Hey, everybody! I'm back after almost half-a-year of rest time! That's right! It is I, the one and only Ayanami Rei who said a story was going to be continued, but never posted the next chapters! Well… that's 'cause I didn't write the next chapters until now, and it's already 10-02-2003, which is definitely about half-a-year since I said I was continuing.

Anyway, sorry about not continuing, but I just switched schools, I've got a lot of homework, I've got unbelievable amounts of art to finish (I started them for fun, but now I've been roped into finishing them…), a website to finish (I actually started it! Officially going to be called KuroNeko's Website), and band and orchestra and piano and mock trials and other stuffs. So don't expect me to upload as often, but you can hope.

I'll try my best to upload more, but don't be too optimistic.

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Standard Disclaimer (Not that I'm into all this, but…)

Smarter? Part 2:

Alpha: Chapter 3:

Remembrance

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Ranma smiled as she walked into Yuki's make-do office. "I see you still haven't fixed it, Yuki!"

Yuki looked around the apartment that doubled as her office before replying, "Fixed what?"

"Your apartment!"

"Huhn? There's nothing wrong with it… well, at the least, I like the way it looks!"

"Still like it, eh? I really don't understand how you can stand to live in a place like this," Ranma complained as she sat on a box.

"Well, fine. I suppose I should actually unpack all my stuff from the boxes, okay? Now, can you get off my box of cup-noodles?" Yuki glared at Ranma, before Ranma 'eeped' and moved off the box.

"I don't get it, Yuki. I thought you said you hated cup-noodles. In fact, you didn't only say you hated them, you specifically said you would 'never eat a friggin' instant food again'."

"Erm…" Yuki shivered as she remembered what Ranma was referring to…

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"Hey! Yuki! I think I learned how to make the plant grow faster!" Ranma rushed over to where Yuki was trying to make her hot water dispenser work.

"Really, now. You think you learned a new spell…Well then, why don't you demonstrate on my dying flower over there?" Yuki smiled as she saw Ranma jump in joy as she spun to try to make the flower grow.

"C'mon…By the power I am given, GROWTH!"

"…"

"…"

"…Ranma, nothing happened…"

"Yeah… Weird…" Ranma turned to talk to Yuki, and ended up screaming and rushing into a corner. The thing that had appeared was not something Ranma felt like dealing with at the time, and running was her best choice.

Yuki turned to look at where her cup noodles had been. In its place, a giant monster had appeared, and it was made solidly out of noodles. It licked its giant mouth (with a noodle tongue, of course) and reached down for Yuki. As it threw Yuki into its mouth, Ranma heard her yell, "RAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNMMMMAAAAAAA!!!!! I'm gonna kill you for this!!!!!"

Ranma shivered.

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A few hours later the monster was no more. Yuki was standing in the middle of a giant pile of cup noodles, and she didn't look good. Then again, the monster was gone due to having its insides blown out by one of Yuki's spells… while she was in its stomach. Being covered in digestive noodles (dunno how that would work) wasn't what Yuki had wanted when she had first tried to heat up her dinner.

"Yuki? You're not really gonna kill me… are you?" Ranma peeked out from behind a corner.

"Nah… maybe lock you into a cat form for a couple days or something." Yuki grinned sinisterly.

"Eeeeep! Anything but a cat!!!!"

"Alright, alright. I won't punish you. But make sure you get the spell right next time, okay?"

"thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou- Oh! Um… Okay!" Ranma sighed in relief and continued muttering 'thankyou' to the sky as Yuki sweatdropped.

"Students these days, always thinking I'm going to hurt them somehow…" Yuki turned to order take-out. "Ugh, I swear…I will never eat another friggin' cup noodle as long as I live… Stupid instant things… always no good."

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"Yeah… um…" Yuki looked at her cup noodle, then trashed it as she rushed to the bathroom.

"Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that…" Ranma mused, when she heard retching noises coming from the bathroom.

'Stomachs… Now all I can think of are stomachs… stupid, stupid…' Yuki thought to herself, as she left the bathroom. Glancing at the clock, Yuki turned to Ranma and said, "Perhaps you had better be going home, it's getting late."

"Your right, Yuki, well, c'ya soon!"

"Hold up Ranma… You need to know something I have planned for you…"

Ranma didn't like the way Yuki was smiling.