"Akane! Look!" he commanded as he held it out so that it was right before her eyes.
The girl of his dreams stopped due to the surprise of having someone pop out in front of her. When she came to stand, she couldn't help but looking at what he was holding, both because it was right there where she couldn't help but see it, and due to him calling her attention to it. Her eyes didn't leave the item, and she stood there, staring wide eyed at it. She mouth opened a bit as she watched it, and it was clear that every thought that she had was involved with it.
All of that made Hikaru rather happy, given that the item that he'd found was actually working. Sure, he wasn't certain if it were a crystal statuette of a naked woman or a piece of crystal shaped like a naked woman, but he did know that the light of it was obviously not natural. It glowed with a power that was not reflected from outside, and the patterns that it brought out were certainly something special. And now he was using them on the girl who he had wanted for so long.
"What do you think?" he asked, ready to break into a broad grin at getting the answer that he expected.
"What do I think?" she parroted. "I think...."
"Yes...."
"I think that... has to be one of the most perverted things that I've ever seen."
"Huh?"
"I can't believe that anyone would ever make something like that. Where did you get it?"
"I... found it," he told her numbly, noticing the clear eyed gaze that she had.
"Probably brought in by some jerk who thought that it was 'neat'."
"You sound mad," commented a familiar voice, as the person came up to them. "I hope that it isn't pointed at me."
"No, it's not, Ranma. He found something, and he wanted to show me."
"Oh, really?"
"Really. And why are you still a girl?"
"I'm going to have to heat up some water, and heard your voice, so I thought that I'd let you know that I might be a little late," the pigtailed girl admitted. "This way the teacher won't get mad."
"Oh.... I see."
"But what about this 'something'? It's got to be really big to get you riled up."
"Look at it yourself. See?"
Following the dark haired girl's gesture, Ranma-chan turned to look at the statuette, blinking slightly at the sight of it. Her lips parted a bit as she stared dully at the figure.
"It's really a waste of good crystal, isn't it?"
"Yeah...."
"Instead of making it just pretty, they had to make it perverted too."
"Ah."
Akane glanced over at the redhead and frowned. "You don't have to stare at it."
"Oh."
"Ma... Come on!"
"Eh?"
"Hey! Pay attention, would you?!"
"Enough of looking at it, damn it!" the youngest Tendo barked, pulling on the redhead's shoulder.
Shaking her head, Ranma blinked her eyes back to focus. "Huh.... Sorry. Just got caught up in something."
"I'd say. Did you have to stare at it for that long?"
"Nah, but I just got caught up in it. After all, can you imagine what it took for someone to create something like that?"
"Exactly what I was saying. But we were lucky."
"How so?"
"He found it before anything happened with it. And that's a really good thing. I can imagine how much 'fun' some of the guys around here would have with a naked little statue."
"I guess...."
"I know. And thank you. That's a big help," Akane commented, giving Hikaru a smile of thanks.
"No problem," he answered flatly, lost a bit in the warm glow her smile had induced.
"But we should get going," Ranma put in. "If we don't hurry up, we'll be late, and I still have to get some hot water, or I'll have to go to class as a girl."
"And that could be a problem. You lead the way," Akane told the busty redhead, and the two of them walked off down the hallway.
That left Gosunkugi standing there with his arm still outstretched, and the statuette in his hand. At first, having gotten the smile had left him happy, but that quickly went away as he started to realize that it seemed that his 'item of Power' had not affected Akane in the least. To tell the truth, it seemed to have worked more on Ranma than it had on the girl that he had wanted to catch above all others. Added to that was the fact that Akane had seemed to be getting along better with her fiance. His arm lowered to his side as he realized that this attempt had failed, leaving him with nothing more than the view of an empty hallway to show for it.
He hung his head due to the shame of it, while:
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