A Few minutes later Nodoka was standing outside the guest room, and she took a deep breath before opening the door.
“What do you want?” an angry male voice snarled from the darkened room.
Taken aback by the tone of voice and hostility Nodoka non the less stepped forward and replied sternly, “Ranma, I’m your moth...”
“My mother? You can still claim that? After you had Genma cause most of my problems? Most, of my problems came from this fucking curse! Kuno wanting to marry my female form, Kodatchi wanting to kill said form, Ryoga being pissed at me for him following me to the damn springs, the amazons, and quite a few other problems all your fault, Nodoka,” Ranma snarled back interrupting the oncoming lecture. “As well as keeping secrets like the fact I would gain control of my curse whether or not I agreed to take the position. Now if you want a chance in hell of repairing the wreck you made of this family, you and pops better not be seen for a few days to a week so I can calm the hell down.”
“But the guild...” She started again
“Better hold off until I’m inclined to listen tell them to contact me in a week and I’ll see weather or not I’m calmed down to meet them alone,” Ranma said harshly.
“Alone?” Nodoka said, “but, I...”
“I don’t care about your opinions on the matter, now unless you want me to leave the clan, go!” Ranma shouted.
Nodoka, showing sense decided to leave the room and talk to her husband. A few minutes later Genma came in. “Ranma, wha...”
“Stuff it pops, your not off the hook either you took me to the damn springs, even knowing what kind of hell I’d make my life,” Ranma snapped at the portly martial artist.
“Sigh, I know, and for whats it worth I’m sorry, but I had little choice,” Genma said honestly.
“Explain,” Ranma said from within the soul of ice.
“She threatened to kick me out of the clan if I didn’t. I don’t say this often, but I made a mistake falling under her pressure,” Genma said truthfully.
“Pops, I have no clue how much of that was bullshit, your lack of truthfulness at other times does not inspire me.”
“I’ll be at the Saotome house after breakfast tomorrow, and will make sure that Nodoka goes as well, if you want to talk, just come over,” the man said sadly as he walked away, closing the door behind him.
“Saotome,” a voice said from behind the door.
“Go away Nabiki, I’m not in the mood for your scams,” Ranma gruffly responded.
“But...”
“No buts, I already know what you want to day, you want me to take the position to line your own pockets, the answer is no!”
After a frustrated huffing sound the girl walked away from the door muttering too low for anyone to hear.
Ranma, went to sleep quickly emotionally exhausted by the stress of the day.
The next day dawned brightly and Ranma was, unusually, allowed to wake up without being thrown out the window, or with water. Since It was a school day he got ready quickly, and surprisingly uneventfully, and headed down stairs when he smelled breakfast being served.
When he arrived in the dining room however, the start of the good mood he had been building vanished as his expression turned into a scowl. His mother was sitting at the table.
“Ranma we need to talk,” Nodoka said.
“Talk about what? The fact that you had tried your damnedest to screw my life up? The fact that you’re so involved in your wants that you could care less about mine? Or do you want to rehash what about my life is your fault? Perhaps we should talk about how you dare to think you know whats best for me after not being there for over ten years. Or how about how you thought making your only son a freak was a good idea. Which of these do you want to talk about, Nodoka?” Ranma said as the anger from the night before came back in full.
Nodoka flinched back at the abusive questions, and gathered her wits to say what needs to be said without destroying whats left of her family. “The guild, they’re refusing to reschedule your interview, they feel that since we made the appointment, that we shouldn’t be allowed to reschedule.”
“We made the appointment? Give me the number I’ll inform them that I never made, or agreed with, making the appointment,” Ranma said angrily.
“Please Ranma, don’t...”
“The number... now.”
“Fine,” Nodoka said as she stood up, and left the room, a few minutes later she returned with a slip of paper. “Please don’t antagonize them.”
“You should’ve thought about that yesterday,” Ranma replied as he left the room to use the phone.
After a quick dialing Ranma waited as the phone rang in. When he got a response he said coolly while deep in the soul of ice, “Hello, I need to talk about rescheduling an appointment that some bitch made on my behalf... Names Ranma Saotome... yes that Ranma... No I didn’t accept the position... Listen doing it at that point would be very bad for all involved, I’m barely keeping civil to yet another group that wants to ruin my life... Yes you heard right, I already have enough people out for my head, or wanting to make my life miserable... I fill my weird shit O’ meter good enough without help... problems I already deal with? Three fiancee’s and one wanna be, psychotic superpowerful martial artist rivals, and every thing from drugs, to supernatural beings, to weird magic items... You can reschedule since the request was made on false pretenses? Thank you, how’s next Saturday after school? Three O’clock? That’s fine, you’ll send a guide? Thanks and bye.” Ranma hung up the phone feeling a little better about meeting the group, although actually choosing one with the rather full plate he had at the moment might be rather hard.
Ranma walked back into the dining room to find the rest of the Tendo + Saotome families already eating. So Ranma took his place and started eating his food quickly to get away from his parents.
A few minutes later he was out the door before anyone could speak with him. On the way to school he was thinking of the implications of his now under control curse. Let’s see since Amaterasu gave me control, I now can control some of my problems. Kuno will be attacking me, but that’s not going to stop of unless I’m no longer engaged to Akane, and he, Ranma stops his thoughts to shudder, gets the pigtailed girl. Of course if I had never ad the curse I wouldn’t have been pushed to Akane in the first place, and he would be a non-issue. His sisters still after me, that’s my fault, but as long as I don’t spend time in my girl form she’s not trying to kill me. P-chan, nothings changed there except more pissed now that I have control. Amazons, again nothings changed, except Mousse is gonna be worse than ever for the same reason as Ryoga. No pictures being sold of me is a plus, can’t stop the ones already sold though. Gym locker troubles over as well.
Ranma was stopped from his contemplation when the ladle lady got him with water, and he smiled when he realized that Amaterasu actually came through. In some ways he was sad he turned her down, but in most others he was not.
He shook his head and continued off to school.
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