Even though she was a black furred dog-girl, she looked a lot like what she used to. She had a mane of thicker hair in a style like she had as a human, and if one ignored the dog ears, tail, and slight muzzle, that she was 4'10" tall now, and that her bust was at least Ranma-chan proportions - you could clearly see the Akane Tendo who had started out being cursed by a sorcerer.
Except that nobody remembered Akane Tendo. Her room had apparently been used as storage until the Saotome arrival. There were no pictures of her, and there had been no crowd of hentai in the morning. Kuno had only become obsessed with the dog-girl after Ranma had brought her back during an adventure.
She had quickly become a favorite around the area, and Yuka and Sayuri were frequent associates.
She always wore her cute little collar, but she'd become a member of the family soon after her arrival. Even Soun, who had initially been against her presence, had been won over by the clever dog-girl.
They'd taught her to use the bathroom, and they'd been teaching her other "tricks" since then.
So Akane waited and bided her time. She wasn't going to be able to force this muzzle to speak fluent Japanese immediately and she was still trying to figure out WHY nobody remembered but was attributing it to a spell gone wrong.
She waited, chained to her dog-house, laying on the quilted mat that Kodachi (who apparently admired her coloration and teeth) had donated. There, they were all sitting down for supper.
"Rrr. Rrraa. Rrranma," Akane managed with some effort. Darn muzzle.
The table went absolutely still. Genma was even frozen, wide-eyed, as he was attempting to steal from Ranma's plate.
"She spoke?" Nabiki asked, and fainted.
"She spoke!" Kasumi exclaimed. "Good Akane! Good girl!"
"I was her first word!" Ranma exclaimed, as proud as if he'd just mastered some new obscure weird but effective martial arts technique.
"She spoke?" asked Genma, completing the theft and wondering if that meant the dog-girl would be worth more on the open market. Stupid boy wouldn't let his poor put-upon suffering father sell his pet off.
"Akane speak?" Shampoo asked, falling out of a tree with a squeaky toy that she immediately hid.
Akane felt this sudden almost overwhelming urge to pounce on the Amazon, lick her face, then grab the squeaky toy. She had this absolute conviction that those were lots of fun.
Akane shook it off and pointed (with her muzzle) at Kasumi. "Rasumi."
Kasumi clapped and squealed and told her again what a good and clever doggie she was.
"Rabiri," tried Akane but realized she was having trouble with certain sounds.
"Who I?" Shampoo asked eagerly, kneeling down so she could look Akane face-to-face from Akane's current position. "You say 'Shampoo' yes?"
Akane scowled and said:
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