DiScLaImEr: None of these characters belong to me! Well, some I made up, but none of the MAIN characters belong to me so please don't sue cause I have no money and you would spend more paying the lawyer than you would get from me!!...:)

"Ranma?" A voice called from beyond the door.

Ranma stopped in the midst of putting his things away, walked over and opened the door. On the other side was a smiling Nadoka. Ranma returned the smile but his was less enthusiastic.

"Ranma dear are you okay? You don't look very happy. Are you starting to regret coming to stay over here? I understand how attached you were to the Tendou's but I have good news, tomorrow we are going to go have dinner with the Tendous, so no worries! Nadoka smiled so widely that her eyes temporarily shut, just long enough to miss Ranma's face pale and pain shoot across his face.

"That would be fun mother. If you don't mind may I finish putting my things away and go for a walk?" Ranma asked his mother. He needed to get out of there, his mother looked like she knew something was wrong and was going to try and get in his head at any moment to try and find out what exactly it was that was bother him.

"Sure Ranma, but please be home at a reasonable hour."

"Yes mother I will."

"Please Ranma, call me mom, okay?"

Ranma looked at his mother lovingly and replied, "Yes mom." Nadoka left Ranma in his room smiling. That was the best thing that had happened to him all day. ((Maybe it would be best if I didn't go out tonight and just stayed home... NOTHING good comes out of going out...))

Flashback

"Man that stupid tomboy! She could have at least AIMED where she kicked me. Sure she kicks pop right back to mom but she kicks me in the middle of nowhere! Where am I now? Hey this is the park! Well at least I know how to get home now" ((Home, the Tendous was always my home, but now I can have my OWN family. But I still kindda feel like I'm leavin a family behind though. But they prolly won't miss me at all...) Ranma got lost in thought until he heard a girl talk. ((Who could possibly be in the park at this hour)) He walked up a trail behind some bushes and looked to see who it was talking. There he saw...he squinted his eyes to get a better look... he saw... ((AKANE! Who is that guy she's with! Why if he touches her I'll!!...No, she's no longer my fiancée. Why is she crying?)) Ranma carefully stepped through the bushes and hid inside them. If he hadn't been a martial artist he would have NEVER made it through the bushes without any noise, but this is Ranma and he can do practically anything when he puts his mind too it.

Then Akane started to talk again. , "I love you, more than you could ever know. And no matter what I may say and how angry I may get, you can NEVER forget that I love you, okay, never." Ranma's heart stopped dried up then cracked. ((Akane loves someone else? I... I... no it can't be. How could... aw man! How could I have been so stupid! What's he doing?!?! OH! Haha! He's gonna lean down to kiss her! Here comes the mallet! Maybe I'll be able to see where she pulls that thing from. Wait, where is the mallet? You mean she actually wants him to kiss her? No...no.... NO!!)) Ranma could no longer take it and jumped from out of the bushes and ran home as quickly as he could. Once he felt he was at a safe distance he stopped running. He tried to hold back the tears but instead he just collapsed and started crying by a fountain. ((I knew she didn't love me; she was in love with someone else. How could I have been so stupid!)) He tried to wipe away the tears but they just continued to fall. ((Now I know I did the right thing by breaking off the engagement. Now I see I could have never had her heart. I'm happy for her I am!... Oh who am I kidding? If I were happy for her then it wouldn't hurt so much! I don't get it, how can I love her so much and the whole while me not know she was in love with another man... Wait...I love her? Ugh who am I kidding... there is no need now to hide it from anyone now...except for her. I'm not gonna mess it up for her! This time I'm gonna do things right!)) As Ranma went to stand up he felt a hand on his shoulder. He was startled and began to wipe his eyes. After he did he looked up to find a young woman kneeling beside him. Here hair was lose and fell just below her mid-back. She was very tan to have lived here all of here life so he supposed she was foreign. Her eyes were dark brown; as was her hair. Her eyes, they were so warm and inviting, like she hid no secrets, like a movie of her life could be played through her eyes for the whole world to see.

"Excuse me, I don't mean to intrude, but are you okay?" ((Wow)) the girl thought to herself, ((He is so cute! Why is he crying though? Ohhh I hate to see guys cry. He reminds me of my fiancé, he looks so brave and strong but inside, you know that he is actually really sensitive.))

"Yes,"::sniff:: "I'm fine. Thank you, now pardon me, but I gotta go" Ranma then stood, brushed of his pants and was about to walk when she called for him.

"Wait!" Se called after him. He turned to the side and saw her start to get up and sit on the fountain by which he was standing. "I'm Vanessa, what's your name?"

Ranma hesitated then thought to himself, ((sure why not, I mean how much harm could it do)) "I'm Ranma Saotome, heir to the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts." He said with pride in his voice, only to have it dwindle when she started laughing. "What's so funny?!" He demanded.

"Sounds FANCY!" She said still laughing. She looked so pretty when she laughed Ranma couldn't help but to smile.

Once she could compose herself enough to talk she said, "I'm sorry Ranma, but you just seemed to sad, and I didn't want to see you cry because you remind me so much of my fiancé."

"You're engaged? But you're so young."

"Yeah well, love knows no age I suppose. Do you have a fiancé?"

"Yes...no..." He replied then looked down.

"Well, which is it yes or no?"

Ranma tried to continue to speak but didn't trust his voice. When he began to speak, he cracked. He started to tell Vanessa of how he got engaged to each of the fiancés and why he decided to break the engagements off. When he got Akane though, he could barley speak. His story ended with him and her sitting there talking.

"Wow," she said, "You must care about her a lot." He nodded. "Well, here is the hotel number that I'm staying at, I'll write the room number down too, I'll talk to my fiancé about it, the next time you have to go see her, call me and I'll come with you, that way you don't have to be there by yourself. Okay?"

"Arigatoo" Ranma said sniffing.

"You're very welcome. Now why don't you go home and get some rest and we can talk later okay?"

The two said their goodbyes and left separate ways.

End Flashback

"Hello, may I speak to Vanessa"

"This is she, Ranma is that you?"

"Yes, I wanted to tell you that tomorrow night we are going over to Akane's and having dinner, and I would like to know if you would come with me and my mom?" There was silence for a few seconds then she responded.

"Sure, I'll tell my fiancé what's up when he gets back. He went to a party with his friends but I didn't want to go, so instead I had decided to go for a walk in the park. That's how we met. But yeah, I'll go tomorrow but right now I can't talk because I think he's back and I'm going to need some time to explain things okay? Where are we meeting?"

"Umm, I'll meet you outside of your hotel at 4 is that okay?" Ranma said kind of hesitantly.

"Prefect! See you later bye!" She hung up the phone. ((Well, tomorrow should be interesting.))

Meanwhile at Vanessa's hotel room

A man called out "Vanessa! You here?"

"Yup! Right here!" she ran over to him and kissed him on the cheek. "Did you have fun? Yeah, the introduced me to this girl and I hung out with her most of the time. I felt REALLY bad because she had just kindda been dumped by her fiancé. So I'm gonna try and help her get him back while we're still here in Japan."

((HMM)) Vanessa thought to herself.

"Andrew honey, what did you say her name was?"

"Akane. Akane Tendou, why?"

"Oh my... umm, you might wanna sit down for this one, we need to have a looooong talk" Vanessa said putting the clues together.

A/N- Ugh I really need to have a plan set out for what's going to happen in the chapters because this is another unexpected one. Well I think that with the whole "squirrel in the bushes" thing that everyone prolly figured out that it was one of two people. 1. Naibiki or 2. Ranma, well there is your answer to who it was in the bushes! ::sighs:: this is so sad. Isn't life so ironic sometimes? Well yes, I have 3 essays to write for schools I don't know when I will be able to update. But yes please R&R because it will help me to write faster and better THANX!...