I tried to keep you satified, to keep you coming every night, but I don't own Ranma, only Aranel.

~

The day started as close to normal as any day at the Tendo Dojo could ever hope for. People scred at each other, cold and hot water kettles were thrown, Ranma chased P-chan, and Akane burned breakfast. After narrowly excaping Ranma, the small black pig dashed upstairs to Ranma's room. The door opened and small pig entered. Aranel pinned a sheet up in the corner and the little pig went behind it. Pouring hot water over the she turned P- chan into Ryoga, her partner in crime. "Human?"

"Yea. Got my clothes?" the lost boy replyed. His trademark yellow shirt and black pants were handed to him around the sheet. After Ryoga was dressed, he took the sheet down and Aranel put it back in the closet with her bed. "As per our agreement, I have left false notes with Shampoo, Cologne, and Ranma. You done with your end?"

The red head nodded. She reached under her pillow and pulled out a small box. "The highest quality gobel tracking device Kuno's money can buy. I sold Kodachi a few pictures of Ranma and it was an easy buy. I have 3,000 yen left over."

Ryoga nodded, taking the device. "Maybe I'll finally stop getting lost." He smiled. "How does it work?"

The hand held locater turned on. "I know how you normally wander to find people, so by putting a tracking device on people you want to keep tract of and one on yourself, you'll always know where you need to go and when you're there."

Smiling, Ryoga put a tracting device in Aranel's hand. "I'll let you choose where it goes." He stood and went to the door. "Uh, good luck today. You'll need it."

"Oh really?"

"Mousse has been in love with Shampoo since they were three years old. It's going to be hard to get him to change his mind."

"Don't worry about me. You just get started on phase two."

~

The pair waited in the safty of Ranma's room until there was no one left in the house. In the silence, Aranel snuck down the hall to Akane's room. The red haired clone snooped in the tomboy's closet until she found Akane's spare school uniform. She stole it from its hanger and headed towards the bathroom. Today when she left the house, she wouldn't be Ranma, she wouldn't be Kuno's bait. Today she'd be Aranel. Taking a razor from the drawer, a towel, and the dress to change into, she headed to the tub.

In the water, Aranel cleaned herself, unbraided her red hair to wash it and shaved her legs. Today she would not be a boy. Today she was a girl on a mission, a girl on a quest to steal a guy's heart from his chest and make him think it was his idea.

After the clone felt clean, she got out of the water, toweled herself off and got dressed. The Chinese clothes Ranma had made her wear had been nice, but Aranel thrilled at wearing a dress. Every movement made her giggle in delight of the new feeling pants had kept from her.

With her socks and shoes on, teeth brushed, and hair dry, all that was left was to do something with her hair. Small fingers began to twist the red locks into a braid when the busty girl stopped herself. She wasn't Ranma today. A braid was his hair. Her's needed to do something new.

~

Ryoga sat on the floor waiting for his parner in crime to return. His long time rival's room held no interest for Ryoga. It was plain as if Ranma had only resently moved into, or was waiting to move out. There were no picture on the wall, only in frames on the side table and the dresser. On was on Ranma and his father, one was of Akane, another of Ukyo, and a third of Shampoo. The last picture Ryoga didn't know if it was Aranel or Ranma in his female form.

The lost smiled fondly at the picture of a Akane. Over their time together, his feelings had changed so often. Most of this memories about his love for her were confusing and complaicated, but she had loved him as her P-chan. Even if she married Ranma or moved away, a part of him would always be her P-chan and that part of him would always love her and miss her cooking.

He opened the closet door and looked inside. Ranma's Chinese clothes all hung neatly at the entrance awaiting to be worn. Behind the boy clothes were the dresses Ranma wore only for scemes. Ryoga growled as he looked at them. Each dress Ryoga recignised from a trick Ranma had played on him.

Ryoga was about to slam the door shut when he saw that there was something else in the closet. On the closet floor where shoes would normally be was a bed made of fluffy blankets and a pillow. The lost boy knelt down and saw the small space Aranel had made into a room. He knew she was only a month old, but the two walls about her head were already covered with pictures of those she held dear.

There was ofcourse Ranma, whose picture was labeled 'Mama.' Pictures of Mousse littered the space, at least two of which had probally been taken by Nabiki. Ryoga smiled seeing two pictures of himself. One as a human boy, and the other as a cute little pig.

"Find anything interesting?" Aranel asked from the door.

Ryoga nodded. "Yea, nice pictures." He ran his finger along the image of his pig form. "We should get some pictures of us together."

"You think so?"

"Yea. You surtainly have some nice ones of you and Mousse."

He wasn't looking but he knew she was blushing. "They're from when we first met. He had just kicked Kuno in the head thinking it was Ranma and I was Shampoo."

Ryoga turned to smile at her. Aranel stood in the door in Akane's dress, which hugged her chest tightly. The red hair that had become famous for being braided thanks to Ranma was now held in twin buns on top of her head. "You might not need as much luck as I thought..."

"P-chan!" her face turned pink.

The lost boy oinked, making her giggle. "Come on, school will be out in a few hours. Without a car, we'll need all of that time to get to the cafe in time for phase 3 to work."

Aranel grinned. "And if phase 3 works, we can begin phase 4 to help you."

~

Wow there's a lot of Ryoga in that. I wasn't planing on him being in there so much. The plan had been for a little Ryoga and then Mousse. Where'd that plan go?

Anyway, voting is CLOSED on Ranma and Aranel. All other voting may go on. I really want to use Pantyhose Tarou, but I told myself that this was a vote system. The people vote. And look how close Kasumi was to beating Akane. Even the author says Ranma likes Akane, yet look at all that. wow.

Ranma/Akane: 13 Ranma/Shampoo: 7 Ranma/Kasumi: 12 Ranma/Nabiki: 5 Ranma/Ukyo: 1 Mouse in general: 1 Nabaki in general: 1 Mousse/Clone: 13 Ryu/Clone: 1 Pantyhose Tarou/Clone: 1 Nabaki/Pantyhose-Tarou: 1 Pantyhose Tarou/Shampoo: 2 Ryoga in general: 1 Ryoga/Akira: 2 Ryoga/Shampoo: 1

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Strider: Love your name. I'm a huge LotR fan

Chi Chi, Dan, Ryu: Wow that's a popular couple

Cheese: Yea, really. When I came up with the idea, I had the cutest mental image of her reaction. Sorry Mousse wasn't in this. It was the plan, but I let things get away from me. Next chapter will be all about Mousse and Cat Cafe. Promise. As for the rating, I'm willing to raise the rating, but I'm not so sure about making this a lemon. We'll see, but don't get your hopes up

Marik Kurakashi: Thanks for pointing that out. I checked my comic and you're right. There was a typo on the website I've been using as my reference and I'm sorry. It should be correct from now on.

dunkleself: a lot of people do. Look at the votes! So many