Tuesday began as usual.  Ranma insults Akane.  Akane knocks Ranma into the pond.  
Genma insults Ranma’s martial arts abilities.  Ranma knocks Genma into the pond.  Soun bawls.  
Kasumi announces that it is time for breakfast.  Everyone eats.  Kids go to school.  Parents rejoice.
	However, instead of teaching their beginner classes as their usual schedule demands, Genma 
Saotome and Soun Tendo are doing preparing for a truly unique event.  The coming of age ceremony 
is very rarely performed, and it has only been performed on a female once, in a variation that can 
never be repeated in this generation.  They had devised a ceremony on Monday, and the preparations 
had to be started immediately.
	Soun got on the phone with some of his connections.  Genma went to the commercial district 
to arrange the rental of a big screen television.  In addition to her usual shopping, Kasumi purchased 
several streamers, fireworks, and some sturdy rope.  Nabiki called in some favors in order to keep the 
whole thing from becoming public.  Ranma and Akane stopped fighting each other; they instead beat 
the crap out of Kuno, putting him in a hospital and out of their hair until the ceremony has been 
completed.
	In the afternoon, Ukyo begins filling out a curious order.  Very rarely are twenty 
okinomiyakis ordered at once, to be delivered two days later.  It was the first time they have ever had 
martial arts katas depicted upon them.  It was also the first time the Tendo dojo ordered a delivery 
from Ucchan’s.  With the destination in mind, she put some exploding flour in half of them, with the 
hopes of injuring either Akane or Ranma’s father.
	Finally, the unnamed Anything Goes student is anxious.  She had no idea what to expect, 
and the fact that she had found out about her masters’ diabolical planning from Kasumi left her 
scared for her life.
	Meanwhile, somewhere in Uzbekistan, a boy wearing a green shirt, black pants, and a 
striped bandanna screams, “Where on earth am I now?”

******

So ends part 2.  I don’t think Ryoga has ever been to Uzbekistan before, and I just wanted to send him 
there.  Forewarned is forearmed: part three will come out tomorrow.  It will be entitled “Wednesday, 
April 16.”  *Stop hitting me with your forearm!*