Ranma Saotome (Odd Outcome)

## History

### Part One

Ranma had learned of another potential cure and despite Cologne telling him of how futile it was He along with Genma, Ryoga, and Mousse left to search for it. Naturally Cologne proved to be correct so he was in a rather bad mood when he returned. One day Ryoga came to Ranma in a panic saying that he had saw Shampoo and Akane kissing. While he hadn’t taken much notice of how much the two had been fighting this caused him to start paying more attention to their actions. He finally confronted Akane one day on the soccer field during lunch.

When he asked about the number of fights she and Shampoo had been having, Akane tried to goad him into an argument, but it didn’t he ignored it and just asked her about the fact that she had started calling her Shampoo-chan. After getting over her shocked Akane played it off as a taunt, similar to what he does all the time. Looking away Ranma finally revealed that he knew about her and Shampoo making out. When she asked how he just smiled and said he had his sources, while he didn’t tell her about Ryoga he assured her that he wouldn’t tell.

Caught and with no way out of it Akane gave Ranma the whole story. He was amazingly calm through most of it and when she finished all he could do was shake his head. Akane tried to get Ranma not to tell her father, but he pointed out that this was not something that she could keep a secret. Akane knew he was right. He offered a supporting hand to Akane, telling her that what ever she decided he’d be there for her. Sure, they didn't come to blows anymore but they still held something for him in their hearts. Eventually the two were caught. Cologne was so livid she nearly dragged Shampoo out of the house before she could get dressed. Akane could just wait for the inevitable explosion of accusations to fly. Kasumi couldn’t stop repeating, "oh my." Soun was having his usual fountain of tears. Even Genma shook his head and sighed in disbelieve. The only two people who seem in the least supportive were Ranma and Nabiki.

### Part Two

Soun went into a huge lecture that lasted all night, balling his eyes out through most of it. He thought about switching the engagement to Nabiki, only to realize that since she like girls, Ranma and Akane would be perfect together. Similar to Nabiki and Kasumi’s reasoning when she was first chosen. He didn’t say it outright, but Akane knew that he didn’t want her seeing Shampoo anymore. To explain to everyone why they had missed school Nabiki told people that it was private family business. When the students started offering her money gave vague details. This led to half the school figuring it out and telling the other half. Much to Akane’s frustration they started getting these weird looks from everyone, and suspected they were talking about her when she’s not around.

Somehow it Kuno came to the conclusion that it was Ranma-chan that Akane had been found with and confronted the two during lunch. He appeared so suddenly and quickly that he managed to grab up both Ranma and Akane in an embrace before either noticed him. Ranma was so shocked by Kuno weeping at them for forsaking the male flesh that she stopped protesting. Both Ranma and Akane turned away in disgust, but Kuno went on and proclaimed how he would set the twos wayward hearts back on the path by allowing them both to date with him. It was here that Shampoo showed up and ended there misery by knocking Kuno out.

She told the unconscious Kuno that she would date them both not him. She was joking around of course. It helped relieve some of the tension usually, especially now. However, Ranma might have taken it literally. Akane caught on and returned Shampoo’s embrace, and before either of them knew what was happening they were locked together in a kiss. When Shampoo cut it shot Akane and asked what was wrong. She came to the conclusion that it was worried about being found out and stated that Nabiki had already blabbed. When Akane expressed her frustration at this, Ranma jokingly pointed out that they offered her quite a bit. Sometime during their kiss Ranma must have slipped away and was now sitting by a tree. Akane started yelling at Ranma saying that nobody would have known anything had happened if she hadn’t of said anything. She called Ranma out for getting a huge laugh out of this. Ranma crossed her arms and looked away.

Saying that Akane couldn’t take being called the pervert. Had Shampoo not being holding Akane a fight would have broken out right there. Instead she only sneered at Ranma in anger for a moment then walked off to the side with Shampoo to talk.
Ukyo had realized that the rumors were true so came up with the idea of inviting Shampoo to a weekly poker game she had set up. This would give Akane and Shampoo cover. Since Ranma was invited as well they would just be there to try to get together with Ranma. Akane also felt that she could get some people around the school to come. While uncomfortable Ranma remained supportive even inviting one of his friends.

When Shampoo showed up she and Ukyo got into a fight over my crashing a private party, until Ranma supposedly settled that matter by asking Ukyo to let her stay. They played for most the night. Ranma’s friend finally went broke... well rather he lost all his chips since no money was actually involved, and he left for home. By that time they were all fairly involved in the game so they continued on. Apparently Ranma had been working on his poker face, or maybe he was just distracted by what this was really about. In the end though he got eliminated as well. He watched the girls play for a time, but then dosed off on a sleeping bag Ukyo had provided.

It was around 5am when Akane got eliminated, leaving it between Shampoo and Ukyo, but we decided to end it there. Ukyo showed the two to a room and left them alone as promised. The next morning Ranma was rather gloomy though no one paid it any mind and he’d never admit to any real care about what Akane and Shampoo do. Everyone had breakfast then left on their separate ways.

When Akane didn’t return for her morning jog Ranma had searched her whole route and found no sign of her. he went to the Nekohentan, but she wasn’t there either. Mousse was also nowhere to be found. Cologne had not seen him leave, but he clearly wasn’t there. As soon as Ranma heard that he was running for the door, having come to the conclusion that Mousse had found out somehow and confronted Akane. At the best he kidnapped her. At the worst... she was already dead. Shampoo ran after Ranma, not even waiting to gain Cologne’s permission, and found him a short distance away. He hadn’t given much thought to where Mousse would be, at the time Shampoo was equally at a loss. There was no time to waste though so they agreed to split up and search. Shampoo was able to find Akane and bring her back to the dojo.

### Part Three

Ever since Ranma found out about Akane and Shampoo’s relationship he doesn’t know half the time whether he’s coming or going. Despite their fights and protest he had really liked Akane, and unlike Ryoga, Mousse, and Kuno he did his best to be supportive of them. The problem was that no one else was willing to do anything. So he was just left to figure things out himself. The poker night wasn’t fooling anybody Soun and Cologne were just playing ignorant because they either weren’t willing or didn’t have the guts to put a stop to it.

Ukyo tried to convince him to lose to Ryoga so that he could marry Akane and Shampoo, Ranma wasn’t willing to allow either to happen so just ended up frustrating her. On his way to Okonomiyaki Ucchan's Ranma heard her screaming at Ryoga. He arrived to learn that she had found out that about Ryoga being P-chan. He made his presence known when Ryoga tried to claim that he never used the curse to peep on Akane. Both Ukyo and Ryoga spun around to see Ranma standing in the doorway. Ryoga immediately yelled as a battle cry and assaulted him. Ranma fell back, dodging into the main dinning room, keeping Ryoga out of range. He repeated Ukyo’s question about what Ryoga was doing sleeping in Akane’s bed every chance he could get.

Ryoga refused to answer, instead concentrating on getting his hands on Ranma. Ukyo was surprised that Ranma knew as well. As the fight went on Ranma explained the promise he made to Ryoga not to tell anybody and he took advantage of it. Ryoga abandoning his hand to hand attacks in favor of using his chi attack exclaimed, that he did not and that it was all Ranma’s fault. Ryoga let loose his attack, which Ranma canceled out with one of his own. He then proceeded to blame Akane as she was the one who took him with her. Ranma wasn’t buying it as Ryoga was the one who went along with it. At this point Ukyo had declared enough was enough and leveled Ryoga with a blow from her spatula. She asked Ranma what was going to happen now, but he didn’t have any answers, he just picked up Ryoga and propped him up in one of the booths.

Calmed down Ranma took pity on Ryoga stating that he just had no sense when it comes to Akane. It’s like his brain goes on a holiday whenever she’s involved. Ukyo wasn’t buying that however and again pointed out that Akane wasn’t going to accept that reasoning. Ranma started laughing and when she asked him why he revealed how he found out about Akane and Shampoo. A disgusted Ukyo nearly smashed Ryoga again, but Ranma was quick to tell her that he only saw them kissing. Ukyo asked Ranma how he could take this so casually. Ranma began to respond with an usual amount of force, but Ryoga groaned and began to wake up. Ryoga growled and got back to his feet to confront Ranma saying that his indecision and shoddy treatment of Akane and Shampoo drove them to each other.

This angered Ranma and Ukyo was quick to jump in saying that Ryoga was no one to give criticism. This caused most of Ryoga’s anger to drain away and be replaced with depression. Ukyo had a good mind to tell Akane herself. This caused Ryoga to be instantly at her feet in a begging posture pleading with her not to. She reminded Ryoga about Shampoo even telling him that she was probably waiting for you to show up to tell Akane. In response to that Ryoga let out a wail and began batting his head against the floor while constantly repeating, "I’m doomed!" Ukyo wasn’t about to argue with him. In fact she was so disgusted with the idiot at the moment I didn’t even bother to stop his self-inflicted beating.

Ranma seemed to take pity on Ryoga after a minute, or maybe just couldn’t take the wailing any longer, and pulled Ryoga back to his feet. He asked him where he had been all this time. Turns out that Ryoga went back to Jusenkyo to find a cure. However he ended up coming across Ling Ling and Lung Lung and told them what happened. Before they could tell the elder council he knocked them out. Luckily he convinced them not to tell the village after he beat them. Ukyo wondered how, after everything that happened it took her awhile to remember the Amazon laws. Once she did remember though, she almost joined Ranma in laughing.

Ryoga took a moment more to just stare at the floor in sorrow, and then glared at Ranma. He told him that he’d be back one day, and then they’d settle the score for good. He said in a deadly serious fashion that brought Ranma out of his laughter. However, within a second, Ryoga’s nervousness returned. He wasted no more time, and raced off before the twins could track him down. Ranma took another minute to get all the laughter out of his system, while Ukyo just shook my head. After Ranma calmed down, he was about to depart as well, but Ukyo pulled him to a stop. Ryoga was her best shot at fixing the situation, now it’s blown to hell. She didn’t know what to do now. Ranma didn’t have any answers either unfortunately. Ranma sighed in frustration, and walked to the back of the restaurant.

Despite knowing that she would be angry Ranma needed someone to talk to and told her his feeling on the matter, opening up and allowing himself to show his vulnerability. Ukyo however just took it as him not caring about her. Before he could tell her that wasn’t the case, she retrieved her spatula and began stalking his way. This wasn’t like his usual arguments with Akane, everyone expected Ranma to fix there problems yet weren’t willing to give an inch themselves. Ranma couldn’t really put his feeling in to words and Ukyo wasn’t willing to give him the time or understanding to do it she was just made that they went against what she wanted.

Seeing Ukyo freeze Ranma grabbed her and tried to help her come back to her senses , at which point she proceeded to push him away. Ukyo blurted out that he should just go and marry both of them then if he couldn’t make up his mind. When he asked her what she was talking about she told him about Nabiki’s plan. That would solve everything it would free Shampoo from her obligations with her tribe so that she wouldn’t be killed and she and Akane could be together. In his excitement Ranma grabbed Ukyo in a hug. Releasing her Ranma began walking around in a tight circle and started thinking aloud before he once again knelt down in front of Ukyo, and looked her right in the eye.

Nabiki wouldn’t tell Ukyo something like that unless it involved her. Ukyo dismissed it as a stupid idea, but Ranma saw it as perfect as it meant that everyone is satisfied. Ukyo however just saw it as him not taking marriage seriously and threw him out.