Legal Note: I do not own Ranma. If I did I wouldn't be writing this. I only wish I had the same luck. *Blink*
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Chapter Two: Ranma
I lunged for Akane who had just met the water. I needed to save her even if it meant going girl. I dived into the water wasting no time I got her from the bottom. We weren't too deep. Maybe nine feet down. I took her over my shoulder and used the support poles to jump back up onto the pier.
"Akane! Are you okay?" She didn't move. I laid her on her back as some people came forming a small crowd. "Crud. She's not breathing."
"I'll have to use that mouth to mouth resuscimacatatation thing." I leaned toward her face. I-I can't do this! It'd be like kissing her and I know I don't want that. Still, it's her life. "Okay then."
I did it. At least what I remembered. They taught this quickly at school once and I caught it in between naps. Her lips were soft. I felt my face blush as I did it. Luckily she began coughing up some water and breathing again. She didn't get up right away, but she was alive. I placed her cat doll on top of her as she came to.
"How's it feel to have it shoved in your face?" I couldn't help but smile.
"Ranma? You saved me?" I closed my eyes nodding. Still with smile. "Thank you Ranma." She sat up as the crowd left. Why'd she thank me? It's like she didn't expect me to save her.
"You okay now Akane?" I moved to get her panda not looking away from her in case she wasn't.
"Y-yeah." She stood coming over to me with her cat doll. "I'm just fine thanks to you." Again with this dumb thanks. I doubt she wanted to be saved at all.
"Akane?" She turned to me. She wanted to be able to go into the water and not drown. "Do you want to swim."
There was silence as we began walking. "Yes." She looked from me sighing. I handed her the panda. We walked to the beach before I decided to tell her.
"I'll help you then." We were stopped now.
"Y-you will Ranma? Thank you so much." She hugged me even though we were both girls. It was one of those nice hugs. Then she broke away.
"Okay then. Tomorrow I'll teach you to swim." I turned away embarrassed about the hug still. It shouldn't have ended. I walked a bit ahead so she wouldn't notice. We walked on down the beach for our temporary home.
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I must have rewritten this four times. This is the only one I can make sense of. Three is gonna be a hard one because neither of the two will have much talking and it sucks, but I'm gonna write it anyway.
Thanks to:
Xan
