Her eye twitching, Mara grumbled. "You gotta be kidding me..."
Looking up from her drink, Urd would have sworn that voice sounded familiar. Now if she could only get her eyes to focus.
Ranma raised an eyebrow at the words and turned to regard the other woman. She seemed rather exotic. White hair with really tanned skin. And she had markings on her face to boot. Ranma idly wondered if it was another demon.
Her eyes coming into focus, Urd took notice of the man with the raven-black hair in a pigtail. "Well, hello, cutie..." She hiccupped. "Care for a drinky?" It took her only a few more seconds to also recognize the demon marks on the guy's face, who was staring at her in disgust. That stole the mirth out of her voice.
Ranma frowned and whispered to Mara. "Who the hell is this chick? And why does she have marks too?"
Mara sighed. "Ranma, this is Urd. And while I don't like her, you can't touch this one." She then groaned as she explained. "Hild's daughter."
Ranma stared at Mara. "So?"
Urd frowned. "Hey! She's not my mother!" Her protest came out drunkenly and she failed to stand up to glare properly at the demons.
Mara frowned back. "Oh? Then whose' legs did you come out from between of?"
With those words Urd flushed in anger and embarrassment, while Ranma simply blinked. "What the hell are you talking about, Mara?"
Mara's eye twitched at Ranma's answer.
Blinking her eyes once, twice, Urd asked. "Is he THAT dense?"
"Yep..." Mara groaned, her usual hostility towards Urd forgotten because of her embarrassment. Why couldn't Ranma avoid showing how much of a dense idiot he was?
Ranma ignored Mara and glared at Urd. "And what's that supposed to mean?"
Urd bluntly answered. "You have no clue what there is to sex, do you?"
"Of course I do!" Ranma answered, a little too quickly and unconvincingly, before lashing out verbally. "Not that I should care what a drunken old hag of a tomboy thinks, anyway."
Both demoness and goddess went incredibly stiff at the comment, one out of amusement and the other out of rage. "What's his name?" Urd asked calmly.
"Ranma," Mara supplied.
"Okay." Urd said. She broke the empty sake bottle in her hand, creating a very real weapon. "RANMA! PREPARE TO DIE!"
Ranma snorted and clocked Urd in the temple with a kick much sooner than she could even start her strike. After dying for underestimating a woman he would never do the same mistake again. He followed the kick with a punch to the nose, sending Urd flying away to crash against the opposite wall of the bar. The goddess didn't get up, blood flowing freely from her broken nose.
Mara gawked. "You... You just beat the crap out of Urd..." She smirked. While she DID appreciate it, she had to admit something. "You are in SO much fucking trouble."
Ranma turned to stare at Mara with a confused look on his face. "Huh? What are you talking about? She's the one that started it."
"Well, Ranma..." Mara began, idly taking one of Urd's unopened sake bottles. "You just beat up the daughter of our boss. Hild is NOT going to be happy."
"She'll be pissed at me again. So?" Ranma asked in a bored tone of voice.
"Yes, again." Mara stated, wondering if Ranma had a wish to stay dead.
The pigtailed demon shrugged. "Are we done here? I want to make it to Nerima."
"Not yet." Mara said and uncorked the bottle to take a swig. She then let out a small belch. "Ah yeah... That's the stuff."
Ranma snorted in disgust and leaned against a wall. "Gonna go to your hips." Ranma muttered.
"Just as all that nicotine is going to shrivel your muscles and balls." Mara teased back as she continued to drink. She was in a much better mood now, feeling stronger and just having witnessed Urd get the shit beaten out of her. The best part was Ranma was to blame, not her.
Ranma smirked. "Not smoking now, am I?"
Mara smirked back. "You will be. You only had ONE stick. You're gonna need an entire pack a day, at least."
The pigtailed demon snorted. "I didn't need one now, did I?" He pointed at Urd. "I'm no weak demon like you, tomboy."
Mara rolled her eyes. Dark God, this guy could be an asshole.
Ranma waited for another full minute before becoming impatient. "Are you done yet?"
"No." Mara said and her eyebrow twitched. "Now have your smokes." If he didn't shut up soon she'd be beating the crap out of him. The concept was very tempting.
Ranma rolled his eyes. "I don't need it now. I used little energy to fight her." The pigtailed demon pointed at the still comatose form of Urd.
Mara rolled her eyes in return. "Whatever."
"Whatever. I'm going out for a walk." Ranma said, finally at the end of his patience, and kicked off the wall.
Mara shrugged. Maybe having him out of her sight for a while would do her some good. "Stay close to the motel. I don't feel like searching for you."
Ranma only snorted in response and walked out.
Mara took another swig of her bottle and leaned back on her chair. "Asshole. Why the fuck am I putting up with him anyway?" As soon as she finished asking herself that question she turned down to see an unconscious goddess. The time it took for Ranma to knock her out... "Damn asshole. If he can keep his mouth shut for five minutes this might work." The demoness continued drinking, unaware that her wish wouldn't be granted.
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The phone rang a couple of times before Kasumi picked it up. It was early in the morning, so much that she was the only one up, and she had just walked out of the bathroom. "Hello?" The eldest Tendo sister had a smile on her face. It wasn't as cheerful as the one she always had on before the incident, but it was a smile nonetheless. A few seconds later she nodded, unmindful that the person on the other end of the line couldn't see the gesture. "Yes, this is her sister."
The following two minutes were completely silent in the Tendo household. The silence was broken by the receiver being placed down, then Kasumi falling to her knees and sobbing. "Nabiki..." She whispered brokenly.
Soun would be the first to find Kasumi in her currently broken state, half an hour and many tears later.
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