"Ukyo's curse chapter Three"
Ukyo stayed on guard as the three figures approached her she had no idea whether she would be able to defend herself if they were to attack she just hoped that they had good intentions. She strained to see they're faces them but to no avail they were completely shrouded in darkness they started whispering to each other other in mandarin. Even though Ukyo couldn't speak a lick of Chinese she could tell they were bickering which went on a while before they decided to step into the light to reveal. They were a strange sight indeed.
The first one Ukyo recognized as the girl from before with the purple hair, the second was a man around her age with long ebony hair and round thick glasses he was wearing a long white Chinese styled robe and had a large dopey looking scowl on his face which Ukyo was beginning to believe was being directed at her. The last person was the most bizarre it was a tiny incredibly old and wrinkly thing that she was guessing was an old woman who was hopping on a cane bigger than her with her with long white hair dragging on the floor below her.
She just stared blankly at them while they stood and inspected her, both the man with the Coke bottle glasses and the girl with the purple hair gawked at her disapprovingly however the old woman seemed optimistic. Ukyo was beginning to get frustrated these people not only were judging her like a piece of meat but they had not even had the courtesy to explain why she was locked up. She was biting her tongue just to keep her self from shouting at them If the circumstances had been any different she would have blown up on them already but for all she knew these people could have her beheaded or subjected to various other methods of Chinese torture. The old woman was the first to speak and surprisingly she did so in Japanese.
"Hello my name is Cologne and I'm one of the Elders of this village" she said in flawless Japanese "And this is my great grand daughter Sham-" she however was cut off mid sentence by Ukyo.
"Listen lady" Ukyo said interrupting her "I don't mean to be rude or anything but I want to know why exactly you are keeping me here" she shouted abandoning her earlier plan to keep a calm demeanor.
"You mean no one has explained the circumstances to you yet?" Cologne said looking astonished and then shooting a glare at Shampoo. "
Told me what?" Ukyo asked with a puzzled look on her face. She was starting to get the feeling that something was wrong.
"Obviously Shampoo neglected to let you in on the details" Cologne said exasperated.
"You see this is a village of Joketsuzoku we have many laws and customs one of them is that if
a male outsider such as your self defeats one of our female warriors in battle they are betrothed" Cologne said smiling.
"Whaaaaat" Ukyo shouted. "This has to be some sort of joke" Ukyo said hyperventilating "I can't marry her" She yelped.
"Shut up it great honor for some one unworthy as you marry Shampoo" Shampoo shouted red faced and angry.
"Yeah any man should feel honored to marry Shampoo you ought to worship the ground she walks on" The boy with the huge glasses yowled.
"Shut up Mousse" Cologne Barked "Now Shampoo don't speak to your
fiancé that way this is your liability if you hadn't been so eager to show off after losing to
that female outsider you wouldn't be in this situation now would you?" Cologne lectured.
"Stupid Red haired girl cheat too" she pouted
"Wait what does happen if a female outsider defeats a villager in combat?" Ukyo asked desperately looking for a loophole.
"If a female outsider defeats a villager in battle she is to be administered the kiss of death and tracked to the ends of the earth and killed. Lucky for you your a man eh son in law" Cologne said smiling. She flinched at being called son in law before answering
"Yeah real lucky" Ukyo gulped sweating heavily.
"That reminds me, Shampoo you did administer the kiss of marriage didn't you?" Cologne asked
["Humph great grandmother you must be joking if you think I'm going to kiss him its bad enough
I'm stuck being engaged to this loser but if you think I'm kissing him you are dead wrong" Shampoo bellowed
"No need to shout" Cologne roared back at her. "I can see you two are not yet comfortable with the idea of marriage so I'll give you some time to get to know each other" She said backing off Mousse just sat fuming and glaring from his corner of the room at Ukyo for stealing Shampoo and Cologne for presenting the idea of the two kissing.
"Ill just leave you two love birds alone for now" Cologne said pulling an enraged Mousse out of the room by his ears. Now it was just Ukyo and Shampoo.
"So you can speak Japanese? Y' know If you would have just cooperated earlier this could have been totally avoided" Ukyo bawled loudly sounding scarily like a guy. Shampoo was a bit shocked for an instant at his quick change of attitude a moment ago when Mousse and her Great grandmother had been there he had been nervous and on edge but now that it was just the two of them he seemed to have become a lot more bold. However it only took about a second for Shampoo to recover and come back to her senses.
"Shampoo no owe you explanation" she hissed.
"Listen Shahm Pooh Ukyo said inadvertently butchering her name? I don't wanna marry you and you obviously don't want to marry me" Ukyo said trying to reason with her. Shampoo just sighed ignoring her. The truth was that her great grandmother was right she had suffered a great loss after her battle with the first outsider, losing to a female outsider had made her a disgrace the laughing stock of the whole village. You see Shampoo had never actually lost a fight before so she didn't exactly handle it too well after that she had gone on a mini rampage challenging everyone who got on her bad side to a battle in order to prove her self which only worsened her situation. Now not only was she a joke but now she had to marry a complete moron. Ukyo was staring at Shampoo through the bars of her cell she had been zoned out for a while now tuning out everything she had just said. Ukyo tried getting her attention by snapping her fingers and stomping her feet but by the time she was back in the real world she simply brushed her off and stormed out.
"Good riddance" Ukyo grumbled. "Hey wait a minute why am I still in this stupid cell I mean don't I
Have rights? She said yelling after the long gone Shampoo. "Kami I'm pathetic" whispered sinking to the ground"
Ukyo sat wallowing in self pity for an hour or two before she heard someone come in. It was the guy from before Mousse. He was standing at the doorway holding a platter of pork buns. "Cologne sent me to give you this food" he said obviously uninterested in her welfare as he lackadaisically dropped the plate in front of her .
"You look miserable" Ukyo stated casually. "You must be in love with her" Ukyo said matter of factly.
"In love with who?" Mousse stammered blushing furiously.
"Shampoo of course. You can't hide it I mean It's written all over your face. "You know I'm sure It would be much easier for you two to get together if she wasn't spoken for. I bet you could win her over in a Jiff however how could she ever allow herself to fall for you her one true love when that stupid law is standing between you two. I bet you wish I would just disappear from both your lives.
"You really think so" Mousse said finding solace in her words
"I know so. You could make it happen Mousse all you would have to do is open this cell and let me walk out of here a free man. It would solve all of both our problem.
"You would really step aside and let me have Shampoo" Mousse exulted
"In a heartbeat" Ukyo said nonchalantly
"It's a deal then" Mousse said grinning
"Wait one last thing how do I get back on my way to Japan?" asked hopefully
"I get sent to run errands in other villages all the time I can show you the way no problem"
"All right then" Ukyo shouted ecstatically as she started to pack up her gear.
"Mousse are you sure we are going the right way we have been walking through this forest for over an hour and I have yet to see a road or even people"
"Oh were going the right way all right" Mousse said smirking
'This idiot must have gotten us lost' Ukyo thought sweat dropping
"Okay were here" Mousse declared stopping abruptly
"What are you talking about there's no road here?" Ukyo said baffled
"Were not going anywhere" he said seriously
"This wasn't not part of the deal"
"Neither was this" He yelled hurling a shuriken straight at her
Ukyo was so shocked that she wasn't able to fully dodge it. The projectile grazed her left shoulder. Ukyo touched the spot only to see that her finger tips were covered with blood as well as trickling down her arm. She looked back at him to see that he was proudly beaming at his handy work. It was now clear to Ukyo what he had doing leading her deep into the woods so he could ambush her.
"Well I guess you decided to back out on our agreement. Tell me Mousse what changed?
"Did you think I couldn't see what you were doing earlier? Buttering me up so you could convince me into letting you free. I have to admit you almost had me convinced but it still isn't that easy to manipulate me. "So what are you planning on doing now?" Ukyo said lifting one eyebrow.
"I'm gonna kill you and I'll not only have Shampoo but all the glory of defeating you and regaining her honor" Mousse said earnestly
"Is that so? Well I'm not going down without a fight" Ukyo said grabbing her Spatula
They were about to engage in combat when a green bonborri came flying at Mousse's head. Mousse stood looking dazed for a second before he fell crashing to the ground.
From out of the brush came the culprit and it was none other than Shampoo. This time Ukyo was prepared and got into a fighting stance armed and ready to kick ass. However this time Shampoo simply walked over to the lumpy figure that was Mousse picked up a stick and poked him.
"Is he alright" Ukyo said slightly concerned for the fallen Mousse.
"Yes stupid Mousse still alive"
She picked up one of his legs and started dragging him in the other direction.
"Hey wait a minute is that it? Your not even gonna try and stop me from leaving? She asked puzzled
"No, why would Shampoo do that? Crazy spatula boy over power Mousse and runoff. I unfortunately have to tell great grandmother that even though Shampoo was looking forward to wedding airen escape.
"Um okay.. thanks" Ukyo said confused but gracious to be able to scamper off as she did.
"Bie liao" Shampoo said waving
Authors note: Sorry for another short chapter and lack of updates. I'm just not too sure whether I should continue this because I'm really not sure if this is any good or not. I have been distracted with lots of stuff like school and day to day life so I rarely get to sit down and type something. But if you guys actually do like it I will worker harder to update and post longer chapters. I know there is probably a lot wrong with this chapter because I don't know jack about china feel free to correct me on anything I did wrong.