Akane the Suicidal
Part 4
"Can you unchain me now? They're starting to chaff," Akane whined, struggling against her bonds.
"No."
"But I have to go to the bathroom!" Akane demanded, coming to still and looking innocently at the pigtailed boy.
"You went at school."
"But that was hours ago!" Akane pleaded, closing her legs tighter, as if to take off some of the pressure building.
"Then hold it."
"Really, you're being irrational!" Akane stated, giving an annoyed huff her bodyguard's seemingly overexaggerated precautions.
"So says the human lemming."
"Really Ranma," Akane griped, "Are you still on about that? It wasn't even a cliff!"
"No, just three stories, head first."
"Well, you been just standing around like that!" Akane retorted.
"You shouldn't have been falling three stories, head first like that."
"Ranma, why are you being such a jerk?"
The pigtailed martial artist in question looked towards the bound girl on the living room floor from the manga he was reading, "Gee, I dunno. Lemme think, Oh yeah! There seems to be a certain psycho-chick that I somehow managed to get engaged to, trying to kill herself in the most casual manners contrived. And lo', who get stuck with playing twenty-four hour suicide watch, much to his chagrin?" Ranma snorted, and began reading his manga again, "Is there a direct relation to the current attitude of martial artist extraoridinare, Ranma Saotome, and said events?"
"It's the truck, right?" Akane asked, "Well, I guess I could have warned you sooner..." Ranma's left eye twitched, but he kept reading his manga. Akane looked curiously at the boy, "How long have you had that nervous twitch?"
"When's your father getting back?" Ranma asked tersely, continuing to 'read' his manga upside down, like he had for the last twenty minutes.
Akane shrugged as much as she could in her bindings, "He's on a job for the local Yakuza, so there's no telling when-"
"YAKUZA?!?" Ranma shouted, dropping the manga he was reading.
Akane nodded, "Yup, not by his own intentions though."
"Let me guess," Ranma started, through gritted teeth, "You did something like walk onto their territory, and start throwing insults?"
"It seemed like a good idea, at the time," Akane replied, nonchilantly, "Hey, if you're not gonna read it, mind if I...?"
"Fine, whatever, here," Ranma tossed the magazine to Akane.
"Thanks!" the chipper girl replied, before realizing something, "Hey, aren't you going to free my hands?"
"No," Ranma replied.
"Akane, Akane, Akane," Nabiki's voice chided, as she removed her shoes at the front door, "I have to admit, that was pretty clever. Distracting both Ranma with a kiss, and the driver of the truck, who was no doubt shocked to see two young girls kissing in the middle of the street, so that neither of them realized the suicide attempt until it was almost too late. Even if Ranma hadn't pushed you out of the way at the last split second, I wouldn't have faulted him for falling for such a tactic."
"Oh, it was nothing, really," Akane stated, modestly.
"You mean, she PLANNED that?" Ranma screeched, before turning an infuriated glare towards the bound girl.
"Well, I did mean what I said, Ranma," Akane replied, sheepishly. Ranma growled in reply, before finding the wall an interesting inanimate object to intensely glare at.
"What are you doing, Ranma?" Nabiki asked, before walking behind the couch Ranma was sitting in, and staring at the same spot he was.
"Waiting for your Dad to get back from his Yakuza mission, so we can have a heart to heart talk about this engagement thing."
"Ah, Akane told you about that, huh?" Nabiki replied nonchilantly, "Good thing the head of this area went to school with Daddy when they were younger. Boy, was that a mess to get out of! We even got Yakuza protection, to boot!"
"You take this rather calmly," Ranma told Nabiki with a half lidded stare.
"Weirder things have happened here," Akane answered for her sister, "Ranma, you are going to untie me to eat, right? Then again, you don't HAVE to, for about three weeks approximately."
"You're not going to starve yourself, either," Ranma replied in a stern tone, "At least not until I'm off the hook. Nabiki, she's your sister, you watch her for a while. I'm going out to the dojo and practice until Dinner's ready."
Nabiki nodded to Ranma's back, before finding the manga in front of her sister, "Oh, new issue!"
"Hey! I was trying to read that!" Akane griped, indignantly.
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Ranma didn't really have his mind onhis training. At the moment, he was considering the girl he had met only yesterday, and her major defect. When he talked to Kasumi earlier that morning, he wasn't sure what she was talking about when she told him, "Remember, Akane really is a very nice girl, she just lacks any sense of self-preservation," but it was now highly apparent, much to his chagrin.
Kasumi's warning aside, Ranma would never suspected such a cute girl to have such a weird problem. The pigtailed boy sighed, deciding to just sit down and meditate. He didn't get very far in.
"Want to spar again?"
"Huh, wha?" Ranma stood up, and turned, to find Akane standing near him in her gi, "Wait a sec, who in the Hell let you free?"
"Kasumi," Akane replied, factually, "She couldn't stand to see me suffer."
Ranma sighed, and shook his head, "Akane, I gotta ask, why *are* you trying to kill yourself?"
The girl seemed to ponder it for a few seconds, before cheerfully replying, "No reason that I can fathom."
"No... reason at all?" Ranma asked, picking his face off the floor.
"For a martial artist, you sure are clumbsy," Akane chided, helping the boy up off the ground. Ranma paused a sec, as his eyes fell on her smile, and then gruffed, as he let go of her hand, and picked himself up the rest of the way.
"Forget it, I just want to meditate for a while," Ranma announced tersely, missing Akane's slight pout.
"Well, okay, I'll just work on my katas, then." The youngest Tendou daughter began her workout, while Ranma pulled himself into lotus position. Occationally, he would pause to give a quick glance towards Akane.
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"That was delicious, Kasumi!" Akane chirped, after finishing off her specialized finger-foods. Ranma surmised that they would not allow her to use eating utensils.
Akane asked to be excused, and announced she was going to go take a bath. As she left the room, every Tendou present turned to look at Ranma expectantly.
"Huh? What you want?" Ranma asked, innocently, wondering why he was getting the sudden attention.
"Akane isn't allowed to take baths alone," Nabiki informed Ranma.
The pigtailed boy's eyes went wide at the implications, "Wha? Oh, oh no, uh-uh!"
"It's okay, Ranma-kun," Kasumi consoled him, "You two will be married soon, after all."
"No way!"
"Say, Saotome, your son isn't..." Soun trailed off, glancing sideways at Ranma.
"That curse isn't effecting you in other ways, is it, boy?" Genma enquired with an edge in his voice.
"HEY!" Ranma shouted, preparing his defense, "It's just not right for a guy to look in on a girl like that, even if I am supposed to marry her!"
"It's alright, Ranma my boy! You have my permission!" Soun beamed.
"Hold on a sec, yesterday you were going to allow her to take a bath by herself!"
"Oh, don't be silly, Ranma-kun," Kasumi replied, "It usually takes more than four minutes for a person to drown. We had plenty of time."
"You're all weird, you know that?" Ranma replied in a monotone voice.
"Nonetheless, boy, you have a duty to your fiancee! And for the sake of the name of Saotome, you are obligated to meet that duty!" Genma commanded.
"You looking for another ass-whupping, Pop?" The younger Saotome growled.
"Er..."
"Kasumi, I'm out of clean clothes, could you lay out my best Sunday outfit, please?"
When Akane left for the bathroom, all heads turned back to Ranma with expectant looks. The pigtailed boy slumped, and groaned.
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Akane was just slipping into the tub, when the door opened, "Who is it?"
"I ain't here to peek, alright?" A familiar female voice called out. After several sounds of things being knocked over or bumped into, and a few strings of curses, a blindfolded Ranmachan entered the furo, "Okay, now don't try anything funny while I'm in here. Like trying to drown yourself, or something!"
Akane rolled her eyes at the spectacle, "You know? I was rather hoping I would be able to take a bath in private."
"Hey, it wasn't my idea!" Ranma retorted, "You family put me up to this! I mean, I respect your privacy, and don't think it's right for a guy to see his fiancee... I mean another girl in the buff until they're married, I mean if we ever, I mean if *they* ever get married. So I ain't looking at ya, alright?"
A couple of bubbles breaking the surface was Ranma's only reply.
"Akane? Hey Akane?" Ranma heard a few more bubbles, "You better be just farting in the tub, Akane. You gonna answer me?"
After a few moments of silence, Ranma called out again, "Akane?" Getting no answer for the final time, Ranma quickly removed her blindfold, and looked towards the tub, to find the water slowly swaying, with a few bubbles still breaking the surface.
"Cripes!" Ranma growled out, before rushing to the tub...
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"EEEK! PERVERT!"
::WHAM!!!::
After pausing, each member of the household shrugged, and went back to their business.
Part 4
"Can you unchain me now? They're starting to chaff," Akane whined, struggling against her bonds.
"No."
"But I have to go to the bathroom!" Akane demanded, coming to still and looking innocently at the pigtailed boy.
"You went at school."
"But that was hours ago!" Akane pleaded, closing her legs tighter, as if to take off some of the pressure building.
"Then hold it."
"Really, you're being irrational!" Akane stated, giving an annoyed huff her bodyguard's seemingly overexaggerated precautions.
"So says the human lemming."
"Really Ranma," Akane griped, "Are you still on about that? It wasn't even a cliff!"
"No, just three stories, head first."
"Well, you been just standing around like that!" Akane retorted.
"You shouldn't have been falling three stories, head first like that."
"Ranma, why are you being such a jerk?"
The pigtailed martial artist in question looked towards the bound girl on the living room floor from the manga he was reading, "Gee, I dunno. Lemme think, Oh yeah! There seems to be a certain psycho-chick that I somehow managed to get engaged to, trying to kill herself in the most casual manners contrived. And lo', who get stuck with playing twenty-four hour suicide watch, much to his chagrin?" Ranma snorted, and began reading his manga again, "Is there a direct relation to the current attitude of martial artist extraoridinare, Ranma Saotome, and said events?"
"It's the truck, right?" Akane asked, "Well, I guess I could have warned you sooner..." Ranma's left eye twitched, but he kept reading his manga. Akane looked curiously at the boy, "How long have you had that nervous twitch?"
"When's your father getting back?" Ranma asked tersely, continuing to 'read' his manga upside down, like he had for the last twenty minutes.
Akane shrugged as much as she could in her bindings, "He's on a job for the local Yakuza, so there's no telling when-"
"YAKUZA?!?" Ranma shouted, dropping the manga he was reading.
Akane nodded, "Yup, not by his own intentions though."
"Let me guess," Ranma started, through gritted teeth, "You did something like walk onto their territory, and start throwing insults?"
"It seemed like a good idea, at the time," Akane replied, nonchilantly, "Hey, if you're not gonna read it, mind if I...?"
"Fine, whatever, here," Ranma tossed the magazine to Akane.
"Thanks!" the chipper girl replied, before realizing something, "Hey, aren't you going to free my hands?"
"No," Ranma replied.
"Akane, Akane, Akane," Nabiki's voice chided, as she removed her shoes at the front door, "I have to admit, that was pretty clever. Distracting both Ranma with a kiss, and the driver of the truck, who was no doubt shocked to see two young girls kissing in the middle of the street, so that neither of them realized the suicide attempt until it was almost too late. Even if Ranma hadn't pushed you out of the way at the last split second, I wouldn't have faulted him for falling for such a tactic."
"Oh, it was nothing, really," Akane stated, modestly.
"You mean, she PLANNED that?" Ranma screeched, before turning an infuriated glare towards the bound girl.
"Well, I did mean what I said, Ranma," Akane replied, sheepishly. Ranma growled in reply, before finding the wall an interesting inanimate object to intensely glare at.
"What are you doing, Ranma?" Nabiki asked, before walking behind the couch Ranma was sitting in, and staring at the same spot he was.
"Waiting for your Dad to get back from his Yakuza mission, so we can have a heart to heart talk about this engagement thing."
"Ah, Akane told you about that, huh?" Nabiki replied nonchilantly, "Good thing the head of this area went to school with Daddy when they were younger. Boy, was that a mess to get out of! We even got Yakuza protection, to boot!"
"You take this rather calmly," Ranma told Nabiki with a half lidded stare.
"Weirder things have happened here," Akane answered for her sister, "Ranma, you are going to untie me to eat, right? Then again, you don't HAVE to, for about three weeks approximately."
"You're not going to starve yourself, either," Ranma replied in a stern tone, "At least not until I'm off the hook. Nabiki, she's your sister, you watch her for a while. I'm going out to the dojo and practice until Dinner's ready."
Nabiki nodded to Ranma's back, before finding the manga in front of her sister, "Oh, new issue!"
"Hey! I was trying to read that!" Akane griped, indignantly.
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Ranma didn't really have his mind onhis training. At the moment, he was considering the girl he had met only yesterday, and her major defect. When he talked to Kasumi earlier that morning, he wasn't sure what she was talking about when she told him, "Remember, Akane really is a very nice girl, she just lacks any sense of self-preservation," but it was now highly apparent, much to his chagrin.
Kasumi's warning aside, Ranma would never suspected such a cute girl to have such a weird problem. The pigtailed boy sighed, deciding to just sit down and meditate. He didn't get very far in.
"Want to spar again?"
"Huh, wha?" Ranma stood up, and turned, to find Akane standing near him in her gi, "Wait a sec, who in the Hell let you free?"
"Kasumi," Akane replied, factually, "She couldn't stand to see me suffer."
Ranma sighed, and shook his head, "Akane, I gotta ask, why *are* you trying to kill yourself?"
The girl seemed to ponder it for a few seconds, before cheerfully replying, "No reason that I can fathom."
"No... reason at all?" Ranma asked, picking his face off the floor.
"For a martial artist, you sure are clumbsy," Akane chided, helping the boy up off the ground. Ranma paused a sec, as his eyes fell on her smile, and then gruffed, as he let go of her hand, and picked himself up the rest of the way.
"Forget it, I just want to meditate for a while," Ranma announced tersely, missing Akane's slight pout.
"Well, okay, I'll just work on my katas, then." The youngest Tendou daughter began her workout, while Ranma pulled himself into lotus position. Occationally, he would pause to give a quick glance towards Akane.
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"That was delicious, Kasumi!" Akane chirped, after finishing off her specialized finger-foods. Ranma surmised that they would not allow her to use eating utensils.
Akane asked to be excused, and announced she was going to go take a bath. As she left the room, every Tendou present turned to look at Ranma expectantly.
"Huh? What you want?" Ranma asked, innocently, wondering why he was getting the sudden attention.
"Akane isn't allowed to take baths alone," Nabiki informed Ranma.
The pigtailed boy's eyes went wide at the implications, "Wha? Oh, oh no, uh-uh!"
"It's okay, Ranma-kun," Kasumi consoled him, "You two will be married soon, after all."
"No way!"
"Say, Saotome, your son isn't..." Soun trailed off, glancing sideways at Ranma.
"That curse isn't effecting you in other ways, is it, boy?" Genma enquired with an edge in his voice.
"HEY!" Ranma shouted, preparing his defense, "It's just not right for a guy to look in on a girl like that, even if I am supposed to marry her!"
"It's alright, Ranma my boy! You have my permission!" Soun beamed.
"Hold on a sec, yesterday you were going to allow her to take a bath by herself!"
"Oh, don't be silly, Ranma-kun," Kasumi replied, "It usually takes more than four minutes for a person to drown. We had plenty of time."
"You're all weird, you know that?" Ranma replied in a monotone voice.
"Nonetheless, boy, you have a duty to your fiancee! And for the sake of the name of Saotome, you are obligated to meet that duty!" Genma commanded.
"You looking for another ass-whupping, Pop?" The younger Saotome growled.
"Er..."
"Kasumi, I'm out of clean clothes, could you lay out my best Sunday outfit, please?"
When Akane left for the bathroom, all heads turned back to Ranma with expectant looks. The pigtailed boy slumped, and groaned.
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Akane was just slipping into the tub, when the door opened, "Who is it?"
"I ain't here to peek, alright?" A familiar female voice called out. After several sounds of things being knocked over or bumped into, and a few strings of curses, a blindfolded Ranmachan entered the furo, "Okay, now don't try anything funny while I'm in here. Like trying to drown yourself, or something!"
Akane rolled her eyes at the spectacle, "You know? I was rather hoping I would be able to take a bath in private."
"Hey, it wasn't my idea!" Ranma retorted, "You family put me up to this! I mean, I respect your privacy, and don't think it's right for a guy to see his fiancee... I mean another girl in the buff until they're married, I mean if we ever, I mean if *they* ever get married. So I ain't looking at ya, alright?"
A couple of bubbles breaking the surface was Ranma's only reply.
"Akane? Hey Akane?" Ranma heard a few more bubbles, "You better be just farting in the tub, Akane. You gonna answer me?"
After a few moments of silence, Ranma called out again, "Akane?" Getting no answer for the final time, Ranma quickly removed her blindfold, and looked towards the tub, to find the water slowly swaying, with a few bubbles still breaking the surface.
"Cripes!" Ranma growled out, before rushing to the tub...
___________________
"EEEK! PERVERT!"
::WHAM!!!::
After pausing, each member of the household shrugged, and went back to their business.