Disclaimer: The Ranmaverse and all of it's characters are property of the brilliant Takahashi-sama and Sailor Moon characters belong to Takeuchi-sama and I claim no ownership of them. Only the story belongs to me.
Edited on 02/11/08
"I'm not here to talk to you!" The person spat at her being turning toward Ranma. "How could you say such hurtful untrue things about me in that letter?! And running off with this..this hussy!" The girl screamed at Ranma.
"Ukyo, nothing I said in that letter was untrue. Did you really think I would just sit by while you guys tried to kill 'Kane?! After everything that happened in China and then right after we get back all of you acting like nothing happen!
"You're lucky the worst thing I did was what I said in that letter! You could have killed her Ukyo! You were supposed to be our friend!" Ranma screamed back at her as he fought an inner battle to keep control of his anger.
"Friend?! I'm you're fiancé Ran-chan, not just your friend! You have to marry me! My honor demands it!" Ukyo yelled as she charged after him with her giant spatula raised above her head.
"It's bad enough your father left me behind and ruined my life but now you do the same thing and further ruin my honor!" Ukyo screamed as she swung her weapon toward Ranma's mid section and he dodged out of the way of the strikes but made no move to further defend himself or attack back.
"You're no better then Genma!" Ukyo accused as she swung her weapon down on his head, but before it made contact, it was stopped by Akane grabbing a hold of it.
"That's enough Ukyo!" Akane called out as she pushed the spatula away and knocked Ukyo back.
"You stay out of this hussy! You stole my fiancé!" Ukyo screamed as she picked herself up off of the ground.
"He's not your fiancé Ukyo, he's my husband and if you think I'm going to stand by and let you attack him knowing full well that he's not going to hit you back, you have another thing coming!" Akane cried out as she got into a ready stance.
"Husband!? You really are no better then Genma, you've completely ruined my honor Ranma!" Ukyo screamed as she turned her attention back to him.
"No Ukyo you ruined that yourself when you tried to kill 'Kane at our wedding." Ranma replied calmly shaking his head at her.
"That's far enough." Lita said getting in front of Akane and stopping Ukyo in her tracks.
"If you want to attack them, you have to go through us." Rei said matter-of-factly as she and the other girls joined Lita.
"Why protect her?! She's nothing but a hussy fiancé stealer!" Ukyo screamed at them annoyed.
"You're one to talk, throwing exploding food at someone's wedding!" Mina called back in disgust.
"I was just doing what Ranma wanted! Everyone knows he wanted to marry me but that hussy forced him to marry her!" Ukyo informed them as though it was a proven fact.
"That's funny. We were at the wedding and neither of them seemed forced." Serena said shaking her head.
"Now Ukyo is it? Why don't you go get a life of your own and stop trying to steal Akane's." Lita said with more then a little warning implied.
"Just shut up and get out of my way!" Ukyo demanded as she began rushing toward them preparing to attack. Shaking her head, Akane jumped over the girls and blocked Ukyo's path.
Sending a quick kick to her wrist, Akane forced her grip to loosen on the spatula and it went flying across the school yard. Pulling out her mini spatulas, Ukyo began throwing them at Akane, but she quickly weaved in and out of them and the most they did was a shallow scratch here and there.
As Akane approached her, she began throwing punches to her mid section at a speed Ukyo was hard pressed to keep up with. Then a moment later, Akane back flipped away catching Ukyo's chin with her foot as it came up and sent her flying backwards. "The fights over Ukyo, you lose." Akane warned as she landed on the ground and saw that Ukyo was trying to stand up.
"Enough Ukyo. You were supposed to be my friend, my only childhood friend. But friends wouldn't do these things. Go home Ukyo." Ranma demanded as he walked over and stood next to Akane.
"You were supposed to marry me!" Ukyo screamed at him again.
"Ukyo I'm sorry that your father is no better then mine, but that is not my fault. Pop told him I was already engaged but he pleaded to his greed and got him to say yes to the engagement, but he never once meant it. Your family got taken in by a con man just like many others along the road, but my fathers actions, even if he involved me, are not my responsibility I was six years old.
"Now why don't you stop acting like Ryoga and take responsibility for what you do and how you act. And stop trying to blame everything on me." Ranma said shaking his head sadly.
"Speaking of Ryoga..hey Akane did your husband ever tell you he's really P-chan?" Ukyo asked with a laugh as she stood up off of the ground.
"No I found that out on my own." Akane said as she locked eyes with Ukyo.
"Wait you knew too?" Lita asked in disbelief.
"Well Ranma was honor bound not to say anything, what's your excuse?" Rei shot back at her as she placed her hands on her hips.
"You know Ukyo I used to consider you one of our friends. Sure you were a rival for Ranma, but a friend none the less. I sorry you got hurt in all of this, but we can't please everyone. We spent over two years denying how we felt to everyone including ourselves to both stop us from being married the next day and to stop all of you from getting hurt.
"Two years we wasted and hurt each other just for the right to chose for ourselves. And even after all of that all of you still show up like it's us who have done something wrong. We may not be perfect but we aren't the bad guys here. Ukyo you have always said you were Ranma's best friend, and if that is still true you need to take a good long look at yourself and figure out for yourself if you have really been a friend to him.
"I'm not saying we're ready to forgive you now, but I would hate to see Ranma lose the only childhood friend he has. So go find out what it truly means to be a friend and then we'll talk." Akane said as she turned and started toward the school with the others following.
Ukyo watched her go with a confused look on her face. I guess I have some thinking to do. Ukyo thought to herself as she walked out of the school yard.
"Good question." Mina agreed as she nodded her head before turning to Ami.
"Well as it stands out the early warning devices will tell us the moment a Youma appears but for now that is the best I can do. Our best bet would be to hit Jedite now before he regains his full strength but not knowing where he is, is stopping us from doing that. And as far as I can tell they are always on the move since I can't seem to get a lock on either of them." Ami explained as she looked around the room at everyone.
"Who is this Jedite guy anyways? And Starlite?" Ranma asked after a moment.
"Jedite was the first villain we faced after we were reincarnated on Earth. He was the first of the Four Generals we faced before defeating their leader Queen Beryl. He just up and disappeared one day and we never knew what happened to him. But from what Starlite told us Queen Beryl put him to sleep in a glass coffin.
"Who Starlite is other than his wife, I do not know. We never met her when we were dealing with the negaverse but then again she probably went inactive to take care of Jedite." Ami informed them with a shrug of her shoulders.
"So what do we do now?" Serena asked breaking the silence that had fallen over the room.
"Well since I was never good with the whole planning thing, I think 'Kane-chan and I should be getting ready for our date before anyone else decides to attack us." Ranma said with a smile as he stood and started out of the room.
Akane just rolled her eyes and laughed when she saw the girls' expressions. "He's a do and think about it after if you get around to it kind of person." Akane said with a smile as she headed out of the room as well.
"Yes it is." Akane said as she nodded her head looking through the dresses in her closest.
"How can you be married if you haven't even gone on a date yet?" Mina asked confused.
"We never really had the chance to go on a date before since if we did not only would our fathers try to marry us right away but we would also have to deal with all of the rivals." Akane explained as she tossed dresses over her shoulder after looking at them and dismissing the idea of wearing them. "None of these are perfect for tonight." Akane complained as she slumped to the floor.
"I think I might have something." Rei said with a smile as she headed out of the room and returned a minute later with a short red dress.
"You sure that's not too...umm...sexy?" Akane asked after looking over the dress.
"That's the point." Rei said laughing as she handed the dress to Akane.
"Go ahead try it on." Mina said with a smile.
"Okay." Akane replied with a nod of her head after thinking about it for a moment. "Well what do you think?" Akane asked looking over at the girls after getting ready.
"I think you'll knock him dead." Lita said with a grin.
"Go get him girl." Serena said laughing as she pushed Akane out of the room. When they arrived at the front room they found Ranma waiting for them and as he looked up his jaw dropped to the floor.
"Say something." Mina hissed at him quietly when he hadn't made a sound.
"Wow." Was all Ranma could manage as he continued to stare at her.
"Go on get out of here you two." Rei said shaking her head as she puled Ranma up off of the ground and they started pushing them out of the door.
"Don't come back too early." Serena called after them as the girls waved good bye to them.
"We want you guys to try something." Luna said as she and Artemis jumped in through the window.
"We're going to try to reinforce your transformation wands with your chi, if our calculations are right, it should give you guys a power boost." Artemis explained as he jumped into Mina's lap.
"How do we do that?" Serena asked looking down at Luna as she took out her wand.
"You know how Ranma told you to pull your chi into your attack? Try that but instead of adding it to your attack add it to the wand." Artemis explained as the girls took their wands out as well.
"I'm gl...glad ya l..like it." Ranma said as he stumbled for his words a bit. Akane just smiled up at him causing his breath to catch in his throat. Shaking his head a bit to clear it, he smiled back at her before gulping down his water.
How am I supposed to keep from going crazy and acting like Dr. Tofu when she looks like that? Ranma wondered as he kept his eyes down on the table in front of him to keep himself from looking up at her.
"Ran-kun are you alright?" Akane asked after a moment a little worried.
"Yeah 'Kane-chan, I'm okay." Ranma said nodding his head with a smile as he looked back up at her and was once again caught in her large, brown eyes. "Everything is perfect." Ranma assured her with a smirk.
Cause she deserves it, that's how. Ranma explained to his mind as the waiter came over to take their order.
"Looks like we'll be able to test it out." Rei said jumping up as she felt a negative presence near by. At the same time Ami's computer started to beep.
"Youma." Ami and Rei said in unison as the started out of the temple and found three Youma standing in the yard in front of them.
"Thought the temple was protected by wards." Mina said a bit confused as she turned to Rei.
"The temple is, not the yard." Rei explained as the girls raised up their wands and yelled,
"MERCURY!" "MARS!" "JUPITER!" "VENUS!" "SOLAR POWER!" "MOON ETURNAL POWER!" "MAKE-UP!" They finished in unison as they began to transform.
"Thought a nice walk in the park would be good." Ranma replied as he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close. "Did you have a good time?" Ranma asked as they started walking down the path that went through the park.
"Yeah I did Ran-kun." Akane said as she looked up at him with a smile. "It was perfect." Akane informed him before she noticed he was no longer looking at her.
"Look." Ranma said pointing behind her and as she turned she saw the setting sun.
"Oh wow it's so pretty." Akane exclaimed with a smile as her eyes lit up. Standing behind her, Ranma wrapped his arms around her shoulders and rested his chin on the top of her head.
"Wait here, I'll go help them." Ranma said as he started off toward the fight.
"I can fight too you know!" Akane called after him a bit annoyed.
"Don't want you to get that pretty dress dirty!" Ranma called back with a smirk as he joined up with the others. "I miss anything?" Ranma asked as the scouts looked over at him.
"Nah not much." Sailor Moon said shaking her head.
"Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken!" Ranma cried out as he rushed toward the nearest Youma and began beating on his chest faster then he could keep up with.
"Stack them up and I'll knock them down!" Sailor Moon called out to everyone as she pulled out her scepter.
"Roger!" Mars called back as she grabbed the nearest one to her with her fire whip and tossed it to where Ranma was still pounding on another one.
"VENUS LOVE ME CHAIN!" Sailor Venus cried out as she grabbed the last one and tossed it on top of the pile as Ranma jumped back out of the way.
"MOON BEAM ROTATION!" Sailor Moon cried out as she sent her attack at the three Youma and quickly destroyed them.
"So what was that all about anyways?" Akane asked as she walked over to the others.
"No idea, probably just Jedite trying to keep us busy." Serena said with a shrug after detransforming. "So how did it go?" Serena asked with a grin as they sat down around the table while Lita and Rei brought out snacks for them.
"It was perfect." Akane said with a smile.
"Right, let's see where did we leave off? Oh right, a thousand years ago we lived on the moon kingdom, but it was attacked and destroyed by Queen Beryl and her generals and we were reincarnated here on Earth by Queen Serenity." Ami explained after taking a sip of her tea.
"That's my real mother by the way." Serena said with a smile.
"We didn't really have that many battles with him before he up and disappeared." Rei said with a shrug of her shoulders.
"And it looks like that was right about the time he was put in the glass coffin by Queen Beryl." Ami added.
"Well after that it was Nephrite. He ended up not being such a bad guy and Molly fell in love with him, but Zoisite, who was the third general, had some of her Youma kill him. (AN: Since I am going by mostly the English version of Sailor Moon, I'm leaving Zoisite as a girl rather than as a guy as he was in the original Japanese version.)
"And from what Malachite said when we fought him, who was the fourth general, Queen Beryl killed Zoisite for failing to kill us. We defeated him then went on to the Doom and Gloom girls, before finally defeating Queen Beryl. " Serena explained as she counted off the villains on her fingers.
"After them were Ann and Alan and the Doom Tree..." Ami started as she began to describe the various villains they faced over the years.
"Wow, with the exception of maybe Herb and Saffron most of the people we fought really weren't villains out to destroy the world or anything, they mostly just wanted to kill one of us and or marry the other." Akane explained when Ami had finished.
"You're lucky, most of ours wanted to either rule or destroy the world." Mina said shaking her head.
The sounds of hideous laughter echoed off of the walls drowning out their voices so we could not hear what was being said, but then again since it is who it is, maybe it's better if we don't know their plans.
