The two fathers merely wondered why it wasn't Ranma standing before them, ready to bend to their demands.., er, instructions.
"You're not Ranma...," Soun muttered.
The figure before them raised a brow. "You are only now observing this?"
"We thought that we had been getting my daughter's fiancee back."
"By carrying me off in a bag and hitting me against a great many things?"
"He told you that we didn't know anyone else was in there," Genma informed him pompously, "Still, it doesn't matter..."
"You say that I do not matter?"
"Of course not. It is my sorry excuse of a son that we are after."
"I see. Then I believe that I will show you something."
"What can a skinny man like you show two skilled warriors like us?"
Shrugging, the unintended kidnap victim gave them a slight smile. "That it is wrong to attack people and declare them unimportant."
"How do you plan on doing that?"
"Like so. WAA-TAA!"
Nabiki was a smart girl, and she knew her limitations. She knew that she would never be considered a genius, and that even though she was skilled in bilking people out of money, she wasn't going to be able to do that outside of schoolkids and similar folks. It was why she didn't go on the 'Akane rescues' and stayed out of the travelling for adventures that happened every so often. But she was satisfied with that for the moment, and knew that she would be able to gain experience as she went along.
But she was intelligent enough to realise that goddesses, especially ones like the jock's new fiancee were not going to be pushovers, and could be dangerous to annoy. She valued her skin too much to try anything, and as it stood now, this was something that she was going to keep her hands clear away from. Living as herself was much better than getting zapped by someone who could fry one with a word.
Especially with what had gone on Kuno earlier. She still had a score to settle with the deluded wannabe swordman.
Having gotten dressed after that embarrassing debacle, she had stayed in her room, devising various tortures for the moron. He definately was getting a bill for her clothing, and was going to be missing out on some of his pictures for a while. However, thinking up proper punishments was hard work, and she'd gotten hungry, so she had gone to the kitchen for a snack, and had come out of the room to an odd set of noises.
What she saw as she looked into the yard made the rice cracker drop from her mouth.
There was 'Uncle' Genma, in panda form, getting bounced around like a soccer ball by a man who had died decades earlier while her father was taking an unwilling, and unconscious, dip in the koi pond.
They went back and forth several times before the fat furball wound up knocked out and laying on a pile of training dummies.
"Oh my!" came Kasumi's voice over her shoulder. "We have a guest!"
The man that should not be even breathing, never mind in their backyard looked at her. "I apologise for the mess."
"That's okay. Father and Mister Saotome play all the time, so I am used to it."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, it is, but I don't mind. So why don't you come in and we can have a nice cup of tea?"
"Are you sure that you would wish that?"
"Of course I would. It would be terribly impolite to make you come here and not give you something to eat and drink."
"I suppose that I could..."
"Good!" the eldest Tendo girl said brightly, "I'll be only a moment..."
Staring after her sister, Nabiki wondered about the whole situation while:
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