At the Club Luna, a green haired woman approached the bar and asked for the phone. The bartender politely pointed to the end of the bar and the young woman strode for it purposefully. She was a rather small, elf-like woman with an odd, almost masculine stride. As if that stride were her true habit and it the feminine glide she'd been using was an act that was falling apart as she grew more irritated.
She was dressed in a green mini-skirt and a tight green-leather blouse with no sleeves and thin shoulder straps. It reminded the wearer of a less expansive version of that Xina chick's armor on TV. She was actually fairly glad there were no guys around to look at her, because the outfit left little to imagine about her assetts. She was wearing a pair of high heels, a form of footware she had long ago decided was the bane of her existance. And above them a pair of lower-leg wrappings, in green, with cute little cloth balls hanging from small white ropes on the side.
The woman grabbed the phone and dialed a number.
*****
Across town, in a rather large home for the area, a phone rang.
"Tendo residence," a woman said, picking up the phone. "Nabiki speaking."
*****
"There's nothing but women here, Nabiki," the green-haired woman said, almost growlling.
*****
"What was that?" Nabiki asked with a smirk. "I couldn't hear you."
*****
"I SAID," the woman on the phone shouted. "There's NOTHING but WOMEN here!!" She glanced around at the eyes staring at her. "Sorry..."
*****
"Ranma," Nabiki said with a mock question. "Is that you?"
*****
"Of course it's me," Ranma muttered. "Who'd you think it was, Amaterasu's grand child?"
*****
"For all we know you could be," Nabiki said. "Oh, don't start Ranma, in the past two years, we've heard of ancestors of yours that were dragons, vampires, succubi, demons, angels, gods, aliens, werecreatures and I think even the snow-woman once. You are quite possibly the most crossed being on the planet. We've gotten to the point that we don't know what you are, so please don't make statements like that again, we really don't want to invite trouble."
*****
"Right, right," Ranma said. "But what's goin' on here, Nabiki. You didn't think I had enough women trouble so you sent me to a place with no guys?" A couple of her carefully not listening listeners perked up on hearing this.
*****
"Would you rather I sent you to place with ALL guys the way YOU'RE dressed?" Nabiki asked.
"If you sent him to a place with all guys," Kasumi said as she passed by. "He'd probably have no problem at all the way he's dressed."
Nabiki covered the phone and shushed her sister with an amused, if rather strained, look on her face.
"You are under orders to spend the night relaxing, Saotome," Nabiki said. "So relax. Talk to some of the women, go dancing, eat some ice cream, drink some beer. Blow off some steam before you blow up...again."
*****
"Ahh, he had it coming!" Ranma said.
*****
"Ranma," Nabiki said. "It was a rat, not a wererat, not a rat demon, not even a jusenkyo cursed martial artist, just a rat. And you hit it with a chi blast large enough to dig a new tunnel in that hill."
*****
Ranma grumbled silently as she pondered that.
"You might have a point," Ranma muttered. "You're sure, Akane's not going to hear about this? Before I thought you meant, nobody is going to find out where you are. Not nobody is going to find out you spent three days at a club-hotel full of women!!!! Are you CRAZY sending me here?"
*****
"Nobody is going to hear about this," Nabiki assured him. "I set it up after all, and if this gets out my head's on the platter right next to yours. Though I could probably talk my way out of any repercussions, the point is I'd rather not need to, so...no one will find out."
*****
"Your concern for my safety is overwhelming," Ranma muttered.
*****
"Have you been reading the dictionary Ranma?" Nabiki asked. "I wasn't aware you knew words like 'overwhelming.'"
*****
"Ha, ha," Ranma muttered. "So just why is there nothing but women here?"
*****
"It's a specialized club. I'm sure someone there can explain it to you," Nabiki said. Then she continued in a sing-song voice. "I'm hanging up now Ranma."
*****
"Wait, Nabiki!" Ranma shouted. "Don't...don't hang up...you're absolutely sure...That Akane won't hear about this."
*****
"Ranma, just forget about Akane for thre e days," Nabiki said soberly. "Just...forget about her...alright?"
*****
"But if she..." Ranma started.
*****
"Forget about her for now," Nabiki said. "That's an order." She quickly hung up the phone before Ranma could answer.
*****
"You couldn't think of anything better than sending him uninformed into a lesbian dance club?" Kasumi asked wearily.
"It's also a hotel," Nabiki said smiling.
"Nabiki," Kasumi tsked at her older sister.
"Kasumi," Nabiki said, seriously. "I could have sent him to the most obscure and tiny tropical island, and at least one of the lot would have followed him. I don't think any of them would look for him there."
"The potential consequences," Kasumi said.
"He promised he wouldn't try anything until he saw me again," Nabiki said. "As for the other, he could laid. He could run away. He could even fall in love and never come back here. Hell, with Ranma there's always the chance he could come back bearing the child of an alien princess. But I could care less about that, I want him to forget about Akane. At least until she acts her age."
"She wasn't herself when that happened, Nabiki," Kasumi said.
"It's not the stuff she did while possessed that I'm angry about," Nabiki said. "It's the fact that she refuses to admit that any of it was a 'big deal.' She acts like she doesn't care about what did or could've happened."
"It's an act," Kasumi started. "She's scared."
"There's more people involved than just her," Nabiki snapped. "So she can take her act and stuff it. After Ranma finally gets rid of Happosai's 'fetish demon', her first act of free will is to hit Ranma up side the head and berate the lot of us for not telling her about her little pet pig being Ryouga. And not one word on the matter since. Akane is NOT high on my list of people right now."
Nabiki stalked off, leaving Kasumi behind shaking her head. She supposed it was lucky that nothing truly permanent had happened all the physical changes had been reversed when the demon had been banished, and Akane hadn't gotten around to doing more than changing people yet. No worse hentai behavior, but it had been close.
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(Posted Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:58)
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