Part of it was simply that she had the same loathing for unnecessary rules that all teenagers experience. Having grown into an adolescent, it was necessary to reevaluate the rules, and separate the "Don't run in the house with a machete" rules from the "Don't wear your clothes inside out" rules; the adults saw no reason to relax the rules that worked so well when dealing with toddlers, just because the were teenagers.
She would never admit aloud that part of the reason was invariably a reaction to being chased by the police. Having dodged arrest from officers of the law, it seemed silly to worry about the rules imposed by the school. And she was being referred to as a horde of perverts! How could they do that to her? Granted, no one knew it was her, but it was the thought that counts. She was the girl who was constantly being attacked by perverts.
She was even less perverted than some of the girls in her class; until recently, she rarely had a wet dream, and she almost never masturbated. She had a deep disgust of the boys that only seemed to think with their genitals, and a secret fear she might eventually do the same. Combine that with a feeling that as a martial artist she should have enough control not to give in, and a lack of people to fantasize other than Dr. Tofu, and you have a highly repressed sex drive. And they were calling her a pervert!
Well, if the police were free to pick on her when all she was doing was trying to rescue Ranma, and if the teachers were cracking down on her when they let the boys try to assault her, then she felt fully justified in breaking their stupid rules! Well, she wasn't about to defy the cops, but the teachers' petty tyrannies should be ignored. What could they do? Call her father? The man who wanted to give away his children to a complete stranger.
Her father acts more like a child than she did! Let them complain to her father, he buckles at the least pressure from his daughters. Besides, Kuno and Ranma have been breaking the dress code already. If they want to enforce it with her, they first have to enforce it with them.
Akane was determined she was going to wear her new leather jacket instead of her school's outfit's jacket. But it was Nabiki who pointed out that if she were going to violate the dress code, there was no reason to wear the rest of the uniform. Nabiki suggested a possible outfit based around T-shirt and jeans. When Ranma heard the idea, he sacrificed a clean plain white T-shirt to the cause and Nabiki tracked down Kasumi's laundry pen.
Of the other students, the horde's morale was crushed. They had rushed off with the undeveloped film of the girl's locker room, and immediately ordered 37 copies of each of the 36 pictures, one for every boy, and then some; over 1300 prints. What they received was shame and resentment. Coupling this with being spit upon by Akane last time the horde had attacked her; they arrived at school quite dispirited.
However when they arrived to prepare to attack Akane, some girls had arrived earlier, and suspended a bed sheet banner out the class window which read, "Free Pervert Gelding Available." When they saw Akane arrive wearing her leather jacket over jeans and a T-shirt reading "I like the sound of cracking nuts," their will crumbled, and the horde failed to attack.
At about that time, the instigator of the horde was awakening in the hospital. "Sir, the doctor says you must remain in bed!" Sasuke endeavored to hold the weak, but still larger Kuno down.
"Nonsense! I was sent here by Akane's love. I rise phoenix-like from her touch!"
"Master, if you don't lie still, you may still loose the testicle!"
Kuno froze in his somewhat awkward position attempting to throw off his manservant. "You said testicle?"
"Lie still if you wish to rise again later."
"I don't understand."
"One of your testes' tubes was pinched against the pelvic bone, practically giving you half a vasectomy. If it weren't for your training in withstanding injury you might have fractured your pubic arch."
"But how could I have given myself a vasectomy? My skill with a bokken is great, but not inclined towards self-surgery! I never swung it anywhere near there!"
"I think it was when Akane kicked you in the crotch."
"Perhaps it was the wrong time of the month to spar with Akane." But then his self delusion triumphed over his sexist suggestion that it was Akane's fault. "Nay! She desires to toughen all of me for the night we finally join!"
"I think the codeine must have just kicked in."
"She needn't fear, for I shall be as a rock, provided the twins recover before then. Nay! She must wish me hard as a rock when we fight to prove my ardor while we spar!"
"No," Sasuke thought to himself, "the codeine couldn't be strong enough to make him think that!" Trying to slow his headstrong master, he added, "In any case, you'll have to wait at least a week for the swelling and stitches before sparing with Akane again. You'll need to wear an athletic protector for a month if you don't want to risk loosing half your gonads."
"If I must wear protection for a month, Akane will have to suffer without proof of my firmness, but to wait a week to spar can not be bourn!"
"No cup will fit over your swollen and infected privates!"
"Sasuke, you could have kept the knowledge of the infection to yourself. No matter! We shall have one constructed! And it shall be a masterpiece in black steel!"
Oh dear. "Sir, although it might be less poetic, seeing as the future of the Kuno line is at stake, may I substitute titanium with a cover of anodized aluminum to provide the matte black finish?"
"Steel was good enough for our ancestors!"
"But not your descendants. Should not a modern samurai make use of the marvels of this age?"
"You make a good point. Ask the nurse to get me more pain killers."
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