This story is a bit of a departure for me and something that just kinda
came up, please C&C it and also let me know if anyone else has done
something like it.  I refuse to steal or even seem like I'm stealing if
I can help it.
	Thanks Rumiko Takahashi and Hiromi Hasegawa and Kiyoshi
Okuma                   for creating this characters	
	Thanks Richard Lawson for making me feel OK about the world 
		even if it was only for a little while.
		
		Lonely Hearts and Furry Faces
	
	Most cats hated cold water.  Shampoo simply LOATHED it.  Her delivery
bike, along with the Ramen it contained had fallen to the side of the
road, as the sudden rain storm and the change it brought over her, had
left it.

	She sighed to herself, at least the Masaki Residence,the Ramen's
intended destination, was close by.  Perhaps, she could wait out the
rain in there, maybe even find some hot water.  Setting off for the
large house in the distance, she cursed her luck. This was not for the
first or the last time.

	Shampoo crept quietly along the grounds of the Masaki home, carefully
leaped over the back gate and approached a window she hoped might lead
to a bathroom.  Suddenly, she was no longer alone.   A slight twinge in
her spine and a sound in her sensative ears announced the newcomer.  

	Ryo-Ohki studied the cat with interest and also a little bit of
apprehension.  Real, biological cats always responded to her with fear
or sometimes outright revulsion.  To them, she was something unnatural.
Her humaniod companions treated her as a pet or maybe a warship, kindly,
but still not as a human companion.  Sadly, Ryo-Ohki prepared itself for
more rejection, she was stuck between two worlds, and neither could
really ever understand how she felt.

	Shampoo was fascinated. Never had she seen such a breed of feline
before.  It seemed to have been breed for simple kawii's sake.  It's
large eyes, huge ears and the crystal on it's forehaead, Shampoo very
much wanted to cradle the thing close to her.  The thought shocked her,
she was a Amazon, that sort of thing was fine for other girls, and for
seduceing future Husbands, but it had no place in the mind of a warrior
mind.  Then she noticed, the creaturs seemed to be...crying!  Her heart
melted.

	Purring softly, Shampoo nuzzled Ryo-Ohki's head, causing the cabbit to
meow in shock and excietment.  This cat was going to hiss a challenge or
try to run away, this feline wanted to comfort her!  With a sudden
movement, the cabbit twisted away from the pink cat and faced it,
meowing a playfull challenge.

	Shampoo blinked, did that cat just SAY "meow"?  Must have been
imagining it she thought to herself.  Smiling inwardly, she leapt at the
cat, ready to punce on her new playmate.  Ready to anyway, however, the
cabbit was not where she had been.  Shampoo looked about curiosly, not
noticing the half submerged cabbit behind her.  With a triumphant howl,
Ryo-Ohki launched itself at the cat.  Speed and an incredible combat
sense allowed the pink kitten to jump up just in time, her follow
through, however, was less then spectacular and the two tumbled into a
heap.

	Shampoo laughed inwardly and helped the cabbit up with her head
underneath it's belly.  She wished she could go on playing, but the rain
had frozen her to the bone and she REALLY needed that hot water. 
Smiling as best she could, she leapt away from the cabbit and up to the
window sill.  The Gods hadn't abandoned her yet, it was a bathroom!

	Ryo-ohki watched her new freind with curiosity, then she flew levitated
up to the window and sat beside Shampoo, who was already exploring the
bathroom.  Her playmate seemed to be looking for something, she leapt
into the tube and then began to stare hard at the faucet.

	"Baka," thought Shampoo slightly surprised at the use of the Japanese
word so often screamed by her perverted tomboy rival, "how am I going to
turn the faucets like this?"    

	Ryo-ohki studied her carefully, then turned to the faucets.  A light
emerged from her head gem, and the faucet's began to turn.  Water poored
in the tub and the cat looked up at her in thanks and confusion.
Then, her friend began to change!  

	Shampoo, now human again, turned the nob, cutting the water off.
Smiling, she turned to her strange new freind.  The cabbits eyes seemed
to glisten like jewels and Shampoo wondered if her change had upset the
poor thing.  Then, a female form leaped on top of her, smashing into her
in a bonecrushing embrace.  She looked down and saw a small child, fur
still clinging to it's face and wild mane barely covering her enormous
ears.

	Ryo-Ohki used a phrase she had heard her counterpart use whenever she
remembered her long solitude in the cave.  "I...I was SO lonely!" she
began to cry.

	Shampoo, still not sure exactly what was going on, looked down at the
young girl.  Softly and tenderely, she began to rock her back and
forth.  "Shampoo knowing, was lonely too."

                          End

	This was originally going to be a Lemon fic, but when I started it, I
just didn't have the heart to do it.  I might still do one later with
this as the basis, but for now let's just let them have their moment in
peace.