Akane winced as she guessed what might be going on. Far be it from finding training a cover, Ranma had probably just discovered the results of having gone so long without training his girl side much. Ranma was not in the state of mind at the moment to devote himself rationally to solving such a problem.
The dancing and cursing around the dojo stopped for a little bit and the deep breathing settled in the middle of the room.
"Shimatta," Ranma muttered finally as Aken took the near silence as a sign that is was a good time to come in.
"Ranma?" Akane said. The sulking martial artist, his side already to the door, turned all the way around to face away. "Oh, come on, surely it can't be that bad.""
Ranma grumbled wordlessly as Akane approached. She ignored her attitude, or tried to appear to at least, and sat down next to the girl.
"You haven't done any official training," Akane said. "But you're always running around for snacks and you've had some okay fights as a girl recently. So what if you're a little weaker, you'll still got..."
"I got less endurance and resilience too," Ranma muttered.
"Well there's still speed," Akane tried, patting her shoulder.
"Maybe before Saffron," Ranma said bitterly.
"Oh..." Akane paused.
"I still got a good chi-battery," Ranma said, almost as an aside.
"You see," Akane said. "There's something good and you still got your experience, the rest just takes work!" She worked herself around Ranma and then scooted forward, virtually enclosing the red-head in her legs as she gripped the girl's shoulders.
"A...Akane..." Ranma stuttered.
"I'm just giving you a massage," Akane said. "You seem like you could use one."
"Oh..." Ranma said, slightly embarrassed for having made a scene. "Alright, I guess,"
"To work then," Akane said cheerfully.
She then began tackling all the various knots and tense spots along Ranma's highly tensed up form. Akane had to force herself to keep smile at several places from the sheer amount of muscle tension, some of it seemingly having been there for years.
Instead, however, Akane focused on some of the surprised gasps of relief and pleasure coming out of her patient. She felt herself growing a little warm, strangely enough, in response to that reaction, but didn't pay too much attention to that thought.
What Akane cared about was that Ranma sounded like she at least was temporarily forgetting her problem.
And then...it happened. Ranma, hiccuped...or yawned...or something. At which point the red-head projected a golfball-sized ball of molten metal that broke through the dojo doors and fortunately cooled enough before landing on the stone pathway outside to not harm that any.
Akane and Ranma blinked in confusion, as Nabiki arrived and thought about all the need for copper wiring...
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