Sacrafice (Ranma 1/2 Song Fic)

Pushing Me Away...1

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2 and company, I'm only borrowing them for entertainment so don't sue me...2

Note: This is a song-fic based on "Pushing Me Away" (Linkin Park). It was just a spur of the moment thing.  Enjoy.3

Ranma kneeled in his room, where for the past two years he had stayed with the Tendos and his father. On his right was his backpack, completely packed, and On his left was his futon, rolled up and tied. Looking down in his hands, he stared at a picture of Akane. It was taken just a few weeks ago, during a rare visit to Narita. In the picture Akane was laughing, lighting up her face cheerfully. Suddenly, a tear fell down and landed on the picture. He swiped his eyes deftly and then, still staring at the picture, he smiled.4

~I've lied to you...~5

~The same way that I always do...~6

~This is the last smile...~7

~That I'll fake for the sake of being with you...~8

Ranma got up off his knees, slipping the picture into his pocket, and bent down to pick up his pack. After tying his futon onto his pack, he slipped his shoulders under the straps and turned, a smile still on his face.9

~(Everything falls apart)...~10

~Even the people who never frown...~11

~(Eventually break down)...~12

~The sacrifice of hiding in a lie...~13

The smile cracked suddenly as he began to descend down the stairs. He stopped and turned, taking one last look at a single door in the hall. On it, a wooden duck hung and engraved into it was the name: Akane...14

~(Everything has to end)...~15

~You'll soon find we're out of time left...~16

~(To watch it all unwind)...~17

~The sacrifice is never knowing...~18

He felt so many different emotions...desire, sadness, anger, regrett...so many things that could've happened yet didn't...so many deceptions. Did it really have to end this way?19

~Why I never walked away...~20

~Why I played myself this way...~21

~Now I see your testing me pushes me away...~22

Staring at the door, memories began to float into his mind. The first time they met, the Romeo and Juliet play, and so many other memories...yet never did she accept him. So many people stood in the path, so many obsticles he had overcome, yet now...it was too late for it all...23

~I've tried like you...~24

~To do everything you wanted too...~25

~This is the last time...~26

~I'll take the blame for the sake of being with you...~27

At the same moment, on the other side of the door, Akane sat with her back against the door, sobs choking threw her and tears soaking her sleeve. Her legs pulled up to her chest, she buried her face into her arms and cried harder than she ever had. She couldn't believe it. He was finally going to leave her, something that she thought she would welcome one day, yet here she was crying her heart out...she was a fool. She heard the gentle steps down the stairs, then minutes later the footsteps on stone accross the front yard. Finally, she heard the gate close...and she herself wished with all her heart that she could leave too. Yet she never walked out on her life, she struggled, despite all the hardship. All those sacrifices...28

~Why I never walked away...~29

~Why I played myself this way...~30

~Now I see your testing me pushes me away...~31

~Pushes me away...~32

Akane got up and walked unsteadily to the window. "Goodbye, Ranma..." she whispered, and perhaps Ranma somehow heard or sensed her farewell, for at that moment he turned back around. "Goodbye, Akane..." And with that, he turned back to his path and walked away.33