“Hey! I ain’t no pervert!” retorted Ranma defensively as he dodged an angry bullrush from Akane as she tried to vent on him once again. “Besides, you’re at least as much at fault for knocking those guys out as I am, Akane. So if you’re going to get all touchy about it, then why don’t you decide what to do with ‘em instead of getting all mad at me for once?” he added, casually flipping over Akane’s charge, forcing her to stumble just a bit as she over committed to her attack.
“Oh, please, I barely touched those perverts, Ranma, and you know it! Although maybe I should be the one to decide; goodness knows what a pervert like you would do with them!” Akane shot back angrily as she regained her balance. Glaring at him, Akane silently dared Ranma to even try to contradict her rebuttal.
“Aww~, but he’s so-,” whined the Shadowcat Pokégirl. Except that she never finished whatever it was she’d meant to say as Akane leveled a glare at her that left the Pokégirl hiding behind Nabiki when she noticed it.
Akane’s glare swept over to the other cat type girl to see if she had anything similar to say. Kasumi’s skirt suddenly gained a second occupant as the cheetah looking girl found her own hiding place, in record speed if anyone was keeping track.
“Way to win ‘em over, sis. They’re sure to love you now, I’m sure of,” Nabiki drawled sarcastically, smirking at just how quickly her sister had scared the two Pokégirls into hiding.
“Way to go, tomboy,” Ranma drawled in agreement. Although he was silently amused at seeing proof that Akane could even scare demons form the very pits of hell, given semi-human form, with just her temper alone. Which made him feel just a tiny bit better about the fact that she managed to paralyze him into not dodging her lousy attacks so often; Akane really was just that scary when she got mad like this.
“You know, guys. Call it a hunch, but I’d be willing to guess that since none of us are actually registered as Pokégirl Trainers. I doubt that any of us can legally take custody of these three just yet,” Nabiki interjected seriously.
“Well, we can’t just leave them with these three perverts here! I mean, even Ranma isn’t as big of a jerk as they are,” Akane shot back angrily. “Even if it isn’t by much,” she amended a second later, apparently realizing that she’d almost said something good about her fiancé just then.
“Maybe we could take them to a Poké-center and tell them that we lost our Pokédexs? I’m sure that they’ll let at least one of us keep each these poor girls,” Kasumi suggested with her typical naive tone.
Nabiki noted with some dread that her eldest sister had that dreaded gleam in her eyes as she’d said that. A clue that Nabiki had figured out long ago meant that Kasumi knew something ‘interesting’. Only her elder sister’s definition of ‘Interesting’ was just a little bit quirky, even at the best of times. So the way that no one else ever seemed to notice just how much Kasumi quietly enjoyed the near constant stream of chaos the Saotomes drug into their lives never failed to amaze Nabiki.
“You can’t be serious, sis,” Nabiki finally responded after a moment’s pause, giving out only a token bit of resistance to Kasumi’s suggestion. After all, Nabiki already knew that they’d all side with Kasumi in the end anyway. Their respective reputations were both against Nabiki in this sort of situation after all, given that it was Akane and Ranma that they were dealing with.
“Well why shouldn’t we, Nabiki?! Almost anything would be better than leaving these poor girls with these three perverts!” Akane shouted angrily, jumping to her typical conclusions once again.
‘100 to 1 odds she’s already forgotten what kind of world we just wound up in. And I’d bet almost anything that little sis hasn’t even given it a second’s thought why keeping these Pokégirls might not work out; not considering Akane’s jealous fits and her and Ranma’s little sex phobia,’ Nabiki thought to herself with bitter amusement.
“Fine, so what do you want to do about all of this then, Akane. You’re the one making a big deal out of everything after all,” Nabiki finally replied, after a suitably long pause. As though she were benevolently bestowing a gift to her impulsive younger sister, rather than the proverbial ‘rope to hang herself with’.
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