Jingle Bells

Chapter 4: because of you I am cold part 1

Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma 1/2.

Ridikulous: I changed my penname from Kenka to Ridikulous.

Anyway…

Oh. My. God. I finally updated!!! How long has it been, oh my adoring fans? Probably 8 months?! I really can't believe it's been that long! But I couldn't write because my interest was pushed into a different track! Towards Harry Potter, tennis and going out with friends! GOMEN NASAI!!!! Okay, here's the first part of chapter four so that I can at least update…hope you guys like this!!!

Peers curiously around

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"My heart burns with fiery heat of my passion even if my body freezes out in the cold…and all for the smile of the most beautiful angel that God has ever created…"

Ryoga solemnly lifted his luminous eyes to the dark, cloudy and crying sky. Their depths were filled with an eternal longing for the beautiful girl that had captured his heart with her breathtaking smile and unbelievable character. She was everything to him. She was the reason he keeps on going through the miserable wasteland he calls life that she may notice him and realize that they were meant for one another.

Ryoga sighed heavily, his heart heavy with longing and unrequited love.

Akane-san…I wonder what you are doing now? He thought curiously, feeling miserable and lonely.

He was lost, as usual.

And the snow wasn't helping either. While Ryoga had been trekking up a rather high and woodsy hill, the sky had suddenly groaned as if in desolation and let loose a torrent of hail and snow, coating everything in brilliant whiteness and freezing every unprotected thing in its path. It also didn't help that lightning sizzled against the snow and thunder shattering like an enraged god.

Due to the only little bit of luck for the first time in weeks (he'd been chased by crazy dogs as P-chan, villagers had thought that he was a crazy monster as Ryoga and he had visited that village he had saved from a wild boar five times in just three days) Ryoga had quickly found shelter beneath a large, thick tree.

But Ryoga was still cold since his clothes didn't offer much warmth owing to the fact that they were torn and old and very dirty. He didn't have time to pick up branches and make a fire since everything was soaking wet already. Ryoga hugged himself tightly, wishing with every fiber of his being that he was back in Nerima, snuggled warmly in Akane's arms.

Even if he had to be P-chan.

Ryoga unfolded his arms and pulled his backpack closer. He took out a thick something from inside and vigilantly, almost reverently, unfolded that thick something. It was a bulky cerulean sweater. To be more precise, Akane's bulky cerulean sweater, which Ryoga had nicked the last time he was at Nerima when Akane had taken her nightly bath.

The sweater was in pristine condition and there wasn't – very surprisingly – a single crease. Scratch or visible damage to it while his own clothes, shoes, bandana and backpack were all torn and stained.

Ryoga had very painstakingly and obviously thought of Akane's sweater first before his well being.

Which was actually sweet, in a weird sort of way.

Ryoga nuzzled the soft sweater lovingly, imagining that Akane was beside him.

With a soft sigh, Ryoga leaned back against the rough inner surface of the tree, the sweater lying against his chest.

"Akane…"

Ryoga slowly closed his eyes, lulled by the chilliness of the blowing wind swirling outside his temporary shelter.

The sky opened a bit more and further snow plummeted from the heavens, coating the already coated earth.

Poor Ryoga had finally fallen asleep.

There was a low grumble and suddenly, lightning flashed hotly against the freezing sky, momentarily blinding before strategically hitting a lone tree on top of the high hill. The tree suddenly blazed with fire amidst all the blizzard.

Poor, poor Ryoga was suddenly warmer than he had anticipated.

Okay, how was that? I'm really sorry I haven't completed this entire chapter because I've been busy...really busy! So I decided to post the first part of chapter 4 instead so you guys won't be too impatient! Just pray that I'll finish the second part soon!

Ja bai bai! (for now, anyway!)