Okay, I'm not sure if this part is Lemon or Lime. I'm also sorry that this
took so long. My latest Trek peice demanded that I finish it up first.
This story will have 2 more parts, the Marriage and Ranma's Departure.
Hopefully those parts will come quicker. Earlier parts of this story may
be found at:
http://www2.crosswinds.net/~stephenratliff/works/Ranma/
They will also be reposted to the FFML with this part. Comments, Critique,
and Complaints eagerly awaited. A peice of fiction is only as good as it's
writers and editors.
Stephen Ratliff
Part 12: Opening Moves
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.
Part 9: Ranma moves in. Kasumi talks with Nodoka. Soun evaluates Ranma.
Akane and Ranma fall asleep watching TV.
Part 10: Soun stops Genma from waking Ranma and Akane up. Ranma and Akane
engage in pillow fight. Ranma and Genma spar over pond. Soun decides to
reopen the Dojo. Nodoka talks Akane about sex.
Part 11: Akane and Ranma are interrupted by Kasumi. Kasumi chastises
Akane. Ranma asks Nodoka if she'll help him buy a ring for Akane. Ranma
and Akane do it. Nabiki talks to Akane about what she just did.
Akane woke up in Ranma's arms. Once Kasumi had found out about her
sleeping with Ranma, Akane had decided to that waking up early to go back
to her room was useless. She hadn't slept in her room in over a week. She
felt secure in his embrace, and that wasn't just because of what he had
done the previous night.
"Wake up, Ranma," Akane said, kissing Ranma. As usual, it worked.
Ranma's eyes opened to see Akane's cute face. He was quickly getting use
to waking up with her in his arms. Akane was the first person that he had
really felt able to open up to. With her, he didn't have to worry about
his father's opinion of what a martial artist should be, nor his mother's
increasingly demanding opinion of what a man among men should be. Of
course there was one thing she had suggested that both Ranma and Akane had
enjoyed. "Good Morning, Akane," he said, before moving in to kiss her deeply.
Soon they were engaged in other pursues. They were deeply into their
usual sexual pursuits when they were interrupted. "Time for Breakfast,
Akane, Ranma," Kasumi said from the door.
They pulled away from each other. "Sister, your timing needs
improvement," Akane said. "We'll be down in a few minutes."
"Don't forget your bath first," Kasumi said.
"We'll try not to mess up the furo too bad," Ranma said.
It was lunch time, and for some reason, Kasumi was in the Cafeteria. She
seemed to be chatting with Ranma's mother. Akane had no idea why Kasumi
was there, and it wasn't normal to see Nodoka there either. Ranma hadn't
arrived from gym yet. Akane took her usual seat beside Nabiki. "Why is
Kasumi here?"
"I don't know," Nabiki replied. "I don't think I've ever seen Mrs.
Saotome in the cafeteria either."
Moments later, Ranma entered the cafeteria. Normally, Ranma wore his
uniform rather loosely, and after gym his hair was usually messed up. This
time was different. The shirt appeared to be freshly pressed, its white
broad lapels starched. The white pants were cleaner than Akane had ever
seen them. His hair was pulled back in a lose pigtail, and for once, he
was wearing the optional and rarely worn by anyone hat. Even without the
previous class being gym, this was rather unusual.
Ranma approached Akane. He knelt beside her. All eyes were on the pair
as Ranma pulled a small box out of his pocket. Opening the box, he began
to say, "Akane will you..." It was at that moment that one of the
Cafeteria Ladies entered the room carrying a large barrel of teriyaki
sauce. A rather short seventh grader was standing by the door, his
attention on the young couple. When the Cafeteria Lady impacted the
seventh grader, the barrel shot up out of her arms. It tumbled though the
air, emptying it's contents right onto Akane and Ranma. More specifically,
it ruined Ranma's uniform, and the picture that Nodoka was about to take.
Ranma concluded "... marry me, this Saturday?"
Looking at Ranma's soiled uniform as he knelt before her, Akane could not
help to giggle. "Yes," she replied, taking the silver ring. She put it on
her finger. It was a little big. In fact, she could almost get a second
finger in it.
"Mom suggested that I get an unsized ring for you, so it would fit later,"
Ranma explained, standing up.
"Good idea," Akane replied. She pulled him in close for a long kiss, to
which Ranma eagerly participated.
Soun Tendo stood at the front of the Dojo, his youngest daughter and her
future husband on either side. In front of him was his first class in
three years. It was a beginner's class, as was appropriate for a Dojo just
starting classes again. Most of the students were in their mid-teens, with
a couple older ones. Only one was younger than his daughter. All were male.
"Welcome to the Tendo Dojo. I am Soun Tendo, Master and head of the Tendo
School of Unrestricted Martial Arts. This is my daughter Akane, and her
fiance, Ranma Saotome of the Saotome School of Unrestricted Martial Arts.
They will be acting as my assistants. Today, you will begin to learn the
basics needed master martial arts..."
It wasn't until after supper that Akane finally felt it was time to let
her father know. She was sure that her father would overreact to the day's
events at school. She was not disappointed.
"My youngest daughter is getting married before she even finishes junior
high...," Soun began, tears beginning to flow. His words gradually became
incoherent, as he babbled on about how Akane, his baby girl, was growing up
so fast.
Nabiki looked up from were she was cleaning up the table. It was her
turn, and she hadn't been able to con Akane into doing it since Ranma moved
in. She rolled her eyes. To her, this wasn't a big deal. Though she did
want a little more detail from Akane about the previous night. And if she
could find someone who would make her come to breakfast with that satisfied
grin that Akane had for the past couple weeks, well, she wouldn't mind.
Okay, maybe this marriage thing was a meant a little more than Nabiki
showed. But it really was going to cut into the family's finances.
Kasumi was relaxing. The new clean-up rotation that Auntie Nodoka had
suggested was really allowing her some time to be herself. "Father,
please try to control yourself," she said. "You don't want to dehydrate
yourself and end up spending another day at the Doctor's."
"No, you're right Kasumi," Soun said, slowing his tears. "But she is my
baby girl."
"Dad," Akane said, stretching the word out. "I'm twelve years old and
engaged. I'm not a baby."
"To me, Akane," Soun said. "You'll always be my baby girl. I remember
when you were born. You were so tiny. Kasumi, were is the picture album?
I want Ranma to see how little Akane was."
To Akane, the night had just taken a turn for the worse. For in that
album, there were several pictures she never wanted to see the light of
day. Most notably the one of her dancing with a mop, naked. It was
totally unfair. Kasumi's embarrassing pictures were in another album,
since she was older, and Nabiki's had disappeared.
For Nabiki, she was about to get a surprise. For opposite the picture of
newborn Akane being held by her mother, and holding her father's little
finger was one of Nabiki's most embarrassing pictures. It was of her
mooning a visiting martial artist. "Where did that come from?" she exclaimed.
"Oh, I found a bunch of pictures under the Dojo that apparently had
slipped out of the album, so I put them back," Kasumi said. "Something
wrong, Nabiki? You look a little flushed."
Nabiki didn't want to admit that she had removed the pictures and tried to
hide them, so she had to come up with an excuse. "I'm not really feeling
that good," Nabiki said. "I think I'll take a bath and go to bed."
"I hope you're not coming down with something," Kasumi said.
"I think a good night's sleep will help," Nabiki said. "Do try to keep it
down tonight, Akane."
Akane blushed. She was aware that occasionally she was a little loud when
Ranma brought her to orgasm. Fortunately, her father hadn't noticed the
noise yet. Either that, or he thought it had to be someone else. After
all, twelve year olds don't generally have sex ever other night.