… Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. …
Ranma drifted awake voices in the darkness. They were girls' voices, so he decided to fake unconsciousness a bit more to assess the situation. He was being carried by the feet and shoulders and a sheet seemed to have been draped over him, which was good because his clothes seemed to have been torn off at some point. Ah, he concluded, the situation was not good then.
… Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. …
"Oof! Wha… oh, he's shifted back," came the voice from his feet.
"Yeah," the voice above his head agreed. "Good, that'll make him easier to carry in these forms."
Ranma found the remark odd, because he was certain that he was in his heavier, male form, and he wasn't wet at all. But then he ussually tended to be oblivious when the change swept over him.
… Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. …
"I wonder what he looks like under there," spoke a voice full of mischievous curiosity from beside him. Ranma felt the sheet lift up around his waist, then suddenly jerk back down.
"Mina-chan," reproved another voice. "Public exposure is not the way to avoid attracting attention!"
"Awe!" the third voice complained then laughed. "I was just kidding, really."
… Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. …
"Is this the place?" he heard his mother ask happily. "Okay then, you can take a good look when we get inside."
"No they can't!" Ranma shouted and jerked out of the grip of the girls holding him. He momentarily became the focus of five blushing gazes and one proud gaze, before hastily snatching the sheet out of the hand holding it, and rearranging it into a makeshift toga with an "eep" of embarrassment.
"…or maybe sooner," his mother murmured proudly and with an amussed smile.
"Okay, what's going on?" he demanded irritably.
"Let's all go inside and discuss this over green tea," his mother told him. As she walked up the path he noticed her kimono had a price tag still attached and he wondered why she was wearing her new clothes.
"Don't give up, Lioness Moon! A courageous heart can overcome any … Hey! Where did everyone go?"
"Moooom! Daaaad! Come and see what I found?" Minako exclaimed as she tore through the house. She returned a moment later with a note and read, "'We've gone to Australia to help Sis out with some bunyip trouble on the lost Viking village dig site. Take care and don't eat all the tuna. –Love, Mom.' Damnit. I finally bring home a boy they won't be able to scare off and they're not here to meet him!"
"Wait, what's a bunyip?" Makoto wondered.
"A kind of dragon from aboriginal myths," Ami explained. "But what was a lost tribe of Vikings doing in Australia?"
"Obviously, they got really, really lost," Rei answered flippantly. "Can we move onto the important stuff?"
"Didn't someone mention tuna?" asked a drooling Usagi. "What? That's important!"
And so the truth came out at last. Ranma learned of his legacy as the son of a werecheetah. Nodoka learned that she was not the only survivor of her tribe's massacre. And Usagi learned that, no, she couldn't have any tuna.
"You're just being mean," Usagi pouted.
"Have you forgotten getting between Mom and tuna is like being between a the devil and a hard place?" Minako replied.
"You mean between a rock and the deep blue sea," an exasperated Makoto corrected. "… No, wait. Now you've got me doing it!"
"So Mina-chan's mother was rescued by a mage, raised along side a famous archaeologist, and maried an alien prince," Nodoka said. "What I'd like to know now is:"
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