 'plan' would work, but the red head decided Ranma's time in his female form had so far been wasted for he clearly didn't know better then to wear red clothes that were only a shade or two different then his hair. 'Why couldn't he have woren blue today?' she thought to herself. "Oh well. Once his curse is gone and I'm the only one who looks like this, I'll wear what I want." Nodding, Aranel opened the door a crack.

Talking to the blue haired girl was Ranma. He winked his signal telling the clone to crawl onto the roof. Sighing, Aranel did so.

"Come on Akane, we have the whole day off. Let's go to the park to train. It's no fun fighting in the same setting over and over again."

Akane smiled. "Sure, sounds like fun. I go get changed."

"Are you and the blue haired girl dating?"

Ranma jumpped hearing a voice so close to his head. "Don't do that," he hissed at the upside down red headed girl. "And yea, sort of."

"How can you sort of be dating? You either are or you're not."

"It's complicated. I'm betrothed to her." Ananel's eyes got big. "The old man also betrothed me to a girl named Ukyo."

Aranel fell off the roof. "Two fiances?"

"Three," Ranma corrected. "I defeated Shampoo in battle. My Amazon law, we're engaged unless someone defeats me in a fight for her hand before the wedding."

The clone shook her head wildly. "Three fiances! My mom's a player!"

"Stop calling me mom!"

"No one's calling you 'mom,' Ranma," Kasumi called from the distance.

Ranma's face turned redder then Aranel's hair. "Get back up there," he hissed pushing on his clones head so that she was no longer in view. "And remember, at first sight of Kuno, take his attension away from me and Akane." Aranel dropped a hand over the roof's edge, an A'ok clearly visible. "You have the picture I gave you?" The a'ok became a thumbs up. "Just don't forget what I told you about him." Aranel bopped Ranma on the nose before pulling her hand out of view.

"Ready," Akane purred, joining Ranma a moment too late to see the hand hanging down from the roof. "Is it a long walk to this training park of your's?" she asked playfully.

A grin appeared on Aranel's face as a plot fromed in her head. 'Worry not, Mama boy. I'll keep this Kuno guy away from you and Akane, but I'll do much more then that as well.' Aranel had to to bite her lip to keep from laughing out load.

Ranma looked over his shoulder to see a flash of red hair. 'At least that copy is do what she's suppost to. Now all I have to do is get to the garden before someone messes up my plan.'

"RANMA!"

"Oh, no," Akane groaned. "Not Upperclassman Kuno."

The cursed boy slid an arm around his fiancee. "Come on Akane, if we hurry, we can get to the training spot before he sees us." He looked in time to see Aranel landing a nice kick in Kuno's jaw. 'With no training or anything...No doubt, she's definatly my clone.'

"What's the mater Kuno?" Aranel demanded, dropping into a fighting stance. "It's not bad enough you have to stalk me around, but you have to try to steal my brother's girlfriend too? You are so disgusting!"

"Brother?" Kuno asked, dazed. "That enslaver of women is your brother?"

Aranel growled. "Yes, you idiot. Ranma's my twin brother. Why else we look so much a like?" Slapping away the hand Kuno had reached toward her chest, Aranel tried to calm herself. 'Distraction. All eyes on me. If I help Ranma, he's gonna set me up with that cute guy. Without Ranma's help, that guy will think I'm mama and I'll never stand a chance. Just keep calm and waste time...' "You are such a little pervert, Kuno. I know all about those pictures of me that you have of me and that disgusting story you made up!"

By now, a small crowd had formed. "But, my redheaded goddess-"

"I'M NOT YOUR GODDESS!" A vien in the redheaded clone's temple pulsed. 'Ranma and Akane put up with this on a daly basis? Ten minites and I'm already sick of him!' "Only a disgusting pervert would jump to the concultion I'm sleeping with my brother just cause I ain't interested in you."

The crowd gaspped. Kuno looked up from the ground where he'd tried to worship her feet, dispite her stomping on him. "What? I don't remember that."

"Oh? Then I guess you don't remember how you called Ranma an enslaver of women because I didn't want to go out with you either."

Aranel's eyes became wide feeling her chest getting crushed in a painful grope. "Oww," she whimpered. "You pervert! I mean, did you have to squeeze that hard?"

A savior came in the form of a very harsh kick dealt from a skilled Chinese martial artist. The force of the kick had sent Kuno flying. Aranel found her self staring at the foot, still in place after the kick, that had just taken place of Upperclassman Kuno's head in her sight. Slowly, her blue eyes trace from the foot, up the leg, past the white robes, to see a very handsome face. 'Oh wow.' The clone's checks colored. "I couldd'a beat him myself, ya know," she said softly.

"I know." He smiled making Aranel's face turn a darker pink. 'Oh Shampoo, now that I've beaten Ranma...' "My darling!" He took the startled clone into his arms. "Now we can be married. Aren't you happy?"

Her heart's beating drumming in her ears, her face the color of her hair. Aranel's eyes glazed. "Oh wow. This is all so sudden. I don't know what to say!"

The smile that had began forming on Aranel's face faded upon seeing her hero's eyes roll back and he colapsed leaving Ranma only in her vission. The smile was gone, but the blush was not. "Ranma?"

"Not bad for your first day as me. Kuno and Mousse." Ranma smiled. "Mousse is blind as a bat, he probally thought you were Shampoo."

Aranel's face fell. "Probally." She looked at the unconscience form at her feat. "Mousse."

With a false cheer, she looked up again. "So where's Akane?"

Ranma's lower lip went out in his all too classic pout. "Ran off with Ryoga. Again."

"That's ok. You still have two other fiancees."

"She thinks he's her pet pig."

"Oh." Aranel moved to follow Ranma as he walked away. Her blue eyes turned back to the sleeping form on the Chinese boy. "So, um...Who's Mousse? One of your friends?"

Ranma snickered, putting an arm around his clone as the left the park. "No, he's trying to kill me." Seeing the confused look in his clone's eyes, Ranma added. "He's in love with my Amazon fiancee. He can't marry her unless he defeats me in battle."

'That poor guy. He only wants one girl while Ranma here is up to his ears in fiancees. It'll take some prying, and some sceameing, but I think a little game of Match Maker will do a lot of good to a lot of people...' Aranel giggled at her thought.

"What is it?"

"Mama, where will I sleep tonight?"

"MAMA?"

"You said not to call you mom. You didn't say anything about calling you mama."

Steam poured out of Ranma's ears. "I'M A GUY!"

The voting stands as follows: Ranma/Akane: 2 Ranma/Shampoo: 1 Ranma/Kasumi: 1 Ranma/Nabaki: 1 Mouse in general: 1 Mousse was in the chapter just like I promised. Sorry is it was too mushy.

Um...All but one vote so far involves Ranma. This is good. The story is more about an outsider trying to make sence of his parent cell's life, so this all works, but I plan on making Aranel quite the sneaky plotter. So feel free to vote for others as well. All reviews and flames that deal with the story and have young reader safe languge will be read and listened too so please keep voting. Chapter 5 is the chapter you can vote for. Once I post 6, all scores are final

khim: I agree with you a lot on this. Every girl and most of the guys in Ranma's life try to 'win' him even though he has no intrest in being won. Ranma's not inicent though. He uses their greed and lust for him to gain what he wants. No mater who end up with who, someone is going to be upset and all their lives will be messed up because of the ties they are stuck in. I'll take a look at the story you mentioned in your review