A Taste of True Love
Sea-chan
Disclaimer: They may not be mine, but I sure do love them!
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Chapter 2
The ship finally stuck shore. The crew cheered happily as they got off the ship. Akane smiled joyfully, her crew was her everything. She really loved everyone of them. She laughed as she saw her best friend, Dice, tripped over a barrel and fell flat on his nose.
"Clumsy, clumsy Dicey," Akane chuckled as she lent out a hand to pull him up.
Dice grabbed her hand . His mid-length white hair was tied tightly into a high ponytail with bangs that fell out to frame his face.He wore a sea-blue tank that matched with his dark blue pants that were covered partly by his mid-calf black boots. Black suspenders fell from his waist and black ribbons were wrapped around his two arms tightly from his wrist to the center of his arms. His green eyes fell upon Akane and smirked.
"Clumsy, huh? As if I haven't heard that before, Miss I'm-the-captain-but-I-can't-even-swim," he replied.
Akane growled. She detested it when someone mentioned the fact that she couldn't swim. Of course, living the life of a pirate and even more, being the captain, she should be able to swim, but sadly, no. Akane couldn't swim to save her own life. The crew knew how sensitive she was to the remarks so they stayed away teasing her, but Dice- he was a different story. Taking advantage of the fact that Akane was his best friend., he teased her whenever he felt the time was right.
"Dice," Akane clenched her teeth together tightly. Dice raised both his hands up as if trying to protect himself.
"Okay,okay," he said. "Sorry." Dice grabbed Akane's arm and lead her off the boat with the rest of the crew.
Akane took out a sheet of small paper. Her crew were looking at her for their daily chores.
"Okay, same rountine," Akane pointed a two toutfit with matching eens. The twins has similar black hair that was cropped short. One wore a black chinese outfit with red trimming while the other had on a red chinese outfit with black trimmings. Black bandannas completed their look.
"Salt and Pepper, get the food. Granny, you go with Yoe this time. Fetch some more weapons."
An old woman wearing a red kimono with a matching turbin grabbed a younger woman's hand. The younger woman grunted. Her long blond hair flowed around her back. Her purple jacket paired off nicely with her dark mini-skirt and high-heeled boots.
"Kin, take half of the crew and gather half of the things on this list. Viveal, take the other half and get the rest of the things."
A young man waved his hand for half of the crew to follow him. He had on a dark brown fur jacket that went over a white hooded sweater. White sleeves came down one third of his arm from the sleeveless jacket. He had dark blue pants with several pockets on the left side that went well with the heavy, black leather boots he wore. Yellow green highlights could be seen from his darker toned hair.
A girl smiled for the rest of the crew to follow her. Her outfit consisted of an pink shirt that only had one sleeve. It was cut up to the bottom of her breast. A short pink skirt was wore over a pair of tight black capris. A wide black belt with several holes hung from her shoulder to her waist. Her outfit was also finished with a pair of black boots. Her hair was so light, it looked almost white. It was all tied to one side and twisted with a thick pink ribbon.
"And me?" Akane turned to her side.
"You're coming with me," she said to Dice. He pretented to be dissapointed.
"Again?" he pouted.
"Of course," Akane smiled. "Let's go!" she dragged him toward the village.
"Let's see. What else can I get that the crew needs?" Akane asked herself while checking out the counters of supplies. "Soap? No, Viveal's getting that. Candles! Oh-wait she's getting that too."
"Kane! We agreed that for the rest of the week, you're taking a break, remember? No chores, does that ring a bell?" Dice said snapping his fingers in front of Akane's eyes.
"Clothes! I can get new clothes for everyone! Heh heh, they're gonna be surprised," Akane grinned.
"Clothes! Who said anything about clothes!" Dice agrued. Akane grabbed him and dragged him too yet another shop.
"Really Akane, we don't need any more clothing."
"Shush, oh look at this! So cute! I bet Granny would look so nice in this color!" Akane threw the cloth on Dice. "And this one! Love the texture. Don't you, Dice? It'll make a really nice shirt for Kin. His is all ripped and everything-"
"Kane, he likes his shirt like that. And I'm sure Granny wouldn't like this pukey green color-"
"Dicey, Dicey," Akane grinned at him. "Don't worry, I'll get you something nice too." Dice rolled his eyes. This could take all day. He wasn't a shopping kind of a guy.
Hours seemed to have passed and the stack of clothing got bigger and bigger as Dice leaned on the wall catching a snooze.
"Dice, hurry!" Dice snapped awake, dropping the stack. "Pepper? What are you doing here?"
"Forget that! Akane having a brawl with this girl. Hurry, we gotta stop them before it turns into a fight!" Pepper said.
"What happened this time?"
"Well-um me and Salt were getting some food and Salt saw this cabbage that he thought would make really good soup or something... anyway that girl grabbed it first and Salt really wanted it. He sorta knocked her-um on her head but she woke up seconds later and declared she'll kill him! Then Kane heard the agrument and she came running to rescue us." Pepper finished in a huff.
"Oookay... let's just go see what's up," Dice decided. They ran out the clothing shop.
"Akane!" Dice yelled when he reached the crowd of people. Two familair faces turned around, Akane's and Salt's. Two other unknown faced him also.
"And who might you be," the girl said cross-armed. The girl had long brown hair accessoried with a white bow. A short blue kimono with long sleeves covered a tight black short that reached mid-thigh. A pair of simple slip-ons were on her feet. "Another ally?"
"Ukyo, just give them the damn vegetable, I have better things to do than agrue with some dweebs," the young man next to the girl said. His black hair was pulled back into a long pigtail behind him tied off with a red ribbon. He had on two thick red belts that crossed a plain white sleeveless shirt. His red chinese pants went well with his white shoes.
"Dweebs!" Akane growled.
"Shut-up Ranma or I'll zip your mouth," the girl, Ukyo, threatened. "I challenge you," she pointed to Salt. "A match!" Salt smirked.
"I accept!"
Dice stared at them wide-eyed. Akane and Salt were both smirking while the Ukyo was puffing with anger. Ranma didn't seem to care and rolled his eyes.
'How do they get themselves into these kinds of things?' Dice thought in annoyance.
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Author's note: Finally, I got Chapter 2 out, hope you all enjoyed it. Please please do review. oh- and of course, Akane and Ranma pairing!
