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Deserted no longer:  Part one - Home sweet home -
 By RJ


	Ukyo poured the batter on the grill and listened to it sizzle. It’s been a month 
since Ranma and Akane had been found and  she still couldn’t believe it.  First Ranma 
is lost at sea, thought to be dead, along with Akane.  Then about a year and half later 
both of them are found. They’re married and expecting!  Ukyo stared into space thinking.
This would of never happened if Kuno wasn’t such a moron.  Yelling into that storm
 instead of turning the boat around.  Come to think of it, who was more at fault?  Akane,
 yes, Akane was to blame.  If she wasn’t trying to act all brave and tomboyish and just would of  
taken his hand for help, she would of never fallen over board and Ranma would of never
 jumped in after her.   Ukyo’s heart broke, it was Akane’s fault that she lost her love. 

	Oh, she could remember the joy she felt when Nabiki called.  Gave her the good 
news that they would be arriving at the Tendo’s Dojo around 3:00 in the afternoon.  For 
over a year she believe he was out there.  Both Ranma’s and Akane’s family and had 
all ready given up and built memorials for them after ten months.  Shampoo also faced
 the reality that Ranma wasn’t coming back only about three months ago.  Needless to 
say Mousse was happy that Ranma wasn’t around, but he did grieve for Akane.   Kuno 
and Kodachi were horrible.  Both were cursing one form of Ranma or the other. Kodachi 
was angry, blaming the red-haired succubi for the lost of her darling Ranma.  Kuno was 
the just as bad.  He was cursing Ranma for the lost of both his pig-tail goddess and the
 strong Akane. 
	Ryoga was worse.  He was so upset over the loss of Akane he would
 become delirious.  Yelling into the night, cursing Ranma, and destroying random buildings.  
Since his Shishi Hokoudan¹* attacked worked  when he became depressed, no one was safe.  It got worst when he drank to forget his sorrows, but that never work.
  It just caused him to be careless, releasing burst of chi all over the place.   Ukyo took
 him in when he managed to find her store.  He stayed in the spare room and worked for
 cost of living and eating.  She had to admit when he wasn’t cursing Ranma or grieving 
over Akane, he was a big help.  After that year of hopes of Ranma being alive, she 
started to move on in with her life.  Ryoga was also starting to loosen up, and started to 
smile now and again.  "Those fangs are a little cute," she thought as she started to smell
 the Okonomiyaki burn.

"Ahh shoot!"  she yelled as she looked at the burned food and tossed it.
That was a good day.  She prettied herself up all for him.  Even wore a skirt, a long one, 
but a skirt.  She found Ryoga wandering trying to find the dojo and led him to the 
welcome home party.  There she met the whole Tendo family, Soun in tears of joy, 
flooding the yard.  Kasumi with a pleasant smile on her face and even Nabiki had a
 smile that matched.  Shampoo was also there, like there would be any doubt.  She 
was dressed in a short Chinese red dress, "Hussy."  Thought Ukyo.  Mousse and 
Cologne were also by Shampoo’s side and of course Kuno and Kodachi .  "The gangs
all here", she said when she walked up to them. 
 Just waiting for her Ranma to come.
Her heart pounded away in her chest.  It seemed so loud, that maybe others could her 
heart beat.  Then the taxi started to pull up.  Her eyes lit up, tears started to form.  She 
could see his silhouette on the car window.  He still wore his hair back in a pig-tail. The 
car stopped, and the door opened.  A foot stepped out and there he stood.  Ranma, her
 love.  He never looked so handsome before.  Maybe it was the tan or the new muscles 
or maybe that she hadn’t seen him in over a year.  Who knows, the fact was he was
 there staring at all the faces.  Recognizing some and some not.  His eyes met hers. 
 She stared back, a smile wide on her face.  But he had a strange look of confusion on 
his.  He didn’t know who she was.   She knew that both Ranma and Akane had lost
 their memories, but no one know how much of it they lost.  Surly he would remember 
her, but he didn’t.   For a brief second the sound of her heart breaking echoed in her 
ears.  He turned around and reached for a hand.  It was Akane, he helped her out of the 
cab.  She couldn’t believe how fat Akane had gotten.  All that laying around on a tropical
 beach sure was good to her.  They started to walk over to the crowd.   Akane stood 
next to Ranma.  Ranma pushed her forward slightly to meet the group.  He began to 
speak.
	"Hello I am Ranma Saotome of the School of Anything Goes Martial Arts, and 
this is my wife, Akane."

	Ukyo’s tears of happiness quickly switched to tears of terror as she and many
 other screamed.  Ukyo collapsed to her knees.  While they screamed, many also 
cheered, running up to them, hugging them.  Soun, Kasumi, Nabiki, and Akane were all 
crying as they hugged.  Genma hugged his son, crying, saying he was so proud of his 
boy.  Shampoo had this look of shock, like a deer in headlights look. Same as Kuno
 and Kodachi.
	After the screams started to quiet down.  Questions were being thrown left and 
right.  Ranma and Akane was trying to answer, but there were two many people taking. 
 Suddenly.
 *CRACK!*
 	The sound of a of whip hitting the street echoed all around them.  All eyes turned 
to Kodachi.  She had her ribbon whip out and mad look on her face.   She screamed as
 she charged towards Akane. "NO SLUT WILL TAKE MY DARLING RAMNA AWAY
 FROM ME!" The ribbon whip snapped around Akane’s neck and she  pulled her down 
to the ground.  Ranma freaked.  He jumped towards the ribbon and cut it in two with his 
hand, releasing Akane.  She gasped for air, bringing her hand to her throat.   He then hit 
Kodachi straight in the face.  It wasn’t a hard hit, he could of easily broke her jaw, but it 
was enough make her stagger back.  His attention went to Akane on the ground.
"Akane....Akane!"  Panic filled his voice.  "Akane are you all right?"
*Cough *Cough * Cough "Yeah...I’m fine."
"Ranma you hit a girl."  Nabiki said with shock.
Ranma stood up, his eyes filled with anger, his red battle aura flared.
"Listen up, I will only say this once."  He said coldly.  "I don’t remember what our lives
 were like before and right now I don’t care.   But if anyone, and I MEAN ANYONE, tries
 to harm Akane or our child again.  I will kill them."  
He bent down picked up his bride and carried her into the house.
"child?"  half of the group said looking  at each other. 

20 minutes later inside the Tendo’s home.

	"Ranma I’m all right and so is the baby, really."  Akane said trying to console her 
husband.
"I’m just worried about you."  He said looking at his wife laying on her bed.
"Ranma really, can I get up now.  I would like to see my family...uh, our family."
"Okay, something does smell good down there."
Akane giggled, "That’s Kasumi’s cooking."
Ranma turned his eyes away.
"You don’t remember do you?"  she asked.
"No, but maybe after I eat.  I’m starving."
"Yeah me too.  Anything that isn’t fish or fruit is a welcome change."
"Yeah no kidding."
	Ranma and Akane headed downstairs to the dinning room.  At the table sat two
 grinning men, known to them as their fathers.  Nabiki sat at the table writing something
 down in a book and Kasumi was placing another plate of food down on the table.
"Oh good your both here, now we can start."  Kasumi said in her pleasant voice.
Ranma and Akane sat down and dinner started.  Now you would think that there would 
be plenty of talking and catching up to do, but there wasn’t.  It didn’t seem real to Nabiki. 
"Well might as well get the ball rolling."  She thought.
"So Akane, how far are you along."
The table seem to stop awaiting the answer.  Akane smile and placed her hand on her 
stomach. "I’m five months in a week."
Ranma blushed and turned his head away.  Genma slapped Ranma back announcing, 
"Now there’s my boy!"  This caused Ranma to spit out his rice onto Soun’s face.
"Pop!"
"It’s okay son.  Have you thought of a name.  Soun is a nice name."  Soun said wiping 
his face clean with his napkin.
"Oh no, no, no Tendo.  I believe Genma is a much better name."
Akane and Ranma looked at each other.  
"Now wait a minute!  Who gives you the right?"  yelled Ranma.
"Now Ranma, what do you expect? This is after all is a dream come true for them."  
Nabiki nonchalantly said.
Both Ranma and Akane looked confused about the statement that was just said.  
"What do you mean Nabiki?"  Akane asked her sister.
"You actually don’t remember do you?"
"Well the last thing I really remember is fighting that Amazon in China in girl form."  
Ranma replied. 
"And I remember going to school one minute and then ending up on the island."
"Sure both of us have had some memory flashes, but not many."  Ranma said.
"Okay well let me fill you in.  Daddy and your father engaged their children before any
 of  us were born in order to combine the two schools.  When you came here Ranma, 
you were in female form.  Needless to say we were all shocked that the red-headed girl
 announced herself as Ranma Saotome.  We were even more shocked when we found 
out that she was a he.  Any of this coming back to you?"  Nabiki asked.
"No, well anyway,  the first time you, Akane, saw Ranma as a boy was when you walked 
in on him getting out of the tub."
Ranma and Akane both blushed.
"Well your curse was explained and then Daddy said it wasn’t that big of a deal and 
engaged you to him and..."  Nabiki was cut off.
"Wait a minute that doesn’t seem right."  Akane said.  "I have the feeling you and
 Kasumi had something to do with it."
"Why I have no idea what you mean."  Nabiki innocently stated.
"Oh Nabiki don’t lie to her."  Kasumi said starting to clear a few plates. "You know very
 well that we decided she would be the best choice."
"Best choice?  Why?"  Akane asked.
"Oh because you hated boys, and Ranma is half girl.  So it was a logical choice."
"Bu..t..but..uh"  Akane tried to form a response.
"Well we did come to the conclusion that we must of known each other through are
 martial arts."  Ranma said to Akane.
"Okay, but why is it a dream come true for are parents."  She asked.
"Oh well we were afraid that Ranma and you weren’t going to get married."
"How so, if we were engaged?"  Ranma asked.
"Oh I don’t know, the constant fighting, name calling, mallet pounding and of course the
 other fiancee’s."
"Other fiancee’s?"  Ranma asked.
"Oh yes Ranma, besides my lovely little sister, there were three others."
"I had four fiancee’s!  How did THAT happen?"
"Mmmm, lets see.  Well that Chinese Amazon you bested in combat came here to kill you. 
You see when an outsider female beats a Chinese Amazon then the Chinese Amazon
 must kill the outsider.  Shampoo, the Amazon, came here to kill you.  However, the 
male side of yourself beat her in combat and she fell  in love with you.  By Amazon law if 
a man beats a female Chinese Amazon then she is to marry him.   Fiancee number two
 was a friend of yours from a while back.  A certain daughter of a Okonomiyaki chef."
"Whoa! Wait one minute, the only person knew who cooked Okonomiyaki was my 
friend Ukyo, and HE was a Son of a Okonomiyaki chef."  Ranma said.
"Nope, sorry Ranma dear.  Ukyo isn’t a he, but a she. And your father engaged you two
 for the Okonomiyaki cart.
"What! Pop how could you?"  Ranma yelled.
Genma still shoving food into his mouth, "Well boy I gave you a choice between
 okonomiyaki and Ukyo, you choose okonomiyaki."
"That’s not what I meant!"  he yelled.
"Ranma, please calm down."  Akane said.  "Who’s the fourth?"
"Oh that would be Kodachi.  You know the one that attacked you this afternoon."
"That was one of my fiancee’s!"  Ranma yelled slamming his fist down on the table.
"Ranma please calm down."  Akane pleaded.
"No Akane, I won’t calm down.  She could of killed you today.  She could of killed our
 baby!  How could a freak like that be a fiancee’, Pop?"  Ranma sternly said.
"Hey that one wasn’t my fault."

"You see Ranma, she declared herself your fiancee."
"I don’t care.  I don’t want that madwomen near this house or near Akane."
"We can get a restraining order till she calms down a bit.
"I want it done by tomorrow."
"Oh of course Ranma, for a fee."   Nabiki grinned.
"Nabiki."  Akane shockingly said.
Ranma stared into Nabiki’s eyes, his eyes rigid.  "Now I don’t remember you, and I’m 
starting to think I don’t want to, but I’m sure you wouldn’t want harm to come to your
 sister or your nephew or niece.  Now would you, Aunt Nabiki?"
Nabiki was shocked at the tone of his voice.  It seems Ranma did a lot of growing up.  
A year and a half ago he would of never been able to stare her down, but her was doing 
a pretty good job of it now.
 "Okay Ranma you win, but don’t think it is because of anything you have said.  I just
 want my sister to be all right and Kodachi is a few cards short of a full deck.  You know
 Ranma, you should keep an eye out for yourself."
"Why what do you mean?"  He asked.
"Well, many of Akane’s suitors may want a battle."
"Oh that’s okay none of them ever beat him before."  Akane blurted out.
"Akane how did you know that."  Soun asked.
"I don’t know?  I just knew."  She said confusingly. 
"It looks like being at home has all ready help your memory."  Soun said with tears in his
 eyes.
"Daddy please, must you cry over everything?  Akane asked.
"I just can’t help it, I’m so happy."
"So Akane, Ranma, what are you two planning on doing tonight?"  Kasumi pleasantly 
asked.
They both looked at each other and huge grins formed on their faces.
"You get the popcorn, I’ll find the t.v. guide."  Akane said.
"T.V?  Your going to watch T.V?"  Nabiki asked.
They got up from the table.  "Hey when you been away from civilization for over a year 
you miss the little things."  Akane said to her sister.

That night at the Neko Hanten

"Shampoo please come out!"  Mousse yelled as he banged on the door.  
There were sounds  of objects being thrown against the walls of the room where 
Shampoo locked herself in.  
"It’s no use boy, her feeling have been ripped to shreds."
Mousse stopped banging on the door and walked over to the group in the closed 
restaurant.  He sat down next to Ukyo, who was next to Ryoga.
"Well I’ll bet your happy."  Ukyo said to Mousse.
Mousse said nothing, just turned his head away.
"A...a....k....a....n...e........"  Ryoga cried.
Ryoga hadn’t moved a whole lot since this afternoon.  
"When do you think he will snap out of this."  Mousse asked.
"Oh I’ll say  about now."  Cologne said glancing at the clock on the wall.
"OHHHHHH AKANE WHY?  WHY!  DAMN YOU RANMA, DAMN YOU!!!"  Ryoga
 yelled shaking his fists towards the ceiling.
*SLAP! CLANG*  Ukyo smacked Ryoga on the head with her battle spatula.
"Ouch! Why did you do that?"  he yelled.
"It’s not Ranma’s fault, it’s Akane’s!"  she replied.
"What! Are you crazy!  Of course this is Ranma fault!  It’s always HIS fault."
"No!"  she yelled standing up face to face with the bandanna wearing boy. "It’s
 Akane’s fault because she wouldn’t listen to Ranma and sit down when the storm hit, 
she would of never fallen over board and Ranma would of never jumped in after her."

	Ryoga didn’t have a response to that.  He all ready blamed himself that he couldn’t go 
after Akane for fear she would find out he was P-chan.  He gave up his argument and 
sat down, Ukyo followed.  Everyone was quite, nothing was said for a few minutes, until
 Ukyo spoke.
"He didn’t know me."
"Well the last time he saw you was when the two of you were six and he thought you 
were a boy.  You have grown up."  Cologne said.
"I know. It’s just…"
"It’s just you thought one look at you he would come running over declaring his undying
 love?"
"yeah."


Silence filled the air

"I can’t believe he hit Kodachi." She said.
"Yeah I know.  It tells you how much he cares for her and their baby."  Mousse 
answered.
"A baby."  Whispered  Ukyo.
"A baby."  Ryoga whispered back.
Quite hung over the restaurant once again.  Then the sound of a door opening brought
 everyone’s attention up.  Shampoo walked out, her face tear stained and hair a mess.
"Shampoo."  Mousses said softly.
"Shampoo run out of things to throw.  Shampoo once morn her husb...once morn
 Ranma and went on with life.  Will do it again."
"Come sit child.  I’ll make you some tea."  Cologne said.
"Thank you great-grand mother." She said, her voice hoarse from screaming and crying.

"You know sugha, I never thought Akane would be the one to win Ranma’s heart.  I
 always thought it was between you and me."
"Shampoo agree.  Never think tomboy Akane get Ranma."

"Well it’s getting late.  Come on Lost Boy your with me."
"Why would I want to go with you?"  Ryoga growled.
"Because I’m not risking you getting drunk and destroying half the city again.  Let’s go." 
She yelled.

Two months later 

"Do I have to go?"
"Yes Ryoga you promised Kasumi  you would."  Ukyo yelled back.
"But a baby shower, that’s for women."
"Well this is a both sex baby shower, and it’s a surprise."
"How come nobody told be till yesterday?"
"Because no one could find you."
"But I don’t have a gift."
"You can chip in with me.  Are you ready?"
"Yeah."
 "Well lets go."
"What did we get them?"
"A hand made baby blanket." 
"Sounds nice."
"It is, let's go."
I
Tendo Dojo
"SHHH!  They’re coming, everyone shut up."

"Ranma what do you want to show me?  Can’t it wait till later?"  Akane asked.
"Oh come on Akane, I know you will like it."
"Ranma what is with you, all day we spent at the park and walked around shopping 
and the whole day you kept asking what time is it. Then when I was in a store I liked, 
you dragged me out saying we had to go home.  What’s going on."  Akane stopped in 
front of the door leading out to the backyard.
"Come on Akane, I told you I have to show you something.  Just come out to the dojo."
"Okay fine, but make it quick."

	Ranma led Akane by the hand to the dojo doors.  He motioned for Akane to open the door. 
 She did so.  Once it flew open, the lights went on and "SURPRISE!" was yelled.
"What,  oh you guys, you shouldn’t have."  Akane said with a smile on her face.  She 
looked around and found her family there, Ranma’s mother and father, all there friends 
and even some new friends who were formal rivals.  Ukyo stood next to Ryoga, 
Shampoo next to Mousse and Cologne,  And even Kuno was there.  For a brief 
second a worried look crossed her face when she searched the room for Kodachi.  
"Don’t worry she’s not here.  I made sure of it."  Ranma whispered into her ear.  A sign
 of relief escaped her lips.
	The party went great. There was endless chit chat between guest, great food 
provided by Kasumi and even some friendly sparing.  Many people were saying how 
Akane seemed to glow and even Ranma had this grin on his face.

"So Akane how is school?"  Her friend Yuka asked.
"Oh it’s fine, sometimes a little hard getting in and out of those desks with this tummy." 
 She said patting her stomach.  "Ranma is in most of my classes, so he helps me out."
"Well I would hope so."  Yuka laughed.
"I still can’t believe that Nabiki was able to get you guys into Senior year."  Shara said.
"Yeah I know that test she arranged was great.  Even through it was really hard, 
throwing a whole year worth of work into a single test."
"How did she do that?" Shara asked.
"I don’t know?  All she said was that she had connections and not to worry about it."
"I don’t know how Ranma did it, Akane, he hardly paid attention when he was in school."
 Yuka said.
"Well it was more of a pride thing.  He didn’t want to be left behind."
"So what are you two doing about college?"
"Well I should deliver around when we get out for summer break.  That will give us a 
good three to two months. Then I can have morning classes or have three days of
 classes during the week, and commute to the University."
"Commute to the University?  Isn’t a far from here?"
"Well it’s about forty-five minutes by bus.  And Kasumi and Dad said they would baby 
sit for the baby.  Even Ranma’s parents said they would sit the baby if we needed them 
to."
"What about getting a place near the school?"
"Yeah we were thinking about that, but I don’t want to be away from my family until we
 know how to take care of the baby."

Akane looked around the room and watched as Ranma talked to Ukyo and few guys 
from school.  
"Don’t  you think it’s weird to have them here?"  Yuka asked.
"Who?"
"You know, them, the former fiancee’s?"
"Well it has been a little weird, but since we came back not really remembering them, it’s
 hasn’t been to hard."
"By the way how is your memory?"  Shara asked.
"Well ever since Dr. Tofu has been giving us pressure point treatment, a lot of it has
 come back.  Just a couple gaps here and there."
"Ranma also?"
"Yep, he seems to have gotten more back them me, but he has always been a fast 
healer."

	Hiroshi and  Daisuke stood talking to Ranma.  Ukyo left the group to chat with 
some others.  "I’ll tell ya Ranma it just hasn’t been the same around here. Oh sure there
 are fights at school, but nothing like the ones you got into."  Daisuke said.
Ranma place his hand to his neck and started to laugh.  "Well what can I say I’m the 
best."
"Well I see you haven’t lost your ego along with you memory."  Hiroshi responded.
"Hey my memory is almost all back, you know."
"That’s good to hear, really it is, but enough of the small talk.  How’s the action between you and Akane going?"  Daisuke questioned.
"What?"

"Come on you know, rocking the boat, sliding into home, mattress beating."
"Daisuke!"  Ranma yelled.
"Come on Ranma give us the info.  We won’t tell."  Hiroshi said.
"Yeah I believe that as much as I believe Nabiki doesn’t charge interest."
"Okay I tell you one thing, but shhhh, come in close."  Ranma, Daisuke and Hiroshi all 
gathered in close.  "Ever since she hit her seventh month she has been more horny 
then before."   Ranma whispered. 
"Are you kidding?"
"No way, I swear."  

"Hey what are you guys talking about?"  Akane whispered as she stuck her head into 
the group.  The three guys shot up with shocked faces.
"Oh nothing."  Ranma nervously said.
"Yeah nothing but gossip." Daisuke said backing up Ranma.
"Yeah gossip, nothing big."  Hiroshi said.
"Really about who?"  Akane asked.
"Umm... Well..."  Ranma stuttered trying to think of something to say.

"Akane, time for you to open your gifts!"  Yelled Kasumi from across the room.
"Uh, yeah, you better get going, you don’t want to disappoint any of the guest will you?"  
Ranma said pushing Akane towards Kasumi.
"Umm... Sure.  Coming!"

"Phew! Saved by the Kasumi."  Daisuke said.

A few days later.

	Akane sat at the dinning room table writing something down.  Nobody was in the house. 
 Everyone seem to have things to do.  Kasumi was at the market, Nabiki was at a friends,
 Soun and Genma were out on a training trip, which usually meant a bar, and Ranma 
was practicing.  She missed doing her own katas, but she couldn’t really practice martial 
arts in the state she was now.  She would do some light aerobics, but just to keep in 
shape.  She munched on some crackers as she jotted something else in the notebook 
in front of her.  Ranma came strolling in wiping the sweat from his neck and face.  He 
plopped down next to her and gave her a big kiss on the check.
"What’cha doing?"  he asked her.
"Oh nothing, just writing down some names for the baby."
"Can I see?"
Akane smile and turned to notebook over for Ranma to see.  He glanced down the list,
 taking a minute to go over the many names there.  He took the pen and started to 
circle some.
"I like these."  He said showing her.
	On the boys names side, the ones he circled were: Yuki, Takeo, Kazuo, Masahiro, 
Naoko, and Juro.  On the girl names list he circled:  Keiko, Takara, Suki, Nyoko, Kohana,
 and Akiko.  
	Akane look over the names he had circled and took out a highlighter.  She 
then circled the ones she like out of the group he chose.  "I like Takeo and Juro if it’s a
 boy and if it’s a girl, I like Akiko, Kohana and Suki."
"I’m sure we’ll decide when the time comes.  Umm.... Akane, you don’t have any unisex 
names on that list."
"So?"
"Well what if my curse is carried through to the baby.  I don’t want..."
Akane cut him off saying, "Ranma don’t worry if the curse is carried to the baby we will 
deal with it, and he or she will deal with it.  We will cross that bridge when we come to it."
A sign of relief crossed Ranma’s eyes.  "I love you."
"I love you too."

To be continued….
Part 2 of Deserted no longer:  And baby makes three.
**********************
Author’s note:  Well okay, I know I said before I didn’t want to continue and write more, 
but I did.  Hey what can I say.  I decided to answer some of the questions I proposed in 
the first story.  I hope you liked it.  Send feedback if you like.  See ya.... :) RJ


¹* Shishi Hokoudan (Roaring Lion/Depression Blast)This technique was learned 
by Ryouga when he became trapped in an underground excavation tunnel. An
 excavation worker taught Ryouga this. The technique goes as follows: one channels
 the negative energy of heavy feelings, like depression, into his/her body and releases
 it in the form of a giant discharge of "chi" energy. The more heavy the feeling is, the 
bigger the blast, and for Ryouga and his depression over many things, especially his 
love for Akane, this is a perfect technique for him.

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