Ranma knocked on the door of Nabiki's bedroom.
"Come in, Saotome," Nabiki said, already having recognized him from the way he was knocking. "What's the matter?"
Ranma came in, holding a CD case. "Um... Nabiki, Hiroshi gave me this today and told me there would be a very cool game on it, and he advised me to try it out... but I have no computer. Can I use yours?"
Nabiki looked up from the Manga she was reading. "A computer game? Since when are you interested in something like this, Saotome?"
"Well, at first, I didn't want to, but Hiroshi assured me I would like it, so I decided to give it a try."
"What kind of game is it?" she asked.
Ranma looked down at the CD. "It's called 'RPG Reality'."
Nabiki raised an eyebrow. "An RPG, huh? Didn't play any of those in a long time... Well, I guess it is okay... but only if I can use it as well."
Ranma nodded. "Okay, sounds fair."
They both sat down in front of the computer.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Nabiki asked impatiently.
Ranma held up the CD and scratched his head. "Uh... what am I supposed to do with it?"
Nabiki facefaulted. "Oh, Ranma..." she groaned.
----
Several hours later, Nabiki managed to explain Ranma the basics of operating a PC, and how the mouse, the keyboard and the CD drive work.
Some additional minutes later, she had installed the main game on her hard drive.
"Well, you know what to do, right?" she asked and handed him the mouse. "Klick away... oh, by the way, this crash course will cost you 200.000 yen."
Ranma groaned.
After several tries, he managed to enter the 'Create Character' menu of the game.
"Let's see..." he murmured. "Name, gender, height, hair color, eye color, class, profession... species?"
"Looks like one of those games where you also can create characters that aren't humans... like elves, dwarves or trolls."
"Okay, then let's give it a try... Um... Name: Nabiki."
Nabiki raised an eyebrow. "You're using my name for your character?" she asked.
"Hey, I'm new at this. I have to write something, you know?" He continued to type. "Last name: Tendo..."
"Remember to klick here to save your changes," Nabiki explained and grabbed the mouse.
"Hey, I can do that myself," Ranma protested.
"Yeah, but it's my PC, so I can do what I want." And she klicked down on the 'save changes' button.
And all of a sudden, every single information field that had previously been empty, was now filled with words.
"What the...?" Nabiki gasped in surprise. "Now what did you do, Saotome?"
"Me? I didn't do anything. You were the one with the mouse, not me..."
And then they saw the information that had appeared on the character sheet.
"Gender: Female. Profession: Student at Furinkan. Residence: Tendo Dojo, Nerima. Class: Mercenary Girl." Ranma blinked. "Wow, this game knows you pretty well."
"Incredible..." Nabiki said in awe. "I've never seen a game before that could do anything like this. Where does it get my data, anyway? There's even a portrait of me."
Ranma continued reading: "Favorite food: Tofu. Bust size..."
"HEY!" Nabiki snapped. "That's none of your business!"
"S-sorry..." Ranma said and quickly scrolled back to the beginning of the menu.
"This game knows a little too much about me for my tastes..." Nabiki grumbled. "Let's make another character to see if it can do the trick with other people as well."
"Um, okay!" Ranma saved Nabiki like she was as his first character. Nabiki furrowed her brows, but didn't say anything. Next, Ranma clicked on 'New Character'. An empty character form appeared, like before.
"Okay, now use the name of another person you know... but not me again."
"Okay, here we go... Name: Ryoga. Last name: Hibiki."
Afterwards, he clicked on 'Save Changes' and like before, all the information of his rival appeared in front of their eyes.
Nabiki whistled. "Wow, this game is really something. No wonder Hiroshi thinks this is cool... Wait a minute..." She blinked. "Jusenkyo Curse: Pig?"
Ranma grinned nervously. Boy, was he lucky that Nabiki was the first to read this, and not Akane. "Well, you see..."
"I see, indeed! So that means my sister's dear little pet pig is actually Ryoga, huh? Well, he certainly will have to pay me for keeping this a secret..."
"Ah, that's interesting!" Ranma perked up. "Battle skills: Shi Shi Hokodan, Bakusai Tenketsu, Bandana Throw..."
Nabiki smirked. "Hey, I got an idea. Lemme try something..." She moved closer and changed some facts within Ryoga's profile.
Suddenly, Ryogas hair changed from black to light blue.
Ranma stared. "What did you do that for?"
Nabiki snickered. "Looks better like this, doesn't it?"
"I dunno..." Ranma replied. "Doesn't really suit him... but hang on a sec, this reminds me of something."
He changed Ryogas hair back to normal, but made several changes himself.
"What are you up to, Saotome?" Nabiki asked.
Ranma grinned. "Well, he always tells me how much he detests his pig curse, and how he's suffering from always getting lost... So I'm helping him a little bit."
With a few inputs, Ranma removed Ryoga's bad sense of direction and made another change to his Jusenkyo curse.
He just wanted to remove the curse, when he stopped himself in time. He shook his head. "Naaah, that would be too simple. But I'll change it for him." He pondered for a while... and then, the enlightenment came. Grinning, he removed the check-off from the word 'pig' beneath the 'Jusenkyo Curse' subtitle, and checked off something else instead...
----
Ryoga Hibiki blinked. He was just walking along the street, on his search for the Tendo Dojo, when suddenly, cold water splashed down on his head.
But unlike usually when he got wet, he didn't find himself near the ground, shrunken down to the size of a piglet. Instead, he realized that he was still standing on two legs.
But he was shorter, was he?
"I'm so sorry, Miss," the voice of the woman who had just wanted to water her plants shouted. "I didn't see you there!"
"Um, that's all right..." Ryoga started, before stopping in mid-sentence.
Miss?
He glanced down at himself... and instantly realized how Ranma must have felt after receiving his curse.
"What? How... how did this happen?" the well-endowed, bandana-clad girl with the light blue hair muttered while groping her sizeable breasts.
Then she snarled, which showed off her cute fangs. "Ranma, I don't know how you did this, but somehow, this has to be all your fault!"
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