Hidden Power: Chapter 2
By W0nderboy/SSJ4_Cloud (They are still the same person by the way.)
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Means anything seen inside it is a thought
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Editor's note. I changed the ending a bit. Like the last little part. Part 3 is coming soon!
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Part 1
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The pain worsened as what seemed like miles away before she got to Tofu-San's. The pain finally became too much for Akane and she dropped on to her knees, the pain worsening. She now regretted hiding this from Kasumi. Now she was going to pay for it. She doubled over and collapsed on the ground. Her vision was blurring. Not good. "I'm sorry Kasumi. I'm sorry for lying to you Kasumi, please forgive me." A tear ran down her cheek. "Please fo...give..." Then she passed out.



When Akane awakened, she found herself in a bed. "So this is what it's like to die." But then she saw a familiar face hanging on the wall. Betty? She looked at the skeleton. It was Betty, which meant... She had survived But it looked like she was at a hospital. The pain had weakened a bit. She looked around. No one was there. She gave a sigh of relief and fell asleep.



When Ranma finally got to town, he went back to the house. When he got there he saw Nabiki setting on the steps. She looked depressed.

"When have you been?" She turned her head. "Everyone was looking for you."

"Well I..."

"Well come on, we have to get to the hospital, I was waiting for you." She went back into her depressed state. "Akane just fainted. Doctor Tofu was able to help but.... Ranma?" Ranma was gone.



Akane felt the pains worsen, she wanted to crawl up and die and it looked like she was going to. She closed her eyes and prepared to meet her fate. Suddenly, she felt like she was being picked up. She couldn't open her eyes much, but when she did she saw someone wearing overalls, a pair of sunglasses and a read bandanna on his head. "It can't be..." Then Akane woke. She clutched her fists. "Captain Porkbun..." Her state of thought was broken by Dr. Tofu. "You're lucky. Somebody found you and brought you to me and I brought you here. You had us worry." He smiled. Akane smiled. "You have some visitors." Everyone came. Kasumi and Tendo to Kuno and Kodettchi, even Shampoo and Uyko were here. Mouuse step forward. "We heard you were ill, so all of ended our differences and came to see you Akane. He turned around. "1,2,3..." Everyone shouted out, Get well Akane Tendo!!!" Akane was touched.

Trying to find Akane's room was like a maze. And he had brought these flowers for her too. While trying yet again to follow the nurse's path, he heard a doctor and a nurse talking. "Well the patent is fine, but did you every see something like that before?"

"Yes doctor." She shook her head, I have heard of somebody else having that on their body. What should we do?"

"We should leave him alone. It's none of our business."

Ranma went on his way, he wondered what they were talking about. In his hurry, he ran into... "Hey Ryoga, are you to see Akane?"

"Akane's here? What happened?"

"Let me guess, you got lost."

"What happened?" He almost told Ryoga a huge fib, but he calmed down and explained what he was told from Nabiki.

"And those flowers are a way of sucking up?"

"Hey shut up! That isn't important right now."

"I wish I had brought something. I can't see her like this." As Ryoga began to leave, a janitor appear to mop. "Hey buddy, can I borrow that pail of water? Thanks. Oh Ryoga...."


Akane looked around. Only three people were missing. Ryoga, Nabiki, and Ranma. Ryoga was probably lost in Antartica ("No, wait", she thought, "He's already been there before.") Nabiki was watching the house, or scamming people. She knew that Nabiki really didn't give a damn about anyone but herself. Then there was Ranma. Did he really care about her? No, he was probably off goofing off or eating noodles. He had no real reason to come, that jerk! He wasn't welcome here at all. Something shaped like a snake moved in her bed. Akane gasped. No, it couldn't be! She grabbed it and shoved it underneith her. "Is everything ok Akane?", asked Ukyo. "

What do you mean?"

"Well you were blushing, and I thought your temperture was rising. Well anyways, Shampoo and I have something to talk to you about." Shampoo came forward.

"We sorry we caused you any trouble."

"What Shampoo is saying is, until you recover Akane, we won't go after Ranma. OK?"

"Well they can have him for all I care. They mean well, so I guess I should thank them."

"Thank you."

"No problem, but remember, only until you are better." The nurse came in. "Who are all you people? Only relatives are allowed in here.

Mouuse step forward. "For your infomation I am her uncle, and they...", pointing to Shampoo and Ukyo, are her aunts."

"And the rest are relatives too?"

"We have a big family."

"Well anyways", said the nurse, "Visiting times are over so you all need to leave, ok? She needs her rest."

After everyone left, the nurse frowned. Relitives her ass. She would have to remember to have them all banned from the hospital grounds. She opened the door and left.

Still no Ranma. He didn't come. Maybe he didn't her about her. Who was she kidding, he would never show up. Suddenly she heard a female arguing with the nurse. "You gotta let me in there. I need to see her, this is important. The argument continued, this time the doctor was involved. "Ok, I'll wait."
The doctor entered the room. "Um, there is another visitor for you." Probably Nabiki. "Did she have short brown hair and say that she was my sister?" The doctor looked surprised.

"Yes she did say she was your sister, but..."
"But?"
"She does not have brown hair and it is not..."

The door was kicked open, awaken a few people for sure. In stepped a girl in a black dress and a covered hat that blocked her face.. "Oh my poor sister. I came to see if you were alright." The doctor stared bugged-eyed at the girl. The nurse asked, "Should we kick her out for you?"
"No that's ok, she can stay." As they left the girl asked for some tea. They mumbled a bit as they left. Akane turned to the intrutor. "OK, who are you and what do you want?" The nurse came in with the tea. Just as she was about to put it down, the girl "tripped" on something and knocked the tea over. It didn't hit the nurse, but it splashed all over the girl. The nurse apoligized and said that they would bring something to clean off the dress. As she left, the girl ask for more tea. "And some water please.", said Akane. The nurse left mumbling some nasty words.

"Now look what you done. First you intrude into my room, then you spill tea? You are such an idiot!" Ranma... Why aren't you here to do that?

"Geez, you'll always be that uncute tomboy, won't Akane?"
She knew that voice, it was muffled, but she knew it well.

"Ranma?"

Ranma pulled off the hat, then the dress revealing his usual clothes. "Sorry I'm late, Akane. I found out from Nabiki, so I dashed out to here as fast as possible. He hold out his arm and moved it around. Akane looked confused. Suddenly, a bunch of flowers came out of his sleeve. He pulled it out and gave them to Akane. "Oh Ranma..."

"I bet you think that's all, but I'm not done yet." He reached into his shirt for a few seconds, and pulled out the little black pig.

"Oh P-Chan!" P-Chan ran up and snuggled up to her. "Where did you find him?"

"He was just wandering around." Akane gave him a hard stare. "Well, truthfully?"

"Yes. Truthfully." This outta be good...

"He was on your bed waiting for you."

"Really?" Ranma nodded. "Oh P-Chan..." She looked at Ranma. "Thank you Ranma. I... I love this gift. It's the best thing I have ever recieved, to see you and P-Chan not fight." Well, I wouldn't exacally put it THAT way.", thought Ranma "You did get along, right?" Akane began to glow. "Of course we did."

"Good." She stopped glowing then realized that P-Chan was scratching on her bed. "What's wrong P-Chan?" She picked him up. "What's a matter." Then it hit her. Had he seen it. No, he couldn't have. Ranma picked up P-Chan and stuffed him into his shirt. "We better leave now." He grabbed the dress and put it on. "I guess I have to sneak outta here as a boy." Akane giggled. He put on the hat and just as he was about to leave, he ran into the nurse again. The water remained in place, but the tea once again spilt on the dress. Ranma dashed out before anything could happen. Akane watched as the nurse shook her firsts as Akane's "sister" was heard running down the hall with a bunch of swearing in the process. The nurse gave Akake her water and at the same time, took a peek at the scrap tied to one of the flowers. It said get well soon, love sis. AKA Linco. So her name was Linco? Not many people went by that name. She did get a chance to see what she looked underneith the hat. (But not when she left, because she had been covering her face.) She looked like she gain alot of mustle when she left though strange... She would be banned though, so it didn't really matter to her. She heard the girl would be held for a few more days. The doctors said that they found something interesting.

It was near midnight. Akane couldn't sleep. And she knew why. It was what P-Chan saw earlier. She reached underneith her blanket, and check to see if anyone was there. Noone was, good. She reached behind her and grabbed something then pulled. It hurt, and she felt a bit parlized, but she had to do it. Finally she heard a pop. She pulled it out and loked at it. "You have been trouble for a long time, I should of gotten rid of you a long time ago." She saw a trash can down below. She stuggld to get up and she opened the window and dropped the item down towards it. Then she closed the window and went back to her bed.

You can say truthfully, that interestings end up in garbage heaps, food, electronics, even money. But when the garbage truck tossed the can in front of the hospital into the trash truck they failed to see an interesting sight. It looked like a tail, a monkey's tail, except, there was no monkeys around here...
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Part 2
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A few days later Ranma was in the attic. Kasumi had remembered that there was a recipe in there she thought would be perfect. She thought there was no harm in sending him up there. "What are you doing?" Ranma turned around with a pile of papers in his hands. Nabiki went over and grabbed them from him. "This is none of your business! What are you looking at anyways?" The papers were old drawings in crayon.

"What are they anyways?"

"They are really important papers."

"What? THESE??? Hahahaha!"

Nabiki frowned. "So are they yours?

"No, they're Akane's."

"..."

"And before you say anything, it looks like she was still very young when she when she drew them." Defensively, she asked, "What did you see?"
"Nothin'. Just what was on those papers." Nabiki looked through them. "Interesting. These are pictures of me and father and Kasumi and Akane and mother..." A tear ran down her cheek as she went through each one. "Uh Nabiki? Better change the topic. Who is this?" He point to a partally covered picture which was a face of a person wearing pair of sunglasses and a read bandanna on his head. Or it looked like it, and at the bottom it read...

"Captain PORKBUN!!!??? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!"

WHAM!!! "Ranma get a grip." Ranma rubbed his head. "Ok...Ok. Do you happen to know who he is?"

"Akane used to have a great imagination."

"That doesn't tell us much."

"I'm saying, RANMA, that he might of been like... have you ever had a imaginary friend when you were little?" I can't believe I just asked that.

"Well um...HEY!"

"Jeez, I was just asking. We better get out of here. Oh yeah." She went over to one of boxes and dug in there for a minute then walked over and gave Ranma the piece of paper. Give this to Kasumi. She left Ranma in the attic. Ranma looked at the paper, it was written in this strange language that he couldn't at all understand, why would Kasumi want this. He dug through the boxes trying find what Kasumi had asked for, then went down in defeat. Well, there's two hours wasted. Kasumi will be disappointed to hear that I couldn't find it. He went downstairs. When he got there he ran into Kasumi. He told Kasumi that he couldn't find the recipe, then gave her the scrap of paper. She studied it for a bit, then thanked him and asked him to return it. She did not look disappointed at all. Ranma went up to the attic, but instead of putting it back, he stuffed it in his pocket. He wanted to do some research of his own.


Akane was out of the hospital the next day. They said it was her appendex. She was greeted by everyone, well not everyone. Ranma was absent.

Ranma grumbled to himself. He had his teachers look at that paper. Noone knew what it meant. Why was it at the Tendo home. He grabbed his jacket and started to walk home.

A man was watching Ranma. He knew it was almost time.
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And now the disclaimer. :) Ranma 1/2 was made by Rumiko Takahashi. Please do not sue. You really won't being getting anything from me except...Gee, I guess nothing.