"DOUBLE TROUBLE"
An alternative reality fanfic written 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
< > are thoughts
[ ] tells location or panda signs
What happened before:
-Ranma fell on a spring ten years ago
-Akane goes to Jusenkyo ten years later and fall on an uncursed spring
-she is accidentally pushed into the Ranmaniichuan the next day
-Ranma visits Jusenkyo again and is mistaken for Akane
-he gets pushed into the Akaneniichuan
-Ranma is engaged to Akane
-Kuno confesses his love to Akane and Ranma-chan
-Ryoga and Ukyo show up with the intent to kill Ranma
-Ranma almost kissed Akane at the doctor's office
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Chapter 5
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"Akane, can you help me make dinner?"
She looked up from her manga and noticed her older sister Kasumi
smiling down at her hopefully. "Uh, sure."
Akane followed her sister to the kitchen and quickly looked
around. The place was spotless and the aroma of dinner on the stove
made her stomach rumble loudly.
"Why do you want my help? I've never cooked a day in my life."
"Well, you're going to need to learn how. Consider this bridal
training for when you marry Ranma."
"I'm not marrying him."
"Oh, you two would make a cute couple," Kasumi continued. "I'm
sure you'll have lovely children."
Akane's eyes grew impossibly large. "Children?! With that
pervert?!"
"See? You're insulting him like you're already married."
Akane threw her hands in exasperation. Kasumi could be so dense
sometimes. She had a better chance of convincing the pope to go on
a crime spree with her.
"Fine," she agreed with a defeated sigh.
* * *
Ranma-chan looked up at the sky as he laid down on the roof. It
was already getting cold but she didn't care when goosebumps started
to form on her arms.
<Why did I have to say that?> she mumbled to herself, watching
the neighborhood lights turn on one by one.
Akane had been unusually nice to her on the way home but she had
managed to insult her anyways. She couldn't even remember how it
started. All she knew was that she had opened her big mouth and
ended up being pushed into the canal.
She was about to continue wallowing in her misery when she heard
her father calling her from the back yard.
"The old man always did have lousy timing," she grumbled as she
leapt off the roof.
* * *
[Meanwhile, in the kitchen...]
<That jerk!> Akane wanted to scream out loud as she chopped the
cucumbers with a ferocity that would have made any man passing by
wince. The nerve of him, calling her unfeminine. She'd show him,
she'd cook him the most delicious thing he's ever eaten and make him
eat those words. "Just you wait, Ranma!"
* * *
Genma looked slightly concerned when Ranma-chan suddenly stopped
fighting and shivered a bit.
"What's the matter, boy? Don't tell me you're getting sick.
Ranma-chan shook her head. "It's not that. I just felt a chill
run down my spine."
* * *
"Here you go!" Akane exclaimed cheerfully as she dropped Ranma's
plate in front of him.
"What's this?" he asked nervously. She had been so mad at him
earlier, but now she was smiling and cooking him dinner? What was
going on?
"Your dinner, of course."
Ranma looked at the sandwich dubiously. It didn't look too good,
but Akane was a girl, surely she knew what she was doing.
"C'mon, Ranma," she urged, her bright smile wavering a bit.
<I wonder if she's trying to kill me?> His brain was telling him
that it was probably not a good idea to eat it before it was tested
on another subject. Unfortunately, his stomach was telling him at the
same time to eat it before his old man does. The more commonly used
part of his anatomy won and he ended up stuffing the whole thing in
his mouth.
His face instantly turned a bright shade of red as he started to
run around the room yelling, "Hot!"
"Hm...I guess I put too much jalapeno peppers and tobasco sauce."
"On a sandwich?!"
"Well, it looked like a good idea. It made it colorful."
"Aarg!" Ranma yelled in frustration as he drank a pitcher of
water in three gulps. "Talk about near death experiences."
"It wasn't that bad!"
"Oh yeah? My life flashed before my eyes!"
Akane's face turned red as a tomato while she dumped her glass
over her fiancee's head, turning him into an exact double of her.
She then stormed out of the house, ignoring his cries to wait up.
She was so furious that she didn't even notice when the water in
a nearby puddle was splashed onto her by a passing car. She did
however notice the yells in a nearby empty lot.
He jumped onto one of the surrounding fence and noticed a group
bandaged men surround a girl in a black school uniform and knee high
boots that didn't quite match.
"We've got you at last!" one of the men yelled as they surrounded
her, clubs in hand.
Akane-kun quickly jumped off and approached the combatants. "How
dare you bully an innocent girl!"
"She's far from innocent!" another one of the men yelled as he
started to anvance towards them.
Akane-kun growled and charged, knocking the group of boys
unconscious within seconds. He turned around to check on the girl and
blinked in surprised when she saw that she had changed into a leather
bikini and was busy whipping another one of the men with a bull whip.
"Hey, don't you think that's enough?" he asked as he pushed her
away from the unconscious boy.
The girl looked angry as she turned around to glare at him. "I
can take care..." Her voice trailed off as she saw who had saved her.
<What a babe.> "Er...I mean thank you! I was afraid those girls trying
to take my position as school S&M queen would succeed!"
"S&M?!"
"Mm-hm." She coyly looked up and slowly advanced towards him
while he backed away from her nervously.
Akane-kun felt a building wall against his back and gulped
audibly. He was definitely in trouble.
* * *
"We're going to have to apologize to her," Ukyo informed Ryoga
as they walked away from the tea shop.
"I know," Ryoga mumbled as he contemplatively stared at the cup
of tea in his hand.
"I hope she doesn't hurt us too much when we see her again."
"Huh?"
"Haven't you ever heard of that expression 'Hell hath no fury
like a woman scorned'?"
"Oh. We're dead, aren't we?"
"Yup."
Ryoga found the uncomfortable silence that followed unnerving but
couldn't think of a thing to say to break it. Exasperated, he threw
his cup over the fence and jumped up in surprise when they heard a
cry from the other side.
* * *
Akane's expression was even more nervous than before as she
stared at the now angry S&M queen before her.
"What have you done with my darling?!"
"Wait! I...I can explain... Really... Please, put away the whip."
"Where is he?!"
"I can..."
"Akane?"
Both girls looked up and saw what appeared to be two boys
standing on a fence. Akane of course, knew better and waved at the
girl dressed up like a boy.
"Ukyo, Ryoga, I'm so glad to see you."
The two came up to them and started to bow to Akane. "We're so
sorry! We never meant to hurt you!"
That's okay!" Akane exclaimed as she tried to casually walk off
with them, hoping that the girl in the dominatrix outfit wouldn't
notice. "Why don't we go home?"
A gasp from the girl made the three martail artist turn around in
surprise.
"You've got some nerve!"
Akane looked confused. "What?"
"Enslaving one boy isn't enough? You keep three handsome boys to
yourself?!"
Now Akane looked mad. "Stop putting me in your sick fantasies!"
Unfortunately for her, the girl was no longer listening. She was
too busy holding the hands of a nervous Ryoga and Ukyo as righteous
tears flowed down her cheeks.
"I will free you from this evil witch...and then you could all be
mine!"
"Hey!"
The S&M queen continued to ignore Akane as she handed Ryoga and
Ukyo each a black rose. "My name is Kodachi...the black rose. Remember
that." And then she dissapeared into the night.
After a moment of stunned silence, Ryoga shook his head. "What a
strange girl." He would have said more but the the paralysis gas took
effect and the three of them were unable to move a muscle for a while.
* * *
"Ohohohohohoh!" Kodachi laughed happily as she ran down the
street. She was in a good mood since she had finally found a person
she loved(well, three), but who was counting? What was important was
that they would be hers by the end of the day. Her plan would make
sure of that.
She was on her way to Furinkan High School to bring her older
brother his lunch. She was in such a good mood that she only put a
small amount of paralysis potion on his lunch. It was bound to only
work for an hour at the most.
Her eyes lit up as she spotted one of her loves surrounded by a
group of unconscious boys and talking to that evil witch.
"Darling!" she yelled as she glomped onto his arms.
He looked back at her, a surprised and confused expression on his
face. "Who are you?"
Kodachi's eyes widened in alarm. She turned around and glared at
the wary Akane. "You...You witch! Brainwashing my darling so you can
keep him for yourself!"
"Why you..."
"Don't worry," she said as she drew him closer to her. "I _will_
save you."
"Get off me!" Ranma yelled while he tried to disengage himself
from her iron like grip. "Akane, what is she talking about?"
"Uh, well, We sort of met last night..."
"You tried to pick up a girl with _my_ body?!"
"No!"
"You don't expect me to believe such an obvious lie, do you?!"
"Hah! What do you know?!" she screamed right back as she
returned his glare.
The two stood there unmoving, neither one willing to back down.
They were so intent on staring each other down that they failed to
notice the crowd of students watching them.
"Their first major fight. *sigh* Isn't love wonderful?"
"I dunno. It looks like intense hatred to me," another girl
answered.
"Hmph. What do they have to do to convince you that they're in
love?"
"A flashback on how they were lovers in a past life, tragically
separated and are now spending this life trying to recapture that old
spark would be nice."
"You've been watching Sailor Moon again, haven't you?"
"How'd you guess?"
* * *
On the other end of the yard, another pair of martial artist were
oblivious to the racket at the gate. Furinkan's two newest students,
Ryoga and Ukyo, were deep in thought on how they were going to extract
their revenge without hurting another innocent bystander.
"I got it!" Ukyo yelled as she stood up. "All we have to do is
attack Saotome in the middle of the night. That way..."
"...everyone else would be asleep," Ryoga finished excitedly.
"That's brilliant!"
Ukyo tried to look modest while she casually flipped her hair and
answered, "Of course."
"When do we do it?"
"Tonight."
Unfortunately for the two, they didn't notice the crowd that had
gotten bored with watching Ranma and Akane surround them. The group of
students only heard the last parts of the conversation and as usual got
the wrong idea.
By lunchtime, the whole school declared Ryoga and Ukyo the first
official gay couple of the school year.
* * *
"Hey, which room..."
"Shh!" Ukyo interrupted, clamping a hand on Ryoga's mouth. "Do
you want him to wake up before we could find him?"
"Mph!"
"What?"
He took her hand off his mouth and repeated what he had said.
"Sorry."
"Oh. Why don't we split up? I'll look at the rooms downwstairs
and you check the ones upstairs?"
"Okay."
The two headed on opposite directions and smiled as a glance at
the window before them showed a silhouette of a sleeping pony-tailed
boy.
"Found him!" they both said at the same time before blinking in
confusion.
"What do you mean _you_ found him?" Ukyo demanded as Ryoga leapt
down to stand next to her. "He's downstairs."
"No he's not. He's sleeping upstairs."
The noise they made woke up the boy in question who angrily
opened his window which was, as Ukyo claimed, downstairs.
"Don't you guys got nothin' better to do than argue in the middle
of the night?"
"See," Ukyo said with a triumphant grin.
"But I could have sworn..."
Whatever he was going to say next was cut off by a chilling laugh
that woke up the whole neighborhood.
The smile on Kodachi's face widened when she saw all three of her
loves together. "This is perfect! Now, we can all run off together!"
"What?!" the still irritated Ranma asked in disbelief. Didn't
these people ever sleep?
Kodachi handed each of them a black rose, knocking them all into
unconsciousness so she could carry them back home.
* * *
Akane-kun was mad. No, he was pissed off. He had been rudely
awakened from a very good dream and he was _not_ happy.
He barged downstairs and into Ranma's room, knowing that
whatever woke him up would be in there. Call it woman's intuition,
or maybe it was just because all the trouble he has been in lately
was all somehow related to him.
He found it empty and noticed that the window was wide open.
<Why the heck would he open a window on such a cold night?> his
sleepy mind wondered as he looked around. <And where is he?>
He got his answer a couple of seconds later when his eyes landed
on a trail of black petals.
<Kodachi.> Now fully awake, he got dressed, changed back to his
original gender, and followed the trail of black petals the S&M queen
left behind.
* * *
Ranma was fully awake the moment he had opened his eyes. He was
bound and gagged to a chair, just like the groggy Ryoga and Ukyo on his
left.
He struggled a bit and was dismayed to find out that whoever had
tied the knots knew what they were doing.
He heard a faint sound of the door slowly opening and tried to
look more alert than he really was.
By this time, the other two martial artist had also fully
awakened and was busy grumbling at being caught off guard.
Their eyes widened in alarm as Kodachi walked into the room,
wearing a similar outfit when Ryoga and Ukyo had first seen her. This,
however, wasn't what worried them. The real cause of alarm was the
bull whip on her arm which was moving wildly as Kodachi warmed up.
"I see you've awakened."
"Mph! Mph!" the three martial artist cried out, jumping away
from her and towards the door on the opposite end of the room, chair
and all.
"Wait, come back!" Kodachi pleaded as she ran after her newly
formed harem.
The three just ignored her, too busy trying to get away.
* * *
"Yes!" Akane shouted with glee as the window before her was
opened without tripping the alarm. She could hear loud noises coming
from the left side of the mansion and decided to investigate there
first.
She quickly went up the stairs and almost ran into Kodachi.
"Aha!" the girl in the dominatrix outfit exclaimed. "No wonder
my darlings were running away. You've managed to turn them against
me while I was gone."
"What?!"
"No matter, with the help of Mr. Turtle, they will be mine!"
Akane gave her a smug smile. "You have got to be kidding."
Kodachi opened a nearby door in reply and released a giant
alligator.
Akane's smile fell as she read the metal collar around its
neck. "That's Mr. Turtle?!"
She was about to say more, but someone had grabbed her arm
and started to drag her down the hall.
"Akane, what are you doing here?" Ranma asked after Akane took
out the gag from his mouth.
"Trying to save you, of course," Akane retorted, jumping up
to avoid the bushes as they ran out into the courtyard.
The sprinklers, of course, chose that moment to go on and the
two were quickly drenched with cold water.
Ranma-chan never slowed down even though she had a slight
decrease in strength and her fiancee was now heavier than when they
had started. She rushed into the other side of the house and ran
straight into Ukyo and Ryoga.
"What are you guy's doing here?" Ranma-chan demanded as she
slowly rotated her head to see if there was any way out of the mad
house.
"Mph! Mph!" Ryoga explained.
Akane-kun sighed in frustration and took the gags off the other
two.
"He," Ukyo said, pointing at Ryoga with her chin, "Said he knew
the way out."
"And you believed him?" Ranma-chan asked, laughing hysterically.
"Even though you knew that he has the worst sense of direction?"
"Hey!"
Akane-kun put a restraining arm on Ryoga's shoulder. "Stop
picking on him, Ranma. We still have to figure out how we're going to
get out of here."
"Ranma?!" Ukyo and Ryoga exclaimed in surprise.
"We've both been to Jusenkyo," Akane explained. "He fell into a
spring when..."
"Evil Sorcerer! How dare you try to take advantage of the lovely
Akane!" A new voice rang out from down the hall, interrupting
Akane-kun's speech.
The four martial artist turned around and sighed.
"Kuno," Akane-kun mumbled. "What's he doing here?"
"I dunno. Frankly, I don't care. Let's get out of here,"
Ranma-chan urged as she started to hop towards the entrance they have
just come from.
She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw that another figure
had stepped into the hall, pet alligator in hand.
"Oh great! We're trapped."
"Mr. Turtle after them!" Kodachi yelled.
"I shall smite thee!" Kuno shouted from the other end of the
hall.
The four looked back and forth, trying to figure out which way
would be safer.
"I will save you!" The bokken Kuno had earlier was mysteriously
replaced by a dozen roses as he got ready to woo his love.
Ranma-chan and Akane-kun nodded their heads and started to run
towards the end that they felt was safer.
"Hey, where do you guys think you're going?" Ukyo demanded as
the two rushed towards Kodachi.
"We're taking our chances with the less dangerous animal!"
A smile formed on Kodachi's face when she saw her love rushing
into her arms. Unfortunately, the little witch was with him, but
Mr. Turtle would take care of her.
A slight frown formed on her face when she saw that Kuno wasn't
too far behind.
"Brother dear, what are you doing here?"
Ranma-chan and Akane-kun skidded to a halt. "Brother?!"
"I wish to win the love of Akane Tendo and smite the evil
sorcerer!" Kuno exclaimed, pointing at Akane-kun.
"Don't you dare hurt my darling!"
"But I must! The vengeance of heaven is slow but sure, and I,
Tatewaki Kuno, the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High, had been chosen
to..."
"Oh no you don't!" Kodachi interrupted as she started to attack
her brother.
The four stood still for a couple of minutes, watching Kuno
parry her blows.
"I'd never would have guessed they're related," Ranma-chan
muttered as Akane-kun untied her.
"They do have a lot in common," Akane-kun observed as he watched
the two siblings hit each other at the same time and fall on the
ground unconscious.
"I've certainly never met more obsessive people than those two,"
Ryoga pointed out.
For once, Ranma-chan had to agree with her rival. "That's true."
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AUTHORS NOTES: Wow. It's certainly been a while since I wrote a
chapter for this. Write to me at <emily9@bellatlantic.net> and tell me
what what you think, okay?