Disclaimer: All I own is the story line, Rai Kin, Gel, and my other original character(s) you will meet right about...
Now!
My name is Ichiro Mieko. I was born in Tokyo and lived there happily until I was five. Then I had to move to Okinawa with my mother. But that's not the point...
The point is that I'm 15 now.
I'm all grown up.
And I'm back in Tokyo.
I'm now ready to fulfill the promise I made to Akane Tendou.
Part Four
A Thousand Miles
He wasn't worried.
He sure as hell wasn't worried.
Nu-uh. Not one bit worried.
Just because Akane was at Dr. Tofu's, it was still no reason to get worried. Nabiki (with the help of 100 yen) had said it was nothing serious.
He stopped running and faced the entrance to Dr. Tofu's place.
He was not worried.
He was just...curious.
'I mean, c'mon. Akane beaten up by a guy?' he thought. He had to see it to believe it.
He walked up to Dr. Tofu's place, and stood at the entrance, wondering if he should go in or not. It would be bad if he went in there and found his father. 'Ranma is here to visit Akane?' he could imagine his father yell into a microphone. He sighed, the decision to go in or not getting unusually difficult by the second. 'I'm already here, so I should just go in', he thought decidedly. 'I am a man after all!'
And with that thought in mind, he circled the building and climbed the tree he was sure was in view of Akane's bedroom.
He was busy trying to get the leaves off of his raven hair when he heard a male voice say, "My name is Gel."
Ranma's head snapped to the direction of the voice, which happened to be coming from Akane's bedroom.
"Nice to meet you, Gel," said Akane's voice. "So...are you a transfer student from another country, or just from another high school around here?"
"Yes!" he agreed. " I'm your fiancée!"
He wasn't sure if he fell from the tree because of the completely inaccurate statement the guy had said, or because he had put all his weight upon a fragile tree branch in an attempt to reach the window, but he did.
He got up and angrily spit out some dirt he had eaten. "This is stupid!" he exclaimed. "How's Akane suddenly getting all these fiancées?"
Then he heard Akane yell something.
Well, whatever was going on, he was sure Akane could handle it on her own.
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"Please calm down, Miss Akane..."
"Calm down? Calm down? You just told me you're my fiancée and now you want me to calm down?"
He was now cowering behind a chair and hoping she wasn't as...threatening as she appeared to be.
"How can you be my fiancée? I just met you!"
"Well, you see, I'm from a tribe a-and you have to marry me..." he said, dragging himself and the chair to a corner.
"Being in a tribe explains nothing!"
"Why Akane always so violent?"
His head twitched to where the new voice had come from and saw a Chinese girl with long purple hair holding a box that had the logo Cat Cafe. Wait...hadn't he seen her somewhere before? "Sh...Shampoo?"
"Gel! I look everywhere for you! What you do here?" she asked, dropping the box to the floor and forgetting completely about the angry girl in bed.
"I...I hurt Miss Akane here during a battle and I just," he said, pausing a minute to stand up and dust himself from the floor. "I just wanted to make sure she was okay."
"Shampoo, do you know this guy?" asked Akane, still very confused and infuriated by the whole situation.
Shampoo walked over to Gel and placed a friendly arm around his shoulders. "Gel is Shampoo's cousin!"
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"What was that?"
"I said, why weren't you at school today?" repeated Ukyou for the fourth time. She sat down on the bench, next to her fiancée. "You seem really down. What's up?"
Ranma pulled his legs closer to his chest, frowning into the distance. "Nothing...just leave me alone."
Ukyou frowned. "Ugh...why are you being like this? Does it have to do anything with Akane? 'Cause she wasn't at school today either."
"I don't care where she is, okay?" he shouted at her, rising from the depression he had sunk in.
'It's Akane all right,' she thought, somewhat annoyed. "Look, Ranma honey. Why don't we go back to my place and we can talk about it over some okinomiyaki?" she asked, placing a hand on his shoulder.
Ranma looked at her, his face relaxing from the continuous frowning at the mention of food.
Yup. The way to a man's heart was through the kitchen; her big advantage over Akane.
They were about to head for Ucchan's, when a pair of...strange people caught their eyes.
"Do you know where we are?" yelled a girl with shocking lime-green hair that ended just a bit below the hairline in her neck. She was yelling to a boy who looked almost exactly like her.
"Of course I know! We are obviously in the middle of a jungle," he stated, pausing to take a drink from a drinking fountain nearby.
The girl looked skeptically at him and when she looked up, she looked straight into Ukyou's eyes. "Oh, hello! We're sort of lost, so can you help us?"
"Uh, sure!" said Ukyou. "Where are you trying to get to?"
"We're trying to find a dojo that should be somewhere around here," she said, giving the boy at the drinking fountain a dirty look. "It's called the Tendou Dojo."
"Why are you trying to get to that place?" asked Ranma abruptly.
"Oh, well, my brother has some business there," she said, pointing to the boy who was still drinking from the drinking fountain. "He's actually looking for someone."
"Yeah, we know that place! It's not far from here," said Ukyou. "Want us to take you there?"
"Really?" asked the boy, running to catch up to his sister. "Hi! My name is Ichiro Mieko."
"And my name is Ichigo Mieko!" stated the girl proudly.
"I'm Ukyou and this is Ranma," said Ukyou.
"You don't have to introduce me. I can do it myself," said Ranma, frowning.
"Please excuse my friend. He's going through a very emotional time," she informed Ichigo, whispering the last sentence to her.
"Yeah, my brother is sort of like that. He's obsessed with finding this girl," said Ichigo, nodding her head to Ukyou's statement.
"I've traveled a thousand miles to meet her once again!" said Ichiro dramatically.
"Oh yeah? Who's this girl you're looking for," asked Ukyou, mildly interested.
"Her name..." He paused, a dreamy look taking over his facial features, "Is Akane Tendou."
Ranma and Ukyou looked at each other.
Ichiro took a proud stance and announced to Ranma and Ukyou that, "She is my fiancée, and I've come to marry her."
End of Part Four
Ah...thank you so much for patiently waiting for this chapter to come out. Once again, it was rushed, and I didn't want to take more time revising this chapter (I felt kinda bad pushing the update date later and later.). So yeah...I hope you liked this. So please review!
Adios!