Akane sat across the fire and watched Andreas intently with her hands clenching her pants. Andreas smiled and said, "Ok now since Ranma has been very productive on his first day I can now start teaching you how to become the best cook you can."

Akane nodded and said, "I am ready."

Andreas smiled and began to explain, "Well to begin with first properly label or at least read the labels already on the ingredients," he said picking up a bottle of vinegar in one hand and a bottle of white wine in the other, "Now I heard that you like to add white wine to most of the things you cook which is good but not always necessary."

Akane blushed a bit as she heard this. Ranma was in the middle of doing his basic training with a few additions by Andreas. He now had to avoid several items that were swinging at him as he punched the tree.

Andreas next began to explain, "Now Akane I want you to always remember that cooking is an art within itself. You must find new and unique ways to blend flavors and bring out the full potential of every ingredient but you will not be able to do this until you master the basics of cooking such as boiling water and other beginner areas."

Akane looked at him and replied, "I already learned how to boil water. Ranma's mom taught me using this."

She pulled out her mother's journal and handed it to Andreas. Andreas opened it and looked over it and then said, "Well this is great but with me you need to forget everything you know about cooking."

Akane nodded and kept a stern face as she glanced over at Ranma. Andreas then handed the journal back to her. Andreas then pulled some tools out of his pack and placed them down in front of Akane. She looked down at them and asked, "Why did you place them here?"

Andreas smiled and answered, "Well before you can cut anything with a knife and before you can even boil water you must learn all about the tools of the trade and what individual tool is used for and how it will help you in your quest to learn how to cook. Now what I want you to do is point at one your most familiar with and hand it to me."

She looked over them closely then picked up a large knife and handed it to him. Andreas took the knife and threw it so the point was buried in a tree. Akane looked shocked and asked, "Why did you do that?"

"As I told you before you will forget everything you know about cooking. I wanted to remove all familiarity from your teaching," Andreas said as he then lifted a large ladle and asked her, "Now what is the name of this?"

She thought for a second and then answered, "A Ladle."

"Good now answer me what are the possible uses for this?" Andreas said as he held it up.

Akane thought back to her sister and tried remembering back to what she used it for and said, "It can be used to serve food and can be used to check the taste of the food."

Andreas smiled and nodded and then picked up another item and then another until he was finished with all of them. He smiled since she had gotten them all correct and said, "Good you know your cooking tools and that's a good start to cooking. Now we are done training for tonight."

He waved Ranma over who looked and just as he did a swinging log came and slammed into the side of his head sending him sliding over by Akane. Andreas shook his head and crossed his arms as Ranma sat up. Ranma rubbed his cheek and saw Andreas' disapproving look and yelled, "Hey I was distracted! You were the idiot who called me over while I was training."

Andreas looked at him and said sternly, "No you are the idiot who let your self get distracted while you knew you were training. Foron will not let such an amateur mistake get past him. You must keep your eyes on him and your senses sharp while fighting him or you my pupil will end up like that tree."

Andreas pointed at a tree and they looked at a very healthy tree wondering what he was talking about. Ranma turned back and saw Andreas in a position ready to kill him with his bo staff ready to crack him in the neck. Ranma stood absolutely still and Andreas came out of the position and said, "That's what I mean. You thought I was going for the tree when in fact you were the target. Don't you ever dare to look away from your opponent if you do he will sever your head from your shoulders."

Akane sat in shock as Andreas handed them both a bowl and said, "Here eat there is stew in the pot and until Akane learns to cook this is all we will eat."

Andreas took some of the stew into his bowl and began to eat as did Ranma and Akane. When they were finished Andreas went to his tent and said, "Ok let's get some sleep we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow."

Akane and Ranma watched as he stepped into his tent and then they both looked at the two person tent they had to share and blushed. The need to sleep soon overcame them and they both slipped into the tent and lay down with their backs to each other and hearts beating like crazy. It was a while before they both finally went to sleep.

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Foron stood at the top of the largest tree in the forest watching the transpiring events and smiled. He laughed and said, "So my little brother you have decided to take him in to train so he can fight me. No matter Ranma's heart will be mine and I will become the greatest power of all time."

Loud manaical laughter echoed from his mouth and he began jumping from tree to tree with a sick twisted smile across his face.

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Andreas lay in his tent fully hearing everything that Foron had said and thought to himself So Foron it is his heart that you want Well I will not allow you to take it.