Chapter 10
Kami-sama was fuming. He was storming around his castle in the sky. All of the fates had been cowering in fear of his wrath, but he was looking for a specific fate.
"GURD!!!"
Kami-sama said as jump kicked Gurd in the face. Fates don't really have faces, they look sort of took on a human shape except they would probably be better described as highly condensated black mist. Kami didn't seem to mind that his foot went THROUGH Gurd, because is seemed relieve him of some of his anger.
"Kami-sama?"
"I TOLD YOU SO. I TOLD YOU, BUT DID YOU LISTEN? NNOOOOOO."
"What are you talking about?"
"Come."
Kami dragged Gurd by his ear, or at least where his would be if he were human, up the stairs and into his office. Gurd sighed in resignation. Over the past sixteen years he had seen more of this room, than he had in the last seven hundred years of his existence.
"Magic Mirror on the wall, Show me Akane and her situation."
"You know Kami, you don't have to say Magic Mirror.."
"Hush! Let me have my fun."
Yeah well despite having said "Magic Mirror" it actually looks more like a bird bath. With a mysterious liquid inside that just happens to be able to show Kami what is happening on his earth at any given point. The picture, at first, was blurry but it soon focused.
The picture was of Ranma in girl form and Akane having ice cream.
"Now, well that doesn't seem so bad."
"Just keep watching." Kami was staring into the birdbath/mirror thingy intensely.
"What are they saying? You know you should install something better, you know something that has a sound system."
"FOOL, if it isn't broken don't fix it. I've had this relic for over a thousand years, and it works perfectly. It's not what they're saying, but what's happening that's important."
Gurd looked back into the mirror just in time to see Shampoo bust through the wall of the ice cream parlor. Then Shampoo said something to Akane, Akane said something to Shampoo, and Shampoo left.
"You know you really should get sound."
" FOOL that's not the point of me bringing you here. I TOLD you it was a bad idea to take her to the Amazon village, but NO you just HAD to find the loop hole in their laws. There are three rules of the Amazon village that involve outside villagers. If you are an outsider female and you beat a villager you will have the kiss of Death. If you are an outsider male and you beat a villager you will have the kiss of marriage. If you are an outsider of either gender and you beat a village elder you will get the kiss of sister hood, and become apart of the tribe. BUT this totally screws up Akane's life at the moment. She has two choices, break her promise to you or to be hunted down by the Amazons. Sure they may have a few credible techniques, but is it really the worth the pain and suffering she'll go through now. This is really serious, what if."
"Now kami-san, I think we should put a little more faith in Akane. A little problem like this is nothing to her.."
"You better be right Gurd, or I'll make you fix it your self."
Akane is currently lost. After storming after out of the ice cream parlor, leaving Ranma behind to pay the bill, she had been so mad that she couldn't see straight. Now, how ever, she was really wishing that she could retrace her steps and go home.
'Now I feel really stupid. This is the fifth pay phone I've passed, but I forget the number to my own house. I don't know how to get back there. Even if I did, it would take me until way after sunset to get home. I'm such a fool. I was in such a hurry to get out of there. In such a hurry not to get involved in the Amazon law. I'm such a fool, I'm involved whether I want to be or not. I just need to go about this in the right way. I know I'll call Hotohori, he'll tell me what to do.."
Well she vowed that when she got home she would give Hotohori a ring, At least it was one thing off her chest. It still didn't help the fact that she was lost.
'FINALLY!!! I found a grocery store, maybe they'll have a map that I can buy. Crap, I don't have any money. Well, I'll look and point myself in the right general direction. Maybe.'
Akane was about to turn into the store, when she heard something fall to the ground that sounded suspiciously like a grocery bag behind her. She turned around to help the person pick up their groceries (and maybe get directions). She had gone directly for the groceries without looking at the person. She looked up in surprise as she heard.
"A. Akane chan?"
Nabiki was a little worried, Akane wasn't home yet. The sun had set two hours ago. They hadn't even gotten so much as a phone call from her. Ranma had gotten home about two hours after the match had ended. He was certainly having an interesting night. A strange girl had followed him home. Depending on his form, the girl was either trying to kill or kiss him. It was amusing for the first hour or so, but now it was getting old. Nabiki retired early from dinner, and is now lying on her bed looking at the ceiling.
'Hmm. I wonder if life will ever settle down with those two around. still though Ranma's life seems to be a bit more chaotic than Akane's. Then again with Akane it may just be the calm before the storm. You know, I wonder when her birthday is?'
With that Nabiki got up out of bed and got out the black box. This was the third night she had spent trying to find Akane's birthday, and she was sure that it would be another fruitless night indeed.
Ranma laid down on his bed. He was thinking about the days events especially the most recent ones.
**flash back **
Ranma had tried to find Akane after he had paid for their ice cream and turned back into his male form, but he saw Shampoo first. Shampoo was attacking an innocent girl that just happened to have red hair in a pig tail and a really nice set of breasts with her bonbori's (little stick thingies with led balls at the end). Ranma didn't even think about it, he kicked the bonboris out her hand. Unfortunately they flew straight up and landed on her head. The red head girl was thanking Ranma profusely, when Shampoo woke up.
** end flash back**
'I HATE this, why is my life so zany? Why can't I even go out for ice cream without gaining a new fiancée and/ or have a lunatic try to kill me? I wonder where Akane is?"
Ranma stayed up until the wee hours of the night thinking over what had happened that day.
Nabiki and Ranma weren't the only ones to have suffered from lack of sleep that night. Nodoka hadn't been fairing well either. Nodoka, other than getting groceries and Akane a leotard she hadn't left the house all week. Her hair was untidy, and she had dark circles under her eyes. Nodoka stared at herself through her tea and sighed.
**flash back**
It was a few weeks after Akane had left with her sensei. It was a rainy night, around midnight. Nodoka had been drinking tea, she couldn't sleep. The phone had rung.
"Hello?"
It was a call from the hospital. Nodoka's best friend, Mrs. Tendo, had just been run over by a drunk driver. Nodoka lived five minutes from the hospital, and was there in no time. Everything else was a blur until she was finally sitting beside the dying woman, whom Nodoka had known since childhood.
"No-chan, nice of you to come visit me." Mrs. Tendo looked like she was in very deep pain. She was having trouble breathing. Nodoka could only give Mrs. Tendo a sympathetic smile.
"What's up with that face?" Mrs. Tendo closed her eyes, seemingly in resignation. "I need to tell you something before. I need to tell you."
"You can tell me anything." Nodoka grabbed Mrs. Tendo's hand.
"I've told you how Soun talks in his sleep haven't I?" Mrs. Tendo smiled slightly, but then her expression was serious. "That miscarriage in the woods I had. wasn't a miscarriage. No-chan. I have another daughter out there some where."
Nodoka remembered gasping and saying "Oh Mariko chan!"
"A few weeks ago. found out.. I. My conscience wont rest easy. Could you do me one last favor? My daughter. not to have .. Not to have a mother. horrible.. Would you?"
Then Mariko slipped into a coma. She never finished what she was about to say, her last wish was never completely spoken. Yet somehow Nodoka knew what she was asking. Mariko lasted four days in her coma before she slipped away into the after life.
Nodoka would always remembered the Mariko died. She was still in shock about what Mariko said, but when Soun emerged from the hospital on that fourth day. He turned on her with a rampage. He banned her from ever coming near his family. He wouldn't let her attend the funeral. He returned any presents she gave his daughters for their birthdays or Christmas. Nodoka always thought that he blamed her for being the last person to talk to his wife. She wanted to be a motherly figure in his daughter's life so that Mariko's last wish might have been met, but something had prevented her from opposing Soun. Maybe Nodoka felt guilty that she was the last person to talk to Mariko. Maybe she was just waiting for the right time.
**end flashback**
**end chapter for the lack of a better ending**
AUTHORS APOLOGIES
Hi, um, just wanted to let you know that I'm NOT dead to the world. just half dead. I'm truly sorry about this long pause in my fanfic. Let me explain why I haven't updated, I know you don't really care, but I feel I owe an explanation for keeping you so long. Anyway, First I was punished from the computer because I was supposed to study for my SAT's, then I was studying for finals. After that, though I went straight into my summer job. My summer job is a counselor at a Girl Scout camp. in the middle of the woods. No computer. I'm only home for two days every twelve, but it's only a summer job I can deal with it. I've had this chapter written for about a month, but no computer. So I apologize of the shortness of the chapter. I'm on a break right now (I get to go home for one night then I have to be back by breakfast) so I promise to fix any inconsistencies when I get back for good.
Kami-sama was fuming. He was storming around his castle in the sky. All of the fates had been cowering in fear of his wrath, but he was looking for a specific fate.
"GURD!!!"
Kami-sama said as jump kicked Gurd in the face. Fates don't really have faces, they look sort of took on a human shape except they would probably be better described as highly condensated black mist. Kami didn't seem to mind that his foot went THROUGH Gurd, because is seemed relieve him of some of his anger.
"Kami-sama?"
"I TOLD YOU SO. I TOLD YOU, BUT DID YOU LISTEN? NNOOOOOO."
"What are you talking about?"
"Come."
Kami dragged Gurd by his ear, or at least where his would be if he were human, up the stairs and into his office. Gurd sighed in resignation. Over the past sixteen years he had seen more of this room, than he had in the last seven hundred years of his existence.
"Magic Mirror on the wall, Show me Akane and her situation."
"You know Kami, you don't have to say Magic Mirror.."
"Hush! Let me have my fun."
Yeah well despite having said "Magic Mirror" it actually looks more like a bird bath. With a mysterious liquid inside that just happens to be able to show Kami what is happening on his earth at any given point. The picture, at first, was blurry but it soon focused.
The picture was of Ranma in girl form and Akane having ice cream.
"Now, well that doesn't seem so bad."
"Just keep watching." Kami was staring into the birdbath/mirror thingy intensely.
"What are they saying? You know you should install something better, you know something that has a sound system."
"FOOL, if it isn't broken don't fix it. I've had this relic for over a thousand years, and it works perfectly. It's not what they're saying, but what's happening that's important."
Gurd looked back into the mirror just in time to see Shampoo bust through the wall of the ice cream parlor. Then Shampoo said something to Akane, Akane said something to Shampoo, and Shampoo left.
"You know you really should get sound."
" FOOL that's not the point of me bringing you here. I TOLD you it was a bad idea to take her to the Amazon village, but NO you just HAD to find the loop hole in their laws. There are three rules of the Amazon village that involve outside villagers. If you are an outsider female and you beat a villager you will have the kiss of Death. If you are an outsider male and you beat a villager you will have the kiss of marriage. If you are an outsider of either gender and you beat a village elder you will get the kiss of sister hood, and become apart of the tribe. BUT this totally screws up Akane's life at the moment. She has two choices, break her promise to you or to be hunted down by the Amazons. Sure they may have a few credible techniques, but is it really the worth the pain and suffering she'll go through now. This is really serious, what if."
"Now kami-san, I think we should put a little more faith in Akane. A little problem like this is nothing to her.."
"You better be right Gurd, or I'll make you fix it your self."
Akane is currently lost. After storming after out of the ice cream parlor, leaving Ranma behind to pay the bill, she had been so mad that she couldn't see straight. Now, how ever, she was really wishing that she could retrace her steps and go home.
'Now I feel really stupid. This is the fifth pay phone I've passed, but I forget the number to my own house. I don't know how to get back there. Even if I did, it would take me until way after sunset to get home. I'm such a fool. I was in such a hurry to get out of there. In such a hurry not to get involved in the Amazon law. I'm such a fool, I'm involved whether I want to be or not. I just need to go about this in the right way. I know I'll call Hotohori, he'll tell me what to do.."
Well she vowed that when she got home she would give Hotohori a ring, At least it was one thing off her chest. It still didn't help the fact that she was lost.
'FINALLY!!! I found a grocery store, maybe they'll have a map that I can buy. Crap, I don't have any money. Well, I'll look and point myself in the right general direction. Maybe.'
Akane was about to turn into the store, when she heard something fall to the ground that sounded suspiciously like a grocery bag behind her. She turned around to help the person pick up their groceries (and maybe get directions). She had gone directly for the groceries without looking at the person. She looked up in surprise as she heard.
"A. Akane chan?"
Nabiki was a little worried, Akane wasn't home yet. The sun had set two hours ago. They hadn't even gotten so much as a phone call from her. Ranma had gotten home about two hours after the match had ended. He was certainly having an interesting night. A strange girl had followed him home. Depending on his form, the girl was either trying to kill or kiss him. It was amusing for the first hour or so, but now it was getting old. Nabiki retired early from dinner, and is now lying on her bed looking at the ceiling.
'Hmm. I wonder if life will ever settle down with those two around. still though Ranma's life seems to be a bit more chaotic than Akane's. Then again with Akane it may just be the calm before the storm. You know, I wonder when her birthday is?'
With that Nabiki got up out of bed and got out the black box. This was the third night she had spent trying to find Akane's birthday, and she was sure that it would be another fruitless night indeed.
Ranma laid down on his bed. He was thinking about the days events especially the most recent ones.
**flash back **
Ranma had tried to find Akane after he had paid for their ice cream and turned back into his male form, but he saw Shampoo first. Shampoo was attacking an innocent girl that just happened to have red hair in a pig tail and a really nice set of breasts with her bonbori's (little stick thingies with led balls at the end). Ranma didn't even think about it, he kicked the bonboris out her hand. Unfortunately they flew straight up and landed on her head. The red head girl was thanking Ranma profusely, when Shampoo woke up.
** end flash back**
'I HATE this, why is my life so zany? Why can't I even go out for ice cream without gaining a new fiancée and/ or have a lunatic try to kill me? I wonder where Akane is?"
Ranma stayed up until the wee hours of the night thinking over what had happened that day.
Nabiki and Ranma weren't the only ones to have suffered from lack of sleep that night. Nodoka hadn't been fairing well either. Nodoka, other than getting groceries and Akane a leotard she hadn't left the house all week. Her hair was untidy, and she had dark circles under her eyes. Nodoka stared at herself through her tea and sighed.
**flash back**
It was a few weeks after Akane had left with her sensei. It was a rainy night, around midnight. Nodoka had been drinking tea, she couldn't sleep. The phone had rung.
"Hello?"
It was a call from the hospital. Nodoka's best friend, Mrs. Tendo, had just been run over by a drunk driver. Nodoka lived five minutes from the hospital, and was there in no time. Everything else was a blur until she was finally sitting beside the dying woman, whom Nodoka had known since childhood.
"No-chan, nice of you to come visit me." Mrs. Tendo looked like she was in very deep pain. She was having trouble breathing. Nodoka could only give Mrs. Tendo a sympathetic smile.
"What's up with that face?" Mrs. Tendo closed her eyes, seemingly in resignation. "I need to tell you something before. I need to tell you."
"You can tell me anything." Nodoka grabbed Mrs. Tendo's hand.
"I've told you how Soun talks in his sleep haven't I?" Mrs. Tendo smiled slightly, but then her expression was serious. "That miscarriage in the woods I had. wasn't a miscarriage. No-chan. I have another daughter out there some where."
Nodoka remembered gasping and saying "Oh Mariko chan!"
"A few weeks ago. found out.. I. My conscience wont rest easy. Could you do me one last favor? My daughter. not to have .. Not to have a mother. horrible.. Would you?"
Then Mariko slipped into a coma. She never finished what she was about to say, her last wish was never completely spoken. Yet somehow Nodoka knew what she was asking. Mariko lasted four days in her coma before she slipped away into the after life.
Nodoka would always remembered the Mariko died. She was still in shock about what Mariko said, but when Soun emerged from the hospital on that fourth day. He turned on her with a rampage. He banned her from ever coming near his family. He wouldn't let her attend the funeral. He returned any presents she gave his daughters for their birthdays or Christmas. Nodoka always thought that he blamed her for being the last person to talk to his wife. She wanted to be a motherly figure in his daughter's life so that Mariko's last wish might have been met, but something had prevented her from opposing Soun. Maybe Nodoka felt guilty that she was the last person to talk to Mariko. Maybe she was just waiting for the right time.
**end flashback**
**end chapter for the lack of a better ending**
AUTHORS APOLOGIES
Hi, um, just wanted to let you know that I'm NOT dead to the world. just half dead. I'm truly sorry about this long pause in my fanfic. Let me explain why I haven't updated, I know you don't really care, but I feel I owe an explanation for keeping you so long. Anyway, First I was punished from the computer because I was supposed to study for my SAT's, then I was studying for finals. After that, though I went straight into my summer job. My summer job is a counselor at a Girl Scout camp. in the middle of the woods. No computer. I'm only home for two days every twelve, but it's only a summer job I can deal with it. I've had this chapter written for about a month, but no computer. So I apologize of the shortness of the chapter. I'm on a break right now (I get to go home for one night then I have to be back by breakfast) so I promise to fix any inconsistencies when I get back for good.
