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The teacher continued to give instructions, while Ranma and Akane sat next to each other with their arms folded. Whispers could be heard going around the classroom about both of the two.

"Oh my goodness, isn't he dreamy?"

"Yeah, I wonder if he has a girl-friend!"

"Hey take a look at that chick…"

"Yeah, I bet she'd probably be cute if she wasn't wearing a jogging suit."

"Yeah…imagine her in a…"

"Excuse me young gentlemen, would you like to share the rest of the discussion with the rest of the class?"

The two young boys chuckled and then one of them finally got enough courage to speak and started to say, "We were just talking bout how pretty Akane is. You guys all know that she has a nice body and if I had the chance I would…" The boy was interrupted.

Everyone in the room looked back at the boy who was now being punched in the face. Every jaw in the classroom dropped instantly when they heard the forcefulness that was behind the blow.

"Ms. TENDOU! That is no way for a young lady to act! Here are two buckets! Go stand out side of the classroom immediately! Punching your pupils is NOT allowed!" But, by the time the teacher had finished her lecture, Akane had been long gone.

"I can't believe that boy had the nerve to say that about me!" Akane said as she threw a rock into the stream of water that went through the back of the school. She blew out a sigh of frustration then dropped to the ground and sat hugging her knees into her chest thinking about how much she didn't want to be in high school.

"Ya know, he didn't actually SAY anything about you. He didn't get the chance to."

Akane opened her mouth to yell at him, but instead she just threw a pebble into the little stream. Ranma stood behind her watching her…:You know, it's chicks like this that I jus don't understand…:

"Well," Akane said as she turned around to look at him; as she did this, the wind started to blow making her hair dance around her face; the sun shinning off of the water made the stream reflect in her eyes. Ranma was star struck. Akane sighed.

"Well, you better get back to class." Akane said then turned back around.

:maybe I should say something else to her…: The bell then rang for second period and Ranma turned around and walked to his next class. Akane turned around to thank him for checking up on her, but he was by then too far away. :o well: She thought to herself. She then got up and went to her next class.

((In Akane's Class))

As the teacher stood in the front of the class lecturing, Akane's sat and stared at the board, but her thoughts were elsewhere.

:I… I just don't get it. At first he was all being a jerk. WHICH HE PROBABLY IS! But then… I don't know, he seemed different when it was just we two there. What am I thinking, we barley even spoke to each other…:

"Ms. Tendou" The teacher called out to her and interrupted her thoughts.

"oh, um… excuse me, I'm sorry." Akane replied and started to vigorously take fake notes.

((In Ranma's Class))

"Yo Ranma!" One of the boys in his class called out to him as he slapped Ranma's shoulder. " What was that chick's problem?" After that remark a few of the other boys in class started to laugh also so Ranma felt it necessary to smirk.

:She didn't seem that bad did she? Better than all those girls who like to drool all over guys and have nothing better to do. She's….different than the rest…maybe…:

"umm, HELLO! Earth to RANMA!"

Ranma shook his head to awaken from his thoughts, "Oh," Ranma coughed and cleared his throat. "um, yeah, she was pretty weird huh?"

"Yeah!" Another boy added in. "She was more…from outer space kind of weird!"

The rest of the boys started to laugh, all except for Ranma, he just sat there and stared out of the window with his head leaning on one hand. :She being different couldn't be all that bad…could it:

((The two went though their classes until the lunch bell rung))

:God I don't want to go to lunch, God I don't want to go to lunch: "Hey!" Akane screamed as a hoard of giggling girls ran past her. They must not have seen her because they were too busy staring at… "RANMA!" Akane screamed through her teeth. :Gesh…even when we're not in the same class together he still gets on my nerves! Well, there really aren't any places to sit out here…where can I sit…: Akane surveyed the school yard looking for a group of people to sit with…: Thanks A lot dad for moving here. I have No friends, there is absolutely NOTHING to do... Well let me think, where did my friends and I sit in middle school……… OH YEAH! On the roof: Akane gigged to herself and made her way up to the roof to sit down and eat her lunch. She got to the top of the roof and sat aside the stairwell and pulled out her sandwich; but as she was doing this she heard a noise on the roof.

Akane jumped to her feet in a fighting stance. "WHO'S THERE!" She heard the noise again. She took a few steps forward; then from behind the other side of the stairwell's top came a small black and white kitten. Akane gasped And ran towards the kitten…

"Awww, Jasmine! What are you doing here?" The little cat meowed and jumped into Akane's arms. "I'm so glad you're here, you are about the only friend I have here."

The little kitty meowed and licked the tip of Akane's nose which made Akane giggle. "What did you say Jasmine? You want to know how my day went? Well I'll tell you. I got to school late then got harassed by a bunch of people in my first period class. Sounds fun right? Yeah, they guys in there are all real jerks. Especially this one…" Akane's voice started to trail off as jasmine sat there staring at her. "Well, it's not important anyway." Akane started to eat but found that she had lost her appetite. She put her food down frustrated and just sat there with her eyes closed and leaned her head against the wall. She heard another noise and figured it was jasmine again so she continued to sit there with her eyes closed and continued to confide in the cat.

"You know Jasmine, Although he has that big tough guy look on the outside… on the inside…I don't think he is all that bad" This time the noise she heard was coming from the trees so she quickly jumped up to see Ranma jump from on tree down to the ground.

"THE NERVE OF HIM! SPYING ON ME LIKE THAT!" Akane grabbed her stuff and jumped off the roof following him.

Mean while as Ranma ran to the back of the school by the stream to sit by himself; I would like to say that a million thoughts were running through his head, but that wasn't the case; only one; Akane.

: So, she doesn't think I'm all that bad. What is that supposed to mean? So does she like me or not? Wait a minute, why should I care if she does or not? It's not like I like…:

"HEY!" Ranma turned and screamed as a pebble hit him in the back of his head.

"What'd ya do that that for!"

"The same reason you were spying on me!" Akane screamed back.

"I wasn't spying on you. I had COME to tell you that we have a project in first period so I THOUGH you MIGHT want to help considering you ARE half of the team Akane."

Akane stood there. "Fine, where do you want to meet to do the project?"

"um…we can meet at your house if that is okay?"

:Why does he want to meet at my house: "sure, whatever, I'll give you my address."

"No need." Ranma stood up and brushed off the butt of his pants as the bell rang to end lunch.

"What do you mean 'No need'?" Akane replied staring to get angry.

"You'll see. I'll meet you in your dojo at 5." And with that he walked off.

Akane stood there in awe for a few minutes. :wait a minute, how does HE know we have a dojo:

A/N….sorry it took so long for mew to get this chapter up…I had the most MAJOR writers block ever. It's like...I know what I WANT to happen in the story, but I don't feel like writing the events that lead up to it. But I will…lol…Thanks for reading, PLEASE REVIEW