Ranma Fanfiction: Meeting Later 16

Rolling her eyes as Ranma showed off by tipping over to rest on his head, his back against the wall as he slipped both his shoes onto his feet at the same time, Akane moved for the front gate. She just opened it when she heard an “ack” from behind her.

”Forgot my homework,” Ranma said embarrassed, reversing direction. Rather than remove his shoes to enter the house again, he overturned again, quickly running inside and up the stairs on his hands.

”I’m not waiting forever!” Akane called back, shaking her head.

”Did I ever make you wait?”

The accented voice behind her made Akane spin around, taking a ready stance. The sight of the young chinese man in exotic clothes, casually standing in the road plummeted her mood as memories flooded through her.

”What do you want, Baka?”

Wincing, Taro stood more formally and gave a short bow. “I was travelling around China looking for anything that might convince your master to change my name to one of my choosing, but things kept reminding me of you.”

Snorting in disgust at his words, Akane glared at him for a long moment, eyes tracing over all the traits she found attractive when dating him, now unbiasedly viewing them as undesirable or not measuring up to her fiancé.

Taking hope in her eyes looking over him, Taro swallowed his pride and took a knee, flourishing a bouquet of flowers from behind his back. “I was a fool and a jerk. I had to lose you to realise how much you meant to me.”

Despite herself, Akane’s cheek pinked in the chill morning air as the jerk who had played her and cast her aside for his pride, apologised and said words that pulled at old wounds. Her brown eyes focused on the flowers he held if only to not look at her ex boyfriend’s face, part of her wondering how two boys in two days got her such beautiful and out of season wild orchids.

”Grandfather isn’t here, so go away.”

”But Akane,” Taro began, going down on both knees, a display of humility she didn’t expect of him, her mind unable to see Ranma do such the same way. She briefly wondered if he was doing this to play to her sympathies, she wasn’t moved but she was distracted enough that he managed to grab her hand.

The contact surprised her, it nothing special but her body was apparently recalled Ranma’s touch making her shiver.

”Akane, you know we were good together.”

With a flick of her wrist, Akane pressed his hand back with pressure on his wrist, making him hiss in pain. She was about to tell him to leave again when her fiancé darted out of the gate.

Racing to catch up to his fiancé, Ranma had to skid coming out of the gate finding her standing there. His smile fell as he found yet another guy on his knees offering flowers to his fiancé. His mood dropped in recognition.

”What the hell do you want Pantyhose?”

Ranma’s scorn made the older foreigner flush, worse realising he was in such a submissive position. Failing an attempt to break Akane’s wristlock, Taro still managed to get to his feet. ”I’ve got more right to be here than you, Femboy.”

Akane twisted her grip, “That isn’t your name to answer to, Baka.”

Smirking at his former opponent still caught by Akane but trying to look in control, Ranma looked quizzically to Akane. “You know this jackass Akane? Or did he deny his name was Pantyhose to you?”

Finally slipping out of Akane’s grip, the Chinese traveller gave Akane a warning glare that was met with a vicious smile from the Japanese young woman.

”His name was Pantyhose Taro, but I had Grandfather change it months ago. His name is ‘Ecchi-Baka’ Taro now, because he was a perverted idiot!”

The anger filled words of his ex-girlfriend still hit him like blows despite the time that had passed, but Ranma laughing out loud stoked his shame and embarrassment into anger.

”Nice choice Akane, what’d he do to piss you off?”

Akane frowned at her fiance’s choice of language, Akane shrugged. “He used me to get his name changed by Happosai.”

”Hey, Happosai told me to ask you out, I never did it to hurt you.”

”Woah, hold up,” Ranma stated, his voice deepening. “You mean you dated this jerk? This was your ex boyfriend?”

Akane got a slight thrill at the obvious anger and jealousy in Ranma’s voice, but surpressed it to glare at him. “I already said he tricked me, making me think he was a decent human being and not a monster.”

”Take’s one to know one,” Taro shot back, but neither of the couple cared enough to even glare at him.

Akane gave a shrug. “Besides that was before we even met, it doesn’t change the fact we’re engaged now.”

Seeing Ranma nod, Taro put together the obvious, “So you’re the one her crybaby father engaged her to. He must really think Akane didn’t like men to set her up with a transvestite.”

Akane bristled, at the insult to her man and her father, knowing the enity her father had for the Chinese young man and the history between her fiancé and ex almost palpable. “Watch your mouth, Ecchi-Baka.”

Ranma slapped is clenched hand down on his open palm. “I get it, Akane. This is why you can’t cook!”

”What?” Akane exclaimed. “How does me once dating this jerk make me a bad cook?”

”It’s obvious, you have absolutely no taste.”

”Excuse me?” Akane warned holding up a fist. “I picked you idiot!”

Ignoring the threat, warming to the subject Ranma explained. “Actually your old man made the promise. So that proves he has good taste, just like me. You just lucked out.”

Akane’s mouth fell open at his gall.

”And with his mug, you must have got your looks from Mum, further proving his taste, but she must have given you your sense of taste.”

Having been insulted, then had her father insulted, then finally her late mother, Akane snapped. “Ranma you jerk!” she cried before booting him into the sky.

Taro smirked, watching his ex stomping off towards school in a rage. Breaking these two up should be easy.



Taro confronts akane, down on knee, begging another chance and appology. Ranma arrives, friction, name, and breast print story. Robbed glasshouse and ryoga missing, on way to school, diversion and love dome begins. Taro picks a fight trying to lure akane away, kiss and photo. bite and knee and walk away, gosenkugi has a photo of it happen. Taro leaves to prepare the temple Nabiki wants a massage, fathers talk of condoms Nabiki stories and massage Kasumi barge in school after school shower towel incident kidnapping rescue run tie up	magnets rescue arrives fighting and strip Akane untie winning move aftermath and threats argument and way home 	cradle of heaven and kiss arrival home as nabiki leaving dinner and telling secrets



“You said you’d help me win Ukyo from Ranma, and so far you’ve done squat,” Ryoga growled at the young man before him.

Ohata for his part was far from concerned at the threat from the martial artists in the spotted bandana. He had been imposing on Toko to house the disgruntled martial artist while Jiro worked out how best to use him to interfere in Ranma’s life, and he was more worried about Toko giving him trouble rather than this fool. Standing up to Hibiki, he kept the hand behind his back.

“Unlike you who ended up fighting the very man you were partnered with against Saotome, I have been keeping my word. I had a friend play delivery girl to your chef, with a bunch of roses.”

“Roses?” Ryoga squeeked, suddenly hopeful at this development.

Jiro grinned, “Not cheap in winter either, eleven red and one white rose.”

“Huh, why one white?”

“Because I took the liberty of signing your name to the card, which said,…” setting himself, he looked vaguely up and to the side of his audience. “In this world there are few who stand out, you are the one who holds my heart.”

Ryoga didn’t really know if it was good, but it sounded like poetry.

“Did she accept them?”

With a wider grin, Ohata brought forth the takeaway okonomiyaki box from behind his back, holding it out to Ryoga. “Made fresh just for you, with a message in the sauce. I’d say things are looking up.”

With trembling fingers Ryoga gently open the lid, enjoying the wafting aroma of the food, inhaling deeply as the words were revealed. On it was written words in white Japanese mayonnaise on the think black okonomiyaki sauce.

’The special ingredient is love.’

The grand sigh from the lost boy almost made Jiro’s smile falter, knowing he wouldn’t have long to hold onto this tool should Ukyo forgive him. Though actions could be taken if need be to slow a romance.

With tender care, Ryoga lifted the gift from the box, taking a large bite filled with the taste of such a fine cook as his Ukyo, and filled with the hope of a future he had so often dreamed of.

As his teeth bit off the piece, his mouth was also filled with the pain of biting into the thorny stem of a rose, the thick dark sauce base hiding the petals and stems of the diced gift sent in his name and cooked into the food.

Ohata and Toko winced as all joy left the boy and he began to glow a sickly green.





“Come in,” Nabiki called at Ranma’s knock on the door.

Opening the door with the duck shaped nameplate bearing her name in English, Ranma swallowed. It wasn’t the sight of the topless girl face down

With a wicked smirk, Nabiki grabbed the leg of his pants yanking them down to his ankles as he





Thanks for the thoughts Ran-san.

The principal is certainly a hard character to take seriously. His antics also tend to more slapstick for his humour and cartoon villain for his tricks and weapons than any other character in the series.

Making it a Hawaiian Christmas seems to be the definite must have if he is involved, and a hair issue. His cruelty seems to be in difference, I prefer him when he is more of a demented child playing than being mean to be mean. Not only for Ranma, PK will be a startling encounter, but this will be an intro for Ranma, Nodoka, Genma, Tofu, Ryoga and another of Akane's friends. This and very possibly being Principal Kuno's only big chance for the fic, I do want to do something grand and crazy.

In my notes, Principal Kuno was taken down a peg by a more confident and capable Akane because she didn't have Ranma to do it. But during fighting between the Principal and Akane over haircuts, he nearly got her braid twice. One a third time was caught off and would have lost it, only for Kuno to chop it off himself as part of blocking, claiming it as a prize. Pissed Akane beat both men down.

After the wish, Kuno left his fathers skill in the dust, so the on became the focus of his pranks instead of Ranma, Hinako brought in to even the playing field, Kuno having a great deal of respect for the teachers skill, and fears being around her lest he be disarmed again and have his head shaved by his father.

Okay, here I use you like a sounding board for how this is shaping up and why. :D

Posters are up for the Christmas dance, all seems legit, if a little high on the dress code and odd for a weeknight. Parents invited as chaperones. Many of the students stay away, but many of the other school love dome challenges want in, so it will be crowded, but many know crazy stuff happens at school, and since Christmas in japan isn’t a holiday few parents can volunteer.

Akane meets up with Ryoga, who has been under the tutelage of Mikado in the Art of Love, asking for their date to be that night, Ranma gets upset, a shouting match tells her she may as well take him because he has other fiancés who if he did take her out would be wanting dates of their own.

Akane grins at that and arranges another double date, so she and Ranma aren’t dating, they are chaperoning Ryoga and a friend of Akane's she wants to set him up with. Akari.

Nodoka, who wants a western Christmas for Ranma because she wants more special times with her boy before she loses him to Akane. She will drag Genma along as chaperone because she wants to get him in a suit too. Soun of course is now chaperoning with both Shika and Hinako, to the displeasure of both. And round it out with Kasumi bringing Tofu to their old school. (Nabiki has been lured by a romantic night with Jiro Ohata).

After some early slapstick, Ranma will get an engagement ring from the fathers, making that it was lost but pocketing it instead.

Arrive at the dance, do a fairly standard fun time to start with for a non-alcohol event. Christmas trees, and a Santa’s cave apparently taken from a shopping centre is used at the entrance to a hallway done up as a cave of love, in a typical Japanese perversion of the holiday concepts. One couple inside the cave ambushed by a Hawaiian Santa with an ominous fade to black. Hinako and Shika both have different ideas about how Ranma should dance with Akane, the latter formal and sedate, the former wanting hip grinding disco.

When a tropical punch appears, the temperature starts to go up. When people start getting worried, the doors are locked and the temp keeps going up into hot tropical. A cupboard opens spilling out bikinis, lei, and grass skirts, a sign unrolling saying Hawaiian Christmas as the Christmas trees fall part to palm trees still with tinsel and lights.

As characters strip down, change to bikinis in change room, or the like, interactions occur including Akane pranking Kasumi, angry at Kasumi’s attitude to her improper act with Ranma, has loaded her purse with condoms, which tofu sees and freaks out going back to crazy love dance tofu.

Finally the principal strikes out, exploding presents, coconuts, pineapples, tinsel nets, fake snow sprays, all to release his trained hair cutting crabs. Fight fight fight, someone breaking the roof lets the cold back in, forcing back the crabs who like tropical weather. Capture the principal, stop Shika and Hinako trying to get the other bald, possibly Ryoga sacrifices his hair for Akane or akari or both.

Ryoga, already warned that he can only win Akane by kissing her before the end of the date, makes his move, going for Akane, however after Taro kissed Akane ina previous chapter, Ranma interrupts, yanking Akane to him, Akari dragged by Akane’s hand into Ryoga who is more focused on the kiss than target kissing her.

Breaking the first kiss with his love, he is caught off when he opens his eyes and sees akari, embarrassed but appreciative, when hit into wall by sumo pig. Defeats the sumo pig, which impresses akari even more they start making out, his budding love for Akane forgotten as he has new girl who likes him lots.

Ranma and Akane walk away in the snowing night, talking of romantic things, akane wearing Ranma’s jacket, finds the engagement ring in a pocket. Now its out there, Ranma sees Akane wants it and wants him to ask, but before he can propose, fathers jump in interrupting, Ranma reiterating he can’t ask Akane to January even if he was going to. Akane hurt but understanding.

Later when Ranma gets his present from Akane, a special bracelet, he hangs the engagement ring from it as a constant tease to Akane, who can’t have it but it is threaded through the present she gave him.

Still not huge for the principal time, but a start.

Your thoughts?

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”Okay Pops’, I’ll take you as a student.”

”Watch it Boy,” Genma warned at his son’s smug tone.

”The *Ranma* Saotome school of love.”

The older man did a passable imitation of a growling panda despite his human throat, but let it slide counting a second strike he’d have to make the boy pay for later.

Mulling it over in his head, Ranma frowned trying to decide where to start. Thinking like a teacher, he focused on how his student might likely use what he was teaching. His father, above all other things, was cheap. So he had to start with the stuff that cost nothing at first.

”Okay, so girls, they always thinkin’. Weird thing is, they don’t have the focus of men, but they can think about more stuff at the same time.”

Gaining confidence as Genma nodded, Ranma forged on. “Even when they are focused on other stuff, they bubbling away in their head. It’s why they gotta talk all the time too, when they should be focusing on what they are doing.”

Genma nodded in agreement, there was times when Nodoka would talk at him while cooking or cleaning or… actually just about everything she did near him she’d find something to rag on him for about at the same time.

”Okay, so cause there thinking about all this stuff, the girls after me are thinkin’ about me at times. A lot of times. So they kind of expect me ta think about them a lot. And only them.”

Despite the chill air, the pair sparring in the dojo were sweating from the workout they were giving each other, both



”So what are you getting him for Christmas?”

Nabiki’s question brought an awkward smile to Akane’s lips as the pair washed up after dinner. At Nodoka’s announcement of wanting to have a western Christmas with some presents rather than just a chicken dinner and cake, Akane had been troubled.

”No idea.”

Nabiki smirked, “I know you saw that look on his face, he already knows what he’s getting you.”

Akane nodded, she had caught it too, making her more nervous.

”Then again,” Nabiki added, “He might just be getting you lingerie.”

Eyes flashing, Akane glared at her sister’s implication. “His father may be an idiot but he wouldn’t be like that.”

”So if he is getting you something appropriate and romantic,” Nabiki started with a grin, rubbing the ring finger of her hand, “What are you getting him?”

When her sister shrugged again, scrubbing at the plates in soapy water. “Kasumi might throw a fit if you do lingerie. Or Aunty might if you get some for his girl side.”

Rolling her eyes, Akane sighed, thinking about Kasumi’s recent behaviour. The older sister’s disapproval of what she and Ranma did before they were engaged, was getting old fast.

”So what do you think I should get him?”

Nabiki smirked, her mind bypassing helpful, going straight to teasing. “If you don’t want to spend much, we could do up some photos. Something to remind him what happened?”

Akane’s hands were quicker than Nabiki recalled as soapy water was splashed into her hair and down her back, making her screech.





Bugger all of it so far, I kind of know things I want in it, but still awkward. I need to build on the sexual tension of chapter 13, I want Soun's girls to show up at 7 o'clock to help soun celebrate without seeming to intrude, then fight each other when soun passes out, only for Nodoka to step in and take both down. Then I need to have the school in the morning, with ranma facing Kuno in love dome, kuno trying to drive him off, only for ranma to go with love ki blast to defeat Kuno. But kind of need more to it, like Kasumi, should she be cold with the guy who screwed akane, or warm after he is holding to the no intimacy promise? Should Hinako be warm to Ranma out of wanting help with Soun, or cold after Nodoka kicks her ass I thinking maybe should Kuno try to fight again after school, only for him to find Ranma in cursed form, Nodoka jumping at the chance to face Kuno with her magic given skills Ranma needs to make a speach to the class, basically saying say what you want about me, but say anything dishonourable about Akane, his mother, or the other fiancees, he'll have to stand up for their honour. The girls will be wanting to challenge Ranma to streal from Akane after his declaration of love and her reaction. Also need to deal with mikado and his reaction to Ranma being here and in class.



“But shampoo, it wasn’t like he slept with me to hurt you, it was just that with me, he forgot you even exist?”

“So wait, if I let you unseal the technique that brought down the man who killed my father, you can beat this guy and you can marry Akane and not Shampoo, sending her back to China alone?” The gleeful Junko stated, keeping Ranma in her peripheral vision to look at the Chinese girl. Shampoo paled as she realized what was being said, the younger teen before her giving her the finger.

“Win Ranma, whatever it takes.”

“No!” Shampoo cried.

Magic mirror – ancient, hundreds of years. Secret receipt Mold has image on one side, polish it back and goes to the front nickel mirror lining Reflect white light

rent says: Anyway, I thinking they make the date Thursday morning. At lunch Kuno will demand the right to challenge Ryoga for the date, Akane saying no, maybe flirting off in Kuno’s face about her not being his, talking about what she might wear or asking Nabiki to borrow her cherry lipgloss, cause Ryoga loves the taste of cherry, to upset Kuno. That night akane calls Nodoka, talk of Ranma and asking of how to contact Ryoga to warn of Kuno threat at next day date, not that she tells Nodoka or ranma of date.

Friday morning starts with tale from Nodoka of training trip that night to hurry home. Sakura being told after school of Ranma camping gear on the move. Nabiki gets home to tease akane over preparing for date and finds akane gone, Kasumi tells her which cuts neatly to Ranma meeting her.

Start training and something will remind Akane of date, but realises that can’t call home from wilderness to appologise. More training and rains begin. Cut to Kuno in the rain guarding restaurant door. Cut to Ryoga arriving at another restaurant of the same name, in another part of country.

Then go into end scene

Hmmm... Ryoga here is in love with Ukyo, something Shampoo would support like in the main line for Akane. Akane is going to try and make him fall for Akari, but there is good tension if he starts to fall for Akane too. Perhaps if Shampoo thinks Ryoga and this date with Akane is something more, she might use formula 911 to erase his memory of Ukyo to let him fall for Akane.

I thinking that works for making him switch to akane/akari, and make the combination Ryoga far more fun. I like this. Now I get to add three more scenes! Arg!

As fate would have it, Ryoga could end up with a picture of Akane in the tiger stripe bikini. So this Ryoga, after ‘forgetting’ Ukyo, has this picture, and descides to change his bandana to a leopard print one he has in his pack, if she likes tiger prints, she might prefer that.

For Cologne to be respectable, she needs to be nice. Any old woman with half a brain could have entrapped Ranma. It only makes sense if Cologne is letting Shampoo do it herself after the pheonix pill arc

Cunning and foolish. Perhaps play to Cologne in the scene. Cologne finds Ryoga and works it out, outlines the situation to Shampoo and see if she comes up with this idea.

So if Colonge lay this out to Shampoo, that Ryoga will be going on a date with Akane this weekend, but Ryoga is considering not going because of his love for Ukyo. “What opertunity does that give you?”

Actually since Akane tendo is gone, it makes it harder to justify doing anything.

What I need is for Shampoo to come up with a dumb plan first, so cologne can wack her on the head, remind her of the plan to make Ryoga forget ukyo at the engagemetn meeting for brownie points, and Shampoo jumps on this plan to get Ryoga on Akane and out of the way. Trent says: Stupid plan 1: Aiyah! Get Pigboy make pervert girl pregnant to piss off Airen, he then have man balls to make on Ukyo and Shampoo get Airen! hpackrat says: well... it sounds like shampoo Trent says: Wack on the head pointing out Ryoga will probably marry the first girl he kisses. But Nodoka hates Ryoga, if Ryoga and Akane fall in love, Ukyo can be goaded into showing happiness that ryoga is off her and on akane, losing points for engagement Trent says: Hence why Shampoo no tell Ukyo about akane’s date either hpackrat says: k... Trent says: Sounds like I lost you hpackrat says: its a convulted plan & those tend to lose me Trent says: The plan is, to make Ryoga give up on Ukyo and fall for Akane on the date they have planned. If Akane and Ryoga shack up, Nodoka will not be happy, but if Ukyo comments about how good it is, she will be in Nodoka’s bad books. Trent says: And of course, drive a wedge between akane and ranma

The Dalek invasion and the movement of the planet Earth firstly into an unknown part of space with twenty six other planets, and its shaking return to its position in the Sol system had shaken the population of the world, but Himabura Technologies was already hard at work. While the world celebrated its mysterious saving, the research labs were already working on the components of the invaders left behind in the Nerima ward of Tokyo. Somehow, someone in that ward had destroyed three of these machines, where the entire SLDF, and if world wide reports were accurate, nearly every other military on the planet had failed to bring down one.

Three men in white labcoats poured over the unusual alloys of recovered hull fragments, the metal plates with uniform bulges golden in colour but far from such in makeup.

A unique sound, mechanical yet organic, rising in pitch, then descending, like a wave, up and down, echoed through the secured lab, even as the dalek parts vanished one by one. Every fragment, component, and cell, fading from tables, containers, scanners, and even the hands of one researcher. Vanishing into nothing, and the sound going with it.



“Ranma, whatever it was is gone. We looked for nearly an hour. Please can we do this?”

The loud words of the girl dragging a redhead into the fancy restaurant made the waiter, single patron, and manager, all look up from the various parts around the restaurant they were in. Mr Masuchi, the manager, quickly rushed over, smiling widely.

“Mr Saotome, and you’re fiancée, please come in, we were worried you had been delayed,” he stated as he rushed over. “Oh Mr Saotome, you had an accident?”

Turning, he ignored the curious look the spiky haired foreigner who was the only mid afternoon diner, nodding to the waiter. “A cup of hot water for our hero.”

Said hero was still looking at the door out of the place, not comfortable in the male suit and tie she wore, pale faced with intense blue eyes. “Keep it down Mr Masuchi. Hey did you hear a kind of wurring sound before? It went up and down a few times outside?”

Shaking his head, Mr Masuchi frowned, “Oh I am sorry but no, Mr Saotome. Is it important? We have the private room ready for you?”

“Yes, maybe,” the red head stated angrily, “I don’t know.”

“Why is it important Ranma?” Akane asked again, frustrated at an hour wasted on something he wouldn’t tell her about. “Where did you hear it before.”

The pain that flashed in the blue eyes of the girl in the men’s suit struck all who saw it, and it was focused on the girl in the showy black mini-dress and shawl with him. “I… Never mind, lets eat.”



“Excuse me, I hate to be a bother, but can I ask about the couple in the private room?”

Mr Masuchi frowned as the forienger interrupted him from preparing for the evening rush, but when the subject came to that couple he was all too eager to speak. Especially since the, what he guessed to be an Englishman, spoke perfect Japanese.

“Ah, that is a true hero in there. Mr Ranma Saotome, he saved my daughter from those flying robots.”

“The Daleks?”

Mr Maschi shrugged, then held out his arms like the barrel eye of a Dalek and its weapon array, “Exterminate, exterminate, those things.”

A pain flashed through the foreigner’s eyes as he nodded and rolled his hand to have Mr Masuchi continue. “When those planets appeared in the sky, some people panicked, and someone tried to profit, trying to rob a bank near where I live in Nerima. The police did their duty and came, but then the robots came and they started shooting at the police and those near them. They missed my daughter by a hair.”

“Then suddenly that boy, appeared between two of them and made them shoot each other. A third arrived and he just ran around it like a storm, then with one punch sent it into the sky were it blew up.”

“He was the one that killed the three Daleks in Nerima?”

“Oh yes, even so young, he is a great martial artist.”

“Martial arts? Like karate? Killed a Dalek?”

“Yes.”

“No.”

“Yes. Those two in there are the heirs to the Anything Goes school of Martial Arts.”

Recognition flittered through the eyes of the foreigner before a crash interrupted the pair.

“Aiyah, Airen stupid if think can sneak off behind back,” a feminine voice sounded from the private room, followed by more.

“Indeed, your debauchous attempts on my pure tigress are the foulest of evils and you shall be punished!”

“HOHOHOHOHOHO!”

“On no, others find them.”

Both dashed for the formally private dining room entrance, seeing a mash of people fighting. Even with just a glance, the Doctor immediately realized the dark haired pigtailed young man now wore the same, definitely the actual suit the red head wore, and when the blue eyes flicked his way, he knew that the woman of earlier was now this male.

and needs to find it again, panicking because he remembers now hearing it when Akane was dead. The doctor finally talks to them after Ranma escapes battle with the nerima gang, and possibly knew Happosai. Hearing the tale of the battle at Jusendo, he works out the paradox and takes them there back in time. hpackrat says: big leap Trent says: He has Akane lay in the same position on the tardis, saying he will use her to spark the energy of herself in that present to restart herself. Then will say that Saffron isn't reforming. Ranma begins to panic that Saffron won't survive, asking to use his own energy to save the pheonix man, and the doctor warns that if he does he could did. Akane says no but ranma says he has to, then the doctor Trent says: says no and that it doesn't work like that, he was just testing him. Claims all saffron needs is a mental nudge by someone who knows regenertation energies, which the doctor is a master at. So the tardis impinges on reality just enough to transfer akanes life spark to save her. hpackrat says: hmm, k Trent says: Rather than drop them off in Nerima, Akane needs to recover and the doctor knows they could do with time away from the crazies, so takes them a million years into the future, to the hospital on new earth from season 1 and 3. Akane put in bed when nun/nurse friend of doctor arrives and greatfully accepts to help Akane, only when turns around Ranma sees it is a catwoman and freaks out. Other hpackrat says: ranma will always attract crazies Trent says: catwomen nurses arrive to help, freaking him more as Akane explains catfist. Then the catwomen start recalling a genetic memory, talking about how handsome Ranma is, then start calling him Airen. Akane exclaims that the bimbo chased them with a race over a million years!, Doctor going "What?", and cut to credits to end as if a cliffhanger.

“You said you’d help me win Ukyo from Ranma, and so far you’ve done squat,” Ryoga growled at the young man before him.

Ohata for his part was far from concerned at the threat from the martial artists in the spotted bandana. He had been imposing on Toko to house the disgruntled martial artist while Jiro worked out how best to use him to interfere in Ranma’s life, and he was more worried about Toko giving him trouble rather than this fool. Standing up to Hibiki, he kept the hand behind his back.

”Unlike you who ended up fighting the very man you were partnered with against Saotome, I have been keeping my word. I had a friend play delivery girl to your chef, with a bunch of roses.”

”Roses?” Ryoga squeeked, suddenly hopeful at this development.

Jiro grinned, ”Not cheap in winter either, eleven red and one white rose.”

”Huh, why one white?”

”Because I took the liberty of signing your name to the card, which said…” setting himself, he looked vaguely up and to the side of his audience. “In this world there are few who stand out, you are the one who holds my heart.”

Ryoga didn’t really know if it was good, but it sounded like poetry.

”Did she accept them?”

With a wider grin, Ohata brought forth the takeaway okonomiyaki box from behind his back, holding it out to Ryoga. “Made fresh just for you, with a message in the sauce. I’d say things are looking up.”

With trembling fingers Ryoga gently open the lid, enjoying the wafting aroma of the food, inhaling deeply as the words were revealed. On it was written words in white Japanese mayonnaise on the think black okonomiyaki sauce.

’The special ingredient is love.’

The grand sigh from the lost boy almost made Jiro’s smile falter, knowing he wouldn’t have long to hold onto this tool should Ukyo forgive him. Though actions could be taken if need be to slow a romance.

With tender care, Ryoga lifted the gift from the box, taking a large bite filled with the taste of such a fine cook as his Ukyo, and filled with the hope of a future he had so often dreamed of.

As his teeth bit off the piece, his mouth was also filled with the pain of biting into the thorny stem of a rose, the thick dark sauce base hiding the petals and stems of the diced gift sent in his name and cooked into the food.

Ohata and Toko winced as all joy left the boy and he began to glow a sickly green.



Ryoga tugged awkwardly at the white shirt and dark slacks he wore, uncomfortable in the strange clothes that had been left out for him after he bathed. He assumed that they were for someone else, but his pack and clothes had vanished while he luxuriated in the bath.

Scratching at the tiger print bandana on his head, he smiled happily as he saw the door to the hallway back to where Mikado waited for him. This place had a remarkably comfortable layout he considered happily as he opened the door.

”Darling, what perfect timing, why don’t you join… who are you?!”

Even having not seen the woman yet, Ryoga knew he was in trouble, but his neck acted automatically turning to see the young woman with the black hair, her bare shoulders just above the steaming and churning water of the Jacuzzi beside a larger indoor pool. Her dark eyes held his for an instant before his imagination made his face flush red and he turned from her.

”Ah, sorry, I’m sorry. I got a bit turned around,” he mumbled, quickly making for the door, only to find behind it a cupboard full of pool supplies.

”Sasuke!”

Kodachi’s thunderous cry echoed around the room for a moment, freezing Ryoga with a thought of some house defender coming to preserve the ladies honor in her time of need.

”I’m sorry Mistress, this young man is a guest of your fiancée.”

Ryoga wasn’t sure how dangerous the midget ninja manservant who appeared was, but as he began to turn the sound of the turned off water jets and splashing at the woman left the tub made him keep his eyes front, not thinking of what she might be wearing or not. For a moment he tried to think only of Akane Tendo, but with his brief meetings most of his thoughts turned to the picture of her he had found, one of her in a tiger print bikini. This didn’t help his blood pressure.

Entering the room wearing a similar white shirt and black slack ensemble, Mikado Sanzenin glanced between his future bride, currently covering up her black strapless bikini clad form with a bathrobe, to his red faced guest.

Kodachi, calmed after the surprise, happy to see her love enter wearing the outfit she had mistaken the guest for him in. “Mikado-chan, really this is a better way to ask for for that favour you want but you simply can’t surprise me like this.”

Ignoring her teasing of his previous implying questions about the mysterious red haired girl he had caught Kodachi with in the mountains, Mikado looked to Ryoga, his blush showing on the back of his neck against the white collar of the shirt. “Kodachi-chan, this is the man Akane tendo surrendered to in Love Dome week before last. I just let him clean up before giving him some pointers of wooing our dear friend.”

As Kodachi howled a laugh that shook him, Ryoga wondered about how helpful this pair would be