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Just Another Project
Chapter 3
Akane and Ranma were walking home from school. It had been a good day for Akane. She had been able to keep her temper in check for most of the day and she was feeling proud of herself. Suddenly she heard a sound that stopped her cold.
"Nihao!"
Yup, it was the ever-lovable, bubbly Amazon.
Akane was able to control her temper in time. 'Hey, I'm getting good at this!!' Akane's happiness was short lived, however, as other people made their presence known.
"Ranchan!"
"Saotome you cur!! I have come to free the fair Akane Tendo from your vile sorcery!!"
"My darling Ranma!!! I, the black rose, will free you form the evil clutches of Akane Tendo!!"
Akane felt her control slowly slip. She fought desperately for control and, after a hard battle, she succeeded. Barely.
"what a haul! what a haul!" The small demon otherwise known as Happosai noticed the group of people around him "Ranma!!! Akane!!! Ukyo!!! Kodachi!!! Shampoo!!! You are all together, lets play!!"
Akane lost all of her control. The fact that they had made her lose control just served to make her even angrier. Maybe angry is not the right word, it was more like furious.
That was when Shampoo landed wrong with her bike and was bounced into the middle of the street where a garbage truck ran her over. Ukyo took out her spatula and ran towards the truck driver to make him pay. Too bad she tripped on Shampoo's corpse and decapitated herself with her spatula. Her head flew towards Kuno, who was disgusted and and ran away from it into the road only to suffer pretty much Shampoo's fate. His bokken was thrown to Happosai who was stabbed by it. Kodachi was in shock from seeing her only brother die a violent death and stopped paying attention to her ribbon (the one with the Razor edge), which wrapped around her neck and strangled her.
At the end of this massacre the only ones standing where Ranma and Akane.
~0~
Outside of Akane's mind.
Ukyo, Ranma, Kodachi, Kuno, Shampoo, and Happosai were staring at the maniacally laughing Akane. They were all sweatdropping. Akane bore a blank look on her face, as if she was miles away from them.
"Saaaay, Ranchan, is something wrong with Akane?"
"yes, why is violent-girl laughing like that?"
"I always knew that wench was insane, Ranma darling"
They all look at Kodachi who ignores them.
"Oh, the and fair Akane Tendo has been driven mad!! I knew that her purity would be stained by Saotome's presence!!!"
"Poor Akane-chan! Such a lovely girl! Can I keep her underwear??"
Everyone ignores Happosai.
Ukyo looks thoughtful for a minute "She almost looks like Kodachi."
Everyone but Kodachi shivered.
Ranma was staring at Akane carefully "man, that project must have been harder on her than I thought."
Akane's eyes suddenly regained focus and she looked at all of them. 'what? is something wrong?"
Day 3
Method: Imagine your enemy suffering a horrible fate.
~0~
"Dr. Tofu, really, I'm fine."
Akane was sitting in a chair in the clinic while Dr. Tofu examined her eyes.
"Well, Ranma tells me that you were suffering from some kind of delusional attack."
Akane rolled her eyes. "Honestly, it was just part of I project I have to complete."
Dr. Tofu sweatdropped. "A project?"
"yeah, I'm supposed to learn to control my anger by using different methods each day. You know, count to 10, writing, imagining someone suffer horribly, and so on."
Dr. Tofu held his chin thoughtfully. "um... that's quite interesting, although I have to admit that I have never heard of that last method of yours..."
Akane laughed nervously, "he, he, yeah, um.., a friend told me about it"
Dr. Tofu smiled "Well, if it is efficient, I guess there's nothing wrong with it. As long as you don't get carried away."
"it's most efficient, and I won't get carried away, believe me." Akane smiled and waved to the doctor on her way out.
'Honestly, Do they think I'm Kodachi?'
Akane walked home and smiled. She had managed not to mallet Ranma in three days!! three whole days!! She felt extremely content and decided to treat herself nicely.
'um... some ice cream might be nice right now.'
She started to walk towards the ice cream parlor and stopped.
'I don't want to go alone, though'
She was debating what to do when she saw Mousse walking towards the market center.
"Hey Mousse, wait up!!!"
Mousse turned and adjusted his glasses. He saw someone running towards him.
"yes? how may I help you little girl?
Akane smirked. "It's Akane, Mousse."
Mousse adjusted his glasses again "oh, yes, well, how may I help you Akane Tendo?"
"I want to have some ice cream. but I don't want to eat alone. Do you want to join me?"
"well, I have to buy some groceries for the Nekohanten."
"oh, come on, it will be just for a little while. I'll pay."
"If its free, I will grace you with my presence."
Akane rolled her eyes "sure, whatever, lets go!" Akane grabbed Mousse's arm and dragged him towards the ice cream parlor.
~0~
Akane and Mousse were sitting in a stool eating.
"so.. how is everything in the Nekohanten?"
"fine, although Shampoo did come in today dancing a victory dance. She said something about you losing your mind."
Akane rolled her eyes "figures"
"May I ask what it was all about?"
Akane filled Mousse in on her project.
"oh, that is impressive, three days you say?"
Akane was proud and looked it. "yes, three whole days."
"you know, now that you mention it, I have heard of tips on how to control your anger."
"really?"
"yes"
Mousse got closer to Akane and whispered a couple of things. Akane blushed.
"I don't think Ranma and I are ready to do that Mousse"
Mousse shrugged.
"I think I can try some of your other tips, though."
~0~
Ranma was looking for Akane. He had gone to Dr. Tofu's clinic only to find that Akane had already left. He had no idea where Akane was and well, he was getting worried.
He turned and saw Akane sitting in the ice cream parlor. There was a guy with her. He felt his blood begin to boil when he noticed that the guy was familiar. 'Mousse??!! What would Akane be doing with duck-boy? He did try to turn her into a duck once. Maybe she IS losing her mind'
Akane saw Ranma walking towards them. She smiled.
"um, Akane, why are you eating with Mousse? I didn't know you were friends."
"I wanted to eat ice cream and he was there. Now that you're here too do you want to join us? I'll pay."
Ranma looked at Akane worried.
"Akane, are you all right?"
"sure, I'm just having a good day. Now, will you join us?"
Ranma smiled. Who was he to reject such an offering?
The three teenagers ate ice cream and talked. Their laughter could be heard from far away.
Ranma looked at Akane smiling. He hoped that whatever was wrong with Akane stayed wrong.
~@~
Hi People!!! I finally finished chapter 3!! I worked hard, so I hope you like it. Otaku King proofread it for me (isn't he nice???!!!), so I think we all owe him a big round of applause.
Clap, clap, clap, clap (etc., etc.)
Now that he got the credit he deserved we can move on to other things. If any of you have heard of any strange methods that Akane-chan can try, send them to AkaneLuv2001@Yahoo.com, I may not be able to use all, but I may try some, k?
I want to know what you think so far, so please review!!!
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