A-U-T-H-O-R-'-S N-O-T-E-S!

AngelicDemnX: And what does that spell?

Shakespeare: Let the poor old dead guy go?

PrincessRose: No, silly! Author's Notes!

AngelicDemnX: Too bad we don't have anything to say. Read on, minions!

RECIPE FOR MISUNDERSTANDING

Shampoo the cat was stuck in a bag in the Kuno Kitchen. She spat and hissed at her capturer, who was currently trying to flatten Ryoga.

"This rolling pin just isn't working." Kodachi sighed and tossed it away. P-Chan stumbled around on the counter, trying to recover from Kodachi's beating.

"I've never cooked pork before, perhaps I should boil it." She set a pot of water on the stove and turned it on.

"Bkwee!" Ryoga cursed and tried to run away, unfortunately he ran right at Kodachi instead.

"Oh piggy! You are honored to be Ranma dear's next meal! But we need to wait a few minutes for the water to boil." She picked him up by the bandana.

"Bwkee! Bwkee!"

"What's that? Little Timmy is stuck in a well?" Kodachi gasped. "I'll save you Little Timmy!" She dropped Ryoga and ran out of the room.

Ryoga just sat there for a minute. He wasn't quite sure what had just happened, but he'd take it! He jumped off the counter and ran towards the door. But Kodachi blocked the way.

"Wait a minute! No one needs to be saved from a well twice in one day!" She glared at the pig.

"Bkwee!" Ryoga protested as she picked him up and walked back to the counter.

"Now get in the pot deceitful pig!" She dropped him into the pot.

P-Chan transformed back into Ryoga. "I don't want to be cooked!" He yelled.

"Oh my." Kodachi blushed. "What did you do with the pig I was going to serve to my Ranma? I cannot allow you to sneak into my house...especially with no clothes on! I have a wonderful boyfriend who I would never ever think of cheating on...well, maybe just once!" She leaned in closer.

"EAAAAHHHH!" Ryoga screamed.

Shampoo growled loudly and scratched her way out of the bag. She ran over and jumped into the pot too. "No one touches my Ryoga!"

Just then Puck, Ukyo, Cologne, and Soun crashed into the kitchen. Debris flew all over the kitchen and a large piece of wood hit Kodachi in the face, causing her to pass out.

"Just cure Ukyo!" Cologne shouted at Puck who was holding a very happy looking Ukyo above his head.

"Never!" Puck yelled.

"Tee hee, my love!" Ukyo swooned.

"Ukyo! I've missed you!" Ryoga jumped out of the pot and ran towards her.

"No! You will not ruin my perfect romance!" Puck pulled out the pink perfume bottle and sprayed Ryoga in the face.

The steam cleared and Ryoga blinked. "What am I doing here... did I get lost again.… WITHOUT MY CLOTHES!"

"Take this boy!" Soun threw a towel at him "Cover you're shame! We have innocent girls' eyes here!" Ryoga quickly wrapped the towel around his waist; his whole face was red.

"Poo." Shampoo said, but she glomped him nonetheless.

Blood spurted out of Ryoga's nose and he slapped his hands over his face to stop the flow. If possible, he was blushing more now. "M-maay, mae be you sh-should, should put sa-some clothes on."

"Puck! Cure Shampoo right now!" Cologne yelled.

"Why should I? You almost ruined my life!" He shot back.

"And you've almost ruined all of ours! As if things weren't bad enough as it is. I'm going to have to put you back in your dehydrated pill!" Cologne said.

"Never!" Puck flew towards another wall and broke through it as he carried Ukyo away.

"Hey! Come back this instant!" Cologne followed after them.

Shampoo nuzzled against Ryoga. "Oh, I love you!"

"I...I really shouldn't!" Ryoga stammered.

Soun's head inflated to his trademark big head. "You wouldn't think of defiling an innocent girl, would you!"

"Of--of course not! We should go after them!" Ryoga broke away from Shampoo and ran towards the hole in the wall.

"Maybe you should get some clothes first." Soun suggested.

Ryoga stopped. "Good idea!"

"You handsome no matter what you wear!" Shampoo glomped him again and Ryoga's nose started to bleed again.

"You get some clothes too!" He said with his eyes averted.

Soun felt it his parental duty to make sure they actually got clothes. "There are probably some rooms with dressers down the hall."

After getting Shampoo to let go of Ryoga (which we shall not describe in great detail) Soun led them to the bedrooms where they could pick out some clothes.

"And don't come out until you find something decent." Soun closed the door behind Ryoga.

Ryoga looked around at the room and nearly fell over. The walls were covered in pictures of female Ranma and Akane. He could understand Akane, but Ranma? Bleah!

He walked over the dresser and looked through it. Then he went to the closet. But it seemed like Kuno only had one type of outfit. So Ryoga sighed and put it on.

Ryoga looked at himself in the full-length mirror. The clothes didn't really suit him and they were a few sizes too big. "Man, these are really dorky."

"What's that you say! Infidel!" Kuno had just walked into the room. His clothes were still soaked from his trip down the river. "You dare to break into my house and insult my style of clothing! What do you know of fashion!"

"Um, hello? Bandana?" Ryoga said, pointing to his bandana. Hee hee, he had always wanted to say that.

Kuno swung his wooden sword. Ryoga dodged around it and ran out into the hallway and towards the kitchen. "Do not try to run you bandit!"

"Listen you! I didn't break into your house! Your sister brought me in!" Ryoga yelled. They had reached the kitchen.

"A likely story! Why would my sister-" Just then Kuno noticed Kodachi passed out on the floor. "You! How dare you defile my home and sister!" He took another swing at Ryoga.

"What? EW! No! Why is everyone accusing me of that?" Ryoga continued to dodge his attacks.

Just then Soun walked back into the kitchen carrying a bag of chips. "I found the pantry!" He said happily. Then he noticed what they were wearing. "What is this? Twin day?"

Ryoga glared at him.

"Leave my husband alone!" Shampoo had just arrived as well.

"Shampoo would you just-!" But then Ryoga noticed that she was wearing the black rose wedding dress that Kodachi often wore. "WHAT ARE YOU WEARING?"

"Is only thing Shampoo could find. Otherwise I have no clothes again." She ran over and hugged Ryoga.

Kuno's eye twitched in fury and his head suddenly looked like an erupting volcano.

"It's not what it looks like!" Ryoga yelled, trying to push Shampoo away.

"It's hard not to make assumptions, though." Soun said as he took a bite out of a chip.

"You're not helping!"

"To do such actions...in my own home...you lecher! It is unforgivable!" Kuno ran forward at full force and booted Ryoga through the ceiling, Shampoo still clutched to him.

"Our love is so pure! It almost feels like we are flying!" Shampoo said as they flew away. Kuno watched them through the hole in his wall where Puck, Ukyo and Cologne had broken in. Then he looked back at Soun, who was still munching on the chips.

"I should probably be going home now." Soun climbed through the hole and ran off.

ELSEWHERE

"Come back my lovelies!" Happosai bound after female Ranma and Akane who were still running through the forest.

"You'll never catch us you old pervert! True love will prevail!" Ranma yelled as she dragged Akane along.

"I only love my Moussey!" Akane said defiantly.

"Why must you be so cruel?" Ranma pouted.

NOT FAR ABOVE

Cologne was hopping from treetop to treetop chasing after Puck and Ukyo. "Give me the antidote!"

"You will never take Ukyo away from me!" Puck yelled as he flew away carrying Ukyo.

"My hero!" Ukyo swooned.

"I don't care about her anymore, I need that for Shampoo!" Cologne yelled.

"Oh." Puck stopped. Cologne was still his master after all. "Okay!" He reached into his pocket to get the pink bottle, but in doing so he inadvertently dropped Ukyo.

"AAHH! Puck!" Ukyo called as she fell.

"Ukyo!" Puck tried to fly after her but Cologne had grabbed him.

BELOW

Ranma and Akane were starting to pull ahead of Happosai. "Ha! You'll never catch us!" But just then Ukyo landed on top of them.

"Hey! What!" Akane struggled to get up.

"Thank you for breaking my fall." Ukyo said. They glared at her.

"I've got you know! HA HA HA!" Happosai blew some pollen at the three girls.

"NOO!" Ranma yelled before the pollen hit her.

NOT FAR ABOVE (again)

"Oh Ukyo!" Puck sobbed. "Well at least I still have the antidote." He held up the pink bottle and it slipped through his fingers. "Ah! The antidote!" He watched it fall.

Cologne smacked her hand over her face.

BELOW

Ranma picked herself off the ground. "Oh Happosai, you're so cool!"

"You're so fine!" Akane added.

"You're so hot!" Ukyo giggled.

"Come to me babies!" Happosai jumped at them.

Just then the antidote bottle landed at their feet and exploded. A cloud of steam cloaked the area.

"Where did you go?" Happosai said, still bounding towards where Ranma had been a second before. Ranma, now in boy form, stomped his foot down on Happosai's head. "No... My dreams broken before they began!"

"You…you." Ranma was shaking with fury. "I'm going to kill you!"

"Be kind to old defenseless men!" Happosai yelled.

"You're anything but defenseless!" Akane yelled.

"Oh well, I'll just use the flower again!" Happosai took out the flower again. Ranma snatched it away. "Hey! That's mine!"

"Actually it's mine! And I would like it back!" Puck said. Cologne jumped down, still clutching the fairy so he couldn't fly away.

"No! It's mine!" Happosai snapped at Puck.

"It's far too dangerous." Cologne warned.

Ranma glared at the flower. "This is what's causing all the trouble!" It was because of this thing that he had wanted to kiss Happosai! He threw the flower the ground and stomped his foot down on it. "That's that!"

Suddenly, without any warning, the flower exploded and a cloud of pollen poured out.

"Ha, ha! You fool!" Puck laughed. "Ukyo! Look at me!"

Ranma did the first thing that came to mind. He clamped his hands over Akane and Ukyo's mouths, held his breath and jumped up out of the cloud onto a tree limb.

"Are you guys okay?" He asked. Akane hit him on the head. "What was that for!"

"You just picked me up by the head! It hurt!" Akane said as she rubbed her neck.

"It did kind of hurt." Ukyo said, also rubbing her neck.

"Well sorry for saving you!" Ranma said angrily.

Akane looked down at the dissipating cloud of pollen. "Is it safe yet?"

"I never knew how age could enhance such beauty!" Happosai became visible.

Cologne blushed. "Oh ho ho ho, don't flatter me!"

"I think I'm gonna be sick." Puck said, disgusted.

"I won't go chasing after young girlies anymore!" Happosai said, holding Cologne's hands in his.

"Oh Happy!"

"Go for it!" Ranma yelled happily as he jumped out of the tree. "You can't get out of it now! We're eye witnesses!"

"I always thought they would make a cute couple!" Akane said as she slid out of the tree and Ukyo followed. Ranma did a little dance.

"You guys seem a little too excited about this." Ukyo said.

"You try having him rub your chest every day and see how you feel." Akane answered.

Meanwhile, Puck had flown over to what was left of the flower Ranma had crushed. He held up the wilted blossom. "Oh my pretty, how could you have been treated so badly? My whole life was that flower! Boo hoo!" He started sobbing.

Ranma couldn't help but feel sorry for him. "Puck..."

"Oh well, I'll just grow another!" He pulled out a watering can and stared to water a spot on the ground.

Ranma fell over but quickly regained his composure and grabbed hold of Puck. "Not until you fix everyone!"

Puck shrugged. "Sorry, no can do."

"Why not?" Ukyo asked.

"The cure is all gone."

Ranma tightened his grip on Puck. "All gone?"

"GAh! Can't breath! Alright, alright! I'll tell you!" Puck gasped and Ranma loosened his grip again.

"The cure is the 'Spring of Renewed Love'. Yes, legend says that women who bathed in this hot spring would suddenly remember their true loves and would quickly return to them."

"What if you weren't in love with anyone in the first place?" Ranma asked.

"Are you saying something?" Akane growled.

"It works, so don't complain! Were is this hot spring?" Ukyo asked.

"It's a secret."

"Don't make me hurt you!" Ranma yelled.

"Okay, geez! In the mystic valleys of the pixies!"

They all glared at him. "And where is that?" Ranma asked, at his wits end.

"It's a secret."

"Are you sure!" Ranma tightened his grip on him and looked like he could have killed.

"AH! Okay, okay! It's on the outskirts of Tokyo!"

PrincessRose: Still not sure why Soun was there.

4KidsRepresentative: How dare he eat chips! He's teaching bad eating habits to kids!

AngelicDemnX: Ack! He found us!

Shakespeare: They have that (whispers) naked girl (stops whispering) and you're worried about a bag of chips?

4KidsRep: Don't question our methods!

PrincessRose: We're…too bored to care anymore. Next chapter please.