"Oh dear, I don't think this is proper at all." The same went for a certain android superheroine.
Nabiki frowned. "This isn't what you think!"
"Sister, would you please take your hands off me?" Hotaru asked.
"She 'sister'?" Akane looked even more upset. "What kind of sick role playing games are you up to, Nabiki?!" An odd expression played over Akane's face and she hurried down the hall.
"It isn't like that, erp!" Nabiki looked down at where her wrists were now encircled by the small soft and really darn strong hands of the android in question.
"I'm really not interested in exploring certain avenues of human existence," insisted Hotaru as she forcibly removed Nabiki's hands.
"But..."
"What's going on here?!" Soun demanded as he and Genma looked in.
"Well," began Kasumi, who had pulled this maneuver once before while explaining Shampoo to her father so it shouldn't be a surprise that she made the same sort of misinterpretations as previously. "It looks like Nabiki was jealous of my relationship with Hotaru and decided to come in here and get her or get off or something."
"Gurk!" said Genma, looking stunned.
"That's not quite it," said Nabiki, trying to remain calm and regain control of the situation.
"AH HAH!" Akane said, tossing a few items and magazines into the room. "So that is why you keep borrowing my clothes and my underwear! Just look at these pictures!"
"Oh dear," said Nabiki, wincing. "There's a very good explanation for this. I've been selling those pictures at the school..." Brain caught up and told Mouth that this wouldn't help matters any.
Akane's eyes were wide. Her mouth opened and closed without making a noise and she turned pale. While Akane normally could leap to a wrong conclusion quite easily, or avoid making connections (such as P-chan and Ryouga) that she didn't want to, there were times she could take a few nagging details and come to an absolutely correct conclusion.
Pictures that were a few months old of herself - naked. Her sister had been selling them at school. Call it Evidence A. Nabiki making money off the bets from how fast Akane would finish her morning fights. Call it Evidence B. Nabiki's frequent business dealings with Kuno. That would be circumstancial but Evidence C nonetheless. A+B+C = "it was you..."
Ranma came up and was about to ask what the hey was going on but somehow the glowing battleaura forming around Akane clued him in that remaining quiet and unnoticed was probably a good thing.
"Excuse me? Moi?" Nabiki was discovering what it was like to be one page behind in the script and not liking it at all. "As I was saying, there's a perfectly logical explanation for this."
"YOU started Kuno on that whole 'beat Akane to date her' stupidity so you could make more money!" Akane stared as the awful conclusion shook her world. It made sense though, and that picture with her in the long hair snoozing in the tub had to date from about the time of the challenge. "You're responsible for that... that..."
"Uhm," Ranma couldn't keep quiet anymore. He really wanted to know what was going on and hope it wasn't something he did.
Akane still wasn't sure about the whole slavetrader thing (she was still wrestling with the concept of friendly big hearted androids), but responded by holding onto Ranma and crying into his chest in a sudden manuever that absolutely nobody there had expected. Least of all Ranma. "Ranma! My sister's a bigger pervert than Happosai!"
"Huh?!" Ranma asked, now completely lost.
"Hey!" Nabiki exclaimed.
"Oh dear, oh my!" Kasumi said, fretting and wondering if pictures of HER had been sold to a bunch of teenage boys. How thoroughly improper!
"Don't worry, Kasumi-sensei," said Hotaru, getting in between the two sisters. "I'll protect you!"
Soun sniffled and began to bawl something unintelligible about the Master's evil influence.
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