Didn't this used to be chapter 16?
Cologne.
Shampoo.
Hilda.
Kuno.
Ukyo.
Konatsu.
Let's see if you get this order right...
"It's not fair! It's just not fair! First all the cute ones go
after Ranma, and now Mousse? Who next, Kuno?" squeaked Daisuke.
Foreshadowing, anyone?
"Let's not get improbable, Dai."
They're already past improbable with Mousse.
"You're right, Hiro. Hmm... I have an idea. Let's just go
straight to the Tendo place. She'll have to show up there sooner or
later."
heh.
"An excellent suggestion. It is, after all, inevitable."
LOL!
They sipped their cokes.
####
Carefully, Tatewaki Kuno discarded the paper cone of his cherry
ice in the proper receptacle, and mused on what to do next on this
delightful day.
Perchance a visit to the Tendo residence would be in order.
There was always a chance that the sorcerers spell had finally waned.
He sneezed.
hmm so far your list above is still in order.
####
Ranma led a still shell-shocked Ryoga-chan to the furo room.
"Look, all you gotta do is wash that mud off, and then have a soak in
the furo-- it should still be hot enough. No problem, right?"
hehe.
Ryoga nodded dumbly.
"You want a hand?"
"NO! I mean, I-- I can wash myself!"
LOL!
Ranma restrained a chuckle-- with difficulty. "Okay. I'll see
about your pack..."
this is funny.
As Ranma returned to the courtyard, he was greeted by the
peculiar sight of a fuming Shampoo glaring at Hilda, who was draped
all over a not-successfully-escaping Mousse.
"Viking girl being too too familiar with Mousse," the Amazon
growled.
heh.
"I thought you didn't want Mousse," Akane replied with some
confusion.
"Shampoo no want Mousse, but Mousse is Shampoo's Mousse that
Shampoo no want!"
wtf?! run that by me again?
As Akane tried to figure out the last statement and Mousse tried
to break free from Hilda's imitation of an affectionate octopus,
Ranma shook her head at Ryoga's pack. It was clear that he hadn't
had a chance to hit a Laundromat for a while, since the clothing
inside was all somewhat less than clean. (Guess I'll see if Kasumi
can add this stuff to the laundry, and I'll lend piggy some of my
Chinese stuff.)
heh.
He went to see Kasumi, with the clothing in arm. Kasumi was just
finishing cleaning the pot, and sighing. "Ranma-chan. Oh, dear...
are those Ryoga-kun's clothes?"
"Yeah. I don't suppose you can add them to the load today?
These are pretty nasty..."
"Easily, Ranma-chan. Oh, but where is Ryoga?"
"He's in the furo by now. He had an accident with some Instant
Nyannichuan, and got turned into a girl. But a quick soak will fix
that."
"Oh, my." Pause, and then, "Oh, MY."
"What?" Ranma was confused at Kasumi's sudden expression of
alarm.
"I haven't had a chance to tidy up the furo yet, and I'm not
certain, but I think your special soap is still in the soap-dish, and
if he grabs that instead of the regular soap--"
GACK!!!!!!
Ranma's eyes widened to near apple-size, and she echoed Kasumi
with a quiet, "Oh, MY."
Meanwhile, back at the ranch-- I mean, furo-- Ryoga was carefully
rinsing and soaping herself while trying as hard as she could not to
look at herself and to ignore the strange way her body felt at the
moment. After she had gotten as much of the grit out of her hair as
she could, she gave herself a final rinse, stepped into the furo--
which was still quite warm-- lowered herself--
And realized that a certain familiar tingle wasn't happening.
oops. ;)
Ranma looked up at a sudden high-pitched and definitely female
scream, and dashed to the furo, just KNOWING what had happened.
Kasumi shook her head, and decided that from now on the furo room
had priority.
As Ryoga stared at herself in dumb shock, Ranma looked at the
soap tray, and decided that she should get something else for Ryoga
to wear. Like a nice sundress or something.
####
Ukyo, followed by an unseen Konatsu, arrived at the Tendo Dojo to
a scene that was at best described as... weird as all hell.
Wait... kuno didn't yet arrive? damn, you messed up the order of the list. just switch the list around.
Mousse was struggling against the grip of a remarkably tall and
pneumatic blonde in a honest to gosh chainmail bikini who was
cuddling him and caressing him and hugging him and squeezing him and
doing damn near everything but calling him George. She apparently
preferred to call him Angel.
change "George" to "Nancy" to score an obscure reference. extra points if you
get it without my explanation as well.
Rot13:
guvf vf n ersrerapr gb n pbzzrepvny sbe qrkgre'f yno.
Shampoo was glaring at the both of them with an expression that,
if it hadn't been Shampoo, Ukyo would have called jealousy.
Akane was shaking her head and murmuring about poor Ryoga.
Cologne was not rolling on the ground laughing her
multi-centenarian ass off, but that was only because she had an image
to maintain. Instead, she was perched on her staff giggling
furiously.
LOL!
Wondering just what the hell was going on this time, she entered
the Tendo household to see Ranma leading a strange girl out of the
furo with a towel wrapped around her body and an expression of panic
wrapped around her face.
"Where are you taking me?" the strange girl asked.
"To get you some clothes, Ryoga. You can't run around in a
towel, you know."
Ukyo stared. Did Ranchan just call that girl... Ryoga?
"Clothes..."
"C'mon, you," Ranma said, dragging the towel-wrapped neo-girl
into her room by one hand.
Neo-girl? you didn't tell me this was a MATRIX crossover!!!! (btw if you like
the idea i just said, you have my permission to use it. hell, everyone else is
using my idea, even WW... you might as well.)
Akane had been partly right-- Ranma and Ryoga in girl form were
similar in size. Facially, they were somewhat different. As Ranma
resembled her boy-side, so did Ryoga. But the now wider hazel eyes,
the even cuter fangs, and the thick shock of sky blue hair-- Ranma
would never figure out WHERE Jyusenko got it's taste in hair
coloring-- made Ryoga look somewhat less sexy than Ranma, and
somewhat more cute.
"I'm a girl. I'm stuck as a girl. I'll be a girl forever."
Ryoga was in a state of sheer horrified shock.
"Naw... just about a week or so. You grabbed my waterproof
beauty soap by accident, and it took. It'll wear off in a week or
five days, or like that, if you don't accidentally use it again."
"I'm... not a girl forever?"
"Nope. You'll survive it. And anyhow, it means for a week or so
no pig, right?"
Ryoga brightened at that. "No Pig. No Pig is a good thing."
heh. yeah. for him anyway.
"Here... these should fit you."
Ryoga froze-- again-- and blinked. "What are these?" No Pig was
a good thing, but these... things... were not.
I can guess what. ;)
"That's a bra, and those are panties, and that's a pair of
stockings, and--"
"I can't wear that stuff!"
"Sure you can. Trust me, it's more comfortable when you're a
girl for an extended period of time. Hmm... this top should look
decent on you."
"I-- I can't wear this! I'm a guy!"
"Not for a week or so, you ain't. Besides, all of your clothes
are filthy, and all my guy stuff is packed away." This wasn't
strictly true, but Ranma couldn't resist the opportunity. "Hmm...
no, I bet you ain't fond of the idea of a miniskirt, are you?"
"But... I don't even know how they work!"
Ranma sighed. "The panties work just like boxers except snugger.
Think of them as briefs for girls. The little bow on that pair goes
in front. The bra is a front-closing one-- just slip it on like a
vest and snap it in front. The thigh highs are like really tall
socks. It's easy."
Ryoga, still stunned, wordlessly complied, managing not to notice
her now highly feminine body. However, as she pulled on the last of
the undergarments, she accidentally caught sight of herself in
Ranma's mirror. And gulped.
Ryoga-chan in lingerie pulling up the edge of a stocking.
Classic Cheesecake. Except for the nervous, almost panicky
expression.
heh. right.
Perhaps it was the shock, perhaps it was the sudden lack of
masculine hormones, perhaps it was a combination of the two. At any
rate, Ryoga wasn't passing out or getting a nosebleed. But it was a
close thing. She definitely felt dizzy.
"Kawaii, ne?" grinned Ranma. "You clean up pretty decent.
Better make certain that Kuno never gets a look at you."
uh oh. foreshadowing? or am i reading to much into this?
"I... I can't believe that I'm wearing this stuff..."
"Hmm... this skirt should look okay on you, and this top. Try
'em on, while I do something about your hair."
"My hair? A skirt?"
"You look like a drowned blue rat. I can at least comb it so you
don't bring shame on the reputation of girls around the world. As
for the skirt, well, I can lend you a leotard if you'd prefer, or
maybe something in spandex? Or a bikini. If you prefer."
lol.
"You think this is funny, don't you?"
"Me? Well, actually... yeah. But I'm also serious. If you're
going to be a girl for the next week, you might as well be one with
some style." Ranma began to brush Ryoga's hair, eyeing it
critically. "Take off that bandanna for a sec, will you?"
"Why?"
"I figure I can retie it into a nice bow, or something--"
"Forget it. These clothes feel funny."
"You get used to them. Sorry I don't have any clean slacks, or
I'd have lent you a pair instead. There-- ain't as feminine as it
ought to be, but you don't look that bad. Want some lip-gloss?"
"Don't push it."
Ranma chuckled. "Now take a look at yourself."
Ryoga did-- and blinked. Girl. Yellow top with a gray and blue
checked knee-length skirt. Hair slightly styled and wavy, and that
strange pale blue. Except for the eyes, she looked a lot like a
fanged Rei Ayanami.
in whose opinion? none of them watch eva, do they?
"I'm... I'm... pretty?"
"Hey, the pools seem to try for the best possible result. I'm a
good looking girl too, Mousse is a fine duck, you normally turn into
a pretty decent pig, Shampoo's a very high quality c-cat, and I dunno
what the hell Tarou is, but he's an excellent example of it. Heck,
even Pops is a remarkable specimen of a panda. Sort of a quality
curse, I guess."
heh. that's funny.
"I'm a pretty girl. Oh, GOD, I'm a pretty girl. Ranma, this is
all... Hey, wait."
Perhaps the severe shock had caused Ryoga's mind to derail from
it's usual one-track course, or perhaps reality was creeping around
the surreal nature of the situation, but for once--
"MOUSSE! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
LOL!
"Uh-oh," breathed Ranma.
"ARRRRGH!"
"Um... You wanna wait a bit, before you go out? I mean, you're
probably still sort of disor--"
"I'LL KILL HIM!"
"So, you don't wanna wait?"
Ryoga dashed out of the room, and with strange accuracy headed
straight back to the Dojo area, where things were getting... odd.
####
Ukyo walked out of the house with a slightly glazed expression.
Ryoga was a girl? Did Ranchan REALLY call that girl Ryoga? What was
going on?
"Angel!"
"Let me GO, Hilda! And I'm NOT your angel!"
lol...
"Shampoo no care if stupid Mousse want fool around with Horny
Girl."
"Shampoo, it's -- aw, let GO-- it's not what it LOOKS like!"
"I thought this only happened to Ranma," Akane said to Cologne.
"It is something of a change, isn't it?" the matriarch replied.
"Who you call horny girl, Amazon?" Hilda glared at her rival.
you, idiot.
"Shampoo call Horny Girl Horny Girl. And no talk about helmet."
lol!
"I don't suppose someone can explain what's actually going on
here?" asked Ukyo.
"Well, the girl in the chainmail bikini is a Chinese Viking who's
in love with Mousse although it doesn't seem that he returns the
favor, Ryoga got turned into a girl by a bucket of magic mud, which
is annoying Mousse because HE wanted to turn into a girl instead of
Ryoga, so he could go to Berlin. Or something like that," Akane
explained.
Akane's explanation made little or no sense to Ukyo, but that was
okay. Making little or no sense was par for the course in Nerima,
especially at this house. It was, actually, something of a relief.
"UMBRELLA! WHERE'S MY UMBRELLA!"
heh.
Akane stared at the blue-haired girl who stormed in, screaming,
followed closely by Ranma.
"Ranma, who is that?"
"Ryoga. Who else would be screaming for an umbrella?"
"But... why's he still a..."
"Grabbed the wrong soap in the furo. Stuck for a week or so.
And she's angry at--"
"--someone other than me, for once."
Ryoga found her umbrella, and hefted it. It seemed slightly
heavier than usual-- not that that mattered much to what was
effectively the strongest girl in Japan at the moment.
"MOUSSE-- PREPARE TO DIE!"
Mousse, confused, managed to pull away from Hilda just in time to
keep his head from being split.
"What-- who-- who are you?"
"Who do you THINK? It's Ryoga Hibiki, and I'm gonna kick your
duck ass all the way back to China!"
Hilda stared as the strange blue-haired girl attacked her Angel.
Now, before anyone asks, Hilda had been totally focused on
Mousse, and so hadn't noticed the bucket of magic mud or the
alterations it had performed on a certain Lost Boy, making him into a
Lost Girl. Also, the clothing was completely unlike what Ryoga had
been wearing. So, Hilda had no idea what Ryoga was talking about.
But she DID know Amazon traditions passably well, and so came to
an understandable conclusion.
"Umbrella Girl NOT steal Angel from Hilda!"
The newborn battle stopped as both Ryoga and Mousse stared at the
now standing Viking.
"WHAT?" they squawked in unison.
"Umbrella Girl try beat Mousse, make him marry her! Hilda not
let Umbrella Girl do that!"
Jaws fell all around.
"Me? Marry HIM? I'd rather marry... marry... RANMA than HIM!"
"Gosh, Ryo-chan, I didn't know you cared," quipped Ranma.
LOL!
"Shaddap, you," growled the new girl on the block, with unwanted
cuteness.
"You no fool Hilda! You want Mousse! Every girl want Mousse
except stupid Amazon girl!"
"Horny Girl pushing it," Shampoo growled.
lol.
Ukyo just stared.
It was obvious to the disinterested observer-- or would have been
had there been a disinterested observer available-- that Ryoga still
wanted to kick duck ass, and that at any moment, Shampoo and Hilda
would be at each other's throats. Only a person of unparalelled
diplomatic ability could possibly defuse the situation.
Of course, those are not something common to Nerima.
how about dai?
####
Hiroshi and Daisuke had interested Fred in the probable upcoming
insanity. Fred decided that since he was fairly new to the Art, the
fight that the duo predicted could be educational.
So Fred rapidly prepared a large quantity of his burgers as a
visiting gift, and shut down early. Besides, he was due for some
entertainment.
As the duo plus one made their way to the Tendo Dojo, Fred's
heart lifted a bit higher at the sight of his girlfriend, Eiko.
"Ohayo, Eiko-chan!"
would that be Eiko as in A-ko?
Eiko's eyes widened a bit. "Fred-chan! Aren't you usually
cooking right now?"
"My friends here suggest that there's going to be a big fight
soon, and I thought I'd take a look at it."
"Oh? How big?"
"Ranma."
one word says it all...
"Ooooh! That's always a treat! I'll come too, if I may? I can
make tea for everyone, and I hear that Kasumi Tendo has a fantastic
kitchen!"
Fred grinned. "I hadn't thought of that, Eiko-chan, that's a
plus too!"
Hiroshi paused for a moment, and then asked Fred, "Are you a
martial artist?"
"Well, sort of..."
"Figures." (Cute girl out of nowhere, targets onto Fred Yamada
in a heartbeat-- why do the martial artists get all the girls?)
heh.
####
So far, the fight hadn't began again. Mousse was still staring
at Ryoga in confusion, who was redefining glare every second.
Shampoo and Hilda were also glaring at each other with expressions of
intense hostility. Ukyo was fingering her battle spatula just in
case the expected explosion of violence spilled over to Ranchan.
Akane was considering grabbing a handy statue or somthing, just in
case. Ranma was looking from girl to girl-- there were a lot of
girls here, including the temporary ones-- and beginning to sweat.
And Cologne was trying her damndest not to explode in hysterical
guffawing.
Nodoka peered out of the door for a moment, saw the quite
improbable Hilda, and blinked.
"Ranma-chan, who is... that?"
"Chinese Viking, Mom."
"And that girl there with Ryoga's umbrella?"
"That's Ryoga, Mom. She had a little accident with some Instant
Nyannichuan and the waterproof soap. I lent her some clothes, is
that okay?"
"Ah... certainly. Is there going to be a fight?"
"Probably."
heh.
"Then you may want to change clothes, since that dress is too
nice to get wrecked in a battle." Nodoka felt on somewhat more
stable grounds here. Female Ryogas and Chinese Vikings in chainmail
bikinis may have been difficult for her to comprehend, but fights she
knew about.
"Good idea. Hey, guys, don't start killing each other before I
get back, 'kay?"
Ryoga just growled. Cutely.
you're really gonna pound that into our heads, aren't you? reminds me of one of
she whom the moderators decree should not be named's early fanfics where ranma
was cursed to be female so she could marry a male version of akane because
nodoka didn't realize that soun had two other DAUGHTERS not two other SONS.
As Ranma went to her room to change into something more durable,
tensions-- predictably-- increased. Ryoga glared at Mousse as though
glaring was about to be declared illegal and she wanted to get as
much in as she could, Mousse stared at Ryoga in what could only be
described as, well, fear-- he'd NEVER seen a girl THIS angry before--
and Shampoo and Hilda were, well, not being particularly nice.
heh.
Not nice at all.
understatement? overstatement?
sideways statement. definitely sideways.
"Horny Girl."
"Stupid Amazon."
"Horny Girl."
"Stupid Amazon BITCH."
"Horny SLUTTY Girl."
Mousse gazed at the two, and sighed.
"Um... not that I care, because I still intend to kill you,
duck-boy, but should we wait for them to fight first?" Ryoga asked.
"They won't. They're not allowed. Ancient Amazon/Viking peace
treaty. They WILL insult each other for hours, though, that's legal,
as long as they don't do it in Chinese," Mousse explained.
wierd.
Ranma emerged in a pait of cut-offs and a t-shirt. "Okay, I
guess the fight can begin..."
"Stupid UGLY Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty GOOFY girl!"
"Or not," Ranma added, facinated. She'd felt CERTAIN that a
battle was about to happen.
"We can't fight yet, Ryoga. Amazon and Viking law requires that
the battle of insults be finished first... it would be an incredible
insult to interrupt it," continued Mousse's explanation.
LOL! i bet half your readers won't get this!
Ryoga fumed for a moment, but then relaxed. "'Kay. I'll kick
duck ass later. They... aren't too good at it, are they?"
"No... both Shampoo and Hilda were always better at being
physical..."
"Stupid ugly SILLY Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty goofy FAT girl!"
Ranma looked to Cologne. "I don't suppose you can just let them
hit each other and get it over with?"
Cologne didn't reply, since she needed all her breath for
giggling.
LOL!
"Didn't think so."
"So, I have to wait for them to stop being bitchy before I can
kill you?" Ryoga asked, uncertainly.
"No, you have to wait for them to stop being bitchy before you
can TRY-- Lost Girl." Mousse wasn't happy about Ryoga's casual
acceptance of victory beforehand.
"We not bitchy!"
"Is complicated traditional word-war!"
With that, the two went back to stringing insults together.
"Okay. I'm STILL gonna kill you, though," Ryoga noted.
"Will you stop saying that? It's not very polite," Mousse
complained.
"It's not meant to be! It's meant to be a warning that I'm going
to kill you!"
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ranma just shook her head. How could things get any--
"Hey, Ranma! We heard there was going to be a fight, and I
wanted to watch! Do you mind?"
"Oi, Fred! Naw, not at all, but I'm not certain there's going to
be a proper fight-- things are a little wierd right now..."
Fred entered with Eiko, Hiroshi and Daisuke in tow. And stared
at the two girls stringing bad insults together.
"Amazon Ritual?" Fred asked.
Cologne managed for a second to stop giggling. "Ah, Yamada-san.
How are things with you?"
"Quite well, Cologne-san. Have you met my girlfriend?"
"No, I can't say that I have..."
"She looks familiar, Ranma," noted Ryoga.
"Yeah... Can't quite remember from where though..."
They both paused to try to remember where they had seen the new
arrival, and then blinked.
"Our date!" they chorused.
i don't remember any such appearance.
"Hey, Ranma, can you introduce us to your new friend?" Daisuke
asked, looking at a certain blue-haired girl with undisguised
interest.
"Sure. This is Ryoga Hibiki, she's really a boy, she had an
accident with some Instant Nyannichuan and some waterproof soap, and
no, she's NOT going out with you."
"Ranma! You don't decide who I go out with!"
"What-- you WANNA go out with him?"
"Of COURSE not-- but it's MY decision!"
Meanwhile Daisuke was trying out one of Ranma's more advanced
techniques-- that being, beating his head against a handy wall. Why
was it that every cute girl he met was either going out with a male
martial artist, chasing a male martial artist, or actually WAS a male
martial artist? It wasn't FAIR!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hiroshi just scratched his head. More Ranma. That's the only
thing he could think, More Ranma.
"Stupid ugly silly nasty no-talent Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky girl!"
"Who you call geeky?"
"Shampoo call horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky girl geeky!"
wow... hilda ought to drop stupid, she was able to repeat her insult exactly.
"Hey, Mom, get Pops for me, would you?"
"Why, Ranma?"
"I want to know if there's an Anything Goes Martial Arts
Insulting technique. I'm beginning to think it could be useful."
"He won't come out of our room, Ranma. He just keeps mumbling
about the training and you dating Ryoga. Ryoga's such a nice boy,
too."
"Girl, Mom. Nice girl."
"Shaddap, Ranma. I'm not a nice girl."
"Are you going to borrow Ranma's leathers when you try to kill me
then?" asked Mousse.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryoga thought about how she would look in Ranma's now infamous
leather shorts and halter combo and almost DID get a nosebleed.
"Um... Well, I'm nicer than THAT. I'm no tramp." (What am I
SAYING?)
Ranma blinked, and began to fume. "Are you saying I'm a tramp
when I wear my leathers?"
"Well if the shoe-- or shiny black calf-hugging boot-- fits..."
heh. i keep picturing the same kind of boots that Nitrozac (author of After
Y2k, a comic at www.after-y2k.com [where else?]) wears, is this a good
comparison? (go there and look in the archives for Nitrozac@Home pictures.)
Ranma, who had not been really in the mood to fight Ryoga, was
beginning to change her mind.
"Look, you--"
Akane scowled. "Ranma, don't pick on poor Ryoga. She's confused
enough as it is."
heh.
"Hey, she's the one calling ME a tramp, here!"
"Stupid ugly silly nasty no-talent flat-chested Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky trampy girl!"
"No fair! Steal trampy from umbrella girl! Amazon cheat!"
"HAH! Shampoo not cheat, umbrella girl not girl!"
Hilda blinked at that. "Amazon say that not girl, Amazon REALLY
confused."
Ryoga decided to side with Shampoo on this. "She's right. I'm
not a girl."
"Yes, you are," corrected Ranma. "If you weren't, those panties
would pinch something awful and you wouldn't fill out that top like
heh. do most guys consider that thing (the thing which would be pinched) to be
awful?
okay... token grammar nitpick done.
you do--"
"Well, I'm not USUALLY a girl!"
Hilda stared. "Is matter of choice in Japan?"
Explanations followed.
and after this interruption, hilarity continued to ensue, already in progress.
####
From his place of concealment (Behind a trash can-- a skilled
ninja can hide almost anywhere) Konatsu stared in mild confusion. He
was vaguely aware of the oddness of Nerima from Ukyo-sama's stories,
but since he rarely left the okonomiyaki-ya except for light
shopping, he hadn't much direct contact with it. Technically, he
wasn't in contact with it right now, but...
"And what transpires here, miss?"
Konatsu turned, startled, to see Tatewaki Kuno standing in the
one location where he could be easily spotted. Said Kuno was staring
at the altercation in facination and some (understandable) confusion.
"Um. Well. Ukyo-sama and I came out to see her Ranchan, and
Hibiki-san was turned into a girl, and the Amazon and the Viking are
calling each other names, and the fellow over there makes hamburgers,
and have we met?"
Tatewaki Kuno simply stared. All he could tell for certain is
that there was a rather larger than normal amount of attractive women
in the Tendo yard, and that in general they all seemed to be arguing.
Large amounts of arguing girls tended to degrade into violence.
LOL!
He could go in and try to defuse the situation. Surely they
would listen to his wisdom and desist this unseemly altercation.
Yes, he would--
heh. he's not the diplomat you were foreshadowing either, eh?
But wait. In truth, that had never worked before. Instead, the
result would be that somehow they would visit thier wrath on the one
who had ensorcelled them all, Saotome.
Who wasn't here.
Kuno Logic can be a beautiful thing to see. This time it was
positively magnificent.
(When girls argue, Saotome gets beat up.
(The girls are (mistakenly) in love with Saotome.
(The girls should be in love with Me.
(Saotome isn't here, so they WILL be in love with Me.
(The girls are arguing.
(Therefore, I will get beat up.)
From a mix of one accurate and a group of flawed propositions,
Tatewaki Kuno had managed to come to a completely accurate
conclusion.
LOL!!!!!!!!!! that's the funniest thing i've ever heard. not the stupidest; the
various horse laws in canada have it beat, and many more stupider than those,
but it's the funniest.
"I see. Perhaps I shall simply go to the library instead to
reread the life of Miyamoto Musashi, then. Good day."
And Tatewaki Kuno for once remained unbloodied and unbruised.
See? Complete and Total Idiot does not always equal stupid.
Just usually.
oww... i just fell out of my chair...
####
Hilda did not understand the explanations much. Jyusenkyo wasn't
a major part of the Viking life, since they did not live in the close
proximity to it that the Amazons et al did. Everyone talking at
once, mostly in Japanese, didn't help either. Neither did Ryoga's
switching between idle darts at Ranma's being a tramp (to which Ranma
retorted with the epithet "Sow") and reminding Mousse that she was
sow?
still going to kill him, Ukyo's attempts to try to get a proper
clarification of what exactly was going on (she was still somewhat
confused), Shampoo's insistance in Chinese that it was soooo obvious,
only a Viking wouldn't get it, and Cologne's finally collasping in
i thought they weren't allowed to insult in chinese.
hysterics.
"Let Hilda get this straight. Umbrella girl is really umbrella
boy, but took a bath and decided to dress like girl?"
"She IS a girl. She just normally isn't one." Ranma was
beginning to wonder about Hilda. Well, wonder more.
"Ah. And is because Angel wanted to be a girl for a while?"
Mousse looked unconfortable. "That's not exactly what she
means..."
Hilda's eyes sparkled. "Angel SOO nice to Hilda!"
Akane blinked. Most there imitated her. "Um... how so?"
Hilda grinned. "Hilda like both types! Angel so nice to Hilda
to indulge!"
Mousse began to back off very rapidly indeed, while Ranma boggled
and Ryoga at that mental image FINALLY developed a thin but definite
nosebleed.
"NO! IT'S NOT LIKE THAT! I WAS TRYING TO GET TO BERLIN!"
Shampoo sniffed. "Mousse want be pervert girl, Shampoo no care."
/me facefaults, breaking her monitor, then proceeds to haul the pink one back
out of the trash dumpster. don't ask. you don't want to know.
The rest facefaulted.
####
Over the next few days things went more or less back to normal.
For that particular area of Nerima anyhow.
show, don't tell.
Mousse had a close scrape when Hilda decided that the duck she
saw would make a perfect dish to try to win Mousse's affections.
Although she thought it was terribly unfair that the duck would fight
back.
Shampoo was acting oddly jealous. Not that she WANTED Stupid
blind duck boy, but as she had said, it was HER stupid blind duck boy
that she didn't want.
Tatewaki Kuno remained for a few days oddly careful, and thus
oddly unbashed.
heh.
Ukyo never DID quite figure out what was going on.
Neither did Konatsu, but that was all right with him. Just
another thing he and Ukyo had in common, he thought.
Fred and Eiko dropped by again, and made friends with Kasumi.
Cooks are like that.
Akane finally shrugged it off as just another thing that happened
around Ranma, and it wasn't actually his fault, she could admit it
now, it was actually becoming easy.
Kasumi just coasted along. The best tactic, really.
Cologne finally managed to deliver her gift to Ranma-- an
exquisitely crafted suit of Amazon armor, in her preferred red and
black colors, with an engraved rearing stallion on the left breast,
and matching bonburi.
bonbori. check earlier chapters for this too.
Kodachi came down from her rose-induced adventure, and was mellow
about as long as Kuno was.
No-one noticed Gosunkugi. So what else is new?
And Ryoga...
####
"Look, you are going to stick around for a while. At least until
you change back. That's not a cheap skirt, you know."
Ryoga grimaced. "Why can't I have my own clothes back?"
"Because they are SOO filthy that Kasumi says it will take a week
to wash them right!"
"Hey, I live a hard life, and people keep moving all the
laundromats!"
heh. that's funny.
Ranma sighed. "That's not it. Kasumi has accepted your clothes
as a challenge. And I'm not going to interfere with her challenge.
Your clothes will be the better for it, anyway. When SHE washes
clothes, dirt runs away. And they won't fit you at ALL anyway,
cutie-pie."
"Who are you calling cutie-pie?"
"Oh, chill. Anyhow, you can stay in my room until they are clean
enough for her and you change back. Good night."
Ryoga sighed. There wasn't much she could DO. "Oh, all right.
Good night. One question, though..."
"What?"
"Why do YOU get the pajamas?"
"Because they're mine," Ranma replied, smirking. "Besides, you
look good in that."
"I hate you, you know," Ryoga retorted, trying to get used to the
sheer nightie.
lol!
####
Next on Girl Days--
We get to see Ryoga's short sojurn on the other side, we get to
see her in a bikini for actually logical and sensible reasons, and we
reasons such as..?
get to see Kasumi get a LITTLE rattled.
ohmygod, the next one's gonna be TEN times as wierd?!
We also get a lot of gratuitous fanservice.
And we get to REALLY confuse the HELL out of a certain yak-boy...
who?