[Episode 115701] [Episode 115701]Currently, his faithful retainer, Sasuke was there to look over him, and to do as his master ordered.
Sasuke was currently mulling over his master’s latest stupid action. Even he was worried about Tatewaki’s actions of late, and that said something. However, before he could figure out the intricacies of Kuno idiocy, the ninja retainer’s contemplation of was put on halt for a moment as he heard a knocking on the door. “Who’s there?” Sasuke called out.
“How is he this time, Sasuke?” Nabiki asked as she entered the room with her usual mask of emotionlessness.
Shaking his head, Sasuke let out a sigh of defeat. “It would seem that Saotome-san did quite the number on Master Kuno this time.”
“He deed naht...” Kuno growled out through shut teeth, a bit of spittle at the corners of his mouth, since his head was positioned back.
“Kuno-chan did go after Ranma with a real blade, Sasuke,” Nabiki pointedly ignored Kuno. The boy was not going to participate in the conversation anyway.
Sasuke nodded. "That he did... And one cannot blame Saotome for treating it as a real threat, no can we?”
Rustling in the bed a bit, Kuno spat out, “De fowl demon sheeted! I gnaw he sumhaw sheeted!”
“Right,” Nabiki answered distractedly and wondered what got into Ranma. Even if Kuno attacked with the true intent to kill Ranma could dismiss the attempt as unimportant. No... Something else bugged Ranma and he attacked Kuno viciously because of it. She needed to find out what before it cost her.
Sasuke could see the intent on Nabiki’s face and asked, “Is something troubling you, Tendo-san?”
The middle Tendo sister fixed Sasuke with one of her unemotional stares. “No. Keep Kuno-chan out of trouble, Sasuke.”
Sasuke nodded his head.
“Napheekee...” Kuno grabbled out, trying to lift his head a bit to look at the middle Tendo daughter, and regretting it as his body protested. “Du u haff de fotos?”
Nabiki smirked and whipped out six pictures. “You know the price, Kuno-chan.”
“Sahsukay...” Kuno mangled out as he tried to look at his servant. “Go inta me purss n’ geeve Tendoh-san ten fouhsahn yen pah fotograff.”
“Yes, Master Kuno!” Sasuke said as he took Kuno’s money-belt from atop of the dresser and began counting Yen bills out to get to sixty-thousand Yen.
Nabiki raised an eyebrow. “I’m afraid the price has gone up.”
“WOT!?” Kuno grabbled and tried to sit up, before screaming out in pain and falling back onto the couch. The heart-monitor connected to him was now beeping at a faster rate.
“Master Kuno!” Sasuke shouted as he placed a hand on Kuno’s bandaged chest. “You know the doctor said not to exaggerate your injuries further. You could do permanent damage.”
The girl continued to smirk. “These photos are top quality, and I took them with big risk to myself. I expect my efforts to be recognized.”
This caught Kuno's attention, but he still tried to play it cool, even with his heart-monitor showing otherwise. “Wot du u meen, Tendoh mersinahry?”
“Let me give you a small glance at one of them so you know,” Nabiki said and placed one of the photos in front of his face for two seconds before taking it away.
Kuno’s breathing became dramatically labored as his heart-monitor doubled its beeping pace. A small stream of blood began seeping from either nostril. He had caught enough of a glimpse to realize what the Cylutian Princess was doing. “Haw mush?”
“Only thirty-thousand yen each,” Nabiki offered.
“Shold!” Kuno shouted loud enough that his lips curled back to show that while his teeth had been put back into place, one front tooth was still missing. “Sahsukay! Geeve Tendoh hah Yen.”
“Yes, Master Kuno,” Sasuke said as he started counting out one hundred and eighty-thousand Yen. He had to sweat a little. Damn, that was a lot.
Nabiki didn’t even bat an eyelash as she took the Yen notes from Sasuke and handed the photos to the mostly immobilized Kuno. “Enjoy, Kuno-chan.”
Kuno laughed maniacally. “Sahsukay! U gnaw wot to du...”
His skink paling as he shuddered violently at those words, Sasuke whimpered pathetically; like a kicked puppy. “Tendo-san,” He began warningly, “I think you might want to leave now,” He said as he walked over to a cabinet to get out some plastic medical gloves. “This won’t be pretty...”
The middle Tendo sister fought down a feeling of revulsion and nodded, leaving the room a lot richer. And as she did, to fight down the horrible images that went through her head, she concentrated on the money she had gotten and what she could do with it. “Oh well. Not like I didn’t know what Kuno-chan does on his free time.” Nabiki had files on Kuno’s ‘activities’ as a safeguard should he ever get out of line.
And so Nabiki walked out of the hospital and into the streets, still content on her money. Yet, her surroundings did not go unnoticed as Nabiki’s senses were sharp as ever...
...And she wasn’t picking up anything. No movement, barely any sound... Looking up, the middle-Tendo daughter saw people just standing in their spots, looking slack-jawed or what-not.
“What?” Nabiki pocketed her money and turned up to see...
...That up in the sky, there was a 50’ long by 50’ wide picture of herself...
...Pulling her shirt up her body after PE.
Nabiki stared for a long time, somehow unwilling to believe what was happening. Yet, as she looked she couldn’t deny it. Someone was projecting a picture of her topless form up in the sky!
The middle Tendo sister ignored all the people gawking at her image and walked to a phone booth. She had a few calls to make. All those that saw her could see she was extremely angry. While it didn't bother her that her naked form was seen by the people, in the beach she did her beast to show off her great body, it made her blood boil that someone would pull off this stunt on her.
“Someone is going to pay,” She promised and picked up the receiver.
The phone was answered on the other line by Asami. “Hello?”
“Asami,” Nabiki said flatly.
“Oh!” Asami started recognizing the voice. “What is it, Boss-lady?”
“Take a look out the window,” Nabiki stated in a painfully-calm manner as she could.
“What do you...” Asami started, only to go dead silent on her end of the line.
Nabiki waited for a couple of seconds, purely for effect, and asked, “Do you know what this means?”
“...That someone is going to die?” Asami asked. They hadn’t dealt in snuffing anyone out yet, but there was a first time for everything.
“I want everyone, and that is ‘everyone’, to trace down this prankster. Are we clear?” Nabiki asked in a cold-as-ice manner that still gave Asami the chills over the phone.
“Yes, Boss-lady!” Asami practically shouted over the phone fearfully.
“Good. Find this device and have our boys at the computer club find out how it works,” Nabiki said. “I’m charging you with finding out if someone has the rights to build it alone. If not we might’ve just come across a gold mine.”
“Yes, Nabiki-san!” Asami shouted, only to have her employer hang up the phone sharply on her.
“And what Else is new? We know how YOU feel about steam.”
“Oh, hush-up,Beanhead!”
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