Here's my next chap! Yes, things are still hectic in my life, and I'm sorry for not updating soon. My excuse? For this week, we had to practice to sing in a musical concert in another school. Anyway, enough about that. I just hope you guys review what you think of this chap. I don't mind if it's positive or negative, as long as it isn't flaming. Well, I'll stop my author's note here. I'll just start this chap already. Hope you enjoy. Remember, R&R. That would give me the urge to update, okay? Here goes!

Ranma woke up the next day upon hearing Cologne and Genma talking in the room next to his. He knew that this thing they were talking about would happen, but he didn't expect that it would happen this soon.

He just decided to pretend that he was sleeping and listened to their conversation.

"Genma, you know Ranma is a growing teenage boy, right? He may be a very good martial artist but he also needs education. Why don't you enroll him in a school just near here? What about Furinkan High School?" Cologne asked her supposedly future brother-in-law.

"It sounds like a great idea, Cologne. That would teach my son some manners and some more wisdom. Shampoo should also come with him," Genma said, smiling.

"Yes, that would be good. But… Shampoo's needed in the restaurant. Its okay, she can manage without school. I've raised her and I think she can survive. For son-in-law in the other hand… with your raising… I doubt it."

"I'm not that bad of a father, am I?" Genma asked Cologne. Cologne just nodded for affirmation. "Well… if that's the case then it's settled. Ranma's going to start school today. I'll go wake him up right now," he continued then went off to tell his son, just at the room beside theirs, the agreement he and Cologne had.

Ranma just continued pretending to sleep even though he didn't really like the idea. School would just affect his training. He really wasn't that interested to go to school, but he knew he would some day. He just had a gut feeling.

"Son, you awake?" Genma asked, entering the room. Afterwards, he then went off near him and shook Ranma so he could wake up.

"Yeah Pop, I'm awake," Ranma said, rubbing his eye, convincing that he had only woken up. He then sat on an Indian sitting position. "What's up?"

"Well, good, because I have something to tell you."

"What's that?" Ranma acted as he didn't know.

"Well… Cologne and I had decided that you're going to go to school starting today. High school exactly."

"High school you say? But why? Don't you think this will affect my training? I need more training, not education, Pops."

"Ranma, my boy, everybody needs education, even a martial artist like yourself. Besides, school would help you with your morality and respect for elders."

"Whatever. But, just saying, even if I go to school, I still wouldn't forget everything you got me thru. So, my respect for you still won't change," Ranma said, standing up and leaving his father.

Flashbacks

Ranma and Genma were in China, specifically the Jusenkyo cursed springs and because of his Father's crazy idea in training there, they both fell.

"Aya!" Ranma said as he kicked his dad, causing him to fall down to a spring. When he reached the surface, he was then a panda. "Dad?"

The panda then attacked Ranma and he too fell but he turned into a girl. "What the? Why am I a girl?! You're going to pay Pops!" Ranma said and continued to fight his father.

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Ranma and Genma went to different places and well, Genma sold his only son's hand in marriage for a lot of measly things, causing Ranma to have a lot of fiancées.

"Ranma honey, you're mine!" one fiancée of his said, pulling his right hand.

"No, he's mine!" another said, pulling his left hand.

"You're all wrong, he's mine!" a muscular girl said and pulled Ranma's head.

"Help me!" Ranma said.

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Ranma and Genma also went to solve Ranma's fear of cats, but instead of solving it, it just made things worse. It made Ranma act like a cat whenever he was really scared.

"Meow!"

End of Flashbacks

"I don't want to remember those things anymore. Stupid Pop, getting me into all of those troubles."

Upon leaving Genma, Ranma just fixed himself and got ready for school. After doing the morning necessities, he was off to the said school that his father said he will enroll in, Furinkan High.

"Okay, let's see, where is Furinkan High?" Ranma said to himself, walking on top of the wall as he usually does.

The wall then ended and he jumped down. Then he saw the sign 'Furinkan High School'. "This must be it."

He entered the school without hesitation but after a few seconds, he then saw Akane and decided to hide from her. "Why is Akane here? Oh, stupid, she studies here! Of course! Why did I forget her school? Oh no, that means, we'll be schoolmates! This can't be happening!" he thought to himself, hiding in a bush.

Akane then walked together with Ukyo towards the school. "Ryoga must still be lost. Akane's not with him. Come to figure, I never knew what that Ryoga guy looked like. Does he really look like me? Well I'll find out as soon as he comes back here at Nerima, if he comes back," Ranma asked himself.

"So, Ukyo, you ready?" Akane asked as she looked at her bestfriend.

"Sure am, Akane," Ukyo said, nodding.

"Ready? For what?" Ranma wondered.

After a few seconds, there seemed to be an earthquake. Then, hundreds of boys from the school went out and headed towards Akane and Ukyo. Apparently, they were their admirers. Some said, "Akane, we love you, please go out with me!" while the others said, "Ukyo, please be mine, be my girl!"

"How annoying. Why does this happen everyday?" Akane asked Ukyo.

"Let's just get this over. We're going to be late," Ukyo said.

"Right!"

Ukyo and Akane then attacked all the guys and in a matter of a minute or two, all of their admirers were beaten up, thanks to Akane's fist and Ukyo's spatula.

"Wow, who would have thought that they were popular. Maybe Ukyo is kinda cute, but Akane? What has the world gotten into?" Ranma thought to himself.

"Great, there, finished!" Akane said.

"Not quite," Ukyo said, looking at the bush Ranma was in. She sensed that someone was there and decided to know who.

"What's wrong Ukyo?" Akane asked, not sensing the presence of Ranma.

"I just sense somebody in that bush," she explained as she went to it and was about to see who was in it.

"Oh no!! I can't let them see me! I need water! Oh no! There's no water when I need it the most!"

Ukyo then saw Ranma and then screamed, "You're the guy Akane was talking about the other day!"

"What do you mean- oh my gosh! Ranma?! I thought you never wanted to return here? What makes you come back? Another beating I suppose?" Akane asked, a little bit shocked and mad at the same time.

"Listen, you didn't beat me up! I was off-guard! Besides, it was my dad's idea to study in your school," he explained.

"You're going to study here?" Ukyo asked.

"I guess so."

"No you can't!" Akane said to him.

"And why not? Afraid that your boyfriend Ryoga will beat me up when he finds out what happened between us? Don't worry, I can handle him," Ranma said arrogantly.

"Jerk!" Akane said and hit his head. "Come on Ukyo, let's go. I don't want to talk with him. Heck, I don't even want to see him," Akane said and pulled Ukyo towards the school.

"Stupid uncute tomboy!" Ranma screamed loudly but fortunately for him, not that loud since Akane didn't hear him anymore.

"What did you just call my dear Akane Tendo?" Kuno asked, sounding like a threat to Ranma and appearing from who knows where.

"Who might you be?"

"I'm Takewaki Kuno, the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High. I'm the- Hey! Where are you going, you insolent fool?" Kuno said with emotion, until he noticed Ranma leaving him.

"I'm going to the principal's office for admission to the school," Ranma explained, not having a care about Kuno.

"Wait, you can't leave, you have to face me first and survive!" Kuno said and went in front of him.

"Whatever you say," Ranma said, kicking Kuno to the air. Afterwards, he continued to walk to the principal's office.

After Ranma had admission to the school, the principal then lead him to his class. Little did he know that it was Akane's class and that it would make things even more complicated than before.

"Everybody, this is Ranma Saotome, our new student. I hope you would welcome him here wholeheartedly," the teacher introduced.

"Ran… ma?!" Akane said, standing up, all shocked. "This can't be happening, then… I, Ryoga and him will… will be classmates," Akane thought with fear.

"Akane?!" he said all surprised.

"Wait, you know her name?" Ukyo said, standing up too.

"Excuse me, Ms. Tendo, Ms. Kuonji, you know Mr. Saotome? Then you wouldn't mind for him to sit between you two since Ryoga's still absent. He's been absent for almost a month! Is he really coming back?" the teacher said.

"Sir, I do mind. Besides, Ryoga will come back, he's just lost. Besides, when he comes back then where is he going to sit?" Akane asked. "And why does Ranma know my name. I never told him."

"Uhh… fine then, Ranma, sit at that seat at the back, behind Ms. Tendo," the teacher directed.

"What?! Why does he have to sit here?! Can he sit somewhere else?! Somewhere away from me?" Akane complained.

"I'm sorry, that's the only available seat, Ms. Tendo," the teacher explained.

"Then let anybody seat near me, except him!"

"I'm sorry Ms. Tendo. You just have to deal with it. Besides, don't judge him that fast. He's only a new student and even if you know him doesn't mean you should-"

"But sir!"

"Enough, Ms. Tendo. That's it, outside, now!"

"Fine!" Akane said and stood up then went outside of the classroom. But before she left, she first glared at Ranma. Ranma just sweated and stood still.

When she left already, Ranma then took his seat. "What a girl, she's too boyish, really!"

After a few classes, it was now lunch and everybody went of to eat their food. Ranma just decided to eat Shampoo's cooking until one Ukyo, tasted his food. "Hey, why'd you do that!" Ranma asked her.

"Just wanted to taste it. Wow, that's good. Wait… I tasted that before. Aha! It's from the restaurant we were yesterday, Cat Café, I think? Right, Akane?" Ukyo said, giving Akane a piece of Ranma's food.

Akane then tasted his food and then knew that it had a distinct taste and was from Cat Café as well. "Yes, I guess it is from there."

"You a usual customer there?" Ukyo asked.

"Yeah…" Ranma said, covering up that he was the waitress and that his girlfriend the chef with the purple hair, Shampoo made him that.

"I can't believe this, I'd be seeing you even after classes," Akane said annoyed.

"Well it isn't like I wanted to see you at all!"

"You know what you are, you're just plain-"

"Akane, please stop. Don't fight with him," Ukyo said to her bestfriend.

"I can't help it. He's just such a jerk, and soo arrogant," Akane explained.

"Well you're just and uncute tomboy!" Ranma insulted.

The class then heard what he said and huddled. "Oh my, this is the first guy who doesn't like Akane and even insulted her. I can't believe this!" one girl said.

"Yeah… usually, she and Ukyo are the heartthrobs of the school. I never imagined that anybody would call her uncute," one guy said.

"Would you all just stop, please?" Akane said. "I don't care what this guy thinks about me. I don't care a crap!" she continued and punched a desk.

"What happened!?" a teacher asked and entered the classroom from hearing a bang caused by the punched desk. He then saw that Akane punched the desk. "Ms. Akane Tendo, to the principal's office!"

"It wasn't my fault, sir! That new student, Ranma started it!"

"Well, Mr. Ranma Saotome, you may as well go with her to the principal's office."

"What?! Why do I-"

"To the office!"

"Okay, okay!"

The two then headed over the principal's office without a word said between each of them.

Principal's Office

"You two, why were you two arguing in the classroom? And Ms. Tendo, why did you punch that desk?" the principal asked.

"He was being a jerk and calling me rude names," Akane explained.

"And she did too. Besides, I thought you didn't care?" Ranma said.

"Uhhh!!! Well he started it!"

"Okay, I don't care who started it. For now, I'll let you go with a warning since this is the first time the two of you are sent here. But I don't want you two to fight okay? Please… And also, Mr. Saotome, be careful, it's only your first day here."

"We'll try sir, right Akane?" Ranma said.

"Fine, whatever," Akane said with a sigh.

"Okay, you can leave my office now. No more fighting okay?"

"Yes sir," they said in unison then left the room.

"I can't believe you got me in trouble. You were the one who punched the table. Besides, I can't lie and tell you that you are cute, Akane," Ranma said rudely.

Akane tried to calm down. "Don't lose your cool Akane." "As I said before, I don't care about what you think about me. Anyway… how do you know my name?"

"I… I… heard it before, when I left you. I heard… uhh… your friend Ukyo call you."

"Ukyo didn't call me. What are you talking about?"

"Whatever, well gotta run, see yah, bye!" Ranma said, sweating like crazy and left. "Whew, that was close. I can't tell her that I found out her name is Akane is because I was the waitress she met at Cat Café! I should just tell her a lie the next time she asks me. I hope she doesn't ask me again though."

After classes, Akane just had to preoccupy her mind with other things since all she thought all day was…

Why is this happening to me?
Why did Ranma have to go to our school?
Am I uncute- shut up Akane, you don't care about what he thinks, he's just a jerk.

How did he know my name?

Why is he so insensitive?

When is Ryoga coming back? I hope he doesn't get mad at Ranma- oh what do I care about him, he deserves to be beaten up. When Ryoga comes he'll pulverize him. But he may also know I liked my kiss with Ranma.

So, she just decided to go with Ukyo to Cat Café and support her.

"Good morning, how may I- oh it's… you guys… again," the girl Ranma said to Akane and Ukyo. "So, things with them aren't over. What a day!"

"Yup, we're here since Ukyo's going to start her first shift," Akane explained.

"I see," Ranma said with a sweat drop. "I can't believe that I still have to see her. What a day. And things will be like this from now on. Oh boy."

"Ukyo! You're late, come on girl, help us out now," Cologne said.

"I'm coming!" Ukyo said and wore her apron then went off to the kitchen so she could start cooking.

Shampoo then went out and greeted Ukyo, "Ukyo, you're here! Let's go," she said with a smile. She then saw Akane and glared at her.

"I thought Shampoo said she'll give Akane a chance?" Ranma asked herself.

After a while, Shampoo went to Akane and talked to her. "Hi, I'm Shampoo, you are?"

"Akane."

"Nice to meet you Akane," Shampoo said then went back to work.

"Okay, that's it? Nice job Shampoo," Ranma thought to himself, sarcastically.

"Hey, you're name is Ranma right?" Akane asked.

"Huh?! Yea… Why?" she said unsurely. "Does she know my secret?"

"You want to be friends?" Akane asked.

"I guess not." "Uhhh… sure? But why? I'm just a waitress. Why do you want to be friends with girls like me? I'm not rich."

"Well… I'll be hanging out here often since Ukyo's working here, and since she's busy and Shampoo's kinda not that friendly to me, if you just saw, I figured we two should be friends," Akane explained with a big smile.

"Oh… okay, Akane."

Somewhere out there

"I can't believe someone beat me up again. First it was Ryoga, and then now, it's that guy who said bad things about my dear Akane Tendo. I have to become strong to protect my love! I know, I have to train harder and go to my master!" Kuno exclaimed with scary passion.

He then saw his master with some underwear. "Master!"

"Kuno, disciple, nice timing! For your exercise today, you should stall these girls! I'll meet you at your house alter on today," Happosai said and ran away.

After a few seconds, the owners of the underwear Happosai stole came and Kuno tried to stall them. But it was no use, they just stepped on him. "Oh master! Help me now! Train me to protect my Akane Tendo and my pigtailed goddess!"

A/N: Well, how was this chap? This is the longest so far, am I correct? Well, R&R! Hope you liked it, I sure did have fun in writing this.