Disclaimer: The Ranma ½ Series does not belong to me.

Also Slipped Away, by Avril Lavigne does not belong the me. (I love the song)

What's Left?

Chapter Three

By: Luna86

Proofread By: maixwolfblossom

Recap:

"Kasumi do you know who is coming to our house tonight?" I asked, even though I knew that she knew. I wanted to see if I could get a reaction out of her or at least she had the decency to tell me the truth.

"Well Akane, you see…"

End

"Well Akane, you see…um… the people that are coming are old friends of the family and…uh," it was then I knew she wouldn't answer my question with the truth. So what was the point of letting her ramble on with her response?

I wasn't going to wait for her answer so I just threw it at her, "Hey Kasumi, is RANMA one of our father's guests!" I asked, emphasizing Ranma's name.

Kasumi tensed when she heard Ranma's name; you could tell that she wasn't expecting that from me. "Please tell me the truth Kasumi. I don't think I could stand it if you were to lie to me just like the rest of the family!"

She released the breath she had been holding back and looked at me as if she didn't want to tell me what I needed to know, "Yes Akane, Ranma and his father will be coming to the house tonight. I don't know if he's going to stay with you and father but I do know that he didn't bring Shampoo with him and I think father mentioned something about Ranma wanting to stay in Nerinma."

I just looked at her, my eyes glowing red with anger, "When were you going to tell me this Kasumi? I thought that you, of all people, would tell me something as important as this! I deserve the right to know if Ranma's ass will be in my dojo!"

She remained quiet and gave me one of those looks that crushed my heart in to pieces, and made me go soft inside.

"I guess it's for the best that no one lets me know what's going on until the last minute! I always blow the situation out of proportion, right Kasumi?"

"Akane, that's not true! Father told me that he was going to tell you himself, and didn't want Nabiki or I to let you know. He had to pay off Nabiki so that she would not try to sell you the information."

"When was he going to tell me? When Ranma was at the doorstep of my house? Or when he moved in the dojo with his BITCH of a WIFE that he left me for?"

"Akane! Don't you speak to me like that! I told you, Ranma did not bring Shampoo with him—hey—Wait a minute…if father did not tell you, how did you find out?"

I could feel my eyes getting watery, but I held the tears back.

I grimly smiled and reluctantly replied, "I bumped into him on my way here. Oh how much I wanted to hurt him for what he made me go through the past year!"

"What happened? Was there tension between you two? Was he happy to see you? What did he tell you? Did you hurt him?" She was concerned, not for me but for him, that made me upset and…somehow sad.

"Yes there was tension, no he wasn't happy to see me, he told me off, and no I didn't hurt him, unfortunately!" I let her know that I am getting aggravated with the exasperation I was giving her.

"Oh my, so what happened?" she put her hand on my shoulder and somehow this simple gesture made me calm down.

"Well he didn't realize who I was, so I acted like I didn't know him."

"But Akane what are you going to do when he comes to the house tonight?" I could tell Kasumi was hiding her emotions from me when she said that.

"I don't know, but I can assure you that he won't hurt me again. Like when he left me!" I raised my voice a little, but not so much as to make Kasumi give me that lecture of how young ladies should not be yelling in the streets.

"Akane, I hope you're right. I thought that I was going to lose you, like I lost mother. I still don't know how you lived in that room of yours for a month after Ranma left."

I still remember that to day. Just remembering it, made me feel worse than when our mother died.

FLASHBACK

He left me, in the front of my house, to go with her, WHY? It felt like a nightmare to see him leave me and start a life with someone other than me. I quickly ran into the house; I didn't want to look back as he was abandoning the life that we might have had. I ran upstairs to my room and locked myself in there. Then, I destroyed everything in my room.

It all reminded me of him; the way that we had remodeled the room so we could occupy it as a couple, after the wedding we were going to have, four weeks before he left me. I wanted to kill myself because the man that had saved my life so many times, the man that I loved more then life itself, chose someone other than me for his wife. But I didn't have the courage to kill myself so I did the next best thing. I turned my radio on full blast and drank my sorrows away. Listening to the same song day after day after day…

Na na

Na na na na na na

I miss you

I miss you so bad

I don't forget you

Oh it's so sad

I hope you can hear me

I remember it clearly

Kasumi and Nabiki tried to get me out of my room, but I wouldn't open the door. Father was being the same asshole that he was always, only caring for his stupid dojo and how the schools would never be united.

CHORUS

The day you slipped away

Was the day I found

It won't be the same

Oh

My father didn't care how I was feeling; he was telling me that I should run after Ranma and make him change his mind, so that the school could move on with him as the instructor.

Na na

Na na na na na na

I didn't get around kiss you

Goodbye on the hand

I wish that I could see you again

I know that I can't

I hope you can hear me

I remember it clearly

To me, life was not worth living. All that I believed in, all the morals that I would stand up for, had no meaning to me. Life was moving on and I was staying behind. That's when I decided to leave my room and start a new life without Ranma and especially without love.

CHORUS

The day you slipped away

Was the day I found

It won't be the same

Oh

CHORUS

I swore to myself that I would never again shed a tear for a man that trampled over my feelings. I changed my life style, the way I thought and the way I loved.

I've had my wake up

Won't you wake up

I keep asking who

I can't take it

It wasn't fake

It happened you passed by

When I left my room, Kasumi was all over me. She was worried that I might have hurt myself when I locked myself in the room. Luckily there was no indication of the harm I had done to myself.

Now you're gone

Now you're gone

There you go

There you go

Somewhere I can't bring you back

Now you're gone

Now you're gone

There you go

There you go

Somewhere you're not coming back

If she only knew how many times I had tried to commit suicide. When I told her that I was fine, she started to cry and told me how worried she had been for my wellbeing.

CHORUS

The day you slipped away

Was the day I found

It won't be the same

Oh

Na na

Na na na na na na

Nabiki was trying to get me to go see a therapist. Kasumi and Nabiki were the only people that cared about me.

Not like that scum, who left me without a heart.

I miss you………

END OF FLASH BACK

"Don't worry Kasumi, it won't happen again. I now know that I have two people worth living for," I gave her a small grin and pulled some of my hair behind my left ear, trying to hide my sorrows.

"Who are they, if I may ask?" you could tell that she was wondering who it was, just by looking at her face.

"Why Kasumi, you of all people should know the only two people that I care about are you and Nabiki," I started to laugh just by the reaction she gave me after I told her.

A pair of arms grabbed Kasumi by the waist, making her squeal in fright. That's when Dr. Tofu came from behind Kasumi and hugged her. I thought that they made such a cute couple, the way they never argued and showed their love to one another.

That's what I thought that Ranma and I would have had, eventually. But it's too late for 'what if's' and the dreams to come true. I had to be realistic.

"Akane what brings you to the clinic? Are you ok?" Tofu was still grabbing my sister by the hips but his attention was now being focused on me.

Even though I used to have a crush on Tofu, every time he speaks to me I feel warm inside. My cheeks turned red and I immediately looked down at the ground. He still had that effect on me but not in the way a women loves a man, but in the way a sister loves her brother, "Do I have to be sick to come and visit my favorite brother-in-law and his lovely wife?"

He smiled knowingly and laughed. He knew I was teasing them, "No, Dr. Tofu I just came to tell Kasumi that Ranma and his dad, are going to come to the house tonight."

His body became tense; I found it so funny that I couldn't resist, so I chuckled.

"Did you tell her Kasumi, honey?" he asked my sister.

"No, she didn't tell me. I bumped in to him and I just put two and two together," I looked up at the couple in front of me and smiled at them, "Well if you two will excuse me, I have to make an entrance at school with my boyfriend," I was about to leave when Kasumi asked me a question.

"Akane are you planning to attend tonight?" She looked at me, trying to make eye contact with me.

"I don't know sis. I think I'm going to work. I don't feel like seeing Ranma again and I think that Jack wants to go out tonight."

"Who's Jack?" my brother-in-law asked.

"He's my new boyfriend," I told him.

"So what happened to Andy?" he asked, wondering what had happened to my previous boyfriend.

"Oh him, I broke up with Andy last month. You know the longest I've stayed with a boyfriend was a month. Besides, Andy wanted to know where I was all the time and I don't like men to be all over me like that. Its all right, though, because Jack gives me money and buys me presents all the time, even before I started to go out with him."

Just by looking at Kasumi I knew that I was going to get a lecture about how I shouldn't play with boys emotions. So I gave her a kiss on her cheek, said my goodbyes and I left to meet Jack in the front of the school.