Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Results ❯ Resolutions ( Chapter 6 )

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Results
By: Dyne <paradised@yahoo.com>
Epilogue
Resolutions

{That was all six years ago now,} Ukyo thought happily as
she prepared the batter to make an okonomiyaki for two hungry people
who would be sharing it together. The days had passed all too quickly
since that group of eight returned from China and got their lives back in
order. She, Ranma, and Akane had to work themselves to the bones to
catch up in all of their schoolwork and all three of them barely
managed to squeak by and pass their classes. While this didn't give
them very much time for their social lives, it gave Kohei, Miki, and
Aremi some much-needed time to adjust to living in such a modern
country. All three of them, despite Kohei's having been in Japan
before, were most impressed with hot, running water, thinking it was
the greatest idea in the modern world.
During this same time, Shampoo and Mousse were able to
make repairs on and re-open the Nekohanten. They insisted that their
two cousins and Aremi live with them. Because living there would also
give them jobs, they accepted. They also kept themselves busy by
continuing their training and even studying for entrance exams. Kohei
had been able to enter Furinkan High last time because he was just a
visitor to the country, but now, as a legal citizen, the exams were
required. The three of them also unexpectedly became heroes when,
one day, as they were exploring the city...

<"People here are always in such a hurry," Miki commented.
"They work hard to earn the money they need to live in these
large houses," Kohei explained, "look how big they are."
"One would never see houses this big in Ryu-" Aremi began,
then stopped as she fell to her knees, trembling.
"Are-chan!" the brother and sister exclaimed, "what's wrong?"
"I feel... an enormous... overwhelming sensation of evil..." she
stammered, "much more so than Hashin..."
"Where?" Kohei asked.
"Directly inside of that house," Aremi, her arm shaking,
pointed.
"Right," Kohei nodded, "Miki, watch over her," and leapt over
the wall.
"I hope that whoever lives here will forgive me," he said to
himself as he entered into one room via an open window. Inside were
several dolls, stuffed animals, and other objects that had seemingly
come from random places, none of which Kohei knew.
"Open wide, Jean Claude," a long, browned-haired girl in a
pink dress held out a spoonful of rice to a doll. Kohei had no idea who
this girl was or what she was doing, but the evil sensation Aremi had
felt that he now picked up was coming directly from that doll of an old
man. As the girl in pink spoon-fed her doll, which surprisingly ate the
food, and its eyes widened and even blushed when she hugged him
after every bite, he called out.
"Get away from that!"
"Who are you and what are you doing in Azusa-chan's room?"
the girl turned to face him.
"This doll is evil," and, taking the initiative, Kohei grabbed the
doll from the shelf and threw it into the air.

"GENKAKU NO TAKABISHA!!!"

Utilizing the Illusory Slice and combining it with the Mouko
Takabisha, which Ranma had taught him, he was instantly able to
create the move he had used to destroy Hashin, cutting this same doll in
half.
"Get down!" Kohei tackled the girl and sheltered her from the
white explosion that rocked the house. Once it died, the girl threw him
off and began to cry.
"Waaaah! Why did you do that to Jean Claude?" she wailed.
"I'm sorry," Kohei squatted in front of her, "that doll had a
great aura of evil about it."
The girl sniffed a few times before looking up at him, then she
saw his ponytail, "Ooo! How cute! Jacques!" grabbed it, and pulled a
pair of scissors out of nowhere.
"What are you doing?" Kohei asked, shocked as he got his hair
out of her reach.
"Give me back my Jacques!" she shouted, produced a large
mallet, again from nowhere, and began to swing it erratically at him.
Back outside, Miki and Aremi blinked as they saw Kohei run
down the street and leap across the rooftops shouting, "I can't cut my
hair! It's part of my Amazon heritage!" as the girl chased him all
throughout the city.>

When the news of the incident was related to everyone and
they recognized the "doll" as the perverted martial arts master, the three
of them were loved by all in the district.
Once the Nekohanten was fully running again, Shampoo
returned to Dr. Tofu's clinic and asked if she could also continue her
training as a nurse, which he gladly accepted. She did have to take
time off, however, a few months later when she had her baby.
Everyone felt sorry for Mousse as his wife's screams of labor pains
could be heard all across Nerima and Ukyo had wondered if he would
come out that delivery room alive. But he did, and Shampoo gave birth
to a beautiful little girl with the hair of her mother and the eyes of her
father. They surprised Kohei and Miki by naming her Gel, after their
cousins' mother.
That hadn't been the only happy surprise everybody received
during that period of a few months. As they had all been gone for four
months, when they returned they learned that Kasumi was three months
pregnant. As soon as everyone was caught up with school and that
academic year began to wind down she had a boy who entirely
resembled his mother. She and Dr. Tofu named him Ono Makoto,
hoping that giving him a name associated with knowledge and wisdom
would spark his interest into maybe following the in footsteps of his
father.
Before school began the next spring, someone came running
into the Nekohanten to tell Shampoo that Mousse had been taken to the
hospital. It turned out that he had torn his muscle again as it hadn't
fully healed itself before he resumed his training. This tear, however,
required surgery. He followed the doctor's, but more so Shampoo's,
orders not to use it until it was healed. When it was, the physical
therapist suggested he get it back into shape by throwing baseballs at
targets. As luck would have it for him, scouts for one of the local
Japanese leagues caught him in his therapy and saw how good of a
pitcher he was, even though he wasn't left-handed. He soon signed a
contract and has been pitching for one of the teams since. Everyone
expected that he'd join the professional leagues within a few years,
which he did.
When school did begin, Kohei startled everyone by doing so
well in his entrance exams that he was admitted into Furinkan high as a
senior! Aremi was also admitted, but as a first-year student. Miki was
the greatest surprise as, due to her age, she should have been in junior
high, but she opted to take the exams and also passed! So she and
Aremi ended up in the same class and both of them immediately began
to draw attention from the boys. Ukyo had never known that all three
of them were so smart.
As part of the celebration for all of them getting into high
school, Akane and Ukyo took Aremi and Miki to the sea during
summer break. As they both expected, the sight of the two girls in
swimsuits drew the attention of every boy in the area, prompting those
with girlfriends to get jealous. The reaction was so strong that Aremi
was declared the winner of that year's Miss Beachside Contest hands
down.
Ukyo's final year of high school passed by much more
peacefully than others. There were still people coming after Ranma,
but he was able to take care of them with ease.
While the four of them were finishing high school, Nabiki was
getting used to her college life. She had been accepted into a well-
known business school where she studied business management and
photography. Nobody knew or even dared ask her how she was able to
afford the schooling and live on campus on her own. Because of her
previous experience, she soon became the top student in both fields.
After graduating from high school, the big day that Ukyo had
been waiting for finally arrived: hers and Ranma's wedding. But as
arrangements turned out, Kohei and Akane's wedding came first. They
hired a talented artist to create their portrait, and the finished product
was most beautiful.
Ukyo would never forget what happened that day.

<"And should anyone object to the union of this man with this
woman, speak now or forever hold your peace," the priest spoke as
Kohei and Akane stood, hands joined and staring into each others' eyes.
Their joyful moment was shattered along with the door as the one who
objected to their union stormed into the building.
"Fear not, dear Akane," Kuno declared as he raised his
bokken, "no mere locked and barred door can hold Tatewaki Kuno. I
shall smite the foul Ikimono and free thee from the hypnotic spell he
has cast upon you." Kohei's eyes became as fierce as they had looked
before he cured his curse as he broke the kendoist's bokken with a
strong kick before he could attack.
"You truly have no honor, conceited swordsman," Kohei
hadn't been this angry in a long time, "every day for almost two years
while you should have been in college, I instead found you awaiting
Ranma and me at Furinkan only to lose to one or both of us every
single time. Now you have the gall to interrupt my own wedding!"
"The Blue Thunder cannot rest until the women whose hearts
truly belong to him are freed from the black magic that has been
controlling them."
"I was told to never use this technique except only on those
whose stupidity was deeper than the ocean and sense of honor smaller
than a grain of sand," Kohei's aura was now visible to everyone, "now
that time has come!" and charged.

"[Amazon Secret Technique: The Forever Immobilizing
Attack!]"

Kohei's speed was so great that not only did it appear that he
didn't make any other movements with his arms or legs, but he looked
as if he ran right through Kuno. Once he reached the other side and
stopped, he said, "It is done."
"You missed!" Kuno taunted as he raised his half-weapon, but
everyone gasped as his arms suddenly lost their strength and fell to his
sides.
"The tide of battle has turned and is now in my favor," Kohei
declared calmly as he turned around.
"What sorcery have you cast upon me?" he demanded.
"None at all, but rather a series of pressure points on your arm
that will paralyze them."
After various people in attendance gasped again, Kohei
continued, "The paralysis will not take full effect for another five
minutes, but after that there will be no way to remove it. Until then I
am able to undo the technique, but only if you should admit the
following..."
The sounds of gasps became the sounds of laughter as a
humiliated Kuno had to submit to the following demands of admitting
all of his defeats, apologizing to him and Ranma for accusing them of
practicing black magic, admitting that he has a perverted mind and only
lusts after the girls, to burn all of the photos that Nabiki had ever sold
to him, and many more requests that Kuno would not have met under
any circumstances, even now.
"Never!" he growled as he attempted to pick up his broken
bokken, "Kuno Tatewaki is perfect! I shall overcome this vile
wickedness!"
"Then you may say good-bye to your kendo career forever,"
Kohei answered calmly.
"Kuno-sempai..." Akane spoke quietly as she approached him.
"Akane-kun," he turned to her, "this evil man has rendered me
unable to console your sadness at my loss. But nonetheless, I shall one
day win you from him."
"Get it into your head!" she burst out as her red aura appeared,
"I don't love you! I never loved you! I love Kohei and you've got a lot
of nerve to ruin our wedding!" She channeled the aura from around her
body entirely into her fist as, fueling all of her anger towards him over
the years, she punched him with such power that the connecting blow
sent him back outside the door and through several more walls and
buildings before he finally came to a stop. Ukyo guessed that he'd be
in a body cast much longer than Ranma had been after Akane punched
him during the incident with the Jewel of Reversal.
"His pride was his undoing," Kohei sighed, "he could never let
go of the past," and turned to his bride, "Aka-chan, that was the most
powerful attack I've ever seen."
"That one had been building itself up for years," she smiled,
now fully calmed down, "I'm going to confess that it felt really good."
"I fully understand how you feel," he smiled back and took her
hands as they stepped back to resume the wedding.
With no further interruptions, the two of them were
pronounced husband and wife and many tears were shed, especially by
Soun. Immediately after the wedding, Kohei moved out of the
Nekohanten's attic and into the Tendo household.>

Only two weeks passed before Ranma and Ukyo's wedding.
They had asked a different artist to create their portrait, but nonetheless,
the finished product was just as beautiful.
Because of the incident with Kuno at Kohei and Akane's
wedding, some precautions were made. Ukyo still couldn't figure out
how this had happened, but it still did.

<"Dammit!" Ranma coughed as the fog from the smoke bomb
cleared and looked up into the rafters to see Kodachi, who had grabbed
Ukyo, carried her up there, and wrapped her up in a few ribbons,
including around her neck. Ukyo's forearms were loose enough to try
and remove the ribbon wound around her windpipe and that made her
too occupied to prepare herself if the lunatic gymnast pushed her over.
"Oh Ranma-sama," Kodachi cried, "to think that she would
truly steal you from me! But in only a moment will she be taken care
of so that your heart will return to me! You will know my love for you,
Ranma-sama! Oohohohohohoho!"
Ranma knew that if he made any moves, she would kill Ukyo
in either one of the two ways right there. But it turned out that he didn't
need to do a thing at first. He blinked and dove to catch his bride when
she was dropped as a flash of blue blurred up into the rafters and all of
the ribbons binding Ukyo were cut.
"Ucchan, are you okay?" he asked.
"I'm fine," she sighed and looked at him, "perfectly fine."
The two of them looked back up to see that Aremi had landed
and already put her sword away.
"You know nothing about what it means to love somebody,"
she spoke, "to truly love someone is to think of their feelings and
respect their decisions."
"Your brother tried to interrupt my big brother's wedding!" a
younger voice shouted as Miki leapt up onto the beams, "Now you try
to ruin Ranma-onii-sama's wedding!"
The Black Rose could do nothing as her next ribbon was
caught and the now 16-year-old half-Amazon girl used her weapon to
throw her down towards the ground. Miki wasn't done, however, as
she jumped off of the rafters, aimed herself at Kodachi's chest, and
formed her body into the shape of a Y.

"TENHA RAKURUGEKI!!!"

The flaming dragon's head that appeared around Miki's legs
literally consumed Kodachi's body as the powerful kick connected with
her chest. Upon landing, Miki jumped from the unconscious girl in the
leotard and asked, pointing at her, "Are people as insane as her allowed
to live in a normal society?"
Several voices were heard as many of the guests told her,
"No."
"Then why isn't she in a hospital for people whose minds are
damaged?"
Murmurs of agreement came from all directions and, within
10 minutes, two men in white arrived to take Kodachi to the nearest
mental institution.
"Miki-chan, Aremi-chan," Ukyo smiled, "thank you."
"Yeah, thank you," Ranma added.
"After what happened to Akane-sempai and Ko-chan, we
couldn't just do nothing," Aremi replied.
"Plus I've been dying to use that technique since Xian Pu
taught it to me," Miki grinned.
After that, like the one before, the wedding ended without any
further delays or interruptions. More tears were shed, especially by
Nodoka, and Ukyo's lifelong dream came true after years of waiting.>

Only another three months passed before the next major
incident. Soun developed a disease in his bones that, although it was
treated and eventually cured, he lost the use of his right leg and was
unable to care for the Tendo School of Anything-Goes Martial Arts
from that point on. As a result, he and Genma decided that it was time
to give the Tendo dojo to its heir, "Saotome" Tofu. Ukyo still couldn't
believe what she had witnessed that day.

<"And sign here," the lawyer pointed Dr. Tofu to one last
signature line. The young doctor promptly signed and the transfer of
ownership was complete.
"Well, Tendo-kun," Genma laughed, "we finally did it!"
"Yes, Saotome-kun," Sound cried as the tears poured down his
cheeks, "the schools are finally united."
"C'mon son," Genma slapped Tofu's back, "what do you have
to say for yourself?"
Dr. Tofu pushed his glasses back onto his face as he stood up
and announced, "I am grateful that you have entrusted the care and
operation of the Tendo dojo to me and my family," he gestured to
Kasumi, who was holding Makoto in her lap. He took a deep breath
and continued, "But as I have neither the time nor the interest in
running a martial arts school, I hereby place the dojo into the capable
hands of Akane-chan and Kohei-kun."
The suddenness of the announcement definitely took everyone
by surprise as Ranma and Ukyo jumped up to congratulate their in-laws
while Kohei and Akane just stared at each other in disbelief.
"Oh my," Kasumi spoke up, "Father, are you all right?"
Everyone turned to look at Soun and Genma. Both of them
may just as well have been turned to stone. Even the waterfalls of tears
from Soun's face had stopped moving.>

The gift from Dr. Tofu had instantly secured their financial
future, but the shock it gave Genma and Soun was enough to send them
into living in a retirement home. While Akane decided to attend
college and study physical education and drama, Kohei stayed at home
to teach classes. He worked his hardest to put his wife through school,
but when time allowed they would teach classes together, training their
students in the way of Tendo Anything-Goes Martial Arts and the
Ikimono Family Style of Martial Arts. Their next surprise came from
finding out that Akane had become pregnant after they had celebrated
their inheriting the Tendo school.
During this same time, Nodoka officially gave the Saotome
School to Ranma, who immediately got to work teaching classes to put
Ukyo through her schooling. She wasn't going full-time, just to take a
few classes on business management so she would be more effective
with her okonomiyaki shop. She had moved it from Nerima and was
given permission by her husband and mother-in-law to reestablish it in
the Saotome home.
Soon after all of that had been settled, Ranma found a poor
woman who had no home in an alley one day. After buying her
something to eat, he learned that she was a skilled manga artist but had
no ideas for the plot of her introductory series and had run out of
money. She immediately gained inspiration as Ranma told her the
existence of a cursed training ground in China and how an old man and
his son had gone there to train, but only a panda and a girl came out.
Once the manga was published, an anime, several video games, and
various pieces of merchandise soon followed. The success from this
new series, drawn by the woman, whose name was R. Takahashi,
brought so much royalties that Ranma and Ukyo never had to teach any
classes at the Saotome school, but he still did for fun while she would
always give their students a free okonomiyaki. Their celebration, held
two months after the series Ranma 1/2 was introduced, and 5 months
after Kohei and Akane had inherited the Tendo dojo, soon had Ukyo
pregnant as well.
As the next nine months passed for Ukyo, she often spent time
with her mother-in-law and would go visit Akane and Shampoo's
families as often as possible. It was one day when she and Ranma were
walking with Kohei and Akane did they finally run into an old friend.

<"Have you guys seen the new Ranma 1/2 arcade game that
came out recently?" they heard one kid ask his friend.
"Yeah," the other one answered, "it's so cool. You get to use
two people at once in a tag-team match!"
"And how you can combine their attacks is awesome! Have
you used Ranma with Kohei yet? He fires a Mouko Takabisha and
Kohei absorbs into his energy sword."
"Nope, but there are some other great ones..." their voices
faded as they got out of earshot.
"I still refuse to believe you included our journey in your life
story that you sold to that artist, Ranma," Kohei spoke first, "but I must
admit, she did a wonderful job."
"That's what really happened, isn't it?" Ranma shrugged and
asked.
"I've seen that new game they were talking about," Ukyo
spoke.
"So have I and it's still unbelievable that we're all characters in
it. There's also Shampoo, Mousse, Miki-chan, Aremi-chan, Ryoga-
kun..." the name of the man who none of them hadn't seen in years
brought a question, "where is Ryoga-kun anyway?"
"Dunno," Ranma shrugged, "maybe he got so lost that he's
gone from the country."
As fate would have it, Ukyo turned her head at that moment to
see which new movies would be released at the local theater. Upon
seeing one she stopped dead and pointed.
"R-R-R..." but couldn't finish.
The rest of the three of them also looked and Ranma and
Akane dropped their jaws when they saw Hibiki Ryoga listed as the
starring role in a new movie that would be released that week.
"What the hell is going on?" Ranma asked.
"I remember him," Kohei spoke, "he was the one who guided
me to Nerima when I first came to Japan."
"Bwahahahahaha!!! How do you like that, Ranma?" came a
familiar, rough voice from behind them. The four turned to see Ryoga,
whose hair had grown longer, but still wore his bandana and had his
arm around Akari, who was holding the hand of a two-year-old girl.
The little one also wore a bandana and her hair was the same shade as
her father's and she had the eyes and face of her mother.
"Jeez, Ryoga," Ranma piped up, "where've you been?"
After everyone greeted each other and new introductions were
made, they learned that Ryoga and Akari were married right after the
four had left for China and their daughter was named Naoki. Ranma
immediately guessed that her name meant "straight" in hopes that she
would avoid the curse her father had about lack of sense of direction.
He was right.
"So anyway," Ranma said again after he dodged the punch,
"what's up with that poster?"
"My first movie went a little too far when I accidentally put
Jackie Chan in the hospital," he muttered, "but the producers loved it so
much that they decided to cast me as the good guy in their next movie.
But because of... complications, it wasn't finished until last month.">

All of them had spent of joyful reunion together and they
promised to meet together as often as possible. More time passed and
Akane gave birth to her and Kohei's first child. A baby boy with his
father's hair and mother's eyes who, despite his namesake's protests,
was named Ranma. Right after that did Miki and Aremi graduate from
high school. They impressed everybody by not only getting accepted
into college, but into Tokyo University on the first try! Aremi had said
she felt bad that they had seen two people, a boy and a girl, fail their
exams and she ran away crying while he followed after her,
apologizing for breaking a promise they had made to get in together.
Another four months later, Ukyo's turn came and she gave
birth to-
"Ucchan!" Ranma called between his fits of laughter, "Is their
lunch ready yet?"
"Yes, Ranchan," she smiled as she lifted the now-complete
okonomiyaki onto a plate and called as she cut it in half, "Ranko! Ken!
Stop tickling your father, it's lunchtime!"
"Oh boy, okonomiyaki!" her little 3-year-old boy, Saotome
Ken, shouted as he came dashing into the dining room. He could have
been the exact clone of his father.
"Mama, I love your okonomiyaki!" his older, twin sister,
Ranko, exclaimed as she sat down and Ukyo gave her half of the meal.
Like her brother, she could have been an exact clone of one of her
parents, but of her mother. Ukyo smiled as Ranma walked into the
room and put his arm around her.
"Ready for this afternoon's class, Ucchan?" he asked.
"Of course," she turned to her kids, "Uncle Konatsu and
grandma will be watching over the two of you so I want you to
behave."
Nodoka had been more than willing to watch over her
grandchildren whenever the need would arise. She was given the
opportunity to name the firstborn and decided to give her the name of
Ranma's girl-half that she had admired. When she learned that Ukyo
had given birth to twins, said to her son, "Ranma, you're twice the man
I ever imagined you'd become." Of course, he didn't get it while the
two women shared a good laugh.
And Konatsu, who refused to desert his two best and only
friends, swore to always watch over and protect their children. Seeing
as they couldn't convince him otherwise, they eventually conceded.
"But I love Mama more than okonomiyaki!" Ken argued,
obviously not hearing his mother's request.
"So do I!" Ranko retorted.
Ranma grinned at his cute wife as he also said, "So do I."
Ukyo's smile couldn't have been wider as she leaned her head
on the chest of the man she had loved her whole life and a tear of
happiness formed in her eye.



Author's Notes
Prologue
-Not really much to say about the prologue. Just explaining
what's been going on during the year after Choices.
-I couldn't find a good spot for Ryoga in this story, so he'll be
sitting out for most of it.
-Thought I should mention that while most of this story is
based on events happening in the anime, the battle between Ranma and
Saffron (which is only in the manga) still happened. Other things, like
the failed wedding attempt between Ranma and Akane, and Nodoka's
finding out about Ranma's curse in the manga (she found out a different
way in Choices), did not happen.

Part 1
-Just like in Choices, each part will have a separate cameo,
either from an anime or from real-life.
-Even though this is a serious fanfic, I definitely have to
include the occasional Ranma 1/2 humor.
-When Kohei mutters, "They never mentioned anything about
Akane-san being involved," he's talking about the Phoenix people.
-Every part will have at least one character's reflections on the
past so we know what happens to everyone.
-Remember that midair combat is a Saotome school specialty.
-If you don't know my writing style when it comes to special
attacks. One line separating two attacks means they are used in that
order. But if there is no blank line between them, they are used at the
same time.
-To follow the traditional Amazon names in the series, Kohei's
mother's name in anything but Chinese is Gel.
-In case it wasn't explained obvously enough in Kohei's
flashback, he knows the Amaguriken and Bakusai Tenketsu because
he's half-Amazon and his mother taught them to him.
-Why does Hashin have a Japanese name and speak Chinese?
That will be explained in Part 4.

Part 2
-Originally I was going to have Kohei wait to give Ranma the
Nannichuan water, but changing that allowed the extra scene with
Ryoga.
-I got nothing against the cameo for this chapter, Jackie Chan.
That was inspired by both a friend and another fic where Ryoga
wandered onto Jackie's set numerous times during filming and wasn't
officially cast.
-I strongly feel that Soun and Genma not only didn't care
about Ranma and Akane's feelings about the engagement, but I also
think that they became so obsessed with it that they forgot their reason
for engaging them.
-If you haven't noticed it yet, the one whose picture I recolored
to look like Kohei is Tamahome from Fushigi Yuugi. The two of them
could be twins.
-In Japan, wives often call their husbands "Anata," which is
really just "you."
-Remember from Choices that Ukyo insisted Nodoka call her
Ucchan if she called her Auntie Nodoka.
-The Hiryu Korin Dan is the move that Ranma used to beat
Herb. He leaps into the whirlwind and comes back down with a punch
containing the wind's power.

Part 3
-I based Shampoo's original hair length on official manga
artworks by Takahashi-sama. In those, Shampoo's hair is much longer.
-The Kiss of Death only being allowed to be exchanged by
members of the same sex is my interpretation of Amazon law (think of
when Shampoo first kisses Ranma when he beats her as a male).
-Don't forget that before Ranma developed the Mouko
Takabisha, he was trying to copy Ryoga and master the Shishi
Hokodan (which the Mouko Takabisha is the reverse of).
-Shampoo's father appears in the manga and even in one of the
video games (for PC-Engine, I think).
-Remember that this fanfic is a sequel to my other Ranma 1/2
fanfic, Choices. So read it if you haven't to understand everything that
happens here.
-Ranma and Shampoo's reminiscings come from various
Anime episodes.
-As mentioned in the prologue, Ukyo started living like a girl
again. And since she hadn't known about the hot springs, she didn't
have her swimsuit to wear under her towel. So she just wore her
underpants.
-Before you begin flaming me or thinking of any hentai
thoughts about the part between Kohei and Miki in the hot springs,
remember the circumstances in which they were raised.
-If you haven't noticed this yet, but I use the words "ki" and
"chi" based on whose point of view it is in the scene. They both mean
the same thing, but are the Japanese and Chinese words, respectively.
-Chun Li is my 2nd favorite character from Street Fighter, I
couldn't resist making her the cameo because of her lightning kicks.

Part 4
-That was definitely the best way to bring Ryoga back into the
story for a little bit.
-Kohei knows Kuno's name (how could he not?), but feels that
he's so without honor that he doesn't deserve to be called by name, so
he refers to him as "the conceited swordsman."
-How would Kohei know how to replace a dislocated
shoulder? Simple, he's had plenty of practice throughout his life
treating his and others injuries during training.
-Yes, I looked it up. Amatsu Mikaboshi is, in Japanese
mythology, the god of evil.
-Whenever Aremi refers to herself, Miki, and Kohei as a
whole, she'll use the average of their three ages (which is hers). So
when she was saying, "When we were 12," she had been 12, Miki 10,
and Kohei 14.
-Ranma hoping that the explosion when Hashin died wouldn't
eventually blind him is a reference to another fic where Saffron's attack
does blind him.
-The colors of Ukyo's dresses are a tribute to the very
enjoyable fanfic series, Mamono Hunter Ukyou.
-Yes, Shampoo had underwear on beneath her clothes when
she found Mousse. So don't be getting any hentai thoughts, you
perverts!
-Even though it's not specifically mentioned in the story,
Kohei is a year younger than the rest of the main Ranma 1/2 crew,
including Akane.
-In Part 1, during Kohei's flashback, he said that Shinji was
nearly starved while on his training journey. How could he have been
so exhausted when arriving at Nyuchiezu when the two villages were
so close to each other? Simple, he was on his was back home, not just
leaving.
-I spent days preparing Kohei's argument before the village
council and, based entirely on my interpretation of Amazon law (if it's
correct), Shampoo was never engaged to Ranma.
-Kohei's grandfather took Aremi in as his granddaughter, but
never formally adopted her (for the reason that he thought she would be
Kohei's future bride). Nonetheless, Aremi formally adopted him.
-To find out Aremi's real name, visit the Kohei/Miki/Aremi
shrine at my website. http://www.crosswinds.net/~gunarm_dyne
-Cameo: Son Goku from the Dragonball series. He'd messed
up with his teleportation, folded time and space, and ended up in
Ryuchiezu for a few days before he figured out how to correct it and
return to his earth.
-If you think about it, by the time everyone's married,
everyone will be related to each other. Ranma was already Akane's
brother-in-law, Ukyo becomes her sister-in-law, Kohei becomes her
husband, bringing Miki in as another sister-in-law, Shampoo and
Mousse as cousins-in-law, and Aremi as a distant cousin-in-law whose
roots go much farther back.

Epilogue
-No, Takahashi-sama did not start her career that way. She'd
already written two of her megahit series, Urusei Yatsura and Maison
Ikkoku, before she developed Ranma 1/2.
-Miki and Aremi getting into Tokyo U was just so I could
sneak Keitaro and Naru (from Love Hina) in as cameos.
-The gist of this epilogue is that everyone gets what I feel they
deserve.

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