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A Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction
Hibiki Ryoga in
Alone
I've always been alone. From the first time I wandered off, I've been alone. It is all I really can be, I mean, I'm never around long enough for me to make friends with anyone. I only stay in one place long enough to ask for directions and then I'm off again. It's one of the many reasons I love her, Akane always makes me feel as if I have friends, that I am not alone. Wherever I am, I always feel that I have a place with her, and who knows, one day I might actually really have one.
But for right now, I am alone.
I don't know where I was that night, but what else is new ne? Some evergreen forest somewhere, I think was still in Japan but I'm not quite sure. I do know that it was really cold. Winter had come early and I was building a fire to keep warm, and cook the rabbit I caught. It was cold, but the stars were bright and clear. I've always loved the nighttime sky, the stars remind me of the one's in her eyes. The moon, her pale skin, the�
Sorry, I'll try to stay on track.
Any case, being so cold, the sky was crystal clear. I was enjoying the view next to my fire when I must have fallen asleep. That's when the nightmare started.
From what I can remember, I was fighting Ranma. He started it, said that I had lied to her about P-chan. But I was fighting him, and I think I might have been winning as well. One day, I'll win for real, and I'll make Ranma pay for all that he has done to me and�
Never mind.
I was beating up Ranma when he stopped the fight. If you know anything about Ranma, you know that he would never do that. Then he got this distressed look on his face and told me that he was afraid.
Him, afraid? That idiot doesn't have enough brains to be afraid.
Well, he was afraid, he said, that Akane didn't love him. That she was being taken away by someone else. I wanted to laugh at him. I wanted to boast that I was the one who was taking her. That he didn't deserve Akane in the first place.
I couldn't, I didn't.
To my horror, I found myself instead telling him that she loved him more than anything else in the world. I think my exact words were "No way man, she worships the ground you float over." I don't know why I said it, but I did.
Then I went to Akane, and found that she was feeling the same thing. I bullied them together, into the same room, and made them tell one another just what they really thought.
I still start glowing when I remember what they said to one another, and I don't want to give you cavities. Then they turned and thanked me for my help in making them realize that they loved each other.
And she was happy, I don't think you could know how happy she was.
That was bad enough, what was worse was, I did it, and couldn't stop myself. The nightmarish part was that, each time I helped them in my dream, each time I gave them comfort, I became more and more alone, till I was finally, utterly alone.
Can you know what that feels like? To be so alone that even the silence of your soul seems desolate. I felt myself trapped on a barren wasteland, without anything to be my guide, to give me comfort, or even purpose. Even the stars were missing. In my dream, I sat there while they smiled at each other and I felt the cold blade of loneliness twist inside of my with each smile. With each loving glance exchanged. And I could not change it, I could not do anything to change what was going on, what I was feeling. I shrieked silently in that cold and lonely place even as my dreamself thanked them and wished them well.
After what seemed an eternity in that awful place, I awoke screaming. The stars still burned, though my fire had gone out quite some time ago. I awoke screaming, and the woods were lit with the green glow of my ki. I raised my arms up to the heavens and my scream tore at my throat.
"Curse you Ranma!!!!!" It rattled around, and echoed back at me. Then I feel to my knees, and forced out through the bitterness, "And damn me too." For I did it in my dreams, and I would do it now, again. You have no idea just how happy she was.
It what then that the complete shishi hokodan came roaring down from the sky. The impact exploded the earth around me, and formed a large crater, with me in the center. Still crying from the dream and the pang of loneliness I feel even now, I climbed out of the crater. I guess my little display had awoken a farmer. For someone was waiting for me when I got out of there.
"Are you OK?" he asked me.
I brushed off my clothes, "I'm fine," I assured him. After all, what possibly could hurt me? "Excuse me, but where is the�" I trailed off.
The farmer looked at me expectantly, waiting for me to finish my question.
"Never mind," I said, "I really don't want to go there anyway." I picked up my pack and wandered into the woods. Alone, always alone. And I will remain alone, for her, because you have no idea just how happy she was.
End.
C&C is requested, and would be gratefully accepted. Ranma 1/2 is the property of Takahashi Rumiko and I make no claims on owning it.
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