Dr. Tofu remembers.... poor Kasumi
Dr. Tofu stood in the main room of the Tendou Dojo, the place being proclaimed as cursed or something of the sort years ago. So it was abandoned. He sat down on the one clean spot on the dusty floor. It was here that he came every evening at the same time. As he had for the past three years.
Taking out a small black leather bound book, looking at the spot in front of him. And writing a poem in memory of the event. That was the cause of the Tendou family abandoning the Dojo.
"Akane wept, Nabiki sighed, The angles cried in starry skies, As heavens mist fell to her knee's faced wrenched in pain from things unseen.
Soun was frantic, Genma too, Ranma knew not what to do, Happosai no were be found, As her body went limp unto the ground,
her face in pain Kasumi fell, Her breath went short, her face grew pale,
Her heart did try to keep her alive, and still the sorrowful angles cried, nothing could be done to help, Kasumi's eyes showed death themselves,
Akane collapsed into Ranma's arms, As Kasumi's soul went safe from harm.
And now I stand upon this place, which was once touched by Kasumi's grace
I now do hate to be alive, for I think of the day my Kasumi died...."
With a Sad sigh Dr. Tofu signed his name and date under the poem, and placed the black leather bound book back in his bag. Looking around the common room, An errie feeling filling his body as it did often in this place. How could Kasumi, the most perfect woman in the world. Whose health was perfect beyond believe... just die so suddenly as if death himself had came and touched her. Taking her by the hand and forcing her to go.. Perhaps it was something more?
~~~~
Akane weaved in-between the tables in the smoky bar, holding a tray full of beers with her right hand, trying to avoid the hands of drunken workmen and slobs trying to touch her. She frowned, nothing was the same anymore not even her. She had lost the only womanly role model she had. And now she worked in this dump. She cast a look about as she handed a table full of very drunken men their glasses of Asahi beer. She sighed and walked away to the bar, her break was just about to start.
Placing her little fluffy red apron on the peg by the door Akane walked out the back and stood in the alley. Coughing and trying to fill cleaner air into her smoke ruined lungs. Running her fingers through her course, dry, and now mid-back length blue hair she sighed, having never wanting to end up in a rut like this... and also never wanting to have to try and live without Kasumi and her father. Especially at age of 19.
Sighing again and looking at her watch, she walked back into the smoke filled bar and frowned, throwing her red apron over her skimpy black outfit in which she was forced to wear.
~~~~
Nabiki looked around the Kunou household, happy that she got what she wanted in life, Money, and showered with gifts. She knew she didn't love Kunou one bit. But it didn't bother her in the slightest, of all the people she knew. She was the happiest to see Kasumi go. Well, she wouldn't exactly say happy to see Kasumi go.. Just happy not to have to hear her twitty air-headed goody-two-shoes sister chirp happily anymore.
Kasumi's caring nature had caused Nabiki to feel smothered and trapped while she was alive. And now that she was gone Nabiki felt free of everything. Everything but the twang of guilt in her heart.. For the terrible secret she held inside...
~~~~
Ranma, standing on top of a hill, staring at the sky soon looked back down at Ryouga and Kunou, who were sleeping after their long night of activity. After Kasumi's death, Akane had turned more tomboyish then even.. More stubborn, and more unlikeable then ever. Ranma and Ryouga had giving up hope in ever courting Akane, and turned to each other for support, after their rivalry subsided to an end. A sweet flower of love grew and blossomed.
Kunou had joined in on the little hidden flower of love two years after Kasumi died, after marrying Nabiki because of Akane's downfall and being totally unsatisfied with her. He decided to take his chance with the guys. It was then that Kunou found out who his pig-tailed goddess really was, and deciding that Ranma-kun or Ranma-chan, it was the same person and it was Ranma that he loved.
After his marriage with Nabiki, Tatewaki had become no more to her then Sasuke was once to him.. A pitiful retch that got table scraps at meals. That is.. if there were any. Turning to Ranma and Ryouga for support, the couple accepted him with loving arms, a room in which to sleep, and clothing and good food so he could live a decent life. Kuno had gotten a lot thinner, he had gone pale and he seemed as if he was close to death when he stumbled onto the doorstep of Ranma and Ryouga.
Ryouga and Ranma didn't have much to offer, but they gave their darling Kunou as much as they could to help him out. Over the past year that they had Taken care of Kunou... who was now a broken man, hardly seen anymore running around with his bokken and talking pre-Shakespearean. The love of the three men had grown greatly...
~~~~
Soun and Genma, sitting in their own little apartment. Sat sitting at the table. Talking about old times, when they Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane and Ranma all lived in the Tendou Dojo. Right before the terrible day of Kasumi's sudden, and never explained death. That still to the day made Soun and Genma sad to think about.
Looking at old pictures, of their children they cried softly in the sweet memories. Kasumi... so young, a beautiful girl of 19, suddenly up and dying. Akane taking a turn for the worse without a womanly influence, Nabiki getting all that she wanted. And not caring that her husband had all but gone away and left her, And Ranma. Oh Ranma... who had completely changed over the past three years and gone away with Ryouga. The two finding a companionship in each other that the men learned not long ago had now another joined into.
Soun was broken, and never left the house, eating much he was now larger then Genma, who was trying his best to take care of the broken man. Though rightly he didn't know what to do to comfort him after the loss of everyone's beloved Kasumi...
