Ok I thought I'd set up the story here before I go any further. For those of you who haven't read all 38 books of the Ranma ½ manga or seen all the episodes there was a wedding between Akane and Ranma that got trashed by the usual suspects, you know who they are. This story is set right at the end of the manga, if you've read those last few pages you'll notice what the characters say is the same as what they say in the manga. I'm planning on making this a good length fic with 20 chapters depending on how popular it is. I'll have the characters as they should be from having read the 38 manga books until I feel they have grown enough but that also means that there is a lot for me to work with as they are flexible characters seeing as Ranma and Akane being OOC is them not insulting each other and they do that in the manga anyway.

Now on to the story.

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Prologue – Wreckage

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The Tendo place was in disarray; pieces of wood littered the floor from Happosai's Happo Daikarin attack and people bursting in through the walls. Ranma lay on the ground knocked out while Shampoo and Ukyo fussed over him.

Kuno ran with outstretched arms to Akane "Oh my lovely Akane Tendo! Let us be wed here and…NOMPH," was what he said just as Akane kicked him in the face with a WHAM, sending him flying across Nerima. It was chaos incarnate.

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Later that eventful day, four people gathered in the lounge while Kasumi hanged the washing out on the line. The sun had started to set and they had spent the majority of the afternoon getting rid of the unwanted martial artists that had caused so much trouble, and trying to explain to the properly invited wedding guests what had happened.

Akane and Ranma sat on one side of the table while their fathers sat on the other side. Genma was lying on his back in his Panda form playing with a beach ball while Soun sat up straight, a look of utter disappointment on his face.

Soun sighed. "Clearly the wedding cannot proceed under these conditions. As is proper, lingering relations should be settled before a couple can be married. We can all see that you have plenty of those." Soun took a puff on a cigarette that had just appeared in his hands and continued, "So we have arranged for the wedding to be postponed until you can sort out your personal affairs."

Akane looked at Ranma. "Pay attention! All this mostly applies to YOU, Ranma."

Ranma turned to Akane "It was just as much your fault, AKANE."

Akane looked at Ranma and smiled, his heart suddenly became a loud drum in his ears. 'She's so cute when she smiles'.

"Well, that may or may not be true, but I'm sure we'll be able to fix everything up in no time and get things back on track."

Soun nodded his agreement. "Yes. Thanks to Nabiki inviting everyone to our house, she will have some things to discuss with me. Wont you, Nabiki?" Soun looked sternly at his middle daughter.

Nabiki seemed to cringe and looked at her father warily. "Uh, sure we will Daddy. Whenever you want," she replied before moving over to the other side of the room.

Ranma ignored the byplay between Soun and Nabiki decided to get some fresh air. The thought of his usual spot on the roof seemed like a good idea. "Well I'm going to go out for a bit," Ranma said to no one in particular as he stood up.

With that, the family "discussion" ended. Genma and Soun resumed their normal activities of playing Go. Nabiki and Akane went to their respective rooms and Kasumi went to finish off dinner preparations.

Kasumi put her head in from the kitchen. "Dinner will be ready in half an hour, everyone!" she announced.

Genma and Soun didn't even respond, absorbed as they were in their game of Go, and Akane seemed busy with the school book she was reading. Ranma took another look at Akane from his standing position, where she couldn't see him, and assume the worst and mallet him into the sky for it, before walking out the door into the backyard and jumping onto the roof.

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Later that evening once dinner was done and the members of the household had gone off to do their separate things, Ranma was back on the roof lying on his favorite part: the section above Akane's room. It had the best view of the Nerima skyline, not to mention a
good field of view for him to spot any enemies or crazy fiancées.

Ranma's thoughts turned back to earlier in the day. Thanks to the perverted, panty-stealing, old fart Happosai the Nanniichuan water was gone; another chance to get rid of his damn curse had passed him by. He was left only the huge mess those idiots made, while trashing the Tendo house in their insane struggles and fights, to clean up.

Ranma sighed as he lay on his back and replayed a single scene over in his mind. It was just after Soun had explained why he was wearing a tuxedo and his father had told him that Akane had consented to the wedding. Akane consenting was…was unexpected to say the least. He'd bolted up the stairs and burst through Akane's door, yelling a question at her that had died before it had fully left his lips as his eyes drank in the sight of her. She was simply stunning in a western style wedding dress that clung and accented her curves. Flowers were delicately arranged in her hair and she was looking at him with a gentle smile.

"Hello Ranma." His befuddled brain tried to make sense of not only what his eyes were seeing, but the emotions that his vision was churning up.

Ranma finished the question he had originally intended with "Aguh...Gwufa? Ooga? Whoa," as his brain finally gave up making sense of anything.

Akane turned to him and asked, "Do you like my dress Ranma? I guess the Japanese style one would've been better after all."

All he had been able to say was "Ash…No. I mean they both look cute." Which was the truth, of course, but then his mouth continued. "Wow. You look really beautiful Akane."

She just blushed a light rosy red, making her look even more beautiful, and Ranma's legs turned week at the knee.

"You really think so?" she had asked. "I'm so glad."

Then they sat down and talked. Ranma finally managed to get his brain working and asked her why she had agreed to go through with the wedding. What she said wasn't what he was expecting; she had asked him if he loved her. He was dumbfounded. She had said she was sure she heard him say that he loved her when he had rescued her at Jusendo. He, of course, had denied it then and was stuttering a weak denial now. It wasn't long after that the chaos arrived on their doorstep. In the end, Ranma and Akane still weren't married, despite all they had gone through at Phoenix Mountain and the journey back.

Ranma sighed to himself. He needed to take his mind off things; he'd go down to the dojo and practice. With all that had happened today it wouldn't take long to get tired. Ranma knew he needed to firmly decide what to do about his feelings, his unspoken love for Akane, and what he was going to do to follow Tendo-san's orders to sort out his personal affairs.

Ranma got up, deftly jumped off the roof to the ground and started to walk slowly towards the dojo, not particularly paying attention to anything and so deep in thought that he didn't notice the figure watching him from the lounge room.

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Well let me know what you think people I'm at your mercy please R&R, C&C much appreciated.