Hotaru blushed. He looked really handsome when he smiled. The Inners were going to be so jealous.
“I caught you fair and square, so now you’re my boyfriend!” The young girl stated proudly.
Ranma nodded. It made perfect sense to him. If he could end up married by beating a girl in hand to hand combat then becoming a boyfriend by being trapped wasn’t that hard to believe. It’d certainly explain Kodachi’s claims and dating style.
“What exactly does a boyfriend do?” The pigtailed teen asked curiously. He’d talked to Kasumi about the differences between boyfriends and fiancés once, but before he’d managed to get past the fact that you could stop being a boyfriend without anyone trying to kill you or make you commit seppuku, he’d been malleted by Akane for ‘flirting’ with her sister.
Hotaru froze for a moment before remembering what Shampoo had said abought having to be firm, so whatever boy she’d caught would know how to be a proper boyfriend. She’d planned on making a list of do’s and don’t along with a quick summary of what his duties were, but he’d shown up before she’d gotten very far. ‘I wish Ami were here. She’d have a list written up and ready before you could blink! I guess I’ll have to make something up.’
“The first and most important rule is that a boyfriend has to be a friend.” The dark haired girl said, while pacing back and forth in front of the cage.
“Friend, got it.” Ranma responded, writing it down in a little notebook.
“And he has to protect me from bullies.” She paused. What all did Mamoru do for Usagi?
“Protect from bullies.” Ranma grinned. This was right up his alley.
“And play with me.” Wasn’t Haruka papa always saying that playtime was a very important part of any serious relationship?
“Play with girlfriend. Check.” It’d be nice to have someone to play games with.
The last time he’d played Monopoly, Ryoga had somehow gotten lost and ended up in England (They still weren’t sure how he’d managed that, he’d only rolled a three!) Nabiki had claimed all of Ryoga’s property and blackmailed Ranma into not charging her rent for the whole game, Kodachi had switched boards (Ranma hadn’t even known there was a Kuno edition) and whatever card set it had for Chance had caused Akane to smack him in the head and call him a pervert. The resulting free-for-all had caused Soun to ban game-night at the Tendo residence.
“He has to complement me and cheer me up when I'm sad.”
Ranma carefully wrote it down, before frowning and speaking up. “I’ll need help with that one. Every time I've complement someone they’ve either gotten embarrassed or mad.”
Hotaru smirked. “Haruka-papa has the same problem, but Michiru-mama’s managed to help her keep it down to one major foot in mouth incident per week. I can get tips from her on how to help you.”
“Being your boyfriend is just getting better and better.” Ranma said with a grin.
This senshi of destruction blushed cutely and stared at her feet.
“Ok, what else?” Ranma asked.
“You have to take me places, like the movies.” Hotaru racked her brain for places Mamoru took Usagi.
“What kind of movies?” The pigtailed boy asked suspiciously.
The movies, Akane had made him take her to were sappy love stories that he never figured out the plot to. The movies, Shampoo had drug him to were subtitled, but had some decent action. The movies, Ukyou would sneak off with him to see were pretty good, lots of action and explosions. Kodachi had managed to drag his paralyzed form to one movie. He’d almost died of blood loss and had refused to leave kasumi alone with any repairman or delivery guys since then.
“Well…” Hotaru began nervously, “the new Naruto movie is playing at the theater near my house.”
“Naruto?!” Ranma perked up.
Pops hadn't let him watch cartoons when he was a kid, so he'd been making up for lost time since he got to the Tendo’s. Fortunately Kasumi was a cartoon addict and had introduced him to dozens she'd thought he'd like. Ranma had claimed he was working on new techniques when Genma had bugged him about it and after the Kamehameha incident no one dared interrupt Ranma and Kasumi’s cartoon time, even when they were watching the Care Bears. Ranma's evil grin and Kasumi’s hysterical giggles about the ‘Care Bear Stare’ caused many shivers.
Naruto was one of Ranma's current favorites, even if the whole chakra thing was driving him nuts as he tried to figure it out. He'd managed to figure out several techniques from the show, but the trickier ones always went wrong somehow.
He thought briefly of the Shadow Clone jutsu, before quickly burying it in the back of his mind once more. Some things were just too disturbing.
Hotaru barely had time to blink before finding herself sitting inside the cage with Ranma handing her a plate full of food.
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