Disclaimer: The Vampire Chronicles and Ranma1/2 do not belong to me! ^.^

A/N: Hiya! Well, this is my first attempted at a Ranma/Vampire story-which I think you all might like. If you do, please review me okay? I know this is short but its just an idea for a story but if you want it to be continued, please tell me in your review or e-mail me! I'd love to know.

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" Let me fly, or give me death.

Let my soul rest, and take my breath.

If I don't fly, I'm gonna die anyway.

I keep living on, but I'll be gone any day."

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I looked out over the ocean with a feeling of regret for everything I never got to do and everything I did. My life was a world of chaotic problems that seemed to get bigger with each passing day. I knew I could never be as smart as Nabiki, with her strong sense of numbers, or as nice as Kasumi, with her kind words and heart. I had tried -God knows I had tried so very hard- but my problems just were too much for me to handle. Way too much for anyone my age at all, really. It was very surprising I hadn't had a stroke yet or died from stress. I had heard so many people die from stress or get sick from it. I knew many would get killed the first day trying to walk in my shoes, but what could I do to fix it? Nothing!

I was nothing to anyone and yet I was everything. I was a prize to be won, a trophy to be hung up, a enemy to kill, a demon to destroy, a person to marry, a punching bag, a sorcerer, a passion to cling to in the dreary existence of life in the 20th Century. But I was nothing to myself; I was what everyone wanted.

I had no choices in my life, everything was planned out for me. I knew I was intelligent, but I was more naive because of my father's stupidity not to get me to school while we trained and never taught me the proper things I needed to know. He never told me about the 'birds and the bees' or any manners or any skills to prepare me for anything other then martial arts. It bothered me, I couldn't live my own life. I had to live up to everyone's dream. I had to be the best martial artist, the perfect fiancée, the man amongst men, the jock, the son, the prize, and the perfect zombie.

I thought maybe my father planned it out for it to happen this way; o make me depend on the arts because it would insure the legacy of the art. If I couldn't get any interests in anything then my life would depend on the art alone.

Damn pops and his crazy schemes! If only he had stayed out of my life, if only I had anything to fall back on! If only..

I looked up at the sky to watch the sun start to set and I breathed in deep, the salty air filling my lungs causing me relax. I saw the vibrant colors of orange, yellow, red, and pink dance across the sky like a beautiful play just for me. The sun sank beneath the horizon of the point where the land meets the sea and I looked down off the edge of the bridge at the haunting water below. It would be so easy, to take control of my life for once and to take my life.

So easy..

My senses perked and I tensed as I felt something. I was quite sure what I felt but I could sense something watching me. I turned around on the ledge with ease to see a startling figure behind me. The boy looked my age with long curly brown hair that softened up his features making him appear girly. His eyes were a beautiful brown and his face was an almost white color but it was slightly off as if makeup had been put on. I couldn't place my finger on it but the boy that felt like a friend to me, I knew that the boy was what I had sensed.

The eyes captured my attention the most, they seemed to pull me in like an alluring dream. I felt I was being pulled deeper when I shook myself from the spell and tensed again to prepare to strike if necessary.

The boy chuckled deeply as if he was amused and held his almost white hand out to me in a kind offer, palm up and inviting. The boy looked into my eyes and I felt maybe I could trust this person. Maybe, I could take control of my life for once and be just me. Just to be Ranma.

"Come with me, Ranma." The gaijin boy invited me in a soft, slightly deep voice. It was comforting. "Come see what I can show you of the world."

I gazed at the palm and I thought of the life I had. The fiancée mess, pops, the Tendos, Ryoga, Taro, Happoisai, the Amazons and then I thought of what I could have, to see the world, to travel and learn all the things I wanted to. I knew somehow that this boy loved me deeply and wouldn't let me be harmed, and he wouldn't harm me. I could feel a power around the boy, it was strong but I had a sense that the boy wouldn't hurt me at all like everyone else would. I didn't know how I knew, I just did.

I lifted my hand with determination and grabbed the boy's hand and looked up into those brown eyes so full of love for me. Someone that will let me make my on decisions and choices. I smirked, "You sure you can handle me man? I got a pretty wild life; they might follow me. Are you ready for all that? Just for me?"

"You are the most unique individual I have seen in a long time," the boy said. "Trust me child, no one will find us. I won't let them."

I grinned, my eyes lit with the fire that burned so brightly when just a few minutes before it was dying out from the tiredness of it all. "Show me the world then," I said as I stared at the beauty in the moonlight. "Show me, please."

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The start of my second Ranma x-over! ^.~ This is just an idea I came up with since I noticed there aren't many Ranma with vampires stories. So I decided to make my own! There are some major spoilers for the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. They are good books so if you haven't read em-read em! ^.^

Please review if you would like to see it continue.

-AlantisB