"OK, I'll admit I could have phrased it better but I'm serious on this one." Nabiki held up her hands to forestall any of the eminent violence then flipped out a photo.
In the picture were Ranma, his mother and a much older gentlemen in a lab coat with long grey hair and a silvery 'Fu Manchu' style mustache. All the armored vehicles in the background made it obvious the photo was taken on a military base and judging by the visible plant life it was on Okinawa. "His grandfather IS an eccentric multimillionaire mad-scientist. And by eccentric I mean he makes Principal Kuno look like an average salary man. Just because he believes those aliens exist doesn't mean that they do. However the JSDF are putting up with his ranting and raving because he can deliver on the whole giant robot thing." She paused a moment to let that sink in and took in the looks of slowly dawning comprehension on the faces of the three girls in front of her.
Finally she went on in a steady tone. "Ranma is now under contract with the JSDF. If anyone tries to assault him before the Doc is done with his project, they get prison time or deported. Ranma called this morning. He told us that Ryoga found him on the base and attacked him. Hibiki is currently looking at a 10 years hard labor for screaming 'Ranma prepare to die!' and flipping over a tank with the breaking point. Ranma's seeing if he can get it talked down to some sort of community service deal with mandatory anger management classes."
Shampoo sat down, her expression one of serious deep thought. "This going make husband hunt tricky." The odds were not good that the government would allow Chinese national near anyone working on a project that sounded that important.
"The good news is, I was also serious about him getting help with the Neko Ken." Nabiki said in a conciliatory tone. "So there is that to look forward to." Shampoo just nodded.
Ukyo leaned heavily on her spatula for support as she took in what she had heard. "Why did the old man need Ranma though? No offense to Ranchan, he is a brilliant martial artist but a rocket scientist he isn't."
"Seems the old fella has a paranoid streak a mile wide. Keeping it in the family for security and all that." Nabiki explained. "Seems Ranma's reflexes and strength make him a perfect test pilot or something and his curse means they get twice the data for half the cost."
Kodachi, off in her own little world, sighed with stars in her eye. "Oh, how scrumptious Ranma-sama will look in uniform!"
"If I can get Nodoka to send some pictures of him dressed up I'll put you down for prints." Nabiki grinned as that got the expected reaction, that being Ukyo and Shampoo putting in orders for copies.
After a bit of quiet while Nabiki noted down who ordered the double prints Ukyo spoke up with a question. "So how is Akane taking this?"
Nabiki sniffed at that. "She was sad at first but then when we got news of what Ryoga did she went off on a rant about how Ranma was picking on him by getting him thrown in prison. I'm looking into professional councilors who can properly explain to her that shouted death threats are not an appropriate greeting and that there are consequences to using them as such outside of the martial arts community."
"Bout damn time."
Everyone looked over at Shampoo. "What? Shampoo can't be only one thinking that."
"Right" Nabiki drawled out. "Anyway, that is the latest news." With that she passed out the bill for her services and waited for the payment to be handed over.
"Why Shampoo get bill twice?" Asked an annoyed amazon.
The mercenary girl smirked. "First one is yours, the other you can give to Mousse for thinking he could snoop and get a free pass." She was rewarded by grumbling from outside the window. With that Shampoo left.
"Well, this isn't so bad." said Kodachi as she looked over her bill with two others pinned to it "One for myself and two for my idiot brother for having Sasuke listen in for him. I'll be sure to pass these along." With that Kodachi bounded out of the dojo and Tendo compound trailing rose petals and her trademark laugh. From under the floors the Kuno's retainer whimpered.
Ukyo just grumbled at the second bill she was handed. "Konatsu!"
"I'm sorry Ukyo-sama, I was worried." Said ninja apologized from the rafters of the dojo then hopped down to kneel in front of Ukyo. He didn't stay landed for long though as his ear was grabbed and he was tugged lightly out into the yard.
Nabiki just laughed a bit to herself. Finally things would quiet down a bit around here.
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