Last Time: Ranma's suspicions aroused, our favorite arrogant
pigtailed-martial artist decided to find out what was going
on with his fiancees.. Looking through Ukyo's window, he got
a little more than he bargained for..

"WITHOUT RANMA" Part Five
By Shikoku and Steel

Before The Scream:

Ranma was finally escorted out and Ukyo locked the door
behind him. All three girls sighed in relief at the same
time.

"I thought that Jackass would never leave." Ukyo muttered.

Akane nodded in agreement. "Yeah, he has a real tendency to
stick around longer than he's wanted, ne?" she said, tossing
the dishtowel onto the now cold grill.

Shampoo nodded too. "He also seem to want to invade our
space all of sudden." Her Japanese was still not perfect,
but with Ukyo and Akane's help she had been improving it a
lot. She still chose to talk in bad Japanese in public,
though. The customers at the restaurants all thought it was
cute.

"I think he's getting suspicious." Akane said, resting her
hip on the grill next the dishrag. She gazed out the window
where'd they'd last seen Ranma.

"Well, what can we do about it?" Ukyo asked. "I have no
intention of stopping what we're doing."

"Me neither.." the other two agreed, shaking their heads.

They stood in silence for a few moments, pondering this turn
of events. Finally Ukyo sighed. "Let's think about it
later." she said. "I've got.. other things on my mind right
now.." A slow grin crossed her face as she looked over the
other two girls.

She was met with two grins back.

"Shall we?" Shampoo asked.

Ukyo kept grinning. "Oh yeah." she answered then turned and
headed for the back, Shampoo and Akane following close
behind. But before going upstairs, Ukyo stopped in the
kitchen to pick up a bottle of chocolate syrup, a can of
'Ready Whip' and a bowl of fruit. It WAS dinner time
afterall.. She then joined the other two on the stairs and
they went to her room.

In the events that followed, none of the girls noticed that
the only window in the room was slightly opened and the
white and green striped curtains decorating it were parted a
bit. No doubt Ukyo had opened it the night before to let in
a breeze for it was very hot even at night.

Well why think about it, when there was so many better
things to dwell on?

Maybe the three months of playing around without getting
caught had made them cocky..

Oh well, needless to say, a few minutes after entering the
room, it became very quiet, except for the occasional bit of
laughing and sometimes even a moan or an 'mmmmm' of
pleasure.. If one listened closer, one might even be able to
hear Ukyo's bed squeaking under pressure, as well as the
sound of a few lips coming together...

At one point the view was really good through the window,
one could see the clothes start flying off.. Akane's new
tunic.. Ukyo's pants.. Shampoo's dress.. Soon it was
followed by the second layer of clothing.. Akane's bra and
panties.. (she never did give up the cute ones that Ranma
had made fun of, he never had any fashion sense anyway)
Ukyo's chest bindings..(she of course, sort of considered
herself the masculine member of the trio, so she still
dressed that way occasionally, besides, it was fun
unwrapping her like a Christmas present) and her panties as
well.. Shampoo of course, didn't contribute anymore for it
was already a well known fact that amazons don't wear
underwear. At least Shampoo didn't..

Anyway, Ukyo's floor and even some furniture were soon
covered with their clothing.. but I doubt they'd mind
cleaning up afterwards..

If Happosai saw this, he'd have a field day then he could
die a happy man..

After the rain of clothes, the lips smacking sounds and the
moaning started up again.. Soon a new sound entered.. the
shaking of a whipped cream can and after that.. Well, let's
just not go there...

Afterall, we should give the girls a little privacy..

Unfortunately, the girls took their privacy too much for
granted, so they never even saw it coming..

The ear-shattering scream was enough to get even their
attention, and in flash, the three were to Ukyo's window
(the sheet wrapped around them all) where they discovered an
unconscious Ranma on the ground below, blood coming from his
nose.

Akane sighed. "Looks like we've been discovered.." she said
with dismay.

The others nodded dumbly..

All of a sudden they were all feeling a bit queasy at the
implications of this and what it might mean for the future..

"Maybe he have concussion and forget.." Shampoo suggested,
grasping at straws.

"Really think we can be that lucky?" Akane asked, dryly.

Shampoo sighed. "No.."

Ukyo glanced out the window at Ranma, then back at the other
girls. "Well, should we go get him, or.." She looked
meaningfully at the sheet. "..leave him there?" She drew a
finger over Akane's shoulder, removing some whipped cream.
She licked off the finger.

Akane stared transfixed at Ukyo's finger as the brunette
licked the whipped cream off.. "He'll be okay for now..
S'not like he'll be going anywhere.."

Shampoo nodded, gently pushing the other two girls back on
Ukyo's bed. "We have unfinished buisness.." she declared,
with a sly grin on her face.

The other two grinned back and went willingly where Shampoo
pushed them. Soon they had picked up where they'd left off,
almost as if they'd never been interrupted at all.

Down on the ground, an alley cat curled up on Ranma's chest
and went to sleep.

It was a few hours later when the girls remembered Ranma...

"Hey.. we forgot about Ranma!" Akane suddenly exclaimed from
the tangle of sheets on the bed.

Ukyo moved an arm out of her way and looked at her clock.
"Is he even still there?" she asked. They'd been.. busy, for
quite awhile.

Shampoo, who was closest to the window, reluctantly rolled
out of bed. "I check." She then padded naked across the room
to look out the window and see. "He still there.. He no
awake.. Maybe he dead?" she asked, almost hopefully.

It took Akane a few seconds to answer; she was staring at
Shampoo's whip cream smeared rear. "I doubt it.." she
finally said, trying to pull her thoughts from Chinese
nakedness. "His skull's as hard as Ryoga is."

"Darn.." Shampoo said, sighing. Then she noticed something..
odd. "Hey.. there's a cat sleeping on him."

That gave Ukyo an idea. "Hey, maybe we can use that.." she
said, sitting up. Akane slid back onto the bed. Ukyo was
just a tad bit slippery. "Maybe if we get him into the
Cat-Fist, he'll forget anything he saw."

"Hey, I'd try anything to keep the baka in the dark for
awhile longer.." Akane shrugged.

"How we wake Ranma, but not cat?" Shampoo asked.

Ukyo thought about this. "Well.. it's not that we need to
keep the cat asleep, it's that we need to keep it from
falling off Ranma. Now.. how to do that...?" She looked
around the room for something they could use and her eyes
fell on the cloth strips that were partially tied to her
head board. "Hey, we could tie the cat to him!" she
exclaimed, grinning.

Akane and Shampoo just grinned, evil-like.. This was going
to be fun...

To Be Continued...

C&C Loved and Played With. :-)

Seriously, I've never had so many interesting reviews before.

(Go read Steels and my other stuff, the reviews were usually happy, as in "your story is so funny" types)

And I've certainly never been told to not quit my day job before. (LOL)

Okay, here's the deal with this story: It's basically a revenge fic against Ranma. So, yes, we're deliberately picking on him. So if you really love Ranma, I'd advise you to stop reading this story because it's only going to get worse.

Why are we picking on him?

Basically we can't stand how he strung the fiancees (Ukyo and Shampoo) along for the whole series without ever intending to be with any of them, and how he was never very nice to Akane. Granted, he probably didn't intend to do either on purpose, but that's not the point. They were still strung along and Akane was still verbally abused for the whole series. (For sake of argument, we'll say this fanfics is more anime based.)

We also can't stand fanfics that puff up Ranma into a super god and make all the female characters his harem that are willing to let him degrade them, so this is basically our response to stories like that.

So, in answer to a lot of your comments: yes, this story is definitely not based on canon, yes, the characters are out of character (but really how often are characters IN character in fanfiction, anyway? They're not our characters, so only Rumiko Takahashi would know how they would really act in any given situation) and no, you're not supposed to be taking us seriously. : - )

But go ahead and send in the comments. They're more thought provoking than "Whee! Write more!"

Smoochies,

Shikoku

And here's a response from Steel, who's not near as nice as me:

To all reviewers: #1 IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE STORY, S-T-O-P READING

IT! #2 YES, as previously stated, Ranma gets bashed, if you don't

like it, DON'T READ IT! #3 This is FICTION! It's not MEANT to follow

the canon! It was never stated that it WAS canon! #4 Where did you

come up with the whole 'Ranma's a fighting genius'? WHEN in the

story was it ever said that Ranma's a bad fighter? And YES, Ranma HAS

lost MANY fights, YOU should reread the manga.

And just because Genma was an ass in raising Ranma doesn't give Ranma

the excuse to be a JERK to Akane and string along the girls. You all

keep saying that Akane, Ukyo and Shampoo and stringing along Ranma,

well guess what! That's exactly what HE did to THEM! It's PAYBACK!

Pure and simple.

And if you don't like it, THEN STOP READING IT!

:Shikoku drags Steel off to bed to cheer her up: