Ryouga as a tall girl, just shy of six feet tall with a physique like many would associate with an amazon out of a Greek myth: statuesque with perfectly defined muscles that could be seen to ripple as she did something so simple as wave a hand. With the exception of the short hair and the Japanese features, she most clearly resembled the American superhero Wonder Woman.
Looking at her now, it was hard to imagine that she had ever managed to pass for a boy as recently as junior high. A late blooming development, and a reality altering wish from Ranma's mother, had been more than kind to her.
Or cruel, depending.
Her height and clearly muscular nature, even if it wasn't the grotesque over definition of some body builders, tended to intimidate the boys that she'd have attracted if her muscles were just a little softer or she were a little shorter.
That and her tendency to get lost tended to leave her more than a little fragile on the social scale.
Currently, she was sitting in the Nekohanten across from Shampoo and bent over the tenth in a series of magazine relationship quizzes.
"How often do you think about this person?" Ryouga read carefully.
"Shampoo think there not number high enough on quiz," the fluffier amazon said with a smile.
Ryouga grimaced and looked up from the table toward the purple-haired girl for a moment before taking her pen and checking an answer, tempted to answer falsely but finally deciding not to.
"How much effort do you take in preparing to meet this person?" Ryouga continued.
"Would be 'obsessively prepare'," Shampoo noted with a smirk.
"I can answer this myself you know," Ryouga protested. "Have you ever considered or used aphrodisiacs with this person?"
"Rod," Shampoo noted.
"That was an accident," Ryouga protested.
"Tunnel of Love," Shampoo added.
"I was with Ukyou!" the tall girl snapped back before moving to the next question. "Have you ever dressed in matching outfits...if you bring up the figuring skating, I'll...I'll....grrr."
"No need Shampoo mention if Pig-Girl does for Shampoo," the Chinese Amazon noted.
"Do you have se...." Ryouga's voice trailed off as a red flush worked over her face.
Shampoo leaned over to read the question she had stopped on, and looked upward toward Ryouga as a trickle of blood worked out of her nose.
"Sexual fantasies, yes," Shampoo said, marking down the answer for Ryouga.
"I...I..." Ryouga stammered in an attempt to protest.
"Total is fifty," Shampoo declared, ignoring Ryouga's stuttering. "'Hopelessly Smitten'."
"But..." Ryouga protested weakly.
"See, Shampoo told you, is fiancee," Shampoo said victoriously.
"I'm not Ranma's fiancee, I'm his eternal rival," Ryouga declared loudly.
Shampoo reached over to the pile of discarded magazines and held them up one at a time.
"Says you 'huge crush', this 'spark of love', this 'burning lust'," and at that one Shampoo giggled. "'Love sick', 'heart in denial', 'bound in red string'...and so and so and so."
She shrugged, pointed victoriously and smiled.
"You. Is. Fiancee."
"If I'm a 'fiancee' then why are you telling me instead of trying to kill me?" Ryouga demanded.
"Shampoo realize," the amazon said. "If airen have many girlfriends, then Shampoo have many babysitters and no have to slow down. And Airen get much, much practice being great in bed."
Ryouga flushed brightly again.
"Oh, and Shampoo recently find herself...curious," Shampoo said with a smile.
"There's no way that I am in love with R..Ranma," Ryouga protested. "I hate him. He makes me insane! He's just so so infuriating."
"Is one way to tell," Shampoo said broadly.
"There is?" Ryouga asked.
"Aiya! You listen to great womans sage Aretha Franklin!" Shampoo declared. "It in kiss!"
"You want me to..."
"Kiss Ranma," Shampoo declared loudly. "Shampoo do all the time and it always good!"
Granted, she hadn't glomped and kissed Ranma since Nodoka's wish had so altered reality, but that just made her think it was time to get on with normal behaviors.
Ryouga responded to the situation to kiss Ranma predictably enough: she popped a nosebleed and promptly fainted, falling off of her chair.
Shampoo shook her head.
"Pig-Girl have no guts," she commented.
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