The Pursuit of Love

Mu Tzu was surprised when Ukyou suggested going to China, she insisted he needed closure for that part of his life before he started his new one.

Mu Tzu POV

I was walking through China with my girlfriend and someday wife Ukyou, it was strange to have a companion while walking these familiar roads as I normally walked them alone most of my life. She is a silent, yet loving companion who seems to know that returning here is something I dread, my final days forever fixed in my mind. From the day that I can only term as my escape, my eyes finally opened to the cruelty of my place of birth and inequality among the sexes. I regarded myself as being somewhat reborn, rising from the ashes of what I was, like a phoenix to become a hybrid of what women expected of me coupled with my desire to become a more dominate version of myself. I would no longer crouch in the street begging for crumbs of affection.

My new companion in life swaggers beside me, the perfect combination of soft curves, a loving heart and the toughness that has always been associated with Amazon women. She once asked me if her cross dressing tendencies bothered me, I said no, our village is largely a rural community and both sexes wear similarly cut clothing so it was nothing to me. Shampoo had under gone an extreme transformation clothing-wise when we moved to Nerima in an effort to trap Ranma. It was still Chinese clothing, but more what a town girl would wear.

As we neared our destination, Ukyou became worried about me and wondered if her suggestion was bad. Personally I think that it’s time to lay my ghosts to rest and find out the real reason for my public snubbing. That and say goodbye to my unborn child.

Ukyou was loitering in the road when Mu Tzu rejoined her after changing “whitey’s back” she commented when she saw he was wearing his white robe and blue pants again.

“If I’m going to face them, then it will be how they remember me” he explained.

Ukyou moved closer to rub the silky material through her fingers “I kind of missed this thing” she said and surprised Mu Tzu by shoving him against the nearest trees and kissing him deeply.

“W-what are you doing?” he sputtered as she cupped the cheeks of his ass and started grinding herself against him suggestively. He stifled a groan when he started to get hard.

“I’ve always wanted to take this off you” she purred.

Mu Tzu blushed “here? I know that we haven’t passed anyone for miles, but this is a main and someone could see us” he said and pulled away somewhat reluctantly.

“Come on, you grew up around here. You must know some place we can go” she said, feeling particularly horny.

Mu Tzu laughed “yeah and I was such a stud back then” he pointed out. He tried to resist his rising feeling of lust, until she reached down and gave him a squeeze.

“I didn’t know you went commando under there, I should have checked a long time ago” Ukyou said innocently.

“There’s a hot spring over here” Mu Tzu replied, tugging the giggling girl in the direction. Frantic fingers tugged at his clothes until they seemed to disappear like magic, while his own hands stripped her clothes from her. He tugged a blanket from his pack and went to lay her down, but Ukyou had other ideas. She pushed him back instead, appreciating the pale slenderness of his body against the darkness of the blankness. With a mischievous smile, before he could work out her intention she straddled his face, he pussy inches above his mouth. Mousse’s eyes twinkled at her aggressive move and then started teasing her outer lips and kept darting his tongue between then to lightly tease her clit until she was almost growling with frustration. She sat down more forcefully, so that her button was almost grinding against his mouth while her juices flowed directly onto his upturned face. Having enough of teasing her, he sucked her clit right into his mouth and sucked on it hard and lashed it with his tongue. Ukyou stiffened and the bedewed his tongue with her wild honey, he cleaned up every drop and pulled her now somewhat limp body lower down his to where she could satisfy them both.

Ukyou gasped as he stabbed himself inside her, he was so thick that it always hurt just a little and this only added to her pleasure. Mu Tzu loved his sex gentle and she a little rough and somewhere in the middle they had found a perfect combination. Each of his strokes was gentle, yet had just enough force to drive himself so deep inside her that he was practically knocking at the door to her cervix, as if demanding entrance. She wanted to shriek her pleasure to the world it was so intense, instead she muffled her mouth while she came with the force of the gale winds. They struggled for dominance as he tried to hold her hips to guide her until she began riding him like a bucking bronco. He won when he tumbled her over, he pinned her hands to the blanket over her head and used these for leverage as he pounded into her sweet, juicy pussy until they both came like a rocket as the same moment. He pulled out and lay beside her as both people panted out their mutual satisfaction.

“That was amazing” Ukyou said.

“Wo ai ni, Ukyou” Mu Tzu said.

Ukyou kissed him “wo ai ni, Mu Tzu” as answered. Mu Tzu had reclaimed his name by this point.

“Now please tell me that my hidden weapons master robe doesn’t have the same effect on you that your wearing lingerie does on me” he said candidly.

“I can’t tell you that” replied Ukyou with a grin, got redressed and they were on their way after some adjustments.

“Hello sir, miss. Welcome Jusenkyo. Wait don’t I know you sir? Ah the duck” the guide said happily.

“Not anymore, I guess that your brother was on duty that day” Mu Tzu retorted. “We need to find the spring of the drowned man” he explained.

“Ah does the lovely miss want to become man?” he asked happily.

Ukyou was kind of tempted, especially when Mu Tzu seemed to shudder at the idea. “No we just need to get some water” he said and took her hand before she suggested the idea.

Taking two water bottles and pulling on a rubber glove, he carefully filled them and put them in his pack to be taken back to Nerima. “This should take care of souvenirs for Ranma and Ryoga.” He said triumphantly. “Ready to go to the village?” he asked her.

“Sure I want to kick some Amazon butt” she said. “Lead on oh sexy one”

People whispered as Mu Tzu walked by them, he ignored them all, occasionally giving nods to those he somewhat liked. While Ukyou walked beside him burnishing her spatula and glaring a challenge at all who dared look at them. As she was a woman holding a giant spatula, most people did look at them. On their wedding day, Shampoo and Mu Tzu had been given Cologne’s old hut as the new leader. It was huge compared with other huts and it was towards this one he strode. He could hear people whispering his name and staring after them. When he reached it, he wasn’t surprised when Shampoo’s cousin, Soap emerged with her new husband, whom Mu Tzu only knew at ‘Ranma look alike’. Soap looked like Shampoo quite a bit, right down to her smirk, but her hair was more pink then purple.

“Well look whose back” she said.

“Hey is that pretty boy ‘Ranma look alike’? Come here pretty one, how would you like to eat spatula?” Ukyou asked advancing on him.

“I don’t think he understands you” Mu Tzu said to Ukyou in Japanese while the confused looking Chinese boy stared at her giant spatula. “You never could resist Shampoo’s toys” he said to Soap.

“I can resist the ones she didn’t want, like you” she replied.

“I take it that you married him?” Mu Tzu asked.

“He defeated me like it’s supposed to be, not got Shampoo to agree for political gain, like you did my cousin” Soap reprimanded. “Who’s the girl your with and what’s with the spatula?” she asked.

“This is my girlfriend Ukyou” Mu Tzu replied.

“You defeated her?” Soap asked, clearly not sure what a girlfriend was.

“More like the other way around” he said smiling fondly at the confused Ukyou. “I’ll explain later” he assured her.

“If you want citizenship for her, you have to marry her in order to make her an Amazon. In ordered to do that, she has to defeat you” she said smugly.

“Ukyou, she wants to know if you wish to marry me to become an Amazon” Mu Tzu said.

“Tell the little stuck up bitch to kiss my ass” she retorted, loathing the other girl on sight. She had Shampoo’s looks without any of her natural friendliness. Mu Tzu repeated exactly what she said word for word.

“She can’t say that to ME!” Soap cried.

“Actually, as she’s little more then a tourist, she can” Mu Tzu said sweetly.

“You tell her to watch herself” she threatened. “I’m leader after all” she reminded him.

“You only became the leader by default when Shampoo died. You’ve never liked me anymore then I liked you. Ukyou goes where she wishes, she has that right and you know it” he said calmly.

“Shampoo was weak, she wouldn’t have lasted as leader” she threatened.

“You won’t last; you’re nothing but a tyrant” Mu Tzu.

“Yes, but I’m still the leader. Looking to come back here?” she asked smugly.

“Not on your life, I’m through with this place and with people like you. I’m just passing through” he replied. “Come on Ukyou, we’re not going to find what we’re looking for from this ghoul” he said, Ukyou glared at Soap one more time and followed him. They soon became aware that ‘Ranma look-alike’ was following them.

“What do you want Jackass?” Ukyou cried whirling around.

“I want to talk to Mu Tzu” he replied, which sounded to Ukyou like ‘blah, blah, blah Mu Tzu”

“I think he wants to talk to you” she said unnecessarily. She sat down and pulled out a book while they chatted.

“My name is Henna. I wanted to say that I’m sorry. I wouldn’t have accepted her challenge if I knew she was pregnant, I don’t believe in breaking up a family” he said sincerely.

“Yet you seemed really broken up about it” Mu Tzu said sarcastically.

“I never meant to hurt you, I admire you, all Male Amazon’s do” he replied.

“Admire me! But you don’t even know me” Mu Tzu cried, alarmed at the idea.

“You never give up while all the rest of us stay in our places. You left here not once, but twice unaccompanied, you learned martial arts even when it was frowned on for a male to know so much, you have an education, you persistently challenged a member of the ruling clan and won her and you know how to live in the outside world. That makes you unique among us. All the rest of us marry, father children and look after our homes and families as we were taught to, while you strive for more” he said with awe in his voice.

Mu Tzu paused, he’d never thought himself unique until it was spelled out to him “I’m the way that I am because of my mother, she didn’t set limitations of any on f her children and treated us all equal, even me. Whatever I am, I can attribute to positive parenting and the help of friends” he said gazing, lovingly at Ukyou.

“She’s your new wife?” Henna asked.

“She will be someday; she’s my girlfriend for now” Mu Tzu explained.

“Girlfriend?” he asked confused.

“There’s no marriage by defeat where she’s from. It goes girlfriend, fiancée and wife” he explained.

“How strange” Henna said.

“I thought so too at first, now it seems like a much better system” Mu Tzu said.

“Listen, Shampoo did care about you but it was more like friendship. She felt bad about wanting out, but she felt that you weren’t compatible and that you had feelings for someone else. The night she died she was planning to renounce your vows, that’s why they came and got me” he said.

“There was someone else but I didn’t know my feelings at the time of our marriage. I was naive and thought we were meant to be together” Mu Tzu, oddly feeling glad to be speaking with the strangely nice guy. Then suddenly he realized that Shampoo really had loved Henna.

“Tell me, was she happy at the end. Did you love her?” Mu Tzu asked.

“Yes I did, she was the sweetest woman I’ve ever met” Henna said, he blinked away tears. Mu Tzu wasn’t prone to hugging strange men, but he hugged this one.

“I’m glad that you made her happy” Mu Tzu said. “I wish I could have” he told him.

“I married Soap because she reminded me of Shampoo, but they’re not even close” he said mournfully.

Mu Tzu pulled out a pad of paper and wrote out his cell phone number “what you think is so unique about me can happen to you; if you want to leave here call me. I’ll get you a job, a place to stay and help you get an education. As for girls: there are plenty of women in Japan who would kill for a nice domestic man like yourself” he assured him.

“But what about my wife?” he asked.

“I’m just giving you an option, you’re going to decide what you want for yourself” Mu Tzu said.

“I’ll think about it, thanks Mu Tzu” he said.

Mu Tzu reached into his pocket and drew out the wedding ring that he’d taken off the night he and Ukyou first made love. He’d been planning to give it to her cousin but had changed his mind. “She’d have wanted you to have this” he said giving it to Henna. “You wear it on the third finger of your left hand” he explained.

“She wore one of these too” he said looking at the gold band and slipping it on, it was a perfect fit.

“You can have it, I’ll only wear one again when she puts it on me” he said indicating to Ukyou.

“You love her?” Henna said.

“Yes I do, with all my heart” Mu Tzu said.

Henna winced “I have to go, I promised to mend Soap’s shoes this evening”

“Good luck to you” Mu Tzu said and went to rejoin Ukyou.

“What did pretty boy want?” she demanded.

“He was actually a nice guy who apologized for his role in all this” Mu Tzu explained.

“So you found your closure?” she asked.

“In a manner of speaking, I found the real substitute” he said. He held Ukyou’s hand as they walked. He could picture a little dark haired boy and a little purple hair girl frolicking in the bright clearing beside them, they were so innocent and just caring friends as only the truly young can be. He smiled at the imaginary youngsters and let all of his bitterness go. He forgave Shampoo and his heart felt lighter.

“You look happy” Ukyou observed.

“Of course I am, I’m with you” he said and softly sang a Chinese lullaby as they walked on that gorgeous day. Mu Tzu stopped before the Saruka tree that bordered his mother’s property.

“I hope you don’t think me morbid, but I just want to stop for a minute to honour my daughter’s memory” he said.

“Is that where you buried your baby? I thought you never knew the sex?” Ukyou said.

“I just get the feeling that it was a girl” he replied.

“Did you name her?” Ukyo asked.

Mu Tzu blushed and admitted the last part of the story “yes I named her Ukyou, I hope that’s not too weird” he said. He studied her, expecting her to laugh or something, but instead she brush a tear away.

She leaned down and spoke to the ground beneath the tree “Ukyou, I’m honoured that you were named after me and I’m sorry that I never got to meet you. You have a wonderful father and I promise that you’ll have plenty of brothers and sisters one day” she said.

It was so moving a speech that Mu Tzu brushed a tear away as well, the only sound was the rustling of the leaves as if a child were playing in the tree while the blossoms danced. Mu Tzu turned his eyes from his past to look to his future.

“Are you ready to meet your future mother in law and sisters in law?” he asked.

“Lead the way Sugar” she said. Ukyou stopped him, seemed to pluck something from his hair and showed him a leaf. “So you don’t look like you were rolling naked beside a hot spring” she explained.

He realized that this visible sign of their love making had been there throughout their journey through the village “how long have you known about that?” he asked suspiciously.

“The second you got dressed” she replied brightly. He glowered at her and took her to meet his family, this time she was the one humming the lullaby.

FIN