Couldn't fit the full title I wanted... anyway, I was just wondering: in the story where Miss Hinako first shows up, Ranma immediately decides he wants to learn the "Happo Satsus" (Hinako's ki-draining moves) after seeing Hinako use it to take Happosai himself down. Initially, Akane doesn't get suspicious when Ranma takes Hinako away to try and ask her to teach him the moves, but Nabiki stirs up trouble for her own amusement and Akane starts following him.
When Hinako-chibi reveals she hasn't been paying any attention to Ranma's attempts to politely ask her to teach him the Happo Satsu, he snaps at her angrily- which makes her start bawling. Ranma tries to apologise to her, and Akane promptly bursts onto the scene in her usual fury, belting him over the head. When he points out he just wanted her to share something with him, she immediately assumes the worst and starts getting angry- Ranma's attempts to make her calm down before she ends up getting her own aura drained causes Ryoga to get drained, which eventually leads to Hinako declaring Ranma an enemy after first Akane, then Ryoga badmouth him.
My question is this: if Akane hadn't followed Ranma, and he had finally managed to ask Hinako to teach him the Satsus without her interference, how might things have developed from there? How would Hinako and Ranma's relationship (in the formal sense of the word, *not* the romantic sense) have been altered?
Alternatively, what might have happened if Ryoga hadn't shown up and Akane had gotten herself drained, despite Ranma's attempts to make her calm down? Is it possible that Hinako might have decided that Akane is the delinquet (attacking someone for no real reason, etc) and not Ranma?


