Drabble #4: Rule Breaker
Word count: 326
Warning: none
Note: I guess this is sort of like an abstract way of viewing their relationship. Akane is blind to herself, unwilling to accept facts so she could protect herself better. In comes Ranma, ready to knock all her defenses away.
Tendo Akane lives a very structured life. Rule number one states that all men are perverted two-timers with no respect for the people around them. Rule number two states that one Tendo Akane will never loose to a man. Rule number three states that Tendo Akane will never accepts help or protection from a man. Rule number four states that Tendo Akane can only be knocked down; that is how one shows their love and affection to her, because she will take no other type of confession. Rule number five states that Tendo Akane is strong, willful, and extremely violent, thus why rule number four must be followed to subdue her into a proper girlfriend.
Rule number six states that she is utterly untouchable.
Then Saotome Ranma comes along into her well-structured life, and she finds that the rules are being breached.
Saotome Ranma is not a perverted two-timer, and he has a healthy respect for those he considers worthy of such respect. Tendo Akane prefers to denounce that claim, although she knows very well that he does nothing with his other fiancées. Saotome Ranma defeats Tendo Akane on a daily basis, despite his unwillingness to exchange real blows with her. Tendo Akane pretends to believe that since he had never taken their spars seriously, it does not count as defeats. Saotome Ranma protects Tendo Akane with a passion unseen in many of his other endeavors. Tendo Akane takes both the protection and the insults equally and calls it even.
Tendo Akane is pleased to note that rules number four, five, and six have yet to be broken; she decides quite firmly that no one, not even Saotome Ranma will take her as their bride. She is unaware that even while she is making that promise, the hard armor around her heart is already being chipped away.
Tendo Akane lives by a set of very structured rules. Unfortunately for her, Saotome Ranma is a compulsive rule-breaker.