Ranko woke up with a start, not that there was anything shocking or surprising about waking in an unfamiliar room snuggled conferrable inside a warm futon, no. It was the fact she had awoken on her own accord, the last time she had awoken without the aid of pain of a battle cry had been before their 10 year training trip, back when her mother would wake her with the sweet smell of breakfast.
Snuggling a bit and covering her nose and mouth with the heavenly blankets, she had nearly missed the faint odder of breakfast. In her sleepy state she ignored it and decided somewhere to drift back off to sleep, not in 10 years had she felt so content.
“Ranko you’re going to miss breakfast.” A sweet caring voice called over her like a dream, absently she whispered for her mother and snuggled deeper drifting off to sleep.
“Oh well.” Kasumi smiled happily as their shortest guest cooed in her sleep “I guess it couldn’t hurt.” She closed the door to the guest room softly and made her way back down the stares.
: Dinning Room :
“I had the strangest dream last night.” Akane yawned stumbling in dressed in her pink duck covered pj’s, wincing slightly as she stretched her arms over her head.
“Ow…” She said absently rubbing her shoulder as she looked around the table for the first time and nearly fell on her butt.
“Oh what was your dream about Akane?” Nabiki smiled secretly looking over her shoulder with a piece of toast in her mouth.
“What?” Akane blinked and looked from the large form of Genma to Ranma who was doing the best he could not to make eye contact. Then everything came back to her, including the sparing session. She just glared at Ranma who withered below her anger, but for some reason Akane didn’t feel as angry as she thought she should.
“Oh there you are Akane, have a seat would you like some tea?” Kasumi asked with her every cheerful smile as she entered the room making her way to her own spot beside her father at the head of the table.
“Huh? Oh no thanks Kasumi.” Akane gave her sister an appreciating smile then turned a glare back on Ranma before taking her own seat.
Soon everyone began to eat except for Nabiki who looked around curiously. “Hey where’s Ranko?”
“Oh I couldn’t wake her, she seemed so peaceful.” Kasumi smiled mothering.
“Peaceful?” Both Ranma and Genma whispered stunned.
“Oh yes!” Kasumi’s smiled widened as she refilled her father’s tea. “I just didn’t have the heart to wake her.”
Everyone blinked at the stern glanced Ranma and Genma shared with each other.
“Well that was a lovely breakfast don’t you think so boy?” Genma suddenly spoke loudly with a nervous laugh.
“Yep! Time to get back to training.” Ranma replied in the exact same voice, both laughing together all most maddening. In a flash they had both jumped to their feet and fled up the stares, moments later a scream descended on them from outside as a body flew into the koi pond.
“Just what the hells the big idea?” Ranko spat and sputtered as she emptied herself of seaweed and a single gold fish. She didn’t have time to continue as both Ranma and Genma sprang upon her effectively starting their early morning battle royal.
“I get the feeling we missed something.” Nabiki said absently from the dinning room as the 3 combatants kicked off. Akane just stared mouth agape a piece of fish falling from it as her eyes watched their guests disbelievingly.
“I hope they don’t get cramps…” Kasumi worried.
“Hey will you two knock it off?” Ranko growled swaying back and forth avoiding blows and returning them.
“Boy! Take your training like a man!” Genma shouted as Ranko hissed giving him a monstrous roundhouse to the head, that is if Ranma hadn’t gotten in the way and was rocketed into the koi pond. Ranko losing balance fell in as well.
Moments later twins emerged from the pool sputtering and spitting.
“Ranma.”
“Yes?” The twins replied in unison, then glared at each other.
“Hey I’m Ranma!”
“I am!”
“Knock it off!”
“Hey!” they where both lifted from the pond by the scruff of their necks.
“I’m sorry to do this boy, but it’s for the good of the training!” With that Genma threw both his captives at the wall, both easy rebounding off it and delivering a punch to his face.
Shortly after the fight sprang into an all out three-way as Genma could do little to tell the difference between his son and daughter.
“Interesting” Was Nabiki’s comment as Akane gave up eating and just continued to watch the fight.
“How good it is to hear the sounds of battle once more within theses walls.” Soun cried from the head of the table behind his newspaper.
“Do you think we should tell them about school before they get to involved?” Kasumi asked sweetly.
“They are going to school with us?” Akane gasped.
“That’s right Akane, don’t want your fiancée to become an idiot do you?”
“He’s already an idiot and he’s not my fiancé!”
Nabiki just smiled and finished up her breakfast.
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