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A/N: Hey everybody. Sorry for the slow updates but I've just had two reports to do. So its been some rough weeks. Well anyways I hope you all understand. ENJOY!!!
Chapter 9-Shampoo's Choices
*MANDARIN* 'THOUGHTS' ~SOUNDS~
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It was the middle of the day and Ranma sat on top of the roof trying to think things out. And trying to get away from Akane. They had their first fight of the month. Since Shampoo's disapperance Ranma kept to himself, but now since Shampoo was back everything seem to be returning to normal. With Ryouga getting lost and attacking Ranma. Kuno babbling about his pig-tailed goddess and Akane. Akane and Ranma arguing about every little thing. Ukyou and Kodachi trying to figure out ways to get Ranma. And it had only been one day since Shampoo returned. But the only thing that was different was Shampoo.
Yea, it had only been one day, but when he saw her the other day she seemed a lot different. Her whole look and attitude seemed different. And what that girl Yukie said made him really think. She sort of made him feel guilty about not knowing Shampoo all that well. Maybe thats why he had that dream last night.
'DAMN THAT YUKIE!!! This is all her fault that I had this dream and that I can't get Shampoo off my mind. Maybe I should talk to Shampoo, but I know she'll try to avoid me. But oh well, too bad for her. Because I've had enough of this.' Ranma got up and brushed himself off and started hopping roof to roof. "I'm gonna make Shampoo talk to me no matter what."
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Shampoo woke up with a good start. She looked around and quickly her good mood faded away. She forgot that she was now back in Nerima. 'Why couldn't I just stay asleep?'
Shampoo sighed and covered herself with her covers and tried to forget where she was until Garland barged in bright and happy like always. "Wake up baby sister Great-Grandmother wants to see you."
Shampoo just glared at her sister as she got up, "Why do you have to be so perky in the morning?" asked Shampoo as she got out a light blue tank and some jeans that she got from when she lived with Yukie.
"I'm not perky. I'm just happy to see my baby sister. Now give your big sister a hug!" Garland said as she glomped onto Shampoo.
"ARGHH!!! I.....CAN'T......BREATH!!!"
"Well, I see Garland got you up."
They both turned around to see Cologne hopping towards them. Garland finally loosened her grip on Shampoo. "Well I just thought Shampoo needed a hug." Garland said giving her sister a bright smile.
"Yea, well you could've gave me a word of warning." Shampoo said still recovering from the vicious hug.
"Yes, well if you two are done talking I would like to talk to Shampoo alone." said Cologne.
"Oh, ok. See ya later then." Garland said walking out. Garland looked towards Shampoo and saw that she looked as sad as she did yesterday. 'Hmmm, maybe I should get Shampoo a gift. Ohhh, I know just the thing.'
Shampoo watched as Garland happily ran out the room as if she had a brilliant idea. 'Man, I wish I could be as happy as Garland.' She then looked up to see Cologne looking serious at her. 'But when has any of my wishes come true.'
"Great-Granddaughter, we have much to talk about."
"Yes, I know Great-Grandmother." Shampoo said as she sat down on her bed looking at the floor.
"But first, I want to know do you wish to marry Ranma?"
Shampoo was completely shocked. She didn't know what to say. Yea, she wanted Ranma. She loved him, but the problem was he didn't love her. "Well...um...yea I do." Shampoo said uncertain of herself.
"Tell the truth. Tell me what you're thinking right now."
Shampoo was getting nervous. Why did her Great-Grandmother want to know all of this? Well she had no choice but to answer because she sure in hell wasn't going to question her Great-Grandmother in this kind of serious mood. "Well.....I love him. I love him with all of my heart. But.....how can I compete with Akane when she lives with Ranma. Or Ukyou, even though Ranma thought she was a boy at first they're best friends. They both got something I don't have. They have a relationship. Ranma doesn't know me, but he knows Akane and Ukyou. I know he sees Ukyou only as a friend, but Akane.....she's different. Ranma sees her as something more. And me....I'm nothing to him. I'm just the girl who chases Ranma and ends up with a broken heart. I...I just don't want to end up hurt like last time. Because I still feel like it was just yesterday he said all of that to me. And this pain still feels so new to me."
Cologne saw that Shampoo had began to cry. "Shampoo, please don't cry. I don't want you to end up hurt either. Thats why I'm giving you a choice. You can either stay here in Nerima, and keep on persuing Ranma. Or we can go back home to China and face your punishment."
Shampoo looked at her Great-Grandmother wide-eyed, but before she could answer Cologne started speaking again. "I don't want your answer now. I want you to think about it. Also I can pretty much garrente you won't be put to death or exiled, if we go back to the villiage. Oh, and I'll let you have the day off today, but tommorow be prepared to work again." Cologne said as she hopped away.
Shampoo sat there unsure of what to do. So many things were going through her head all at once. But finally, after 15 minutes of staring into space one thing was clear. She quickly got herself washed up and dressed. She headed downstairs to the phone and dialed the number to Dr.Tofu's. "Hello, Dr.Tofu.....This is Shampoo.......I'm fine. But you know those group of girls I was with yesterday?........Yes, where are they staying at and whats their number?"
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It was the middle of the day and Shampoo and Yukie were walking down the street talking. "Your lucky that since there's been so much drama that we have a free day. With you and your incident. And then the boys moving to a hotel for the rest of the time because the family that they were staying with were complete psycho's." said Yukie.
Shampoo smiled at that. "Did they tell you what the family tried to do to them?"
"Yea. The father tried to cut all the boys hair. The son tried to challange everybody there, because he thought they were trying to hit on his sister. Oh, and the daughter tried to experiment love potions on the boys saying that there for her 'future husband'." Yukie saw Shampoo trying to hold back from laughing. "Oh, so I take it you know these people."
"Yea, sort of." Shampoo said still trying to hold back from laughing.
"Anyways, why did you call me up. DID RANMA DO SOMETHING TO YOU?!?" Yelled Yukie.
"No, Yukie." Shampoo smiled as she saw Yukie let out a sigh. "But my Great- Grandmother, talked to me today."
"About what?" Yukie asked concerned.
"She wants me to make a choice. She either wants me to stay her and keep on trying to get Ranma, or go back home to China."
"WHAT?!? STAY HERE!! IF YOU GO BACK TO CHINA IT WOULD BE HARDER FOR US TO KEEP IN TOUCH!! WAIT....your Chinese???"
Shampoo face-faulted but quickly recovered. "YES!!! I'm a Chinese Amazon. Haven't you noticed my accent?"
"Yea, but I never thought much about it."
"Anyways, I don't know what to do. I love him, but he has two other fiancees, well actually....."
"Three, because the third one is psychotic. Yea yea, I know." Yukie said finishing Shampoo's sentence.
"Wait, how did you know about that. I never told you."
"Well....."
"Hey, Shampoo."
Shampoo and Yukie turned around to see Ranma jumping from a roof top down to them. "Speak of the devil." Yukie said with a smirk on her face.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Ranma growled.
"WAIT!!! How do you...." Shampoo was cut off by Yukie.
"I am Shampoo's best friend. So I can walk down the street with her if I want to." Yukie then turned to Shampoo, "Anyways Shampoo, I'm going over there. Come over when your done talking." Yukie said walking towards a Cd shop.
Shampoo looked at Yukie with pleading eyes but she only turned and walked away. So now it was her and Ranma. At first there was an awkward silence until Ranma broke it. "So...um...Shampoo how you been?" Ranma said mentally slapping himself.
"I've been better." Shampoo said trying to avoid his eyes.
Ranma was getting really nervous. He didn't really think of what he would say before he got there. The only thing he knew was that he was going to talk to Shampoo, but what was he going to talk about. He was feeling sort of guilty about the other day, and about him yelling at her. So he could apologize to her. "Umm....well....Shampoo.....I...I want to say..........sorry." Shampoo looked up at him surprised. "For you know, yesterday and about me yelling at you before you.....ran off."
Shampoo was speechless. Right now she wanted to glomp onto Ranma really bad, but she was afraid he would just go off again. So Shampoo just kept her cool. "Ok, I accept your apology."
Ranma looked at her shocked. He was expecting Shampoo to glomp onto him. And to Ranma this seemed really disappointing. 'DAMMIT!! I know she doesn't really mean it.' "WHAT, THAT'S IT?!? DO YOU WANT ME TO GET ON MY KNEES AND BEG FOR FORGIVENESS!?! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO FOR YOU TO FORGIVE ME?!?"
Shampoo looked at Ranma confused. 'Does he expect me to jump up and down in joy all because he apologized?' "Umm.....I accept your apology. Thank you."
"I KNOW DAMN WELL YOU DON'T MEAN IT SOO......I'LL MAKE IT UP TO YOU AND TAKE YOU ON A DATE!!"
Shampoo looked at him wide-eyed "What?" Shampoo asked stunned.
Ranma didn't know what the hell he said himself, but his mouth wouldn't stop talking. "You heard me. I'm taking you on a date. I'll pick you up from the Nekohatten at 6:00 tommorow evening." Ranma said as he walked off confidently. But in his head he was yelling at himself. 'WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST DO?!?'
Shampoo was still looking at the walking Ranma wide-eyed. 'Did he just TELL me I'm going on a date with him? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!'
Yukie was standing in front of Shampoo waving her hand in front of her face. Yukie heard the whole thing, and was happy for Shampoo. But apparently Shampoo was still absorbing what had just happened. "HELLO!!! SHAMPOO!!!" Yukie yelled in Shampoo's ear.
Shampoo finally snapped out of it when she heard Yukie yelling in her ear. "Huh?? What??"
"Are you ok?" Yukie asked.
"Yea, sure. Lets go home." Shampoo said still half dazed.
"Ummm....ok." said Yukie worried.
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Shampoo finally returned to the Nekohatten. She was extremely tired and it wasn't even dark yet. As she entered the Nekohatten she saw Mousse start to run to her, but stopped him by dumping cold water on him. Shampoo just immediately ran upstairs ignoring her brother and Great-Grandomother.
When Shampoo reached her room she let out a sigh, and was about to turn to get into her bed when she saw Garland laying in it. "Hey baby sister, how was your day?"
Shampoo was already agitated and Garland was just making it worse. "First of all I'm not a baby, and second of all thats my bed."
Garland smirked at her sister. "I'm older than you, so to me you are a baby. And this is also my room now, so get use to it."
Shampoo glared at her sister and sat down on a chair. "Look, just get up so I can get some sleep. I've had a rough day."
"What happened?" Garland asked concerned.
"Ranma TOLD me that I'm going on date with him tommorow."
"Wow, lucky you." Garland said as she got up.
"Yea, lucky." Shampoo said sarcastically as she ploped down on her bed.
"Oh, and before I forget, here." Garland threw Shampoo a purplish pink book with a kitten on the cover.
"Whats this?" asked Shampoo as she examined it.
"Its a journal. You write stuff that you wouldn't tell anybody. You just have to make sure to keep it safe. I just thought it would help you get rid of some of that bitterness in you."
Shampoo gave her a soft smile, "Thanks."
"No problem. Just keep it safe." Garland said as she walked out.
As soon as Garland left Shampoo grabbed a pen and started to write down stuff. She didn't know what she was writing but it all just seemed to pop up in to her head.
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Yea, thats the end of another chapter. I really don't like this one as much, but you all tell me what you think. And like I said before sorry for the slow updates. Oh, and for the next chapter its gonna be sort of deep. So just letting you know before. Oh and one more thing.......
14 MORE DAYS UNTIL MY BIRTTHDAY!!!! ITS MARCH 21ST!!! YAY!!!!
A/N: Hey everybody. Sorry for the slow updates but I've just had two reports to do. So its been some rough weeks. Well anyways I hope you all understand. ENJOY!!!
Chapter 9-Shampoo's Choices
*MANDARIN* 'THOUGHTS' ~SOUNDS~
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It was the middle of the day and Ranma sat on top of the roof trying to think things out. And trying to get away from Akane. They had their first fight of the month. Since Shampoo's disapperance Ranma kept to himself, but now since Shampoo was back everything seem to be returning to normal. With Ryouga getting lost and attacking Ranma. Kuno babbling about his pig-tailed goddess and Akane. Akane and Ranma arguing about every little thing. Ukyou and Kodachi trying to figure out ways to get Ranma. And it had only been one day since Shampoo returned. But the only thing that was different was Shampoo.
Yea, it had only been one day, but when he saw her the other day she seemed a lot different. Her whole look and attitude seemed different. And what that girl Yukie said made him really think. She sort of made him feel guilty about not knowing Shampoo all that well. Maybe thats why he had that dream last night.
'DAMN THAT YUKIE!!! This is all her fault that I had this dream and that I can't get Shampoo off my mind. Maybe I should talk to Shampoo, but I know she'll try to avoid me. But oh well, too bad for her. Because I've had enough of this.' Ranma got up and brushed himself off and started hopping roof to roof. "I'm gonna make Shampoo talk to me no matter what."
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Shampoo woke up with a good start. She looked around and quickly her good mood faded away. She forgot that she was now back in Nerima. 'Why couldn't I just stay asleep?'
Shampoo sighed and covered herself with her covers and tried to forget where she was until Garland barged in bright and happy like always. "Wake up baby sister Great-Grandmother wants to see you."
Shampoo just glared at her sister as she got up, "Why do you have to be so perky in the morning?" asked Shampoo as she got out a light blue tank and some jeans that she got from when she lived with Yukie.
"I'm not perky. I'm just happy to see my baby sister. Now give your big sister a hug!" Garland said as she glomped onto Shampoo.
"ARGHH!!! I.....CAN'T......BREATH!!!"
"Well, I see Garland got you up."
They both turned around to see Cologne hopping towards them. Garland finally loosened her grip on Shampoo. "Well I just thought Shampoo needed a hug." Garland said giving her sister a bright smile.
"Yea, well you could've gave me a word of warning." Shampoo said still recovering from the vicious hug.
"Yes, well if you two are done talking I would like to talk to Shampoo alone." said Cologne.
"Oh, ok. See ya later then." Garland said walking out. Garland looked towards Shampoo and saw that she looked as sad as she did yesterday. 'Hmmm, maybe I should get Shampoo a gift. Ohhh, I know just the thing.'
Shampoo watched as Garland happily ran out the room as if she had a brilliant idea. 'Man, I wish I could be as happy as Garland.' She then looked up to see Cologne looking serious at her. 'But when has any of my wishes come true.'
"Great-Granddaughter, we have much to talk about."
"Yes, I know Great-Grandmother." Shampoo said as she sat down on her bed looking at the floor.
"But first, I want to know do you wish to marry Ranma?"
Shampoo was completely shocked. She didn't know what to say. Yea, she wanted Ranma. She loved him, but the problem was he didn't love her. "Well...um...yea I do." Shampoo said uncertain of herself.
"Tell the truth. Tell me what you're thinking right now."
Shampoo was getting nervous. Why did her Great-Grandmother want to know all of this? Well she had no choice but to answer because she sure in hell wasn't going to question her Great-Grandmother in this kind of serious mood. "Well.....I love him. I love him with all of my heart. But.....how can I compete with Akane when she lives with Ranma. Or Ukyou, even though Ranma thought she was a boy at first they're best friends. They both got something I don't have. They have a relationship. Ranma doesn't know me, but he knows Akane and Ukyou. I know he sees Ukyou only as a friend, but Akane.....she's different. Ranma sees her as something more. And me....I'm nothing to him. I'm just the girl who chases Ranma and ends up with a broken heart. I...I just don't want to end up hurt like last time. Because I still feel like it was just yesterday he said all of that to me. And this pain still feels so new to me."
Cologne saw that Shampoo had began to cry. "Shampoo, please don't cry. I don't want you to end up hurt either. Thats why I'm giving you a choice. You can either stay here in Nerima, and keep on persuing Ranma. Or we can go back home to China and face your punishment."
Shampoo looked at her Great-Grandmother wide-eyed, but before she could answer Cologne started speaking again. "I don't want your answer now. I want you to think about it. Also I can pretty much garrente you won't be put to death or exiled, if we go back to the villiage. Oh, and I'll let you have the day off today, but tommorow be prepared to work again." Cologne said as she hopped away.
Shampoo sat there unsure of what to do. So many things were going through her head all at once. But finally, after 15 minutes of staring into space one thing was clear. She quickly got herself washed up and dressed. She headed downstairs to the phone and dialed the number to Dr.Tofu's. "Hello, Dr.Tofu.....This is Shampoo.......I'm fine. But you know those group of girls I was with yesterday?........Yes, where are they staying at and whats their number?"
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It was the middle of the day and Shampoo and Yukie were walking down the street talking. "Your lucky that since there's been so much drama that we have a free day. With you and your incident. And then the boys moving to a hotel for the rest of the time because the family that they were staying with were complete psycho's." said Yukie.
Shampoo smiled at that. "Did they tell you what the family tried to do to them?"
"Yea. The father tried to cut all the boys hair. The son tried to challange everybody there, because he thought they were trying to hit on his sister. Oh, and the daughter tried to experiment love potions on the boys saying that there for her 'future husband'." Yukie saw Shampoo trying to hold back from laughing. "Oh, so I take it you know these people."
"Yea, sort of." Shampoo said still trying to hold back from laughing.
"Anyways, why did you call me up. DID RANMA DO SOMETHING TO YOU?!?" Yelled Yukie.
"No, Yukie." Shampoo smiled as she saw Yukie let out a sigh. "But my Great- Grandmother, talked to me today."
"About what?" Yukie asked concerned.
"She wants me to make a choice. She either wants me to stay her and keep on trying to get Ranma, or go back home to China."
"WHAT?!? STAY HERE!! IF YOU GO BACK TO CHINA IT WOULD BE HARDER FOR US TO KEEP IN TOUCH!! WAIT....your Chinese???"
Shampoo face-faulted but quickly recovered. "YES!!! I'm a Chinese Amazon. Haven't you noticed my accent?"
"Yea, but I never thought much about it."
"Anyways, I don't know what to do. I love him, but he has two other fiancees, well actually....."
"Three, because the third one is psychotic. Yea yea, I know." Yukie said finishing Shampoo's sentence.
"Wait, how did you know about that. I never told you."
"Well....."
"Hey, Shampoo."
Shampoo and Yukie turned around to see Ranma jumping from a roof top down to them. "Speak of the devil." Yukie said with a smirk on her face.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Ranma growled.
"WAIT!!! How do you...." Shampoo was cut off by Yukie.
"I am Shampoo's best friend. So I can walk down the street with her if I want to." Yukie then turned to Shampoo, "Anyways Shampoo, I'm going over there. Come over when your done talking." Yukie said walking towards a Cd shop.
Shampoo looked at Yukie with pleading eyes but she only turned and walked away. So now it was her and Ranma. At first there was an awkward silence until Ranma broke it. "So...um...Shampoo how you been?" Ranma said mentally slapping himself.
"I've been better." Shampoo said trying to avoid his eyes.
Ranma was getting really nervous. He didn't really think of what he would say before he got there. The only thing he knew was that he was going to talk to Shampoo, but what was he going to talk about. He was feeling sort of guilty about the other day, and about him yelling at her. So he could apologize to her. "Umm....well....Shampoo.....I...I want to say..........sorry." Shampoo looked up at him surprised. "For you know, yesterday and about me yelling at you before you.....ran off."
Shampoo was speechless. Right now she wanted to glomp onto Ranma really bad, but she was afraid he would just go off again. So Shampoo just kept her cool. "Ok, I accept your apology."
Ranma looked at her shocked. He was expecting Shampoo to glomp onto him. And to Ranma this seemed really disappointing. 'DAMMIT!! I know she doesn't really mean it.' "WHAT, THAT'S IT?!? DO YOU WANT ME TO GET ON MY KNEES AND BEG FOR FORGIVENESS!?! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO FOR YOU TO FORGIVE ME?!?"
Shampoo looked at Ranma confused. 'Does he expect me to jump up and down in joy all because he apologized?' "Umm.....I accept your apology. Thank you."
"I KNOW DAMN WELL YOU DON'T MEAN IT SOO......I'LL MAKE IT UP TO YOU AND TAKE YOU ON A DATE!!"
Shampoo looked at him wide-eyed "What?" Shampoo asked stunned.
Ranma didn't know what the hell he said himself, but his mouth wouldn't stop talking. "You heard me. I'm taking you on a date. I'll pick you up from the Nekohatten at 6:00 tommorow evening." Ranma said as he walked off confidently. But in his head he was yelling at himself. 'WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST DO?!?'
Shampoo was still looking at the walking Ranma wide-eyed. 'Did he just TELL me I'm going on a date with him? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!?!'
Yukie was standing in front of Shampoo waving her hand in front of her face. Yukie heard the whole thing, and was happy for Shampoo. But apparently Shampoo was still absorbing what had just happened. "HELLO!!! SHAMPOO!!!" Yukie yelled in Shampoo's ear.
Shampoo finally snapped out of it when she heard Yukie yelling in her ear. "Huh?? What??"
"Are you ok?" Yukie asked.
"Yea, sure. Lets go home." Shampoo said still half dazed.
"Ummm....ok." said Yukie worried.
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Shampoo finally returned to the Nekohatten. She was extremely tired and it wasn't even dark yet. As she entered the Nekohatten she saw Mousse start to run to her, but stopped him by dumping cold water on him. Shampoo just immediately ran upstairs ignoring her brother and Great-Grandomother.
When Shampoo reached her room she let out a sigh, and was about to turn to get into her bed when she saw Garland laying in it. "Hey baby sister, how was your day?"
Shampoo was already agitated and Garland was just making it worse. "First of all I'm not a baby, and second of all thats my bed."
Garland smirked at her sister. "I'm older than you, so to me you are a baby. And this is also my room now, so get use to it."
Shampoo glared at her sister and sat down on a chair. "Look, just get up so I can get some sleep. I've had a rough day."
"What happened?" Garland asked concerned.
"Ranma TOLD me that I'm going on date with him tommorow."
"Wow, lucky you." Garland said as she got up.
"Yea, lucky." Shampoo said sarcastically as she ploped down on her bed.
"Oh, and before I forget, here." Garland threw Shampoo a purplish pink book with a kitten on the cover.
"Whats this?" asked Shampoo as she examined it.
"Its a journal. You write stuff that you wouldn't tell anybody. You just have to make sure to keep it safe. I just thought it would help you get rid of some of that bitterness in you."
Shampoo gave her a soft smile, "Thanks."
"No problem. Just keep it safe." Garland said as she walked out.
As soon as Garland left Shampoo grabbed a pen and started to write down stuff. She didn't know what she was writing but it all just seemed to pop up in to her head.
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Yea, thats the end of another chapter. I really don't like this one as much, but you all tell me what you think. And like I said before sorry for the slow updates. Oh, and for the next chapter its gonna be sort of deep. So just letting you know before. Oh and one more thing.......
14 MORE DAYS UNTIL MY BIRTTHDAY!!!! ITS MARCH 21ST!!! YAY!!!!