"Ow Akane," Ranma shouted as she applied some Neosporin to his cuts. She had already done this for him every day for the past 5 days and he still complained about it hurting.
"Ranma I know for a fact that it doesn't hurt, it's just Neosporin, it's a lotion," Akane sighed as she finished the last few spots on his upper chest.
"Did you mean to say it's a death potion?" Ranma said between clenched teeth as she rubbed the last spot. "I don't understand why you have to put that on anyways," he said closing his eyes.
"Because your cuts were infected and now the infections gone so to keep if from coming back we have to put this on!" Akane explained to him for the fifth day in a row. They had been non-stop fighting again since they had had that real conversation in the kitchen several nights ago. Plus today she was extra stressed out because her father was scheduled to be home within the hour. "Are you sure you want to stay in here and not come see my dad?"
"Very sure Akane, he can't see me like this, plus I don't want to see his face when I tell him that my father might be dead," Ranma said looking around the room that he used to share with his dad, it was so lonely now. Ranma cringed again as Akane began to apply the bandage around his abdomen, "Akane can you not do it so tight and thick this time?"
Akane looked up at him, "If you don't like the way I do it then why don't you just do it yourself?"
"BECAUSE I CAN'T," he yelled at her, 'stupid girl, if I could do it myself then I would be'.
"Don't yell at me when I'm just trying to help you," Akane said before clearing her throat, if he was gonna act that way then she would just leave.
"Yeah well you are doing it all wrong," Ranma continued instead of apologizing.
Akane blinked a few times then stopped what she was doing and looked at him, "Why don't you just shut up and stop complaining like a little baby so I can concentrate?" She said in a monotone angry voice and instantly Ranma got quiet and let her finish. After she had tied the bandage off she stood up and looked down at him. "Ryoga will bring you your dinner later," she said before walking out the door.
Once in the living room she plopped down on the couch and wasn't pulled out of space until Ryoga entered the room.
"Ranma still not want to see your dad?" he said sitting down next to her on the couch.
"Nope, and he's being a big baby. Next time you are changing his bandages because right now I don't ever want to see him again for five more years," Akane mumbled hearing the front door of the house slide open. "Great," she growled as she placed both hands on her face and dragged them down.
"So we won't even tell him?" Ryoga asked knowing that Akane was stressed to the max at the moment and she would be worse once she remembered that next week was her last week of school and she needed to study for all her exams.
"Tell me what? That you guys have finally decided to get married!" Soun cried as he entered the living room looking at the two comfortable on the couch.
"DAD!" Akane yelled getting up from the couch and heading towards the stairs.
"What no dinner Akane?" Soun looked over at his only child left still living at home. Did his plan of leaving Ryoga and Akane home all week by themselves fail? Did they not find their true love for each other? Was his youngest daughter never going to marry and live at home the rest of her life? He felt completely defeated; no matter he still had to settle Nabiki down before working on Akane.
"It's made you just have to warm it up and start some rice," Akane said drearily as she remembered that she had a bunch of studying to do. If she passed all her exams this week then she would finally be graduating from College and she could go out and get a career like she always dreamed. 'And maybe at my place of work my boss will be a single handsome man and we fall in love and then start our own company together that way we decide our hours so we have time for the kids,' she thought to herself as she shut her room door behind her.
She sat at her desk and looked down at the Math equation she had been when Ranma had arrived on her roof the other night. Not feeling in the mood to study she got up and decided to take a little nap, she set her alarm for an half an hour nap and laid down in her bed.
Ranma had just finished eating the food that Ryoga had just brought him and he set the empty rice bowl down and looked around the room. "Dad you better be alright," he said to himself not feeling like staying in the empty room any longer. He got up and walked over to the door and grabbed the handle before stopping. No, he couldn't leave the room, Ryoga had told him that Soun had returned and if he wished to not explain anything then it would be best for him to stay in the room.
Sighing he turned away from the door and looked out the window at the dark night sky. He walked over to it and climbed up in the windowsill. He leaned his head out and looked over to Akane's window only a few feet away, but the lights were off. Was she already asleep? He jumped out onto the roof and walked over to her window and noticed that it was open. He leaned in and looked around and saw no one, he looked at the bed which the sheets were a mess. 'Where did she go?' he thought to himself as he turned around and looked out at the yard.
Ranma looked over at the gym and saw that the lights were on and he could see Ryoga moving around doing some sort of weird Tai-chi. Quickly he jumped off the roof and into the side yard and looked around again. There was no way that she was in the house because he would of heard her leave, he had heard her slam the door a few hours prior when she had finished yelling at her father.
"HA," he said aloud knowing exactly where she had gone. He turned and ran towards the front gate and swiftly leapt over it and into the street. He paused for a moment when he felt the most painful stinging pain starting from his feet and up through his chest. Deciding to forget the pain he continued to walk, instead of run, down the road.
How did he remember the route to school? He stopped looking up at the fence that he always used to walk on while him and Akane went to school every morning. He would of attempted to jump up there again but he then remembered the pain from when he had jumped over the gate. He continued on his way remembering all the mornings they had been stopped on their way to school by various people. Shampoo and her bike being followed by Mousse, Ukyo with her gigantic pancake flipper, that rich snob Kuno and his crazy sister Kodachi.
He wondered where all those people were now; well he knew where Mousse was. Ranma sadly looked up at the sky, 'I wonder if Shampoo had the same fate as him.' Shampoo was actually starting to warm up to Mousse when they were making their way back to China. The only reason Ranma had noticed this was the fact that she hadn't been hanging on him the entire journey.
Ranma stopped once he realized where he was at and he turned to face the building. The run down Chinese shop that Grandma Cologne had ran so that her granddaughter could be closer to Ranma. He was almost positive that Cologne had somehow escaped with her crazy Gypsy magic that she seemed to have tons of. Hopefully Shampoo had managed to escape with her grandmother, and they had somehow found their way to the springs.
"Ranma?" Akane's voice slightly startled Ranma and he turned around to look at her. Akane was just standing there in her white training kimono with her hair on a pony tail on top her head. Ranma quickly noted the different look.
"How was tether ball?" Ranma asked realizing that she must have been on her way back from the school yard.
"What?" Akane said surprised, he actually remembered that she liked to go play tether ball by herself late at night.
"Isn't that where you went?" Ranma asked trying hard not to smile at her because he knew he had embarrassed her. He watched as Akane glanced behind him and saw what he had been looking at, then instantly she turned and started to continue her walk back home.
"Akane wait, please?" He said running after and grabbing her wrist, "Come walk with me?"
"Ranma, I'm tired," Akane said not wanting to deal with him at the moment as she remembered her earlier anger with him. She didn't want to see him again for another 5 years!
"Please?" Ranma begged, he wasn't used to doing so but he really wanted her company as he walked around the town he used to live in. He wanted to see everything again but he didn't want to do it alone because he was afraid he would get to sad.
"Fine," she said letting Ranma drop her wrist instead of ripping it out of his grasp herself. She turned to look at him and the way the moon light hit his face she could see every little muscle on his face. He just looked so, so sad. She looked back over at the broken down restaurant and sighed, she hated Shampoo and every day she would bother her and Ranma she secretly wished her death, but now she felt awful for thinking it.
"I really hoped they made it," Ranma said following her gaze back over to the building. "I just wish I was the last one to escape and everyone else had escaped years ago and now are living somewhere happily and have completely forgot the Amazon's," he told her as he decided he didn't want to stay there any longer. He began to walk and Akane quickly caught up to him and walked beside him.
"Where are we going now?" Akane asked looking around and not seeing a thing but empty streets.
"I don't know, just walking," he said not having a specific destination in mind.
"Ranma can I ask you a question?"
"Sure," Ranma said as they continued to walk to nowhere.
"When did you get the curse lifted off you?" She asked hoping it wasn't a touchy subject for him.
"How did you know that?" Ranma asked trying to remember if there was anything that had given him away. The truth was he missed it, the only reason he had officially lifted the curse off himself was the fact that he had been trying for so long to do it, that he did it without thinking.
"Eh...don't worry about that," she said remembering it was an accident and she didn't want to tell him.
"Okay," he smiled at her and saw her blush a little. 'What did she do?' he wondered. "Anyways, after I escaped I woke up at Jusenkyo and I just sorta jumped in the healing spring, didn't really think about what I was doing. I don't remember how I got there or anything, I just knew that it was my chance to do the thing that I had been trying to do for over 10 years," he informed her trying not to make it sound like he hated his decision.
"You jumped in a healing spring at the only thing it healed was the curse?" Akane asked wondering why he still had all his wounds if he jumped in a healing spring.
"It was a curse lifting spring I guess," Ranma said fixing his previous statement.
"Oh," Akane said quieter this time feeling like she had asked a stupid question. All of a sudden Akane felt Ranma stop walking beside her and she stopped and turned to him. As soon as she did she was staring directly into Ranma's chest. How did he get so close? She looked up at him and he seemed to be spaced out with a tiny smile on his face.
"Ranma?" Akane asked moving her hands in front of his face trying to snap him out of it.
Ranma shook his head, "Sorry". He looked down at Akane and something happened that he didn't know how to explain. Maybe it was the way the moonlight was hitting her soft, white, milky skin mixed with her blue black hair and piercing eyes.
Feeling a little uncomfortable Akane didn't know what to do other than stare back at him. She felt her cheeks growing warmer and she could only imagine how red she was. She needed to do something to break the silence, "Ranma I'm so happy that you got back here safe and sound."
A/n: Thank you everyone for the reviews...i love all of your ideas it really helps me when i get stuck with the plot! So sorry this was a little late, i just didnt know how to end the chapter, but i did. Now things are going to start picking up and i'm going to try to end this story at the most by chapter 14. alright well tell me what you think about this chapter???