What would have happened had Ranma not been such a chicken early on in the series? What if he had actually kissed Akane in the very beginning, right after she teased him about being kissed by Sanzennin?
Golden Pairing:
"I swear, Ranma. Taking parting in a skating match even though you can't skate at all!" Akane held on to one of Ranma's currently female hands as she dragged the flailing aqua-transsexual martial artist around the skating rink.
The pair was engaged due to an agreement between their fathers before they were born. In the weeks since Ranma's arrival, Akane's relatively calm life had been turned upside down.
Between her father's announcement of the engagement and being thrown under the bus by her sisters and saddled with the engagement, Akane's relationship with Ranma could at best be described as confused. They got along to a certain degree, and insults aside, had a lot of common interests. For example, they were both interested in martial arts and getting out of the engagement they found themselves trapped in.
But even more confusing was the fact that they liked each other. They would deny it till blue if confronted with the fact, but even in the short time since Ranma's arrival, a small degree of sexual tension was apparent to everyone but the parties involved. The problem was that neither teenager was emotionally ready or prepared to be saddled with an engagement at sixteen.
The chaos surrounding Ranma's arrival only accelerated. First there had been the business with Kuno and his crush on Ranma's female half, and then the fight between Ryoga and Ranma ended up with Akane losing her hair. Then Kodachi's had attacked the Furinkan rhythmic gymnastic team, necessitating Ranma to appear after Akane was unable to compete in the challenge due to an ankle sprain the night before the competition.
And now, the pair was attempting to train for the martial arts figure skating challenge Ranma had foolishly accepted just the day before.
"Aren't you man? Why don't you try acting like one!" Akane let out an exasperated sigh as she continued to lead her fiancé around the rink.
"Right now I'm a woman, remember?" Ranma said. "Besides, it would look really bad for a man not to be able to skate."
Akane turned around and grabbed both of Ranma's hands, skating backwards as she pulled her wobbling fiancé behind her. "I've got news for you, Ranma. It looks just as bad for a woman who can't skate."
Before Ranma could reply, Akane was knocked to the ground by the speeding form of Shiratori Azuka.
"Oops! Sorry."
"You did that on purpose!" Akane said.
"I don't have the time for that now." Azuka stated. "Your friend…"
The transfer of momentum effectively doubled Ranma's speed, sending her speeding backwards towards the wall of the rink helplessly flailing her arms, trying to maintain her balance.
She was saved from an abrupt and painful stop by a pair of powerful arms as Mikado Sanzenin scooped her up and held her off the ice.
"Have we met before? I would have remembered meeting a girl as cute as you before..."
Before he could continue, he was interrupted, forcefully, by his partner. Together, the Golden Pair of Kolholtz High School proceeded to take on the martial arts hockey team.
