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The Amazon and the Moneylender Part 13
Ukyou glanced back to make sure that Ryouga was
staying put like she'd asked. Since arriving at the
hospital with Mousse and Kodachi neither had been
given much rest, she'd only just now found the space
and time she needed to get to a phone and call the
rest of the Tendo dojo. Ukyou sighed as she recalled
the events since they had arrived at the hospital.
In the hour they had been stuck here, the police
had questioned them, and accused them of a variety of
things. Their first thought was that Ukyou and Ryouga
had gotten in a fight with Mousse and Kodachi that had
gotten out of hand, the doctors killed that one. The
hospital explained that the injuries the pair had
sustained seemed more like some sort of animal. Then
things got REALLY crazy.
A suggestion that Mousse and Kodachi had been
fighting a demon, and then a cry of "hey careful with
that or it'll just make you go all loopy," convinced
the police to confiscate Ryouga's first aid kit. At
about the same time someone managed to get an abridged
version of the baksai tenketsu training from Ukyou
before she realized what she was saying. This resulted
in about a thirty second attempt to capture Ryouga,
which he barely noticed. This had ended after Ukyou
had picked up a flattened bullet and turned to the cop
that had been talking to her and said, "that's why I'm
training in the baksai tenketsu."
"Tendo dojo, how may I help you?" Kasumi's voice
sounded a little strained.
"Kasumi?" Ukyou ignored the fact that the elder
Tendo was having some sort of problem of her own. If
she got bogged down in that then it would take a while
to get Mousse and Kodachi's situation out. "I'm at the
hospital."
"Oh! Are you and Ryouga okay?"
"We're fine, its Kodachi and Mousse�" Ukyou said.
"They got in a fight with something, they're still
unconscious so we don't know what yet."
"Oh! Was it Kuno?" Kasumi asked. "Nabiki said he
was around."
"Kuno?" Ukyou almost drapped the phone. "Kuno's
back?"
"Nabiki said that, are you okay?"
"Uh, yes," Ukyou said. "No it wasn't Kuno, that
idiot doesn't cause the same type of injuries.
Ryo-chan thinks it was a demon, if you can believe
that."
"Oh my," Kasumi said. "I'll try to tell everybody
else, but I'm not certain where they are at the
moment. Would you and Ryouga mind staying there at
least until one of us arrives, oh what is the
hospital?"
"Hey, that's no problem, sugar," Ukyou said before
giving Kasumi the hospital's name. She clicked the
phone down and walked over to Ryouga. "Any word on the
lunatics?"
"Not yet, are you okay?" he asked, noticing her
expression as she approached.
"Kuno's back," she said, quietly, sitting next to
him. Ryouga looked at her cautiously. Ukyou remembered
that fight, she had been panicking and flailing about
stupidly. She was worried about being groped, and let
the thought distract her. As a result, Kuno had beaten
her, badly. Kuno, the joke, the idiot that was always
heading somewhere via air-Ranma or Akane. The would-be
samurai had beaten her. The fact that she couldn't
even touch him after the jerk chose to fight all out
didn't help matters.
"Are you going to try and fight him?" Ryouga asked
seriously. She looked at him and smiled slightly.
"Not if I can help it," she said. "Not before I finish
the baksai tenketsu at any rate." Ryouga kept his
thoughts on the matter silent, he REALLY didn't want
to make a scene just at the moment. Later, when they
returned to camp maybe. "I wish one of these doctors
would tell us something."
*******************************************************
"What so funny?" Shampoo asked nervously as Nabiki
quieted. The moneylender turned to face her, radiantly
cheerful.
"She's an Amazon!" Nabiki said suddenly. Shampoo
looked at her confused.
"How can magical girl be Amazon, she not even
born."
"I was born," Ranko muttered angrily, though no one
heard her.
"You didn't know that?" Ranma blinked and looked at
Akane, who had the same expression.
"We figured something out before Nabiki?"
"Oh I suspected it," Nabiki waved off the comment,
trying to salvage some pride. "But I have enough on my
mind at the moment without having to prove that."
"I don't get how magical girl be Amazon," Shampoo
repeated.
"Perhaps if the girl that drowned in the pool was
an Amazon," Dr. Tofu suggested.
"Hello!! I am sitting right here!" Everybody turned
to look at Ranko and blinked. She hmphed and crossed
her arms. "Jerks."
"If girl drowned in pool Amazon," Shampoo said.
"Then anybody who fall in Amazon?"
"Hey wouldn't that mean that the outsider laws
don't apply to Ranma?" Akane asked suddenly. "After
all he's been walking around with an Amazon life force
this entire time."
"Shampoo ask great-grandma," the Amazon said
slowly. "After take Nabiki home, and put in BED." She
emphasized the last word strongly, giving a Nabiki a
reproachful look. Dr. Tofu, Ranko, Ranma and Akane
looked on rather confused.
"We were going to�"
"Shampoo stop by for lunch, Nabiki stay bed and
HEAL," Shampoo whispered something and Nabiki laughed,
actually blushing.
"You're doing it again," Akane said dangerously.
Shampoo and Nabiki suddenly turned serious and faced
the other people in the clinic.
"Doing what?" Nabiki asked quietly. Any reply was
cut off as Kasumi's voice was heard from the lobby.
Ranma and Akane dragged Ranko away from Dr. Tofu while
Shampoo carried Nabiki to the far side of the room.
Ranma left the room quietly and then returned with a
still paralyzed Sasuke. He smirked viciously as he set
the ninja on the examination table
"Ka-ka-Kasumi, what a surprise to meet you here of
all places�" he stammered. The Doctor reached for
something to occupy his hands and found Sasuke. "Is
that you Nabiki? You really should keep better care of
your skin." Sasuke couldn't scream as his neck was
twisted, he could however see the very vicious smirks
he was getting from the martial artists backed against
the wall.
"You work here Doctor," Kasumi noted. She looked
and saw everybody standing away from Tofu. "Oh good,
you're all here." Akane and Nabiki noticed the slight
sarcasm on the word all, though people who hadn't
lived a life time with Kasumi probably would have
missed it. "Ukyou just called the dojo, there appears
to have been an incident of some kind."
"An incident," Dr. Tofu asked. "Give me a moment to
check Nabiki's foot here." His next treatment resulted
in mass wincing and chuckling from the martial
artists.
"No, this cannot wait," Kasumi said. "Apparently
Ryouga and Ukyou had to bring Kodachi and Mousse to
the hospital. They had been in a battle of some kind."
"What?!?" Ranma and Akane snapped.
"I told them that somebody would be by, considering
that Kodachi lives with�"
"We're on our way," Ranma said, heading out the
door.
"Hey Baka, we don't know the hospital!" Akane
shouted, following after him.
"Oh my," Kasumi turned to Ranko. "Would you catch
up and tell them where to go?"
"Uh�" Ranko blinked and tried to come up with a
reason she couldn't do that, but she seriously did not
want to disappoint this girl. "Sure, what's the
hospital?"
"Don't worry about Nabiki," Kasumi said sweetly.
"I'll see her home."
"Hey maybe betty-chan can go with you!" Dr. Tofu
suggested. "I'll ask her in a moment."
"Shampoo help Nabiki home too," the Amazon said as
she carried Nabiki out of the room from the crazy
doctor.
"You shouldn't volunteer other people like that
Ukyou," Dr. Tofu lectured.
"How come he thinks I spatula-girl," Shampoo asked
herself.
"Don't worry about it Doctor," Nabiki called as she
and Shampoo left the room. "See you later."
"My family is very lucky to have such a kind man as
yourself as a doctor," Kasumi said, bowing as she
left. "I hope to see you again under calmer
circumstances." She added the last with a serene smile
and a demure wave.
"Oh Betty-Chan, she said I'm a kind man," and Dr.
Tofu danced through a wall holding his skeleton. Left
to himself was the still paralyzed ninja, ingenuously
reshaped into a something a cat would think of as
impossible.
*******************************************************
"I am quite capable of taking my sister home,
Shampoo," Kasumi said calmly. "And I believe that you
have work." Nabiki ignored her sister, as far as she
was concerned, Kasumi's thoughts were clear.
"Want to make sure Nabiki go to bed," Shampoo
hmphed.
"We do agree on that, at least," Kasumi noted. She
wanted to apologize to Nabiki for her earlier words,
but not with Shampoo there. Even if she didn't
altogether trust Shampoo, the amazon provided to easy
an out for Nabiki to ignore her. "And just how did you
all end up at Dr. Tofu's clinic?"
"Kuno," Nabiki said simply. "That ninja ended up
catching everybody but me and Kuno in a cloud of
paralysis powder. If Kitty here hadn't shown up I
don't know what would have happened."
"Oh my," Kasumi blinked, studiously ignoring the
way Nabiki cuddled in Shampoo's arms at the end of
that statement. "It seems I owe you some thanks."
"Stupid stick-boy," Shampoo growled. "He run away
before Shampoo could beat him. Chasing lost boy that
not there, idiot." Kasumi looked at her sister with
surprise.
~She cast an illusion?~ Kasumi blinked. ~She's done
much since coming back from China. Could she be
returning to the art?~ It would be good news if that
was so, Nabiki had so much potential. It was a shame
that she let it sit unused, at least until she had
returned home with sealed and cloaked flasks of
Jusenkyo water.
"Yeah, now he thinks I'm a sorceress," Nabiki said,
Kasumi knew the comment was directed at her, but
Nabiki didn't turn to look at her. "But then he thinks
everything walks out of a samurai tale." Then they
were walking into the gates of the dojo.
"That is good enough, Shampoo," Kasumi said. "I can
handle it from here."
"Must SEE Nabiki in bed," Shampoo retorted. "I
don't trust her not to be stupid."
"You'll be paying for that," Nabiki promised
sourly. There was no way she was going to get anything
done with both of them mothering her. She caught her
breath as Shampoo rushed up the stairs with her.
Nabiki was aware that they were leaving Kasumi behind
at the door, and was glad of it. It was only moments
before she was being set down gently into her bed.
"I'm not made of porcelain, Shampoo."
"You no martial artist either," Shampoo noted in
response. "Not heal so fast as us, so rest. Shampoo
handle problems for now." They kissed, holding the
embrace for several moments before pulling back.
"Besides, you are probably more fun when not all
beaten up." Nabiki blushed again as the amazon
repeated the encouragement she had whispered in Tofu's
office.
"Shampoo, you forgot the water of drowned girl,"
Nabiki snapped as Shampoo was about to leave. "It's on
the dresser there. I was going to give it to you at
lunch, but since you're here now�" Shampoo looked to
the flask and returned to pick it up, smiling.
"No more Kitty," Shampoo teased as she unstoppered
the flask. She looked to where Nabiki was sitting on
the edge of the bed, watching her.
"Too late for that," Nabiki said, smirking. "I'm
afraid you're stuck as Kitty." Shampoo biihed the
middle Tendo as she upended the flask over her head.
The tingle of transformation started through her body,
and cut short. Opening her eyes Shampoo was not
surprised to see her still human hands, she was
elated. Letting out a wordless squeal of delight she
turned to hug and kiss Nabiki again.
"Cured, and if water-girl really Amazon, then
Shampoo free too," the amazon exclaimed. "Wo ai ni!"
Nabiki smiled but wasn't so certain that Cologne would
accept this.
"And I love you, but you have to go back before the
old ghoul starts looking for you," Nabiki said,
reluctantly letting go of Shampoo. The amazon nodded
quietly, standing up. "And if Cologne doesn't accept
Ranko, try to stall her, a week at least."
"That harder than you think," Shampoo said. "But I
will try. Be back for lunch." Shampoo was bouncing
happily downstairs away from Nabiki's room when she
noticed Kasumi waiting for her at the doorway. It
appeared as if she had not moved since Shampoo broke
away from her upon entering.
"I have to tell you one thing before you go,"
Kasumi said in her normal soft tone.
"What Nabiki-sister want?" Shampoo asked nervously,
she really didn't want Kasumi to dislike her. That was
almost a damning comment for this nice woman to
dislike anybody.
"I shall be honest and say that
Nabiki's�inclinations, while uncomfortable, do not
surprise me much," Kasumi said. "And with Ranma having
been in the house all this time, I suppose I'll accept
it sooner or later. But I do not trust you." She
paused to let that sink in. Shampoo was trying to
figure out how she could stay so calm in attitude,
disapproval without anger was strange to her. "You are
a very relentless young woman, and Nabiki is providing
you with much to your benefit."
"I am not using your sister," Shampoo said firmly.
"Yes, well do try not to prove me correct," Kasumi
asked politely and calmly, as if she were simply
asking for a favor. "Now, I must try to find where my
father and Mr. Saotome went. Have a nice day." Kasumi
smiled and walked towards the living room.
"How be nice and threaten at the same time?"
Shampoo asked herself before leaving to get her
bicycle and return to the Nekohanten.
Nabiki was sitting on her bed and already glaring
as Kasumi walked in gracefully and sat down at her
desk.
"I can take care of myself," Nabiki said levelly,
watching her sister.
"Recent events would indicate otherwise," Kasumi
said, indicating Nabiki's shoulder and foot. "But I
apologize for what I said earlier, if it is any
consolation I did not mean it the way it sounded."
"How else was I supposed to take it, and stop
acting like I'm child just because I made a mistake,"
Nabiki snapped. "And this time there is no mistake.
This time everybody gets what they want, Cologne gets
to claim Ranma as an Amazon, Ranma and Akane can be
together without interference, our Dads get to see the
houses joined, and�I can have Shampoo."
"Are you certain Cologne will accept whatever
evidence you have?" Nabiki shrugged in a careless
manner that told Kasumi that she had a plan for that
as well. "And what will you do afterwards. Which of
you is going to turn their backs on their obligations?
This is of course, assuming that she is not using
you."
"She isn't using me," Nabiki insisted.
"Yes, well try to get some sleep," Kasumi said.
"And I mean real sleep, no drugs, not because you're
exhausted. You need to sleep."
"There's too much to do," Nabiki said. "I need to
find Kuno again, visit two hospitals, and watch
Cologne for her reaction to the idea that Ranko is an
Amazon."
"Then you need to plan," Kasumi said. "And center
yourself, and for that you need to be rested. So do
try to get some sleep." She smiled, stood up and
walked for the door.
"You don't really think that after all this time
not using magic that I'm going to suddenly become a
powerful sorceress, do you?" Nabiki asked. "I don't
like magic, I've used it a couple of times recently
because I had no choice, but that doesn't mean I'm
going to make it a habit." Kasumi merely smiled and
continued out of the room.
*******************************************************
"Great Grandmother! I have good news!"
"What is that, Shampoo," Cologne asked
suspiciously.
"Ranma's girl side is an Amazon," she declared
happily. "I don't have to kill her now. And maybe
Ranma too!"
"How do you know this?" Cologne asked after looking
her grand-daughter over.
"She speaks our dialect," Shampoo said, hesitantly.
She had expected Cologne to ask for more information,
but she did not expect Cologne to be expressing so
much hostility with the idea. "And Nabiki and Ranma
say so."
"And they explained how this could be?"
"They say that the girl that fell in the stream was
an Amazon," Shampoo said, narrowing her eyes. "So
everyone that falls in that pool gains chi of Amazon.
I'm not going to kill her!"
"Did you think that, perhaps, they are lying to
you, my child?" Cologne asked coldly, her
grand-daughter was openly defying her.
"Nabiki was not lying!" Shampoo didn't get it. All
Cologne wanted was to claim Ranma as one of the tribe,
she should be happy to find a loophole that would get
him in without the necessity of a family war. The
unreasonableness of this reaction had sparked her own
stubborn nature.
"And how would you know that," Cologne asked
dangerously. "She lies to her own family, what reason
would she have to treat you any better." Shampoo
blinked and backed off, then she straightened again.
"My suspicions are correct then."
"I have work to do," Shampoo declared. "Ranko is an
Amazon, Ranma is an Amazon, soon maybe Akane, Nabiki
and crazy-girl, if she's alive. Your problem is
solved!"
~If I thought I still needed a test, I'd hope
someone would put me in a cell next to that Kuno boy,"
Cologne sighed. ~She has turned against me.~ She
thought about the possibility of what she had said
though. She could perhaps accept Ranma, but this
magically created girl was a problem.
If what Shampoo said was true, then there was an
Amazon child that could claim to have defeated her.
The Council contained a number of elders that would
like to see her displaced, even if it did result in
placing a child in her place. In fact, such an easily
cowed girl would be appealing to some. The only good
thing about that was that if this "Ranko" was anything
like Ranma, she was not going to be easily cowed.
~What to do about this..." Cologne asked herself.
*******************************************************
Kodachi was surprised that she woke up, at least
surprised that she woke up in the mortal world. She
expected to be dead. She looked around at the hospital
in surprise, trying to work out how she had gotten
there. Perhaps Mousse was not so injured as she had
thought he was.
"Mousse?" She reached down to gingerly touch the
bandage along her side. The gymnast sat up to see a
surprised Ukyou.
"Well, this is a coincidence," the chef noted
dryly.
"It�s the serving girl," Kodachi said,
straightening to a dignified position. She felt
moderately dizzy and the rip in her side sent a wave
of pain to her head. Kodachi as usual did not allow
herself to express the pain. Ukyou arched an eyebrow.
"Doesn't that hurt?" Ukyou asked, pointing at
Kodachi's side.
"There are standards to maintain, and I will not
ignore proper conversational posture due to the
protests of my flesh," Kodachi explained irritably.
"Uh�riiiight."
"Did you and that barbarian bring me here?"
"You could be more polite about it, sugar," Ukyou
snapped. ~Ryouga was right, wait a minute, this is a
Kuno. I'll wait to hear Mousse's report before I
believe this demon stuff. It just seems like too much
all at once.~
"Where is Mousse?" Ukyou softened somewhat at the
restrained worry in Kodachi's voice.
"In another room," Ukyou said. "He was in worse
shape than you."
"Is he�.going to be okay?" Kodachi asked after a
moment.
"The doctors thought so," Ukyou said. "Neither of
you are in much of a shape to do anything strenuous
for a while, but you should recover."
"I see," Kodachi let herself relax, but maintained
her posture. "You seemed surprised when I first saw
you, why is that?"
"Didn't expect you to be awake," Ukyou explained
with a shrug.
"Then why were you here?" Kodachi asked. "You
obviously do not hold much respect for me."
"Hell, no, you're a Kuno!" Ukyou snapped. "A family
of loonies, there's no reason to respect any of you.
But I don't know where your brother is and I don't
want to do this while trying to avoid a haircut,
besides you're closer."
"Do what, pray tell?" Kodachi asked arrogantly.
"Challenge my brother, perhaps?" Ukyou blinked.
"You sound happy about that," Ukyou said. "I'm not
making the same mistakes this time, he's going�"
"�Down like the rabid dog he is," Kodachi agreed
happily. She lay back down and smiled. "I hope I can
see the video."
"You WANT your brother beaten?" Ukyou, who hadn't
yet heard the reason behind Kodachi's moving into the
Tendo dojo, sounded disgusted. "You're all freaks."
She started to leave, as she did Kodachi sat back up
again.
"Kuonji-san," Ukyou paused and faced the girl
again. "Please come here a moment."
"Listen lady, I am NOT anybody's servant.."
"It was not an order, it was a request," Kodachi
said. "I wish to make you aware of something." Ukyou
narrowed her eyes and growled before stalking over.
"This better be good, girl," the chef snapped.
"I've�only told Mousse about this," Kodachi said,
glancing at her curled fists. She continued quietly
"But I think he's known. I think Tendo-sensai and
Ranma also know, but they've said nothing to me. I
didn't even really kn�believe it until recent�events
made certain�realities plain to me."
~Tendo-sensai, is she training under Akane's father
now?~ Ukyou asked herself. "What are you talking
about?" Kodachi uncurled her hand and held out the
palm.
"What do you see there?" Kodachi asked nervously.
Ukyou shrugged and took Kodachi's hand. The chef took
a quick look and blinked. She glanced up at Kodachi
and then back down, and dropped the hand.
"You have no lines on your palm," Ukyou said,
shocked. "What the hell caused that?"
"Training," Kodachi said after a moment. "My
brother expected me to be perfect under all
circumstances. Injury, fatigue�." She swallowed and
looked away before adding the next. "Heated uneven
bars." Ukyou looked at the gymnast with unmasked shock
and a little pity. "Do not question my family loyalty,
Tatewaki is the traitor, not I."
"I�didn't know," Ukyou said.
"Apology accepted," Kodachi said. "Oh, and
Kuonji-san, my brother's quick healing. I don't know
much it, but I think he trained in an endurance
exercise called Ao Dah Jong." Ukyou nodded as she
backed to the side, letting the doctors and nurses
whom had begun to arrive inside.
"I'll tell Ranma and Akane you're awake," Ukyou
said wearily as she left the room. A few minutes later
she arrived in the waiting room where Akane was
standing over an unconscious Ranma.
"Can you not tease Ryouga at least ONCE in your
life?!" Akane shouted.
"Look at him," it was that half-chinese Ranko
speaking. "He's wearing a LEASH! He's tied to a door!
What isn't there to laugh about?" A fuming Ryouga was
doing his best not to lash out.
*CLANG*
"The last duplicate of Ranma's girl side wasn't
such a jerk!" Ukyou snapped, glaring at the
unconscious red-head.
"At least she doesn't know any better," Akane
hmphed. "So you two are going back to training?"
"Yeah," Ryouga said. "She's getting close to the
technique, and there are some other things I want to
teach her before�" he glanced at Ukyou. "We�uh...get
back."
"You're not going to wait for Kodachi and Mousse to
wake up?" Akane asked surprised.
"Kodachi's awake," Ukyou said. "And I have training
to finish."
"Ucchan, are you all right?" Ryouga asked noticing
Ukyou's contrite attitude.
"Just something Kodachi said," Ukyou answered. The
gymanst had said she thought that Ranma and
"Tendo-Sensai" knew about Kodachi and her brother, but
just in case she was wrong, Ukyou wasn't going to
specify. "Hey, do you know what Ao Dah Jong is?"
Ryouga paled.
"It�s a demon hunter thing, why do you ask that?"
the lost boy asked nervously. He knew hundreds of body
hardening techniques, including that one, he also knew
that was one of the more painful ones. It easily
surpassed the Baksai Tenketsu for sheer pain, while
not giving as much back. At least that was Ryouga's
opinion.
"Kodachi said something about Kuno knowing it,"
Ukyou eyed him carefully. "What do you know about it?"
"Trust me, Kuno hasn't gone through that training,"
he nearly laughed. "He screams too much."
"Why is that?"
"At least we're at a hospital already," Ranma
grumbled as he woke up, he glanced at Ranko and
blinked. He suddenly had a sense of standing over his
own body. "Okay, this is weird." The red-head sat up
grumbling irritably in Chinese at the oblivious
Japanese martial artists around her.
"Would you please be quiet, Ryouga was talking
about a technique Kuno might know," Akane snapped at
them.
"Oh�" all eyes turned toward Ryouga who
sweatdropped.
"So what is the big deal about this technique?"
Ukyou rephrased her question.
"You see, the point is too deliberately cause as
much pain as you can to the trainee," Ryouga
explained. "They're supposed to fix it themselves.
Advanced training calls for you to injure yourself. To
be really worth it you'd have to start training young
enough that you don't have a clear idea of pain."
Ranma, Akane and Ukyou all thought of Kodachi.
"What's the point of that?" Akane asked shocked.
"Increase pain tolerance and endurance," Ryouga
said. "Prepare a demon hunter for what happens when
they mess up."
"That's probably the second stupidest thing I've
ever heard of," Ranma blinked.
"Demon hunters do a lot of things we'd think were
stupid, like�." Ryouga blinked and suddenly burst out
laughing. Half the medical staff nearby shushed him.
"err�sorry." He continued laughing though.
"Okay, what's so funny?" Ukyou growled.
"Yeah, Ryouga this is serious," Akane snapped.
"What does this have to do with that stupid
samurai-boy?" Ranko demanded.
"Another demon hunter 'body hardening' technique,"
Ryouga giggled. "Is faking death and unconsciousness.
They're better than anybody else at it." The other
martial artist looked at him as if he'd lost it. "They
roll with a hit and just fall, they even control their
chi flow to look dead."
"You mean to tell me that Kuno's been faking going
unconscious this entire time?" Ranma blinked. "That
doesn't sound like the arrogant jerk."
"It would explain why he claims you've never beaten
him," Akane sighed. "But Nabiki used to drag him to
the nurse's office all the time."
"He must not be fast enough for Ranma," Ukyou
shrugged. "But�I'm not that fast."
"Hey, where are you two training?" Akane asked,
suddenly.
"Mt. Terror, why?" Ryouga asked.
"Hey, maybe we can join you later today," Akane
said. "Maybe, we'll actually manage to get some
training done."
"That'll be�.nice," Ukyou said after a moment. ~I
hope they don't camp TOO close.~
"Good, now we have to go visit my student," Akane
said, walking off. Ukyou blinked.
"Wait, YOU'RE 'Tendo-sensai?'" She glanced at Ranma
as if to ask him how he could let her train Kodachi.
"It seems to work," Ranma said. "See you guys
later." He seemed about as thrilled about joining them
as Ukyou did.
"Hmm, that's a stroke of luck!" Ryouga declared.
"Right, what a perfect way to intrude on each
other's private time," Ranko muttered. Ryouga and
Ukyou stared at her. "Oh�heh�was that in Japanese? Uh,
I'm going to catch up with them�bye!!" The water girl
disappeared after Ranma and Akane.
"Huh? What was that about?"
*CLANG*
"How can you and Akane be so dense?" Ukyou growled
as she dragged the dazed martial artist out behind
her.
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"Caffeinated Kender? What's that, a berserk spell?" -
Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
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