Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ A Simple Wish ❯ The Truth Behind Konton and Fuwa ( Chapter 9 )

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Summary:  Ranma is fed up with Akane; he makes a simple wish to never have met her.  Lady Fate takes pity on him and grants his wish.  A problem arises with this wish; he remembers everything before the wish was granted.

A Simple Wish

Episode 9-

The Truth Behind Konton and Fuwa

It was morning now, Ranma's plan to tell Akane the absolute truth was probably not a really good idea, but what else could he do?  Perhaps she would believe him and if not, well he would probably be spending the rest of his life in a mental institution for she would call the men in the white suits with nets.  He knew she was probably nervous in seeing him, after what happened yesterday, he had confused her.  Ranma pinched his sinuses as he felt a headache coming on, lifting his head which seemed at the right time he saw her, she was walking kind of slow and Ryouga was not with her, that was odd.  Well no it wasn't, he got lost way too often.  She was coming towards him and he felt his nerves spike.

She looked up at him and stopped short, Ranma would wait to see if she would come near him, to his relief she did.  But she looked a little upset.

Akane really did not want to see him first thing in the morning, but how could she not they did go to the same school and probably walked the same route to the gate.  After gathering her courage she approached him.  "It is probably best that we do not associate with one another unless it is for the history project."

He kept in a groan. "Don't be silly, I know that you are probably mad-"

"Mad?"  Interrupted Akane. "No I am not mad.  Confused maybe, but not mad."  She shook her head lightly.  "And until I figure out what is going on then its best that we maintain distance."

"But I don't want too."

"Look it's odd that I feel something different when I am around you, but I will not do anything to hurt Ryouga, I like him."

Ranma shook his head. "No you don't.  We went over this yesterday.  There is no way you can be with him."

"What? Look pal, we hardly know each other.  We met at the beginning of this week.  There is no way that in only five days that you can-"

He interrupted this time. "What? Be in love with you?"

Akane's cheeks flamed. "Uh…yeah, exactly that.  You don't know me at all."

Ranma smirked lightly. "I know you more than you realize."

Her hands planted firmly on her hips. "Uh huh, right.  I don't believe that for an instant."

I'll prove it."  He paced a moment and then leaned up against the fence. "I know at one time that you had a huge crush on Dr. Tofu."

Her eyes widened. "I…wha… hey!"

"And that when you were five years old, your mother died and you were very sad for almost a year, that's when you started martial arts."

Akane sucked in a deep breath. "How did you know about that?"

He was grinning now. "I also know that you are terrible at cooking, yet you still try your hardest and put all you can into your dishes, even if they come out like poison."

Her cheeks flamed bright red in embarrassment with that one. "Well hey, no one's perfect." Akane crossed her arms in front of herself.  "So this doesn't prove anything except that you're a freaky stalker."

"What?! I am not a stalker!"

"Then explain why you know those things."

"I just know them," Ranma felt so frustrated, he didn't know that this whole wish would have been a mistake, how could he have known.  At the time he made it, he was just so mad… "It was wrong, I didn't know what I was doing.  Akane, I want-"

Her eyes narrowed. "It doesn't matter what you want, get over yourself!  There is more to this whole thing than just you.  There is Ryouga to consider and myself, what you are doing is completely unfair."

"Yes it is unfair because it's not supposed to be this way!"

She blinked. "Uh…"

"You are not supposed to be with Ryouga, you are supposed to be with me.  This was an accident, a mistake, this whole reality is all wrong!"  He yelled with his eyes squinted tightly and his fists clinched.

Akane stepped backwards a bit. "Are you feeling all right?  You're not making any sense."

He looked right at Akane, seeing that she was a bit alarmed in his behavior.   He needed to explain. "One night I made a wish that I had never met you and some how by some immortal being, she made it so, and when I woke up Ryouga was in what once was my place by your side, you and I did not know each other all, and I just…I  don't like it.  I don't want it to be that way!"

"I'm just wondering this, but is there a history of mental illness in your family?" Akane asked while taking yet another step away from him. 

He groaned out loud this time. "I know you don't believe me, how could you, right?  It's such an unbelievable story.   But don't you feel something, something you can't explain when you…"

"Stop! Just stop it."  Akane held up her hands defensively. "I don't need this, any of it.  You make up some wild tale and it's just too much.  I don't care what your reasons are for lying to me but before this week, my life was consistent and then you for some reason change a classroom and my whole entire world seemed to go down the toilet.  Everything I thought I wanted, everything I believed in has all been disrupted."

Ranma nodded. "I understand what you're saying, and I am not saying you need to make a decision now.  But at least give it some thought that I too care about you, not just Ryouga."  He took a chance and took a few steps towards her. "Up until now I have never been very good at expressing feelings and stuff like that, being raised on the road with just my father for company can warp anyone, but I should have said something before, anything to let you know what my true feelings were instead of hiding behind some macho exterior." He reached out and lightly covered Akane's hand with his and he could feel her's shaking.  "I am sorry for anything that I had done to hurt you, to make you feel bad.  I will not make the same mistake again and I won't let you go without a fight."

"Ra…an…ma!" It was Ryouga and he was panting, holding himself up on a walking stick, looking very exhausted.  "Get…away…from…her."

Akane backed away from Ranma and looked at Ryouga. "Where have you been?"

"I don't even know where I have been Akane," Ryouga said and then glared at Ranma.  "You, I thought I told you to stay away from her!"  He straightened himself up and tossed away his stick.

Ranma shrugged. "I've decided that I'm not going to, I have as much right to win her as you do."

"Oh yeah?!  How dare you do this, Akane is mine!" Ryouga held his fist up threateningly.

Akane's jaw dropped, she looked at both the boys and she could feel their battle auras increase. 

"You don't own her pig boy!" Ranma shouted.

Without thinking about it and analyzing it, Ryouga automatically cried out.  "I love her!"

"So do I!"

Ryouga balled up both his fists and started running towards Ranma. "I will not let you take her from me!" His fist flew near Ranma's face but the pig tailed boy dodged and moved his head at the last minute.  "A jerk like you doesn't deserve her!"

"Shut up!" Ranma's leg shot up and he kicked Ryouga hard in the chest and he was thrown backwards.

Akane didn't want this, she didn't want them fighting over her.  She was not worth all of this.  "Stop it, cut it out!"  She noticed they were not listening to her as they continued to throw punches and kicks at each other.  "Ryouga, Ranma  STOP!!"  Akane ran and stood right between them, and both boys stopped their forward move instantly.

Ryouga's eyes widened and then they narrowed.  "Akane you are so stupid how dare you get in the middle of a fight between men!"

Akane turned around and slapped Ryouga hard across the face, her head was held slightly downcast so that her bangs covered her eyes.

He blinked, surprised at what she had just done.  He lifted his hand and rubbed the spot on his cheek that was turning red.  "Akane… I'm sorry, I."

She shook her head.  "No… no Ryouga, you're always sorry, you never think about what you say or do and it always ends up hurting me.  I'm tired of it."  Akane lifted her head and looked at Ranma. "And you, I don't know who you are, you are a sneaky and a liar, I don't want to associate with anyone who lies and tries to trick me."

Ranma's eyes narrowed. "I have not ever lied to you, what I said was the truth."

Ryouga growled. "Don't listen to him Akane, he's…"

"Shut up! Both of you.  I don't want to hear it!"  She sighed and hugged herself.  "I don't want anything to do with either of you!  Do you  both understand that!?"

"Akane…" Both Ryouga and Ranma said at the same time

She backed away from both of them. "No… I don't want this.  I don't!"

"Just listen to me, please..." Ranma started to say.

Tears were streaming down her face but Akane shook her head wildly, and pointed at him. "No, I won't! Just both of you leave me alone!"  In a flash she turned and ran away from Ryouga and Ranma.

"Akane, Akane, please come back!" Ryouga shouted as he took a step forward, he watched as she jumped up onto a roof of a nearby shop and continued on her way without stopping.

Ryouga hung his head, "Akane…"  He turned and faced Ranma. "This is all your fault, if you would have just left her alone!"

"My fault! This is your own doing.  How dare you try and blame me!"

Clinching his fist again Ryouga growled. "Akane and I were fine until you decided to butt into our lives."

"I care about her too nimrod! I don't like seeing her hurt either.  You are terrible to her! You hurt her all the time and call her names.  No wonder she attacks you!" Ranma yelled out the closed his mouth instantly knowing exactly what he had done wrong in his other reality. "That's exactly what I have done, I am no better than you.  I really don't deserve her…" He rambled.

Ryouga's brows arched. "Huh?"

Ranma waved his hand in the air. "Never mind," He was never going to treat her like that again, if he could get her to talk to him that is. "I would never, ever hurt her like that again!"  He looked at Ryouga who was very angry, he too was angry.  But he needed to talk to Akane, to get her to listen to him.  And he wasn't getting any closer to finding her by standing around throwing an insult match back and forth with Ryouga.  "I don't know about you, but I'm going to find her."

"What about school?" Ryouga looked in the direction of their high school as other students were running towards it, they were going to be late.

"Screw school right now," Ranma turned and headed in the direction that Akane fled.

Akane walked the streets of Tokyo; she did not feel like going to school today.  She couldn't study even if she wanted too.  She was just so tired, tired of those boys fighting over her, she wanted her peaceful life back. Everything was great before all this craziness started happening. 

After she wandered aimlessly for awhile she looked towards the park, and crossed the street walking through the calmness that was the park.  She was about to sit down on a bench when she didn't hear someone come up behind her.

"Hello Akane." The masculine voice said calmly and friendly.

 Startled, Akane jumped about a foot in the air and when she came down nearly tripped over her feet.  She twirled around and saw that Konton Muchitsjo standing there with a pleasant smile on his face.  "Konton? What are you doing here?  Shouldn't you be in class?"

He shrugged. "I didn't feel like going today, so why aren't you in class miss perfect score?" Konton grinned.

"Same reason I guess."  She twirled the toe of her shoe in the grass.

"Would you like some company?" Konton referred to himself.

She shook her head, her hair lightly whipping back and forth. "Not really, I kind of want to be by myself, you know?"

"Are you having some troubles you need to talk about?" Konton angled his head a bit, looking at her.

"I really don't want to discuss anything with you, so I should be going."  She started to move away from him but felt him take her hand.  Akane glared down at his hand holding hers. "Could you let go, please." She was slightly irritated with him now and as she looked up into his face she could see him smirk lightly.

"Actually, I don't want too."  Konton grabbed her hand more firmly and pulled her right against him.

Akane tried to push away. "Hey, let go right now, or I'll make a scene!"

He laughed. "Oh go ahead, let's see how far you would get with making your scene."  Konton lifted his hand and pressed his index finger against the pressure point in her neck and she immediately fell unconscious and he quickly caught her before she almost fell to the ground.  He looked down into her peaceful, sleeping face and said: "Mortals are so easy to obtain."   He then turned from the park and headed back to the apartment to wait for his sister to return and then he would take Akane back with him, which was where she belonged.  "You better hurry up Discord, I don't have all day to wait." He said to thin air while carrying Akane back to the apartment.

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Her head ached; she felt the darkness leaving her as she was waking up.  Akane opened her eyes and saw a white ceiling above her.  She flattened her palms against something soft, sitting up she looked around the room, recognizing it immediately, there was that same coffee table, plants and chairs.  The television and entertainment system.  She was in Konton's apartment!  But how did she get here?  She swung her legs over the sofa and stood.  Akane felt a little woozy and her vision blurred slightly, she steadied herself by placing her hands down on the arm rest of the sofa.

Then she took a step, looking around she headed towards the door her body swaying with each move she made.  She reached the door handle and turned it to pull it open.  The door would not budge, she pulled hard.  Her palms started to sweat as she couldn't get the door open and as she was continuing to pull the brass knob her hands slipped and she fell backwards hitting her head on the tile floor.  "Owww." She moaned out.  "Stupid door."

Turning over on her front, Akane got to her knees and then pushed herself off the floor.  She stumbled a bit.  Why couldn't she walk straight!? What was the matter with her, did she have a concussion or something is that why Konton brought her here?  Did she fall and hit her head?  But if she had some kind of injury to the head shouldn't she be in the hospital?  She leaned against the wall and walked along it, coming to the bar.  She could hear little noises coming from the kitchen, grabbing a hold of the bar she walked towards the sounds. 

On the brown wooden table was a glass jar and two things were jumping up and down inside it.  We're they bugs? Akane couldn't tell her eyes had yet to focus more clearly.  Moving slowly towards the table, Akane stretched her arms out and grabbed a hold of the table and pulled herself over to it.  Grabbing the jar with a free hand she lifted it up and looked through the glass as her vision cleared instantly. Those weren't bugs, they were humans!

"What in the…" Akane shocked, she recognized one of them, which was the one that was jumping up wildly. "Ukyou? Is that you?"  She looked at the other girl standing in the jar, she knew her from somewhere…oh yeah she works at the Cat Café Chinese restaurant.  But what were these two girls doing in this jar, and just how did they get in there?

"Akane!" The tiny Ukyou shouted. "You have to get us out of here, can you pull out the cork?"

Akane nodded and grabbed the cork and pulled, this wouldn't budge either.  "Damn-it!"  She pulled harder and harder.  "It's not coming out, it's stuck."

Ukyou's eyes widened and she pointed. "Akane, watch out."

Turning her head, Akane's eyes widened as she saw Fuwa standing there.

"Just what do you think you are doing?" Fuwa's arms were folded across her generous bosom.  "Those are my mortals, get your own."  She reached over and pulled the jar from Akane's hands.

"Hey! Fuwa what in the world is going on here, how did they get in there?"  Akane pointed at the jar and then reached for it.

"Fuwa held it away from her. "I put them in there, they were getting in mine and my brother's way."

Akane groaned. "Let them out of there right now!" Akane demanded reaching for the jar again.

Fuwa giggled. "What are you gonna do if I don't, there is nothing you can do to me little mortal, I could add you to the collection if I wished it."  She smirked. "Although my brother would not allow me to add you to the collection, as he wants you for himself."  She placed the jar back on the table and sat down one of the chairs that were placed around the table.

"What are you talking about?" Akane said watching Fuwa's every move.

She crossed her long legs and rested her chin in her hand; Fuwa sighed.  "You really have no idea, do you?"  She giggled. "We are not you think we are, not mortal but immortal.  As my brother and I impersonated humans, he has grown quite fond of you.  So he decided that you should belong to him."

Akane couldn't believe what she was hearing. "You two are nuts, that's all I'm gonna say." 

Fuwa's eyes blazed red. "How dare you say that little mortal, I could remove you from this Earth with a snap of my fingers.  So if I were you, I would watch what I say."

Jumping back Akane gasped and pointed at Fuwa. "What was that?!"

She giggled. "Well I might as well drop my disguise," In an instant, Fuwa's hair was no longer black, but a dark red, her eyes changed from brown to green and her face lightened to a pretty white color.  "Allow me to introduce myself," She bowed from her seat. "I am Lady Discord."

"I…I don't get it, what do you want from us?  Why did you pretend to be humans?"

Discord shrugged. "Well I've always liked causing trouble, but my brother wanted my help to achieve his goal in making Lady Fate his wife, it was the only way to try and win his bet."  She sighed and cradled her face in her hands. "But it seems like he lost, so he's taking his consolation prize."  And Discord pointed at Akane. "Which happens to be you, and you'll be returning with him."

"What?!" Akane nearly choked on her saliva. "I'm not going anywhere, with anyone!"

There was a popping sound and a man appeared in the room, Akane twirled around to face him, he looked a little familiar, she noticed his dark hair, dark obsidian like eyes. His face was similar to that of Konton's!  She gasped and pointed at him, "What…the…who?"  She noticed he was a lot taller than Konton was, possibly a bit more than six feet, and he was certainly not wearing a school uniform.  He was in a gold toga with armor over it; you could see every muscle in his arms and legs.  He was definitely a powerful looking being.

He snickered. "I know you have questions, Akane.  But not to worry, you have your whole life to learn all about me."

Akane took a deep breath. "I don't want to learn anything about you, I want to go home!"

"That's not going to happen my pet, you see.  I always get what I want and even if you don't come willingly, you will belong to me.  That's all there is to it."

She crossed her arms over her chest. "Just who are you?"

This time he laughed really hard. "You remember that time in class in which I told you about a certain god that no one ever really wrote about.  Well that's me."  He pointed to himself.  "I am, Chaos, Lord of Mischief, misfortune suffering and destruction."

"Well I don't care who you are, I will not belong to anyone, let alone someone like you!"

Chaos smiled adoringly at her. "Ah, such fire and sprit. That is one of the reasons I chose you."  He tapped her on the nose. "Not many mortals would ever stand up to one such as I."

Akane jolted away from his touch and she saw his eyes narrow and he reached out and grabbed her arm, not enough to hurt her but to let her know exactly who was in charge here.

"You better get used to me touching you, you definitely need to learn your place, mortal."  He sneered. "Everything of yours belongs to me, do you understand that?"

She growled. "Let go of me!"  Akane pulled her fist back and nailed him right in the eye.

Chaos just laughed. "You think that little tap is going to hurt me?"  He laughed harder.

Akane stepped back; she couldn't believe it.  He didn't even feel it; that was one of her best hits.  "I…I just want to go home, please?"

Hearing another popping sound in the room, everyone turned to find a woman both wearing silver and hair of the same color standing in the room.  She came towards them.

"Lord Chaos I must object to this," She looked right at Akane. "You should give her back."

He shook his head. "I'm afraid I can't do that, Lady Fate.  I like her, she belongs to me now."

"She is but an innocent human girl, there are many more you can play with rather than this one."

Chaos looked at Akane. "No other mortal that I have had, had any of what this mortal has, she has a fighting spirit and wonderful fire that I must acquire."

Lady Fate groaned. "She has people who care about her Choas, you can not take this girl.  I won't allow it!"

He looked at Lady Fate and smirked. "Just watch me Fate, just watch me."  Chaos grabbed a hold of Akane's arm and they both disappeared with a popping sound, leaving the room.

The silver haired immortal looked to Discord. "Please, Discord make him change his mind, I beg of you."

Discord picked up her jar of humans. "I don't know what to say Lady Fate, you know once Chaos makes up his mind about something, he always goes through with it."  She placed her hand comfortingly on Lady Fate's shoulder.  "I am sorry I wish I could help."

"No you don't."  Lady Fate looked at Discord out of the corner of her eye. "You've always been selfish Discord.  When will you stop thinking about yourself and what's best for the mortals."

"I am not selfish Fate! I am just doing what I…" She groaned and looked down at the mortals in her jar. "Oh Fate you're right, I am selfish, I'm selfish and spoiled.  I can't help it, that's just the way I am."  She held the jar out for Lady Fate. "Here let them run free, but I can not help you against Chaos, even I am not that stupid."

Lady Fate took the jar of humans. "At least consider it?"

Discord shook her head. "I will not." And with another popping sound, Discord disappeared from the room.

Looking down at the jar, Lady Fate pulled open the cork and turned the jar upside down over her palm and the two human females slid out.  Touching her pinky to each of their foreheads she sat them on the floor and Ukyou and Shampoo grew to their full sizes.  "I am sorry for all that has happened to you."

"I don't care about myself, what about Ranma!" Ukyou shouted, which probably was not the smartest thing to do to an immortal who could easily shrink her back to that little size again.  "Is he all right?!"

Lady Fate could not get mad at Ukyou. "He is fine."  She sighed and hung her head. "I should not have gotten involved now that mortal girl Akane is in trouble.  This is all my fault, all because of my wanting to show that idiot Ranma what he had and lost and wanted back."

"Huh?" Ukyou's brows were arched.

"What you talk about woman?  Shampoo no understand?"

Lady Fate looked between the two girls. "I'm afraid that both your fiancé Ranma Saotome is head over heels in love with Akane Tendou, and I tried to make him see that by changing realities and changing his life a bit.  He did see it, and he admits it, but now Lord Chaos has taken her and no one can get her back now."

Shampoo looked at Ukyou. "What this, who this Akane?" Shampoo growled. "I no let new girl come and steal Ranma.

Ukyou understood, she closed her eyes and sighed. "Oh Shampoo, it will never be us.  Ranma has made his choice, I met Akane, she's a nice girl.  I love Ranma, I do, enough to let him be happy.  Don't you want him to be happy, Shampoo?"

"I want Ranma to love Shampoo, not other girl."

"I know, neither do I.  But it is out of our hands.  If Ranma doesn't want either of us, we can't force him.  I know you tried to on many occasions, but it's never worked, has it?"

Shampoo shook her head sadly. "No, it never happen. But…"  She looked towards the window.  "Do Ranma really like other girl?"

Lady Fate nodded. "I'm afraid so."

"And other man take this girl away?  Ranma be sad, yes?"

"I tend to think so." Lady Fate hoped that Shampoo wasn't going to say something like well then Ranma free to love Shampoo.  Shampoo surprised her when she said.

"We need go after new girl, we need help save her from bad immortal man, for Ranma." Shampoo said looking at Ukyou.

"For once Shampoo, you're right."  Ukyou said. "We should go and find Akane and bring her back.  But first we need to tell him just what exactly is going on.

Shampoo held her fist up proudly. "Akane and Ranma be together, Shampoo defeat immortal!"

"Yeah!" Ukyou shouted. "Let's go."  Looking around she had no idea where they were, she turned to Lady Fate. "Uh, do you think you could take us to Ranma?"

Lady Fate smiled, she liked seeing mortals behaving like this, noble and honest.  Too bad in the other reality these girls wouldn't do anything like this for Akane. "I will."  And with that Lady Fate, Ukyou and Shampoo disappeared from the apartment.

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Well that's it for chapter 9,  the next chapter is the last one.  *sniffle* the fanfiction is just about over.  Now here comes a part for all of you readers to play, I have been debating back and forth mentally whether to put a lemon in the last chapter or not, so please, cast your vote for lemon or no lemon in the last chapter 10. I'll be waiting for your vote.

Thanks for reading and remember to review,

Ryoko Blue