Ranma's Jello Catastrophe

Chapter 4: Is it Love?

What happened Last Time:

Why'd he say all that?' Akane thought, "I do Love Ranma back, but, I cannot tell him" She said allowed as Ranma passed right by her.

"What did you say Akane?" Ranma asked, stunned, as the spoon fell out of his mouth and hit the floor…

Now the conclusion:

"Whatever Ranma is doing. I hope he fails!" Ryoga yelled, his angry instantly spurring.

Ryoga remembered when Akane had told him that she loved Ranma and how she walked off, in tears, because of Ryoga's harsh words.

FlashBack

"Akane!" Ryoga said, grasping her hands, "I love you!" Ryoga's face was red.

"Wha…?" Akane mumbled, in shock.

"I love you Akane. Please say you love me too!" Ryoga said with pleading eyes.

"Ryoga…" Akane said, understanding the situation, a little.

"I love Ranma. I'm sorry Ryoga" Akane said, pulling her hands back and taking a step back, looking down.

"What!" Ryoga exclaimed, "How could you love him! When did this happen? This is unacceptable!"

Akane was taken aback, 'What is going on?' She thought, 'I think I'm in danger.'

Akane was instantly aware of everything now. She looked around to see no one but her and Ryoga on this barren street and the river next to them. Beyond the fence, and a long way down.

"Akane! How could you love Ranma! He treats you so badly! It's unacceptable!" Ryoga yelled.

Akane took two more steps back, "Ryoga. I've loved Ranma for a while now. I fell in love with him, when we were in the Dojo, and he…" Akane paused

"And he what!" Ryoga persisted.

"When he…" Akane turned around, "kissed me", she whispered.

"WHAT!" Ryoga exclaimed, "Where is he! He took advantage of you! You shouldn't love him!" Ryoga yelled.

"It wasn't taking advantage of me when I…" Akane turned around, but hung her head down, "I asked him to".

"WHAT!" Ryoga was even more in shock now from hearing this, "Why would you do that! Did you have any feelings for me at all!" Ryoga yelled, but in a hushed tone.

"No…" Akane looked up, "I knew you, but I didn't think of you as more than a friend"

Ryoga fell to the ground, in shock.

'Akane loves someone else?' He thought, 'I've loved her for the longest time…'

"You are never guaranteed the next Second, Ryoga. That's why I knew that I should tell the people I love, that I love them, and take that extra Second that I have, to say I love them, and give them one more hug. I've learned that, from a close friend, and our friendship has never been stronger now…" Akane continued, "You should ALWAYS take chances, no matter what the cost, so later on you won't wonder, "What if?"

Ryoga took all this in, 'I could have stopped Akane from falling in love with Ranma, or maybe post-pone it? All, if I would have said, "I love you, Akane" I don't like myself!' Ryoga thought as he put his head in his hands, and fell to the ground.

Akane just watched him. She was too scared to do anything, because he had irrupted just minutes ago. Akane backed away two more steps.

Ryoga jumped up and exploded with Aura, screaming. Akane braced herself for the blow of Ryoga's punch, but it never came. She looked up and saw Ryoga, red eyed, looking at her.

"Akane, I don't want to see you anymore! You don't love me! So I will not see you until you do! I want you to love, how I do you! Ryoga said, calmly.

Akane looked puzzled, 'I don't want to loose a friend just because of this!' She thought.

"Ryoga, No! It's not my faul…" Akane was interrupted by Ryoga's voice.

"I don't care whose fault it was! I won't see you anymore! Now until you love me!" Ryoga said and he jumped off with a quick, "Good-Bye" and a wave.

"Ryoga! No!" Akane chased after him for a minute, running along the streets, but she quickly lost sight of him, and she walked slowly home, with tears in her eyes. She slowly went up the stairs to cry on her bed alone.

End FlashBack

Akane's mind went back to where she was right now, with Ranma right now. He must have heard what she just said, because he looked right at her with shocked eyes.

(A/N I know that it seems a little weird for the flashback, because Ryoga starts it out, and Akane finishes it. Well, that's because if you look at it, it goes from Ryoga's point of view, to Akane's at the ending, because how would Ryoga know what Akane did after he left?)

Ranma couldn't believe it! Akane actually said that she loved him!

"Uhh…" Akane mumbled, turning a bright red. She quickly turned around, feeling her face get hotter.

"Akane…" Ranma started, "Did I hear you right?" Ranma went out on a limb, "Did you say, that you lo…lov…love me?"

Akane turned a brighter red, but turned around with a swoosh and sharply said,

"Well, you said it first! When you came in my room. When I was lying down! I heard you say you loved me! Were you lying?" Akane questioned.

"Umm…" Ranma started, taking a step backward, 'Oh Drat! She turned it around on me! Man!' Ranma thought wildly.

"Well?" Akane crossed her arms and questioned him.

"Well…I did say it, 'Kane" Ranma started.

"Did you mean it?" Akane asked, curiously.

"Uhh…umm…Yea..Yeah. I do mean it", Ranma continued, "Because, it's all true. I do love you, with all my heart!" Ranma looked down, waiting to be called a perverted hentai.

'Ohh, Ranma!' Akane thought, 'He does love me! I'm so happy!' she thought with glee.

Ranma looked up slowly, to see Akane smiling, ear to ear.

'That must be a good thing' He thought.

"Aka…Akane" Ranma stood straight up and looked at Akane with loving eyes.

"I love you, Akane" Ranma said.

"I love you too, Ranma", Akane said back to him.

Ranma reached out to hug to Akane, and Akane did the same thing. They stood there for a minute, holding each other tightly, until Ranma let her go and looked at her, still in his arms, in her eyes.

"Your beautiful brown eyes" Ranma touched her cheek, "Your soft skin. You're radiant, Akane…and I love you for it" Ranma caressed her skin.

Akane went wild inside.

"The boy, no man, I love is holding me in his arms and I love him, and I know that he loves me too' Akane thought.

All of a sudden, Ranma's face got serious, he looked at Akane for a minute, not saying anything. Then Akane new what him and her both wanted. Akane closed her eyes as she felt Ranma tilt her head up towards him. Their faces were just barely apart. Akane could feel his breath on her neck, and she got goose bumps down her spine.

"RANMA!" Shampoo charged through the wall, obviously angry at something or someone, mostly likely Ranma.

Shampoo saw the scene in front of her. Ranma holding Akane, and Akane, in Ranma's arms.

'Ranma my husband!' Shampoo thought.

"Airen! What you do with Violent Girl?" Shampoo questioned.

"Shampoo…"Ranma sighed, 'Dang It Shampoo! I was so close!' Ranma's mind thought, 'I almost had Akane again. Akane!" Ranma looked over to see Akane, still in his arms, "Whew!"

"Airen! You no mess with Violent Girl! You are husband of mine!" Shampoo declared.

"No Shampoo. He is husband of mine!" Akane told her.

"Evil Violent Girl! You no lowed to get Airen!" Shampoo (kinda) yelled, assuming fighting position, "I fight for Airen!" Shampoo said.

"Shampoo, Stop it! You're not going to fight over me!" Ranma declared.

"Shampoo no understand" Shampoo said, relaxing her stance, "How else we know who you marry?"

"I'll pick between you, Akane,(he smiled at the name of the one he loved), Ukyo, and Kodachi"

BAM!

"Hohoho! I heard my name!" Kodachi said, ever so elegantly, (yeah right, hahaha)

'Oh No! Not Kodachi!' Ranma thought, miserably.

"Why Ribbon Girl here?" Shampoo said, assuming fighting stance, again.

"It is I, Kodachi, The Black Rose, who will marry Ranma Saotome!"

"You think wrong, Ribbon Girl!" Shampoo said, squinting her eyes, "Fight me!"

"Wait! No fighting!" Ranma interrupted, tightening his grip around Akane's back.

Akane's sense heightened, looking at Kodachi, then at Shampoo, in fighting stance.

"I will choose tomorrow, who I marry, okay?" Ranma said, sternly, "Until then, you people go about your own business until 2p.m. tomorrow afternoon." Ranma finished.

"Ooooh! I just know Airen with pick me!" Shampoo said with glee.

"You're wrong! Hohoho" Kodachi started, "Ranma Darling will pick I! Kodachi, The Black Rose!" Kodachi said, laughing, hoping through the hole that Shampoo had made, and continuing off down the street, still laughing.

Shampoo pulled out her bike from her pocket(I don't know how that could happen, but what about Akane's Magic Mallet? Huh!)and hopped on it, and rode off singing, "Airen Pick Me!"

Akane just looked at Ranma, confused.

"So, you're gonna pick between us tomorrow?" Akane questioned.

"Yeah…" Ranma trailed off, cracking his neck a few times.

"Are you going to call Ukyo then?" She questioned.

"Oh yeah", he said, going toward the phone, "I'll call her and let know. I'll see you later"

"Okay" Akane said, watching him leave slowly, "I love you", she whispered.

Akane went up to her room, while Ranma dialed the number.

Ranma

"Hello? This is Ukyo!" Ukyo said all cheery, "Delivery or Take out?"

"Uhh..Ukyo, this is Ranma. I just wanted to let you know, that uhh..tomorrow…I'm choosing who I'm going to marry and Uhh…" Ranma twisted the phone cord around his finger a couple of times.

Ukyo just hummed, in a happy tune, while not really paying attention to Ranma, "Uh huh, yeah, ok" She just said randomly.

"Ukyo!" Ranma kinda yelled into the phone, getting her attention, "I'm choosing whom I'm going to marry, and it's between Akane(he marveled at her name), Kodachi, Shampoo, and you" Ranma continued, "Are you going to be there?" He asked.

"Umm…I don't really care. I'm chasing after someone else. I will come to the wedding with whomever you choose! Love ya lots! Bye" Ukyo hung up the phone, but all you could hear was Ranma saying, "Ukyo, Ukyo! Don't hang up this phone!" Click

Ranma looked flat faced as he heard the dial tone "bzzzzzzzzz"

Ranma put the phone back on the hook and just stood there for a minute.

Ranma saw that it was 7:30p.m., and decided to get a shower and take a nap, at least 'til dinner was finished.

Ah Hah! Does Ranma really love Akane? Or is he just playing her? Hmm…What is to happen now! Each Girl seems to think that Ranma will choose her. Who will it be? Find out in the next chapter!

Amanda