Ryouga's Secret
A busty pigtailed girl climbed out of the pond a the Tendo Dojo. "Ryouga, you're dead!" Ranma flew at Ryouga, almost landing a kick to his face. Ryouga threw Ranma back into the pond. What he didn't expect was for the girl to grab his shirt and drag him into the pond with her.
"Bwee!" a cute little black pig wearing Ryouga's bandanna around his neck rose slowly out of the water. He looked confused till he noticed he was sitting atop a shock of red hair. Ranma bounced out of the water, sending the pig flying into a tree.
"Hmmph! Serves ya right. We both know that I'm the better martial artist, and you
still try to beat me. You'll never give up, will you?"
She looked almost sorry for the small black pig.
The moment passed as she kicked him into orbit. Ranma went inside to the kitchen, where she found Kasumi cooking dinner.
"Oh dear. Ranma, did you fall into the pond again?" Kasumi poured a kettle of hot water over the already wet girl's head and went back to cooking. "And please tell Akane that dinner will be ready soon, will you please?"
Ranma trudged up to his room to change clothes, ignoring the fact that he was supposed to tell Akane about dinner. Someone else would do it for him. Once he was in his favorite red silk Chinese shirt and black pants, he flopped onto his bed. He closed his eyes and let his thought wander. Soon, Ranma found himself thinking about the one thing besides martial arts that was always on his mind. "Oh Akane..if only I could hold you, embrace you...kiss you," Suddenly he realized what he was saying. "Akk! What was I thinking?! No way that violent chick would ever let me touch her. Like I'd even want to. Dumb tomboy can't even cook...but still, shes so cute when she smiles. And shes nice when she wants to be... "
>>knock knock knock<<
Ranmas eyes flew open. How long had he been up there, thinking about Akane? Trying to get his mind off of her?
The door opened slowly, and Akane poked her head in. "Ranma, are you ok? You missed dinner." she looked truly concerned for his well-being. Either that, or she was a really good actress.
Ranma stood up. "I'm fine, why do you ask?" He slowly walked to her, hesitating slightly, and took her hands in his.
Akane shifted her gaze down to her hands which at the moment were clasped tightly in Ranma's. "It's not like you to miss a meal, I-I thought you be hurt or something like that.."
Ranma lifted one hand to touch her chin and tilted her face up towards his. He stared deeply into her eyes, gently caressing her cheek. Ranma noticed the warmth of a deep blush in Akane's cheeks. A small smile played on Akanes lips. "You really are cute when you smile."
Akane blushed even harder now. "R-ranma, I..I..."
Ranma put one finger to Akane's soft lips. "Shhh..." he let the finger slide slowly down her lips, down her chin. Over her neck and shoulder. He traced it ever so slowly down her collarbone, sliding down her arm, stopping at her waist to pull her closer to him. Akane's free hand came up to rest on Ranma's muscular chest. Ranma's face inched dangerously close to Akane's. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Could he really do this? And what if she didn't want to? She would probably hit him again. Ranma was about to pull away when quickly a soft warmth brushed over his lips.
Akane looked somewhat scared. Had she just done that? Had she just done what she had wanted to do since the first time they had met? She looked at Ranma, who still had his eyes closed, trying to figure out what he had just felt.
She took in a deep breath and slowly, ever so slowly, wrapped her arms around Ranma's neck.
This time Ranma knew that he felt something. This time it didn't leave his lips in an instant. The warm softness lingered on his lips for several seconds. He opened his eyes to see Akane's face only millimeters away from him, her lips pressing gently to his. Both arms were around Akane's waist now, pulling her ever closer as her kiss was returned.
Finally they pulled away for air and opened their eyes. When the realization of what they had been doing hit them, they jumped back several feet. A deep red blush was on both young faces.
"Did we just uh...?"
Ranma nodded. "Yeah, we did. Did you feel anything? Like uh..fireworks or something?"
Akane looked slightly confused. Fireworks? She hadn't seen any fireworks. She could, however, feel a pleasant tingle on her lips. Akane smiled sweetly, then lunged for the kill. She wrapped her arms around Ranma's neck and kissed him with such a passion, even Shampoo wouldn't dare try to match it.
They kissed like that for several minutes before Ranma slowly moved them to his bed, and sat down with her on his lap. He felt like he was in heaven. All that time, and all he had to do was be nice to her! Ranma kept kissing the cute girl that sat on his lap, wondering why he hadn't thought of doing something like this before. Ok, so he had thought of it, but never had the guts to actually do it. He didn't even know why tonight he had done it...it just felt *right*.
Ranma heared a noise and opened his eyes just in time to see a small black object attach itself to his face.
"P-chan! What are you doing here?" Akane giggled. P-chan oinked at her, then turn his attention back to Ranma. He let out a low piggy growl and started beating on Ranma's face with his hooves. Ranma threw P-chan into the wall, knocking him unconscious. "Ranma, how could you!? I thought you cared about me, but you cant even bring yourself to be decent to my poor pet!"
"B-b-but Akane..." he was silenced by a mallet to the head. Akane picked up the little piglet and carried him to her room, leaving Ranma grumbling angrily to himself.
A few hours later P-chan groggily opened his eyes. Akane was there, smiling down at him. "My poor baby, are you ok?" She picked him up and hugged him tight to her chest. P-chan snuggled comfortably up to her. He loved it when Akane held him like this. It was probably the closest he would ever get to actually being with her.
P-chan made a decision then and there that he had to tell Akane how he felt about her. Maybe this time it would actually come out as normal words. But first he had to get back to normal form.
He wiggled out of Akane's arms and jumped down to the floor. P-chan walked towards the door, stopping to motion to Akane to follow. Akane obeyed her 'pet' and followed him up and down the halls for 20 minutes.
After passing her room for the 5th time, Akane picked up P-chan and looked at him. "You don't know where you want to go do you?" P-chan nodded. "How bout if I start walking, and you tell me where you want to go. Ok?" P-chan nodded again. Akane laughed, "It's almost as if you really understand what I'm saying..."
Akane started walking, stopping at every door she came to. When they finally passed the bathroom, P-chan got excited. "Kwee! Kwee kwee!" Akane looked at him and walked into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. P-chan leaped from her arms and landed on the edge of the furo. Oh, how badly he wanted to change back, how badly he wanted to confess his true feelings for Akane..but all he managed was to faint, and fall to the floor. His poor piggy circuits were overloaded with thoughts of Akane knowing how he felt, and of her maybe actually returning his love.
Akane looked at him and sighed. "Poor P-chan..must be tired. Oh well, since I'm already in here.." Akane stripped off her clothes and tossed them on the floor by the hamper. She sat on a small bathroom stool and washed herself off with cool water and soap. When she thought she was clean enough, she rinsed the soap from her body and stepped into the steaming hot water of the furo. Akane sighed contentedly, and closed her eyes.
Once P-chan awoke from his little 'nap', he noticed something was amiss. He was in what appeared to be a bathroom, he remembered that part, but wasn't someone with him? Akane! That's was it, Akane had brought him in here. But where was she? He looked around slowly, making sure not to move from the spot, for fear of getting lost. He saw the mirror, the cabinets, the clothes hamper, Akane's clothes tossed carelessly on the floor... Akane's clothes?!
He went to them to be sure they really were. Sure enough, they were the same clothes that Akane had been wearing that afternoon. That could only mean one thing. He nervously looked up into the furo. From his low position on the floor, all he could see was her naked shoulders and the tops of her breasts. This was enough for him..too much, actually. He promptly got a nosebleed and fainted with a loud >>thump!<<
Akane heared the noise and looked over the side of the furo to see what it was. "P-chan!! Are you ok?" She jumped out to pick him up, carelessly splashing the warm water all over the floor, herself again, and the small black pig in her arms. Suddenly there was a weight in her arms much too heavy to be P-chan. She looked down to see a half-conscious, very naked Ryouga.
Mousse looked up from scrubbing the floor of the Nekohanten when her heared an ear-pearcing scream. "Hmm..Akane and Ranma must be in another fight..."
"Mousse be quiet! Mousse finish scrub floor so can scrub bathroom!" Shampoo glared down at him.
"Yes, Shampoo, anything you say!"
By this time Ryouga was fully awake, and fully aware than he and Akane were both totally naked in the same room together. For some reason he didn't pass out this time. It was too important that he tell Akane the truth now. "A-Akane-San, please let me explain. This isn't what it seems.."
"Oh, so you *aren't* P-chan, and you *haven't* been lying to me so you can sleep in my bed, watch me undress, and hear all my personal secrets?"
"Yes! I mean, No! I mean...I'm sorry," he hung his head in shame. "I'm really really sorry, Akane-san, it wasn't my fault. I was knocked into the Spring of Drowned Black Piglet at Jusenkyo, and you saw me in my cursed form and you fell in love whit me. But it wasn't really me, it was P-chan. And even though you only loved me as a pet, I loved you with all my heart...I still do."
Akane stared wide-eyed at the poor boy in front of her. "I..you..." the events of the last few moments, and what they said about the past year finally dawned on her, and she started to glow a soft shade of blue which seemed to grow brighter with every passing second. "Ryouga no BAKA!"
Ryouga felt a red-hot sting on his cheek. It wouldn't have been so bad if it had been someone else, but it was Akane who slapped him. Akane who he loved, and thought the world of. The horrible slap across his face, like the hot sun beating on his left cheek, like daggers in his heart, proved Akane had only cared for him as a pet and a friend.
Akane ran out of the bathroom, still naked, not caring who saw her. She slammed the door to her room, and did the only thing she thought was suitable for this situation. She cried her eyes out.
Ranma heared a shrill scream, followed by "Ryouga no BAKA!", the slamming of a door, and sobbing. Even though shouts were no stranger to the Tendo household, usually he was the one being yelled at, not Ryouga. Unless of course it was him yelling at Pig-boy. He knew that something had to be up.
Ranma followed the sobbing down the hall to where it got the loudest. He stopped in front of a door with a wooden duck hanging on it with English writing on it. He knew the letters well enough, he had been past, and into that room enough times that he should. 'AKANE'
Ranma knocked gently on the door. "Akane? Are you ok? If its my fault you're crying, I'm..I'm s-sorry." When there was no answer, he slowly opened the door and walked in cautiously. He saw Akane on her bed wrapped up in her blanket. Her eyes were puffy and bloodshot from crying.
"I didn't know..why didn't he tell me?" she sobbed.
"Huh? Akane, what are you talking about?"
"Ryouga...P-chan...bath...Jusenkyo..."
Ranma finally caught on to what she was trying to say. "Ooooh! So you finally figured out that Ryouga is P-chan, huh? I'm surprised you didn't realize it earlier, its *so* obvious.."
"You knew?! You knew and you didn't tell me?! How could you not tell me? You let him *sleep* with me! In my bed! Ryouga in my bed, with me, alone!"
"Geez! I'm the one that was always tryin to get him outta there, if you don't remember. Besides, I couldn't tell you. It would be against the warriors code. I knocked him in by accident, so I had to keep his secret. Of course, it never woulda happened if he hadn't followed me to China. He should have just showed up to the fight *he* scheduled, lost to me, and gotten on with his life so I could do the same."
"But...but..." Akane still looked upset.
Ranma sat down beside her, trying to comfort her troubled mind. As she lay her head on his shoulder, half of the blanket slipped down her shoulder, exposing more than was needed. Neither of them seemed to notice or care as they sat in a comforting embrace, Akane crying softly into Ranma's shirt.
Ryouga opened a door which he thought to be Akane's. Of course, with his horrible sense of direction, it wasn't. Kasumi looked up from her cup of tea and smiled. "Hello Ryouga-kun, its lovely to see you. What brings you here tonight?"
Ryouga blushed slightly, cursing himself. "I'm sorry Kasumi, I was looking for Akane-san's room. I need very much to speak to her."
Kasumi smiled her sweet innocent smile again. "Akane's room is upstairs, on the right."
"Arigato, Kasumi." He bowed slightly and wandered off to find the stairs.
About 5 minutes later he came across another door he thought might be the right one. He knocked, and a female voice allowed him in. Ryouga opened the door to see Nabiki at her desk doing something that looked like a spreadsheet on her computer. "This had better be good, I'm busy.." she said, only looking away from the screen to cross something off in a ledger next to the keyboard.
"Oh...I was looking for Akane-san's room. I suppose this isn't it."
Nabiki finally looked up, "How badly do you want to get there?"
Ryouga fished 100 yen from his pocket, along with some never-to-be-delivered love notes to Akane, which he quickly shoved back. "This is all I have, please, I really need to know where Akane's room is."
Nabiki got up to take his money. "Keep going down this hall. When you come to a door with a wooden duck that says 'AKANE' in English, you'll have it."
"Domo arigato!!" Ryouga rushed out of the room, leaving Nabiki to figure new ways to extort money, and who owed her what.
Several minutes later Ryouga found the door marked with the wooden duck, just as Nabiki had promised. He opened the door and timidly peaked in. Ryouga growled and slowly advanced on the couple on the bed who had hardly moved at all in the last 20 minutes. Ranma had had his hands all over Akane earlier, but now she was half-naked. That was even worse. Ryouga wondered again how the flow of blood from his nose didn't come as usual.
"Ryouga!" Ranma and Akane were both startled to see him advancing on them, fangs bared, a murderous glint in his eyes.
Akane stood up, "Ryouga, stop right now!" Ryouga stopped mid-step. "Ryouga, you should have told me that you were P-chan" Akane sounded unnaturally calm. "You betrayed my trust. I hope that you're happy now, I can never trust you again. " Akane was once again in tears. "Why don't you just...just...go get lost!"
Ryouga's heart sank to his feet. "Akane-san, I'm so very very sorry. If I had told you my secret before, it still would have been bad for our relationship, whatever that means to you. Maybe it wouldn't have been as bad as it is now if I had just told you, and it hadn't happened the way it did. But I suppose things happen for a reason. I'll leave you now, get lost, as you said. You'll never see me again. I hope that for your sake that you and Ranma have a nice life together.." Akane and Ranma blushed deeply. "If I cant have you for myself, at least I can know that you're happy. No matter how much you hate me for this, I want you to always be happy, and remember only the good times we shared." Ryouga bowed to them and headed down the stairs, going to who-knows-where.
Ranma and Akane could do nothing but stare after him. "Did he...does he..why did he...?" Akane looked confused again.
"It figures you wouldn't get it. Dumb tomboy, how do you expect to get a boyfriend if you chase off the pet that you love, and the only guy besides Kuno that lo..likes you?"
"The *only* one?" Akane walked towards him, slowly, seductively. Then she pulled him close and kissed him passionately.
he thought as he returned Akane's kiss with as much passion as it was given. Suddenly he felt a hard blow to the head, and himself flying out the window into the night sky. "KAAAWAAAIIIKUUUNEEE!"
Akane smiled slightly. "That should teach him. He's the one that l...lo...Why cant I say it?" she answered herself, surprised at her own thoughts. She put on her cute yellow P.J.s and climbed into bed.