Akane woke up in the morning with a blissful smile on her face. She stretched and let out the loudest yawn. She got tout of bed to open her curtains and let the suns rays brighten up her room. When she pulled back her curtains she saw a boy dressed in Chinese styled clothes and a long thin ponytail. She let out a shriek at the sudden sight of Ranma in her window.

"What are you doing, you idiot!" She yelled

"I'm coming to see if you were packed and ready to go." he replied with a half smile

"Go where?" she asked with a puzzled face.

"Did you not pay attention to your dad yesterday? We're suppose to be going on vacation together."

"What just you and me?"

She didn't the fact that he lived with her, she hated the fact that she was suppose to marry him but going away with him was out of th question.

"Yes. I hate this just as much as any other man would. Maybe if you hurry and ask Kuno he'll love to go with you."

She balled her left hand into a fist and through a punch at Ranma and missed. He jumped back but still fell two stories down. She shut her window and her curtains and hurried downstairs to talk to her dad. When she reached downstairs her father was chatting about the old days with Ranmas father. They were talking and laughing so loud they could have woken up everyone in the house.

"Daddy, why do I have to go on a trip with Ranma of all people?"

"You and Ranma need to star liking one another now otherwise your life as his wife might not be too pleasant."

"I never wanted to marry him in the first place!"

"Akane please, just do it for your dear old father. I just want the best for you."

She looked at her father and wanted to say no a million different times but her father had a glow in his eyes and she knew that his heart was set on this. She sigh in defeat.

"Where are we going and how long are we going to be there?"

"To the Meadow Hot Spring and Inn."

"That lovely-dovey Inn for couples?"

"Yeah. You'll be there for about two weeks or so."

"Thats too long!"

She turned around and could feel her her father smiling brightly through her back. She went upstairs to get dress and quickly pack for her long and horrible trip with Ranma. She slowly packed her things and thought of the long and dreadful two weeks to come. Hopefully they will come and go like the wind and would pass her by so quickly that she wouldn't have to remember anything of what happened.

"Are you ready yet, slow poke?" Ranma called from her window.

"Look I don't want any trouble while were on this trip so if you stay away from me then I'll avoid you."

"Isn't the point of us going on this trip was for us to get to know one another?"

"If I wanted to get to know you I would have asked about you."

Ranma was sick of her smart remarks and he couldn't believe that he even wanted to be nice to her or even be friends with her.

"Just hurry up! And when we get there maybe some other guy would be glad to take you."

He jumped off her window and sat in the front to the house waiting for her.

He wonder how did he ever get involved with a girl like her in the first place and of course he blamed their parents for that. He lied back on the porch and looked up at the dark clouds and he could already smell the rain.

"Looks like I have to be the one to really step up on this trip since Akane won't."