"Ranma..." Akane looked like she wanted to say something more,
thinking, "Is this the way it is always going to be between us? A
contest of wills?" but instead sighed and turned to leave, saying over
her shoulder, "Have a nice bath..." and started to walk out.
        Suddenly, Ranma was behind her, his hand on her shoulder,
turning her to face him. He lifted up her chin with his hand, looked
down at her, and asked cautiously, "Does this mean I am forgiven? Or
should I be waiting for a surprise attack?"
        All of a sudden Akane's eyes began to glitter mischievously.
She smiled up at him and said, "Oh I would be prepared for the surprise
attack..." and then she reached up and pulled his head down to hers.
        "Akan...!" Ranma began to shout, but it was too late... she was
already kissing him as if her life depended on it. Ranma began to sweat
and chills overtook his body. What was he going to do? If he rejected
her she would kill him! Then, he began to realize how pleasurable the
kiss really was, and, he remembered how cute she had looked right
before she grabbed him.... when she smiled...
        Ranma finally gave into the inevitability of it all and
tightened his arms around Akane, his fiancee, his best friend, and....
something else he would have to think about later..... He deepened the
kiss and realized that this was something he had wanted to do for a
very long time.
  
--Excerpt from _A Lesson in Love_ Chapter 2 by Marisa Price