One Day More
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by Florencio B. de la Merced, Jr. (fmerced@pworld.net.ph)

A Fanfiction based on the Anime Ranma 1/2 created and copyrighted by
Rumiko Takahashi
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Chapter 1


Akane thought she was still asleep when she caught a glance of Ranma

sitting silently out on the porch holding a book and actually looked liked

reading it. She rubbed her eyes and blinked a few times but her fiancée

only shifted his weight while turning a page from what he was reading.



"Wierd, eh?" Nabiki remarked as she too was in the room also staring at

Ranma. Akane walked towards her sister and only raised an eyebrow as

if doubting everything she was seeing at the moment. "Don't ask me?

I came down here and already saw him engrossed in that novel." Nabiki

left the room while muttering something about where she would read now.



Ranma again turned a leaf and quickly raised the glass of juice towards

his dry lips. "Ohayo, Ranma!" Akane crept surprisingly behind Ranma

and chose that particular moment to greet him. Unfortunately for Ranma

the abrupt greeting shocked him and caused the fluttering of the juice out

of his mouth. "What the hell did you do that for? Kawaiikune!" Ranma

angrily shouted as he tried to use his clothes to dry the book that was

severely dampened by the accident.



"BAKA!" Akane's instantaneous wrath pounded on the unsuspecting,

though not totally innocent fiancée, and flung him clear across the porch.

Ranma landed on the pond in the yard and he transformed immediately.

But his female form didn't rise from the cold water. He was unconscious

when Akane hurridly pulled him out of the pond. "Ranma?" Akane

checked her fiancée's vitals frantically but soon calmed down when she

verified a pulse and his breathing.



"What happened Akane?" Kasumi came out of the kitchen to check on

the ruckus that had happened. The two sisters then carried Ranma to a

spare room and quickly called the doctor.



Dr. Tofu gave a thorough checkup on his patient that was still out cold.

"How is he?" Akane didn't leave his side, even after Dr. Tofu asked her

after checking Ranma. There was nothing wrong with Ranma, as

reported by the kind doctor to the rest of the family. "Only a bump on

the head, that's all. He'll come around soon. Tell me when he wakes

up?" Dr. Tofu's words comforted everyone but Akane still couldn't get

over what had happened. It was her fault, she always reminded herself

as she stood watch over her fiancée overnight.



Morning sunlight broke through the window and promptly woke Akane

from her slumber. She felt the cold wind brushing up on her face and

she quickly thought that she must have forgotten to close the windows

before she slept. Squinting in the dim room she sat up and tried to crawl

out of bed but something stopped her. Looking down she gasped as

Ranma was also in the same bed with her. Before anger filled her head

a recollection of the accident calmed her down. Ranma shifted around

and threw an arm out to where Akane was sleeping a while ago. She

smiled as if relieved that she was already up from bed, but deep inside

of her, something thought otherwise. The breeze again touched her face

and chilled her body. Akane warded off the blanket and started to slide

out through the foot of the bed. She was surprised at what was revealed

to her. She was naked. She clasped the blanket and quickly wrapped

herself in it. That action of course uncovered her partner on the bed.

Her eyes bulged as she saw the bare back of her fiancée that was still

sleeping. Glimpses of memories suddenly flashed in front of Akane.

"Did we?" She then broke in tears due to the unrecollection and fear

that gripped her thoughts.



Nabiki knew something was up when she caught her sister coming out

of the guest room dragging blankets wrapped around her. After she

heard the door to Akane's room close she walked up to the room she

knew Ranma was supposed to be recovering in. "Oh, my!" She wiped

the early morning clouts from her eyes and stared again through the

crack on the door. "He's...he's..." nervously she closed the door and

rushed back to her own room. Nabiki wrote something to her notebook

and quickly sat down to think. "Now they'll have to get married."

Nabiki gleefully grinned as she thought about what could have

happened last night in that room.



Akane was quiet during breakfast and Nabiki noticed this all too well.

Ranma was also eating and also looked serene. "How are you two

feeling today?" Nabiki struck the match and hoped it'll ignite the

issue she wanted to present to everyone this morning. "I'm fine.

Thanks for asking Nabiki." Ranma even smiled as he checked the

bump on his head. "And what about you, Akane?" Nabiki smile was

accompanied by two to three raises of her eyebrows. Akane froze as

she realized that her sister knew about what had happened to her and

Ranma. "I..I'm..." Akane couldn't hold back as she cried in front of her

family. Soun, her father, tried to comfort her as Ranma was already

desperately trying but would only get Akane swinging her arms at him.



"What happened, Akane?" Kasumi's calm tone brought some stop to

Akane's pounding on her fiancée. But Akane only broke again in tears

and all Kasumi could do was comfort her little sister. "It looks like

we're going to have a wedding, Daddy." Nabiki gave a downcast look

at Ranma who was again trying to calm Akane but was not sucessful.

"Who's wedding?" Nabiki smiled and looked again at Ranma and her

sister.



"Akane, what's wrong?" Ranma pleaded while warding the punches his

fiancée was swinging at him. "What do you mean you don't know?!

Of course you know! You...HENTAI!!" That final remarked made

sense to Ranma and he gave a cheery smile to Akane. "Oh, that.

Well, don't tell me you..." SLAP, his head jerked back as Akane

connected on one of her punches. Ranma glared at Akane and quickly

caught her arms and pulled her up. "Listen Akane...If what we did last

night made you uncomfortable...I'm sorry." Ranma slowly released his

grip and brought his hands up to her face. "I..." Everybody blinked as

Ranma kissed Akane passionately and infront of everyone.



"Eh, Nabiki. What exactly did they do last night?" Soun whispered

the question while trying not to keep his eyes off the two. "Oh,

nothing Daddy. I think it's not important anymore." Nabiki checked

her watch and looked at the couple who are still kissing and now have

their arms around each other. Nabiki stood up and was about to leave

when she caught glimpse of a book that was lying on the ground. She

recalled that this was what Ranma was reading and quickly picked it up.

"No wonder he ..." Nabiki looked back and saw how her sister was still

in Ranma's embrace. She smiled and quickly went up to her room with

book. She only opened the door to throw the book on her bed.

"That's what you get for reading Shakespeare." Nabiki mused herself

thinking Ranma would have ever considered that tragedy of a story

would ever happened to Akane and him. "It's not like she'd fake her

own death, and Ranma would kill himself because of it." Nabiki walked

out the porch and briefly saw the two still in each other's arms. "Well,

Ranma is sure is no Romeo." She laughed and quickly sat down and

opened her book that she intended to read that morning.


End of Chapter 1
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