Disclaimer: If I really owned Ranma, I'd be rich and I wouldn't be writing fanfics.
AN: Finally got another chapter out! It took me another month to do it and I do apologize for that. It's been a very busy few weeks and it's only going to keep getting worse as the end of the year gets closer with those holidays. Don't worry though as I absolutely plan on finishing this fanfic and won't leave it in the hanging in the eternal internet air. I was rereading what I've written of this fanfic and I realized something and must apologize for it. I am very sorry that my writing in this fanfic is so filled with holes and that I leave so many mistakes in spelling and grammar. I'm in the middle of 2 other major writing projects and I use writing this story as a break from them. I write what I can til I'm ready to pass out into sleep and don't usually bother to go back and really check things too much so my writing in this story is sort of rough and quick. My writing style is actually a lot more detailed than what I do in this story and in my other writing projects I'm always going back to what I've written before over and over again and editing things. I just want this fanfic to be fun and to tell my version of the Ranma-verse though so I hope that you can forgive me. Unfortunately the Japanese names and phrases play havoc with the spell check. Lucky for me, a good friend of mine who happens to like the story, usually tells me what obvious mistakes I've made and he points them out to me to fix them later. Also, I know it's cheesy to be using those Japanese phrases but it's just for the fun of it. Oh, I'm also sorry for not really going over any of the fighting scenes. I'm not too good at fighting action scenes like that. My writing strengths are usually in plot and characterization so I hope I've done a good enough of a job in those areas though I can't and don't take credit for the characters in this as they belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sama. This fanfic is meant to just be a fun lil story to read, so on with the fun reading and please leave a review!
Akane opened her eyes that morning and stared at the ceiling of the room remembering all that had happened last night. After she had grabbed the tray of food from Ranma, threw the book at him and then shut the door, she had just set the tray down near the door and cried til she had fall asleep. She just wished so much for Ranma to be nice to her just once and was so tired of how he could only insult her and of how she could only get angry and hit him. Ranma was so difficult though and always managed to say the thing that bothered and hurt Akane the most.
Akane knew she wasn't feminine but she wanted nothing more than to be like her oneechan who was the kindest and sweetest person in the world. She didn't need Ranma reminding her every second that she wasn't anything like her sister. It was Kasumi that Akane thought was closest to resembling their mother. It was Kasumi that took care of them all. It was Nabiki who took care of money matters. Akane decided that it would be her role in the family to take over the dojo so she had been the one to take up the family's style of martial arts. At first it had been her duty but not long after she had learned her first kata, she found that she loved it. It was seeing Akane trying to learn her first kata that had brought Soun back to the world and not so deep into grief. He was still a shadow of a man that he had been when his wife had been there but he was much more himself when teaching the art to his daughter. It was even better for both Soun and Akane when they found how good Akane was at the art but then Ranma had come along followed by the rest of the Nerima Wrecking Crew and they all showed how much better they were compared to her. She didn't need Ranma's constant insults at how much worse she was or how unskilled and clumsy she could be at times. She didn't need Ranma reminding her every second that she was so uncute. Akane felt that being feminine also determined beauty. She wasn't feminine therefore she wasn't beautiful or even pretty. Whenever Ranma teased her, he hurt her. Akane had vowed that she would never feel so hurt again after her mother had died so instead of feeling hurt, usually Akane got angry. Akane got angry and Akane needed to vent so she'd pound whatever it was that had caused her to get angry.
Akane hadn't been so angry last night though. She was just hurt. She was tired of being hurt. The only person who could always hurt her though was Ranma. Akane decided that it was time not to allow Ranma to hurt her anymore. The question was how to go about to actually doing it. She couldn't ignore him. He lived in the same house as her and his other fiancees made it impossible for them to be ignored but there had to be something she could do. She couldn't just give up the engagement with Ranma. She hated being forced to do anything but she didn't really mind that the engagement was how she had met Ranma in the first place. It wasn't good to just give it up either as it was a matter of family honor. Akane decided that the best action would be to get over Ranma and wait for Ranma to choose either Shampoo or Ukyo. After all, there was no way he was going to pick her. Til that happened she would simply put all of her energies into other things. She would focus back on the things in her life that she had done before Ranma had entered her life. That was school, her friends and martial arts. She wouldn't get so angry or at least she would try not to. It wasn't a perfect plan but it was a plan and it was good that she had thought of a plan at all since it was now time for Akane to be up and getting along with her day. She had woken up a lil bit before her usual time so she had plenty of time for her jog. Akane got dressed and ready to go and she would add a half-mile to her usual route to prove to herself that she was serious on focusing herself on things other than her sex-changing fiance.
It was the usual morning ruckus that Akane entered when she came back from her longer than usual run. Genma and Ranma were in the middle of their usual morning workout. Kasumi was in the kitchen getting breakfast ready for everyone. Soun was in the tea room reading the morning paper. Nabiki still wasn't quite up yet. Akane had a smile on her face as she had thoroughly enjoyed the good workout.
"Good morning, Oneechan!" Akane called.
"Good morning, Akane." Kasumi said smiling at Akane as she continued to cook everything to a savory perfection. "The furo is ready for you."
"Domo Arigato!" Akane told her as she made her way to the bathroom to wash off the sweat she had built up.
Akane was soon out though, dressed and setting the table when Ranma went in for his usual bath after having been thrown into the koi pond. Once the table had been set, everyone was seated and the food had been served, they all began to eat. Ranma guarded his food intensely from his father as he thought about how he would apologize to Akane this time around. Nabiki was closely watching her baby sister and her fiance wondering what would happen next and how she would make money off of the pig-tailed martial artist.
"Um, Akane?" Ranma hesitantly got her attention. He was nervous not knowing if his fiancee was still angry at him or not and for not knowing if his mouth was going to betray him again.
Akane instantly tensed. This would be the first test on how she would be able to keep that promise to herself. She hadn't been so good at keeping her promise to Kasumi when she had made her promise not to hit anyone out of anger again and she didn't want to make that same mistake again. "Yes, Ranma?"
"Um, I'm sorry for um . . .last night." Ranma told her and then bracing himself for whatever reaction he was going to get from her.
"That's fine, Ranma." Akane said easily enough as she went back to eating. Truth be told she was quite grateful that he hadn't insulted her. Although if he started to be nice to her, it would make sticking to her plan that much harder.
Ranma sat frozen in shock that he had gotten off so easily. Genma took the opportunity of his son being thoroughly distracted and stole the rest of the food that had been in his bowl. Soun wasn't sure whether it was safe or not to start celebrating that the 2 schools might be united yet and so did nothing yet. Kasumi was glad to see that her sister was finally learning the importance of not holding onto her anger. Nabiki could only stare at the both of them shrewdly as she wondered whether her profits might be cut down by this strange new development.
"I'm leaving now." Nabiki announced to them all and got up to leave much earlier than she normally did. She had business to attend to that morning and had to get to it in a hurry in order to learn of what her baby sister's new attitude meant.
It was just a few minutes after Nabiki had left when Akane finished her bowl and declared that she was leaving for school early too.
"Oh, Akane, before you go, Mousse left a message for you yesterday." Kasumi informed her. "He said he would see you later today."
"Thanks, Kasumi!" Akane told her as she walked out of the door.
Ranma finally getting over his shock saw that his short-haired fiancee was leaving for school already and decided that he had better get moving also. He went to eat the rest of his food in one last bite but saw that his bowl had been mysteriously emptied. Ranma decided that he would make his pop pay later for stealing his food and run after Akane. Akane simply walked along lost in her own thoughts. Ranma, not sure of what to do, just walked along the fence and watched her. He had no idea what to make of her just letting him off the hook for last night. He thought for sure that the blue-haired girl would have still been extremely mad at him. He decided that it would be a very good idea for him to tread upon this unfamiliar ground very, very carefully.
"Hey, Akane?" Ranma called out to her hesitantly.
"What is it, Ranma?" Akane asked back. She didn't really feel like talking right then but she was very curious to what her pig-tailed martial artist fiancé would say.
"You sure you're not mad or anything?" Ranma said finally spitting out what was on his mind.
"I already said I wasn't." Akane said resolutely and kept her face staring forward. "You're off the hook."
"But why?" Ranma blurted out.
"Why what, Ranma?" The blue haired girl repeated.
"The only time you've ever let me off the hook was when Ryuoga accidently cut your hair." Ranma explained with only a lil bit of panic in his voice.
"It's no big deal." Akane said simply.
"But!" Rama started to say.
"It's no big deal, Ranma." Akane interrupted him. "I have to get to class early." She told him as she began to run as fast as she could toward school.
"Akane, wait!" Ranma called after her but it was no use because the tomboy either didn't hear or simply refused to listen to him. The boy briefly had the thought that he ought to run after her but for some reason didn't have the heart to do so. It was way too early for him to get to the school just yet though he briefly wondered why it was so important to Akane that she get to school so early. Ranma suddenly had the thought that he ought to get to school on time too. The infamous bike bell had not rung yet and it was soon time for its arrival. The cocky martial artist decided that it was best that he not tempt the Kami just this once and began to run like lightening to the teaching building.
Ranma was very correct that it was too early for him to be at school already. There was at least 5 minutes before the bell was going to ring. Ranma hated idle time, which is why he didn't really enjoy school. It was time he could spend training in the art and any time he wasn't training was idle time. The pig-tailed boy looked around the school yard and didn't spot his fiancee anywhere though he could tell she had already gone through the area. Kuno was laying on the ground with a foot print on his face. Ranma stopped to take a good look at that. Not only was it funny and something he never got sick of seeing but it made him think. Akane had been much more direct with dealing with Kuno lately, except for yesterday when he just kicked Kuno in the face himself. For the past few days she, except for the day before, Akane hadn't even bothered to listen to the kendoist's inane rants but instead knocked him out with one blow and continued her way. Oddly enough, Nabiki hadn't even come by to drag Kuno to the nurse's office. There was still 2 minutes left though. That was plenty of time for anything to happen. It was even stranger when nothing did happen. The entire 5 minutes had passed and Ranma had stood in the school yard without having been attacked. The young boy was thoroughly convinced that some sort of record for Nerima had just been broken. He also knew that the Tendo middle child probably would have the exact record of such act with odds written down for it. It was 5 minutes when none of the Amazons had broken a way through, the lost boy hadn't burrowed his way there, members of kidnappers of the month club hadn't busted through demanding Ranma give up his fiancee, or random martial artists hadn't demanded challenges and he hadn't even been splashed by the old woman who was always cleaning her sidewalk. It was all almost too eerie for the young pig-tailed boy and he decided he might as well add to all the weirdness by getting to class on time without having been dragged by his tomboy fiancee.
Ranma walked into the classroom and the entire class including the teacher seemed to take a collective gasp of surprise. Everyone had their eyes glued to him as he went to take his seat. It was everyone except the one person who usually did look at him. Akane already had her notebook out on her desk, pen in hand and nose already in the text book. Ranma was a lil surprised by this but didn't think that point was all that out of the ordinary. Akane had always been better than him at school. She actually liked school. Once the teacher had recovered from his shock, class was then started. Ranma did his usual drifting in out of sleep during lectures but kept a close eye on his fiancee. Akane seemed thoroughly engrossed in studying and listening to the teacher. The lunch bell rang and Ranma was very happy to get out of the classroom. He went to grab the bento box that Kasumi had packed for him and out of the corner of his eye watched Akane. Akane didn't look in all that much of a rush to get to lunch. In fact she was still looking at the English exercise they had just gotten. After a quick moment she finally looked satisfied about something of the exercise and she slowly went to pack her things to get her bento.
"Ranma-honey!" Ukyo called. "Let's have lunch together!"
Ranma almost cringed when he heard his best friend call him. Ranma usually enjoyed hanging out with his 'cute' fiancee since she was very willing to listen to what he had to say and give him free food every time he did stop by and see her. Ukyo expected something from him though instead of just the friendship he willingly offered her. He just had no way to tell her that without hurting her feelings and it was getting a lot harder for Ranma to be around her because of that.
"Hi, Uc-chan." He said quietly, all the while still watching his 'uncute' fiancee out of the corner of his eye.
Akane had briefly looked up from what she had been doing when she had heard Ukyo call for Ranma. For a brief second she had caught his eyes and Ranma saw an emotion he couldn't describe flash through her eyes before they steeled themselves behind a protective shell so quickly that Ranma almost thought he had imagined seeing such a feeling.
"Come on, Ran-chan." Ukyo said cheerfully as she forcefully evicted her betrothed from the presence of his other betrothed.
Akane watched as Ukyo dragged Ranma out of the classroom and gave a silent sigh to herself. It always hurt seeing Ranma go off with one of his cute finacees and she could never resist pounding him for doing it but she had resigned herself to this fate. She only hoped she had the strength to see this through but she was Akane Tendo. Of course, she had the strength to do anything. After all it was the one thing that Ranma constantly told her she had-brute strength. Akane lifted her head high. She may have lost her feelings to a cursed sex-changing boy but she hadn't lost her pride yet. She wouldn't show anyone her weakness. She would show everyone her new changes though. She would show everyone that she was a good martial artist with Mousse's help. She might even show everyone she might be cute. She had to go shopping for something better to wear during sparing anyway. She might as well buy herself a few nice things and make herself feel better. Akane knew she wasn't beautiful but she didn't think she was ugly as Ranma said she was. She also knew she was a lot smarter than most gave her credit for. Nabiki was certainly the brains of the family with all of her money making schemes but Akane was no dummy either no matter what Ranma said. She got good grades in school and if she kept with her studying and not spend time worrying over her jerk of a fiancé she could get perfect grades if she just tried. Akane didn't need Ranma. She cared about him but she could live without him. It was the first thought that had made her smile all day though deep inside it also made her want to cry.
Akane went out to the school yard feeling much better than she had all day. Her smile did falter a lil bit when she saw Ukyo hand feeding Ranma pieces of her freshly made okinamiyaki. Ranma seemed to be enjoying it. Well, he wasn't fighting her like he always fought Akane whenever she cooked for him. She saw the bleachers were empty where he usually sat with his friends and Akane decided that she might as well snatch the spot for herself and enjoy a quiet lunch to herself.
The rest of the school day pasted by rather uneventfully by the Nerima standards with no wild attacks, death threats or random fiancees claiming a piece of Ranma. Ranma began to think he might enter Nabiki's pool as to guess when trouble would start but he didn't have the yen to do so at the moment. Ranma stood by the gates waiting for Akane to emerge from the building. She had waited to speak to the teacher for whatever reason after they had all been dismissed.
"Ranma, you waited for me?" Akane asked sounding almost hopeful.
Watching Akane stare so intently at him, of course, caused Ranma to panic. "Of course not, ya tomboy!" He denied vehemently. "I just figured if I watched ya now, it'd save me the trouble of having to rescue ya later from some crazy prince or something."
"Oh, of course, I should have known." Akane said sounding only a lil crestfallen as she began to walk home.
Ranma hopped up on the fence and matched his pace with hers. There was silence for a few minutes as neither knew what to say to each other. Of course, that made Ranma blurt out the first thing that was on his mind. "So ain't ya goin to meet the duck boy to spar with him?"
"Oh! Yes, I am!" Akane cried out suddenly as she began to run home. "I almost completely forgot."
"Aaah!" Ranma exclaimed in exasperation of the things his own mouth said. "I gotta learn to keep my mouth shut sometimes."
At the dojo, Nabiki was making calls. When she heard the front door being opened, she immediately cupped her hand over the mouthpiece and hung up.
"Tadaima!" Akane called as she stepped through the doorway. She could have sworn someone had just been standing in the hallway just before she had opened the door but no one was there now.
"Imoutochan, Mousse is already here for you." Kasumi said as she walked into the hallway.
"Arigato, Onechan." Akane said gratefully as she followed her eldest sisters back into the living room where Mousse stood watching over the latest shogi game between the Tendo and Saotome patriarchs.
"Hi Mousse." Akane greeted the white-robed Chinese boy. "I hope you haven't been waiting long."
"Hello, Akane." Mousse said as he bowed in greeting to his newest friend. "I have just arrived."
"OK." Akane said. "You'll have to wait just a lil bit longer. I have to get changed."
"Of course." Mousse assented. "I will wait for you in the dojo."
"Great!" Akane said as she quickly turned around to run upstairs and get changed.
Mousse simply walked out to the dojo and stood in the middle of the room. He had to admit. He did like being in the Tendo household and their dojo even if he did miss being near his Amazon princess. It was nice to get away from Cologne. The honored Amazon clan elder never gave him a break from the restaurant and he had been hard pressed not to tell the dried up old monkey what exactly it was he was doing during his past afternoons away from the Nekohaten. Mousse had no idea what Cologne might do to him if she found out he was sparing with Akane Tendo.
"Aiya!?" Shampoo demanded to know as she busted through the walls of the poor patched dojo.
"Shampoo darling!" Mousse cried out happily as he opened his arms to run to the purple-haired girl only to trip on the rubble that had fallen in front of him when she had come crashing through the wall and land flat on his face. "You have come to see me and declare your love for me!"
"Mouse not be so stupid!" Shampoo yelled at him derisively. "Shampoo come see her Ranma. But, why duck boy train with Kitchen Destroyer?"
Mousse quickly stood up and adjusted his glasses. "Um, Shampoo, my most beauteous one, how did you find out?"
"Mercenary girl tell Shampoo you here after Shampoo pay." Shampoo seethed at the poor usually blind boy. She didn't know why exactly she was seething but it involved the clumsy girl that stood in the way of her airen and now seemed to be getting close to the duck boy and that seemed a good enough reason to be seething.
"Shampoo, can't you ever just use the door!?" Akane cried out in exasperation as she stepped into the dojo. She just knew her sister would blame her for this.
"Obstacles I kill!" Shampoo cried as she lunged to take a strike at Akane's head.
Luckily Akane, with some years of martial arts training, though not as much as the others in the room, dodged out of the way and it was also in that moment when Ranma decided to see what the commotion was about in the dojo. The ending result was that Akane when she ducked and dodged she did so right into Ranma. When the dust had cleared Akane opened her eyes to find her face within inches of her fiance's face.
"Wha'd ja do that for, you tomboy!?" Ranma instantly cried in self defense and jumped a good 3 or 4 feet away from the just fallen girl.
Akane's instant thought was that Ranma was just disgusted to be in close contact with her to have immediately jumped away and yelled at her. Her next thought was anger. When she was ready to grab the closest thing at hand to smack the back of his head, she stopped and remembered her promise to herself that she wouldn't trouble herself anymore with such matters. It took all of her self control to keep her temper back from pounding the ill spoken martial artist but she did it, with shaking and clenched hands held behind her back. Once Akane held herself in check she suddenly realized that it wasn't exactly his fault that they had fallen. She was the one who had rolled into him.
"I'm sorry, Ranma." Akane said though her voice still bristled with just a hint of anger.
Shampoo had stopped her attack on Akane when the short haired girl had knocked into her Airen. Everyone knew that it was stupid to attack Akane in front of Ranma. Shampoo may ignore some of what happens between the 2 of them but she wasn't blind either. Rama was fiercely protective of her. Shampoo assumed it was because of the pre-arranged engagement with family honor and all that.
Ranma looked stunned for a long moment as his brain tried to register that Akane had just apologized to him without having smashed his head into the dojo floor first. His brain quickly lashed onto the first thing it noticed. Nabiki's going to blame me and make me pay for that hole in the wall. "Hey, Shampoo, whacha doing here and couldn't ya have used the door?"
"Aiya!!" Shampoo cried out as she jumped into the air so that she could throw her arms out her airen. "Shampoo so glad you here and she bring too you delicious for husband."
Mousse made ready to launch some chains out of his robes at Ranma.
Akane saw that a fight was about to break out and decided it was better to try and head it off. Besides she was already tired of seeing Shampoo hang off of Ranma with her entire body. "If you 2 could leave, Mousse and I would like to start practicing!"
Mousse decided to hold off attacking the pig-tailed boy and see what would happen next. Both Shampoo and Ranma could only stare at Akane as she had basically asked to be alone with Mousse. Shampoo promptly let go of Ranma in her shock and slid to the floor. It was Ranma that spoke first. "Well, fine! Go ahead and practice with the blind duck boy for all I care."
"I know you don't care." Akane said so softly that only Mousse heard her as Ranma began to stomp out of the dojo.
Shampoo only tossed her hair and followed Ranma as he left. Shampoo was tempted to stay around to see exactly what was happening between the duck boy and the violent girl but knew she had to get back to the Cat Café before her great grandmother got mad at her for taking too long. Ranma decided he would just head into the Tendo living room to read a manga he had gotten the day before and wait for dinner to be ready.
"You can go chase after Shampoo if you like, Mousse. I know you would probably rather be chasing after her than practicing with a klutz like me." Akane told him.
Mousse did have the brief thought of going after his beloved purple-haired Amazon but for the first time in his life, declined to do so. After all at least he knew he was sparing with Akane so he'd be prepared for any hits she aimed at him and she wouldn't feel the need to knock him unconscious like Shampoo did a lot of the time. "We made an appointment to spar together and I have every intention to keep the promise I made to a good friend." He told her back.
Akane's face broke out into such a happy grin that Mousse found himself smiling back at her. "Thanks, Mousse. I think you're a really good friend too."
"Are you ready now?" Mousse asked her.
"Hai!" Akane answered and dropped into her usual fighting stance.
They continued to spar for the rest of the afternoon. Trading blows and throws and kicks, both of them starting to break into a lil of a sweat. Akane was doing much better than she had the day before and even pressed Mousse into several defensive moves to keep her off of him. They were both so into sparing and enjoying it so much that they hardly noticed the time.
"Akane! Dinner will be soon!" Kasumi called out to them from the entrance of the dojo.
Akane and Mousse dropped their fighting stances at the same on hearing Kasumi. "OK, Oneechan!" Akane called back.
"I will be seeing you tomorrow, Akane." Mousse told her as he began to take his bow to leave.
"Oh, Mousse, I wanted to talk to you about tomorrow. Do you mind if we don't practice tomorrow?" Akane asked.
"That is all right but I thought you wanted to practice everyday so that you can better quickly?" Mousse asked back.
"I do but well, my gi is getting kind of worn and I want to have something else to wear before it gets even worse." Akane explained to him. She then had a sudden great idea and voiced it to him. "I know! Why don't you come with me? It won't take me long to buy something else to wear and we can stop by Dr. Tofu's office to see if he or someone he knows help you with your eyes."
Mousse took only a second to think of it and he had his answer. "I would love to accompany you."
"Great! I'll see you tomorrow right after school!" Akane said happily.
"I will see you then." Mousse told her as they walked out of the dojo together and he quickly leaped over the wall to head back to where Shampoo had gone.
Akane walked into the house for her bath. She was happy that someone wanted to be her friend and spend time with her. She only wished Ranma felt the same way but Akane quickly pushed that thought out of her mind as she wanted to finish washing quickly so that she could eat dinner with the rest of the family. Akane came out of the furo, feeling much more relaxed, just as Kasumi was setting the food onto the dinner table.
"Akane, you came out just in time. Sit down and we can have supper." Kasumi let her know in her very sweet and kind voice.
"Thanks, Onee-chan." Akane told her and sat in her usual place beside Ranma though she pointedly avoided looking at him.
"So you going to spar with Mousse tomorrow?" Ranma asked her hoping he sounded casual instead of the anger he felt at the long haired Chinese boy.
"No, we're not sparing tomorrow." Akane informed.
Ranma felt much better knowing that but kept the feeling to himself but it didn't keep his foot-in-the-mouth syndrome from making its usual appearance. "Why not? I thought you and Duck Boy were getting along so well?"
"For your information, Ranma, Mousse and I are going to Dr. Tofu's tomorrow to see if there's anything to do about getting his eyes checked." Akane let him know still without looking at him.
"What for?!" Ranma sputtered just after stuffing a big spoonful of food into his mouth.
"It's what friends do." Akane explained to him as it were the plainest thing in the world.
"Yeah! Well, fine!" Ranma retorted as the only thing he could think to say.
"Akane, how could you?!" The Tendo patriarch cried out with tears starting to form in his eyes.
"Oh, Dad!" Akane started to say in a very exasperated tone. "Mousse and I are just friends!"
"Ranma, m'boy!" His father called out for once not in his panda form. "You better go with them!"
"Why do I wanna do that for?!" Ranma yelled out in protest.
"She's your fiancee and you should be with her!" Genma yelled in explanation.
"Really! You needn't bother!" Akane told them all and then turned to her sister. "Why in the world did you charge Shampoo to know that Mousse was here?"
"I simply let her know where Mousse was so she knew that he wasn't chasing after her." Nabiki simply told her as if it should make perfect sense to everyone else.
"I would appreciate it if you all just stayed out of my business!" Akane yelled as she slammed her bowl down and then ran up stairs into her room.
"Ranma, you better make my baby girl better tomorrow!" Soun warned the young man.
"You said it, Tendo!" The Saotome father chimed in. "You better go with Akane and Mousse tomorrow, Ranma!"
"Aw, shut up, Pop!" Ranma said as he knocked his father outside of his head, finished the rest of his bowl in just 1 more bite and followed Akane upstairs to head into his own room.