On this day though, she was finding herself focused on her outfit. She couldn't help feel ill fit into it, despite that it was tailored to fit her lithe body totally. That was one of her worries, and she was not pleased by the idea of what the idiots who would be 'ambushing' her would think. With her owner running along side her, she had another reminder of her current status, and that changed things more than the fact that her sister was with them.
But as the school gates came into sight, she scowled and growled under her breath. "Since I had to show you the way, we'll be on time for the show."
"What show?" Ranma asked with a blink.
"My little sister's admirers," Nabiki drawled, "They come and see her every morning."
"Not that I want them to!" barked the girl in question.
"Ah, but it's not like you have ever been able to stop their affections..."
"That's Kuno's fault, not mine!"
"Oh..," their Master said in sudden understanding. "That's the guy who set up those stupid fights, right?"
"That's... You remembered..."
"Ya sound surprised."
"Well..."
The elder girl smirked at her sister's discomfort and decided to push things back onto the original subject. "We're coming in past the gates."
"Great, and now I have to deal with..."
"... Nothing? Okay, this is new."
"Where's all the jerks coming to attack me?"
"What? Do you miss their presence?"
"Of course not!" Akane snapped as she looked around, and found only that the boys among the students milling around the front yard were more interested in gazing over the lines of her body instead of attacking her. "But what's going on? I'm usually bothered as soon as I come in."
"Psst! Akane!" called a new voice, and one that she recognized.
"Yuka? What's... yipe!"
Sayuri dragged both sisters off to the side where a group of girls waited in a clump, with a few straggling around trying to look like they were not trying to listen in. "You're a slave now?"
"Yes, we are," Nabiki replied, noting that the group included girls from all grades, including both her friends and Akane's. "You guys already knew?"
"Sure. Yuka called your house yesterday, and Kasumi told her what happened."
"It must have slipped her mind. But that is right. And I suppose that little discovery has caused what I think it has?"
"What do you mean?" her sister asked.
"Kasumi told your friend. She told her friends. They told their friends. And it went on from there until everyone knew that we're slaves."
"So everyone knows..."
"Yup. And I'm sure that since a boy owns us now, they know that they can't have you without his permission."
"You mean..."
"Your fights are over," the elder Tendo girl commented cheerfully.
"Is that boy you came with your master?" one of her friends asked.
"The guy with the pigtail? Sure is."
"He's certainly cute..."
"And he looks like a better choice for being a master than a lot of the guys here," Yuka murmured with a blush.
The girl with the short hair next to her grinned. "He would be a good guy to be with, even if a girl wasn't a slave. Now that she is one, she can enjoy his attentions."
"Hiroko!"
"What? He is pretty hot, and there are some things to enjoy as a slave..."
"I know, but to bring it up like that..."
"But they have to have already dealt with it, right?"
"Sadly, that is not the case," Nabiki informed them.
"Huh?"
"He's rather shy, and even when we offered, he wasn't about to take us up on it. I mean, we could have done plenty, but he went so far as to sleep on the roof."
"You mean that he wouldn't do anything?" Sayuri asked.
"Nothing."
"And you didn't get to, you know..."
"No, we didn't," Akane muttered.
"Guess he's not perfect..."
"That's too bad..." another of Nabiki's friends sighed.
"Yeah," Hiroko commented, "There has to be a reason, but..."
"You really have a problematic situation," Yuka observed.
"Don't they, though. They're slaves to a cute guy, and they're not getting anything out of it."
The sisters looked over the girls around them, and saw the nods and looks of sympathy as the idea was apparently shared. Each of their friends and classmates were supportive in the face of what they had been told.
Shrugging slightly, Nabiki gave a small smile. "I just think he's really... sweet. I know that he's into girls, but I just don't think that he's even had many people be nice to him."
"Really?" Sayuri asked.
"Yeah. And I'm not sure how much he knows about girls, but he's been nice enough."
"Hmm..." went a great many girls as they looked over the now fidgeting boy.
Akane merely scowled as her new image of her sister was reinforced, while:
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