“A Chinese lizard-dog?” said Nabiki.
“Yeah,” said Ranma, rubbing Tarre’s neck like she liked. After all, stopping the tomboy cold without hurting her was always a good job.
Nabiki just sighed. “Ranma-baby, that’s a dragon.”
Blinking owlishly, he turned back to the middle Tendo. “You sure? I mean, she’s only got the one head and all…”
“Not all dragons have more than one head, Ranma,” she replied. Smirking a bit, she decided to tease him a bit for the shock. “So Ranma, is this a possible love child between you and Herb?”
Akane’s mind snapped back to the previous train of thought, dropping the remains of her bat, her eyes glowing with rage. “What?”
Ranma just snorted. Like anyone—well, anyone but Akane—would believe that insinuation. Okay, he had one dream that ended with him as King of the Musk married to the forever locked prick. One dream! But it wasn’t like they’d even spoken since that time. Hell, he hoped the Prince’s bride was a raging gorilla tomboy like he was stuck with. “Ya need to stop drinking with my Old Man, Nabiki; its rotting your brain.
“I picked her up on my way to Jusenkyo,” he finished with a smile, keeping his secret pocket hole … well, a secret. It was his ticket out of his usual crazy lifestyle. Let them get their own hole. “I got cured!”
“What?” yelled Nabiki. No, it couldn’t be true! Not after all the commitment deals she still had for Ranma-chan merchandise, photos, and such.
Smiling, even as he noted Akane was once again losing her train of thought, he pulled out a small water-bottle and emptied it over his head. “Yep, all cured, not gonna be a girl anymore!”
Nabiki kept her appearance neutral, but inside her mind was racing, trying to determine how to fix this. Well, the Guide had been kind enough to send her some caskets of cursed water, Nyannīchuan and Nannīchuan. Both stood to make her a good amount of yen due to the sheer number of cursed individuals in and coming through Nerima—plus it didn’t hurt to have a possible method of revenge against certain individuals if they made her angry.
Trust me; you wouldn’t like Nabiki Tendo when she’s angry.
So the question was: how could she recurse Ranma? And would whatever methods she could conceive of, be worth the possible cost? After all, Saotome apparently had a … acid-spitting dragon as a pet now. Speaking of… “So then Ranma, how do you plan to keep your pet dragon here fed and cared for? She’s a bit too big to go wandering in the house, what with spitting acid and all. And I think she’ll probably eat as much as you.” Yeah, and keep anyone from cursing you in your sleep.
Ranma blinked, trying to figure it out himself. Come to think of it, Tarre probably wouldn’t fit in the hallways too well; she never did well with cramped spaces, probably thanks to those monster midgets who had caged her. Well, there was that gold and stuff he looted from them before he found Tarre. Maybe he could get his Mom to get some cash for it.
He wasn’t about to trust his Old Man, let alone Nabiki. Just look at her, planning to take me gold… he thought, not knowing that he was sounding like a leprechaun. So perhaps his mother could give him some advice on getting some money for the stuff he looted. Maybe he could even get Kasumi’s advice on taking care of a lizard-dog, dragon, whatever Tarre was.
Akane just stared at Ranma. He was cured? He had gone by himself—really, couldn’t he have asked her to come along to help?—and come back finally cured? She wasn’t really sure if she wanted to throttle him or hug him, but she was relatively certain from the glare the dragon was giving her that any approach wouldn’t be well-received. Damn thing’s acting like one of his hussies! “That thing isn’t someone who went to Jusenkyo, is it?” asked Akane. Maybe it was a hussy with a curse?
He could only scratch his head. He was pretty sure Tarre wasn’t cursed; he’d made sure she stayed far enough away when he got his cure. “Nah, she ain’t changed shape or nothing.”
Nabiki slowly nodded her head, a plan forming. After all, how much would the fiancées pay to learn that Ranma had returned … with an adopted daughter?
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