Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2, Rumiko Takahashi does.
A/N: HI!!! Another chapter up. I'm really depressed right now because its final exam week. So I've been studying a lot and getting no sleep. The only good thing is that we get out of school earlier so I have time to update my fanfics. So if it seems like I'm slacking off on any of my fanfics its because of the finals. And remember when you read this Kyoko is Shampoo.
Chapter 5- The Field Trip
*MANDARIN* 'THOUGHTS' ~SOUNDS~
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Its been a little over a month now and they still hadn't found Shampoo. The only clue they had to find Shampoo were the clothes they found when her and Ranma went over to talk by the cliff. Some how Ranma couldn't help to think that this was all his fault. After Ranma found out about Shampoo being missing he hadn't been sleeping good, he hadn't been eating as much, and he seemed really distant from the others. But in a few days Shampoo's brother and sister would be coming to help and hopefully they would be able to find Shampoo.
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Kyoko and Yukie were walking home from Kyokos first day of school. "So enjoy your first day of school?" asked Yukie.
"Ya, I liked everything but the learning part." said Kyoko.
"Awww come on, Its better than working at that cafe all day." said Yukie.
Kyoko (SHAMPOO!!!) had been in Ohgami for one month and It was about time that she started to go to school. But before she started school she was working at a small cafe. But now since she started school her and Yukie started working there as an after school job.
Kyoko had been enjoying herself a lot. Once she had recovered Yukie introduced all of her friends to her. They had all been friendly and anxious to meet her, especially the boys. So when Kyoko went to school for her first day mostly everybody knew her. She had more friends than she did when she was in Nerima.
"Hey Kyoko, anybody home?" Yukie knocked on Kyokos head to get her attention.
"Huh....oh, hehe, were you saying something?" Kyoko said smiling sheepishly which made the both of them to start cracking up.
After they stopped laughing Yukie spoke up again. "Yes, I was trying to ask you something?"
"About what?" Kyoko asked.
"You and Kia. He passed you a note today. What did it say?" said Yukie.
"Oh you want to know what it said. It said that Yukie needs to mind her own business." said Kyoko.
"Oh come on. Tell me. Tell me tell me tell me. I swear I will bug you the rest of this week if you don't tell me."
"Tell you what?" They both turned around to see who interupted their conversation. They turned around to see a tall young man, who was well built, hazel eyes, long black hair that was held back in a ponytail (something like that) with his bangs hanging down just barely covering his eyes. He was very handsome which caught both girls offguard.
Yukie finally got over her shock and spoke up. "Oh hey Kia. We weren't talking about that note that you gave Kyoko if thats what you're thinking. Oh well....um... I'll just leave you two alone to talk. I'll see you at the cafe Kyoko." After she said that she walked off but not before winking to Kyoko.
Kyoko just looked at her dryly as she walked away. Kai spoke up again "You know she's weird right?"
"I live with her, and she can be a lot worse." said Kyoko. 'I just wish she could be a lot less obvious.'
"I really do feel sorry for you then." said Kai flashing her a smile.
"Um.....so do you want to walk with me to the cafe even though its just around the corner?" said Kyoko trying to hide the fact that she was a little nervous.
"Sure. Anyways did you read the note I gave you?" said Kai as they were walking off.
"Yea, about the field trip. So its supposed to be some sort of secret?"
"Yea, I overheard some of the teachers talking about it. They're supposed to be annoucing it some time this week. But I did hear them say that we might be staying in a hotel."
"Where at?" asked Kyoko.
"Don't know, they didn't say. But they did say that the trip is just for fun. I think its just for selected students though." said Kai.
"I hope one of them is me." said Kyoko.
They both stopped in front of the cafe she worked at. "But remember no matter how much Yukie bothers you, you can't tell her. Because she has a big mouth and would go and tell the whole school in a minute."
She just laughed and answered "Ok I won't tell her no matter what. On my honor as an Amazon I wo....." Kyoko then realized the mistake she made.
"Amazon???" Kai looked at her confused.
"Oh, hehe, I'm just kidding. I got that from a movie I watched yesterday. Silly me." She laughed nervously thinking that hopefully he would believe her.
"Oh, okay I guess I'll see you later then." Kai said as he turned to walk off.
Kyoko gave a sigh of relief after he left "That was close, I almo....."
She was cut off by Yukie busting through the door yelling at her. "WHAT WERE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT?!?"
Kyoko just stared at her with a look of shock and surprised. She quickly shook that off and walked past Yukie to get inside without even looking or speaking to her. Yukie just looked at her as she walked by. "What? What did I do?" said Yukie trying to sound innocent.
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Ranma, Genma, all of the Tendou's, Ukyou, and Ryouga were waiting at the Nekohatten waiting for Shampoo's brother and sister to arrive. Ryouga was staying with Tendou's for now until they all found Shampoo. "Tell me why we ALL have to be here?" said Nabiki drly like always.
"We all have to be introduced to them. This is probably a very hard to time for them." said Ukyou.
Akane looked over to the table Ranma was sitting. He was sitting at the booth over in the corner alone. It seemed like Ranma was the one who was taking this hardest. Since Shampoo disappeared Ranma and Akane didn't even get into one argument. Maybe it was because she barely even saw him anymore because he was always out looking for Shampoo. She walked over to his table to see what was wrong with him."Ranma? Hey Ranma?"
Ranma didn't hear Akane talking to him because he was deep in thought. 'I hope Shampoo's brother and sister can help us. I didn't know I would ever miss Shampoo this much. I just feel so helpless. There ain't no one who would want to kidnap her at least I don't think. Maybe she ran away because of me. Geez, why do things always happen to me?'. Ranma had finally noticed that someone was saying his name over and over again. He finally snapped back and looked up to find Akane looking at him worried. "Huh, whats wrong?"
"Nothing I was just wondering wha....." Akane was cut off when she heard the door open and everybody looked over to see who walked in.
It was Cologne and Mousse and they had two other people with them. When Ranma saw them walk in he almost jumped up when he saw the girl with them. But that quickly went away when Ranma saw that it was just a girl that looked sort of like her. Cologne spoke up, "Hello everyone. I would like you to meet my other Great-Granddaughter Garland." Cologne pointed to Garland and she shyly bowed. Then she continued "And this is my Great- Grandson Zane." She pointed to Zane who had is arms cross and he bowed slightly. Then she started to walk to the others there and introduced everyone of them starting off with the Tendous, "Zane, Garland, this is Tendou Soun and his three daughters Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane. This is Ukyou (forgot her last name). This is Ryouga Hibiki. And this is Genma Saotome and of course Ranma Saotome, Shampoo's Airen."
Everyone bowed when their name was said. But Ranma couldn't help but notice that when Cologne came over to him Zane was staring coldly at him. But Ranma tried to ignore it because Cologne started to speak up again. "As you know they will help us search for Shampoo. But for right now I think we all need some rest so you can all leave now. Thank you for coming."
Everyone started to leave, all except for Ranma. "Umm, I'm gonna stay here for awhile." said Ranma.
"Oh...ok. See you later then." said Akane who walked out and turned to look back at him sadly.
Cologne hopped over to Ranma and started speaking to him, "Son-in-Law I know your just as anxious as we are to find Shampoo, but I think you need some rest. You've been working really hard to find her but I think Shampoo would want you to have some rest."
"Yea, well I think Shampoo would want to be found too, so I'm going back out to find her." said Ranma very aggiated.
"Yea, well I'm about to go look for my sister right now." said Zane
"I'm going with you then." said Ranma
"I can do this on my own. I don't need to be carrying any dead weight around while I look for my sister." said Zane giving Ranma a evil glare.
"WHO THE HELL YOU CALLIN......" Ranma was starting to walk up and get into Zanes face getting into his fighting position when Garland jumped in between them.
"We're all just tired and worried right now and tension is running high so just calm down you two." She stopped to give a cold glare to Zane. "Ranma I'll come to look for Shampoo with you. Zane.....well just keep out of trouble and don't start any fights."
Zane and Ranma both were relunctant to agree not to fight, but Garland did make a good point. Zane started to walk out the door. "Ok Garland, but I swear if anything happens to you, like you disappear I'll know who to blame." with that said Zane coldly stared at Ranma and walked out.
Ranma was about to say something and go after him but Garland stopped him before he even got a word out. "Ok, well we should get going too. I always wanted to get to know my sisters Airen. So lets get going." with that said she started to drag Ranma out the door, and yelled back at Cologne, "SORRY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WE'LL BE BACK SOON!"
Cologne just looked at the two as they were leaving out the door and thought to herself, 'This is going to be real interesting.'
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Ranma and Garland were in silence until Garland broke it, "So have you all just looked in Nerima and Japan or have you all been looking everywhere?"
"We've looked in all of Nerima and Some nearby towns but we haven't looked anywhere out of Japan." said Ranma.
"Oh, well......do you love my sister?" said Garland eyeing him curiously.
This caught Ranma way off guard, "HUH.....WHAT....WH..WH...WHY YOU SAY THAT? I DON'T LOVE HER. I JUST LIKE HER A LITTLE. MAYBE NOT EVEN THAT MUCH. WHY DID YOU EVEN ASK!!!!"
Garland tried to keep herself from laughing, "Because you seemed to be the most worried person out the group. I mean you wouldn't be so worried if you didn't love her. Anyways I wouldn't hold it against you or tell anybody or nothing. I just wanted to know because I don't want Shampoo to get hurt."
Ranma calmed down. He noticed that Shampoo and Garland didn't seem nothing a like except for one thing. They were both compassionate. Ranma felt like he could tell Garland anything and she wouldn't tell a soul. So he was about to tell her what he had never told anyone before. He was going to tell her what happened at the cliff and the feelings he had been feeling lately. "You won't tell no one. Not the old gh....Cologne, not your brother, not even Shampoo." he said to her making sure she wouldn't tell.
"Mums, the word." she said giving him a bright smile, a smile like the ones Shampoo use to give him which made him cheer up a bit but miss Shampoo even more.
Ranma was starting to get nervous, hopfully she wouldn't hold him against it. "Ok....well did Cologne tell you about when I last saw Shampoo on the cliff, and that we were talking about something." she just nodded. "Well.....I sort of insulted Shampoo. I guess I sort of said I didn't want to be her Airen earlier that day and went off on her. I didn't mean to I just.....did. So when I went to apologize she told me that she wanted to be left alone and she also said I....I... caused her pain."
Ranma looked at the ground sadly and continued, "After that it rained and she was in her cursed form so I ran because of my fear of ca...ca..cats. So we didn't get to finish our conversation. I....I never meant to hurt her. I would never mean to do that. I mean before all this happened I could tell how I felt about Shampoo, that I only liked her as a friend." Ranma started to get nervous. "Well now that she's gone I....I...I miss her a lot. I mean I'm so use to her glomping on to me everyday and being so affectionate towards me that I miss every little dumb thing she did. No offense."
"None taken." she answered back.
"But now that she's gone it seems like a part of me is missing. And I would do anything to get that part of my life back again."
"Ok...so you love her." said Garland nonchalantly.
"WHAT?!? STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH!!!" said Ranma trying to hide his blush from her.
"Well that blush of yours tells me different. But look you might not realize it now but you'll realize it soon enough." said Garland.
"Whats that supposed to mean?" said Ranma curiously.
"Nothing, you shouldn't be worried about that right now. You should be worried about my brother." said Garland.
"Yea, I meant to ask you about him. Whats his deal?" said Ranma.
"Well......he hates you." said Garland hoping that he wouldn't yell.
But of course he did, "WHAT?!? WHAT THE HELL DID I EVER DO TO HIM?!?"
"Well he blames you for taking Shampoo away, he blames you for her curse, and he thinks its your fault for losing her. Oh yea, he's also very overprotective and he doesn't like the idea of Shampoo having to compete for the right to marry you. And he doesn't like the fact you have other fiancee's and he......" Garland was cut off by Ranma.
"Ok, ok I get it. But ain't none of that my fault." said Ranma aggitated.
"Oh, I know that. He doesn't though. So for right now can you try to get along with him and I'll try to talk to him about you. Please." Garland said with puppy dog eyes.
"Ok, I'll try but if he insults me once more about losing Shampoo, then there's gonna be a fight."
"Ok" Garland said with a smile on her face. She could see why Shampoo had loved him.
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Kyoko was falling a sleep in class again. 'How do these Japenese people do it. Its so boring. I wonder what Ranma's doing now. NOOOOOO!!!! I have to stop thinking about him now. He's apart of my old life and this is the beginning of my new life as Kyoko not Shampoo. She doesn't exist anymore. But I miss Ranma so much if I could just see him or touch him.....NO NO NO!!! I HAVE TO STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM!!! He doesn't want me and probably doesn't even care I'm missing. Geez I hate this.'
Kyoko stopped her thinking when she realized that she was hitting her head on her desk over and over again. Everyone was looking at her. The principle had now come in and was staring at her too. Then the principle continued talking, "Well ok......now like I was saying. Next week only a selected few will go on a three day trip to a different town to study how different two towns can be. We can't say what town your going to right now because its a surprise. But the people who are going are, Kiki, Mia, Kai, Yukie, Kyoko, Toma, and Lynn. You all will be staying at a local residents home. I've already got all of your parents permission so you all will leave in one week before school starts. Thank you and see you next week."
After school all the kids who weren't going looked dissapointed and kept on staring coldly at Kyoko as she walked by with Yukie, Kiki, and Mia. But Yukie was looking excited and not even paying attention to the people around them. "YES!!! This is going to be fun. I just can't wait." said Yukie jumping up and down.
"Yea, and isn't this gonna be your first trip Kyoko?" said Mia.
"Yep it is. Lucky I came now or I wouldn't have been selected. I just can't wait either" said Kyoko in her bubbly voice.
"I bet you can't wait since Kai's coming." said Kiki winking at Kyoko.
"GEEZ!!! How many times do I have to tell you all, WE ARE JUST FRIENDS!!! NOTHING MORE!!" said Kyoko annoyed.
"Yea right, we believe you." said Yukie sarcasticly.
"SHUTUP!!!" said Kyoko getting angry by all of them laughing at her.
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"Ok Kyoko, you and Yukie have extra panties in this compartment, and your swimming suits in this one, and towels, soap, tampons, and......" Grandma was cut off by Kyoko.
"OK, OK. I know where everything is Grandma, I did pack everything myself. Also I don't think I'll need a swim suit because of my curse. Unless they have hotsprings there or if we just hangout at the beach." said Kyoko smiling sweetly at her new Grandma.
"Oh I know, but its just your first field trip and I want it to be fun for you. Now take care of Yukie and make sure she doesn't get in trouble." said Grandma.
"HEY I"M STANDING RIGHT HERE AND I'M NOT A BABY!!!" yelled Yukie.
"Sure your not. I believe you." Kyoko felt Yukies aura growing from behind her. Which made her want to laugh. "Anyways, bye Grandma I'll bring you back a souvenior from where ever were going to." said Kyoko giving Grandma a kiss and hug goodbye and walked up on the bus.
"See ya Grandma." said Yukie as she gave her Grandma a hug and kiss goodbye and walked up on the bus to sit next to Kyoko.
"Bye girls have a good time!" yelled Grandma as the bus drove away.
On the bus Yukie and Kyoko were talking. "Do you know what town we're going to?" asked Kyoko.
"Nope, don't know." said Yukie.
"I just hope they don't have much cold water there." said Kyoko jokingly.
"Yea, then we would have to explain to everyone why theres a cat wearing your clothes." said Yukie laughing with Kyoko.
"Well tell me when were almost there, I'm still tired." said Kyoko yawning. She didn't get much sleep the other night. She just had a feelinig that something bad was going to happen but she didn't know what.
"Ok." said Yukie putting on her earphones about to listen to her Cds.
About 2 hours later Kyoko was woken up by Yukie. "Hey were almost there."
"Oh we....." Kyoko went completely numb when she looked out the window. She recognized the resturant they went past. Kyoko started to panic. "YUKIE WHAT TOWN ARE WE AT?!?"
Yukie was sort of startled by her sudden outburst. "Ummm... The principle said we were in the town of Miramia about 30 minutes ago. Why?"
Kyoko let out a sigh of relief, then Lynn spoke up, "No he didn't he said we're in the town of Nerima stupid. You had your earphones on at the time remember."
Kyoko was in a state of shock. She felt herself shaking, her breaths getting shorter and everything around her start to blur. Her life as she knew it was about to come to an end she thought right before she blacked out.
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*SIGH* the end of another chapter. I hope you liked it. There were some other things I wanted to say but I forgot. Oh yea I might not be able to update for awhile because I think I failed one of my finals so please pray that I didn't. Oh I remember now. In the story I wanted Shampoo to have a normal teenage girl life, well as normal as it can get when you turn into a cat. So I just wanted to let you know if it didn't seem obvious, or if she seemed OOC.
A/N: HI!!! Another chapter up. I'm really depressed right now because its final exam week. So I've been studying a lot and getting no sleep. The only good thing is that we get out of school earlier so I have time to update my fanfics. So if it seems like I'm slacking off on any of my fanfics its because of the finals. And remember when you read this Kyoko is Shampoo.
Chapter 5- The Field Trip
*MANDARIN* 'THOUGHTS' ~SOUNDS~
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Its been a little over a month now and they still hadn't found Shampoo. The only clue they had to find Shampoo were the clothes they found when her and Ranma went over to talk by the cliff. Some how Ranma couldn't help to think that this was all his fault. After Ranma found out about Shampoo being missing he hadn't been sleeping good, he hadn't been eating as much, and he seemed really distant from the others. But in a few days Shampoo's brother and sister would be coming to help and hopefully they would be able to find Shampoo.
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Kyoko and Yukie were walking home from Kyokos first day of school. "So enjoy your first day of school?" asked Yukie.
"Ya, I liked everything but the learning part." said Kyoko.
"Awww come on, Its better than working at that cafe all day." said Yukie.
Kyoko (SHAMPOO!!!) had been in Ohgami for one month and It was about time that she started to go to school. But before she started school she was working at a small cafe. But now since she started school her and Yukie started working there as an after school job.
Kyoko had been enjoying herself a lot. Once she had recovered Yukie introduced all of her friends to her. They had all been friendly and anxious to meet her, especially the boys. So when Kyoko went to school for her first day mostly everybody knew her. She had more friends than she did when she was in Nerima.
"Hey Kyoko, anybody home?" Yukie knocked on Kyokos head to get her attention.
"Huh....oh, hehe, were you saying something?" Kyoko said smiling sheepishly which made the both of them to start cracking up.
After they stopped laughing Yukie spoke up again. "Yes, I was trying to ask you something?"
"About what?" Kyoko asked.
"You and Kia. He passed you a note today. What did it say?" said Yukie.
"Oh you want to know what it said. It said that Yukie needs to mind her own business." said Kyoko.
"Oh come on. Tell me. Tell me tell me tell me. I swear I will bug you the rest of this week if you don't tell me."
"Tell you what?" They both turned around to see who interupted their conversation. They turned around to see a tall young man, who was well built, hazel eyes, long black hair that was held back in a ponytail (something like that) with his bangs hanging down just barely covering his eyes. He was very handsome which caught both girls offguard.
Yukie finally got over her shock and spoke up. "Oh hey Kia. We weren't talking about that note that you gave Kyoko if thats what you're thinking. Oh well....um... I'll just leave you two alone to talk. I'll see you at the cafe Kyoko." After she said that she walked off but not before winking to Kyoko.
Kyoko just looked at her dryly as she walked away. Kai spoke up again "You know she's weird right?"
"I live with her, and she can be a lot worse." said Kyoko. 'I just wish she could be a lot less obvious.'
"I really do feel sorry for you then." said Kai flashing her a smile.
"Um.....so do you want to walk with me to the cafe even though its just around the corner?" said Kyoko trying to hide the fact that she was a little nervous.
"Sure. Anyways did you read the note I gave you?" said Kai as they were walking off.
"Yea, about the field trip. So its supposed to be some sort of secret?"
"Yea, I overheard some of the teachers talking about it. They're supposed to be annoucing it some time this week. But I did hear them say that we might be staying in a hotel."
"Where at?" asked Kyoko.
"Don't know, they didn't say. But they did say that the trip is just for fun. I think its just for selected students though." said Kai.
"I hope one of them is me." said Kyoko.
They both stopped in front of the cafe she worked at. "But remember no matter how much Yukie bothers you, you can't tell her. Because she has a big mouth and would go and tell the whole school in a minute."
She just laughed and answered "Ok I won't tell her no matter what. On my honor as an Amazon I wo....." Kyoko then realized the mistake she made.
"Amazon???" Kai looked at her confused.
"Oh, hehe, I'm just kidding. I got that from a movie I watched yesterday. Silly me." She laughed nervously thinking that hopefully he would believe her.
"Oh, okay I guess I'll see you later then." Kai said as he turned to walk off.
Kyoko gave a sigh of relief after he left "That was close, I almo....."
She was cut off by Yukie busting through the door yelling at her. "WHAT WERE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT?!?"
Kyoko just stared at her with a look of shock and surprised. She quickly shook that off and walked past Yukie to get inside without even looking or speaking to her. Yukie just looked at her as she walked by. "What? What did I do?" said Yukie trying to sound innocent.
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Ranma, Genma, all of the Tendou's, Ukyou, and Ryouga were waiting at the Nekohatten waiting for Shampoo's brother and sister to arrive. Ryouga was staying with Tendou's for now until they all found Shampoo. "Tell me why we ALL have to be here?" said Nabiki drly like always.
"We all have to be introduced to them. This is probably a very hard to time for them." said Ukyou.
Akane looked over to the table Ranma was sitting. He was sitting at the booth over in the corner alone. It seemed like Ranma was the one who was taking this hardest. Since Shampoo disappeared Ranma and Akane didn't even get into one argument. Maybe it was because she barely even saw him anymore because he was always out looking for Shampoo. She walked over to his table to see what was wrong with him."Ranma? Hey Ranma?"
Ranma didn't hear Akane talking to him because he was deep in thought. 'I hope Shampoo's brother and sister can help us. I didn't know I would ever miss Shampoo this much. I just feel so helpless. There ain't no one who would want to kidnap her at least I don't think. Maybe she ran away because of me. Geez, why do things always happen to me?'. Ranma had finally noticed that someone was saying his name over and over again. He finally snapped back and looked up to find Akane looking at him worried. "Huh, whats wrong?"
"Nothing I was just wondering wha....." Akane was cut off when she heard the door open and everybody looked over to see who walked in.
It was Cologne and Mousse and they had two other people with them. When Ranma saw them walk in he almost jumped up when he saw the girl with them. But that quickly went away when Ranma saw that it was just a girl that looked sort of like her. Cologne spoke up, "Hello everyone. I would like you to meet my other Great-Granddaughter Garland." Cologne pointed to Garland and she shyly bowed. Then she continued "And this is my Great- Grandson Zane." She pointed to Zane who had is arms cross and he bowed slightly. Then she started to walk to the others there and introduced everyone of them starting off with the Tendous, "Zane, Garland, this is Tendou Soun and his three daughters Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane. This is Ukyou (forgot her last name). This is Ryouga Hibiki. And this is Genma Saotome and of course Ranma Saotome, Shampoo's Airen."
Everyone bowed when their name was said. But Ranma couldn't help but notice that when Cologne came over to him Zane was staring coldly at him. But Ranma tried to ignore it because Cologne started to speak up again. "As you know they will help us search for Shampoo. But for right now I think we all need some rest so you can all leave now. Thank you for coming."
Everyone started to leave, all except for Ranma. "Umm, I'm gonna stay here for awhile." said Ranma.
"Oh...ok. See you later then." said Akane who walked out and turned to look back at him sadly.
Cologne hopped over to Ranma and started speaking to him, "Son-in-Law I know your just as anxious as we are to find Shampoo, but I think you need some rest. You've been working really hard to find her but I think Shampoo would want you to have some rest."
"Yea, well I think Shampoo would want to be found too, so I'm going back out to find her." said Ranma very aggiated.
"Yea, well I'm about to go look for my sister right now." said Zane
"I'm going with you then." said Ranma
"I can do this on my own. I don't need to be carrying any dead weight around while I look for my sister." said Zane giving Ranma a evil glare.
"WHO THE HELL YOU CALLIN......" Ranma was starting to walk up and get into Zanes face getting into his fighting position when Garland jumped in between them.
"We're all just tired and worried right now and tension is running high so just calm down you two." She stopped to give a cold glare to Zane. "Ranma I'll come to look for Shampoo with you. Zane.....well just keep out of trouble and don't start any fights."
Zane and Ranma both were relunctant to agree not to fight, but Garland did make a good point. Zane started to walk out the door. "Ok Garland, but I swear if anything happens to you, like you disappear I'll know who to blame." with that said Zane coldly stared at Ranma and walked out.
Ranma was about to say something and go after him but Garland stopped him before he even got a word out. "Ok, well we should get going too. I always wanted to get to know my sisters Airen. So lets get going." with that said she started to drag Ranma out the door, and yelled back at Cologne, "SORRY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WE'LL BE BACK SOON!"
Cologne just looked at the two as they were leaving out the door and thought to herself, 'This is going to be real interesting.'
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Ranma and Garland were in silence until Garland broke it, "So have you all just looked in Nerima and Japan or have you all been looking everywhere?"
"We've looked in all of Nerima and Some nearby towns but we haven't looked anywhere out of Japan." said Ranma.
"Oh, well......do you love my sister?" said Garland eyeing him curiously.
This caught Ranma way off guard, "HUH.....WHAT....WH..WH...WHY YOU SAY THAT? I DON'T LOVE HER. I JUST LIKE HER A LITTLE. MAYBE NOT EVEN THAT MUCH. WHY DID YOU EVEN ASK!!!!"
Garland tried to keep herself from laughing, "Because you seemed to be the most worried person out the group. I mean you wouldn't be so worried if you didn't love her. Anyways I wouldn't hold it against you or tell anybody or nothing. I just wanted to know because I don't want Shampoo to get hurt."
Ranma calmed down. He noticed that Shampoo and Garland didn't seem nothing a like except for one thing. They were both compassionate. Ranma felt like he could tell Garland anything and she wouldn't tell a soul. So he was about to tell her what he had never told anyone before. He was going to tell her what happened at the cliff and the feelings he had been feeling lately. "You won't tell no one. Not the old gh....Cologne, not your brother, not even Shampoo." he said to her making sure she wouldn't tell.
"Mums, the word." she said giving him a bright smile, a smile like the ones Shampoo use to give him which made him cheer up a bit but miss Shampoo even more.
Ranma was starting to get nervous, hopfully she wouldn't hold him against it. "Ok....well did Cologne tell you about when I last saw Shampoo on the cliff, and that we were talking about something." she just nodded. "Well.....I sort of insulted Shampoo. I guess I sort of said I didn't want to be her Airen earlier that day and went off on her. I didn't mean to I just.....did. So when I went to apologize she told me that she wanted to be left alone and she also said I....I... caused her pain."
Ranma looked at the ground sadly and continued, "After that it rained and she was in her cursed form so I ran because of my fear of ca...ca..cats. So we didn't get to finish our conversation. I....I never meant to hurt her. I would never mean to do that. I mean before all this happened I could tell how I felt about Shampoo, that I only liked her as a friend." Ranma started to get nervous. "Well now that she's gone I....I...I miss her a lot. I mean I'm so use to her glomping on to me everyday and being so affectionate towards me that I miss every little dumb thing she did. No offense."
"None taken." she answered back.
"But now that she's gone it seems like a part of me is missing. And I would do anything to get that part of my life back again."
"Ok...so you love her." said Garland nonchalantly.
"WHAT?!? STOP PUTTING WORDS IN MY MOUTH!!!" said Ranma trying to hide his blush from her.
"Well that blush of yours tells me different. But look you might not realize it now but you'll realize it soon enough." said Garland.
"Whats that supposed to mean?" said Ranma curiously.
"Nothing, you shouldn't be worried about that right now. You should be worried about my brother." said Garland.
"Yea, I meant to ask you about him. Whats his deal?" said Ranma.
"Well......he hates you." said Garland hoping that he wouldn't yell.
But of course he did, "WHAT?!? WHAT THE HELL DID I EVER DO TO HIM?!?"
"Well he blames you for taking Shampoo away, he blames you for her curse, and he thinks its your fault for losing her. Oh yea, he's also very overprotective and he doesn't like the idea of Shampoo having to compete for the right to marry you. And he doesn't like the fact you have other fiancee's and he......" Garland was cut off by Ranma.
"Ok, ok I get it. But ain't none of that my fault." said Ranma aggitated.
"Oh, I know that. He doesn't though. So for right now can you try to get along with him and I'll try to talk to him about you. Please." Garland said with puppy dog eyes.
"Ok, I'll try but if he insults me once more about losing Shampoo, then there's gonna be a fight."
"Ok" Garland said with a smile on her face. She could see why Shampoo had loved him.
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Kyoko was falling a sleep in class again. 'How do these Japenese people do it. Its so boring. I wonder what Ranma's doing now. NOOOOOO!!!! I have to stop thinking about him now. He's apart of my old life and this is the beginning of my new life as Kyoko not Shampoo. She doesn't exist anymore. But I miss Ranma so much if I could just see him or touch him.....NO NO NO!!! I HAVE TO STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM!!! He doesn't want me and probably doesn't even care I'm missing. Geez I hate this.'
Kyoko stopped her thinking when she realized that she was hitting her head on her desk over and over again. Everyone was looking at her. The principle had now come in and was staring at her too. Then the principle continued talking, "Well ok......now like I was saying. Next week only a selected few will go on a three day trip to a different town to study how different two towns can be. We can't say what town your going to right now because its a surprise. But the people who are going are, Kiki, Mia, Kai, Yukie, Kyoko, Toma, and Lynn. You all will be staying at a local residents home. I've already got all of your parents permission so you all will leave in one week before school starts. Thank you and see you next week."
After school all the kids who weren't going looked dissapointed and kept on staring coldly at Kyoko as she walked by with Yukie, Kiki, and Mia. But Yukie was looking excited and not even paying attention to the people around them. "YES!!! This is going to be fun. I just can't wait." said Yukie jumping up and down.
"Yea, and isn't this gonna be your first trip Kyoko?" said Mia.
"Yep it is. Lucky I came now or I wouldn't have been selected. I just can't wait either" said Kyoko in her bubbly voice.
"I bet you can't wait since Kai's coming." said Kiki winking at Kyoko.
"GEEZ!!! How many times do I have to tell you all, WE ARE JUST FRIENDS!!! NOTHING MORE!!" said Kyoko annoyed.
"Yea right, we believe you." said Yukie sarcasticly.
"SHUTUP!!!" said Kyoko getting angry by all of them laughing at her.
*****1 week later*******
"Ok Kyoko, you and Yukie have extra panties in this compartment, and your swimming suits in this one, and towels, soap, tampons, and......" Grandma was cut off by Kyoko.
"OK, OK. I know where everything is Grandma, I did pack everything myself. Also I don't think I'll need a swim suit because of my curse. Unless they have hotsprings there or if we just hangout at the beach." said Kyoko smiling sweetly at her new Grandma.
"Oh I know, but its just your first field trip and I want it to be fun for you. Now take care of Yukie and make sure she doesn't get in trouble." said Grandma.
"HEY I"M STANDING RIGHT HERE AND I'M NOT A BABY!!!" yelled Yukie.
"Sure your not. I believe you." Kyoko felt Yukies aura growing from behind her. Which made her want to laugh. "Anyways, bye Grandma I'll bring you back a souvenior from where ever were going to." said Kyoko giving Grandma a kiss and hug goodbye and walked up on the bus.
"See ya Grandma." said Yukie as she gave her Grandma a hug and kiss goodbye and walked up on the bus to sit next to Kyoko.
"Bye girls have a good time!" yelled Grandma as the bus drove away.
On the bus Yukie and Kyoko were talking. "Do you know what town we're going to?" asked Kyoko.
"Nope, don't know." said Yukie.
"I just hope they don't have much cold water there." said Kyoko jokingly.
"Yea, then we would have to explain to everyone why theres a cat wearing your clothes." said Yukie laughing with Kyoko.
"Well tell me when were almost there, I'm still tired." said Kyoko yawning. She didn't get much sleep the other night. She just had a feelinig that something bad was going to happen but she didn't know what.
"Ok." said Yukie putting on her earphones about to listen to her Cds.
About 2 hours later Kyoko was woken up by Yukie. "Hey were almost there."
"Oh we....." Kyoko went completely numb when she looked out the window. She recognized the resturant they went past. Kyoko started to panic. "YUKIE WHAT TOWN ARE WE AT?!?"
Yukie was sort of startled by her sudden outburst. "Ummm... The principle said we were in the town of Miramia about 30 minutes ago. Why?"
Kyoko let out a sigh of relief, then Lynn spoke up, "No he didn't he said we're in the town of Nerima stupid. You had your earphones on at the time remember."
Kyoko was in a state of shock. She felt herself shaking, her breaths getting shorter and everything around her start to blur. Her life as she knew it was about to come to an end she thought right before she blacked out.
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*SIGH* the end of another chapter. I hope you liked it. There were some other things I wanted to say but I forgot. Oh yea I might not be able to update for awhile because I think I failed one of my finals so please pray that I didn't. Oh I remember now. In the story I wanted Shampoo to have a normal teenage girl life, well as normal as it can get when you turn into a cat. So I just wanted to let you know if it didn't seem obvious, or if she seemed OOC.