Ranma nodded slowly, "Alright." He then glared at a certain panda. "Okay pops, what did you sell me for this time?"
"Grolf?" Nothing, absolutely nothing, I've never met these people in all of my life, I swear!
Ranma sighed, he knew he'd get no information from his sack of shit father, dumber than a box of rocks panda, err, parental figure. He looked at the girl and took in her appearance, tall, good figure, blue eyes, blonde hair, with light-brown spots in it. 'Now that's different.' Pointed ears. "Well, I guess you know my name, but what did pops sell me for this time?"
Theo raised an eyebrow, "He does this often?"
Ranma scowled, "Nearly everytime I turn around. I have three fiancees in Nerima, one girl who wants to be a fiancee, and at least three others out there somewhere."
Brianna winced, she didn't want to make anyone unhappy for her own happiness. "Sorry, didn't know."
Ranma waved it off, "It's okay. So just what did he sell me for this time?"
Theo cleared his throat, "Well, you see, that's interesting. About eighteen years ago I had to meet with a college of mine here in Japan. I overheard this person, whom it turned out to be was Genma, talking about his master who he swears was a demon of some sort. Well, I talked to him and we went to have a few drinks. Well, I honesty got a bit drunk and revealed a few secrets to him, most notably that I had access to magical items. Genma asked for some Mystic Sake, special dynamite and sealing wards. In return he offered up his son, if he had one, I must've been more drunk than I realized, because I normally wouldn't do this, but I agreed to it. Genma wrote up a contract and when I got home I put it away and forgot about it. At least until Brianna here found it."
Ranma nodded, "So that's how they got the perv that drunk." Everyone nodded.
Theo and Brianna blinked, and Brianna asked the question, "What do you mean?"
Nodoka looked at her, "Well, you see dear, Happosai can drink enough sake and other liqours to kill an African Bull Elephant three times over. A couple bottles of Sake, unless it's his own brand, shouldn't get him that drunk in the first place."
"Oh my, this is so interesting, but Dr. Diggers said he forgot about it, how did you find out about it Brianna-san?"
Brianna just smiled and rubbed the back of her head, "Well, you see I was rather bored at the time. Mom and Dad were visiting some friends of thiers, my sister Britanny took a vacation with her husband, my other sister Gina went on a dig with her quasi-boyfriend, and my two other friends were out somewhere. I was just lounging about the place, exeedingly bored." 'Which is a bad thing.' Were the thoughts of Theo and Bri. "And I decided to go through my Dad's study to see if there was anything good to look at. You know, juicy secrets that I could tell mom and she could tease him about." She grinned at the blushes that went on Kasumi's, Ranma's, and Akane's faces. "Well, I looked through his whole study, and found nothing, that is until I found a yellow sheet of paper, I picked it up and it had that agreement on it."
Nabiki nodded, "So you basically came because you don't have a boyfriend, is that right?"
Brianna winced but nodded, "Yeah. I'm kinda lonely." She added the last part quietly. Ranma heard it, but decided to keep quiet about it for now.
Theo coughed a bit into his hand, "Well, you see, the thing is, is that I had forgotten about it, but when Brianna came up to me with it, I decided to search you out again to fullfill the contract." 'Not to mention the fact, that if Julia ever finds out about that, she'd kill me.' He added to himself. Speaking once more, he spoke to Ranma this time, "I'd like it if you came with us to Atlanta, where we live, for a month."
"WHAT?!" Was the general cry through the house.
Theo blinked, "Well, honestly Brianna can't stay here in Nerima, she has things she needs to do in Atlanta, and since the school semester is over here in Japan, I figured that he'd like to come with for a bit and get to know Brianna."
"NO! RANMA MUST MARRY AKANE AND UNITE THE SCHOOLS!!" This came from a certain Demon Head, being backed up by a certain panda.
Theo frowned and his head burst into his Flaming Skull Head.
"Eeep!" The Demon Head disappeared, as did the person who created it and a certain panda, as they headed for the hills.
The Skull Head dissapeared, "Most unusual."
Ranma shivered, "No offense, but that was nerve-racking." Not that Ranma was scared, nope, no siree, just started and nervous. The rest of the Tendos agreed with Ranma, from the far corner of the room of course.
"So what is your decision. I don't mean to rush you, but I've got to get home soon or my wife will kill me." Theo, Nodoka and Ranma chuckled at that.
"Well I. ." Ranma looked at Brianna's eyes, and saw a silent pleading expression, well, actually, he didn't see that, but he did see loneliness in her blue orbs, not to mention that he wanted to talk to her about her comment earlier. He frowned and looked at his mother, he couldn't read her face what-so-ever, he then looked at the Tendos to see what they thought about it. Akane had her angry/scared look on her face. 'Probably thinks I might leave her for good.' Nabiki had a speculative look on her face, 'I have a feeling she wants to extort this for everything she can get.' Kasumi had a concerned look, 'Hmm, not sure about what she's thinking.'
He then looked at Dr. Diggers, "I guess I could go for a month. Just as long as I don't have to choose right away."
Theo nodded, "I can agree to that. Brianna, how about you?"
"Well, uh. ." Truth be told, Brianna did want him for herself, but she wasn't going to hurt someone else to do it. "I guess it's alright."
Theo nodded and leaned over to whisper to Brianna, "I suggest you try and tone down your 'urges' daughter. You may scare him away." Brianna just nodded.
Ranma sighed as he turned to look at Akane, "I know that your thinking I'll leave for good, but I think it's only fair that I get to know her a bit." He then shrugged, "'Sides, I'll only be gone a month. Nothing too bad."
Akane clentched her fists by her sides, but sighed and nodded, "Yeah. I guess so. You've been gone longer before."
Ranma nodded, and went up to his room to get his stuff packed. Brianna had watched this with a bit of worry. 'Great, they have feelings for each other.' She wasn't blind. 'I don't want to steal him, but I do want to get to know him better.'
A few minutes later Ranma came down with all his meager belongings in a bag. "Okay."
Theo nodded, "Okay, I have a taxi waiting outside." Ranma, Brianna and Theo left. Before Ranma was out the door, he turned to look at Nodoka, "Don't worry mom. I'll only be gone for a month. Sides, I always wanted to meet new people." With that he was gone.
During the whole time Nodoka didn't change her facial expression, but then she smiled, "Wai! My son is so manly!" She giggled as she remembered what the newest fiancee had looked like. 'Such a beautiful young girl. Oh, if my son has any Grandchildren with her, they'll be so kawaii.' She just clasped her hands together, closed her eyes and went into her own dream-world.
In the taxi Brianna and Ranma both had sneezing fits.
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A.N. I figured let's have a 'non-psycko-bitch Akane' thread. Ranma and Akane have some feelings for each other, but they haven't figured out what they are just yet. (Husband/Wife feelings, sibiling, etc.)
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