This is the first of my "Wait" stories.  They take place in a period of 
time between "Aftermath" and "Escape".  They are just short stories.  
Maybe I can actualy finish them off this semester...don't hold your 
breath or anything though.
   Heres 1, I'll post 2 tomorrow morning when I wake up...
   As always, the characters are barrowed from Rumiko Takahashi without 
permission, so nobody gets paid for this...
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A Long Waiting Period Of Several Months
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A collection of short stories
           by 
     Matthew Trotter
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Kodachi
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   Kodachi put on the T-shirt gently.  It wasn't easy, it stuck to the 
calamine lotion.  She had learned to be patient with it.  If she rushed 
it she would be itching like mad for the next three hours.  Embarrassingly 
she knew that from experience.  There were other things she knew...like 
not to scratch the itch, no matter how bad.  Straitening the shirt she 
looked in the mirror to be sure it covered her.  Maybe she would skip 
lunch today...it would be nice not to have to wear any thing more than 
the shirt.  At least till dinner.  
   Now she needed a diversion...the biochemists fun kit looked tempting 
so she kicked it under the bed.  Maybe a book...she looked at her book 
shelf.  It just sat there[1].  Perhaps not.  Kodachi went to the window 
and looked out on the court yard.  Her brother was down there with 
Sasuke.  He was doing a lot more training as of late...probably to stay 
away from her.  Somewhere something inside her went ping.  Kodachi 
quickly blinked away a tear.  It had been years since she'd cared what 
that idiot thought or did...but then again, he hadn't been acting quite 
so stupid recently...
   He still ran around with his bokken, and still talked like a 
Shakespearean play, but he didn't seem to have the same god complex 
anymore.  Maybe Nabiki Tendo was a good thing.  Maybe she was turning him 
back to her old brother.  It was an interesting idea.  It was a bit 
frightening too.  It suggested that Ranma might not be the man for her 
after all...
   Kodachi turned back to the window.  Her brother made another series of 
attacks on his practice dummy.  The dummy no longer looked like sweet 
Ranma.  Now it bore a resemblance to, well, her brother actually.  It was 
an interesting mental image, her brother fighting himself in a literal 
sense.  Kodachi smiled, what internal conflict would bring the mighty 
warrior Tetewaki Kuno to fight himself.  He was probably having trouble 
adjusting to Nabiki Tendo.  He deserved a woman who'd drag him out of the 
stone age and into the modern world.
   Tetewaki...Kodachi blinked, she hadn't thought of him by his name in 
... years...had it really been that long?  She shivered.  The thought 
made her feel dirty.  How could that much time have passed?  Something 
else went ping.  Kodachi shook her head, letting herself get depressed 
was the last thing she needed today.
   Looking back out the window she saw Tetewaki make several graceful 
attacks on the dummy.  They looked showy and graceful, really more of his 
old style..... . . .. then the dummy fell to pieces.  Very small pieces.  
Kodachi blinked, he couldn't have done that with the maneuver she had just 
seen.  The dummy should have fallen in four, maybe five pieces, not 
hundreds.  Perhaps her brother deserved more credit than she was giving 
him...
   It wouldn't be the first time she had discovered she was wrong about 
him.  His practice dummies were another example.  She had always thought 
that Sasuke made them for him...she had asked him to make a few for her 
before.  Then one day she had gone to tell Sasuke to make the dummy of 
that Chinese bimbo instead of Akane Tendo...and there was Tetewaki, 
building the dummy by hand.  Sasuke was there just to hand him parts.  
She wished she'd kept one of those around...
   She looked back out the window, Tetewaki and Sasuke were gone 
now...probably in the workshop making a new target.  Kodachi sighed.  It 
looked nice outside, the sky was blue, there were birds in the 
trees...maybe she would go out after lunch...but right now the sun 
coming in the window was so nice and warm...
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[1] Not that it had ever hopped up and said, "Hey, 'dachi babe lets 
    boogie!"[2]
[2] Well, there was that one incident with the fumes, but that was 
    probably just a hallucination.