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"Spoken"

'Though'

Author's foreword:

Just so you, the reader, will know. This is a Neko-Ranma story but it is not, I REPEAT, it is not one of those Neko-Ranma fixes everything and humps Akane like a crazed duracell bunny or somesuch stories.

Hello Kitty!

Prologue

Neko-Ranma was busy preening herself whilst balancing easily on top of an electricity pole. The 'annoying cat human' had cornered the male half of her 'human-me' with a demand that he leave his mate for her and had upended a pail of water on the two of them when he had refused. The 'annoying cat human' called… Shampoo had been rewarded with a powerful slap that sent her careening towards the horizon. The preening stopped suddenly as Neko-Ranma let out a curious yowl, never before had she or even he been able to assign names to those she interacted with.

The boy, turned girl, turned cat tilted her head in curiosity as her primitive cognitive functions assimilated a slow but steady trickle of information that was stored somewhere in the memory of Neko-Ranma's 'human-me' or as he was known, the cat noted, Saotome Ranma. The memories were incomplete, she noted, and only reached back a few months to a time when the 'human-me' was fighting a large birdlike man-creature that was designated as Saffron.

A fierce growl escaped the cat's lips as her claws dragged deep grooves into the concrete pillar she was perched on. Noticing a curious passerby the redhead hissed at her and bounded off to a more private place in which to sort out this jumble of garbled up memory.

It took only a short while before Ranma was lounging lazily on a large tree branch near the place that her newly acquired memory tagged as 'School'. Now, at her leisure, the neko began shifting through the memories from the earliest to the latest. A piteous yowl escaped the red headed form as she watched 'mate' or Akane shrunk into a small doll, followed by almost every noise, representing every emotion a cat could produce as Neko-Ranma dug through the entire pile of memories.

In the end the tree was nearly torn in half with Ranma pacing on the branch on all fours and in an obviously agitated mindset. The memories had been garbled, with lots that didn't quite make sense to the cat. The main among the things she didn't quite understand was why she and 'mate' hadn't started a litter yet, the attraction certainly was there and she was quite certain that she had established that she was the most suitable as a father… even if she was missing the right equipment at times.

Then again there was the fact that 'mate' and 'human-me' were never left alone. Either it was one of the would-be competitors, their own fathers who were encroaching on their territory, the 'sly one' or something odd, like that 'bird-man'.

A few more agitated paces and then the poor tree received several new slashes that were accompanied by a determined growl as Neko-Ranma decided then and there that she would remove these obstacles… forcibly if necessary.

It was just then that a voice called out interrupting her pacing…