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By: Dyne <paradised@yahoo.com>
Omake

Extra Epilogue Scene: The First Day of School
"Furinkan High is really a very nice school," Akane explained
as she led Kohei, Miki, and Aremi onto the grounds for their first day
as full-time students. They had already drawn some attention when
people began to notice that she and Kohei were holding hands, but the
two Amazon girls were drawing even more attention as any and every
guy they passed became attracted to them immediately. What Akane
felt most glad of all, was that she was now able to attend school every
day without interference of any kind. Sadly, she was wrong.
"Oh, the lovely Tendo Akane," Kuno's voice as he came
running towards them, "I have missed you ever so much!" He stopped
when he saw that her hand was clasped with her fiancé's, "I see that the
foul Ikimono has returned and placed you under his spell after Saotome
deserted you."
"Kuno-sempai!" Akane exclaimed in disbelief, "You
graduated! What are you still doing here?"
"The Blue Thunder can never leave Furinkan while evil still
lurks within its halls!"
Kohei released his grip on Akane's hand as he stepped forward
and entered his stance, "Ranma was right about you, conceited
swordsman, you have yet to learn humility at the hands of a fighter
more skilled than you. Compared those who I have recently fought,
this victory will feel almost trivial."
"We shall see. For I have been in heavy training and
meditation ever since our last meeting and have grown much more
powerful!" With that declaration, he drew his bokken and the two of
them prepared to enter their duel.
"Wait!" Aremi interrupted as she ran in between the two men.
"Such a beautiful woman..." Kuno nearly stared, "I'm afraid
that I've neglected your gift for today. But I see that he has also cast a
spell over you and that lovely green-haired girl as well."
"You've got it all wrong," she shook her head, "Mi-chan is
Ko-chan's younger sister and I've known both of them since we were
children. He has given Akane-sempai his heart and she has accepted.
He hasn't cast any spells or used any sorcery on any of us."
"I see that he has hypnotized you into spouting these lies."
Miki tapped Akane's shoulder and whispered, "Is this guy
always like this?"
"Unfortunately, yes," the short-haired girl sighed.
"You aren't listening!" Aremi chided.
"It will do no good, Are-chan," Kohei told her, "he refuses to
allow anything in the world that doesn't fulfill his desires to pass."
"I see," she turned to face her childhood friend, "may I take
this fight?"
"You won't break a sweat," he smiled.
Aremi turned back towards Kuno and declared, "As a fellow
user of the sword, I shall fight in Ko-chan's place."
Kuno broke out into laughter, "A woman kendoist? To
challenge Kuno Tatewaki with the sword is to surrender before you
begin!"
"We shall see," Aremi spoke calmly but confidently as her
face took on its battle expression and she threw off her school uniform,
revealing her normal blue combat dress underneath. Her weapon stood
ready at her waist as always, "I won't even unsheathe my blade."
Several seconds passed without incident while Kuno stayed in
his own stance while Aremi didn't appear to even enter a fighting
stance at all. She simply stood there.
"Even for a ravishing woman you are foolish to leave yourself
open!" Kuno charged forward to deliver a single finishing blow in the
form of a thrust. Aremi's expression didn't change as she simply leapt
atop the wooden sword.
"Your attack is too predictable," she advised.
"Silence! Kuno is a kendo master!" He prepared to throw her
aside, but she acted first.
Akane had never seen Aremi fight with a sword before, but
what she did see now was nothing short of impressive. The long blue-
haired girl appeared to strike from all possible directions at once as her
speed easily confused her opponent. She stood true to her word and
fought with her sword while it was still in its scabbard. As soon as her
assault was complete, she leapt a few meters to the side and landed in
the same stance she had started in. She didn't even bother to turn
around as, with a motion of her hand, Kuno fell to the ground.
"Now he can't deny that he was defeated in a kendo match,"
Akane looked over the bruised and beaten Blue Thunder, "there are too
many witnesses this time."
"Akane-onee-chan," Miki asked, "what are you talking
about?"
"Over a year ago there was a rumor that he lost to a junior
high student who had been transferred here by mistake. But nobody
actually saw the match."
"I should have warned him," Kohei obviously didn't show any
pity as he simply stepped over the man he had no respect for, "to
challenge Aremi with the sword is to dig your own grave before you
begin."
Akane looked up and blinked, "You're serious?"
"I am. Are-chan is at her best when she wields a sword. From
the day she perfected her style, nobody has ever beaten her with a
blade. The blood of her father is strong."
"Ko-chan, you're too kind," Aremi, who had already put her
uniform back on, smiled.
"But it's the truth," Miki insisted.
"They're right," Akane nodded, "you'll be the new captain in
no time if you join the Kendo Club."
The four of them continued towards the school and nearly
reached the inside of the building before they were interrupted a second
time.
"Good morning, everyone!" Ukyo called as she and Ranma
caught up with them.
"Why's Kuno lying there?" Ranma asked, "Did we miss
something?"
The group of four who had arrived first simply looked at each
other and broke out laughing.


Alternate Ending 1
(Change begins right as Kohei steps behind the hut to cure his
curse)

"What's he doing?" Ranma asked as Kohei had just announced
that he had one final matter to attend to before leaving China and
stepped behind their rented hut, "I thought he wanted to leave right
away."
"Be patient, Ranma," Akane rebuked him, "if he wants to say
good-bye to his homeland we should let him."
The seven young men and women spent the next minute
conversing amongst themselves on other topics before they heard a
loud shriek of surprise come from the direction where he had gone.
"Kohei!" Everyone shouted (or with the individual variances
of his name that some of them used) as they scrambled away from the
two boats and towards the sound of the cry. What they found was more
than enough to put all seven into a state of shock. Kohei, whose height
was reduced by a few inches, eyes were wider, and body size smaller
and more rounded in certain places, stood there with head hung.
"Somebody mislabeled this vial," she sighed.


Alternate Ending 2
(Change begins during the three days while Kohei watches
over Akane)

Before Shampoo could draw back the curtain to check on
Akane and Kohei, she was surprised to see her cousin come out of the
room first and looking very dejected.
"Kohei," she asked as he walked by without saying anything,
"what happened?"
"Xian Pu," he spoke very quietly, "please gather everyone. I
have terrible news to deliver," and sat down on one of the now-empty
beds, resting his elbows on his knees and his hands in his face.
Shampoo already knew that he wanted to weep alone, but she
could never have imagined what was troubling him so. Nevertheless,
she obeyed his request and gathered Mousse from the hot springs and
Ranma, Miki, Ukyo, and Aremi from the training field. It wasn't until
the six of them returned did Kohei open his mouth and explain.
"Hashin claimed a piece of victory in our final battle after all,"
he stated bluntly, having removed his hands from his eyes but not
looking up, "Akane-san is dead."
After the initial gasps from the reaction of the announcement
were delivered, several minutes of profound silence passed as they
were able to fully absorb the bad news. Ranma was the first to break
out of shock and speak up.
"What happened?" he demanded as he angrily rushed up in
front of the younger man.
"She stopped breathing over an hour ago. Her little remaining
life energy after protecting me from the Shishi Hokodan was so busy
trying to keep her alive that it couldn't replenish itself. I did all I could
to breathe for her and keep her alive, but it wasn't enough. After failing
to revive her after the full hour I realized that even if I did succeed, her
brain would have been so badly damaged that it would have been
impossible for her to return to living normally. I then made the hardest
decision of my life and said good bye. I'm so sorry everyone..." he said
nothing more as his head fell even lower. The only audible sounds for
the next several minutes were those of his sister as she sobbed into
Aremi's chest.
"It wasn't your fault," Ranma, who was angry, but now
understanding, assured.
"Ranma's right," Mousse agreed, "you did what you felt was
best for Akane."
"And from the look on her face when she fell into
unconsciousness, she didn't regret what she did," Ukyo added.
"I feel like a murderer," Kohei shook his head.
"That's not true!" Miki released her grip from her friend and
ran over to him, "You weren't the one who fired that Shishi Hokodan!
You weren't the one who destroyed our village and killed our parents!
You did everything you could to keep her alive, and while her soul is
needed in the heavens, you still weren't the one to kill her!"
"Miki..."
"Mi-chan would never lie to you," Aremi sat next to him,
"You feel as though you were responsible because her life was placed
in your hands and you decided to let her go so she wouldn't be
miserable. You're still an honorable man, Ko-chan, and Akane-sempai
wouldn't want to hear you talk this way."
"Listen from experience," Ranma tried to fake a grin to add a
little humor, "you never felt her mallet."
"Actually... I did," he chuckled a little, but it soon faded.
Nobody knew what else to say for another few seconds.
"Can we see her?" Shampoo asked. The green-haired man
only nodded.
One at a time, everyone from their group entered the room
where Akane lay covered with her blanket, never to awaken again in
this mortal life. Once they had paid their condolences and spent the
days in mourning before and after she was buried, Kohei soon gathered
everyone again to make another important announcement.
"Ranma and Ukyo-san," he asked, "when do you plan on
returning to Japan?"
"Well," Ukyo thought for a moment, "it'll take about another
week to get everything together and help rebuild the village a little."
"Why do you want to know?" Ranma questioned.
"Akane-san's life was in my hands," he stated, "it is my duty to
deliver the news to her father. And as for Ryuchiezu, I have left a curse
upon it that can only be undone if I leave. Therefore I will never return
here again."
"What are you thinking!" Ranma shouted, "What about your
sister!"
"What about me?" Miki asked, "I'm going with him."
"And if they go, I go," Aremi added.
"You're not leaving us behind," Shampoo placed her hands on
her hips, "Mousse and I will go too."
Mousse folded in arms and nodded in agreement, "Shampoo
took the words right out of my mouth."
"Then it's settled," Kohei announced, "we'll all leave with the
two of you at the end of this week."

(The incident at Nyuchiezu remains completely unchanged.)

Late in the night, Kohei found himself sitting by the bank of
the river he and Aremi had set up camp next to. That night was the first
full moon since the battle with Hashin and he found himself unable to
sleep. The only audible sounds in the area were the constant plops of
the rocks that he threw into the water after having shattered a larger
boulder with the Bakusai Tenketsu. He didn't know how she knew, but
after about a half-hour of this, Aremi came out of her tent to join him.
"Ko-chan," she inquired caringly, "can't you sleep?"
The older man simply shook his head and threw another rock
into the river.
"Your eyes are so red and bloodshot," she observed, "have you
slept at all since we left Xian Pu's village?"
"Not much," he answered, "I've been spending the recent
nights deep in thought."
"You're still mourning Akane-sempai's death?"
"No. I was able to find peace soon after allowing her to rest.
Three nights after she died, she appeared to me in a dream and told me
she was about to enter the spirit world. I didn't know exactly what she
meant but she said that's where all of our spirits go when we die and
that her mother had been the one waiting to escort her there. She said
that she'd been watching over me those three days and told me that I
had done the right thing. As she disappeared, she also told me that
there was someone who I could share my love with as much as I
wanted to with her. That final statement has been the great weight on
my mind these recent weeks. It wasn't until we were leaving Xian Pu's
village did the meaning of that statement ring clear in my mind."
"What did you find out?" she smiled.
Kohei looked into the eyes of his childhood friend and
returned her happy expression as he told her, "Are-chan, I don't want to
make you wait any longer. I knew about Grandfather's arrangement for
you to become my bride last year and how you rejected it in order to
allow me to make my own decision. I've decided."
Aremi's permanent smile remained in place as a red tinge
appeared on her cheeks and she asked in disbelief, "Ko-chan, you
mean...?" she couldn't finish.
"Yes," he reached into his pouch and produced a small box
that contained a gold ring with a dragon engraved along the band, "will
you be the one to grant me the honor of becoming my bride?"
Aremi didn't hesitate as she answered, "Of course, you would
never have to ask me twice," and lifted her left hand. While Kohei
slipped the ring onto her finger and she gave him a long, loving hug, he
thought, {Akane-san, I now understand what you meant. Even though
you would have been my first choice to ask to be my bride, I feel that
Are-chan and I will reach the level of love and understanding for each
other that I'd prayed we would have achieved. I'll never forget you,
Akane-san.}
As Kohei held his future bride while she slept, using his chest
as her pillow, he failed to notice the spirits of six people standing
around them. The two sets of parents and a mother with her youngest
daughter all smiled.

Kohei and Aremi met up with Ranma's group the next day and
soon arrived in Nerima after another few weeks of travelling. They
were married right away and lived together in the attic of the
Nekohanten. Soun did not take the news of Akane's death well, but
while his wife's passing had changed something in him, so did the
passing of his youngest daughter. After several weeks, he was able to
forgive Kohei and understand that Akane had gone to China, knowing
that she would possibly never return alive, on her own free will. As a
token of his forgiveness and for the sake of the daughter he feels that
he'd forced something she didn't want onto her, he renounced the
promise with Genma and gave the Tendo dojo to Kohei and Aremi for
a wedding present. Genma was infuriated, but Soun with his devil-
head and Nodoka with her katana soon changed his mind, knowing that
Dr. Tofu probably wouldn't have taken the school anyway. In his
honor, they kept the name of the Tendo School of Martial Arts but
taught their students in the Ikimono family style. Not long after their
first-year anniversary did Aremi give birth to a daughter with the
sapphire blue hair of her mother and the ocean-blue eyes of her father.
They had no hesitation in naming her Ikimono Akane.