Hey! I´m back! Ok, i read your last reviews and i´ll reply!
The part of updating faster, give me a break! I´m updating every day with a new chapter! It´s really tough and mind-consuming. The point of "begging", blushes well, misspelling, sorry. The one that had the idea of Shampoo working at Ucchan´s...sorry, but i don´t like the idea that much. it´s good anyhow, but you won´t see it in this story, sorry. Now let´s see what next...Yeah, Less RaAk, please keep reading, i think this chapter will please you. And finally, the one who said that Shampoo is speaking better, well, it´s difficult but i´ll try to make it worse (That´s how it works). Hope you like this new chapter, Ukyo visits the Tendos! And sparks start to fly! (Finally)
Chapter 4: Cheaper by the eighth
Ranma opened the door and the trio entered the House. Soon they reached the living were Kasumi was sitting peacefully with a mug of tea. No one else was close.
"Hey, Kasumi." Ranma greeted.
"Hi there. Ukyo, Shampoo." She added with a nod
"Where's everyone?" Ranma asked with his head bent a bit
"Let's see. Everyone is out. Nabiki is off getting a debt paid" Ranma and Ukyo shuddered. When Nabiki was going to make you pay a debt it was because the debt was big, BIG. "Akane is at a friend's house for a homework and pop and Mr.Saotome are in the bar for a drink." She finished and smiled her smile.
"Ok. What do you think if you get a break from cooking today?" Ranma smiled back
"It won't be bad, but who would cook in my place?" She smiled concernedly
"Shampoo will." Shampoo made a step front and nodded assuring her point
"You are going to cook? How nice! What are you going to do?" Kasumi was suddenly interested
"Ramen." She replied with a smile to her concern.
"How do you do it?" Ukyo asked suddenly
"Secret recipe. Must keep it." She replied with a mischievous smile. Ranma just shook his head with a smile. It's good that they go on well together, at least for now He thought. Fifteen minutes later, Shampoo was in the kitchen with Ranma helping and Kasumi as a spectator. Nabiki arrived a while later but didn't check the kitchen.
When Akane arrived, dinner was ready and the seniors were already there. To keep suspicions down, Kasumi served the ramen, making the others ones believe she made it. Of course, the four that knew that Shampoo was the one that cooked it were waiting the verdict.
The Tendos and Saotome senior tried the food. It was very good. Everyone had a smile
"Nice! Kasumi, what have you done to this?" Soun asked and she giggled
"What? It's amazing!" Nabiki chorused and Akane agreed instantly. Even Genma nodded but kept eating nonetheless. The other four had a hard time to fight back the laugh. A snicker there and a smile too big on the other side.
"What? It has something in it?" Nabiki questioned and smelled her plate "Nope, looks like normal ramen." She shrugged
"You know" Ranma started "I'm really gonna miss the Neko. Not the problems with it, I mean the ramen from there." Ranma said with a hand on his chin. Shampoo smiled
"Shampoo know what you mean. If you want Shampoo make ramen for you." She agreed and he nodded
"Thanks. And by the way, all this food was made by her." Everyone choked immediately.
"Wha?" "No way!" "But…!" "Mflgh!" Those were the voices from them. All incredulous
"You'd got it with the clue from the Neko." Ukyo reminded. "I have to admit it. Shampoo cooks really well." She said eating some. Shampoo just smiled a bit.
"Next time, you make dinner." Ranma smiled
"No way. Too much trouble." She shot back and leaned to him "Maybe just for less people." She whispered on his ear and he nodded. The rest of the dinner ended quite peacefully except at the end when Ranma made a bad comment as always.
"Hey Akane, you could learn how to cook from Shampoo!" He said with a smile. Bad idea, very bad idea say that. She wrinkled her brows right away. Her aura went blue and wide. Ranma knew he was going to get it but he deserved it. He didn't say that in a bad way, he meant that Shampoo could give her a hand in the cooking part. But as always, he never worded his thoughts correctly, thing that earned him a punch. A fury punch that placed him in LEO.
"Violent Girl no hit Ranma like that!" Shampoo snapped
"Shut it, Bimbo!" Akane replied pointing at her. All her anger from the past days since Ranma made Shampoo move with them surfaced in that moment.
"Hey! Shampoo no Bimbo!" She got up immediately
"I probably should be going…" Ukyo whispered to self as she stealthily left to her home looking for some good-earned peace and thinking.
"Of course you're a bimbo! Look how you're dressed! If that dress was a bit shorter you'll be naked!" Akane's aura seemed to intensify more and Shampoo's started to grow
"This special fighting dress! Prove you is for fighting!" Shampoo shot back with a fist in front
"Whenever you like, Hussy!" Both left immediately for the Dojo fuming.
"Don't you think that one of us should stop them?" Kasumi asked a bit worried
"And maybe ruin the opportunity that Shampoo leaves this place? Not a chance." Soun replied
"Dad, maybe you're forgetting one simple detail." Nabiki pointed
"What's that?" Her father bent his head a few degrees to a side
"Shampoo is a much better fighter than Akane and you know it well." Soun paled.
Inside the Dojo, both girls bowed to each other before going into stances. Both had their auras fueled with anger to each other. The battle promised blood.
No one made a move for the starting seconds until Akane closed the distance. She started with a mighty punch that Shampoo simply dodged but then continued with a short flurry of kicks. The first one surprised Shampoo and connected, so were the rest.
"You're not that tough." Akane mocked
"Lucky strike." Shampoo replied immediately. Better be prepared for anything from this girl She thought and kicked herself mentally for letting those blows connect. No time later, she attacked.
A jump later, Shampoo was in a flying kick at high speed (Rhymes, doesn't it?) towards Akane. She blocked the kick but it was very weak to be the real hit, to her answer, Shampoo's other leg connected with her head. She fell immediately but not hurt severely just KO.
"Shampoo not in good shape. Still feel bad." She whispered to self before picking up the opponent and carrying her over her shoulder to the opponent's bedroom. When she got back to the living room, the only one there was Kasumi and was leaving to turn in for the night.
"How did it go?" She asked
"Not well for Shampoo, mean, Shampoo won but still not well." Shampoo replied and kicked herself again She doesn't know why you're here, dummy!
"Ok. Good night." Kasumi smiled and left. Shampoo sat on the couch and started to think about the day of her expelling. Thirty seconds later she was weeping.
Ranma was hurt. He landed in the middle of Tokyo and had to walk with a stick all the way back to home. He couldn't go to Tofu's because of the time. It was way too late when he entered the Dojo. He kept 'walking' until he entered the living and found Shampoo crying. His pain immediately erased and ran to her.
"What happened?" He asked kneeling in front of her. She looked to him a bare second before launching a hug around his neck and crying on his shoulder. He knew that she wasn't going to talk sometime sooner, so he just pat her back trying to give her some comfort.
She was crying out her heart, how she as feeling about the expelling and the adjacent things. How she wasn't going to see her friends at the village, how she wasn't going to participate in the tournaments, how she had lost everything. But all was for something she loved, something she really wanted. The love of the one who had his arms around her. To be like that and cannot show him how much she loved him hurt, hurt even more than a hundred burning sticks stabbed through you.
But what made her realize how deeply in pain she was, was the fight. Not the consequences, the style she used. It was the Amazon style, the one she was taught since she was a little girl, the one that expelled her. She felt that she needed a change in her style. But that could wait, the comfort in Ranma's arms was really nice.
She cuddled a bit closer to Ranma a while later after she stopped crying and was deep in her thoughts. Ranma realized this but didn't fight it. He just smiled a bit and kept like that. She really needed this, it was the least he could do. When he realized this, he heard Cologne's words inside his head: "treat her nice and I think that would be the least to do…" He felt that maybe just treating her nice wouldn't do fine. Maybe a bit more.
"You feeling better now?" His tone was amused but very little.
"Yes. But not much." She replied from his chest. "Ranma." She called seconds of silence later
"Mh?"
"Shampoo want to learn another style of fighting. Actual one is very painful. Not because opponent hit Shampoo, it because is Amazon." She explained
"I understand. What do you want me to teach you?" He replied with a nod
"Anything Goes. Your style." She wasn't feeling well to completely forget her past, but this was a way to move on. Maybe she could fuse both styles and make a much better one.
"Ok. We'll start tomorrow…I mean, today after school. Ok with you?" she nodded "All right, let's turn in then." Both stood up and left to their room in a tranquil way. What neither of them knew was the two pair of sparkling eyes staring at them. (Cliffy? HELL YEAH!)
Sorry folks, but this, I simply HAD to do it. It was wayyy pleading to be left there. Please continue with your amazing reviews and ideas, probably the next idea will be in some chapter. I´m trying to write a chapter a day but you know, as I said at the begginning (I spelled it right, right:) ) It´s tough. Soulcry Out.