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Chapter Two: Have We Met?
Ranma took a swig of hot tea. Probably the thousandth one this afternoon. He inhaled deeply, breathing in the damp scent of humid rain pattering against his window. Throughout his whole life, he encountered many surprises. Although what he never encountered was the sudden feeling of fear. Not the fear of being mallet by Akane Tendo, not the fear of the transforming-kitten of Shampoo, no—none of those wasn't even near this certain type of feeling when he first laid his eyes on her. The young girl curled helplessly in the streets with her modern high-school uniform being soaked out in the open fall of sheering rain—colliding with thick pushes of wind flapping against her skirt and twirling around her coal black hair while still being drenched. Helpless—yet no one dared to even glance with a simple sign of worry—or disgust? What was Nerima coming to? How could they think a young girl such as her; was another homeless child lying on the cold concrete floor?
"Who are you?" He whispered softly enough so no other ears could hear his question, "why—why do I feel—like I met you before?" It was strange enough of his attitude towards Akane this morning was different than most daily routines but this was even stranger. Never—ever—had he felt the joy and sudden relief in his heart, not to mention the fear and shock that vigilantly kicked him in the chin enough to see that a somewhat mysterious girl appeared out of nowhere. The question remains as much as why? How? Or even what the hell was going here?
Kagome looked peaceful in her sleep. Her cheast raising and falling, her raven hair splattered like a beautiful painting on the soft-cloud color of white, and her face—lightly tan but never too dark nor death-whiting. She just seemed so beautiful in his mind and yet Ranma claims that no girl interested him in his life. Ranma gulped, afraid of what his further actions might cause any consequences.
The urge to hold her, was just too strong for him to bear. Everything about her was new yet so familiar. Was there a past he didn't know about? No—that can't be right. Frustrated, he gulped another hot-boiling cup of Japanese-Tea.
Kagome stirred a little, causing our beloved martial artist to gasp. Ranma gulped and slowly reached his hand out—inches away from her forehead—and finally, lightly laid his hand over the unbelievable temputure raising from her illness. His eyes, no longer neither normal nor cold, but leveled with the soft flickering concern of his blue orbs.
"Her fever is lowering. Kasumi's remedy must've worked big time." He turned around and slid the Japanese-door calmly while slightly turning his back on the young-woman whom was still ill. "Get well soon—whoever you are." He smiled weakly but as he left the room it dropped so fast that he didn't even noticed it.
As our young martial artist walked downstairs, he met Soun and his so-called father Genma playing another game of Chinese checkers. Besides them were a small pond and the lazy crickets clicking its music once more. Soun, looked agitated, while Genma looked quite disturbed or somewhat irritated with his son's presence. Their heads turned to the young man and stared at him for quite a long time, Ranma, seeing this, had the interrogated expression soon masking his face. "Why are you two lookin' at me like that? It's getting quite disturbing."
The two men glanced at each other at a moment than nodded as if they were talking to each other by reading each other's minds. Genma was to start first, for he looked quite anxious to get this over with. "Listen boy, I heard you brought a girl home while it was raining." Soun, whom nodded with total agreement opened his eyes and sighed. "It's true that she's sick but that's the parent's job. You should've made it her business." They were about to say more until Ranma brgan to look much different.
This enraged the young Saotome, for he felt insulted enough to kick them both in the stomach and ripped their lungs out so they couldn't breathe. Ranma tilted his head and the coldness sprang towards his eyes again. "So what the hell are you two trying to say? I should've left her in the rain? Look! She was on the ground and it was raining really hard, okay? I couldn't just leave her like that because—because—she was helpless! She wasn't freaking a homeless child, she was knocked out! Why can't you two IDIOTS ever understand of what I did was right? Are you afraid that I'll have another girl coming after me? Well do you! WELL I DON'T CARE! I HAVE ENOUGH OF YOU TWO ASUMING THE WORST OF MY FUTURE SO BEFORE I DO ANYTHING TO KILL YOU BOTH I SUGGEST YOU STOP THIS ACCUSING OF ME OR BUTTING INTO MY LIFE! I'M SICK OF IT ALRIGHT!
His voice echoed across the whole town and his fist was shaking nearly to death. His eyes—strange as it is—was filled with bright filling red eyes and his aura—unmistakably was flaring around him and his pigtail shoot up along with it too. Seeing Genma's and Soun's reactions made him realized there was something terribly wrong, so he stopped. Ranma looked around confusingly and had his two hands ruffling his hair while clenching it at the same time. He could only mutter the words, "What happened to me?"
Ranma shook his head and ran upstairs as fast as he could—leaving the two stun friends shock. As minutes passed by Genma finally took the chance to speak, "his powers—I haven't seen anything like it." Soun nodded and looked at his friend with much concern, "Those were like demon powers—no human can summon such an aura." Genma sighed and looked up the sky, still it was raining dreadfully. "… He is filled with mysteries."
Nabiki, Akane, Kasumi, and the little P-chan in Akane's hands, peered near the kitchen corner. They saw the dramatic event and neither of them never felt so stun in their whole entire life. This was the stubborn Ranma we are talking about—not the ballistic one whom just exploded right in front of Mr. Tendo and his father. Kasumi looked worried, Nabiki eyes widened, Akane looked death-shock, and Ryoga the black pig just blinked rapidly to see if it was real. All of this wasn't a dream.
"Oh my—did you see that?"
"Well, well, well, Ranma exploded like Akane except twice as much than she can ever do. I think it might be the 'that time of the month' curse but since Ranma's in his male form, I highly doubt it."
"I'm still here!" Akane harshly whispered to her sister while nudging her lightly. "And I never saw that type of power he used before—it's just scary… who knows what he will do next."
'Ranma—what the hell!' Thought Ryoga in his piggy form. 'What move is that? It was just out of anger too! Kami—he could have kill anyone if he didn't stop of what he was doing. It's just not normal! And it's all because of that girl—does he have some type of relation to her?'
Ranma approached to Kagome's room and slid the door quietly for respect. Surprisingly, she was already stirring in her sleep. Ranma went a little closer to see what she muttering about. He sighed, such power—he never felt so angry before. His temper was getting way out of hand.
"… Inu—Inu—Yasha."
His attention snapped back to the young girl and gaped on how her voice sounded like. Innocent and sweet—he could have swore he had heard her voice before. From somewhere—around a area. He couldn't just put his finger on it. Why did she say dog-demon? Such a strange name to have.
Ranma scooted closer to Kagome and blinked several times to see if she would awake. "So… InuYasha? Is that your dog or something? Feh, I hate to have that name myself." He chuckled at his own joke and gave the same concerning eyes like the last time. Thinkingback to Soun and Genma'sconversation made him frown. He was going to take great care of this girl and prove them wrong."… I promise to take care of you."
"I'll promise I'll take care of you… Goodbye… Kagome-Chan…" (note: This is what InuYasha said in the first chapter)
Kagome's eyes snapped open and her body was quick to react by springing her back up to life. She looked around her surroundings, finding that this wasn't the Feudal Era or her home. Not knowing Ranma was behind her, she nearly cried when she heard InuYasha's goodbye. She remembered everything, Naraku, the destroyed Well, her transportation to her own time, and—and her first kiss stolen by her loved one. For all she knew—she was going to start over as a normal girl again. Separated—once more—by the boundaries between the past and present.
"Hey—you're okay." Sighed Ranma with relief.
'That voice!' Kagome's eyes began to water. 'I'm still with him!' She began to cry, after the thought of losing him, after the thought of being separated from him, was too much to bear. She whipped around and hugged him with open arms and cried rapidly. The sounds of her quick breath-ins and sniffling cries made Ranma feel like he's known her forever.
"InuYasha!" She hugged onto under his arms and began to cry on his blood-red clothing, which Kagome thought it was you know who. Ranma seemed shock as well, but welcome the unexpected woman that suddenly drown into his warmth.
He couldn't stand it. His arms lightly wrapped around her fragile body shivering—desperately begging for him to hug her back. He closed his eyes tightly, 'why—why does it feel like I've been through this incident before?'
"… InuYasha!" She muffled into Ranma's clothing once again and nuzzled into his warmth.
"…" Ranma looked up the ceiling, waiting for her to look up into his eyes and finally see that he wasn't the person she claimed him to be.
"Ranma!"
Both of the two characters looked at the woman appearing right in front of their eyes. Young Akane Tendo looking quite frighten andwas nearinto breaking down. For all three of them were silent and his name was still hanged in the air. Everything just stops into its rightful place.
And when she was brave enough to look into her saviors eyes...
End of Chapter Two.
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