At 11:00 3/1/1998 -0600, jeff shelton wrote:

Seppuku (almost)
by jeff shelton
jws1@webtv.net

Nermia General Hospital. Approx. 9:00 pm.

(cut for space)

covering her. Akane grips it tightly.

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The inspiration for this came from reading:

The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy by Hiroyuki Agawa.

There is a story in it that says that when Yamamoto was a young man he 
had appendicitis and requested the operation be done without anesthesia, 
for the same reason Ranma gave. Ate 42 oranges in one setting, on a bet.

Thank you for reading this far.

Any C&C will be read and answered.

Great story.  I was wondering, if Ranma keeps his other hand over the
surgeons' and thus helps make the cuts himself, does that count as cutting
his own belly open and thus fulfilling the seppuku obligation?