Pills
A Ranma 1/2 Fanfiction
By Exar
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Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz. Not me. I make no money
from this, and I am not claiming ownership of the characters in any way.
Don't sue me, I'm poor.
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Kasumi leaned over the garbage can, smiling gently as she pulled on the
little yellow
ribbons that formed the handles of the bag. She lifted the bag out of the
can and
pulled the handles up, forming a shape not unlike a bunny's ears. "Now to
tie a knot
in the bunny's ears." Not that she would do it to a real bunny, that's just
what her
mother had called it when she showed Kasumi how, many years ago. As she
began
her knot, she noticed one of Akane's medicine bottles in the sack. Full of
pills.
She gasped in surprise, and almost dropped the bag. She opened the bag
carefully
and fished out the bottle. Sure enough, it had Akane's name on it, and Dr.
Tofu's
prescription. Frowning slightly, Kasumi marched out of the kitchen and up to
Akane's
room.
She knocked firmly on the door. "Akane? It's Kasumi, I need to talk to you."
Akane opened the door and let Kasumi in with a confused look on her face.
Kasumi held out the bottle of pills.
"Akane, I found this in the garbage. Now, why aren't you taking your
medicine?"
Akane had the grace to look embarrassed, but said, "I don't need it, I
haven't needed
it for a long time."
"Akane, you should let the doctors decide that. They said you had to take
them until you
were 18," Kasumi said with a slight frown on her face.
"Well, they were wrong. I haven't taken them for a very long time, and I'm
not going to
start again now."
Kasumi sighed. "If you're going to be that stubborn about it, I suppose
there's nothing
I can do. But I'll hang on to these, and if it seems that you need them, you
_will_ start
taking them again," Kasumi said in her normal gentle tone, but there was a
hint of iron
in her voice that wasn't normally present.
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The Next Morning...
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Akane was running to school, because she didn't want to be late. As always,
Ranma had
taken too long getting ready, and now they had to hurry. He was up on the
fence, happily
jogging away.
Suddenly, they heard a familiar and haunting sound.
*Dinga-ling!*
And Ranma was immediately plowed into by a bicycle and one very affectionate
Amazon.
"Nihao, Ranma! You take Shampoo to date, yes?" ,she said as she pawed at him
and thrust
herself into his hands.
Akane's vision blurred for a moment due to sheer anger, as she watched Ranma
fondle the
Chinese girl's charms right in the middle of the street.
Ranma said, "Why sure, Shampoo, just let me get trid of Akane, here, and
we'll go."
Akane stormed up to him, furious, and said, "Don't let me stop you from
going on your date!
Here, I'll get you started!" Screaming wildly, she kicked both Ranma and
Shampoo into the
stratosphere.
"Honestly, that pervert!"
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Later that day, at school.
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Akane stood in her nice white apron and hat, ready and willing to cook the
best cookies the
world had ever seen. After he'd finally gotten to school, during third
period, Ranma had made
some kind of lame apology, but she was in a fogiving mood, so she'd probably
share some
cookies with him.
She pulled a bowl out of the cupboard and started gathering the ingredients
for chocalate chip
cookies. Proving that she could learn from her mistakes, Akane kept the
recipie in front of her,
didn't imporvise once, well except for the raisins, btu tehy tasted so good,
she couldn't leave
them out.
First step, flour. Let's see, there it is. a round container with a metal
spout on top, labeled "flour".
She grabbed the container and flipped up the spout. She pour 3 cups into a
measuring cup,
marvelling all the while about how fine it was. Next was butter. She ended
up using lard, but that
was okay. Salt- in the big paper bag. Vanilla- in the jar that looked like a
wine jug. Baking
powder- in the yellow box with the arm on it. Chocolate chips, in the bag
off to one side, and finally
the raisins.
She turned the oven dial up to 375, and spooned small amount of her mixture
onto a cookie sheet.
When the oven was properly warm, she put the cookie sheet in and set the
timer. A few minutes
later, the timer went off and the cookies came out. They looked a little
flat, but good. Just wait till
Ranma trys one.
At lunch, she walked straight to where Ranma sat with Hiroshi and Daisuke.
She plopped the
cookies down in front of him and waited. Ranma picked one up, looked at it
carefully, and slowly
put in in his mouth. He bit into it and chewed slowly, then spit it out and
turned around and lost his
breakfast on the ground behind him.
Akane saw red. "Honestly, Ranma, one bite isn't enough to make you throw up
that quickly, you jerk!"
"Akane? What are you talking about?"
Akane stormed off, shouting over her shoulder, "I don't know why I even try
to cook for you!"
Ranma was left holding an intact and incredibly hard cookie with a confused
look on his face.
"Guys, I didn't throw up, did I?"
"No." "Nope."
"I can never understand her..."
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Later that night, at the Tendo Dojo.
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"Ranma, dinnertime!", called Kasumi, looking up the stairs.
"Coming!", returned Ranma.
As she watched, he vaulted the railing and lept halfway down the stairs,
once again forgetting to
check for someone in the way. As had happened once before, he attemped to
stop as quickly as
possible, but still ended up hugging her.
Akane walked around the corner, having just come in from the dojo, and saw
Ranma groping
Kasumi right on the stairs.
"You pervert! It bad enough that you do that with Shampoo! But with my own
sister! I don't
believe you!" She screamed as she readied her trusty mallet and bashed Ranma
into the ground,
barely missing her sister.
Kasumi was shaking in terror, and looking at her little sister like she
expected to die.
"Kasumi, what's wrong? I pounded him for you, he won't touch you like that
again."
"Like what, Akane?", said Kasumi, her voice a little shaky.
"What do you mean? He was grabbing at your chest and rear, Kasumi! He's a
pervert!"
Kasumi sighed softly. "Akane, he was hugging me. His arms were behind my
back, in a very
harmless location. He was not doing anything perverted."
"Why are you defending him? Did you want him touching you?"
"No, Akane! I'm defending him because he didn't do anything wrong!"
Akane stared. Kasumi never raised her voice.
"But I saw..."
Kasumi took her sister's hands. "You saw what you saw because you haven't
been taking your
pills. I think if you started to take them again, you would find that you've
been mistaken about a
lot of things."
"I, I'm sorry, I thought I was better, and didn't need them," Akane said
very quietly.
Kasumi led Akane to the kitchen and gave her back the bottle of pills.
"Now start taking these, and try to pay attention to what really happens
around you."
"Okay, big sister."
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The Next Morning
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Akane ran to school. Again. Apparently, Ranma taking forever to get ready
hadn't been one of
her delusions.
*Dinga-ling*
Once again, Ranma found himself tackled by a friendly Amazon.
But as Akane watched in shock, he tried valiantly to avoid her kisses,
outthrust bosom, and in
fact, most of her attentions. He tried very hard to get away from her death
grip, all the while
shouting that he wasn't interested.
Akane burst into tears and rushed over to them. She kicked Shampoo into
orbit and threw her
arms around Ranma, sobbing, "I'm sorry."
Ranma was confused, and struggled for a moment, until he realixed that a
different person had
a death-grip on him now. Unsure of what to do, he just held her and made
comforting noises.
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Later, at school.
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Akane walked up to Ranma and set a small bag of cookies in front of him. He
picked one up
and bit into it carefully. He chewed slowly, and witha thoughtful
expression on his face. When
he was done, he said, "Hey, that was pretty good! A little dry, but not bad
at all, Akane! I really
like the raisins!"
Akane got stars in her eyes and replied, "Thanks, Ranma! I'm glad you like
them!"
She sat down next to him and helped herself to one. Kasumi was right. She
had been wrong
about a lot of things, but now she could see clearly again, and it was going
to be okay.
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~Fin~
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Author's notes:
C&C is ,as always, highly valued and sought after. If anyone wants to
continue this, you're welcome to. It seems to have possiblities, but seeing
as I have two ongoing fics to ignore as it is, I don't want to persue them
right now.
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