Ranma and Akane-Let's Keep it Platonic by Jaqueline Zema

with some help from her brother





This particular idea was advanced to me by my sister and 

will be an alternate reality fic with the diversion from 

the original time stream-taking place in the first episode.



In this idea, before Akane makes the fated remark after

her duel with Ranma she apparently thinks twice and decides

not too, I also suggested leaving out the rather

unmitigating bathroom scene and so she begins her little

teaser at the table that night while revealing Ranma's

little problem-*note* I'm cleaning this up a bit from her

email but this is basically what she sent



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"Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that you're a...guy?"

Akane asked incredulously, then before anyone could say

anything following Ranma's hesitant nod, she threw herself

at him in a vise-like hug.  "That's terrific, I've never

had any guys I could call a friend!"



"Why not?" asked Ranma looking down at her with a slightly

stunned reaction to her overwhelmingly affectionate

response.



Suddenly realizing her position Akane backed up slowly,

her eyes darting from side to side, "oh, um no reason

really its just..."



"That all the guys at school have become rather obsessed

with her and want to date her, a problem which she solves

by beating them up daily," interrupted Nabiki, "though in

her defense that last part isn't entirely her fault."



"Nabiki!!" screamed Akane, "I thought I told you never to

tell anyone about that, I thought we had a deal!" throwing

a bun off her plate at her sister.



"We did," stated Nabiki calmly, "however you were late on

your last two payments for me to keep this information to

myself, is it my fault that if you forget your part of the

bargain I sometimes slip on my side?"  She smiled slightly

and added, "besides I've just found a much more profitable

market, which would probably end our little deal anyway."



"Oh really, and just what market would that be?" asked

Akane with a suspicious glare.



"Well, sister dear, many of the guys attending our school

seem to have found a new source of income and can now pay

the extrorbitant prices I demand for pictures of you,"

Nabiki announced.



"I can't believe you'd stoop that low, Nabiki!"  Akane

protested.



"Hey, can't blame a girl for trying to make a little cash."



Seeing the discussion rapidly coming to a close, Ranma

chose this time to interrupt, "so why is it that you're so

happy I'm a guy? It seems to me that something like that

would make you a little prejudiced against them."



"Well you met me as a girl first and we were friends right?"



"Sure," said Ranma rather confused by the direction this

was going.



"Well since you met me first as a girl I finally have a

boy I can talk to without worrying about him being a

pervert!  After all, since you're half guy, half girl you

can't be interested in me because it'd make you a lesbian,

but you can still tell me which guys aren't perverts.  And

not only that but I don't have to marry you either!"

finished Akane as she puffed a bit getting her breath back.



Blinking slightly, Ranma just sat staring for a second,

then shrugged and said, "ok."



Soun and Genma on the other hand immediately began nodding

wisely, with Soun intoning, "Yes, Yes, it all makes sense-

ok, Ranma here are Nabiki and Kasumi, pick one and she'll

be your new fiancee." Conveniently ignoring the fact that

the same reasoning Akane just used on herself would apply

to them.



Nabiki and Kasumi blinked and then looked at each other as

they realized they had lost the preemptive strike they had

planned earlier upon figuring out Ranma's curse.







Thus goes my sisters idea, she claimed it needed a bit of

straightening so I did it for her, sorry about that sister

dear. *grin*  Anyway her general idea works out to Akane

being happy to have a guy friend who isn't obsessed with

her and thus she has no romantic interests in Ranma.  When

Ukyou and Shampoo show up, she would probably encourage him

to go after one of them, or if one of her sisters actually

like the engagement they are in, try and protect the Tendo

claim.  Which sister ends up being engaged to Ranma would

have to be my sister's choice.



One last note before I go, that little scene at the end

with the fathers and sisters was my own invention-stopping

the teaser before there just didn't seem to work.