New Life, New Love
Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2
Chapter 1)
There was a knock on Akane's bedroom door.
"Come in." She said.
She was expecting Kasumi or something, but she was quite surprised when her door opened to reveal the visitor.
Ranma slipped in without a word. His aura, Akane sensed, was slightly panicked.
"Ranma?"
He closed the door behind him and leaned against it.
"What's the matter?"
He hushed her with a quiet 'shhh'. Slowly stepping away from the door, he asked, "would you do me a big favour?"
The darkness concealed his blush from her. Akane nodded, despite being unsure.
"Can you, um... Act for me?"
Akane was confused. "What do you mean? And why are you whispering?"
He silenced her again. He was looking to the floor, which seemed rather interesting at this moment in time. He glanced at the door and, without looking away, said, "Shampoo's in my room. She's thinking about sleeping in there with me."
"So?" Akane asked. "She's your sexy fiancee, after all."
"Akane!" Flicking his head to look her dead in the eye, he sounded so desperate.
"Anyway, what could I do for you?"
"Well, I, er, thought you could, er, let me sleep in here." His blush darkened incredibly.
"WHAT?!"
"Shhhhhh!"
"Like hell, Ranma!" She whispered.
"No, listen. Hear me out, Akane... Please?" Ranma pleaded.
"Just make it quick." Akane snapped.
"You pretend I snuck in here and make a scene. After that we'll argue and I'll say I love you. You then say you love me, too and we'll pretend to be a couple from then on. Hopefully, Shampoo and everyone else will get off our backs. Whadd'ya think?"
"Well... Only because it benefits me, too. But you stay on your side of the bed!" Akane moved up, against the wall.
"But, er, Akane..."
"What?"
"Well... No, nevermind."
"Okay." Akane sighed as she put her head back on her pillow.
Akane's ear-peircing scream echoed through the household. Inside her room, Ranma gave her a thumbs up and ran out of the room. Akane followed, yelling all the usual insults at him.
"What's the matter with you, you pervert!"
"I am not a pervert!"
"What were you doing in my bed, then?"
"That does not mean I'm a pervert!"
"So you admit it then, Ranma?" Nabiki asked slyly.
"No, I just... Errr..."
"Oh, and not only were you in my bed, but you had your arms around me, too!"
"HEY!"
"Oh my, Ranma. You really shouldn't do that. After all, you have your own bed to sleep in." Kasumi said.
"Yeah, well, Shampoo was in there."
Shampoo was standing behind the youngest of the Tendo sisters. Ryoga, as P-chan, was stood by Shampoo's feet.
"If Shampoo was in there, why'd you sleep in Akane's bed?" Nabiki smirked.
A blush rushed across Ranma's face.
"Spit it out, Ranma!" Akane growled.
"So you don't want me to sleep with you?"
Akane was "shocked" by his response and she, too, blushed.
"Tha-That still doesn't explain why you were there!"
"Because I... You and... I didn't want you to hate me because..."
"Because?" Akane pushed.
"Because I... I love you, alright! Sorry for having feelings!"
"Ranma..." Akane gasped, "I-I'm sorry... I..."
"You what?"
"I never realised... And I..." Akane glanced at her feet. "I love you, too."
She knew this was fake, all an act, but she never knew how real it would sound. How much it would light her up inside. It made her realise how much she wanted those words to be real. For him to mean them. Meanwhile, Ryoga rounded the corner, returning to Shampoo's side after changing back into the man that he was. Shampoo had her arms crossed. Their fathers and her sisters believed every word of it. Most of it was true, yes, but the confession... No matter how much anyone wanted it to be true, it wasn't.
Shampoo leant over and whispered into Ryoga's ear.
"Shampoo know all act. You, as pig, spy and tell Shampoo what you hear."
Ryoga nodded and knew he had to get to the bottom of this.
Ranma and Akane were out, walking home from school, as usual. Akane was wearing herfavourite necklace. It had half a heart with a girl that looked like her engraved into it. She often wondered who it was.
It was Akane's mother who had given it to her when she was young. She remembered how she said something about it being the only one like it in the world and it had somehow found it's way to her like fate. Akane smiled. It was one of the few items that she had that her mother had given her and she looked after it so well!
Ranma was walking on the fence like he usually did. He noticed from the corner of his eye that Akane had been smiling. And this made him remember that today had been a good day. They hadn't argued and there had been no meddling fiancees. That meant that his plan was working! This made Ranma smile too. But that just ment that something might happen later on.
Not going to like a good day ruined by someone who didn't care. It wouldn't be fair.
Ranma hopped off the fence. "Hey, Akane?"
"Yeah, Ranma?" Just then, a boy, who was the same hight as Ranma, jumped down infront of Akane, who came to a sudden halt.
"Akane, I have found you!" He said. His hair was short and it was a pale blue with darker blue streaks. His eyes were turquoise and he had a charming smile.
Akane just looked at him like he had just grown another head. What did he just say?
Ranma looked between this new guy and Akane. From the look on her face, it was unlikely they had never met before.
"I think you have me confused with someone else." She said slowly and went to walk around him but he stopped her and pulled out his necklace from under his green, Chinese shirt. It looked like Ranma's but had long and non-baggy sleeves. Akane stared at his necklace. It was half a heart with a boy who looked like... Like him engraved into it! Akane looked up and met his gaze.
"Why are you showing me your necklace?" She asked.
"It matches yours. That's how I know it's you I'm looking for."
Ranma was just stood in the background. "Hey! Wait a minute!"
They turned to look at him.
"How do you know that it's her you're looking for? There could be numerous girls with that stoopid necklace that matches yours!"
"I know it's Akane! I know because we had these made and that means-"
"They're the only ones in the world." Akane finished.
"When? When did you have them made?" Ranma asked.
"In our previous life so we could find eachother in every following life." This boy explained.
"But... What do you want?" Akane questioned. "And who are you?"
"I'm Andrew." He replied, "and I'm here to claim your hand in marrige."
I hope you all enjoyed. And soon we will find out more about our suspicious new character, Andrew... :)