Nekoken Is Out Of The Bag!

Chapter 5 - 6

by Lord Archive

Author's pre-note:
This is a Lemon. There are sex scenes in this even though it has a plot. 
It is also has a couple dark scenes, but isn't really dark, just 
serious.

This story takes place after Manga volume 38.

Legal babble: Ranma 1/2 and all characters in this story are copyrighted 
by Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video, etc... and is used without consent. I am 
only borrowing them. I will return them... eventually.

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Chapter 5 - First Steps
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-Monday 5:00 p.m.

Ranma sat in the psychologist's waiting room, fidgeting. Akane rested a 
hand on his forearm.

The receptionist called, "Saotome Ranma, the doctor will see you now."

Ranma and Akane stood up went into the doctor's office.

"Hello. Please have a seat," said the doctor.

Ranma and Akane sat down. Ranma studied the doctor, while Akane held 
onto Ranma.

"Um, Dr. Tofu said you might be able to cure my fear of cats," Ranma 
said a little nervously.

"That is what I specialize in, curing phobias." The doctor flipped 
through a file. "Dr. Tofu said that you'll be a difficult case. Can you 
tell me why?"

"Didn't Dr. Tofu tell you?"

"He did, but I want to hear it in your own words."

Ranma sighed, "Well, when I was six-years-old, my Pop came across a 
martial arts training manual that told of how to teach an unbeatable 
fighting style called Nekoken. Pop, in all his infinite stupidity, 
decided to train me, but didn't bother to read the entire thing.

"The means to train someone in Nekoken is to wrap the subject in fish 
sausage and throw him into a pit of starving cats. Repeat until subject 
frees himself. If my old man had read the whole thing he would have 
found out that Nekoken was banned due to the mental scarring. Ever since 
then, a kitten can scare the hell out of me."

"Can you describe the sensations you felt when you were being trained?"

"Not really, I can't remember much of the training."

"Do you dream about the training?"

"No."

"Yes he does," Akane interrupted. "He's been having nightmares about 
that."

"I have?" Ranma became even more uneasy.

"Yes, you've been waking me up with your screaming."

Ranma blushed a little and started fidgeting in his seat. 

"Can you tell me what he's been screaming?" the doctor asked.

Akane held onto Ranma's hand and closed her eyes tightly, meekly saying, 
"Basically he screams, 'Please daddy, don't send me in. I don't wanna 
learn this technique' or, 'Let me out.'"

Ranma shivered.

The doctor paled. "Why would anyone do that to their own child?"

"He's an idiot who holds martial arts above all else. He has made my 
life hell. The only good thing he ever did was get me engaged to her, 
but of course, screws that up by engaging me to other women as well."

The doctor blinked. "You were engaged to more than one woman?"

"Still am. I've got three fiancees that I know of."

The doctor shook his head. "You live an interesting life."

"I haven't told you half of it. But, that's beside the point. I need 
you're help curing me."

"Okay, first explain how and what happens when you go into Nekoken."

"When I get really scared and a cat is present, my mind will shut off 
and I behave like a cat. The cat will have the same feelings for someone 
as I do and act accordingly. I remain that way until splashed with water 
or lose consciousness."

"Is that really much of a problem?"

Ranma stood up, battle aura flaring and shouting angrily, "IS THAT A 
PROBLEM! While in Nekoken, I am unbeatable. If I hate your guts, I will 
rip them out of you, no matter how good of a fighter you are. If I see 
you as a mate, I will have sex with you, whether you want to or not."

Ranma slumped back into his seat. Akane drew back into her seat and 
blushed.

The doctor shook off the angry outburst and noticed Akane's reaction and 
said, "I take it that second part has happened."

Akane nodded, while Ranma cursed at himself.

"Dr. Tofu is right in saying this will be a challenge, as your fear is 
ingrained into your psyche. I may not be able to cure it completely, but 
I might be able to lessen the fear."

Ranma nodded and looked hopeful.

"It'll take a while though. You need to become desensitized to the 
presence of a cat. That is accomplished by first showing you pictures of 
a cat and slowly build up to the point where you can actually hold one. 
It usually takes months for that to happen, but it might take years for 
you, due to how you got the fear."

Ranma nodded, the hopeful look was gone. "So, what are we suppose to do 
before then. I don't want to kill someone or rape her again."

Akane slapped Ranma on the arm. "I wouldn't call it that."

The doctor took a moment to think, "You might want to see if you can 
train his cat personality to have sex only at certain places, much like 
training a cat to use a litter box. As for avoiding killing someone, I 
can't help much except suggest that you warn people you hate they might 
get hurt."

"How would we train him?" Akane asked.

"Do everything in your power to prevent him from having sex except when 
you're in a place where it'd be safe. If you're near a safe place lead 
him there and allow it to happen."

Ranma paled.

"So, never leave home without a water gun," Akane replied, a little 
jokingly.

Ranma looked at Akane, stunned. 

She looked at him, saying, "I told you before I'm not that adverse to 
your cat side. If it prevents you from trying to do it in public, then I 
have to do it."

The doctor nodded, "I'll set up some preparations to start desensitizing 
you next week."

Akane pulled out a water gun from behind her back. "We could start now."

"Where did that come from?"

"It's a hidden weapons trick one of my friends showed me," Akane 
grinned.

"Mousse taught you that?" Ranma screeched.

"Yeah."

"Remind me to hurt him for teaching you to hide the mallet."

The doctor shook his head. "Okay, we can start by showing pictures."

"Um, Doc, there is something you should know." Ranma sighed. "The reason 
water can snap me out of Nekoken is because of a Chinese curse that 
turns me into a girl when I get hit by cold water. Hot water returns me 
to normal."

The doctor blinked and flipped through his files. He found what he was 
looking for and read, [Ranma is not delusional. Anything he says, while 
sounding impossible, is probably true. This includes talk of a Chinese 
curse, it is real.] He blinked again. "Ooookay." He went over to a shelf 
filled with photo albums and pulled out one labeled, 'house-hold pets.' 
He opened it and pulled out a photo.

Ranma watch him a he turned the photo around, showing a very cute gray 
and black kitten. Ranma screamed and jumped into Akane's arms.

"You can be really pathetic," Akane said, embarrassed.

"This... this is bad," the doctor said, shaking his head.

Elevator music began to play in the office, as Ranma got off of Akane.

"Oh, that music means your time is up. Um, I'll give you some pictures. 
A couple times a day attempt to look at them. Set an appointment with 
the receptionist on your way out for next week." He took a couple 
pictures from the album and placed them into an envelope. He handed it 
to Akane.

Ranma said, "Thanks, Doc."

Akane got up, bowed, and left.

The doctor thought, 

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Akane and Ranma walked home, holding hands. They let go as they arrived 
home for the first time since they left for the training trip. They had 
yet to tell anyone about Ranma seeing a psychologist.

"We're home," Akane called.

"Welcome back, how was your training trip?" Kasumi greeted.

"It was great," Akane replied.

"I'm sure it was," Nabiki interjected. "And I want details."

Ranma and Akane blushed. Nabiki grinned at their reaction.

Soun and Genma arrived from the hallway. 

"So boy, have you gained better control of Nekoken," Genma asked.

Ranma shook his head. "Not really."

"We do have some ideas to help him gain control, though," Akane added.

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After Kasumi asked Ranma to clean the dishes, Soun and Genma decided to 
take a late night walk (to a local bar). Nabiki wondered if Kasumi 
actually planned that or was just lucky, because it removed the 
possibility of the men from eavesdropping on the talk between the Tendo 
sisters.

Akane sat nervously on her desk chair. Kasumi sat on Akane's bed, a 
pleasant smile on her face. Nabiki also sat on the bed and eyed Akane 
closely.

"So," Nabiki began. "Are you going to tell us about your `training 
trip?'"

"I learned chestnut fist and invented new martial arts moves," Akane 
answered, proudly.

"That's wonderful," Kasumi congratulated.

"Anything else?" Nabiki asked.

"Ah, um, not much else to tell. Nothing I did for Ranma really helped," 
Akane replied sheepishly.

"Now Akane, you know you can't hide anything from me," Nabiki said.

"What would I hide?"

Nabiki shook her head. "I know you had sex with Ranma during your 
training trip."

"What makes you think that?" Akane asked, attempting to sound angry.

"Because you're blushing for one, and two you get an odd smile whenever 
you look at Ranma. A smile I usually see on girls who recently done the 
deed."

Akane looked at the floor.  She said meekly, "You're right. I did make love with Ranma."

"So, what's it like?"

Akane and Nabiki look at Kasumi, shocked.

"What? Can't I wonder about that?" Kasumi said defensively.

Akane and Nabiki started to laugh. Kasumi joined in.

"Well, as oneechan so eloquently put it, `what's it like?'" Nabiki 
asked.

Akane's face was as red as onna-Ranma's hair. "It's hard to describe 
really. The sensations of pleasure and ecstasy come in waves as he, um, 
well, plays with my body."

"Is he good at it?" Kasumi asked.

"Yes. I think he's practiced on his female body."

"You're not upset about that?" Nabiki jokingly asked.

"Why would I be? It may make him a hentai, but one that knows what's he 
doing."

"Are you going to marry him soon?" Kasumi asked.

Akane blinked at the abrupt change in topic. "Um, not sure. We're more 
concerned with Nekoken right now. I won't push the issue, but if he 
asks, I'd say yes."

"What are you going to do about Nekoken?" Nabiki asked.

"We're working on desensitizing him to the presence of a cat. I'm also 
trying to reduce his other fears, but that hasn't helped. I think he's 
scared he's going to hurt Ukyou's feelings." 

"Well, thanks to your outburst Friday, he'll have to do it soon."

"What?"

"Several students heard you when you screamed your love for him."

"Oh, great."

"Fortunately there are two rumors based off that. One that you professed 
your love, and the other you denied it."

"Huh?"

"The next word you screamed after 'I love you too' was the word 'not.' 
That rumor isn't well accepted, though, as you two have been away from 
school since Friday. "

"The joys of the rumor horde," Akane said sarcastically. "Which one does 
Ukyou believe?"

"That you denied you love him. No one wants to be the one to tell her 
the other rumor. If she did hear it, she's refusing to believe it," 
Nabiki answered. "What are you going to do if he goes into Nekoken?"

Akane took a deep breath. "If he ends up going into Nekoken away from 
home I have to stop him by any means possible. At home, I have to lead 
him here and allow him to have his way with me."

"What?" Kasumi and Nabiki screeched.

Akane meekly said, "If we can properly train him by doing that, he'll 
stop trying to have sex away from here and may try to lead me here."

"Are you sure you want to try that?" Kasumi asked.

"Having a little more experience, it won't be nearly as bad as that 
first time. If it'll keep him from trying to do it in public, I'm going 
to try it."

"Okay, have you thought about getting birth control pills?" Nabiki 
asked.

"Um, no. I wasn't sure they were legal," Akane answered.

"They've been legal for a couple years. Besides, even if they weren't, I 
could get you some," Nabiki corrected.

Akane glanced towards the direction of the kitchen where Ranma should 
be. "I guess I should get them. I don't know if I can put a condom on 
him when he's in Nekoken."

"I'm sure he'll like it even better when he doesn't have to use one at 
all," Nabiki commented.

Akane nodded, "He certainly complained about it."

"You should make an appointment to go to a family planning clinic soon," 
Nabiki said. "Now let's get back to talking about what's it like..."

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-Tuesday, Shortly after school

Ranma was looking rather nervous, while walking with Nabiki in Nerima's 
shopping district. Nabiki was holding a rather large water gun.

"You're sure you want to do this? You don't have to do it." Nabiki 
asked.

"Yes I do. Thanks to me, Akane's life is anything but normal. So, I want 
to try to do this as everyone else does, something normal," Ranma 
answered.

"Most people try to come up with unique ways to do this. You, however, 
want make it unique by trying to do it normally."

Ranma nodded.

"So how much money do you have on you?"

"Ninety-thousand yen," Ranma replied.

Nabiki's eyes widen in shock. "How did you get so much money?"

"I got Pop to give me some of it, then I rented him to the zoo." Ranma 
grinned. "I wonder if Mom will get upset if she finds out he's had an 
affair with a panda." 

They both started to laugh their asses off. After recovering their 
composure, Nabiki entered a jewelry store, followed by Ranma.

 Ukyou thought, who just arrived when he entered 
the store, not seeing Nabiki. She took a peek inside and saw him looking 
at rings, engagement rings.  She smiled, 
turned around, and sat down on the sidewalk. She never did notice that 
Nabiki was with him.

Several minutes later, the door to the shop opened startling Ukyou out 
of fantasizing about her life with Ranma.

"Do you think she'll like it?" Ranma asked.

"Of course she'll like it," Nabiki intoned as if Ranma asked this 
question several times already. "The ruby is a nice touch."

Ukyou froze in shock.  her thoughts were 
interrupted when she heard a shout.

"RANMA, PREPARE TO DIE!"

The ground exploded where Ranma and Nabiki had been previously. Nabiki 
had been pushed out of the way by Ranma, causing her water gun to break, 
spilling its contents on the ground.

Ranma stood in a battle stance several feet away. 

Ryoga stood up in the mist of concrete that settled around him. "How 
dare you attack Akane! You jerk!" He ran at Ranma full tilt.

Ranma flipped over him, landing a kick to Ryoga's back.  Ranma ducked under a spinning 
punch. "Hey, she already forgave me about that."

Ryoga launched a series of devastating punches, all of which missed. 
"She is too kind to hold hate for long. She'll forgive anyone for 
everything. But I haven't forgiven you."

Ranma continued dodging the various punches, and landed several of his 
own, for what good it does against Ryoga's thick hide. "You've never 
forgiven anybody for anything."

"I have, too, forgiven people."

"Who?"

Ryoga's attacks let up for a moment. "Akane for hitting me."

"That's because it was your belt that cut her hair. Anyone else besides 
Akane?"

After a moment Ryoga emitted, "Arrrgh" as he pressed his attack. His 
attacks grew in speed and ferocity.

 Ranma thought before Ryoga's knee caught 
him in the gut sending him flying into a near by store window.

"OH SHIT!" Nabiki screamed as various house pets, including a couple 
cats, scrambled out of the broken pet store's window.

"Meow," emitted Ranma as he jumped out of the store and onto the 
sidewalk.

Ryoga blinked. "Shouldn't he be running around scared?"

"No, we should be. RUN!" Nabiki yelled.

Ryoga, knowing about Nekoken, decided it might be best to do just that. 
He turned and ran.

Neko-Ranma, seeing his prey starting to run, pounced at him. Both of his 
hands landed on Ryoga's head, sending him into the ground face first. 
Neko-Ranma checked his prey for signs of movement, finding none. Neko 
bite into Ryoga's shirt and ran off with him towards the Tendo home.

Ukyou had remained out of the action. First, she watched a typical fight 
between Ryoga and Ranma, waiting for Ranma to win. When Ranma went into 
the Nekoken, she was shocked at how fast he went into it and then what 
he did to Ryoga. She decided to follow them to at least save Ryoga and 
hopefully confront Ranma.

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Akane was at home helping Kasumi cook. Soun had decided to go look for 
Genma, and avoid his youngest daughter's questionable culinary skills.

Kasumi smiled a fake smile, "You're improving, but next time leave out 
butter from Miso Soup."

Akane frowned and looked at the recipe. "Huh, I could've sworn it said 
one stick of butter." She clenched her fists. "Damn it! He'll never want 
to marry me if I can't cook."

Kasumi was now smiling genuinely, "I'm sure Ranma appreciates the 
effort."

Akane blinked.  She laughed nervously. "Don't 
let Dad or Uncle Saotome know I said that. I'm not sure if I want to get 
married before the week is over."

"You probably should marry him soon, though." 



Akane's and Kasumi's attentions were drawn to the noise. At the door 
separating the dining room from the kitchen was Ranma, standing on all 
fours, before a comatose Ryoga.

"Meowr," uttered Neko-Ranma.

"Oh, my."

 Akane looked at Ranma with dread... 
and a little bit of anticipation. "Um, Kasumi, you tend to Ryoga. I'll 
keep Ranma, ah, distracted. Don't go near him until I say it's safe, no 
matter what." Akane moved towards the door to the hallway. 

Neko-Ranma noticed her movements and went to pick up Ryoga.

"No!" Akane shouted. "Leave him there. Follow me." Akane was walking 
backwards and bumped into the refrigerator on her way towards the door. 

Neko-Ranma obeyed and moved towards Akane without Ryoga. After a couple 
feet, he looked as if he was going to pounce on her.

"NO! Follow me!" Akane ordered as she moved as quickly as she could 
through the hall, backwards. "Wait!" she ordered as he once again looked 
ready to pounce.

Akane shouted several more times of 'No' and 'Wait' as she led him to 
her room. Once inside she ducked around the side to let Ranma pass her. 
When he entered the room, Akane shut and locked the door.

Neko-Ranma moved toward her. "Wait!" Akane ordered as she pulled a 
condom from her pocket and quickly took her pants and panties off. Neko-
Ranma once again moved toward her and again was ordered, "Wait!" This 
time Akane moved toward Ranma with her left hand outstretched, 
suggesting stop. 

Neko-Ranma saw the object in her right hand and swiped at it. Akane saw 
this and drew back her hand, dropping the condom. It landed in a couple 
pieces. 

 Akane sighed. She untied the draw sting of 
his pants with her right hand and pulled down both pants and boxers. 

Neko-Ranma shook the pants off his legs. The sight of this added fuel to 
the fire between Akane's legs that was started in the anticipation of 
what was about to happen. With the pants off, no words could reach Neko-
Ranma as he quickly pawed Akane into position. He was happy that his 
mate seemed willing this time. 

He moved over her and gently nipped the ends of her hair. With a mighty 
thrust, he sent his manhood deep within her. His actions were stronger 
and quicker than they were when he was normal. Akane gasped and moaned 
as his powerful thrusts sent pleasure crashing through her.

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Ukyou arrived at the Tendo home. She saw Kasumi tending to Ryoga, who 
was just now waking up.

"Are you all right?" Kasumi asked.

"Where is Ranma? He's in Nekoken," Ryoga said, not paying attention to 
Kasumi.

"I know. Akane is dealing with him upstairs."

Ukyou, seeing Ryoga was fine, ran towards the hallway and the stairs.

"Ukyou, wait! It isn't safe!" Kasumi said, too late for Ukyou to hear.

Ukyou approached Akane's door and could her moaning.  She bashed through the door her Whoop-Ass Spatula at the 
ready. But she was not ready for the sight before her. "What is going on 
here?!" she screamed seeing Ranma pounding his penis into Akane 
repeatedly.

"Ukyou! Get out! He's still in Nekoken," Akane ordered between moans.

Ukyou raised her combat spatula in an attempt to brain Ranma. This was 
answered by a hiss and swipe of his hand. The head of the spatula 
dropped to the floor.

"Please! Leave now! He might hurt you!" Akane pleaded.

Ukyou stood there in shock for a second. Neko-Ranma did not like this 
other female who tried to attack him being so close, so he backhanded 
her out of the room.

 She stared at them from the hall where she landed. 
After a minute, she saw him stiffen for a moment and then nearly 
collapsed. 

"Good Ranma. Now go to sleep," Akane ordered.

Neko-Ranma nodded and hopped into Akane's bed, curled up, and soon fell 
asleep.

Akane put her panties and pants back on and went over to Ukyou.

"Wh-what just happened?" Ukyou's mind was in shock.

Akane sighed, "Ranma, at some psychological level, considers me his 
mate. So when ever he goes into Nekoken, he'll try to have sex with me."

"You're lying!"

Akane shook her head. "What more evidence do you want than seeing what 
you just saw."

"Why didn't he try to do that with me then? I was there when he went 
cat."

"It's because he doesn't love you."



"How can you say that! He loves me! I know he does!" Ukyou screamed 
angrily.

Akane, her left cheek bright red, angrily retorted, "Listen here! If he 
loves you, then while he's in Nekoken you could either calm him or he'll 
chase after you for in order to have sex with you. Neither of which has 
happened." 

"What he's like as a cat doesn't reflect what he's like as a person."

"Yes it does. He loves me, so I've been able to control him until last 
week when I became his mate. He doesn't like Ryoga that much, so he 
treated him as a mouse."

"I still don't believe you."

"Fine! Ask him when he wakes up." 

Akane went to close her door but noticed a small box on the floor near 
Ranma pants.  
Akane nervously bent down to pick it up.

"You don't want to do that," said a voice from behind her.

"Nabiki, ah, what's in the b-box?" Akane asked nervously.

"You'll find out soon enough." Nabiki grinned.

Ukyou looked down at the box, remembering now that the one of her 
reasons for following Ranma was about to confront him about the ring in 
that box.  "D-do you love him?"

"Yes. I love him."

"But... at school... they said... you denied it," Ukyou stammered.

"That rumor was started from someone who didn't hear everything. No one 
wanted to be the one to tell you the rest of what she said," Nabiki 
said.

"No!" Ukyou screamed, tears filling her eyes as she ran out of the 
house.

 Nabiki thought. She 
decided to distract Akane from the ring and from thinking about Ukyou. 
Nabiki peeked into Akane's room. "Damn. With him curled up like that, I 
can't tell how big he is."

"What?" 

"You know. How big is his manhood?" Nabiki grinned.

"Nabiki!" Akane shouted angrily.

"Why don't you tell me?"

"I will not!" Akane screamed, slamming her bedroom door shut.

"Doesn't hurt to ask," Nabiki shrugged. "Um, is Ryoga okay?"

"I didn't get a chance to check," Akane replied, her anger turning to 
concern. She went downstairs without another word, followed by Nabiki.

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Chapter 6 - No More Secrets
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Akane entered the kitchen, shortly followed by Nabiki. Ryoga lay on the 
floor, with Kasumi tending to the injuries he received in his short 
battle with Neko-Ranma. The look of concern on Akane's face made Ryoga's 
heart flutter.

"Ryoga, did Ranma hurt you?" Akane asked.

Ryoga laughed nervously, "Not at all. Like he could ever hurt me."

 Nabiki thought.

"Akane, did you have to distract Ranma that way?" Kasumi asked.

"I told you before, I have to try and train his cat side," Akane 
replied.

"Were you able to use protection?" Kasumi asked, her concern for Akane 
apparently blinded her to Ryoga's presence.

"Now is not the time to talk about that."

"Akane, I'm worried that you'll become pregnant."

"WHAT?" Ryoga screeched.

 Nabiki thought, shaking her head.

Akane glared at Kasumi, and then looked at Ryoga with concern and 
fright. "Um... ah..." she uttered trying to think of something to say.

Ryoga was now standing. "What is she talking about?"

"I-it's n-nothing that concerns you, Ryoga," Akane replied.

"She said she's worried about you becoming pregnant?" Ryoga asked, 
trying to get the facts clear.

Akane was at a loss of how to explain this to him, Nabiki wasn't. 
"Ranma's and Akane's feelings for each other have advanced to the point 
to of being lovers."

Ryoga's mouth hit the floor.

"But, the problem with that is, if Ranma goes into Nekoken, he'll  want 
to mate with her. To prevent him from trying that in public, she has 
started to train him, sex only in her room."

"L-l-l-l-lovers?" Ryoga uttered as his eyes rolled into the back of his 
head. He fainted.

"He took that better than I thought," Nabiki smirked.

Akane looked at him.  Her thoughts stopped cold, as she 
moved mechanically to the sink and got a glass of water.

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Ryoga awoke, as he had many times in the past, to a sudden down pouring 
of rain. Such was life with his curse. Something didn't seem right to 
him, though. He thought it might be about something that happened before 
he fell asleep. Before he could try to remember it, his senses became 
alert to the sound of glass breaking. A deep dread filled him as he 
realized one of his worse nightmares just happened... Akane saw him turn 
into P-Chan.

"Oh my!" Kasumi uttered, shocked.

"No," Akane said barely a whisper.

Then a voice of reason struck. "Run," Nabiki commanded. Which he did, 
biting his pant and running to where he hoped was the bathing room.

Akane stood there not wanting to believe.  

A HUGE dark blue aura surrounded Akane. She then followed Ryoga in the 
direction he had run off to, mallet in hand. "WHERE ARE YOU, YOU STUPID 
PIG!?!"

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Waking up to the sounds of fighting was not unusual to the Tendo 
household, unless, of course, you're the one that was usually the 
participant in those fights. 

When Ranma awoke, he was shocked for three reasons: One, he heard the 
sound of battle occurring downstairs. Two, he was in Akane's bed. Three, 
he wasn't wearing any pants.

 Ranma thought. He jumped out of bed and quickly put on his 
pants. He noticed the ring box had fallen out of it and hoped Akane 
hadn't seen it. He opened the door and rushed down the stairs.

He saw something he had wanted to see for a long time. Akane had Ryoga, 
in human form and wearing only pants, pressed against a wall next to the 
front door. Akane's mallet head pressing against his throat.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO ME?" Akane screamed.

"Ah, Akane, let me explain," Ryoga stuttered. 

"EXPLAIN! You slept in my bed! Seen me undressed! Heard my deepest 
secrets! And, you tell me you can explain this to me! 
RRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAA NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO 
BBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Ranma winced as Ryoga meet a full powered Akaneken. Ryoga flew through 
the wall, and out over Nerima.

Akane collapsed to her knees and started to cry. Her friend, one of her 
closest friends, had been moonlighting as her pet. She couldn't 
understand it. 

Akane's thoughts of her betrayal ended when she felt Ranma's hand touch 
her shoulder. She hugged him tightly. "Oh Ranma, I'm sorry. I've been 
blaming you for so many things that weren't your fault." Her gaze harden 
as she gazed at the hole in the wall. "It's the fault of that PIG!"

"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."  Ranma rocked the crying girl in his arms 
for a few minutes.  "I should have told you sooner..."  Ranma gazed in 
concern at Akane as she kept weeping.  "I'll make it up to you, I 
promise. How about..."  He wondered if now was a good time for this- 
she'd just undergone a horrible shock to her system.  But, perhaps it 
was BECAUSE she needed the comfort this would provide that he needed to 
do this.  "How about we go out tonight?  Just the two of us?" 

"I-I'd like that," Akane said, choking back a tear.

"Why don't you go get ready? I'm going out for a moment, I'll be right 
back."

Akane nodded, stood up, and left for her room.

Ranma watched Akane leave and was startled as he felt Nabiki's hand on 
his forehead. 

"No fever... All right, what did you do with Ranma?" Nabiki asked.

"What?"

"Ever since last week you've been acting strange. The Ranma I knew 
would've tried to get Akane to stop crying by fighting with her. And, 
what was this about you telling her about Ryoga's curse? You were honor 
bound not to tell."

"I just don't want to hurt her anymore and after last Wednesday, how 
much honor do I have?"

Nabiki smiled as Ranma jumped through the hole in the wall. 

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Ranma was a couple blocks away from the Tendo house when he stopped. 
 Ranma shook his head, now was not the time to 
think about that.

Ranma ran outside of Nerima's boundaries when he found where Ryoga 
landed. He lay in a crater ten feet wide. Ranma was relieved to find 
Ryoga was still alive. He picked him up and ran to Dr. Tofu's clinic.

When Ranma arrived he slid open the door with his foot and called, "Hey, 
Doc. Incoming."

Dr. Tofu entered the waiting room to see Ranma carrying Ryoga of his 
shoulder. "What happened?" 

"Akane found out that her pet P-Chan and Ryoga, here, are one and the 
same person," Ranma answered as he entered the doctor's office and 
placed Ryoga on the examination bed.

Dr. Tofu blinked, and then shrugged, this was Ranma he was dealing with. 
He began to examine Ryoga's chest. "This doesn't look like damage Akane 
normally causes."

"It's not. She recently learned a chi attack based off anger. He got hit 
dead center by a chi punch that turns boulders into powder."

"Fortunately it doesn't apply to bones. He'll only end up with a very 
nasty bruise on most of his upper body, but otherwise he's fine. She'll 
have to be careful, though, his body is remarkably resistant to injury, 
a normal person wouldn't be alive when they hit the floor."

Ranma nodded. "Doc, I got to be going now. Tell him when he wakes up 
that I'll try to help Akane forgive him, so that they can be friends 
again."

Dr. Tofu nodded, "I will."

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Akane's expression was mixed. She was happy that she was going on a date 
with Ranma, and the box she saw earlier...  She was 
also upset at Ryoga. He was her friend and he abused that friendship in 
a way no one had ever done to anyone before. She was worried she might 
be pregnant, having sex today without a condom didn't help her fears.

Akane looked through her closest for something to wear for the date. She 
hoped Ranma had enough sense to not go to the Neko-Hanten. Part of her 
hoped he would, just so she could rub it in the fact Ranma was hers. 
Akane frowned, she still had to make Shampoo pay for last week. It was 
odd that she hadn't seen Shampoo since last Wednesday.

Akane decided on a long, blue dress with a white, floral hem. When she 
went to get some clean panties, she screamed, "HAPPOSAI!!"

"Oh, Akane," Happosai elated as he jumped towards her, only to find her 
hand around his neck.

"Where are my panties?" Akane angrily asked.

"Ack! Kasumi must have them in the wash," Happosai answered nervously.

"She washed them yesterday."

"Ranma took them?"

"He doesn't need to. I want my panties, and I want them now!"

"But I don't have them."

"Fine! Be that way. I'll go find them." Akane switched Happosai into her 
left hand, and opened the window.

"What are you doing?" Happosai asked.

"Getting rid of you. If you know what's good for you, you'll never come 
back."

"Don't want me to join in while you have sex with Ranma?"

"Exactly. AKANENEN!" Akane sent Happosai flying far off into the 
distance. She idly wondered if he would land in the Pacific Ocean.

Happosai's body was racked with pain, but his mind was lost on thoughts 
of Ranma and Akane in compromising positions when Akane said 'exactly.'

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Ranma returned home and quickly got ready, putting on his Communist 
worker uniform. While it wasn't the best looking clothes he owned but 
was the most formal looking, not counting the white suit and a dress.

After Ranma finished getting ready, Nabiki informed him that she got him 
reservations for Chez Rei's, a semi-fancy French restaurant. Ranma 
wasn't pleased that most of his remaining money would be spent on 
dinner, but decided to go along with it. Akane would like it better than 
going out to where they normally ate. He also hated the lecture Nabiki 
gave him about proper manners he should use on the date.

Ranma stood at the base of the stairs waiting for Akane to finish 
getting ready. Nabiki and Kasumi had decided to help her, probably 
causing Akane to take even more time to finish. He nervously fingered 
the ring box in his pant pocket. Ranma knew, with near absolute 
certainty, Akane would say yes, but it still scared him more than any 
cat ever did.

Ranma nervously started to twiddle his fingers as he heard Akane's 
bedroom door open. Nabiki and Kasumi were the first to appear at the top 
of the stairs.

"Ranma, I present to you, your date for tonight: my sister, Akane," 
Nabiki said with the flair of a showman.

Ranma's jaw dropped at the sight of Akane. She wore the long blue dress 
that she had picked out and worn a couple times before. Akane also wore 
make-up to accentuate her features and had a white rose in her hair. 
Ranma thought Akane looked as much like a goddess that Kuno professed 
her to be.

"Ranma, how do I look?" Akane asked nervously.

"Beyond cute," he answered without thinking.

"Really?" Akane smiled.

"Yes," Ranma replied, not wanting to take back his words. "Is that a new 
dress?"

"No," Akane said with a slight bitterness. The bitterness quickly went 
away as she noticed Ranma couldn't take his eyes off her.

Ranma blushed sheepishly and tried to come up with something to say. 
Failing to think of something that wouldn't likely get Akane upset, he 
said, "Um, I guess we should, ah, go now."

Akane nodded and appeared to glide down the stairs. "Where are we 
going?"

"Chez Rei's."

Akane was amazed that Ranma would take her out there. It was fairly 
expensive restaurant. She hoped he wouldn't embarrass her. 

When Akane reached the bottom of the stairs, Ranma took her by the hand 
and led her towards the door.

"Be back at a reasonable time, it is a school night," Kasumi said.

"After you finish school tomorrow sounds reasonable," Nabiki added, 
smirking.

"Nabiki," Kasumi said a little upset.

"Don't worry, Kasumi. I'll bring her back sometime tonight," Ranma said.

"That narrows it down." Akane smirked. "See you later, bye."

Ranma and Akane left arm in arm.

"Do you think they'll get home before ten?" Kasumi asked.

"Probably," Nabiki replied. "Call Auntie Saotome, tell her something 
important will happen tonight." 

"What's going to happen?"

"Ranma is going to propose to Akane."

Kasumi smiled. "That's wonderful."

"Don't tell Auntie though, in case something happens."

Kasumi nodded. Nabiki made her way downstairs and prepared to leave.

"Where are you going?" Kasumi asked.

"I'm going to make sure nothing interrupts them and I got Mousse to 
help. I'm also going to video tape the proposal."

"Just make sure you're not the one who interrupts them."

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Ranma and Akane walked to the restaurant in an uncomfortable silence. 
Neither sure of what to say.

Akane spoke first. "Where did you go after you asked me out?"

Ranma got a little nervous. "I went after Ryoga and got him to Dr. Tofu. 
I wanted to make sure he was all right."

"Why?" Akane asked, upset.

"Because he is our friend. He may not seem like it at times, but he is. 
I know he hurt you. I also know you'd never forgive yourself if you 
severely hurt him. I'm not saying you should forgive him, but you should 
still accept him as a friend. He has too few as it is."

"You still consider him a friend despite the fact he's tried to kill 
you, tried to take me away from you, and caused numerous 
misunderstandings between us."

"He also has saved both our lives and some of his bitterness towards me 
is well founded. I did curse him. He also helped me realize that we felt 
more between us than just being friends. I just wish my honor, pride, 
and fear of hurting people didn't prevent me from saying it earlier."

"Why couldn't you say it earlier?"

"Well, my pride kept me from allowing me to say Pop actually did 
something right. Honor got tangled up when Shampoo and Ucchan showed up, 
each with a claim that they had to marry me. Denying either would cause 
loss of honor. Then I'm also afraid to hurt the other girls feelings, 
and I was afraid I'd hurt you by marrying too soon."

Akane didn't say anything for a while. "I always thought it was simple. 
Just chose one and get it over with. I thought you were afraid of 
commitment. I see I was wrong."

"Well, not entirely wrong. I am afraid of that, but what guy isn't?"

Akane giggled. 

Ranma and Akane were now at Chez Rei's, and entered. A couple seconds 
later, a fight between Kuno and Mousse swept past the front of the 
restaurant. Kuno trying to stop Akane's date, and Mousse trying to save 
it. When Nabiki arrived she hoped Mousse would finish the fight soon in 
case someone else showed up.

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Using reservations for Tendo, Ranma and Akane were quickly seated. Akane 
would've like to have gotten a window seat, but the table in the corner 
they got was nice and private. Ranma liked the table they got. Less 
chance someone would see them and try to stop the date.

Akane looked at the menu, slightly confused. She didn't know what half 
the dishes were. She ordered the cheapest thing she knew she'd like. 
Ranma didn't even have a clue what was on the menu, so he just ordered 
the cheapest thing on it. When the food was served Akane found her meal 
to be rather good. Ranma looked at his meal quizzically and treated it 
like Akane's cooking. He ate it, but vowed never to have that meal 
again. Akane liked that he seemed to hate his meal as much as her 
cooking.

Ranma and Akane talked about how they'd deal with their classmates and 
school friends. They decided to avoid saying anything until certain 
people were dealt with. Ranma was upset to find out that Ukyou knew 
about what'd happen if he went cat. He would have to talk to her soon. 
They also talked about Shampoo, to which Akane insisted there would be a 
fight.

After a while, they moved their discussion to safer topics, such as 
school and who their school friends' current love interests were. They 
debated the pros and cons of pairing up Daisuke with Sayuri.

Ranma looked at the bill, thirteen thousand four hundred sixty yen. He 
paid fourteen thousand yen, leaving him with three thousand. Ranma shook 
his head. He spent more money today than he had in his entire life, not 
counting what Nabiki swindled from him. Looking at Akane, he knew he'd 
do it again in a heartbeat.

They left with Ranma's arm around Akane's waist. Ranma saw Mousse wave 
to them from the corner of his eye. Next to Mousse were two mounds of 
chains, one had a bokken sticking out and the other had a gymnastics 
ribbon. Ranma smiled and nodded his thanks. He then moved so that Akane 
would not see them.

They slowly walked on towards home. Akane thought for sure that the box 
she saw held an engagement ring, and was growing in disappointment as it 
seemed he wasn't going to propose. Her disappointment turned to hope as 
Ranma stopped at a bridge. They stared down the river for some time.

"Akane, you know this is one of the places I like to sit down and 
think," Ranma began.

"Actually you tend to sit under the bridge," Akane corrected.

"Yeah, well, I don't want people being able to know I'm here unless they 
look." Ranma sighed. "It was under this bridge I first admitted to 
myself that I was in love with you, and thought you might feel the 
same."

"When was that?"

"Shortly after Ryugenzawa. You were given a choice between me and 
Shinnosuke, and you came back with me. If we didn't walk home hand-in-
hand, I might of just thought you came home just for your family."

"If you asked me then, I would've said it was just for my family and 
that I really didn't feel that much for him, but looking back now... I 
can see I was still quite unsure about my feelings. It wasn't until 
China I realized exactly how I feel about you and how you felt about 
me."

Ranma turned towards Akane, asking, "Akane, can you really love me? With 
the insanity that is my life, with all my faults and failings, and with 
my curse... can you love me?"

"I can, and I do love you, Ranma," Akane answered.

Ranma gathered his courage, praying he could say what he wanted to. He 
got down on one knee and produced the ring box, and he opened it. 
"Akane, will you marry me?" His voice cracked as he asked. He then 
placed the ring on her finger.

Akane couldn't believe it. She hoped and prayed for this moment. And now 
she shouted, "YES! Yes, I'll marry you!" Akane embraced him tightly, and 
kissed him passionately. Lost in the kiss, they failed to hear someone 
scream. After a very long moment they broke off the kiss and walked 
home, holding each other closely.

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Ryoga wandered into the night after waking up at Dr. Tofu's. Dr. Tofu 
told him to refrain from fighting until his wound healed and that Ranma 
would help him be friends with Akane again.

It was Ranma's fault. Ranma must have told Akane he was P-Chan. Ranma 
was bound by honor not to tell, but Ryoga was sure that he had. Now 
Ryoga had lost his last hope for being with Akane.

Ryoga shook his head. He wanted to put Akane behind him. After what he 
saw happen in Jusendo, he realized that it was over. Ranma and Akane 
would be together, and yet he couldn't help but want to return to Akane. 
Even if the only way he could only be her was as her little P-Chan.

Ryoga thought of all his problems that he felt Ranma had cause. 

Ryoga grinned. 

Ryoga stopped cold. He looked up at a bridge and saw Ranma on one knee 
in front of Akane, who looked lovelier than he ever remembered. Ryoga 
couldn't hear what Ranma said, but clearly heard Akane shout, "YES! Yes, 
I'll marry you!" Ryoga's world collapsed as Akane kissed Ranma 
passionately. Ryoga had nothing, nothing except Akari. Now he had to 
find her before Ranma took her away too. He screamed as he ran off into 
the night.

Nabiki and Mousse swore when they heard Ryoga scream. They had been 
watching the proposal and not paying attention to see if anyone was 
coming. They were relieved when Ryoga ran off and that Ranma and Akane 
hadn't noticed him.

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Ranma and Akane returned home and were shocked to see the Tendos and 
Nodoka waiting for them as they walked through the front door.

"How was your date?" Soun asked, on the verge of tears of joy.

An idea crossed Akane's mind. "Does this tell you anything?" She grabbed 
Ranma by the shirt and looked ready to knock him out of Nerima.

 flashed through Ranma's mind. 
His expression was a cross between being frightened and disappointed.

Nabiki looked confused, she had video taped the proposal.

Kasumi shook her head.

Nodoka frowned, she was told something important was suppose to happen 
tonight.

Soun was upset. 

Akane grinned as she pulled Ranma closer, into a deep, passionate kiss.

Ranma relaxed and wrapped his arms around Akane, returning the kiss.

Kasumi and Nabiki smiled. Akane was only playing a joke.

Nodoka and Soun also smiled, but didn't say anything. They didn't know 
what to say.

Then Akane raised her hand, showing the engagement ring to everyone. She 
didn't stop kissing Ranma.

Nodoka beamed with pride. Her son had finally chosen who to marry on his 
own.

Soun's eyes became fixed on the ring. He moved closer, not believing 
what he was seeing. When he found his voice, he asked, "I-is this what I 
think it is?"

Akane and Ranma broke of the kiss. Akane elated her answer to him, "Yes! 
Ranma proposed, and I said yes!"

Soun hugged both of them tightly. "Finally! Our families will be 
joined!" He cried tears of joy, threatening to flood the house.

"Yes," Akane said. "Um, could you... let go... I can't... breath."

"Urk," Ranma emitted.

Soun let go. "Oh, what a joyous day!"

"Yes, and I'd like to top it off with a little celebration," Akane said 
grinning.

"Of course! We must celebrate!" Soun elated.

"You can celebrate with them. I want to celebrate with him." Akane 
hugged Ranma tightly.

Ranma blushed and started sweating.

Soun kissed the floor as face faulted. He didn't expecting Akane to say 
that.

Kasumi smiled. It no longer mattered if they were married or not as they 
were already lovers.

Nabiki grinned, debating trying to get pictures or not.

"Congratulations! Welcome to the family," Nodoka said to Akane. "Enjoy 
your celebration." Nodoka winked. 

"Oh, I will. We'll talk about wedding plans later," Akane said, dragging 
Ranma towards the stairs. Looking at Nabiki, she added, "Unless you want 
a all-out sparring session, don't you dare tell anyone about the 
engagement, or about our sex life, and don't you dare do anything I 
might hate." She noticed how reluctant Ranma was being, "Come on Ranma, 
let's go to bed."

Ranma nervously looked at the others, who nodded to his unasked 
question. He followed Akane upstairs, but stopped at her door.

"What's wrong?" Akane asked.

"It's just, ah, well..." Ranma stammered.

"It's not like we haven't done it before."

"I know, but this time... they know." Ranma cast a worried look towards 
the downstairs.

"So, Nabiki and Kasumi already know we've done it. And our parents know 
it would happen at some point. So, what's the problem?"

"I-I guess I'm just nervous. They might... you know... spy on us."

"They better not. Besides, they don't need to as they know what we're 
going to do. Now get in here."

Ranma gulped and then nodded. He entered the room, closing and locking 
the door behind him. "Um, do I have to use a condom?"

Akane stood there, thinking. She had sex with him a couple times now 
without a condom and she shouldn't be in the right stage of her cycle, 
so another time might not increase the chances that much. He also hated 
them.

"I will, if you want me to... it's just I'd..." Ranma began.

"...rather not use them," Akane finished. "I know. It's just another 
time might be what it takes to get me pregnant. I'm rather concerned as 
it is that I can't use a condom when you're in Nekoken."

"You can't?"

"You destroyed the one I tried to use." Akane sighed. "I-I'll leave it 
up to you to decide. I may not be at my most stage of the cycle anymore, 
but there is some chance I'll get pregnant. There is also a chance what 
happened last week might have thrown off my cycle and I might be most 
fertile now and not last weekend."

Ranma took a moment to think. "The thing is you might already be 
pregnant or you're now in the wrong part of your cycle to get pregnant. 
Even if your cycle is thrown off, there is a chance I'll go into Nekoken 
while you are fertile. I see it as the chances of getting pregnant 
during this cycle may be good, but not using one this time adds little 
to the chance... IF you do become pregnant, it's as you said, 'It'd be a 
lot of changes, but our child will be born to a loving family. So, there 
wouldn't be too much of a problem.'"

"I take it you decided not to use one." Akane's voice was uncertain.

"Akane, if you want me to..."

"Ranma, it's okay. You don't have to. I'm going to worry about being 
pregnant whether or not we use protection." Akane sighed. "You shouldn't 
be too concerned though, my fears are based more on... the physical 
changes I'd go through... and such."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm sure. It's okay." Akane embraced Ranma and started to kiss 
him. If they kept talking, their discussion would've been for nothing.

After what seemed to be an eternity, Akane broke off the kiss. "I just 
need to do one thing before we get too far." She walked over to her 
desk.

"What do you have to do?" Ranma asked.

"To take off my make-up. Don't want to get it all over my pillow."

"Oh." Ranma uttered, as he took off his shirt.

"Daddy! What are you doing?" Nabiki's shout could be heard through the 
door.

"Ah, well, I..." Soun stammered.

"Do you want a sparring session with Akane?" Nabiki asked. "Then don't 
try to spy on them!"

Ranma and Akane heard Soun walk away from the door. Akane shook her 
head. "Just ignore them."

"I'm trying."

"Then let me help keep them off your mind." Akane then kissed Ranma, 
running her hands over his chest.

True to her word, Akane soon aroused Ranma to the point he no longer 
cared the others might spy on them. Ranma started to blindly groping for 
a means to take off Akane's dress. After a moment, she decided to help 
him. She broke off the kiss as she took a step back. Akane reached 
behind her and unzipped her dress, letting it fall to the floor. Ranma 
then brought her closer and they began to kiss passionately again.

Not ending their kiss, Akane pulled Ranma with her towards her bed. He 
eagerly followed. 

Still kissing, Ranma carefully lowered Akane to her bed. He then slipped 
a hand under her panties. Akane moaned into Ranma's mouth as he massaged 
her sex. With a flick of his wrist, Ranma pulled down her panties and 
then slipped them off with a little help as Akane moved her legs.

Ranma resumed to play with Akane's nether lips. He felt Akane's pussy 
wrap around his fingers as he slipped them inside her. Akane nearly 
broke their kiss as she moaned again into his mouth.

Akane shuddered as ecstasy ripped through her as she orgasmed onto 
Ranma's fingers. Ranma ended the kiss and withdrew his fingers from her. 
He then removed his pants and boxers. Akane took the momentary break to 
remove her bra.

Ranma moved on top of Akane. She massaged his shaft, and aimed it into 
her yearning hole. With a quick motion, Ranma entered Akane. He slid in 
easily and felt her sex muscles wrap around his manhood. Her body 
resisted when he pulled out, but hungrily accepted him as he thrust in.

Their bodies melded into one as their hands moved enticingly across each 
other. Their lips were locked again into a passionate kiss even as they 
moaned from pleasure into each other's mouth.

Akane, feeling the release of an orgasm quickly approaching, grabbed 
onto Ranma's ass. She held him, preventing him pulling out. Her love 
juices flooded her canal covering his wooden man staff. Akane's orgasm 
sent Ranma over the brink as his own love juices flowed into her.

Ranma rolled over off Akane. He hugged her in a loose embrace. "I love 
you, Akane."

"I love you too, Ranma." Akane returned his loose hug. She had to admit 
it did feel better without a condom. She gave a silent prayer that she 
wouldn't get pregnant.

Sleep soon washed over them.

In the hall Soun cried. His daughter was all grown up now, and his 
family line was now, for all intents and purposes, joined.

Nabiki shook her head when she found him spying on them again. "Daddy, I 
told you not to do that."

"They did it. They really did it! Our families are joined."

"Yes, they did and it is. Now leave them be, you've interfered enough in 
their relationship as it is," Nabiki said sternly, her arms crossed.

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Author's Notes:

Thanks to David Tatum, Byran Neef, The Rams, William Jones, to everyone
who has sent any kind of C&C to me. Thanks for even reading this.

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