I will always love you

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½. Just give me a break here!

Overview: Shampoo kidnaps Akane after Ranma tells her that he will never love her. Now when Akane's life is threatened can Ranma get there in time to save his one true love? R/A

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Ranma wondered the streets aimlessly. He had to get Akane back but how? He could try and go to Shampoo, but he didn't think that she would tell. He decided to go back to the spot where he had found her school bag. Maybe there would be a clue there.

As he picked through the debris something caught his eye. It was a ribbon, he had seen it before. Then it hit him, yes when he and Akane had been figure skating that pair from Kolhotz High school. That girl Azusa, she had a ribbon, it was a pink ribbon that she wore in here hair! That was the time . . . Ranma shuddered remembering the first kiss he ever got in his girl form. That jerk Mikado, he had kissed him with out warning. Ranma shook his head, that wasn't what was important, Akane was. He set off the Kolhotz high; he was going to get his Akane back.

As he approached the school he could hear people whispering about him. He guessed that they had not forgotten the whole martial arts figure skating thing. There must not be much that happens around here, that was months ago.

"I need to see Azusa and Mikado, NOW!" Ranma yelled to the closest person.

"Why should I?" the person said, she had obviously not been there for the competition.

"Do it Naoko, he is dangerous, he defeated our golden pair in martial arts figure skating," a girl yelled to her. The other girl gasped and ran off; Ranma hoped it was to find the two.

A few minutes later they came walking in confident strides.

"Where is she you bastards!" Ranma yelled at them, he was holding back tears again.

"Where is who, I can assure you that we have no clue what you are talking about. However if you wish for a rematch we will be happy to beat you. You might have beaten us before but you will not win again," Mikado said.

"All you can think about is a stupid rematch, where is Akane, I demand that you tell me," he said, he felt the tears stinging behind his eyes.

"I remember her, she was a pretty one, and I have not yet stolen her lips. But no . . ." he said not getting to finish his sentence, Ranma launched an attack.

"How dare you speak of my fiancée like that, you JERK!" he screamed launching a blind punch. Mikado was ready for this however and evaded Ranma's attack punching him in the gut. He doubled over in pain.

"I have not a clue what silly boy is talking about, did you steal someone Mikado?" Azusa asked.

"No, but his is no match for us, now come, lets us get back to class," Mikado said leaving.

Ranma looked up to him, the tears, he could no longer hold back, and then he saw something that caught his eye.

"Hey Azusa, where is your ribbon?" he asked.

"What! My ribbon is not here, where did I leave it?" she said looking around for it calling out all sorts of things, one being the name she named it.

"I know, and I will tell you as soon as you tell me where Akane is," he said holding up the ribbon.

"In have no idea where she is, my job was only to capture her, then my job was over, that's all," she said snatching the ribbon.

"Who hired you?" he asked.

"A girl, I didn't catch her name, all I know is that she goes to St. Hebereke School for Girls," Azusa said leaving in a hurry.

"I know that name, but from where?" Ranma said to himself. Then he remembered, "Oh no, not Kuno's crazy sister again!" he said exasperated.

He couldn't go on any more, he was tired and hungry, and he decided to go home. He went through the window. He didn't want to be interrogated again.

He lay on his bed, thinking of Akane. His last thought was, 'What if I never get to tell her how much I really love her?' Then he drifted off into a semi-peaceful slumber.

*Akane*

"So what do we have here?" a lady dressed in black carrying a ribbon like whip with her said.

"What do you want with me?" Akane asked.

"Well personally, I want you dead, this was Ranma could be all mine! But no, the one that hired me, she just wants you to suffer," she said.

"Who are you working for"? Akane asked.

"Why, Shampoo, I thought you would have guessed that. I mean she wants Ranma the most out of all of us. She is the only one that would go to this extreme," the lady said.

"And who are you?" Akane asked.

"My, my, aren't we pushy today, I will not tell you that. For all your questions you will be punished," the lady said whipping Akane making her scream in agony.

*Ranma*

Ranma woke in a cold sweat, Akane was being hurt. He sat there for a while, looking at the stars, hoping Akane was fairing wall. He looked over his room, there was a pack with a note on it, and it read:

Ranma,

We all know you must find our sister, and we all believe in you. Find her and keep her safe Ranma. Also tell her how you feel, she needs to know and I think you need to tell her. Take care brother.

Forever, Kasumi and Nabiki

Ranma smiled, they knew him well, he would tell her, as soon as he found her. He picked the pack up and looked out the window, he could see shooting star soar across the sky. He closed his eyes and said:

"Please, bring Akane back safe, I love her with all my heart and seeing her hurt is worse then a thousand deaths."

*Akane*

Akane cracked her eye open. She sat in a pool of her own blood, the cuts on her back bleeding. She looked at the sky from the small window she had. She saw a star shoot across it.

"Please, bring Ranma to me, I don't want to die without telling him, telling him how much I love him," she whispered before darkness consumed her.

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