Ranma and Akane continued their way to school. The lessons went by as usually: Akane trying to study and Ranma sleeping most of the time.
On their way to changing rooms (for PE) the girls were walking ahead, while Ranma and the guys walked behind them. Out of the blue Akane stumbled.
"Are you alright, Akane?" Her friends asked her. She laughed and quickly restored her composure: "Sorry, my head started to spin a little."

Ranma said nothing – he had noticed already before that Akane looked tired during the lessons. Even though he didn't want to admit it, after all that happened in China, he had started to keep close watch on her. During PE she stumbled even more while blaming it on the dizziness. The teacher asked her to sit and rest. As all the other girls were active, she sat there all alone. After half an hour Ranma couldn't take it anymore and made his way to her.

"Here, you need to drink a bit." He handed her a bottle of water.
"I'm fine. Just tired." She ignored his hand.
"Come on. Drink – it will make you feel better." He still offered the bottle. Akane looked at him and while saying nothing she reached for the bottle. With the first try she missed the bottle: "Don't move it then!"
"I wasn't!" Ranma answered when Akane took the bottle. She only glared at him and removed the cap. She took a mouthful of water and put the cap back on.
"It doesn't taste good," she said after swallowing.
"How can water not taste good?" Ranma was confused.
"Well it does!" Akane argued.

Ranma uncapped the bottle and took a sip: "It tastes like water." From far away someone asked: "Did Ranma and Akane just share an indirect kiss?!" Everybody looked at them, while their faces turned dark red.
"OF COURSE NOT!" they both yelled even though they actually had drink from the same bottle. Akane stood up and in a voice full of sarcasm she said: "Thanks a lot, Ranma!" She took a step towards the other girls, yet her dizziness was back again and without any warning she fell. Lucky for her Ranma was there to catch her.
"Ok. Now's enough. We're going to ," he said, Akane in his arms.
"What?! I'm just tired! No need to bother about it!" Akane disagreed again.
"We are going to see ," Ranma said in full confidence, while he helped Akane stand straight.
"You are just using me to get out of school!" Akane got mad.
"Well even if I am, we're still going to !"
"Stop saying what to do!"
"You stop being so stubborn!"
"I am not stubborn! You are being unreasonable!"
"Everybody can see that something is not alright with you!"
"There's nothing wrong with me!"
"When a macho chick like you can't even walk straight, then there's obviously something wrong!"
"I'd be fine if you just left me alone!" Akane held her head between her hands.

It made Ranma back out of the disagreement: "Come on. Just let's go to and if there is nothing wrong, you can sleep without any disturbance." The change in Ranma's voice made Akane be more reasonable. That and the fact that she felt her feet going weak: "Fine. Let's go to ." With that decided Ranma grabbed Akane into his arms, yelled to the teacher that they're going to the doctor's and started to run. "HEY! I can walk on my own legs!" Akane protested, but Ranma took no notice of it or the fact that their school stuff was still in the dressing rooms and they were wearing their PE clothes.