Big up to the creators and owners of these characters.
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Yo. No reason for writing this. Just jotting down stuff inside my head. A
'what if Ranma wasn't all he seemed to be' fic. Just add this one to the
'late Monday night+no desire to do homework+nothing better to do' pile.
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Akane stood in front of the rest of the Tendo family, the Saotome family
(Nodoka
included), the China gang, Happosai, Ukyo and Konatsu, the Kunos, Hikaru
Gosunkugi, and Ryoga Hibiki.
<Well, everyone's here. Guess I'll start, now.> Akane took a deep breath
and addressed the group that had gathered per her invitation. "Alright,
everybody, quiet down. Now, I suppose you're all wondering why I asked you
here. Well, I did so to tell everyone something. Something that some of you
will take well, some of you will take not so well, and some of you will
really not care about." She looks to Pantyhose with this last addition, and
everyone looks to him, also.
"What? So I don't care what goes on in your lives! Is that a crime?"
Everyone turned back to Akane, who resumed her speech. "Now, as I have
mentioned, some of you will take this badly, and may get violent. As this is
true, I have to ask for everyone to agree to not get violent or rowdy. You
will all hear the news here, and will act properly as guests here. When you
reach your perspective homesteads..."
Ryoga blushed
"...you can laugh, cry, sing, beat up your family, beat up a dummy,
whatever. But not here. Or I won't tell you, and you'll all be very sorry."
Pantyhose spoke up again. "What if we don't agree? I mean, not that I
CARE or anything, but what will happen if someone doesn't agree?"
Nabiki fielded that one. "I'll call in all your debts..." she looked to
Kuno and Cologne "...cancel your passports..." she looked to Ryoga, Pantyhose
and the China gang "...destroy any business you may own..." Ukyo and the
China gang fielded this glance "...and give your picture and a nasty record
of perversions to the police so you won't be able to come within 300 yards of
a bath house, lingerie store, or all-girls school without being hauled off to
jail without a trial." Happosai visibly wilted. "Not to mention that I'll
make your lives a living hell, making for damn sure that you can't own
property, get a job, or even get insurance ever again. But then, that goes
without saying." She smiled like a lioness on the hunt and everyone said in
unison: "I agree!"
Akane smiled at her sister, and turned her focus back to the crowd.
"Now, what I'm going to tell you has to do with my love life."
Ukyo, Shampoo, Cologne, both Kunos, Ryoga, Gosunkugi, and their respective
admirers (Konatsu, Tsubaba, (Wait, Tsubaba? Where'd he come from? Oh, yeah.
I didn't register that tree as a person at first. Gomen ne!) Mousse, etc.)
unconsciously held their breaths. Soun got ready for waterfall mode or Demon
Head mode (whatever the situation called for. You gotta be prepared,
right?), and Genma fidgeted nervously and looked to Nodoka, rubbing his gut
and neck.
"I have called you all here today to tell you that I am in love with
someone here. In fact, I've been in love with that person for a long time,
and have been having a secret relationship for a while, now."
Soun prepared his teary-head mode. Genma hid himself behind Tsubaba.
Nodoka...did nothing.
Ranma...well, you really can't say much for Ranma. He's generally...Ranma.
He was too busy being an arrogant jerk to react.
"I'm in love with...Ukyo."
Ukyo went up to Akane and kissed her gently on the lips.
Akane hugged her to her side and looked out to the audience, who had
collectively facefaulted. "Well, there you have it. I'm in love with Ukyo,
and am a lesbian. I'm never going to marry Ranma, so he'll have to marry
Kasumi or Nabiki."
Nabiki quickly interjected with practiced ease, yielded from many years
of business dealings. "Not really. He can't marry me, either, because I'm in
love with Kodachi and Nodoka."
Said women blushed and bowed their heads.
Genma was...well...he thought something like this: <She's a
lesbian...what about seppuku...what about Soun...what about my innards...?>
Nabiki continued. "So, Ranma will have to marry Kasumi. Have fun,
oneechan!" she added as she smiled and got back down.
This time, it was Shampoo's turn to interject. "No, she won't. You see,
Kasumi and I are in love. She isn't marrying Ranma for anything."
Soun...nevermind. You know very well what Soun was doing. (hint: Niagra)
"Um, Shampoo? When did you learn Japanese so well?" asked all the people
who hadn't gone into shock. I.E. Pantyhose.
"I've always known how, but Cologne wouldn't let me make that fact known.
She wanted me to distract Ranma and Mousse so she could have an affair with
Happosai and Konatsu."
Those people left in a hurry.
"So, let me get this straight:" Nabiki started as she got out a pad of
paper and a pencil and started jotting down figures
Ukyo+Akane=Kasumi+Shampoo=Nodoka+Kodachi+me=Happosai+Cologne+Konatsu=love?
That's...mind boggling." She scratched her head with the pencil and looked
around the room. "So, everyone's accounted for except for Pantyhose, Ranma,
Mr.
Saotome, Kuno, Mousse, and Tsubaba. Does that mean you're gay?"
Kuno fielded this question. "Not at all, my dear Nabiki. You see, you
are not the only women in this fair city. I am in love with a special
someone; one who's beauty is..." he continued for a while, but all of the
information pertinent to the subject at hand had already been given, so
everyone just tuned him out.
Tsubaba was next. "Damn! I can't have Ukyo?!? Oh, well. Back to
stalking idol
singers!" and the tree left, revealing a puzzled Genma.
Genma (who looked to be in alot of pain - probably from all that
thinking) looked to his son, Ranma. "Well, boy, how do you feel about this?"
Soun answered. Perhaps not that surprising, actually.
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!! My
little girls are lesbians! What will the city think?!? What of the
engagement?!? What of Dr. Tofu, Kasumi? What of...*BONK*"
Akane dusted her hands as the mallet disappeared. "He'll be better once
he wakes up."
"Akane! That wasn't very nice to do to father!" Kasumi scolded.
"Well, he DID deserve it, oneechan."
"Still, Nabiki. Akane didn't have to hit him like that."
"Well, serves the little guy right. I've been telling him for the
longest time to keep
that big mouth of his shut, but he never listens to me."
They all looked to the speaker of that last sentence. Namely, Mousse.
Mousse looked innocent and...femenine...as he said "What? You think it's
so impossible for Soun-chan and I to be in love?"
"With all that's come out tonight, not really." Ranma's first comment
for a while
startled Genma out of his fantasy of his wife and her entourage of consorts.
"Ah, Ranma. So, what DO you think of this whole situation?"
"Eeeh. I've been waiting for a chance to go back to college for SO long,
I'm actually glad. I mean, I don't have to act like a jackass anymore, I
don't have to be stupid, and I can actually be myself." He took out the
contacts he'd been wearing and put on his glasses. They made him look...more
sophisticated. He then proceeded to amaze his audience by continuing with
his feelings on the situation at hand. "I can dress like I want to, I can ACT
like I want to, and I get to DO what I want to! This is actually one of the
best things that has happened to me!"
Genma then smiled and inquired "Do you think that you can get back into
college with YOUR record?"
Ranma sobered. "I sure hope so."
Genma laughed. Not his usual evil laugh, but a light hearted laugh. The
laugh of a GOOD man. "Ranma, I was kidding. They'd me MORE than happy to
have you back. I mean, I don't think a whole lot of former 10-year old
quad-majors with a 4.0 GPA apply to college."
"Yeah, but still. I'm kinda scared about the whole prospect of going
back to college. I mean, seeing all of my old professors, seeing people that
I met at college earlier that STILL haven't graduated, meeting NEW
people...I'm not really looking foreward to that."
"Well, son, you'll have your old man there to help you through it."
"Thanks, father. I love you."
They embraced as the author was thoroughly throttled by Rumiko Takahashi and
her band of big, strong, bloodthirsty lawyers.
-Fin-