Actually, it was more like disgusting.
Akane and Nabiki did their best to look away from the man as he sat on the other side of the table, gorging himself on helpings of food meant for three people. Whenever Ranma was around, the amusing sight of him and his father beating the crap out of each other for a pickle covered up the complete lack of manners. Now, Genma Saotome was the very personification of gluttony, devouring everything on the three plates in front of him at inhuman speed.
The youngest Tendo shuddered as the father of her unwanted fiancée took a bowl of rice and tipped it upside down before patting the bottom to let it all fall into his mouth. “He eats like a pig,” she grumbled. But not one of those cute little pigs of course.
“Actually I’d say he eats more like a duck, pigs tend to chew,” Nabiki corrected when Genma swallowed a fried egg whole, although he needed to swallow a few times to get it all the way down. Finally turning her attention to Genma, Nabiki wondered if he had reached a new low for stupidity. “And do you think it’s wise to eat the helpings of food set out for thoose girls after they beat the living crap out of you yesterday for yelling at them?”
When Genma did reply, Nabiki frowned in annoyance at being ignored, but after he finally coughed up an intact rice ball, the girl shuddered in revulsion. “Bah! Those weak girls just caught me off guard! And they cost me a dinner!”
Yes, and it was one of those weak girls that tossed you and Daddy out on your butts one handed, and with no effort at all. If it wasn't for the lak of wiskers, she would of thought they had eaten some of those magic noodles.
The family was going through the usual routine of course. Soun protested their presence in the house until that one in purple even frowned at him. Akane just plain ignored them, including the fact they could turn her inside out. Kasumi... well, Kasumi just acted normal.
Personally, Nabiki didn’t see how anyone couldn’t tell there was something weird about those two girls. Other than the outlandish style of their clothes, which Nabiki had to reluctantly admire to some degree thanks to the fact that just profile shots of the two of them would sell like crazy, it was like a rule that Ranma only attracted super powerful nut jobs as suitors.
The new girls were the worst of the lot. They weren’t just nuts, they were also incredibly creepy.
That Jane girl was obviously the leader of the two, or three since Ranma seemed to act almost like his father when it came to those two. She was violent, pushy, demanding, and seemed to look down on everyone except Ranma more than Kodachi did. Jane was also the more sexually active of the two, sometimes literally hanging onto Ranma while she drove Akane half insane with rage; although from the looks she was giving Akane while she did it, it was obviously just to goad her into attacking… and probably getting killed. Her clothes were an obvious attempt to make up for the fact that the other girl had a bigger chest and cuter face.
The sweeter girl, Six, had come off as a Kasumi with a hooker’s fashion sense at first. That was of course until Genma and Nabiki’s own father had butted in and she sent them flying with a ki blast that looked almost like a lighting bolt. The even scarier thing about her was when Akane had hit Ranma with a table, Six had almost choked Akane to death, almost casually, before Ranma had recovered and called her off. Even then, Six seemed more embarrassed about the fact she had made Ranma angry than ashamed about almost committing murder.
Then there was the other stuff about them that was just… off. Despite the fact that they had only came here with the clothes on their backs, both seemed to have an ample supply to change into and hadn’t done any laundry since coming here. Both of them called themselves Ranma’s wives more fiercely than Shampoo ever did, and Ranma didn’t even protest them doing it a single bit. Worse, they didn’t even seem to care that their ‘husband’ had a fiancée on the side. Although, after the bashing Akane had given Ranma the two Americans had pretty much threatened her with death if she came within ten feet of the boy without his permission.
But the there was the very real possibility that Nabiki might end up dead if she started snooping, and although her sense of business and greed could overrule the one of self-preservation, her curiosity could not. So she just intended to sit back, watch the fireworks until the girls left, and then laugh at the aftermath while counting her money.
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