[Episode 29267] [Episode 29267]
She may have been a scheming skinflint of a girl at times, but her reputation was really quite overblown. There was no vast organization of informants, and no constantly running betting pools. What there was, was a rather intelligent girl with an eye for a financial opening but was otherwise no different than most girls her age.
She was rather enjoying herself, gossiping about the various couples at school (the martial artists getting top billing of course) and comparing some of the various boys and their good and bad points up until Shampoo ran by with some older boy...make that young man...in rather expensive clothes. Both were rather intently set on each other.
Nabiki and her friends nearly choked on their ice cream when that happened. Then Kodachi jumped through with Mousse. Similarly grabbing each other's attention. That's when the contents of her stomach started to freeze.
"The Nekohanten's right down the street, right?" Jin asked Nabiki.
"I have to pass it on the way home," Nabiki said, standing up.
"Did you guys just see that?" a new voice asked and Nabiki saw Sayuri and Yuka come in the door.
"Yuka," Nabiki asked. "Isn't Akane with you?"
"She had to get some things from ho...me?" Yuka said, blinking in surprise as Nabiki started running past her.
Nabiki paused at the Nekohanten and peaked into the near empty restaurant.
"What the heck happened?" Nabiki asked of Cologne, not bothering to explain why she asked.
"That idiot Mousse got a hold of some sort of aphrodesiac," Cologne said. "You can tell Ranma when he comes down that he won't have to worry about us for much longer."
"Ranma was here then?" Nabiki said.
"Yes," Cologne said and watched as Nabiki ran back out into the street. She shook her head and sat down to wait. "Youth." She could follow Nabiki, but that was no real guarantee of finding either Shampoo or Ranma. It would be best to just sit and wait.
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"Tadaima," Akane called out as she came into the house.
She wasn't really expecting any answer. After all she knew Kasumi and Nabiki were rarely home at this time, and their fathers were supposed to be doing some sort of town watch thing. Which was why she was surprised to hear something coming from upstairs.
"Hello?" she called out, confused and a little cautious. Of course, the two people above were too well-involved to pay attention to anything but each other.
As the sound of grunts and some sort of heavy activity became apparent, she narrowed her eyes and firmed her fists, thinking that maybe robbers had come to her house while it was empty. Well, she'd show them.
She took a detour into her room and started to reach for her shinai until a very clear...
"Oh kami! MORE!"
...sounded from what had to be Ranma's room.
Her eyesight faded to red as she realized just what was happening. The hand passed the shinai and settled around the heavy hand-weight she used for exercising.
Moments later she was in Ranma's room and her rage only deepened as she saw two naked forms entangled together and so heavy into the throws of passion that they didn't even register her appearance. As if she were an unimportant, immaterial matter.
Just like always, Ranma was overlooking her, ignoring her. He comes in and turns her life upside down, humiliates her, insults her, destroyed every idea she had of herself and then has the audacity to go behind her back like this? In her own house, no less! With a brown-haired girl! Ukyou?...Just friends indeed!
She wasn't thinking near straight enough to notice that the hair-style was fair too short for Ukyou.
"RAAAAAANMA!" Akane demanded, swinging outward and catching one of the two as they rose upward.
There was feminine shriek as her strike hit a shoulder and threw the target across the room, eliciting a pained yipe from Ranma as well as Megumi was forcefully pulled from sensitive parts of his anatomy.
"I'm going to kill you!!" Akane screamed as she struck out and caught Ranma under the chin with the weight.
"That hurt, lover," the girl muttered dazedly from where she had landed. Akane snapped away from Ranma and sunk deeper into rage as "Ukyou" still seemed not to realize Akane was there.
"It was SUPPOSED to hurt you bitch!" Akane shrieked, kicking the downed girl twice, not noticing the ribs crack on the second kick. Ranma grunted then, catching Akane's attention before any more damage could be dealt to Megumi. "And you...you...PERVERT!"
Normally Akane wouldn't have had a chance to do much of anything past the first hit, but Ranma was not capable of defending himself at the moment, much less Megumi. It was a good twenty seconds before somebody grabbed Akane from behind shouting something she couldn't interpret.
"Finally you try something, Ukyou?!" Akane demanded swing around and smacking into her attacker. She turned and the pained face of her sister cut through the rage. "Na...Nabiki?"
"Akane," Nabiki gasped, arms wrapped around her chest where Akane had hit her. "That hurt."
"Oh," Akane said in shock, dropping her impromtu weapon and sitting down next to Nabiki and trying to look her over. "I thought you were...that's not Ukyou..." Nabiki recognized the anger creeping back in.
"They're drugged," she spat angrily.
"Huh?" Akane said distracted by the venom in Nabiki's voice.
"Mousse was trying to get Shampoo and threw something into a crowd," Nabiki said weakly. "Call Dr. Tofu."
"But..."
"I think you broke my ribs, Akane!" Nabiki hissed painfully. "And kami knows what you did to them. Call Dr. Tofu!!" Akane hesitated in fear and confusion. "NOW!"
Akane nodded meekly and ran for the phone.
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