Chapter Two

Akane woke up in a luxurious bed, in a luxurious room. She yawned as a stream of sunlight filled the room. Strange she thought The house is rocking.. Oh yea....She recalled the night before. She had boarded the Captain Genma's ship "Renegade" and falled asleep in the Captin's quarters. They must have set sail while I was asleep. Hm. maybe I should get up and look around. He said I was free to familiarze myself with the ship and the crew. Let's start with here. With that she began to look around the cabin. There was a desk with lost of maps and journey logs. A rusty chest in the corner, and.. a rusty chest in the corner. Curiousity came over her as she opened the chest.

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"Then she throws me out of the pub with ths wind from her fingers, calls me a pervert sleep in my cabin, and Pop insists that I take care of her cuz she's supposedly my fiancee. And she sleep til noon while WE get up at dawn to work? Damn this is turning out to be a really bad week." Ranma and Ryoga were walking towards the captain's cabin. A pari of shorts and a tank top dangling in Ranma's hand.

"She sounds like hell. Well is she cute at least?"

"Hell, how should I know? I couldn't seem a damn thing last night, Probably not though. Look would you just giver her a "warm" welcome for me today? Maybe she'll decide to bail."

"Heh. It'd be my pleasure." An evil grin came over Ryoga's face as he cracked his knuckles loudly.

Ranma knocked on the door. "Hello? Akane? It's Ranma." They hears some rustling behind the door. "Coming.."

"What's she doing in there?"


"Who knows." Ranma turned around to face the door as it opened. He stared in shock at the dark haired girl behind the door. Her eyes were a deep brown with golden flecks. Her long hair was silky and dark blue. She was wearing a dark blue halter that showed her midriff and a matching skimpy skirt.

"Oh... it's you..." Ranma shook our of this daze at her droll words. He turned to see Ryoga with a serious nosebleed. He sighed. This is the tough Ryoga? That isn't afraid of anything? Ho boy... great start to another great day.

"Ranma. And this is Ryoga. He'll be showing you around today." Ranma glared at Ryoga as he began to mutter. "I am? Haha.. I am. Ryoga. Akane. Aha.."

Ranma saw that Ryoga was flustered, and he knew that he was a bit himself so he did the only thing he could think of. "Here, some more practical and comfortable clothing." He tossed the clothes at Akane. "Oh, and you will be moving out of the Captain's quarters today, and moving in with Kasumi the potions master. We can't have an uncute tomboy like you in my quarters now can we-" A gust of wind promptly slammed him into the deck as the door slammed in their faces. "Jerk."

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Akane looked at the clothes Ranma had giver her. At first she had been shocked by her fiance's rugged good looks. Last night she could hardly see him and it didn't help that he was in female form. But today in the sunlight she saw how handsome he actually was , with his dark blue eyes and finely toned muscles. But he's such a jerk! she thought angrily. She put on the white tank top and raggedy shorts. It was more comfortable. She conjured up a matching bandana and tied her long hair back.

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Outside, Ranma picked himself off the deck. "Whad she do that for! Uncute TOMBOY! UNCUTE UNCUTE UNCUTE! I'm leaving. Have fun Ryoga." He stormed off leaving a still dazed Ryoga in front of Akane's door. He was angry at himself for letting her get the best of him, at Ryoga for acting like an idiot and at himself again for acting like an idiot. She's uncute Ranma. UNCUTE UNCUTE UNCUTE REMEMBER?????

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Akane came out only to find a stuttering Ryoga left. She flashed him a brilliant smile. "I'm Akane. Are you going to be showing me around?"

Ryoga nodded dumbly.

"Okay then.. let's go.."

Ryoga nodded dumbly again.

"So where are we going?"

Ryoga nodded dumbly.

"Ryoga no baka!" Akane lost patience and slammed Ryoga into the deck with a gust of wind. He immediately came out of his daze.

"Oh, of course, let's introduce you to the crew members first," he got up rubbing his head.

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After Ryoga got over his shyness, Akane found him to be quite the conversationalist. He was an ex-soldier she discovered, at the age of 23 one of the roughest toughest best ones out there. He had fought in the Great War and became a wandered when his Lord lost the war. After that he joined the Renegades and had been traveling the seven seas ever since.

"On board I'm in charge of arms and weaponry. I'm the fighter. Perhaps later I could show you a bit about combat and swordplay." Ryoga's muscles flexed as he let down a sail. "I also do a lot of the manual work since I'm the strongest crew member. Damn the winds dying down. It'll take a month to get to the Rising Sea at the point."

"Here let me help." Akane twisted her fingers and the wind began to blow. "So tell me more about the other crew members Ryoga."

"Amazing! You say you just graduated from the Sorceress Academy and you can do that?" He stared at her in wonder and admiration. "You're gonna be a great asset to this crew, I can tell already," he said smiling.

"Mm.. " Akane blushed pleased at Ryoga's compliments. "It's really. I'm actually not a very good sorcerss at all. I can only perform easy feats like making the wind blow. No whirlwinds, hurricanes, attack stuff as of yet."

"I see. I'm sitll impressed. Well you wanted to hear about the crew members? let's begin with Ranma and Genma. Genma is the Captain of this ship. But oftentimes he's negligent and lazy so Ranma does most of the work. Genma still gets the final say though. Ranma and I fight a lot, but we're also very good friends." He looked up to see a man wearing thick glasses and a very long white robe crossing the deck. "Oy MOUSSE!" he called as the robed man walked over and promptly began talking to the mast.

"Ryoga. What are you doing up here? It's noon time. Kasumi cooked. You usually aren't the one to miss a meal."

"Over here Mousse! I want you to meet Kane. Akane, Mousse. He's out bellboy in a snese. Storage commander as he likes to be called." Ryoga chortled punching Mousse in the arm- perhaps a little to vigourously. Mousse fell straight into Akane.

"When did you get so thin Ryoga? You really should go eat. Who's Akane?" He began to feel 'Ryoga'.

Akane feeling very violated smacked him silly. . "PERVERT! I'm Akane!" Mousse peered at her through his thick glasses.

"So you are. Ranma's a lucky guy to be engages to such a beautiful young woman. A little too violent if you ask me though. Eh Ryoga?"

"RANMA AND I ARE NOT ENGAGED! JERK!"

Meanwhile Ryoga was getting a kick out of this. ONly to find himself being hit by a gust of wind that echoed. "Ryoga no baka.. baka... baka..!"

Authors notes: Ryoga's a little OOC here but I like him better this way. It's my story so please don't flame.