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Changed Overnight

Chapter Three: New Love Affair

"Oh my," said Kasumi. "What happened to him?"

Ranma supported Ryouga's unconscious body as he entered the house. He didn't want to say what happened, not with everybody, especially Akane, there.

"He got in a fight again, and apparently he lost," he answered shortly.

Ryouga was very bruised; his body was bloody, scratches were all over his face, his clothes had ubiquitous rips. He was laid in a room where Kasumi cleaned his wounds. Akane and Ranma knelt down beside his body.

"Who could do such a thing?" Akane asked as she handed Kasumi the alcohol.

Ranma couldn't answer. What happened actually included her.

He was heading back home after running some errands for Kasumi when he saw Ryouga in an unoccupied lot filled with rubble, having destroyed a recently vacated house with his Bakusai Tenketsu. Ryouga was crying in fury. When he saw Ranma, he lunged at him but collapsed even before reaching his rival.

"Ryouga! Daijobu? What're you doing here?" Ranma knelt down and tried to help Ryouga up.

"…you dare… not w-worthy…" Ryouga stammered incoherently. He struggled to punch Ranma's face but he couldn't even lift a finger anymore – he was punching and destroying the building since last night and had clearly lost all his strength. His body was covered in injuries and blood.

"What the heck are you talking about?"

"Akane… loves y-you…" Ryouga stuttered miserably.

"Oi, get a hold of yourself!"

"…t-told me… in love with you… you didn't even c-care about her feelings… aagh!"

Ryouga grimaced as Ranma had touched a particularly deep wound on his shoulder. Ranma quickly withdrew his hand, supported Ryouga's head instead, and felt warm blood drenching his skin. His face was wet with tears and blood – nobody could have recognized him as Ryouga anymore.

"What are you saying?" Ranma asked, trying his best to be gentle but his voice implicating increasing anxiousness. He was confused – Ryouga talked disjointedly and couldn't be understood – but he felt more than just pity towards the Lost Boy, and that's why he refrained from shouting.

Just when Ranma thought that Ryouga was drifting into unconsciousness, a bloody hand grabbed his shirt.

"Ranma, don't y-you break her heart… I-I'm sure you will… I need to change her m-mind about you or she'll end up–"

And then he fainted.

Ranma could never tell anybody that.

"Akane-chan, I need to cook dinner now," proclaimed Kasumi. "Please continue treating his wounds."

When Kasumi left the the room, Akane sighed. "Who could do such a thing to him? Poor Ryouga," she mumbled as she treated alcohol on the scratches of his face.

Akane reached across Ranma for some cotton, her hand barely sweeping his knees. He was certain that he caught the scent of oranges and strawberries for a few seconds…

"Who do you think could have done this, Ranma?" asked Akane as she began pouring the antiseptic on the cotton ball she was holding.

"I don't know," Ranma replied hastily as his cheeks flushed, remembering what Ryouga had said about Akane being in love with him.

Why am I the one blushing? Ranma you idiot, stop it!

"Help him up, Ranma, we need to remove his shirt."

Ranma pulled Ryouga to sit up while Akane removed his yellow shirt. Ranma put Ryouga down again after the short process. "Kami-sama," Akane gasped, seeing Ryouga's very bruised, battered body. She got the moist towel and wiped his injured body.

Later that night when everybody was asleep, Akane went to the kitchen and helped herself to a glass of water. She went to the room where Ryouga was resting to see if he was okay. The sight of his bruised body kept her worrying so much that she couldn't sleep. It was a nightmare worse than the one she's been having those past nights, really.

With only the light of a dim lamp in the room, the environment that welcomed her wasn't too happy.

Akane knelt down and held Ryouga's hand, covered with bandages, just a while ago bloody and cut and unbearable to see. She pulled down slightly the blanket that covered his shirtless, battered body, and reapplied medicine to the wounds. She noticed that Ryouga was having difficulty breathing and felt his forehead. It was as hot as fire.

"Ryouga-kun!"

He had a very high fever, and Akane wanted it to stop. Enough had already happened to him.

Okay, lemme see. Fever… oh yes, paracetamol!

Ryouga stirred and slowly opened his eyes.

A while ago, he was dreaming of being in the Jusenkyo springs once again; at that time he was right in front of the Spring of Drowned Man. When he saw Akane, he convinced himself that he had awakened into another dream.

Sometimes, people acquire answers to their questions in their dreams. Maybe his questions would be answered now…

"Akane-san, w-why did you let Ranma–"

"Sssh…" she hushed her patient. "You have very high fever. I'll go get something. Wait here."

In less than a minute Akane was back with warm water and a towel in a basin. "I can't find any paracetamol, I'm sorry! I hope this will do."

She slowly removed his headscarf. It seemed so familiar; she just can't put her finger on it, but she ignored it anyway. She swept the hair across his forehead and carefully placed the towel on him.

Ryouga had almost drifted off to sleep, but he was still faintly aware that Akane was there. He tried to keep his eyes open, but his eyelids seemed to weight a couple of tons.

"Oh, Ryouga…"

Akane wondered what really happened to Ryouga. Was he being chased by thugs? Did he have something that they wanted? Her eyes landed on Ryouga's bag with the red umbrella. She opened it and saw nothing important – clothes, kettles, instant noodles, a knife, and a rubber duck.

And then she saw letters and randomly read one of them. It didn't take long until she realized it was a letter she knew – because she wrote it.

The letter she was holding was the one she gave to the black-and-white ninja dog as a reply to the person who sent her a love letter – the love letter with those sweet and heart-warming words. Her reply was that she understood completely how he felt, but she couldn't accept his love because she already loved someone else.

Ryouga was the one who wrote me all those letters?

A few minutes later, after having recollected her moments with Ryouga in the past where he had acted very nervous and uncanny most of the time, Akane was still dumbfounded.

Simply, it meant that he loved her with all his being just as he described deeply in his letters! She read the others and found that they were all about his love for her, telling her where he was in Japan or the world in his training to defeat Ranma, unsent they may be.

Kami-sama…

She blushed and looked at Ryouga.

Ryouga, the guy who challenged Ranma in Furinkan High. Ryouga, the guy who was one of the reasons her long hair was cut short. Ryouga, the naive, kind, brave, caring guy. Ryouga, the guy who, she just discovered, loved her.

She put the letters back into the bag and didn't know what to do.

Ryouga had a dream again – what happened that night when he was P-chan and Akane said those words that broke his heart and all of him.

"Akane-san… why Ranma?" he groaned in his sleep, unaware that Akane was there and listening intently. "He's unworthy… he doesn't care about you and he'll break your heart. I love you Akane… I will forever…"

Akane blushed even more upon hearing what he just said. "Ryouga-kun…" It was as if he was in a very different light now. He didn't look like the naive boy at all. He was a man, as she saw his bruised but well-defined body, a man who knew how to love. How could she have been blind all this time? Ryouga was so nice and clearly gave her attention like nobody else did.

I was just thinking of Ranma all those times, that's how, she thought bitterly.

Ryouga blinked and saw Akane. He blinked again. Akane.

"Akane-san, please get out of my dream," he begged. "I want to forget you, but I can't. I just wish you the best with Ranma… I hope that when he breaks your heart you'll be able to come though, and I promise I'll be there for you…"

He broke off with a cough.

Tears fell from Akane's eyes and dropped on the floor. She touched Ryouga's face gently. "I wish this was a dream, Ryouga. But it isn't. I'm bound to Ranma because of our parents' will! I wish I hadn't been blind to your feelings all this time…"

"This… this isn't a dream?"

"No, silly," she said, trying to smile.

Ryouga realized it and his eyes grew wide open. He blushed furiously and wanted to escape from this room of embarrassment, but even before he could sit up his body ached with pain and he grimaced.

"Ryouga-kun!" Akane exclaimed. She tried to calm him down and held his warm arm.

Ryouga gazed at her and was breathing hard. What has he done? He said all those things in his sleep and she completely heard him! What was she going to think? How could he have been stupid?

"Akane-san, all those things, I was just dreaming… I-I didn't know…"

"I found my letter in your bag."

Ryouga had many letters in his bag, all of them addressed to Akane. But she said MY letter, so it could only mean that she had read the reply she sent him as an answer to the love letter written by the anonymous sender.

"Akane-san, sorry, I…" His fever rose as every inch of his body joined his startled state. He felt rigid and helpless.

"Sssh," Akane hushed, bringing her finger to his lips. She neared her face to his until their noses were just a few inches away, and she put her hand on his warm chest. "Ryouga, I don't know why you've been hiding things from me all this time…"

Ryouga gazed into her eyes – they were sad. But he couldn't take the feeling of her hand on his chest and her face so near. He swore he could've fainted, but he didn't. He couldn't miss it. He was blushing profusely, his eyes wide open with disbelief that this was happening.

"I'm sorry I've been blind, Ryouga," Akane continued. "My thoughts about Ranma have completely blinded me. I'm sorry…"

"Akane-san… is this for real?"

"Yes, for real." Akane leaned towards him for a kiss.

A huge part of Ryouga expected all of it to disappear in a big white whirlpool, just like his countless dreams about Akane, which all ended with him pulling her close for a kiss, and then… everything just disappeared.

But this time, it happened.

A kiss of love.

Neither Akane nor Ryouga has experienced it before. Akane had kissed Kuno because she had to. But she kissed Ryouga because she wanted to. Clearly, she didn't realize it would be this enchanting and heavenly. It was like all the other things in the world have disappeared and all that was left were the two of them.

Ryouga's mind was clouded with happiness; he was overjoyed. At last, the dream he had been dreaming of for many nights has come true – and it was no illusion! The girl he loved more than anything else was in his reach, willingly conforming to him.

Akane withdrew her lips from his and they gazed at each other's eyes.

"Akane-san," Ryouga said, raising his bandaged hand with all his strength to touch her face. "I-I don't know how this a-all happened, but I want you to know–"

"Sssh," Akane hushed him again, sensing that he was still having difficulty breathing. "All that matters now," she whispered, taking his bandaged hand, "is that we're together."

She kissed him again on the lips, and this time Ryouga had been dawned that it was really true.

"Ohayou, Akane," greeted Kasumi.

"Ohayou," said Akane. She was ready for school; she just needed to eat breakfast and she'd be off with Ranma. She turned to a miraculously recovered Ryouga with a smile. "Ohayou, Ryouga-kun."

By this time Ryouga was still thinking so much about his dream coming true since last night that he was still shy. "Ohayou, Akane-san," he answered, blushing, looking down on the table and unknowingly turning his chopsticks into bits and pieces.

Ranma watched them with curiosity, his eyes peeking above the bowl he was emptying. Soun was too busy with his newspaper; Happosai and Genma were busy chowing down their food; but Kasumi and Nabiki noticed. They didn't say anything about it, though.

A few lackluster moments later, Akane and Ranma were on their way to school.

"So Ranma, why didn't you tell me?" Akane began suddenly.

"Didn't tell you what?"

"Didn't tell me who sent that anonymous love letter the ninja dog gave me."

Uh-oh, did she find out?

"Well, who sent it?" Ranma asked in his most innocent voice.

Akane didn't answer. She just kept on walking, and the silence made Ranma feel weird.

"Oi, speak up. You're scaring me."

"Ranma, are you okay with our engagement?"

It surprised him, that's for sure. That one came out of nowhere!

"I know our parents just forced that thing on us. But you know, if there really is nothing between us, why don't we just break the engagement? I mean, you were always complaining before. If the engagement's broken, we'll be free, right? "

Ranma was shocked, hearing Akane say those words. It was like she was easy about it, like it was no big deal. "Well, you…"

"If it's up to me I'd like to break the engagement," she said plainly. Then she smiled. "Surely, you haven't fallen in love with me."

Ranma blushed. "W-with a macho chick like you? Of course not!"

"Well, it's settled then. I'm telling our dads."

After another moment of steady tip-tapping sounds of their shoes, Ranma spoke up. "Why this all of a sudden? You're… strange."

"I've fallen in love again – with someone else – so you don't need to worry about us anymore. No more connection. Well, we could still be friends, but really. If you don't want it that way, it's okay."

Ranma didn't know what to say. He didn't want to say anything. It wasn't too becoming of Akane to open up conversations regarding the whole engagement topic. There was something seriously wrong going on.

In school, Ranma was wondering frantically why Akane was acting the way she did that morning. She was – or maybe it was Ranma's imagination? – happier. She was sincerely willing to chat with Kuno and everybody else.

What the heck is happening to her?

Gosunkugi approached Ranma in his ever so creepy way and tapped the latter's shoulder. "Ranma, why is Akane very nice today? Have you finally broken your engagement?"

Ranma winced at what Gosunkugi said. "Oi, don't creep on me like that!"

Gosunkugi smiled. "Every guy has been giving her gifts and flowers because she doesn't beat them up. It's like she's not Akane anymore; she's nicer and gentler and feminine. How did that happen, I'm wondering?"

"I-I don't know! Why ask me?"

"You're supposed to be her fiancé… but never mind. I'll just go join Akane, if I can get through the crowd of boys around her…"

When it was time to go home from school, Akane couldn't walk in a straight line because of all the gifts and flowers she was bringing. She couldn't see where she was going in the first place.

"Aren't you going to help me?" she asked Ranma nicely.

"Uh… yeah," Ranma answered awkwardly. He carried most of the presents. Moreover, he never had the time to ask questions that morning, so he decided it was time to ask the question that baffled him so much the whole day.

"Akane, what's happening to you?"

She didn't seem to take it seriously and answered honestly. "Well, nothing, really."

And then she started singing a song.

"There's gotta be more to life

Than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me

'Cause the more that I'm trippin' up thinking

There must be more to life

Well it's life, but I'm sure

There's gotta be more…"

Akane had sung it so beautifully that Ranma was speechless for a moment while they walked.

What does that have to do with her?

"Akane," Ranma started after a long silence. "Why dya sing that song?"

She didn't answer. They continued walking until she led them both inside the park and sat on a bench under a tree. Ranma followed her and sat down, laying the gifts and flowers beside him.

Akane smiled. "You still don't get it, do you?"

She looked at the sky, and Ranma couldn't miss that scene because she looked so beautiful.

"To be honest Ranma," she started, "when you came into my life, I was somehow happy to have a fiancé."

Ranma was listening so intently that he could hear her sigh after each sentence.

"You know me. I've always been labeled the tomboy since childhood, even with the Furinkan High Hentai Horde trailing me everyday. Sure, you remember me being mad when I was introduced to you as your fiancé," she paused and chuckled, "but – okay, I'm telling you the whole truth now – deep inside, I felt… well, thankful."

"Thankful?"

"Yeah, thankful," Akane repeated, glad that Ranma was listening. "I mean, if your dad's a friend of my dad, then you had to be decent – which was the opposite of what you really are, when I found out."

"So I guess you were disappointed, huh?" Ranma asked absentmindedly.

He thought he had enough girls to live with, which was one of the things men wish for the most, but the fact that Akane was dissatisfied with him degraded him below zero.

Akane smiled. "Of course not, silly. You turning out to be the opposite of what I had expected totally made things unpredictable. I learned another side of life I never would have experienced if you didn't enter mine. My life was almost boring before I met you, what with your comical fight-to-death enemies who come for you because you did something terrible to them in the past."

"You're saying… you liked the engagement?" Ranma asked coyly.

"I'm saying I'm glad you came into my life," a pleased Akane replied.

"W-what about the engagement?" Ranma muttered, kicking himself mentally for stuttering at a time like this. His Adam's apple was bobbing inside his throat.

"I was really hoping it would work out, but it didn't – and it still doesn't," Akane answered curtly. Then she took her eyes away from the sky to face him, much to his surprise, that he was forced to look away or she could've seen him blush right in front of her any moment. "But I did try my best though," she added hastily. "I didn't want you or anybody to think I wasn't human and I couldn't adjust. I tried my best to be a good fiancé to you."

Now that made Ranma guilty. She tried her best. And what did he do? He was so inconsiderate, and he didn't even give her half of what she deserved in turn.

"I guess we aren't really for each other. And I couldn't limit myself to a relationship that isn't working, so if it's for the better… why don't we just stop this?"

Ranma's heart skipped a beat. He couldn't believe what Akane had just said! To make it worse, she said some more things he never thought could hurt him.

"I did appreciate what you said to me last week, about me being your favorite sparring partner, that I cook well, that I'm cute and all. But I know you were only saying it to stop me from crying – and thanks. You quite had me there," she said with a smile.

Now that meant she didn't realize how important she was to him.

"Wait, don't say another word," Ranma interrupted. This was just a silly nightmare, he… he's gotta do something to stop it. "What the heck has gotten into you?"

For a while, Akane was surprised. "Why, what's the matter? I thought you'd like the idea. You never really liked this engagement thing, right?"

"No. Y-yes! No… I don't know! But why? Why are you acting like this all of a sudden? Yeah, you told me you've fallen in love again with someone else. But you… you…"

Akane didn't expect him to act that way. She predicted him to smirk and say he was glad the engagement would be broken.

"Look, I know this came all too sudden, that's why you're acting like this. But everything will be back to normal – normal like before we were engaged. That's what you want, right? Come on, Ranma, I know you. You're better off having one less fiancé, one less burden to deal with!"

"No, you don't understand," he tried to explain.

"I do understand. Okay, I'm admitting this now – the kiss I gave Kuno was just something to make you jealous. But right now, it's true. I'm not acting anymore. Come on," Akane said, "don't act as if you actually care about these matters."

"Baka! I don't care, but what concerns me is the fact that you're not AKANE anymore. Maybe you still haven't recovered since the day Kuno drugged you!"

He knew it was pathetic, but he couldn't say anything else. Ranma wanted this conversation to end – every second that Akane spoke, he felt sullied.

Akane chuckled. Drugged? Who said anything about Kuno drugging her? The plan was undoubtedly working 100 percent.

"Baka…" she said softly. Then she said more softly still, that only he could hear, "I'm the same kawaiikune Akane you've hurt and made fun of. It's me. And like I said… there's gotta be more to my life – than to be limited into someone who cannot grow with certain… factors around."

Ranma was struck. He knew he'd been bad and indiscreet to her a couple of times, but he didn't know she'd been very much affected… he's always known her as a strong-willed person who didn't care about what other people said to her.

"So… goodbye," Akane found herself saying. She got up and walked away.

Goodbye… that word had never meant so much to Ranma until now.

Akane hadn't gone several steps when she stopped. "Ranma, before we end this, I just want to say–"

"Baka!" Ranma shouted immediately. He ran towards her and embraced her tightly.

I don't care whatever name I call you, Akane, Ranma thought desperately. All I know is that I don't want you to leave!

Even Ranma shocked himself with what he just did. His brain didn't even receive the message that the nerves in his body were sending, which meant that he acted out of impulse. Akane knew that impulses are connected with what a person really felt deep inside, and whether one liked it or not, impulses always revealed the truth. That was Akane's analysis (with a little help from The Wonders of Biology and Chemistry, of course).

But she was stunned, nonetheless, as her head rested on his shoulder.

"Baka!" Ranma shouted again, this time more feebly that it departed as a grumble. "Don't do this, Akane. Stop it…"

Then they heard the familiar ringing of a bell on a bicycle.

"Airen! Why you with hentai-girl? Have deal she stay away!" The purple-haired Amazon hurried to where the two were locked in a tight embrace, or rather, where Ranma didn't seem to want to let go of Akane.

"Hentai-girl, remember deal?"

Akane pushed Ranma away from her, but she didn't do it hard – there was no need – because Ranma was feeling too weak. She faced the Amazon.

"Yes, of course I remember, Shampoo," she assured. Then she turned to Ranma. "I just wanted to say… you could have the flowers and the gifts."

Akane glanced at the presents over Ranma's shoulder, and only Shampoo followed her gaze.

"Ranma not give them to hentai-girl, did he?"

Akane managed a smile. "No, he's not the one who gave those to me."

Without a final look at Ranma, she walked away.

I just wanted to say I loved you Ranma, but things got harder to handle. I want to be free. Goodbye…

"Ranma!" Shampoo mewed, embracing her airen tight with triumph.

Ranma was frozen where he was standing, looking at the figure of Akane slowly dissolving away.

It was Saturday morning. Ranma Saotome opened his eyes and found the ceiling staring blankly at him. He turned his head and looked out of the open window, and the blue, cloudless sky looked back. However, he felt like it was ignoring him.

Ranma didn't know why, but he felt depressed. When he started to get up, he fell back down flat on his butt. The morning air was cool, but he was sweating. When he finally got the strength to get up and go downstairs, he couldn't greet back his dad, his uncle, Kasumi or Nabiki, even the wretched old man Happosai. Nor could he take a bite from his breakfast.

What's wrong with me today?

The people in the house didn't notice anything unusual with the way Ranma was acting – they figured he was just lacking sleep, so everybody went on with their own business.

Kasumi sighed. "Love surely is in the air."

Soun looked above his newspaper. "Why so?"

"Akane," Nabiki indicated.

Genma's faced turned into puzzlement. He looked at Ranma seriously, then turned to Soun. "I thought Akane told us that she wanted to end her engagement with Ranma last night?"

Ranma dropped his chopsticks as everyone looked at him worriedly.

He completely forgot what happened yesterday! As he froze in his place with everybody's eyes watching as if he might have collapsed anytime, he was furiously scolding himself that he was so stupid for having not realized why he felt different. And to think it was the last thing he was frantically thinking of last night!

"Ranma-kun, are you okay?" Kasumi asked concernedly.

"Y-yes. Gotta go." With all the strength he could collect, he tried to put on his normal carefree expression and walked out of the residence.

"Father, did you allow Akane to have her will granted?"

Soun looked at Genma who was feeling dismal. "No, Kasumi, we did not," Soun answered curtly.

"Why?" Happosai asked. "If you ask me, nothing's going to happen between those two. They quarrel the way cats and dogs do! Ranma's better off training with us in the mountains."

"Ah, I see where this is going," Nabiki remarked. "You had a deal – an unbreakable one. Ranma and Akane's engagement is arranged and permanent. Right?"

"Well," Genma sighed, glancing at Soun, "we agreed from the start that if worst comes to worst, the kids can decide if they want to break the commitment, so last night everything could have ended. But Soun and I knew that the problem could still be remedied."

Happosai snorted. "That's what you've been doing the whole year, trying to remedy this incurable dilemma with your set-ups."

"Oh, but Ranma and Akane have gotten along on the way," Kasumi commented in an eager tone. "They shared many… personal moments that only the two of them could have made possible."

Yes, Kasumi knew. And Nabiki, too. Not that Kasumi had been eavesdropping like the middle Tendo, but some things cannot help revealing themselves to her.

"And that's exactly why we didn't allow it," said Soun, resuming in reading the newspaper. "We knew there was hope."

"Then why are you both looking so grim?" asked Happosai slyly.

"Because we don't have rice anymore," Genma answered simply. "I think I'll live on bamboo shoots for now." He stood up, poured a glass of water on his head, and walked out of the dining room as a huge panda.

This is hopeless, Nabiki mused.

When Ranma finally reached the other side of the wall, he felt as if he could have collapsed, but he didn't. He continued walking and didn't pay attention to where he was going. Akane occupied his mind as he looked at the sky.

What happened?

He remembered what Akane had said the day before: "I'm the same kawaiikune Akane you've hurt and made fun of. It's me. And like I said… there's gotta be more to my life – than to be limited into someone who cannot grow with certain… factors around."

Have I been that insensitive to her? Have I hurt her for so long and had she been upset all those times? Why didn't I take her disconcertion seriously? I wish I'd been good to her the way she was good to me… we probably would be living a happy life right now. Why didn't I tell how I really felt about her?

Ranma spent his time regretting all that he did and did not do when Akane was still with him. He called himself the names that he called her. He insulted himself for being so stupid, letting someone like Akane go. Only now did he realize how much she meant to him – how important she was in his everyday life. It was the first time he ever felt this way for someone, and he figured…

He figured that he might as well have fallen in love with her.

And Kami-sama, he really had – deeply.

Then he remembered what Nabiki and Kasumi had said a while ago, about love being in the air for Akane. This made him ponder so much. Who could it be? Kuno? No, she told him that the kiss was just an act to make him jealous.

The word jealous echoed in his thoughts. He realized that it was what he actually felt now, and that fact alone indicated how profoundly he had fallen for her.

Suddenly, he was startled by a scream, a scream that resounded in his head. It was a scream that none other can make.

"Akane!" he shouted back, trying to detect where the voice came from.

Her scream was followed by a word, a word that made him truly sure it was her.

"Hentai!"

As fast as his legs could carry him, Ranma hurried to the voice's direction.

Author's Notes: The song Akane sang is the chorus of Stacie Oricco's More To Life. In the Akane-and-bloody-Ryouga scene, there was a reference to an episode where a ninja dog kept giving Akane love letters (or maybe just one, I can't seem to recall) that were from Ryouga, only she didn't know they were from him. I think Akane actually replied to the letters, saying that she appreciated his love but she loved someone else. And it's really obvious who that guy was. :p

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