A/N: A new chapter for you all! A slight warning of swear words in this chapter. It's a little sad, but I hope you all enjoy it! Don't worry, I have some sweet chapters coming up soon :) Reviews are appreciated! Much love!


Akane thought about it, "Kimiko Saotome," she smiled, "Kimi… I like the sound of that." She leaned her head onto Ranma's shoulder as he was seated next to her on the bed and whispered down to their new daughter, "Welcome to the family, Kimi."

Chapter 3: Goodbye

Ranma smiled as he remembered the day his daughter was born and the first few months of having her at home, how harried they both were, trying to take care of a newborn! Ha, their tempers were so short that month they had lapsed back into name-calling! He glanced over at the flower garden to check on Kimi. She seemed to be completely engrossed in picking flowers so he turned back to Akane.

"It's just not the same without you, Akane. You're missing all the good stuff, her first day of school, her making friends, learning. She even kicked me hard enough to hurt me mildly in practice yesterday! I was so proud!" Ranma shared with a smile. "I know you're watching over us, but I wish you hadn't had to go, I just miss you so much! It's like there's this giant ache in my heart since you left us Akane, and no matter how wonderful our daughter is, no matter how beautiful and smart she is and how happy she makes me, I just feel like I can't ever be truly happy again, not completely. Not since the day you… not since that day…"

2 years ago

He had come out of nowhere, this guy, proclaiming everlasting love for Akane.

"Fuck off Jackass," Ranma yelled at him angrily, "Akane is MY Wife!"

"Oh beautiful, Akane," the crazy nutter –or so Ranma believed him to be- said, "Won't you leave this pathetic excuse for a man and come live with me in my beautiful home! I'll give you everything you'll ever need!" he proclaimed, taking her by the hand, "I love you my sweet!"

"Oh that does it," Ranma said as he strode over to pick the guy up by the scruff of his neck, but not before Akane got a good smack across his face in. He looked the guy directly in the face as he growled, "Stay away from my family you psycho! Or I will not be responsible for what I do to you!" and he threw him over the wall and wiped his hands together as if to say good riddance.

"Mommy," said little four-year-old Kimi, "What does 'fuck' mean?"

Akane's face turned red in anger as she yelled, "Ranma!"

"Shit," Ranma said to himself, sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.

"Ranma! Look out!" Akane yelled again suddenly and he turned to see the psycho guy back and with a sword. Ranma rolled his eyes and jumped up to fight the guy.

After a few blows back and forth, Ranma realized his opponent wasn't a total weakling, 'Well at least I'll get a good workout from this guy,' he thought.

They exchanged blows, Ranma always leaping nimbly out of the way of any attack. His opponent, as if realizing he couldn't get a hit on Ranma with a close range weapon, decided to change his strategy. He dropped his sword and started to use projectile weapons, small sharp arrowheads that Ranma could easily dodge.

Ranma laughed, "Is that all you got, jackass? My wife can do more damage than you!" His opponent growled and continued his attack, this time releasing numerous projectiles at once.

All of a sudden Ranma heard a soft scream from Akane, "Kimi, get back here immediately!"

"But I wanna watch Daddy fight the bad man!" Kimi yelled to her mother.

Ranma turned to see his daughter next to the koi pond watching with interest.

"Come here immediately!" Akane said, fear just breaking the surface of her voice as she raced towards her daughter.

Ranma felt a whoosh as one of the projectiles flew past his ear. He turned back to his fight to focus on his opponent. He needed to get him out of there immediately! He couldn't have this psycho putting his daughter's safety at risk. He nimbly dodged another attack midair and decided enough was enough. He touched down on the ground for half a second before projecting himself directly towards his opponent. His opponent, seeing him come towards him immediately threw projectile after projectile that Ranma twisted to avoid, but as he came in to land the final blow on his opponent, he heard a tortured scream.

"KIIIIMMMIIIII!"

As his punch made contact with the man's face, Ranma's head whipped around to see Akane diving in front of her daughter and taking three of the arrowheads into her front.

"AKANE!" Ranma screamed, pushing the man into the ground with his punch so he could redirect himself in her direction.

"Akane, Akane!" he cried running next to her. Seeing the blood, he whispered, 'shit!' "It's okay, Akane, Dr. Tofu is here, we'll have him take care of you immediately, you'll be fine," he reassured her as he attempted to stop the blood flow with his hands. He ripped off his shirt to press it against her front as tears started to well in his eyes. "You'll be fine, Akane, we'll get you through this."

A hand was placed on top of his own. He looked up through his tears to see Akane smiling softly at him.

"It's okay, Ranma," she whispered, "I knew what I was doing."

Ranma shook his head, "No, you can't, I won't let you!"

Akane smiled in spite of her pain at his stubbornness. "Ranma, please promise me something."

"Anything, Akane, anything," he said, staring into her eyes.

"Promise me you will raise our daughter yourself," Akane said, before coughing slightly, "She –she needs you Ranma."

"No," he whispered, "She needs us, you have to help me, Akane, I can't do it alone, I need you!"

"Promise me," Akane whispered to him, using all her strength to grasp his hand. "You have to be there as she grows up, gets married, and has kids. She will need you, you can't leave her!"

"You can't leave me, Akane; you can't leave us! We can raise her together."

She squeezed his hand as tight as she could, "Promise me, Ranma," she said looking straight into his eyes.

"Stubborn tomboy," he whispered to her as tears slid down from his eyes, "I –I promise."

"Good," she whispered, dropping his hand, "Tell her always how much I love her."

Ranma watched as her breaths grew more labored, "I will."

"And always remember, I love you," she said softly.

Crying openly now, Ranma leaned over his wife to kiss her softly on the lips, "I love you too, Akane, forever."

She smiled up at him through her own tears, "I'll be waiting for you."

"You better be," he whispered, gazing down at her full of love and sadness. Slowly, her eyes closed, her head dropped slightly to the left and her breathing halted. Fresh tears flooded down Ranma's face as he whispered, "Akane."

"AKANE!" Not a soul could doubt the heart wrenched pain in his scream to the heavens as he sobbed over his wife's body.

His challenger had fled the scene, regretful and terrified. He saw the love that he had just destroyed; it would haunt him for the rest of his days.

Kimi, who had been knocked down, was dazed, but had watched in horror from where her mom had pushed her. She slowly crawled over to her father. "Daddy?" she asked with tears in her eyes, "What happened to Momma?"

Ranma grabbed his daughter in a tight hug as he whispered, "it's just us now, sweetheart, it's just us."

Present Day

Tears streamed down Ranma's face as he remembered what had taken the love of his life away from him. If he ever saw that man again…! He sighed, "My life is so empty without you, Akane. There is a hole in my heart, just waiting for you… I love you, forever."

He got up and bowed respectfully before her grave, as if to ask permission to leave, before heading over to pick up his daughter in the flower garden.

Kimi had a small bundle of flowers in her hands, which she presented to her father happily.

"Who are those for?" he asked, "More for Mommy?"

Kimi shook her head with a smile, "These ones are for you, Daddy!"

"For me!" Ranma asked.

She nodded, "You get so sad visiting Mommy, I just wanted to cheer you up!"

Ranma lifted his daughter onto his shoulders, smelling the flowers before handing them up to her and asking her to hold them until they got him. As they left the gravesite, he glanced over at Akane's grave, 'We're getting by,' he thought, 'but only because of Kimi.'