[Episode 204197] [Episode 204197]Kikuko and Ryonami stood behind Nabiki as the three stared into the bathroom mirror. Nabiki's skin was a tinge redder than it had been earlier and there was something going on with her eyes.
"Maybe its a kind of rash," Ryonami suggested. "Are you allergic to anything?"
"I've never heard of an allergy that makes the whites of your eyes turn black at the edges," Nabiki muttered.
"Think its an STD?" Kikuko teased.
The red of Nabiki's face turned a shade brighter as she turned about to look at her friend.
"What!?" she demanded, fearing Kikuko had figured it out. Maybe she was walking too stiff or something?
"I'm kidding of course," Kikuko said, rolling her eyes and missing the give away. "Anyway, too bad Dr. Tofu isn't still around. He could tell you what's wrong probably."
"Yeah," Nabiki said. "Anyway, its almost time for class to start, let's get on with it."
As they were leaving, Nabiki lingered and looked into her mouth. Was she imagining things, or was that a dent in the front of her tongue, and where her canines longer?
Must be her imagination.
Shrugging, Nabiki stepped into the hallway. Catching sight of Ranma she flushed and looked away, hunching her shoulders to minimally hide her face. When the martial artist waved, she couldn't resist returning a little wave and flushing brighter before turning back into the crowd.
Nabiki'd never imagined herself as being girlish once she'd found a boyfriend, or even just a one night stand. No, she'd imagined that she'd strut around like the sexy and strong women she saw on the movies. She imagined her beau worshipping the ground she walked on as she moved along on a raised platform beside him.
Now instead of the powerful seductress, she was acting like the shy and eager school girl.
How embarrassing.
Oh kami, how exciting.
She shivered with a secretive smile.
"What's with you today?" Kikuko asked, concerned.
"Just a little distracted," Nabiki said, flushing.
*****
"Have you noticed Nabiki today?" Akane asked Ranma at lunch.
"Huh?" Ranma asked, nervous suddenly that Akane knew. That couldn't be, however, she'd have hit him if it was.
"She's kinda...red," Akane said, worried. "And she looks like she has two black eyes."
"I don't think she got hit the..." Ranma stopped talking before Akane could catch anything.
"No, she doesn't really have black eyes...well, she does, but not the normal kind. It's right around the outer edge of the whites, you can see it when she looks to the side," Akane bit her lip. "You don't think she's caught anything, do you?"
Ranma thought about that for a moment and did pause to consider that Nabiki had looked somewhat different than normal when he saw her earlier. A bit of worry passed over his face.
"I...don't think so, but..." Ranma paused again and Yuka put in a bit.
"Maybe it's a social problem?" Daisuke suggested, to the immediate glares of all save Ranma, who was just confused. "Just a suggestion."
"She has problems talking to people so she turns red?" Ranma asked.
"That's not..." Hiroshi started to explain, but finding the subject somewhat embarrassing himself, he stopped. "Never mind."
"Maybe you should take her to a doctor and see if anything is wrong," the other girl suggested.
"I'll talk to Kasumi," Akane agreed.
"What about talking to Nabiki," Ranma asked, half-wishing that their class shared a lunch period with Nabiki's.
"She'll just deny anything," Akane countered.
"Yeah, Nabiki is never sick," Sayuri agreed, rolling her eyes.
"Pervert warning," Yuka said under her breath, Ranma looked over to see the approach of Tachiko Kuno. "Is she bustier than normal?"
"Probably went to see a plastic surgeon," Sayuri noted. "Guess she's looking to be the girl."
"Stop that!" Akane said as the Kuno girl came closer.
"Yeah, it ain't like she's been gone long enough to have surgery," Ranma added, frowning.
Both girls looked to Akane and Ranma with a bit of surprise as the two quietly suggested leaving the school's resident lesbian alone. Akane meanwhile was rolling her eyes at Ranma's attempted defense.
"Fair Akane Tendo and her friends," Tachiko Kuno said in a flowery, self-important manner, then she turned to Ranma and, with a much less hostile manner than usual, "Saotome...It is ever a lovely day when I might stand in the glory of your presence Akane, would that only that my fiery pig-tailed beauty also be in my presence, then this would be a perfect moment indeed. Indeed even the presence of this...pathetic example of a male cannot tarnish this moment."
Ranma and Akane groaned at the outpouring of words.
"Kuno," Ranma said, grumbling. "Do you have a point to being here or not?"
"Indeed, Saotome," Kuno said, eyes narrowing at the interruption. "And you are it."
"I thought I was a 'pathetic example of a male'," Ranma returned. Idly her mind started to wonder just how two women would make love anyway, and immediately had to fight to keep his face from turning red.
"Indeed," Kuno said, crossing her arms under her breasts. "But that's indeed the issue. I have come to the conclusion that...perhaps...Akane and the pig-tailed girl are less...enthusiastic about my attentions than I may previously have guessed."
"Gee, what was your first clue?" Akane asked.
"I am...uncertain," Kuno said, sounding a bit confused, which was so entirely different from the samurai girl's normal self-confidence (arrogance even) that everyone present actually became concerned. "Suffice to say that if that is wrong, then I may possibly be wrong in other matters and would therefore wish a chance to thrash you to within an inch of your life as normal and thus prove that all is right with the world."
"Okay, that sounded normal," Ranma noted.
"Indeed," Kuno said, nodding. "I'll send Sasuke with an arrangement for time, but it will take place in my family practice hall. My twin sister..."
"She's not your twin, she's a year younger than you," Yuka noted.
"My twin sister," Kuno repeated firmly. "Shall act as my second."
"Make it two on one and have her act as your fighting partner," Ranma said idly. "And I'll still win."
"Indeed..." Kuno said hotly.
A sudden image came to three minds there, Ranma taking on the Kuno sisters in a manner entirely more marital than martial.
"Indeed..." Kuno said again, much less secure, coughing. "umm...I'll..."
"Listen Kuno!" Akane said, standing up to cover her own sudden embarrassment. "You come by with this all time and you never hold up your end of the deal. You always come back and come on to us all over again."
"This time I swear, if I lose," Kuno said. "I shall submit myself to Ranma's..." she winced before saying it. "...mastery and leave my attentions at home until such time as someone brings their attentions to me."
Ranma stood quietly reddening through the whole thing, especially as that last oath suddenly just made the entire image worse.
Kuno and Akane silently glared at each other, reddening as Ranma looked anywhere but at Kuno or Akane's bodies. After a long moment of silence, Kuno hmphed and turned about stalking her way through the school grounds.
"Okay..." Yuka said rolling her eyes. "That wasn't loaded with innuendo at all."
*****
"Kuno challenged you again?" Nabiki asked Ranma as the martial artist walked home with the two Tendos.
"Yeah, this time she swears she will follow through with her promises," Akane said.
Nabiki rolled her eyes and quietly moved alongside Ranma, slipping a piece of paper into his hand to his surprise.
"Kuno always says that," Nabiki agreed.
"M..." Ranma yelped as Nabiki "missed" a step and slammed down on his toes.
"Did you step on something?" Akane asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, kicked something," Ranma muttered, avoiding glaring at the smug looking Nabiki.
"Whatever," Ranma said. "Sometimes Kuno is a good opponent though, maybe she has something up her sleeve that'll be interesting."
"Or skirt," Akane muttered.
As they continued along, Ranma read Nabiki's message, quietly this time.
"Meet in the lot after bed?"
Nabiki glanced to Ranma and caught the reddening before the slight nod and had to resist a girlish display of excitement.
*****
They'd been careful to get disrobed before starting this time, and now Nabiki and Ranma had the time to just ease down after the fact in the glow of the moonlight, and hidden behind a small group of trees in the vacant lot.
Nabiki leaned against Ranma's strong form with a satisfied smile on her face as he held her.
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