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Chapter Nine: Akane
"This won't be hard at all." I was so happy about this. As soon as I was sure Ranma was okay I went and started to make him dinner. I'll show him I can cook as well as any other girl he knows. I decided to make him dim sum again. Luckily I still had the ingredients. I began, but that's when he entered.
"Akane. Let me help you."
"Wh-what?" I barely even let that out too. Since when does he wish to help me?
"Lets start okay?" He came over to me and looked at what I had on the counter. "So it's dim sum again? Okay I think I can help you out." He said this so kindly. So warm. Not like him at all.
"I can do this alone and show you I'm a good cook." I will make this alone and show him I don't need help!
"Akane. I don't want a good cook. I want a good meal. What is the reason you cook?" He never was so concerned ever before. He was so kind. I guess he's that way deep down.
"I cook to show you I can cook well."
"But I want you to cook for yourself and not to prove something to me. You don't really have to do that." Ranma picked up the pork and began chopping it up.
"Is that it?" I never really thought that he didn't care about it. I didn't think he cared at all for me all that much anyway. That kiss back at the beach though. He cared about me then.
"No. Akane the best ingredient is love. At least that's what I've come to understand. When you cook with love you end up with better food it seems." He said with a shrug. It sounds right what he said, but I don't want to take lessons from him. Though he was right. "So you have to cook because you want the person to feel special, not to make yourself feel that way. Anyone who tries to be better than another at cooking tend to mess up their meals because they get caught up in something else. Like that time I fought in that cheerleading battle. I was so hung up on saying I, er, well you know. Anyway I was so hung up on that I almost lost the fight." I wanted him to say he loved me right then. Even if he didn't mean it he could have said the words. Besides that matter Ranma was right. I need to cook this meal for him, and not because I want to prove I can cook for him. That way I get the same results
"Okay Ranma then can we start?" I was anxious now.
"Okay let's see what you can do tomboy." I hit him right there over the head. Why'd he have to ruin the best moment we've had in awhile. That's Ranma in a nutshell. He never knows what's going on, and he never can act sensitive at all. Though he expects it from me. I'm happy to give it though as long as he appreciates it.
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I don't know why, but I wrote Chapter Ten: Akane. I think this one will be a better point to leave off. If I'm gonna retire for the moment from this fanfic, I think #10 will be the best choice.