Title Buying a Pig in the Poke
Author landofthekwt
Rating K
Prompt Clue (Fanfice bakefoff #`15)
Word Count 278
Fandom Ranma ½
Warning none
Summary Ryouga bemoans his fate
Ranma could never understand why Akane loved P-chan. The pig had found its way into her bed It was love at first sight, although the pig had never done anything to deserve such affection.
For kamis sake it was a pig. Worse yet it was Ryouga. The same idiot who had been chasing Ranma for years when he showed up for four days after the appointed time for their duel.
Akane had no such affection for Ryouga. She was friendly toward him, but she certainly did not love him. All his faults had been laid before her. She understood why Ranma was baffled by Ryouga's hatred of him.
Why did Ryouga play along? Was he so desperate to get close to Akane that he was willing to stop being a man and become that swine instead. Did he really have no self-respect.?
Whatever Ryouga's motives, Ranma was not jealous of Akane's love for P-chan. P-chan might sleep in her bed, but Ryouga would never feel that love Ryouga should be jealous that Akane loved him as a pig and not as a man.
Still Ryouga continued the masquerade. He had tried to go away only to get lost Tried to prove that he was the superior fighter to Ranma, but nothing worked. No matter what he did Akane seemed oblivious to everything he did for her.
Akane had bought herself a pig–in-the-poke when she fell in love with P-chan. She did not know that beneath the skin of that little black bag skin beat the heart of a confused young man who loved Akane, but would never be able to tell her without revealing that he was P-chan.