Another Chapter that comes. First of all, I would like to thank you for your criticism, I think this chapter will make you happy and going. It made me happy to do it and found out that my knowledge of English was bigger than what I thought once. So thank you for that. Anyway, another person asked what Ranma and Shampoo were going to tell Bambou, so that goes in this chapter. But things were too much and couldn't be written in this chapter so the rest will go in next chapter.

Even so, mostly of the stuff is here. I hope you like this and continue with your AWESOME reviews. Oh! And with the 'how I call the room' thing, ss4-link has a point when he says that it should be a matter of time. Like the first week is 'Shampoo's room' and time later is 'Their room'. But also Tyr'll Has another point when I read the review and it said it was a matter of how I should call it. So, I'll just for now I'll put 'Shampoo's room' until I feel that it should be called 'Their room'. Thanks for your opinions in that and please! DON'T DOUBT TO MAKE COMMENTS! THEY HELP ME. And also I appreciate them incredibly.

Chapter 14: Reliving

Bambou awakened few hours later. The environment around her was the same. This time, she got up without any trouble or pain. She looked around but nothing, all was common and not a thing was out of place or remarkable. She left the room slowly and cautiously.

She looked around and noticed a stairs down. She walked quietly on them just to find the pigtailed boy sitting on a chair with his arms crossed over a table. A crowning frown over his eyes made him look like he was in a thinking momentum. Besides the air, they were completely alone.

Wonder what he's doing here… She thought staring at him

"Need anything?" He asked and she almost jumped in surprise. He didn't look at her but didn't need to because he heard her. His head just fell a bit

"Uh, no." She replied still a bit surprised of his attitude.

"Good." He got up and went to the back so he could practice and keep his worries out of his head. He started with a simple Anything Goes just to change into the most complicated of the combination of Amazon and Anything Goes.

Bambou looked at him with a calculating face and followed him but not daring to ask anything or interrupt him. When she got out, he was already passing through the simple ones. He looks weak…Too bad… She thought in that moment as a brief look of pity flashed her face. Seconds later he changed to the fusion and her eyes grew. Wow…Now this is what I call impressive… She overrode her last thought of weakness and re-qualified Ranma as a folk to be careful with.

Hour and a half later, Shampoo returned from the shopping she went. She opened the front door just to find the place completely empty. Wonder what Ranma's doing… She rolled her eyes with just a second to think Probably practicing as always. She left the stuff she bought in the kitchen and went to the back just to find the thing she thought would find. Ranma going through complicated katas with Bambou as a spectator.

"Hi." She saluted breaking the glacier-like silence between the spectator and the one practicing. He looked at her and smiled for the first time in several hours.

"Hey, you're back." He replied. He looked for less than a second to the one sitting and looking at him. When he changed to Shampoo, her eyes twinkled knowingly.

"We should talk. The sooner the better…" Ranma pointed and she nodded in agreement. She turned to Bambou

"We have something to tell you. Important stuff. Follow us." Shampoo explained and she tilted her head a bit to a side in confusion

"Don't understand." She replied but reluctantly followed them inside in more curiosity than mood of obeying. Inside, they sat around a table and let the cold silence conquer the place for some seconds in a small will battle. The one who talked first, lost.

"So, what is so important?" Bambou asked cracking the icy silence. Both had a dark shade on their faces and didn't want to talk too much if you saw the faint fog in their eyes.

"I think we should start by telling her who I am." Ranma suggested and she nodded and blinked in symphony with the nod to emphasize her agreement. He got up and fetched some cold and hot water, each in two different glasses. He placed them on the table and looked at them for a second before turning to Bambou

"You are not going to like this. Believe me when I tell you this. When I pour this glass of water on me, you're going to be angry." He prepared her mentally for this. If he didn't, she could act the same way Shampoo did when she caught up with him in Japan the first time. She would attack him without a second thought.

"Don't think it could be so shocking." Bambou replied with a brave attitude.

"Bambou not know what talking about." Shampoo pointed and Ranma nodded assuring her point. He twisted his hand and the water poured over his head, triggering the curse. Bambou gaped and stared in shock. Her brows furrowed in fury.

"You are…You…" She breathed deeply with her eyes closed. She parted them open and looked at both of them. "So you telling that this…girl is really a boy and that boy beat Bambou?" She resumed

"That is exactly my point." Ranma replied and showered herself with the hot water, changing back to his true-form. Bambou blinked several times but registered the fact pretty well. Weird she didn't comment something strange or made a bad face… Ranma thought curling his lips to a side.

"But that is not only thing." Shampoo added changing the subject and point of attention. Both teenagers looked at her. One expectant of what she was going to say, and the other with an encouraging smile. Shampoo looked at him for a brief second and that was all she needed to go on for a while. "Shampoo suppose you know why had to go from the village, right?" Shampoo started with the basic

"Not have a clue why. You just disappear." Bambou replied again with the frown over her eyes. All those years of chasing flashed before her eyes. Many times were she thought she had Shampoo cornered just to find nothing but thin air. It was almost the same as what Shampoo lived while she was chasing Ranma and Genma through most of China and some of Japan.

"This make things more difficult." Shampoo sighed before going on "Guess Shampoo need to tell things from beginning." She sighed again in self-defeat. She had to relive two years of chasing, failure and deception mixed with sorrow and pain. It had good moments, sure, but they were the less. Things like the time when Ranma taught her the Anything Goes and both went through it in complete symphony made her happy and smile for some while.

"When our fight was over, a day after, a fighter from our village challenged Shampoo. It was easy enough but what made Shampoo furious was fact that because Shampoo refuse to kill Bambou, think of her as weakling so had to prove it. There was also a prize for the fight. Some food." At this moment she gave a small glare to Ranma who looked sheepishly. "When Shampoo look at prize, only saw two things: A red-haired girl and panda that had ate all of it. Shampoo challenger girl to fight for prize. If girl won, she wouldn't have to pay for food. But if she lost, she had to pay, severely." Another scowl to Ranma "Somehow, girl beat Shampoo with just one kick. But not after making a 'weakling show' of her, such as:" She raised two fingers "one, warming up as beginner, and two, act as losing balance when jump on "Tree of challenge". Shampoo thought it would be easy and didn't go hard on girl. Bad mistake." The last glare was the softest of all "She only rose her feet once and it hit Shampoo directly, making Shampoo fall of the tree and losing."

"In that moment I didn't knew what she was going to do, but I recon it was an interesting thing what she did." Ranma pointed with a small smile and she scowled at him for a second before swatting his arm once.

"Shampoo give Ranma "Kiss of Death". As good chicken, she ran with tail between legs and that way, obliged Shampoo to chase girl through miles of China and Japan. That is basically the reason I had to leave the village the first time. Shampoo wanted to stay and fix everything with Bambou but couldn't because she had to make Ranma pay." She sighed in disappointment. "But then it happened." She continued.

"Yes. I'll go on from here." Ranma offered and Shampoo nodded "She managed to catch me here in Japan and considering my bad luck, she found me in girl form. Of course, she didn't hesitate to make me remember her as she smashed six sport closets in one smash." This time, Shampoo smiled sheepishly at that

"Hey! Shampoo apologized for that!" She replied and he shook his head with his eyes rolled.

"Sure. But things didn't stop there. While she was chasing me through this city that I am since almost a year, she found that I was staying at the Tendos. And here is when things get interesting. The Tendos are a family that their head is a close friend to my pop. Those two…idiots. There is no other way to qualify them any better, engaged me to one of the daughters of the Tendos when neither of the both were born. Not even the oldest one was born yet they did it the same." His face darkened considerably and he looked at the table for a second.

"My pop had to drag me to the house just a few minutes later he told me that I was engaged. I tried to fight but he was in his panda-form and was stronger at that time." Bambou looked shocked and his mouth was open since almost half the tale from Shampoo "Yeah, he has something alike from me. Don't you ever heard of Jusenkyo?" He wondered

"Yes. Several times. Cursed springs were if people fall they change into something and…oh. Bambou understand now." She stated and he blinked in acknowledgment

"Great. Now I was in my girl-form in that time and I'll tell you, they were extremely surprised to know that the 'boy' that was supposed to be engaged to one of the girls was a girl too. A while later I changed back and had to explain everything. Well, that is mostly the Tendo tale. I'll go on in the important story." He drank the water that was left from the cold one.

"Ah. Better. Now, she found me at home but that time it was in my boy-form. But pop was in his panda-form and that way she recognized him and attacked him. I kicked one of those; they're called bonbori, right?" Shampoo nodded "Ok, I kicked one of her bonbori and I knocked her out." Ranma stopped in that moment.

"Guess Bambou know what happen with that." Shampoo pointed and Bambou stared at her for less than a second before widening her eyes, big.

"Shampoo has to…no." She smiled for the first time since the conversation started "have to marry him!" She exclaimed and both nodded in agreement.

"Exactly." Ranma replied. His bittersweet smile was the only trace of expression anyone could get from his face. "But things weren't so easy. If I didn't have too many fiancées by the time, then you should know that my pop engaged me to half Japan just to fill his belly for a day. I don't doubt he would have engaged me to half the Amazon village just to save his skin." Ranma added with a flame in his eyes.

"Wow. What a horrible person…" Bambou commented and he nodded

"Yeah, he did all that but he also taught me everything he knew about the style I use, well, half of the style I use now." He corrected himself and curled his lips to a side in a small smile.

"What do you mean by half the style?" Bambou raised a brow

"Ranma means that he mixed his style with another one." Shampoo explained

"Great. So, it's your style and Amazon style?" She wondered smiling knowingly.

"Is it so obvious?" Ranma replied smiling too

"Bambou grew up with Amazon style, know how it is. And that explains the weird moves Bambou thought were Amazonish but weirdly out of the style." Bambou pointed and both companions nodded assuring her point

"Yes. That is the reason." Ranma added.

"But Shampoo is no longer what you can call 'sister'. Shampoo refused to be obliged to marry Ranma, if he wants to marry Shampoo, it will be because we share love, not because law says it has to be." Shampoo finally let it go.

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