(Well, when we last left off, Ranma and Akane already got married and are living in their current house. Akane left Ranma to change her clothes to go swimming in their pool outside. In the meantime, once again, another good set of reviews… though I only got three. Come on, people… this is Akane and Ranma here… send in the good reviews. Thanks to Keiko Murikami, VapmireLover94, and vleroy728 for reviewing. Hope you'll enjoy the rest of this first day of fun of Ranma's and Akane's marriage.)

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(Akane's P.O.V.)

"Where are you going?" Ranma asked.

"Change so I can go swimming," I answered. "You coming, Ranma?" I asked.

"Uh… sure," Ranma answered, following me.

I was the first one to make it up the stairs… well, that's because I started climbing the stairs before Ranma. I made my way down the hall to the farthest down of three doors… one on each side of the floor of the house; one door was on the left side, which was the bathroom, the door on the right was just a vacant guest room, and the door at the end of the hallway was our bedroom. I opened the door and stepped in, but kept it open for Ranma to come in. I had already opened one of the dresser drawers and was rummaging through clothes to find one of my bathing suits.

"Ah ha!!" I exclaimed. "I found one."

I had pulled out my one-piece pink bathing suit that I remembered wearing when I was younger.

"Alright, my turn," Ranma replied, politely moving me away.

I briefly watched him rummage through his clothes for his swimshorts. In the meantime, I left the bedroom for the bathroom to change. I grabbed a towel and came out minutes later in my suit. At the same time, Ranma had come out of the bedroom holding his swimshorts.

"Wow, you're changed and everything," Ranma said to me.

"Now YOU have to," I replied as I descended down the stairs.

I continued to descend down the stairs until I reached the bottom. There were a total of 13 steps that separated the 1st floor from the 2nd. I opened the screen door and stepped outside onto the rough concrete that made up a portion of the back yard of our house. To the left of me beside the pool, were a couple of poolside chairs and a table.

"Oh, isn't it… a beautiful day for swimming," I said, putting a hand to my forehead, to protect my eyes from the sun.

I was looking at the bright blue sky for a bit. I set my towel down on our lawn furniture… well, on our chair anyway. The sun was shining really brightly. The temperature was around 95 degrees today. Just standing on the concrete in the sun burned my feet. I gingerly walked to the edge of the pool and just jumped in. I landed in the water with a splash.

"Whew, what a cool feeling," I said after resurfacing.

I had remembered how to swim from the end of high school at Furinkan, during college at Nerima U., and just hanging out with Shunjo (my college friend), or Nabiki and her friends… or my friends if we ever went to the pool or the beach. I began to swim to the shallow end. As soon as I made it there, I saw Ranma come out. He stood in white swimshorts with fire designs on the bottom. Before we got married, Ranma had bought those because he felt like his other ones were getting a bit short and small for him.

"About time," I said.

"Whaddya mean 'about time'?" Ranma said to me.

"I mean you took a little longer than most men take," I replied.

"Sheesh," Ranma said as he set his towel down on the other chair.

I watched as he trotted to the deep end and simply dove in. When he resurfaced, he was normal. He didn't have breasts of a woman, even a bust line, or his red hair like he had when he was under his girl curse. I smiled in happiness – he REALLY didn't have to journey back to Jusenkyo to butt heads with the guide.

"Well, whaddya think?" Ranma asked me.

"I… I'm so happy for you," I said to him. He really DID get rid of his curse. I thought.

"Well, technically, I'm still under a curse from one of the springs of Jusenkyo," Ranma replied. "BUT, it's a neutral curse... at least."

"Amen to that," I replied.

"No more girls' bathing suits for me," Ranma said to me.

"Yep," I answered.

I finally saw proof that Ranma was back to normal. I admit that when he was given the private boat ride back, I was a little disappointed because if he called and said he was swimming back, I would've got to hear his voice after he was done swimming back to the nearest beach.

"So, Ranma, why'd you decide to pick me for marriage instead of those other three?" I finally asked. "And tell me the truth." I added.

"Well, the truth is," Ranma said, coming clean with it. "I just had these feelings of love for you… but I never wanted to admit them to you… and honestly, Akane… I kinda secretly liked you better when your hair was long."

"Did you?" I asked.

I remembered when I used to have long hair until Ryoga's umbrella chopped it off. I had also got rid of the bangs that were around my ears, too.

"Yes," Ranma admitted.

"You don't know how long I've felt the exact same way," I said to him. "I always hated it when you called me a tomboy, klutz, flat-chested, etc. but I knew deep down that you didn't mean those things… didn't you?"

"No I didn't," Ranma admitted once again. "The only thing I hated was my Dad deciding who I should be engaged to."

"Same here," I answered.

Unexpectedly, at the same time, we both said, "It's my life and I feel like I should do what I want with it and who I should marry."

We were a little embarrassed about it, but deep down, I was happy Ranma chose me as his future wife; if this were us when we were engaged… we would probably have beaten up our Dads over the stupid decisions they made for us without our consent, and then walked away in opposite directions.

"This is the kind of house I was hoping for, Akane," Ranma said to me.

"How so?" I asked.

"Just that we're away from our fathers… and we have our whole lives together ahead of us," Ranma answered.

He was right about that, for sure. I felt like we were living in a small amount of luxury with a pool and jacuzzi outside… but the biggest thing of all that we were happy about… was the fact that we were away from our dumb (and somewhat inconsiderate) fathers. The only thing that stuck out at us was the fact that there was no Kasumi to cook us some food like how I had been dealing with since I was in single-digits with my age since our mother left us. That's when the doorbell rang.

"Oh, that's the doorbell," I said as I swam to the edge and climbed out. "I'll get it."

I grabbed my towel and dried myself off a little, but kept the towel draped around my shoulders as I went to go see who it was at the door. I ignored the fact that I was still wearing my bathing suit.

"Yes?" I said as I opened the front door.

After I opened it, I found out that it was Kasumi who was at the front door. She was still in her usual apron and dress she wore every single time I saw her serve food or cook in the kitchen back home.

"Oh, Kasumi," I said happily. "What brings you here?" I asked her.

I noticed she had a small bowl with a steam hole on it where some smoke came out.

"I brought you and Ranma some oden," Kasumi answered.

"Ahhhh, thanks, Kasumi," I replied, taking the dish from her hands.

"Sure thing," Kasumi replied. "Looks like you and Ranma have a pool in the backyard."

"Is that an assumption?" I asked. "Because if it is… it's a correct one… seeing as I'm in a bathing suit."

"Mm-hmm," Kasumi replied, briefly nodding her head up and down.

"Would you like to come in?" I asked.

"Maybe another time," Kasumi answered. "Nabiki and the other men are calling for me. I only came down to drop this off for you."

"Thanks, Kasumi," I replied. "Boy does this save a lot of the trouble in cooking tonight."

I gave her a hug and she left for home. I closed the front door and took the oden Kasumi made and left it on the table to cool off. I returned to the pool and Ranma was still in there.

"Who was at the door?" Ranma asked me.

"Kasumi," I answered. "She made oden for us."

"Well, that saves the cooking tonight," Ranma replied.

"Mm-hmm," I said, nodding my head once.

Later that night, Ranma and I had changed and bathed and were in our sleepclothes. We were sitting at our dinner table eating the oden Kasumi made for us.

"This is delish," Ranma through his chewing.

"Mm-hmm," I replied.

The oden was still warm from our long swim in the pool today and our baths after that.

"Ranma," I said to my husband. "Is there anything you miss from living with Dad, Kasumi, and Nabiki, and me, too?" I asked him.

"Now that you mention it," Ranma replied. "The only thing I miss is Kasumi's cooking… but what I don't miss… is Happosai."

"Yeah, for once, I'm happy he's dead, too," I said.

"The female population can finally live in peace," Ranma said.

Happosai had died after being forbidden to leave on his usual panty raids. He couldn't get his hands on one bra or pair of girls' underwear… and as a result, he had died. It has now been 3 months since his death; Kasumi was sad to see him go… even if he was a pervert, but Dad, Mr. Saotome and Ranma were absolutely pleased; the Dads were basically pleased because they could finally live in peace and not take any more orders from Happosai. Ranma was pleased because of what he said to me a little while ago; Nabiki felt half-and-half – half pleased, half sad. Personally, I was happy for the same reason as Ranma… not to mention that he wouldn't steal my underwear anymore.

"Whew, that was good," Ranma replied after finishing the last of his helping of oden.

I saw him step outside by the pool for some fresh air. I finished my oden and joined him outside.

"A little hot in there," Ranma said when I came out.

"Well, why didn't you go to the bedroom?" I asked.

"Too lazy," Ranma answered; typical him.

We sat down on our lawn chairs and looked at the sky. It was dark, but was filled with numerous stars, and a nice full moon.

"What a glorious night," I said to Ranma.

"Yeah, we never really got to do this a lot," He replied to me.

That's when I started to stretch and yawn.

"Oh… we better get you in that bed," Ranma replied.

Surprisingly, he snaked me in his arms, holding me like I was seriously hurt… by my knees and my neck.

"You just sleep, my Akane," Ranma said quietly to me.

He carried me in his arms into the house and up to our bedroom. I blushed crimson while he carried me.

"There you go, Akane," Ranma replied, gently placing me on our bed.

"Thanks, Ranma," I whispered as he got into bed on the other side.

"Sure," Ranma replied. "Feels good to be alone, eh? We can do things that we didn't even get a chance to do because of our dads."

"Yeah, I guess," I said, blushing and sheepishly smiling.

Ranma and I kissed each other good night. We turned off our lamps and dozed off to sleep… ready for the next day.

End chapter

(Well, that's it for the first day, and I'll be back with their 2nd day of fun soon. In the meantime, hope you enjoyed this, and I sure hope to see a lot of good reviews. See you guys again.)