Child of Nature 

I don't care if he is my husband!  Ranma can be such a jerk!

Take just last week, for instance.  I woke up before him.  He was
holding me in his arms.  I've always thought people are never uglier
than when they're asleep, but even then, Ranma was adorable.  I gave
him a little peck on the nose, just to tease him into waking up.
Ranma got up, his eyes opened wide in surprise.

"What, what are you doing in my bed, Akane?"

"What kind of question is that?"

Ranma looked confused.  "Ok, your bed.  How'd I get here?"  He let go
of me and was sitting up.  And the look in his eye...almost like I was
a stranger or something.

"Are you joking with me, Ranma?"  He looked serious.

"No...are you joking with me?" He seemed genuinely confused.

"Ranma, you silly!  We...well, it's almost been a year now.  Don't
tell me you're surprised!"

"A year since what?"  Ranma's look of frustration was turning into a
look of anger.

"A year since we got married!"  I hate to get on the defensive in such
a silly conversation, but Ranma's voice seemed almost...mad.  I
couldn't tell if he was serious.

"You weren't married to me!  We were just, well, betrothed!  And it
wasn't even our choice, it was our parent's decision!"

"Well, yeah, for about three days!"

"Three days?"

"Don't tell me you don't remember that!"  I was getting angry.  That
was almost a sacred moment.  He shouldn't be joking around.

"Remember what?"

"Remember what happened!"

Ranma calmed himself down.  "Oh no, of course I remember.   But...I
just want to hear you describe it."   That was stupid.  Was he playing
a game with me?  Oh well.  With Ranma, you play around with his silly
games or he gets upset.

"Well, we were engaged to each other...and neither of us knew each
other, or wanted to get engaged."

"Yeah, yeah." said Ranma.

"And then the second day, we went to school, and I helped you out with
that Kunou creep."

"Yeah, yeah."

"And that night, you came to thank me, and we talked until seven in
the morning...and we fell in love." I blushed.  It was a very special
moment...the one I'll always treasure the most, I guess.

Ranma looked at me with blank eyes.

"Don't tell me you don't remember!"  Why was he doing this?

"No, no...I just like hearing it from you.  You'll have to describe it
in more detail sometime.  It's...It's good to hear it all from your
perspective."

"What's gotten into you, anyway?"

"I just had what must have been a horrible nightmare.  All we did was
argue."

"We're not so far away from that now."  I joked.

"Believe me, things could be a lot worse."  Ranma settled back down in
bed with me.  He smiled, took a second to build his confidence, and
gave me a kiss.  Ranma has always been a good kisser.  No matter how
much of a jerk Ranma is, I'll always love him.

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Hope you liked this short!  It started out a LOT weirder (Built around
"Pet Sounds" lineup, Ranma-chan pregnant from female Akane, randomly
changing person/style, etc.), but about a page into it I decided the
first two paragraphs were better than the rest of the story and built
a story around the introduction.  I like the general idea enough that
I might make it a full-length story.  At some indeterminate point in
the future where I actually have time, I guess.
True, the story was sickingly sweet.  Well, I LIKE sickingly sweet.
And besides, somebody has to generate positive Ranma karma between all 
the excellent but decidedly dark stories I see here...
The title is also the song title of a White Album bootleg.  "And the 
dream I had was true..." 
I love to ramble.  Well, I'm done.

****jdrutsch@ucdavis.edu***********************Jeff Rutsch************* 
"Ranma's not a boy...he's a girl!"
"Akane is MY fiance!  You TOUCH her, and I'll KILL you!"
"Ranma, change back into a boy while I buy you some time."
"But if I seem to act unkind/it's only me, it's not my mind."
"Ranma [sic],/give your heart to Akane [sic]. /Soon,/right away."
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