Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2 use it merely for entertainment purposes.

Nerima was a buzz with excitement. The cause of the excitement was because a new restaurant would soon be opening. Normally this would only cause the members of Furinkan's Cooking Club any kind of joy. This time however there was a rumor that the restaurant waitresses would be a trio of hot teenage Chinese girls. This had a definite appeal for the boys of the school whom were promising to make the opening day for the new place very busy.

At said restaurant three Chinese teenage girls and one very old Chinese woman were busy making preparations for their stay in Japan. The four females were none other than the Chinese Amazon party that came to Japan because, one reason or another, they were tied to Ranma and Akira. "Great Grandmother," Shampoo called. "Why must Shampoo speak Japanese? Make Shampoo fell too too stupid!"

"Because Granddaughter it is impolite to venture to another country and not speak at least a bit of the language," Cologne answered. "Don't worry, if you work at it you're speech will improve very quickly." The Amazon Elder looked at the supplies they brought with them and notice that a couple of the boxes were still missing, "Is Sushi bringing in the last load."

"Yes Elder I am," said a girl with three boxes in her arms. She was a lovely young girl with long blue hair, green eyes, just a little taller than Shampoo, and a figure that seemed to be standard for the Chinese Amazons, in other words above Supermodel quality. "These are the last of the boxes we brought with us," Sushi answered. She silently thanked her mother for insisting that she learn other languages so she did not sound like Shampoo currently. "Where do you want me to put them?"

"Put them in the secure storage area in the basement," Cologne answered.

"Great Grandmother, why you bring Magic?" Shampoo asked.

"Just in case Granddaughter," Cologne answered. "You never know when you'll run into a situation that calls for means beyond the normal tactics." Cologne, like all the Elders though not on the level of Lotion, had enough understanding in the Mystic Arts to be useful if the need were to ever arise. "Where is Cleanser?"

"She went to make sure the deliveries for the food ingredients will arrive on time," Sushi answered coming back up from the basement. "The boxes are in secure are and the locks are in place Elder."

"Thank you Child," Cologne replied.

"Great Grandmother, when we look for Ranma and Akira?" Shampoo asked. "Shampoo can no wait to see them."

"Not until after we get everything settled I'm afraid," Cologne answered. "So you will just have to be patient."

"Ok Great Grandmother," Shampoo answered with some dejection. Cologne could not help but smirk at her Heir's tone. It was just one more confirmation that Shampoo was rather smitten with Ranma. 'Now if Ranma would only get a clue about girls she might get somewhere with him. Ah young love it can be so entertaining to watch sometimes.'

A pair of unusual travelers made their way down a city street. One was looking around like he had no idea where he was and the other was squinting at anything he though was a sign. The one warring very volumes robes turned to the boy with a large travel backpack, "Hey Ryouga what does this sign say?" Mousse asked.

Ryouga looked to where Mousse was pointing, "It says 'Welcome to Nerima.'" Ryouga looked confused for a moment, 'Where have I heard of 'Nerima' before?' he thought.

"Nerima?" Mousse asked. "That's where the Old Mummy said Amaki was going."

"That means their close by!" Ryouga shouted. "I will make them pay!" Ryouga ran off passed Mousse as fast as he could, "You can't hide from me!"

"Hey you idiot don't runoff!" Mousse yelled after the Lost Boy. "Don't you remember what happened last time?" Mousse gave chase and as soon as Ryouga turned a corner Mousse knew he would never find the Lost Boy. When he came to the intersection he found Ryouga's clothes and huge pack but not his companion in revenge. "Great his Jusenkyo got…quack!" A passing car splashed the myopic boy and turned him into a myopic duck.

This was the boys' second time entering Nerima in the past four days. The first time Ryouga actually saw Ranma and chased after him with Mousse following close behind. When Ranma turned the corner Ryouga lost track of him. And with an occurrence that could only happen with the Hibiki family and those following them, Mousse and Ryouga some how found themselves in the wilderness. The wilderness around Jusenkyo to be exact. Do to their individual handicap, both boys ended up taking a dip in one of the pools. Mousse in the Spring of the Drowned Duck and Ryouga in the Spring of the Drowned Piglet.

For the past four days they had to avoid cold water as best they could other wise they would end up helpless. Just yesterday in fact they both found themselves about to be cooked restaurant in downtown Tokyo, not a pleasant event for either boy. 'Maybe I should just ditch the Lost Boy,' Mousse thought. 'I would have a better chance of finding Amaki on my own!'

At that moment Ranma was sitting on the roof of his Mother's House trying to figure out what he would do now. On one hand he wanted to stay with his Mom as much as he could, on the other hand he did not want to alienate the woman that had raised him like a Mother for the past seven years. After the first meeting several issues came up, if only in Ranma's own mind. One such issue was does he keep Kyoko's last name or his Mom's. Then there was which person does he stay with, Ranma could tell both wanted to him to stay with them but would not voice a request. After all how does one ask a boy to give up their Mother, Surrogate or Biologic?

For last two nights, after meeting her again, Ranma had been staying at his Mother's House, in the attic that was converted to a spare bedroom and commuting to School. This would quickly become impractical, the distance needed for travel was just too great. For now, though the concern was not Ranma's schedule, for now it was getting to know his Mom and new Sisters.

"Ranma," Nodoka called. "You should come inside and get cleaned up."

"Alright Mom," Ranma replied. "I'll be right down."

A few minutes later Ranma had just climbed into the furo, and go wet enough to change from a girl to a boy, to soak and relax for a bit, when the inner door slid open and to reveal a stunned and naked Ukyou. After about three seconds of stunned silence, and more than a little bit of visual inspection, Ukyou slammed the door shut and at the same time Ranma reached for a towel to cover himself up. From the other side of the door to Ranma, Ukyou's voice came, "I…I'm s…sorry Ranchan. With j…just us girls for s…so long," Ukyou became very red at that part, "I…I didn't t…think…"

"I…It's al…alright U…Ucchan," Ranma said. "I…It'd be breast…I mean best, i…if I get out n…now anyway."

"Y…yeah ok," Ukyou said.

After a few moments of silence Ranma said, "I can't get you with you there."

"Oh right!" Ukyou said. She quickly dressed and made her way to the outer door, "Just…um…just knock on my door when you're done, Ranchan."

Ranma heard the outer door close and after waiting a few moments slid open the inner door just a crack and peeked out. When he saw the coast was clear he let out a breath, 'Maybe staying here isn't such a good idea after all,' Ranma thought. 'At least not until later.'

The next morning neither Ranma nor Ukyou could look at each other for more than a few seconds before blushing and turning away. Meia and Nodoka took note of this, but said nothing figuring it something to do with their 'engagement.' Fortunately the uneasy breakfast did not last very long as Ranma had to get going otherwise he would be late for School.

At the door Ranma said, "Um Mom I'm going to stay with Sensei tonight and probably for the rest of the week."

"A…are you sure?" Nodoka asked worried she had done something wrong. "If there's not enough room for you to sleep, I'm sure we can work something out.

"No, no it's not that!" Ranma said quickly. 'I just want to run the risk of seeing any of you like 'that' again.' "I...it's j…just e…easier to get to school that way. That's all."

"I see your point," Nodoka conceded. "But you will come visit on the weekend, right?"

"Yeah sure Mom," Ranma relied. "I need to get going," he started to walk away from the house waving, "I'll give you a call after school!"

"I'll talk to you then," Nodoka replied.

At Furinkan High Ranma-chan arrived with just enough time to knock Kuno out after he tried to hug her and make it to class. Ranma-chan had no time to find some hot water and the teacher would not let Ranma-chan head for the bathroom during class. So she would have to wait until lunchtime to change back into a guy. What was odd about today was that most of the guys seemed to be drooling a lot for some reason. Ranma-chan thought that it was because of she was a girl currently as it had happened before. This theory was proved wrong however after closer observation of the boys in class. They did not seem to all that interested in her today and Ranma-chan had to wonder why.

At lunch and finally a guy again, when Ranma met up with Akira, he found out the answer. "On the way to school this morning I saw Cleanser setting up a restaurant," Akira said. "We talked for a few minutes and she told me, Shampoo, Sushi, and Cologne are here too."

'Well that explains why the boys in class weren't looking at me all that much,' Ranma knew the Amazons were considered beautiful and while he was generally clueless about a girl liking him, he was away that the Amazons would draw a guy's attention. "Did she say why," Ranma asked.

Akira laughed a little at that, "According to Cleanser, Cologne is here to further our training, get more experience in dealing with people that have Psionics and to help the others get experiences outside the Village."

"Well it'll be fun to have them around," Ranma said.

'You bet it will,' Akira thought, 'Especially when Shampoo tries to hit on you again and come up with the same results as she did in China.'

Outside the School Grounds a certain Lost Boy stumbled out of an alley and looked around and scratched his head. "Am I still in Japan?" he asked himself. When he saw several people on the opposite side of the street he decided to ask directions from one of them. Keeping his sight firmly on one student, a girl with long dark blue hair, he quickly made his way across the street. "Excuse me Miss do you know where a couple of guys named Amaki Ranma and Yamato Akira are?" Ryouga asked.

Akane turned to the stranger who asked her the question thinking, 'Haven't I seen this guy before?' With a mental shrug she guessed that there could be no harm in telling him, "Their over by the tree by the East wall."

"Um and where is that exactly?" Ryouga asked. Akane looked at his like he was crazy for a moment then pointed to the wall. Ryouga for once actually looked in the right direction and caught a glimpse of Akira throwing some trash away. Seeing one of the two boys be blamed for his poor lot in life Ryouga's rage boiled up. He took his umbrella off his backpack and charged Akira shouting, "PREPARE TO DIE AKIRA!"

Akira heard the bellow and saw Ryouga charging him at full speed. With a quick application of Chi and Telekinesis Akira threw up his shield just before Ryouga's heavy umbrella would have hit his head. With a grunt from the impact Akira remarked, "You've gotten stronger Ryouga."

"Shut up and die!" Ryouga yelled as he pressed against the barrier. "Because of you and Ranma, I'VE SEEN HELL!" When Ryouga pulled back on the umbrella he started to glow a sickly purple from a mix of depression and rage and channeled it into his umbrella. With a mighty swing he produced enough force to actually cause Akira to lose focus and drop the his shield.

'He's improved more than I thought,' Akira concluded as he jumped away from another umbrella swing. Challenging Chi into his finger Akira jammed it into the ground, "Bakusai Tenketsu!" causing a small explosion of concrete and dirt to fly up. Akira did not stop there he quickly followed up by using his Telekinesis to throw several bits of rock at Ryouga.

Ryouga seeing the bits of concrete flying at him with incredible speed opened his umbrella, which was still charged with Chi, and began to spin it. The concrete bits were mostly deflected off the Chi charged umbrella. Some however here able to penetrated Ryouga's defense and hit him on his upper body. When the small pieces of concrete stopped flying Ryouga stopped spinning his umbrella and noticed there were several holes no in it. "Ggggrrrr!" Ryouga growled. "You'll pay for that!" He threw his umbrella at Akira who, using his Telepathy and Clairvoyance, was easily able to dodge the throw. Ryouga started to channel all his depression into his Chi as he cupped his hands at waist level, "Now you'll see the technique you would have if you and Amaki weren't such cowards!" He then thrust his hands shouting "SHI SHI HOKOUDAN!" A sickly glowing ball of Chi rocketed away from Ryouga's hands right at Akira.

Akira had already anticipated the technique like he did with the umbrella throw and dodged out of the way by jumping up and over the Chi blast. In mid leap he pushed out with his Telekinesis towards Ryouga aiming for his stomach. The Lost Boy double over in pain as the invisible fist slammed into his gut. When Akira landed he was with in striking distance of he kicked Ryouga in the face causing him to fly up and back about a meter. Ryouga showed his ability to take a hit by quickly standing back up and charged Akira once more. When Ryouga tried to punch him, Akira once more anticipated the punch, this time Akira did not dodge the blow but instead grabbed Ryouga arm and threw him over his shoulder. After throwing Ryouga into and through the East wall Akira waited for Ryouga appear again.

With his Telepathy actively searching for Ryouga's thoughts Akira was able to hear, 'Not again! AKIRA! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!' At the same time some of the students who were watching the fight thought they heard a pig squealing at the same time Akira heard Ryouga's thoughts.

"What's all my fault?" Akira whispered. Not sensing Ryouga's thoughts anymore he approached the hole in the wall and discovered Ryouga's clothes. "Ok what just happened?"

"He probably got lost again," Ranma said coming up to Akira. "You remember how he was. I just wonder why he took off his clothes."

"That's what I meant," Akira said. "I mean the last thing anyone needs is a naked Lost Boy running around."

"You'll get no argument from me," Ranma agreed. "But there's nothing we can really do about it at the moment. When Ryouga gets lost I can't even find him with my Remote Viewing."

"I know, I know," Akira said as the bell signaling the end of lunch rang, "Come on we need to get back to class." With once last glance back to the hole Akira thought, 'Great just what we need the deranged Lost Boy showing up and causing trouble.'

Unknown to Akira and Ranma another enemy watched the fight, as best he could anyway, from above them in the sky. 'So this is where they are!' Mousse thought. 'I shall not let Amaki have my Shampoo!' The duck wearing glasses flapped his wings as fast as he could back to where his clothes were stashed.

At the Tendo Dojo Genma was going through the girls' rooms looking for some petty cash so he could by some fresh sake. The current stock was out and Kasumi said she would not pick any up until tomorrow. That would not do in Genma's mind, he needed to relax at that moment because he had a strenuous day of shogi and go against Soun that day and needed to relax. Knowing the Nabiki ran the household expenses he decided to look there first.

After searching her dresser and night stand first Genma moved on to Nabiki's desk. He was not able to find any money because Nabiki always put any money she had into the Tendo Bank Account. What he did find however was just as valuable, if not more so, a resent picture of Ranma. 'How did Nabiki get a picture of Ranma?' Genma wondered. 'Bah no matter all I have to do is show this to Tendo and we'll pressure Nabiki into telling us where she got! Then we'll find the Worthless Boy and make him marry one of the girls and I can finally retire!' "Tendo! I have something to show you!"