This, followed by the disgusting announcement at lunch, was enough to enrage the poor girl. Every single one of her classmates had acknowledged the fact that she was the pioneer in beating her love senseless to claim them, no matter how hard she tried to deny it. Event after event had been thrown back in her face as her past history with the pig-tailed martial artist had been dredged up while looking for evidence.
The bright side to this was that the majority of the girls at school were looking elsewhere for victims instead of her fiance. This did not include one Kuno Kimi who had declared that the foul witch Akane had cast a spell upon the pig-tailed boy and that he needed to be rescued from her foul designs upon his body.
As if she wanted anything to do with him! Shaking her head, the youngest Tendo stomped into the house, too upset to even give the traditional greeting upon entering. Throwing her bookbag onto the couch, she threw herself down and sulked.
Thinking back over the past year, she could admit that she cared for the pig-tailed youth a great deal. How much, she wasn't sure. Denial had always been quick to reach her lips whenever confronted with it, and it had been an easy path to take. Her quick temper and his loud mouth were only two of the reasons they hadn't done anything together.
Since she was a little girl, she had dreamed of a handsome, talented, and polite knight in shining armor that would come riding in and rescue her from some great evil. She had imagined him spouting poetry in praise of her beauty, his gallentry and manners when dealing with her. Shoot, she had created the perfect man of her dreams.
Then, Kuno had shown an interest in her that quickly perverted and twisted most of what she had dreamed of. The poetry in her praise was bad Shakespearian shoved into her face while under physical attack. His manners and charm were torn asunder while being used to get a bunch of boys to attack her every morning. This, of course, helped to isolate her from having boys as friends while keeping the girls angry at her for stealing them all.
When her future husband had finally shown up, the rest of her dreams had come crashing down. He was rude, insulting, and woefully ignorant of most things. He was openly hostile and took great joy in turning her years of training into an ashen taste in her mouth as his greater skill easily defeated hers. He had rescued her from the Horde and implied that he was her knight in shining armor.
Then had come the various kidnappings, that she lacked the skill and power to escape from. Each and every time, the pig-tailed boy had shown up, defeated her kidnapper, and rescued her. He made it all look so easy while continuing to torture her in the process.
She knew that her cooking skills weren't all that great, but the way he pretended to pass out, throw up, or even pretending to need his stomach pumped EVERY, SINGLE TIME she cooked for him didn't do anything to endear himself to her heart.
Depspite all this, she still cared. Even when he was leading the other girls on and flirting with them, she cared. While showing that he was willing to flirt with EVERYONE else but her, she cared. When he had conspired to ruin the wedding with those other tramps, she cared. She just didn't know HOW she cared. Did she love him? If so, was it like an annoying sibling? Like a crazy uncle that she wished would go back home? Like the way a wife loves a husband?
Sighing, she shook her head. She didn't know. With all the craziness in her life, she still wasn't sure which way her heart fell on the scales of love.
Finally noticing the silence, she looked around. Seeing a note, she quickly snatched it up to read it.
Akane, the fathers are out drinking, not sure when they'll get home. Am taking Kasumi and Akane with me to do some shopping and other business. Will probably stop by Auntie's house for the night. Should be back tomorrow. Nabiki.
Ranma... out with her sisters? Nabiki she wasn't worried about. But her innocent sister? Taking a few deep breaths, she thought about the situation. Nodding, she was sure that even the money-hungry Nabiki would protect Kasumi from harm.
"Okay, then." She told the quiet house. "I can handle being by myself for one night."
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