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AKANE - Chapter 03
Ranma was tired, really tired. He wanted to take a bath, eat dinner with Akane and Yoshi and then go to bed and sleep 'till next morning. Training Yoshi in the Art was thougher than he thought, the kid was really good at it and he wanted to push him farther and farther but he was stubborn and this made Ranma's task harder. But he loved challenges and this was a damn good one. He entered the changing room and prepared himself for the bath, but when his boxers were halfway down his legs the bathroom door flung open and a very naked Akane stepped into the changing room. Ranma was taken aback to say the least, he started sputtering apologies but he tripped in his boxers and fell on his bottom. He watched Akane flush in anger, then she launched all the object she could find at him and stormed in her room's direction covering herself with a towel yelling: "Pervert! I knew it wasn't a good idea to take a male teacher for the dojo!"
He stayed were he was in shock, naked on the changing room's floor, his boxers hanging on his leg. A single thought crossed his mind:
*I'm dead.*
Yoshi was giving Ranma and his mother's strange glances, he knew that something was going on but he kept his mouth shut and giggled a little when his mother told him to ask Ranma if he wanted more rice. He finished his meal, excused himself from the table and wandered off searching for P-chan. Ranma knew that this was the perfect opportunity to apologize to Akane, but words failed him and he didn't knew what to say. He gathered the courage and finally said something:
"About earlier..." he started.
"When you were acting like a pervert?" Akane interrupted him.
"Yeah, I wanted to tell you...hey wait a minute! I wasn't acting like a pervert!"
"Oh, yeah? How do you call peeping your employer when she's having a bath?"
"I wasn't peeping you, I was going to take a bath!"
She watched him wide-eyed: "You were going to do what?"
"Alone! I was going to take a bath alone! I didn't know you were in there! Who'd want to take a bath with you anyway?" he immediately closed his mouth but it was too late. He had already put his foot in his mouth.
Akane looked down. She stood and started cleaning the table: "You are right. Who'd want to take a bath with me anyway?" she murmured.
"Come on, you know I didn't mean that!" he stood and helped her with the table chores.
"You didn't mean it but you said it."
"Look, I'm sorry. I really am. I say wrong things all the time!" he followed her in the kitchen, watching her doing the dishes and offering to towel them.
"Sure." was her only response.
"It's true. Lots of people can tell you I'm saying the thruth."
"Like whom?" she stopped cleaning and turned to look at him in the face, it was the first time that evening.
"My mother for example. I told her she was a beautiful woman...considering she was sixty!"
"Ranma!"
"I know I know, it just came out! Or my sister, I told her she was good at the Art...for a woman!"
"You are a jerk."
"Maybe." he giggled scratching the back of his head "But not all the time." he smiled at her.
She frowned but then loose the battle she was having with herself and started giggling.
"Am I forgiven?" he asked relieved.
"Let's say I'll give you another chance, but I think I'll get dressed before opening the bathroom door." she left the room.
"It's a pity."
He was eating alone in the big house for the first time since he started working for Akane. Her and Yoshi were visiting Soun, her father, and won't come back 'till later in the afternoon. Today was saturday and there were no classes. He had no idea how to spend the day so when he finished his lunch and had washed the dishes he started wandering around the building. He cecked the mail and put it on the table, a postcard though grabbed his attention and he couldn't resist the urge to read it.
'Hey Akane! How are you doing? Here is absolutely wonderful! Maybe we'll stop to say hello when we can back, what do you think?
Nabiki and Tatewaki'
He looked at the front of the postacard, a photo of a beautiful beach could be seen. He put the postcard back on the table with the other mail and just then the telephone rang.
"Tendo Dojo." he answered.
"Ranma? Is that you?"
"Mom!" he immediately recognized the voice on the other end of the line.
"Oh, Ranma! It's so good to hear you."
"Yeah, it's good to hear you, too, mom. How are everybody doing?"
"We're all fine thanks. I miss you Ranma."
"I miss you, too."
"Listen, I have to go to Tokyo with Ranko to visit an old friend of mine in Nerima and I'd want to see my son..."
"Great! I'll ask Akane if you two can stay here at the dojo. Maybe I can save you some space in the room I'm staying..."
"Akane? Who is she?" she asked not placing the name.
"Well, my employer, of course!"
"Oh! You didn't mention she was a woman last time I talked to you."
"Mom, don't start planning on marrying me away! She is a woman, yes, and she has a six years-old son."
"Is she married? Good looking?"
"Good looking, yes. Married, no. Mom, now don't start on 'how manly is to start a family of your own'!"
"But it's true. Time is passing by for you, too, you know? And you are not getting any younger!"
"Please, mom! Say, when are you two arriving here in Nerima?"
"We'll be there the day after tomorrow. Hmm, at ten."
"Ok, I'll be at the station to meet you."
"I love you, Ranma."
"I love you, too."
Ranma was bored to death by the time Akane came back, she entered alone in the house and Ranma meet her in the hallway. He looked around and then asked:
"Where is Yoshi?"
"He is staying at my sister's house this afternoon. He is playing with his cousins. She will come here later with her 'tribe' to have dinner with us." Akane looked somewhat tired to him.
"Good, she is older or younger than you?"
"Older. She was so curious to see the man Yoshi kept on talking about. You sure have a special place in his heart."
"The same goes here. I've put the mail on the table, there is even a postcard."
Akane entered the living room and started scanning trough the mail, then she read the postcard. She didn't say anything but Ranma saw her jaw clench and her eyes becoming hard. She excused herself and entered her room closing the door behind her. He didn't want to eavesdrop but he was surprised of her reaction and she was yelling so loud he can hear what she was saying through the closed door. She was speaking on the phone.
"Why did she send a postcard? ... She knows I don't wanna hear from her and that...that husband of hers! ... I know ... Kasumi, she didn't even ask about Yoshi! ... I know it happened a lot of time ago but...it still hurts." he heard her sobbings but decided to let her be, he shouldn't be there in the first place after all. He quietly went watching TV and waiting for her to emerge from her room.
It happened almost an hour later, she came in the living room with red eyes and looking troubled all the way. She looked at him expecting a question.
"I won't ask if you don't want." he said looking at her.
"I'd tell you. But not now. Tonight when Yoshi is sleeping and my sister has left I'll tell you."
He nodded and for the rest of the time he helped her prepare the dinner. Around seven the doorbell rang and he opened the door.
"Ranma!" an overexcited Yoshi yelled jumping in his arms.
"Yoshi!" he hugged the kid, then he noticed four pair of eyes watching him.
"So, you are the famous 'Ranma'. I'm Kasumi, Akane's sister." she bowed. She was a beautiful woman, tall with brown eyes and hair and she radiated peace. He bowed in return. Behind her there was her husband and two children a little older than Yoshi.
"I'm Tofu." the man bowed.
Ranma bowed again and said: "Please come in. Akane is waiting for us."
All in all it was a pleasant evening, the children finished their meal in a matter of seconds and spent the time playing in the garden just outside the paper door of the living room so the parents can keep an eye on them. Akane seemed to have relaxed and was enjoying the company, Ranma was glad of that. Kasumi and Tofu were deeply in love and everything they did just told that, Ranma watched them and he wondered if someday he'd be that way around a woman, if he'd have a family of his own just like his mother kept telling him. He looked at Akane as she laughed at one of Tofu's jokes and wondered if maybe...he didn't dare continue the thought. He sensed someone watching him and blushed furiously when he saw Kasumi looking at him smiling knowingly.
"Say, Ranma." she asked "Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Kasumi!" Akane protested.
"I'm just trying to know him better! If he doesn't mind..."
"I don't mind. No, I don't have a girlfriend right now."
Kasumi looked at Akane, smiling: "So you are a single." she stated all the way looking at her sister.
Both Ranma and Akane blushed several shade of red.
"Kasumi, I think you have embarassed them enough tonight. We shall go home now." Tofu said and stood.
They gathered at the gate and watched the Ono family walk down the street. A smile formed on Ranma's lips as he watched from the family disappering in the horizon to the family standing next to him.
END CHAPTER 03
NOTE: If someone wants to nit-pick my fics please email me at info@akane.it Visit my site! www.akane.it
AKANE - Chapter 03
Ranma was tired, really tired. He wanted to take a bath, eat dinner with Akane and Yoshi and then go to bed and sleep 'till next morning. Training Yoshi in the Art was thougher than he thought, the kid was really good at it and he wanted to push him farther and farther but he was stubborn and this made Ranma's task harder. But he loved challenges and this was a damn good one. He entered the changing room and prepared himself for the bath, but when his boxers were halfway down his legs the bathroom door flung open and a very naked Akane stepped into the changing room. Ranma was taken aback to say the least, he started sputtering apologies but he tripped in his boxers and fell on his bottom. He watched Akane flush in anger, then she launched all the object she could find at him and stormed in her room's direction covering herself with a towel yelling: "Pervert! I knew it wasn't a good idea to take a male teacher for the dojo!"
He stayed were he was in shock, naked on the changing room's floor, his boxers hanging on his leg. A single thought crossed his mind:
*I'm dead.*
Yoshi was giving Ranma and his mother's strange glances, he knew that something was going on but he kept his mouth shut and giggled a little when his mother told him to ask Ranma if he wanted more rice. He finished his meal, excused himself from the table and wandered off searching for P-chan. Ranma knew that this was the perfect opportunity to apologize to Akane, but words failed him and he didn't knew what to say. He gathered the courage and finally said something:
"About earlier..." he started.
"When you were acting like a pervert?" Akane interrupted him.
"Yeah, I wanted to tell you...hey wait a minute! I wasn't acting like a pervert!"
"Oh, yeah? How do you call peeping your employer when she's having a bath?"
"I wasn't peeping you, I was going to take a bath!"
She watched him wide-eyed: "You were going to do what?"
"Alone! I was going to take a bath alone! I didn't know you were in there! Who'd want to take a bath with you anyway?" he immediately closed his mouth but it was too late. He had already put his foot in his mouth.
Akane looked down. She stood and started cleaning the table: "You are right. Who'd want to take a bath with me anyway?" she murmured.
"Come on, you know I didn't mean that!" he stood and helped her with the table chores.
"You didn't mean it but you said it."
"Look, I'm sorry. I really am. I say wrong things all the time!" he followed her in the kitchen, watching her doing the dishes and offering to towel them.
"Sure." was her only response.
"It's true. Lots of people can tell you I'm saying the thruth."
"Like whom?" she stopped cleaning and turned to look at him in the face, it was the first time that evening.
"My mother for example. I told her she was a beautiful woman...considering she was sixty!"
"Ranma!"
"I know I know, it just came out! Or my sister, I told her she was good at the Art...for a woman!"
"You are a jerk."
"Maybe." he giggled scratching the back of his head "But not all the time." he smiled at her.
She frowned but then loose the battle she was having with herself and started giggling.
"Am I forgiven?" he asked relieved.
"Let's say I'll give you another chance, but I think I'll get dressed before opening the bathroom door." she left the room.
"It's a pity."
He was eating alone in the big house for the first time since he started working for Akane. Her and Yoshi were visiting Soun, her father, and won't come back 'till later in the afternoon. Today was saturday and there were no classes. He had no idea how to spend the day so when he finished his lunch and had washed the dishes he started wandering around the building. He cecked the mail and put it on the table, a postcard though grabbed his attention and he couldn't resist the urge to read it.
'Hey Akane! How are you doing? Here is absolutely wonderful! Maybe we'll stop to say hello when we can back, what do you think?
Nabiki and Tatewaki'
He looked at the front of the postacard, a photo of a beautiful beach could be seen. He put the postcard back on the table with the other mail and just then the telephone rang.
"Tendo Dojo." he answered.
"Ranma? Is that you?"
"Mom!" he immediately recognized the voice on the other end of the line.
"Oh, Ranma! It's so good to hear you."
"Yeah, it's good to hear you, too, mom. How are everybody doing?"
"We're all fine thanks. I miss you Ranma."
"I miss you, too."
"Listen, I have to go to Tokyo with Ranko to visit an old friend of mine in Nerima and I'd want to see my son..."
"Great! I'll ask Akane if you two can stay here at the dojo. Maybe I can save you some space in the room I'm staying..."
"Akane? Who is she?" she asked not placing the name.
"Well, my employer, of course!"
"Oh! You didn't mention she was a woman last time I talked to you."
"Mom, don't start planning on marrying me away! She is a woman, yes, and she has a six years-old son."
"Is she married? Good looking?"
"Good looking, yes. Married, no. Mom, now don't start on 'how manly is to start a family of your own'!"
"But it's true. Time is passing by for you, too, you know? And you are not getting any younger!"
"Please, mom! Say, when are you two arriving here in Nerima?"
"We'll be there the day after tomorrow. Hmm, at ten."
"Ok, I'll be at the station to meet you."
"I love you, Ranma."
"I love you, too."
Ranma was bored to death by the time Akane came back, she entered alone in the house and Ranma meet her in the hallway. He looked around and then asked:
"Where is Yoshi?"
"He is staying at my sister's house this afternoon. He is playing with his cousins. She will come here later with her 'tribe' to have dinner with us." Akane looked somewhat tired to him.
"Good, she is older or younger than you?"
"Older. She was so curious to see the man Yoshi kept on talking about. You sure have a special place in his heart."
"The same goes here. I've put the mail on the table, there is even a postcard."
Akane entered the living room and started scanning trough the mail, then she read the postcard. She didn't say anything but Ranma saw her jaw clench and her eyes becoming hard. She excused herself and entered her room closing the door behind her. He didn't want to eavesdrop but he was surprised of her reaction and she was yelling so loud he can hear what she was saying through the closed door. She was speaking on the phone.
"Why did she send a postcard? ... She knows I don't wanna hear from her and that...that husband of hers! ... I know ... Kasumi, she didn't even ask about Yoshi! ... I know it happened a lot of time ago but...it still hurts." he heard her sobbings but decided to let her be, he shouldn't be there in the first place after all. He quietly went watching TV and waiting for her to emerge from her room.
It happened almost an hour later, she came in the living room with red eyes and looking troubled all the way. She looked at him expecting a question.
"I won't ask if you don't want." he said looking at her.
"I'd tell you. But not now. Tonight when Yoshi is sleeping and my sister has left I'll tell you."
He nodded and for the rest of the time he helped her prepare the dinner. Around seven the doorbell rang and he opened the door.
"Ranma!" an overexcited Yoshi yelled jumping in his arms.
"Yoshi!" he hugged the kid, then he noticed four pair of eyes watching him.
"So, you are the famous 'Ranma'. I'm Kasumi, Akane's sister." she bowed. She was a beautiful woman, tall with brown eyes and hair and she radiated peace. He bowed in return. Behind her there was her husband and two children a little older than Yoshi.
"I'm Tofu." the man bowed.
Ranma bowed again and said: "Please come in. Akane is waiting for us."
All in all it was a pleasant evening, the children finished their meal in a matter of seconds and spent the time playing in the garden just outside the paper door of the living room so the parents can keep an eye on them. Akane seemed to have relaxed and was enjoying the company, Ranma was glad of that. Kasumi and Tofu were deeply in love and everything they did just told that, Ranma watched them and he wondered if someday he'd be that way around a woman, if he'd have a family of his own just like his mother kept telling him. He looked at Akane as she laughed at one of Tofu's jokes and wondered if maybe...he didn't dare continue the thought. He sensed someone watching him and blushed furiously when he saw Kasumi looking at him smiling knowingly.
"Say, Ranma." she asked "Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Kasumi!" Akane protested.
"I'm just trying to know him better! If he doesn't mind..."
"I don't mind. No, I don't have a girlfriend right now."
Kasumi looked at Akane, smiling: "So you are a single." she stated all the way looking at her sister.
Both Ranma and Akane blushed several shade of red.
"Kasumi, I think you have embarassed them enough tonight. We shall go home now." Tofu said and stood.
They gathered at the gate and watched the Ono family walk down the street. A smile formed on Ranma's lips as he watched from the family disappering in the horizon to the family standing next to him.
END CHAPTER 03