~Disclaimer: Ranma1/2 and "Hito Natsu No Proposal" do not belong to me, they belong to their creators. I'm simply using the characters and the story line , and not gaining any money whatsoever for my stories. So don't sue.
A Summer's Proposal
Chapter 2: Love Hate
The next day, Akane, Shampoo, and Ukyou met for lunch at the Tendo dojo.
"Hey Ukyou! Shampoo!" Akane called out to her friends.
"Hi," Ukyou said with a frown on her face. Shampoo was twirling around with happiness, with the biggest grin on her face. She couldn't what tell them about last night.
"So, how did your big interview go this morning, Ukyou?" Ukyou simply sighed. "Bad."
"It couldn't have been that bad. You're an excellent chef. You said that it was for an okonimiyaki restaurant. You're a pro at making okonomiyaki," Akane said as they walked into the house, and to the kitchen.
"I messed up bad. For one thing, I was so nervous, I spilled the batter all over myself," Ukyou pulled out her stained blouse and showed them the stains on the blouse, and her gray slacks. "It was a good thing that I was wearing a black tank top underneath." Ukyou said with some relief evident in her voice, but then her face darkened, and she looked down. "If things couldn't get worse, I was suppose to show the owner my skills with the grill, but instead I burned the okonimiyaki black. I ruined the restaurant! The air was thick with the smoke of the burnt okonimiyaki. What am I going to do?"
"No worry, Shampoo sure Spatula girl find job soon."
"Oh yeah! What happened between you and Ryouga last night, Shampoo? I overheard you asking him to go to his apartment? Did you go?" Ukyou asked with a mischievous grin.
"Shampoo! I can't believe that you did that." Akane said with 'hmmph.'
"Akane one to talk, you leave with Ranma in cab. Last Shampoo see, you and Ranma hugging." Akane began to blush. "Shampoo know you do something."
"I didn't!" Akane screamed. "Unlike you, I don't just jumped into bed with any guy! In fact, Ranma just took me to my apartment, and went home. He was a perfect gentleman. Anyways, why would I like a pervert like him? He's such a jerk, a liar, an enemy to all women..."
"So, why do Akane want to eat lunch here. Akane know Ranma will be here to teach class." Ukyou nodded in agreement. "That's true, Akane." Akane began to blush a deeper shade of red.
"Well... well, I'm here to make sure that he does a good job, and not just goof around." Akane said.
"Whatever Akane, Spatula girl and Shampoo know truth."
Akane set the lunch she prepared on the table. "I'm starving!" Ukyou said. "What did you make for lunch Akane?"
"Fried tempura and rice!" Akane took off the cover, and smiled. "I tried really hard. I know my cooking sucks, but try it's good." Inside the bowl, was a wet, gray sorta shaped like shrimp pieces, and green rice.
"Why it green and gray?" Shampoo whispered to Ukyou. Ukyou shrugged.
"Come on you guys, eat up!" Akane smiled. Then she noticed their hesitation. "Aren't you guys going to eat it, or what?" She yelled. Then all of a sudden from outside, they heard Akane's father calling for her. "Okay, I'm coming dad." And Akane ran out to the dojo. Ukyou and Shampoo sighed in relief, and followed their friend.
The dojo was full of kids ranging from the age of four to about twelve. Ranma stood in the front of the dojo wearing black drawstring pants, and a white tank top. He was showing the class a kata.
"What do you want, dad?" Akane said coming up to her father. She scanned over the group of students, but her gazed stopped on Ranma.
"I need you to help Ranma show some moves to the class. I'm too old, and can't do them anymore. Please, Akane." Tendo said pleading with his daughter.
"I'm sorry dad, but I can't." Akane then gestured down to what she was wearing. "I can't possibly do any moves in this skirt dad."
"But please Akane..."
"How about Shampoo, or Ukyou? They do know some martial arts dad." Akane turned to them. "Hey can one of you help out with teaching the class right now?"
"Shampoo would, but no can. Shampoo wearing too short of skirt. Ukyou can; she wear pants, and tank top; good to fight in."
"Okay." Ukyou said taking a step forward.
"Oh, thanks Ukyou." Tendo said. He turned to Ranma, and nodded.
"Okay, class, I'd like to introduce you to, um," he turned to Ukyou, "I'm sorry, what's your name again?"
"Ukyou, Ukyou Kuonji." She said with a smile on her face to the class, but inside she was frowning. 'Yup, he doesn't remember me from the storm yesterday.'
"To miss Ukyou Kuonji. She's going to help me demonstrate some simple kicks and punches, and how to block them." The students gave their teacher and the assistant some room to fight.
Ranma turned to Ukyou, and bowed. Ukyou bowed back. They assumed a fighting stance. Then they started. Ranma ran in and aimed to punch Ukyou, but she side stepped it. She then did a low crouch kick, but Ranma jumped over it. Ranma and Ukyou kept attacking one another, not really making any contacts with any of the moves. Getting frustrated, Ukyou pulled out a couple of her spatulas from her pockets, and threw them at Ranma. Ranma dodged most of them, but got a small cut from one on his arm.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Ranma yelled at Ukyou. He looked at the wound, and the small sharp spatula. "We're suppose to show them how to fight unarmed."
"Well, sorry," Ukyou said with sarcasm dripping from her voice. "I usually fight armed with my spatulas; I'm not used to fighting without them." She then gave Ranma a long side glance. "You need to work on your punches and kicks; I can see them coming from miles away."
"You idiot. I was holding back. I never fight girls!" Ranma said walking up to Ukyou quickly, "If anyone needs practice, it's you!" Ranma yelled in her face. "You suck. You're not a martial artist, your some weirdo that uses spatulas as weapons." Ukyou didn't say anything. She just stared back into Ranma's eyes with as much anger and hatred as him.
"Um, excuse me." Tendo said. "We still have a class to teach here Ranma."
"Yeah sorry," Ranma gave one last angry glare to Ukyou, and continued on with his lesson.
"That guy's a jerk!!!!" Ukyou screamed as she, Shampoo, and Akane walked back into the house.
"It's ok, forget about him." The three sat back down on the couch. "Come on let's change the subject. Tell us about that guy from the storm yesterday?"
"Has Ukyou seen man since?" Shampoo asked Ukyou.
"Well, yes I have." Ukyou said not really paying attention to what she was saying. 'That jerk, how dare he say that I'm bad martial artist.'
"Really?!" Akane and Shampoo cried. "When? Where? Who is he?"
"Um, I don't want to talk about it." Ukyou said quietly. "He doesn't even remember me."
"What makes you think that he doesn't remember you Ukyou?" Akane asked.
"Because he ignored me."
"Tell us!"
"No!"
"Wait, Shampoo think she know who he is. Is Ranma, yes?"
"Don't be crazy Shampoo, what are the chances that the same guy is Ranma?" Akane laughed and turned to Ukyou. "She's being crazy again isn't she?" But the look on Ukyou's face told Akane otherwise.
"See, Shampoo right."
"Yeah, it's Ranma Saotome." Ukyou sighed. "I admit that I liked him when I first saw him, but when I got to know him, I realized that he was a total jerk." Ukyou turned to Akane, "Really Akane, I don't like him."
"Why are you telling me that? It's not like I'm going to go out with that jerk, especially after I saw how he treated you. Your friendship is more important to me than any guy, Ukyou." Akane said and hugged Ukyou.
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After Ukyou and Shampoo left, Tendo asked to speak to Ranma and Akane.
"I'm really sorry about earlier, Tendo-san, I promise it won't happen again," Ranma bowed deeply to his boss.
"No son, that's not what I wanted to talk to you about." Tendo looked at his daughter and man in front of him. "As you know, your father and I used to know each other," Ranma nodded. "Well, we are the only two families that know the Anything Goes fighting style, and we wanted to secure the art."
"Well, isn't that why you wanted me to teach it?" Ranma said.
"Yes, but that's not all. Your father and I decided to join our families together," there was a long awkward pause, "so we had engaged you both to marry."
"What?" Akane and Ranma asked.
"You two have been engaged to marry even before you were born. We just waited until now because we thought it would have been to early for you two to meet when you were, lets just say, sixteen. At least at the age of twenty six, you're both mature adults, who can handle this idea well."
"But father..."
"No buts, Akane," Tendo turned and left.
"Wow!" Ranma said.
"What?"
"I knew it was fate that I met you." Ranma turned to Akane. "See, you and I were already written in the stars to be together. Let's go on a date tonight. Come on, I know that you like me too."
Akane blushed. "How can I possibly like you? You are such a jerk to my friends. Especially Ukyou."
"Who cares about Ukyou?" Ranma said with shrug of his shoulders.
"I do. Don't you remember her Ranma?"
"No, I've never met her before in my entire life." Ranma sat down.
"Let's see if you can remember this: a man and a woman take shelter together under a canopy from a storm. She jumps into his arms when lightning strikes, and he hugs her close." Ranma's eyes began to widen as the memory came back to him. "Now do you remember? She liked you, Ranma."
"Look, how am I suppose to remember every girl that I see? I'm sorry if she thought that anything special would happen between me and her, but I just don't feel that way about her. I like you." He stood up and grabbed Akane's hand.
"But still, I think you should have been a bit nicer." Akane said taking her hand away from Ranma's.
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"Oh, this feels nice!" Ukyou sighed happily as she felt the warm water of her tub wash over her body. Knock, knock "Great! Who can that be?" Ukyou got out of the tub, and grabbed a white silk robe from behind the door. "I'm coming!" She opened the door, "Ranma?"
"Hi, Ukyou. Um, can I come in?" Ranma said sheepishly.
"Sure I guess." She stepped aside and let Ranma in. "If you don't mind me asking, how did you get my address?"
"Akane gave it to me." Ranma sat down on her couch. "Nice apartment."
"Thanks." Ukyou sat down on a chair near him. Ranma looked up and noticed that she was wet and in a robe that did little to hide her body. Ranma quickly looked away.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to disturb you while you were taking a bath," Ranma looked back up at her. 'Nice,' he thought as he looked her over again.
"It's okay, what do you want?" Ukyou said, unknowing of how much she was revealing.
"Akane told me. I'm sorry that I didn't remember you, Ukyou-chan."
"What are you talking about?"
"The storm yesterday; I forgot that the girl was you. I'm sorry. And I'm sorry about today."
"So, you think you have to apologize to me just because Akane told you to. What do you think you're doing?" Ukyou said getting up.
Ranma stood up, "Hey. I'm trying to be nice here, you know." Then he paused a little, "you know what, on second thought I don't apologize about today. It's not my fault that you're a bad martial artist that you had to use a spatula to even hurt me. Akane also told me something else. She told me that you liked me. Sorry, Ukyou, but you're not my type. I don't go for uncute, unfeminine women like you."
"You are such a jerk!" Ukyou shouted at Ranma. She slapped Ranma hard on his right cheek.
Ranma didn't even flinch. "You're ugly!" He yelled back into her face.
"And I hate you!" She shoved Ranma back, hard. "Get out of my apartment!!" She opened the door, and he walked out. She slammed it shut, and sat on the floor, and began to cry.
To be continued...
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Author's notes: Hi everyone! Thank you so much for reading my series. I hope you all are enjoying it. Well, I know that the ending of this chapter is a little sad for Ukyou, but don't worry, things will get better for her, I promise.
XOXO,
Megumi
A Summer's Proposal
Chapter 2: Love Hate
The next day, Akane, Shampoo, and Ukyou met for lunch at the Tendo dojo.
"Hey Ukyou! Shampoo!" Akane called out to her friends.
"Hi," Ukyou said with a frown on her face. Shampoo was twirling around with happiness, with the biggest grin on her face. She couldn't what tell them about last night.
"So, how did your big interview go this morning, Ukyou?" Ukyou simply sighed. "Bad."
"It couldn't have been that bad. You're an excellent chef. You said that it was for an okonimiyaki restaurant. You're a pro at making okonomiyaki," Akane said as they walked into the house, and to the kitchen.
"I messed up bad. For one thing, I was so nervous, I spilled the batter all over myself," Ukyou pulled out her stained blouse and showed them the stains on the blouse, and her gray slacks. "It was a good thing that I was wearing a black tank top underneath." Ukyou said with some relief evident in her voice, but then her face darkened, and she looked down. "If things couldn't get worse, I was suppose to show the owner my skills with the grill, but instead I burned the okonimiyaki black. I ruined the restaurant! The air was thick with the smoke of the burnt okonimiyaki. What am I going to do?"
"No worry, Shampoo sure Spatula girl find job soon."
"Oh yeah! What happened between you and Ryouga last night, Shampoo? I overheard you asking him to go to his apartment? Did you go?" Ukyou asked with a mischievous grin.
"Shampoo! I can't believe that you did that." Akane said with 'hmmph.'
"Akane one to talk, you leave with Ranma in cab. Last Shampoo see, you and Ranma hugging." Akane began to blush. "Shampoo know you do something."
"I didn't!" Akane screamed. "Unlike you, I don't just jumped into bed with any guy! In fact, Ranma just took me to my apartment, and went home. He was a perfect gentleman. Anyways, why would I like a pervert like him? He's such a jerk, a liar, an enemy to all women..."
"So, why do Akane want to eat lunch here. Akane know Ranma will be here to teach class." Ukyou nodded in agreement. "That's true, Akane." Akane began to blush a deeper shade of red.
"Well... well, I'm here to make sure that he does a good job, and not just goof around." Akane said.
"Whatever Akane, Spatula girl and Shampoo know truth."
Akane set the lunch she prepared on the table. "I'm starving!" Ukyou said. "What did you make for lunch Akane?"
"Fried tempura and rice!" Akane took off the cover, and smiled. "I tried really hard. I know my cooking sucks, but try it's good." Inside the bowl, was a wet, gray sorta shaped like shrimp pieces, and green rice.
"Why it green and gray?" Shampoo whispered to Ukyou. Ukyou shrugged.
"Come on you guys, eat up!" Akane smiled. Then she noticed their hesitation. "Aren't you guys going to eat it, or what?" She yelled. Then all of a sudden from outside, they heard Akane's father calling for her. "Okay, I'm coming dad." And Akane ran out to the dojo. Ukyou and Shampoo sighed in relief, and followed their friend.
The dojo was full of kids ranging from the age of four to about twelve. Ranma stood in the front of the dojo wearing black drawstring pants, and a white tank top. He was showing the class a kata.
"What do you want, dad?" Akane said coming up to her father. She scanned over the group of students, but her gazed stopped on Ranma.
"I need you to help Ranma show some moves to the class. I'm too old, and can't do them anymore. Please, Akane." Tendo said pleading with his daughter.
"I'm sorry dad, but I can't." Akane then gestured down to what she was wearing. "I can't possibly do any moves in this skirt dad."
"But please Akane..."
"How about Shampoo, or Ukyou? They do know some martial arts dad." Akane turned to them. "Hey can one of you help out with teaching the class right now?"
"Shampoo would, but no can. Shampoo wearing too short of skirt. Ukyou can; she wear pants, and tank top; good to fight in."
"Okay." Ukyou said taking a step forward.
"Oh, thanks Ukyou." Tendo said. He turned to Ranma, and nodded.
"Okay, class, I'd like to introduce you to, um," he turned to Ukyou, "I'm sorry, what's your name again?"
"Ukyou, Ukyou Kuonji." She said with a smile on her face to the class, but inside she was frowning. 'Yup, he doesn't remember me from the storm yesterday.'
"To miss Ukyou Kuonji. She's going to help me demonstrate some simple kicks and punches, and how to block them." The students gave their teacher and the assistant some room to fight.
Ranma turned to Ukyou, and bowed. Ukyou bowed back. They assumed a fighting stance. Then they started. Ranma ran in and aimed to punch Ukyou, but she side stepped it. She then did a low crouch kick, but Ranma jumped over it. Ranma and Ukyou kept attacking one another, not really making any contacts with any of the moves. Getting frustrated, Ukyou pulled out a couple of her spatulas from her pockets, and threw them at Ranma. Ranma dodged most of them, but got a small cut from one on his arm.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Ranma yelled at Ukyou. He looked at the wound, and the small sharp spatula. "We're suppose to show them how to fight unarmed."
"Well, sorry," Ukyou said with sarcasm dripping from her voice. "I usually fight armed with my spatulas; I'm not used to fighting without them." She then gave Ranma a long side glance. "You need to work on your punches and kicks; I can see them coming from miles away."
"You idiot. I was holding back. I never fight girls!" Ranma said walking up to Ukyou quickly, "If anyone needs practice, it's you!" Ranma yelled in her face. "You suck. You're not a martial artist, your some weirdo that uses spatulas as weapons." Ukyou didn't say anything. She just stared back into Ranma's eyes with as much anger and hatred as him.
"Um, excuse me." Tendo said. "We still have a class to teach here Ranma."
"Yeah sorry," Ranma gave one last angry glare to Ukyou, and continued on with his lesson.
"That guy's a jerk!!!!" Ukyou screamed as she, Shampoo, and Akane walked back into the house.
"It's ok, forget about him." The three sat back down on the couch. "Come on let's change the subject. Tell us about that guy from the storm yesterday?"
"Has Ukyou seen man since?" Shampoo asked Ukyou.
"Well, yes I have." Ukyou said not really paying attention to what she was saying. 'That jerk, how dare he say that I'm bad martial artist.'
"Really?!" Akane and Shampoo cried. "When? Where? Who is he?"
"Um, I don't want to talk about it." Ukyou said quietly. "He doesn't even remember me."
"What makes you think that he doesn't remember you Ukyou?" Akane asked.
"Because he ignored me."
"Tell us!"
"No!"
"Wait, Shampoo think she know who he is. Is Ranma, yes?"
"Don't be crazy Shampoo, what are the chances that the same guy is Ranma?" Akane laughed and turned to Ukyou. "She's being crazy again isn't she?" But the look on Ukyou's face told Akane otherwise.
"See, Shampoo right."
"Yeah, it's Ranma Saotome." Ukyou sighed. "I admit that I liked him when I first saw him, but when I got to know him, I realized that he was a total jerk." Ukyou turned to Akane, "Really Akane, I don't like him."
"Why are you telling me that? It's not like I'm going to go out with that jerk, especially after I saw how he treated you. Your friendship is more important to me than any guy, Ukyou." Akane said and hugged Ukyou.
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After Ukyou and Shampoo left, Tendo asked to speak to Ranma and Akane.
"I'm really sorry about earlier, Tendo-san, I promise it won't happen again," Ranma bowed deeply to his boss.
"No son, that's not what I wanted to talk to you about." Tendo looked at his daughter and man in front of him. "As you know, your father and I used to know each other," Ranma nodded. "Well, we are the only two families that know the Anything Goes fighting style, and we wanted to secure the art."
"Well, isn't that why you wanted me to teach it?" Ranma said.
"Yes, but that's not all. Your father and I decided to join our families together," there was a long awkward pause, "so we had engaged you both to marry."
"What?" Akane and Ranma asked.
"You two have been engaged to marry even before you were born. We just waited until now because we thought it would have been to early for you two to meet when you were, lets just say, sixteen. At least at the age of twenty six, you're both mature adults, who can handle this idea well."
"But father..."
"No buts, Akane," Tendo turned and left.
"Wow!" Ranma said.
"What?"
"I knew it was fate that I met you." Ranma turned to Akane. "See, you and I were already written in the stars to be together. Let's go on a date tonight. Come on, I know that you like me too."
Akane blushed. "How can I possibly like you? You are such a jerk to my friends. Especially Ukyou."
"Who cares about Ukyou?" Ranma said with shrug of his shoulders.
"I do. Don't you remember her Ranma?"
"No, I've never met her before in my entire life." Ranma sat down.
"Let's see if you can remember this: a man and a woman take shelter together under a canopy from a storm. She jumps into his arms when lightning strikes, and he hugs her close." Ranma's eyes began to widen as the memory came back to him. "Now do you remember? She liked you, Ranma."
"Look, how am I suppose to remember every girl that I see? I'm sorry if she thought that anything special would happen between me and her, but I just don't feel that way about her. I like you." He stood up and grabbed Akane's hand.
"But still, I think you should have been a bit nicer." Akane said taking her hand away from Ranma's.
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"Oh, this feels nice!" Ukyou sighed happily as she felt the warm water of her tub wash over her body. Knock, knock "Great! Who can that be?" Ukyou got out of the tub, and grabbed a white silk robe from behind the door. "I'm coming!" She opened the door, "Ranma?"
"Hi, Ukyou. Um, can I come in?" Ranma said sheepishly.
"Sure I guess." She stepped aside and let Ranma in. "If you don't mind me asking, how did you get my address?"
"Akane gave it to me." Ranma sat down on her couch. "Nice apartment."
"Thanks." Ukyou sat down on a chair near him. Ranma looked up and noticed that she was wet and in a robe that did little to hide her body. Ranma quickly looked away.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to disturb you while you were taking a bath," Ranma looked back up at her. 'Nice,' he thought as he looked her over again.
"It's okay, what do you want?" Ukyou said, unknowing of how much she was revealing.
"Akane told me. I'm sorry that I didn't remember you, Ukyou-chan."
"What are you talking about?"
"The storm yesterday; I forgot that the girl was you. I'm sorry. And I'm sorry about today."
"So, you think you have to apologize to me just because Akane told you to. What do you think you're doing?" Ukyou said getting up.
Ranma stood up, "Hey. I'm trying to be nice here, you know." Then he paused a little, "you know what, on second thought I don't apologize about today. It's not my fault that you're a bad martial artist that you had to use a spatula to even hurt me. Akane also told me something else. She told me that you liked me. Sorry, Ukyou, but you're not my type. I don't go for uncute, unfeminine women like you."
"You are such a jerk!" Ukyou shouted at Ranma. She slapped Ranma hard on his right cheek.
Ranma didn't even flinch. "You're ugly!" He yelled back into her face.
"And I hate you!" She shoved Ranma back, hard. "Get out of my apartment!!" She opened the door, and he walked out. She slammed it shut, and sat on the floor, and began to cry.
To be continued...
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Author's notes: Hi everyone! Thank you so much for reading my series. I hope you all are enjoying it. Well, I know that the ending of this chapter is a little sad for Ukyou, but don't worry, things will get better for her, I promise.
XOXO,
Megumi