I don't know what everyone is going to think of this, but I started it
last night while I was bored.

Ranma 1/2:  Dreams and Memories
By:  Numbski

Legal Stuff:  All these characters were created by Rumiko Takahashi and I
therefore take no credit for them.  All I did was place a hypothetical
situation upon them.

It was just another typical morning around the Tendo household.  Ranma and
his father were out early doing their morning training exercises trying to
knock each other into the carp pond, thus winning the match.  Ranma has
been doing a very good job recently of winning the morning spars, leaving
Genma with few options to use against his son anymore.

"What's wrong old man?  Can'tcha even hit me anymore?"  Ranma blurted out
as he dodged yet another attempt by his father to kick him.

"You're getting cocky Ranma." Genma managed to land behind Ranma and land
a counter blow to his back.  "If you keep this up, you'll never become a
good heir to this school."

That blow was just enough to send Ranma stumbling forward and into the
carp pond.  Ranma-chan pulls herself out of the water, looking very
displeased, make that LIVID.

"I don't believe you have many other choices old man, so quit throwing the
business of the school into my face!"  At this he just happens to pull out
a bucket of water from no where and drench Genma.

**You take too much for granted, what if Happosai decides to find a
different heir?**  Mr. Panda having already whipped out a response.

"And just who do you think he'd pick, that kawaikunee tomboy you call my
fiancee?"  She said just in time to regret it, seeing an eerie blue glow
from over his shoulder. <oh no...>

"If you don't think I'm a worthy heir to the school, then why don't you
just leave then!" She manages to yell this while rather violently coming
down with her Dimensional Hammer (tm).  "BAKA!"

Ranma-chan never had a prayer.  One hit and he was pounded into the
ground.  Out cold.  Akane stormed back into the house while Mr. Panda
looked at his son thoughfully.  After a nice long look he picked
Ranma-chan up off the ground and drags her back into the house.  Kasumi
had breakfast ready by this time and noticing the condition of the
Saotomes (as if this is unusal somehow) walk back into the kitchen and
comes back with two kettles of warm water.

*******

Breakfast seem to go without any major disruptions.  Ranma came to and he
and Genma had a food war trying to steal each other's breakfast.  It was,
in fact, unusally quiet.  Ranma suddenly realized why after he was done
abusing his father using his Kacuu Tenshin Amiguriken technique to steal
his father's food and eat it.  Akane wasn't at the table.  Ranma quietly
excused himself from the table and went toward his room, or at least made
it look that way.  When he thought no one was looking, he made his way
over to Akane's door and pressed his ear to the door....

"Ranma no baka..." she spoke quietly and in a very hurt voice.  "Do you
really think I'm that bad?  I've worked for years to be the best heir to
this school that I can, and you blow me off as if I can't do anything more
than look like your 'uncute tomboy fiancee'.  Why?!  I try so hard Ranma,
and you don't even seem to care!"  Ranma could hear by this time that
Akane was most definitely crying.

<What am I gonna do now?> He thought to himself.  <She's not the greatest
martial artist, but I know she tries.  I've gotta talk to her.>  At this
he quietly raps on the door.

"Come in." Akane turned around and saw Ranma standing in the door.  She
suddenly had a look torn between shock and anger.  The tears were still
fresh on her face and her eyes were puffy.

"What do YOU want, Ranma?"  She said in a very loud, and nearly disturbing
voice.

"Ssshhh, I just want to talk for minute."  He walked in, closing the door
behind him.  He pulled up the chair from her desk and took a seat next to
the futon, where Akane was seated.

"Well, what is it?" Akane seemed almost impatient at this point, although
she had softened a bit from the anger she had shown just a moment before.

"I um..." He stopped, shooting a glance at the door.  He gestured for her
to come close and whispered to her.  "Do me a favor and go look out the
door while I hide in the corner."

"Why?"  She seemed somewhat annoyed at this.

"Trust me, will ya?"

She got up and tiptoed over to the door, opening rather quickly and to her
half-hearted surprise she saw a sudden pile-up of family members.  Soun on
the bottom, Genma on top of him, and Nabiki with a tape recorder.

"Just WHAT do you think you're doing???"  Akane was now VERY peeved.  She
was glowing a dull blue and that dimensional hammer was now re-formed in
her hand.

The three took this opportunity to make themselves scarce, and since none
of them actually SAW Ranma in her room, they figured that nothing would
happen anyway.  At this Akane closed the door and walked back into the
room.  "I can't believe the people around here!  What kind of
nerve...huh?"  She looked around, and there's no Ranma.  "Ranma...?"

"Psst.  Out here!"  She turned around to see Ranma haning upside down in
front of her window holding out a hand and beckoning her.  <How does he do
that?>  She walked over and took his hand.  He proceeded to whip her out
and up onto the roof.  He then flips up and backwards and lands on the
roof himself.

"Sorry about that, but I just don't trust anyone around here anymore."
Ranma said, sounding not so pleased himself.

"What was it you wanted to talk about?"  Akane now took on a bit of a
quizzical expression.  She found it extremely amusing that Ranma hadn't
smarted off to her yet, and had the cunning not to get caught in front of
their parents."

"Well,  it was about this morning" he started.  "I wanted to say that I DO
think you would make an excellent heir to the school, I just...."  he
dropped off, not sure how to finish.  He looked down and away from Akane
trying to somehow regain his composure.

"Then why did you make that comment to your father then Ranma?"  Now SHE
wasn't sure what to think.

"I didn't want to sound like I wasn't confident to my father.  That was a
stupid thing to say to me anyway.  Who else WOULD Happosai choose for an
heir anyway?  It's bad enough he's a pervert, and he would never give the
school over to a girl."

"I dunno about that, if a girl gave him what he wanted..."  She stood
there with stupid grin on her face, nearing an evil smirk.  "he might just
give it over to a girl SPECIFICALLY."

"AKANE?"  He was shocked at what he was hearing out of his fiancee.

"Just kidding!"  Her smile softened a bit and she began to giggle at what
she had just contemplated.  Ranma slowly began to come out of the shock of
what he had just heard, and slowly began to laugh himself.  He couldn't
help but notice the fact that Akane was smiling.  That was one of the few
things that quickly calmed his worries.

"Look, I think it's time we quit this stupid game our parents are
playing."  Ranma finally got out after he regained his composure.  "This
whole engagement thing needs to be either accepted by us or done away with
so that our parents can know who is going to carry on this school.  If we
don't want to do it together, then one of us will do it with whomever we
marry, and that needs to be decided soon."

Akane was taken aback by this suden show of seriousness on Ranma's part.
"Well, we have tried to get married once already.  I think the decision is
mostly on you r shoulders, I mean I tried to find out whether or not you
wanted this, and if you um,...."  She didn't quite know how to put it.

Ranma was just about to say something when he felt something cut him on
the back.  He turned around to see a fuming Ryouga with a slightly
bloodied bandanna in his hand.

"Ranma!  What do you think you're doing??!!!"  Ranma looked down at this,
wincing in pain.  He noticed that he and Akane WERE sitting kind of close,
and in close enough that things could happen that would cause Ryouga major
blood loss through the nasal cavity.

"Gimme a break Ryouga!  We're just talking, do you think I'd really...."
He managed, for once in his life to stop himself.  He looked at Akane who
was, as if on cue starting to turn blue with ki.  He glanced over and gave
Ryouga a look of outright defiance.  "Akane, if the decision is on my
shoulders, then I don't want to carry on the Anything Goes School with
anyone else, and I hope you feel the same way."

Akane came down from her start at anger, her ki diminishing.  She looked
up at Ranma with a softened look.  Ranma moved closer to her, and kissed
her gently on the lips.  They disengaged and Akane replied very simply
"yes, I do feel the same..."

Ryouga had a look of absolute horror now.  He couldn't believe what he was
seeing.  Akane actually WANTS to marry Ranma?  "What????"  Akane looked
over at Ryouga and saw a bright red surge of ki swirling around the lost
boy.  "Ryouga, we have to, at the very least secure the school.  That and
I think I l..."  She was cut off but Ryouga screaming and hurling himself
at Ranma.

"NOOOOO!!!!!"  Ryouga was on top of Ranma by now, slamming him to the
ground, right onto the injury he had already sustained.  "I won't let you
take her away!"  Ryouga came down with a hard right to Ranma's face.  

Ranma looked up at him in absolute defiance once more.  "What's wrong
P-chan, don't you think someone else could love you?  Piggie wig...oof!"
He landed another hard right into Ranma's gut.

"Ryouga, PLEASE!"  She couldn't believe what she was hearing. <I won't let
you take her away?  I was never his to take, was I?>  She started to run
toward him, but just then Ranma managed to get a bearing and flipped
Ryouga off of him and the roof right toward the carp pond.  Akane looked
on somewhat in disbelief as Ryouga didn't climb out of the pond, and
P-chan struggled his way to land.

"P-chan?  Ranma, that's not Ryouga....oh God Ranma...."  She was so upset
suddenly that she coudn't control her emotions. This had all happened so
quickly.

By this time Ranma had a stupid grin on his face, and was nearly laughing.
"Don't worry 'bout it Akane."  He stopped for a moment to steady himself.
"Ryouga had it coming to him.  There's still one more thing I've gotta do
to make things even with him though."

"Wha.." She didn't have time to react.  Suddenly Ranma's arms exploded in
a bloody mess with blades protruding out the bottom in a similar manner to
that of the weapons Mousse used in his first fight with Ranma.  He lunged
forward making two deep wounds in Akane's torso.

P-chan was now staring in a disbelief.  Ranma was so bent on revenge
against him that he was willing to kill the only one Ryouga loved?  P-chan
began to glow a dark blue and was starting to swell with a dark red aura.
He jump from the shore of the carp pond toward the roof and was by this
time glowing bright white.

*******

Ryouga lies in bed with an ice pack on his head.  He is at the Tendo house
asleep.  The room a illuminated with an eerie light.  The scene pans
around in search of the light source, then focuses on Ryouga.  He is lying
in a deep white aura.  Suddenly he sits straight up in bed and screams.

"Shichihokodan!!!"

*******

The local authorities had arrived to survey the damages.  The Tendo home
and training hall had been nearly destroyed from a blast that came from
within the house.  The enire household had been injured and were rushed to
the hospital.  Soun, Genma, Nodoka, and Kasumi were in intensive care for
third degree burns, but would be released soon.  Nabiki, Akane, and Ranma
were critically injured in the blast.  It had collapsed the roof and had
come down hard on the three.  The only person that wasn't injured by burns
was Ryouga.  He had however been trapped under the collapsed roof and was
rescued by authorities.  He had a pair of broken ribs, but the rest of his
injuries were superficial and would heal quickly.

*******
	It was just another typical morning around the Tendo household.
Ranma and his father were out early doing their morning training exercises
trying to knock each other into the carp pond, thus winning the match.
Ranma has been doing a very good job recently of winning the morning
spars, leaving Genma with few options to use against his son anymore.

"What's wrong old man?  Can'tcha even hit me anymore?"  Ranma blurted out
as he dodged yet another attempt by his father to kick him.

"You're getting cocky Ranma." Genma managed to land behind Ranma and land
a counter blow to his back.  "If you keep this up, you'll never become a
good heir to this school."

That blow was just enough to send Ranma stumbling forward and into the
carp pond.  Ranma-chan pulls herself out of the water, looking very
displeased, make that LIVID.

"I don't believe you have many other choices old man, so quit throwing the
business of the school into my face!"  At this he just happens to pull out
a bucket of water from no where and drench Genma.

**You take too much for granted, what if Happosai decides to find a
different heir?**  Mr. Panda having already whipped out a response.  He
looked up over Ranma's shoulder to notice that Ryouga was sitting on the
fence watching them spar.

"And just who do you think he'd pick, that kawaikunee tomboy you call my
fiancee?"  She said just in time to regret it, seeing an eerie blue glow
from over his shoulder. <oh no...>

"Ranma!!!"  Ryouga had jumped down from the fence and was charging at him.
Of course since Ryouga has a bad habit of warning his opponent of his
attack, Ranma had no problems getting out of the way of this.  "How dare
you insult Akane like that!?  I won't allow you to talk about her that
way!!!"

Ryouga came again, but Ranma had been anticipating this situation for a
while now, and was very blunt with him as he dodged this attack. "Ryouga,
cut it out.  No matter how I may talk about her, it doesn't change the
fact that I love her."  He countered Ryouga attack by hitting him in the
face with his left fist.

Ryouga found this very strange.  <Ranma is right handed, so why would try
to counter with his left?>  Then he found out.  He caught Ranma's hand
with every intention of hurting him, but when he did, Ranma opened his
hand.  There was small box doubled up in his fist.  "huh?"

Ranma couldn't hold back a smirk.  "Ryouga, I'm glad you're here to
witness this, cuz I may need a best man."  Ranma disengaged his fist, and
walked over to a still glowing Akane, while Ryouga kept a very confused
expression on his countenance.

"What do you want now?"  Akane was fuming, however with the look Ranma had
on his face, she ended up calming down a bit.

"I need to tell you something."  He placed one hand on his fiancee's
shoulder and looked her in the eye.  "I think you would make an excellent
heir to the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts, and..."  He was choked
with emotion and had to catch his breath.  The view allows you to see over
Ranma's shoulder at a very perplexed Ryouga.

"...if you feel the same way about me, then would you um, marry me?"


Ryouga couldn't take it any more.  There was no way he was going to allow
that jerk to tie her down forever to him.

Akane's eyes were welled up with tears of joy by now and had latched onto
Ranma.  "Yes you baka."  At this the two kissed.

Ryouga waited for the two to disengage as he looked on in horror.  Then
Ranma turned around to approach him.  "So buddy, about that best man..."

Ryouga darted at Ranma, screaming something completely unintelligable.
Ranma got out of the way, not really sure if he expected this or not.  Now
it was Akane's to look on in horror.  Ryouga had lost every bit of reason,
and now he was going to kill Ranma Saotome.

The fight wore on, Ryouga not being able to hit Ranma in his rage, but
doing a good job of destroying things in the process.  Ranma had to do
something to stop him, and fast.  

"I hate to do this to ya buddy, but you won't stop it..."  Ranma hefted a
fairly large stone in the direction of Ryouga.  He punched it shattering
it.  With this distracting him, Ranma came in and delivered his Kachuu
Tenshin Amiguriken to Ryouga's head.  This dazed Ryouga and he tripped
backwards, right into the carp pond.

Ranma frowned.  Not about Ryouga's rage, and not about what might happen
now that Akane knew about Ryouga, but about his honor.  He had just
betrayed Ryouga in order to stop him.  He turned to face Akane who was
still in shock.  He went over and hugged her gently.

"Akane, go get some hot water, I'll take care of Ryouga and we talk about
this after that."

Akane looked up in a half nod and walked back toward the house.  P-chan
still hadn't come completely out of his dazed state and was lying on the
shore of the carp pond.  

"Come on buddy, you and I have some stuff to discuss."  He picked up
P-chan and walked back into the house.

*******

Akane had finally managed to make some hot water (she's not much of a
cook, and with the state of shock she was in her skills didn't improve
much).  She walked out into the family room where Kasumi had made up a bed
at Ranma's request.  Over in the corner she saw Ranma tending to a wound
on the small piglet's head.  When he was finished, he laid the piglet out
on it's back and took the kettle from Akane.  He poured just enough out to
induce the change in Ryouga.  He then dried Ryouga off and put some light
clothes on him and hefted him into bed.  Ryouga had fallen into shock from
his injury and from the whole situation with he and Akane.  Kasumi had
gone into the kitchen to get an ice pack and placed it on Ryouga's wound.
Ranma put on arm around Akane and kissed her on the forehead.

"Come on, we'll go talk upstairs."
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I don't know if this is the end of part 1 or not.  I haven't decided how
I'm going to divide this up.  Over christmas I'll have more time to work
on it.  Comments and suggestions are most welcome!