While this isn't my first attempt at writing, this is my first attempt
at writing a fanfic seriously. So please be lenient. C&C's welcomed,
flames not. Ranma 1/2 and OMG! belong to their respective owners, and
not me. So don't bother sueing me, I'm only a poor student. Well, enjoy.
And should I continue this? Oh and can someone suggest a title, please?
Ranma sighed looking at the the empty Tendo house. The rest of the
occupants had gone out, Akane had gone out with her family to one of Mr.
Tendo's friend's funeral. And Genma? Who knew where Genma had gone. That
left Ranma all alone in the house.
Normally that wouldn't have bothered Ranma, he like being alone
sometimes. After spending ten years with Genma on the road, who
wouldn't? What bothered Ranma was the fact that it was nearing dinner
time and he was getting hungry, and the fact that dinner had not yet
been cooked.
Briefly he considered dropping by Nekohanten for ramen, but just as
quickly dismissed it. He didn't feel like facing up to Shampoo right
now. So that left Ucchan.
He could have gone out and gone to Ucchan but for two reasons. One was
that if the Tendo's came home and found he was not in and found him with
one of his other fiancee... He shuddered briefly at the thought of what
Akane would do to him. Also he didn't feel like going out. Today had
been an extremely unlucky day for him, as the Kuno siblings had decided
to chase after him. He had gotten cold water splashed onto him, and
Tatewaki Kuno had come up, proclaiming his love for his pig-tailed girl.
No sooner had he changed back into a boy had Kodachi shown up, along
with Kuno challenging him. Normally he would have pounded Kuno's head
in, but that meant waiting long enough for Kodachi to get her claws into
him. So he had run, not an incredibly manly thing to do.
It had alternated with him getting splashed with cold water; only to
have Kodachi try to kill him and Kuno try to hug him, and then being
splashed with hot water; only to have the cycle reversed.
Melancholy, he picked up the phone dialling the number of Ucchan's.
After a few rings, he heard a voice on the other line.
" Hello? Goddess Relief office. Our representative will be right over."
Ranma stared at the phone, a look of surprise on his face, trying to
figure what had just happened.
In fact he was so engrossed in thought, he didn't notice the woman
appear behind him.
"Hi."
" Argh!" Ranma jumped up, clatching onto the ceiling with the famous
Saotome Wall climbing skill(TM). One hand clutched at his heart, which
happened to be pounding loud enough to wake the dead. How did the woman
get here? He would have heard her walk in.
" Hello, you are Saotome Ranma right?" The woman said, a cheerful smile
on her face. She appeared harmless, a young woman with light brown hair
cascading down her back like waves and traingular like marks on her
head. But Ranma had learned things were always what they seemed. He
hadn't thought Shampoo was going to kill him by giving him a kiss. He
hadn't known Ukyou was a girl either. It had been a lesson which had
been throughly and utterly pounded into his head.
" Who the hell are you?" He landed prefectly, shifting to a combat
stance. "Look if Oyaji promised you anything, I didn't know about it."
Maybe that's why he went out. Ranma thought about a few choice words and
things he would do to his father if this turned out to be another
fiancee.
" Oh no, I'm afriad you're mistaken. I'm not from hell. I don't know
your father either. I'm here to grant you a wish."
"Yeah right," Ranma snorted. "I may no be the quickest person on earth
but I'm not that stupid either." Quietly, he muttered under his breath.
"Man, this's been a real bad day. If this turns out to be another
arranged finacee's of Oyaji's, I'm gonna kill him."
" Bad day?" The woman glanced quizzically at him. Somehow Ranma found
himself relaxing.
" Yeah."
" Why not tell me about it?"
******
" So then Ukyou shows up, and I find out she's a girl. My best friend,
a girl. And I didn't even know it! Of course to make things worse, I
find out Oyaji engaged us. Of course Akane doesn't really take this
well, hinting to me her displeasure in her all-so-subtle way of bashing
my head in with her damn mallet!"
The woman; he had found out her name was Belldandy, just nodded
comfortingly. Somehow he felt more reassured by the simple gesture. In
the past half hour, he had told Belldandy his life story, pouring all
his grievances, frustrations at her feet. He appreciated the fact that
she was willing to listen to him so patiently. No one had done that
before, not Ukyou; not without trying to remind him he was her finacee,
not Shampoo, not Akane, and definitely now Kodachi.
" That doesn't sound very nice of her. After all it wasn't your fault."
Ranma smiled at her. Finally some one who didn't think that every darn
thing that happened around here was his bloody fault. No 'Ranma no
baka', no 'Ranma, prepare to die', no 'Ranma this is all your fault'.
Someone who finally agreed with him.
***
The demons roared in dismay as snow started drifting down in thick
waves. They wondered what impossible thing had been done now.
***
" Man I wish I had a fiancee as understanding as you." As usual,
Ranma's mouth worked faster than his brain.
Belldandy floated up into the air, the marks on her forehead shining
brighter and brighter. Ranma sat up with a start, wondering if anything
was wrong with her. After all, normal people didn't float into the air
for no reason. But then again, ordinary people didn't have a sex change
whenever splashed with cold water.
"Wish granted."
" What wish?" Ranma asked, puzzled.
" Where you wished for me to be your fiancee."
"WHAT!! YOU MEAN IT WAS TRUE!! THAT YOU WEREN"T BLUFFING ME!!" Ranma
shouted, horrified. He had a wish, a wish he could have used to cure his
curse. And he had thrown it away because he didn't believe. "Rargh!"
Ranma growled frustrated, as he started bashing his head against the
wall. All those times he had wanted a cure; a real cure and now he had
one delivered to him, wrapped and all and he had thrown it away. He felt
like dying from the stupidity itself.
And that wasn't mentioning what Akane would do to him when she found he
had gotten himself another fiancee.
"RANMA!! WHAT'S THAT WOMAN DOING HERE YOU PERVERT!"
'Too late,' Ranma thought, staring dumbfoundedly at Akane. Now how was
he going to explain this to her so that she wouldn't hit him he
wondered.
The End....for now....maybe.
Sining