Ranma sat up suddenly as Nabiki picked up the keg of drowned girl water. “What, no wa . . .” She started to protest. What else she might have said was lost as she suddenly turned green, clapped a hand to her mouth, and rushed out of the basement.
Ranma’s display had done one thing. Got Nabiki’s mind out of the rut it had been in. She’d been thinking moment to moment. Not a good way to win in chess or life. The slightly sarcastic smile on her face became thoughtful. Ryouga’s depressed, hit me I deserve it, attitude was perfectly in keeping with the character of the Ryoga Nabiki had come to know over the last year. It was way out off base for the one she’d got to know much better over the last two and a half weeks.
Ryouga was reaching for the keg of water in her hands and she snatched it away. It was too heavy to hide behind her back so she placed it by the crate and put herself between Ryouga and it. “Want to tell me what this is all about?”
Ryouga looked puzzled, and just a tiny bit wary. “What. I deserve punishment. You asked if I thought getting a girl curse would do it.”
Nabiki shook her head in a world weary manner. “Give it a rest. Ranma’s gone, and no one else in the room is buying your story. So, tell me, or I’ll discuss my deductions with Ranma when she, or he, gets back.”
“No!” Ryouga cried out in quick panic before he could control himself.
Nabiki kept her expression the same, but inside was pumping a fist in the air. “Look. I’ve already figured most of it out. I just want to hear your side of it before I decide if I’m going to blow the whistle or not.”
“Ryouga went a bit pale. He swallowed, and glanced toward the stairs. “Ok, Ok.” he took a deep breath. “Ok, so you know I’m gay.”
Nabiki was proud of herself. She didn’t facefault, or shout, WHAT!” out loud.
Ryouga was continuing, not noticing her strained face. “Or that’s what I thought. But then Ranma and I started to play the games, and I found out that I loved sex that way too. I thought it was just because Ranma was a boy, but when Ranma invited you to join I enjoyed it with you too. So I guess I’m rally bi-sexual.”
Nabiki just nodded her head, afraid she’d reveal her reaction if she spoke.
“I just with Ranma was bi as well, but he won’t have anything to do with guys, Not sexually anyway.”
Nabiki could not keep quiet at this. “Pardon me. I’ve seen your little collection of photos. Not to mention watched you two screw like bunnies.”
“that’s when Ranma’s a girl, and we’re playing. She thinks that’s fine, because she’s a girl. But she won’t even consider doing me when she’s a guy.”
“So, you figure if you’re a girl, Ranma will be willing to do you because that would be ok, a boy and a girl.”
“yeah,” Ryouga said, looking a bit shamefaced. “I really am sorry about what I did to your sister. I do think it was wrong. But I guess turning me into a girl wouldn’t be much of a punishment.”
“Oh, I don’t know. Seems to me it would depend on what we do to you when you are a girl,” Nabiki said. She stepped aside and gestured at the keg on the table.
Ryouga looked at her in surprise, and then at the keg, a hopeful look on his face. Taking one last look at Nabiki, he took two steps and stove in the top of the keg with his fist. Picking it up, he dumped it over his head.
The door at the head of the stairs slammed open. “Don’t do it, Ryou . . .” Ranma broke off as she rushed down the stairs. She stared wide eyed at the scene in front of her. “Fuck Me!” she said in shock. A Freudian slip if ever there was one.
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