Akane the Suicidal
Chapter 2
"DOC!!! IT'S AKANE, SHE-"
Tofu sighed, and looked up from his paperwork, "Ranma, really. I'm rather busy right now, and I believe you should be arriving at school about now..."
"AKANE'S BLEEDING!!!" Frantically, Ranma set the swooning Akane in front of the doctor. The good doctor glared at the girl.
"Hemmoraging from the nose, dazed expression... attempted an asprin overdose, did you?"
"IiiIiiI'm nOt goNnNa teEEEeeeellllLl youuUuuu," Akane replied in a drunken, sing-song voice.
Doctor Tofu rolled his eyes, "I guess Nabiki was right to have you build up a tolerence to asprin, in case you tried something like this..."
Akane snapped right to attention, "WHAT?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!?"
"Other than your nose bleed and the light headedness from the asprin thinning out your blood, you're gonna be okay."
"She's gonna be okay?" Ranma asked, incredulously, staring at Akane's bloody blouse and jumper.
"You mean I ruined one of Kasumi's delicious breakfasts with asprin powder?"
Tofu shrugged, "You have no one else to blame but yourself."
"Well, you could have told me this in advance!"
Ranma was having trouble grasping the surrealness of the scene. He wasn't really listening, as the doctor had a conversation with the bloody Akane, as if there was nothing wrong with it. No, the situation didn't strike him as odd at all.
He was feeling well too disturbed to muse on the concept of 'odd'.
"Akane... just tried to kill herself..." Ranma finally studdered, "and you're acting like this is normal..."
Tofu turned back to Ranma, almost forgetting about him, "Hmm? Oh, Akane does that quite often, you just have to be careful around her."
"O-often?" Ranma chocked out, turning back to an innocent looking Akane. What the Hell did his father get him into now?
Tofu chuckled at Ranma's surprise, "Believe it or not, she used to be worse! She used to be extremely depressed, on top of that. But with a couple of shiatsu points and a bit of hypnotism, she's calmed down a bit."
"YOU CALL THIS CALM?!?"
"Ranma, there's no need to raise your voice," Akane chided.
"Well, now she's only casual about trying to kill herself, she doesn't quite go out of her way to do so, nowadays," Tofu responded, before turning a smirk to the young girl, "Though, she is pretty obstinate about it. I guess you can't fault her tenacity."
"Do or die, I always say," Akane responded cheerfully.
Ranma dumby nodded, finally giving up trying to understand what was going on.
"We doubt we'll try the hypnotism again, didn't seem to work, really. She just became a little less constant about it. It gives everyone a little bit of a breather, though."
"Ah... um, why haven't you, you know... tried to have her committed, or something?"
"That's not funny, Ranma," Akane huffed, "And quit talking about me like I'm not here, you jerk!"
"Well, we tried that, until she attempted to asphixiate herself by holding her breath," Tofu's eyes widened a bit in admiration, "That surprised everyone. Usually you pass out before you get to that point, but Akane just kept holding on..."
"Insane, all of ya... insane," Ranma mumbled, pressing his fingers to his temples, "So everyone knows about this?"
"It's been going on for years."
"You guys shouldn't be so concerned about me, I can take care of myself, you know?"
"Yeah, take care of yourself to put yourself six feet under!"
Tofu then turned, and looked sternly at Akane, "Now, Akane, I want you to tell me the truth. Are there any other suicide plots you've initiated since last night that I don't know about?"
"Nope, not a one!" Akane replied easily.
"Look me in the eyes, are you telling the truth?" Tofu looked hard at Akane. It was several moments before the girl lowered her own eyes from the doctor's.
"No," Akane said with a defeated tone, "No, nothing yet."
Tofu smiled cheerfully, "Good! I'll tell you what, how about I drop you two off at school, so that you're not late?"
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"Now, please try to behave yourself, Akane," Tofu chided, as he dropped the two students off near the front gate of Furinkan High.
"Thanks for the ride, Dr. Tofu!" Akane cheered out, before turning to walk into the school. Ranma stared from the waving doctor, back to Akane, before shaking his head, and pursuing the girl.
As they approached the school gates, Ranma noticed something rather peculiar. An army of boys were standing at the front gate; all in various sports gear and protection. At Akane and Ranma's approach, their eyes lit up, and they all turned around to look at the school building. Ranma followed their gaze, and caught movement on the third floor.
"HERE HE COMES!" One of the boys shouted, still facing the school, and bracing himself for a battle.
"MAKE SURE THE GIRLS GET HER INSIDE BEFORE HE GETS OUT HERE!" A boy in a soccer outfit shouted.
"What the..." Ranma and Akane were rushed by a group of girls, frantically trying to ferry Akane off to the side.
"Quick! He's probably not expecting the side entrance today!" one girl exclaimed.
"We need to hur-" another girl started.
"HE'S HERE!" As one, the army of boys rushed towards the school, and Ranma was fairly suprised, when he saw the various members of the small army suddenly get thrown about by some force that collided with them, and was cutting through them like a tornado.
"KEEP KUNO AT BAY! WE STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN AKANE THROUGH THE GATES YET!" One of the girls shouted.
"Whoa, Kuno looks determined, today!"
"NO! IT'S TOO LATE!" Right as they were pushing through the gate, Ranma saw the army of boys completely part forcably by a young man in a kendo outfit, weilding a bokken with unbridled fury.
"AKANE TENDOU! TODAY IS THE DAY YOU MEET YOUR END, DEMONESS!!!"
"Good morning, Sempai!" Akane greeted, smiling at the oncoming danger. Deciding their skills were well too faulty to protect Akane, the other girls abandoned their classmate to her fate.
"FEEL MY RIGHTIOUS ANGER, FOUL CREATURE FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE DARKNESS!!!" Kuno's wooden sword descended upon Akane, who smiled with a closed eye expression, as if she were oblivious to the danger she was in.
::WHAM, BUMP!!!::
Akane blinked, and looked down to find Ranma's arms around her, having pulled her away from the swing. She looked over her shoulder, to find her fiancee with his foot still raised in the ax kick that punted Kuno right over the school. "HEY! THIS ISN'T YOUR FIGHT!"
Ranma ignored Akane's protest, and glared harshly at her, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HIM?!?"
"Oh, don't worry about upperclassmen Kuno, he's mostly harmless," Akane stated with a shrug, before looking down at Ranma's arms, "Um, can you let me go? We're getting wierd stares..."
They were getting weird stares, but it wasn't because of their position; this new kid just did away with Kuno, the best martial artist in the school, with no more than two hits with apparent ease.
"Did you see that?"
"Wow, he knocked Kuno into next week!"
"Man, all of us together could barely slow him down!"
"Let's just hope Akane doesn't get this new guy upset with her! I don't think we would be a challenge!"
"Okay," Ranma started again, after taking deep breaths to calm himself down. The breaths didn't work, "WHAT IS YOUR ISSUE, YOU FREAK?!?"
"Please, you're making a scene," Akane returned with a disapproving tone, and looking around nervously to the students watching the two of them.
"A SCENE?!? A *SCENE*?!? YOU JUST STOOD THERE WHILE A LUNATIC WAS ABOUT TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH! AND YOU TELL ME NOT TO CAUSE A SCENE?!? LISTEN, YOU PSYCHO-CHICK..."
"Watch it with the name calling!" Akane growled, pulling the mallet from a downed Ranma's head. She suddenly realized what she was holding, and gleefully positioned it over her head, at the soft spot of her cranium...
::THWAP::
Ranma glared with slitted eyes at Akane, while holding the mallet's head an inch from the top of Akanes with his right hand, just before it had impacted with her, "And exactly where did you get this from?"
Akane shrugged, before tossing the mallet away.
From the third floor balcony, Nabiki Tendou had to admit she was impressed. She knew that Akane would more than likely make it to school alive, but most likely at the cost of Ranma, himself.
"Hmm, it looks like Akane's new bodyguard may just work out, after all..."
Chapter 2
"DOC!!! IT'S AKANE, SHE-"
Tofu sighed, and looked up from his paperwork, "Ranma, really. I'm rather busy right now, and I believe you should be arriving at school about now..."
"AKANE'S BLEEDING!!!" Frantically, Ranma set the swooning Akane in front of the doctor. The good doctor glared at the girl.
"Hemmoraging from the nose, dazed expression... attempted an asprin overdose, did you?"
"IiiIiiI'm nOt goNnNa teEEEeeeellllLl youuUuuu," Akane replied in a drunken, sing-song voice.
Doctor Tofu rolled his eyes, "I guess Nabiki was right to have you build up a tolerence to asprin, in case you tried something like this..."
Akane snapped right to attention, "WHAT?!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!?"
"Other than your nose bleed and the light headedness from the asprin thinning out your blood, you're gonna be okay."
"She's gonna be okay?" Ranma asked, incredulously, staring at Akane's bloody blouse and jumper.
"You mean I ruined one of Kasumi's delicious breakfasts with asprin powder?"
Tofu shrugged, "You have no one else to blame but yourself."
"Well, you could have told me this in advance!"
Ranma was having trouble grasping the surrealness of the scene. He wasn't really listening, as the doctor had a conversation with the bloody Akane, as if there was nothing wrong with it. No, the situation didn't strike him as odd at all.
He was feeling well too disturbed to muse on the concept of 'odd'.
"Akane... just tried to kill herself..." Ranma finally studdered, "and you're acting like this is normal..."
Tofu turned back to Ranma, almost forgetting about him, "Hmm? Oh, Akane does that quite often, you just have to be careful around her."
"O-often?" Ranma chocked out, turning back to an innocent looking Akane. What the Hell did his father get him into now?
Tofu chuckled at Ranma's surprise, "Believe it or not, she used to be worse! She used to be extremely depressed, on top of that. But with a couple of shiatsu points and a bit of hypnotism, she's calmed down a bit."
"YOU CALL THIS CALM?!?"
"Ranma, there's no need to raise your voice," Akane chided.
"Well, now she's only casual about trying to kill herself, she doesn't quite go out of her way to do so, nowadays," Tofu responded, before turning a smirk to the young girl, "Though, she is pretty obstinate about it. I guess you can't fault her tenacity."
"Do or die, I always say," Akane responded cheerfully.
Ranma dumby nodded, finally giving up trying to understand what was going on.
"We doubt we'll try the hypnotism again, didn't seem to work, really. She just became a little less constant about it. It gives everyone a little bit of a breather, though."
"Ah... um, why haven't you, you know... tried to have her committed, or something?"
"That's not funny, Ranma," Akane huffed, "And quit talking about me like I'm not here, you jerk!"
"Well, we tried that, until she attempted to asphixiate herself by holding her breath," Tofu's eyes widened a bit in admiration, "That surprised everyone. Usually you pass out before you get to that point, but Akane just kept holding on..."
"Insane, all of ya... insane," Ranma mumbled, pressing his fingers to his temples, "So everyone knows about this?"
"It's been going on for years."
"You guys shouldn't be so concerned about me, I can take care of myself, you know?"
"Yeah, take care of yourself to put yourself six feet under!"
Tofu then turned, and looked sternly at Akane, "Now, Akane, I want you to tell me the truth. Are there any other suicide plots you've initiated since last night that I don't know about?"
"Nope, not a one!" Akane replied easily.
"Look me in the eyes, are you telling the truth?" Tofu looked hard at Akane. It was several moments before the girl lowered her own eyes from the doctor's.
"No," Akane said with a defeated tone, "No, nothing yet."
Tofu smiled cheerfully, "Good! I'll tell you what, how about I drop you two off at school, so that you're not late?"
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"Now, please try to behave yourself, Akane," Tofu chided, as he dropped the two students off near the front gate of Furinkan High.
"Thanks for the ride, Dr. Tofu!" Akane cheered out, before turning to walk into the school. Ranma stared from the waving doctor, back to Akane, before shaking his head, and pursuing the girl.
As they approached the school gates, Ranma noticed something rather peculiar. An army of boys were standing at the front gate; all in various sports gear and protection. At Akane and Ranma's approach, their eyes lit up, and they all turned around to look at the school building. Ranma followed their gaze, and caught movement on the third floor.
"HERE HE COMES!" One of the boys shouted, still facing the school, and bracing himself for a battle.
"MAKE SURE THE GIRLS GET HER INSIDE BEFORE HE GETS OUT HERE!" A boy in a soccer outfit shouted.
"What the..." Ranma and Akane were rushed by a group of girls, frantically trying to ferry Akane off to the side.
"Quick! He's probably not expecting the side entrance today!" one girl exclaimed.
"We need to hur-" another girl started.
"HE'S HERE!" As one, the army of boys rushed towards the school, and Ranma was fairly suprised, when he saw the various members of the small army suddenly get thrown about by some force that collided with them, and was cutting through them like a tornado.
"KEEP KUNO AT BAY! WE STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN AKANE THROUGH THE GATES YET!" One of the girls shouted.
"Whoa, Kuno looks determined, today!"
"NO! IT'S TOO LATE!" Right as they were pushing through the gate, Ranma saw the army of boys completely part forcably by a young man in a kendo outfit, weilding a bokken with unbridled fury.
"AKANE TENDOU! TODAY IS THE DAY YOU MEET YOUR END, DEMONESS!!!"
"Good morning, Sempai!" Akane greeted, smiling at the oncoming danger. Deciding their skills were well too faulty to protect Akane, the other girls abandoned their classmate to her fate.
"FEEL MY RIGHTIOUS ANGER, FOUL CREATURE FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE DARKNESS!!!" Kuno's wooden sword descended upon Akane, who smiled with a closed eye expression, as if she were oblivious to the danger she was in.
::WHAM, BUMP!!!::
Akane blinked, and looked down to find Ranma's arms around her, having pulled her away from the swing. She looked over her shoulder, to find her fiancee with his foot still raised in the ax kick that punted Kuno right over the school. "HEY! THIS ISN'T YOUR FIGHT!"
Ranma ignored Akane's protest, and glared harshly at her, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO HIM?!?"
"Oh, don't worry about upperclassmen Kuno, he's mostly harmless," Akane stated with a shrug, before looking down at Ranma's arms, "Um, can you let me go? We're getting wierd stares..."
They were getting weird stares, but it wasn't because of their position; this new kid just did away with Kuno, the best martial artist in the school, with no more than two hits with apparent ease.
"Did you see that?"
"Wow, he knocked Kuno into next week!"
"Man, all of us together could barely slow him down!"
"Let's just hope Akane doesn't get this new guy upset with her! I don't think we would be a challenge!"
"Okay," Ranma started again, after taking deep breaths to calm himself down. The breaths didn't work, "WHAT IS YOUR ISSUE, YOU FREAK?!?"
"Please, you're making a scene," Akane returned with a disapproving tone, and looking around nervously to the students watching the two of them.
"A SCENE?!? A *SCENE*?!? YOU JUST STOOD THERE WHILE A LUNATIC WAS ABOUT TO BEAT YOU TO DEATH! AND YOU TELL ME NOT TO CAUSE A SCENE?!? LISTEN, YOU PSYCHO-CHICK..."
"Watch it with the name calling!" Akane growled, pulling the mallet from a downed Ranma's head. She suddenly realized what she was holding, and gleefully positioned it over her head, at the soft spot of her cranium...
::THWAP::
Ranma glared with slitted eyes at Akane, while holding the mallet's head an inch from the top of Akanes with his right hand, just before it had impacted with her, "And exactly where did you get this from?"
Akane shrugged, before tossing the mallet away.
From the third floor balcony, Nabiki Tendou had to admit she was impressed. She knew that Akane would more than likely make it to school alive, but most likely at the cost of Ranma, himself.
"Hmm, it looks like Akane's new bodyguard may just work out, after all..."