Ai Shiteru, Ranma...

Chapter 5: "At Kunou's Residence..."

By: Chibi Akane-chan2

A.N.::coughs nervously: ...Hi? (Does anyone remember me? .)

Disclaimers: Ah heh...not mine! Ranma is...yeah...too good to be mine... ;.; well not really XD

Akane heard both the Kunou siblings exclamations not failing to note the extremely different intent in their tones that they had. She exhaled in exasperation as she forced herself to walk towards the direction of the noise. Fortunately (or unfortunately), she did not have to move that far for Kunou somehow appeared in front of her all of a sudden.

"Ack!" Akane gasped, "Wha—wha...?"

"My beauty...thou art so divine...what brought this living eloquence to me?" Kunou asked with his trademark ecstatic look.

"Um," Akane started uncomfortably, "Sasuke...I, uh, kinda knocked him out...and I just wanted to bring him back to you so you could tend to him,"

She said this and then jerked her head behind her indicating that she was holding him on her back. As Kunou was about to say something, a shriek was heard...it sounded something like a cross between a broken siren and nails on a blackboard.

"TENDOU AKANE! HOW DARE YOU!"

"Oh boy..." Akane groaned to herself. She then thought,

With these two, I'm in the same situation as Ranma... It feels terrible. What a pain in the neck! Honestly!

Kodachi came flying (well, it seemed like she flew) over. Before she was able to do anything, Akane held out her palm.

"Stop," she said with a tone of finality, "I'm dropping Sasuke here, and I'm gonna take off. Is that okay with you? I don't have time for your antics."

Kodachi just stared at her wideeyed for a moment before it distorted into a distasteful glare. Kunou looked at her sister and back at Akane, and again. Before he was finally able to think of something to say, Akane already took off.

"Wha..what just happened?"

"The Tendou wench was here, dear brother,"

"Ah."

They both looked down to see an indisposed Sasuke.

Akane panted at the door of her home. She almost regretted volunteering but didn't think much of it... after all, it would be a pain to boil hot water for Ranma all over again. Luckily, she wasn't drenched in rain so she didn't have to go change.

"Tadaima!" she called out.

No answer. But she was welcomed with a mess on the floor from what happened previously.

"Awwwwww...argh..." Akane moaned. She was too tired to fix it. Wondering for a moment if Ranma would do it, she went to look for him.

Oh right, I think he went upstairs...

Akane hopped over the mess and ambled up the stairs towards his room.

Ranma layed down on his futon with his hands behind his head. Staring up at the ceiling, he wondered why Sasuke would do such a thing out of nowhere. Then again, he shouldn't have been too surprised; they always did crazy things that pissed him off. Bah. Just bah. Pensive for a moment, his thoughts winded towards Akane and how she offered to take Sasuke instead.

Well...I gotta admit...that really was thoughtful of her...

Suddenly there was a knock on his door. Ranma raised an eyebrow and thought for a moment.

"C'mon in," he called out.

The door opened and Akane's head popped in.

"Heya, Ranma!" Akane greeted with a smile.

"Oh! Yo, Akane. How did it go?"

"I made it out with my sanity in tact, don't worry," she said with a grin.

Ranma chuckled and said,

"With your temper? I'm surprised I didn't hear Kunou flying in the air,"

Akane laughed uncomfortably,

"I'm a little too tired to deal with them today, so I just left as quickly as I could,"

As soon as she finished saying that, she felt a pillow smack her in the face with deadly accuracy. Growling, she grabbed the pillow and threw it back at Ranma who just caught it and laughed.

In a huff, Akane turned around and walked out. Ranma's eyes followed her as she went out. Just as she was just a few feet away from the door, Ranma in a nonchalant voice said loudly,

"Hey, Akane. I love you too,"

She stopped in her tracks and found it hard to breathe.

What...?

A.N.: lol long time no see! to be continued! Yes please don't kill me! ;.; I'm finally in college in everything so I'm...really really really busy... I haven't really proofread this yet so yeah, when I do, I'll post the revised chapter up in replacement for this. But for now? Please do read and review if you may :D Arigatou