Setsuna checked her watch, as she leaned on a fence next to a canal. She was wearing a business suit, and an impatient expression. “If they keep to their regular schedule they should be here soon. Ah, there they are,” she said as she saw three figures approaching, two females on the sidewalk and one male on the fence.
The three slowed down as they saw someone on their path to school, but before Akane could explode about a new fiancée at Ranma, Setsuna spoke. “Can I talk to Nabiki for a few minutes? It’s nothing too important, and I’m not a fiancée.”
Nabiki nodded, and said, “Why don’t you two go ahead, I’ll catch up.”
“Are you sure, Nabiki?” Akane asked.
“Yes, she probably just wants some information.” Nabiki responded.
Akane nods, and runs off with Ranma.
“Now what did you want?” Nabiki asked Setsuna.
“I was just going to ask you, to gather all of Ranma’s suitors at the Tendo Dojo, a half an hour after school ends. I have something to tell them,” Setsuna replied.
“Five thousand…” before Nabiki could finish, Setsuna held out five one thousand yen bills. “Err, thank you I’ll get a hold of them, and have them there.
Nabiki went off to school thinking, Why would a nonfiancée want to meet all of Ranma’s suitors?
Setsuna walked into an alley, and after making sure nobody was watching, changed into Sailor Pluto.
Setsuna popped into her house just as Makoto was waking up, and sighed in relief as she saw all three monsters still there. “One hour, and then off to the courthouse to get Ranma changed to my family register. After that, the realtor I need a bigger house,” as she said that, she smirked at the last bit. “I saw a listing for a six bedroom that was put up Friday and since money is no object…”
Makoto walked up to Setsuna as she finished her monologue. “Setsuna, why did Ranma run from us like that? I only asked him to marry me, or is it because we’re what most might consider monsters?”
Setsuna sighed, and sat on a nearby couch before responding, “No, I don’t think it’s because of what you are, but because of the situation he is in. He is, thanks to his father, currently engaged to three girls with a fourth simply chasing after him. Two of the engagements are ones of honor, so he can’t break out of them. The third is due to some antiquated laws that have no exceptions. Each of the girls are pathologically violent, and the one who he lives with is extremely possessive. She has gotten more violent after a failed wedding attempt to the point that she sometimes bashed him for saying hello to another girl. The main reason I think you scared him off is the marriage proposal.”
“Why would that scare him off? Am I so ugly to him?”
“No, it’s because your actions reminded him of the one that he is engaged to by their laws. The law stated that if a female Amazon is beaten by a male outsider, she must give him the kiss of death and marry him. To this end she has tried love magic, love potions, mind control, and blackmail all while saying she loves him.” Setsuna explained.
Makoto’s eyes turned hard as she responded to this, “WHY THOSE DISHONERABLE PIECES OF TRASH! I HAVE HALF A MIND TO…”
Setsuna interrupted with, “Stop, if you want to have a chance with him you will have to do things differently. I will provide you a list of what NOT to do, but if you want him you will have to win him on your own.” /If she thinks she has no chance, she might go back to the ruins. This way she will be close by.”
Makoto nodded as she sat down on the floor to think.
One hour after school…
Most of the NWC, the parents of the various people with the exception of the Kuno patriarch, and Cologne were situated in the family room; the only NWC member missing was Ryoga, when the doorbell rang.
“That must be the one who told me to gather all of you, “Nabiki said, as she walked out of the room to answer the door. When she opened the door she saw the same woman from the morning standing there. “Come in miss… I just realized I never got your name.”
“Setsuna Meiou, and thank you,” Setsuna replied. She then followed Nabiki to where the wrecking crew was gathered.
“I have an announcement that will affect all of you,” The green haired woman began. She continued, “seventeen years ago, I let one of my eggs be used to let a sterile mother have a child. At that time we signed a contract that said if at anytime I find proof that they don’t deserve to be parents I can adopt him or her as my own. This morning I put that clause into effect.” At this point Nodoka’s and Genma’s faces pale. Setsuna continues with her announcement, “I had all the proof I needed to convince the judges that they were unfit, and the immediately granted me custody, so as of today Ranma Saotome is Ranma Meiou. I also hereby declare all honor pacts are the sole responsibility of the man who made them and nonbinding on Ranma. Also unless Nabiki immediately ceases exploiting him I will engage in legal action against her, and before you say anything about legal identity, I already took care of it. Ranma’s girl form is also registered to my clan. As to the amazons,” she stops for a second and gives them a cold smile before continuing, “I told the police about your plans to force a Japanese citizen to marry Shan Pu, based on a law that the Japanese don’t recognize as valid, and was supposedly activated in Japan. They told me that if you harass Ranma again, to call them and you will be arrested and deported, or shot if you resist too much. As for the Kuno’s I put out a restraining order on you both.”
The room exploded into noise after she finished. With the amazons shouting that Japanese law doesn’t matter as much as their own, Soun breaking into tears, Genma shouting that Ranma must marry Akane, Nabiki sneaking up into her room to stop all her online sales of Ranma products and to have them sent to the dojo to be destroyed, and the Kuno’s blabbing about her Ranma-sama and the foul sorcerer.
The only quiet people were Nodoka and Akane whom were in shock, Ukyo who knew she wouldn’t be heard anyway, Kasumi who looked somewhat satisfied for an instant, and Ranma who sneaked upstairs to pack.
Ranma had already slipped upstairs together his things. He half grumbled, “Finally an honorable way out of the madness my life has become, but I would have appreciated some warning.”
As he finished he found a note under his pillow. The note read thus: Ranma this is Setsuna. The three girls you met at the ruins are at my place. I have already talked to Makoto about your life, and she was righteously pissed about the amazons’ treatment of you, so you don’t have to worry about her doing the same. The other two don’t want to marry you. One just wants to be close to you as you seemed friendly. The other wants to be your servant. Your relationship to them is yours to decide.
p.s. I talked to Makoto a bit, and she said that if you choose to marry her she wouldn’t mind you being intimate with the other two.
Ranma groaned at the thought of being in the same house as the lizardgirl, but after reading that she had been talked to relaxed a bit. Putting the note in his bag he want down stairs to find…
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