"Soun! Kasumi!" Kimiko cried, shuffling to her feet as she entered the living room again, her eyes wild as she scanned the room, her family jumped as they looked back at her.

"Something happened to her!"

Postponed Love

A Ranma Fanfic by Frances Rancher

Stare...

Ranma glared cutely at the stone as he twist it between his index and middle finger. His head leaned in his palm, a bored look but an impassive expression was set tightly on his handsome face. "Hmm, what's this thing?" He asked suspiciously.

"Saotome!"

Ranma bolted up, his hand holding the stone quickly went under his desk as he tossed the stone inside his pocket again, his hand who once holding the stone was replaced by a blue eraser as he brought it on his desk again.

"What's that Ranma kun?" The teacher asked patiently as she kneeled in front of his low desk.

"N-nothing", he muttered as he averted his eyes away from his teacher, "Just checking my eraser." He mumbled.

The teacher raised an eyebrow, "And what about it?" She asked softly.

"I-it's new, my mom bought it yesterday."

The teacher smiled softly, patting him on the cheek as it made him flushed slightly as the teacher stood up, smoothing her fitted skirt and adjusting the hem of her skirt as she went back to the teacher's table.

Ranma smiled in success, his pretty teacher make him jump in joy.

oOo

Kimiko ran, Kasumi tried her best to follow her mother's hysterical pace with her father following behind them, in a series of seconds they reached the crime scene. A policeman came to block them but Kimiko surprisingly knocked the man out of the way as she tore the tapes before rushing at her daughte, gathering her pale daughter in her arms as she tried to hold back her tears.

She can hear her husband crying behind her as the policeman announced that their daughter died, her young, vulnerable body didn't able to take the impact and was declared dead after the accident.

Her eyes quickly searched for something, her focus going directly on her daughter's neck.

Her hopes shattered.

The necklace is broken, there's no way she'll be able to be given a chance.

There's no purpose on holding back. Her daughter will not come back in years unless...

Her eyes quickly shot around, boring holes with her heated gaze, her eyes hot and stinging as her vision blurred, the blue-haired mom just stared back back at her daughter, fresh batch of tears welled up in her eyes, not in sadness, but a new light of hope shone in her eyes, nodding directly towards soon with a smile on her face of reassurance.

"In thirteen years Soun, in thirteen years."

oOo

"Aww, such a darling girl!"

"Too bad she's too young to join us."

"Pity, she doesn't even had a chance to enjoy her childhood."

Akane blinked, and blinked again. She was sitting in a stool, with women dressing her and doing make overs on her as they put flowers, gems, pearls, and precious stones on her head.

"Flowers suits her."

"Pearls suits her better!"

"No, this black leather choker does!"

"This emerald, jade, ruby, and diamond necklace look good on you!"

Akane's eyes drifted to the woman and the other, as if she was watching a tennis match between four players as they continiously spoke.

"Girls! Stop stressing the new arrival." A scolding yet gentle voice stopped all of their noises, everyone moved to their sides as they give way to the new arrival.

Akane blinked once again.

"Hello little one," the older woman cooed as she knelt in front of the young girl, "This will be your... home, for a mattar of time." The woman said kindly that somehow brought warmthness in Akane.

"I miss my mom," Akane pouted, "I want to go back home!" The woman cringed, she can feel Akane is about to cry so she put her palms up in a soothing gesture, "We are good guys," The woman whispered, "We know your mom."

Akane glared, "My mom said not to believe what others said." She paused, "Especially when they tell that they know my mom." She said in a matter of fact.

She's quite smart, the woman thought.

The woman sighed, a younger woman approached her as the older woman got up from her knees. "I'll handle this Elder Cologne." A lavendered hair woman muttered as she replaced the elder into kneeling in front of her. "Akane chan, you want to see butterflies and eat some sweets?" She asked.

"Sweets!" She exclaimed, Is there any checkered cookies?" She asked hopefully. The lavendered hair woman smiled, turning her gaze to the older woman, she gave a dismissive smile as Cologne rolled her eyes.

"Call me Shampoo, Akane." She said.

Akane barked a cute laugh, "Isn't that the thing you use on your hair?" She asked innocently.

Remind her that she's talking to a five year old girl, Shampoo fumed as her eyes twitched.

"Ha ha." She laughed without a hint of humor before standing up, "Follow me."

oOo

"School?" Akane asked between bites.

"Yeah," Shampoo sipped her tea, "This is going to be your new school were you are allowed to play and eat and anything!" She said in a much too cheery tone for Akane.

"Can I sleep here?" She asked.

"U-uhh, sure, yeah." She said sheepishly, Akane dusted her hands as she got down from her stool, "If that's the case, I'm off!" She walked towards the room where a duckling hang from the door with Akane written on it.

"Sure you can really handle kids." Came a bemused statement from behind. "I'm impressed." There's no hint of sarcasm in Cologe's voice as she sat on her stool, facing Shampoo as she help herself with a cup of tea.

"Just experience," Shampoo replied smirking. Her face turned serious suddenly, "I wonder why does death department killed Akane in a young age? If my memory serves me right, I think I arrived here in the age of 13." She mused to herself, "Oh my, my 125th birthday is near." She smiled. "Should enjoy my gift down the mortal world in one week." She mumbled. Her looks is far cry from 125 age, her busty built figure should make boy's wet dreams complete. But her heart is set to a certain person, no way she'll let those perverts have their way in her. She sighed ruefully.

"Kind of sad to think that she would experience the things she shouldn't in a young age," Shampoo said as she placed her chin on her palm and played her food with her chopsticks, "This lame, lovelifeless life is so boring, watching your the one fell inlove with someone else. And, the most unfair thing is that after their betrayal, you have to protect and secure their relationship!" She said in an exasperated voice that received a light cackle at Cologne.

"When would you start to train her anyways?"

Cologne smiled, "I know how her feels right now after I experienced that when I first came here. So maybe I'll give her some time to adjust." She smiled to herself, "Beware Shampoo, her potential is much greater than you," She smirked at Shampoo's troubled expression.

Shampoo sighed before smiling, "Is okay, she's my sister here in this world, won't be angry if she's much greater than me."

"Watch your grammar, after spending a century here you always forgot to speak English straight!" Shampoo glared at the 327 year old woman, even if she's older than her, she won't back out to her! But, woman her age should know how to respect older women, she smirked, "Sure, I'm a Chinese girl but I managed to talk to her in straight Japanese since my 'the one' is Japanese in the first place, in my younger age when I guard him I learned some language while in their earth. I see you can catch up with my skills in Japanese language when you talk to her before, but we need to teach her the second language first."

Cologne facefaulted.

To Be Continued...

A/N: Ho ho ho! Bonjour no señor, señoras! (I don't know what I'm saying but, yeah, I'm not a French) This chapter is a dry chapter, nothing really happened, but I do believe that the next one should be interesting, I'm currently in search for a beta reader, for guys out there interested to give me suggestions, I'm open to entertain your concerns!

Okay, here's a funny fact about me, I just realized how much I use 'as' per chapter, and it's ridiculously many! So, for the next chapter, I think I'm gonna change it, rewrite, and consult someone before I can update this, should take me a week or so, Endless Fall is not yet done so, yeah. I also promote Endless Fall, my story, well, I should say it's not for young readers, rated M for all you must know. Kind of sucks at the beginning but it's getting good in the book 2 and 3.

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