TheEnd

   "Oh Ranma, this is wonderful," I purred. "Now, once again, we can have the house all to ourselves. It'll be like back when we first got married. It's been so long..."

    Our youngest daughter, Surudoi, had just moved out of the house to go to college. Our other two daughters, Moya and Hakkiri, had moved out long before and Moya had recently had a daughter, Koeda, our first grandchild.

      "Mmmm, " he murmmered. " Akane, I love you."

     "Are you sure? Prove it to me." I challenged.

     "If you really want me to." Ranma laughed and grabbed me around the waist. "Let's see if you can take it."

     I started to reply when I could no longer breathe. I was swept away by our kiss. It seemed like hours before I could catch my breath.

     "Convinced yet?" my husband challenged.

     "I don't know, am I?" I giggled back.

     "No, I don't think so." Ranma answered.

     Once again, I was caught up in the warmth of his embrace, the rythym of his heart beating, and the feel of his lips on mine.

     When he finally broke away I sighed with pleasure and leaned back to look at my husband. Now in his late 40s, he wasn't as young as he was when I married him, but he was still just as handsome. He had the same black pigtail, the same red Chinese shirt, and the same look in his eyes when he looked at me. Ok, maybe the shirt wasn't exactly the same one, but he still prefered the free style of his old shirt and kept insisting that he have that type of shirt forever.

     "I love you," he said again and I leaned against him and he held me close.

    I thought over the past 30 years that we had been married, and wondered if there was anything that I would change. Certinately not being with Ranma, that was for sure. I couldn't imagine life without him. Sure, there were times where we didn't get along, to put it lightly, but we were two halves of a whole, that couldn't survive apart from each other.

     "Akane, what're you thinking about?"

     "You. What else, Ranchan?" I answered, calling him by his old nickname from when we were 16.

     "I don't know, you looked a little funny there for a minute. I was just wondering."

     "I looked funny? Well baka, you look a little funny now!" I said as I dumped a bottle of water over my husband's head. (I keep a cold water bottle with me all the time just incase.)

     "Akane, what's you do that for?" he whined.

     "Just to prove my point, dearest. Now, you'd better go get yourself fixed up before Moya gets here. She's bringing little Koeda with her and I know how much you love your granddaughter."

     Ranma ran into the bathroom to get some hot water from the faucet and I thought about what story to tell my beloved grandchild.....