Gasp!  Another one!  Maybe this one will turn out better.
I hope.
Well, on with the on-going story of Naiko.  (Glad I finally found a
new name for her.) Here Cometh Chapter 4!

     Black Lightning Design Group presents:
     Is This a Dream?
     Or a Nightmare?
          Chapter 4
     A Ranma 1/2 Fan-fic

     I follow mother down to the kitchen, with Piggy following me.  I
     hear
uncle Ranma and aunt Akane fighting, again.  Poor uncle, getting
himself in those predicaments.  It's funny, but I hope he will stop,
soon.  I don't want aunt Akane to kill him, accidentally.  With a cry
of, "Ranma you Jerk!"  she sends him on a one-way flight to pain. 
Poor aunt.  I know she loves him, but she will only shove him away if
she continues with this.
     I follow mother into the kitchen, as if it was a shrine instead
     of a
normal kitchen.  Mother puts on an apron, and I grab one myself.  I
follow mother up to the counter.  Something feels familiar about this.
 Oh, well, I'll remember later, I'm helping now. *****
     Ranma looks funny.   Sitting at the table with a big bruise on
     his
head.  Mother asked me not to call them aunt and uncle anymore.  I
liked calling them that, but whatever mother wants, I'll do.
     I put out the salad that I made.  Ranma looks at me funny, like I
poisoned it, or something.  Mother just tells them to eat.  For some
reason no-one will even try my salad.  I feel sad, but I try it
anyway.  I like it.
     Ranma looks at me like I have a death-wish.  So it looks funny,
     at
least it doesn't turn out like Aun... Akane's cooking.  I giggle
silently at Ranma's face.  Mother just sighs.  Then I decide to play a
joke on Ranma.  So I'm feeling silly, is that a problem?
     I open my eyes wide.  I grab my throat.  Mother looks concerned. 
     I
fall back, pretending to choke.  Everyone runs up to me.  All they see
is me grabbing my chest and giggling merrily.  Ranma looks like he's
been hit by Akane again.  That was fun!
     Mother scolds me, but I only half-listen.  Until she asks me to
     not
pull tricks like that again.  I pout, but agree.  Spoilsport.  Oh,
well. It was fun while it lasted.  Ranma still looks funny, though.
     Mother asks me to go to the bathroom and have a bath.  I nod and
happily go up, then realize something.  I walk back to Mother and ask
her where my other clothes are.  Mother looks startled.  She then does
something unthinkable.
     "Nabiki?  could you please go get Naiko some clothes, please?" 
     My
eyes go wide in shock.  Asking Nabiki to do anything?  That's
expensive. But to my amazement, Nabiki nods and leaves the room.  She
comes back a minute later with a small pile of clothes.  I grab the
clothes, and thank her.  She just waves me away.  I shrug, and run up
to the bathroom.
    I wonder where Ranma is?  Oh, well, it doesn't matter.  I take off
my clothes, put my clean clothes to the side.  As I throw my dirty
clothes in the wash, I hear a small splash in the bathroom.  I think
it might be Akane, so it doesn't matter.  I walk in, to a surprising
sight.
    "Ranma!" I shout, "Leave my piggy alone!!!"  I run up to Ranma and
start hitting him.  Ranma is looking at me, surprised, and has my
piggy in his hand.  They are both standing over the bathtub, which is
full of hot water.  Ranma is so startled that he drops my piggy ...
into the tub.  Shortly after my piggy hits the water a man appears. 
My eyes are wide.  I start crying, "Where did my piggy go?"  Ranma
looks startled, looks at the man.  The man looks scared or something. 
I just want my piggy, where did he go?
    Ranma comes up to me and says, quietly, "Naiko, see that man over
there?  Well, that man _IS_ your piggy.  He was put under a curse by
some magic water that changes him into a pig."  The man, NO, my
_piggy_ looks scared of me.  I run up to him.  Ranma looks startled,
for some reason.  Ranma quietly says, "Do you want him to be a pig
again?"  At my nod, the man-form of my piggy gets out of the bathtub
and turns on the cold water and splashes himself with it.
     Mother knocks on the door as I pick up my piggy, who is a piggy
     again.
Mother asks, "Is everything all right in there?"
     I finally slow my crying, as Ranma replies, "It's all right,
     Naiko just
had a little scare here.  We'll be out soon."  Mother bursts into the
room, looking for something, probably me.  When she sees me, she asks
Ranma something.  I can't hear, as I am still crying, and they are
whispering.  I finally stop crying, and see mother sitting beside me.
Mother tells me, "Naiko, that man you saw?  His name is Ryouga.  But
he prefers to be called P-chan  when he's a pig." I nod, trying to
understand.  Then I do.  He doesn't want people to know that he turns
into a pig, so he uses another name.  For some reason, that strikes me
as hilariously funny.
     "Just like Ranma!" I say, then giggle some more.  Ranma looks
     surprised
that I know.  I'm surprised that Ranma thinks that.  "Ranma, I thought
_everyone_  knew?"  Ranma blanches.  "You mean _not_ everyone knows?"
My voice is a tiny whisper.  Then IT happens.  I feel fire through my
body, my mind.  It hurts.  I can't control my body.  I try to call to
mother, but Ranma is there first.  Ranma holds my arms down, mother
comes up and holds down my legs.  I can barely feel this as I have so
much pain running through me.
     Then everything mercifully goes black.
******
Well, here ends Chapter 4 of my Infamous story.  I hope you like it!
               Shadow Dancer
                    of
       Black Lightning Design Group
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      Stress Relief
   All stressed out?  Sometimes it helps to think
of happy scenes.  Maybe a pastoral field, a field
with a babbling brook.  You're there on a lovely
summer's day...holding someone's head under the 
water.  Now you're letting them up for a second.
Then blam!  Back into the freezing water!  Over
and over again!  There.  Feel better?