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Cure Lost, Love Found:

A Tale of Ranma

Ukyo was cleaning up thee grill and getting ready for the lunch rush when she heard the door open. She looked up to see Ranma and Akane. She was really happy to see Ranma but she noticed that Akane looked weird. She was kind of pale and the outfit she was wearing looked like something that fell out of Shampoos closet. Ukyo also noticed that Ranma was holding a camera.

"Hi Ran-chan, hi Akane. What can I get you?" Akane smiled at Ukyo and Ranma took a seat at the counter.

"Hey Uc-chan. Could Akane use your phone while I talk to you?" Ukyo looked at Akane.

"Sure, go through that door and the phone is on your right."

"Thanks Ukyo." Akane went where Ukyo told her.

"Is she ok, Ran-chan?" Ranma shrugged his shoulders.

"She says she's fine and you know how far arguing with her gets me, so I just let it go. I figure if she was really bad off she'd go home."

"I guess that's true. So what did you want to talk about." Ranma started smiling

"There's a cure! I found a cure Ukyo and I'm heading out tonight to get it!" Ranma looked at the clock. It was exactly 3:45.

"That's great Ran-chan! So what's with the camera? Are you here to ask me to go with you and tape you getting cured?!" Ranma cringed knowing that Ukyo wasn't going to take this information well.

"Not exactly. The thing is, when I get cured, I'll lose all my memories of everything that happened after the curse. That means I'll remember you as the little boy I used to play with." Ukyo looked rather crestfallen and Ranma felt really bad for doing this to his friend.

"But, I'm taping all the people that I want to remember, so when I come back all I gotta do is watch the tape and all will be remembered!" Ranma pointed the camera at Ukyo and she blushed.

"Ran-chan, are you sure it's going to work?"

"It can't hurt."

"I guess not."

While Ranma and Ukyo were talking Akane was on the phone calling her house. As expected, Kasumi answered the phone.

"Hello, Tendo Dojo."

"Hi Kasumi. It's me."

"Oh, hello Akane. Are you feeling alright." Akane knew that Kasumi would ask that. Kasumi always knew when Akane was sick.

"I'm fine Kasumi. Right now we're at Ukyo's so we should be getting home soon. I have a few favors to ask you if you're not too busy."

"Of course Akane. What would you like me to do?"

"Firstly, tell Mr. Saotome that Cologne is going to take him and Ranma to China, but they have to be at the Nekohanten at 5:00 exactly. Then, if it's not too much trouble, could you put the camera stand in the dojo."

"Of course Akane, anything else."

"Well, Ranma really wants to get everything on his tape and if he has to pack then he might not get everything, so, if you have the time, would you mind packing his stuff up?"

"Of course Akane. I'll even make him a lunch for the trip."

"Oh you don't have to do that Kasumi."

"It's perfectly fine Akane. I'll see you when you get home. Good bye."

"Thanks Kasumi, bye." Akane hung up the phone and went back to where Ranma and Ukyo were talking

"It can't hurt."

"I guess not."

"Besides, I'd hate to think of my cute fiancée as a boy." Ukyo began laughing and Akane began fuming.

"Ranma, if you don't need me then can I go home?" Ranma just noticed that Akane was standing in the doorway.

"No, don't go. Is my dad going to pack my stuff?"

"It'll be packed when you get home."

"Great. Here, start filming us." Akane had walked over to take the camera from Ranma. Akane looked at the clock. It was 3:50. She hoped that they would be out of there by 4:00.

"Ok Ukyo, what are you going to miss about me." Ukyo had begun making an okinomiyaki.

"Well I'm going to miss everything about you sugar but I think I'm going to miss making you special okinomiyaki for dinner." Ukyo threw the okinomiyaki that she was working on at Ranma. The message on it said 'never forget our love'. Ranma held it up to the camera. Akane rolled her eyes.

Ranma and Ukyo had been talking for 20 minutes. They had talked about when they were children. Akane was getting rather bored listening to Ukyo and Ranma talk about the time they played a stupid joke on Genma or about the time where they climbed a big tree. It was pointless to Akane. Ranma would remember these things anyway, this wasn't going to help him at all.

"Um, I don't mean to interrupt, but you are aware that this isn't going to do you any good, right?" Ranma and Ukyo looked at Akane.

"What?" They questioned at the same time.

"Well, Ranma is going to remember all of the stuff you're talking about anyway cause it all happened before he had his curse. Don't you think it'd be more beneficial to talk about stuff that happened after the curse?" Ranma and Ukyo looked at each other and began laughing.

"I guess we just got caught up in the moment. Um…so Uc-chan…what do you think would make me remember you?" Ukyo smiled.

"You've already said it. I'm your 'cute' fiancée. You'll remember me." Ranma nodded and then looked at the clock.

"Woah! It's already 4:15! We gotta get going! Thanks for all the help Uc-chan. See you again, when I'm a whole man!" Ranma was about to run out the door when he heard Ukyo.

"You're welcome Ran-chan, but can I barrow Akane for a few minutes?" Ranma looked at Akane.

"Well, she's kind of my camera person and I have to tape…" Ranma was cut off.

"Ranma if you go into the dojo the camera stand will be setup. All you have to do is put the camera on it and then try not to movie around too much. I'll just head home after I talk to Ukyo. Here." She handed Ranma the camera.

"Are you sure Akane?" She nodded her head and sat down at the counter.

"Ok. Bye!" Ranma had a lot of things he had to do. He was going to try to teach himself everything he needed to know in 15 minutes or less. He really wanted Akane on that tape. He'd even forgo teaching himself a technique to remember her.

Ukyo made sure Ranma was long gone before she started talking to Akane.

"You don't buy it, do you?" Akane raised an eyebrow at Ukyo.

"Buy what?"

"This whole trip to China. You don't think that they're doing it just to be nice, do you?"

"Of course not, but what can they do. Ranma wont remember any of them."

"I guess that's true but if they know that then why are they doing this? You don't think that they're going to do something to Ran-chan just to get that map, do you?"

"As underhanded as Cologne is, I don't think she'd ever do that because she knows that would really screw up any chance Shampoo has with Ranma. Besides, Ranma probably expects them to do something. If he's smart, he'll have a few fake maps. Just in case."

"I guess you're right, Akane." The two girls grinned at each other and then Akane got up to leave.

"Hey Akane. When Ranma gets back, I want you to call here, ok?"

"Sure Ukyo. Bye." Akane left the restaurant.

Akane had been sick all day. She woke up and felt miserable. She thought that a bath would help, but it didn't. Of all the days for her to be sick it had to be Ranma's last day in town. Actually it was Ranma's last day of being her Ranma. So she pretended to be ok. After she got out of the bath, she went into her room and got dressed really quickly and started on a little project that she planned out the night before. Akane and Ranma never had good luck when it came to them being together, why would today be any different. Akane had figured that something would happen and that Ranma wouldn't have time to tape her. So she taped herself.

After Akane got dressed, she put the camera on top of the stand and sat in front of it. She had the screen facing her so she could tell if she got out of alignment. She started the video the way she thought Ranma would remember her.

"Ranma you jerk! Remember that? We always used to tease each other Ranma. I was an uncute tomboy and you were a perverted idiot. Um, where to begin?" All the sudden from outside of her room she heard Ranma yelling something about her hurrying up.

"I'll be down as soon as I can!" She yelled as her reply. She turned back to the camera and smiled.

"I don't know if you heard that, but that was you yell at me. Anyway, you and I first met when your father brought you here to engage you with either my sisters or me. Well, my sisters picked me as your fiancée because…because we're closest in age. We both hated it. Eventually, I think that we became friends. You did so much for me Ranma. I don't have time to tell you everything you did for me, but…" Akane held up the picture that was taken when they were on Togenkyo Island.

"Ranma, please remember that I like you just the way you are. No matter what. I have to go now. You're getting kind of mad. Bye Ranma." Akane stood up and turned off the camera. She removed that tape and put in a new one. Before she left her room she marked the tape she made "Ranma" and put it on her desk. As she was marking the tape Ranma continued to yell at her. She told him that she wouldn't eat breakfast and that she'd be down as soon as she could.

That was earlier this morning. Running around all day didn't help Akane any and it took all of her strength to get home. It was about 4:30 when Akane got home. She heard Ranma in the dojo, but she didn't want to talk to him right now. All she wanted to do was go into her room and lay down for a while. Kasumi saw Akane go upstairs but she was aware that Akane wanted to be left alone for the moment.

AN: I am so sorry that it took me so long to get this out, but I've had so many projects to do for school this week that I had to put this on the back burner. Anyway, I've finally finished this chapter. And I will start the next one right after I post this. I want to thank everyone for reviewing. You've all been really great and helped me a lot. I would make personal notes to a few of you, but right now I just want to get this posted. So, please review. I can't remember if I've said this before, but which ever ending you guys seem to favor will be the official and the other ending will be the alternate (unless I like one better and then you will just have to live with it…lol) Thanks for reading! Bye!