Miss Ranma

Chapter Twenty

"All right, guys!" Ranma called out as she made her way towards the fighting boys. "There's no need to fight. Can't we all just get along?!"

The area near the buildings was the perfect place for a street brawl as there were plenty of areas from which to hide and take potshots at one's targets. Volleys of energy and physical attacks came from indiscriminate places as it took several minutes for the combatants to be minimized to only two or three.

"Ungh!"

"Got ya, you phony!" Yukio yelled as he struck the creepy Gosunkugi in the back of the head with his giant ki spatula after having lied and waited for him to materialize.

"I figured it would end up being only you and me," Kenji said as he faced off against the other man standing.

"Soon, Kenji, it will be just me," Yukio answered.

"No need to fight over me, guys!"

"So you're the cause of all this?" Ranma turned to see a shrunken, doll-sized old woman with long white hair wearing a green skirt, standing on a stick and regarding her.

"You're not Deodorant. Who are you?"

"No, I'm Elder Cologne, the matriarch of the amazons."

"Matriarch?" Ranma announced in surprise. "Does that mean you're in charge of the amazons?"

"Yes. That also means I outrank Elder Deodorant despite her blind ambition," the old woman said, regarding the girl, sizing her up.

Ranma regarded the ancient, old woman as well, taking her measure. "She's even more powerful than Deodorant. I didn't think that was possible."

"Oh, yeah. Now I remember you. You're Shampoo's granny, aren't you? What do you want with me?" Ranma asked with more than a hint of suspicion.

"I was simply curious to see with whom Mousse was so infatuated. Despite your arrogance, you're fairly attractive. And from what we're seeing of these fine warriors fighting over you, it's obvious you have some appeal to the opposite sex.

"Is that all?"

"No. I really don't care if you want to marry that blind fool, Mousse or not, but if you think by marrying him you can ever be the Matriarch of the Amazons, you're in for a rude awakening. That is for my progeny, Shampoo."

Ranma regarded the old woman shrewdly. Getting tired of the staring game they were playing, Ranma broke the silence. "I told Deodorant that I had no desire to take over the Amazons and live out in the boondocks."

"I'm happy to hear that, but there's still the problem of Shampoo's kiss of death. Our laws state she must kill you." The elder's eyes narrowed towards Ranma with a hint of menace, but the girl wasn't impressed.

"If I thought Shampoo was a serious threat to me, I'd have killed her by now. As it is, I see her as a sparring partner, just someone on whom to test my skills."

"Is that so? You may be seeing Shampoo again a lot sooner than you think."

"What do you mean by that?" Ranma asked pertly.

"You'll see." With that, the old woman vanished into thin air.

"Where did she go? Anyway, time to end this brawl before somebody gets hurt." Ranma then turned back towards the fight to see Yukio and Kenji standing against each other in a clinch with both of their ki weapons.

"Gasp, those two are really going at it."

"Hey, guys! There's no need to keep fighting over me. Can't we all just get along?!" Mousse, Kuno, Gosunkugi, and some others were on the ground unconscious a few yards from the feet of the two combatants.

The two combatants ignored the object of their desire, doing everything they could to push the other back to no avail as their weapons were locked in mortal combat. By this time, both of them were battered with their clothes torn, being naked from the waist up. Their muscles tensed as each one's heavily muscled abdominals and chest heaved deeply with every breath.

"Sigh!" more than a few of the girls watching moaned as the two adversaries faced off.

As Ranma made her way to get in between the combatants, many of the other girls of her school rushed the two boys, passing by her and mobbing the two handsome, young men.

"Hey, look out! We're fighting here!" Kenji protested as the girls interdicted themselves in between them.

"Run along now!" Yukio demanded. "You ladies are in the way!"

"No!" the girls screamed.

The two boys looked at the girls, bewildered. Then one of the girls said, "we like both of you beefcake hunks!"

"That's right, and the last thing we want is for the two of you to turn yourselves into hamburger!" another girl commented.

Thus Both of the rivals shrugged, deciding to back off for the time being. Then an idea came to Yukio's head. "I've already found out where Ranma lives. I bet if I offer her free okonomiyaki she'll come around. She always liked my food."

"All right now. I'll leave. By the way, I'll be selling okonomiyaki a couple of blocks from here!" After giving out flyers to everyone around, Yukio leaped into the sky and took off.

"Look at how his long hair blows in the wind!" one of the girls announced as she watched the okonomiyaki chef depart.

"And look at those quadrilateral muscles!" a girl who spent more than a little time at the gym called out.

"Oh, yes!" another agreed. Then all the girls turned towards Ranma with looks of hostility.

"It's bad enough you got Kenji for a fiancé, but do you have to have Yukio as well?"

"Listen, girls," Ranma said in her own defense. "It isn't my fault. My father set me up for all this."

"We don't care!"

"Ungh!" At that moment, Gosunkugi woke up and blasted Kenji in the back with an unusual ki blast that bypassed normal defenses, surprising the worn-out martial artist and sending him into a world of unconsciousness.

"Got him!" Gosunkugi called out with a sense of triumph. "Who says I'm weak?! I'm the best!" With that, pale skinned sorcerer vanished in a puff of smoke.

"Are you all right, Kenji?" Ranma asked as she made her way to him. Then she felt something land on her.

"Never mind him, Ranma," she heard a snarled voice say. "You should be more concerned about yourself right now."

The sparkling redhead turned sharply to her right to see someone standing on her shoulder. "Happosai! What are you doing here?!"

Looking downwards in front of the girl, the old man smiled. Then he turned and looked Ranma straight in the eyes. "You're a pervert and a slut, Ranma, sick, disgusting, and degrading. How dare you destroy the self esteem of these sweet young girls?"

"Get out of here!" Ranma screamed, knocking the chippie little gnome off her shoulders and attempting to kick the old man in the head, missing him.

Happosai landed gently on the ground, standing against Ranma in an accusatory manner, pointing at her. "You can't treat me like that, Ranma!" Then the dirty old man took a good look at the girl. "You know what?"

"What?" Ranma snapped back angrily.

"What you're wearing just doesn't suit you. I think I'm going to…"

"Oh, no you don't!" Ranma yelled, putting her arms around herself protectively in order to keep her shirt on.

"Oh, yes I do!" The little old man pounced all around the rankled young girl. !SHUCK! "Sweeto!"

"Hey!" Despite her best efforts, Ranma found herself bereft of the dark blue T-shirt Kenji had given her earlier. Even the pants she had been wearing were gone. In addition to that, the tatters of the red shirt she normally wore had come off as well.

"Ranmaaa!" Akane screamed in a rage. "Can't you keep your clothes off for more than a few minutes?!"

"It's not my fault, Akane!" Ranma protested.

"Sweeto!" Happosai announced again. Upon noticing that Ranma was still barely wearing her bikini top in addition to her bikini bottom, the little gnome flew towards her with drool coming out of his mouth.

"Go away!" Ranma screamed, striking the old man in the head with fast fists and knocking him a few feet back end over end, taking back the shirt she had recently worn and putting it back on faster than the untrained eye could follow.

"Ow! How dare you strike your master like that?!"

"I've had it with perverts tearing my clothes off!" Ranma screamed in a rage, her bare legs getting in a slightly moving stance, pivoting back and forth. Her eyes stared unflinchingly at the old man as she breathed in heavily. In addition to that, her long, luscious hair was cascading down her shoulders as she balled up her fists and got herself ready for a long, hard battle.

"You don't scare me, sweet cheeks. Now it's time to get you out of that horrid shirt. Heh, heh." The old man came floating towards Ranma's bosom with a lusty leer on his face. However, as he got closer, Ranma was ready for him.

"Shoryken!" Ranma screamed, bending her knees and getting under the old man with a speed that was invisible to the untrained eye. Then she shot upwards and struck the wily little man with a powerful dragon punch, sending him into the atmosphere.

"I'll get you for this, Ranmaaaaaaa!"

As the busty girl stood there, practically posing with her powerful fist in the air, she noticed everybody gawking at her. "What is now?!"

"You're practically naked, Ranma!" Akane yelled at her in a rage. "Stop giving every perverted boy around here a free skin show!"

"Huh? What are you talking about, Akane?" Ranma snapped back, looking downward, relieved that her top was still on. "I'm still wearing a shirt!"

Akane fumed in a rage, her face getting redder and redder. Then she stormed over towards the leggy redhead and pointed. "Your legs are still exposed. Everyone can see your panties!"

The shape and slope of Ranma's well-formed ass were visible to everyone, along with her hips and thighs as her skintight bikini bottom clung to her. All the boys stared at her fondly, admiring what they were seeing.

"I'm not wearing panties; it's a bikini bottom!"

"That doesn't matter!" Akane screamed in a jealous rage, pointing at the offending swimwear. "For all the boys around here know, you're flashing your panties at everyone!"

"Oh." Ranma looked down and shrugged. "Sorry, everybody." Blushing a little bit and smiling sheepishly as she tried to stretch the already torn shirt downwards to cover herself up.

XXX

The next day Yukio had set up shop at his new okonomiyaki restaurant called Yucchan's. Upon opening up his doors he sees his first customer. "Welcome to Yucchan's! I have all kinds of different okonomiyaki. What will ya have?"

"I was just looking around and noticed the place," Ryoga replied.

"I'm not going to tell this hillbilly that I got lost again. This is the guy who had his hands all over Ranma, practically feeling her up. It's time I set this guy straight."

"So is Yucchan your name?" the lost boy asked.

"Well now, meh name's Yukio Kuonji. Howdy."

"I'm Ryoga Hibiki, and I know what you did to Ranma in that abandoned building. You're not going to touch her again."

"What?! How could you know that? You weren't even there! And who are you to tell me who I can and can't see?" Yukio responded hotly.

"As soon as Ranma finds out that Kenji is cheating on her, I'll be there to pick up the pieces and comfort her. Then she'll be mine." Then Ryoga looked off into space dreamily imagining Ranma cuddling in his arms.

"Listen here, you carpetbagger! I'll… Wait. Did you say Kenji was cheating on her?"

"Yes, that's what I said. What about it?"

"Let's say we put our differences aside for the time being and work together against Kenji Tendo," Yukio schemed, rubbing his hands together.

"Hmm. We have a deal, but after Kenji Tendo has been dealt with, all bets are off," Ryoga said with a look of seriousness.

"I understand that. Let's talk shop." Yukio regarded the lost boy with a wide, toothy smile.

XXX

Early the next day in downtown Tokyo, both Yukio and Ryoga hid behind an office building with a video camera in tow as Kenji walked towards the entrance of the government building across the much pedestrian congested street. The traffic was heavy and the noise was high as many cars came and went through the political area of the city.

"It took us long enough to get here," Yukio commented with disgust. "It wouldn't surprise me if that fella ain't even there no more."

"Quit your complaining!" Ryoga replied. "He's here; I just know it."

"How do you know that? From what I've seen today, you'd get lost on a one-way street!" Yukio said in exasperation.

The lost boy turned abruptly to his cohort, seething with rage. "Listen, you. I'm a very good tracker, so I know that Kenji is here."

Yukio paused for a moment, taking stock of the situation. "I'll wait around for a little bit. Then I'm long gone."

In a few minutes, Kenji appeared, walking inside a government building. "There he is!" Ryoga called out with a sense of satisfaction. "I told you he'd be here."

"It's about time he got here. Is that camera working, boy?" Yukio asked as they hid in the shadow of another building that was a block away.

"Yeah, it's on, but don't call me boy!" Ryoga snapped back.

"All right, take it easy now." An hour later, Kenji came out of the building with a piece of paper in his hand. "There he is! Turn that thing on."

"It's on. Hold your horses." Ryoga turned the camera, pointing it in the direction of their target.

Before Kenji could get a few feet away from the building, a redheaded woman with long, silky hair set up in a thick ponytail, flowing behind her back and long bangs framing the sides of her face came out of nowhere, slamming into him and giving him an overly affectionate hug.

"Hi, baby!" a happy go lucky girl announced with an upbeat voice and a playful bounce that made her fleshy body jiggle.

"Listen, Mai. I already told you how that was engaged to marry someone else. Now I have some work to…"

Mai Shiranui stepped back for a moment. Then she leaned forward and shook a white paper fan that appeared in her hand in his direction, causing her lavishly endowed bosom to slip a little out of her skimpy red with white trim ninja tunic which was sleeveless, baring her much of her midriff and sides. In addition to that, she spun around, showing off the rest of her outfit which was held at her waist by a decorative waistband with a long, trailing decorative tail that had a bowling ball-sized ball at the end of it and led up to a loincloth with a thong underneath, leaving her voluptuous hips and thighs exposed. Her footwear was a pair of soft-soled tabi with instep guards that left her heels and the front parts of her feet uncovered.

"Your girlfriend isn't here, and she's crazy if she thinks she can have a hunk with well-chiseled pecs and washboard abs like you without any kind of competition," Mai answered with a switch of her ample, exposed hips, thrusting her apple blossom colored bosom towards him. Then she smiled at him with ruby red lips. "Besides, how can you forget those days in Hokkaido when we…"

"That was a long time ago!" Kenji screamed nervously with a strained voice.

"That time was so wonderful! Haha!" Mai announced, clapping her hands together and jumping up and down and causing her fleshy bosom and hips to bounce in Kenji's direction.

Sheesh! I thought you were seeing that American. What was his name, Humphrey Bogart?"

"No, his name was Andy Bogard. He died in a fight with someone called Geese Howard. He fell to his death to the ocean reef from a ten thousand foot cliff. Anyway, since we had such a great time together in the past, I thought…" Mai answered, her eyes getting misty for a moment.

"We're done talking. Let me go," Kenji said, grabbing the girl by the shoulders and prying her off of him.

"You can't get rid of me so easily," Mai said with a pout as she looked up at him.

While these events were going on, Ryoga and Yukio looked on. "I got an idea, Ryoga."

"What's that?"

"Right now, Kenji is leaving the area with that busty ninja chick chasing after him. Can you keep up with them without Kenji or that girl knowing you're there?"

"Yeah, I can do that. What are you gonna do?" Ryoga asked.

"I'm gonna use my extensive skills to make an oversexed jackass out of Kenji. Just make sure you get all of it on tape."

"All right. Let's do it!"

XXX

An hour later, Kenji had arrived at an abandoned building that was destined to be torn down. Through her contacts, Nabiki had found out about the building and offered Kenji's services to the city for half of the price it would have cost for them to hire a whole demolition crew. Thus the city official had jumped at the chance, so Kenji was there.

"Huff! I had to fly away awfully fast to get away from Mai. I'm sorry her boyfriend died, but I'm already engaged to Ranma. Anyway, time to get to work."

However, as Kenji made his ki hammer reappear in his hand and began to spin it around to build up the damage it would cause, he sensed another presence.

"Hi, Kenji! Short time no see!" Mai announced, jumping up and down and causing her larger than life bosom to engage in jiggle physics.

"What the…" the surprised martial artist jaw dropped as he regarded the bouncy young girl. "How did you get here so fast?!" Then Kenji looked down and noticed the white string around his waist.

"Let me take that back." !SWIPE! "It's so great that we're alone. Now, where were we?" After retrieving the thick, soft string made of white cotton and putting it away, the smiling ninja regarded him with a predatory expression on her girlishly attractive face. Then she slowly made her way towards the object of her desire with an obvious switch of her voluptuous hips.

"Look, Mai. I don't have time for this; there's too much work for me to do. Now please leave."

"I'm not going anywhere." Then the busty ninja rushed the gorgeous martial artist.

Seeing an opportunity to cause even more mayhem, the okonomiyaki chef who had just arrived there with Ryoga tossed a small rolling pin at Kenji's feet, knocking him down and prompting him to fall forward towards the bouncing girl in front of him. Then Yukio threw some hand-sized, sharp okonomiyaki spatulas at the scantily clad girl, slicing off the front straps of her ninja outfit, leaving her only wearing her loincloth and shoes.

"That will do nicely," Yukio said with a knowing smile as much of the girl's milky white skin was exposed. Then he and his cohort hid behind another abandoned building.

"Oof!" Kenji moaned as he put his hands out to stop his fall.

"Hehehehehe! You're tickling me! Whew! I knew you'd come around sooner or later," the bubbly ninja giggled as the object of her desire had his hands on her ample bustline, her bosom heaving with every breath.

"Huh? No! That was an accident!" Kenji said, his face blushing red.

"Giggle! Sure it was. Tell me how I'm practically naked now, hmm? Why don't you take your clothes off too, so we can get busy?"

"Wait! I didn't do anything!" Kenji protested vigilantly.

"Then why are your hands all over me. Giggle. Gasp! You always knew where to touch me, didn't you, baby?"

"Are you getting all this, Ryoga?" Yukio asked, turning towards the lost boy.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm getting all of it. I had no idea Kenji was such a pervert," Ryoga answered. "He's practically feeling that naked girl up. Hmm, I got an idea of my own. Here, hold the camera, there's something I want to do."

"All right. I got it. Do what you gotta do."

As soon as his hands were free, Ryoga whipped out a long rope and used it to ensnare Kenji's hands with it, lowering them so that they touched the girl's well-formed ample posterior as they shoved the long-haired martial artist forward closer to Mai. Then he just as quickly released his captive's hands.

"Who tied my hands and led them to where they're at right now?" Kenji thought to himself as he contemplated the compromising position he was in. "Was it Mai? It had to be; there's no one else here."

"Oooh!" Mai moaned with delight. "You were always so good at foreplay with your magical hands. I have to have you now!"

"What?! No, it was an accident! I swear!"

"You getting all of this, Yukio?" Ryoga asked.

"Sure am."

"Great. Kenji's finished with Ranma."

XXX

The next day, the Tendo household had a visitor. "Hello, everybody!" a tall, slender, muscular young man with long, brown hair called out.

"Yes?" Kasumi answered, opening the entrance doors.

"Howdy. I'm Yukio Kuonji and I'd like to treat everyone here to some okonomiyaki."

Upon entering the Tendo household, Yukio ran into, "Kenji!"

"What are you doing here, Yukio?"

"Why don't you be more neighborly than that?" the Kansai native asked with raised eyebrows. "

"Why should I be neighborly after everything you've done?"

"I have the goods on you, you know." Yukio had a wry I-got-you-where-I want-you-smile that Kenji didn't quite comprehend.

"Who is this?" Soun Tendo asked as he regarded the newcomer.

"This is Yukio Kuonji, Ranma's cute fiancé," Kenji answered stoically with his arms folded on his massive chest.

"Fiancé?!" Soun said, his head enlarging.

In another part of the house, Ranma was standing upside down doing finger pushups along with her father.

"Are you going to tell, Soun about Yukio, Pop? I'm sure he's not going to like it."

"I don't like it!" Soun screamed, terrifying Genma and bowling him over. However, Ranma wasn't fazed as she kept up with her exercising.

"I can explain, Tendo," Genma answered, sweating like bullets and gesturing with his hands, trying to calm the man down to no avail.

"What is this about Ranma being engaged to someone else?!"

"It's really simple, Tendo. You see it's all Ranma's fault." Genma turned towards where Ranma had been just a moment ago only to find that she had vanished!

"Well?!" The size of Tendo's head had increased to gigantic proportions, backed up by his ki.

"Um, um." Genma was speechless in the face of his friend's wrath.

"Answer me!" Tendo screamed, frightening the balding martial artist so much that he ran off with Soun taking off after him.

While Soun and Genma were outside, Nabiki, Ranma, Kenji, Yukio, Akane, and Kasumi were enjoying the meal of okonomiyaki and other complimentary fares that Yukio had brought with him.

"So how are you and Ranchan getting along, Kenji?" Yukio asked the one who sat across from him.

"Ranchan?"

"That's what I used to call her in the past when we were just younguns. You don't mind no longer being engaged to her, do you?" Yukio asked with a genteel smile.

"No longer engaged? What are you talking about?!" Kenji turns towards his rival abruptly, glaring at the uninvited guest.

"I'm talking about that ninja girl you've been seeing," Yukio replied with his eyebrows raised. "She's a nice looking filly. I'll tell you what."

Kenji paused for a moment as everyone at the table regarded him. Then he raised his hands to calm everything down. "It's not like that."

"What is it like, Kenji?" Ranma asked, putting her empty plate down and narrowing her eyes at him.

Yukio interjected himself in the conversation once again. "He's been seeing her for a while now. She's a ninja with a larger, fleshier bustline than you have, Ranma, a larger ass too. This filly's skimpy clothes show a lot of her assets that jiggle around whenever she moves."

"How do you know all this, Yukio?" Nabiki asked, giving the okonomiyaki chef a curt look.

"I have it on good authority. I can't exactly blame you, Kenji. The girl's pretty hot, but I prefer a body like Ranma's that's more firm and defies gravity as opposed to the soft jiggly body of the girl you've been consorting with. All that flesh is liable to go south as she gets older."

"Enough! It's not what you think!" Kenji stammered.

"Oh, really?" a new voice called out.

"Ryoga! What are you doing here?!" Kenji demanded.

"I came here to make sure you didn't get away with all of your cavorting around. Here's the tape of what happened." Placing the DVD in the player, Ryoga stood back and gave a triumphant smirk in Kenji's direction.

Ranma and the girls gasped as they saw what transpired on the video, Kasumi especially. "Oh, my!"

"Who is that girl, Kenji?" Ranma asked her fiancé calmly.

Kenji turned towards his fiancée with a look of stark embarrassment on his face. "She's someone I knew a long time ago from before I met you, Ranma. I'm not even interested in her anymore, honest!"

At that point, Mai Shiranui appeared in the midst of them, waving her white, paper fan. "Japan's best!"

"What the…" Kenji exclaimed. "How did you get here? I ditched you yesterday after I finally managed to finish the job I had to do. Why are you here?"

"Your two friends here," Mai stated, motioning to Yukio and Ryoga, "told me that you lived here. Now I can come to see you whenever I want." The girl happily jumped up and down, showing jiggle physics that gave Rufus' stomach a run for its money.

"Who are you?" Ranma asked the newcomer coldly.

"I'm Mai Shiranui, kunoichi ninja extraordinaire! Who are you?" the girl asked, pointing her fan at the pigtailed girl.

"Don't wave your fan at me, lady!"

"Oh, I know who you are. You're Kenji's fiancée, aren't you? I've had Kenji before and now I will have him again." Mai's usual ninja outfit exposed a great deal of her apple-blossom skin that glistened in the sunlight that came through an open window.

Then Kenji interjected himself between the two, pulling them apart. "There's no need to fight, you two. I…" Kenji then noticed that all the girls in the room were giving him a cold hard look.

"Huh? Oh!" Embarrassed, Kenji noticed that each of his hands were on one of the bosoms of his prospective fiancées.

"You scalawag!" Yukio screamed in protest.

"You oversexed jerk!" Ryoga protested.

Both Ryoga and Yukio were glaring at Kenji who had a deer in the headlights look in his eyes as soon as he realized where his hands were.

"Kenji! You've forfeited any right to touch me." Ranma quickly batted the embarrassed young man's hand away from her person. Then she walked out of the house in a huff.

"Wait, Ranma! Come back!" Kenji tried to run after his fiancée, but Mai came from behind him and took hold of him.

"Don't go anywhere, Andy, I mean Kenji! You don't need her."

"Who this?" Shampoo called out bursting through the wall and glaring at the girl draped over her fiancé.

"You're that amazon filly, aren't ya?" Yukio said with a curious look.

The busty girl regarded Yukio shrewdly for a moment. "Am Shampoo yes." Then she turned towards Kenji and his paramour. "Who is she?"

"I'm Mai Shiranui, heir of Shiranui Ninjitsu. Run along, you Chinese Bimbo before you get hurt?"

"What? You no threaten Shampoo. Mai I kill!" Upon whipping out her bon bori weapons, Shampoo came flying at the ninja who flew at her in turn, nailing the amazon with the bowling ball-sized object at the end of the flaming tail attached to her tunic.

"Please don't fight in the house!" Kasumi called out to no avail.

Outside, Ranma moved with a consistent yet gainful stride. She didn't know where she was going, but she wanted to get away from the house for the time being.

"Ranma, wait up!"

"What is it, Yukio? Why are you bothering me now? You got what you wanted."

Catching up to her with a flying leap, the agile chef landed right in front of her. "Look, Ranma. I didn't mean to sadden you. I just wanted you to know what that two-timer was doing."

Walking right beside her, Yukio put an arm on Ranma's shoulders, caressing her. "It will be all right, darling."

Ranma looked up at the attractive boy for a moment. "I didn't think Kenji would be with a girl like that. She's so thick and soft. I thought ninjas were supposed to be thin and slender. There's no way that girl's body is better than mine."

"That's right, Ranma. You're the best." Yukio looked downward, admiring the girl's svelte yet busty physique.

"Yeah. Anyway, I…"

"What are you doing, Yukio?!" Ryoga screamed, running towards them. "You're not going to get your hands on Ranma again!"

"Ryoga, what are you doing here, and what do you care what I do?"

"I'm the one who first warned you about Kenji's youthful discretions, Ranma. I'm the one who should be comforting you."

"You?!" Ranma exclaimed in a rage. "You spent most of the time, copping feels on my chest and trying to kill me. Then you made crude comments about my body. I figured you hated me, Ryoga."

The lost boy stopped for a moment, bristling at the sight of Yukio's hand on Ranma's shoulder. "I made a mistake. I thought you were a guy who was pretending to be a girl. I'm sorry."

Ranma looked at the repenting boy. Then she softened. "All right, Ryoga. But I don't want to be your girlfriend. It will take too much time to pass before anything like that could happen."

"Aw, come on, Ranma. The reason I was so mean to you was that I thought you were a guy, and I was worried about my…"

"You thought you might be gay or something like that, hmm? Well, I'm happy to hear you got your mind straight on what you are, but you were still mean to me. Let's go, Yukio."

"My pleasure, pretty lady."

Ryoga watched as Yukio and Ranma walked away hand in hand until something occurred to him. "Wait a minute, Ranma!"

"What is it now, Ryoga?" Ranma asked looking back over her shoulder at the lost boy.

"Yukio set the whole thing up!"

"What do you mean set it up?" Ranma asked with suspicion, giving Yukio a glance.

"It was his idea to tape what happened between Kenji and that ninja. And at the same time, Yukio used his flying spatulas to trip Kenji into that girl and slice off her clothes so that it would make Kenji look bad."

"Ryoga! How dare you?" Yukio called out.

"I told you all bets were off as soon as Kenji was dealt with, Yukio. If I can't have Ranma right now then neither can you!"

"Wait a minute, Ryoga. It sounds like both you and Yukio were in cahoots to make Kenji look bad. And to top it off, you told that oversexed bimbo where Kenji lived. For all I know, she may show up in his bed or something like that. As it is, I can't stand the sight of either of you."

"Look now, Ryoga has you all riled up for nothing. He's the one who told me Kenji was cheating on yah. So I simply wanted to prove it to you," Yukio answered.

Ranma calmly looked her cute fiancé in the eyes. "I've always considered you a friend, Yukio, but you need to get over the idea of me being married to you. You were about to kill me too until…"

"Until he got to put his hands all over your luscious body," Ryoga interjected. "Somehow the sight of you half-naked calmed him down."

Ranma turned her head in the lost boy's direction. "How do you know that, Ryoga? Yukio and I were alone in that building at the time." The girl blinked her baby blue eyes at him, waiting for his answer.

"Uh, well. I heard about what had happened. Information travels fast around here. Heh, heh." Ryoga put his hand behind his head nervously under Ranma's scrutinizing gaze.

Then Ranma turned towards Yukio. "I'm going back. Maybe Kenji will forgive me for not believing in him in the first place the way I should have."

Thus Ranma ran back towards the compound with Yukio on her heels. However, before Yukio could catch up to her, he found himself struck from behind and thrown to the ground by a rope.

"Oof! What the…"

"That was me," Ryoga said, answering the unsaid question. "If I can't have her, neither can you."

"Yukio abruptly got to his feet. "I'm warning you, Ryoga. Stay out of my affairs."

"Don't warn me, punk!"

"Ryogaaa! I done told you to stay out of my business!" Yukio screamed as he came running at the lost boy, viciously swinging his giant spatula at him.

"You're not scaring me, you hick from the sticks!" Ryoga's umbrella appeared in his hands and clinched with Yukio's spatula weapon.

Ranma arrived at the house to see the ninja girl standing in a combat pose, shaking her fan while Shampoo went crashing to the ground. "Hang in there, loser!"

"Aaaah!"

"Yeah! Japan's best!" Then Mai noticed Ranma standing there several feet away. "It's time I deal with you."

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Be here next time when Ranma takes on Mai Shiranui!