[Episode 216636] [Episode 216636]Ranma smiled as he watched the television. They still weren’t sure how Mihoshi’s magic blinking box got channels from their home dimension—let alone a host of other dimensions, but it was still a great source of entertainment. Right now, he was watching the second new episode of one of those versions of Bleach that day, this one in a series where Uryū Ishida had dark green hair, Chad’s necklace from his grandfather was an Incan coin, Ichigo had a slightly younger sister that was a Renji fangirl, and the animators had Orihime provide a lot more fan service.
All this got him thinking. “Hey, Mihoshi?”
“Hmm?” asked the girl, trying to study her workbook from the Academy—Nabiki was going to ban her from watching Super Cosmo Brothers in Space if she didn’t score high on the next exam.
“Before we head back home, can we stop in the Bleach universe?” he asked. “I wanna see if I can be a kickass Shinigami.” And he wasn’t lying; he really did want to see what he could learn there.
The fact it would be yet more skills that he could use to run circles around his fiancées/rivals was just icing on the cake. And it wasn’t like he’d ‘accidentally’ knock their souls out. Never, uh-uh, not in a million, billion years … unless they really, really pissed him off.
“Sure!” said Mihoshi with a smile. It never hurt to travel with friends. “But I’m not quite sure how to target another universe,” she said, scratching the back of her head.
“Ain’t it the same as targeting ours?” Ranma asked.
She just shrugged. “Maybe, I’m not sure how to do that either.”
Ranma’s eyes went wide at that. “Didn’t they let you keep that bit of info with the powers?”
She shook her head. “I think they forgot,” she murmured. “Maybe I’ll remember when we’re allowed to go!” she said with a hopeful smile.
He could only blink at that. Would those genies have actually left them in this world with no real way home? It wasn’t like Mihoshi’s portals came with a user’s guide. Hell, it had been pretty much trial and error working them into a style, let alone working with her to expand their range. They still weren’t very large or capable of transporting very far, but they were slowly getting there.
So how were they supposed to target other universes? At this rate, Mihoshi wouldn’t even be able to target the other side of the planet by the time Naruto returned from his time with Jiraiya, let alone anything close to another universe.
Maybe she had some hidden power, some little ability that when the time came, she’d know what to do and hopefully how to do it…
Then again, maybe he’d wake up with the Sharingan and Nabiki would have the Rinnegan. Though he hoped the latter never came to be—the world was just not ready for Nabiki to pull off a Pein and start sending bodies to do all their work and spying.
“Saotome!”
Speak of the devil… “Yeah, Nabiki; what’s—”
WHAM!
His eyes could only twitch as he sat in pain, Nabiki’s left heel now resting between his eyes, as the towel-clad Tendo glared at him.
“Saotome, did you know the hot water doesn’t work at the moment?”
“…”
“Did you also know that when I went to see if that bastard landlord of ours shut it off again for ‘safety reasons’ that I discovered just where you got the new hot water heater from?”
“…”
“Do you think it might be wise to go remove that fan-symbol from it and any other identifying or tracking markings on it before say … the bastard landlord reports us and we have every bit of law and military enforcement of Konoha on our asses?”
“…”
“Well,” she growled, “say something.”
“Um … Nabiki?”
“Yes, Mihoshi,” Nabiki responded, her eyes still glaring daggers at Ranma for his stupid mistake. She wasn’t so much mad at him for stealing it as not hiding the fact it was stolen better. Who knew what they would do to three kids who somehow snuck into a banned section of the village and stole a water heater?
“Can you help me shave … there,” said the embarrassed blond. “I always nick myself.”
“There’s nothing wrong with your legs,” Nabiki responded.
“I wasn’t talking about my legs.”
Blinking, Nabiki took stock of her current situation. She had wanted a bath, she had found the hot water for the shower wasn’t working, she went to the utility closet to make certain it wasn’t on their end and found the hot water feeding lines were dry—who the hell used two separate lines for those anyway?—and turned to see the Uchiha symbol big as day on their new water tank. She had stormed out to confront Saotome before the Landlord made himself a nuisance again and ‘inspected’ their utilities to find it.
And as she paled, she looked down and remembered … she was only wearing the towel, thus giving Ranma a free view of her most intimate of places. “GAWH!”
Ranma grumbled internally as he continued to move about the abandoned home. He should have been back at the apartment, sleeping, or even watching anime with Mihoshi.
But then Nabiki got mad when there was no hot water for her shower, and upon checking the lines, discovered a certain fan-like symbol on the current hot water heater, and had immediately stomped back into the apartment to ‘discuss’ that with him.
Said discussion had interrupted his questioning of Mihoshi about stopping by a Bleach universe so he could see if he could become a Shinigami. This interruption was done by the towel-clad Tendo planting her foot in Ranma’s forehead and them having a nice discussion about not leaving identifiable marks on purloined products.
Well, she talked, Ranma could only stare forward and wonder why Nabiki didn’t have any hair … there.
He didn’t say anything, Mihoshi had, so he was saved from an angry beating as she stormed out to her room in embarrassment after yelling at him to clean it up.
A wire brush later, and you would never be able to tell it was from the Uchiha compound.
This brought him to the current moment, where Nabiki had made a list and sent him out to gather things they really needed but couldn’t afford.
At least she accepted the fact this would all take a while. Being this young again, I can’t carry too much. Hell, I’m lucky I made it back with that water heater in a subspace pocket, heavy ass thing. Damn I hate being so freaking weak!
I bet Mousse never had this problem, he internally ranted, being careful not to start leaking chakra, something he was certain a seal on that window furthest from him could detect.
Oh yes, the Uchiha grounds were secured … by old seals that could only detect chakra. Luckily for Ranma, the chi he normally used never was detected, this was what allowed him to seal stuff into subspace pockets, use the Umisenken, and make haste back to his apartment.
And tonight’s first run as Nabiki had insisted was pots, pans, and clothing. The first two had been easy, as he had simply gone to the first house he had been to, the one now missing a water heater, and cleaned out their kitchen cupboards.
And now he was at his last stop: a tailor/clothing shop. He needed to pick up thread, needles, buttons, zippers, a few rolls of cloth, and then he was left with the hardest part, the part he was going to hate.
Gulping, he reached into his regular pocket and withdrew a small piece of paper, looking over the numbers and colors, and made his way over to the side of the store dealing with bras and panties.
Kami, I feel like such a pervert. I can’t believe I gotta—Hey! No way in hell is Mihoshi bigger than my girl side!
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