Disclaimer: See parts 1 - 2.
Summery: Thanks to Genma's laziness, Ryouga is stuck as Girl when hit with hot water and as a pig with cold water. Now she lives with the Tendo's and Saotome's hoping to find a cure for both her curses or at least to be rid of the pig. The Chinese Amazon Mousse has show up, and declared that he and Ryouga are engaged. Ryouga is currently telling Akane Tendo how she and Mousse met back in China and wound up getting engaged.
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Ranma and Ryouga-chan?
Part VII
In China it happened part II
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Ryouga groaned as he woke up, normally it would haven't have been a problem, but the way he lay, when he woke up, made it very clear that he still had a female body. Rolling over and staring up into the ceiling, gave him a few minutes to gather his thoughts and an attempt to try and figure out how to take a bath without dying from severe blood loss. Of course, a part of him didn't want to get up, and face the realities of the hell his life had become in the last two days. In the end, it was decided for him if he wanted to get out of bed or not. It was a really simple thing that determined it in the end as well. It is not that easy to sleep, when your room is invaded by two young girls, wanting to see the first outsider in their village in the last sixteen years. Plus, he really wanted to know where that music he kept on hearing was coming from.
Sitting on the end of the bed, a girl with dark pink hair waved a hand at him when she noticed him looking. Hiya, my name is Ling-Ling? What's your name? Ryouga cringed at the very happy notes in her voice, plus the way she seemed to be on a sugar buzz was also very disturbing to him.
A scraping sound followed shortly after the pink haired girl had introduced herself and a girl looking very much like her popped up over the edge of the bed, only instead of the same hair color as the other. She had a strange green one. Looking at Ryouga with curious eyes at first, she turned and stared at her sister. Nee Ling-Ling, you should have told me the outsider was awake. I wanted to talk with her as well.
Lin-Ling turned to face her sister and shot a look at the green haired girl. I did Lung-Lung, you were to busy playing the flute to notice Turning back o face Ryouga she looked at him with wide curious eyes. "You outsider yes. Tell Ling-Ling about outsiders!" Her words took on a commanding tone as she spoke in a very bad and heavily accented Japanese.
Lung-Lung nodded as she clapped her hands together. "Outsiders strong? Lung-Lung want strong husband." A distant look entered her eyes as she drifted of into a dream world of her and her ideal husband. "Tell Lung-Lung now."
Ling-Ling, Lung-Lung. Cologne barked from the top of her staff as she popped up at the end of the bed. Give our guest a chance to get up before you ask any questions. Cologne stared after the two girls as they scrambled out of the room. Kids these days. No manners at all. Why I remember back in my days
Ryouga grumbled loudly and dragged the blanket up over his head. "Tell me I'm still dreaming and this is all a bad dream." He never did get a chance to finish his complaints as the blankets was roughly pulled away from him and a pair oaf pants and a shirt was dumped on him. "Hey watch it, what was that for?" Not getting any answer, Ryouga settled for glaring as he noticed the old lady pogoing out of the room.
As he sat up, he looked down at what the old lady had dumped on him. A blue shirt like the one those two Chinese Girls had worn greeted him, thankfully there was no heart sewn onto them, blue with a wide white edge around the bottom, the white edge also ran up where the shirt was clapped together. The pants had the same blue color, but had no white edge on them; instead they had a thin string sewn into the fabric to help wrap them around them around the bottom of the legs. Standing up, he dropped the clothes onto the bed and turned to pick up his own clothes, only they were missing from the floor. Feeling a panic growing as he failed to find them even as he looked under the bed, he turned to face the clothes he had dumped on the bed.
Cologne looked up from her teacup and gave a rare smile towards the first guest they had had in twenty years. It really wasn't fait to the boy, but she had someone take his clothes off to be washed. It wouldn't look good on the Amazon's if a guest were seen running in filthy clothes and smelling like something had rolled over and died. As the boy, well she could hardly call him a boy with that body sat down across her at the table, she tapped her staff on the table to get him to look up. "Boy, after breakfast. Ling-Ling and Lung-Lung will show you to the bathhouse. But I highly doubt you want to use the men's bath hmmm? Unless you want to give them a free view." At the very red blushing face of Ryouga. Cologne nearly began to laugh at him. "Don't worry, the house is empty this of the day. You'll have the place to yourself."
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Ryouga grumbled as he lifted the water bucket over his head. If there was one thing he couldn't handle, it was smart mouthed people. And Cologne, friendly as she was, she was really starting to bug him. Tipping the bucket forward, he gave a loud scream as he remembered just what happened when he was exposed to cold water. "Bweeeeeeee." One soaked little black piglet cried out loudly as it cursed whatever god or goddess was responsible for putting him through this.
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Ryouga stared at the tree he was standing under. The elder Cologne had told him to wait under the tree for her to return. Taking the time that he had, he ran a hand through the long hair. Feeling every stand of it, he pressed down the urge to scream at the gods. Instead he had filed it all away under the label "Things to kill the Panda-man for." He still felt a lot of anger at Ranma for getting him cursed to turn into a pig. But the panda, oh, he was responsible for the complete loss of his manhood. When he found him again, well, next time he met his mother, she would get a nice real panda fur coat. Mentally feeling the panda-man's neck breaking under his fingers. Ryouga mouth moved up into a rare smile.
"Ah Ryouga, good to see you are still here."
Turning, Ryouga's smile vanished. "Elder Cologne" It was indeed the elder on her strange staff, staring at him with that nerve wrecking glare she always had. Standing behind her, a boy around his own age stare at the tree with a cold look in his eyes. At his puzzled look Cologne looked over her shoulder and grimaced at the sight.
Something like that was just normal for that guy, still to do it in front off an outsider, she would have to have a small talk with her youngest great granddaughter's love sick puppy later. "Child, I understand that you have some trouble reading the book?" Ignoring the embarrassed look that flushed over the pretty face before her, she continued. "I have brought with me a member of out tribe. Mousse has studied Japanese for the last few years and should be more the able to help you translate that book." Turning to leave, Cologne looked over her shoulder. "I'm still looking through out books for the effects of Jusenkyo curses and how to remove them. If there's anything you need, ask Mousse for it."
Looking down at the book, Ryouga nodded slowly. It wasn't his style to admit a weakness, and to show that you were ignorant were just as great a shame to him. But if the book could tell him something about regaining his proper form, then he would do whatever it took. As the sound of Cologne pogoing moved away from him, he lifted his head and studied the young man standing before him. "H… Hi." {Damn shyness, now he properly thinks I'm a complete moron}
Mousse blinked and looked away from the tree as the voice came from his left and not from the one in front of him. Pulling out a pair of glasses he dreaded what he was going to see, but he could already guess it. Feeling a large sweat drop run down the side of his face, he felt like chopping down the tree. {Damn my lousy vision to the tenth hell.} Dreading the look of laughter he would see on the outsiders face, he turned to glare at him, and then his glare melted away into pure confusion. That was no man or boy sitting in front of him, no man had those things on their chest, well unless they were severe overweight. Trailing upwards, he stared right into a pair of hazel green eyes filled with fear and a hint of anger. "What the? Did I miss something, the old ghoul said you were a guy."
Ryouga eyes flashed with anger as he stood up. "I'm a guy damn it." Completely unaware of how her chest moved as he had nearly jumped up with the speed he had moved. "It's all that stupid panda's fault. When I get my hand's on him I'll…" Whatever he wanted to say next was cut off when he felt a finger poke his left breast.
Mousse gave a dark look at the girl as he jammed out a finger to point at her chest. "You call yourself a guy, with a chest like that?" When the girl stopped screaming and instead leveled a death glare at him. He blinked confused, until he followed her dark look as she stared at his arm. Bingo, he hadn't just pointed her, he had apparently jabbed his finger to close her breast, as it was being lightly pushed in by it. The same feeling that came over him, when Shampoo had that look rose up in him, but twice as strong as normally. As he looked back up, a blood red aura had formed around the girl and her eyes were beginning to have the same color. "
"DIEEEEEEEEE!!"
Shampoo looked up as a loud scream of pain reached her ears. It had sounded strangely like Mousse for a second. But, naa it couldn't be him. She was the only one in the village who would beat him up.
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It was getting dark outside when Mousse rejoined the world of the living. Still lying on the dirt where he had fallen after the first punch. He dimly gritted his teeth when he felt the swelling eye and the bruised rips. Shampoo was bad when it came to beating him, but this girl. She was a monster. What else could he say about someone whose punches felt like his beloved's bonbori did when it hit. Still, maybe it had been deserved, he had poked an outsider girl's chest, but it had been an accident.
A shadow moved in over him and placed a cold cloth on his forehead, and then it moved back and seemed to stay at the edge of his vision. Rolling over, he noticed the girl staring at him. Her eyes still held a lot of anger. But at least she was hitting him. Her long hair played in a soft wind as it swept by briefly and Mousse stared with big eyes at the sight of what to him looked like something he had only heard about in legends. Then she turned her head away and mumbled something he couldn't hear.
On the other side of him, he heard a low chuckle. Turning around he saw the old ghoul sitting on her staff. Her eyes were filled with barely hidden laughter. "Well Mousse, you sure know how to make an entrance don't you." Tapping a few spots on his head, she grinned again. "That should take care of your headache." Motioning for him to sit up, she looked at them. "Mousse, Once again I want you to meet Ryouga Hibiki. What he told you was true, about two days ago he had a small accident at Jusenkyo." Producing a bucket from nowhere, she jumped up and dumped it over Ryouga's head.
Mousse eyes became small dots as the longhaired girl's clothes crumbled to the ground. They became even smaller as a small pigs head popped out from inside the shirt. Giving a long series of squeals at the elder as it dragged itself free from the wet clothes, it completely ignored Mousse. Reaching out a hand, Mousse picked up the pig by the small tail and held it out in front of him. The black piglet grunted and squealed loudly as it tried to reach his hand in order to bite him. "Wha…"
Cologne nodded and took the pig from Mousse hand. Pulling out a kettle, she shot a look at the pig, before she pulled it and the wet clothes around to the back of the tree. Mousse followed them with his eyes, and grimace as he heard a loud yelp of pain, and then the girl yelling at the elder. He could clearly make out the words. "Ahhh, hot water, not boiling." A second later, Cologne popped out from behind the tree with a very red faced girl behind her.
Sitting down, the girl looked at the ground with a face the same color of a strawberry. Cologne still looked like someone had let her in on a grand cosmic joke. Looking from one to the other, she nodded her head. "Well. Now that we all seem to be getting along better." Turning to Mousse, she picked up the diary from the ground, and tossed it at him. "Mousse. For the next few days, I want you to translate this book for Ryouga. Meanwhile, I'll be in the main hut. I have to study the books we have on Jusenkyo. We haven't had a case off a cursed person in over fifty years. I need to remind myself off the cure."
Ryouga and Mousse looked at one another as Cologne hopped off on her stick. Both had a look that told them, that they would be happy if the other person was very, very far away.
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The next two days passed slowly at first, but after a short and frost filled period, the anger they felt slowly faded away. Ryouga didn't glow whenever he looked at Mousse. Instead, he began to respond to the bespectacled boy in a calm, yet still indifferent voice. One could say, that the lost boy was beginning enjoying having a constant company for a change. Having spent most of his time alone on the road. But even that couldn't explain the new feelings Ryouga was starting to feel, he found himself wanting to sit and listen when his forced companion read out loud from the book. He would never admit it, but he was starting to warm up to the half blind boy and saw him as a friend.
Mousse found the time he was forced to spend with Ryouga to be a warm welcome from the otherwise down grading jobs he would be doing for his beloved Shampoo instead. Reading out loud from a old diary to some freak outsider was boring, even if he looked pretty good with that outfit he was wearing today, but it was clearly better then washing the entire laundry pile, that Shampoo's family produced everyday, he also got away from working with the other men in the large community kitchen, preparing the food for the guards and patrols. But he still couldn't get away from his chores at home, meaning he only had one to two hours a day with Ryouga, and while he had to read out from the book. He couldn't do it when Shampoo insisted on training her martial arts nearby. Well she did, until Cologne dragged her away from them.
Time passed slowly, and Mousse began to tell Ryouga about other things then the stuff in the book. They started with the general role switch of the genders in the village and the entire tribe, then they moved onto the different styles of martial arts in the village. Ending with a small sparing match between them for fun, trying to find who had the superior style, Mousse's hidden weapons against the mixed style Ryouga used. Ryouga barely won the match, well he only won it, because Mousse lost his glasses in the middle of the fight from a well-aimed kick, and finally when he became distracted by the arrival of Shampoo and Cologne, leaving him open for an umbrella to the top of his head. While remained completely in control of her emotions, Cologne had been impressed with the use of an Umbrella in combat, and had expressed a shocked look, when she felt the weight off it.
Ryouga had been told by Cologne about the great history of the amazons, from their rise, to the scattered village of today. From a central, and very large town near the mountains floor of the western mountain range, they had been forced to break up into smaller villages after the people's army had began to look at the valley of Jusenkyo. There had been other major factors in the valley, but they had also devised ways to avoid getting wiped out by the new, and very nervous rulers of China and their vast army. A tribe called the Musk; well the kingdom of the Musk as they had insisted on being called, had vanished up into the mountains when the first soldiers had sat foot in the valley, looking for the rumored fractions, or powers working against the People's Republic of China.
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It was on the fifth day when Ryouga awoke that he noticed something different, for once, Mousse wasn't screaming at him for oversleeping and wasting their time. The smart mouthed elder was nowhere to seen either. Stepping out of the bed and running a hand across his eyes, Ryouga pulled the door curtain to the side, and looked into the main room of the guest hut to see if anyone was in there. Empty, besides the usual bundle of clothes that he had been able to borrow from an Amazon, the table he had sitting at with Mousse a few times, listing to Shampoo boost about her skills as a warrior or gotten proper training in how to handle his, problem from Cologne. Stepping over to the table and picking up his clothes, Ryouga blinked as he noticed a noise in the air. Having dressed, and done his usual morning routine, skipping the morning kata in favor of finding out what was going on. He finished buttoning up the shirt.
Outside was nearly as deserted as the guest hut. The only thing that told Ryouga were the otherwise proud villagers were, was the sound of heavy combat in the distance, sometimes a loud cheer could be heard over the noise of weapons hitting other weapons. Following the sound, Ryouga finally stepped around one of the outer huts in the village and stopped, there in the distance, all of the females in the village were gathered in a large circle, and in the center of their circle, a large log could be seen.
"It's the annual tournament!"
Ryouga turned his head and stared straight at the boy standing there. A pair of glasses glowed in the sunlight as the boy stepped out of the hut. "The annual tournament?" Looking back, Ryouga could see two Amazon women fighting on the log.
Mousse nodded. "I'm not surprised they didn't tell you. Outsider is generally not allowed to see it." Pulling off his glasses and polishing them, the half blind boy gave an I-don't-care-about-it shrug. "The males of the village are not allowed to watch the tournament, we could distract the females battle for the title of village champion."
Shrugging himself, Ryouga turned to look at Mousse. His normally white robe had a silly looking apron wrapped around it and his hair had spots of flour in it. Reaching out a hand, Ryouga wiped a small smear of flour from the Chinese boy's nose. Then he froze and stared down at his finger and then up at the puzzled look on Mousse. "Look, I've been thinking about the stuff you told me about from the book. You know that part where Ling-Lung said she could feel her personality being affected by the curse?" Looking down at the ground, Ryouga gave a half sigh. "I think it's happening to me. I spent half an hour last night combing my hair before I remembered that I never did that before."
Mousse looked sideway at Ryouga as he began to step back into the hut. "I know, remember two days ago when you were completely consumed with staring at the new clothes Ling-Pu had made." Holding up the fabric serving as a door, Mousse motioned for him to step inside. "At least I have learned one thing from you. I'm never going to Jusenkyo." Laughing at his own statement, he was soon joined by Ryouga.
As the two of them stepped inside the hut, the noise from the tournament faded away. Inside the hut, the air was warm and humid, several young boys and a few elder men were busy working at the stove and ovens. One of them, a man with long black hair, with a few whips of white in it looked up from batting a large lump of bread dough around in a bowl. Spotting Mousse and Ryouga, his face cracked into a wide grin. "So this is the one you've been spending time with?"
Mousse grumbled and looked at the elder man. Forget it dad, I'm not giving on Shampoo, we're destined to marry
Ryouga looked between the two and shook his head. He could clearly see the resemblance of the two. Both of them had a pair of glasses tucked into their hair. Plus he had spent enough time with the Amazon to learn a few more words in Chinese then which-way-to. Stepping back, he swept his eyes over the kitchen. It was far different then what he was used too, this seemed more like a school or army kitchen. Then he looked back as Mousse grumbled and walked away.
The elder man looked up and gave a short bow. "Greetings, I'm Po-Shu." Returning to the bread Dow, he started to grin. "So what do you think of my son? Despite his bad eye sight, he not that bad a…" The rest of the sentence was caught off as a bowl smacked him on the side of his head.
Over by the large sink, Mousse glowed as he crossed his arms. "Dad, for the last time. Stop trying to set me up."
Ryouga blinked his eyes, and then turned blood red in the face as the meaning behind the words became clear to him. "Hey, I'm not interested in anyone okay. I'm just fine on my own."
Laughing, Po-Shu brushed the remains of the bowl out of his hair. "Well, that's too bad, you would have made a fine bride for my boy." Looking to the left, he nodded shortly. "So, what brings an outside like you to a place like this?" Eye's twinkling, he gave a wide smiled as the rather shocked Ryouga.
On the other side of the room, Mousse felt like banging his head against the wall. Off cause his father would make a pass at Ryouga. Just which one of the higher powers he had ticked off to the degree of getting this guy for a dad he didn't know. "Dad, stop hitting on him."
Po-Shu looked at Mousse with big pleading eyes. "Son, would you really deny an old man his last moments of fun." Looking out of the corner if his eyes, he noted how the outsider girl was spluttering and starting to get this weird red light around her. "Well young lady, if you could help an old man, would you mind cutting some vegetables?"
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Shampoo looked around the small room she had stepped into. Over in the corner, the males on kitchen duty were working hard to make more food for the party in her honor. Off to the side, she could see Mousse doing the dishes as they were brought in. And to the other side, that outsider girl or was it boy were helping the leader of the kitchen cut out some fruit. Stepping fully inside, she grinned as several males gave a bow to her.
Mousse's eyes bore into her all the way, before she stopped and glared at him. Then she walked completely over to face the outside. "Nihao, Great Grandmother want talk you on hill in half hour." Lifting her hand, she pointed in the direction of the hill.
Turning around, the purple haired girl missed the confused look on Ryouga's face. Walking over to Mousse, she looked at him with a blank expression on her face. Great Grandmother also wants to talk with you Mu Shu. Spitting out the name, she turned around and left before he could hug her.
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Shampoo grumbled as she felt her leg cramp up again. She had been spending the last hour sitting in the same position waiting. {Where are those two, Mu Shu should have been here by now.} Looking up, Shampoo made sure that her newly developed plan couldn't fail. It had been hard to get a hold on the special powder without getting caught by the elders. Amazon love powder, anyone who breathes in the powder will get attracted for at least an hour Shampoo grumbled as she began to fear her great grandmother coming up there before the others. The her scowl turned into a confident smirk as the sound of someone halfway dragging their could be heard.
Ryouga yawned as he stumbled into the clearing, for some reason his head was alive with a faint buzzing, but he ignored it. {Last time I'll ever drink their brand of wine, stuff taste worse then dad's home brew.} Finally reaching the place Shampoo had told him to wait for Cologne in, he looked around. Finding no one but himself there at the moment, he settled in for a waiting. It wasn't long before the sound of someone walking up behind could be heard, Turning around, Ryouga looked at the person. "Mousse?"
Mousse looked from walking up the path and stared at the longhaired girl, well boy as she, he meant he wanted to be called. "Ryouga, what are you doing here?" Looking down at the note his beloved Shampoo had slipped him earlier. "Where's Shampoo, she told me to meet her here."
Hidden in the bushes, Shampoo lifted her bow and looked up at the small silk bag handing in the tree. Slowly pulling on the arrow, she gave a nasty smirk and fired. With little to no sound, the arrow passed out from he hiding place and ripped a hole in the bottom of the bag allowing a small tinkle of white powder to fall out. The next second she cursed as a wind suddenly swept through the area and blew most of the powder away from the outsider and onto Mousse. Still, the small amount that had hit the outsider should be enough to give even a small crush.
Ryouga stepped closer as he found talking with the half blind boy better than falling asleep in some forest. "Shampoo told me to wait for Oba-sama up here. Said she had finally found a cure to make me one hundred percent male again." Rubbing his eyes, Ryouga cursed the fact that he was so damn tired already, and something in the air was annoying his eyes. Opening his eyes, Ryouga's breath caught in his throat. Slowly his body started to feel kind of warm and fuzzy as he looked at the way Mousse was blinking his eyes as well. "Mousse"
Mousse, getting tired of staring at nothing but shadows slipped his glasses down over his eyes, and froze. The way the moonlight fell through the treetops highlighted Ryouga female body in just the right way. Her long hair moving in the small wind that suddenly started, made him gasp out loud as he saw it. "Ryouga" Slowly his hand moved out and gently touched the cheek of the shorter girl.
Ryouga was in turmoil. Part of him was screaming at the other parts that this was not right, that they shouldn't be feeling this way. But the rest of the body simply didn't care. And eventually, the more macho and male part of Ryouga's mind began to dwindle and his feminine side fully emerged. Lifting a hand, she cupped the one holding her cheek and gave a radiant smile. "Mousse!"
Moving fast, Ryouga closed the distance between them, and let her body's urges take over. She couldn't understand the feelings of her new body, but she did know that she wanted to kiss the boy who was holding her more than anything else. As their lips pressed against one another, Ryouga's heart was beating faster than it ever had, she could feel herself melt into Mousse's arms, making him serve as the only thing holding them both up. She knew deep down, that what she was feeling was wrong, but it felt so right, like this was where she was destined to be. Slowly, Mousse's lips moved away from her own, and his finger traced a path across her lower lip. "I... I..."
Mousse's felt his heart do a long series of flip-flops in his chest. He felt like he had waited for this moment for so long, so long in fact, that he forgot all about the rest of the world. All that mattered was the boy turned girl in his hands. She was so perfect, slowly, his mind drifted back to a comment he had made one of the first days about how she looked like a firefly when she flashed her aura all the time. "My beloved Firefly."
"Mousse?" The old crone, or Cologne if you prefer, sat shocked on her staff. In her hand, she held a book. "Oh dear, I see you learned the first part of the curse first hand child." The last remark was aimed at Ryouga.
Aiyaaa, Mousse and outsider! All eyes turned to Shampoo's shocked form. Eyes big, her mouth moved like a gold fish's at seeing something she hadn't expected, the boy who had chased her for so long, was kissing another girl. {Everything is working out perfectly. Now for part two} Quickly pulling out her trusted Amazon law book, she snapped it open, and turned it to the part dealing with the laws of marriage. Law 124 section b, male marriage: If an outsider female has either defeated or kissed Amazon male with his consent. They can be married if an elder of the tribe find the outsider to be a worthy addition to the tribe. Turning to her great grandmother she began to grin like a lunatic. I Shan Pu, declare myself a witness to the outsider Ryouga's engagement kiss to the Amazon male Mou su.
Cologne blinked as she realized what Shampoo was up to. Opening her mouth to protest, she gave a quick look at the puzzled Ryouga. Could she really sentence someone to a marriage with that blind fool, did the future of the tribe really mean that much to her. "I cologne, elder of the Amazon tribe, find the outsider female Ryouga Hibiki, to be a worthy addition to the Amazon tribe. The marriage will be held in three days, under the light of the full moon."
Ryouga's eyes snapped to the smiling Cologne, and then finally to the very happy look on Shampoo's face. "What, what do you mean." Pushing Mousse away, she jumped up and looked down at the elder women. "I'm a guy okay, there's no way I'm marrying anyone." Even as she spoke, she noticed the shadows moving up to surround the small clearing. None of them entered the moonlight, but chose to stay in the shadows.
Cologne lifted up the law book, and showed the page they had found where the law was written too Ryouga. "You made the final move in your kiss. That counts as a marriage proposal in our village between a outside woman or girl, and a Amazon male." Patting the shoulder of the horrified Ryouga, she gave a small smile. "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll warm up to the idea of being an Amazon wife. Until then, you'll be spending the traditional three days in the marriage hut, where you will prepare to be wed to your coming husband." As the last words were spoken, a row of Amazon, all armed with a weapon of some kind showed up and began to escort Ryouga back to the village. "Mousse, you'll spend the time until the full moon, making the gift that will close the marriage between the two of you."
Mousse glared at Shampoo, before he turned a frost filled look at the elder. "As you wish elder." Turning around, he began to stomp back towards the village. His mind was a whirlwind of different thought and emotions. Part of him was scared at the thought of having kissed someone else besides his beloved Shampoo, another part was happy about. The main part of him was confused as to why he was feeling things like this, and then towards an outsider who wasn't even a real girl. But all those protests and screaming thoughts was dying under the fire of love that had been ignited that evening.
Unnoticed by all. Shampoo stayed behind in the clearing as everyone left, some to return to the celebration party, others to their guardian post. As the last person left, Shampoo turned to stare up into the tree. Hanging down, a special flower of silk paper moved back and fourth in the wind. That stuff worked better then I thought, maybe he'll leave me alone now. Climbing up into the tree and slowly removing the paper flower, Shampoo smirked as she crushed it into a small paper ball and stuffed it into her shirt. No one will find it now. Shampoo turned around, climbed down the tree and began the walk back towards the village. I'm free of Mu Shu at last! Shampoo's walk turned into a run as she couldn't wait to celebrate it.
Tbc.
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AN: I'm so happy. There, I bet this little piece told everyone the reason why Mousse was so quick to turn away from his beloved Shampoo after he met Ryouga. Will the curse of the love potion be cured, will this Über flashback ever end. Do I even know where I'm going with this thing? For all you Ranma lovers, He'll show up in the next chapter again, and his luck will be the same rotten one as ever. Watch him as he stumbles in on the wedding of Ryouga and Mousse in true Ranma style.
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