Oh, he might have disliked the pigtailed boy much of the time, but he still respected him. No matter what had gone on between them, nor whatever tricks or items he might have used, he had always considered Ranma to be a worthy adversary. He had wanted to defeat the other boy when they had fought, to show his superiority in the Art, not to do what had been done to him. Especially with the killing of Misao...
He truly wanted to find those who had done this disgusting act to punish them, but he had his family to worry about. They already had a young son, and Akari had just given birth to a daughter not too long ago. They needed him right then, and he couldn't go chasing after the former fiancees, no matter how much he might want to.
He could only wait and hope that the police would be able to find them. Because if they didn't, and he came across those four girls, old friends or not, he wasn't sure of what he would do.
Mousse ran along the forest floor, hoping that this latest lead would allow him to finally catch up with his Shampoo. She might have been forced to do what she did, but he was certain that she had no other choice. She was too wonderful a person to be the sort of person that they were calling her.
No, she was a warrior born and bred, and he had to tell her that he knew that. He wasn't about to give up on her after all the years that he had given his heart to her. She was the woman of his dreams, and he had to make certain that she understood that, despite what everyone else might think of her.
Tatewakei Kuno knelt before his family shrine and meditated. He needed it to find his center so that he might be ready for the task at hand. His blade had been readied, his clothing set, and his course of action was prepared. All that was left was to prepare his mind and soul for the task ahead.
Ridding the world of Akane Tendo and her accomplices.
Already his copies of the drawings of her had been ripped from his walls and burned. He would allow no image of such a liar and murderess to have a place of honor on his walls. She, along with his sister and their two other partners in this heinous act deserved nothing more than total punishment.
Ranma had left her for another woman, which would have allowed Kuno to have her to himself without Ranma's interference. The pigtailed boy had married the girl, and Tatewakei was certain that not even Ranma would have gone against such a promise.
That had proven to be true as the couple had seemed to be inseperable. There had truly been a love there, one that Kuno had hoped to have with the youngest Tendo daughter.
But now he only hoped to have her head, for had they not only killed both parts of the couple, but they had robbed an unborn child of life. Not through honest combat either, but by trickery. It would have been the wrong thing to do either way, but the actions that they had taken had been of honorless cowards. Plus, he had been told that action had taken the pigtailed girl away as well.
And worst of all was that they had done this while he had been expounding on the virtues and honor of the youngest Tendo daughter. However, his sights were clear now, and the veil of trickery that she had placed over him was gone now.
Which would serve him well when it came time for the task that had been dictated for him.
From his perch in a tree, Konatsu scanned the area for any sign of his Ukyo-sama. She had disappeared after the incident where Ranma and his wife had been killed. Now everyone was talking about how she was a murderer.
But that could not be true. He put it down to jealousy, rumor and faulty reasoning. She might have been kidnapped, hurt, or imprisioned for all that he knew.
To him, Ukyo was someone who was too kind to do something like that. After all, hadn't she taken him in when he'd been discarded by his step-mother and step-sisters?
There was some sort of explination that would answer all of the questions about it, that he was sure of. The only thing that he had to do would be to see if he could find the evidence that could clear her.
That was all that he could hope to do, because the alternative was too awful to contemplate.
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