Genma thrashed free of the plants and sidled up against the side of the dojo. A few moments' wait with no reaction from the house told him that he hadn't been heard, and he darted across the garden to the house near the kitchen. Again he listened, craning his ears to hear into the kitchen.
Silence told him that Kasumi wasn't in her domain. He peeked over the windowsill to check, and seeing no one inside, he pressed the window just so to open it far enough to reach the kettle simmering gently on the back burner of the stove. A quick splash later, and his gi fitted properly again.
Quickly, he brushed his clothes into a better semblance of their usual immaculate appearance and then strolled casually through the door into the house.
Fortunately for his plans, no one was home, or they would have seen his upright posture and innocent face and wondered just what he had dropped them all into this time.
First things first, he thought; he needed to get the necessary items to complete his disguise as his future daughter-in-law. He went upstairs and lumbered into Akane's bedroom.
He had only rarely been in here. He didn't know where Akane kept anything. Still, the Way of the Quiet Thief was created for exactly this situation. He closed the door firmly and opened the first drawer in the dresser.
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It took a few minutes, but he found all he needed. The mousetraps in the underwear drawer were expected in a house occupied by the Master, and the mallet repair and maintenance kit that fell on his foot when he was searching the wardrobe was also to be expected from Akane, he supposed. He hadn't found the mallet.
The banknotes and coinage in the hidden compartment in the side of the underwear drawer were an unpleasant surprise; why, it was no wonder Soun kept expecting him to pay for half of the sake if he gave his daughters this much pocket money! Children should work for their allowances, like Ranma had done since the start of the training trip - it toughened them up, made them aware of the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adult world, and gave them something to buy their deserving parents decent meals and some drinks with instead of the plain rice and water that was otherwise all a wandering martial artist could expect.
Leaving the room in the state it achieved after a thorough ransacking by an expert, he proceeded to the furo to change, ducking into the guest room to collect a thermos from his pack and hide the money.
Once he got to the furo, he proceded in logical fashion. First, he filled the thermos. He didn't understand why his son didn't carry one with him at all times; it would be much more convenient than searching for hot water, and with a human cursed form he could at least carry things, which a panda couldn't easily. Then, he stripped off the gi and folded it carefully into a bundle he could carry. He would have preferred a bag to carry it in, but Akane had thoughtlessly taken her schoolbag with her - didn't she realise how often such things were needed by martial artists in their schemes? He tucked the filled thermos into the bundle and set it aside before splashing himself and turning to the small pile of feminine clothes. He skinned into the first garment, and picked up the next.
Now, how did one put these things on? The Master had had him steal them quite often, so he'd taken enough of them off - it was how he'd met his wife, even...
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