. . . had Akane really called her a 'Handsome Prince'?
"Ano, Ranma-san is something wrong?" enquired the meek but still somewhat lively eldest Tendou daughter.
The young girl gave off a somewhat nervous laugh as she rubbed the back of her head. "Uh, nothing important. Hey, ya wanna see some magic?" As she now had their attention, with a small flourish she made a kettle of hot water she had dimensionally pocketed earlier appear in her hands. Magic trick done, she poured a small amount over her head, activating the cure and turning once again into an older dark haired boy.
As he expected, the girls were properly enchanted and Akane even politely applauded, though he was surprised at Soun's gasp of surprise. Hadn't Soun seen tricks like that before under Happousai? Dismissing that oddity, he decided to start explaining while keeping his status as a magical prince in mind. "Ah, you see, I'm cursed ta turn into a girl with cold water, and hot water turns me back. . " *splash*
Heaving a put upon sigh, Ranma turned a flat stare at Nabiki while pouring some of her leftover hot water over her head to once again turn into a boy. "uhm, and I don't like getting splashed, so uhm, could ya not do that anymore?"
"Yeah, it's a bad bad curse, so you shouldn't do that. It's mean.", states little Akane, hands on her hips in reproach of her middle big sister.
Young Nabiki blew her little sister a raspberry, "I'm not a meanie, I was just curious." Done teasing her sister in return, a little doubt crept into the middle sister, "Uhm, but ah, sorry Prince-san."
Akane defending him? Nabiki apologizing? They really were different as kids. Feeling a lot better, Ranma laughed it off, "Ah, it's okay, everyone wants ta do that when they find out. Just don't from now on and I'll be happy." Fiding it odd to be called Prince, Ranma recalled he hadn't been introduced to the two younger girls. "Oh yeah, Akane, Nabiki, just call me Ranma. Uh, sorry about forgetting to introduce myself ta you two."
The two younger girls blinked, though the gears in Nabiki's head completed a full turn. "Hey, how come you know us?" Maybe it had to do with him being a magical Prince? "Ah, are you going to marry one of us?"
Laughing nervously to cover his shock as the three girls stared at him with now sparkly eyes, Ranma scrambled for an explanation, "Uhm. . . well. . ah. . see. . well, I'm a bit lost. . you see, a short while ago I got a magical genie that was going to grant me a wish."
"Really?!" Three girls gasped out simultaneously, though Kasumi was a bit slow to get into the spirit of things.
Still faced with sparkly eyes of wonderment, Ranma struggled forward. "Uhm, yeah, and well, I kinda wished to be somewhere where I was needed. . . and well, *poof* I'm in your yard, so I guess that's here and now."
Nodding thoughtfully, Soun spoke up for his family, "So, that's why you were here insisting to help on now of all days?" While despite the evidence Soun was a bit suspicious, it did seem to be fortunate timing now that he thought about it.
"Uh, yeah, kinda figured I was here to help. See, I'm kinda from what you'd call the future, so I heard about what happened. That's kinda what my problem is really. I've had some experience with magical time travel before, and things get wierd. See, there might already be another Ranma here, and he could be good or bad, or maybe I wasn't born here or something." Scratching his head a bit, Ranma hoped he got that right. "Uhm, at least that's how it was explained ta me, something about altered stuff. hehe, I mean I saw a future once where Akane-chan there was married to a little black piglet."
"Eeewwwwww"
"Haha, Akane-chan married a piggy!"
"Did not, I don't wanna marry a piggy!"
Kasumi felt bad about it, but she giggled at her two little sisters.
Seeing Kasumi happy, Nabiki teasing and Akane arguing like old times, Ranma smiled. "Hehe, don't worry Akane-chan, it's a magical prince's duty to protect little girls from pervert piggies!"
"Yay!"
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