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"I wonder what's keeping Nabiki?" Kasumi wondered as she offered Ranma and
Akane some cookies and lemonade.

"Eh, I dunno," Ranma replied with a wave of his hand. "You know how she
is."

The door to the family room rattled open with a crash, and Nabiki stormed
in. She looked rather harried; her uniform was a bit rumpled, and her
normally perfect hair was dissheveled. She leveled Ranma with a glare that
could freeze plasma.

"Nabiki! What happened?" Akane asked.

"Hey Nabiki," Ranma grinned, unaffected by the older girl's glare. "What's
up?"

Nabiki marched up to Ranma, and struck him full across the face. "I swear
I'll make you pay for that, Saotome." With that, she stormed upstairs. The
sound of her bedroom door slamming echoed through the house a moment later.

Kasumi and Akane blinked. Ranma fought to suppress a snicker. Finally,
Akane turned to Ranma with an accusatory glance. "What did you do now,
Ranma?"

"You'll find out," Ranma said mysteriously.

******

The next morning, Ranma made a point of dragging Akane out the door as soon
as Nabiki left for school. The older girl occasionally glanced over her
shoulder, attempting to eviscerate Ranma with her eyes. By the time they
reached Furinkan, Akane was torn between being confused, worried, and
angry. Ranma was snickering to himself.

Finally, they cleared the gates, and found Kunou standing there. Akane
prepared to take him on, but Ranma held her back. She blinked. "What is
it?"

"Just watch," Ranma grinned.

Nabiki attempted to walk past Kunou as though she didn't notice him. She
didn't have much luck, as a bouquet of roses was thrust at her.

"Tendou Nabiki," Kunou began. "Long hours this past eve have I lain awake,
wondering how thine beauty escaped my notice. Thy shining sienna hair, thy
fair skin, thy body which surely no sculpture could surpass in
perfection..."

"Lose it, Kuno," Nabiki ground out.

"Thine mercenary nature blinded mine eyes to thine spirit, fierce as thy
sister's, in thine own way," Kunou continued obliviously. "As art thou
lithe and graceful, like the lioness. Fair mercenary maiden, I would gladly
allow you the honor of dating with me!"

With a growl of supreme annoyance, Nabiki punted Kuno across the
schoolyard, then stormed into the building.

Akane blinked. Ranma fell over laughing.

"What was that all about?" Akane wondered. She noticed Ranma pull a thermos
from his satchel and douse himself, turning into a girl. Ranma then
proceeded to head for the fallen kendoist. "Ranma! Where are you going?"

Ranma paused, and turned, smiling a cold smile. "I've got pictures to sell
to a moron," Ranma said.

"Pictures?" Akane wondered, confused.

Ranma pulled an envelope out of her bookbag, and withdrew a couple of
prints, passing them over to Akane. Akane took a look, and blinked.
Repeatedly.

"You...sold these...to *KUNOU*!?"

Ranma grinned.

Akane stared in disbelief at the picture of her sister, doing her leg
exercises in her bedroom, wearing her shortest, skimpiest shorts. Then she
stared in mixed shock and horror at the picture of Nabiki in the bath.

"How--? Nevermind, I don't want to know," Akane said, shaking her head.

"Payback's hell," Ranma chortled.

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"Raw energon, right through your twisted Spark!
Take it! TAKE IT STRAIGHT TO THE
PIT, you sickening piece of slag!"

-Depth Charge (may his Spark join the Matrix,
the greatest of Cybertron...)

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