Ukyo's hundredth loop
Once again Ukyo found herself selling okonomiyaki in Nagoya. She wasn't surprised about this sudden change of scenery since she was able to count down the exact time when the loop would start again and she found herself back at this corner. She had no idea what had started this, but she suspected that it was some misdirected wish by Konatsu. Seeing that no one else remembered the past – or future – year, she had tried to use these second chances and make Ranchan hers. But after some tries she had finally had t recognize that Ranma and Akane were in love, so she decided to give up on him. It took only two or three… dozen times.
She had learned her lesson and vowed to take care of Konatsu as she had originally promised and thanked the heavens for this lesson in life.
She was very surprised when the loops still continued. She got Konatsu earlier out of the hands of his step-family, tried to help Ryoga to get rid of his curse and meet Akari, tried to find other partners for Mousse and Shampoo, and lastly she even tried to help Ranma and Akane to get along. "As if they didn't already had enough people trying to push them together." She thought in reminescence. She was mostly unsuccessful, except for Konatsu. After three dozen loops of this she gave up on the people in Nerima and decided to go and see the world with her kunoichi husband.
The last loop was spent in Greece and now she prepared herself to defeat the ugly squad once again. The best time for this would be in two weeks, after they had to deal with a busload of nastily surprised Martial Arts Sararimen. She would only help a bit to put them in hospital and burn the café down. Konatsu's step-family would send him off for revenge and while he searched for the sararimen – who had wisely used a fake address when they reserved at the café – she had to offer the homeless Konatsu food and shelter and a love would be born. It wasn't a nice plan, but she wasn't dealing with nice people.
So right now she had some time off and decided to play a bit with Ranchan and his uncute fiancée. She liked Akane, but she liked the nickname even more.
She wasn't crazy enough to deal with Kuno for fun, therefore she spent a week preparing her grand entrance and her later plans for Konatsu and their future move to Hawaii. She had only learned last loop on which islands Principal Kuno had spent his days and she reconstructed the timetable of which places to avoid. Maybe she could sell a couple of copies to those poor traumatised people she had questioned to prevent them from coming to harm. At least for this loop.
School was over for the day and a newly engaged couple of martial artists was on their way home.
"I can't believe it! Who is still throwing their dishwater out of the window! Without checking even! Is this part of Tokyo or some Chinese backwater?" Ranted an angry redhead, before she noticed a wonderful smell and stopped to look around.
Close to some shops stood a modern mobile food stall with a proud banner proclaiming: "Fresh okonomiyaki! Here at Ucchan's 'Japanese pizza!'" The two came closer to the cart when suddenly the young vendor behind the grill looked up, blinked and then grinned predatorily. The good-looking cook prepared one of the pancakes, threw it to Ranma and yelled: "Ranma! It's been a long time!"
Ranma caught it and looked at the silly face painted with sauce. "I-it's all coming back to me!" Ranma thought and jumped up, bad mood forgotten. "You're… You're…"
"Heh!" The food fighter grinned and took up half a dozen spatulas. "For ten years I've hunted you!" The attacker called and threw the cooking utensils in Ranma's direction, who all but ignored them and instead jumped fast forward to the cook only stopping the move with her left hand hitting a wall and a her right hand's index finger close to the other one's nose.
"You're "Ucchan" from that okonomiyaki cart!" Ranma exclaimed happily.
Akane came closer to the pair. "You were childhood friends?"
"Yeah, for a while, anyway." Ranma answered looking back and wanted to explain their fights for food, but was interrupted when Ukyo hugged her.
"I've missed you too, Ranchan." Ukyo said softly.
"Wh-what are you doing?" Ranma was very confused now.
"I am greeting my beautiful fiancée." Ukyo let go of Ranma and stepped back to hold Ranma's left cheek lightly with a hand. "You've become really beautiful. I'm so glad our fathers arranged our marriage."
"But I am a boy."
Ukyo just smiled and looked towards Akane. "Just like the cutie over there, right sugar?"
"No, it's a curse – what do you mean, our parents arranged our marriage?"
"Don't you remember?" Ukyo asked in a friendly tone, tilted her head to the side and smiled sadly. "My father even gave you our okonomiyaki cart as dowry."
Ranma paled. "I remember! The vrrr!" Then his face darkened and he bolted out of Ukyo's reach and yelled: "Pops! I'm gonna kill you for engaging me to a boy!"
Ukyo grinned as she watched Ranma running towards the Tendo Dojo. This worked even better then expected!