On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Scott Jamison wrote:

He might be surprised by how much backbone is hidden there...

He'll be surprised by a lot of things...

	Three:  Having her here was going to be trouble.  For him. 

You got that straight, boy!

He doesn't know the mess he's about to get into...

	And the fact she's just realized Kaneda wasn't her only choice...

That's not it.

Think about it this way.

Females in a family usually bath together...

	Like the fact that there's a raving loony hentai kendo practioner 
there? 

Yeah, but he isn't quite raving yet.

	Ah, so we may have old friends showing up eventually... ("Gee, 
Ranko, you've sure filled out.  But didn't you use to be taller?")

Not quite.

A background is coming in the next chapter.

	Ranko is in no way like all the other girls...

You can say that again!  ^_-

	Ranko had the grace to blush.  "Um...Actually that wasn't martial
arts...It was...Well...I sort of took that from a combination of
gymnastics and figure skating."

So with a little practice, both the Kodachi and Golden Pair fights are in 
the bag...

Yep!

Of course, not in the way you would expect...

Hitomi

Ichinohei Hitomi
Hitomi@terminal.autobahn.mb.ca
http://204.112.189.3/~hitomi
"The beginings of wisdom is the ability to always ask questions."