Ranma 1/2:  Enter Perfume 
                        Chapter 2:  Here's Perfume! 
 
        Mousse rode his bike down Main Street.  He was making a delivery. 
Not too uncommon, but he was glad to be out of Neko-hanten and away from
that 
dried up old monkey.  Neither of them had seen Shampoo since she had left
to 
give that fool Saotome some lunch.  That was about two hours ago. 
 
        Mousse was worried, but Cologne didn't seem to mind, knowing full  
well that her great-granddaughter could very well take care of herself.   
Mousse stopped at three houses before he finally came to the right one.  He

stepped back over to his bike and sat down on it.  He counted his change, 
lowered his glasses and pedaled off.  As he rode on, he thought of his  
favorite topic...Shampoo. 
 
        As if a sign from a divine entity, he saw Neko-chan crossing the 
street.  As she did, a car skidded, heading straight for her.  Mousse's jaw

dropped.  He had to do something and quick.  He leapt from his bike,  
launching himself at the oncoming car and Neko-chan. 
 
        "SHAMPOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" he cried, grabbing the hapless cat as he

flew by.  Mousse rolled himself into a ball and tucked Neko-chan in his
arms. 
He hit the ground and rolled.  Other than his robe being tattered and
frayed, 
he and the cat were fine.  Mousse stood up and lowered his glasses to look 
at Neko-chan.  She was purring up against his chest. 
 
        "Sh-Shampoo?" he stammered.  He took his glasses off, cleaned them,

then looked at the cat he held in his arms.  "IT'S TRUE!!!  YOU REALLY DO 
LOVE ME!!" he cried.  He tucked the still-purring Neko-chan into his robe, 

dashed over to his bike and rode off back to Neko-hanten, petting her as he
 
went. 
 
        Mousse put his bike on the side of the building and entered it. 
He removed Neko-chan from his robe and set her on the table.  He walked
back 
into the kitchen.  Cologne eyed Mousse, evilly as he entered. 
 
        "I need some hot water.  Shampoo is..." he started, until he felt 
Neko-chan rubbing herself against his legs.  Cologne looked at the cat 
being friendly with Mousse. 
 
        "Shampoo?" Cologne said, completely stunned.  "That can't be
Shampoo, 
Mousse.  You know as well as I do, she isn't at all that friendly to you." 
 
        "But I saved her life!" 
 
        "Really..." Cologne said, in disbelief.  "Hmmm..."  Cologne took
the 
hot water kettle off of the stove and poured it on Neko-chan.  The cat  
sputtered and meowed at the old woman.  "That's not Shampoo, Mousse." she 
said, flatly.  "Neko-chan" shook the wetness from her fur. 
 
        "Huh?  Wha!?!" Mousse started, not believing this.  "It can't be!" 
 
        "It is, now get back to work," Cologne said, coldly, shoving an
order 
of hot ramen at him.  "Table 12."  Mousse grabbed the bowl and stormed out 
of the kitchen.  "Neko-chan" meowed at Cologne some more.  "What do you
want, 
now?" she asked, thinking herself silly.  "As if you're going to understand

me."  Cologne went over to the refrigerator and poured some milk into a  
saucer.  She set it on the floor and went back to cooking. 
 
        "Neko-chan" sniffed at the milk and began to lap it up.  She
stopped 
when she heard some commotion outside.  Cologne sighed knowing that Mousse 
had spilled hot ramen on the customer at Table 12.  Mousse re-entered the  
kitchen with the now empty bowl on his head. 
 
        "Need another order for Table 12," he said.  Mousse looked down at 
"Neko-chan" and sighed.  "What're you keeping the cat for?" 
 
        "As a reminder of your stupidity.  Now here," she said, handing him

another bowl of ramen.  "And if you drop this one, you're out of here." 
 
        Mousse grabbed the bowl and stormed back out of the kitchen.  "Old 
ghoul.  I'm not her slave, who does she think she is..." he muttered as he 
went.   
 
        Mousse came back into the kitchen, still mumbling about how mis- 
treated he felt he was.  Cologne sighed and threw some water behind her to 

shut him up. 
 
        "QUACK!!" Mu-Mu cried, trying to gain his balance as he started to 
fall to the floor.  Mu-Mu smacked his head against the counter and fell to 

the floor, unconscious.  Beside him, where the would be Neko-chan was, sat
a  
young, pert and very naked red-haired, blue-eyed girl.  Her hair was
shoulder 
length.  She looked at the duck lying beside her and mewed.  Realizing that

she was a human now, the young girl stood up and left Neko-hanten by the
back 
door.  When Cologne turned around, all she saw was an empty bowl of milk, 
an unconscious duck and wet human foot prints leading out the back door. 
 
                                * * * 
 
        "Ran-chan!" Ukyo cried as she ran over to Ranma carrying a large 
plate of okonomiyaki.  She set it down in front of Ranma, knocking the
plate 
of something that could not have been recognized even if it had dental  
records (a lunch Akane had obviously attempted to make) onto the floor. 
 
        Akane growled at Ukyo.  Ranma blinked for a second.  "Uh...thanks, 
Ukyo," he said. 
 
        "I made it just for you," Ukyo beamed. 
 
        "Big deal, so you can cook okonomiyaki!" Akane hissed, standing up 
and walking away.  _Grrr...Ranma is such a jerk!_ she thought, leaving the 
cafeteria.  Akane passed some lockers and put her fist through one of them.

 
        It didn't really make her feel any better, but she knew she just
had 
to hit something.  "He didn't even try it..." Akane sighed to herself and  
decided to go for a short walk around the school grounds.  Especially since
 
she heard, Shampoo's typical entrace...*Crash!*  "Nihao, Ranma!  Dutiful  
wife, make husband too-too delicious lunch!"  Followed by the typical  
arguements between her and Ukyo about who's lunch Ranma would eat.  Which  
was followed by the typical Ranma eating both lunches, plus Kasumi's. 
 
        Elsewhere... 
 
        Tatewaki Kuno looked about the Kendo club's training room.  He held

his wooden sword idly and lowered his eyes to his opponent.  His opponent 
stood before him, wearing similar clothing to that of Kuno's.  A single
bead 
of sweat ran down his head.  He took his stance and charged Kuno. 
 
        Kuno took the offensive, swinging his sword at lightning speed.   
When he stopped, the whole room stood silent.  Kuno's opponent stood there,

staring blankly.  Within the second after that, he flew back, landing on  
the practice mat, staring unconsciously at the ceiling.  He was covered
from 
head to toe in bruises, each at a vital point. 
 
        "Hmph," Kuno muttered.  "And to think that you dare to challenge 
Furikan High's rising star, the Blue Thunder of the Kendo club?  Such a  
foolish act can never be justified by any sane mind."  Kuno sighed.  He  
looked out the window of the training hall, watching the wind blow some  
cherry blossom leaves.  "You may all continue your practice," he said  
indifferently. 
 
        As Kuno left the club's training hall, he caught wind of something.

He decided to investigate.  As he rounded the corner, he felt something  
rubbing against his pant leg.  He looked down only to see the pig-tailed  
girl, only her hair was no longer in a pig-tail, nor was she in any
clothes,  
rubbing herself against his legs, purring. 
 
        "OH!  The pig-tailed girl!  Sans the pig-tail...sans clothes for
that 
matter..."  Kuno blinked, then smiled gratuitously.  "OH, PIG-TAILED GIRL!!

YOU DO LOVE ME!  As I knew you did!  Come, let me take you in my arms and
to 
my humble abode where we can consummate your openness to be with me, the 
great Tatewaki Kuno!" he cried, glomping "the pig-tailed girl, sans the
pig- 
tail". 
 
        She growled and hissed at Kuno, and with blinding fury, she
shredded 
him as if he were a cat's scratching post.  Kuno stood completely stunned
as 
the red-haired girl ran off.  Kuno fell to the ground, his clothes in  
tatters, his hair a mess and light claw marks on his face, arms and chest. 
 
        Akane thought she heard something.  As she came around the corner, 
she saw Kuno lying on the ground.  "Kuno!" she yelled, running over to him.

"Who did this to you?  What happened?" 
 
        "With such fierceness of a tiger, it was the pig-tailed one.  Oh, 
Akane Tendo!  You do care for me!" he cried, glomping her as well.  The 
next thing he knew he was being hurled through the sky, courtesy of Akane's

fist.  She lowered her hand down, remembering Kuno's words.  She looked up 
only to see what looked like a naked female Ranma dashing over the school 
fence, much like he would have if he would have if he were in his cat-fist 
phase. 
 
        "Ranma?..." she said, just staring. 
 
End Chapter Two... 
 
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Craig Vincent a.k.a. Greg Thompson <AkoMagami@usa.pipeline.com> 
 
Member, Red-Head Anime Girls Fan Club 
Co-Founder and High Priest of The Holy Order of A-ko 
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Co-author of Project A-ko:  The College Years