AN: I acknowledge Rumiko Takahashi as the creator and owner of Ranma ½ and in no way claim any form of ownership.

I was surprised at how angry some people got in that first chapter. People, you don't have to agree with my portrayal on Ukyo, it is just my take on her. But whoever said that this is an Akane beats Ranma all the time, and Ukyo is there for him like an angel story? When I said unexpected consequences, I mean it quite literally. Just because Ranma thinks a certain way in this story does not mean that the rest of the characters do. HINT- it is called when it all goes wrong for a reason!

However that side, thanks goes out to Flameraven, Richard Ryley, grandprincessanastatiaromanov5, Tenchi Saotome, and Gengantes.

When It All Goes Wrong

Chapter 1

As I walked back into the Tendo home, I was greeted by none other than the man who should change into a buffoon, but is a panda, or in more plain terms my father. Gruffly, he demands, "Boy, where have you been? You have just butchered the wedding and need to make it up to your fiancé!"

Though I have to restrain myself from starting a "sparring session" then and there, I do realize that as the one hurt by this, I need to at least Akane my apology. And also explain to her what I plan to do. Though I have no idea how to manage it. Steeling myself for the first of many unpleasant conversations, I ask, "Where is she?"

Deflating at how direct I was being about Akane for once he just answered straight up, "In her room." All the challenge in his voice was gone, and he moved aside allowing me to pass.

Making my way to her room, I struggle outside it, my hand seemingly unwilling to knock, in my dread of having no idea how to approach this. However, any option of retreat was taken away from me when Akane opened her door, slightly stony faced, before resignedly asking, "What is it Ranma?"

My hesitation is only strengthened by her demeanour. However, for once it seems I am being given the time to figure out what to say. I start by mumbling, "I am sorry Akane. For…well… you know, the whole wedding fiasco. It was just really sudden…so I didn't know what to do. I don't really respond well to things when they are sprung on me all of the sudden. Then all the people coming didn't let me…well…y'know… say what needed to be said."

"It is not your fault all those people interfered Ranma. Now please let me by."

I am surprised at her apparent lack of care of my apology, and her lack of anger over the whole situation. Almost as though she had given up on the whole situation. In my shock, she just brushed past me, leaving me to wonder how it was that it could be like that. Normally she would react in some way in the very least. Something must really be bothering her. Chasing after her, I ask, "What is bothering you, Akane?"

Turning around, she offers a smile I can very clearly see is fake. "I am fine Ranma."

Grabbing her arm, I continue, "Something is obviously bothering you, Akane. Please tell me what it is!"

Shaking her head, she pulls free and then stalks off, leaving me standing there, utterly bamboozled. I could not figure out for the life of me what had been wrong. In past she had acted that way when I had do something that really hurt her, but she had never responded that way to an apology.

At this point I am really starting to get really worried, but I knew it would be stupid to try and force the issue. Head-on solutions never really seemed to work with Akane. Unfortunately, that is really the only way that I know how to do something.

I stand there for a while, desperately hoping for some type of inspiration of why she had been that, but no matter how I tried, nothing came to me. So I decided to try to do what I had decided before as quickly as possible. To sort through all of my personal affairs. Maybe it would make her happy to see me try and cleanup all of the clout that had complicated her life in ways she would have never imagined possible. But a small part of me was asking a question that I really did not want to know the answer to. Is it already too late?

After school, I decided to set my plan into action. Deciding that a good first target would be Kuno, as he was the person on my list that I dislike the most, other than Kodachi, but he is in a closer location. Tracking him down to the Kendo club, I knock, only to hear a shout of, "Who is it that dost interrupt my meditation?!"

"Kuno, its Ranma. Can we talk please?"

The door slides open, and I am greeted with the glaring face of Kuno who demands, "What do you want with me, fiend?"

Signing, I ever so painfully began, "To talk about…y'know… the red-haired girl you like."

Looking at me sharply he says, "My pig-tailed goddess? What have sorcery have you used on her this time, vile Saotome?!"

Here is that part where it gets really difficult. This is not something that I want to admit to anyone, especially not directly or forcefully, but indirectly. Worse, someone who was in "love" with me, guy to guy without even knowing it. Feeling like I want to throw up as how messed up this was I forcefully ground out, "There is no sorcery! I am her! She is I! It is a curse that I, Ranma Saotome, have. Not one I have placed on her."

"What lunacy is this, fiend?"

Pulling the thermos out of my bag and a glass, I pour him so cold water, and offer it to him. "Drink it."

"Why should I partake in such foolishness, Saotome?!" he cut in.

Beginning to get angry myself, I challenge him, "What are you too scared to Kuno? Consider it a challenge from one martial artist to the next."

Clearly struggling against his pride now, he eventually conceded, and swallows it whole. I then take that glass back and open another thermos, this one with hot water, and gesture for him to drink it as well. He grudgingly does, and once he finishes I ask him, "So would you not agree that those are merely normal hot and cold water?"

True to his usual one-track mind, he ignores what I said and inquires, "What does this have to do with your wretched sorcery on my pig-tailed goddess?"

"Just answer the question! Do you openly concede, without any hesitation that those were regular hot and cold cups of water?!"

"Yes I do! Now answer my question in turn, Saotome!"

Nodding, I pour the cold water over my head, and change into my female half. Kuno lunges at me shouting, "My pig-tailed goddess!" Only to be stopped by my foot going into his face.

"Kuno, the person you are calling your goddess is me, Ranma Saotome! Do you know how sick that is?"

Kuno freezes for a moment, before returning to his previous efforts to embrace me. Accompanied by a shout of, "Don't worry my pig-tailed goddess, I shall free you from that vile Saotome's spell!"

Shaking in anger at his sheer ignorance, I grab him and throw him away from me, before a resounding thud confirmed his impact with the wall of his club. Grabbing the hot water, I shove it in his face and say, "Watch this!"

Reverting to my male for him I continue, "I received a curse at a place called Jusenkyo, where if you fall into one of the pools of water, it will cause cold water to turn you into the form of whatever the cursed spring is named after. I feel into the Spring of the Drowned Girl. Do you understand now Kuno? Cold water turns me into a girl, hot water reverts me into my normal self!"

Shaking his head in disbelief he says, "It is just another one of your spells! This is merely your attempt to separate me from my-"

I interject, shouting, "You moron! How could it be a trick! You conceded that the water was completely normal! If it had magic in it, something would have happened to you!"

Regardless of what I say, he continues to shake his head in disbelief in what I am saying, not wanting to believe it so then I decide it is time to shatter that fake reality of his. "Go ask Akane! Your pure, sweet and innocent Akane about my curse. She will tell you that it is real!"

"You think you can fool me Saotome?! She is also under your sorcery!"

I start to slam my head against the wall in frustration. "Ask anyone who knows her then! They will tell you the same! Why else would she act like me, talk like me, fight like me?! Damn it Kuno, is it that hard to accept?!"

He is still shaking his head, but seemingly more out of a desire for it not to be true than genuine belief. Sighing, I decide to just leave him there having done everything that I could.

As fate would have, on this very same I would be approached by the other person I would be only too happy to be rid of, Kodachi. In all of her usual glory. Leotard, maniacal laughter and the Black Rose pedals. 'Doesn't she ever tire of the same theatrics?"

I was walking home in silence with Akane when she showed up. Deciding that since fate had thrown this my way, I might as well roll with it. However, Akane had not noticed that Kodachi was here, as she was tuned out like she had been since the wedding around me. Noticing this as well, Kodachi had decided to apply her principle of "fighting in all fairness before a match" to her love "rival", with a swing of her mallet on an unsuspecting Akane.

Acting on instinct, I lung towards Akane, to move her clear of Kodachi, but the mallet strikes me square on the check, and force of it send Akane and I flying. Flipping over I land neatly on my feet, as though nothing had happened. I look down at Akane, who seemed fine other than looking winded as well as surprised. Surprise gave way to a glare as she saw Kodachi and her mallet.

Kodachi then called out to me, "My beloved Ranma, why is it you hold her? If you must hold someone, hold me, my beloved."

Fighting back the urge to make a disgusted face, I set Akane down, and say, "Just leave this to me, okay? It is time we deal with this nuisance in our lives."

Turning towards Kodachi, I consider how best to proceed. With Kuno, his disgust at loving a guy would be enough to get him to lay off me. But with Kodachi, that would not work as the thought of loving a guy would not bother her. 'But perhaps a guy who turns into a girl won't be so appealing.' Grinning at the thought, I then notice a slight stinging sensation from my cheek from where Kodachi has struck me.

Deciding to not bother with the preamble as I had with Kuno, I outright claimed, "Kodachi, I have a curse that turns me into girl whenever I come into cold water. Hot water is what restored me to normal. The girl who challenged and defeated you in Akane's place was me. She does not do something to me when she appears, she is me."

Giving me her annoying laugh again she declares, "Hahaha, Ranma darling, don't make such outrageous claims! You don't have to protect that girl. Just come with me and I will leave her alone! It is impossible for someone to—"

As it happens, I was standing by the house of the old lady that always seemed to have water on standby for me. Today was no exception. As Kodachi was speaking, she say my transformation with her very eyes. She just stood there staring at me, shell-shocked. Taking my oppourtunity as she had finally shut up for once in her life, continued from where I left off, "Do you understand now? If you don't believe that it is me, why is my face red in the same spot as where you hit the male me? That is why you won't want me. I turn into a girl Why take a guy who turns into a girl as a husband? It is disgusting, right? Who knows what else could happen? You don't want a girlfriend too, right?"

Seeing that she was still nowhere near being capable of formulating a response, I left her there, and continued home with Akane.

As we walked back, I noticed that Akane was acting as distant as she was before. Her eyes had a little more life when they looked at me. While it wasn't much, I am thrilled to at least see some improvement. Then I hear a mumbled, "Thank you Ranma. I have been waiting for that for a long time."

I try to get answers out of her on what she meant, but she refuses to elaborate.

AN: Anyways, with the Kuno segment out of the way, we can finally get into the part of this that will have more interesting dynamics than Ranma and Kuno or Kodachi. Please leave me your thoughts in a review!