Ranma landed back in the Tendo compound, setting Akane down as Colonge pogoed down next to him. "Should be right on time." As he started forward to the front gates.
Akane followed after him. "Wait up Ranma. I doubt their going to leave without us."
Colonge just smirked softly, shaking her head as she followed. She closed to the front of the house, recognizing the middle Tendo girl's voice as she seemed to be having problems with someone. Colonge rounded the corner, stopping at the sight of the two sisters standing there. She frowned, muttering to herself. "Oh dear, seems like son-in-law wasn't exagerating."
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Nabiki frowned, gods she hated dealing with people like this. "Look, like I told you're ssssupervissssor over the phone. We are going to a cosssstume party, and our cosssstumessss are too complicated to just take on and off just becausssse you don't think that I can wear a sssseatbelt. He assssured me that this was not going to be a problem, but if it issss, I have no problem with calling him back and exsssspressssing my disssspleassssure."
The cabbie wrung his hat between his hand. "Look miss, I just trying to do my job, but..."
Nabiki cut him off, her voice ice hard as her eyes bore into him. "But you're not doing your job. Your job is to take us," Pointing to herself and the rest of the group. "Where we need to go. And I'm certainly paying enough for thissss that I sssshouldn't be sssstanding here arguing with you, about the job you're not doing. Now, are you going to do your job. Or am I going to make it sssso you will never drive anything larger than a bicycle?"
The driver seemed to deflate upon himself, hanging his head as he moved towards the mini-van. "Yes ma'am. Please give me a moment to make room in back for you and your costume."
He walked away as Akane spoke up. "Weren't you a little hard with the poor man Nabiki? And what happened to your clothes?"
Nabiki looked down at herself, as she had changed out of her school uniform and skirt to just wearing one of her once loose tee-shirts, that was pulled tight against her swollen chest before looking back up to Akane. "Yessss, I was a little hard with him. Though I don't know why, it's not like I'm under any kind of sssstressss or anything." sarcasm dripping like venom from her voice. "And I changed my clothessss because they we're irritating my sssscalessss to no end. Thissss issss the only thing I could find that wassssn't making me want to sssscratch them off in a hurry."
Nabiki glanced over to Colonge, "Ah, and I ssssee that you picked up a tag-a-long for our trip."
Colonge smirked softly, rapping Nabiki gently on the head. "Now now child, I've grown to exspect that level of rudeness from son-in-law, but I thought you better at hiding it."
Nabiki grimmiced, looking down at her coils. "I'm not myself right now." She begrudginly admitted. "Ssssince Ranma and Akane left, thingssss have seemed to get worsssse. Ssssomething feelssss like it's crawling around inside my head, worming and squirming itssss way through my mind." Her hand coming up to clutch at her temple.
Kasumi laid a comforting hand on Nabiki's shoulder, "Come on Nabiki, the driver say's he's ready now."
Nabiki looked up at the group, gathering up her strength once again. "Alright, letssss go ssssee thissss Sssshrine."
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