Ranma slowly opened his eyes, and pressed at the flimsy wall of organic mass that had been his bed for… for… just how long had he been asleep anyway? He knew it must have been a long time, two or three days a least. Apparently, vampires took long naps.
After opening the cocoon and stepping out, Ranma frowned at what he saw. He was in some kind of room with concrete walls and a ceiling at least nine feet high. There was a woman with short hair dressed in a business suit with a short skirt standing in front of him with a new pair of pants, and a blood red silk shirt. It actually took him a second to recognize her. “Nabiki?” His eyes were half closed and his nose was stuffed up, so he couldn’t be sure.
The woman bowed her head before speaking. “Master, I’ve prepared a meal, and a bath if you need it.” Which it looked like he did. There were pieces of some kind of goo stuck to his skin, and Ranma’s clothes had been completely destroyed.”
Ranma just blinked, trying to get his eyes to focus. “You look… different.”
Yeah, and you’re exactly the same, the older vampire thought with a frown. But instead of speaking her thoughts, she just replied to the comment. “That happens to people over a decade.”
“Oh,” Ranma said before he was cut off with a yawn from his own mouth. Still dazed, half of what Nabiki said was completely lost on him. “You know, I think I just need to…take a… nap.”
Nabiki watched her Master fall face first onto the concrete floor with a frown. She walked over to check his pulse, and then sighed in exasperation when the boy started snoring. Although it looked as if Ranma hadn’t aged a day since he went into hibernation, if ten years of sleep were only going to be followed by five seconds of consciousness, she’d take a normal human lifespan thank you.
However, this time Ranma’s downtime didn’t last nearly as long. He was in bed for three days, and since the boy didn’t encase himself again after the first twenty-four hours, Nabiki activated the identity for she had set up for Ranma in preparation for when he did come out of hibernation.
Three days later…
Ranma slowly rose up from the covers and looked around with a sleepy expression. When he didn’t immediately recognized the white colored walls of the room, the sleepy vision slowly vanished as he looked around the place. Except for the bed he was in, an empty IV attached to his arm, and the fan overhead, the room was completely barren.
After taking the needle out and slowly getting out of bed, Ranma took a second to look down at the oversized T-shirt and underwear that he was dressed in before heading to the door.
The hallway outside was empty, but with all the pictures hanging on the walls and carpeted floor, Ranma could tell he was in a house, not a hospital. The memory from when he first awoke played back in his mined, and Ranma frowned at himself. “NABIKI!”
A few moments later, Ranma heard someone rushing up the stairs, and then saw Nabiki coming towards him with a pile of clothes in her hands, as well as a few other things. “Nabiki what’s going-”
“It’s about time you woke up,” the other vampire grumbled before handing him the clothes with one hand after she shifted her weight around to hold the rest with her remaining one. “Here, put these on, if you hurry you might not be late.”
Ranma blinked and looked down at the shirt and pants that looked way too much like a high school uniform for his liking. “Uh, why are you giving me that?”
“Because it’s your uniform,” she told him before pushing the thing onto him.
The dark long sleeved shirt and pants held Ranma’s attention for a moment, and then he looked back up to Nabiki. “Okay, I’m a little confused here. What the heck is going on?”
Nabiki rolled her eyes and sighed at her Master’s request before setting everything down to answer his question. Already late to the office, she tried to skim over as much as she could without leaving any of the important details out. It wasn’t that hard, even with all the years that had passed, Ranma’s interests in other things were extremely limited, and he didn’t cut in with questions. “… and so after you uh, hatched I guess would be the proper term, I called up some people I knew and had them put together a false identity for you. Well, actually I already had one, it just needed some fine tuning before I put it into place.”
“That still doesn’t explain the school stuff,” Ranma replied.
For a moment, Nabiki looked at him like he was the most idiotic person on the face of the planet, then rolled her eyes and tried to regain some composure. “Ranma, you look sixteen years old. Your new identity says you’re sixteen years and six months old. Sixteen year old kids have to go to school if they don’t want to be arrested on the street! NOW GET MOVING!”
Ranma groaned as the other vampire shoved him back into his room with his arms full of school supplies. He looked down at the uniform, then started to get dressed. I liked her better when she was calling me Master and kowtowing at every other word he thought while putting on his new pants.
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