Chapter 2-
"Ranma... I..." Akane stuttered.
:Why can't I say it? I've known I've loved him for a while now. So why is it so hard: she thought turning away from Ranma.
Ranma looked at Akane with hope in his eyes... after a few minutes he rose from the bed and began to walk out of the room.
:He's about to leave! Say something: she screamed at herself.
"Ranma! Wait." she started, "I... I do love you. I have for a long time. I just, I never thought you felt the same way about me."
He turned around to look at Akane. His eyes were almost on fire with how happy he was. He rushed over to Akane and took her into a tight embrace. Akane stiffened for a moment but soon relaxed.
:This is nice. I could get used to this: Ranma thought as he caught a wiff of Akane's hair. :She always smells so nice:
Ranma pulled away for a moment and stared into Akane's eyes. She smiled at him.
:God I love that smile: He smiled back and leaned down to kiss her. :I hope I don't get killed for this:
:What is he doing: Akane thought as his lips came closer and closer.
When their lips met and they started to really kiss they were both filled with relief. Like a giant weight had been lifted off of their shoulders.
They pulled apart for a moment and grinned at one another. Ranma kissed her again and this time pushed her towards the wall. Akane went along with it. They clasped hands for a moment. Ranma squeezed her hands gently forgetting about the cuts.
"Ow!" Akane quietly said.
Ranma didn't know why she pulled away or said 'Ow' but then he saw her grab her hand in pain.
:Man! I'm such an idiot! It's our first time doing something like this and I'm screwing things up: Ranma mentally yelled at himself.
He took Akane's hurt hand gently in his own looking apologetically into Akane's eyes.
"I'm sorry 'Kane," he said kissing one of the punctured marks gently.
"It's alright," Akane said putting her arms around Ranma and kissing him softly on the lips.
Ranma pulled away.
"Akane... what do you want to do about all of this?" he asked her.
She looked at him for a moment. Then she replied, "Ranma, I love you. You love me. Why DON'T we get married?"
"Right now we have too many problems to get married soon."
"We'll always have them if we don't get rid of them soon Ranma," she stated looking down at the floor.
Ranma looked out the window.
:She's right. We can't hide how we feel forever and the others will always be an obstacle. But what can we do:
"But what can we do Akane?" he asked his eager eyed fiancee.
"I don't know... maybe we can ask Nabiki?" she suggested lamely.
He looked at her increduously and started thinking of other ways to get past the others.
After a few minutes it hit him.
"Akane... why don't we keep acting like we hate each other?" he said looking at the now disappointed brown eyed girl.
"Why?" she demanded.
"Because then they won't suspect anything until we are already married. We can act like we still hate each other and then we can go elope."
"When are we going to do that?"
"I dunno. When do you wanna become Mrs. Ranma Saotome?" he said with a playful smirk.
"Baka." Akane said putting a hand to her head and shaking it.
"What?"
"You know what."
"So when do you want to?"
"Um... I dunno. As soon as possible I guess. I don't think after tonight I can hide this much longer." she said smiling brightly at the pigtailed boy.
"How about tomorrow then."
"Tomorrow?" her eyes widened in shock at how soon he wanted this.
"Yea. We'll go to school and play it out. Then we'll come home and say that we have to run errands or something. At different times of course. And then we'll meet up at a chapel outside of the Nerima district and get married."
"What will we do about rings?"
"Uh... do you have string? We can use that temporarily until I can save up and get you a ring. Is that OK?" he asked worriedly.
"That's fine. I just really want us to be married now." Akane said then leaned in and kissed him.
"Then that's that. Tomorrow you shall be Akane Tendo no more!" he said jokingly.
"Haha you baka."
"Kawaiikune tomboy." he said with a wink and a quick kiss. "I better get back before pop suspects anything."
He walked over to the window and climbed out.
Akane walked over to window to put it down the soft breeze lightly blowing through her hair. As she put the window down she thought she caught something moving over the fence in her yard.
:What was that: she wondered as she walked away from the window :Probably nothing.:
She lays down in bed thinking about how wonderful her day had become.
:I can't believe Ranma and I are going to be married tomorrow. Now nothing can go wrong.: she thought happily as she drifted off to sleep.