Beautiful Disaster

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Disclaimer: This story is mine, but the characters and the story this is based on are not. But that should have been obvious.

A/N: I don't follow anime stories and have really only liked the Ranma movies. So in my story Ranma's not just some dumb-jock, he may be dim, but not that much. He only really does poorly in English anyway.

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"Wait! I didn't me-"

Too late. Ranma was off in route to some point of Japan that was most likely secluded and out of the way. Why was he sent so far though? Why did he have to be hit once more? Only a few moments ago they had been getting together so well.

It was lunch and Ranma was once again lacking a lunch seeing that he was in a rush after his mom took up her sword when he screamed in shock when he saw a kitten. He never even got enough sleep though either seeing that he had to stay up late and help Akane study. Akane, that was his whole reason for being sent skyward.

So, he was sitting peacefully at lunch trying his best to spot free food. That's when a bento showed up and he nearly cried in praise, but was aware that it may not be free and turned to the one who gave him it. "Eat up."

"Uh, thanks Akane." He ate all of it at once and threw what was not edible aside. It was so good and his taste buds danced. "Wow, Kasumi outdid herself today."

"Actually, I made that." She admitted with a blush. "I'm glad you liked it."

He turned solid as he tried to figure out if her cooking had any side effects today. Usually it tasted horrible and it digested about the same. He wondered if the latter problem had been solved as well. "Uh, so you cooked this then?"

She nodded. "Did you really like it?"

"I'm not sure. I'm shocked you of all people fooled my tongue."

"What's that supposed to mean?" She glared at him. She thought he had liked it.

"Well, It's not really surprising that the one fiancée who stinks at cooking is also the one with the least looks." Ranma commented before becoming stoic. He just said the wrong thing and he knew it.

She was fuming as he mouth opened, "What was that?" She shouted in outrage. "Ranma!"

"I-I meant it all." He swore to himself. He forgot the whole contraction that would fall between 'I' and 'meant': Didn't. "I didn't want to sa-" He froze as her anger grew her left arm pushed up her right sleeve and was prepared to hit him with her fist. "Wait! I didn't me-" And he was gone for the next two and a half hours.

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"Oh, Ranma!" Kasumi exclaimed as she greeted him at the door. He was weary and beaten as he came into the door and such things as a woman like her to meet him made his day a bit better. Still, it was not Kasumi he wanted to do such, but a girl he knew who was a constant problem for him.

"Hey, so is the bath ready? I'd like to get one in and clean up."

"Yes it is. Would you like me to have a snack ready for when you're done?" Kasumi innocently questioned as he removed his shoes.

"That'd be nice Kasumi, thanks." He moved as quick as he could and after a good time in the bath he returned to eat a few snacks Kasumi had ready for him. She remained watching him though and it bothered him a bit. "Is something wrong Kasumi?"

"She's not mad now you know."

"She's?"

"Akane is in her room frustrated about her homework, but I think she's more frustrated you didn't like her cooking." Kasumi explained.

"I told her it was good. I'm sure I did, but then I said it was surprising that she had made something edible." He looked to the floor. "I told her that her poor cooking matched her beauty."

"I see, any girl would hate for her fiancé to say such a thing."

"Uh, fiancé?"

"You are her fiancé for the time being correct? She knows that just as well as you or I." Kasumi mentioned as she gathered the plate and returned to the kitchen.

Ranma stood powered by his battle aura that moved in whispery waves as he became determined to overcome this newest interference in his life. He went over exactly what he was going to say and everything. He was going to burst into the room and backed with confidence he would say something along the lines of 'Listen up Akane! Your cooking was find and I was just so happy for you stupid that I slipped up and said something out of order!' and then he would follow by knocking sense into her. Then his confidence fell when he realized that he had been in such a circumstance prior to that and it failed and his words never went the way he planned. He punched his cheek and with recovering confidence he was prepared to storm the stairs and burst right into her room. He did not foresee however being hit by his father-in panda guise-as he was about to ascend the stairs.

The panda shoved a paper in his face and Ranma took it after whacking the beast over the head. He read the letter that read as such:

Dear cursed sirs,

Mistake made and two cursed spring remain. One for which those fall turn man, a second that turns to woman. Map shows place spring is.

Ranma looked away from the paper with a smile. "Hey Pops we can be cured! We have to get packing right away!"

The panda held one sign up: [How do we get there?]

Ranma's happiness soared so far it left his body leaving only the negative feelings he now felt. "Crap."

[That's what I said…]

Ranma glared at him, and then turned to look at the girl on the stairs. "A-Akane."

She smiled warmly and opened her mouth, "Perverted idiot!" She ran past him in a rage and he became stoic once more. He really hated how he could never have any balls when it came to girls and always got nervous or afraid of them. It did not help she always beats him up at every turn. How could their parents even try a wedding months ago when obviously she despised it so? "Wait, Why didn't I say we despise the idea and just 'she'?"

The panda looked at him funny. He whacked him over the head: [Get your mind in place Boy!]

"Why you-" Ranma immediately went right into a conflict that left the foyer with scars.