Ranma sighed, wondering what to do now.
He hadn’t felt the tug from Nabiki all day, so he hadn’t been in a hurry to splash himself and go back to her.
But then, that left him with his overbearing panda of a father, still trying to convince him to ‘help his honorable father’ do stupid things, like be the decoy so hungry dogs didn’t bite him.
But there were other things bothering him. One was the fact of his hunger, or lack thereof, when he was coming back from spending time with Nabiki. If he slept beside her, he always felt really energized; a fact the panda found out when he started losing the spars quicker and quicker. When he became male, it had felt like he had eaten a five course meal.
It had taken some time, but Ranma had been able to track down what a feeling of hunger was like for his female spirit form.
And then he began to feel ‘that’ hunger when in his male form.
Let’s see, I remember that Guide trying to say something ‘bout mixing, or was it fusing?
Damn old man! If he’d just let the Guide finish explainin’ my curse, I wouldn’t be havin’ this problem.
This of course led to the train of thought about what if his female side wanted normal food. Could he even eat food in that form? If he did, what would people see? Would they see empty space, or would they see the food just floating in mid-air? Would that mean they’d be able to see him as a girl?
“Crud,” he muttered. “Last thing I need is people seeing me as a girl who can’t wear clothes.”
His thoughts then turned towards his backpack. If I put some vines, fresh branches, maybe some leaves around the harnesses, maybe I could carry it in my girl form. Flying would be faster. And I want to be somewhere away from him, where I don’t have to worry about Pops trying to get me to help him steal again, or that crazy girl chasing his furry ass.
Shrugging, he hefted his pack up, complete with ... modifications ... so his girl form could carry it if he got splashed, and took off down the path. He had already left a note for the panda.
Besides, he needed to get to Nabiki quickly, before some damn jerk got married to her. No way was he letting some worthless moron have his girlfriend.
“Arranged marriages,” he huffed. “Who the hell does that anyway? I mean, it’s the twenty-first century.”
Around the world, one hundred and forty-seven people sneezed, including Soun Tendo, Genma Saotome (thus alerting the dogs to his presence through the Umisenken that his ‘ungrateful boy’ had forced him to unseal), and a multitude of families that had ever had dealings with them.
Nabiki looked over the second set of photographs that had arrived about her new fiancé. Of course, given Ranma’s attitude about it, she doubted very much he would be there for long. Most likely, her redheaded girlfriend would simply float by and remove the occupied sign from the furo, just in time for Akane to walk in on him.
Of course, the picture wasn’t too good. It’s like the photographer doesn’t want him to know he’s being photographed.
That thought made Nabiki pause. Could it be that this boy didn’t even know he was engaged?
That did make some sense. After all, if her own father had waited this long to tell them, then perhaps his ‘friend’ was also stupid in that way, holding off on telling his son he was already engaged to another family until the final second. Got to find that out before Ranma gets him punted by Little Sister. He actually might want to help us break up this little engagement.
Nodding to play it cautiously and inform Ranma of what the suspected target looked like, she set them down on her desk. First she had to make certain her girlfriend didn’t kill him. Then they could make plans with how to deal with him as the situation changed.
“Well, I better get back to my fun project,” she cheerfully answered out, as she set about opening a new folder titled ‘Operation: Blue Blunder.’
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