Prom Night
A Ranma Story (With Guest Stars)
by Shiaw Chi
Chapter 2: Will You Be My Date?  I Need Revenge

	"Akane, will you..., um, would you I mean...," stuttered Ranma.
Ranma was beginning to grasp Shampoo's difficulties with the Japanese
language.  All of a sudden Genma and Soun popped up besides him.
	"Don't choke now Ranma, go ahead and say it!" yelled Genma as he
pushed Ranma towards Akane.
	"Ranma, you can stay out with Akane as long as you'd like," Soun
tells Ranma.
	"What're you doing here?  Do you guys follow us to school
everyday," shouted Ranma as he began shoving his dad roughly.
	"Daddy!  Mr. Saotome, stop trying to set us up!" Akane also
shouted as she tried to squirm out of the crowd.
	"Besides, what makes you think I was going to ask Akane to the
stupid junior prom anyways!  I wasn't even planning to go, and if I was
going, I'd be able to do alot better that Akane," Ranma bragged.
	Ranma was tasting tile before he knew it.  "That damned mallet,"
Ranma cursed to himself.
	"The same goes here Ranma!  I'd go back to the negaverse before I
went to the junior prom with you!" she screamed at him as she stormed
away.  The crowd was all too eager to get out of her way.
	As the crowd splits like the red sea, a lone figure stumbled into
the hallway.  "At last... I've made *huff* it here," puffed Ryoga.
	Still fuming from Ranma's rejection, Akane quickly grabbed Ryoga
by the arm and without even wondering what he was doing there, she sweetly
asked him "Ryoga, if you're not too busy tomorrow night, would you mind
going with me to the junior prom."
	"Akane, no!" shouted Soun.
	"Whah... you're asking me to... with you," Ryoga stammered.  He
was beginning to feel light headed.  He grabbed a hold of Akane and looked
at her face hard.  "Nope," he thought, "this isn't Ranma impersanating
Akane."
	"Ryoga, if you're too busy, it's okay," Akane interjected.
Perhaps she was already regretting her rash decision.
	"Too busy!  Me busy!  No, I have no life.  Of course I'll go with
you.  Even if I did have a life I'd still go with you," Ryoga rambled.
	Ranma's jaw dropped in shock.  Akane just asked RYOGA to go with
her to the junior prom!?  She'd rather go with that thick headed pig boy
than him?
	Genma smacked Ranma in the back of the head.  "This is all your
fault boy!  If you've had some guts, she wouldn't have resorted to such a
desperate back up!"
	"Hey, who you calling a desperate back up," barked Ryoga.
	There was suddenly a loud crash as a wall suddenly caved in.
	"Ranma, Shampoo no late!" Shampoo chirped as she bashed through
the wall and quickly  hugged Ranma.  "Shampoo bring Ranma delicious pork
buns to eat in class!"
	"Shampoo, are you doing anything tomorrow," Ranma quickly asked
her.
	"Ai ya!  Ranma asking Shampoo what Shampoo think?"
	"If you're not busy tomorrow night, let's go to my junior prom.
It'll be fun," he told her.
	"Wo ai ne Ranma!" she screamed as she wrapped her arms around him.
"Shampoo have perfect dress just for occasion!"
	Akane was seething.  "So that jerk Ranma wanted to go with Shampoo
this whole time, eh?  Well forget him, I never wanted to go with him in
the first place," she told herself.  "I'll have a better time with Ryoga
than I'd ever have with him!"
	Akane pulled Ryoga closer to her, and happily smiled.  "This is
great!  Why don't you come to my house afterschool and we can hammer out
all the details," she beamed.
	"Heheh, hammer your floorboards, no problem," Ryoga said,
obviously still not grasping the situation.  Or grasping it too much.
	"C'mon Shampoo, why don't you give me a sneek peak at that dress
that'll be showing you off tomorrow," Ranma said nicely.
	"Ai ya, Ranma say sweetest things!  But what about Ranma school?"
	"Not like I never cut before," he muttered under his breath.  He
then picked Shampoo up with both of his arms.  "I think tomorrow night's
got priority over class."
	"Ryoga, why don't we go pick out a dress for me too, huh?" Akane
pleaded with Ryoga in a sugar coated voice, as she rapibly batted her
eyelashes.  
	Ryoga wasn't moving.  He simply stood there with the same dumb
stricken look in his face.  He didn't even look like he was breathing!
	"Ryoga, are you alright," asked Akane as she waved her hand across
his eyes.  "Hey, Ryoga," she said as she gently poked him.  He fell the to
floor, frozen in the same position, the akward smile still on his face.
	"Let's leave these losers alone," Ranma sneered as he prepared to
jump out a window.  Before he got the chance, a loud scream drew his
attetnion.
	"Ranma!  Tell me it isn't so!  You're not going with Akane, you're
not going with me, but you're going with that chinise bimbo!" roared
Ukyou.  "Nuh-un Ranchan, I've been going through way to much crap the last
few weeks waiting to go with you, and I smell like some goddamned
rasberries!  I don't even like rasberries!" she screamed as she ran
towards Ranma.  "You drop that bimbo and get your fanny here right now
Ranma before I do something we both regret!"
	"Aaaahahahahahaaaaaaaahhahahaha!" crazily laughed a girl who had
just jumped in through an open window.  "Ranma darling, I've come to
accept your invitation to the junior prom!" raved Kodachi.
	"Oh no," Ranma thought.  "I should've known this was going to
happen."
	Shampoo jumped out of Ranma's arms right in front of Ukyou and
Kodachi.  "Stupid crazy girl, Ranma go with Shampoo to prom.  And dumb
spatula girl, you no intefere with Shampoo dream date!" she declared.
	"Oh, we'll just see about that," Ukyou screamed.
	"No, you decietful heathen, Ranma would never go with the likes of
you!" Kodachi yelled.
	A glow began surronding all three of them.  Their battle aura's
were reaching their peak charge.
	"Ranma is going with me!" all three screamed at the same time as
they leapt into the air.  All of them met at the same point in mid-air,
and they dropped to the ground as clouds of smoke began forming from their
onslaught.
	"Akane Tendo!  I shall allow you to attend the junior prom with
me," announced Kuno as he suddenly stood in front of her.
	"Sorry Kuno, but I already have a date," she rudely told him.
	"Already have a date?  This is all Saotome's fault!  Does
attending the prom with the pig-tailed girl not wheet your appetite fiend!
Must you also steal Akane Tendo to split your fancies with," yelled Kuno
as he charged Ranma.
	Ranma easily jumped out of the way as Kuno went crashing through a
wall.  "I ain't going with that tomboy nor the pig tailed girl.  I asked
Shampoo to go so get off my back!" shouted Ranma as he landed behind him.
	"Nooo!  You're taking Shampoo to the prom!  I won't allow this!"
screamed Mousse who would Ranma's ever spectacular luck would have it, had
just also appeared in the hallway as well.  He charged at Ranma with an
over sized hoe in his hands.  "Release Shampoo from your treachery now!"
	"So you dare take three girls with you to the prom!  How
reprehensible!" shouted Kuno as he charged at Ranma as well.
	Ranma jumped out of the way just in time so that Kuno and Mousse
smashed face first into each other.  They fell back down to the ground
dazed.  Little pig-tailed girls were circling Kuno's head, as little
ducklings were circling Mousse's.
	"That's it, I'm outta here," Ranma uttered as he jumped out the
window and climbed to the roof top.
	The three girls stopped their fighting to notice Ranma leaving.
	"Ranma wait for prom date!" yelled Shampoo as she began following
Ranma.  
	A foot was suddenly on top of her head, as Ukyou bounced off
Shampoo towards Ranma.  "Ranma!  You ain't getting away so easy!  We still
need to talk!" shouted Ukyou after Ranma.
	"Ranma dear, what about poor little me, I saved myself just to go
with you," Kodachi said sweetly as she followed the others.  Her voice
changed into a tone of anger as she growled, "So you'd better appreciate
it and go with me."

	Ranma peeked around the corner of the chimney to see the three
girls flying off in different directions.  He dropped onto his butt as he
let out a big breath.  "I should have thought this through more," he told
himself.
	He suddenly heard the wind breaking behind him, and quickly leapt
away as mini-spatula's dug themselves into the concrete.
	"You've got some explaining to do Ranchan," Ukyou says as she
landed on the rooftop.  "I could understand if you went with Akane, that'd
be your parents fault.  But you're going with Shampoo over me!"
	"It's not that easy to explain," complained Ranma from the top of
the chimney.  "It was kind of an accident."
	"Well then, you won't have any problems breaking it off with her
and going with me then, do you!"
	Ranma leapt to no more than a few inches in front of Ukyou.  He
grabbed her by the shoulders and asked her "Ukyou, do you love me?"
	"Oh no Ranma, you want me to say that again," she replies
nervously.
	"Okay, let me rephrase that.  Do you care for me enough to not
want to see Shampoo rip off my head and stick it on a pike outside the
Nekohauten?"
	"Oh, I see your point," Ukyou sadly admitted.
	"Look, I'm sorry I didn't ask you to go.  Honestly, I'd rather go
with you.  But Shampoo was just in the right place at the right time,"
Ranma apoligized.
	"No, no, it's okay.  I'll just stay home all by myself while
everybody else is having fun tomorrow night.  Just bring back some
pictures... and I'll pretend *sniff* I was actually there," she whimpered
before she started crying.
	Ranma hated it when girls cried.  It made him feel so...
powerless.  And he had no idea what to do.  What was anyone supposed to do
in such a situation?  He looked around aimlessly scratching his head, and
muttered incomplete phrases trying to find the right thing to say.  He
eventually accidently blurted out, "You know, you still have another day
left.  Maybe you could find someone else to go with you?  Especially with
how cute you've been dressing lately."
	"Oh Ranchan, do you mean it!" she gushed.  Ukyou hugged Ranma with
enough force to crush his lungs.  "*Sniffle* maybe I will go," she
replied.  She was feeling alot better now.  So what if Ranma wasn't going
with her?  He liked her clothes!
	"Great then.  I have to go before Kodachi finds me.  I don't think
she'd be as understanding as you'd be.  So I'll just see you later," he
said as he began leaping from rooftop to rooftop.
	"Another date?  It would allow me to keep tabs on Ranma and
Shampoo tomorrow.  Make sure she doesn't try anything with him.  But who
am I supposed to ask this late in time?" she wondered.
	From out of nowhere, a man had grabbed her from behind and began
squeezing her.
	"Shampoo, my love.  You aren't really going with Ranma to that
silly prom are you?  No, you're going with me," glozed Mousse as he
continued hugging Ukyou.
	Ukyou slipped her spatula free and smacked Mousse over the head
with it.  "Why don't you keep your stupid glasses on!" she screamed.  Then
an idea struck her.  She crouched over in front of the dazed Mousse and
smiled cutely as she put an index finger to her lip.
	"Mousse, if you aren't busy tomorrow night..."

	"Akane," sobbed Soun.  "Please reconsider your actions.  It's not
too late to dump him and go with Ranma," pleaded Soun.
	Akane was getting mad.  She was sitting in class now, and her
father was still causing a commotion.  Why didn't the teacher do something
about this?
	Ryoga was sitting next to her.  There was no way he was going to
risk getting lost now, so he asked her if he could just follow her around
until the prom.  "Mr. Tendo, you can trust me to take care of...," Ryoga
tried to say before Soun had swatted him away like a fly with his arm.
	"Akane, for family honor, for your father, please go with Ranma."
	"NO!  I am not going with Ranma," shouted Akane.  "I'm going with
Ryoga and I wouldn't go with Ranma if my life was at stake, alright dad!"
	"Akane, go stand in the hallway," her teacher instructed her.
"And take your father and your friend with you."

	Kuno was wandering around town aimlessly.  He considered it
meditating, but his mind was just a blur of images of the pig tailed girl
and Akane Tendo.
	"Alas, that vile Ranma has stolen both of my loves away from me.
With only an evening left to spare, who should I attend tomorrow night's
reception with," he wondered.
	Some kids had run across him, blowing bubbles from there newly
acquired toy.  Some of the bubbles popped against Kuno's face.
	"Ah, the joy's of adolescense.  To be living the glory's of
yesteryear without such worries weighing heavily on my mind would truly be
bliss."
	Someone accidently bumped into Kuno and Kuno turned to exact his
revenge on the person.
	"Sorry, excuse me mister," a man in a sailor uniform apoligized as
he rushed off.
	"That is right fiend, you had better flee least my blade thirsts
for your hide!"
	He continued walking down the street, and stopped at a corner as a
blue car made a sharp turn around it.  Some kids ran past him, dressed in
some makeshift costume cheerfully yelling "Mercury Bubble Blast," and
"Moon Scepter Elimination."  "Kids these day, they get stranger and
stranger," he thought.
	Kuno continued walking around lost, trying to think of someone
else to ask to the junior prom.  "Will the heavens not assist the mighty
Tatewaki Kuno in his most desperate hour?"

	Somewhere in Tokyo, a girl with short blue hair stopped walking
all of a sudden.
	"Something wrong?," asked a blond haired girl.
	"Mina, did you ever get the feeling that something bad was
happening to you, but you just didn't know it?" Amy replied.

Author's Notes: You know, I'm not sure what exactly to put here in this
section beyond please send all comments to schi@uci.edu or
chihokodan@aol.com.  I mean, I've traditionally have always put an
author's note at the end of every part I send out, but this fanfic is too
old for me to really spout my state of mind at the time I was writing this
or where I was planning to go with it and there's no real rewriting done
to this fic, at least not yet, for me to address anything like in Skimpy
Skirts.  Hmmm...  Well, maybe I can just give a quick run down at what my
fanfic writing schedule will be for the foreseeable future (keep in mind
things never go according to plan).  Well, I'll be posting roughly two
parts a week for at least until chapter, what is it?  When they go to the
dinner thing... chapter 6 or 7?  I don't remember, but I might have to
slow down to one a week around there, but I'm putting out three chapters
this week to off set that a bit...  We'll see...  I think probably around
right after said chapter of Prom Nite is posted, I'll actually *gasp* post
a new part of my Ranma/SM Skimpy Skirts and Cross Dressers rewrite.  I'm
hoping there won't be more than a couple of chapters of rewriting left by
that point in time so I'll feel safe enough to finally post some new stuff
on that.  After all that is said and done, I'll be reposting Four
Fiancee's and a Funeral with very minor modifications and probably a bit
more in the epilogue even though it's already been heavily archived
because right after that I intend to finally launch my last fanfic,
another Ranma/SM thing but WAAAY different from the first one, and Four
Fiancee's is pretty pivotal towards really grasping the first half of the
prologue to that story.  Well, that's enough babbling for today, and
hopefully some of that first 6 months of writing expediant magic will
return sometime in the next 6 months... but probably not, I'm not sitting
in bed suffering from pneumonia this time around.
Shiaw Chi
schi@uci.edu
chihokodan@aol.com