Here ya go : a nasty  little fanfic (that does need some work) that finally
puts Kasumi in the spotlight.

ENJOY!  Thanks to all the weirdos on the fanfic and Ranma list for
influencing this idea.  !!!!!!   HAHHAAHAHAHA


Anyway....
(suggestion needed - also suggestions for better names accepted)

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			Beauty and Th' Bastich

				- or -

		      A Contract on a Bubblehead

				AlberCrombie
1/8/96 - beta


	It was a miserable day at the Tendo's, snow was falling like crazy, 
it was freezing cold, and they just ran out of sorba noodles.  Needless to
say, everybody was in a bad mood.
	To make things worse, Lobo was standing in a Lobo-sized hole in the
wall of the dining room pointing a rather large hand cannon at Kasumi's
head.

	Now, fair reader, you are probably wondering how this all came to
be.  Well, so are we - so when we figure it out, we'll tell you.  But for
now, we'll just pickup where we just left off...

	Lobo aimed his hand cannon at Kasumi's head.  The gun was about half
the size of Kasumi's head and packed enough explosive to vaporize a VW Bug
with an elephant inside.  Lobo had, in his past, proven this point -
although he wouldn't tell anybody how he got the elephant into the Bug. 
	His crimson eyes glowed with an unholy light while he spoke. 
"Alright, you ready to go to th' big kitchen in the sky, Lil' Suzi
Homemaker?"  
	Kasumi, realizing that this was not a good situation to be in just
stared blankly into the gun muzzle not even a foot in front of her dainty
little nose.  She put a hand to her cheek and said, "oh, my!"
	Soun was passed out from the shock of someone trying to kill his
eldest daughter.  Even out cold, he was still crying a river as usual. 
Nabiki stood by the hall entrance in shock.  She was about to see her older
sister reduced to a memory.
	Genma had his own problems.  He was in the corner, cowering before a
bunch of nasty looking penguins.  Some had mohawks, some tattoos, but they
all had red masks and bad attitudes.  They came in to the room right after
Lobo saying things like, "frag", "kick butt", and "it's butt-shifftin' time". 
When they came in they followed close behind Lobo, but when they saw
Genma-panda they made a bee-line for him.  
	Right now, the midget frag squad was trying to figure out what to do
with the Genma.  Obviously being a panda bear, he was related to the polar
bear - one of their natural enemies - and that meant he needed to be dealt
with. The problem was the penguins weren't sure if they should just remove
his lungs through his butt or simply beat the tar out of him.  Genma just
cowered and held a small sign that simply said, "help!"

	Kasumi was not a fighter like her youngest sister, Akane, nor a
quick thinker like her middle sister, Nabiki, but she did know what to do in
the present situation.  So she reacted accordingly.
	"Would you like some tea?" 
	She picked up the tea pot on the table and smiled at her
executioner.  Lobo blinked and almost dropped his cigar, not to mention his
gun.
	"What?" He was trying to decide if he actually heard what he thought
he heard.
	"It's quite good.  It's a family recipe.  Please try some."  She
held a steaming cup up under the gun in front of her.  She still smiled.
	Soun was still out and Genma-panda was still doing nothing but
sweating, not sure what else to do.  Nabiki was trying to rationalize the
whole situation.  Lobo just blinked again with a lost look on his chalky
face.
	"Lemmie get this straight.  Th' Main Man is about to vaporize yer
head...and you're offerin' me TEA?!"
	"Why, yes.  You are a visitor to our house, and we're always polite
to our guests."  She looked at The Main Man.  He looked at her, one eye
squinting a little more than the other.  Being a bounty hunter for most of
his life, and a killer all of it, Lobo had figured out how to read people
like books.  Right now he was reading Kasumi's face, and he didn't like what
he saw.
	He turned to Nabiki, "She's fer real, ain't she?" 

	She glanced at her older sister and the teacup.  After a moment,
Nabiki replied, "Uh-huh." This was too weird Nabiki decided.
	Lobo looked back at the nineteen year old currently holding the cup. 
Against his better judgment, he holstered the gun and sat down.
	"Alright, wha' the hell.  Just this once.  Not like yer gonna go
anywhere I can't find ya.  Besides, it was a long fraggin' trip and I'm
thirsty."  he took the cup of tea.
	Nabiki blinked and ran her hand down her face.  There was just *NO
WAY* any of this was really happening - but somehow it was.
	"This was one of my mother's recipes," Kasumi said as she handed
Lobo the cup.
	"Mother, huh?  I killed my mother.  In fact, I killed th' whole damn
Czarnian race!  'cept me of course."  She held up a sugar bowl.  He took a
spoonful.
	"Oh, my!  That wasn't nice.  Why did you do that?"  She offered
milk, lobo declined.
	"They deserved it!  The whole damn planet was too bloody happy! 
Besides, I was a little bored that week."  He held the cup with his left
hand, pinky out (it was something he saw in a movie).  After a few moments,
he felt like a complete putz, so he glomped the little tea cup in his
massive paw.
	Nabiki looked back and forth between Lobo and Kasumi.  Her head hurt
- this just could *NOT* be happening.  However, on the off chance it was
happening - she decided that paying attention to the details might save the
day.  She walked up to the table and poured a cup of tea.  Lobo gave her a
eye then ignored her when he saw that she seemed to be ignoring him.
	Lobo drank the tea and decided it was actually very good.  
	"Ya know, skirt, this ain't half bad!  Fill 'er up!"  He held the
cup to Kasumi.  She obliged.
	Nabiki just sat and sipped her cup watching the other two not saying
anything.
	
				* * * * *

	"RANMA!  YOU COME BACK HERE!!"  Ryoga cried as he chased after Ranma
in the snow.  Akane was chasing them both, mallet held high.
	"Wassamatter, P-Chan?  Snow slowin' you down?"  Ranma taunted as he
avoided Ryoga's foot.
	"Don't call me that!"  
	Akane swung with her mallet as she closed in on Ranma, she wasn't
going to let him get away this time.
	"Woah!" Ranma dodged just in time.

	What had started as a simple trek to the store had turned into a
snowy mess.  Ranma and Akane had been trudging through the snow covered
streets of Nermia trying to get back home.  It was bad enough that they ran
out of sorba noodles, and that everybody else had picked Ranma to go get
more, but it was really annoying that his father and Mr. Tendo had decided
that Akane needed to go too.  It would be a wonderful bonding experience
they had said.
	The only thing 'bonding' about this trip, Ranma thought, was the
fact his head was now bound with a new piece of gauss where Akane had
clocked him one with that damn mallet of hers.  All he said was she
shouldn't try to make snow angels, because angels weren't supposed to be
bell shaped.
	Then a few blocks away from home, Ryoga had shown up - lost as
usual.  Ranma made a comment about how the cold must have frozen Ryoga's
brain, and like usual, Ryoga got mad.  They started to fight and Akane got
mad at Ranma for picking on Ryoga.  Somewhere in the middle of all that
Ryoga did a leap attack at Ranma, who dodged, sending Ryoga flying into a
snowbank.  That's when the snowballs started to fly.
	At that point Akane was on the ground rolling with laughter, until
one of Ranma's snowballs nailed her in the face.  Then the mallet came back
out.
	
	Ranma bounced over the top of the Tendo's wall and shucked his heavy
coat so he could move better.  Ryoga did the same.  Akane followed a moment
later, but kept her coat on - she liked being warm.  Ranma made tracks for
the house, with Ryoga close behind.  He ignored the oversize space-hawg
parked next to the dojo.
	
	"So anyways, I sez, 'you and what army, pal?' and wouldn'tcha know
he had the whole dab blammed Star Corps waitin' fer orders to attack?" Lobo
was recanting some of his more favored stories to Nabiki and Kasumi.  Nabiki
still hadn't said much, just filing most of the conversation away in the
back of her head.
	"Oh, my!  Were you scared, Mr. Lobo?"  Kasumi actually looked
concerned.  Nabiki noted this with a raised eyebrow.
	"Me?  Nah, just took a little longer ta frag the bastich, that's
all."  He leaned back and chomped on his stogie.  "Then there's this other
nasty bastich out there - goes by the name of Vril Dox...."
	Lobo was cut off by a cry of 'shishihokodan' followed by an
explosion coming from outside.  The Main Man stood up, grabbed his hand
cannon, and went for the door.
	"What the frag was that?"
	"Oh, that sounds like Ryoga...and I'll bet that he's fighting with
Ranma," Nabiki said looking over her shoulder.
	"I don't care who the feebs are - they touch my bike, and they're
Bantha fodder!"  He started to open the sliding door to the back yard.
	

	"Ranma!  Stand still, damn you!"
	"No way, pigboy!  Not with you and Akane after me!"  Ranma jumped
onto the back porch in front of the dining room doors.  Ryoga was getting
ready to launch a two foot snowball right at him.  
	Akane was closing in from the side with her mallet held high. "Throw
snowballs at me when I'm not looking, will you?!" 
	She swung - hard.

	Ranma jumped at the last moment - jumping over Ryoga's king sized
snowball and just missing Akane's mallet.  He never noticed the door behind
him had opened.

	***FLOOMPH***
	The snowball hit.
	***CRUNCH***
	The mallet landed.  Fortunately - neither weapon found Ranma. 
Unfortunately, they found the Czarnian that just happened to come through
the door just as Ranma jumped to safety.

	"Who...who are you?" Ryoga stuttered as he realized that he just
snowed the wrong person.
	"Opps...gomen nasai, sir!" Akane quickly added.
	"Huh?"  Ranma stopped running when he realized no one was coming
after him. He turned and looked back at the house.

	Lobo didn't do anything. He just stood there covered in snow wearing
Akane's mallet like a hat.  His stogie had a little pile of snow on it, too. 
Nabiki and Kasumi opened the door a little further and peaked out.  They
sheepishly looked at Lobo then at the others in the yard.  The penguins left
Genma and walked up behind their idol.  Genma decided now would be a good
time to escape, and did just that.
	Walking back to the others, Ranma spoke up, "Who is he?" 
	Nabiki replied, "This is Lobo." 
	She pointed, as Ranma, Ryoga, and Akane came closer to him. "He's
been sent here to execute Kasumi..."
	There was a collective cry of, "WHAT?!"
	Nabiki continued, "...and now I think you have may have just made
the situation worse." She calmly turned to the tall, homicidal man next to
her.

	Lobo just stood there.  Not moving, not making any signs of life. 
His brain was trying to process what had just happened.  It went something
like this :

BRAIN	: You Just got fragged.
LOBO	: No way!  I'm Th' Main Man - *NOBODY* frags me!
BRAIN	: You just got fragged.
LOBO	: Yeah?  Prove it.
BRAIN	: You are covered in snow.
LOBO	: So what?  It's winter on this mudball - it does that.
BRAIN	: You're standing in a doorway - snow comes down, not sideways.
LOBO	: Yeah?  And...
BRAIN	: You are sporting a wooden mallet as a hat.
LOBO	: Hmm, that would explain why I gotta headache.
BRAIN 	: Obviously, the snow came from a snowball...
LOBO	: ...
BRAIN	: Face the truth for once.
LOBO	: I don't believe it!  I...got...FRAGGED!!!
BRAIN 	: Told you.
LOBO	: ...BY A SNOWBALL...
BRAIN	: Yup, see, I was right!
LOBO	: ...AND AN OVERGROWN HAMMER!
BRAIN	: If you listened to me more, we might not be in these situations.
LOBO	: !!!
BRAIN	: I can take us better places in this galaxy, but do you listen to
	  me?  No.
LOBO	: grrrr..
BRAIN	: Uh....why are you growling?
LOBO	: YYYEEARRGHH!!!
BRAIN	: AAAHHHH!!!  GET IT AWAY FROM ME!!!  HELP!!!

	
	The bounty hunter just stood there in the Tendo's doorway, not
moving.  
	Then he did move, It was only one eye, but it moved.  It started
to squint just a bit.
	Nabiki noticed this and took a small step away.
	The eye squinted a little more.  Then the other did the opposite -
it opened up more.  His cigar started to glow a little brighter than it had
before.  Behind the cigar an ugly grimace appeared on his face. 
	Ranma, Ryoga, and Akane started to move backwards a step.  A low
growl started from the pit of Lobo's stomach and worked it's way up and out,
getting louder as it went.
	"......gggggrrrRRRRRRRRR!!!!"
	Nabiki took a bigger step back and grabbed her older sister in the
process.  "Come on, sis, I don't think this going to be good!"
	"Oh, dear!"
	One penguin with a mohoawk turned to one with the word 'Frag'
tattooed on it's beak and said, "frag time."  The other shook it's head in
agreement.  Both put on a sickly grin.
	"YYYEAAAARGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!  I'M GONNA FRAG 'EM ALL!!!!!"
	The Main Man was not happy.  He did not like getting hit with
snowballs, nor getting hit with mallets.

				* * * * *

	Ah, isn't this fun, dearest reader?!  Is it not filled with excitement
and intrigue and lots of gratuitous violence?  Well, we like it!  Anyway, we
did say that we would tell you how this all started when we figured it out,
and we figured it out.  
	Well, actually we didn't figure it out.  It's what Lobo told Nabiki
and Kasumi when they asked why Kasumi had a contract on her head. (well, you
did realize that question had to be asked sometime, right?) 

				* * * * *

	Jax's Dinner and Lube Emporium.  Finest eats this side of the
galaxy...or at least until the next space-off ramp and truck stop.  Amidst
the debauchery, slime, and 10W40 sat two people at a corner booth.  One was
humanoid, the other was, well, not.  Although, the not humanoid was looking
a little more like a humanoid now that it only had two heads instead of
three.  However, the one ichor spouting neck still caused some people in the
dinner alarm.
	As Lobo cleaned the remnants of the third head from his hook and
chain, he looked at the two remaining heads and the one neck that used to
have the third.  The other two heads looked back at Lobo - they were not
happy.  In fact had they been feet instead of heads, they would have run off
a long time ago!
	"Alright, Clyde, I'll give ya one mo' chance.  Why th' hell did you
wanna hire me?  No more a'that coded fancy talk - give me a straight answer
- or I use yer other heads to replace muh fuzzy dice on my bike!"  Lobo did
not look amused.
	"OKOKOK!  It's like this,"  The purple head began, "we want you to
take out this human."  The thing slid a picture across the table.  Lobo picked
it up and looked at it.
	"Hmm...teenage human.  What she do?  Kill yer president?" 
	"No." 
	"Rob yer treasury?" 
	"Not quite." 
	"I got it," Lobo smacked the table, "She's a mass murderer or a
sleeze queen!"
	"Er, no.  Actually, she's just a teenager.  A sweet, young teenager."
The heads broke in to sweat, as did the rest of their body.
	"Do what?"  Lobo was confused.  They noticed this and they were
afraid.
	"Ah, well, she's perfectly normal."  The purple head said.
	"...and perfectly happy..." The orange head stuck in.
	"Quiet you!  Yes, and she's perfectly happy.  Which is why we want
her killed."
	Lobo sat, guzzled a case of Lug Beer and looked at his wanna-be
employer.  "You want me - Th' Main Man - to whack a perfectly normal,
everyday, run of the mill, stoned off o' her bonce, teenager?!"
	The orange head decided to study the cheap copied painting of a
flower on the wall.  This way Purple would have to answer the question.
	"Er...well...yes."  It waited just a split second, and when death
did not come, it continued, "I represent a small group of people that want
to eradicate completely normal people from the galaxy.  They're just too
boring, and too....normal!"
	Orange noticed that purple was still attached to purple's neck,
which was still attached to to their mutual body.  This was small sign that
they might both get out of there alive.
	Lobo pondered over what the thing had just said while chomping on a
good 2 cred cigar.  Their wasn't a sign in his face that gave away his
thoughts - granted if there had been one, Lobo probably would have carved
it off and had it for lunch.
	Purple head swallowed hard and asked, "will you do it?  Will you
take her out?"
	Lobo took his cigar out of his mouth and blew smoke rings into the
air.  Purple and Orange started to sweat again.
	"I've killed off entire planets, I've snuffed gods, worked a Delbian
cathouse to exhaustion, and, Feetal's Gizz, I even took out Santa Claus! 
But I ain't never taken out an average, everyday teenager by their lonesome. 
I'll do it."
	Purple and Orange breathed a collective sigh of relief.  Lobo picked
up the photo, turned it over, read the back.  It said, "Tendo; Kasumi -
EARTH - TOKYO, JAPAN."
	"I get to snuff Lil' Suzi Homemaker, huh?  This oughta be a breeze!"


				* * * * *

	Lobo clutched at his side, and looked up with one red eyeball,
"Alright, punks, ya asked fer it!"	
	Ranma, Akane, Ryoga, and Nabiki looked at the big man with fear in
their eyes.  Kasumi just stood there going, 'oh my!'

Now, wonderful reader, you can pick the ending you want...so you can have
the story end the way you want!


***The Lobo Ending : 

	Lobo stood amidst the carnage.  
	What used to be Ryoga was in a puddle next to the pond - a piece of
yello and black bandana flicked atop a wrecked and smoking bamboo umbrella
in the snowy breeze.  A tuft of red ponytail could be seen sticking from the
wreckage of the dojo; underneath appeared to be a lot of red paint that was
staining the wood if flowed over.  Akane, half buried in the snow, was
sporting her mallet from certain anatomy that didn't normally allow such
things.  
	Soun's twisted legs could be seen sticking out between the first
floor of the house and the roof.  They were the only things currently
occupying space between the roof and the first floor; the second story was
completely gone.  It had been obliterated when Lobo had used his space
hawg's thrusters to counter the effects of a combined ki attack from Ranma
and Ryoga.
	The entire area of Nermia was covered in broken buildings, broken
trees, and broken people.  For blocks, there could not be found an undamaged
street.  Amidst it all, Lobo surveyed the damage he had caused and smiled. 
He was happy.  Fragging people, planets, or anything for that matter, always
made him happy.
	He turned around and walked back to the remnants of the Tendo's
home.  Lobo pushed through the wrecked sliding doors into the dining area
and stopped in front of a charred body on the floor.  It had been Nabiki a
few minutes before.  He glanced it over and then stepped past it.  Behind
Nabiki's remains was what appeared to be a form of modern art on the wall. 
It was red and blotchy.  It was Kasumi.
	Lobo starred at it for a few seconds then lit up a new cigar and
headed for the door..  
	"Oh, well, 'nother frag, 'nother paycheck!"  Yup, it had been a good
day.  Not only did he get to remove a bunch of feebs from the gene pool,
they had attempted to give him a good fight in the meantime.
	As he fired up the space-hawg he cried out, "YO!  PENGUINS!" 
	The flightless frag fowls came running from around the corner
laughing to themselves.  Lobo took a last look the Tendo's residence and
said, "thanks fer the tea, babe."  
	And with that, he rocketed off to go collect a paycheck.



***The Kasumi Ending :

	"...she's first."  Lobo raised his rather large gun at Kasumi's
pretty little head.
	"Hold it, Lobo," Nabiki said.  
	"What!?!  I just wanna frag yer sis, frag these bozos, and get home
to down some brews."
	"Well, I thought you said that you never broke your word?"
	He peered at her with a bloodshot eyeball, "I DON'T!"
	"Then you can't kill Kasumi."
	"Wadda mean I can't frag her?  Of course I can!  I'm Th' Main Man! 
Besides, who's gonna stop me?  Them?"  He pointed a thumb at Ranma and the
rest.  Ranma got angry at that, but Nabiki only waved him down.
	"Nope.  Me." Nabiki said defiantly.
	"Say what?"  Lobo stood up and looked over.  "How?"
	Nabiki noticed that he had not lowered the gun from Kasumi's head,
so she knew she had to play it careful.
	She turned slightly, crossed her arms, and closed her eyes in a very
non-chalaunt way.  "Simple.  You never agreed to kill her."
	He balked at that.  "Huh?  Of course I agreed to snuff her!  What
the hell else would I be doin' here on this stink ball backwater planet?"
	She turned on him like a flash of lightning.  "You told us that your
employer hired you to, and I quote, "take her out".  Right?"
	"YEAH?  And that means I'm supposed to snuff her!"  He was in her
face.
	From half closed eyelids, she calmly replied, "but that's not what
he said.  He didn't say 'kill' or 'snuff' or 'frag' (whatever that means),
he said, 'take out'."
	"SO WHAT?"  Lobo's cigar was doing a good impression of a steam
locomotive at this point.  "'TAKE OUT' MEANS SNUFF, KILL, FRAG, FOLD,
SPINDLE, AND FRAGGIN' MUTILATE!!!!!!"  He was starting to foam just a little
bit at the mouth.
	She ignored his rather heated retort and just shook her head. 
Ranma and Akane just looked at each other with sweat crawling down the back
of their necks. 
	Ryoga leaned over to Ranma and whispered in his ear, "Does she
knows what's she doing?  I...I, don't know if we can take this guy."
	Ranma just clenched his fist tighter.  "I hope so, I really hope so,
Ryoga."

	Nabiki half closed her eyes and sunk into her zen-like business
'take no prisoners' state.
	"Come here, Lobo-baby, and I'll explain it."
	She walked back inside and sat down at the table.  Lobo followed,
more curious as to what she was up to, than pissed off.  When they others
tried to follow them, Nabiki told them to wait outside.
	"It's simple, really.  You agreed for a sum of money to, and I
quote, 'take out' my older sister, did you not?"
	"Yeah."
	"Well, since you are a man of your word, you must follow your word. 
Right?"
	"Yeah." 
	"Well, you said, 'take out', right?" 
	"FEETAL'S GIZZ!  I KNOW ALL THIS!  GET ON WITH IT!" He swung a fist
down on the little table and smashed it to bits.  Nabiki ignored the poor
table now so many splinters.
	"Ok.  'Take out' does not mean kill."
	He blinked. "Say, what?"
	"To take someone out does not mean to kill.  Ask anybody, they wont
tell you it means to kill, they'll say something else entirely."
	"Yer nuts!  Of course it means to frag somebody!  What the hell else
could it mean!?"
	"Go ask them, one at a time, see what they say."  She was pointing
to the back yard where her friends and siblings waited.
	He looked at them, then at her.  Then he did it again.  Something
told Lobo that she wasn't lying but to be extremely careful with this one. 
She wasn't sweating, not cringing, not smirking with some hidden secret. 
She was just setting their looking at him with those damned half shut eyes
of hers.
	"Alright.  I'll do it.  But if I find out yer pullin' my chain. 
I'll hang the lot of you and feed ya to the friggin' buzzards!"

	He walked out and addressed the small group of freezing teenagers.
	"Yo! Get over here, The Main Man's gotta question fer ya!"
	They looked at each other and slowly moved towards the Czarnian with
caution.
	"What's up, spooky?"  Ranma asked.
	"Watch it kid,  All I wanna know is what 'take out' means to you in
reference to one person to another."  He stood in front of them arms akimbo.
	They all blinked and looked at each other.
	"WELL?!?"
	"An evening on the town with someone you are interested in,"  Kasumi
said.
	Lobo's eyebrows went up about an inch on his forehead.
	"er...yeah."  Ryoga shyly added.
	Lobo's mouth opened slightly.
	"Uh...to go on a date..." Akane volunteered, she quickly glanced
over at Ranma.
	The cigar fell out of Lobo's mouth and landed in a pile of snow with
a light sizzle.
	Ranma caught the glance.  "Yeah.  A date, but why anybody would want
to date a tomboy like you is beyond me."
	"BAKA!"
	"Tomboy!  You're built like a brick!"
	Lobo watched the two argue for a moment then turned around and went
back into the house and stood in front of Nabiki.  His spirit had fallen
harder than one of Superman's punches.

	"Well?" She said, sipping some tea.
	He just stood there with a lost look about him.  Nabiki noticed
everyone else peeking around the door to find out what would happen next.
	"Are you telling me that I aggreed to..."
	"...Take my sister out on a date?  Exactly.  She will need to be
back by 11pm otherwise my daddy will get angry."
	Everybody else did a face fault.
	"...."  was Lobo's only comment on the situation.
	Just then Lobo felt someone glomp onto his side, not only that he
was getting very wet.
	"Does this mean you aren't going to kill my Kasumi?"  Soun was
drowning the big man's boots with tears.  "Oh, I'm so happy!
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!"
	"HEY!  I'm not like that!!  Get away from me, ya perv!"  He grabbed
a crowbar from his back pocket and tried to pry Kasumi's father from his
waist.  "Geez, I don't believe this!  This was supposed ta be a simple
execution....."
	"Oh, daddy, please!"  Nabiki was embarrassed.

				* * * * *			

	"WAAAHHH!!!!  My little daughter is growing up!"  Soun was still
crying as Lobo gentle sat Kasumi on the back of his space hawg.
	"Thank you,"  she said.
	"....no prob...I still don't believe this."
	Nabiki walked up to Lobo.  "Remember, you promised to take her out."
	"Yeah, yeah, I know."  He was still ticked he had been talked out of
a perfectly easy kill.
	"Now, I want you to promise me that you will return her in the same
condition that you got her and that she'll have a good time."
	"Wha... Jus' who do ya think yer dealing with here?"  He was almost
in shock.  She was insulting The Main Man, this just wasn't done.  "I always
show 'em a good time...and leave 'em wantin' more!"  He had a wicked grin
with that response.
	"Nonono - I meant fun for her - not you.  Now promise."
	"Why?"  His freshly lit cigar was starting to glow a little
brighter.
	"Because if you don't promise, I can't promise that your reputation
will stay intact.  If it got out that you 'almost'," she leaned on that
word, "broke your word, it could go bad on your business."
	"Why you little.... you think that I couldn't jus' frag the whole
planet and all the bastiches on it?!
	"Who's to say that word hasn't been planted in the right ears just
waiting to be released to the universe?  Hmm?"  She flashed him a bright
smile.  He was beat and he knew it.
	"ALRIGHT!  I PROMISE!!!"  He headed back to the other side of the
bike grumbling all the way.
	Soun was still crying, but not as much. "Please be kind to her,
she's so sweet and innocent!"
	"Oh, father, I'll be ok.  Mr. Lobo said so.  I'll be back tonight."
Kasumi, as always, was looking perky. "Mr. Lobo, I brought some tea and
sandwhiches for the trip."
	"Huh?  Oh, ok, I did kinda like the stuff."  He stole a quick
glimpse of her and then settled in on the bike.  "Hey, where's my groupies? 
YO!  PENGUINS!!!"
	They all looked around, and a moment later a whole bunch of manical
laughing flightless water fowls came running from around the corner of the
dojo.  
	"Yeah!  Space time.  Fraggin' A"  The one with the tattooed beak
sputtered.  "WOAH!  Who's the babe, boss?!"
	"The 'babe' is a guest ya little &!$%!!!  So watch yer fraggin'
language!  Let's split this mudball."
	"Good-bye!" Kasumi cried.

	Everyone stood and watched as Lobo, Kasumi, and the penguins had
disappeared into the sky.  They somehow knew it was the beginning of a
beautiful friendship.  Nabiki stood with a smirk on her face, she always did
love bluffing.

	

***The Extra Penguin Ending : 

	The penguins finally decided upon removing Genma's lungs through his
butt.

 
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