<snip comments from Gary>

And now, the moment I've been waiting for.

"CAT!"

I do not have to see inside to know what happens.  
Aside from Ranma himself - herself, now - there 
is only one object in the room that can be a target 
for Ranma's cat-fist.

*CRUNCH*

Correction.  Could have been.

No. No. No.

First of all, being trapped in a room with one cat isn't 
enough to trigger the cat-fist. (Remember that 
Gosunkugi needed a whole room full of them, plus 
a tiger.) If Shampoo is smart enough to stay out of his
face (which she is), this shouldn't have happened.

Secondly, Ranma isn't Nastassia Kinski. He doesn't 
have to kill when he's a cat. What's more, he retains 
his basic attitudes towards people, so he would've 
been at worst indifferent towards Shampoo. If he did 
feel the need to sharpen his claws, the wall would've 
done just fine.

I agree totally with this assessment of the scene.  Too bad I didn't 

pick

it up when I commented on it as I was C&Cing the fic, though.  Anyway, 

an

interesting way of making Ranma-killing-Shampoo feasible is having
Kodachi make Shampoo seem like a threat.  How?  Well, the electrical
short gave me an idea.  What if Kodachi were to somehow send electrical
shocks into Ranma-neko, antagonizing him to a point where he's looking
around to attack something.  Or I dunno, play on his lack of 

intelligence

in his cat form.  Something like that.  Ja.

   There is one other possibility.  Who says it was Ranma at all?  
Kodachi's mansion is littered with deathtraps.  As prepped as this whole 
scenario was, it would be easy for her to arrange for Shampoo's death in 
the darkened room, to be followed by making Ranma believe it was all his 
fault.  The *CRUNCH* would have been the noise of the trap.

   Likewise, some drugs added to Ranma's bed could have left him in a 
hightened state of paranoia, which could, in turn, have lowered his 
resistance to the Neko-ken.
 
--Freemage

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