Kitsune were symbiotic spirits, while actually in a host it was nearly impossible for even the involved souls to tell the difference between their own soul and that of their partner's, but there was still some level of seperation.
Kodachi and Hikage had long since given up trying to make that distinction. For one thing, Kodachi could barely remember ever being any different, for another, they had a tendency to switch off dominance so rapidly and randomly that the lines had become more blurred than normal. So, while Kodachi tended to refer to her collective selves as "I" very often these sorts of ramblings were in fact conversations of a "we."
"Face it girl," Kodachi said. "We're a full grade monster, and what's the chance that Ranma has seen anything like this?"
It should be noted that Kodachi had a tendency to miss most of Ranma's more...supernatural adventures. It should also be noted that, having spent her entire life on Earth in a time period that things such as her were uncommon, that the collective Kodachi had somewhat a bad opinion of herself. Hikage had been intending to spend all her existence in the spirit world just observing. She hadn't wanted to engage in the "horrid" practices of her kin. Then she'd run across a little girl in the process of dying after a nasty fall and, well, she had gotten tired of just observing.
She paced around for a moment, two tails swishing behind her.
"Perhaps if I presented the situation without the more strange aspects," Kodachi suggested. "I only have one more year until I can leave for school...surely he'll help me to go that long." She paused for a moment. "The instant Brother-Dear hears about Ranma's engagement..." she shivered. "I'll be back to spending my nights at the school gym."
That was certainly a benefit to having a centuries old fox-spirit bonded to you. The Hikage part of her had quickly noticed the warning signs and thus the whole of Kodachi had taken steps to NOT be the next in a series of disgusting Kuno events.
She had considered showing herself, but that would probably have left her a double-victim: raped and murdered, or perhaps "tamed" and "exorcised." Assuming she knew her brother at all. And at the time she, Kodachi, had only been thirteen, so it wasn't like she could do much resisting against a fifteen year old boy. Now that she was seventeen and better skilled, it had, admittedly, sort of grown into something of a psychological block on facing Tatewaki directly (though using him as a weapon was all right).
"Okay, okay," Kodachi said. "I talk to him, and tell him the human part of the troubles, and see if he can help me. So, now, how do we find Ranma and this new girl?" She paused a moment. "Errr...Kasumi Tendo...or his mother? His mother, if I try Kasumi I might have to deal with Akane again...bleh."
Decision made, Kodachi high-tailed it toward the Saotome home...and then remembered to change back to her human form. She stopped and arranged herself carefully before knocking on the door. After a few moments the door swished open and she was facing the Saotome Matriarch.
"Yes?" Nodoka asked cautiously, eyes narrowed at one of the girls that had been reportedly using her son.
"Saotome-san, I wish to speak to your son on a matter of some importance," Kodachi said. "Among those matters I must make an apology." She considered for a moment. "First to you for the damages to your home."
"An apology, you say?" Nodoka considered. "Go ahead and come in, we were just discussing my son." She gestured for Kodachi to follow her and walked inside.
"We?" Kodachi repeated as she stepped into the tea room and saw...two cat people sitting at the table with Nabiki Tendo. "Wha-"
"Now there's a hot looking kitsune," Tirga noted, sniffing the air.
"Kitsune?" Nabiki repeated. "Her?" Kodachi swallowed as her eyes rolled back in her head, leaning back as she...
*THUMP*
...fell to the ground like a lump of dirt.
"Oh dear," Nodoka said, enjoying some measure of revenge for the repairs to her house.
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