Beautiful Disaster

Disclaimer: See Default Chapter for such.

A/N:   Here goes. The last chapter. Have a good summer now. 

"How could I have been so stupid?" Ranma mutters as he hangs his head low. He had spent the rest of his day ditching Ukyo so by now at dusk he was tired. He lost. Ranma Saotome does NOT lose! He lost. He can not change that and he's not too happy to go about changing that. He was after the tickets and not the actual being the prettiest woman and all. He was not a woman! "I'm a martial artist! How could I not dodge a simple thing like that?"

"Ranma!" Ryoga burst forth from the ground. "How could you lose like that? Just for bringing up my hopes I'm so going to kill you!" And Ryoga went to work beating down on Ranma just as Ranma could see the Tendo home too. Ranma just took the brief beating as Ryoga calmed himself. "I thought this was a sure win?"

"Hey, who was the reason I got hit with the water?"

"Oh? So you're blaming this on me now?"

"What if I am?"

Ryoga formed a fist, but let it go. "Eh, what's the point now?"

"Look Ryoga, I'm sorry I couldn't win it, but I'll find a way to get us guys again so don't worry."

"Actually, Akari probably likes that I'm a pig."

Ranma grinned. "Heh."

"Anyway, I'll let you off with just the beating this time Ranma, I guess it sort of was somewhat my fault you lost." Ryoga turned away pack on his shoulder. "But, you better remember that I did a whole lot of junk for you this time so you owe me."

"When you need it come by then." And Ranma limped his way home as Ryoga tried to figure which path would put him in his desired place.

As Ranma approached the home he saw that Akane was waiting out at the gate. "What took you so long?"

"Ukyo. Ryoga." Ranma simply said as he plopped down on the ground there. "Man, I'm beat."

"Are you?"

"Yeah."

"Well, then I guess I'll have to find another then."

Ranma looked perplexed. "Another?"

"To go with me to China." She smirks.

Ranma stood in a daze. "Y-Y'mean you won?"

She nods. "That proves I'm prettier than the others."

"Well, no, I mean, Ryoga got some to drop out, and Shampoo, Ukyo, and me were all disqualified. So, this only proves you look better than Ms. Hinako."

Akane's anger was swelling behind him. She took in the largest breath ever taken by a mortal human, and let it out. Her calm persona took affect as he looked to her. He knew he said something wrong. "Ranma, can you,"

"Look Akane," Ranma stood to meet her. "You're cute. I'll grant you that." He looks away and his fingers fumble with the others. "I appreciate that you are willing to let me come with you to China."

"Did I say I would take you?"

"Well, I just assumed."

"I am."

"Uh, thanks."

"Ranma?"

"Uh, yeah?"

"Do you, really think I deserved the win?"

Ranma shuddered. "Uh, well, of any girl there Akane, aside from Ms. Hinako, you had the best inner beauty. I mean, Shampoo can go flaunting what she has, and Ukyo was there just because she wanted to beat Shampoo, er, and go with me to China. Hinako had a noble reason to win, as much as we didn't want her taking your dad." He shuffles his feet. "You were there for the best reasons Akane, and you deserved the win the most."

"Okay, inner beauty, but, the contest was also about outer beauty Ranma." She hoped he got the message.

"Well, you're, not ugly Akane. You look, just, normal."

"What's that mean?"

"Nothing really. You look just fine. Nothing really bad, nothing really great about you."

"Well, I guess that's sort of a compliment." She looks back to him. "Ranma, can you just say that I am pretty and I am NOT the uncute fiancée."

"Well, you're not the uncute fiancée. Uh, wait, I forget, that's some sort of not, not thing right? So did I say I thought you were, or weren't?"

"Ranma! Just say that I'm the cutest fiancée a guy like you can get!"

"You're the best fiancée a guy unlike me can get."

"Ranma!"

"Work on those cooking skills of you and then we'll talk."

"And here I am trying to be nice!" She swings at him and he moves.

"I was rooting for you all the way through Akane."

"No you weren't! Do you not recall that you wanted to win pretty badly!"

"Er, I meant that if I did lose you were the one that I wanted to win."

She tosses a backpack at him. "Pheh. GO get packed and we'll have the whole trip to China to discuss this."

"We should bring some sort of bottle y'think?"

"Yeah, for your dad and all."

"I hope he doesn't try anything."

"We actually have to go to China to get him. After the contest the judges sent him to China thinking he was a panda bear."

Ranma tries to contain his laughter. "Only he could get caught up in that."

"Ranma,"

"Uh, yeah?"

"Nothing."

"Do you want me to do something in the wake of your win?"

"Y-yeah."

"What is it? A written note?"

"A," She looks away with crossed arms and a blush. "A kiss."

"A, what?" Ranma stared at her as if she were an alien.

"If you, don't kiss me how will it prove anything."

They stood in silence. "Why should I kiss you? What do I have to prove?"

"Well, that you're heterosexual for one." Ranma this time grew uncontrollably angry. "To prove that I am, the winner."

"Heh. No one gets away calling me," she takes his lips in a firm kiss. Startled he just drops to the ground after she finishes sucking the life from me.

"Well?"

"Wha?"

"Ranma?"

"Ranma?"

"Are you okay?"

"Sorry, I must have been ," He pauses. He stands on his two feet. "Look, you won. It's that simple. Let's get packed. I wanna go as soon as I can."

"Okay then." Ranma darts off in a rush.

"Akane?" He darts back.

"Yeah?"

"You, are the cutest fiancée." He turns on his heel and runs inside.

"Thank you." She mumbles.