Tangled Wishes 7 - 10
(Akane age 6-7)
It had been a depressing week for the Tendo family and while Akane wasn't as affected as the rest of the family given she could barely remember anything about her mother, yet she understood why her father and sisters were more upset. So she tried to be on her best behaviour.
A few days after the funeral, Akane decided to make supper for everyone (using the microwave) but unfortunately, while it looked a bit off yet still decent it didn't taste right causing everyone to become sick
"Ooohhhhhhh, Akane -braaaaaaaaaaf- what did you do?" Kasumi asked
"My poor stomach," Nabiki whined
"WAHHHHH, MY BABY GIRL TRIED TO KILL US AFTER HER MOTHER DIED!" The waterworks shouted
"DADDY" she yelled with a glare
"WAHHHHH MY BABY GIRL HATES ME" all three girls rolled their eyes
"I'm sorry everyone but it's not my fault, the food must have been bad" she whined just before falling asleep after downing some Pepto-Bismol alone with the rest of her family
(Akane's dream)
She saw a girl with short bluish-black hair put a plate of something that didn't look like food and seemed to be moving on it's
"What is it ^^^^^?"
"It is soba noodle salad with grilled flank steak"
"I don't think it should look like that, there's no way I am putting that... in my"
She saw the girl getting mad as she got up before feeling herself being grabbed from behind and the "food" forced into her mouth and her mouth held shut as her father said "There honey, see he likes it" then
She was staring at the ceiling and an older Kasumi who was looking down with a worried face and she felt her mouth moving but the voice not only sounded older but also male
"Thanks a lot, Pop, forcing that toxic swill down my thrAHHHH" she screamed as a sharp pain in her abdomen
"Your gonna be ok ^^^^^, the ambulance is on its way"
the scene changed, she was now on a bed in a hospital and saw a red-haired woman in a kimono talking to the older Kasumi near the door of the room
"Aunty, ^^^^^'s stomach was pumped and should be ok in a few days" she heard the woman say before turning to another girl with short hair and heard the red-haired woman say to the girl
"You are no longer allowed to be in that kitchen without me or Kasumi, do you understand me, young lady"
(End dream)
Akane woke up 'that was weird?,' she decided to talk with Kasumi about her dream. After talking with her sister, Kasumi told her it could be her subconscious worrying about her cooking and it came up with a worst-case scenario so she asked Kasumi to start teaching her how to do a few things in the kitchen.
It took four months but she was able to learn a few simple things like poached and scrambled eggs, a simple omelet (ham, tomatoes, green onions, cheese), rice, salad, curry, a simple stew (beef, carrots, potatoes)
Over the next several months' things began to change at the Tendo's, Soun's depression worsened to the point where his daily routine became wake up, eat, read the paper or watch tv, eat got to bed and repeat.
While that was going on, Kasumi and Nabiki slowly stopped their practicing as their father was now doing nothing thus forcing Kasumi to become more and more like a mother/housewife as she was cooking, cleaning, taking care of her sisters, taking them for appointments (during which Kasumi ended up needing glasses for awhile) thus leaving very little time for herself.
While Nabiki took on doing the household finances which got her to start doing what she could to earn money (mainly running pools and taking bets) so that could keep the power and water running
Akane knew that they were still upset about losing their wife/mother but she didn't understand why they had changed so much, as she now felt all alone in the house. It was because of this that she would try to stay away from the house as much as possible with going to school, hanging out with her friends, working out at the gym or in the dojo
One day after school Akane had finished her work out in the gym (Anytime Fitness*) for the day and was leaving, when a man approached her and got her attention when she had stopped her bench press
"Akane Tendo?"
"Umm, yeah?"
"I'm a friend/rival of your father's Mr. Masaki and at your mother's funeral and by the way sorry for your loss," she said thanks before he continued, "he asked me if I could give you some lessons before I move. Are you interested ?"
"YES"
"Then we'll start tomorrow after school, ok?"
"Yes, sensei"
So the next day for a couple of months, he taught her karate, some judo and kendo. Before he shut down the gym and said goodbye to her
(Akane age 7)
It was Halloween night and Kasumi was taking her sisters out trick or treating with two of her friends Sayuri and Yuka and Akane was excited for her first time as she couldn't remember the times she went with her parents
The girls decided to be princesses, Akane was Salvia (Pokémon), Nabiki was Elsa (Disney), Sayuri was Peach (Mario), Yuka was Ariel (Disney) and Kasumi was in her normal outfit.
(Ranma age 7)
As they were walking through a mall to stay dry from the rain, Ranma stopped and went into a bookstore to look at a manga. When Genma saw this he got an idea for some training
"Boy, you want that book?"
"Yes I do"
"Then I'll make a deal with you. Anytime you want a book or comic, you need to get it out of the store and back to where we're staying. If you can do that then I will call or go to the store and pay them"
However he never did, but now with him having a book to read he was free to leave him for a while to go out or to a bar. One day on his way back to the campsite after a night of drinking he meet and engaged Ranma to Daikoku's daughter Kaori for two fish, pickled vegetables and rice
Genma would then start building Ranma's strength by making him carry several bricks in his pack occasionally stopping at gyms like Anytime Fitness to do deadlifts, bench press, strict press and even speed training of course this would continue until they left for China
(Akane age 8)
Akane was upset when she got home from school and after changing into her gi she took the family sword and went out into the yard and started swinging it. This wasn't noticed until a short while later when Nabiki went looking for Akane to see if she wanted to watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (original version not the Michael Bay's version) with her. So when she saw what Akane was doing she yelled
"Kasumi, Akane is using the family sword" which brought her running
"Akane put that down," she said as she came out of the house, Akane stopped
"Sorry but no, Oneechan" and started swinging it again
"What do you mean, no?" Akane stopped again and turned to her, tears started running down her cheeks
"Oneechan, I am doing this so I can get the feel of it because my sensei cast me as Romeo after my class voted for me"
"What?"
"Because I don't have long hair, am a tomboy instead of girly they decided that I would be Romeo" tears started rolling down her face "was hoping to be Juliet, not a stupid boy"
"It's ok, Imouto." Kasumi grabbed her in a hug " but you wanna know something"
"-sniff- what Oneechan ?"
"Actors and Actress pretend to be other people, sometimes even other genders. So I think that if you can give a good performance pretending to be a boy, you could be a good actress when you grow up."
"Really?"
"Yes Akane, but I don't want you using the family sword to practice. You can use my shinai***
So while Akane still was upset with her friends and teacher for forcing this on her she put on a happy face and gave her best (A/N: Every fic I have read that has the play has the same "wherefore art thou" scene so I am gonna use a different one)
Akane (Romeo) Then move not while my prayer's effect I take, Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purg'd.
He Kisses her.
Himeno (Juliet) Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Akane (Romeo) Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd! Give me my sin again.
Kisses her again
After the play was done Akane decided to grow her hair long but it wasn't until after she had broken her wrist and taken to Dr. Tofu that she decided to be more like Kasumi
(Ranma age 8)
Genma misunderstood what he was doing and instead of engaging Ranma to their daughter, he had sold him to the Shimeru's for a buffet dinner at the Royal Fork**. A few days later when he went to steal Ranma back they were gone, he asked around but nobody knew anything other than where they went
Ranma was living with his new parents Kazumi (who is 7 months pregnant) and her husband a master and teacher of Kobudo**** Taiju in the Miyazaki prefecture and attending school now he really for school...at least most of it as he didn't care for history, math, social studies but he did enjoy science as well as the nonacademic subjects including art, music, homemaking, phys-ed
Ranma lived with them for a few months and in that time Ranma had come home with a comic and when he was asked if he paid for he told them what his pop said and they explained that what Genma taught him was stealing so they called the police and explained what happened thus the charges were switched to Genma. Shortly after that incident, he was taken by Genma in the middle of the night
(Akane and Ranma age 9)
Nothing much happened Genma and Ranma continued their training with stuff like running from wolves, expanding his lung capacity and escape techniques by tying his arms and legs together then tossing him into lakes, rivers or streams (depending on what they were by), and dodging cars during rush hour (basically human Frogger) even the Bakusai Tenketsu.
However, Genma eventually stopped and forget about it since he thought Ranma wasn't making progress however although unknown to them he did make a little
(A/N: In case you are wondering how they were doing that, it's because when Ranma woke up he said "weird dream but I'm glad I'm not doing that Bakusai Tenketsu training" which intrigued Genma so he made him tell by not allowing him to eat.)
Akane became further isolated at home opting to spend more time at her friends' places, Nabiki continued down the path of becoming an Ice Queen, Kasumi fell further into the surrogate mother and Soun remained in his depression
(Akane age 10)
It was Akane's tenth birthday and Kasumi (more than Soun) was allowing her to have a sleep-over birthday party to which she could invite six friends. So she invited Sayuri, Yuka, Kagome, Miyuki, Saori, and Shizuka
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AKAKNE" The girls chorused after entering the house
"Girls, there is a city council meeting tonight. I will be gone for a couple of hours you will listen to Kasumi while I am gone and you will behave yourselves. Got it?"
"Yes, Dad/Mr. Tendo" he then left
the girls had pizza, wings, garlic bread, chips/cheetos/pretzels and cake and they stayed up late watching a movie at one point Soun had walked by on the way to the kitchen and heard
"Are you a god?"
"No"
"Then die" then when he walked by again with a drink he heard
"Ray, when someone asks you if you are a God you say...YES"
he shock his head and went into his room. After the movie ended they started watching anime (Tenchi, Negima and Sailor Moon and Akane was glad her life wasn't crazy like them ), playing games (video, board, card and Truth or Dare), doing makeovers, pillow fight. It wasn't until the morning after breakfast that Akane got to open her presents which were
A locket with their mother's pictures in it from Kasumi "Thank you Oniichan"
Acting and Voice Acting for Dummies from Nabiki "Naaaabiki" she whined then mutter "Thank you"
a couple of anime series from Sayuri, Yuka and Shizuka "I don't have these, Thank you"
a couple of dresses from Kagome and Saori "They are beautiful, Thank you"
and from Miyuki a figure of Asuna (Negima) as well as The Boss Sasha Banks "Thank you"
(Ranma age 10) (contains references to 90's tv show)
Genma left Ranma alone at a Shaolin temple for two months, at this temple Ranma was taught kung fu, meditation, gymnastics-style, flexibility and balance. During one of his meditation classes Ranma a series of pictures which included the Moro Takabasha, the Shi Shi Hokudon, Akane's/Shampoo's and Mousse's subspace pocket.
While there Ranma not only took to the lessons he also made a friend named Peter who started to teach him English for the two months they were inseparable training and playing together, at least until the temple was set on fire.
Then Ranma went with a handful of kids whose parents were missing and presumed dead to the local orphanage, he was there for a couple more weeks before Genma found and took him in the middle of the night
A/N:
Anytime Fitness = is one of the local gyms near me run by McDonald's owner's wife and son
Royal Fork = a buffet restaurant in Winnipeg Manitoba
Shinai = is a softwood practice sword while a Bokken is a hardwood practice sword
Kobudo = A Japanese (Okinawan) martial arts focused on weapons training. Weapons used include the bo staff, sai, nunchucks and tonfa
========UPDATE======
I am currently planning to have my Sliders, enter my Ranma The Amazon characters which could lead to the sequel. However, before that can happen I want to know if I should have Ranma remain an adult or deaged her back to a teen.
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