[Episode 24310] [Episode 24310]Friday morning, well, late morning. There were plenty of people about. Students rushing to their school as they kept saying they were late. MOthers and their children, enjoying the fine day and in the case of the children feeding/chasing the birds. And their across from him sat an elderly couple, holding hands, enjoying the spectacle of those rambunxious children.
Ranma sighed at the childrens innocence and turned his attention back to the lake. It was almost calm enough for him to see the bottom. Picking up a small stone he tossed it into the water and watched the ripples spread out. That was him, his life, whereever he went there were ripples. Throwing another rock he watched as the newer ripples conceled out the older ones. That represented......he really didn't know what it represented, maybe it represented the secret that all of the fiance's shared.
He was still amazed at all of the information that Nabiki gathered. If it hadn't been for the audio tapes and video tapes of the fiance's 'together' then he would've thought all those documents a forgery. But they weren't. For month's he could think of nothing but the secrets in those files and wonder. Then he'd learned the Umi-Sen-Ken to fix another one of Genma's mess's. After that Genma made him promise to never use the technique again, then he'd gone back on that promise and spied on his fiance's. The first day showed nothing out of the usual, by the second day he was beginning to think that someone had faked the voices/images on those tapes and cassettes.
On the third day however. It was a slow day, the sort that only occur when the shit was about to hit the fan. He peered in the window to Shampoo's room, and saw her and Akane locked together, naked, kissing each other. For a long time he watched without actually seeing anything. Nabiki was right all along and he'd been played for a fool.
Akane betrayed him. Shampoo betrayed him. Ukyou betrayed him.
He'd thought of them as friends, people who he could trust in a fight. Only to find that they were using him to hide their relationship. It wasn't the fact that they were sleeping with each-other that irked him, it was the fact that THEY WERE USING HIM!!
Hours of despair, recriminations, turbulent thoughts and 4 abandoned buildings (mysteriously destroyed) later found Ranma at a park similiar to this one. He'd come to a partial conclusion at the time. If the fiance's wanted to use him as a cover for what they were really doing then fine, but if they thought he would just continue being the 'dumb jock' as Nabiki put it, then they were terribly mistaken. In essence as they used him as a shield then he would use them to the same effect. He didn't know what to do at first, nor was he too terribly inclined to just ask someone. Eventually Genma started harping on him for his grades, so he'd shrugged and later when Akane predictably punted him he walked to the nearest library (book stores were out of the question, too little money at that time) and read all the books he could find on one of his class subjects (history, math, science, art, etc).
When Ranma came back to Nerima he was slightly scuffled from a fight with Ryouga and a bit worried that everyone would ask and find out where he was that day, but his appearance detered them as no one wanted to hear the same old 'Ryouga happened upon me as I was walking back' story. So a week and a half later when he was again punted by Akane he repeated the cycle, though a couple times he found Ryouga other times he had to fake being in a fight......which really wasn't that hard to do.
No one questioned him because none of them cared. Even when his grades steadily rose to the top of his class's (a fact that drove two teachers insane, not that anyone noticed) Genma didn't comment.
Despite the lack of emotion Ranma kept at it, week after week, for no reason other then he was doing it for himself. That was his 'dark' secret, he could think for himself. Though he had come to enjoy these little trips. "But now....?"
After going through Nabiki's files that first day he made it a habit to check those files and recordings atleast once a week, the last time he'd checked it was yesterday. Those audio recordings of Shampoo and Akane were starting to worry him. Shampoo was obsessed with bedding him for no other reason then he 'played' hard to get. Akane just wanted Shampoo. And now it seemed that both were seriously considering tag-teaming his cursed form. Not HIM, only Shampoo mentioned him, his cursed form. From what they said it sounded like they didn't care what his thoughts/feelings were on the matter as long as they got what they wanted.
No more then three months ago he defeated Saffron, who was in essence a living god, and now the girls believed they could use his cursed form as a sex-toy.
"No."
It was time for a change. This week it would all end. One way or the other.
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(Posted Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:54)
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