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Chapter 2: Seven a Side
Ranma was stunned. He was a spectator of Shampoo's throw of the Amazon tribe. Of course he hadn't expected that. He supposed that the lavender-haired ex-Amazon was going to be punished in a not that severe way. Hard training or maybe some pain-inflicting device, but not that!
"Shampoo understands." Her voice got him out of his thoughts and his sight on her. Of course he was incredulous of her attitude. She had just been expelled from her way of life! How could she be acting so well about that!
"In that case, give me your bonbori." Cologne added and Shampoo did so.
"NO!" Ranma exclaimed finally entering the dispute. Both looked at him "I will not accept this!" He added
"It's not your decision, boy, it's Shampoo's." Cologne replied with a hurt face. She didn't want to do it but rules are rules.
"Ranma." Shampoo called and he looked at her "Shampoo know all way back what to happen. Please let Great-grandmother finish this." She pleaded and he reluctantly gave in with a nod. His head kept down.
"This is not in the rules, but you may keep all the knowledge and your sword because it was a gift, not a weapon from the amazons. Also, let me give you this so you can make your life alone here better." Cologne hopped out of the room with a sad face. Ranma looked at her dumbfounded. Before Ranma could say a thing, Cologne was back with a black box with a drawing of a golden dragon on it.
"What that, great-grandmother?" She asked surprised, in her life she never saw that box.
"It has a few presents that you two might find useful." She added and handed over the box. "You must get your stuff because of this turn of events, I will go back to the village and this restaurant is going down." She explained sadly. It was a nice place, lots of fun stuff happened in their walls, Cologne feared she might miss it.
"I see…" Ranma commented. No more Nekohanten and its incredibly delicious ramen. No more Cologne to run if he had a problem and no more Mousse to stand again. Actually, the last was a good thing now that he passed over it. And the first thing, well, he would have to fix that on his own, maybe more visits to Ucchan?
"Ok." Shampoo applied and went upstairs to get everything she owned or had
"Boy" Cologne started and that left an impression, normally it was "son-in-law" but this name made the matters even worse "I have my beliefs that something made Shampoo go to this extreme. I don't know if you had anything to do with it, but I will not act against you even if you had some say in it. Please keep her safe in here, you surely must know that she loves you very much but I'm disappointed to know that it's not reciprocated. Don't worry, treat her nice and I think that would be the least to do." Cologne finished when Shampoo was coming down with a white backpack, big enough to carry Ranma in it.
"Shampoo ready." She announced and went next to Ranma. She placed the bag in front of her and kept a sad face the whole time. It wasn't time to keep talking, it was time to move on. "Great-grandmother…Shampoo will miss you." She said in pain
"It's still time to retract if you want to. I will not think less of you if you do so." Cologne replied, her tone was almost of begging but Shampoo shook her head
"No, this is something that Shampoo must do on own. Shampoo try to stay in touch." She smiled a bit, her real smile since the pair left the Tendos' roof.
Cologne watched her great-granddaughter grab the backpack but not putting it on her back. Instead, she grabbed it like luggage. Shampoo didn't say a word while she walked out of the Neko with a sour face. Cologne just staring at her.
A minute later the pair was a pair of blocks far from the Neko. Shampoo couldn't stand it more, she dropped on Ranma and cried harder than she had ever done. Ranma tried to make her feel better by patting her back but it was completely useless, she was drowning in her pain.
He kept her in a hug for maybe fifteen minutes. When she finally made a step back, she faced Ranma-Chan. She laughed with a tear running on her face
"What's so funny?" She asked with a smile. It was a change to see her move from crying to laughing in less than ten seconds
"Ranma is girl now, too much tear and triggered curse." Shampoo explained with a big smile.
"Better laugh than cry." Ranma applied with another smile. Shampoo grabbed her bag and started walking with her newly-changed-female-martial-artist –Airen. While later of silence, they reached the Tendo front door.
"This is not going to be well. You know it fairly well." Shampoo nodded "In that case, you will have to aid me. Not the pathetic display I made with Cologne." She asked
"Of course. I happy to help you." She replied shortly. Ranma opened the door and went in with Shampoo in tow. They entered the living where Soun and Genma were playing a game (Sorry can't remember the name of that game they keep playing all the time). The other one there was Kasumi that was picking up the dishes from dinner
"Pop, Mr.Tendo, there is something I would like to ask." Ranma started calling the trio their attention
"What is she doing here?" Genma asked seriously
"She has something to do with what I have to ask." Ranma added
"Ok, and what is that?" Soun continued
"To let Shampoo stay here." Ranma finished and prepared for the beating or yelling of his life. Weird thing is that it never came.
"And why would we do that, boy?" Genma raised a brow
"Because she's alone."
"Alone? Doesn't she have the lot of amazons and that old thing?"
"Not any more. She isn't an Amazon anymore." Ranma added lowering his head a bit to the bad memory.
"How do you know that? How do you know it isn't another trick to put you in their clutches like so many times before?" Soun asked again
"I…I really think that I'm not the one to talk about that." Ranma replied
"HA! I knew it! It is just a lousy trick of that old ghoul and the girl to maintain Ranma from marrying her rightful fiancée!" Genma added and Soun nodded in agreement
"I don't know, father. It seems that neither of them wants to talk about that." Kasumi intervened
"Take that back." Ranma replied furiously completely ignoring Kasumi's line. He was so immersed in the fury of his father last comment that his ears weren't working for a second. "I mean it. Take that back or I'm leaving with her."
"Boy, you are nobody to threaten us." Genma replied with his brows wrinkled and a serious attitude
"Prove it." His rebellious attitude really got into the seniors. They got up immediately with anger for face "Really, prove that I'm no one to threat you." He added calmly and almost wanting for them to act
"You asked for it, boy!" Genma snapped cracking his knuckles
"You are going to be beaten into crud!" Soun added
"Know what? Next time, try to be meaner, it doesn't scare anyone." Ranma replied with a short smile. That was the end of the line.
"Boy, come with us." Genma ordered and the old ones started to walk towards the Dojo. Before they disappeared, Ranma made a sign to Shampoo to follow him. She applied happily. The pair entered the dojo to find the old ones sitting at one side
"Why is she here?" Genma asked
"We're going to have a fight, right?" Both nodded "In that case, two versus one is a bit unfair, so I asked her to aid me."
"Seems ok to me." Soun replied and both got up in unison. It was a very long time since both of them were working in that way. It was a complicated technique that allowed both of them to move as one only parted in two.
"You're going to pay for your insolence." Genma spat as the two of them got the same stance at the same time. Ranma and Shampoo got to their own stances, different from the other. A minute passed by and no one moved. Just when they were going to die of old from waiting, the seniors split and moved in opposite directions. Making the young ones stay back-on-back against the attacks.
"WHAT IS THAT HUSSY DOING HERE?" A voice roared and the four stopped and looked at the source, obviously Akane.
"Later, Akane. We're in the middle of something important here." Ranma replied and the fight re-commenced with a new spectator. But it didn't end there, the other two missing Tendos arrived shortly after but without making a noise.
Soun jumped with a flying kick while Genma made a sweeping kick. The kids grabbed hands and twisted in the air to dodge both attacks. They landed just in time to attack both of them, Ranma attacked Soun and Shampoo attacked Genma. The old ones could block the first punch but then the kids surprised both when they changed their opponents in a swift motion. They only needed a well-connected punch to be defeated.
The fathers landed on opposite sides of the Dojo. The kids just nodded to each other in a victory way. Both had a smile on their faces.
"Now, do you accept?" Ranma asked nicely
"Yes." Both replied with a faint voice
"Great." She said happy with a real smile "Follow me, miss." Ranma joked and both intended to leave
"What did our fathers agreed with you?" Nabiki asked with a brow up
"Shampoo's latest moving place." Ranma replied with a little shrug
"Where?" Akane asked with a bit of fear in her voice
"Guess." Ranma smiled and left with Shampoo leaving a very fish-like Akane for the way she moved her mouth so many times. They went to fetch the backpack and Ranma to change back into a guy.
"So, where do you want to stay? I think you said outside but after this incident…Of course not the girls' room but maybe another one?" He asked as they climbed the stairs
"Where Ranma stay?" She asked back
"Um…here" He said opening the door and showing the inside "But pop's sleeping here and…" He smiled as she threw Genma's stuff to another room, an empty one, and placed her backpack in his room. Now, their room. "Well, that fixes that problem, but you know what? Akane will go ballistic when she finds about this." Ranma replied
"Ranma know what? Shampoo not care for what Violent Girl think if she find about this." Her answer came with a short smile. She fixed the futon that was undone and made Ranma go outside of the room
"Hey! It's my room too!" he protested
"Shampoo want to change into sleeping clothes. Be decent, 'pervert'" She said the last with a smile and a small laugh. But in her best Akane tone. He was stuck waiting outside the door, so he leaned against the wall. What he didn't count was that Akane was going to pass through that corridor in that moment. She didn't say anything for a change, just looked at him with a death-stare and kept going. A minute later of waiting, he heard Shampoo's voice
"Shampoo ready." He got in with some fear to find Shampoo naked and waiting to latch onto him but he only found Shampoo in her own futon. He mentally kicked himself for being so dumb. That Shampoo is gone, dummy! He assured and simply dropped himself on his futon.
"What a night." He commented
"Yes. Very…um…agitated night." She agreed. Silence covered the room for some instants
"Airen."
"Mh?" He replied
"Shampoo want to go school with Airen. Will be very boring here with no work and nothing to do." She had a very good point there
"We'll…ahhhh" He yawned "see tomorrow." He finished
"No, want to finish this now." Shampoo replied
"Ok, you wanna go with us? We'll go talk to the principal tomorrow before classes and see what we can do, happy? Now please let me sleep." He pleaded and she allowed him to sleep because she agreed to the deal.
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