Ranma 1/2; 'Rhythmer's Fist'
Shampoo
::Shampoo's theme:: 'Sunrise' (3 AM Mix) by Cossmo
Akane slowly opened her eyes, finally willing herself to focus on the incessant racket, and found herself at a table, surrounded by dozens of people in wild and exotic clothing with painted features and multiple piercings gyrating and convulsing.
"WHERE ON EARTH AM I NOW!" Akane shouted, her panic slowly building. Looking off to the center of it all, she finally found a familiar face. Ranma was facing off against some guy in a white, flame themed outfit and a styled cowboy hat; both managing smooth as water trickle feats among a crowd of awed spectators. "Oh, I get it, I'm at a nightclub!" Akane was perplexed, she usually didn't dream about nightclubs, in fact she was pretty sure this night was supposed to be the one with Dr. Tofu and her routine 'checkup'. She grumbled to herself, Ranma would have to screw that up too! "Wow, they're pretty good!"
Ranma's opponent backflipped out of a six-step, and landed on his hands; while still maintaining his balance, he dropped onto his forearms. Ranma spun once on his heal, then leapt onto his right hand with his left leg kicking over his right side. Both kicked to their feet, with Ranma standing casual while holding his right hand's fingertips to his forehead while his head bobbed to the set rhythm, while his opponent posed with his arms held out to his side, and his chin raised as if accepting praise.
The song then ended, and the DJ's attempt to beat match to the next went into a train wreck, allowing both dancers to break off from their heavy styling. Ranma clasped the other's red gloved hand, and the both pulled each other in for a respectful hug. After a few words that Akane could obviously not hear, they both broke from the floor.
The raven-haired girl watched Ranma, as he strode confidently up to the table, and sat down.
"What are you doing in my dream?" Akane asked the pigtailed boy bluntly, "and why is the music so damn loud?"
"For the second question, it has to be loud so it could be heard," Ranma shouted towards Akane, despite the fact that he was only less than a yard from her, "As for the first question, you probably shouldn't be telling me about your dreams. They're pretty personal, aren't they?"
Akane stared at Ranma smug smile for a bit, before her eyes widened in realization, "You mean I'm NOT dreaming?" Ranma cheerfully nodded.
"Oh, well then," Akane calmly shouted so Ranma could hear her, "HOW IN THE HELL DID I GET HERE?"
"Well, it wasn't easy getting you out of bed while you were asleep, and your clothing selection didn't leave me with much to work with."
"Huh?" Akane looked down, just now noticing she wasn't wearing the pajamas she went to bed in. and that she was in a royal blue and slightly shimmering butterfly collar button up shirt with gray slacks. The button sleeves of her shirt were buttoned invertedly as the shirt tail wasn't tucked in like the front of her shirt. She looked down to see black hose in black feminine dress shoes to complete the outfit, "Hey, not bad, but I don't recall owning any of these clothes."
"Yeah, Nabiki helped me pick them out when we went shopping a couple days ago. She said your wardrobe was kinda girly."
"And what's wrong with my wardrobe being kinda girly?"
"Nuth'n, it's just that I don't think they completely match your personality," Ranma stated honestly, while contemplating the Tomboyish outfit Akane was currently wearing, "Oh, and the glitter will come out of your hair in a wash."
"Glitter in my..." Akane mumbled, and then a realization hit, "YOU DRESSED ME, YOU PERVERT!" Akane stood up, gripping the edge of the table, ready to heave it.
"Nope, Nabiki did, she said she's had to do it to you a few times before," Ranma shrugged, and then took out a bottle of water and began drinking.
"Oh. Wait a minute, why am I here, anyway?"
Ranma set his waterbottle on the table before answering, "It's your turn. I took Kasumi out the first night, she really enjoyed herself. Last night was Nabiki."
"Oh, so you kidnapped them like you did me?"
"Nope, they went willingly, though it took a bit of coaxing on Kasumi's part, but I think she doesn't regret it. You, on the other hand, I kinda figured was too much of an uptight Tomboy to agree with..."
"TOMBOY, AM I?" Akane barked, lifting up the table. She blinked when she now noticed the redhead standing in the pigtailed boy's place.
Ranma made googly eyes at Akane, ignoring the clatter of her waterbottle as it hit the ground, "You wouldn't hit cute, cuddly, lil' me, would you?"
A glowing multicolored stream slammed into the table Akane was holding up, startling both girls.
"Is no problem," Ranma jolted bolt right at the familiar voice, "Cute Japanese Tomboy girl want Shampoo to kill Ranma for you?" The redhead in question got a sickly nervous grin on her face, as she slowly turned to see a Chinese girl with glitter sparkling lavender hair, A tight 'Powerpuff Girls' t-shirt with baggy canvas fabric pants that flared at the bottom, several neon glowing bracelets around her wrists, and a pacifier on a string around her neck. She smirked as she raised her neon glowing bonbori towards Ranma to point.
"Ranma, I kill."
"N-now wait, Shampoo," Ranma stuttered, "we can't fight here! Toom many people could get hurt!"
"Is no problem," the Amazon replied confidently, and then drove her bonbori through a table next to her, causing a *large* circle to clear around them, "See? They nice enough to give us room."
"Shampoo," Ranma addressed the girl resignedly, "this.. is bunk!" With that, the redhead launched a table at the Amazon.
A third table was destroyed by the Amazon candy raver, and she scouted around for her quarry, "WHERE RANMA!"
Everyone nearby pointed to the exit.
"Bad!" The Chinese girl ran out the exit in pursuit. Once she was gone, Ranma dropped from under the table he was clinging to, and let out a sigh of relief.
"Props, didn't think she would get out here without a major scene," Ranma addressed some of the people standing around.
"It's cool, girl, you looked kinda sketchy." One girl stated.
"Yeah, that purple haired girl looked pretty tweeked at you."
"What the hell are they saying?" Akane shouted in confusion.
"I guess there's no after-party this time. Let's head on back home, 'Kane-chan. I'll explain some things in the morning.
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"She's got some heavy bass," Ranma-chan thought, as she bobbed to her stereo, and watched the lavender haired girl duel with some feminine monstrosity upon a log. The former proved the victor by sending her opponent rocketing into the sky.
"Uh, sir, what you eating?" Their guide asked curiously. Ranma turned to see a panda munching on a vast food spread, and by the tone of the guide's voice, that wasn't a good thing.
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"So, all I gotta do is defeat her, and we have no problem, right?" The redhead set down her portable stereo, and cranked the volume, much to several of the villagers' chagrins.
Ranma-chan hopped onto the log, and began bouncing to the music. After a few seconds, she closed her eyes and started to dance.
"What is this outsider idiot doing?" Shampoo thought to herself, as she jumped onto the log to meet the match. The Amazon champion started to become furious at the lack of attention her opponent was giving her, instead choosing to give it towards that rhythmic noise that was probably termed by the tone death as 'music'.
"The sooner I punish this outsider, the sooner I can turn that damn racket off!" Ranma didn't seem to pay attention to the other girl as she charged forward.
Nobody was really sure what happened, all everyone saw was the redhead perform a spin to her dance, just as Shampoo was about to strike, and the next moment, their former champion was skidding across the town circle off the log. The redhead continued dancing
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"Hunt you to the ends of the earth?" Akane repeated, finding it hard to take the pigtailed boy seriously.
"Yeah, cutie was pretty persistant too, not that she could punch my ticket," Ranma said with a grin.
"Too bad there's a certain old lady who can keep you from staying wet," Akane said dryly to the redhead before her.
Ranma turned to Akane to retort,leaned back to allow a neon bonbori to pass safely by and pulverize the wall, and turned her head to greet the newcomer, "Hey Shampoo."
"Nihao, 'Little Red'," Shampoo replied smugly.
Ranma-chan raised an eyebrow, while still leaning back, "So that's how you found me so fast."
"Is easy find champion Redhead dancer in Japan." Shampoo replied casually, then jerked her lodged mace down towards the other girl's stomach. Ranma-chan spun away on her heel, allowing her to get some distance between her and Akane for the latter's sakes.
"I'm flattered, a groupie!" Ranma commented as she weaved rhythmically through the attacks, "You're even trying to imitate my style, sweet!"
"Shampoo learn much from Japanese clubs," Shampoo suddenly spun on her left heel and then slid her right foot across the ground and into between Ranma's feet. Shampoo's right bonbori managed to send the redhead rocketing backwards.
Ranma managed to gain her bearings before her back smashed against the wall, and braced her feet against it. Instead of launching back foward, she kept a bit of the momentum built from being hurled to the wall, and back flipped onto the top of it.
"You... you hit me..." Ranma said with no little bit of awe. That managed to irk Shampoo quite a bit.
"You no is good as Ranma think!" Shampoo rushed to meet her redheaded target, and Ranma jumped down from the wall to meet her charge.
Ranma pulled her left side away from Shampoo's right cross, and attempted to slide steeply into the lavender haired girl's left side. Shampoo countered by crossing her left leg back in front of her right leg, and leaning towards the redhead with her left side, swinging her left bonbori upwards towards her opponent's chin. Ranma faded back with a retreating left foot step, turning to her left as she did.
The Redhead came back around with a left elbow aimed for Shampoo's sternum. The Amazon slid past it to the outside, her back managing to find her opponent's.
Ranma and Shampoo sat swayed with their backs together side to side in a two beat pattern, twisting their back slightly towards the direction they would move in, while waiting for the other to make their move from the stalemate.
"Little Red just delay Shampoo revenge."
"Cutie, you're just not up to tempo," Ranma countered, and leaned foward just as Shampoo broke away, and attempted a back swing with her right bonbori. Shampoo continued turning with her left Bonbori being thrust towards the ducked girl's back. Ranma's right leg slid far out to the right, and the redhead glided the rest of her body to follow it out of the path of the swing.
Shampoo continued to move into a right side snap kick, which Ranma leapt over in the splits. Missing the initial kick, Shampoo snapped the same leg at the airborne girl, only to have her force herself to land, bending backwards at the knees and looking up at the Amazon with a sly smirk. Before Shampoo could readjust herself for another attack, Ranma-chan went ito a backspin, and then into a helicopter spin, forcing Shampoo to move away. Ranma continued into a straight hand spin, before pushing off back to her feet.
Shampoo launched at the other girl with her right, forcing Ranma to dodge to the left with a sway. Shampoo swung her right out to catch the girl as she seemed offbalance, only to have Ranma snake smoothly under it back directly in front of Shampoo's face. Shampoo's grin matched the girls, and the candy raver rolled her body diagonally against the other girl's.
Ranma blinked, slightly confused at Shampoo's rather pleasant move, and found herself with a face full of elbow. Ranma recovered into a back hand spring and then a backflip, and rubbed her jaw. Shampoo was dancing sensuously, as she twirled her bonbori around; the glowing orbs even left dazzling trails of light in the daytime.
"Ranma soon know that Shampoo superior, learn she no defy Amazon strength."
"Gotta say, you can groove, but you ain't up to my style," Ranma started to skip around like she was about to get down and breakdance, and got a serious look on her face, "After all, I bet you're not as fast as me."
"Hmph, Shampoo more fast as..." that was all she got out as she watched the dustrail descend, "BAD! RANMA! YOU COME BACK!!!!" With that, the Amazon hunter took off in pursuit.
"That had to be one of the strangest fights I had ever seen..." Akane mused.
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"Hey, candy! No ball in the house!" Ranma shouted, delivering a vertical kick to the bonbori's head, sending it flying into the air. Everyone gasped, as they watched it descend down towards Shampoo's head, and into Ranma's waiting hand.
"Almost got a nasty boo boo there, Candy!" Ranma smirked at the dumbfounded girl, and then subtly snaked his leg behind hers and tripped her. He just couldn't resist the opening.
"You... you defeat Shampoo," the Amazon stated with slight emotion.
Ranma shrugged, and tossed the sphere in hand up and down, "Eh, that's stretching it a bit, there."
"Yeah, all he did was trip you! It's not like he knocked you out or killed you!" Akane added, worried that the girl may start chasing his male form now.
Shampoo ignored what they were saying, as she got up, staring dumbfounded at Ranma, and then approached him. The pigtailed boy was frozen to the spot, as the girl took him by the cheek, and kissed him... on the lips.
Everyone gasped, mainly at the boldness in which Ranma decided to return the embrace, that even took Shampoo immidiatly by surprise.
"Ag, weater being too hot for a feverrd kisses, better chill, esse," Ryoga said with a smirk, dousing the couple. Shampoo blinked, as she was forced to adjust height of her kiss.
"Want another to be sure?" Ranma-chan said with nervous mirth, before the Amazon fainted.
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"I'm not talk'n to you," Akane growled, looking away from the pigtailed girl.
"I'm sorry, K-Chan, I'll make it up to you," Ranma-chan apologised sheepishly.
"You going to kidnap me again?"
"Na, something more immidiate." Before Akane could reply, she found herself in an intense lip lock. It was so immidiate, that she didn't realize that she was supposed to be disliking it for a few moments.
"YOU PERVERT!" The raven-haired girl screeched, "WE'RE BOTH GIRLS!!!!"
Ranma looked down at herself, "Whoopsie." Ranma sighed, and stepped deep into Akane's range, well inside the mallet's descent, "You know? You're gonna have to learn to control that temper of yours."
"You... you... you..." was all Akane managed to get out, literally glowing with rage girl.
"You know? Your swaying is getting better, just took a while to loosen those hips, huh?" Akane's aura flared twice as bright as her rage became blinding from finding herself dancing with the redhead.
Ranma pulled her into a smooth dip, just as a bonbori passed over both their heads. Ranma continued to stare into Akane's furious eyes, "Good morning, Candy."
"RANMA! DIE!" Candy... er... Shampoo screamed, as she went into a furious barrage of attacks, forgetting her dicipline that she had cultivated in order to battle the redhead.
Ranma almost casually kept dancing with Akane, while avoiding the blows from her attacker. To add insult, Ranma switched partners to Kasumi, as she walked in to check on Shampoo's welfare.
"I see Shampoo's awake now," Kasumi replied with a slight giggle, as she was lead around by the shorter girl, who was easily avoiding the attacks directed towards her.
"Akane, see what happens when you fight angry?" Ranma-chan said off-handedly. Before Akane could retort negatively, she stopped, and realized something; Shampoo wasn't coming anywhere close to hurting the redhead as she did before.
"What, what's this?" the short haired girl enquired, "Is it because... Shampoo's mad?"
"You've been a wonderful partner, I mean that Kasumi," Ranma-chan stated with a bow, just as Shampoo's kick sailed over her head.
"Anytime, I don't get to dance much, I'm afraid" Kasumi said with a touch of wistfulness.
"You've got exellent form, you have to dance more than you're letting on."
"Oh, I guess I like to pretend when I'm cleaning."
"SHAMPOO WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!!" The Amazon screemed. Ranma blinked, and turned her attentions towards the girl, blinking as if she didn't realize she was there, "Oh? 'Sup, Candy?"
Shampoo growled, and was about to attack again, before realizing she let her temper get the best of her, which wasn't something the future leader of the Amazons could afford to do, "You get Shampoo riled up on purpose." Ranma shrugged non-committadly.
"Then, Shampoo teach you what happens when anger Amazon womans," Shampoo wrapped her arms around her chest, and began to sway to a rhythm she was only privy to.
"Uh, you're gonna give her a strip tease?" Akane asked, wondering what was going on. Ranma looked just as puzzled. Slowly, Shampoo began to increase tempo, and started to speak, "Behold Amazon modified Raver technique; Too too powerful that Amazon elders look with awe."
"Ah, so it is a strip tease, gonna give old geezers heart attacks shaking it like that!" Ranma suddenly blinked, as her vision became fuzzy.
"You learn folly now," Shampoo continued with a cold voice, "Splitting Cat Hairs revised; Amazon Rave Strobe!" Suddenly, Shampoo began to blur into after images while still dancing, with each one having a visual strobe effect.
"Oh... my, I need to sit down," Kasumi stated first, slowly sinking to the floor against the wall. Akane followed next, barely able to keep her footing as she started to experience a sense of vertigo.
Ranma-chan found herself succombing, but couldn't turn her sight away from Shampoo's dance, "If I fall, it'll be the end of me!" Ranma continued to stand defiantly against, and took an unsteady foot foward.
Shampoo scowled cutely, "You is strong, but will fall." She increased her dancing, and the effect was immidiatly apparent. Ranma tumbled to her knees, but gained a strange glint in her eye, as she pulled herself to standing rather easily, and began dancing.
"Huh? What happen?" Shampoo asked out loud, before increasing her dance again, now there was nothing but a strobing blur.
"You shouldn't have increased it," Ranma said with a smirk, as she began to match Shampoo's rhythm, "I figured out a counter because of it. Just have to sync myself to your rhythm to not be affected by it."
Shampoo desisted in her technique, and narrowed her eyes, "Then Shampoo deal with Ranma old fashioned way."
The lavender haired girl leaped to attack, barely keeping in control of her anger. Ranma dodged frantically, finding the girl was not using her anger as a focus, and now managing to come pretty close. She realized this too late, as she was pinned against the wall, with Shampoo's bonbori raised and heading straight for her face. The redhead wasn't really too concerned, but she didn't want to get blamed for the property damage about to happen...
"You know? I wonder what your laws would say about harming your 'Airen'..." Ranma commented on this on a hunch; as she and Akane were watching over the girl, she mumbled the name in the same sentence as Ranma's, with a happy smile on her face. Apparently it was something important to her referring to the redhead.
The weapon stopped about an inch from Ranma's unphased expression, and then clattered to the ground. Shampoo still had her arm extended, and a wide eyed and fearful expression on her face.
"Have a thing for my guy side, do ya?" Ranma stated with a smug expression, and then dodged out of the way of a thrown lamp.
"Idiot, show some compassion!" Akane huffed, she was going to have to do something about his insensitivity.
Before anything else could be said, Shampoo shoved Ranma out of the way, and leapt out the window and into the evening.
"I guess there was more to this than I figured," the redhead mused, scratching her head, as she looked out the window.
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"RANNNNNNNMMMMMAAAAAAA!!!!!!" The pigtailed boy was awakened by a refreshing splash from a pail of water, and found a heavily agitated Akane standing over him.
"Uh, something up, K-Chan? Couldn't the cold rinse wait till I was in the bathroom, or did you want to see me in a wet shirt?" The redhead raised an eyebrow in humor, as she watched the girl grow even redder in the face. That's when she also noted a warm body laying with her.
"Um... did you put this here?" Akane's expression proved the answer to that one, and he lifted the covers to find a stirring Shampoo.
"Airen..." the Amazon greeted the redhead with a smile.
"Uuuuhhhh, huh?" Ranma intelligently replied, slightly puzzled by current events.
"Shampoo do important thinking, is better have Ranma as husband, yes?"
Shampoo
::Shampoo's theme:: 'Sunrise' (3 AM Mix) by Cossmo
Akane slowly opened her eyes, finally willing herself to focus on the incessant racket, and found herself at a table, surrounded by dozens of people in wild and exotic clothing with painted features and multiple piercings gyrating and convulsing.
"WHERE ON EARTH AM I NOW!" Akane shouted, her panic slowly building. Looking off to the center of it all, she finally found a familiar face. Ranma was facing off against some guy in a white, flame themed outfit and a styled cowboy hat; both managing smooth as water trickle feats among a crowd of awed spectators. "Oh, I get it, I'm at a nightclub!" Akane was perplexed, she usually didn't dream about nightclubs, in fact she was pretty sure this night was supposed to be the one with Dr. Tofu and her routine 'checkup'. She grumbled to herself, Ranma would have to screw that up too! "Wow, they're pretty good!"
Ranma's opponent backflipped out of a six-step, and landed on his hands; while still maintaining his balance, he dropped onto his forearms. Ranma spun once on his heal, then leapt onto his right hand with his left leg kicking over his right side. Both kicked to their feet, with Ranma standing casual while holding his right hand's fingertips to his forehead while his head bobbed to the set rhythm, while his opponent posed with his arms held out to his side, and his chin raised as if accepting praise.
The song then ended, and the DJ's attempt to beat match to the next went into a train wreck, allowing both dancers to break off from their heavy styling. Ranma clasped the other's red gloved hand, and the both pulled each other in for a respectful hug. After a few words that Akane could obviously not hear, they both broke from the floor.
The raven-haired girl watched Ranma, as he strode confidently up to the table, and sat down.
"What are you doing in my dream?" Akane asked the pigtailed boy bluntly, "and why is the music so damn loud?"
"For the second question, it has to be loud so it could be heard," Ranma shouted towards Akane, despite the fact that he was only less than a yard from her, "As for the first question, you probably shouldn't be telling me about your dreams. They're pretty personal, aren't they?"
Akane stared at Ranma smug smile for a bit, before her eyes widened in realization, "You mean I'm NOT dreaming?" Ranma cheerfully nodded.
"Oh, well then," Akane calmly shouted so Ranma could hear her, "HOW IN THE HELL DID I GET HERE?"
"Well, it wasn't easy getting you out of bed while you were asleep, and your clothing selection didn't leave me with much to work with."
"Huh?" Akane looked down, just now noticing she wasn't wearing the pajamas she went to bed in. and that she was in a royal blue and slightly shimmering butterfly collar button up shirt with gray slacks. The button sleeves of her shirt were buttoned invertedly as the shirt tail wasn't tucked in like the front of her shirt. She looked down to see black hose in black feminine dress shoes to complete the outfit, "Hey, not bad, but I don't recall owning any of these clothes."
"Yeah, Nabiki helped me pick them out when we went shopping a couple days ago. She said your wardrobe was kinda girly."
"And what's wrong with my wardrobe being kinda girly?"
"Nuth'n, it's just that I don't think they completely match your personality," Ranma stated honestly, while contemplating the Tomboyish outfit Akane was currently wearing, "Oh, and the glitter will come out of your hair in a wash."
"Glitter in my..." Akane mumbled, and then a realization hit, "YOU DRESSED ME, YOU PERVERT!" Akane stood up, gripping the edge of the table, ready to heave it.
"Nope, Nabiki did, she said she's had to do it to you a few times before," Ranma shrugged, and then took out a bottle of water and began drinking.
"Oh. Wait a minute, why am I here, anyway?"
Ranma set his waterbottle on the table before answering, "It's your turn. I took Kasumi out the first night, she really enjoyed herself. Last night was Nabiki."
"Oh, so you kidnapped them like you did me?"
"Nope, they went willingly, though it took a bit of coaxing on Kasumi's part, but I think she doesn't regret it. You, on the other hand, I kinda figured was too much of an uptight Tomboy to agree with..."
"TOMBOY, AM I?" Akane barked, lifting up the table. She blinked when she now noticed the redhead standing in the pigtailed boy's place.
Ranma made googly eyes at Akane, ignoring the clatter of her waterbottle as it hit the ground, "You wouldn't hit cute, cuddly, lil' me, would you?"
A glowing multicolored stream slammed into the table Akane was holding up, startling both girls.
"Is no problem," Ranma jolted bolt right at the familiar voice, "Cute Japanese Tomboy girl want Shampoo to kill Ranma for you?" The redhead in question got a sickly nervous grin on her face, as she slowly turned to see a Chinese girl with glitter sparkling lavender hair, A tight 'Powerpuff Girls' t-shirt with baggy canvas fabric pants that flared at the bottom, several neon glowing bracelets around her wrists, and a pacifier on a string around her neck. She smirked as she raised her neon glowing bonbori towards Ranma to point.
"Ranma, I kill."
"N-now wait, Shampoo," Ranma stuttered, "we can't fight here! Toom many people could get hurt!"
"Is no problem," the Amazon replied confidently, and then drove her bonbori through a table next to her, causing a *large* circle to clear around them, "See? They nice enough to give us room."
"Shampoo," Ranma addressed the girl resignedly, "this.. is bunk!" With that, the redhead launched a table at the Amazon.
A third table was destroyed by the Amazon candy raver, and she scouted around for her quarry, "WHERE RANMA!"
Everyone nearby pointed to the exit.
"Bad!" The Chinese girl ran out the exit in pursuit. Once she was gone, Ranma dropped from under the table he was clinging to, and let out a sigh of relief.
"Props, didn't think she would get out here without a major scene," Ranma addressed some of the people standing around.
"It's cool, girl, you looked kinda sketchy." One girl stated.
"Yeah, that purple haired girl looked pretty tweeked at you."
"What the hell are they saying?" Akane shouted in confusion.
"I guess there's no after-party this time. Let's head on back home, 'Kane-chan. I'll explain some things in the morning.
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"She's got some heavy bass," Ranma-chan thought, as she bobbed to her stereo, and watched the lavender haired girl duel with some feminine monstrosity upon a log. The former proved the victor by sending her opponent rocketing into the sky.
"Uh, sir, what you eating?" Their guide asked curiously. Ranma turned to see a panda munching on a vast food spread, and by the tone of the guide's voice, that wasn't a good thing.
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"So, all I gotta do is defeat her, and we have no problem, right?" The redhead set down her portable stereo, and cranked the volume, much to several of the villagers' chagrins.
Ranma-chan hopped onto the log, and began bouncing to the music. After a few seconds, she closed her eyes and started to dance.
"What is this outsider idiot doing?" Shampoo thought to herself, as she jumped onto the log to meet the match. The Amazon champion started to become furious at the lack of attention her opponent was giving her, instead choosing to give it towards that rhythmic noise that was probably termed by the tone death as 'music'.
"The sooner I punish this outsider, the sooner I can turn that damn racket off!" Ranma didn't seem to pay attention to the other girl as she charged forward.
Nobody was really sure what happened, all everyone saw was the redhead perform a spin to her dance, just as Shampoo was about to strike, and the next moment, their former champion was skidding across the town circle off the log. The redhead continued dancing
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"Hunt you to the ends of the earth?" Akane repeated, finding it hard to take the pigtailed boy seriously.
"Yeah, cutie was pretty persistant too, not that she could punch my ticket," Ranma said with a grin.
"Too bad there's a certain old lady who can keep you from staying wet," Akane said dryly to the redhead before her.
Ranma turned to Akane to retort,leaned back to allow a neon bonbori to pass safely by and pulverize the wall, and turned her head to greet the newcomer, "Hey Shampoo."
"Nihao, 'Little Red'," Shampoo replied smugly.
Ranma-chan raised an eyebrow, while still leaning back, "So that's how you found me so fast."
"Is easy find champion Redhead dancer in Japan." Shampoo replied casually, then jerked her lodged mace down towards the other girl's stomach. Ranma-chan spun away on her heel, allowing her to get some distance between her and Akane for the latter's sakes.
"I'm flattered, a groupie!" Ranma commented as she weaved rhythmically through the attacks, "You're even trying to imitate my style, sweet!"
"Shampoo learn much from Japanese clubs," Shampoo suddenly spun on her left heel and then slid her right foot across the ground and into between Ranma's feet. Shampoo's right bonbori managed to send the redhead rocketing backwards.
Ranma managed to gain her bearings before her back smashed against the wall, and braced her feet against it. Instead of launching back foward, she kept a bit of the momentum built from being hurled to the wall, and back flipped onto the top of it.
"You... you hit me..." Ranma said with no little bit of awe. That managed to irk Shampoo quite a bit.
"You no is good as Ranma think!" Shampoo rushed to meet her redheaded target, and Ranma jumped down from the wall to meet her charge.
Ranma pulled her left side away from Shampoo's right cross, and attempted to slide steeply into the lavender haired girl's left side. Shampoo countered by crossing her left leg back in front of her right leg, and leaning towards the redhead with her left side, swinging her left bonbori upwards towards her opponent's chin. Ranma faded back with a retreating left foot step, turning to her left as she did.
The Redhead came back around with a left elbow aimed for Shampoo's sternum. The Amazon slid past it to the outside, her back managing to find her opponent's.
Ranma and Shampoo sat swayed with their backs together side to side in a two beat pattern, twisting their back slightly towards the direction they would move in, while waiting for the other to make their move from the stalemate.
"Little Red just delay Shampoo revenge."
"Cutie, you're just not up to tempo," Ranma countered, and leaned foward just as Shampoo broke away, and attempted a back swing with her right bonbori. Shampoo continued turning with her left Bonbori being thrust towards the ducked girl's back. Ranma's right leg slid far out to the right, and the redhead glided the rest of her body to follow it out of the path of the swing.
Shampoo continued to move into a right side snap kick, which Ranma leapt over in the splits. Missing the initial kick, Shampoo snapped the same leg at the airborne girl, only to have her force herself to land, bending backwards at the knees and looking up at the Amazon with a sly smirk. Before Shampoo could readjust herself for another attack, Ranma-chan went ito a backspin, and then into a helicopter spin, forcing Shampoo to move away. Ranma continued into a straight hand spin, before pushing off back to her feet.
Shampoo launched at the other girl with her right, forcing Ranma to dodge to the left with a sway. Shampoo swung her right out to catch the girl as she seemed offbalance, only to have Ranma snake smoothly under it back directly in front of Shampoo's face. Shampoo's grin matched the girls, and the candy raver rolled her body diagonally against the other girl's.
Ranma blinked, slightly confused at Shampoo's rather pleasant move, and found herself with a face full of elbow. Ranma recovered into a back hand spring and then a backflip, and rubbed her jaw. Shampoo was dancing sensuously, as she twirled her bonbori around; the glowing orbs even left dazzling trails of light in the daytime.
"Ranma soon know that Shampoo superior, learn she no defy Amazon strength."
"Gotta say, you can groove, but you ain't up to my style," Ranma started to skip around like she was about to get down and breakdance, and got a serious look on her face, "After all, I bet you're not as fast as me."
"Hmph, Shampoo more fast as..." that was all she got out as she watched the dustrail descend, "BAD! RANMA! YOU COME BACK!!!!" With that, the Amazon hunter took off in pursuit.
"That had to be one of the strangest fights I had ever seen..." Akane mused.
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"Hey, candy! No ball in the house!" Ranma shouted, delivering a vertical kick to the bonbori's head, sending it flying into the air. Everyone gasped, as they watched it descend down towards Shampoo's head, and into Ranma's waiting hand.
"Almost got a nasty boo boo there, Candy!" Ranma smirked at the dumbfounded girl, and then subtly snaked his leg behind hers and tripped her. He just couldn't resist the opening.
"You... you defeat Shampoo," the Amazon stated with slight emotion.
Ranma shrugged, and tossed the sphere in hand up and down, "Eh, that's stretching it a bit, there."
"Yeah, all he did was trip you! It's not like he knocked you out or killed you!" Akane added, worried that the girl may start chasing his male form now.
Shampoo ignored what they were saying, as she got up, staring dumbfounded at Ranma, and then approached him. The pigtailed boy was frozen to the spot, as the girl took him by the cheek, and kissed him... on the lips.
Everyone gasped, mainly at the boldness in which Ranma decided to return the embrace, that even took Shampoo immidiatly by surprise.
"Ag, weater being too hot for a feverrd kisses, better chill, esse," Ryoga said with a smirk, dousing the couple. Shampoo blinked, as she was forced to adjust height of her kiss.
"Want another to be sure?" Ranma-chan said with nervous mirth, before the Amazon fainted.
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"I'm not talk'n to you," Akane growled, looking away from the pigtailed girl.
"I'm sorry, K-Chan, I'll make it up to you," Ranma-chan apologised sheepishly.
"You going to kidnap me again?"
"Na, something more immidiate." Before Akane could reply, she found herself in an intense lip lock. It was so immidiate, that she didn't realize that she was supposed to be disliking it for a few moments.
"YOU PERVERT!" The raven-haired girl screeched, "WE'RE BOTH GIRLS!!!!"
Ranma looked down at herself, "Whoopsie." Ranma sighed, and stepped deep into Akane's range, well inside the mallet's descent, "You know? You're gonna have to learn to control that temper of yours."
"You... you... you..." was all Akane managed to get out, literally glowing with rage girl.
"You know? Your swaying is getting better, just took a while to loosen those hips, huh?" Akane's aura flared twice as bright as her rage became blinding from finding herself dancing with the redhead.
Ranma pulled her into a smooth dip, just as a bonbori passed over both their heads. Ranma continued to stare into Akane's furious eyes, "Good morning, Candy."
"RANMA! DIE!" Candy... er... Shampoo screamed, as she went into a furious barrage of attacks, forgetting her dicipline that she had cultivated in order to battle the redhead.
Ranma almost casually kept dancing with Akane, while avoiding the blows from her attacker. To add insult, Ranma switched partners to Kasumi, as she walked in to check on Shampoo's welfare.
"I see Shampoo's awake now," Kasumi replied with a slight giggle, as she was lead around by the shorter girl, who was easily avoiding the attacks directed towards her.
"Akane, see what happens when you fight angry?" Ranma-chan said off-handedly. Before Akane could retort negatively, she stopped, and realized something; Shampoo wasn't coming anywhere close to hurting the redhead as she did before.
"What, what's this?" the short haired girl enquired, "Is it because... Shampoo's mad?"
"You've been a wonderful partner, I mean that Kasumi," Ranma-chan stated with a bow, just as Shampoo's kick sailed over her head.
"Anytime, I don't get to dance much, I'm afraid" Kasumi said with a touch of wistfulness.
"You've got exellent form, you have to dance more than you're letting on."
"Oh, I guess I like to pretend when I'm cleaning."
"SHAMPOO WILL NOT BE IGNORED!!!" The Amazon screemed. Ranma blinked, and turned her attentions towards the girl, blinking as if she didn't realize she was there, "Oh? 'Sup, Candy?"
Shampoo growled, and was about to attack again, before realizing she let her temper get the best of her, which wasn't something the future leader of the Amazons could afford to do, "You get Shampoo riled up on purpose." Ranma shrugged non-committadly.
"Then, Shampoo teach you what happens when anger Amazon womans," Shampoo wrapped her arms around her chest, and began to sway to a rhythm she was only privy to.
"Uh, you're gonna give her a strip tease?" Akane asked, wondering what was going on. Ranma looked just as puzzled. Slowly, Shampoo began to increase tempo, and started to speak, "Behold Amazon modified Raver technique; Too too powerful that Amazon elders look with awe."
"Ah, so it is a strip tease, gonna give old geezers heart attacks shaking it like that!" Ranma suddenly blinked, as her vision became fuzzy.
"You learn folly now," Shampoo continued with a cold voice, "Splitting Cat Hairs revised; Amazon Rave Strobe!" Suddenly, Shampoo began to blur into after images while still dancing, with each one having a visual strobe effect.
"Oh... my, I need to sit down," Kasumi stated first, slowly sinking to the floor against the wall. Akane followed next, barely able to keep her footing as she started to experience a sense of vertigo.
Ranma-chan found herself succombing, but couldn't turn her sight away from Shampoo's dance, "If I fall, it'll be the end of me!" Ranma continued to stand defiantly against, and took an unsteady foot foward.
Shampoo scowled cutely, "You is strong, but will fall." She increased her dancing, and the effect was immidiatly apparent. Ranma tumbled to her knees, but gained a strange glint in her eye, as she pulled herself to standing rather easily, and began dancing.
"Huh? What happen?" Shampoo asked out loud, before increasing her dance again, now there was nothing but a strobing blur.
"You shouldn't have increased it," Ranma said with a smirk, as she began to match Shampoo's rhythm, "I figured out a counter because of it. Just have to sync myself to your rhythm to not be affected by it."
Shampoo desisted in her technique, and narrowed her eyes, "Then Shampoo deal with Ranma old fashioned way."
The lavender haired girl leaped to attack, barely keeping in control of her anger. Ranma dodged frantically, finding the girl was not using her anger as a focus, and now managing to come pretty close. She realized this too late, as she was pinned against the wall, with Shampoo's bonbori raised and heading straight for her face. The redhead wasn't really too concerned, but she didn't want to get blamed for the property damage about to happen...
"You know? I wonder what your laws would say about harming your 'Airen'..." Ranma commented on this on a hunch; as she and Akane were watching over the girl, she mumbled the name in the same sentence as Ranma's, with a happy smile on her face. Apparently it was something important to her referring to the redhead.
The weapon stopped about an inch from Ranma's unphased expression, and then clattered to the ground. Shampoo still had her arm extended, and a wide eyed and fearful expression on her face.
"Have a thing for my guy side, do ya?" Ranma stated with a smug expression, and then dodged out of the way of a thrown lamp.
"Idiot, show some compassion!" Akane huffed, she was going to have to do something about his insensitivity.
Before anything else could be said, Shampoo shoved Ranma out of the way, and leapt out the window and into the evening.
"I guess there was more to this than I figured," the redhead mused, scratching her head, as she looked out the window.
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"RANNNNNNNMMMMMAAAAAAA!!!!!!" The pigtailed boy was awakened by a refreshing splash from a pail of water, and found a heavily agitated Akane standing over him.
"Uh, something up, K-Chan? Couldn't the cold rinse wait till I was in the bathroom, or did you want to see me in a wet shirt?" The redhead raised an eyebrow in humor, as she watched the girl grow even redder in the face. That's when she also noted a warm body laying with her.
"Um... did you put this here?" Akane's expression proved the answer to that one, and he lifted the covers to find a stirring Shampoo.
"Airen..." the Amazon greeted the redhead with a smile.
"Uuuuhhhh, huh?" Ranma intelligently replied, slightly puzzled by current events.
"Shampoo do important thinking, is better have Ranma as husband, yes?"