A.N: ow…here it goes my next chapter
-PPMKatie: hihihi…ow I'm sorry the tension's killing you. Mm, I'll be good and let you know that next chapter will be crucial in the story and things will start changing. PROMISEEEEEE
-Anime-rawkz: well, I updated "the student's kiss" already hope you liked it
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-Valentina Fuori & tehcrazykatlady: mmm, yeah I know my grammar mistakes are sometimes a bother but I promise I try not to make so much it's just if I do is because I don't even realise of them…wish I had a mmm, how do you call it? Beta, yeah, beta...then I wouldn't have so many mistakes…gosh. Ow! Really happy about what you think of this story. Hope you like this chapter too
-kyuubiflames: is it too confusing? Mmm, I think it'll be clearer as the story advances.
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-Lyra the sorceress of school: hihih, mmm, well hope you like many more "quotes" on this new chapter
-f-zelda: hihihi, wanna know sth? Et vull means "I love you" and you can also use "T'estime" (meaning: I love you).Both in Catalan language, my mother language (apart from Spanish), that is also spoken here in some parts of Spain.
Be my beloved enemy
'Yeah, a promise. I'll visit you tonight. Just wait for me in your nightmares' Ranma's smirk did not disappear at all.
Torment me
"In her dreams will you rain but no control over them will you have. Keep that in mind, dear one" her voice, old and dusty filled the cold room.
Cologne's sad eyes had wrinkles and bags, blue shadows under them that spoke more of her life than her mouth did. She walked slowly, helped with a walking stick, her small stoop frame hiding her head nearly completely as she looked down and inside an old wooden chest.
"Dreaming men are hunted men. Remember this, dear one" she said as soon as her trembling hand had put a bottle on Ranma's hands.
"I'll" his voice was dark but steady.
"Being the hunter or the prey will not be in your hands but hers." She pointed out "I'll let you know that you'll be in her mind, in her world, in her hands…completely and utterly at her mercy. There'll be though a factor in your favour, she will not know she has the power. You better not let her see any of it."
"Thanks for everything" he put the vial inside his pocket and walking backwards to the door listened to Cologne's last warnings.
"Dreams are open windows to one's subconscious; they are made of hope of care and love…Mysteries are unfold, the mysteries of our souls. You just need to read through them and like an open book they will tell you the truth you're willing to find"
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Straightening in her chair once more, she jutted out her lower lip and huffed, blowing a stray black hair out of her china face while she passed yet again another page of her history book. She raised her eyes reluctantly, when the sound of her door opening reached her ears.
"What do you want Shinosuke?" her voice was not gentle but demanding.
"I want the truth for once" he spat angrily at her.
"There's no truth but the one I told you. I was studying some new techniques"
"You know perfectly damn well I'm not talking about books here"
"Then there's nothing else to talk about. I bid you adieu" she said sweetly while turning her attention back to the book.
"Saotome" she cringed as Shinosuke spoke his name "I've been asking around. You've been having some problems with him lately; some even dared to tell me that he'd been bulling you."
Akane pressed her lips tightly but did not speak a word.
"You were found together in the infirmary both in a dreaded state. Blood staining your clothes that were turned and even ripped… Still have nothing to talk about?"
"Leave me alone" Akane said.
"No" he shouted grabbing her shoulders and forcing her to look at him "But, what shocked me the most was this…" he said clenching a paper that was in his hands. "…this none-sense of you and him"
"Leave me" Akane demanded again, angry tears now falling from her honey eyes.
He punched the desk where she was studying and then left the paper he'd been holding there. He then marched back to the door, looked at her sobbing sister and sighed before he had closed the door.
"it did not work" he told his granpa that was standing at the corridor.
"I fear that this has just begun and we'll not be able to stop it"
Shinosuke punched the wall in mere desperation while angry tears dared to stream down his cheeks.
"Knowing that still does not make it easier to accept it" he drawled while his granpa walked closer to him placing a hand behind him. Shinosuke cried hard, like a baby would…
'All hope was gone; he'd failed in protecting what he loved most. It had started and as his garnpa had pointed out "Et vull" was not possible to stop.'
"we'll do anything to make this easier on her. She'll have to know the truth. Her families past has come to take her too." His granpa said patting Shinosuke's back soothingly. "For now, we better rest. There's still a long way to go"
Akane opened the paper as soon as Shinosuke had fled the room, her angry tears, blotching the central photo as she now recognized the newspaper clearly "She's mine" it read. Saotome had claimed her, he had insulted her, had degraded her, had made her loathe him dearly…
His words were like weapons even more powerful than his acts. They were a reminder of his control that went deep into her mind but then there were these instants when she thought they did not fit. They couldn't fit his eyes, that word… "sorry" it repeated in her head and she wished she could know what he'd meant with it.
Sorry for what? For tormenting her like he did. Sorry for what? For hating her like he did. Sorry for what? For wanting her dead. Sorry for what?...for what?...for what? Her head wondered as her eyes dropped and she fell asleep on the desk, the newspaper's page tightly guarded in her hands.
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Ranma meandered slowly down the hallway in the direction of his room. In his hand the potion the old witch Cologne had given him. It could only be used once and he had to make a good use of it.
In a swift movement he discarded his clothes and jumped into his cosy warm bed, grabbed the bottle and brought it to his lips.
"Let's toast to you, my dear Tendo" and he gulped the liquid down
Ranma's eyes closed as soon as the liquid had been swallowed and it was then that a pair of hurt eyes brimmed in the shadows.
'it's her' Shampoo thought, unable to voice out anything. 'It's her that has had this effect on him. It's her he's been thinking about, studying about, and following around'
She came to his bed and touched her lips with his briefly. 'Don't worry my love. I'll take care of her. She'll not be a bother to you anymore'
Then her hand caressed his cheek and tangled in his hair while she thought inwardly 'rest my love and leave it all in my hands'. Then she woke up and went to the door.
'Now I'll only have to find a way to kill her and Ranma will be all mine'
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The water splashed all around the cliff; the rocks were a little bit slippery and the sound of the waves crashing into them was somehow disturbing.
'What kind of dream was that?'
He saw her standing at the very edge of the cliff, her hair flowing wildly with the wind. Her back was facing him, he walked carefully from rock to rock to where she was standing.
"Have you ever wanted to be dead?" She asked out loud at the same time turning around to face him.
"What?" he blinked shocked at her question.
"Why so impress? I was waiting for you" she answered her face looked cold and pale in the night. "So, have you?"
"Why the sudden urge to know?" he asked mesmerized by the question.
"Sometimes I feel as if I am" she said sincerely turning around and facing the sea.
"What?"
"as if I am dead" she drawled.
Akane clasped her hands together and looked up at him once more as if still expecting an answer.
"So, have you?"
He stood still, the wind blowing madly and the sky darkening in the night. A sudden lightning let her see the wonder in his eyes but at the same time she stiffed. Then, a mere second later the dreaded thunder came and she shut her eyes tightly. When she opened them he was even closer.
"Have I?" He looked down at her. She was a few inches shorter than him and right now she was as scared as hell. Her eyes betrayed her now cold stance. "You should be scared by death not asking stupid questions about it!" he snapped at her.
"You get all cocky when you feel threatened" she said shortly.
He looked at her; disbelief written all over his face but he shortly covered it up, his cockiness coming full force altogether with a new lightning. He bored his eyes on hers.
"I wouldn't talk so much. I could kill you right now" he hissed
"Then do it" she incited him as a lightning illuminated her features. Akane grabbed his hand that was unexpectedly warm and placed it on her neck. "Do it" the thunder drummed in their ears and Akane closed her eyes fearing its inevitably sound.
She held her hand on top on his and urged him to press her thin neck but he snatched it away from hers.
'So that was her secret. That was what her subconscious mind wanted, or at least that's what she thought. That he wanted her dead. No, worst; she thought that she should have died but she didn't have a clue why'
He looked up at her all of a sudden
"You don't even have a reason for such a wish!" he said 'No, she didn't know why she ought to be dead she didn't…but, was that reason fair enough?'
"I know you cannot kill me. I can see it in your eyes now. I could see it in them also when you became a cat. Why did you apologize to me?"
Ranma was overwhelmed with so much information but he also knew that he was at her mercy.
"If it makes you feel better, I'll let you know that I'll forget all of this as soon as I wake up. I made some research as my teacher taught me" He smirked at her having gotten the meaning of her subtlety.
"And so you think that you'll win me now" he snapped at her
"Why did you say 'sorry' to me?"
"Because"
"Since when is because an answer?"
"Since this very instant!"
"Why must you be so difficult?" she cried out in exasperation "I'll forget everything only you'll remind this… just answer the damn question!"
"Maybe because I felt sorry…" he said, head down. He knew that he couldn't lie because after all, he was also asleep and that meant that it was also his subconscious mind the one working on an amazing speed.
"sorry? For what? For wanting me dead?" she shouted, her eyes blurred with hot tears
"sorry because you don't even know the truth!" he bellowed tired of the whole bickering thing. Then more softly he added "I wish things were different"
"me too" she said, voice also down.
"If you knew I was coming and that you had the power; why did you dreamt of such a place?" He looked around scanning the area.
"You said you'll meet me in my nightmares and I just wanted you to feel like at home" she said but it was not harsh it was just a fact being stated.
"What are you afraid of?" Ranma asked.
"Do you think I'd be as stupid as to tell you?"
"I already know storms scare you"
"No shit, Sherlock" she snapped.
He surveyed the area once again then looked down at the sea and his eyes opened.
"Water; you don't know how to swim. You fear to drown"
Akane had turned around and walked over to the edge of a big rock then waved with her hand not even daring to look at him.
"Bye" she breathed as she jumped to the ocean.
Ranma's hand rapidly tried to catch her but as soon as it touched her fingers she slipped away. It was too dark to see her anymore, only the crashing of the waves mixed with his cry of agony.
"NOOOOOOOO!"
"NOOOOOOO!" and then he woke up.
His hands were in tight fists grabbing at his silk sheets, his forehead was sweaty and his breathing came up in erratic gasps of air.
'What had that meant?'
He hadn't anticipated that she'd be waiting for him that she'd be able to be in control and that his mind would play such tricks on him. Would make him act in such a way. That had not been him. He was not nice. He was not… but as his breathing came down he realised too that his fear had been also shown: he feared her. He feared the way she made him feel.
Ranma couldn't bear the thought that his own subconscious had betrayed him. That he had felt something he hadn't expected to feel. He felt guilt. He got a little notebook that was standing at his bedside and, pen in hand, wrote a new entry on it. His hands trembled with each letter he wrote.
Tendo cannot swim.
A.N:well…I hope you like this. Ow, and keep in mind that it's Ranma's subconscious speaking. Leave a review!