A/N Italics are Akane thinking, Jus' sayin'

and I know I don't update fast, I'm also a fanfiction addict which means I have at least 50 stories to read and i have work AND a life soooo, i tend to forget about writing. But i give thanks to my first couple of reviewers. ryu238 && James Birdsong. First and only. Congrats ;)

DISCLAIMER: I, Cassandra 'Anime Freak' Kaminski, does not own Ranma 1/2 or anything about it. Sadly. It all belongs to the AMAZING woman Rumiko Takahashi and Viz.. and stuff.


Akane Tendo slowly stepped out of her bed. She had a quick glance around her room to make sure she wouldn't step on anything to cause sound. She walked over to her door and opened it. Akane poked her head out to make sure everyone was sleeping the night away and she would not get caught. Okay. Everyone is sleeping. Now all I have to do is get downstairs while dodging those certain steps that creak. Akane took a breath and ran down the stair case quickly, but silently. When she reached the steps that creaked, she jumped and landed flawlessly on the ground below. And Akane Tendo gets the gold!

Akane walked down the hallway and came to her destination. The kitchen. Kasumi's perfectly clean and tidy kitchen. Akane knew she was taking a huge risk of being in here, let alone trying to cook but she knew it had to be done. Eventually.

Akane walked towards a cupboard where Kasumi kept all her cook books. She reached for a blue and white one that her mother used beforehand. She open Page 35 and came to the dessert section. Chocolate Chip cookies should be easy enough to make without me getting frustrated. Like I said, it should be. Doesn't mean it is.

Akane danced around the kitchen grabbing the ingredient she needed. Making sure to triple check she had the right thing in her hand. Okay, I'm all set. Now lets start baking!

Meanwhile, Ranma Saotome awoke to the sounds of the cupboard door squeaking as it opened and closed.

"Pops, quit squeaking, its annoying." Ranma mumbled, half awake and half asleep. The only response he got was loud snoring from the panda.

"Huh?" Ranma sat up and rubbed his eyes. "If its not pop, then who is making all that noise?" He wondered. Ranma got up from his futon and started to follow the sound towards the kitchen. When he reached the doorway he saw Akane kneeling in front of the oven watching something bake, with excitement and pleasure in her eyes.

"Yes, there almost done!" Akane whispered to herself. "Now, I hope they are as good as they smell." She stood up and looked around the kitchen. "I guess I should clean this up so no one will expect anything tomorrow morning." She started to make her way to the counter to retrieve the dirty dishes to wash them.

Ranma hid himself on the right side of the door on the other side of the kitchen. He poked his out around the door and saw Akane with her back to him. Lucky for Ranma, his body decided that he had to sneeze right at that moment. He tried to cover his nose to stop the sneeze but it didn't work. Instead, it made a even louder sound.

Akane heard this imminently and grabbed the thing closet to her, a wooden spoon, and whipped it at the door. The moment stopped and Akane figured it was a robber or something. Next, she opened a draw and grabbed a butter knife, not wanting to hurt the person too badly.

Ranma saw her action and figured that the only way to calm her down is to show himself. Ranma put his hands up and turned around to show himself.

"I surrender" Ranma said with a cocky smile on his face. Akane's eyes no longer burned with hatred and anger but filled with relief, annoyance and love?

"Ranma, what are you doing here!" Akane whispered, but Ranma knew that if everyone was awake that it would be a full out yell. "You nearly scared me half to death!"

"Maybe I should be asking you the same question." Ranma stepped passed Akane and looked into the oven. "What are you making anyway's? Cookies?" Akane slowly nodded her head and crouched down beside Ranma.

"I-I wanted to try and bake something edible. So, instead of embarrassing myself and making everyone leave the house because they thought they had to eat my poison, I thought I should get up in the middle of the night and bake something. Stupid huh?"

"Ye-yeah. I mean no! No it's not!" Ranma dropped his head and said in a deep tone that no human could hear. "It's kind of cute actually." Ranma blushed. Even though Akane didn't hear him say that, it still made him embarrassed.

Ranma looked over at Akane and she was watching the cookies with a small smile. She glanced at Ranma and saw how he was watching her. Her smile become bigger and she also started to giggle. She stood up and finished washing the dishes, while Ranma kept watching the cookies, having no clue on what to say.

"So Ranma," Akane said "Do you want to try one when there done? It's okay if you don't, I just thought since your here... " Akane stopped talking and turned back to start cleaning the counters. Ranma smelled the air and inhaled the deep smell of the cookies. To his surprise, it smelled good.

"Yes, I want to try one. They smell really good." Akane look at him and smiled.

"Great! They should be done-" Akane was cut off by the low buzzing of a clock near her. "There done!" She grabbed the oven mitts and opened to oven door to grab the cookies. She placed them on the table and went to get 2 cups of milk. When she came back Ranma was watching the cookies, as if he was waiting for it to it him instead of him eating it. Akane once again started to giggle at Ranma's action towards the lumps of dough. She placed the cups at the table and sat down, reached for a cookie, and took a bit. She chewed slowly and swallowed. Ranma watched her. She looked at him, smiled, and took another bit.

"I think it's not bad" She said while dipping her cookie in milk. Ranma sat down at the other end of the table and also grabbed a cookie. He bit it and chewed slowly as well. Akane was watching him, with hope in her eyes that he felt the same way about the cookies and she did. Ranma swallow. He looked and the cookie, and then Akane. He did this a couple of times be he smiled and finished to cookie.

"There good Akane! They are actually good!" Ranma mumbled in between bits of his cookie.

"Yes! I was able to make something edible!" Akane jumped up and hugged Ranma from the back. Ranma was startled by this action, while Akane was still jumping around and started to find a jar to put the cookies in.

When they were both done eating and drinking their milk, Akane put the cookies in the jar she found and decided to bring it to her room so no one would find it. She cleaned up the kitchen, and much to her surprise, Ranma helped. When everything was put away and the kitchen looked spotless, the two started to go back down the hallway. Akane had to jar full of cookies on her hand while Ranma had a bunch of unspoken words begging to leave his mouth.

They reached the end of the hallway and Akane turned to Ranma.

"Thank-you Ranma for trying my cookies, and not making fun of me."

"Uh, your welcome. You really did do a good job. I was hoping that I could have some more tomorrow?"

"Ha ha, of course you can. Just have to ask. But not around anyone. And please don't tell anyone about this?" Ranma looked at her confused. Wouldn't she want people to know she could cook? But Ranma decided to agree and made a mental note to ask her later.

" I wont." Akane smiled.

"Thanks Ranma" She walked towards him and gave him another hug. "Anyway's, good night!" She turned around and started to head up the stairs, leaving a confused Ranma behind.

"Night Akane." Ranma whispered before heading back to his futon. Heading back to dreaming about his tomboy.


A/N: Heeeeey. it was abit longer then the other two! And for that, im happy :)

I have no clue when I am going to update again but im just telling you when I saw that I had reviews,I wrote this chapter right after, AND COMPLETED IT.

So maybe getting reviews gives me a energy boost. :)

Oh, and please tell me about any mistaks ;) ** mistakes. They annoy me and im bad at finding them. Even though auto correct does most of that. ANYWAYS- R&R