Hitotsu no Yoru One Night A fanfiction based on Ranma ½ 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. -------------- -------------- Akane lay in her bed. Her mind was *still* swimming with thoughts and emotions. Just yesterday, she and Ranma had admitted their feelings to one another and then today, out of the blue, their fathers had forced them into yet another wedding. But this one had succeded. Akane hadn't known whether to be happy or sad. It was all *too* fast for her to even think. Now here she was on her wedding night, her *wedding night* of all things and all her thoughts left her with was one over all emotion: fear. She was, after all, only eighteen. She had no idea of what she was supposed to do on a wedding night. Well, okay she had *some* clue, but she didn't know how to go about it. For kami-sama's sake, she and Ranma had only *yesterday* told each other how they felt! She shivered involuntarily and pulled her covers around her tighter. Her whole family had let her and Ranma have the run of the house for a week. She closed her eyes as a tear ran down her face. This wasn't how it was supposed to happen... ~*~ Ranma stood at the counter of the sink and looked past the mirror. He could hardly take in everything that had happened in the last thirty-six hours. First he and Akane *finally* told each other that they *did* love each other, then, the next thing he knew, they were married! Not that he was upset at being married to Akane... it was just that, he had it all planned out differently. He shook his head. He stepped out of the bathroom and walked down the hall and stopped in front of Akane's door. Next to the painted duck that read in romanji 'AKANE', there was a post-it note that read '& RANMA' in Nabiki's neat handwriting. He mentally glowered at Nabiki before knocking. "Come in." came a soft voice. Ranma swallowed before entering her-er... *their* room. "Akane?" "Yes," came her voice from the bed. "You, um, readytogotobed?" he asked in a nervous rush. "Uh, yeah, I guess." came her nervous voice. He took his time walking over to the bed and sat on the edge. "You tired?" Akane looked over at him, her hair slightly tousled. "Sure." " 'Kay." he replied as he pulled the covers back and lay on one side to attempt to be as far away from her as possible... not that he wanted to be, but it was the principle of the thing. "Can you turn the light out? I can't really reach it." Akane said. "Uh, sure." Ranma reached over and pulled the cord and the light went out, leaving them alone in the darkness. They lay like that for what seemed forever, each at least a foot from one another, both afraid of what to do. "Hey, Akane, you awake?" "Yes?" "Akane, um, can I ask you something?" She turned to look at him. "I guess." He took a deep breath. "I know that we're both not really ready to be married to each other and all, but, um, can I, uh, that is to say... can I hold you?" he asked timidly. Akane's heart stopped. It was such a sweet request, even sweeter coming from Ranma. It took her a moment to finally speak. "Y-y-yes..." "Are you sure?" he asked. "Yeah." she smiled. Now it was turn for Ranma's heart to stop. Gently, he wrapped his arms around her waist and held her at a distance. Akane pulled his arms around her tighter and breathed in a sigh of contentment. Ranma smiled as he buried his face against the back of her neck and kissed it softly. "I love you, Ranma." "I love you, Akane." The End. -------------- -------------- Author's Notes I wrote this to relieve... something. The inability to write anything but English based stories, which, by the way, sucks! So that's about it. Hope you liked it! Email should be sent to cartoonpaperclips@email.com or pinkplanets@yahoo.com Thanks! Signin' off! Krissy