A/n: Yay, another day, another chapter. I'm pretty excited about this fic now because every day I'm adding something new and fun to it. I can't wait to add more characters, but I first have to develop these other characters first. I hope you enjoy!
Chapter: Let's start over
"Brush! Comb! Time for school!"
As their mother called them down, Brush and Comb left out their respectable rooms and ran swiftly down the hall, down the stairs, and into the restaurant. The furniture was model the way the old Cat Café restaurant looked like only with brighter color and various pictures of China on the wall. Shampoo came out of the kitchen with a hot bowl of rice and gave it to her children.
"Morning, mother," stated Comb happily while taking the bowl from his mother.
"Morning, Comb………Brush, why don't you speak to me? Are you still mad?" asked Shampoo tilting her head slightly to the side.
"Mad? I am not mad at all! I JUST AM ASHAMED THAT I MUST FOLLOW THE CYCLE OF FOLLOWING A SAOTOME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!" shouted Brush while waving her hands in anger.
"Hmm, sister, are you sure? Your voice sounds pretty mad," asked the smiling Comb as he ate his rice.
"You really are clueless, most of the time, brother, aren't you?" asked Brush while taking her bowl of rice and eating quickly.
"Brush, you shouldn't worry about Ranma's son. I think everything this time will turn out for the best, and besides, you have a whole year to make up your mind," replied Shampoo folding her arms together.
"To think my sister will be married to a Japanese boy. I was actually thinking of someone husky, strong, and a complete meat from the village," added Comb placing his bowl down on the table.
Brush glared at her brother as she slammed the rest of her rice on his head and walked out the door. Shampoo sheepishly took the bowl off Comb's head brushed the rice out of his hair into the bowl, and pushed Comb to follow her daughter. Shampoo looked at the fleeing Comb and just shook her head and disappointment. She knew that Brush would be negative to coming to Nerima, but she didn't hope it would be this bad. Hopefully, this new day will make her young amazon child understand why she loved it still.
At the school, Katsuro, Riko, Yoshi, and Hideaki stood in the middle of a large group of students.
"Katsuro, is it true that you and Brush are engaged?" asked one of the boys.
"WHAT! H-how did you find out?" asked Katsuro nervously.
"So, it IS true!" gasped one of the girls as she ran from the group to another group of people.
One by one the teens spread telling anyone of the newest couple of the school.
"WHY ME!" yelled Katsuro placing his hands in the air.
"You said you wanted to be popular, Katsuro," snickered Riko as she folded her arms.
"You aren't helping, RIKO," stated the older Saotome.
"Did I want to?"
"Come on, guys, Let's be more positive about this. Katsuro, you should feel lucky. It's the second day of school and now you have a fiancée," stated Yoshi smiling.
"Yes, but his fiancée tried to attack him yesterday," noted Hideaki as he adjusted his glass.
"Can you shut up!" yelled Yoshi to Hideaki who replied with a simple shrug.
"I just wish she wouldn't hate me so much! She isn't as cute if she's mean," commented Katsuro with a sigh.
"Katsuro-sama!" All of a sudden, Hitomi appeared pushing Riko from his side and wrapping her arms around his right arm. She began crying onto his sleeve while gripping firm to his arm.
"Oh, Katsuro-sama, I heard about your engagement! I'm so upset! She doesn't even deserve to be your fiancée! I should be the one!" cried Hitomi while pressing her face into his sleeve.
"Hitomi, you idiot, it's not like I did it on purpose to get in my position with her," stated Katsuro while trying to pry his arm out of her grip.
"You didn't? You mean, you don't love her?" asked the Hibiki girl with her big puppy eyes displaying.
"No way, she doesn't even like me! It's some kind of Amazon tradition that I didn't even know," explained the older Saotome.
"Oh, I'm so glad. That means we can still be an item!" stated a cheerful Hitomi.
"It wasn't as if you guys were an item to start with," remarked Riko as she pushed her ponytail behind her shoulder.
Hitomi looked at Riko and just stuck out her tongue then looked back lovingly at Katsuro. He just rolled her eyes while Hideaki just gave a large sigh with Yoshi patting his back. Suddenly, Reizo and his fan girls walked over to the group.
"Hey, Saotomes, I heard that you got engaged to Brush yesterday. Is it true?" asked Reizo letting his hair play along in his hair.
"Yes, but it's not like I want to be! What of it, Hibiki?" asked Katsuro as he arched his eyebrow.
"Nothing really. I just wanted to know. But since you don't really care for her, I might as well treat her the way she needs to be treated. Maybe this will be the year I take a new girlfriend," replied Reizo with a grin as his fan girls just groaned.
"Brother! That is an excellent idea!" stated Hitomi as she walked over to her older brother.
"Maybe as you get that amazon girl, I can finally win Katsuro's heart," whispered Hitomi with a devilish grin as he just nodded in agreement.
"You won't touch a hair on her, Reizo. She is MY fiancée, not yours," replied Katsuro walking up to Reizo.
"Hmm, if you want to fight about it, then let's have it out!" All of a sudden he punched Katsuro in the stomach, making the ponytail boy fall back. He slowly looked up to a grinning Reizo, but wiped off the grin with a swift left kick to his face. Both boys slowly caught themselves and stood immediately in fight stances. Everyone began to back up from the boys as they jumped into the air and began delivering and blocking attacks.
"Gosh, second day and cousin Saotome is in another fight!" stated Hideaki.
"That's my brother! Well, it does run in the family," commented Riko as she observed the fight.
"I'm just so happy that you don't follow him in that trait, Riko-sama," added Yoshi as he took grip of Riko's hand.
"Can you just talk to me without all the touching, Yoshi," replied the navy blue hair girl as he released.
"I wonder where big brother Kano is? Usually he wouldn't be late to things like this," replied Hitomi looking around.
At that moment, Kano came running up with Junko sleeping soundly on his back. He looked a little exhausted, but nevertheless, he sprinted up to Riko and watched the fight.
"What! I can't believe Reizo! We made an agreement that I had this week to attack Katsuro!" yelled Kano angrily.
"Hey, why do you have Junko?" asked Riko pointing to her cousin.
"Oh, she was saying hi to me and then fell asleep on the sidewalk. I thought it would just be nice of me to bring her to school on time," told the Hibiki middle child.
Suddenly, Katsuro kicked Reizo down to the ground as his fan girls gasp at the incident. Reizo looked up with a snarl on his face while Katsuro smugly folded his arms in triumph.
"Humph, you are lucky that I don't want to really mess you up, Saotome or I would, but I just remember that if I court Brush, I must not be a silly brute like you," stated Reizo as he dusted off his uniform.
"Oh, Reizo-sama, are you all right?" asked one of his fan girls.
"Yes, thank you for your concern," smiled the eldest Hibiki son as they all swooned.
"Oh give me a break! First of all, if you want Brush, go ahead and take her. She isn't that cute since she's always has a frown on her face," replied Katsuro pacing around Reizo.
"Uh, Katsuro," announced Yoshi as she watched Brush and Comb walking over to the group.
"Brush might be a babe, but she's mean, violent, bratty, and a pain in the ass!" yelled Katsuro looking only to Reizo as he only grinned smugly.
"Um, cousin Saotome," interrupted Hideaki as he began to nervously watch Brush walk up to Katsuro.
"WHAT!" When he turned around to see them, Brush glared deeply up to the martial artist as he could only gulp into his dismay.
"So, you think I am a brat and mean? Hm, you Saotomes are nothing but a cocky, careless, obnoxious family with nothing to do but ruin other people's lives!" yelled Brush as she took hold of his collar.
"Hey, Brush, watch out! You can talk about me, but don't talk about my family like that. If you weren't so high and mighty, you would be okay, but you are too up your ass to notice that nobody likes you because you are worried about your damn honor. Your mother-," replied Katsuro but was cut off with Brush's fist in his face.
"Don't you ever talk about my mother! You don't know what she has been through! You don't know what your family has done to her! Her pride died and she was a disgrace! You don't know, you don't know anything."
For the first time, Brush began to sniffle her nose fighting back the tears. She pushed aside Katsuro and ran up into the school. Everyone watched her go up into the school then looked at the silent, ashamed Katsuro.
"Good job, Katsuro. You made your fiancée cry," stated Kano.
"Hey, I didn't mean to…. She was talking badly about my family! ARG!" with that the ponytail boy ran up into the school leaving every one outside.
"What a pair!" stated Riko as she just shook her head with Junko finally woke up.
"Oh, my, I slept again! Oh, Kano, I didn't order a piggyback ride, did I?" asked Junko wiping her eyes with her hands.
"Uh, no, Junko, you just fell asleep on the sidewalk…again," replied Kano rolling his eyes.
"My poor Katsuro, that girl is nothing but bad news for him!" stated Hitomi placing her hands to her heart.
"There is nothing wrong with that girl. I rather see her as my sister-in-law than you," stated Riko pushing the girl aside.
"You big meanie!"
"I hope my sister will be okay," spoke Comb looking up to the school.
"Don't worry, Comb, Katsuro will apologize for it. He hates to see a girl cry," replied Yoshi as the group walked toward the school.
Meanwhile, Katsuro is looking around the whole school for Brush. He really didn't mean to upset her. He didn't like the way she was talking about his family, but he started anyway by talking trash about her.
"I wonder where she is? Maybe she's in the girls' bathroom," thought Katsuro as he open one of the bathroom's door.
Each girls' restroom he opened, he was bum rushed with screaming girls and some appliances they threw at him. He was trying his best to be a gentleman, but he also wanted to make sure Brush was okay. Soon enough, he decided to look in their classroom, but she wasn't there either. He looked everywhere and time was going quick; soon it would be class time. As he was walking up the hall, he saw that the door to the skyscraper was open. Did she go that way? He decided slowly to go up there and take a quick peek. Sure enough, she was there, crying, sitting looking down to the ground. The sun was still bright, so he placed his hand up to look out to her.
"What you doing here, Comb?" stated Brush without looking.
"Um, I'm not Comb….. I just wanted to check on you," replied Katsuro fidgeting with his hands.
The amazon girl turned around with anger on her face and tears rolling out her eyes. Looking at her made him feel even guiltier. She swiftly jumped up and began to walk to the door, but Katsuro moved into her way.
"Leave me be! Go away, or do you want to keep jabbing into my pride!" yelled Brush trying to find a way through him.
"Okay, Brush, I'm sorry! I didn't mean that stuff."
"Don't try to be nice because you have to!"
"I don't HAVE to do anything. I WANT to! I shouldn't have talked to you that way and I know you are going through some things with my dad, but number one, I'm not my dad, so you don't have to be mean to me. Two, my parents talked to me about your mom and your mom seems to be different from the way she was with them back then…."
"My mother was only following orders under the council. She needed to marry your father because he won the match. He didn't marry her, so she paid the price."
"Look, I'm not trying to say her reasons weren't for the best, but don't you want to marry somebody you love?"
At first, she kept quiet, glaring at him for a moment and then she began to think about it, hesitating on what she was going to say.
"Well, I see your point….but he led her on!"
"Yes, and my father is sorry about it. Your mother forgave my father and my parents think so highly of her now. My mother even wanted to come and visit her."
"…..She does? I thought she would be the one to hate her the most for coming back?"
"Nope, my mother this morning was happily calling all their friends to have the reunion tonight! Come on, Brush, being mad all the time won't get you anywhere. Let's just start over, especially since we are fiancés."
Brush looked at him and rolled her eyes, but this time she gave a genuine smile. He looked at her and was blown away by her cute happy face. She looked very attractive that way.
"Fine, but remember, you call me Brush, not fiancée. I think I would kick your butt if you did," stated Brush folding her arms with her smirk.
"Really now? And do we need to recall who won that match again?" asked Katsuro with a mischievous grin.
"Yes, you, but I think we should try it again someday."
"Sure…Hey, let's go, we can probably still make it to class on time!"
At that moment, the bell rang leaving the two with dreary expression. Knowing them, Miss Yamamoto would be wringing their necks, and doing it longer with Brush for the incident yesterday. Katsuro hurriedly opened the door and was hoping Brush would go out, but she just stood there.
"Hey, I'm opening the door for you!"
"I let no man open doors for me. I think I am capable of that!"
"You go through the door or do I have to pick you and throw you through it!"
" Just you try!"
"Oh, for Buddha's sake!" He went through the door as Brush slyly smug following behind into the building.
TBC
A/N: I actually wanted this fic to be longer, but if I kept going, it would have been LOOOOOOONG. SO, I hope you liked the slight WAFF at the end. I really think this will be a cute couple, though I'm going to get Reizo to shake things up. Please review!