I may have gotten this part out fast but that's because it was 
already written.. i'm goin to hopefully get started on part 2 tonight .. 
i say hopefully because at one point i wrote 40 pages on one fic in 4 
hours and then 1 page in the next.. umm.. i think it's been a year now.. 
but i wouldn't post it anyways.. it's an otaku fic :)

Standard Disclaimer


	Of Honor Won And Time Lost 
	Part 1
	"Stupid Promises"

	[Tendo Dojo, Kitchen]

Akane:[Thinking] It isn't fair; here I am 26 years old and I still have 
to bow down to my father's wishes.

	Akane scowled as she chopped up some vegetables for the curry dinner 
she was preparing.

Akane:[Thinking] Musn't forget Kasumi's advice; never spoil a meal with 
bitter emotions.  Easy for you to say Oneechan,
happily married with four kids, not an old maid like me.  Kasumi married 
to Tofu-sensei, Nabiki living with Tatewaki,
and me expressely forbidden to see men, nevermind marry them.  Damn 
Father and that stupid promise.

	Akane, while lost in thought, managed to move from slicing the 
vegetables to slicing her finger.

Akane:ITE!!

	She sucked at her finger as she reached into a drawer and removed a box 
of band-aids to bandage her wound.

Akane:[Thinking] It just isn't fair! But I did promise Father I would 
wait for Ranma, but I did it because I beleived he
was close to death, not to be bedridden for the last ten years.  And 
because of that stupid promise I have to babysit my 
own father for a decade.

	
	[Nerima Street, Same Day]

	A dark haired man with a pig-tail stood speaking with his two 
companions, a man much like the first sporting a 
black and yellow striped bandanna, the other a brown haired woman with a 
spatula strapped to her back.

Ranma: Well here it is, Nerima... home of the Tendo Dojo.  My greatest 
challenge to date.

Ukyo: Oh come off it Ranchan, we've fought many hard battles and tough 
opponents yet we've managed to defeat them all.  
I'm sure it couldn't be that bad.

	The bandanna clad man just nodded in agreement.

Ranma: Ukyo you should know this, and you too Ryouga, everything I've 
done has been for this moment, all my past fights 
mere training for this one.

Ryouga: Well Ranma, is your too scared I can fight for you..

Ranma:[Interrupting] Ryouga this is a matter of honor entrusted to me by 
my father just before he took his own life, I 
must restore the Saotome name from the disgrace to which it has fallen.

Ryouga: I understand.. but just what was it that honor compels you to 
avenge?

Ranma: I don't know..

Ryouga + Ukyo: You don't know!?!?

Ranma: What caused the stain on my family's honor is fo no importance to 
me.  I merely have to cleanse it.  My father 
would not have insisted had it been otherwise.

Ukyo: Well no use worrying about that now, I'm sure we can get answers 
later, but if this has to be done maybe we should 
just get it over with.

Ryouga: Well then, the Tendo Dojo it is!

	Ryouga starts to head off down the street until Ukyo catches his arm 
and turns him around.
	
Ukyo: This way, sugar.

	Togerther they headed off towards the...

	[Tendo Dojo, Dojo]

	A fine mist spread through the air as Akane finished off one of the 
last of the cinder blocks.

Akane:[Sighing] Even after all I've learned that still relaxes me.

	Akane starts going through a basic kata speeding up gradually into some 
fairly complex routines, when a knock 
resounds through the air.  With a loud yell, Akane finishes off the last 
brick.

Akane: Well i guess I shouuld get the gate.

	With that thought she leaves the Dojo and moves into the yard.

	[Tendo Dojo, Outside the Front Gates]

	Ranma pounded on the gate once more, with Ryouga and Ukyo flanking him 
silently.

Ranma:[Yelling] Open up this is a challenge!!

	The gates opened to reveal Akane.

Akane: A challenge?  As the heir to the Tendo Dojo i accept.  Follow me.

	Akane turned her back and walked back towards the Dojo.  Ranma 
followed, motioning for his two companions to do 
likewise.  The four entered, Ranma and Akane moving to face each other 
in the middle, the non-combatants sitting by the wall.

Ranma: So I'm to fight you?

Akane: As this Dojo's best fighter it is my duty to defend it.  Shall we 
begin?

Ranma: A man should never strike a woman..

Akane: You issue a challenge and then run from it? ... how brave of 
you..

Ranma:[Glaring at Akane] I never said I'd relinquish my challenge. 
[Reaches his hand out to the side his companions were 
sitting] Ryouga.

	Ryouga reached into his pack and withdrew a canteen that he tossed to 
Ranma.  Ranma caught it without so much as 
moving his gaze from Akane and dumped it's contents over his head.  With 
that act he shrunk a foot, and noticeably became a 
she, startling his opponent.

Akane: What the!?!?

Ranma: Now we can fight.

Akane: How did...?

Ranma: I'll explain after i defeat you.

Akane:[Regaining some measure of her composure] Confident aren't you?  
I'm only the winner of the All-Japan martial arts 
tournament for the past four years.  You'll be eating your words soon 
enough.

Ranma: You sure do talk a good fight, but I've waited for this for too 
long already.  We'll discuss this after I've won.

Akane: Fine, let's see what you've got.

	Akane drops into a defensive stance, as does Ranma after a moment.  
Both stare at each other for a pregnant moment,
neither making a move, then Akane initiated the attack.  She rushed 
towards her foe with a yell, sending a punch at Ranma's face, one he 
deftly turned aside and retaliated with a lightning fast kick to her 
head.  A kick that he was surprised to have missed with, Akane dodging 
to the side at the last moment, lashing out at him with a kick to his 
chest.  It was her turn to be startled when he launched himself upwards 
and used her leg for support to try another head kick.  Barely in time 
she grabbed his foot and dropped to the floor, rolling backwards, 
sending Ranma flying away from her.  Ranma sommersaulted in mid-air to 
land on his feet facing the Dojo wall.  He turned to face Akane just as 
she regained her footing.

Akane: you're pretty good.

Ranma: you're better than i expected, no wonder my father never sought 
you out himself.  But now that I've warmed up, we 
can make this match really interesting.

	With a loud battle-cry Ranma leapt to the attack.

	[Tendo Dojo, Soun's bedroom]

	Soun Tendo lay on his bedding as he had for the last ten years, 
thinking and wondering when he would finally see 
his dream of a united school completed.  His musing was interrupted by 
the growling of his stomach.

Soun:[Thinking] I wonder what's keeping Akane?  Usually she'd have 
dinner prepared be now.. something strange is going on.. 
I can feel it

	His thoughts were once again interrupted, this time tiem by a loud 
shout

Soun:[Thinking] That came from the Dojo.. what's going on down there?

	So perplexed was he, that for the first time since the arrival of 
Ranma's letter he ventured outside the confines of 
his room.  Muscles straining from disuse, Soun staggered towards the 
casue of his distress.  More than slightly winded, his 
knees buckling, he stumbled into the Dojo;  In time to see a red-headed 
woman complete kick on his youngest daughter, sending 
her crashing into the wall.

Ranma: Do you acknowledge deafeat?

Akane:[Tilting her head a bit] Hai...

	Tears formed in Ranma's eyes as he realized the end of his decade long 
quest.

Ranma:[To Self] Finally Father.. you may now rest knowing your honor has 
been restored.

	Soun stared in shock for a moment longer before energy fueled by his 
rage surged to his long unused limbs.

Soun:[Yelling] How dare you harm my daughter!!! Who are you?!?

Ranma: I'm Ranma Saotome of the Saotome School of Anything-Goes Martial 
Arts.

	After hearing Ranma's words, Soun rushed towards Ranma, who immediately 
moved to defend himself, but was surprised 
as well as slightly embarassed to find himself embraced by the aging 
patriarch.

Soun:[Sobbing loudly] Ranma! Oh how long I've waite for you to come!

	Soun squeezed Ranma once again, and only then fully remembered who he 
was holding onto.

Soun: Genma's son... a woman?

	Soun's questioning face turned to shock as he slid to the floor 
unconcious.

[End Part 1]

Well here's some more of it.. i guess this might have shed some light on 
wher ei'm going with this fic... please note that 
this will be going through revisions.. but only after i'm done with it.. 
i want to get the main ideas out first before I 
start trying to make it look good... and yes i know i called Ranma a 
'he' even when he was female.. sorry.. i just can't 
bring myself to call him she...


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