The Liz is so sleepy her brain could fall out and she wouldn't notice.

"Rizu, who is this guy?" Akane asked, indicating to a bewildered Ranma.

Yuka, Sayuri, and I exchanged a worried look. This wasn't like earlier when she was being childish, Akane seemed genuinely confused. "Akane hon," I said. "That's Ranma. You know Ranma right?"

Akane shook her head. "Why, am I supposed to?"

"Come on Akane, enough's enough!" Ranma yelled. "You can't say you're still mad?"

Sayuri approached Akane cautiously. "Akane, did you hit your head?"

Akane shook her head. "No! Why is everyone acting like a scared rabbit?"

Yuka smiled. "It's nothing! But where's Shampoo?"

"Yeah, she looked tough," Sayuri said.

Akane laughed happily. "Aw, she wasn't so tough!"

"You were on your back," Ranma stated.

"Who are you?" Akane asked in an annoyed tone.

Ranma looked as if he had had enough. "Cut that out!"

"Is this a new student?" she asked us.

"No," I said plainly. "This is Ranma, your fiancée."

Akane looked appalled. "Fiancée? I don't have a fiancée!"

"Actually Akane, you do. He's been living with you for…"

"A long time," Ranma finished.

Akane looked puzzled, trying to remember anything at all about a fiancée named Ranma. "That does sound… sorta familiar…" she muttered. Suddenly she clutched her head as if it were going to explode.

"Akane!" Sayuri yelled. "What's wrong?"

Akane's face suddenly relaxed. "I know!" she exclaimed. "It's the Hindu epic hero, a popular subject in Indian paintings!"

Commence a group face fault. "That's Rama," Ranma stated.

"It's a Cuban dance with two-four time and a powerful beat!" Akane announced.

"That's 'rumba'!"

I could see that Ranma was getting worried now, after all Akane remembered everybody but him. "Ryoga, c'mere," he said as he swiftly picked up Pchan with his foot.

"Stop it!" Akane yelled. "What are you going to do with Pchan?"

"I'm gonna ask him some questions," Ranma said as he began to walk away.

Akane didn't quite agree with that. "Give him back!" she yelled as she tried to kick Ranma in the face. Ranma easily jumped over her foot and used her head to vault off over the wall.

"That jump," Akane muttered. "He's no average boy…"

I rolled my eyes. "We know, we've only been his class mate for over a month."

"Who is he!" Akane yelled.

"We've been telling you!" Yuka said. "It's Ranma!"

Akane looked thoughtful for a moment before turning back to us. "Why's he so worried? I don't know him."

This was more frustrating then Rumiko made it out to be. "He's your fiancé! Your dads arranged the marriage before you were even born!"

"I don't know anything about that," Akane said flatly. "Besides, my dad wouldn't do something like that."

Sayuri, Yuka, and I exchanged glances. "Uh, right."
"Say Akane," Yuka said. "What do you say we get you to the nurse's office? Just in case."

"I'm telling you guys, I'm fine!" she said. "Shampoo didn't do anything!"

"Suuure." I said. Turning to Sayuri and Yuka, I whispered "I'm gonna get her to Dr. Tofu's. He'll know what to do. Meanwhile if Ranma comes around you can tell him where we are."

"Right," Sayuri said. "We'll tell the teacher too."

The three of us nodded and I turned to Akane. "Come on Akane, why don't we go visit Dr. Tofu," I said happily.

"I'm fine! Really!" Akane said. "You all act like I've got amnesia or something!"

"So doc," Ranma said. "What's wrong with her?"

Akane sighed angrily. "Rizu, why is this guy here!"

I rolled my eyes from where I was sitting. "He's a friend of mine," I said plainly. We'd arrived at the clinic quickly due to my insistence and Ranma had shown up only minutes behind us.

"Well," Dr. Tofu said. "No sign of any external injury."

"Isn't that a good thing?" I said.

"Yes… in most cases," Dr. Tofu muttered. "Akane, how did you feel when you woke up?"

"Well, I felt…" Akane said, fingering her hair. "Refreshed!"

Dr. Tofu leaned back on his desk (I had taken his chair… it was spiny!) and burrowed his eyebrows in concentration. "Hmm… could it be..."

"What? What!" Ranma asked urgently.

"It could only be the legendary Shiatsu Martial Art technique," Dr. Tofu announced. "Xi Fa Xiang Gao!"

"I'm sorry," I said. "The what?"

Suddenly the door slammed open as Genma in his panda form came rushing in with a bag of groceries. You're right! his sign announced in bold letters.

"Uncle Saotome?" Akane said quizzically.

I looked at her sharply. "Wait, you remember him but you don't remember Ranma?"

"Who?"

Uhg… "Never mind," I said.

"Did you see the fight?" Ranma asked the panda. Faster than you can say 'Whoa…', Mr. Saotome had whipped out another sign which read The whole shebang!

He proceeded to write another message on another board until Ranma walked up with a kettle of hot water. "Turn human idiot!"

Let me remind you I've never seen the curse actually triggered and while it would've been so much better if I'd seen someone else transform (with actually shape difference), watching a panda transform into a man was pretty awesome.

"Yes," Genma said. "Even now as I recall it, I can only gasp in disbelief. Once Shampoo captured Akane's back, her movements could only be called super human!"

"What'd she do?" I asked.

"She pulled out a shampoo bottle and scrubbed, rinsed, dried and primped Akane's hair!"

"No way!"

"And it all took only fifty-six seconds!"

"That's incredible," Dr. Tofu stammered.

"No wonder I felt so refreshed!" Akane said.

"But what the heck was it?" Ranma asked.

"Xi Fa Xiang Gao Shiatsu," Dr. Tofu said as he walked over to Betty the skeleton. "Is a combination of Chinese herbal shampoo and pressing the points of a skull to manipulate memory."

I sat and chewed my thumb while I listened to the explanation. Granted, something like that could come in use but how would I get a hold of something like that… Wrong train of thought, focus on the matter at hand.

"So that's why you don't remember me!" Ranma exclaimed to Akane.

"Who are you?" Akane asked again.

Apparently the attack also gave the victim the memory of the goldfish. Greeeeat.

"Is there anyway to cure her!" Ranma demanded.

"Not with out the shampoo," Dr. Tofu started but Ranma grabbed Akane and ran out the door shouting for Shampoo.

The doctor sighed and put away Betty. "I should probably do some research," he said.

"Do you think a really good conditioner could work?" I asked as I got up from his chair so he could get to his desk.

Dr. Tofu laughed and shook his head. "No, I don't think so."

Genma scoffed. "That son of mine better find the cure…"

"Yeah," I commented dryly. "It might be hard to marry them off when the bride can't remember the groom for more than five minutes."

"Exactly!" Genma announced. That man has no shame.

"I home," Shampoo announced as she entered the clinic.

My eye twitched while Mr. Saotome had drenched himself in cold water. It's not polite to correct people, it's not polite to correct people, it's not polite to correct people…

"Mr. Saotome, Rizu, this is my new apprentice nurse," Dr. Tofu said. "She'll be staying with me for now."

I smiled nervously. "Isn't that… great?" Why oh why didn't I leave when Ranma and Akane did?

"Hello," the Amazon said. She looked over at me and for some reason narrowed her eyes. Swiftly she walked over to me and immediately started to play with my hair, pulling it at the roots.

"What are you doing!" I yelled as she yanked my hair as if she were checking for lice. "Cut it out!"

Suddenly Shampoo smiled happily and grabbed my hand, squealing something in Chinese rapidly. Honestly, I felt like my head was going to explode with all the words she was shooting at me. "Uh…"

"Well this is interesting," Dr. Tofu said. "It seems she believes you to be of Amazon heritage."

"WHAT!"

I knew it! Genma's sign read.

"But… I… what's going on!" I exclaimed. Dr. Tofu smiled as he said something to Shampoo in Chinese to which she shook her head and said something back.

"She says that you have to be an Amazon because of your hair color," Dr. Tofu commented.

DAMN IT ALL TO HELL! Why was everyone on to me about my hair! "But I'm not an Amazon!" I protested vehemently. "I'd think I'd know if I were!"

"Well maybe you're related to an Amazon," Dr. Tofu said. "It could happen easily here."

Shampoo's smile turned into an inquisitive frown. "Girl no Amazon?"

Twitch. "No, I'm not an Amazon," I said.

"But hair have pink roots."

Twitch twitch. "I'm not an Amazon."

Shampoo's frown deepened. "Girl be proud of Amazon heritage."

Why the hell did she know words like 'heritage' but she couldn't bring herself to use a few pronouns? "Except I'm not an Amazon."

Shampoo stood up straight so she could look down on me. "True. Amazons no have stupid haircut."

My eye was violently twitching now. "I'm sure Amazon's wouldn't have hair cuts like mine but it's better than having to trap a man into a marriage."

"What girl saying?" Shampoo said with a threat in her voice.

"I'm saying that at least I'm not desperate enough for a guy that I have to stoop to such low tactics as the Amazons."

Shampoo growled angrily. "Girl no insult Amazons."

"I'll insult whoever I want until you can learn to use pronouns," I shot back.

Dr. Tofu placed a firm hand on my shoulder. "Calm down Rizu," he said. "Why don't you go to the Tendo's to see how they're doing?" I nodded and brushed past Shampoo who was giving me a superior smirk.

I had the sense to be at least a block away from the clinic before I started to stomp and curse.

"Hello?" I yelled into the house. "Is anyone here?"

"Hey Rizu," Nabiki said as she walked in. "Akane isn't home yet."

I frowned, still unhappy about the incident with Shampoo. "She hasn't been home all day?" I said.

Nabiki shook her head. "By the way," she said. "I hear you took Akane to see Dr. Tofu today."

I nodded. "Uh yeah, she got into a fight with Shampoo and got her memory erased."

That caused Nabiki to pause. "She got her memory erased?" she said.

"Well, technically she just can't remember Ranma. Everyone else she knows."

"How'd that happen?"

I shrugged. "Some weird Chinese technique. Hey, can I come in and wait till she gets home?"

Nabiki shrugged and walked into the family room. "Sure, Chimofu's out back."

I kicked off my flip-flops and walked into the family room with Nabiki. A few minutes passed in silence while Nabiki flipped through a magazine and I sat there awkwardly.

"You did hear me say Chimofu's here right?" she said flatly.

I nodded. "Yeah."

"So why are you in here?"

Unfortunately I didn't have a proper answer for her at the moment.

"You guys have a fight?"

Straight to the point ain't she? "Um…" I wasn't all that sure if I should be giving information of that type to Nabiki. "Kinda."

"Did it have to do with the junior high kid?" she asked me as though talking about the weather.

"I guess…"

"Do you like him?"

"Who?"

"The junior high kid."

I almost died. "NO! He's a creepy stalker with way too much time on his hands!"

Nabiki raised an eyebrow at this. "He's stalking you?" she said.

"YEAH! He even found out where I live!" Suddenly I stopped short and glared at Nabiki. "You're not gonna sell him information are you?"

She shrugged. "You presume that I actually have information on you in the first place."

I rolled my eyes and leaned back. "You have information on everyone Nabiki."

Nabiki rolled her eyes. "Jeez, you think you're so important."

I glared at her while she continued to flip through the magazine. Finally I slammed my head on the table and groaned. Today was just not my day.

"Oh Rizu!" Kasumi said as she entered the room. "I didn't know you were here. Why aren't you out back with Chimofu?"

I groaned again.

"They're having a lover's spat," Nabiki stated calmly.

"What!" I exclaimed as my head shot up from the table. "We're not lovers!"

"You're not?" Kasumi commented innocently. "I always thought that you two were dating."

"We're not! God, can't a girl have guy friend with him being her boyfriend?" I said. "Sides, he doesn't even like me like that."

"And you do?" Nabiki said coyly.

"No."

Kasumi smiled in that weird knowing way. "Why are you two fighting?" she asked.

I rolled my eyes. "Cause he's being a total pansy and got upset when I didn't thank him for breaking my fall."

"Wait, what do you mean 'he broke your fall'?" Nabiki said.

I shrugged. "I fell down the stairs and Jhim tried to save me but ended up falling with me."

"And you didn't say thanks?" Nabiki said dryly (her favorite tone of voice apparently).

"I was distracted!" I defended.

"Well have you said 'thank you' yet?" Kasumi asked.

I blinked while both the Tendo sisters stared at me. "I guess I haven't yet…"

Nabiki rolled her eyes. "Well don't you think you should?"

"Well yeah…"

A sigh came from Nabiki as she looked at me levelly. "As much as I enjoy your company Rizu, you should probably go talk to Chimofu." Kasumi nodded happily.

I smiled nervously. "Shouldn't I wait till after he's done practicing?"

"Go. Now," Nabiki said. I nodded and walked out the room without any further argument. As I walked into the kitchen I heard Nabiki remark "Jeez, she's almost as bad as Akane."

I pointedly ignored that comment and walked out to the dojo. Looking inside I saw Mr. Tendo instructing Jhim to concentrate more on his kata.

"What's the matter boy?" he asked Jhim sternly. "You don't seem like you're thinking about what you're doing."

Jhim stood straight in front of Mr. Tendo and bowed. "Sorry sir," he said.

Mr. Tendo sighed. "If you're not going to work hard then you're wasting your time. Come back tomorrow." Jhim looked ashamed as he bowed again to Mr. Tendo who then walked out the dojo, nodding to me as he passed.

Cautiously I looked into the dojo to see Jhim gathering his things, his jerky movements indicating he was more than frustrated. "Hey," I said as I walked in.

Jhim looked over his shoulder and shrugged. "Hey."

"So… how was your day?"

"Alright."

"That's… great." This wasn't going anywhere. "I just wanted to say… thanks for this morning. The… whole… landing on you thing," I said. If this were anymore awkward for me I'd be Akane Tendo.

"No problem," Jhim stated plainly as he picked up his stuff and walked past me.

"So… we're cool now right?" I said.

Jhim shrugged. "Sure. I just wanna know one thing," he said as he turned around to face me. "How come you called me Chimofu? I thought you hated that name."

I looked at him strangely. "Is that why you were mad? Cause I called you Chimofu?"

Jhim stiffened. "No! I just want to know why is all."

I blinked stupidly. That was an odd reaction…. "I just didn't want Kurizu knowing… everything I guess."

"Oh?" Jhim grinned mischievously. "You don't want everyone knowing your pet name for me?"

"Pet… name?" Suddenly my face got really hot. "What the hell makes you think it's a pet name!"

Jhim laughed. "I was just kidding!" he said as he walked away. "You're really touchy about that stuff aren't you?"

I huffed and crossed my arms. "Pet name my ass. Arrogant little…"

"I'm home!" Akane announced. It had only just gotten dark outside and she was still in her school uniform.

"Akane!" Kasumi exclaimed as she and Nabiki ran to meet their sister. "Rizu says you've forgotten Ranma!"

"Is that true?" Nabiki asked as I walked in behind her.

"Ranma?" Akane said. "Who's Ranma?"

"Maybe that guy behind you," I said.

Akane whirred around to see Ranma standing there innocently. "What are you doing in my house!" she accused.

"Uh, I've been living here," Ranma replied nervously.

"Weren't you with him the whole afternoon?" I asked Akane.

Akane looked at me strangely. "With who?"

"Ranma."

"Who's Ranma?"

"That guy."

"Ack! What are you doing in my house!"

"I just told you, I've been living here!" Ranma yelled at Akane.

Akane huffed and turned her back on him. "Well you didn't need to yell at me."

I could see Ranma's eye was twitching. "Why you…"

"What's going on?" Jhim said as he walked into the main entrance.

"Akane's forgotten Ranma," Kasumi explained happily.

"And Ranma's about to have a cow," I added.

Suddenly Mr. Tendo popped up behind me with his ultra-scary rays of happy. "Well that's alright!" he said jovially. "As long as my little girl hasn't forgotten about me!"

Akane laughed. "And who are you sir?"

Mr. Tendo's rays of happy died. "It's okay Daddy," Akane said as she patted a sobbing Soun's back. "It was only a joke."

"She seems to be taking this seriously," Nabiki said.

Suddenly an irate Ranma was blinded from behind by large panda hands holding a sign reading 'Guess who?'

"Damn it Pop!" Ranma yelled as he tried to kill the panda… only the panda turned out to be Shampoo with large panda arms. The real Mr. Saotome was laughing in his weird panda way holding a sign reading 'He fell for it!'

Ranma wasn't laughing. "Shampoo you little…"

"Little darling!" Shampoo exclaimed as she glomped Ranma, reinforcing the fact that anyone who calls a loved one 'darling' is a psycho in my mind.

Before Ranma could do anything Akane suddenly elbowed Ranma in the face, bringing him to the ground quickly.

"What you doing!" Shampoo yelled at a bewildered Akane.

Akane looked down at Ranma innocently. "Who are you?"

"This is getting old," Ranma said.

"It was a conditioned reflex!" Nabiki stated.

Kasumi nodded. "Somewhere deep in her heart she still remembers Ranma!"

Akane faced Ranma again. "Ranma huh? You wouldn't happen to be a noodle would you?"

"That's 'ramen'," Ranma said.

Jhim and I looked at each other skeptically. "Somewhere very, very, very deep in her heart I'm assuming," I said to him.

"Seems she likes noodles more than she likes him," Jhim responded.

Meanwhile Shampoo jumped into the air with a bottle of shampoo in her hands, ready to attack Akane's head again. Agitated, Ranma grabbed her wrist and took the shampoo, grabbing Akane with his other hand.

"Lover!" Shampoo called after Ranma only to be ignored. "Shampoo no give up," she growled and ran out the door quickly.

Nabiki shrugged. "Well I guess I should go do my homework," she said. "Tell me when Akane gets cured."

"I'll go get some towels for Akane," Kasumi said cheerfully. Mr. Tendo continued to sob in the corner.

"Feel the love," I muttered when Dr. Tofu walked in with a pamphlet like thing with him.

"Good evening Chimofu, Rizu," he said. "Are Ranma and Akane here?"

"Yeah, down the hall in the bathroom," Jhim said. Dr. Tofu thanked us and then left to tell Ranma the good news about the cure.

"We should probably stall Kasumi till Ranma gets the cure don't you think?" Jhim asked.

I shrugged. "Yeah, probably."

"What about me?" Kasumi asked as she walked back to where we were.

I laughed nervously. "N-nothing Kasumi."

Kasumi smiled generously. "Okay then. I'm going to take these towels to Akane."

"NO!" Jhim and I exclaimed at the same time, grabbing the towels from Kasumi. "That's… alright, we'll take care of it," I said cheerfully.

"Yeah, don't worry about it, really!" Jhim said as we walked back to the bathroom. "Be right back!" We turned the corner leaving behind a confused but pleased Kasumi.

"Well that was easier than I thought it would be," Jhim said.

I nodded and took the towel from Jhim and carried it to the bathroom where I could hear Dr. Tofu explaining to Ranma and Akane about the cure to Akane's memory problem. "Usually something stupid happens like someone coming in and…" That's about the time I walked into the bathroom and slipped on a bar of soap on the ground which sent me flying into Ranma who also lost his balance, and crashing into the already broken sink. Which started to spew water everywhere.

I seriously wish I was joking.

"My back…" Ranma-chan whined from the floor while I sat stunned on her back, cold water spraying me from behind.

"Oh my," I heard from the entrance to the bathroom. "What happened here?" There stood a worried Kasumi within a seven foot radius of Dr. Tofu. Crap.

"Ka-Kasumi!" Dr. Tofu stuttered. "What brings you here?"

"I heard a crash from the kitchen and I thought something might've happened," Kasumi said. "Is everyone alright?"

"Yeah, I think so," Jhim said as the water began to flood the floor.

"Don't worry Kasumi!" Dr. Tofu said nervously. "I can clean up!" With that he promptly dropped to the ground and began to clean the water up… with the cure.

"What are you doing!" Ranma exclaimed.

"Just cleaning up," Dr. Tofu said cheerfully.

I witnessed the scene before me and groaned. "I give up," I said as I fell onto my back.

"Uh Rizu," I heard Akane say.

"Uhm?"

"You might want to get up, the guy you're sitting on doesn't look all that happy."

"Will do."

"So what were you saying about being stupid?" Jhim said as we walked home that night.

I groaned. "Would you shut up?" Kasumi had offered to dry my wet clothes so I changed into some spare clothes I had in the Twilight Zone ("Always be prepared!").

We'd stayed long enough to see Ranma off on his quest for the cure to Akane's memory problem and for me to get Akane to help me with my homework ("Hey, I know you've got a memory problem right now but do you remember how to do this problem?")

"Well at least all will be well tomorrow," Jhim said sleepily.

I laughed bitterly and shoved my hands in my pocket. "Speak for yourself. I'm not looking forward to Shampoo's return at all."

"Aw come on, she's not that bad."

"Liar."

Jhim laughed. "Yeah, it's true. But she does have some… redeeming qualities."

"If those redeeming qualities have anything to do with her physical qualities you'd better stop talking now."

Jhim didn't reply.

About half-way to our apartment complex Jhim suddenly stopped. "Aw man, I forgot my bag!" he exclaimed. "I'm going back to get it, I'll see you tomorrow."

I nodded and waited till Jhim was out of sight before I continued on my way.

'Very good,' she thought as she watched Rizu walk down the lit street slowly. 'She seems to be adjusting well. I'm glad.' She tucked a stray blonde hair behind her ear and smiled. 'They're both doing well. Now if only Chris could get his head in the game.'

Suddenly her watch started to flash, reminding her of the time. She sighed and turned down the street, walking away from the girl she had been observing. 'Back to work,' she thought bitterly as she reached into her purse and brought out a set of elaborate keys. Taking the largest one, she jammed it into a nearby wall and twisted it. A door knob appeared and she opened a door in the wall. With a heavy sigh she pushed up her horn-rimmed glasses and walked through the door, closing it behind her. Only a moment later a small dog ran up and relieved itself on the perfectly normal looking wall.

A/N: I might not be able to update for a while. I will explain using Geometry!

End of the Year equals Freaked Out Teachers

Freaked Out Teachers equals More Homework

Using the Transitive Property of Equality: End of the Year equals More Homework.

Huzzah!