Disclaimer: I still don't own Ranma and Co.

Ranma ½: The College Years

By: Chrissy H.


Chapter 3

beep beep beep

Akane slowly opened up her eyes to the incessant sound.

beep beep beep

Slowly, she reached over and smacked the alarm clock effectively turning it off. She looked over at the time. 7:05am. Ugh. Morning already. She slowly got up and threw her legs around the bed. Registration is today. She walked out of her room and went into the bathroom. She brushed her teeth and took a shower. She walked out of the room and looked back at the clock. 7:20.

"Ranma! Get up!" Akane yelled as she walked into the living room. He just rolled over and grunted something incomprehensible. "I said, get up!" She said as she rolled him off the couch.

"Alright alright! I'm up!" He said as he sat up from his place on the floor.

"Well, hurry up. It's almost 7:30 and we have to be there at 8." Akane said as she went back to her room to continue getting ready.

Ranma walked into the bathroom and did his morning routine. In ten minutes he was dressed and ready.

The two of them walked out of the apartment at 7:45 and passed Hiroshi in the front of the complex.

"Good morning Mr. Kawamura!" The couple yelled in unison.

"Good morning, Akane and Ranma! Have a good day at school!" Hiroshi yelled after them.

"I think registration is in the student union." Akane said as she looked at the map of campus. "I think it's this way." She pointed down towards a large group of students.

There were a bunch of tables set up with letters in front of each one. "I think we're supposed to be on that line." Akane said as she pointed to a table that had the letters R-T in front of it. They got in line and looked at the amount of people standing around there.

"Wow, there are a lot of students here, Ranma." Akane said looking around.

"Yea, there is."

"Name please." The boy sitting behind the table said as Akane walked up to him.

"Tendo Akane." The boy looked at her for a moment longer before pulling out a piece of paper from a box and handed it to her.

"Welcome to the school. I hope you like it here." He said giving her a friendly smile. His brown hair just reached his eyes and even Akane had to admit he was good looking. He was wearing a white Hokkaido University t-shirt and jeans and had light brown eyes.

"Saotome Ranma." Ranma said, cutting into their conversation. Her first day here and she's making all googly eyes at this guy.

"Oh, right. Here you go." The boy said giving him his card. Ranma could tell that this boy was sizing him up for a moment.

"Come on, Akane. Lets go." Ranma said as he grabbed Akane's wrist and pulled her out of line.

Akane glanced behind her and saw the boy watching her retreating figure. She couldn't help but blush.

"What? Looking to see if lover boy over there is still staring at you?" Ranma said accusingly.

"He was not staring at me, Ranma! What is wrong with you, anyway?" Akane all but yelled at him trying to cover up the pinkness in her cheeks. Akane huffed and said, "Well, what classes do you have?"

Ranma hadn't even looked at his schedule yet, he was too caught up with that stupid guy. "Oh, uh, here." He thrusted his schedule into Akane's hand.

Akane looked over the schedule and then looked over hers. "Well, it looks like we have Calculus and English together." She said handing his schedule back to him. "I also have theatre arts 101 and writing and lit."

Ranma quickly looked over his schedule. "Hmm…Physical Education Seminar and Health. Why do I need math and English anyway?" Ranma grumbled.

"You baka. Of course you need other classes. You can't just run around in a gym and hope you end up with a degree!" Akane shook her head.

"Feh. Whatever. So, where do we go now?" Ranma said looking back at his schedule.

"Looks like I have theatre arts now and you have health. But we have calculus after that, so I'll see you there. Okay?" Akane said while look at the map. "Do you know where you're going?"

"Uh, no." Ranma said looking over her shoulder at the map she was holding.

"You're going to this building." She said pointing to a building on the map. "Which means, it's that brick building over there." She then pointed to a building a few hundred yards away. "And calculus is in this building right here." She said as she pointed to building they were in front of.

"Hey Akane! Tendo Akane!" A voice yelled out. Ranma and Akane looked at the boy running up to them. It was the same boy from the registration table.

"Oh! Hi!" Akane said smiling. Ranma just grunted something that might've been a greeting.

"Hey." He said slightly winded from running. "I saw that you're in theatre arts and I'm in that class, too. I thought we might go together. Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't even introduced myself. My name is Yoshikuni Kaito. But you can call my Kai."

"Oh, well as you already know, I'm Akane and this here is…" but before she could finish she was cut off.

"Ranma, her fiancé." Ranma finished for her with a smirk on his face.

Kai's face dropped a little but soon had another smile on it. "Well, it's great to meet you Ranma. Do you have theatre arts with us, too?"

"No, he doesn't. He's on his way to health, right Ran-Ma?" Akane bit off obviously pissed that he cut her off like that.

"Yea, right, whatever." He responded and stalked off towards his building. Stupid tomboy flirting with all the guys around here. He turned around and watched Kai and Akane disappear in the crowd of people. He was so busy glaring a hole into their backs that he didn't notice when he walked right into someone.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Ranma said as he helped the girl up and picked up her books from the ground. She had long brown hair and a cute blue baby t-shirt.

"No, I'm sorry. I should've been watching where I was going." The girl looked up and right into Ranma's eyes. "It's my first day here and I'm kind of lost. I'm trying to find my way to my health class." She said blushing and then looking at the ground.

"Well, I happen to be going to a health class and it's my first day as well. I think I know where I'm going though so I guess you could come with me." Ranma said not understanding what was so interesting about the ground.

"Really! That would be great! My name is Matsuo Michiyo. But you can call my Michi." She said sticking out here hand. He's gorgeous! She thought to herself.

"Saotome Ranma." He said as he shook it. "Alright, lets go before we're late for our first class." With that, they started heading to the brick building that Akane had pointed out.

"So, what's your next class?" Kai asked Akane as they walked out of their building.

"Oh, I have calculus now. Ranma's in my class." She answered as they started walking towards her building. "What about you?"

"Oh, I don't have class until later. And actually, it's calculus II." He said walking her to her class.

Just then, Akane caught sight of Ranma walking with a girl she had never seen before. Why that little Casanova! I'm so going to beat him. Ranma obviously saw her and Kai and he glared at the boy just a little.

"So Ranma, who's your little friend?" Akane asked while Ranma and Michi walked up to them.

"This is Michi. Michi this is Akane." Ranma said making a gesture towards Akane.

"Hello Michi." Akane said through clenched teeth. Just then she heard Kai clear his throat. "And this is Kai."

Michi just looked at Akane funny not being able to figure out why she was so upset. "Hi Akane! Hi Kai!" She said trying to be upbeat. "Are you two a couple?" She asked innocently.

Ranma glared at the two people in front of them. Even someone else thinks they're together!

Akane blushed as Kai laughed. "Haha. No no, Michi. Actually, Ranma and Akane are engaged. I just met them today."

Michi's face fell as she realized that Ranma wasn't single. Well, that explains why she's so protective of Ranma. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize."

"Well, Ranma and I have to get to class now, so we'll see you guys later." Akane ground out between her clenched teeth. "Come on, Ranma." She said as she pushed her fiancé towards their building.

Kai and Michi watched the couple walk away when all of the sudden they saw Ranma turn towards Akane and yell something about a tomboy and Akane yell something about a baka before she hit him upside the head. Kai and Michi just looked at each other. "What a strange couple." Kai said as Michi nodded.

"Thank God our first day of class is over." Ranma said to Akane as they were walking towards their apartment.

"I can't believe I already have homework!" Akane said while carrying a handful of textbooks. "It's only the first day. I'm not even sure what I learned in Calculus that would warrant homework."

Ranma sighed. "I'll do it tomorrow."

Akane looked at him and agreed. "Yea, I think I had enough for my first day, too."

They got back to their apartment and put the books down on the dining room table.

"I'm going to practice out in the courtyard for a little bit." Ranma said as he started to head for the door.

"Okay, I'll go pick up some take out. We passed that American burger shop on the way home." She said picking up her purse and walking out the door with him.

Akane walked out of the apartment complex and down the road to where she saw the burger shop. She walked in and ordered a double cheeseburger for Ranma and a regular cheeseburger for herself with two sides of fries. I'm going to need to go grocery shopping soon. But it's not like Ranma will let me cook, that jerk! On the way back home, she ran into Hiroshi.

"Good evening, Mr. Kawamura!" Akane said as she walked through the gates of her apartment complex.

"Hello Akane. How did your first day of school go?" He inquired.

"Oh, it was okay. The classes seem to be tough but I think I can do it." She said while looking past him at Ranma. She could see him do his katas in the courtyard, fluidly going from one position to the other.

"And how about Ranma? Are you in the same classes?" Hiroshi asked.

"What? Oh. Sorry about that. Yeah, we have two classes together." Akane asked, blushing slightly for letting herself stare at Ranma.

"You two make a cute couple. It takes a while to get used to being married, but I'm sure you two will do just fine." He said and looked at the bag of food. "Oh, well, I don't mean to keep you from dinner. Have a good evening, Akane."

"Have a good evening as well, Mr. Kawamura." Akane said while slightly blushing. Yeah right, get used to being married. How could we be a cute couple when all Ranma ever tells me is how UNcute I am?

Akane watched Ranma finish his katas as she came closer to him. "I got dinner, Ranma." She said as she continued to walk to the apartment. He followed her back and quickly ate the meal she put in front of him.

"I'm gonna go take a shower." Ranma said as he went to the bathroom.

Akane got ready for bed since it was getting late and class was early tomorrow morning. She heard Ranma leave the bathroom and assumed he was getting ready for bed on the couch. She went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth.

"Goodnight Ranma." She said as she was exiting the bathroom.

"'Night 'Kane." Ranma grumbled then turned over.

Akane set the alarm and got into bed. She laid in bed staring at the ceiling. Well, Kai seems nice. At least I know someone in my theatre class. Although, I don't know what the Michi girl is up to. I'm sure Ranma encouraged her in some way. Akane felt her hands ball into fists with that thought. Akane yawned and closed her eyes. Stupid Ranma… And with that, she fell asleep.