I suppose this would be the place where I ask for C&C upon my first
attempt
at fanfiction, so consider it asked for :)  I have no particular
preference as to
whether the C&C is public or private, so its at your discretion.  With
that said
I shall see if I can't post my first story to the list successfully.

--Adrian Gemini
http://gozips.uakron.edu/~zema/ranma.html


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Forbidden Feelings
by Adrian Gemini

	The characters used within this piece of fiction are by no 
means mine, Rumiko Takahashi owns all of these characters along with 
Shougakukan Video and Viz Communications.  I have the utmost respect 
for all of her creations with the exception of Akane, just kidding, 
and will hopefully not butcher her creations too horribly within.  
Should you think Akane to be slightly more violent then usual keep 
in mind that its just your imagination. *grin*  I'm currently 
placing this as a month or so after Ukyo reaches Nerima and the 
entire course of events concerning her restaurant and embracing the 
engagement to Ranma.  Anyway on with the fanfiction.

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Forbidden Feelings: Chapter 1

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	Ranma whistled casually as he paced down the street ducking 
his head periodically to avoid the satchel being swung at his head.  
Looking back he noticed Akane beginning to tire and decided to 
finish this exercise up, he always got a kick out of seeing her 
angry and Ucchan's was just down the block; perfect for pushing her 
over the top.  Breaking into a run he called over his shoulder to 
Akane, "Hey if you want to yell at me you can do it while I get 
something to eat at Ucchan's.  That way I won't have to eat the 
toxic sludge you call cooking tonight," all the while grinning at 
her reaction to how easily he outpaced her.
	"RAAANMAAA!!!," screamed Akane, "Come back here and take your 
punishment like a man, you pervert!"  Vanishing into the interior of 
the restaurant, Ranma caught a brief glimpse of Akane increasing her 
speed, and seconds later she burst through the doors, only to get a 
view of him calmly sitting on one of the stools eating a deluxe 
okinomiyaki.  "How dare you insult my cooking before you've even 
tried it, Ranma!" she exclaimed.
	Ranma looked up briefly before grinning at Ukyou and drawling, 
"well I couldn't very well insult it after I'd eaten it, could I 
Akane...."
	Beginning to blush, Akane, apparently thinking she was about 
to be complimented, looked down at her fingers and began twiddling 
them while stammering, "you really mean..."
	Ranma winked at Ukyou and finished his statement, "...after 
all its hard to say anything while you're lying on the ground 
unconscious."  
	At this Ukyou apparently could no longer hold in her amusement 
and began laughing, unaware of the glowing blue aura beginning to 
surround Akane as she tightly gripped one of the stools between her 
hands.  This changed however when said stool came up out of the 
ground and began swinging wildly at Ranma, generally hitting 
everything but him as he nimbly dodged the brute strength attacks 
which Akane loved to employ.  Ukyou stared on, appalled, as Ranma 
taunted Akane a bit more, and Akane, taking no notice of her 
surroundings, began to smash the tables and the counter around her.
	"Akane!!  Look at what you're doing," Ukyou yelled as she 
began to pull out her battle spatula, only to gain a horrified 
expression as her shout caused Ranma to pause and look around him.  
Akane, taking her opportunity, swung with all her might, casually 
flinging Ranma through the wall behind the grill and immediately 
giving chase.  When she reached the room where Ranma lay, a growl 
rumbled deep in her throat and she raised the now battered stool a 
little bit higher.
	"Just WHAT do you think you're DOING, Ranma!" Akane's yell 
filtered through the fog in Ranma's brain as her gaze came to rest 
upon him.  Realizing his head was lying in Ukyou's lap while she 
attempted to check his condition Ranma slowly raised himself to a 
sitting position.
	"Huh?  What do you mean?" moaned Ranma before placing a hand 
on his head, "Just because my _CUTE_ fiancee actually cares a little 
about my well being you have to get all mad, you are so uncute!"  
With this final comment Ranma braced himself for the pain he knew 
would come and grinned as he thought <at least it's good training, 
by the time I actually leave the Tendo's it'll be like I went 
through the Bakusai Tenketsu training ten times over!>  However when 
he heard the stool come down he was shocked to realize that he 
hadn't felt anything.  Wondering how she could have missed a sitting 
target he slowly opened his eyes, briefly noted the still furious 
expression on Akane's face, and turned around, gasping as he saw 
Ukyou passed out on the floor, a large bump slowly rising near the 
back of her head.
	"How could you do that Akane?" he asked as he scrambled to his 
feet to look Ukyou over, "I can't believe you'd hit Ucchan like 
that."  Moving carefully he gently picked up his childhood friend 
and turned to gaze coldly at Akane, finally snapping her out of her 
tantrum, and spoke in a chilling tone as he said, "get out--now!  
I'm putting Ucchan to bed and I don't know if I'll be home tonight."  
At this point he lost the uncharacteristically chill tone he had 
been holding.  Turning his head to the side he looked out the window 
and away from Akane, "I need some time to think about the situation, 
Akane," he said softly, "and you've given me a few things to look 
at, please...just go."  He then turned his back on her and left up 
the stairs, at the back of the kitchen, that led to Ukyou's room.
	"Ranma?  I-I...," Akane slumped down, letting the now broken 
stool drop from her limp fingers, "...I'll go I guess."  Ranma felt 
Akane's eyes upon his back as he climbed the stairs and restrained 
the urge to turn around, it was only when he reached the top where 
she couldn't see him that he turned.  He sighed as he watched her 
half-heartedly attempt to clean up the mess that they had made in 
their fight, a little grimace distorting her face as she did so.  
Finally giving up, she turned towards the stairs with a somewhat 
saddened expression on her face before she left the kitchen and 
presumably the store. 

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	Later that evening, Ranma-chan slumped down on one of the 
stools tiredly as she gazed around the once more clean and now empty 
restaurant.  There were still a few things which couldn't be fixed 
immediately such as the stool Akane had been using and a few of the 
tables but the lack of those hadn't slowed down business much once 
she reopened the restaurant for Ukyou.  She figured that with the 
damage she and Akane had caused, the Ucchan couldn't really afford 
to close down for the day and so she had borrowed one of Ukyou's 
okinomiyaki uniforms and changed out of her somewhat ragged clothes.  
It had been hard, but she had managed to keep all the customers 
happy and apparently what she learned from watching Ukyou was enough 
to keep the customers satisfied with her culinary skills.  Raising 
her head as she heard a slight moan, she quickly jumped to her 
feet and ran up the stairs into Ukyou's room.
	"Are you okay, Ucchan?" she questioned as she walked over to 
the bed, felt Ukyou's forehead and otherwise began fussing over her 
self appointed charge.
	"I...ow...think I'm okay, Ranchan," replied Ukyou, "I'm just 
feeling a little dizzy, Akane has one heck of an arm."  She muttered 
something about a temper crossly, then flinched as the fierce 
emotion put a bit too much strain on her headache.  She moderated 
her tone a bit, "I can get back to running the restaurant at any 
rate."
	"I don't think you're ready to be up and about, Ucchan, don't 
think I didn't notice that just now," said Ranma-chan as she looked 
down doubtfully at Ukyou, "maybe I should stay and make sure you're 
ok."
	"I-I'd love for you to stay R-Ranchan but don't you think it's 
a little...you know...early for that," Ukyou stammered as she began 
to blush brightly, "I mean we aren't even m-married yet, even if we 
are fiancees."  Finishing she peered up from beneath her bangs at 
Ranma-chan's still form, her breathing increasing in tempo and a 
flush creeping up her neck.
	Ranma-chan flushed slightly under the scrutiny, a bit like 
that of the boys at school when she was splashed, and decided she 
must be imagining things.  <I really must be a pervert if I think 
Ukyou's looking at me like that while I'm a girl>.  She laughed, 
"you know you do have a guest room Ucchan, so it's not like I'd be 
sleeping in your bed," then she got a bit more serious and stated, 
"I'd really appreciate it if you let me stay though, I-I don't think 
I want to go back to the Tendo's just yet and..."
	 Ukyou yelped and hurriedly interrupted her fiancee as a blush 
spread across her face, "of course you can stay Ranchan."  Ranma-
chan looked on slightly bemused as the cook quickly moved to get up 
and get a room ready, only to fall into Ranma-chan's arms as her 
face rapidly lost its color and her eyes fluttered shut.  When Ukyou 
came to a second later she briefly snuggled against the soft pillows 
supporting her, before she realized exactly what they were.  Wincing 
as she lifted her head, slowly this time, she moved it back against 
the real pillows on her bed.
	"I'm sorry, Ranchan," apologized Ukyou as she turned her wide 
soulful eyes to Ranma-chan in apology, "I didn't mean to, really!"
	Ranma briefly wondered exactly why Ukyou would make such a big 
deal out of what she just did, a few stray thoughts flashing through 
her mind before she shook her head ruefully, <good thing Akane can't 
here what I'm thinking, Ucchan too come to think of it>, "that's ok 
Ucchan I know you didn't mean it," she murmured as she tucked Ukyou 
into bed again.   "Just lie down for now, I can get myself settled 
in and you need to rest."
	Briefly attempting to fight the lure of sleep, Ukyou mumbled, 
"ok, sure thing Ranchan, no trouble...at...," she yawned briefly, 
"all."   She trailed off as she faded into a peaceful sleep, smiling 
slightly and mumbling a little under her breath.
	Ranma smoothed a little bit of her erstwhile fiancee's hair 
from her forehead and blushed as she thought she caught the word 
'kawaii' slip from Ukyou's mouth at her touch.  <Has to be someone 
else,> thought Ranma, <Ukyou isn't like that...I think.>  She then 
slipped out the door and headed down the hallway towards where she 
thought she remembered the storage room to be, slipping inside 
briefly to get a futon, blanket, and pillow.  Ranma placed these in 
a spare room and then headed into the bathroom, grimacing as she 
looked upon the only set of clothes she had and realized they were 
completely ruined in the fight with Akane, rather than just slightly 
damaged as she had thought.  With that pleasant thought she stripped 
off the clothes she was wearing and placed all but the boxers and 
tank top into the hamper.
	<Guess I'll just have to borrow some more of Ucchan's clothes, 
they won't fit my guy form but at least they aren't the dresses and 
girly clothes that Akane and her sisters have,> she thought briefly 
as she shivered in the cold water which cascaded from the bucket 
over her head.  Sighing as she began to scrub her body, she noticed 
she was still rather tense from talking with Ukyou and it was 
affecting her in an odd, not entirely unpleasant manner which she 
had never felt before.  Nonetheless she continued with her task in a 
methodical manner before rinsing herself and slipping into the 
steaming bath.  Ranma then paused as, for possibly the first time 
since he got the curse, the change rippling through his body didn't 
quite seem to return as much as normal.  He briefly wondered if he 
was actually getting used to being a girl, then grinned wryly and 
said out loud, "no way, I'll never get used to turning into a girl," 
though if anyone had been listening they might have heard a 
noticeably different quality to his voice as he said it.

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	The next morning Ranma slowly woke up, clad only in his boxers 
and a tank top, and slowly stretched as he wiped a bit of the sleep 
from his eyes.  He briefly wondered where he was when the unfamiliar 
surroundings registered, and then groaned shortly as he recalled the 
events of the previous night.  <I don't believe I said all that 
stuff to Akane,> he thought as he paced slowly around the small room 
he was staying in above the Ucchan.  He continued to ponder what he 
should do about that situation as he headed towards the bathroom 
again, <might as well change before I head up to Ucchan's room to 
borrow some clothes,> he reasoned.  Upon reaching the bathroom he 
froze for a second then remembered to knock on the door as a flash 
of himself and another bathroom went through his mind.  Not hearing 
a response he walked into the empty bathroom and quickly went over 
to the towels, pulling one off the shelf.  He then reached up and 
hesitated only briefly as he turned on the showerhead and hit 
himself with just enough water to trigger the change.  She quickly 
toweled her hair dry and headed up to Ukyo's room, where she knocked 
on the door and asked, "is it all right if I come in and borrow some 
clothes, Ucchan?  Mine are a mess and until I can head over to the 
Tendo's I don't really have anything to wear."
	Dimly heard through the door Ukyo's slightly muffled reply 
came, "sure thing Ranchan, come on in."
	With that she opened the door and slipped inside before 
looking up and suddenly blushing beet red.  "Ucchan!!" she 
exclaimed, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry...I really thought you said it was 
alright to come in."
	"I did Ranchan," affirmed Ukyo curiously, "What's the matter?  
Its not like you've never seen this before."
	At this Ranma-chan's blush became even more pronounced if 
possible as she said, "umm, I suppose you could say that."  Then 
steeling herself she slowly tilted her head.  "I'll just get some 
clothes and go..." she started to say, before she looked more 
closely at what Ukyo was doing.  Frowning slightly she asked, "I 
thought you only umm...bound yourself when you went to school, 
Ucchan?"
	Ukyo flushed slightly and exclaimed, "I'm sorry, Ranchan, but 
even though I have this curse for a body, I can't accept being a 
women just like that.  I want to look as much like a man as poss..." 
she broke off when she felt the hand on her forehead and saw Ranma-
chan frowning up at her.
	"You don't seem to have a fever," Ranma-chan pondered as she 
slowly pushed Ukyo back into her bed.
	"What are you doing, Ranchan?" Ukyo exclaimed as she struggled 
fruitlessly against her fiancee's efforts, "I'm fine and I need to 
open the restaurant."  She peered into Ranma-chan's concerned face 
and softened her voice, "really, I'm fine, you don't need to worry 
so much."  Then she perked up and said, "and just to prove it to you 
I'll take you on a date tonight," smiling brightly at her ingenious 
idea before her lips turned down again.  "Not that you'd want to go 
out with me while I'm stuck in this woman's body," Ukyo sighed, 
"never mind, it was a dumb idea anyway."
	Briefly stunned by what she was hearing Ranma-chan let go of 
Ukyo and hurried to her dresser, quickly grabbing one of Ukyo's 
masculine outfits she pulled it on and turned to Ukyo.  "Umm, sure, 
Ucchan, I have to go somewhere now though," she said hesitantly, 
"would you, just for me, rest one more day?  Please?"
	Ukyou paused as the expected rejection didn't come and she 
registered Ranma-chan's acceptance, then exclaimed, "Yatta!"  
Finally settling down on her bed with a beatific smile on her face, 
"all right, Ranchan.  If you really feel that strongly about the 
whole thing I'll rest one more day."
	Ranma-chan flashed her a brilliant smile and said, "thanks 
Ucchan, this really means a lot to me," before jumping out the 
second story window and roof hopping toward Doctor Tofu's.  <Why 
would Ucchan think she's a boy,> thought Ranma-chan with concern, <I 
mean sure she dresses that way, but she's never actually believed 
she was a boy to the best of my knowledge.>  She thought briefly 
upon what might cause such an odd condition then shook her head and
doubled her speed as she headed for the Doctor's office.

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	Upon reaching the clinic Ranma-chan hopped down to street 
level then entered the comfortable doctors office while calling, 
"Doc?  Doctor Tofu are you here?"
	Coming out of the backroom Doctor Tofu wiped his hands briefly 
on the gi he wore and asked, "what can I do for you Ranma?"  Peering 
closely at the young man turned woman who had entered his office, a 
brief frown crossed his face as he noted an unusually high level of 
tension in his frequent patient.
	"You gotta help me Doc, or rather you gotta help Ucchan," 
gasped Ranma-chan hurriedly, "she thinks she's a boy for some 
reason!"
	Dr. Tofu blinked and then stated, "Hmm, judging from the fact 
that you're breathing rather hard it has to be a ways to wherever 
she is at the moment, correct?"
	Ranma-chan just nodded her head slightly and continued her 
efforts to calm the ragged breathing which Tofu had noticed.
	Smiling slightly, Dr. Tofu continued on in a calm tone of 
voice, "perhaps we should be off then and you can tell me what I'll 
need to know on the way there."
	Pausing to take a deep breath and calm herself, Ranma-chan 
reflected on all the problems which had cropped up in her life, 
though she didn't consider Ukyo one of them anymore.  "Well, first 
things first I suppose," she said after catching her breath, "I 
don't think you've actually met Ucchan, but she's an old friend of 
mine who I thought was a guy.  Only when she finally tracked me down 
here it turns out that she was a girl all along and she's also 
engaged to me."
	"Hmm...," pondered Tofu, "why did you think Ucchan..."
	"Actually her name's Ukyo," interrupted Ranma-chan, "Ucchan is 
just the name I use for her, just like she calls me Ranchan."
	"Oh, ok then, anyway as I was saying, why did you think Ukyo 
was a boy-or for that matter why was she tracking you down?" asked 
Tofu as he puzzled frown creased his brow.
	"Well it turns out that not only did Pop engage me to her, but 
we were supposed to bring her with us on the training trip," 
continued Ranma-chan, "when we left without her she ended up giving 
up her femininity and swearing revenge on us."  Ranma paused at this 
point to mutter a few imprecations against her so called father, 
however Dr. Tofu was used to this and just waited patiently for her 
to continue the tale.  "Anyway, the reason I thought Ukyo was a boy 
was mainly because I hadn't seen her since we were six years old," 
answered Ranma, "and when I did see her again she had gotten 
_really_ good at disguising herself as a boy."
	"Hmm, so what happened after she found you," questioned Tofu, 
"surely she didn't just give up a ten year feud like that?"
	Ranma-chan placed her hand behind her head in embarrassment 
and stammered, "well, umm, actually she did do that."  Ignoring the 
slightly bemused expression on Dr. Tofu's face she continued with 
her story, "she found me about a month ago and challenged me to a 
duel, which I of course accepted, not knowing she was a girl.  
Anyway during that I discovered the truth and I...umm...kind of said 
she was cute, after that she declared the engagement was still on 
and so now I've got three fiancee's."
	The conversation then turned to the actual problem for the 
rest of the journey with Ranma-chan talking and Tofu listening and 
before long they were standing outside the empty restaurant.  Ranma-
chan quickly unlocked the door with the keys she had liberated from 
Ukyo the night before and let in the doctor and herself.  Gesturing 
for Tofu to follow she quickly bounded into the kitchen and headed 
for the stairs, only to be intercepted by an ecstatic Ukyou.
	"Ranchan, you're back!" exclaimed Ukyo as she swept the 
surprised Ranma-chan off of her feet and started twirling her 
around.
	"Ucchan!" Ranma yelled, slightly embarrassed at being 
manhandled by Ukyo in front of Doctor Tofu, "I brought Doctor Tofu 
to look at you after that bump Akane left you with, he's the one who 
I told you always takes care of me after I get injured."
	Ukyo sighed as she looked on the tall doctor and muttered, 
"all right, if you really want him to look at me he can.  I'm really 
all right though, I mean would I have been able to spin like that if 
my head still hurt?"  Still holding onto one of Ranma-chan's hand 
she asked, "so where do you want to do this, Doctor?"
	Doctor Tofu glanced at the uncomfortable Ranma-chan before 
turning to Ukyo and saying, "well, do you have a bed or a 
comfortable couch you could lay on?  That would probably work the 
best."
	Ukyo, very careful not to move too much so Ranma-chan wouldn't 
remove her hand, answered, "Yes, its right up here."  She then 
started up the stairs and was rather surprised when her fiancee 
merely followed along without jerking her hand free.  Not one to 
look a gift horse in the mouth however she decided to just accept 
and enjoy it and smiled happily as she led the way upstairs to her
bedroom.
	"Why don't you lay down on the bed," directed Doctor Tofu as 
he moved to the side, ready to begin practicing his craft.
	"Ok, if you insist," responded Ukyo before reluctantly 
releasing Ranma-chan's hand and making her way over to the bed.  "I 
don't need to strip or nothing, do I?" she asked in a rough manner 
before sitting on her bed and then turning parallel to Tofu and 
resting her head upon the pillows.
	The young doctor chuckled then said, "no, no, I don't think 
that will be at all necessary Ukyo," before beginning his 
examination of the okinomiyaki chef and her chi.  He continued his 
study for nearly a half hour then finally stood up and turned to 
Ranma-chan, "if you'd step outside for a minute, I'd like to 
talk to you."
	"Sure thing, Doc," replied Ranma-chan as she followed him out 
into the hall which Ukyo's room was in.  Moving towards the open 
window overlooking the street she sat on the ledge and asked in an 
anxious tone, "so what's the diagnosis Doc?  How do we cure Ucchan?"
	Doctor Tofu raised his head ever so slightly, the sunlight 
briefly gleaming off his glasses and giving him an inscrutable and 
wise appearance.  Obviously about to reveal the cure he stayed in 
this pose for a second and then stated, "there is no cure."  At the 
resounding crash which resulted from his statement he ran over to 
the window and looked out and down at the sprawled out body of 
Ranma-chan.  "Hmm, perhaps I should have stated that a bit 
differently," he said to himself before he turned and headed outside 
to pick up Ranma-chan.

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	Groaning slightly, Ranma-chan sat up in her futon and put her 
hand to the back of her head.  Feeling a shot of pain at the touch 
she quickly moved her hand back and looked around the room, taking 
in the Doctor sitting next to her she asked, "what happened?"
	Doctor Tofu chuckled and stated, "well you had a slightly 
adverse reaction to the news on Ukyo, or rather what you thought was 
the news.  You made a rather precipitous exit from the room before I 
could finish my diagnosis."
	Ranma-chan sighed as the recent events in regards to Ukyo 
unfolded in her mind anew.  "Wait!" she exclaimed as she sat up, 
"does that mean that Ucchan isn't going to be like this forever, 
Doc?"
	Doctor Tofu smiled briefly before resuming his serious 
demeanor, "I can't say for sure that she will make a recovery, as 
their isn't really any set method of dealing with what appears to be 
her problem, however there is a decent chance that she will come out 
of it on her own."
	Twisting the blanket slightly in her hand Ranma-chan asked, 
"so what exactly _is_ her problem, Doc?  As you mentioned I kind of 
missed that part last time you were about to tell me."  She grinned 
wryly as her normal humor kicked in briefly then listened carefully 
as the young doctor began to explain.
	"Well, I said before 'what appears to be her problem' and 
there was a reason for that, as I'm not entirely sure what her 
problem is.  I can however make a few educated guesses based on what 
I saw when I was examining her," the doctor began, "the most likely 
reason for her behavior is an altered form of amnesia..."
	Ranma-chan broke in briefly, "I thought when you had amnesia 
you forgot everything, Doc?  She sure seemed to remember me, and for 
that matter she knew Akane's name too-though something seemed kind 
of odd about that..."  She briefly thought about that before 
discarding it as irrelevant to the current situation, "so it 
couldn't really be amnesia, could it?"
	The doctor continued after a slight pause to store this new 
information and said, "actually it can be, you said that for the ten 
years previous to this she has been attempting to forget, and make 
people forget, the fact that she is actually a girl.  Ten years of 
continually reinforcing this fact within herself isn't broken off 
easily, though it appears as if she's trying, thus when she was
hit the amnesia took a slightly different form and she was finally 
successful in convincing herself that what she had been saying was 
true.  Your presence actually helped slightly with this as it 
provided both the means, a curse, and a reason for trying to accept 
this 'curse', your supposed appeals and attempts to help her accept 
this."
	Ranma-chan sat slightly stunned as it sunk into her head that 
not only had she been the one to get Akane mad, deliberately, it was 
also her presence near Ukyo which had made her sick.  Very likely 
was _still_ making Ukyo sick.  She sighed softly and said to Doctor 
Tofu, "I guess I had better leave then, if I'm the one who's making 
Ucchan sick I can't very well stay here, even if I mean well."
	Doctor Tofu placed a hand on Ranma-chan's shoulder, "I didn't 
say that you had made Ukyo sick, Ranma," he comforted, "all you did 
was change the nature of what happened to her.  If you hadn't been 
here then it would likely have been amnesia of the normal, 
incapacitating I might add, sort.  Or she might have had the same 
sort of thing happen without any reasoning, leaving her as a man 
stuck in a woman's body without any hope. Or she might have..."
	"Ok, ok, I get it, Doc," Ranma-chan's laughter had a slightly 
bitter edge to it, "it wasn't necessarily my fault that it 
happened."  <Although that isn't completely true since I was the one 
who provoked Akane,> she thought morosely before continuing her 
speech, "if I left though shouldn't she snap out of it faster?"
	"Not really, Ranma," the doctor answered thoughtfully, "right 
now you seem to be a major part of her life in both reality and what 
she has made up.  And generally the best method of dealing with 
amnesia of any form is to keep the patient in a stable atmosphere 
and try and avoid administering any shocks."  The doctor paused for 
a second as a thought struck him, "in fact if you left that would 
likely be a rather large blow to her, or rather his, self-esteem and
confidence. Right now, having you as her fiancee seems to be one of
the high points in a life turned upside down by her 'curse', 
something I'm sure you can sympathize with."
	Ranma-chan thought about what it might have been like to have 
someone who actually knew what it was like to talk to about her 
curse when she got it.  All told it might have been rather nice to 
have someone around other than her stupid Pop, although now that she 
thought about it Ukyo wouldn't even have that much if she left.  And 
her curse wasn't even as bad as what Ukyo thought she had when she 
first got it, since she could at least get back to her male form.
	"All right, I guess I should stay then," she said as she 
smiled a bit, "I can't just leave Ucchan all alone, now can I?"  
Having come to a conclusion she smiled at Doctor Tofu and asked, "so 
is there anything else I can do for her besides this?"
	The doctor in question shook his head briefly before 
answering, "not at the moment, I'll look through my books and see if 
I can't find something else but your best bet is what I've already 
outlined."  Doctor Tofu stood and began to walk towards the door, 
only turning his head as he said, "oh yes, and Ranma you might want 
to consider calling the Tendo's, I'm sure they're worried sick."
	Looking upon the doctor as he moved out of sight, Ranma-chan 
bent her head and muttered, "yea, right."  She then stood up 
decisively and followed the lead of Doctor Tofu and headed towards 
the door, though she turned not towards the exit but in the 
direction of Ukyo's room.

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