INVISIBLE FRIEND (part 2)

-"Oh my, Nabiki…You startled me!"

- Nabiky clucked "I seem to be garnering that same reaction everywhere these days"

- "What were you doing out so early?"

- "Just helping somebody who's favourite thing to do is 'Akane gaze'"….

- "Were you playing cupid? Oh my, what a nice thing of you to do…Though knowing those two, it won't be a piece of cake to get them together."

- "I've a feeling the 'invisible friend' will grant us this one wish."

And with that said, continued her way upstairs to her room leaving Kasumi wondering about her last remark.

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She was so stubborn!...but he was determined to make her listen…that's it. He would apologise to her and make her talk to him again… Last night had been unnerving enough for him to make him want a repetition of it…no more déjà vu! Besides, after what Nabiki had said, he felt compelled to it….not that he didn't want to do it in the first place.

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- "Akane? Can I come in?" Ranma's deep baritone was heard through the corridor.

No response was heard from the room. For all he knew she could have been still sleeping but sheet rustles together with sniffle sounds gave her away. The silent had been broken, and Ranma was not about to let things stay that way.

- "Akane, you have to hear me out! I know you are there, so please open the damn door so we can talk things out!"

Had she just heard him right? PLEASE? She never thought that was a word belonging to his vocabulary!... Sometimes the boy could really amaze her. But still she was not caving to his prays…He had to do better than that to win her.

Ranma tried another approaching method…'Maybe this would get her attention' he thought. "I've got you a gift for the 'invisible friend'"

- "I don't want it anymore! It's not like I would ever want anything from such a Pervert!"

- "Let me in this very instant or…" he threatened.

- "Or what?" In quick motion the door fell open and Akane's face was now inches away from his, her chocolate orbs full open and showing rage. Ranma's heart beat was speeding and his muscles were hardening from the need to shout back at her. He felt paralysed; unable to any motion, his mouth suddenly very dry and his brain had stop his cerebral activities (not that there were much of them, knowing that his only neuron's job was the 'echo-making'). 'Why was it that she had such an effect on him?' he thought.

- "Or what? YOU JERK!" She shouted again, trying to get a response out of him…

She had beautiful brown eyes and for a while he had seen no further… 'He must have looked so stupid just staring at those eyes' his mind commented while he tried to keep cool, though his stupid knees wouldn't obey and would keep moving like jelly…

-"Ranma! You jerk…if you have nothing to tell me you better leave the hell out of here!"

This time he did snap out of his 'dreamy-state'…

- "Don't even try to brush me off ever again!" Ranma hissed, grabbing her arm gently and forcing her into her room, making sure to close it before he was in, so they would be interrupted.

- "Let go of me, Ranma!" She warned, trying to twist her arm out of his grip. He held on for a second more, their eyes locking. She couldn't tore her eyes away as an strange warmth spread through her, making her blush from head to toes. "Let go of me" the command held less force than the last one.

Ranma released her finally, but his fingers stayed a bit too long on the perfect skin of her arm. The sensations tingled up his arm, and he swallowed hard, yanking his fingers away from her like if he'd been burned. (A.N: I've always wanted to use this..I once read it on a fic)

-"Happy?" As always, he tried to cover his indecision with his cockiness

-"Not really. You're still around" Akane retorted, trying to drudge up some anger, but there seemed to be none to be found. Even her irritation had been swept away by one look into the soulful eyes.

-"You cut me to the quick" He snapped back, but his voice lacked venom as well.

-"I like to" She growled, her face twisting into a grimace.

-Ranma took a step closer to her, leaning forward so that they were eye to eye. "It's not like you can"

-"Don't tempt me" She forced the words out through tight lips and clenched theeth.

-"And why should I?" His voice was a whisper against her cheek…sensuous and so manly that Akane had to fight her sudden urge to capture his lips and kiss him hard till the day burn into night and the night turned into day…

He breathed against her cheek once again and she breathed back, taking a step back just enough to look him dead in the eye. Ranma, unable to bear her gaze, darted his gaze lower until he locked onto her mouth wondering if her rosy lips would taste as sweet as they look. Suddenly, all other thoughts fled from his mind, and he caught her chin, tilting her head up. She made a startled sound that he stopped with his mouth, clamping his own lips to hers.

Akane was completely shocked as she let Ranma kiss her senseless…After some hesitation she finally melted against him and snaked her arms around his neck, drawing their bodies painfully closer. She shut her eyes, and leaned into the kiss.

He could not believe it..he had just come to apologize and here he was sharing the most mind blowing kiss he had ever shared (not that any of the ones he had had really counted…not to him, at least) and with no other that with his uncute fiancée. And it was at this right moment that he remembered Nabiki's advice 'you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs' and everything seemed to have sense.

He suddenly broke off the kiss and searched inside his pockets. Akane was too startled still savouring the felling she had gotten with Ranma kissing her. His fiancée once again tilted up her chin so that they were eye to eye and his hands brushed hers leaving something similar to a paper.

-"You cannot make an omellete without breaking eggs" He breathed out, making no sense to her and disappeared of her room.

Her heart was racing, her hands trembling, her eyes still unfocused staring at what Ranma had given her. And then she read and understood…

…..Because one in my life

Whatever I am to the world

You become everything to me.

When you look me in the eyes,

Travelling to the depths of my soul

And you say a million things

Without the trace of a sound,

I know that my own life

Is inevitable consumed

Within the rhythmic beating

Of your very heart.

I love you for a million reasons,

No paper would do it justice.

It's a thing not of the mind

But of the heart.

A feeling.

Only felt.

…..your insivible friend

"You cannot make an omellete without breaking eggs" …And she understood… he had to given her his heart in order to win hers…

And outside the first snow fall from the sky and Akane felt happy her Christmas present was going to be as perfect as Ranma's "invisible friend".

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A.N: I hope you like it..and sorry for the grammar mistakes.

Merry Christmas to everybody!