"DOUBLE TROUBLE"
An alternative reality fanfic by Emily Siazon.
All characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi.
-kun is added to the name if the character is in cursed boy form.
-chan is added to the name if the character is in cursed girl form.
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What happened before:
-Ranma fell into uncursed spring 10 years ago.
-Akane fell into an uncursed spring 10 years later.
-Akane falls into the Ranmaniichuan.
-Ranma falls into the Akaneniichuan.
-Their fathers engage them.
-Kuno confesses his love to them.
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Chapter 4
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     Ranma-chan stood on the baseball field at Furinkan and watched the
sun set. She sighed in content as she leaned against a tree and admired
her tranquil surroundings.

     A shadow appeared beside her and she looked up, a smile on her face.

     Her expression quickly changed as Kuno threw his arms around her
and yelled, "Fair maiden, I can't lived without you! Promise to be mine
forever!" He then stopped suffocating her long enough to give her a
boquet of roses before glomping onto her again, yelling, "I shall never
let you go!"

     "Aahh!" Ranma yelled, sweat dripping from his face as he woke up
from his worst nightmare.

     He slowly made his way downstairs and sat next to Akane who was
already eating her breakfast.

     "You look awful." She commented as she reached for more boiled sea
grass.

     "I had this totally gross nightmare." He answered as he slapped
his father's hand away from his food.

     "Akane, could you return this book I borrowed from Dr.Tofu?" Kasumi
interrupted as she sat down.

     "Sorry, I can't today."

     "Well, I guess I'll have to go then."

     Akane nodded as she stood up and took off her bathrobe, revealing
a red leotard with a cute fluffy tail over fishnet stockings. The high
heels and the bunny ears she was putting on completed the ensemble.

     "Why are you dressed like that?" Ranma asked, starting to sweat as
he remembered her threat about running in her male form wearing
something feminine.

     "Heh. With this perfect disguise, there's no way those idiots could
bother me today."

     "Um." Was all he could think to say as they got up and walked to
school, receiving a lot of stares on the way.

     Akane confidently entered through the gates, the boy's eyes
widening considerably at the sight of her.

     "Hey, who is that?" One of the boys asked.

     "See." She whispered to Ranma with a smug smile.

     "She's cute!" Another one said.

     "I'm gonna ask her out!" The boys yelled in unison as they started
to chase Akane who couldn't defend herself because of her outfit.

     "Ranma! Help!" She yelled as the boys started to catch up.

     Ranma stayed still, a smile on his face. "You were saying?"

     Akane skidded to a halt, her eyes narrowing dangerously. "So,
you're gonna be mean, huh?" She then faced the horde of boys, signaling
them to stop. "I think you should all know that I am Akane Tendo..."

     The boys promptly takes out their weapons, ready to beat her to a
pulp.

     "...but I am not the one you must defeat." She said softly, a tear
appearing on the corner of her eyes. "To date me, you must defeat Ranma
Saotome, the evil sorcerer who has enslaved me."

     "What!?" Ranma yelled in shock as the boys started to advance
towards him menacingly, joined by the girls who had also heard Akane's
speech.

     "Enemy of women!" They all yelled angrily as they pummeled him to
the ground.

     The shocked Ranma was quickly beaten up, simply too overwhelmed by
the whole thing.

     After the students left for their classes, Akane, who had changed
back to her usual boys uniform, started to drag him toward doctor's
office.

                              * * *

     They were only a block away from the school when all the
sprinklers in the neighborhood went on.

     "Why me?" They both sighed while they wrung their clothes dry as
they continued their journey, only to be interrupted yet again by an
angry yell.

     "Ranma Saotome, prepare to die!"

     Ranma-chan quickly got up into a defensive stance, extending her
senses to find the source of the angry voice. Akane-kun, on the other
hand, dropped her guard as she vainly tried to remember where she had
heard the familiar voice before.

     Ranma-chan saw the source of the voice charging towards them with
a red umbrella. The figure was about her height when she was in normal
form and was wearing a bright yellow Astro Boy t-shirt and black pants.

     She positioned herself to counter the attack and was shocked when
the irate boy ran past her and headed straight towards the distracted
Akane-kun.

     Ranma-chan swore under her breath. Of course the boy wouldn't
attack her while she was in her cursed form, but that also meant that
the psycopath was going to try to decapitate Akane-kun with his
umbrella.

     Akane-kun felt movement behind his back and dodged, just in time to
miss being beheaded. He saw the wall that the umbrella did hit turn to
dust and turned around to lecture whoever was trying to kill her why
it's wrong to destroy other people's property.

     Her eyes narrowed dangerously as she caught sight of her attacker.
"You!" She growled as she started to stalk the bandana clad boy, not
unlike a predator would stalk it's prey.

     A flicker of fear brieftly made its way into the other boy's eyes
but was quickly replaced by anger.

     "You have no reason to be angry, Ranma. I, however do have a reason.
Because of you, I have seen hell!" The mysterious boy yelled as he
ripped eight bandannas off his head and threw them towards Akane-kun.

     Ranma-chan's eyes widened in recognition as she remembered the boy
she had met in junior high. <But why is Ryoga trying to kill me?> She
wondered.

     As Akane-kun leapt up to avoid the flurry of bandannas, he
distinctly heard another voice from behind him yell, "Die!"

     After he landed on a roof, he saw the bandannas that were aimed at
him only seconds before collide with spatulas thrown by the newcomer and
fall harmlessly to the ground.

     Ryoga glared at the boy wearing a uniform from a nearby boy's
school.

     "How dare you interfere in a man to man fight!"

     "No way I'm gonna let you finish him off." The newcomer replied as
he took a couple of practice swings with his giant spatula. "I'm the one
who gets to kill him."

     "No way! He ran out of our man to man fight!"

     "Well, he and his father abandoned me ten years ago, so I get to
kill him!"

     "Hah! I was here first!"

     "Was not! I just made some plans first instead of attacking blindly
like you did!"

     "Was too! And my attack happened to be carefully planned."

     "Was not!"

     "Was too!"

     "Not!"

     "Too!"

     "Not!"

     "Hey!" Ranma interrupted after changing back into his normal form.
"Stop fighting on who gets to kill me."

     The two boys stopped their argument long enough to glare at Ranma
and yell in unison, "Butt out! This doesn't concern you!"

     "But aren't you two trying to kill..." Ranma asked the two boys who
had seem to have forgotten their main objective.

     "Let's settle this in a duel!" Ryoga said, completely ignoring
Ranma.

     "You're on!"

     The two boys faced each other, their spatula and umbrella poised
for battle. The boy in the school uniform attacked first, swinging his
giant spatula in a wild arc. His blow was blocked by the bamboo umbrella
and he felt something tighten around his arm.

     He looked up in surprise and noticed a bandanna wrapped around his
arm. He took one of his flour bombs and threw it in the air, giving him
enough time to cut the bandanna in half.

       When the air cleared, Ryoga found a dozen sharp spatulas coming
towards him at an alarming rate. With a yelp, he jumped up in the air
and landed near his opponent. He decided to end the fight quickly by
knocking the giant spatula out of the other boys hand.

     He swung his umbrella but made a slight miscalculation on his aim,
ripping the front off the other boy's shirt instead. He was about to
continue his assault when he got a closer look at his opponent's now
opened shirt.

     "Excuse me, are those breast!?" He asked in disbelief right before
he fainted.

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AUTHORS NOTES:
        I'm not sure whether or not to end this chapter here or explain
why those two are trying to kill Ranma. What do you think?
        For those of you who were wondering, the outfit Akane was 
wearing looks like the one Ranma-chan was wearing in the Tsubasa story.
        Send your comments and criticism to <emily9@bellatlantic.net>