Urusei Ranma

by kurenai ryu

We all know the story of how Ataru was chosen to go against Lum in that game of tag for the fate of the world, but what if fate had chosen another? What if a certain Wild Horse was chosen instead? Read and let us explore yet another interesting corner of the Ranmaverse in this tale of love, martial arts, and misunderstandings.

7. Skating Battle: Love On Ice

Skating Battle: Love On Ice!

Ranma, Lum and Akane where currently at Ranma's house, planning for the big match against Mikado and his partner Azusa. While Nodoka still didn't trust the Tendo girl after what happened when they first met, she was willing to let that personal grudge go seeing as she and her son now had a common enemy. But she was quick to warn the blue haired girl that if she tried anything she would find herself on the other end of Nodoka's sword.

"I can take those two on my own. I don't need a partner." Ranma said as he rubbed a sore spot on his cheek from one of his numerous falls on the ice. Nodoka and the other girls sighed at Ranma's stubbornness.

"Ranma, sweatheart," Nodoka said. "While I'm sure you can best them off the ice, on the ice they have a huge advantage. Having a partner that can skate would be your best chance at winning this match."

Ranma sighed. He hated to admit his own faults, but he knew it was hopeless to argue with his own mother. He sighed as Lum looked to her darling with a determined look on her face.

"Darling, let me be your partner. I'd love to show those two jerks one for! Plus, with my lightning we'll beat them for sure!" She said enthusiastically. Ranma sighed as he looked to his alien girlfriend.

"Thanks Lum. But I need to win this fair and square. I don't want that creep saying I only beat him thanks to your powers. I need to teach him a lesson with my own bare hands."

Akane sighed. Ranma was once again taking the hard way about this challenge. Of course, she did understand, a creep like Mikado needed to learn his lesson the hard way so that MAYBE he'd learn not to keep trying his stupid womanizing crap.

"Lum, I'll admit you're a great skater, but just how good are you at fighting without your powers?" She asked the alien teen. Lum blushed and looked away sheepishly.

"Um...not very well." She admitted. "In all honesty, I'm not exactly very strong. That was more my friend Benten's department."

Akane sighed. It looked like she didn't have much of a choice, and to be honest, she wanted to be one of the people to beat those two punks up anyway.

"Ranma, let me be your partner. I can skate and I'll help you teach those two jerks a lesson they'll never forget." She cried out. Nodoka looked at the girl in a way that made her shrink back a bit.

"I'm not all that sure I want MY son partnering with ANYONE from the Tendo family after all the trouble you've put him through." She said, her voice lined with ice. Akane felt like she just shrunk about three sizes.

Ranma sighed. Sure he was still a little mad at Akane for the whole incident at her house when his mom came to visit, but the thing was he had pretty much moved on from it. Was he happy? Heck no, but at the moment, he couldn't stand what Mikado did to her. He didn't love her in any way, but his sense of duty as a man and a martial artist told him that he couldn't just let Mikado get away with stealing a girls first kiss against her will. Even if that girl was Akane.

"Mom, I get that you're still mad at her, so am I. But if I do need a partner that can fight and skate to take on those two, I think Akane may be my best option." He said.

Akane blushed at Ranma's words. She was surprised that he would stand up for her not once but twice in the same day. She didn't know he could be this nice when he wanted to be. Maybe this was the reason Lum liked him so much? Nodoka sighed, her son truly was manly to say such things and be willing to forgive someone who wanted to kill not too long ago. Not to mention fight to avenge her honor.

"Well, I guess you're right. But still, you really do need to learn to skate son if you want to handle those two in a fight on their home turf." She said, slightly deflating Ranma's ego.

He sighed, she was right. But was one week really enough time to learn how to skate so he could take on Mikado? Just then, Lum snapped her fingers and smiled.

"Hang on! Maybe I can help with that!" She said as she flew off to her spaceship.

"I've got an idea! Just wait till morning, ok!?" She said as she rushed to her lab and started working on something that she was sure was going to help her darling beat that womanizing playboy Mikado. Akane looked up at Lum's retreating form with a questioning look on her face.

"Um, just what is she doing up there?" She asked. Ranma and Nodoka just shrugged.

"To be honest, there's no telling." Ranma said with a shrug. "But she said something similar when she made that ray gun that cured me of my curse so...Who knows?"

After that, the two Saotomes and Akane started making plans for training and teaching Ranma how to skate. The next day, Ranma was getting ready for his day when Lum came flying into his room once again. Ranma was so used to it by now that he hardly took notice, that is, until Lum slapped some weird looking roller skates onto his feet.

"What the!?" Ranma said as Lum finished locking the skates onto his feet.

"Lum!? What the heck!?" He said as he tried to yank off the skates, only to find that they were stuck on tight! He pulled and yanked but they wouldn't come off. He gave up and looked up at his alien girlfriend and gave her a half-hearted glare.

"Lum...what's the idea?" He said. Lum just floated in the air and smiled at her darling.

"These ae what I was working on last night. These skates are guaranteed to help you learn how to skate so you can beat those two creeps." She said with an honest smile. Ranma sighed.

"And just how are these skates any different than any other skates?" He asked.

"Simple, these skates have an AI that is programed to not allow you to take them off until you become a decent skater." She said with a big smile.

"Oh well in that case...wait...WHAT!?" He cried out in shock! He desperately tried once again to pry the skates off of his feet but try as he might, they really wouldn't come off. He panted for breath as he found that he was stuck with them.

"Lum, I'm going to get you!" He said as he lunged at her only to fall flat onto his face. Lum just giggled.

"Sorry Darling, but the only way you're going to you're to get me is to learn how to skate. Come and get me!" She said in a sing-song voice as she flew out the window.

Ranma growled and tried to go after her, but he kept falling down again and again.

"This is going to be a very LONG week." He said to himself as he tried to glide to the door. Needless to say, his mother was shocked at what she was seeing.

"Ranma! I know you want to get better faster, but no skating in the house." She said.

"Believe me, I don't want to skate in the house. But LUM put these things on my feet and now I can't get them off!" He said and tried to pull them off to prove his point.

Nodoka went wide eyed and tried to help her son pull off the skates. But she was finding it to be just as fruitless an endeavor as her son did. Lum walked in, wondering what was keeping her darling so long, and saw him and his mother trying to pull off the skates she put on his feet. She sighed.

"Look mother-in-law, it's like I told Darling, you can't get those skates off until he becomes a decent enough skater. The only way for that to happen is for him to start skating." She said. Nodoka sighed. Lum certainly meant well, but she was starting to wonder about her sense of reasoning.

"Well son, I guess you'll just have to starting skating everywhere until you get it down." She said. Ranma sighed.

"Lum, when I get the hang of these skates, you are in SO much trouble."

Later that day, Akane was waiting at the skating rink for Ranma and Lum. She was starting to get really annoyed with how long it was taking those two to get there. Then she heard what sounded like Lum's voice, the strange thing was that it sounded like she was coaching someone.

Akane turned to look in the direction of the voice and sure enough, there was Lum...coaching a roller skating Ranma down the road. Akane had to do a double take.

"What the?" She said.

"Come on Darling! You're almost there and you only fell down 10 times!" She said. Ranma growled at the alien Oni as he tried to keep his balance on the skates he was forced to wear.

"Not! Helping! Lum!" He said as he tried to keep his balance.

He just couldn't get it. Why was he able to keep his balance on narrow things like fences and tight ropes but was unable to keep his balance on these stupid skates!? As he and Lum got closer to the rink entrance, they saw Akane and waved to her.

"Hey AkanNNEEE!" He cried as he lost his balance and fell on top of Lum.

Akane winced as she watched the two tumbled into a heap right in front of her. She gasped as she saw that Ranma ended up landing on top of Lum. Right in between her breasts!

"Can't you go ONE DAY without doing something perverted with your girlfriend!?" She screamed in rage at the sight.

Ranma shook his head as he realized just where he was! His eyes shot open wide as he tried to get up and out of his girlfriend's boobs. Lum saw where Ranma's face was and grinned evilly. She grabbed Ranma and pulled him even closer, burying him in her ample bosom.

"Oh Darling, if you wanted to cuddle all you had to do was ask." She said seductively. Ranma struggled to break free.

"LUM! I CAN'T BREATH! LET ME GO!" He screamed from within her cleavage. Lum pouted and let him go. Ranma breathed as he struggled to get back to his feet.

"Lum, couldn't you have waited to put these stupid things on AFTER I got to the skating rink?" He asked. Lum shrugged.

"Sorry Darling. I just wanted to give you as much of a head start as I could. I was only trying to help." She said, looking somewhat ashamed. Try as he might, Ranma really couldn't stay mad at the cute alien for very long.

"Oh, ok. Just, do me a favor and help me get in." He said.

"Uh, hello! Earth to pigtailed boy! This is an ICE-skating rink, not a roller-skating rink. You can't skate on ice with those." Akane pointed out.

"Don't worry." Lum said, reaching into her bag and pulling out a pair of ice-skating blades. "They're interchangeable."

"So, those skates are something you built that won't come off until Ranma is a good skater?" Akane asked after they got Ranma inside and helped him switch out the wheels on his skates for the blades. Lum nodded with a smile.

"Yep. I figured that if darling could skate all the time, he'd get better at it a lot faster so he could kick that kiss stealing playboy's butt!" She said as she and Akane started skating out onto the ice. Akane was shocked at the alien girl's ingenuity. First she creates a gun that cures Ranma of his curse and now she builds a pair of skates that basically force Ranma to learn if he ever wants them off? A little much if you asked her, but none the less, Lum was really a smart girl.

"AAAAHHHHH!" Her thoughts where cut off as she and Lum turned to see Ranma crash once again on the ice. She sighed. Overkill or not, Ranma really needed all the practice he could get if he was going to beat a pair of professional ice-skaters.

When the day was done Ranma was more sore than he had been in a long time. All the constant crashing and slipping and falling had really taken their toll on him. At least Lum was helping to guide him along on the way back home. But still, he had a long way to go before he could skate against Mikado.

But Ranma didn't despair, he didn't have the option to. Akane may not be his fiancé or friend, but it just wasn't in Ranma's nature to let a girl cry like that after being used by a jerk off like Mikado. And besides, he didn't really have to be AS good as Mikado, he wasn't trying out for the Ice Capades or anything. He just needed to be good enough to skate around the ice and fight. Everything else was just filler.

Days went by and Ranma's 'All or Nothing Ice-Skating Training' as he and the others had put it, went on and on. Everyday it was the same thing: Wake up, skate to the bathroom, skate downstairs, skate to school, skate to classes, skate to the rink, and deal with Ataru and the other idiots as he skated.

To many it seemed like he had lost his mind, but in all honesty, Ranma was starting to get better at it as the days went by. By day four, he had gone halfway through his day without falling to the ground. And as for his ice rink training, he was managing to keep up with Lum and Akane.

Ranma grinned, at the rate he was going he'd be able to keep up with those two skaters in no time. Lum was smiling at her darling. He may not have liked how she chose to help him out, but the results were starting to show. The only thing she didn't like was the fact that she wouldn't be the one skating with Ranma during the match.

Akane had argued that she should be the one to fight with him, and she had some good reasons too. For one, she wanted to be in on the beat down of the Golden Pair because Mikado stole her first kiss. She wanted to get a chance to pound the creep for what he did to her.

Second, Ranma wanted to win this fight fair and square. Lum, while having a lot of power, she sadly had no actual fighting skills outside of using her lightning. Sure one blast of her lightning could end the fight, but that wasn't how Ranma wanted to teach these creeps a lesson. They had to learn through getting beaten in a fair fight.

So sadly, Akane was going to be Ranma's partner. Nodoka wasn't happy about it either, considering how she tried to force Ranma to go through with the seppuku pledge. Akane had to walk on eggshells with the older woman, scared to death of what she might do if she did anything to incite her rath even further.

Finally, the day of the big match came and the whole of Nerima was excited for the big battle. Mikado and Azusa were just finishing getting dressed up for their big battle against who they thought would be easy pickings. Mikado was already imagining kissing Lum, the girl who would be his 1000th kiss. As for Azusa, she was fawning over everything she thought was cute.

Suddenly, a red blur streaked past them! Knocking them off balance as they were enjoying their fans screaming out cheers at them. As they looked towards whatever it was that knocked them down, they saw that it was none other than RANMA!

"WHAT THE!?" They both called out in shock. Ranma, who was dressed in a red Chinese shirt with a dragon circling across it and black cuffs at the end of the sleeves, grinned at the two of them like a cat about to pounce on its prey.

"Hey jerk offs. Miss me? I missed you guys. But my aim's getting better!" He said in a cocky tone of voice. Akane, who had just skated out dressed in Chinese styled, somewhat revealing unitard, shook her head as she skated towards the pigtailed boy.

"Seriously? Was that REALLY necessary?" She asked. Ranma chuckled at her.

"Yes. Trust me, it was necessary."

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Came the voice of the announcer. "Challengers who will be taking on the so far undefeated Golden Pair! Ranma and Akane!"

A mix of cheers and boos were thrown at the pair as Akane blushed and tried to hide behind Ranma who was just bowing at the crowd, not really caring if they were on his side or not. Azusa was screaming at the pair, mostly at Ranma for knocking her down in front of all the people. Mikado on the other hand, was fuming!

'What the Hell?' He thought. 'How on Earth did that fool learn to skate so quickly!? Just last week he could barely skate at all! Now he's skating well enough to surprise attack ME!?'

Ranma grinned at the fancy pair as he prepared to FINALLY take down the guy who had managed to piss him off even more than the Kunos or Ataru. As he finished readying himself, Akane tapped him on the shoulder.

"Ranma?" She said. "Are you sure we can win this?"

Ranma smirked as he clapped her on the shoulder.

"Don't sweat it Akane." He said. "We've got this. Just let me take care of pretty boy over there and little miss kleptomaniac is all yours."

"HEY! How come YOU get to pound Mikado!? I'm the one with a grudge against him! He didn't kiss you!" She said. Ranma took a deep breath and adopted a serious face.

"Look Akane, Mikado is the better fighter between the two of them. It only makes sense for me to take him on. And don't worry about Azusa over there. She's fast and agile, but she's easy to take care of. All you need to do is get her to lose concentration, which shouldn't be to hard to do, and she'll be an open target."

Akane saw the serious look in Ranma's eye and knew that when he gets that serious look in his eye, there was no talking him out of it. Although, his advice did sound good enough to follow. Azusa lost all sense of what was going on around her once she saw or heard of something that she thought of as cute. If she played to that, she could lay the little pink bitch out FLAT!

"YAY! DARLING!" Came the voice of Lum...who was in a cheerleading outfit!? Ranma and Akane nearly fell to the ice in shock as Lum jumped around waving pom-poms and cheering for her beloved boyfriend.

"GO GO DARLING! Kick their sorry butts! Whoo-HOOO!" She cried as she bounced around in the air, not seeming to be cold at all.

"How is it that she can stand to be this close to the ice and not be cold!?" Akane asked. Ranma shrugged as he managed to struggle back to his feet.

"I think one time she said something about her outfit having some kind of gizmos that regulate heat or something." He said.

About a minute later, the buzzer sounded, and the long-awaited battle began! Ranma dashed off and tried to ram into Mikado. So surprised by the sudden move, the pretty boy split from his partner and dashed off to avoid the blows that he knew that Ranma was planning on raining down on him. As for Azusa, she dashed off and avoided Akane as easily as if she was avoiding bumping into people on the street.

Akane was seething mad as the smaller girl made all kinds of remarks about the angry tomboy. Akane may have begun the long road of making peace with Ranma, but she was still a slave to her anger. Azusa whipped past the angry girl and knocked her around like a rag doll. Akane glared at the ice princess as she skated around the girl.

"Hahahahaha! Wow, no wonder Charlotte wants to go home with Azusa! You're too slow and ugly for her. I can't figure out why Mikado wanted to kiss you but oh well." She said as she skated around Akane all over again.

Akane was seething with rage but then she remembered a conversation she had with Nodoka when she and Ranma agreed to work together for this duel. She remembered how the older woman had told her, in a nicer way, the same thing that Ranma had been telling her and the Nodoka herself had said when Ranma was taken away from the Tendo home.

That Akane relied too much on her anger. At first, she protested, but one look from Nodoka made her anger turn to nothing but a bucket of ice water. Nodoka went on to tell her that she understood that what happened with Kuno was enough to make anyone mad, but her lashing out at any man was only making her weaker by extension. As proof, she and Ranma sparred, and he kept the insults coming. Every one of his insults made her lose her composer and her form turned from competent to sloppy and more predictable.

She tried to take a breath and calm herself down, and then the comment about the pig, who was really Ryoga, made her remember Ranma's advice. She smirked and pointed towards the opposite side of the rink.

"Look! It's Charlotte and she's got those horns you wanted so much!" Akane cried out. This had the desired effect of making Azusa lose focus and turn to the direction she was pointing.

"CHARLOTTE!" She cried. But she saw no piglet there. She kept looking only to feel something hit her HARD in the back. Akane was grinning madly at the downed, spoiled little girl she had FINALLY landed a hit on.

"HA! Take that you little brat!" She said. Azusa shook the stars out of her eyes and glared at Akane.

"Hey! No fair! You tricked Azusa! You big meanie!" She said as she got up and attacked again.

As for Ranma and Mikado, their fight was a MUCH different story. Mikado thought that he would have the same advantage that he enjoyed last week against the pigtailed martial artist, but he was proven wrong. Ranma was skating right next to him and lashed out with a backfist that he managed to block but wasn't expecting the young man to stick his leg out and trip the pro skater up, causing him to fall.

Mikado got back to his feet and turned to face Ranma who was coming at him with a knee strike aimed right for his face. Mikado spun around it and tried to lash out with a kick, only for Ranma to spin and block it, moving in close to try and do a take down on the other fighter. Mikado panicked and did a back flip kick that would have sliced Ranma's face had he not let go and stumbled back to avoid the strike.

"FOUL!" Came the announcer. "Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time ever, Mikado Sanzenin has been given a foul for doing a technique that involved the blades of his skates!"

Gasps came form the crowd as they couldn't believe what they had just heard. Mikado, also, froze in place. A foul? HIM!? NEVER! He was so caught up in this shock that he didn't notice Ranma skate right up to him and let loose a barrage of punches that once again sent him to the ice.

"Heh, not so tough now, are ya Ice boy?" Ranma asked.

Mikado growled. NO ONE made a fool out of him! He skated straight at Ranma let loose an assault of his own. To his surprise, Ranma was managing to skate well enough to keep up with him. His perfect and graceful moves were not helping him though, they left him wide open for Ranma to strike out with well-placed attacks that took advantage of his many openings.

'Man, this is too easy.' Ranma thought to himself. 'All his flashy skating moves may confuse other opponents, but once you realize that they leave him unable to defend certain spots, you just have to focus and strike! His style is too showy and not enough focus on practicality outside his element.'

Mikado too was starting to realize his shortcomings as well. Ranma may not be breaking any rules, but he wasn't fighting by MIKADO'S rules. His skating was good for an amateur, but he wasn't skating like a figure skater! And that's what this WAS! Then he realized, Ranma may be better at skating NOW, but he wasn't anywhere NEAR his level. Ranma was just skating well enough to not fall all over the place like last time and the rest he was treating this like some common street fight!

This man had absolutely NO CLASS! And as the rising star of the Martial Arts Figure Skating world, he could NOT allow this MONGREL to beat him! What made it even worse was the fact that the beautiful Lum was cheering for this pigtailed brute instead of HIM! He gritt his teeth and decided that it was time to take the kid gloves off. As much as he hated to do it, he had to discard the flare and style that had made so many women fall in love with him and go back to his martial roots as a Karate fighter and take this buffoon down.

He skated back towards Ranma and lashed out with well-timed punches and roundhouse kicks that Ranma either blocked or dodged as he struck out with strikes of his own. Ranma punched, Mikado blocked and countered with a knee to the chest. Ranma blocked this and struck with a double punch to Mikado's gut and tried to follow up with a flying knee but Mikado managed to duck and do a sweep kick that took Ranma down to the ice for once.

Ranma growled and tried to do a sweep of his own but Mikado nimbly avoided the attack and skated away to try and put on a show for his public so he could get back in his groove. Ranma was really starting to get annoyed by this guy and his flippant attitude.

"Get back here you show off creep!" Ranma said as he got back to his feet and skated after Mikado.

Mikado was enjoying hearing cheers form the girls in the crowd but then he heard Ranma coming at him and started to skate around like the showoff figure skater he was, hoping to have some fun toying with Ranma before he knocked him out and claimed Lum's lips for his own. But that would be easier said than done.

Ranma skated straight for the pretty boy and tried to land a few punches on him. Mikado avoided the strikes and tried to be flashy about it. But Ranma grinned and after shooting out a few feints, he threw out a verbal feint that he was sure would get this guy's attention.

"Lum-chan! Why are you flying over the rink like that!?" He shouted and pointed behind Mikado.

"Huh!? Lum-chan!?" He said, turning around only to get hit with over three dozen blows in a split second.

"Sucker!" Ranma shouted as Mikado went flying right into Azusa, who was just by Akane in the same direction that Ranma knocked Mikado into. The two skaters crashed right into each other, causing mixed reactions from the crowd, ranging from shock to straight up laughter.

"GRRRRR! YOU IDIOT! Watch where you're going!" Mikado shouted at his partner.

"YOU WATCH IT! YOU BUMPED INTO AZUSA! APOLOGISE!" She shouted back. Ranma and Akane skated next to each other and just tilted their heads at the two they were fighting against.

"Is it me, or do those two remind you a little of us?" Ranma asked Akane. She nodded.

"Yeah, only I think they hate each other more than we ever did."

Mikado took a breath and composed himself. He was getting tired of this pigtailed upstart making a fool of him at his own rink. What's more, Lum was STILL cheering for that Kung Fu movie wannabe even more!

"Yeah Darling! That's the way! Kick that creeps butt! Wahoo! Take him down! And good job to you too Akane!" Lum cheered as she danced in the air and waved her pom-poms. All the men in the rink had their eyes drawn to just how cute the alien looked as she cheered for her boyfriend. All they could do was curse Ranma for having such a cutie for a girlfriend. But they WERE happy that Ranma was sticking it to that pompous punk Mikado!

"YEAH! Get him Saotome!"

"Yeah! Show that ice-dancing jerk who's boss!"

Mikado growled at this, it was time to end this farce! He turned to Azusa and whispered in her ear his strategy. She nodded and the two of them got back to their feet and skated towards Ranma and Akane.

"Here they come! Ready to finish this, tomboy?" Ranma asked Akane as he got into a ready stance. Akane smiled and also got ready.

"Yeah. Let's finish them off!" She said as they skated towards their foes. But as they got close to them, the two pro skaters switched opponents and skated right up to them.

"Hello there~." Azusa said as she cuddled up to Ranma.

"What the!?" He said as he slipped his arm out of her grasp and bopped her on the head. "Hands off lady! You ain't my type!"

"Owie! You hit Azusa! You big meanie!" Azusa said.

As for Akane, Mikado swept Akane off her feet and tried to be his usual Casanova self. But Akane just kneed him in the crotch.

"Hands OFF YOU PERVERT!" She screamed. "I've already fallen for this once, I'm not falling for it again."

Mikado did his best to shake off the pain he was feeling from the blow to his 'little Mikado', and grabbed hold of Akane and skated towards Azusa as she managed to sweep kick Ranma to the ground while he was being pelted with stuff from Azusa's all male fan club. As he tried to get back to his feet, Azusa grabbed his ankles and dragged him off to Mikado, who threw Akane towards Ranma as he managed to get to his feet.

"What the?" Ranma asked as he and Akane crashed into each other.

"Huh? WHAAAA!?" Akane cried as Mikado and Azusa started to use their final attack.

As Mikado grabbed Azusa's ankles, and she was still hanging onto Ranma's, he started spinning in place like he did during his Dance of Death move. As he started to pick up speed, he started to spin Azusa, Ranma and Akane around like they were a string tied to a spinning top.

"Oh no folks! This is it! The final attack of the Golden Pair What has spelled the end of every couple they've competed against! The GOODBYE WHIRL!" The announcer said.

"The what!?" Lum said as she looked back to the fight. From the name of the move and the looks of what was going on down in the rink, she was starting to get really worried about her darling and Akane.

Down in the rink, Ranma held onto Akane as they were spun around at high speeds. This was starting to get bad, they had these two on the run, and now they were getting spun around like they were on a super-fast merry-go-round.

"AAAAHHHH!" Akane screamed as she held onto Ranma for dear life. Mikado and Azusa laughed at the predicament that their opponents now found themselves in.

"HA HA HA HA! Now do you see, you pigtailed buffoon! This is why we are also called the couple destroyers! This is our ultimate finishing move, The Goodbye Whirl! The ultimate couple ending technique! We'll just keep spinning and spinning nonstop! And since your hands are holding onto your partner, you can't fight back to escape!" Mikado cried out in pure delight at the plight Ranma was in.

Ranma gritted his teeth. As much as he hated to admit it, Mikado was right. And as much as he REALLY didn't exactly see Akane as a real friend, he also couldn't just let her go in a situation like this. If he did let her go, at the speed they were going, Akane would have most of her bones probably broken when she hit whatever she crashed into. If their roles were reversed, he could right himself in the air and survive the crash, but since Akane didn't have his conditioning or ariel skills, she'd be toast!

"YOU JERKS!" Ranma shouted.

Akane looked between Ranma and the Golden Pair as she and Ranma held onto each other. This sucked! How did she end up being the dead weight in this fight!? She was a martial artist and the heiress to the Tendo school of martial arts, and yet she was being treated like...like...a damn liability to hold Ranma back!

Then she realized, between the two of them, Ranma really was the better fighter. He was knocking Mikado around while she had to struggle to keep up with Azusa. How could she be this pathetic! If Ranma had his hands free, he could end those two on his own. She gulped. She knew what she had to do, but she didn't like it.

"Ranma! Let me go!" She said.

"Are you CRAZY!?" Ranma shouted back at her. "If I let you go, you'll get flattened at 200 miles per hour against a wall! You might get killed!"

"And you can't fight back if you're holding onto me! Just let go and you can beat them!" She shouted back.

But Ranma wasn't having it. Sure, Akane may have almost got him killed, but getting HER killed like this just didn't sit right with him. He had to find a way out of this jam. If he could only get Azusa to let him go then he could use his mastery of acrobatics to save both himself and Akane. But despite the kleptomaniac girl's small frame, she had one mean death grip!

He needed a plan and fast! He couldn't hold onto Akane forever, and he wasn't sure if Lum could fly fast enough to catch her. Plus with the speed they were going, there was no telling WHERE Akane would go flying if he let her go. He could use his skates to cut Azusa's wrists to force her to let him go, but not only would that get him a foul like it did for Mikado, but the girl could bleed out! So, no dice on that one. Then, Ranma got an idea, he only hoped that it worked.

"Akane! When I tell you to, do a double knee strike!" He said to her. Akane looked at him in confusion.

"What!?"

"Trust me!" He said.

And with that, Ranma used whatever strength he could muster in both his arms and his core muscles to try and swing Akane in an up and down motion. With one last arch of his back, Ranma swung Akane up and then crunched forward to swing Akane back down in an arc that sent her right towards Azusa!

"NOW!" He said and Akane smirked, finally seeing what Ranma was planning.

She swung her legs back and as she came up to Azusa, she struck out with a double knee strike to Azusa's gut! The surprise blow caused the pink wearing girl to let go of her death grip and Ranma and Akane went flying!

As Akane screamed, Ranma flipped in the air, took Akane into a bridal carry and crashed feet first into a wall. Mikado saw what happened and was so caught off guard at the strange tactic that he lost his focus and tripped over himself and accidentally threw his partner straight into another wall.

As the crowd gasped at what had just happened, Azusa slid to the icy ground and pried herself off the wall. She whined in pain as she felt her face. It had been smashed in and her nose was broken, and as she slid her tongue along her mouth, she found that she was also missing her teeth! She growled, then screamed as she saw her messed up reflection in the ice.

"MY FACE!" She screamed as she looked towards Ranma and Akane. "YOU BASTARDS! YOU MESSED UP MY PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL FACCCCEEEEEEEEE! I'LL KILL..."

She didn't get a chance to finish as a slab of the rink's wall fell and conked her on the head, sending her unconscious. Ranma and Akane looked up and right above Azusa was Lum, floating around with her hands behind her back and whistling innocently.

"Nice one Lum! And good plan Ranma! Now let's get that punk Mikado!" She said as she got ready to skate after the downed pretty boy.

"Uhhhhh...One small problem Akane..." Ranma said. Akane stopped in her tracks and turned to see Ranma, the blades of his skates stuck in the wall and him being stuck in his landing position as a result.

"Uh oh..." Akane trailed off as she skated towards Ranma and tried to pull him free.

"Nice job Professor! Any other bright ideas!?" She said in frustration.

"Hey! At least we got out of that spin of theirs! I didn't see you coming up with any good ideas!"

"Come on guys! Hurry! Mikado's starting to get back up!" Lum shouted at the two of them.

Ranma panicked. As long as he was stuck in the wall he couldn't fight back. And knowing Mikado, he had plenty of dirty tricks to handle Akane. And he couldn't get himself free of the skates just yet, he needed to think of another plan.

'Man. Of all the times for Akane not to have her usual gorilla...strength...that...can send me FLYING!' Ranma thought to himself as he smiled.

"Come on you useless tomboy!" He started shouting at Akane, hoping that this plan would work.

"Can't you do anything!?"

"Excuse ME!?" Akane retorted as her grip tightened.

"Not only are you uncute and too dang macho to be a girl, but you're USELESS in a fight!" He shouted back as Akane started growling like a mad woman and Ranma felt himself getting pulled free of the wall.

"I mean seriously! How can ANYBODY expect a guy to fall for a boneheaded, uncute, unsexy, can't cook, goon like you!? I'd tell you to marry yourself but you'd probably poison yourself with that toxic cow crap you call cooking." He said. And THAT DID IT!

"RANMA NO..." Akane said as she braced her arms and tensed up her muscles.

'Man the torpedoes!' Ranma thought to himself as he started to grin.

"BAKA!" Akane shouted at the top of her lungs as she yanked Ranma free with all her might and hurled him straight at the recovering Mikado.

"THANKS, AKANE!" Ranma shouted as he prepared to deal the final blow to this ice-skating Cassanova.

Mikado shook his head as he struggled to get back up to his feet. How could that IDIOT Azusa let go of those two!? Their unbeatable finishing move, BEATEN by some NOBODY! As he heard what sounded like the voices of Ranma and Akane, he turned his head and paled and gasped as he saw a grinning Ranma shaped torpedo heading straight towards him at breakneck speed!

"Oh no!" Was all he had time to say as Ranma CRASHED into him and carried him right into the other side of the ring. As Ranma landed in front of the pinned to the wall ice-skater, he smirked even more.

"Say Mikado? Ever see that movie 'Ip-Man'?" He asked.

Before his foe could answer, Ranma started firing off a rapid barrage of Wing Chun styled attacks at the boy. Ranma struck out with punches, chops, palm strikes, elbows and sometimes even knees to the womanizing foe he had grown to hate so much. After seeing what Ranma had aimed to do by making her mad, Akane couldn't help but wince as she saw the beating that Ranma was giving the other boy.

Mikado tried desperately to defend himself, but it was no use. Every time he got his hands up to protect his face, Ranma grabbed him by the wrist and either parried it down or struck it with an elbow strike meant to break it at his own elbow before going back to his barrage of righteous attacks. After another few seconds of wailing away at the poor creep, Ranma ended his attack with one last haymaker that sent Mikado to the ground. His face now a swollen mass of black eyes, missing teeth, a broken nose, dark bruises and a few trickles of blood.

The whole audience gasped as they saw Ranma demolish Mikado like he was a chump. Akane almost felt sorry for the creep and so did Lum, but the fact that he tried to steal a kiss from her quilled that sympathy. And so did the feeling of two arms wrapping around her waist and a PAINFULLY familiar voice ringing in her ears.

"Hey there Lum baby!" Came the voice of non-other than the hated Ataru Moroboshi.

"WWWWAAAAHHHHHHH!" Lum cried out, catching Ranma and Akane's attention.

"Say, why don't we ditch this place and..."

"GET OFFFFFF!" Lum cried out as she electrocuted the perverted boy who wouldn't leave her alone.

"HEY! Leave my girlfriend alone you little bastard!" Ranma said as he skated towards where his girlfriend had dropped the electrified pervert. Akane was the first to arrive and regretted it as Ataru sprung back to life and started molesting Akane.

"Hey sexy!" He said.

"GET OFF YOU BAKA HENTAI!" Akane screamed as she started bashing the horny teen. But her blows only seemed to make him grin further.

"What the Hell!? Do you LIKE getting pummeled!?" Akane asked as she kept pounding on the horny idiot.

"Well," Ataru said. "I'm a special kind of man...The kind that gets his motor running the more he's humiliated by a hot chick!"

Ranma came in and smashed the prick right in the jaw and sent him flying into the wall.

"So what? You're a sadomasochist?" Ranma asked as he panted for breath. As he did so, Lum came down and did an elbow drop right on top of Ataru's head, making him see stars.

"Jerk! First him, then that skating freak and now back to him again?" Lum said as she growled at the downed boy who was already starting to recover. Ranma was about to say something when he heard the voice of Mikado from across the rink.

"SAOTOME!" He cried in rage. Ranma and the others looked and saw the busted up pretty boy struggling to get back to his feet. His eyes glaring hatred at Ranma.

"You...you...BASTARD!" Mikado called out. "First you insult me as I try to claim my 1000th kiss with the beautiful Lum-san, and NOW you insult me in my own DOMAIN!? THIS WILL NOT STAND!"

And with that, Mikado used the last of his strength to dash straight for, not Ranma, but Lum!

"You may have beaten me, but I will STILL HAVE MY KISS!" He said as he charged at full speed. Ranma just shook his head. Then, when he heard Ataru starting to get back up, he got an idea. OOOOHHHHH, Ranma just got a wickedly, horribly, wonderful, AWEFUL idea!

"Lum, distract him for a moment, I've got a plan." He said as he started to grin like the Grinch. Lum tilted her head in confusion but shrugged and did as he asked.

"Ok." She said as she flew over to Mikado and continued to hover just out of his reach.

"Come and get me ugly boy!" She said as she taunted him. Mikado blanched like he almost had a heart attack as he growled angrily and tried to increase his speed to catch Lum.

"I'M NOT UGLY! I'M THE MOST HANDSOME MAN ON EARTH!" Mikado screamed as he started swiping his arms to try and catch Lum.

As this was going on, Ranma whispered to Akane his scheme. As he did, Akane started to mirror his evil grin.

"Ranma...you. Are. Evil." She said. Ranma smiled back at her.

"Thank you." He said as they enacted the final phase of his most wicked idea yet.

They skate straight for Mikado and Lum as Ataru started to wake up. He looked around and saw that Ranma and Akane were dragging him across the ice.

"Hey! What gives!?" He asked. Ranma and Akane looked at him with grins that would scare the Devil himself.

"Oh, we're just giving you what you deserve!" Ranma said as he turned to Lum.

"LUM! FLY UP! NOW!" He called out and Lum flew straight up as Ranma and Akane threw Ataru right at the charging Mikado.

"HUH!?" Mikado cried in shock as he realized he had fallen into another one of Ranma's tricks! He and Ataru screamed in panic as they tried to avoid each other until...

CRASH/SMOOCH!

Their lips collided with each other's as Ataru became Mikado's 1000th kiss! Ranma, Lum and Akane all busted out laughing and so did most of the other people in the audience. Mikado and Ataru separated and started vomiting all over the ice.

Mikado was MORTIFIED! His precious 1000th kiss...his crowning achievement. His once in a lifetime moment...RUINED! His lips had been tarnished by the lips of another man! And an UGLY one at that! Ranma! That bastard! He had made a fool of him AGAIN! He turned to see the laughing boy and the two girls that had sided with him over HE! The rising star of the Martial Arts Figure Skating world!

"You...!" He said as he and Ataru got up.

"DIE YOU BASTARD!" They both called out as they charged at the three laughing teens. Ataru slipped and skidded on the ice and ended up being thrown into the ceiling by a laughing Akane. As for Mikado, he lunged for Ranma and missed as Ranma fell to the ice, laughing at his thrice defeated foe.

"So Mikado 'ol pal, how was your 1000th kiss? Everything you ever hoped for! AAAAHHH HA HA HA HA!" Ranma said as Lum and Akane helped the laughing hyena up off the icy floor. Mikado got up and growled once more.

"YOU! YOU!" He started to say before...

'"BASTARD!" Came the combined voices of numerous girls who busted into the rink and started throwing everything they could get their hands on at...MIKADO!

Ranma and the girls were shocked at what they just saw. To their knowledge, girls all loved that Mikado punk, so why was this bunch of girls trying to kill him by throwing everything from candy to chairs to drinks to pipe rails to literally everything in their grasping range.

"Ranma! Ranma, honey, are you alright!?" Came the voice of Ranma's mom as she came out to the edge of the rink.

"Mom!" Ranma said as he and the others skated towards Nodoka.

"What are you doing here? And who the heck are those girls?" Ranma asked. Nodoka gave a small impish smile of her own.

"Oh well, these girls are all girls who, like Akane, all had been kissed by Mikado and hate his guts for it." She said. The three teens went wide eyed at that.

"REALLY!?" They all said. Nodoka smiled and nodded.

"Yes. I was going to tell you about my little scheme, but you were all so busy getting ready for this duel that I never got a chance to. So I figured we could use this as a type of 'insurance policy' or back up plan. Just in case anything went wrong." She explained.

As Ranma and his two companions processed this information, they all turned their heads as they saw Mikado get hit with an actual kitchen sink! He fell to the ground as he looked up at all the angry looking girls who charged out onto the ice, looking like they wanted to finish what Ranma started by pounding Mikado into an even bloodier pulp.

"WAIT! WAIT! HOLD ON!" Mikado tried to say as he evaded the girls who were coming to pound him.

"Why are you all trying to kill me? I thought we all shared a special moment together?"

"SHUT IT YOU PLAYBOY!" One girl said as she slugged him across the face.

"Yeah! You kissed all of us and then you just dumped us for the next girl who came along! Without taking any of OUR feelings int account!"

"Yeah! I dumped my boyfriend for you and I find you already kissing FIVE OTHER GIRLS!"

"You just stole ONE lousy kiss from each of us and split without taking any RESPONSIBILITY!" Cried out another as she threw a brick at Mikado's junk. Mikado toppled over as the army of over 700 girls come up to finish him off.

"But..but..." Mikado tride to defend himself. "I gave each of you a sweet kiss..."

"Yeah! ONE STINKING KISS!" Shoted one of the girls. "AND IT WASN'T EVEN A GOOD ONE!"

Mikado went pale and stiff as a board at that last comment.

"Wha...what...?" He stammered.

"You said it sister! When he kissed me, I wanted to vomit!"

BAM!

"It was like kissing a dead fish!"

WAM!

"I would have rather kissed a dead fish than him! He kissed like a damn trash eating possum!"

SMASH!

"And why would he ever think we'd just let him off like that!? What, is he as stupid as he's UGLY!?"

THWAK!

"What she said, you ugly stinking SKUNK FUCKER!"

"ACK!" And with that, Mikado dropped to the ice, dead.

Or at least he looked like he was dead. His skin had gone pale, he was clutching his heart like he just had a heart attack, and he looked as though he was going through a pain filled Riga Mortis. Ranma and the others leaned over his prone form and Lum started poking him. No reaction.

"Um, guys...I think he's dead." She said.

"Whoa," Said Ranma. "All those girls insulting him was like his kryptonite. Who knew?"

"Yeah," Akane chimed in. "I wish we would've known that sooner. It would have saved us a LOT of trouble."

"Speaking of trouble," Ranma said as he stood up. "Can you guys PLEASE get me to the dressing room so I can get these STUPID SKATES OFF NOW!?"

After grinning sheepishly, Lum and Akane helped Ranma to the changing room and after checking the computer in the skates, Lum yanked the skates off Ranma's aching feet. And as soon as Ranma's feet where free, Lum and Akane both pinched their noses in disgust.

"Man! Your feet are RIPE!" Akane said.

"Well SORRY!" He said. "I haven't exactly had a chance to change my socks in about a week. Thank you LUM!" He punctuated his last words as much sarcasm as he could. Lum chuckled sheepishly at both his words and the look Akane was giving her.

"Didn't think about that, did you genius?" She said.

The heard the sound of laughing and turned to see Ranma washing his feet in a nearby sink.

"Darling? What are you doing?" Lum asked.

"I'm washing my feet. And it tickles a little." He said in between laughs.

After Ranma finished and put on a clean pair of socks and his usual shoes, he and the girls were ready to go and meet up with Nodoka when suddenly, the wall next to them collapsed! The three teens looked past the smoke and dust and saw a young girl around their age. She was cute looking, had long purple hair and dressed in Chinese style clothes.

"Who the?" Akane asked.

"Who or what is that?" Lum asked. As for Ranma...he was shaking in fear?

"Sh-Sh-Shampoo..." He said in a quiet whisper, his voice shaking with fear.

"Um Ranma, you ok?" Akane asked.

"Darling? Do you know this girl?" Lum asked, a hint of venom in her voice.

The purple haired girl looked over to the three teens, marched up to Ranma...and pulled out a Chinese to Japanese dictionary.

"Um...Pardon me...kind sir." She said in heavily accented and broken Japanese.

"Um...Have...you...seen...uh...a girl who also named...Ranma?" She asked, causing Ranma to calm down and look surprised.

"Uh...She have...red hair...blue eyes...uh...about as tall as Shampoo...uh, me. And...uh...travel with big fat panda." She said, looking up to Ranma.

Ranma seemed to be fighting back an ejaculation of excitement as he tried to compose himself and answer the girl.

"Um...Nope. Haven't seen anyone like that." He said as he placed his hands behind his back.

"But Darling, it sounds like..." Lum was cut off as Ranma turned clapped his hand over her mouth and shushed her.

"Never saw anyone like that." He said again.

"But Ranma...OW!" Akane cried as Ranma kicked her in the shin.

"Sorry. She hurt herself skating. But like I said, we've never seen her. Maybe she's somewhere else?" He said smiling. The girl, Shampoo, sighed and nodded her head.

"Um..." She said as she flipped through her book again to find the right response.

"Uh...Domo...arigato." She said bowing and then ran out the way she came.

After the purple haired girl ran off Ranma burst out laughing like a maniac. Lum and Akane looked at each other and then back at Ranma, who was holding his sides and rolling on the floor laughing. As he started pounding the floor in his fit of laughter, Akane finally had enough.

"Ranma! What's gotten into YOU!" She cried in shock and as Ranma picked her up and spun her around.

"I'M HAPPIER THAN I'VE EVER BEEN! HA HA HAAAA!" He said as he put her down and ran over to Lum and held her in a big hug.

"I LOVE YOU! YOU SEXY, BEAUTIFUL ALIEN FROM ANOTHER WORLD YOU!" He said and kissed her harder than he had ever kissed her before! Lum was caught completely off guard! She was so happy at this moment that her hair was standing straight up and sparking with electricity in the shape of a big heart. She was blushing so hard that her hair changed from blue tinted green to straight up red.

"YEAHOO! YIPEE! I'M FREE! YEAHOO!" He said as he bounced around the room like a cartoon character.

Lum just stood there, blushing and smiling like a dope. Steam came out of her ears, and she started floating in the air and sighed in happiness. Akane shook her head and looked at the floating alien as her hair returned to normal.

"Oh, come on! He is NOT THAT good a kisser!" She said. Lum just floated on cloud nine, not really caring about Akane. She looked at Ranma, still acting like a happy nut, and lost her cool.

"RANMA! WHAT! THE! FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" She shouted, catching the boys attention. Ranma calmed down and looked at the two girls, pulling Lum back down to the ground.

"Ok. Well, I guess I'll have to explain everything from the start. Well, ya see..." He said as he sat down and started to tell his teil.

"It all started right after pop and I got cursed. The Jusenkyo guide took us to this village that was close by. It was home to a tribe of, get this, Chinese Amazons. He was hoping that maybe they knew some way to get rid of our curses or at the very least, a way to control them better. Anyway, pop saw a table full of food and he started chowing down. I was starving so I joined him, and it was only then that we found out that the food we ate was actually the first place prize for some martial arts competition that was going on. The purple haired girl you saw, Shampoo, was the winner of that tournament."

"What!?" They both said. Ranma nodded.

"Yep. And after she saw we ate most of her prize, she challenged me to a duel to avenge her honor. I knocked her down with one kick. I tried to apologize afterwords, but as soon I knelt down to her...she kissed my cheek."

"She WHAT!?" Lum shouted as lightning arced off her body.

"Whoa! Calm down Lum!" Akane said.

"Yeah, I'm not done yet." Ranma said.

"Anyway," He started up again. "After she kissed my cheek, the guide grabbed me and pop and dragged us out of there like the devil was chasing after us."

"Why?" Akane asked.

"Because apparently," Ranma said. "In Amazon culture, if a female warrior of the tribe loses to an outsider female, she is to give her what they call, 'The Kiss of Death'."

"Say what!?" Akane said.

"Kiss of death!?" Lum cried.

"Yep. It's a solemn vow that the disgraced warrior must hunt down the female that bested her and kill her. Even if she must hunt her down to the ends of the Earth. And brother when they say the ends of the Earth, they mean it." Ranma said as he remembered all the places Shampoo had chased him and his father to.

"She chased us all over China and around most of Japan. We thought we finally got rid of her in Okinawa when we tricked her onto a boat heading for who-knows-where. But here she is again. But she ain't my problem now! Ha haaaaa!"

"Wait, if she's been chasing you for so long, how come she didn't recognize you?" Lum asked.

"Because...She only knows me as a girl! HA HA! She's never seen me as a guy! She thinks we're two different people! HA HA! And she'll never find who she's looking for because she doesn't exist anymore! HA HA HA HAAA!"

Lum smiled as she started to understand why Ranma was so happy.

"That's right! Because I cured you and now the girl she's looking for is gone forever!" She said as she leapt into Ranma's arms and kissed him again.

"Well," Akane said as she crossed her arms and chuckled at the two love birds. "I guess your alien girlfriend saved you yet again." She said.

"Yep. Aren't I the best!?" She said as she hugged Ranma.

"Yep. Yes you are baby. So, let's celebrate!"

And with that, the three teens headed out and explained to Nodoka what had happened. She was surprised to say the least. But she was happy that this Chinee assassin was probably not going to be a problem anymore.

"Well, I'm happy that this little problem is settled. So, shall we be off?" She asked as she led the way. Ranma was about to head out when he looked at Akane who was looking kind of sheepish as she turned the other way.

"Hey." He said, catching her attention. Akane turned to look at Ranma, who was holding out his hand.

"Huh?" She asked. Ranma smiled at her.

"We make a pretty half decent team huh? So come on. What do ya say, truce?" He asked. Akane looked between Ranma's outstretched hand and then back at his smiling face.

"Yeah." She said as she reached out to shake his hand...

"RANMA! AKANE!" Came the sound of two familiar voices that ruined their moment. All four of the companions groaned as they turned and saw none other than Genma and Soun running right up to Ranma and Akane with big stupid grins on their faces.

"I KNEW IT!" Soun cried as he ran up to Akane and grabbed her hand. "I knew you two couldn't stay mad at each other for too long! Now that you've put this whole thing behind you, you can get back to uniting the schools!"

"Yes son! Let's not waste anymore time! I'll call a priest and...OOOOOAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!" Genma was cut off by Ranma's foot crashing into his crotch.

"SERIOUSLY! YOU TWO ARE STILL THAT CRAP!?" Ranma cried as he slugged his father with the hardest haymaker he could throw.

"Yeah! Can't you two get it through your thick heads that we DO NOT want to get married!?" Akane screamed as she slapped her father's hands away.

"But Akane..." Soun said before Nodoka cut him off, with a sword to his throat.

"Now look here you dead weight." She said, an icy edge to her voice. Soun paled as Nodoka held her sword to his throat.

"I have told you more than once that I didn't want MY son to be involved in your stupid bull shit. Now get out of my sight before this girl ends up with a mute for a father."

"Now No..." Genma started to say.

"SHUT IT YOU OLD BASTARD!" Ranma shouted, having had enough of his father's stupid obsession with uniting the schools.

"All you EVER talk about is joining two schools you separated in the first place! Not once, ONCE! Have you or your stupid friend ever asked me or Akane or even her sisters about how they feel? Or if they even WANT to go through with your stupid plan!? NO! Because as soon as any of us say 'no' you start babbling more bull crap about it being family honor!"

"Because it IS a matter of family honor you spoiled brat!" Genma shouted out as he struggled to his feet.

"Ever since that stupid alien showed up..." Genma was silenced by a ki enhanced fist knocking his jaw out of alignment. Ranma was so mad that his body was glowing a demonic crimson aura that made even Nodoka pale and take a few steps back.

"Don't. You. DARE CALL MY GIRLFRIEND STUPID!" Ranma cried out. Lum, Akane, Nodoka and even Soun were so surprised that they all jumpped back at seeing the manifestation of Ranma's rage in the form of his aura turning into a dragon.

Unkown to the group, Nabiki and Kasumi were watching from afar, and boy where they scared too! Kasumi was so spooked of seeing the normally smiling and happy Ranma blow up like this, that she hid behind Nabiki. As for the middle Tendo sister, she was scared stiff as a board. Literally, she was so scared that she couldn't move. Genma backed away in fear of his son as he marched over to Genma with MURDER in his eyes.

"You never cared for ANYBODY except yourself! You never cared for me, for my mom, heck you don't even really CARE about your stupid schools! All you care about is filling that bottomless pit you call a stomach!" Ranma cried out. Genma pulled together what little courage he had left and got up to glare at his son.

"You listen here boy!"
"NO!" Ranma shot back. "I am DONE LISTENING TO YOU!"

"Now see here you little piece of shit! As long as you're a member of MY school of martial arts, you WILL do as your MASTER SAYS!" Genam said. And that was the last straw for Ranma.

"Then FINE! I QUIET!" He shouted, causing all who listening to gasp in shock.

"Wh...what" Was all Genma and Soun could say.

"You heard me." Ranma said. "As of RIGHT NOW, I am DONE WITH THE ANYTHING GOES! I'm taking what I've learned of it and I'm leaving you two to your own crappy styles with NO STUDENTS! I'm going to crate MY OWN style and separate from you two so you can just leave me ALONE!" And with that, Ranma let lose another strong punch to his father's face and glared at Soun, who at this moment, had enough brain cells to know that now was the time to run like a bat out of Hell. Ranma glared at everyone else who was watching...

"WHO ELSE WANTS SOME!" Ranma screamed. Everyone, except for Nodoka and Lum, ran for their lives as they knew that facing a raging mad Ranma was NOT a good idea.

"I...Am...Going...Home." Ranma said in between breaths.

Nodoka and Lum followed Ranma at a respectable distance, wanting to give the boy a chance to calm down. As they walked, Nodoka noticed a look of sadness on the alien girls' face. Not liking seeing the girl look sad, Nodoka walked beside her.

"What's wrong Lum-san?" She asked. "Are you worried about Ranma?" She asked. Lum broke herself out of her musings and shook her head.

"No, I know Darling will calm down. It's just..." She trailed off, but Nodoka picked up on what it was.

"You wished it was you helping Ranma in that fight and not Akane, right?" She guessed.

"Whoa, you're good." Lum answered. "I'm happy that Darling won, but...Darn it! I'm his girlfriend! I should be helping him and not trusting it to someone else!"

She looked down, looking at her hands in deafeat.

"But Akane was right. I don't know anything about martial arts. The only times I got in a fight I was able to win using my electricity. Without it, I'm almost useless." She said, a tear threatening to form in her eye. Nodoka looked sadly at the girl she hoped would be her future daughter-in-law. Then, her eyes lit up as an idea came to her mind.

"Well, if that's the case, why don't you ask Ranma to teach you?" She said with a smile, catching Lum off guard.

"Huh!?" She said with a gasp.

"Well think about it." Nodoka said. "You want to get stronger so you'll be the one Ranma asks for help next time right? What better way than to have him train you himself." She then had an evil smirk and gleam in her eye.

"And besides, him training you would mean that you two would be spending a lot more time together. He'll be training you everyday after school, spending his time with you, occasionally touching you, guiding you into every posture, having to hold you as he demonstrates techniches, touching you almost all the time..."

"DARLING!" Lum said as she flew after Ranma, her face as red as a beat. Nodoka pulled out a fan and hid her smirking face.

"My future grandchildren will than me for this." She said.

"DARLING!" Ranma heard Lum call out. He turned to see her and lost the last bit of his rage.

"Lum-chan?" He said. Lum flew over to her boyfriend.

"Darling, could you train me in martial arts?" She asked. Ranma was shocked.

"You...want me to teach you martial arts? Why?" He asked. Lum blushed as she tried to find the right words to say.

"Well...You see...I...want to get stronger. So that next time, I can fight beside you and not let someone else do it." She said. Ranma blushed at her words. Then he thought about it. He did say he wanted to create his own style to get away form the Anything Goes and his dad. So...

"...Ok." He said. Lum's head shot up in surprise and happiness.

"REALLY!?" She asked. Ranma nodded.

"But I've got to warn you. It won't be easy. Martial arts requries a lot of dedication and discipline. So I don't want you slacking off or giving up half way. Ok?"

Lum nodded her head smiling.

"YES! I promise Darling!" She said as she hugged her darling. Ranma blushed as he, his girlfriend and his mom headed for home.

*Ending Theme: Rain Forecast*

Te ni shitatte mitasenakute
Tokedashita yume wo nagame nani wo dou sureba?
Tsukihanashite toki ga tatte
Miete kuru mono kitai shita sore shikanakatta
Hohaba wa itsumo sonna kimochi to douka shite
Kuuki ga ochite yuku

Aa boku ga koko ni iru imi wa aru no ka na?
Naita sora sakeru you ni kabau tsutanai omoi
Aa furishikiru shikou wa ima wo madowasu kara
Mirai dake ishiki shite sugoshi
Sou douse aragatte warattetai

Hanasanai you tsuyoku motte
Kushakusha ni naru puraido mo
Nurete mou sutetara
Raku ni natte nemuku natte
Ashita no hoshii katachi ga tsukurarete kita

Aa boku wa kirei na kotae kowashi rashiku itai
Sashita kasa daiji ni shitetemo haribote datta
Bishobisho ni nattatte
Kawaranai omoi wa junsui de
Niji wo matanakuttatte susunde yuku

Aa boku ga koko ni iru imi wa nakutatte ii
Naita sora miagete suteta tsutanai omoi
Aa furishikiru shikou wa ima wo madowasu kara
Mirai dake ishiki shite sugoshi
Sou douse aragatte ame mo ki ni shinai kurai no
Hikari tsukamou tobou

*Post Credit Scene*

Shampoo was walking along the shoreline, head hung in depression. She had tracked the redheaded girl known as Ranma to this town and all she found was a boy who shared the same name. At first, she thought that they may be twins, but he claimed to have no knowledge of the other Ranma.

She sighed. How could she go back to her village with the stain on her honor still unavenged? She had hoped to hear a report of a girl with a panda, but those leads led nowhere. She stopped in her tracks as she heard a voice coming from the ocean.

She turned to see the source of the voice and saw someone splashing around in the water. At first she thought it was the boy Ranma she had seen earlier, for this person had the same black hair but without the pigtail. She also noticed that unlike boy Ranma, this person wasn't quite as muscular. In fact, he looked rather curvy, like...a...girl...? Then the person turned around and Shampoo gasped! Breasts! It was a girl! Shampoo pulled out the picture of female Ranma that she had and compared it to the girl she saw in the ocean.

The hair and eyes were different, but the hair could have been cut and dyed and she had heard of people using colored contacts. After looking between the girl and the picture for a while, she was convinced that she had found who she was looking for. Her suspicions were strengthened when a man, apparently her father, came out and engaged her in a fight.

Shampoo put the picture away and charged at the girl who had knocked her father into the ocean. She pulled out her favorite weapon, a Chinese mace called a chui, and attacked the girl. The girl screamed in panic and dodged the attack.

"HEY! What's the idea lady!?" She cried as she fought off the Amazon woman.

"You no fool Shampoo Ranma! You think you can cut and dye hair and Shampoo no know it you!? Shampoo kill!" She screamed as she lunged for the girl again. The girl in question growled as she leapt at the Amazon with a flying kick.

"Ranma!? My name's Ryuunosuke you bitch!"