Ranma and Sue, after spending a whole day learning, eating, and shopping, had finally made it back to the Tendo Dojo. While Ranma was being glad at being back, and dreading the uncute tomboy's wrath, Sue was focused on other things, as always.
"'To challenge owner...'" she read out slowly, "Is this why we're here? To challenge the owner?"
"What? Oh, no." responded Ranma, coming back to the present, "This is basically where I've been staying for the past few years."
"Really?" asked Sue, "So is this where I'm going to be staying?"
"For now, anyway." responded Ranma, preparing himself for the worst.
"I'M HO~OOOOME!" Ranma called out, bracing himself, and right on time...
"RANMA NO- EERK!" was the partially formed war cry as Akane, with her new curves wobbling, and Mallet-Sama charged into the living room, only to see what had come in the door with him. Sue had already braced herself for combat when Akane had yelled, but both of them stood there, not knowing what to make of the other. The rest of the family soon came in with them.
"Ranma, baby, what did you bring home this time?" asked Nabiki, who had just got done encrypting the photos she had taken of Akane.
"Oh, this is Sue. She's a friend of mine." Ranma answered, indicating Sue behind him, her head almost touching the ceiling.
"Are you sure she's not a new fiancee, Ranma?" Nabiki asked, preparing to send a new tweet on her phone.
"What's a fiancee, Ranma? Is it another name for a friend?" asked Sue, not understanding the term.
"Agh! No!" exclaimed Ranma in exasperation, "A fiancee is what you call someone you're going to marry!"
"What does 'marry' mean?" asked Sue, the explanation going over her head.
"Gah!" exclaimed Ranma again. but Kasumi interrupted him before he could begin a rant.
"Oh, my. To marry someone is to leave your own family and bond with someone from another family to start a new family. You can't be that clueless, can you?"
"Unfortunately yes," responded Sue, sheepishly, "I'm actually quite new to all of this." she answered, indicating everything around her with one arm and herself with the other. But Akane quickly butted in.
"Ranma, you baka," interjected Akane angrily, indicating her boobs and her buttocks, "Can't you do something about these things?"
"I'll try." said Ranma, with a bit of hesitation, then focusing his will, recited, "I wish Akane was a bit smaller without her being so flat-chested."
Nothing happened. "Great," grumbled Akane, "Now I'm going to be stuck with these for the rest of my life."
"Oh, my!" Kasumi said, suddenly, "Dinner is almost ready. I got to go check on it." and she left for the kitchen.
"I'll be there in a minute." Ranma called out after her, "I just got to go put this shopping down."
"Shopping?" asked Nabiki, incredulously, "Everyone knows you're broke, Ranma."
"No, I'm not." replied Ranma, pulling out his new bank of Kaos card, "I've got this." But no sooner was the card shown, that Nabiki whipped it out of his hands so fast that Ranma was sure that he might have lost a layer of skin.
"Bank of Kaos?" Nabiki read, incredulously, then turning toward him with an evil grin, "Maybe you can use this card to put a dent in the debt you owe me, Saotome." But before Ranma could issue a denial, Genma had stolen the card and was out the door in a flash.
"That can't be good." Ranma said, before Kasumi called them all to dinner.
Dinner was a bit of a strange affair that day. One of the things that was strange was Sue towering over a Japanese-style table, even when sitting. Another strange thing that happened was that Kasumi had apparently bought a large leg of lamb on an impulse buy, But Sue could have that while everyone else had pickled cucumbers and mushroom soup for dinner. Sue was a little surprised that the manners she had learned while in town were fine in public, her old ways (minus using her feet) were just fine in a private residence, but soon she was dining with gusto on the leg of lamb. The radio over by the sink had just got done with a song when it reported that a fat man who was a regular at several bars in the district had tried to buy seven million yen of fine alcohol with a stolen Bank of Kaos card, tried to flee with the alcohol when confronted with the fact that the card was protected with Identity theft protection, and was now spending nine months in prison for identity theft, assaulting a police officer, attempting to flee the scene of the crime, and disturbing the peace. All Ranma would say about that was, "Stupid Oyaji."
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