Chapter 4- Almost Over

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*huff huff* "Please Ranma. *huff huff* Please don't jump. *huff huff* I love you!" Akane was really tired. She had overexerted herself and now she was trying to plead with Ranma.

"Stay back! I need to do this. It'll solve all of the problems that just won't go away! They won't listen to reason and nothing makes sense. Everyone will be a lot happier without me!" Ranma was yelling.

"That's not true Ranma! I love you! Everyone would miss you. We can work on your problems together!" Akane had regained her breath mostly and all her tears had been cried out. Her eyes were red and there were dried tears on her face. Ranma's resolve was slowly dissolving. He couldn't stand to look at her face when she was so sad. Especially when he was the one causing all the pain in her eyes. He had to remember all the things that were happening in his life. His resolve returned and he looked down the bridge into the water away from Akane's gaze. "You can't fix everything! Some problems can't be solved without causing new, maybe worse problems! I'm sick and tired of everything!" Ranma stepped up to the edge again. Akane stepped forward yelling, "RANMA!"

Ranma immediately told her to stay back and to leave. There seemed to be no reasoning with Ranma in this insane state.

"RANMA!!!"

This time it wasn't Akane doing the yelling. Soun and Genma had shown up with Nabiki not too far behind.

"Ranma! As your father I demand you to get down and come over here!" Genma tried to take command of the situation

*snort* "Yeah right. I'm not listening to you! You've got to be BIGGEST reason for me doing this! I HATE YOU!"

"Ranma!" This time Soun tried. "Ranma! You can't jump! What about the unification of the schools? What about Akane?!"

"Akane can do better than me and I don't care about the unification of the schools." Ranma had a retort for everything they threw at him, until.

"Ranma? I'm sorry. Most of your suffering has been my fault. I saw how much Akane hated the idea of marrying you and I tried to push you away from her so she could move on in her life. I tried to have people watch you when you went out when I accepted that Akane might actually want to get married to you or at least just be in a relationship. I was a bit jealous. I've always been jealous of her but it didn't really hit me until I saw the way you two looked at each other. I was the one to arrange Ukyo and Shampoo to barge in on your date. But just to watch you and keep your relationship go too far too fast. If you jump, I just might jump after you." Nabiki had finally reached the bridge and just said whatever came out of her mouth. She had a serious tone but you could actually see a hint of tears in her eyes.

"Ranma, if you jump, I WILL jump." Akane was serious. If he went, she would follow.

"Ranma please, do it for your mother at least." Kasumi arrived and Nodoka was with her. Nodoka looked horrified.

"Ranma! I haven't seen you since you were but a child! Don't leave me now! I don't think I can take having to say good-bye again." Nodoka was openly crying, pleading with her son. Akane took a chance and stepped forward to Ranma.

"Ranma? Come down. Please."

"I guess you're right. Whoa!"

Ranma, miscalculation his step and slipped off the bridge and into the water he went. On the way down he hit his head on the bridge and was knocked out cold.

"RANMA!!!" Everyone screamed but all were too shocked to do anything. except Akane. Akane discarded her shoes and jumped in after Ranma, she said she would, right? Now everyone ran to the side of the bridge to see what's happening down there.

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A.N.- Well. I had it written. I was just to lazy to edit it all. I have no free time and when I did I didn't feel like updating. So.. I hope that people are reading this at least. I don't mind that not everyone reviews but I don't get ANY reviews.. An any of my stories. The only one I get reviews on occasionally is the one I DON'T want to work on! They don't even read the 'I'm not continuing this story' message and give me suggestions for it. Calm down Tootsie.. *breath* okay.. I think I'm better now. Sorry for the rant. It's just. I feel like no one even reads this much less like it! Oh well. review if you feel like it. thanks. I guess. Last part soon (I hope)