[Ranma][FanFic][Lemon] newRanma 8 - Dreaming
C. Jones
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newRanma 8: Dreaming
by Chris Jones
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"Ranma, wake up!"
"Huh?" Ranma snapped awake, realizing that she had fallen
asleep. "What? Where?"
"You're needed in surgery with Doctor Saotome," Nurse
Akane said.
Nurse Ranma glanced down at herself. She was wearing a
tight nurse's uniform and high-heeled shoes.
"In surgery?" Nurse Ranma asked curiously. "What's going
on here? I was with Ryouga, and there was a fight and..."
"Doctor Saotome requested you specifically," Nurse Akane
said, pulling Ranma to her from the desk she had been napping on.
"We need to get you scrubbed-up and..."
"Nurse Akane to X-Ray," Kasumi's voice called out over the
PA system. "Nurse Akane to X-Ray."
"Get to surgery!" Nurse Akane yelled, running off in
another direction.
"But--"
"This way," Doctor Kuonji said, grabbing Nurse Ranma's
arm.
"Ucchan? What's going on here?" Nurse Ranma demanded
angrily.
"Oh, it's Ucchan now?" the doctor asked, a grin on her
face. "Really, Nurse. I'm glad to see you're loosening up. Maybe I
have a chance to steal you away from Doctor Saotome?"
Reeling from oddness and the unusual surroundings, Ranma
did her best to make sense of her surroundings. It wasn't until
she heard the familiar, tacky music playing in the background that
she realized what was going on.
"I'm in 'Nurse Academy'. Wonderful."
"What?" Doctor Kuonji asked.
"Never mind. I'm needed in surgery?"
"Yes, and after that, there's the big luncheon." Doctor
Kuonji said, clenching her fist by her side. "Haha! Finally, I
will reveal my secret to everyone!"
"Oh, geez. This is gonna be really stupid, ain't it?"
Ranma lamented.
* * *
Doctor Saotome had a rakish grin, broad pectoral muscles
that could be seen even under his smock, and a pigtail that
protruded from the back of his surgical cap.
Nurse Ranma was pretty sure that he was making eyes at
her. She was also pretty sure that he was playing footsie with
Nurse Nabiki under the operating table. She knew for a fact that
she had seen him grab Doctor Kuonji's butt as the other physician
walked by.
"Scalpel," Doctor Saotome said.
Nurse Nabiki gently placed one in his hands, taking a few
extra seconds to let her fingers linger against his.
"I'll charge you for that later, Doctor," she said.
"I'll be ready," Doctor Saotome said in a suave tone,
winking wickedly at the nurse.
"I'm certain you'll be... up... to the task," Nurse Nabiki
responded.
Nurse Ranma sighed as Doctor Saotome went back to making
eyes at her. God, what a playboy.
Just then, Mikado Sanzenin burst into the operating room,
an accusing finger pointed at Doctor Saotome.
"Why are you operating on this patient?" he demanded.
"Because I'm the only doctor in this hospital that can
perform a triple spleen conflaguration," the pigtailed surgeon
responded. "Eh, Soun, old boy? If you feel up to the task..."
"Soun?" Nurse Ranma asked in confusion. "Isn't Soun
Tendou... older? And didn't he have a moustache?"
"Administrator Tendou was replaced last season by this
actor to boost ratings," Nurse Nabiki explained. "Personally, I
think he's quite a bit more attractive, don't you?"
"Something like that," Nurse Ranma noted, a scowl on her
face.
"This patient has no insurance!" Administrator Sanzenin
said angrily. "I won't have a loose cannon like you making
decisions like this, Saotome."
"Don't tell me about, 'Loose Cannons', Soun. Or I could
tell everyone about... Nurse Akane," Doctor Saotome threatened.
Administrator Sanzenin's face paled. He shuddered away
from Doctor Saotome's steady gaze.
"What about Nurse Akane?" Ranma asked.
"You promised you would keep quiet about that,"
Administrator Sanzenin accused.
"And I will continue to keep quiet," Doctor Saotome said.
"Unless you interfere again."
Administrator Sanzenin glared darkly at Doctor Ranma
before he turned and strode out of the OR.
"Shouldn't he have been in scrubs or something?" Nurse
Ranma asked.
"Now don't you worry about that," Doctor Kuonji said, her
hand on Ranma's leg, and slowly sliding up.
"YIPE!"
* * *
Interlude:
"Japanese male, age seventeen. Name, Ryouga Hibiki. He was
stabbed this afternoon during a martial arts duel. I think all
we're dealing with here is a lacerated bowel, but X-ray indicates
that it's also possible that his left kidney was nicked as well.
We'll evaluate as we go."
"Understood, Sensei," another doctor replied. "We've
already administered two pints of A positive."
"Blood pressure is 125 over 78 and steady," a nurse
commented. "Sinus rhythms appear normal."
"Let's open... here," The doctor said, making a short mark
on Ryouga's back with a felt-tip pen. "Tofuu, why is my patient
handcuffed to the table?" she asked.
Tofuu cleared his throat as he was tying on his mask. "I
don't want him wandering off. This is boy I told you about. The
one with no sense of direction."
"Ah... you weren't kidding then. Okay, everyone keep an
eye out for his sense of direction. I'll try not to drop it on the
floor."
"His sense of direction is out in the waiting room," Tofuu
noted, grimacing at the surgeon's joke. "She's eight years old and
has *nowhere* else to go."
"Tofuu," the surgeon said, placing her gloved hand on his
shoulder. She looked into his eyes with amusement. "I'm the trauma
surgeon. You're the chiropractor. Lighten up, okay?"
"Yes, Hashi," Tofuu said, calming a bit.
"But, Tofuu is right," the surgeon announced in a more
business-like tone to the rest of the nurses and doctors in the
room. "No mistakes, people. This is serious, but it shouldn't be a
fatal injury. Let's not turn it in to one."
* * *
Nurse Ranma had been horrified to learn that Doctor
Saotome, despite his advances towards her, seemed to already be
banging the entire cast of the show. Although she couldn't be
sure, in the few hours she had been working in the hospital she
had heard enough anecdotal evidence to lead her to belive that
Doctor Saotome was sleeping with Nurse Nabiki, Nurse Shampoo, and
Doctor Kuonji. From what she had heard, the licentious doctor was
also looking to add Nurse Akane to his harem, but unfortunately
for him and fortunately for Nurse Ranma's stomach, Nurse Akane
wasn't that kind of girl.
She had heard it hinted, however, that Nurse Akane had
some dark secret in her past that both Doctor Saotome and Hospital
Administrator Mikado Sanz-- er... Soun Tendou knew about. She
could only guess that the lecherous Doctor Saotome was planning to
use the information to blackmail Akane and force his attentions on
her whether she wanted them or not.
Ranma sighed in frustration as she wheeled the specimen
cart down the hallway. She couldn't let Doctor Saotome have Akane!
Akane was in love with Doctor Tofuu, and even though the staff
chiropractor was in love with Nurse Kasumi, who was in turn in
love with Hospital Administrator Sanze-- uh... Tendou, Ranma felt
a duty to Nurse Akane to protect her.
"Have the preparations been made, Mousse?" Administrator
Mikado asked from the door of his office as Doctor Mousse and
Nurse Ranma crossed paths in the hallway.
"Of course they have!" Doctor Mousse responded, adjusting
his thick spectacles. "Everything is in place so that I can steal
Nurse Shampoo away from Saotome! Once I have her, then you and I
can split her family's fortune between us."
"Not here!" Mikado cautioned, glancing at Nurse Ranma.
"There are ears everywhere, Mousse."
"Understood!"
Ranma rolled her eyes. Everyone was acting like they were
trapped in some kind of soap opera.
"Heheheh..." Administrator Mikado chuckled as Mousse
walked away. "Of course only I suspect anything about Nurse
Shampoo's plans to do away with the other nurses."
"What did you say?" Nurse Ranma asked curiously. "Do away
with..."
"Nothing!" Mikado shouted, darting back into his office.
"You'll pay, Saotome!" he swore from inside. "You'll all pay!"
Nurse Ranma shook her head sadly. Still, it didn't concern
her. At least she hoped that it didn't concern her.
She wheeled the cart full of specimens down another hall
and into a laboratory, where Doctor Gosunkuji took it off her
hands, and began to initial all the required paperwork.
"If you would," the pale, timid doctor asked once they
were finished, "Please go see Groundskeeper Genma. He needed to
see you about something, if I remember correctly."
What on earth would Genma need to see her for, Ranma
wondered.
She managed to track down the gardener in the hospital's
arboretum. To her surprise, Groundskeeper Genma wasn't a portly,
bald individual, but a tall man with a regal bearing and noble
face. He had short, immaculate hair, and a dazzling smile. Ranma
couldn't help but think that the man looked out of place in the
worn overalls he was wearing.
When he saw her enter the arboretum, he smiled in rapture
and sheathed the plant shears at his side like a sword. Before she
could protest, he swept her up into his arms and embraced her.
"Oh, my pigtailed angel of mercy, you came!"
"Ku-ku-ku-Genma?" Ranma asked in shock. "Uhh... Doctor
Gosunkuji said you needed to see me."
Kun-- er... Genma's expression darkened and turned
serious. Still holding Ranma close to his broad chest, he glanced
around.
Ranma realized that this actor must have been replaced for
reasons of age and ratings as well.
"This way," the grounds-keeper said, leading Ranma by the
wrist.
He took her into the gardening shed, but once inside, he
hung his gardening shears on a pegboard. The hook shifted down
under the weight, and the floor of the shed began to descend.
Ranma and Kunou both had to duck as a false floor slid into place
over their heads.
When the secret elevator stopped, the pair was surrounded
by high-tech, yet cheesy looking electronic equipment.
"What is this place?" Ranma asked, half in curiosity, half
in dread.
"This is where I conduct surveillance on the hospital for
the Ministry of Intelligence," the groundskeeper admitted. "Every
surgery, every treatment, every conversation. It all comes through
here. No one else would ever be permitted to have this knowledge,
but I feel I can trust you now," he said, letting his hand close
on her waist.
Ranma tried to back away from the man's advances, but her
legs seemed not to want to work.
"Ku-- Genma..." she said, her head spinning.
The groundskeeper wrapped his other strong arm around her
back. She could feel his hot breath on her neck as he leaned over
her. "I trust you, Ranma. I trust you enough to risk it all..."
Ranma gulped and tried to ignore the way she was trembling
or the way her heart was pounding. "Kunou, please... Let me go.
I'm not sure about this," she finally managed to squeak out.
The groundskeeper nodded. "Come back when you are ready.
In the meantime, remember, what you have seen here must remain
secret."
Ranma nodded, and ran for the elevator.
"GAH! What's happening to me," she cried out loud once she
was out of the arboretum. "That shouldn't have happened. I'm a
guy, right? RIGHT!?"
* * *
Interlude:
"Ah, I think we've found the bleeder," Doctor Hashi noted.
"Suction, please."
Tofuu did his best to stay out of the surgeons' ways, yet
still keep an eye on Ryouga. His color was good but the boy's
blood pressure was fluctuating in a worrying manner. The
chiropractor was nervously optimistic because his patient was
usually so healthy.
"Oh, oh damn," Hashi muttered.
"His kidney?" Tofuu guessed, cautious optimism falling
away in favor of dread.
"Yup. It's worse than x-ray indicated. It looks like the
knife blade actually penetrated here, near the hillius, and nicked
the major renal vein. It's a clean cut, really, but he's bleeding
like a stuck pig. Let's set up another unit of whole blood,
please."
"Hai, Sensei," a resident surgeon answered her, gesturing
to a nurse to aid him.
"If the artery was cut, he'd be dead by now. It looks like
the renal nerve may have been damaged too. He might lose the
kidney, Tofuu." Hashi admitted.
Tofuu nodded, sweat popping out on his brow.
Hashi paused for a second and began to think carefully.
"That's gonna... No." She swore under her breath. "We can do this.
It shouldn't even need a graft."
"Are you sure?" Tofuu asked the surgeon.
"I hope so. Stop bleeding, kid," she commanded."Don't you
*dare* bleed to death on me."
* * *
Ranma screamed inside her own head. The worst part of it
was... the most horrible part of it was the fact that part of her
wanted to stay and let Kunou do... whatever he was going to do to
her.
Doing her best to stay focused, she ran into the
hospital's cafeteria, where she ran into Shampoo, who was pouring
an interesting looking powder into several drinks.
"Aiyah! Nurse Ranma no frighten Shampoo like that!"
"I'm sorry," Ranma said, trying to help Nurse Shampoo to
her feet. She kept slipping on the spilled drink Shampoo had been
holding.
"No you not. You just like torment Shampoo. Everyone know
you and Nurse Akane keep handsome Doctor Saotome from being only
with Shampoo, who is rightful bride."
"We do not!" Ranma said in denial. "If anything, it's you
and Nabiki who... wait. Why am I even arguing about this? I'm
Ranma Saotome, not that crazy, perverted guy!"
"You just stupid nurse," Shampoo said, advancing on the
girl, a thin, stiletto blade held out before her.
"No! That's..."
Ranma's vision flashed. She saw Mousse drive that same
dagger into Ryouga's side. It came away, and all Ryouga's blood
began to run down his side.
"Put the knife away, Shampoo," Ranma commanded in a shaky
voice.
"Shampoo put Ranma out of her misery, instead," Shampoo
said in a low, dangerous tone.
Ranma had no choice but to run. Her attempted poisoning
failed, Shampoo was determined to take Ranma out of the picture.
She pursued the other nurse through endless hallways, until Ranma
ducked inside a laboratory.
"Whew... I can't believe that--"
"Ranma?" Akane shouted. "Oh no!"
"Would you care to... heheh... join us, Nurse Ranma?"
Ranma turned around, and froze in shock.
They sure didn't have scenes like *this* on television!
Doctor Saotome had Nurse Akane propped up on one of the
lab tables, her back to Ranma. Her short nurse's uniform had been
hiked up around her waist, displaying her bare ass. She was
supporting herself with her hands, while her ankles were hooked
over Doctor Saotome's shoulders.
Akane's face was red with embarrassment and shame. Ranma
felt her eyes begin to burn and wetness start to course down her
cheeks.
Doctor Saotome was leering crudely at Ranma. His trousers
were missing and he was leaning up against Nurse Akane's nether
regions in a way that made it absolutely clear what he was doing
to her.
"You can be next, Nurse Ranma," Doctor Saotome offered.
"No... Akane," Ranma whispered. "Why? I thought you loved
someone else."
"I'm sorry, Ranma," Akane whimpered. She cried out as
Doctor Saotome began forcefully thrusting against her. "He
threatened to tell everyone my secret if I didn't submit to him."
"No! Akane!" Ranma screamed, tears freely streaming down
his face. "You didn't have to do this. You had me! Why did you let
him do this to you?"
"Please, Ranma," Akane cried. "Please don't make it harder
than it already is."
"NO!" Ranma yelled, but found herself backing away from
the obscenity. "No! This isn't happening. It's just a dream!"
"Of course it's a dream, Ran-chan," Doctor Kuonji said,
grabbing Ranma from behind. "It's my dream come true. Now you're
all mine!"
"What?" Ranma yelled feeling Doctor Kuonji's naked body
pressing into hers. She shuddered, and stared ahead in horror,
realizing that the hard shaft that pressed into her back indicated
that it was a man's body.
"This isn't real," Ranma protested, trying to wrench away
from the cross-dressing doctor. "Ucchan is a girl! Besides, I
thought you were sleeping with him," she said, jerking her head in
Doctor Saotome's direction.
"Girl, boy, what's the difference?" Doctor Saotome asked,
leaning away from Nurse Akane. He roughly flipped her over on the
table and spread her legs with his knees. He leaned in again,
taking Nurse Akane from behind.
"Ah... Ah... Ah... Doctor... Oooooh..." Akane moaned,
clutching at the table.
"Now, Nurse," Doctor Kuonji stated in a professional tone
as Ranma stared in horror at the sight in front of her. "If you'll
just allow me to remove your dress, we can begin the examination."
"NO!" Ranma screamed. She twisted free of Tofuu's grasp
and leapt into the fight before Mousse could stab Ryouga again.
She was too late. Mousse's blade sunk into Ryouga's side. Blood
sprayed all over, pouring out in a great fountain. Ryouga fell to
his knees, dying.
Ranma was lying on her face, across from Akane. Doctor
Kuonji was holding her hands behind her back, and lifting her
skirt up. Ranma cried out as Doctor Kuonji pulled her panties
down, but was unable to struggle free.
She finally jerked free of Doctor Kuonji's grasp before
his long, blade-like phallus sank into her. She twisted and kicked
the doctor's chin, but he shrugged the blow off and advanced on
Ranma.
She turned, horrified to see Akane's discarded, bloody
body on the floor, her lifeless eyes staring blankly up at Ranma.
Doctor Saotome, now completely unclad like Kuonji, advanced on
her.
"I've wanted you for a long time, Ranma," he said in a
threatening tone.
"It won't hurt at all," Doctor Kuonji promised. "Give me
your body, Ranma."
"NO!" Ranma screamed, clutching her arms in front of her
face. "NO!!"
"NO!!"
"NO!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
"I'll save you, Ranma," a calm voice said.
It was Ryouga. He smiled softly and held out his hand to
her.
Ranma grabbed his hand and leaned into his embrace.
"You're alive!" she said as the rest of the world shattered around
them.
Doctor Saotome and Doctor Kuonji were gone, replaced by
the cool night and the Tendou's back yard.
"I'll always save you, Ranma," Ryouga said, holding her
close to him.
Ranma inhaled, savoring the man's scent, and delighting in
the feel of his broad, muscular chest. She wrapped her arms around
his back. Since he was wearing only his boxers, just like the
night before, Ranma could feel every inch of his flesh. She could
feel the muscles bunch and coil under her hands.
He leaned in, dropping his lips to meet hers.
She brought her face up to meet his, afraid, for some
reason. She could feel everything around her trying to take him
away from her. She kissed him passionately, trying to hold him
there with her mouth and her arms.
"Please don't leave me, Ryouga," Ranma pleaded in a
whisper voice. "Please stay with me."
"I'll always be here for you, Ranma," Ryouga assured her.
He lowered his arms, and gently lifted her. He kneeled and set her
down on the cool grass next to the koi pond.
And then her hands were all over him, touching his chest,
touching his face. Ryouga's hands were all over her, pulling her
Chinese tang off over her head, sliding her panties down over her
hips and knees.
Ranma wrapped her arms around his face and pulled him in.
She worked her mouth against his, thrusting her tongue inside.
Ryouga's hands were on her thighs, she realized. He was
lifting them, and spreading them apart. And then he pushed himself
inside her.
Wasn't it supposed to hurt, Ranma thought to herself. Was
it supposed to feel this wonderful?
"Don't die, Ryouga," she pleaded as she brought her knees
up and wrapped her ankles behind the boy's back. "Please don't
leave me," she begged, feeling the rushing pleasure as he began to
buck up and down.
Ryouga answered her with a kiss as his powerful motions
crushed the grass beneath her.
Ranma felt the wave of pleasure coming before ever it
hit...
* * *
"RYOUGA!!" Ranma screamed, bolting upright on the cot
where she had been sleeping.
Akane jerked awake. She had dozed off in the small
examination room, waiting for Ranma to reawaken, or for news from
Ryouga's surgery.
Nodoka was already leaning over her child, who was visibly
shaking. "Ranma, are you okay? Ranma-chan?"
"Oh god," Ranma whimpered, coming awake. "Oh god. Ryouga's
dead. And... And..." The memories of what she had just dreamt
assailed her.
"No, Ranma. He's alive," Akane assured her. "He's in
surgery right now. He'll live. Doctor Tofuu said he would live."
"He very nearly didn't, but the surgeon who operated on
him is very talented," Tofuu said, stepping into the room. He was
still wearing scrubs. "But yes, Ryouga is alive and well. He's on
his way to recovery right now. I see you're finally awake, Ranma."
Ranma was sobbing into her hands. "Oh, god. Oh, god..."
"Ranma what's wrong?" Akane asked.
"Ryouga, was there... and Mousse... and all the blood...
and..."
"Ryouga's okay, Ranma," Tofuu said, pulling out a small
scope to examine the girl's pupils. "He's probably already coming
out of anaesthesia."
"Ryouga's okay?" Ranma asked, tears of confused emotion
still rolling down her face.
Tofuu nodded.
"Where?"
Tofuu led Ranma and Akane out of the examination room and
up the elevator to a recovery ward on the second floor of the
hospital. Akane made Ranma stop so that she could wipe the red-
head's face with a tissue.
"What's wrong with her, Doctor Tofuu?" Akane asked as
Ranma ran across the ward.
"Probably just a bad dream," Tofuu said. "The pressure
point Ambassador Soap used to knock her out stimulates dreaming.
After what she had just seen, I can only imagine the nightmares
she could have had."
Ranma found the door next to which the lost boy's medical
chart was hanging. She poked her head inside to see Yoiko sitting
in a chair on the other side of the bed. The little girl looked up
and smiled.
Ranma took a few more hesitant steps inside.
Ryouga was laying on the bed, propped up slightly. His
face was a little pale, but he looked peaceful. An EKG next to him
beeped a regular, reassuring tone.
As Ranma approached the bed, still trembling, Ryouga
opened one eye.
"You were right, Ranma," he rasped in a weak voice. "I
won."
Ranma nodded, and burst into tears again. She buried her
face in the sheet covering Ryouga's chest and started to cry.
* * *
After the trauma surgeon bullied Ranma and everyone else
out of the room, Akane, Yoiko and Tofuu explained what had
happened to her and Ryouga.
Yoiko, upset that Ranma had predicted that Mousse and
Ryouga would kill each other, made the hard decision to abandon
her brother and seek help. She remembered the address from the
paper Cologne had given Ranma the previous day.
The address turned out to be the Chinese Embassy, and the
room number listed was the personal suite belonging to the
People's Ambassador to Japan.
It turned out that Ambassador Soap had been expecting
something similar, since her grandmother had warned her the
previous day.
"Wait a second," Ranma asked in surprise. "Shampoo's *mom*
is the Chinese Ambassador?"
Akane nodded. "It was a surprise to all of us, Especially
Shampoo, since she thought her mother didn't know she was in
Japan. I understand that both she and Mousse are in a lot of
trouble right now."
"That's messed up," Ranma commented.
Soap was indeed an Amazon, but had left the tribe in favor
of a political life. It was her Amazon skill with pressure points
that allowed her to end the fight before Ryouga was forced to kill
Mousse and also to keep Ranma from getting involved in the
bloodshed. She had already summoned two ambulances that took
everyone to the hospital.
Since he had no serious injuries, Mousse was treated for
his scrapes and bruises, checked out, and released into the
custody of the Ambassador. Soap took Shampoo and Mousse back to
the embassy with her, Mousse under heavy guard.
Ryouga's injuries were severe enough to land him in trauma
surgery. It seemed that Mousse's dagger sliced open his intestine
and damaged one of his kidneys. The trauma surgeon, Doctor Hashi,
as she introduced herself, managed to stop the bleeding and save
Ryouga's kidney.
"Now, I want to know why you woke up screaming Ryouga's
name," Akane said. "Did you have a nightmare or something."
"Yeah," Ranma said, trying to forget the echoes of what
she felt in the dream. "A nightmare."
* * *
Despite the seriousness of the surgery, Ryouga was a quick
healer, and was on his feet only a few days later. Kasumi played
surrogate big-sister to Yoiko the entire time he was in the
hospital. Ranma noted that Kasumi seemed to enjoy spending time
with the little girl and Yoiko enjoyed all the gentle mothering,
and even learned to not struggle so much while being bathed.
It was the second day after Ryouga had been released from
the hospital that Yoiko knocked on Akane's door while she and
Ranma were studying.
She was carrying P-chan.
"My baby!" Akane cooed, reaching out her arms.
In panic, Ranma closely examined the piglet to see if he
was suffering or bleeding from his wounds after changing. Yoiko
seemed to be very carefully holding her hand over his back, hiding
the sutures.
"I'm sorry, Abby, but he's my piglet. Oniichan told me you
adopted him."
Akane blinked, and stared at the pair.
Did Yoiko know? Ranma did her best to calm her breathing
and her pounding heart.
"He's... yours?" Akane asked in shock.
"I'm sorry. He's always getting lost, just like my
oniichan," Yoiko half-lied. "And I was so busy looking for my
oniichan, that I guess he found you instead of me pretty often.
I'm glad you took such good care of him."
Akane gulped, tears coming to her eyes.
P-chan bweed sadly, but made no effort to leave Yoiko's
embrace.
"I think he cares a lot about you," Yoiko said. "But I
want to take him home to be with Oniichan while he recovers."
"I... I understand," Akane said in a broken-up voice.
Ranma watched the scene unfold before her with a neutral
expression.
"I already sent my oniichan home in a cab," Yoiko said,
mangling the truth somewhat, "but he asked me to say something to
you before I left."
Akane nodded, wiping her eyes on the hem of her skirt.
Yoiko gulped and P-chan looked almost terrified. "My
oniichan said that he had a crush on you for a long time, and that
he still really cares about you."
Akane nodded seriously. "I thought that he might have. I
was never really sure."
"He also said that he did some dishonorable things to try
to be with you."
Akane blinked in surprise.
"He deceived you, and forced Rainbow to lie to you. My
oniichan says he's very sorry, and that he'll try his best never
to let those things happen again. He says that it was not Randy's
fault that he lied to you, and to please forgive her."
Akane looked stunned. She glanced at Ranma once.
Ranma nodded.
"Thank you for letting me and my Oniichan stay here so
long," the little girl said before she left. "Oh, one last thing.
As soon as you both get better, my Oniichan says he wants to fight
you in a duel to the death, Raoul."
Ranma smiled and laughed out loud. "You can tell your
Oniichan," she said, staring directly at P-chan, "That I'll kick
his ass from here to Jusenkyou!"
Yoiko smiled and left.
"You lied to me?" Akane asked, her voice full of sadness.
"Ryouga forced you to lie to me?"
"Yeah." Ranma felt like a ten ton weight had just been
lifted from her shoulders. "I'm sorry, Akane."
"That's why you were fighting all the time, wasn't it?"
Akane realized. "You were... you were fighting over me."
"Why would I want to..." Ranma paused and exhaled. "Yeah.
Yeah, we were kinda fighting... fighting over you."
"Oh, Ranma!" Akane's eyes teared over, and she buried her
face in Ranma's shirt.
Ranma felt the weight replaced by a new nervousness. What
had she just let herself in for?
More importantly, Ranma thought to herself as she tried to
figure out what to do with Akane, when would the dreams stop?
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~to be continued...
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Everybody in the room stared at Mihoshi. The policewoman
began to cry."I didn't mean to infect the world! I'm so
sorry!!!! WAHHHAHHHHHHH!!!!"
- From 'The Virus'