"Where am I" said Ranko.

"You're at Dr. Tofu's clinic. Please don't try to get up, I'll go tell him your awake," replied a very familiar voice.

Then the figure that the voice belonged too ran out of the room. Ranko looked around and noticed that her chest was bandaged up. The room looked familiar but the atmosphere felt different. Then the doctor came in.

"It's good to see your awake miss," said the doctor. He pulled out a chart and asked, "Can I ask your name?"

"What are you talking about? You know who I am."

"I do"

"It's me, Ranko".

"I don't believe I know anyone by that name".

The doctor shrugged, wrote the name down on the chart, and walked out of the room.

Ranko sat in silence until someone somewhat familiar to her walked in. She looked like Akane only her hair was in a long braid that went down to her ankles.

"It's about time you woke up. You were in a coma for at least two weeks," said the girl.

"Really".

"Yes, where did you even come from".

"What do you mean?"

The strangely familiar girl started to tell the story of how she found Ranko.

She remembered it like it was yesterday. She had been walking home from school after beating half the male students senseless. Then out of know where, a very beautiful pigtailed girl dropped from the sky and landed on her. As she looked over the unconscious redhead, she noticed large wounds on her chest and back. She picked up the pigtailed girl and took her straight to Dr. Tofu's. She came to visit the mysterious and beautiful pigtailed girl every day.

"So, are you gunna tell me your name" asked the girl.

"I'm Ranko."

The girl smiled, "I'm Akane. You wanna be friends?"

Akane held her hand out to Ranko.

Ranko took a few minutes to collect her thoughts. She suddenly realized that she was no longer in her world. She had to be in some kind of alternate universe. Then she noticed "Akane's" hand extended towards her. She decided that maybe it was time to start over and took Akanes hand. Then she broke down and cried.

"Whats wrong" asked Akane.

"I lost someone very close to me," said Ranko

"Who"

"My brother and…his girlfriend"

"You poor thing. Where are you staying, I'll take you home."

"I'm not staying anywhere. I don't think I have a home anymore."

"Then you can come home with me. I'll see if my mom and dad will let you stay at our house."

Ranko's head perked up and she silently nodded. Then Ranko felt Akane's hand on her own. Ranko at first hesitated. Then she took Akane's hand into her own and saw her smile.

One week later on another plane of existence:

"I don't know how to explain. She's not here but I sense her," said Ranma.

"Maybe it's a connection you two have since you were once the same person," said Akane.

"Maybe."

"So how is she?"

Ranma smiled, "She's happy".

The End

Well, I hope everyone was satisfied with the ending. For the record, I know this story has sequal/spinoff potential. However, I currently have no intentions of doing one. I do however give permission to anyone else who wants to do a sequal to my story to do so. Well, see you next time.