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Just Another Project
Chapter 4
Akane Tendo slammed the gate of the Tendo Dojo as she walked in. Kasumi's head appeared from behind the blanket she was hanging. "Oh my, she must be upset."
Akane walked into the house. Her furious footsteps could be heard
as she walked by the living room where Soun and Genma were currently playing
a game of Go.
Genma looked towards Akane. "Akane's angry."
Soun nodded. "Yes, what do you suppose the boy did this time?"
"who knows? Although it has been a while since Akane was this upset"
Soun's eyes immediately filled with tears "The schools won't be joined!!!!
Saotome, your son better apologize to my little girl!!!"
Genma backed away from the hysterical excuse of a parent "Don't you
worry Tendo!! I will make sure the boy makes it up for his fiancee."
Soun visibly calmed down at this "oh, well, that's settled. Now Saotome,
make your next move."
The two men continued their game of Go.
Meanwhile Akane walked into her room and slammed her bedroom door. Nabiki's
head poked out of her room.
"Oh boy, Ranma is in for it" Nabiki's head disappeared into her room
again. "I wonder how I can make some money out of this."
Akane's room.
Akane was sitting in her bed squeezing the stuffing out of a small, defenseless teddy bear. Literally. Had the comforting toy been alive, it would have been in great suffering, even if it was one of those ferocious grizzly bears. As it was, there was a somewhat pained expression on its face.
Akane was fuming. All her hard-earned control had vanished, and it was all Ranma's fault. Akane's hands clasped tightly on the teddy bear as she remembered the past events.
Ranma and Akane walked home from school. Yet another day.
It had been one of those days that were neither good nor bad. Akane
had not been forced to turn to her current anger-controlling-method, and
in her point of view, that was just fine.
Of course, that itself had been too good to last. Shampoo has
shown up again (Akane really though that Shampoo kept a log on the Glomp-Airen-days,
somehow you learned to expect her.) Shampoo, Akane remembered, had
been dressed to kill in a microscopic (tiny was definitely not the word),
skin-tight, barely a lil' bit more that see-through red Chinese dress.
Ranma had been too stupid to notice how she was dressed and why, which
had pleased Akane to no end. The downside was that Shampoo tricked
Ranma into going out on a date with her, and Ranma had sadly also been
too stupid to notice that until it was too late.
Akane fought back angry tears. It was so unfair! She really
had been in control of her temper, and leave it to Ranma and Shampoo to
screw it up.
Suddenly she frowned, her teddy bear usually was very soft and huggable,
but not this puffy. She glanced down to find her teddy bear completely
stuffed out. (ha ha)
"oops"
Now she was angrier, if that was possible. Her favorite stuffed
animal was destroyed, compliments of Shampoo and Ranma (Akane refused to
acknowledge that she had been the one holding the toy at the moment of
its unfortunate end.)
Angrily she stood up and walked to her desk. She opened her journal
to the current entry.
Day 4
Method: Blow something up
Akane smiled and changed into some old clothing. When she was finished she walked out of the room, grabbing a bag as she walked past the door.
~0~
Akane stood on an abandoned lot. She opened her bag and was looking
at its contents. It was a couple of home-made bombs. The names rightfully
being the sparkler bomb and the Hindinburg bomb. She had prepared
them the night before, just in case.
The sparkler is basically a bunch of sparklers tied together with the
ends bent so it can stand up with a fuse made out of another sparkler that
you light.
The Hindinburg is baking soda and vinegar poured into a small jar and
put a rather large, unblown balloon on the top. It rises into
the air as the chemicals make gas and when it reaches a certain height
it explodes.
Akane smirked as she took out the Hindinburg bomb out of the bag.
She checked around her and made sure that there were no people around her.
She didn't want anyone to get hurt, and the Hindinburg bomb can't be controlled.
Satisfied at not seeing anyone, she lighted the bomb and let it go.
When the home-made bomb blew up Akane smiled and felt some of the anger
dissipate with it.
Unfortunately for Akane, the first bomb attracted many of the kids
that had been playing soccer on the street. Most of them were from
eleven to fourteen years old.
The apparent leader of the group approached her "Hey, what are you
doing?"
"oh, nothing much, walking, taking in the scenery, blowing up bombs"
All of the kids eyes widened at the mention of bombs.
"Bombs? Cool!! can we join you?"
"um... I don't think your parents would like that."
The kids looked crestfallen
"well, can we watch you do it?" asked the leader again.
"well.. I guess so as long as you stay away from the bombs and don't
get in the way."
All of the kids immediately returned to their previous joyous behavior
"COOL!!!!"
"Um... do you think that's a good idea Akane Tendo?"
"huh?" Akane turned to see Mousse standing behind her dressed in his
usual attire.
"I mean, to have all of these infants around you while you engage in
a rather dangerous pastime could be troublesome"
"I think that they are smart enough to know that bombs are dangerous
and the will keep out of trouble, won't you?" Akane turned to look at the
children with a threatening glint in her eyes.
All of the kids backed away and nodded eagerly
"um.. y-yeah, sure"
"if you say so"
"whatever you say"
"you're the boss"
"we won't get in the way, we promise."
Satisfied Akane returned to Mousse.
"see? they won't cause any trouble."
"As long as I'm not held responsible."
As Akane glared at Mousse he decide it was time to change the subject.
"sooo, is this another of those methods you mentioned?"
Akane nodded "yes"
"I must say that it seems like now days you seem to be finding the
most peculiar methods."
"Oh, shut up, its a friends idea, and it was working too, until you
decided to come and criticize me."
"me? oh no, I mearly heard that Shampoo was on a date with Ranma Saotome
and I wanted to discuss something with you"
Akane looked disconcerted "whatever happened to 'my darling Shampoo
has been forced to appear publicly with that fiend Saotome'?"
"Oh, I have realized that it is Shampoo that has been chasing Ranma,
and since all of my wooing has had no influence on her I have decided to
change tactics"
"oh?"
"Are you going to blow up a bomb or should we go back to our game?"
Both Akane and Mousse turned to look at the brat that had so harshly
intervened. The Boy backed away.
"Well, I suppose you should finish and then we can talk."
Akane looked at Mousse curiously but agreed "I guess so."
Mouse took out a match from nowhere "May I?"
"Sure go ahead"
Mousse lighted the bomb and ran away from it. A couple of seconds passed
and nothing happened.
"Its not gonna blow!!!" cried the same jerk as before (**Thanx Ranma-chan**)
Akane glared at him but turned quickly to see the bomb go off.
She turned and looked victoriously at the brat who had enough sense to
walk away.
Meanwhile all of the other children were excitedly chatting
"Did you see that?"
"of course you idiot, I was right next to you"
"right. wasn't it cool?"
"That was amazing!!"
"Yeah!!"
"Cool!!!
"That was amazingly cool!"
"That was the coolest thing I ever saw"
"Really? that must be some life you live"
"Shut up"
"That was sooo cool"
"could you guys quit it with that cool thing? Don't you know anything
else?"
All of the kids stopped talking and looked at the boy who had spoken.
They turned and resumed talking.
"that was so phat!"
"Yeah, completely phat!!"
Akane and Mousse looked at the kids and back at each other.
"feel like some ice cream? this time I'll pay"
"sure"
~0~
"So Mousse, what did you want to discuss?"
"well, as I have already told you I have come to the conclusion that
I must find a new way to get shampoo's heart, considering she is not responding
to my previous behavior"
"sooo.."
"so I figure that you may be interested in winning Saotome's heart"
"what!!! that's ridiculous!!!:
"is it? you were quite upset this afternoon, and I believe the cause
was Ranma's date."
"um.. I don't know. I know that I like Ranma, even if he is a perverted
sex-changing freak, but to want to win his heart? I'm not too sure."
"well, look at it this way. We could play a joke on them and they will
have no idea what to do. It will be like acting."
"what exactly do you have in mind?"
"well, we could pretend to be in love."
"in love?!!"
"yes, you see, I take you out on a couple of dates, woo you, we call
each other pet names, and include each other in all of our plans.
They won't know what to do, and we can see what their true feelings towards
us are."
Akane got that evil glint in her eyes again.
"it might be fun"
"it will be"
Akane stuck out her hand "Deal mu-mu-chan"
Mousse shook her hand "Deal A-chan"
~0~
Ranma returned home at night. It had been a horrible day.
He had spent all evening trying to keep Shampoo away from him. He
had the feeling that it was going to get a lot worse when he saw Akane.
Akane wasn't well known for her patience and understanding nature. Maybe
that was because she didn't have any.
'Oh well, we all have to die someday, don't we?'
Deep in such thoughts, Ranma walked into the Tendo Dojo.
"oh my, hello Ranma, how was your date?"
"yeah, tell me all about it, I'm sure there are people I can sell this
to."
"Ranma, How dare you treat my little girl like this!!!!!"
"What's wrong boy? I taught you to be better than that!!!"
Ranma backed away from everyone. Right into Akane.
"A-Akane!!"
"oh, hello Ranma, back from your date already? Did you have fun?"
"N-no, not at all, really"
"no? oh well, that's bad, maybe next time will be better, excuse me"
Akane walked past everyone towards the stairs while the others looked
towards her stunned.
Once in her room, Akane smiled. This was going to be fun.
~@~
Hello!! I know I took long to post this up but with the Holidays and
all I was very busy. I will try to write the next chapter as soon
as possible but I have several projects to complete and hand in (last minute
rush). Okay, now on to credits:
Thanx to Otaku King and (drums roll) Ranma-Chan!!! Yep Ranma-Chan
volunteered to join Otaku King and take some time to do the tedious job
of proof reading my fic's (believe me, with my grammar, the job is seriously
tedious).
Thanx to all of u who sent ideas to me, some were very useful.
I'm still looking for some strange methods if anyone out there knows one,
please send it to Akaneluv2001@yahoo.com.
The actual method used here was sent to me by Ranma-chan, along with
the bomb descriptions and the "It's not gonna blow" line.
The Hug-the-teddy-bear thing was sent by Ranma's girl. The Squishing
of the poor teddy bear was HashBrown's fault. I just couldn't get
it out of my head.
Let's do the applause thing again to thank all of these wonderful people:
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Now, if you have a conscience, you WILL review. Nice Reviews
make me happy, and I write faster when I'm happy.
Now lets do the applause thing for all of those who review
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(I better come up with a new way to thank people, the clapping thing
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Meztli