"Kodachi..." Akane groaned, shaking her head in dismay. "One Kuno a day is more then enough." she added.
"I'll get rid of her, if you make sure that pops doesn't get his greedy little paws on all the food." Ranma offered, causing Akane's anger to briefly flare up before she recalled just whom they were dealing with at the moment. If it had been Ukyo or the bimbo, she might have thought that Ranma had an ulterior motive for wanting to be alone with her. But Kodachi? No, not even Ranma was *THAT* perverted!
"All right, I'll ask Kasumi to put away some for you." Akane agreed.
"Thanks, Akane." Ranma said, putting a hand on Akanes shoulder for a moment, offering her a grateful smile. "Hey, Rose-girl. Catch me if you can!" Ranma taunted, before leaping for the roofs, taking off at speeds that Kodachi was hard pressed to match.
"Oh, ho-ho-ho! My Ranma-sama is feeling playful! How adorable!" Kodachi exclaimed, leaping off in pursuit, throwing off her school uniform, revealing her gymnastics outfit hidden underneath.
Ranma led the insane gymnast on a merry chase over Nerima, eventually leading the girl out of the district, as he had no real desire to be spotted by anyone he knew, doing what he planned on doing.
He stopped outside a small coffeeshop and a few moments later, a completely exhausted Kuno Kodachi landed beside him, panting wildly as she attempted to regain her breath. Ranma himself felt slightly out of breath, but as his own training regiment was harsher then many believed humanly possible, he was in a far better shape then Kodachi who looked just about ready to throw up.
He was impressed however, he didn't think anyone else he knew except possibly Happosai or Cologne could have kept up. But he supposed the crazy girl spent the lions share of her time training, since she didn't have so much else to do with her time. Few, if any, friends. A broken family with a father and brother just as crazy as she was, if not even more so. As far as he knew, she didn't have anything else beside her gymnastics, other then him and her pet crocodile.
He put a hand at the back of her neck, gently massaging her as she recovered. She stiffened up at first, clearly shocked that he was touching her, but hastily relaxed and went back to focusing on her recovery, which came soon enough.
"Fancy a drink and a light snack, Kodachi-chan?" Ranma inquried, gesturing at the entrance. Her sudden smile at his suggestion was brilliant, completely different from her usual haughty expressions. "Great! Come on." he added, guiding her into the cafeteria with a hand on the small of her back, surreptiously massaging a few spots in that general area.
The conversation they had wasn't exactly to his liking and it was glaringly obvious even to him that Kodachi was just as clueless as him when it came to relating with others. Then again, she had an upbringing that was nearly as screwed up as his own, if not more so. Eventually, both of them fell silent and just sipped from their tea, glancing covertly at each other.
Ranma paid for their drinks and cookies, wincing at the expense, hoping that Nabiki wouldn't try to swindle anything off him for the next couple of days, as she would no doubt wish to know what he had spent his money on if he admitted to being broke.
With the people in the cafeteria staring at the scantily clad gymnast and Ranma as they left, he once again guided Kodachi with a hand on her back, this time caressing her spine. She was slowly gaining a marked flush and he'd also noted her starting to mellow out.
He leapt for the roofs and she followed, trailing along beside him as he sought out a somewhat secluded spot, where they wouldn't be seen. After leaping onto the roof of the tallest building in the district, he believed that they had as much privacy as they were likely to get, so he got to work.
He poked at a pressure point, magnifying the effects of the calming one he'd activated as he took her into the cafeteria. Then he let his fingers seek out a few others, lowering her willpower, removing inhibitions ( in case she actually had any! ) and greatly increased her suggestibility. Once that was done, it wasn't a problem getting her to take a few sips from the bottle he'd brought, containing the same brew he'd used on Kasumi previously.
Once that too had taken effect, in addition to the pressure points, he started talking to her, asking questions about her and her behaviour. Then he started describing changes, slowly transforming her into a different person, a better person.
The creepy laugh was the very first thing to go!
Once he was done, he neutralized the pressure points he'd used and helped her shake off the effects of the tea she'd imbibed, then waited to see how she'd react to what he'd done.
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