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"Japanese"

"Chinese"

Chapter 6: Unexpected Results:

"You hate everything about me! Why do you love me?!" Three Days Grace: I Hate Everything About You

"Sauske! You're okay!" Sakura shouted, smiling widely as her brother stretched a bit.

"Sure am." Sauske replied, smiling back. He brought his hands together, stretching his arms over his head. "I'm perfectly fine, Saku . . ."

CRACK!

"What was that?!" Sakura shouted.

The boy shook his head back while rubbing his arm, smiling to act normal. "Nothing, nothing. I'm fine."

Aki, taken aback by her opponent's sudden burst of strength, forced her mouth closed, and stood back up straight. So, it wasn't over yet? Fine; she could keep going. She wasn't tired. Annoyed, yes, but not tired.

Sauske lightly rubbed his side. It hurt, a lot, but he couldn't show it. Something told him that the Chinese girl would capitalize on any weakness she could find. He would have to hide his pain, and do his best to fight through it. Then again, he also had to keep optimism in mind. Anger would work against him, and he couldn't let . . . well, it was best to not think about that. "Well, Aki-san, do you want to keep fighting?"

The girl furrowed her brow angrily, before her hands snapped up, as she glared at him. Sauske raised his hands as well, in a much nicer form than before. His eyes focused squarely at hers, and never wavered. "So, he is ready now? Fine." Aki murmured to herself.

Sauske watched, waiting for her to move. He didn't have to wait long.

Aki rushed forward again, her blue aura flowing around her; yet, it was much smaller this time. When the distance had shrunk to two feet, she swung out with her right arm, straight for his stomach again. Sauske slid back a few inches, and her fist stopped just shy of contact. Bringing her feet together, and turning her body sideways from him, she kicked down at his shin with her left foot. Sauske hopped back again, leaning forward to just move his feet away to safety. Aki smiled. Just what she wanted him to do.

Sakura watched. Something was wrong. The Chinese girl's aura was much smaller than before, but she didn't seem any less focused. She was moving slower, but the blue color was flowing steadily around her. Could it all be out? But, . . . it was only a few feet wide this time, and she had filled the entire room before. Unless . . . that was a trick. "Of course! She found some way to make a large aura field to confuse her opponent!" she thought to herself. "And then she shows her real aura to make them think she's weaker! Which means . . . Sauske!"

The boy, in the time of the first two attacks, had noticed something odd. The girl seemed slower now, and was holding back. But why? She had seemed so determined before, using all of her aura to fill the room, but she suddenly went weak? It didn't add up. He had never seen someone start at full strength, then choose to get weaker when his or her opponent got back up. What was he missing?

"Sauske!" Sakura shouted in the moment of pause. "Get away from her! That's her full strength still!"

Aki smiled. "Too late."

With the left side of her body towards the boy, their faces perpendicular to each other, she flicked her fist up by her head, then swung out with a backhand strike towards Sauske's face. He leaned back, using all his strength, forced himself away from her hand, and it stopped a hair away from his nose. Then it swung away. Aki reversed the motion, from clockwise to counter-clockwise, her fist attacking, fingers first, at his gut. With a violent snap, Sauske bent his body the opposite direction, the hand again barely reached its stopping point before making contact with his body. Aki raised her right knee.

Sauske dove forward, pushing off with his feet. His body dropped down, rolling forward, as Aki brought her foot up and around. Noting his sudden movement, Aki only swung her roundhouse kick across her body that much faster. The boy felt her foot cruise along the cloth of his shirt, and could feel her pressure on his back, but none of its destructive force. He tumbled forward, rolling on the ground, before inertia brought him to a crouching position again, his back to the girl. Immediately, his head turned to watch for the next strike.

Aki's body continued to twist with the force of her kick, before it stopped enough for her head to turn all the way around to see her target behind her, rolling forward. Bringing her floating foot down, she lifted her left leg up, bringing her knee to her chest. Sauske stopped rolling, sitting there in a crouch, his head turning to see her. "Now." She thought to herself.

Aki kicked out with all her might, her foot going behind her completely, running straight for Sauske's head. The boy barely had an instant to see it before needing to react; somehow, he pulled it off, tossing his whole body aside, tumbling around on the floor as her foot whizzed past his face. His body rolled across the ground, kicking up a little dust, before he stopped several feet from where he started, and rolled back onto his feet, this time facing her.

Aki, hanging in the air for a moment, waited for his counter attack. She couldn't move in that tiny instant in the air, and the speed at which that Sauske was moving, it might be possible for him to take advantage of her opening. But he didn't. Fortunate, because then she still had a chance. Her feet touched down, a few feet apart. Instantly, she brought them together, and spun her body around to face him. There, her hands swung back up, snapping tight again in the air. Sauske slowly stood up, raising his hands again.

Sakura watched them, the girl and boy locked in battle, studying both of them as best as she could. Sauske looked normal, still aura-less, still collected and calm, and still ready. Aki, however, looked angry. She stared at her opponent without a hint of collected, calm thought. Her aura was also shifting. Around her body, only centimeters from her body, was red, and it filtered out into the remainder of her aura, turning it a deep purple, as the blue faded.

Sauske was breathing hard. Someone watching might not notice, but he couldn't out and out lie to himself. He was tired. It took every ounce of his speed to avoid those attacks, along with gallons of luck poured into the mix. His body was getting exhausted, even with this short exertion. It was just too fast. He raised his hands up, hands out flat. There, he noticed something odd. A small flow of red lines trailed between his fingers, glowing faintly.

Instantly, he crushed his hands into a fist, stamping out the color. He took a deep breath, calming himself, as he prepared to continue. His mind trailed to happier thoughts, more determined thoughts, and slowly any rage in his mind, even the smallest amount, drained away. Once focused again, he turned back to his opponent. Sauske's mind twisted, conjuring a painless victory plan. He needed one, if he wanted any chance to win.

Aki watched the Japanese boy carefully. Something was wrong with him. He had plenty of chances to hit her, but he didn't. Why was he holding back? He wouldn't be . . . no, nobody would be that stupid to do that. But he was a bit overconfident. Time to change that with more. Before he started mocking her and the entire Amazon people.

"Sauske! Stop holding back for a change!" Sakura shouted.

"Yes, Brick-boy, fight me now . . . if you are not afraid." Aki murmured, smirking.

Sauske sighed. "Well, all right, if that's what you want."

Aki charged again, running to him. She swung her right hand at his face, and he leaned inside it, avoiding it completely. Once it stopped, the girl pulled that hand back, and swung out with her left hand, crossing in front of her face towards his. Again, Sauske leaned inside her hand, hiding behind her arm. Her faced scrunched, as the boy continued his dodging streak. She lifted her left foot from the ground.

Pushing off the ground with her right foot, she swung her knee up, racing for Sauske's face. The boy hopped back to his left foot, his arms hanging in the air for a moment, before they swung back to his sides. The Chinese girl did not hesitate, kicking her left foot out, again for his face. And again, Sauske twisted aside to safety, her foot passing harmlessly in front of his nose. Once safe, Sauske hopped back a few steps again.

He stopped again, as the girl lowered her foot to the ground. He was running out of strength. He had never pushed himself to move this fast before, and nobody had ever challenged his skills this much. Keira may be faster, but even she had never pushed herself to these limits. Sauske took another deep breath, preparing himself for what came next.

"Sauske?! What are you waiting for?!" Sakura shouted from the sidelines.

"An opening." He replied back calmly.

Aki was furious now. She could see how he was acing. Her aura had lost its purple, and the blue was long gone, leaving only the red. "You stupid, calm brick! Now you are going to fall!" she thought angrily to herself, clenching her fists.

Aki rushed again, swinging her right foot out in a roundhouse kick. Sauske dropped down a little bit, before shooting his hands up. Wrapping his fingers around her ankle, he twisted violently, spinning her leg around. Aki's body followed afterward, then crashed onto the ground gently in a heap.

The girl shot her head up right afterward, staring up angrily. She drew her body back towards her torso, then planted her hands on the ground. Rolling back onto her palms, she lifted onto her hands completely, in a crouched handstand, her back towards Sauske. There, her arms pushed with all her might, as she pushed herself into the air, kicking out with her feet.

The girl, flying feet first towards him, surprised Sauske for a moment. Then, he slid aside, grabbing her ankles again, before twisting her, and releasing her back to the wind. She spun out of control, before collapsing onto the ground again.

Hopping up, she shook the dizziness from her head, and spun to face the boy. Rearing her right arm back, she swung out again with all her power. Sauske ducked, stepped sideways, and ended up at her back. Grabbing her wrist, he dragged Aki in front of him, snapping her arm tight and placing his hand on her back, the toes of his feet at the heels of hers. Aki paused, before dropping her head forward, and swinging it back to headbutt him while he held her. Sauske shoved his left hand forward, pushing her back away from him, and she stumbled forward, before taking several more steps, to gain some distance.

There, she turned around. Facing the boy again, she charged forward. Sauske paused, before dropping straight down. On the ground, he kicked forward, knocking Aki's feet out from underneath her. She stumbled forward, crashing onto the ground behind him with a loud THUD! There, she stayed, as Sauske stood up.

- - -

". . . and so that's how we got here." Mousse finished, and Akane and Ranma nodded again, smiling.

Suddenly, Ranma perked up again. Everyone else turned to him, watching his head twist back and forth. "Ranma, are you sure everything is . . ."

"Fine, it's fine, Akane." Ranma said, relaxing again, and smiling wider. "I'm probably just hearin' things again. Forget about it."

- - -

"Well, Sauske, you did it." Sakura said quietly, still standing to the side of the dojo. "You won."

Sauske nodded, and there was a groan from the ground. Not one of pain, but sadness. Slowly, the girl stirred, placing her hands on the ground, and forcing herself up. She twisted around, sitting on the ground; her downcast eyes were ashamed and disgusted. She sighed loudly, knowing what had to happen, and what she must do now.

The siblings watched, unmoving, as the girl slowly rose to her feet, her face turned to the ground, her arms hanging down limply like they were broken and useless. Slowly, her body swayed, and began a sluggish trudge to the boy. Each step was a long, labored plod, and her head never looked up. Inch by inch, meter by meter, she approached Sauske, for reasons unknown to him. Sakura watched, wondering what she had planned. There was no aura, no stance, not even a hint of a threat from the girl. She was just marching towards the boy.

Eventually, when she was less than half a meter away, Aki stopped. There, her hands slowly rose up, pulling towards her chest. There, they reached out towards Sauske. Gently, she placed her hands on his shoulder. Aki took a deep breath, before stepping in another pace, putting her a tiny distance away from the boy. Again, she took a deep breath. Her left hand slid down his chest, before sliding back around his left side, and halting its journey on his back. Her face turned up, looking into his eyes.

For a moment, she turned away. Sauske noted that she had on the most disgusted, spiteful look on her face, punctuated by an appearance of absolute shame in her eyes. Slowly, her face turned back to his, and paused. She took a deep breath in, before quietly. "Wo an ni."

Slowly, her face approached, and they locked lips in a long, unbroken kiss. Sauske's eyes exploded in size, but he didn't fall away, or fight. He was in a state of total, uncontrolled shock. Aki held her body still, counting in her head.

Sakura was watching still, unsure whether to scream, or just run away. Her face was pale. "What the hell is going on?!" She shouted in her head.

Sauske was bright red in the face when Aki finally broke away. After pulling her face away, both her hands trailed to his chest, stopping together at the center of his ribs. She pushed with all her might, shoving him backward onto the ground. The boy fell away, crashing down into a head, before his head looked back up again. The girl had turned, and was walking to the far end of the dojo. When she reached there, she slid the panel open, stepped outside, and slammed it shut behind her.

"S-S-S-Sauske?" Sakura asked, still paralyzed from that crazed Chinese girl kissing her brother. "What . . . just happened here?"

"I . . . I don't know, Sakura." The boy replied, staying seated on the floor.

"What do you mean, you don't know?! She just kissed you!"

"Well, don't ask me why. I didn't do anything."

"Well, explain to me why she would want to kiss you? Especially since she was trying to kill you a second before."

Sauske sighed. "I just told you I . . ." his voice trailed away, his blushing face draining of color.

Sakura noticed her brother's sudden change. "What? What is it? Did you remember something?"

Slowly, the boy stood up, and began walking towards the door. "I . . . I'm going to bed. Goodnight, Sakura." He pace grew faster and faster, until he disappeared outside.

"Wait a second! What did you . . . he's gone." Sakura sighed, shaking her head. What was going on?

- - -

Sauske walked slowly, passing by a hallway, until he reached the back stairs to the upper floor. It would be better than the main stairs; his parents would see him, and he wanted to figure out what happened before anyone else knew about it. Walking to his room, he slid the door open, stepped inside, shut it behind him, and sat down on the bed.

What was going on? Sauske sighed to himself. "Okay, what do I know?" he thought to himself. "Well, that girl, Aki, kis . . . was a Chinese Amazon. Dad would know a lot about them. What was it he always told us?"

"Right, I remember. 'Never fight an Amazon.' Now, why was that? It was . . . uh, it was . . . argh! What was it?! Something about being an outsider? Yeah, that sounds right. What else? They had to . . . to, um . . . beat the Amazon woman in a fight! That was it!"

"Okay, so I did that. What else? . . . uh, I know there was something. What was it? Okay, if I beat an Amazon in a fight, then I would have to . . . have to . . . ergh! What was it?!"

Sauske leaned back, resting on the wall. Suddenly it snapped into his mind. "Of course! How could I forget?! I have to . . . oh god . . ."

He paused, paling again, his face draining of all color. He held that for a moment, before a deep, red blush rose through his cheeks. "I have to . . . marry her?!"

- - -

Sakura stared at the door where her brother left, before sighing. She turned around, looking at the door where the girl left. She shook her head.

"Whatever. I got to finish my training for tonight."

Walking to the side, she grabbed her training sword from the ground, and marched back to the center of the room. She lifted her sword, then began a long series of practice movements. It was tough to concentrate, though.

- - -

Aki slowly leaned against the wall, staring out into the night sky. The stars twinkled brightly, as a cloud passed in front of the moon. The air was crisp and cool, and a small breeze drifted past her. She scraped her foot along the ground, kicking the grass around slowly.

"It doesn't make sense! How did I lose?" she thought to herself. "Well, he was very fast . . ."

The girl shook out her head, walking away from the wall. She walked with her new, slow, deliberate pace. Her path was aimless, and she walked along into the back of the yard, trying to understand what she did wrong. How could she lose?

"He was strong. I lost my focus. I can't let that happen anymore."

She should have known better than to do that. Aki was always letting her anger get control in a fight, and then she was too out of focus to see everything her opponent was going to do. Maybe she could hit harder when she was angry, but she moved much slower, and that meant that Brick-boy could evade her attacks.

There was something odd about that boy, though. He was strong enough to beat her without even trying, but he waited forever to do that. "Why would he wait to defeat me, if he could from the beginning?"

She had her rules for a fight. If you could win, you would finish your opponent quickly. Delays would give them a chance to win despite being severely outmatched. But he didn't follow that rule. And the reason why?

She could think of several, but only one really fit. She wasn't in training, so that was out. They both knew this fight was very serious. The only one left she thought would be good, was one she didn't want to believe. Then again, only an outsider would be stupid enough to do that.

She clenched her hand, trying to hold in her emotions. There was an old board lying on the ground. Rolling it onto a rock, she stared down at it, thinking over what that Brick-boy had done. Quietly, she whispered to herself. "I can't believe he would be so stupid!"

- - -

Sakura swung the sword across. There, she looked just beyond its tip, before raising it up over her head. She stepped forward, swinging the sword down, and . . .

CRACK!

Sakura paused, staring ahead of her. The sword hadn't hit anything, just air. She paused a moment, before swinging the sword back and forth, to see if it cracked. It was whole still.

"Well, that was odd." Sakura thought to herself. "I wonder what that sound was."

- - -

"What was that?" Akane asked, as Ranma walked to the door panel. He slid it open, peering outside. He looked outside, before turning to look around the other way. "Well?"

"Beats me." Ranma replied, shrugging his shoulders and returning to his seat. "We can figure it out later."

- - -

Aki stared down at the broken piece of wood. She kicked it aside with her foot. "That stupid idiot!" Slowly, she began walking back to where she had exited the dojo. There was only one thing left to do. She approached the door, placing her hand on the edge. Her arm swung aside, flinging the door open, as she stepped up and inside.

"He is going to pay for what he did! It was bad enough for him to beat me, but what he really did . . . that was too far!"

Next chapter: Aki returns, with a vengeance, ready to fight through anyone who gets in her way, including Sakura.

Well, that's chapter six. First of all, I kinda overdid the bio on Akane, so if things seemed really bad for her, it was my fault. I was writing a prologue for this story, before I realized it would take about ten to twenty chapters to fit everything in, and that is where most of the stuff came from. So, if people thought that was a bit too serious, I'm sorry.

Another thing is reviews. Yes, I would like more, so if you could please review this story (especially the fights), even if you have before, that would be really nice. Also, I realize that I haven't answered much to the people who have already reviewed me, so I'm going to do that now:

MusicIsMyLifeBlood: Well, thanks for the good review, and I hope you've started to understand what happened to Ryoga, Mousse, Shampoo, Akari, Konatsu, and Ukyo.

meep meep: I'm glad you think its coming out good. I'm trying. I hope you can start to see the confusing relationships beginning to appear. They're about to get even more complicated!

The Liz: Yeah, I haven't seen many fics with Ryoga and Akari either, which is kind of sad. As for how Akane found out about P-chan, that's coming up in a couple of chapters.

zak: The Kunos? Well, um, I haven't thought about bringing them back, but maybe I could bring them in.

Also, you said that some of the characters were based off Naruto, which is partially true. Only Naruto (Ryoga's younger son) is similar to the real Naruto. He's got an orange shirt, he's loud and obnoxious, and he wants to be better than someone named Sauske. Sauske and Sakura (Ranma's son and daughter) are representatives in name only. However, this is NOT a crossover with Naruto, or any other show or magna, I just used the names other shows because I couldn't think of any.

Kuonji Ukyo:

Age: 38

Occupation: Chef at Okonomiyaki restaurant "Ucchan's"

Strength: 2

Speed: 3

Stamina: 2

Ki: 1

Aura: 2

Special Techniques: 2

Ukyo is one of the few members of Ranma's original friends who have changed very little. Her appearance is still almost the same, except she dresses like a man much less often than she used to. She does sometimes wear more masculine clothes, but it's been years since she tried impersonating one. Also, her hair has grown slightly longer, but other than a few of the signs of aging just beginning to appear, she looks like her youthful self.

As for her martial arts abilities, Ukyo has improved almost none, and may have even declined a very small amount. She still trains, but it is far less serious than before because now, there is little left for her to fight for. She assists Ranma when he goes against some powerful monster or demon, or something like that, but since she was never well known for her fighting ability, there are very few challengers out for her, unlike Ryoga and Ranma. There have been multiple Martial Arts Cook-off challenges, witch she has always won, thanks to her special batter and pepper-bomb techniques.

After Ranma and Akane were finally married, Ukyo accepted it rather quickly. She had already seen that they were in love, and was prepared for Ranma to refuse their engagement. Even so, she was still somewhat brokenhearted, and it took a year before she finally opened up to Konatsu. Nobody but them knows exactly how it happened, but they were quickly engaged, and at about six years after Ranma first arrived in Nerima, they were married.

Within two months, Ukyo was pregnant with her first child, Keira. Keira was her number one joy in life until she became pregnant again, three years later. Both Keira and Haku, her son, are still at the top of the list of things she loves in her life, with Konatsu second, and Ucchan's third.

Since it was first opened, Ucchan's is one of the most successful restaurants in all of Tokyo, and has continued to flourish for all twenty-two years of its existence. The staff still only consists of Ukyo and Konatsu, with help often from Haku and Keira in the last few recent years. And while their okonomiyaki is no where near as great as Ukyo's, both Keira and Haku can cook very well. The family also still lives in the (now much larger) apartment above the restaurant.

Overall, Ukyo has settled down into her life, and enjoys it. There are problems still between herself and Shampoo, and Ryoga since she learned he was P-chan, and a lot of problems still between her and Genma. Fortunately, she's gotten over Ryoga's lie, is hoping to start over with Shampoo, and lives very far away from Genma. That leaves her with very few things she's ever upset about from her past, and she's never been happier than ever before.