In an area of Japan known as Nerima. Located within the Cat Café (also known as Nekohanten) Shampoo had come to realize something. She had been able to head back home because she was not able to carry out what she had started. The path to getting Ranma to marry her was marred with rivals who were always getting in the way. Then there was Ranma himself as she was thinking things over recently and decided something.

She thought about it and came to the conclusion she was not really in love and was just trying to carry out her duty as an Amazon. So the quicker she finishes this up the quicker she can get back home as she even ended up with a curse because of Ranma. If she had followed through the first time then she would not have gone back home and ended up with the curse she has now.

So plotting began as the purple hair Amazon was not going to be holding back anymore as she was not doing everything she could to truly take care of her rivals there were many ways she dealt with them but was not using them because of Ranma. With him now out of the picture that was not the case in more.

Sometime later….

Ranma was wondering why there were so many accidents happening to the girls he knew. It was strange and not knowing was starting to piss him off. At first, it was just little things but now Akane and Ukyo were both hospitalized and would be for awhile now. Neither seem to have any idea of what happened to them to get into that state. Nabiki was looking into things but she had since vanished and has not been seen in a while. Kasumi well she did not seem that different at first glance but that oblivious stance she seemed to have against the strange things that happening in Nerima since Ranma had arrived had gotten worse.

It was very strange and off putting as this was even more abnormal than everything else that had happened over the course of the last year. So went to see if Shampoo was still doing okay as she had to deal with various accidents happening to her as well. However, she got lucky in that they did not harm as much as they had others.

Greeting him was the smell of something nice as with Kasumi in her current state she was just making the same thing repeatedly based on what day it seemed to be. To get something different he started coming to the Cat Café more often.

Shampoo waved as she saw Ranma coming motion to the soup bowl that she had prepared for him and was about to deliver to him.

"Smell good and probably taste good as well," Ranma said

"A meal like no other, it is," Shampoo told him

Watching as Ranma ate the meal and drank soup as well. Though Ranma immediately realized something was wrong as he was in his girl form he was now far younger with her clothes no longer fitting her anymore.

Tripping over her pants which were now too big for her she realized something that had split her mind until now.

"Realizing a bit late that those accidents were not accidents" Shampoo stated

"That meal had time mushroom inside it as seems the thing works even when cut up and cooked. While the soup stock was water from the Pail of Preservation and dished into the bowl by the Locking Ladle. Since you did not want to marry me then I am going to go back to what I originally started doing" she told him.

Ranma though far younger still managed to escape from Shampoo who was once again out to kill her again. Though now she was locked as a girl unable to change back to her original form. Though not that becoming a guy again would be that helpful since she would still be just a kid.

The idea of Shampoo out to kill him was far more dangerous and scary in her current state than it was after they had first met. Ranko as she started going by since she really could not refer to herself as Ranma that much anymore. She was always on the run and sleeping with one eye to prevent Shampoo from trying to kill her.

While she retained her skills the fact was that this body she had now could not handle them that well. It took all that she had just to stay alive as Shampoo was ruthless in her chase. Using everything at the Amazon's disposal corner Ranko wherever she went. Harm anyone who would even attempt to help the red hair girl leading her to try to avoid people altogether.

After barely managing to escape Shampoo after their latest run in. She struggled to pull her along after falling off a bridge and into a raging stream. Beaten already before the fall it was a miracle that she managed to get out of the stream. Collapsing after a while her eyes which had become dull from all that happened Andrew Ryan III noticed this girl and decided she would be a good choice for something he had planned.