Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Neko's Mate ❯ Neko's Mate 6 ( Chapter 6 )

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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For the first time in his life, Ranma felt nothing but anger at the appearance of a cat. He and Akane had been having a very peaceful day together, having not had any fights in several days. They had decided that mornign to take the chance and go to a movie together. They'd both agreed that it was by not means a date. They were simply two people, going to the same movie, at the same time, sitting together and each paying half. Just because they were planning on going to a restaurant to eat afterwards, and were dressing a little nicer than they usually did, didn't mean this was a date. To further stress how not date like it was, Ranma had gone as a girl.

Everything had gone well until, midway through the movie, Shampoo had come running through the doors, chased oddly enough by a laughing Kodachi. The two had proceeded to fight their way to the front of the theater, chasing the movie goers who'd paid to see the most recent blockbuster import out into the street. Ranma and Akane had tried to join the fleeing throng anonymously, but some fool had dropped their ice loaded pop onto the floor, and Ranma slipped and fell.

Sure enough, though the sound was miniscule compared to the damage caused by the fighting females, they'd both heard and recognized the voice. Shampoo had easily distracted a gloating Kodachi with an uppercut through the screen and the cement wall behind it before glomping Ranma and hurling insults at Akane. She'd chosen a good time to insult her, for Akane's dress, a rather modest affair that had once belonged to her mother was stained and ripped. Much of the damage had been caused by Kodachi's ribbon and Shampoo's hair ornament throwing knives.

Her taunting incited Akane's rage to a never before felt height. For the first time, her aura flared into the visible spectrum as she shook with anger. She held herself as still as her trembling form allowed, while the Chinese girl continued to taunt her and berate her, making fun of her going to the movies with Ranma's girl half, despite the fact that she herself was currently doing a very fair immitation of sexual assault on said girl.

Nothing would likely have come of the incident until the Amazon started laughing at the style of dress.

"Where violent girl get too too silly old dress? Greedy sister not let have money buy new? Must steal from old women's garbage to get clothes to wear? How stupid violent girl expect seduce Shampoo husband dressing stupid like that?"

Akane screamed and her aura flared bright enought to cause Shampoo to cover her eyes and Ranma to slip out of her grip. "HOW DARE YOU YOU CHINESE TRAMP!!! THIS WAS MY MOTHER'S FAVORITE DRESS! AND YOU RUINED IT! DIE!!!!!" Akane reached behind her and pulled out the largest mallet she'd ever grabbed and slammed Shampoo with a blow that would have sent a fully loaded freighter soaring into the horizon.

Luckily for her, Shampoo was quick enough to dodge most of the blow. The mallet head missed her completely, but the wind vortex creating by it's rapid passage through the air was still strong enough to lift her from her feet and throw her the forty feet through the air to slam into the wall next to the Kodachi shaped hole. Being of Amazon stock, and training in ancient arts, the impact barely fazed the girl, who rushed forward, hands reaching out like claws to tear into her most hated rival.

Before she closed even half the distance, a splash of cold soda hit her, transforming her into the purple and white kitten that was her cursed form. A small hand grabbed her out of the air and she found herself staring into the eyes of her airen's female form. There was a look in those eyes that she had never seen before, and for the first time, Shampoo could understand why so many people were afraid of Ranma. There was something in those eyes, deep and mean and angry, that caused her to try and shake herself loose.

"That is enough!" Ranma stated grimly. His female voice was a little too high to really put much irritation or force behind the words, but the sheer lack of volume in her voice was able to cut through the rage roaring inside Akane's head and she blinked, taking in the sight of Ranma holding the feline Shampoo and not quivering in fear.

"You've gone too far this time Shampoo! How dare you say those things to Akane! How dare you follow us today, hiding in the shadows." The small powerful hand shook the kitten, who tried to hiss a protest. "Don't bother denying it, Shampoo. You think I wouldn't be able to feel you lurking in the background all day? Watching and waiting to interupt us, if something happened? I would think that after what happened with Saffron you would know better. You can't hide from me, Shampoo. I can feel you coming miles away. I've let you glomp, grope, and harrass me for the last time. I've had enough. This was the last straw." The arm connected to the hand reared back and THREW the kitten away. "If you ever, ever try anything like this again, I will hurt you Shampoo. If you so much as throw Akane a dirty look, I will hurt you. You mean nothing to me, Shampoo, and you can burn your laws for all I can.

You can stay in Japan if you want, but I will NEVER, NEVER marry you. Tell the old ghoul that if she has a problem with that, or if she thinks of hurting Akane, I'll make what I did to Saffron look like a child's first steps to what I'll do to you and your village. I'll make it my life's goal to wipe out any and all traces of your so called glorious people. I love Akane, and I belong to her. Not you, not Ukyo, and sure as hell not Kodachi."

Shampoo tried to approach, but a hiss forced it's way from Ranma's throat and her stance shifted slightly. Shampoo stared in shock as she felt the sudden presence off another feline and gulped in fear, as she recognized the aura of the nekoken.

"Go way, dogbitch!" Ranma hissed, anger and hate coloring the oddly accented voice. "We've made our choice. Go back to the ghoul and leave us and our mate along. If you come near us again, I will kill you and give what's left of your carcass to duckboy to play with. I'm sure that he would enjoy amusing himself with your remains."

Shampoo took another step forward as anger surged within her, but another hiss, a swipe of invisible claws tearing a set of four twenty foot long, three foot deep trenches wider than her current body forced her to stop. She watched as Ranma made to come after her, and was relieved when Akane laid a restraining hand on the girl's shoulder.

Shampoo colapsed in fear and sorrow as Akane gently guided the hissing girl out of the ruined theater. How was she ever going to explain to her grandmother that Ranma had completely and totaly rejected her. That he had threatened not only herself, but the lives of the entire village if they did anything to harm the Tendo girl? With a kitty sigh, she slowly struggled to her feet and scampered as only a cat could out of the theater, tears streaking down her furry face.

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