Nekoken Is Out Of The Bag!
Chapter 7 - 8
by Lord Archive
Author's pre-note:
Sorry, there is no lemon scenes in these two chapters. It still may be
considered lemon-scented as innuendos are sexual references can be found.
A couple scenes may be considered dark, but isn't really dark, just
serious.
This story takes place after Manga volume 38.
Legal babble: Ranma 1/2 and all characters in this story are copyrighted
by Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video, ect... and is used without consent. I am
only borrowing them. I will return them... eventually.
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Chapter 7 - Vengeance
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Wednesday - morning
Soun, Nabiki, and Nodoka sat in the dinning room. They were in an avid
discussion about wedding preparations. Nabiki tried to get them to tone
down some of the things they were planning, like cake for five hundred.
They all looked up and blinked as Ranma and Akane entered the room and
sat down.
Nabiki put on a pair of sunglasses and said, "I've heard of after-glow,
Akane. But that's ridiculous."
Akane was literally glowing with a chi aura of white, red, and pink mixed
together. She blushed, saying, "Sorry. I'm just so happy, I can't contain
myself." She hugged Ranma tightly.
"I hope you can contain yourself at school," Ranma said, blushing.
Akane sighed, "It's not going to be easy. I'll have to stay away from my
friends. As it is, I want to run through the streets, screaming this to the
world."
"Why don't you?" Nodoka asked.
Akane looked at her engagement ring. "We still have to work out some
problems concerning suitors. It'd be easier to talk to them if it doesn't
become public knowledge, and they deserve to hear it from us first."
"I see," Nodoka said.
"When do you want to be married?" Soun asked. "Sunday should be a
beautiful day."
"Um, first, let's deal with the others BEFORE planning the wedding date,"
Ranma answered.
"Why wait?" Soun asked.
"Daddy, please! Give us time to sort this out first," Akane demanded
fiercely. "Or do you want a repeat of the wedding fiasco?"
Soun was taken back by Akane's outburst. "No, you're right. There is no
need to rush it now, is there?" He smiled nervously. "Why don't we
discuss when to have the wedding Sunday?"
Akane nodded. "We should have a better handle on things by then."
Ranma shrugged.
"Ranma, do you know where my husband is?" Nodoka asked.
"Um, er, I got him a temporary job at the zoo," Ranma answered nervously.
"Oh. When will he be back?" Nodoka asked.
"When I pick him up after school?"
"Why would you have to pick him up?"
"Well, his job requires him to be a panda."
"What job is that?" Nodoka asked suspiciously.
"Well, I sorta rented him to the zoo."
Nodoka shook her head. <At least Genma was good for something.>
Akane grinned, barely able to contain her laughter. She liked Ranma's
revenge better than the thrashing she gave Genma.
"How could you do that to your father?" Soun demanded.
Ranma retorted, "How could he teach me Nekoken? I was only six and he
mentally scarred me for life! The old man deserves worse than a couple
days at the zoo!"
"Nekoken?" Nodoka asked.
Ranma sighed. He had to tell his Mother about it because of how easily
he'd been going into it. "The Nekoken, or Cat Fist, is an ultimate form of
martial arts. It is nearly unbeatable. The problem is it also comes with
an unnatural fear of cats. A kitten can scare me to death. Whenever I am
excessively scared, and a cat is present, I will mentally shut down and
behave as a cat would. Only how I feel about certain people will remain
the same."
"And Genma did that to you?"
"Yeah, he never bothered to turn the page in the training manual to see
it was banned."
Soun smiled. "You mean, because you love Akane, you also love her as a
cat? You've been in love with Akane since before the first time you went
into it!"
"Yes."
Soun thought for a moment, he knew Ranma had been in love with Akane for
some time and his feelings grew deeper as time passed. He then became
suspicious as he remembered some of the activities of the previous week.
"Now that you're lovers, could that translate into the Nekoken? Would you
try to have sex with Akane while in Nekoken?"
Ranma paled, failing to think of something to say.
Akane also paled. She decided it would be better if they knew the truth
as his cat persona still needed to be trained. "W-while in Nekoken now,
he will try to m-mate with me."
Nodoka's and Soun's mouth dropped to the floor.
"Has he... been successful?" Nodoka asked.
Ranma and Akane nodded.
"Was it painful?" Nodoka asked.
"The first time was, but the second time was rather nice," Akane
answered, blushing deeply.
"The first time was a week ago, wasn't it?" Soun asked.
Akane nodded.
"Was that your first time having sex?" Nodoka asked.
"Yes," Akane answered.
Ranma nodded, holding Akane closer to him.
Ranma and Akane were thankful when Kasumi arrived with breakfast. Both
ate quickly so they could leave. Neither wanted to continue the
conversation. There was one benefit, though, Akane was no longer glowing.
Nodoka informed Ranma she would join him when he released Genma.
Akane wished she could wear her ring, but kept in her pocket instead.
Wearing it at school would be like raising a neon sign saying, "I'm
really engaged to Ranma now."
When they arrived at school Kuno, of course, was waiting. Ranma didn't
stop to face him. Rather, Ranma ran over Kuno, dragging Akane along by
the hand.
"R-ko runs down Agent K again!" Hiroshi cheered.
"You watch too much anime," commented Daisuke.
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Nodoka waited outside the school gate for Ranma and Akane. She was
surprised to see a man wearing Samurai garb and carrying a bokken exit
the school. He looked as if he was waiting for somebody. He seemed
familiar, but she couldn't place where she had seen him. Nodoka smiled
when Ranma and Akane exited the building.
"Hold! You vile sorcerer Saotome, and relinquish the beauteous Tendo
Akane and the healthy pig-tailed-girl from your loathsome spell!" shouted
Kuno.
Ranma stopped his reply as he saw his Mom holding her katana at Kuno's
throat. "What gives you the right to claim such garbage?" Nodoka
demanded.
Kuno stood firm, but was also sweating. "I am the Blue Thunder of
Furinkan High, undefeated star of the Kendo world of martial arts, Kuno
Tatewaki, age eighteen. It is I who is the true love of Tendo Akane and
the pig-tailed-girl. And I demand he sets them free of his hideous spell."
Ranma and Akane shrugged, vaguely remembering him spout something about a
birthday.
"Ranma holds no spell over Akane. It is family honor and love that binds
both of them. And who is this 'pig-tailed-girl?'"
"A fiery creature with flaming red hair that sets my heart ablaze."
Nodoka looked at Ranma, seeing him trying to induce vomiting. "You truly
are a dense idiot. You shall leave both of them alone. If they have any
feelings for you, they'll go to see you. If not, you'll know they don't."
"But what of his spells that entrap them so?"
"My son doesn't knows of any love spells. You are interfering in matters
of honor. If you value your own, leave them alone. Don't make me show you
the true way to honor."
"And what would he know of honor?"
Nodoka pressed the blade lightly into Kuno's neck, drawing a sliver of
blood. "More than apparently you do." She sheathed her katana. "Come on
Ranma, Akane. We have to get my husband out of the zoo."
An audience had formed to watch the confrontation, only a couple people
raised an eyebrow at Nodoka's last statement. Nabiki took bets on from
two students Kuno would be convinced to stop his pursuit of Akane (fifty
to one odds), and another three bet that Kuno would get killed (twenty to
one odds).
Kuno remained frozen in place long after everyone left.
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A short distance from the school, Akane, Ranma and Nodoka walked towards
the zoo. Akane was starting to get nervous.
"Um, I... I've got to, um, go somewhere right now," Akane stammered
nervously.
"Where would that be?" Nodoka asked.
Akane blushed as she thought of her excuse, "A family planning clinic.
I'd like to get some... birth control pills."
Ranma blushed deep red.
"I understand. Don't want to be a mother in high school," Nodoka said.
Akane bit her lower lip as she nodded. "I'll see you later." Akane pulled
out a water gun from hammerspace and handed it to Nodoka. "Here, in case
trouble happens." She ran off quickly.
Akane stopped a couple blocks away and looked back. She couldn't see
either of them. She hoped they didn't follow her. Akane then walked
towards the Neko-Hanten. It was time to make Shampoo pay.
Akane peaked into the Neko-Hanten and did not see Shampoo. She was
probably on a delivery so Akane jumped to the top of a nearby building.
Akane put on her engagement ring and waited for her adversary.
With the sound of a bell ringing, which was coming closer, Akane prepared
her attack.
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Ranma and Nodoka continued their walk towards the zoo. Nodoka took the
chance to talk with Ranma alone. "Ranma," she began. "I'd like to ask you
something."
"Sure, Mom," Ranma
"Last week, did you rape, Akane?"
"Mom!" Ranma said, shocked at her directness.
"Well, did you?"
Ranma looked down as they continued to walk. He kicked a small rock. "Yes
and no. It was my body and my feelings for her which forced her into
having sex. But, it wasn't really me."
"What does Akane think about it?"
"Well, she's angry at Pop for teaching Nekoken to me, and at Shampoo for
triggering it that night. And, she's the one who feels it wasn't really
me that did it."
"What do you think?"
"I should have more control. I should never have gone into Nekoken from
that small of exposure to a c-cat. It was my fault she was raped because
I couldn't control myself."
"You said you only go into Nekoken from excessive fear and a cat is
present, so why did you go into Nekoken so easily."
Ranma sighed. "It's because I've chosen Akane. It meant I had to come up
with a solution with my fiancee problem. I'm afraid of losing their
friendship and afraid of hurting them. Also, Akane hadn't told me she
loves me at that point, so I was also afraid she didn't love me. Not to
mention fear of commitment."
"Those are a lot of fears."
Ranma shuddered.
"But understandable ones." Nodoka smiled, "I am happy you have finally
decided to face those fears Ranma. It is not good to run away from them.
They only hurt more when you have to deal with them later."
"Yeah, well, Pop taught the philosophy of running away until the problem
goes away. But, the problems never did go away, they only got worse. And
I didn't want to hide what I felt for Akane anymore. Especially not after
the wedding fiasco, when Akane showed definite signs she loves me too."
"I'm proud of you, my son. You have your faults, but you strive to
correct them. And, you also found love in an arranged marriage."
"Were you in an arranged marriage with Pop?"
"No. I married you're father out of love. True he has his faults. A lot
of faults. But, for some reason, I love him."
"I'm still trying to understand why you love him."
"I can no more answer that than you could tell me why you love a girl who
insults you and is prone to hit you."
Ranma shook his head. "I guess you're right."
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Shampoo passed Hiroshi and Daisuke as she made her way back to the
Neko-Hanten. Shampoo didn't like having to work on deliveries today. She
needed to work on her plans to deal with Akane. Somehow the violent girl
had seduced Ranma, and Shampoo would make her pay. Shampoo couldn't do it
directly, Ranma would never forgive her if she killed Akane. So, far
Shampoo's only hope was that someone would come along and deal with
Akane. Maybe Ukyou or Kodachi could be goaded into killing her. How to do
that?
Shampoo's thoughts were cut short as she felt a strong presence of chi
moving towards her. She flipped backwards and heard an explosion occur
wear she was a moment ago. Shampoo landed seeing a cloud of cement dust
obscure her attacker. She thought for a moment about why Ryoga would
attack her until a figure stepped out of the cloud shouting, "Shampoo,
I'll make you pay for what you've done!"
Shampoo blinked. First, at what Akane apparently did, and secondly, at
what she said. "What is adulterous girl talking about?"
"HE IS NOT YOUR HUSBAND!" Akane screamed as she charged, attacking
Shampoo.
Hiroshi looked at Daisuke, "She didn't deny the sex part."
"By Amazon law, he is," Shampoo retorted dodging Akane's attacks. Shampoo
knew she couldn't keep it up much longer, Akane had somehow gotten a lot
faster and was trying to exploit her fighting style's weak points.
Shampoo had to remain on the defensive, but that could be used for a
dangerous offensive. Shampoo grinned as she remained calm and cool while
Akane was exuding hot, angry chi.
"Your laws, not ours!" Akane then leapt away from Shampoo, seeing that
Shampoo tried to trap her in Hiryu Shoten Ha. "Look at this ring,
Shampoo!" Akane held up her hand. "Ranma proposed to me! He chose me! And
you will not take him away from me!"
Daisuke commented, "About damn time."
Akane gathered her anger in between her hands, "AKANE HA!"
"She's a Saotome now," Hiroshi smirked.
Shampoo jumped out of the way of the chi blast. Akane had done some
serious training and Shampoo wasn't liking it one bit. "Adulterous girl
will be one to pay for seducing Airen!"
"Seducing him?! Do you have any idea what happened?!" Akane charged
Shampoo. Shampoo attempted to jump over Akane. Akane grabbed hold of
Shampoo's legs and slammed her into a wall. "After you sent him into
Nekoken, he raped me! Do you understand?! I was raped because you sent
Ranma into Nekoken!" Akane punctuated her words with, "AKANEKEN!"
Hiroshi and Daisuke shuddered, "Ouch."
Shampoo jumped out of the way, deciding now was the time to go on the
offensive with a kick to Akane's back. "Violent-girl lie! Nekoken no can
cause that!"
Akane didn't feel the blow and used the cover of a new cloud of concrete
to obscure herself. "Nekoken reflects those emotions he normally feels.
He sees me as a lover, so in Nekoken, he sees me as a mate. He'll act
accordingly."
Shampoo attacked the cloud where she thought Akane was, but Akane wasn't
there. Because of Shampoo's attacks, Akane knew where Shampoo was. Akane
took the opportunity to launch another Akaneken which Shampoo noticed too
late. She was clipped in the side.
Pain flared in Shampoo's side. She staggered back into a wall.
Akane pressed her attack, her fists covered in fiery chi. "I lost my
virginity to a cat because of you, and Ranma can't remember losing his!"
Shampoo's blocks were failing since the hits were very painful. Her mind
raced for a means to get out of this.
"It ends now! AKANE-TENSHIN AMA..." Akane collapsed onto the ground.
Cologne looked down at both Shampoo and Akane and tsked. "Here I thought
only Ryoga was stupid enough to know of a self-destructive move. It seems
Akane has found her own."
"Great-grandmother, why you interfere?" Shampoo asked.
"If I didn't, I'd have to use a squeegee to gather up your remains. You
saw how much damage she did with one hit. You couldn't survive if she did
so a hundred times."
Shampoo paled. "But Amazon laws say no interfere."
"There are times to follow the laws and times to let them go. I do not
want to lose you child, so I ignored them."
"You always say laws are absolute. Now you say not always."
"Laws are a guideline to follow, to keep people in line. There are times
when those guidelines are wrong and should not be followed. Wisdom will
help you learn what times those are."
Shampoo remained quiet, thinking over her new lesson.
"Help me take her inside. I must talk with her when she wakes."
Shampoo nodded.
"I believe some ramen is in order," Daisuke said.
"Quite right," replied Hiroshi.
Hiroshi and Daisuke followed Cologne and Shampoo, carrying Akane, into
the Neko-Hanten.
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Ranma and Nodoka arrived at the zoo and went to where its office was,
pointedly avoiding any exhibit with cats in it. They met the weaselly
looking person responsible for the bear exhibits.
"Hi, I'm here to get Mr. Panda," Ranma said.
"Of course, but I'd like to see ownership and proper government papers
allowing you to have it, before I can release it into your
custody," the official said, looking like a cat who ate a canary.
Ranma hated the smug look the guy had, he had enough of it from Nabiki.
"Now listen here. I gave you an opportunity to rent him, there is no way
you are going to keep him."
"Without the papers, my hands are tied. You can't leave here with a
panda."
"Can we at least visit him and get some hot water?" Nodoka asked firmly,
fingering her katana hilt.
The official became nervous, "Couldn't hurt." He led them to the back of
the bear exhibit where they placed Mr. Panda in a cage.
"Hello Pop," Ranma greeted the panda.
The panda started to growl turning around to see Ranma. He stopped
growling and shuddered as he saw Nodoka. He held up a sign, reading,
[Hello, Dear.]
"I've been meaning to ask: How did you teach him to do that? And where do
the signs come from?" the official asked.
"Don't know," Ranma shrugged.
"Now Genma, what is this I hear about you training my son in the Nekoken?
Are you insane or just plain stupid?" Nodoka demanded brandishing the
Nekoken Training Manual.
"Insanely stupid," Ranma answered for him.
"I am sorely tempted to leave you here."
Genma began to sweat. [I didn't know what it'd do.]
"Because you were too impatient to read the whole book. Nekoken was
banned for a reason. Now Ranma and Akane have paid for your stupidity."
[Akane?]
"Ranma's feelings are the same if he's in Nekoken or not. Since his
feelings towards her is as a lover, he raped her."
"Mom!" Ranma interrupted her.
"That is what happened, isn't it?" Nodoka asked.
Ranma reluctantly nodded.
The official was completely confused at the strange conversation.
Genma was shocked. [I didn't know.] He flipped the sign. [Is Akane going
to kill me?]
"She had her revenge in her sparring session," Ranma answered.
Genma looked at his arm, thankful for rapid healing.
Nodoka allowed him to soak in what she said. "Where is the hot water?"
she asked the official.
He pointed at the a sink with a hose and some buckets near it. Ranma went
to fill one of the buckets.
"What was the purpose of renting him?" Nodoka asked.
"We were hoping to use him to mate with a female panda we have. He
refused, so we had to procure the semen samples artificially."
Nodoka scowled at Ranma. "Ranma, did you know about that?"
"Um, yeah," Ranma said nervously.
Nodoka shook her head. Ranma picked up some bad habits from his father.
"Change him back so we can leave."
Ranma splashed Genma with the water in the bucket through the bars.
"We have a lot to talk about, Dear," Nodoka said flatly.
"Yes, Dear," replied Genma.
"You will now release my husband," Nodoka said to the official.
The official fainted. Nodoka got the keys from him and released Genma.
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Akane awoke, finding that she was sleeping on something rather hard. She
opened her eyes and was scared, realizing she was at the Neko-Hanten.
She sat up quickly, preparing to face whatever the Amazons would throw at
her.
"Ah, sleeping beauty awakes," Hiroshi said. He was sitting next to
Daisuke and across from Akane at a booth.
Cologne appeared at the end of the booth they sat at. "Hello, Akane. Do
not worry, you are safe and Shampoo is on a delivery right now."
"Why should I believe you?" Akane demanded.
"Well, have I really done anything to hurt your relationship with Ranma
for some time?"
Akane thought for a long moment. "Um, not for the past couple months. Why
did you interfere in my fight with Shampoo?"
"I stopped you from killing Shampoo. I doubt you wanted to do that."
"Killing her?" Akane paled.
"You were about to hit her with Tenshin Amaguriken combined with...
Akaneken is it? That combination would've killed her if I didn't stop
you."
"The description she gave Shampoo wasn't very pretty, cleaning up her
remains with a squeegee." Hiroshi shuddered.
Akane stared at her hands in growing horror as she realized just what she
almost did. Her face turned a sickly color before she bolted from her
seat and ran to the bathroom.
Daisuke smacked Hiroshi in the back of his head, "That was stupid to
say."
"Someone had to say it. She'll need to learn control," Cologne said.
Akane returned a moment later, her face devoid of blood. "What am I going
to do?"
"You can listen to me. Akane, like Ryoga, your chi attacks are
self-destructive. By using your move, you tap into an emotion making it
flow easier. Ryoga is more depressed than he should be, and Ranma is more
confident. If you use anger, you will become easier to anger until such
time you only feel anger."
Akane shuddered.
"Ryoga has refused to listen to me as he feels he needs the move to
compete with Ranma. I'm not too concerned with Ranma, though, he needs
the extra confidence he gains in order to fight superior opponents like
Saffron. Now tell me Akane, does Ryoga know Ranma choose to marry you?"
Akane shuddered again. "I don't think he knows, but he does know we're
lovers. The last I saw him was when I found out he was P-Chan."
Hiroshi and Daisuke looked at each, and were, for once, at a lost for
words.
A deep dread filled Cologne. "Is he alive?"
"Of course he is," Akane replied bitterly.
"We must find him. If he lets his depression build up too much he could
level Tokyo or worse."
Akane blinked. "Let's go find Ranma and get him to help."
"Absolutely not. Ryoga would likely attempt to kill him, and release the
depression blast. Where is the last place you know Ryoga was?"
"Dr. Tofu's clinic."
"We'll start our search there. Mousse, tend the restaurant." Cologne
hopped out on her staff.
Mousse nodded to a plant and continued to take orders from some
customers.
Akane sat there for a moment contemplating if she should follow Cologne.
The potential threat of what she said was enough to convince Akane to
follow. "Can you tell Ranma about what's going on?"
Hiroshi and Daisuke nodded.
"Thanks. Be sure to tell him NOT to follow me and to stay away from Ryoga
for a while."
Hiroshi and Daisuke nodded again, as Akane ran out of the restaurant.
"I think now would be a good time to go on vacation," Daisuke said.
"I don't think so. We're probably safer here, since he was just in town,"
Hiroshi returned.
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Akane and Cologne followed Ryoga's chi, as he was depressed enough to
leave a trail strong enough for Cologne to follow. The frown Cologne wore
deepened as she stopped by a river.
"What is it?" Akane asked.
"His depression becomes more intense from here," Cologne replied.
"Why would that... Oh, no." Akane's face was drained of blood as she
looked up at a bridge.
"What is it?"
"Ranma proposed to me on that bridge last night. He might have seen us."
"What time was it when that occurred?"
"I'd say just after nine o'clock."
"His chi is this strong after twenty hours? We are indeed in trouble.
Akane we must come up with a plan to deal with him. I can't just go and
use pressure points to knock him out. He has built up too much energy.
The energy would be released explosively. I need you to talk to him and
try to make him happy. He'll need to disperse much of his built up
depression that way."
"I can try."
"There is no try in this. You either do, or we die. It's that simple. We
must hurry." Cologne and Akane chased down the chi trail.
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Wednesday - Late Evening
Darkness had descended on the land as Cologne and Akane tracked down
Ryoga. They followed his chi trail which was now intense enough to give
off enough light to see by. This scared Akane and Cologne because of the
sheer amount of power Ryoga could release now would be comparable to a
nuclear weapon.
Akane knew their search was over when she saw a large moving mass of
light in the distance.
"Remember the plan," Cologne said as she hopped away from Akane.
Akane ran to the light stopping a good distance away from it. "Ryoga?"
Akane called.
"Akane?" Ryoga turned around. His massive aura decreasing slightly and
then grew even bigger.
"Ryoga, I'm sorry I hit you after I found out about your curse. I was
just angry... you know how I get when I'm angry."
His chi aura decreased a little. "I know..."
"We never wanted to hurt you. You are a friend to me, Ranma..."
Ryoga angrily interrupted. "Ranma is no friend! He cursed me! He keeps me
away from home! HE STOLE YOUR LOVE!"
"Ryoga! Him cursing you was an accident. It would never happen if you
didn't follow him. You are the one who decided to go after him,
preventing yourself from going home. And my love is for me to give. You
should be happy I love him, because I would have to marry him even if I
didn't."
"Ranma would force you to marry him!?"
"No, our parents and honor would force the marriage." Akane sighed.
"Ryoga, I'm sorry we hurt you. I wish things could turn out better. This
whole mess is hurting everyone, but it had to end sometime."
"I wish you could love me," Ryoga said gloomily.
"I-I do love you, as a brother."
"Really? You love me?" Ryoga cries of pain turned to tears of joy. His
aura dissipated.
Ryoga collapsed with Cologne standing behind him. "You were pretty stupid
trying to convince him that he's the one at fault. You were suppose to
make him happy. He might have killed us all."
"I was hoping he realized how stupid it was to blame everything on
Ranma," Akane replied.
"Don't you do that?"
"I used to."
Cologne leveled her gaze at Akane.
Akane drew back. "I still do at times, but I'm learning to trust him."
She looked at Ryoga. "What do we do with him?"
"Simple." Cologne hit several spots on Ryoga's back and hands. "I've
prevented him from concentrating chi. He can no longer gather and throw a
chi blast until someone unlocks the pressure points."
Ryoga's body begins to release chi into the air.
"Now Akane," Cologne began, "You will eventually be in the same trouble
he was if you continue to use anger as the basis for your chi attacks.
There is one way to avoid it without the pressure points."
"Which is?"
"Use other emotions. Joy, happiness, hope, your love for Ranma, or any
other lighter emotion would be better. They may not be stronger, but
better for your continued health. Ryoga refused the advice because his
depression so much stronger than his other emotions."
Akane nodded. "I'll follow your advice. I came too close to killing
someone today. I never want to be in that position again."
"Good. I'd hate it if you killed Shampoo."
Akane frowned when Shampoo was mentioned. "You do know that I'm going to
marry Ranma. There is nothing that will stop that."
"I realized that at the wedding fiasco. It's Shampoo, Ukyou, and the Kunos
who haven't. I've been trying to convince Shampoo to let Ranma go,
distracting her from him, and keeping her busy."
"You have?" Akane looked at Cologne in disbelief.
"Yes. I've especially did those things when she told me what she saw last
week. Ranma has given you his love and no one can change that now."
"Did you know Nekoken might cause him to mate with me?"
"I knew it was a possibility. It is a rare occurrence, so I wasn't sure
it would happen. I thought I had more time before Ranma's feelings
advanced to the point which would trigger it. I was hoping to warn you
first."
"Arrgh," Ryoga groaned as he woke up.
"Are you all right?" Akane asked.
"Ah, yeah." Ryoga looked at arms, which were emitting chi like the rest
of his body. "What happened to me?"
"I locked away your ability to concentrate chi. You'll be emitting what
you've built up chi for a couple days."
"Why did you do that?" Ryoga demanded.
"I warned you before, your move was self-destructive. You became so
depressed, if you threw off a Shi Shi Hokodan, it would have leveled
everything for miles around and killing many innocent people and yourself
in the process."
"Oh," Ryoga uttered, remembering why he was so depressed. "Akane, do you
really love me?"
"As a brother," Akane replied. "Come on, you can stay at my house
tonight."
Ryoga smiled weakly as he took some comfort that Akane loved him. He just
wished it was a different kind of love.
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Chapter 8 - Breaking the Love Pyramid
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-Thursday
Akane looked outside the window of the school cafeteria, watching the
rain fall. She was waiting for Ranma to bring her the lunch he was buying
for her. She was upset at herself for letting Ryoga get lost on her way
home. She loved that Ranma had been extremely worried about her after
finding out she ran off to fight Shampoo and then went to help Cologne
face Ryoga. Akane was thankful to Hiroshi and Daisuke for telling Ranma
what happened. Of course, they did so mainly to find how good she was in
bed, and not because she asked them to tell Ranma. Since Ukyou found out
that Ranma was in love with Akane, Ukyou hadn't been to school, and that
worried Akane.
"Hello Akane," Yuka greeted, sitting next to Akane.
"Hi," Sayuri greeted, sitting across from Yuka.
"Um, hi," Akane returned nervously.
"So Akane, what have you been up to?" Yuka asked. "You've been avoiding
us for a while now."
"A lot of stuff has happened, and certain people have to be told before I
can say anything."
"Even before your friends?" Sayuri asked.
"I could tell you... but not here. Too many people would listen in."
"Oh, and does it have something to do with you screaming your love for
Ranma?" Yuka asked.
"Or about you and Ranma going on a training trip?" Sayuri added.
"Please, don't ask. It's hard enough not telling you. I want to tell you
now, but I can't," Akane pleaded.
"You can tell them about what happen on our date," onna-Ranma said
placing down Akane's and her lunches, sitting down across from Akane.
"Kuno found out and he's so pissed he only asked me where 'the vile
sorcerer' is."
"How did he find out, and how did you turn into a girl?" Akane asked.
"You can ask your sister how he found out. And someone left a bucket of
water in the hall, which I stepped in."
"All right Akane, so what happened on the date?" Yuka asked.
Akane smiled as she pulled out the ring from pocket, putting on her
engagement ring under the table. "He gave me this," she said, showing the
ring to her friends.
"HE PROPOSED!!!" Yuka and Sayuri yelled.
Immediately everyone in the cafeteria mobbed Akane and Ranma.
Congratulations, curses, and questions about the availability of Ranma's
other fiancees were said.
"Ya didn't have to shout it," Ranma scowled at Akane's friends.
"Sorry," they both replied, sheepishly.
"WHERE IS THE VILE SAOTOME SO I MIGHT STRIKE HIM DOWN!" Kuno bellowed
through the cafeteria.
Akane got an idea and looked at Ranma. "I'll handle him." The crowd
parted as Akane moved to where Kuno stood.
"Ah, the fair goddess Tendo Akane is here to tell me where her captor
is. ACK!"
Akane grabbed Kuno by the collar. Then pushed her other hand, which was
the one with the engagement ring, into his face, "Kuno, you see this
ring? It's an engagement ring. Ranma asked me to marry him and I said
yes. He gave me this ring as a symbol of his love, and I wear it as a
symbol of my love for him. I LOVE RANMA, AND I WILL MARRY HIM!!! Get it
through your thick skull. I am going to marry Ranma because I love him,
and not of some spell. Even if I didn't, family honor would demand I marry
him."
Akane let go of his collar and glared at him. "One more thing, don't
interfere because you THINK I have any feelings for you. I have news for
you, I DON'T! I don't love you. I don't even like you. Get a clue, get a
life, and stop chasing after me."
Onna-Ranma, catching onto Akane's plane, was now in Kuno's face. "The same
goes for me. Except that I hate you! Got that, I hate you! You chase after
me or Akane and I will send you to the hospital. Understand?"
"Oh, how Saotome's cursed spell hurt you so. To make you speak such
lies while your hearts scream love," Kuno ranted.
"Kuno! We do not lie." Akane turned to the students in the cafeteria.
"Whoever doubts I love Ranma, raise your hand?"
A couple guys raised their hand, then quickly lower it, as nobody else did.
"Who doubts Ranma loves me?"
Seven hands went up out of over a hundred students. They were stared down
but by Ranma, Akane and several other students.
"Who thinks either of us like or love Kuno?" Akane pointed at herself and
onna-Ranma.
No hands were raised.
"See that, Kuno? We are not the ones lying to you. You are lying to
yourself. Understand? Almost everyone here can see Ranma and I are in
love with each other. They can see we don't like you. Why can't you?"
Akane turned around.
Ranma handed Akane her lunch and they both left the cafeteria.
"Who thinks Saotome binds Tendo Akane or the pig-tailed-girl via sorcery?"
Kuno asked.
No one raised there hand.
"Who feels I have deceived my noble self?"
Everyone raised their hand.
Kuno sadly left the cafeteria, contemplating what he was told. <Is it
true? Is it I who is the liar, deceiving myself with things I wish to see
rather than what it truly is? This can not be!> He turned and looked at
the cafeteria. <But how can so many be wrong? It must be a spell of that
cursed Saotome. He has deceived them all, or am I deceiving myself
further. I must contemplate this.>
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Ranma and Akane ran straight out of school when classes ended, rather than
face the other students. They decided to head to Ucchan's, to talk to her
about the engagement before, she found out from a stranger. They stopped
cold in their tracks as a girl with purple hair stood in their way.
"What do you want Shampoo?" Akane asked bitterly.
"Shampoo must talk with Ranma," Shampoo answered.
"Can we do this later?" Ranma asked.
"NO! Shampoo must talk with Ranma now!"
Akane noticed that Shampoo was upset and had not called Ranma her
husband. Akane also felt a little guilty because she had nearly killed
Shampoo. "You're only going to talk?"
"By Amazon honor, only talk."
"Ranma, you can talk with her. I'll go see Ukyou." Akane stared at
Shampoo. "Shampoo, don't try anything with him."
"Um, all right. I'll see you later and be careful," Ranma said.
Akane gave him a quick kiss. "You be careful, too."
Shampoo glared at Akane as she ran off.
"What do you want Shampoo?" Ranma asked.
"Shampoo want to know if what violent girl say is true? While in Nekoken,
Ranma raped violent girl."
Ranma nodded.
"Why you do that?"
"Because I love her. I want to marry her, and those feelings come out
with the Nekoken."
"Why do you love violent girl?" Shampoo demanded fiercely.
Ranma replied, "Her name is Akane, not 'violent girl'. And I don't know why
I love her, I just do. Who can truly say why they love someone?"
"Shampoo can. Shampoo loves Ranma's fighting spirit, battle prowess,
looks, body, honor, and carefree nature."
"What else?"
"That not enough?"
Ranma stared at Shampoo, a defiant twinkle in his eye. "I love Akane
because she's kind, caring, compassionate, beautiful, cute..." The twinkle
grew from defiant to amused. "Uncute, stubborn, pigheaded..." He nodded
his head to Shampoo, still with that amused expression on his face, as if
to indicate he had accepted something. "Violent, and dozens more reasons I
can name and thousands more I can't, not the least of which being that she
refuses to be dependent on me and doesn't see me as a prize to be won.
Things which neither YOU nor any of my other... suitors... have
considered."
"If Ranma raped Akane, why Akane still in love with Ranma?"
"I don't know. I'm happy she still loves me, but I don't know."
After a moment Shampoo said, "Ranma trained Akane to defeat Shampoo?"
"Yeah, I trained her."
"You know Akane nearly killed Shampoo."
"I know. She feels guilty about it."
"Doubt it," Shampoo muttered and then said fiercely, "Ranma, it no matter
how you feel. Amazon law states we must marry."
"And the laws of honor of the Saotome clan says I must marry Akane. Guess
what Shampoo? I'm a Saotome, so I must marry her and not you."
Shampoo started to cry. "No! Ranma can't marry violent girl. Ranma must
marry Shampoo! Shampoo can only go home if married or Ranma dead."
"Shampoo, I'm sorry. I can't marry you," Ranma said trying to maintain
his resolve against the crying girl. "You said you can't go home if
you're not married, does that mean you could marry someone else?"
"Shampoo don't want someone else. Shampoo want Ranma." Her tears were
flowing freely.
Ranma shut his eyes tightly. "I'm sorry Shampoo, but you are going to
have to find someone else to marry. I am going to marry Akane and that is
final. And if you try to hurt or kill either of us or try to stop me from
marrying her, you will no longer be a friend, but an enemy." Ranma jumped
away, and ran across the roof tops.
Shampoo collapsed onto the ground and cried.
Mousse, following directions given by Cologne, silently approached
Shampoo. Shampoo grabbed onto him, crying on his shoulder. He never said
a word.
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Akane arrived breathless at Ucchan's to find it opened for business. She
entered and saw Ukyou at the grill, her face like emotionless stone.
"Hello, Ukyou," Akane greeted nervously.
"You have some nerve coming in here!" Ukyou screamed, chi aura flaring.
The four customers who were in the restaurant were now gone and money for
their food was placed at their tables.
"Ukyou, I'd like to talk."
"Why should I talk with you?" Contempt clearly in Ukyou's voice.
"Because if it wasn't for the fact we both love Ranma, we'd be the best
of friends. I don't want to lose our friendship and neither does Ranma."
"You've got five minutes."
Akane shook her head, she wasn't going to make it easy. "Ukyou, I'm sorry
we hurt you. I wish you didn't find out the way you did. We wanted to
tell you and explain things."
"When were you going to tell me, after the wedding?"
"No, we were going to tell you yesterday."
"Have you told Shampoo?"
"Yeah." Akane shuddered.
"She didn't take it well?"
Akane shook her head. "I don't know how she took it. I attacked and
nearly killed her yesterday while explaining it."
Ukyou looked disbelievingly at Akane. "You nearly killed Shampoo?"
"During my training trip with Ranma last weekend, I learned the Kachuu
Tenshin Amaguriken and two chi attacks. Cologne stopped me from using my
chi punch combined chestnut fist. If she hadn't, Shampoo would be very
dead."
"I'm surprised you could defeat her even knowing those moves."
"I wouldn't if Ranma hadn't also taught me how to exploit her
weaknesses. Shampoo is still a better, overall fighter than me, but I know
how to defeat her."
"Think you could take me?"
"Possibly, but I don't want to fight you. I want to be friends. Ranma
still wants to be too. He loves you as a sister."
"A sister!" Ukyou shouted. "I want him to love me as his wife!"
Akane sighed. "Ukyou, tell me what you think life would be like if you
married him."
"Well, either we both run my restaurant or we both run a dojo, or both."
"Would it be a happy, peaceful life?"
"Of course."
"Do you realize that could never happen? Peaceful and Ranma don't go
together. Where Ranma goes, insanity follows. You will have to deal with
demon attack plants, evil princes, never knowing if the animal that found
its way into your house is really an animal, and tons of other shit. So
far this week, I had sex with someone who thought he was a cat at the
time, found out my pet pig is Ryoga, got engaged to someone who was
already my fiancee, nearly killed someone, found out my chi attacks will
eventually lead to my own destruction if I don't change them, stopped
Ryoga from destroying an area with a several mile radius, my future
father-in-law was rented to the zoo, and that's not all of it. The week
previous was actually a light week. I only got raped by Ranma when he was
in Nekoken, became Ranma's lover, and learned to throw chi attacks."
Ukyou looked at Akane in a state of shock.
"This won't end when we say, 'I do.' I know this and accept it. The
question I ask you is, could you put up with it? Can you honestly say you
could live happily ever after, knowing at some point you'll have oni
in your living room, kappas in your kitchen, and kami knows what else?"
Ukyou shook her head. "Come on Akane, you're exaggerating. There is no
way it could be that bad."
"I wish I was, Ukyou. I wish I was. I've had to deal with this for almost
a year now. He is cursed to live an interesting life, and whoever he
marries will have to deal with it too."
Ukyou looked closely at Akane. "You're serious!?"
Akane nodded.
"He raped you!?"
Akane nodded again.
"You're still willing to marry him?"
"You saw me have sex with him while he was in Nekoken. I know life will
be rough at times, but I'm willing to put up with it."
"I know Ranma has some interesting adventures, but I think you're just
trying to convince me you're doing me a favor for marrying him."
"I guess, in a way, I am. Remember when Ranma was hit with the
Moxibustion point?"
"How could I forget?"
"Two days before that Ranma had to save be from a date with Ryoga,
because he was trying to hug me."
"What was so bad about Ryoga hugging you?"
"He was trying to hug me with all his strength. He was destroying large
wooden pillars when he missed. Earlier that week, Ranma had to fight
Principal Kuno about 'Tardiness Week.' I could go on and on about the
stuff that has happened to us since I met Ranma."
"What if you're the problem? Maybe Ranchan has to deal with it because
you have the interesting life curse."
Akane shook her head. "The only strange thing about me before Ranma was
having to fight most of the guys at Furinkan High every morning. Ranma,
however, was cursed to turn into a girl, got engaged at least three
times, ate dragon hair, trained in Nekoken, and kami knows what else."
Ukyou looked down at the floor. "Has he proposed to you yet?"
"Yes."
"Can I see the ring?"
Akane raised her hand to show Ukyou.
Ukyou looked at it, wishing it was hers. She smiled weakly, saying sadly,
"It's beautiful, Akane."
"Ukyou, I'd still like us all to be friends."
"I-I'll think about it, and I'd still like to talk to Ranma." Ukyou
glanced at the door.
"Of course." Akane realized Ukyou gave her a hint to leave. "I should be
going. Will I see you at school tomorrow?"
"Probably not. Bye."
"Bye." Akane left Ucchan's. She noticed several people standing outside,
entering only after she was a fair distance from the door.
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Friday - Morning.
Ranma laid in bed, letting the haze of sleep fade from his mind. The
first thing he noticed was that he was in Akane's bed. Correction, his
and Akane's bed. His mother was now sharing his old room with his father.
Ranma was surprised at how forgiving his mother was. Despite finding out
more of what his father had done to him, his parents slept together last
night.
Ranma would've sat up if Akane wasn't sleeping on his arm. He wasn't used
to the changes yet. Two weeks ago was no different than the months
previously. Well, except, three weeks ago was the wedding fiasco and Mount
Phoenix. Actually thinking back now, everything seemed to change over a
month ago, when his mother found out about the curse. Everything had
changed now. He was even sharing a bed with Akane.
He idly caressed Akane's hair with his free arm. <My life sure has
changed a lot. When this whole mess started, we thought there was no way
in hell we'd get married. Here we are now, with my arm trapped between
your bare breasts, and we're going to start planning the wedding Sunday.
A week and a half ago you would have malleted me if I accidentally
touched them, and now I know your body intimately. Oh, Akane, what is our
life going to be like in the future? I never expected to have a permanent
home before I came here, and now I know I shall never leave. I wandered
around Japan and China, rarely staying anywhere for longer than a few
months. Now I have a home, our home.>
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Saturday - 2:00 p.m.
Ranma gulped as he entered Ucchan's. The restaurant was currently closed,
so they could talk without interruption or being overheard. He wanted to
avoid this, but he had to talk to Ukyou at some point. Finding the
Okonomiyaki in his shoe locker at school this morning told him when that
moment was. It also stated he had to come without Akane.
Ranma sighed. He was going to make Ukyou cry, and nothing he could say
would change that. He gathered his courage and kept Akane in his mind as
he greeted nervously, "Hi, Ucchan."
"Hello, Ranma," Ukyou said dryly.
Ranma became even more nervous, Ukyou was angry. "Um, I'm here to talk."
"So, tell me Ranma: Why Akane? Why did you chose Akane?" Ukyou demanded.
"Because I love her."
"Why do you love her?"
"I'm not sure why I love her. There is something about her that makes me
want to hold onto her and never let go. She means everything to me."
"You know that's how I feel about you."
"And so does Akane, Shampoo and possibly Kodachi."
"Ranma, I've given up over ten years of my life because of you. Ten
years!" Ukyou screamed. "And you want me to throw it all away because you
love someone else. Sorry Ranma, I can't and won't do that. After throwing
away my childhood and my womanhood, you expect me to just say, 'I'm happy
for you two,' or some other bullshit? Not in this lifetime."
Ukyou started crying. "Ranma, I love you and want to marry you. I'm
engaged to you by family honor. I have to marry you. My honor demands I
marry you or get my revenge against you."
"What is your revenge?
"It was to beat you to a bloody pulp."
"Um, what is it now?"
"I don't know. I don't want to hurt you. I love you and want to marry
you."
"But I want to marry Akane. I have more honor wrapped up in marrying
Akane. And I love Akane. I wish things could've work out better. I was
sort of hoping you'd fall in love with someone, maybe Konatsu."
"Konatsu is gone."
"What?" Ranma asked, shocked.
Ukyou looked down, crying. "I sent him away Tuesday, after I saw you and
Akane... having... sex. I couldn't stand to see him. I didn't want him to
try and convince me it's best I let you go. He wouldn't understand. So, I
sent him away. I took all the anger I felt towards you and Akane and
lashed out at him. I told him I never wanted to see him again."
"I hope he comes back."
"I hope so too, but I don't think he will. I was really terrible about
it."
"Now Ucchan-"
Ukyou glared at Ranma. "DON'T CALL ME THAT!!!" she screamed, tears still
flowing. "Don't you dare call me that unless you plan on marrying me. You
are my fiancee and I'm not letting you go. Everything I am is because of
you. I gave up my childhood training to defeat you only to find you're
some martial arts god I could never hope to defeat. In you, I found love
and now you say that it will go unrequited."
"Um, Ukyou, you should be thankful Pop didn't take you with us. You
woulda lost your childhood watching me train as Pop sure wouldn't train
you. Assuming you lived, you would've probably also been cursed, branded a
thief, and engaged to several guys. As bad and as lonely your childhood
was, mine was worse. At least you knew what it was like to have a home.
You knew you had a place to sleep and that you would be fed. I didn't
know what having a home was like until I came here."
"Oh, yeah? I had it so much better," Ukyou cried sarcastically. "After
my mother died, my father didn't want me. He tried to pawn me off on your
father because he didn't want me. After you and your father ran off with
the cart all, my father had left was me. And all I was to him was a mouth
to feed. He never made me feel welcome at home, if you could call a one
room apartment a home. Yeah, I had it so much better. I may know what
it's like to have a home, but I haven't known what it felt like to be
wanted by my family since my mother died."
Ranma became confused. "If you lived in a one room apartment, how could
you afford this place?"
"My mother left me enough money in her will for this place. I couldn't
access it until I was sixteen."
"Oh." Ranma looked down at the floor. "I'm sorry... I didn't know. Why
didn't you tell me before?"
"Because you were always having a problem with the here and now. I
allowed you to tell me your problems, and I didn't want to bother you
with my own."
"I wasn't always having a problem."
"Yes you were. You always complained about your fights with Akane, or how
Ryoga, Kuno, Shampoo, and or somebody else was annoying you, or some
other problem."
"Ever notice Akane was my favorite topic of discussion? Sure, I complained
about my fights with her and how Ryoga or Kuno was annoying me because
they are in love with her, and Shampoo and Kodachi kept on putting me in
a position where Akane would hit me. But I almost always talk about
her. I hoped you would've realized I actually chose her a long time ago,
and you would search for love somewhere else." Ranma sighed. "Did you
also notice I never deny I'm Akane's fiancee and when I refer to you it's
always been as a friend?"
Ranma looked away from Ukyou. "I see I don't really know who you are. All
you ever told me is why you're after me."
"C-can I tell you now?" Ukyou asked, hoping if she told him now, he might
change his mind.
"You can, but it won't change anything. I'm going to marry Akane. I'm
sorry you'll lose honor in this. If I don't, both me and Akane will lose
honor. I wish things could work out better, but that's not the case. I
still want to be friends."
"Do you honestly expect me to be just friends with you after all we've
been through? Get out, you Jackass! Just get the hell out!"
"I'm sorry, Ukyou. Please, don't leave me. I want to be friends. Please
let me be a friend." Ranma sadly walked out of Ucchan's.
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Akane sighed as she entered her room. She hoped Ranma was fairing well in
his talk with Ukyou. Knowing Ranma though, he probably made things worse.
Akane felt something was out of place. There was another presence in her
room. A couple black rose petals on the floor told her who it was. "Hello
Kodachi. I was wondering when you'd show up."
Kodachi flipped down from the ceiling and stood at the other end of
Akane's room. "I will not stand idly by while you steal my darling
Ranma-sama from me."
Akane thought talking to Kodachi might prove as effective as it, so far,
did with the recent talk Akane had with her Kuno. "He was never yours."
Akane glared at Kodachi. "He chose me of his own free will, and I will
marry him. There is no way you can keep us apart."
"You dare claim Ranma has chosen you after you beat and insult him!"
"I dare, because he has. And I regret the things I've done and I am
working on keeping myself from hitting or insulting him ever again."
"Then here. Accept my congratulations." Kodachi threw a bouquet of black
roses at Akane.
Akane jumped put of the way. The flowers hit the door, and sent pollen
exploding where Akane had stood.
"You dare refuse my gift."
"I'll refuse any gift from you. Would the pollen make me fall asleep, or
was it poisonous this time."
"I resent your implications."
"I resent you interfering in my life. Ranma has chosen me. He loves me.
And I know he doesn't love you. He doesn't even like you."
"You think I don't know that. I know how he feels about me, but it
doesn't matter. He deserves better than you. He deserves someone of my
glorious breeding and wealth. In time he will learn to love me."
"In case you haven't noticed, Ranma will be fairly wealthy if he marries
me, and I am a descendant of minor nobility. Your claim to be better on
those points holds nothing. I, however, offer Ranma a loving family."
"My family isn't loving?" Kodachi asked indignantly.
"Your father sleeps at school rather than at his own house, and you
barely tolerate your brother. Not to mention Ranma hates them. So, yes,
your family isn't loving."
"Then you understand why I must have Ranma. I must have love."
Akane was surprised as Kodachi started crying. She was crying real tears.
"Love can not be forced. It just happens. Ranma may not care about you,
but there are other people out there who could love you given the chance.
All you have to do is find one."
"I have found the one I want, and I will have him!" Kodachi screamed.
"Attack of a thousand clubs!"
"Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!" Akane shouted back, blocking the attacks.
"How dare you use my Ranma-sama's attacks?!" Kodachi pulled out her
ribbon and ensnared Akane.
"Because he taught it to me." Akane started to glow with a dark blue aura.
Augmenting her strength with her chi, Akane broke free of the ribbon.
"How? No one could break my ribbon." Kodachi looked at Akane shocked.
"I can." Akane punched Kodachi in the nose, she collapsed holding her
bloody nose. Akane then sternly demanded, "I will not have you attack,
hurt or try to kill me or Ranma, and if you ever try to come between me
and Ranma, I will beat the crap out of you. Believe me, I can."
"I woll mak you payy f'r h'rting my nuse!" Kodachi attempted to scream.
"You attacked me. Kodachi, I suggest you leave here and forget about
Ranma. You will never make him love you. I hope you find someone to love
you, but I never want to hear about you ever again."
Kodachi decided it was best to leave and get a doctor to look at her
nose. "We arev't inished et." She jumped through the window.
"I wonder if she noticed Ranma's stuff was now in my room?" Akane said to
herself. She looked at the floor. "Great, now I have to clean up blood
stains." Akane sighed, she really had to find another emotion for a chi
attack.
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Author's Notes:
I'll start working on Nekoken chapter 9 and 10 sometime soon. It should be
in draft form by the end of Febuary. Hopefully it'll be posted to FFML in
three weeks.
Thanks to my pre-readrs David Tatum, Byran Neef, William Jones, The Rams,
and to every one who's sent me any C&C on this series.
/ LORD ARCHIVE \
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