This part has been a little tougher.  Any suggestions?

Stephen

Part 9: First Day Living at the Tendos.

What has gone before:
	Part 1: Akane meets Ranma at age 12.  They spar.  Akane walks in on
Ranma
	Part 2: Ryoga first appears.  Ranma shows off in Gym class.  Ranma
is challenged to teach the class gymnastics.  Ranma walks in on Akane.
	Part 3: Akane teaches the uneven bars.  Sensei Ogawa has an agenda.
Nabiki takes a picture.  Ranma walks in on Akane.
	Part 4: Akane finds the picture.  Akane and Ranma eat away from
Nabiki  Ranma and Akane pull a joke on Nabiki that gets Akane a kiss.
Ranma and Akane talk in the bath.
	Part 5: Ranma and Akane finish teaching gymnastics. The betrothal
document is found. Kasumi walks in on Ranma and Akane.  Kasumi talks to
Akane. 
	Part 6: Genma learns of Akane.  Soun cries.  Akane and Ranma walk
on fences.  Nodoka appears.
	Part 7: Nodoka plays sword master.  Nabiki finds out what is
planned for her.  Nabiki and Akane spar.  Nodoka waits for Genma.
	Part 8: Ranma has breakfast with his mother.  Akane and Ranma talk
about his parents.  Nabiki is teased during a lunch interrupted by Ryoga.
Ranma's move to the Tendos announced.  Ranma finds out that Akane is
ticklish.

	Ranma put his uniform in the closet.  It was last piece of clothes
to put away.  With that, he was now moved in at the Tendos.  A quick survey
of the room revealed a bed with a red cover, a desk with his backpack on
it, and in the doorway, his favorite feature ... Akane.
	"May I come in?" Akane asked.
	"Sure," Ranma said.  "What do you think?"
	Akane looked around the room.  "It's a little plain." she said, 
	"Well, I've never really had my own room to arrange before," Ranma
said.  "And training trips teach you to travel light, so I don't have much
to put in one.  Mom says she's going to bring some things I had when I was
little, but I don't think I really want them."
	"Well, you can always thank her then put them away where you don't
have to see them," Akane said, sitting on Ranma's bed.  It was a double bed
that her father had moved down from the attic.  "By the way, what is it
with you and Ryoga?
	"Well, his apartment was next door, and I found out about his
family's curse and offered to help him get to school," Ranma said, sitting
beside Akane.
	"What is his family's curse?" Akane asked.
	"They're always lost," Ranma said.  "He says the only thing he can
ever find are his parents, and even that's not always true."
	"Poor Ryoga," Akane said.
	"Yeah, I really feel sorry for the poor guy," Ranma said.

	Kasumi was, for a change, relaxing.  She was on the edge of the
pond, staring at the fish.  Nodoka found her there, and took a seat beside
her.  "Good Morning Kasumi.  It's nice to see you relaxing for a change."
	"I really should be cleaning the Dojo," Kasumi said.
	"Kasumi, you are fifteen years old," Nodoka said.  "You've had to
take on duties way too early in life.  Don't get all wrapped up in them, or
you'll end up an old maid.  I almost did."
	"That would never happen to you, Mrs.  Saotome," Kasumi said.
	"Call me Auntie," Nodoka said.  "I wish I could say it didn't, but
when my Genma left with Ranma, all I knew how to do was cook, clean, and
manage some of the family investments.  I was quite good at the latter.
Anyway, one night a robber tried to break into the house.  I grabbed the
family sword and some how managed to drive him off.  My old friend, Arisa,
who is Ranma and Akane's Gym Teacher now, heard about it, and suggested
that I get some sword training.  My Sensei thought I was good, and after
seeing me help out a younger student, decided that I should become his
replacement as the school system's sword master.  I'm currently helping him
out part time while I'm getting a degree in Physical Education.  I should
finish up next fall."
	"I never could do that, Auntie," Kasumi said.  "I'm barely getting
by at school.  I don't have time to talk to my friends.  I seems all I ever
do is study, clean, and cook.  And I'm acting more of a mother to my
sisters than a sister."
	"You need to learn to delegate," Nodoka said.  "Let others take
some tasks."
	"I don't see how," Kasumi said.  "I've already got Nabiki and Akane
alternating doing the dishes, but I can't get them to do much more.  Akane
is a disaster waiting to happen in the kitchen, and Nabiki won't help cook.
If I left it to Akane to clean her room, it would be a pig stye. And I
still haven't been able to tell Akane how babies are made, and she's been
having periods since the day after Mother died."
	"If you'd like, I can give Akane that talk," Nodoka said. 
	"Would you? I've been dreading that talk," Kasumi said.  "She and
Ranma have been getting really close and I'm afraid that something might
happen."
	"I will talk with Akane," Nodoka said.  "But it will have to be
tomorrow.  I've got a class to get too."
	"I'll see you tomorrow then, Auntie," Kasumi replied, standing up.
	"I left some of Ranma's stuff inside," Nodoka said, heading toward
the gate.  "Tell Akane to look on page 8 of the photo album.  She'll
understand."
	Kasumi entered the house.  As she headed toward the kitchen, she
spotted the photo album.  Curious, she opened it to page 8.  On that page
was a picture of a three year old Ranma, naked, riding a broom across the
room.  "Oh my!"

	Soun watched Akane and Ranma sparring in the dojo.  He'd already
spotted some improvements in Akane's form and attack methods.  She'd
tightened up her defenses and wasn't attacking in anger anymore.  That had
always been a problem with Akane.  She tended to get frustrated with her
opponent when she couldn't get a shot in and get angry.  She also tended to
lose control when she got hit.  She was holding her own with Ranma, each of
them testing each other, but something seemed to be slightly off.  Ah.
	"Ranma, please put a little more into your attach," Soun said.
"Akane, try attacking him a little lower."
	"I can't get by him there," Akane responded, as Ranma jumped over
her low attacks, and a kick got though her defenses.  "One for you Ranma."
	"You'll close that hole soon enough," Ranma said, executing an
unsuccessful attack toward Akane's left side.
	"It only opened due to that attack Dad suggested," Akane said.
	"If you don't try attacks you won't learn how to do them properly,"
Soun said.  "Break." Akane and Ranma stepped out of their stances and bowed
to each other.  "Ranma, spar with me."

	Akane relaxed in front of the television.  It was almost time for
the movie she and Ranma had decided on for this week.  It was old musical
that Kasumi had suggested called "The Pirates of Penzance."  Akane had
expected Ranma to suggest a martial arts movie, but that was what he didn't
want, but perhaps he'd had too much of them.  After all, martial arts was
all his father let him do.
	"Hurry up, Ranma," Akane called, making sure the oversized t-shirt
she was wearing was down far enough.
	Ranma entered, just wearing a pair of boxer shorts.  "This is
subtitled, not dubbed, isn't it?" he asked, taking seat beside her.
	"Yes," Akane said, snuggling up against him.  "Just boxers?"
	"You said to put on what I wore to bed," Ranma said, placing his
arm around her.
	[Still working on this section... and hoping to find a copy of some
of the songs, I only have some of them]

	By the end of the movie, both Ranma and Akane were asleep.  Soun
discovered both of them, and placed a blanket over them.

Next Part: Sunday Morning
(which is going a lot faster than part 9 has)

--
Stephen Ratliff                                     sratliff@runet.edu
http://www.runet.edu/~sratliff

"...three Captains who can not agree on the color of an orange."
    - Captain Pellew, "Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil"