Ukyo Kuonji (Odd Outcome)

==Appearance== 
==Personality==
==History==
===Part One===
Ranma along with Genma, Ryoga, and Mousse were going off on another attempt at a cure for their curse. So Ukyo went to the dojo to say good bye before he left, this naturally led to an argument with Shampoo who had come to do the same thing. The two were so engrossed in there argument that they didn’t even notice everyone else leaving. Given that this was their umpteenth time Akane didn’t care much and was more annoyed at the fact that everyone making such a big deal about it. 
This caused Shampoo to challenge Akane for the right to Ranma. When she refused Shampoo called her a coward. Akane managed to control her anger and not be goaded. Ukyo decided to step in to deescalate things causing Shampoo to smile smugly and leave. After Akane Akane calmed down Ukyo took her to her restaurant to cook her an okonomiyakis and tell her, her plan to deal with Shampoo. She needed to come up with a challenge so ludicrous that Shampoo would have no choice but to back down. What that challenge was she didn’t know so it was up to Akane to decide. 
A few days later the fact that Akane had defeated Shampoo had spread and it wasn’t long before Akane showed up to the restaurant to brag. After polishing off her last few orders Ukyo rushed over to grill me for information. She was shocked to hear that Akane had in fact beat Shampoo not just got her to back down. However when she pressed for infor Akane paused before telling her that it was a secret. Happy that Shampoo had been taken down a peg, Ukyo let Akane keep her secret. 
===Part Two===
When rumors started spreading around school about Akane and Shampoo’s relationship Ukyo was quick to realize that they were real. She lured Shampoo to her friends house and offered her place up for her and Akane to meet. Shampoo called Ukyo out for trying to get her and Akane out of the way. Ukyo in turn called Shampoo out for trying to keep both of them, fully admitting that is what she was doing. That deflated Shampoo rather quickly. Ukyo went on to explain how this was in both there best interest she wanted Ranma, and that’s a lot easier with Shampoo and Akane out of the picture. She had already talked to Akane about this, who seemed agreeable. Shampoo was irritated by the fact that Ukyo had an advantage over her. However, while it was an appealing offer, it didn’t save solve anything. She told Ukyo about how Cologne was keeping a close eye on her. After a while Ukyo told Shampoo to give her some time to think of something. The best answer Shampoo could think of was that when Ukyo solves the problem they’d talk. 
The next day when Shampoo went to the school to ask Ranma out she pulled her and Akane aside to one of the gym’s equipment rooms. She came up with the idea of inviting Shampoo to a weekly poker game she had set up. This would give Akane and Shampoo cover. Since Ranma was invited as well they would just be there to try to get together with Ranma. Akane also felt that she could get some people around the school to come. When Shampoo asked about Ranma Akane replied that while he was being a bit annoying, she thought they could get him to go along with it, not really caring how he felt in the matter.
Shampoo arrived at Ucchan’s and the game was already in progress. Someone appeared to have gotten one of Ranma’s male friends to join in to make it that much more believable. For his sake, she and Ukyo got into a fight over my crashing a private party, until Ranma supposedly settled that matter by asking Ukyo to let her stay. They played for most the night. Ranma’s friend finally went broke... well rather he lost all his chips since no money was actually involved, and he left for home. By that time they were all fairly involved in the game so they continued on. Apparently Ranma had been working on his poker face, or maybe he was just distracted by what this was really about. In the end though he got eliminated as well. He watched the girls play for a time, but then dosed off on a sleeping bag Ukyo had provided.
It was around 5am when Akane got eliminated, leaving it between Shampoo and Ukyo, but we decided to end it there. Shampoo would have gone on actually. It was fun. Besides, she was winning, but she hadn’t come here for that. So, Ukyo showed her and Akane to the room and left them alone as promised. She woke them up the next morning with a knock on the door. 
===Part Three=== 
After Ukyo learned About Akane’s kidnapping and that Mousse was leaving she decided to catch him to get some answers, but not before thoroughly laying into him for what he did. Fortunately Mousse took his berating well, and after she calmed down enough to get something productive done. The two moved the conversation to her restaurant. The first thing Ukyo asked him was if he was serious about leaving, when he told her that he was she asked him Amazonian law. 
Mousse was suspicious he didn’t like the idea of Ukyo messing with Shampoo’s love life, and told her to leave her and Akane alone. Ukyo countered that she was trying to work things out so everyone’s happy. She wasn’t even planning on trying to force the issue just give the two some encouragement. Mousse was still skeptical so she pressed harder telling him to stop thinking out of jealousy. Mousse caved after that so she asked him about Shampoo’s situation and options as she wasn’t being very forthcoming.
Mousse told Ukyo that Shampoo was on probation. Even though Ranma was really a boy she still failed to follow through with her perceived duty. Ukyo was shocked to learn that Shampoo would have been executed if not for Cologne’s intervention. She would have thought he was joking if it wasn’t for the dead serious look on his face. It took her almost a minute to fully absorb that before letting Mousse continue. Shampoo had to marry Ranma or a superior male or she’s looking at getting full punishment, probably worse. Luckily the Amazons didn’t really care about same sex relationships other then having some dislike the fact that Shampoo is involved with an untested outsider woman. Akane could prove herself by defeating a warrior of her age. A number of plans were already in the works in Ukyo’s mind as she asked about staying outside the village. 
Mousse told her that amazons wouldn’t go after Shampoo the disgrace would just end up falling on her family. That wasn’t an option however as Mousse knew that Shampoo would rather take her punishment rather than have her family take it for her. If she obeys the law she could do what she pleases and would only need to come back to take over her family’s position on the council. Before he left Ukyo asked Mousse how he found out about Akane and Shampoo causing her no small measure of surprise when he told her that Tsubasa told him.
Ukyo had given him a job in the hopes that it would keep him in her sights, so was furious that he was still sneaking around her place. Needless to say, shortly after Mousse headed off Ukyo had a nice chat with the little twerp. Ukyo thought over her options for the next several days. She decided that the best course of action was to get some guy to beat Ranma and take his position in the marriage. That way Akane and Shampoo could do what they wanted from that point. Of course, that meant getting a guy they could like. Ryoga looked like the best option, he to get some guy to beat Ranma and take his position in the marriage. That way Akane and Shampoo could do what they wanted from that point. Of course, that meant getting a guy they could like. All she needed to do was get Shampoo and Ranma to agree. 
Of course, that dealt with the Amazon situation. Akane’s situation with that arranged marriage was another matter. She didn’t care about what Genma thought as she was just as much Ranma’s fiancée as Akane, so it came inevitably down to convincing Soun to accept another husband for Akane. Needless to say, it did not go smoothly. Soun told Ukyo that the matter has been decided. Ranma would marry Akane and together they would carry on the Tendo training hall. Ranma refused to lose to Ryoga or let him marry Akane, and Akane told her to marry Ryoga if she thought he was so good. When an upset Ukyo said that Ranma was her fiancé, not Shampoo’s. She countered that Ranma was her husband.
After two weeks of futile effort, and no sign of Ryoga, Ukyo was beginning to lose hope. Not about Ranma and her getting married though as she told herself that as soon as he was clear of his obligations he would come around. It was the end of the school week, and the night of the weekly "poker" game that Nabiki came in the restaurant’s door, wearing a poker face that left Ukyo wondering what she was up to. She told Nabiki to come out with it and tell her what she wanted. Nabiki did not respond right away, instead taking Ukyo’s question as an invitation to sit down at the grill, the poker face still locked firmly in place. She knew about Ukyo trying to sell the idea of a marriage between Ryoga and Shampoo as a solution to the whole mess she and Akane have found themselves in so was there as a sympathetic ear, and to give a suggestion or two of her own.
Ukyo asked how much it would cost her Nabiki took a moment to think about that, then looked down at the counter top. Before deciding that it was best she get nothing. She wasn’t feeling generous she just knew what she was about t say wouldn’t go over well. Having never seen Nabiki this serious got Ukyo’s full attention. She told Ukyo that no one is going to accept this solution of hers. Soun has his mind made up about the marriage between Akane and Ranma. Shampoo has no reason to marry Ryoga, especially now. And, Ranma will never allow it. Her only prayer is that Akane likes the idea, but Nabiki doubted it. Ryoga is just a friend to her, and nothing more. Ukyo concluding that Nabiki was trying to make it easier for Akane to get Ranma. So asked her asked her why she was there. It turns out that she had talked to Mousse as well and was also tired of seeing Akane mope around. 
The way Nabiki saw it things have turned into a nice volatile powder keg just waiting for the right reason to blow, and she would rather not be near that explosion. So the last thing she wants is Ukyo messing in things. She then called Ukyo out for missing the obvious. Ukyo could join the group marriage. For a moment Ukyo thought Nabiki was joking around, but there was no smile on her face. Realizing that she was serious Ukyo called her nuts. Nabiki gave Ukyo practically the same argument she gave Shampoo about being greedy wanting both Akane and Ranma. Ukyo muttered to herself that it wasn’t the same, but Nabiki thought she was talking to her and told her that she may have to take it if she wanted anything. Like it or not Akane and Shampoo both love Ranma and aren’t likely to accept anyone in his place for sometime, if ever. 
This was about the only way to safely solve everyone’s troubles. Shampoo will have met her legal obligations, plus Ukyo, Akane and Ranma will have all met their family obligations. As she left Nabiki told Ukyo to give it some consideration. She then told Ukyo that she might even want to consider the benefits of being married to two other women. She then made a quick get away before Ukyo registered what she just said. What Nabiki said prayed on Ukyo’s mind that night. Didn’t help that she ran out of drinks and everyone ended up using some sake she had lying around. This caused them to switch over to strip poker. Past the point when Ukyo literally lost her shirt to Shampoo it’s a blank. She woke up with the most awful headache, and a really awkward taste in her mouth. She found Shampoo in most of her clothes and some of Ranma’s, Akane in a similar state of undress as her, and Ranma as a girl wearing bits of everyone’s stuff. After that incident Ukyo banned alcohol from my place.
A couple of weeks passed after that. Ukyo filed Nabiki’s suggestion and worked on my own plan. Progress was minimal. As Nabiki had said, no one was going along with the idea. It was right when her last hopes of making this plan work were dwindling that Ryoga finally showed up, and those last hopes were blown away. She found him outside the Tendo dojo looking directly at the gate to the Tendo home, before turning to leave. This took Ukyo by surprise as she didn’t think he was dense enough to miss a sign if it’s right in front of him. Fortunately she chased him down before he made much progress.
When she caught up to him Ryoga and asked him where he’d been. He looked back at her with look of real uncertainty and said he’d been trying to get away. Ukyo figured he had heard about Akane and Shampoo. In response Ryoga turned his eyes to the ground, and looked more depressed than was usual for even him. That lasted only a second before realize that Ukyo just said. Ukyo wondered how he found out if he hadn’t heard the rumors, but quickly dismissed it not really caring. Telling Ryoga that she might have a way to cheer him up. Ukyo led Ryoga back to her place, ready to lay hermy plan on him. 
Ryoga didn’t say a thing on the way. In fact, he looked almost as if he was looking for a way to escape. Once they got to her place she got down to business. She told Ryoga that the best way to deal with Shampoo’s situation is for him to defeat Ranma. When he protested that he didn’t want to marry Shampoo she told him that it was just for show. The marriage to Shampoo would just be an official thing. Shampoo and Akane are still going together so in an important way he’s also be married to Akane. Ryoga looked totally confused, or maybe it was just shock that Ukyo would suggest such a thing. He seemed to be considering it for a second then suddenly turned away from me shaking his head. He told Ukyo that Akane would find out if he did that.
Thinking that Ryoga meant that he loved Akane Ukyo was confused at his gutlessness considering that was the point. Ryoga didn’t answer me for nearly a minute, then without explanation headed into the kitchen. For a moment Ukyo thought he was trying to run off and choose the wrong way to go, but when she raced after him, he had stopped and was pouring himself a glass of water. She watched this in even more confusion until he finally turned back to her, glass in hand and what he was afraid Akane would find out before splashing himself with the water. 
Ukyo realized that Ryoga had a, Jusenkyo curse and while certainly surprised he had one, she didn’t see the big deal. Of course, that was before she saw what he changed into. She couldn’t believe it at first, but then she almost wanted to hit herself for not realizing it sooner. Ryoga changed back while Ukyo was stunned with this revelation. Screaming at Ryoga that he was an idiot Ukyo started pacing asking why he didn’t tell her earlier. He told her that he didn’t want to risk her telling Akane, but since Shampoo’s knows she’s sure to tell her. In fact Ryoga was surprised that she hadn’t already. At this point Ukyo held her head and screamed at the top of her lungs. That wasn’t enough though; furious at wasting the better part of a month trying to get this plan to work so she turned on Ryoga and demanded to know what he was thinking.
Ryoga stuttered about how nice Akane was to his pig form, which no one ever was until then, before trailing off and hanging his head. Ukyo repeated this just to make sure she heard right, and when Ryoga nodded she called him out for sleeping with her without her knowing about it too, not to mention the view he got every time she changed. Ryoga protested that it wasn’t like that, but Ukyo didn’t believe him and told him that was what Akane would believe as well. Ryoga told Ukyo that he never peeped on Akane, reminding her about his shyness. He started trailing off again when they were interrupted by the arrival of Ranma who called Ryoga full of it. 
Both Ukyo and Ryoga spun around to see Ranma standing in the doorway. Ryoga immediately yelled as a battle cry and assaulted him. Ranma fell back, dodging into the main dinning room, keeping Ryoga out of range. He repeated Ukyo’s question about what Ryoga was doing sleeping in Akane’s bed every chance he could get. Ryoga refused to answer, instead concentrating on getting his hands on Ranma. Ukyo was surprised that Ranma knew as well. As the fight went on Ranma explained the promise he made to Ryoga not to tell anybody and he took advantage of it. Ryoga abandoning his hand to hand attacks in favor of using his chi attack exclaimed, that he did not and that it was all Ranma’s fault. 
Ryoga let loose his attack, which Ranma canceled out with one of his own. He then proceeded to blame Akane as she was the one who took him with her. Ranma wasn’t buying it as Ryoga was the one who went along with it. At this point Ukyo had declared enough was enough and leveled Ryoga with a blow from her spatula. His short twenty second fight had already destroyed several of her tables. She let her spatula fall to the floor, as the frustration over everything became just too much to bear. She asked Ranma what was going to happen now, but he didn’t have any answers, he just picked up Ryoga and propped him up in one of the booths. 
Calmed down Ranma took pity on Ryoga stating that he just had no sense when it comes to Akane. It’s like his brain goes on a holiday whenever she’s involved. Ukyo wasn’t buying that however and again pointed out that Akane wasn’t going to accept that reasoning. Ranma started laughing and when she asked him why he revealed how he found out about Akane and Shampoo. A disgusted Ukyo nearly smashed Ryoga again, but Ranma was quick to tell her that he only saw them kissing. Ukyo asked Ranma how he could take this so casually. Ranma began to respond with an usual amount of force, but Ryoga groaned and began to wake up. Ryoga growled and got back to his feet to confront Ranma saying that his indecision and shoddy treatment of Akane and Shampoo drove them to each other.
This angered Ranma and Ukyo was quick to jump in saying that Ryoga was no one to give criticism. This caused most of Ryoga’s anger to drain away and be replaced with depression. Ukyo had a good mind to tell Akane herself. This caused Ryoga to be instantly at her feet in a begging posture pleading with her not to. She reminded Ryoga about Shampoo even telling him that she was probably waiting for you to show up to tell Akane. In response to that Ryoga let out a wail and began batting his head against the floor while constantly repeating, "I’m doomed!" Ukyo wasn’t about to argue with him. In fact she was so disgusted with the idiot at the moment I didn’t even bother to stop his self-inflicted beating.
She bowed out of the conversation to sit down and fend off a threatening headache. Ranma seemed to take pity on Ryoga after a minute, or maybe just couldn’t take the wailing any longer, and pulled Ryoga back to his feet. He asked him where he had been all this time. Turns out that Ryoga went back to Jusenkyo to find a cure. However he ended up coming across Ling Ling and Lung Lung and told them what happened. hefore they could tell the elder council he knocked them out. Luckily he convinced them not to tell the village after he beat them. Ukyo wondered how, after everything that happened it took her awhile to remember the Amazon laws. Once she did remember though, she almost joined Ranma in laughing.
Ryoga took a moment more to just stare at the floor in sorrow, then glared at Ranma. He told him that he’d be back one day, and then they’d settle the score for good. He said in a deadly serious fashion that brought Ranma out of his laughter. However, within a second, Ryoga’s nervousness returned. He wasted no more time, and raced off before the twins could track him down. Ranma took another minute to get all the laughter out of his system, while Ukyo just shook my head. 
After Ranma calmed down, he was about to depart as well, but Ukyo pulled him to a stop. Ryoga was her best shot at fixing the situation, now it’s blown to hell. She didn’t know what to do now. Ranma didn’t have any answers either unfortunately. Ranma sighed his own frustration, and walked to the back of the restaurant. He told her that the poker night wasn’t fooling anyone Soun and Cologne just didn’t have a clue about what to do about it either, so they play the ignorant act. It’s like with everyone at school, once the facts sunk in, it didn’t seem so bad, so they let them slide. In the end most of them are just condoning it. to Ukyo it seemed like Ranma was talking like it was a crime, but that wasn’t what he meant. At the moment he looked like he had suddenly aged ten years. 
Ranma told Ukyo about how screwed up inside he felt not knowing half the time whether he was coming or going. Ukyo became confused as Ranma began rambling. However, him talking about his feelings had her concerned. She asked him if he meant how he was supposed to feel to Akane. He told her Akane, Shmapoo, even her. Ukyo demanded to know what he meant. After trying to put his thoughts together Ranma immediately put some distance, and three tables between them, then changed to a more serious look. He told Ukyo that he wanted to be straight with her. Before all this, he thought he and Akane would be the ones getting together. He then promptly ducked under the nearest table.
However there was no need. Ukyo was too stunned to act right off the bat. In fact, for a moment she thought, no, she wished she had heard him wrong. Unfortunately she knew she had heard him right. After awhile she just said that he was supposed to marry her. Ranma told her that the engagement stuff was his fathers fault. Ukyo took that to mean that he never cared about her and began yelling at him, she also retrieved her spatula and began stalking Ranma’s way. Ranma told her that wasn’t true as she stopped in front of him, just trying to control herself and keep from bashing him into the floor. She asked him what he meant. Ranma didn’t answer, instead paralyzed in thought. She realized he didn’t even know what he meant. That was the problem Ranma didn’t know what to feel towards anyone anymore. Standing back up to face Ukyo he told her that it was simple when it was another guy after Akane, but Shampoo, which he didn’t find out until after the fact. He doesn’t know what to do, what to feel.
Wildly shifting states of emotion would best describe Ukyo’s mental state at the time. She considered tossing Ranma out onto the street. Then she thought that would too easy and that she should beat him senseless first. In the next instant Ukyo doubted her conclusions and wanted for him to deny them. Then right after that she felt like throwing herself at his feet and just begging him to deny it. All she could think about was how much of a jerk Ranma was for building her hopes up. she had always set herself apart from Shampoo, but they shared at least one quality. They both were deceiving themselves into thinking Ranma loved them. The clues were there to say otherwise, but they didn’t want to see them, or at least she didn’t. 
Ukyo came back to herself after a couple minutes, and realized Ranma was holding her. However, as much as at other times she would love to have been held in his arms, at that moment, she was in no mood, so she pushed him away, and nearly hit him too. However, she just didn’t have it in me at the moment. For some reason Ukyo blurted out that he should just go and marry both of them then if he couldn’t make up his mind. When he asked her what she was talking about she told him about Nabiki’s plan. Either clueless, or just not caring about the hostility she was throwing his way, Ranma held Ukyo again. He realized that solved everything, releasing her Ranma began walking around in a tight circle and started thinking aloud before he once again knelt down in front of Ukyo, and looked her right in the eye. 
Nabiki wouldn’t tell Ukyo something like that unless it involved her. Ukyo dismissed it as a stupid idea, but Ranma saw it as perfect as it meant that everyone is satisfied. Ukyo couldn’t take it anymore at that point, so she got up, took Ranma by the collar and tossed him outside then promptly shut the door. She then proceeded to destroy her restaurant in rage. After calming down though she took into consideration. 
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