A really strange idea came to me today�
It could be worse...
Soun Tendo sat with his daughters at the table.
"What?" said Nabiki coolly as she glared at her father.
"Oh my, I hope he's older," commented Kasumi in a worried tone.
"Interesting," said Akane raising her eyebrows slightly.
Soun looked at her uncomfortably and continued. "He's the son of a very
good friend of mine, if one of you girls were to marry him then the Tendo
family legacy would be secure."
"Don't worry about that daddy! I've already got it covered," said Akane
calmly.
"Ahem, yes. Well, the agreement has already been made Akane�" said the
man deliberately saying her name.
She looked at him for a moment and raised her eyebrow slightly. "Er,
Akane-chan." The girl relaxed as did her family after he corrected
himself.
"Oh well, we'll see when he gets here," said the girl lazily, her watch
beeped and she looked at it quizzically. "How strange."
A commotion started in the hallway and the Tendos all stood up looking
expectantly towards the doorway. "Saotome my old friend, I've been
waiting!" cried Soun cheerfully as he rushed to meet his friend followed
by his daughters.
A few moments later Soun, Nabiki, and Kasumi rushed by the youngest girl
and she merely turned and looked at the visitors. A large panda carrying
a young girl over his shoulder; they were met by a girl that looked to be
around twelve years old. "Hi, nice to meet you! You can call me
Akane-chan!" she greeted cheerily.
The animal and the girl stopped and looked at her in confusion for a
moment before walking with her towards the living room.
"You must be daddy's friends!" she said as he put the girl down in front
of the family. The Tendo patriarch shook his head violently from side to
side, he looked closer at the girl and frowned.
"You wouldn't be�"
"I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry about this," replied the girl sheepishly.
Nabiki leaned in and smiled broadly. "Ooh! He is cute!"
Akane frowned at this and looked the girl up and down, "Are you idiots
blind?" she thought to herself. Still, something was definitely wrong
with this girl with the readings she had gotten from her. The animal was
the same way.
Nabiki felt the girl up and frowned at her father. "Ranma's not a boy!
She's a girl!"
The elder Tendo almost passed out, until he remembered what happened the
last time he had done so in Akane's presence. He quickly recovered and
stared down at the girl. "Where is Saotome?"
"He's around," muttered the girl as she looked away in embarrassment.
"So, you're name is Ranma? Tell me what's wrong with you," said Akane as
she poked at the girl with some sort of strange device.
"Nothin!" said the girl defensively as she backed behind the panda.
"Suit yourself," replied the dark haired girl with a shrug as she turned
away.
A few minutes later Ranma found herself pushed into the bathroom by the
eldest girl. She gave the door a sour look as she turned towards the furo
and began to disrobe. "What is with this family anyway?"
After a quick scrubbing she lowered herself into the furo and felt the
change overtake her. Now a boy again Ranma started to relax a bit more.
"What do I do now? Should I go back out like I am?" he shifted around and
thought to himself lazily. "Wow, this bathroom sure is big," he noted the
pool like hot water furo that almost reminded him of a spring, large
plants adorned the walls and sides of the extremely large room. He stood
from the water and started to step out when the door flew open revealing
a naked and surprised Akane.
Ranma froze in terror as the girl looked him up and down before getting
a strange looking grin on her face. "Well, this is certainly
interesting," she commented before calmly turning around and walking out
the door.
Akane dumped an arm load of strange looking tools, many with sharp edges
on them, from under her towel as she walked out of the changing room with
her dogi on. "And here I was hoping to get some�" she was cut off as
Kasumi walked up to her.
"Is something wrong Akane? I thought you were going to take a bath with
Ranma?" said the girl sweetly as a large amount of sweat formed on her
head.
"Don't worry about it, I'll do it later," she replied before walking
away.
Secretly Kasumi was relieved, the last thing Ranma needed in a new place
was the things Akane was obviously planning on doing to her in there.
Quickly she removed the tools and placed them in a small bin by the door
before walking away quietly.
The Tendo girls sat around the table watching the two strange men
sitting in front of them. "So, Akane�you'll accept the engagement?" said
the other three Tendos in shock.
"But�she's so�young," said Genma in a worried tone.
"Hey! I'm sixteen years old!" cried the girl angrily.
Ranma and Genma's jaws dropped like they had led weights in them.
"Akane's just�a late bloomer," said Kasumi nervously as she set a small
meal down on the table. It was blue star shaped crusts with what looked
like small hairs growing out from them.
"Tendo, what is this stuff?" asked Genma nervously.
Kasumi overheard the conversation and smiled. "Plutarian Snail paste,
it's quite good. Akane showed me how to make it!"
Ranma glanced around the home nervously and noticed a few things that
were unusual. Namely most any electric appliance had some sort of strange
add on or home built look to it.
"Gee Ranma, I'm so excited about this!" cried Akane cheerfully. "I need
a guine�err Fiancee."
The boy shrunk back nervously and hid behind his father. "So tell me
Saotome, how did this curse befall you?" asked Soun in an attempt to
change the conversation.
"Oh, perhaps I should start with this!" he tossed his son over his
shoulder and frowned when a young girl came up from the waters of the Koi
in the back yard.
"Perhaps she shouldn't�" started Kasumi when a huge fish head jumped out
and snapped at the young girl. She got away barely in time and huffed as
she stared at the pool in terror.
"Oh don't worry about it, they would have spit her out anyway," said
Akane cheerfully as she waved her hand. The head came up and hacked up a
Bokuten causing everyone to turn away and pretend nothing had happened.
"So, hot water turns you back into a man?" asked Soun once again trying
to change the subject.
"Yes, that's right," said Genma nervously.
"Why didn't you just tell me you where cursed? I can take care of that!"
cried Akane triumphantly.
Ranma looked up at her in shock. "Really?"
"Sure, I've just got to do a few test first and I'm sure I can cure you,
well reasonably sure anyway," she flexed her arm and smiled at the two
men who simply gaped in shock. "After all, I am the greatest scientific
genius in the universe!"
Two small Akane puppets appeared on her shoulders cheering for her.
"Akane you're the greatest!" cried one of them.
"Akane you're the best!" agreed the other one.
"Akane, Akane, Akane! Hooraayyy!!" chimed the two in perfect unison.
Ranma stared at the scene in stunned and perverse fear. "I uuhh�"
"All we have to do now is get some samples!" squealed the girl excitedly
as she pulled out a foot long syringe and started towards the boy.
Ranma did the most sensible thing, he ran.
The end.
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