Subject: [FFML] Understanding Part 1(Mnor corrections) Problems
From: DAVID ANTHONY HOUGHTON
Date: 2/19/1998, 6:09 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com

Problems

(Ranma sat down. He'd finished his homework. For the first
time he'd had enough quiet to do it well, it was the first
Friday he hadn't been attacked, and since Nabiki did her
accounts on Friday he was safe. He even had some money saved.
He looked at the board and headed off to  Nabiki's room.
He knocked)

Ranma: I know you've finished the accounts by now. So I
thought I'd  give you what I owe.

(Nabiki looked at Ranma rather crossly. Normally she would
have finished but her father was about as good with accounts
as Ranma was with English. She shook her head.)

Nabiki: Not yet, I'm afraid. I keep on getting the wrong
answer. I swear he's spending heavily for some reason.

Ranma: (shivering at that) I know what you think about me
Nabiki but I'll help you sort it out.

(Nabiki bites down her reply.)

Ranma: No price Nabiki, besides maths the one subject I get
good grades in.

(Nabiki allows Ranma to come into her room. Ranma then adds
it up using his calculator.)

Nabiki: So that's where it went. I'm fed up of using the abacus.

Ranma: No, this is mine. On the plus we seem to have sorted 
it out.

(Nabiki was surprised at that. But then he often spent a lot
of time training to defeat the monsters that kidnapped Akane.
Considering that he did well in  school and she didn't help
by blackmailing him into revealing pictures. It was his fault
about the damage anyway. He was the most dishonourable person
she knew. He shouldn't keep all the girls hanging. She needed
to pass the time and she wasn't going to get him posing today.)

Nabiki: Do you play Shogi, Ranma?

Ranma: Yeah.

(They went downstairs and set it up.)

Nabiki: I didn't realise you played shogi.

Ranma: You don't think the old man would have taught me. Not
being a 'manly' enough game.

Nabiki: Don't cheat.

Ranma: Nabiki, I'm honourable, my father isn't.

Nabiki: And *what* would you know about honour?

Ranma:(tired) Nabiki, by rejecting any of the girls except
Kodachi, I would destroy their honour and that's the problem.
Kodachi doesn't listen, Shampoo isn't the  problem...

Nabiki: Then who is?

Ranma: The old ghoul. Shampoo would break the laws if it
wasn't for Cologne. Mu Tsu and Xian Pu are working together,
Mu Tsu takes the blame for it and runs interference. As long
as we're fighting Khu Lon won't interfere. Uc-chan and Akane
is the most difficult bit. In the end though I like them both,
could Uc-chan or I really live as a traditional girl? (pauses)
Didn't think so. Then there's  Akane I love her yes but I'm
not certain I want  to marry her. She just doesn't trust me.
She trusts you over me and your reps worse than mine.

Nabiki: You know this is blackmail material.

Ranma: I just realised something the only people you treat
like dirt are me and pops. Nabiki, I thought you didn't 
believe in Sins of the Father.

Nabiki: Do you know how much damage your fights cause? Believe
me I have to bribe the  police. Running a dojo without
insurance, etc. 

Ranma: You don't know how much skill is required to keep the
damage down. Why do you think I let Akane hit me- If I didn't
goodbye dojo.

Nabiki: You've got a point there.

Ranma: Flattening me keeps the damage down, her temper down
but I'm due for a break.

Nabiki: You know together why could probably get out of twice
as much trouble...

Ranma:...but that's only because we ended up in it the first
place.

(Ranma and Nabiki laugh with good  humour but stop remembering
who they are talking to.)

Nabiki: Actually I glad we talked. You seem to be someone
who can understand me, Ranma.

Ranma: Now I can, Nabiki, and you me. What about when we
get the blame.

(Nabiki nods her head)

Nabiki: How dare you cuddle Shampoo?

Ranma: How dare you invite them over for purely monetary
reasons.

(They carry on with the game of shogi. This is lasting a long
time. Each of them is sweating. The door opens and Akane
enters.)

Akane: And what do you think your doing.

Nabiki:(sarcastic) Playing Shogi?

Ranma:(false panic) I was blackmailed into it. If I lost I
had to pose as a  girl for a month.

Nabiki: *Hmmph, you manipulated me. Have to get you back some
day for that.*

Akane: How dare you speak of my sister like that!

Ranma:(heart no longer in it) Kawaiikunee!

Akane: Hentai!

Nabiki: *Some things never change*