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                Separation Anxiety
                Part 3.
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The more things change...
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        Ranma looked across the yard of the Tendo homestead and breathed heavily. The
cold air burned his lungs as he labored in his breathing. His opponent looked
at him calmly with more than a little anger in her eyes. Her breath was even
and calculated, she was barely even sweating. His father looked at him with an
even gaze. "Finish him." he said with a frustrated sigh. 
        Ranma looked at him with an icy gaze, "No way." he said evenly and swung half
heartedly at his opponent. She ducked easily and hit him with an uppercut that
left him sprawled across the grass. "Uuurrh." grumbled Ranma as he picked
himself up painfully. 
        "I told you...not to go easy on me..." said the girl clutching herself with
her back turned to him. 
        
        Akane watched the exchange with slight interest from the table.         "Quit
treating me like a girl!" yelled Ranma-chan as she slugged him in the stomach
hard. She stormed off towards her room. 
        "Ungrateful jerk." grumbled Ranma. Akane staired at him in disbelief. 
        "I've been saying that for years boy." said Genma with an amused smile. 
        
        A few minutes later Ranma sat down for his breakfast. "I don't believe you!"
yelled Akane from her seat next to him. 
        "Now what did I do?" he said looking mad. 
        "Ranma think for once in your life you jerk!" she said angrily.         "What?!"
retorted Ranma. 
        "Did you like it when people went easy on you when you were a girl?" she
asked angrily. 
        "No of course not!..." he said angry that Akane would say something like that
to him. 
        "You still don't like it." said Ranma-chan from behind him as she put his
face into his food with a hard kick. 
        "Hey watch it you..." growled Ranma as he got up to face her with an angry
look.
         "Or what? you'll beat me up? Mabey if you did I'd actually learn something."
Ranma-chan Retorted angrily. 
        Ranma looked at her oddly, it was if a realization hit him, a blinding flash
of the obvious. 
        "I'm...sorry." he said dumbly. 
        Akane gasped, Ranma had just apologized. 
        "Until you get over this girl thing of yours you always will be." responded
Ranma-chan coldly. Ranma ate his meal in silence. Ranma chan walked away to
the Dojo.

        About an hour later Ranma-chan emerge from the Dojo with a frustrated look on
her face. the workout had done nothing to ease her tension. She headed towards
the bath side stepping casually as a familiar bicycle landed beside her.
"NIHAO!" said Shampoo happily. 
        Ranma looked at her. "..." 
        "Ranma take Shampoo to date?" squealed the eternally peppy Amazon.
        "........no thanks" replied Ranma. 
        Shampoo looked at her for a moment following her as she slowly stalked to the
bathroom. 
        "What wrong?" she asked with an odd look.
         ".......nothin'" said Ranma. 
        Shampoo looked at Ranma worried. "Ranma mad at Shampoo?" she asked timidly. 
        ".....nope" replied Ranma with a maddeningly expressionless face.       Shampoo's
face lit up and a cheerful smile appeared. "Ranma mad at Akane?" she asked
cheerfully. 
        "......nope." replied Ranma in her emotionless monotone voice.  Shampoo
thought for a moment and looked frustrated...then she noticed where she was.
"Aiya! Is bathroom?" she thought. She turned to see Ranma Soaking in the tub
with her eyes closed. "What you doing?" she asked looking at Ranma oddly. 
        "Takin' a bath." replied Ranma. 
        Shampoo's face lit up and she grabbed Ranma in a hug. "Is no embarrassed?!
Shampoo so happy!" she shrieked as she pulled Ranma part way out. 
        "Hey! Hey!" said Ranma a little irritated. Shampoo stopped for a moment. 
        "His voice..." she said as she turned her gaze down. She poked at her breast
for a moment. 
        "Um could you stop that?" asked Ranma. 
        Shampoo felt the water, it was very hot.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

        Ranma and Akane burst into the bathroom with worried looks on their faces.
"Shampoo what are you ..." said Akane looking at the histerical Amazon, as she
staired at the two Ranma's. 
        "Ranma what did you do to her?" she growled. 
        "None of your damn business I'm not engaged to you anymore so I don't have to
answer that." she said coldly. 
        Akane looked at her. "Y-your right..." she said as a horrible realization hit
her. 
        Ranma sighed and looked at them "She followed me in here." she finally
answered.  
        Shampoo looked at the two Ranma's with seeming calm, her mind raced as she
tried to decide what to decide or say, finally she did the first thing that
came to her mind. "Female Ranma I kill!" she said as she turned towards Ranma-
chan. 
        "WHAT?!" said Both Ranma's in unison.
                Ryoga Hibiki stood frozen in fear and embarrassment against a wall in the
hallway of this weird place. "What am I gonna do?!" he thought as he held
himself in a desperate attempt to disguise his nudity. 
        The residents looked around for the strange boy who had emerged from the
managers room in the buff. "To think you weren't young enough..." said
Itchinose to the distraught Yusaku Godai.
         "Ky-Kyoko..." he sobbed. 
        "Would you two cut it out I was not giving him a bath!!" said Kyoko angrily
as she barely held her own composure. 
        "I can be younger I swear!!" sobbed Godai pathetically. 
        Yotsuya watched from his hiding place with mild interest, suddenly a hand
grabbed him from behind. 
        "You!" said a voice.

        Ryoga put the man against the wall. "What is it young man?" asked Yotsuya. 
        "Give me back my things you thief!" he angrily whispered. 
        "Consider your position I need only call and..." said Yotsuya calmly. 
        "And it will be the last sound you ever make." said Ryoga as he put his arm
through the wall. 
        Yotsuya looked at the hole. the boy had put his arm through not only the wall
but the timber support inside it as well. Yotsuya was about to speak when a
jet of water seemed to knock the boy over. 
        "Cool off kid." said Akemi as she turned the jet off. 
        "Thank you Akemi dear." said Yotsuya, but Akemi was stairing at the ground
with her mouth agape. "Surely it must be impressive if *you*..." he trailed
off as he looked at the small angry little pig biting his ankle with the boy
no where in site.
to be continued...