Ranma grabbed Shampoo and held her against the wall. "What do you think your
doing Shampoo?" he said angrily. 
        "Is evil spirit come to take Ranma away again!" growled Shampoo from under
his grasp. 
        "No Shampoo." said Akane with a concerned look. "She isn't her." said Akane
trying to calm her. 

        Ranma-chan looked at them from her position on the floor, she brushed her
hair out of her face with her hand in a frustrated gesture. Shampoo's eyes
went wide, and she sank to the floor in a look of shock. She looked at Ranma-
chan and gasped for breath. "Where you get that?" she asked pointing at the
bracelet on Ranma's wrist. 
        "Cologne gave it to me, she said it would protect me without magic." she said
casually twisting it on her wrist. 
        "Aiya." said Shampoo quietly as she revealed the same braclet on her ankle.
"Ranma it is highest award in Amazon village only greatest Amazon warriors
receive. If Great grand mother give to you...." Shampoo trailied off and
looked at Ranma wide eyed. She got up and walked next to Ranma Kneeled beside
her and gently hugged her and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. 
        Ranma and Akane went tence. "The kiss of death?" asked Akane quietly. Ranma
looked at her in a confused exspression. 
        "I sorry for attacking Sister Ranma." Shampoo said looking at her with a
strange smile. 
        Ranmna looked at her oddly. "Huh?" she said dumbly. 
        "Ranma is Amazon now." said Shampoo happily. 
        Ranma just staired at her. 

        Ryoga squealed under the grip of Yotsuya as the resedents of Maison Ikokku
looked on. He poured water on the angry pig. "Nothing." he said.        Akemi looked
at her cigarett oddly. "Mabey these are bad." she said.         Yotsuya releaced the
pig, "Then where did that young man go to?" he asked. 
        "K-kyoko..." sobbed Yusaku. 
        "Will you stop that?" Kyoko said angrily. 

        Ryoga Ran towards what he thought was the managers room. "Mabey that water is
still hot enough to change me..." he thought as he entered a room with a large
hole in the wall and a kettle of heating water with some packages of instant
Ramen sitting in the middle of the floor. "Yes." he thought darkly.

        Yotsuya sighed as he realized the boy was probably long gone. Yusaku clutched
desparately to Kyoko sobbing something about how he could be younger. Kyoko
was about to slap him when Yotsuya was lifted off the floor and carried back
to the middle of the hall. "Hey, thats my stuff." he said as he looked at the
boy wearing the clothes and pack he had found by the road. 
        "Thats my line." he said Angrily tossing Yotsuya to the side like a doll. 
        "Hey, you can't do that here." said Akemi to the boy as he walked down the
hall.
         "Where is the door?" he asked her. Itchinose pointed and the boy walked in
the opposite direction. 
        "Why were you in my room?" asked Kyoko standing in front of him with an angry
look.
 "You carried me in there remember?" he answered.
        Yusaku passed out. 
        "You should be careful when you give strange animals hot baths not all of
them are as nice as me." said Ryoga with a strange smile. 
        Kyoko looked at Akemi and Ryoga. "So you really were the pig." asked Akemi. 
        "I don't have time for this." said Ryoga as he walked towards the back of the
building looking embarassed. 
        "Finders keepers." said Yotsuya from beside Ryoga who promptly swatted him
away with his umbrella. 
        "Just tell me how to get out of here and to the Tendo  dojo." he said. 
        They all pointed one way. Ryoga went in the other. 
        "Where are you going?" asked Kentaro. 
        "I'm leaving." said Ryoga. 
        "But the door is that way." said Kintaro pointing in the other direction. 
        Ryoga turned right and walked into Akemi's room. "This isn't out side." he
said.
        
        Ranma looked at Shampoo with a shocked exspression. "Amazon? Howissat?" she
said dumbly. 
        "Ranma, Great grand mother make Amazon now." said Shampoo wistfully smiling.
         Cologne appeared in the door way of the room. "And she must be taught about
our ways. I leave this task to you Shampoo." she said and turned and left. 
        "Is easy Ranma already know so much." said Shampoo to Ranma. 
        Ranma looked at the doorway. "Old goul?" she said quietly.
        
        Ranma looked as Akane and Ranma bickered at the dinner table she felt strange
watching the two. She felt an ache in her chest, and a jelous rage built up in
side her. "Excuse me." she said getting up and walking out side. She stood on
the wall separating the Tendo home from the rest of the world. "What is
happening?" she said aloud. 
        Shampoo landed beside her on the wall. "Ranmma sister OK?" she asked. 
        "Just thinking." she said. 
        "Shampoo understand." she said quietly as she looked back to see Ranma and
Akane arguing at the table still and then walked away. 
        Ranma watched her leave. "What did she mean by that?" she wondered.

        Kasumi looked at Ranma's half empty plate. "Poor dear. She must be terribly
upset." she said 
        "Because she didn't finish?" asked Akane with her usual cynical edge reserved
for Ranma. 
        "Use your head Akane. Its bad enough he's stuck as a girl, but she also has
to watch what her life was like before. Didn't you notice she's been avoiding
you and Ranma?" said Nabiki. 
        "Yes, thats right, it must be terribly hard for her." agreed Kasumi. 
         "Ranma..." thought Akane as she looked at the figure on the wall outside.

        Ryoga opened the door in front of him Revealing Akemi in her Negligee. Ryoga
turned Red and got a nose bleed. "Your still here?" she asked wide eyed. 
        He covered his nose "This isn't it either." he grumbled. "I can't find the
door." he said to Akemi with his back turned. 
        "This guy is weird." she said. "C'mon I'll take you." she sighed and took his
hand. She stepped into the light and Ryoga saw that the gown didn't hide
anything. His nose exsploded and he passed out. "Cute kid a few years and I
might have kept him." she commented as she drug him outside.
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