Nabiki rushed to the door, eager to meet her new fiancé, and hoping that her new fiancé wasn't now a fiancée. It was certainly possible, Saotome being not that rare a name, but Nabiki had that nagging feeling at the back of her head. Kasumi followed anxiously, hoping that the fiancé was a strapping, young man older than herself. Akane was hoping for the fiancé to be that girl. Not only because she hated boys, but the girl Saotome Ranma was famous.
The only one who rushed toward the door with blind enthusiasm was Tendou Soun. "Saotome! My friend! We've been waiting!" he called out, rushing quickly for the door as his daughters followed more pensively behind.
The Tendou sisters stopped just before coming into sight of the door to catch the conversation taking place at the threshold.
"SAOTOME-KUN!" shouted their father.
"TENDOU-KUN!" shouted a strange oyaji voice.
There was some animalistic sounds at this point. Maybe a bear hug?
"And this must be the boy!" whooped Soun with glee.
"Uh yeah. I'm Ranma— AWK!" squeaked the voice of a young boy (girl?). The child had squawked like he had been roughly gathered up in a bear hug and having the stuffing squeezed out.
"At last, you're here! It's so good of you to come, son! Now the Tendou Legacy is secure!" bawled the Tendou patriarch.
The three girls tore their attention away from the conversation.
"Well, daddy seems sure," whispered Nabiki. "You saw how big that Ranma's norks were. Daddy would've noticed them by now." Kasumi and Akane blushed, remembering the full-naked-body projection of the changed Saotome Ranma.
"Please, Nabiki. The image was improper enough," Kasumi scolded.
"I agree with Nabiki. No way papa could miss those," Akane murmured, scowling about the pervert aliens that showed the poor Saotome girl's body to the entire world. Those sickos probably did some probing of her orifices. "Pervert aliens," she mumbled aloud. She self-consciously squeezed her breast; the new girl's chest looked rather… big.
"It doesn't sound as though the child's voice has broken yet," Kasumi observed. "He sounds younger than me."
"Or like a girl," Akane added.
Nabiki felt a chill dance down her spine. "I didn't need that, Akane," the middle Tendou sister said icily. "C'mon. This isn't going to get any less awkward if we just stay here."
Nabiki and her sisters faced the corner. Nobody moved for a long minute.
"After you," Nabiki chirped, motioning Akane to take the corner.
"No, U!" hissed Akane. She was not going to take the surprise first.
"Now, now, you two. I'll go on ahead, and you follow." With that, Kasumi proceeded deliberately forward with a smile on her face. Nabiki and Akane followed in that order.
What they saw was their father, squeezing the life out of a pigtailed teen. A portly man in a gi and with a handkerchief on his head stood to the side watching the two nervously.
Soun looked up, joy sparkling in his eyes as he saw his girls arrive in the foyer. "Girls, I'd like to introduce to you, Saotome Ranma, your new fiancé!" he said cheerfully, and twirled the pigtailed child around to face the three.
The three laid their gazes on a cherub face with wide, expressive eyes and soft features. Very girlish features. Very familiar girlish features.
"That's her!" Akane blurted in almost instant recognition. "That's the Saotome Ranma who was transformed into a girl last month!"
"Oh my! The poor dear! This must be a confusing time for her," sighed Kasumi, contemplating how to mold Ranma into a proper Japanese woman.
"IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!"
That last outburst was Nabiki's.
Soun stared at his daughters, clueless. Perhaps his cluelessness was willing, perhaps not. But he was clueless just the same. "Is something wrong?" he asked, that clueless smile on his face.
"DAD! THAT IS THE SAOTOME RANMA THAT WAS CHANGED INTO A GIRL!" came Nabiki's screech.
Ranma frowned, shrugging out of Soun's grip. "I told you this wouldn't work, pops!" the 'disguised' girl snapped as she opened her tang and loosened the sarashi binding her chest flat. "All that pain for nuthin'!"
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