hmmm... I don't know, I mean, she _did_ exact that seppuku oath from RAnma
and his father, whose to say she wouldn't have gone through with it?

Ah ha! But she didn't. Volume 36 of the manga prove that very clearly,
where Ranma's curse was revealed to her by misfortune. I suppose you have a
point here though, because the reason that Ranma was ordered to commit
sepuku in this fic was partly because she thought Ranma wasn't being manly
enough, and partly because she thought Ranma failed his family's vow in not
marrying Akane. Oh dear, I am contradicting myself here. I suppose
circumstances forced her hand....

I suppose my big problem here is that I wasn't able to find translations
or synopsises of vol. 36 before writing this, do you suppose you could
direct me toward some? anyway, with the premise of this story diverging a
bit from the real manga in saying that volume 36 didn't happen and Nodoka
didn't know, it is a kind of alternate reality Nodoka, and not completely
IC simply because I didn't know how to properly portray Nodoka IC, so I
made up what I didn't know. 

well, in this chapter neither one of them really was acting very
extremely.. (except for maybe that see with Akane and Ukyo, but then she's
understanable mad at Ukyo)... what scene's do you mean?

Well, what I meant is, Akane was over-reacting in her anger from her
conclusions about Ranma and Ukyo. I mean, just a few hours of thinking and
she decided to dump Ranma completely??? Granted, things like that happened
in real life and this happened to relate to their relationship after all
but the crime she thought Ranma had committed was not really that
destructive to cause her feelings to suddenly change to total hatred.
Adultery, OK, Ranma deserves it but just a KISS?!? Akane knew from
experience that not every wrongdoing was Ranma's fault; he had proven time
and time again with facts. You would have at least expected her to demand
proof/evidence etc. before booting him out.

When has Akane ever given Ranma the benifit of the doubt? I can't seem to
recall any time when she has actually waited to hear his explination
before jumping to conclusions.

Also, Nabiki. This concerns her
sister very much and knowing Nabiki, she never took anything at face value
until she found out for certain for herself. Nabiki also knew that Akane
was prone to jump to conclusions....need I say more? :)

Ok, its true I haven't been dealing much with Nabiki in this fic, but as
was hinted at in the epilouge, Nabiki will get her moment in the sun.
Right now, Nabiki is in a position she doesn't often find herself in: she
doesn't know all of what is going on. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it
seems to me that Nabiki rarely takes decisive action unless she knows, or
thinks she knows all the facts in a situation, and since she got kind of
cut out of the loop in this story, she's been holding off... we'll jst
have to wait and see waht she does once she figures it all out.

Heck, Ryouga got
off alot more lightly than Ranma in this fic, and he had committed an even
bigger crime against Akane than Ranma.

True, but then I was careful not to show what happened at the Tendo house
to those two once they went back down to face the rest of the family.
Ryouga might have got off the hook from Akane's anger for the moment, but
then neither of them has really contimplated the real cosiquences this is
going to have. 

Urrgghhh!! Looks like C&C's had suddenly turned to flames. Gee....never
expected it to come to this. It just sort of touched a nerve within me.
*^_^* Sorry about that.

Ah, don't worry about it. I don't really see this as a flame. (you haven't
started calling me names yet ^-^;;) and its good to hear other people
takes on my characters. I'm not the best Ranma expert in the world, I know
that, so any critism helps me to improve for the future.

Man, part two even made me more depressed and
irritated but I guess I am just being unfair. This is the first time that I
had been affected this much by a fic, so I hope that is a reasonable excuse
for my flames. I like your work mind, it's just that this fic does not sit
well with me. I pray to Kami-sama and any deity that I would not have to
face that again, or else I will go mad with fury (hmmm....time for a cold
shower, methinks) 

well, thanks you! Its nice to know that I can actually arouse some emotion
in people. I admit that up til now I've been writing so that one thing
after another goes wrong, things keep happening in the worst possible way
at the worst possible time, and it does make it seem like fate is piling
on the unpleasentries. Hopefully, when I write the next chapter after I
get done with finals, things will finally start going right again for our
heros. ;) hopefully...

Thanks
ryan