When Nabiki returned everyone bombarded her with questions as to what happened. After calming them down she explained that Ranma had been sent to a different universe for sixteen years in which time he had married and had a child. Surprisingly it was Soun not Akane who flew into a rage at this revelation. He and Genma started openly insulting Ranma’s wife Kasumi Todo while Akane mutely left the room. Things became pretty tense at the dojo Genma and Akane stopped talking to Nabiki out of resentment for keeping Ranma's whereabouts from them. As Soun was reading about an article about a new dojo opening Nabiki ran out upon realizing that it was the Todo Dojo. This reaction caused her family to follow her. Akane, Kasumi, Soun and Genma were initially shocked at the size of the dojo which quickly turned to anger upon seeing Ranma. Having expected this to happen a lot sooner Ranma just told to group to leave. Naturally this was ignored and Genma demanded that Ranma returned with them. Ranma just responded that his name was Todo and he didn’t have to listen to him. Genma would have lashed out at his son if it weren't for the fact that something in the other man's attitude told him he wouldn't hesitate to defend himself.
Akane didn't have such qualms and accused Ranma of cheating on her. Calming down Ranma explained to Akane that he lived in a different dimension for years, with no thought that he would return. However like with Genma he stated to her that he was a grown man who no longer had any connection with the Tendo’s or Saotome. Kasumi quickly put a stop to the resulting argument and told the group to leave. This caused Soun to turn his rage on her. Kasumi however remained calm and told him to leave. Akane ended up challenging Kasumi stating that Ranma would belong to her. Kasumi refused since she didn’t own Ranma so couldn’t accept a challenge with him as the pride. So Akane instead challenged her for the dojo sign this Kasumi did accept.
Kasumi Todo proved victorious after a short but brutal battle.
Akane ended up with three broken ribs and a nearly dislocated left shoulder. From the moment she regained consciousness she cried nonstop emotionally destroyed at being defeated without landing a single hit.
Since her defeat at the hands of Kasumi Akane had become a shadow of what she was. Instead of the confident, nearly arrogant, girl, she was a fragile person that broke down easily. The blow to her confidence as a martial artist being responsible for it. The other times she had lost at martial arts she could convince herself into thinking that her opponent must have cheated somehow, that she wasn't ready. This time as much as she tried, she couldn't escape from reality. Todo Kasumi beat her fair and square, and the worst part was that she did it without much effort. What made her suffer the most was that Ranma wasn't there to rescue her. Instead he stood with that other woman.
Thanks to Genma and Soun spending the entire week feeding Akane with lies about her skills, she had recovered from her loss and had started training again. While she wasn't as arrogant as before losing to Kasumi, she was getting there. Which is why upon seeing the advertisement for the King of Fighters tournament she saw it as a good way to prove her skills. Akane confronted Nabiki the next day after Kasumi told her that she was helping the Todo’s and organizing the tournament.
When Sayuri arrived Akane was shocked to see that she was by herself. Hearing that Yuka was hanging out with Daisuke Akane came to the conclusion that he was bothering her and told Daisuke to leave Yuka alone. Instead of turning around and running like she expected, Daisuke kept his ground. Infuriated Akane attacked him and while he had managed to hold his own for a couple of hits he was nowhere near as skilled as Akane and if it wasn’t for Nabiki tackling her and Yuka pulling him out of the way she would have crippled him.
Throwing Nabiki off of her Akane returned to protecting Yuka only for her to start screaming and desperately trying to drag the injured Daisuke away. Kuno came over to help Yuka take Daisuke to a doctor. When Yuka ignored her cries to wait Akane turned Saiyuki to ask her why everyone was acting like she did something wrong.
Akane spent all the time in her classes wondering why everybody was acting as if she was the one in the wrong. After Ranma had learned of what she did he sent a challenge letter to the dojo which Nabiki informed her of at lunch. In a fit of rage Akane attacked Nabiki as she was calling her out for her actions. Akane began to viciously beat Nabiki her thought process being since she won the fight she was right. While Nabiki wasn’t the most well liked student in school, the other student couldn’t let something like this happen. Akane was about to attack them all if Kuno didn’t step up to put a stop to things. Seeing everyone regarding her with fear and disgust Akane ran out the school grounds towards the Dojo.
Akane told Soun her version of what happened, not mentioning that the boy molesting her friend was only walking with her, and that Nabiki stopped her from crippling him instead of siding with him. Through is all Sayuri who believed it mostly to be true made no attempt to correct her. Soun angry that his daughter came home in tears blamed Ranma and wanted him to pay. Genma told everyone his plan to do so as well as make him an obedient husband to Akane.
Sayuri decided to remain by Akane’s side and everyone waited silently for Ranma’s arrival. The Tendos and their guests didn't expect was for Ranma to bring so many people with him. Next to Ranma stood Kasumi, Geese, Iori and Leona. Two steps behind many of Ranma's students were present, their faces showing their expectation for the upcoming challenge. They were equally surprised when Ranma in his female for introduced herself as Ranko Howard.
Soun opted to be the one to fight and during the initial banter all that stopped Akane from intervening in the fight was her sister's hand on her shoulder. Ranma decided she wouldn't give Soun the satisfaction of a fight and knocked him out with a Reppuu Ken. Akane shocked that Ranma would do that to her father tried to protest was about to protest when Kasumi Tendo whispered in her ear to remember the plan. This shocked the youngest Tendo, since she didn't think Kasumi knew about the plan. And if she did she expected for her sister to go against it.
They were hoping to induce the nekoken by hiding a cat behind the dojo sign. Genma had been quite explicit about what she had to do. She had to beat Kasumi Todo to the pigtailed martial artist. The eldest Saotome thought Ranma would show its affection for Akane, as usual, and in doing so his so called wife would see where Ranma's real love was. After the traumatic events of the past couple of weeks Akane didn't know any better than to trust Genma.
Realizing what was going on Iori, Leona, Geese and Kasumi but were to late. Kasumi told her student to run. Akane didn't waste any time and, ignoring everyone else, made her way to Ranma who began snarling at the girl. Iori and Leona took advantage of this distraction to attack Neko-Ranma. Seeing the two trying to beat her Akane stepped forward only to be stopped by Kasumi Todo. Genma demanded to know what Geese had done to his son, who explained that the dark chi Ranma makes Neko-Ranma a murderous monster.
Neko-Ranma managed to escape Iori and Leona Akane tried to get her to stop as she pushed Kasumi away. The other woman had been too distracted by the sudden defeat of her friends to put up a good defense. Seeing this Neko-Ranma leaped at Akane with clear intentions of killing her, and would have if Kasumi didn’t jump in the way. Neko-Ranma managed to stop her attack enough not to cut her mate into pieces. Four deep cuts were the result, though. Seeing Ranma licked the wounds while not parting her eyes Kasumi's own Akane's heart shattered completely. Witnessing a bond that even insanity couldn't brake. She realized she didn't stand a chance.
Akane went to the Todo Dojo the next day and when she caught sight of Ranma going through a kata she couldn't help but stare. It was such a simple one, nothing really compared to the ones of the Anything Goes. But when performed by Ranma it became something else. She was lucky to hide behind the dojo before Kasumi turned in her direction. After fighting down the urge to run at almost being caught. Akane chanced a second look a few minutes later, and was abashed when she saw Kasumi staring directly at her. She expected the older woman to cry in indignation, or at the very least glare at her, but all Ranma's wife did was turn her attention from her to Ranma. Akane was left staring stupidly at a woman that should be angry with her, just as she was.
Ranma was interrupted by the arrival of Rock. After hearing that Shampoo had attacked Yoko Mature fought her so that the two of them could get away, Ranma rushed out to put a stop to it. This gave Akane the opportunity to confront Kasumi.
Akane blamed Kasumi for everything that happened and demanded that she back what was her. Kasumi was completely shocked at the demands coming from Akane's lips. The hope that Akane would learn she didn't own Ranma, especially after last night, was crushed with the sight of the young Tendo demanding to have her toy back into her hands. Her own anger growing Kasumi once again told Akane that Ranma wasn’t anyone’s to give, and prepared to counter an attack for her every word only seemed to make Akane's anger grow.
Akane prepared to fight to get Ranma back, for the first time since she met Ranma doing something for him instead of herself. Before she protected her property when fighting over Ranma. But now, even if misguided, she fought for someone else. Before she could Nabiki arrived to put a stop to things. Like Kasumi Nabiki tried to get Akane to see that Ranma wasn’t her property. Before Akane could retort to that she continued pointing out that Ranma had a wife and child.
As much anger as she held towards Ranma for all the things he'd done to her she still wanted him by her side. Nabiki's words made the youngest Tendo think about something she'd been trying to block from her conscious mind since the incident. If anything Ranma was a loyal man. He'd proven that staying by her side even with Shampoo and Ukyo throwing themselves at him. But now that loyalty wasn't directed towards her. That very same loyalty that brought him to kill the phoenix, even if the self-proclaimed god was many times more powerful than the pigtailed martial artist, was now with two women. A wife. A daughter.
Akane raised her fist again stating that Ranma could still see his daughter, but he’d still be her husband. By this point Geese had arrived and had enough. While she was intimidated Akane’s pride as a martial artist prevented her from seeing the signs of someone that was barely containing himself back. Geese didn't waste any more of his breath with the heir to the Tendo school of Anything Goes. Rather he moved. Grabbing Akane’s arm he held it painfully behind her back and he forced her to walk towards the front gate. She struggled as fiercely as the pain would allow her to, but to Geese all those efforts meant nothing.
Akane jumped back to her feet after Geese threw her out, a visible aura of anger surrounding her body. Which quickly winked out when Geese told her that he’d kill her if she did. Akane would usually raise up to the challenge, but she could read it in the man's eyes. He wanted her to do it. He wanted the excuse to follow through with his threat. She wasn't standing in front of Shampoo or Ukyo. Hell, not even Kodachi would be able to kill someone. They were not killers, even if the Amazon would protest to that. But Geese Howard, the man staring down at her right now, would be quite happy about soaking his hands with her blood.
Akane caught sight out Ranma running from Mature and not wanting to be seen she started her way home.
Since Soun disowned Nabiki they'd had to sell a lot of things to keep food on the table. Unlike her father, who was convinced Ranma was the only person to blame here, Akane placed the blame on Ranma's wife. She was certain that once she showed to the world just how superior to that Todo woman she was Ranma would come to his senses. Genma and Soun had convinced her, with some help from Kasumi, that she needed to fight all out for her fiancé. After being presented with Densetsu no Doogi by Kasumi she’d be able to do so.
After seeing Ukyo’s brutal beating at the hands of Rugal Akane ignored everyone else she ran to her rival's side and knelt next to her. She was stopped from checking up on her by Haruka. Before a fight could break out they were stopped by Geese. Akane turned all around and saw everyone was staring at both Haruka and her strangely. She humped and walked to rejoin her team, but not before leveling one last glare at Haruka and making sure the medical team was already attending Ukyo.
The second match was between the Anything Goes Team and Wandering Team. Though she was upset as they were supposed to be the fourth match Akane’s features softened upon seeing that she was fighting Kimi. Hoping to finish this fight as quickly as possible so that she could have a talk with the girl's parents, Akane attempted to throw Kimi out of the ring, only for her flip in midair and landed lightly on her feet just inches from the edge. Akane grew more and more frustrated as Kimi continued to stay out of range, only landing one or two attacks before jumping away. She finally met her in midair, but since the Tendo school of Anything Goes Martial Arts was not an aerial one the Densetsu no Doogi lost its effect allowing Kimi to land several hits. They both landed on their feet but Akane landed outside the platform.
As she walked towards her father in a daze Akane over heard a conversation between Shingo and Terry about how Kimi spent her life on the road with her parents, always training for the next challenge. Those few words not meant for her made Akane miss everything else as she walked away from the platform and towards the building. She had a lot of thinking to do. That was why she missed the way Genma defeated Kimi, in the process enraging everyone watching.
Akane finally came out of her fugue state and noticed Ranma just after he was done visiting Ryu. She hadn't spoken to him since the Dojo incident where Kasumi was hurt. Now that she had him in front of her she didn't know what to say. Ranma complemented her on her fight while calling her out for wearing the dogi. If she had won Akane would have denied the words, Yet the girl couldn't fool herself this time. The truth was there for all to see and trying to ignore it was useless.
Ranma was surprised when she deny things forcibly as usual and then lash out with her mallet. Instead Akane asked if he knew Kimi. He explained that he knew her since before she could walk. Akane asked Ranma why he settled down as he had always told her being tied to a dojo would prevent his skills from growing. Ranma responded that living on the road is hard and he couldn’t do that to Kasumi anymore. This got Akane to finally realize that things were over. The youngest Tendo sister was left alone in the hall. What she learned in the Dojo that day was only confirmed with today's revelation. She looked up and felt... a weight lift off her shoulders. She didn't know why but even with the pain in her chest she felt somewhat relieved. What Tendo Akane didn't realize at that time was that she started to move on.