The Insanity Continues

Volume 3 - Anything Goes Martial Arts Dance Contest

Chapter 2 - Dancing the Night Away

Characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video, ect..., and are 
used without permission. I'm only borrowing them. I'll return them. 
I can't afford the overdue charge Nabiki insists on.

This series deals with a married Ranma and Akane, 
so some sexual references and innuendoes may occur.

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It was the end of another day at Furinkan High as Ranma waved good-bye 
to Akane. She left with her friends to work on a school project. Seeing 
as the assignment was due after lunch tomorrow, Ranma was going to work 
on it with Hiroshi and Daisuke at lunch.

Ranma sighed. This was the first time in almost two weeks in which Akane 
wasn't in shouting distance from him. They have been married for nine 
days, and Akane was now about twelve days pregnant. Ranma shook his 
head. One day and his world forever changed yet again. Thirteen days ago 
seemed little different than any day during the past year and a half. 
The next day Happosai used a magical item on Ranma, and his life was 
once again sent through the blender. 

His mind went through the changes.  

Ranma snapped at of his thoughts as her heard a familir voice say, 
"Ranma?"

"What do you want, Ukyou?" Ranma asked.

"I think we should talk," Ukyou replied.

"Why should we?" 

"Because I want us to be friends again."

"Friends? I trusted you, and you betrayed me. I thought I could tell my 
'best friend' the whole truth and she would never go and tell anyone 
about it. I never thought my 'best friend' would particpate in stopping 
my wedding without asking me if that's what I wanted. And I didn't think 
my 'best friend' would help destroy my mother's house."

"Ranma, they were mistakes. I should have never done any of those 
things."

"Sure, but what stops you from doing something like that again. How can 
I trust you? It hurt more seeing you throw that exploding okonomiyaki at 
me than when it actually hit. I would've thought you'd ask me if I 
wanted to marry her, or at least found a way to stop the wedding with no 
one getting hurt."

"Why didn't you say anything about it before, Ranma? When I appologized 
for that, you said it wasn't a big deal."

"I understood why you did it, but it still hurt. I trusted you and you 
betrayed me."

"You betrayed me too. I was your fiancee, technically I still am. If you 
had no intentions of marrying me, you should have told me. You strung me 
along because you wanted someone to fall back on if Akane broke off her 
engagement for good. You used me. For a year I've been faithful to you, 
helping you, being your friend, and you threw me to the side like a used 
tissue because Akane spread her legs."

Ranma was very angry at Ukyou for that last comment. "I never asked you 
to do any of those things. I didn't want to hurt your feelings by telling 
you that I wasn't interested. And if I explained all the reasons why I 
didn't want to marry you when you came here, I might be celebrating my 
first wedding anniversery to a very angry wife now."

"When did you know you were going to marry Akane?"

"The wedding fiasco was when I knew I was going to marry her. It was 
before Shampoo showed up that I realized I didn't really mind the idea 
of marrying her." 

"Saotome Ranma, how dare you covort with other women once your lovely 
wife has left your side?!" Kuno shouted.

Ranma rolled his eyes. "I was only talking to her."

"Vile deceiver, you no doubt wish to twist her to your will again and 
enslave her."

Ranma lept at Kuno, punching him in the face. "Shut up, Kuno."

Kuno collapsed into a heap.

Ranma stomped off the Furinkan grounds and then took roof top route home.

Ukyou walked over to Kuno. "You just had to interrupt, didn't you?" She 
decided to play golf with her combat spatula.

Kuno awoke, finding himself flying over Nerima. "Curse you Soatome!"

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Three girls giggled as they walked down the streets of Nerima. They 
talked and joked about who was going with whom to the prom. Yuka led 
Akane and Sayuri, to her home since they decided to work on a school 
assignment there. Yuka's mother looked at Akane warily.

The three girls went to Yuka's room, pulled out school books, and 
started working on their assignment. Five minutes after starting, the 
subject moved to the upcoming prom.

"Do you two want to see if your prom dates want to join me and Ranma at 
the Raging Night Dance Club this Saturday?" Akane asked.

"I doubt my Mom will let me. She isn't too thrilled with the idea of the 
prom in the first place," Yuka answered.

"I already have plans with Daisuke. We might stop by during our date," 
Sayuri answered.

"You're going on a date Satuday with Daisuke? Why didn't you tell me?" 
Yuka demanded.

"I guess it slipped my mind."

"'Slipped your mind?' You're going on a date and it 'slipped your mind?'"

"I didn't forget the date. I just forgot to tell you. Besides, you're 
the one going with Hiro to the prom. I'd say that's bigger news. Only 
Ranma ranked above him as most desirable date."

"Ranma was most desirable?" Akane asked.

"A handsome, martial arts god who probably knew a thing or two about how 
to pleasure a girl, of course girls wanted to date him," Sayuri said.

"Fortunately for him, he didn't know too much about how to pleasure 
girls."

"Why do you say that?" Yuka asked.

"If he had anymore knowledge, it'd mean I wasn't his first and only. I 
would be very angry with him if that was the case."

"You thought he might have done it with one of the other girls," Sayuri 
said.

"I was just being a jealous idiot about it. He has been faithful to me."

"So, is marriage to Ranma better than you thought?" Yuka asked.

"It is better, but I still would've liked to wait."

They were interrupted as someone knocked on the door.

"It's open," Yuka said.

Yuka's mother entered the room. "I was wondering if you girls would like 
a snack?"

"Sure," replied the girls.

"Akane, could you help me carry up the snacks?" Yuka's mother asked.

Akane was a little confused at the request. "Um, okay." She followed 
Yuka's mother out the room and towards the kitchen.

"Is it true that you got pregnant before your wedding?" Yuka's mother 
asked.

Akane relunctantly said, "Yes."

"I thought you were better than that. I really don't like the idea of 
girls your age dating, let alone married and pregnant."

"I'd prefer it if I wasn't pregnant. Ranma and I still have a lot of 
problems to sort out, and I would've liked to have handled them before 
getting married. Getting pregnant was the last thing I wanted."

"Then why'd you have sex with him?"

"At the time, Ranma and I were trapped in a magical prison. We were 
running out of ideas of how to escape, and seeing as the person who 
trapped us is the biggest pervert in the world, we thought a means of 
escape might be to have sex."

"You should've known he suggested it just because it was an excuse to 
have sex with you."

Akane blushed. "Um, it was my idea to have sex, and I had to convince 
him. It was pretty stupid of me to have done it, and now I have to live 
with that decission."

"I hope you aren't giving my daughter any ideas."

"I've been telling her it isn't good I got married so soon. That she 
shouldn't be in a rush to find someone. But, all she is seeing is all 
the good things that happened to me because of it."

"I'm worried about my daughter. I don't want to see her make the same 
mistakes you did."

"I don't want her to either. She isn't ready, and she should enjoy 
what's left of her childhood."

"You're right, she's not ready. But I don't want her to think she should 
rush out to get married because you did."

"I can explain to her all the reasons why she should wait, because I know 
better than anyone else what is lost, since I'm going through it."

Yuka's mother looked carefully at Akane. "I hope you can. My baby girl 
shouldn't have a baby, and I fear that is just what she wants."

Akane smiled. "Yuka is lucky to have a mother like you. My father and 
Ranma's parents were overjoyed that I got pregnant. I sort of wished 
they would've been upset about it. I'm too young to have these problems, 
and yet I do."

Yuka's mother nodded. "You certainly are too young." She handed Akane 
three cans of soda pop, and then picked up a tray of snacks. They went 
back to Yuka's room.

"What kept you?" Sayuri asked.

"I just wanted to ask Akane a couple questions," Yuka's mother answered. 
She set down the snacks and left.

"What did you talk about?" Yuka asked.

Akane handed the girls each a soda pop. "She wanted to know if I was 
really pregnant and she's worried because she thought I might encouage 
you to follow my lead."

"She worries too much," Yuka said.

"It's better than too little." Akane sighed. "Let's get back to the 
school work. I can't stay too long. I still have to cook dinner for 
Ranma."

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Akane ran back home. She was late. It was already after five thirty, and 
she needed to make dinner. When she arrived, she let out a sigh. She 
realized she was too late when the arouma of delicious foods whetted her 
taste buds. Kasumi had already started dinner. 

"I'm home," Akane called, making her way to the kitchen.

"Hi Akane. I hope you don't mind that I made dinner. I didn't want it to 
be late," Kasumi said.

"It's all right. I didn't feel like cooking anyway," Akane lied.

"Dinner is almost ready. Can you get the others?"

"Sure," Akane replied. She first went upstairs and told Nabiki. Then 
Akane went to the dojo and found Ranma fighting Mousse. "Dinner's 
ready."

Mousse emitted a sigh of relief as Ranma stopped attacking.

Ranma turned and walked out of the dojo.

Akane walked next to him. "What is it?"

"What do you mean 'what is it?'" Ranma asked.

"You're angry, and I'd like to know why."

"I had a talk with Ukyou."

"I take it, it didn't go very well."

"That's an understatement."

"You can't stay angry at her."

"I know, but how can I ever trust her again? I've trusted her enough to 
tell her my secrets, and she told everyone a secret I didn't want anyone 
to know about."

"The same way I'm learning to trust Ryoga again, give another chance."

Ranma sighed. "Maybe I should try to talk to her later."

"No maybe, you will talk with her. And you will give her another 
chance."

"Yes, Dear," Ranma replied as if he wanted to say no.

Akane was not pleased with his tone, but wasn't going to make an issue 
of it, since he did agree. 

Ranma and Akane joined Nabiki at the dinner table. They were shortly 
joined by Mousse, after he applied some bandages to himself. All but 
Akane were happy that Kasumi cooked dinner.

"I've been meaning to ask you if you're going to the prom with Kuno?" 
Akane asked.

"Yes," Nabiki replied.

Kasumi entered with some of the dinner.

"How about you two join Ranma and me to the Raging Night Dance Club this 
Saturday?" Akane asked.

Ranma frowned at the suggestion. He really didn't want to deal with Kuno 
any more than he had to.

"Sounds like fun." Nabiki smirked, seeing how unhappy Ranma looked about 
it.

"Dancing," Kasumi said to herself.  "Would you mind if Dr. Tofu  and I come too?"

"Oh, I insist you two come," Akane answered.

Ranma was happier with this idea.

"Maybe Shampoo and I could join you," Mousse said.

"I don't think Shampoo would like the idea," Ranma replied.

"Why not?"

"Well, I think Shampoo has been avoiding me. And the only way you can 
get her to go out with you is if you defeat her first. You're not ready 
yet to fight her yet."

"I'm as skilled a fighter as she is."

"You need to be better than her. You'll hold back in your fight because 
you don't want to hurt her, but she won't hold back anything. You have 
to come up with a techniques geared towards submission because you don't 
want to knock her out."

Mousse could only nod at what Ranma said.

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Akane picked up the phone on the third ring. "Hello, Saotome-Tendo 
residence. Can I help you?" 

"Hi, Akane," Akari answered from the other end of the line. "How is 
everything?"

"Fine, and you?"

"Great. Ryoga's dog is keeping him from getting lost."

"That's nice. It's a good thing you called. I wanted to see if you and 
Ryoga would join me and Ranma dancing Satuday?"

"Oh, that sounds like fun. Let me check." A muffled sound was now heard 
through the phone. "Akane, we'd be glad to join you."

"Great. Just come here Saturday afternoon so we can all leave at the 
same time."
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-Thursday evening

Kuno and Nabiki were at the small restaurant called Auntie's. Nabiki was 
once again avoiding being home because of Akane's cooking.

"So, what business does thou have with me tonight?" Kuno asked, smilimg.

"I don't really have any business tonight except my sister wants to make 
a group outing at a dance club this Saturday."

"You wondered if I would grace you all with my presence and demonstrate 
my incomperable skill on the dance floor?"

Nabiki rolled her eyes. "Yes."

"Is Saotome going to be there?"

"Both of them will be there."

"Both of them?" Kuno asked confused.

Nabiki shook her head. "Sure, Ranma and Akane are both Saotomes now."

"I desire either to avoid seeing the deceiver or to see him destroyed."

"Come on Kuno-chan. You shouldn't hold a grudge against my brother. We 
did try to explain it to you, but you wouldn't listen. It is as much 
your fault for not wanting to see the truth as it was for him to 
occassionally use your self-desception against you." 

Nabiki stared at Kuno coldly. "Besides, you kept chasing after him and 
Akane, despite the fact they made it clear they didn't have any feelings 
for you. In many ways you brought on yourself everything he did to you."

"What about your own participation in the deception?"

"I did try to tell you, but you weren't listening. Besides, I only sold 
you pictures and truthful information. Did I ever say the 'pig-tailed 
girl' was in love with you, or Ranma had enslaved the girl."

"You said something to the effect that her body and soul is Ranma's, 
that suggested enslavement."

"I used a poor choice of words, but tell me how could I have explained 
it that Ranma and the girl were the same person?"

Kuno thought for a moment. "That the girl is Ranma. That Ranma has two 
bodies, one male and the other female."

"You wouldn't spout at how this is some sorcery or something similar?"

"If you had explained it then, I would have accepted it."

"Oh really?" Nabiki stared at Kuno harshly.

Kuno withered under the gaze. "Maybe I still would not desire to see the 
truth. It is hard to believe such curses exist."

"Ranma has seen far more unbelievable things than his curse. His life 
has been extremely hard, and he's only seventeen. I would hate to find 
out his life is only going to get harder, but I'm afraid it might."

"One as evil as him deserves a harsh life."

"He is not evil. The only way he has wronged you was by playing into 
your own deception. It is your fault for chasing after Akane and his 
girl half. Kuno-chan, I'm not going to ask you to be friends with Ranma, 
but I do ask you stop being his enemy. Akane doesn't want you fighting 
with him, and I don't want you to either."

"How can I just let him work his evils?"

"Kuno-chan, how about stopping attacks on him for a while and observe 
what he does without attacking him? Try to see what he's really like. He 
isn't a bad person once you know him."

"I am certain he will prove to be as evil as I say."

"Then if you personally observe him you'll at least be able to see how 
he fights and you might find a weakness to exploit when you prove he is 
truly evil. That is something I want you to do before you attack him 
again, prove to me he has done something evil. If you can prove it, I 
will help you."

"Such a noble offer." Kuno thought for a moment.  "I shall accept your terms."

"Remember, no fighting him until I say so."

"I shall remember."

"You may even want to show a sign of peace between you and Ranma."

"Why should I?"

"Well, for no other reason, you'd be able to get closer to him in order 
to find your evidence. And if you do find he isn't evil, you might even 
decide to be his friend."

"Hmm. To find evidence by daring to entering the lion's den. It is a 
sound idea. I shall attempt it."

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-Saturday shortly after 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Tofu knocked on the door of the Saotome-Tendo home. He was a little 
surprised when Kasumi asked him out, but he didn't mind. 

Ranma answered the door. "Hiya, Doc. Come on in. The girls are almost 
ready."

"Hi Ranma," Dr. Tofu greeted. They went to the dinning room where Ryoga, 
Akari, and Kuno were. Dr. Tofu avoided looking at Kuno.

"Do you have the results of Akane's test?" Ranma asked.

"I do, but I think I'll wait for Akane before telling anyone."

"You don't have to wait," Akane said as she entered with her sisters.

"Ah! Such a lovely sight to behold," Kuno said.

"You better not be talking about Akane." Ranma said.

"Ranma!" Akane snarled.

Ranma backed away from Akane. "You are a lovely sight, Akane. I just 
meant he shouldn't be looking at my wife."

"I would not covet another man's wife. I was refering to Nabiki," Kuno 
said matter-of-factly.

"Thank you, Kuno-chan," Nabiki said.

Akane smiled. "You think I'm lovely?"

"Of course you are," Ranma sighed in relief.

"Dr. Tofu, what are the test results?" Akane asked.

"The test came up positive. You are indeed pregnant. Congratulations," 
Dr. Tofu answered.

Akane smiled nervously. "Great." Her last hope she wasn't pregnant went 
out the window.

"Oh, congratulations," Kasumi said.

"Pregnant?" Ryoga and Akari shouted in unison, as no one had told them 
until now.

"That's wonderful. I'm sure you and Ranma will make great parents," 
Akari said.

"Ranma! You... you..." Ryoga started in his customary anger, but then 
remembered they are married. "...you'll make a great father. 
Congratulations."

"Thanks man," Ranma said nervously.

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The four couples made it to the Raging Night Dance Club. They made sure 
to be there before six o'clock, to beat other Furinkan High students who 
might have the same idea. The place was almost packed when they arrived. 

Several murmers were heard as they entered. There were some students 
from Furinkan at the club, and they were amazed seeing Kuno and Nabiki 
entered together. They were shocked when Ranma and Akane followed them.

They all sat around one table. Kuno was flanked by Kasumi and Nabiki, 
and Ryoga and Akari sat accross from him. 

When they ordered their food, Kuno added, "A round of sake to celebrate 
Akane's blessing of life."

"Except Akane, of course," Dr. Tofu added.

"Yeah, just tea for me," Akane said, blushing slightly. 

This got a surprised look from the waitress. She left with thier order.

"Kuno-chan, you're not going to try to get me drunk tonight?" Nabiki 
joked.

"Unlike some..." Kuno eyed Ranma evilly. "I respect the sancticty of a 
woman's bed chamber before marriage."

Akari was a little shocked at Kuno's insinuation and realized there a 
slight timing error if Akane suspected she was pregnant already. She 
giggled, "You couldn't wait to get your hands on him, could you Akane?"

"What?" Ryoga stammered.

Ranma got nervous as he didn't want to fight Ryoga now. They didn't get 
to eat yet.

Akane sighed, as she had to explain it in hope of stopping Ryoga from 
going ballistic. "A couple days before the wedding, I, sort of, seduced 
Ranma."

Ryoga blinked. "You seduced him?!"

Kuno grumbled something about a spell, which earned a nasty glare from 
Nabiki.

"Yes, it was my idea to have sex before the wedding. I actually had to 
convince him."

"He didn't force himself on you?" Ryoga asked.

"If anything, I forced myself on him. He wanted to wait."

"I'm sure he did," Kuno said in a mocking tone.

"If you didn't wait, you wouldn't be pregnant," Akari said.

"Yeah, I wish I waited or at least paid more attention to my cycle. I 
didn't want to get pregnant so soon," Akane said.

"I think it's wonderful you're pregnant. I'd like to be a mother 
myself," Akari said. She gently touched Ryoga's arm.

Ryoga became very uncomfortable.

Ranma sighed with relief as it looked like Ryoga wasn't going to fight. 
Ranma had some mixed feelings about what Akane was saying about being 
pregnant.

The waitress returned with thier drinks.

With thier glasses filled, Kuno made a toast, "To the glourious life 
Akane bears, may the child be noble, honorable, and strong."

Finding nothing at fault with it, they accepted the toast.

They started to talk between themselves. Dr. Tofu talked with Kasumi, 
and Kuno spouted poetry to Nabiki. Ranma found himself caught between 
Akari and Akane talking about married life and the pregnancy. Ryoga felt 
left out.

Ranma decided to go for some more sake, to help ignore the conversation 
going on around him.

"Ranma, don't drink too much. I don't want to deal with a drunken 
red-head," Akane said, warningly.

"I was only going to have a second one. That's it," Ranma replied.

"See that it is."

"What did you mean by that, Akane?" Akari asked.

"Ranma's curse form has no tolerance for alcohol. He might become drunk 
if he turns into a girl."

Akari giggled looking at Ryoga. "I wonder if he has the same problem."

"A drunk P-Chan, now there's a thought." Akane giggled.

"Maybe he wouldn't be able to get lost that way," Ranma joked.

Ryoga glared at Ranma.

"Ranma, don't you dare start a fight," Akane scowled.

Ranma sighed and took a little drink from his sake. He was thankful when 
the waitress arrived with thier food. He wasn't happy Akane was taking 
her time eating as she continued to talk with Akari.

After finishing their meal Kuno led Nabiki on to the dance floor, and 
they were joined shortly by Kasumi and Dr. Tofu. Then Akari dragged 
Ryoga to the dance floor.

Ranma and Akane watched the various people dancing. They quickly noted 
how most people danced wasn't very complicated with the slow songs 
currently being played, basically staying in place and swaying to the 
music. Kuno and Nabiki were doing a more complicated dance than anyone 
else. 

"Hi," Sayuri and Daisuke greeted.

"Hi," Ranma and Akane returned.

"It's nice to see you two make it," Akane said.

"We're not staying too long. We're on our way to the movies," Daisuke 
said.

"Are my eyes playing tricks on me?" Sayuri asked.

"Why? What do you think you're seeing?" Ranma asked.

"Kuno dancing with Nabiki," Sayuri said.

"You aren't seeing anything," Akane replied.

"Nabiki and Kuno?"

"I'm still trying to figure it out, and I've known for over a week," 
Ranma said.

"You mean Kuno's been going after Nabiki and harping on you about Akane 
at the same time?" Daisuke asked.

"Yeah. Nabiki is talking some sense into him though," Ranma answered. "I 
guess they make a perfect couple. She's money hungry and manipulative 
and he's rich and easy to manipulate."

Akane smacked Ranma on the arm. "Don't insult people."

"I'm only joking, sheez."

"The person you're insulting may not take it that way. When you insulted 
me it hurt. I didn't find anything funny about them."

"Aw, you need to lighten up a little."

Sayuri and Daisuke decided to retreat to the dance floor.

"You need to realize not everyone thinks your insults are funny. If you 
want to fling insults at someone, make sure the person won't be offended 
by them or that you want to offend the person."

"Uncute." 

"Prevert."

"You're the pervert."

"Baka." 

With each word they moved closer until they started kissing. They 
stopped when the music turned modern. Dr. Tofu, Kasumi, Ryoga and Akari 
returned to the table. Kuno attempted to continue dancing, embarrassing 
Nabiki, since he was looking like an idiot. She dragged him off the 
floor. Sayuri and Daisuke continued dancing. Ranma and Akane started to 
watch the people dancing again.

"Not all modern music have the same dance," Ranma commented.

"Actually this one doesn't appear to have a particular style attached to 
it. Only two people are dancing the same way," Akane added.

"It seems moving to the beat of the music is how you dance to this."

"We could modify a kata to fit the beat of the song were going to be 
judged on." 

"How is a kata related to dancing?" Akari asked.

"A kata is a set practice forms of martial arts. You repeat a series of 
moves that can be used for fighting. Dancing is a repition of moves done 
in a way that is pleasing to the eye. By modifing a kata to work in beat 
with a song, it should be pleasing to the eye," Akane answered.

"A battle of two great martial artists is oft called a dance of death, 
for it has its own glorious beauty," Kuno added.

"Care to try, Akane?" Ranma asked. "You lead and I'll copy your moves."

"Wouldn't hurt," Akane shrugged.

Sayuri and Daisuke said good-bye to Ranma and Akane before leaving for
the movies.

Ranma and Akane made their way to the dance floor. Akane attempted to 
move in beat, missing each one slightly. Ranma mirrored each move. Those 
watching might have been in awe of the skill shown if it weren't the 
jarring effect from the missed beats.

The next song was a slow one. Ranma and Akane decided to continue 
dancing. The other couples quickly joined them. 

As Dr. Tofu danced with Kasumi a guy approached them. "May I cut in?" 
the guy said as he pushed Dr. Tofu aside and started to dance with 
Kasumi.

"You may not." Dr. Tofu's voice was filled with venom. The guy withered 
under the doctor's rather painful neck pinch.

"Four eyes, leave my brother alone," a rather large guy said.

"Certainly." Dr. Tofu released his neck pinch.

The guy turned and punched Dr. Tofu into a group of other couples. "Come 
on wimp, lets see what you've got."

"I'd rather not. I don't want to have to patch you back together 
afterwards," Dr. Tofu said.

The guy rushed Tofu. Tofu dodged, slamming the guy into the back.

"Bad move four eyes. You hurt my little brother, now you have to fight 
me and my friends." Five guys flanked the larger one.

Ranma and Akane looked at the situation shaking their heads. 

"Oh great. A bar fight. Maybe they'll have some skill," Ranma said going 
over to Dr. Tofu's side. "Quick question guys, how many of you are dan 
level martial artists and in how many schools?"

A small guy said, "We don't need to know any stinking martial arts to 
beat you guys."

"None of you? Give up now."

"Get them!" shouted the large guy.

The guys charged Ranma and Tofu. While they were taken out in short 
order, the fight triggered more fights. The Raging Night turned into one 
big fight. Ranma and the others decided to leave, rather than continue 
the pointless fighting.

"Honestly Ranma, I can't take you anywhere without there being some 
trouble," Akane said jokingly.

"Is it my fault trouble seems to find me?" Ranma replied in mock 
defense.

"Of course it is, everything is your fault," Ryoga smirked.

"Not everything is Ranma's fault," Akane corrected. "He's only at fault 
about half the time."

"Oh, and just who's at fault the remainer of the time?" Ranma asked.

"Everyone else, of course," Akane smirked. 

"How much of the time are you at fault?" Ranma asked.

Akane frowned slightly. "Half at fault about our relationship, otherwise 
no more than anyone else." 

The four couples decided to return to the Saotome-Tendo home to have a 
party there.

Ranma and Akane returned to joking with each other. 

Ryoga was getting nervous as Akari kept on looking at Ranma and Akane, 
occassionally mentioning something along the lines of how nice it would 
be to be married.

Kasumi looked at Dr. Tofu warily. He had acted violently towards the 
person that tried to cut in, and helped start the brawl that followed.

Dr. Tofu noticed how Kasumi was looking at him and apologized for 
overreacting. He was uncertain about her reaction if he told her why he 
was acting that way. He decided to avoid seeing her in places likely to 
cause him to get angry at anyone.

Nabiki was pleased that Kuno was controling himself and was actually 
being reasonably friendly towards Ranma.

Kuno had kept an eye on Ranma and noticed that, while Ranma had helped 
start the brawl he had done so only to help a friend, not enough to 
convince Nabiki of Ranma being evil.

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Author's Note:

I did a little research for another story about the timing of when women 
are fertile. Woman are considered most fertile on the 13 to 15th days of 
a 28 day cycle. So for Akane to be concerned she was pregnant Saturday, 
she would suppose to have had her period that day or before but didn't. 
This would place Akane being most fertile before the wedding. This is 
why Akari noticed a slight timing error.

The legality of selling alcohol to minors in japan is questionable. I've 
heard there isn't one to that it's twenty. For this fict though, I've 
assumed there isn't a legal drinking age for the type of alcohol they 
bought or that Dr. Tofu presence allowed them to buy the celebitory sake 
(he is over 20).

    Source: geocities.com/tokyo/fuji/9061/TIC