[FFML] [OMG/R.5]Marriage Wishes 3

Consumation

"Finally got here," Ryouga gasped, limping into the
post office and panting. Night had fallen, but he
could still get into the public parts where the mail
boxes were kept, and he was certain that THIS time he
had the right post office. He had even bothered to
read the sign before accosting some random passerby.
He still wished it was the Chicago post office box
that had received the package. Chicago had great hot
dogs.
It had been a difficult journey since he had
checked on this mail box over the phone. He had been
overjoyed and set out at once from...whereever he was.
First had been that strange demon that had tried to
"take his energy" or something just before he beat it
to a bloody pulp and walked away. The youma was
crawling along trying to figure out what had happened
when the Sailor Senshi arrived in a highly confused
state. They didn't bother to question the situation,
however, and after Sailor Moon had wiped the youma
out, they decided the easy, if mysterious, victory
with an ice cream party.
Next were the five odd people in multi-colored
jumpsuits with no discernable openings moving around
in exaggerated poses, martial arts or otherwise.
Ryouga had sort of walked through a collection of the
gel men that were fighting them and was leaving as
they started talking about a "mysterious bandanna-ed
ranger" and calling for something called "zords."
Then there was that island, and the brief encounter
with Godzilla. Ryouga hoped that the big lizard
wouldn't get it in his mind to follow him to Tokyo
because of that. He was certain that the creature
knew that shi shi hokodan was a complete accident,
really, it was. (Godzilla, on the other hand, had
barely noticed and merely rolled over in his sleep)
Through it all he had run across his home once
(unfortunately his parents returned on "vacation") and
two of his other post office boxes that he had
scattered across Tokyo just in case. It was amazing
how much Shinjuku looked like Kyoto though, or how
much Tomobiki looked like Osaka. Then yesterday
fighting Ranma and then those strange guys that were
chasing that woman that...
Ryouga clamped a hand over his nose as he
remembered the goddess kissing him. A goddess had
kissed him, and Ranma, Shampoo, but that wasn't
important. A GODDESS had kissed HIM. Ryouga pinched
his nose closed a little more and remembered why he
was there.
Finally, after all this time, he would be free of
the pig.
All he had to do was find the PO Box.
After about an hour of searching Ryouga finally
managed to find the PO Box with the right number
inserted his key nervously. The lock clicked and the
box opened revealing a small package. Instantly the
package was torn open revealing a boxed canteen, and a
note, which Ryouga failed to notice.
"YES!!" he shouted, taking the canteen and opening
it. "I'M FREEE! HAHAHAHAHA...huh?" Ryouga blinked
as, in pouring the water over himself, he suddenly
found himself shorter, with a higher pitched voice,
and a slightly different center of gravity. "He"
knew...he just knew what had happened, but didn't want
to believe it.
Ryouga cinched his eyes closed tightly and tilted
his head down, then slowly cracked his eyes open to
see that SHE had indeed joined Ranma and Herb in the
ranks of the aquatransexuals. Glancing to her
reflexion in the window, she showed that she had
approximately the same build as Ranma and Herb's
female form, but quite a bit taller and stronger,
maybe. He still had his fangs, though his hair was
now a deep, forest, green.
"WHAT THE HELL!?!" Ryouga demanded shrilly. She
turned back to the package and ripped through finding
the note and scanning over it. "Dear Customer, we
regret to inform you that at the time we received your
request that the last reserves of our nannichuan HAD
ALREADY BEEN PURCHASED!?! by the Tendo Dojo and
SHAMPOO!!?!? of the Joketsuzoku. We have refunded
your accounts the price of the nannichuan and instead
given you a free sample of nyannichuan!!!!! which,
fortunately, was one of the thirty-eight springs to
survive the events at Jusendo in which you played a
part and were thus presented with the gift of our
catalog. At least in this way you will be spared the
spring of drowned pig curse and being a walking meal
anytime you get splashed with cold water. Signed
Jusenkyo Products Incorporated Representative, Li Mau.
PS - Plum says 'Hi.'"
Ryouga fumed for several seconds, her mind
threatening to cease function for a little while until
one overriding fact was pointed out to her by her
somewhat frantically spinning mind. She had known
about the Tendos' nannichuan, it had been partially
his fault in destroying after all. It had been really
stupid to fight over it, considering that there was
enough for at least a couple of people. Then again,
by the time Ryouga had gotten there, the fight had
already been taking place. However...
"Shampoo has nannichuan," Ryouga realized, and then
she was off into the wilds again. Well, off into the
street, which was pretty much the same thing to
Ryouga. At least...eventually...it was the same
thing.

*******

"Why didn't I see it before?" Genma demanded
suddenly outloud. It would have been a more
worry-causing event if it were not for something else
going on upstairs.
"Akane!! You've been in there for an hour and a
half!" Ranma said, knocking on the door.
"Akane please," Soun whined, trying not to cry,
trying not to think about crying, or rivers, or
waterfalls, or..."Akane as your father I ORDER you to
leave that room."
"We need to get in there Akane," Kasumi said
politely, if urgently.
"I'm uhh...almost done," Akane's voice said.
"You've been saying that this whole time!" Ranma
reminded her irritably. "What are you doing in there
anyway?" Ranma glanced around at the disbelieving
stares. "I know, okay? I'm not THAT stupid."
"I knew I should have shelled out for an extra
bathroom," Nabiki muttered angrily. "Look, I'm
walking to the diner and using their's. You all can
wait for Little Miss Hormonal if you want, I'm out of
here."
Nabiki started to turn away from her spot at the
head of the door, but her comment was suddenly
rewarded by an opening door. The door revealed Akane
in a somewhat disheveled hurriedly put on school
uniform, somewhat breathless, hair out of place and
looking very red.
"WHO called me 'little Miss Hormonal?'" she
demanded. Nabiki breezed past her, ignoring the
surprise expressions on other people's faces.
"One of the usual suspects," Nabiki. "I'm sure you
can deal with it." Then she was in the restroom and
shutting the door solidly behind her.
"NABIKI!!!" Kasumi said in an aghast tone as she
realized just what had happened. From behind the door
the sound of Nabiki's relief was quite loud and
obvious.
"RANMA!!" Akane declared.
Ranma gulped and turned to look from the door to
Akane nervously. And flinched back, presenting
warding symbols as that day-dreamy expression seemed
to be on her face by the time he turned to see her
face.
"Akane?" Ranma asked.
"Hai..." Akane said dreamily.
"Akane," Kasumi asked. "Are you feeling okay?"
"Hmmm?" Akane asked, turning slowly toward her
sister for a moment and glancing back at Ranma and
sighing dramatically. If the three of them weren't so
determined to be the next one into the bathroom,
they'd probably would have bolted by now.
"Akane, this is father," Soun said. Akane blinked
and shook her head. "Stop behaving so foolishly this
instant!" She blinked a couple of more times then
turned bright red.
"Was I just..." Akane pointed to the bathroom and
gestured for a moment. "OH KAMIIIIIiiiiiii," another
dreamy smile appeared on her face. "Ranma you look so
cute when you get scared like that...."
"Uh, Ranma," Kasumi said, hesitantly, glancing
between the restroom and Akane. "Perhaps you should
take Akane out to eat...yes that would be a good
idea."
"Err, yeah, I guess," Ranma said.
He was half-way down the block and spliting his
concentration between the distracted Akane and his
bladder when he realized just what Kasumi had pulled
on him.
"Good grief, she IS related to Nabiki," Ranma
muttered. He had sometimes secretly believed that
Kasumi was adopted or something.
"Huh?" Akane said, shaking her head out again.
Unbeknownst to her, the spell was starting to fade
away now. Not to mention that the spell did respond
in accordance with how much she remained repressed.
Other than that it didn't force any action, and
well...
Akane HAD just released about an hour and half's
worth of repressed desires.
"Were you talking about Kasumi?" Akane asked
narrowly.
"Errr...no," Ranma said nervously as they reached
the diner, and Ranma vanished into the restroom.
"What's his problem?" Akane asked vaguely, she
wandered to a seat and sat down to wait.
"Sorry, Akane," Ranma said.
"Hmmm," Akane said pleasantly, staring off into
space.
"Err," Ranma said. "Has the waitress been by yet?"
"I think I want some cherries," Akane sighed.
"Uhhh...." The mini-Urd that had been left behind
at the dojo laughed uproarously, if quietly as soon as
Akane mentioned wanting cherries.
~As soon as I pop into the main memory,~ the
mini-Urd thought. ~I'm going to just love this girl.~
The mini-Urds watching the Nekohanten and Ryouga's
house had a much more boring time. Though the one
watching Ukyou was certainly having a fun time
imagining the girl in other ways.

*******

Shampoo sighed as she walked across her camping
sight and secured the jug in its hiding place. She
hadn't really found an answer for her dillemma yet.
Well, she had, she just wasn't certain how it would
turn out.
She wasn't going to go back home just yet. No,
first, she'd saw how this turned out, and then she
would see about home.

*******

"So," Kodachi said. "What is your plan, Urd-san?"
"So formal, Dachi?" Urd asked smirking.
"I do not want to go leaping into anything,"
Kodachi said. "I have done that once already, and the
results were...unfavorable."
"I know about you chasing Ranma, honey," Urd said.
"If you remember, by goals end up with you getting
him. Even if you have to share a little."
"Actually," Kodachi said. "I was referring to
something at school."
"Really," Urd said leaning forward in her seat to
look over Kodachi appraisingly. "Your all-girls
school? No wonder you were so willing to come along
last night."
"One of the teachers, Urd-san," Kodachi said
pointedly. "All the girls are too afraid of me. As
for why I 'came along' last night, I must say it was
that kiss as I was putting you in the taxi." Kodachi
blushed. "It felt like I be...it felt exiquisite."
"Thanks, I try," Urd said, as she desparately tried
to remember the kiss. "So what is this problem with
your teacher now?"
"To make a long story short, he tried to blackmail
me, and then suddenly turned ill and had to leave
school for medical reasons," Kodachi smiled deviously
as she said that. Until she noticed that Urd was
frowning now. "Is something wrong, Urd-san?"
"Did one of your parents abandon you, Dachi?" Urd
asked. Kodachi flinched and frowned deeply. "I'll
take that as a yes." ~Her demon parent was a greater
demon....not just one of the demon races like Ryouga's
parents. This opened up a big can of worms.~
"Why, pray tell, do you ask such a question?"
Kodachi demanded.
~What, did Peorth send down an abridged version of
this case-file?~ Urd asked herself. ~Probably
something in it she didn't want me to see before
taking this assignment.~

*******

"So Urd was in the area," one of three red-eyed
demonesses said. "She is one Norn, we are all three
Furies." Her two sisters nodded in confirmation. As
greater demons, those demons that had been gods and
goddesses before the Morninglord cursed them all in
spite at their failure to overcome heaven, they had
long ago dropped most of the inhuman traits that
marked them as such, though the blood filled eyes
remained.
"Tisiphone is correct," another demoness said.
They were virtually identical except that they seemed
of differing ages. "She was probably just passing
through anyway, Aitvaras."
"It is coming to a delicate point," one of the two
male demons in the room said. He too, had overtime
dropped his black cat image in favor of the humanity
many greater demons imitated. "And I'll have you
know, Megaera, that your little charge helped defend
her."
"You're not even going to mention that both of your
charges SAW you and FOUGHT you," another demoness
shouted angrily. "Are you? You're just lucky that
Urd doesn't pay much attention to things."
"Alecto, are you perhaps...angry about something?"
the other demon asked the Fury of Unceasing Anger.
"Bite me, Ays," the woman said. "If it weren't for
you and that cat I could have had the girl married by
now..."
"And then killed by my charge, of course," Megaera,
the Jealous One, agreed.
"I still want mine to kill her after that,"
Tisiphone said. She was the Avenger of Murder, an odd
title for a demon really, until one considered that
she usually inspired the murder in the first place.
"But no, you have to get dramatic have her commit
suicide...or whatever these Japanese call it."
Megaera narrowed her eyes and glared at her sister.
They worked well together, like their equivalents
among the gods, the Norns. In the short run they
worked together even better than the Norns,
considering the greater amount of free rein and power
they had being all first class. In the long-term,
however, their bickering usually got the better of
them.
"Stow it, sis," Magaera grumbled. "I want maximum
shock value for her father when he learns his wish got
his baby girl killed."
"And leave me alone," Ays snapped. "I'd have been
over and done with this simple vengeance wish if
Aitvaras and you three would stay out of my way!"
"I need Ranma Saotome to become the greatest
martial artist of his time first," Aitvaras said
coolly. "The greatest of a short, hellish, span of
time, that is."
"And I need him to marry Akane!" Alecto snapped
angrily.
"What about them!" Ays demanded, pointing at
Tisiphone and Megaera. "By her laws, she's already
married to him and it's not working out. And you only
need to Kuonji to 'settle' with him!"
"Until Shampoo's life is exiled shadow of her
former self," Tisiphone said. "I have NOT completed
my wish. She needs to have her life cast on the
rocks, not merely hit a bumpy patch in the water."
"And HOW can Ukyou 'settle' with the Saotomes if
they're dead?" Megaera asked.
"ENOUGH!" Aitvaras snapped angrily. "WE'VE BEEN
THROUGH THIS ALL BEFORE!!! We HAVE a plan that
settles EVERYBODY'S situation." He paused, took a
deep breath and continued in a calmer tone. "Ranma
Saotome becomes the greatest martial artist of his
time, fulfilling Genma Saotome's wish. He gets married
to Akane. After a short, bitter honeymoon, Shampoo
tries to kill Akane and is left a crippled shell of
her former glory. She ends up shunned by her entire
tribe including that idiot Mousse, and is eventually
drawn into an abusive relationship with that Kuno boy,
and finally gets killed by his sister, after she
insures that our side gets another generation of Kunos
to torment. Ryouga learns a technique, provided by
Ays, of course, to impart his oni-strength,
rakshasha-berserker rage, and his own depression into
somebody else and targets Ukyou with it. Ukyou under
the effect of this technique flys into a rage and
kills Ranma and Akane then kills herself. Caught
bemoaning causing the death of the two girls, after
finally getting his vengeance in this indirect way,
Ryouga is killed by Soun Tendo. He and Genma blame
each other for this whole debacle and fight a battle
that ends in both their deaths. Mr. Kuonji, excuse
me, Kuonji-san, learns of his daughter's death and
commits suicide as well. Shampoo's grandmother,
Lotion, is already dead and in Hell since SHE actually
contacted US, so we don't have to worry about her.
Does ANY of this sound FAMILIAR?!"
"Aitvaras," Megaera said coolly. "Allow me to
remind you that you and Ays are both second class
demons?"
"While you three are first class," Aitvaras said
with a catty grin. "Yes, I know, but we need to get
back on the problem, not continue this tripping over
each other's feet like we have been doing."
"Why don't we just kill Mara and get rid of Urd
that way, just in case?" Alecto asked. Her sisters
thwacked her on the back of the head.
"If the doublet system was triggered by
infighting," Tisiphone said. "There'd be a lot fewer
old gods running around."
"Out of curiousity," Ays said. "Where is Mara?
She has a wish on the line in Nerima too, doesn't
she?"
"Do you remember the nature of that wish," Megaera
asked.
"Oh right," Ays said, smirking. "I forgot."
"Urd is one goddess," Megaera said. "And she is
most likely here on a lark. She almost definitely
doesn't have the Ultimate Force behind her. And even
if she does, it'll only apply to one or two of us.
There is no way heaven can produce one wish to counter
ALL of our wishes."
"Tisiphone," Alecto said. "Isn't that your girl
going by right now?" The demons looked out the
storefront to see Shampoo walk buy carrying a jug that
reeked of magic to their senses.
"Nannichuan," Tisiphone said. "What does she plan
to do with that?"

*******

"My mother sort of did the same thing to me," Urd
said. "She took up with my father's enemies, tried to
drag me into the mess to. If it weren't for my
half-sisters I'd probably be...something you wouldn't
like very much."
"I see," Kodachi said, she looked down sounding
sad. "My mother left us when I was six. I can still
remember her just leaving and saying she'd never be
back again." Urd walked over to comfort Kodachi
gently hugging the smaller girl.
"Everything will be alright," Urd whispered.
Kodachi nodded and hugged the white-haired woman back.
She pulled back and took a steadying breath.
"That, I suppose, is enough of the sad truth,"
Kodachi said. "Now, back to your plan."
"Ahh, yes, back to business," Urd said reluctantly.
She was really looking forward to the "lack" Kodachi
had mentioned earlier. "Well, first I have to get
Ranma to consumate his marriage with Shampoo.
Absolutely first." Kodachi twitched.
"Why so?" Kodachi asked dangerously.
"Because that makes him an Amazon," Urd said.
"Amazons men can have multiple wives. Ranma would
still be able honorbound by their laws to obey an
engagements his mother supports. And his mother
clearly supports engagements with four other women."
"And of course Ranma-darling is much too honorable
to simply ignore that," Kodachi agreed. She was sort
of right "Very clever."
"Yeah," Urd said uncertainly. "That's what I'm
hoping."
"It doesn't get you Ryouga, however," Kodachi said.
"I assume that I could marry him within the laws of
Japan to bring him into the deal," Urd said. "If
accepts me that is. Or Ranma could."
"Excuse me," Kodachi said. "Not understanding the
last part."
"You know," Urd said. "Ranma's curse, the one that
turns him into a girl that I have yet to see in the
flesh. Redhead, bursting with...HEALTHY...energy."
"That. Harridan." Kodachi said slowly. "Is
Ranma-darling?"
"Yes," Urd said. "One of the first things I'm
going to have to do is teach him how to control that
curse. Could be useful though." Kodachi was staring
at her blinking. "Like I told his and Akane's
parents. Two bodies, two identities, two marriages.
If I marry him and we both marry somebody else. Well
that's four of us right there worked around the
Japanese laws."
"Excuse me," Kodachi said. "You have such a
curse?"
"Nope," Urd said. "Jusenkyo can't touch me, but I
do know some spells to change my shape." Kodachi
blinked and acquired a calculating expression.
"Can these spells be taught?" she asked. Urd
blinked and then slowly a wide grin began to split her
face.
"Why, Dachi," she said. "Whatever are you thinking
to do to poor little me?" A similar grin broke over
Kodachi's face.

*******

"Why am I here?" Mara wondered. "I should be
breaking up Keiichi and Belldandy, not 'checking up'
on my children." Children. Who needed children.
She hated these assignments. She hated the wasted
time of having to sit around and wait until the kid
was old enough for a sudden abandoment to scar them.
She hated being required to go back and make sure
kid or kids were doing appropriately well. Which is
to say, terribly.
She hated the long wait for their demon-blood
combined with their anguish to send them spiralling
along the path of evil and self-destruction.
She hated having to wait for the jerks that wished
her into the place get theirs for basically turning
her into a bedslave for a few years. THIS particular
jerk hadn't even needed to be approached and tricked
into ruining his life. The moron had contacted them
and sold his soul for a wife and children.
She absolutely hated it when her children ended up
in Hell, being tortured and cursing her name whenever
they happened to see her. The best thing about those
few kids that broke the pattern and ended up in heaven
was that she didn't have to deal with the annoyance of
them blaming her for the rest of eternity.
Which was why it didn't faze her at all when she
heard the sounds of heavy breathing coming from
somewhere in the Kuno mansion as she padded about
invisibly.
She'd seen Tatewaki passed out in his room,
predictably drooling over some women that she was
certain he'd end up trying to rape and kill
eventually. It was probably how he'd end up dying and
going to Hell to annoy her with the rest of his
brothers and sisters.
"Why can't they all be like Merlin?" Mara wondered.
"That self-righteous kid earned himself godhood and
stayed out of my hair."
She felt the divine aura easily enough and frowned.
Distracted as the god or goddess was, it was easy to
pick up. Mara extended a more completely cloaking
field about herself as she approached Kodachi's room.
She opened the door, listening to the sound of a
man and woman in the extreme throws of passion. Then
she looked to identify the god that was involving
himself in HER contract.
It didn't take long for Mara to identify the "man"
as Kodachi herself under the effect of a self-cast
spell.
Mara blinked in complete surprise for a moment,
trying to remember when Kodachi had learned magic.
Certainly being half-greater demon would allow her to
virtually gobble magical knowledge up, but where did
she...
Mara's eyes narrowed in outright rage as she
identified the goddess her dau...err...son was
currently bedding. She quickly retreated before her
rage got the better of her and she revealed herself to
Kodachi.
She would deal with Urd later.

*******

Shampoo watched Ranma and Akane go into the Tendo
Dojo and sighed. She really wasn't certain just what
she planned to do yet. Whatever it was, she was
certain it would involve the nannichuan. Shampoo
walked up to the door, feeling very uneasy and
nervous. She was completely unaware of the horde of
demons hanging about her invisible.
The mini-urd on the wall of the gate, however,
looked quite shocked and nervous. She hid next to the
gate and watched, wishing she had a way to quickly
contact her greater part.
"I got it!" Tisiphone said suddenly. She moved up
to Shampoo's side and started whispering in her ear.
"Throw it on the Tendo girl and her sisters!"
"WHAT?!" Alecto raged. "You can't do that NOW!! i
need them married!"
"I want out of this job little sister," Tisiphone
said. "Get them married by yourself."
"Don't throw it on them unless you want Ranma to
turn you inside out you little cat in heat," Alecto
yelled to the evil smiling Shampoo who suddenly
stopped and blinked, looking discouraged.
"HEY!" Tisiphone growled and appraoched her younger
sister angrily. Alecto approached as well, aware that
in a direct confrontation she would be superior to
Tisiphone. "Fine! Bribe him with it to marry you."
"Akane will still be a problem," Alecto snapped to
the now even more frustrated Shampoo. Ays, Aitvaras
and Megaera watched with half-lidded eyes, until Ays
considered something.
"Yes, toss the water on the girls!" he said. "If
you can't have him, no one can!" Shampoo smiled evily
again. ~Cursing the Tendos will really get Ryouga's
blood going.~
"You want to end up an exile for cursing innocent
women?" Alecto demanded.
~I wonder if I'll do more damage by not
interfering,~ the mini-Urd wondered with a sweat drop
as the demon's argued. ~The invisible whisper in the
ear thing doesn't work with so many people I guess.~
"Get Ukyou first!" Tisiphone shouted suddenly.
"Now wait a minute!" Megaera shouted stepping into
the fight, not really knowing what Ukyou's response to
being cursed would be. Considering how cool she
thought Ranma's curse was she'd consider it a good
thing. "That's MY wish you're messing with. DON'T
touch Ukyou mortal!" Shampoo blinked.
"Since when Shampoo call Shampoo 'mortal' in
Shampoo thoughts?" the Amazon asked in a painful
display of her lack of Japanese.
"Now look at what you've done!" Tisiphone shouted.
"She'll be getting supicious now!"
"As if she wasn't suspicious before," Aitvaras
asked. Meanwhile Shampoo looked to her jug and opened
the top to check the water. Which was when something
slammed into her from behind.
The jug went flying into the air sending a cascade
of water out of it. Shampoo, heedless of the danger,
gasped and raced to catch the jug and collect as much
of the water as she could before it hit the ground and
turned useless.
"Oh, sorry," the green-haired girl said as she ran
past Shampoo.
Shampoo breathed a sigh of relief as it became
apparent that enough water had been saved for two more
uses. The jug was set down on the sidewalk and
Shampoo breathed a sigh of relief.
The Amazon had not yet noticed a certain lack, and
a certain gain.

*******

"I am not a pervert!" Akane shouted.
"I never said you were, Akane," Ranma said. "Man,
just next time take care of your business in the
middle of the night so it doesn't get in anybody's
way, you know?"
"RANMA!!!!" Akane roared, and suddenly Ranma was
flying via air Akane.

*******

Only Aitvaras wasn't distracted enough to notice a
now male Shampoo fleeing the scene and following the
form of an airbound martial artist. A small secret
grin spread across his face as he left his comrades
invisibly wrestling in the street.
He didn't notice the mini-Urd following him.
Nobody noticed the jug of nannichuan left behind
outside the Tendo Dojo gate.

*******

"Stupid Tomboy," Ranma muttered as she climbed out
of the canal. "Why'd Nabiki have to make ME ask her
THAT anyway. Probably because I can take a hit better
than she can." Still, Akane had been a lot less
violent today, if rather disturbing at times.
"Airen?" Shampoo said. Ranma looked up to see
someone vaguely similar to Mousse, except he had blue
hair, no glasses and was wearing one an illfitting
pantsuit. For the first time Shampoo noticed his
voice change. "Aiya! Am man!!"
"Shampoo?" Ranma asked. "What happened to you?"
Aitvaras snickered as he considered the number of
secret techniques this would provide Ranma, and how
much quicker he could make him the greatest martial
artist he had to be. He leaned forward and whispered
in Shampoo's ear.
"Pressure points," Aitvaras said, smirking as he
backed away from Shampoo. And if this screwed over
Alecto and Tisiphone, oh well. They could still
salvage the situation if they worked hard.
~Pressure points,~ Shampoo thought speculatively.
~But arousal pressure points don't work, Ranma always
gets frightened at the moment of truth and the
pressure points fail. All my glomps have proven this.
But...he's a woman now...the childbirth points...~
Shampoo had thought of this before but didn't know
what the laws on same sex pairings was when it came to
Jusenkyo. His Great-Grandmother had provided his with
a book on the Jusenkyo by-laws, but he had always had
better things to do with his time.
"Is long story, Airen," Shampoo said wearily as
Ranma moved forward. "Was try to bring you cure and
green-haired girl knock Shampoo over and..." he
shrugged demonstratively.
"There was more nannichuan?" Ranma said weakly
moving up to Shampoo. "And you were bringing it to
me?" Shampoo nodded weakly. "Oh man, sorry,
Shampoo."
Suddenly Shampoo was hugging Ranma in a display of
raw emotion. Ranma uncertainly leaned up to comfort
as the neo-man gripped her tightly. Ranma was
familiar with the sensation that followed.
Suddenly she was thinking about how handsome
Shampoo was now, how comfortable it was to be held by
him, and other such things. Normally thoughts about
Akane or Ukyou, or even the actual act itself would
rise up by this point and squelch those emotions quite
thoroughly.
This time, however, she felt a distinct lack of
fear, and doubt. She had a sense of certainty that
everything was going to be all right and that what was
happening was what she wanted. No thoughts to disturb
her from her perception arose as she leaned up to kiss
Shampoo. She knew, however, she knew that it was a
series of pressure points doing this to her.
Aitvaras smiled and walked off as things started
getting heavy. It was time to plant the thought of
checking the canal in the mind of the girl's elder.
As soon as he was gone the mini-Urd huffed a sigh
of relief. She had truly thought the demon would hang
around to watch. She quickly floated up to Shampoo's
ear and applied the same whispering technique herself.
"You're raping him and he knows it!" Shampoo said.
"Stop it now!" Shampoo gasped and pulled back away
from the rapidly progressing embrace.
"No," Shampoo said. "No can do this way, is
wrong!"
Ranma, the part of Ranma's mind that was filing
this for later, noted that down. However, at the
moment she WANTED Shampoo, she had NO second thoughts
about the wanting, she had NO doubts, she had NO
fears. And, after so many of Shampoo's glomps, she
knew those pressure points too.
"Then make us both wrong," Ranma whispered as she
applied the Amazon glomp herself. "Maybe I'll care
later, but not right now." Shampoo didn't resist
long, having never trained to resist the points to
target the male emotions.
"Aiya," Shampoo said softly. "Airen..."
"That's as good as I can do," the mini-Urd said as
it left to go meet it's greater self and share it's
memories.

*******

"Ranma," Shampoo said hesitantly as he woke up and
noticed that the redhead was glaring at him from a few
feet away. Ranma had gotten dressed it seemed.
"I...sorry."
"Feh," Ranma muttered. "At least you tried to stop
it...even if it was too late. What did you do to me?"
"Chirldbirth pressure points," Shampoo said
ashamedly. "Is for comforting womans giving birth,
take away fear and worry. I know you hate Shampoo."
"I'm pissed as hell," Ranma shouted. Then she
calmed down. "And I'm staying that way for a while,
but I suppose I don't hate ya. After all, I'm the one
that got your points so we both screwed each other in
more ways than one." Ranma did indeed see it that
way, she didn't even care that she was not in her
right mind at the time. "Get dressed Shampoo."
"My," a voice said dryly. "This is a rather
interesting development." Ranma and Shampoo turned to
see Cologne standing there looking at them with a
tired expression. "You obviously never read the
Jusenkyo by laws Shampoo, or else you were more
desparate than I thought."
"Great-Grandmother?" Shampoo asked confused.
"I'll bet you put her up to this," Ranma said
irritably.
"I'm afraid not, Daughter-in-law," Cologne said.
"And this is not to the style of the being that is
your new fiancee."
"Huh," Ranma asked, ignoring the change of
reference. "What does she have to do with this?"
"Right now I'll only say that there were probably
demons at work," Cologne said, she turned to Shampoo.
"Grandson, I believe your wife told you to get
dressed."
"Great-Grandmother," Shampoo said, confused. "Why
you call me Grandson? I am your granddaughter."
"If you had read the by laws as I instructed,
Shampoo," Cologne said. "You would realize that by
consumating the marriage in this manner that you are
now legally man and the husband."
"But..." Shampoo said.
"Uhh, what?" Ranma asked.
"Yes, Shampoo," Cologne said. "RANMA is now my
heir and the head of your household." Shampoo blinked
for a moment and then fainted. "Ah, already acting
like a man." Cologne said with a small sarcastic
smirk.

*******

Akane frowned as she noticed that Ranma was still
not back and stomped off on her way to school. She
stopped, noticing a plastic jug just outside her home.
Picking it up she realized it had some liquid in it.
"Be good for a quick cold shower just in case I see
more things," Akane muttered, picking it up and
carrying it along.

*******

"At least Ranma's an Amazon now," Urd said bitterly
as she walked down the path after bidding Kodachi a
VERY fond and temporary farewell. "I'll have to see
if I can fix the damage."
Suddenly she was grabbed and slammed against the
wall.
"I don't care if I die in taking you out, NORN,"
Mara growled.
~Shit, she's pissed,~ Urd thought, trying to take
in breath past Mara's hand. ~She doesn't call me
'Norn' unless she's really mad about something.~
"If don't have a DAMN good excuse for fucking my
baby," she growled. "I am going to TEAR your throat
out HERE and NOW and we'll BOTH fade cease to be!"
~Shit,~ Urd thought, the thought even a very tiny voice.

=====
"Caffeinated Kender? What's that, a berserk spell?" -
Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
"God has to have a sense of humor, it's the only explanation for sex." - my father
"I have to write a how-to paper for class, so I'm writing a paper on how to be psuedo-evil." - my brother

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