The Insanity Continues

Volume 3 - Anything Goes Martial Arts Dance Contest

Chapter 3 - To The Prom!

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 of little surprise to Yuka and Sayuri to find the dress shop they 
entered busy. They had less than a week before their school prom, and 
were looking through the dresses trying to find something they'd like.

"Did you hear the latest rumors?" Yuka asked.

"You mean about Kuno and Nabiki being an item?" Sayuri returned.

"That's one of them."

"That one is not a rumor. I saw them dancing when Daisuke and I stopped 
to see Ranma and Akane at the dance club."

"Then it's true that Ranma and Kuno are becoming friends, too."

"I'm not sure about that, but from what I saw, they were tolerating each 
other's presence, even though Ranma was still insulting Kuno."

"How did Kuno react to it?" Yuka asked while checking how an exquisite, 
white dress looked in the mirror.

"He was too busy dancing with Nabiki to hear it. Oh, avoid wearing 
white, unless you want to scare Hiro away thinking you want commitment."

"Guess you're right about that." Yuka put the dress back. "I heard Ranma 
started a fight."

"If he did, it was after I left. But I did see Ranma and Akane get into 
a little insult sparring match. Akane stopped it after each said two 
insults."

Yuka shook her head. "You mean they're still having fights, even after 
getting married?"

Sayuri checked how a blue dress looked. She looked at Yuka, smirking. 
"She ended it by kissing him. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear she 
was getting turned on by them."

"You don't, because I was," Akane said, standing with Akari behind 
Sayuri.

Sayuri became nervous. "Hi, we were just talking about you."

"I noticed," Akane smirked. 

Yuka bit back her question as long as she could, visibly struggling to 
keep from asking it. Finally, though, her curiosity won out. "So... 
why were his insults turning you on?"

Akane blushed slightly. "Well, during the honeymoon, Ranma told me his 
insults didn't mean what you'd think. Uncute means, to him, beautiful 
but not some sweet, innocent, giggling school girl. Macho chick and the 
other insults about my strength were actually his awkward way of 
complementing me, but seeing as I took them wrong, he added them to his 
list of insults." 

"What about his other insults, the ones that obviously degrade you?"

Akane sighed. "Those were his attempts to point out a weakness for me to 
correct. I still don't take those very well, so he has avoided saying 
them since the wedding." She checked what the white dress looked like.

"That'd look great on you, Akane," Sayuri said.

"And you don't have to worry about scaring off your date," Yuka added.

"Yeah, but it still looks a little too much like a wedding dress. I 
don't want to remind Ranma it's kind of my fault we got married as soon 
as we did," Akane said with a sad undertone.

Akari took the white dress. "I rather like it."

"You might scare off your boyfriend," Yuka said.

"I'm not worried about that," Akari smiled.

"It'd be another hint that she wants to get married," Akane said. "Too 
bad you can't go to the prom."

"Yeah, but we could still go to a dance club."

"Why can't you go to the prom?" Sayuri asked.

"Ryoga and I don't go to school."

Sayuri blinked, remembering when Ryoga turned into P-Chan just after 
Akane's wedding. "You want to get married to the guy who was Akane's pet 
pig?"

"Um, yeah."

"Do you know why he was her pet?" Yuka asked, letting curiosity, once 
again, to get the better of her.

"Well, Ryoga was always alone before, so when Akane showed him signs of 
affection as her pet, he couldn't help but want to be her pet. Try to 
imagine not seeing family, friends or anyone who knows you for months at 
a time. Then someone smothers you with affection. Wouldn't you grab hold 
of it with both hands? Not wanting to let go."

"So that's why he fell in love with me," Akane said.

Akari nodded. "The thought of losing that affection was what prevented 
him from telling you."

"I guess I can understand that. I still haven't forgiving him, though. 
He shouldn't have been my pet. He should've at least told me."

"I understand. I'm not pleased with him for being your pet as long as he 
was. He probably still would be if you didn't know about it."

"If I hadn't figured it out by my wedding, I hope Ranma would've told 
me."

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In a different dress shop, Ukyou looked at the prom dresses with a lost 
expression. "I really don't have a clue how to pick one out."

"That is why you asked me to help, ne?" Konatsu asked, wearing a kimono.

"Yeah, but this is a bit much, isn't it? I almost never wear a dress and 
here I am, about to get one of these gowns."

"These are what one would wear to a formal dance."

"How am I suppose to fight in one of these?"

"You're not suppose to fight in them, only dance."

Ukyou shook her head. "How do I pick one anyway?"

"Well, first I'd suggest narrowing the selection down to a color of 
dress you'd prefer. Blue seems to be your color."

Ukyou nodded. She pulled out a blue dress with green accents. "Ick! 
Definitely not this one."

"Certainly not," Konatsu confirmed. He flipped trough a selection and 
pulled out a rather plain blue prom dress.

Ukyou took it and checked it out in the mirror. "It's not bad. Not 
fancy. I kind of like it."

"I thought you would. Why don't you go see how it fits?"

"Sure, be right back."

Konatsu started to look through the dresses again, waiting for Ukyou 
return.

A saleslady approached him. "Can I help you miss?"

"No. I'm just looking for a dress for my friend," Konatsu replied.

"Already have one for the prom?"

"Um... I'm not going to the prom."

"Why not? A cute girl like you should easily find a date."

Konatsu started sweating a little. "Well, I don't go to school, so it 
wouldn't be right for me to go to the prom."

"Nonsense, a girl should experience what it's like to go to the prom. 
Why don't you talk to my son? I'm sure he'd be glad to take a beautiful 
girl like you."

Konatsu stammered, trying to think of a way out of the hole he somehow 
had dug himself into.

Ukyou had overheard the last part and was laughing hysterically.

"What's so funny, miss?" asked the saleslady.

"N-nothing," Ukyou tried to stifle her laughing. "It's just that he... 
er, she isn't interested in boys. She'd rather take a girl."

The saleslady looked at Konatsu strangely.

Konatsu nodded. "Y-yes. I'd prefer girls to boys, which is part of the 
problem with me going to the prom."

"Er... I see. Sorry." The saleslady quickly left to find some other 
customers.

"Now she thinks I'm some kind of hentai," Konatsu said sadly.

"You're a guy who's wearing a kimono and you've worn more dresses than 
me, so technically you are."

He sighed. "Everyone I know seems to be a hentai of one sort or 
another."

Ukyou laughed. "Can't really deny that. Several of the people I know 
have some unnatural outlook towards sex." Ukyou did a slow spin. "What 
do you think of the dress?"

"Looks nice, but we should check other dresses to find the one you like 
the most."

Ukyou nodded and went back to the dressing room.

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Dr. Tofu entered the Neko-Hanten carefully. He did not want to get in a 
situation where he'd get angry at anyone. Thanks to the potion that 
Cologne gave him, he could get angry at someone very easily. "Cologne, I 
need to talk to you."

"What is it, Doctor?" Cologne asked, not liking the bitter tone of his 
voice.

"I'm having a problem with the potion you gave me. It is getting worse. 
Before I was just a little less pleasant, now I've been downright mean 
to people I shouldn't be upset with."

"That is a problem. The thing is, I don't have an antidote for it."

"You don't!?" Dr. Tofu snarled.

"No, the potion normally lasts for a couple days, or at most a week. If 
the potion is still affecting you, I'm not sure what to do. It should 
wear off anytime now."

"What is the longest possible time it could still be in effect?"

"I don't know."

"Could it be permanent?"

"That is a possibility. I'll check to see if there is a means to correct 
this."

"Hurry. I don't want this getting any worse." Dr. Tofu turned and left.

 Cologne sighed. 

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Ranma shook his head as he watched Akane dance to the song they were 
going to use in the dance contest. While her moves were smooth and 
pleasing to the eye, she kept missing almost every beat. "Akane, how 
come you're not moving in beat with the song?"

"What? I'm moving in beat," Akane said, confused and a little upset.

He shook his head as he rewound the tape. "Don't dance to it this time, 
but clap to it."

"Why?"

"It'll be easier to point out if you're moving in beat or not this way."

Akane scowled at Ranma, and decided to prove him wrong. With the music 
playing, she started to clap to the music. She stayed in beat when the 
song kept the same speed for several seconds, but when the tempo 
changed, it took her time to adjust to it. Getting angry at herself for 
failing, she rewound the tape and tried again, and again. She played the 
tape dozens of times and was getting ready to smash the tape player into 
itty bits.

Ranma shook his head, trying to come up with an idea of how to help her 
learn to stay in beat with the song. He got a hentai grin as he thought 
of one means to try. "Akane, why don't we stop for the night. You can 
try to dance to it tomorrow."

"But I have to learn to stay in beat."

"I have an idea that should help. We can try it later tonight, but it'll 
be best if we wait a little first. Why don't you take a bath?"

"Okay, but what's this idea?"

"It's kind of hard to explain."

"Try to explain it anyway."

Ranma blushed slightly. "While making love, we'll play the song."

Akane blinked. "How will that help?"

"Well... our bodies will hopefully move in rhythm with the song that 
way. By making it part of sex, it might become part of you."

Akane flashed a hentai grin. "If nothing else, it'll be fun."

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Akane stood in the dojo, clapping in beat to the song that had 
frustrated her, only the day before.

Ranma grinned. "So my plan actually worked."

"It sure did. That was an excellent idea."

"I wasn't sure it could work."

"It didn't really matter if it worked or not, the plan was fun enough on 
it's own." Akane gave Ranma a seductive look. "We should keep working on 
that plan for the rest of the week to make sure I can stay in beat, ne?"

"Of course." Ranma returned, grinning.

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Ukyou closed her eyes and gathered her thoughts. She then approached 
Ranma and Akane, who were eating in the school cafeteria, so she could 
talk to them. She might not have forgiven Akane for stealing Ranma from 
her, but she was getting lonely and wanted to be friends with them 
again. "Hello," Ukyou smiled nervously.

"Hello," Ranma said coldly.

"Hi," Akane said, placing her foot on top of Ranma's.

"Um, I'd really like to be friends again," Ukyou said.

"Why should we?" Ranma asked. He winced slightly as Akane ground her 
foot into his.

"We've been through too much together to just let our friendship die," 
Ukyou said, her voice pleading.

Their conversation was interrupted as Happosai ran into the room and 
quickly glomped Akane. Ranma moved to stop him only to get splashed with 
water and glomped. Happosai ran off laughing, followed by an enraged 
Ranma.

Ukyou shook her head and walked off.

Akane sighed in disappointment. She had hoped things would have gone 
better.

"Where did the old freak go?" asked Tarou.

Akane pointed in the general direction Happosai had run off to.

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It was the night of the prom and Akari was a little sad she could not 
attend it. She was wearing the white prom dress and had gotten Ryoga 
into a tux. They were walking down a street to a dance club. Akari 
turned her head, and stared longingly at Ryoga

Ryoga turned a nervous eye to Akari, though she thought she saw the love 
behind the fear.  "Um, Akari?" he began. 

 Akari 
wondered. "Y-yes?"

"Do you know where we are?"

Akari blinked as she looked around and saw they were in the middle of a 
forest. "I don't know."

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Gosunkugi nervously approached the Kuno mansion. He wore a black suit 
with a black dress shirt and a red tie. He couldn't believe Nabiki got 
him a date with someone as beautiful as Kodachi, and only for another 
fifteen hundred yen. Sure she was a little eccentric, but so was he. He 
rang the bell at the gate.

A servant opened the gate. "What business do you have here?"

"I'm Gosunkugi, and I'm here to take Kodachi to the Furinkan High 
School's prom."

"Ah, yes. Follow me." The servant led Gosunkugi to the study room.

Gosunkugi waited nervously for Kodachi to enter. When she did, he was 
floored by how beautiful she looked in the midnight black prom dress.

"Gosunkugi? What are you doing here? I was told my date, Hikaru, was 
here." Kodachi was a little angry.

"Hai. I'm Hikaru, Gosunkugi Hikaru."

Kodachi looked at him in shock.

"You look beautiful. Here, I got this for you." Gosunkugi produced a 
corsage with a black rose.

"How is it you're my date? You could not possibly have fought Ranma."

Kuno entered the room, smirking. "Ah, but he has. He even brought the 
telling blow to Saotome in one of his battles."

"He has?" 

"I guess I have." Gosunkugi said.

 Kodachi took the corsage that Gosunkugi held and 
put it on. "The night is wasting. Shall we be off?"

Gosunkugi nodded. "Hai."

A servant entered the room. "The carriage is ready, and the dinner 
reservations are confirmed."

"Very good," Kuno said. "We shall all go to the North Wind after we pick 
up my date."

"So, who is your date?" Kodachi asked.

"The cunning Nabiki." He grinned.



Gosunkugi whispered to Kuno, "The North Wind? I can't afford that 
place."

"Fear not, for I shall graciously cover the bill."

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"Ranma!" Akane howlered. "Why aren't you getting ready, and where is 
your tux?"

"It'll only take me a couple minutes to get ready, and the tux is right 
here." He reached behind himself and pulled out the tux from 
hammerspace.

Akane blinked. "I thought you hid a dress that way."

"I do. It's still there, but I keep the tux and some other disguises 
there as well."

"Oh, well get ready."

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Ms. Hinako, in her adult form and holding a fish bowl, walked around the 
gymnasium. She checked to make sure all the preparations were completed. 
She hated the Hawaiian theme decorations that the principal insisted on, 
but it didn't look that bad. 

Ms. Hinako was surprised that Ranma hadn't 'volunteered' his services to 
help set up the gym as several other students had. Since Ranma married 
Akane, he's stayed out of trouble. Ms. Hinako had always liked Akane 
because of her strong sense of right and wrong and tended to enforce it 
with a firm hand. It didn't hurt that Ms. Hinako was also attracted to 
Akane's father. Akane had affirmed Ms. Hinako's faith by keeping Ranma 
out of trouble for most of the past month.

Ms. Hinako straightened out her dress, waiting for Soun to arrive. She 
smiled at the fighting fish in her fish bowl. She may not be able to use 
them all the time, but for events like this, they were perfect. She 
still cursed herself for not taking them to the wedding. She had thought 
there would've been a lot more fighting.

"Hello, Ms. Hinako," Kasumi greeted.

"Um, hello Kasumi. Where is your father?" Ms. Hinako asked.

"He had some prior plans, and asked if I could come in his place."

"What? Why..." Ms. Hinako was getting upset. "Why didn't you inform the 
school?"

"I did inform Principal Kuno of this."

"You did?"

"Yes."

"You watch over things here. I've got something to do."

"Okay." Kasumi smiled.

Ms. Hinako walked off to the school offices and set the fishbowl down 
her office. "If I'm going to be an adult tonight, let it be off some 
lustful delinquents."

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Dr. Tofu wondered if he should've called in sick. 

Dr. Tofu sighed as he entered the gym, hoping for the best. "Kasumi, 
hello. What are you doing here?"

"Hello, Dr. Tofu. I'm a chaperon for the prom. Are you one too?" Kasumi 
smiled.

"Yes." Dr. Tofu smiled in return.

Ms. Hinako cursed as she saw the chaperons greet each other. 

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Yuka smiled at her date as they entered the gym. They were among the 
first to arrive. Sayuri and Akane hadn't arrived yet, so she had some 
time alone with him. 

As if on cue from Yuka's thoughts, Ranma and Akane entered the gym. They 
were absolutely gorgeous. Akane was wearing a stylish red dress. But 
only a few people gave the couple a second look.

Kuno and Nabiki came in arm-in-arm several minutes later. This turned 
many heads, not only because many of the students had a hard time seeing 
those two as a couple, but also because Nabiki's golden dress 
exquisitely complemented Kuno's ceremonial Samurai garb.

It was hard to make out the couple that followed them, since they 
blended into the night's sky. This couple was a bigger shock than Nabiki 
and Kuno. Kodachi and Gosunkugi walked into the gym, both completely 
covered in black.

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Akari wasn't sure how to explain it, but every time she closed her eyes 
for a long period of time, Ryoga had led her somewhere that she didn't 
think they could've made it to from where they were. She looked at a 
sign, [Kyoto - 18 kilometers.] She shook her head at the sight. 

Akari shut her eyes and kept them closed for several minutes. When she 
opened them she saw that they were in Tokyo business district. She shut 
them again and thought of the school prom Akane was at. Several minutes 
passed and she heard music.  She opened 
her eyes and then blinked. They were inside a school. "Ryoga, let me 
lead now," Akari said.

"Ah sure. Do you know where we are?"

"I think we're at Furinkan High." Akari followed the music to the gym. 
She smiled at the sight. They were indeed at Furinkan High.

"What are you two students doing?" chibi-Ms. Hinako demanded angrily. 

Akari looked and the child strangely.

Ryoga answered. "Um, sorry. We got lost on our way here."

"You haven't snuck off to do anything, have you?"

Ryoga blushed. "No. No. I'd never do that."

"I wish he would," Akari whispered longingly.

"Be sure that you don't. Now get in there and stay out of trouble," 
Ms. Hinako snarled, fingering a five yen coin.

Ryoga and Akari entered the gym from the school's entrance.

"Who is she and why is she so angry?" Akari mused.

"She's one of the teachers here. As to why she's angry, I don't know," 
Ryoga replied.
"She's a teacher?"

"She's a lot older than she looks. She has the ability to drain chi, and 
when she does, she temporarily grows older."

"Oh," Akari said. She spotted Akane talking to Ranma, and dragged Ryoga 
over to them. "Akane, Ranma, hi!"

Akane smiled. "Hi. How were you able to get in? I thought they were only 
letting students in." 

"We sort of came in from a different entrance."

"You mean he got you lost and led you in here?" Ranma quipped.

Ryoga glared at Ranma.

"In a way," Akari confirmed.

Ryoga deflated a little. He was uncomfortable at how easy it was for him 
to get lost, and yet Akari had no problems with it. He couldn't get 
upset at her for mentioning that curse, because she meant no harm by it. 
She actually thought it was kind of cute.

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Author's Note:

Hentai: Unnatural view of sex.
Being gay or bi-sexual, cross-dressing, and any other things which one 
considers not being a normal part of the sexual activity or sexual 
identity. By this definition Ranma, Akane, Ukyou, Konatsu, Tsubasa, and 
Happosai easily fit being a hentai for this series. 

Hammerspace:
Characters of Ranma 1/2 appear to be able to hide large objects on their 
person without any means for them to actually hold it let alone hid it. 
It is so named because of many anime characters in various series have 
been known to pull out hammers.
Known Hammerspace abilities:
Akane - Mallet
Ukyou - Throwing Spatulas (lots and lots of them)
Genma - Wooden signs
Ranma - Disguises (usually a dress and wig)
Mousse - Master of the Hammerspace (anything including the kitchen sink)
Kodachi - Gymnastic Equipment
Ryoga - Bandannas (lots of them)
Kasumi - Tea service set
Soun - Shogi board, spear
Shampoo - Bonbori

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