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Takahashi.
Last chapter: Stopping at the porch, Kagome picked up her bow before racing to Akane's room.
Ch 4: The heart and dreams of the lonely one
_*_*_*_*_*Akane's room*_*_*_*_*_*_
"Mmmmm...." Akane groaned. She slowly opened her eyes. But her eyes hurt, and immediately shut them tightly. 'What's going on?' she thought, while making another attempt to open her eyes. After a minute she got them to open full way.
She was in her room, she realized after looking around her surroundings. Her book case in one corner. The desk next to her bed. The poster next to the door. And on the other side of the door was her school uniform.
She turned her head to face the opposite wall, but someone was sitting next to her bed. It was Ranma! No Ranma-chan! Ranma-chan gave her a smile when she looked at her.
"So you're awake? How ya feeling?" Ranma-chan asked.
"Terrible!" Akane answered. She groaned again and turned her head the other way.
Ranma-chan gave her a wry smile, but Akane didn't see. Right at that moment, Kagome opened the door. She was soaked, but she was smiling happily.
"Are you ok?" Kagome asked softly.
"No." Akane replied. She said with a defiant tone.
Kagome looked wearily at her. 'I hope she didn't remember anything that happened in the last 15 minutes.' she thought to herself. And let out a sigh.
Something in Akane snapped as she heard Kagome sigh. 'What happened? What in the world happened? Did something happen while I as unconscious? GOD! Did something happen between Kagome and Ranma? Ranma! Why do I have to loose you?!!!! Why!!!!!?' at the last thought, Akane began to silently cry her heart out. Ranma-chan and Kagome saw of course.
"What's wrong, Akane?" Ranma-chan asked gently. She would've put her hand on her shoulder, but she decided not to. 'Did something happen that I should know?' she thought to herself. "Please don't cry. Don't cry." Ranma- chan begged the still crying girl that lay on the bed. She was concerned (sp?) about Akane. It was in her experience that nothing good happened that would make a girl like her cry.
"Nothing! Leave me alone!" Akane protested feebly (sp?). And went back to crying. She curled herself to a ball, and sniffed a bit before she continued.
"But Akane! What's wrong?" Ranma-chan asked. She was doing her best to comfort her, but of no use.
"It's too hard to say." Akane said in a whisper. Ranma-chan was about to protest when Kagome put out a hand and stopped her.
"Fine. We'll leave you alone." Kagome said. Ranma-chan was about to protest, but fell silent. Ranma-chan got up and began to walk to the door, with Kagome by her side. "Night. Hope you feel better in the morning." And left Akane's room.
"Why?" Akane whispered. "Why? Why... do these things always happen to me?" She tried to answer her question, but all the answers were just, so fake. She shook her head, and slowly stopped crying. And fell into a deep sleep. And dreamt (sp?) the weirdest dream in her life.
_*_*_*_*_* Akane's dream *_*_*_*_*_*_
She was in a dark empty room. No, she wasn't' in a room, she was in some forest. It was night and the moon wasn't showing in the dark sky. The trees were tall, that was the only thing Akane could tell. There were no noises, in the area. No owl hooting, no cricket chirping, absolute silence. Something about it made her tense up. But she shook the feeling off. But she was still on guard.
She strained her eyes to see to their fullest extent in the blackened forest. Suddenly something caught her eye. It sparkled, and glowed a whitish-blue color. In an instant, Akane walked toward the strange glow. She stretched her arms and felt the trees blocking her path.
Slowly she was making progress. She was about 10 ft. away from the glow, when she heard something on the other side rustle. She let out a yelp, but she continued. Soon curiosity filled her mind. 'I wonder what that was. Maybe, I should investigate. Maybe someone's there. And they can tell me where I am and how to get me out of this place!' she quickened her pace.
Soon she reached the glow; it turned out to be a pond. Not just a pond but hundreds of ponds. 'What in the world is this place?' she asked herself. She turned her head to see if there was anything else that could tell her where she was. After a minute of searching Akane found a sign near a pound. She smiled a satisfied smile, 'finally some answers!' She walked toward the sign, but the light was to dim, to read the writing. Akane got annoyed after 5 minutes of trying to read the sign.
"This is no help!!" She shouted. It strangely echoed through the pounds. The water in them seemed to ripple. When Akane saw this, she wondered 'How can that be? I didn't say it that loud! Okay now this is weird! I better get myself out of here before something bad happens!'
Right at that moment, Akane heard the same rustling noise. Her body seemed to stiffen. "Who's there?!" Akane shouted/asked.
There was no answer. She asked again. After few seconds, which to her seemed like and eternity, something replied.
"Looooooooook....." it said. The voice was raspy, and cold. I didn't sound male or female.
At this Akane was freaked. She was filled with the emotions of fright, and comfort. (I know strange!! But u guys will know how this fits in later in the fic.) "Who are you!!!!!?" Akane shouted to the cold night air. It carried on for a whole minute before it faded. This wasn't natural, Akane knew. But she was too scared to really pay attention to it.
And again the voice replies "Loooooooooooooooooooook.............." And right on cue a strong wind blew towards Akane.
Akane was turned to face the other direction. She was facing the pounds. "N...nani?" And suddenly the area around her faded the sign, and the trees, into nothing. The only things left were the pounds. Slowly figures began to appear. It was hard for her to make out the people, but they materialized.
Akane walked towards them. She didn't notice it until now, that she was walking on the pounds. At each step the water rippled. "Nani?" Akane said as she saw this happen. She walked up to the point where she saw the figures clearly. They were Ranma and Kagome. When Akane identified who they were she gasped.
Akane watched as the scene began.
Ranma and Kagome split up. They were looking for something in the ground. Ranma was digging in the dirt, deeper and deeper the hole got, but he seemed to not find what he was looking for. Kagome was searching the area, just like Ranma she had no luck in finding the object that seemed to be hidden in the ground.
Akane couldn't hear what they were saying, but she could figure some phases that they spoke. She could see how they moved their mouths. She paid close attention to Ranma who seem to enjoy looking for the lost object, or he might've been enjoying Kagome's company. If so that hurt Akane's feelings.
Finally, Ranma found the lost object. And Ranma shouted to Kagome to come over. Kagome was excited and quickly ran over to Ranma. She tripped on a loose earth, and fell into the pound Ranma was pointing to. Right at that point the scene paused. Like someone had pushed the pause button, and the film just stopped. And after a minute of wondering, the scene slowly faded.
Akane was once again in the middle of no-where. She wasn't in a forest, wasn't in a room, she was in no-where. From what she could observe the place she was in was a wall less place. It didn't have an up or down, left or right, And nothing was there only she. It scared Akane, being in a place where there aren't any laws of gravity, any laws or rules at all. She shook her head, 'At least, she thought, 'there is air in this place.' And closed her eyes.
When she closed her eyes, she heard a rushing sound. Immediately she opened her eyes. The sight that met her eyes was, in some ways terrifying. Water was filling the entire space. 'How is that possible?!' Akane screamed in her mind. At that point she was thrown in the water. Akane blinked twice to get the water out. She gasped for air, and amazingly she could breathe.
Akane looked around her to see what was happening, and she saw a girl about her age drowning. She had her right hand trying to grab something for above her. Akane's eyes widened as she saw the girl. She swam desperately towards her, but she got no where. She could only watch helplessly at the scene that was unfolding.
The girls gave her last breath, watching the bubbles flout to the top. The girl was dead!
As the bubbles flouted to the top, Akane screamed. "How?! Why?!! Why couldn't she breathe, and I can?!! How?!! Why?!!!" she cried, but her words were drowned in the water. And Akane cried her heart out. Watching someone die, and you couldn't do anything to prevent it was horrifying! Akane tried to swim to the now dead body and for some strange reason now she could go to the body.
When Akane got there, she looked into the face of the drowned girl. She had closed her eyes, so Akane couldn't see them. But what she could see is that the girl was amazingly beautiful. In all of her life, Akane never saw a girl more beautiful then her. She closed her eyes and cried one tear, but as you know the tear just mixed with the water. When Akane opened her eyes, she found many bad cuts on the girl. It looked like she had been in a horrible battle, before she drowned.
'Oh, God! Who could do such a thing?!' she thought to herself. And silently cried.
And again the scene paused, and faded away.
Akane woke and screamed. But no one came. She looked at the clock; it was 6 in the morning. She set her clock down and fell back onto her bed. She placed a hand on her head and thought 'What? Was that only a dream? No it can't be! It was to real.' but Akane had her doubts. She shook her head and got up. She made her way to the living room.
_*_*_*_*_*Ranma and Kagome's view*_*_*_*_*_*_
As the two left Akane's room; they headed to Ranma's room.
"What do you think is happening to Akane?" Ranma asked the silent Kagome.
"I dunno. I think she'll tell us when she's ready." Kagome replied.
Finally they got to Ranma's room. Kagome set up her sleeping bag.
"Ranma, so do you still want to go to the grounds? Or stay here with Akane?" Kagome asked.
"I made a promise to you, and I'm going to keep it." Ranma replied in Sesshoumaru's famous monotone. Kagome nodded.
Genma was already in the room. He didn't notice that Ranma and Kagome was in, and just kept sleeping in his futon. As always Genma was in his panda form. Ranma sighed and shook his head. "Let's get some sleep. But Kagome can we leave later tomorrow? I want to get some things organized before we leave." And Kagome nodded.
They slept for the whole night, and it was morning now. And it was the time when Akane screamed. Ranma and Kagome got up at once. Ranma was about to run over to Akane's room, but decided not to. 'She needs time to herself.' he thought.
Kagome and Ranma looked at the still sleeping Genma. "What?!! Is this whole house deaf or something? Are they dead?" Kagome asked Ranma.
"I don't know. When we fought the youkai no heard us, and now no one heard Akane scream. I think they must have hearing problems, sleeping like a log, or they might be dead."
"Let's see." Kagome said and went over to Genma. She crouched down and poked him on the cheek. The only response was that Genma turned over. "Well, at least he's not dead."
They walked out and went into everyone room and poked them, and like Genma they turned over. "Now we know that they aren't dead." Kagome said.
And the two headed to the Living room.
_*_*_*_*_*Living room*_*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma and Kagome got there before Akane did. Ranma walked to the table and sat down. Kagome went to the shoji screen, and was looking at it.
"What's up?" Ranma asked.
"The door isn't broken!" Kagome said.
"So?"
"So, I remember last night that the door was ripped opened! And it's fixed. I know that none of us could've fixed it." Kagome opened the door to look outside. Nothing was broken! "Nani?! Nothing's broken! I remember that the wall was smashed! And the walls there and standing!"
"Nani?!" Ranma said and went to join his friend. He looked outside and saw what she meant. Ranma too remembered that the wall should be rubble. 'No one could've fixed it, in this short amount of time. What the hell is going on?'
Right at that moment Akane entered the room.
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A/N: Sorry for posting the chappie so late. Something was wrong with fanfic.net when I logged out, so I couldn't post up the chappie! I hoped u guys enjoyed this one; it took me some time to get everything down. And remember to review! And sorry for any spelling and grammar mistakes!
To Shinimegami: I know! But it's going to be Inu-yasha all the way after Kagome and Ranma go to the grounds. I thought it was appropriate to start with Ranma and then moving to Inu-yasha. I hope this clears things up for u.
And to tell u guys somein, the girls that drowned wasn't Kagome. It was the girl who made one of the cursed springs. And it's not the same spring as Ranma's, if so the curse wouldn't do anything to Kagome. And Kagome's goin to fall into the same spring the girl fell into.
And I'm still holding the contest! Again anyone who voted can't vote again! Stay in tune for the next chappie!
P.S. - This contest will continue for a long time until I write something that will put a pair together. And wanted to tell u that Ranma/Kagome is in the lead!
Last chapter: Stopping at the porch, Kagome picked up her bow before racing to Akane's room.
Ch 4: The heart and dreams of the lonely one
_*_*_*_*_*Akane's room*_*_*_*_*_*_
"Mmmmm...." Akane groaned. She slowly opened her eyes. But her eyes hurt, and immediately shut them tightly. 'What's going on?' she thought, while making another attempt to open her eyes. After a minute she got them to open full way.
She was in her room, she realized after looking around her surroundings. Her book case in one corner. The desk next to her bed. The poster next to the door. And on the other side of the door was her school uniform.
She turned her head to face the opposite wall, but someone was sitting next to her bed. It was Ranma! No Ranma-chan! Ranma-chan gave her a smile when she looked at her.
"So you're awake? How ya feeling?" Ranma-chan asked.
"Terrible!" Akane answered. She groaned again and turned her head the other way.
Ranma-chan gave her a wry smile, but Akane didn't see. Right at that moment, Kagome opened the door. She was soaked, but she was smiling happily.
"Are you ok?" Kagome asked softly.
"No." Akane replied. She said with a defiant tone.
Kagome looked wearily at her. 'I hope she didn't remember anything that happened in the last 15 minutes.' she thought to herself. And let out a sigh.
Something in Akane snapped as she heard Kagome sigh. 'What happened? What in the world happened? Did something happen while I as unconscious? GOD! Did something happen between Kagome and Ranma? Ranma! Why do I have to loose you?!!!! Why!!!!!?' at the last thought, Akane began to silently cry her heart out. Ranma-chan and Kagome saw of course.
"What's wrong, Akane?" Ranma-chan asked gently. She would've put her hand on her shoulder, but she decided not to. 'Did something happen that I should know?' she thought to herself. "Please don't cry. Don't cry." Ranma- chan begged the still crying girl that lay on the bed. She was concerned (sp?) about Akane. It was in her experience that nothing good happened that would make a girl like her cry.
"Nothing! Leave me alone!" Akane protested feebly (sp?). And went back to crying. She curled herself to a ball, and sniffed a bit before she continued.
"But Akane! What's wrong?" Ranma-chan asked. She was doing her best to comfort her, but of no use.
"It's too hard to say." Akane said in a whisper. Ranma-chan was about to protest when Kagome put out a hand and stopped her.
"Fine. We'll leave you alone." Kagome said. Ranma-chan was about to protest, but fell silent. Ranma-chan got up and began to walk to the door, with Kagome by her side. "Night. Hope you feel better in the morning." And left Akane's room.
"Why?" Akane whispered. "Why? Why... do these things always happen to me?" She tried to answer her question, but all the answers were just, so fake. She shook her head, and slowly stopped crying. And fell into a deep sleep. And dreamt (sp?) the weirdest dream in her life.
_*_*_*_*_* Akane's dream *_*_*_*_*_*_
She was in a dark empty room. No, she wasn't' in a room, she was in some forest. It was night and the moon wasn't showing in the dark sky. The trees were tall, that was the only thing Akane could tell. There were no noises, in the area. No owl hooting, no cricket chirping, absolute silence. Something about it made her tense up. But she shook the feeling off. But she was still on guard.
She strained her eyes to see to their fullest extent in the blackened forest. Suddenly something caught her eye. It sparkled, and glowed a whitish-blue color. In an instant, Akane walked toward the strange glow. She stretched her arms and felt the trees blocking her path.
Slowly she was making progress. She was about 10 ft. away from the glow, when she heard something on the other side rustle. She let out a yelp, but she continued. Soon curiosity filled her mind. 'I wonder what that was. Maybe, I should investigate. Maybe someone's there. And they can tell me where I am and how to get me out of this place!' she quickened her pace.
Soon she reached the glow; it turned out to be a pond. Not just a pond but hundreds of ponds. 'What in the world is this place?' she asked herself. She turned her head to see if there was anything else that could tell her where she was. After a minute of searching Akane found a sign near a pound. She smiled a satisfied smile, 'finally some answers!' She walked toward the sign, but the light was to dim, to read the writing. Akane got annoyed after 5 minutes of trying to read the sign.
"This is no help!!" She shouted. It strangely echoed through the pounds. The water in them seemed to ripple. When Akane saw this, she wondered 'How can that be? I didn't say it that loud! Okay now this is weird! I better get myself out of here before something bad happens!'
Right at that moment, Akane heard the same rustling noise. Her body seemed to stiffen. "Who's there?!" Akane shouted/asked.
There was no answer. She asked again. After few seconds, which to her seemed like and eternity, something replied.
"Looooooooook....." it said. The voice was raspy, and cold. I didn't sound male or female.
At this Akane was freaked. She was filled with the emotions of fright, and comfort. (I know strange!! But u guys will know how this fits in later in the fic.) "Who are you!!!!!?" Akane shouted to the cold night air. It carried on for a whole minute before it faded. This wasn't natural, Akane knew. But she was too scared to really pay attention to it.
And again the voice replies "Loooooooooooooooooooook.............." And right on cue a strong wind blew towards Akane.
Akane was turned to face the other direction. She was facing the pounds. "N...nani?" And suddenly the area around her faded the sign, and the trees, into nothing. The only things left were the pounds. Slowly figures began to appear. It was hard for her to make out the people, but they materialized.
Akane walked towards them. She didn't notice it until now, that she was walking on the pounds. At each step the water rippled. "Nani?" Akane said as she saw this happen. She walked up to the point where she saw the figures clearly. They were Ranma and Kagome. When Akane identified who they were she gasped.
Akane watched as the scene began.
Ranma and Kagome split up. They were looking for something in the ground. Ranma was digging in the dirt, deeper and deeper the hole got, but he seemed to not find what he was looking for. Kagome was searching the area, just like Ranma she had no luck in finding the object that seemed to be hidden in the ground.
Akane couldn't hear what they were saying, but she could figure some phases that they spoke. She could see how they moved their mouths. She paid close attention to Ranma who seem to enjoy looking for the lost object, or he might've been enjoying Kagome's company. If so that hurt Akane's feelings.
Finally, Ranma found the lost object. And Ranma shouted to Kagome to come over. Kagome was excited and quickly ran over to Ranma. She tripped on a loose earth, and fell into the pound Ranma was pointing to. Right at that point the scene paused. Like someone had pushed the pause button, and the film just stopped. And after a minute of wondering, the scene slowly faded.
Akane was once again in the middle of no-where. She wasn't in a forest, wasn't in a room, she was in no-where. From what she could observe the place she was in was a wall less place. It didn't have an up or down, left or right, And nothing was there only she. It scared Akane, being in a place where there aren't any laws of gravity, any laws or rules at all. She shook her head, 'At least, she thought, 'there is air in this place.' And closed her eyes.
When she closed her eyes, she heard a rushing sound. Immediately she opened her eyes. The sight that met her eyes was, in some ways terrifying. Water was filling the entire space. 'How is that possible?!' Akane screamed in her mind. At that point she was thrown in the water. Akane blinked twice to get the water out. She gasped for air, and amazingly she could breathe.
Akane looked around her to see what was happening, and she saw a girl about her age drowning. She had her right hand trying to grab something for above her. Akane's eyes widened as she saw the girl. She swam desperately towards her, but she got no where. She could only watch helplessly at the scene that was unfolding.
The girls gave her last breath, watching the bubbles flout to the top. The girl was dead!
As the bubbles flouted to the top, Akane screamed. "How?! Why?!! Why couldn't she breathe, and I can?!! How?!! Why?!!!" she cried, but her words were drowned in the water. And Akane cried her heart out. Watching someone die, and you couldn't do anything to prevent it was horrifying! Akane tried to swim to the now dead body and for some strange reason now she could go to the body.
When Akane got there, she looked into the face of the drowned girl. She had closed her eyes, so Akane couldn't see them. But what she could see is that the girl was amazingly beautiful. In all of her life, Akane never saw a girl more beautiful then her. She closed her eyes and cried one tear, but as you know the tear just mixed with the water. When Akane opened her eyes, she found many bad cuts on the girl. It looked like she had been in a horrible battle, before she drowned.
'Oh, God! Who could do such a thing?!' she thought to herself. And silently cried.
And again the scene paused, and faded away.
Akane woke and screamed. But no one came. She looked at the clock; it was 6 in the morning. She set her clock down and fell back onto her bed. She placed a hand on her head and thought 'What? Was that only a dream? No it can't be! It was to real.' but Akane had her doubts. She shook her head and got up. She made her way to the living room.
_*_*_*_*_*Ranma and Kagome's view*_*_*_*_*_*_
As the two left Akane's room; they headed to Ranma's room.
"What do you think is happening to Akane?" Ranma asked the silent Kagome.
"I dunno. I think she'll tell us when she's ready." Kagome replied.
Finally they got to Ranma's room. Kagome set up her sleeping bag.
"Ranma, so do you still want to go to the grounds? Or stay here with Akane?" Kagome asked.
"I made a promise to you, and I'm going to keep it." Ranma replied in Sesshoumaru's famous monotone. Kagome nodded.
Genma was already in the room. He didn't notice that Ranma and Kagome was in, and just kept sleeping in his futon. As always Genma was in his panda form. Ranma sighed and shook his head. "Let's get some sleep. But Kagome can we leave later tomorrow? I want to get some things organized before we leave." And Kagome nodded.
They slept for the whole night, and it was morning now. And it was the time when Akane screamed. Ranma and Kagome got up at once. Ranma was about to run over to Akane's room, but decided not to. 'She needs time to herself.' he thought.
Kagome and Ranma looked at the still sleeping Genma. "What?!! Is this whole house deaf or something? Are they dead?" Kagome asked Ranma.
"I don't know. When we fought the youkai no heard us, and now no one heard Akane scream. I think they must have hearing problems, sleeping like a log, or they might be dead."
"Let's see." Kagome said and went over to Genma. She crouched down and poked him on the cheek. The only response was that Genma turned over. "Well, at least he's not dead."
They walked out and went into everyone room and poked them, and like Genma they turned over. "Now we know that they aren't dead." Kagome said.
And the two headed to the Living room.
_*_*_*_*_*Living room*_*_*_*_*_*_
Ranma and Kagome got there before Akane did. Ranma walked to the table and sat down. Kagome went to the shoji screen, and was looking at it.
"What's up?" Ranma asked.
"The door isn't broken!" Kagome said.
"So?"
"So, I remember last night that the door was ripped opened! And it's fixed. I know that none of us could've fixed it." Kagome opened the door to look outside. Nothing was broken! "Nani?! Nothing's broken! I remember that the wall was smashed! And the walls there and standing!"
"Nani?!" Ranma said and went to join his friend. He looked outside and saw what she meant. Ranma too remembered that the wall should be rubble. 'No one could've fixed it, in this short amount of time. What the hell is going on?'
Right at that moment Akane entered the room.
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A/N: Sorry for posting the chappie so late. Something was wrong with fanfic.net when I logged out, so I couldn't post up the chappie! I hoped u guys enjoyed this one; it took me some time to get everything down. And remember to review! And sorry for any spelling and grammar mistakes!
To Shinimegami: I know! But it's going to be Inu-yasha all the way after Kagome and Ranma go to the grounds. I thought it was appropriate to start with Ranma and then moving to Inu-yasha. I hope this clears things up for u.
And to tell u guys somein, the girls that drowned wasn't Kagome. It was the girl who made one of the cursed springs. And it's not the same spring as Ranma's, if so the curse wouldn't do anything to Kagome. And Kagome's goin to fall into the same spring the girl fell into.
And I'm still holding the contest! Again anyone who voted can't vote again! Stay in tune for the next chappie!
P.S. - This contest will continue for a long time until I write something that will put a pair together. And wanted to tell u that Ranma/Kagome is in the lead!
