Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma.

Authors Notes: Well I'm putting off my make up work to write this but who cares. Thanks for all the reviews, I'm glad you all like the story. I'm open to any and all suggestions that you guys have so go wild. And here we go…

Yesterday's Memory

It had been a week since Kyo had started going to school. He had thought about talking to Akane a few times, but she was always with Ranma and he didn't want to interrupt. As Kyo watched Akane, he noticed what Ranma had been talking about. Gone was his sweet girlfriend, and in her place was a violent woman. He noticed that Akane would yell at Ranma on a daily basis and hit him with a fairly large mallet when she didn't feel the yelling was affective. True, Ranma said and did many a stupid thing to warrant the yelling but the beating was rather much. Kyo was almost scared to go up to Akane, but he had decided that he needed to talk to her, weather Ranma was there or not.

It was lunch time and Ranma was sitting in the tree watching Akane and her friends eating lunch and listening to their "girl talk". It was rather annoying. Ranma figured that Kyo had the message that Akane didn't want to talk to him and therefore would never make a move to talk to her. Akane thought that Ranma was an idiot who didn't know what he was talking about. They were both right.

"Akane, can't I go talk to the guys for a while." Akane looked up at Ranma.

"No Ranma, right when you leave he'll come over and I'll be stuck talking to him!" Akane's friends could smell and Ranma and Akane fight from a mile away so they decided to get out of there while they had the chance.

"Akane, the guys not going to talk to ya'. He knows your engaged and he's probably over you anyway."

"That's not the point Ranma! Haven't you seen him? Are you that blind? He's always staring at me! Before school, in class, at lunch, after school all the time! And I know the second you walk away he's going to…" Akane was cut off by a small voice that came from behind her.

She knew it was him. Akane knew it was Kyo who had just called her. She looked at Ranma (who jumped out of the tree a while ago so he could fight face to face with Akane) and mouthed the words 'tell him to go away' to Ranma.

"Go away? Ok Akane if you want me to." And with that Ranma was off.

"No! That's not what I meant and you know it you jerk!"

"Um, Akane." The moment that was never supposed to come was here and Akane was not pleased. She mentally noted to pound Ranma when they got home. But she had to deal with this now. So Akane turned around and looked Kyo in the eyes for the first time in about 3 years. All the memories came back to her and she wasn't happy, but she wasn't going to cry, she wasn't going to let him see her cry.

"Akane, I want to apologize. My parents just up and moved. They didn't tell me. If I had known I would have told you. You know I would have."

"Did they not have phones or mail boxes where you went? You could have gotten in touch with me. There was no reason for you to go and never talk to me again! I went to your house after school that day and no one answered. So I thought that you went somewhere with your family. I lied to myself for 5 weeks. I kept telling myself that you would come back! That you wouldn't leave me…that you would keep your promise. That was the biggest thing Kyo, you broke your promise and you knew how much it meant to me."

"I couldn't help it! You knew that promise was important to me to!" Akane was crying now but she didn't realize it. She needed to tell him, she had to and that was the most important thing.

"If it was important to you would have contacted me! You would have gotten in touch! In three years I got nothing from you! What happened to you! What did I do to deserve that!"

Ranma had just run off from Akane felling very smart with the way that he got away. The feeling didn't last long. He was talking to the guys and then he heard the sound that he hated most. He heard Akane crying. Actually, she was yelling at Kyo but she was crying. Ranma hated it when Akane was right. The only thing he could do was run back over there and threaten Kyo off.

Kyo hadn't said anything to Akane. He didn't know what to say. She'd be angry if he said that he was scared to get in touch with her. He wasn't really scared of what he did to her. Kyo was about to answer Akane when Ranma showed up.

"I think you should leave." Ranma was standing behind Akane and Akane was just standing there looking at the ground.

"I'm not done talking to her." Kyo needed to tell Akane the truth.

"Oh, I think you are." Ranma cracked his knuckles to add effect.

"Ranma, go away." She hadn't lifted her head and she still had tears falling from her eyes but she wanted to hear what Kyo had to say.

"But Akane, he made you cry."

"I know Ranma! But I need to hear what he has to say! So just go away and mind your own business!"

Ok, so why didn't Kyo keep in touch and what is this promise that Akane is so worked up about? Well you're going to have to wait for a while cause I have to leave for school 5 minutes ago! Comments welcome. Bye!