For Every Action Part 6

The situations and characters used here belong
to Takahashi Rumiko and are used without permission
and without intent to give offense.




"Wo...Ai...Ni" 

Nabiki helpfully translated, "That means, it's you I love.  
Well strictly speaking, it's you she loves."

It was like one of those bad dreams where you try to run 
away from the monster but your feet are frozen in place.  
"Um, Bie-Deh, you can't just love someone because they 
knock you down."

Nabiki continued to be helpful, by saying "True enough.  
If that worked, Ranma would have proposed to Akane months
ago."  Meanwhile the monster continued to advance.  

"W-wait I'm-"  The monster pounced.  OK, it was a cute 
monster, with long sapphire hair, big dark eyes, wearing 
a cheong-sam that revealed it's perfect figure to maximum 
advantage.  Akane might not have minded if she'd been a 
lesbian, and not engaged, and not standing in front of her 
sisters and her father who didn't recognise her because 
she'd been transformed into a boy, with a fiancee who might 
wake up at any moment.  (No, the boy didn't have a fiance, 
Akane had the fiance, except the boy was reallAAARGH!).  
Assuming of course that Bie-Deh also wasn't a Chinese 
Amazon who wasn't planning on kidnapping her fiancee, and 
probably "Kaneda, and taking them off to China 
to be forcibly married and not to each other.  If Akane was 
going to be married against her will, on the whole she preferred 
to do it the traditional way and be coerced by her father.  
And to a guy.  Which didn't change the fact that it was a heck of 
a kiss.  Top of the Richter scale.  
And she could feel Bie-Deh's body... and her male body was 
giving her the strangest sensation...  There was a flash of 
light...

"AAAAGH!  Get off of me!"  Akane's paralysis suddenly vanished as
she used her considerable physical strength to break her 
"attacker's" hold, tossing her 3 metres away.  "Listen, you-you 
tomboy!  I'm not gonna marry you, and that's final!"

"Not like Bie-Deh?"  Tears began to well up in the Chinese girl's
eyes.  "Think Bie-Deh ugly?  Bie-Deh be good wife, honest!" 

Nabiki snickered, "Why Kaneda, you heartbreaking playboy."

"Nabiki you are not helping!" Akane snapped.  "Listen Bie-Deh, 
you aren't ugly but-"

"Oh!" Bie-Deh had started to put her face into her hands but 
started up when her bruising came into contact with them.  
"Of course Kaneda not like Bie-Deh look.  Face swelling up!  
Bie-Deh heal up, come back when pretty, give you REAL 
kiss.  Then Kaneda see!  Bye-bye!" She jumped fluidly over 
their rear wall and vanished from sight.  

"A...real kiss?"  Akane's skin crawled.  What did this nutcase 
call a "real kiss" if that wasn't one?  Akane'd never really been 
kissed by a guy.  That little peck by neko-Ranma hardly counted, and
kissing through the tape in front of the audience at a school play
counted even less. Bie-Deh's kiss had been more intimate than 
she'd ever imagined.  Mikado was probably a really great kisser,
he had enough practise.  Akane wondered whether that made it
even worse for Ranma when his first kiss had been to his girl
form.  

"Say, how did you know I wasn't Akane?"  Nabiki enquired as she
tucked away her camera. 

Akane shot her a glance, "You made jokes instead of hitting
things."  Nabiki looked back at Akane, a calculating expression
on her face.  *Kouchi's right.  I can't tell what goes on
Nabiki's head.  Right now I wish I could.  I'd like to know
what she intends to do with that picture.*  Akane turned and
picked up Ranma, "Could you show me where he sleeps?".  *Just
let him stay out long enough for me to sneak some hot water*

"Sure thing.  Say, are you sure you don't want to marry Bie-Deh?
She's awfully cute..."

"She's not my type."  Akane laid Ranma on his futon.  "Could I use
your bathroom before I go?"

"No problem."  

*Time for the amazing vanishing Kaneda trick, and hope no one 
notices.*  Apparently, no one did. 

End of Part 6

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David Johnston, rgorman@telusplanet.net