While the temptation to ram her dainty fist down Kuno's throat in order to quiet his incessant noise was rather strong, she clamped down on the impulse. For now.
"Oh, Kuno-sempai, much as I love listening to you poetry, can you do me one eensy weensy favour?" she simpered, batting her eyelashes and pouting cutely.
Kuno stopped reciting poetry and looked a little bit dazed, looking around as if wondering where he was. "Forgive me, pigtailed girl, I was so enraptured by thine peerless grace that I forgot myself. What can this humble samurai do for a fair flower such as yourself?"
"Weeelll..." she drew the word out and sidled up to the kendoist, inwardly retching at her actions, but outwardly acting as cute as she could manage. "A little birdy told me that you got a magic scroll which can remove any curse..." A part of her wondered at the fact that her 'code of honour' would allow her to con the guy out of stuff but wouldn't let her just beat him up and take it. Oh well, just one of life's little mysteries... she decided, philosophically.
"Indeed!" Kuno nodded enthusiastically. "As the chosen warrior I recieved it from a holy shrine of our ancestors! I plan on using it to destroy the foul Saotome, for is he not a curse upon us all?" In fact Kuno had recieved the scroll in the same manner as he had won the wishing sword, once again proving that intelligence and luck are very much not related.
Ranma blinked. If he used it on her she wouldn't need to steal it. Admittedly it seemed a little too easy, but she was never one to look a gift horse in the mouth. "Okay, good luck with that. Bye bye!" she turned and started walking away in search of hot water when her danger sense went off. Leaping away, she just barely dodged a desperate lunge as Kuno attempted to hug/grope her. "What are you doin', ya pervert!?" she remonstrated him angrily, showing none of her previous simpering cuteness.
"Come now, pigtailed girl, there's no need to be coy! Soon the sorceror Saotome will be no more, so we can celebrate our love!"
"What love, you freak?!" Ranma yelled, dodging another attempted grope by leaping over a small well.
Alas for our heroic samurai, he overextended himself and lost his balance while over the well, and with a great yell, he plummeted into it's inky depths.
Hearing the yell, Ranma turned around and surveyed her surroundings curiously. She was still on the grounds of the Kuno mansion, but Kuno himself was nowhere to be seen. "What the hell?" she scratched her head in confusion. "Where did that moron go?"
"Pigtailed girl!" an echoing voice emanated from the well.
"Huh?" Ranma leaned over the well and peered into the blackness. It was rather deep, and way to dark for her to see the bottom. "You down there, sempai?"
"Forsooth! It seems the mighty Blue Thunder hath erred most greviously this day! How the heavens weep at this latest indignation to befall their most favoured son!" the echoing voice raved.
"Uh... you okay down there?" Ranma asked, only slightly worried. He sounded a little more crazed than usual, but with Kuno it was hard to tell...
"Worry not, dearest one of my heart, this samurai has suffered no fatal wounds!"
"A simply 'yes' would have done..." Ranma grumbled under her breath. Raising her voice, she called out "Can you climb up?"
There was a series of grunting noises before Kuno answered. "Nay! A foul rock has trapped the glorious ankle of the most munificent Blue Thunder!"
He's a lot wordier than usual... maybe he's scared of the dark... or small spaces... Ranma thought, not without some sympathy, as she knew what it was like to suffer from an unreasoning terror of something others considered perfectly mundane.
"Mayhap you could come down to help release me, pigtailed girl?" Kuno's voice floated up hopefully.
Ranma felt her sympathy evaporate at the thought of being down in a dark, confined space with Kuno's wandering hands for company... "Uh... That's not a good idea... what if I get trapped as well?"
There was no answer, but she could well imagine Kuno's lustful leer at such a prospect.
"Anyway, I'll go and find help, or a rope or somethin'..." she started walking away from the well.
"Pigtailed girl, don't go! I would gladly remain trapped in this terrify- er... foul and wretched well if I could but share in your company! Pigtailed girl...? Hello? Anyone...?"
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