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Just Another Project
Chapter 2
Tendo Dojo
Everything peaceful and quiet. Well, that is until an alarm clock begins to ring. A hand shoves the alarm clock off the desk roughly. The clock continues to ring bravely.
Akane opens her eyes slowly. 'Ugh. school.'
She stares at the ceiling for a minute while her eyes adjust to the sunlight. There's a piece of paper taped to the ceiling. The paper reads:
Day 2
Method: writing.
'Write.. right' She stood and got ready for school. As she was leaving she grabbed her schoolbag and a small, fat notebook. Then she walked to Ranma's room. There she could see Ranma in his full glory. Well, Ranma was actually sprawled on his futon in his underwear (tank top and boxers) with drool hanging of one side of his mouth.
Akane sighed and walked towards him. She then proceeded to wake him up gently (she shoved him of the futon). Ranma was still sleeping peacefully. Akane smirked and pulled on his pigtail roughly. Amazingly Ranma was undisturbed. Akane checked her watch and frowned. She filled her lungs with air as she got ready to scream on his ear and then remembered she had to control her temper.
Akane walked out of the room and came back a couple of minutes later with a glass full of water. She emptied the contents of the glass on Ranma and walked out of the room.
Ranma woke immediately and saw Akane leaving the room. "You uncute tomboy!!!!!!! You don't expect to find a husband this way, do you??!!!!"
Akane fought for control. She really did, but she still lost. She was about to turn and teach Ranma a lesson or two about how to treat a respectable young lady such as her when she remembered the project. She opened her little notebook and began to write furiously. A couple of minutes later she rips off the paper of the notebook and tears it into tiny shreds. Not content, she picks up the shreds and takes them to the kitchen, where she burns them. She watches the fire consume the paper into ashes and she calms down a little bit.
"Oh my! Akane is something burning?"
Akane turns and sees Kasumi looking at her concerned. 'oh great, now Kasumi is worried.
"Nothing is wrong Kasumi, I just needed to, uh, get rid of some stress, yeah."
Kasumi accepts that excuse (well, she IS Kasumi, after all).
"Oh, well, if you are finished, perhaps you would like to have some breakfast." she smiled and left the kitchen.
Akane followed her deep in thought. 'I hope today isn't as bad as yesterday, it was awful'
Images of the previous day danced in Akane's head. She had almost malleted Ranma several times. It had been, well, almost painful to hold her temper. She didn't know if she could keep this up.
She walked into the dining room and sat next to Ranma. She ate her breakfast and watched Ranma and his father fight for each other's food. Akane sighed disgusted and checked her watch again. "We are going to be laaateeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Akane stood up and bolted out the door grabbing her shoes, schoolbag, and Ranma's pigtail.
Ranma didn't appreciate Akane dragging him down the street by his pigtail. "Hey, let me go you tomboy!! I can walk!, I said let me go!!!!!!!!"
"As you wish!!!" Akane let him go and Ranma smashed against the street.
"OWWWWW!!!!"
"hey, you asked for it!!!!!!!!!" Akane didn't even bother to turn back 'we're going to be late!!!'
"Nihao!"
That was all the warning Ranma had before a bike crashed on his head.
Akane stopped and looked at the unconscious Ranma being glomped by an Amazon. She could feel her anger growing, she took out her little notebook and began to write. 'somehow, I think today is going to be just as bad as yesterday'
~0~
Akane entered her room at night. She dropped the remains of what once had been a notebook into the trash.
Her predictions had been right. First they had been late (thanks to Shampoo) and ended up holding buckets in the hallway, then in lunch Ukyo had been all over Ranma bribing him with some Okonomiyaki. Ranma, of course, had accepted. Later Ryouga had showed up with his usual cry of 'Ranma prepare to die' and they had made a hole through a wall.
'Honestly, what is it with guys and their overactive hormones?'
The worst part, though, came when Akane was doing her homework. Apparently, Ranma's method of completing his project was copying Akane's homework. When Akane didn't let him he asked for her help, which led to the two of them spending two hours while Akane had tried to teach Ranma the basics of algebra. Every time Akane thought Ranma was getting it he somehow managed to get confused.
'How has he managed to pass every year?'
Akane sighed and got ready for bed. She wasn't as sure that she could do this as she was at the begging, this was a lot harder than she had though. But she had made herself a promise and she was going to stand by it no matter what.
'I'll show them all, even if it kills me!'
With new resolve Akane got into bed, mentally reading herself for the long battle to come.
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Hi, It's me again. I was happy with the response to the first chapter. I'm glad some people liked it, me being new in this an'all. This was harder than the first chapter. I'm sure it reflects in my writing. Somehow, the writing method didn't excite me, I never did like it much when I did it, it was sort of annoying. The next one should be better (I hope!).
Bye 4 now!!!
Meztli