"Now, Master." Nabiki whispered as she held Ranma within her arms as he shivered. "It's not that bad."
"Now that bad?" The pig-tailed martial artist whimpered. "Now KUNO is after both sides of me all by himself."
"Well, true." The mercenary nodded and patted her master's back in comfort. "But things could be worse."
"They could?" Ranma whispered, raising his head to look the girl in the eye.
The Ice Queen paused for a second. "Sure. I'm not sure how, but things could be worse."
"Damn it!" The boy cursed softly. "That was supposed to be revenge for making my life hell... and all it did was make my life worse."
"Yeah." Nabiki nodded. "And you have to take into account that Kimi is a MUCH better fighter than Tatewaki."
"She is?" Blinked Ranma in surprise. "In what way?"
The girl licked her lips nervously. "As a male, Kuno always limited his art to the forms he had learned. He never deviated outside of them. Kimi, on the other hand, flows through the forms and makes them her own. That makes her faster and more unpredictable."
"So Kuno's created an Anything Goes version of Kendo?" Ranma mused and scratched his chin.
Nabiki nodded once again. "It's like all those years of practicing came together all of a sudden. And with her faster female body, she becomes a lot more dangerous."
"Yeah." The boy sighed. "She won't need as much strength because she uses a weapon. If she has the speed and skill already then I might not be able to take her down easy. It'll have to be the hard way."
"What do you mean?" The Mercenary asked.
"I always relied on my speed and skill to break through Kuno's defenses. With the increase in his own speed and skill, he can use the longer reach of his weapon to gain himself more time to react to anything I can do." He explained carefully. "That means that I have to REALLY fast in order to do anything."
"Ah." Nabiki replied, wondering how things just went so wrong. Hopefully, Kimi wouldn't consider her a valid target to vent her displeasure upon. Idly, she wondered what her next conversation with Tatewaki would be like.
"Well, Kuno was a nut before this began." Ranma muttered. "I was kinda hoping to get him to leave me outta his fantasies, but this might be better."
"Master?" The brunette inquired gently. She felt her heart speed up and a blush form on her cheeks when he shot a rougish grin at her.
"Heh... all my fiance's have been having an easy time of it. Shampoo and Ukyo were the only real fighters out of the bunch. Kodachi was just plain tricky and sneaky while Akane was a pathetic joke compared to the rest." He explained, his grin becomming wider as he took the latest complication and started fitting it into his plans. "Kimi is more than willing to give the rest of them a hard time."
He chortled for a second, rubbing his hands together. "And this will fit in with my plans to make us some serious money."
"How?" Nabiki asked, her eyes lit up in greed.
"Simple." He explained. "We're going to..."
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