Dare

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As the rain beat down upon the roof, the couple sat watching television, 
both rather engrossed in
the show.  With the pattern of raindrops increasing in tempo, a loud 
crash of thunder was heard,
followed by the sudden loss of power in the house.  This left the two 
continued staring blankly at
the dead set while rain continued to pound.
"Aw, I was just starting to like that, too," the young man said in the 
darkness.
"Ranma," Akane said with a bit of humor in her voice, "I never would 
have thought that you, of
all people, would be interested in a shouji show."
"Well, if you watch anything long enough, you can't help but be 
interested in what's gonna
happen next," he replied.
"Oh, so you wouldn't watch something like that on a regular basis, 
then?"
"Of couse not."
"Then you wouldn't happen to know what happened to that Maison Ikkoku 
video I had, would
you?" She said sweetly, grinning at his suddenly red face.
"O-of c-course not, w-why would I know ab-bout that?" he stammered, 
looking anywhere but at
face.
Akane just sat there and laughed at his embaressment while his color got 
deeper before saying,
"It's alright if you want to watch it sometime, just ask next time, 
okay?"
"But I didn't!"
"Oh? Then what is this, then?" she said, waving the tape in front of his 
face.
"Umm, I found it?"
"Playing in the VCR with you in front of it yesterday afternoon."
"But..but.. you were at your friends house! And everyone else was at the 
beach!"
"We decided to go join them, and I saw you as I was getting my suit. I 
would have invited you,
but you looked busy at the moment." 'Actually, he had looked kind of 
cute...'
"Let's do something else, now that the power's out," Ranma said, trying 
to change the subject.
'Now there's an idea..' "Truth or dare?" 'This can be fun.'
"Truth." She can't come up with anything *that* bad.
"Who was the first person you kissed?" Hah!
Then again..."Umm..Dare?"
At that Akane got a glint in her eye that would have looked normal on 
Nabiki ready to extort
Kuno."Kiss me!"
When Ranma peeled his face out of the carpet, he saw the look still on 
her face.  Gulping, he
started to lean forward, then darted in and gave her a quick peck on the 
cheek before flinching
back, expecting the mallet.  Instead, he got an upset look.
"Not like that, I meant like *this*!" she said, before jumping on him 
and giving him a full-fledged
liplock.  He fell to the floor in shock, holding a giggling Akane in his 
arms.
"That was fun, now it's my turn!"
Shaking off the stupor, he looked at her an gave a small smile.
If that's the way you want to play....


The rest of the family returned from the movie they had gone to see, 
only to find Ranma and
Akane curled up on the couch together, fast asleep.  After the first 
excitement, involving tears,
signs, and two rolls of film, they drifted off to bed, leaving the two 
alone in the family room.
When the house was silent once more (excepting loud snores from the 
guest room), the two
opened their eyes and laughed softly before kissing and snuggling down 
to sleep.
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Well. Umm. I don't know what to say about this, except that it's the 
result of 36 hours without
sleep and a six-pack of dr. pepper, after reading all sorts of WAFFy 
fanfics that I can't really
remember clearly. I know Akane is *way* OOC, but that's just the way it 
came out. This the first
thing I've ever written that had nothing to do with school, so critiques 
would be welcome, as well
as C&C, praise and flames.

Azhrael
azhrael@hotmail.com

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