"As Kunou began to regain consciousness, he felt a soft sensation on
his right arm.  Kunou blinked and as his vision cleared....

	"A....Akane Tendo?

	"It is I, Upperclassman Kunou."

	Kunou blinked again.  Akane was wearing a white silk kimono with a red
rose perched in her hair.  She smiled down at him.  Kunou quickly sat
up, delight and confusion in his eyes.

	"It is you.......My love!  Why have you come here at this hour?"

	"Why were you lying on the floor with a refrigerator on your head?" 
Akane wondered aloud.

	"Uh.....Never mind!  Come!  Jump into my arms!" Kunou proclaimed as he
opened his arms wide.

	Akane happily did so.  Kunou was stunned for a moment but quickly
recovered and returned her embrace.  Then Akane leaned forward and
kissed him.  Kunou's eyes widened, pleasantly surprised and soon tears
of joy flowed from them.  After several moments, Akane finally released
the kiss and looked up at Kunou with starry eyes that put Azuza's to
shame. 

	"A....Akane...."  Kunou whispered softly.

	"Yes, my steely samurai of desire...."  Akane replied in a loving tone.

	Kunou felt himself growing faint.  "Oh Akane....How I've longed to hear
you say that....In fact, this is EXACTLY the way I pictured you
admitting your love for me.  Fate hath truly brought you into my
arms....
	
	Oh yes....Spout your irreverent poetry to me....I long to hear your
majestic voice speak my name over and over...."
  
	"It would be my pleasure, my love!"  Kunou took a deep breath and
assumed a dramatic pose.  He lowered his head ever so slightly and then
begins his monologue in a stage whisper:

Akane....

Scarlet Flower among the Garden of Eden....

Akane....

Voice like the wind and eyes like the deep blue sea....

Akane....

Light seeking Light doth Light Beguile....

Akane....

I would gladly die to see thy lovely smile....

	Akane, Mine heart is bursting at the seams. For Akane, You are truly
the woman of my dreams.

	With the final verse, Kunou bows his head further and a single tear
falls down his right cheek.  The sounds of a bard rolling over in his
grave is heard in the distance but Akane doesn't appear to care 
as she has tears in her own eyes.

	"T...That was s...so beautiful...."  She said.

	"Ah, but that was only the short version, my love!  Over the last two
years I have written 200 additional pages to this poem.  I could read
them to you if you like...."   Kunou made a grand gesture over himself

	"Oh, Tatewaki!  I would love to hear it with mine own two ears!"

	"I shall fetch it at once!  SASUKE!"  Kunou bellowed for his fateful
servant.  There was a long pause and then Kunou remembered he had given
him the night off.  "I shall be but a moment, fair Akane."

	"I'll be waiting with unbridled anticipation, Tatewaki!"

	Kunou quickly departed.  Akane smiled and sat on his bed.  As she
waited for him to return, she starts glancing at the walls of Kunou's
room.  She brightened up when she saw a poster of herself but
then her face underwent a frightening transformation when she saw a
poster of Ranma in female form beside the Akane poster.  

	Akane's face twisted into a scowl and her eyes grew as cold and hard as
a piece of flint.  She continued to stare at the Ranma-Chan poster for
another few seconds and then, without warning, she tore it off the wall
and ripped it into shreds with her fingernails.  She then proceeded to
do the same thing with all of Kunou's pictures of the "pig tailed girl"
while whispering to herself, over and over....

	"Kunou is mine.......Kunou is mine......KUNOU IS MINE....KUNOU IS...."

	"My Darling?"

	Akane stopped and turned around to see Kunou carrying a huge pile of
paper that obviously contained his 2 years of poetry.  Kunou stared at
his torn pictures of the pig tailed girl with shock and disbelief and
dropped his speech.  Akane, realizing she had to say something, quickly
blurted out....

	"It.....It was that wretch, Saotome!"

	"WHAT?!"  Kunou's eyes blazed with fury.

	"S...Saotome trespassed in here like a brigand while you were gone.  He
tried to steal me away from your manly arms but I managed to fight off
his advances in the nick of time.  Then he tore all of 
your pictures of the pig tailed girl in twain, laughed like the fool
that he is and leapt out the window to flee from thy swift and brutal
justice you surely would have unleashed upon his person."  Akane
finished, out of breath.

	"But....but....that window has no less that twelve security locks and
only I have the abort code!  Even the devil himself could not have
broken through!

	"Uh....the evil one used black magic to get in and out of this noble
abode.  He passed through these walls like the hellspawn spirit that he
is!  Oh yes, he is even more troublesome than you originally thought!" 
Akane quickly replied.   

	To a person with average intelligence, This would be one of the most
pathetic excuses that even a four year old child wouldn't use on it's
parents.  HOWEVER since this is Tatewaki Kunou we're talking about....

	"The FIEND!!!  How DARE he trespass on my property and try to kidnap my
beautiful Akane!  I WILL SMITE THEE!"  Kunou turned to leave.

	"HOLD!"

	Kunou pauses at Akane's shout.

	"Let's not worry about that rapscallion now.  What matters right now is
that we are together and no one, not even the cowardly Saotome, can keep
our love apart."  Akane said, almost desperately....
	
	"But Saotome...."  Kunou protested.

	"....Can wait till morning's first light.  For now let us just enjoy
our love tonight."  Akane replied sweetly, patting the bed invitingly.

	"Perhaps you're right.  The cur can wait until morning."  Kunou
bent over to pick up his poetry from the floor.  "Shall I begin, my
darling?"

	"Please do, oh wise warrior of the Bokken!"  Akane replied with awe.

	"This will take several hours, as I have put a lot of work into it
and...."  

	"Tis a triffle."  Akane interrupted.  "The longer the poem the greater
my love for you grows.  Can you do this most fortunate soul just one
favor before the first word leaves thy handsome lips?"

	"Of course my darling."  Kunou returned her smile.

	"Omit any poetry regarding the pig tailed girl.  I want thy poetry to
be about my beauty."  Akane's tone was harsh and her face set.   
	Kunou fidgeted.  "J...Just you?"

	"No other but me."  Akane said.

	"Uh....well...."  Kunou quickly looked through his poem and ended up
with only half of what he originally wrote.  "Forgive me.  This poem may
not be as long as you had originally hoped....

	"That is acceptable."  Akane gave Kunou a mischievous smile.  "I'm sure
we can find more....enjoyable activities once you have finished using
thy talented tongue for mere speech...."

	Kunou raised an eyebrow and suddenly feels VERY inspired as he began to
read.



....COMING SOON....