The blue octopus was squished in the shaky hands of Akane Tendo. She lied in bed holding the toy still processing the events that happened. Ranma had spent the last two hours trying to deal with the fathers and their mixed emotions. It went from them being ecstatic to the older men being furious that the couple was already with child. That continued for some time. Akane grew tired of her family and went to her room.
As she was in her bed she held onto the blue octopus. She wanted to sleep but was too overwhelmed to do that. She sat up, a little too quickly, and had the sudden urge to throw up. She held back as much as she could, but it wasn't enough. Akane made a mad dash to the bathroom. The sound of her vomiting led to Ranma checking up on her. He sat down next to her and rubbed her back. Once she was done she sat scooted to the opposite side of the boy.
"How you feel?" He asked.
"Weak," She thought about what she had said, "I hate this."
Ranma reached his legs out to her already outstretched legs to where their feet met in between them. He looked at his wife who looked exhausted. He smiled at how even in a situation like this she could still be cute.
"Ranma," Akane shyly said.
"What's up?"
Akane looked down, tears swelling in her eyes but she fought back. "I," was all she could manage to say.
Ranma tapped his foot against hers, "You're what?"
"Sorry."
"'Kane, I'm sorry." Ranma was looking straight at her. He had the most trouble when it came to saying how they felt. "If I- If we hadn't," He stumbled on his words, "I thought about it."
Akane looked up at her husband, which made him immediately look everywhere except her eyes. She didn't know where he was going with this. And was pretty sure he had no idea either.
Ranma looked straight into Akane's eyes, "I love you."
Akane was taken aback. He rarely ever said that without any hesitation, and here they were on the bathroom floor and he was spilling his guts out.
He continued to speak, "Akane, I am in love with you, you tomboy. I don't care how you feel about that because I feel like that."
Akane didn't know what to say. All she could do was smile at his random outburst, and without knowing tears rolled down her face.
It turned out Ranma wasn't finished either, "And I don't care how crappy you feel right now because you're the strongest girl I know. I love you for that. I'm in love with you for that."
They sat in silence. Taking in every word that was just spoken.
Akane placed her hand over her stomach, "He won't let me eat."
Ranma chuckled at her statement, "So it's a he? It's cause you keep feeding him the wrong stuff. What do you feel like eating?"
Akane smiled, "Chicken!"
Ranma stood, helping his wife off of the floor. "Chicken it is for my tomboy princess." And he took off to the kitchen.