Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Nekoken is Out of the Bag ❯ (Coming to) Terms ( Chapter 13 )
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By: Lord Archive 
Acceptance is sometimes the hardest thing someone can do.
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 12.10.2012 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 703 | Status: Completed
Acceptance is sometimes the hardest thing someone can do.
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Hentai / Drama / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 12.10.2012 | Pages: 4 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 703 | 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 13 - (Coming to) Terms
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Akane let out a long breath causing the bath water she was sitting in to ripple. The person with her asked if something was wrong. "No, Ranma, nothing's wrong."
Ranma shook his head. "I know something is bothering you. Is it Happosai's tape? Ucchan? The demon?"
Akane flinched slightly on the first two questions, but her head dropped and fell into a shallow nod for the third.
"Killing that demon was something that had to be done. You shouldn't think about it more than that," Ranma asserted.
Akane hugged herself. "But I can't help but think about it. I've never killed anything before, and I crushed his skull." She started to cry.
Ranma drew Akane into a hug. "It was a demon, Akane. It was something sick and abhorrent that needed to be put down. We did the right thing. What would it have done if we hadn't?"
"It would've killed anyone who was a Saotome," Akane admitted.
"Ya see, if it didn't die Mom, Pop and I would be dead." Ranma then blinked. "Why did it go after you?"
"Spiritually I'm already a Saotome, at least that's what the demon said," Akane replied.
"Do you want either of us to die?" Ranma questioned seriously.
Akane broke free of Ranma. "No! Why would you ever ask that?"
Ranma poked her forehead. "Because, Akane, it was either that thing or us."
"We could've found another way," Akane retorted.
"Maybe, but I doubt it. With preparation we might've been able to banish it or somethin', but we had ta kill not only to make sure we live but that it didn't go after Mom and Pop while we tried to defeat it some other way," Ranma pointed out.
Akane bowed her head. "I... guess you're right, but I wish I hadn't been forced to do that."
Ranma nodded. "I wish I'd never had to kill anybody, but sometimes we don't get the choice."
Akane almost breathed the name, Saffron. Ranma's first kill and all because he was trying to save her.
They remained quite for a long moment.
"Are you going to be all right?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah. I guess, but school will be a bit hard to deal with," Akane muttered.
Ranma nodded. "Yeah, that damn tape won't be something they'll be able to forget about soon."
"Um, Ranma...." Akane sank deeper into the water. "About that... well, you know Nabiki was going to help with that. Um, you see she'll be doing something that will help the girls to stop thinking I'm a complete pervert."
Ranma's gaze flattened, not liking her tone one bit. "Why do I feel that I'm not going to like how she did that?"
Akane blushed deep red. "She took pictures and taped us last night and has already started to sell them."
Ranma gasped. "Last night? Sell them? You knew?!"
Akane nodded. "It comes with an explanation of why we did what we did on Happosai's tape. The tape should help counter our lesbian image."
Ranma blinked. "OUR lesbian image?"
Akane tried to giggle. "Well, some of the girls at school think we've only made love as girls."
Ranma groaned. "That's stupid."
Akane nodded. "Maybe, but that's what they think."
"Sometimes it doesn't pay to wake up," Ranma bemoaned.
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When Ranma and Akane arrived at school, they saw that Kuno was shaking with rage.
Kuno waved his bokken threateningly. "It... it wasn't enough to send my loves to depths of depravity nor to strip me naked and dump me like some foul refuse, but for you to have befouled the very bed of Tendo Akane as well- I SHALL SMITE THEE!!!!"
Akane giggled remembering what Ranma's Hiryu Shuten Ha did to the deluded fool.
Ranma dodged Kuno's attacks with careless abandon. "I sleep with Akane because we love each other and want to be together. If she didn't want me there, I'd still be in the guestroom. Don't know what you're talkin' about leavin' you naked though."
"I will not listen to your heinous lies. Die foul cretin." Kuno continued to swing his wooden weapon.
"Stop livin' in a dream world and ya might actually get somewhere with a girl without havin' to pay for her time." Ranma decided to try out his new trick. He poked the ground right underneath the samurai.
Kuno flew a few a meters from the explosion and took a nap.
"Thought that was Ryoga's trick," Hiroshi commented.
"Sure was." Daisuke nodded.
"Think it'll piss off the lost boy?" Hiroshi questioned.
Daisuke grinned. "Most definitely."
"How long do you think it'll be before he shows up again?" Hiroshi wondered.
Daisuke thought for a second. "It's been almost a week, so any time now. Probably will be around to give us lunch entertainment, after school at worst."
Hiroshi shrugged. "I think I'll just watch 'Anything Goes Carnal Martial Arts 2 - Akane verses male Ranma."
"You got one?!" Daisuke chirped in surprise.
Hiroshi lifted his book bag. "Got it right here."
Daisuke drooled a bit. "Cool! We can watch it at my place. Mom's out visiting Sis at college."
Hiroshi nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me."
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Akane wasn't looking forward to this. Changing for gym used to not be a problem, but the questioning stares of her classmates were making her nervous. At least they weren't the accusing glares from yesterday. She tried to ignore them and began to change while facing the wall.
"Akane, can I, ah, ask you something?" one girl asked.
Akane gulped. "Um, sure."
"Is it true that you and Ranma were under the effects of something that panty thief did?" the girl asked.
Akane nodded, blushing slightly.
"You didn't have a choice but to make love to Ranma like that?" the girl pressed.
Akane nodded. "I can't believe how horny I felt that night. I would've had sex with anyone. Even the old lech."
The girls shuddered.
"Did you have to screw Ranma as a girl though?" another girl asked.
"I needed to make love, and the old lech made it so Ranma couldn't perform as a guy. I'd rather have sex with him as a girl than not have him enjoy it at all," Akane pointed out.
"So which do you prefer, Ranma as a guy or a girl?" a different girl questioned.
Akane's face was deep red. "As a guy, of course. I can't describe what it feels like with him inside me."
"Should we be expecting an addition to your family soon?" a girl asked excitedly.
Akane shook her head. "I've been using protection, but Mother Saotome might add to it soon."
"Any tips?" yet another girl wondered.
Akane grimaced. At least she wasn't seen as a traitor now, but this was very embarrassing.
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Akane grumbled, returning home from her morning jog. She didn't look happy; actually, she looked like she had gone through a weed whacker. She stomped into the kitchen to get a first aid kit.
Nodoka looked at Akane in surprise, noticing the numerous cuts she had. "What happened?"
"Kodachi just won't take a hint," Akane said bitterly.
Nodoka had found Ranma's ability to attract suitors rather manly, but she really wished he hadn't picked up suitors that were so stubborn. "Do you have any ideas of how to stop her?"
"None. I've even broken her nose before and she's still won't stop!" Akane spat out angrily. "She and her idiotic brother just won't see reality. They think just because they're descendants from some high, rich nobility they can push everyone around, that they are inherently better. I would've of thought by now they'd realize that money and ancestry meant nothing to Ranma and me. Pounding them into paste only seems to encourage them."
Nodoka frowned, but then smiled a little at an idea. "You said that they feel superior because of their ancestry, right?"
Akane nodded, applying antiseptic to several of her wounds.
"They value the old ways and are committed into honoring them," Nodoka continued.
"Pretty much." Akane winced from treating her wounds. "Except they have the tendency to warp it to their already warped view."
Nodoka nodded. "Well, we just have to spell it out to them in a way that they can't warp it and entrench it into that which makes them feel superior, honoring the old ways."
Akane looked at Nodoka and hoped that, whatever her plan was, it would work. She went back to fixing up her wounds.
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In the middle of the Tendo dojo sat Akane, Soun, Nodoka, Genma, and Ranma. Across from them were Kuno and Kodachi. To the side of the room sat Nabiki.
Nodoka frowned. She had wished Principal Kuno would've been here, but as Ranma and Akane had guessed- he didn't bother to show up. She cleared her voice as she began, "All of our families are traditional, with customs dating back to feudal Japan or earlier. We all respect honor and customs of the past, and hold family dear to our hearts."
Kuno scoffed at the idea of Ranma honoring anything.
Nodoka continued, "And, it has come to my attention that Tatewaki and Kodachi have made their intentions clear that they wish to pursue a relationship with Akane and Ranma. While your interests flatter them, they are not free to pursue such relationships. They have been engaged in accordance to feudal customs. For them not to marry would mar their family names. Any interference on the part of the Kuno clan or any further show of intent to pursue a relationship will not be tolerated."
"I cannot allow that vile cur to wed the fair Tendo Akane!" Kuno protested.
"It is not your right to interfere. This is a matter of the Tendo and Saotome clans. And let it also be known that by insulting Saotome Ranma, you insult all of the Saotome clan. Since the Tendo clan is bound by promise and intent to join together through marriage, an insult to the Saotome clan is an insult to the Tendo clan. An insult to the Tendo clan is an insult to Tendo Akane. By calling Ranma a vile cur, you've called all of us a vile cur," Nodoka intoned.
Kuno blinked and said nothing.
Kodachi could care less about what they were saying.
Nodoka gazed at them firmly. "The actions of Kuno Tatewaki at the attempted wedding ceremony can be seen as provocation of war between our clans, as could other acts that have been committed by your family members. The Saotome and Tendo Clans will no longer tolerate any hostility towards any of their members nor attempts to nullify the agreement to join our families by the Kuno clan. Any action committed will be seen as declaration of war and both of our families will be forced to react in kind.
"If the Kuno clan incites war, we will be required to raise all resources to fight you. You do not wish for us to do this. We have within our means to freeze all the assets of the Kuno clan, have members of your family arrested for various, documented crimes, and to martial a force of a minimum of four master level martial artists trained in multiple disciplines. At least two of the martial artists have within their capability of leveling the Kuno estate in a matter of minutes."
"But how can I allow Tendo Akane to be forced into a loveless marriage?" Kuno asked.
Akane answered, "The marriage would NOT be loveless. I have come to be in love with Ranma since his arrival."
"What do you have to say about this shameful engagement, Ranma-sama?" Kodachi asked.
"I, too, have come to love Akane since I have arrived here. I fully intend to marry her. I would intend to marry her even without it being arranged between our families," Ranma answered.
"I ask that the Kuno clan be allowed to challenge the agreement. That we shall offer up two champions, while your clans do the same. If we win this challenge, the agreement is declared null and void," Kuno said, hoping for a final chance to save his 'love'.
Nodoka replied, "We shall accept on the conditions that no further challenges can be made by the Kuno clan in regards to the engagement and any results generated by the engagement or this agreement. Also no further advances will be made towards the one you refer to as the 'pig-tailed girl.' ANY attempts to undermine the engagement, this agreement, or to assault on any member of our clans made by a member of the Kuno clan or anyone acting in accordance to the wishes of a member of the Kuno clan will be considered the final declaration of war. The challenge is to take place here in fifteen minutes."
Kuno was a little unnerved that he'd lose both his loves if he lost, but was confident in his ability and had some confidence in Kodachi's ability that they would win. "Agreed. I name myself and my sister, Kodachi, as the champions of the Kuno clan."
Kodachi nodded.
Nodoka said. "As champion for the Tendo clan, I name Tendo Akane, and for the Saotome clan, I name Saotome Ranma."
As the combatants prepared, Nabiki had everyone in the dojo sign a contract verifying the challenge. She then brought in several people to witness the fight, after they paid an admission fee.
When the fifteen minutes were up, Kodachi faced Akane and Ranma stood across from Kuno.
Nodoka signaled to begin the fight.
Kodachi let loose her ribbon. "This will be a short battle, and my darling Ranma-sama shall be free!"
Kuno charged. "I shall finally free my loves!"
Ranma dodged Kuno's attacks, and with a fierce kick of his own sent Kuno into the wall.
"Akane HA!" Akane shouted, sending Kodachi through the wall with a red chi blast.
Ranma blinked at the damage. "What emotion did you use?"
"I used my love for you," Akane replied, smiling, before barely dodging to the side of a razor hoop that sliced into the sleeve of her gi top and embedded itself to the wall behind her.
Kuno merely snarled as he attacked; he did not want to accidentally insult Ranma, realizing he would also insults Akane while the engagement was in place.
"Oh really?" Ranma dodged as Kuno struck at him. "Akaneken!" He punched the kendo master through the wall and into the stone fence surrounding the Tendo property. "Cool."
Kodachi charged with spiked clubs. Akane grabbed the Black Rose by her wrist and used her momentum to throw her across the dojo, where she landed headfirst.
Kuno charged back towards the dojo. "Ikazuchi Ha!" Ranma shouted, leaping into a jump kick with chi flaring around his foot. The Blue Thunder was sent through the stone fence and into the wall fence across the street. He wasn't the least bit conscious.
As Kodachi moved to get up, Akane brought down her full weight and chi-enhanced her punch to Kodachi's shoulder. Kodachi collapsed back onto the ground, and the pain caused her to black out.
Ranma carried Kuno back to the dojo and dropped him next to Kodachi.
"Cute, Ranma. 'Thunder strike' to take out the 'blue thunder,'" Akane commented.
Nabiki collected on her bets and had everyone there sign that they witnessed that the Kuno sibling had been defeated in the challenge.
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Author's notes
Thanks to Free Mage and Michael Chase for reading the original version of this and to everyone who has sent comments and critism.
I am making Nekoken my current priority, and will hopefully have this series completed by Christmas as there will be one or two chapters remaining. This is the last of the reposts for now as the only other stories I've worked on are rather incomplete. 'It Wasn't a Dream' may get posted if I get around to finishing that story, other's that failed to make it past the first chapter were more detail story ideas than a series and much like 'The Insanity Continues' and 'Life of Chaos' are unlikely to ever be finished.
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 13 - (Coming to) Terms
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Akane let out a long breath causing the bath water she was sitting in to ripple. The person with her asked if something was wrong. "No, Ranma, nothing's wrong."
Ranma shook his head. "I know something is bothering you. Is it Happosai's tape? Ucchan? The demon?"
Akane flinched slightly on the first two questions, but her head dropped and fell into a shallow nod for the third.
"Killing that demon was something that had to be done. You shouldn't think about it more than that," Ranma asserted.
Akane hugged herself. "But I can't help but think about it. I've never killed anything before, and I crushed his skull." She started to cry.
Ranma drew Akane into a hug. "It was a demon, Akane. It was something sick and abhorrent that needed to be put down. We did the right thing. What would it have done if we hadn't?"
"It would've killed anyone who was a Saotome," Akane admitted.
"Ya see, if it didn't die Mom, Pop and I would be dead." Ranma then blinked. "Why did it go after you?"
"Spiritually I'm already a Saotome, at least that's what the demon said," Akane replied.
"Do you want either of us to die?" Ranma questioned seriously.
Akane broke free of Ranma. "No! Why would you ever ask that?"
Ranma poked her forehead. "Because, Akane, it was either that thing or us."
"We could've found another way," Akane retorted.
"Maybe, but I doubt it. With preparation we might've been able to banish it or somethin', but we had ta kill not only to make sure we live but that it didn't go after Mom and Pop while we tried to defeat it some other way," Ranma pointed out.
Akane bowed her head. "I... guess you're right, but I wish I hadn't been forced to do that."
Ranma nodded. "I wish I'd never had to kill anybody, but sometimes we don't get the choice."
Akane almost breathed the name, Saffron. Ranma's first kill and all because he was trying to save her.
They remained quite for a long moment.
"Are you going to be all right?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah. I guess, but school will be a bit hard to deal with," Akane muttered.
Ranma nodded. "Yeah, that damn tape won't be something they'll be able to forget about soon."
"Um, Ranma...." Akane sank deeper into the water. "About that... well, you know Nabiki was going to help with that. Um, you see she'll be doing something that will help the girls to stop thinking I'm a complete pervert."
Ranma's gaze flattened, not liking her tone one bit. "Why do I feel that I'm not going to like how she did that?"
Akane blushed deep red. "She took pictures and taped us last night and has already started to sell them."
Ranma gasped. "Last night? Sell them? You knew?!"
Akane nodded. "It comes with an explanation of why we did what we did on Happosai's tape. The tape should help counter our lesbian image."
Ranma blinked. "OUR lesbian image?"
Akane tried to giggle. "Well, some of the girls at school think we've only made love as girls."
Ranma groaned. "That's stupid."
Akane nodded. "Maybe, but that's what they think."
"Sometimes it doesn't pay to wake up," Ranma bemoaned.
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When Ranma and Akane arrived at school, they saw that Kuno was shaking with rage.
Kuno waved his bokken threateningly. "It... it wasn't enough to send my loves to depths of depravity nor to strip me naked and dump me like some foul refuse, but for you to have befouled the very bed of Tendo Akane as well- I SHALL SMITE THEE!!!!"
Akane giggled remembering what Ranma's Hiryu Shuten Ha did to the deluded fool.
Ranma dodged Kuno's attacks with careless abandon. "I sleep with Akane because we love each other and want to be together. If she didn't want me there, I'd still be in the guestroom. Don't know what you're talkin' about leavin' you naked though."
"I will not listen to your heinous lies. Die foul cretin." Kuno continued to swing his wooden weapon.
"Stop livin' in a dream world and ya might actually get somewhere with a girl without havin' to pay for her time." Ranma decided to try out his new trick. He poked the ground right underneath the samurai.
Kuno flew a few a meters from the explosion and took a nap.
"Thought that was Ryoga's trick," Hiroshi commented.
"Sure was." Daisuke nodded.
"Think it'll piss off the lost boy?" Hiroshi questioned.
Daisuke grinned. "Most definitely."
"How long do you think it'll be before he shows up again?" Hiroshi wondered.
Daisuke thought for a second. "It's been almost a week, so any time now. Probably will be around to give us lunch entertainment, after school at worst."
Hiroshi shrugged. "I think I'll just watch 'Anything Goes Carnal Martial Arts 2 - Akane verses male Ranma."
"You got one?!" Daisuke chirped in surprise.
Hiroshi lifted his book bag. "Got it right here."
Daisuke drooled a bit. "Cool! We can watch it at my place. Mom's out visiting Sis at college."
Hiroshi nodded. "Sounds like a plan to me."
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Akane wasn't looking forward to this. Changing for gym used to not be a problem, but the questioning stares of her classmates were making her nervous. At least they weren't the accusing glares from yesterday. She tried to ignore them and began to change while facing the wall.
"Akane, can I, ah, ask you something?" one girl asked.
Akane gulped. "Um, sure."
"Is it true that you and Ranma were under the effects of something that panty thief did?" the girl asked.
Akane nodded, blushing slightly.
"You didn't have a choice but to make love to Ranma like that?" the girl pressed.
Akane nodded. "I can't believe how horny I felt that night. I would've had sex with anyone. Even the old lech."
The girls shuddered.
"Did you have to screw Ranma as a girl though?" another girl asked.
"I needed to make love, and the old lech made it so Ranma couldn't perform as a guy. I'd rather have sex with him as a girl than not have him enjoy it at all," Akane pointed out.
"So which do you prefer, Ranma as a guy or a girl?" a different girl questioned.
Akane's face was deep red. "As a guy, of course. I can't describe what it feels like with him inside me."
"Should we be expecting an addition to your family soon?" a girl asked excitedly.
Akane shook her head. "I've been using protection, but Mother Saotome might add to it soon."
"Any tips?" yet another girl wondered.
Akane grimaced. At least she wasn't seen as a traitor now, but this was very embarrassing.
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Akane grumbled, returning home from her morning jog. She didn't look happy; actually, she looked like she had gone through a weed whacker. She stomped into the kitchen to get a first aid kit.
Nodoka looked at Akane in surprise, noticing the numerous cuts she had. "What happened?"
"Kodachi just won't take a hint," Akane said bitterly.
Nodoka had found Ranma's ability to attract suitors rather manly, but she really wished he hadn't picked up suitors that were so stubborn. "Do you have any ideas of how to stop her?"
"None. I've even broken her nose before and she's still won't stop!" Akane spat out angrily. "She and her idiotic brother just won't see reality. They think just because they're descendants from some high, rich nobility they can push everyone around, that they are inherently better. I would've of thought by now they'd realize that money and ancestry meant nothing to Ranma and me. Pounding them into paste only seems to encourage them."
Nodoka frowned, but then smiled a little at an idea. "You said that they feel superior because of their ancestry, right?"
Akane nodded, applying antiseptic to several of her wounds.
"They value the old ways and are committed into honoring them," Nodoka continued.
"Pretty much." Akane winced from treating her wounds. "Except they have the tendency to warp it to their already warped view."
Nodoka nodded. "Well, we just have to spell it out to them in a way that they can't warp it and entrench it into that which makes them feel superior, honoring the old ways."
Akane looked at Nodoka and hoped that, whatever her plan was, it would work. She went back to fixing up her wounds.
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In the middle of the Tendo dojo sat Akane, Soun, Nodoka, Genma, and Ranma. Across from them were Kuno and Kodachi. To the side of the room sat Nabiki.
Nodoka frowned. She had wished Principal Kuno would've been here, but as Ranma and Akane had guessed- he didn't bother to show up. She cleared her voice as she began, "All of our families are traditional, with customs dating back to feudal Japan or earlier. We all respect honor and customs of the past, and hold family dear to our hearts."
Kuno scoffed at the idea of Ranma honoring anything.
Nodoka continued, "And, it has come to my attention that Tatewaki and Kodachi have made their intentions clear that they wish to pursue a relationship with Akane and Ranma. While your interests flatter them, they are not free to pursue such relationships. They have been engaged in accordance to feudal customs. For them not to marry would mar their family names. Any interference on the part of the Kuno clan or any further show of intent to pursue a relationship will not be tolerated."
"I cannot allow that vile cur to wed the fair Tendo Akane!" Kuno protested.
"It is not your right to interfere. This is a matter of the Tendo and Saotome clans. And let it also be known that by insulting Saotome Ranma, you insult all of the Saotome clan. Since the Tendo clan is bound by promise and intent to join together through marriage, an insult to the Saotome clan is an insult to the Tendo clan. An insult to the Tendo clan is an insult to Tendo Akane. By calling Ranma a vile cur, you've called all of us a vile cur," Nodoka intoned.
Kuno blinked and said nothing.
Kodachi could care less about what they were saying.
Nodoka gazed at them firmly. "The actions of Kuno Tatewaki at the attempted wedding ceremony can be seen as provocation of war between our clans, as could other acts that have been committed by your family members. The Saotome and Tendo Clans will no longer tolerate any hostility towards any of their members nor attempts to nullify the agreement to join our families by the Kuno clan. Any action committed will be seen as declaration of war and both of our families will be forced to react in kind.
"If the Kuno clan incites war, we will be required to raise all resources to fight you. You do not wish for us to do this. We have within our means to freeze all the assets of the Kuno clan, have members of your family arrested for various, documented crimes, and to martial a force of a minimum of four master level martial artists trained in multiple disciplines. At least two of the martial artists have within their capability of leveling the Kuno estate in a matter of minutes."
"But how can I allow Tendo Akane to be forced into a loveless marriage?" Kuno asked.
Akane answered, "The marriage would NOT be loveless. I have come to be in love with Ranma since his arrival."
"What do you have to say about this shameful engagement, Ranma-sama?" Kodachi asked.
"I, too, have come to love Akane since I have arrived here. I fully intend to marry her. I would intend to marry her even without it being arranged between our families," Ranma answered.
"I ask that the Kuno clan be allowed to challenge the agreement. That we shall offer up two champions, while your clans do the same. If we win this challenge, the agreement is declared null and void," Kuno said, hoping for a final chance to save his 'love'.
Nodoka replied, "We shall accept on the conditions that no further challenges can be made by the Kuno clan in regards to the engagement and any results generated by the engagement or this agreement. Also no further advances will be made towards the one you refer to as the 'pig-tailed girl.' ANY attempts to undermine the engagement, this agreement, or to assault on any member of our clans made by a member of the Kuno clan or anyone acting in accordance to the wishes of a member of the Kuno clan will be considered the final declaration of war. The challenge is to take place here in fifteen minutes."
Kuno was a little unnerved that he'd lose both his loves if he lost, but was confident in his ability and had some confidence in Kodachi's ability that they would win. "Agreed. I name myself and my sister, Kodachi, as the champions of the Kuno clan."
Kodachi nodded.
Nodoka said. "As champion for the Tendo clan, I name Tendo Akane, and for the Saotome clan, I name Saotome Ranma."
As the combatants prepared, Nabiki had everyone in the dojo sign a contract verifying the challenge. She then brought in several people to witness the fight, after they paid an admission fee.
When the fifteen minutes were up, Kodachi faced Akane and Ranma stood across from Kuno.
Nodoka signaled to begin the fight.
Kodachi let loose her ribbon. "This will be a short battle, and my darling Ranma-sama shall be free!"
Kuno charged. "I shall finally free my loves!"
Ranma dodged Kuno's attacks, and with a fierce kick of his own sent Kuno into the wall.
"Akane HA!" Akane shouted, sending Kodachi through the wall with a red chi blast.
Ranma blinked at the damage. "What emotion did you use?"
"I used my love for you," Akane replied, smiling, before barely dodging to the side of a razor hoop that sliced into the sleeve of her gi top and embedded itself to the wall behind her.
Kuno merely snarled as he attacked; he did not want to accidentally insult Ranma, realizing he would also insults Akane while the engagement was in place.
"Oh really?" Ranma dodged as Kuno struck at him. "Akaneken!" He punched the kendo master through the wall and into the stone fence surrounding the Tendo property. "Cool."
Kodachi charged with spiked clubs. Akane grabbed the Black Rose by her wrist and used her momentum to throw her across the dojo, where she landed headfirst.
Kuno charged back towards the dojo. "Ikazuchi Ha!" Ranma shouted, leaping into a jump kick with chi flaring around his foot. The Blue Thunder was sent through the stone fence and into the wall fence across the street. He wasn't the least bit conscious.
As Kodachi moved to get up, Akane brought down her full weight and chi-enhanced her punch to Kodachi's shoulder. Kodachi collapsed back onto the ground, and the pain caused her to black out.
Ranma carried Kuno back to the dojo and dropped him next to Kodachi.
"Cute, Ranma. 'Thunder strike' to take out the 'blue thunder,'" Akane commented.
Nabiki collected on her bets and had everyone there sign that they witnessed that the Kuno sibling had been defeated in the challenge.
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Author's notes
Thanks to Free Mage and Michael Chase for reading the original version of this and to everyone who has sent comments and critism.
I am making Nekoken my current priority, and will hopefully have this series completed by Christmas as there will be one or two chapters remaining. This is the last of the reposts for now as the only other stories I've worked on are rather incomplete. 'It Wasn't a Dream' may get posted if I get around to finishing that story, other's that failed to make it past the first chapter were more detail story ideas than a series and much like 'The Insanity Continues' and 'Life of Chaos' are unlikely to ever be finished.