It always made Akane feel a little bit annoyed at her fiance for adopting that particular strategy. Flirting her way into a free mountain of ice cream or sweets, then polishing it all off without a single thought.
So one could perhaps forgive her for indulging in a little schadenfreude for something as trivial as the ice cream server being a woman, and Ranma not having enough money to pay for an ice cream cone.
“Don’t know what you’re smirking about,” Ranma huffed. “I don’t see anything remotely funny about any of this. I mean, it’s not like I crave the soft, cold, delicious flavour of ice cream or anything like that.”
A beat later.
“Come on, just a lick? Just a tiny little lick? Please, Akane?”
“Serves you right for depending on flirting so much,” Akane replied, taking a taunting, teasing lick of her cone that she too late realised could be taken in a perverted context when she noticed some boys behind Ranma imitating her pigtailed fiance’s drooling expression. “I would have thought even a half-decent martial artist would have more than one strategy to deal with a situation in case the unexpected occurred.”
Akane chuckled around her next lick of the cone. Honestly, sometimes Ranma’s irritated expression was just as cute as a bunny trying to eat peanut butter. In spite of their little spats she really did enjoy hanging out with him. Or her as the case currently was. It was a shame, really. If only she knew for certain Ranma felt about her the way she felt about him…
The important point to note is that Ranma felt much the same way. Important because it created an unusual situation with an unusual item that was approaching them at a fast pace…
“Pigtailed girl! Akane Tendo! To see you both here, in this place at once! Truly it is a sign from above! A fated encounter! Let us enjoy our time together!”
Akane rolled her eyes. Ugh! This pest again! Why was it she could never get away from him? What would it take to make him leave them al- Oh no. No, no, no! She could see the wheels turning in Ranma’s head even now, don’t you dare don’t you even dare!
“Oh Kuno-sempai!” Ranma squealed adorably enough to stop a rampaging rhino in its tracks. “Akane is being a meanie and isn’t sharing her ice cream coooone. Could you please, pretty please buy me one?” Ugh, even batting her eyes for effect! Any girl behaving that way in public should just die of embarrassment! “I’d be ever so grateful.” Ranma punctuated that last statement by leaning seductively into Kuno’s chest, and -
Akane fidgeted a little bit without the faintest idea why. Here she was watching her gender-flipped fiance flirt with a guy she utterly hated. Yet for some reason it made her feel… good. Good enough that she didn’t even notice the seductive manner she’d started to lick upon the cone or the little way that she whimpered. She didn’t even notice when several boys started to faint with nosebleeds. Her attention was entirely upon the sight of Ranma flirting with Kuno to manipulate him into buying her ice cream.
Mon Jul 08 07:50:59 2013
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