They didn't listen.
Instead, 'Akane' moved forward, and headed over to Ranma, looking rather cautious as she did so. There were a lot of stops and restarts as she went, but she slowly managed to shorten the difference between the two of them. Once she got next to him, she started sniffing him, moving around his body as if she were afraid that he would suddenly lash out. But as it became obviously clear to her that he wasn't about to hurt her, she moved in closer, with her head and shoulders bent.
"What?" he asked, blinking in surprise as he put a hand out to her. "What is it?"
Her expression of fear turned to one of respect, and she waved over at her tribe, making noises that sounded important.
'Kuno' seemed displeased by this, and moved forward, with his voice shrill as he made his feelings known.
But she was having none of it, and swung her club out in a horizontal arc at him. When she did that, the others in the tribe moved over and headed to come close to the time travellers, with a clear attempt to keep near where the pigtailed boy was standing.
"What's going on?" Minako asked, clearly confused.
Michiru raised her brow. "It looks like she threw that caveman over for the single guy in our group."
"Hold on a sec.... Ya mean ta say that she's.... coming to me?"
"It's like when a couple breaks up, and one of the pair has gotten a new partner."
"That's pretty close, actually. Remember, a lot of what they do is still animal like," Setsuna put in. "More than likely, that male was their 'Alpha Male'."
"'Alpha Male'?" Hotaru parroted.
"Basically their leader, and head male. In such groups, that would be the one who got the choice parts of whatever came up. Food, water, shelter, attention.... females...."
"That's just caveman behavior," Haruka scoffed.
"Haruka? They are cavemen," Ami corrected the shorthaired blonde, sounding like a schoolteacher who was wondering why her student hadn't known something simple.
"Oh. Right...."
"Still, that leaves us with a bunch of cavemen who are going to look to Ranma as their leader," Mars observed.
"Among other things," the Senshi of Time added.
"Hm?"
"They have a mating style that means that we may spend a lot of time covering Hotaru's eyes."
"That easy?"
"And they don't exactly have 'modesty' around here."
"I know something that they don't have here either," Usagi commented, delicately wrinkling her nose at the smell wafting up from one of their new associates.
"What?"
"Soap. They need a bath."
"Well, they likely haven't had a chance to bathe. Lots of animals, and no doing it in the past."
The reincarnated princess shrugged. "Then maybe we can teach them."
"That might be for the best," Michiru agreed.
"True enough," Mars put in. "Much as I know that Usagi's plan will cause problems, it'll probably be for the best."
"Then let's take them to get cleaned up," Usagi replied as she guided one of the natives towards their camp.
Doing so signalled acceptance to the natives, and they slowly started to go to be with the time travellers.
For 'Kuno', this was not acceptable, hooting derisively and jumped up and down in a show of anger. He was not happy by any means, and he tried hard to display his authority. Even thumping his chest wasn't enough for him, and he screamed at each of them.
The tribe that he had led merely filtered into combine with their new leader's, and didn't look back, while:
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