[Episode 96342] [Episode 96342]Afternoon was giving way to evening outside of the little cafe where Nabiki was nursing a cup of tea.
It should have been just another day.
She had been rudely awoken by the sound of her little sister punting Ranma over the horizon. Again.
Since she was awake anyway, Nabiki decided to give herself a pleasant wake-up call. Sighing, she let her fingers drift down under her pajama bottoms, and began pondering the more handsome men she knew... Only to have the mood ruined by the sound of her sister climaxing with Shampoo. Irritated, Nabiki got up and grabbed her camera. Maybe a few embarrassing pictures would properly illustrate her displeasure!
Nabiki went to the guest room where Ranma stayed, and where Akane liked to fuck other women most. She took a couple pictures, said something sarcastic and innocuous.
And then Akane and Shampoo raped her.
Afterward, Nabiki managed to get her camera before the other two remembered it (and the compromising pictures they'd taken of Nabiki), bathe, dress, and leave without any of the other residents of the Tendo Dojo confronting her. She found a cafe that was far from her usual haunts, and parked there while she tried to decide what to do through the chaotic storm of thoughts assaulting her usually-ordered mind.
Why was it everyone talked about what Kasumi had given up to take care of her family, and no one talked about what Nabiki had given up to do the same?
Because, Nabiki reflected bitterly, Kasumi was NICE. All three Tendo sisters did cruel things to vent their miseries, but Kasumi smiled and acted like a perfect angel, unmindful of life's harsher realities. And so, nobody noticed when she drove Tofu into a frenzy right before patients were scheduled, or that she coaxed Ranma into talking to her when she KNEW Nabiki was taping the conversation to sell or use against the pig-tailed martial artist later, or a hundred other subtle things that made life a little less bearable for the people around her.
It was like people thought she couldn't hear them. 'Yeah, Kasumi's an angel, and Akane's really nice, even if she's a psycho-bitch when you piss her off. But the one to watch out for is Nabiki the Ice Queen.'
Nobody liked her. Nabiki accepted that. She didn't like anyone either. As long as she had her family, she was fine.
And then Akane raped her. Helped Shampoo violate her without a second thought. And in so doing, put Nabiki at odds with her family.
Daddy would be no help. No, the Tendo patriarch would just bury his head in the sand and ignore anything that resembled a problem.
Kasumi would probably accuse Nabiki of provoking the other girls and quietly turn her back. The irony was that Nabiki hadn't done anything she hadn't done before. She used Akane to keep Ranma in line, and Ranma to keep everyone else in line. It was a system that had worked perfectly, until this morning when Akane changed the rules.
As for the Saotome's, Genma would openly turn his back, then come sniffing around her room after bedtime since, after all, Nabiki wasn't a virgin anymore and was now therefore a fair target.
And as for Ranma, Nabiki had no illusions that he would side against two fiancee's for her. There was just too much water under the bridge for that.
The Kami only knew what Happosai would do, but Nabiki doubted she would like it.
No, telling was not an option.
For that matter, neither was pretending it didn't happen. Nabiki knew Shampoo and her sister would hold this morning over her for the rest of their lives. It would always be their little victory over her that only they knew about. Well, them and whoever they told.
Unless something happened to drain the triumph out of the occasion. Something like the destruction of all their dreams.
The maelstrom of thoughts afflicting her fell away as Nabiki grasped the concept of revenge.
And then came what to Nabiki's mind was the proof that not only did Kami-Sama agree with her, but Nabiki was in fact carrying out Her will. For who should come walking down the street but Ranma Saotome.
"Make it fast, Nabiki," said Ranma, sitting on the hotel rooms bed. "You know what'll happen if any of the usual whackjobs track us here."
"I know," said Nabiki, stepping into the small bathroom. "I just need a minute before we start. Could you make sure the room isn't bugged, since you're just sitting there?"
Ranma grimaced, but complied. "Room's clean," he announced a minute later.
"Good," said Nabiki from behind him. Ranma turned and his jaw dropped.
Nabiki stood there, gloriously nude.
For a moment, neither of them moved.
Finally, Nabiki stepped forward, guided Ranma to the bed and lay him down before straddling his waist, with only two layers of cloth separating the stallion from heaven. She forced him to look her in the eye...
And then she told him what happened to her that morning.
Eventually, Nabiki fell silent and slumped more fully against him as shock, horror and disbelief fought with his belief in her integrity. Whatever else she might be, a liar she wasn't. "Why are you telling me this?" Ranma asked.
"Because the best revenge," said Nabiki, "Is:"
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