Complimenting Opposites
A Ranma � fanfict by Tangent
Pre-reading and editing assistance by:
Lord Talon;
Nevrmore;
And some guy named Steve
DISCLAIMER: 'Ranma �' and all characters therein
belong to Rumiko Takahashi, Shogagukan, Kitty and
Viz Video. This fanfict has been produced for my own
enjoyment and to pass on without profit. Other characters
that come into play in this fanfict may or may not be pulled
from other sources (including other fanficts, RPGs, manga,
anime, literature, or possibly even *GASP* American comic
books!).
Revised: 08/07/2001
A WORD FROM TANGENT: While Lord Talon has
informed me that what I'm about to attempt has been
done before, this in no way has dissuaded me from making
my own version. For one thing, for better or for worse, in all
of my other Ranma fanficts to date, Ranma either has or will
end up with Akane. Well, to this I say "Wrong Tendo"
What difference does the weather make? What difference
indeed...?
CHAPTER ONE: One Sunny Day
Soun Tendo, a man in his early forties, with a strong,
kind face, long black hair and a mustache, read through the
morning mail. Among the various letters, packages, and
postcards was a postcard that had a message for which he
had been waiting for a long time. The postcard showed a
scene with a panda, and turning it over, he noticed that it
was post marked China. Tears started to come from his
eyes as he read the message:
Bringing Ranma home.
On Soun's face were tears of happiness as he said, out
loud and low to himself, "They are finally coming here...How
I have waited for this day!" Tears of passion streamed down
his face as he strained to keep his composure for a few
moments longer.
He decided to tell his daughters immediately.
Soun called out, "Kasumi! Nabiki! Akane!"
Not getting an immediate response, he went to look for
them, first checking the kitchen that was his eldest daughter's
domain. She was indeed there, as she seemed to nearly always
be. A brief pang of sorrow revisited his heart as he thought about
this last and strongest connection that she had with her mother.
He collected himself. Today's news was to be joyous, not tragic,
as his wife's death had been so many years ago.
"Kasumi!" he exclaimed, happily, managing to expunge his
grief, "We are expecting company. Please get ready to prepare
some tea for our guests."
"Oh? Who is it that is coming, Father?" Kasumi asked curiously.
"An old friend of mine and his son," explained Soun. "I will
explain everything when you, Nabiki, and Akane are all at the
table." With that, he left to find his other two daughters.
After a brief search of the rest of the first floor, Soun then
went to check the bedrooms on the second floor of their family
home, expecting to at least find his middle daughter there. As
he had expected, he found Nabiki in her room, reading one of
her manga books. Not that he minded. She studied and had
good grades, so what she did in her spare time was her own
concern.
"Nabiki" he called out to get her attention.
"Yes, Daddy?" Nabiki asked neutrally. Her father rarely
interrupted her privacy, and when he did, it wasn't always with
something that she considered worthwhile.
"We are expecting guests today," Soun began again. "An
old friend of mine is coming to visit, and he is bringing his son.
Please go wait at the table and I will explain everything as soon
as everyone is together." With that, he left the room to search
for Akane.
[So... he's going to introduce us to the son of an old friend
of his, is he?] Nabiki pondered. Truth to tell, she had been
expecting something like this for some time now. Japanese
inheritance laws were steep, and it was unlikely that the family
would retain the Tendo estate should Soun pass away unless a
lot of money was involved... or the one other option that came to
her mind happened. A small smile began to form on her lips.
"I can't find Akane," Soun said, poking his head back into her
room.
"I'll find her, Daddy," Nabiki offered. [Now... what to wear? I
know! Just the thing,] she thought. [I'll change right after I find
Akane. She has enough boys after her already, even if she doesn't
like any of them. Just once, I'd like to get a chance!]
Akane was just returning from her run, shouting "Hi! I'm home!"
and then ran straight to the dojo, pausing only to throw off her
running clothes and change into her practice uniform, as was
appropriate for training in the dojo. She set up a quick array of
concrete blocks and wood, then preceded to reduce said objects
to rubble as she fantasized about doing the same thing to a certain
upperclassman's head.
"Ahhhh, good!" she sighed as she relaxed. Then she heard a
small click. Turning around, she saw one of her older sisters,
Nabiki, putting her camera away.
"There you go again, Akane" she said as she shook her
head, arms crossed in front of her. "No wonder all the boys at
school think you're strange!"
"Why should I care?" she demanded. "I'm not like you!
Not everyone thinks the world revolves around boys, Nabiki!"
Akane had had more than enough of the male half of her age
group shortly after Kuno had made that stupid speech of his.
All of the boys that she knew in school were either proving to
be stereotypical hormone crazed immature idiots or were too
afraid of said idiots to approach her in a reasonable manner.
Especially after the first 'normal' boy got beaten up by the rest
for trying to ask her out without attacking her. Was it any
wonder that she broke cinder blocks or bricks nearly every
morning?
"No?" Nabiki replied, placing her hands behind her head,
"Then I guess what father has to say to us would be of no
interest to you would it?"
Akane turned to look at her, "What are you talking about?"
The sun was shining brightly over the Nerima district. In
the Tendo Household, Akane's voice was raised in protest.
"FIANCE?!?"
Soun Tendo looked at Akane, "Yes, the son of a very good
friend of mine. His name is Ranma Saotome" he stated. "If one
of you were to marry him, and carry on this dojo, then the Tendo
family legacy would be assured."
Akane wasn't taking this well.
"WAIT A MINUTE!" she shouted angrily. "Don't WE have
some say in who we marry?"
"Akane's correct, Father" Kasume interjected. "We have
never even met him."
Mr. Tendo chuckled, "Well now, that is easily fixed!"
* * *
The sun warmed the street as two figures wandered through
Nerima.
"Where are we going again?" demanded a young man wearing
Chinese style fighting clothes. He was interrogating an older man
wearing an off white gi, glasses, and a bandanna.
"I told you Ranma," the older man explained once again. "We
are going to visit an old friend of mine. One that I haven't seen in
a long time." He thought about telling his son about the impending
engagement, but thought that it would be nice to provide the boy
with a pleasant surprise for once. A nice change of pace from all
of the nasty surprises that had been plaguing them since about
three weeks back. Or the other uncomfortable experiences that
had occurred over the years that his son seemed to blame him
for. The old man pushed that thought aside, falling back on his
age-old practice of ignoring the problem until it went away.
"You know someone from a long time ago who is still your
friend?" the boy asked, incredulous. "I'll believe that when I see it."
"You will, my boy, you will." It was getting harder not to blurt
the real reason out to the boy, just to shut him up. Fortunately,
he had the wonderful sunny weather to console his flagging
spirits. Truly a beautiful day - the surprise about the engagement
and his son's gratitude would be the absolute perfect cap to it...
* * *
Back at the Tendo residence, Soun continued to explain
the situation to his daughters. Nabiki, he noted to himself,
appeared to be particularly excited about the prospect, and
had even gone as far as to change into a kimono for the
occasion. Kasumi, whom he suspected of harboring feelings
for Dr. Tofu even if she didn't seem to be aware of it herself
yet, had just come in straight from the kitchen. Akane, on
the other hand, was obviously irritated over the whole affair.
"Ranma is returning from a long training journey with his
father." Soun paused briefly to sip his tea. "Recently, it seems,
they crossed into China."
"Oooh! China!" exclaimed Nabiki, who was definitely warming
up to the prospect of getting to know someone who could tell her
first hand what other countries were like. That, and the fact that
he had been on a training journey implied that he was at least
built well. A nice enough body could make up for a plain or homely
face. And a well-trained martial artist could do rather well in the
world today, either as a sensei or in the entertainment industry
no matter what he looked like.
"What's so great about training in China" commented Akane
sulkily. Her recent experience with the now daily fights with the
boys at Furinkan High School had left her more than a little fed
up with boys for the time being. While she knew that she wasn't
being fair to the boy she hadn't even met yet, she did not really
care at the moment. "It doesn't mean that he's any good."
"Is he cute?" inquired Nabiki, ignoring her sister. Practicalities
aside, she could still hope, couldn't she?
"I do hope that he is older than me" commented a worried
Kasumi. "Younger men are so... young." She really wished that
she could have thought of a better objection than that. Not that
she could really explain why, but she felt that her heart lay
elsewhere already. Now if only she could figure out who was
making her heart flutter so. He had glasses, she knew that much
from her dreams, which narrowed the prospect to about nineteen
people that she knew...
"So, what is he like?" persisted Nabiki.
Soun cleared his throat. "I have no idea," he admitted.
"You have no idea" repeated Nabiki, glaring at her father. That
sounded rather less than promising. She had assumed that her
Father had met the boy at least once before, and had approved
of him. Instead, it was beginning to sound like one of those
'good deals' that he fell for every so often. One of the reasons
that she became the 'Ice Queen' in the first place was to protect
her family from those predators by being an even more dangerous
predator herself. The other... well, she wasn't going to think on
that just now. That problem was hopefully going to solve itself soon,
and it wouldn't do to freeze it before she even gave the solution a
chance...
"I've never met him" he confessed.
Just then, they heard a commotion at the door. "Aw, Pop, why
can't we go home first?" complained a voice, which obviously
belonged to a young man. Could it be them, Soun thought as he
got up to greet his guests. Nabiki followed.
"Oooo! It must be Ranma!" Nabiki thought excitedly, not realizing
that she had said the thought aloud. Kasumi was happy for her sister,
and relieved (although she did not just yet realize why). Akane decided
that since Nabiki was so excited about this turn of events, her sister
could have him.
"I've already told you, Ranma," stated a voice belonging to an
older man. "We will be staying here for a while, so you might as well
get used to the idea." It was his friend... and his son. Soun joyously
greeted them as they came in.
"Saotome, my friend! We've been expecting you!" Soun quickly
spotted the boy that his friend had been arguing with and concluded:
"And you must be Ranma!" He gathered the boy into his arms for a
manly embrace.
By this time, all three daughters had gathered to see their guests.
Nabiki, noticing that her father seemed disinclined to let the boy go,
leaned closer to examine the subject of her father's attention. Hmmm,
Ranma was as fine a specimen as she could ask for, handsome in a
vaguely bishonen way. After a quick comparison between the features
of the boy and his father, she decided that he must get his looks from
his mother's side of the family. Not that his father was actually ugly.
He was okay for an older man, and might have looked more attractive
in his younger days, but she doubted that he could have matched his
son's appearance. Nabiki wondered briefly what her own children
would look like if she married the boy.
After a moment, Soun herded everyone back into the sitting
room. Nabiki sat carefully down almost exactly opposite of Ranma.
Akane, glaring at the boy who was about to decide her future,
angrily plunked herself down to Nabiki's left. Kasumi served tea
to everyone and then sat down gently on the other side of Nabiki.
Genma smiled at this, but Ranma failed to recognize the
significance of it all.
"Well, Ranma," Soun began. "These are my daughters. Kasumi,
age nineteen, the oldest; Nabiki, age seventeen; and Akane, age
sixteen, the youngest. Pick anyone you like and she will be your
fianc�e." Soun's beaming smile faltered as he noticed that the
boy seemed shocked. After a moment, Ranma massaged his
temple with the fingers of his right hand, as if staving off a headache.
"Excuse me for a moment," Ranma said to the Tendos before
glaring at his own father. "Is there something that you forgot to tell
me, Pop?" His tone was low and dangerous, reflecting a wild temper
that Genma had seen all too much of for the past month or so.
"Heh, heh... I guess in the heat of the moment, I forgot to tell
you..." Genma was nervous to say the least. After... the incident...
Ranma had proved that he was quite formidable when he truly lost
his temper. While not as scary as when he was dealing with his...
cat problem... he was as easily as scary as his mother was at
times. This looked like it was becoming another such time. And
here he had thought that Ranma would like the surprise...
"Forgot to tell me..." Ranma stated darkly. "Forgot to tell me,
like you forgot to tell me that you couldn't read Chinese when you
decided that Jusenkyo would be a good place to train? Or like
when you decided that it was okay to eat the food on that table
in Joketsuzoku?"
"But I was starving..." Genma protested.
"STARVING!?!" Ranma shouted, causing his father to back
away in fear. "BECAUSE OF YOU, I GOT INTO A FIGHT THAT
ENDED UP WITH AN AMAZON SWEARING TO HUNT ME
DOWN AND KILL ME, AND ALL YOU CAN SAY IS THAT YOU
WERE STARVING!?!" The Tendos stared as an angry blue chi
aura manifested itself around Ranma. Genma wanted to make a
break for it, but the thought of what his wife would do to him after
what he had already done held him back. While it didn't exactly
give him courage, it did balance out his fear with another fear.
"How was I supposed to know that she would give you the
kiss of death if you won?" asked Genma, trying his version of
reason for the umpteenth time.
"How...?" Ranma's left eye twitched for a moment, which was
all the warning his father received. Genma spotted it, but it didn't
help him in the slightest. Almost faster that the eye could follow,
Ranma had stood up, grabbed the front of his father's gi, and was
screaming in his face at the top of his lungs. "GET OUT OF MY
LIFE, YOU PANDA, BEFORE YOU DESTROY ANY MORE OF
IT!!!" With that, he flung his father into the koi pond in the Tendo's
yard.
Ranma calmed himself down and settled at the table once
again as he tried to remember what little he knew of formalities
and manners. He took a deep breath and timed himself carefully.
"Please excuse my unseemly outburst just now, but there are
some things that you have a right to know before we decide to
uphold the marriage agreement between our clans." Ranma
subtly braced himself for the next phrase, hoping that he had
predicted his father's reaction correctly. "And this..." The Tendos
facefaulted as a giant panda rose out of the koi pond, grabbed
a wash basin, and threw some water at the young man seated
before them. In an instant, a cute redheaded girl replaced him.
"...Is one of them."
"Nani?" Soun and Akane stated in surprised stereo.
"Oh my!" exclaimed Kasumi in wonder. A real magical girl
and her mascot! No, wait. That was just silly. Whoever heard
of an overweight panda as a magical girl's mascot? Hmmm...
maybe her dreams were about a long lost love from a past life
about to be renewed, just like in those shows. Did this mean that
Kasumi was about to become part of a bishojo senshi team?
That would certainly be a change of pace, even if she was just a
little too old for that sort of thing according to the anime...
"Well now, this is interesting," stated Nabiki neutrally. She
really didn't know how to take the fact that her prospective
fiancee had just turned into a girl.
"Perhaps an explanation is in order," Ranma offered.
"This I've got to hear," replied Nabiki dryly.
As everyone settled down, Ranma began her tale:
"It all started about three weeks ago, on Mt. Quanjing, in
the Bayankala Range, Qinghai Province, China..."
* * * FLASHBACK * * *
"Here, Sirs, is legendary training ground of accursed
springs, Jusenkyo," the guide said with a mix of pride and
caution in his voice. He was seldom asked to lead anyone
to Jusenkyo, as it was one of the more obscure tourist spots
available. Personally, he felt it was some sort of bureaucratic
error that the accursed springs were a tourist spot to begin with.
Nearly every time he brought someone here, they managed to
somehow fall into one of the springs.
"Are you prepared, boy?" asked Genma as he set down
his pack. Truth to tell, he was a little disappointed in how this
was turning out. While not exactly the same setup, Jusenkyo
looked very similar to something he had Ranma do last year.
Now where had that been? America... Australia?
Ranma was less than impressed. "Aw.. this place don't
look so tough."
"You very strange ones, Sirs" commented the guide,
wishing he could speak Japanese more fluently. "This place
very dangerous. Nobody use now." [There!] he thought [I've
actually managed to start my explanation before anyone got
ahead of themselves]. "Is more than one hundred springs here,
and every one have own tragic legend." The guide was snapped
out of his reverie by Genma's cry.
"Ranma! Follow me!" called out Genma as he leaped to
one of the poles. The boy jumped to one of his own and
assumed a ready stance.
"Ah! Sirs!" the alarmed guide exclaimed. "What you
doing?" [I have got to start earlier on the explanation! Well...
At least they paid in advance.]
"I won't go easy on you" cautioned Genma.
"That's just the way I like it!" replied Ranma confidently.
"Please, Sirs!" pleaded the guide. "It very bad you fall in
spring!" Unfortunately, the two paid no attention to him.
Genma picked a moment at random, and attacked. Ranma,
for his part, met Genma in mid-air and knocked him into one of
the pools. [Well, that was quick] the boy thought.
"What's up, Pop?" asked Ranma, pleased to have got the
first strike in. "We done already?"
There was quiet. Ranma jumped to a closer pole, concerned.
When a panda leaped out of the spring, the event took Ranma
completely by surprise. [Well, there goes my holiday bonus]
thought the guide. The giant panda took a place on another pole.
"Wha... wha... wha..." stammered Ranma.
"That is Shonmaoniichuan!" shouted the guide, explaining
what had happened. "There is very tragic legend of panda that
fall in and drown two thousand year ago!" the guide continued
as Ranma dodged the panda time and time again
"Well, why didn't you tell us sooner?!" demanded Ranma.
At about that moment, the panda had managed to strike him,
knocking him into another spring. Ranma barely felt the change,
which he later found out was another aspect of the curse. Only
the fact that he was wondering what he would turn into allowed
him to notice his first transition into female form. She surfaced,
opened her gi to confirm her suspicions, and then screamed.
After that, the events became a little hazy in Ranma's memory.
* * * END FLASHBACK * * *
"After that, I chased Pop around Jusenkyo a few times
before I lost track of him," Ranma continued. "You wouldn't
think that a fat panda could move so fast." The panda that
had been Genma growlfed at this, but Ranma wasn't having
any of its back talk. "Shut up you, before I decide to sell ya
to a zoo or somethin'. I should have let the amazons make a
rug out of you, but nooo! I had to save your sorry behind!"
Ranma regained control of her temper and calmed down.
"Look, Pop," the redhead continued tiredly. "I'm your son,"
(small twitch) "and I love you," (this time the twitch was from
the panda) "but you can be so aggravating at times!" She sighed.
"Look... go change back, and I'll try to calm down and explain
things to the Tendos." As the Panda got up to head for the furo
(he had been here before, even if it was over a decade ago), a
thought occurred to Ranma. "Don't forget to change back
before you use up all the shampoo again. It might not be
expensive, but it adds up and we're guests now!"
Genma paused for a moment, irritated for being treated
like a little kid by his own son as well as the fact that he had
indeed forgotten about changing back first. He sighed in
resignation, then nodded, not willing to provoke his son again
at this time.
"Do you really think that you should talk to your father like
that?" Kasumi asked once the elder Saotome was gone,
echoing her own father's sentiments. Magical girls should
really have better manners than that, even if they really were
boys. Not that Soun had any idea that Kasumi's reasons for
inquiring about Ranma's actions were a bit... stranger... than
his own.
"Maybe not," Ranma conceded. "But the curse changed
him somehow. More than just turning him into a panda when
hit with cold water, I mean." She looked into her tea sadly as
she continued. "We used to get along fairly well, just two guys,
father and son, on the open road, training in the Martial Arts.
He used to be a great sensei, and I really respected him, even
if he did have the occasional truly stupid idea that would turn
my life into hell..." She paused, trying to reign in her anger over
certain memories.
"And since the curse?" Nabiki prompted.
"Since the curse, he's been acting more and more irresponsible,
just doing things and not thinking about the consequences, or
possibly just ignoring them," Ranma sighed again. "It's as if he's
forgetting that there are rules that he should go by if he wants to
interact with people. He used to only act like that occasionally,
but now it's unusual for him not to do something aggravatingly
stupid at least once a week, if not more often. Jusenkyo changed
him somehow, and that scares me."
"Take what happened in Joketsuzoku for example," Ranma
went on...
* * * FLASHBACK * * *
The two cursed individuals and their guide approached the
village of Joketsuzoku. The Saotomes were currently in their
cursed forms, as the lack of readily available hot water and the
mercy of the weather dictated. Ranma was still in a wild frenzy
of mixed emotions, but she had reigned them in and forced
herself to try to find her center. Unfortunately, what she was
finding was hunger. While this did distract her from her inner
storm of conflicting emotions, it provided an unpleasant
reminder of other times she had gone without food before.
No help for it but to hold it in and endure the condition until
some food was found.
This, however, did not keep her stomach from growling.
"Oh... I'm so hungry..." she complained under her breath.
The Panda who was Genma nodded his agreement as he
plodded along behind her. The guide said nothing, not having
heard enough of the statement to translate it to himself with
any accuracy.
After a bit, the three reached the village and were drawn
towards the sounds of activity coming from the crowd surrounding
two poles in the center of the village. Ranma hoped that the guide
would find someone willing to sell them some food there, and
indicated her desires to the guide. Genma, unable to speak in
panda form, and not wanting to be fed bamboo again (it was
okay, but he was beginning to get a little tired of it), spotted
something and wandered off. Ranma would have joined him, but
the guide seemed to have found somebody to talk to, so she
waited hopefully.
The guide, after a brief talk with one of the villagers, started
to explain to his younger client that nobody was selling anything
until after the tournament, but spotted what the panda was doing.
"Ah! Sir! What you doing?"
Ranma turned around and groaned as she saw her pandafied
father rapidly eating food that had been placed on a table off to
the side of the tournament. She finally noticed a prominent sign
leaning against the table, and wondered briefly how she had
failed to spot it moments ago. It was a fancy, important looking
sign that she couldn't read, but it told her that her father (and
possibly the guide and herself) was in a lot of trouble...
* * * END FLASHBACK * * *
"It turned out that the food was the first prize of the
tournament," Ranma went on. "The winner, an amazon girl
named Shampoo, was pretty mad at us, and demanded the
panda as compensation. I think she wanted to make a panda
skin rug or somethin'... The guide wasn't too clear when he
translated, and we didn't get a chance to ask him later." Ranma
paused to sip her tea.
Soun reflected on what Ranma was telling them, taking it all in
stoically as silent tears began to flow down his cheek. Such a
tragic story, and there was a serious chance that the marriage
agreement would be canceled. Maybe he could talk Akane into
accepting the young Saotome. Unlike his other daughters, she
had kept up in her studies in the Tendo Anything Goes School
of Martial Arts. She might be willing to do this for the sake of
the dojo.
Unfortunately for Soun, Akane had other ideas. She still
glared at Ranma, relieved that a way out of the engagement
was being offered, but not willing to show it to this... this...
pervert. What else could Ranma be? She was really a guy who
turned into a girl so of course she had to be taking advantage
of it! The hentai probably stared at herself in the mirror or... or...
something! Akane fumed on...
Kasumi just listened to the story, feeling compassion for
the emotional pain that Ranma and her father must be going
through. She wanted to help the Saotomes, particularly the
child who sat before them. She had no desire to marry the girl,
however, as Ranma was too young for her tastes. Besides, she
wouldn't be able to provide the kind of help that Ranma needed
as a magical girl if they were to be married to each other...
"So," Nabiki prompted. "What happened next?" While she
had been a little taken aback at first when she found out about
Ranma's curse, she still felt somewhat attracted to the boy who
was now a girl. It wasn't as if Ranma had attempted, even
inadvertently, to deceive them after all. The sense of adventure
drew her somehow, like a moth to a flame. Her life was calm,
ordered, and... well... a little boring, while Ranma's was... was...
chaotic, adventurous, and exciting.
"What else could I do?" Ranma asked rhetorically. "The girl
wanted to kill my Pop, or at least make him a pet or somethin'
If I didn't do somethin' quick, the matter would be taken out of
my hands, so I did the first thing to come to my mind. I challenged
her for the first prize." Ranma sipped her tea again. "I shoulda
known that somethin' was up when she just smirked at me and
accepted when the guide translated for her. The two of us took
positions on this log that had been suspended between the pillars
by ropes. She attacked me with a couple of bonbori, but I just
kicked her off the log before she could get a hit in. Next thing I
know, she kisses me on the cheek and the guide is screaming
somethin' about some kiss of death."
"Kiss of death?" Soun asked. Despite what Ranma had yelled
to her father earlier, Soun had not taken it to be meant as literally
true, so he was more than a little surprised.
"Yeah," Ranma explained. "The amazons of Joketsuzoku
aren't real keen on losing to outsiders. The 'Kiss of Death' is their
little way of expressing their displeasure with such events." The
bitterness was evident in her voice, despite her attempts to calm
herself. "Would it have been too much to ask for the match to end
in mutual respect no matter who won? That's the way Pop always
said it was suppose to work." Ranma's bitterness had turned into
real tears, but she hadn't noticed. "Too bad it never does... I never
get to have any friends..." This last was said with such quiet
remorse that even Akane began to feel a little sympathy for the
girl (just a little though, and only for the girl-half... the boy-half was
still a hentai to her way of thinking).
"Well, I won't force the issue," Soun started. "But should one of
my daughters agree to become engaged to you, you will honor the
arrangement?"
"Of course, Tendo-San. They're all attractive and they seem
nice..." Ranma-chan stated, choosing to ignore the fact that
Akane was glaring at her with renewed hostility after that statement.
"Well then," began Nabiki, before her father could derail either
her plan or Akane's by trying to hook the two martial artists
together out of some sense of obligation or duty. "I'd like to give
this engagement a chance." Nabiki smiled dryly at Ranma-chan.
"That is... if you'll have me."
"Umm... ah... yes," Ranma-chan stammered before regaining
her bearings. "I mean yes! I will agree to become engaged to you,
Nabiki Tendo. I am happy and honored that you will have me!"
"Well then," Soun stated, a little surprised by this turn of
events, but not at all unhappy. If Nabiki wanted to marry Ranma,
and neither of them seemed to be upset, then all was right with
the world regardless of the curse and the other complications. "It's
settled. Ranma, Nabiki is now your fianc�e."
END.
Aheh-heh... I really don't know where Kasumi's obsession
about magical girls came from while I was revising this chapter...
^_^;;
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