Back from a little break! I did some traveling, and as I sat there on the plane, I thought, and thought, and thought some more. I scrapped what I had in mind for this chapter, and came up with something that I think will be much more fun to read, as well as to write. Now, I mean deep, DEEP thought, heh. This is the longest story I've ever written and I plan to close it up after a few chapters. I'm really not goin' for anything epic, and to tell you the truth, I thought about giving up on the story. But alas, I'm glad I didn't! I know, many times p-chan has been discovered! Will he? Or will he not? I'm going to include a not-so-brief summary of what has happened up until this point.

So far:

After a brief fight between the two angry teenagers, Ranma actually realizes he had asked Akane out on a date. The two prepare and Ranma can't believe how beautiful Akane looked, but was then surprised at how revealing her clothes were and pulled her outside behind some potted plants. After an exchange in "pleasantries" Ranma feels the urge to kiss her. He did not know the feeling was mutual, and cautiously engaged himself with Akane's lips.

The two head to a diner and eat. They did not see a young Amazon girl, who was on a delivery, spying on them. Shampoo goes to all of the suiters and alerts them of Ranma and Akane's date as part of her master "plan".

On the way home, Ranma and Akane see a shooting star go by overhead in the night sky and both make a wish. Ranma inquires what Akane wished for, but she called him a dummy because if she told him, her wish would not come true.

After leaving to get advice from Ukyo, Akane follows Ranma out, but loses track of him. She is attacked by a shadowy figure who turns out to be Ukyo. The thought of her losing her "Ranchan" was too much for her as she desperately tried to kill Akane or at least send a very strong message.

Akane made it out with some bad injuries and Ranma comes to her rescue. Ukyo and Ranma have an engaging conversation that leads to Ranma yelling at Ukyo and telling her that he was not her "Ranchan". The makes Ukyo even more mad at Akane and Ranma scoops her up and carries her to Dr. Tofu's clinic.

Akane is healed, but unbeknown to Ranma, Kodachi swiftly injected a sleeping/paralysis serum before he knew what had happened. Kodachi and Shampoo try to poison Akane, while Ukyo has a heartfelt conversation with an unconscious doctor. She decides to give up on Ranma and try to love Dr. Tofu who clearly cares for her.

Ranma saves Akane from the lethal injection and swiftly runs out the front door. The next day, Ranma convinces Akane to come with him into hiding so he can insure her continual health. After what had happened before, he didn't trust many people.

The couple leave town and eat at a healthy restaurant, served by a woman named Marge. She questions Ranma and Akane's relationship and ultimately bring them closer. When Ranma stands up to pay, Akane sees the pink envelope in his hand and assumes it's a love letter from one of his many girls. She did not know that it was money that had been given by Nabiki. Ranma had failed to notice the picture of Akane in the envelope, but Akane doesn't. She gets upset and starts to leave without Ranma.

As they continue down the path, Akane is attacked by Mouse, who was promised a date with Shampoo. In the blur of chains and daggers, dust rises. Everything goes silent and when the dust falls, Akane sees Ranma holding his side. Blood slowly coming out of the side where some of his shirt had been ripped. Ranma sends Mouse flying.

Akane feels shock and awe at Ranma for taking the blow for her. Someone steals Akane's bag. She bandages Ranma up, then they continue down to the mountain forests.

They set up camp in the middle of a forest surrounded by mountains. Ranma leads Akane out into the forest and settles down on an inlet sticking into the large beautiful lake.

Akane finds him and teases him a bit. They converse and Ranma ultimately ends up in the lake. Akane promises to boil him some hot water if he eats her food. Uh-oh! Tummy troubles for Ranma that night, what happens?

Campfires

Chapter Seven

Ranma groaned as he twisted and turned on the ground. His stomach felt bubbly and his eyes swirled. He flipped to his side and started choking.

"RANMA! It's not that bad!!" Akane screamed at him. "You only took one sip of my soup!" Akane took the ladle out of the smoking pot and took a small, gentle sip. Nothing happened for a moment, but then her taste buds kicked in and shot an electrifying current through her body, which left her twitching. "It really is.. bad.." Akane shrugged, then dumped the whole pot over into the now muddy dirt. She plopped her butt onto the ground and stared at her hours worth of hard work cool in the dirt.

"Good job Akane! That's exactly where it should be!" Ranma seemed fine now that the soup was gone...

"Ranma..." Ranma, still laughing at himself looked down at Akane. The morning sun caused a shadow across her face, that was looking down.

"Uh, yeah?" Akane felt like hammering him, but remained seated.

"Nothing."

"What?"

"I said it's nothing." Akane said more sternly.

Ranma may be oblivious, but he wasn't stupid. "Hey tomboy, it ain't your fault your a bad cook. Well, I guess it kinda is, but I appreciate that you tried cooking something for me."

"Who said it was for you?" Akane looked up, with a determined look on her face. Ranma made an uncomfortable face and itched the back on his head.

"Oh, umm.." Ranma eyed his tent, wishing he hadn't gotten up so early. He was just so hungry! "Well.."

"Dummy.." Akane said quietly. "Anyways, you're right. I was trying to make it for you to say thanks for, um, saving me back in town."

The two are silent.

"Man it's cold."

"Yeah." Akane eyed Ranma, who still had a twinge of nausea running through his system.

"Sorry for making you eat that crap.."

"Akane.."

"Maybe I can find some other way to thank you."

"Huh? Uh..." Akane stood up and grabbed Ranma by the hand. Ranma was led by Akane back into the tent. Akane shivered as she shut the flap of the tent and sat down next to Ranma.

"What?" Ranma looked down at Akane who moved closer. He felt her chilly arms wrap around him and hold him tightly.

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"Mountains.. Trees.. Where the hell am I?? This definitely isn't Nerima!!" A boy screamed and cursed the heavens. Birds flew out of the trees and into the morning sky.

"Just wait, Miss Akane! I'll finally come to you and open my heart for you to take. I'll tell you how much I love you. I'll finally do it. This time I won't chicken out or lose to Ranma!"

"Damn!" The young boy cursed as he kept running, jumping over petite boulders and fallen trees. He landed hard on his feet and sprung up into the air, trying to get a good look of where he was.

He did not realize until too late, that he was sailing straight for a nice sized lake. "Noooo!!!" He screamed.

SPLASH.

A thrashing pig with a small yellow bandanna emerged from the service and crawled out of the lake. It shook off the water and began walking.

The only thing he hated as much as being away from Akane, was changing into the small damn pig! He always felt so helpless and the world seemed so big. He had to get to Nerima no matter what. He would find a way to change back to human, then go get his bags by the lake where he left them.

He came into a clearing and saw a small campfire going and a green tent behind it. A small pot laid on it's side, it's contents melting into the

earth. It looked fresh. There were people here. The piglet intently plodded over to the tent to make sure the people inside were still sleeping.

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"Akane, what're you doin'??" Ranma whispered, unsure why. "Quit snugglin'!"

"Why, Ranma? You don't like snuggling with un-cute girls?"

"No, no, that's not what I.." Ranma closed his eyes. His right side was much warmer due to the fact that Akane was almost an inch away from him. Ever since he had blocked Mouse's attack for her, she had been acting rather strangely. It wasn't that he didn't like the extra nice attention, but he wasn't used to it. Ranma blushed and tilted his head down in a feeble attempt to hide it.

"Interesting, Ranma.. And you said I was uncute.."

"Look, the reason I'm.. well, uncomfortable, is cuz you're.. erm.." Ranma swallowed. "Because I--"

"Look Ranma!" Akane screamed. "It's P-chan!!!!" Ranma's jaw dropped. He had finally gotten the guts to say it and... "Wait.. P-chan...?"

Happy squealing blasted through the tent.

"How'd ya find us, pigboy?" Ranma was slightly taken back at how quickly they had been discovered. Then he realized the irony in the whole situation. The one person who always gets lost and can never find anything or anyone, was the first one to find them. Sweat rolled down the back of his head.

"Oh! Your sooo cute P-chan!!" Akane screamed. "Something wrong, baby? How did you find us?" Akane asked in a candy voice and cradled the piglet.

Ryoga was in deep thought. "Oooink! Oooink! Oink oink! Bweeee!!!!??" Which could have been translated into:

"I did it! I did it! I found Miss Akane! Is this the power of true love!!!!??"

Ranma scowled as Akane hugged the small pig tighter against her bosom. "Why's Ryoga gotta be here? I gotta get rid of him, fast."

The black pig blushed and snuggled closer into Akane's breasts. "That's it.. Who does he think he is??"

"Ryoga, get out. Go home." Ranma stated. Even if he had promised to keep Ryoga's secret, sleeping with Akane had never been part of the deal.

"What're you talking about, Ranma?? Ryoga isn't here!" As far as Ranma was concerned, the second Ryoga slept with Akane, their agreement was over.

"You sure 'bout that, 'kane?" Ranma throws a knowing look at the small pig. It's eyes bug as it realizes Ranma is serious, then starts growling.

"Ranma! If you aren't gonna be nice to P-chan then get out of here!!!" Akane screamed as she kicked Ranma out of the green tent. He lands a few feet away from Akane's attempted breakfast.

Ranma sighs. "She didn't kick me as far as she usually does.. If that counts for something." Ranma heard happy squeals coming from tent and made him clench his fists. "That damned Ryoga!" Ranma stood up straight, then with a deep breath, he headed back into the tent, determined on what he was about to do.

"'Kane, I need ta borrow "P-chan" for a few minutes, d'ya mind?" Ranma said, hinting the pigs name with sarcasm.

"Fine, but if I find one bruise on him, I'm gonna snuggle tonight. Ranma almost back-flipped and Ryoga missed the part about snuggling, due to his face still snug in Akane's breasts.

The piglet felt the warmth fade away, and then was grasped by cold hands, squeezing him harder then necessary. "Come with me P-chan. We're going to have a little talk, 'kay?"

Ranma clenched the gruff of the whimpering pig's neck and carried him a few minutes into the woods.

"Now listen, Ryoga. I'm gonna give you a few choices, 'cause I'm a nice, sensible, cool, awesome, great at martial arts, better than you, terrific, sweet, spectacular, handsome.." Ranma continued on for another minute praising himself.

"So here they are:

One, you can leave right now.

Two, you can go tell Akane who you really are.

Three, you can stay here and I'll tell her who you are.

Four, you can promise never to touch her again and I'll keep your little secret.

Five, I can feed you some of her cooking and we can see how long it takes to kill yo--"

"Ranma!" The martial artist froze. "You're insulting my cooking and torturing P-chan!"

Ranma let go of the pig and it landed on the tough floor. Akane pulls a boiling tea-pot out of no where and throws it at Ranma. Unfortunately, Ranma dodges it and in flies straight at "P-chan." The pig's eyes open wide and he tries to run, but can't. He feels like a deer staring into the headlights.

Tears fly out of his eyes and Akane yells, "P-chan!!" The hot water spills over the small pig and steam surrounds him.

"Oh shit oh shit oh shit! Now Akane will know that I'm not her precious little P-chan, but me!!!!"

Ryoga, now a naked young lad, sat on the floor. "Akane.. Please, I can explain.."

The boy looks up and gazes up to be greeted by... Nothing. "Huh? Akane? Ranma?"

Neither were in sight. "What the hell..?"

Ryoga stands up slowly and looks in all directions. Not a single soul.

"Ranma?!" Akane says after throwing his hand down after he tried to muffle her screaming.

Ranma peeks around the corner of a large tree and sees Ryoga standing out in the open, looking around.

"RANMA!" Ranma's eyes bug as Akane yells even louder. This is Ryoga's chance to get away.

"Akane, shh."

"NO! I will not be qu--"

Akane's breath goes harsh and she shivers. Her eyes are looking straight into Ranma's blue eyes. Their lips locked.

Akane blushes and Ranma tilts his head to get a better angle. Ranma loves adrenaline. After a few quiet seconds Ranma backs off and Akane breathes in deeply. She looks at the young martial artist looking down on her, and she tries to think of what to do.

Ranma chuckles to himself as he looks down at the baffled Akane. Ranma sees Ryoga has cleared the stage and he can raise his voice to above a whisper.

"Now I know how ta shut ya up." Ranma smiles.

Akane sits and pouts. "Where did P-chan go anyways?"

"I'll be back in a bit." Ranma states and starts to walk off in the direction they had come from.

"Where are you going?"

"Ta find P-chan." Ranma shouts back. "Why did I save him anyways..? Whatever."

"Oh.. ok! I'll get lunch ready for you!" Ranma faults, but then continues trudging into the forest.

Akane smiles to herself and begins to hum. She looks over at her cooking supplies. She takes an extended finger up to her face and feels her lips. She sighs and begins preparing for lunch.

That's chapter seven!

SG1 FMA DC – okay! tosses a muffin

Lilly-Petal – I thought a lot. You didn't get to see much of it in this chapter though :( Thanks for the comment! tosses a cookie

Rabid Badger – ah, well thanks! Bakes you a cake

cupcakes – i duno.. oh, wait, I do know! Read on to see! gives you sprinkles

kaihou – Coffee can be your best friend or your worst enemy. :D

I think that's the only time I experimented with bold stuff like that. .0 You are weird but I'll take your word for it and not do it again.

Space 'em out? Sure. In the future, I'm not goin' back into that thing unless I decide I need to rewrite this whole story. Kinda like I need ta do with my other one. And I AM!

Nabiki acting cute? hai... :D

Thanks! You just made my day with that review! bakes you one of those gigantic volcano chocolate cake things with ice cream

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Here's an update on my other stories:

Ranma's Great Computer Adventure! - Completed (Possible sequel)

One Reason Only – Completed (Possible sequel if I get more feedback on it)

Escaping the Inescapable – In Progress (Small re-write over Christmas break and next chapter)

I'm also in the middle of a one-shot for Christmas. I'm going to upload it sometime closer to Christmas. It's basically about all the pairs getting closer together in Christmas themed ways. I don't know if that makes much sense to you but it does for me. You'll just have to wait!

Thanks to everyone that has commented! It helps me oh so much, and I just love reading them! I guess now I give out little treats to anyone who comments, just cause I want to! So fun!

Studdevil :D