you should read the first part because there are
a few changes, but nothing truly ultimately major.

just kinda skim it.

here's the second chapter!

                                    -

Ranma chased through the street after Akane.  She only ran all the faster and
wouldn't even spare him a glance.

"Okay, Akane!  Whatever!  I'll come back to talk, tonight!"

Akane started to turn around and answer that, but Ranma was already gone.

                                    -

Back at the Cat Cafe, Cologne had a talk with Ranma and Shampoo.

"The wedding will have to wait until we can all get back to China, and no...
proliferation can take place until then."

"Eh, old ghoul," started Ranma as Cologne bopped him on the head with her
stick, "you were practically begging me to take Shampoo before now--"

"Yes, son-in-law.  But I never personally agreed with that approach, I just
knew it would be another way to you get two together.  Since you're already
committed, as per my own beliefs you are not to produce any offspring until
your wedding night."

Dejectedly, Shampoo and Ranma went up to Shampoo's room.

"Wait a second, Shampoo...no 'proliferation,' she said."

"That right, Ranma.  Now Ranma can no please Shampoo!" Shampoo whined.

Ranma answered her with a kiss.  And then another.  And another.
Over and over.

"R-Ranma...stop...you no do that..."

Ranma snorted and moved his head ... down.  Far down.

"B-but Great-Grandmother say--"

"Now, now!  This wouldn't result in 'production of offspring,' would it?"

Shampoo smiled.  Then gasped and smiled even wider.

                                    -

It was midnight.  Shampoo was sprawled on her back, snoring somewhat loudly.
Ranma finished his relaxation kata and looked over at her.

"Aw, Ranma, you the man!" Ranma thought to himself.  He drooled slightly at
her chest rising and falling with her every breath.  He grinned.  "I guess my
scaled-down Sweet Chestnut Fist worked a little too well.  She doesn't look
like she's waking up anytime tonight."

Ranma decided to go pay Akane a visit.  "I hope she doesn't hate me," he
thought to himself.  As he cleared the windowsill, he wondered, "Why do I
care, anyway?"

                                    -

"Akane!  Psst!  Akane!"  Ranma stepped through Akane's bedroom window.

Akane lay in bed, awake, but pretending to be asleep.  Ranma walked up to her
and she sprang out of bed with the Tendo family sword.  He simply grabbed
Akane's hand and turned the sword towards the ground.

"I just wanted to talk."

"Get out of here!  I don't even know who you are!"

"Not jealous of Shampoo, are you?"

"Jealous?  Who's there to be jealous of?  She has *you*, after all, you
pervert!"

"I can see you don't like me anymore.  I might as well have some fun.  After
all, if there's anything I've learned these past couple days, it's to take
life by the horns and steer it the way you want it!  And right now, I want to
see some naked flesh in agony..."

Ranma leered at her, then grabbed her by the shoulders and held her fast with
an iron grip.

                                    -

As it turned out, Ranma didn't do anything too bad.  Just tied her by both
feet, upside down, to the flagpole in front of Furinkan High.

When he left, Akane struggled to get out, but the bonds were too tight.  She
cursed when she felt herself losing consciousness.  Bending up at the waist
so her hands could reach her feet and to keep all the blood from rushing to
her head, she realized she would never be able to untie that tight knot with
her bare hands.

"Well, I've gotta try!"  A look of determination crossed her face.  "It's
still dark.  I have a few hours."

                                    -

Dr. Tofu woke up in the early morning hours to the ringing phone.

"What do you want?" he answered it, annoyed.

"Hello, Dr. Tofu?" A female voice came from the handset.

"Yeah?  Who...?"

She launched right in.  "We're worried.  Ranma is missing.  If you see
him, could you tell us?  We figured he might be over there or something...
you know, maybe Akane had hurt him again or something."

"Uh, okay.  Who is this?"

"You don't recognize my voice?  Oh, these silly phones!  This is Kasumi.
'Bye."

"Ka-kasumi?  Uh.."

                                    -

8:00 AM.

Akane's determination had long since given way to despair.  She had never
been shamed by anyone so badly in her entire life.  The student body of
Furinkan gazed at her nude, hanging body while she tried in vain to cover
herself up in some way.  No one was even trying to get her down.  Yuka and
Sayuri tried, but were blocked by a large number of male students.

Suddenly, her eyes were blasted with light.

"What was that?" she asked aloud.

She turned her head and saw two more camera flashes.  Nabiki and Gosunkugi.

"Hey, you jerks!" she yelled at them.  They pretended not to hear her.

A streak of black blazed at the flagpole and then bounced away from it.
And Akane was no longer there.

"Hey!" everyone yelled.

                                    -

"Let's get you out of here," Dr. Tofu told Akane while bouncing across
rooftops.  "Who did this to you?"

"Ranma..." and then she started sobbing, "Oh, my dignity!  Ranma, you're
gonna pay dearly for this!"

"Ranma did that to you?  Are you sure?"

"I can't believe it myself, but y-yes...it was him..."

"Do you mind if I take a look at his room and keep a close watch on you for
a little while?  Some investigation is in order."

Akane remembered why she had liked Dr. Tofu in the past and grinned.  "Okay."
He pulled out a pack of tissues from his pocket and gave it to her.

                                    -

Dr. Tofu sat outside the Cat Cafe in the outside dining area in disguise.

"All I have to do now is track him and find out what's caused this change
of mind all of a sudden." he thought, "and Ranma's probably not in school
without his father to make him go."

Ranma, in girl form, came out of the restaurant.  "Hi!" she bowed deeply.
I'm Ranma Saotome.  What would you like to order, sir?"  What luck, thought
Tofu.

"Come with me, would you?  Just for a second."

"Uh, okay."

They ducked into a side alley.  Dr. Tofu grabbed Ranma-chan by her collar and
slammed her head against the wall.

"Hey!  What th--"

"Shut up.  Why did you do what you did to Akane?"

"Who are you?  Let me guess, you love her too, right?  Well, take her!"

Tofu squeezed his hands around Ranma-chan's neck.  "Listen, boy.  I'm really
disappointed that you would abandon and abuse your fiancee, and then you and
Shampoo..."  he cut his statement off there.

"H-how did you know..."

"I can smell it.  Brushing alone won't always do the whole job." he said in
a disapproving voice.

"Hah.  Think I should floss next time, too?" Ranma asked sarcastically.

"With Shampoo, you might just want to."  Tofu smirked inwardly.  "I haven't
had an opportunity to make a good-natured crack on anyone in a long time!"

"Why you...!"

Ranma-chan struggled to get out of the hold, but it was no use.

"I'll kick your ass when I get out of this."

"Ranma, I'm a doctor.  A martial artist and a doctor.  Do you know what
you're up against?  I could break your neck this instant."

"Go ahead, then...doctor."

"Just come with me."

"Hold on a second.  How did you know I am really a boy?"

                                    -

Ranma-chan cursed and sweared, but mere words would not untie the bonds
holding her hands and feet tightly to stakes in the floor in his room.

"Hey, Akane, take a look at this," said Dr. Tofu throwing Ranma's pillow to
Akane.  "Interesting design and color, don't you think?"

"It's the black rose emblem of Kodachi!  She must have poisoned Ranma!  Let's
go see her and make her give us a cure!"

"You might have a hard time doing that, Akane.  Kodachi Kuno died two days
ago in a tragic fuel explosion on a plane headed to the Bahamas."

"Oh, no!" cried Akane, "how will we cure you, Ranma?"

"We don't," quipped Ranma-chan with a smile, "I'm not sick, so don't cure me."

Tofu was more hopeful.  "I can analyze the poison on the pillowcase and maybe
find a cure for it.  It might take a little while."

"What do we do with Ranma in the meantime, Dr. Tofu?" Akane asked, tickling
Ranma's stomach, which made her giggle and then curse some more.

"Just hold him there for the time being, and don't untie him.  For any
reason whatsoever."

"What about eating?"

"You feed him."

"Yuck," said Akane disgustedly for the benefit of everyone in the room (save
herself).

"You wanna know 'yuck?'  Here's a real hum-dinger."  He handed Akane a
bag with some tubes attached and a booklet.  "If you need help with the
hookup, just ask for me."

"Ewww."

"You idiots!  Make me a guy again and at least let me handle my own di--"

His words were unheard to Akane and Tofu, because Tofu was whispering in
Akane's ear.  "Don't let him change to a guy.  If he does, he'll break the
bonds.  Even if he didn't, his strength as a guy might break them anyways."

                                    -

Shampoo and Cologne sat in the Cafe, waiting for Ranma to return.

"I wonder where Ranma is right now," Shampoo wondered aloud.

Cologne answered her, "Oh, who knows.  Out on an adventure with Ryoga or
something.  I trust you'll keep a tighter leash on him once we're back in
China."

"Yes, Great-Grandmother!"

"By the way, you should start buying professional-strength mouthwash for
Ranma.  His brushing his teeth alone isn't enough to get rid of the odors.
I tell you, Shampoo, heed my words--"

"Oh, don't worry, Great-Grandmother.  He put me to sleep before I had a
chance to reciprocate."  Shampoo said.  She blushed.  "Ranma will make a
great husband!"

"And he's strong, too.  Wait'll the girls hear that I pulled this one off."

Shampoo imagined Cologne talking to other century-old women and cackling.  She
shuddered involuntarily.

                                    -

Time passed.  Midnight came around.  Ranma suddenly screamed.

Akane rushed into the room and fell to Ranma's side.

"What's wrong??"

"Aaaaargh...my head, what's happening to my head...ahhhh..."

"Huh?"

"Aaaargh!  No, not that!  Anything but that!  Please, no, no way, no, no,
no, no, no!  I had no idea you were a tea kettle!  When...in pig mode...
I have......control...."

Akane tried to make sense of his ramblings, but it was like Greek to her.
She looked at Ranma-chan, whose forehead was sweating profusely.

"Ranma...what's gone wrong in you?"

                                    -

In the morning, Ranma-chan was as obstinate as ever.

"Let me back to Shampoo, you ugly tomboy!  Come on, untie me!  You jerk!"

"Be quiet, pervert."

"Quiet?  QUIET?!  Hell no!  I'm tied up and I want out!"

"Oh, please.  You'll get back to Shampoo all in good time.  Dr. Tofu wants
to do one more thing with you."

Ranma-chan's anger swelled up within her.  "Rrrgh...I'm the master of my own
fate!  You can't make me do ... "

"...anything!" Ranma-chan finished, snapping all four wires with one gigantic
effort.

Akane gasped in horror, "H-how...?"

She stormed over to Akane and with a mighty heave, shoved her head-first into
the wall.  Akane's body slumped down to the floor and lay still.

"Feh." sneered Ranma-chan, jumping out the window.


continued in Part 3
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