Attention if you read chapter 3 before, read it again. I rewrote the story, it is not the same conflict anymore. Please re-read, you'll get confused later on if you don't!
A/N: Anyone interested in pre-reading my stories? Uh… please???
Disclaimer: Never have, never will (own the characters I mean).
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The Days to come
Episode 3: Everything returns to 'normal'
Ranma finished his last bite. "Not as bad as it used to be. It is almost eatable" he stated, as he put down his chopsticks and lifted his glass.
Akane was staring at him. "Really?" she asked.
He nodded a couple of times. "Sure" then he drank the last water in his glass.
She was jumping and smiling all over. Ranma smiled softly shaking his head lightly. "Does it really matter that much what I think?" he asked.
Akane stopped her happy dance to look at him. "Well yeah" she said. Hearing her own words repeatedly, her eyes widened and she quickly started to clear the table.
"Why?" The simple question from the black haired boy came.
She stumbled almost dropping the plates. "Uh… well" she swallowed the lump in her throat and almost ran to the kitchen.
Ranma strolled after her, carrying the glasses. "Is it because you consider me to be your future husband?" he asked with a smirk.
Akane blushed like crazy and coughed a little. "I… I don't know," she said as she started to clear the plates.
He face faulted, not receiving the answer he had expected.
He walked back into the living room, to fetch the rest of the things.
"Hi there Ran-Chan" Ukyou's voice suddenly sounded, making Ranma jump back in shock.
He turned slowly around to face her. "Hi Ukyou" he said cursing her for showing up just now, when everything was so functional between Akane and he.
Ranma put the things back onto the table sighing.
"So… how was Yamato?" he asked, with no real interest (but there was no reason to start a fight with Ukyou).
Ukyou looked a little surprised at his tone of voice. "Great. I earned a lot of money" her voice was very monotonously and Ranma started laughing silly.
"I better take these out to Akane," he said looking at the things still stacked on the table.
Ukyou crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow. "Since when did you two start getting along?" she asked.
Ranma scratched his chin. "Oh, uh… we're not getting along" he said lamely.
His eyes shifted quickly to avoid her gaze. "I mean she'll mallet me if I don't help". He nodded a little at the somewhat reasonable sentence.
"Yeah… you're probably right Ran-Chan," Ukyou said, casting a glimpse at the little leftovers.
"Who in the world cooked this?" She asked, sure that it could not be the little Tendo (who could not cook), who cooked it.
However, her fears came to be true when Ranma 'proudly' announced "Akane".
Ukyou nodded cursing in her head. "Mother F… now she can cook too? Crap, how the f… am I supposed to get Ran-Chan now? Well okay, undoubtedly I'd much rather have him choose Akane than that bimbo or that psycho".
"The weather?" Ranma asked, sounding like he had repeated himself several times.
"Weather?" Ukyou asked wonderingly.
"Yeah, how was the weather?" Ranma asked yet again, must have been the forth or fifth time he asked the same question.
"Oh fine, fine" she said, trying to figure out how the conversation had ended, on something with the weather.
"Really? I heard that there was a storm in Yamato?" Ranma said raising an eyebrow.
Ukyou sweat dropped, and was about to defend herself with, 'that because of the storm she'd had a lot of customers'.
When:
Ring Ring "Nihao airen"
Ranma did not even have to look, to figure out whom had just crashed through the wall.
"Oh hohohohoho" And a bunch of roses flew through a window.
Neither did he have to look, to figure out who had thrown the roses, poisoned black roses, through the window.
The door went up. "We're home" Kasumi's gentle voice filled the house.
The old pervert splashed Ranma with cold water, only so that T. Kuno could grope him.
Ranma could have cried, had it not been very unmanly. "A minute of sunshine and then it rains down on you" he thought, while knocking T. Kuno out, sending the old pervert up in the night sky and pouring hot water on himself.
"Ranma try rámen yes?" Shampoo asked.
"No Ranma-darling is going to eat my cookies," K. Kuno said.
You know how it is to feel surrounded, and to feel that you are drowning in a swarm of yapping people? Well that was how Ranma felt right now.
"So did you make any progress with Akane?" Genma asked, actually referring to her cooking abilities.
"STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Everyone became silent.
Ranma looked at all the people and felt nauseous. Not because they nauseated him, well most of them did not. Nevertheless, they were all stressing him, and that made him feel nauseous.
Ranma stomped out of the house, in need of fresh air.
Slowly Shampoo, Kodachi, Tatewaki and Ukyou left the house as well.
Akane, who had been doing the dishes in the kitchen, came dancingly into the dining room, only to stop dead track and sweat drop.
"Oi" she greeted them, looking down herself.
"Akane did you cook this?" Soun, her father asked.
She nodded, and Soun began wailing. "My daughter is cured, my youngest can cook!" He yelled happily out to the streets of Nerima.
"Um… Not quite yet, dad. I mean, I am not a brilliant cook, yet. Nevertheless, I will be. With training, lots and lots of training" Akane stated.
Kasumi looked in the direction, which Ranma had taken. "Akane sweetie, how would you like to go talk to Ranma?"
Akane raised an eyebrow. "Why did anything happen?" she asked.
Nabiki rolled her eyes. "You didn't here his yell? Typical! Let's just say he's stressing" she said, then started shoving her little sister out the door.
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Akane soon found herself out in the backyard of the Tendo household.
"Ranma?" She asked, or maybe actually more like murmured.
"Baka. Where did you go?" She thought, not really in the mood to start searching for her missing fiancée.
"Kane" came a silent voice from behind her.
Akane turned but could not see him. "Ranma where are you?" She asked, a little louder.
"Up here" he said.
She looked up at the roof of the house. "What are you doing up there?" She asked.
Ranma shrugged. "Thinking" he said plainly, and then added, "wanna come up?"
Akane bit her lip, looking up the 5 to 10 meters there was, between the ground and the roof. "How am I supposed to get up there?" She asked.
He crawled to the end of the roof, and stretched his arm. "I'll help ya," he said, smiling gently.
She just barely resisted a giggle, but went to accept his hand.
Finally, on the roof, they both lied down on their backs.
"I'm sorry," Ranma said, surprising Akane, he was not usually one to apologize.
"What for?" She asked turning to look at him.
"For all this mess. For, well for everything I ever said that hurt you". He turned to face her. "For messing up your perfect life".
Akane looked surprised. "You didn't completely mess up my life, you… you made it more interesting. Besides my life wasn't perfect before you came, admitted it's not perfect now, but whatever happens it's been fun, most of the time" she said with a smile.
He sighed. "Do you still want to end this engagement?"
"What are you talking about?" She asked.
Ranma turned back so that he was not facing her no more. "Remember our night out, just about a week ago?" Akane nodded and he continued. "Well… You asked me a question back then" he then stopped, what was he doing he did not want them to start that conversation up again.
She waited for him to continue, for a while, but she did not want to push him, obviously, the question had hurt him. "Why are you still thinking about it? It's been a week, and I don't even remember the question".
He turned to look at her again. "Really?"
"Mhm" Akane then pressed her finger to his nose. "So stop thinking about it silly".
Ranma smiled. "And after rain comes the sun".
They both looked up at the sudden thunder burst, and Ranma sweat dropped as water came rushing down from up above.
"Why not" he muttered.
Akane started laughing, and Ranma turned to look angrily at her.
"Oh come on, its a little funny," she said giving him a gentle push.
The martial artist narrowed his eyebrows, in a way that told her that he was in the game.
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The young couple walked into the house laughing.
"Now that is what I like to see," Soun said, patting his friend on the shoulder.
"Sure is Tendo. Looks like our children are finally getting a long" Genma nodded.
Akane looked at Ranma, and visa versa and they both started laughing harder.
"What did I say?" Genma asked.
Nabiki smiled her normal evil smile. "Nothing, absolutely nothing" she laughed.
Kasumi smiled, shaking her head. "Oh these two, I'll never figure them out". Then Kasumi took whatever the youngest occupiers had left on the table, and walked to the kitchen with it.
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"Did you see the look on their faces?" Ranma asked laughing.
Akane nodded, and then stopped laughing, as well as walking. "Uh… thank you for last week," she said turning to open her door.
Ranma nodded. "You're welcome," he said. Then he started scratching the back of his neck nervously. "You know, it's not that late yet…" he said avoiding her gaze.
Akane smiled. "You're right. Um… do you maybe want to come in?" she asked motioning to her room.
He blushed, just about, as much as she did, which was a lot. "Y-y-yes, w-why not" he said and was about to enter, when her hand stopped him.
"You have to promise that you won't try anything" she said, her eyes serious as ever.
"Why should I?" He asked, making his way into her room underneath her arm.
Akane turned too look at him mischievously.
They both sat down on her bed, and they both kept their eyes focused on the wall.
"So…" Ranma said.
"So…" Akane answered.
Then she shivered, and realized that they were still wearing the wet clothes.
Ranma noticed too, and he stood up. "Maybe you should go take a shower, so you don't get sick," he said.
Akane stood up. "Nah, I don't need a shower as much as you do; Ran-Chan" she smiled and motioned for him to look down himself, or herself…
"Crap" Ranma cursed. "I totally forgot. Why didn't you tell me?" He asked.
Akane shrugged. "I feel safer when you're a girl," she said.
Ranma looked surprised. "But I would never hurt you, you know that, right?"
She smiled and shoved him out the door. "Yeah, I know… but, you know me" she gave him a brilliant smile just before shutting her door.
Well almost shutting, just as she turned around about to undress, a towel hit her in the head.
"At least dry your hair" came the female call, from down the hall.
Akane laughed and closed her door for good, rolling her eyes she smiled at the door, in the direction of the showers.
She started drying her hair, laughing silently to herself. "Thanks Ranma. You really care do you not? I mean, I understand that you protect me because of your martial honor. However, you still helped me get P-Chan back from that wicked ice-skating bitch. Moreover, you did defend me, when those Pom-Pom girls defeated my Team.
Kami-Sama, why did you send Ranma to me? I would have been fine without a boyfriend, and then you send me a Fiancée? Kami, what have I ever done to you?"
When someone knocked at her door, Akane was forced back to reality.
"Who is it?" Akane called, tying the towel around her head in a turban.
"Nabiki" came the answer.
"Come on in" Akane called as she started to find new, dry clothes for herself.
"Akane, are you and Ranma…?" Nabiki asked taking out her tape recorder.
Akane rolled her eyes. "No. If that was what you wanted, maybe you could leave so that I can change my clothes".
Nabiki did not exactly leave; she sat down on Akane's bed. "Why not?" asked the middle Tendo sister.
"Why not, what?" Akane asked annoyed.
"Why aren't you an item?" Nabiki asked looking sincere for once.
Akane spluttered. "Why would I want to be an item with that idiot?" She asked in a huff.
Nabiki crooked a smile. "Maybe because you love him," Akane's reactions made Nabiki continue. "You looove him don't ya? You wuv him sooo much" Nabiki said just before Akane threw her out the door.
"You shouldn't talk about the things that you know nothing about," the youngest resident of the Tendo home said angrily.
"Akane just before you close the door, I found this little black patch of fur outside. Thought you might know it" Nabiki threw the little piglet into Akane's arms, and turned to walk down stairs again.
Akane shrieked "P-Chan" after which she quickly went into her room, closing her door.
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Ranma knocked on Akane's door. "'You decent?" He asked.
"Mhm" came an answer "come on in" it continued.
Ranma opened the door. Akane was sitting on her bed with P-Chan in her lap.
"Look who joined us" she said happily petting P-Chan.
He looked at the little black 'thing' in Akane's lap. "You should only know," he thought looking unpleasantly at the piglet.
Akane who was oblivious to what went on between her fiancée and her pet, lay back down on her bed.
"Wonderful evening" she commented closing her eyes.
Ranma took the little piglet into his arms. "I think he needs a shower," he said.
The little piglet looked frightened at him, afraid of Ranma's plans.
"Yeah maybe" Akane looked up at her pet pig. Just as she was about to get up, Ranma pushed her back down again.
"Don't you worry about it, I'll take him. P-Chan and I need to discuss some things". He was out of her room in a rush.
Akane shook her head; discuss things with a pig… baka.
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Ranma dumped the little pig in the bathtub. "What is your problems man? Akane and I were finally getting along, and then you come to mess it all up".
Ryouga jumped out of the shower, to rap himself in a towel. "You're afraid of a little competition aren't you?" the lost boy asked.
Ranma stood up too. "Competition? More like cheating you asshole," he said, and then they took fighting stands.
Unfortunately, when Ryouga attacked, he slipped in some soap. In the end, in some kind of twisted faith, they ended up with Ranma on top of the naked Ryouga, just in time for Akane to waltz in.
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A/N: So I decided to change the chapter, well I think that it made a funny twist, and I will still have Ryouga as a future rival.
What do you think? Lame, damn right. Funny, well a little. Cute, maybe. More likable, sure as hell.
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