You Are The One
This is my first story on here. This is gonna be a sorta long story, may seem a little cheesy for some but I promise their will be a lot of drama, violence, and action :D Please review to see if I should continue this story ...
Disclaimer: Ranma ½ belongs to Rumiko Takahashi
Chapter 1: Just a Rose...
It was another normal morning in Nerima in the Tendo home; Ranma waking up late, Genma walking around as a Panda looking for some hot water, Kasumi doing her normal daily routine and Nabiki thinking of ways to make money that day.
Kasumi entered the dining room and with a smile she announce to everyone, "Breakfast is ready!"
Everyone started showing up at the dining room, except for Akane. She was still a upset about the disastrous wedding event and most of all, not actually being married to Ranma.
Soun stared at the empty place in the dining room and turned his stare to Ranma who has fighting with his dad for a piece of bacon. He took in a deep breath and just stared at his bowl of food. Many thoughts were going through his head and at one point he asked himself, "Am I doing the right thing? Can this boy really make my daughter happy?" He looked and and asked ranma "Son, can you come with me to the Dojo, Genma please stay..."
Ranma looked confused but followed Mr. Tendo to the Dojo. As they were walking Ranma noticed Akane staring down at them and when she noticed Ranma, she tried to hide from him. He was really confuse about what was going on. He thought to himself "I know the wedding was a disaster and for as much as I want to blame my Pops for the occurred event, I know it was my fault mostly. I know I screwed up this time really bad, but I'll think of a way to make it up to her, but for now I need to know what's up with Mr. Tendo". They continued walking to the Dojo, and once at the Dojo, they both walked in and Ranma Followed.
Soun walked to the middle of the Dojo and so did Ranma. Soun staring at the ceiling turned around and looked at Ranma. He asked him to sit down and so did Soun the same thing. They were both sitting in the middle of the Dojo and the complete silence made it a little awkward for Ranma. Soun started speaking, "Ranma my son, how serious are you about taking over my Dojo and defending it?" Ranma looked at him and said, "It's like a dream for me. Ever since I was a little boy I...", Soun interrupted him and calmly asked him, "No son, I know you grew up with the idea that you would carrying both of our schools and my Dojo, but I wanna know, how do YOU feel about it?"
Ranma stared blankly at his fiance's father and said, "I don't know...I've never been given the option to choose by myself anything and I guess that's one of the reasons why my life is so screwed up, but as far as I know, since the first day I came to this Dojo with Akane...". He paused and started thinking of the first day he met Akane and when they came together to the Dojo and practiced together. He remembered every detail, her smile, how polite she acted with him, her yellow practice outfit and her long hair. He continued, "this Dojo is like my home and I'm grateful that you confide in me to take over it and continue taking care of it."
Soun stared at the teen in front of him and smiled. "I'm glad you see this place as a home son and I'm pretty sure I can't find anyone better to take over this great dojo. But to this, as we have stated before, you need to marry Akane...". Now Ranma interrupted, "I know what I have to do and I will sir. It just seems that Akane is just not that into me and well, believe it or not, the only thing I want to see from her is her being happy, and from what I've seen, that happiness won't come from me. I would give her anything to see her smile all the time. But my life is pretty screwed up and I hate the fact that the only person who is hurting her is me!". He punched the floor and started to cry softly.
"I understand son, but why call her names? Why maker her jealous? Why is it easy for you to tell other that you love her but not her?" screamed Soun with a devil face on him that usually always scared Ranma a bit.
"I don't know sir. At first I thought it was just cute for her to waste her time by fighting back at my comments, but then I saw her getting hurt and call me crazy, maybe showing feelings towards me. It's like I tell her all this stuff, but I actually mean the opposite. I've never been really good with girls. Not even with those other so called fiance's; I don't show them any special signs. As a matter of fact I've only risked my life for Akane and none of them."
Soun saw the young man and saw that everything he was saying was the most sincere truth he has ever heard. He cares about his daughter and just like him, doubts that she will find that happiness in Ranma.
He stood up and offered the young man a hand to pick him up. When he was up Ranma stared at Soun and heard him say. "Son, you are a great man. I'm not gonna make you marry my daughter by force BUT I am gonna ask you a favor, try to make her fall in love with you and if she does well; I'll be the happiest father alive and if she doesn't, it will all be okay. Just do yourself a favor as well, don't let us influence you, make your OWN decision and ask yourself...Do you love Akane?" Ranma stayed in the Dojo while Soun walked out and closed the door.
Ranma turned around and stared at the floor. Many thoughts went through his head and had no idea on what he wanted to do. He walked out the Dojo and saw his father come right at him, he was gonna try a surprise attack on Ranma, but somehow Ranma without even trying or looking he blocked the attack and sent Genma flying away with a single punch. And so the boy with the pig tail was heading towards his room, he passed by Akane's room and saw the picture he gave her for christmas.
He stared at the picture and noticed something he didn't notice before, his fiances were always next to him and Akane on the outside. He went in and picked up the picture. "Wow she really is cute" he said with a smile. "After all we've gone through she has always been there for me and I've always put her life before mine in death threatening situations. Something I don't really do for the other girls". He took a deep breath and started to realize all the mistakes he has made with Akane. "I've told Shampoo and Ukyo that they are cute and pretty, even to Kodashi but never to Akane, and she is the one I really care about. I always make her feel uncomfortable, and even though I say it as a game, I know she doesn't know and all I'm doing is hurting her. Maybe it's time I do something I've never done before." He ran out of her room went into his bedroom and took all the money he had and ran outside in a hurry.
Akane saw the pig tailed boy run out and just stared at him as he disappeared in the distance. "Wonder where he is going in such a hurry. Probably one of his many fiances or maybe all of them have cooked him something and since they are all better cooks than me, he can't turn them down." As she walked into her room she saw the picture Ranma had given him for Christmas on her bed. "What is this doing here?" she asked herself. She picked the picture up and took a look at it and placed it in its place.
The young blue hair girl stared outside her window and saw a couple pass by their house and saw how the guy was always telling the girl how pretty she was and how much he loved her. Then she slammed the window and said, "stupid couple, they are all cute right now but once he gets a prettier girl he is gonna dump her and forget about that girl, and will not take that girl's feelings into consideration." Akane hated seeing other couple being happy with each other, she couldn't understand why she couldn't be happy, why she couldn't have a normal happy life like everyone else.
The young girl fell asleep in her bedroom, while on the other side of town Ranma walked into the mall and saw Ukyo there. He tried to hide from her, the last thing he wanted was his fiance's to see what he was doing or just simply ask what he was doing at the mall. He managed to hide and ran into a flower shop.
"Good afternoon sir, how may I help you?" said the store manager.
" Hmm I...I'm looking for...a rose" said the young man trembling.
"Just a rose? Any specific color you want this rose to be?" asked the manager.
"I don't really know about this stuff" said Ranma.
"I see" said the manager with a smile. "Is she a special girl?"
" Hmm I guess she is...why so many questions?" Ranma asked with a tantrum.
The store manager laughed and said, " Calm down son, I just wanna know how special you want this rose to be. I don't really get asked for a single rose and normally I don't sell single roses. But I see something in your eyes and well if you are like me, you want to make a statement with it, am I wrong?"
Ranma stared at the manager thinking to himself "this guy is a wise man. How did he know that I wanted to express something".
The manager smiled and said, " I went through the same thing as you did Ranma. But my story didn't have a happy ending. And now I live with the consequences of not following my heart."
Ranma stared amazed at how everything the old man said sounded as if he was in the same situation as he was.
"So son, what color would you like?" asked the old man with a smile.
"Oh umm I don't know, I want a rose that tells her that I am a fool for the way I've treated her, that all my other 'fake' fiances are nothing compare to her, I want to tell her that I ….I..."
"That you love her." said the manager. That's easy but let me look and see if I have what you are looking for. The manager walked in into a room behind the counter. Ranma looked behind the counter and saw a picture on the wall. There was a cute girl about his age on the picture that was black and white. He looked at it with more detailed and couldn't help but notice that the girls smile was just as captivating as Akane's own smile.
"She sure is pretty isn't she?" asked the manager.
"Yes sir" Ranma answered startled at the managers question.
"She was my one and only love, and well here I am now." he stared at the picture. "So here is your rose, I think this should do the trick!". The manager gave the flower to the boy in a clear case. Ranma stared at the rose "it's really beautiful. How much do I owe you?"
"Nothing son, I hope that rose really does fix your life and problems" the owner said, and as soon as Ranma turned to look at the rose again and looked up, the old man was gone. Ranma became a little frightened and walked out the store. And unfortunately as soon as he came out, Ukyo saw him and ran towards him. Ranma tried to hide the rose by placing it on his back.
"Ran-Chan! how lovely it is to see you here!" said the young girl with the spatula.
"Ukyo, hi...how are you?" said Ranma surprised.
"I'm great now that you are here with me" said the young girl with a smile that soon became a glare as she saw Ranma hiding something behind him. "So, what did you buy me honey?" the girl asked with a flirty tone.
"Oh- umm- nothing, its just something I bought for A...friend" said Ranma.
"Well I'm your best friend so I guess it's for me!" answered Ukyo back and tried to make Ranma give the object to her as soon as she saw a red beautiful rose inside the clear case. Ukyo stepped back in shock and stared at the rose on Ranma's hand.
"So, is that for me?" she said with a tone of voice Ranma had never heard of before. He couldn't tell if she was blushing or was angry as her face was turning red.
Ranma took a few seconds to answer back and remembered what the old man told him as well as what Mr. Tendo had asked him. "Actually Ukyo, it's for Akane! We need to have a talk"
The two walked out of the mall and went to Ukyo's restaurant. Ukyo was upset at the words that came out of Ranma's mouth and Ranma was just nervous of what he was about to tell Ukyo.
The two sat down and Ukyo asked, "Do you want something to eat honey?"
"No, thank you, but I guess it's time to talk." the young man took a deep breath and let it out. "Ukyo, you have been my best friend since we were little kids. Our childhoods were not normal ones like everyone's, but somehow we still became great friends. I know I promised you to marry you when we were young, but I mean come on Ukyo I was a small hungry young kid back then. You were really mature for your age but I had no clue on what I was really saying. All my life I've seen you as the sister I never had. And I'm sorry for saying this, but that's how I'll always see you, as my best friend and sister, nothing else. So what I'm gonna ask you now is to forget about you and me ever getting married. I know I'm hurting you right now but I'm gonna say this with all my heart. I need you as my friend and sister right now and from here on out that's what I need you as. I'm sorry, I'm not the guy that is gonna make you happy and marry you and give you kids. My heart belongs to..."
Ukyo interrupted "Akane, right?" she said starring down at the hot plate.
"Yes, Akane. Call me stupid or whatever you want, but my heart belongs to her, I'm just afraid that her doesn't belong to me" said the young man with a few tears dropping on his cheeks.
Ukyo watched his best friend cry and envied not being the girl Ranma was crying for. " I always knew you didn't belong to me Ranma, I always just gave myself a false idea that you and her would never get married and hopefully you would turn to me and take me as your wife. But now I know that's never gonna happen and I'm okay with it and you can count on me to help you out with whatever you need to make her fall in love with you."
Ranma stared at Ukyo and gave her a kiss in the forehead. "Thank You" he said with a smile. He picked up the rose and started walking out of the restaurant, when he suddenly heard Ukyo yell at him "go get her tiger!" Ranma blushed and started running towards the Tendo home.
As Ranma approached the door of the Tendo residence a bicycle landed on his head making the rose pop up and a purpled hair amazon girl caught it. "Ahh! Ranma finally taking out Shampoo on date!" yelled out the girl.
"No Shampoo! Give that rose back, it's not for you!" yelled out the angered Ranma.
"Don't tell me rose is for violent girl?" Shampoo becoming furious, started cracking the clear case the rose was contained in. Her action made Ranma snap and out of nowhere he took the rose out of the amazon's hand. Shampoo didn't see him move at all, she was startled by his speed.
"If you excuse me now Shampoo, I have things to do!" Ranma turned around and saw the old elder lady sitting on her stick in front of him. "Now son-in-law that is not a way to treat a lady, I thought you knew better."
"Great-Grandma he gave me a rose and took it back out of my hands. He likes to see Shampoo cry and play with her feelings!" said the purple haired girl.
"I indeed saw that, now Son-in-law give that rose to your fiancee Shampoo and let everyone be happy!" said the elder in a really loud voice with a disturbingly creepy smile. The elder had noticed Akane opened the window to see what all the commotion was about.
When Akane saw who it involved, she closed the window once again; and just sat on her bed in shock. She couldn't believe his fiancee would give a rose to her enemy in front of her own house. "That idiot, how would he like it if I were to kiss Kuno in front of him. He never takes me into consideration when performing his actions. She just sat in her bed, while Ranma was about to do something he thought he would never do.
"Shampoo I am NOT your fiancee, I am Akane's fiancee and that's final!" yelled out the pig tailed boy. Shampoo stared at him in rage and challenged Ranma to a duel. If she won she would marry Ranma and had to forget about Akane. Ranma accepted, but he first had to change to a girl, Shampoo didn't allow him too and as the elder Cologne saw what was about to happen she told her great-granddaughter, "Shampoo I'll take over now, you are weak compared to my son-in-law, and well he is still not as good as me" said the elder.
Ranma looked at the two confused, he accepted the challenge, but both of them wanted him to fight in his man form not girl form. He swore he would never hit a girl while in a man's body and even in girl form he wouldn't really hurt them, just defeat them. He was confused about his odds at beating them and losing the challenge. He also knew that Cologne was a tricky and a good fighter.
The elder started the fight and a loud noise came from the outside, strong enough to make Akane want to stand up and see what was going on. When Akane looked, she saw Ranma getting up from a pile of remainings of the wall Cologne had Ranma thrown through. She saw how Cologne attack and how Ranma only kept on dodging her attacks. She knew Ranma wouldn't attack back because she was a woman and also for his respect to his elders. Akane came down running to see the duel closer. She didn't know what to do, she couldn't get involved and also had no clue what the actual challenge was. She just stared how her fiancee was just dodging the attacks and noticed he was getting exhausted from the on coming attacks from the elder.
While Ranma was fighting the elder, he lost sight of Shampoo and didn't really cared too much until she saw her sneaking up behind Akane with one of her deadly weapons. He tried to ran to save her but the Amazon kicked the blue haired girl right on her back before attacking her with her death ball. As he saw his fiancee fall and hit the floor, his eyes went red with anger and hatred. All of a sudden he had lost control of his mind and only cared about saving Akane. He looked at the elder with rage and used the chestnuts roasting on an open fire move to tangle Cologne in her own hair and leaving her in a freeze stage. She couldn't move at all. Then with fury as he saw Shampoo in midair about the let go of the ball on Akane and crush her back, Ranma used the ShiShi Hokodan (The Lion Roar Shot) on full blast on Shampoo or at least he destroyed the ball because somehow Ranma was able to control the direction of the attack. Shampoo fell on the Tendo pond and when she got out she stared at Ranma in disbelief. Cologne finally being able to unwrap herself from her hair she jumped next to her great-Granddaughter in cat form and looked at how scared she was.
"Son-in-law you win this fight. There is no need to continue this brawl. But be warned that we will come back and like it or not you WILL marry Shampoo". The elder picked up her grandaughter and left the Tendo residence. The people that saw the brawl stared at the pig tailed boy who was standing there with his Chinese shirt destroyed due to all the energy he used in the attack. They all started to walk away and as Ranma started walking towards Akane he remembered, "where is the rose?" he looked back and it was on the floor, with only three pedals on it. What was suppose to be his special sorry gift, turned out to be a brawl and worst of all, his beautiful blue haired girl had been attacked.
He picked up the remainders of the rose and walked up to Akane who was still on the floor. He picked her up and carried her to her bedroom. She was gonna be alright, she just needed some rest. He turned around and saw the picture again. He put the remainders of the rose next to it and grabbed a piece of paper from her desk. He wrote a letter and left it underneath the remainders of the rose. He looked at her fiancee resting in bed, got close to her and kissed her forehead.
"Goodbye my love. Hopefully one day I'll be deserving of your heart, but after today, all I saw was how weak I am. I'll be back and when I do, I'll hopefully be the man you want me to be." Ranma walked to his bedroom, wrapped up his things into a backpack and decided to take a final look at her fiancee. "Goodbye Akane."
to be continued...
Thank you for reading and please review. Any tips on how to make it better? It's my first story that I write, I normally write music but I thought I'd give this a chance.