Ranma, Sake, and the FFML
by Jason McClaskey

*****

  The house was quiet.

  This alone tipped her off that something was wrong.  Usually, someone,
anyone, was home, and more often than not, attracting some form of noise.
That her home was now silent as she approached was not good.

  As she stepped into the engawa, something clinked onto the steps,
causing her to jump back, ready to defend herself.  Seeing that it was
just an empty bottle, she picked it up.

  "Hmm...  Sake?  But I had thought dad and-"  Seized with suspicion,
she ran inside, into the main room.  The sight that met her was most
certainly not expected.

  A young man, nearly passed out on the floor, gazes through dim eyes
to her.  "Mmm... uh, what?"

  Feeling deep twinges of anger rising to replace her earlier fears,
manifested themselves before her, in the form of the bottle in her
hand shattering.  "Grr, how dare you get drunk!  Making me worry
like that!"

  The black-haired young man attempts to sit up, and almost succeeds.
"N-n-no, ish not luk that, A..akun... um."  He looks up at the ceiling,
almost falling back down.  Three seconds later, his head is cleared,
due mostly to his falling into the koi pond out front.

  A red-haired female jumps back up, sans shirt.  "What'd you do that
for, you kawaiikunai tomboy?!"  The other girl walks out, while tying
a bandage around her hand.  "You got drunk, baka!  How could you do
something like that?"  The sodden girl pulls out of the small pond,
and remembers something dimly.

  "It was this thing on your computer, Akane.  The FFML or sumthin."
Feeling more anger rising in her, but wanting to hear the rest of
this, the other girl slowly curls her fists around a rather large
mallet.  "Y-you broke into my room, too?!  You pervert!"

  Falling back, the redhead tries quickly to explain.  "No, it's-
it's not like that!  There was something about a game on there,
and-"  Further explanations are cut off by his- er, _her_ being
flattened into the ground by the large mallet.

  "Hmph.  Pervert."  Dusting off her hands (minding the bloodly
bandages), Akane walks back into the house.  Stopping at the
stairs, she thinks to herself 'then again...  everyone's gone
for the week.'

******

  Author's notes:  Seeing the semi-spam about drinking games, I
decided to write a small thing about if Ranma, all alone for
awhile, happened to see it.  Of course, him getting drunk is
totally OOC, but I don't care.  Comments, criticism, demands that
I never post anything like this again are all welcome.

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Jason McClaskey
RyoSoft
af776@acorn.net
'Upon the sea eternal doth time float forever...'