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Chapter 2-Things to think about.

*MANDARIN* 'THOUGHTS' ~SOUNDS~

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Shampoo ran, she ran as fast as she could. She couldn't see where she was going because the tears blurred her vision. She had a lot to think about but only one thing was on her mind 'he doesn't want me, he doesn't love me, he...he..HATES ME.'

Shampoo had to stop running. Not because she's tired or couldn't breath but because if she took one more step she would've ended up in the water and in her neko form.

She took a few deep breaths and tried to stop crying. She tried her hardest but the only place it got her was crying even harder. She looked down into the water, the reflection she saw of herself made her want to cry even more, but she couldn't. She stopped crying all together. The only thing she could do was look down at the water.

Her reflection looked so pitiful.'This isn't what an amazon like me should look like. If Great-Grandmother saw me like this she would've all ready hit me upside my head. I'm supposed to be strong, ambitious, and confident. Someone worthy to be called an amazon. But look at me. I've hit an all time low. I look like some pitiful, weak, girl thats been beaten over and over again.'

She stopped looking at reflection and looked around her. Apparently she ran into the woods into a clearing with a small lake. She walked up to a tree and sat against it. It was the late afternoon and Great-Grandmother was probably angry and worried about Shampoo. And Mousse...well she didn't want to think about him right know.

'What am I going to do. He hates me. The way he looked at me, the things he said, he never wants to see me again.' she started to cry a little this time. 'Whats the point of me being here if he doesn't want me. I've just wasted part of my life trying to get someone I'll never have. To know that I've spent every second and every minute since I've known that he was really a boy trying to get him to love me only to find out that he hates me....its not fair. He'll never know the pain I'm going threw. Maybe I should show him how much pain I'm feeling.....literally.

She shook of that thought. She still loved him but whats the point of going after someone who doesn't love you. And she didn't want to go back to China especially if she didn't have Ranma with her. Who know's what they might do. Her tribe took the laws very seriously and if she didn't come back with him she might be exiled or worse..... killed.

'I can't go back to China, and I don't want to I've made more friends here than I've ever made there. But I don't want to stay here and watch Ranma love someone other than me. But I guess I could ignore him and avoid him.'

"Yes, that will have to do. Shampoo will do that and hopefully Great- Grandmother won't notice." Shampoo got up with a gleam of determination in her eyes. Shampoo knew deep down in her heart that it wouldn't be that easy. She still really wanted to love him, hold him, and show him how much she really loved him, but that would just make him yell at her, and she didn't want that to happen again.

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Ranma skipped school today. He had a lot of things to workout. One of the things was explaining (more like lying) to Akane that he didn't skip school because of Shampoo, and the other was find Shampoo and explain he didn't mean to hurt her.

"Dammit, I'm not good with apoligizing." When it came to Ranma and apoligizing he was no good at it. He always found a way to put his foot in his mouth and mess it up.

"Grrr, why did she have to be there at that time. I would never mean to hurt Shampoo like that. Well maybe if I really had to but that would probably never happen. All she wanted to do was help me and I had to go vent out my anger on her and hurt her.~sigh~ Could this day get any worse."

"RANMA SAOTOME, PREPARE TO DIE!!!"

"Great, I thought you wouldn't be back for a couple more months Ryouga." Ranma didn't even have to turn his head to know who it was.

"Ranma you will pay for making my life a living hell and taking the beautiful Akane from me. Now turn around and face me like a man!!!"

"~sigh~ You know what Ryouga I'm not in the mood. I'm not sure why you couldn't be here a few hours ago but just to keep this fight short..." Ranma finally turned around gave him a few hundred punches then kicked him to who-knows-where, before Ryouga even knew he was coming "...I already won this fight."

Ranma started walking off again, his mind trying to piece together what he was going to say until he reached his destination.

He walked into the Nekohatten and looked around. It seemed sort of packed. The only person he saw taking orders, and serving, was Cologne. "Oh hello Son-in-law. Have you perhaps seen my Great-Granddaughter."

Before Ranma could say anything Mousse came out of the back and wrapped his chains around Ranma and with a flick of his rist Ranma got sent flying towards Mousse."Ranma you fiend, what have you done with my beloved Shampoo."

For some reason Mousse calling Shampoo 'his beloved' got him even more ticked off than he already was. "I ain't done nothin with Shampoo so GET OFF ME!!!" With that said Ranma broke the chains and sent Mousse flying into the back who went flying into a convinently placed bucket off cold water. So of course he changed into his cursed form and was unconscious.

Ranma was now angry again, but also sort of worried when he heard Shampoo hadn't got back. He turned back to Cologne "So your telling me neither of you seen Shampoo since this morning." Cologne just nodded her head yes. Ranma got over his anger and started to get more and more worried. 'What if she did something stupid because of me. I would never forgive myself if she ever.....'

As if on cue Shampoo walked in. Her and Ranma just stared at each other, and stared and stared.

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End of another chapter. I'm not really sure if I fixed that 'was' problem hopefully I did. I hope you all liked this chapter, if you did YAY!! if you didn't OH WELL!!! I tried.