Ranma 1/2 owned by those who own it and used without permission.
please do not sue I have nothing to give you.

All C&C welcome as it is helping me improve my writing skills

Rabbit
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This Our Last Fight



        Here I lie in this hospital bed, with all these devices hooked
to me as my life slowly passes.  At the other end of the hospital my
adversary is in a similar situation. In the time that has been our lives he
and I have been friends, foes, sometimes both at the same time.
He has yet to truly beat me in anything as far back as I can remember
and I refuse to let him win now, this, our final fight.  Suddenly I feel
my heart start to slowing, trying to stop.  I focus a little of my
remaining chi inward, jumpstarting my failing organ.  I will not let
go till I know I have won.

        As time slides slowly past like the sands in a hour glass
I think of the first time he and I met on the field combat.  Even though it
was over something as simple as pan bread we both gave it our all.  That was
I think when we knew we were two sides of the same coin.  Later, he
gave me some of the most difficult fights of my life as we battled over the
woman we both loved.  He eventually wound up loving another but still we both
battled on.  There have been very few to come close to him and it's only now 
in the twilight of our last fight that I can finally admit that he's nearly
my equal.

        I open my bleary eyes as I hear someone come into my room.  I
see that it is the nurse that has been seeing to my welfare.  She has
something in her hand that looks like a note and there are tears in her
eyes.  She walks over to me and sits in the chair next to my bed.  I
smile at her as she sits and if I use my minds eye she looks like my
beloved.  She gives me a small smile and hands me my glasses along with
the note.  The note reads; 'You win again Ranma.  I'll see you on the
other side, Ryoga.....' the signature scrawls off the edge of the paper.
The nurse informs me that he died while writing it.  She also tells me
that just before he went his last words were 'Ranma, why can't I win
once...'.  I smile to myself knowing that I had beat him one last time.
I know I can finally let go and let my soul go to where my friends and
loved ones are.  Ryoga and I were the last two now it is only me.  The
nurse has gotten up and left leaving me once again unto myself.  Again I
feel my heart wanting to stop and this time I do nothing.  I have won
my last fight and now it is time for me to go.  Everything is going hazy.
I see myself no longer in bed but standing on a field covered in flowers
of all sizes and varietys.  I see in the distance all who went before me,
Mousse, Shampoo, Ukyou, Kuno, Kodachi, Mother, Father, the Tendo's, and
yes, there was Ryoga with his beloved Akari in his arms.  I then notice
the one I love more than life itself.  She has her arms open waiting for
me as I run into her arms and embrace my beloved Akane in the Elysian
fields of our youth.

Epiloge
Nerima Obituaries
Name: Hibiki,Ryoga               Name:Saotome,Ranma
Time of Death: 11:30 am         Time of Death: 11:40 am
Age: 350                               Age: 350

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Authors notes.

Well I wrote this while trying to get past the dreaded writers block on my other fics.
Thanks to all who have C&C'd my other work Washu's new boyfriend and yes
I am using everything submitted {thanx to David Johnston, Bastets chosen, Happosai,Spacewarp, Ronny Hedin and anyone else I forgot.} to correct and improve it.  Well I hope I got most of the bugs worked out of it now due to all the influx of pointers and notes on grammar and misspelling.

well till next time,
Rabbit