"My sister," said Ryoga.
"Why can't you say her name today?" asks Ranma, puzzled.
"No, it's Temari," said Ryoga.
"Is this some ninja secret thing where you can't say her name today?" asked Ranma.
"Why would you think that?"
"Because you won't say it now?"
The boy in the bandana scowled at the other guy there. "But I just said it. I told you that it was Temari."
"But what about today?"
"Huh?"
"I'm not the one bringing weird talk into it," the pigtailed boy grunted. "Why not say the name today, instead of tomorrow?"
"We are saying it today," Sakura snapped.
"No, not really. You keep on saying 'tomorrow'...."
"Idiot! It's not 'tomorrow'! It's Temari!"
"That is my name. Temari. There's no English in it," the blonde girl drawled as she sent mocking glance over the pigtailed boy.
"Yes, that's exactly it. We weren't mentioning anything with 'time'."
"I'd just like to know why he just had to be such a blockhead. I mean, I know my own sister's name...." Ryoga trailed off.
"At least someone's clear on that. Wait a minute...." the pink haired girl whipped her head around to face her travelling companion. "You never said anything about having another brother!"
Temari gave a little shrug. "You never asked."
"Oh."
"Besides, why should I tell you about my family situation?"
"Other than you were willing to stick around me?"
"And what part of journeying together means that I'd like to lay out my family's laundry for your enjoyment?"
Sakura subsided a bit. "Well, when you put it that way...."
"In any case, the lunkhead here isn't that bad of a fighter. It's just that he's...."
"Strong?"
"Tough?" put in Ranma.
"Actually, he's... an idiot. This is the only boy who could get lost getting out of bed."
"It can't be that bad."
"He managed to start working out on our practice field, and wind up at the ocean."
"Hold on a second," Sakura interrupted. "Your village is...."
"Yes."
"And the ocean is...."
"Yeah."
"Then he...."
"Really got turned around. With that and the way that he stumbles through a sneaking time like a rockslide."
"Hey, it's not my fault that I'm not talented in that stuff!" Ryoga barked.
"I know, and I would have been happy about it."
"But.... You would?"
"Sure. Someone from our family who wouldn't be caught up in our father's plans? Plus you were a strong fighter in other ways," Temari revealed.
"He was worse than we thought, wasn't he?" Sakura murmured.
Ryoga snorted. "Only cared about making the village strong. Didn't matter what he did to who. Left me how I am...."
"Man," Ranma muttered, running a hand through his hair. "And I thought my old man was an idiot."
"Guess we're just surrounded by kindness," scoffed the pink haired girl, while:
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