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Lavender Gaia: hope you like your part in here! I just put your name as Lavender... If you want me to change it feel free to e-mail me ok??? Or if you don't like it tell me too!!!
To everyone who shared info about Nadoka: ARIGATO!!!!!!! I never knew... I think I'm gonna keep it as is though, hope you all don't mind.
Special thanks:
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Well... Got that out of the way... so I won't take up much more of ya time!! Here's what you've all been waiting for!!!!
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Chapter 8!
The sunrays penetrated the darkness of the room, consequently and purposely waking up the sleeping person inside. Ranma groaned as light hit his face. Rolling over he momentarily avoided the annoying brightness, but his efforts were in vain however when the shoji slid open allowing light from the hallway to come flooding in.
Slowly he cracked an eye open and squinted as an illuminated figure came into focus. At first his mind thought it was Akane, seeing as it was always her that woke him up. However as the figure started to slowly approach him, he saw it was not Akane put Kasumi instead.
"Ohayo Ranma" she said as she bowed over him, smiling sweetly like she always does. Ranma sat up, stretching and yawning all the way. "Ohayo Kasumi-san. Where's um. . . . where's Akane?"
Kasumi stood up. "She's already downstairs, getting ready to leave." Ranma's eyes widened. "What? She's already leaving?" Kasumi noticed a tinge of sadness in Ranma's eyes as she moved to open the curtains, allowing the room to become fully lit. "Well she said something about leaving early for early morning duties, why?" Ranma looked away from Kasumi's questioning gaze. "Um, it's nothing." Kasumi smiled warmly at the back of Ranma's head.
"Don't worry about it." Ranma looked up at Kasumi as he stood. "Worry? Worry about what?" Kasumi continued to smile as she made her way to the door. "Just talk to her ok? She's upset, and I am too a bit, but don't fret over it. Make sure you think things through and be careful what you say to her. Both you and I know how she can get." Ranma stood there amazed. "You . . . you know what happened?" Ranma managed to croak out, a bit embarrassed for some strange reason.
Kasumi nodded. "I spoke with Akane and your mother last night, so don't worry, I'm not terribly upset with you, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't some what." Ranma nodded. "Okay, so get dressed, breakfast is waiting downstairs." Kasumi turned to leave but was stopped by the calling of her name. "Yes? What is it Ranma?" "Do you think-maybe-could you . . . tell me what you and Akane talked about?"
Kasumi thought for a moment, her neatly shaped brows knitted together in concentration as her hands rested on the shoji door. "You know Ranma, I think it's best that I didn't. I think that's something you'd have to ask Akane yourself." Ranma sighed. "Sorry Ranma, this is something you have to figure out on your own."
Ranma nodded. "Yeah . . . sorry for asking." Kasumi shook her head. "Don't worry, there's nothing to be sorry about ne?" Ranma, again, nodded. "Well you'd better hurry up, school is going to start pretty soon." He smiled and followed her downstairs as the always welcoming smell of breakfast filled his nose.
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Akane sighed as she finished cleaning the dust from the chalkboard erasers. Placing them back on the ledge she looked down on herself to find that some of the chalk had managed to make it onto her shirt. Dusting herself off, she made her way over to the window, watching silently as the early students gathered around the courtyard to converse.
She leaned on the windowsill, leaning out of the frame slightly as a few birds flew by. "Careful Akane-chan!" Akane jumped and spun around quickly, placing a small hand over wildly beating heart. "Lavender-chan you scared me!" Lavender smiled slightly, running a hand through her brown hair. "Sorry, but, you scared me! I thought you were gonna fall out the window or something!" It was now Akane's turn to smile slightly. "Gomen . . ." Lavender's smile widened, her blue eyes twinkling brightly. "Don't worry about it!"
Lavender placed her bag down silently by the wall and started to make her way to the stacked up desks in the back of the room. Akane followed suit and the two began to set the desks in rows. "Why are you here Akane?" Caught off guard by the sudden question, she fumbled for words. "Well. . . uh. . . I thought I would come early to help you out . . . you know, with morning duties and all." Lavender looked at her. "Are you positive Akane- chan?" Akane looked up from the desk. "What are you talking about?" Lavender shook her head, her brown locks moving back and forth. "Nothing Akane-chan . . . um . . .thanks for the help, I didn't know Kohana wasn't going to make it."
Suddenly the door slid open violently, revealing a long-haired girl panting as she moved into the room. "Kohana! Are you ok?" Kohana nodded and made her way to a desk. Once she was seated she looked up at the clock towards the front of the room and let loose a sigh of relief. "Kohana?" She looked up. "Sorry Lavender! My brother was sick this morning and then I missed the buss here not to mention Hiro decided to eat my portion of breakfast. . ." "Ok, Kohana we get the point."
Akane and Lavender sat down at the same time across from each other in their assigned seats. Kohana opened her mouth to speak again but nothing came out when she noticed Akane. She stared at her a bit confused. "W-What is it Kohana-chan?" Akane blinked as Kohana continued to stare. "Sorry for staring" she said as she realized what she was doing, "But, what are you doing here?" She turned her attention back to the clock. "Shouldn't you be waking Ranma up right about now?"
Akane looked away suddenly as Lavender also looked to her for an answer. "Well uh. . ." she tried to think of an answer, not only for them, but for herself. Why had she come early? She told Kasumi that it was to help out but truth be told she didn't know who was on morning duties at all! Luckily for her Lavender and Kohana were on call. Still. . . she couldn't really understand why she wanted to leave so early. . .
"Akane?" Her head spun back around to meet the gazes of blue and black eyes. "Something happened between you and Ranma right?" Kohana had said it more as a statement than a question. "Well . . . I guess you could say that. Hm . . . I guess I came early to calm down and think. . ." Lavender smiled brightly. "Well if you want to talk about it. . . maybe Kohana and I could be of some help to you."
The bell rang suddenly, signaling that school had began. Kohana groaned and Lavender giggled, Kohana had once again forgot to do her homework. "NO!! I didn't even get to start it!!!!" Lavender patted Kohana's back as she wailed on about homework and how pointless it is. Akane couldn't help but giggle, however her giggling didn't last long as her two friends started to talk and laugh.
* Maybe today won't be so bad*
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Ranma trudged slowly into the school building, grumbling the whole way. He always hated school, he ad no use for it, or so he thought. If he was going to be the greatest martial artist in the world, what good was math going to do him? It would do him no good right? Right. Well, then again there is the fact that he might take over the Tendo dojo. If that were to happen he'd need to know math to take care of finances, which means that he would need math after all. Oh well what was the use . . . his father would have made him go anyways.
Subconsciously he made his way to the classroom that he considered to be his personal hell. Sighing he opened the door and walked in, his storm-blue eyes immediately met with two huge chocolate ones.
Akane stared back at him like a deer caught in headlights. She tried to tear her eyes away but for some odd reason she couldn't. Why was she acting like this? She should be angry with Ranma, not staring at him like some lovesick puppy! * That's right! I should be furious with him!* Again she tried to look elsewhere but her eyes just weren't listening to her demands. Ranma blushed suddenly and in a chain reaction Akane did too.
"Hm . . . what's going on here?"
Ranma spun around, finally breaking their eye contact. Akane quickly looked anywhere but Ranma's direction lest she start to stare at him again. * What is wrong with me???* She mentally started to scold herself as she heard someone make a sudden movement.
"Dai-chan!" Kohana nearly leapt out of her seat as she raced towards the boy standing behind Ranma. "Where were you this morning? I came over so we could walk to school together but you weren't there. I ended up walking with Hiro!" Kohana placed her hands on her hips and stared at him. "Baka. . . Did you forget?" Daisuke blinked "What?" "I had morning duties!" Daisuke looked thoughtful for a moment then looked at the short girl standing in front of him. "Ohhhhhhh." Kohana playfully hit him on the arm and the two of them made their way to their desks. Lavender sighed. "I swear, those two . . ."
Akane stared at the two (AN: geez...they sure do star a lot in this chapter huh?) Kohana was one of Akane's good friends and Daisuke was Ranma's. They were awfully alike, but Kohana was more . . . what word can we use . . . hyper? Yeah, that girl is VERY energetic. * Daisuke is too, I guess that's why they are such a good couple*
As Akane stared at them she felt some emotions stir inside of her. What was it . . . jealously? Envy? * Hm . . .* Her eyes began to wander and settled on Ranma who was two desks away from her. Did she envy Daisuke and Kohana's relationship? * No! what and I thinking?! And why am I once again staring at Ranma?* Suddenly a thought popped into her head and answered her previous questions. * Oh no . . . I . . . I can't actually . . . no. Oh course not. . . right?*
The sea of students that filled the room interrupted her thoughts. The final bell rang. She'd have to think about things later, school was now in session.
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Ah . . . Lunchtime!
Ranma smiled as everyone started taking out their lunches and the noise level of the room began to rise.
Ranma smiled even more. He loved lunchtime. If it were a class that you would be graded in he was sure he would have an A+, but unfortunately it wasn't. * Too bad though * he thought as he looked around. Everyone was eating inside today. * I wonder why? * he looked out of the window to his left only to see gray skies and rain running down the glass. His smiled returned to his face. * Finally, it's raining and I'm not outside to get drenched.*
His eyes traveled over the sea of uniforms. Everyone was eating and chatting merrily. His eyes finally stopped on a certain shorthaired girl. His lips twisted into a slight frown as he recounted the day's earlier events. She had been avoiding him so far and it was ruining his chances of talking to her. He turned so that his back was facing her. * What were they talking about this morning?*
"What's going on Ranma?" Ranma looked up only to be met with Daisuke's smirking face. Behind him stood Toshiya, Daisuke's newly transferred cousin, and next to Toshiya stood Hiro, a friend of Ranma and Kohana's twin brother.
"What's going on Ranma?" Ranma blinked and looked down at his un-touched bento. "What do you mean?" Daisuke and co sat down on the desks that surrounded the young man. "Well for starters you haven't touched your bento, it's usually gone by now. Also you looked deep in thought, never seen you like that before."
Ranma's eyes shot back to Daisuke's face. "What is that supposed to mean?" Daisuke laughed. "Nothing, nothing . . . just wondering what's going on. You've been staring at Akane all day." Ranma grunted and started shoving food in his mouth. "Don't worry about it Daisuke." Daisuke only eyed Ranma. "Something happened right?" Ranma chocked on whatever was in his mouth suddenly but managed to breathe after Toshiya started whapping him on the back.
Hiro eyed Daisuke. "You're starting to sound like my sister." Ranma recovered and looked at Daisuke. "Speaking of which, how are you two?" he asked, trying to change the subject. "Oh, we're fine . . . how are you and Akane?" Ranma again chocked on his food. "Haha, you thought you were getting out of that one huh?" Ranma glared at him. "What? You knew I was gonna ask that right? So, tell me everything."
"Me too."
"Me three."
Ranma looked at the three of them wearily. "Fine, fine." They started to crowd around him. "It all happened like this . . ."
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Akane felt eyes burning into her back. Was he staring at her again? She looked at her food meekly, he had been doing that all day. To make matters worse she had been avoiding him. She didn't really want to but, she felt she wasn't ready to talk yet, and until she was ready, she didn't want to be near him. It was just awkward for her at the moment.
"Akane? Isn't that great?"
Akane looked up to see Kohana's ever-energetic face lit up with happiness. "What? I'm sorry I wasn't listening." Kohana hugged Lavender tightly and squealed with delight. * Ok so she's not like me at all* "Lavender was accepted into the Miss Japan Beauty contest! Isn't that great? Now you guys can have fun together!" Lavender looked at Akane. "You mean you're in it too?" Akane nodded. "Yeah! This is great Lavender-chan! We'll have so much fun together."
* Maybe I'll stay in after all.*
Lavender smiled. "Great, then I guess I'll just head over there with you after school. Is that ok?" Akane nodded. "Yeah, it'll be fun to have someone to walk with for a change." Akane looked thoughtful for a moment. "Say, Lavender-chan? How did you get accepted? I mean, I thought after the initial sign ups they wouldn't accept anyone."
"Oh well, about that. You see I was kinda late in signing up and they put me on a waiting list. I guess someone got kicked out or something."
"Hmm. . . I guess we'll just see who it was after school."
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Akane went over the dance step for what seemed like the 598th time that day. She had it down and she was sure of it. After all, she was doing it with her eyes closed. "Oh man . ." Akane opened her eyes and saw Lavender staring off in some direction, her eyes dreamy like. "What? What is it?" She pointed a finger in the direction of two males, one was playing the piano and the other drums.
"Wow, those musicians are HOT!" Akane studied them a minute. "Yeah they are." "Do you think I could maybe get one a number from one of them? They look about our age." Akane continued to look at them. The one on the piano had short blondish hair, which seemed to be spiked up with various amounts of hair gel, and broad shoulders making him look the role of a pretty boy. The other one was hard to see, after all he was sitting behind a drum set.
"Oh! They're looking this way!!!! Akane, what should I do?" Akane blinked and indeed noticed that they were looking at Lavender. "Go talk to them! They look like they like you." Lavender looked at Akane and then at the boys. "Mmmm. . . ok here I go!" Just as practice ended Lavender made her way over to the boys who were also making their way towards her and Akane. Akane noticed the one that was on the piano was making his way towards her. Quickly she turned and began to walk away.
She looked back and saw Lavender talking to the boy that was on the drums with the other boy standing oddly to the side. * Sorry guy, but I don't really feel like talking to anyone right now.* With that she made her way to the locker room to change.
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Akane exited feeling simple and clean. She glanced around at all the people and noticed a certain brown haired girl who was usually accompanied by a purple haired girl standing alone. * Ukyo? Where's Shampoo? Shouldn't she be here too?*
"Hey Akane?" Akane jumped slightly "Oh Lavender-chan! Did you have a nice time talking to those boys?" she asked in a teasing voice. "Yeah, well, he was kinda boring but you know, his friend was asking about you!" Akane's smile faulted a bit. "Really?" "Yeah, but I told him you were taken. So don't worry. Hey, I gotta get home, I'll see you tomorrow ok?" Akane waved as Lavender sped off.
Akane turned her attention back to where Ukyo had been standing before and noticed that Shampoo was now with her, and she looked enraged. * what's got her so wound up?* Shampoo was arguing with the lady about something. Akane listened in, interested in what had the Chinese beauty so upset.
"How can Shampoo be kicked out contest!? Shampoo more pretty than Ugly girls here!" The lady winced. "I'm sorry Ms. uh, Shampoo, but you are supposed to be a citizen of Japan to enter this contest. I'm sorry but you're not," bravely the girl added on "plus you can't even speak proper Japanese." Shampoo was shocked for a moment the dropped into a fighting stance. "That it, Shampoo fight you!" The lady stared at Shampoo duly then turned to walk away. Shampoo was about to go after her when Ukyo suddenly held her back.
Shouts of "It's not worth it Sugar!" reached Akane's ears and she couldn't help but giggle.
Suddenly Akane felt someone's presence behind her. Slowly she turned around to see the person she was trying to avoid all day. "Ranma! What are you . . ." She looked around only to see Ukyo and Shampoo looking at the two of them.
"Ranma!"
"Ranma Honey!"
Quickly Akane grabbed Ranma's hand and made a mad dash in the other direction, Ukyo and Shampoo hot on their heels. "Akane? What are you. . ." "Shut up and follow me!" She continued to drag him along until she reached an opened janitor's closet. Stuffing Ranma inside she quickly slammed the door shut behind her and once footsteps were heard passing, she sighed a breath of relief.
Silence filled the tiny space that they were in. Through the darkness Akane glared at Ranma. "What are you doing here Ranma?" She was answered with silence. "Fine then, don't say anything." She stood. "Akane we need to talk." She sighed heavily and even in darkness Ranma could just imagine the tired look on her face. "Ranma, I'm not ready to talk yet. I . . . I gotta go." She found the knob after a couple of tries and tried to turn it but to no luck.
It was locked.
"What's the matter Akane?" Her eyes widened in the darkness.
"We're locked in."
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Ok and now it's time for me to give some thanks!
Lavender Gaia: hope you like your part in here! I just put your name as Lavender... If you want me to change it feel free to e-mail me ok??? Or if you don't like it tell me too!!!
To everyone who shared info about Nadoka: ARIGATO!!!!!!! I never knew... I think I'm gonna keep it as is though, hope you all don't mind.
Special thanks:
The-Real-Rosie-Gamgee: I was looking at my reviews and I noticed that you have reviewed almost every chapter!!!! You're so COOL! Thanks a bunch and just for that I'm awarding you 'special reviewer of the month!' * sends SROTM award* enjoy!!!!!
Well... Got that out of the way... so I won't take up much more of ya time!! Here's what you've all been waiting for!!!!
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Chapter 8!
The sunrays penetrated the darkness of the room, consequently and purposely waking up the sleeping person inside. Ranma groaned as light hit his face. Rolling over he momentarily avoided the annoying brightness, but his efforts were in vain however when the shoji slid open allowing light from the hallway to come flooding in.
Slowly he cracked an eye open and squinted as an illuminated figure came into focus. At first his mind thought it was Akane, seeing as it was always her that woke him up. However as the figure started to slowly approach him, he saw it was not Akane put Kasumi instead.
"Ohayo Ranma" she said as she bowed over him, smiling sweetly like she always does. Ranma sat up, stretching and yawning all the way. "Ohayo Kasumi-san. Where's um. . . . where's Akane?"
Kasumi stood up. "She's already downstairs, getting ready to leave." Ranma's eyes widened. "What? She's already leaving?" Kasumi noticed a tinge of sadness in Ranma's eyes as she moved to open the curtains, allowing the room to become fully lit. "Well she said something about leaving early for early morning duties, why?" Ranma looked away from Kasumi's questioning gaze. "Um, it's nothing." Kasumi smiled warmly at the back of Ranma's head.
"Don't worry about it." Ranma looked up at Kasumi as he stood. "Worry? Worry about what?" Kasumi continued to smile as she made her way to the door. "Just talk to her ok? She's upset, and I am too a bit, but don't fret over it. Make sure you think things through and be careful what you say to her. Both you and I know how she can get." Ranma stood there amazed. "You . . . you know what happened?" Ranma managed to croak out, a bit embarrassed for some strange reason.
Kasumi nodded. "I spoke with Akane and your mother last night, so don't worry, I'm not terribly upset with you, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't some what." Ranma nodded. "Okay, so get dressed, breakfast is waiting downstairs." Kasumi turned to leave but was stopped by the calling of her name. "Yes? What is it Ranma?" "Do you think-maybe-could you . . . tell me what you and Akane talked about?"
Kasumi thought for a moment, her neatly shaped brows knitted together in concentration as her hands rested on the shoji door. "You know Ranma, I think it's best that I didn't. I think that's something you'd have to ask Akane yourself." Ranma sighed. "Sorry Ranma, this is something you have to figure out on your own."
Ranma nodded. "Yeah . . . sorry for asking." Kasumi shook her head. "Don't worry, there's nothing to be sorry about ne?" Ranma, again, nodded. "Well you'd better hurry up, school is going to start pretty soon." He smiled and followed her downstairs as the always welcoming smell of breakfast filled his nose.
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Akane sighed as she finished cleaning the dust from the chalkboard erasers. Placing them back on the ledge she looked down on herself to find that some of the chalk had managed to make it onto her shirt. Dusting herself off, she made her way over to the window, watching silently as the early students gathered around the courtyard to converse.
She leaned on the windowsill, leaning out of the frame slightly as a few birds flew by. "Careful Akane-chan!" Akane jumped and spun around quickly, placing a small hand over wildly beating heart. "Lavender-chan you scared me!" Lavender smiled slightly, running a hand through her brown hair. "Sorry, but, you scared me! I thought you were gonna fall out the window or something!" It was now Akane's turn to smile slightly. "Gomen . . ." Lavender's smile widened, her blue eyes twinkling brightly. "Don't worry about it!"
Lavender placed her bag down silently by the wall and started to make her way to the stacked up desks in the back of the room. Akane followed suit and the two began to set the desks in rows. "Why are you here Akane?" Caught off guard by the sudden question, she fumbled for words. "Well. . . uh. . . I thought I would come early to help you out . . . you know, with morning duties and all." Lavender looked at her. "Are you positive Akane- chan?" Akane looked up from the desk. "What are you talking about?" Lavender shook her head, her brown locks moving back and forth. "Nothing Akane-chan . . . um . . .thanks for the help, I didn't know Kohana wasn't going to make it."
Suddenly the door slid open violently, revealing a long-haired girl panting as she moved into the room. "Kohana! Are you ok?" Kohana nodded and made her way to a desk. Once she was seated she looked up at the clock towards the front of the room and let loose a sigh of relief. "Kohana?" She looked up. "Sorry Lavender! My brother was sick this morning and then I missed the buss here not to mention Hiro decided to eat my portion of breakfast. . ." "Ok, Kohana we get the point."
Akane and Lavender sat down at the same time across from each other in their assigned seats. Kohana opened her mouth to speak again but nothing came out when she noticed Akane. She stared at her a bit confused. "W-What is it Kohana-chan?" Akane blinked as Kohana continued to stare. "Sorry for staring" she said as she realized what she was doing, "But, what are you doing here?" She turned her attention back to the clock. "Shouldn't you be waking Ranma up right about now?"
Akane looked away suddenly as Lavender also looked to her for an answer. "Well uh. . ." she tried to think of an answer, not only for them, but for herself. Why had she come early? She told Kasumi that it was to help out but truth be told she didn't know who was on morning duties at all! Luckily for her Lavender and Kohana were on call. Still. . . she couldn't really understand why she wanted to leave so early. . .
"Akane?" Her head spun back around to meet the gazes of blue and black eyes. "Something happened between you and Ranma right?" Kohana had said it more as a statement than a question. "Well . . . I guess you could say that. Hm . . . I guess I came early to calm down and think. . ." Lavender smiled brightly. "Well if you want to talk about it. . . maybe Kohana and I could be of some help to you."
The bell rang suddenly, signaling that school had began. Kohana groaned and Lavender giggled, Kohana had once again forgot to do her homework. "NO!! I didn't even get to start it!!!!" Lavender patted Kohana's back as she wailed on about homework and how pointless it is. Akane couldn't help but giggle, however her giggling didn't last long as her two friends started to talk and laugh.
* Maybe today won't be so bad*
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Ranma trudged slowly into the school building, grumbling the whole way. He always hated school, he ad no use for it, or so he thought. If he was going to be the greatest martial artist in the world, what good was math going to do him? It would do him no good right? Right. Well, then again there is the fact that he might take over the Tendo dojo. If that were to happen he'd need to know math to take care of finances, which means that he would need math after all. Oh well what was the use . . . his father would have made him go anyways.
Subconsciously he made his way to the classroom that he considered to be his personal hell. Sighing he opened the door and walked in, his storm-blue eyes immediately met with two huge chocolate ones.
Akane stared back at him like a deer caught in headlights. She tried to tear her eyes away but for some odd reason she couldn't. Why was she acting like this? She should be angry with Ranma, not staring at him like some lovesick puppy! * That's right! I should be furious with him!* Again she tried to look elsewhere but her eyes just weren't listening to her demands. Ranma blushed suddenly and in a chain reaction Akane did too.
"Hm . . . what's going on here?"
Ranma spun around, finally breaking their eye contact. Akane quickly looked anywhere but Ranma's direction lest she start to stare at him again. * What is wrong with me???* She mentally started to scold herself as she heard someone make a sudden movement.
"Dai-chan!" Kohana nearly leapt out of her seat as she raced towards the boy standing behind Ranma. "Where were you this morning? I came over so we could walk to school together but you weren't there. I ended up walking with Hiro!" Kohana placed her hands on her hips and stared at him. "Baka. . . Did you forget?" Daisuke blinked "What?" "I had morning duties!" Daisuke looked thoughtful for a moment then looked at the short girl standing in front of him. "Ohhhhhhh." Kohana playfully hit him on the arm and the two of them made their way to their desks. Lavender sighed. "I swear, those two . . ."
Akane stared at the two (AN: geez...they sure do star a lot in this chapter huh?) Kohana was one of Akane's good friends and Daisuke was Ranma's. They were awfully alike, but Kohana was more . . . what word can we use . . . hyper? Yeah, that girl is VERY energetic. * Daisuke is too, I guess that's why they are such a good couple*
As Akane stared at them she felt some emotions stir inside of her. What was it . . . jealously? Envy? * Hm . . .* Her eyes began to wander and settled on Ranma who was two desks away from her. Did she envy Daisuke and Kohana's relationship? * No! what and I thinking?! And why am I once again staring at Ranma?* Suddenly a thought popped into her head and answered her previous questions. * Oh no . . . I . . . I can't actually . . . no. Oh course not. . . right?*
The sea of students that filled the room interrupted her thoughts. The final bell rang. She'd have to think about things later, school was now in session.
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Ah . . . Lunchtime!
Ranma smiled as everyone started taking out their lunches and the noise level of the room began to rise.
Ranma smiled even more. He loved lunchtime. If it were a class that you would be graded in he was sure he would have an A+, but unfortunately it wasn't. * Too bad though * he thought as he looked around. Everyone was eating inside today. * I wonder why? * he looked out of the window to his left only to see gray skies and rain running down the glass. His smiled returned to his face. * Finally, it's raining and I'm not outside to get drenched.*
His eyes traveled over the sea of uniforms. Everyone was eating and chatting merrily. His eyes finally stopped on a certain shorthaired girl. His lips twisted into a slight frown as he recounted the day's earlier events. She had been avoiding him so far and it was ruining his chances of talking to her. He turned so that his back was facing her. * What were they talking about this morning?*
"What's going on Ranma?" Ranma looked up only to be met with Daisuke's smirking face. Behind him stood Toshiya, Daisuke's newly transferred cousin, and next to Toshiya stood Hiro, a friend of Ranma and Kohana's twin brother.
"What's going on Ranma?" Ranma blinked and looked down at his un-touched bento. "What do you mean?" Daisuke and co sat down on the desks that surrounded the young man. "Well for starters you haven't touched your bento, it's usually gone by now. Also you looked deep in thought, never seen you like that before."
Ranma's eyes shot back to Daisuke's face. "What is that supposed to mean?" Daisuke laughed. "Nothing, nothing . . . just wondering what's going on. You've been staring at Akane all day." Ranma grunted and started shoving food in his mouth. "Don't worry about it Daisuke." Daisuke only eyed Ranma. "Something happened right?" Ranma chocked on whatever was in his mouth suddenly but managed to breathe after Toshiya started whapping him on the back.
Hiro eyed Daisuke. "You're starting to sound like my sister." Ranma recovered and looked at Daisuke. "Speaking of which, how are you two?" he asked, trying to change the subject. "Oh, we're fine . . . how are you and Akane?" Ranma again chocked on his food. "Haha, you thought you were getting out of that one huh?" Ranma glared at him. "What? You knew I was gonna ask that right? So, tell me everything."
"Me too."
"Me three."
Ranma looked at the three of them wearily. "Fine, fine." They started to crowd around him. "It all happened like this . . ."
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Akane felt eyes burning into her back. Was he staring at her again? She looked at her food meekly, he had been doing that all day. To make matters worse she had been avoiding him. She didn't really want to but, she felt she wasn't ready to talk yet, and until she was ready, she didn't want to be near him. It was just awkward for her at the moment.
"Akane? Isn't that great?"
Akane looked up to see Kohana's ever-energetic face lit up with happiness. "What? I'm sorry I wasn't listening." Kohana hugged Lavender tightly and squealed with delight. * Ok so she's not like me at all* "Lavender was accepted into the Miss Japan Beauty contest! Isn't that great? Now you guys can have fun together!" Lavender looked at Akane. "You mean you're in it too?" Akane nodded. "Yeah! This is great Lavender-chan! We'll have so much fun together."
* Maybe I'll stay in after all.*
Lavender smiled. "Great, then I guess I'll just head over there with you after school. Is that ok?" Akane nodded. "Yeah, it'll be fun to have someone to walk with for a change." Akane looked thoughtful for a moment. "Say, Lavender-chan? How did you get accepted? I mean, I thought after the initial sign ups they wouldn't accept anyone."
"Oh well, about that. You see I was kinda late in signing up and they put me on a waiting list. I guess someone got kicked out or something."
"Hmm. . . I guess we'll just see who it was after school."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ After school!!!!!!!!!*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Akane went over the dance step for what seemed like the 598th time that day. She had it down and she was sure of it. After all, she was doing it with her eyes closed. "Oh man . ." Akane opened her eyes and saw Lavender staring off in some direction, her eyes dreamy like. "What? What is it?" She pointed a finger in the direction of two males, one was playing the piano and the other drums.
"Wow, those musicians are HOT!" Akane studied them a minute. "Yeah they are." "Do you think I could maybe get one a number from one of them? They look about our age." Akane continued to look at them. The one on the piano had short blondish hair, which seemed to be spiked up with various amounts of hair gel, and broad shoulders making him look the role of a pretty boy. The other one was hard to see, after all he was sitting behind a drum set.
"Oh! They're looking this way!!!! Akane, what should I do?" Akane blinked and indeed noticed that they were looking at Lavender. "Go talk to them! They look like they like you." Lavender looked at Akane and then at the boys. "Mmmm. . . ok here I go!" Just as practice ended Lavender made her way over to the boys who were also making their way towards her and Akane. Akane noticed the one that was on the piano was making his way towards her. Quickly she turned and began to walk away.
She looked back and saw Lavender talking to the boy that was on the drums with the other boy standing oddly to the side. * Sorry guy, but I don't really feel like talking to anyone right now.* With that she made her way to the locker room to change.
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Akane exited feeling simple and clean. She glanced around at all the people and noticed a certain brown haired girl who was usually accompanied by a purple haired girl standing alone. * Ukyo? Where's Shampoo? Shouldn't she be here too?*
"Hey Akane?" Akane jumped slightly "Oh Lavender-chan! Did you have a nice time talking to those boys?" she asked in a teasing voice. "Yeah, well, he was kinda boring but you know, his friend was asking about you!" Akane's smile faulted a bit. "Really?" "Yeah, but I told him you were taken. So don't worry. Hey, I gotta get home, I'll see you tomorrow ok?" Akane waved as Lavender sped off.
Akane turned her attention back to where Ukyo had been standing before and noticed that Shampoo was now with her, and she looked enraged. * what's got her so wound up?* Shampoo was arguing with the lady about something. Akane listened in, interested in what had the Chinese beauty so upset.
"How can Shampoo be kicked out contest!? Shampoo more pretty than Ugly girls here!" The lady winced. "I'm sorry Ms. uh, Shampoo, but you are supposed to be a citizen of Japan to enter this contest. I'm sorry but you're not," bravely the girl added on "plus you can't even speak proper Japanese." Shampoo was shocked for a moment the dropped into a fighting stance. "That it, Shampoo fight you!" The lady stared at Shampoo duly then turned to walk away. Shampoo was about to go after her when Ukyo suddenly held her back.
Shouts of "It's not worth it Sugar!" reached Akane's ears and she couldn't help but giggle.
Suddenly Akane felt someone's presence behind her. Slowly she turned around to see the person she was trying to avoid all day. "Ranma! What are you . . ." She looked around only to see Ukyo and Shampoo looking at the two of them.
"Ranma!"
"Ranma Honey!"
Quickly Akane grabbed Ranma's hand and made a mad dash in the other direction, Ukyo and Shampoo hot on their heels. "Akane? What are you. . ." "Shut up and follow me!" She continued to drag him along until she reached an opened janitor's closet. Stuffing Ranma inside she quickly slammed the door shut behind her and once footsteps were heard passing, she sighed a breath of relief.
Silence filled the tiny space that they were in. Through the darkness Akane glared at Ranma. "What are you doing here Ranma?" She was answered with silence. "Fine then, don't say anything." She stood. "Akane we need to talk." She sighed heavily and even in darkness Ranma could just imagine the tired look on her face. "Ranma, I'm not ready to talk yet. I . . . I gotta go." She found the knob after a couple of tries and tried to turn it but to no luck.
It was locked.
"What's the matter Akane?" Her eyes widened in the darkness.
"We're locked in."
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KTKG: YAY!!!! It's done! So how did you guys like it? Was it long enough this time? I had fun writing this chapter. SO! You guys know what to do! C'mon! Help me reach 100 reviews; I'm almost there!!!!!!
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