Whew, this finishes it up. It's fairly short, as stories go, but still a bit
longer than I expected.

First of all, Let's give a big FFML round of applause to everyone who
helped out on the first part. I'm afraid I don't have everybody's names, or
I would list you, each and every one. I would especially like to thank Dave
Eddy, who spent valuable time pre-reading and critiquing my work. His help
really did make the story.

And now, with no further ado:
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				Meow: Part 2 of 2

			     a fanfic by Chris Jones
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I have no legal right to use Ranma, or any other of Takahashi-sama's 
characters. They all belong to her Nifty Impressiveness, KITTY, VIZ, and a
host of others. It's not really worth your time to sue me, though. If I had
any money, I would spend a lot more time watching Ranma videos than writing
stories.

Feel free to distribute this work, but please credit me.

Read on:
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***

	Tatewake Kunou, captain of the Furinken High Kendo Team, president of his
class, the self proclaimed 'Blue Thunder' of Furinken High was making his
way home to the imposing Kunou mansion passing by the shops near his
school. He was returning from his after-school kendo practice, which, as
usual, left him little confidence in the rest of the kendo team.

	Ever since Saotome had arrived at Furinken, they just seemed to have lost
their fighting spirit. Ahh... that devil, Saotome... Soon... Soon he would
pay for his crimes against the fair Akane Tendou and his goddess--

	"Pigtailed Girl!" Kunou ran to embrace the redhead. "You have come for me
at last!" 

	"Mrawr?" The pigtailed girl was acting quite strangely, prancing around
the sidewalk on all fours, and making the feline calls of a house cat.

	"Oh, my Pigtailed goddess! You are so playful! Your love for me must be
grand, indeed, to tease me in such a tawdry fashion." He stopped short of
embracing the girl, who was hissing viciously in his direction.

	"Umm... Kunou?" Nabiki interjected.

	"Silence, woman. Can you not see that my pigtailed Venus is in the throes
of passion, and trying to tempt me with her playful demeanor?" He flicked a
strand of hair out of his eyes, and grinned benevolently. "Oh, tempt me,
Pigtailed girl!"

	Her hair stood on end, and she began to shake.

	"Her passion for me overwhelms her, as it would any other. Truly, I am too
much a man for such a simple creature. This too is the fruit of being
such--" He spied the kitten, cowering behind the girl's arm. "Oh, look, my
love has brought me a present.

	Years later, all Kunou would remember after reaching down to grasp the
kitten was a flash of red, and the taste of cement. "Oh... pig... tailed...
girl..." Kunou passed out from the pain of well over a thousand tiny
scratches covering his body.

	Ranma picked up the kitten and continued on to the dojo.

	"Seriously, Ranma. He only wanted to pet her."

	"Rawooorrrrrrr!"

***

	Kasumi didn't really know quite what to do about Ranma. Massive damage to
the house and dojo, she could handle. Perverted little panty thieves, she
could handle, but when Ranma broke down into his feral cat personality, it
was all she could do to keep from breaking down herself, and crying. 

	She secretly detested Ranma's father for his stupidity and cruelty. How
anyone could just drop a defenseless six year old into a pit of starving
cats was far beyond her. She only wished that there was *something* she
could do. In Ranma's current condition, the martial artist wouldn't even
drink the tea she offered.

	After her father and Nabiki left to pickup Akane from the airport, she
managed to get Ranma to take some milk. After she finished, though, Ranma
guarded the bowl until the kitten drank its fill. They both meowed sweetly.
 Ranma once again took the kitten in her teeth once, and leapt to the top
of the refrigerator. Somehow finding a comfortable spot, Ranma curled in
almost a motherly fashion around the kitten.

	At Doctor Tofuu's instructions, she managed to get the kitten away from
Ranma long enough to wash it. As soon as she finished bathing the kitten in
the sink, however, Ranma took it back to the top of the dusty refigerator.

	Kasumi sighed and started dinner.

***

	Akane stepped out into the waiting area, and into the lounge beyond,
leaving the plane, and her trip behind. 

	Things had not gone well. She had been told, in no uncertain terms, that
she would *not* be welcome back at the 'Julia Childs Fantasy Cooking Camp'
until she could enter the kitchen without injuring someone.  Her roommate
at the camp, a young Australian girl, had informed her that the camp had
*never* thrown anybody out. The teachers were supposed to be able to teach
*anyone* how to cook. She hadn't even been allowed to meet Ms. Childs like
all the others! It was an outrage!
	
	How Akane had given the instructor food poisoning from sugar cookies was a
complete mystery to her.

	At any rate, the trip hadn't been a complete loss. After asking her to
leave, the manager had given her a refund for her stay, even though she had
won the trip in a contest. She could buy some new clothes... maybe take her
family out to dinner... all except for that jerk, Ranma! If he was too good
for *her* cooking, then a nice restauraunt would be completely wasted on
him. How could he be so insensitive?!? She could just hear his comments,
once he found out what happened. "Oh Akane! Stupid tomboy can't even cook
with a teacher standing right over her!" 	"Geez, who'd you put in the
hospital this time, you uncute moron?"

	It was all too much to stand! She promised herself to pound Ranma's face
into the floor, first chance she got. 

	As the girl took her baggage to customs, the people around her marveled at
the angry blue glow.

	Once she had been OK'd by the officials at the customs desk, she started
looking for her family. That cretin, Ranma, was going to pay dearly for
what he was about to say about her cooking! 

	"Akane!" She heard Nabiki's voice.

	"Sis?"

	"Over here, Akane!" She turned until she saw her sister waving, and her
hysterical father by Nabiki's side.

	"Nabiki!" She ran to where they were standing, preparing to pound her
fiancee. She was quite surprised to find he wasn't there, waiting for her.
"Where's Ranma?"

	Soun, whose emotions at his little girl's return to Japan had gotten the
better of him, was unable to answer. Nabiki, however, took it all in
stride. "He's not feeling very well, Akane. He has a present for you,
though." 

	"He does?"

	The Tendou's took the train from the airport to the depot nearest the
dojo. It was only a fifteen minute ride, but Akane found herself anxious to
get home. She told herself repeatedly that Ranma must need a beating of
some kind, or else, she wouldn't want to get home so badly. On the walk
home from the train station, Akane brought up the idea of going to a nice
restauraunt for dinner.

	"That would be nice, Akane, but perhaps we should wait until tomorrow."
Soun looked in the direction of the Tendou home.  "I'm certain Kasumi has a
big dinner planned tonight!" He smiled warmly, anticipating the feast that
awaited them.
	
	Akane was not anticipating the bundle of energy that knocked her to the
ground and wiggled into a comfortable position in her lap. Once she
realized what had happened, she prepared to send her fiancee into orbit.
"Ranma you per--"

	"This was what I was talking about earlier, Sis..." Nabiki knelt down in
front of Ranma, who had begun to purr. "As a matter of fact, I would say
that Ranma is just not the same person."

	"GRRRRRanma! Get off of me you lech!" Akane roughly shoved her fiancee off
her lap.

	"Meow?" Ranma circled cautiously, giving Akane a hurt look.

	"We're both girls, you idiot! What if someone had seen?" Akane screamed
with rage.

	"I saw... but I won't tell anybody!" Nabiki grinned at the evil look her
sister flashed her.

	"Meeeeoooowww..." Ranma lay on her belly, looking mournfully up at Akane.
After a few seconds, she began to clean again.

	Akane shook her head in frustration. "What was it this time. Did Kunou try
the tiger routine again, or was it Shampoo?"

	"No tiger routine, but Ranma delt with Kunou-chan this afternoon. You
really should have been there, Sis." 

***

	"Ranma, why don't you show Akane the kitten?" Kasumi tried to distract
Ranma, whom Akane had just splashed with near scalding water.

	"Rawwrrrrrrr.... Merow?" No longer angry, Ranma bounded up the stairs,
into the guest room.

	"Why didn't that work?" Akane was shocked that her treatment failed to
elicit its usual response. When the madness of Neko-ken took him, Ranma was
usually only affected for a few minutes. Apparently, this time he had been
locked into it for hours. Not even being splashed would bring him around. 

	Suddenly, Akane was presented with the with the reason for her fiancee's
break down. It sat mewing in her lap. The tabby kitten was apparently quite
upset that its playmate was no longer interested in romping around the
house. Ranma sat in front of her bearing an expectant expression.

	"Oh, a kitten!" Then, Ranma placed his head in Akane's lap, gently nudging
the crying kitten. She was considering hammering Ranma, but gave up on the
idea. It really didn't do any good when he was like this. He wouldn't even
remember it afterwards.
		
	"Murrrooow." Ranma brushed her thigh as he tried to push the kitten closer
to Akane. She found that she just couldn't stand for it. Her began to build
inside, like a furnace with no vent. 

	"I already have a pet, you idiot! What are you trying to do?" Akane dumped
the kitten in the floor, and stood up to face her fiancee.

	"Meow?" Ranma backed up a few feet, but stood his ground in front of Akane.

	"You think it's easy, you creep! You think I'll just give up, don't you?
Well I won't. I won't I tell you!" Akane screamed in rage. She wanted to
belt Ranma for what he was trying to do. She wanted to pound his face into
jelly! "Ahhhggg! You cretin!"

	"Akane, what ever is the matter?" Kasumi worriedly tried to calm her
sister. "What has he done?"

	"Isn't it obvious?" Akane exclaimed with a fiery anger. "He's trying to
replace P-chan!"

	Nabiki felt like something needed to be said. "Ummm, Akane. You haven't
seen P-chan since before you left for Hawaii."

	"Yeah. This creep ran him off again!"

	"Akane, you're being rash, maybe you should have a nice cup of tea, and
try to calm down." Kasumi desperately attempted to placate her sister to no
avail. No sooner than she held a teacup out to Akane, her little sister had
started screaming incoherently at a confused Ranma.

	Eventually, Akane gave up speech, and started to chase Ranma around the
house with her mallet. To add to her frustration, the cretin made some kind
of game out of it. He would wait until she almost had him, and then dart
out of reach, meowing insanely the entire time. After being repeatedly
antagonized, Akane finally cornered the martial artist, and was preparing
to pulverize him. Suddenly, she felt something soft and furry touch her leg.

	The kitten was rubbing up against her leg.  Too late, she realized that if
she took the step she was leaning into, that she would crush the tiny cat.
She couldn't back up either. Akane desperately waved her arms to try and
keep her balance, but it was too late.

*SMACK*

	She landed hard, taking it on her stomach. Ranma and the kitten both
watched curiously as Akane picked her self up off of the floor and started
to cry. She crumpled into the corner and sobbed for a few minutes, ignoring
Ranma's attempts to entice her back into the chase. Suddenly her voice was
icily calm. "That's it. Both of you can just rot, for all I care." She
stormed into her room and slammed the door, rattling the entire house.

	"If Ranma has this much trouble with cats, I'm afraid we will have to take
the cat to the animal shelter." Soun tried to impose sanity on the situation.

	"Are you sure father?" Kasumi didn't agree with her father, but wasn't
about to contradict him.

	"MYOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!" Ranma lept angrily up and down at his fiancee's
father. He hissed menacingly.

	"No... I think we really should try to get rid of the animal." Soun was a
*little* nervous about the martial artist howling in his face.

	"Daddy, don't you think that's a little extreme? Having a cat might be
fun." Nabiki thought that having a kitten in the house would be nice even
if it was Ranma's

	"Absolutely not!  I'll not have my youngest daughter married to a
schizophrenic!" Soun didn't even feel Ranma's fist. He just suddenly felt a
little cooler on his face. "Am I bleeding?"

	"No, Daddy, but you look cute without your moustache!" Nabiki giggled.
This was too rich. Looking for her camera, she knew that one way or another
this was going to be more fun than usual. 

	She went to bed after watching Ranma harass her father for several hours,
but even then, she could not sleep for laughing so hard. She could hear
Ranma at her father's bedroom door.

	"Meeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooo!"

	"Go to bed Ranma. My decision is final!"

	"Meeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooo!"

	"I'm warning you, Ranma!"

	"MEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

	Ranma would take short breaks to run up and down the hallway with the
kitten, but would be back at the door with in minutes. It went on for hours.

	"Meeeoow?" 

	"mew?" The kitten was at the door now, as well.

	"RANMA!!!"

	"Meeeeoooow?"

	"All right... All... right... You can keep the kitten... Just please,
please let me... sleep!" 

	The howling stopped. For a second, a calm settled on the Tendou house. 

	"Finally..." came the call from behind Akane's door. Nabiki greeted her
sister's comment with applause.

	"Please... Let your father sleep!" Soun's ragged voice was suddenly
greeted by the sound of two cats running up and down the hall, playing the
ancient game of kitty chase. 

	After the game of chase wore down, Ranma started showing the kitten how to
turn on light switches. She had to stand on Ranma's back and jump for the
switch, but she was still able to make every switch in the house flash like
a strobe. Nabiki wasn't suprised to hear a muffled sobbing come from her
father's door as Ranma and the kitten returned to the hallway.

	After another hour, Nabiki decided that she was going to get no sleep due
to the flashing lights and the pounding footsteps through out the house.
She felt a little cheated as she slid out of bed. If I'm not going to get
to sleep, she thought, I might as well be making a profit. Once outside her
room, she saw that the game of chase had started up again. Suddenly Nabiki
knew just what to do.

She videotaped it.

*** 	

	Ranma and the kitten had kept everyone up, more or less, all night long.
Soun and Akane were sitting drowsily at the table, as Nabiki stumbled in.
Kasumi was the only one who looked well rested at all.

	Breakfast was a nightmare. Ranma, of course, refused to eat with his
hands, and let the kitten eat out of his dishes. After a few minutes of
having the kitten on the table, Akane took Ranma's plate away and put it on
the floor. As Ranma and the kitten started attacking the plate again,
Kassumi wanted to scream in frustration, but politely kept her calm. Soun
found himself privately wishing he hadn't given in to the howling the night
before. Nabiki, feeling her lack of sleep, found a comfortable cushion next
to the table, and laid back down. She was soon snoring lightly.

	During the day, nothing anybody tried would calm him down enough to become
lucid. Tofuu even tried a mild sedative. Instead of a sane Ranma, though,
all the sedative produced was a sleepy cat.

	After dinner, Ranma started trying to give the kitten to Akane, again.
 
	"Myowr." Ranma trotted into Akane's room, holding the kitten in his teeth.

	"Get out." Akane didn't even look up from her calculus book.

	"Meow." Akane felt a stirring in her lap. She looked down to see Ranma's
head.

	"You pervert! How dare you?!?! I told you to get out of here!" She leveled
a kick at his gut, but Ranma had already scampered out of her room and down
the hallway. Akane pushed away from her desk to go after him, but felt the
stirring in her lap again. She looked down to see the tabby kitten staring
up at her. "Ranma, you jerk." 
	
	Akane stroked the kitten's fur a few times, but soon lost herself in anger
at Ranma again. She sighed and took the kitten into the kitchen, where
Kasumi was putting the finishing touches on a cake.

	"Is this for Doctor Tofuu, Sis?" Akane bent over to peer at the frosted
cake. She had to hold the kitten, who was very interested in the frosting,
away just a bit.
	
	"Yes. I wanted to thank him for taking care of Ranma, yesterday." Kasumi
beamed with pride at her accomplishment, but there was a twinkle of
mischief in her eyes. "You know how he just loves my cakes."
	
	Yeah, if he can eat them without tearing up his office, Akane thought.
"Listen. Um, do you mind if I put the kitten in your room? Ranma's trying
to push it off on me again." Akane was a little embarrassed about the
situation, but tried to be gruff.

	"I don't mind. It will use a sand box, won't it?" Kasumi did not want to
clean a mess out of her spotless room.

	"I think Ranma's father has a tofu crate with sand in it in their room.
I'll put it in with the kitten."

	"That's nice, if you're sure you don't want to keep it in your room,
Akane." Kasumi wiped her hands on her apron.

	"Why would I want to do that? Ranma's trying to replace P-chan. I'm *not*
going to let him get away with it!" Akane found she had to relax her hands
to keep from squeezing the kitten too tightly. She turned to take the
kitten back up stairs.

	"I honestly don't think he even cares about your pig right now Akane. You
really should try to get along with him a little better. Ranma really is
only trying to be nice." Kassumi's concerned expression did little but
irritate Akane even further. 

	"Ranma's never nice!" Akane snapped at her sister. She regretted it almost
instantly. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell. He's been such a creep the
last couple days."

	"That's okay, little sister. Just keep in mind what I said." Kassumi
smiled warmly, but her face still held just a hint of apprehension. "If you
try to get along, he might, too."

	"Maybe... If we can ever get him to quit pretending he's a cat." Akane
left the kitchen, and set the kitten down on Kassumi's bed. She brought the
box in a few minutes later, and checked to make sure that the kitten hadn't
done any thing since she had left. Akane returned to her own room, and
began studying for her calculus exam again.

	It was about fifteen minutes later when Ranma was back at her door with
the kitten.

	"Don't you ever give up?" Akane already knew the answer. She had known
Ranma long enough.

	"Meow?" Ranma deposited the kitten at her feet.

	"Just get out." She waited a few seconds, and then prepared to mallet him.
"I'm warning you, Ranma!"

	The martial artist took off down the hallway.

	"Nabiki's door has a lock. Why don't we put you in there?" She took the
cat to her sister's room, pausing briefly to collect the litter box. After
putting the box in a corner, and making sure the cat was comfortable on
Nabiki's bed, she locked the door on them and headed back to her own room
in relief. 

	About ten minutes passed until she heard scratching on her door. "If you
don't go away, I'm going to make you wish you were never born."

	"I'd hate to think you'd do that to me, Sis. After all we've done
together.... I'm hurt." 

	 "Nabiki! I'm sorry. I thought it was Ranma again. He's trying to push
that kitten off on me again." Akane smiled at her sister. "I hope you don't
mind, but I put it in your room."

	"That's okay. I'm not cleaning up after it, though." Nabiki glared at her
sister for a second, dark circles evident under her eyes, but lost it to a
giggle. "Actually, I wanted to talk to you about that."

	"Does it matter?" Why were her sisters teaming up on her tonight?
	
	"A little. I didn't get much sleep last night, and if that's any
indicator, I don't think I will tonight, either." She did look pretty
weary, Akane thought to herself.

	"I suppose you're going to tell me to be nice to Ranma."

	"No. I just want you to take the kitten. It's the only way to end this."
Nabiki paused, and then grinned as she heard the footsteps on the roof that
indicated someone trying to break into her room.

	"Why. I don't see why it's so important. If Ranma would grow up for an
instant, he would quit doing things like this." Akane grimaced. Nabiki
didn't usually confront her.

	Nabiki held up the kitten. "Are you sure about that? Look." She held the
kitten out for Akane.

	"I don't get it." She took the kitten anyway. "What am I supposed to be
looking at?"

	"The front left leg." Nabiki held the kitten's paw up carefully for Akane.

	"It's bandaged."

	"It was cut to the bone when Ranma brought it to me. It must have been in
a fight, or had something dropped on it. Doctor Tofuu still wants us to
take it to a vet." Nabiki picked up the kitten and looked it in the face "I
bet you'll just love that, won't you."

	"So he helped it out..." Akane glowered. 

	"At what cost, though? You've seen how he's been the last two days. It's
been hell on us, and I can only imagine what he has to go through." Nabiki
sat down on the carpet and began to play with the kitten. She looked up
briefly at the scuffling sound out side the window. Ranma had already
managed to circumvent the electric lock and burglar alarm. It was only a
matter of time, now.

	"When Tofuu was working on the kitten, he told me he wanted to send Ranma
to a therapist who deals with people like Ranma. He seems to think Ranma
has a pretty serious problem, and I would like to think I can trust my
doctor." She put the kitten in her lap, and looked up at her sister. "I
heard you tell Kasumi that he was just pretending. Do you really think he's
just acting?"

	"I-I guess not. It's just so damn irritating! He can get away with
anything he wants--"Akane was cut off by her sister.

	"Like saving your butt over and over again?"

	"Like climbing all over every girl he sees."

	Nabiki chuckled. "You know as well as I do that he's never really
approached another girl." If he ever had, she thought, I'd have his ass so
far in debt he'd never see daylight again.

	"Well, he could tell them to quit." Akane shouted.

	"He could. I'll grant you, he sure doesn't know how to deal with women."
Nabiki laughed, as she heard Ranma moving about her room, through the wall.
"So, do you admit that he's got a psychological problem?"

	"Yeah. Creep deserves it though." Akane sniffed, as she too heard the
martial artist shuffling around in the next room.

	"That's pretty mean, sis, even for you. Think about what you're saying.
Does anybody deserve that? Even Ranma?"

	Akane realized that she *was* being harsh. She had even had a nightmare
once about being given the cat-fu treatment by her father.  It was a little
disturbing to think what Ranma must have gone through as a little boy. "So
what can *I* do about it. It's Ranma's problem."

	"Like I said, Doctor Tofuu wants Ranma to go to a shrink. He even said
that the other doctor might take the case for free. Ranma might be able to
stand cats again, someday. Until then he won't be able to take care of his
responsibility.  Why do you think we haven't been able to get him to change
back?" Nabiki pointed to the tabby kitten, which was ferociously attacking
a button on Nabiki's blouse.

	"But--"

	Nabiki cut her sister off again. "He certainly doesn't seem to trust me or
Kasumi enough to do the job." She directed a wicked glance at Akane. "What
do you think that means?"

	Akane's face reddened in anger, but quickly returned to its normal hue and
even paled a bit. Why did he have to be so hard to deal with. She sighed,
and was about to curse Ranma's name, when she heard the lock click on
Nabiki's door, and the martial artist raced around the corner into her room.

	"Raoorrrrrrr...." He growled at Nabiki for stealing the kitten, but she
set it down in front of him. 

	"We've been waiting for you, Ranma. What took you so long?" Nabiki smiled,
patted the confused youth on the head, and left the room. "Ta-ta! Play
nice, now!"

	Akane looked at her fiancee, who had picked the kitten up again. Once
again, he left it in her lap, and backed up a few paces. His eyes
questioned her intentions.

	"All right. You win, Ranma. I'll take care of the cat." Akane grimaced,
but she picked up the kitten and held it close to her breast. 

	"Mya?" Ranma cocked his head to the side.

	"Don't think I'm letting you off easy though. You're still paying for cat
food and litter." Akane glared directly at the young man. "And you have to
go through with the therapy, or I'm sending it straight to the pound! No
more of this up all night crap!"

	"Meow." Ranma's expression changed to one of happiness. He padded up to
Akane, and before she could react, licked her lips. He jumped back playfully.

	"Ranma... YOU PERVERT! YOU LICKED ME!!!!!" She calmly set the kitten on
her bed, and pulled out her mallet. "NOW YOU DIE!" Ranma had already darted
out of the room. By the time she caught up with him, he was contentedly
snoring on his futon.

	"Jerk..." Akane left the guest room, and went to collect the litter box.
"You better be a man in the morning, Ranma, if you know what's good for you."

***

Well, that's it for now. After applying some more reader comments,
especially to the first part of the fic, I will post to RAAC.

My Notes:

This section has undergone some really mean revision. As far as I can tell,
there are no continuity errors. If there are, please don't hesitate to
point them out.

I really overused Nabiki in this story. I would appreciate any comments I
can get on her dialouge. I've been working on it, but I still feel that it
is a bit contrived.

I'm still looking for a way to involve Ryouga and or Shampoo. Any ideas?

Finally, thanks for taking the time to read my story. My next project,
which I hope will be a series, will start fairly shortly, my school
schedule permitting. A teaser you ask? Well...

Psychic girl Akane... 
Bug eyed, six armed, nasty Aliens...
Intergalactic Anything Goes Martial Arts...
Ryouga's very own space ship...
Zero-G Shampoo...
Venutian Panty Raids...

Be on the lookout for Ranma in Space. Coming in February. I hope.

Chris.


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