A.N: took me long to update. I apologize.
Be my beloved enemy
Blue
"D-Don't" Akane moaned between their kisses. She pushed on his chest not hard but steady, just enough for him to back a little.
The girl appeared to be frightened of something and Ranma berated himself for even listening to his cousin and coming to see her.
"Don't hurt me" Akane's voice was pleading and Ranma didn't know how to take it. She had been acting all weird since he had appeared.
'Great. Now she's afraid of me' Ranma thought sarcastically 'Splendid job, you moron'
Akane's gaze was fixed upon his. The baby blue colour of his eyes was striking against the pitch black background of the night.
"Your eyes. They are blue. Like the sea" she breathed every sentence in a slow tempo.
Ranma looked down at her and rolled his eyes.
"Afraid you are gonna drown in them?" he spat sarcastically. 'Had she just stopped his advances because of his eyes? Crazy chick'
Akane stiffened for a moment.
"You can't be serious" he spat. 'Every girl he knew was just crazy about his eyes. What was wrong with her?'
She backed a little more and her back hit the rocks of the koi-pond.
"Gods, you are being serious about this" he unravelled his hair and paced in circles as he said that. "How mental can you get, really?" he snarled
"Why?" he demanded.
Akane's right toes kept moving in semicircles. Her head bent down just a little and she shivered as the frosty wind blew by. Ranma didn't notice or if he did he just ignored the fact and pressed her once more to speak up her mind.
"Why?" his voice was still demanding but it held an edge of something else there; concern maybe? But he'd never admit such thing.
"This is getting old, you know?" he sighed and stepped closer to her "Me, asking you what it is you mean. I'm getting fed up. Just, tell me!"
He grabbed her little baby face between his hands and forced her gently to look up at him.
"Please" he breathed and that undid her.
"Do you remember the time when you got into my dreams?" Akane was aware of her accelerated heartbeat as Ranma's eyes went wide with horror when the question had left her mouth.
How could he forget? He felt uneasy about her question but answered her nonetheless. She was not supposed to remember anything. He even recalled her saying that to him herself:
'Why must you be so difficult?' she had cried out in exasperation "I'll forget everything only you'll remind this… just answer the damn question!'
"I have no clue what you are talking about?" he said trying to play it cool. It had only taken some seconds for him to get back his arrogant look.
"Are you trying to be difficult on purpose? I know that you know I shouldn't know" she laughed wholeheartedly at her own words. "But how it comes that I can, it's going to be my little secret for now"
Ranma groaned "I'll humour you just this once. Feel free to continue"
Akane knew that was as much as a confession she'd get from him. She sighed defeated and continued.
"It was all about you" she smiled
"You aren't making any sense. Could you just get to the point?"
She laughed but this time it was a sour kind of laugher.
"I told you I wanted to die" her voice was glum "It was all prepared for you. It was your eyes I first acknowledge when I first met you. Blue, always blue; but not quite like today."
"Do you have some kind of grudge against blue? or is this nonsense going to get us anywhere?"
She smirked at him before answering.
"It was your blue eyes that seemed to hold a grudge against me before"
"Again with the riddles?" Ranma grunted "can't you just be blunt about it!"
She smiled before answering.
"I noticed that first time when I asked you to kill me, noticed how the blue in them changed. Before that, your pupils were always bigger and threatening and little specks of black coal would spike your irises. I guess that's what made your eyes all the more menacing. But, after I had asked you to go through it, to kill me…"
Ranma recalled the dream vividly.
"Then do it" she had incited him. "Do it"
"…your eyes had changed. The pupils were no longer big and menacing but small and it made all the blue much more noticeable."
"So? I don't see what the problem with it is, really. You must really be out of your mind to notice such trivial things" he snarled and unconsciously rubbed her cheek softly,maybe trying to erase with the act the harshness of his words "But, please, do continue. I'm intrigued in what theory you've extracted from this event"
"It was when you save me that they did become clearer"
He grimaced at her but she continued nonetheless.
"Yeah, the dark black specks had disappeared and I remember all I could see after my fatal attack where your eyes. Blue, they were a freaky pair of blue eyes, or that's what I thought anyways."
"Do refrain yourself to say such endearments to me; my big ego might not just live it down" he said quietly, a hint of amusement in his voice.
"I'm still not done, you know" Akane spat, for god's sake he was the one who had asked her to speak up her mind! She blushed profusely at the memory she was about to tell.
"Do you remember when you first kissed me?"
"Are you trying to guess whether or not I keep track of every single word or action I do? Wondering if I've some grave case of mental disorder that I tend to forget these things?"
"With a simple YES it would've sufficed" she snapped and added as an after thought 'Jerk'
For sure Ranma could remember it. She had been at the hospital at the time and Ranma had been edgy the whole week, barely sleeping, keeping an eye on her continuously.
"Don't stare at me" Akane had demanded.
"Why? Scared?" he had said sarcastically, as his head had drawn closer to hers.
"You wish" she had snapped "Just don't stare, it gives me the creeps"
"Then close your eyes and you'll not see me" he had stated, matter of fact.
And as Akane's eyes had closed Ranma's head had bent down…
"You didn't want to see my eyes" Ranma stated.
"Yeah" Her voice was small again. "They've been becoming clearer, you know. Back then, they were already close to baby blue"
"So, let me grab this. You are saying that you are scared of my eyes because you believe they changed their color?"
"You got all this wrong. It's not your eyes I'm scared about"
"Well, do please forgive me for my wrong interpretation on your long explanation of the color changing of my eyes"
"You have specks of silver in your baby blue irises now" she added.
"No more riddles! If your not scared of my eyes then what? What is it you are scared about?" his patience was wearing thin and she knew.
"You. It's all about you. I've been scared of you since the first time I saw you. It's evolved, you know, as your eyes did so did my fear"
"I still don't get it"
She frowned at him before adding.
"I'll show you then" Akane grabbed then the front of his shirt, stood on her tip-toes and planted a soft kiss square on his mouth. Instinctively, Ranma's hands traced her figure and wrapped around her waist. She broke the kiss slowly, her toes touching the ground below completely.
"Do you still believe you hate me?" she asked.
"Do you?" Ranma asked back.
"I guess it's not important whether or not you can voice it. It's all there, in your eyes" her voice broke all of a sudden "I- I'm afraid they must be mirroring my own"
"AKANEEE!" Shinosuke's voice was heard from inside the house.
"I've to go now" she said and started moving, freeing herself from Ranma's grasp. "I guess you can go celebrate after all" she sighed.
Ranma's voice lowered to a whisper "I'll come to spring you out tonight."
Akane felt soft lips touch hers gently but as her eyes opened he was gone as if disappeared out of thin air.
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Ranma strode drown the hall apathetically.
"Hello, my dear cousin. So, how's it been?" a merry Ryoga greeted him. He stood by his bedroom door so Ranma assumed that he'd been waiting all this time in order to gather some new information. Sneaky bastard.
"Come in, you idiot" he said opening the door.
Ryouga stepped in and launched himself on the black leather sofa. He didn't need to ask again as Ranma started talking immediately.
"They want her gone. To china" he sighed and dishevelled his hair by sweeping his hand through it.
"You look like shit" Ryouga just stated.
"I've told her I'm going to spring her tonight" He stated in a monotone way.
"How come this does not surprise me?" Ryouga asked more to himself than to Ranma "You must have really gone nuts to believe you'll get away with something like that. You're father is going to have your head in a silver plate as soon as he as much as suspects something is going on"
"I'm not letting her go away!" he bellowed and for the first time since he had arrived home, his face did show some of his discomfort
"And what does she say? Does she even know? Did you even tell her?"
"I just stated to fact to her before her brother caught us. There was nothing to discuss about it. I won't have it any other way. But, discuss we did or let's say she did. Something stupid about how she was afraid my eyes had changed colour"
"Oh, so she did notice, too"
"What do you mean with 'too'?"
"Don't worry much about it. It just happens when you are around her. You look like a teenager with a big crush." He laughed about it but Ranma just stood motionless. "Was there something else she said?"
"yeah" his voice was so low it was barely audible.
"What was it?"
"She said she was afraid that her eyes mirrored my own" Ranma swallowed as the real meaning of Akane's words finally reached his mind
"There goes your declaration, lover boy" Ryoga smiled sadly at his cousin
"What am I going to do now? Surely I'm not… that!"
"Do you know that the eyes are the windows to one's soul" Ryouga asked
Ranma nodded slowly. He looked nervous like a small child and it was so uncharacteristic for him to behave like that that Ryouga couldn't help it any longer and snapped.
"Do you know… your eyes are also a baby blue when you talk about her now"
Ranma ran to him, ready to choke him to death.
"You'll help me, won't you?"
Ryouga sighed, deep and soundly. Letting his lungs expand "You didn't even need to ask, sweetie pie"
Ranma got serious again.
"I just couldn't let her go. You know"
Ryoga just got up, smiled sadly again at his cousin and added. "I'll be awake. Do come to fetch me when you deem it necessary" and with that said, he left the room
Ranma looked down on his mark it had started to bleed and realised just then what a very bad omen that was. But he was not gonna let that keep him away from what he wanted, after all he was a selfish guy and he had admitted to not doing goodbyes so…what was left?
He was going to spring her out.
A:N: Feel free to review
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