Looping
You know the plot: Character X is sent back to the beginning of the story to make everything better The Second Time Around. But what if that happens over and over and over again? People get a bit loopy. Then time begins to mutate… Crackfics.
Inspired by the "New Intros" and "Pig-Tailed Time-Loops" threads on TFF.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction written as a homage to the original works. No claim of ownership of Ranma 1/2 or other copyrighted works is intended.
Author's Note: This is my first fic and it shows. I think chapter 5 is the best one of the lot and it can be read on its own.
Akane in the time-loops.
"Fiancé?" Echoed through the living room of the Tendos.
"Yes. The son of a very good friend of mine..." Soun continued and Akane began to tune him out. It wasn't like she hadn't heard it all before.
And that was the problem. For some reason she had been repeating the following year for more than three hundred times now and she still had no idea why. She had asked every person that Ranma and her have met during the original year and a lot of other persons with supernatural abilities that she had met later. Most of them would deny that even the possibility of such an occurrence existed.
Each loop - as she had started to call the repeats - she found herself at the same moment in the past, shortly after her father had announced that a fiancé would arrive. She was in her original body with her long hair wearing the same clothes as the first time, sitting in the same position. She could still feel the sweat on her back and how exhausted her muscles were from her workout that had been interrupted by Kasumi or Nabiki who had told her that father had an announcement to make.
After these three hundred repeated years she could no longer remember which one of them had told her about it and she had never repeated that part of the past. She could still feel a faint trace of annoyance whenever she tried to remember that moment and that pointed to Nabiki. But sometimes Kasumi would try to make her more of a young lady and asked her to tone down her training a bit or simply looked at her with that slight frown. The latter left Akane always more frustrated than any of Nabiki's needling.
Soon they would hear the Saotomes crashing through the door, Ranma's apology and later the story of Jusenkyo. The loop would continue for a year ending shortly after the time of their first marriage attempt and then she would find herself again here with her sisters.
The first time it happened it was awkward, since nobody else remembered. But after she accepted the impossibility of it all at the beginning of the second loop, she attempted to create the perfect year for her.
It was very frustrating to find a level of martial arts so Ranma would respect her as a martial artist without him thinking that he had wasted spend ten years on his training trip, but after many loops of experimenting and grumbling she understood him and acted like she was about six months behind him.
Romantically, he left her to lead, which suited her fine. She thought she had created the perfect life when they married that one loop, but still found herself back at this day. Her sisters didn't understand why she broke out in tears, she was depressed for a whole year and Ranma ended up marrying Ukyo.
The next loops she tried to help all of their friends and she came back to this day, then everyone in school and she came back to this day, and then everyone in the whole world.
She was really surprised when she managed to create world peace.
And still it continued. Starting with the first loop she had tried every magical artifact of the Chinese Amazons, the Musk Warriors, the Phoenix People, the Italian Kunoichi, the Scottish Transvestites and the Kenyan Valkyries, but nothing helped.
Studying and mastering both magic and technology didn't help either and not even controlling her Ki beyond everything Ranma ever achieved brought her out of the loops. Dammit, she even became a Grandmaster of Martial Arts Swimming!
Every now and then she decided to become creative, instead of finding a way out.
Making Nabiki believe that Ranma was Sailor Moon without him ever noticing the "youmas" was a masterstroke in her opinion. As was the invasion of magically engineered Pokémon and blaming it on the Kunos. And fooling everyone into thinking that Kasumi defeated Godzilla. But she had no idea what went wrong with her Super Sentais. Luckily, the loop ended shortly after those idiots conquered New Zealand.
And now she was bored again. She noticed the time and heard a Panda crashing through the front door and expected the familiar sound of "Leggo, y' ol' fool!"
But that part never came. Getting curious, she decided to follow her sisters and stopped dead when she saw Ranma posing in the hall with his foot on an unconscious panda. While he was in his male form!
"Hello, I am Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this." He said with his usual cocky grin. It took a moment, but then she understood and smirked. "Hey. Join me in the practice hall?" she asked. He was surprised and she continued. "I'm Akane. You want to be friends?" This time he understood and smirked back.
This would be fun!