"I never did figure out why you haven't broken down and run off with her by now," Nabiki snickered, "but if I were in your shoes I'd crawl through broken glass for the kinds of looks you get from everybody with that hot body you have when you are a girl." Nabiki sighed there and shook her head. "And to think you have the gall to call that beautiful body a curse. Jerk."
The revelation that Nabiki liked a girl was one thing but hearing that she liked his girl side was a whole other kind of deal! And was jealous of his looks to boot! "How can you like my girl side? And how could I 'run off with her?' It ain't a different person ya know."
"Oh don't give me that Saotome. Its a figure of speech. Granted, you could probably manage it with some mystical mirror or something. I'm the last person you need to tell how stupid it is that I can't get your female body off my mind. But I can't help it. Those soft, supple curves hiding all that fine toned muscle. Drop dead gorgeous face. Absolutely fantastic legs. Those work of art breasts that tell gravity to take a hike. All magnificent. And all wasted on you!" Ranma backed up a bit in his seat as Nabiki nearly snarled the last bit at him even trough the haze caused by the tea. "You would throw it all away in an instant! You don't appreciate what you have at all Saotome. Makes me want to slap you silly but I'd just break my hand on that thick skull of yours." Nabiki gave a good solid 'Harrumph'. "Why else do you think I keep setting those idiots on you, or cheating you out of your money. I can't do anything else to punish you."
That had Ranma glaring at her, though Nabiki could care less. "What ya gotta punish me for at all?"
Nabiki wobbled a bit as she considered that then spoke quietly. "If I don't, I spend all day wanting to splash you with cold water and snuggle you tight. And I sure as hell know that would not go over well. I have to be angry with you because you are everything I want but can't have." With a heavy sigh the girl hung her head. Then picked up a rice cracker and flung it to bounce it off of the shocked Ranma's forehead... Ranma being shocked by what Nabiki was saying, not the snack impacting his head.
Ranma stared a bit at Nabiki before his befuddled mind snagged onto part of what she said. "Everythin ya want?"
Nabiki swirled a finger along the edge of her teacup and went on in a wistful tone. "Strong, honorable, dependable in your own way. Smart, even if your ignorant but that can be fixed at least. Unfortunately for me you are, as you so love to say, a guy. A guy with truly fantastic breasts."
Ranma frowned at that last bit. This whole test was partly set up to see if the methods in The Way worked. But he had chosen Nabiki to get something he might have been able to use to level the field against her. As he sat listening to her alternatively insult 'him' and praise 'her' in equal measure, he was at a loss as to how he could actually use any of this. Though a question did come to mind. "What do ya sell the pictures a me for?"
"An excuse."
"Mind bein a bit more clear on that?" Ranma asked, a bit put off by the matter of fact reply.
Nabiki sighed and shifted into lecture-small-child-mode. "I sell the pictures so I'll have an excuse to take them. The ones I put out are nothing compared to the ones I keep for my own collection but if I was not selling them, people would wonder where the pictures go."
Brow arched, Ranma asked, "Where do ya stash yer personal collection then?" He had to know where the pictures were to get rid of them after all.
"Wall panels in my room that Shampoo knocked loose when she made her own doors. One under my desk, one behind my end table. And I keep a few of you in the bath in my diary's false cover. You are gorgeous when your dripping wet you know. If I could catch you exploring that hot body of yours, I would be one happy girl. But I have to make do with pictures of you slipping out of your clothes accidentally or while changing."
"'Make do with'?"
"Fantasy fuel Saotome. But I suppose you wouldn't understand the sorts of pleasure a girl can find mixing the right images with a bit of imagination." Nabiki paused there a moment then directed Ranma a lascivious grin. "I recommend it. A little mood music, lights turned down, maybe a few yuri manga for inspiration. Call it getting in touch with your feminine side. Bet you would like it."
Ranma muttered darkly at Nabiki's teasing. Even now she teased him with her sexuality. It was something she did a lot. And even with this truth tea he couldn't get anything he could use to slow her down. Heck he would have to use the points to cut off the effects of the tea to stop her from wandering around for a few days talking about his 'spectacular breasts'. He was really starting to get uncomfortable hearing Nabiki say that and sure as hell did not want it being said in public. No. If he wanted something he could use against her he would need to go deeper into her 'fantasy' but he wasn't sure if he wanted to do that, considering what the content would probably be. But there was an off chance that he could find something to throw her off her game a few times. That or he could cut his losses and move on to the other girls to see what they really think of him.
With a huff, Ranma reached over to tap a point on Nabiki
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