Dim Sum for Everyone

Prologue

  Shampoo continued to pour the spices and herbs
into the dish that she was preparing. Her great-grandmother
,God bless her soul, had always complemented her on
her ability to cook. She had a natural talent for it that
could only be found in a few people. And as she
realised her boyfriend did not have such a talent.
  It probably wasn't his fault, but he really didn't
know how to cook anything beyond instant ramen.
So, she had not wanted him to interfere with her
cooking and had asked him to go to the super market
and pick up some food for the dinner.
  Now, she was understanding how stupid an idea
that was. He would probably be gone for days and
would miss the entire meal which was not acceptable.
She had planned it out for weeks trying to find all of
her old 'friends' and have them over for dinner.
  It wasn't easy tracking them down, but she had done
it. She looked down at the dish she was making. It looked
perfect, but she had always learned that perfection is non-existent
from her great-grand mother, God bless her soul. 
  Since her attention was on the dish she was surprised to
hear someone say,"Now, where the hell am I?"
  Shampoo jumped around and said,"Ryouga! You almost
gave me a heart attack!"
  He blinked and said,"Shampoo, what are you doing in
the super market?"
  Shampoo groaned and said,"No, this is our house Ryouga. Did
you get what I asked for?"
  Ryouga laughed and put his hand behind his head. Shampoo 
knew what that meant and merely said,"Fine. I'll go to the 
super market myself."
  Ryouga sniffed the air and said,"That smells good. Say why 
did you send me out to the super market when you knew that
I would just get lost?"
  Shampoo went back to her cooking and said,"I don't know.
I just forgot about your directional problem."
  Ryouga said in a worried tone,"Is it that you don't want me around?"
  Shampoo turned around and looked at him oddly. 
  She said,"No, that's not it at all. I just forgot that you can't
find your way out of a paper bag."
  Ryouga said still not sure,"Are you certain? Because you could have
done it subconsciously."
  Shampoo replied in her most sarcastic voice,"Well, Ryouga I sent you
out of the house so that I could continue my torrid love affair with the
cabanna boy from the beach we went to last summer."
  He did not detect the sarcasm and said,"Damn those evil cabanna boys! I'll
tear out his eyes!"
  Shampoo said,"Ryouga."
  "Oh,  but if I kill him Shampoo will be angry with me and she'll never
forgive me!"
  Shampoo raised her voice a little as she said,"Ryouga."
  "But I cannot stand around as that bastard molests Shampoo!"
  "Ryouga."
  "Now, I know that I must kill that cabanna boy! If not for my own honor
at least for Shampoo's!"
  "Ryouga!"
  He looked at Shampoo and said,"Yes?"
  "I was joking about having an affair."
  He scratched his head and said,"Oh."
   She said,"So, now that you aren't going to kill anyone could you please
try and not get in my way?"
    He said,"Okay."
   Shampoo was cooking while Ryouga was sitting on the counter. 
    He was getting bored so he decided that idle chit-chat would help.
   "Ranma and Akane had a kid together?"
   Shampoo stopped what she was doing and said quietly,"Yes."
    Ryouga said,"Interesting."
   Shampoo said,"What? Do you want children too?"
  Ryouga laughed and said,"Me? I'm thirty-five. I would be so old
and senile that I would give the kid the keys to the car when he's only
twelve. I would make a horrible parent."
  Shampoo said,"I can't help, but agree."
  Ryouga said shocked,"That's a terrible thing to say!"
  She said,"What?"
  He said,"What you just said. That was pretty mean."
  She said,"Okay, you were the one who said that you would be a terrible
person. I was just agreeing with you."
   He said,"You aren't supposed to agree with me. You're supposed to
provide a counter-argument to what I just said. Let's start all over again."
  Shampoo said,"What?"
  "Let's start all over again. I would make a horrible parent and you would 
say...?"
  Shampoo rolled her eyes and said in a flat tone,"That's not true. You
would
make a wonderful parent."
  Ryouga nodded his head and said,"Thank you for being honest with me."
  Shampoo said,"So, what do you think they'll be like?"
  Ryouga shrugged his shoulders and said,"I don't know. For all I know
Ranma looks just like his father."
  Shampoo shuddered at the thought. She said,"Let's hope this thing comes
out alright. It wouldn't fit well to have it end like our last meeting."
  Now it was Ryouga's turn to shudder. He said,"Anything would be better
than that."
  Shampoo tapped the coutner lightly and Ryouga asked,"Why'd you do that?"
  "Knock on wood. I hope this won't turn out bad."


Until I find better things to write about . Ja ne.