Spirit within part 11:Training for a peaceful life.
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Part 11
"All right then, I send the flowers and the note and make sure he is at the
park at four?" said Genma with a smile.
"And I take Akane and go for a nice walk in the park to cheer her up!"
finished Soun.
"A perfect plan. When my son returns from his training voyage we'll set it
all up!" cried Genma. The two men pat each other on the back and laughed
heartily.
"Nabiki, where is your sister?" called Soun as his middle daughter walked by.
"Oh, thats right you haven't heard yet. She ran away with her boy friend
yesterday." said Nabiki sitting down calmly while eating a bag of chips. She
rested her head in her palms and watched the two men cry.
Ranma sat next to the fire the group had made on the side of the mountain and
watched it burn down. He could feel every muscle in his body ache. Ukyo and
Akane were angry at the three men and forced them out of the tents. The three
had spent the past few days raiding bathhouses, restaurants, windows, and
school locker rooms from the towns surrounding the mountain.
"They could have at least given us our sleeping bags." grumbled Ryoga.
The tired and beaten men returned to camp only to face two very angry girls.
Akane was the worst of the two. Ranma had made her tag along on all the
'training voyages' refusing to take his eyes off her for the slightest moment.
She had often joined the hordes of angry girls after the unfortunate victims
of Happosai's training.
"I can't believe that jerk!" growled Akane from her sleeping bag. "He is such
a pervert." she muttered.
"Akane, I envy you." said Ukyo looking at her room mate from her own bag.
Akane stared blankly at her. Ukyo smiled "You have someone who loves and trust
you so much that he'll allow you to see him doing things like that. Even when
he knows your going to pound him for it." she rolled over in her bag. "I wish
I had someone that trusted me that much." she said.
Akane smiled. "Ryoga isn't being very descreat about his actions either." she
said.
"I suppose not, that pervert, he's probably having the time of his life. At
least Ranma looks miserable." muttered Ukyo.
"He looks like he's the one having the hardest time about this. Ranma isn't
exactly shy about naked women for obvious reasons, Ryoga, well...lets just say
he lost allot of blood over this. "Akane smiled when she remembered Ryoga's
reaction to the bath house caper. "Besides I think you just like to watch
Ranma suffer."
"I do like watching those two morons stumble around from their injuries."
said Ukyo she smiled and rolled over to sleep for the night. "I guess Ryoga
does trust me." she thought as she dozed off with a small smile on her lips.
"What do I care anyway." she muttered.
Akane however frowned and fumed again in her own bag. What did he mean 'it
was a blessing in disguise' when she told him they weren't allowed to have any
of the curry she had cooked? Nabiki must have told him those lies about her
cooking. She had never cooked for him before, except for that lunch, and that
was just a coincidence. He even told her he hadn't been feeling well before
then. "I'm gonna have to talk with Nabiki when I get back." she muttered and
dozed off as well.
Mousse crept silently up to the encampment and smiled as he entered the Tent.
He looked at the two girls sleeping on the ground and frowned. He looked back
over his shoulder and saw a blur in the bushes. Moving frantically. "Which one
is it?" he cried looking at the snoring girls.
Shampoo watched the idiot Mousse stop and stare at the two girls in the tent
for a moment. <Mousse you pervert I'm gonna kill you.> she grumbled in
Mandarin. Then a realization came over her. Mousse wasn't staring at them, he
couldn't tell them apart. "Stupid Mousse." she muttered and stood up. He
looked back at her with a confused gaze. "Right Mousse! Right one!" she said
waving her arms to the right frantically.
Mousse watched the blur move and sighed. "Oh well." he said and dropped a gas
ball. He then lifted both girls over his shoulders and walked out carefully.
He placed a paper on the flaps and crept silently away.
A few hours later...
Mousse growled as Ukyo struggled against the chains that held her against the
wall. "What have you done to Akane?" she screamed. Akane was hanging from a
large arch in the back of what appeared to be a tomb of some sort, it was
built in a huge cave. She was several stories in the air and hanging from a
rope. Below her were several large samurai statues with stone spears in their
hands pointing straight up. hundreds of them lined the walls of the huge
cavern. Light from a hole high on the ceiling gave it and earie presence.
"Relax Miss Konji. If all goes well you and Miss Tendo will be released
unharmed. She is bait and you are insurance." said Mousse. Shampoo walked up
behind him and smiled at her.
"He is right, you relax now and be quiet." she purred. Ukyo growled at her.
"Well it seems like your finally using your head Mousse." said a familiar
voice from behind them. Shampoo and Mousse whirled around and backed
defensively away from it.
"Great Grandmother." said Shampoo angrily.
"Don't worry dear, I'm feeling generous, I'll allow this plan, if only
because you actually put some thought into it, no matter how little. A warning
Mousse...If you fail this time, Shampoo will marry the son in law." said
Cologne.
"Goul, not even you can prevent my marriage to Shampoo this time. We will
avenge her honor and return to China together." thought Mousse barely
containing his grin.
Ryoga and Happosai woke the next morning and sat up. "All right boys ready
for another day of training...." Happy trailed off noticing Ryoga was staring
at Ranma who was standing in front of the tent not moving. In his hand was a
sheet of paper.
He turned to face the two. "They won't get away with this." he said and
tightened his grip on the sheet.
"What's wrong Ranma? Where are Ukyo and Akane?" said Ryoga looking worried.
Ranma held out the note. It was a map with the words.
"Come and get her." written on it.
"Oh, my." said Happosai.
"Our girlfriends have been kidnapped and all you can say is 'Oh my?!"
growled Ryoga.
"Somebody had to say it and Kasumi isn't here, besides since when is Ukyo
your girlfriend?" said Happy.
"She'd not I was talking about Ranma!" cried Ryoga defensively and blushing a
bright red.
The two turned and saw Ranma already disappearing off in the distance with
the map in his hands.
"Ranma wait up!" cried Ryoga chasing after him in the wrong direction.
"This way fool." cried Happy dragging him by his collar.
"Cut it out you freak!" yelled Ryoga.
To be concluded...
Next time...Spirit within Final.
It should be a big chapter and tie up allot of loose ends. I don't want to
give away too much but I think it may anger some people. Then again what
doesn't?
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