Ha! You thought I was dead, didn't you? Sorry to disappoint you
guys. ;)
Anyway, I'm still writing, but not as fast as I would've liked. I've
got a couple of fics beggin' to be done, and I just can't seem to
finish 'em. For now, you'll have to do with this fic.

Oh, BTW- C&C would be greatly appreciated!


Unlikely Sisters

Written by Dark Alpha <AlphSailor@aol.com>

Ranma 1/2 and its associated characters belongs to Rumiko 
Takasahi, and I'm only borrowing them for this story. 
Infringement is not intended.


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Damn her.

Damn my sister, and damn her--

*snap*

Nabiki blinked in surprise as her pencil snapped into two in 
her hand. Sighing, she leaned back in her chair, her work 
already forgotten. Her mind was tumbled, in a chaotic frenzy. 
It had been close, too close for comfort.

She wasn't exactly sure why she did it, but she had managed 
to ruin Ranma and Akane's wedding. For all intents and 
purposes, she should have let them gotten hitched, but she 
didn't. Why?

She had an uneasy feeling that unless she put the wedding to 
stop somehow, all of her work would have been for nothing. 
Irked that the wedding, which she had planned for all along 
in her mind, had to be abolished for the exactly same reason 
she had arranged for one in the first place, she decided to 
settle that for now, they were at status quo. It wasn't easy 
maintaining the status quo, but things were falling apart for 
her. Everything she had done was now at verge of being 
wasted. 

Nearly an year of her efforts had produced amazing results 
that she couldn't have believed, and they were still within 
the scope of her goals. Unfortunately, at the same time, it 
only made things more difficult for her. She had failed to 
antn Nabiki's bed, 
obviously uncomfortable. "Father and the Saotomes are 
cleaning up the mess. I excused myself for a moment so I 
could come and talk with you, about what you did to Akane's 
wedding."

"Sorry it wasn't what you had expected."

"It's not working, isn't it?"

Kasumi had spoke quietly, but she reacted like she had been 
slapped in face. With an iron gantlet. For a moment, anger 
filled Nabiki as she interpreted the implications of Kasumi's 
words. That their plan had failed because she had been 
incompetent. That she had botcheed as she let go of herself.

"No, it's not." She replied instead. Kasumi nodded in reply, 
and sighed. Or did she? It didn't matter.

"What are we going to do now?"

Nabiki averted her gaze from Kasumi and swiveled around in 
her chair so she would stare out of the window instead. 
Silence settled in her room as she mulled over their options. 
After rejecting her last option left, she closed her eyes and 
answered, "Nothing." 

"What?" She could almost hear Kasumi blinking.

"You heard me, sis. There's nothing we can do right now. Oh 
sure,ane, and you 
know it. You always feel squeamish whenever you do something 
bad, so it's up to me to do the bad stuff. Akane deserved it 
all, and yet," she slammed her palm on her desk, upset. "It's 
not working, damn it!"

She continued her anger-filled rant. "It's not fair that my 
sister's always in the center of everything. All boys thinks 
she's a sort of goddess, they drool and fight over her! Even 
Daddy fawns over her. He's paying attention to _her_, and not 
to _us_!"

"No, it isn't." Kasumi agreed and trailed off. It was evident 
to her sister that she wanted to say something else.

"What is it?"

"Don't you think we've done enough? If thepunishment to continue, 
but I don't think it is fair to do this to Ranma as well."

"So you're saying that we should give up?"

Kasumi nodded. "I don't think Akane deserves this anymore. 
She's no longer a spoiled girl." Suddenly she stood up and 
confronted Nabiki, "It's become too dangerous! She _nearly_ 
died, for Kami's sake! I heard what she t-told me..." She 
trailed off as she began to sob, "I, I didn't mean for it to 
happen..."

Nabiki watched impassively as Kasumi collapsed on her bed, 
sobbing. Her face twisted for few moments asm hug.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry..."

Nabiki held her sister closer, trying to soothe her. "It's 
not your fault. It just happened. It was just her bad luck, 
but why don't you just forget about it. She's still alive- 
that's all it matters."

"Yes..." Kasumi smiled as last tears of misery left in warmth 
of Nabiki's sisterly embrace. A sister she had missed for so 
long, locked away in her obsessed task of revenge.

Few minutes later, Kasumi had recomposed herself and had 
brightened up somewhat. "Thank you, sister. I needed that..."

"Forget it. I her sister leave and then swiveled around back 
to her homework. And sighed.

To be honest, she had been considering about giving up 
anyway. She had spent several years attempting to ruin 
Akane's life, and she was getting tired. At least she made 
some profit in the end.

Perhaps she would find something better to do, like fixing up 
her life she had left to atrophy during her obsession. 
Perhaps date a boy of two...

She wasn't Akane, she was Nabiki Tendo!

She would prove that even _she_ could have an interesting 
life as her sister jusded to end 
it here, as a shortfic.
Instead of having Nabs ruining her sister's life, we've got 
Nabs trying to 'up' her Akane, setting out on her adventure. 
If anyone would like to continue, be my guest and let me 
know. :)


Dark Alpha <AlphSailor@aol.com>