Ranma was walking home from a long day at school. Not only did Akane throw a desk at him for calling her manly, he ended up in the swimming pool, turning him into a girl again. The situation was easily fixed, but he had to wait until lunch to get any hot water.
Needless to say, Ranma was pretty steamed. He understood that Akane was angry with him, but she didn't have to make him a girl in front of the whole school. It was totally embarrassing. Not to mention that Kubo guy was chasing him as a girl all day.
As Ranma made his way into the Tendo residence, he made sure to go straight to his room. He was relieved to find that he made it home before Akane, but he sure as hell wasn't getting out of her wrath at dinner. This made him depressed, and he sulked to his room. Not much later Akane came home. She was pissed. As soon as she got home, she went to the training hall to let off some steam.
"What a jerk!" Akane thought while bringing her hand down on a stack of bricks, routinely braking them all in half, "How dare he make fun of me so publicly! What right does he have to call me such names?! The nerve of that guy..."
Meanwhile, Ranma was up in his room, wincing at every crack of bricks coming from the training hall. After some thought, he thought dinner might go better if he talked to her now and got over with it. And with that, he went to the training hall.
Akane was preparing another stack of bricks when he entered. "What do you want?" Akane asked, anger and in her voice.
"I have come to face your wrath like a man." Ranma stated sarcastically.
Akane made a slight growling noise before slapping Ranma. "Oww..what was that for, Akane?" Ranma winced.
"Don't you go calling yourself a man! Men don't make fun and criticize girls! Men don't act anything like you! You're no man, you're just one big jerk!" Akane answered angrily through her newly formed tears.
"What's up with you Akane? You've never had such a problem with it before. I was just messing around, it's not that big a deal..." Ranma began, but was promptly interrupted by another slap on the face.
"You're such as jerk!" Akane yelled before running out on him. Ranma was left alone in the training hall, his cheek red and stinging in pain. He was so confused. He couldn't figure out why Akane was making such a big deal about this after so long, and why she had to be so violent about it. Well, maybe he could understand the second part, but…
Just then, Nabiki walked in. "Dinner's ready." she stated nonchalantly. She then giggled, "Judging by your face, you and Akane got in another fight. What was it about this time?"
"I don't even know," Ranma began, " I was just messin' with her like usual, and she totally flipped."
"Mmm..." Nabiki considered her response, "Well, maybe Akane is done with you 'messin' with her', I mean, did you ever even consider how she's supposed to feel about stuff like that?"
"What do you mean?" Ranma responded, clearly not understanding.
Nabiki sighed before answering, "I think Akane doesn't want you to make fun of her anymore. I mean, a girl feelings fluctuate a lot, but there's also that she's gotten a lot older. I guess you're just too dense."
"Huh?",was all Ranma could say.
"Just go get Akane for dinner, okay?" At this Nabiki winked, leaving some sort of mystery behind on what it meant. Nabiki then left for the dining room, and Ranma set out to find Akane.
"I wonder what Nabiki meant." Ranma thought, finding his way to the back yard.