Ranma ½ is property of Rumiko Takahashi, who has nothing to gain by suing me, ‘cause frankly I have nothing of real value. I Meant To Do That is property of Paul Brandt and his co-writer or writers, I do not mean to insult him by using this for the simple reason being that I’m from the same city as him.

Ranma knocked on Akanes door hoping that she would open it. As he waited he thought about what had happened between the two of them earlier in the day.

Akane had received a bouquet of flowers that didn’t have a card on it, for some reason which Ranma couldn’t explain Akane had thought that he had sent the flowers to her. When in reality they had come from Kuno, when Akane found out she was heart broken or so it appeared, she immediately ran up to her room shut the door and locked herself in.

Ranma tried desperately all day to find a way to make things up to Akane and not just the flowers but all the things that had happened between them over the past little while. Now he knew what he had to do for her and it wasn’t going to be easy but he would do it.

"Akane, open the door I wanna talk to you."

"Go away Ranma."

"Please, Akane."

Akane opened the door to look at Ranma and was surprised to see that he was wearing his Tuxedo.

"Ranma, what’s going on? Why are you dressed like that?"

"You’ll see, come on outside I have something I want to show you."

"This better not be a surprise wedding from our parents."

Ranma looked Akane in the eyes and gave her a warm smile.

"Don’t worry Akane, nobody’s here but us. Now come on, you’ll like this."

Ranma reached his hand out to Akane, which she reluctantly took. As Ranma led her outside Akane couldn’t help but think about how weird this was to her. Ranma was dressed up, holding her hand, and acting kind to her, not his typical behavior.

As they neared the pond Ranma stopped and let go of Akane’s hand, reaching in to his pocket he pulled out a scarf and carefully tied it around her eyes.

"Ranma, what are you doing?"

"I want this to be a surprise, trust me Akane, please."

"Um…all right."

Ranma picked up Akane’s hand and led the rest of the way the to pond. When the reached it Ranma sat Akane down on what she thought was a rock.

"Can I take the blindfold off yet?"

"Not yet."

"Why not?"

"Because. Okay now you can take it off."

Akane reached up and untied the blindfold letting it drop to the ground. When it was off Akane gasped at what she saw.

She was sitting under a full moon by the pond, at a candlelit table for two. In front of her sat a box containing a single red rose, and beside her stood Ranma in his tux holding a guitar.

"Ranma, What are you doing?"

"Shhh! I have something for you."

"What?"

"You’ll see."

As Akane continued to stare at Ranma he slowly started to play a song on the guitar.

"A rose in a box, wrapped up in dreams
A card that explains how much your love means
A table for two with soft candlelight
The words "I love you," somewhere in the night"

Akane stared at Ranma in amazement, he was singing, not only that but he was singing to her.

"I meant to do that
Does that mean a thing
If you wanted songs
Then I meant to sing
I’d give you the world
If you’d give mine back
What I didn’t do
I meant to do that"

Why was he doing this? Was it to make up for today?

As Ranma continued to sing Akane unconsciously picked the rose up out of the box and brought it to her nose.

"I meant to do that
Does that mean a thing
If you wanted songs
Then I meant to sing
I’d give you the world
If you’d give mine back
What I didn’t do
I meant to do that"

Ranma continued to sing giving Akane a warm loving smile as he did.

"Hold onto the love you gave until the end of time
And love you more everyday, until you know that"

Akane felt the tears starting to roll down her checks, knowing that Ranma meant what he was signing.

"I meant to do that
Does that mean a thing
If you wanted songs
Then I meant to sing
I’d give you the world
If you’d give you mine back
What I didn’t do
I meant to do that"

Ranma gazed in to Akanes and saw the tears and the love in them.

"What I didn’t do
I meant to do that"

Ranma finished playing and set his guitar down against a rock and moved over to kneel beside Akane. When he got there he reached a hand up to her cheek to wipe away the tears.

"Akane, I’m sorry. Not just about today but about everything. I never meant to hurt you, you know that, don’t you?"

"Ranma, thank you that meant a lot to me to hear you say that."

Both of them looked into each other’s eyes and noticed the sincerity that was there. Without thinking about it Ranma wrapped his arms around Akane in a hug that was returned that by her. They stayed like that for a few minutes and then broke apart and held each other’s hands in the moonlight.

~FIN~