Trivial Pursuits

Trivial Pursuits is written by Jim Robert Bader and was published online in ????.
==Description==
==Plot==
Shampoo is out delivering ramen orders to the district and thinks about how Ranma Saotome has been trapped in hospital in a full body cast for three days. Shampoo has enjoyed spending time with Ranma during visiting hours (as he can not escape her), although she had had to share with the rest of Ranma's would-be fiancées. All of this began with the Reverse Jewel Broach, but at least Ranma is due to released today. Shampoo then speeds past a police patrol car, going over the speed limit and they give chase. She then comes across a group of thugs picking on an old lady and decides to interfere. However is soon turns out in the course of the fight that these men are Oni from the Rival Relief Agency. Shampoo however manages to fight them off using her chi attacks. The old woman thanks Shampoo for her help and Shampoo recognises her as the ladle lady who keeps splashing Ranma. the ladle lady is something more than human, calling herself Kishijoten, and offers Shampoo a boon for her efforts to protect her. She gets Shampoo to realise that her behaviour has not been conducive to getting Ranma to like her or think of her as a spouse. Then "something" changes in the universe and the old lady gives Shampoo as sword called the Green Dragon Blade. While Shampoo returns home to the Nekohanten, four people eating a meal in a café feel the universe change and wonder which god is interfering.
Meanwhile in hospital, Ranma is visited by a strange nurse who has recall the events that put him in hospital, but his memories seem to be at odds with each other. Ranma now recalls Shampoo saving Akane's life and misunderstanding arising from it, leading to Akane being named Shampoo's "Oath Sister" and pair getting along nicely. This new arrangement means that Shampoo's Japanese has improved and she has exposed Ryoga Hibiki as P-chan, but that she has also helped mediate Ranma and Akane's disputes before they can turn into fights. Uykou doesn't cause as much trouble over the new arrangement given the two girls could block her from seeing Ranma and even helps them deflect Kodachi Kuno away from Ranma. Ranma drifts off to sleep thinking about his three fiancées' smiles. Once Ranma is asleep a god steps out of the shadows and addresss the nurse as sister, before the pair of them muse on how events will now play out after the changes.
==Notes==
==See Also==
==External Links==
*Trivial Pursuits at Jim Bader's Fanfics
==References==