A note from the Author: Okay, before you read this chapter, I need
to make sure you all understand that I never intended to offend anyone with
this story. Nor did I ever intend for what happens here, to happen. But,
as many of you authors know, things never turn out the way we plan it, do
they? Just please keep an open mind and don't get too pissed. I know
I'm going to get flamed, won't be the first time, so nyah!!!
Ranma 1/2: Enter Perfume
Chapter 8: Fini! Flames will be laughed at, so, go ahead and try it!
Ranma held his head as he walked across the Dojo over to the
training
hall. He was going to practice, that was always one way he was able to
vent
his frustrations. That and picking on Akane, but she seemed awfully irate
about something. Of what, he wasn't sure.
He sighed and opened the door to the training hall, as he turned
from shutting it, he was thrown aback by what he saw.
"WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON!?!?" he demanded. Before him stood
every-
one. Well, almost everyone. Genma, Soun, Mousse, Kuno, Sasuke, Ryoga,
Happosai, Cologne, Tsubasa, Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane, Shampoo, Ukyo, and even
Kodachi.
"It's time, my son. If you truly want to be treated like a man,
then it is time that you choose," Genma started.
"You have been playing games long enough," Soun continued.
"Playing with women's emotions is just wrong, Ranma," Ryoga added.
"Saotome, true love runs deeply through these women, it is time
that
your hurt of them stops," Kuno said.
"Oh, what irony, the fowl Saotome finally confronted with his
games.
And now that he must decide, he cannot chose," Mousse chided.
"Ranma, my boy, be a *real* man and marry them all! It'll be like
your very own harem! Plus..." Happosai started with a tear in his eye.
"You'll be my envy!"
Everyone stood and pointed to Ranma. "Choose now! Choose wisely,
or reek our vengeance!" they all said in unison.
Ranma smacked his hand to his forehead. It was just like his
dream,
here they all stood before him and were forcing him to make his decision
about his fiancee, here, now and forever. He had to choose and there was
no
way around it. If he didn't they would all pummel him. But the way Ranma
saw it, he'd be pummeled no matter who he chose. The worst part was, he
didn't want to choose...not necessarily because he didn't care, either.
He looked from girl to girl carefully considering his options. A
single bead of sweat rolled down his cheek. The tension in the room was so
thick it could be cut like a knife.
Ranma's hair was soaking with sweat now. His shirt stuck to his
body, drenched as well. Ranma kept moving his eyes from girl to girl, then
to the crowd off to the side, all welding their respective, typical
weapons.
There was only one way out of this, he thought. And that would have to be
a
miracle.
"Ranma, be a man and take them all!" Happosai suggested, as the
old
man entered the hall.
"Come on, boy. We're waiting..." Genma huffed.
"Oh, Ranma! If only you'd married my Akane when you first met,
then
this would never have happened," Soun bawled.
"Saotome," Kuno started. "The vengeance of heaven is sure, but
true.
If you do not chose who you are to love, verily, you will be considered an
enemy to women as well as your fellow men." Everyone else muttered or
thought along those same lines, or about what they'd do to Ranma if he
didn't choose correctly, etc.
Ranma sighed, closed his eyes, raised his arm up, stuck out his
index
finger and began to lower his arm. "I...uhh...want..." Before his arm
lowered, and before he could finish, the door to the hall slammed open with
such force the door fell out of the track and landed on the floor.
The outside light blinded the entire crowd in the room. As they
turned to see who it was, a shadowed, shapely female figure stood there.
"How
dare you!" she bellowed, her voice eerily familiar.
"WHO?" everyone said in unison. As their eyes adjusted to the
light,
everyone gasped seeing who it was. There she stood, with short red-haired,
Perfume. Ranma fell to the floor. "WHA!?!" Perfume stormed in and grabbed
Ranma by the shirt collar.
"And to think...Perfume gave herself to you!" she sobbed, gazing
into
Ranma's eyes, tears flowing freely. His jaw, like everyone else's in the
room, was on the floor...umm...make that *through* the floor.
"NANI!?!!?!?!" Everyone else in the room shouted.
"I-it's not what you think!" Ranma started as everyone approached
him, taking up arms. "I SWEAR I NEVER MEANT FOR IT TO HAPPEN!!!" Ranma
screamed.
* * *
Ranma lay on the floor of the training hall staring at the ceiling.
Perfume sat next to him, cuddling next to him. Kasumi was simply putting
some bandages on his wounds.
"Oh Ranma...Ranma...Ranma..." she sighed. Everyone else had
cleared
out. Kasumi finished tending to Ranma, packed up the first-aid kit and
left
the hall. "I'll leave you with your decision," she huffed as she left.
Ranma continued to stare at the ceiling. Perfume looked over him
into his eyes. She smiled, cat-kissed him and then lay next to him. He
then
looked down at her. He still felt as if he was looking at himself. He
smiled. _If I it has to be her, I may as well be happy about it..._ he
thought. He put his hand to her head and began to stroke her hair.
Perfume
began to purr. Ranma stopped momentarily, he realized that he was now over
his fear of cats. Thanks to his fiancee...his one and only fiancee...
* * *
Shampoo cried for months after the incident. Her great-grandmother
was found brutally murdered in her own kitchen, stabbed by many spatulas.
Only one person knew who the real murderer was, and that was the killer
herself...and she was cried for months after the incident. Out of despair
and mourn, she married Mousse, much to his glee.
Framed for a murder she did not commit, Ukyo spent most of the good
years of her life in a penitentiary, her only visitor, became her
husband...
Tsubasa.
With Akane free of Ranma's hold, Kuno and Ryoga fought desperately
for her love. Akane, upon finding out Ryoga's secret, rejected him flatly.
Smartly, she also rejected Kuno. Ryoga was last seen being thrown out of a
bar over in a large town across Japan. He and an olive-haired, cross-
dressing female alien captain were tossed out of a bar for drinking too
much.
Kuno eventually gave up on Akane and wound up living the life of a
swinger. He quickly shunned his kimono and donned a leisure suit. Soun
eventually had a stroke and passed on because of the stress caused by the
whole ordeal. Genma returned home, but quickly left, pursued by an irate,
katana-welding Nodoka.
Kasumi eventually did marry Dr. Tofu. Nabiki eventually became a
very wealthy business woman and became Vice-President of a renown Japanese
corporation known for making homicidal androids. Akane took the loss of
Ranma harder than anyone would have expected. She disappeared shortly
after
her father's death and hadn't been seen since.
Happosai was the only one to remain having anything to do with the
newlywed Mr. & Mrs. Saotome. He continued to train Ranma to become the
Master of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts. He eventually did
achieve the title. Shortly there after Happosai died peacefully and
happily when a woman had willingly given herself to him.
--
Craig Vincent a.k.a. Greg Thompson
<AkoMagami@usa.pipeline.com>
Member, Red-Head Anime Girls Fan Club
Co-Founder and High Priest of The Holy Order of A-ko
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Co-author of Project A-ko: The College Years