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Cure Lost, Love Found:
A Tale of Ranma
Ranma and Akane were walking to the Nekohanten. Ranma was walking next to Akane as opposed to on the fence. Akane turned the camera on and pointed it at Ranma.
"Come on Ranma, I want to get you running on the fence." Ranma look at the camera.
"Why?"
"Ranma, you use the fence and the rooftops more then you do the sidewalk. You just wouldn't be you if you didn't use it, so get up there." Akane smiled from behind the camera as Ranma jumped on the fence. Too bad Ranma missed the sign that said "Don't walk on fence" because the fence broke and Ranma fell into the waterway. Akane looked down at Ranma from her position on the sidewalk.
"Gotcha!" Akane then produced a teakettle and motioned for Ranma to come to her. He, rather she, crawled out of the waterway, with a very unhappy expression. As Akane pour the hot water Ranma complained.
"Why did ya have to do that Akane? That is the last thing I want to remember."
"Oh don't worry Ranma, I only taped you falling not you changing. Come on, it's already 3:00 and who knows how long it's going to take to talk to Shampoo."
"Well, just tape me going in there. After Shampoo glomps me and Mousse attacks me turn the camera off. Then you can eat some ramen while I tell them what's going on."
"I don't want any ramen." Akane could see the Nekohanten from where they were and her stomach began to crawl. Nothing good ever came out of her going here, and she could only imagine some of the ideas that Cologne would come up with.
"Ranma, if the cure only makes you forget things after you've been cursed, then wouldn't both Shampoo and Mousse still know you?"
"Um, yeah but, but Shampoo thought I was a girl and Mousse only wanted to kill me because of Shampoo. And Shampoo only came back after she got cursed because she figured out I was lying to her. And if Shampoo doesn't come back then Mousse has no reason to, right?" Akane had stopped walking to think about what Ranma just said.
"That actually makes sense, I think." Ranma was about to enter the Nekohanten.
"You have the camera ready?" Akane turned on the camera and gave Ranma thumbs up.
"Ready!" Ranma opened the door for her.
"You go in first so you can get everything." Akane walked into the restaurant.
The lunch rush had ebbed and there were only a couple people in there. Mousse was washing the empty tables and Shampoo was serving ramen to the customers at the counter. Akane turned the camera on Ranma as he walked in and too a seat at the counter.
"Hiya Shampoo!" Shampoo turned to Ranma.
"Nihao Arien! What violent girl doing with camera?"
"Nice to see you to Shampoo." Mousse ran up and grabbed the ponytail of the girl at the other en of the counter.
"Saotome, you vile fiend. Keep away from my Shampoo!"
"Ow! That hurts you jerk!" The girl slapped Mousse and left the restaurant.
"Wait Mousse. I have something to tell you and Shampoo. Akane turn off the camera." Akane did as she was told and went to the table farthest to where Ranma was; she didn't want to hear that story again.
"Ok, where's granny?"
"Right here son-in-law." Cologne came hoping on her cane from the back room.
"Ok, I have a cure for the curse and this one works!"
"Ranma found cure! Is this just man cure like Togenkyo or can Shampoo be cured too?"
"Yeah, this woman has cures for men and women."
"There is something you're not telling us, isn't there Saotome?"
"Well, the thing is these cures get rid of your curse and your memories of everything that happened after you were cursed." Ranma directed his attention at Cologne. She was looking at Ranma very suspiciously.
"How do you know the cure woks?" Ranma looked over at Akane. She had her arms crossed on the table and she was laying her head on them. He turned back and whispered to the others.
"Ryoga told me."
"Ryoga? Well what good is his word?"
"Well he went through with it."
"But Saotome, if Ryoga went through with this then wouldn't he have forgotten you?"
"No, see Ryoga and I go way back. Besides, Akane knocked ice cold water on him and he didn't change so I asked him about it. After he told me the whole story, he gave me the map. Pop and me are leaving tonight at 6, we're swimming. You guys want to come?"
"I no can swim to China! Great Grandmother, can we buy ticket to China for Ranma and his father, yes?" Cologne looked at Shampoo.
"If you go through with this son-in-law, you wont know Shampoo." Shampoo looked towards Ranma with glassy eyes.
"Arien forget Shampoo?"
"Look Shampoo, I don't have a choice, I need to get cured. I have to forget a lot of people, but I need to do it. I have to go talk to some more people, but I need to know if you're going and if you're going to give pop and me a ride." Ranma looked at the clock. It was already 3:30. He knew that he wanted to spend at least a half-hour with Ukyo, a half-hour in the dojo, and an hour with Akane. It all seemed like things were going to work out, but Ranma almost never has good luck.
"If you can be here at 5:00 then we'll take you to China." Ranma stood up, he was so happy that he wouldn't be swimming but he just lost an hour.
"Gee thanks Granny! Pop and me'll be here! Hey Akane, get up we gotta go!" Akane lazily lifted her head from the table, rubbed her eyes, grabbed the camera, and left the Nekohanten.
Akane had fallen asleep while Ranma was talking but she could tell that he had gotten a ride by the way he was jumping around.
"So how are they getting you there?" Akane said just before she yawned.
"I don't know but we're not swimming, so who cares!" Akane rolled her eyes.
"So, we're going to Ukyo's now right? How long are we going to be there? You still have to pack you know."
"I know, the thing is…Cologne wants me to be there at 5 exactly. So I'd have to leave the house at about 10 till, just to make sure that I'm on time. Which means I'd have to be done with all this video taping stuff at about 4:45."
"You can't pack in 5 minutes Ranma." Ranma though about this.
"I guess not, but it's already past 3:30 and I still have things to do."
"Well Ranma, you can talk to Ukyo for a half—hour and then do your martial arts for a half hour, that was you'll have plenty of time to pack and get to the Nekohanten."
"Yeah, but I kind of wanted to talk to you a little too." Ranma had a slight blush on his face.
"You don't have to Ranma, I have the whole fence thing on tape. That sums me up pretty well, don't you think?" Ranma rolled his eyes.
"Not exactly. Hey, what if you called the house when we get to Ukyo's and tell my pop about what Cologne is doing and ask him to pack for me."
"You really think your father is going to pack for you?" Ranma opened the door to Ucchan's.
"It's worth a try. While you're doing that, I'll fill Ukyo in on the cure and then you can come out and tape us being us, ok?" Akane walked into Ukyo's and handed Ranma the camera.
"Whatever you say Ranma."
AN: Well thanks to everyone who is rooting me on. Right now I'm going to answer some questions that I feel should be answered.
TerraEpon asked me why Akane didn't pick up that Ryoga was cursed. The answer to this is that it didn't occur to her. As far as Akane knew, Ryoga just didn't know her. He knew about Ranma's curse (she didn't know that Ranma had told Ryoga of the curse) and after she found out about that she wasn't really thinking about Ryoga…or you found a plot hole that you weren't supposed to…which ever answer you like better.
Dogbertcarroll asked me why Ryoga gave up and left so quickly, he should still have wanted to kill Ranma. The answer to this question is that, Ryoga hated Ranma because it was his fault he got cursed. Everything before that was just running out on a man to man duel and putting Ryoga through hell by making him run all around China. Ryoga also sympathized with Ranma because Su-Lin told him the stories of the cursed and Ryoga felt bad for Ranma. Hope that helps!
I'd also like to give out a special thanks to ChiisanaAnisa. Thank you for all the support and I will finish this story if not for myself then for you! Your review really made me feel wanted…sniff…it was so touching. Thanks again!
Of course all of your reviews are important to me and I take something away with each one. I hope I was able to answer some questions, not just for the reviewers who asked them, but for anyone who was wondering. Reviews are welcomed and appreciated, I've already started the next chapter! Hope you all enjoy, I'll update soon. Bye!