Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Neko's Mate ❯ Neko's Mate 5. ( Chapter 5 )

Here's another of my Neko Ranma stories. For something I intended as a one shot, it just keeps growing.

Still not planning on doing it as a series of continous story lines. Just keeping it as short little snapshots into nekoRanma's life. I am willing to take requests for specific interactions with other characters, so if there's something you want to see, just email me at :

shall-iin@mindless.com

Oh, again. I hereby claim complete and total lack of ownership towards the characters, settings and names of events used in this story. I own nothing accept the idea of putting said characters into those situations I have created for them.

Here's a list of nicks I'll use for some characters(some have multiple):

Tatewaki Kuno=stickfool/boy

Kodaichi Kuno=crazyflower

Kasumi Tendo=Provider(always capitalized to show his respect)

Cologne=ghoul/troll

Happosai=old freak

Mouse=blindduck/duckboy

Shampoo=purplefur

Ukyo Kuonji=? (flatstick cook or girlboy)

Konatsu Kenzan=boygirl

Ryoga Hibiki=pigidiot

Nabiki Tendo=greedygirl/trickster

Genma Saotome=pandaoyaji/greedygut

Nodaka=mother/

Akane Tendo=mate

Soun Tendo=weteyes

I'll make up more for some of the minor characters when I think of them. Collectively, nekoRanma will refer to his suitors as dogbitches. The fathers are sillysires.

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nekoRanma paced the small room, frustrated that his mate would not allow him to leave. He galnced out the clear side of the wall where he could scent a fresh breeze and the tantalizing smells of freedom. The room itself was almost burning his nostrils with the scent of so many humans. If it wasn't for the disapproval on his mate's face while he made to escape, he would have left here long ago.

He gave a hiss of irritation and made his way to the corner. He ignored the trembling male with the weird furs and odd removable face markings while he tried to find something interesting to occupy his time. He could tell that his mate was displeased with him for something, but it was not his fault the elderly male at the front of the room was uninteresting to him. Maybe if he could understand the strange sounds coming from his mouth, he might find it interesting, but from what he could understand of his human self, he highly doubted it.

He'd awoken in this room after last awaking in the fighting cave. The scent of purplefur was all over him and he wished dearly to be able to run out and clean himself. He would do it here, but he didn't want to anger his mate. The last time he'd removed his false furs to clean himself, she'd bashed him with her club and thrown him into a wall. He certainly didn't want that to happen. She'd been showing signs lately that she was beginning to come closer to being ready to be mated and he didn't want to waste his progress.

Even the dogbitches that chased him were doing so with less and less real effort or enthusiam. Only pigidiot and stickboy were still behaving at the same insane levels as before. The freak and the ghoul of course were going as they always did, and pandaoyaji was too stupid to change. But lately, his anger at their interuptions of his time with his mate seemed to be getting through to them. They still grabbed him in order to rub against him and anger his mate. But they were less aggresive towards his mate and seemed to shy away when he started growling at them. His human self was too dense to have caught the change, though he suspected that his mate had and that this had helped him with increasing their few moments of calm together.

Deciding that he couldn't deal with this for much longer, he made his way to his mate and squatted at her feet. He mewed pitifully at her and turned his gaze towards the open space where the air was entering this room. His mate looked down at him before sighing and asking the elder something in that strange language these humans used.

Whatever they said must have been an agreement for his mate smiled down at him and waved him to the opening. She made those sounds again. It was the same sound that she made whenever she wanted him to go home, so he guessed the sounds where her asking him to meet her at their home when he finished patrolling his larger territory. With a happy meow and purr, he leaned up and licked her cheek, wriggling his body as only a cat could. He bounded happily to the space and leapt out, not caring how high off the ground he found himself. He'd leapt from much higher heights without injury. As he landed, he spotted the stickboy and crazyflower's servant.

With a roar of glee, he leapt forward, swiping his claws to cut down the branch the short wrinkly human was hiding on. The human yelled something and threw a foul smelling ball of smoke while trying to run. Sadly for him, nekoRanma's senses were too keen to be fooled by the trick and he happily chased the runt back to his master's home.

After playing with the runt for a while, he got bored and decided to head home. If he was lucky, his mate would be there and they could play in the fighting cave for a while before he had to turn his body back over to his human self.

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Akane sighed as she watched Ranma happily bounce out of the classroom. Her face was red from the lick Ranma'd given her. Though she was extremely saddened that Ranma's idiot father had trained him in the nekoken, she was glad that the nekoken allowed her a glimpse at Ranma's true feelings for her.

She tried to concentrate on the lessons, but her mind was centered on her unwanted fiancee. Well, she thought he was unwanted. Oh hell, who did she think she was kidding. She would gladly marry Ranma if he would only get the courage to actually ask her and to do something about those fiancee's of his. Although, lately, they'd seemed to be slightly less eager to continue to try and grope him and to fight her over him.

She'd loved Ranma for so long, she wasn't even sure when she'd first realized it. It wasn't like she'd waken one morning and said 'Oh yeah, I love Ranma.' It was a gradual realization that Ranma was the center of her life. That she couldn't even imagine a life or a future without him beside her. That she wanted nothing more than to be able to comfort him and help him when he suffered another of his idiot father's past mistakes coming to haunt them all.

She found that she felt the same about him no matter if he was a boy or girl, and was further surprised to find that she even enjoyed his nekofied self. She'd started to actually look forward to his time in the nekoken, though she was saddened that he had to be terrified before he could slip into it. He was more open when he was a cat, much more willing to show his feelings. And to avoid his multitude of suitors and rivals.

Finally classes for the day ended and she was free to return home. She hummed happily to herself before reaching the end of the block. Schooling her face into a neutral expression, while inwardly hidding her pleasure as she noted Ranma standing crouched at the gate waiting for her, she made her way down the block, gently shoving her fiancee aside as she tried to entire the house.

"Look Ranma, I know you're happy to see me, but I want to get changed. Why don't you go meet me in the dojo and maybe I'll change you back in there." She stated, knowing that Ranma wouldn't understand her words. She gestured to the dojo and waved him towards it. He purred and rubbed against her happily before bounding over in the effortless leaps she'd come to know.

She changed in her room and skipped down to the dojo, calling out to her eldest sister to let her and Ranma know when dinner was ready. She entered the dojo and was immediately tripped by leg. She rolled easily and came to her feet turning just in time to see Ranma leap over her and tap her on the back. Grinning wildly, she chased her hopping, purring fiancee around the dojo and occassionaly into the yard and back until Kasumi called for them to clean up for supper.

As the two made their way to the house, Akane glanced at Ranma. He'd spent most of the day as a cat. She pantomined a steaming kettle while asking : "Would you like some hot water, Ranma?"

Ranma seemed to consider her words, though she knew that he didn't know the words, he had learned what her motions meant. He meowed somewhat resignedly and nodded, pausing at the entrance while she got the kettle from Kasumi.

Before she poured the water over him, she leaned in and gave him a kiss, dumping the water over his head a few seconds into it. She could almost feel the humanity come back into him as the water poured over him.

She watched with a grin as he scrambled back away from her.

"I didn't meant to! It wasn't my fault!" he stated quickly, bracing himself for her to mallet him.

She shook her head. "Ranma no baka. Of course it wasn't your fault. I kissed you, silly. Now enough cowaring, dinner is ready."

Ranma stuttered at her statement, somewhat shocked at her announcement. "I ain't cowaring from nothing!"

Akane laughing shook her head, and stated that he had. They continued back and forth until they reached the table, and dinner was served. Ranma was too busy protecting his plate and stealing from his father's to continue and she herself was in too good a mood. All in all, it was just another typical day in the lives of Akane Tendo and Ranma Saotome.