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'Thoughts'

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Chapter 8 Welcome Home

Kyle walked down the street with Yusuke, Kuwabara and Shadow. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't a very fun walk to his apartment.

"Sooooo…….What are you going to do?"

Kyle raised an eyebrow. "What's that suppose to mean?"

Kuwabara smacked his back and laughed. "Oh come on! You know exactly what we mean! Your just too embarrassed to talk about it."

Kyle growled at the two teenagers. "I'm not going to do anything with her."

"Then what the hell are going to go to Nerima for! If your not even gonna try to get her to like you, then what are you going to do when you get married!" Yusuke yelled.

'He's right. What am I going to do? It's not like I'll be able to hold off the wedding forever. What's life going to be like once we're married. Or worse, once we have kids! Man, why did I agree! I should have thought things through before I said yes.'

Kyle didn't realize he stopped walking. Yusuke and Kuwabara were making funny faces at him. Yusuke gave up and snapped his finger in front of Kyle's face.

"Yo, earth to Kyle."

"Huh?"

"Man you must have been deep in though or you're really good at ignoring us."

Kyle continued his walk. "I'm good at doing both you know."

Yusuke and Kuwabara growled. The rest of their walk was quite until they reached the entrance to Kyle's apartment complex. They stopped at the gates.

"Who knew that getting transferred to Furinkan was going to be so fast?"

Yusuke nodded. "Tell me about it. It usually takes them a couple of days to get everything worked out." Yusuke then looked at Kyle seriously. "Look I don't know why Koenma sent you off like that, but I want you to be careful."

"I will, just make sure that you stay alive. I won't be there to bust you out of trouble."

"Ha! We'll, be just fine Ookami. It's you we're worried about since you have new recruits to train." Kuwabara said with a smirk.

"Yusuke. Kuwabara. I have a favor to ask."

"What is it?" Yusuke said.

"Koenma must have a reason for wanting to keep me out of the city and it has to do with your mission. I want you to keep me in the loop. Try to keep me up to date about what's going on. Maybe I can figure out why he doesn't want me here."

"Okay. I can do that, but I want you to tell me what's going on with your mission too. We gotta look out for each other."

Kyle nodded. "It's a deal."

Kyle shook hands with Yusuke and Kuwabara. Shadow barked at the two teenage boy. They petted his head. "Take care of Kyle. He seems to get into trouble all the time." Yusuke told Shadow. The puppy barked in response.

"See ya around Ookami!"

Kyle smiled. "Yeah, see ya." Kyle watched the two teenagers walk away. He walked into the apartment complex. He took the elevator up to his floor. Once he got to his room, he began to pack some of his things. He grabbed two of his swords and placed them on top of his duffel bag. Tomorrow he would be leaving for Nerima. With nothing else to do, he made his way to the roof. While he watched the sunset, Kyle wondered what was in store for him. Again he wished he had thought things through. This Shampoo had turned his life even more upside down. However, he couldn't blame her for what happened. It wasn't her fault she was going to marry him. It was part of her custom. She was just following what she was told. With a sigh, he went back to his room. He made some dinner for himself and Shadow. Then he took a shower before going to bed.

The next morning, Kyle grabbed his bags and looked around his apartment before leaving it. He went to Genkai's house to say good bye. He was surprised to see that they were all gathered there.

"So, you came. Here I thought you would just leave." Hiei said.

Kyle smirked. "I would never think about leaving without saying good-bye to my sensei's."

He shook hands with the boys. While the girls all gave him a good-bye hugs. Shadow also said good-bye, he was especially sad to say good-bye to Yukina because she would always take of him when Kyle was off on missions with Yusuke.

"Remember to be careful Kyle. Your basically on your own." Genkai told him.

"I will….mom."

Genkai scowled at him. "I may be your adoptive mother, but I told you not to call me that."

Kyle smirked as he walked away. "I know, but I it might be a while until I can annoy you with that." He waved one last time and went to the bus stop. The bus arrived and he climbed in. He passed the time by looking out at the country scenery. Soon he fell asleep and was woken up by Shadow. They had reached Nerima. He climbed off and watched the bus go off into the distance. He then looked in the direction of the Nekohaten. Cologne was suppose to tell him where he was going to be staying. He took a deep breath and started his walk. As he walked some girls were giving him weird looks. He decided to ignore them for now. Once at the Nekohaten, he stood outside and looked at the entrance. Again, he took a deep breath and walked in. The restaurant was full of people. He looked around and spotted the purple haired Amazon. She was busy serving the customers their food.

"Umm…."

She then turned around and smiled at him. "Welcome to Nekohaten. Please take seat. Mousse will take ord…." Her smile turned into a frown once she realized who she was talking to. "Oh….it Fang-boy."

"I have a name you know and it's not Fang-boy." he said slightly annoyed.

"Shampoo call you what Shampoo want. Great-grandmother in kitchen. Go talk."

She then went back to work. Kyle frowned at her as he walked to the kitchen. Cologne was busy making noodles. "Hello elder."

Cologne spared him a glance before she retuned to noodle. She quickly threw them on a plate and Shampoo went to grab it. Cologne then turned her full attention to Kyle.

"Hello Son-in-law and welcome to your new home."

Kyle looked at her confused. "New home? I thought I was going to be living in my own apartment."

"Nonsense. I want you to live here so you and Shampoo can get to know one another. Here, go sweep in front of the cafe." she handed him a broom. "Just leave your things with me and after we close up I'll show you to your room."

Kyle nodded. "Come on Shadow." Shadow followed Kyle outside. He laid next to the door and watched Kyle sweep up.

'What the hell have I been reduced to? I should be fighting demons not filth off the sidewalk.' he thought and continued to do his job.

"Kyle!"

He looked up to see Ranma, Akane, and Ukyo running towards him. "Hey guys."

"You're here already?" Akane asked.

"Yeah, I'm just as surprised as you."

"When are we gonna start training?" Ranma asked eagerly.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow at school."

"Sounds fine to me. I just wanna train."

'Same old Ranma.' Akane and Ukyo thought.

"Well, we better get going. I have to go help Konatsu with the restaurant." Ukyo said.

"Alright, see ya tomorrow." Kyle said with a smile

The three went off on their way once again. Then three girls walked by him and giggled. Kyle tried to ignore them, but they started to talk to him.

"Hi!" a girl with long black hair said.

"Hey."

"What's your name?"

"Kyle."

"Do you work here?"

Kyle shrugged his shoulders. "I guess so."

"When do you get off. Maybe we can hang out." she said with a smile.

"Ahem."

Kyle turned around to see Shampoo glaring dagger at him.

"What you want?" Shampoo demanded.

The three girls looked at each other. "Nothing, we just wanted to talk with Kyle."

"Beside, why do you care?" asked a girl with curly brown hair.

"Don't you already have Ranma?" the last one asked.

Shampoo smile evilly at them and wrapped her arms around Kyle's neck and pushed her body against his. "No, Kyle Shampoo's new husband." then she added with a frown. "Stay away."

The girls glared at her and walked away. Kyle was too stunned to say anything. Shampoo let go and smiled to herself in satisfaction. She walked back into the restaurant to get back to work. Kyle stood there rooted to his spot.

'What the hell just happened?' he wondered as he tried to forget what it felt like to have Shampoo's body pressed against his.

When it was time for the café to close, Cologne made Kyle help out. Kyle hadn't seen Shampoo since the little incident in front to the café. Mousse had been doing all the serving once he had gotten back inside. Shadow had taken a liking to sitting in front of the stairs and had remained there since they had gotten back inside.

"Come. I will show you to your room."

Kyle followed Cologne up the stairs. In the hall, Cologne stopped in front of the third door from the stairs. He assumed that was his new room. He walked up to the door and opened it. His eyes widened in shock. There was Shampoo in the middle of changing. Kyle's face turned a nice shade of red as did Shampoo's. Shampoo suddenly realized that Kyle was staring at her half naked body and let out a scream. She threw various objects at Kyle, who finally realized that he was about to be dead. Of course he realized it a little to late as a large vase hit his head, knocking him out.

Shampoo sat near Kyle's unconscious body. She did feel kind of bad for hurting him. How was he suppose to know that they would be sharing a room? Kyle suddenly began to stir. He opened his eyes and moaned.

"Ow, what happened?"

"Shampoo threw a vase at you and you were knocked out." Cologne answered.

Kyle shot up and glared at her. "Why didn't you tell me she was in here!"

"I assumed you would knock before you entered."

"You don't normally knock when it's your room." he said sourly.

"Well, get use to it since you will be sharing this room with Shampoo."

Kyle looked at her with disbelief. "You can't be serious."

"I am. Now I must leave. I suggest you get some rest. Tomorrow is your first day at Furinkan."

With that she left the couple alone. Kyle and Shampoo looked at each other. "Sorry." Kyle told Shampoo.

"What?"

"I said sorry. I didn't mean to see you……like that."

"Shampoo sorry too. I not mean to hurt you."

"Lets just forget this ever happened and start over. I know we didn't exactly get off on the right foot when we first met. I know your mad that your not together with Ranma and I'm not exactly happy that I'm getting married to someone I don't know……but lets at least be friends and maybe we'll be able to work through this without killing each other. How about it?"

Shampoo thought for a second. "Fang-boy have point. If we get married, then we at least get along."

Kyle smiled. "Good. Well, I'm going to sleep now since I got school tomorrow. Good-night."

"Good-night…..Kyle." she said in a whisper and settled down for the night.

Mousse had seen everything. He had opened the door just enough for him to see and hear. He fumed Kyle. He silently crept back to his room and thought about what to do next.