RANMA 1/2:- A LITTLE T.L.C. part 9
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-By Harper-

Key:
*xyz* means they're speaking in English. **xyz** is in Chinese. All other
times it's in Japanese.
(actions/description) <sounds> [genma sign] {authors notes}  
Ranma-chan is when Ranma is female. P-chan refers to Ryoga when he's a
pig (literally). 
{{{Disclaimer: the make-you-laugh-out-loud Ranma 1/2 characters are not
mine and are copyrighted and owned by Rumiko Takahashi, a very funny and
imaginative lady; Viz Communications; Kitty; Shougakukan Inc.; and
possibly other companies who were clever enough to buy into this great
piece of manga and anime.}}} 
{{{I'm not too sure about the layout of the Tendo's place, so please
forgive me - or correct me - for any mistakes I make.}}}


CHAPTER 9: WHERE DID YOU GO? 
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(The next day, about 5:45am... Lisa comes down the stairs, she has
shadows under her eyes and her hair is all messy, although she is
dressed, in black jeans and crop top, there is a distant look in her
eyes. She seems to have had a bad night of sleep.)
<WAP!>

Lisa: oh, sorry Kasumi!
Kasumi: it's OK, Lisa, I was just preparing for breakfast.
Lisa: at this time..?
Kasumi: I need to prepare a lot of food for Genma and Ranma.
Lisa: good point, I'll wait in the living room 'til you've
finished.
Kasumi: are you feeling well?
Lisa: yes? Why?
Kasumi: well, you look pale and tired, not get enough sleep?
Lisa: just a bad dream. Thanks for asking, Kasumi. (walks off, dragging
her feet along the floor)
Kasumi: there was a letter for you, it came yesterday... (hands it to
Lisa) 
Lisa: (reads it) (eyes open slightly) !!!! 
Kasumi: what is the letter about it?
Lisa: oh, someone wants to kill me.
Kasumi: oh my! What a thing to wake to!
Lisa: that's not the problem...
Kasumi: what is it?
Lisa: this letter stinks! Did they write it in a
garbage dump?! (takes in a breath) By the way Kasumi, could you help me
with something?
Kasumi: what..?
Lisa: well...

(An hour later....)

Voice: (upstairs) Ranma, die!!! Today is the day of my vengeance upon
you!
Ranma: (upstairs) not again, Ryoga! I was hoping for a lie-in!

<Many variations on fighting noises can be heard but they all sound
extremely painful>

Kasumi: I hadn't realised Ranma's friend had arrived.

<SHAK!>
(A foot appears through the floorboards above Kasumi and then
disappears.)
<KRUNCH!>
(A fist then comes through a different spot.)

Kasumi: (wipes away the pieces of ceiling on her cutting board and
continues chopping some fish) the carefree life teenage boys lead...

(A few minutes later, Akane and Nabiki come downstairs, still in their
pyjamas, all sleepy and grumpy)

Akane: stupid Ranma, waking me up early...
Nabiki: I have a lot of work today (thinks) developing those photo's of
Ranma, Akane and Lisa for Kuno.  (outloud) A lie-in for once would have
been nice. (walks away) Hey Kasumi...what's the mess in the
hall?
Kasumi: I was helping Lisa with something.
Akane: Lisa's up, where is she? 
Kasumi: she left about ten minutes ago, I don't know where. She was
a little upset, though. It might have to do with the fact she received a
death threat but I couldn't be completely sure.
Akane: she did?! 

<TRRIING!> <RIING!>

Shampoo: (dashes in on bike) (into the living room) Nihaaaooo!! (Nabiki
and Akane go see what's up) today a good day!
Akane: (snarls) Shampoo...
Shampoo: I have cure for Ranma! Found in old book! Ranma now marry me!
Akane: (sarcastic) oh, really.
Nabiki: what is it?
Shampoo: I speak with Lisa, yes?
Akane: (mocking in extremely cute voice) Lisa out!
Shampoo: oh, then Shampoo wait for Lisa! 
Kasumi: (comes through with drinks) that's fine, anything for a friend of
Ranma's and Akane's....
Akane: (extremely foul look at Shampoo) ...you!
Shampoo: yesterday not proper fight for Ranma, so we fight other time,
that good for violent pervert girl?
Akane: ...you bimbo! You nearly killed me yesterday, I'll get you for
that!
Nabiki: I think that's a yes.
Shampoo: is good then!
Nabiki: what is it? This cure?
Shampoo: speak with Lisa first, only her help!

<WHACK!>

Ranma: (flying downstairs with sign attatched to head) eeeyyaaahh!!!!
(gets up) (goes into living room)
Kasumi: hello Ranma, do you want a drink?
Ranma: (rubs back of head) Thanks Kasumi! (growls) Stupid Pop! He doesn't
even sleep in the same room as me anymore!

<WHACK!>

Ryoga: aaaahhhhhhh!!!! (takes same route as Ranma) (stands up) Uh, hi
Akane! (takes sign off head and blushes) 
Akane: hello Ryoga! Ranma picking on you again?
Ranma: grrrrr.... why would I want to fight such a weak pig!
Ryoga: what did you call me, you half-man?! 

<KWOK!>

Ranma: hey, moron, I'm tryin' to have a drink! (they start fighting
again, causing damage to the living room, the hallway, the landing
etc...)
Kasumi: I see Ranma's best friend has joined him for breakfast, does he
want anything to eat?
Shampoo: husband fight so good! <sigh>
Nabiki: hey, something's definitely wrong here...
Akane: what?
Nabiki: Shampoo, you didn't try to glomp Ranma and with a whole 3 seconds
of him in a motionless position, too.
Akane: (suspicious) what are you up to, Shampoo?
Shampoo: Shampoo know Ranma be so happy with cure, he marry me and be
free of violent girl! So, no matter no more!!
Akane: if you think I'll just let you take him, you bim -- 
Shampoo: -- so violent girl does care for Ranma?
Akane: no, I don't! I just... well...
Tom: (from hall) (dressed) *good morning!*
Akane: hey, why so happy?
Tom: *...erm ....what?*
Nabiki: (tosses him translator) you left it on the kitchen counter.

<WHIRRR!> <VISHHH!>

Tom: (hit by 523 mph bandana) *my favourite shirt! All ripped up! (runs
to the fight) Someone will pay for that!* 
Nabiki: (sings) macho macho man, I wanna be a macho man!
Akane: do they _ever_ stop fighting?
Nabiki: oh yeah, like you're a pacifist.
Shampoo: yes, Akane too violent for husband.
Akane: (mimes she's on the phone) Hello Shampoo! It's the kettle here,
you're black!
Shampoo: (puzzled) Akane is kettle? Shampoo no black, I wear red dress!
Akane: it's from the Western phrase... Oh, I can't be bothered!
Shampoo: what kettle got to do with Akane being bothered? 
Akane: I give up....
Shampoo: does this mean Akane let Ranma marry Shampoo?!! (jumps up and
down)
Akane: that's not what I meant! (about to take out her trans-dimensional
hammer)
Kasumi: more orange juice, anyone?

<BOOT!> <KRUNCH!>

Ryoga: (gets up) sorry about your wall!
Akane: are you trying to fight both of them?
Ryoga: no problem, the English guy and Ranma just care about the state of
their
clothes, they're such girls!
Ranma: (storms through) I heard that, pig!

<WHOK!> <KRASH!>
(Ryoga gets a up-close and personal tour of the Tendo's ceiling.) 

Tom: (comes through) (talking to himself) *that's what I call a wake-up
call!*
Shampoo: **Tom! Do you know where Lisa is?**
Tom: **I didn't even know she was up.**
Shampoo: **By the way, Conditioner was very upset last night, she scared
away customers after performing an ancient and very painful Chinese
Amazonian technique on a customer who gave her a very small tip. What did
you do to her?**
Tom: **Nothing I can think of...** (thinks) Me kissing Lisa was just a
good dream, wasn't it?
Shampoo: **She's coming over this afternoon to see you...**
Tom: (nervous) **Uh, I can't, I have to find Lisa.**

(Meanwhile, fifteen minutes later, Lisa is at the airport... her hair is
in a ponytail and it is dyed ash blonde. And she is wearing a long,
sleeveless summer dress. Unfortunately her wearing a pair of designer
shades and the dress having a split going up to her thighs doesn't help
matters.)

Lisa: (thinks) now, I've got this one-way ticket to... where? Hawaii?
That competition money did come in useful. Everyone will be safer this
way...
Announcer: Last call for the 7.30am flight to Hawaii.
Lisa: *that's me!*
Young woman: (with something horrible and of pure evil attatched to her)
EEEEEEEEEEK!!!! Get offa me you pervert!
Thing: C'mere pretty lady!!

<KA-BONG!>

Lisa: (hits thing with nearby seat) there you go, miss!
Young woman: thank you!
Thing: ah, another great view! (goes for Lisa)

<KONG!>

Lisa: (after hitting the thing with a nearby piece of floor) Get off me,
Happosai!
Happosai: (momentarily stunned) you know me?
Lisa: I met you in China... about five months ago?
Happosai: i-it can't be, you look totally different....
Lisa: a priest, a chicken, five hundred volts of electricity and a pagan
altar bring back any pleasant memories?
Happosai: no, not... not Lisa!!!! I have to get out of here! My resolve
has gone completely! (starts crying)
Lisa: so, why are you still embedded to my chest then?!

<KCH-CHOOM!>

Lisa: (holding dented vending machine over a now embedded Happosai.) have
a happy funeral... 
Announcer: the plane to Hawaii is now leaving....
Lisa: no! My plane! (looks out of the large glass window and sees the
plane leaving for the runway.) NO! (bangs against the window) NO! NO! I
haven't enough money left to get another flight! (punches the glass
screen repeatedly)

<sound of glass breaking> <SPLAT!>

Lisa: (lying face down on the concrete thirty feet below from where she
was a few seconds ago) (bruised and covered with shards of glass) this is
_not_ a good day.

(Fourteen minutes before that...back at the Tendo's...)

Shampoo: (to Akane) Ranma no want ugly girl like you!
Akane: hey, say sorry!
Shampoo: (to Akane) Shampoo sorry you ugly!
Tom: (new top on) well, I'm off.
Ranma: maybe you should take a shower, then.
Akane: good luck finding Lisa.
Shampoo: I come with you, find Lisa to talk about cure with.
Ranma: c-cure..?
Shampoo: for you and me! (imagines romantic wedding and subsequent trip
to China where Akane and Ukyo are their humble slaves and Kodachi is
forced to marry Mousse)
Ranma: well, I'm coming!
Akane: hey! Well, so am I!
Ranma: why?
Akane: to keep an eye on you and Shampoo...
Ranma: you don't trust me?

(Tom, Shampoo and Nabiki facefault.)

Nabiki: (sarcastically) well, he's quick!
Kasumi: goodbye, then. Have fun! 

(The four of them leave)

Nabiki: (about 20 seconds later) bye Kasumi!
Kasumi: where are you going?
Nabiki: to follow the happy four. You don't think that I'm going to let
Ranma, Akane and Shampoo spend most of the morning a few feet from each
other and not make any money out of it?

(Outside...)

Akane: (angry) Ranma!

<WHAM!>

Akane: keep your hands off Shampoo, you pervert! In the middle of the
street, too!
Ranma: hey, she glomped me!
Ryoga: (sneaks up beside them) (murderously) Ranma, you're going to get
cured and you don't tell me about it?!
Ranma: how did you -- ?
Akane: it's so nice that you care about Ranma's happiness, Ryoga. It
really is sweet of you.
Ryoga: (blushes) er...well...you think so?
Ranma: close call, P-chan.
Ryoga: who's P-chan?! (hits Ranma)
Ranma: yeah, _who_ is P-chan? (hits Ryoga)
Ryoga: in front of Akane, yet! I'll get you! (kicks Ranma over)
Tom: *oh well, _that's_ an effective way to find Lisa and get cured, you
bunch of idiots, I wish you'd stop fighting macho-like and grow up for a
change.*
Everyone else: what? Speak Japanese. 
Tom: nothing! Just that we better find Lisa or you not get cured.
Nabiki: or in other words... _That's_ an effective way to find Lisa and
get
cured, you bunch of idiots, I wish you'd stop fighting macho-like and
grow up for a change. (waves her new pocket translator smugly)
Tom: or you could say that... 
Shampoo: we start at airport, she may leave country, no?
Tom: great idea, Shampoo! Where that come from?
Shampoo: Ranma leave China when female Ranma beat me in match, yes? And I
follow female Ranma to Japan to try to kill her. Until brave, strong,
handsome, male Ranma beat
me and Shampoo fall in love and now he marry me soon! <sigh> (imagines
Ranma being so grateful that he marries her on the spot)
Akane: aren't we all glad _that_ happened?
Ranma: well, at least she ain't trying to kill me anymore.
Ryoga: aren't we all sad _that_ happened?

(Ranma shoots Ryoga a _really_ foul look and cracks nuckles in warning.
Ryoga stares back in defiance.)

Akane: now Shampoo's trying to kill me -- or at least, trying to annoy me
to death!

(About twenty minutes later... the five of them arrive at Nerima
Airport.)

Tom: if we split up, we find Lisa better. If in two's we cover more and
if bad happens, protect each other.
Akane: good idea. 
Shampoo: I go with Ranma!
Akane: oh, no you don't!
Tom: do you want to go with Ranma?
Akane: <pink!> well... I --
Nabiki: we have enough property damage bills to pay without having to
deal with Nerima airport; (looks at Ranma and Akane) unless you two want
to pose for pictures?
Akane & Ranma: no!
Nabiki: how about Ryoga goes with Tom?
Tom: with crazy bandana guy? No!
Ryoga: my heart doesn't exactly warm to you either...
Nabiki: how about Ryoga pairing up with Akane...?
Ryoga: yes!
Ranma: no! No way! Not in my lifetime!!
Nabiki: (sly grin) why not..? You jealous?
Akane: (hopefully) Ranma... are you?
Shampoo: (wielding bonbori) (angry) of course husband not jealous... is
husband? (threatens to pour cold liquid over herself from a cup of cola)
Ranma: uh... n-no, I just wanted to pair up with my old buddy, Ryoga!
(fake grin) (daggers from Ryoga)
Tom: OK, then that leave the four of us! Since I doubt Akane will want to
pair up with Shampoo... Akane pair up with me and Nabiki pair up with
Shampoo.
Akane: that's fine with me.
Shampoo: (whispers loudly) as Ranma say, you macho dweeb...
Akane: (ignores Shampoo with great difficulty) let's go!

(Everyone goes off in different directions...)

Ranma: (having great dificulty keeping Ryoga from wandering onto an
aeroplane) P-chan, if you want to get cured, you'd better not wander off
to Alaska. (Silence) Hey, you seem in an even worse mood than usual. If
that's possible.
Ryoga: ....IvegivenupAkane.
Ranma: what? 
Ryoga: I've given up Akane, her heart will never belong to me. (looks
sad)
Ranma: oh really... like just now, for instance...
Ryoga: it doesn't mean I won't be her friend!.... It's just...
Ranma: just..?
Ryoga: (looks away) I know she prefers you to me... I still hate you but
love is... (spits it out) love..
Ranma: you've gotta be kidding? Me and her?!
Ryoga: you can pretend all you want but it's obvious to the rest of us...
(thinks) I just had hoped it wasn't...
Ranma: (taps him on the head) is this the real Ryoga... or a clone?
Ryoga: (really annoyed) -- but I still hate you with every fibre of my
being and I am still going to avenge my curse! And if you even _dare_
hurt Akane's feelings... I'll be there to get you!
Ranma: now, that's the depressed, psychotic Ryoga that we all know and
loath.  
Ryoga: why you..!
Ranma: Ucchan!
Ryoga: huh..?
Ukyo: (runs over to them) Ran-chan! What are you doing here?
Ranma: looking for Lisa... Shampoo thinks she might be able to help cure
us...but Lisa got a death threat and has disappeared.
Ukyo: is that true?! A cure? Oh, I'm so happy for you, Ran-chan! (hugs
Ranma tightly) And you too, Ryoga!
Ranma: you know about P-chan...? (points to Ryoga)
Ukyo: why, sugar, you don't think I'm stupid do you?
Ranma: no, Ucchan.... What are you doing here?
Ukyo: I'm here to pick up my cousin from China -- Bracelet! Her parents
are givng her an extended vacation, I've never met her before. They say
that she can stay as long as she wants, isn't that just great?! She's my
age, too! They even paid the plane fare!
Ranma: I'm happy for you! Maybe I'll meet her later?
Ukyo: see ya', honeys! Oh yeah, Ryoga, you be back in time for dinner,
mind? 
Ryoga: (nods) I'll try!
Ranma: you're staying with Ukyo? That's why you've given up on Akane?
(teasing voice) Never thought you had it in you, Ryoga... you and Ukyo,
huh? Sittin' in a tree, k-i-s --- 
Ryoga: -- it's not like that! I'm just staying for a few nights on the
sofa and then... I'll move on.
Ranma: (sarcastically) oh, sure!
Ryoga: I am not a perverted jerk like you, so I would never take
advantage of Ukyo!
Ranma: you should talk about taking advantage of people, _P-chan_!

(And into the distance, they once again fight.... Meanwhile)

Nabiki: set of ten pics of male Ranma for 1000 yen, you sold?
Shampoo: I take! I take! (hands money over)
Nabiki: specially made dartboard featuring picture of Akane looking
terrible and uncute for 5000 yen?
Shampoo: me no made of money, give money later! 
Nabiki: no money, no dartboard.

(And in another part of the airport...)

Tom: Akane, look at this! (points to an empty hole in the floor shaped
like someone familiar)
Akane: it looks like someone crushed Happosai into the ground! There is a
Kami!
Tom: Happosai?
Akane: a perverted, dried up, old lech! A hundred years or so old and
still going strong!
Tom: does he steal underwear? 
Akane: all the time! You know him?
Tom: let just say I had painful meeting with some of his stockists. 
Akane: what are all those people talking about round that window,
(points) just over there?
Tom: looks like some sort of commotion! (both run and jump over the metal
detector before it registers them)
Akane: what happened?
Airport guide #1: (beside broken window) a crazy lady broke the glass and
fell thirty feet!
Tom: she OK?
Airport guide #1: I don't know, she lied still for a bit and then ran
off, don't know where. Very crazy.
Airport guide #2: Not totally. She first of all beat an old man into
ground with a vending machine.
Airport guide #1: that's good?!
Airport guide #2: it was Happosai.
Airport guide #1: oh, good then!
Tom: what she look like?
Airport guide #1: (young male)  young, _very_ pretty, blonde hair, in a
tight dress. (glazed look)
Airport guide #2: (young female) (stiffly) it was dyed, her hair. You
could tell.
Tom: hmm, violent, impulsive, pretty, crazy, sounds like Lisa!      
Akane: you think she's pretty? How sweet!
Tom: I meant pretty crazy!

(Somewhere in Nerima, Lisa smashes a lampost in anger)

Lisa: Tom, you jerk!
 
(Ten minutes later...)

Ukyo: (watches as people depart plane) where is Bracelet? Her parents
said she should be easy to spot! Brrracelet!! ...Brrrraaacceeellet!!!
Bracelet: hello! You, Miss Ukyo Kuonji?
Ukyo: (disbelief) y- you're B-Bracelet?!
Bracelet: yes! Nihao! (long pause) Miss Kuonji, are you still conscious?

(Another ten minutes everyone meets up at the exit... Ranma and Ryoga are
the last to arrive)

Ranma: !!! (flying through air)

<BLAM!>

Airport staff person: (crying) I just fixed that glass door last week!
Ranma: (to an approaching Ryoga) Moron!!
Ryoga: (baring fangs) Well, if  you'd stop calling me P-cha -- hello
Akane! (bigsweats) (huge grin)
Akane: call you what? Something to do with you and P-chan?
Ryoga: (very nervous, goes different shades of red, some never seen
before) n-no, it was n-nothing!
Nabiki: (observes the two and also Ranma's preparing-for-his-funeral
face) (thinks) very interesting... definitely profitable...
Tom: we go look for Lisa, now!!!
Nabiki: alright already...

(Five minutes later...)

Lisa: now, where's the railway station, they do have one, don't they?
What a place!
Tom: *Lisaa! We found you!* 
Lisa: (angry) Tom! Get away from me! (runs away from him)
Tom: *Lisa, come back!*
Shampoo: Lisa, help me with cure! You can cure your cousin!
Ranma: hey Lisa, don't worry, we know!
Lisa: (stops suddenly) you know... everything? About Kahlee?
Ranma: uh yeah... about Kahlee! (Thinks) who..?
Lisa: (shouts) well then, leave! It's my fight!
Ranma: whatever it is can't hurt me!
Akane: oh, so modest...
Lisa: (flustered) you don't know how dangerous Kahlee is! 
Ranma: we fought dangerous monsters before! There was that Yamatano
thing!
We kicked it's serpentine butt! Beat up those bird-people! Survived
Akane's cooking, now _that_ was something!
Akane: (removes bench from Ranma's head) just you watch it.....
Lisa: (frustrated) you don't understand, Kahlee is unique, no-one has
ever challenged him and lived! From what the legends say, he's a total
psychopath!  
Tom: (holds back retort about Lisa's character) (assuredly) *well I'm
going to help you, no matter what you say!*
Lisa: oh no, you're not! (tries to knock him out)
Tom: (grabs her wrist, she tries to hit him with the other one but he
blocks that one, also) oh no, you don't, I'm going to help you! And don't
even try to freeze us in place with that Chicken Kibab technique! I know
the counter for that!
Shampoo: now you help with cure, yes?
Lisa: (out of Tom's grasp) what? 
Shampoo: special technique in old book which needs Yoretsu chi to get rid
of water-based curses! Great-grandmother show me! If you cure Shampoo and
Ranma, Shampoo leave!
Lisa: you _are_ my cousin, I guess... (sighs) fine then... I'll do it. It
better not take too long.
Shampoo: (excited) take less than minute!
Lisa: (reluctant) just tell me what to do...

(At the Cat Cafe... the lunch rush has quietened down, Mousse and
Conditioner are managing the restaurant.)

Conditioner: (scrubbing tables) **stupid Tom, stupid Tom, stupid
Tom....**
Voice: hello, can I have a Ramen special, please?
Conditioner: (looks up) **...Cufflinks! What are you doing here?! You no
that I don't want to marry you! I don't care that you've beat me last
year, I won't marry you!** 
Cufflinks: (tall, with long, black hair, resembles Mousse but wears
western-style clothing and has no glasses) **you will eventually my dear
Conditioner... but that's not why I'm here. It's Bracelet, my neighbour,
she's in
Nerima.**
Conditioner: **no! Not Bracelet! But how...?**
Cufflinks: **she's the cousin of some teenage chef called Ukyo Kuonji.**
Conditioner: **poor Ukyo! What are we going to do?**
Cufflinks: **I did have one idea, my adorable Conditioner....**

(Somewhere on the quieter streets of Nerima, near a large fountain...)

Lisa: well...who's first? Who's going to be my guinea pig?

(Everyone looks at everyone else... Ryoga's not quite sure what to do
because Akane is there.)

Lisa: I need an uncursed male first of all.
Nabiki: I'm sure Ryoga would be more than happy to volunteer! (Both Ranma
and Ryoga big-sweat)
Lisa: Tom'll do! 
Tom: why -- (gets elbowed) -- not?
Nabiki: no, Ryoga's been looking forward to helping Ranma, otherwise why
would he come along? Unless there's something stopping him from
helping...?
Ranma: (whispers to Lisa) Since Nabiki's digging graves quite nicely for
me and Ryoga, could you choose our coffins, small ones, since there won't
be much left of us after Akane's done her bit.   
Lisa: Shampoo, why don't you go find Mousse, it wouldn't be fair to do
this without him...
Shampoo: I no care about Mousse!!
Lisa: ...and he might leave you alone in return?
Shampoo: I go find him! (runs off)
Nabiki: d'you think that'll work?
Lisa: what are you, crazy?
Tom: *are you feeling well?*
Lisa: *I'm a little stressed.*
Tom: *but you're always stressed?*
Lisa: (cracks nuckles) *you want to find out how stressed I really am?*
(a slightly psychopathic expression appears on her face)
Tom: *k-keep your energy for the fight.*
Lisa: oh yes, the fight!.... Look, Kodachi's here! 
Everyone: where?! (pause) Hey, Kodachi's not there!
Tom: where Lisa go..?
Ryoga: look, that rooftop over there! Lisa, come back!!
Nabiki: (to Ryoga) why are you so helpful? It's not like you have a
curse? 
Ryoga: (anxious) ...I am an honourable person and I must repay Lisa for
saving my life.
Ranma: you... honourable?! Yeah right, P-chan!
Ryoga: (a look which could kill, resurrect and kill again, just on
principle) why you...!
Akane: stop fighting you two, we have to go find Lisa. Unless you like
being a girl, Ranma?
Ranma: let's go!

(They all, except Nabiki, chase after Lisa.)

Nabiki: (thinks) I have better things to do than get involved with a
bunch of nutty, psychotic martial artists. I need a break! Who's that
over there? (out loud) Hi Kinnosuke...! Want lunch? Hey, come back here!
Stop running!

(Somewhere in Tokyo, in a noisy building filled with people and music...)

Lisa: (torn-up dress, straggly long hair, scratched face) (not very
happy) *Oh dear, is this a fancy dress party? I think I managed to lose
them...* the jerks!!
Voice: lose who?
Lisa: who --? (faces them) You couldn't be...!
Person: it's about time we had a formal introduction, I'm Kahlee.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
End Of Chapter 9...
There is still more to go but I just haven't written them yet!
C&C hungered after with a passion which knows no bounds!! I'm willing to
bribe anyone for a good review.
Au Revoir!
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