A Ranma ½ 'One-Shot' Fanfic Nightmares and Future Dreams 2 by Kris Thompson This is a work of fiction based on Rumiko Takahashi's 'Ranma Nibun no Ichi' a.k.a. Ranma ½ and was created for the author's personal enjoyment. Ranma sat in the living room that night, the moving pictures from the television bathing the room in its garish light. But this went unnoticed by Ranma, who sat thinking into the silent hours of the night. His thoughts had turned, once more and for what seemed like the thousandth time that day, back to the night before. His dream, that awful dream... but his thoughts were focused more on when he had come down stairs. Actually, more on *who* had been down stairs. 'Why was she so... *nice*?' Ranma thought to himself. 'Not that I didn't mind... I could kinda get used ta that.' He had remembered everything perfectly, storing it in his mind forever. He remembered the way her heartbeat had felt, almost failing to notice as it seemed to speed up after a second or two when he held her. He recalled the way that her robe had smelled; like her, of course. He remembered every little thing that she had done before he had fallen asleep against her. Ranma sighed. Why was he thinking this stuff about that *tomboy*? Was he insane? It's not like he actually li- "Ranma?" Ranma's eyes flew open to see Akane standing in the doorway, her bathrobe clutched around her body. "I-I..." His face grew into concern. "What happened Akane?" She sniffled and as she moved closer, Ranma could tell by the puffiness of her eyes that she had been crying. "I had a bad dream." She sat down next to him on the sofa and continued to sniffle as she leaned against his side. He automatically tensed up, not knowing what to do. Was this some kind of trick she was playing? Some trick that she would mallet him for later? "Do-do y-you wanna t-talk about i-it?" Ranma managed to stutter out. She shook her head 'no'. "I just want to sit here for a while. Is that okay?" she asked meekly. "S-sure!" he said, his tone making him sound all too eager. Akane sighed a heavy sigh and snuggled closer to Ranma, making him more tense than before. "Ranma," Akane asked sleepily, "why don't you just relax?" "W-what are you talking about, A-Akane?" "You're too uptight, ya'know? Need to... relax..." And with that, Akane fell asleep against him, a small smile on her lips. Ranma turned off the television with the remote control and turned his head to look down on his sleeping fiancee. He could see her face as the moonlight from outside cast a beam of pale light on her visage. It was always the moments like this one that made him seriously ask himself why he had ever called her an uncute tomboy. "Maybe," his thoughts came as a whisper, "it's because I think I love you." The End Author's Notes WAH! Okay, I love that last part. The reason this fic was written was for the fans who wrote me to tell me that I needed a sequel to the first fic, which was originally supposed to be a 'one-shot', "Nightmares and Future Dreams". So, after reading some of the reviews from Fanfiction.Net, I decided to go ahead and complete a second story to go along with the first. I hope that everyone who liked the first one, likes this one. Well that's all I have for now. Byes! Signin' off! Krissy cartoonpaperclips@email.com www.geocities.com/kuroi_hoshi