Hihi.. 
Well.. since no one is complaining about 'Sibling Rivalry', I suppose 
I'm doing something right.  Then again.. no one's complimented 
either.. details details.
So I wrote this little shortfic while going through a mood-swing 
myself.  Hope you enjoy.
I'd really love some C&C.. otherwise I'll still be spitting out fanfic 
such as these. :)

Characters of Ranma 1/2 are the creation of the mastermind Rumiko 
Takahashi!  We are not worthy of her greatness.  They've been used 
without permision, and are being used for solely entertainment 
purposes only. I nothing to offer.. this computer's not even mine! 
Enjoy!

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The Mountain
By LizMUN


	Oh, how I wish I could just kill him! That honorless bastard! 
 Does he get a rush into tormenting me?  Am I to be used as his 
sadistical plaything? Why does he toy with my emotions?  Is it perhaps 
he has none of his own?  I don't doubt that in the very least.  The 
way he treats everyone around him.  Arrogant, pompus jerk!  No one 
deserves to be treated as such! Not him, not her.  
	Her.  Akane Tendo.  A name that implies the heavens to bleed. 
 But not that the blood of death and war, but the blood of tears.  
Tears from Angels, who are agonizing their loss, knowing that they 
have lost one  of them within us mortals.  
	Gods! That line was just horrible.  Sounded like something one 
would use in a bar if they were deadly desperate.  I have to be more 
careful what I pick up from my travels. 
	Trees, trees, and some more damn trees.  I haven't seen a 
trace of civilization for a day.  The only thing that I see that is 
even remotly familiar, is that stupid mountain.  Everywhere I look, 
there it is, mocking me.  It knows I'm lost.  It knows I've probably 
gone around in circles.  It probably knows the way back to Nerima, yet 
it just sits there, laughing at my misfortune.  Perhaps a few Bakusai 
Ten-ketsu will teach it not to make fun of other people's agony.  
Reduce it to lowly gravel.  Gravel I can easily step over. I'd do it. 
 How easily it would be to bring that mountain to it's knees. Did a 
mountain have knees? 
	It's not that I can't.. I just won't.  I can see little huts 
up on that mountain.  A small village by the likes of it.  If he 
brought down that mountain, where would that leave them?  They could 
go on and live somewhere else, can't they?  They can find other 
mountains.  What was so damn special about that mountain?  I see 
nothing but a large, pile of rocks, okay, there are a couple trees 
scattered here and there, but it's still mostly rock.  You can't farm 
on a mountain, nor grow any livestock.  It's just a big waste of 
space.  He'd be doing the villagers a favor.  Clear the land for other 
things. They can be able to live better lives.
	It's not like there was anything in the mountain.  Is there? 
Could there be something that they find valuable inside?  Something 
that one can't find out in the surface? So thats what those villagers 
must do for a living, mine.  A village of Minners, that's what they 
were, and if I were to destroy that mountain, I would ruin their 
lives.  It just wasn't fair.  Why did people have to be on that 
mountain.  Damn it! Damn that Mountain! 
	The sun's setting.  I better break camp for today.  Being in 
nature does have it's advantages.  The sweet, clean air, the calming 
sounds.  The scenery.  Except for that damn mountain, It can just go 
to hell.  The sunsets.  Like how the Sun drowning itself into the sea, 
disapearing into a blanket of fog, or even to hide itself behind a 
mountain, like it's doing now. Damn.  Even the Sun itself seems to 
favor that mountain.  Why not set within the thick folage of trees 
beside it? Why does everyone favor that mountain!? Very well. May as 
well enjoy it.  Soon It'll be dark, and I wouldn't have to look at 
that blasted mountain any longer.  I wonder if Akane's looking at the 
same sunset right now.  I wish she was here with me, then I wouldn't 
care less if that mountain sprouted wings and pulled an eyelid down at 
me.  It's a beautiful sunset.  It actually makes that mountain seem 
not so cruel and sharp as earlier, but actually strong and magestic.  
Different from other mountains. I wonder why I never noticed it 
before.  Perhaps... yeah.. perhaps I'll let the mountain be. It is 
just a mountain after all. Nothing more.

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