DISCLAIMER: Ranma & Co. are not mine, please don't sue me.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: As usual be gentle with my english, I haven't read this chapter, just posted it 5 minutes after I finished it. I started this chapter on the beaches and finished it during job's hours after a week full of stress because I started organizing my wedding. See ya!
AKANE - CHAPTER 06
Ranma hated to wait. Waits alaways made him regret he didn't smoke. He had arrived just in time at the station to avoid the wait but the train of his mother and sister had 30 minutes of delay. What was really making the wait terrible was the fact that his mother had always read him like a book and he was afraid that she could see what he was thinking since last night: his kiss with Akane. It had lasted less than a second and it was an accident but he can't stop thinking at Akane's lips upon his. And then her words *It's not just Yoshi...* what she was going to say next? He paced nervously and watched the train's arrival.
*Here we are.* he thought trying to clear his mind.
He saw his mother the moment her head popped out of the train. She was a beautiful woman and even if time began to show on her face and she insisted in wearing only kimonos, she kept the beauty of her early years. Right after her showed his sister: Ranko. She had her mother's beauty, blue eyes that told her vitality and fiery red hair. She was 22. He moved through the mass of people towards his mother and sister and when he was a few feet away he called after them.
"Ranma!" his mother hugged him fiercely.
"Mom! How was the travel?" he broke the hug.
"Hey, big brother!" Ranko hugged him.
He took their bags and guided them to the taxi he had called earlier.
While the taxi moved accross the streets his mother asked, excited: "So, where are we staying?"
"My employer was kind enough to let you stay at her place. She even insisted that you take her room and she'll sleep in her son's room." he tried to sound casual as possible, but in the back seat his mother and Ranko exchanged a knowing glance.
"How kind of her!" commented Ranko.
"What was her name?" his mother asked.
"Akane, mom. And, please, don't start babbling about marriage in front of her."
"Akane. Nice name."
They arrived at the Tendo Dojo a few minutes later, Ranma payed the taxi and took the bags inside.
"Tadaima!" he called.
"My! This place is huge!" Ranko commented in her mother's hear. Nodoka smiled.
"Ranma! What took you so long?" Akane emerged from the living room, she was wearing a sundress under the apron and she was drying her hands in a rag.
"You must be Ranma's mother." she said bowing: "Nice to meet you. I prepared lunch for all of us but now it's cold."
"Don't worry, dear." answered Nodoka bowing in return "And call me Nodoka."
"And you must be his sister, Ranko." Akane said bowing at her "You have his eyes."
"Yes. Nice to meet you." Ranko bowed back..
"Let's go to the living room to eat."
They sat at the table.
"Ranma! I was waiting for you!" an excited Yoshi jumped in his arms.
"Yoshi! We have guests!" scolded Akane.
"Oh, sorry!" he looked at Ranko and Nodoka "Hello."
"Hello little boy." said Nodoka, then she addressed Akane "It's really a beautiful boy."
"Thanks."
After dinner Ranko offered to help Akane with the dishes while Nodoka excused herself telling she was tired and went to bed. Yoshi insisted that Ranma played with him videogames and this left the two young women alone in the kitchen. Ranko was really curious to know this girl better, because her brother seemed to like her really much, even if he'd tried to look casual around her.
"May I ask how old are you?" started Ranko, drying a dish Akane has passed her.
"I'm 28. You are 22, right?"
"Yes. So you are the same age as my big brother."
"Actually.I'm three months older than him." Corrected Akane and then she started giggling.
Ranko started giggling as well.
"Are you still stuying or."
"Yes, still studying in a college near my house, so I'm still living with my parents."
"Which specialization?"
"I want to be a teacher. Japanese teacher"
"A teacher? Really? Everybody hates their teacher and you want to become one?"
"I want to be different. I want to be someone who can talk to the students and not just yell at them."
From the living room came Ranma's voice complaining about loosing yet another game to Yoshi.
"He loves Yoshi a lot!" Ranko commented "I've never seen him so relaxed around a kid."
"Yes. Yoshi calls him everytime he needs and Ranma is always there for him. I owe him a lot."
"He is happy. I can tell from his face. He loves living here." Ranko stopped to look at Akane "Have you thought about.implications, you know."
"What implications?"
"Like falling in love.you are still both pretty young and."
Akane reddened all of a sudden, a remembrance of last night's kiss playing in her mind.
"I think my brother is." she stopped unable to continue.
Akane looked at her curiously, but when she saw that Ranko wasn't going to finish her thought she said: "I don't think so."
"How can you tell? You don't even know what I was gonna tell you!"
"I can guess. But."
"What?" Ranko put down the last dish and turned to face Akane "Don't tell me there is Yoshi and that you have to think of him first, you know it's not enough."
Tears formed in Akane's eyes: "But that's true! I can't tell him he has a new father and then if things don't go the way I expected tell him he has no father, again." She started sobbing in her hands.
Ranko was taken aback from her reaction, she had intended to push Akane into telling her true feelings towards her brother and now she was sobbing like a baby in front of her. She hugged the older girl: "I'm sorry Akane. I never wanted to make you cry. I was just joking and.really I wasn't thinking." she was at a loss for words.
Ranko was facing the kitchen's door and saw Ranma looking at her. She made a sign to leave, that everything was ok and he looked one last time at Akane before leaving.
Ranma watched the two girls emerge from the kitchen an hour later and heard Akane telling Ranko they'd go for a shopping round the next day.
*Girls! If I was the one making her cry I'd be invisible at her eyes for at least a week! And there they are acting like best friends like anything happened!*
He had put Yoshi to sleep and now he was watching the tv on the sofa, but he wasn't really paying any attention. So he wasn't surprised when Akane sat beside him, he had sensed her approach.
He looked at her, he'd have guessed she had cried even if he hadn't see it himself: "What happened?"
"When?" she tried to look casual.
"Earlier. In the kitchen with my sister. You were crying."
"It was nothing."
"It wasn't nothing if it made you cry!"
She looked at him, anger evident on her face: "We were talking, alright? We talked about a subject that made me cry and that's all I'm gonna tell you!"
"Why don't you trust me?" he averted her gaze.
"I trust you."
"That's not true. You cry and I don't even know why. I thought that.after yesterday, you'll trust me more."
She put her hand on his shoulder: "And I do. You're the only one I allowed to come so close to me after.after Yoshi's father. But I need time."
He turned to look at her in the eyes: "And so do I. I want to know you, to protect you and I don't wanna Yoshi suffer a situation that isn't definitive. But to do so I need to come closer to you. I can't act like that kiss never happened, I can't think of anything else at all!"
She looked at him with a small smile on her lips, her cheeks colored by a blush: "So do I."
"What are we gonna do, then?" he asked, his cheeks now colored by her same blush.
"Even if I enjoyed that kiss I think that it happened too early. It was just made by accident. Let's just give time to time and we'll see what happens."
"I can't wait for another of this." Ranma said before kissing Akane tenderly. At first she didn't know what to do but in the end the kissed him back.
In the shadows of the stairs two figures exchanged a satisfied glance and smiling went to bed.
END CHAPTER 06
AUTHOR'S NOTE: As usual be gentle with my english, I haven't read this chapter, just posted it 5 minutes after I finished it. I started this chapter on the beaches and finished it during job's hours after a week full of stress because I started organizing my wedding. See ya!
AKANE - CHAPTER 06
Ranma hated to wait. Waits alaways made him regret he didn't smoke. He had arrived just in time at the station to avoid the wait but the train of his mother and sister had 30 minutes of delay. What was really making the wait terrible was the fact that his mother had always read him like a book and he was afraid that she could see what he was thinking since last night: his kiss with Akane. It had lasted less than a second and it was an accident but he can't stop thinking at Akane's lips upon his. And then her words *It's not just Yoshi...* what she was going to say next? He paced nervously and watched the train's arrival.
*Here we are.* he thought trying to clear his mind.
He saw his mother the moment her head popped out of the train. She was a beautiful woman and even if time began to show on her face and she insisted in wearing only kimonos, she kept the beauty of her early years. Right after her showed his sister: Ranko. She had her mother's beauty, blue eyes that told her vitality and fiery red hair. She was 22. He moved through the mass of people towards his mother and sister and when he was a few feet away he called after them.
"Ranma!" his mother hugged him fiercely.
"Mom! How was the travel?" he broke the hug.
"Hey, big brother!" Ranko hugged him.
He took their bags and guided them to the taxi he had called earlier.
While the taxi moved accross the streets his mother asked, excited: "So, where are we staying?"
"My employer was kind enough to let you stay at her place. She even insisted that you take her room and she'll sleep in her son's room." he tried to sound casual as possible, but in the back seat his mother and Ranko exchanged a knowing glance.
"How kind of her!" commented Ranko.
"What was her name?" his mother asked.
"Akane, mom. And, please, don't start babbling about marriage in front of her."
"Akane. Nice name."
They arrived at the Tendo Dojo a few minutes later, Ranma payed the taxi and took the bags inside.
"Tadaima!" he called.
"My! This place is huge!" Ranko commented in her mother's hear. Nodoka smiled.
"Ranma! What took you so long?" Akane emerged from the living room, she was wearing a sundress under the apron and she was drying her hands in a rag.
"You must be Ranma's mother." she said bowing: "Nice to meet you. I prepared lunch for all of us but now it's cold."
"Don't worry, dear." answered Nodoka bowing in return "And call me Nodoka."
"And you must be his sister, Ranko." Akane said bowing at her "You have his eyes."
"Yes. Nice to meet you." Ranko bowed back..
"Let's go to the living room to eat."
They sat at the table.
"Ranma! I was waiting for you!" an excited Yoshi jumped in his arms.
"Yoshi! We have guests!" scolded Akane.
"Oh, sorry!" he looked at Ranko and Nodoka "Hello."
"Hello little boy." said Nodoka, then she addressed Akane "It's really a beautiful boy."
"Thanks."
After dinner Ranko offered to help Akane with the dishes while Nodoka excused herself telling she was tired and went to bed. Yoshi insisted that Ranma played with him videogames and this left the two young women alone in the kitchen. Ranko was really curious to know this girl better, because her brother seemed to like her really much, even if he'd tried to look casual around her.
"May I ask how old are you?" started Ranko, drying a dish Akane has passed her.
"I'm 28. You are 22, right?"
"Yes. So you are the same age as my big brother."
"Actually.I'm three months older than him." Corrected Akane and then she started giggling.
Ranko started giggling as well.
"Are you still stuying or."
"Yes, still studying in a college near my house, so I'm still living with my parents."
"Which specialization?"
"I want to be a teacher. Japanese teacher"
"A teacher? Really? Everybody hates their teacher and you want to become one?"
"I want to be different. I want to be someone who can talk to the students and not just yell at them."
From the living room came Ranma's voice complaining about loosing yet another game to Yoshi.
"He loves Yoshi a lot!" Ranko commented "I've never seen him so relaxed around a kid."
"Yes. Yoshi calls him everytime he needs and Ranma is always there for him. I owe him a lot."
"He is happy. I can tell from his face. He loves living here." Ranko stopped to look at Akane "Have you thought about.implications, you know."
"What implications?"
"Like falling in love.you are still both pretty young and."
Akane reddened all of a sudden, a remembrance of last night's kiss playing in her mind.
"I think my brother is." she stopped unable to continue.
Akane looked at her curiously, but when she saw that Ranko wasn't going to finish her thought she said: "I don't think so."
"How can you tell? You don't even know what I was gonna tell you!"
"I can guess. But."
"What?" Ranko put down the last dish and turned to face Akane "Don't tell me there is Yoshi and that you have to think of him first, you know it's not enough."
Tears formed in Akane's eyes: "But that's true! I can't tell him he has a new father and then if things don't go the way I expected tell him he has no father, again." She started sobbing in her hands.
Ranko was taken aback from her reaction, she had intended to push Akane into telling her true feelings towards her brother and now she was sobbing like a baby in front of her. She hugged the older girl: "I'm sorry Akane. I never wanted to make you cry. I was just joking and.really I wasn't thinking." she was at a loss for words.
Ranko was facing the kitchen's door and saw Ranma looking at her. She made a sign to leave, that everything was ok and he looked one last time at Akane before leaving.
Ranma watched the two girls emerge from the kitchen an hour later and heard Akane telling Ranko they'd go for a shopping round the next day.
*Girls! If I was the one making her cry I'd be invisible at her eyes for at least a week! And there they are acting like best friends like anything happened!*
He had put Yoshi to sleep and now he was watching the tv on the sofa, but he wasn't really paying any attention. So he wasn't surprised when Akane sat beside him, he had sensed her approach.
He looked at her, he'd have guessed she had cried even if he hadn't see it himself: "What happened?"
"When?" she tried to look casual.
"Earlier. In the kitchen with my sister. You were crying."
"It was nothing."
"It wasn't nothing if it made you cry!"
She looked at him, anger evident on her face: "We were talking, alright? We talked about a subject that made me cry and that's all I'm gonna tell you!"
"Why don't you trust me?" he averted her gaze.
"I trust you."
"That's not true. You cry and I don't even know why. I thought that.after yesterday, you'll trust me more."
She put her hand on his shoulder: "And I do. You're the only one I allowed to come so close to me after.after Yoshi's father. But I need time."
He turned to look at her in the eyes: "And so do I. I want to know you, to protect you and I don't wanna Yoshi suffer a situation that isn't definitive. But to do so I need to come closer to you. I can't act like that kiss never happened, I can't think of anything else at all!"
She looked at him with a small smile on her lips, her cheeks colored by a blush: "So do I."
"What are we gonna do, then?" he asked, his cheeks now colored by her same blush.
"Even if I enjoyed that kiss I think that it happened too early. It was just made by accident. Let's just give time to time and we'll see what happens."
"I can't wait for another of this." Ranma said before kissing Akane tenderly. At first she didn't know what to do but in the end the kissed him back.
In the shadows of the stairs two figures exchanged a satisfied glance and smiling went to bed.
END CHAPTER 06