AKANE IS ENGAGED TO…
FEMALE RANMA!
CHAPTER 3
PREVIOUS CHAPTER REVIEWS/COMMENTS
AO3 Joajackson: I dont wanna be the guy to oppose the logic of a comedic fanfic, but Ranma jusenkyo transformation never is implied to look chinese. In the anime its directly explicit he looks exactly like his mother(minus red hair), meaning a feminine version of himself.
Also, I dont think the idea of Akane being a man could survive much, even if everyone in furikan is an idiot(that they are). Mostly because of the changing clothes for PE, like every girl in akane's class has seen her with basically nothing on, not that it couldnt be a thing for a couple of weeks or wathever.
The same way it doesnt look like the other students think that Ranma is two different people after enough situations, only kuno and kodachi stay oblivious.
Response: To tackle the fact that it seems like you think I wrote Ranma female form to look of Chinese decent. I never explicitly wrote it that they did look like it. It is the other characters assuming Ranma is half Japanese and half Chinese. Mostly based on things like their assumptions, his clothes, as well as his father taking/keeping him out of school to go to China at the beginning of the school year.
As for how long the idea that Akane is a guy can stretch out for, keep in mind that Akane was self conscious about how she looks compared to other girls. So, I doubt she showers at school or changes her underwear in front of the other girls at school normally anyways. As for how easily she can prove it by just getting undressed fully in the locker room. Do you really think any of the girls would have the courage to look at her if she tried that?
Now I'm not saying it can stretch out too long, like you said, eventually the truth will be revealed if no one interfere$. Eventually when/if they all learn or accept Ranma is a guy cursed to turn into a girl. Then they will have no choice to accept a non-cursed Akane was really a girl the whole time. But you will find out all in due time.
AO3 Hermione_Blackwood: I didn't mean akane's being bashed here, and I understand where you're going, I was merely pointing out that a rumor that a girl is actually a guy is very mean and dangerous, that's all
Response: My apologies if you feel that I accused you of accusing me of 'Akane Bashing' or thought that was how I interpreted it. I just pointed it out in case toxic Akane fans bandwagon onto your thread angerly due to my response of pointing out she needed to be humbled. I may not like her compared to the other female characters. But to be safe, I make it a personal rule to never bash a character in any fanfiction I write. I will however not hesitate to point out their flaws in my stories or make them slightly more prominent to prove a point about their character. And I agree, it would be a dangerous rumor as you will see the repercussions of by the end of this sub-arc or beginning of the next sub-arc.
AO3 NercloLC: So... how many chapters until people learn of the curse and think Ranma is a poor Girl raised as a boy with a curse given by her father? ajsjsajsaj
Response: Hmmm… good question. I don't want to spoil it, but you can thank the introduction of a certain rose for the reveal.
AUTHORS NOTES
I have zero apologies for how I chose to end this chapter, or the next one. That being said, it will be entertaining and get some ideas churning in the heads of those who like to think about and predict where an author goes with their story.
As for the poll I previously mentioned about how Akane first kiss with Ranma will go, on that fan supporting website that starts with a P. It is currently tied between drunk Akane kissing Ranma and Ukyo declaring war for Ranma by kissing them. Any Ukyo or Akane fans should vote depending on the character they prefer. Though technically there is three options for Akane, but each one has a significant difference with how the story will play out. Anyone can vote on it so don't be shy.
JAPAN FURINKAN HIGH
TENDO HOUSEHOLD
THIRD PERSON POV
Originally Ranma would have used his inability to get much sleep as an excuse to do some extra early morning training. Especially since he now has a dojo to do it in, but instead he decided to check out the kitchen where Kasumi was cooking. It seemed relaxing to him yesterday, and after all this nonsense about engagements and uniting the two schools, he wanted a brief break from this chaos suddenly injected into his life.
"Hey Kasumi, do you need any help with getting breakfast together?" Ranma, who was in his guy form, asked her as he leaned into the doorway.
"Oh, Ranma you don't have to help me again, wouldn't you rather do some morning training?" Kasumi asked him, worry laced in her voice as she saw the tired look on his face.
"Yeah, about that… I need a break from the old man nonsense about engagements and inheriting school and dojo. If they see me training, they will probably get on my case about it. Especially with how on edge they are after yesterday, just glad my old man passed out drunk crying with your dad in his room last night." Ranma told her, relieved when she motioned him into the kitchen.
"Can I leave the eggs and sausage to you today?" she asked him as he got to it, enjoying the quiet humming of Kasumi in the background as he helped her. But the quiet did not last that long as Akane came down to fill her water bottle with water, but the sight of Ranma helping her sister cook set her off.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE!?" Akane yelled as she pointed a finger at him, with her other fist closed tightly to the point it turned white as a sheet.
"Calm down Akane, he was just trying to help me with breakfast." Kasumi tried to quickly get her sister to relax, not wanting to argue with her.
"IT WAS BAD ENOUGH THAT EVERYONE THINKS HE IS ENGAGED TO BE MY WIFE! BUT NOW HE IS ACTING LIKE IT BY HELPING YOU COOK!" Akane got angrier at him, now getting absurd ideas that he planned this series of events to reveal how he was really a girl on the inside. Fires of her hatred from yesterday are still burning brightly, with no sign of becoming extinguished.
"Akane dear, just because he is helping me cook doesn't mean he is acting like a woman. If anything, he will make a good husband one day with how willing he is to help his wife around the house." Kasumi told her, agreeing with Nabiki about how Ranma was a good person, despite the chaos that occurred since he arrived. While also trying to show her why she should be glad their father unintentionally found someone this good for her. Despite the fact that Ranma also did not like the idea of an arranged marriage anymore than she did.
"JUST… JUST KEEP AWAY FROM ME AT SCHOOL YOU FREAK!" Akane yelled at him as she slammed the door to the kitchen shut, a plastic container falling from a shelf above the stovetop as a result. Hitting the handle of the pot filled with still cold water, splashing Ranma.
"Ranma, are you okay?" Kasumi asked him as she knew that pot had salt and pepper in it already.
"Other than my eyes feeling slightly stingy I'm just fine, I will transform back after so let's finish breakfast." Ranma told her matter of fact, so much so that it made Kasumi question what his father was like growing up. But she still made Ranma rinse his eyes out with cold water from the sink quickly before getting back to cooking. All of this helped to hide the fact that Ranma had begun to cry when they got splashed with that water. Though Kasumi could still feel the pain he felt at Akane calling him a freak but decided to mention it until Ranma wanted to.
Nabiki had ended up waking up earlier than she wanted to due to Akane yelling, and the first sight she saw was Ranma in female form helping her sister cook. When they noticed her, it was a quiet stare down between the three of them for a few moments. "Two creamers, one sugar in my coffee." Nabiki said before walking to the bathroom. Not wanting to point out the fact that Ranma was not helping his case with her stubborn little sister right now.
"Use a teaspoon and start with the sugar before you pour the coffee but do the cream last." Kasumi told him, making sure he knew how Nabiki liked it. Ranma was about to finish plating the sausages and eggs so he nodded yes, hoping the coffee will help her focus on her negotiations today. After all, there is no way he could negotiate his way out of this mess with the teachers and Kuno. So, he had no issue helping her like this, even if he would admit it felt humiliating to do so in his female form as it felt he was playing the part of housewife. Not that he would say it out loud after seeing how much Kasumi enjoyed having him offer to help yesterday and today.
When he delivered it to the table, she looked him up and down, making Ranma cock his head to the side. "Too bad Akane wasn't actually born a boy. You would be much better at adjusting to being a wife than she would." Nabiki said sipping her coffee, letting out a relaxed sigh as it tasted just right as it always did. Ranma meanwhile swayed back and forth back into the kitchen. With Nabiki none the wiser as to how painful that blow she just delivered was to him in comparison to anything his father ever dealt to him.
JAPAN
TENDO DOJO
THIRD PERSON POV
Rather than going for a light run, Akane decided to take herself to the dojo to practice her kata, despite the morning workout she would be expecting at school. She also destroyed quite a few of the wooden straw dummies she regularly used for training. Be it decapitating them, breaking them in half, and breaking off limbs, all separately or one after destroying the dummies beyond any future use.
"IDIOT!" She yelled out as she punched the head off the dummy, with it rolling on the ground across the dojo.
"PERVERT!" Akane yelled, giving it a straight kick to the mid section of the next one and then punching the head off, with the mid section getting stabbed into the ceiling above.
Stopping for a moment, she got to her knees and cried a little, thinking about how she finally met a girl who understands her love for martial arts. "LIAR!" She yelled as she got up and punched off both arms, then delivered a punch to the chest partially breaking it. All before giving it a roundhouse kick to finish separating the head and main body. "Damn it Ranma… why did you have to get my hopes up." Akane told herself dejectedly as she noticed her smell of sweat and went to take a quick morning bath and leave as soon as possible to avoid Ranma.
JAPAN
NERIMA
THIRD PERSON POV
Ranma had run through the neighbourhood at a full sprint as soon his dad and Mr. Tendo had woken up just as he left for school. While they were eating breakfast, Kasumi had set some water to boil for him, which he mixed with some cold water to cool down for his use. Nabiki had left early with an extra bag, he wasn't sure what was in it but he figured it was important for the negotiations.
As for Akane, he found out she really meant it that she wanted him to stay away from her. Given that she seemed to have skipped breakfast to leave the house early and unseen. She also forgot to get her lunch because she snuck out, so he had to carry both tied together in a cloth.
Luckily for him, the route was easy for him to memorize. But when he got splashed with cold water by a random old lady along the way he took a moment to debate on whether or not to show up today. That was when suddenly… "Why the hell do I feel so much bloodlust coming from the direction of the school… AKANE!" Ranma called out to himself as he realized what or rather who it was directed at.
Kuno was aiming with his full strength yesterday both when he was a guy and when Akane and him were on his dad's shoulder. But since he was a girl at the time and Kuno thought he was a real girl, that meant that Akane was his main target. "If the other guys in that horde were as pissed as Kuno was. Then all that bloodlust makes sense." He said to himself as he took off his shoes and put them in his bag as he ran, not wasting a single moment.
JAPAN
FURINKAN HIGH
COURTYARD
THIRD PERSON POV
When Ranma got there, he immediately saw a completely different scene from yesterday. Now that none of them were holding back, Akane struggled as she took a few hits here and there. Though not strong enough to beat her in one-on-one fights. When they surrounded her, even if only every three or five guys managed to get a hit in before going down. The amount of hits would grow overtime, weakening her each time.
Soon she would go from the rate at what she started to get hit at, to one hit every two or three guys as she exhausted herself. Then going further, this eventually would result in each guy getting one hit in, despite them all going down in one hit. If Ranma did not help soon, it would be game over for Akane. Especially once Kuno joined the fray from the back of the group.
"BACK OFF YOU JERKS!" Ranma called out as he threw his bag like a shuriken, tying the lunches around his neck and behind his back. The school bag knocked the hockey mask off of a guy who tried to attack Akane from behind. Stunning him as she grabbed the bag while punching him and using it with her own bag to block consecutive hits from a boxer. Ranma took care of the boxer by stomping on his back and slipping off him as he grabbed them and threw them into the crowd to take down three more guys.
"WHY…" Akane punched another guy in the gut before kicking back into the crowd. "... ARE YOU…" She then threw another guy over her shoulder and on top of a guy charging at Ranma like they used to with her. "... HELPING ME!?" Akane finally finished asking as she threw a haymaker knocking another guy out right below them, but not before taking a punch to the face.
This made Ranma worry as anger is a powerful force, enough so that even a properly knocked out opponent can get up in mere minutes if that anger is strong enough. Though obviously not regularly seen, as Ranma himself could attest to it as someone who travelled and fought many different people all throughout their life. With this many people it could still happen enough to be a problem.
They all were under the presumption that Akane was a crossdressing guy because of Kuno and his big mouth. So as much as Ranma hated them for ganging up on Akane and attacking her based on unproven assumptions… he could understand why they felt their pride was so badly wounded in a situation like the one they thought was going on.
Also, as a result of Kuno's big mouth. All that affection for her being a strong woman was turned into at minimum its equivalent amount of anger for being deceived, if not more so. The only good thing about changing into female form again before school meant that they would hold back when facing Ranma. This made it easier for him to clear the idiots out of his way while defending Akane by making sure to send them flying back or tossing them back into the crowd to keep distance.
"DO I REALLY" Ranma said roundhouse kicking two guys at once. "NEED TO EXPLAIN" He continued as he slapped one guy with his pigtail to throw him off balance before uppercutting him into the attacker after him. "IT TO YOU!?" Ranma finally finished his sentence as he threw a guy behind him that Akane kneed in the stomach and sent flying into another guy coming at her.
This angered Akane enough to stop fighting for a moment, forcing Ranma to take a punch to the face before delivering a palm strike to the attacker's throat. It was hitting Ranma in the face that fortunately caused all the fighting from the guys to come to a standstill. This was something none of them wanted, as to hit Ranma at full strength was something they did know if he could take as they did not see him actually fight until just now.
"OF COURSE I DON'T KNOW WHY A PERVERT LIKE YOU WOULD SAVE ME! I BET YOU JUST WANTED TO FIGHT THEM YOURSELF!" Akane yelled in his face, huffing and puffing as he tried to catch his breath after the fighting and yelling. But before Akane could continue, Ranma stopped her by speaking up first.
"YOUR THE ONE WHO WALKED IN ON ME IN THE BATH SO YOUR THE PERVERT YOU IDIOT! PUTTING ASIDE YOUR ANGER ISSUES THAT KILLS THAT CUTE SMILE OF YOURS. OF COURSE I WANT TO SAVE SOMEONE I CARE ABOUT, EVEN IF IT'S ONLY A LITTLE BIT!" Ranma yelled back, now taking his turn to pant and breath, he saw confusion come all across Akane's reddening face.
"You think I'm cute… and you care about me?" Akane asked in shock, confused at what they heard just now. Completely stunned at what she just heard from Ranma saying out loud and so clearly. It also began to dawn on Ranma as he began to blush so hard his face resembled his hair.
"D-D-D-DID I SAY THAT CUTE PART OUTLOUD!?" Ranma questioned as he began kneeling down and covering his face as he realized he just confessed it in front of the whole school.
Kuno however being both the strongest guy at the school before Ranma arrived and the biggest pervert among the students as well. He heard what Ranma said about a bath and realized the implications. "Akane Tendo…" Kuno said in such a low, angry and spine-chilling voice that everyone including Ranma came out of their shock.
"Y-Yes?" Akane said in a tone equal parts fearful and questioning as to what angered Kuno now.
"Ranma just said you walked in on her in the bath. That means you took advantage of the fact that people thought you were a girl cornering her in the bath. Attempting to force your perverse desires onto her before she could find out you were physically a boy… YOU SWINE!" Kuno declared charging at Akane, clearly projecting his desires of what he would do in such a scenario onto Akane. Yup, it was truly a case of the pot calling the kettle black… well if Akane was that kind of pervert, but in this case it was just an idiot self projecting.
Ranma reacted quickly and swept Akane off her feet and jumped up to the school wall and up to their class. He then proceeded to throw his fiancé through the open window. As for Ranma himself, he just barely managed to grab hold of the window edge after and got help from the guys to be pulled in right as the warning bell rang to remind students to get to their classrooms.
Getting his bag gently passed to him by an embarrassed/angry Akane, Ranma pulled out his shoes and put them on despite them being a little big on their female form. So, despite not having the money to realistically do so right now. He was considering buying a second pair to switch in and out of if getting splashed with cold water was going to become a regular thing. As for his confession… he would see the consequences of this soon enough.
JAPAN FURINKAN HIGH
VICE-PRINCIPAL OFFICE
THIRD PERSON POV
Because she was busy negotiating with the vice-principal, Nabiki had no choice but to ignore the ruckus outside hoping her little sister was smart enough to try to sneak in. "I will reiterate it once again, either you pay for a neutral third party with no connection to either the school or our family to examine Akane. Otherwise, you have no choice but to accept that she was born a girl as I said, since you refuse to allow Dr. Tofu to examine her to give you an answer." Nabiki told him flatly and with complete confidence knowing the answer she was about to receive.
The Vice-Principal was practically gnashing his teeth at the audacity of the student before him. Sadly, he also could not deny that as an older sister she had a right to talk to him about his call yesterday. If only it was her father or older sister, then it would have gone more smoothly like he had hoped.
"... FINE! But if your little 'sister' does anything perverted to the other girls. Then they will be treated like a boy and be forced to dress as such." He told her, willing to relent to that but not the curse nonsense she tried to explain and offered to have Ranma demonstrate to him.
Nodding her head satisfied as she was half done. "Now then, about what I mentioned about Ranma…" Nabiki began to trail off for once as the face of her opponent at the negotiating table was not trembling before her for once.
Taking a deep breath, the vice-principal sat straight once again, if not for the first time since Nabiki Tendo had entered his office that morning. "I will not tolerate this curse nonsense, if you want to attempt to claim they are transgender like your little 'sister' probably is, then fine. But the same applies to them, if they do anything perverted to the boys, then I will make them conform to all the female standards of the school. NOW GET OUT!" He told her, annoyed that such a young and clearly feminine girl was actually claiming to be a boy.
With a sigh, Nabiki got up and left to go to her sister's homeroom class to explain what she just fixed as well as the phone call she intercepted yesterday. 'Oh well, he can't complain later that I didn't try to warn him.' Nabiki thought smugly, waiting for the day they could reveal it in front of the whole school to shut everyone up. The apologies as well as the money for 'mental trauma' he caused Ranma and her family, that she would wring out of that man would make this trouble so worth it.
JAPAN FURINKAN HIGH
AKANE & RANMA HOMEROOM
THIRD PERSON POV
"Are you okay Akane?" one of the girls asked Akane in concern as they all noticed the cuts, scrapes, bruises, and highly damaged uniform their friend was wearing.
"Why did you jump into such a dangerous situation Ranma?" another one of the girls asked, shocked by how determined Ranma was to protect her fiancé.
"Yeah, you dove right in the middle of Akane's usual fight, that was pretty reckless." a girl commented with others nodding in approval of such an assessment, thinking Ranma was not as strong as Akane. Many of them assumed it was by pure luck that Ranma held his own like he did.
"Well at least she managed to get both of them out of there safely." someone commented on the daring escape Ranma made with the two of them after their declaration… something the girls would grill Ranma and Akane about later without a doubt.
Thus was the landslide of comments and questions as to the sight of an exhausted bare footed Ranma, who was trying to put on her shoes. "Damn it! They're too big for me, I should have gotten a smaller pair." Ranma exclaimed to himself, making it sound like he bought the wrong size and not that he needed two different sized shoes. Right before class could start however, Nabiki had come inside the classroom, knocking on the door as she was holding a pair of old running shoes.
"You can use these for today, as for my negotiations with the vice-principal… well it was mostly a success." Nabiki told them, as the teacher gave her permission to spend about ten or fifteen minutes giving the two the rough details. Ranma also ended up explaining to them all how he considered himself a guy, which got him odd looks from the other students before the girls smiled. Something that unsettled Akane greatly as she could instinctively tell something had been misinterpreted again but had no time to question it.