Keener wrote

<< No! NEVER quote, site, point to, hint at, suggest or dance around
 with paper hats and stuffed talking deadfowl about the cannon nature of
 Niaho My Concubine.  >>

NOT the first bit of grief i've drawn over this thing. All right, so it
ISN''T cannon. If you want to get technical, anything that isn't the manga
isn't cannon. {Maybe that's just me though} I included it in there because it
shows that at least SOME of the people involved in making Ranma think that
Ryoga and Ukyo belong together. I just wanted to show that you cold interpret
things a number of ways, and nothing is set in stone in this series, so
futurefics can't REALLY be regarded as alternate realities unless they
drastically change things {i.e people die, etc} 

                                    -Matthew Giglia, the Magnificient Mr.
Bean-