I apologies for the delay. Nevertheless you should not be mad; this is a 17 (at least on my cp) pages long story.
I wish you all a merry Christmas .
Welcome, sit down relax have a snack and please enjoy yourself, this is an extra long special, (we are in December and when else to put in a Christmas special .-).
However, before we go on with the story I would like to give my reviewers a little present (imaginary presents):
JWG: I want to say thank you for trying to help me. You could always copy one of the chapters (chapter 3 for example) and then mail it back to me; I will give you my email address if you decide to try. That way I will have the chance to decide if I want to use your chapters instead of my own .- But now for your present, I am giving you a stick to slap me with when I make mistakes. Heh .'
Thereviewergirl: Such compliments to give. Heh heh "thank you, thank you. Oh stop it's too much" (bows while blushing). Ahem sorry, um here you go a bottle of Sake, oh you do not drink? Well okay then here is a flying horse, a flesh eating Pegasus really. He is a wonderful pet and a great way to get people to review! . Hope you enjoy.
MingShun: Um sorry but I am not sure if you turned in on the wrong story. I would love to perform your wishes, had it not been that I am a very big fan of the Ranma + Akane relationship. Nevertheless, you still get a present. So here you go, a baby hedgehog thought you might take good care of him.
Gort420: Well thank you; it is always nice to get flattered. Now I did not really know what to buy for you so um Merry Christmas and um… enjoy your turtle. He is actually very sweet, a fast swimmer and he will do whatever you want him to do.
Excel: Thanks I guess, well merry Christmas and remember the chocolate box will refill itself once you are done with it, so do not throw it out.
Rabid Badger: Thank you for explaining the difference between a kimono and a Dou Gi, it would have gotten embarrassing along the way. So for your Christmas present I bought you a brand new Kimono of your own (holds up the kimono) I didn't really know what color you like so I just bought one in blue. You can never go wrong with blue, can you now?
Now enjoy
The Days to come
Chapter four, a Christmas special
Christmas time
Forgive me
Kasumi was sweeping the floor, singing a little Christmas tune. "Because of gentleness I love you, always near you it hurts to be". She sighed happily; Christmas was without a doubt her favorite time of the year.
(A/N: I did not write the song. DoCo Second image song (1994) in Japanese: Kiyoku Tadashii KURISUMASU in English: A Pure and Honest Christmas)
Ranma meanwhile hid a gift properly under his pillow; no one would search for it there, he hoped.
It was not that big a gift, but he did hope that she would accept it. Not that he really cared. However, what was he supposed to do with it if she did not want it?
He had just gotten her a gift, because of the circus it would start if he did not. Of course, there would be a circus along with the gift. However, raging lunatics would be as a piece of cake compared to the rage of the Tendo's, his father and his mother (especially his mother).
He was sure; she would appreciate it, if she ever decided to forgive him. She had been furious with him. Beating him, with whatever she could find. Ranma shivered and cursed Ryouga.
He then jumped up, when the door to his father's and his room suddenly opened.
Nabiki rolled in. "So have you decided if you want to borrow money for Akane's present or not?" she asked.
He looked at his pillow quickly, before turning to look at her again. "I don't intend on giving her a gift," he said coldly.
Nabiki nodded. "Oh I see" then she turned, but did not leave without giving him a devilish smile.
Ranma coughed searching for any other excuse; she could under no circumstances figure out that he had already bought the present. If she did figure it out, the present would not be safe, no matter where he hid it.
"I plan on telling Akane my true feelings as a present instead of buying her something" it was a right out lie, and a bad one at that.
He sweat dropped as her evil smile only broadened. That had to be the simple, most stupid thing he had ever said.
However, before he even got the chance to change his explanation, Nabiki had already run out with a yen sign in her eyes. All he could do now, to soften the results; was to tell Akane about the 'misunderstanding' before the new rumor caught up with her.
How exactly he was to tell her about the lie was still a mystery (A/N: hell I cannot even explain it).
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Ranma sat down exhausted; he had been searching for a while with no signs of her.
To make the whole thing more exhausting he had run into Shampoo, Ukyou, Kodachi, Tatewaki and Ryouga, who had all heard the rumor. It had taken a while explaining the story.
Ranma leaned his back against a stone, wondering where she could have gone off to.
"Ranma?" he looked up to se who had come to torture him now, but breathed a relived sigh when Akane's figure formed in front of him.
"Geez 'Kane where did you run off to? I've been trying to find you for the last hour," he said angrily.
Then he cleared his throat "uh, have you heard the rumor about me wanting to tell you my true feelings as a Christmas present?" She nodded enthusiastic, and Ranma started waving his hands obviously embarrassed "well it's a lie".
She then nodded sadly, she had already figured that out herself but had still hoped that maybe…
Ranma did not notice her saddened look, and raised an eyebrow at her bags. "You've been shopping?" he asked pointing to them.
"Just buying a few Christmas presents," she said sadly.
Ranma then finally saw her disappointment "do you want me to tell you how I really feel?" he asked surprised.
Akane made a face "duh" she said and turned to leave.
He started blushing "well okay I'll try uh".
He followed her without looking at her.
"Um do you think you might forgive me soon?" he asked jumping to walk on the fence.
She sighed turning a corner "I don't know, but if it makes you happy I bought you a present" she then paused for a minute, before reassuring him that she did not expect anything in return.
Ranma looked down sadly, "…" he closed his eyes sighing deeply "I hope you forgive me sometime soon".
Then he suddenly looked up "the day you decide to forgive me, that day I'll do the best I can to tell you how I truly feel about you, about us" he looked at her catching her eyes in his for a second.
"Fine" she snarled then walked into the Tendo household with Ranma close in her steps.
Ranma followed her to the stairs where he stopped "so does that mean that you'll forgive me?" he asked.
Akane snorted mockingly "what do you think?" she asked sticking out her tongue at him.
He turned swiftly "you're so not cute Tomboy" he snorted back at her. Then he left not noticing the hurt look on her face.
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Akane dumped her backs to the floor sighing deeply. She had wowed to herself not to forgive him until he at least apologized. Moreover, his question if she would ever forgive him did not count as an apology.
Akane sat down in her chair by the desk. She looked up to see the picture that he had given her last Christmas. Then took it down, to place it head down on her desk. She huffed, but then sighed turning it around so the picture was showing. She had to admit that it was not so much Ranma that she was angry with as it was herself.
Akane looked grumpily out the window. Why had she ever let him get to her? Never before had she let any boy get close enough to hurt her. In addition, he did not even realize that every insult was hurting her the way they were.
She turned to look at her door; she had half expected him to be knocking on it by now. You could never count on Ranma to do anything, now could you? She turned again and dropped her head to the table, only to look up again at noises from the backyard. She stood up to peek out of the window.
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Ranma was busy molesting a three, no one really knew what the tree had done but apparently, it was something bad.
He kicked it again causing the tree to split in two. "Look at me, look at me, I'm Akane. The insensitive violent idiot Akane" he thought as he began breaking the tree into tiny pieces.
Ranma looked up at her room noticing a figure quickly disappearing. "What do you want me to do? You want me to apologize for something that wasn't my fault at all? Well that is just stupid," he thought looking at her window.
"I can't tell you that I love you when you hate me" he sighed and threw the tree or whatever little splinters that was left away.
"No I have to stop denying it" he thought, looking at her window again.
Then he jumped, to her window "okay I'll take the first step but she better not be expecting me to be all sorry. It was not like I wanted to cuddle with him like that" he swallowed the lump in his throat and knocked on her window.
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The incident
Akane who was hiding against the wall, turned to see what was knocking on her window.
Not completely surprised to see Ranma, she opened the window.
"What do you want?" she asked, already putting on a fierce attitude.
He rolled his eyes "would you at least let me say a word before you yell at me?" he asked jumping into her room.
"Look I do not know what you want, but if you came to plead for my forgiveness again, you might as well leave now, save both of us the time" she huffed angrily.
Ranma snorted "what do you want me to do?" he asked taking a step towards her.
"An apology would be nice," she said taking a step back.
He made a face, and took a step further towards her, after which she took another step back.
"Apology?" he crossed his arms "you want me to apologies for landing on top of Ryouga, in the middle of a fight?" he asked.
Akane took a step towards him "no I want you to apologies for…" Inside she wanted to scream, that she wanted him to apologize for hurting her, but outside she new that he would just mock her.
Ranma raised an eyebrow "for…?" he asked mockingly.
She looked up at him "for… for betraying me the way you did" she yelled raising her hand to slap him.
He smiled a little, grabbed her hand and forced her to look at him "I'm sorry if I hurt you" he said giving her his very best look. (A/N: Oooh .- I'm fainting)
Akane blushed and quickly broke free "fine… you're forgiven," she said looking rather exhausted .
Then she realized something, she remembered the little thing he had promised her earlier that day.
"Oh Ranma…" she said, making him jump back at her seductive tone of voice.
"Wh-what?" he asked blushing.
She smiled evilly, "you promised me something," she said batting her eyelashes in a mocking way.
He sweat dropped. "Crap" he cursed.
"Um… you know I need a little time to prepare this".
She rolled her eyes resignedly, which made Ranma bite his lip; thinking fast had never been his favorite thing to do. "Give me until the dance" he said at last, giving her half a smile.
"What dance?" she asked.
Ranma started laughing nervously "you now that Christmas party like thing the school is gonna hold?" She nodded remembering.
He walked closer towards her, trapping her against the wall and his arms, which were leaning against the wall on both sides of her.
He smirked "I will try my very best not to mess this up" he promised in a deep sort of voice, while letting his hand slide through her hair.
Akane blushed and tried to move away, but with her back against the wall, and in between his arms, there really was no escape.
He knew that this was a very bad idea, seeing how both of their lives would be in jeopardy, but he just could not stop.
She gasped, as she felt his hot breath nearing her face. She shot her eyes close and half-wished for him to stop, but her body refused to push him away.
"Okay here he comes," she thought scarred, but pouted her lips non the way.
"Yo Akane?" Nabiki asked throwing Akane's door open.
Faster than a lightening the two of them jumped apart, blushing like mad.
Nabiki raised an eyebrow "what is going on in here?" she asked, an evil smile spreading on her face. "Don't let me stop you," she said while taking out her camera.
Akane was pushing Ranma quickly out the door. Just outside her door he turned to give her a look, that said 'until next time', which made her blush, if possible, more than she had just seconds ago.
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Ranma would have been jumping around singing from joy, had it not been that, that was a very unmanly thing to do.
However, he could not hold it inside anymore and jumped, barely avoiding the flying bicycle, Shampoo crashed into the wall of the building right behind him.
Then he twirled around and avoided a bush full of black, possible, poisoned roses.
Then realized that he was acting very unmanly, and quickly turned back to his normal stroll.
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Ranma was walking with no real destination. Nevertheless, he did not really care, for the weather was great, for December that is, and he had never felt this happy, not as far as his memory went anyway.
He smiled and closed his eyes, taking in a long relaxing breath of the cold winter air.
As he opened his eyes again, he caught the view of something that looked like a spatula. Nevertheless, he reacted a little too late, before he managed to move, the spatula hit him in the face, sending him down to lie flat on the ground.
"Watch where you're going Ran-Chan" Ukyou said helping him up again.
Ranma blushed and laughed nervously "uh, I'm sorry Ukyou. Must have missed you there" he scratched the back of his neck uncomfortably, and thought about running away.
"Why are you so gloomy?" she asked him with a firm look on her face.
He started laughing more strained. "Me? Am I gloomy? What are you talking about?" he asked avoiding her gaze.
Ukyou narrowed her eyes, and brought her spatula to a threatening hold. "You were looking all happy, before you walked into my spatula. Did anything interesting happen?" she asked with her spatula dangling dangerously above his head.
Ranma looked up to see it, laughed a little and then… he ran away.
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Akane was in her room singing a little while she worked on her Christmas present for Ranma.
She had told Ranma that she had been out shopping for presents, when really she had been shopping for material to make a present for him (Ranma).
She smiled, and giggled, feeling a warm breeze run through her body. At least it had not been one of them, to mess it up this time.
What if he had, actually kissed her? Gosh, she did not even want to think of the consequences. They would be married in a sec, then she would possible be killed, and Ranma would spent the rest of his life protecting her.
She did not want that for him, she wanted him to be happy. Not forcefully married to her, and then forced to protect her. She wanted to be able to take care of herself, not force anyone that she loved to do it.
Akane blushed, suddenly realizing that she had just used the L-word, while she thought of Ranma. She giggled feeling the warm breeze, once again rush through her body.
She heard Kasumi call out that dinner was ready, and put her unfinished gift away.
Then she ran out of her room, almost rushing into Ranma. Who looked at her, and smiled giving her hand a quick squeeze.
Akane sighed dreamily. "This cannot be for real, can it?" She wondered as they walked towards the dining room.
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Something stupid
"Oh yeah, well you are not cute at all you, you Tomboy" he yelled at her, just avoiding her backpack.
It had been two days since the incident, and everything had returned to normal, with their bickering and all. This time they had started fighting over some lunch that Akane had made for Ranma, and were now standing in the schoolyard, pretty much screaming at each other.
Akane narrowed her eyes "…so? As you said it once, I could never get a man, even if I tried. So why even try?" she shot back at him, finally making contact with him and her backpack.
"I don't get it. Why do you always get upset when I insult your cooking abilities?" he asked caressing his now swollen cheek "I always do".
She snorted turning away from him "maybe that's the reason; that you always insult it. I thought you said I had gotten better," she said, looking at the packed lunch she had made for him.
Ranma shrugged "well, yeah you have gotten better. But you still need a lot of training before I will start complementing you cooking," he said, looking with disgust at the rise balls she had made for him.
She huffed and turned away "how do you know they taste that bad, when you haven't even tried them?" she asked, looking at the balls.
"Previous experience" he stated.
Akane nodded. "Oh well, I will just have to find someone else to eat them then" she said disappointed.
Then looked up, as an evil idea appeared in her head; "oh Kuno" she yelled with the same seductive voice, that she had used on Ranma the night of the incident.
"You called my fair lady" Tatewaki Kuno said, arriving mere seconds after she called.
She nodded looking sideways at Ranma, who had already begun fuming. "It seems that I have no one to eat this," she said showing him the packed lunch.
"You needn't say more," Kuno said just before shoveling all the food in his mouth, chewing on it a few times and then swallowing it.
"Ah you have become an even greater cook my love," he said as he took Akane in his arms.
She had started getting nauseous, and had almost sent Kuno off flying. However, she caught the sight of Ranma's large grin. "Kuno, darling, may I call you by your first name?" she asked oh so sweetly.
Ranma almost lost his jaw, which caused her to grin.
"Why I don't know, one should get to no the other before using first names. But if it means that much to you, then please do call me by my first name" Kuno said.
Akane felt like vomiting, but decided on a different angle. "Thank you Tatchewaki" she said nauseatingly sweet, after which she made a phony giggle "so Tatewaki giggle do you maybe want to go with me to the dance?" She had no real intention of actually going to the dance with 'Tachewaki', but oh how she loved to see Ranma fume.
Before the elderly Kendo artist could manage to respond, she sent him off flying.
"What did you do that for?" Ranma yelled practically steaming.
She shrugged. "I don't know, well at least he ate my food" she said smiling at the empty box.
Ranma threw both of his hands up in the air. "Well duh, the nut is loony" he said.
Akane scowled at Ranma. "Yeah well, he said that I have improved" she said proudly.
"Hallo, haven't you been listening? I said that you have improved, too. I just said that you need to improve a bit more, before I will start giving you compliments," he said making a 'duh' look on his face.
She huffed "maybe I really should take Kuno to the dance".
Ranma raised an eyebrow. "But you can't stand Kuno, you will get sick" he said.
"Beats the hell out of spending the evening with you," she said angrily.
Then realized what she had just said, and thought in disappear "I did not mean that".
She looked at him, to see the damage her sentence had caused. He looked almost as depressed as Ryouga.
"But I thought…" his voice trailed off, and he shook his head turning away from her "never mind, seems like I made a mistake". He then started running.
She lowered her head sadly. "I should not have done that," she thought. Then looked in the direction, of which Ranma had run.
She shivered, feeling a cold breeze run through her body "I should not have done that".
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The dance
Ranma was sitting next to his date, Ukyou. He was doing it again; using one of his other fiancées to get back at Akane.
He knew that she had only meant to anger him, but he somehow thought that she should have known that it would hurt him, especially after the incident.
Ranma turned his look from Principal Kuno, (who was using more body language than actual language) to Akane. She was sitting in a row at his right, in between Yuka and Sayuri.
He would have gazed a bit more, had it not been that Ukyou was tucking on his arm.
"What's wrong Ran-Chan, you seem so absent-minded?" she asked and he shrugged.
She looked suspiciously at him. "This does not have anything to do with Akane, now does it?" she asked.
Ranma rolled his eyes. "Of course not" he said, leaning back down in his seat, and once again paid attention to what was going on, on the stage.
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"Akane, why is Ranma here with Ukyou?" Yuka asked.
Akane looked a little annoyed at the reminder. "Just because, kay?" she answered shortly. Then she looked at her two friends with a look that said; 'I don't want to talk about it, so just drop it'.
Sayuri looked a little worried at Akane. However, she did not want to anger her friend anymore than she already was, so she turned to look at the stage.
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"And now for you my little Kiki's, get ready for tha big show" and so the principal left the stage.
A kendo artist all dressed in dark green walked in with two flaming katanas, which he started dangling around dangerously.
The show was actually okay, until the Kendo artist set himself on fire and started running around screaming.
Someone finally threw some water at him, and as it turned out the Kendo artist had been no other than Tatewaki Kuno.
Principal Kuno came back on to the stage clapping his hands wildly "what a show".
A few slow claps followed from the audience and the principal cleared his throat.
"Now you go mingle before tha next big show. There's a lot of food and some punch for you all," the principal said and the light switched on.
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Daisuke and Hiroshi walked up to Ranma, who for the moment was standing alone.
"So Ranma what are you doing here with Ukyou?" Daisuke asked.
"Yeah, I thought you said that you and Akane were getting along" Hiroshi added.
Ranma turned to look at Akane. "Yeah well, she told me that she'd rather spend the evening with Kuno than me," he said, surprisingly cold.
Daisuke and Hiroshi gasped, but then Hiroshi started laughing. "Man you almost had me there," he said.
However, when Ranma turned to look dead cold at the two, his laughter quickly died out.
"Geez I'm sorry, I had no idea you were serious," Hiroshi said.
"But she hates him" Daisuke stated and Hiroshi nodded agreeing.
"Hi there" Ukyou said suddenly standing behind Daisuke and Hiroshi.
Both of the boys turned swiftly "hello" they said simultaneously.
"Who hates who?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Uh, this girl hates this boy from this manga Hiroshi and I are reading" Daisuke said, after which the two retreated.
Ukyou went to cling on to Ranma's arm. "I don't get them," she said nodding towards Ranma's two friends.
He shrugged and went to refill his glass, with some of the punch who was making him somewhat dizzy.
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"Won't you please tell me what happened?" Sayuri asked Akane, who half shrugged in respond.
"I said something stupid," she then said.
Yuka tilted her head. "What did you say?" she asked.
Akane bit her lip, if she did not tell them now they would never leave it alone. "I kinda sorta said that I would rather spend the evening with Kuno than Ranma," she said quickly while she still had the nerves to say it.
"WHAT?" Yuka and Sayuri practically screamed.
"Excuse me?" A very light voice came from behind Akane.
Akane turned slowly "what?" she asked, very annoyed not to be able to explain the whole story to her friends.
"Well, apparently someone spiked the punch and…" The girl wearing a cheerleading outfit looked a little nervous cause of the glare Akane was giving her.
"And… what?" Akane asked eager to get back to her story.
"Well you're the most athletic girl on the whole school, and we are short of a cheerleader…?" the girl finished.
"Well I'm not that good with pompoms, you sure you can't find any other girl?" Akane asked.
The girl nodded and Akane drew a long relaxing breath. "Fine, then teach me the steps".
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Ranma put down his plastic cup, having finished his fourth cup of the spiked punch.
"I must say I was surprised when you asked me here," Ukyou said standing right in front of Ranma.
He shrugged "yeah well, Akane would've rather gone with Kuno and then you seemed like the reasonable choice".
Ranma jumped back before Ukyou could even react; why the fuck had, he just said that? He started laughing uncontrollably "had you there didn't I?" he laughed.
"Come to your seats Kiki's, tha next big show is ready," the principal announced.
When everyone was back on their seats, some rhythmic music began and the lights went out.
Then some girls jumped in making flick-flaps in the dim light, a minute later their pompoms lit, lightening up the room.
Akane was in the middle of the pyramid that they were building; she turned to look out into the audience and caught eye contact with Ranma for a second, which made her almost trip and ruin the pyramid.
The cheerleaders on the top of the pyramid fell backwards into the arms of some of the cheerleaders not in the pyramid. Akane jumped and landed on one arm, as she was supposed to do.
The crowd, or the audience started applauding wildly and Akane was happy that it had not been a much longer show.
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Ranma had ditched Ukyou, or more like fled from Ukyou to go look for Akane.
He was just going to tell her, that it had been almost beautiful (the cheerleading show that is) and that she had not totally destroyed it.
He spotted her short dark sort of navy-blue hair.
She was talking to some cheerleader-dude.
Ranma growled; no sissy should try to take his fiancée.
Ranma narrowed his eyes and went to poke Akane, somewhat angrily on the shoulder. "Akane we might not be friends for the moment, but that doesn't give you the right to flirt with some guy" (well at least he had made his point).
"Relax, Aoi-Sama and I weren't flirting," she said looking mildly annoyed at Ranma.
"Sorry dude, I did not know that Akane-Chan was in a relationship" the boy, Aoi apologized.
Ranma had started fuming, what was it with all these familiar fraises? "Fine you take her then, but a little warning to you 'Aoi-Sama' the girl can't cook and will most likely kill you" he finished his sentence with as much wickedness as he could muster.
"I thank you for the offer, but I… um, I go different ways, so to say" Aoi blushed slightly.
"You are gay?" Ranma asked confused.
Aoi nodded and Ranma turned to Akane. "Uh, now don't go thinking I was jealous or nothing. I just wanted to warn a fellow being of your cooking abilities," he said lamely.
She looked at him shortly before she hit him. "If that is how you feel, then… I hate you" she turned hard on her heals and started leaving the schools gymnasium.
Ranma would have followed her, had it not been that Ukyou, Shampoo and Kodachi had stopped him.
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Christmas day
Akane was not in the best mood, but at least Kasumi had not invited everyone as she had last year.
She hugged a present close to her heart. "I am still giving you this even though we haven't talked for days," she thought looking at her fiancée, who was jumping around putting Christmas decorations up.
"This is all wrong," Ranma, thought jumping to put another heart up. "We should be out on a date or something" he stopped to look at her, and could have sworn that she was looking back at him for a second.
"She would never go on a date with me," he thought jumping to land on the ground. "I shouldn't blame her though, I could try to act nicer to her," he thought sighing.
"You know you should be out on a date or something" Kasumi, innocent little Kasumi said, putting words to his thoughts.
Ranma shook his head, a bit too persistent maybe "nuh uh, no way in hell" he said looking away from Kasumi's eyes.
Akane looked up from the floor, and went to give Ranma his present. "I know it is not the time for Christmas presents or anything yet, and I know it is not much, but I hope you'll like it," she said handing him the present, which she had wrapped with more tape than paper.
"Uh, gee thanks 'Kane" he said lifting the gift.
He then suddenly put the gift back on the table. "No, this is all wrong" he said.
Akane nodded and were about to take her gift and leave, when he grabbed the hold of her hand.
"Akane we've been together for just about two years now" he paused as everyone's attention had been directed towards him. He leaned forward and whispered something in her ear, which made her laugh and nod.
Everyone starred as they ran off, and most of the Tendo resident followed, but lost track of the two somewhere in Nerima.
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Akane was still laughing at Ranma's remark 'they sure did change their attention quick', but had no idea of where they were going.
He finally stopped. Taking a very long, very deep breath he turned towards Akane.
"Um…" he scratched the back of his neck nervously "usually Christmas is spent with friends and boyfriends or girlfriends; however we have never been alone on Christmas". Ranma cleared his throat before continuing, "I don't really know how you feel about all of this, but I would like to… well try to get along" he looked up to see her reaction.
Akane rolled her eyes "was that what you dragged me all the way out here to tell me?" she asked.
Ranma sweat dropped and face faulted. "Do you have any idea of how long I have wanted to say that?" he asked.
She looked sadly at him "you actually promised to tell me something the night of the dance" she said.
He looked sternly at her. "You still want the answer?" he asked.
Akane nodded, and Ranma grinned moving closer to her. "I can show you much easier than tell you".
Her eyes widened as she felt his breath getting closer and closer, then he suddenly drew back taking a bite of a snack bar. "I'm really hungry" he said.
"That was so not funny," she yelled at him.
Ranma looked innocently at her. "What did you think would happen?" he asked with an evil smile on his face.
"Nothing" Akane said turning to leave.
"You know, I wouldn't mind… you know, but then you got to promise not to kick me away," he said.
Akane turned to look at him strangely. "Why would I" that was about all she could say before he pressed his lips against hers.
It was not one of them Hollywood kisses; it was short and nervous.
Ranma stepped back blushing fiercely "boy how I have wanted to do that forever" he said smiling all over.
She blushed. Then noticed the package she was still holding, she had just managed to grab it before they had left the house.
"Don't you think this would be the perfect moment to open your present?" she asked handing it to him.
Ranma smiled softly and accepted the present; he ripped the paper with all the tape off and grinned.
"You will never learn will you?" he asked looking at the hat, she had knitted herself.
Akane shrugged sadly, but looked up when her fiancée put the hat on.
"Lucky for you that I look cute in everything I wear" he said adjusting the hat.
"Thanks," he finally said.
Then he reached into his own pocket finding a small gift. "I know it's not much but I hope you'll accept," he said trying to avoid her eyes.
Akane took the small present and opened it. "Oh Ranma it's beautiful," she said holding up the bow.
"Really?" he asked nervously, but lightened up as she put it on.
"So what are we supposed to do about, you know, the people at home?" she asked.
Ranma thought for a second "we could keep it a secret" he said.
"Yeah… no, it would never work with Nabiki in the house and all" Akane said.
He smiled softly "stop worrying so much, let's go home and eat some Christmas dinner, we'll take it one step at a time" he said leaning his arm across her shoulder pulling her closer.
"But really, what about the other girls, I'll be as good as dead once they figure it out" she said.
Ranma rolled his eyes and started laughing. "Then I'll eat some of your left over cooking and follow you. You know like in Romeo and Juliet".
Akane bopped him lightly on the head "don't tease me baka," she said.
He started tickling her, and this is where my Christmas special ends.
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A/N: Wait before you go, keep an eye out for the next chapter, cause even though they have kissed and made up, does that really stop any of the teen problems from coming?
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