She glanced over at him. "Know what?"
"The best thing 'bout school."
"And that is...."
"The time when ya ain't in a regular class."
"That wouldn't really be called 'school', you know," Akane reminded him.
"I know, but look at it from my side. It ain't exactly like I'm really likin' bein' stuck inside for a long time. Sure, I can learn lots 'bout old soldiers, but it ain't like I'd need lots of English ta train around Japan, or need that algebra junk ta really run a dojo."
"I suppose that would be true, but it's important that you learn all that you can."
"I know that, but ta be honest, if Ranko hadn't made it clear that I had no choice, I'd have tried ta find a way ta get out of it," the pigtailed boy admitted.
"Is that so?"
"Pretty much. I mean, wouldn't ya do the same?"
"Not on your life. School is important!" she insisted.
"For a guy who's never had a real chance ta do more than keep up just enough ta go on tat the next grade?"
"There is that. But shouldn't you make the most of that?"
"I do try. Still, it ain't on my list of things ta enjoy," Ranma commented... and then sighed as he came across a janitor who was moving a full bucket without looking. The resulting splash left her shirt clinging against her chest, and picking at it didn't do much to help. "And it looks like the school feels the same."
"It's not like the place did that," Akane replied with a roll of her eye as the janitor gave the wet redhead his apologies.
Waving off any concern that the worker had of her being angry, Ranma shrugged. "I know, but this ain't exactly my idea of fun, and it does seem that I get inta more and more trouble here."
"What can happen? I mean, we're on our way to art class."
"Plenty."
"You worry more than I do. Other than a few little things, it's pretty okay here, and...."
"Do my eyes deceive me?!" cried out a familiar, yet annoying voice.
"It looks like you're right."
"It is true! For as I count my blessings in being able to have this encounter with my beloved Akane Tendo, which has no doubt been arranged by the will of the Heavens, but... but...." Kuno whispered, gazing in rapture at the redhead.
"What?"
"The heavens truly favor me, as they have given me this opportunity for joy that I truly must thank them most heartily for. This.... You are a gift for me of the sort that I can never repay them for, my dear new goddess. No doubt, they have been especially pleased by my works, and have decided to bestow your beauty into my keeping."
"Just who do you think that I am?!" the pigtailed girl snapped.
"I do not need to think, as I already know what I need to. Are you not the sibling of that most lovely of goddesses, Ranko Tendo?"
"Uh... yeah. She's my sister...."
"Then the Heaven's have truly decided to bless me! I knew that what I have done is within accordance with their wishes, but for them to send the sister of such a pinnacle of womanhood to be mine, I must have been a force such as they absolutely needed!"
"What?!"
The deluded wannabe samurai gave her a pleased smile. "From the moment that I saw your sister, I knew that had she been free, I would have gone forth and taken her for my own. But alas, she was already wed to another, and though I knew that I could easily sunder that union, it would be improper for me to do so. However, the gods have graced me with you, the very image of what she must have been when she attended a hallowed hall of learning like this one. They must have placed you into my life so that I would have my own 'Ranko' to be mine!"
Both Ranma and Akane stared at this latest bit of insanity from him.
"Know this Akane Tendo. I will not forget you, having now received my gift of your aunt."
"How nice...." the named girl growled.
"Your pleasure in that is something that warms my soul. And yet, it does me many hurts to think of abandoning you for another."
"It does? You're going to leave me alone?"
"Absolutely not! The very concept leaves me with the taste of bile in my throat! I could never leave you for more than I would have to."
"Huh?"
"I shall have to have you both, until I can figure out how I might arrange things to my satisfaction!"
Ranma and Akane looked at each other, nodded, and turned back to him.... before uppercutting him in the jaw, sending him flying up to get lodged in the ceiling.
"To bring up such passion in the both of them. They must love me well," Kuno sighed to himself as he fell unconscious, while:
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