From: chrismg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (christian gadeken)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Ranma 1/2 episode -3.14159265 (Part 2/3)
Date: 5 Nov 92 20:38:44 GMT
Reply-To: chrismg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (christian gadeken)
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		Ranma Nibunnoichi:Passion Spice-Big Trouble!

	[Later that night, Akane is in her room, with her head on
	her desk, looking at something in her hands.  Cut to a
	different angle, where we see she's holding the black
	shaker.  Her expression changes periodically, like she's
	arguing with herself.]

	Akane:But I *did*... and I want to... and even if...
	[sits up]  Even if he *doesn't* think he'd like it he
	*has* to be as tired of this as I am...   Okay!

	[She gets up and hurries out of the room like she's
	trying to avoid reconsidering.]

	[Cut to Ranma's room, where he's alone, scowling at a
	notebook.  Occasionally he rubs his chest, not like it
	hurts but like he's remembering something.  Akane opens	
	the door. She's carrying some stuff.]

	Ranma:[suspiciously]  What's up with you?

	[Akane sits in front of him, putting a bowl of rice, the
	passion-spice shaker, and a pair of spoons on his futon.]

	Akane:[slowly]  Ranma... we've been... fiddling around since
	we met... and then all that stuff with girls chasing you and
	guys chasing both of us...

	Ranma:[impatiently] Yeah, so?

	Akane[looking at him under her bangs]  Aren't you getting tired
	of it?  Don't you want a way to settle it?

	Ranma:[confused]  Well, yeah but-  [blinks and looks at the shaker]
	Oh, no!  I'm not letting you mess up my head with that stuff!

	[Akane puts one spoon in front of herself and one in front of
	Ranma; they both stare at the bowl a moment.]

	Akane:We just... feed each other a spoonful and it's settled...
	no more nastiness, no more other people complicating things...
	[smiles] Father will be ecstatic... and Uncle Saotome...

	Ranma:Yeah... [looks at Akane]  You really mean this?

	Akane:[looks up, then nods quickly.]  You said you wanted it
	settled, so-

	Ranma:Mm.

	[Ranma takes a deep breath, then spices the rice, picks up a spoon,
	and scoops some out.  Or tries to, at least, the rice is stuck
	together in gluey lumps.]

	Ranma:[smirking] You cooked this yourself, didn't you?

	[Akane glares, then grabs the other spoon and scoops out a big
	chunk.  Ranma manages to get one also, and they stare at each 
	other a moment.]

	Akane:One, two-

	Ranma:Three!! [sticks his spoon in her mouth and gulps the rice
	off her spoon.]

	[They swallow, and stare blankly a moment.  Cut to the hallway
	outside, where Kasumi is walking to Ranma's room with some clean
	clothes.  She opens the door-]

	Kasumi:Oh!  I- I'm sorry, I didn't-

	[She closes the door and stands a moment, face bright red, hand to
	chest to steady her heart.  She puts the clothes on a hall table,
	and hurries downstairs.]

	Kasumi:Otousan? Are you there?

	[Cut to breakfast next morning.  Kasumi is smiling, Soun and the
	panda are grinning like idiots(again) and Nabiki is looking like
	she doesn't know *what* to think at-
	Ranma and Akane feeding each other with big silly smiles.]

	Akane:[finishing up] That was good!  [Gets up and grins at Ranma]
	Race you to school!  [zoom!]

	Ranma:Aa!  No fair!  [jumping up] Thanks, Kasumi!  [Dashing after
	Akane]  Wait up, cutie!

	Nabiki: "cutie?"  Oh, boy...

	[Ranma and Akane have as silly and prolonged a race as you care
	to imagine.  However, a couple of minutes from school, Furinkan
	High School's screwy principal shows up and-]

	Principal:Ha!  Today you will both wash toilets for lateness!
	Muahahahaha-
	
	[Babam! Ranma and Akane run right over him.]

	Principal:[sitting up groggily]  Oh no you don't!  [Pulls a
	remote control out of his shirt and presses a button.  Huge
	nets swing down towards Ranma and Akane.]

	Akane:[dodging one] Kyaaa!

	Ranma:[ducking down] Akane, here!

	[Akane jumps on his back, and he charges for the school gate.
	Akane shatters all the nets with well-placed punches, and they
	jump through just as the late bell rings.]

	Ranma:[laughing]  A tie!?

	Akane:[also laughing] No, we both won!

	[They laugh together, then Ranma charges towards the school,
	with Akane still on his back.]

				COMMERCIAL BREAK
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			C h r i s t i a n  G a d e k e n

Yakumo: "But I really did destroy a monster in Hong Kong!
Saru  : "Ahem, ahem"
Yakumo: "Saru, do you believe me?"
Saru  : "Where's my Hong Kong souvenir?"