The Pursuit of Love

Actually as I haven’t read the manga, Scorpaniac, in episode 31 his eyes are green. I think he’s meant to look sexier then usual in 31 and 32; then again they flip his eye colour around all the time in the series. However I like green eyes, so that’s the colour I choose. Btw Mousse’s constant whining irritates me, but so does Ranma’s bragging and Akane constant pervert references.

Sorry SithKnight_Galen is right, I always spell Akari wrong. Duh

Btw, I have one more chapter planned for this puppy.

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Ukyou could only stare at Mousse while he regarded her warily. She lazily stroked her fingers through his soft hair and wondered how Shampoo could still reject him after he’d made love to her. ‘Sex with him was so amazing’ she thought, feeling drunk on love. She did love him; she realized and wondered for just how long. Perhaps that was the reason she never gave into boyfriends and her fiancé trying to pressure her into sex? Was she waiting for Mousse to return? His nervous expression made her feel like laughing, he loved her too, she was certain of that. ‘So much time wasted!’ she thought and did giggle. The sight of the blood on her thighs made her feel giddy and made her feel closer to him. She wondered if there would be blood on his penis and smiled when there was.

Mousse was wondering why Ukyou was looking at him so tenderly, yet kept laughing. I puzzled him and terrified him at the same time, in case she’d accuse him of taking advantage of her in her intoxicated state. He took her hand “Ukyou I will marry you if you want” he said formally.

Ukyou smiled at the sheer lunacy of his proposal. They were both naked and bloody, yet the way he asked her was as if they were in a formal dining room and he’d first obtained permission from her father. So she cracked up again. Then leaned forward and kissed him.

“Of course I want to marry you, but when you’re ready. You look like a deer caught in the headlights” she said. “Mousse, lets just take it slow. You need to time to get over Shampoo” she said.

“But it was your first time and I took that from you. It should have been with someone you loved at least” he protested.

“It was” she said.

“B-but” he protested.

“Mousse, I don’t know how long I’ve loved you, but I do. It was probably soon after we became friends. I had a crush on you too, had you even given me the tiniest bit of encouragement, this would have happened a long time ago” she promised him.

He looked at her nervously, but said “I’m glad it didn’t; all we would have been was substitutes for other people. Like I was in my marriage” he pointed out.

“Do you actually believe that? Doesn’t this feel real you? It does to me. I want you and only you and I can’t see it being different back then. I believe that we would have made love and would still be together today. Can you say that you don’t love me?” she asked.

He thought about it “I don’t know. When I was with you, barely even thought about Shampoo and I wanted you and only you. Perhaps all I ever had for her was a stupid infatuation?” he ventured, expecting her to be disappointed.

“I’m willing to wait; I only ask that you be whatever you can to me. You don’t even have to commit to me” she promised him.

He looked at her “I can’t just have causal sex with you and not want more. It just isn’t in my nature. But you’re missing the big picture, we just had unprotected sex and there could be consequences that we aren’t prepared for” he pointed out.

Ukyou frowned and said innocently “I hear that you can’t get pregnant your first time”

“Ukyou that isn’t true....” he protested, she silenced him with a kiss.

“I’ve been on the pill for months; Akane dragged me to her gynecologist soon after you moved, in just in case” she informed him.

He blushed “the gang knew about our mutual desires before we did?” he inquired.

“Apparently they’ve been placing bets on when we were going to make love, I believe Ranma won. Mousse why didn’t we do this before?” she asked.

“There are things that I haven’t told you about my leaving the village” he admitted. “I was afraid to give someone that much power over me again”

“Tell me” she said softly.

Her anger flared to find out how he’d been treated as a widower. “Those assholes!” she cried in outraged. “I’m going to china and kicking some Amazon butt, starting with Ranma look-alike” she cried and grabbed her spatula. Now it was Mousse’s turn to laugh to see her about to walk in the direction of China, holding her spatula and stark naked.

“Before you go to avenge my honour, you might want to put some clothes on” he observed and hugged her tenderly against him. She looked down at herself and laughed.

“Sorry, I get upset when I think about how those idiots treated you” she said.

“You mean Cologne and Shampoo? They weren’t so bad” he replied.

“They insulted you and cuffed you on the head almost every day. How is that not so bad?” she cried.

“I guess that I was used to being treated that way as an Amazon male” he explained.

“Who could get used to that? Had you told me at any point that you wanted to leave the Nekohanten, I would have given you a job and you could have stayed with me. You knew that right?” she said.

“I knew, but being with Shampoo was where I felt the need to be at the time. Besides, I was afraid to be alone with you with my developing feelings for you and all. I felt like such a hypocrite while I was telling you to wait for marriage and wanting to make love to you at the same time” he said.

“If we’d made love, would you still have left with them?” she asked.

He nodded “they were still the leaders of my tribe and as result, of me. If we had gotten involved, I would have still gone with them for political reasons if nothing else. I could have sworn to you to be faithful but had Shampoo decided that I was to marry her, I would have had to” he explained.

“And now that she’s dead?” she asked.

“I chose exile for myself, I have no connection to there, but my family name and familial ties of course” he explained.

Then she asked the question that had been bothering her the most “then why did it take you so long to come back?” she asked in a small voice.

He put his hand under her chin and saw the hurt in her eyes “I needed to get away from anything or anyone I’d ever known for a while. In one day my dreams were shattered and I didn’t even know who I was anymore. I mean, all I ever wanted was someone to love and a family; hardly huge dreams. My marriage was failing, but at least I finally got what I wanted” he said. “You wouldn’t have wanted me here; I was an emotional wreck and an even more pathetic shell of what I was. All it would have accomplished was you having to piece me back together, that’s not fair to ask of anyone” he explained.

“I wouldn’t have cared, I just wanted you back. How did causal sex with strangers help?” she asked.

“I haven’t made love with anyone since Shampoo. You’re the first person” he told her.

“I’m glad’ she said hugging him.

“Its better that we happened now, I’m a better person” he said.

“You weren’t so bad back then” she said.

“I was a pathetic loser who everyone made fun of and I don’t blame them” he said somewhat bitterly.

She went and got a photo, he almost laughed out loud when he saw it. He was smiling bashfully with his face red, as Ukyou had just kissed him on the cheek before the camera snapped. She reached out, undid his ponytail and then led him over to a mirror. “Look at yourself; you’ve barely changed a bit. Put on the white robe, the glasses and you would still look the same. You were gorgeous back then and you’re gorgeous now. You just had body image problems and self esteem issues and were surrounded by self-serving brats; us. Everyone has matured for the better since then and that includes you. Shampoo was a strange girl, but nice enough. Actually her going back to your village was the thing that allowed Ranma to marry Akane. He’d been afraid to tell her in case she tried to harm her” she explained.

“So you would have wanted to date me back then?” he asked shyly.

“Damn right Sugar, provided you’d stopped trying to get into Shampoo’s panties” she said crudely and laughed when he blushed. “Come on, let’s go to bed” she suggested, realizing that they’d been having this entire discussion while naked. He agreed and they got cleaned up. When he went to go into his room she caught his hand. “No you don’t, you’re sleeping with me from now on. We’ll find something to do with the spare room later” she said suggestively and they went to sleep curled up like puppies.

Mousse was confused when he woke up, he was nestled against a soft warm body; Shampoo had hated snuggly sleeping. He opened his eyes, expecting to see purple hair but it was almost as dark as his own. He stared into Ukyou’s sleeping face as he held her; she looked so cute. Then he became aware of her long legs, full breasts, slim waist and butt that you could bounce quarters off of and he got as hard as a rock.

Ukyou woke and felt something pressing against her butt “well, looks like you’re having fun this morning. Are you getting started without me?” she joked.

“We can wait for another day, you’re probably too sore” Mousse volunteered.

With one limber move she straddled him, he moaned as he slipped inside her. She quirked her brow at him “we’ve waited far too long as it is, besides I’ve heard sex is good for a hangover and that cowgirl position is supposed to be fun” she said and proved to him that it definitely was.

After a day spent talking about their hidden feelings for each other and deliciously sexually experimenting, they met Ranma and Akane for dinner at a restaurant. They were late and apologized profusely. Throughout dinner both Ranma and Akane noticed the growing intimacy between them and how relaxed they were about it.

“I would love to look at the desserts” Ukyou said.

“I’ll go with you” Mousse volunteered. Ranma and Akane watched as he possessively placed his hand on the small of her back while they walked to the display.

“Finally” Ranma said “I thought we were going to have to seal them in a room together naked and tell them to have fun”

“I doubt that they would have gone along with that. Good thing that we kept those bottles of champagne that Shampoo laced with an aphrodisiac” Akane said.

“Yeah, kind of funny we used them to help her husband” Ranma said.

“Well it helped us when we accidently drank the first bottle” Akane said laughing at the memory. “Good thing there was no one home that night.” Akane looked at the happy couple gesturing to types of desserts “did we do the right thing, are they going to be okay?” she questioned. “I kind of feel bad experimenting on our friends”

Ranma looked over at them “they’re going to be fine. They just needed a nudge. Besides, the effects of the aphrodisiac are only temporary; it certainly should have worn off by now. This is them as they’re meant to be. Mousse was in love alright, just with the wrong girl” Ranma mused.