Chapter 13

 

Ranma and Akane entered the courtyard like a pair of ghosts, so silently did they walk that no one heard them and yet the family knew by some instinct that they were there. Once they reached the edge of the circle, they paused as if to take stock of their surroundings, before Ranma moved off to the other side to stand opposite of Akane. The moon shone down upon them illuminating their robes and causing them to glow with an inner-light. Silently, everyone watched and was amazed at the change that had taken place on the two who entered. They couldn’t believe that this was Ranma and Akane, the change was so severe that it practically screamed, different.

When they were in place, Nabiki started to play a different melody that signaled the beginning of the ceremony. The family took a deep breath and as one, they began. The chanting rose and fell in synchronization following the slowly beating hearts of the chanters. The two heirs danced slowly around the the circle, oblivious to anything except each other. After a few moments, Ranma and Akane fell to their knees, reaching out towards each other they touched palms and a glow appeared around them, pulsing in time with each word and beat of the ritual. It wasn’t until the completion of the chant that the family watched and waited in anticipation.

Noduka, Genma and the rest of the Tendo clan watched the events unfolding before them with undisguised awe. Their emotions were a mixed with uncertainty as they saw their children lifted on a strong gust of wind, floating a few feet off of the ground as bright light engulfed both Ranma and Akane. Their hair whipping through the wind, Ranma and Akane were not aware of this, their thoughts were elsewhere as they saw a glowing sphere brighter than the rest of the light that surrounded them floated towards them.

Looking up, Akane saw a light that was brighter than the normal human eye could stand to look at, but somehow she was able to stare at it without going blind. The light was about the size of a car and tinged with a red color around the edges. She felt a shiver of apprehension run through her veins, but it was whipped clean as she head a voice echo through her mind. “You have come chosen one. Yet you are afraid...why do you fear your destiny?” The light moved closer to the smaller form of the blue hared girl as if to get a better look into Akane’s eyes.

Akane gulped; nervously she tried to think up an answer that wouldn’t insult the entity. “I am afraid of the unknown. I do not know much of what will happen to me, so I fear it. I was not told much of what is to come...I only know of what was said to me when the mark was discovered,” Akane replied and the sphere caught her thoughts and flashed approvingly in response to her heartfelt answer.

“Do not worry...all will be revealed when you join with me. If you choose to do so, you will understand why everything is happening. Will you join with me?” the sphere asked.

Akane bit her lip nervously as she thought of her reply. “What will happen when I do join with you?” she asked.

“You will be able to gain control of your life. But first, you will have to save the world from utter destruction. There is no way out of this as it was ordained from the beginning of time,” it replied.

Akane thought about it once more before coming to her decision. “Ranma would say that it is a martial artists duty to protect the weak. He would do this willingly. And if Ranma can do this, than so can I,” Akane thought to herself before she raised her gaze towards the sphere and said, “Yes, I...I will join with you!” Akane had no time to rethink her answer before the sphere entered her body. Her back arched as she felt an explosion of pain, opening her mouth Akane let out a silent scream before loosing consciousness.

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Ranma also noticed what had happened to him. His questioning however was different than the one Akane had just gone through. “You have come chosen one. Yet you are uncertain...I see that you stay with your chosen mate and yet you deny that she is yours. If you keep pushing her away then, all is lost and the end of the world is ensured. Why do you deny her?”

Ranma flushed nervously and stammered, “I’m too young to get m...married. I know I love her but I don’t want to be pushed into it too early. I’m not sure why...but I do know that every time we try to get closer. My other so-called fiancée’s interrupt us. This is the first time Akane and I’ve been left alone and I’m afraid that It’s going to be taken away. Akane might get hurt if I make a commitment. There’s this Amazon who’d never hesitate to get rid of her if I choose Akane. I would protect her with my life if need be...”

“There is a way to be free of these other engagements and a way that your mate would be well protected. You will have to join with me to awaken your heritage. The joining will enable you to control your ki. When we join, you will have a second chance at life. When the great evil comes you will be able to protect her more than you can now. You will be forever changed but, you will be free as well as your mate if she so chooses to do the same and join as well,” The sphere floated closer to the pigtailed boy as it waited for the young man’s response.

Ranma thought hard about his answer, after a ten agonizing minutes he slowly nodded his head and replied, “Yes, I will join with you.”

“Very well,” the sphere replied before suddenly darting forward and entering Ranma’s chest with a flash of light. The pigtailed boy’s body arched back, light erupted from his opened eyes and mouth and his robe parted to reveal the glowing mark of the Yin symbol. The light slowly spread until it covered Ranma’s whole body, then it began pulsing in time with the pigtailed boy’s heartbeat. Slowly, he began spinning in place, everyone watched as both Akane and Ranma spun in the air until the light became too much, causing the family to shield their eyes.

Squinting, Nabiki tried to discern what was going on. “Oh Akane, I hope you’ll be alright,” Nabiki preyed silently as she tried to see but, the only things she could see were shadows deep within the heart of the light until even they disappeared in the glare. To Nabiki, It was like a living thing as it beat in time with what she suspected was her sister’s and Ranma’s heart beats. Then, suddenly the light flashed brighter than before and a huge gust of wind barreled outwards causing everyone to cling to the stones they were perched upon. Then, the light pulsed one final time as it released its hold on the two within its embrace before dying out.

When the family glanced back towards Ranma and Akane, what they saw lying on the ground in their place shocked them to the core. Gaping like stranded fish gasping for breath, the families couldn’t beleive their eyes. For the figures lying on the ground...were no longer recognizable as human. They tried to speak, but Nabiki summed it up for everyone as she yelled, “Holy Shit!”

“Oh my!” Kasumi exclaimed after hearing Nabiki’s shout, as she was finally jarred out of her shocked state.

“I don’t believe this!” Genma yelled as he stared at the two forms lying in the courtyard.

“My son!” Noduka yelled in shock.

“My baby! Waaaaa!” Soun yelled and then began to cry as the strain from the last couple of days took over.

“Hey People! Enough! We have to figure out a way to get them inside!” the middle Tendo yelled. Then, Nabiki turned towards Noduka and asked, “Auntie, isn’t there something in that book that mentioned a secret chamber?”

“Yes,” Noduka replied as she started leafing through the book.

Nabiki started muttering under her breath, “How the hell are we going to move them...they’re so...big!” Scanning the ground where her sister and Ranma lay, Nabiki spotted a few slight irregularities. Taking a closer look she grinned suddenly as she could make out the indentations a track that lead towards the house and over to what looked like, a blank wall. “Hey, I think I’ve found something here!” she shouted, extremely satisfied with herself for not loosing her edge when it came to tracking things down.

Noduka looked up from the page she was currently reading, “Ah, I see you have found the track that will enable us to move the stone slab into the chamber.” Then, she glanced back down, “Now we only have to find the lever that will open the secret door...and as the door opens,” Noduka said while running her finger down the page as she read the paragraphs. “It will pull the slab inside,” she finished then, smiled when she glanced at the rest of her family.

“Auntie,” Kasumi said.

“Yes Kasumi, what is it?” The Saotome matriarch replied.

“I was wondering...what does the lever look like?” the oldest Tendo asked while biting her lower lip.

“Hold on while I read some more on this...” Noduka replied reading a few paragraphs before looking around for her erstwhile husband. Spotting him, she cleared her throat and murmured, “In the mean time...GENMA!” Noduka yelled.

“Yes dear?” the bald martial artist answered right away while nervously eyeing the katana on her back.

“I want you and Soun to go over to that wall...yes the wall where the tracks lead to, and try to find the secret lever to open the chamber,” Noduka said as she pointed towards the house. Then turning towards Soun, she yelled at the top of her lungs, “Soun...will you stop that crying and help Genma find the chamber!”

Soun sniffled for a few more minutes before pointing towards his youngest, “But...”

“They will be fine, father. Now go help uncle Genma find the lever,” Kasumi suggested while smiling.

Nodding his head, Soun followed Genma over towards the wall and then they both started running their hands over its surface. The wall was nothing special except that it too was covered little stone carvings that stood out. The two martial artists had been searching for about ten minutes now and Nabiki was starting to get impatient.

“Have you found it yet?” the middle Tendo daughter yelled towards her father.

Soun turned around and leaned against the wall, “N...” he started to reply when suddenly, there was a grating sound as the wall slid back to reveal a dark cavern. As it moved, Soun tried to regain his balance but failed as he fell back and ended up lying on his back in the dark. The stone slab that Ranma and Akane were lying on moved as well, as if drawn by a pulley system deep into the darkness. “Ahhh!” Soun yelled, as he spotted the huge stone heading his way. Gulping, he scrambled to his feet quickly to avoid getting hurt.

“Oh my. I think you’ve found it father,” Kasumi said as she followed her little sister and Ranma into the darkness. Looking over her shoulder, Kasumi called out, “Auntie...I think you better bring a torch or flashlight. It’s too dark to see anything.”

 

Noduka glanced up from her reading and nodded her head to show that she had heard the eldest Tendo daughter. Quickly shutting the book, the Saotome matriarch looked around for the torches that had been strategically placed to light the courtyard. Spotting one, she pilfered it quickly and made her way into the huge room right on the heals of the Tendo girls.

The chamber when lit by the light of the torch sparkled from thousands upon thousands of gems that reflected the light back. The gems appeared to be set deep within the stone and near impossible to remove but in a way it was an ingenious way to light a room. As soon as Genma entered the room he almost had heart failure at the site of the gem-encrusted walls. The only thing that he could manage for the ten minutes that he stood there with his mouth agape was to stammer out a few incoherent sentences, “Hwaza...it...wah...rich...wow!”

When Nabiki saw the gems her eyes lit up with miniature dollar signs and a small evil grin plastered her lips as thoughts of swimming in all those jewels filled her mind. “Oh, the kami have smiled upon me,” she murmured quietly.

Noduka walked right up along side the middle Tendo when she spotted the young girl’s expression. “Nabiki, you’d better get those thoughts out of your head because these are not ever leaving the estate.

“What?” Nabiki asked as she snapped out of her dazed stupor and turned her attention towards Noduka.

“Those are real jewels but, they are magically enhanced and used to belong to a dragon. According to our ancestors, there once was a dragon that was helped by our ancestors. In return that dragon gifted them with this chamber and told them that they had the power to heal any injuries. Throughout the centuries, the Saotome and Tendo clans have been using this chamber when they were seriously injured. It did cure the gravest of injuries but, if any of the jewels were to be removed...” Noduka paused and looked Nabiki in the eyes, “Our families would loose this gift and then when they are most needed. We wouldn’t be able to use them.”

Nabiki stood there deep in thought before she finally spoke, “But what about my mother? Did daddy bring her here when she was sick?”

Soun walked over towards the two when he had heard Nabiki’s question, he answered before Noduka could. “Yes Nabiki, I did.” The Tendo patriarch sighed deeply as tears ran down his cheeks. “I brought her here and your mother did get better for a time...but this chamber cannot cure you when it is your time to die. It gave Kamiko time...time to give birth to Akane and care for her until she became too ill to move.”

“Oh, so this is where you came when mother was ill,” Nabiki whispered before whipping away the lone tear that had mysteriously appeared on her cheek. Looking up, Nabiki saw her father nod his head before he turned around and walked out of the chamber, apparently too overcome with grief.

Noduka placed a comforting hand on Nabiki’s shoulder, giving it a squeeze before she said, “Enough of these thoughts, we must see to your sister and my son.” Turning, she called, “Kasumi?”

“Yes Auntie?” the eldest Tendo answered as she made her way over to them.

“Has the stone finished moving?” Noduka asked her as she opened the book once more, searching for the correct passage.

“Why yes Auntie, it finished while you were talking about the mother,” Kasumi replied somewhat sadly before she masked the sadness lingering in her gaze. “Why do you ask?”

“Your sister and my son will be waking up in a few hours and according to the book they will be ravenous. We have to be prepared to deal with their reactions to their changed state. The book says that their emotions will be more potent and they will react irrationally when confronted or angered. It says to beware their rage, as it can be extremely deadly.

“Oh my,” Kasumi said as her eyes widened to the size of saucers. “Then we better be careful not to make them mad and to keep them calm.”

“Yeah,” Nabiki chimed in before she continued, “Just imagine them on the warpath with they way they are now.” Nabiki turned her gaze towards her sister and pointed. Have you seen the damage they do when they’re normal? You know how much of a temper that Akane has! Just look at them now...the amount of damage they can do to everything with they way they are at this moment...Now, that is really scary.”

“Just so, Nabiki and that is why they are in here. If they accidentally hurt one another, this chamber will cure them,” Noduka said seriously. Turning, Noduka started walking towards the inner doors the let to the corridors. On her way out of the room she depressed the lever that closed the outer wall, glancing over her shoulder she said, “Now Kasumi and I must prepare something to eat. We will need your help carrying the food here so we’d better hurry before they wake up.” Noduka left the room with Kasumi trailing behind. Nabiki gave her sister and Ranma one last glance before she too left taking the lone torch with her.

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It was well after midnight and just a few hours until the dawn, inside the chamber a bright flash of light lit the room to reveal the two heirs of the Saotome and Tendo School of indiscriminate grappling, then it faded into darkness once more. Ranma began to stir and was the first to open his eyes, glancing around the room, he absently took note of the jeweled stones that covered the walls of the room they were in. As his consciousness shifted into full wakefulness he moaned as his aches and pains became apparent, “Oww, feels like a bus hit me...almost like one of Ryoga’s Shi Shi Hokodan blasts.”

Rolling over onto his stomach, Ranma thought about the past few hours and began to remember. He could recall some parts with extreme clarity up until the point of the sphere entering his chest. Everything after that became hazy and no matter how much he tried to remember, he couldn’t. Ranma shivered with cold and noticed that his clothes were gone. He knew that he had been wearing the robes before the ceremony. “What the...where the heck are my clothes?” he muttered as he felt around the floor for something to wear. When his hands encountered the remains of the robe he sighed before another shiver racked his body. “Damn, it’s cold in here! If I’m not wearing anything than I bet...” he gulped, “Akane isn’t as well.”

“Speaking of Akane...where the heck is she?” he thought before he began to scan surroundings, Ranma could feel the presence of someone lying nearby. The room was too dark to see clearly so he extended his ki. Feeling around, he could detect the presence of someone familiar, it was...Akane! Smiling, Ranma tried to pinpoint her exact location and managed to sense that she was off to his right. “Akane!” He called out to her in the darkness. When he received no answer he tried again, “Hey Akane!”

“Mmmmm,” came the sleepy response before falling silent once more.

“A...K...A...N...E, get up!” Ranma yelled, frustrated that she wasn’t waking up on her own. When he didn’t receive any reply after shouting at her, he began to worry that the ceremony had taken too much out of her and left her a bit weak. “Maybe I should go over there and try to get her up...but, if I do then, I might loose control and start acting like I did back in the study. I can smell that scent from over here and if I get any closer...It was nice...but Akane may kill me when she regains her senses.”

Quickly coming to a decision, Ranma pushed all of his doubts and fears aside as he remembered the words that were told to him during the ceremony. He was finally able to admit to himself how he really felt about his blue hared fiancée. “I...I...l...love her! Our lives depend on it, on me not lying to myself or anyone else anymore!” he whispered harshly into the darkness. When those words were finally spoken, Ranma felt a great weight lifted from his heart and shoulders and smiled before crawling over towards her.

When he finally reached her side, Ranma froze when scent became overpowering. His heart rate sped up, he felt hot and jittery at the same time while everything inside of him screamed out that he touch her and bring her close to his side. He wanted to kiss her so badly that he ached with need. Slowly, he reached out a shaky hand and began to caress her face, gently brushing a stray lock of hair aside, he traced the contours of her cheeks, eyes and lips. As he touched her lips, his eyes locked on them like a missile locked on its target. His mouth felt dry as a desert as he fought against his rampaging desire to posses her sweet lips with his own.

Slowly, he lowered his head, his lips just inches from contact, he heard her voice his name, the longing in her voice, unmistakable. Ranma never paused in his quest to kiss her, he felt a soul deep longing for completion, and then his lips touched hers. Upon contact, little electrical currents began running throughout his body. The room began filling with the bright light from a few days before and during the ceremony, only this time it was so much more. It pulsed like a living heartbeat as it grew brighter and brighter, igniting his passions higher until Ranma no longer knew where he began and Akane left off. Ranma moaned his excitement into her mouth as he ran his fingertips over her throat.

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As Akane felt something brush her face, she began to stir. The first thing she noticed when she took a deep breath was that scent that seemed to ignite the raging fires hidden deep within her soul. Her eyes began to flutter when she felt a gentle caress on her lips. Opening her eyes she saw two blue orbs gazing back at her. They were so close that it seemed that they were going to swallow her whole. It was then that she recognized them, the fire deep within them was unmistakable. They were the eyes of the one person who could ignite her anger in a flash; it was the one person she loved. “Ranma,” she whispered his name softly with a touch of longing.

Akane thought she was dreaming and accepted his kiss, and opened her lips to his invading tongue. Then realizing that this was no dream but reality she started weakly pushing against his chest. “I’ll kill him!...I’ll...I...should...stop...him...” she thought and tried to resist, but her instincts overrode her rational mind. Akane sensed that Ranma’s parents and her father were somewhere inside the estate. Her older sister was probably helping Auntie fix diner and Nabiki was probably trying to figure out numerous ways to earn more money. Akane had wished to be alone like this with Ranma since they had first kissed in his bedroom and what she now wanted was for everyone to stay away and not interfere.

Ranma’s hands shook with excitement as he brushed her chest with feather light strokes of his fingertips. He stopped kissing her lips and ran his tongue over her jawbone, panting softly in excitement. Then, ducking his head, he caught her nipple in his mouth and sucked gently. “Aaaaa,” Akane keened softly, fingers gripping his shoulders as she arched her back. With each pull of his lips Akane made little whimpering sounds that drove him on. Ranma felt her fingers bury themselves in his hair and caress his scalp. Drawing back, he blew on the beaded nipple, making it tighten further. He paid similar attention to her left breast, only nipping gently, causing her to cry out in surprise.

Akane moaned in delight as Ranma suddenly started sucking harder on her stiffening nipples. He paused every few moments to swirl his tongue around the tip of her breast. He continued to run his fingers down her side to grab onto her thigh, giving it a brief squeeze before continuing on towards the secret treasure hidden between her legs.

Akane had to admit, what Ranma was doing felt very good, exciting her to the point of where though became irrelevant over her body’s demands. Something told her that this was only the appetizer and that the real pleasure hadn’t started yet. Lifting her left hand from his shoulders, she moved it towards the base of his neck just below his pigtail and pulled him closer arching her back and pushing her breast deeper into his mouth. Crying out in delight, Akane reached both of her hands down and took ahold of his head, pulling him up for another open-mouthed kiss. As he moved upwards, his rock hard member brushed over her belly. “Ranma...please...oh...please...now,” Akane pleaded, shivering in excitement, she instinctively undulated her hips.

Gulping nervously, Ranma reached down and ran his fingers along her nether lips. Finding them moist, he gently rubbed his fingers over the distended bud, circling his thumb while pressing his index and forefingers into her opining, simulating the act of sex as Akane gyrated her hips. “Ohhh...oooooaaaaa...yeeeeessss...mmmm...Raaaaanmaaa,” Akane moaned uncontrollably as he continued to stroke her to new heights. Watching her through slitted eyes, Ranma’s excitement grew with every little sound she emitted. He enjoyed watching as he pleasured her, taking in the slightest reactions to his touch.

When he couldn’t hold back any longer, he instinctively positioned himself at her slick entrance, giving her a deep passionate kiss while teasing her with brief thrusts of his hips until Akane could stand it no longer. Akane raised her legs and wrapped them around his hips, pulling him against her, there was a searing pain as he breached her maidenhead but that was quickly forgotten as the pleasure returned leaving him seated deeply in her womb. Akane moaned, feeling inside her, filling her to bursting and yet they fit perfectly. “Ooooh....yessssss” she thought wrapping her legs around the backs of his thighs before Ranma started to pull out. She pulled him back and gasped as the fire centered from the pint of their joining, intensified, causing her to shiver in delight.

“Akaneeeeee” Ranma groaned, pushing back into her. He could not believe how this felt. It was better than anything he had done to himself male or female. Akane’s moist tightness threatened to cause him to orgasm when he pushed into her the first time, but he held on. He didn’t want to give in and orgasm until she had. Some deep instinct told him that it’d take minutes of pleasuring her for that to happen. Ranma pulled out and moaned as he felt her inner muscles clasp him in their tight embrace, refusing to let him go. Slowly, he pushed back in and felt her clasping him harder, his control hung by the barest of threads he continued to thrust into her warm and welcoming embrace.

Akane was in pure bliss from what Ranma was doing to her, she was a little upset that he was doing this now and not on their wedding night. She had wanted her first time to be romantic, and not as some after effect from what had been happening to them these past few days. But, all the negatives were obliterated with each thrust of his hips.

As Ranma thrust deeper and deeper into Akane his control was becoming harder to maintain. It was so much easier when he was alone in his room pleasuring himself and imagining that it was Akane doing it. When he did that, he wasn’t very concerned about holding onto it. Now he was, and he was becoming overheated. His lungs expanded like a balloon while trying to take in enough air, Ranma tapped into his ki to give him enough stamina to keep going and slammed his hips harder and deeper into Akane.

“Ooohhh!”Akane squealed as the pleasure rose higher in continuous waves. Tossing her head to and fro, she bucked her hips in time with his. She could almost sense even greater pleasure just ahead. It felt like she was physically bracing a door knowing a tsunami was about to hit and the door would be obliterated when it happened. Ranma was grunting, his face grimacing, he was in agony trying to fight against the urge to let go. He tried, “Akaneee...,” he gasped in a painful and almost apologetic tone, he thrust forward hander than all of his other thrusts and held himself still, shivering uncontrollably as he sent his life seed into her. Ranma almost blacked out from the effort to remain conscious with the amount of incredible pleasure he was feeling.

Akane felt Ranma go ridged over her while his member spasmed inside her, filling her. The ’mental door’ she was bracing was obliterated as her love juices covered Ranma’s manhood in orgasmic fury. “Ranmaahhhhh!” Akane tilted her head back and screamed her release, her nails biting deep into Ranma’s back as her hips bucked uncontrollably. While deep in the throws of orgasmic fury, Ranma and Akane’s minds and souls opened to each other, forming a link that would be unbreakable even in death. The room lit with the brightest flash of light that had ever been seen as it was reflected back at them in colored rainbows by the millions of gems that covered the walls.

“Oh Kami, Akane...that was... that was... unbelievable,” Ranma thought while trying in vain to gather enough air to express his feelings. “We should have done this a long time ago instead of fighting all the time.”

Akane gasped for breath “Yeah,” she thought, nodding her head in agreement. It wasn’t until a few more moments passed when she realized that not a sound had escaped her lips and that she hadn’t heard Ranma voice anything. It was almost as if she heard it inside her head. Frowning, Akane tried to figure it out. She could swear that she had heard him as clearly as anyone standing next to her. “How...” she thought before grinning as she got an idea. Akane decided to test her theory out and pictured in her mind the thousands of things that she wanted him to do to her while they were like this.

Suddenly, Ranma stilled and his eyes began to glaze over as she felt him harden within her. Lifting her gaze upwards she met his eyes, saw his pupils dilate and then watched his lips part as his breathing sped up. She also noticed a slight trickle of blood coming from his nose in response to her mental suggestions. “Oh boy...looks like I over did it,” Akane thought while grinning evilly. “I better snap him out of it...and,” Akane yawned as her eyes began to close, “I’m really tired after what we just did.” Turning her attention back towards her companion, Akane shook his shoulder roughly, “Hey baka, you’re getting heavy so snap out of it.” When she still didn’t receive a response she started muttering about perverted boys and their fantasies before shoving him off of her.

Ranma was lost in the fantasy’s that Akane had telegraphed into his mind and tried to figure out if some of the positions she had thought about were possible, so he didn’t hear her calling to him. He could feel something just on the edge of his mind trying to get his attention when suddenly he was shoved to the side rather roughly. “Whoa...what didja do that for!” Ranma all but yelled at her when he landed.

“Ranma, I’m tired and I’d like to get some sleep. Besides you were getting rather heavy,” Akane thought, and then waiting for his reaction when he finally noticed that she wasn’t speaking.

“Oh, gee...I’m sorry but I...” Ranma started to say when it finally hit him that she hadn’t said anything and yet he heard her anyway. Blinking a few times he tried to figure it out, “How did I hear Akane when she didn’t say nothin...It couldn’t be tela...telly...the mind thing could it?”

“Hmmm,” Akane hummed as she stretched her sore muscles, she had heard everything he was thinking, and replied to his unvoiced question, “Bingo.”

“No way!” Ranma yelled when he heard Akane’s reply. “How the hell did that happen!” he continued to say, working himself up into a full-scale rant. He would have gotten up to pace if it wasn’t for the pair of strong arms that quickly pulled him down from his half risen position. “I can’t be... urk,”

Akane interrupted him as she replied sleepily, “Maybe this happened for a reason so we better not think to hard on it, ok. Now I’m tired so let me get some sleep and we’ll talk about it later.”

Ranma was about to answer back, but looking at her peaceful face he didn’t have the heart to try to wake her. “Besides, I’m kinda tired too,” he mumbled, closing his eyes and cuddling closer to his fiancée. Soon the two heirs to the Saotome and Tendo doujou were asleep so they didn’t see a bundle of clothes being placed on the floor or hear the door to the chamber being quietly shut as their visitor left them to their slumber.

 

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