All characters who are shown in this story belong to Rumiko Takahashi, and their corresponding owners. My involvement is exclusively from a tale-telling perspective.
As usual "This writing means thinking" 'while this means regular speech"
Meltdown kiss
It all begun almost three years ago when life remained simple and the troubles he experienced were nothing but a way to coexist with nature, or so he suspected.
Ryoga Hibiki, a young man who defied the rules of logic with his amazing strength and immovable resolve began to see the depths of depression once his most formidable rival seeped inside the only weak spot the boy was never able to reinforce...His mind.
"Common! keep it together." Mumbled Ryoga the closer his instincts revealed him Nerima was just a few miles away.
"I can do this."
For the boy on his late teens, this was an impossibility in on itself. How on earth would the eternally lost boy could find his way into that town precisely? Who knew.
He had the answer though, one he grew to hate up to this moment mostly because it kept his insanity on edge ever since "that" voice wrangled his mind into mush.
"Dear Ryoga...Honey. You're going the wrong way. Listen to me, please! "
The sweet and enticing tone belonged to no other than Ranma Saotome in his cursed form whom he had dueled many times before, but the manner in which "she" spoke and the distress clearly present in her speech wrecked the poor boy's head tiredly.
At some point his steps became erratic, his breathing labored and before he knew a tiny rock along the path send Ryoga flying against the ground.
Tears started to stream down his face once more. He remembered the last moments the older teen spent with his now separated girlfriend all thanks to that annoying voice driving him into madness.
The moment was the most surrealistic in his existence. The two of them sitting one besides the other, enjoying a nice afternoon outside the pig ranch Akari's family owned.
It had to be the precious reward Ryoga Hibiki deserved after so much disgrace in his life but despite the romantic scene unfolding before his eyes, a lingering feeling began to creep in the back of his head.
The setting was perfect. The sun slowly drowning into the hills far in the distance. A young couple enjoying the company of each other while grandpa arranged the pigs back into their pens.
Suddenly the girl shyly closed the gap between the two which made Ryoga a bit nervous at first. Still, he pushed back into position ready to meet the girl of his dreams once and for all.
That became the moment of truth until that certain tone of voice screamed relentlessly in his mind. "Please help me. Ryoga, I need your help honey."
The sudden plead made him turn around from side to side, confused of what or who had screamed into his ear and almost missing the girl who, at this point had her eyes closed and her lips puckered together ready for the inevitable.
Ryoga bit his lower lip angrily with the hope to ignore the cry of help coming from nowhere, and instead moved forward to meet those desirable lips he had craved for so long.
"Honey, this is it. I need you more than ever!" Came the tone with more persistence this time. Then, what happened next became the prelude to the insanity Ryoga Hibiki could never escape from.
Images started to fill his mind as the two young couple sealed their relationship with a kiss. The girl felt a trembling boy pressing with care and passion, giving her a reassuring feeling everything would be well in her life.
The boy, on the other hand, felt a storm of emotions completely foreign from what he was doing now. Images irradiated in his head like a painful headache showing not other than a redheaded girl almost naked except for a flimsy piece of cloth designed solely to cover the most coveted parts of a woman.
Her smile could only be shadowed by those tremendous blue eyes staring intently at the boy. Ryoga froze in what it felt like ages, his muscles unable to respond while his mind could barely register the situation circling back in reality.
Then, all of a sudden, his lips barely felt the touch the redhead imposed with her own giving him, in turn, a blush and a fit of uncontrolled rage when he realized who had almost kissed him.
The exact moment when the image locked Ranma and Ryoga into a kiss became the exact time when Akari remained glued to Ryoga's lips in real life, resulting into a meltdown of insanity destroying all concept of reality, and imagination altogether.
His mind went blank in that second during that experience, unable to judge what reality was he in. Once he returned back at Akari's kiss though, His thoughts were so warped from both scenes that a mix between the two formed a single path to follow.
At the peak of his sanity, an explosion of emotions made Ryoga exclaim in intense desire the few words condemning him to hell. He had no strength left to fight it so he decided to go on almost mindlessly.
When the green haired girl parted lips from her boyfriend her cheerful mood and happy demeanor transformed into a disconcerting look, and a frowning stare back at the boy after his mouth said something she couldn't believe.
"Ranma. I love you."
The phrase startled both at the same time, almost in a unison motion. The girl shakily drove her trembling hands towards her lips, uncertain of what had just transpired.
Ryoga, on the other hand, snapped into reality a second later. His blood rushing into his head at tremendous speed as he watched his dear Akari filled with doubt, not to mention hearing in his own mind the words he had just said to his girlfriend.
"Akari...I" But nothing else could be said. The two stayed there for what it seemed timeless hours, thinking of a way to resolve this dilemma but unable to do so right away.
The girl knew about the shenanigans Ranma had done to the poor boy in the past, things that another boy could misconstrue as cruel, and humiliating. Despite this Akari's resolve never diminished mostly because she saw Ryoga as the perfect candidate in her life, pig curse included.
She remained in her seat thinking of a way to dismiss his blunder as a side effect from past traumas, but what beat her to the punch was the lost boy whose tears began to flow in desperation.
"Ryoga, wait!" Said the girl when her hand reached and grabbed the boy's wrist before he could flee. "We can talk about this, please stay"
The young man saw refuge in her pleading eyes. He intended to stay and fix what he had done until the noise began to flare in his head once again.
"Ryoga, dear. I don't have much time left, I need you now!"
Ryoga pulled both hands against the sides from his head. He kept pressing relentlessly with the hope to crush such nonsense embedded in his skull, and as he did, his eyes grew even more when he saw Akari fly a few feet away from him, thanks to his raving madness and the irresponsible way in which he used his strength to pry himself free.
"Akari. Sorry!, I didn't mean to."
He tried to go and help her up, but that damn voice torture him to no end, forcing his insides from moving at all.
His eyes squinted in pain while his tears left him blind. Ryoga stumbled upon bushes and the ground itself hoping to reach back at Akari, but images of Ranma in girl form hugging and teasing him forced the confused teen to forget everything and run away from his happiness.
That all happened nearly a week ago and since then the plight for help in his head grew enormously out of proportion. Time seemed like a relative annoyance to the boy who, at his almost eighteen years of age believed happiness had been snatched from his grasp.
"This is all his fault" Mustered in anger the wounded boy. "Ranma Saotome, this time prepare to die"
Afterwards Ryoga cleaned his tears away, instinctively focusing on one goal at the time while suppressing the voice begging for his help.
