What's up people? How are you guys? Me, I'm doing great. Summer's fun and very productive for me! Yeah, that's why I haven't updated for quite a while. So sorry. Anyway, enough of the chitchat. Here's the next chap! Enjoy. And… oh! Please, R&R!

Oh, wait! A few responses to the reviews first!

Sousouchan, about Shampoo, I sometimes forget that she is Shampoo, (get what I'm saying?) so I tend to put right English there. I'll try to make myself aware of her character and her dialogue. Thanks for pointing that out. Oh! Also, the reason I paired Ukyo and Ryoga is… I dunno, I just like the idea of pairing them up together. Hehe!

SnowCharms, when you said 'so totally not good… update! I do pity Ranma though.' What did it mean? I may have interpreted it in a wrong way. Is my writing not good, or is what's going to happen not good? I'm not trying to make you mad at me, I'm just clearing things up. Please don't be mad.

Cat Cafe

"Happosai… It can't be! He… he's… he's my master from before. He's the one who thought me every skill I know! He is the grand master of the Anything Goes Style of Martial Arts. Why would he call it Goes Anything Style Martial Arts now?" Genma said to Ranma.

"What?! You learned your techniques from Kuno's master?! Then why let him leave you? His teachings must be really great, dad. Kuno shouldn't even have figured them out! It's a total waste, Pops. And why would he stay at Akane's house? So Akane must know a few moves of the master," Ranma stated.

"You see Ranma, Master Happosai is a strong old but healthy man. With his old age, he does know a lot, even things you can never think of. But with that knowledge… he also has a lot of bad qualities. He's a pervert, most importantly, and being his disciple means following his pervert-ness. I couldn't bear helping him before. I was always getting injured and blamed for things I didn't intend to do, things he made me do. So, when I figured out most of his techniques, I left him. He became angry, but I did give him the slip… Wait! Oh no! I just remembered!"

"What's that Pops?"

"The day I left Happosai… he bumped his head before I was out of sight since I attacked him with his greatest attack. And the last words I said to him was… let me remember… it was something like… 'Say goodbye to your only disciple of the Anything Goes Martial Arts! You'll never see me again!'"

"Wait, he bumped his head? So, he must have gotten amnesia! And since you said you're his only disciple of the Anything Goes Martial Arts, that must be what caused him to call it the Goes Anything Martial Arts when he woke up. Maybe he had forgotten some other stuff too," Ranma concluded from his father's story.

"Maybe. But if that's the case, he may still be a pervert. He'll never change that characteristic for anything! Ranma, please remember, do not reveal that you're a Saotome to him. If you do, both of us will be in big trouble. If he still remembers me and still bears a grudge for leaving him, then he will also be angry with you since you are my son. Though, he must need an heir to the Martial Art. He can't live forever. What if he has forgotten about me? Hmm… maybe you can be the heir! That's a great idea, isn't it?!" Genma said, suddenly happy of the situation.

"Dad, that may be a great idea for you, but his memory will come back, they usually do. If he remembers you and finds out I'm your son, then I'll be dead. Kuno almost killed me, how about him? Besides, to be an heir, I need a fiancé. Who's that going to be, Shampoo? She may be my girlfriend, but I don't think I see her as the person I'm going to be married to."

"Hmmm… you do have a point, son. Wait… I remember you mentioning Akane, your school partner, right? What does she have to do with the master?" Genma asked.

"Oh… Akane's father is another disciple of Happosai. The master even lives at their house."

"What?! Wait a minute! What if you hook-up with Akane? You obviously like her! If you do so, then you'll surely be the heir to the Arts! You just have to hide your surname."

"I see flaws it that plan, dad. One, I have a girlfriend, name's Shampoo, we're living in her café, in case you don't remember. Two, I don't like Akane. What made you to think of that? You haven't even seen her," he said in a corrective tone.

"Ah contraire my dear son, I may not have seen her, but I have heard you sleep talk about her for quite a while now."

"What?! You're just making things up!!" Ranma said with his face as red as an apple.

"No I am not. Fine if you don't believe me, don't. But, I'm not lying."

"Whatever dad," Ranma said, then tried to get his cool again. After a while, he then continued his statement of his father's flaws of the said plan. "Okay dad, where were we? Oh, the flaws. Well… Three, Akane has older sisters, if they get married first, I won't be the heir. And four…hmm…"

He then noticed that Genma was looking at him and smiling at him differently. He was obviously thinking that Ranma was lying about his feelings toward Akane.

"Okay, don't you dare smile like that! I hate that ugly, flat-chested, tomboy, Akane, okay?!" Ranma stated, not meaning it all. He just didn't like the idea in being with Akane as a couple, or anybody thinking that he likes her more than a friend. It was just hard for him, he knew she doesn't like him and hates him too even though they did have a truce. He really did like her a lot, though he'll never say that because he was too scared in revealing his real feelings.

Suddenly, Kuno then came in, ready with his date with the pigtailed girl. Sadly for Ranma, he had to hear Ranma statement of his hate to Akane.

"Ranma Saotome, how dare you insult Akane Tendo?! In front of me even?! I may have told myself that I will forget about her, but that doesn't mean you can do such appalling thing! Beg on your knees and take those words back!" Kuno threatened with his sword.

"Look, Kuno, I don't need to take those words back, I really do hate her. The only reason I'm so nice to her is because she's my partner. Just accept it, others may be crazy over Akane, like you, but I'm not! I don't even like her! Hell, I'll say it again, I hate her for she hates me!!" Ranma said, not thinking of what he said and not knowing that some other people also heard what he said, again. Sometimes he really could just be so careless with words.

Ranma then received a slap from the person he was talking about, Akane. How unfortunate for him that she just so happened to go in the café. "How could you say such things about me! I know we had a truce that we won't fight over the smallest and simplest things, but now… this isn't small, this is totally huge! That means, yes, I am fighting with you! You jerk!" she said in raging anger and then slapped Ranma again. "What did I ever do to you?! I never told you or anybody else that I hated you! I really didn't! But now that you've said that you hate me, I can now tell everybody that I hate you! I hate you for being such an ass!" Akane said as she hurt Ranma even more.

"Akane! I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean that! I didn't want you to hear-"

"Duh! You didn't want her to hear what you said because you're just a plain jerk! I thought you and her could be friends. You just had to ruin that friendship with your nasty words. I thought you were okay Ranma, but you're even lower the Kuno! And that's as low as it can get," Ukyo said as she hurt Ranma too.

"Don't hurt Ranma! Akane one bad! Ukyo, why you help girl?!" Shampoo said and stopped Akane and Ukyo from hurting him.

"Shampoo, please don't get into this. This isn't their fault, it is my fault. I shouldn't have said those things. That was completely stupid of me. But Akane, I was just in a bad mood, I'm sorry. I used you to relieve that mood but I promise you, I didn't mean a word of it. I only said that because of something my dad said. I can't hate you. I know you better now and I see that you're even more than what I've thought of before. Don't be mad with me. I wasn't thinking straight when I said that, Akane. Please forgive me," Ranma pleaded.

"I'm not mad," she said then paused for a deep breathe. "I'm way past mad!" Akane continued and left Ranma and everyone else. "I thought he wasn't a jerk. I guess I was wrong. And to think that I was so close in thinking that I like him," she thought and cried to herself at the same time while running.

After that happened, Ukyo had the impulse to follow her bestfriend. Though she was determined to catch her, she failed because Akane was just too fast. She just ended up coming home. "Oh Akane, and to think that I wanted you to like Ranma so I could end up with Ryoga. I'm so selfish. I can't let you be with a guy that makes you cry like that."

Ranma in the other hand back at the cafe was just speechless while the others were disappointed of what he said, his dad and Kuno. Only Shampoo was the only one who felt happy of what happened. She knew that things between Ranma and Akane are now getting worse, and she'll do her best to make things even worse than what had just happened.

"You deserve it, Ranma Saotome." Kuno stated after a while when Akane and Ukyo were gone.

"Fine, fine. I do. Yeah, I was stupid. I'll just go get the pigtailed girl," Ranma said and went upstairs, off to the bathroom so that he could change his form. "This isn't what I really need right now. I shouldn't date Kuno. Though… I just have the urge to torture myself. Why was I so stupid in saying those things!? Infront of Akane even?! I should have never said that! Now Akane hates me. I can't bear with that."

Bathroom

Ranma then went a got a bucket of water and poured it on himself. "Let's go and be tormented by this forever," she said to herself as she looked at her own reflection from the mirror.

Afterwards, she went down, ready to face and ready to date Kuno.

"Hi Kuno," she said to him in a monotone voice.

"Pigtailed girl!!!" Kuno said then hugged him.

"I-can't-take-this!" Ranma said then kicked him off the Café. "Ranma, do this, come on! For Akane," she thought then took a deep breath. "Kuno, honey! I'm so sorry!"

"Nice Ranma, you just crushed a girl's heart and after a minute or two, you date a guy," her father stated, making him sound like an awful person.

"Whatever Pops! You'll see, Akane'll forgive me!" he said then ran off to wherever Kuno may be. She eventually found him, though it took her a while. She really did kick him hard.

"Pigtailed goddess, why… why did you do this to me?" Kuno questioned, so injured that he couldn't even stand up.

"I'm so sorry, Kuno, baby. I just got sooo… surprised when you hugged me. Yeah, that's it! I mean… I acted on an impulse. I didn't want to do this to you. I'm really sorry. But don't worry, I won't let that happen again," she pretended to say, acting all sweet infront of Kuno.

"Oh, thank you!" Kuno said then became completely rejuvenated. Then after, he just hugged Ranma again.

"Bear with it Ranma. Maybe if Akane figures out I did this to torture myself for what stupid thing I've done, she might forgive me. I really hope she does. I didn't really mean anything I said. I think I even meant the opposite of it."

"So, sweetie, why don't we start our date already? Where do you wanna go?" Kuno asked and let go of his hug to her.

"Hmm… what if I reveal my condition to Akane and tell her that I really did date Kuno? Then… Oh yeah! That's a great plan! She would have to forgive me!" Ranma thought to herself. "Uhmm… well, since I overheard that Akane got really mad at Ranma, why don't we go to the place where Akane is. You must really want to comfort her."

"How kind you are, dear pigtailed girl. But are you sure? You might get jealous since I can't take my eyes of Akane whenever she's around. Don't worry though. I'll look at you a lot too. I can't take my eyes of you whenever you're around also."

"It's okay, I can manage," Ranma answered, all disgusted. "Just look at Akane, man, not me. This date is already really disgusting. I don't need it to get even worse."

"Okay, well… we better start looking for Akane. But we shouldn't be too obvious when we see her. And… also… I never thought of saying this but… we shouldn't even be too sweet. It might just make Akane sadder."

"Don't worry, I can definitely do that," Ranma said with a grin. "Yeah, at least this isn't turning into one of my worst nightmares!"

"So, why don't we go off to the park and look for Akane? I usually see her there all sad. Maybe that's where she always goes to when she has problems. We could have our date there," Kuno explained.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Come on, hot shot! Let's go to the park now!" Ranma said and pulled him off to the park.

The Park

Akane was there, as Kuno had presumed. She was crying a lot from what Ranma had said. She knew they weren't really that close of friends, but she never imagined of Ranma really hating her. They knew each other for a few months already and she thought Ranma already got out of the stage of hating her, which apparently, she was in too before. But for her, she was wrong. She thought she was wrong because she really didn't know what Ranma felt over her. It really wasn't hate. It was something important, maybe even the complete of opposite. It was something she'll be really surprised to know.

Suddenly, as she didn't expect, Kuno and girl Ranma came. Of course she felt startled, and she wanted to leave. She really didn't want to see anybody for now. And as for Kuno? She doesn't even like seeing him anytime at all. She just felt that she had to leave the park.

"Akane, hi. We didn't know you would be here. Yes, I am here on a date with my pigtailed queen, but don't think I'll exchange you for her. I love you both equally, okay?" Kuno arrogantly said to her, as usual.

"It's okay Kuno, I was leaving anyway. I didn't want to disturb you and your girlfriend," Akane said, showing that she had no interest to Kuno whatsoever. However, Kuno was really shallow and didn't notice that.

"No, no! Please stay!" Kuno said and pulled Akane's arm.

"What? And why should I stay? I'll just ruin your date."

"Well… if you must really know… It would be double the treat for me if you're here," he said with a smile.

Akane just got irritated and hit him really hard. Kuno then became unconscious. "I'm sorry, I don't like you. Please understand that already. Jeez, why can't you see that?" she said then tried to exit the park.

Ranma just then decided to pull Akane. "Akane, hear me out, please?"

"O… kay?" Akane said weirded out since she still didn't know about Ranma's double personality.

"Okay, I want tell you, first and foremost that I'm very sorry for the things I said before. I didn't mean anything of it. I was stupid, a jerk who couldn't swallow his own pride. Pops was just joking around that I… I liked you or something. I just got too embarrassed and said that he was wrong, that I hated you. But I don't really feel that way about you, also the other one, the one Pops was assuming I felt about you…. I don't feel that way about you too. Just making things clear," she said as she blushed madly and stopped speaking for a while. "I... I just think of you as a very good friend. I like you as my friend," she continued.

"Ranma, Ranma Saotome, is that you? Are you dressed as the girl Ranma from the cafe?" Akane questioned, totally perplexed on why Kuno's date, the waitress from Cat Cafe just apologized to her.

"No, I'm not dressed as a girl. I am Ranma, Ranma Saotome! And what you see now is me as a girl, though, I just want to clear up that I'm not gay."

"Then what are you?"

"You see, when poured with warm water, I change back to a guy. My dad and I fell in a spring at China, and that caused us to change forms whenever dosed with normal water," Ranma said then searched for warm water.

Out of the blue, Ranma's father came as a panda, holding a kettle of hot water. He then poured the water to his son and afterwards left.

"Thanks Pops!" Ranma told his dad as he ran away.

"Wow, Ranma, you really are Ranma, the waitress at the Café! I can't believe it! But, that doesn't do anything for what I'm feeling. I'm still mad at you. Really weirded out of your condition, but I don't care. You still offended my feelings. Either you're a girl or not, I hate you! Seeing your guy form, I hate you even more!" Akane said as she kicked Ranma to the small pond (for the kids to play in) at the park.

"Why'd you do that Ranma? I said I'm sorry already! I didn't mean to tell you that I hated you! I told you, I didn't want to swallow my pride! I don't hate you. I don't even like you in any intimate way. I just think of you as a friend! Pops was just messing with me-"

"Even though Ranma! I thought we were okay already. But, oh-no, you just had to scream out loud that you hated me. Whatever may be the case, that doesn't excuse you of telling him that you hate me," Akane explained.

"I know! I know! That's why I really dated Kuno, even though I was really planning to ditch him in our date. I dated him so I could show you that I'm really sorry of what I've done! I know, I was supposed to hide you my real condition since I'm really ashamed of becoming a girl, but I guess you should know. If that's the only way you could forgive me, you might as well know my secret. Akane, please, forgive me? Come on please? Don't you see how tortured I am dating Kuno!? Just imagine if you're the one dating him. Isn't it horrifying? So please, please, accept my apology," Ranma explained.

"Okay. I'll forgive you. IF..."

"If what?! Anything! Akane, I can't bear you being angry with me."

"Why is that?"

"Uh…. Because… Because!" Ranma said, blushing madly. "Uhmm… Because you're my partner," she covered up.

"Okay, fine, whatever. Anyway, I'll forgive you, in two conditions."

"Tell me what they are and I'll do them!"

"Okay, one, you'll be forgiven if you stay as a girl for about… a month or two. Actually, hmm… you can only change into a guy when I permit you to do so. I'm still pretty mad at your guy appearance."

"What?!" she emoted, all surprised.

"You don't like that?" Akane said, a little bit angry of Ranma's reaction. "She said she was going to do anything. Not only a jerk, but also a liar. Hmfh!"

"Fine, fine, I'll do it. But what's the other condition? Isn't the first one enough for you?" Ranma questioned.

"Don't question my condition. And no, it isn't enough for me. What you said really hurt me. I cried because of it. I don't usually cry, for all you know. Anyway, I don't want to describe how I felt anymore. So here's the second condition… Hmm… Aha! You should never ever say those words to me or to anyone ever again."

"Promise! I accept!" Ranma said and shook Akane's hand.

"Good," she said with a nod.

"Thank you very much, Akane," Ranma said then hugged her.

Akane just blushed since she now knew that Ranma really was a guy deep inside. Besides, she has never been hugged by a guy who she was really close too, except her boyfriend Ryoga, of course.

After a while, Ranma realized what she had just done. She blushed madly since she acted without thinking. "I'm so sorry. When I'm a girl, I think I tend to be too emotional," she explained and let go of her hug to Akane.

"It's okay. So anyway… wait! I just remembered. How about school? You should still be my partner if you're a girl. But… what do we say to everybody when your guy self doesn't go to school for a while?" Akane questioned.

"We'll just tell everybody I went to someplace faraway for quite a while."

"Okay. Well… I guess that might work. Let's just get home already. Everybody must be pretty worried about us."

"Yeah, they must be. It's getting late already."

Akane then started to walk off to home.

"Hey Akane!" Ranma called off, still standing at the same place she was, not moving an inch.

"What's wrong? You said we should go home already, that it's late already."

"Can we pretend that this didn't happen? I don't want our friendship… or whatever we have to be ruined. Besides, I don't want Ukyo threatening me, and also Ryoga. They seem like nice people, and I don't want them being angry with me," Ranma explained.

"Yeah, I guess we can. Come on, Shampoo and Cologne must be worried that you're not yet home. You're dad too," Akane said as she went to Ranma and pulled him.

"Yeah, okay, let's go. Race you?" she suggested.

"Sure, but you should take me home. Let's race off to the dojo. You may still look like a girl, but you have to act like a gentleman for all the things you've done wrong for today, got it? Okay, let's go!" she said then suddenly ran before Ranma.

"Hey! There wasn't any go signal yet! Come on! Get back here! That's unfair! Well, that's how you want to play it huh? Dirty? Fine!" Ranma said then ran really fast to catch her. She then carried her off at her back.

"What are you doing, Ranma?!" Akane questioned, blushing in crimson.

"Well, I believe by doing this, I'm winning. I'm infront of you, ain't I?" she said as a joke.

"Let go of me!" Akane said and jumped off her grip.

"Fine, now it's fair!" Ranma said as she and Akane ran again, now both at the same rate.

Back at the Park

Kuno finally gained consciousness. Only to know that it was late in the evening and that his date had left him already. "Pigtailed girl? Akane? Where are you?!"

A/N: Well, that was the chap. That was all I can do, I'm sorry if most of you didn't like it. I just didn't like Ranma having some intimate moments with Kuno. I mean, hello? They're both guys. Besides, I'm against yaoi and yuri. Anyway, please R&R. I know I haven't updated for quite a while, and this must not be what you guys were expecting, but I did my best. I'm open for criticisms and any other kind of remarks. Just be honest and at the same time, respectful. Think of yourself as the writer who's going to receive the review. Please no offensive flames okay? BTW, for the next chap, it'll be about Ryoga's reaction to what Ranma said to Akane. Ukyo will tell her. Yep, yep, more things to come. Though, all of you can still suggest. You guys can suggest about Shampoo and Ranma and how they got together (in detail). You can also suggest some things about Ukyo and her past of her dad (in detail also). I do have some ideas, but you guys may have better ideas so I would love to hear them. Well anyway, bye to you guys for now!