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As for the story, I'm sorry, but I can't let Akane be kidnapped by alien balooga whales (sorry Javier), as cool as that would be…. I just can't.

And Ikerana, you're right…

I'm sorry guys but this story will be ending pretty soon, in like 2 maybe 3 chapters.

But once its done, maybe you guys will want me to write a sequel?

Dunno… it's all up to you!!!

Ch.9- Akane's Real Dream

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Ranma

"Will you please open now?" I plead to her.

That's it. It's over. Somehow I messed everything up… again. I already spilled my heart out to her, so I just might as well finish what I started. I try to get a hold of myself as I start speaking again.

"Look Akane, I'm sorry okay? I'm sorry it took me so long to say it its just… you know, in Jusenkyo when I thought…when you were… I realized that if you—if you--"

Just the thought of it kills me.

"Dammit Akane, I realized that if you die then I die. I realized that … all my life would be worthless without you! Can't you see? I'm nothing if you're not with me! Just… I… Listen, I'll do whatever you want me to, even if you're rejecting me now, that's okay, and even if you just want to stay friends with me, that's okay too! As long as you stay with me, then my whole life is complete! Just… please… don't… Please, don't leave me."

I slam my head against the door, and I feel a pain I've never felt before. This hurts way more than any punch or kick anyone has ever given me. I can feel my whole world crumbling down to dust, and I feel tears rolling down my cheeks. This is how low I've sank, guys are not supposed to cry.

I try to sob discretely but it's not really working. This is it. My life is officially over.

"Do you really mean it?" She asks from inside the room.

"Huh?!" What kind of question is that?!

"Do you really mean it or are you just playing around with me, Ranma?"

"Of course I mean it! How could I play around with something like that? Is that the kind of guy you really think I am Akane?"

Well, she really has no reason to not think that I'm the biggest asshole in the world. All this time I've been trying to cover up by calling her fat, ugly, tomboy… when she really is the cutest girl I've ever seen. Maybe the tomboy part is true, but that's why I love her anyway. After all I've done to her, and all the pain I've caused to her, I wouldn't love me if I was her.

"Look, 'Kane…" I gather the little strength I have left to say my feelings, not read them. "What I just said was not a slip of the tongue… it was not a mistake, if that's what you think. The only mistake was to keep it in all these years. I've tried to tell you so many times, but for some reason everything would just go wrong and I'd end up making you mad. I thought that these feelings would go away eventually, but they only got stronger, and it wasn't long after I started living here that I... well… I fell…"

Just say it, idiot! It won't make a difference now, you read it from the letter now SAY IT.

"Dammit, Akane, I love you!" I take the deepest breath of my life and continue. "I love you with everything I am. I can't stand not being with you… and that's why if you don't feel the same for me it's fine. I'd do anything for you Akane, and all I want is for you to be happy, even if it's with s—someone else."

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Akane

Someone else?

I can't believe this is happening. Maybe I'm dreaming. Yeah, that's probably it.

There's no way that Ranma would say that to me in real life, and in such a way that it made me feel so happy. He just described every feeling I have for him, and not only that, but he's crying too. Ranma never cries, he's too macho for that, and that is the reason why this can't really be happening. Well, if it is a dream, then I might as well just tell him what I feel.

"This is a dream, isn't it?" I ask.

"What?!" He replies.

"I'm dreaming… my mind has fooled me before but not to this extreme. This is not real."

"What the—of course its real! Akane, please open the door! I swear that I--"

"Shh, Ranma. I have something to tell you too."

I walk over to my school uniform to reach for the Valentine's letter I wrote. Thank God I kept one with me, if not this one would have ripped down to a thousand pieces too.

"Ranma, do you still want to know who my valentine is?"

"Uh… yeah…" he says. The idiot really thinks I love someone else.

"It's you."

"Akane, I don't think this is a good time for jokes" He answers.

"I'm serious it's you"

"Really?"

"Yup. And since I know this is a dream, I'm going to tell you how I really feel about you." I say, trembling with the letter in my hands.

Calm down Akane,this is not real. If I say it or not won't make a difference when I wake up, at least I'll get the weight off my shoulders, even if it's just for a little while.

So with everything I have, I begin to read.

Dear Valentine,

Before you came along my life was perfectly fine.

Three years ago, every day I would take my morning run, take a shower, go to school, beat up the boys, do my work, come home, work out, have dinner, do my homework, go to sleep.

Every single day it was the same.

But then you appeared, and then your friends appeared and my day was never normal, ever again.

Something different happens every day for 364 days, except for one.

Valentine's Day.

I don't know if you've noticed, but Valentine's Day for the past three years has always been the same. But not this one. No. Not today.

You see, because today I can't hold it in anymore.

I am so fucking sick of this, and it's about time you know exactly how I feel about you.

You treat me like crap. You call me names. You think I'm fat, and most of all you hate me.

You're an asshole. You change to a girl. You're conceited. You're a pervert.

You're a jerk. The biggest jerk I've ever met.

And yet I love you more than I will ever love anything else in my entire life.

When you look at me, in that way that you don't look at anyone else,

I can't help but smile.

Because you have the power to break my life down and put it all back together,

And when you make everything bad, you're the only one that can make it better.

Even though you really are all those things I mentioned,

I love you just the way you are.

Cursed or not, I love you, Ranma Saotome. I will love you until the end of time.

And even though you don't feel the same way about me it's fine, because either way, you're here, with me. That's all that matters to me.

And as I said, before you came along my life was perfectly fine,

But now, that you're here, my life is complete.

Love,

Akane Tendo.

He doesn't say anything, and I still haven't opened the door.

My heart feels like it's going to jump out of me any second now, and I can't help but cry. All that I had been keeping safe inside me just slipped out. All the barriers I had built around my heart just crumpled down all at once. I rest the back of my head on the door and drop the letter to the floor.

"I love you Ranma… there's no one else, there never has been, and there never will."

" But I thought--" He answers, still from the other side of the door.

"Shh, this is a dream silly. Everything's supposed to be perfect"

The weirdest thing of all is that this is the happiest moment of my life, even if it is a dream.

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Ranma

"A dream, huh?" I have a grin pasted on my lips, I can't believe I finally gathered the courage to do what I'm about to do, but now that I know she does love me, there's absolutely no reason to hold back. All my dreams are just about to become true

"Akane, open the door. Let me show you how real this dream of yours is."

Author's Note- Okay, don't kill me, I know this is really short, but the next one will be longer and juicy!! Sorry guys, I have a horrible cold, and I don't want to mess up the story by trying to make it longer, therefore, repeating the same thing over and over again.

Besides I took a five hour test today, so I think I'm going to bed. Anyway, don't you just love my cliffhangers? Ha ha, I hope you guys liked it, even though it was short! Next chapter up tomorrow, thanks for reading!