"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma 1/2 or Yu Yu Hakusho. I only own Kyle.

Ch 3 The Things That Can Be Done

People were walking away from the Nekohaten. Why you ask? Becuase there was a closed sign hanging from the door. Inside Cologne, Shampoo, Mousse, Kyle, Ranma, Akane, and Ukyo were sitting at a table. Cologne sipped her tea calmly as Kyle glared at her. Not too long ago, he had been informed that he had become Shampoo's husband. Ranma had been jumping for joy saying he was free. Too be honest, Kyle was hoping that this was all a sick joke. Cologne put down her tea and cleared her throat.

"First things first. What is your name?"

"My name is Kyle Ookami. I got in town yesterday. Ukyo-san was kind enough to tell me where to find you."

"Well then, it's nice to meet you Kyle. Now as I have said there is something important I must explain to you."

Kyle nodded for her to continue. His face turned serious. Mentally, he was preparing for the worst, but not even all the training in the world could prepare him for what was to come.

"Shampoo, Mousse and I are Amazons. There is a law we have that states that if an outsider male defeats an Amazon female, he shall marry her."

Kyle's look went from serious to complete and utter disbelief. Those words just wouldn't process through his mind. In fact, he really didn't want them to be processed at all.

"What?"

Cologne sighed and tried again. "It's like I told you before, you are to be married with my great grand daughter Shampoo."

A wind went through the café. Kyle suddenly started to laughing almost manically. They all stared at him like he had gone mad. He stopped laughing and lowered his head.

"Genkai is going to kill me!"

Cologne's eyes lit up at the mention of that name. "Would you care to repeat that?"

Kyle looked at her. "I said Genkai is going to kill me."

"What is it great grandmother?"

Cologne smiled. "Genkai and I are old friends."

Kyle snorted. "That explains why she sent me here."

"That reminds me, why are you here."

Kyle sighed. "A few days ago, my sensei received a package from China..."

Flash Back

"Hmm, I wonder who sent this."

"What is it Genkai?"

"It's a package from China, however it doesn't say who sent it."

Kyle watched as his sensei opened the package. It was a jug of water.

"Who would sent you something like this?"

Genkai didn't say anything and put the jug on a nearby table. Kyle looked in the box to see if there was anything that would tell them who their sender was. He found a piece of paper and handed it to his sensei. While the two were busy a teenage boy with greasy sleeked black hair walked in. He looked at the water jug and picked it up.

"It' says this water is from the legendary cursed springs of Jusenkyo."

"What does that mean?" Kyle asked as he sat down.

"It means that whoever is splashed with the water turns into whoever or whatever drowned in that spring."

"Lets see if it works." said the greasy haired teenager as he dumped the water over Kyle's head. Everything was very still for about a minute. Finally, the teenager lifted Kyle's clothes to find a black cat with light blue streaks on his head sitting in Kyle's spot.

"Umm, oops?" said the teenager nervously.

"This could be a problem." said Genkai.

Kyle-cat lifted a paw up to his face. He glared at the teenager who had done this to him.

"Now Kyle, I'm sure we can solve this in a..."

He didn't get to finish since Kyle-cat pounced on him and began to scratch the life out of him.

End Flash Back

"And that's what happened. Genkai said to come and find you for a cure. She refused to tell me anything on the grounds that I needed to learn that not everything is given to me on a silver platter. So is there a way to ACK!"

Kyle was interrupted by Mousse who dumped a bucket of cold water on him. "Hmm, so you weren't lying."

Kyle-cat poked his head out of his clothes to give Mousse a death glare.

"Well, this is great. Another Jusenkyo victim." Akane commented.

"It's quite a coincidence that he and Shampoo have the same curse." Ukyo added in.

A few minutes later Kyle sat back in his chair in his human form. He waited for Cologne to give him the answer he needed.

"There is a cure to the Jusenkyo curse. You must get water from the Nannichuan spring. You must get splashed with that water to get rid of your cat curse."

"That's it?"

"Yes, but since son-in-law's fight with Saffron all the springs were mixed together. It's strange that you would receive that water since the pools have been mixed for several weeks now."

Kyle sat there. He didn't show it, but he was in shock. How was he going to cure his curse now? "Well, thanks any way. I'll be going now..."

"Not so fast. We still have to deal with your marriage to Shampoo."

Kyle cursed under his breath. He had hoped that she had forgotten about that. He glanced at Shampoo from the corner of his eye. She hadn't said a word, to him at least, since the fight.

Kyle sat there for a bit before finally speaking. "What are we going to do about the marriage?"

"The problem is that Shampoo has already been defeated by son-in-law. Normally, the female would be allowed to have more than one husband, but we made some recent changes to our laws to accommodate the changing times."

Shampoo saw this as a perfect opportunity to show her great grandmother that she didn't want to marry this stranger. She went over to Ranma and immediately glomped on to him.

"Shampoo love Ranma and Ranma love Shampoo. Shampoo not want marry stranger."

"As if!" Ranma exclaimed while he was struggling to get out of her embrace. Akane and Ukyo fumed.

"RA-N-MA!"

Ranma began to sweat. "RAN-CHAN!"

"How dare you flirt with Shampoo and right in front of me!" yelled Akane.

"Release my Ran-chan you Chinese bimbo!"

Mousse jumped in as well. "Release my love Ranma!"

Cologne and Kyle watched as the fighters duked it out. Kyle directed his attention from the fight to Cologne. "Does this happen all the time?"

"Yes. One gets use to it."

"So, is there anything that can solve this problem now? I really need to get back."

"Well,….."

"AAAHHHH!"

Kyle and Cologne caught a glimpse of Ranma flying through the roof. Cologne cleared her throat to get everyone's attention. They stopped and listened.

"As I was saying, there is only one solution. Shampoo, I'm afraid your new husband is Kyle."

"What!" everyone said.

"It's an Amazon by-law. It states that in the event the Amazon female is defeated by another outsider male and she has yet to marry the previous one, then the previous 'engagement' is nullified and the new male becomes her husband."

"I didn't know you had a law like that." Ukyo stated.

"I did mention we made some revisions, did I not? The by-law was made to protect an Amazons honor. Sometimes the Amazon is not able to get the male to marry her. It's rare, but it happens." Cologne responded.

Shampoo was silent as she listened. She looked at the one who did this to her. She glared. It was his fault she was in this mess! Kyle felt her glare at him. Shampoo slammed her hands on the table.

"This all Fang-boys fault! I kill!" she pulled out her bonbardis and attacked. Kyle produced a Spirit Sword and cut the bonbardis. Shampoo landed on the table with the sword pointed at her neck. She was in shock. He had defeated her yet again!

"So, there's no way for me to get out of this, is there?" he asked as he stared at Shampoo.

"I'm afraid not."

Kyle sighed and banished his sword. "I suppose I better get going then. I'll come back in about two days. Genkai needs to know what happened and I'm sure she will want to speak with you."

Cologne nodded. "Of course. We will await your return Son-in-Law."

Kyle visibly flinched at those words. However, he said nothing. He walked out and towards the nearest bus stop. Inside the Nekohaten, the remaining occupants went their separate ways. Ukyo and Akane left the Amazons to open their restaurant. Each had different thoughts about the situation. Mousse was just mad that another male had defeated his beloved. Shampoo was upset that she ended with someone she didn't like. Cologne was worrying less about the actual marriage and more about the kind of person that her great grand daughter ended up with. She could tell Kyle was different. There was something about him that screamed not normal.

Yes, there is more to this young man than meets the eye and I will find out what it is.

AN: So did this chapter give you some answers? Please Review and remember no flames.