The lavander haired girl looked at the redhead and snorted. "Sorry, but tribal law says that as you are an outsider female that defeated me, I have to. Besides, I have to pay you back for what you did."
"Huh? All I did was defeat you on that log. What's so bad about that?"
"'Bad'? BAD?! Not only did you screw up something that I had been training years for, but you do it after you ate my prize! And then you run away before you can be punished for it!"
Wincing, the pigtailed girl ducked her head. "Would it help if I said I was sorry?"
Her answer came in the form of Shampoo turning her head with a sniff and stalking out.
"I, for one, am glad you're here," Akane told the redhead.
"That makes one of you," muttered Ranma.
"Oh, don't worry about her. Mother won't allow her to attack you while you're a guest under our roof," the brunette told her, "Besides, it's nice to have a match with a girl instead of a aggravating boy."
"Heh... how about that?"
"It's pretty nice, you know. Why don't we go take a bath?"
"Nah, you go ahead."
"But..."
"Um... I'm not used it..."
"Used to what?"
"Bathing with others, that's it!"
"What? How is that?"
"Pops and I didn't spend much time around people. So I didn't..."
"Okay, if you say so..."
"Don't worry, I'll be fine."
Akane frowned for a moment, then shrugged. "Well then, I guess we can take seperate ones, but you go first."
"I don't have ta..."
"I insist. You're the guest, remember."
"But..."
"No 'buts'. You must be all dirty from your trip too."
"It sounds nice..."
"Then go," inisted the Tendo girl as she took hold of the smaller girl's wrist.
"I can do it myself."
"Good. Then I'll show you where and then you can take it from there."
Realizing that refusal would be useless, and since the lure of a hot bath was too hard to resist, Ranma went along with the suggestion while:
(Posted Tue, 07 Jan 2003 22:18)
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