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Chapter 4
[Darkness]
Voice1: I didn't have anything to do with this!
Voice2: Oh, sure, Ranma. I believe you.
Voice1: Oh yeah, like I really know how to make
a look a like of me appear out of nowhere.
Voice2: So tell me who else would have done it!
Voice3: C'mon you too, we'll just wait 'till the
other one wakes up.
Voice4: I think he's blinking.
Voice1: Wake up already!
Voice5: Ranma-chan! (We hear a splash of water,
and suddenly, we're thrown out of the darkness
and into the Tendo porch. Happosai is happily
grabbing onto Ranma-chan's chest) Oh Ranma-chan!
It's been so long since I've la-
Ranma-chan: EEEE! GETTA OFFA ME!!
(Punts Happosai into *LEO)
*LEO- Low Earth Orbit
Ranma-chan: What a way to wake up.
(Turns to rest of table, and starts looking at everyone
there. She stops at Mr. Tendo) (Thought) That's weird,
why isn't uncle crying his eyes out? (Eyes get off him)
In fact, why isn't he in his roo- (Sees Akane) AHHHH!
Presses against a wall) Why am I still here?!
Nabiki: Still here?
Akane: Does that mean you came here on purpose?
Red-Ranma: What are you doing here?
Ranma-chan: (Plopping down, and growling with
impatience) I don't know! I thought this was just a drea-
(Remembers what she had just been doing) Hey, wait,
I just won that match with the fake! That proves that
I'm Ranma!
Red-Ranma: Who's a fake?
Ranma-chan: I'm sure that even your brain capacity isn't that low.
Red-Ranma: Actually, _I_ won.
Ranma-chan: No you didn't! I knocked you out first!
Nabiki: How pointless.
Akane: Why don't you just ask us? (See the two Ranmas
look sheepish)
Kasumi: It was a tie, wasn't it?
Red-Ranma: A....
Ranma-chan: ...tie?
Red-Ranma&Ranma-chan: NO WAY!
Red-Ranma: He can't be me!
Akane: (Directing it to Red-Ranma) Either that, or
you'll have to admit there's somebody that's as
good as you.
Ranma-chan: Hey, aren't I Ranma?!
Akane: (Now to Ranma-chan) Sorry, but I can't
believe that Ranma would ever do what you were
doing back there.
Nabiki: (Interested) Oooh, what were you doing,
Ranma?
Red-Ranma: Hey, that's no-
Nabiki: Which one of you were back there?
Red-Ranma: He was.
Nabiki: So let's hear it from him! (To Ranma-chan)
Or are you to embarrassed to say what it was?
Akane: (Blushing) Aw, Nabiki, it isn't all that important.
Ranma-chan: Akane, it's not that hard to tell them that
I was about to say that I love you.
(Silence)
Ranma-chan: What?
Red-Ranma: (Blushing terribly) What do you think you're doing?!
You can't be me! (Everybody by now is busy chattering)
Soun: (Crying) Oh, how long I've waited for this day! Boo hoo...
Kasumi: (Smiling) How sweet of you, Ranma.
Nabiki: (Leaning towards Akane) Happy now, sis?
Genma-panda: {We can finally arrange the marriage!}
Akane: (Blushing) Hey, don't _I_ get a say in this?
Nabiki: It's what you wanted, right?
Akane: (Still red) ....
Red-Ranma: Now _HOLD_ on a minute! (Surprisingly
enough, they all stop talking, 'cept for Soun who keeps
babbling) (Pointing to Ranma-chan) This guy just comes
outta nowhere, says a few magic words, doesn't act a
_thing_ like me and now you're just gonna let him marry
Akane?! I DON'T THINK SO!
Nabiki: Well, you have been saying for nearly a year now
that you don't want to have a thing to do with her. So why
change your mind now?
Ranma-chan: Well, even if he doesn't mind, I do.
(Silence)
Akane: Why?
Red-Ranma: Are you finally going to admit that you're only
faking?
Ranma-chan: (Annoyed) No! (Serious) I don't know how
this happened, but I don't think I'm from this world. Either
that or you're all playing a trick on me to marry some fake Akane.
Nabiki: Why do you think that?
Ranma-chan: I've already said why, it's impossible
for her to be here.
Akane: (Sarcastic) Oh, that sure clears things up.
Ranma-chan: Look, something happend in my
world, and it's impossible to have Akane just
sitting here.
Red-Ranma: Does it have to do with anything with
why you're always so scared to see Akane?
Akane: And why you kept saying that I'm 'gone'?
Ranma-chan: ....
Red-Ranma&Akane: Well?
Ranma-chan: ....
On July 15-
Akane: Er, today is July 1.
Ranma-chan: (Surprised) No, it isn't. (Akane points to a
calendar. July 1 is circled) Eh?
Akane: Sure it wasn't some other day?
Ranma-chan: (Angry and upset) Are you trying to say
that I don't remember the date of the most important day
of my life?
Red-Ranma: Most important day of your life?... Wouldn't
that be finding a cure?
Akane: When you got cursed?
Genma-panda: {I know, the day you married Akane!}
(Red-Ranma baps his father's head)
Nabiki: Isn't the most important day of your life supposed
to be the day you're born?
Soun: Well, son, what's so important about July 15?
Ranma-chan: (Remembering, getting teary) That's... that's
the day...
Red-Ranma: The day...
Ranma-chan: The day Akane... (Says something so soft
no one can hear)
Akane: I what?
Ranma-chan: (Lowering her head) You died.
All: (Stunned) ....
[Scene fades with Ranma-chan's head down, and a
low sniffling noise. Akane looks as if she's just been
slapped, and everybody just stunned, not moving.]
Ok, ok! So I went for the cliche. (Didn't I say
I'm not creative? ;)) But I thought this up months ago,
before everybody pulled their axes out of the closet. :(
I'm starting to think that Purple-Ranma (I have
to think up a name for him! ANy suggestions?) isn't
quite right, for a Ranma that has seen Akane dead. But
then again, he thinks this is all a dream, and sees
a realistic (Maybe even real ^_^) Akane, so would
that change him as well? Argh!
Maybe I ought to change this 'important'
event, since up to now I've been told that this
fanfic is funny (you have to understand that this is a
small miracle for me :)), and death, especially Akane's,
isn't.
I'm hoping to post this and all the previous
chapters on r.a.a.s ASAP, so could someone help me
with any questions? You're the only critics I have,
I'm too embarrassed to show this to anyone outside
the internet.
Oh, and thanks to Bruce, who's given me a lot
of help, and everybody else that's commented. (No
flames- yay! ;))
Isabel Arantes
ps. To thse that still don't know it, I'm a _girl_.
Just look at my name.