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Ranma lay flat on his back on top of the bed that Shampoo dumped him on. She
began to rummage through the pile of medicinal herbs and items that she
brought with her, mumbling something unintelligible in Chinese all the
while. Ranma however, couldn’t take his eyes off Shampoo’s butt, which was
facing him as she was bent over the small table nearby. He could almost see
her panties through the thin white skirt she wore. His eyes dropped lower to
gaze at her legs, which disappeared up into where her skirt began. All the
time he was yelling to himself not to think such thoughts, however he wasn’t
succeeding, his growing erection was proof of that.
<Damn damn damn! Quit thinking like that you pervert!…What would Akane think
if she saw you like this?!?> Ranma cursed himself. Though the answer he came
up with was something along the lines of ‘I don’t care!’ 
"Ranma? What you thinking?" Shampoo asked, smiling as she walked over to him
holding a bundle of cotton wool and some yellow liquid in a bottle. Ranma
turned onto his side, trying to hide his obvious erection from her. He
couldn’t help but note the flimsy blue top she wore, barely covering her
breasts and the way they bounced as she walked. Taking a closer look, he
could see the outlines of her nipples through her flimsy top. She unbuttoned
his shirt and, after removing the old dressings, began to clean the wounds.
>From the way she was standing, Ranma could see her entire bust through her
top which was hanging down. He got even more turned on by the sight.
<Uhh, damn, quit thinking like that!> he yelled at himself once more <What
would Akane think?> He tried to stop by thinking of Akane again, but it only
made things harder. 
<Akane? Humph, does it matter? She doesn't like me anyway>
Yes she does Ranma, why else do you think she cried when you left?
<Bah, she’s probably gotten over it by now. I wouldn't be surprised if she
was out with Kuno or Ryoga by now!>
Kuno? Yeah right. Ryoga? He would if he was in any state to even move.
<Yeah well, I bet she would though, just give her a chance.>
You know she wouldn’t!
"Yaaaaagh!" Ranma yelled out, frustrated at losing a battle with himself,
Shampoo however, thought that she’d hurt him while she was cleaning off the
wounds and immediately backed off, a concerned and shocked look on her face.
"Ranma…you ok? Shampoo sorry if…" she looked sheepishly at the ground. Ranma
stood up and walked over to her. 
"Ranma!.." Shampoo was surprised when he gave her a hug. A part of her said
that he shouldn’t be doing this, a VERY small part. The rest was telling her
that it was what she wanted.
"Shampoo, it’s ok, it wasn’t your fault, I was just thinking…"
"What you thinking Ranma?" Shampoo looked up uncertainly at him, her eyes
never leaving his face.
<Oh great, I can’t tell her that I was thinking about how great it’d be to
make out with her now can I?> his mind immediately pushed in, before his
mouth could wander.
"Shampoo…I’ve been thinking…Umm…that we can…err…" Ranma being this close to
Shampoo, could smell her scent, it was nice, smelling faintly of lilac.
Ranma lost his mind for a moment, unconsciously running a hand through her
soft, purple hair. He could smell the shampoo she used as he played with a
few strands, it’s scent making him feel light-headed. He abruptly stopped,
realising what he was doing. 
<Shimata!! What am I doing!?…This is wrong! You’re engaged damnit! You do
this and Shampoo will never let you forget it!> His mind recovering in time
to scream at him. He released his hold on her and walked over to the table,
where all sorts of paraphernalia were scattered. Shampoo, watched for a
moment then walked over, hugging him from behind. Ranma felt a twinge of
electricity when she hugged him. He could feel her breasts poking into his
back and, shamefully, his own erect member poking at the front of his pants.
"Shampoo…I…I…" It was as far as he got as Shampoo turned him around and drew
his face down for a kiss. 
<Don’t do this Ranma…You’re going to regret it! > his conscience yelled out. 
<Bah! Stuff that! I’m going to have a little fun for once! To hell with what
Akane thinks, why should I care when she never did for me anyway?!?> Ranma
yelled back at his conscience.
<Ok, you’re going to regret it later, don’t say I didn’t warn you…> Ranma
ignored the mental warnings, his mind set on doing something that he wanted
for once. He kissed Shampoo back, their tongues intertwining as he picked
her up and walked over to the bed. They didn't break the kiss until Shampoo
pushed him onto the bed and began to undo her top.
"Ranma, Shampoo know…" she smiled as she slipped out of her top, her breasts
swinging into full view. Ranma’s eyes widened at the sight of them, his
erect manhood raising a lump in his pants. Shampoo giggled when she saw it,
Ranma immediately blushed and tried to hide it. Shampoo simply smiled, put a
hand down his pants and began to stroke it. Ranma started in shock for a
moment, realising that Shampoo was beside him half-naked and giving him a
hand-job. He moaned softly at the pleasure her rubbing was giving him.,
Cupping her breasts in his hands, he began to suckle on a hard nipple.
Shampoo let out a soft moan as her breasts felt like they were on fire. She
shivered as Ranma continued sucking and occasionally nibbling, drawing gasps
of pleasure from her, momentarily stopping her from finishing the hand-job
she was giving him. Ranma eventually stopped and stood up, Shampoo gasped as
he dropped his pants and his erect manhood was fully exposed. Ranma laid
back down on the bed as Shampoo timidly took his manhood in her hands and
began to play with it. Ranma moaned with pleasure as Shampoo began to suck
at it, deep-throating it while Ranma’s hands found their way up her skirt
and began to tease the moistening area of her panties. Shampoo moaned as
Ranma’s fingers found their way under her panties and found her hardening
clit. Even the slightest contact was enough to send shockwaves of ecstasy
through her. Shampoo almost wanted to grab Ranma’s wrist and make him drive
his fingers into her, or suck them, anything to make him stop driving her
crazy with the pleasure she was getting now.
"Ai-ya! Ranma no…t-tease Shampoo…ok?" Shampoo managed to get out in between
gasps and moans. Ranma smiled and nodded as he pulled her wet panties down
to her ankles and began eating her out from behind as they twisted into a
69. Shampoo’s head began bobbing up and down frantically as she
deep-throated Ranma, stopping occasionally to lick up and down his shaft,
kissing or sucking on the tip. Ranma, behind her, was lost in a sea of
ecstasy, muttering Shampoo’s name more than once as Shampoo continued her
treatment. 
<Uhh, what am I doing?!> Ranma was wondering whether this was right as he
watched Shampoo’s head continue bobbing. From his position behind her,  he
could smell her musky scent as he licked at her wet womanhood, his tongue
penetrating her wet folds and into her tight hole more than once, drawing
moans of pleasure from her. 
<I shouldn’t be doing this…> Ranma’s conscience kept plaguing him as he
continued to pleasure Shampoo from behind. <Like it or not, Akane is still
your fiancee…>
<Ahh, shaddup> he told himself. <That may be so but at the moment it doesn't
matter> as he felt himself start to cum. Shampoo, sensing this, increased
her tempo as Ranma did likewise, licking her clit with an increasing pace.
Both screamed as they came almost simultaneously, Ranma’s seed splashing
into Shampoo’s mouth as her honey ran down Ranma’s face, who eagerly licked
up as much as he could as Shampoo likewise swallowed as much of his seed as
she could. Shampoo sat up and slowly positioned herself over Ranma’s
still-erect manhood. Ranma’s eyes widened as he silently posed the question,
‘You sure you want to do this?’. Shampoo, seeing the look in his eyes,
simply nodded and guided the tip of his rock-hard shaft toward her wet opening.
"Ok, Shampoo, just go slowly at first, it may hurt." Shampoo nodded and
began to lower herself onto Ranma’s shaft. Taking his advice, she went
slowly at first, feeling her vaginal walls expand to accommodate his
manhood. The feeling was euphoric, although it was mixed slightly with pain,
it felt better than anything she’d ever felt before in her entire life. The
hours masturbating in the bathroom and in bed were nothing compared to this.
Shampoo continued descending until she suddenly stopped when she felt
Ranma’s manhood gently poke her hymen. She looked at Ranma expectantly.
"Shampoo…" Ranma began but was shushed when Shampoo put a finger to his
lips, her eyes saying all. Ranma nodded and, with one upthrust, broke her.
Shampoo screamed at the sudden pain as she felt something run down her inner
thigh. But soon the feeling of pleasure took over as the pain vanished and
she began to moan in ecstasy as Ranma slowly thrust upward into her. The
feeling of pleasure was overwhelming, Shampoo moaning Ranma’s name and 
"wo te ai-ren"(my husband, my lover etc) more than once as she could hear
Ranma’s grunts and moans of pleasure and, even better to her, the sound of
her own name. Ranma decided that he’d had enough of being on the bottom and
pushed her off, drawing a small ‘Huh?’ from Shampoo. She looked at Ranma who
came up behind her and before she could realise what was going on, entered
her wet pussy from behind. Shampoo began moaning again as the euphoric
feeling of pleasure redoubled itself, this time with Ranma in control of the
tempo as he held onto her hips for support. Watching Shampoo’s breasts
jiggle back and forth only caused him to lust for more.
"Ai-ya! Ranma!…Ai-ya!…" Shampoo screamed as she felt herself approach her
second orgasm. Ranma noted this and began to drive himself into her faster.
However, Shampoo suddenly pulled herself off and, pushing Ranma back onto
the bed, began to ride him with increasing speed. This time Ranma didn't
complain, he simply drove his hips upward in time with her pounding. Shampoo
knew she couldn't hold on any longer and when she came, she came hard, her
pussy clenching tightly onto Ranma’s manhood like a vice, her honey running
down his erect shaft as he continued to thrust into her. The extra tightness
was all he needed and, after a few more strokes, he shot off his hot seed
inside her, Shampoo screaming with pleasure as she felt the hot wetness
splash inside her. Both of them were silent for a while after that,
breathing heavily. Ranma pulled his softening member from Shampoo as she got
off him and sat up beside him, gazing at him with tear-filled eyes. Ranma
smiled at her and reached up with one hand to gently rub her cheek before
gently pulling her toward him. Shampoo buried her face into his chest as he
wrapped his arms around her lovingly as she cried quietly into his chest.
"Shampoo…what’s wrong?" Ranma asked quietly.
"N…Nothing, Shampoo just happy…happy that Ranma love Shampoo…" Shampoo said
in between sobs. Ranma simply stroked her hair and smiled, it smelled fresh
and clean.
"R…Ranma…"
"Hmm?"
"You love Shampoo?" It was more of a statement than a question. Ranma
started, he wasn’t expecting a question like this. His initial reaction was
to say ‘no’, like he had all those other times. However after what they’d
just done there was no way he could bring himself to hurt her now,
especially since she’d been so nice to him when he’d needed someone to lean
onto.
"Ssshhhh, Shampoo…" Ranma whispered into her ear "…You know I do…" Shampoo’s
heart leapt as he said it, and simply continued crying into his chest out of
happiness. Ranma sighed as he knew the implications this would have later.
He could just imagine Shampoo going around telling everyone that she was his
fiancee and more importantly, he could imagine Akane’s reaction when she
heard about it. Ranma winced as visions of mallets came flying at him.
<I told you so…> his conscience nagged <…But would you listen? Hell no!>
Ranma silently cursed himself for not exercising control as Shampoo’s
whimpering slowly faded and stopped completely after a while.
"Shampoo…"
"Hmm, ai-ren?"
"What are those small silver packets over there on the table?" Ranma had
taken a look at some of the stuff she brought into the room with her before
they started playing and was curious as to what the packets resembling packs
of trading cards in silver wrapping were.
"Oh, that is anti-curse powder. Great-grandmother say it can remove curse but…"
"WHAT!?" Ranma jumped up at hearing that, almost throwing Shampoo off. "Why
didn’t you tell me you had this sooner?!?" Shampoo looked at the ground,
hesitating a bit before saying anything.
"Because Great-grandmother say it only temporary…" Ranma face-faulted. "…As
well as un-sta-ble." Shampoo’s Japanese wasn’t all that good and she had
trouble pronouncing complicated words.
"Bah, what the hell, being cured for a while is better than not being cured
at all! Just like the Instant Nannichuan, right? Come on, show me how you
use it!" "No, it not like Instant Nannichuan, this one different, it more
strong but not safe..."
"So? Minor details! Come on, gimme gimme gimme!" Ranma exclaimed, dancing
around the room in excitement. Shampoo sighed, she had hoped not to tell
Ranma about the powder because it WAS rather unstable and could have
unpredictable results. At any other time she would have simply refused but,
looking at Ranma who was eyeing her expectantly, and considering what they’d
just done. She thought it would be all right to give him the powder once.
"Ok Ranma, come into bath…" Shampoo walked over to the table and gathered up
the packets along with a few other items as Ranma eyed her naked form from
the bed, a noticeable bulge growing between his legs again as he watched her
breasts jiggle.
"Right behind you!" Ranma waited a moment for his erection to drop before
following Shampoo into the bathroom.

"Ranma, Shampoo give you powder only if you promise to keep secret ok?"
Ranma eagerly promised, it was as if he was going to reveal something this
wonderful to his lame excuse of a father, who couldn’t care less who he
engaged(or sold) him to. 
<Ryoga? Yeah right. Well, maybe it has possibilities, seeing as he does get
to sleep with Akane if he’s P-Chan…Mousse? He should know already shouldn’t
he?…> Ranma ran over the possible candidates that he could tell and came up
negative on each one. Shampoo ran the bath, waiting for the bathtub to fully
fill with cold water before emptying the contents of a packet into the
water. Ranma could see the silvery dust glimmer as it fell and dissolve as
it mixed with the water. 
<Maybe I shouldn’t be using this stuff after all…Shampoo did say it was
unstable and had unpredictable results at times…> Ranma thought to himself
as he saw the look on Shampoo’s face, half-pleading him not to do it. 
"Ok…what’s next?" Ranma asked. Shampoo, hearing this, slumped her shoulders
in resignation and, picking up a bucketful of cold water from beside her,
dumped it onto Ranma.
"H…Hey!! What’s that for!?…Brrr! That’s cold!" A shivering Ranma-chan
exclaimed. Shampoo simply looked at her with a look of resignation on her face.
"For powder to work, must be in cursed form…" Shampoo took a long look at
Ranma-chan, like it was the last time she’d ever see the redheaded girl
again. Her eyes scanned Ranma-chan all over, stopping particularly at her
chest and the spot between her legs to eye her voluptuous curves and red
pubic bush respectively. Ranma-chan blushed furiously, covering her chest
with her arms.
<Damn!> she cursed herself silently as she felt her nipples erect and a
growing wetness between her legs. <Not now! Anytime but NOW!> Ranma-chan
couldn’t help but feel that Shampoo was liking this too. Ranma-chan was
surprised when Shampoo reached out and touched her mound, running her
fingers through the red pubic hair. Ranma would never admit it, but on
occasion he liked getting off as a girl. It felt ‘different’ somehow, and
having the best of both worlds he was able to fully appreciate it. That’s
probably one thing his curse was good for. But now however, he, she rather,
felt kind of strange, she was actually liking Shampoo’s fingers playing with
her moistening sex. Ranma-chan felt herself getting wetter as Shampoo gently
spread her lips and stroked her hardening clit. Ranma-chan knew she
shouldn’t be allowing Shampoo to do this, yet she was enjoying it so much it
was hard to tell her to stop. 
"S…Shampoo…St…stop it…" Ranma-chan managed to get out. Shampoo, realising
what she was doing, drew her hand back and apologised quickly before turning
away to select some other ingredients from the pile she brought in with her,
putting them into the bath as well. Ranma-chan however, was getting a little
fidgety watching Shampoo dump the ingredients into the bathtub and she was
beginning to wonder whether this was a good idea.
"Ok Ranma, get into bath" Shampoo said finally after adding some blue powder
from a sachet she held in her hand. Ranma-chan, her mind on other things
however, didn’t hear what Shampoo said and simply went ‘Huh?’. Shampoo
thought Ranma didn’t hear her and simply pointed at the bath. Ranma-chan
nodded and as she was about to step in, she slipped onto the wet floor and
bumped into Shampoo, knocking the sachet containing the blue powder into the
bath. 
"Ai-ya! No! Not that powder!" Shampoo blurted out.
"Oh, sorry Shampoo, slippery floor…" Ranma-chan smiled uneasily at her
before stepping into the bath, shivering slightly as she felt the cold water.
"Ranma! No! No go in now, it…" It was too late, Ranma-chan had fully
immersed herself into the water containing dissolved substances. Shampoo
gasped and took and involuntary backstep. Quickly she recovered her wits
and, snatching up something looking very much like a sponge and immersed her
hand into the bath water, hoping she wasn't too late.
"Shampoo? What are you…YAAAAAAA!!" Ranma-chan screamed as the water in the
bath suddenly erupted with a blinding white light, engulfing them both. 
"Ranma!! Get…out…of…bath…" Shampoo managed to get out before being engulfed
by a torrent of glowing water and fainting. Ranma-chan simply continued
screaming, her voice echoing long into the night…

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Jyusei Shimada screamed as a massive release of power assaulted his mind,
lights exploding before his eyes and dancing like spectres in front of him
through a red haze that clouded his vision. It took him a few long, tense
moments to recover, his hands gripping the sides of the table so tightly his
knuckles turned white.
<Uhhh. N...Nani!?> He thought <I...Impossible! H...how could....how could
this happen?>
"Err...Mr. Shimada...Sir, are you ok?" a Director asked tentatively.
"Uhh...Y...yes I’m fine...Let’s...Let’s postpone this meeting
till....another day." Jyusei struggled to get out, his mind still reeling
from the sudden explosion of power. His Board of Directors nodded uneasily
and began to pack in their documents and other items. A few of them offered
to assist Jyusei but he declined, saying that he was fine and they should
just leave him be. Slowly they filed out of the meeting room, a few looking
back at Jyusei, still seated in his chair, still visibly shaking.
<How....How can this be? I...I have to find out...> Jyusei rose unsteadily
to his feet, waited a few moments for the room to stop moving, then pressed
a button his desk intercom.
"Uhh...Jyusei here...tell...Mishouru the appointment is off for today.
Some...something’s come up. Tell him I’m sorry..." 
"Mr. Shimada, are you all right? You sound kind of shaky..." His secretary’s
voice came through from the other end. From the tone of Jyusei’s voice she
naturally was concerned for her boss.
"Y...yes, I’m fine. Also, tell Ken to come to the meeting room
quickly...I...I think I’ll take the day off..." 
"Will do sir, have a good rest ok?" His secretary sounded quite concerned. 
"I will, thank you..." Jyusei flicked the power off and walked shakily to
the door, using the frame to steady himself on occasion. Ken, his chauffeur
and personal assistant, as well as his confidant in many things, quickly ran
to his employer’s aid after getting the message from the secretary. 
"K...Ken..." Jyusei mumbled as Ken assisted his employer out of the meeting
room and out of the building.
"Sir?"
"Take me to the...ancestral shrine...now!..." Ken shot his employer a
questioning look, only to be received with a piercing gaze.
"Do it...don’t question my order!" Ken nodded and, making sure his employer
was safely in the limo, drove off.
<That release...how the hell?...I never would have believed that they were
capable of a separation…> Jyusei tried to make sense of the burst of power
that had sent him almost insane. Indeed, a lesser man would have been
nothing more than a raving lunatic now.
<I have to get to the bottom of this, if it is what I think it is...> Jyusei
shivered at the thought.

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"Hey guys, what do you make of this?!" Akane ran into the main room, holding
a peach she found outside the window of the room where Ryoga was sleeping
just before he vanished. She had said that she’d felt uneasy and had taken a
walk outside to clear her head. Night had just fallen, the stars coming out
from behind the clouds as the moon’s brilliance shone upon the dojo. Akane
was walking around outside stargazing when she came across the peach.
"Oh my! A peach?" Kasumi exclaimed. Everyone paused for a moment then piped
up almost at the same time.
"Toma?!?" Another pause.
"Can’t be, Togenkyo floated away more than three months ago..." Nabiki piped up.
"Even if it was him, what would he want with Ryoga?" Akane added.
"Togenkyo?" Nodoka asked, apparently confused. 
"Oh, sorry. Let me explain..." Akane spent the next half-hour explaining to
Nodoka their experiences on the Island of Togenkyo after being shipwrecked
on a deserted island after Kuno took them on a ‘cruise’ three months or so
ago. About how Toma wanted to marry Akane and how Ranma saved her. Nodoka’s
eyes filled with tears as Akane talked about Ranma and his gallant act.
Akane left out the part about Ranma needing the water from the spring to be
cured however, as it would give the game away. 
"Akane..." Nodoka began. "...Do...do you love my son?..." Akane was taken
aback at the question. She wanted to admit it, but as usual her pride
prevented her from doing so. Also, she wanted to tell Nodoka the truth about
Ranma’s curse. She, like most everyone else here, knew how much it hurt
Nodoka every time she came, hoping to see her son and husband for the first
time in years. But every time being denied that opportunity. Akane slowly
nodded, to Nodoka’s delight. Soun and Genma, who’d been watching like hawks
for the past few seconds, took out their little fans and began cheering.
Nabiki sighed at not being to use that fact to blackmail Akane in future
while Kasumi simply smiled.
<...Yet...I drove him away...> Akane’s eyes began to fill with tears at the
thought.
"Akane dear, what’s wrong?" Nodoka gently pushed Akane’s hair back over her
forehead out of her eyes, Smiling.
"Oh Auntie...Ranma, Ranma’s..." Akane stopped when she saw Genma standing
behind Nodoka, sweating profusely while making stabbing motions with both
hands toward his stomach while frantically imploring her not to say it.
Akane held Genma’s pleading gaze for a moment.
<I should tell her, she’ll find out eventually...> Akane thought.
<Ranma...I...I’m sorry...> Akane looked apologetically at Genma, who caught
the look and began to inch toward the door.
"Auntie...Ranma’s...Ran-..." Before she could finish, a voice rang out from
outside.
"Akane!! Akane, where are you?!?" Akane’s eyes widened in surprise, along
with  almost everybody else’s.
"R...Ryoga?!?..." Akane stammered out. To everyone’s utter shock and
surprise, Ryoga actually managed to find his way in through the front
door!!! Akane’s eyes widened further when she saw Ryoga, with hardly a
scratch on him!
"Ryoga...Where were...what..." Akane tried to say. Too many questions were
plaguing her mind though, and she couldn’t finish.
"Akane! I’ve something very important to tell you..." Ryoga began.
"Ryoga...Where were you? We were all worried..." Kasumi said.
"...and we found this..." Akane held out the peach she found under his window.
"...and you’re healed!? Who did..." Ryoga grimaced as everyone pressed
questions onto him at the same time, demanding answers.
"Ok, ok, HOLD IT!" Ryoga blurted out, everyone fell silent. "I’ll explain
everything, give me a moment will you...as well as something to drink, I’m
parched!" Kasumi got Ryoga a drink from the fridge.
"Ok, here’s what happened..." Ryoga began after finishing his drink. For the
next hour he related how he was brought to Togenkyo by Sarutoru and of
Toma’s suspicions. He also said that Togenkyo was once again nearing Japan.
"Hey! If the island is coming here again, let’s go visit them!" Nabiki piped
up. 
"Later Nabiki..." Akane was slightly annoyed that no-one appeared to
consider the problem at hand. "...What’s important now is that we find out
the truth about what Ryoga’s just told us..."
"Hmm, I’ll bet Cologne would have something to say about these mysterious
happenings our friend Toma claims to have taken place..." Panda held up a
sign. Everyone nodded.
"Well, let’s go see her then!" Akane stood up, followed by everyone else. 
"Oh, Akane…You will be back for dinner won't you?" Kasumi glanced at the
clock on the wall, it was 6.30pm. Akane nodded at Kasumi who smiled back.
Nodoka and Kasumi then went into the kitchen to start on dinner as everyone
left for the Nekohanten. 
<If what Toma told Ryoga is true…We have much more to worry about than just
being home in time for dinner…> Akane thought as they stepped out into the
cool, night air.

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