Hey! Colabear here, posting my first fanfic that I ever wrote please be gentle ^_^! I'm a big fan of Ranma and Akane, but I thought they might need a little outside help to get together, that's where Sarah comes in......well on with the show.
DISCLAIMER: You know the drill, I don't own Ranma 1/2 this is just a fanfiction that I wrote for fun.
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The sun shone brightly in Nerima, the sky bright blue with a couple of white clouds passing by. Sarah Mullar sat on the porch of the country club, her shoulder length, golden brown hair flowing occasionally in the breeze. Her light green eyes surveyed the sight before her, the perfect manicured lawn and bushes, the light yellow and white lawn chairs and tables making the whole scene look perfect. *Perfect and fake* she thought. She turned to look at the two women who sat with her, they kept staring at the table next to them. "Oh, Sarah you are so lucky to be engaged to Thomas Hilard. You must be so happy".
"I'm very happy" she managed to smile and turned to look at the trees and ignored the conversation. *Oh, yeah I'm sooo happy I'm getting sick to my stomach. I don't know how I manage to say it and smile. I should receive an Academy Award for this act*.
"Excuse me, I'm terribly sorry to leave like this, but I'm really not feeling well" Sarah stood up and grabbed her purse.
"Oh, I hope you feel better. Will we see you and Thomas at the charity benefit Monday?"
"Yes I think you will" She passed by Tom's table, he was playing cards with three business friends. He excused himself and caught up with her outside the building. "Where do you think you are going?" he asked. She turned to him and looked into his hazel eyes, his blonde hair combed perfectly neat. There was no doubt about it, he was handsome and the worst part was that they looked like the perfect couple.
"I'm going home" she told him icily. "You can't do this to me and leave in the middle of lunch" he was getting angry, but Sarah didn't care. "I'm tired and I'm going home" she turned around and walked towards the gate. "Sarah get back here" he yelled, but she just walked faster, she looked over her shoulder and saw him following. *Damn it Tom, leave me alone* she took off running.
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Ranma was walking on the fence, he stole a quick glance towards Akane. Akane was walking next to him on the sidewalk, he rubbed his head *Uncute tomboy...she didn't have to hit me that hard*. They were getting near the dojo and he jumped down and ran ahead of Akane. *That jerk doesn't even wait for me* she ran after him.
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Sarah was glad she had tennis shoes on, Tom was still following her, but he was really far behind her. *Come on give up already*. She turned a corner and slammed into somebody, she flew back landing on her butt. "I'm so sorry" Sarah said standing up, she lifted her head and found herself looking at a pigtail boy wearing a red Chinese shirt and black pants. "Oh it's okay I should have slowed down" he said. Sarah saw a girl with short midnight blue hair running towards them. "Ranma you could have waited for me" the girl said.
"Why would I wait for an uncute tomboy like you"
"What did you say?" Akane was angry. Sarah looked over her shoulder and Tom was getting closer. *I can't keep running, I have to hide* she saw the bickering couple, she grabbed them and stood them next to each other. "Hey what's the big idea?" the girl asked.
"Shhh...please you got to hide me. I'll explain everything later. If anybody asks I went that way" Sarah pointed down the road and stood behind them. *What the heck is going on here?* Ranma thought.
*Who does she think she is? Telling us what to do* Akane was about to turn around when she saw a blonde hair guy ran up to them.
"Excuse me did you see a girl run by here?" he asked
"Yeah she went that way" Ranma pointed down the road.
"Thank you" the man said and ran down the road.
"Pheww...that was close. Thank you so much, by the way my name is Sarah Mullar" she stuck her hand out.
"Ranma Saotome" he shook her hand.
"Akane Tendo. Mind if I ask who that guy was?"
"Oh, that idiot. He is my fiancé, it was arranged by our parents. Hate him to the core. So are you two a couple?" she asked. Ranma and Akane noticed they were standing awfully close and quickly jumped away from each other. "NO!" they both said at the same time.
"We also have an arranged engagement" Akane said.
"Shessh...seems to be going around a lot. Thank you for all your help, I guess I should go home now"
"No, wait. Do you want to have dinner?" Akane asked, she wanted to get to know her more.
"Sure if you don't mind"
"Come on, it's no problem"
Sara followed her two new friends. "So, do you two like each other?" she innocently asked.
"Me like that uncute tomboy, you've got to be kidding" Ranma said.
"Well you are no better yourself, you pervert" Akane lunged her bag towards his head and he ducked easily.
"Nya..you can't get me" he stuck his tongue out and closed his eyes. Big mistake. Akane swung again and hit him right in the face. "Jerk. Come on Sarah"
"But shouldn't we--"
"Leave him, he can take care of himself"
Sarah walked passed Ranma, she heard him murmur uncute tomboy. *Yep, they are both in complete denial.* she thought as she followed Akane into the Tendo dojo.
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"We're home" yelled Akane. Sarah followed her to the dining room, she saw a woman with her long brown tied with a ribbon come out of the kitchen. "Hi Akane, I see you brought company?"
"Kasumi this is Sarah, Sarah this is my oldest sister Kasumi"
"Is a pleasure meeting you" said Kasumi
"The pleasure is all mine. I hope I'm not intruding"
"Oh, my. Not at all Sarah, please make yourself at home"
"Come on Sarah I'll show around the house" Sarah followed Akane around the house, they go to the dojo and Akane opened the door. Sarah saw Ranma doing a difficult kata. *Wow, he is good* she thought. Ranma finished and bowed towards the shrine. "Hey I didn't know you two were there?" He turned to face them. "Showoff" Akane whispered loud enough to be heard.
"Oh, give him a break Akane. If you were that good wouldn't you showoff?" Sarah asked. Akane was startled by the question, "I don't know....I guess I would" Akane found something very interesting on the floor.
"So you do martial arts for a hobby?" she asked Ranma
"No way! It's a way of life" he answered proudly.
"Do you know some martial arts, Sarah?" asked Akane
*Might as well start lying now* she thought "Yeah, but I only studied it for one year and that was six years ago. I probably forgot all about it, besides it doesn't really interest me."
Ranma and Akane looked at each other in shock. This is the first time they met somebody who is not interest in martial arts except for Nabiki and Kasumi.
"I think martial arts is very interesting" answered Ranma.
" Don't get me wrong Ranma. If it interest you and you like what you are doing then go for it. Personally I think it's boring. All that fighting for what? I just don't see it."
" Dinner is ready" Kasumi yelled.
"Oh good I'm hungry" Sarah stepped out of the dojo and left two confused martial artist behind.
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Sarah slid the door opened and found that there were new faces in the room. She already met Kasumi, but the two older men and the girl with short brown hair she hadn't seen.
"Oh, Sarah I like you to meet my father, Soun Tendo." Akane said .
"Nice to meet you" she shook his hand.
"And this is Ranma's father Genma Saotome"
"Pleasure to meet you Mr. Saotome"
"And this is my sister Nabiki"
"Everyone this is Sarah Mullar, I invited her over for dinner" Akane motioned Sarah to sit next to her.
"Wait a minute Sarah Mullar. From Mullar jewelry?" Nabiki asked.
"Yes, that's me. You've heard of me?"
"Heard of you! I'm your biggest fan. I mean running a business at such a young age. You are my idol, can I have your autograph?" Nabiki stared at Sarah like she was a goddess. Everyone in the room looked on in surprise.
"Well, I never had a fan, but I'll do better than give you my autograph. Why don't you spend a day at my office?" Nabiki couldn't believe one of the most successful person in the world asked her to spend a day at her office. She grabbed Sarah's hand and shook it violently.
"Oh, thank you, thank you. You don't know how much this means to me" Nabiki stopped and began eating her food.
*Okay that was weird* Sarah thought. Dinner went on as usual, Sarah shook her head as Ranma and his father battled for food. Sarah got up and excused herself to go to the restroom.
"So, Akane how did you ever manage to meet one of the richest people in the world?" asked Nabiki.
"Well, she literally ran into Ranma when we were walking home today. She was trying to get away from her fiancé"
*Well Ranma finally did something right. Now we have another couple who are probably in complete denial* Nabiki nodded to her sister and began eating again. She knew that her little sister and her fiancé were in love. Sure they denied it and insulted each other, but she knew that they never meant it. They never say their insults to each other in the face and they always apologize to each other after a fight. They heard a knock coming from the door.
"Oh, my. I wonder who that is" Kasumi got up and opened the door to reveal a blonde, hazel eyed young man standing outside.
"I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was wondering if a young woman with shoulder length golden brown hair and green eyes was here." He asked.
"Oh, you mean Sarah. Yes she was joining us for dinner would you like some tea?" Kasumi opened the door wider to let him.
"Thank you so much, but I just came to pick her up" he followed Kasumi into the dining room and introduced himself. Nabiki noticed that Sarah's fiancé was very handsome, but she felt uncomfortable, it was like he had no warmth at all.
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Sarah walked down the steps, she was happy she found this new friendship and family. They were real and they weren't acting. She smiled all the way down the stairs until she opened the door and found Tom standing there. *Oh, shit! Why? Why me?* she thought.
Akane looked up to see Sarah at the door. Tom turned around with an evil smile on his face. Akane noticed that the room got a bit colder.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Sarah's voice was like ice and her eyes were cold.
"You greet me with such warmth Sarah"
"How did you find me Tom?"
"I have my connections" he answered and stepped closer to her. Sarah avoided him and sat down, her back turned to him.
"In other words you had your little spies to look for me"
"Come on Sarah, stop acting like a child and go home"
"No! You can't tell me what to do" She gave him a cold stare.
"Dammit Sarah! You are such an idiot. You are so dumb, childish, stupid, ignorant,......." Tom kept calling her names. She turned around and rolled her eyes up to the ceiling, shaking her head. Nabiki was stunned if it was Ranma insulting Akane he would have been flying high across Nerima.
*Why isn't Sarah doing anything? She is completely ignoring him* Akane was very confused.
"Are you listening to me, Sarah?" Tom saw that Sarah was eating and ignoring him.
"Did you say something? Oh, you are finished. Good, get out" she stood and faced him.
"What?!" he was shocked, he called her every name in the book, and she ignored him. He expected her to be angry and make a fool of herself, but she turned the tables around.
"YOU HEARD ME! I SAID GET THE HELL OUT!" she yelled and looked at him straight in the eye.
"You know something Sarah, I hate you" he still met her gaze. Everyone in the room drew in a sharp breath. Sarah didn't even flinch.
"Really same here, now why don't we stop this charade and break off the engagement"
"Bye, Sarah" with that he turned around and left.
"Damn him!" she turned to look at six shocked faces.
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*Man that was one big fight. At least she didn't hit him* Ranma thought. *But he told her he hated her* he wondered if Sarah was going to run off and cry somewhere.
"I apologize that you had to see that" Sarah calmly said as she sat down again.
"It's okay Sarah, Ranma and Akane fight all the time. Although Akane hits Ranma" Nabiki stated
"NABIKI!" Akane glared at her sister.
"I'm afraid that one of these days one of us is going to kill the other"
"Oh, my! Are you really having problems in your relationship?" asked Kasumi.
Sarah's shoulder started to shake, everyone in the house thought she was crying, until they heard her laughing. After a few minutes Sarah wiped her eyes.
"I'm sorry Kasumi, but Tom and I in a relationship? Never! Hell will freeze over if that ever happens" she said.
" But he is your fiancé. You did choose him?" asked Mr. Tendo
"No it's arranged just like your daughter's engagement. You see my father and his father wanted to merge companies, and to bond that merge he engaged me to Tom. Anyways Tom and I refused, we obviously didn't love each other, but his dad's business was going down the drain. He took Tom on a vacation and I suspect that's when he told him that business was really bad and the only way he could save it was by merging the business. You see Tom is a greedy, son of a .....um sorry. Well let's just say that he doesn't want to marry me out of love, but money. Both of our parents died in a car accident and of course my father made Tom my guardian. I thought that with our parents death our engagement was over, I wasn't really that close with my father and so when my lawyer told me what he had done, I was furious. I told Tom that I didn't love him and that we should break it off, but being the greedy bastard that he is, he refused and I can't do anything about it, because he is my guardian. The good thing is that he has to wait until I turn 18 to marry me. I have one year left to get out of it."
"How long have you been engaged?" asked Nabiki.
"Two suffering years, it's getting late and I should start walking home". Sarah stood up.
"It was a pleasure to meet all of you and I really apologize for that scene, I'll try not to let it happen again"
"You shouldn't be walking alone at this time. Akane, Ranma please walk her home." Soun stated.
"Please, it's all right I have already bothered you enough."
"Really it's no problem. Come on Ranma" Akane got up and walked towards the door.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming" Ranma followed Akane.
"Thank you for that wonderful dinner. I'm sure I'll see you soon" Sarah walked around the table and gave each one of them a hug. To say that they were shocked was an understatement, they just sat there stunned. Ranma and Akane just stared with their mouths hanging open. "Bye, come on you two follow me" and with that the trio walked off.
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The moon was shining brightly on that cool night. Three teenagers were walking on the side walk, well two of the three, the third one was walking on the fence. His pigtail bouncing up and down.
"Ummm....why are you walking on the fence Ranma?" Sarah looked at him.
"To practice my balance" He answered, clasping his hand behind his head.
"Oh, you really take martial arts seriously. I used to, before things got complicated"
"What kinda of things?" asked Akane. She noticed that they were in the better part of town, houses that looked like palaces.
"I don't feel like talking about it, maybe someday I'll tell you. And here is my house" Ranma jumped down and stood beside Akane. Sarah went over the black box and punched the numbers of her code. She stood aside and the white gate slid open.
"Oh, good Tom isn't here. If he was, he would have been dead by morning" Sarah turned to them an evil grin appeared on her face.
"He lives here?" asked Ranma
"NO! Thank goodness! I would have killed him if he did. He lives down the street somewhere. I don't know...I went there once, but that's it. He usually comes here to yell at me and that's when I leave for my dad's office" she shook her head. "Well I would give you 'The Grand Tour' but I believe you have to wake up early tomorrow"
"Yeah, we have school" Ranma made a face to emphasize how much he hated that.
"Well. Anytime you two need time away from your parents, you can always crash here. I'll tell my butler your names and you can come anytime."
"Thank you" Akane said.
"I'll see you two later. Good night!" she gave Akane and Ranma a hug and walked into her house.
* That girl is definetly weird* Ranma thought as he followed Akane home.
DISCLAIMER: You know the drill, I don't own Ranma 1/2 this is just a fanfiction that I wrote for fun.
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The sun shone brightly in Nerima, the sky bright blue with a couple of white clouds passing by. Sarah Mullar sat on the porch of the country club, her shoulder length, golden brown hair flowing occasionally in the breeze. Her light green eyes surveyed the sight before her, the perfect manicured lawn and bushes, the light yellow and white lawn chairs and tables making the whole scene look perfect. *Perfect and fake* she thought. She turned to look at the two women who sat with her, they kept staring at the table next to them. "Oh, Sarah you are so lucky to be engaged to Thomas Hilard. You must be so happy".
"I'm very happy" she managed to smile and turned to look at the trees and ignored the conversation. *Oh, yeah I'm sooo happy I'm getting sick to my stomach. I don't know how I manage to say it and smile. I should receive an Academy Award for this act*.
"Excuse me, I'm terribly sorry to leave like this, but I'm really not feeling well" Sarah stood up and grabbed her purse.
"Oh, I hope you feel better. Will we see you and Thomas at the charity benefit Monday?"
"Yes I think you will" She passed by Tom's table, he was playing cards with three business friends. He excused himself and caught up with her outside the building. "Where do you think you are going?" he asked. She turned to him and looked into his hazel eyes, his blonde hair combed perfectly neat. There was no doubt about it, he was handsome and the worst part was that they looked like the perfect couple.
"I'm going home" she told him icily. "You can't do this to me and leave in the middle of lunch" he was getting angry, but Sarah didn't care. "I'm tired and I'm going home" she turned around and walked towards the gate. "Sarah get back here" he yelled, but she just walked faster, she looked over her shoulder and saw him following. *Damn it Tom, leave me alone* she took off running.
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Ranma was walking on the fence, he stole a quick glance towards Akane. Akane was walking next to him on the sidewalk, he rubbed his head *Uncute tomboy...she didn't have to hit me that hard*. They were getting near the dojo and he jumped down and ran ahead of Akane. *That jerk doesn't even wait for me* she ran after him.
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Sarah was glad she had tennis shoes on, Tom was still following her, but he was really far behind her. *Come on give up already*. She turned a corner and slammed into somebody, she flew back landing on her butt. "I'm so sorry" Sarah said standing up, she lifted her head and found herself looking at a pigtail boy wearing a red Chinese shirt and black pants. "Oh it's okay I should have slowed down" he said. Sarah saw a girl with short midnight blue hair running towards them. "Ranma you could have waited for me" the girl said.
"Why would I wait for an uncute tomboy like you"
"What did you say?" Akane was angry. Sarah looked over her shoulder and Tom was getting closer. *I can't keep running, I have to hide* she saw the bickering couple, she grabbed them and stood them next to each other. "Hey what's the big idea?" the girl asked.
"Shhh...please you got to hide me. I'll explain everything later. If anybody asks I went that way" Sarah pointed down the road and stood behind them. *What the heck is going on here?* Ranma thought.
*Who does she think she is? Telling us what to do* Akane was about to turn around when she saw a blonde hair guy ran up to them.
"Excuse me did you see a girl run by here?" he asked
"Yeah she went that way" Ranma pointed down the road.
"Thank you" the man said and ran down the road.
"Pheww...that was close. Thank you so much, by the way my name is Sarah Mullar" she stuck her hand out.
"Ranma Saotome" he shook her hand.
"Akane Tendo. Mind if I ask who that guy was?"
"Oh, that idiot. He is my fiancé, it was arranged by our parents. Hate him to the core. So are you two a couple?" she asked. Ranma and Akane noticed they were standing awfully close and quickly jumped away from each other. "NO!" they both said at the same time.
"We also have an arranged engagement" Akane said.
"Shessh...seems to be going around a lot. Thank you for all your help, I guess I should go home now"
"No, wait. Do you want to have dinner?" Akane asked, she wanted to get to know her more.
"Sure if you don't mind"
"Come on, it's no problem"
Sara followed her two new friends. "So, do you two like each other?" she innocently asked.
"Me like that uncute tomboy, you've got to be kidding" Ranma said.
"Well you are no better yourself, you pervert" Akane lunged her bag towards his head and he ducked easily.
"Nya..you can't get me" he stuck his tongue out and closed his eyes. Big mistake. Akane swung again and hit him right in the face. "Jerk. Come on Sarah"
"But shouldn't we--"
"Leave him, he can take care of himself"
Sarah walked passed Ranma, she heard him murmur uncute tomboy. *Yep, they are both in complete denial.* she thought as she followed Akane into the Tendo dojo.
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"We're home" yelled Akane. Sarah followed her to the dining room, she saw a woman with her long brown tied with a ribbon come out of the kitchen. "Hi Akane, I see you brought company?"
"Kasumi this is Sarah, Sarah this is my oldest sister Kasumi"
"Is a pleasure meeting you" said Kasumi
"The pleasure is all mine. I hope I'm not intruding"
"Oh, my. Not at all Sarah, please make yourself at home"
"Come on Sarah I'll show around the house" Sarah followed Akane around the house, they go to the dojo and Akane opened the door. Sarah saw Ranma doing a difficult kata. *Wow, he is good* she thought. Ranma finished and bowed towards the shrine. "Hey I didn't know you two were there?" He turned to face them. "Showoff" Akane whispered loud enough to be heard.
"Oh, give him a break Akane. If you were that good wouldn't you showoff?" Sarah asked. Akane was startled by the question, "I don't know....I guess I would" Akane found something very interesting on the floor.
"So you do martial arts for a hobby?" she asked Ranma
"No way! It's a way of life" he answered proudly.
"Do you know some martial arts, Sarah?" asked Akane
*Might as well start lying now* she thought "Yeah, but I only studied it for one year and that was six years ago. I probably forgot all about it, besides it doesn't really interest me."
Ranma and Akane looked at each other in shock. This is the first time they met somebody who is not interest in martial arts except for Nabiki and Kasumi.
"I think martial arts is very interesting" answered Ranma.
" Don't get me wrong Ranma. If it interest you and you like what you are doing then go for it. Personally I think it's boring. All that fighting for what? I just don't see it."
" Dinner is ready" Kasumi yelled.
"Oh good I'm hungry" Sarah stepped out of the dojo and left two confused martial artist behind.
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Sarah slid the door opened and found that there were new faces in the room. She already met Kasumi, but the two older men and the girl with short brown hair she hadn't seen.
"Oh, Sarah I like you to meet my father, Soun Tendo." Akane said .
"Nice to meet you" she shook his hand.
"And this is Ranma's father Genma Saotome"
"Pleasure to meet you Mr. Saotome"
"And this is my sister Nabiki"
"Everyone this is Sarah Mullar, I invited her over for dinner" Akane motioned Sarah to sit next to her.
"Wait a minute Sarah Mullar. From Mullar jewelry?" Nabiki asked.
"Yes, that's me. You've heard of me?"
"Heard of you! I'm your biggest fan. I mean running a business at such a young age. You are my idol, can I have your autograph?" Nabiki stared at Sarah like she was a goddess. Everyone in the room looked on in surprise.
"Well, I never had a fan, but I'll do better than give you my autograph. Why don't you spend a day at my office?" Nabiki couldn't believe one of the most successful person in the world asked her to spend a day at her office. She grabbed Sarah's hand and shook it violently.
"Oh, thank you, thank you. You don't know how much this means to me" Nabiki stopped and began eating her food.
*Okay that was weird* Sarah thought. Dinner went on as usual, Sarah shook her head as Ranma and his father battled for food. Sarah got up and excused herself to go to the restroom.
"So, Akane how did you ever manage to meet one of the richest people in the world?" asked Nabiki.
"Well, she literally ran into Ranma when we were walking home today. She was trying to get away from her fiancé"
*Well Ranma finally did something right. Now we have another couple who are probably in complete denial* Nabiki nodded to her sister and began eating again. She knew that her little sister and her fiancé were in love. Sure they denied it and insulted each other, but she knew that they never meant it. They never say their insults to each other in the face and they always apologize to each other after a fight. They heard a knock coming from the door.
"Oh, my. I wonder who that is" Kasumi got up and opened the door to reveal a blonde, hazel eyed young man standing outside.
"I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was wondering if a young woman with shoulder length golden brown hair and green eyes was here." He asked.
"Oh, you mean Sarah. Yes she was joining us for dinner would you like some tea?" Kasumi opened the door wider to let him.
"Thank you so much, but I just came to pick her up" he followed Kasumi into the dining room and introduced himself. Nabiki noticed that Sarah's fiancé was very handsome, but she felt uncomfortable, it was like he had no warmth at all.
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Sarah walked down the steps, she was happy she found this new friendship and family. They were real and they weren't acting. She smiled all the way down the stairs until she opened the door and found Tom standing there. *Oh, shit! Why? Why me?* she thought.
Akane looked up to see Sarah at the door. Tom turned around with an evil smile on his face. Akane noticed that the room got a bit colder.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Sarah's voice was like ice and her eyes were cold.
"You greet me with such warmth Sarah"
"How did you find me Tom?"
"I have my connections" he answered and stepped closer to her. Sarah avoided him and sat down, her back turned to him.
"In other words you had your little spies to look for me"
"Come on Sarah, stop acting like a child and go home"
"No! You can't tell me what to do" She gave him a cold stare.
"Dammit Sarah! You are such an idiot. You are so dumb, childish, stupid, ignorant,......." Tom kept calling her names. She turned around and rolled her eyes up to the ceiling, shaking her head. Nabiki was stunned if it was Ranma insulting Akane he would have been flying high across Nerima.
*Why isn't Sarah doing anything? She is completely ignoring him* Akane was very confused.
"Are you listening to me, Sarah?" Tom saw that Sarah was eating and ignoring him.
"Did you say something? Oh, you are finished. Good, get out" she stood and faced him.
"What?!" he was shocked, he called her every name in the book, and she ignored him. He expected her to be angry and make a fool of herself, but she turned the tables around.
"YOU HEARD ME! I SAID GET THE HELL OUT!" she yelled and looked at him straight in the eye.
"You know something Sarah, I hate you" he still met her gaze. Everyone in the room drew in a sharp breath. Sarah didn't even flinch.
"Really same here, now why don't we stop this charade and break off the engagement"
"Bye, Sarah" with that he turned around and left.
"Damn him!" she turned to look at six shocked faces.
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*Man that was one big fight. At least she didn't hit him* Ranma thought. *But he told her he hated her* he wondered if Sarah was going to run off and cry somewhere.
"I apologize that you had to see that" Sarah calmly said as she sat down again.
"It's okay Sarah, Ranma and Akane fight all the time. Although Akane hits Ranma" Nabiki stated
"NABIKI!" Akane glared at her sister.
"I'm afraid that one of these days one of us is going to kill the other"
"Oh, my! Are you really having problems in your relationship?" asked Kasumi.
Sarah's shoulder started to shake, everyone in the house thought she was crying, until they heard her laughing. After a few minutes Sarah wiped her eyes.
"I'm sorry Kasumi, but Tom and I in a relationship? Never! Hell will freeze over if that ever happens" she said.
" But he is your fiancé. You did choose him?" asked Mr. Tendo
"No it's arranged just like your daughter's engagement. You see my father and his father wanted to merge companies, and to bond that merge he engaged me to Tom. Anyways Tom and I refused, we obviously didn't love each other, but his dad's business was going down the drain. He took Tom on a vacation and I suspect that's when he told him that business was really bad and the only way he could save it was by merging the business. You see Tom is a greedy, son of a .....um sorry. Well let's just say that he doesn't want to marry me out of love, but money. Both of our parents died in a car accident and of course my father made Tom my guardian. I thought that with our parents death our engagement was over, I wasn't really that close with my father and so when my lawyer told me what he had done, I was furious. I told Tom that I didn't love him and that we should break it off, but being the greedy bastard that he is, he refused and I can't do anything about it, because he is my guardian. The good thing is that he has to wait until I turn 18 to marry me. I have one year left to get out of it."
"How long have you been engaged?" asked Nabiki.
"Two suffering years, it's getting late and I should start walking home". Sarah stood up.
"It was a pleasure to meet all of you and I really apologize for that scene, I'll try not to let it happen again"
"You shouldn't be walking alone at this time. Akane, Ranma please walk her home." Soun stated.
"Please, it's all right I have already bothered you enough."
"Really it's no problem. Come on Ranma" Akane got up and walked towards the door.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming" Ranma followed Akane.
"Thank you for that wonderful dinner. I'm sure I'll see you soon" Sarah walked around the table and gave each one of them a hug. To say that they were shocked was an understatement, they just sat there stunned. Ranma and Akane just stared with their mouths hanging open. "Bye, come on you two follow me" and with that the trio walked off.
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The moon was shining brightly on that cool night. Three teenagers were walking on the side walk, well two of the three, the third one was walking on the fence. His pigtail bouncing up and down.
"Ummm....why are you walking on the fence Ranma?" Sarah looked at him.
"To practice my balance" He answered, clasping his hand behind his head.
"Oh, you really take martial arts seriously. I used to, before things got complicated"
"What kinda of things?" asked Akane. She noticed that they were in the better part of town, houses that looked like palaces.
"I don't feel like talking about it, maybe someday I'll tell you. And here is my house" Ranma jumped down and stood beside Akane. Sarah went over the black box and punched the numbers of her code. She stood aside and the white gate slid open.
"Oh, good Tom isn't here. If he was, he would have been dead by morning" Sarah turned to them an evil grin appeared on her face.
"He lives here?" asked Ranma
"NO! Thank goodness! I would have killed him if he did. He lives down the street somewhere. I don't know...I went there once, but that's it. He usually comes here to yell at me and that's when I leave for my dad's office" she shook her head. "Well I would give you 'The Grand Tour' but I believe you have to wake up early tomorrow"
"Yeah, we have school" Ranma made a face to emphasize how much he hated that.
"Well. Anytime you two need time away from your parents, you can always crash here. I'll tell my butler your names and you can come anytime."
"Thank you" Akane said.
"I'll see you two later. Good night!" she gave Akane and Ranma a hug and walked into her house.
* That girl is definetly weird* Ranma thought as he followed Akane home.