Disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 and Hito Natsu No Proposal do not belong to me. I am simply borrowing the story line, and the characters. So please don't sue.
A Summer's Proposal
Chapter 1: Diary of Heartache
It is a beautiful summer night in Nerima, and two lovers are standing at side of a bridge, overlooking the lights of the city. Ukyou is leaning against the rail, admiring the view.
"Oh, Tsubasa, isn't the city beautiful tonight." Ukyou said whirling around to look at her handsome boyfriend.
"Not as beautiful as you, Ukyou," Tsubasa pauses a little, "Ukyou, will you marry me?"
"What? I must be dreaming." Ukyou said, completely speechless. "Please say it again to me."
"Marry me, Ukyou." And Ukyou quickly answered him with a hug, and a passionate kiss.
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"Oh, now that's the one!" Tsubasa exclaimed as he saw his beautiful fiance in the most perfect wedding dress.
"You think so," Ukyou said looking at her reflection in the mirror of the bridal store. "I'm so happy." Ukyou and Tsubasa engage in kiss.
"Hey!" Ukyou cried as she felt Konatsu being pulled away from her. When she looked up, she saw an attractive woman, with long black hair, tied in a ponytail. "Excuse me, what do you think your doing?" Ukyou cried as she noticed the look that passed between her fiance and this new woman. 'Do they know each other?"
"What are you doing here, Kodachi?" Tsubasa said.
"Hohohohohohoho!" Kodachi cackled. "Oh my dear Tsubasa, I came here to inform you, and your boyish fiance of some good news."
"What is she talking about, Tsubasa? Do you know her?" Ukyou asked.
"I'm three months pregnant, and it's too late to abort," Kodachi said with devilish glint in her eyes. She started to rub her stomach, while Tsubasa and Ukyou stared at her in disbelief. "I just thought that you should know. If you don't do anything about the baby, Tsubasa, I'll go to your work, and tell all your friends about the baby, and your fiance. That would definitely start a lot of gossip at work wouldn't it? Hohohohohohohoho!!!" Ukyou's tears began to swell up in her eyes.
'No. This can't be happening.' Ukyou's tears began to swell up in her eyes.
Tsubasa noticing Ukyou's distress, pulled Kodachi out of the store. He glanced once more at Ukyou with grief in his eyes, and left.
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"That jerk! If he's going to leave me, he should at least call me!" Ukyou cried jumping off her bed and snapping shut the engagement ring box. "I know! I'll quit my job at the office, so at least I wouldn't see him." sniff, sniff "Why is this happening? I didn't do anything!" Sob, sob "I'm going to write this down!" Ukyou went over to her bookshelf and pulled out the books, until she found her hidden diary. On the cover, it was titled: "Ukyou's diary of heartache."
Ukyou began to flip through the diary, until she came to the last page. "What? I can't believe it. It's full; I used up all the pages. Ooohhhh, am I that pathetic?" Ukyou began to cry again, and then sat up, her posture filled with determination. "I will write this down," Ukyou then flipped the diary over, and wrote on the back cover of the diary:
"June 26, 1998: Tsubasa proposed to me a couple of days ago. But today, while we were looking at some wedding dresses, his lover, some girl named Kodachi, came in and revealed that she was pregnant. He hasn't called me yet... Tsubasa and I broke up."
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"Let's see here. You are 24 years old. Are you married?"
"No sir."
"Have a boyfriend?"
"No sir."
"So Miss Kuonji, you quit your last job, why?" The interviewer asked Ukyou.
"Well, you see, um, I'm healthy, I didn't make any really bad mistakes at work, I can type well..."
"You fell in love with a co-worker didn't you?" The interviewer asked her up front. Ukyou paused, totally caught off-guard. "It's okay, Miss Kuonji. It's appropriate at your age to fall in love and want a serious relationship. I think you first should find this love, then start to look for another job. Thank you for coming in." The interviewer stood up and left the room.
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"I don't have a job, I don't have a boyfriend. What's wrong with me?" Ukyou asked herself. Then all of a sudden rain started to pour down heavily from the sky.
"Oh no!" Ukyou cried as she began to run and to seek some shelter from the storm. Ukyou ran under a canopy of a dress store.
"Aww!" She cried as she was rudely shoved from under the canopy.
"I'm sorry miss. Are you okay?" Ukyou looked up, and stared into the deepest blue gray eyes that she had ever seen. 'Those eyes are amazing. They're so beautiful.' Ukyou noticed that the man was about her age, with a strong built. 'He's a total Adonis,' Ukyou thought to herself. Then she noticed a very distinct pigtail on the back of his head.
The two just stood there under the shelter, when all of a sudden lightning boomed and flashed. Scared Ukyou, instinctively grabbed onto the man's arm.
"Are you okay?" The handsome stranger asked her again.
"Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."
"It's okay, don't worry about it," a cab passed by and the stranger hailed it. He was about to get in, when he turned back to Ukyou. "Excuse me, um."
"Yes?" Ukyou said excitedly. 'Ooh, he's going to ask me to share a cab with him.'
"Um, your skirt zipper is down," with that, he jumped into the cab and drove off. Leaving a very wet, and alone Ukyou in the street.
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"Ukyou! Oh there you are Ukyou!" Ukyou's two best friends since high school smiled as they saw her.
"Shampoo call Spatula Girl's office, and they say you quit. Is true, yes?" The bubbly purple-haired beauty asked her friend.
"Is something wrong Ukyou? Did you and Tsubasa get into another fight?" Akane asked her.
The three friends always met at the gym after work. Ukyou got off the bike, and said "I need to take a dip." And she walked off to the Jacuzzis. However, there was young man occupying it.
"Excuse me," Shampoo said in her cutest voice, "please let Shampoo, and her friends use Jacuzzi." The man fell for it, and got out of it. Ukyou, and Akane got in, but Shampoo kept flirting with him.
"Shampoo, is he your type?" Shampoo shook her head furiously. "Then why are you still flirting with him?" Akane asked her.
"Is fun." Shampoo answered and finally settled down in the warm, relaxing water. "You break up with cross dresser, yes?" Shampoo turned and asked Ukyou.
"Hey, he isn't a cross dresser anymore. He stopped that." Ukyou said with a pout.
"So you broke up with him didn't you?" Akane said with no hint of surprise in her voice. "You shouldn't have quit your job though."
"Maybe I should try one of those dating services." Ukyou said stretching her legs out and enjoying the water.
"No, don't do that! Those guys in those dating services are dumb, you don't want those types of guys." Akane exclaimed.
"Well, your lucky Akane. You could get any guy that you want. Unlike me." Ukyou said sadly. "Actually, I did meet someone today."
"Really?" Shampoo and Akane asked excitedly.
"It was during the storm earlier today. We were taking shelter under a canopy, when all of a sudden lightning struck. We both jumped into each others, keeping each other safe. He was so close to me, that I could feel the heat from his skin." Ukyou closed her eyes, and wrapped her arms around herself.
"Then what happened?" Shampoo asked.
"He then hailed a cab and called me over..." Ukyou paused a little. A flashback crossed her mind as she remembered the handsome stranger say, 'Um, your skirt zipper is down.'
"And then?" Akane asked.
"Nothing." Ukyou said. "I can't say."
"Ooh, Shampoo know what is, is sex!"
"No!" Ukyou said blushing. "I just don't want to say."
"Anyways, can you guys come over later? My dad wants me to meet the new dojo instructor." Akane asked her two friends.
"Yes, Shampoo would like to come over. May have a lot of cute guys there."
"Is that all you think about Shampoo? Guys? I hate guys." Akane made a sour face just thinking about the opposite sex. The three friends began to laugh and splash each other with the water.
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Knock, knock
"Oh hey Ranma!" Ryouga said as let his soaked friend in.
"Can you get me a kettle of warm water?" Ranma-chan asked, currently in his female form. 'Damn umbrella. It had to break after I got out of the cab.'
"Yeah of course." Ryouga retreated back into his kitchen, or what he thought was his kitchen, but was his closet. "Oops, hehe, it's that way." Then Ryouga continued in the right way to kitchen.
"So, when's Mousse coming?" Ranma-chan asked as she sat down next to coffee table.
"In a few minutes," Ryouga came up behind Ranma, and poured the warm water onto Ranma, and turned him back into a male.
"Good, can you guys come with me over to my new job? My boss is inviting me over tonight to meet his daughter." Ranma took the towel, and began to dry his hair.
"Hmm, his daughter."
"Don't get any ideas. He told me that his daughter actually studies the same type of martial arts as I do. Apparently her father knew my pop, and they used to train. He probably just wants her approval or something.
Knock, knock
"That's probably Mousse." Ryouga opened the door, and a very glum Mousse walked in.
"Hey man, what's wrong with you? You didn't get soaked unlike me, so what's wrong?" Ranma asked, honestly concerned.
"I was dumped again." Mousse stated simply as he flopped down and onto the sofa.
"Not again, Mousse. Your relationships are for such a short time, that Ranma and I didn't even get to meet her. I don't even know her name." Ryouga said as he sat down next to him.
"What does it matter? I'll never find true love." Mousse sighed.
"Don't say that Mousse, you'll find her. I'm sure of it." Ranma said putting a hand on his shoulder. "So, can you come with Ryouga, and I over to meet my new boss and his daughter?"
"Boss's daughter, eh? Sure, maybe she's cute, or at least has a few cute friends."
"Okay then, let's go."
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"Dad, what's going on?" Akane asked her father suspiciously as she noticed that her father was in his formal kimono.
"I'll explain it later, Akane." Ding, dong "Oh good, he's here." Tendo ran out to the entrance and let his guest in.
Ukyou was in the kitchen with Shampoo, cooking up some dinner. Then she noticed the man from the storm. 'That pigtailed?' Shampoo and Ukyou quickly ran out from the kitchen to greet them.
"Oh Ranma I'm glad you're here. And I see you brought a couple of friends with you. Anyways, I'd like to introduce to you, my daughter, Akane, and her friends, Ukyou, and Shampoo." The three girls bowed politely. "And girls this is Ranma, the new instructor of the dojo, and his friends, Ryouga and Mousse. So, have any of you met each other?"
Ukyou kept staring at Ranma, hoping that he would remember her. Ranma simply smiled at Ukyou, then turned to Akane, "I think I know you."
"No, that's impossible. I'm sure we never met," Akane said shaking her head furiously.
"I'm positive we did. Did you ever compete in the district competitions?"
"Yes, I did, when I was sixteen."
"Then I'm sure we met," Ranma said with a smile, and Akane slightly blushed under his gaze.
"Ranma, are you hitting on my daughter right in front of me?" Tendo asked jokingly, yet somewhat serious.
"I'm sorry, was it that apparent." Ranma said bowing slightly.
Shampoo kept staring at Ryouga, obviously attracted the bandana clad man. Ryouga simply smiled back. "Come now, go eat." Tendo said gesturing towards the dinner table. "I'm just going to go to my room now, so you kids get to know each other."
The girls went into the kitchen to fetch the food. Ukyou pulled Akane to the side, and asked "Are you sure you don't know that guy?"
"I'm positive. I've heard that line too many times all ready, don't worry, I haven't fallen for it." Akane said as she walked out of the kitchen and into dining room.
The six of them sat down at the table, but it was apparent that Ranma was being extra sweet to Akane. "So, how did you guys meet?" Akane asked the three friends.
"Well, actually we met during our training missions in China." Ryouga answered.
"So, what happened during these training missions?" Ukyou asked.
"Nothing." Ranma, Ryouga, and Mousse answered. "It's not important."
"Oh okay." Akane said a little confused. "So are you guys dating anyone right now?" Akane asked. "I'm sure you have plenty of women, Ranma."
"Well, I like you the best." Ranma said smiling at Akane.
"Beware of him, don't believe what he says." Ryouga said.
"You're one to talk, Ryouga, you're as dangerous as me."
"So what your story, Mousse?" Shampoo asked.
"Well, unlike them, I'm looking for a relationship that could possibly lead up to marriage." Mousse smiled happily.
"That refreshing to hear. Shampoo always date men that no want serious relationship. Mousse Shampoo type of man." Shampoo said flirtatiously, but not really meaning it.
"Really? I am?" Mousse asked, becoming lovestrucked.
"Yes, Mousse is."
"Do you wanna go on a date with me sometime Shampoo?"
"Hmm, what should Shampoo do?" Shampoo said in her way too cute voice, causing Mousse to like her even more.
Ukyou just sat there. No one talked to her, nor paid any attention to her. 'I can't believe he doesn't remember me.'
A couple of hours later, the six left. While waiting for a cab, Mousse went to use the restroom. The three girls were about to catch a cab together, but then Ranma grabbed a cab, and took Akane with him. Then Shampoo, and Ryouga got a cab together, and Ukyou overheard Shampoo asking Ryouga if she could go to Ryouga's apartment, so Ukyou didn't bother to ask if she could ride with them too. So she decided to walk home.
"Oh well, a little fresh air would be good right now. Ranma is such a jerk, I can't believe that I was actually falling for him." Ukyou said to no one. From a distance, Ukyou could hear Mousse shouting, "Shampoo! Where are you? Shampoo!"
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Author's Notes: Okay, well this is a cross over between my favorite anime and my favorite Japanese drama, "A Summer's Proposal" (Hito Natsu No Proposal). Once again I would like to say that I don't own any of these characters, and I'm borrowing the storyline from the series. So please don't sue.
Things will get better for Ukyou later on. I know that the characters seem OOC, but I'm still trying to use some the plot from Ranma, and put it with "A Summer's Proposal." Everyone still has their curses, except for Shampoo, since she never went to the cursed springs.
XOXO,
Megumi
A Summer's Proposal
Chapter 1: Diary of Heartache
It is a beautiful summer night in Nerima, and two lovers are standing at side of a bridge, overlooking the lights of the city. Ukyou is leaning against the rail, admiring the view.
"Oh, Tsubasa, isn't the city beautiful tonight." Ukyou said whirling around to look at her handsome boyfriend.
"Not as beautiful as you, Ukyou," Tsubasa pauses a little, "Ukyou, will you marry me?"
"What? I must be dreaming." Ukyou said, completely speechless. "Please say it again to me."
"Marry me, Ukyou." And Ukyou quickly answered him with a hug, and a passionate kiss.
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"Oh, now that's the one!" Tsubasa exclaimed as he saw his beautiful fiance in the most perfect wedding dress.
"You think so," Ukyou said looking at her reflection in the mirror of the bridal store. "I'm so happy." Ukyou and Tsubasa engage in kiss.
"Hey!" Ukyou cried as she felt Konatsu being pulled away from her. When she looked up, she saw an attractive woman, with long black hair, tied in a ponytail. "Excuse me, what do you think your doing?" Ukyou cried as she noticed the look that passed between her fiance and this new woman. 'Do they know each other?"
"What are you doing here, Kodachi?" Tsubasa said.
"Hohohohohohoho!" Kodachi cackled. "Oh my dear Tsubasa, I came here to inform you, and your boyish fiance of some good news."
"What is she talking about, Tsubasa? Do you know her?" Ukyou asked.
"I'm three months pregnant, and it's too late to abort," Kodachi said with devilish glint in her eyes. She started to rub her stomach, while Tsubasa and Ukyou stared at her in disbelief. "I just thought that you should know. If you don't do anything about the baby, Tsubasa, I'll go to your work, and tell all your friends about the baby, and your fiance. That would definitely start a lot of gossip at work wouldn't it? Hohohohohohohoho!!!" Ukyou's tears began to swell up in her eyes.
'No. This can't be happening.' Ukyou's tears began to swell up in her eyes.
Tsubasa noticing Ukyou's distress, pulled Kodachi out of the store. He glanced once more at Ukyou with grief in his eyes, and left.
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"That jerk! If he's going to leave me, he should at least call me!" Ukyou cried jumping off her bed and snapping shut the engagement ring box. "I know! I'll quit my job at the office, so at least I wouldn't see him." sniff, sniff "Why is this happening? I didn't do anything!" Sob, sob "I'm going to write this down!" Ukyou went over to her bookshelf and pulled out the books, until she found her hidden diary. On the cover, it was titled: "Ukyou's diary of heartache."
Ukyou began to flip through the diary, until she came to the last page. "What? I can't believe it. It's full; I used up all the pages. Ooohhhh, am I that pathetic?" Ukyou began to cry again, and then sat up, her posture filled with determination. "I will write this down," Ukyou then flipped the diary over, and wrote on the back cover of the diary:
"June 26, 1998: Tsubasa proposed to me a couple of days ago. But today, while we were looking at some wedding dresses, his lover, some girl named Kodachi, came in and revealed that she was pregnant. He hasn't called me yet... Tsubasa and I broke up."
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"Let's see here. You are 24 years old. Are you married?"
"No sir."
"Have a boyfriend?"
"No sir."
"So Miss Kuonji, you quit your last job, why?" The interviewer asked Ukyou.
"Well, you see, um, I'm healthy, I didn't make any really bad mistakes at work, I can type well..."
"You fell in love with a co-worker didn't you?" The interviewer asked her up front. Ukyou paused, totally caught off-guard. "It's okay, Miss Kuonji. It's appropriate at your age to fall in love and want a serious relationship. I think you first should find this love, then start to look for another job. Thank you for coming in." The interviewer stood up and left the room.
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"I don't have a job, I don't have a boyfriend. What's wrong with me?" Ukyou asked herself. Then all of a sudden rain started to pour down heavily from the sky.
"Oh no!" Ukyou cried as she began to run and to seek some shelter from the storm. Ukyou ran under a canopy of a dress store.
"Aww!" She cried as she was rudely shoved from under the canopy.
"I'm sorry miss. Are you okay?" Ukyou looked up, and stared into the deepest blue gray eyes that she had ever seen. 'Those eyes are amazing. They're so beautiful.' Ukyou noticed that the man was about her age, with a strong built. 'He's a total Adonis,' Ukyou thought to herself. Then she noticed a very distinct pigtail on the back of his head.
The two just stood there under the shelter, when all of a sudden lightning boomed and flashed. Scared Ukyou, instinctively grabbed onto the man's arm.
"Are you okay?" The handsome stranger asked her again.
"Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."
"It's okay, don't worry about it," a cab passed by and the stranger hailed it. He was about to get in, when he turned back to Ukyou. "Excuse me, um."
"Yes?" Ukyou said excitedly. 'Ooh, he's going to ask me to share a cab with him.'
"Um, your skirt zipper is down," with that, he jumped into the cab and drove off. Leaving a very wet, and alone Ukyou in the street.
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"Ukyou! Oh there you are Ukyou!" Ukyou's two best friends since high school smiled as they saw her.
"Shampoo call Spatula Girl's office, and they say you quit. Is true, yes?" The bubbly purple-haired beauty asked her friend.
"Is something wrong Ukyou? Did you and Tsubasa get into another fight?" Akane asked her.
The three friends always met at the gym after work. Ukyou got off the bike, and said "I need to take a dip." And she walked off to the Jacuzzis. However, there was young man occupying it.
"Excuse me," Shampoo said in her cutest voice, "please let Shampoo, and her friends use Jacuzzi." The man fell for it, and got out of it. Ukyou, and Akane got in, but Shampoo kept flirting with him.
"Shampoo, is he your type?" Shampoo shook her head furiously. "Then why are you still flirting with him?" Akane asked her.
"Is fun." Shampoo answered and finally settled down in the warm, relaxing water. "You break up with cross dresser, yes?" Shampoo turned and asked Ukyou.
"Hey, he isn't a cross dresser anymore. He stopped that." Ukyou said with a pout.
"So you broke up with him didn't you?" Akane said with no hint of surprise in her voice. "You shouldn't have quit your job though."
"Maybe I should try one of those dating services." Ukyou said stretching her legs out and enjoying the water.
"No, don't do that! Those guys in those dating services are dumb, you don't want those types of guys." Akane exclaimed.
"Well, your lucky Akane. You could get any guy that you want. Unlike me." Ukyou said sadly. "Actually, I did meet someone today."
"Really?" Shampoo and Akane asked excitedly.
"It was during the storm earlier today. We were taking shelter under a canopy, when all of a sudden lightning struck. We both jumped into each others, keeping each other safe. He was so close to me, that I could feel the heat from his skin." Ukyou closed her eyes, and wrapped her arms around herself.
"Then what happened?" Shampoo asked.
"He then hailed a cab and called me over..." Ukyou paused a little. A flashback crossed her mind as she remembered the handsome stranger say, 'Um, your skirt zipper is down.'
"And then?" Akane asked.
"Nothing." Ukyou said. "I can't say."
"Ooh, Shampoo know what is, is sex!"
"No!" Ukyou said blushing. "I just don't want to say."
"Anyways, can you guys come over later? My dad wants me to meet the new dojo instructor." Akane asked her two friends.
"Yes, Shampoo would like to come over. May have a lot of cute guys there."
"Is that all you think about Shampoo? Guys? I hate guys." Akane made a sour face just thinking about the opposite sex. The three friends began to laugh and splash each other with the water.
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Knock, knock
"Oh hey Ranma!" Ryouga said as let his soaked friend in.
"Can you get me a kettle of warm water?" Ranma-chan asked, currently in his female form. 'Damn umbrella. It had to break after I got out of the cab.'
"Yeah of course." Ryouga retreated back into his kitchen, or what he thought was his kitchen, but was his closet. "Oops, hehe, it's that way." Then Ryouga continued in the right way to kitchen.
"So, when's Mousse coming?" Ranma-chan asked as she sat down next to coffee table.
"In a few minutes," Ryouga came up behind Ranma, and poured the warm water onto Ranma, and turned him back into a male.
"Good, can you guys come with me over to my new job? My boss is inviting me over tonight to meet his daughter." Ranma took the towel, and began to dry his hair.
"Hmm, his daughter."
"Don't get any ideas. He told me that his daughter actually studies the same type of martial arts as I do. Apparently her father knew my pop, and they used to train. He probably just wants her approval or something.
Knock, knock
"That's probably Mousse." Ryouga opened the door, and a very glum Mousse walked in.
"Hey man, what's wrong with you? You didn't get soaked unlike me, so what's wrong?" Ranma asked, honestly concerned.
"I was dumped again." Mousse stated simply as he flopped down and onto the sofa.
"Not again, Mousse. Your relationships are for such a short time, that Ranma and I didn't even get to meet her. I don't even know her name." Ryouga said as he sat down next to him.
"What does it matter? I'll never find true love." Mousse sighed.
"Don't say that Mousse, you'll find her. I'm sure of it." Ranma said putting a hand on his shoulder. "So, can you come with Ryouga, and I over to meet my new boss and his daughter?"
"Boss's daughter, eh? Sure, maybe she's cute, or at least has a few cute friends."
"Okay then, let's go."
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"Dad, what's going on?" Akane asked her father suspiciously as she noticed that her father was in his formal kimono.
"I'll explain it later, Akane." Ding, dong "Oh good, he's here." Tendo ran out to the entrance and let his guest in.
Ukyou was in the kitchen with Shampoo, cooking up some dinner. Then she noticed the man from the storm. 'That pigtailed?' Shampoo and Ukyou quickly ran out from the kitchen to greet them.
"Oh Ranma I'm glad you're here. And I see you brought a couple of friends with you. Anyways, I'd like to introduce to you, my daughter, Akane, and her friends, Ukyou, and Shampoo." The three girls bowed politely. "And girls this is Ranma, the new instructor of the dojo, and his friends, Ryouga and Mousse. So, have any of you met each other?"
Ukyou kept staring at Ranma, hoping that he would remember her. Ranma simply smiled at Ukyou, then turned to Akane, "I think I know you."
"No, that's impossible. I'm sure we never met," Akane said shaking her head furiously.
"I'm positive we did. Did you ever compete in the district competitions?"
"Yes, I did, when I was sixteen."
"Then I'm sure we met," Ranma said with a smile, and Akane slightly blushed under his gaze.
"Ranma, are you hitting on my daughter right in front of me?" Tendo asked jokingly, yet somewhat serious.
"I'm sorry, was it that apparent." Ranma said bowing slightly.
Shampoo kept staring at Ryouga, obviously attracted the bandana clad man. Ryouga simply smiled back. "Come now, go eat." Tendo said gesturing towards the dinner table. "I'm just going to go to my room now, so you kids get to know each other."
The girls went into the kitchen to fetch the food. Ukyou pulled Akane to the side, and asked "Are you sure you don't know that guy?"
"I'm positive. I've heard that line too many times all ready, don't worry, I haven't fallen for it." Akane said as she walked out of the kitchen and into dining room.
The six of them sat down at the table, but it was apparent that Ranma was being extra sweet to Akane. "So, how did you guys meet?" Akane asked the three friends.
"Well, actually we met during our training missions in China." Ryouga answered.
"So, what happened during these training missions?" Ukyou asked.
"Nothing." Ranma, Ryouga, and Mousse answered. "It's not important."
"Oh okay." Akane said a little confused. "So are you guys dating anyone right now?" Akane asked. "I'm sure you have plenty of women, Ranma."
"Well, I like you the best." Ranma said smiling at Akane.
"Beware of him, don't believe what he says." Ryouga said.
"You're one to talk, Ryouga, you're as dangerous as me."
"So what your story, Mousse?" Shampoo asked.
"Well, unlike them, I'm looking for a relationship that could possibly lead up to marriage." Mousse smiled happily.
"That refreshing to hear. Shampoo always date men that no want serious relationship. Mousse Shampoo type of man." Shampoo said flirtatiously, but not really meaning it.
"Really? I am?" Mousse asked, becoming lovestrucked.
"Yes, Mousse is."
"Do you wanna go on a date with me sometime Shampoo?"
"Hmm, what should Shampoo do?" Shampoo said in her way too cute voice, causing Mousse to like her even more.
Ukyou just sat there. No one talked to her, nor paid any attention to her. 'I can't believe he doesn't remember me.'
A couple of hours later, the six left. While waiting for a cab, Mousse went to use the restroom. The three girls were about to catch a cab together, but then Ranma grabbed a cab, and took Akane with him. Then Shampoo, and Ryouga got a cab together, and Ukyou overheard Shampoo asking Ryouga if she could go to Ryouga's apartment, so Ukyou didn't bother to ask if she could ride with them too. So she decided to walk home.
"Oh well, a little fresh air would be good right now. Ranma is such a jerk, I can't believe that I was actually falling for him." Ukyou said to no one. From a distance, Ukyou could hear Mousse shouting, "Shampoo! Where are you? Shampoo!"
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Author's Notes: Okay, well this is a cross over between my favorite anime and my favorite Japanese drama, "A Summer's Proposal" (Hito Natsu No Proposal). Once again I would like to say that I don't own any of these characters, and I'm borrowing the storyline from the series. So please don't sue.
Things will get better for Ukyou later on. I know that the characters seem OOC, but I'm still trying to use some the plot from Ranma, and put it with "A Summer's Proposal." Everyone still has their curses, except for Shampoo, since she never went to the cursed springs.
XOXO,
Megumi