The young man had a wry grin on his face as he looked at his newly-adopted daughter. What was he supposed to do now? He didn't know the first thing in how to take care of a little girl. If she had been a boy instead, he'd have some ideas. But she wasn't a little boy. She was a girl.
"Huh."
"Papa?"
That meant he couldn't take her on a training trip anywhere. He couldn't take her to see all of Japan, from the northern reaches of Hokkaido to sandy beaches of Okinawa. He couldn't swim with her to China, climb the Himalayas in Tibet, or wander in the deserts of Mongolia. What was he supposed to do with her?
"Papa?"
"Huh? What?"
"Papa, you're really funny!"
The little girl giggled some more. Her new father was making some really funny faces as he stared at nothing. He always made her laugh when they were together. He was the fun-est person she had ever met, especially when he turned into a girl. Her Papa could be so shameless when he pretended to be a girl to other people! He had shocked her at first, but the things he did were so funny that she couldn't help but laugh. She couldn't remember the last time she had laughed so much. And now, he was her Papa, and they could be together from now on!
"Ummm, Hotaru-chan?"
"Yes, Papa?"
"Uh, not that I forgot or anythin' like that, no, I just, uh, just
want to make sure that, umm, that you know, uh, that you remember
where we're supposed to be going, yeah."
"You're so silly, Papa!"
"Silly, yeah."
Ranma smiled weakly at his daughter. Hopefully, she'd buy his excuse and blurt out where they were headed to when he got dropped off by the megami in front of his high school. He was fairly certain that the little girl couldn't attend at Furinkan with him, so they couldn't be at school for that.
"You said that we were going to places where your girlfriends weren't
going to be."
"My girlfriends! I did not! They're not my girlfriends!"
"Hee hee!"
"Come here, you!"
"Can't catch me!"
The young man chased after the giggling little girl, a small grin on his face. Tease him, will she? Oh, she was going to get it!
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