Chapter Fourteen
"So what's the verdict dr?" Ukyo
"If you haven't done anything since the time you made the appointment then you aren't." Tofu
Ukyo nodded
"Are you ok? Normally when I tell people they are either relieved or disappointed." Tofu
"I'm a little of both. I'm relieved that I'm not but at the same time it would have been nice." Ukyo
"I understand. Well, you're free to go." Tofu
"Thank you." Ukyo said and got up to leave.
"RYOGA, don't lose focus!" Ranma
"Sorry Ranma. I just cant concentrate. Ukyo is going to dr tofu's today." Ryoga
"Is that today?" Ranma
Ryoga nodded.
"I can understand then. Why don't you head back to Ukyo's and wait for her?" Ranma
"No. I told her I'd be here. And besides you're keeping my mind off of it. Well, most of the time at least." Ryoga
"Ok but remember you are trying to avoid getting hit." Ranma
"Ranma you'll always be able to hit me." Ryoga
"Ryoga I'm purposely going slow on you so you can build up to the fast stuff." Ranma
"Oh. Ok. Lets go." Ryoga
Ranma charged Ryoga and they started exchanging attacks. Ryoga dodging and Ranma blocking. Ranma decided that it would be best to learn blocking while training with Ryoga instead of his father. Ranma had more incentive to block Ryoga's attacks. Ranma could easily dodge Ryoga's attacks but he needed to work on blocking.
Genma and Soun were sitting on the porch playing go. Genma in panda form.
"They are really getting into this training of there's." Soun
Genma nodded
"Do you know why they are training so hard?" Soun
Genma shook his head.
"Nabiki do you know?" Soun
"I've been working on that. I would have thought it was because of Happosai but I've been bringing up Happosai often and I don't get any kind of response from Ranma." Nabiki
"I wonder what has them going." Soun
"Hello." Ukyo called from the front door
"We're in here Ukyo." Nabiki
Ukyo entered the living room to join everyone in there.
"Where's Akane?" Ukyo
"She's playing sick. She started showing signs this morning and she thinks that its something else so she is trying to get a lot of rest to get ride of it." Nabiki
"That doesn't make since." Ukyo
"I know. She'll get over it though. She'll get sick of staying in bed and come out." Nabiki
"Wow. They seem better every time I see them." Ukyo
Genma nodded
"They've been working mostly on defense as of two weeks ago." Soun
"That was when..." Ukyo trailed off
"Yes. Hey, Ukyo, didn't you go see dr tofu today?" Nabiki
"Yeah." Ukyo
"Well?" Nabiki
Ukyo shook her head. "Nope." Ukyo
"I see. Which way were you hoping for?" Nabiki
"I wasn't really hoping either way." Ukyo
"You should probably tell Ryoga." Nabiki
"I don't want to interrupt them." Ukyo
"I don't think you would be interrupting." Nabiki
"Are you...-gasp-" Ukyo
"What is it?" Nabiki said following Ukyo's gaze. Nabiki saw Ryoga pulling himself off the ground.
"I told you to stay focused." Ranma
-Smack-
-Splash-
Ranma finds himself in the koi pond
"Wud'ya do that for?" Ranma
"You hit Ryoga." Ukyo
"He was suppose to dodge it." Ranma said pulling herself from the pond. "Well, I'll let the two of you talk." Ranma said and walked inside.
Nabiki poured some hot water on Ranma and kissed him. They then sat down and waited for Ryoga and Ukyo to finish there talk.
"Ryoga honey are you alright?" Ukyo
"Yeah. Ranma didn't hit me that hard. I deserved it for losing sight of the fight. That could have been bad if it had been a real fight." Ryoga
"But it wasn't a real fight. And besides who would you get into a real fight with?" Ryoga
"No one. But you never know what will happen." Ryoga
he's still hiding whatever it is. Ukyo
"I have something to tell you Ryoga." Ukyo
"You're pregnant." Ryoga said non-thrilled
"You don't seem to happy with the idea of that. If it makes you feel better I'm not." Ukyo said starting to fume
Ryoga sighed in relief
"JACKASS!" Ukyo said hitting Ryoga into the koi pond with her spatula and then running out of the Tendo household.
Ryoga gets out of the pond and enters the house
"First she complains about you hitting me to hard and then she lets me have it harder than you did." Ryoga
"What did you say?" Ranma
"Nothing." Ryoga
"She said that she wasn't pregnant and then she hit me." Ryoga
"Did you seem happy?" Nabiki
"I sighed but I wouldn't really call that being happy." Ryoga
"What if she wanted to be. Did you ever think of that?" Nabiki
"No." Ryoga
"You are a jackass." Nabiki
Ryoga just looked at his feet.
"Well, I guess I should go talk to her." Ranma said getting up.
"No. I will." Nabiki said offering a hand to Ranma for him to help her up. Ranma helped her up and kissed her
"Thanks. I wasn't looking forward to talking with her on this." Ranma
"No problem." Nabiki said and left to go to Ukyo's
"Looks like you're off the hook. What do you say we get back to training?" Ranma
"Sounds good." Ryoga
That evening.
"Akane? Here's your dinner." Ranma
"Thank you Ranma." Akane
"You're not staying home tomorrow." Ranma
"But I'm sick." Akane
"No you're not. This is just what happens." Ranma
Akane was silent
"You need to continue going to school. Summer isn't that far away. You can relax all you want to then but right now you need to just continue with school. No one will know. At least not of for awhile." Ranma
"But there are all those rumors at school." Akane
"Well you are pregnant. And you haven't denied them so they haven't gone way. I'm surprised that you haven't." Ranma
"Because I don't want to but I don't want them to know either. What will they say if they knew. They would want to know why we aren't married." Akane
"I know. But you still have to go school. When everyone finds out then well be the talk of the school like always but it will die down. It always does." Ranma
"But what if they find out that Nabiki is also pregnant." Akane
"But they don't even suspect that. The only reason people suspect you is because you told Kuno." Ranma
"I'm going to kill him." Akane said getting a little angry
"Only if you go to school." Ranma
"You really aren't going to let me stay are you?" Akane
"No." Ranma
"Fine. But only if you sleep with me tonight." Akane
"I think that can be arranged." Ranma said and then kissed Akane
Two weeks later.
"Ranma this is all your fault." Akane said bowing over the toilet
"Not all. But I'll take the blame like always." Ranma
-Smack-
"Oww. What was that for Nabiki?" Ranma
"For what you said." Nabiki
Ranma went downstairs and started breakfast.
"Sounds like a ruff morning." Soun
"You're telling me." Ranma
"Just stick it out. Its worth it." Soun
"I still don't know what to do." Ranma
"I cant help you with this one. And I'm not going to tell you what to do either. This really is up to you." Soun
"I just wish there was a way to marry both of them." Ranma
"That would make things easier." Soun
"Its what I want but it cant happen." Ranma
"I know." Soun
Nabiki overheard this and that got her thinking. She went back upstairs to talk to Akane
"Akane." Nabiki
"What is it?" Akane
"If Ranma could marry both of us would you want to?" Nabiki
"What?" Akane
"If Ranma was able to marry both of us would you be ok with that?" Nabiki
"I don't know. I guess I would. I never thought about it. I'm prepared to lose Ranma to you. Not willing but prepared. So I guess sharing him would be better than losing him." Akane
"So that's a yes, that you are ok with it?" Nabiki
"Ummm...yeah." Akane
"Ok." Nabiki said walking back downstairs thinking about the situation.
At lunch. Ryoga had started sitting with Ranma and Ukyo.
Ukyo was leaning against Ryoga.
"The two of you seem to be getting along well." Ranma
"Yeah. Ryoga proposed to me last night." Ukyo
"What? I mean...hey, that's great. Congratulations." Ranma
"Thank you." Ukyo said and kissed Ryoga
Ryoga just grinned like a fool.
The school instantly picked up on this and you could hear 'did you here that?' being asked everywhere.
Between there fifth and sixth class Ranma and Ryoga were walking to there classes.
"Ryoga, I thought you were still unsure." Ranma
"I was but I was becoming more and more sure. I finally decided that I did love her and that I didn't want her to get away so I bought the ring yesterday and asked her to marry me." Ryoga
"I'm glad you decided. Now I wish I could make a choice. I want to marry both of them but I have to make a choice." Ranma
"No offense Ranma but I'm glad I'm not in your position." Ryoga
"I don't think anyone would. But on a different note. I think we're almost ready." Ranma
"Should I ask Ukyo to help?" Ryoga
"NO." (If what you told me about what cologne said was true we don't want Ukyo to help. She wouldn't be able to help. She thought she was prepared to kill me and pop when she first showed up but she isn't she spared pop and well it doesn't matter. I don't want her to fight. Akane isn't to fight either. I wonder if mousse would. He's better than shampoo now and shampoo is pretty good. And they are both prepared to kill. We could use there help but it would be pretty dangerous for them.) Ranma
(Not like it isn't going to be dangerous for us.) Ryoga said sarcastically
(Yeah perhaps we shouldn't get them involved in this. I was just thinking out loud and trying to give us the greatest edge.) Ranma
That evening after Ranma had taught his classes and was cooking dinner, there was a crash in the living room. Ranma went running because that is where Akane and Nabiki were.
"Shampoo? Mousse? What are you doing here?" Ranma
"Where Happosai?" Shampoo
"He's not here and I wont let him stay here either." Ranma
"Ok." Shampoo said putting her sword away.
"What are you two doing here?" Ranma
"And why are you looking for Happosai?" Akane
"We kill Happosai." shampoo
This peaked Ranma's interest.
"What did Happosai do to you?" Nabiki
"Happosai steal from amazons. Steal from shampoo. Amazon law say he must die." Shampoo
"But cologne said that if we try to kill him that he will kill us and there is no shame in walking away from a fight that the matriarch says we don't have to fight." Mousse
"But there great honor if we succeed." Shampoo
"Anyway. How would you two like to stay here for a while. You can have my old room." Ranma
"Ranma what are you saying?" Akane
"I'm inviting them to stay here for a few nights." Ranma
"Why?" Akane
"What do you mean why? They're our friends." Ranma
Akane became quiet
"So what do you say?" Ranma said looking at shampoo and mousse
"Is ok if violent girl and mercenary girl say is ok." Shampoo
"Fine. Just fine." Akane
"Only if its for a few nights. Remember Ranma we're trying to save money." Nabiki
"I know Nabiki. And thank you." Ranma said and walked over to Nabiki and kissed her.
This shocked shampoo and mousse. It shocked them even more that Akane wasn't getting angry. Ranma then walked over to Akane and kissed her.
"Thank you." Ranma
Akane just smiled
"Why don't the two of you have a seat. Dinner will be ready in a few." Ranma
Shampoo and mousse not having any word just sat down across from Nabiki and Akane.
Ranma returned carrying a tray with food on it. Akane then started to serve everyone.
Shampoo and mousse were still speechless and there eyes looked like they were going to pop out. Everyone started eating after everyone had food.
"Where Ranma father?" Shampoo
"With my mother." Ranma
"Does your mother know about your curse?" mousse
"Yes." Ranma
"Where nice girl?" Shampoo
"Kasumi is living with dr tofu, her husband." Nabiki
"Ranma I thought you were living at a temple." Mousse
"I was. But then I was asked back here." Ranma
"I see. It seems a lot has happened since we left." mousse
"You don't know the half of it." Nabiki
Shampoo and mousse looked from Nabiki to Ranma to Akane and back to Ranma.
"How spatula girl doing? Great grandmother say spatula girl buy cat cafe." Shampoo
"She's doing great. Her business has increased and she is engaged to Ryoga." Ranma
"WHAT? Lost pig boy and spatula girl engaged?" Shampoo
"Yeah. But he isn't lost boy or pig boy any more. He's cured of both." Ranma
"Shampoo cured." Shampoo
"Hey, that's great. I don't have to worry about you turning into a ca...ca...Cat." Ranma
"And I don't turn into a duck either." Mousse
"Ryoga told me that cologne gave you the cure first." Ranma
-Splash-
"What'd ya do that for?" Ranma
"Ranma girl?" Shampoo said grabbing Ranma's breast.
"Would you not do that." Ranma
"Ok." Shampoo said letting go
"But cologne said that she gave you the cure." Mousse
"Its a long story." Ranma
Thru the rest of dinner Ranma brought shampoo and mousse up to speed on what happened.
"WHAT?" Shampoo and mousse chorused. And looked back and forth between Akane and Nabiki
That night before Ranma joined Nabiki he went by the guest room. Ranma knocked on the door.
"Come in." Shampoo
Ranma opened the door and walked in.
"What Ranma want?" Shampoo
"You and mousse plan to kill Happosai right? Not harm, kill." Ranma
"Yes. We kill. Ranma no try and stop us." Shampoo
"Actually I was thinking we could help each other." Ranma
"What?" Shampoo
"Ryoga and I have been preparing to kill Happosai. If we had your help we would be more likely to succeed." Ranma
"Amazon law say we must kill Happosai." Shampoo
"I don't care who kills him as long as he dies." Ranma
The cold empty look in Ranma's eyes scared both mousse and shampoo
"We help." Shampoo
"When do we attack?" Mousse
"When he comes back. Between now and then I want the two of you training with Ryoga and me. Neither of you are fast enough." Ranma
"You insult Amazon." Shampoo
"It's only a insult if it isn't true." Ranma
Shampoo didn't say anything else.
"We start training tomorrow when I finish teaching my classes. But the two of you should train till I get back and take a break while I teach my classes." Ranma said and then went down to Nabiki's room
"Its been two weeks and Happosai still hasn't shown up." Mousse
"Be patient." Ranma
"What wrong with Ryoga?" Shampoo
"Hey man, lets get back to training while we wait for the girls." Ranma
Ryoga nodded.
Shampoo, mousse, and Ryoga all attacked Ranma. The training was the same for Ryoga. He was to dodge and Ranma was to block. Shampoo and mousse where to use non-lethal weapons and go all out against Ranma. They had done this for two weeks. Ranma noticed a significant increase in shampoo and mousse skill. Ryoga had increased a lot at first but he was starting to level out. Ranma had continued to increase when blocking Ryoga's attacks.
Ranma saw the girls coming back from dr tofu's.
"Ok lets take a break." Ranma
The fighting stopped immediately
Akane Nabiki and Ukyo walked in through the gate.
"So how are my children coming along?" Ranma said walking up to Akane and Nabiki
"Look. Look. That's our son." Akane
Ranma looked at the picture and wasn't so sure. But he was going to trust the dr.
"What about you Nabiki?" Ranma
"This is our daughter." Nabiki said handing a picture to Ranma
-Ring-
"Sorry that's my phone." Nabiki said pulling it out of her purse.
"Hello." Nabiki
"Yes." Nabiki
"Really?" Nabiki
"That's great." Nabiki
"Thank you." Nabiki
"No I didn't forget our deal." Nabiki
"Good bye." Nabiki
"So what's the good news?" Ranma
"Well you know how you said that you wished that you could marry both Akane and me?" Nabiki
"Yeah?" Ranma
"Well it turns out that you can. There is a loop hole in the law which allows up to 3 sisters to have the same husband." Nabiki
"You're sure?" Ranma
"Yes." Nabiki
"Wait right here." Ranma said and ran into the house
"Where's he going?" Akane
"I don't know. I didn't expect him to react like that." Nabiki
"Ukyo. What about you? Are you..." Ryoga
Ukyo nodded "umm hmm. You're going to be a father." Ukyo
Ryoga passed out
"Jackass get up." Ukyo said kicking Ryoga
Ryoga regained consciousness after several kicks.
Ranma came running out and then he paused. He held up a coin showed both sides and then tossed it in the air. "Call it." Ranma said
This caught Akane and Nabiki both off guard they didn't have time to think.
"Heads." Akane
"Tails." Nabiki
The coin landed on the ground and started spinning.
"Heads come on heads." Akane
Nabiki was silent but she was just as hopeful as Akane
The coin started to slow and fell over. The tails side was clearly on top.
"Alright." Ranma said. He then knelt before Nabiki
Nabiki gasped not knowing that this is what was coming
"Oh my god." Akane
"Nabiki will you marry me?" Ranma said holding a ring out to Nabiki
Nabiki took it and without looking at it put it on her finger and said "yes."
Ranma stood up and kissed Nabiki.
"ITS NOT FAIR!" Akane yelled and started to run away when Ranma grabbed her by the arm.
"LET ME GO. YOU MADE YOU CHOICE." Akane
"Yes I have." Ranma said and still holding on to Akane's arm knelt before her.
Nabiki grinned understanding now what the coin had been for. It had been to decide who went first.
"Akane will you marry me?" Ranma
Akane froze did he just ask me to marry him? But he just asked Nabiki to. This doesn't make since. Wait a minute. Nabiki said that he could marry both of us. And Nabiki asked if I would be ok with this. "yes." Akane
Ranma stood up and kissed Akane
Shampoo and mousse just stood there apparently shocked more than the any of the others.
The next day at school gossip was at an all time high. There was rumor of Ukyo being pregnant the rumor of Ryoga and Ukyo being engaged long ago confirmed. There was now rumor that Ranma was not only engaged to Akane and Nabiki but that he was actually going to marry both of them. There was confirmation of a ring on both Akane and on Nabiki. There was also rumor that Nabiki was pregnant not just Akane. Lunch that day only fanned the fires of gossip. Akane and Nabiki were both leaning against Ranma and they were sitting across from Ukyo who was leaning against Ryoga.
"So Ranma what are we going to name our son?" Akane
This one question confirmed the rumor about Akane being pregnant.
"How about Keitaro?" Ranma
"Keitaro sounds like a fine name." Akane said and then kissed Ranma
"What about our daughter? What will she be named?" Nabiki
This also confirmed another rumor that Nabiki was pregnant.
"How about Sakura?" Ranma
"Its perfect." Nabiki said and then kissed Ranma
"So when are you going to get married?" Ukyo
"I don't know. When do the two of you want to get married?" Ranma
"How about after the year is over?" Akane
"Sounds good to me." Nabiki
"I guess we're getting married when this semester is over." Ranma
Gossip was even higher than it had been that morning.
That evening at dinner.
"Will all of you help me move my stuff to Kasumi's old room after dinner." Soun
"What? Why are you going to do that?" Akane
"Well since Ranma is not going to have just one wife but two I though it best if he had the largest bedroom." Soun
"I can just keep going back and forth between Nabiki's and Akane's like I have been doing." Ranma
"But if the three of you had the same room it would make things easier" Soun
"But..." Akane was interrupted.
"And don't forget that you're going to have several children. They are going to want there own room's and we don't have that many rooms. So if we move all your stuff to my old room then we wont really have that problem." Soun
"He's got a point. I don't mind." Nabiki
"Well it doesn't matter to me." Ranma
"But...things are suppose to stay the same." Akane
"Akane things will never stay the same. They aren't the same now. Kasumi is married to dr tofu, you and Nabiki are pregnant and the two of you will be getting married to Ranma when the semester is over so with all of those changes what will a room change do?" Soun
"Ok." Akane
Shampoo and mousse just watched this exchange in silence
After dinner they moved all of Soun's stuff to Kasumi's old room and then they moved all of Nabiki's stuff to Soun's old room. Ranma grabbed his pack and put it in what was now his room. Everyone then moved Akane's stuff to Soun's old room. Ranma, Akane, and Nabiki all worked to make this there room. Ranma for once unpacked his bag and put the bag away. This was to the relief of Akane and Nabiki.
"So are we going to put your beds together or keep them separate?" Ranma
"I thought that we would just leave the beds where they were and we would just go buy a large one for the three of us." Nabiki
"That's fine with me. Are you ok with that Akane?" Ranma
"Yeah." Akane said non-thrilled
that night Nabiki went to her old room and Akane went to her old room for what was to be there last night sleeping in there old beds for tomorrow they were getting a larger bed for there new room. Ranma joined Akane but she wanted to be alone that night so he went to Nabiki's room. Nabiki gladly let Ranma join her.
Three weeks later.
"Ryoga I'm so nervous." Ranma
"Ranma you were excited yesterday." Ryoga
"I know. I cant help it." Ranma
"Well just stay conscious for a few more hours and you are home free." Ryoga
"Its the next 30 minutes that I'm worried about." Ranma
"Pull yourself together boy. You cant disappoint Akane and Nabiki." Genma
"If it wasn't a wedding a would turn you into a panda." Ranma
"My daughters are getting married." Soun said then started crying
"Akane, you do know that you have to walk down the aisle in a few minutes right." Ukyo
"Ukyo I don't think that is the best way to make Akane feel better." Nabiki
"Well you seem fine." Ukyo
"I made sure to eat bread and just drink water. I didn't want this problem." Nabiki
"Oh. I'll remember this when I get married to Ryoga." Ukyo
"Akane came out of the bathroom. Alright I'm ready." Akane
"Ukyo cue them." Nabiki said not waiting for Akane to get sick again
Ukyo was out the door and had them cue the music.
"Ryoga if I pass out just prop me up." Ranma
"Will do." Ryoga
The music started and then Akane and Nabiki started down the aisle. When they got to Ranma they stopped.
"Do you Ranma Soatome take Nabiki Tendo..." the priest continued on but Ranma was in a daze
(Ranma?) Nabiki
"I do." Ranma
Nabiki sighed and then it came time for her to say "I do."
"Do you Ranma Soatome take Akane Tendo..." again the priest continued and again Ranma was in a daze but when the priest stopped talking Ranma replied with "I do." Ranma
I finally came time for Akane to answer.
(Akane.) Nabiki
(Huh? What? Oh.) Akane who apparently had also been in a daze whispered to Nabiki but then said "I do." Akane
"I now pronounce you husband and wives." Priest
Ranma kissed Nabiki then Akane
Everyone cheered.
That night
"Mousse, everyone else having kids. Why we no have kid?" Shampoo
Mousse started coughing.
"Uhhh...did you want to." Mousse
"Of course. Stupid mousse." Shampoo
Mousse was silent
"AHHHH. MOUSSE WHAT YOU DOING?" Shampoo
The following week Ryoga and Ukyo got married.
The next week. Everyone was at Ukyo's. Ryoga and Ukyo thought about changing the name but decided to leave it the way it was.
"Ukyo do you know weather you're going to have a boy or a girl?" Akane
"I don't know." Ukyo
"Have you chosen a name for either case?" Akane
"No." Ukyo
"Shampoo are you and mousse waiting?" Nabiki
"No." Shampoo
"I guessed that from the sounds the last couple of weeks." Nabiki
Shampoo blushed
All the girls started laughing
Across the room Ranma, Ryoga, and mousse sat talking.
"Like this?" Ryoga asked and then made a glass of water disappear "WOW." Ryoga
"Like that." Mousse
"I can do that." Ranma now girl from Ryoga messing up several times said.
"Lets see it." Ryoga
"Ok." Ranma said grabbing a glass.
Back at the counter
"Those three will never grow up." Akane
"Boys will be boys." Ukyo
Everyone then heard the yelling of women.
"This is it. You coming Ryoga?" Ranma
"Of course." Ryoga
Ranma and Ryoga got up.
"What's going on?" Mousse
"Happosai." Ranma
"SHAMPOO." Mousse
Shampoo came running already hearing the cries. Mousse pulled out shampoos armor and weapons and handed them to her. As she was putting on her armor Ukyo, Akane, and Nabiki came running to try and stop there husbands.
"Ranma don't. Remember what happened last time." Akane
"I have to agree with Akane. There is no point." Nabiki
"He killed my child." Ranma
Nabiki and Akane couldn't stop Ranma after he said that.
"Ryoga why do you have to go?" Ukyo
"I told Ranma I would help and it would not be honorable for me to back out." Ryoga
"Screw honor. Ryoga I don't want anything to happen to you." Ukyo
"I'm going. He couldn't hurt me if he tried. Ranma's chances are better with me than without me." Ryoga
"Then I'm going to." Ukyo
"Me too." Akane
"NO!" Ryoga and Ranma chorused
"But I'm a martial artist to." Akane
"I don't want to risk losing another child. You aren't going." Ranma
"Same goes for you." Ryoga said to Ukyo
Akane and Nabiki both bowed there heads in defeat.
"Ok lets go." Ranma said to Ryoga, shampoo, and mousse.
The four of them left Ukyo's in pursuit of Happosai.
"So what's the verdict dr?" Ukyo
"If you haven't done anything since the time you made the appointment then you aren't." Tofu
Ukyo nodded
"Are you ok? Normally when I tell people they are either relieved or disappointed." Tofu
"I'm a little of both. I'm relieved that I'm not but at the same time it would have been nice." Ukyo
"I understand. Well, you're free to go." Tofu
"Thank you." Ukyo said and got up to leave.
"RYOGA, don't lose focus!" Ranma
"Sorry Ranma. I just cant concentrate. Ukyo is going to dr tofu's today." Ryoga
"Is that today?" Ranma
Ryoga nodded.
"I can understand then. Why don't you head back to Ukyo's and wait for her?" Ranma
"No. I told her I'd be here. And besides you're keeping my mind off of it. Well, most of the time at least." Ryoga
"Ok but remember you are trying to avoid getting hit." Ranma
"Ranma you'll always be able to hit me." Ryoga
"Ryoga I'm purposely going slow on you so you can build up to the fast stuff." Ranma
"Oh. Ok. Lets go." Ryoga
Ranma charged Ryoga and they started exchanging attacks. Ryoga dodging and Ranma blocking. Ranma decided that it would be best to learn blocking while training with Ryoga instead of his father. Ranma had more incentive to block Ryoga's attacks. Ranma could easily dodge Ryoga's attacks but he needed to work on blocking.
Genma and Soun were sitting on the porch playing go. Genma in panda form.
"They are really getting into this training of there's." Soun
Genma nodded
"Do you know why they are training so hard?" Soun
Genma shook his head.
"Nabiki do you know?" Soun
"I've been working on that. I would have thought it was because of Happosai but I've been bringing up Happosai often and I don't get any kind of response from Ranma." Nabiki
"I wonder what has them going." Soun
"Hello." Ukyo called from the front door
"We're in here Ukyo." Nabiki
Ukyo entered the living room to join everyone in there.
"Where's Akane?" Ukyo
"She's playing sick. She started showing signs this morning and she thinks that its something else so she is trying to get a lot of rest to get ride of it." Nabiki
"That doesn't make since." Ukyo
"I know. She'll get over it though. She'll get sick of staying in bed and come out." Nabiki
"Wow. They seem better every time I see them." Ukyo
Genma nodded
"They've been working mostly on defense as of two weeks ago." Soun
"That was when..." Ukyo trailed off
"Yes. Hey, Ukyo, didn't you go see dr tofu today?" Nabiki
"Yeah." Ukyo
"Well?" Nabiki
Ukyo shook her head. "Nope." Ukyo
"I see. Which way were you hoping for?" Nabiki
"I wasn't really hoping either way." Ukyo
"You should probably tell Ryoga." Nabiki
"I don't want to interrupt them." Ukyo
"I don't think you would be interrupting." Nabiki
"Are you...-gasp-" Ukyo
"What is it?" Nabiki said following Ukyo's gaze. Nabiki saw Ryoga pulling himself off the ground.
"I told you to stay focused." Ranma
-Smack-
-Splash-
Ranma finds himself in the koi pond
"Wud'ya do that for?" Ranma
"You hit Ryoga." Ukyo
"He was suppose to dodge it." Ranma said pulling herself from the pond. "Well, I'll let the two of you talk." Ranma said and walked inside.
Nabiki poured some hot water on Ranma and kissed him. They then sat down and waited for Ryoga and Ukyo to finish there talk.
"Ryoga honey are you alright?" Ukyo
"Yeah. Ranma didn't hit me that hard. I deserved it for losing sight of the fight. That could have been bad if it had been a real fight." Ryoga
"But it wasn't a real fight. And besides who would you get into a real fight with?" Ryoga
"No one. But you never know what will happen." Ryoga
he's still hiding whatever it is. Ukyo
"I have something to tell you Ryoga." Ukyo
"You're pregnant." Ryoga said non-thrilled
"You don't seem to happy with the idea of that. If it makes you feel better I'm not." Ukyo said starting to fume
Ryoga sighed in relief
"JACKASS!" Ukyo said hitting Ryoga into the koi pond with her spatula and then running out of the Tendo household.
Ryoga gets out of the pond and enters the house
"First she complains about you hitting me to hard and then she lets me have it harder than you did." Ryoga
"What did you say?" Ranma
"Nothing." Ryoga
"She said that she wasn't pregnant and then she hit me." Ryoga
"Did you seem happy?" Nabiki
"I sighed but I wouldn't really call that being happy." Ryoga
"What if she wanted to be. Did you ever think of that?" Nabiki
"No." Ryoga
"You are a jackass." Nabiki
Ryoga just looked at his feet.
"Well, I guess I should go talk to her." Ranma said getting up.
"No. I will." Nabiki said offering a hand to Ranma for him to help her up. Ranma helped her up and kissed her
"Thanks. I wasn't looking forward to talking with her on this." Ranma
"No problem." Nabiki said and left to go to Ukyo's
"Looks like you're off the hook. What do you say we get back to training?" Ranma
"Sounds good." Ryoga
That evening.
"Akane? Here's your dinner." Ranma
"Thank you Ranma." Akane
"You're not staying home tomorrow." Ranma
"But I'm sick." Akane
"No you're not. This is just what happens." Ranma
Akane was silent
"You need to continue going to school. Summer isn't that far away. You can relax all you want to then but right now you need to just continue with school. No one will know. At least not of for awhile." Ranma
"But there are all those rumors at school." Akane
"Well you are pregnant. And you haven't denied them so they haven't gone way. I'm surprised that you haven't." Ranma
"Because I don't want to but I don't want them to know either. What will they say if they knew. They would want to know why we aren't married." Akane
"I know. But you still have to go school. When everyone finds out then well be the talk of the school like always but it will die down. It always does." Ranma
"But what if they find out that Nabiki is also pregnant." Akane
"But they don't even suspect that. The only reason people suspect you is because you told Kuno." Ranma
"I'm going to kill him." Akane said getting a little angry
"Only if you go to school." Ranma
"You really aren't going to let me stay are you?" Akane
"No." Ranma
"Fine. But only if you sleep with me tonight." Akane
"I think that can be arranged." Ranma said and then kissed Akane
Two weeks later.
"Ranma this is all your fault." Akane said bowing over the toilet
"Not all. But I'll take the blame like always." Ranma
-Smack-
"Oww. What was that for Nabiki?" Ranma
"For what you said." Nabiki
Ranma went downstairs and started breakfast.
"Sounds like a ruff morning." Soun
"You're telling me." Ranma
"Just stick it out. Its worth it." Soun
"I still don't know what to do." Ranma
"I cant help you with this one. And I'm not going to tell you what to do either. This really is up to you." Soun
"I just wish there was a way to marry both of them." Ranma
"That would make things easier." Soun
"Its what I want but it cant happen." Ranma
"I know." Soun
Nabiki overheard this and that got her thinking. She went back upstairs to talk to Akane
"Akane." Nabiki
"What is it?" Akane
"If Ranma could marry both of us would you want to?" Nabiki
"What?" Akane
"If Ranma was able to marry both of us would you be ok with that?" Nabiki
"I don't know. I guess I would. I never thought about it. I'm prepared to lose Ranma to you. Not willing but prepared. So I guess sharing him would be better than losing him." Akane
"So that's a yes, that you are ok with it?" Nabiki
"Ummm...yeah." Akane
"Ok." Nabiki said walking back downstairs thinking about the situation.
At lunch. Ryoga had started sitting with Ranma and Ukyo.
Ukyo was leaning against Ryoga.
"The two of you seem to be getting along well." Ranma
"Yeah. Ryoga proposed to me last night." Ukyo
"What? I mean...hey, that's great. Congratulations." Ranma
"Thank you." Ukyo said and kissed Ryoga
Ryoga just grinned like a fool.
The school instantly picked up on this and you could hear 'did you here that?' being asked everywhere.
Between there fifth and sixth class Ranma and Ryoga were walking to there classes.
"Ryoga, I thought you were still unsure." Ranma
"I was but I was becoming more and more sure. I finally decided that I did love her and that I didn't want her to get away so I bought the ring yesterday and asked her to marry me." Ryoga
"I'm glad you decided. Now I wish I could make a choice. I want to marry both of them but I have to make a choice." Ranma
"No offense Ranma but I'm glad I'm not in your position." Ryoga
"I don't think anyone would. But on a different note. I think we're almost ready." Ranma
"Should I ask Ukyo to help?" Ryoga
"NO." (If what you told me about what cologne said was true we don't want Ukyo to help. She wouldn't be able to help. She thought she was prepared to kill me and pop when she first showed up but she isn't she spared pop and well it doesn't matter. I don't want her to fight. Akane isn't to fight either. I wonder if mousse would. He's better than shampoo now and shampoo is pretty good. And they are both prepared to kill. We could use there help but it would be pretty dangerous for them.) Ranma
(Not like it isn't going to be dangerous for us.) Ryoga said sarcastically
(Yeah perhaps we shouldn't get them involved in this. I was just thinking out loud and trying to give us the greatest edge.) Ranma
That evening after Ranma had taught his classes and was cooking dinner, there was a crash in the living room. Ranma went running because that is where Akane and Nabiki were.
"Shampoo? Mousse? What are you doing here?" Ranma
"Where Happosai?" Shampoo
"He's not here and I wont let him stay here either." Ranma
"Ok." Shampoo said putting her sword away.
"What are you two doing here?" Ranma
"And why are you looking for Happosai?" Akane
"We kill Happosai." shampoo
This peaked Ranma's interest.
"What did Happosai do to you?" Nabiki
"Happosai steal from amazons. Steal from shampoo. Amazon law say he must die." Shampoo
"But cologne said that if we try to kill him that he will kill us and there is no shame in walking away from a fight that the matriarch says we don't have to fight." Mousse
"But there great honor if we succeed." Shampoo
"Anyway. How would you two like to stay here for a while. You can have my old room." Ranma
"Ranma what are you saying?" Akane
"I'm inviting them to stay here for a few nights." Ranma
"Why?" Akane
"What do you mean why? They're our friends." Ranma
Akane became quiet
"So what do you say?" Ranma said looking at shampoo and mousse
"Is ok if violent girl and mercenary girl say is ok." Shampoo
"Fine. Just fine." Akane
"Only if its for a few nights. Remember Ranma we're trying to save money." Nabiki
"I know Nabiki. And thank you." Ranma said and walked over to Nabiki and kissed her.
This shocked shampoo and mousse. It shocked them even more that Akane wasn't getting angry. Ranma then walked over to Akane and kissed her.
"Thank you." Ranma
Akane just smiled
"Why don't the two of you have a seat. Dinner will be ready in a few." Ranma
Shampoo and mousse not having any word just sat down across from Nabiki and Akane.
Ranma returned carrying a tray with food on it. Akane then started to serve everyone.
Shampoo and mousse were still speechless and there eyes looked like they were going to pop out. Everyone started eating after everyone had food.
"Where Ranma father?" Shampoo
"With my mother." Ranma
"Does your mother know about your curse?" mousse
"Yes." Ranma
"Where nice girl?" Shampoo
"Kasumi is living with dr tofu, her husband." Nabiki
"Ranma I thought you were living at a temple." Mousse
"I was. But then I was asked back here." Ranma
"I see. It seems a lot has happened since we left." mousse
"You don't know the half of it." Nabiki
Shampoo and mousse looked from Nabiki to Ranma to Akane and back to Ranma.
"How spatula girl doing? Great grandmother say spatula girl buy cat cafe." Shampoo
"She's doing great. Her business has increased and she is engaged to Ryoga." Ranma
"WHAT? Lost pig boy and spatula girl engaged?" Shampoo
"Yeah. But he isn't lost boy or pig boy any more. He's cured of both." Ranma
"Shampoo cured." Shampoo
"Hey, that's great. I don't have to worry about you turning into a ca...ca...Cat." Ranma
"And I don't turn into a duck either." Mousse
"Ryoga told me that cologne gave you the cure first." Ranma
-Splash-
"What'd ya do that for?" Ranma
"Ranma girl?" Shampoo said grabbing Ranma's breast.
"Would you not do that." Ranma
"Ok." Shampoo said letting go
"But cologne said that she gave you the cure." Mousse
"Its a long story." Ranma
Thru the rest of dinner Ranma brought shampoo and mousse up to speed on what happened.
"WHAT?" Shampoo and mousse chorused. And looked back and forth between Akane and Nabiki
That night before Ranma joined Nabiki he went by the guest room. Ranma knocked on the door.
"Come in." Shampoo
Ranma opened the door and walked in.
"What Ranma want?" Shampoo
"You and mousse plan to kill Happosai right? Not harm, kill." Ranma
"Yes. We kill. Ranma no try and stop us." Shampoo
"Actually I was thinking we could help each other." Ranma
"What?" Shampoo
"Ryoga and I have been preparing to kill Happosai. If we had your help we would be more likely to succeed." Ranma
"Amazon law say we must kill Happosai." Shampoo
"I don't care who kills him as long as he dies." Ranma
The cold empty look in Ranma's eyes scared both mousse and shampoo
"We help." Shampoo
"When do we attack?" Mousse
"When he comes back. Between now and then I want the two of you training with Ryoga and me. Neither of you are fast enough." Ranma
"You insult Amazon." Shampoo
"It's only a insult if it isn't true." Ranma
Shampoo didn't say anything else.
"We start training tomorrow when I finish teaching my classes. But the two of you should train till I get back and take a break while I teach my classes." Ranma said and then went down to Nabiki's room
"Its been two weeks and Happosai still hasn't shown up." Mousse
"Be patient." Ranma
"What wrong with Ryoga?" Shampoo
"Hey man, lets get back to training while we wait for the girls." Ranma
Ryoga nodded.
Shampoo, mousse, and Ryoga all attacked Ranma. The training was the same for Ryoga. He was to dodge and Ranma was to block. Shampoo and mousse where to use non-lethal weapons and go all out against Ranma. They had done this for two weeks. Ranma noticed a significant increase in shampoo and mousse skill. Ryoga had increased a lot at first but he was starting to level out. Ranma had continued to increase when blocking Ryoga's attacks.
Ranma saw the girls coming back from dr tofu's.
"Ok lets take a break." Ranma
The fighting stopped immediately
Akane Nabiki and Ukyo walked in through the gate.
"So how are my children coming along?" Ranma said walking up to Akane and Nabiki
"Look. Look. That's our son." Akane
Ranma looked at the picture and wasn't so sure. But he was going to trust the dr.
"What about you Nabiki?" Ranma
"This is our daughter." Nabiki said handing a picture to Ranma
-Ring-
"Sorry that's my phone." Nabiki said pulling it out of her purse.
"Hello." Nabiki
"Yes." Nabiki
"Really?" Nabiki
"That's great." Nabiki
"Thank you." Nabiki
"No I didn't forget our deal." Nabiki
"Good bye." Nabiki
"So what's the good news?" Ranma
"Well you know how you said that you wished that you could marry both Akane and me?" Nabiki
"Yeah?" Ranma
"Well it turns out that you can. There is a loop hole in the law which allows up to 3 sisters to have the same husband." Nabiki
"You're sure?" Ranma
"Yes." Nabiki
"Wait right here." Ranma said and ran into the house
"Where's he going?" Akane
"I don't know. I didn't expect him to react like that." Nabiki
"Ukyo. What about you? Are you..." Ryoga
Ukyo nodded "umm hmm. You're going to be a father." Ukyo
Ryoga passed out
"Jackass get up." Ukyo said kicking Ryoga
Ryoga regained consciousness after several kicks.
Ranma came running out and then he paused. He held up a coin showed both sides and then tossed it in the air. "Call it." Ranma said
This caught Akane and Nabiki both off guard they didn't have time to think.
"Heads." Akane
"Tails." Nabiki
The coin landed on the ground and started spinning.
"Heads come on heads." Akane
Nabiki was silent but she was just as hopeful as Akane
The coin started to slow and fell over. The tails side was clearly on top.
"Alright." Ranma said. He then knelt before Nabiki
Nabiki gasped not knowing that this is what was coming
"Oh my god." Akane
"Nabiki will you marry me?" Ranma said holding a ring out to Nabiki
Nabiki took it and without looking at it put it on her finger and said "yes."
Ranma stood up and kissed Nabiki.
"ITS NOT FAIR!" Akane yelled and started to run away when Ranma grabbed her by the arm.
"LET ME GO. YOU MADE YOU CHOICE." Akane
"Yes I have." Ranma said and still holding on to Akane's arm knelt before her.
Nabiki grinned understanding now what the coin had been for. It had been to decide who went first.
"Akane will you marry me?" Ranma
Akane froze did he just ask me to marry him? But he just asked Nabiki to. This doesn't make since. Wait a minute. Nabiki said that he could marry both of us. And Nabiki asked if I would be ok with this. "yes." Akane
Ranma stood up and kissed Akane
Shampoo and mousse just stood there apparently shocked more than the any of the others.
The next day at school gossip was at an all time high. There was rumor of Ukyo being pregnant the rumor of Ryoga and Ukyo being engaged long ago confirmed. There was now rumor that Ranma was not only engaged to Akane and Nabiki but that he was actually going to marry both of them. There was confirmation of a ring on both Akane and on Nabiki. There was also rumor that Nabiki was pregnant not just Akane. Lunch that day only fanned the fires of gossip. Akane and Nabiki were both leaning against Ranma and they were sitting across from Ukyo who was leaning against Ryoga.
"So Ranma what are we going to name our son?" Akane
This one question confirmed the rumor about Akane being pregnant.
"How about Keitaro?" Ranma
"Keitaro sounds like a fine name." Akane said and then kissed Ranma
"What about our daughter? What will she be named?" Nabiki
This also confirmed another rumor that Nabiki was pregnant.
"How about Sakura?" Ranma
"Its perfect." Nabiki said and then kissed Ranma
"So when are you going to get married?" Ukyo
"I don't know. When do the two of you want to get married?" Ranma
"How about after the year is over?" Akane
"Sounds good to me." Nabiki
"I guess we're getting married when this semester is over." Ranma
Gossip was even higher than it had been that morning.
That evening at dinner.
"Will all of you help me move my stuff to Kasumi's old room after dinner." Soun
"What? Why are you going to do that?" Akane
"Well since Ranma is not going to have just one wife but two I though it best if he had the largest bedroom." Soun
"I can just keep going back and forth between Nabiki's and Akane's like I have been doing." Ranma
"But if the three of you had the same room it would make things easier" Soun
"But..." Akane was interrupted.
"And don't forget that you're going to have several children. They are going to want there own room's and we don't have that many rooms. So if we move all your stuff to my old room then we wont really have that problem." Soun
"He's got a point. I don't mind." Nabiki
"Well it doesn't matter to me." Ranma
"But...things are suppose to stay the same." Akane
"Akane things will never stay the same. They aren't the same now. Kasumi is married to dr tofu, you and Nabiki are pregnant and the two of you will be getting married to Ranma when the semester is over so with all of those changes what will a room change do?" Soun
"Ok." Akane
Shampoo and mousse just watched this exchange in silence
After dinner they moved all of Soun's stuff to Kasumi's old room and then they moved all of Nabiki's stuff to Soun's old room. Ranma grabbed his pack and put it in what was now his room. Everyone then moved Akane's stuff to Soun's old room. Ranma, Akane, and Nabiki all worked to make this there room. Ranma for once unpacked his bag and put the bag away. This was to the relief of Akane and Nabiki.
"So are we going to put your beds together or keep them separate?" Ranma
"I thought that we would just leave the beds where they were and we would just go buy a large one for the three of us." Nabiki
"That's fine with me. Are you ok with that Akane?" Ranma
"Yeah." Akane said non-thrilled
that night Nabiki went to her old room and Akane went to her old room for what was to be there last night sleeping in there old beds for tomorrow they were getting a larger bed for there new room. Ranma joined Akane but she wanted to be alone that night so he went to Nabiki's room. Nabiki gladly let Ranma join her.
Three weeks later.
"Ryoga I'm so nervous." Ranma
"Ranma you were excited yesterday." Ryoga
"I know. I cant help it." Ranma
"Well just stay conscious for a few more hours and you are home free." Ryoga
"Its the next 30 minutes that I'm worried about." Ranma
"Pull yourself together boy. You cant disappoint Akane and Nabiki." Genma
"If it wasn't a wedding a would turn you into a panda." Ranma
"My daughters are getting married." Soun said then started crying
"Akane, you do know that you have to walk down the aisle in a few minutes right." Ukyo
"Ukyo I don't think that is the best way to make Akane feel better." Nabiki
"Well you seem fine." Ukyo
"I made sure to eat bread and just drink water. I didn't want this problem." Nabiki
"Oh. I'll remember this when I get married to Ryoga." Ukyo
"Akane came out of the bathroom. Alright I'm ready." Akane
"Ukyo cue them." Nabiki said not waiting for Akane to get sick again
Ukyo was out the door and had them cue the music.
"Ryoga if I pass out just prop me up." Ranma
"Will do." Ryoga
The music started and then Akane and Nabiki started down the aisle. When they got to Ranma they stopped.
"Do you Ranma Soatome take Nabiki Tendo..." the priest continued on but Ranma was in a daze
(Ranma?) Nabiki
"I do." Ranma
Nabiki sighed and then it came time for her to say "I do."
"Do you Ranma Soatome take Akane Tendo..." again the priest continued and again Ranma was in a daze but when the priest stopped talking Ranma replied with "I do." Ranma
I finally came time for Akane to answer.
(Akane.) Nabiki
(Huh? What? Oh.) Akane who apparently had also been in a daze whispered to Nabiki but then said "I do." Akane
"I now pronounce you husband and wives." Priest
Ranma kissed Nabiki then Akane
Everyone cheered.
That night
"Mousse, everyone else having kids. Why we no have kid?" Shampoo
Mousse started coughing.
"Uhhh...did you want to." Mousse
"Of course. Stupid mousse." Shampoo
Mousse was silent
"AHHHH. MOUSSE WHAT YOU DOING?" Shampoo
The following week Ryoga and Ukyo got married.
The next week. Everyone was at Ukyo's. Ryoga and Ukyo thought about changing the name but decided to leave it the way it was.
"Ukyo do you know weather you're going to have a boy or a girl?" Akane
"I don't know." Ukyo
"Have you chosen a name for either case?" Akane
"No." Ukyo
"Shampoo are you and mousse waiting?" Nabiki
"No." Shampoo
"I guessed that from the sounds the last couple of weeks." Nabiki
Shampoo blushed
All the girls started laughing
Across the room Ranma, Ryoga, and mousse sat talking.
"Like this?" Ryoga asked and then made a glass of water disappear "WOW." Ryoga
"Like that." Mousse
"I can do that." Ranma now girl from Ryoga messing up several times said.
"Lets see it." Ryoga
"Ok." Ranma said grabbing a glass.
Back at the counter
"Those three will never grow up." Akane
"Boys will be boys." Ukyo
Everyone then heard the yelling of women.
"This is it. You coming Ryoga?" Ranma
"Of course." Ryoga
Ranma and Ryoga got up.
"What's going on?" Mousse
"Happosai." Ranma
"SHAMPOO." Mousse
Shampoo came running already hearing the cries. Mousse pulled out shampoos armor and weapons and handed them to her. As she was putting on her armor Ukyo, Akane, and Nabiki came running to try and stop there husbands.
"Ranma don't. Remember what happened last time." Akane
"I have to agree with Akane. There is no point." Nabiki
"He killed my child." Ranma
Nabiki and Akane couldn't stop Ranma after he said that.
"Ryoga why do you have to go?" Ukyo
"I told Ranma I would help and it would not be honorable for me to back out." Ryoga
"Screw honor. Ryoga I don't want anything to happen to you." Ukyo
"I'm going. He couldn't hurt me if he tried. Ranma's chances are better with me than without me." Ryoga
"Then I'm going to." Ukyo
"Me too." Akane
"NO!" Ryoga and Ranma chorused
"But I'm a martial artist to." Akane
"I don't want to risk losing another child. You aren't going." Ranma
"Same goes for you." Ryoga said to Ukyo
Akane and Nabiki both bowed there heads in defeat.
"Ok lets go." Ranma said to Ryoga, shampoo, and mousse.
The four of them left Ukyo's in pursuit of Happosai.