Chapter 17: It's on!

Meanwhile down in the deep dark pits of hell, Satan sat on his throne rubbing at his wound from his battle with Nodoka. It had taken a long time to heal meaning the sword must've had some sort of holyness on it. Alley sat on one side of his throne tending to the wound, while Ivory sat on the other side discussing their plans. "Did you see master? I broke her with that last one." She snickered to herself and laid her head on his arm. Satan reached out with one of his hands and patted her on the head and looked into her eyes. "So you know what you need to do next.." Ivory nodded and smiled at him lovingly. "Go to Furikan High school and tell everyone why she had to leave Asadaiba." Satan smirked and looked over at Alley who was growling with jealous rage. "Calm yourself Alley, or do I have to punish you.." Alley hmpfed and got up out of her seat and walked off to go do some chores, anything to get away from that little wench called Ivory.

Back at Furikan the lunch bell had rang, and the students pulled out their lunches or went to buy some. Ranma came back in with his usual breads and he also had the bento box that his mother had prepared for him. Ranka was having lunch with Ukyou today which disappointed Ranma's two friends. Thrishta smiled at Ranma and then she sat down with a bunch of random girls that had been fussing over her. Time went by and after Ranka had finished her lunch she left Ukyou and went over to Thrishta and whispered something into her ear. Ranma watched as Thrishta had an odd expression on her face but she left the group and followed after Ranka.

Ranka had led Thrishta out of the school near one of the tree's near the front of the school and she crossed her arms. "Tell me who you are.." Her red gem lit up brightly re enforcing what it's master had just said. Thrishta blinked and found herself getting nervous, she didn't want to reveal herself just yet but Ranka was on to her it seemed. "Well I'm not Ivory, you can check if you want.." Ranka gave her a look. "Then why are you always around when bad things go down? Why did you follow me here to Furikan as well.."

Thrishta had her head down and her eyes closed. "I'm sorry I never meant to upset you, you see were kind of the same you and me."

Ranka blinked and shook her head. "How so?" Thrishta opened up her eyes. "One of my parents work's for Satan, they asked me to keep an eye on you. You see I'm part demon, but I just tried to help you against Ivory..although sometimes it didn't go as I planned..and this wasn't planned." She looked up at the sky and then back at Ranka. "I'm sorry if I caused you any problems.."

Ranka's gem stopped glowing and she uncrossed her arms. Thrishta looked at Ranka with a sad face. "I was kind of hoping that we could be friends..."

Ranka smiled somewhat and let her guard down somewhat. "Your not going to backstab me are you?" Thristha shook her head. "No I have no intention, and don't worry I'm not going to tell anyone about the incident at our other school." Ranka felt relieved to be hearing that horrible occurrence was behind her and no one else would find out about it hopefully. She had a feeling that Ivory would be coming to ruin her reputation at this school as well.

Thrishta twiddled her fingers nervously and looked up into Ranka's eye's with a sincere look. "How about we get to know each other more this Sunday, and if you don't trust me you can kill me right on the spot."

Ranka had her arms crossed and had her eyes closed and her head looking down somewhat as she thought about the girl's request for a moment. Ivory hadn't invited her out anywhere she just followed after her and plotted on the spot. So she decided to give Thrishta a chance, and if she broke that chance then she would indeed have to kill her. She tightened her fist as she noticed her own thoughts and that they were returning to her original thoughts the first day she had attended Asadaiba and killed those two girls without remorse. She shook her head and opened her eyes slowly, 'No she wasn't exactly like she was in the beginning she would only kill if she had to. Things going on as they were she knew that she'd end up killing this new Ivory, and she would of course kill anyone who threatened the well being of her family. This part of her reawakened shortly after her inner self had confronted her in her dreams and that had been about 2 days ago. "Alright sunday it is, you decide on the time and place and leave the note in my shoe locker." She departed from the area shortly after leaving Thrishta to think about the conversation and consequence's.

After lunch had passed and the next class had begun which was cooking class, Ranka and Ukyou were chatting together while they looked over the recipe. Ukyou had gathered together all the bowls and cooking utensils and Ranka the ingredients. Ukyou started measuring out the amounts of oil,water and eggs needed while she got up the initiative to ask Ranka about sleeping over. "So today's Friday huh, I was just wondering if maybe we could have a sleepover this weekend?" Ranka finished whisking the mix together and wiped her hands on her apron. "Yeah it'll be fun, I just have to run it by my mom but I think it'll be alright. So if you get a call from me it's off, otherwise come by tomorrow afternoon." Ukyou finished up by pouring the batter into two pan's and putting them into the oven and setting the timer with a smile on her face. "So Ranma won't mind?" Ranka finished writing the directions to the house on the piece of notebook paper she had gotten from her bookbag and handed it to Ukyou. "Nah he knows you and it's not an everyday thing sleepover's that is." She muttered something under her breath about Shampoo, but Ukyou didn't catch it because she was oblivious in her happy state. She held the piece of paper to her chest tightly and giggled lightly. Ranka leaned against the counter and looked over at the other girls and there partners. She caught sight of Akane and her partner who was crying and the teacher was putting the fire from the oven out. Ranka rolled her eyes and laughed somewhat just thinking about it. "So who are you going to give your cake to?" Ukyou blushed and put her hands to her face. "Well i'm sure you already know the answer to that one.." Ranka nodded with a smug look on her face. "I do, but you also know that Akane will try to do the same."

Ukyou grimaced and shook her head. "Well I'll just have to get mine to Ranma first that's all." She had a determined look on her face.

Ranka smirked somewhat and smiled at Ukyou. 'Oh don't worry about that I have no intention of letting Akane get closer to Ranma.' She thought silently to herself and put one of her hands to where her necklace rested beneath her shirt. No Akane would not be making Ranma sick anytime today, she was going to see to that.

After the timer had gone off and the cake had cooled off for awhile, Ukyou started to frost her's since she was in a hurry. Ranka on the other hand wasn't in a hurry as she had her own agenda. She glanced over at Akane to see how far she had progressed, while she waited for her own cake to cool down. So far Ukyou was ahead of the game, and Akane was far behind since she was waiting for her own cake to finish baking and her partner was also abit behind on her own but further then Akane was. The other students who had finished their's were allowed to leave the class, the girls held onto their small cakes tightly and rushed off to taunt the boys the liked with the sweet confection.

Ranka watched and listened to the girls talking amongst themselves and she found herself blushing while she started frosting her own cake. But what boy was she going to taunt with her cake, she couldn't taunt Ranma that was Ukyou's job. While she thought about this she was still keeping watch on Akane, the other thought that crossed her mind that was Kuno would try to get her to give him the cake. She gagged for a moment after seeing the scene in her mind, then she remembered that she hadn't apologized to Ryouga for the whole worm thing. She wasn't too fond of him after the shower incident though..but he had apologized. She sighed and made up her mind that she would try not to slam the cake into his face and to give it to him properly to make up for the wrong she had done to him in her controlled state of mind.

Ukyou snapped her out of her thoughts with gentle nudge with her elbow. "Hey Ranka I'm going now wish me luck, and I wish you luck as well. Tell me who you gave it to on Saturday ok." She smiled and held onto her covered cake tightly and made her way out of the room. Akane noticed Ukyou leaving the room and started frosting her cake which had not cooled off completely. Ranka finished frosting her's and decorated it somewhat before covering it up with the plastic cover and getting her bookbag together, she didn't need to clean up since Ukyou had done that for her. She smirked and looked over at Akane and down at her shoes and her red gem necklace listened to it's master's command and lit up somewhat. Ranka smiled contently and left the room through the back door since she knew Kuno would be out in the hallway, but she'd let Akane deal with him. No one noticed the faint red glow underneath the ground where Akane stood, and stand she would in the same spot for about 10 minute's more like the spell said. Ranka didn't want to make it too obvious that something was up, but she had given Ukyou more then enough time.

She walked around till she came to the facquets near the field and set her cake down onto the ground and bent down to get a drink of water since she was feeling thirsty. After quenching her thirst she turned off the facquet and started to pick her cake up, when who should appear out of nowhere but Ryouga.. She quickly picked up the cake nervously and knew her face was probably red by now. Ryouga had randomly been wandering around since the fight between Ivory and Ranka back at Asadaiba and had somehow ended up at Furikan without knowing it. He snapped out of his dazed state as he saw the redhead looking at him, he noted she was wearing the same uniform and concluded that it was Ranka and that he was still at Asadaiba and he found himself laughing nervously. "Um most be a coincidence that I ended up back here." Ranka blinked and gave him a look. "Your at Furikan not Asadaiba if you were wondering.." Ryouga had a confused look on his face as he looked behind him and noticed the furikan field and then looked back at Ranka. "Why are you at Furikan?" Ranka looked away somewhat. "I ended up transferring here, but I like my uniform better.." Ryouga rubbed at the back of his head nervously realizing that he had thought it was Asadaiba indeed because of the uniform she was wearing, but it all made sense now. Ranka's face was still red and she shuffled her feet about nervously, she just had to get this over with and then she wouldn't owe him. "I'm um sorry for the worms..here.." She handed him the plastic cover with the cake in it and stepped back some to make some distance between them. Ryouga took the cake and looked at the plastic object he held looking confused. Ranka gave him annoyed look. "So open it.." Ryouga fumbled around with it for awhile before he figured out it was a cover and it lifted off easily, but what was underneath it was so beautiful and smelled very good. His eyes got all teary and big and he just stood there holding the cake in bliss. Ranka sweatdropped and had her arms crossed. "It's a cake you eat it.."

Ryouga looked around and then back at the cake, Ranka groaned and grabbed the back of his shirt and pulled him towards the woods where it was deserted and went through her bookbag and yanked out her bento box and the utensil set that went along with it. She held out the fork towards Ryouga. "Here..you were looking for a utensil right.." She would've walked off after that but she like any other girl wanted know what the other person thought of her homecooking.

Ryouga nodded and took the fork nervously and went into one of his moments 'Aaah Ranka's fork!' Then he cut off a piece with the fork and popped it into his mouth, tears of joy ran from his eyes and he laughed nervously, this was the most delicious thing he had ever had in his life. The other times he had lied to Akane about her cooking and beared the horrible taste and told her how good it was to make her feel good, but with this cake that Ranka had made he didn't have to lie about it being good.

Ranka eyed him suspiciously and had her arms behind her back in a shy position. "Well is it good or not?" Ryouga looked at her and nodded happily. "It's the most delicious thing I've had in my entire life, I'm so happy." He cried happily to himself and had another piece of the cake.

Ranka blushed bright red and smiled softly for a second before picking her bag up from the ground. "You can keep the utensil." She ran off while Ryouga was engrossed in happiness and kept running for awhile till she slowed down and remembering she had to go get the note from her shoe box, even though she never changed her boots only for gym class. She made her way to where the shoe lockers were and opened hers and took the envelope that was in there and stuck it into her bag and closed the locker door.

Ranma waited by Doctor Tofu's clinic and grabbed Ranka by one of her arms as she came walking by. "Where'd you go off to?" Ranka gave him an annoyed look and took her arm out from his hold. "Jeez I'm not allowed to go off on my own for awhile?" Ranma had his arms crossed. "Not when you don't tell me.." Ranka realized that he had been worrying about her and understood why he was acting this way. "Sorry it's just I didn't want to run into Kuno after home ec..." She decided not to say anything about the cake and Ryouga since it would get ugly. Ranma nodded in understandment as well and laughed somewhat. "Yeah I can understand why you went out of your way to avoid him, I was lucky Ukyou gave me her cake before Akane gave me her's." He rubbed at his stomach for a moment. "As usual Akane was angry at me and she was going on about crap."

Ranka smiled at the mention of Ukyou's cake. "Ooh yes you are, oh you know how Akane is." She smirked and giggled quietly. Ranma had a disgusted looking expression on his face for awhile before it turned into a smug one. "So who'd you give your cake to?" Ranka sweatdropped and tried not to blush since she'd give herself away. "I ate it with Ukyou." Ranma smiled and had his hands behind his back. "Uhuh I see, we'll I'll be back." He walked off towards the back of the clinic disappearing into the building for awhile.

After turning back into a girl and changing into the furikan uniform she and Ranka walked off towards the house. Ranka also decided not to tell Ranma about the sleepover till Saturday moments before Ukyou came or when she came so he had no way out. Ranma was about to hop up onto her favorite fence till she and Ranka heard Kuno's voice. "Oh if it isn't the two twin goddesses how I've longed for you as well Pigtailed girl!" Ranma groaned and Ranka grumbled. Kuno was in mere seconds hugging Ranma in the usual manner. "Oh pigtailed girl how I have missed you." Just when Ranma was ready to punch him, Kuno moved on to Ranka and then squeezed both of them into an embrace. "Do not be shy my twin goddesses I will eat your cake's full of love and shower you with praise!" Ranka gritted her teeth and slammed the sharpest part of her boot down onto Kuno's foot making him release his grip on them, Ranma slammed her fist into his face knocking him out onto the ground. "Not in this lifetime you perverted jerk!" She grabbed Ranka's hand and the both of them took off like a bat out of hell.

After getting home Ranma quickly changed out of the furikan girl's uniform and into a casual t-shirt and short's outfit and was laying down on the floor in the living room by the tv, munching on some rice crackers and clicking through the channels looking annoyed. Ranka came into the room wearing a pink sundress with random designs and holding two glasses of ice tea in each of her hands as she handed one to Ranma and then went and sat down near the table. "Looks like mom's not home." Ranma settled on a channel and tossed the clicker aside. "She's probably out shopping or something." She picked up the glass of ice tea and sipped some of it. Ranka looked over at her sister somewhat with a bored looking expression on her face. "Maybe..or she's off plotting with that Kalu about which one of us should get married to Kuno.."

Ranma spit out some of the tea and started coughing, and pounded at her chest finally catching her breath. "Oh god no..you don't think she'd do that do you?"

Ranka played with some of her hair with a solemn expression. "You saw it, how Kalu is easily able to get mom to agree with her on things. The two of them are very close friends, so I course she'll want one of us to marry off to kuno.."

Ranma looked like she was going to be sick for a moment atleast. She snapped her fingers as she had a thought. "We'll just work just as hard to convince mom that he's not suitable type, we'll show her all the bad qualities that Kuno has to offer."

Ranka and Ranma both smirked at each other and started laughing, atleast for awhile until Nodoka came in through the front door. She had heard the two of them laughing from the front door and wondered what was so funny. "Hello girl's what's so funny? I could hear you from the front door."

Ranka smiled at her and already had a backup explanation. "Oh this girl at school in my home economic's class today she made the weirdest shaped cake and I was just telling Ranko about it."

Nodoka wasn't too pleased with the fact that Ranka was poking fun at others, and had to set her daughter straight. "Now Ranka that's no way for you to behave making fun of another's hard work, you wouldn't like it if your were in that person's shoe's now would you? So that's enough of laughing at other people's mistake's." Ranka bit her tongue since she knew better then to try to talk back to Nodoka about this sort of thing, she instead bowed her head and put the puppy dog eye's on. "I'm sorry mother." Nodoka smiled and walked over to where Ranka was and sat down next to her and patted her shoulder lightly. "That's my girl, now I have some exciting news girls."

Ranka picked up her glass of tea and sipped some of it, she needed something cool since she had a feeling this new's was about Kuno. Ranma gulped and watched her mother's lips moving in slow motion and she shuddered as the words came out. "We've been all been invited to the Kuno's Mansion next weekend."

Ranma couldn't stand the thought and protested outright regardless of being scolded, but tried to keep it inconspicuous. "Sorry but I've got plans next weekend mom." Ranka looked over at Ranma for a second and then back to where she was looking and took another sip of her tea, unlike Ranma she wasn't going to have an outburst over this, but it didn't mean that she wanted to go or go alone either. So instead of following her sister's example she went about protesting with a different approach. "Mother I'm sure that Kuno is already spoken for and Kalu doesn't know this, and besides there's many other more suitable mean out there that you would pick over him."

Nodoka looked at both of the girls with a disappointment look on her face, she of course was onto Ranko immediately from her sudden outburst against going, and she could also tell Ranka was doing the same but in a different manner. She got up from where she had been sitting next to Ranka and gave both of them a stern look. "We have been invited and we will all be attending next weekend, your plans will have to wait." She left the room looking quite upset and went off into the kitchen to prepare dinner and take her mind off of her daughter's rudeness.

Later on after having a silent dinner, and a silent cleanup, Nodoka had gone off to her room as well as the two siblings. Ranma and Ranka were playing a game of cards together, while they discussed what to do about going to the Kuno's next weekend. Ranma tossed down some pairs looked annoyed. "Seems like were stuck going.." Ranka looked through her cards and put a pair down as well. "Yeah if we run off it'll really hurt and upset her... But really neither one of us want's to go, but she won't listen since it's about her best friend Kalu. We'll just have to go through with the plan of showing mom how he's not suitable, and if we need to do some tricks to achieve results then we will."

Ranma nodded in reply and grumbled and took another card from the deck. "When she said next weekend I hope she doesn't mean it as in us staying over there for the whole weekend.." She shuddered just thinking about having to stay in the same house as kuno. Ranka coughed some before putting down two pairs. "Oh god I hope not, I don't want to go at all.. kodachi's going to be on my case as well as your's. Going on about two wicked girls." Ranma tossed her cards down and put her hands to her head and ruffled up her hair in annoyance. "Arghhh just thinking about the whole thing makes me mad, I've lost my concentration on this game now.." Ranka shrugged her shoulders and started gathering up all the cards. "I understand let's call it quits for tonight." She finished gathering them and started stacking them into a deck and put them back into the box and tossing the box to the other side of the room. Ranma got up from where she had been sitting and went over to the closet and pulled out a random manga, then made her way back to her futon and flopped down on it and started reading.

Ranka got up from her sitting spot and stretched abit, before leaving the room, after closing the door behind her and heading towards Nodoka's room. She was mainly going to ask about Ukyou sleeping over tomorrow, but she would also try to get her mother into a better mood. She knocked on her mother's door timidly and waited till she was invited inside to go into the room, closing the door behind her. Nodoka looked up from the book she had been reading and focused her attention on Ranka. "What is it dear?" Ranka had her arms behind her back in shy position. "I wanted to ask something, and to say that I guess me and Ranko went abit overboard about next weekend." She had put on her best distressed expression knowing it would melt Nodoka's anger and other things.

Indeed it had since Nodoka put her book down and patted the bed, signaling for Ranka to come sit and talk. Ranka gave a slight smile and hopped up onto the bed and sat crossed legged next to Nodoka. "The thing I wanted to ask was, well I made a new friend at school and I wanted to have her come over tomorrow for slumber party." Nodoka smiled and tried to hold in her excitement at finding out that Ranka had made a new friend, and that it had been awhile since Nodoka had entertained for someone. This would also be her first time entertaining as a mother and it was the happiest feeling. She also had hopes that with Ranka's new friend and having a sleep over that they could involve Ranko in all the activities. She clasped her hands together and a single tear slowly escaped one of her eyes. "Yes of course you can have your friend over for a sleep over Ranka, but I'd like you to try to get Ranko involved as well. She's a girl and yet I've never seen her really act like one, or hang out with any friends." Ranka smiled nervously at that comment since it was mostly true. "Have no worries mother that was my plan all along to involve my sister, but we can't tell her or she'll try to run off." She giggled softly and surprisingly enough she caught her mother giggling faintly as well. Nodoka patted Ranka on the head gently and then ran her hand down her hair for a second. "My aren't you a cleaver girl Ranka, I had no idea. But I think some socialization with another girl other then her sister will help in the long run." She then clasped her hands back together and had a vibrate smile on her face. "Now what kind's of snacks and meals would you like me to prepare for this get together tomorrow? Or anything else special that you need?"

Ranka smiled and played with some of hair. "You can get what you want, but if you want me to I'll make a list." Nodoka nodded. "Yes that would be a great deal of help, but I'll also get some things that I think are favorable for this gathering. Now you go get some sleep and we can go to the store in the morning to get what we need alright dear." Ranka smiled and nodded, hopping down off the bed and saying goodnight to her mother before leaving the room and closing the door after her.

As they had planned the night before, Ranka and Nodoka had gone out to the store rather early in the morning leaving Ranko alone. They had been out shopping for quite some time, that Ranko had finally woken up and found the note that they had left for her, as well as the prepared breakfast.

Ranma yawned and sat down at the table after heating up the food and started to dig in, all the while wondering why her mom and sister had gone off shopping out of the blue. She shrugged her shoulder's thinking it must be one of the many things that girl's do on a whim. After eating she rinsed off the dish and put it into the sink, since she had been with her mom for a couple of day's that was one of the new rule's to abid by and it just came natural after a few days. She stretched and went off to couch in the living room, flopping down onto it and picking up the remote ready to turn the tv on when she heard someone knocking on the door. She grumbled and rolled herself off of the couch and sprang up to a standing position and went over to the front door opening it.

Ukyou smiled but she was also very nervous and had arrived abit early. When she noticed who had answered the door she thought it was Ranka for a second, but then she noted the tanktop and knew it was Ranma. If she had jumped on the girl and said Ranka then Ranma would probably know what was going on and try to escape, so she played it cool. "Oh hi Ranchan is Ranka home?"

Ranma blinked and rubbed at her head surprised that Ukyou was here, but then recalled that Ranka and Ukyou were friends now. "Um not at the moment, you and her supposed to do something or something?"

Ukyou blushed abit since she and Ranma were talking so casually, that and she felt Ranma was on to her. "Um well she said I could come and look at her note's for one of our classes." Ranma shrugged and invited her in knowing that if she had told Ukyou to leave that Ranka would be cross with her. "Well you can come in and wait for her if you want, she shouldn't be much longer." Then Ranma retreated back to the couch in the same manner, she usually would when her mother wasn't about. Ukyou nodded and thought to herself that it was a good thing she had used a backpack for her sleepover things provided the little white lie she had told. She set the bag down and sat down on the other side of the couch nervously as she looked around. She was in Ranma's mother's house and soon she'd get closer to her as well, she tried to keep her excitement from showing. She seemed lucky since Ranma wasn't really paying much attention to her and more to the tv.

Ranka and Nodoka finally made their way into the house carrying lots of bags, and went straight off into the kitchen to set them down before they came back out into the living room to greet Ukyou. Nodoka was all over Ukyou, but very surprised at how little the girl knew about being feminine. Ranka after greeting her went back into the kitchen and started unloading the shopping and putting it away. Nodoka then turned to look at Ranko who immediately had sat up straight and was no longer flopped on the couch, she smiled brightly at her tomboy ish daughter too excited to hold back telling her. "Isn't it exciting Ranko it'll be everyone's first girl get together." Ranko looked back at her strangely and looked very nervous all of the sudden. Nodoka sat down next to her on the couch looking at her with concern. "What's wrong dear? A slumber party isn't going to kill you." Ranko blurted out the nervous words. "A slumber party!? As in sleeping over?!" Nodoka nodded and tried to comfort Ranko's sudden anxiety towards it. "Come now Ranko were all girls here and try to enjoy it for your sister, and Ukyou seems like a very nice girl, you should get to know her better. It won't kill you to have to share your room with another girl for one night." She patted Ranko on the head and went off into the kitchen humming happily to herself.

Ranma looked around and set her sights on the door, and then looked over at Ukyou with an annoyed look on her face as she whispered. "Uchan you planned all this didn't you.." Ukyou just smiled back at Ranma. "Of course not Ranko-chan, but remember what your mom said that you should get to know me better." Ranma huffed and crossed her arms knowing that if she dared to leave now she'd hear it from Ranka and her mother. Ranka came out from the kitchen looking quite happy till she spotted the sour puss on her sister's face. "Aww what's wrong Ranko? You don't like slumber parties?" Ranma glared at her somewhat knowing that she had planned this with Ukyou and the two didn't say anything till it was too late to escape. "No I don't there all stupid and girly..." Just then Nodoka had come into the room and heard what Ranko had said and disapproved on the spot. "Ranko mind your manner's we have a guest, and how do you know slumber parties are what you say you might like them if you give it a chance. Or if you really can't take it I suppose you could sleep with me in my room tonight." Ranma tried not to fall over from the shock and fear of dealing with Nodoka slicing and dicing in her sleep and talking about how she misses her Ranma. She gritted her teeth for a moment deciding that it'd be better to endure the girly slumber party then do that. "No i'll stay in my room..." Nodoka was abit hurt but Ranko would be involved with the other girl this way atleast.

Elsewhere Ryouga wandered the streets holding onto the utensil and thinking of Ranka and the delicious cake she had given him earlier. While he was wandering he didn't notice the lady above him tossing out a bucket of water from her window on the second floor as he passed by some houses, he was also too lost in his thoughts to notice the change and just kept going afterwards. In his dazed state of mind he had wandered into many different yard's and finally into Nodoka's. Ranma was sitting outside on the back porch munching on some shaved ice for dessert and she suddenly noticed P-chan wandering around the yard with a fork in his mouth and bent her spoon in half from being so angry. She had not forgotten Ryouga oggling after Ranka last weekend and her promise to beat him up without holding back, with that last thought in mind she jumped down off the porch and started chasing after him. "Ryouga!!" P-chan suddenly snapped out of his daze to see Ranma charging at him and started running off, he would've fought with her but he wanted to give back the fork to Ranka and that was what was on his mind, but right now he had to get away from Ranma. He of course had no idea why Ranma had found him so easily or that he was where Ranka was as well.

Not far off Ukyou and Ranka were laying back in the furo together talking about random things. Ukyou was talking about how wonderful it had been to have Nodoka's home cooking and to eat with her friend and Ranma of course. Ranka of course didn't really mind since she wanted Ukyou to have Ranma instead of Akane. The girls were so relaxed that they didn't hear all the commotion outside that Ranma and P-chan were causing running around the hallway near the bathing area. Also Nodoka who had dropped off some extra towels for the girls earlier had forgotten to close the door all the way, and P-chan saw it as somewhere to escape not knowing where it led to and squeezed through the opening.

Ukyou and Ranka were fooling around and Ukyou had lost her grip on the soap and it fell onto the floor a good ways from where they were. They just decided to use the same bar of soap after that. The whole area was all fogged up from the steam from the furo that the girls didn't notice p-chan run in with Ranma hot on his trail. Ranma of course was blind with rage and had forgotten the girls were in the furo and was also unprepared upon slipping on the soap and flying straight into the furo's hot water with a loud splash. P-chan on the other hand had made a flying dive in the air for the hot water after realizing that he was a pig, but what he made contact with was not water. P-chan squirmed around trying to get out from the hold but found what was holding him was very soft and felt quite nice. Ranka looked down at what was squirming inbetween her boobs and screamed and started fwailing around since she couldn't really tell what exactly it was, but she knew it was alive obviously. Ranma surfaced from the water now a guy coughing and fell face first into Ukyou's boobs earning a squeal from her till she was able to see who it was, then her face turned bright red and she finally managed to shove his face off her breasts and nervously started smacking his face about. "Ahh i'm so embarrassed! Ranchan how could you." Ranka stopped screaming and her face was bright red as she heard her mother's voice sounded concerned. After Ryouga had heard the woman's voice say Ranka he panicked and knew where he was since he had felt this nice soft feeling before, he started squirming about furiously which made Ranka giggled a good amount from the uncomfortable tickling that he was causing. He finally managed to get free and dashed out of the way of the furo, dropping the fork in the process as he scampered out of the bathroom making Nodoka yelp as he ran by her in a flash.

Nodoka made her way into the furo room walking through the steam. "Ranka, Ukyou are you girls alright I heard you two screaming?" Ranka had been preoccupied with her own problem but she had heard Ukyou going on about Ranma being there and she would get an explanation later, but for now she had to save him from their mother. Thinking fast she turned on the cold water faucet for the furo full blast and stuck her hand underneath the gushing water so that it sprayed all over the place, but mostly it was directed towards Ranma. Ranka kept her hand under for a good amount of time since if she let go before the hot water was cooled it might just change Ranma right back into a guy. Nodoka finally came to where the furo was and saw Ranka with her hand under the faucet, spraying it at Ranko. Nodoka put her hands on her hips and had one of her stern expressions on her face. "Ranka stop this horseplay immediately!" Ranka had no choice but to stop and did so, thinking that she had timed it just right so that the full force of the cold water had cooled down the furo so that it wouldn't change Ranma back to a boy in front of their mother. Nodoka was greatly disappointed with Ranka's childish behavior, but she was glad on the other hand that Ranko had changed her mind about bathing with the other girl's it seemed, but again this was another one of the strange occurrences that happened between the two siblings that she had to take note of. She still had to reprimand one of her daughters. "Now Ranka if this is what you and your friend were screaming about then I am very upset.." Ranka shook her head. "No that's not all of it, something was in here that was alive and it got itself um well er..stuck inbetween my.." She blushed bright red, that was all Nodoka had to hear to know what had gone on, and she had seen that little black pig that rushed out from the bathing area rather fast. But Nodoka's eye's were trained to follow fast movements and she was able to catch sight of it. "I see so that little black pig that I saw a moment ago had gotten in here and that's why you two were screaming.." Ranka nodded and then apologized for her childish behavior towards her sister and her friend, satisfied with that Nodoka left the bathing area.

Ranma coughed and spit a stream full of water out from her mouth that she had been holding in, she was also quite angry after hearing that that stupid pig had pulled the same stunt with Ranka. But at the moment Ranma was in no position to go after him, she was quite embarrassed about falling into the furo and onto Ukyou's chest, that and being in the furo with Ranka was somewhat embarrassing but not as much as being in it with Ukyou. Ukyou breathed a sigh of relief at Ranka's fast action's, but now she also knew that Ryouga had been the one that made Ranka scream and the one that Ranma was chasing after.

Ranka was still calming herself down after hearing from her mother that obviously P-chan, since he's the only little black pig she knows had been what was lodged inbetween her boobs. She thought to herself, 'Just why the hell is he so intoxicated with my freaking boobs!' She tightened her fist under the water for a moment before getting out without warning anyone and going off to the shower after grabbing two towel's.

Ukyou had to giggle when Ranma started ranting at Ranka for not warning her that she was going to get out of the furo so suddenly. Ranma sweatdropped as she heard Ukyou giggling over her behavior, that and the fact that they were alone in the furo together. That and afraid that Ukyou might get bold and try something, so she tried to escape. "Well I um forgot I was supposed to help mom clean up, so I'll be getting out." Ukyou had a smirk on her face and she shook one of her fingers at Ranma. "Come now sugar is it that bad bathing with me? We always bathed together when we were kids." She blushed somewhat as she remembered those times. Ranma looked quite embarrassed as well before shooting back a reply. "Hey now we were kids and I thought you were a boy back then!" Ukyou felt her anger rising, but she kept it at bay and decided to tease Ranma as she started to get up halfway so that her boobs were showing. "Does this look like I'm a boy, well does it?" Ranma was backed up against the wall trying not to stare, and nervously took the chance to bolt as she jumped out from the furo, grabbing a towel and leaving the furo area as fast as she could. Ukyou sighed as she heard the door close with a loud thud, she sank back down into the water looking rather disappointed.

Ranka came out of the shower area with a towel wrapped around her body and she used another one to dry off her hair. She noticed how down Ukyou looked and figured out that Ranma had bolted. Ukyou looked up and caught sight of the she guessed Ranka but right now she wanted to think that it was Ranma, and wondered if it would be selfish of her to ask Ranka to let her dream. Ranka kind of noticed that Ukyou wanted to ask her something and tilted her head. "What is it Ukyou?" Ukyou blushed somewhat and was twiddling her fingers about nervously, since she knew what she wanted was wrong. "Well I was um just wondering..if I could pretend you were Ranma?" Ranka blinked for a moment and then smirked somewhat finding what Ukyou wanted to be a very reasonable request, that and she could most likely use it to her advantage. "Sure I'll pretend to be Ranma for you Ukyou, so what is it that you want me to do? You know I can only pretend to be Ranma's girl side though." Ukyou's face was bright red as she nodded, it really didn't matter to her girl or boy ranma if she could just pretend it was him.

Ranka was abit miffed that she would have to shower again, but if she could make Ukyou happy and later on tease Ranma about what he missed out on it'd be worth it. She took off the towel and tossed the other one to the floor and got back into the furo and tied her damp hair into a pigtail so the illusion would be complete. For Ukyou it was the moment she saw the pigtail that she started to fall into this dream and blushed furiously as she just starred at Ranka. Ranka yawned as a few moment's went by and she wondered if she should make the first move, so she started to move towards Ukyou. Ukyou started to get embarrassed and started splashing around soaking Ranka and the loosely untied pigtail came undone. The illusion had been shattered, but Ukyou was content with what she was able to pretend and didn't want to go any further at the moment as she apologized to Ranka.

Ranka was abit disappointed that Ukyou had not been able to carry through any further but she didn't dwell on it as she left her in the furo for abit as she went back to shower again. Ukyou laid back against the wall trying to calm herself down as she sank into another daydream.

Later on after the girl's had changed into their pajama's and had the futons set up, and Ranma was no where's near them, they started to plan some activities. Ranka choose spin the bottle where you have to kiss whoever it lands on, and this had Ukyou blushing since Ranma would probably be playing. But of course they wouldn't tell him that they were playing that kind of spin the bottle till it landed on him. Eventually Nodoka made Ranma go upstairs to her room to join the other's, much to her discontent she went. Ranka smiled and explained the rules of the game to her sister as she had no choice but to take part in this. Since they were short on player's Ranka put a pillow in the circle to make up a forth player. Ranka's plan was to play truth and dare till it landed on Ranma, then they'd switch to the kissing one. She gave Ukyou the first spin and it landed on Ranma, Ukyou blushed furiously and quickly kisses Ranma on her cheek, making Ranma jump suddenly. Ranka put on an innocent face as she explained to Ranma that they were playing the kissing game. Ranma scowled at Ranka and pointed the finger at her. "You! You had this planned all along!" Ranka smirked somewhat. "So what if I did hmm? You have to play or you'll make mom upset and we wouldn't want that." Ranma grumbled and crossed her arms. "Satan's spawn.." Ranka nodded not taking offense to it this time since she grown stronger since her other self had appeared to her in her dreams. "You know I am, now let's continue. It's your turn." Ranma gave Ranka a look before spinning the bottle rather roughly. They all watched as the bottle stopped spinning and it pointed at Ranka. Ranma insisted on redoing the spin, and Ranka agreed with a bright red face. Ukyou told them it wouldn't be a big deal if it were a kiss on the cheek, but they both refused. Ranma respun the bottle and they watched as it stopped and pointed at the pillow, which had the two girl's laughing while Ranma was red in the face as she stared at the pillow annoyed. After that they all decided to quit the game since after Ranma finally kissed the pillow they were all too busy laughing.

With that game done Ranka proposed that they play with each other's hair, Ranma tried to decline but Ranka reminded her that their mother wouldn't be happy. Then Ranka paired Ukyou and Ranma to each other's hair, of course Ranma again was not pleased but this was better then that stupid kissing game. Ukyou was of course happy but also very nervous, but she started to undo Ranma's pigtail and gently brushed it out and she started to fall into one of her fantasies. Ranka snapped her out of it after she noted that Ukyou had brushed out Ranma's hair 3 times.. Then Ukyou started to style the hair into two cute little bun's and left some hair loose in the front on each side of the face. After she was done she showed Ranma the hair style by showing her to a mirror. Ranma fussed with the bun's somewhat. "I look chinese.." Ranka piped in to counterattack the remark. 'Well you dress chinese too." This caused Ukyou to laugh and Ranka joined in, Ranma on the other hand was abit annoyed and told them to knock it off. Then she smirked and told Ukyou that it was her turn to get her hair done. Ukyou sweatdropped not knowing if she could trust Ranma with her hair, he really only did his into one style. Ranka of course picked up on this and told Ranma that she wasn't allowed to do a pigtail style, Ranma grumbled and agreed and looked down at the brush hesitantly. "Um can I practice on something first?" Ranka and Ukyou both sweatdropped, before Ranka could say anything they focused their attention on the pillow that was moving about. Ranma caught sight and looked behind it seeing the oh so familiar black piglet and flames lit up in her eyes. "RYOUGA!!!" Ranka and Ukyou who had been sitting near the pillow in their bottomless dress like pajama's each screamed and covered the openings. Ranma was too busy running about the room in a mad frenzy trying to catch P-chan the perverted.

Ranka groaned and wished that all her other pajama's weren't in the laundry, she usually wouldn't wear a dress like pajama outfit, but given the situation she had to. Ukyou on the other hand only did so because she thought it would impress Ranma if she dressed lady like, but she hadn't counted on Ryouga peeping. Nodoka was already at the door after hearing the girl's scream and she wasn't sure if they were in danger or just goofing. She banged at the door and asked if everything was ok. Ranka got up quickly and ran over to the door, just as Ranma caught P-chan in her grasp. Ranka opened the door looking embarrassed when she saw the upset look on her mothers face. "Sorry mom there was this big ugly spider hanging right above our heads..and I couldn't help it and me and Ukyou screamed." Nodoka put one of her hands to her chest and sighed a breath of relief and looked less upset. "Alright I see, well then I'll see you girl's in the morning." She bid them farewell and retired to her room for the night.

After Nodoka left Ranma went back to messing around with P-chan, till Ranka snatched him away holding the piglet by his bandana. Ranma gave Ranka a look and hand one of her hands on her hips. "What's the big idea! I'm not done with that piece of bacon yet!" Ranka held Ranma back with one of her hands, still holding P-chan by his bandana in the air. "You can go at him all you want later, but right now you have to calm down. Mom's in the next room over and if you start acting all violent you'll be in for it.. So were just going to let it go for now and go to sleep." She gave P-chan a cold look. "Isn't that right Ryouga? There won't be any problems tonight.." P-chan nodded quickly in reply, Ranka smiled somewhat and sat him down onto the floor. Ranma grumbled and crossed her arms going over to where her futon was and flopped down onto it. Her sister was right but it pissed her off that wasn't able to give Ryouga a proper beat down, but she'd have her chance tomorrow. Ukyou had just sat there quietly not wanting to interfere. Ranka went off to her own futon and went under the covers. "Ranma you turn off the light's since your closest to the light switch." Ranma grumbled again and got up and flicked the light switch off and flopped back down onto her futon. They all said goodnight to one another before snuggling deep into the comfort of the soft blankets and drifted off to sleep shortly after.

The next morning Ranka was the first one to wake up and she looked over next to her at Ukyou who had pushed her futon closer to Ranma's during the night and was now hugging onto Ranma. Ranka caught herself before the giggle could come out and she slowly and quietly got up out of her covers and went over to the closet and looked over at her outfits. She browsed through them as quietly as she could since she had to pick out an outfit for her outing with Thrishta later on today. Ukyou slowly started waking up and noticed what she was hugging onto and quickly let go very embarrassed and resisted the urge to start smacking at Ranma. She had absently mindedly hugged onto Ranma thinking of one of her stuffed animals while she had been dreaming. She noticed Ranka was up an about and put her hand to her face, wondering if she had seen her hugging onto Ranma like that. Ranka smirked at Ukyou to let her know that she had seen and then smiled at the cute expression on her face. "It's ok I won't tell if you don't want him to know, besides I'm on your side."

Ukyou moved her hands off her face and to her heart that was beating furiously and she smiled gently at Ranka. "Thanks sugar." Ranma had woken up suddenly and heard some of what they were chattering about, but only in blurred words since she was half awake. She mumbled something and flopped back down onto the futon shaking her fists in the air. "I'll kill you ryouga.. I'll get you.." Ukyou and Ranka looked at each other and softly giggled, then Ranka walked over and scooped up her pillow from the floor and went over to where Ranma was and brought down the pillow ontop of Ranma's head and kept repeating the motion. "Wake up Ranko, come on it's time to get up. Oh uh is that P-chan that I see?" She moved away with a smirk on her face as Ranma sprang up out of bed and jumping up. "Ryouga!!" Ranka laughed and whacked Ranma on the back of her head with the pillow. "Just kidding!" She tossed the pillow back onto her futon and ran out of the room laughing, leaving a confused Ranma just standing there.

Nodoka came walking by the doorway and stopped short as she spotted all the feathers all over Ranko and Ukyou giggling, she herself couldn't repress the giggle that escaped her lips. She caught herself and cleared her throat. "Good morning girls it seems your having fun? Care to help me make breakfast hmm?"

Ukyou's eyes sparkled brightly as she pictured her cooking along side Ranma's mother. She bowed her head deeply showing her utmost respect. "Oh yes Mrs. Saotome it would be an honor." Nodoka smiled and bowed back to her daughters guest. "Well then follow me, you come along as well Ranko alright." Ranma snapped out of her dumfounded gaze and nodded and followed after Ukyou as she brushed feathers out of her hair. Nodoka didn't ask about Ranka since she figured she was already up and would gladly help with making breakfast. Sure enough as they all entered the kitchen Ranka was already there setting the table. Nodoka went over to her and praised her for being on top of things first thing in the morning, then she asked the girls what they wanted for breakfast and they all agreed on a simple western style meal.

Nodoka went about to setting up everything the girls needed, then she went and set up the rice cooker and the salad. Ranma grabbed some eggs and cracked them open skillfully into the frying pan, Ukyou handled the bacon and the toast. With everyone working together, breakfast came and went as well as the clean up. Afterwards Ranma sprawled out on the couch contently, grabbing the remote control and flipping through the channels. Ukyou had packed up her belongings and was getting ready to leave, she had wanted to stay longer but she couldn't leave the restuarant unattended much longer. "Well I had alot of fun you guys,but I have to get back to the Okonomiyaki." Ranka nodded in agreement with her. "No problem, we'll have to do this again." Ranma gave a nod and a quick wave. "Later Uchan." Ukyou started to head out towards the door to leave, when Nodoka objected to a young lady walking alone. "It just won't do for you to walk back alone Ukyou dear, besides I have to run an errand along the way." She used the errand as an subtle excuse, one the girl couldn't turn down. Ukyou blinked in confusion as Ranma's mother took her by the hand and walked with her outside. Nodoka turned her head in the girls direction. "I'll be back in awhile girls." After they responded she left with Ukyou who was quite excited that she was walking with Ranma's mother, but also very nervous at the same time.

After her mom was gone, Ranma sprawled out on the couch in a further unlady like position and yawned lazily. "Man.. I'm glad that's over." Ranka slyly smirked at her. "Oh come on, you know you enjoyed hanging at with Ukyou. I know I did."

Ranma rolled her eyes at her sister's frank behavior. "Well, obviously you did."

Ranka smiled deviously, as she decided to further press buttons. "I bet you enjoyed being in the furo with her, just like when you were kids. It's not the same when it happens with Shampoo, now is it?"

Ranma pushed herself up into a sitting position and looked highly agiatated at Ranka's behavior, and was ready to say something about it, but the word 'Shampoo.' made her suddenly remember. "Aah crap! I forgot I was supposed to go on a date with Shampoo yesterday.."

Ranka tilted her head to one side. "Oh really? You should go on a date with Ukyou instead."

Ranma smacked her hand to her face in frustration. "Damn.. I guess I should go over there and sort things out." She muttered to herself absent mindly. "But I really don't want to go and be.." She gulped in mid sentence. "and have to be all alone with her..." She shuddered at the thought of being stuck alone with the amazon girl. Ranka suddenly had an amused look. "Why don't I go along then?" She suggested. Ranma snapped out of her many horrible thoughts of what could happen if she were alone with Shampoo. "Really? You'd do that?"

Ranka smiled tenderly at Ranma this time. "Of course, I know you hate being alone with that amazon." Ranma started to feel less anxious about it, till she remembered Shampoo's other request "Alone " and feel back in her nervous state of mind. Ranka of course knew what was on Ranma's mind and had a scheme of her own to counter Shampoo's demand of being alone with Ranma. But who she had in mind annoyed her somewhat, what annoyed her is that since she had Ranma's memories she felt kind of ease at picking Ryouga. Since Ranma had disguised and led Ryouga on as a girl numberous times, but another part of her was screaming no to the whole thing. But her other self from before kept telling her that it'd just be the same as in Ranma's memories, that it's purely just to watch over Ranma and not to think of it as a date. She sighed inwardly to herself and finally spat it out. "I'll pretend i'm on a date and just coincidently go to the same places." Ranma had a hesitant look on her face. "With who?" Ranka looked flustered at being asked, and didn't really want to say. "Ryouga.." She said slightly hesiantly. Ranma started laughing at first, then found herself getting angry at remembering all the perverted incidents so far involving him with his sister. "No way!" Ranka looked puzzled and tried to convince Ranma she'd keep Ryouga under control. "Pft, if he tries anything i'll beat the snot out of him, alright?" Ranma huffed and flopped back down onto the couch defeated. She didn't really approve, but she was going to trust that Ranka would do what she said, if she needed to. "Fine.." She mustered up all her will to push herself up off to couch, so that she was standing up. "I'll be back." She let out a heavy sigh and after changing she headed out to the Nekohanten, grumbling all the way.

In the meantime, Ranka went upstairs and found P-chan nestled under some blankets snoozing away. She promptly started poking at him. "Hey Ryouga, get up." The black piglet make annoyed bweeting noises and eventually the poking woke him up with a loud and angry bweet, until he saw who it was. His pig snout turned pinker then it was, as he blushed furiously at Ranka starring at him with her lovely blue eyes. "Good morning Ryouga, now listen up and listen good." She said sternly to the piglet.

After she had fully explained things to him and made him agree not to interfere without her say so, she picked him the piglet up by his yellow bandana that was around his neck and took him to the bathing area. Once there she set him down on the floor and started running the warm water for the bath, since pigs can't very well turn the knobs. After setting out his clothes that she had randomly found the night before, and they had gotten washed accidently getting mixed in with the laundry,she took her leave from the room. P-chan hopped up onto the sideline's of the furo and hopped into it, when he thought the water was deep enough and emerged a human once again. He laid back lost in his thoughts as he enjoyed the warmth from the furo.

Ranka remained close by as a look out, in case Nodoka came back earlier then planned. She was sitting on the couch in the living room, as a thought suddenly hit her. She had almost forgotten that today was Sunday, and she was supposed to go out with that Thrishta girl. She shrugged her shoulders at it, since she really didn't feel she could trust this new girl and she didn't have to meet with her till much later on in the day. If she timed it right, she could get away with helping Ranma and keep to her appointment with the girl.

Ryouga snapped out of his thoughts as a thought suddenly occured to him, thinking back to what Ranka had told him awhile ago. "Me and her.. it'll be like a date... A date!" His face turned bright red and he found himself laughing nervously. He had laughed rather loudly, as Ranka had heard him and yelled towards his direction. "It's not a date!!" But all he heard or wanted to hear was "It's a date!" Ranka rolled her eyes knowing how Ryouga was and how he would misinterput how things were said, and no matter how many times she told him that this was NOT a date, he'd still think that it was. So she decided she'd let him think that, but her on the other hand she wasn't thinking the same. She grumbled and hopped up off the couch, and went back over to the furo's door and knocked on it. "Don't take too long in there Ryouga, I don't know when my mom will be coming back.. I sure as hell don't want to explain why there's a guy here.." She was already embarassed and the thought of how much more embarassed she'd be if Nodoka came back and found Ryouga in the house, in the furo for that matter. She shook her head and patted both of her cheeks with her hands in an attempt to calm herself down, so that she wasn't thinking like that.

Elsewhere Ranma made her way to the Nekohanten, and of course Shampoo happened to be outside sweeping and caught sight of Ranma and lept into the air and glomped onto her. Ranma groaned and tried to endure it as best as she could. Shampoo kept rubbing her face against Ranma, but suddenly she stopped as she remembered how she was tricked by the other girl ranma before, and had to be sure it wasn't her. "You no is evil girl, right?" Ranma shoved her off abruptly. "I told you, don't start about my sister Shampoo!" Shampoo smiled cheerily and glomped back onto the girl immediately, as she had confirmed it wasn't Ranka. "Shampoo so so happy, Ranma came to apologize." Ranma frowned slightly, still annoyed at her comment towards her sister, but right now she had to suck it up. "Yes, I'm sorry I forgot about our date yesterday.. So lets do it today instead, ok?" Shampoo clung onto to her tighter. "Aiyaa, Shampoo accept! I see you in an hour here." She let go of an almost out of breath Ranma and skipped into the restuarant humming a chinese song. Mousse stuck his head out through the door and glared at Ranma menacily. "I'll get you for this Saotome.." After angry calls from Cologne, Mousse reluntantcly went back to kitchen. Ranma sighed and slumped her shoulders as she walked back to the house to get ready for the date.

Inside the restuarant Shampoo skipped about happily, and carried on to her great grandmother about finally having a date with Ranma. She wasn't aware that some of the customer's were listening, and two of them just happened to be Akane's best friends. Sayuri frowned as she finished her ramen, along with the other girl and the paid for their meal and left in a hurry. Sayuri of course had to let her friend know that Ranma was dating someone else. As soon as Sayuri got home, she was on the phone with Akane telling her what she had heard.

A furious Akane thanked Sayuri for the information and hung up afterwards. Sayuri understood that Akane was angry and in a hurry to stop this, so she wasn't surprised at the sudden hang up. Akane bawled her hands into tight fists and slammed one of her fists into the wall. 'How could he!' She thought to herself bitterly.

Down in the depths of hell, Alley was doing part of her job as she surveyed the humans for any thoughts that would interest her to make them do something bad. Suddenly she heard the bitter words and the image of Akane Tendou appeared in her crystal ball. A crooked grin crept across her lips, as she reconized the girl as Ranma Saotomes fiance, they all knew this as Satan had kept tabs on Ranma for awhile. She could use this as an oppurtunity to outshine Ivory for a change. She leaned back in her office chair, and whispered commands into the crystal ball and they found their way into Akane's mind. She giggled softly at her scheme, she wanted to go further then this, but if she did Onna.. She shook her head as she remembered the girl had changed her name, no Ranka would catch on if she wasn't careful. That didn't bother her too much, because she knew this would make things difficult for the girl somehow and that was all the better.

As time passed by, Ranma had gotten ready for the date. Ranka was already ready, as well as Ryouga who just stood outside nervously. Ranka stayed by the front door ,while she finished writting up the note that her and Ranko would leave for Nodoka. "Come on Ranma." She said impatiently, while tapping her foot. Ranma gave her annoyed look. "Alright already, I'm coming..even though I don't want to." Still in girl form she was wearing one of her somewhat fancier chinese outfits, and would wait to turn into a guy. Ranka tossed the water thermos with the hot water at Ranma as she went out through the front door. Ryouga looked up from twiddling his fingers anxiously, and took a good look at what Ranka was wearing. She had on turquoise long sleeved shirt with frilly ends at the sleeves, with a somewhat low cut neck line with studs alone it, and a black pleated skirt like her school one, and a high length black gothic boots much like the one's she wore to school as well. Then she had her hair up in ponytail with a pink bow tied at the top, and light blue earrings that dangled slightly and were shaped like raindrops. Of course she had on her red gem necklace as well, and let it hang out in the open, which she usually didn't do. Ryouga sighed happily, till Ranma thwacked him in the head as she walked by. "It's not a date.." Of course Ryouga didn't hear a word and really didn't retaliate like he usually did, he was to lost in the beauty of the girl that stood before him.

They all walked a ways from the house and down a dark alley way, where Ranma doused herself with the contents of the thermos and became a he once again. He tightened his fist as they came out of the alley way and nearing the Nekohanten slowly. "I'll go first, since she'll suspect i'm up to something if we went in all together." Ranka nodded in agreement and her and Ryouga went off in a different direction for the time being. Ranma groaned, for one he hated that Ryouga was alone with his sister and the outfits she liked, the low cut ones.. and that he was right in front of the Nekohanten now. Shampoo screamed happily as she caught sight of Ranma and that he wasn't in his girl form this time. She glomped onto him furiously. "Airen, Shampoo so so happy now." Ranma tried to hold back the urge to bolt, and remembered Ranka would be there soon. "Hey, I'm starving let's eat something." He knew full well that she'd want to make him ramen at her restuarant. She snuggled up against him affectionately as always. "Shampoo will make you to to special ramen." She led him inside to a table and ran off into the kitchen basking in glory.

Ranka had decided to do 'the annoying' girl thing, try to drive the guy crazy with girly shopping. Ryouga just agreed to everything with a sheepish laugh, while rubbing the back of his head with one of his hands nervously. Ranka quirked an eyebrow and tossed a random girly item back to where it orignally was, with a peeved look. "Eh, it's about time we make our entrance." She grabbed Ryouga by the hand and dragged him off with her towards the Nekohanten.

Shampoo emerged from the kitchen with two bowls of Ramen, and set them down on the table, and took her seat next to Ranma happily. "Great grandmother making dim sums." Ranma cringed at the mention of dim sums, at remembering how Shampoo had put some sort of spell on him. "Ahaha great.." She snuggled up to him again. "We go see romantic movie after lunch." Ranma slouched in his chair not amused. "Sure.." He said reluntactly and started on his ramen, trying to get his mind off of the date.

Ranka and Ryouga entered the Nekohanten, and Mousse showed them to a table not to far off from Ranma and Shampoo's. He did so, so he could keep an eye on Shampoo while he was working and as he passed by he gave Ranma a quick cold glare. Ranma didn't really notice as he saw Ranka was there and felt some relief. Shampoo slowly took notice, it took her awhile since the girl wasn't wearing her school uniform or her hair down. "Why she here.." She hissed out the words. Ranma sweatdropped and put on a smile. "It's a coincident, that's all Shampoo." Shampoo couldn't help but smile and tried to forget about Ranka being there, that and she seemed to have her own date. She started giggling after she realized who it was and looked over at the two of them. "Is to to perfect, you and pig boy a happy couple." Ranma tried not to react to her rude comment, but he had one of his fist clenched.

Ranka kept her cool and kind of ignored the comment, Shampoo could say whatever the hell she wanted, she was really here for her brother's sake. Ryouga started laughing nervously and kept rubbing the back of his head, and he was in such pure bliss he let Shampoo's comment slide. Mousse came back with their orders and gave Ranma another menacinging look as he passed by once again. Ryouga laughed nervously again. "Ahaha it smells good, doesn't it Ranka?" He wasn't paying attention as he picked up the napkin and started chewing on it. Ranka gave Ryouga a dumbfounded look and looked away. "Your eating a napkin.." Ryouga laughed again and spit it out and after many tries he found the ramen finally.

After finally returning home, Nodoka recieved an anonymous phone call but she didn't seem to care as what she was told was much more important. She couldn't hold back her tears and anxiousness she was feeling. She looked around for the girls frantically and found the note finally, she thought it was suspicious at how they were gone and now Ranma had suddenly appeared, according to the anonymous phone call. As she raced out the front door, locking it up before she started running down the street as gracefully as one could while running. Her heart raced at the anticipation of being able to see her son once again.

Back at the Tendo's, Akane had hung up the phone and cleared her throat from making her voice sound differently. The commands still swarmed her mind, and all she wanted to do was get back at Ranma for going on a date with Shampoo and not her! A thought suddenly came to her, it wouldn't be in her favor if she was seen by Ranma. She'd simply get someone else to do part of her dirty work for her, at first she thought of Happosai but he was currently not around. Probably on one of his panty raids.. She thought with disgust. She snapped her fingers as remembered another person she could count on, she picked up the phone once again and started another shady conversation.

Nodoka finally arrived at her destitanation, having to stop to catch her breath before she entered the Nekohanten. As she entered she looked around the restuarant hoping she'd see him. Then she spotted him, even though she hadn't seen her son since he was a small child, she knew it was him. She put her hands to her face, as she stood there frozen in shock as the tears she couldn't hold back streamed down her face. She finally managed to find her voice and called out to him eagerly. "RANMA!"

Just then a shadowy figure emerged from within the confines of the ceiling, where he had been hiding skillfully, pulling out the water thermos full of cold water. Ranka swirved her head to where the voice was coming from, her face turning pale as she caught sight of her mother in the doorway. She swished her head in Ranma's direction and caught a glimpse of his horrified expression on his face. All of a sudden her red gem lit up brightly, as it had sensed the shadowy figure before any of them. Ranka fully alerted, looked where the gem was telling her and acted quickly as the shadowy figure flung some of the cold water at Ranma.

Nodoka was broken out of her shock as she heard the screeching of chair legs and then a large crash. Ranka had bolted out from her chair and flung herself in front of Ranma, knocking him out of his chair and sending them both sprawling onto the floor with a large thud, with her getting most of the water on her saving him from turning into a girl.

Sasuke snapped his fingers and dissapeared inside the confines of the ceiling once more, going off to find a new hiding spot. Ranma groaned as he felt some pain from the sudden impact, but had no time to worry about that as Nodoka came running over. Nodoka couldn't contain herself, her heart was racing as she helped the pigtailed boy up and she embraced him tightly. "Oh Ranma! It is you isn't it Ranma?"

Shampoo had a bewildered look on her face at all the commution that was ruining her date, but the look was mainly because Ranma's mother was there. She wouldn't dare make a fuss with that scary woman about. Ryouga hadn't been paying attention to any of what was going on, he was still eating his ramen lost in his happy thoughts.

I don't own Ranma 1/2 the great and powerful Rumiko Takahashi and Kitty does.