“Uh, Kassy, you can get down now,” Ranma told her before the cute skunk-eared girl leisurely took her arms from around his neck and touched her feet to the ground.
Taking a seat next to the pigtailed boy, Kassy looked over to him and decided to ask the question that had been on her mind all this time. “So Ranma, who were the two girls at lunch with the food fetishes?”
“Oh, those were just Shampoo and Ucch-Ukyo,” Ranma replied. “They’re just… some people I know.”
“They seemed pretty interested you for just people you know,” Kassy stated.
“Okay well, one of them is kind of my fiancée, and according to her backwater village laws I guess I am kind of her husband,” Ranma confessed. Although hell would be freezing over and they devil would give out free snowboard rides before either of them got any closer than how far a half-assed deal agreed upon by a pathetic old man, or what some outdated law took them.
“Please continue,” Kassy said as she turned her full attention. This was starting to sound like one of those old family stories that Mom and Dad told her when they all reunited.
“Why the heck are you so nosey all of a sudden?” Ranma snapped angrily before resting his arms on his desk while Kassy looked as if she had been slapped in the face. Then after a moment of being belittled by his conscience he sighed in defeat. “Well the girl with the blue hair is named Shampoo, remember how I mentioned Amazons? Well she’s one of the three that live here. About a year ago when my old man and me were traveling in China we ran across her village. We were pretty much dying of hunger and showed up at their tournament and ate the main prize. Shampoo got mad us and so I challenged her to a match and if I won I got the food anyway, then one kick later and she was eating dirt. After it was all over she got back up and kissed me on the cheek, and that’s when are so called guide decided to tell us what happens when a girl beats another Amazon girl in combat.”
“What’s that?” Kassy urged.
“The Amazons have this stupid law that says when an outside female beat another girl then the Amazon has to kill the girl after giving her the kiss of death no matter what it takes, or how long,” Ranma complained. “She chased me and my dad for weeks on that stupid little quest of hers.”
“But, she’s not trying to kill you now so, what happened?” Kassy asked.
“Its another one of her stupid laws,” Ranma continued. “If a guy beats a girl, then she has to marry him.”
“So you’re off the hook huh?”
“I don’t think I was ever on the hook to begin with,” Ranma grumbled. “Since we’ve come here Shampoo has given her stupid kiss of death to four other girls, FOUR, and I don’t see any of them with their heads on pikes. Her stupid sense of honor and the Amazon ‘rules’ are nothing but a complete joke. She whines about having to go back to her tribe in disgrace if she doesn’t bring me home as some kind of stupid slave but those other four things that her honor rests on, she can just up and forget about because two of them are too hard to kill and the other two are also Amazons? Yeah right.”
Seeing that this definitely needed a change of topic, Kassy quickly shifted the subject to the other girl. “So what about the other one, you know O-key-o?”
“Ukyo?” Ranma repeated in unbroken Japanese. “Well, she was kind of a friend when I was younger but… I’m… not so sure anymore. A week before summer vacation started Ukyo and Shampoo pulled this big stunt that ended up nearly really hurting a lot of people because of their jealousy over a decision I made. I’ve come to expect that kind of stuff from Shampoo, but Ukyo was kind of a big eye opener for me. Now here I am back after summer and they’re still going on like nothing happened. At first I thought she just couldn’t take no for an answer even though I’ve practically told her time and time again that I just want to be her friend. But now… I’m not even sure the person I want to be friends with is really there anymore.”
“Haven’t you ever tried to sit down and talk to them?” Kassy asked.
“Well… no,” Ranma admitted.
“Then how’d you deal with them all summer?”
“I didn’t. I just went on a training trip a week after everything happened and got back three days before you showed up,” Ranma told her.
“So in other words you just ran off all summer,” Kassy summarized. “Well I can see you’re a real expert at dealing with your problems.”
“Hey!” Ranma exclaimed before frowning at Kassy. But when the skunk-eared girl just giggled at his glare before giving him a sweet smile, Ranma’s anger quickly melted away. If his conscience could guilt him into revealing everything about his love life to the cure semi-furry, then it sure as hell wouldn’t let him be mad at her.
The bell signaling the end of lunch suddenly broke the two teens eye contact and Kassy quickly dug out her history book and watched while the teacher entered the room, along with some of the students. This Mr. Rugasowa guy looked like your usual professor, complete with square glasses and snazzy jacket. In other words this looked to be the kind of class that was good for naps.
As class began and Kassy’s eyes wandered over to an unconscious Ranma, and found herself wondering if he knew any good places where two people could go together for some fun.
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