Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Nekoken is Out of the Bag ❯ Breaking the Love Pyramid ( Chapter 8 )
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By: Lord Archive 
With the engagement being fully accepted, it is time to start dealing with the other girls.
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 11.29.2012 | Updated On: 12.03.2012 | Pages: 6 | Words: 5.9K | Visits: 870 | Status: Completed
With the engagement being fully accepted, it is time to start dealing with the other girls.
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 11.29.2012 | Updated On: 12.03.2012 | Pages: 6 | Words: 5.9K | Visits: 870 | Status: Completed
Nekoken Is Out Of The Bag!
by Lord Archive
Characters are own Rumiko Takahashi and Shogakukan and are used without permission. All rights reserved.
This story takes place after manga volume 38. While at times darker than canon, this series has its share of Takahashi styled humor.
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Chapter 8 - Breaking the Love Pyramid
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Akane looked outside the window of her classroom, watching the rain fall. She was waiting for Ranma to bring her lunch he was buying for her from the cafeteria. She was upset at herself for letting Ryoga get lost on her way home. She loved that Ranma had been extremely worried about her after finding out she ran off to fight Shampoo and then went to help Cologne face Ryoga. She was thankful to Hiroshi and Daisuke for telling Ranma what happened, of course they did so mainly to find how good she was in bed. Since Ukyou found out that Ranma was in love with her, the okonomiyaki chef hadn't been to school and that worried the Tendo girl.
"Hello Akane," Yuka greeted, moving a chair next to Akane.
"Hi," Sayuri greeted, taking a chair to flank the Tendo girl.
"Um, hi," Akane returned nervously.
"So Akane, what have you been up to?" Yuka asked. "You've been avoiding us for a while now."
"A lot of stuff has happened, and certain people have to be told before I can say anything," Akane nervously explained.
"Even before your friends?" Sayuri asked.
"I could tell you... but not here, too many people would listen in," Akane tried to reason.
"Oh, and does it have something to do with you screaming your love for Ranma?" Yuka asked.
"Or about you and Ranma going on a training trip?" Sayuri added.
"Please, don't ask. It's hard enough not telling you. I want to tell you now, but I can't," Akane pleaded.
"You can tell them about what happen on our date," Ranma sloshed her way next to the girls, placing down a pair of lunches and sat down across from Akane. "Kuno found out and he's so pissed he only asked me where 'the vile cretin' is."
"How did he find out, and how did you turn into a girl?" Akane asked.
"You can ask your sister how he found out," Ranma spat. "And someone left a window open and with the rain and wind..."
"All right Akane, so what happened on the date?" Yuka asked.
Akane smiled as she pulled out the ring from pocket, putting on her engagement ring under the table. "He gave me this," she said, showing the ring to her friends.
"HE PROPOSED!!!" Yuka and Sayuri yelled.
Immediately Akane and Ranma were mobbed by students, with the number growing by the second as the news swept through Furinkan like a wild fire. Congratulations, curses, and questions about the availability of Saotome's other fiancees were said.
"Ya didn't have to shout it." Ranma scowled at Akane's friends.
"Sorry," they both replied, sheepishly.
"WHERE IS THE VILE SAOTOME SO I MIGHT STRIKE HIM DOWN!" Kuno bellowed over the mob of students.
Akane got an idea and looked at Ranma. "I'll handle him." The crowd parted as Akane moved to where Kuno stood in the hallway in front of her classroom.
"Ah, the fair goddess Tendo Akane is here to tell me where her captor is. ACK!!" Kuno suddenly lost the ability to breathe as the girl grabbed his collar tightly.
Akane pushed her free hand into his face, showing him her engagement ring. "Kuno, you see this ring? It's an engagement ring. Ranma asked me to marry him and I said yes. He gave me this ring as a symbol of his love, and I wear it as a symbol of my love for him. I LOVE RANMA, AND I WILL MARRY HIM!!! Get it through your thick skull. I am going to marry Ranma because I love him, and not some spell. Even if I didn't, family obligation would demand I marry him."
Akane shoved him into a wall. "One more thing, don't interfere because you THINK I have any feelings for you. I have news for you, I don't. I don't love you. I don't even like you. Get a clue, get a life, and stop chasing after me."
Ranma was now in Kuno's face. "The same goes for me. Except that I HATE YOU! Got that, I HATE YOU! You chase after me or Akane and I will send you to the hospital. Understand?"
"Oh, how the Saotome's cursed spell hurt you so. To make you speak such lies while your hearts scream love," Kuno ranted.
"Kuno! We do not lie." Akane turned to the gathered students. "Whoever doubts I love Ranma, raise your hand?"
A couple guys raise their hand then quickly lower it as nobody else did.
"Who doubts Ranma loves me?" Akane asked them.
A few more hands went up out of the crowded room of students.
Akane pointed at herself and Ranma. "Who thinks either of us loves or even likes Kuno?"
No hands were raised.
"See that, Kuno. We are not the ones lying to you. You are lying to yourself. Understand? Almost everyone here can see Ranma and I are in love with each other. They can see we don't like you. Why can't you?" Akane turn around.
Ranma handed Akane her lunch and they both left to find somewhere private to eat.
"Who thinks Saotome binds Tendo Akane or pig-tailed-girl via sorcery?" Kuno asked.
No one raised their hand.
Kuno frowned. "Who thinks I've been deluding myself."
Everyone raised there hand, causing Kuno to sulk as he walked away.
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Ranma and Akane ran straight out of school when classes ended rather than face the other students. They decided to head to Ucchan's to talk to her about the engagement before she found out from a stranger. They stopped cold in their run as a girl with purple hair stood in their way.
"What do you want Shampoo?" Akane asked bitterly.
"Must talk with Ranma," Shampoo answered.
"Can we do this later?" Ranma asked.
Shampoo stomped her foot. "NO! Must talk with Ranma now!"
Akane noticed that Shampoo was upset and had not called Ranma her husband. She also felt a little guilty because she had nearly killed girl. "You're only going to talk?"
Shampoo nodded curtly. "Only talk."
"Ranma, you can talk with her. I'll go see Ukyou." Akane glared at the Amazon. "Shampoo, don't try anything with him."
"Um, all right. I see you later and be careful," Ranma said.
Akane gave him a quick kiss. "You be careful too."
Shampoo scowled darkly at Akane as she ran off.
"What do you want Shampoo?" Ranma asked.
"Want to know if what violent girl say is true. While in Nekoken, Ranma raped violent girl?" Shampoo questioned.
Ranma nodded nervously.
"Why you do that?" Shampoo demanded.
"Because I love her. I want to marry her, and those feelings come out with the Nekoken," Ranma admitted.
"Why do you love violent girl?" Shampoo growled angrily.
Ranma replied, "Her name is Akane, not violent girl. And I don't know why I love her, I just do. Who can truly say why they love someone?"
"I can. Love Ranma's fighting spirit, battle prowess, looks, body, and your carefree nature," the girl affirmed.
"What else?" Ranma pressed.
Shampoo looked confused. "That not enough?"
"I love Akane because she's kind, caring, compassionate, beautiful, stubborn, refuses to be dependent on me, cute, doesn't see me as just a prize to be won, and dozens more reasons I can name and thousands more I can't."
"If Ranma raped Akane, why she still in love?" Shampoo asked.
Ranma shrugged. "I don't know. I'm happy she still loves me, but I don't know."
After a moment Shampoo questioned, "Ranma trained Akane to defeat me?"
Ranma reluctantly nodded. "Yeah, I trained her."
The girl looked physically hurt by his words. "You know Akane nearly killed me."
"I know." Ranma sighed. "She feels guilty about it."
"Doubt it," Shampoo muttered. She then fiercely announced, "Ranma, it no matter how you feel. Amazon law states we must marry."
"And my family says I must marry Akane," Ranma shot back at her. "Guess what Shampoo? We're in Japan and what my family says is more important than your stupid laws."
Shampoo started to cry. "No! Ranma can't marry violent girl. Ranma must marry me! Can only go home if married or Ranma dead."
"Shampoo, I'm sorry. I can't marry you," Ranma said trying to maintain his resolve against the crying girl. "You said you can't go home if not married, does that mean you could marry someone else?"
"Don't want someone else. Want Ranma." Her tears were flowing freely.
Ranma shut his eyes tightly. "I'm sorry Shampoo, but you're going to have to find someone else to marry. I'm going to marry Akane and that is final. And if you try to hurt or kill either of us or try to stop me from marrying her, you will no longer be a friend but an enemy." He jumped away, and ran across the rooftops.
Shampoo collapsed onto the ground and cried.
Mousse, following direction given by Cologne, silently approached Shampoo. She grabbed onto him, crying on his shoulder. He never said a word.
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Akane arrived breathless at Ucchan's to find it open for business. She entered and saw Ukyou at the grill, her face like emotionless stone.
"Hello, Ukyou," Akane greeted nervously.
"You have some nerve coming in here!" Ukyou screamed, chi aura flaring.
The four customers who were in the restaurant were now gone and money for their food was placed at their seats.
Akane swallowed nervously. "Ukyou, I'd like to talk."
"Why should I talk with you?" Contempt clearly in Ukyou's voice.
"Because if it wasn't for the fact we both love Ranma, we'd be the best of friends. I don't want to lose our friendship and neither does Ranma," Akane pleaded.
Ukyou growled, "You've got five minutes."
Akane shook her head, she wasn't going to make it easy. "Ukyou, I'm sorry we hurt you. I wish you didn't find out the way you did. We wanted to tell you and explain things."
"When were you going to tell me, after the wedding?" Ukyou snarled.
Akane shook her head fiercely. "No, we were going to tell you yesterday."
"Have you told Shampoo?" Ukyou wondered bitterly.
"Yeah." Akane shuddered.
Ukyou smirked. "She didn't take it well?"
Akane shook her head. "I don't know how she took it. I attacked and nearly killed her yesterday while explaining it."
Ukyou looked disbelievingly at Akane. "You nearly killed Shampoo?"
"During my training trip with Ranma last weekend, I learned Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken and two chi attacks. Cologne stopped me from hitting her multiple times using my chi punch. If she hadn't, Shampoo would be very dead."
"I'm surprised you could defeat her even knowing those moves," Ukyou groused.
Akane smiled sheepishly. "She wouldn't if Ranma hadn't also taught me how to exploit her weaknesses. Shampoo is still a better overall fighter than me, but I know how to defeat her."
"Think you could take me?" Ukyou challenged.
"Possibly, but I don't want to fight you," Akane replied without thinking. "I want to be friends. Ranma still wants to be your friend as well. He loves you as a sister."
"A sister?!" Ukyou shouted. "I want him to love me as his wife!"
Akane sighed. "Ukyou, tell me what you think life would be like if you married him."
"Well, either we both run my restaurant or run a dojo, or both," Ukyou answered simply.
Akane frowned. "Would it be a happy, peaceful life?"
Ukyou nodded firmly. "Of course."
Akane shook her head sadly. "Do you realize that could never happen. Peaceful and Ranma don't go together. Where Ranma goes, insanity follows. You will have to deal with demon attack plants, evil princes, never knowing if the animal that found its way into your house is really an animal, and tons of other shit. So far this week I had sex with someone who thought he was a cat at the time, found out my pet pig is Ryoga, got engaged to someone who was already my fiancee, nearly killed someone, found out my chi attacks will eventually lead to my own destruction if I don't change them, stopped Ryoga from destroying an area with a several kilometer radius, my future father-in-law was rented to the zoo, and that's not all of it. The week previous was actually a light week. I only got raped by Ranma when he was in Nekoken, became Ranma's lover, and learned to throw chi attacks."
Ukyou looked at Akane in a state of shock.
Akane locked eyes with the girl. "This won't end when we say, 'I do.' I know this and accept it. The question I ask you is, could you put up with it? Can you honestly say you could live happily ever after, knowing at some point you'll have demons in living room, kappas in your kitchen, and kami knows what else?"
Ukyou shook her head. "Come on Akane, you're exaggerating. There is no way it could be that bad."
Akane folded her arms. "I wish I was, Ukyou. I wish I was. I've had to deal with this for almost a year now. He is cursed to live an interesting life and whoever he marries will have to deal with it too."
Ukyou looked closely at Akane. "You're serious!?"
Akane nodded.
"He raped you!?" Ukyou cried out disbelievingly.
Akane nodded again.
"You're still willing to marry him?" Ukyou pressed.
"You saw me have sex with him while he was in Nekoken," Akane reminded. "I know life will be rough at times, but I'm willing to put up with it."
Ukyou scowled at the girl. "I know Ranma has some interesting adventures, but I think you're just trying to convince me you're doing me a favor for marrying him."
"I guess, in a way, I am," Akane admitted. "Remember when Ranma was hit with the Moxibustion point?"
Ukyou laughed hollowly. "How could I forget?"
"Two days before that Ranma had to save me from a date with Ryoga, because he was trying to hug me," Akane informed.
Ukyou raised an eyebrow. "What was so bad about Ryoga hugging you?"
"He was trying to hug me with all his strength. He was destroying large wooden pillars when he missed. Earlier that week, Ranma had to fight Principal Kuno about 'Tardiness Week.' I could go on and on about the stuff that has happened to us since I met Ranma," Akane added to her case.
"What if you're the problem?" Ukyou pointed out. "Maybe Ranchan has to deal with it because you have the interesting life curse."
Akane shook her head. "The only strange thing about me before Ranma was having to fight most of the guys at Furinkan High every morning. Ranma, however, was cursed to turn into a girl, got engaged at least three times, ate dragon hair, trained in Nekoken, and kami knows what else."
Ukyou looked down at the floor. "Has he proposed to you yet?"
Akane raised her hand. "Yes."
Ukyou looked at the ring, wishing it was hers. She smiled weakly, saying sadly, "It's beautiful, Akane."
"I'd still like us all to be friends," Akane insisted.
Ukyou didn't immediately reply. "I-I'll think about it, and I still like to talk to Ranma."
"Of course." Akane realized Ukyou gave her a hint to leave. "I should be going. Will I see you at school tomorrow?"
Ukyou turned away from her. "Probably not. Bye."
"Bye." Akane left Ucchan's. She noticed several people standing outside, entering only after she was a fair distance from the door.
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Ranma laid in bed, letting the haze of sleep fade from his mind. The first thing he noticed was that he was in Akane's bed. Correction, his and Akane's bed. His mother was now sharing his old room with his father. He was surprised at how forgiving his mother was. Despite finding out more of what his father had done to him, his parents slept together last night.
Ranma sat up, shaking his head. He wasn't use to the changes yet. Two weeks ago was no different than the previous months. Well except, three weeks ago was the wedding fiasco and Mount Phoenix. Actually thinking back now, everything seemed to change over a month ago when his mother found out about the curse. Everything has changed now, he was even sharing a bed with Akane.
Ranma now noticed Akane wasn't in bed with him. He looked at the clock, it was a little after five o'clock. Akane was rarely awake before six o'clock. Ranma quickly got dress and decided to look for her.
He first checked the kitchen, much to his relief she wasn't there. Kasumi was and she told him Akane was in the dojo, breaking bricks.
"Yo, Akane. What's up?" Ranma asked, entering the dojo.
"Nothing," Akane said with an edge of bitterness.
Ranma noticed Akane seemed angry at something. He asked nervously, "I know you better than that. Why are you breaking bricks early in the morning? Is something wrong? Did I do something stupid?"
"Nothing is wrong and you haven't done anything stupid," Akane barked.
Ranma was really getting confused. "Is it because Nabiki told Kuno about our engagement?"
"No," Akane hissed. "She said it was an accident and I'm glad she did it."
"Then why are you here?" Ranma pressed.
"It's my own business," Akane insisted.
Ranma folded his arms. "Akane we're going to be married soon, why can't you tell me?"
"You want to know? Fine! I'm having my period. Happy?" Akane growled out.
"Oh," Ranma said meekly, then realization struck. "OH! That means you aren't pregnant then."
Akane glared at him. "Exactly. Which means nothing is wrong."
"I guess I'll leave you be then." Ranma turned to leave.
"Aren't you going to ask me why I'm irritable then?" Akane asked, part of her wanting him to step into her verbal landmine.
"No. I know why... Know more than any guy has a right to." Ranma sighed. "'Cause I go through it too." He left the dojo.
Akane's jaw dropped to the floor. She couldn't believe that the curse was that complete. She shook her head. She set up more bricks to break and started thinking about Ranma and their future.
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Ranma gulped as he entered Ucchan's. The restaurant was currently closed so they could talk without interruption or being overheard. He wanted to avoid this, but he had to talk to Ukyou at some point. Finding the Okonomiyaki in his shoe locker at school this morning told him when that moment was. It also stated he had to come without Akane.
Ranma sighed. He was going to make Ukyou cry, and nothing he could say would change that. He gathered his courage and kept Akane in his mind as he greeted nervously, "Hi, Ucchan."
"Hello, Ranma," Ukyou said dryly.
Ranma became even more nervous, Ukyou was angry. "Um, I'm here to talk."
"So, tell me Ranma: Why Akane? Why did you chose Akane?" Ukyou demanded.
"Because I love her," Ranma answered simply.
"Why do you love her?" Ukyou demanded.
Ranma shrugged. "I'm not sure why I love her. There is something about her that makes me want to hold onto her and never let go. She means everything to me."
"You know that's how I feel about you," Ukyou told him.
Ranma nodded. "And so does Akane, Shampoo and possibly Kodachi."
"Ranma, I've given up over ten years of my life because of you. Ten years!" Ukyou screamed. "And you want me to throw it all away because you love someone else. Sorry Ranma, I can't and won't do that. After throwing away my childhood and my womanhood, you expect me to just say, 'I'm happy for you two,' or some other bullshit. Not in this lifetime!"
Ukyou started crying. "Ranma, I love you and want to marry you. Your father promised that I would be your bride. I have to marry you or get my revenge against you."
"What is your revenge? Ranma nervously asked.
"It was to make you feel the pain you put my family through," Ukyou informed darkly through her tears.
"Um, what is it now?" Ranma wondered.
"I don't know. I don't want to hurt you. I love you and want to marry you," Ukyou insisted.
Ranma looked away from her. "But I want to marry Akane. And even if I didn't want to, our families would force us. I wish things could've work out better. I was sort of hoping you'd fall in love with someone, maybe Konatsu."
Ukyou sobbed. "Konatsu is gone."
"What?" Ranma asked, shocked.
Ukyou looked down. "I sent him away Tuesday after I saw you and Akane... having... sex. I couldn't stand to see him. I didn't want him to try and convince me it's best I let you go. He wouldn't understand. So, I sent him away. I took all the anger I felt towards you and Akane and lashed out at him. I told him I never want to see him again."
"I hope he comes back," Ranma wished.
Ukyou nodded. "I hope so too, but I don't think he will. I was really terrible about it."
Ranma took a step toward her. "Now Ucchan-"
Ukyou glared angrily at him. "DON'T CALL ME THAT!!!" she screamed, tears still flowing. "Don't you dare call me that unless you plan on marrying me. You are my fiance and I'm not letting you go. Everything I am is because of you. I gave up my childhood training to defeat you only to find you're some martial arts god I could never hope to defeat. In you I found love and now you say that it will go unrequited."
"Um, Ukyou, you should be thankful Pop didn't take you with us. You woulda lost your childhood watching me train as Pop sure wouldn't train you." Ranma laughed sarcastically. "Assuming you lived, you would've probably also be cursed, branded a thief, and engaged to several guys. As bad and as lonely your childhood was, mine was worse. At least you know what it was like to have a home. You knew you had a place to sleep and that you would be fed. I didn't know what having a home was like until I came here."
"Oh, yeah. You had it so much better," Ukyou retorted in very much the same tone he had just used. "After my mother died, my father didn't want me. He tried to pawn me off on your father because he didn't want me. After you and your father ran off with the cart all my father had left was me. And all I was to him was a mouth to feed. He never made me feel welcome at home, if you could call a one room apartment a home. Yeah, I had it so much better. I may know what it's like to have a ceiling over my head every night, but I haven't known what it felt like to be wanted by my family since my mother died."
Ranma became confused. "If you lived in a one room apartment, how could you afford this place?"
"My mother left me enough money in her will for this place. I couldn't access it until I was sixteen," Ukyou explained.
"Oh." Ranma looked down at the floor. "I'm sorry... I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me before?"
"Because you were always having a problem with the here and now." Ukyou huffed. "I allowed you to tell me your problems, and I didn't want to bother you with my own."
"I wasn't always having a problem," Ranma denied.
"Yes you were. You always complained about your fights with Akane, or how Ryoga, Kuno, Shampoo, and or somebody else was annoying you, or some other problem," Ukyou reminded.
"Ever notice Akane was my favorite topic of discussion? Sure I complained about my fights with her and how Ryoga or Kuno was annoying me because they are in love with her, and Shampoo and Kodachi kept on putting me in a position in which Akane would hit me. But I almost always talked about her. I hoped you would've realized I actually choose her a long time ago, and you would search for love somewhere else." Ranma sighed. "Did you also notice I never deny I'm Akane's fiancee and when I refer to you it's always been as a friend."
Ranma looked away from Ukyou. "I see I don't really know who you are. All you ever told me is why you're after me."
"C-can I tell you now?" Ukyou asked, hoping if she told him now, he might change his mind.
Ranma nodded. "You can, but it won't change anything. I'm going to marry Akane. I'm sorry about all of this. I wish things could work out better, but that's not the case. I still want to be friends."
"Do you honestly expect me to be just friends with you after all we've been through?" Ukyou threw a set of spatulas at him. "Get out, you Jackass! Just get the hell out!"
Ranma ducked the attack and retreated from the restaurant. "I'm sorry, Ukyou. Please, don't leave me. I want to be friends. Please let me be a friend."
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Akane sighed as she entered her room. She hoped Ranma was fairing well in his talk with Ukyou. Knowing Ranma though, he probably made things worse.
Akane felt something was out of place. There was another presence in her room. A couple black rose petals on the floor told her who it was. "Hello Kodachi. I was wondering when you'd show up."
Kodachi flipped down from the ceiling and stood at the other end of Akane's room. "I will not stand idly by while you steal my darling Ranma-sama from me."
Akane thought talking to Kodachi might prove as effective as it so far did with her brother. "He was never yours." She glared at the gymnast. "He choose me of his own free will, and I will marry him. There is no way you can keep us apart."
"You dare claim Ranma has chosen you after you beat and insult him!" Kodachi demanded.
"I regret the things I've done and I am working on keeping myself from hitting or insulting him ever again," Akane vowed.
"Then here. Accept my congratulations." Kodachi threw a bouquet of black roses at the girl.
Akane jumped put of the way. The flowers hit the door, and sent pollen exploding where Akane had stood.
Kodachi looked insulted. "You dare refuse my gift."
"I'll refuse any gift from you," Akane snarled. "Would the pollen make me fall asleep, or was it poisonous this time."
"I resent your implications." Kodachi raise a pair of gymnastic clubs in challenge to the girl.
Akane set herself to be ready for an attack. "I resent you interfering in my life. Ranma has chosen me. He loves me. And I know he doesn't love you. He doesn't even like you."
"You think I don't know that. I know how he feels about me, but it doesn't matter. He deserves better than you. He deserves someone of my glorious breeding and wealth. In time he will learn to love me," Kodachi answered in surprising honesty.
Akane wasn't going to be shaken by the gymnast's words. "In case you haven't noticed, Ranma will be fairly wealthy if he marries me and I am a descendant of minor nobility. Your claim to be better on those points holds nothing. I, however, offer Ranma a loving family."
"My family isn't loving?" Kodachi asked indignantly.
"Your father sleeps at school rather than at his own house, and you barely tolerate your brother. Not to mention Ranma hates them," Akane pointed out. "So, yes. Your family isn't loving."
"Then you understand why I must have Ranma. I must have love." Tears began to leak from Kodachi's eyes.
Akane was surprised as when the girl started crying. She was crying real tears. "Love can't be forced. It just happens. Ranma may not care about you, but there are other people out there who could love you given the chance. All you have to do is find one."
"I have found the one I want, and I will have him!" Kodachi screamed. "Attack of a thousand clubs!"
Akane attempted to block the multitude of attacks using her recent speed training but finding herself more often punching the clubs than deflecting them.
"How dare you use my Ranma-sama's attacks?!" Kodachi pulled out her ribbon and ensnared Akane.
"Because he taught it to me." Akane smiled and glowed with a pink chi aura, as she began to focus on how happy she was when she finally succeeded in using the move. Augmenting her strength with her chi, she broke free of the ribbon.
"How? No one could break my ribbon." Kodachi looked at the girl in shock.
"I can." Akane punched Kodachi in the nose, causing the gymnast to fall to her knees holding her now bloody nose. The Tendo girl then sternly demanded, "I will not have you attack, hurt or try to kill me or Ranma, and if you ever try to get between me and Ranma, I will beat the living shit out of you. Believe me, I can."
"I woll mak you payy f'r h'rting my nuse!" Kodachi attempted to scream.
Akane folded her arms. "You attacked me. Kodachi, I suggest you leave here and forget about Ranma. You will never make him love you. I hope you find someone to love you, but I never want to hear about you ever again."
Kodachi decided it was best to leave and get a doctor to look at her nose. "We arev't inished et." She jumped through the window.
"I wonder if she noticed Ranma's stuff was now in my room?" Akane said to herself. She looked at the floor. "Great, now I have to clean up blood stains."
by Lord Archive
Characters are own Rumiko Takahashi and Shogakukan and are used without permission. All rights reserved.
This story takes place after manga volume 38. While at times darker than canon, this series has its share of Takahashi styled humor.
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Chapter 8 - Breaking the Love Pyramid
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Akane looked outside the window of her classroom, watching the rain fall. She was waiting for Ranma to bring her lunch he was buying for her from the cafeteria. She was upset at herself for letting Ryoga get lost on her way home. She loved that Ranma had been extremely worried about her after finding out she ran off to fight Shampoo and then went to help Cologne face Ryoga. She was thankful to Hiroshi and Daisuke for telling Ranma what happened, of course they did so mainly to find how good she was in bed. Since Ukyou found out that Ranma was in love with her, the okonomiyaki chef hadn't been to school and that worried the Tendo girl.
"Hello Akane," Yuka greeted, moving a chair next to Akane.
"Hi," Sayuri greeted, taking a chair to flank the Tendo girl.
"Um, hi," Akane returned nervously.
"So Akane, what have you been up to?" Yuka asked. "You've been avoiding us for a while now."
"A lot of stuff has happened, and certain people have to be told before I can say anything," Akane nervously explained.
"Even before your friends?" Sayuri asked.
"I could tell you... but not here, too many people would listen in," Akane tried to reason.
"Oh, and does it have something to do with you screaming your love for Ranma?" Yuka asked.
"Or about you and Ranma going on a training trip?" Sayuri added.
"Please, don't ask. It's hard enough not telling you. I want to tell you now, but I can't," Akane pleaded.
"You can tell them about what happen on our date," Ranma sloshed her way next to the girls, placing down a pair of lunches and sat down across from Akane. "Kuno found out and he's so pissed he only asked me where 'the vile cretin' is."
"How did he find out, and how did you turn into a girl?" Akane asked.
"You can ask your sister how he found out," Ranma spat. "And someone left a window open and with the rain and wind..."
"All right Akane, so what happened on the date?" Yuka asked.
Akane smiled as she pulled out the ring from pocket, putting on her engagement ring under the table. "He gave me this," she said, showing the ring to her friends.
"HE PROPOSED!!!" Yuka and Sayuri yelled.
Immediately Akane and Ranma were mobbed by students, with the number growing by the second as the news swept through Furinkan like a wild fire. Congratulations, curses, and questions about the availability of Saotome's other fiancees were said.
"Ya didn't have to shout it." Ranma scowled at Akane's friends.
"Sorry," they both replied, sheepishly.
"WHERE IS THE VILE SAOTOME SO I MIGHT STRIKE HIM DOWN!" Kuno bellowed over the mob of students.
Akane got an idea and looked at Ranma. "I'll handle him." The crowd parted as Akane moved to where Kuno stood in the hallway in front of her classroom.
"Ah, the fair goddess Tendo Akane is here to tell me where her captor is. ACK!!" Kuno suddenly lost the ability to breathe as the girl grabbed his collar tightly.
Akane pushed her free hand into his face, showing him her engagement ring. "Kuno, you see this ring? It's an engagement ring. Ranma asked me to marry him and I said yes. He gave me this ring as a symbol of his love, and I wear it as a symbol of my love for him. I LOVE RANMA, AND I WILL MARRY HIM!!! Get it through your thick skull. I am going to marry Ranma because I love him, and not some spell. Even if I didn't, family obligation would demand I marry him."
Akane shoved him into a wall. "One more thing, don't interfere because you THINK I have any feelings for you. I have news for you, I don't. I don't love you. I don't even like you. Get a clue, get a life, and stop chasing after me."
Ranma was now in Kuno's face. "The same goes for me. Except that I HATE YOU! Got that, I HATE YOU! You chase after me or Akane and I will send you to the hospital. Understand?"
"Oh, how the Saotome's cursed spell hurt you so. To make you speak such lies while your hearts scream love," Kuno ranted.
"Kuno! We do not lie." Akane turned to the gathered students. "Whoever doubts I love Ranma, raise your hand?"
A couple guys raise their hand then quickly lower it as nobody else did.
"Who doubts Ranma loves me?" Akane asked them.
A few more hands went up out of the crowded room of students.
Akane pointed at herself and Ranma. "Who thinks either of us loves or even likes Kuno?"
No hands were raised.
"See that, Kuno. We are not the ones lying to you. You are lying to yourself. Understand? Almost everyone here can see Ranma and I are in love with each other. They can see we don't like you. Why can't you?" Akane turn around.
Ranma handed Akane her lunch and they both left to find somewhere private to eat.
"Who thinks Saotome binds Tendo Akane or pig-tailed-girl via sorcery?" Kuno asked.
No one raised their hand.
Kuno frowned. "Who thinks I've been deluding myself."
Everyone raised there hand, causing Kuno to sulk as he walked away.
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Ranma and Akane ran straight out of school when classes ended rather than face the other students. They decided to head to Ucchan's to talk to her about the engagement before she found out from a stranger. They stopped cold in their run as a girl with purple hair stood in their way.
"What do you want Shampoo?" Akane asked bitterly.
"Must talk with Ranma," Shampoo answered.
"Can we do this later?" Ranma asked.
Shampoo stomped her foot. "NO! Must talk with Ranma now!"
Akane noticed that Shampoo was upset and had not called Ranma her husband. She also felt a little guilty because she had nearly killed girl. "You're only going to talk?"
Shampoo nodded curtly. "Only talk."
"Ranma, you can talk with her. I'll go see Ukyou." Akane glared at the Amazon. "Shampoo, don't try anything with him."
"Um, all right. I see you later and be careful," Ranma said.
Akane gave him a quick kiss. "You be careful too."
Shampoo scowled darkly at Akane as she ran off.
"What do you want Shampoo?" Ranma asked.
"Want to know if what violent girl say is true. While in Nekoken, Ranma raped violent girl?" Shampoo questioned.
Ranma nodded nervously.
"Why you do that?" Shampoo demanded.
"Because I love her. I want to marry her, and those feelings come out with the Nekoken," Ranma admitted.
"Why do you love violent girl?" Shampoo growled angrily.
Ranma replied, "Her name is Akane, not violent girl. And I don't know why I love her, I just do. Who can truly say why they love someone?"
"I can. Love Ranma's fighting spirit, battle prowess, looks, body, and your carefree nature," the girl affirmed.
"What else?" Ranma pressed.
Shampoo looked confused. "That not enough?"
"I love Akane because she's kind, caring, compassionate, beautiful, stubborn, refuses to be dependent on me, cute, doesn't see me as just a prize to be won, and dozens more reasons I can name and thousands more I can't."
"If Ranma raped Akane, why she still in love?" Shampoo asked.
Ranma shrugged. "I don't know. I'm happy she still loves me, but I don't know."
After a moment Shampoo questioned, "Ranma trained Akane to defeat me?"
Ranma reluctantly nodded. "Yeah, I trained her."
The girl looked physically hurt by his words. "You know Akane nearly killed me."
"I know." Ranma sighed. "She feels guilty about it."
"Doubt it," Shampoo muttered. She then fiercely announced, "Ranma, it no matter how you feel. Amazon law states we must marry."
"And my family says I must marry Akane," Ranma shot back at her. "Guess what Shampoo? We're in Japan and what my family says is more important than your stupid laws."
Shampoo started to cry. "No! Ranma can't marry violent girl. Ranma must marry me! Can only go home if married or Ranma dead."
"Shampoo, I'm sorry. I can't marry you," Ranma said trying to maintain his resolve against the crying girl. "You said you can't go home if not married, does that mean you could marry someone else?"
"Don't want someone else. Want Ranma." Her tears were flowing freely.
Ranma shut his eyes tightly. "I'm sorry Shampoo, but you're going to have to find someone else to marry. I'm going to marry Akane and that is final. And if you try to hurt or kill either of us or try to stop me from marrying her, you will no longer be a friend but an enemy." He jumped away, and ran across the rooftops.
Shampoo collapsed onto the ground and cried.
Mousse, following direction given by Cologne, silently approached Shampoo. She grabbed onto him, crying on his shoulder. He never said a word.
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Akane arrived breathless at Ucchan's to find it open for business. She entered and saw Ukyou at the grill, her face like emotionless stone.
"Hello, Ukyou," Akane greeted nervously.
"You have some nerve coming in here!" Ukyou screamed, chi aura flaring.
The four customers who were in the restaurant were now gone and money for their food was placed at their seats.
Akane swallowed nervously. "Ukyou, I'd like to talk."
"Why should I talk with you?" Contempt clearly in Ukyou's voice.
"Because if it wasn't for the fact we both love Ranma, we'd be the best of friends. I don't want to lose our friendship and neither does Ranma," Akane pleaded.
Ukyou growled, "You've got five minutes."
Akane shook her head, she wasn't going to make it easy. "Ukyou, I'm sorry we hurt you. I wish you didn't find out the way you did. We wanted to tell you and explain things."
"When were you going to tell me, after the wedding?" Ukyou snarled.
Akane shook her head fiercely. "No, we were going to tell you yesterday."
"Have you told Shampoo?" Ukyou wondered bitterly.
"Yeah." Akane shuddered.
Ukyou smirked. "She didn't take it well?"
Akane shook her head. "I don't know how she took it. I attacked and nearly killed her yesterday while explaining it."
Ukyou looked disbelievingly at Akane. "You nearly killed Shampoo?"
"During my training trip with Ranma last weekend, I learned Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken and two chi attacks. Cologne stopped me from hitting her multiple times using my chi punch. If she hadn't, Shampoo would be very dead."
"I'm surprised you could defeat her even knowing those moves," Ukyou groused.
Akane smiled sheepishly. "She wouldn't if Ranma hadn't also taught me how to exploit her weaknesses. Shampoo is still a better overall fighter than me, but I know how to defeat her."
"Think you could take me?" Ukyou challenged.
"Possibly, but I don't want to fight you," Akane replied without thinking. "I want to be friends. Ranma still wants to be your friend as well. He loves you as a sister."
"A sister?!" Ukyou shouted. "I want him to love me as his wife!"
Akane sighed. "Ukyou, tell me what you think life would be like if you married him."
"Well, either we both run my restaurant or run a dojo, or both," Ukyou answered simply.
Akane frowned. "Would it be a happy, peaceful life?"
Ukyou nodded firmly. "Of course."
Akane shook her head sadly. "Do you realize that could never happen. Peaceful and Ranma don't go together. Where Ranma goes, insanity follows. You will have to deal with demon attack plants, evil princes, never knowing if the animal that found its way into your house is really an animal, and tons of other shit. So far this week I had sex with someone who thought he was a cat at the time, found out my pet pig is Ryoga, got engaged to someone who was already my fiancee, nearly killed someone, found out my chi attacks will eventually lead to my own destruction if I don't change them, stopped Ryoga from destroying an area with a several kilometer radius, my future father-in-law was rented to the zoo, and that's not all of it. The week previous was actually a light week. I only got raped by Ranma when he was in Nekoken, became Ranma's lover, and learned to throw chi attacks."
Ukyou looked at Akane in a state of shock.
Akane locked eyes with the girl. "This won't end when we say, 'I do.' I know this and accept it. The question I ask you is, could you put up with it? Can you honestly say you could live happily ever after, knowing at some point you'll have demons in living room, kappas in your kitchen, and kami knows what else?"
Ukyou shook her head. "Come on Akane, you're exaggerating. There is no way it could be that bad."
Akane folded her arms. "I wish I was, Ukyou. I wish I was. I've had to deal with this for almost a year now. He is cursed to live an interesting life and whoever he marries will have to deal with it too."
Ukyou looked closely at Akane. "You're serious!?"
Akane nodded.
"He raped you!?" Ukyou cried out disbelievingly.
Akane nodded again.
"You're still willing to marry him?" Ukyou pressed.
"You saw me have sex with him while he was in Nekoken," Akane reminded. "I know life will be rough at times, but I'm willing to put up with it."
Ukyou scowled at the girl. "I know Ranma has some interesting adventures, but I think you're just trying to convince me you're doing me a favor for marrying him."
"I guess, in a way, I am," Akane admitted. "Remember when Ranma was hit with the Moxibustion point?"
Ukyou laughed hollowly. "How could I forget?"
"Two days before that Ranma had to save me from a date with Ryoga, because he was trying to hug me," Akane informed.
Ukyou raised an eyebrow. "What was so bad about Ryoga hugging you?"
"He was trying to hug me with all his strength. He was destroying large wooden pillars when he missed. Earlier that week, Ranma had to fight Principal Kuno about 'Tardiness Week.' I could go on and on about the stuff that has happened to us since I met Ranma," Akane added to her case.
"What if you're the problem?" Ukyou pointed out. "Maybe Ranchan has to deal with it because you have the interesting life curse."
Akane shook her head. "The only strange thing about me before Ranma was having to fight most of the guys at Furinkan High every morning. Ranma, however, was cursed to turn into a girl, got engaged at least three times, ate dragon hair, trained in Nekoken, and kami knows what else."
Ukyou looked down at the floor. "Has he proposed to you yet?"
Akane raised her hand. "Yes."
Ukyou looked at the ring, wishing it was hers. She smiled weakly, saying sadly, "It's beautiful, Akane."
"I'd still like us all to be friends," Akane insisted.
Ukyou didn't immediately reply. "I-I'll think about it, and I still like to talk to Ranma."
"Of course." Akane realized Ukyou gave her a hint to leave. "I should be going. Will I see you at school tomorrow?"
Ukyou turned away from her. "Probably not. Bye."
"Bye." Akane left Ucchan's. She noticed several people standing outside, entering only after she was a fair distance from the door.
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Ranma laid in bed, letting the haze of sleep fade from his mind. The first thing he noticed was that he was in Akane's bed. Correction, his and Akane's bed. His mother was now sharing his old room with his father. He was surprised at how forgiving his mother was. Despite finding out more of what his father had done to him, his parents slept together last night.
Ranma sat up, shaking his head. He wasn't use to the changes yet. Two weeks ago was no different than the previous months. Well except, three weeks ago was the wedding fiasco and Mount Phoenix. Actually thinking back now, everything seemed to change over a month ago when his mother found out about the curse. Everything has changed now, he was even sharing a bed with Akane.
Ranma now noticed Akane wasn't in bed with him. He looked at the clock, it was a little after five o'clock. Akane was rarely awake before six o'clock. Ranma quickly got dress and decided to look for her.
He first checked the kitchen, much to his relief she wasn't there. Kasumi was and she told him Akane was in the dojo, breaking bricks.
"Yo, Akane. What's up?" Ranma asked, entering the dojo.
"Nothing," Akane said with an edge of bitterness.
Ranma noticed Akane seemed angry at something. He asked nervously, "I know you better than that. Why are you breaking bricks early in the morning? Is something wrong? Did I do something stupid?"
"Nothing is wrong and you haven't done anything stupid," Akane barked.
Ranma was really getting confused. "Is it because Nabiki told Kuno about our engagement?"
"No," Akane hissed. "She said it was an accident and I'm glad she did it."
"Then why are you here?" Ranma pressed.
"It's my own business," Akane insisted.
Ranma folded his arms. "Akane we're going to be married soon, why can't you tell me?"
"You want to know? Fine! I'm having my period. Happy?" Akane growled out.
"Oh," Ranma said meekly, then realization struck. "OH! That means you aren't pregnant then."
Akane glared at him. "Exactly. Which means nothing is wrong."
"I guess I'll leave you be then." Ranma turned to leave.
"Aren't you going to ask me why I'm irritable then?" Akane asked, part of her wanting him to step into her verbal landmine.
"No. I know why... Know more than any guy has a right to." Ranma sighed. "'Cause I go through it too." He left the dojo.
Akane's jaw dropped to the floor. She couldn't believe that the curse was that complete. She shook her head. She set up more bricks to break and started thinking about Ranma and their future.
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Ranma gulped as he entered Ucchan's. The restaurant was currently closed so they could talk without interruption or being overheard. He wanted to avoid this, but he had to talk to Ukyou at some point. Finding the Okonomiyaki in his shoe locker at school this morning told him when that moment was. It also stated he had to come without Akane.
Ranma sighed. He was going to make Ukyou cry, and nothing he could say would change that. He gathered his courage and kept Akane in his mind as he greeted nervously, "Hi, Ucchan."
"Hello, Ranma," Ukyou said dryly.
Ranma became even more nervous, Ukyou was angry. "Um, I'm here to talk."
"So, tell me Ranma: Why Akane? Why did you chose Akane?" Ukyou demanded.
"Because I love her," Ranma answered simply.
"Why do you love her?" Ukyou demanded.
Ranma shrugged. "I'm not sure why I love her. There is something about her that makes me want to hold onto her and never let go. She means everything to me."
"You know that's how I feel about you," Ukyou told him.
Ranma nodded. "And so does Akane, Shampoo and possibly Kodachi."
"Ranma, I've given up over ten years of my life because of you. Ten years!" Ukyou screamed. "And you want me to throw it all away because you love someone else. Sorry Ranma, I can't and won't do that. After throwing away my childhood and my womanhood, you expect me to just say, 'I'm happy for you two,' or some other bullshit. Not in this lifetime!"
Ukyou started crying. "Ranma, I love you and want to marry you. Your father promised that I would be your bride. I have to marry you or get my revenge against you."
"What is your revenge? Ranma nervously asked.
"It was to make you feel the pain you put my family through," Ukyou informed darkly through her tears.
"Um, what is it now?" Ranma wondered.
"I don't know. I don't want to hurt you. I love you and want to marry you," Ukyou insisted.
Ranma looked away from her. "But I want to marry Akane. And even if I didn't want to, our families would force us. I wish things could've work out better. I was sort of hoping you'd fall in love with someone, maybe Konatsu."
Ukyou sobbed. "Konatsu is gone."
"What?" Ranma asked, shocked.
Ukyou looked down. "I sent him away Tuesday after I saw you and Akane... having... sex. I couldn't stand to see him. I didn't want him to try and convince me it's best I let you go. He wouldn't understand. So, I sent him away. I took all the anger I felt towards you and Akane and lashed out at him. I told him I never want to see him again."
"I hope he comes back," Ranma wished.
Ukyou nodded. "I hope so too, but I don't think he will. I was really terrible about it."
Ranma took a step toward her. "Now Ucchan-"
Ukyou glared angrily at him. "DON'T CALL ME THAT!!!" she screamed, tears still flowing. "Don't you dare call me that unless you plan on marrying me. You are my fiance and I'm not letting you go. Everything I am is because of you. I gave up my childhood training to defeat you only to find you're some martial arts god I could never hope to defeat. In you I found love and now you say that it will go unrequited."
"Um, Ukyou, you should be thankful Pop didn't take you with us. You woulda lost your childhood watching me train as Pop sure wouldn't train you." Ranma laughed sarcastically. "Assuming you lived, you would've probably also be cursed, branded a thief, and engaged to several guys. As bad and as lonely your childhood was, mine was worse. At least you know what it was like to have a home. You knew you had a place to sleep and that you would be fed. I didn't know what having a home was like until I came here."
"Oh, yeah. You had it so much better," Ukyou retorted in very much the same tone he had just used. "After my mother died, my father didn't want me. He tried to pawn me off on your father because he didn't want me. After you and your father ran off with the cart all my father had left was me. And all I was to him was a mouth to feed. He never made me feel welcome at home, if you could call a one room apartment a home. Yeah, I had it so much better. I may know what it's like to have a ceiling over my head every night, but I haven't known what it felt like to be wanted by my family since my mother died."
Ranma became confused. "If you lived in a one room apartment, how could you afford this place?"
"My mother left me enough money in her will for this place. I couldn't access it until I was sixteen," Ukyou explained.
"Oh." Ranma looked down at the floor. "I'm sorry... I didn't know. Why didn't you tell me before?"
"Because you were always having a problem with the here and now." Ukyou huffed. "I allowed you to tell me your problems, and I didn't want to bother you with my own."
"I wasn't always having a problem," Ranma denied.
"Yes you were. You always complained about your fights with Akane, or how Ryoga, Kuno, Shampoo, and or somebody else was annoying you, or some other problem," Ukyou reminded.
"Ever notice Akane was my favorite topic of discussion? Sure I complained about my fights with her and how Ryoga or Kuno was annoying me because they are in love with her, and Shampoo and Kodachi kept on putting me in a position in which Akane would hit me. But I almost always talked about her. I hoped you would've realized I actually choose her a long time ago, and you would search for love somewhere else." Ranma sighed. "Did you also notice I never deny I'm Akane's fiancee and when I refer to you it's always been as a friend."
Ranma looked away from Ukyou. "I see I don't really know who you are. All you ever told me is why you're after me."
"C-can I tell you now?" Ukyou asked, hoping if she told him now, he might change his mind.
Ranma nodded. "You can, but it won't change anything. I'm going to marry Akane. I'm sorry about all of this. I wish things could work out better, but that's not the case. I still want to be friends."
"Do you honestly expect me to be just friends with you after all we've been through?" Ukyou threw a set of spatulas at him. "Get out, you Jackass! Just get the hell out!"
Ranma ducked the attack and retreated from the restaurant. "I'm sorry, Ukyou. Please, don't leave me. I want to be friends. Please let me be a friend."
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Akane sighed as she entered her room. She hoped Ranma was fairing well in his talk with Ukyou. Knowing Ranma though, he probably made things worse.
Akane felt something was out of place. There was another presence in her room. A couple black rose petals on the floor told her who it was. "Hello Kodachi. I was wondering when you'd show up."
Kodachi flipped down from the ceiling and stood at the other end of Akane's room. "I will not stand idly by while you steal my darling Ranma-sama from me."
Akane thought talking to Kodachi might prove as effective as it so far did with her brother. "He was never yours." She glared at the gymnast. "He choose me of his own free will, and I will marry him. There is no way you can keep us apart."
"You dare claim Ranma has chosen you after you beat and insult him!" Kodachi demanded.
"I regret the things I've done and I am working on keeping myself from hitting or insulting him ever again," Akane vowed.
"Then here. Accept my congratulations." Kodachi threw a bouquet of black roses at the girl.
Akane jumped put of the way. The flowers hit the door, and sent pollen exploding where Akane had stood.
Kodachi looked insulted. "You dare refuse my gift."
"I'll refuse any gift from you," Akane snarled. "Would the pollen make me fall asleep, or was it poisonous this time."
"I resent your implications." Kodachi raise a pair of gymnastic clubs in challenge to the girl.
Akane set herself to be ready for an attack. "I resent you interfering in my life. Ranma has chosen me. He loves me. And I know he doesn't love you. He doesn't even like you."
"You think I don't know that. I know how he feels about me, but it doesn't matter. He deserves better than you. He deserves someone of my glorious breeding and wealth. In time he will learn to love me," Kodachi answered in surprising honesty.
Akane wasn't going to be shaken by the gymnast's words. "In case you haven't noticed, Ranma will be fairly wealthy if he marries me and I am a descendant of minor nobility. Your claim to be better on those points holds nothing. I, however, offer Ranma a loving family."
"My family isn't loving?" Kodachi asked indignantly.
"Your father sleeps at school rather than at his own house, and you barely tolerate your brother. Not to mention Ranma hates them," Akane pointed out. "So, yes. Your family isn't loving."
"Then you understand why I must have Ranma. I must have love." Tears began to leak from Kodachi's eyes.
Akane was surprised as when the girl started crying. She was crying real tears. "Love can't be forced. It just happens. Ranma may not care about you, but there are other people out there who could love you given the chance. All you have to do is find one."
"I have found the one I want, and I will have him!" Kodachi screamed. "Attack of a thousand clubs!"
Akane attempted to block the multitude of attacks using her recent speed training but finding herself more often punching the clubs than deflecting them.
"How dare you use my Ranma-sama's attacks?!" Kodachi pulled out her ribbon and ensnared Akane.
"Because he taught it to me." Akane smiled and glowed with a pink chi aura, as she began to focus on how happy she was when she finally succeeded in using the move. Augmenting her strength with her chi, she broke free of the ribbon.
"How? No one could break my ribbon." Kodachi looked at the girl in shock.
"I can." Akane punched Kodachi in the nose, causing the gymnast to fall to her knees holding her now bloody nose. The Tendo girl then sternly demanded, "I will not have you attack, hurt or try to kill me or Ranma, and if you ever try to get between me and Ranma, I will beat the living shit out of you. Believe me, I can."
"I woll mak you payy f'r h'rting my nuse!" Kodachi attempted to scream.
Akane folded her arms. "You attacked me. Kodachi, I suggest you leave here and forget about Ranma. You will never make him love you. I hope you find someone to love you, but I never want to hear about you ever again."
Kodachi decided it was best to leave and get a doctor to look at her nose. "We arev't inished et." She jumped through the window.
"I wonder if she noticed Ranma's stuff was now in my room?" Akane said to herself. She looked at the floor. "Great, now I have to clean up blood stains."