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Heavenly Intervention

Chapter 03

What About Ranma?

Akane smiled as she walked beside Ranma and his sister Nabiki on the way to school. "It's nice being back home." She said. "And everyone at school is so nice and welcoming. The girls are pretty too."

Ranma, who was currently in his female form, looked over at Akane questioningly, much the same as Nabiki did. "I thought you were a girl." She queried. "Why are you looking at the girls?"

Akane snickered and put an arm around Ranma. "Well 'fiancé' when I'm in my guy form I'm an actor, I have to play the part." He stated. Ranma shrugged off Akane's arm and then jumped up to the fence that the trio were walking beside. Akane got an evil grin on her face and jumped up to the fence behind Ranma, walking immediately behind her. "What'cha doin Ranma?" He asked. "You trying to distance yourself from me?" Akane then grabbed Ranma from behind in a hug and ran his hands through her fiery red hair. "Or... Are you trying to show off cause you like me that much?"

Ranma freaked out and started struggling to get out of the girl turned boy's reach. "GAH!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? YOU TWISTED TOMBOY CHICK!?!?!?!" She screamed. Akane let go moments later and Ranma stumbled to the sidewalk breathing heavily. Akane jumped off after walking a few more steps atop the fence and began to laugh out loud as he continued to walk towards the school.

Nabiki just overlooked this scene with mild interest. "My sister is hiding something." She noted.

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Nabiki looked in horror at what lay before her in the halls of Furinkan High School. "This... is..." On the walls of the school there were several multi coloured posters each one with a picture of both Akane's male, and female face on it. The posters read:

Akane Industries!!

-Are you having problems in school?

-Are you being bullied, picked on,

-blackmailed, extorted, verbally abused,

-sexually assaulted, cheated,

Akane can help!!

The posters also had some contact info and such. Nabiki was devastated by the posters. Akane's new 'industry', as she put it, basically put the kibosh on her main source of income, there was one part of the poster that really caught her attention. At the very bottom of the posters in the largest print it read: "NO CHARGE!!!"

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

Nabiki's scream of torment was cut short when a hand was placed upon her shoulder from behind. "Well sister... looks like if you want to get money now, you'll have to do it the old fashioned way." Akane stated from behind his older sister.

"How did you?" Nabiki inquired.

Akane smiled. "I made some friends quick... you've made quite a disgrace of our family name in this school. I plan to end all the corruption here at Furinkan. Even if it's my own sister that's the centre of it all."

Nabiki growled. "Akane! What is the meaning of this!?!?"

Akane smiled wider, almost... evilly. "It's one of the first things Dad taught me as a martial artist." He stated. "It's a martial artist's duty to help those who can not help themselves. To defend the weak..." Akane then glared at his sister with a flaring red aura. "And to keep their older sisters from dragging their good name through the mud!" Akane then smiled and walked away.

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Nabiki sighed as she entered the house. "I'm HOME!!" She called out as she took off her shoes and entered the home. She was a little down about Akane's new business. All the kids at school were flocking towards him to help them with problems, most of which concerned Nabiki. Even her closest contacts and lackeys were going to Akane. Nabiki smirked as she turned the corner into the dining room, apparently Akane had also been asked out a few times by some girls. Rumour has it that she accepted one of the proposals. Nabiki suddenly froze solid when she came upon her entire family, minus Akane sitting, waiting, for her.

"Daughter." Kimiko, who sat in the centre of the small crowd, started. Her voice stern and upset.

Nabiki smiled nervously, her cool calm already broken by Akane's meddling. "M...Mother! You're home early. W...what a nice surprise. Are we having company?"

Kimiko then pulled two things out from behind her. One was a little black book. The other was a list that rolled down onto the floor when she held it up, which held the written names of several Furinkan students. Kimiko looked horrified and betrayed. "Blackmail!?... Extortion!?... Gambling!?... Creating and distributing underage pornography to minors!?...Nabiki!" She said, on the edge of tears. "How could you do this to me? I taught you better than that!!"

Nabiki frowned. "I can explain mother! This is a big house and...!"

"Don't try to weasel your way out of this Nabiki!" Kimiko said standing up and walking towards her middle daughter. She then looked back to Tetsuo and Kasumi. "You two go to your rooms, I want to talk to your sister alone." The oldest and the youngest of the Tendo children quickly retreated the area.

Soun glared at Nabiki, tears streaming from his eyes. "You know full well that your mother and I manage perfectly well on our own... what with me teaching in the dojo and your mother's law firm."

Kimiko held up the black book to her daughters face. "THIS!!! This, all of this!" She said quickly flicking through the book. "This is all VERY illegal, and I'd like to think that I have a good idea about that kind of thing! I'm a LAWYER NABIKI!!!"

Soun began to bawl with buckets of tears flowing freely from his eyes. "WAAAAH!!!! MY BABY'S A CRIMINAL!!!"

Nabiki frowned at her father. "DAD I AM NOT A CRIMINAL!! I'm doing this all for a reason!"

"Is it drugs?" Kimiko said quickly, taking ahold of her second daughter's hands.

"WHAT!!!"

"Is it drugs honey? Are you on smack?"

"WAAAAH!!!" Soun wailed. "MY BABY'S ON DRUGS!!!"

Nabiki ripped her arms away from Kimiko. "Mom! I am not on SMACK!!"

"Well what is it?" Kimiko said frustrated by her daughters criminal behaviour. "Is it Marijuana? Crack? Hash? PCP? Dope? Angel dust? Shrooms? Is it Acid? Grease? Crank? Methamphetamine? Yellow Jackets? Chronic? Ecstasy? Are you sneaking out to underground raves?"

Soun paused his crying and looked at his wife. "How do you know so much about drugs?"

Kimiko smiled up at Soun. "I went to College honey."

"Oh.."

Nabiki grit her teeth in anger. "I'm not on drugs!!"

Kimiko sighed. "Are you sexually active? Are you using the money to buy birth control? Condoms? Sponge? Sweety are you on the pill? The Needle...?"

"GOD DAMN IT MOTHER I AM NOT HAVING SEX AND I AM NOT ON DRUGS!!!" Nabiki screamed.

"WELL WHATEVER IT IS YOUNG LADY YOU ARE GROUNDED FOR THREE MONTHS! NO EXCEPTIONS!! I WILL NOT BE HARBOURING A CRIMINAL!! STRAIGHTEN UP OR YOU ARE OUT OF THIS HOUSE!!!" Kimiko screamed. A red aura flaring around her body.

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Akane smiled as she heard Nabiki get the earful from their mother. She hated to do it, since she was her sister and all, but it had to be done. If Nabiki kept all that illegal activity she'd be heading down a very long, dark, and painful road. Akane then looked at the calendar nearby. "Any day now." She muttered out loud to herself.

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Three Days Later.

Akane sat on the couch bored. Ranma was also sitting on the couch as well, and Kasumi, Nabiki, and Tetsuo were off doing their own thing. "I'm bored." Ranma stated. "Do you want to spar Akane?"He asked.

Akane frowned as he let his head droop over the side of the couch. He was also in his male form "I don't feel like it."

Ranma shrugged and looked at his wayward fiance. "Why are you always in your cursed form?" He asked. "Are you that much of a Tomboy?"

Akane snickered and held out a hand. "Two reasons... One" He said holding up on finger. "I don't actually attract water in this form, and two... Breasts can be really annoying, especially when they're as big as mine."

Ranma balked at the nonchalant way that the other man referred to his original forms breasts. "What!?""

Akane shrugged. "No matter how fun they are, it's easier being a guy."

Ranma sighed. "I guess."

Just then the wall exploded inwards. "AAAAAH!!! What's going on!?!?" Ranma screamed as he ducked. The falling debris.

Tetsuo came in from another room in curiosity. "WHAT THE HELL!?!"

Out of the hole in the wall a figure appeared through the dust obscuring the details. It was a girl, with purple hair, a Chinese Cheongsang, and two large Bonbori maces clenched in each of her hands. Akane smiled when he noticed who it was and ran to the kitchen as fast as he could. "Where Ranma?" The Chinese amazon stated forcefully.

Ranma ducked back in fear against the couch at the sight of the girl. "Sh...Shampoo!" He whispered fearfully.

Shampoo walked towards him and glared at him. "Where Ranma?"

Just then Ranma was doused by cold water, activating the curse and turning him female. "There she is!" Akane stated happily as he pointed down to his fiance. Shampoo smiled at Ranma, not noticing that a moment earlier she was a he and Raised her Bonbori into the air, readying it to smash the smaller girl's head in with. Just as she brought it down though a hand stopped it easily.

"What you doing!?!?" Shampoo screamed at the girl turned boy.

Akane smiled and held up the index finger on her other hand up and smiled as Kimiko, Soun, and Genma rushed onto the scene. Genma went pale and Soun began crying about his poor house. Kimiko looked scared for Akane. "I'm afraid that I can't allow you to kill my friend Ranma here inside my mothers house." Akane stated plainly.

Ranma smiled. *Now's my chance!* She thought as she prepared to strike the amazon unconscious. Once she made a move though she was hit by Akane and sat on the ground holding her stomach which took the brunt of the blow. *How the HELL is she so STRONG!?!?!* Ranma thought darkly as she glared at Akane's male form.

Akane smiled as Shampoo began to attack her full force. Akane was going easy on her, keeping only a short step ahead of her. "You no interrupt!!" She screamed as she swung her bonbori repeatedly at the Jusenkyo cursed girl.

Akane chuckled as she hopped around and blocked all of Shampoo's blows. "I'm just a law abiding citizen who doesn't want my friends to be murdered." With that Akane reached forward and tapped the bonbori once with each of his index fingers. The two oversized metal maces suddenly shattered sending shards of steel across the living room floor.

Shampoo stopped to look at the now useless wooden sticks that she held in her hands. She glared at the outsider, threw them away and unsheathed the large scimitar that she had strapped to her back. "I no leave until Ranma DEAD!!" She yelled. Akane sighed and rushed forward faster than the amazon's eyes could follow. He quickly disarmed the girl knocking the sword from her hands, flipping over her and kicking her in the back of the head in mid flight, knocking her to the ground.

Shampoo lay on the ground holding her head in pain and Akane stood atop of her, looking down upon her, lithe and very feminine form. *Wow she's really cute in real life.* Akane thought. He put on a serious face and made sure that he looked as menacing as possible. "You are defeated Shampoo. Now don't make me have you arrested. You're much too pretty for prison."

Shampoo stood up slowly and stared deep into Akane's eyes. *Time to act surprised and stupefied.* Akane thought in his mind.

"Wo de Airen." She said simply. The purple haired Amazonian then grabbed the sides of Akane's face lightly and leaned in kissing him on the lips. Akane looked surprised as their lips connected, but her expression quickly changed and he fell into the kiss.

Soun and Genma's Jaws dropped, Kimiko and Tetsuo's Eyes bugged out at the scene before them. Kimiko quickly gathered her surprise and put a hand on her chin thoughtfully. "I see." She stated.

"Why's Akane kissing that girl and grabbing her butt!?!?" Tetsuo asked shocked.

"Oh god I hope that's not a side effect of the curse." Soun stated.

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"Sweety are you sexually attracted to girls?" Kimiko asked her youngest daughter. The two of them were in Akane's room together alone, Shampoo had already left and Akane had turned back into a girl for the little chat with her mother.

Akane sighed. "Yes."

Kimiko sighed and sat down next to her daughter. "I see. So you still think like a boy." Akane nodded. "You fell into the spring of drowned boy on purpose didn't you?" Akane nodded again. Kimiko smiled. "I suspected as much."

"You're not upset?" Akane asked.

"No." She said shaking her head. "I'm not. The mind of your past life still has a strong hold on you."

"Actually it has a complete hold on me." Akane corrected. "It always has. I've got the mind of a twenty or so year old man, I've got the sex drive of a man... hell the fact that my mind is twenty has had an impact on my physical development, my girl half looks to be in it's twenties."

"Yes I've noticed." Akane's mother stated. "Is there anything else that you want to tell me that you haven't?"

Akane blushed. "Yes."

"What is it?"

Akane smiled up at her mother. "I stole several secret super powerful martial arts techniques from Shampoo's village and they'll probably be after me for that... The best chance I've got to not be hunted down by them is to become engaged to Shampoo which is what I just did."

"WHAT!?!?!?" Kimiko asked shocked. "You and... engaged!?..."

Akane nodded. "Yeah Shampoo's people have this rule where they can only marry an outsider who has defeated them in combat. To fight and defeat a woman is to become engaged. I beat Shampoo... now I have to marry her."

Kimiko sat there on Akane's bedside shocked. "So you're only marrying this girl because you don't want to die?"

Akane nodded. "That, and she's really cute!"

Kimiko groaned.

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Later that night Akane sat in his room alone by himself. His stereo was playing some American rock music and he was sitting at his desk doodling... though people with smaller or no artistic skills would call them finished works. *This is odd.* He thought to himself. *I could have sworn Ukyo was supposed to show up before Shampoo, and Ryoga was definitely supposed to show up first.* The Jusenkyo cursed martial artist leaned back in his chair and sighed. *Not much I can do about that... My existence in this universe probably changed a lot of things.* Just then Akane looked up to a tapping at his bedroom window door. He smiled when she saw Ranma in his male form hanging upside down at the edge of the roof. He quickly walked over to the door and slid it open. "Is there something I can do for you Ranma?" He asked nonchalantly.

Ranma flipped down to the balcony and frowned at Akane. "Are you some kind of freaky pervert or something?" Ranma asked with a stern glare at his supposed fiance.

Akane shook his head. "Nope. I'm perfectly normal." Akane then paused. "Minus a few magically induced differences."

"Why were you kissing Shampoo?" Ranma asked. "Y..." Ranma's eyes bugged out as he stared into Akane's room. He then glared at her like she was totally insane. "Why is she sleeping in your bed!?!?!" Ranma hissed silently, worried that he might wake the amazon that he was currently pointing at with a trembling hand.

Akane smiled mischievously. "She's taking a nap. What's it look like?"

"You're my fiancé!!" he hissed.

"I thought you didn't want to marry me?"Akane said, putting on a serious expression. He then put one hand to his forehead, and began to act improvisational to manipulate his fiancé even more. "You rejected me and in my moment of vulnerability this woman thrust her love upon me! What could a nobleman like I do, but return such affection and give her my hand in marriage?"

Ranma growled and grabbed Akane's silk, black, Chinese ghi. "Shut up! I don't want her to wake up!! You sound like that idiot Kuno!!" Ranma then paused for a moment. "And you're not a man... you're a girl."

Akane smiled once again. "Only if I want to be."

Ranma let go of the currently male Akane and turned around. "God you are such a pervert!!"

"And a tomboy." Akane added, moments before Ranma jumped off of the balcony towards his own room, in the guest room.

Akane smiled as he stood on the balcony looking towards the room where Ranma and his father lay. "What do you know... he's jealous now and he all of a sudden wants me." Akane then grinned widely. "This could prove... profitable... no wait... no I can't really think of a way to make money off of this..." Akane then shrugged and walked back into his room. "Meh at least it'll be Entertaining." He then climbed into bed for a little shut eye.

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Akane yawned as he sat in class at Furinkan. The teacher was droning on about Chlorophyll and other boring scientific crap that he wasn't important in his mind. *Damn it! I don't want to wait till lunch I'm hungry NOW!!*

Just then there was a small explosion by the windows. Akane smiled widely as Shampoo walked through. "Oh what sweet delicious timing!" Akane muttered.

"Hello Airen!!" Shampoo said happily as she bounded over to his desk with a large tray with a domed cover on it. Many of the males in the room were staring at Shampoo lustily as most high school teenagers do when a pretty girl is in sight. Shampoo set the tray down and clinged onto Akane's arm. "Shampoo make Airen too, too delicious canton Pork with hibiscus!" She then removed the cover as Akane smiled excitedly.

Akane frowned however when what he wanted to see wasn't there. *DAMN! Ryoga's not on that plate...* He mentally shrugged and smiled now just at the fact that there was delicious home cooked food there for him.

"Thanks Shampoo. This looks great!" Akane then leaned in and Kissed Her on the lips. All of the students balked at the public display of affection between the two. The girls glared at Shampoo Jealously and the boys looked at Akane with idolization. Ranma was pretending not to notice and just stared at the front of the class room with an angry expression.

Once the two parted Shampoo turned away and blushed. "Shampoo go now Airen. Seeing Akane later."

Akane smiled wide and kissed her again quickly. "I look forward to it." Shampoo blushed and rushed back out the hole in the wall where she came. All the students rushed toward Akane bombarding him with questions about his relationship status.

"What's her name?"

"How old is she?"

"Dude she's HOT!"

"What's with her accent?"

"What's she got that I don't?"

"How far have you gone with her?"

"Are you guys an item?"

Akane smiled widely and put up his hands to shush them all. "One at a time please... and as for your questions. Shampoo, Seventeen, Yeah I know, She's from China, One hell of a rack, Second base, aaaaand yes."

Ranma grit her teeth as she glared at Akane's male form. The teacher just continued writing on the board not realizing that anything had transpired at all... due to the fact that he was eighty years or older and had a huge hearing problem.

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Akane smiled as he sat underneath a tree with Shampoo during lunch at Furinkan. He was just enjoying being able to be with a woman again. The last time he had done that was in his original life as Josh VanHalteren. *Of course that life is long gone.* he thought as he stared at the clouds and ignored Ranma's glaring.

"TENDO!!!"

"Huh?" Akane looked up in curiosity. There, about ten feet away, dead ahead, stood Tatewaki Kuno. "You're kidding right?" Akane asked amazed that he was even walking after what she had last done to him. The 17 year old boy was currently in a wheel chair with a neck brace, a cast on his right arm, both legs and chest. He also had bandages on his head which obscured the ability of sight in one eye.

"Tendo you fiend! Thou foul sorcerer! Vile CUR!!" Kuno spouted randomly in anger as he waved around a new bokken weakly.

Akane sighed. "Is this going somewhere Kuno?"

"Thou shall address me only as upperclassman Tatewaki Kuno!" Kuno said angrilly "My friends and peers know me as the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High! The rising star, undefeated Kendo champion!" he stated proudly.

Off in the distance a few girls were discussing what Kuno had just stated. "Blue Thunder?" One started.

"I thought he was calling himself Shooting Star." another girl finished.

Nabiki who was at the open window of the class they were in on the second floor. "He was... But you know Kuno... new name every year."

Back out in the yard Akane smiled. "Yeah but I defeated you Kuno. That makes you the 'defeated' champion."

Kuno growled. "NEFARIOUS SPAWN OF SATAN!! THOU SHALT BE VANQUISHED FOR THINE VILLAINY!!" Kuno then began moving around in his wheelchair unsuccessfully towards Akane. Akane just sat there looking annoyed. "Come then TENDO!! FIGHT ME!!"

"You're kidding me right?" Akane asked monotonously.

"It's just a scratch!! FIGHT DAMN YOU!!" Kuno screamed

"Is strange boy retarded?" Shampoo asked Akane.

Akane sighed. "Yes." She then got up off of the ground and walked towards Tatewaki.

"Yeah that be more like it!! Face mine... URK!"

Akane smiled as she quickly touched a certain pressure point on the skill deprived Kendoist. Shutting him up by paralyzing him instantly. Akane then stretched tiredly and sat back down beside Shampoo as everybody in the immediate vicinity stared at the silent still Kuno in amazement. "Good thing I borrowed that book off of Kasumi." He said as he put an arm around his Chinese fiance.

"Shampoo's Airen so great!" Shampoo stated as she wrapped her arms around her betrothed-by-beating.

Ranma just sat and continued to glare at Akane.

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Akane smiled as he sat with Shampoo on his bed in his room later on that day. "Shampoo?" He asked.

"Yes Airen?" The Chinese amazonian said.

"Do you love me?" He asked, holding onto her hands. "We've only been engaged for two days. Don't you think this fight and be wed things a little rushed?"

Shampoo sighed and took her hands back and folded them between her legs as she stared at the floor. "Shampoo has been trained to be best warrior in Joketsuzoku. Great Grandmother teach Shampoo since she little. Airen is first one to defeat Shampoo." She said sadly, with tears forming in her eyes.

Akane put an arm around the purple haired beauty. "I understand... You've been lonely."

Shampoo nodded. "Now Shampoo can be happy."

Akane held her back a little. "You don't look happy." With that he wiped away one of the girls tears with his sleeve. "Something else is wrong right?"

"Shampoo have to go home." She stated simply.

"What!? Why!?" Akane asked slightly surprised by the revelation.

Shampoo frowned. "Ranma... Shampoo no kill her... no find her again. Shampoo must leave and tell Great Grandmother bad news." Shampoo then looked up at Akane and smiled. "Shampoo tell good news too."

Akane smiled back lustily at the girl.

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Three weeks later. Akane sat in the living room of the Tendo dojo bored out of her mind. "God I miss Shampoo." She said. She was in her girl form with her head hung over the side of the couch again.

Nabiki, who was sitting beside her sister was reading a magazine. "Why don't you go out and get a job or something?"

Akane looked up at her sister with a grin plastered on her face. "Wow Nabiki who would have thought that you'd ever suggest using an honest way of earning money?" Nabiki just gave her the finger and Akane laughed. "I'll see if I can get one tomorrow."

Tetsuo who was watching T.V. at the moment smiled and jumped into his sisters conversation. "Hey Akane! Why don't you go get a job at Tofus?"

Akane scrunched her face in slight disgust. "Eech! I'm a fighter not a healer."

"There's a new Okinomiyaki place opening up tomorrow. There's probably an opening or two there still." Kasumi offered from her place in the kitchen where she was fishing a snack out of the fridge.

Akane perked up at the mention of said restaurant. "Okinomiyaki you say?" Akane smiled evilly. "Yes... Okinomiyaki would be just right!"

Nabiki turned and looked over to the kitchen. "Don't you have work today Kasumi?" She asked.

Kasumi shook her head. "No. I'm going over to Tofu's today to return the books he lent me."

Akane smiled at Kasumi. "Is Dr. Tofu still acting so silly whenever you're around?"

Kasumi nodded. "Yes he is a bit odd at times. I wish he'd ask me out some time. He's really cute."

Tetsuo smiled idiotically and ran up to Kasumi. "Oooooh Kasumi's got a crush! Kasumi and Tofu sitting in a tree! K.I.S.S..."

"SHUT UP YA LITTLE DEUCHE BAG!!!!" Akane screamed at Tetsuo. "That's getting REALLY old!

"Why do you keep on calling me that!?!" Akane's eleven year old brother whined. "What's a deuche bag?" Akane just made a face at her little brother.

Authors note: {it's pronounced doosh bag.}

Kasumi gave Tetsuo a small punch on the arm. "Don't make fun of Tofu-sama like that you little twerp!"

Tetsuo smiled while he rubbed the arm that Kasumi hit. "I wasn't making fun of him. I was making fun of you." Tetsuo then began laughing and calling Kasumi random childish names while running away. Kasumi gave chase.

"Get back here you little monster!!"

Akane chuckled. At the sight of Kasumi chasing after the young boy with malice in her eyes while calling him names back. "Heh. This house is a lot more normal with Mom around." She then thought to herself. *That's going to have to change.*

"What did you say?" Nabiki asked.

Akane's eyes bugged realizing that she had said that first part out loud. "Heh? Oh nothing... I'm just thinking out loud you know... say... do you know where Ranma went? I haven't seen him around all day."

Nabiki put down her magazine and grinned at Akane, the way that Akane never wanted to see Nabiki grin at her. "You just said that this house was more normal with Mom around."

"Yeah so?" Akane asked suspiciously.

"Are you implying that you know what it's like without Mom?" Nabiki asked.

"Yeah."

SLAM!! Nabiki hit the floor. "W... what!?!?"

Akane shrugged. "It's a little long of a story... but it also explains why I'm a lesbian and a bunch of other stuff. Why don't you ask Mom?" Akane then laughed. "You should hear the breast feeding story." Akane then looked at the clock not realizing that her sister was in a wide eyed trance at her words. "Ooh. It's lunch, I'm out of here." With that Akane jumped off of the couch and ran out the door.

Nabiki stared at the couch where Akane had just been moments before. "There's no way she's telling the truth. No one's that open and honest." Nabiki then looked to the door that Akane had just exited out of suspiciously. "She's hiding something."

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Akane frowned as she walked down the street, she currently had some coins in her hand and was counting the amount of money that she currently had. "Woah. I really do need to get a job if this is the last of my resources." She sighed and pocketed the money. Akane sniffed the air and slouched a little in her stride at the delicate and delicious aroma that filled the air. "Oh man that smells good." Akane's eyes bugged as she looked across the street.

The sign above the little restaurant read: NekoHanten, or as Most would call it, the Cat Café. *Shampoo's back!!* Akane thought gleefully. She was about to dash across the road to see her but then realized the jiggling motions on her chest and looked down. "Oh right I'm a girl." Akane then came to another startling conclusion. *Wait a minute! If the NekoHanten is here then that means Cologne is too. Not good.*

Akane turned to run but was suddenly stopped by a voice once she turned. "Airen!?"

Akane froze. *Oh shit!!*

Shampoo turned back into the NekoHanten and called out. "Great Grandmother! Shampoo Airen here!!" Shampoo then ran across the street and jumped onto Akane's back, hugging her with all of her strength. "Shampoo miss Airen so...huh?" Shampoo then turned Akane around and looked her up and down. "You not Airen." She said turning her giddy smile into a angered frown.

Akane smiled nervously and chuckled a bit. "I'm sorry I think you have me confused with someone else."

Just then Cologne came out of the restaurant and hopped across the street. "Shampoo? Where is this Akane that you spoke of?" The old withered troll of a woman asked.

Akane smiled, and gave a little salute/wave. "Gotta go!" With that she ran away for home as fast as she could, hoping to god that neither of the amazons would follow her, despite her extremely guilty appearance. Akane decided to look back just to make sure. Shampoo was following on her bike. "Damn!! I need a miracle now!!"

SPLASH!!

Akane looked to his right to a little old lady who was watering her walkway. "What's with those old ladies?" He wondered as he stared at the slightly shrunken old broad. "They're everyw... URG!!!!" Just then in his moment of distraction a delivery bike implanted with his face.

"WHAT YOU DO WITH AIREN!?!" The amazonian demanded from atop her perch on the bike.

"That kind of hurts Shampoo." Akane said as she shoved the bike off of his face.

Shampoo quickly compensated for the bikes disappearance and hopped down to the ground kneeling next to Akane who was sitting up and rubbing his head. "Aiyah! Airen! Is you okay!?"

"Yeah I'll be fine in a few minutes. When did you get back? I missed you." Akane asked as he stood up off of the ground.

Shampoo blushed and smiled as she stood up alongside her betrothed. "Me and great grandmother just move here today. We open restaurant, you come eat and meet Shampoo Grand mother?"

Akane nodded with a smile. "I'd like that."

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Soon later at the NekoHanten. Cologne eyed the young man who walked into the café alongside her great grand daughter with a cautious glare. *So...* she thought. *This is Shampoo's betrothed.* Cologne then put on a much happier face and welcomed them. Cologne noted that the boy was wearing the exact same clothing that the girl from moments earlier was. She also noted that he was slightly damp. "Well hello there!" She said to Akane. "So you must be Akane... the boy who stole my great granddaughter's heart."

Akane smiled and held out a hand to the elder of the Joketsuzoku. "Yes I believe I am, and you must be Shampoo's great grandmother. It's an honour to meet you." Cologne smiled mischievously at the youthful fighter. Akane looked suspicious himself. *What is that old broad thinking now?* She wondered. *She's the one in this world I'm going to have to watch out for her the most.*

Cologne was thinking much similar things in her head. *This boy seems intelligent and has an aura much older than his physical appearance.* Cologne smiled. "You must be a very skilled fighter to have defeated my Shampoo."

Akane shrugged. "Yeah I do martial arts. I know some Chi stuff and all but what I'm most interested in is starting a band."

Cologne looked suddenly confused. "W...What?"

Akane smiled widely. "Yeah I play the drums. I want to start a rock and roll band. There's not enough rock in Japan... too much pop music, it's sickening. I also consider myself, before martial arts, a classically trained artist."

Cologne looked surprised by the boys nonchalant attitude about chi manoeuvres and martial arts in general. *Either he's extremely gifted... or he's hiding something.* Cologne smiled widely and motioned to a nearby table. "Why don't we sit and continue this conversation? It's not very busy around here."

Akane smiled. "I'd like that."

Shampoo and Akane sat at the table and were joined shortly after by Cologne who had left and came back with two bowls of Ramen. Akane ignored the noodles for a moment and wrapped an arm around his betrothed, Shampoo. "Have you ever been to China?" Cologne asked the young man.

Shampoo smiled and answered for him. "Yes he travel with father to train since he was little."

Cologne nodded. "Impressive. Have you ever heard of Jusenkyo?" Shampoo got a little upset at the mention of the cursed training ground but Akane didn't notice.

Akane nodded as he dug into the noodles no longer able to resist the call of his stomach which always hungered for sustenance. "Yeah. Me and my dad trained there for a bit."

Cologne looked shocked at this revelation and reached across the table. Accidentally knocking over a cup of water onto the boys lap. Akane jumped a little, startled at the sudden soaking and grabbed a nearby napkin to dry himself off. "Oops." Cologne offered. "These old bones aren't as coordinated as they used to be."

"That's not exactly very kind of you." Akane said with a slight frown directed at the 300 some odd year old amazon matriarch.

Cologne faked upset. "What? It was just an accident."

Akane rolled his eyes. "Your aura is far to coordinated and experienced to accidentally knock over a glass of cold water onto my lap. Please don't lie to me... I'm being honest with you."

Cologne was shocked. "You can read auras?"

Shampoo smiled. "Airen is very gifted."

Akane smiled. "Yes I can read auras. I don't change into another form with cold water. I was the victor of my trip to the training grounds." Akane then looked at Shampoo. "What do you change into Shampoo?"

Shampoo gleeped and clung to Akanes arm a little tighter in surprise. "How you...?" She asked looking up into his eyes.

Akane smiled. "You seemed a little concerned when Cologne knocked over the glass. I assume that you have a curse much like my dads."

Shampoo looked over to Cologne questioningly. Cologne gave her a small nod. Shampoo lowered her head and frowned. "Shampoo turn into cat."

Akane smiled. "Cool." He then picked up a glass of water and splashed his fiancé with it, quickly turning her into a little white and purple cat that was struggling to get out of the clothing pile that now sat atop of her on the chair. "Hmm. Those are odd colours for a cat." He then picked her up, set her in his lap, and then started to pet her. "How did she fall into one of the pools?" He asked the old lady that sat across from him.

Cologne frowned at the cat. "She failed to kill her victim of the kiss. As punishment she was to train at Jusenkyo with me."

Akane chuckled. "Some punishment. She's a cute cat too, I still like her." Akane then set Shampoo down on the chair and stood up. "Well I better get going. Thanks for lunch." With that Akane left the NekoHanten.

Cologne looked thoughtfully at the door where the boy had left. "Hmmm. My son in law is a very odd fellow, smart too. He's hiding something yet I can not tell what it is."

Shampoo cat just looked confused. "Meow?" She wondered.

Cologne smiled. "Yes he's a keeper."

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Author's Notes: {Yeah well that's all I really feel like writing for now. I wasn'[t sure exactly what to do. I initially wanted to introduce Ukyo but figured I'd keep with the canon slightly and have Shampoo come first. Though Cologne came much earlier... there's a reason for that too. I just haven't figured that out yet. Anyway for those of you who've missed Ranma's spotlight I will be bringing the Jusenkyo cursed pigtailed boy back into the foreground. It's been the longest time since I've actually seen Ranma... I can't remember the order that new characters appear. Anyway I'm gonna work on the normal Ranma fics fer a bit more. Chiao!}

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