Oh my goodness... I was like well, I'll update mid-Saturday so I know it'll be posted on Sunday... I go Sunday and I'm 14th down...I was like...WHOA... then I go Monday morning and I'm not even on the first page... So that whole idea majorly backfired...lol...o well, I still like the last chapter...and now on with this one!
... Song lyrics playing ((the song will go in order no matter who is singing it))
As Ranma walked through the crowd, it did not become less dense, but instead more and more people gathered around to see who it was that was dancing. Then Ranma saw her; her dark bluish black hair that twirled around her face as she spun around the dance floor.
((I've been with her almost all night, how is it that I never once saw her?!)) Ranma was at a loss for verbal words and could only stand there mesmerized by her beauty. As the red dress spun around it accented all of her features, making her look more elegant and mature. ((Wait a minute! That's not the guy I saw her in the park with! How could she...)) Ranma opened his mouth to yell at her for cheating on the man that she 'loved'. But when words went to come out he closed his mouth. ((Who am I to scold her when I have, I mean HAD 3 fiancées.)) Just then a small, soft hand wrapped around Ranma's, half aware he looked down to see who it was. Ranma's eyes blurry from trying to hold back the tears tried to focus on the figure that held his hand. Then a soft voice came out.
"Would you like to dance?" the woman said.
Ranma was shocked at the forwardness of the young woman.
"I uh... I don't ...r...really know how..."Ranma finally got out. She then stood on her tiptoes and whispered in his ear,
"Don't worry, I'll show you how. She then led him out to the middle of the dance floor where only one other couple resided. She took his hands and put them where they should go to waltz and they begun. Now not only whispers about the first couple could be heard, but also whispers about the second.
Akane hadn't noticed that Ranma and the other had entered the dance floor, she was too absorbed in her dancing partners eyes to have even had the chance to notice.
"Excuse me mademoiselle, but I do not believe you have given me your name yet." He said with a captivating smile.
"A...A...Akane...yes, my name is Akane Tendou" Akane stammered to say but finally got out. ((My God, and he is polite too!...OOH I wish Ranma were here...he would eat this up! O wait, he is here, I wonder where he is...))
"I see, my name is Francois."
Mean while, after 3 toes were stepped on, Ranma had finally gotten used to the dancing. There was nothing but dancing and intense stares between the two until the young lady broke the silence.
"Hi, my name is Anastasia. What is yours?" She asked and gave a little smile.
((How...how does she do that, she smiles just like Akane...))
"My name is Ranma Saotome of the Saotome Anything Goes School of Martial Arts" Ranma replied proudly, but with subliminal self-consciousness.
"Oh I see... who have you come here with?" She asked and tilted her head. She was well aware of who it was that he had come with, but she needed to get to know him so that he would trust her enough for their plan to work.
"I came with elder Cologne, Shampoo and my fian... my friend Akane." Ranma said. He wanted to slap himself right there for almost referring to Akane as his fiancé, but it had slipped.
"Oh, Cologne and Shampoo I know, but who is this... Akane? Can we see her from the dance floor?" She knew good and well who Akane was. She was the one who was in the way of her plans to be with mousse. If anyone would get in the way of everything working it was she. But thank goodness her brother was willing to help with Akane
"Well, um actually, you can. She's the woman dancing over there with that guy." ((Wait a minute!! Since when has Akane been a WOMAN? But then again, when has Akane ever worn anything like that before? I mean yeah, that night when I left and she went wherever with her friends she was dressed nice but this... now she looks WAAYYY better than she did the other day and then she was beautiful but now she...)) his thoughts were interrupted by a hand waving in his face...
"HELLO!?" Anastasia was waving her hand frantically in front of his face.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, sorry..." Ranma said blushing, "I was thinking about something.
Anastasia gave him a little smirk and said coaxingly, "Yeah, I guess she's pretty enough. How about we give her a show."
"What do you mean?"
"Just follow my lead." The two stopped waltzing and Anastasia whistled and the started to play an American song. "Have you ever heard this song Ranma?" He shook his head no. She smiled sweetly. She placed his arms around her waist and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Well, this is how they dance in America." She whispered in his ear, and kissed him softly and began to hum the song in his ear.
It was then that Akane Turned around to see Ranma dancing so intimately with this other woman. ((Who does he think he is dancing with her like that!?!?!?! Why I ought ta)) as she began to withdraw her mallet a hand clasped hers. ((Oh yeah, I forgot we were dancing)) He partner then placed her arms around his neck and placed his hands on her waist and began to dance like the other couple was dancing. As they started to dance, before the words of the song started her took his thumb and index finger and lifted Akane's chin to make her look at him, then he started to sing...
The two short colleagues watched form a balcony up above. Cologne looked at the other one skeptically and then broke the silence.
"So what exactly has you so sure that these two can do the job?"
The other old woman gave a sly smile. "If you watch you'll see..."
The two couples continued to dance as the lyrics started to go along with the music...
Ranma didn't know what it was. But when he held her like this he felt warm. Like nothing else mattered in the world. ((With Akane it was always me protecting her, but now, it felt as though she is protecting me from...from... everything; from my curse, from my enemies, from my nagging friends at school, from the stress of life, from pop's stupidity, from Nabiki's greediness, from Akane's...from Akane...What...is she.... singing?))
Anastasia lifted her head off of his chest and put her chin level with his chest and started to sing to him...
"...I see the way she treats you...I feel the tears you cry.... And it makes me sad... and it makes me mad...there's nothing I can do baby..."
Akane was shocked by the movement of his hand to her chin and by the sound of his voice as he started to sing...
"...Cause your lover is my best friend, and I guess that's where the story ends...so I've gotta try, to keep it inside.... you'll never be, never be mine but..."
"You see cologne. I chose these two very wisely for the course of events that you would like to take place. Have you heard of the legendary 'voice of gold siblings'?"
Cologne's eye's widened and she the delicate glass filled with champagne dropped to the ground and broke with a soft chime. She tried to speak but her throat had dried up at the words that the other woman had said, and her voice came out as nothing but a crackle, "You mean..."
"Yes. Every 200 years, a new pair of siblings are born with the mark of a small golden broken heart on their forearms. That is how we are sure that these two have the powers that the legend tells of. They do not have to be related. They can be on total opposite sides of the Earth. It is actually very seldom that they are found and brought together. But, if both were to sing a song at the same time to two lovers, they have the ability to break their love...forever."
"But isn't their something else that has to happen?" Cologne asked.
"Yes, at the end of the song, before the music dies down the two lovers much touch each other for that part of the enchantment to work."
"I see." Cologne then replied
The two started at each other intensely and then they both fixed their eyes on the two couples dancing on the floor.
The two couples both remained dancing. While Akane and Ranma both felt as though they had reached nirvana, the other two were serenading them verbally and communicating with each other mentally.
"...If I was the one who was loving you baby... the only tears you'd cry would be tears of joy... and if I were by your side, you'd never know one lonely night..."
((Francois, have you picked up anything about how strong the love between these two is?))
"...And if mine were the arms you were running to, I'd keep... this love in these arms of mine... if I was the one, in your life..."
((No Anastasia, not fully. I'm getting mixed feeling from this one though. We need not to sing the whole song for I have a feeling their love doesn't run that deep, so it will not be necessary))
"I wanna reach out and feel you beside me, beside me...take you in my arms right now.... scream 'I love you' out loud... someday, I pray... that I find the strength...to turn to you and say..."
((Are you sure Francois, if we don't sing long enough than it won't work as well...))
((YES Anastasia I'm sure! Now stop singing and spin him now!))
With that thought, Anastasia took Ranma's arm and curled it around him self and spun him into the middle of the dance floor, covering her mouth as though it was an accident. At the same time Francois had done the same. Ranma had stopped spinning before Akane had and Akane was about to run into Ranma so he grabbed both her wrist to prevent her from doing so. Akane's eyes were closed tight, from her trying to prevent herself from getting too dizzy from the spin. When she looked up she saw Ranma there, and realized that it was Ranma that was holding onto her wrist. They both stared at the point of contact then quickly withdrew their arms.
"So...uh Akane...umm... what's up?" Ranma asked nervously. ((Aw man! What am I supposed to say!? She'll probably mallet me for touchin her))
"Umm... nothing really, yeah..." ((Great Akane, you haven't talked to him all night and now that you do you have nothing to say!!)) "Uhh, you look nice tonight..." ((Whew good save!))
"Yeah..."((Now what do I say!?)) "Uh, you.... you...d-do too..." Akane started to smile that was until Ranma opened his big mouth again "...For a tomboy that is..." He faced Akane again to see her red aura flaring behind her and her eyes...((is...is...she crying))
:: SLAP:: The music stopped and the impact of Akane's hand and Ranma's cheek echoed throughout the hall as she ran out of the hall crying, her dancing partner followed her out. Ranma stood there for a few seconds in shock moments in shock until he heard screaming. He looked around then looked up to see what was causing the commotion.
Akane heard the commotion and turned around to see the chandelier falling towards her ex-fiancé and she ran to him to try and save him.
But when he looked up it was too late. The Chandelier that held 100 lit candles was already on its was falling down rapidly falling closer and closer to his body. It was then that he was pushed than tackled to the ground, as he slid 20 feet away from where the chandelier fell. He could hear the chandelier hit the ground and slightly opened his eyes to see a woman hovering over him looking down at him. Her life light from the red fire behind her shone through her hair, illuminating it. Ranma saw everything getting dark, but before he passed out he said one more thing...
"Akane..."
A/N...do you like this chapter?!?! I think it's spiffy I had fun writing it. It's longer than the others so sorry if you don't like the longness of it. i decided to write this chapter a littledifferently than the others. Well...lol..i didn't DECIDE...it just kind of happened that way... :-DAgain, PLEASE REVIEW, and if you have any suggestions feel free to leave them!! ARIGATOO GOZAIMASU!