Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Nekoken is Out of the Bag ❯ A Woman's Needs ( Chapter 10 )
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By: Lord Archive 
Being a girl is not easy.
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 12.04.2012 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.3K | Visits: 916 | Status: Completed
Being a girl is not easy.
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 12.04.2012 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.3K | Visits: 916 | 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 10 - A Woman's Needs
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"Appointment for Saotome," a pig-tailed girl with a large chest said. The girl was completely soaked from rain.
The secretary at the psychologist office blinked. She recognized the raven haired girl that just entered, but she didn't recognize the other girl. "Excuse me, but you certainly don't look like MR. Saotome."
"Ranma?" the psychologist asked from the door of his office.
Ranma nodded.
The doctor coughed. "Right on time. If you and... your fiancee would come in, we can start."
Ranma and Akane nodded and entered the office.
The secretary, proud of having a good memory, wanted to know how she could forget the girl since this was Saotome's second visit. The doctor's reference to the two girls as being engaged also confused her.
"How did you know it was me?" Ranma asked.
"Well, I remembered what you said about the Chinese curse, your face isn't really any different than when you're a guy, it's raining, and I heard the name you gave my secretary," the doctor explained.
"Oh." Ranma shrugged.
"How have you progressed from looking at the photos I gave you?" the doctor asked.
Ranma remained silent.
The doctor sighed. "No improvement?"
Ranma fidgeted. "Actually... I haven't looked at them. I've been a little busy and forgot about them."
"How could you forget about it?" the doctor asked, confused.
"Well, I made the engagement to her official, officially broke off one of my other engagements, became a member of an Amazon tribe, talked to various other suitors, and some other things," Ranma rattled off.
"Not to mention he doesn't have that great of a memory to start with," Akane added jokingly.
Ranma scowled slightly at Akane, but then sighed. "I did go cat rather easily last Tuesday, and Akane was able to lead me to her room."
The doctor nodded. "Okay. I guess I can understand that. Now Ranma, I'd like to observe you go into the Nekoken."
"Why?" Ranma uttered, shocked.
"It may give me a better understanding of it."
"I really don't think it's a good idea," Ranma said nervously.
"It may help me cure you," the doctor insisted.
"Besides, I'm here to help keep you in control." Akane gave Ranma's hand a reassuring squeeze.
Ranma sagged. "I guess... you got some hot water ready?"
The doctor nodded, pointing to a teakettle and portable stove in the corner of the room. He pressed a button on the intercom. "Bring in Whiskers."
Ranma braced herself.
Akane got a cup of hot water to splash Ranma with.
The secretary entered a moment later holding a brown cat. Instantly Ranma was in the corner of the room, scared out of her mind. The secretary looked at the girl strangely. While she had seen some cases where someone was deathly afraid, the girl in front of her was scared more than anyone else she had ever seen. She wondered how anyone could be that afraid of a cat.
Ranma stared at the cat in cold fear. She fought to keep her mind as it started to slip away, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Akane watched with concern as her fiancee underwent the mental shift. "Meowr?"
"Take Whiskers out now," the doctor ordered, his eyes transfixed on girl that was acting like a cat.
The secretary left the room, trying to understand what she just saw.
Akane seeing the cat gone and her approaching fiance, splashed Ranma with the water.
The doctor blinked. He had some doubts about what these two and his old friend, Dr. Tofu, had told him, but seeing a large chested girl turn into a guy with with a flat firm chest took away much of those doubts. The Nekoken might have been an act, but the transformation wasn't.
"Wha..." Ranma uttered, as he stood up on two legs. "I did a little better that time."
Akane nodded. "Yeah. I think it took almost a minute this time."
"How long does it usually take?" the doctor asked.
"Lately it's been close to instantaneous. But I've seen him hold on for long periods of time, even when confronted with many cats," Akane informed him.
"Can you guess as to why it took longer now than it had previously?" the doctor questioned.
"I guess, it's because I've been facing some of my other fears," Ranma replied.
The doctor nodded. "What are those fears?"
"Let's see... I'm sort of afraid of commitment and rejection, and I was afraid of hurting Ukyou and Shampoo," Ranma replied.
"Who are Ukyou and Shampoo, and why is that fear past tense?" The doctor guessed 'Shampoo' was someone's name, odd as it sounded.
"Ukyou and Shampoo were two of my fiancees. And I already hurt them. Now it's a matter of trying to become friends with them, assuming they're willing," Ranma answered.
"I see." The doctor nodded in thought. "Have you tried to face your fear of commitment?"
Akane raised her hand, showing the engagement ring. "In less than four weeks, we'll be married!" She smiled.
The doctor smiled back. "Well, I suggest now we continue to work desensitizing you to the presence of a cat. I'll give a schedule to Akane for her to make sure you look at those pictures."
"Okay," Ranma replied with a little trepidation.
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The secretary looked up when two people left the office, and blinked. The guy she had remembered to be Saotome was exiting the room, but he hadn't gone in. The big chested girl wasn't there either.
She looked at him strangely while he made an appointment for the next week. Something just wasn't adding up in her mind.
"Um, doctor?" The secretary uttered.
The psychologist gazed at her. "Yes?"
The secretary pouted. "I think I'm... seeing things."
"Oh, what have you been seeing?" The doctor looked amused.
"Saotome entered as a girl with... ah..." She quickly mimed a chest larger than her own. "...And left as a guy with black hair."
The doctor chuckled. "You're not seeing things. They are both the same person." He looked at his secretary carefully.
"He's a cross-dresser?" The secretary asked in her confusion.
"Er... something like that." The doctor didn't care to find out what proof of magic would do to his secretary's sanity.
The secretary noticed the reluctance of the doctor to answer. One thing really bothered her about the idea of Saotome being a cross-dresser: How does he shrink and grow?
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The gynecologist walked through his clinic, approaching the room where his next patient was. He used to enjoy his job. Getting paid to see a woman's vagina, what guy wouldn't be happy? But, day after day and week after week of seeing women's sexual organs caused him to no longer have any interest in seeing another one. Maybe that's why Hikaru was his only child.
The doctor almost sighed as he picked up the file of his patient that was placed on the door. He noted she was a first time patient, standard series of exams, and her name was... He blinked. His patient couldn't be...
The doctor opened the door to see an innocent and shy looking pig-tailed girl with large chest sitting on the examination bed. He started laughing. He couldn't believe 'she' would be here.
"What's so funny?" Ranma demanded.
"S-sorry... I just never expected you would ever be my patient," the doctor said trying to stifle his laughter.
Ranma raised her eyebrow. "You know who I am?"
"Yes. My son is quite smitten with your fiancee. It's hard to believe all the things he's said about you and the stuff that happens around you, especially the curse," the doctor explained.
Ranma blinked. "Who's your son?"
"Hikaru," the doctor replied.
Ranma couldn't remember anyone with that name and repeated, "Who?"
Apparently the girl didn't pay attention to who she was seeing, the doctor mentally noted. "Gosunkugi Hikaru."
Ranma paled slightly. "He's your son? Sorry about sending him to the hospital..."
Doctor Gosunkugi shook his head. "I understand what happened. I've had Tendo Nabiki explain everything. He was trying to break your relationship with Akane, and his plan back-fired. If your skills are as high as I've heard, you could've done far worse than made him spend a night in the hospital."
Ranma nodded slightly.
"So what brings you here?" Doctor Gosunkugi wondered.
"Akane and I have... become active and seeing as she is seeing a gynecologist..." Ranma's words died in her mouth.
"They thought it'd be a good idea you see one too." The doctor doubted this 'girl' would be here of her own free will.
Ranma nodded. She looked like she was ready to run at the slightest excuse.
Dr. Gosunkugi smiled. An old spark of anticipation had been lit when he saw Ranma was his patient. He was about to see the rarest of sights, a vagina which belonged to a man.
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Ranma was in a bad mood when he left the gynecologist. Several people had gasped as he transformed into a guy in the hall. He had wanted to get out of his girl's body as fast as possible, and did so not caring who saw him. He felt oddly violated by some of the tests. He felt only Akane should be able to look at where Dr. Gosunkugi had looked. "Did you know what some of those test were going to be?"
Akane sighed. "Not really. I sort of guessed at some of the things. I didn't really expect her to look at me... where she did."
"You had a female doctor?" Ranma asked heatedly.
Akane nodded shallowly. "Yes."
Ranma let out a sigh of relief. "Good."
Akane looked at him, concerned. "You had a male doctor?"
Ranma folded his arms. "Yeah. He's also Gosunkugi's dad."
"He was?" Akane squeaked in surprise.
Ranma nodded. "I think he did some 'tests' he didn't need to."
"I sort of think that too about my doctor." Akane shook her head, trying to forget the doctor visit. While nothing wrong had happened, she still felt like her privacy had been violated since her doctor had seen and knew things only Ranma had otherwise truly seen and known about her. "Well, I do have some good news. It's doubtful I'm pregnant. There's still a chance, but not a very good one just yet."
Ranma smiled slightly. "That's good. Did you get birth control mrph?!"
Akane slapped her hands over Ranma's mouth and hissed in a low voice, "Don't mention that! Nabiki lied, they're still technically illegal."
Ranma shrugged. When her hand was removed, he asked, "Did you get them?"
Akane scowled. "Not yet, but I will have them soon." She glanced around to see if anyone was listening in. Seeing no one, she added in a low voice, "We still have to be careful. The pills might not take full effect until after I have another cycle. But it still should reduce chances greatly."
Ranma nodded.
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Akane practiced a complex kata in the dojo. She wanted Ranma to be with her, since she still didn't like the idea of him being out of her sight. But Ranma had to go out with his friends, if for no other reason than to just go out. If he always stayed with her, he would never be able to control Nekoken again.
Akane thought of all the problems Ranma has: the curse, Nekoken, and all the other insanity that surrounded him. Truthfully, it scared her that she had promised to stand by the side of a man who's life would never be easy, until death do they part, a death which might happen at any time.
Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard, "Mweor?"
She turned around hoping it was just a cat or Ranma playing a joke. She saw a girl with a pig-tail in a stance similar to that of a cat. This could be rather bad.
Ranma looked at his mate. He could feel the anticipation growing... but something didn't feel right. She looked down and saw that she was a girl at the moment. She cast a confused look at her mate. How could two girls mate?
Ranma approached her rather nervous mate. She knew her mate was female, but pawed between her beloved's legs to make sure. She let out a sad meow, and curled up into a ball. She didn't know what to do.
Akane had been of a similar thought of being unsure of how to handle Ranma being female and a cat. She just stood there staring at her fiance. Now that her lover had curled up into a ball she started to be able to think again. "Ranma?"
Ranma looked up. "Meow?"
"Want to turn back into a guy?" Akane asked.
Ranma nodded. "Meow."
"Follow me." Akane walked out of the dojo and led Ranma to the kitchen. She grabbed a teakettle and poured it on her fiance.
"Hot!" he screeched, jumping away from the teakettle.
"What happened this time?" Akane asked.
Ranma scratched his head. "Well, after the old lady somehow splashed me again, I overheard Kuno trying to convince Gosunkugi to cast some spell. When I approached to find out what they were up to, I ran into a bunch of cats."
"Do you know how long it took?" Akane wondered.
Ranma shook his head. "I'm not sure."
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Ranma gazed at his lover wondering what she was doing. "Are you constipated?"
"What?" Akane screeched.
"You keep making a funny face," Ranma pointed out.
Akane scowled. "I'm trying to figure out how to use other emotions besides anger for a chi attack."
Ranma laughed. "Good luck with that."
Akane took a brick and pitched it at her fiance's head. Her previous failures annoying her as much as her fiance's comments.
Ranma ducked the impromptu weapon. "Let me know when you get that anger management under control," he teased as retreated.
Akane huffed in frustration and then shook her head to clear her thoughts. Anger came to her easily, but that would lead to her destruction. She had tried joy and then hope, and while both worked to a certain degree. Trying to summon those feelings now while she wanted to punch her fiance was alluding her, which meant they wouldn't likely come to her in the middle of battle either.
Akane sighed. There was one emotion she had so far avoided using. She was afraid of the results it'd cause. If she used that emotion, it'd quantify that emotion. She didn't want that. She wanted it to be unknown. But she needed a reliable chi attack in battle. An emotion that anger could not overtake. She sighed.
She focused.
Chi enveloped her hand.
"AKANEKEN!" she cried out as her hand smashed into the stack of bricks, turning them into a fine powder.
Akane looked at her hand to see the color that had enveloped it. She smiled, seeing the color was crimson red. It was oddly appropriate for both her name and the emotion it was sometimes associated with: love.
Akane looked at the powdered concrete. The chi attack might have quantified her love for Ranma in some ways, but it was a powerful emotion, more powerful than even her anger. She rather liked the side effect of this chi attack that let this emotion become easier to tap. If anything, she always wanted to touch the feeling of love Ranma gave her... even if he was a jerk.
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Author's Note:
Birth control pills were illegal in Japan save for high dose versions for certain menstrual cycle issues until 1999 (after political backlash from women groups when Viagra was approved in six months while birth control pills still hadn't been approved after five decades of use in other countries). Seeing as Ranma 1/2 obviously occurs before the age of marriage was raised in Japan to eighteen for guys which went into effect by 1997 (the manga ran from 1988 to 1996), either the pills would be illegal or Ranma can't marry until he's eighteen. While having Nabiki know someone who can get safer versions of birth control pills puts her more in line with anime or fanon interpretations, in a society where prostitution and drinking age are more paper laws than something consistently enforced, it is not unreasonable that Nabiki has learned of a doctor willing to circumvent the restrictions and sell them under the counter.
Now for another reason why her chi attacks are called Akaneken and Akane Ha, since Akane can translate as meaning crimson. Meaning her attacks now have the English meaning of Crimson Fist and Crimson Blast.
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 10 - A Woman's Needs
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"Appointment for Saotome," a pig-tailed girl with a large chest said. The girl was completely soaked from rain.
The secretary at the psychologist office blinked. She recognized the raven haired girl that just entered, but she didn't recognize the other girl. "Excuse me, but you certainly don't look like MR. Saotome."
"Ranma?" the psychologist asked from the door of his office.
Ranma nodded.
The doctor coughed. "Right on time. If you and... your fiancee would come in, we can start."
Ranma and Akane nodded and entered the office.
The secretary, proud of having a good memory, wanted to know how she could forget the girl since this was Saotome's second visit. The doctor's reference to the two girls as being engaged also confused her.
"How did you know it was me?" Ranma asked.
"Well, I remembered what you said about the Chinese curse, your face isn't really any different than when you're a guy, it's raining, and I heard the name you gave my secretary," the doctor explained.
"Oh." Ranma shrugged.
"How have you progressed from looking at the photos I gave you?" the doctor asked.
Ranma remained silent.
The doctor sighed. "No improvement?"
Ranma fidgeted. "Actually... I haven't looked at them. I've been a little busy and forgot about them."
"How could you forget about it?" the doctor asked, confused.
"Well, I made the engagement to her official, officially broke off one of my other engagements, became a member of an Amazon tribe, talked to various other suitors, and some other things," Ranma rattled off.
"Not to mention he doesn't have that great of a memory to start with," Akane added jokingly.
Ranma scowled slightly at Akane, but then sighed. "I did go cat rather easily last Tuesday, and Akane was able to lead me to her room."
The doctor nodded. "Okay. I guess I can understand that. Now Ranma, I'd like to observe you go into the Nekoken."
"Why?" Ranma uttered, shocked.
"It may give me a better understanding of it."
"I really don't think it's a good idea," Ranma said nervously.
"It may help me cure you," the doctor insisted.
"Besides, I'm here to help keep you in control." Akane gave Ranma's hand a reassuring squeeze.
Ranma sagged. "I guess... you got some hot water ready?"
The doctor nodded, pointing to a teakettle and portable stove in the corner of the room. He pressed a button on the intercom. "Bring in Whiskers."
Ranma braced herself.
Akane got a cup of hot water to splash Ranma with.
The secretary entered a moment later holding a brown cat. Instantly Ranma was in the corner of the room, scared out of her mind. The secretary looked at the girl strangely. While she had seen some cases where someone was deathly afraid, the girl in front of her was scared more than anyone else she had ever seen. She wondered how anyone could be that afraid of a cat.
Ranma stared at the cat in cold fear. She fought to keep her mind as it started to slip away, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Akane watched with concern as her fiancee underwent the mental shift. "Meowr?"
"Take Whiskers out now," the doctor ordered, his eyes transfixed on girl that was acting like a cat.
The secretary left the room, trying to understand what she just saw.
Akane seeing the cat gone and her approaching fiance, splashed Ranma with the water.
The doctor blinked. He had some doubts about what these two and his old friend, Dr. Tofu, had told him, but seeing a large chested girl turn into a guy with with a flat firm chest took away much of those doubts. The Nekoken might have been an act, but the transformation wasn't.
"Wha..." Ranma uttered, as he stood up on two legs. "I did a little better that time."
Akane nodded. "Yeah. I think it took almost a minute this time."
"How long does it usually take?" the doctor asked.
"Lately it's been close to instantaneous. But I've seen him hold on for long periods of time, even when confronted with many cats," Akane informed him.
"Can you guess as to why it took longer now than it had previously?" the doctor questioned.
"I guess, it's because I've been facing some of my other fears," Ranma replied.
The doctor nodded. "What are those fears?"
"Let's see... I'm sort of afraid of commitment and rejection, and I was afraid of hurting Ukyou and Shampoo," Ranma replied.
"Who are Ukyou and Shampoo, and why is that fear past tense?" The doctor guessed 'Shampoo' was someone's name, odd as it sounded.
"Ukyou and Shampoo were two of my fiancees. And I already hurt them. Now it's a matter of trying to become friends with them, assuming they're willing," Ranma answered.
"I see." The doctor nodded in thought. "Have you tried to face your fear of commitment?"
Akane raised her hand, showing the engagement ring. "In less than four weeks, we'll be married!" She smiled.
The doctor smiled back. "Well, I suggest now we continue to work desensitizing you to the presence of a cat. I'll give a schedule to Akane for her to make sure you look at those pictures."
"Okay," Ranma replied with a little trepidation.
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The secretary looked up when two people left the office, and blinked. The guy she had remembered to be Saotome was exiting the room, but he hadn't gone in. The big chested girl wasn't there either.
She looked at him strangely while he made an appointment for the next week. Something just wasn't adding up in her mind.
"Um, doctor?" The secretary uttered.
The psychologist gazed at her. "Yes?"
The secretary pouted. "I think I'm... seeing things."
"Oh, what have you been seeing?" The doctor looked amused.
"Saotome entered as a girl with... ah..." She quickly mimed a chest larger than her own. "...And left as a guy with black hair."
The doctor chuckled. "You're not seeing things. They are both the same person." He looked at his secretary carefully.
"He's a cross-dresser?" The secretary asked in her confusion.
"Er... something like that." The doctor didn't care to find out what proof of magic would do to his secretary's sanity.
The secretary noticed the reluctance of the doctor to answer. One thing really bothered her about the idea of Saotome being a cross-dresser: How does he shrink and grow?
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The gynecologist walked through his clinic, approaching the room where his next patient was. He used to enjoy his job. Getting paid to see a woman's vagina, what guy wouldn't be happy? But, day after day and week after week of seeing women's sexual organs caused him to no longer have any interest in seeing another one. Maybe that's why Hikaru was his only child.
The doctor almost sighed as he picked up the file of his patient that was placed on the door. He noted she was a first time patient, standard series of exams, and her name was... He blinked. His patient couldn't be...
The doctor opened the door to see an innocent and shy looking pig-tailed girl with large chest sitting on the examination bed. He started laughing. He couldn't believe 'she' would be here.
"What's so funny?" Ranma demanded.
"S-sorry... I just never expected you would ever be my patient," the doctor said trying to stifle his laughter.
Ranma raised her eyebrow. "You know who I am?"
"Yes. My son is quite smitten with your fiancee. It's hard to believe all the things he's said about you and the stuff that happens around you, especially the curse," the doctor explained.
Ranma blinked. "Who's your son?"
"Hikaru," the doctor replied.
Ranma couldn't remember anyone with that name and repeated, "Who?"
Apparently the girl didn't pay attention to who she was seeing, the doctor mentally noted. "Gosunkugi Hikaru."
Ranma paled slightly. "He's your son? Sorry about sending him to the hospital..."
Doctor Gosunkugi shook his head. "I understand what happened. I've had Tendo Nabiki explain everything. He was trying to break your relationship with Akane, and his plan back-fired. If your skills are as high as I've heard, you could've done far worse than made him spend a night in the hospital."
Ranma nodded slightly.
"So what brings you here?" Doctor Gosunkugi wondered.
"Akane and I have... become active and seeing as she is seeing a gynecologist..." Ranma's words died in her mouth.
"They thought it'd be a good idea you see one too." The doctor doubted this 'girl' would be here of her own free will.
Ranma nodded. She looked like she was ready to run at the slightest excuse.
Dr. Gosunkugi smiled. An old spark of anticipation had been lit when he saw Ranma was his patient. He was about to see the rarest of sights, a vagina which belonged to a man.
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Ranma was in a bad mood when he left the gynecologist. Several people had gasped as he transformed into a guy in the hall. He had wanted to get out of his girl's body as fast as possible, and did so not caring who saw him. He felt oddly violated by some of the tests. He felt only Akane should be able to look at where Dr. Gosunkugi had looked. "Did you know what some of those test were going to be?"
Akane sighed. "Not really. I sort of guessed at some of the things. I didn't really expect her to look at me... where she did."
"You had a female doctor?" Ranma asked heatedly.
Akane nodded shallowly. "Yes."
Ranma let out a sigh of relief. "Good."
Akane looked at him, concerned. "You had a male doctor?"
Ranma folded his arms. "Yeah. He's also Gosunkugi's dad."
"He was?" Akane squeaked in surprise.
Ranma nodded. "I think he did some 'tests' he didn't need to."
"I sort of think that too about my doctor." Akane shook her head, trying to forget the doctor visit. While nothing wrong had happened, she still felt like her privacy had been violated since her doctor had seen and knew things only Ranma had otherwise truly seen and known about her. "Well, I do have some good news. It's doubtful I'm pregnant. There's still a chance, but not a very good one just yet."
Ranma smiled slightly. "That's good. Did you get birth control mrph?!"
Akane slapped her hands over Ranma's mouth and hissed in a low voice, "Don't mention that! Nabiki lied, they're still technically illegal."
Ranma shrugged. When her hand was removed, he asked, "Did you get them?"
Akane scowled. "Not yet, but I will have them soon." She glanced around to see if anyone was listening in. Seeing no one, she added in a low voice, "We still have to be careful. The pills might not take full effect until after I have another cycle. But it still should reduce chances greatly."
Ranma nodded.
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Akane practiced a complex kata in the dojo. She wanted Ranma to be with her, since she still didn't like the idea of him being out of her sight. But Ranma had to go out with his friends, if for no other reason than to just go out. If he always stayed with her, he would never be able to control Nekoken again.
Akane thought of all the problems Ranma has: the curse, Nekoken, and all the other insanity that surrounded him. Truthfully, it scared her that she had promised to stand by the side of a man who's life would never be easy, until death do they part, a death which might happen at any time.
Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard, "Mweor?"
She turned around hoping it was just a cat or Ranma playing a joke. She saw a girl with a pig-tail in a stance similar to that of a cat. This could be rather bad.
Ranma looked at his mate. He could feel the anticipation growing... but something didn't feel right. She looked down and saw that she was a girl at the moment. She cast a confused look at her mate. How could two girls mate?
Ranma approached her rather nervous mate. She knew her mate was female, but pawed between her beloved's legs to make sure. She let out a sad meow, and curled up into a ball. She didn't know what to do.
Akane had been of a similar thought of being unsure of how to handle Ranma being female and a cat. She just stood there staring at her fiance. Now that her lover had curled up into a ball she started to be able to think again. "Ranma?"
Ranma looked up. "Meow?"
"Want to turn back into a guy?" Akane asked.
Ranma nodded. "Meow."
"Follow me." Akane walked out of the dojo and led Ranma to the kitchen. She grabbed a teakettle and poured it on her fiance.
"Hot!" he screeched, jumping away from the teakettle.
"What happened this time?" Akane asked.
Ranma scratched his head. "Well, after the old lady somehow splashed me again, I overheard Kuno trying to convince Gosunkugi to cast some spell. When I approached to find out what they were up to, I ran into a bunch of cats."
"Do you know how long it took?" Akane wondered.
Ranma shook his head. "I'm not sure."
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Ranma gazed at his lover wondering what she was doing. "Are you constipated?"
"What?" Akane screeched.
"You keep making a funny face," Ranma pointed out.
Akane scowled. "I'm trying to figure out how to use other emotions besides anger for a chi attack."
Ranma laughed. "Good luck with that."
Akane took a brick and pitched it at her fiance's head. Her previous failures annoying her as much as her fiance's comments.
Ranma ducked the impromptu weapon. "Let me know when you get that anger management under control," he teased as retreated.
Akane huffed in frustration and then shook her head to clear her thoughts. Anger came to her easily, but that would lead to her destruction. She had tried joy and then hope, and while both worked to a certain degree. Trying to summon those feelings now while she wanted to punch her fiance was alluding her, which meant they wouldn't likely come to her in the middle of battle either.
Akane sighed. There was one emotion she had so far avoided using. She was afraid of the results it'd cause. If she used that emotion, it'd quantify that emotion. She didn't want that. She wanted it to be unknown. But she needed a reliable chi attack in battle. An emotion that anger could not overtake. She sighed.
She focused.
Chi enveloped her hand.
"AKANEKEN!" she cried out as her hand smashed into the stack of bricks, turning them into a fine powder.
Akane looked at her hand to see the color that had enveloped it. She smiled, seeing the color was crimson red. It was oddly appropriate for both her name and the emotion it was sometimes associated with: love.
Akane looked at the powdered concrete. The chi attack might have quantified her love for Ranma in some ways, but it was a powerful emotion, more powerful than even her anger. She rather liked the side effect of this chi attack that let this emotion become easier to tap. If anything, she always wanted to touch the feeling of love Ranma gave her... even if he was a jerk.
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Author's Note:
Birth control pills were illegal in Japan save for high dose versions for certain menstrual cycle issues until 1999 (after political backlash from women groups when Viagra was approved in six months while birth control pills still hadn't been approved after five decades of use in other countries). Seeing as Ranma 1/2 obviously occurs before the age of marriage was raised in Japan to eighteen for guys which went into effect by 1997 (the manga ran from 1988 to 1996), either the pills would be illegal or Ranma can't marry until he's eighteen. While having Nabiki know someone who can get safer versions of birth control pills puts her more in line with anime or fanon interpretations, in a society where prostitution and drinking age are more paper laws than something consistently enforced, it is not unreasonable that Nabiki has learned of a doctor willing to circumvent the restrictions and sell them under the counter.
Now for another reason why her chi attacks are called Akaneken and Akane Ha, since Akane can translate as meaning crimson. Meaning her attacks now have the English meaning of Crimson Fist and Crimson Blast.