Doki Doki - Turning Radius
By Prospero continuation of Doki Doki. Hope you like it. If not … my dorm is freezing and I'll burn any flames to keep warm.
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Disclaimer: Do I really need to say it?
Ranma ½ (its characters, themes, episodes, etc) all belong to Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video, and whoever else owns them. All I know is that I do not own them. I am not making a profit out of writing this, and I never will. As a writer, I respect the right of intellectual property and so I would never do anything to violate that right. This is just a fanfic. I love Ranma ½ and think that Rumiko Takahashi is the greatest. I also have one other thing to say.
Bwee!
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I'm grinning like an idiot. At least I think I am. Strange, normally I stop when I realize that, but for some reason I'm still grinning. I'm still grinning. I don't know if I've ever been this happy in my life.
It's the realization that Ucchan's lights have been out for a couple of hours that shakes me out of my stupor. I look around and idly brush off the pigeon that had started to nestle on my shoulder. Picking up my pack from where I must have dropped it I head off. Left seems good enough for right now.
Thoughts race through my head as I walk down the deserted street. I'm so glad that I at least went to see Ukyo today. Even if I failed in doing what I had meant to do. But then I'd known I'd failed as soon as I looked into her eyes. She'd only sealed my fate.
Realizing that I'd gone several blocks I know I need to make a course change. Left seems to have worked out okay so I decide to stick with it for a while. After a couple of blocks I pass by the Tendo Dojo. So that's where it is! It's been a while since that's been my destination so I head on past.
I wonder how Akane's doing. Ranma too. Then I remember that I'd seen them earlier on the day. I'm about to bap myself on the head for forgetting, but I stop. I have a very good reason for forgetting. I can feel that the grin is back.
I feel an incredible urge to turn and so look around for something to help me decide on a direction. There's a supermarket to my right, and I shudder. It brings back too many memories of being chased by angry chefs. I head the other direction.
The grin is still there, but I decide to let it stay. It's kind of fun being happy. I remember the kiss. It was ... I shrug and give up trying to explain how the kiss was. It was indescribable. Right now I don't know if there is anything I'll ever do that will be as ... well as anything as that kiss was. "Wow."
Some people to my right are looking at me funny so I turn my back on them and head away, my smile fading somewhat.
My heart is beating steadily, much slower now than it was when I was with Ukyo. The grin returns to full force. I loved the feeling when she wrapped her arms around me, or was it the other way around? Anyway I loved how she felt so perfect in my arms.
I can feel the grin on my face going away, but this time it's replaced by a soft smile. I think back to that perfect moment when she kissed me and everything was right with the world. Until she shut the door in my face. I hadn't exactly expected that after that kiss. But then I hadn't been expecting much.
I can hear a little voice in my head screaming at me to turn here and so I do, absently sliding open the door to building and sitting down at a very long table set at about waist high.
I can't wait till the next tine I see Ukyo. I'm going to ask her out on a date. Sure we've done stuff together before but it almost always centered on Ranma and Akane. I just want to have a nice romantic night with Ukyo. A real date. "I'm going to ask Ukyo out." I think I can do it too. Thinking back on it I'm realizing that I didn't pass out after she kissed me. With my track record that's at least progress.
A soft snore coming from beside me startles me out of my thoughts. I wonder how Ukyo got to Osaka. I hear that little voice from before face fault, before I understand where I must be.
She's beautiful lying there with her head resting on her arms. She looks like a princess, and I suddenly get an idea.
Ever so gently I lean over her until our mouths are only centimeters apart. Then holding my breath I kiss her. Her eyes shoot open and focus quickly on mine and she starts to kiss me back.
She suddenly breaks off the kiss by sitting up. "What are you doing, Ryoga?"
I cut her off in the first way I can think of. I kiss her again. Anger flashes in her eyes for an instant before she wraps her arms around my shoulders. I sit down on one of the stools and pull her into my lap while we continue to kiss. My mind is on fire with the intensity of the emotions I'm feeling. The world explodes as we are forced to come up for air.
"Wow." She unknowingly repeats the only thing I could think of to describe our first kiss. I nod in agreement. She looks me in the eye once again. "You realize that I'm never going to let you out of my sight again don't you?" I can only nod, my brain's speech center having been overloaded.
I lean back towards her and if the kiss isn't as fierce as the one before it, it is even more meaningful. This time I am the one to break off the kiss and I stand up, setting Ukyo on a different stool as I walk towards the door.
"What are you doing, Ryoga?" She's repeating herself again.
I answer her by locking the door and walking back over to her. Picking her back up, I sit back down on the stool and set her on my lap. For the first time since seeing Ukyo sitting beside me I am able to speak. "Now where were we?"