Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½ or any of it's characters. I do own Kyo and this story though.

Authors notes: Firstly, I'd like to address the reader of this fic. Your comments have been really great and I love all the positive feedback you guys are giving me. I'd like to personally address Ryushi:

Thank you for your review and when I re-read that chapter and I'd like to clear something up that I realized was my fault for not making it more apparent. Akane wasn't trying to be vindictive, she knew Ranma was behind her and was going to stop her from telling Kyo all of Ranma's secrets. She told Kyo to ask anyone in school about it as well, cause no one would dare tell him because they wouldn't want to face the 'wrath of Ranma'. Well I hope that clears everything up…as I said, this chapter is based a month after the last (and it seems like it's taken me that long to finish it).

Yesterday's Memory

Ranma had been going crazy since Akane told him that she was in love. It had been one month and Ranma couldn't figure out who this guy was. Ranma's first thought was Ryoga, but he soon realized that Akane only thought of him as a friend. Then he thought of Mousse, of all people. When Ranma had asked Akane if she liked Mousse she simply said: Sure, he's really nice if not a bit crazy, and I feel sorry for the guy. Then Ranma told Akane that he meant "date-like" and Akane began laughing and left the room. The only other person Ranma could think that Akane had feelings for was Kyo, but she said herself that she loved someone other then him and that she never wanted to love him again. But maybe she only said that to throw Ranma off of Kyo's trail. Ranma had begun to like Kyo less and less in this past month. He was always around Akane and they went places together on weekends and never invited Ranma to come along.

One of the most annoying things that Kyo did was come to the house really early to run with Akane in the morning, then he'd go home, shower and change, come back to the dojo, and him and Akane would leave really early to go to school. Ranma hated being left behind and now he had no one to stand in the hall with when he was late because everyone else was on time. Ranma figured it was time to have a long talk with Kyo. Whenever he tried talking to Akane, shed just tell Ranma that he was being stupid and jealous. If you want to cure a problem, all you need to do is go to the source, right? So Ranma decided that at lunch today he would pry Kyo away from Akane and talk to him.

Akane was sitting next to Kyo under a tree. They were by themselves, as they were every lunch. Kyo thinks that Ranma threatened everyone but he didn't tell Akane. Akane thought that all of her friends felt uncomfortable around Kyo because when he came back, he gravitated towards Akane and didn't really talk to any of his old friends, but Akane didn't tell Kyo. They weren't really talking about anything, just what movies were coming out that weekend.

"I really want to see that movie that's being imported from America…oh what's it called…. Daredevil! (AN: sorry, loved the movie, had to do it) There's going to be a whole lot of action, not like the movies we've been seeing." Akane mentally cursed herself for that one. Kyo had been taking Akane to a lot of chick flicks lately. Akane would have told him she didn't like the movies, but Kyo seemed to enjoy them and was happy taking her.

"Wait, you don't like those movies? The only reason I was taking you to those was because I thought you liked them!"

"Are you kidding! All of those movies sucked…in fact, all of those movies were practically the same thing!" Kyo and Akane were laughing so hard that they didn't notice Ranma until he cleared his throat.

Akane looked up at Ranma. She knew that it was mean to ignore him, but she couldn't face him. What if he figured out that she loved him? She'd just die, she wasn't ready for Ranma to know that yet, but it seemed like he was far off because he asked her if she liked Mousse, of all people. Ranma wasn't looking at Akane though, he was looking at Kyo with a glare in his eye. Kyo was giving Ranma the same evil glare, so Akane decided to break the silence.

"Um, Hi Ranma. Kyo and I were just talking about seeing an Action movie this weekend, you wanna go?" Ranma continued ignoring Akane.

"Kyo, I need to talk to you."

"Fine. Talk." Much animosity had grown between the two.

Kyo and Ranma still sat next to each other in class and Ranma told Kyo to stay away from his fiancée but Kyo only said that he'd back off when Akane asked him too. Ranma wouldn't have minded this so much, but one day Ranma hit the breaking point. They were in math and Ranma caught Kyo staring at Akane and then noticed that Kyo had little Akane doodles in his notebook with hearts all around them. Ranma tapped Kyo and warned him that if his thing with Akane was ever anything more then friendship, Ranma would kill him. Kyo simply replied, 'It's already so much more then that', and Ranma was pissed.

"Not here, come with me." Kyo stood up and Ranma was about to run to the field when Akane stopped them.

"Wait, wait! Ranma, whatever you have to say to him you can say in front of me! And if you leave I'll follow you, so don't even try to run out on this one!" Ranma really looked at Akane for the first time in a long while. She had that fire in her eyes that she always had when she looked at him, but this time there was something behind it. Could it be love? For Kyo? Ranma didn't know and he really didn't care.

"Look Akane, I just want to talk to him man to man. I won't hurt him unless he pisses me off and I would really like it if you stayed behind this once." Akane's eyes softened and she walked over to Kyo and told him not to make Ranma mad and then went over to where her friends were.

Ranma decided that he could talk to Kyo under the tree, as long as Akane wasn't around. Kyo and Ranma were staring each other down. They were standing about 4 feet apart and the wind was rustling softly about them. Ranma spoke first.

"I want you to back off! I know what you're trying to do and no matter if we like each other or not, she is my fiancée, so you better find yourself a new girl." Kyo gave Ranma a somewhat sinister smile.

"You don't get it do you? Go and marry one of your other fiancées, Akane is mine! I had her first and she loves me!" Now Ranma was pissed.

"She doesn't love you! She used to love you and you blew it!! You had your chance, and she's moved on! Let it go man!" Kyo started laughing like a maniac.

"I think you should 'let go' Ranma! You don't even appreciate her! She's the best girl EVER, she's the prettiest girl EVER, and YOU call her names like TOMBOY! I can't stand it any longer! Ranma she will be mine, even if I have to kill you to get her." A big crowd had formed around the two boys and Ranma scanned it looking for Akane. He had hoped that she ran when she heard the commotion, of course Akane was almost never that bright. Ranma would just have to believe in Akane, and hope that she was safe.

"I'm going to give you fair warning, I'm not going to go easy on you." Even though Kyo had studied martial arts, Ranma knew he wasn't going to be a problem. A fire started to burn in Kyo's eyes.

"I wouldn't want you to go easy on me Ranma, I want you to fight with all you've got! I want to win Akane fair and square." Ranma was trying to figure out what happened to Kyo. Even though Ranma didn't like him, he seemed normal enough. Now he seemed more like Ryoga when he thought Ranma had 'his way' with Akane. Kyo was moving into a fighting stance. Ranma decided he was going to take it easy on him, at first. Ranma figured he let Kyo have a few hits, just so Ranma could see how good he was, and then Ranma would give Kyo a quick kick to the stomach, thus ending the fight.

Kyo advanced on Ranma. He was a very sloppy fighter, he went in quickly, like Akane often did. He lunged at Ranma with his fists extended. Ranma easily dodged the attack and decided that he wasn't going to let this fight go on. He needed to talk to Akane and ask her if Kyo ever acted this way before. Ranma took Kyo down with one, really hard, kick to the stomach. Kyo fell to the ground. He had the wind knocked out of him and he was unconscious. No one in the crowed was surprised and they all decided to go home, since lunch had ended about 15 minutes earlier and no one went to class.

Ranma tied Kyo up with some equipment from the gym. He locked Kyo in the shed behind the field and went to find Akane. He asked around a little and everyone said that she left and because of what Kyo and Ranma had said. Ranma knew that Akane wouldn't go home. He figured that the last thing she wanted was to be noticed. As Ranma was running on rooftops looking for her, he thought he heard someone crying. He looked towards the waterway (AN: I'm not sure what the exact name is, but it's the waterway that Ranma falls into all the time when he falls off the fence.) and noticed a girl with short blue hair lying on the ground. It looked as though she had fallen and didn't want to try to get up. Ranma ran down there.

"Akane! Are you ok?" She looked up at Ranma. Her face was dirty from the fall. She had been crying very hard and was still doing so. Ranma hated it when Akane cried, other then that, Akane seemed ok.

"Akane, has Kyo ever tried to do anything with you? Anything at all?" Akane shook her head.

"Why does it always have to be me? He was the normal one, you know? He was my rock and…and…oh Ranma." Akane buried her face into Ranma's chest and started crying harder. The only thing Ranma could think of doing was putting his arms around her.

After a good ten minutes Akane pulled away from Ranma and wiped her tears. She looked at the water and then at Ranma.

"Not once did he ever act like that. Since he's moved here he's been nothing but a gentleman. Sure, it got a little weird when he was asking me out every weekend and when he was talking about breaking the engagement but…"

"Wait, he told you to break the engagement?" Akane sighed.

"He said that it was pointless for us to keep it. That I didn't like you and you didn't like me. He said that you didn't deserve me and that you had other girls waiting in line and that I didn't deserve the torment that you put me through all the time." Ranma winced at this.

"What did you tell him" Akane gave a faint smile.

"I told him that he was wrong about you. That you were forced into all of the engagements and that you were a lot nicer to me then you had to be, considering all the stuff I put you through. I think Kyo really started hating you when I told him that I wasn't going to drop the engagement and that I wasn't going to be his girlfriend ever again because of the engagement. I guess that was my fault, I felt bad telling him that I couldn't go out with him because of a stupid promise made by children." Tears were forming in Akane's eyes again.

"It wasn't a stupid promise. Weather you're a kid or not, a promise is a promise, it's a factor of honor, Akane. I gotta say, Kyo was right about one thing," Akane cocked her head to the side and gave Ranma a questioning glance, "I don't deserve you." Ranma smiled at Akane, she blushed and smiled back.

Ranma helped Akane stand up and they took the long way home. They caught up on the last month. Akane told Ranma about the movies that she a Kyo went to and Ranma told Akane that Kyo took her to those movies in hopes that they would make out. Akane had asked Ranma how he knew that and he said that all guys did that. Even though Ranma was joking with Akane, he was getting angrier with Kyo with every passing second. Akane said that Kyo always did the yawning and then putting the arms on the shoulder, she'd remove his hand, and then he'd do it again and she'd change seats, and he followed, but left it at that.

"Why didn't you ever tell me about this stuff Akane?"

"Well, I guess I didn't want Kyo to be Kuno. He was always so sweet as a kid and I wanted that Kyo back. And I think that I wanted to handle him myself. You fight all of my battles Ranma, I just wanted to win one of my own." Ranma gave Akane a sympathetic smile.

"You won this one Akane. You pushed him away when he advanced on you, but you know that I'm going to have to…ahem…talk to him about the movie thing." Akane looked at Ranma and then looked up the road. Her eyes widened and then she leaned closer to Ranma.

"Now's your chance." Ranma looked up the road and saw a pretty beat up Kyo. It was only a second before Kyo charged at Ranma and Akane. He was within 3 feet of the couple when…..

Woah!!! Major cliffhanger! Betcha didn't know Kyo was going to go bonkers. Sorry this took so long. I'll have the next one up A.S.A.P.