Ok, the people on #Ranma! have buged me enough fo a chapter of something, so
I wrote chapter 3 of True Loves.  I also re-edited chapters 1-2, so It's
kinda easer to read. I hope the story keeps fluent.  If there is a big
change in style from chapter 2 to 3, be shoure to let me know.  I
semi-edited Chapter 3, so it should be easy to read, I hope. Also, please
send me all your C&C, I can only get better with your help.  Well, i hope
you like it... Unlike Ghost Tales, this story is a comedy, not a drama.  So,
I guess if I laugh while I write it, It's got to be good, rite? =]  Well, I
laughed, so I hope you laugh. And beleave me, it's going to be a bumppy ride
for Ranma in this story, at least.

Well, enjoy.

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True Loves
by. Brian Geringer

1


Let the Truth be Known



In a dark room a boy sleeps.  He's an avrage boy of sixteen years of age
who's staying at a friend of his fathers house while he studies his arts of
fighting.  He's engaged to be married to his fathers friends daughter.  He
loves this girl, but if he could only tell her how he really felt.

In a room across the hall a girl attempts to sleep.  She's sleepy, but can't
seem to drift off so she dreams of what could be.  She loves a boy, no, a
man.  She loves him with all her heart but she seems to get so angry around
him.  If she only could learn to control her temper, then she could tell him
how she truley felt.  After a long time pondering this, she turns over, pets
her pet pig, and dozes off into a lite sleep.

Not too far away a girl is running through the streets.  She has long black
hair and is wearing Chinese clothing witch would  have been normal except
for she's running through a darkened street in the Nerma district of Japan.
She's running towards the house of the man she loves, not her true love, but
her forced love.  She's carrying a small bottle in her hands which has a
small white label that reads,"Love Potion #9 1/2".  She will get the boy to
love her weather he likes it or not.  As she zooms ever closer to her target
she goes over what her great grand-mother gave her.

"All you must do is put a drop of this potion onto any males skin and the
first girl he sees he will give his heart too.  Do not fear great
grand-daughter, this potion only works on males, it can't affect you.  Now
go, get me my future son-and-law."   The girl smiles as she hops onto a
nearby roof and gazes for the first time at her target, for through that
window lies her soon to be husband.

Somewhere not so far away but aproching from the oppisite direction is
another girl, she would be a normal girl if she was not traveling a leatard
and carying a small bag of love powder.  For this black haired girl also
loves this boy.  Maybe not loves, maby idolises.  To this girl, the boy she
loves is a prince, no a king, no a god.  She must have him, no she will have
him.  He will be hers by the end of the night; her powder will see to that.
Yes, her love powder will make him love the first girl he sees, and that
girl will be her.  With a light giggle she bounds ever closer to her target.

As the clock strikes midnight both girls arive in their respictive windows.
To intent on contrating on their object of disire to notice eachother, they
hop to the floor inside thes boys room.  As the two prowlers stand at the
end of the boys bed they ready there attacks.  Corks are opened and paper is
unsealed; there is nothing stoping them from getting what they want, what
they must have, except eachother.

*bump* 

The two girls bump into something.  They now notice what they have touched,
another human being, a feamale one.  After  takeing several moments to
realise what they've bumped into they begin to argue, not yelling, not
talking, just wispering.

"What you do here evil girl?"

"Why am I suprised, here I am paying a visit to my love, and I find you
sneeking around like some love crazed child."

"I no child! He love me not you.  What he see in ugly girl in tights?"

"As if my dear could see anything in an ugly hussy like you."

There voices slowley begin to esclate.  They have all ready forgotten what
they have come here to do, or what they carry in there hands.

"I no hussy, I his love, now go way, I wish be alone with my love."

"Sorry, he loves only me, for I am..."

Voices again begin to esclate.  But the boy on the bed does not awaken altho
the girl in the next room begins to stir.

"You are dead if you no leave."

"So the kittin thinks she's a tiger does she.  Well I will have to teach
this kitty how the big cats play."

They both throw the objects in there hands down so they will be able to get
two full hands of hair of there opponent.  The bottle and the small envelope
sail through the air and land on the nearby bed.  The contents of the bottle
drain out onto the sheet and onto the skin of the sleeping boy.  The powder
slips out of the envelope and lands directley on the face of the boy.  He
breaths in, and it's bin done.  A doubble dose of love! Even tho he
slightley chokes on the powder; he does not awaken.

"I kill you now," the girl in Chinese clothing screems.

"Sorry honey, but I shal never lose to a pessent such as your self," replys
the girl in tights.

*Bang, slam, crash*  The lamp has been destroyed, but has this noise woken
the sleeping boy? No, but the other girl in the room across the hall is up
and she is not happy.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD?!"  She yells as she gets out of bed and makes way for
her fieance's room.

*SLAM*

The door opens and the light goes on.  Akane sees the two girls wraped in a
doubble hair grip, with her lazy fieance just laying there.

"RANMA, WHAT IN THE HELL GOING ON?"  Akane screems.

Only now do the two girls notice the intruder.  They would have never let go
of eachother if they had not herd the sound coming from behind them.  The
sound was of a sleeping boy awakining to his new life, but he din't know
that as of yet.

"RANMA, WHAT IS KODACHI AND SHAMPOO DOING HERE??  AND AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT!!"

Ranma sits up and clears his eyes of sleep.  Slowley he opens them to see
two girls standing in front of him.  He would have seen the third girl if
Shampoo and Kodachi were not blocking his line of sight.

Ranma hates these girls, he despises them, he would marry neather.  As he
rises from his bed he suddinley feels wozy.  This is an odd fealing, but is
soon passes.  Now fully erect he notices the glowing Akane by the door.
Choosing his words carfley he beging his lecture.

"Shampoo, Kodachi,"  as he speeks there names his head burns with a new
fealing, a new emmotion, a new disire.  He no longer hates there two girls;
quite the oppisite as a matter of fact.  He loves these girls; he would have
them both, they are his, he will do anything to have them, he must have them
for he loves them.

Stopping for several seconds to regain his thoughts he begins again.

"Shampoo, Kodachi, I love you!"


2

The End and the Beginning



There was a breif moment of silence while everyone digested what Ranma had
just said.  Akane thought she would never hear Ranma say he loved another;
she thought he loved her, as she loved him.  Akane always thought he was as
afraid as she was to admit it, to say those three magic words, " I love
you".  Now she realised that he never said it because he never loved her.
No, he used her, he played with her.  He used her to get to the ones he
really loved, Kodachi and Shampoo.

Shampoo and Kodachi were not waiting around to see what Akane had to say
about this, for they could care less.  All that mattered now is that Ranma
had expresed his love for them.  He was what he should have always beenn,
there's.

At the exact same moment both girls lept towards Ranma.  They landed at
oppisate sides of him and fell to there knees.  Grabbing his left hand
Shampoo said,"Shampoo so happy Ranma admit his love for her.  Now we get
married and Shampoo be beutifal bride!"

Kodachi who landed on Ranma's right side grabbed his right hand and
giggled,"Ranma dear, now you can follow your destiny, you can have Kodachi
the Black Rose all to your self, hahahahaha.."

Ranma looking confused as to which one to accept, decided to take the 'easy'
way out.

"Kodachi, Shampoo, I love you both so much, I can't choose, I'll marry you
both."

Akane snaped out of her thoughts and turned her head up from looking at the
ground to looking at Ranma.  She felt angry, sad, hurt, betrayed, used.  She
began to channel her Ki into the fists, for the first time ever; and walked
towards Ranma.

Ranma and his loves were to busy to notice Akane glowing as she aproched, to
busy to see the danger they were in, to busy to see the small black pig run
out of the room and into the hall.  When Akane got into striking distance of
her ex-fiancee she stoped, waiting for Ranma to notice her.  She would hurt
him, no she wouls destroy him, no she would kill him for doing what he did.

Ranma looked up to see his fiancee standing above him.  She was so beutifal
glowing the way she was.  Her short cut hair, her large eyes, she perfect
body, in all his life he had never seen her look so beutifal than she did
now; but he knew he could never tell her that, he was shy, he would never
admit it to anyone, but he was scared, so he said what she would expect him
to say.

"Whacha doing glowing like that Akane?  You look like a tomboysh christmass
tree."

Yup, she was right, he used her, now he would pay.  Shampoo and Kodachi were
to slow to react, and Ranma could only cringe as the glowing fist was
heading for his cheak; so at the last possible second Akane... stopped, just
before she made contact with his face.  

All four just stood there, not moving, until her eyes betrayed her.  Tears
began to streem from her eyes, her glow faded, and she felt sick.  Akane
never wanted to see this jerk again; not like before where she was just
doing it to prove a point, this time her heart was a black as Shampoo's hair
and as broken as Kodachi's mind.

She turned around and ran out of the room leaving a trail of tears behind.
One of these tears should have fallen to the floor like the rest, except for
the wind which was created by the brewing storm outside the window that
lifted it back into the air and onto Ranma's cheak.  Ranma put his finger to
his cheak and moved the tear onto his finger, he looked at it, and wondered
what he did wrong.  He had always teesed her before, he had always loved
Shampoo and Kodachi, so why was she getting so upset he wondered.  

Deciding the neads of the meny were more important than the neads of the
one, he returned his attenchion to the to young ladys at his sides.  "I'll
make up with her tomarrow as I always do. Well what now? Oh yea! Shampoo and
Kodachi! Which do I want first?"  He thought just before he bent down and
kissed Shampoo.

Kodachi was wondreing if her powder really worked,"He said he loved me but
he's kissing her, I want my first kiss, I'll kill that hussy if I have to,
but Ranma's mine, he's....."  Kodachi was intrupted when Ranma turned his
full attenchion to her.  He pressed his lips to her's and all the nasty
stuff she was thinking about was forgotten


3

A Long Nite



Akane ran out of Ranma's room and into the hall, but insted of being able to
get back into her room without anyone noticing; she ran into what felt like
a wall.  When she cleared the tears from her eyes she saw that she had
bumped into; Royga.

"*Sniffle* Royga, what are you doing here? *Sob*"

"Ah, Ah, Akane," Ryoga stupedley studdered.

"*Cry* Just get out of my way," Akane cryed as she side steped Ryoga and
headed for her room.

Ryoga watched as Akane run into her room and slamed her door.  He was so
confused as to what was going on, but he knew one important thing. "This is
Ranma's fault," he shouted.

When Ryoga got to Ranma's open door he was again shocked as to what he saw.
Ranma was sitting on the floor with Shampoo pulling his left arm and Kodachi
pulling his rite arm.  And what toataley threw Ryoga for a loop was that not
only was Ranma smileing, but he was laughing.

"Hehehe! Shampoo, Kodachi, whay fight? Hahahaha!  There is plenty of me to
go around," Ranma joked.

Ryoga could stand for this no longer.  He walked into Ranma's room and
quickley covered the ground between himself and the soon to be dead
loverboy. "Ranma, you will die for what you have done to Akane," with that,
before anyone else could react, Ranma was out the window and into the air
and down into the pond.

Kodachi and Shampoo picked them selves up off the floor to find there love
gone, the window broken, and Ryoga berathing a sigh of relief.  Without a
word they agreed what had to be done.  They got there weapons from the anime
pocket dimension and lept at Ryoga.

Down below Ranma-chan was sitting in the pond without a clue as to why he
was there.  She tryed to remember what she did to get herself dunked in the
Tendo's pond; but nothing came to mind. "I bet Akane did this, that tomboy,"
she muttered to herself.  Ranma stood up and steped out of the pool so she
could dry herself off.  After squeezing the excess water off her clothing
Ranma-chan looked up at her broken window and sighed, crouched down, and
lept up to the ledge outside her second story window.  What she found there
was enough to not make her gasp, not make her blink, but make her slip off
the ledge and fall back into the pond. Before Ranma-chan fell she saw
Shampoo and Kodachi, in her room, beeting the stuffing out of Ryoga.

After getting out of the pond, drying herself off as best as possible, and
hopping back onto ther window ledge Ranma-chan was not suprised to see Ryoga
laying on the floor in a twisted broken heap with Shampoo and Kodachi
standing above him with two fistfulls of each others hair. "What are they
doing in my room" Ranma-chan wondered before she sliped in through the window.

"Grrr, die tramp," the twisted girl in tights shouted.

"Shampoo never give Ranma to you," the girl in Chinese clothing yelled back.

Ranma-chan could only sigh as she watched them fight.  She was depressed
that not only was she not able to remember what the hell was going on, but
it involved Shampoo and Kodachi. "Great, well, I better see how Ryoga is,"
she muttered as she sliped by the two girls and knelt down to check on
Ryoga.  "You idiot," Ranma-chan wispered and just then Ryoga's eyes went
wrom latge X's to normal. Altho he was still unable to move for he was still
shaped to look like a pretzel, he was more than able to yell, "Ranma.. grr..
I'll... grr... kill you for what you did to..."

*Bang, thud* 

Ryoga was out like a lite.  Ranma-chan looked up to see an angry Shampoo and
Kodachi standing above him. Just when Ranma-chan thought her last minute of
life was about to tick by, something she should have expeceted occoured.
Shampoo lept at her while Kodachi reached back into the anime pocked
dimension to get a rather large wodden mallet so she could smite both
Ranma-chan and Shampoo in one fowl swoop.

*Bang*

Shampoo was on the floor sleeping, looking quite cute laying on top of
Ryoga, who was also sleeping.  Kodachi had missed Ranma-chan but she would
soon fix that. "I don't care what your doing here, i'm going to... waa?
Iiiiieeeeeee..." and Kodachi was through the window.

"Grr, growl, growl, grr," Genma-panda roared as he tossed the thing that was
keeping him awake out the window. "Thanks pop," Ranma-chan told her father
before he picked her up, suprising the young red haired girl, and tossed her
as well out the window.  Unlike the crazy girl in thights, who landed
safeley outside, Ranma-chan was unluckley enough, or some would say fated
to, landed in the pond, again.

Kodachi, now on the Tendo's back wall shouted to Ranma-chan, who was now
laying misserbley in the pond,"Tell my Ranma I love him, and tell him I will
never forget the kiss that we saired."  With a spray of black rose pettels,
Kodachi was gone and Ranma-chan was in the pond rinceing her mouth out at
even the thought of kissing Kodachi.
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