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Chapter 3: Learning to Breathe…Again
The sun was already out when Akane woke up. Ranma Baka Was her first thought of the day. She got up and started to get dressed to go to school. Why did he have to ask Shampoo to live here? Doesn't she have a place with that old bean? And why they were fighting with dad and Mr.Saotome? All those questions circled her mind at an incredible speed. When she finished with those thoughts and alike, she was already going down the stairs.
As she entered the living room, she found everything a bit abnormal. Nabiki was reading her normal manga, but Kasumi was picking up a dish from the table.
"Sis, what are you doing?" She asked to the eldest one
"Picking up some used dishes, would you like something to eat?" She asked back with her characteristic smile, acquiring an out-of-the-world-but-not-that-much-from-reality look.
"Yes." Akane smiled back and sat next to the table "You know where Ranma is?" She asked when she saw that he wasn't there and in twenty minutes they were starting classes
"Not really, he left early this morning." Kasumi replied placing a plate full of food in front of her, still with her smile.
"A Saotome leaving early?" Nabiki asked amused "Will wonders never cease?" She added to one in particular.
He left early. What did he have to do this early? He never did this before…Thinking about that, he never asked Shampoo to live here…Oh no! Realization reached her mind as she trotted to the room Ranma now shared with Shampoo. She opened the door in expectation of what to see…
…Shampoo snoring peacefully inside her futon. Her smile was a peaceful one. Akane sighed in relief, it was not going to happen. She closed the door and left back to the living and finish eating her breakfast.
"What's wrong, young sister?" Nabiki asked again diverted from her manga
"I thought that maybe Ranma would…naaah, just guessing." She finished swatting her hand in disbelief I just hope he isn't going to do what I think he is going to… She thought.
Ranma entered his room by the window. He had some bruises on his clothes. Stupid Pineapple Principal, had to throw those stupid pineapple bombs at me! He thought sourly while he changed clothes to the same ones but in better state.
At least Shampoo slept well, what I had to make her enroll at school and start today. He walked next to her and nudged her to wake her.
"C'mon sleepy head, get up!" He said with a short smile. Shampoo didn't wake up but her lips twitched a bit You're trying me…Well, two can play that game… "Yawn, maybe I'll go to school. Shampoo can be here alone for some, erm, say, six hours alone instead of going to school with me." He finished and moved towards the door. He never made it because a hand grabbed his arm. "Gotcha." He smiled to the lavender-haired girl next to him
"Airen bluffing!" She exclaimed hurt, but jokingly hurt. She patted his arm and let go if his arm. She stood up "Now leave, Shampoo need to change." She added and he applied. Minutes later they were walking towards Furinkan High after some good stealth food-snatching from Ranma. Their breakfast didn't last more than two blocks.
A minute later, Ukyo was closing the door to her restaurant with a smile and whistling a song. Hope Ranchan didn't miss me. He had seen her the day before… but you know that girl…
She started walking towards Furinkan High and in one of the intersections, she encountered Akane walking alone for a change.
"Oh, hi!" She said waving her hand a bit. Ukyo looked at her for a second Is that sorrow? Or maybe regret? She thought
"Hi, Akane. Everything ok? How's that Ranchan isn't with you this morning?" They kept walking towards school
"I…Well, he left early for school today." She stated and Ukyo stopped dead in her tracks.
"What did you just say?" He asked seriously and with her eyes open wide
"Ranma left early for school today." She parroted
"Will wonders ever cease?" Ukyo asked to the air and repeating Nabiki's early line. Some time later, they reached school and Kuno in the front.
"Akane Tendo, my hearts bumps further when my eyes contemplate your beauty." He started with his lousy try of Shakespearean poetry and shorted the distance between him and the pair of girls. When he was in front of Akane, he produced a set of flowers and placed in front of her face. Akane didn't grab them, she just used the fury against Ranma inside her to punch Kuno in HEO (High Earth Orbit). crack It was a sound really loud when Akane's fist connected with Kuno, a critical hit.
"Wow, Akane, this is a Guinness for sure!" Ukyo joked while she watched Kuno fly with her hand on her forehead to block the sun. They laughed a bit of that and decided to enter the class without further delay.
As soon as they entered the class, they didn't like what they saw. Shampoo was in front of the class and looking at them.
"What are you doing here?" Ukyo snapped with her brows wrinkled
"Ah, yes. Kuonji, Tendo, welcome the new student to the class, Shampoo. I see that you know each other and I hope that you help her with her classes." The sensei smiled a bit but in his insides he was different Why, why had I turned back that acting option?
Ranma was looking through the window and didn't see a blue torch until it was besides him. "Raaaanchaaaaan…" She spat furiously. He looked at her and ducked in fear of her blazing blue aura. It was so dark that some of her face was obscured from it. "Just what is that…hussy" She was going to say something much more horrible but retained herself before that "doing inside this class?" Looking at her face, it showed that she was not going to accept anything but the truth.
"She…you see…Me…Her…" He was at a loss of words. It only succeeded only in making her aura even darker and bigger.
"Spatula girl leave Ranma alone. Ranma did nothing wrong." Shampoo saved him in that instant "If Ranma did something, it was helping Shampoo." She added and it was something that she shouldn't have done.
"What does she mean by that, Ranchan?" Ukyo snapped with her brows wrinkles even further than humanly possible (Remember, we are treating with people over normal here).
"Class! Behave!" Sensei saved Ranma's guts from beating stripped by Ukyo, again. "Now what were we seeing yesterday about equations?" He asked and the class started normally. Shampoo sat next to Ranma, so he could explain the little he managed to make himself listen during classes.
Lunch (Chaotic hour in Furinkan). It was going weirdly normal for a change, but that was the calm before the hurricane (I know it's before the storm but this will explain better Ukyo's intromission). The doors almost blew from their places by the force implicated on them to open. Ranma and Shampoo looked at the source from their place in a table away from normal ones. The others weren't stupid and knew pretty well how to avoid being hurt, avoid Ranma Saotome at all costs.
"What the-?" Someone from the crowd said. As the rubble and dust cleared, they could see a beyond raged okonomiyaki chef standing at the threshold of the door.
"RANMAA!" She shouted and immediately detected them. Without further ado, she jumped and withdrew her spatula in the middle of the jump. She attempted to slash the sitting pair when she was in range but both ducked and avoided being hit.
"What the hell are you doing, Ucchan?" Ranma asked standing up with his brows rugged
"Would you please tell me what is going on here? What in monkey hell happened that…her" She pointed to Shampoo "Is going to our classes? And she sits by you without doing something weird or obscene?"
"It is a long story…You sure you want to listen to it?" Ranma asked and she nodded "Ok, but not here. In private, maybe at your place after school?" He proposed
"Seems ok to me." Ukyo applied and replaced her spatula back on her back(Sorry, no way to make it sound better). She sat next to them waiting to enter the conversation they weren't in, just silence while they ate. It was an awkward silence.
"So Ranchan, what's new?" Ukyo finally broke the ice.
"Nothing new, except what we're going to tell you later. And I think that's pretty much." He replied looking at his food, not at her.
"Hey Ranma, what you think if Shampoo make dinner today?" Shampoo asked trying to cheer him up
"That sounds nice. You wanna come over?" He asked Ukyo
"Why did she…" She looked at their faces, meaning that both weren't going to tell until after school, for the hundredth time "Sure, I'll need a change from my restaurant." She agreed and both smiled a bit.
Finish class bell (Even more chaotic than lunch! Yes, it is possible). The whole class scrammed out of the room leaving only Ranma, Shampoo and Ukyo picking their stuff because they weren't in a hurry. For a change. When they got out, something crashed in front of them.
It looked like a big chunk of ice that was roughly tore apart from an iceberg or something like that. Worst of all, it was dark in the inside. It was almost four meters wide.
"I think I know what this is." Ukyo pointed like reading the other two's minds. They both looked at her expectantly. "It's Kuno." She explained as she approached the ice chunk.
"Kuno?" "Stick boy?" The pair asked in unison
"Yep." Ukyo smiled
"But, what happened to him?" Ranma was perplexed. Maybe this is some new kind of technique that freezes its target, gotta be careful. He thought
"This was Akane's doing." They looked plainly shock about that news "She punched him into HEO, I mean, really far away and he froze in orbit." She drew her gigantic spatula and with two swift moves, the ice was removed from Kuno, mostly.
"Ahhhhh…CHOOOO!" He sneezed the instant the ice was taken out. He looked around stupidly "Sao…chooo…tome." He said "Treachooo…eary. Low…ahhh…Blow…CHOO!" Somehow, he stood up and left waving in the road like a drunk guy.
"At least some things never change." Ukyo pointed and both nodded in agreement.
Soon they arrived at Ucchan's and prepared some tea for what was to come.
"First the first, Ucchan. What do you want to know at the begging." Ranma said and she nodded in understanding
"I want to know why Shampoo was with us in classes, hell, why she is here now!" She finished and earned a glare from the person in question.
"That's the question…" Ranma sighed and looked to Shampoo "Wanna help me, again?"
"Sure." She replied and both lowered their heads a bit.
"I guess it all started yesterday night." He started
"Not really. It start yesterday, yes, but much before Ranma now. Whole thing start in afternoon." Shampoo interrupted.
"Ok, but from the evening is the moment I can tell." She nodded "As I was saying, It all started yesterday. After I refused to eat Akane's cooking" the three shuddered "I went to the roof to calm down and look at the stars a while. While later, Shampoo arrived and didn't say anything at first." He finished there and let Shampoo say her part
"Yes, What I first say was 'I'm Sorry'." Ukyo gasped "But sorry not only for way Shampoo treated Ranma, sorry for deceiving him, sorry for not trusting him in matters of love, well you get the idea." Ukyo nodded
"But she wasn't happy with that." Ranma continued "She somehow managed to bring a truth-potion. First we tested with me and she asked me a question, I tried to answer a lie but couldn't, marking that the potion was working well. After that, she drank the whole thing after asking me to make her questions. I made all that I could think about in the time I had and I gotta say, I was completely sure that she had changed, changed drastically." Ranma applied. Ukyo was wide-eyed and Shampoo had a tear running her cheek. He simply placed a hand on her shoulder in a re-assuring way, the worst was to come.
"Sh-Shampoo and Ranma went to talk to Great-Grandmother about Shampoo's resolution. Great-Grandmother didn't take it well. She expelled me from Amazons." Another gasp from Ukyo "But it was price for refusing to obey law." She added
"Law? What do you mean?" She replied
"Not want to talk about that now." She sighed and Ukyo knew that it was better not to push it.
"But how she was with you?" Ukyo asked again
"After we left the Neko, it's going to close by the way" It hadn't the effect he thought. She didn't smile "We went to the Tendos and I, well, we 'persuaded' them to let Shampoo stay there. We couldn't reach the reasons when we were fighting pop and Mr.Tendo. Somehow, we beat them quite easily but we had to work as a team." Shampoo glared at him "Not that I regret." To that she smiled a bit "After that, we arranged everything and she's staying there. Today I went a bit earlier to school and I had to again 'persuade' the principal to let Shampoo enter school, that's why she was there with me." He finished his explanation and hoped that Ukyo would understand everything. It was the first time in his entire life that he had explained things so well.
"I see…So that's why all this started to happen." Ukyo agreed and both nodded and sighed in relief. It was not a good thing they lived and re-telling it was not nice.
Ranma checked the clock on Ukyo's table. It was twenty to seven. "We better leave now if you want to cook, Shampoo." He advised and she nodded
"Let's go, then." She agreed and the three got up. A minute later, they were outside the door, where Ukyo locked up the whole place before leaving towards the Tendo Dojo.
So, what do you think? You know what i want. Maybe i´ll just bug you guys asking for a review at the top and at the end of the chapters! Anyway, things are starting to cool down between the fianceés. But, things are getting spicy in the fourth and fifth chapter, that´s a promise! See you next chapter!