Disclaimer: I do no own Ranma 1/2..


"Damn it, damn it, damn it!"

Lying above the roof over Akane's room, Ranma constantly repeated with a hush irritated tone as he pinched his nose in complete frustration. After that fateful wedding disaster happened, for five days in a row now, he was having difficulty sleeping at night. His mind is refusing to shut down completely, not listening to his plea at all.. Day by day It is getting worse and worse, so worse that it's getting into his nerves now, making him annoyed at almost anything, everything possible. Dark circles came under his eyes and the constant headache was making his days terrible.

"Damn it, damn it, damn it! And look at her, peacefully sleeping in her room as if nothing had happened! That tomboy! That uncute, sexless, flat chested , baka! Baka! Baka!"

Ranma sighs heavily as he angrily got up from his lying position as he thought to himself,

'I CAN'T just let things go on like this! And she just can't go on like nothing has happened! Oh man, it's too frustrating. NO WAY, how come I am the only one feeling like this! How come she is so calm and cool about all this! She was about to freaking MARRY ME! THAT IDIOT! Isn't this bothering her at all. .? I mean it's not like I am disappointed or anything, but, but.. She just can't act so CASUAL about it! Like it's a normal thing that happened! No! Not in a million times, IT'S NOT A NORMAL THING THAT TOOK PLACE THAT DAY! AND I WON'T LET HER ACT SO CASUAL ABOUT IT! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!'

Thinking that bitterly, with determination on his every feature, he made his way towards Akane's room, via her window. He didn't care about the time or her expected outburst, he just went inside her room determined to find out all his answers which was bothering his mind day and night from the sexless tomboy..

There, he saw her. Sleeping peacefully just like an innocent princess, no worries in the world, no wrinkles between her brows, no frowns, no eye bags like him… Ranma huffed with even more annoyance, staring at her peacefulness. He slowly tiptoes towards her. As he reached her side, he heard her suddenly moaning in her sleep and turning towards his side.

Pushing his brows together with courage in his guts, he started to poke at her revealed cheek at his side.

"Hey tomboy!" He kept poking at her cheek while calling her with a hush whisper tone.

"Kaneeee.. Hey kane! Wake up! Don't sleep like a monster, you.. You.."

Akane whacked over his hand like she just blows a fly away as she scrunched her nose in irritation while she mumbled sleepily,

"Stupid flies! Have no other job but to disturb people! Shu shu… Go away!.."

That ticked Ranma even more, 'Is she just called me an annoying fly! How dare she!' Taking a deep breath he started saying with a harsh whisper tone,

"Hey! Wake up! You sexless, macho chick, sleeping beast…"

Growling sleepily, Akane hits Ranma's head with her fists,

"Aww! WHAT YOU JUST CALLED ME, YOU PERVERT! pervert!"

Suddenly realizing the reality, Akane snapped her eyes open and jerked up with fear, when she saw Ranma frowning down at her. In her panic state, she hastily moved away from him while covering herself with her blanket, she was about to scream her heart out in fear when suddenly Ranma cupped her mouth shut as he whispers to her harshly,

"Keep yar voice down, tomboy.. You wanna wake everyone up?"

Akene kept staring at him with wide panicky eyes as she breathed unevenly. After some moments when she finally managed to compose herself, she growled angrily at him and removed his hand from her mouth. Then she asked him with similar harsh whisper tone,

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, PERVERT?"

For some reason, Ranma smirked at her reaction and said in low voice,

"Me! Pervert!? Huh! I don't think so!"

"Why are you even here, baka?"

"I wanna talk.."

"You wanna talk?!" She asked surprised and annoyed at the same time as she glanced at the table clock beside her, "At this hour! It's three in the morning, Ranma!"

"I know the time, okay! And I don't care.."

"But I do care! What if somebody sees you here?"

"Why do you care?!"

"What do you mean by why I CARE!" Akane sighs exhausted as she says a little harshly, "I do care if a guy comes to my room this late at night!"

Ranma snickers and said while leaning little closer to her scarcely,

"Ohh! Now you care! Huh!"

"Huh! Ranma, I don't understand what you are saying! I won't talk to you right now, now leave, we will talk in the morning.."

"NO! I wanna talk to ya right here right now.." He paused for some moment and looked at her with a helpless look, "Please Kane!"

Looking at his desperate form and the way he said those words to her, Akane sighs defeated as she said,

"Oh honestly, Ranma! What do you want to talk about?"

Ranma stood up straight while pouting and then sat down on her bed, tucking his feet on the bed while facing her with a determined expression on his face. He was thankful for the darkness of the room as it was hiding his deep blush from her. Then gathering all his courage at once he looked at her eyes and started saying,

"I wanna say that, I, I, I ,I umm I mean to say I uh I, I… I… I. I. .. di, da, I , di.I.."

Knowing his stammering problem so well, Akane rolled her eyes at him and said with her greeted teeth,

"I… I. .. I. ..! I know you are an IDIOT! Then what!"

"YOU ARE NOT HELPING THE MATTER, TOMBOY!"

"SHOULD I BE LISTENING OR HELPING!"

Ranma started to sweat with nervousness and gulped with growing anticipation. He growled and looked down helplessly as he sighs defeated.

Looking at his depressing state, Akane sighs and decided to help him,

"Hey, it's ok. What is it, Ranma? Is something bothering you?"

Ranma peeked up at her silently from under his bangs as he said in a low voice,

"You really wanted ta… marr.. marry me, kane?"

"Huh!" Akane came closer to him to hear him properly as she said, "Sorry, I didn't get what you said!"

"I SAID!"

"HUSH Ranma!"

Nudging his lips while scowling at her, he said in a low whisper tone,

"You really wanted ta marry me, tomboy?!"

Fully taken aback by his sudden question, Akane's mouth opened slightly in complete shock as she answered him truthfully..

"Huh!"

Ranma narrowed his eyes at her and said,

"Hey! I know ya heard me this time.. Don't pretend that ya didn't!"

Akane shook her head in complete amazement as she blurted out saying,

"What type of question is this? And why are you asking me this, Ranma?"

"BECAUSE.." Ranma paused then sighs, "because I wanna know, kay?"

Akane toes curled and she growled with utter frustration. She bits her lips in worry as she wondered herself, 'what is gotten into him?' Gulping down her uneasiness, she said to him,

"I said 'yes', didn't I?"

At that he looked up at her and asked her,

"That is what I am asking you baka, why did you say yes? Was it only for the nannichuan ?"

Akane swallowed and felt thankful that the moonlight was covering her facial expressions from him. She thought for a second and answers him,

"Look Ranma, I told you already that I heard you confessing to me…"

"But I swear I didn't confess it aloud!"

Akane huffed angrily, "OKAY! …. Fine I understand that you didn't say it to me, happy now? It was a mistake, anyways!"

"IT'S NOT WHAT I MEAN, TOMBOY!"

"HUSH down, or I will kick you out of here.."

Ranma stopped and started to shake his legs in complete frustration, making Akane more irritated by the minute,

"Look, I.. I.. Um mm… not here ta argue with ya or nothin', okay? Just answer me something, then I will get out of here.." He saw her sighing and nodding at him as he continued,

"You.. You.. Uhh.. Marry.. I..uh.." When he saw her slapping her forehead he grumbled in frustration and said with a harsh whisper tone,

"YOU WERE GOIN TA MARRY ME TOMBOY, IS THAT MEAN… is that… I mean.. What I mean to say is… You know very well that.. Umm.. A couple needs to.. Umm… to get married… they needs to share a umm a k..iss..? " He asked uncertainly as he again peeks at her through his bangs.

Realizing what he wanted to ask,her face become even more red with embarrassment,

"I KNOW that particular information, baka.. Why are you…"

"So you were ready to kiss me then!?"

"What the.." But he didn't let her finish,

"AND YOU DEFINITELY KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AFTERWARDS! You should know that PARTICULAR information too, right TOMBOY?"

Akane was so shocked to hear him say all that, her mouth went wide, her eyes large with shock, her heart started beating rapidly as her face started to burn with embarrassment.. So she tried to tell him,

"R..Ranma.. Wha.. What...are you.. I.. I..I.."

Suddenly Ranma bounced over the bed excitedly and punched the mattress. He started laughing like a maniac as he said scarcely,

"Oh now look who is stammering! "

"I AM NOT..!"

"HUSH..kane.." He said smirking,

"Awww! How dare you! Get out of here , RIGHT NOW!"

"HAHA! OH! Now you want me to get out! But YOU were planning ta shift me here in yar room, by yar side permanently, tomboy..!"

Akane growled and said, "I am warning you Ranma.."

"Oh should I be scared of that! " He again laughed as slowly as he could, making her growl even more, "Oh my God, Kane! You really are a pervert! You were really ready to do that with me..! Haha! I didn't even suspect it! How desperate of you huh, tomboy!"

"THATS ENOUGH!" Snapping her eyes at him she looked up at him heatedly and before he could do or say anything about it, she hastily held his collar tightly and pulled him harshly towards her. Then turning him over to her bed, she puts her one knee over his tummy as she pulls his face towards her by his shirt's collar. Then she whispers to him with her greeted teeth,

"And I said… SHUT YOUR MOUTH THIS INSTANT!"

Ranma gulped in fear as he was not expecting this action from her. He could feel her hot breath over his face and could see clearly how her face was glowing in the dark. For a moment he forgot everything and kept looking at her as she breathed heavily. Sweat was tickling down his face, so was hers. Ranma was still dazed when he asked her his all doubts suddenly, with a low serious tone,

"What if.. What if we really made it, Kane.. What if we.. We really did get married that day? Would you… would ya really let me.. touch ya... You know.. Uh.. What I wanna say is.. Damn it!"

Akane could finally see Ramma's face closely which she couldn't see before because of the darkness. He looked so exhausted and his eyebags were bothering her for so long. She noticed before that he had become kind of moody and angry type after that day. She thought that she would talk to him eventually about his sudden mood swing. But she didn't think that this is what might be bothering him. Akane sighs and started whispering to him,

"Is that what is bothering you for days?"

Ranma kept looking at her with a helpless look as he answers her without stammering,

"I can't even sleep, kane.."

That made her smile warmly at him, she sighed again and loosened her hold on him and said gently,

"Honestly Ranma, I didn't think that much when I said yes to marry you. These things never came to my mind at all... I just… I.. I just trust you,.. Okay! I, somehow knew that you won't do any perverted things with me.."

"I won't!" Ranm asked awkwardly..

That made her awkward as well as she reversed questioned him,

"Would you?!"

Ranma gulped, "I wouldn't if ya wouldn't say yes!"

"But I only said yes for the wedding, idiot!"

"But that means you were ready for the other things as well..!"

"NO! I was not!"

"But you said YES, didn't ya!"

"Would you just STOP, DUMMY!"

"THEN WHY DID YOU SAID YES!"

"I MADE A MISTAKE, OKAY!"

"OH! NOW IT'S A MISTAKE, HUH!"

"RANMA!" Akane whined this time as she lowered her head in defeat.

"It's kay, Kane.." He sighs and says with a gentle tone, "I know it's not easy for ya to admit that ya want me.."

That made her look at him with wide, unbelievable eyes, "What did you just say?!"

Ranma shrugged his shoulder and said,

"Well, duh! As tomboy and as uncute, flat-chested whatsoever you are, you are still a girl, aren't ya? So, it's obvious that you can't control yar want for a handsome hunk like me..! It's normal, Kane!"

Akane looked at him with a wide mouth as no words were coming out from her open mouth. She was using all her power to control her anger at this stage. She didn't want her family to find out that Ranma is at her room at this late hour. She knows this will be the greatest opportunity for her dad to make them hooked again.. So, closing her eyes and gulping down all the curses she wanted to say to him, she took a deep breath and said,

"Listen Ranma…"

"Ya I am listening, ya can tell me anything, kane.. Don't be shy.."

Akane growled slowly and said, "THIS IS the last time I am trying to be NICE here, Ranma.. DON'T take test of my patience.."

Ranma got the hidden threat this time and claimed his mouth shut . He saw as she looked at him with a serious expression and suddenly without any warning she pulled him up by snatching his collar hard. They were nose to nose now, as Akane started saying to him with force,

"There are NO excuses for what IF'S, Ranma! No damn excuses! THE MARRIAGE was supposed to happen, BUT it didn't.. The WEDDING KISS was supposed to happen.. But it didn't.. And the wedding night… " Akane paused for a second then said with a low voice, "that didn't happen as well. You weren't supposed to leave this room nor I was supposed to worry about having you in this room at this late hour as well. But it didn't happen, so…. And it feels as if we don't have any control over this matter as well, do we? SO, you don't need to panic about it anymore.. And sorry, I… I should have think about all this things before saying yes to marry you.."

Ranma could make out the pain in her eyes and voice, because he was having the same heaviness on his heart. The what-ifs which kept bothering him for days and the what-ifs that Akane was saying so boldly to him, was sounding so appealing to him that his heart started to beat rapidly with the feel of it. How he wishes.. How he wished that the wedding disaster never had happened and they would get hooked up that day.. But, that didn't happen. And she was right, there are no excuses for what-ifs anymore..

Ranma sighs and nodded his head and said with the saddest tone,

"Now what?"

Akane sighs as well, "I don't know.. I really don't have any idea,Ranma… We just have to wait and let's see what happens in the near future…"

"What happens in the near future!" Ranma repeated after her, giving her a confused look..

Akane sighs and says with a gentle tone,

"Look Ranma, things can't stay tangled like this, right? Eventually, we have to move on, choose our paths and make decisions… You know, like, if we ever decided to get married or choose to marry someone else." Akane paused for a second hearing his low growl, but she continued anyways, "But the good news is, we will always be friends and you can always come to me if anything bothers you, okay? Now, did you got your all answers?" He nodded with a blank look on his face, "Good.. Now please, friends time is over now.. And I am really feeling sleepy right now.." She yawned and got down from him while patting his shirts collar. Then she made herself comfortable under her blanket and looked at him to find him staring at her every action. So she asked him from under the blanket,

"What?"

"What, what!"

"Ranma! Leave! I wanna sleep!"

Ranma's face flickered slightly as he cringed for some reason. He sighed heavily and started getting off from her bed. Then without a second word, he left her..

Akane sighs with a heavy heart as she closes her eyes and pulled the blanket to cover her nose, then she began thinking sadly,,

'Oh Ranma, how I wish to tell you the truth! How I wished to make you mine that day.. But, you are so dumb to even understand that.. " she sighs and suddenly the way he cringed before leaving her came to her mind. He heart started throbbing with pain as she bits her lips..

'Why did he look so hurt, huh? All he wanted was the nannichuan! He said that he didn't say anything to me. That he doesn't love me. So why did he look so heartbroken when I mentioned about moving on with our life? What does he want from me anyway! How many times is he going to hurt me and mislead me? Can't he tell, she can't.. She just can't.. Why did he look so broken, oh Kami! What will I do with that idiot?'

A single tear came out from her eyes as she sniffed and bits her lower lips. Then rubbing her eyes with her fists, she opened her eyes to look at her window. But, she jerked up with shock when she found Ranma was sitting on the ground beside her. He laid his chin over his crossed arms over her bed as he kept staring at her with a suspenseful look.

"WHAT THE!" Akane sits up again and puts her palm over her wildly beating heart as she said to him with greeted whisper tone,

"WHAT! You want to give me a heart attack or something?"

Ranma scowled at her and said,

"Don't change the subject…"

Akane was taken aback as she asked,

"Huh! What subject!"

Ranma eyes flickered angrily as he asked her,

"You said you are gonna marry someone ELSE!"

"Huh!"

"Don't huh me, tomboy!"

"Hey, I didn't say nothing like that..!"

"You said it! And LISTEN to me TOMBOY, you are my fiance, how could you EVEN think about doing THAT WITH ANY OTHER GUY, YOU.. YOU.. PERVERT!"

"WHAT! Pervert me! What are you saying Ranma! Have you gone nuts?"

"YES!" He said with a harsh whisper tone as he pouted at her and said,

"Don't act so innocent here! If YA marry another guy then… then.. then it will mean, you will allow him to stay with you!" He said as he pointed an accusing finger at her direction.

"Huh! Well of course I would!" She answers normally, not understanding his urgency, "I can't stop my husband now, can I?"

Ranma growled in frustration as he said harshly, "HOW DARE YOU! HOW COULD YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT! YOU ARE MY FIANCE!"

Akane pouted as well and said, "Look, I am not your ONLY FIANCE Mr.. "

"I don't remember having any more!"

"Oh right! What a joke! Maybe next time manage your other wanna be fiance properly so that I won't have to search for any OTHER husband for me.."

Akane playfully said as she batted her eyelashes at him with an innocent smile. But she stopped smiling when she looked at his state. Again he looked so heartbroken, he looked at her with such a sorrowful eyes that she forgot to be angry at him and instead she started to feel pity for him.

He is such a hopeless with his feelings, she knows that. But now was not the time to complain about that as she saw him struggling to stay awake. His eyes were heavy, red with tiredness, his body slumped, in one word he looked extremely exhausted.

Akane sighs defeated as she flopped down on her mattress, then she turned towards him and said while patting the side of her bed,

"Come here, Ranma.."

Understanding what she wanted, his eyes opened wide as he asked her panicking,

"WHY? WHAT YOU GONNA DO?"

Akane whined and started bumping her head on her pillow. Then she again turned to him and said,

"Look, I PROMISE, I won't try anything funny with you.. Now stop wasting my time.. and come sleep beside me.."

"Okayyy! But… why are ya so willing suddenly?"

"BECAUSE.."

"HUsh Kane.."

"Because, I don't want to deal with a cranky Ranma again! You are looking like half the zombie right now. YOU NEED SLEEP, BAKA! AND I WANT TO SLEEP TOO.."

Ranma growled loudly and without saying anything anymore, he hastily went beside her and lay down as he made himself comfortable beside her. Then pulling the blanket over his nose he said,

"I am not a zombie! You are a sleeping beast!"

Akane also repeated his same action as she turned to him and said,

"Here,I am helping you to sleep and this is how you are treating me! You, you JERK!"

"Uncute…"

"Insensitive.."

"Flat chested.." Yawn..

"Good for nothing.."

"Sexless.."

"Pervert.." Yawn..

"T- tom.. tomboy.." Ranma said as his eyelids closed themselves.

Akane sighs when she saw him drifting off to sleep as she smiled warmly and closes her eyes too, saying,

"Baka…"

Akane again woke up as she tiredly started thinking what made her break her slumber this time. She didn't have to wait too long to find out about it because the said reason again snored loudly over her ear. She turned slightly to see, Ranma engulfed himself fully over her back as he hugged her somewhat possessively towards him.

Akane sighs and tries to reach for their blanket to cover his snoring sound a little. After putting the cover over herself and Ranma, she sighs as the snoring suddenly went slow. Then she tried to move a little from his deadly grip, but it was vital as he pulled her more closer to his chest as he mumbled in his sleep,

"You're not going nowhere! This is my… my pl..place.. No one..el..se..my.. my place.."

SNORE..

Akane smiled warmly hearing that as she held his hand with hers, which was holding her belly. She then sighs and made herself more comfortable with him and drifted off to sleep once again while mumbling,

"My… baka!.."


A/N: Nice, good, wow! not bad! Average! Okay! Sigh, this is the simplest way a reader can tell us authors that they liked what they read, but instead, they like to give us silent treatments, T-T T-T, Not fair at all T-T… I know we are doing it out of love for Ranma and Akane… But you guys also came here to read because of your love for them! We should show the world that, though they are ignoring us, we Ranma fandom is still here and standing still for them! Sigh! Anyways, I know you are gonna ignore this A/n anyway! ;p hihi!

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