-Weeks Later-
{Coming back from China. Bringing Ranma.}
{Genma}
That was what the note had said when Soun Tendo read it. Being an emotional man, Soun was already crying in happiness, as the implications of who was coming sunk in.
"OH JOYOUS DAY!"
"Oh my. Father, what seems to be the matter?" A soft voice inquired from the kitchen.
"Kasumi!" Soun called to the female voice, "Gather your sisters. I have an important announcement!"
"Of course, father." With that, Kasumi Tendo, Soun's eldest daughter, left the kitchen, and set out to search for her two younger sisters.
The clouds had darkened a few moments ago, and was now pouring a torrent of rain upon Nerima. But that seemed to be a moot point as a strange commotion was raised, the few pedestrians who dared the weather staring on in wide-eyed surprise.
Of course, seeing a large panda carrying two heavy packs on its back and slinging one shapely rear over its shoulders would raise a few eyebrows, would it not?
Source of said shapely rear, an attractive blond whose looks garnered many a man's stares, wearing a dirty and torn gi, pounded on the beast's back, screaming, "Hey! Leggo, ya old moron! I didn't agree to take a fiancee! I wasn't even finished with Elder Cologne's training yet!"
"Growf!" The panda grunted, then held up a sign that said, {Pah! Training with that old ghoul has made you weak!} -flip- }And you WILL take a fiancee; it's for the sake of family honor!}
The young-woman wanted to say "What honor? With you stealing so much, I don't think we got any.", before deciding against it, and opted to concentrate, focusing into the strange well of energy within herself.
The results were what she had originally been intending, and a strange tear in the fabric of reality appeared on either of her ends, and seemed to swallow her into them, the panda roaring in surprise.
The young-woman, somehow with one of the packs the panda was carrying, reappeared in another tear, plopping into the wet street, stuck her tongue at the panda, turned and said, "Forget it, old man! I'm goin' back ta China!" Before she dashed down the opposite direction.
But the panda had somehow proven to be faster, and the young blond was knocked out by a street sign clonking her head, courtesy of the panda. With that, the panda huffed, and once again slung the young-woman onto its shoulders, and walking away.
The pedestrians still stared at the weird scene that they just saw with their own eyes.
"FIANCE!?" The Tendo house was shook to its' foundations as a shout rocked its walls.
Inside, the three daughters stared at their father in shock, the eldest, Kasumi, a hand over her mouth, the middle, Nabiki, an inquisitive look in her eyes, and the youngest, Akane, with open incredulity, as well as a trace of anger.
Soun, the father in question, just sipped his tea and nodded. "Of course. My friend, Genma Saotome, and his son, Ranma, is coming back from China, and once they arrive, one of you will be Ranma's fiancee."
Kasumi, a slight resigned look on her face, said, "Oh, I do hope he is older." She frowned slightly, "Younger men are boring."
Nabiki, meanwhile, asked, "Is he cute?"
Akane, meanwhile, "Do you even know what this pervert is like?"
Soun just replied to his two younger daughters' quesitons, "Not at all."
A general "HUH?" came from all three sisters.
Soun elaborated, "I've never seen what Ranma looked like, or what he's like."
Nabiki's eye twitched, while Akane ranted, "Great! One of us has to be engaged to a pervert, and we don't even know what or how he is like!"
-DING!-
"IT'S THEM!" Soun said jubilantly, rushing towards the front door. Flinging the door open, he made to shout, but stopped to take in the supposed guests.
A sulking, blond, feminine-looking boy and a large panda stood on the rain, the panda waving.
Turning to bishounen blond, Soun tentatively asked, "Are you...?"
The blond, his arms crossed, grumbled out, "Th'name's Ranma Saotome." He frowned in annoyance, "Sorry bout this..."
"OH, IT IS GOOD TO FINALLY MEET YOU, SON!" Soun pulled the boy into a paternal hug, the blond squawking in surprise, "WELCOME TO MY HOME!"
-Squish!-
"Huh?" Soun said inarticulately, as he felt two soft mounds pressing into his front. Hesitantly, he took a step back.
Nabiki, who had been behind her father the whole time, looked at the blond, raised an eyebrow, and pointed at two mounds on the 'boy's' chest, saying, "Daddy, that's a girl."
Soun did not reply, as he had fainted, eyes wide in shock.
-HWONGK!!- The anvil dropping on the panda/old, balding man certainly is one of them.
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