Find Ranma!

Shampoo knew all she had to do was get to Ranma so he could agree he loved her. That he was married to her. It was the sole reason she had come to this country, so once this happened her mission was complete. The rest would be icing on the cake.

So getting great grandmother to 'agree' to give Shampoo time off, the skilled tracker hunted down her wayward husband. Shampoo was also trying to figure out whether to wait for Ranma to be alone... or arrive and get people to 'agree' with Shampoo. Even if just to leave. She ended up just letting fate decide. Which ended up deciding for Ranma to be alone in a park, performing some katas in a wooded clearing.

Knowing she's just a few moments and words from making her dreams come true, she moved in at a relaxed pace from behind Ranma. It was not long before he turned around and looked at Shampoo, likely wondering why she was not jumping on him like usual. He didn't know if Shampoo did things right, he would be welcoming her leaps soon enough.

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Ranma was confused as Shampoo was coming up to him, not glomping on him but walking instead. He figured she had some plot or magic thingie to make him her husband no matter what he thought, which was she was a pest while she's trying to husband-hunt him. So he was in a relax battle stance, which didn't look like a battle stance. Waiting for her next move.

"Nihao, Ranma. You too too handsome today. You do great martial art form." answered the beautiful chinese girl, (even if Ranma thought her a pest and hated some of the things she did, didn't mean he didn't know she looked good).

"Okay Shampoo, what scheme for a date or to make me marry you is it this time? Kama's bow and arrow? A snack made with love potion, really passion fruit or whatever? A marriage engagement bought off from my pops? What?" he asked her as he decided to be direct and get it over with.

"Shampoo just wanted see Shampoo's Airen. Tell Airen Wo Ai Ni," As she said this, Ranma knew this was true, as she had claimed him as her husband due to her rules and knew she loved him in her own way. It was what she said next which made him think, as she said, "Just like Shampoo knows Airen Ai Wo."

Ranma's chinese was as good as his English, horrible. He knew bits and pieces, if he was to speak it he would sound worse then Shampoo in Japanese. He had to respect how well she picked up a language she was likely only expose to as she crossed from the mainland to the islands. Even as bad as she sounded. He did know certain words well enough.

Airen meant husband, beloved, sweetheart, and lover. Ai meant love. Wo meant I or me. With Ni meaning you. Wo Ai Ni, was I love you. So using something people in Nerima had trouble with, logic, he figured Airen Ai Wo meant Husband/Lover/etc loves me. Which, if Ranma thought about it, he had to agree with.

'Yeah, I guess I do love ya... like a sister or cousin or some other relative." he said, which caused to frown a little.

Her smile returned in a minute as she said, "Shampoo is too too beautiful, sexy and cute."

Ranma had to agree again, "Yeah, I'm sure when you stop chasing me you'll make some man very happy."

This time he could swear he heard her teeth grind and the veins in her forehead twitch, but she continues, "Airen wants to make Shampoo too too happy."

Agreeing again, Ranma answered, "Sure do, and the best way to make you happy is to help you get over me and on with your life."

She was upset again, with the words he heard mumbled under her breathe being 'blunt', 'bag', and 'hammers'. She took on a determined face and then began to unveil her think.

"Airen is in love with Shampoo. Airen loves Shampoo, like man loves woman, like husband loves wife. Airen thinks Shampoo is most beautiful, most sexy, most cute, most desirable, most irresistible woman ever. Airen loves, honours, and is devoted to Shampoo. Airen knows he's married to Shampoo, wants ceremony to show everyone they married and he loves Shampoo, and to spend life with Shampoo making a family with Shampoo! Ranma and Shampoo in love forever!"

Ranma was stunned for about a full minute as her words entered his head, thier direct and blunt meaning sinking into his head. Mixing into his feelings, thoughts and thinking. He realized that it was all true! He was in love with the greatest girl in the world, his Airen (which also meant wife or spouse) Shachan! The woman he was married to. He had thought it was dumb luck on how he defeated Shampoo as a male which is how he got married to her. But maybe he had did it on purpose, subconciously causing all of the accidents which cause her to get knocked out, knowing she was the one for him.

Acting on his true feelings he rushed to Shampoo to pick her up into a glomp as he kissed her passionately, pausing only to say, "Wo Ai Shampoo!"