Disclaimer: I am not Rumiko Takahashi-sama and if I was, this would be a sequel instead of being a fanfic. Therefore, I do not own Ranma ½.
AN: Wow, a new chapter out in less than a month-just at 2 weeks in fact. This chapter is even longer the 1st one. Let's hope I can keep this momentum going. I'm quite proud of myself. Anyway, with the AN, someone pointed out to me that Akane and Mousse becoming friends is not a new concept. As I restrain myself from saying the proverbial 'duh,' I want just want to say that this story is just my lil verison of what might drive Ranma and Akane together without anything short of actual death or memory loss and also keeping everyone in fairly character. So yes, this is a Ranma and Akane story, as I am an avid Akane for Ranma supporter.
Why choose Mousse as the driving force to start things? I think that of all the characters in the story, Mousse would be a good choice to pair in friendship with Akane. I might go so far as to say that a Mousse and Akane pair up in a romantic sense would be pretty good, if and only if Ranma wasn't in the picture anymore and if Mousse either got contacts or laser eye surgery. As I've already established in the first chapter, they have a lot more in common than one might think. Is it too much to believe that 2 people tired of getting rejected from the people they love might turn to each other for some friendly support and comfort? Mousse is just about the only character who doesn't either have a vendetta against Akane or is using her for something, besides when he first makes his appearance into the series but that's a standard entry for most male characters into the Ranma-verse.
But why would Akane be more open to a friendship with Mousse instead of Ranma? Yes, in the beginning Akane had a deep fear of boys then along comes Ranma who makes all of her fears even worse. After a while though she sees that Ranma isn't the type of boy that she's been afraid of and even begins to be friends with him. Being the independent and stubborn people they are, they can't admit their feelings or anything when being forced by their parents to do so. Any sort of closeness they begin to start with each other is strained to say the least. By the time Mousse pops into the neighborhood Akane is slightly more open to the idea that not all boys are perverts. Mousse being constantly rejected by Shampoo is someone that Akane can relate her feelings and vice versa for Mousse to Akane feeling rejected by Ranma so it's logical to develop a friendship between the two. I'll explain more in later chapters at more AN's. Please R&R!
On a quick side note, ChanChanandMosasi--I'm thrilled that you guys read my story and liked it! I've seen your website, which is really well done and read almost all of your Ranma fanfics and I love almost every single one of them. Now, on with the story.
Ranma awoke the next morning, feeling not so good. He wanted very much to believe that what had happened last night had just been nothing but a bad dream but he knew that he could not have imagined such a terrible thing happening. He had no idea how he would deal with this new situation. The blind duck boy being friends with his inazuke and then she asking him to spar with her was almost too much for the pig-tailed boy to bear. Ranma could deal with crazies out for his blood, water changing curses and even unbelievably bad timing but his temper-flaring fiancee was a completely different matter. Ranma Saotome, the greatest martial artist of his generation who could defeat any person and had already defeated monsters alike, had no idea how to handle a girl. And thinking of that girl, there she was opening the door to his room to wake him up to get ready for school.
"Ranma! Get up!" Akane yelled.
"I'm up already, ya tomboy!" Ranma yelled.
"Oh, OK." Akane said simply sounding almost dumbfounded. She was quite surprised to see that Ranma was already awake. It usually took a bucket of water to shake him out of his deep sleep. "Breakfast is ready." She told him calmly and then turned around to head downstairs.
Ranma got up, quickly got dressed and ran downstairs just in time for Kasumi to hand him his breakfast bowl. He began to shove food into his mouth making sure to leave no opening for his father to steal any of his breakfast. Akane didn't even bother to say her usual comment on her fiance's lack of table manners and instead concentrated on eating her own food. She had to make sure she would have plenty of energy for later in the day. As soon as she was done eating, Akane placed her bowl down.
"I'm heading to school now! Thanks for breakfast, Kasumi!" She said as she began to get her shoes on.
"You're welcome, Akane." Kasumi said with a happy smile on her face. Her lil sister could be so sweet at times when she wasn't being over enthusiastic with her temper.
"Uh, yeah, thanks for breakfast, Kasumi." Ranma told her as he finished the rest of his bowl, put his shoes on and ran after his fiancee.
They had left the house just a little early and so did not have to rush to school. Ranma was doing his usual fence walking and doing his best to look straight in front of him but as usual failed miserably. He could not help himself from stealing even more glances of his short-haired fiancee. Just like the day before, Akane seemed quite lost in her own thoughts.
"5, 4, 3, 2 . . ." Ranma muttered under his breath so that Akane couldn't hear him.
"Ching, ching" rang the sound of a very on-time bicycle bell.
"3, 2 . . ." Ranma continued to quietly count to himself.
"Aiya! Airen!" Shampoo called out, also quite on time.
It was amazing how much more perceptive Ranma became when not picking fights with his inazuke. As he braced himself for his morning glomping Ranma took a glance at Akane to see if she was even paying attention. Akane did look up when she heard Shampoo with her usual love-war cry and Ranma's mood was instantly lifted. She was paying attention to him. Akane wasn't just ignoring him or treating him indifferently. Things might go back to the way things were before. It wasn't an ideal situation for Ranma but it was certainly better than what was happening lately.
Akane watched as Shampoo clamped her body tightly to Ranma's and she felt her anger rising. "Ranma no baka!" She growled preparing to send Ranma airborne toward Furikan High School.
Just as her fist was about to connect to Ranma's jaw, the next shout also came right on time. "Saotome! You get your hands off my lovely Shampoo!" Mousse yelled and landed right next to a nearby tree and started to launch one of his many chains around the poor innocent tree.
"Stupid duck boy." Shampoo muttered with her arms still wrapped around the pig tailed boy.
"Mousse! That's a tree." Akane informed him.
"Oh, thank you, Ten . . .Akane." Mousse said pulling a pair of coke-bottle glasses out of his sleeves and putting them on. He had forgotten to put them on like he had done yesterday.
"You're welcome, Mousse." Akane said sweetly.
"You'll be late for school if you don't hurry." Mousse let her know.
"Oh! Right! Thanks! I'll see you after school!" Akane yelled as she started to make run for the school. "Ranma, you better get going too!" She warned him in a very scary and threatening way.
Ranma and Shampoo both stood there fairly dumbfounded that Mousse had basically ignored Ranma and Shampoo at the moment Akane had spoken to him. Ranma was especially befuddled over Akane's endearing tone. She had never sounded so nice to the Chinese boy before.
As soon as Akane had left everyone's sight, Mousse directed his attention right back to the shocked pair. "As I was saying, Saotome! Now we fight!" Mousse told him launching more hidden weaponry at Ranma.
Ranma snapped right back to what was happening in front of him. "I gotta get going too! I don't wanna be late either!" Ranma told both of them as he dodged the launched weaponry and hopped over the Amazon boy's head to followed after Akane.
"Aiya! Shampoo be late in delivery. Great grandmother get angry!" Shampoo said in realization and hopped back onto her bike to pedal away very quickly.
"Shampoo! Wait for me!" Mousse yelled after her and began to also run after her.
Akane had just arrived at the gates of the school when Ranma finally caught up with her and heard something that made him groan out of utter despair.
"How can my Muse want subject to invent, while thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse thine own sweet argument, too excellent for every vulgar paper to rehearse?" Kuno continued to spout to Akane.
"Sempai Kuno, move aside." Akane said grounding her teeth. She was desperately wishing that she had just run through the gates instead of walking through them so she could have avoided this extra aggravation.
"Fear not, Tendo Akane!" Kuno declared. "For I will release you from the foul sorcerer Saotome!"
"Aw, shut up, Kuno!" Ranma yelled as he came full speed through the school gates and landed a nice kick right to his face. Kuno dropped flat to the ground as usual unconscious.
"Ranma! I could have taken care of him myself!" Akane fumed at Ranma.
"Yeah, well, I already took care of him for ya." Ranma yelled back as he continued to run into the school building. As the school bell was just about to go off, Akane had no choice but to follow him.
School went by fairly quickly for the both of them. Akane stayed concentrated on the teacher's lectures and her studies. Ranma simply slept through most of the classes. Lunch was fairly simple as Ranma was force fed more Japanese pizza by Ukyo and Akane simply decided to ignore them both. School was then over and Akane rushed home and as usual Ranma was running after her. She was in a hurry to get changed and be ready for her sparring matching with Mousse.
"Hey, Akane! Wait up!" The pig tailed boy called after his fiancee.
"I can't, Ranma!" Akane answered back. "I don't want to be rude and keep Mousse waiting."
"What are ya in such a hurry to see that idiot for?" Ranma drawled.
"Ranma, Mousse and I are training. We'll be sparring." Akane reminded the young man as she began to slow down a little with the Tendo dojo coming into sight.
Ranma made some grunting sound in reply. He hoped it sounded as if he was brushing the situation off but to Akane it sounded more like an immature huff.
As soon as they arrived through the gate, Akane quickly ran up to her room and changed into her usual yellow gi. She noticed her gi seemed to be getting old and quite worn and briefly thought that perhaps she should find something else to wear when training when a knock sounded on the front door. Akane decided she would go shopping another day and headed out to greet her company.
"Why, hello, Mousse." Kasumi kindly greeted him just as Akane was walking down the stairs.
Ranma stood in the back of the hallway just inside of the doorway watching the conversation exchange.
"Hello, Tendo Kasumi." Mousse politely greeted her in return. "Hello, Akane."
"Hi, Mousse. I'm glad you no longer use my surname but you can do the same with my sister." Akane informed him. "Ready to train?"
"Yes, Mousse. It's just Kasumi." The older sister also told him. "You're training together? I'll be sure to bring drinks and snacks to you both later."
"Yes, Kasumi, and thank you." The Chinese boy said as he bowed his head. "And I am ready to train."
"Come on. Let's get started." Akane said and lead her friend to her dojo. "So what do you want to do first?"
It would be a while before Kasumi would have to get snacks ready for her lil sister and a good time before she had to even think of dinner. She decided she would continue reading the book she had borrowed from Dr. Tofu. As she retreated back to her place in the house, the kitchen, where she had left her book last she walked by Ranma and saw the dark clouded look upon his face.
"Ranma, is there something wrong?" She asked.
"No, everything's fine." Ranma answered and his mouth set back into a very firm line. "I'm going to watch TV."
Kasumi knew what he was really doing though. She wasn't stupid. Kasumi simply chose not to make everything obvious. She did things in her own way. It was much more subtle that way and helped bring a lil peace in a household that usually only saw chaos. She knew Ranma had feelings for her youngest sister and she knew her youngest sister returned those feelings but she also knew that neither would admit their feelings to each other out loud. Ranma was going to turn on the TV and sit right at the doors of the living room where he could watch his fiancee spar with another man and look as if he wasn't really watching at all.
"Why don't we start with some stretching and then do a light spar?" Mousse suggested.
"Great!" Akane said enthusiastically.
Ranma watched out of the corner of his eyes as his fiancee started on some work outs alongside one of his many rivals. He couldn't help but notice how lovely Akane looked whenever she got enthusiastic about something. That was the thing that attracted him most to her. It was how she wore her heart on her sleeve, how animated she got with all the strong feelings she had. His inazuke wasn't kawaiikune. She was cute on a day to day basis but she was downright beautiful when she was angry and there was no word to describe her beauty when she smiled. Ranma suddenly realized what it was that he was thinking and promptly cleared his mind. It wasn't all that hard to do in general with him and took no effort to do as he continued to stare at Akane which always left him wordless anyway.
The 2 young martial artists were done stretching and turned to face each other off. Mousse stood very straight with his arms held inside of the sleeves of his white Chinese robe. Akane struck her usual fighting stance. The young boy just stood there patiently. Of course it was the Japanese girl who lost her patience and launched a series of punches at her opponent. Mousse blocked and dodged all of them and then decided it was his turn to attack as Akane then was blocking and dodging his attacks. Just like yesterday Mousse dropped to a leg sweep to knock Akane down and just like the day before Akane fell to the ground landing on her bottom.
"Ooah!" Akane moaned as she sat down hard on the dojo floor.
It was Ranma as he also groaned when he saw Akane be taken down the same move from yesterday and was not even looking at the TV or acting as if he was. He knew his fiancee wasn't all that great but he did know she was much better than that. He only wished he could actually hear what they were talking about.
Mousse just stood there and looked down at his new friend. "Are you OK?" He asked.
"I'm fine. I can't believe that you got me again with a leg sweep!" Akane admitted feeling very embarrassed. She could hardly believe she had let herself fall for such an amateur stunt. She just hadn't expected it from the Chinese boy to do the same thing.
"I'm surprised I got you with that myself. You aren't in top fighting shape, are you?" Mousse suggested as he offered his hand to help her stand. He didn't want to make his new friend feel stupid. He actually enjoyed her company and didn't want to hurt her feelings. "You cannot let your mind wander so much during a fight. As you saw it can make you pay costly mistakes."
"I know. I'm sorry. It's not that I'm not taking you seriously or anything. I've just got a few things on my mind." Akane quietly told him as she accepted his hand to get up.
"Is there anything I can help you with?" He asked kindly.
"Nothing I can't handle." Akane said hoping she sounded more sure of herself than she felt. Truth was that although she tried to act as if nothing had bothered her today all day, she had been pondering her new feelings toward her forced-upon fiancé.
"Would you like to talk about it?" Mousse asked as he cleaned his glasses.
"Maybe another time." Akane said firmly.
"I am here to listen whenever you like." The boy friendly offered.
"Thank you, Mousse." Akane told him sincerely. "I'll keep that in mind. For now I'll focus better. Ready now?"
"I am ready." Mousse said calmly as he fell back into a comfortable stance.
"Um, Mousse?" Akane called.
"Yes, Akane?" Mousse called back.
"You're facing the wrong way." Akane informed.
The Chinese boy looked completely abashed as he turned around to face the Japanese girl.
"Mousse, you're still facing the wrong way. To your left. You might want to put your glasses back on." Akane informed him once more.
Mousse finally faced the correct direction. "Thank you, Akane." Mousse said quite humbly.
"Hey, Mousse, have you ever thought of contacts or something?" Akane asked him curiously.
"No, I have not considered that thought." Mousse told her. "The village doesn't have very many facilities to make contacts or correct my eyes."
"You'd probably be a lot better in a fight if you could actually see where your opponent is." Akane let him know. "You're not that much worse than Ranma. It's just that you can't see where he is a lot of the time and your weapons go right by him."
"I think I will take your advice and see a doctor about my eyes." Mousse told her amicably.
"I'm sure Dr. Tofu knows a good doctor that can help you." Akane said smiling back.
Ranma had been watching the entire time the conversation between his fiancee and one of his rivals been happening. Ranma was quite curious as to what the 2 were talking about but didn't want to look stupid by simply going into the dojo and busting whatever amicable partnership might be happening. He needed to be a lil subtle about it.
"Ranma, I made Akane and Mousse some snacks and some lemonade. Will you take this tray out to the dojo to them for me so that I can finish up dinner on time? I even put enough cookies for you to join them." Kasumi asked the boy dressed in Chinese clothes as she held out a snack tray for him to take.
"Sure, Kasumi!" Ranma said, very happy that he had the perfect reason to interrupt the very good friends in the dojo and for also getting another chance to eat some more of Kasumi's grand homemade cookies.
Ranma quickly stuffed a cookie into his mouth as he made his way across the yard and into the Tendo dojo. "I go' som' 'oo'ies fo' ya' f'om Kasumi." Ranma announced loudly with cookie pieces still in his mouth as he barged his way through the dojo doorway.
"Ranma! You shouldn't talk with your mouth full!" Akane fumed at her ill-mannered fiancé.
"Well, here." Ranma said as he shoved the tray into Akane's hand but, not before grabbing a handful of Kasumi's cookies.
"Mousse, would like some cookies?" Akane asked the usually-blind boy as she set the tray on the ground at equal distance from all 3 of them and gave each their respective glass of sweet lemonade.
"Yes, thank you, Akane." Mousse said as he joined the other sitting down on the dojo wooden floors.
For just 1 minute there was peace in the dojo but as everyone in Nerima knows, 1 minute of peace is 1 minute too long in the Tendo household, especially with the pig-tailed martial artist now living under the Tendo roof.
"So that was a pretty lame move that Mousse hit ya with, Akane." Ranma said opening his mouth wide enough to stick in a cookie and his foot at the same time. Even Ranma realized that the comment had been a lil too stupid for him to say, even for his standards.
"Ranma!" Akane yelled, her battle aura instantly flaring up along with her temper.
"I mean! Um . . .Even you should have been able to avoid a lame move like that, Akane!" Ranma stuttered out trying to avoid the beating that was soon to ensue and once again realizing only too late how much he only cut down on the waiting time to get such a beating.
Mousse watched the usual bickering between the 2 engaged teenagers and could only wonder if even Ranma realized how stupid it was for him to say such things to Akane. He may fawn over Shampoo until he trips over himself and even trip on her but at least he never insulted her. Not like he'd be stupid enough to insult an Amazon warrior anyway. He remembered enough of the bizarre punishments he'd received in the village as a youngster whenever he did tease one of the girls his own age. Mousse thought about it again and realized that he was quite happy it wasn't him that was going to be sent through the air in another second.
Akane tried desperately to hold her temper. She knew she had feelings for Ranma and punching him til he went flying into the koi pond was not the best way to keep what little of a relationship that they had, but she always felt so frustrated when Ranma said such careless things about her.
"Cause even if you are slow and clumsy and built like a brick with thighs too thick. . ." This time Ranma just stuffed another handful of cookies into his mouth. He figured if his mouth was too full he wouldn't be able to say anything else insulting to the blue-haired young girl.
"Ranma no baka!" Akane screamed as she quickly grabbed a wooden bokken that was hanging from one of the dojo's walls and ran to hit Ranma with it.
Ranma thought about running but he knew it was better to just let Akane take the frustrations that he had caused out on him. He figured it was the least thing he could do cause he never really meant to hurt his fiancee's feelings. He just couldn't seem to say things in a better way. Ranma braced himself as Akane smacked him right across the back with the bokken as if it were a baseball bat and he were a baseball. The young martial artist landed in the place that no matter how hard he tried to avoid he always ended up there anyway. Ranma had landed in the koi pond and came up sputtering water out of his mouth.
"What'd ja do tha for, ya uncute tomboy!" Ranma-chan yelled.
"I hate you, you stupid jerk!" Akane screamed at the top of her lungs. "Why do you have to be so mean all the time?"
"Uh, mean?" Ranma-chan could only repeat to herself as she watched as Akane ran into the house with her hands covering her face.
Mousse, having watched the entire event, stepped outside of the dojo and gave Ranma what could almost be a pitying look. "Saotome, even I could see that Akane did not want to hear that." Mousse said almost casually to his usual enemy.
"Yeah, well, if you can see that, why are you talking to a bush, duck boy!" Ranma-chan yelled at the blind Chinese boy.
Mousse suddenly realized that he had not put his glasses back on as Akane had suggested earlier and realized that he was indeed facing a bush. After putting his coke-bottle glasses back upon his nose, Mousse looked over at the girl still sitting in the pond with the koi fish angrily swimming around her. The Chinese boy saw what only could be a regretful look pass upon Ranma-chan's face before she quickly realized that she was being watched and made her face impassable again. Seeing such a look was enough to keep Mousse from attacking Ranma-chan at the moment.
Kasumi came outside with a tea kettle in hand. "Oh, my, Ranma." She said as she waited for Ranma to get out of the pool so she could change her back to her usual male form. "Mousse, you're welcome to stay for dinner if you like again today."
"No, thank you, Kasumi." Mousse declined politely. "I made a deal with Colonge that for the free afternoon I would be sure to be back to help with the dinner rush. I had better go now before she is angered that I might be late."
"All right, Mousse." Kasumi agreed. "What should I tell Akane?"
"Tell her I will see her tomorrow." Mousse said simply as he then made a small bow and hopped on the roof to make it back to the Nekohaten as quickly as he could.
"Why the heck is he gonna come back tomorrow?" Ranma-chan muttered herself so that no one else could hear as she finally got out of the pool much to the koi fishes' joy.
Unfortunately for Ranma-chan, Kasumi was much more observant than she made out to be but she did not let Ranma-chan know that. "What did you say, Ranma?" She asked as she poured the tea kettle over her head.
Ranma's height shifted back up and his voice got much deeper as he spoke. "Nothing, Kasumi. I guess I better go apologize to Akane."
"I think it would be better to wait til later after she's had time to calm down a bit, Ranma-kun." Kasumi let him know quietly as she walked back into the house. "Dinner will be ready in just a few minutes. You have time to take a bath if you like."
Ranma ran the suggestion through his brain and saw the intelligence behind it. He decided it would be best to wait til after dinner and he also thought that he would take Kasumi's other advise and take a bath. He could at least get out of his wet clothes. Ranma walked into the house and straight into the bathroom. He quickly stripped, washed himself over and slipped into the furo where he could actually relax for once during his usual martial art fight-filled day.
The only bad thing about being in the furo to soak, even for just a few minutes, was that during that time it was a perfect time for the mind to wander and ponder the day's events. Ranma never looked forward to having going over what happened during the day because there were usually too many things that had happened that could have easily ruined his day and today had certainly been one of those days. In the furo was also the time in which Ranma could let himself admit some of his feelings. No matter how many crazy things happened during his day a smile or a kind word from his kawaii tomboy fiancee could make all the trouble in the world worth it but today he had gotten neither from her. In fact the only person to have gotten a smile from her was the blind Chinese boy. Ranma almost growled to himself at that thought. Why was it he could be so nice to her when all Ranma managed to do was just make her even madder at him most of the time? Then again, Mousse wasn't in love with Akane . . .not that he was in love with her either, Ranma thought to himself. Even he could only admit to so much while soaking the tub. And Mousse had better stay not in love with Akane, Ranma continued to think to himself, or he would . . .but Ranma wasn't able to finish that thought as he heard Kasumi's voice calling for him that he needed to go out now to be in time for dinner. Ranma quickly jumped out of the furo, got dressed, went out into the dining room and plopped down in his spot next to where his fiancee always sat but this time she wasn't there.
"Um, where's Akane?" Ranma asked to Kasumi.
Unfortunately, it was Nabiki who answered him instead since Kasumi had just walked back into the kitchen to get more food. "She yelled in her usual dulcet tones that she wasn't eating dinner with such a jerk of a fiancé. What did you do this time, Ranma?"
"I ain't done nothing!" Ranma said defensively.
Nabiki gave Ranma an almost bored expression on her face. She wasn't stupid. Ranma wasn't either, sometimes. No one believed his words.
"You might as well just tell me, Ranma." Nabiki let him know. "It'll save you some trouble. In fact just hand over the yen you have in your pocket now."
"No way! It's all I got left!" Ranma yelled just defensively before. It seemed he wasn't going to get a break at all that day.
"All right." Nabiki agreed. "If you tell me why Mousse was here earlier then I'll see if I can get Akane to go easy on you."
Ranma thought about it and figured that it wouldn't hurt to tell her if she would put in a good word with Akane so she wouldn't be mad at him for the rest of the night and make it easier on him when he would apologize to her. "Mousse and her are sparring and training together."
"Interesting." It was all Nabiki said as she grabbed her bowl and began to fill it with some food that Kasumi had brought out of the kitchen.
Ranma suddenly realized that he had just caused himself a whole lot of trouble as he stared into his empty bowl. At least he shouldn't deal with all that trouble on an empty stomach and began to fill his bowl til it was heaping and began to eat.
Luckily for him since Akane wasn't at dinner, his father didn't try steal his food as there was extra at the table. However, his pop never could stay out of Ranma's business. Genma-panda held up a sign with 1 hand as he ate with his other hand. "You better apologize, boy!" The sign read.
"What's that, Pop? I can't hear ya!" Ranma said as he continued to fill his mouth and ignore his ridiculous father.
"Yes, Ranma!" Soun piped up from his usual spot at the head of the table. "You better apologize to my baby girl!"
Ranma, not wanting to incur the wrath of the Tendo father's demon head decided it was better to agree. "All right! I will." He muttered in between hoover-like mouthfuls of food.
That seemed to placate the lead of the Tendo household and everyone finished dinner in relative calm. Nabiki ran upstairs as soon as it was over.
"Ranma-kun, I saved a bowl of food for Akane. Why don't you take it up to her?" Kasumi asked of Ranma as she stood to clear all of the bowls.
Before Ranma could give his usual complaint of why did he have to be the one to do such a thing, he realized it would be a good reason for Akane to let him into her room and give him a chance to talk to her. "OK, Kasumi." He said as he went into the kitchen after her to get the tray of food.
Ranma was soon out of the kitchen, up the stairs and standing in front of his betrothed's door. Nabiki had just come out of Akane's room a few seconds earlier.
"You really made her angry this time, Ranma." She informed him, for free for once, as she went into her own room. "I even offered to knock off some of the interest on her."
He was hesitating hoping that he wasn't going to be putting his foot back into his mouth once the door was opened. He had already made her so angry and didn't really want to make the situation any worse. Well, there was no sense in standing there like an idiot and so he finally knocked. "Hey, Akane!" Ranma yelled through the door. "Open up!"
"Go away, Ranma!" Akane yelled back.
Ranma was at times quite clueless to the moods his forced upon-fianceé usually had but even he could tell that she sounded quite upset, though it didn't stop usually and it didn't stop him then. "Come on, Akane! Let me in!" He called again.
"Leave me alone, Ranma!" Akane yelled back even louder.
"Kasumi wanted me to give you this food!" Ranma let her know.
There was quiet for a minute as Akane contemplated whether she was hungry enough to want to take the food from Ranma and by doing so force herself to see him. She decided it wasn't worth the aggravation and told him so. "I'm not hungry!"
"Aw, Akane! You gotta eat!" Ranma told her.
"Maybe if I skip a meal or 2 I won't be built like a brick and my thighs won't be so thick!" Akane retorted back to him angrily.
Ranma had the sudden thought that his fianceé was a lot angrier than he had thought. He decided he had better go back to what he knew best. "Akane, if you don't open this door I'm gonna break the door down!"
"You wouldn't dare!" Akane shot back to him still through the closed door.
"Yeah, I would!" Ranma retorted back, getting ready to make good on his dare with the food tray still in his hand.
Ranma was just about to bust the door open when Akane yanked open the door. She instantly grabbed the food out of his hands, then threw a book right into the pig-tailed boy's face and promptly shut the door. Ranma fell onto his back with his feet up in the air at the impact of said object. He had only 1 thought in his head that his fiancee was definitely a lot angrier than he had thought.