Melissa Mao smirked as she walked past the horde of kids going in to visit Kaname Chidori, including a tall young man with a scar along his jawline.
She'd just told Kaname that Sousuke had been assigned to his next mission.
The girl was probably worrying and imagining all sorts of improbably dangerous missions for Sousuke to run through just now. Somewhere in the litany she could almost see a mummified Sousuke floating in a cloud over Kaname's head, like some parody of the English Patient, and Kaname bemoaning the fact that she couldn't be there for him.
And any moment now, the girl was going to see, hear or otherwise notice Sousuke among the hordes of other students and...
"What are you doing hiding back there?! You big dork?!"
Yep, there it was.
Toying with children was fun and easy.
Now all she had to do was pick up Kurz from his touching base with Eija Satomi, since she was awake too, and they could be back to the Danaan.
The Satomi girl's room was much more sedate, with only Eija, her brother and mother within visiting her.
A lot in contrast to Kaname Chidori.
Melissa put on her best nurse's smile as she moved into the room and closed the door behind her.
"Hey," she said. "Good to see you're all better. Two days of sleep gets fairly worrisome. Where're your visitors?"
"Sousuke and Kyoko visited earlier," Eija said, pointing toward a small bouquet next to a first-aid kit and bottles of vitamin supplements.
"It would have been better if we could have avoided the hospital," Ranma said. The red-head's feathers seemed to get ruffled as soon as she saw Mao come in dressed as a nurse.
"There are a lot of questions I imagine," Mao agreed, looking around. "Something the matter Miss Satomi?"
"Just some dark thoughts," Ranma said. "Are you here to tell us what not to say?"
"Actually, Kurz was already supposed to be doing that," Mao said.
"The German perv?" Ranma asked. "Don't think we've seen him. Anyway, we know better than to say anything about what happened."
"Yeah, we've had to keep secrets a long time," Deimosu agreed.
"Good to hear," Mao said, but paused as she noticed something. "You said Kurz never showed up?"
"That's right," Ranma said.
"And your other daughter?" Mao asked.
****
"Oh please," Naiki half-giggled, blushing madly and giggling as she leaned back against a wall with a can with tea held coquettishly in front of her blossoming chest. "You can't be serious."
"No, really," Kurz said, leaning in close to her. "You are, without a doubt, the most beautiful and gorgeous woman to ever save my life."
"I was all beat up and bloody and sweaty," the green-haired girl protested, sharp white teeth glinting cutely.
"And there is nothing more beautiful than a treasure born up out of the depths of the earth," he said. "With the dirt shaken off to find an emerald masterfully sculpted into the wonderous warrior-siren in front of me."
Naiki's eyes glittered at the words "warrior-siren" and she drank from her tea, trying to copy Eija's demure manner comedically.
"Warrior-siren," she intoned giddily as Kurz leaned further in.
The mercenary's lips were getting closer to her own and she felt a rush of blood to her face.
"Exac..."
"Ahem," two voices coughed darkly behind Kurz.
The german sniper and the green-haired demi-goddess turned about to see two women staring darkly at the situation before them.
"Ah, Mao," Kurz said nervously.
"'Kaasan?" Naiki said hesitantly.
"Pull out, Weber," Mao growled. "I mean disengage...grr back off."
As if about to be burned, Kurz backed away from the green-haired young woman.
"I'll just go...keep Eija company," Naiki said as she started to walk away.
"This means I have to worry about both genders doesn't it?" Ranma asked as her daughter walked past her and flinched.
And as Naiki walked away, both Mao's and Ranma's attention turned on Kurz.
"I...I was just deflo...err debriefing her," Kurz said nervously.
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