Kayla the kawaii gurl says: Wow… please don't kill me… I know it's been forever and I'm really really SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope everyone out there isn't terribly upset with me… I was really busy but you know what? School is out and I have all the time in the world to write!!!! I hope you guys enjoy this!

Disclaimer: I, Kayla the kawaii gurl, do not (and I repeat) do NOT own Ranma ½. If I did… I would be rolling (literally) in dough… but I don't…. one of these days though MUAHAHAHAHA! J/k DON'T SUE!

Chapter 12~!

Akane shifted in the car seat, trying to make herself comfortable so that the seat belt wasn't digging into her neck. When she finally found a comfy way to sit, she shifted yet again, but not because of physical discomfort. Jun was staring at her every couple of seconds and it was making her feel … well… weird. She wasn't looking at him but she knew he was eyeing her from the driver's seat.

"…so I was like, no it doesn't go like that, try it again and he did but that time it sounded perfect…" Akane turned her gaze away from the window and looked at him, relieved that his gaze was now focused on the road. He had been talking. About what, she didn't know. He laughed suddenly and she joined in, not wanting him to discover that she wasn't listening.

He stopped and started talking again, and she remained still in the seat, smiling as not to be rude. Boy, this guy sure did talk a lot. ARUGH! He was eyeing her again! What was she, a piece of meat?

The car stopped and she looked through the windshield to see that they had reached the dojo. "So, Akane… what are you doing Saturday night?" Akane looked at him and smiled nervously. Was he asking her out on a date? * Oh, boy, just what I need. I hope Ranma isn't anywhere nearby. If he heard that poor Jun would be dead by now.*

She smiled apologetically and placed her hand on the door handle. "Sorry Jun-kun, but I'm going on a date with my boyfriend Saturday night." Jun gave her a weird look as she stepped out of the car. Just as she shut the door he called her name out, making her look down at him. "Could I treat you to ice cream sometime?"

She forced another smile. This guy just didn't give up did he? "Um… I'll think about it ok?" She hurriedly ran towards the entrance waving quickly as she ran inside. She hid from view until she heard the sound of his car driving away.

She stood there thinking about Jun's behavior. Surely he knew about her and Ranma. Well, he probably didn't know it was Ranma, but he had to know that she was involved with someone! After all, Lavender had said that she told him she was already seeing someone.

She smiled slightly. She had called Ranma her boyfriend. The word was a bit foreign to her but she was positive that over time she would definantly have no problem saying it. She thought for a moment. Had Ranma told any of his friends that they were really officially together? Hm… if he did, Daisuke or Hiro would have said something to her, but they hadn't so maybe he hasn't told anyone.

She turned on her heel and continued to think. Hm… what could have possibly made Jun think that she was available? He hadn't really talked to anybody she knew did he? Yeah, he only talked to Lavender… Lavender and Nabiki. NABIKI! She had been talking to him that night, plus she had mentioned some things to her about him that other day. It had to be her.

Akane started to run off in the direction of her sister's room and knocked on the door loudly, hoping that the action would pull the middle Tendo from whatever she was doing. She finished and awaited an answer, but to her mild surprise none came.

*That's odd* She looked at her watch. Nabiki should be home by now, counting her daily income. *Maybe she's sleeping or something...* Quietly she opened the door, feeling a bit bad that she was loud if her sister was indeed asleep. The door creaked a bit as it opened bit-by-bit, revealing Nabiki's well-kept room.

Akane looked around, careful to step over Nabiki's 'intruder alarm' that she herself had set off a couple of times, and noticed that her sibling was nowhere inside. *Where could she be?*

"Hey…"

Akane jumped suddenly and whirled around, coming face to face with a pair of storm-blue eyes. She sighed and placed a hand on her pounding heart; closing her eyes as she released the doorknob. Sometimes she hated it when he snuck up on her like that. "God Ranma, you scared me!"

He chuckled and stepped back as she closed the door to her sister's room. "Sorry… when did you get back? I was about to go get you." She smiled and started walking down the stairs. * I'm so glad you didn't…* "Oh… well… I got a ride. I thought you would be sleeping or something." He looked at her questioningly and asked the question she was dreading.

"Who'd you get a ride from?"

What should she do? Should she tell him it was Jun? * Why not? It's not like I did anything… it's just that he was eyeing me, that's all.* She looked at him and he was still waiting for an answer. * Ah, to hell with it.* "I got a ride from Jun. He was staying late and asked if I wanted a ride…" As she talked she watched his face intently, hoping that he wouldn't flip or anything.

It wasn't really like him to do such things, but then again the two hadn't really been in a real relationship before. She had heard some pretty scary stories about overly protective boyfriends and she could recall many a time that Ranma had been protective of her. Bah, what was she thinking!? Ranma isn't like that; he's not going to go crazy because of some stupid ride home.

"Oh, that's good. At least you didn't have to walk." He yawned and stretched, seating himself down on the second step. She silently sighed with relief at his reaction. She knew that he wasn't that kind of boyfriend. She looked at him and suddenly felt herself being pulled down by him and sat on the stair behind him, positioning her legs so that his torso rested in between them.

She felt bad for questioning him like that. Maybe it was just because this is the first real relationship that she has ever been in. Yeah, that's it. She was just confused about what to do when it came to other guys asking her out on dates. Looking at the back of his head, she sighed and had the sudden urge to play with his pigtail. 

"You ok?" "Huh?" He shifted slightly, placing his arms on her thighs to rest and leaned his head back so that it rested in her lap. "Are you ok?" He repeated again, looking into her upside down face. She smiled and pulled his bangs back. "Yeah, I'm fine. Why? Do I seem bothered or something?"

He lifted his head up a bit and she rested her's upon his, resting her arms on his shoulders. "Well, you're kinda quiet… nothing happened to you right?" She was silent for a few moments, which made him sit up and turn to look at her. "What? What happened?" She was begging to worry him with this whole not talking bit. For a minute, his mind began to wonder if the Vengeful Spirit Doll had possessed her again.

"Nothing happened… its well… it's just that I was kinda weirded out by the ride home from Jun." He locked eyes with her. "What happened?" She sighed and began playing with her nails. She should be honest with him right? "He kept looking at me the whole ride home… and then he asked me out…" His eyes widened and she added hurriedly "but I told him that my boyfriend and I had plans."

She could have sworn that he sighed with relief, and she raised an eyebrow. "What?" He chuckled and gave her that lopsided smile that always made her melt. "For a minute there I thought that you forgot that we're… well…" "Together?" She leaned in and pressed her forehead lightly against his. "How could I forget…"

They started to close the distance between their lips when suddenly footsteps where heard coming towards them and fast. Suddenly Ranma found himself on the floor, Akane on top of him and chocking him no less. "What the…?" was all that he managed to get out before Nabiki came strolling into the room.

"Looks like they're at it again… and here I was a hearing rumor that you two were actually getting along, and quite well might I add…" Akane's head snapped up at the comment. "Wha-what are you talking about?" She looked back at Ranma with a slightly worried face. He shrugged and she released his shirt from her hold.

"Well… at first I didn't believe it, so I asked Ranma and of course he denied it but…" Akane glanced sideways at Ranma and could see the slightly panicked look in his eyes. "But what?" Nabiki crossed her arms and leaned against the wall. "Well… like I said, when I asked him, he denied it… but he was blushing really bad… more than normally I would say. That kinda got me thinking, ya know, that maybe they are true…"

"What's the rumor?" Nabiki smirked at the two, Akane still pinning Ranma on the floor. "That you two have finally gotten together." Akane was silent for a moment. She looked at Ranma, who in turn locked eyes with her, and once she felt the blush forming on her cheeks, busted out laughing. "Me? With the pervert? Ha ha ha… you can't really believe that can you?"

Nabiki smirked yet again, making Ranma and Akane become nervous. "Really Akane-chan, you should work on your lying skills. That blush and nervous laughter is giving you away." She stepped closer to the two and kneeled so that she was at their level. "Eh? What are you talking about?" Nabiki still wasn't convinced. Well actually she was convinced… convinced that something was indeed going on that is, and she wanted details!

"You two might as well tell me what's going on. Besides, I know what you guys did last night on the roof…" She was just bluffing. She knew that they often met on the roof thanks to surveillance she had installed in the trees near by but she quit turning them on when they had stopped meeting a month ago.

"WHAT?! HOW'D YOU KNOW THAT!?" Akane could have pounded Ranma right then and there, but she just settled for a warning look instead. Of course it was too late, Nabiki had already figured it out.

"Ohh… so something happened did it?" The remained silent, too stubborn to answer her. Nabiki stood suddenly, catching their attention. "Okay, you two owe me… after all I could make a fortune off of this." Ranma was the first to pipe up. "What? Why do we owe you?" Nabiki looked at them over her shoulder. "You owe me because I'm keeping your relationship a secret… besides I doubt that the two of you would want to be married tomorrow if Mr. Saotome and Dad found out."

"Wait, how are you sure that that rumor is true?" "Hm, well, Ranma's little outburst just now confirmed it. Plus Akane, Ranma's had his hands on your hips the whole time and you haven't said a thing about it." Akane looked down at her side and for the first time discovered that Ranma's hands were indeed resting on her hips. She looked at him and he smiled sheepishly, a blush staining his face.

She closed her eyes and plopped her head down onto Ranma's chest. A muffled "how much" reached her ears and Nabiki turned back around. "Oh, you don't have to pay me anything… you just have to do a little favor for me." The two groaned. They should have known that she was going to say that. "What is it?" Ranma asked wearily, hoping she wasn't going to make him or Akane do something stupid.

"Well… I need you guys to do some posing for me." They looked at her, a bit confused. "Kuno has been making some generous offers; that is if I could fulfill some of the requests that he's made…" Their faces paled a bit. Kuno had made requests? "Don't worry, it's nothing bad. Maybe one of you two playing in the water together? Or how about volleyball? Maybe I could get one of you guys kissing… it shouldn't be a big deal now that you're an item." "NABIKI!"

"Hey… what can I say? When I said he was making generous offers, I meant it!"

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"I can't believe Kuno… what kind of a pervert is he?" Ranma splashed contently in the warm water of the furo, all too happy to be back in his male form. Nabiki had had them doing some strange things. For one pose she had them dressed in some samurai gear. Where she got it from he didn't want to know, and as for why Kuno wanted that, he sure as hell didn't want to know. He had just resigned himself to the fact that Kuno was just… well… odd.

He reluctantly pulled himself up and out of the furo. He dressed quickly as the cold air touched his bare chest and left the bathroom towards his room. Of course, not before taking a detour to the kitchen for one of Kasumi's cookies. Man how he loved those cookies. Maybe with some practice Akane could make him some.

He wasn't really paying attention, for he was busy munching happily away at his cookie as he slid open the door to his room, and failed to notice whom the other person in the room was. Once he looked up and registered the person's face, he nearly chocked on the little bit of cookie left in his mouth. 

"Akane?! What are you doing in my room? And in my futon?! Wait… don't you think that we're moving a bit fast? I mean… we've only been together officially for about a day or two…" She gave him a bored and somewhat sleepy look. "Ranma, shut up. Honestly, you would think I was here for that you perv." She stuck her tongue out at him playfully.

Ranma swallowed the rest of the cookie and sat down on his father's empty bedding. "Well then, what are you in here for?" She snuggled down into the bedding and smiled to herself. It smelled just like him. "Happosai totally trashed my room. Apparently he was looking for his stash that our dads took and gave back to the women."

He nodded and watched her snuggle some more. Hm, it must have happened while he was in the bath. "So they said that you're staying in here because you're my fiancée right?" She yawned, "bingo." He shook his head. "I should have known… Nabiki didn't squeal did she? They could be planning our wedding as we speak." She shook her head. "Not that I know of. So far so good." He yawned too, and climbed into his father's bedding.

"Well, I guess we should get some sleep." "mm…" she replied sleepily as she rolled over and lazily draped an arm across his chest. It was then that Ranma realized how close the futons were. They're dads must have pushed them together, which proves that they were planning something. "Those sneaky-" "Ranma, go to sleep."

He was silent for a moment as he studied her form in the dark. * Whatever… she seems ok with it…* He made himself comfortable, shifting around so that he was holding her to him and his head rested on top of hers. After a while, sleep began to tug at his eyes and he slowly began to drift off to sleep.

He smiled to himself. For once, he actually was glad that their parents had pulled something like this.

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KTKG: Ok, I'll leave it at that… sorry it's really short, and once again I'm really sorry that it's taken me forever to write this and get it posted.

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I promise that the next chapter will be better!!!!