Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Chasing Akane (DC) ❯ Part 7: Three Ways to End It ( Chapter 7 )

Chasing Akane: Part 7

Note: I don't own the rights to View Askew or Ranma, just to Dimi-Chan and Juton (but not to the "Silent" part of Juton, or to the characters they represent in this fan fiction.

Introduction: And now, the stunning multi-ending conclusion to Chasing Akane!

INT. Manga Show - Day

It's one year later, we're at another show, not unlike the one from the opening.

A copy of "Baka and Hentai" enters the frame. The cover reads "The Super Hentai", complete with a corresponding drawing.

Ryouga (v/o): Blast from the past.

Ryouga sits at a signing table. Behind him is a banner that reads "Ryouga Hibbiki-Creator of Pig World". A small line is formed in front of him, like…three people. He talks with a fan.

Fan: Do you know how much it's going for these days? Lots of yen. You singing it pushes it up even higher. Still more if I auction it on E-Bay.

Ryouga: If you do sell it, I want a kick-back. (starts signing it)

Fan: I don't know if this is true but I heard that once it was going to be made into a syndicated anime.

Ryouga: Yeah, it was going to be.

Fan: What happened?!

Ryouga: It was Gainax-they were going to make our characters all Evangelionized and shit. Akane didn't like it, so she turned them down.

Fan: That sucks man-in thee right hands it would've made an awesome anime.

Ryouga: Tell me about it.

Fan: So is that what happened to you and Akane? You got into a fight about the rights or something?

Ryouga: It was a little more involved than that.

Fan: What happened to her?

Ryouga: She quit the biz, I guess.

Fan: So you guys don't talk anymore?

Ryouga (looks off-camera): No, not really.

Ryouga locks eyes with someone off-camera. His expression softens.

Akane leans against a wall on the far side of the room. She smiles at Ryouga and he smiles back, and sort of nods.

Akane holds up a copy of Ryouga's new solo comic. She points to it and gives a thumbs up.

Ryouga smiles at her again.

Fan: You don't need her, anyway. You do great stuff without her.

Ryouga looks at Akane for a second, then he brings his pointer fingers together, mimicking Akane's "moment" gesture.

Akane shrugs slightly, then crosses her fingers, as if to say-"hopefully".

Fan (from off-camera): You were just carrying that girl, anyway.

Ryouga sort of smiles at the off-camera Akane, then he offers his own "thumbs up"-as if to say "Good luck".

Ryouga (to fan, while still looking off-camera): You're so right.

Akane smiles back, nods "bye", then walks off.

Fan (still from off-camera): Well, keep up the good work man. Love them thirty-minute orgasm jokes. Love `em. See ya.

The fan leaves, but Ryouga's watching Akane go.

Ryouga: Yeah, bye. (shakes it off) Okay, who's next?

Ranma sits at a separate table, with a line in front of her. Ukyo is sitting behind her. Ranma dashes off signatures in the copies of her comic.

Ranma (to departing off-camera fan): Thanks for reading it.

Ukyo stands up and rubs her shoulders.

Ukyo: I'm going to get a soda. You want anything?

Ranma: I'm fine, thanks.

Ukyo heads off, Ranma starts rummaging through her bag.

Ranma (not looking up): Okay, who's next?

A manga lands in front of her. It's titled "Chasing Akane".

She leafs through it, not looking up or noticing the title at all.

Ranma: Uh…this isn't one of mine.

Akane (off-camera): It's mine.

Ranma looks up sharply.

Akane stands before her, smiling.

Akane: I saved you one.

Ranma: Hi.

Akane: Hi.

Ranma: …so, how've you been?

Akane: Good. Really good. You?

Ranma: Good… (off her own manga) New issue's selling like crazy, for some reason.

Akane: Because it's so good. I really liked it.

Ranma: Thank you (off Akane's manga) I haven't seen this yet. Did it just come out?

Akane: A month ago. I did a really small run, self-financed. Only about five hundred copies.

Ranma: Will I enjoy it?

Akane: You might. It's a familiar subject matter.

Ranma leafs through it. Her eyes go somewhat misty. On the last page is an image of Akane with a text bubble that says "I'm sorry, Ranma."

Ranma: Looks like a very personal story.

Akane: Well I finally had something personal to say.

They look at each other for a moment.

Akane: I'm going to go. I don't want to hold up the line.

Ranma: Yeah.

Akane (smiles): Read that, if you have a minute.

Ranma: I will.

Akane: I'd like to hear your thoughts about it. If you get a chance, give me a call.

Ranma: Okay.

They look at each other for another moment.

Akane: Nice seeing you again.

Ranma: Nice to see you too.

Akane walks away. A few steps away, she turns and waves again, Ranma waves back. And then Akane starts walking through the thrall of fan-boys.

Ukyo returns with coffee. She follows Ranma's gaze.

Ukyo: Who was that?

Ranma: Hmm? Oh! Just some girl I know.

She watches her go for another couple seconds, then-

Ranma (to line): Next. (to Ukyo) So what do you wanna do tonight?

Suddenly, we freeze frame, and Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton pop-up in front of the image.

Dimi-Chan: What's the fuck is going on?! The ending fucking sucked! So now, in the grand tradition of the Wayne's World movies, we're going to provide some alternate endings-first, the Scooby Doo Ending!

Dimi-Chan and Juton move across the screen, moving their hands up and down and waving their fingers all about.

Dimi-Chan: Diddly-Do! Diddly-Do! Diddly-Do! Diddly-do!

INT. Studio - Night

Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton burst into the room right after Akane makes her "suggestion" (Juton is in girl form and wearing a orange sweater and geeky-looking glasses).

Juton: Wait! That's not really Akane!

Dimi-Chan runs over to Akane and pulls off her mask.

Ryouga: It's the purplish-haired waitress from that dinner!

Ranma: Shampoo?!

Juton: It's a long story but Ranma beat her in combat and because this girl's an Amazon her tribal rules had her engaged to him. After she heard Akane's story at the dinner, she decided to try and put an end to your guy's relationship once and for all!

Shampoo: And Shampoo succeed too if weren't for meddling kids!

Ranma: But where's the REAL Akane, then?!

Dimi-Chan opens a closet door to reveal the REAL Akane tied up. She unties her.

Akane: Oh thank you! That weird waitress beat me up, gagged me, and tied me up here…

Dimi-Chan: You have ALL the fun!

P-Chan runs comically into the room.

P-Chan: Oinkz it oinkver?!

Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton turn to the camera, and everything else once again is frozen in place.

Dimi-Chan: Okay, the talking pig part was a little creepy and over-the-top. But how about we just skip directly to the happy-sappy lovey-dovey ending we all want to see!

They do the same thing as before, and we go through the same funky transition to-

INT. Manga Convention - Ranma's Booth

Ranma looks at the last page of Akane's manga, it has a drawing of Akane with a speech bubble saying, "I'm sorry Ranma. I really do love you. Will you marry me?"

Ranma: Hmmm…could you give me a moment?

Akane: Uh…sure.

Ranma pops out a drawing table from her bag, along with a piece of paper and a pencil. She quickly draws up a page, then she turns back to Akane and places the freshly-drawn Manga page to the left…no wait that would be right! To the RIGHT of Akane's drawing. It shows a kind of continuation of the previous page, in which Ranma responds with his own speech bubble "Yeah, sure."

Akane looks at Ranma and smiles. Ranma smiles back. There's a whole lot of smiling going on.

Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton make their way through the crowd. They finally reach the couple. Dimi-Chan lays down some marriage papers in front of them.

Dimi-Chan: Here, sign these. Juton here is a fully-fledged minister. You guys can get married right here!

Ranma: At the manga convention?

Dimi-Chan: Why not?

Akane: Okay (starts signing the papers. So does Ranma).

Fan: Hey! The sign says one item per person! That's like ten pages, and there's only two of you!

Ranma: We're making an exception for them, okay?

Akane: Since they're about to wed us.

Fan: Man, that's bullshit! C'mon guys, let's get outta here…

They finish the paper work and then look up at Juton.

Ranma: Do we even have rings?

Dimi-Chan: Nabiki took care of that. (hands them two rings)

Akane: Wow, how did she manage to get enough money for those?

Dimi-Chan: Let's just say that it's kind of fair that one of the things the money paid for is being given to you…

Akane: Okay…

Dimi-Chan: Anyway, Juton, do your work!

Juton: Okay, I'll make this beif…you two put on those rings, and say that "with this ring, I be wed" bit.

They do that, then look back at Juton.

Juton: Okay now do you, Ranma Saotome take Akane Tendo as your lawfully wedded wife?

Ranma: I do.

Juton: Okay, do you, Akane Tendo take Ranma to be your lawfully wedding wif…err…husband?

Akane: I do.

Juton: Well, in that case with the authority vested in me by the country of Japan, I now declare you man and wife…so kiss the bride and everything.

A small crowd had gathered around and "Whoooooooo!!!ed when they say the (at the moment) two girls kissing.

Juton (grabbing a microphone out of thin air): Ladies and gentlemen here at this manga convention, I am pleased to present to you, for the first time ever, Ranma and Akane Saotome!

Dimi-Chan (grabbing the microphone away): So let's get reeeeeeeeaaaady to ruuuuummmmmbbbbbblllllleeeeeeeee!!!!

Suddenly, the Nu Metal band Linkin Park appears out of nowhere on a stage and starts playing music.

Juton: Let the reception begin!

Akane and Ranma dance together as the camera pans up above the crowd and the stops to let the following text explaining what happened to the other characters scroll across the screen.

Ukyo returned in an outrage, but Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton kicked her candy ass, and she's feeling much calmer now.

Shampoo is still a waitress at that dinner, but she occasionally joins in on Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton's midnight escapades. She finally figured out that giving head isn't something that involves decapitation.

Ryouga went on a journey to the spring of drowned pig and a few years later managed to return to Nermia. He was last seen with P-Chan, who is apparently a female because Akane and Ranma now have a pen full of little black piglets. Ryouga happily enjoys thirty-minute orgasms on a regular basis.

Soun's comic has also met with similar success to Ranma's and he now lives in a huge mansion with Genma.

Akane and Ranma have stayed married and have a particularly kinky sex life, although it's still nowhere near the things that Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton do to together.

And speaking of those two, they finally got married themselves and it's about damn time too!! Unfortunately, it's only opened them up to doing even MORE perverted things together…

So they all lived happily ever after…

THE END

Conclusion: I cut out a whole extended ending featuring the band members from Linkin Park because I think it's kind of lame…and really I'd rather just end it on a more story-oriented note.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this whole thing as much as I enjoyed writing it, and now revisiting it to finish typing the whole damn thing. Now I can focus on other stuff I'm working on without having to worry about this fan fiction that I have completely written out but un-typed and unfinished on the fan fiction sites.

So PLEASE either review, or if you don't feel like that at least send comments to deejaygamer@yahoo.com

They would be much appreciated. Once again, thanks for reading. Now, how about some extra stuff like I did for Ranma Vs. Krueger?

Why the heck I was possessed to do this-behind Chasing Akane:

It started when I really got into Kevin Smith films, and Chasing Amy somehow reminded me of Ranma and Akane's relationship in a very weird way…of course, the main problem was everyone would have to be incredibly out-of-character, but as you have found out by now, there's ways to work around that.

I think the obvious thing to do would be Ranma as Holden, the manga artist, and Akane as Alessa, the girl who turns out to be a lesbian. But then I thought of something much more quirky. Akane's still a lesbian…but she's in Holden's role (except for in two or three scenes, were it was more appropriate to switch the gender roles back), and then make Ranma Alessa, but have the "secret" but that "she" is really a guy, like, in a way, what happens in the anime. In a way, this is very much a "what if?" kind of alternate universe story. Kind of like what if Ranma and Akane met much later on in their lives? But it also makes a few other big changes, for instance Ranma went through therapy, although one could argue that happened as a consequence of not meeting Akane. Also, the other major change is that Soun is not Akane's father, and is in fact GAY, and so is Genma, but he's still Ranma's father in this story.

Anyway, it was all about building a back-story that would tie into some things from Ranma, so it wouldn't be just Chasing Amy with a few twists and with the characters replaced with Ranma characters. I feel I've actually written something that's just as meaningful and funny as Chasing Amy, but geared to an Anime Fan base, and replacing all the pop-culture jokes with anime-culture jokes, many of which discuss the more perverted aspects of anime in a humorous way.

The issues somehow manage to work, and actually make the characters great and somehow in-character despite the strange circumstances. Essentially, it's that they were LIKE the original characters in the past, but now they've changed, quite significantly, since those points in time. Anyway, I just hope that people can appreciate the great amount of thought I put into doing this story, and also the fact that I've essentially labeled Neon Genesis Evangelion as the "Star Wars" of anime.

Yeah, I guess there really isn't much else to say, but once again, please leave a review if you have the time, or at least e-mail me some comments, especially now that this is all finished and you can review the thing as a whole. So one last time, thanks for reading. Cyas!