In the absense of Ranma, you might suppose (as Ranma did) that all the chaos and all the insanity would have left the lives of those he'd left behind. That Akane would be happily leading a life without the chaos of Ranma being involved.
Well, maybe. That also would be another story. Because what had happened was that all the chaos of Ranma's life had just stuck around and begun festering.
Soun snapped completely. Before the week was out, he'd managed to engage his daughters to new fiances. Repeatedly. Several each.
Kasumi had found herself not only engaged several times over, usually to men more than twice her age but in some cases she had to wonder if they were indeed of the same species. While she had been somewhat oblivious before, the staring off into space while twitching was a recent development.
Happosai was so happy that he was engaged to Soun's eldest. Though if it didn't work out, he could always have Soun switch it to dear sweet Akane.
Nabiki had found herself being engaged to Hiroshi AND Daisuke for three bottles of sake and a month's supply of groceries from Hiroshi's father's supermarket. She had protested. She had protested loudly! When the dust settled, Soun was bawling again because he'd somehow or other sold his middle daughter's to the Amazons. Cologne was still trying to figure out why Soun Tendo had drawn up that contract, but she was mostly satisfied with Nabiki as her backup waitress/accountant and Nabiki was interested in doing a good job so that she could start up a business management company. She liked the work but was very unhappy about her sale and the lack of negotiations her father had performed. Particularly as she was now engaged to Mousse as well as Hiroshi and Daisuke.
Akane was engaged to Tatewaki Kuno, Hikaru Gosunkugi, Hitoshi Sado, Tsubasa Kurenai, and someone named Mamoru Chiba. She was very very not happy about this development in her life. She was even less happy about her father's reactions to complaints being a threat to engage her to Happosai instead of Kasumi.
Nor had those not of the Tendo family escaped completely.
Shampoo found herself exiled from her tribe. Fortunately she could keep her room and the waitress job and was also attending some schooling to deal with her speech impediment. Having another waitress around helped.
Ukyo found herself running her business at all hours and Konatsu was apparently being scouted out as an idol singer. Ukyo had not discovered any spaceships she could hitch a ride with, and so had pretty much turned her attention fully to business until this changed.
Genma, deciding that he had to have a son otherwise he'd never be able to face his wife and her (gulp) katana, had wracked his brains for three days. Finally he'd decided that what he needed to do was find a substitute. If he'd ever met Shinnosuke, that might have worked, but as it was he had decided to go to Herb of the Musk. Surely they had a boy who was a good martial artist who could fill in for Ranma!
What no one realized was that Ryoga was almost back in town, though a little changed by his recent adventure.
Pluto watched as the form of Okeanos strode past her, easily 120 feet in height and formed entirely of sea water that was bound to a human shape.
Once in the water he'd be especially difficult to deal with. Until then he was far more vulnerable and easy to find.
Watching him go past, Pluto decided
(Posted Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:24)
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