Heavenly Intervention
Chapter 05
Broken Hearts
Akane smiled as she entered the Tendo household silently so as not to wake anybody. *Well this certainly has me baffled.* Akane thought to herself. *This universe seemed to have gone all out of whack for a moment, with Shampoo coming before Ryoga here and then seems to be back on track.* Akane sighed. *But that's not any fun... it's just so predictable.* Akane nodded as she turned the corner to the stairs where she saw Ranma sitting there... talking to her neighbor's dog. Akane smirked. "Ranma why are you talking to my neighbor's dog?"
Ranma looked confused at the dog. "Neighbor's?" The dog barked and then ran away. Ranma decided not to follow after the canine quadruped and looked up at Akane. "You were right. Ryoga's got a curse too. But he turns into an animal... what's that?" He asked pointing to the strange black mass in Akane's arms.
Akane then held up the pig. "This is Poo-chan. He's a pig. I'm gonna keep him as a pet." He stated before hugging it. The pig looked surprised and struggled to release itself from the boy's grasp. "Any hot water around?" Akane asked her fiance.
Ranma nodded. "Yeah I just boiled some." Poo-chan suddenly looked scared and continued his struggles with ten fold the effort.
Akane smiled. "I was thinking of giving Poo-chan a bath but I want one as well so I'll just take him in with me." She stated. She then walked past Ranma and into the bathroom, never letting go of the pig.
Ranma nodded. His head then perked up. "Wait a minute." He started to himself. "If Ryoga's not the dog then what is he?"
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Akane sighed as he scrubbed the little pig clean in the bathroom. "You're a pretty dirty little pig ain't cha?" He asked. The pig just sat there humiliated.
*Poo-chan!* The piglet thought to itself. *How could he name me so cruely!*
"Now to rinse you off." Akane stated. The pigs eyes widened in terror at the thought of being dunked into the furo and coming up as himself. What if this guy told Ranma about it? Just then a bucket of cold water upended on him. "Since you're not house trained yet and I just found you, there's no sense bringing you into the furo with me." he stated. He then picked up the Jusenkyo cursed form of Ryoga and set him on a stool near the tub which was filled with hot water. "Now sit here and I'm going to sit in the tub for a bit."
Ryoga sat on the stool as he contemplated things. *Maybe it's not such a bad idea to stay here for a few days as a pig. I'll get free food and won't lose myself with this guy carting me around all the time. Ranma brought my stuff in so I don't have to worry about it being stolen.*
Just then Akane stepped into the tub and Ryoga's little piglet eyes bugged out of his tiny skull to the size of dinner plates. *He's a... he's a...* Ryoga thought stunned as he looked at the girl form of Akane. *But that's hot water.*
Akane sighed in relief. "That feels good. Sometimes I like to get out of that silly cursed form and relax. Nothing like a hot bath." She said as she sat down in the tub, making sure that her breasts gave a little jiggle. *My god the look on his face is priceless.* she thought with a smirk in her head while continuing to play the part on the outside.
Ryoga smiled as he began to think. *Oh happy day! I've never seen a woman naked before, and she's so mature! Yeah I'll stay just a little bit.*
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Akane woke up the next day and noticed that Ryoga, in his pig form was in her bed. Akane smiled evilly and slowly rolled him away so that he wouldn't wake up. She then pushed him off the bed and onto the floor. Ryoga quickly woke up and looked around. "Oh dear!" Akane said. Looks like you fell off the bed poo-chan." Akane said.
Ryoga frowned at his stupid nickname but smiled as he caught a glimpse of the girls quite attractive and see through nightie, Which Akane borrowed off her mother to torment anyone she could. Akane then picked up Poo-chan and clutched him to her ample chest. "Now lets go down and get something to eat."
Ryoga smiled excitedly at the prospect of food. He hadn't had a decent meal in so long he couldn't remember what it tasted like.
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Ryoga frowned as he looked at the mass of... stuff that sat in front of him in a little dog dish. He then glared at Akane's girl form who smiled back at him and then looked to her mother Kimiko. "Boy it sure was nice of the neighbors to lend us a can of dog food until we get our own pet food." She stated.
Ranma was glaring at the Pig. He had a slight suspicion concerning the animal. "So Poo-chan eh?" Ranma asked Akane while the pig turned it's glare to Ranma. "Why's you name it that?" He asked.
Akane chuckled. "Cause he stinks like Ryoga."
Ranma smiled darkly at the little animal. "Is that so?" Ranma had become used to Akane's predictions and cryptic messages. There always ended up being hints towards a truth that only she knew. She knew that Ryoga had a curse in the first place without being told anything. It was suspicious to him that she just happened to find a new pet the moment Ryoga disappeared in the rain.
Ranma smiled and excused himself from the table a moment later. He then paused and looked to Akane with a smile. "Say. Mind if I take Poo-chan here into the bath with me? You can never have a pet that's too clean. Besides he doesn't seem to be hungry."
Akane snickered. "Sure Ranma. Get yourself acquainted."
With that Ranma picked up the pig, which tried to get away at first but Ranma caught him quickly and brought him to the bathroom. As soon as Ranma was in the bathroom he quickly tossed Ryoga into the Tub and he turned into his human form instantly. "What are you doin Ryoga? Or should I say Poo-chan!" Ranma asked with a condescending and challenging tone of voice.
Ryoga growled as he sit naked in the bathtub. "Shut up Ranma ! This is all your fault anyway!"
"MY FAULT!?!? You didn't have to follow me to China you know!" Ranma retaliated.
"You ran out on our man-to-man duel!!" Ryoga shot back. He then snickered. "Being Akane's pet isn't so bad. I know now that he is actually a she." Ryoga then clenched a fist. "I've fallen in love with Akane Tendo!!"
Ranma looked bored now. "Uh Ryoga? You do realize she turns into a dude with cold water right?"
Ryoga smiled happily, looking off in the distance with tears streaming down his cheeks. "Then she too must know my pain! WE WE'RE MADE FOR EACH OTHER!!!"
Ranma held up the shower head that he was holding and sprayed Ryoga. "Oi. Keep your voice down." The little pig landed on the floor and snarled at Ranma and leapt at him. Ranma was caught off guard by the attack and fell over and upended a bucket full of water onto himself making him change into a girl. Ranma quickly recovered however and threw Ryoga into a wall, which he bounced off and then landed in the tub again, once again turning human.
Ryoga growled at the pigtailed girl. "DIE RANMA!!!"
Ryoga leapt at the girl and they began rolling on the wet floor of the bathroom trading close range punches and grappling to get the upper hand against each other. Ryoga threw Ranma easily since his male form was much stronger than Ranma's female form. Ranma's shirt caught on a nail sticking out of the door frame he passed and got torn off. This didn't faze either opponent and Ranma leapt forward kicking Ryoga several times,. Since her smaller frame was quicker she now had the upper hand. However the water on the floor was an obstacle that she failed to think about and slipped. Falling on her back. Ryoga instinctively leapt on top of her and pinned her hands to the floor. "I have you now Ranma!" He growled to the girls face.
Just then Akane opened the door. She gasped at what she saw, though secretly she was laughing her ass off on the inside. "Ranma? What are you?... With Ryoga?"
Ranma looked confused but after a quick glance at Ryoga, both Ranma and the lost boy jumped away from each other. "It's not what it looks like Akane!" He tried to reason. Ryoga just sat a few meters away hith his back turned.
Akane smiled. "Oh Ranma. All this time I thought you were upset because you wanted me... but I realize now. You're gay and were just jealous because I managed to find someone and you hadn't." Akane desperately tried to make herself look like she was sad. *This is too rich!* She thought. *I'm going to fall asleep laughing tonight!* Akane finally managed to get her eyes a little watery and then turned and ran. "Congratulations you two."
Akane then continued on down the hall and slammed the door to her room. "AKANE!!" Ranma called after her. "Damn it!" she sighed as she stopped in front of Akane's door. Just as she turned around she noticed Ryoga fully clothed somehow, with his backpack and everything, walking down the stairs. "Hey where are you going!? This is all your fault.!"
Ryoga then looked up at Ranma with tears streaming from his eyes. "My dear Akane thinks bad of me. I can't go on. Not knowing that she has already found someone." With that Ryoga ran down the stairs and out the door. He somehow ended up in the kitchen however where Kimiko was cleaning up the remains of their weekend breakfast. "Hey this isn't outside." Ryoga stated.
Kimiko looked at the young man and smiled. "There's a door leading out side over there." She said pleasantly.
Ryoga nodded. "Thank you." And he then went in the complete opposite direction.
Kimiko looked at Ryoga in wonder as he wandered into a broom closet. "What an odd boy." She muttered.
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Akane frowned as she sat on the roof of the Tendo Dojo a week later looking at the stars. The week had been dull and hardly a thing had happened. She beat up Kuno a lot, Ryoga came around to fight Ranma, and Shampoo gave him all the attention that she wanted. "I wish something would happen." She sighed. "I wouldn't even mind if Cologne gave me trouble. I'm surprised she hasn't figured out my curse yet." She mused to herself.
Just then a voice chuckled from behind the girl turned boy. "You're a hundred years too young to be thinking that boy." Cologne stated.
Akane turned around and smiled. "Well great grandmother I think I just assumed that since you haven't given me any trouble you hadn't figured out my curse."
"You shouldn't ever assume things about somebody with greater skill than you. We old folk always have something up out sleeves." She said.
"I don't know why you'd care. Shampoo's happy with me and I'm happy with her. I don't care about my curse or hers." Akane started.
"But she doesn't even know about yours... she just thinks that you're a normal boy." Cologne interupted.
"I was going to tell her." Akane said. "I just don't know how!" She stated in frustration. *Damn it!* She thought. *I knew a problem like this would arise! What if Shampoo doesn't accept me and decides to go through with a kiss of death instead.* Akane then strengthened her side of the argument. "Well she loves me! And I love her too now... I think. She'd understand."
Just then Shampoo jumped onto the roof. "Shampoo here Great grandmother. What you want?" Shampoo then noticed Akane and jumped on him. "AIREN!!" She called out happily.
Cologne smiled. "Now would be a good time to tell her Akane." Cologne said.
Shampoo looked to Cologne confused and then to Akane. "Airen? What Great grandmother talking about?"
Cologne smirked and Akane steeled himself ready for a fight. "I have just the way to tell her." The old woman said before dissapearing.
Akane gasped. *Where'd she go!?* He thought. Just then he felt her presence behind him, but it was too late. The 300 year old martial arts master was behind him in a moment and he felt a warm wet substance across his back, which changed him into a her.
Shampoo felt her beloved husband change in her embrace suddenly and she suddenly felt fear in her heart. With out looking up towards her husband she drew her hand back and felt along Akane's chest which now had breasts. Shampoo then stepped back and stared at Akane who was now a much more mature woman with the same clothes and hair as before. "Jusenkyo?" Shampoo asked, tears welling up in her eyes.
Akane sighed and nodded, letting her arms drop to the side. Shampoo looked down at her arms where she too had been splashed. "Warm water?" She asked again. Akane confirmed her second question silently again.
Shampoo stood there for only a moment longer before running away. "SHAMPOO!!!" Akane called after her. She was already gone though. Akane turned her attention to Cologne who was standing there smiling. "I knew you'd pull something like this sooner or later. Why couldn't you just let us be happy the way we were?"
Cologne smiled darkly and jumped forward. Tapping a spot on the back of Akane's neck. She landed again and snickered. Holding out a pill. "I don't my grand daughter eloping with another girl. As it is I have trapped you in your normal form if Shampoo decides to want nothing to do with you I'll give it to you. If she decides she still loves you. You can fight me for it. If you lose however I destroy the pill and you are a girl for the rest of your life."
Akane just smirked. "If you do that I can just go to Jusenkyo and re-get my curse."
Cologne laughed out loud now. "Foolish girl! Do you really think I haven't thought of that? Tho the springs you already have a curse. You can't get the same curse over again!"
Akane frowned. "Well then I look forward to hearing Shampoo's decision." She stated with a smile that disturbed Cologne slightly. "Until then hag." Akane said with a little wave before jumping off of the roof.
Cologne smirked as she stood on the Tendo's roof alone. "It won't be that easy girl." She hissed before pogo-ing away on her staff to the cat cafe.
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Shampoo frowned as Cologne walked into her room where she had been crying for the last ten minutes or so. "Great Grandmother why he... she lie to Shampoo?" She asked, wiping her tears away.
Cologne smiled ."Do you love him Shampoo?" Cologne asked.
"Is not him. Is her!" Shampoo muttered with a quivering lower lip.
"That doesn't matter." Cologne said. "What matters is your feelings for the girl. Do you want to forget all about her and find another airen?"
Shampoo sniffled and wiped her nose. "Shampoo no want to forget. Shampoo love Airen and Airen love Shampoo. Airen no mind Shampoo's curse. Shampoo try forget." She said.
Cologne smiled evilly. "You do realize that he is a she with a spring of drowned boy curse right?" She asked her daughter, trying to coax her into the opposite decision.
Shampoo nodded. "Shampoo can no stand to be without Airen. Airen... special."
Cologne nodded. "Very well. It is true her blood would indeed make our tribe stronger. Sleep on it anyway Shampoo." She stated. "You never know how you'll feel in the morning.
Shampoo nodded and Cologne left the room. Shampoo then frowned at the woman's back. *Shampoo find way to make permanent boy type Akane.* She thought to herself. *Akane is best thing to happen to Shampoo.*
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Akane frowned as she awoke the next morning to Shampoo sitting above her staring at her. "What do you want Shampoo?" Akane asked as she rolled over so that she wasn't looking at the Chinese amazonian girl.
Shampoo sighed "Shampoo love Airen." She stated before Akane could do anything else.
Akane rolled over to look at the girl. "What?" She asked.
She then sat up and Shampoo reluctantly moved closer. Shampoo repeated her previous statement. "Shampoo love Airen." She said, swallowing a lump in her throat. "Great Grandmother tell Shampoo everything. Shampoo still love you anyway."
Akane smiled. "Well that's good news. I couldn't sleep last night... I thought you would leave and head back to China or something."
Shampoo shook her head, her hair swishing side to side. "Shampoo never leave Airen no matter what." She said.
Akane leaned forward and hugged the amazon. "Thank you for understanding Shampoo." Akane said. Shampoo then reluctantly wrapped her own arms around the much more endowed woman as well.
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Akane and Shampoo came down soon later and the family looked slightly surprised to see them holding hands since they were both women at the time. Tetsuo stuck his tongue out. "Bleah! What's wrong with you Akane. You're so weird." He stated.
Kimiko looked surprised as well. "Sweety? What's wrong? You seem distraught."
The female Soun looked up from his game of Shogi with the panda and noticed the holding of hands between Akane and Shampoo. "WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS!?!?" She screamed, going into full demon head mode. "AKANE! YOU ARE ENGAGED TO RANMA!! How could you do this to your father!?" She then began crying.
Akane growled. "Shut up Dad!" Akane then calmed down a bit. "Cologne's great grandmother has trapped me in my female form." She stated.
Kimiko gasped. "So you're cured?" She wondered.
Tetsuo groaned. "AWWW!! I like having a brother!"
Akane put her hands up to stop any of her families rash conclusions. "Now hold on! There's a catch. I can't touch water... at all. All forms of water turn out feeling as though they're scalding hot. I can't even drink anything."
Kasumi looked inquisitive. "How did she do this?" She wondered out loud. "Shampoo's grandmother always seemed so nice, if a little bit secluded."
Shampoo let go of Akane's hand and began to explain. Ranma, and Soun both smiled slightly when she let go of the hand. "Great grand mother used shiatsu pressure points. One to lock Airen in what form he currently in and other that make Airen burn on water."
"How do you get out of this?" Ranma asked. "You're supposedly the greatest martial artist according to everyone here, why don't you kick her ass and force her to give you the antidote?"
Akane chuckled. "That's the thing. I have a few tricks up my sleeve... but other than a couple advanced techniques and improvised mixes... I'm not really much better than Ranma. Colognes a master martial artist about 300 years old... she's very sneaky. I have to get a pill off of her called the Phoenix pill."
Ranma looked a little surprised when Akane admitted that she was only a little better than him. *Tricks? Advanced techniques? That's all that's keeping her ahead of me?* He thought to himself. He smiled suddenly.
"So why are you telling us all this Akane?" Nabiki asked.. "Do you need out help with something?"
Akane shook her head. "Actually I've decided to come clean with my entire family right now. I've been holding a lot of secrets and..." Akane gave a glance over to Nodoka who gave a quick nod of approval. "Well the reason I want to get the phoenix pill is because I want to marry Shampoo." Just then everyone's jaws dropped to the floor.
"WHAAAAAAAATTTTTT!?!?!?!?!?!?" Soun and Ranma screamed at her. "TO ANOTHER GIRL!?!?" Soun cried. "Oh how could you shame your father so!"
"AKANE!! That's not natural! Even if you do change into a dude with your curse!" Ranma growled at her.
"Are you sure this is what you want Akane?" Kasumi started. "You are engaged to Ranma first."
Akane smiled and held up a finger. "Actually the pact was that Ranma would marry ONE of Daddy's daughters. He didn't actually say which one. So if I decide to marry Shampoo there's still two he could choose from."
Soun began pouring buckets of tears. "OH AKANE!!! WHAT ABOUT THE DOJO!?!?!?"
Akane growled at her father. "I don't care! I'm getting my curse back!"
With that Akane left the house with Shampoo. Soun's tears stopped and she turned to Genma who, at some point, turned himself human again. "We have to do something old friend." She stated.
Genma nodded. Together they both stood up and struck a dramatic pose. "OPERATION LOVE STRUCK!!" They said together.
Kimiko then walked by and rolled her eyes. "I really don't think you two of all people are going to be able to do anything about this." She noted. "But have fun anyway dear." She said with a cheery smile.
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Ukyo smiled as she walked to her new Restaurant/home. She unlocked the door and was about to step inside for her grand opening the next week but then noticed something sticking out of the mail box. She curiously plucked the paper from the box and began reading it over, expecting it to be merely a flyer. Her eye's however widened as she read the name written on the top. "This...this is..."
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Author's Notes: {Yeah I know it's a short chapter. But I said all I wanted to say. A lot of people have been complaining that I made myself too powerful. That's the whole point. I supposedly know everything about this world so I'm overconfident. Everything happens out of order, and I'm only a little better than Ranma because of a few fancy tricks. I'm introducing elements now that will have my character struggling to stay on top. I've learned through this writing experience that people don't like change. I'm just trying to make a different Self Insert. As for Gribble number 426? Well. He'll show up soon enough. Next time on Hevaenly Intervention. Akane Fights Cologne!}
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