Oh my...Ranma
#7
OMG! and Ranma 1/2 characters belong to their respective owners not me,
so don't sue me.


 "Ranma?"

 "Huh?" Ranma turned to face Belldandy. They were seated on a bench in a
mall, as they waited for Urd to show up. Shortly after arriving at the
mall, she had dumped Ranma and Belldandy, telling them that she would
meet them at this bench one hour later.

 "You've been staring off to space for the past few minutes. Anything on
your mind?"

 "Huh, nothing. I was just thinking about my childhood."

 "Really? Tell me about it," Belldandy said, it seemed that she was
geniuinely curious about it.

 Ranma hesitated, could he tell it to her, to Belldandy? "Well you see,"
he began, unsure of how to express himself, "all my life I've been
training in martial arts right?" As he spoke, his voice began getting
more and more confident, "and now I'm the best martial artist I know
but... I'm wondering if it's worth it."

 "Why? You're the best martial artist I know."

 "*Sigh*  And what has that done for me? I've got three
fiancees-inculding Akane, I doubt Oyaji and Mr.Tendo would let us break
up any way, tons of rivals all waiting in line to beat me, this stupid
fear of cats due to that neko-ken training, and more importantly this
blasted curse!" Ranma paused for a moment, staring off into the
distance, fingers steepled on his chin, "I always believed martial arts
was my life, it used to be everything to me...but now, it just doesn't
fill me up as much as it used to. It's like I'm getting tired of it, yet
it's the only thing I know how to do. Years spent training with Oyaji,
years when I could have been at home with my mom," Ranma sighed,
sounding like an old man.

 Belldandy didn't know what to say, this was a side of Ranma she had
never seen before. An insecure young man hidden behind the usual facade
of cockiness and pride. "So you want to give it up?" She asked
hesitantly, unsure of how he would reply.

 "Nah, it's given me lots of grief but still it's part of my life...it's
just not enough to be my whole life anymore." He turned to look at her,
a gentle smile on his face, "I don't blame you if you don't understand
m, I'm not good at expressing my feelings."

 She found herself gazing into his sapphire blue eyes, which always made
her queasy, made her legs tremble and set her afire. She found herself
leaning closer and closer towards him...

 "C'mon, kiss already!" Urd said, popping up besides the two of them,
impatience marring her features.

 Ranma jerked back as if burned, as did Belldandy. Ranma scowled at Urd,
"who said we were going to kiss!" He would have been more convincing if
he had not been blushing furiously.

 "Why, aren't I beautiful enough?" Belldandy said, managing to sound
both teasing and slightly hurt at the same time.

 "Yes but..."

 "But what?" Urd taunted, it wasn't often she could get Ranma as
unsettled as this. Usually he hid his feelings pretty well, he even
tended to ignore her when she flaunted herself before him. It was too
much sometimes, even the magnificient body of the goddess of love didn't
even interest him. Most times she tended to wonder if the guy was made
of stone.

 "But...." Ranma was fighting a losing battle and he knew it, "oh never
mind!" He said exasperatedly, throwing his arms up in defeat.

 Urd smirked, walking off with the other two behind her.

 Ranma was sulking when he felt a delicate hand take his hand. He turned
to see who it was, only to see Belldandy walking along as if everything
was perfectly normal but he could see the slightest hint of red in her
cheeks. Funnily enough he found himself gripping hers just as gently.

 ****

 "RANMA!! PREPARE TO DIE!" Ryouga roared to the heavens, anger twisting
his appearance into a bestial mix of fury and depression. Those who were
near could have sworn that a green glow surrounded him.
 *Soon. Soon Ranma, I'll have my revenge...* Thinking these cheered him
up slightly, Ranma might be able to stand up to the normal Shi Shi
Hokodan but against the full might of the Ultimate Shi Shi Hokodan he
had no chance. *Soon...*

 ****

 Ranma raced along the fence, having a hard time keeping on it. That was
mainly because he couldn't summon up enough concentration to balance on
it, instead he kept feeling the hairs on the back of his neck prick up
every now and then.

 *There's the school, if I can make it there without falling off the
fence...* He quickened his pace, hoping to rush into the school before
his sense of impending danger got stronger.

 He managed it, leaping off the fence into a forward somersault, landing
with a flourish onto the ground. Briefly he saw Ucchan waving to him,
along with Shampoo who was standing off to one side. Most likely she was
wondering if he was still mad at her for the love pills, and he scowled
at her, giving her an answer. He saw her flinch slightly, before turning
her gaze towards the floor.

 He could have sworn she was crying and was about to go and check it out
when suddenly-

 "RANMA DIE!!" The furious lost boy yelled, slamming his umbrella into
the spot where Ranma had been.

 Ranma grimaced as he landed off to one side. He hadn't been looking
forward to another match between Ryouga and him. He guessed it was guilt
over how much Ryouga had been hurt in their last fight, hurt by him. He
should have known better than to injure Ryouga so severely, yet at the
time he had no idea what he had done but now he did and he didn't want
to repeat the same mistake. "Look Ryouga, I don't really want to fight
now okay, especially not against you. Not after I hurt you the last
time." He forced himself to relax, his arms held loosely by his side.

 It was a mistake.

 "So mock me, will you Ranma? You think I'm not good enough to fight
against you is that it! Well not anymore, now I can beat you!" Ryouga
snarled, holding his hands together.

 "No! It's not that, I still-"

 "Shi Shi Hokodan!" Ryouga screamed, a ki-blast forming from his hands
and slamming into Ranma, sending him crashing into the school building.

 "Ryouga!" Akane gasped, Ranma had been perfectly willing to back down
this time yet Ryouga had attacked him, unprovoked. But how could this
be? Ranma was always the one who started a fight, things were changing
too fast for her. She tried to run towards Ranma, to check if he was
alright when Shampoo grabbed her hand.

 "What are you doing!? Let me go," Akane screamed at Shampoo, not
willing to hit her.

 Shampoo shook her head sadly. "Violent girl not interfere in fight,
it's not honourable. Besides Ranma already getting up."

 She glanced off to where Ranma had been blasted to, and sure enough he
was getting up, albiet with a slightly angry expression on his face.

 "Ryouga," Ranma said in a warning tone, "please, I don't want this
fight."

 "Get up and fight me Ranma!!"

 *Ranma saying please?* Her mind reeled at the thought, impossible as it
seemed. She saw as the same ki-blast began forming in Ryouga's hands,
saw as a touch of grief flashed past Ranma's face gone even before it
was swept away by a mask of anger.

 "Shi Shi Hokodan!"

 "Raging Lion's Roar!!"

 Red ki-blast met green ki-blast, neither giving way. They clashed like
two titans, giant waves of energy pressing together. Finally after a
while, both stopped as murmers started among the courtyard about what it
was the two martial artists were doing.

 Ryouga smirked, an unsual and frightening sight on him. It was rare
that the lost boy was confident enough to smile, especially in a battle
with Ranma. "Well, so you can take care of a normal Shi Shi Hokodan," he
grinned, not a particularly nice grin,it wouldn't have been honourable
to use the ultimate technique on Ranma if he couldn't even managed the
normal hokodan, "Let's see you take this, ULTIMATE SHI SHI HOKODAN!!" He
screamed, as green ki began pouring upward,
coleascing into a giant ball before slamming down onto Ranma, who
watched with wide-eyed shock.

 No sooner had Ranma managed to start getting up again when another wave
of energy slammed into him, and another and another...

 ****

 Urd popped out from television, shocking several students in the
classroom. "Ahh," she said stretching slightly, "travelling like that
always makes me want to stretch."

 Hearing a commotion-which sounded strangely like someone telling Ranma
to die- she walked over to the nearest window. She had seen as Ranma had
refused to fight the stranger*Ranma refusing to fight? What next?*- had
seen as the stranger had used a ki-blast to knock Ranma into the
building.

 As she watched Ranma tell the stranger he didn't want to fight, even
after he had been slammed into the building, she wondered why she had
never seen this side before. The strangely humble one, was this what
captivated her sister? She had seen Ranma practically beg the stranger
not to fight, yet it seemed to her as if he was more frightened of what
would happen to the stranger instead of him.

 As she looked upon him now, he did seem very familiar to her, yet the
memory tickled the back of her mind, it tantalized her yet she couldn't
remember. Setting it off into the corner of her mind, at least if she
couldn't remember, it wouldn't bother her.

 She watched as the stranger performed somre sort of ki-blast, green ki
streaming up from him, forming into a giant green ball before smashing
back into Ranma. Before Ranma had even gotten up, another one smashed
into him, followed by another and another...

 ****

 *You're hopeless, you can't even defeat Ryouga. Look at you, a wimp,
kneeling in front of Ryouga!* He was back in the pit. He could see the
emerald glow of their eyes, yet they held back inflicting him with their
claws, instead taunting him with their voices, sharp hisses, grating on
his sanity.

 *Look at you, failure. You're not worthy. Not fit to be a man. You
deserve to be cursed...* Silently he wept for them to stop, screamed at
them to shut up as he held his hands over his ears.

 *Failure...*

 *No!* Ranma shouted as he began countering his depression with anger
instead, *no!* His voice grew stronger and harder as he went on. *I am
Ranma Saotome! I am no a failure, I will not fear, I am the wild horse.
I will not be broken!!* He screamed out, pouring out all the denial and
rage within him.

 The voices stopped suddenly as they ceased, and if there had been a
mirror in the room, Ranma would have noticed his eyes were glowing
scarlet.

 ****

 Ryouga watched as Ranma got up from the umpteenth Ultimate Shi Shi
Hokodan. *He should have dropped by now! What's keeping him up?* Ryouga
screamed in frustration, what was it that drove Ranma on.

 He watched as Ranma kneeled down, one hand on his knee, slowly lifting
himself up. *Let see if he can take another one,* Ryouga thought as he
yelled, "Ultimate Shi Shi Hokodan!" His ki poured upwards towards the
heavens again, as they collected themself into a giant sphere.

 Then he noticed the eyes, Ranma's eyes. It is said the eyes are the
windows to a man's soul,.but Ranma's eyes seemed to be glazed over, as
if they were looking at something far away yet they possessed a
sharpness that shook Ryouga.

 "Raging..." Ranma began, gazing down as if dejected, as swirls of
energy started collecting around him, spinning slowly.

 *What's he doing?* Ryouga thought, *He won't have enough time before
the blast hits him,*

 "Lion's" The swirls of energy began spinning faster and faster, the
number of swirls increasin until they seemed to be some sort of fancy
fireworks.

 "ROAR!!" Ranma howled to the sky as the green sphere of ki was about to
crash down.

 What happened next can best be described as an explosion of ki, as a
sphere of red ki exploded from Ranma, expanding outwards. This sphere of
ki met the green ball and the two clashed, until finally the green ball
gave way, fragmenting into small wisps of green.

 Ryouga was totally unexpected for this and took the full shock of the
blast, being knocked back several yards.

 *WHAT WAS THAT!!* Ryouga yelled in disbelief as he stared at Ranma.
Ranma who stood uninjured in the big crater, Ranma who stared at him
with eyes that promised pain. He didn't like the unspoken malicious
intent behind his eyes.

 Ranma smiled, not a particularly nice smile more like the one a
predator smiles when it spots its prey. He began advancing, slowly, step
by step towards Ryouga. And that unnerved him, every slow step of
Ranma's spoke louder than words. He wasn't going fight in a fit of
passion, instead now he fought like a machine: Cold, Hard, and
relentless without the slightest trace of emotion.

 Ryouga tried to summon up another Shi Shi Hokodan but somehow it
couldn't come to him, fear and depression did not mix for the young
Hibiki. So he tried to use the only other special technique he knew,
hoping it would at least slow Ranma down as he tried to recover his
breath from the earlier blast.

 "BAKUSAI TEN-KATSU!!" He yelled, poking the concrete ground beneath him
with his index finger. Shards of concrete flew from the shattered
ground, speeding towards Ranma. At the speed they were going, they could
likely slice through flesh.

 He watched in surprise as Ranma didn't make any indication of a block,
until one shrapnel zoom past his head, and a thin line of red appeared
above his eyebrows. When that happened, Ranma simply reacted with
blinding speed, parallel to that of his chestnut fists, using his arms
to deflect the stones, sending them flying everywhere.

 When it was over, Ranma's arms were spotted with scraps and bruises,
where the flying shards had hit him. But he paid it no more mind than he
might have an ant, walking towards Ryouga without the slightest pause,
his arms bleeding slightly from the many small wounds.

 It unnerved Ryouga to say the least. Ranma was bleeding from a dozen or
so wounds yet he didn't pay it any mind, didn't flinch in the slightest,
just kept walking towards him with that same, controlled pace. He
couldn't take this. Yelling out, he plucked a few headbands from the
ever-pleantiful supply on his head, sending them whizzing towards Ranma.

 Ranma waited until the last minute possible before leaping into the
air, high above the spinning headbands, his face still as emotionless as
ever but Ryouga could have sworn he saw the slightest hint of a sneer.

 Ranma held out his hand, palm extended towards Ryouga as a red glow
began building up.

 Ryouga had seen this well in advance and managed to leap clear as the
ki-blast struck the ground where had been. "Is that the best you can
do-Urk!" Ryouga realised too late the ki-blast had been a mere
diversion, as Ranma having leapt up managing to intercept him in the air
before he could block, slamming his knee into Ryouga's gut. Once Ryouga
had lain, hunched over his knee gasping for air, Ranma brought down his
elbow, with a viciousness that shocked the others, onto Ryouga's back.

 "No, this is the best I can do," Ranma smiled without humour, as he
landed with Ryouga still hunched over his knee. It was the first time he
had spoken after the Ultimate Shi Shi Hokodan, but the very tone of his
voice brought chills to Ryouga. It sounded like Ranma, but it didn't
feel like him, instead of the usual arrogance in his voice, this Ranma
sounded to calm, way too calm and icy.

 *How,* Ryouga tried to think, it was hard to do so over the pounding of
blood in his head, *how did Ranma get so strong? He's actually hurting
me with one punch.*

 "P-chan lost his voice?" Ranma taunted, "Don't worry, you won't
suffer...for long." Ranma picked up Ryouga by his clothes, taking care
to handle him distastefully before throwing him into a nearby wall.

 Enough was enough, Akane wasn't going to stand around and let this
happen. Was Ranma trying to kill Ryouga? She knew that the two were
supposed to be enemies but she had never thought that it would become as
serious as this. She turned to warn Shampoo to let go of her, when she
discovered Shampoo had already done so and was now staring at Ranma with
a pale face of shock.

 "Aiyah, Shampoo know this..." Shampoo whispered so softly that Akane
didn't know if Shampoo had wanted her to hear that.

 "You know what?" Akane demanded, not sure if Shampoo had fed him
another love potion gone awry or something, she still didn't trust
Shampoo and the incident with the love pills hadn't helped any.

 Shampoo turned to her, and Akane could see the fierce warrior of the
Amazons was trembling slightly. "Nothing, Shampoo must get Hiba-chan
now!"  She said, before running off towards the direction of the
Neko-hanten.

 Akane stared at the retreating back of Shampoo before turning around in
a huff. If Shampoo was going to be such a coward about facing Ranma, she
wouldn't stop her. At least she assumed that was the reason Shampoo was
afraid.

 "Ranma, stop this right no..." She faltered off as Ranma turned his
head back to regard her, stopping her with such a gaze. In the gaze she
felt herself being stripped to the soul by the being before him. Within
him, she could see no sign of the Ranma she had once know, the usually
kind and brave but honorouble one.

 Ranma turned back towards Ryouga, walking at the same slow,steady pace.

 "Saotome! How dare you leer at Akane with such lust in your eyes!!"
Kuno yelled, charging  at Ranma.

 Without even looking back, Ranma slammed his fist into Kuno's  face,
backhanding the boy into a wall.

 Akane was shocked at seeing this, Ranma had never been so violent in
his entire life before. She stood there, paralyzed with shock as Urd
rushed to the bokken boy to check for signs of life.

 ****

 "Hiba-chan! Come quick, Ranma in trouble!!" Shampoo said, anxiety in
her normally bubbly voice.

 "Why, what happened?" Cologne asked, it had to be something very
important if Shampoo was worried.

 "I think he go berserk!"

 Cologne paled slightly, as she remembered the tale of the last person
who had gone berserk. "Quick take me to him. And tell me how this
happened," she said as she started pogoing out of the shop at as fast a
pace as she could, followed by Shampoo trailing after her.

 ****

 Urd checked out the boy lying crumpled down in front of her. What was
his name again? Ah yes, Kuno. Hastily she checked him for life signs, he
had been hit pretty hard and she was pretty surprised that he had
managed to survive it at all. She could still remember how surprised she
had been to see the Nerima gang fighting, sure she had read it in the
reports but she hadn't believed it at first, thinking it some sort of
error.

 Glancing back at the rest of the martial artists she saw that a small
wrinkled woman had joined them, balancing on a stick. Curious she
decided to join them.

 ****

 "It is just as I feared," Cologne said gravely as she observed Ranma
and Ryouga. Ranma was still walking at his slow rate of walking towards
Ryouga. "Ranma has gone berserk."

 "What? I don't care even if he's gone mad, I'm going to stop this,"
Akane huffed, turning to walk towards Ranma. *Surely he won't hit
me...will he?*

 "No, I wouldn't suggest it child," Cologne said, catching hold of
Akane's arm with one of her small hands. For a small hand, the grip was
surprisingly tight. "In a way, Ranma's worse than mad right now."

 "Ranma-sama! OHOHOHOHOHOHO." The usual laugh of the Black Rose
announced Kodachi, who was standing upon the rooftop looking down at
Ranma with unbridled lust, not the lust of love but the lust of
possession. "Why waste time with that pig when you can spend it with
me," Kodachi said, as she leapt down from the rooftop towards Ranma.

 She never had a chance to reach him. Ranma looked up at her, with a
grimace of disgust flashing across his face briefly. As she reached him,
he just held out one hand, his ki focusing onto one target.

 The ki-blast slammed into Kodachi, knocking her into a wall and
rendering her unconscious.

 "See what I mean?"

 "But...Ranma won't hurt girls," Akane stammered, trying to understand
what was happening.

 " Sigh, I keep telling you that's not Ranma. He's now berserk," Cologne
paused for a moment before carrying on, " People go berserk when they
can no longer keep their anger within them, in a sense their anger
posesses them and they usually go berserk for a purpose, once they
finish that purpose they would probably die since the process of keeping
berserk is very exhuasting. In the history of the Amazons we have only
fought with one person who had gone berserk before, and that was 500
years ago before I was born but I was told the tale by my parents. And
that person took down half of our village before being stopped. When
people go berserk, they don't care anymore, they don't feel pain or
exhuastion and you can't stop them unless you kill them."

 "What! You have got to be kidding right?" Ukyou said in disbelief. Kill
Ranma? That thought was unheard of, and if one berserk person was able
to take down half a village of Amazons, how were they going to stop him?

 "Yeah, isn't there any other way?"

 "Well, there is one other way. If we can find someone to shock him out
of it, or maybe someone who has never ever angered him before, they
would be safe from him I believe."

 The memories exploded within Urd as long forgotten details drifted out
from the closet they had been kept in. "You"re Amazons!" She spat out as
if it were the vilest curse she knew of.

 "Why yes we are," Cologne said, regarding Urd with a curious look.
*Hmm, this must be the Urd Shampoo told me about." Continuing she said,
"And proud to be it too."

 "Why I ought to!" Urd snarled, a dark aura gathering around her. "If it
wasn't forbidden to use my powers against mortals, you'd be less than
dust now!"

 " Do I know you?" Cologne didn't know who this 'Urd' thought she was
but if she turned out to be a potential threat to the tribe, she would
have to be eliminated.

 "No, you don't! But I know your kind well enough!! And if I have my
way, Shampoo is never going to marry Ranma!"

 "Who's going to stop her?" Cologne definitely didn't like Urd now.

 "Uhh...back to the subject of Ranma?"

 Urd snapped out of her conversation with the wizened matriach of the
Amazons. "I'll get Belldandy," she said with unseemingly urgency.
*Please, don't let this turn out like the last time,* she thought as she
ran off.

 "Well if this Belldandy can shock Ranma out of it, it's best we
distract Ranma before he kills Ryouga," Cologne said wisely.

 "Wait a minute, I thought you said that it was impossible to stop a
berserk person without killing them," Ukyou asked.

 " But now that we have someone who may be able to shock Ranma out of
his state now, we must try and distract him enough to prevent him
killing Ryouga."

 "Fine, but no hurting Ranchan," Ukyou said adamantly.

 ****

 "Ranchan sorry about this!" was all the warning Ranma had before a
giant spatula swept him into a wall and away from his present target.

 He got up only to find himself surrounded in a circle by other figures.

 "Remember, he's not the Ranma you knew! Don't hesitate to hold back
from him."

 He smiled, recognising that voice. He watched as the people all around
him started getting into battle stances, their battle auras flickering
slightly. He smiled, something a mix between a sneer and a smile. He got
his own battle aura ready, aching to get back into the dance even as a
part of him begged him not to hurt them.

 ****

 Ranma stood warily, waiting for them to approach first but they didn't
and so the two sides stared at each other.

 Cologne surveryed the damage, Shampoo lay to one side having been
knocked out earlier while Akane crouched, holding what could possibly be
a fractured rib. It seemed like only her and Ukyou were in the battle
now. But the two of them against a berserk Ranma wasn't going to be
enough. Even now she felt like panting, it was the hardest battle she
had ever been in even for her three hundred years of experience.
Everytime one of them hit Ranma, he would simply get up and shrug it
off.

 "Ukyou we need to do something."

 "I know that!"

 "Good, you distract him. Throw those mini-spatulas of yours at him and
when he jumps to avoid them, I'll tap his paralyzation spot." She had
tried this earlier, except then Ranma had been to fast for her, knocking
Ranma out. "And don't try and hold back because if he thinks they're not
worth dodging, chances are he probably won't fall for the trick."

 "You sure?" Ukyou swallowed, it was one of the hardest things she would
have to do now. Grasping five mini-spatulas in her hand, she threw them
with all the force she could muster.

  He chuckled inwardly as he saw through their foolish ploy, he prepared
to dodge. "Ranma!" That voice penetrated the foggy mists of his head.
Turning to see Belldandy with Urd close behind running to him, all
thoughts momentarily forgotten.

 "Ranma!!" Ukyou cried out with anguish, trying to recall her
mini-spatulas with pure will. He wasn't dodging, they were going to hit
him!! *No!!* She screamed silently yet unable to stop anything.

 Ranma managed to turn around, remembering the spatulas too late as they
thunked into him. One embedded itself into his chest, one inch of it
within him while the others stuck onto his legs and arms.
 He opened his mouth to speak but no words came out, instead blood
started gushing out-more from the effect of going berserk than the
spatulas jutting out from him- ,at first flowing at a trickle then
flowing faster. He turned to look in disbelief at the spatula sticking
out of his chest before falling to the ground in a heap, blood staining
the ground.

 The last thing he could remember as darkness overtook was of someone
running to him, crying his name out frantically.

 ****

 Ranma awoke in a strange place. *Am I in heaven?" he wondered, the last
thing he could remember was seeing spatulas sticking into him even as
hot coppery liquid flooded his mouth before blacking out.

 "Oh good you're awake,your fiancee stayed here for quite a long time
until we finally persuaded her to go back and that we would call her if
anything happened. You're really lucky to have someone like her," a man
dressed in a white overcoat said. *Probably a doctor,* Ranma thought,
not really paying attention to what he said, *That means I'm not dead,
I'm in the hospital.*

 "You lost a lot of blood, more than your friend over there." He pointed
towards another bed, and Ranma saw to his shock that Ryouga occupied it.
Ryouga was severely injured, with mass bruises adorning him, but even as
he watched they seemed to be healing.

 "Don't worry for him, we've sent for the type of blood he needs. He has
a very rare blood type, the same as yours in fact."

 "Then take mine," Ranma said.

 "But you need to rest and recuperate. You're in no condition to donate
blood!"

 Ranma held up his right palm, concentrating slightly even as a red glow
washed over it. It was harder to concentrate on his ki with him being
injured. "Take it doctor or I'll make you," Ranma threatened in a soft
voice.

 ****

 Ryouga awoke in a strange place, but there was nothing new to that. He
was usually waking up in strange places.

 "You're up," a female nurse greeted him.

 "Urgh," Ryouga grunted, his back and front hurt, "How did I get here?"

 " Your friends brought you here along with another friend of yours,"
the nurse smiled, pointing towards Ranma.

 "He's no friend of mine!"

 "Really?" The nurse appeared geniuinely shocked. "But from the way he
insisted on donating blood to you even if he was about to collapse from
exhuastion again I thought you two were close friends."

 "He donated blood to me? So what! He made my life a living hell."

 " True but he almost died from lack of blood after giving you his. Well
not really died but he was pretty close to it."

 "He did?" Ryouga's features softened.

 "Oh I'm sorry, this must be somethine personal between you and your
friend. Well I gotta get checking on the other patients.

 Ryouga waited until the nurse was gone before walking up to Ranma's
bed, plopping himself down on the chair beside it as he looked at
Ranma's pale face.

 "Ranma," He whispered, not really knowing what meant with that one
single word. He sat down and stared at Ranma.

 The end

Authors note:  Yes another chapter done! And still lots more to go. This
chapter was done pretty quickly, and that leaves more time for my other
fics. Again thanks to my pre-readers.

Sining
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