Much as he cared about his father, the old man was not respectable in any sense of the term.
That was for things like what was going on right at that moment.
"Pick one of my daughters, and she'll be your fiancee," Soun Tendo told him as he sat across from the man.
"What?" Ranma asked incredulously. "Ya can't be serious..."
"Is something wrong with my girls?"
"Well, no..."
"Then pick one."
Genma whacked his son over the top of his head. "Stop stalling boy! You have to fulfill the promise Tendo and I made!"
"Why should I?!" the pigtailed boy snarled.
"Because it's a matter of honor!"
"Yeah, right!"
"How can you say that?!"
"EASY! They're little girls! They ain't gonna ta be able ta marry for years," the younger Saotome snapped, gesturing at the girls in question.
What he said was completely true, since the Tendo girls were nowhere near a marriageable age. All three of them were in grade school, and though they held a portent of their future looks, they each looked rather cute in their outfits. Each of them had differing ideas about what was going on, but all three of them were blinking at the sight in front of them.
"I understand that boy," the Saotome Patriarch commented, "But think of it this way. You can use this as an opportunity to guide your future bride down a proper path."
"Huh?" Ranma replied, looking thoroughly confused.
"Well, you are older and wiser than they are, but not as much as I am. This is your opportunity to guide and teach them what they will need to know."
"So..."
"You can use the time until your bride is old enough to marry to teach her to be what you want in a wife."
"Ya know what?"
"What?"
"YOU'RE SICK, POPS!" the teenager bellowed, and moved in one swift motion. When he came to a stop, he was standing where he'd punted his father out of the room.
The elder Saotome didn't like that, but at the moment he was blowing water out of his mouth from where he'd landed in the koi pond.
Akane's eyes had grown large and she looked up at Ranma with no little bit of awe. "I wanna learn how to do that..."
"I like him," Nabiki murmured, giving a measuring look over the boy.
"Oh my... That was a bit much, wasn't it?" Kasumi asked.
"Ah heh..," Ranma replied, rubbing the back of his head, "Sorry 'bout doin' that so suddenly, but I figured that he shouldn't be treating you three like that."
"That was nice of you," the eldest Tendo sister murmured with a bright smile.
Not quite sure of how to deal with a single kid in this sort of situation, never mind three, Ranma was left at a loss for words while:
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