True Loves Kiss part 3.

A Ranma ½ fanfic by Crikit

Akane awoke in the dim light of morning. As she sat up in bed the thoughts of the previous day returned to her in a flash of memories. Ranma her Ranma, the one who had finally confessed his love and asked for her hand in marriage was no more. He might look the same, he might sound the same but he had no memories of any of their time together. There were no memories of the constant fighting, or of the numerous times that he had risked his life for hers. All that had been taken away by a cruel twist of fate.

‘Happosai knew what he was doing, he knew what would happen and what Ranma would do to stop it.’ Akane thought as she made her way over to the door to go and join her family. Stopping in front of the mirror Akane looked at her reflection and let a small smile trace across her features, after all it wasn’t everyday that she looked how she felt.

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Ranma inhaled the aroma of the food that Kasumi had prepared for his breakfast and got ready to eat. It had been a confusing night for him, and he was happy that at least breakfast couldn’t throw him for a loop. A sudden sound behind the door stopped him from raising the first morsel of food to his mouth.

The door slowly slid open and the girl from the night before –the one his father had called Akane- stepped through and tentatively looked around the room. Ranma watched with interest and a faint smile etched on his face.

"Good morning."

Nabiki stood impatiently tapping her foot in the foyer of the Kuno mansion. The two Kuno siblings were running a big risk making her wait so long especially considering the mood that she was currently in.

"Master Kuno will see you now."

"Took him long enough." Nabiki grumbled as she walked past Sasuke.

Striding down the hallway Nabiki worked out the speech that she was going to give to Kuno and Kodachi, she was going to make them an offer that they couldn’t refuse. Well they could refuse it but it would be a very foolish thing to do.

Throwing the door open Nabiki confidently walked in to the room only to be confronted with the sight of Kuno calmly eating their breakfast.

"Ah fair Nabiki, won’t thou sit down and partake of this fine meal with us?" Kuno asked indicating a chair with an extra place setting at it.

"I don’t eat and do business at the same time." Nabiki paused and looked around the room, half expecting an ambush from behind, "Where’s your sister?"

. "My dear sister was required to attend a competition today, so regrettably she will not be able to join us today." Kuno said as he wiped his mouth and pushed his chair out from the table, "This way please."

Nabiki silently followed Kuno down the hall, silently cursing the boy as she did. "If you think parading me past your wealth is going to impress me you have another thing coming Kuno."

"That is not my intention, I merely thought that it would be appropriate to discuss matters of business in a place where we could both be comfortable." Kuno replied as he stopped in front of two oak doors, "Ah here we are."

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Akane paused at the sound of Ranma’s voice. Slowly she turned her gaze from the wall to face her one time fiancee. "Hi." She quietly whispered in reply.

"Uh did you sleep well?"

Shrugging Akane sank to the ground in the spot opposite of Ranma, "as good as can be expected…what about you?"

"About the same, I guess when I forgot everything I forgot how bad pop can snore…let me tell you I certainly remembered last night."

Akane let a small giggle escape and then looked around the table, "Where is everyone?"

"They all had places to go, but here Kasumi left you this." Ranma set his chopsticks down on the table and reached down to his pants pocket to take out a small note that Kasumi had left for Akane, after setting it down on the table he promptly proceeded to go back to eating.

Unfolding the note Akane began to read:

‘Akane,

Sorry that any of us couldn’t be here when you woke up but we thought that it would be best to get things done earlier in the day then have to worry about it later on. Father and Uncle Saotome have gone on a training trip they said they should be back some time next week. Nabiki said that she had some business to look after and I had to go and get some food for tonight. I should be back at least in time for lunch, if I’m not you should take Ranma over to Ukyo’s I’m sure she would be happy to see the both of you. I’ll be home as soon as I can.

Kasumi’

Sighing Akane folded the note up and shook her head, "Well it looks like it’s just the two of us for a little while."

"Yup."

"Ranma, about last night."

"Don’t worry about it, your dad and pop explained everything to me."

Akane heaved a sigh of relief at hearing that, she just didn’t know how she was going to explain how she acted last night to Ranma without completely freaking him out. "Oh, that’s good."

"Akane? I was wondering, well…" Ranma paused and reached a hand up to rub the back of his head. "Do you think maybe, it would be okay if I took a bath?"