Last Time: Ranma found out his fiancee's secret.. and
proceeds to try to forget about it, dismissing it as a dream
in his Nekoken state.
The question is: CAN he forget it?

"WITHOUT RANMA" Part Seven
By Shikoku and Steel

The Tendo Dojo was surprisingly empty. Soun and Genma were
down at a bar in town, trying to drink Happy under the table
without much success.

Kasumi was at the market running some errands before going
to visit ol' Doc Tofu. She'd made a batch of her special
extra chewy-gooy, not-to-be-missed, unbelievable triple
fudge brownies with chocolate frosting just for him. Three
minutes after she arrived the late afternoon air was pierced
by the blood-curdling screams of his victims.. I mean
patients.

Nabiki was having her tennis lessons, which were, of course,
free. Ah yes, blackmail really WAS a good thing..

Ranma, who most would believe would still be at the dojo,
was actually not there. Nope, he was out in the city,
searching for (surprise surprise) Ryoga of all people! And
WHY was he looking for the resident Lost Boy? Well, let's
just say that he was still a bit.. perturbed by the
unscheduled beating he'd received the day before.. At least
that was his excuse for wanting to get away from the dojo
for awhile..

Nope, the only person who was currently at the Dojo was
Akane. Well, that's not entirely true. There were TWO other
people there with her, one she knew about, and one she
didn't.

Since she was alone, as far as she knew anyway, Akane was
taking FULL advantage of the privacy. By 'playing' with a
certain buxom amazon in her room that is.

"Hiya!" Shampoo said coming up from under Akane's blanket to
get some air. They'd been under the covers for quite a long
time..

Akane laughed as her head appeared from under the covers
near the wall at the side of the bed. She grinned at Shampoo
who's purple head was at the foot of the bed. "You sure are
spunky today Sham-chan." She ran a hand through her short
hair which was sticking out in messy spikes from her sweat
and a pair of amazon hands..

Shampoo playfully stuck her tongue out at Akane. "Aren't I
always, A-chan?" She grinned. Her own long, purple hair had
been nicely tousled and hand-combed by Akane's capable
hands, and the amazon's buns and ponytails had come loose
during one of the scuffles..

Akane laughed again. "Ain't that the truth." She grinned
again. Suddenly her stomach rumbled. "Hey, you wanna go down
stairs and get something to eat?" she asked. Afterall,
they'd been exerting a lot of energy in past couple hours.

Shampoo nodded eagerly. "Sound good to me, but you always
taste better." She grinned at Akane with a sly look in her
eyes.

"Oh really now?" Akane asked with a laugh and a grin. She
waggled her eyebrows and hopped out of bed, buck naked.

Shampoo followed, also in the nude, though unlike Akane,
Shampoo's hair was long enough to cover a few parts 'Birth
of Venus' style. "I'd say so." Shampoo grinned following
Akane out the door.

"Well I'd say you're pretty tasty yourself." Akane gave her
a hentai grin and suddenly glomped the purple haired beauty,
kissing that long, amazon neck.

Shampoo ooooed, and tilted her head back to give Akane more
access to her neck. Her hands were busy in Akane's hair,
making it even more tousled.

Ok, we'll just stop there. Time for a scene change..

As it was mentioned before, there was one other person (sort
of) in the house with the girls. However, they didn't
realize he was there. That's right, the other person was
none other than Ryoga Hibiki. Or should I say: P-chan.

Poor P-chan hadn't known what hit him.

He had come home finally, to find himself up in Akane's
room. There he rejoiced greatly. Unfortunately, his
rejoicing had been short-lived because he had accidentally
wound up under Akane's bed somehow.. While she and Shampoo
had been IN it.

There was now a bright red blood stain on the carpet beneath
Akane's bed. From the angle of the spray, it was obvious the
blood had come from the unconscious pig's nose..

The poor little pig also almost had a heart attack when he
discovered that HIS Akane was a hentai.

Of course he was gonna blame Ranma for this.. Once he'd
regained consciousness that is..

That'd help..

Anyway, a few hours passed, or so it seemed when P-chan
finally started to come to.. By this time the room was
empty, and P-chan started to think maybe it had just been an
awful dream..

Then Akane and Shampoo returned.. with Ukyo..

He was just squirming out from under the bed, when all of a
sudden, something fell on his head.. He shook it off and
finally got an eye full of... a pair of pink underpants...

He squealed in surprise.. really loudly..

Akane blinked from where she was tangled in Ukyo's arms and
Shampoo's arms.. "What was that?"

Ukyo and Shampoo both paused, having heard it too. They
looked at each other confused, than all three leaned over
the edge of the bed to have a look. What they saw was a
little black pig running around in circles bweeing at Ukyo's
underpants.

Shampoo gasped. "Hiya..."

"Why the heck is that pig oinking at my underwear?" Ukyo
asked incredulously.

The others shrugged.

"Well, whatever the reason, I think you'd better get him
outta here Akane.." Ukyo said. "There're some things not
even a pet should see and I'd say this's one of them.."

Shampoo nodded sagely at that..

Akane meanwhile, picked up P-chan. He went catatonic at the
feel of her naked breasts against him.. then cringed when he
remembered where they'd been.. His eyes screwed shut tight
in an attempt to block out sensation and the memory of the
girls.. together.

The short haired martial artist walked downstairs and put
the pig down on the dirty laundry in the basket. She arched
an eyebrow when he didn't turn around and look at her, but
ignored it. She told him to stay put and that she'd be back
later, then she left and went back to the warm, welcoming
arms of her friends.

They continued their playing for awhile, but Shampoo didn't
seem to be putting her heart into it. Something was
obviously bothering her.

The other two quickly noticed. "What's wrong Sham-chan?"
Akane asked, kissing the amazon on the cheek.

Shampoo sighed. "A-chan.. do you still sleep with that pig?"

Akane blinked. "Well, yeah.."

Shampoo inadvertently shuddered.. "Hiya.. Nobody ever told
you?"

Ukyo looked confused. "Told her what?" She looked at Akane
with confusion in her eyes.

Akane had a look of incomprehension on her face for a moment
as she tried to figure out what Shampoo was talking about.
Then it hit her. "Oh! You mean about Ryoga!" She grinned.
"Of course I know about THAT, I've known for a long time."

She was met by two shocked faces. But both girls were
shocked for different reasons:

Shampoo: "You knew!"

Ukyo: "What about Ryoga!"

Akane gave Shampoo a rather indignant look. "Come now, you
didn't REALLY think I was THAT dumb, did you?" To Ukyo she
said: "Ryoga's P-Chan."

Shampoo was looking very sheepish.. "Well.. if you knew then
why still treat him as pet?"

Ukyo didn't answer but was going through a state of shock..

"He doesn't know I know." Akane answered. "If I treated him
any different, he would've gotten suspicious."

"But why you no beat living shit outta him?" Shampoo was
still confused. "You're not mad?"

At that, Akane turned sheepish. "Well, you see.. I've, uhm..
well.. been kinda.. using him..."

When Akane turned sheepish, Shampoo took on a sly look. "Oh?
What for?" This was a new side to Akane that Shampoo found
interesting..

Meanwhile, Ukyo was still looking shell-shocked.

Akane sighed and couldn't meet Shampoo's sly look. "I was
using him.. to make Ranma jealous... Whenever Ranma would
chase 'P-Chan' around the house cuz he slept in my bed, I
thought it was because he had feelings for me... but then
he'd go and do something REALLY stupid and I wouldn't be
sure any more.. So I kept Ryoga as a pet, hoping one day
Ranma would get fed up and just tell me that he didn't want
P-Chan sleeping with me... but he never did..." She sighed
again and sunk lower into the covers.

Shampoo nodded. "Is okay, A-chan. I did same thing to
Mousse.." She gave her short-haired lover a kiss on the top
of the head. "Ranma just too stupid to know good thing when
he see it."

"Yeah A-chan." Ukyo chimed in from the other side of Akane.
"Ranchan wouldn't know something as great as you if it bit
him on the butt." She may have still been rather shocked
about the Ryoga revelation (she'd always liked that boy,
maybe she might've had a relationship with him someday if
she hadn't gotten involved with Akane and Shampoo.. of
course, he would've had to get over his fascination with
Akane first..) but Ukyo knew when it was necessary to
reassure a close friend.

Akane seemed to perk up a bit. "Really?" she asked. "Thanks
guys." And she French kissed them both.

And that, of course, started them up again.

So we'll just change scenes again.

Back in the laundry room, Ryoga (who was still currently
P-Chan) was pondering over what could have possibly caused
his beautiful Akane to do something so.. so.. VILE. And of
course he came to the usual conclusion. It was all Ranma's
fault. Though THIS time, he was right.

Well, Ryoga had to be right about it being Ranma's fault
SOMETIME.

Anyway, Ryoga then took it upon himself to beat the living
daylights out of Ranma, (again) and then try to find a way
to cure Akane of.. of.. whatever it was that caused her to
do THIS..

But first, he had to change back to a human..

And that meant he had to find his way to the bathroom..

With his sense of direction, that would take a minor
miracle..

He wandered around for forty minutes before some how
accidentally falling into the bath and subsequently turning
back into a human. Fortunately though, nobody was IN it this
time..

Thank God for dumb luck.

Ryoga growled, still extremely pissed off about what he saw.
(Though he tried not to think about it TOO much, or he'd get
a nose bleed and faint again..) Instead, he got out of the
tub, and started looking around for his hidden clothing.

He found them in their usual spot, and, keeping them in his
line of vision walked over to them. After drying and getting
dressed, he tried to find the door.. and ended up in the Cat
Cafe's pantry. Which is where Mousse found him.

Mousse proceeded to glomp Ryoga. "SHAMPOO! At last I've
found you! Why have you been hiding from me?" The blind
martial artist blinked, "And how did you get so big and
buffed up?" he asked, feeling Ryoga's tense muscles.

"Who you callin' SHAMPOO? Put your glasses on." the Lost
Boy growled, trying not to bash in the amazon's skull.

Mousse blinked. That voice didn't sound like his loving
Shampoo. He pulled out his glasses from a sleeve of his robe
and slipped them on. Now only slightly blind, Mousse shoved
his face into Ryoga's to take a better look. "Oh.. It's just
you, Hibiki.." He sounded disappointed.

Ryoga snorted, but decided to get to the point. "You haven't
seen Ranma around anywhere have you?" he asked the myopic
young man. "I've gotta tell him about what's happened to
Akane." He paused and cracked his knuckles. "And beat him up
for it."

"Hmmm..." Mousse thought back to the course of his week.. "I
think the last I saw him was last Tuesday.. yeah.. he
defeated me once again, then went home.. " Mousse shrugged.
"After that I'm not sure where he went. Oh and what's the
matter with Akane Tendo?" the Chinese male amazon asked
curiously.

Ryoga fumed at the news that Mousse hadn't seen Ranma
lately, that meant HE would have to track down the fiend
himself.. Mousse's question then registered. "Well.. it's
like this..." He then 'informed' Mousse of the girls'
'extracurricular activities'.

Mousse didn't look as shocked as he was disappointed..
"Shampoo.." he murmured, softly.. He then sighed. "I was
afraid of this.. I guess Shampoo can't change, even if she
had been taken out of that evil village.."

Ryoga looked slightly confused about Mousse's reaction, so
Mousse explained to Ryoga the way of most amazon females..

The Lost Boy's jaw dropped. "You're.. you're KIDDING!" To
Ryoga, it was just INCONCEIVABLE that Akane had been caught
up in something like THAT.

"C'mon, have you really looked at Shampoo? She's BEAUTIFUL!
She's a goddess! What kind of idiot, male or female, would
NOT fall madly in love with her, if she just looks at 'em?"

Ryoga blinked. "Really? I never noticed.."

Mousse spent the next few minutes sputtering around about
that.

Ryoga merely shrugged. "Well, if you can't help me find
Ranma," he said. "I'll do it myself." And he turned and
started up the stairs to the upstairs apartment, determined
to find the front door if it killed him.

Mousse sighed and went after the lost boy. "Comeon, we'll
see Ranma together. I think this problem will be effecting
all of us.."

So together they left in search of the infamous Saotome.

To Be Continued...

What will happen when Mousse and Ryoga find Ranma? Find out
next time on WR
P.S: Please don't kill us :Sweatdrops: