Ranma’s plight was not gaining her a whole lot of sympathy, even when she let out some truly heart rending moans. Nabiki and Ryouga were far more interested in the contents of the crate sitting on the old teacher’s desk. Nabiki had a pry bar in her hands, but it was proving unnecessary as Ryouga dug his fingers into the lid and wrenched it free with a squeal of nails.
Both Nabiki and Ryouga let out a sigh of relief as they shoved aside some packing material and revealed a small keg, and several flattish containers stuffed full of envelopes. Ryouga reached in and pulled out the keg. Turning it he read the label.
“Oh, of course,” he said in a voice heavy with disappointment. “Spring of drowned girl. Guess Shampoo is as tired of her curse as I . . .” he trailed off as he noticed Nabiki watching him with a quizzical expression on her face.
Nabiki’s brain raced, putting together datum, and giving herself a good whack upside the head once she had them all together. “You’re P-chan!” she said. It wasn’t a question.
Ryouga looked ashamed. He nodded his head. “I’m sorry. I never meant your sister any harm, but . ..”
“Once sister-dear adopted you, there wasn’t much of a way you could avoid it without her going medieval on your ass.”
“I would have deserved it.”
“Yea, you would have. It was a lousy awful thing to do!” Nabiki said flatly.
“Huh?” Ranma said from her couch, looking at Nabiki in surprise. Ryouga just hunched his shoulders like a dog expecting a kick.
Nabiki stared at Ranma. “He knows it. I know it. You know it. It was a lousy thing to do. No point and pretending it’s not.” Nabiki reached out and took Ryouga’s chin between two of her fingers and pulled his face up so she could look him in the eye. “I’ve got my differences with my sister, and I sort of like you, but if I see P-chan in her bedroom again, we’ll be having barbeque Understood!” She used her fingers to make Ryouga nod.
“Good, that’s settled then,” she said in a relaxed voice. “Lets see what we got here,” she started pulling stuff out of the crate.
“Is that it,” Ryouga asked tentatively.
Nabiki turned her head to look at him. “What, you want fireworks. You want I should pull out the old mallet and let you have it. Scream pervert at the top of my lungs. Stuff like that.”
Ryouga looked at Ranma, Ranma looked at Ryouga. Ryouga looked at Nabiki. “Well, yea.”
“Not my style,” Nabiki said with a shrug. She then gave him a truly evil smile. “But, I’m sure I can come up with some interesting punishments if you really feel the need.”
Ryouga quailed a bit before that smile. But then he stiffened his shoulders and said. “Ok.”
Nabiki who had been leaning over the crate face-faulted into it. Dragging herself out of the container she glared at Ryouga, her gaze accusing him of being responsible for her looking silly. “That was a joke. You understand joke. Ha Ha. Funny. You see.”
Ryouga winced a bit at the sarcasm, and said in a weak voice. “It would make me feel better.”
Nabiki rolled her eyes. Maybe she could buy him a hair-shirt. No, forget about buying. Maybe she could make him knit one, and then wear it. These honor nuts. Now that the sordid truth was out the idiot might do something stupid, like opening up his belly with a tanto. That thought caused her stomach to churn a bit.
With some surprise Nabiki realized she actually cared about the big lug. It wasn’t the sex. That was enjoyable, but she knew if she wanted it, she could get it easily enough elsewhere. It was the fun she had with them. How long had it been since she’d had fun. So long she couldn’t remember. She turned so she was fully facing Ryouga. “Ok. You want punishment. I’ll give you punishment.” She looked around the room. “I’m sure we can find lots of options, if we just look.”
Nabiki eyes fell on the keg of drowned girl water. She picked it up. “This for instance. Maybe we should turn you into a girl. Much more interesting than punishing a pig, and I’m not really all that fond of bacon. What do you think.”
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