Tender Loving Care
"You, you mean you'll really help me?" Tarou asked with tears of joy. Finally, after eighteen years of anguish, he'll finally be rid of this most awful curse! The cute redhead nodded demurely towards the young man. It had taken her a while to get the young man to open up to her, and got him to give her his absolute trust. The effort paid off though, and she would be happy to help him.
"I don't think I could ever live, knowing that I let such a cute guy like you live in suffering," the pigtailed girl turned her head away shyly, and glanced up a bit at the young man, "In my country, you see, in marriage... oh! I'm so embarrassed!" The girl put her hands to her face and blushed.
"Go on, go on," Tarou urged, she may be cute, but he was running out of patience.
"Well, you can get your name changed... if you marry me! Oh! I said it!" In embarrassment, the girl head-butted the handsome young man, and took off skipping. After Tarou gathered his thoughts, he pulled himself off the ground and intercepted the girl.
"Was.... was that a proposal?"
The young girl batted her eyes prettily, "Mmmmaybe..."
Tarou didn't have to think, this girl was giving him a way out of his situation, and she wasn't bad looking to boot. She had his interest in martial arts, that's how she happened upon him when he was practicing. Lastly, she was extremely startled about his curse, but seemed to take it in stride. True he didn't know the girl too well, only for a couple of days, but he could tell there was a certain... something between them. "Well then, I accept, Ranma."
"Oh, I'M SO HAPPY!!!!" Ranma looked up at her fiancée with glistening eyes, and grabbed onto Tarou for a hug, making subtly sure that her lips were *not* positioned for a kiss.
"Oh, Pop's gonna loooooooooooove this." The redhead thought with a sinister smirk.
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Back at Tarou's home village, the ceremony took place.
"By this I am granted the power, to bind this ribbon between these two, uniting their souls in eternal matrimony!" The priest pulled the ribbon into a loose knot around their wrists, "By our laws and customs, you two are forever mated."
"I'm a blushing bride at sixteen!" Ranma-chan exclaimed demurely.
"Yeah, yeah, now hurry up and gimme my new name!" Tarou snapped, handing his new 'wife' legal documents.
Ranma eyed him with distain, "You didn't just marry me to get your new name... did you?"
"No, of course not, now quit stalling!" He pushed the papers into Ranma's chest roughly.
"Alright, okay already, hold on!" Ranma huffed, setting the papers on the alter, and taking a pen handed to her by one of the officials at the ceremony. They had agreed to honor her foreign custom for changing names, as it wasn't much different from theirs when it came to uniting spouses.
"Handsome Tarou! No.. Incredible Tarou! No, MAGNIFICENT Tarou!" The young man was bursting with exuberation, all those long years of agony, soon to be over in just a few pen strokes.
"Yeah, yeah, you better be magnificent on our honeymoon," Ranma finished writing Tarou's new name on their marriage certificate, and handed them back to the official, "I hope you're happy, honey!" Tarou dove at the papers, pushing the official out of the way to look at his new name, he already felt like a new man!
"Pan-ty Hose Sao-to-me..." Tarou's face cracked an irritated smile.
"BOY!!!!!!" Yelled a gruff and thoroughly pissed voice, "RANMA!"
Tarou turned to see a young man with a pigtail, holding an upended gourd over his head, a very familiar one. Tarou checked himself and noticed this gourd holding the hot water was missing.
"Did... did that young lady turn into a... young man?" One official asked incredulously.
"We have a LOT of ground to cover in order to get back to Japan, now let's go and quit wasting time!" The stalky man with a bandanna and glasses said from the building hall's doorway.
"Hold your horses Pop, I'll be right out," Ranma turned back to his 'husband', "Well, I'll be seeing you, love. I'm sorry that we could not be together now, but my heart will always be with you." Ranma put his hands into his pockets, and walked out, whistling a merry tune. Genma looked at his son, puzzled.
Tarou was paralyzed in disgust, as he watched his new 'spouse' walk out his life.
"Did... does Pantyhose Tar... Saotome favored the more masculine sex?"
"That would explain a few things, he always looked too much like a pretty boy to me..."
"Yeah, way to effimate to be healthy."
"No... this marriage is a sham, I can't be married to a..." Tarou doubled over in a dry heave.
"Well... normally we don't unite two of the same sex... but it has already been put to holy document. I'm afraid we do not allow annulment unless both parties are in agreement."
"NO! YOU WILL ANNUL THE MARRIAGE OR I'LL BEAT AN ANNULLMENT OUT OF YOU!!!" Tarou grabbed the lead official by the lapels of his robe.
"Young man! You are now married, and I don't like you that way!" The official tried desperately to remove Tarou's hands from him. All the other officials started to subtly give Tarou room, while eyeing him wearily.
"This... this cannot be happening, this..." Tarou's aura started burning brilliantly.
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"You'll never guess what I did today, Pop!" Ranma said cheerfully in the tone he new would immediately make his father utterly terrorized.
"Uh..." Genma took a dry gulp, "Wha-what di-did you d-do now, s-son?"
"RANMA!!!!!!!! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!"
Genma and Ranma turned back to see the roof of the building they just left explode, a massive beast shooting from it, and then hovering while looking over the area for a certain pigtailed soon to be cold meat.
"Uh, how 'bout I tell you later, Pop, you said we have a lot of ground to cover before we get back?" With that, Ranma broke out into a mad dash. Knowing his son, Genma wisely followed, lest he be caught in Ranma's mess.
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Pantyhose Saotome stood upon a rooftop, wrapped in his cloak, as he recounted the past. Now, not only did he still live with a curse of a name, everyone now thought...
The young man shuddered. Ranma was not long for this world, if he had anything to do with it, but first he will get the boy to sign the divorce papers.
"Fem-boy, you will sign my freedom, and then I will put you to death."
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"Hello!" Ranma chirped, walking into the Tendou household. Bunny's ears perked at the sound of his master, and turned away from terrorizing the cupboard to greet him.
"Hey Bunny! Miss me?" Ranma gently pet the bunny in his hands, and walked to the main room.
"I see you're still alive, boy," Genma commented from his position while watching TV.
"Yup! Impressive, huh?"
"Is... is it gone yet?" Akane squeaked from her hiding place.
"Ranma, who were all those women?" Kasumi started to enquire.
"What? Someone else is here?" came a withered male voice.
"Is that gramps?" Ranma feigned a pleasantly surprised expression.
"Ranma? Is that Ranma, my boy?" Happosai Bounded into the main room, followed by a beautiful woman of Hindu decent.
"Hey! I thought you were in China looking for that redhead still?"
"We've trailed her here," snarled Happosai's companion, "We almost had her, but there was... interference." Rouge replied, the tone of her voice dark.
"Hmm, that's too bad. I hope you catch her, I can't have her ruining my name and all," Ranma replied sympathetically, "Oh, that reminds me, Pop, you'll never guess who I ran into!" Genma ignored his son, "Oh, comon, Pop, I know you're just *dying* to find out!"
"I don't care," Genma replied calmly.
"My dear spouse! Did you know he's in town?" Ranma smirked as he noticed his father go completely rigid.
"WHAT'S THIS, SAOTOME?" Soun growled at his sparring partner. The Tendou Patriarch's fearsome expression didn't even manage to faze Genma; there was a MUCH bigger problem in town.
"Oh? I thought Ranma was to marry a Tendou!" Happosai enquired conversationally.
"It's just an inside joke," Ranma answered with a smile. Behind his cheerful facade, Ranma mentally wondered how Happosai knew about his engagement to one of the Tendou girls.
"Oh, well then, I guess that's okay," Soun stated, as he ceased looming over Genma menacingly.
"Nonsense, nonsense!" Happosai called out, "Tell me, Ranma, how was she in the sack?"
"Oh, my spouse is a real Demon, I'll tell you that much." Ranma was careful not to use gender specifics for effect on his father.
"Do you need a glass of water, Mr. Saotome?" Kasumi asked, concerned.
"That's okay, just *kaff* air down the wrong pipe," the stalky man replied.
"Well, I got a lot of studying to do, being out on the road and all didn't do much for my schooling, you know? Lemme know when dinner's ready." With that, Ranma carried Bunny upstairs and into the guest room.
Rouge watched the boy walk upstairs. She had heard the story that was given to Happosai for why the pigtailed boy and the infernal redhead shared the same name, the problem was they seemed *too* similar to each other. The Hindu woman rationalized that it was just the psychotic idolizing mentality the redhead had for the pigtailed boy she was talking, but some things still remained suspicious.
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"She's not around here," Yuan Chi, the Amazon tracker, reported to Shampoo.
"Damn, that bitch evaded us again!" the lavender haired Amazon growled. She was getting increasingly irritated of their failure to kill the enemy of the Amazon nation.
"We'll post a look out back at the home we discovered her at, Yuan Chi will continue to scout for the girl. In the meantime..." The elder Amazon, Haun Tao, turned to look at their surroundings; they had chased the punks to their mainstay, finding it a worthy base of operations, "the rest of us will work on making this area more suitable." Shampoo turned and bowed to her.
"Your words of wisdom enlighten us. Everyone, do as she said, the sooner we are complete, the sooner we shall be victorious." Shampoo walked off to start directing her hunting party.
"He-hello?" Haun Tao turned to the entryway with a curious expression. Her eyes found a middle-aged woman, holding a small pouch.
"Can I help you, dear?" the Amazon elder replied in perfect Japanese. The other woman looked surprised to find an old woman and a bunch of girls inhabiting the place she has had to visit many times.
"Um, I was here with the protection money, what happened to the Bleeding Axels?"
"They've been disposed of. What is this about protection money?"
"Well," the woman started, "my husband and I run a small store in this neighborhood, and..."
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Oh, and just for the record, actually 'Bunny' is based off my own pet rabbit 'Strife.' His original name was indeed 'Bunny' when I got him from a ladyfriend of mine. Originally Strife was meant to be python food, until it beat the shit out of the python (I am NOT kidding). They decided to keep the bunny after that ^_^
"You, you mean you'll really help me?" Tarou asked with tears of joy. Finally, after eighteen years of anguish, he'll finally be rid of this most awful curse! The cute redhead nodded demurely towards the young man. It had taken her a while to get the young man to open up to her, and got him to give her his absolute trust. The effort paid off though, and she would be happy to help him.
"I don't think I could ever live, knowing that I let such a cute guy like you live in suffering," the pigtailed girl turned her head away shyly, and glanced up a bit at the young man, "In my country, you see, in marriage... oh! I'm so embarrassed!" The girl put her hands to her face and blushed.
"Go on, go on," Tarou urged, she may be cute, but he was running out of patience.
"Well, you can get your name changed... if you marry me! Oh! I said it!" In embarrassment, the girl head-butted the handsome young man, and took off skipping. After Tarou gathered his thoughts, he pulled himself off the ground and intercepted the girl.
"Was.... was that a proposal?"
The young girl batted her eyes prettily, "Mmmmaybe..."
Tarou didn't have to think, this girl was giving him a way out of his situation, and she wasn't bad looking to boot. She had his interest in martial arts, that's how she happened upon him when he was practicing. Lastly, she was extremely startled about his curse, but seemed to take it in stride. True he didn't know the girl too well, only for a couple of days, but he could tell there was a certain... something between them. "Well then, I accept, Ranma."
"Oh, I'M SO HAPPY!!!!" Ranma looked up at her fiancée with glistening eyes, and grabbed onto Tarou for a hug, making subtly sure that her lips were *not* positioned for a kiss.
"Oh, Pop's gonna loooooooooooove this." The redhead thought with a sinister smirk.
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Back at Tarou's home village, the ceremony took place.
"By this I am granted the power, to bind this ribbon between these two, uniting their souls in eternal matrimony!" The priest pulled the ribbon into a loose knot around their wrists, "By our laws and customs, you two are forever mated."
"I'm a blushing bride at sixteen!" Ranma-chan exclaimed demurely.
"Yeah, yeah, now hurry up and gimme my new name!" Tarou snapped, handing his new 'wife' legal documents.
Ranma eyed him with distain, "You didn't just marry me to get your new name... did you?"
"No, of course not, now quit stalling!" He pushed the papers into Ranma's chest roughly.
"Alright, okay already, hold on!" Ranma huffed, setting the papers on the alter, and taking a pen handed to her by one of the officials at the ceremony. They had agreed to honor her foreign custom for changing names, as it wasn't much different from theirs when it came to uniting spouses.
"Handsome Tarou! No.. Incredible Tarou! No, MAGNIFICENT Tarou!" The young man was bursting with exuberation, all those long years of agony, soon to be over in just a few pen strokes.
"Yeah, yeah, you better be magnificent on our honeymoon," Ranma finished writing Tarou's new name on their marriage certificate, and handed them back to the official, "I hope you're happy, honey!" Tarou dove at the papers, pushing the official out of the way to look at his new name, he already felt like a new man!
"Pan-ty Hose Sao-to-me..." Tarou's face cracked an irritated smile.
"BOY!!!!!!" Yelled a gruff and thoroughly pissed voice, "RANMA!"
Tarou turned to see a young man with a pigtail, holding an upended gourd over his head, a very familiar one. Tarou checked himself and noticed this gourd holding the hot water was missing.
"Did... did that young lady turn into a... young man?" One official asked incredulously.
"We have a LOT of ground to cover in order to get back to Japan, now let's go and quit wasting time!" The stalky man with a bandanna and glasses said from the building hall's doorway.
"Hold your horses Pop, I'll be right out," Ranma turned back to his 'husband', "Well, I'll be seeing you, love. I'm sorry that we could not be together now, but my heart will always be with you." Ranma put his hands into his pockets, and walked out, whistling a merry tune. Genma looked at his son, puzzled.
Tarou was paralyzed in disgust, as he watched his new 'spouse' walk out his life.
"Did... does Pantyhose Tar... Saotome favored the more masculine sex?"
"That would explain a few things, he always looked too much like a pretty boy to me..."
"Yeah, way to effimate to be healthy."
"No... this marriage is a sham, I can't be married to a..." Tarou doubled over in a dry heave.
"Well... normally we don't unite two of the same sex... but it has already been put to holy document. I'm afraid we do not allow annulment unless both parties are in agreement."
"NO! YOU WILL ANNUL THE MARRIAGE OR I'LL BEAT AN ANNULLMENT OUT OF YOU!!!" Tarou grabbed the lead official by the lapels of his robe.
"Young man! You are now married, and I don't like you that way!" The official tried desperately to remove Tarou's hands from him. All the other officials started to subtly give Tarou room, while eyeing him wearily.
"This... this cannot be happening, this..." Tarou's aura started burning brilliantly.
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"You'll never guess what I did today, Pop!" Ranma said cheerfully in the tone he new would immediately make his father utterly terrorized.
"Uh..." Genma took a dry gulp, "Wha-what di-did you d-do now, s-son?"
"RANMA!!!!!!!! I'LL KILL YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!"
Genma and Ranma turned back to see the roof of the building they just left explode, a massive beast shooting from it, and then hovering while looking over the area for a certain pigtailed soon to be cold meat.
"Uh, how 'bout I tell you later, Pop, you said we have a lot of ground to cover before we get back?" With that, Ranma broke out into a mad dash. Knowing his son, Genma wisely followed, lest he be caught in Ranma's mess.
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Pantyhose Saotome stood upon a rooftop, wrapped in his cloak, as he recounted the past. Now, not only did he still live with a curse of a name, everyone now thought...
The young man shuddered. Ranma was not long for this world, if he had anything to do with it, but first he will get the boy to sign the divorce papers.
"Fem-boy, you will sign my freedom, and then I will put you to death."
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"Hello!" Ranma chirped, walking into the Tendou household. Bunny's ears perked at the sound of his master, and turned away from terrorizing the cupboard to greet him.
"Hey Bunny! Miss me?" Ranma gently pet the bunny in his hands, and walked to the main room.
"I see you're still alive, boy," Genma commented from his position while watching TV.
"Yup! Impressive, huh?"
"Is... is it gone yet?" Akane squeaked from her hiding place.
"Ranma, who were all those women?" Kasumi started to enquire.
"What? Someone else is here?" came a withered male voice.
"Is that gramps?" Ranma feigned a pleasantly surprised expression.
"Ranma? Is that Ranma, my boy?" Happosai Bounded into the main room, followed by a beautiful woman of Hindu decent.
"Hey! I thought you were in China looking for that redhead still?"
"We've trailed her here," snarled Happosai's companion, "We almost had her, but there was... interference." Rouge replied, the tone of her voice dark.
"Hmm, that's too bad. I hope you catch her, I can't have her ruining my name and all," Ranma replied sympathetically, "Oh, that reminds me, Pop, you'll never guess who I ran into!" Genma ignored his son, "Oh, comon, Pop, I know you're just *dying* to find out!"
"I don't care," Genma replied calmly.
"My dear spouse! Did you know he's in town?" Ranma smirked as he noticed his father go completely rigid.
"WHAT'S THIS, SAOTOME?" Soun growled at his sparring partner. The Tendou Patriarch's fearsome expression didn't even manage to faze Genma; there was a MUCH bigger problem in town.
"Oh? I thought Ranma was to marry a Tendou!" Happosai enquired conversationally.
"It's just an inside joke," Ranma answered with a smile. Behind his cheerful facade, Ranma mentally wondered how Happosai knew about his engagement to one of the Tendou girls.
"Oh, well then, I guess that's okay," Soun stated, as he ceased looming over Genma menacingly.
"Nonsense, nonsense!" Happosai called out, "Tell me, Ranma, how was she in the sack?"
"Oh, my spouse is a real Demon, I'll tell you that much." Ranma was careful not to use gender specifics for effect on his father.
"Do you need a glass of water, Mr. Saotome?" Kasumi asked, concerned.
"That's okay, just *kaff* air down the wrong pipe," the stalky man replied.
"Well, I got a lot of studying to do, being out on the road and all didn't do much for my schooling, you know? Lemme know when dinner's ready." With that, Ranma carried Bunny upstairs and into the guest room.
Rouge watched the boy walk upstairs. She had heard the story that was given to Happosai for why the pigtailed boy and the infernal redhead shared the same name, the problem was they seemed *too* similar to each other. The Hindu woman rationalized that it was just the psychotic idolizing mentality the redhead had for the pigtailed boy she was talking, but some things still remained suspicious.
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"She's not around here," Yuan Chi, the Amazon tracker, reported to Shampoo.
"Damn, that bitch evaded us again!" the lavender haired Amazon growled. She was getting increasingly irritated of their failure to kill the enemy of the Amazon nation.
"We'll post a look out back at the home we discovered her at, Yuan Chi will continue to scout for the girl. In the meantime..." The elder Amazon, Haun Tao, turned to look at their surroundings; they had chased the punks to their mainstay, finding it a worthy base of operations, "the rest of us will work on making this area more suitable." Shampoo turned and bowed to her.
"Your words of wisdom enlighten us. Everyone, do as she said, the sooner we are complete, the sooner we shall be victorious." Shampoo walked off to start directing her hunting party.
"He-hello?" Haun Tao turned to the entryway with a curious expression. Her eyes found a middle-aged woman, holding a small pouch.
"Can I help you, dear?" the Amazon elder replied in perfect Japanese. The other woman looked surprised to find an old woman and a bunch of girls inhabiting the place she has had to visit many times.
"Um, I was here with the protection money, what happened to the Bleeding Axels?"
"They've been disposed of. What is this about protection money?"
"Well," the woman started, "my husband and I run a small store in this neighborhood, and..."
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Oh, and just for the record, actually 'Bunny' is based off my own pet rabbit 'Strife.' His original name was indeed 'Bunny' when I got him from a ladyfriend of mine. Originally Strife was meant to be python food, until it beat the shit out of the python (I am NOT kidding). They decided to keep the bunny after that ^_^