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"A Small Detour"


By DeepQuote
<Inspiration and Scene help from Mercenary82>


Chapter 4


"Here we go again......"


Peaceful, Tranquil, Silent.
Nerima, japan was enjoying one of this rare morning that just happened
without any fanfare, no explosions, and no battle cries to cause rude
awakenings on the residents.

Tendo Dojo,  Early morning...


Nabiki sat calmly sipping tea, Breakfast was on it's way, as Kaumi Glided
effortlessly through her morning routine, only stopping to refill the tea
pot, as Nabiki sat watching the sun rise. Kasumi finished eariler than
usual, at sat looking at Nabiki.  She looked over cautiously as if expecting
something to be different about her from the sister she knew and loved.
"Alright! What are you two staring at?" Nabiki snapped as the staring got on
her nerves.
"Little sister, this is all just hard to accept, it is well a little
fantastic." Kasumi's bright smile faltered slightly as she regarded her
sister.
"Kasumi, I know this is strange but it is the truth, ok? Please believe me."
"Ok, Nabiki on one condition."

"Name it, sis."
 Moving closer to Nabiki, a wide grin across her face, Kasumi spoke. "Spill
it! All of it and don't leave out the juicy details!"
Nabiki couldn't help but chuckle. This was the Kasumi she knew. Kasumi loved
a good story, and some good gossip.
"Alright, I will just start where Ranma left off, ok?"
"Oh goody!!"

 I guess the next major event, was what happened when Ranma's best friend,
and third fiancee Ukyou Kuonji saw something she didn't like.

*********************Flashback********************



    The Battle cry "RANMA NO BAKA!!!!!!" broke the tranquil silence of
lunchtime at the Tendo Dojo.  One Ranma Saotome was currently defying the
laws of physic courtesy of his uncute fiancee, Akane Tendo.  Conducting her
affairs quietly in her room, Nabiki Tendo was treated to one of the more
common sights in Nerima... Ranma Flying.

"Why you uncuuuuuuuuuuteeeeeee tooooommmmmboooooy" could be heard coming
from the Pigtailed martial artist.

 Nabiki shook her head as she look to her assiociates they counted today's
school earnings. Fighting the urge to check on the gravity defying pigtailed
boy, Nabiki calmly spoke. "Well, I guess a little more yen today can't hurt.
I'm going to fish Ranma out of the pond. Same time tomorrow ladies?" With a
slight bow, and a quiet exit, her assiocates made their way home.



 Nabiki shook her head as she thought, "Ranma, when will you learn to watch
your mouth with my little sister." Slowly making her way to the stove, she
was not surprised to find an already boiling kettle on the stove. Grabbing
one of the oven mitts nearby, she removed the kettle, and poured some of its
contents in the sink to test the temperature of the water. Finding it at the
correct temperature, she began to make her way outside.

 Calculating where Ranma was headed, she figured his  arc would land him in
the koi pond. Chuckling, Nabiki thought, *Figures, that he'd land there with
his curse, that boy is a water magnet.*  A small tinge of sympathy crossed
Nabiki's heart as she regarded the sputtering redhead in the pond. As she
stepped out to the yard she was faced with a sputtering Ranma-chan, look of
quiet desperation was on the boy turned girl's face, but only if you knew
where to look, and Nabiki had worn that same look many a time. She quietly
approached him, his attention focused on drying the water from his attire,
she took the oppurtunity to dump the contents of the kettle on to him.

"Why'd you do THAT for you uncute.... Oh it's you Biki. How much do I owe
you?" His look of despair on slightly lessened as he reached for his rather
water-logged wallet.


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 She waved it off, "Don't worry about it Saotome, you don't need me adding
to your problems. It's free this time."

Ranma looks up dumbfounded. "Ummm. Thanks, I guess."

"Sure," Nabiki turned and headed back to the house, before stopping. Without
turning around she says, "Oh and Ranma? Don't call me Biki."

 A few days pass, and Nabiki continues being nice to Ranma, often times
feeling sorry for what he goes through, especially after his encounters with
her sister.  Her Ice Queen facade never cease, as everyone quietly assumes
Nabiki is bilking Ranma out of all of his money. While, she continued to
charge him occasionally, she did it now only for show. However, she soon
found herself dropping all pretenses concerning Ranma, and even stopped
taking advantage of Ranma and charging him at all.. However, the family
still needed to be fed, and now well aware of the situation, Ranma
contributed whenever he could to keep the family fed.
 Ranma on the otherhand grew more and more confused at the sudden change of
attitude in Nabiki, forcing himself to ignore the memory of the nights he
spent holding her. Akane, however ceased to confuse Ranma anymore. She
simply annoyed him now, he had tried his best to soothe her, but nothing
worked. Ranma was a lot more patient than most of the martial artists
around, but even his patience have limits. Still in bad need of money to
keep the family afloat, Nabiki eventually earns permission to take photos of
his female side. While Ranma  grows close to the Changing Nabiki, and
spending more and more time with her, His fiancee's become quiet hateful
toward the middle Tendo Daughter.

starts getting used to the changing Nabiki, they start spending more time
together, sometimes just eating ice cream together and talking like good
friends. It was something that outraged many of his fianc�s.

A month passes by and Nabiki is smiling. It wasn't her usual smirk either or
her smile that told people to get out of the way because she was planning
something. It was a genuine smile. For the first time since her mother's
death she was genuinely happy. Since her mother's death the only thing that
mattered to her was her family and not letting anything hurt her. Ranma had
changed that.

She then frowned. Ranma was becoming a very important part of her life and.
"Oh, no" she though horrified, "please tell me I haven't fallen for him."
She was sure that he and her little sister loved each other and if that was
the case she'd only suffer once they admitted their love for each other. A
small tear squeezed out of her closed eye. A tear that was caught in
someone's finger as it wiped it of her face. Startled she opened her eyes to
see a worried Ranma.

"Are you ok Nabi-chan?" He asked worriedly.

She smiled at the nickname. He'd started calling that soon after she told
him not to call her Nabs and they started becoming friends. She quickly put
herself together and reigned in her emotions.

She smiled at him, "It was nothing Ran-chan, jut a sad memory."

He smiled back at her. "You called me Ran-chan."

Nabiki's face quivered at his smile. Nervously she asked, " You don't mind?"

"Of course not, you're my friend."

Someone in the shadows, however, did mind. Later that day Nabiki walked back
home alone from school. Ranma had taken to walk her home some time ago since
Akane had become more and more aggressive and dangerous as time progressed,
hitting Ranma at least once one the way home. Of course that one time
usually resulted in a visit to Tofu for him. Not wanting to face Akane, and
actually having gotten used to Nabiki, he would walk her home and talk with
her along the way.

 "YEOWWTCHH" Nabiki screamed as something sliced by her arm. Twirling around
and leaning against the wall she turned to see Ukyo holding a throwing
spatula in one arm and her other hand ready to grab her Big-Ass Spatula from
her back. Ukyo glared at Nabiki.

 "Ran-Chan is MY FIANCEE you mercenary witch." She growled at Nabiki. "I
don't know what you plan to do with him, but he's MINE!!! You hear???
MINE!!!"

 Nabiki wasn't a martial artist by any measure, but living with Akane and
Ranma, she ad developed enough of a danger sense and reflexes to get away
from danger. She dodged to the side, the throwing spatula lodging itself in
the wall next to her face. Nabiki, was officially scared, ever since Ranma
her emotions had begun to take over and she was very scared.

 The second throwing spatula was lodged in the wall next to her face, next
to Nabiki's face. Of all the people he had expected to act rashly, she was
not one of them. She was Ucchan, his best buddy, and the one person he could
trust and. no, that really wasn't true anymore, it wasn't Ucchan he could
count on, it was now Nabiki. Ucchan had always listened to him as a good
friend should, but her answer was always the same. You shouldn't take that
from that Chinese floozy or Why do you stay with that violent tomboy. In the
end she always brought up those words, those words I hated so much because
it tore at my heart knowing what she was really thinking and that I could
never see her that way: "Of course I'll always be here for you Ran-Chan.
After all, I am your cute fianc� right?"

And now she was attacking Nabiki. Worse she was hurting Nabiki.
Unfortunately, he'd gotten detention for sleeping in Hinako's class that day
and after being drained he hadn't really been in the mood to complain about
the detention. Worse for Nabiki, someone decided to take advantage of this.

" Thankfully, she didn't worry for long.

"UKYO YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE!!!!" Ice would have grown colder with the
chill in Ranma's voice.

Both girls looked towards the roof of the house where the voice came from to
see Ranma radiating a red aura, an aura red with anger, jumping off and
running towards them.

The anger in Ranma's voice was more than enough to make Ukyo bolt from the
scene. Ranma on the other hand, did not even bother with his cute fiancee,
He immediately went to Nabiki to comfort her as she began crying in a  way
that wasslightly reminscent of her father..


****************************End of FlashBack****************************

"I am pretty sure that was when Ranma realized things had changed between
us."

"That however wasn't near as bad as the time.....Oh shit!  Where is Ranma??"

"Ryouga....oh no...Ranma will kill im!!"



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