Devils Child

by chikane-chan

The devil is sick of Ranma evading him, and he creates a clone of Ranma's girl side to frame him. But things don't go as he planned as the girl breaks away from his control. Ranma gains a sister from the after math, that sticks by his side and there for him and his mother. As well as the usual cast here and there and some other oc's and appearances from some lesser characters.

24. Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Ball and chain

The door to Kuno's private quarters at school opened as Nabiki stepped in. "Yoo hoo Kuno baby." Kuno was about ready to take his leave. " What is it that you want Nabiki Tendo? Cannot you see that I am busy and business to attend to." Nabiki pulled out a bunch of photos, styled out like a hand fan that was spread to fan ones self. " Oh so you don't want to see what I have for you then?" Kuno caught a glimpse of red from one of the photo's and his interest was peaked. " Are those..?" Nabiki picked two to show him, one of Ranka and the other of Ranma-chan dressed up for work at the Neko hanten. " They" are." Kuno was reeled in as his eyes lit up. " I must see them all!" Nabiki smirked as she showed them off, knowing she'd be making a good profit from the kendoist alone.

Since he was too busy, he had missed his chance to make an entrance, which made the siblings really happy there was Kuno to bother them again. Getting into the classroom and with everyone taking their seats and exchanging morning greetings. Aside from that, Ukyou and Ranka remained silent with one another. Akane noticed this and of course wanted answers, but they would of course have to wait till later as the teacher came in to start class.

Gym class came up soon and Ranma took note that Ranka wasn't there, which meant she was skipping, but now he knew she was either out right skipping or at the nurses office. That was exactly where she was, as she didn't feel like dealing with gym today, that and the fact that she hadn't slept much.

Thristha sat next to the bed she was laying down on, giving her a smile. Ranka gave her a questioning look. " What, do you want?" Thrista smiled back. " You know what I want." Ranka gave her an annoyed look back. " Can't you see that I'm trying to rest here?" Thrista then got up from her seat and went and laid down on the other bed. " Okay then I'll rest with you. Did you not get enough sleep?" Ranka gave her a sterner look. " That's none of your business."

Not much later it was lunch time and once again Ukyou and Ranka weren't really talking to each other, each keeping to themselves. Akane was getting more annoyed by it and not knowing. Sayuri and Akane kept to themselves as well after awhile. Once back at their respective desks they talked amongst themselves. Sayuri looked over at where the others were. " It's weird how Ukyou and Ranka aren't chatting like they usually do." Akane nodded in agreement. "Something isn't right."

After school Akane pulled Ranma aside and demanded answers. While he was busy dealing with that, Ranka waited by the gate up against a tree. Usually her and Ukyou would be talking, but they weren't, as she had left promptly instead of hanging around. Sayuri fidgeted some as steeled herself to approach Ranka. " Hey Ranka, is everything okay with you and Ukyou?" Ranka blinked a few times as she realized she was being talked to, before smiling really fast and telling her things were fine.

Once Ranma was done dealing with Akane, they took their leave and stopped off at Doctor Tofu's, before heading back to the house. After getting back, Ranka went off to take a bath. Ranma-chan after changing into the usual casual outfit, was relaxing on the couch watching some tv. Nodoka sat down on the couch as well, taking a break as she sipped her drink. " Ranko dear, how was everything at school today?" Ranma-chan sighed some. " Extra quiet." Nodoka put her drink down on the little table as she sighed as well, before getting up and going off outside to water the garden.

As she finished up her task, she saw a dog in the street, with something black hanging out of it's mouth, that seemed to be moving as well as making upset noises. Nodoka sighed as she went over to where the dog was, as she pulled out her sheathed katana, bringing the sheath down on the dogs head with a whack, making it drop the animal it had in it's mouth. The dog yelped and ran off, leaving it's prey. Nodoka picked up the little black piglet by it's bandana gently as she noted it was looking really upset and she recognized him as being Akane's little pet. She gave it a gentle pet to it's head, seeing how dirty it was. "Oh you poor thing, let's get you cleaned up before I contact your owner. I don't think that Ranka will mind giving you a bath."

P-chan eyes bugged out at hearing that and he tried to get free, but Ranma's mother was stronger as she took him off inside with her.

Ranma-chan was sipping her drink as she spotted her mother holding P-chan, making her spit out some of it. Nodoka gave her a dismayed look. "Ranko dear slow down." She then turned her attention back to the battered and dirty black piglet she was holding. " Don't worry Mr. Piggy you'll feel better after you get cleaned up." Ranma-chan tried to protest. " Isn't Ranka taking a bath though?" Nodoka gave her a look. " She is so she won't mind, getting this little guy cleaned up." Ranma-chan got really flustered. " You can't, he's a.." Nodoka tilted her head some. " A what dear? He's just a little black piglet and he needs to get cleaned up, as I believe he's Akane's pet and it simply wouldn't do to return him in such a state." Ranma-chan tried to make a grab for P-chan. " I'll give him back to her then." Nodoka shook a finger at her disapprovingly. "After he's all cleaned up." She then went upstairs with him, much to Ranma's dismay.

Nodoka gave a knock and after being let in, showed Ranka the little black pig. "Ranka dear I found what I believe to be Akane's little pet beaten up outside, so if you could give him a nice bath, that would help out a lot." She handed him off to Ranka who had finished showering and had a towel wrapped around herself, before she took her leave from the bathroom. P-chan was blushing furiously. Ranka went over to where the tub was filled with hot water and dropped him into it. Ryouga surfaced, red in the face as he stayed down far enough. "Ah um I'm sorry." Ranka had her back facing him. "Be sure to clean up. What's to be sorry about, you like Akane's boobs." Ryouga as he often did blurted things out without thinking. " But I like your boobs more!" Ranka looked flustered as she put her arms over the view of her chest. " Pervert.." She looked more flustered as she heard her mom come running up the stairs. "Ugh, you just had to yell, didn't you.." She grabbed the shower head and turned it onto cold water spraying him down with it till he transformed into his pig form, then she fished him out setting him down on the ground, as she heard rough knocking on the door.

Nodoka rushed in as soon as Ranka opened the door, looking around as she swore she had heard a man's voice, but it was just her daughter and the little black pig. She gave Ranka an odd look. " Ranka dear, are you feeling alright?" Ranka sweat dropped as she cleared her throat. Nodoka scratched at her head for a moment. " I'll make you some tea with some honey." She then left the bathroom, as she went back downstairs to start making the tea.

Ranka grumbled as the door got shut. " Thanks a lot." She threw a towel down on top of him, so he couldn't see, while she dried off and got herself changed. Then she took the towel off him and picked him up by his bandana, taking a wet wash cloth with cold water and making sure he was cleaned off enough, before holding him by his bandana again as she went downstairs and off to the kitchen to show her mother. "Here, he's all cleaned up." Nodoka ushered her to sit down at the table as she set the tea down on the table, then she took the pig from her daughter as she held him. " Thank you Ranka dear, he looks much better now. Don't you Mr. Piggy?" She rubbed him under his chin, making him make happy noises.

Ranma-chan fumed as silently as possible on the couch. Ooh Ryouga was gonna hear it from her, big time. Of course she wanted to just grab him and lay the smack down on him so bad, but knew better to attempt to in front of her mother.

Soon after Nodoka had phoned the Tendo house hold and talked to Akane, she had arrived as she took P-chan from the older woman, and thanking her again. Nodoka smiled sweetly at her. " You're very welcome Akane dear, won't you stay for some tea and snacks." Akane blushed some and nodded, she couldn't say no to Ranma's mother. Ranka stayed in the kitchen and helped her mother with putting together a snack.

Akane was sitting on the couch on the other side from where Ranma-chan was and could tell she looked angry. She almost said Ranma but caught herself. "Ranko, why do you look so mad?" Ranma-chan: " Gee I dunno..you tell me." She grumbled and gave P-chan a look before focusing back on the tv. Akane realized why her fiancee was mad and that made her annoyed. " Honestly get over yourself, being angry about a little black pig, that never does anything wrong." Ranma-chan looked off the other way as she clenched her fist some, stopping herself from getting into a heated argument with Akane in front of her mother. She just grumbled in annoyance.

After Akane had some snacks with some tea, she took her leave with P-chan. Ranma-chan sighed as she noticed her mom and sister were busy in the kitchen, so she went off to go take a bath.

Dinner came and went as the clean up did as well. Then they watched some tv and both Ranma-chan and her mother took notice that once again, Ranka was staying quiet. Nodoka thought about if she should be stern about it, but decided it wasn't called for. Not much later bedtime came as everyone retired for the evening.

In their room, Ranma-chan was a bit anxious to talk to Ranka alone, especially about damn Ryouga. "Hey so, Ryouga didn't try anything did he?" Ranka was fidgeting with the gem on her necklace, while laying down. "No he didn't." Ranma-chan gave her a questioning look. "So why did the jerk yell then?" Ranka kept playing with her necklace. "Because he doesn't think." Ranma-chan rubbed at her chin as she thought about what was said for a minute. " Hmm yeah he doesn't, does he."

Ranma-chan waited a moment, for Ranka to counter back with some wit about Ryouga that they'd both have a laugh over, but there was nothing. She could sense and see her chi wasn't bright. Her colder and reserved side was there. Sure she had said that things were fine between her and Ukyou but she hid a lot of things. That blame didn't lay on her though, if anyone was to blame it was Satan and how she likely had the bad habit of hiding things to protect herself by instinct. Maybe that was true but pushing sometimes would get her to spill. She cleared her throat as the matter couldn't be pushed aside and needed to be addressed. " I know you said things with you and Ukyou are fine, but I don't think they are."

Ranka rubbed at her gem on her necklace. "It is what it is." She then shut down the conversation and said good night as she rolled over with her back facing Ranma.

Ranma-chan looked miffed as well as annoyed as she rubbed at the back of her head, not being able to know how to argue that as she said good night.

Morning came and they got ready for the school day, before being sent off for the day by Nodoka. Then the daily visit to Doctor Tofu's to switch back to being himself. Ranka waited outside with her barrier up. Ranma didn't want to argue with her as she wasn't in a great state of mind. She was lost in many thoughts as well as tired, as she wasn't sleeping very much. What snapped her out of her thoughts was seeing Ivory standing before her. Ivory fibbed up a lie and tried to hit on making it painful to her. "Oh I thought I was going to Furikan, but I keep forgetting "someone" got me kicked me out. Bad habit I guess." She noticed how "out of it" Ranka looked, giving off a smirk. " Looks like you know that staying is wrong. It'll make everyone safe if you leave." Ranka clenched her fist in reply. Ivory then decided to go further. "So I guess you're little purple haired friend likes me more. I mean she just kissed me out of no where, gave me quite the seductive look too." Ranka sweat dropped at hearing that. " It's not what you're thinking.." Ivory of course didn't get what she was trying to say and took it as something else. " Oh but it is, she likes me more and that hurts doesn't it?" Ranka gave her a dull look as she thought to herself (" You have no idea..") Ivory kept boosting a few seconds more before taking her leave.

Ranma came out just as she had left and gave Ranka a questioningly look. "That damned Ivory girl was here wasn't she?" Ranka shuffled her boots some. " It's fine I handled it. Besides she was just boosting about getting "the kiss of death." by Shampoo." Ranma blinked and almost lost his balance. " She has no clue does she..?" Ranka shook her head. "Nope." Ranma rubbed at the back of his head. " So Shampoo went after her huh." Ranka looked a bit annoyed. " Apparently, even though I told her "not" to.." Ranma had his hands up behind his head as they walked. " Yeah well you know she doesn't listen and anyways it's kinda fitting." Ranka shrugged her shoulders some. "Maybe but I wouldn't wish that on her or much less anyone." The conversation stopped as they made their way thru the school gates. It had been peaceful for quite a few days without interruption from Kuno but that couldn't last forever.

Both siblings groaned at seeing Kuno was finally present and back to himself as he made him usual entrance as he threw a rose thru the air that was intended for the goddess Ranka, but to his dismay the evil vile sorcerer had caught it. Ranma had been waiting to give Kuno a piece of his mind since his crazy sister had targeted his sister, as he took it and snapped the rose in half. Kuno demanded he be given an apology. "How dare you interfere Saotome!" Ranma had his arms crossed. " Oh yeah, how dare your evil, crazy sister try to kill mine!" Kuno staggered back like an arrow had hit him. " What?" Ranma gave him a glare before going off with Ranka.

Kuno fell to ground on his hands and knee's in shock as tears ran down his face. " Curse my twisted sister.. this will not go un spoken of, sister or no." He kept ranting out loud to himself. Nabiki stuck her head out from the classroom window and threw something at him, that hit him in the head. " Kuno baby, stop wallowing and get to class or you'll be late."

A little later it was time for gym class and as much as she wanted to duck out of it, Ranka went thru with it knowing she could only use the nurse so much. Akane came over as they had already both finished changing into the gym outfit, but even she noticed that Ranka was being quieter than usual and again how awkward things with her and Ukyou seemed to be. "Hey Ranka, are you and Ukyou fighting?" Ranka gave her a tired look. " Well Akane I'm sure you pressured Ranma into telling you anyways. No it's just awkward.. and to be expected.. going thru the same traumatic experience all over again.. Now if that's all." She went back to tying up the laces on her gym shoes.

A few minutes later, Ranma spotted Ranka with Akane on the girls side and felt relieved, as he had wondered if she was going to skip out or not. He was snapped out of his thoughts suddenly as he heard girls screaming from the girls side of the gym.

Happosai disguised as the volley ball was glomped onto a girls chest and before he was hit would jump off to another one's as he chuckled, he even jumped onto the gym teachers. Making the rounds he spotted Akane first as he leapt in the air towards her, only to be blocked and hit from both sides, by Ranka and Ranma in mid air. Ranma grabbed him by his volleyball disguise and kicked him off into the air out the back door. " and stay out you old leech!"

The rest of gym class was peaceful with out the perverted old man and once the girls had calmed down. Soon it was time to get changed in the locker rooms. Akane had been flustered the rest of gym class at being saved by Ranma. Ranka had finished changing as she heard some of the girls murmuring amongst themselves. One girl who was in the middle of getting dressed, noticed what looked to be a teddy bear in her locker, or so she thought as it leapt out and attached itself to her chest making her scream. Happosai in the disguise of a teddy bear was the culprit as he was chuckling. Ranka whacked him over the head with her balled fist, before yanking him off the upset girl. " Didn't you get enough before?" Happosai pouted. " You're so mean Ranka, denying an old man his fun." Ranka went out the back door outside, where she punted him off into the air with a kick. "Then stop being such a pervert." She hmpfed as she went back off inside, where the other girls were crowding her and thanking her for saving them from the pervert.

After the girls had dispersed from the locker room, Akane walked with her. "Grand father Happosai sure was extra annoying today, so thanks for stopping him." Ranka scratched at her neck some. "He sure was.. No thanks needed, really." Akane noticed one of the differences between Ranma and Ranka, with her being a real girl she was more modest and didn't boost like he did. With her she seemed indifferent about all the attention. Still one thing Akane could agree with on with Ranma right now, was that she didn't like the rift that was going on between Ranka and Ukyou.

Back in class and once it was lunch time, they kept to themselves again. Besides that a lot of the girls were hovering around for awhile. Sayuri was the one most annoyed by this as she stabbed at her food. Akane noticed how annoyed her friend looked and tried to cheer her up some.

Ryouga who had been wandering since he had gotten away from Akane as P-chan, had made his way near Furikan. He had gotten interrupted again, just when he had finally gotten to see Ranka again, although it wasn't the most ideal situation that he had. He was determined to get to talk to her and maybe luck was on his side as he had made it to the school, just in time for school to let out. Shampoo had been stalking him from the tree's silently. He saw Ranka and Ranma leaving as they went off the opposite way, he tried calling out her name, but stopped as he sensed an attack, pulling out his bamboo umbrella as he twirled it around, blocking Shampoo's water she had thrown at him, as it bounced off into sprinkles. Ryouga growled as he held his umbrella up over his head. " Who did that?!" Looking around he spotted the amazon girl, holding an empty water bucket. " You?!" Shampoo hmpfed. "Shampoo won't miss next time.." Ryouga gave her an annoyed look. " What do you mean by that?! Are you.. purposely trying to get me wet?!" Shampoo sneered back at the lost boy. " You is in my way, why don't you stay with Akane like a good little pig." Ryouga got flustered some. "I see, you like Ranka too." Shampoo: " That right, both Ranma's belong to Shampoo, so you stay with Akane and out of my way." Ryouga was furious at what he was hearing. " I refuse! I won't let you or Ranma stand in my way!" Shampoo glared back at him and was ready to attack, only that she spotted her more important target as she dashed off.

Not too far off Ivory had left her school with some friends as they went off to a cafe. They were sitting down at a table as they looked over their menu's about what to get. Ivory scanned thru hers as well, lost in it until she heard her fellow school mates scream, making her look up. Her mouth hung open as she saw a huge hole in the wall and the pretty purple haired girl, holding a sword out at her. " I kill!" The other girls that were with Ivory ran off screaming. Ivory jumped as Shampoo slammed her sword down at her, narrowly missing her. Ivory looked annoyed. " And here I thought you liked me, but now you're trying to kill me." Shampoo went to attack her again, and she grabbed a near by guy and flung him off into her, so she was able to make her escape. Shampoo tossed the guy aside looking furious at having lost her target, taking off in a blur, as she went back to stalking Ryouga, after getting a new bucket of water.

Ranma and Ranka weren't far from the clinic, as Ranka thought she heard her name being called, making her turn to look. Ryouga wasn't too far when he had tried to call out to her, only to get splashed by the cold water to his annoyance. Also to Ranma and Ranka's annoyance they got caught up in the splash of water, both of them groaning. Ranma-chan looked around for an old lady as it was usually one tossing water out that was the culprit. Shampoo had made sure to stay out of sight, not wanting to be found out.

After stopping off at Doctor Tofu's to dry off some before attempting to head back. Once back at the house and after changing were sitting at the table having snack time. When they were done, Ranma-chan went upstairs to take a bath, as Ranka had to go train outside with their mother.

Fast forward to half and hour, they were sitting out on the porch, sipping their drinks, while Ranma was relaxing with a hot bath. Ranka kicked swung her feet back and forth some, as she addressed her mother. " Hey mom, did you ever met up with your husband?" Nodoka furrowed her brow as she took a sip from her drink. " He never seems to be around, or always out of reach, when I try to…" Ranka stretched her feet out from where she was sitting. "Then maybe you should meet up somewhere where you know he'll be and can't easily run off, like a public place." Nodoka gave her daughter a thoughtful look. " Perhaps and you should come too, obviously Ranko is already like a daughter to him, and he should meet you too formally." Ranka huffed some as she crossed her arms. " I don't want to formally meet "him." But.. I'll go, if that's what you want." Nodoka smiled in reply, not wanting to push anything further, it would just be a step in the right direction by getting her to come along.

She got up after finishing her drink and went off into the kitchen, with Ranka following after her. Looking thru the cabinets and fridge as she picked out ingredients for dinner, until she noted she was missing a crucial one. Ranka offered to go out to the store and get it. Nodoka rubbed at her chin in thought, but before she could dispute it, Ranka gave her the cutest puppy dog face and promised she'd come right back. Nodoka sighed in defeat as she allowed it.

A few minutes later after leaving the house, she made sure to put up her defense barrier using her gem's powers, as well as putting her hoodie up to the jacket sweatshirt she was wearing. She spotted Genma not too far off at the cafe, and pulled out the letter she had written up before leaving the house, in case she had seen him. As from Ranma's memories about him, she knew he was a sucker for pretty women, so a note from a mysterious woman to meet up with him, well that would be a great lure to keep him in one place. She went off inside and near enough to where he was sitting, from the opposite side, as she quickly tapped on his shoulder to get his attention as she dropped the rolled up note onto the table, before walking off fast enough not to be seen by him. She then bought some cup puddings, before leaving from the cafe, having bought something they couldn't say she came in there for nothing.

Genma looked around for a minute after feeling someone tap his shoulder and then back to his table, where he spotted a rolled up piece of paper, which he un rolled and started to read and looked all happy as he looked around, wondering if any of the women there might be his mysterious lady who wanted to meet up with him tomorrow there.

Ranka made her way back to the house after getting the soy sauce from the store. Nodoka was very happy at seeing her come back so quickly. Ranka handed her off the shopping bag. " I got some pudding cups too, if that's okay.." Nodoka patted her on the head. "It's more than fine, I've told you before you can use the rest of the money. Besides you got what I asked for." Ranka smiled some. "Oh I think I saw your husband at the cafe, so that'd be a good place to corner him at and it looked like he was with another woman and he's going to meet her there again tomorrow around the same time." Nodoka furrowed her brow. " Oh he is, is he? Well he's in for a surprise now isn't he." She then shook her head at her daughter. " Now Ranka dear, you shouldn't be spying on other people.."

Ranka rubbed at the back of her head and shuffled her feet some. " I'm sorry mother.. it's just one of my many bad habits." Nodoka sighed as she had to remember that Ranka had been led around by demonic influence, but also wanted to try to break her of it, if possible. "Which we are working on, so there will be no more spying on others young lady." Ranka looked down at the ground. " I guess I shouldn't have and not said anything about him meeting some other woman then." Nodoka got flustered some at that. "No.. you should've but no more spying." Ranka fussed back. " I wasn't spying, I was just paying attention to what I was seeing and hearing." Nodoka wasn't sure and her daughter had made a valid point, that made her drop the rest of the conversation.

The rest of the evening went by after dinner and soon it was time for bed, which Ranka said good night saying she was really tired from training so any conversation was cut off.

Cut to the next day and where school was done for the day and the siblings had returned home. Nodoka announced that her and Ranka would be training and then going to the store and how if Ranko wanted to come along she could, but she declined, going off to go take a bath.

After some light training, they went off to the cafe for the meeting time. Nodoka was glad that she had at least gotten Ranka to agree to come with her.

Genma was waiting at his table at the cafe looking giddy and lost in his thoughts for a few minutes, until he heard two of the chairs slide. He opened his eyes expecting to see the mystery girl but to his horror he saw his wife Nodoka and the evil girl Ranka. For some reason he felt like he couldn't move as he tried to make a dash for it. Ranka had used the same spell with gem, that she had used before on Akane to keep her stuck in place. Nodoka had her arms crossed. " Were you expecting someone else, Genma? Well that's too bad, it's just your wife and I've been meaning to talk to you, but you never seem to be around.." She cleared her throat before giving him a serious and sad look. " Genma it's been so long and I know you've met Ranka here before, but I'd like you to meet her formally, as I've adopted both her and Ranko, which would make her your daughter as well. Now, I've heard that you tried to sell her off.. Regardless I would like you to apologize to her."

Genma tensed up and glared at the girl quickly before looking nervously at his wife. "No of course not and it's wonderful to see you again. What? The girls evil Nodoka, you can't believe what she says and I won't accept her." He crossed his arms. Nodoka looked angry. " Genma.. where is Ranma? I hope for your sake, that you didn't sell him off, like you tried to do to Ranka. Don't you dare tell me, that he's still in China or any such nonsense. You've returned obviously and I want to see my son, Genma! I want us to be a family again!" She started to tear up. " For that to happen, I want Ranma back and for you and Ranka to get along, and yes to accept her as your daughter and vice versa." Ranka was glaring daggers at Genma but with a smug look on her face for a second. Genma glared back at her, only to get an angry and pained look from his wife, which made him panic. " He's not but uh he is off on a training trip for a few days." Nodoka sighed heavily as she dabbed at her tears with her handkerchief. Genma sighed as well. "Give me some time to think about all this Nodoka." Nodoka furrowed her brow at him. " You have a week from now, Genma, until I come looking for you again. Come along Ranka dear, we're done here." Ranka stuck her tongue out at Genma really fast before she left with her mother and let the spell expire, so that the old man was able to move again.

Walking back they stopped off in the park, where Nodoka tried to collect herself. She tried to express her expectations to her daughter. " Now Ranka I know you and my husband met on bad terms and he's not being very cooperative.. but I really would like you to try to get along with him." Ranka shuffled her feet about with an annoyed look. "but he's such a jerk.." Nodoka put her hand to her mouth. " Ranka!" Ranka gave her a dull look. " Well he is, and his behavior says it all, and look at how he treats you, sorry but not sorry, I don't like seeing how he treats you." She crossed her arms. Nodoka sighed as got up from the bench, she wasn't going to add fuel to the fire and couldn't really argue, but also wanted to end any further discussion. "He is still my husband and just as I told him, I want all of us to be a family, so it would make me happy if you could at least try to get along with him Ranka, now let's get back."

After getting back Nodoka decided to order out for dinner and Ranka had gone off to go take a bath after they decided what to get. Ranma-chan was sitting on the couch watching tv and could feel the tension in the air, after they had come back. She looked over at her mother who was sitting on the couch as well. "So how did shopping go?"

Nodoka sighed. "We" didn't go shopping Ranko dear. I went with your sister to meet up with your uncle Genma, who is already pretty much like a father to you, from what you've told me, so telling him that you're his daughter isn't far fetched. I tried to talk to him about accepting your sister, but.. neither one of them seems willing.. Not to mention how he keeps trying to runaway from me all the time.. Obviously it didn't go well."

Ranma-chan looked wide eyed at what she was hearing then annoyed for a minute but more so pained at seeing how upset the old man had made her mother. "Well.. you know, he can be a jerk." She said trying to comfort her the best she could.

Nodoka sighed again. "That's what your sister said as well, though.. much more adamantly. "

After having dinner and watching a show, Ranka went off to bed. Nodoka finished up with her tasks before she went upstairs to retire for the night, letting Ranko know she could stay up a little longer if she choose to. Ranma-chan declined the offer as she really needed to try to talk to her sister and find out more about what happened.

Once everyone had finished getting ready for bed, Nodoka took a nice relaxing bath to de stress from things.

In the siblings room, they were already laying down in their beds. Ranma-chan rubbed at her head frustrated some. "So, how did mom manage to corner the old man huh?" Ranka bit her lip some knowing she couldn't hide anything. "I baited him, so he thought he was meeting some mystery woman and gave her the opportunity to corner him, that's what." Ranma-chan couldn't help by laugh at hearing the old man got lured in so easily. Also at how smart her sister was. Ranka was glad that her sibling wasn't angry at her for her actions. Ranma-chan after getting herself to stop laughing continued on. "Mom was really upset.." Ranka rolled her eyes. " Of course she is, she demanded answers about you and he said your off training, so she told him he has a week before she comes after him for answers." Ranma-chan mussed at what was said. " I'm surprised he didn't try to run away." Ranka was playing with her necklace. " Of course he tried, but " the evil girl." wouldn't let him." Ranma-chan hahed in reply. Ranka kept playing with her necklace. " I know this whole thing's been hard on you, and for mom too, so the sooner things can get resolved the better. And why shouldn't the old man go down for his crimes huh? Let him take the fall, the whole thing is his fault anyways."

Ranma-chan nodded in agreement. "Well it was at first, but it's not so bad." Ranka rolled over the other way so she was facing away. "Well just let the old man take the fall." She yawned and said good night as she settled down.

Ranma-chan said good night as well, while she lay there in bed in her thoughts. She couldn't disagree with what Ranka had said, or really feel bad for the old man. He had put her mother through so much pain and anguish. It was his duty as the parent to take the fall. She was also glad to see her sister was in better spirits for now, since she was fixated on bringing down the old man.

In Nodoka's room after she had finished her bath and gotten dressed and ready for bed was laying in her own bed in her own thoughts. She thought how she had to keep remembering that Ranka was Ranko's twin, since she was cloned from her. That point was shown earlier when they had both called Genma a jerk, in their own ways. Which had her thinking on how perhaps, Ranko's pent up anger if she had it for him, that it seemed like Ranka on the other hand was acting on it, since her twin would not. She also couldn't lay blame on the girl, as she had a lot of trauma from how she was living, but she had to commend her as well for how far she had come since then. Just the fact alone at how she seemed to learn very fast once she knew something wasn't right. Especially at how far she had come mentally, which made her very proud of her, though she wished she could be more lady like, she still counted her as the more mature one when compared with Ranko. She eventually drifted off to sleep.

The usual morning routine went on and to the sibling's relief there was no Kuno today, so getting to class wasn't a problem. Classes went by and soon it was lunch time and the rift between Ukyou and Ranka was still apparent. Sayuri was talking to her and Akane. " So my friend invited me and to invite others to a karaoke, friday night. So you guys will come right? You can come too if you'd like Ukyou." Ukyou put on small smile and waved her hand. " Thank you but I'm too busy." Akane on the other hand was all excited. " Yes of course I'll come! Ranka you'll come too, it'll be so much fun. We can just go together since you'll be visiting for the weekend again." Ranka rubbed at her arm some. " Yeah I guess so.." Sayuri and Akane were squealing all excited. Ranma's friends were fussing about it, especially Hiroshi. "Why don't they invite us too?" Daisuke gave him a dull look. " Because it's obviously a "girl's only" meet up." Hiroshi fussed more. "Hey Ranma, don't you agree, we should get invited too, who says we don't want to have some karaoke fun too huh." Ranma sweat dropped at him. "What Daisuke said, and I don't really care." Hiroshi clenched his fists " Oh yeah, then how about we all go for our own karaoke night!" Daisuke just shook his head at him. "Sorry man but I'm with Ranma on this, I don't really care."

Sayuri went on about it and hopeful that both of her friends parents would allow them to go. Akane rubbed at her chin. " I'm pretty sure my dad will let me." Ranka shrugged her shoulders. " I'll see what my mom says and let you know tomorrow." Sayuri got even more excited. " Oh! I know we should all have a sleep over at my place!" Akane got even more excited by Sayuri's excitement. At hearing that Hiroshi sulked even more. " Aww man I wanna go to the sleepover too.." Ranma and Daisuke just rolled their eyes at him.

Soon school was over and they were all taking their leave. Akane was walking with them. "You could come too if you want, Ranma." Ranma wrinkled up his nose. " To a room full of shrieking girls, no thanks." Akane bristled up some. " That's fine by me then, I was just trying to be nice." Ranma huffed back. " And how is that nice? Submitting me to you trying to sing?" Akane whacked him on the back of his head with her school bag. " Ranma, you jerk! Never mind your un invited!" She stuck her tongue out at him and ran off. Ranma rubbed at the back of his head. " Un cute tomboy.." Ranka stayed quiet and out of the matter as they left the school yard and went over to Doctor Tofu's.

Hiroshi was on his way out of the school yard, when Thrista caught up to him. " Hey Hiroshi, right? I heard you wanted to go to karaoke night too, so how about we go together." She said with a bright smile. Hiroshi just blushed and nodded. Thrista smiled back. " Good then we'll go after school tomorrow then. Bai!" She said as she skipped off.

Outside of doctor Tofu's clinic, Genma ambushed Ranma as he came around the corner, grabbing him up by his shirt. " Ranma, we need to talk right now, boy!" Ranma was surprised but only for a second, as he shoved him off him. "Gee could this have to do with the fact you got yourself in trouble with mom." Genma growled at him and pointed his finger at him. " Listen boy, we'll both be on the chopping block, so let's go right now!" He was too intent on Ranma that he hadn't noticed Ranka was there as well, as she whacked him on the back of his head with her book bag. Genma spun around rubbing at his head. " Ow! " He tensed up at seeing her, then got his vigor back as he pointed his finger at her. " YOU, this is ALL your fault!" Ranka crossed her arms. " No, it's YOUR fault old man and Ranma doesn't have to go any where with you if he doesn't want to. If you want to runaway like a chicken, then go ahead but she'll find you." Genma paled and shuddered, before regaining his stance. " Don't listen to her boy! Listen to me and let's get out of here, now!" Ranma rolled his eyes at him. " You go ahead and run pops, I'm done doing that." Genma bristled in anger as he went to launch an attack on Ranma, but was blocked by Ranka, who slammed him with her fist into his gut, making him back up. Ranma then punted him off into the air.

After changing back into a girl and into the school uniform and walking back to the house, Ranma-chan was ranting away. " Go figure that lousy old man wanted to run off." Ranka nodded in agreement. " And drag you down with him, as usual." Ranma-chan grumbled. " Yeah well, he's got another thing coming if he thinks I'm going to do that." Ranka nodded in agreement again. Ranma-chan sighed. " Well thanks for having my back." Ranka smiled a tad for a second. " Of course." Ranma-chan smiled some. " So Karaoke huh." Ranka sighed. " I guess so."

Nodoka smiled and greeted her daughters as they came in thru the front door. Ranma-chan went upstairs to go get changed. Ranka bit her lip some. " Um mom, so I got invited to karaoke tomorrow night with Akane and her friend." Nodoka clasped her hands together. "That's wonderful, you can go, if that's what your asking dear. Was Ranko invited too?" Ranka sweat dropped. "Yeah but it's not really her thing, it's not really even my thing.. but.." Nodoka smiled and pat her on the head. " I think it's a wonderful idea and that you'll have fun." Ranma-chan came back down dressed in the usual casual outfit. Ranka went off upstairs to get changed next.

Nodoka smiled at Ranko: " Ranko dear are you sure you don't want to go to karaoke with your sister and Akane?" Ranma-chan sweat dropped. " Yeah, i'm very sure." Nodoka sighed and dropped the matter as Ranka came back downstairs, and then they all went and had snack time together.

Suddenly there was knocking at the front door, Nodoka got up from her seat quickly as she went to answer it. Ranka and Ranma-chan went over with her, sticking behind her a ways. Nodoka went to grab her katana that she had on her side at seeing it was awful purple haired amazon girl that had snuck in and tried to kill Ranka before. "How dare YOU show your face in front of me, again!" Ranma-chan jumped back some at seeing her mother go for her katana. Colonge blocked that attack with her staff. " I apologize for my great granddaughters foolish actions, Mrs. Saotome and I can assure you Shampoo won't ever do so again. She's young and stupid and misunderstands things." Nodoka furrowed her brow as she put katana back into it's sheath. " So this is an apology then?" Cologne bowed her head and gave Shampoo a look, so that she bowed hers as well. " It is and a joyous celebration." Ranma-chan was nervous at seeing Shampoo and the old ghoul, worried they might squeal. Ranka blinked at them, wondering along the same lines. Nodoka blinked as well. " Joyous celebration?" Shampoo nodded with a big smile. Colonge nodded as well. " You see Ranka here proposed to Shampoo." Ranka stuck her head out " What? I did not!" Cologne smiles and holds up the device and plays the recording back. Nodoka sweat drops as she looks at Ranka. Cologne smiles. " You see promises as such are sacred law to us amazons and we take things very serious." Nodoka furrowed her brow and looked back at Ranka. " You did promise her Ranka dear, and promises are very important." Ranka was bright red in the face. Nodoka then gave a stern look to Shampoo. " But if you ever threaten my daughter again, the promise will be broken instantly. Understood?"

Shampoo nodded. " I understand and is so so sorry." Nodoka gave a short smile. " Good." Cologne cleared her throat. " We've brought some ramen to celebrate." Shampoo smiled as she held the metal take case. " We celebrate, yes?" Cologne smiled " Well I must be getting back, but I'll be seeing you again soon Mrs. Saotome." She gave a bow before taking her leave.

Nodoka allowed Shampoo inside, much to the siblings dismay. Shampoo was over the moon as she took out the ramen's for all of them from the case, setting them on the table before taking her leave as well.

Ranka tried to protest. "You can't be taking this serious.." Nodoka sighed " It is very serious Ranka." Ranka got all flustered. " I didn't mean to say it.." Nodoka put a hand to her face. " Regardless it was still said and promised and their laws are sacred and must be honored, just as I expect you to honor it." Ranka was bright red in the face. Nodoka still had her hand to her face. " Of course I still expect you to find a good man as well and the amazon's will have to deal with it. Perhaps if you acted more lady like.." Ranma-chan looked horrified, but managed to snap out of it. " How is that fair? It wasn't her fault." Nodoka still had her hand to her face. " I never said honor was fair. Just as if you were in the same situation Ranko dear, I would expect the same from you, to honor your promise." Ranma-chan shut up promptly after that, as she tensed up. Nodoka gave Ranka a pat on the back. " Now then, let's enjoy the ramen that Ranka's fiancee brought us." Ranka groaned in reply.

The evening went by and soon it was time for bed, as they finished getting ready and settled in for the night, while also finishing up homework. Ranma-chan worked on hers while looking really annoyed. " That was obviously a cheap shot at me, by targeting you to see what they can get away.." Ranka worked on her own looking frustrated. " Pretty much.. and if that was any indication, mom will likely expect you marry all of them." It was Ranma-chan's turn to get all flustered. "Ugh.. I know.. and.. promises must be honored.." She said looking off some looking really upset. Ranka had a sad look on her face, at seeing how upset her twin was. " Yeah but that also places the old man at the top. "He" was the one who made the promises to her, not you."

Back at the Nekohanten, Shampoo was humming happily to herself as she finished up with the dishes. Cologne was finishing up with her own task as well. "You see Shampoo, now that your in the mother's good graces, you have no worries about entry now." Shampoo smiled back. "That and I can go see airen's whenever I want to. Aiya." Cologne chuckled. "That and we know that son in law will have to honor our sacred law as well, seeing how his mother did so with Ranka." Shampoo nodded in agreement. "I all done great grandmother, I be back."

Cologne smirked. "Try not to get in too much trouble."

Meanwhile back at the Saotome's, after finishing their homework the siblings turned in for bed and had left the window open for air, thinking that Shampoo had already been there and wouldn't be back so soon, but they were unfortunately wrong. After turning into a cat, Shampoo had taken her leave and made her way to her destination, as she jumped down from a tree, on top of the Saotome's rooftop. Seeing the window was open she smiled as she let herself in. She could go un detected by the mother in her cat form, as opposed to slipping in in her human form. She jumped up onto the first bed she came across and purred at seeing it was her other airen, where she lay down on her stomach. Ranka grumbled in her sleep at feeling something a bit heavy on top of her. While she didn't completely share the trauma of cats like Ranma, she still wasn't fond of them, as she shuddered some instinctively. Shampoo kitty got too comfy and cat instincts came out as she started kneading Ranka's chest with her claws some. Ranka owwed some in her sleep and having a weird dream where Ivory was pinching her on her chest.

After a while Shampoo kitty decided to try to go see Ranma, as she jumped off from the bed onto the floor. She padded her way lightly on her paws over to the other bed further off to the other side of the room a ways, before jumping up onto it and onto Ranma-chan. She purred as she curled herself up on top of her stomach. At hearing the purring her eyes snapped open. "Shampooo.." Before she started to panic more, Ranka having gotten woken up, snatched Shampoo kitty up off her, yawning half awake as she held her by the scruff of her neck, setting her outside the window on the roof. "Go home.." She then shut the window behind her and locked it before getting back into bed.

Ranma-chan sighed a breath of relief at the cat being gone as she calmed down and drifted back to sleep, thankful that Ranka had saved her.

Morning came and the usual routine of getting ready for school and then getting out the door. Walking off to the clinic afterwards. Ranma-chan looked flustered. "Thanks for getting Shampoo off me last night." Ranka nodded and yawned some. Ranma-chan gave her a stern look. " Your not waiting outside, okay." Ranka sighed as she went off inside with her.

School went and came by as everyone headed home for the day. Thrista waited by the gate for Daisuke, before they went off together. After stopping off at Doctor Tofu's clinic, they made their way back home to pack up for the weekend, before heading back out after being sent off by their mother.

Akane waited excitedly for them to get there, so then that her and Ranka could go meet up with Sayuri at her house and drop their things off before heading out again. Once they had gotten in and greetings were exchanged, Akane grabbed Ranka by her hand and ran out the door with her. Kasumi giggled at how excited her little sister was to being having a "girls night" out. Nabiki munched on a rice cracker at the table, looking over at Ranma. " What's the matter Ranma, you didn't want to join the party?" Ranma-chan gave her an annoyed look, before going off to go take a bath. On the other hand Happosai tried to run off to the front door to follow them. " Wait for me! I want to join the party!" Soun had gotten up in a flash and was blocking the front doorway with his arms out. " I'm sorry master but you cannot crash my baby girls outing." Happosai glared back at him " So, you would defy your master." Soun stood strong blocking his way, but also took a magazine out from his shirt. " Please master, make do with "this" in exchange." Happosai jumped up and grabbed the dirty magazine from him. " Hmm alright, I'll let you off the hook this time." He went off into his room, shutting the door behind him.

After getting to Sayuri's house, they dropped off their things before heading out altogether. Akane was wearing one of her cuter outfits, along with a skirt, where Ranka was wearing similar, except she had her sweatshirt hoodie, jacket over her shirt and also wearing a skirt, along with her boots. Sayuri was wearing a nice dress, as her and Akane beamed brightly as they were walking. They had decided on going to a cake cafe first.

Sayuri explained the rules to them, how they had to eat all the cake's that they took or they'd have to pay more and only had a certain time. After browsing the selection of goods and picking a good amount out, they sat back down. Akane and Sayuri were gushing about the cute desserts and different type's of cakes. Ranka was too busy just taking it all in, as she took a bite out of one of the little cakes. Sayuri smiled at seeing that she was liking it. " Ranka, have you even been to one of these places before?" Ranka shook her head. After they had finished what they had taken and finished before time was up,they took their leave after Ranka bought a take out box.

Sayuri smiled at her. " Didn't have enough, huh?" Ranka shook her head. " Do you think we could go somewhere else, before we go to karaoke place?" Sayuri looked at Akane who agreed. " Yeah sure, where do you want to go?" Akane piped in as well. " Yeah, where do you want to go Ranka?" Ranka shuffled her boots at the ground some. "I just thought how Ukyou might like some too.." Akane smiled some at hearing that. " She might." Sayuri nodded in agreement. " Alright we'll be over at the book store then." Her and Akane split off from Ranka as she went off to Ukyou's.

The sign on the door said "Closed". Ranka sighed and knocked on the door a few times, before Ukyou answered it, looking upset at seeing her. Ukyou looked away some. " Oh, um sorry but I'm closed." Ranka furrowed her brows annoyed some. " I'm aware." She then rubbed at her arm some as she held out the container with cakes. " I uh thought you'd like some." Ukyou took the container from her, wondering what it was, until she took a peek, then started to tear up some, seeing how despite the rift caused by the repeated traumatic event, that they both had to play through again, that she was still thinking of her. Making her feel more guilty for how she had been acting. Ranka kept rubbing at her arm nervously. " I could come help out if you need me to." Ukyou wiped her tears away. " No, it wasn't your fault, it's just.." Ranka looked down at the ground. " Like deja vu, yeah.. " She could tell that Ukyou was really depressed. "You should come with us to karaoke and Sayuri's after if you want anyways." Ukyou tensed up some. "Oh no I couldn't." Ranka quirked an eyebrow at her. " You were invited." Ukyou fussed. " I've never been to karaoke or around other girls really.." Ranka gave her a look. " That's why you should come, instead of being all alone here, you know." Ukyou got all flustered. " Do you want me to come?" Ranka gave her a dull look. " Well duh, so hurry up and get ready. I'll come back in a few minutes." She then took her leave, heading over to the book store.

Not much later Ranka came back with the others and went in and came back out with Ukyou who was wearing a cute dress. Sayuri and Akane greeted her back enthusiastically. They made their way over to the karaoke place. Sayuri went to the front desk and found out where their party was room wise, before they headed there.

After entering the room, Sayuri greeted her other friend and thanked her for the invitation. Next to her another girl was sitting. Ranka tensed up at spotting Ivory being the other girl and Sayuri's other friend was from Asadaiba. Ukyou could tell from how upset Ranka looked, that one of the girls here must be that girl that's been fighting with her. Sayuri also looked dismayed at spotting Ivory, remembering how she had attacked her, and Akane picked up on this immediately. All of them starring intently at her. Ivory greeted them all, her interest mainly on Ranka. " What a small world huh, both us trouble makers here at the same time." She waved her hand about. " Don't worry we're all here to have fun, so there won't be any trouble while we're at karaoke." She went back to talking to the other girl.

After they all settled in, Sayuri tried to make things better. " Okay, so who wants to go first? Because we're here to have fun and sing!" Ivory smiled as she got up. " I'll go first then." She went over to the system in the middle of the room, going thru the songs till she found what she was looking for. The song started and she started to heavily sing to the angry song about betrayal, obviously directing it at Ranka. After she was done the other girl went next, followed by Sayuri. Sayuri then tried to get Akane to do it, but she was too flustered, so they decided to do a duet instead, followed by Ranka and Ukyou who duet ed together. Then Ivory and her friend did a duet. They then decided to take a break and order drinks and pizza. Ivory volunteered her and Ranka to retrieve the orders to avoid the service fee, as she pulled her off outside the room with her.

She pulled her off down a long hallway, before throwing her off into the side of the wall. Ranka's gem lit up putting up the defense barrier in time protecting her from the slam to the wall. She glared annoyed at her. " I guess you were bs ing about no trouble while at karaoke.." Ivory glared back gritting her teeth. "Well we're not in the karaoke room right now, are we? And I had to address you.. for what your damned, awful mother did to me! She's not going to get off easy for that!" Ranka glared at her more. "Stay the hell away from her.. I don't know what you think she did to you…" Ivory bristled in anger. "She cut my tail off!" Ranka smirked some at her. "Ooh! Well maybe you shouldn't have been up to no good then." One of the near by doors opened as someone poked their head out looking around after hearing the loud noise from the wall slam, surprising them as Ranka dropped her barrier. The person then stuck their head back into the room, shutting the door behind them.

Back in the room, Thrista thanked Daisuke for poking his head out the door, like she had asked him to. He just smiled goofily at her. They hadn't done much singing, she had sung one song, as they were mainly busy listening to what they could hear from the room where Ranka and the others were. As Thrista had made sure the vents were open to let sound in, as well as how she had brought a sound ampflying device.

Ivory growled at hearing what she said, taking action, seeing that they were alone again, by grabbing her by her face. " Drop the act, you're a trouble maker too, just like me! Now, show your true self!" She's yanking at Ranka's face, trying to get her to reveal her she devil self. Ranka owws at her pulling on her skin. " I told you, "he's" lying to YOU!" Ivory keeps yanking determined, until Ranka kicks her off her, sending her stumbling off into the wall. "Hah, now they'll see you for the she devil you really are!" Ranka grumbled at her as where she had yanked hard and was bleeding some, before her gem lit up and healed it. Ivory's eyes were wide at seeing this. "No, you're supposed to be a she- devil.." Ranka gave her a somewhat sad look. "Well.. i'm not, because you are being lied to…" She started to walk off to the front desk.

The others looked relieved as Ranka and Ivory came back after a few minutes with the drinks and food. Ivory had dropped things for the moment at being in shock. There was no fake skin like hers, and no she devil red skin underneath, that wouldn't have bled. Was Ranka right? Had Satan lied to her?

After they finished eating and drinking they went back to singing for awhile. Ivory and her friend had just finished singing as the wall behind her cracked and exploded. This made the girls yell and Ivory's friend scrambled away from where she was. Shampoo appeared through the hole in the wall she had made with her bonbori weapons, changing them out for her sword as she lashed out at Ivory. " I kill!" Ranka was wide eyed at seeing this for a minute, before calling out Shampoo. "Cmon Shampoo that's enough!" The other girl ran out of the room shaken up. Shampoo sheathes the sword and in the blink of eye is glomping onto Ranka. " Aiya, airen!" Ranka pulls her off her. "I'm serious.." Ivory's so angry at what she's hearing and seeing. " Oh I see, so you put a hit out on me, huh!" Ranka sweat dropped. " I didn't.. I told her not to.." Shampoo nodded in agreement. "Is true, but you hurt my airen, so I give you "kiss of death." Ivory's so angry her disguise starts to fade, showing her red skin and horns. "What?!" The others are gasping at what they are seeing. Ranka sweat drops at her. "It's.. an amazon thing, where they vow revenge on their target, to track them down to the ends of the earth and kill them.." Ivory notices the looks from the other girls and gasps as she realizes. Shampoo has her sword out and ready as she aims an attack at Ivory, just grazing her side with the tip of her blade, as Ivory moved away just quick enough, as she ran off thru the hole in the wall, with Shampoo hot on her trail. She does manage to fix the damage to the wall before she's too faraway, as she had kept to what she said about not causing any trouble in the karaoke room.

Having finally lost Shampoo for the moment, Ivory sighed in a near by alley way with her back up against the wall where she was slumped against. Just great, they had all seen. She looked up at hearing foot steps, expecting to see the amazon, but instead saw Ranka. She wrinkled up her nose at her. " What do YOU want? Come to laugh at me? Because they all saw how hideous I am now.. and I can't easily go back. Like haha serves you right.." Ranka bit her lip some. "No.." Ivory gave her an annoyed look. " Well I obviously can't go back, even if I wanted to.. so I'm stuck now and gotta go back to that liar.." She said gritting her teeth. Ranka furrowed her brow at her annoyed. " You don't have to. Take off the necklace and we'll start from there." Ivory got more annoyed with her. " And then what? We'll just start over? " Ranka sighed as she rubbed at her arm. "I'd be willing to, or to help you, you just have to get rid of the necklace first.." Ivory's eyes widened at her words, and she started to reach towards the back of the necklace slowly with her hands.

Alley appeared from behind her. " Ivory, what's taking you so long?" Having heard some of the conversation. " What? Her help you? She's in with the demon slayer woman, she's just trying to lead you over to be slaughtered. Let's not forget how she's with the same woman who sliced off your tail." She kept manipulating her with her words, the aura of the corruption around Ivory as her eyes flashed red. "That's right!"

Ranka glared at Alley, having her barrier up the whole time, before she could say or do anything, Shampoo had landed her sights on Ivory. Swinging down from the air with her sword at her. "I kill!" Seeing the other she- devil, she slashed her sword about at her, slicing off the tip of her tail. Alley cursed as she grabbed Ivory by the hand, making a hasty retreat before disappearing. Ranka sighed as she watched Shampoo run off after them, clenching her fist as she had almost gotten through to Ivory.

Sayuri and the others having split up from Ranka before, went back to her house, agreeing that after Ranka was done doing whatever she had run off to do, she'd come back to the house. They all felt relieved as they heard her come in through the front door. Sayuri smiled at seeing her, she wasn't really sure what she had went off to do when she had said she'd be back and to go back to the house without her. Ukyou and Akane both figured she had likely gone after Ivory, telling by her demeanor. While Sayuri and Ukyou didn't want to pry, Akane on the other hand demanded answers. "What happened huh, Ranka!?" Ranka looked away some as she rubbed at her arm, knowing she couldn't deflect with Akane, she was like a bull, with how aggressive and how she wouldn't back off easily. "I was trying to talk some sense into her, that's all and it didn't work, okay."

Sayuri changed the subject as she brought out some rice balls as snacks. "Who want's snacks?" Her plan worked as the others helped themselves. Sayuri sipped her drink. " I was going to say we should watch a horror movie, but i'm thinking a romantic comedy instead. Any objections?" Being none they sat on the couch, after going and changing into their pajama's and making up some popcorn to watch the movie.

After the movie was done, they could hear the rain come down outside. Akane strained her ears as she thought she heard pig noises coming from outside, as she grabbed an umbrella near the front door. "I'll be right back." Sayuri blinked. "Why would you go out there, right now?" Akane was too intent to find out where the noises were coming from as she braced going outside with the umbrella open, till she came back inside a few minutes later holding a soaked P-chan. Sayuri put her hands to her mouth. " Oh it's P-chan, how did he get out there?"

Akane asked to used a towel, to which Sayuri pointed her to where they were. She started toweling off her wet pet. "Poor baby.." She then turned her attention back to her friend. "Honestly I'm not really sure myself, he ends up getting lost so easily." Ranka and Ukyou just sweat dropped in silence, since they knew, unlike Akane and Sayuri.

Sayuri smiled. " You really love your pet, don't you Akane." Akane giggled as she kept drying him off. " Can you blame me? He's just so darn cute." Sayuri nodded. " Well since we technically have a boy here now, we can play "spin the bottle" without a pillow, if it's okay with you Akane." Ukyou and Ranka sweat dropped more. Akane smiled "It's okay with me." She then looked at P-chan smiling. " How about you P-chan, are you okay with it." P-chan blushed furiously, looking around at seeing Ranka and Ukyou as well as Akane. He was in heaven right now. Sayuri smiled as she went and got a bottle and some pillows as they all sat on the floor to play. " I didn't hear him say " no." Ukyou and Ranka were happy that there would at least be pillows in the equation.

Sayuri spun the bottle around taking first turn. " Alright, I'll go first." They watched as the bottle spun around and where it landed, on where Akane was sitting and holding P-chan. Sayuri giggled. Akane smiled and giggled as well. " Uh oh P-chan it landed on you." Ranka and Ukyou sweat dropped more as Sayuri gave him a quick kiss on his snout, while Akane held him up. Sayuri laughed some. "Okay Akane, it's your turn." Akane spun the bottle next, with it landing on P-chan again, much to his joy as he got another kiss on his snout, making him snort with glee. Ranka grimaced, knowing how pissed off Ranma would be if he happened to see this later on. Ukyou coughed some. " Get a room, you two." Sayuri laughed as she gave Ukyou the bottle. " Here it's your turn now." Ukyou sweat dropped with a dull look. " Oh goodie." She spun it around and luckily for her it landed on a pillow, which she gave a quick peck to. Sayuri then gave the bottle to Ranka. " Okay, now it's Ranka's turn." Ranka sweat dropped. "Do I have to?" Sayuri gave her a look. " Yes you have to, it's a golden rule of sleep overs, everyone has to play." Ranka sighed as she spun the bottle around and became more flustered as it landed on P-chan. Oh man.. Ryouga had better disappear for awhile, before Ranma found him, after this. She leaned over and gave a quick peck to his cheek. Akane giggled finding it funny, till she gasped at him fainting with a nose bleed. " Oh, P-chan are you okay?!" She shook him around till he woke back up. Sayuri started to feel a little bad. " I guess it was too much for him to be the center of all this attention. Okay I guess we'll end the game for now."

Sayuri then announced it was time for facials and doing each other nails, bringing out the face mask mash up in a big bowl. " Alright ladies, let's mask up." She slabbed some from the bowl onto her face. Ukyou made a face as well as Ranka. Ukyou starred into the bowl. " What is it?" Akane had already slabbed some on her face and much to dismay she had slabbed some on his too. " Here, you too P-chan." Sayuri noticed their un sure looks. " It's avocado, it's really good for your skin." Ranka and Ukyou eventually slabbed some onto their faces as well, knowing they'd get nagged to anyways. Sayuri then laid out all the nail polishes, and they all agreed on certain colors as they painted each other nails.

After they finished that and rinsed their face masks off after a certain time, they were sitting and having some mochi ice cream for dessert. Akane was feeding some to P-chan. Once finished they got ready for bed as Sayuri had futons out for them already, as they cozied in. They stayed up for awhile, talking about random things.

Back in hell, Ivory was in her room in deep thought, as Satan let himself in, pulling her into his arms, earning a surprised yelp from her. She tried to un tangle herself from him. " I was just about to get ready for bed." He ignored her as he played with some of her hair. " You can wait a little longer." Ivory managed to pull herself away from him, looking annoyed. " You told me, Ranka was a she devil, did you not?" Satan noticed the anger from her. "And she is, are you doubting me, my dear?" Ivory kept her stern look on him. "Then how come when I tried to pull her fake face off, it didn't come off and it bled.. And why can't she touch my necklace?" Satan continued to try to fib his way out, only to anger her more. Ivory spat out " She told me, YOU lied to me! And that she's not a she-devil!" Satan sighed "She's a liar and a traitor, so she'll say whatever she needs to. She's been around too many bad influences and it's all rubbing off on her, as you can see, but I shall leave you a lone." He bowed before taking his leave from her room.

Alley was waiting outside in the hallway with her arms crossed. "So, what now? Seems like our little rebel, almost got through to her." Satana huffed as he draped his arms around her with a sinister grin. " I believe after some rest, she'll see things differently, as I'll just have to make her see things my way." Alley snickered. "Oh you." They walked off to his chambers for the night.

In the morning at Sayuri's after getting up, they all helped make breakfast together, with Akane being appointed to salad and setting the table. Once everyone had a plate and was eating, Akane was eating as well but also giving P-chan nibbles as well. After helping clean up they went off to get changed for the day and start packing up. Akane after putting P-chan down on the ground with him turned facing away, started to get changed. Ranka had her hands on her hips. "You just let him watch you un dress huh?" Akane waves her hand about. " He's a good boy, he doesn't peek." Ranka rolls her eyes at her. " How do you know that, huh Akane? He's still a boy, so.." She throws a sheet over P-chan. Ukyou nodded in agreement. " You let him get away with too much, Akane." Akane pouts at them ganging up on her cute little baby. Sayuri just has a good laugh about it.

Once they said their goodbye's to Sayuri and thanked her having them over, they walked back to Ukyou's. Ranka smiled a little at her. " See now, aren't you glad you did come?" Ukyou blushed some. " I guess so, it was still weird though." Ranka nodded in agreement. " It was.. but you weren't alone." Akane nodded in agreement as well, having a death grip on P-chan. " How was it weird?" Ukyou and Ranka just gave her a look. Ranka made sure Ukyou was okay, before taking her leave with Akane.

They started walking back and at going by the cake shop, Ranka stopped off to get some cakes for everyone to bring back, since they couldn't do so last night. Akane was fussing over P-chan, cutely. Ranka sweat dropped looking off the other way, knowing Ryouga was gonna get it, if Ranma saw him come back with them. Akane looked over at Ranka, while still holding P-chan. " Are you okay from what happened with Ivory?" Ranka clenched the handle of the cake box some. "Of course not, but I have to be.. or it'll eat me alive.." Akane bit her lip nervously, feeling a little guilty for having brought it up at all now, seeing and knowing it was affecting Ranka. Ranka was still looking off some as they kept walking. " Bad things will keep happening, it's just the way it is and I'm prepared for that now." Akane tensed up some. " You shouldn't think like that though." Ranka gave her a look. " It's the facts. Like how you've got a big mouth." Akane stopped walking and had an angry piki vein on her head. She had just been thinking how Ranka had changed from how she had used to be when they first met, as well as how she usually didn't fire back at her like Ranma, but then sometimes she would too. She was tempted to hit her, but she was holding P-chan. Instead she spat back her words at her. " Oh yeah, like you're not!" She stormed off ahead of her as they got close enough to the house.

Kasumi put her hand to her mouth as Akane came storming in holding P-chan in her arms, huffing and puffing. Kasumi tried to pry. "Welcome back Akane, are you alright? You seem mad?" Ranma was sitting at the ground table munching on a rice cracker, which he dropped from his mouth at spotting P-chan coming back with Akane, which meant he was at the girls sleepover. Akane huffed and grew more angry at seeing Ranma. " I am, because Ranka's a jerk, just like Ranma is!" She then stormed off to go upstairs. Ranma grumbled at hearing that. Kasumi stopped Akane in her tracks by addressing her. "Akane, that's not very nice, didn't you have a nice time out with Ranka?" Akane huffed again. " I did, until she called me a " big mouth!" Kasumi put her hand to her mouth with a dismayed look. " Oh well.. you can be a bit too loud at times Akane." Akane stormed off upstairs in a bigger huff. Ranma couldn't help but chuckle. Soun was hiding behind his newspaper. Genma was munching on a rice cracker and shaking his head.

Kasumi greeted Ranka as she finally came in. "Don't mind Akane, she'll calm down in awhile." She was tempted to add how she shouldn't say what she's thinking, but in good faith couldn't reprimand her as she was Ranma's other side, though not half as brash. She also couldn't argue what was said. She gave Genma a stern look out of the corner of her eyes, seeing that he was about to try to say something and start a fight between him and Ranka. Getting an angry look from Kasumi, Genma kept his mouth shut, instead huffing.

Ranka looked away from Genma and handed off the cake box to Kasumi. "Ah yeah, we went to a cake shop so.." Kasumi smiled. "Oh my, how sweet of you, but we'll save them for a little later." Nabiki came down from upstairs, having retreated at hearing an angry Akane. Her eyes lighting up at seeing the cake box. "Ooh don't mind if I do." Kasumi gave her outstretched hand a whack with hers. " Later."

Ranma at noticing that Ranka had disappeared went and looked outside on the porch, till he spotted her sitting on the other side. "Did you really call Akane a "big mouth?" Ranka furrowed her brows. " I did because she was being one." Ranma sat down next to her nodding in agreement. "So how was the karaoke and sleep over? It looks like Ryouga had fun.." He looked really annoyed. Ranka fidgeted with her fingers some. "It was really girly. Doesn't he always." Ranma looked more annoyed about Ryouga. " So, how did Ryouga end up there?" Ranka shrugged her shoulders. " How does it end up anywhere? It was raining and Akane heard him outside and brought him in." Ranma had his arms crossed. "Of course she did…" Ranka tried to change the subject away from that. "Ukyou ended up coming to it too." Ranma looked a bit surprised at hearing that. " Oh yeah? So you two aren't fighting anymore then?" Ranka rubbed at her arm some. " It's not that we were fighting, but yeah things are better now." Ranma smiled some. "That's great, so you did all that stuff from the other sleepover?" Ranka nodded. " And put avocadoes on our faces.. " Ranma gave her a look. " Why?" Ranka shrugged her shoulders. " I dunno it was Sayuri's idea and she was right about it being good for the skin." Ranma mussed on things. " Did you play that dumb bottle game again?" Ranka tensed up some trying to not to get flustered. " Not by choice.." Ranma still had his arms crossed. " And Ryouga was there.." Ranka bit her lip some, but it was too late as Ranma had connected the dots, realizing that he had been playing the game. Ranma got up clenching his fist " That little oinker, he's gonna get it!" He went off inside to get a kettle of hot water ready to go attack him with. Ranka sighed as she knew what he was up to, but wasn't going to be able to talk him out of it either.

Before he could act it was lunch time and Kasumi had called everyone to the table, with Akane having come downstairs holding P-chan as she took a seat as well. She started feeding some to P-chan as well. Ranma was eating and glaring at P-chan the whole time as he finished eating. "So P-chan had lots of fun last night huh." Akane gave him an annoyed look. "Honestly you're jealous of a little pig. So what if he did, everyone loved him." Ranka sweat dropped as she sipped her drink, listening to the arguing back and forth. Kasumi put her hand to her mouth. " Oh my, what sort of fun did he have?" Ranka looked a little flustered as she looked off some. Nabiki smirked as she was enjoying the whole thing. Ranma clenched his fist " He had "spin the bottle" fun, didn't you you lil porker!" P-chan looked away nervously. Akane glared back at Ranma furiously. " So what if he did!" She then smiled looking down at P-chan. " Isn't that right my little baby." She gave him a little kiss on the snout, making him squeal and making Ranma lunge across the table at him. "That's it!" Kasumi had her hands to her mouth " Oh dear oh my, please not at the table." P-chan managed to get away from Akane as he ran off. Ranma took off after him. " Get back here, Ryouga!" Akane yelled after him. " You better not hurt him, Ranma!"

Once things settled down after a lot of Ranma running around the house trying to catch P-chan, and lunch being cleaned up, Kasumi brought out the cakes that Ranka had brought back for them. Ranma had lost his fury for Ryouga at the moment as he sat back down at the table. Akane looked annoyed some still. Kasumi was eating one of the little cakes. "Oh my these are so petite and delicious, is this where you two went yesterday Akane, Ranka?" Akane dropped her anger, smiling some. " Yes to a cake cafe, before we went to karaoke." Nabiki munched on a piece, annoyed that she hadn't taken advantage of the opportunity.

After everyone was done and off doing their own things, it was just Ranma and Akane at the table. Ranma had noted that there was still tension between her and Ranka. " You still mad?" Akane gave him an annoyed look. " I'm still mad at you too!" Ranma huffed at her. "Yeah well, you must've got Ranka mad at you over something." Then he thought about it for a second and gave her a look. " You didn't bring up that damn girl did you?" Akane tensed up some for a minute before shooting back at him. " I didn't really have to because it was already brought up! She was there with us at karaoke.." Ranma sighed as this was news to him and how when he and Ranka had been talking it wasn't brought up at all. " So what the hell happened?" Akane looked around. "It was tense, and then Shampoo crashed in, trying to attack her and then they all ran off. Ranka came back to Sayuri's after though."

Ranka was upstairs in Kasumi's room taking a nap under the blankets of the futon, as she rolled over. Ryouga had ran off from Ranma chasing after him, wandering off into a room and hiding in the first thing he could find, which happened to be the futon blankets on the floor where he had gotten comfy and fallen asleep. He had woken up some, as he had felt someone lay down making him try to find his way out, moving about slowly. Then suddenly he felt himself get sucked into something that felt soft. Ranka rolled over again in her sleep wearing her tank top and shorts, with P-chan stuck face first in her boobs. He managed to pull himself out of the soft area and his eyes bulged as he looked up at Ranka's sleeping face, making his nose bleed as he fainted, dropping down next to her pillow.

Back downstairs Ranma was thinking how he should go thank Shampoo for her help, as well as have a talk with her. After Akane had gone off upstairs, he told Kasumi he'd be back later, as he took his leave.