I do not own Ranma 1/2 or any of its characters and make no money from writing this story.
Had this whacky idea come into my head and kinda went with this, good lord I managed a whole Ranma/Akane scene by myself! Normally friendly fellow writers have to kind of suggest ideas for me for these scenes out of pity I suspect, don't worry I always credit people :)
Hope you like it.
Sid
Tatewaki and Ukyo
Ukyo was surprised to be the first one to arrive at Kuno's New Year's Eve party, she wore an uncharacteristically bright red sheath dress with a rather daring strapless neckline, that had a sweep train and the full length skirt split up one thigh. The satin type fabric clung to her body, making her look taller and the matching lipstick and soft curls in her hair made her look alluring. She felt embarrassed to find only the host and catering crew there and suddenly understood that being punctual was a fault when it came to parties. She had to admit that Kuno looked impressive in his black tuxedo and wondered at the odd look he gave her.
Kuno shook his head to clear it of the remembrance of an odd dream he had had not too long ago and approached the suddenly sensual looking young woman. "Welcome Ukyo Kuonji, thank you for coming" he said to her. "I must say that you are vision this evening" he added.
She felt fairly foolish as to how she was dressed, the dress itself had been a thrift store find that something had compelled her to buy and was probably the most feminine garment she had ever worn. The black high heels pinched her feet a bit and the kiss proof lipstick made her lips feel like they were coated in wax. But she had been determined to have her New Year's kiss with Ranma this year and win his heart and if that meant dressing like Jessica Rabbit, so be it. "You clean up pretty well yourself" she teased him and they shared a rare smile, that reminded her of a dream she had had.
"As it seems that you lack and escort; perhaps I can take you to the bar?" he suggested, holding out his arm to her for her to take.
She almost cracked up at the formality as they were the only ones in the room who weren't employed to be there, but took it. "Well I suppose as long as you promise to act like a proper gentleman" she said pretending to hit his wrist with an imaginary fan and then fan it out and started to fan herself with it.
"I am always if not a gentleman" he said with a laugh, leading her to the bar by placing his hand on the small of her back.
"I'll have a Shirley Temple" Ukyo said to the bartender
"Nothing stronger? I promise I won't call the cops on you" he teased her.
"What would you recommend?" she asked him.
"Well, I'll have a martini, shaken not stirred" Kuno said with his best Scottish accent, which failed miserably.
"How James Bond of you, I'll have one too" Ukyo decided, wanting to seem sophisticated when she had no clue what went into a martini.
The bartender looked dubiously at the obviously under aged drinkers, however he knew how much the kid was paying for the party and for the privilege of serving alcohol to his teenaged friends, so he mixed them for the two.
Ryoga and Kodachi
Kodachi was putting on her earrings when she heard someone yell. "Where am I?" she frowned and opened her closet and laughed to find Ryoga in there, normally she would have clobbered a male if she had found him in her personal boudoir but had gotten used to Ryoga's almost magical powers at getting lost. She could never fathom how he gotten to the places she recognized based on his descriptions of them without getting on a plane. 'Perhaps Ryoga could walk on water?' she thought. She had always liked the eternally lost boy and found him sweet and endearing...and really cute.
"Hello Kodachi, am I in Nerima? I'm supposed to go to your party" he explained, he seemed to blush a bit to encounter her as if he had a naughty secret. Her eyes took in his appearance, Ryoga looked really nice in a tuxedo, while he admired her white strapless ballgown, her hair had been arranged into an elegant updo and she wore a small tiara at the crown of her head. Ryoga couldn't help admiring how she looked.
"Wrong entrance but perfect timing, you made it, you're getting better" she said taking his arm to lead him to a ballroom.
"I bought these for the lady of the house" he said handing her some well withered roses.
She stifled a giggle, but graciously accepted them as if they were the most precious bouquet ever and remembered the whacky dream she had about him.
"They look a little well travelled" she commented.
"I bought them a few hours ago and then got lost" he said admitted with a blush.
"It's the thought that counts" she said as she dropped them off at the kitchen and instructed the dubious maid to put them in water. She led Ryoga into the ballroom and encountered Ukyo and her brother. "Hello brother dear, are you starting early?" she asked him, indicating the martini glasss he held.
"We're James Bonding tonight" Ukyo replied to her as if that explained everything
"Ryoga, glad you could make it" Kuno greeted him, clapping him on the back.
"Hi Ukyo, you look good enough to eat" Ryoga greeted her, giving her a hug.
"Yes lovely dress Ukyo, did a brothel have a sale?" Kodachi asked her sweetly.
Ukyo smiled back just as charmingly and said coldly back, "I love yours too, why all you're missing is the veil."
"It is simply a white dress" she hissed at the chef.
"And mine is a perfectly decent dress" she hissed back.
The boys felt the chill in the air and hastily changed the subject.
Mousse and Shampoo
Shampoo finished the final touches to her ensemble, the black cheongsam had red cherry blossoms woven into the fabric that sparkled when she moved, that showed off her mouthwatering petite, but curvy figure. Half of her purple hair was styled into two buns and the rest cascaded down her back. She found herself examining her old childhood friend with interest in his tux. 'When he had gotten so handsome?" she questioned and then blushed at her thought, ever since that stupid dream she had found herself studying him closer.
Mousse glanced at Shampoo as she walked into the room, the dream had had little impact on him as he had been having similar ones about her forever but he did eye her with appreciation and then bent back to his task. "Who invented these stupid things!" he growled with frustration as he tried to tie his bow tie for the fiftieth time. He blushed as small hands came around his waist and tied it neatly in place. " Thank you, How did you do that?" he asked her as her face hove into view in the mirror, her eyes sparkled with good humour as she continued to hug him.
"I read instructions, Shampoo no blind" she replied with a laugh. "But for blind boy you look really good" she said giving him a compliment for once.
"Glad to hear it, I so don't like western clothes" he grumbled.
"Well they look good on Mousse" she said to him and she surprised him by accepting the rose he handed her but frowned when she broke off the stem.
"It perfect accessory for Shampoo's outfit" she explained, tucking it behind her ear and he glowed at this. "How Shampoo look?" she asked him.
"And you'll be the prettiest girl at the stupid Kuno event" Mousse said with distaste.
"You be nice, they our friends" Shampoo said lightly tapping him on the arm.
"Some friends, he waves an oversized dick around and she lassos people with a ribbon" he said switching to Mandarin.
Shampoo laughed and said in the same language, "yes but they were nice enough to invite us and it is good to have somewhere to go on New Year's Eve with my great-grandmother gone back to China on tribal business."
"Yes but it isn't even our New Year's Eve" he pointed out.
"Oh well, it is will be fun, there with be champagne and dancing" Shampoo said as they departed.
"And Ranma" Mousse added.
"Of course him too" Shampoo said while Mousse grumbled something derogatory under his breath to this.
At Kunos' place, the Nerima wrecking crew all stood in a circle exchanging pleasant chit chat, while waiting for Ranma and Akane to arrive as most guests kept arriving and the party was soon in full swing. No one really noticed the speculatively glances that each male and female kept giving to other people in turn.
Ranma and Akane
Akane watched her handsome new husband slip into his tuxedo and felt slightly giddy about the fact that he was now hers for life. Her world had been topsy turvy since he had come into it a year ago with all the confusion and rivals and fiancées and now it was all at an end and she for one was glad of it. He was so handsome and dashing and masculine in every way, despite that fact that he would reluctantly spend half of his life as a woman, but Akane didn't care.
Their marriage had been a bit of a fluke brought on by a Kuno of all people. Kodachi had invented an aphrodisiac she had intended for Ranma to drink with her, but it had been delivered to their house by mistake when Kodachi wasn't present. Ranma and Akane had drank it and they had been forcibly married before they were allowed into bed together and spent a very loud night together keeping the whole household, and several others, awake. When the drug had worn off, they decided to make the best of their marriage and discovered that they had been secretly in love with each other for a long time. That knowledge had deepened their relationship as their sex life had become more tender and sweet as they discovered what their partner enjoyed and their time together more relaxing without having to be jealous of other people. But the suitors wouldn't go away which led to frustration and pain on the part of the newly married couple.
He turned to gaze at her and she blushed at the intensity in his eyes and anticipated a wonderful night ahead for them both as he examined her. She wore a emerald green dress that made her look more grown up than her seventeen years and the fitted nature of it hugged her curves and made her look alluring. Their kisses was passionate yet sweet as the gold bands on their hands shimmered in the soft light. Ranma leaned back and said "It ends tonight, it's time we told them that we are married."
"Are you sure that Kuno's New Year's party is the right place? They will all be so hurt" Akane said feeling kind of bad for their ex-suitors.
"It is the perfect time, they will all be there together. Do you really want to spend another night with people trying to play us off each other, trying to separate us so they can claim us for themselves and groping at us? No to mention all the property damage that they have caused in that time. Akane we've been married over a month and we can barely sleep together in our own bed without some male or female pervert dropping by day or night to claim one of us. I can't take it anymore, I want it to end so we can have a peaceful life together. We have to think about our children" he said, his eyes seem to glow with love for her and she suddenly felt like calling the whole stupid party off and taking him back to bed as she felt a shiver of desire.
"Ranma I'm not even pregnant yet" Akane said as she kissed him on the cheek.
"Yet" the formally sexually shy boy said and Akane's eyes sparkled at this idea.
"Okay party first, we make our announcement, go out to dinner and then see about making children" she suggested.
"You're on, Ranma said helping his beautiful wife on with her coat and linking hands in a united front, they walked to the Kuno mansion.
The Entire Wrecking Crew Gets Dumped
The band was in full swing and everyone in a joyful mood, but for some reason all went silent when Ranma and Akane walked in. The girls immediately flocked to him and the boys gravitated to her, offering drinks or food to be fetched and requests for dances, yet everyone stopped short at how they causally held hands, as neither were normally given to public displays of affection.
"Ran-chan, what are you doing?" Ukyo asked him.
"I'm coming to a party with my wife" Ranma answered.
"What but you can't be married" she demanded.
"We can and we did" Akane said, showing her wedding band to her rival.
"This is ridiculous, we would know if you were married" Ryoga protested.
"Not if we did it in private about a month ago. Go ahead and check with the registry office, everything has been officially filed" Ranma challenged.
"How could you do this?" Kodachi, sobbed, clinging onto Ranma, who gently but firmly thrust her away from him.
"Hands off, I'm taken" he admonished her.
"Noooooo, you no do this to Shampoo" Shampoo cried. "This is joke right?" she said hopefully.
Ranma and Akane just exchanged glances of amusement, Akane had originally felt bad tearing them down this way, but now that they were here, it was fun telling them to kiss off. "It's no joke, it was a family only affair, ask anyone of my family members" she concluded.
"What happened Ranma did Pervert Girl seduce you?" Shampoo demanded.
"Nope you have Kodachi to thank for her little potion that seduced us, not that we're complaining, we are even thinking of using her name as a middle name for our first daughter" Ranma explained, smiling warmly as the Kuno girl blanched in realization of how her plan backfired. "So suffice it to say, neither one of us are on the market anymore and we ask that you lot find someone else to torment. Perhaps in time we can become friends again, but for now we ask that you leave us alone" Ranma said in a forceful voice.
"Akane Tendo" Kuno cried, missing the whole conversation and walking in at a horrible time as ever.
"Saotome" she corrected, as Ranma put his arm possessively around her.
"W-what is going on here?" the kendoist asked, looking from one to the other.
"We were just catching the others up. Congratulations are in order for us, we've been married for a month now. Aren't you going to toast to us?" he asked sweetly as he caught two glasses of champagne from a passing tray and grimly everyone did.
"What of the Pigtailed Girl?" Kuno asked.
"Who Ranma's sister? She married a US military soldier who won't be around much and she shall be living with us" Akane lied smoothly and studied and disheartened looking marital artists, the only one who looked happy about the situation was Mousse who kept on pumping Ranma's hand repeatedly and saying what a wonderful choice he made. All of them were attractive in their ways and she couldn't help wondering how many potential couple combinations lay between them now that she and Ranma had just cleared the path for them. She herself was contently married so far and wished a New Year's wish for them that they would all find someone to make them happy.
"Well we have to go, I promised Akane I would buy her dinner and then home to make love for New Year's. I would really love to recommend married life, you should all give it a try sometimes" Ranma said cheekily and they swept from the room, leaving a group of desolate teenagers in their wake.
"I can no go home if I don't kill girl-type Ranma and marry boy-type Ranma, I never see home again" a broken hearted Shampoo wept against Mousse, accepting his embrace for once and they left for home with his arm around the broken girl.
"He was my first love" Kodachi wailed and didn't even question when Ryoga hugged her, she just clung to him and wept.
"I don't know about you people, but I'm going to sit by the pool and get drunk" Kuno said bitterly, grabbing several random bottles from the bar and leaving his own party.
"I'm coming with you" said an already tipsy Ukyo and followed him without permission.