Nabiki took a sip from her tea cup and waited for the reactions.
“WHAT?!” came the cry of her father
[Enslaved each other?] A panda sign read [he seduced her?] flip [that’s my boy!]
“What did Ranma do to my baby girl!?” bellowed Soun
“Relax Daddy…” Nabiki tried to defuse the situation “they just agreed they couldn’t trust each other to look after themselves and therefore, with my help of course, they used magic ton enslave each other. It’s weird even for here.” She took another sip from her cup “Mmm, that’s great as usual sis, anyway, it’s a 24/7 lifestyle that they agreed and made a contract on. So if you see Ranma ordering Akane around today doing anything weird, than it’s because of it. And before you say anything, it was Akane’s idea after she said that regular marriage isn’t bonding enough, or something. So, technically they are married, but they own each other the one in charger switching each day. At least we know which days Akane won’t be cooking.”
The Tendo Patriarch was in tears “So they are married now? And they didn’t tell us? Whaaa!!! My youngest daughter got married and didn’t tell her father!”
[There, there.] flip [Look at the bright side] flip [the schools are now joined] flip [we did it Tendo!]. flip [Now is a time to celebrate!] flip [Hey! Are you hearing me?]
*smack* went the sign onto Soun’s head
[Schools joined, get drunk.] flip [Now! Before Nodoka comes and ruins it!]
“You’re right Saotome, this is what we wanted. At last we did it!” Tears came from his eyes “Let’s go.”
And with that, the two left.
“Well that went better than I thought.” Nabiki noted as she looked at Kasumi.
“Oh my!”
“Things will be interesting again Kasumi. Do we have popcorn?”
“Oh my!”
“If only I had a video camera. I’d be rich on all the profits!”
“Oh my!”
“Wonder when Auntie will come back. I just want to see the look on her face when Ranma orders Akane around.”
“Oh my!”
“Kasumi? What’s wrong?” she turned and saw a tape recorder in her place. “What the?”
“Oh my!” went the tape recorder.
“Kasumi! That’s not funny!”
“Oh my!”
“How does it do that?”
“Oh my!”
‘wait… if I don’t say anything, I might find out when it does it.’
She stared at the recorder, daring it to make a noise.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Nodoka, meanwhile, was doing that thing that she was supposed to do. It was her duty as the mother of her child, to be sure that he and his wife were undisturbed. That’s why she was out now while Nabiki was handling the work with the children. It was a good thing that Nabiki came up with that plan. While normally she would have waited until their previous arrangements were taken care of before doing something like this, she understood that it would never happen. Her manly son was too attractive to women for them to give up on their part, and Akane was so lovely, she gained others’ attention quite easily as well. Yes, Ranma made the right choice with that girl. This enslaving each other scheme was different, but, because of those magic rings Nabiki acquired, it would make their bond stronger than the norm. How could she not go with this?
“It hurts me to deceive them this way, but, its for the best.”
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
An hour later and Nabiki still hasn’t moved her eyes from the tape. Realizing it won’t continue, she gave up.
“Stupid thing stopped working.” She mumbled
“Oh my!” went the tape
“Aha! Got you now!”
“Oh my!”
“So… I’ve been wasting my time because you won’t respond till I say something.
“Oh my!”
“Heh, Kasumi is a prankster. Who’d known?”
“Oh my!”
“Still, how does this work?”
“Nabiki, why are you playing with that tape recorder?”
Nabiki spun around and saw Kasumi there groceries in hand.
“I was… just, where did you go?”
“I had shopping to do; I hope you didn’t spend the whole time with my tape recorder. It’s not healthy.”
“I just, it is crazy!”
“What do you mean?”
“It speaks like you whenever I say something. See, watch, ‘say something’!”
“…”
“Say something darn you stupid machine!”
“…”
“I’m not crazy; you were saying stuff on your own!”
“…”
“Nabiki, are you feeling well? Maybe you should lie down.”
“I… it… no… but… alright. Must have been going crazy. I’ve got to stop hanging around the Kunos.” Nabiki went to her room to sleep this off.
“I hope she isn’t feeling sick.” Kasumi said aloud with concern before taking her tape recorder to her room. “That shop had great gifts. I hope its still there by the end of this week. They seem to move away quickly.” ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
At a bar on the far side of the Nerima ward, two men were drinking to their hearts content on their successful joining of the schools. On top of that, the heirs did it by themselves! No doubt out of respect of their parents, after all, they knew what was best for them, and this proved it. Soun was still unsure what Nabiki meant by ‘enslaving each other’, but it didn’t matter, they succeeded and Genma said not to worry; since when was his friend wrong?
“Mission Accomplished Saotome!”
“Mission Accomplished Tendo!”
And those two drank themselves under like they never did before (mostly because they didn’t before, having only drunken once since they seen each other, no matter what their ungrateful… err… I mean obedient children said… yeah.)
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Ranma and Akane were in the bath together facing opposite ways. They really did this on impulse, as while they both knew what they could do, it wasn't really them to be mean to each other. That is, unless Akane cooked, or Ranma did anything stupid. Still, Ranma was too terrified to ask Akane to scrub his back so that's how they were, opposite sides of he furo not looking at each other. After a while, Akane broke the silence.
"Ranma, it's... I mean... I ... err... what I mean to say is... I won't call you a pervert if you make me scrub your back. We agreed to this, and I don't back down from agreements. That, and maybe, I dunno, we can do, other things in here too."
"You mean that Akane. You'll listen to me before you hit me, take MY SIDE OF THE STORY?!"
"Hey! I'm not that bad!" Akane paused "Well, I don't mean too." Akane thought "Some you had coming..."
Ranma smirked. "You true to your word Akane. I don't appreciate it when you're un-cute you know."
Akane growled "Don't push it! I'm trying to... you know... it will help if you are nice for once."
"Well, I could order you. You said you'd go through with this, after all this is YOUR idea." Ranma's smirk grew as his hands went behind his head.
"You're suck a jerk! I don't know what got over me to even suggest being nice to you!"
"Well I say it's because you and I have magic rings on. Face it, you love me, I know it, you know it, we are stuck forever, so lets try to make this work without bashing please?"
Akane took a while to calm down again. Finally finding her voice she replied "Well, I still say you're a pervert..."
"And I still think you're a tomboy... but you know what? Screw it, your my tomboy. I own ya. And I don't care." Ranma was in deep though with his eyes closed "Actually, I like you that way, if only you weren't so violent and un-cute at times."
Akane turned around "Well, I own a jerk and a 'pigtailed girl' lucky me!" She got a sponge
"Not today you don't!" Ranma started laughing
"You are SO going to get it tomorrow... jerk"
"Tomboy."
Laughter could be heard throughout the house.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Nodoka was almost to her destination. It was a long day, but it was worth it. Although she would love to see a real wedding ceremony, she knew that it couldn’t happen as long as those lovely girls chased her son. This was the next best thing, as she knew it would make them happy. The best part was that there was no more pressure on them. Therefore they can finally do what they wanted. She knew that Ranma didn’t like being tied down, and so by doing it on their own, it allowed them to go where they wanted, maybe travel a bit. America was good this time of year. Plus it was away from the people who tried to interfere with their lives. ‘Hmm… I might know the perfect place in America to send them… I’ll ask them later, right now I have a deed to do that will free my son from those who wish to hurt him.’
And with that, she walked into…
Read the comments on this episode
(Posted Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:44)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.