BTW, I read Out of Sync and I *liked* it...so whoever thinks that alternate
universes are a cliche', all I have to say is: I happen to like alternate
universes and it's too late to change the story and I'm the writer of this
anyway and I can do anything I want, so BEEEEEDAH! ;-p
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Well, here is part 2 of my fanfic, folks!  This one's a little long, but I
hope it puts a smile on your face.  It certainly did to me!

Oh yeah, Sailor Moon characters are the sole creation of Naoko Takeuchi.
Ranma 1/2 characters are the sole creation Rumiko Takahashi.  Zaniness
with a bit of me is the creation of the soul.  

(Wait, that last one doesn't sound right...)


			A Making of a Strong Heart
					or
			Be it Ever so Humble...

				Chapter Two



Well, wasn't it just a *perfect* day...

Her alarm clock failed to ring on time--perhaps the stopper snapped when
she had smashed it into Ranma's forehead last night.  His head would be
hard enough to break her clock!  So she was late for breakfast, with
Kasumi clucking her tongue in her usual wounded manner whenever she was the
slightest disappointed in her sister.  And Ranma just *had* to wait for
her instead of leaving for school with Nabiki, and he just *had* to taunt her
about her sleeping habits as they dashed to school.  It was his fault that
she kicked him into the nearest building.  It was his fault he didn't
watch where he landed.

So she had to rescue him from twenty shrieking members of the Tachenko
women's gymnastics team who were in the middle of changing uniforms when a
certain man came sailing into their midst, with him bellowing that he
could handle it himself.  And someone had to throw a bucket of water at him
just as 
he was about to be pummeled into obscurity, so she had to drag him, now a her,
out.

It would've been fine, all fine, if one of the biggest (and the most
muscular) women among them shouted, "Lookit girls!  Hiding behind a girl's
figure!  You would think he'd be *man* enough to take us on, but
nooo...Whatsa matter, sissy boy? You can't take us on without turning into
a girl?"

And the fool, the stupid, stubborn, idiotic fool, had snapped as she
dragged him/her out by the pigtail. "Meet me behind the school and I'll
show you what this female body can do!"

And the girl, whom Akane knew well as Shinoun Reikka, the champion of
home-cooked karate wrestling at Tachenko, who once placed the entire male
wrestling team and the entire female home economics team in the hospital
for three weeks, snapped, "All right, after school. You come with that
little stick of yours behind you and I'll use the both of you to pick my
teeth."

"You're on!!" Ranma-chan yelled.

Why that dumb, egotistical, stupid, ooooo, *boy*!!!!

So with a challenge hanging over their heads, they had shown up late for
school, charging through the usual camaderie of jealous boys and girls
(again) and was forced to spend the rest of the morning standing in the
hall holding buckets of water (again).  And Upperclassman Kuno chose that
time to declare his love for her and the 'pig-tailed goddess' (again).  By the
time lunch rolled around, she had broken three jaws, twisted a few arms, and
sent a good number of men into orbit, several of them being (of course)
Ranma.

It was not a fun day.

The coup de grace had come just before school ended.

Ranma would never give up this sick obsession of his to 'heal' a certain
child-sized sensei who sucked in ki like a baby sucks at a bottle, the ki
energy maturing her body at an obscenely rapid rate, until she blew it out
again using the mysterious 5-yen, blasting her opponents away.  The only
way to cure her of it was to prod her in her vital points, a cure Ranma
just loved to try, over and over and over again.  Akane had came outside
when one of these 'treatments' backfired, as Ranma-chan careened full-tilt
into her.

"I thought I told you to stay out the way!" He/she snapped.

"I just came out here, you dolt!"

**CRASH!**  Ranma-chan careened off a wall, avoiding another ki-blast. Akane
glared at her, nestled safely in her arms.

"I could've avoided that without your help, thank you very much!"

"Look, if you're going to be this uncaring, how are we going to defeat
that monster wrestler-chick later on?"

"We?  We?  I don't recall agreeing to help you to do anything! You dug
your own hole, Ranma.  Now lie in it!"

"ARRGGHHH!!!"  An unlucky guy shrieked as Ninomiya Hinako drained his
ki-energy.  Her yellow dress stretched tightly over her too-formed body. 
Akane pushed away from Ranma-chan's grasp.

"Well, we would probably lose anyway, with the type of cooking from such
an uncute tomboy like you!"

"What was that?  What did you call me?"

"Tomboy!  Tomboy! Tom--"

**CLANG!!**

"How dare you call Akane such an offensive name!" As always, Ryoga defused
the argument by showing up when no one expected him.  Ranma-chan glared at the
bandana-wearing young man while rubbing the lump on her head.  With
genuine concern, Ryoga turned to Akane.  "Are you all right?"

Akane sighed.  If Ranma was only half the gentleman Ryoga was...oh, wait. 
He was only half a man...  "Everything's fine.  It's just..."

"Hey, P-chan, I thought you'd be at Mount Fuji by now." Ranma-chan taunted
with glee as she dove over Hinako's head.  "What happened?  Did you miss
yet another turn and wound up here for once?"

Ryoga's face turned a dangerous purple.  "My name," he growled for the
umpteenth time. "is not P-chan, you fool!!  You'll pay for that!"

Akane groaned.  Every single day.... "Will you two stop it just for
once?!"

"What?" Ranma-chan snapped.  Her eyes widened as a soft ringing sound
filled the air.

**BOOM!! SPLASH!!**

"Nihao, Ranma! Shampoo come to help!!"

Ranma said nothing, his face smashed into the ground while perched above
him on a bicycle, Ranma's other "financee" giggled and tucked the
now-empty teapot away.  She then leveled a not-too-civil gaze at Akane.
"What you
do with Shampoo's husband? You no help?"

"Ask him if he wants help,"  Akane growled.  "Ranma, you can get someone
else to help you fight Shinoun Reikka for you.  I'm going home." This was
all getting to be too much.

Ryoga, livid with rage, shouted, "You challenged Akane to fight the
world's fiercest female home-cooking karate wrestler?  Have you lost your
mind?!!"  Without even thinking and apparently for no reason at all, he
whipped out a bucket of water.

At the same time, Hinako shouted "HAPPOU-FIVE-GOEN-SATSU!!!"  Her eyes were
fixed directly on Akane.

And Ranma looked up in time to shout, "Akane!! Behind you!!"  He leapt to
his feet, throwing Shampoo, bicycle and all, off his back with a yelp.

"How could you, Saotome!!!"  Ryoga threw the water.  It arched in the air,
sparkling beautifully.

The 5-yen piece glowed a bright yellow and spat out a streak of full
ki-energy.  It charged directly towards Akane.

Akane gasped.  She turned and ran towards Ranma.  Unfortunately, running
directly in the path of the water.

The world went white.

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So this is what it felt like to be pummeled into oblivion.

Her head clanged.  Cautiously, she raised a hand to it as if it would stop
the immense throbbing.  With any luck, the water would've absorbed much of
the ki blast.  Still, once her ears stop ringing, if that sensei was still
around...oooo!

"Ranma?"

She winced as her words buzzed within her head.  People were leaning over
her--she could sense it.  She reached out to touch...

"Ra--Ranma?  What happened?"

Her eyesight was clearing.  Four girls were leaning over her, girls she
never seen before.  They must have rushed to her side when that ki blast
knocked her down.  It must have done one heck of a job on her from their
looks of astonishment.

One of them, a girl with the strangest pigtail hairdo, asked hesitantly,
"Are--are you okay?"

"Fine," Akane mumbled.  She made as if to sit up but the world went
spinning and she fell back, gasping.  "I'll be fine once I catch my
breath.  Where's Ranma?  Don't tell me he went chasing after that sensei..."
Inwardly, she felt a twinge of disappointment.  As if he would check on
her before bounding off to who knows where.  She cursed herself silently for
actually hoping he would...

The girl with the long, black hair spoke, "Who's Ranma?"

Akane blinked.  "You mean you don't know?  Good grief, how long have you
been going to Furinkan?  Everybody knows--" her voice trailed off as a
sudden jolt went through her, acute enough for her to scramble to her
feet.

"Danger!" She gasped, not caring what the others thought.  She looked
up...

And gaped as she saw a bright blast of _something_ hurtling towards her.

The next thing she knew, she was flying through the air--rather, hurtling
through the air in somebody's arms.  She looked up to see the blond girl,
the one with the loose hair and the bright red bow, her face unnaturally
grim as they alit on the ground, unharmed.

What in the world?

Angrily, she pushed herself away from the girl's grasp and tugged her
drooping sleeve back over her shoulder.  "I can take care of myself, thank
you!"

Instead of snapping back, like Ranma would, the girl stood, her feet
planted firmly apart, glaring at the sky.  Akane looked to see the other
girls in the same stance.  Frowning, she also looked up.  And blinked.

Two beings were floating in the air.

Two beings, with long, strangely-colored hair and pointed ears and eyes
that glowed, floating as if doing such a thing was the most natural thing
in the world.  And neither of them looked happy.

Akane decided she was dreaming.

The smaller one snarled, pointing a smudge on her face, "Look what you did
to my face, you creeps!  How dare you!"  She handed something to the
taller one.  "Make them pay for that, Alan!!"

He nodded, his face drawn in a fierce scowl.  "That was inexcusable,
Scouts.  Perhaps you need a lesson in learning how to respect your
betters. Cardigan Hanna-Doo, come forth!!!"

He tossed the something in the air and whipped out a strange rod that
looked to Akane like a twisted flute.  Her thoughts were confirms as he
put it to his lips and began playing a eerie sequence of notes.

Something glimmered in the sky above them.

"Look out!" The blonde pushed Akane out the way, just as a huge manlike
creature plummeted to the ground.  It was overly muscular, with small,
squinty eyes that turned suspiciously everywhere.  Its skin was a deep
brown with black spots about it.  Its face, complete with a rather scrappy
goatee, was that blocky, apelike quality that Akane was all too familar
with.  It was clad in snug pants, a loose green shirt that looked as if it
hadn't been ironed for weeks, and a yellow neckerchief (?).  It grunted
and began running in place, staring towards Akane.  "Renkies!  Rile reach roo
roo rake run rowf reeeeee!!!!  Rooby-rooby-roooooo!!!"  It snarled.

For a disorenting second, Akane thought she heard laughter.  *Boy oh boy,
this is one strange dream.*

"Hope you enjoy yourselves, Sailor Scouts!" said the alien man.
"Buh-bye!!"  He and
his companion vanished in thin air.

The black-haired girl was having none of it.  As the blonde dove towards
Akane, she clapped her hands together, index fingers pointing towards the
beast, and chanted in a strong voice, "MARS...FIRE...IGNITE!!!"

A blast of fire streaked from her fingertips, startling Akane.  The beast
leapt up and yowled, though it sounded more like "Roooowwwwllll!!!  Rats
rurts!!!"

The blond muttered beneath her breath, "There's that crazy laughter
again..."

Akane twisted in her arms.  "What's going on?" she cried, baffled. 
"What--?"

Without releasing her hold, the blond shot an arm behind her and literally
screamed in Akane's ear, "VENUS...CRESCENT-BEAM...SMASH!!!"

A yellow beam erupted from her finger.  Akane gaped as it slashed across
the beast's back and it leapt straight up in the air, its hair remaining
impeccably in place, illiciting another rash of disembodied tinny
laughter.

"Stay here," the blonde commanded, but Akane pushed at her.

"No! I can take care of myself just as well..."

The beast backflipped directly into their path, flinging something towards
them.  "Rooby-rooby-roo!  Rooby rack rime!!!"  The air became filled with
small objects.  Akane saw the blond jerk, as one slammed into her. Without
thinking, she yanked the blond to the ground in time to hear her grumble,
"Cookies.  He's throwing cookies at us!"

Akane shook her head as she picked one off the ground.  "Those aren't
cookies.  I think they're dog biscuits."  Which was just as bizarre.  She
yelped as one banged into her shin. One thing for sure, they were hard as
rocks.  "Hey! That hurts!" She snapped as another one bounced off her arm.

Dreams aren't supposed to be so painful...

"MERCURY BUBBLES...BLAST!!!"

A wave of bubbles washed over them, and suddenly the air became misty.  

The blonde grabbed her wrist.  "Come on!"  But Akane shook it off. 
Tugging at her clothes (for some reason, they just won't stay on her
shoulder),
she scrambled to her feet, breathing hard, her voice high enough to be a
shriek. "You know, I have had just about enough of this!"

She reached for the space where she stored her wooden mallet...and her
hand passed through nothing.

She stammered, "What?" just as the beast howled and charged.

Akane was stunned, but she wasn't too stunned to pivot just as the beast
reached her and drive a foot towards its midsection.  The impact spun her
to the ground, but with satisfaction she smiled as she heard an answering
"Rooffff!!!"

"Now!" The blonde shouted.

Akane turned to see the other blonde, the one with the pigtails, whip out
what looked like a scepter with a red heart atop it.  She waved it a few
times and shouted, "MOON...SCEPTER...ELIMINATION!!!"

Glitter and tiny crescent moons spilled from the rod.  *So what's that
supposed to do?* Akane thought as the cutsey wave washed over the beast. 

She got her answer as the beast reared up with an inhumane howl or
"ROOOWWWLLLLUUUUULLLLL" and vanished.  All that was left was a playing
card with the beast's face on it, which slowly faded to black. 

Akane slowly rose to her feet, gawking at the pig-tailed girl.  "How
d'you--?  Who--?"

The other blonde said, "Canned laughter."

"What?!"

She said, "Canned laughter.  Like what you hear when you're watching those
American cartoons.  Some of them would have this audience cracking up at
every move the cartoon made.  I remember now."

"That makes sense," the black-haired said.  "Wow, these monsters are
getting weirder and weirder."

"Excuse me," Akane ventured.

The four girls stopped their talk and stared at her.  As if they were
seeing her for the first time.  A movement caught Akane's eye and she
looked down to see two cats, one black, one white, approach to sit at the
girls feet, staring at her with the same intensity.  Almost as if...

Nawww...

Akane smiled weakly before pulling at her clothes again.  "Uh, would you
mind telling me exactly who you are? And where are the others?  And why
was that monster attacking you?" She added under her breath, And where's
Ranma?

The pigtailed girl spoke.  "Why, I am Sailor Moon, and that's Sailor Mars,
Sailor Mercury, and Sailor Venus.  We are the Sailor Scouts.  Haven't you
heard of us?"

"Uh, no."

She blinked.  "Really? Are you sure?  We stand for truth and justice.  We
go around fighting evil and such.  Everybody in Tokyo knows all about the
Sailor Scouts!"  Tears were actually forming in her big blue eyes.  "How
can you not know about us?"

Akane shrugged.  "Well, I lived in Tokyo all my life, and I never heard of
you."

"Never. Heard. Of. Us?"  cried the girl.  Tears were literally pouring
from her eyes now.  The others bowed their heads, beads of sweat appearing
on their brows.  "But that's impossible!  Everyone knows Sailor
Mooooon!!!" Her words disintergrated into sobs.

"Really." Sailor Mars groaned.  She frowned at Akane.  "Exactly where in
Tokyo are you from?"

"In Nerima.  I live at the Tendo Martial Arts School of Indiscriminate
Grappling. North of here. I'm Tendo Akane." She bowed slightly.  The black
cat unwound itself from the pigtail's legs and cautiously approached her,
its little nose wrinkling.  Akane noticed that there was a strange
crescent-shaped mark on its forehead.  If she didn't know any better, she
would say the cat was frowning--actually frowning.

"North?"  Sailor Mars turned to the others.  "Isn't that where Lita
lives?"

"I think so.  I didn't recall seeing a training hall there, though. And I
never heard of Nerima."

Akane wrinkled her forehead.  "Lita?"

The blonde, the one called Sailor Venus,  smiled in apology.  "I'm sorry. 
That's the girl who's clothes you're wearing right now."

"Clothes?"  For the first time, Akane looked down and gawked.  Her white
blouse and blue jumper was gone, replaced by a sailor fuku that was
similar to what the others were wearing except that the flap and skirt was
green.
No wonder it kept falling off her shoulders; the shirt was several sizes
too large for her, and drooped, barely covering her chest.  The skirt was
also loose, and it ended well above her knees.  *Good grief, the girl who
wore this must have been incredibly tall! If the mini-skirt alone shows
this much of my legs, then on her--*  She couldn't finish the thought, her
face reddening furiously.

"How?" She instead stammered.  "How did this happen?"

Sailor Mercury tugged on her ear.  A blue visor spanned across her face
and she stared at Akane through it, small lights flickering upon the
visor.

"How strange," she announced.  She then pulled out a compact with a
strange sign on it.  *Fine time to check for makeup*, Akane thought, when
it started making beeping sounds.  The girl was tapping on it like, like,
a computer.  "This is unbelievable!" she said, her voice quickening in
amazement.  "The readings from her are similar to that of Lita's.  Same
body composition, patterns, and such.  At the same time, though, they don't
coordinate with each other at all!  It's as if they're one and the same!"

Akane blinked at her.  The pigtail girl, the one who called herself Sailor
Moon, leaned over and whispered.  "Don't worry.  Half the things Mercury
says I barely understand either."

"What I mean is," the girl clarified. "This girl is not part of this
world."

"WHAT?!" everyone exclaimed.

Mercury looked at Akane.  "You say you're from Tokyo, correct?  Does any
of this look familiar to you?"

Akane looked around.  The street they were standing on looked like any
other street--she stopped short.  On the wall of one store there was a
poster of a girl kicking a man.  "SAILOR V! Watch for the OAV!"  The girl
bore an uncanny resemblence to the blond, except for the mask.  In the
window of one store, there was a cardboard cutout of the scouts in
fighting poses with huge smiles.  And there, on one wall, somebody had
scrawled,
"Negaverse Rules!!"

"Negaverse?" she said faintly.  "This is wrong. This is all wrong."

"That's because you've never seen it before." Mercury said, looking at her
compact.  "The Tokyo you're from never had the Sailor Scouts or the
Negaverse.  There may be a few similarities, but..."

"Of course!"  said a high, grandmotherly voice, coming from somewhere near
Akane's feet.  She looked to see the black cat looking at the others, its
mouth moving.  "That would explain why I sense a strangeness from her, but
one that's still familiar.  She must be tied to Lita in some way."

Instead of staring, like anyone else would, Akane knelt and smiled at the
cat.  "Oh!  Have you been to Jusenkyo too?"

The cat blinked.  "Pardon?"

"Jusenkyo.  The cursed pools in China.  Shampoo also turns into a cat but
I never known her to talk while--"  Slowly,  Akane became aware of not
only the cat, but the others were staring at her with varying degrees of
puzzlement.  She felt a sweatdrop run down the back of her head as she
murmured.  "Uh, sorry."  No way was she going to explain the pools if they
never heard of it.  It was just too darn complicated.  She instead said,
"But if I'm not part of this Tokyo, how did I get here in the first
place?"

The cat frowned.  "I don't know, but it may have something to do with what
happened to Sailor Jupiter."

Sailor Mars turned a fierce glare towards Sailor Moon.  "Just exactly what
happened, anyway?  Those two aliens were yelling at us, and I remember
them blasting us..."

Sailor Moon looked miserable.  "I didn't mean to.  All of you was down
except Jupiter.  She was yelling at them, and was about to do her attack. 
Her sailor suit was on fire and I threw some water at her to put it
out..."

"And nearly blew us to kingdom come!" shouted Mars, "Who knows what
happened to Lita!"

"You would've done the same thing!" Sailor Moon retorted.

"Would not!"

"Would too!"

The two began sticking their tongues out at each other.  *Wow, they're
just like Ranma and me*, Akane thought, when what Sailor Moon said struck
her.  "Wait a minute.  Water?  I think that's what happened to me, too."

The girls stared at her, Sailor Moon and Mars breaking off their fight,
their faces glistening.  "What?!"

"That--kinda happened to me too.  At least, being hit with water and all."
 
The cat peered up at her.  "Tendo..."

"No, Akane."

"Really? Last name first?"

"We are speaking the same language, ne?  Surnames always come first."

"Uh, I suppose,"  the cat frowned before continuing, "Akane--Am I saying
that right?--did anything strange happen to you when you got hit with
water?  Were you near any power source or were you in a thunderstorm?"

Akane sighed.  Might as well tell them.  "No.  You see, I was running from
a ki-blast Ranma's sensei was throwing, and I guess I kinda got in the
way..."

"Ki-blast?"

"Please don't ask me to explain."

"Very well."

"Anyway, I was running towards Ranma, and then Ryoga shouted something,
and I saw him throwing some water, and then everything went screwy."

"Just like what happened to Lita."  Sailor Moon whispered.

 "The next thing I knew, I'm here."

Sailor Mercury nodded vigorously, her eyes lighting up.  "Your blast and
Lita's must have occurred instantaneously enough to cause a slight anolomy
in the space/time continuum.  The sheer power alone must have knocked the
both of you out of your respective positions, switching you to the far
side of where those blasts would have taken you had you still remained. 
However, the anomoly must have waned just before you were able to return, 
so instead the anomoly placed you at the nearest place the blast occurred,
except this time it wasn't the blast you experienced but rather in its
nearest proximity, which had to be in the exact parallel spot!"

Silence.  Deep, deep silence.

Sailor Mercury hung her head.  "In other words, you and Sailor Jupiter
switched places when you both were hit with water and power at the same
time."

Ahhhs of understanding came from the group.  Sailor Venus added.  "Well,
if all they did is switch places, then wouldn't water and power switch them
back?"

"I'm afraid it's not as simple as it sounds." Mercury began tapping on her
compact again.  "We have to set it up so that Akane here gets hit with
water and power at exactly the same time that Lita does, assuming that she
is now where Akane was.  The odds of that happening again is nearly one
million to one.  We would also have to configure how much power it took to
make them switch places.  When Lita was powering up for her attack, she
had enough electricity in her to short out most of Tokyo.  Recreating such
conditions could be dangerous, and since Akane's not a scout..."

"Then doing such a thing could kill her instead of sending her back," Mars
finished slowly.

Akane stared from one scout to another.  "You mean," she gulped. "You
mean, I actually might be stranded here?"  *Without Ranma?*

Mercury looked up from her compact to give her a comforting smile.  "I
won't put it as dour as that.  For an action, there's always a reaction. 
There are an infinite number of ways to get you home.  We just have to
find the right one."

"Um, speaking about going home," Sailor Moon said, glancing nervously over
her shoulder.  "I think it's time we pulled a disappearing act of our own.
People are beginning to, um, notice."  It was true.  People were wandering
into the square, staring dazedly at the girls and the damage that was
created.

"Right!" said Sailor Venus.  She turned to Akane.  "How good are you at
running?"

Akane shrugged.  "Oh, I can keep a good pace."

Venus nodded.  Mars then said, "Then how's all of us going to my place,
then?  I can do a fire reading and see if we can find out where Lita is."

"Good idea!"  Venus sang.  Before Akane knew it, they were streaking down
the street, Venus maintaining a firm grip on her arm.  How strange it
felt. When she and Ranma were late for school, he never held so much as her
hand, let alone her arm.  As they put the square behind them, Mercury
gasped out, "By the way, Akane, if Lita has truly switched to your Tokyo,
would she be in any danger or anything?"

Akane thought hard.  "Not much, I think.  Ranma should take care of it, I
think."

"Ranma? That guy you were asking for earlier?"

"Yeah. The worse that could happen is he may tease Ryoga into doing something
foolish, like go after me or something.  No, I think your Lita would be
safe.  I mean, Ranma and the other guys may not be much, but if she
doesn't mind being around a bunch of junevile men all the time, then..."

Akane's words were cut short as she ran straight into Mars back.

"What?"  She began to say, when she noticed that Sailor Mars was staring
at her with the most peculiar expression.  In fact, all the Scouts had
stopped and was staring at her.

"Did.. Did you just say men?"  Mars stammered.  "Lita...around a
bunch...of...men?!"

Akane felt her heart beat faster.  "Is that a bad thing?"

She yelped as Mars grabbed her wrist and literally tore down the street.

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Ranma cried out.  "Akane!!"

He watched with horror as the water hit her body at the same time as the
ki-blast.  The result knocked him back ten feet, fetching him against a
wall.

He rubbed his head groggily to see Akane flying right towards him. 
Quicker than light, he leapt towards her.  "I got you, Akane!"

The result knocked him right back against the wall with a great "Oooff!" 

He didn't have time to see if she was all right, because Sensei Hinako was
powering up for yet another blast.  "Hold on!" He yelled as he leapt,
crushing Akane tightly to him.  

He grinned as the blast passed through where he was a second ago.
Squeezing Akane as he landed, he felt her heart beating strongly and
thanked Whoever was listening for her safety.  He almost thought he lost
her.  Now, to deal with Ryoga.

As he ran, he couldn't help murmuring into Akane's hair as it flapped in
his face.  "Well, well, haven't *we* been putting on a few pounds
lately..."

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