Tim:  ARRRRGGG!!! I don't believe that Eudora ate my review of this fic!

Terry:  Oh, come on, you're using Version 1.4 and you're surprised that it 
ate your little review?

Tim:  I guess we'll just have to take it from the top...

Terry:  Oh, no, here we go again.

			The Night After

Terry:  Are you sure this isn't a lemon?

Tim:  Yes, I'm sure.  If it was a lemon it would be "The Morning After" or 
something.

Terry:  Still sounds suspicious to me...

Tim:  That's because you're a pervert. 

				by Lord Archive

	It is late at night and Ranma is resting on the roof of the Tendo
home above Akane's room. He is deep in thought over the events of the
past few days.

Tim:  I'm kinna curious as to exactly what Ranma does up on that roof all 
the time.

Terry:  Oh, that's easy.  He pours cold water on himself and fondles his 
firm young breasts and runs his hand across *WHAPPP*

Tim:  Cut it out.  You're drooling on the keyboard.

Terry:  Well, you got me started.

	"We were close, so close. But, the others had to interfere, and
ruin it all. Why couldn't they just step aside. They just didn't know how

Tim:  Because their feet were nailed to the floor... Damn Gosunkugi and his 
poorly aimed nails!

much I wanted this. Hell, I didn't know I wanted it. Not until it was
already ruined." Ranma thought before remembering an event from the
previous day.

Terry(as Ranma):  AAAARRRRHHHH!!!!  I was THIS close to getting laid! And 
they ruined it!

Tim:  No wonder you can't get a girlfriend.

Terry:  Shut up!

------

	In the Tendo dinning room shortly after Soun has called off the wedding
do to damages to the house and dojo. The Tendos and Saotomes are there

Tim:  So, they called off the wedding to do damage to the house and dojo?

Terry:  Hey, nothing like a bit of mass destruction to make you're day bright.

Tim:  Oh, that reminds me. When are you going to fix my ceiling?

Terry looks embarassed.

recuperating from the day's hectic events except for Ranma and Akane, of
course they are fighting.

Tim:  Love to stick in the typical fight scene.

Terry:  The familiar keeps things from getting too strange and scary.

"Ranma this is all your fault!" howled Akane for the umpteenth time since
the announcement that the wedding has been called off.

Terry:  Oh, Akane's turning into Ryouga!

Tim:  Ug! That's a frightening mental image!

"If you told me about the Nannichan earlier I would have been in a better
position to stop this mess." bellowed Ranma in reply.

Tim:  What position would that be? 

Terry:  69!!!! *THWACK*

Tim:  Cut it out, the keyboard is going to stop working if you keep getting 
it wet like that

"It was all of your fiancees that crashed the wedding!"

Tim:  What were the doing driving the wedding in the first place?

Terry:  Yeah, I don't think they are even licenced to drive a car, much less 
a ceremony.  You have to have one of those D class licences for that. 

"Like it was my idea to invite them! I had nothing to do with that!"

Tim(as Ranma):  Yeah, blame that evil sister of yours!

Terry(as Akane):  So now you're insulting my sister, too!  *mallet smash*

"You keep stringing them along! You should have given them their walking
papers a long time ago!"

Tim:  Ah, but he doesn't have the money to give them severance pay, he was 
waiting for a chance to get them fired.

Terry:  What does the average fiancee make an hour, anyway?

Tim:  I've heard it's peanuts, but the health care is good.

Before Ranma could howl his reply to Akane's last statement, Nabiki

Tim:  Is Ranma a bitch?

interrupts by commenting, "The way you two are fighting, one would think
you wanted to get married."

Tim:  Hmmm.... ok, so any couple that fights constantly should get married?

Terry:  Only Ranma and Akane.

"Yeah, so what's your point Nabiki?" Ranma said while glaring at Nabiki,
before he really considering his reply.

Tim(as Nabiki): Oh, I was just trying to figure out how much yen I could get 
off another wedding... nothing much.

Ranma realize the scope of what he said only after the room went into
stunned silence. All eyes trained on him.

Tim:  What are the eyes training in?

Terry:  BAKSI TENKETSU!

Tim:  You're going to have to buy me a new desk, you know.

"Ra..Ra..Ranma, do you really mean it? Did you really want to marry me?"
spoke a shocked Akane.

Terry:  Oh, so Akane's dating Lum now?

Tim:  Nah, emotion from Ranma would do that to anyone.

"Do you think I would say that, if I didn't mean it." replied Ranma a bit
defensively. Becoming very uncomfortable with the idea of what Akane's

Tim:  Well, the LAST time you said anything like that you claimed you didn't 
mean it...

next question will be, he says, "I'm rather tired from everything
that's happened today, I'm going to bed." Ranma gets up and leaves..

Tim:  Too verbose for Ranma, try making it simpler.

Terry:  Yeah, like: "Well, I'm tired, I'm going to bed now... Akane? Wanna 
come upstairs and have wild, animal se"*WHAP*

Tim:  Drool? Remember? And, it's an okay change up to the elipses.

"Ranma" he faintly heard Akane say on his way to his room.

Tim:  Bit awkward, try "as he made his way to his room" or something... or 
leave it alone, it's fine, I guess.

----------

"I guess a good portion to blame for this is mine. I should have stopped
them before they could have interfered with the wedding. Told them the

Tim:  If this is Ranma talking, he didn't know they were going to show up.

truth. But, if I told them what I thought was the truth back then, I
would have told her a lie. I just did not realize just what I felt about

Terry:  Who is this mysterious "her"? And what's they truth and the lie?

her. Not until I thought I lost her. But when she asked me later how I
felt, I denied it. Why? Why couldn't I tell her then? Face it your a

Tim:  Because you are weak.

Terry:  Hey, cut out the petty insults.  That's my job. Oh, and it's "you're." 

coward when it comes to expressing how much I care for other people. I
don't want to appear weak to others by my expressing those feelings.
That's what I keep telling myself. But, I'm afraid. Afraid I will be
rejected. Afraid if I told her what I truly feel about her, she'll respond
the same way as Shampoo does to Moose. Hated. Why am I afraid she'll
reject me though? Sure, she's expressed some hostility towards me, but
usually after I did or said something stupid. But, she sure seemed happy
this morning." Ranma thought before thinking about when he was walking to
school this morning with Akane.

Tim(in a hollow voice):  WARNING: We are about to engage in a "time slip".  
Please, secure all loose objects and any small children.

Terry: Any lose of hair, virility, or appetite is not the responsiblity of 
the author.

----------

"We're off." cheered Akane as she and Ranma left for school.

Tim:  And it's Akane leading by a nose, Ranma's only a length behind her! 

Ranma smiled at the sight of the Akane. She was very happy and had that
smile that always seemed to melt his heart. 

Terry:  Or it might be the fact that she is actually from Krypton and using 
her heat vision.

	While the smile never left his face, Ranma was lost in thought. So
lost in thought, he doesn't realize he's walking next to Akane and not on
the fence. At least not until she asks him "What are you thinking about,
Ranma?" 

Terry:  Just how nice your liver would taste with a little cranberry sauce. 
*WHAP*

Tim:  Geeze, get a bib!'

"Huh? What did you say?" replied Ranma as he lost his train of thought as
it switches to, "Man she is so uncute, `cause she is sooo beautiful."

Tim:  A bit awkward, yet again.  Try "Man, she really isn't cute.  She's 
beautiful."

"What are you thinking about?"

"Oh, I was just thinking about some stuff."

"Like what?"

Terry(as Ranma):  About that porn I ordered from *WHAP*

Tim:  I'm not warning you again.

Terry:  I'm really starting to hate that, you now.

Akane never got her answer as Kuno choose this moment to make his
entrance. Kuno being very persistent this morning delays them long enough
that they have to run to class or be late.

Tim:  I thought they had it down pretty well... The last sentence needs to 
be reworded, anyway.

----------

"I wish she showed signs that she is in love with me. Maybe she does, and
I'm just blind to them. I won't get any peace of mind about this unless I
tell her. I'm just going to have to face my fears and tell her. Might as
well check to see if she's asleep."

Tim:  Ouch! OOC city! Though it wouldn't be too hard to fix and keep the 
idea the same.  Remember, Ranma tends to skirt around issues like his feelings.
 

	Ranma got up and walked towards the part of the roof that is
directly above Akane's bedroom window. Ranma knelt down and flipped down
in a fluid motion that placed him face to face with Akane. She apparently
has been standing there, staring out the window all night.

"A.. Akane." Ranma said.

Terry:  You're naked!

Tim:  Alright, that's it! You've just going to have to stand out in the hall 
till I'm done with this.

Terry:  Awwwww!

Tim removes Terry bodily from his room.

"What do you think you're doing?" asked Akane in a voice confused at
being delighted or angry at seeing him.

Tim:  Aw, I threw him out too soon.  He'd have had a REALLY interesting 
comment to make on this one... but them's the breaks.

"It's just that I wanted to see if you're awake. I ahh wanted to talk to
you about some stuff."

"All right."

Tim:  So, what did you do to Akane?  Drug her? She's not jumping to 
conclusions anywhere near as fast as she usually does.

"Um Akane, well, er... I..." Ranma began nervously.

"Why don't you come inside." Akane said while stepping back so Ranma
could enter.

Tim:  Ok, Akane, as in Akane Tendo? The girl who constantly accuses Ranma of 
being a a pervert?  And she's inviting him into her room in the middle of 
the night? Ok, I was just checking.

"Okay" Ranma said as he swayed back and forth to build momentum. In one
smooth motion, he flies through the window and lands on the floor in
front of Akane.

Tim:  Ranma now has wings.

Terry:  And dry weave!

Tim:  How did you get back in here?

Terry:  You didn't lock the door.

Tim:  Ok, you can stay, but you had better watch it.

"So what did you want to talk about?" she said.

"I ahh... I just wanted to say... I.. I... I'm sorry." he finally said as
he sat down on Akane's bed.

"Sorry about what?" she asked as she sat down next to him.

Terry:  Sorry he steals your underthings and parades around in them.

Tim:  I said watch it.

"Sorry for hurting you, by stringing along my other fiancees. I should
have told them a while ago that I didn't want to marry them."

"Well, we can fix that situation now. Can't we?"

"Sure we can." he said before saying, "And you were right in saying that
I would be sorry if I didn't marry you. Because I am."

	Akane is smiling, her heart is pounding, she can't believe what
she is hearing. "He wants to marry me. ME! And it looks like he's going
to say it. He's really going to say it!" she thought, not wanting to
distract Ranma she nods in agreement to his statement rather than say
anything.

"Akane, I'm sorry I lied to you yesterday, when you said that you know
that I'm in love with you, and I denied it. Akane I do love you." he said
staring into Akane's eyes.

A long moment passes before Akane replies, "Ra.. Ra.. Ranma, you have no
idea how long I waited for you to say that. I love you too." 

	She immediately embraces Ranma, who quickly returns the hug. He
releases the embrace first. She backs away wondering for a second why he
ended it so soon. It was answered quickly as he leaned forward and kissed
her and going into another embrace, one that neither of them wanted to
end anytime soon.

Tim:  And one last bit of OOC for all the kiddies out there.

Terry:  Though the last bit is justified, I think...

Tim:  Just needs to give more reason for the change in Ranma.

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Author's note:
This is the first Ranma fanfic I have ever posted. This story is more of
a test to see if I am on the right track in writing fanfic. If you

Tim:  Oh, yeah, right track, you just need to justify the changed in Ranma a 
bit more, but besides that it's a pretty good start.  I've seen established 
writers crank out worse material.

couldn't tell, this story occurs the night after the end of the Manga
series.  I am considering making a Lemon sequel to this fic, and possibly
another short fic related to this one. Soon I will post a story that may
be the beginning of yet another series that may never end (partly do to
the fact it will create new ongoing problems while solving older ones). 

Legal babble: Ranma 1/2 and all characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz
Video, ect...  I'm just borrowing them without permission. I'll give them
back. (Well maybe not Ukyou ;) 

Please give me C&C or even a MSTing of this story. If you wish to reply
in private mail contact me at archive@mich.com

Tim:  It's a little of both, though if you find any of it helpful, please 
accept my apology, this was meant to be fun.

Terry:  Yeah, fun if you don't get whacked for any little perverse statement.

Tim:  It wasn't the statements, it was the drool.

Terry:  Sorry!

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*   Lord Archive the JAFO, furverted otaku that is addicted to Mtg.   *
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Tim:  Oh, my goddess! Get him into rehab quick!

Terry:  Let it go, just let it go.  This post is over.  Roll the Sig!
Tim Williams

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twillia4@utk.edu     rogerl@usit.net