Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Chasing Akane (DC) ❯ Part 6: I know what we have to do... ( Chapter 6 )

Chasing Akane: Part 6

Note: I don't own the rights to View Askew or Ranma, just to Dimi-Chan and Juton (but not to the "Silent" part of Juton, or to the characters they represent in this fan fiction.

Introduction: So many memorable moments are happening, and there are many more in this chapter, so I keep on typing…

INT. Dinner - Night

Akane sits alone at a booth. She stirs her tea absently.

OC Voice: Well look at this morose mother fucker right here.

Akane looks up to see Dimi-Chan and Silent Juton standing over her.

Akane offers a half-smile. The pair slides into the other side of the booth.

Akane: What took you so long?

Dimi-Chan: Juton, he was holding it back too long. You got the yellow, blue and green?

Akane: Huh?

Dimi-Chan: The yen, I mean.

Akane: Oh.

Akane pulls out an envelope from her jacket and tosses it to Dimi-Chan. Dimi-Chan opens it and pulls out a thick wad of bills, along with the latest issue of "Baka and Hentai".

Dimi-Chan: This likeness rights shit is not quite as profitable as selling porn, but at least it's money.

Juton thumbs through the comic. Dimi-Chan looks over his shoulder.

Dimi-Chan: You need to put a little less plot into this, and definitely a few less pigs.

Juton nods his head.

Dimi-Chan: Less of him fucking those girl pigs, and more of the guy pigs fucking him.

Juton shakes his head.

Akane: I'll see what I can do.

A waitress, whose nametag says "Shampoo", joins them.

Shampoo: What Shampoo get you?

Akane: Nothing, thanks.

Dimi-Chan: What about giving Juton here a little head-he has these fantasies about Amazons with purplish-hair. I tried dying mine once, actually it's still died…but it turned out blue…still, that WAS enough for Juteykins…but still, he has this obsession about doing it with a natural one.

Shampoo: Shampoo no want to sever her head. Shampoo like head.

Shampoo storms out.

Dimi-Chan: Shampoo no understand term for blow job. So, what's up with you? What's with the glum face?

Akane: Girl trouble-well actually girl/guy trouble. (pauses) You see, I'm in love with him…her-both. But right now I just don't know what to do.

Dimi-Chan: Who is this gir…gu-person?

Akane: You wouldn't know her.

Dimi-Chan: C'mon, I know a lot of people, and people who know people. Just tell me her/his name.

Akane: Ranma Saotome. That guy you kissed at the bar.

Dimi-Chan: Otherwise known as Ranko Saotome-Ms. "Red'n Always Ready"?!

Akane rubs her eyes.

Dimi-Chan: I thought you were all gay and shit!

Akane: I am. Or was. I don't know-

Dimi-Chan: So you went out with him-slash-her? Shit-man, you're one lucky bitch-you can have sex with her straight or lesbian! And I should know!

Akane: It's not like that, well it is-but that's not all there is to it.

Dimi-Chan: Well, what else can there possibly be to it?

Akane: Right now? (thinks) I don't know. I love her, but she has a past.

Dimi-Chan: I'll say, fucking two to five guys consecutively! It made me and Nabiki a whole shitload of money!

Akane: FIVE?!

Dimi-Chan: I've heard as many as seven. If only we had been able to get some cameras into the boys' locker room earlier…

Akane: Shut up!

Dimi-Chan (To Juton): Look at this touchy bitch right here. (to Akane) So, if you're in love with the guy/girl, what's the problem?

Akane: The problem is shit like that. I mean I don't mind she's really a guy anymore. But having sex with guys, and especially seven of them at once. That's something I could never offer her.

Dimi-Chan: Hey, be thankful that after all that experience she had-now she's settling for your boring manga-makin' ass.

Akane: Settling? You're comforting, Dimi-Chan, thanks.

Dimi-Chan: That's what I'm here for.

Akane: I'm just having a problem with all of it. I can't get out of my head these visuals of her doing all that shit.

Dimi-Chan: I can get you a couple copies of those "visuals" if you want.

Akane (ignoring Dimi-Chan): And I don't know why I can't let it go. Because I'm crazy about her. You know? I look at her, and I see a future. Having kids, grandkids.

Dimi-Chan: You're scaring me…you DID use protection, didn't you-while he was a guy?

Akane: Of course! I'm not catholic or anything, you know! (pauses for a moment, as if in deep thought) But I'm scaring myself. Because I think so much of her, and I can't get over shit like "Red'n Always Ready"! (shakes her head) I don't know what I'm doing.

Akane looks out the window. Dimi-Chan just stares at her. There's silence, then…

Juton: You're Chasing Akane…

Akane's head snaps forward, she stares wide-eyed at Silent Juton.

Dimi-Chan: He does that all the time. He only says short little lines every now and then, so when he makes a speech it'll have some huge fucking impact.

Juton: Could you shut up for one second? Always yap, yap yapping all the time. The only time it's tolerable is when we're in bed. (To Akane) Anyway, I went through something a bit similar to what you're going through. Years ago.

Dimi-Chan: When?

Juton: You should remember after I finish telling the story. Okay, well I met this girl, ways back, we were inseparable, right? And a few months in, I learn she reads lemons. (Dimi-Chan rolls her eyes) So I start freaking out, because I thought she would expect a whole bunch of kinky shit I could do. I felt small-like I'd lacked experience, like I'd never be enough for her or something. And what I didn't get was that she was about to shove me into the spring of drowned pink-haired girl.

Akane: Pink-haired girl? So that was what I saw at the bar, and then at the movie theater when Ranma spilled her coke on you?

Dimi-Chan: By the way, it wasn't just any pink-haired girl who drowned there…it was a very "special" pink-haired girl…

Juton: DIMI-CHAN!!

Dimi-Chan: I don't know why he's always so embarrassed about this shit…

Juton: Anyway, she wasn't looking for a guy who read lemons. She was looking for a guy who she could turn into a hermaphr…err…pink-haired girl and whole she could introduce to reading lemons.

Akane: So, what happened?

Dimi-Chan: Haven't you already figured out who the "girl" is?

Juton: Yeah, it would have been dramatic if by the time I realized the truth it was too late and she had already moved on. And all I would've had to show for it would be foolish pride, which would then give way to regret. She was the girl, I know that now, and it would've been bad if I had pushed her away…

Everyone's silent. Then Juton continues.

Juton: And I'd've spent every day since then chasing Dimi-Chan…

Akane: But didn't you say something earlier about "Chasing Akane"?

Juton: Well, this story is titled "Chasing Akane", so I had to say it. But anyway, me and Dimi-Chan have since been spending our nights in passionate love-making…well, more or less, anyway.

Akane: So what's the point of the story supposed to be?

Juton: Hell if I know, something about just accepting her past-

Dimi-Chan: -and being able to have a really kinky sex-life! But really, that's the most lame-ass story ever, despite the fact that I'm it-which is by the way, it's only redeeming quality.

Juton: Well, I thought it might somehow pertain to Akane's situation.

Dimi-Chan: Are you fucking kidding? Her situation is entirely different! C'mon, let's go-we've got a bus to catch back to the hotel. By the way, in that manga, what's with that shit you always have me saying?

Akane: "Yes! Yes! More! More! More lemons!"?

Dimi-Chan: Yeah. What kind of a person talks like that?

Juton: A person like you?

Dimi-Chan: Exactly. C'mon, Juton-let's go. And Akane, get your shit together with Ranma.

Akane: I'll try.

Juton: Remember-the fate of destruction is also the joy of rebirth.

Dimi-Chan: Could you stop showing Akane why you don't talk 80% of the time? C'mon, let's get outta here!

Dimi-Chan starts exiting. Juton shrugs and follows her out of the restaurant. Akane remains at the booth, thinking.

Montage-Uncomfortable Silence

Akane sits at her drawing table, tapping her pin up and down.

Ranma sits at a club, being talked to by her father. She isn't listening.

Ryouga sits reading a book about the Junsenkyo "Spring of Drowned Pig".

Akane stares at the picture that Ranma gave her.

Ranma with a phone to her ear. She hangs up, angrily.

Akane sits in the park that she and Ranma walked through before. She's staring at Ranma's yearbook pictures and closes it with a sigh. Then, an idea hits her. She jumps up and dashes out of the park.

INT. Studio - Night

Ryouga and Ranma sit on the couch. Akane paces in front of them.

Akane: I know you're wondering why I asked you both here tonight, at the same time, knowing that we have shit to settle between us separately.

Ryouga: I just figured you wanted to kill two birds with one stone by telling her to fuck off with me here so you didn't have to go through the same story later on.

Ranma: Fuck you.

Ryouga: Not even if you let me video tape it.

IN THE HOTEL - Juton and Dimi-Chan are watching.

Dimi-Chan: Speaking of which-are we recording?

Juton nods.

Dimi-Chan: Good.

BACK AT THE STUDIO-

Akane: I've been thinking through things, over and over. And I dissected it all, and looked at it a thousand different ways. Ryouga-there's a friction between us for the first time in our lives. You hate me for dating Ranma and think I should've accepted that Gainax deal.

Ryouga: How perceptive.

Akane: Ranma-you and I hit a wall, because I don't know to deal with your past, I guess.

Ryouga: That's a nice way to put it. I'd have said that whole fucking-marathon thing.

Akane (right at his face): I'm only going to say this once-shut the fuck up. (going back to pacing) Now-I know I'm to blame one way or another on both accounts. With you, Ranma-it's my fault because I feel inadequate. Because I'm not a guy.

Ranma: That doesn't matter to me…

Akane: Please. I have to get through this…and with you, Ryouga-I know why you're having such a hard time with Ranma, and it's something that's been obvious forever, but I guess I just didn't acknowledge it. (takes a deep breath) You're in love with me.

Ryouga: What?!

Akane: You're attracted to me. Just as, in a way, I'm attracted to you. I mean, it makes sense-we've been together so long, we have so much in common…

Ryouga: Well, I've got to get home and catch the last few minutes of Dragon Ball Z, so I'll be…

Akane grabs him, kisses him full on the lips, and pushes him back on the couch were Ranma reacts. Ryouga-wide eyes and speechless, looks away.

Akane: It's just something you'll have to deal with, Ryouga. You may very well be in love with a lesbian…or former lesbian…whatever. Anyway, it explains why you hate Ranma, but not your sense of humor…

Akane grabs a chair from the side of the room.

Akane: Now-at this point, you may be asking yourself the question that I've been going over and over again in my head for the past few days-what does one have to do with the other?

Ranma's face drops, she subtly shakes her head.

Ranma (under her breath): Don't…

THE HOTEL ROOM-

Dimi-Chan: Do!

THE STUDIO-

Akane: And when I did some serious soul-searching, it came from out of nowhere, and suddenly it all makes sense-a calm came over me. I know what we have to do. And then you-Ryouga, you Ranma, and I-all of us…can finally be…alright.

Ranma (again, under her breath): Please don't say it…

THE HOTEL ROOM-

Dimi-Chan: SAY IT BITCH!

THE STUDIO-

Akane (sits down in the chair, and takes a big breath): We've all gotta have sex together.

The room is silent, but the hotel room, however-

Dimi-Chan: HELL YEAH! THREESOME! THREESOME! THREESOME! THREESOME! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF!

Juton: You really sound like a guy when you do that…

Dimi-Chan: Shut up! THREESOME-YEAH!

Back at the studio again-

Akane: Don't you see? That would take care of everything. Ranma-I wouldn't feel quite as inadequate anymore, because Ryouga can take care of your…other needs. And I'll be there too, which will make it all the more powerful. And Ryouga-you'll finally be able to take that leap that everyone else but you sees you should take. And it'll be okay, because it'll be with me, your best friend for years. And when it's all over, all that aggression you feel towards Ranma will be gone. Because you've shared in something beautiful with the woman-slash-man I love…well, probably mainly with the woman part, but anyway, it'll be a true communion. We have to do this. For me, for both of you…for all of our sakes. This will keep us together…what do you say?

Hotel-

Dimi-Chan: Say-"HELL YEAH!"!

Studio-

Ryouga stares forward, wide-eyed. He leans into the couch with a huge sigh. Then he shrugs.

Ryouga: Sure.

Hotel-

Dimi-Chan: Not quite the enthusiastic response I expected, but alright…

Studio-

Akane smiles at her friend, then she looks at Ranma.

Akane: I know I need this. I know it'll help.

Ranma looks up at her, sadly.

Ranma: No.

Hotel-

Dimi-Chan: What the fuck d'ya mean-NO?!

Studio-

Akane's facial reaction is not as extreme as Dimi-Chan's, but it's there. Ryouga lets out a sigh of relief.

Akane: No? I thought you'd be into this…

Ranma: You did? What does that say about me?

Akane: But you've done stuff like this, well kind of like this. In any case, this should be no big deal for you.

Ranma: You don't want this…you really don't want this…trust me.

Akane: I need this. This has to happen. Why can't you see that? How can you not? What does that say about me? You can take on a bunch of guys whose names you probably don't remember, but I ask you to share an experience somewhat like that-where it's about intimacy-and you say no?

Ranma: I can't.

Akane moves to Ranma's side of the couch.

Akane: You can, I'll be there. And when it's over we'll be the strongest we've ever been because we got through some nasty shit together. Then there will be nothing we can't accomplish.

A tear runs down Ranma's cheek. She looks at Akane, and touches her face.

Ranma: Oh Akane. (trying to compose herself) That time is over for me. I've done it, and I didn't find what I was looking for in any of it. I found that in you-in us. Doing this wont help you forget the things you're hung up on. It'll create more.

Akane: No it won't I thought all about that.

Ranma: No, it will. Maybe you'll see me differently from then on-maybe you'll despise me for going along with it while you're in the moment. Maybe I'll moan differently and then you'll resent Ryouga, and become suspicious of us. Of you'll alienate him because of it, then he'll grow to blame and hate me for the deterioration of your friendship. Or what if-I seriously doubt it, but what if I saw something in Ryouga that I never saw before, and fell in love with him and left you…nah, that's not fucking going to happen! But still…I've been down roads like this before-many times. I know you feel doing this will broaden your horizons and give you experience. But I've had experiences like that before. I can't accompany you on yours. I'm past that now (touches Akane's face again, and starts to cry). Or maybe I just love you too much, and I feel hurt and let down that you'd want to share me with anyone, because I never wanted to share you. (holds it in, gets up) Regardless, I can't be a part of this…or you. Not anymore (hugs Akane) I love you, I always will. Know that.

She releases Akane, then immediately slaps her.

Ranma: But I'm not your fucking whore.

Ranma storms away, stopping briefly to look Ryouga up and down.

Ranma: She's yours again.

She walks out of the studio, and closes the door behind her.

Akane and Ryouga sit there, silently.

Back at the Hotel-

Dimi-Chan: I can't believe this! (to Juton) You see, this is what your lame-ass story did! If not for that, she might've actually been able to convince them!

Juton rolls his eyes.

Dimi-Chan: Yeah, I know you're thinking she never would've come up with the idea in the first place, but it would've come up somehow. But you just completely ruined all chances of that, or any other kind of Ranma/Akane action, from EVER HAPPENING! Now wonder you're baka in the manga!

To be continued…

Conclusion: Yep, there's just one final part, and I'll have finished this whole thing in one day, the thing that has taken me I believe over a year to get to completing…unbelievable what will happen when I just sit down and work on it. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it and with luck the conclusion will also be available soon if not this very moment.

Either review (and that is preferable), or e-mail your comments to: deejaygamer@yahoo.com