This is the first draft of Trapped Chapter 1. Chapters 2 and 3 should
follow tonight. Chapter 4 will hopefully be out next Sunday, rounding out
volume 1 of the new series I'm making. I'm currently calling Ranma 1/2
Teen Marriage (If you have a better name suggestion please tell me).
This story somewhat seriously deals with marriage and hazards delt
within, so parts of this story (and some of the series) are lemon scented.
Sexual references in this series will be delt with in serious manner. I
will be making Lemon side stories to this series if I feel that the
scene might add something to the series, but will not be necessary to
read. A note will appear at the point the Lemon side story will occur
during the draft stages and released in two versions in final form (One
complete with scene, while the other "fades to black").
The main part of the series will have some sexual references, but I will
try to keep it less than what one normally sees on TV and Ranma 1/2.
The story refers to events that have occurred in Manga series including
#38. I've made the assumption that about a year and a half has passed
since the start of the series and that Ranma and Akane are now 17 and are
juniors in high school. (The manga technically hasn't advanced the
character's ages nor class level.) Some familiarity to the non-translated
Manga volumes is suggested, but hopefully not needed.
Characters are copyrighted by Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video, and a bunch of
other companies and are being used without permission. I am only borrowing
them. I will return them. (Well maybe not Ukyou ;)
Teen Marriage Volume 1
Trapped.
Written by Lord Archive.
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Chapter 1 - The Gem.
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It was a quit Saturday morning in January at the Tendo Dojo. The
weather was unseasonably warm, and forecasts for next several days have
highs in 60 to 70 degrees.
Ranma and Genma were going into overtime trying to get the other
wet. This has so far prevented Ranma from opening mouth and inserting
foot when concerned with talking to Akane. The morning workout ended with
the sweet call from Kasumi of, "Breakfast." Ranma twist in air and lands
to the side of the pond. Genma, distracted by scent of food, belly
flopped into the pond. The splash barely missed Ranma as he dashed to the
house toward the awaiting breakfast and Tendo clan.
"Nice dive, Pop." said a smug Ranma as he walks over to his seat next to
Akane.
"When are you going to learn to watch your mouth, Ranma?" asked Akane.
"When you learn to cook," joked Ranma.
"**THUD**" responded Akane's ever present hammer to Ranma joke, to which
Akane added, "Jerk" to the response, and so ended quit part of this
morning.
As a soaked Panda goes to his seat Kasumi entered with some of
the breakfast and asked, "Does anyone know where Happosai is? I haven't
seen him in days."
"Maybe he finally decide to leave us," said a hopeful Soun.
"Naa, the old freak tried to grope me yesterday morning. So I tossed him
into a bag, attached some rocks, and chucked him into the river." said a
somewhat smug and yet sore Ranma.
[You do your father proud, Son.] stated a sign held by Genma-Panda.
"Can this be the last we see of our dreaded master?" questioned Soun with
greater hope.
"Not likely, but at least he'll be out my hair for a coup..." said Ranma
before interrupt by a shout of , "RRRRRRRAAAAAAANNNNNNNNMMMMMMAAAAAAA"
"Back already?" questioned Ranma as he took his first couple quick bites
of his breakfast.
"YOU SHALL PAY FOR TRAPPING ME IN THE RIVER!" shouted Happosai.
"Add it to my bill." stated Ranma as if he wasn't interested.
Happosai responded by grabbing what looked to be a black marble
and threw it at Ranma. Ranma instinctively caught it. The marble
immediately expanded into a sphere and surrounded not only Ranma, but
Akane as well.
"wh..Wh..What have you done?" said a shocked Soun.
"Oh My" added a shocked Kasumi as the sphere shrank back to it
original size. Momentarily the black marble and Ranma's and Akane's
cloths stayed in the air before falling down. Ranma and Akane are no
where in sight.
[Where is my son and Akane?] questioned the Panda's sign.
"WHERE ARE THEY?" screamed an emotionally upset Soun.
"They are banished into the black gem." stated Happosai.
"Bring them back!" demanded Soun.
"Fine, I only wanted to banish Ranma. It doesn't do any good to lose
two beauties." said the diminutive martial arts master as he goes over
picks up the gem and starts examining it.
A few moments later Nabiki inquired, "Forgot how to get them out?"
"I just remembered I only know how to get out from the inside. I don't
know how to get someone out."
"Are they safe in there?" asked Kasumi.
"Perfectly, they need neither food nor air."
"So that's how you survived twenty years in that cave." said Nabiki with
the thought of just how valuable this gem could be.
"Do you have any idea how to get them out?" asked a half-angry half-sad
Soun.
"I don't know. We could ask Cologne. It was an Amazon treasure that a
young maiden gave to me."
"You mean stole from Cologne, no doubt." interjected Nabiki realizing her
chance of getting the gem later on is slim to none with the Amazons involved.
[You forgot how to get them out!] a signed stated and a loud growl is
heard from Genma as he batted Happosai over Japan using the sign as
baseball bat.
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Mean while in an impossibly big empty spheroid room, 2 small
figures appeared. Despite no visible source of light, anything that can
be seen is visible, and what is visible is a very naked Ranma and Akane.
"What did the old freak do to me this time?" Ranma asked himself
aloud not realizing that someone else was with him until he heard, "You
Jerk!" and felt a fist impact the side of his head giving him a short
flight to 10 feet away. "Because you had to piss off Happosai, we're both
stuck here."
Ranma turns around and sees his fiancée "A..A..Ak..Akane,
wh..what happened to your clothes?" Ranma asked and quickly began
examining the floor to avoid looking at Akane.
"IIIIIIIEEEEE", came from a now very embarrassed Akane. Trying to
cover herself the best she could with her hands noticed Ranma is also
naked and is avoiding looking at her. "At least the pervert has the
decency to look away," she thought, and then spoke "I guess what ever
Happosai used to send us here doesn't transport anything that isn't
living, like clothes"
Ranma while still looking away responded, "I guess so, um do have
any idea of how to get out here." Ranma thoughts are, "I don't need this.
I'm trap with no visible means of escape. And I'm naked with a boner, I
hope Akane doesn't notice. She'll think I'm some pervert that wants to
take advantage of this situation."
"Not a clue." responded Akane after a moment contemplating the situation
and looking around.
"Well, I'm not going to sit around waiting for someone to free us. I'll
try to break a way out." said Ranma with a slight edge to his voice. He
begins attacking the floor.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" asked Akane.
"Do you have any better ideas" stated Ranma as his fist start
moving faster and harder into the ground.
Ranma spent close to an hour attacking all out using all the
various attacks he knows and even attacks some he doesn't know like
Breaking Point, but not a scratch was made. Akane searched around trying
to find an exit of some sort somewhere. She walked over to him as he's
about to collapse from exhaustion.
"Ranma?"
"What"
"I guess we are just going to have to be patient. And wait for them to
get us out of here."
"I can't just sit here and wait."
"We don't have a choice. If you can't break this out of here, no one
can."
"I hate being trapped."
"I don't like it either, but it is only temporary. We can take this time
and talk alone, without fear of someone barging in or trying to listen
in. And if you don't resort to name calling, I won't hit you."
"Err.."
"It's better than beating your head against the floor."
"It wouldn't hurt to try to talk to her I guess. If I can keep from
insulting her I might get out this unhurt." Ranma thought and finally
responded, "I guess, so what do we talk about?"
"Well, Let's see.... What do you think of... marriage in general? Not in
reference to anyone in specific."
"Well, I guess it means commitment to one person, that you can't do
anything without also thinking of your spouse or your kids. Um.. increase
responsibilities. Err....."
"Yes marriage does mean commitment to one person and increased
responsibilities. But in terms of not doing things without thinking of
your family first, you should also do think about others in general
before doing something."
"Hmpf"
"Do you think of marriage as some form of trap?"
"Um.. Err.. In..In a way I do."
"Why?"
"Because, It means that I'm supposed to check in with my wife about what
I do and when I do it. I can't decide to stop at Ucchan's for a snack if
dinner is waiting for me at home."
This comment made Akane smile. She realized he's talking about
being married to her. Ranma didn't notice because he's still facing away
from her. "Ranma, that's called being considerate. And should really try
it sometime."
"Look whose talking, you mallet me when some girl hugs me. When I can't
prevent them from doing that."
"Can't you? You can push them away."
"You think I haven't tried. How did you fare in preventing me from
hugging you when Shampoo used those mushrooms on me?"
"Not very well... I sort of see your point, but can't you tell them
that... you don't love them... or at least to stop."
"I've asked them to stop, but do they listen? Nope."
"Why haven't you told any of them you don't love them?"
"...."
"Well?"
"Because I don't know what love is. How can I tell someone I'm not in love with them if I don't know."
"Love is... Well when you love someone, you can't imagine what life is
like without him or her. If you can imagine it you feel an extreme pain
in your soul. When you think of the future you think of being with the
person you love. Um... otherwise it's a hard description to make, it's
sort of an odd feeling. You feel you need to be with the person, to help
them, to support them, make them happy when they're sad. Um... does
anything I say make sense?"
"In a way it does. I guess Ucchan really is in love with me."
Akane frowns at this statement and asks, "But do you love her?"
"I would miss her terribly, but it is not to hard to imagine not having
her around. I might be, I don't know."
"What about Shampoo?"
"Part of me would be glad to see her go, but I would miss her also. But,
I guess I don't."
"Kodachi?"
"Hell no! I even told her that I not only didn't love but I didn't even
like her."
"What about me?"
"...Um..."
"Well I'll tell you something. I really do have trouble thinking of life
without you. Can you imagine life without me?"
"Yeah...a dull, boring and lonely one."
"So is that a yes?" Akane has a big grin on her face.
"Yes to what?"
"That you love me?"
"Love a tomboy like you?"
Akane was getting upset, "Yes a tomboy like?"
"... UM..... I.. I.. I.. I... guess... in a way... I do."
Akane proceeded to hug Ranma from behind. "I could get used to this." he
thought.
After a moment, Akane let go of him and stood up. "Ranma, can you
please tell me you love me while looking at me." requested Akane.
Akane helped Ranma up to his feet, and they looked into each
other's face. "Man she sure is beautiful. Just tell her. You've known you
loved her for a while. Just say it." he thought, as he nervously began,
"I.. I.. L.. L..Love you."
"I love you to, Ranma. You have no idea how long I've waited for you to
say that."
"Actually, I've been wanting to say it for a while... I was afraid you
would have rejected me."
"What makes you think I would've rejected you?"
"It just seems you're always angry at me."
"I'm only angry because you're constantly doing something stupid."
"I do not. It's just that you seem to always find me in bad situations
that I have no control over. I can usually explain what happened, but you
never give me the chance. You always jump to conclusions."
"Oh"
"I would like you to give me a chance to explain... to trust me."
"It's hard to trust you completely. I can't believe in all the times I
caught you doing something stupid, that you're completely innocent."
"Well maybe not all those times, but most of the time. Can you try to
hear me out first next time?"
"Sure." said Akane. After a moment of silence she said, "In the entire
time we've known each other. We never actually kissed nor been on a date."
"Well.. um... why don't we go on a d.. date Saturday."
"I'd like that.... But what about the kiss?"
"A k.. kiss? If you want... I guess... we could... well... kiss now."
She nodded her head and then they ever so slowly leaned toward
each other and started to kiss. If they weren't already in their own
world the rest of the world would have faded to just them. Ranma's arms
wrapped around Akane waist and brought her closer. They stopped kissing
as they realize something of Ranma's anatomy pushes against Akane's waist.
Ranma turned away embarrassed.
"I thought you said I wasn't sexy?" Akane giggled.
"I was wrong."
"So what happens now?"
"I don't know."
"Well now that we've admitted we love each other, we could... um... try
and decide what to do about the other fiancée's."
"I guess we have to. Let see, for Shampoo we could get Mousse to help
find some legal loophole to make sure Cologne is also not a threat. Um...
We can try to get Kodachi committed. The real problem though is Ukyou."
"Yes. She is a good friend, and I don't want to hurt her. The problem is
she can be very obsessive, and we'll have to break it to her carefully."
"I wished she had other friends than just us and Konatsu. She'll need
someone to talk to that doesn't remind her about us. Konatsu will help,
but his feelings for her might cause a problem. It's caused me trouble in
the past."
"It has?"
"How am I supposed to talk to Ukyou about certain problems concerning
you, when she wants me to dump you and marry her?"
"That can be a problem."
"You know something Akane."
"What?"
"Since I met you I've been surround by friends and enemies, and yet there
are many times I felt as lonely as Ryoga. I couldn't just go out and talk
about my problems because either they had a bias answer, didn't
understand the problem, or was just to damn expensive. Despite being here
with only you to talk to I don't feel lonely."
"I wished we could talk like this more often."
"Yeah, but of course someone would have made their presence known to us
before we got around to talking about love."
"Our dads falling through the door..."
"Or Nabiki's microphone short circuiting,.."
"Or Kuno challenging you or begging us for dates..."
"Ryoga screaming, DIE Ranma..."
"Um Ranma, why does Ryoga attack you?"
"I can't say."
"Why not?"
"I made a promise to him not to say because I have a large part of the
blame for his problem."
"His direction sense?"
"No, that's a family curse."
"Then what's his problem?"
"I promised him that I wouldn't tell, okay."
"If I find out he's P-Chan, you're a dead man." her face showed it as a
joke, but her voice comes out serious.
Ranma hearing this, his posture stiffens and nervously speaks, "Wh..Why
would you say th..that?"
"Why did you just become nervous?"
"I.. I'm not nervous." he said as he thought, "Get a grip, if she finds
out now... I'm dead."
She grabbed Ranma and turns him around and sees in his face that he is
either nervous or scared. "If you aren't nervous, then you're scared. Why
would my joke about Ryoga being P-Chan scare you?" she said as she shook
Ranma violently.
"I... I... I..." Ranma lost all capacity to speak as he didn't want to
reveal Ryoga's curse nor lie to Akane.
Akane looked at him in shock and demanded, "Tell me Ryoga is not
P-Chan!" Ranma is now looking at Akane like a deer caught in headlights.
She once again shook him violently, this time yelling, "TELL ME HE ISN'T
P-CHAN!"
But Ranma still could only stutter, "I... I... I..." She proceeded to
throw him several feet away.
"He can't be P-Chan. I was joking, but but." she said as the idea
of one of her friends and her pet being one and the same started to form
into her head. When the connections were made she screams, "MY GOD! Why
did I not notice it before! The Bandanna, that stupid Bandanna. All the
times he transformed near me and I didn't notice... Wouldn't let myself
notice." She proceeds to stare at the floor for the next several
minutes. Ranma looks at very concerned at her and is more than a little
afraid she may carry out her threat.
"You promised to her him out the next time. Give him a chance.. He
better have a good excuse." she thought. "Ranma. How.. How did it
happen?" she said in a voice filled with shock and anger.
"Umm...Its.. kinda....like this... While I was chasing after Pop, trying
to kill him for turn me into a girl. I didn't notice that Ryoga was
standing on the cliff and I.... sorta ... knocked him into the pool of
drowned pig."
"It was your fault?"
Ranma nodded, and says a barely audible, "yes."
"Now I know why he wants revenge. But why couldn't you have told me?"
"I told you, it was my fault this happened. So, I promised him I wouldn't
tell. I made the promise before he became your pet. More than once I came
close to telling you his secret just to keep him from your bed. But...
but that would have cause damage to my honor and made me no better than
my Pop. I didn't want to find out what you would've done to us when you
found out. As it was I still dropped more than a couple hints."
"Why did he become my pet?"
"Um.. Because he loved you."
"You can't be serious."
"It's the truth."
"Oh... What am I suppose to do about him now."
"Nothing really. Thanks to Akari, he's much more willing see us happily
married. That is what prompted my last fight with him, he blamed me for
the whole wedding fiasco. Not to mention the loss of the Nannichuan."
Ranma watched her as he hoped he won't end up dead, while Akane stared at
the floor and thought, "What am I going to do? He asks me to trust him,
but he kept an important secret like that from me. What other secrets
hasn't he told me? Why didn't he tell me?... Because he promised Ryoga he
wouldn't tell anyone... I guess that mean I can trust him with a secret...
But he should have told me! Secrets like that should not have been kept. I
should beat the crap out of him for this. He'll just recover in a couple
minute like nothing happened, I need a more appropriate punishment."
The long silence finally got to Ranma, he had to break the silence. So,
he somewhat jokingly and yet nervously asks, "Are you still planning on
killing me?"
"It depends. Think you can survive a full week of my cooking?"
"Um not really."
"Tough, that's your punishment." she says with the anger in her voice
still clearly present.
Ranma rolls his eyes thinking, "I rather she beat the crap out of me."
Ranma sat down facing away from Akane. Their backs were a couple
feet apart.Ranma started talking again after a few moments, "After a full
week of cooking, you should be able make something editable."
"Gee, thanks." she replied.
"Would you mind if helped? You know give some pointers."
"Can you try to keep your big mouth from saying stupid while trying to
help me cook?"
"I'll try." he said. He then started laughing as a bit of irony
registered into his mind.
"What's so funny?" she said with clinched fists.
"I just remembered what we said this morning, that I'll learn to keep my
mouth shout when you learn how to cook. And it looks like we're going to
attempt just that."
She paused for a couple seconds then started laughing with Ranma
about the irony of the morning's confrontation. While they laughed, they
twisted towards saw each other. They stopped laughing and looked
embarrassed as they remember they were still without clothes.
Ranma asked, "How long do ya suppose we've been here."
"Two maybe three hours."
"How long do you think we'll be here."
"Don't know maybe any time now."
"But we could be here for days."
"Days! I hope not, what do we do about food."
"I doubt we have to worry about that."
"Why?"
"Happosai attacked me before I had a chance to eat much of my breakfast,
and yet I am not hungry now. That marble thing he threw at me might be
what kept him alive in the cave for twenty years."
"If that's the case, how did he get out?"
"I don't know."
A few moments past and Akane states, "We're running out of things to
discuss."
"Yeah, um well, let see..." Ranma said and then thought, "Might as well
get this part over with." "Um when do you want to get... um... married?"
he asked.
"He brought it up?" Akane thought before saying, "Not for a little while
at least, perhaps just after graduate."
"That's sorta of what I was thinking, but we'll still have to get our
parents to delay it that long."
"We may have to end up compromising. How this sound, if they don't back
down after a while we'll go with mid-year break of senior year."
"Nine to fourteen months, sounds good to me."
She smiled and thought, "I can't believe this is happening. He's
told me that he loves me. ME! We even set the wedding date." She pinched
herself and she continued her thoughts, "It is not a dream!" She looked
down onto herself and had another thought, "Hmm... We're alone, naked,
and no where to go... this sounds like a plot our fathers would come up
with to attempt to get me and Ranma to have sex... That suddenly doesn't
sound like such a bad idea.. I know he is at least some what into the
mood." She glanced over at him with an devious grin.
Meanwhile, Ranma thought, "How did this happen? This morning it
was keep your mouth shut and the THUD of her hammer, and now we've said
we love each other and set a wedding date. While it hasn't been bad so
far, I really would like to get out of here. I'll go crazy if I'm here to
long."
After a few moments of quiet Akane stated, "We're alone, naked, and have
no where to go. This sounds like something our parents would set up."
"Yep, but if they did we would be out of here now."
"What makes you say that?"
"Once we decided we loved each other they would have pulled us out."
"What if our means of escape is some sort trigger set off by something we
do."
"Its possible but we've gone through the two main triggers they would
have set up."
"Yes, but not the third."
"Third? What would be the third trigger?"
"Think Ranma, as I said before we're alone, naked, and have no where to
go. The trigger might be us having sex."
"You can't be serious?"
"I am serious, besides we're officially engaged now, our parents have
absolutely no objections what so ever to us doing it."
"This is not how I planned on this happening. I wanted it to be more...
special."
"Just doing it with you makes it special for me." she said with a grin as
she approached Ranma.
Scene Fades to black.
******** The next scene is a Lemon, and is not entirely necessary to read.
******** Some important dialogue occurs in it, but of sexual nature.
******** If you want to read it go to side story:
******** Naked, Alone, and No Place to Go.
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At the crowded Cat Cafe, Cologne held the gem that Happosai used
on Ranma and Akane. She examined it closely with Genma, Soun, and Shampoo
present.
"Husband trapped in gem with violent tomboy. Shampoo hope he okay."
stated a concerned Shampoo.
"We must get son-in-law out soon, but I must profess that I do not know
how to release them. I will check the ancient Amazon scrolls and tomes to
find a means to release them. But in the mean time, guard this gem well.
It could be very bad if it breaks or gets lost." pronounced Cologne.
Cologne handed the gem to Genma, while Soun is cried in an
emotional fit.
"Shampoo, get Mousse out of his cage and have him help you run the Cafe
while I search for the solution." ordered Cologne.
"Yes, great-grandmother." answered Shampoo.
Genma and Soun left with the gem. Genma held it very carefully.
Despite their normal troubles of doing anything right, they actually made
it safely home with the gem.
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Some time later Akane awakened and was not very comfortable. She
realized that the floor is very smooth and hard, while part of her is
draped over.... some guy. Her eyes flew open and took a quick survey. I'm
naked in a large sphere shaped room and Ranma is here also. "What did I
do?" asked aloud.
"Hmm Akane can you keep in down. I'm trying to sleep." asked a
still asleep Ranma. His eyes flashed open and said in shock, "Akane!"
"Um.. Have a nice nap?" said a rather red color Akane.
"Did we really do it?"
"Do what? Profess love to each other, set a wedding date, or have sex?"
"Um all of those."
"Yes, yes, and yes." she answered.
A few moments pass before Ranma asks, "How long was I asleep?"
"Don't know, I feel asleep shortly after you did."
"Come up with any other ideas to get out?"
"Nope"
"So what are we going to do now, if I stay here to long I'm going to go
crazy."
"Well I know a couple ways of distracting you from thinking about being
trapped in here." Akane stated with a devilish grin.
"I'm sure you can."
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