A Moment's Rage

By: Lord Archive

This is dark and sad.

Characters are owned by Rumiko Takahashi, Viz Video, etc..., and are 
used without permission. I'm only borrowing them. I'll return them. 
(I wonder if they'll notice if I kept Yuka.)

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It was a somewhat peaceful meal time at the Tendo home. It was largely 
peaceful do to the presence of a guest, Ryoga. Ranma had already fought 
him, Kuno, and Akane a couple times today and didn't want to add any 
more injuries to his body, so he kept quiet.

Peace being such a rare thing, it had set Akane slightly on edge. She 
waited for whatever snide comment Ranma was bound to make to either her 
or Ryoga. She wished she knew why if he couldn't say anything bad, he 
didn't say anything at all.

Akane sighed as she went to refill her plate. She accidentally knocked 
over another dish, which Ryoga immediately reacted to try and help her. 
This unfortunately caused Ryoga to knock over a glass of water unto 
himself... 

Instant P-Chan right in front of Akane.

Kasumi gasped, "Oh, my!"

Soun tried to ignore that it happened.

Nabiki grinned evilly.

Genma stole Ryoga's food.

Nodoka glared at Ryoga, wishing she had her katana right now.

Ranma edged away from Akane.

Akane stared in shock at Ryoga. "P-Chan... is... Ryoga?!" she said in 
disbelief. Images flashed through her mind of when she was with P-Chan. 
P-Chan seeing her undressed, rubbing against her chest, sleeping in her 
bed, telling him most of her secrets, and attacking Ranma that now 
seemed to be for no reason. "RYOGA! SHIIIIIIIINEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

Akane produced a massive chi aura and launched a punch straight down 
towards P-Chan's back.

If Ryoga hadn't been frozen in fear and shock, he might have dodged. He 
didn't. If the love of his life wasn't the one who called for his death, 
he would have wished bakusai tenketsu translated over into his pig-form. 
It doesn't and he didn't.

Akane slammed down on the back of her friend / pet pig with all her 
weight along with the augmentation of her chi aura that would've sent 
him into LEO if the blow had been skyward. All that force was directed 
downwards into the unforgiving ground.

The result of the punch caused P-Chan to explode like an over-ripe 
tomato. Everyone stared in horror as Akane and almost everything in the 
room was covered in pig guts.

A coldness swept through Akane as she looked down at the remnants of her 
pet pig. "What have I done?" she whispered.

No one moved for minutes, even as pig blood and intestines started to 
dry on them. 

Ranma broke the silence. "Akane?"

Akane turned and looked at him, and did something they didn't expected 
her to do. She hugged onto him for dear life. "R-R-R-Ranma I-I-I-I 
killed him. I killed P-Chan. I killed Ryoga. I'mamureder!" Akane cried 
into Ranma shoulder.

Ranma didn't know what to do, so he tentatively hugged her back. 
"Everything will be all right," he whispered to her. 

Akane looked up from Ranma's shoulder and saw her gore covered hand. She 
threw up and fainted.

Ranma held Akane's limp form in his arms for a moment before Nodoka 
said, "Ranma, um, why don't you start... handling the remains of Ryoga. 
Kasumi, help me clean Akane and put her to bed."

Ranma and Kasumi could only nod.

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Akane start to wake up, she could remember her dream vividly. TOO 
vividly. She didn't want to believe it was true. It couldn't be true. 

Akane almost screamed when she opened her eyes and saw Kasumi sitting 
next to her bed, worry etched to her elder sister's face. Looking 
towards the door, she saw Nabiki who also looked worried.

 
Akane shut her eyes tightly. She did not want them to tell her dream 
wasn't a dream.

"Akane? Are you okay?" Kasumi's voice shook with concern.

Nabiki rolled her eyes. 

"Please. Dream. Let it be only a dream," Akane mumbled almost 
incoherently.

"I'm sorry Akane, it wasn't a dream," Kasumi said. 

"I-I killed P-Chan? I killed Ryoga?" She cried.

"I'm afraid so."

"As far as I'm concerned, Sis. He deserved what he got," Nabiki said 
coldly.

"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?!" Akane screamed. "No one deserves to die. No 
one. I'm a murderer. I killed my friend."

"Akane! Stop that!" Nabiki snapped. "Ryoga has been moonlighting as your 
pet for over a year now. How many times has he seen you naked? How many 
times has Ryoga rubbed against your chest?! How many times has he 
deliberately caused a fight between you and Ranma?! How much pain and 
agony has he caused you because he couldn't stand you being in love with 
Ranma?!"

Akane curled up into a ball. "He didn't deserve to die. I killed my 
friend. I killed my pet." Her mind went over all the incidents Nabiki 
had stated Ryoga as doing wrong to her... and she lost count. She played 
over the times she hit Ranma because of Ryoga and it was almost always 
Ryoga that started it. She played over her mind of all the times she 
acted violently towards Ranma... and saw the sheer amount of times she 
hit him and it wasn't his fault. She saw how close she came to causing
permanently injury or even killing Ranma.

Akane's entire being shook. She thought she might be in love with Ranma 
and she had been beating him because of what others did. She couldn't 
take her thoughts anymore, she let out a shriek that'd make a banshee 
cringe and collapsed into unconscious.

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Akane wearily opened her eyes and saw Ranma sitting at her desk, 
watching her. She cursed knowing that what she wanted to be a dream, 
wasn't. It was a nightmare and she was living it. "R-Ranma?"

"Akane... um, how are you feeling?" Ranma asked.

The look of concern hurt Akane. She had caused him so much pain, and he 
was worried about her. "Ranma, go away."

"I'm not going to leave you."

"Damn it you... Ranma, just leave me alone. I don't want to hurt you 
anymore. I don't want to risk killing you too."

"You're not going to kill me..."

"No Ranma! Leave me! I call off our engagement. Go marry Ukyou. Marry 
Shampoo if you want. Just leave me," Akane cried.

"I am not going to leave you because of this! This is my fault! If I had 
told you about Ryoga a long time ago this wouldn't have happened! I 
should have cared about your honor above my own honor and my pride. 
I didn't and you found out about P-Chan and killed him because of it."

"This is about Ryoga or his curse! It's about me! I get angry far too 
easily. How many times have I hit you when you weren't at fault. W-what 
if it wasn't Ryoga I killed... but you. Ryoga is bad enough, but you... 
I couldn't live with myself if I killed you... Ranma, I-I l-l-l... 
please leave me. Please."

"I won't leave you. Got that you macho, uncute chic, I am never going to 
leave you."

"Damn it you baka. Get out of my life!" Akane screamed, throwing a punch 
at Ranma. She stopped shy of hitting him. She looked at her hand dumbly. 
Akane then hugged Ranma, starting to cry again. "Ranma, why won't you 
leave me? I don't deserve you. Especially not now."

Ranma hugged Akane, whispering back, "You've got it wrong. I don't 
deserve you."


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This is as far as I've got planned on this, but it leaves a lot opened.

How does Akane cope with killing Ryoga?
How do the others handle that the secret they kept led to Ryoga's death?
How does Ukyou and those that didn't know react to Ryoga's death?
How will Akari take Ryoga's death at the hands of one of her friends?


A single moment can cause a life time of regret.

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