I am here re-posting Scene 20 of Part I of Spreading Wings. Hopefully,
the formatting problems will have been cured or made more legible at the
very least. Please let me know whether or not this is the case.
Feedback on the content would be most welcome. I am not at all sure that
this scene is working and may do a re-write to eliminate it. If it does
work, then there is another...well...that will be much later in the
story, but it could change things right way through to the end.
Remember, this part of the story is rated LEMON. If you are under age
18, or find adult content disagreeable, read no further. You will be
able to follow the story without reading this part of it.
My thanks to one and all for your patience,
Don Granberry.
Most of the characters in this piece and the setting for it, were
conceived of by Rumiko Takahashi for her Ranma1/2 series of Manga. All
such characters and the setting are the property of Takahashi-san and
her licensees. All other characters in the piece are purely fictional
and any resemblences to actual persons living or dead are purely
coincidental.
Spreading Wings
Part I: The Burning Ring of Fire
Scene 20 LEMON
�Are you hungry, yet?� Ranma asked as he and Akane left the boutique.
�Starving!�
�Pizza?�
�Sounds good.�
The pizza parlor was only a block away, but it was closed and the
proprieter was leaving as they walked up.
�Gee, what happened?� Ranma asked the roly-poly little man has he was
locking the front door of his shop.
�You haven�t heard?� The little man asked.
�Heard what?� Akane asked.
�Tetsuro Morimoto, Iron Chef Japan visited Ucchan�s today!�
�Whoa!� Ranma exclaimed.
�He even autographed his photograph for her.� The little man said in
happy excitement. �All of Nerima has been honored!�
�I�ll just bet Ukyo is walking on air,� Ranma said sounding somewhat
distressed.
�Ranma, we should go and congratulate her.� Akane said grimly.
�Have you got a pen and paper?� Ranma asked Akane.
�Yes.�
�Give it to me.�
�Okay.�
�Would you mind delivering a note for me?� Ranma asked the pizza man.
�No, not at all!�
�I can�t go there myself tonight,� Ranma said as he hurriedly scribbled
on the piece of paper Akane had given him, �but I am very happy for
her.�
The excuse was full of holes of course. He was simply sending her a
message concealed in a congratulatory note. But it was a message he knew
he had to get across to his oldest and best friend. He loved her, but he
was not in love with her. He belonged to Akane Tendo now and there was
no going back.
Akane was clutching at his arm by the time he had finished the note.
The pizza man rushed down the street with it.
�Geez!� Ranma exclaimed, �Looks like Ucchan�s is going to be packed
tonight.� Shops were closing all up and down Sales street as proprieters
left their businesses and headed towards the little okinomiyaki shop.
Much to Ranma�s surprise, Akane was crying.
�What�s the matter?�
�I...I...Oh, Ranma!�
He patted her arm, not knowing what else to do. He never knew what to
do with her when she was like this, other than to wait for her to regain
her composure.
�Why don�t we go home and see what�s cooking? It looks like rain
anyway.�
Akane closed her eyes and nodded.
They walked down the street a little ways and Akane spoke again, dread
and sadness evident in her voice.
�You still owe her a lot, you know.�
�I know. One of these days I�ll find a way to pay her back.�
�How will you ever pay her what she is owed, Ranma?�
The skies flashed and thunder rumbled all around them.
�What she�s owed?�
Akane was nodding. The wind became gusty, swirling leaves around them
in a wild, chaotic dance.
�You are what she was promised.�
�I was a child then!� Ranma said with genuine irritation. �I never
agreed to an engagement with her.�
�What has age got to do with anything?� Akane asked. �We were promised
to one another before we were even born.�
�I never even realized she was a girl until she showed up at Furinkan
highschool!�
�You mean until you felt her up!�
�We were fighting!� Ranma said in an alarmed voice. �I didn�t know
until I...I yi, yi, yi!�
Rain began to fall.
�Aw nuts!� Onna-Ranma said disgustedly.
Akane laughed in spite of herself. They ran into an alley way and found
some small measure of shelter beneath an improvised roof over a
merchant�s back door. They huddled together, listening to the rain
batter at the tin above their heads. The rain smelled fresh and cold.
For Ranma it nicely enhanced the headiness of Akane�s perfume.
�You are an honorable man, Ran-chan.� Akane said, �Ukyou and I both
understand this about you and that is why I worry. You think you owe her
something equal to yourself but it isn�t so. Your father owes her that
much, but not you.�
�Akane, my dad may have made the debt but it is attached to my name.
Besides, Ukyo was a real friend to me. I would have starved if it
hadn�t been for her.�
�But she doesn�t own you,� Akane said fiercely, �I do.�
Akane had seized Onna-Ranma by the front of his distended shirt,
looking down into his eyes. Ranma was suddenly grateful that the streets
were empty and that it was dark and that the rain was coming down in
buckets.
�Even when I�m like this?� Ranma asked accusingly.
�Especially when you are like this!� Akane growled and kissed him full
on the mouth. Ranma enjoyed the kiss even though all sorts of alarms
began going off in the back of his mind. He would very often forget
which form he was in but Akane never did. Before today, she had always
been careful to avoid any physical show of affection when the curse was
upon him.
�Pervert!� Ranma said when Akane finally let him up for air. He would
have teased her some more but stopped himself when he saw the pain in
Akane�s eyes. Some of the rumors running around Furinkan High had been
exquisitely cruel.
�Come on, Akane! I didn�t mean that! I...I was just teasing you.�
Akane covered her face with both hands.
�It must be true!� Akane said with a wail, �I want your girl half as
much as I do the boy half!�
Akane was suddenly wracked by a spasm of sobs. Her self-revulsion was
obvious. It alarmed Ranma.
�I always have!� Akane said. �Even that first day in the bath.�
Ranma would have comforted Akane by cuddling her but his female form
was half a head shorter than her, making such an act clumsy. Worse, a
hug from his girl form was probably the last thing she wanted at that
moment. For the first time in his life though, Ranma Saotome understood
what to do under circumstances wherein his fiery Akane was upset. He
breathed a huge, very audible sigh of relief.
�Boy am I ever glad to hear this!�
�What?� Akane said, peeking out from behind her hands. �It doesn�t
bother you that I get turned on by a...a...girl?�
�Hey! It�s always me in here, Akane.� Ranma said as he put his now
delicate hands on Akane�s shoulders and looked up into her eyes, �I
don�t care which version of me it is you love, just so long as it�s me.�
�It�s sick!� Akane said as she once again pressed her hands to her
mouth.
�By whose standards?�
�By...by...�
�No one else�s standards apply to us, Akane. You fell in love with a
guy that turns into a girl when he gets splashed with cold water.�
�But I want you even...even when you are a girl!�
Ranma was suddenly wishing for a source of hot water but there wasn�t
any for at least a mile and he knew it. He would have to help her get
beyond this crisis without it.
�So? Have you ever wanted another girl the way you want me right now?�
�No.�
�Didja think I�d have it any other way?� He took Akane�s hand and
placed her palm on one of his ample breasts. �See? My heart�s racing,
too! Everytime I�m like this while you are around I...I...get even
wetter.�
Ranma sucked in his breath, thinking at first that what he had just
said might be so crude she would run away from him. Akane stared at him
blankly as though her mind was thousands of miles away. Several seconds
drug by taking eon after eternity, then she got a predatory look on her
face that was worse than anything he had ever seen on Nabiki. Akane
roughly pushed his female form back against the door. She stroked his
chest with both hands, then she pressed her lips to Ranma�s and forced
her tongue into his mouth. She pulled her head back a little and looked
into his startled eyes.
�Do you think you could learn to give in to me,� Akane breathed, �the
way I want to give in to you?�
She began to nibble at his neck.
�Do you like this?� She whispered evily against his suddenly electric
skin.
�Give in?� Ranma was feeling slightly panicked. �Give in the way
you...�
Akane seemed to simply catch fire. There was no other way to describe
it. Ranma could feel the heat boiling off their bodies even through the
wet and the cold. He felt her slender fingers through the thick silk of
his chinese shirt as her hands cupped his heavy breasts. He had always
gotten a thrill out her running her hands around on his chest when he
was in his male form, but now Ranma felt his female form respond the way
it was designed to respond when aroused and he liked it. He liked it a
lot. So did Akane.
�Anytime you want,� Ranma finally managed to say weakly between kisses.
�Anytime...Oh, God!...at all."
"Aw, geez!"
"Don�t! Oh! Okay...a-ah...ooh!"
"Oh, Akane!�
Akane�s crisis was over Ranma realized, but yet another crisis had
begun to develop. Had they been in a more private place things would
have gotten completely out of hand. He had never wanted for a kettle so
much in all the days since he had fallen into the spring at Jusenkyo,
yet he was never so glad that he did not have one.
�You belong to me, Saotome-san!� Akane whispered to him with a kind of
fierceness that Ranma had never heard in her voice before, � Just me! No
one else!�
She gave him another passionate kiss.
�Never forget that.� She said in a hoarse whisper before kissing him
yet again.
Onna-Ranma nodded and put her arms around her beloved.
�I will take you home now,� Akane said. She was telling, not asking.
Ranma answered with a meek nod, wondering how on earth he was going to
cope with an Akane amplified. Up until now her passions had been
channeled into aggression, but now that was unlikely to remain an option
for very long. They would have to marry soon or between the two of them,
they would destroy Nerima and all of Tokyo with it. Something which had
for so long slept within them, something he had only vaguely known about
was now awake, never to rest again until they were dead. They had fallen
into the burning ring of fire. Ranma shivered, but not from the cold.