Ranma shook Sheila lightly so that he could wake her up, Sheila just mumbled something and snuggled closer to him. Ranma sighed and leaned his head close to her ear to whisper to her, "Say Sheila?"
Sheila cracked one of her eyes open and looked up a bit, at first she was confused as to why she felt so comfortable, but then she realized that she was leaning against someone who was holding her close. She blinked a bit when she saw a male Werecheetah's face that wasn't Raphiel's, but then she remembered Ranma, she spoke softly, "Hmm? What?"
Ranma smiled a little at her, "Hey, it's gettin' pretty late, how about I walk you home?"
Sheila closed her eye and nuzzled her face on Ranma's chest, as well as snuggled closer, "Can't, too tired, and you're comfy."
Ranma sighed a bit, "How about I carry you home then?"
Sheila nodded and dozed off against Ranma's chest. Ranma sighed as he picked her up, using his arm that wasn't holding her to support the middle of her back, his other arm, that was supporting her already, went to supporting her shoulders, Sheila just continued to rest her head on his chest. Ranma stood up and then blinked as he realized that he didn't know where she lived, he then just shrugged, "I'll ask that guy who tried to stop me from talking to her, he'll prolly know where she lives."
Ranma walked up to the counter and blinked when he saw Raphiel and Gar there as well, "Hey guys." He called out softly, so he didn't wake Sheila up.
Raphiel waved at him, his mouth was full at the moment, so he didn't say anything. Gar nodded, "Hello. What are you doing right now?"
Ranma blinked, "Well, I was going to take Sheila to her home, but then I realized that I don't know where she lives."
Gar shook his head, "I can take you, I'm her brother and I live there as well."
Dragen looked at Gar and whispered to him in a tone set for Jagwere hearing, "Remember what I said to you."
Gar whispered back to Dragen, "I know, I'm just going to speak a little with him is all, nothing too bad." He then spoke to Raphiel, "You going to be okay?"
Raphiel nodded, "Yeah, I can make my way home from here."
Gar nodded and stood up walking outside, Ranma followed him. They walked down the road a bit in compatable silence, finally Gar broke it, "Thanks."
"For what?"
"For calming my sister down. You don't know how hard that is when she gets that upset."
Ranma blinked, "I guess."
Gar shook his head and sighed, "I guess you should know, Sheila, well, she was born with a rare Werecat birth defect."
Ranma blinked, "Hmm, Sheila mentioned something like that, not that I know what she was really talking about." He then looked at the petite Jagwere in his arms, "I don't see no defect to her. I mean, she's not missing a limb or anything, does she have a bad sense of direction or bad eyesight or something?"
Gar looked at him, "You don't know?"
"Know what?"
Gar sighed, "Look at her body, notice how small and child-like it is?"
Ranma looked at Sheila again, "So? She's short, cute and petite."
Gar shook his head, "All right, I'll just come out and tell you, Sheila's hybrid form is what she should be in human form, while her human form has all the size, strength, stamina, endurance and build that her hybrid form has. Though because she has that small a body she does get hyper regeneration abilities."
Ranma blinked, "So that's what Sheila and Tirga were talking about then. But Sheila said she never even had a boyfriend, why not?"
Gar sighed, "Look, the only reason I'm telling you this is because I think you should know okay. The real problem is, is that most people don't want to have anything to do with Sheila because they don't want their kids to have that birth defect."
Ranma blinked, "Oh now that's just plain stupid."
"Huh?"
"You said it yourself, her so-called birth defect is rare, there's a good chance that any kids she has won't have it. And besides," Ranma looked at her, "It's not the body that matters, it's the person. I've known a lot of good looking people, and plenty of them have a personality of a rampaging demon."
Gar looked at Ranma as he continued, "I really don't care what a person looks like physically, it's what they're like on the inside that counts. Hell, Sheila's the first person I ever met that was kind to me right off the bat that didn't turn around and smack me for some stupid reason. Everyone else I ever met was rather mean to me at one point, even my own parents."
"Huh?"
"Yeah, well, you see my old man was my martial arts instructor, and everyday he had me go through the most insane training known. If I showed any weakness or unwillingness to the training he'd berate me and beat me down over it. Then there was my mother, the first time I met her, we didn't know each other. The second time we met, well, she stormed in waving a contract about how I'd be a man among men or commit seppuku."
"Seppuku?"
"Ritual suicide. Because of a. . .condition I had, I didn't think I could fullfil it for her and had to hide from her in plain sight. Later I found out that she didn't care about it and dropped the contract."
Gar blinked, "You've had an interesting life I guess."
Ranma nodded, "Yeah."
"Well, this is our home."
Ranma blinked as he looked at it, "Hey! This is a decent sized house, must've cost a fortune."
Gar smirked, "Wasn't too bad." He walked into the house, Ranma following, Gar pointed to a hallway, "Down that hall, the second door on your left is Sheila's room."
"Thanks." Ranma started to walk off.
"Say Ranma?"
Ranma stopped and turned to look at the Jagwere, "Yeah?"
"I suppose you don't have a place to stay? Nor any money, correct?" Seeing Ranma nod, Gar continued, "So I'll be a nice guy and let you stay a bit, at least until you find your own place to live."
Ranma smiled, "Thanks." He then walked off to put Sheila to bed.
Gar shook his head, "Anytime."
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