Suggested changes: {before : after}
On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:10:16 -0400 "L.S McGill" <lsmcgill@hotmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the pronounciation guide.
Ranma nodded, still too shocked to speak. He took the tray into the dining
room and sat down next to Akane, who was also staring out the door the way
Zhu Shu had gone. "W-what did she do in there?" Akane asked. "I-I heard
part of your argument. Did she say she would steal me?
That is what Zhu Shu meant, but I'm not sure Akane would have caught that
meaning at this point. Or Ranma for that matter.
Now? Now maybe she was someone he'd hurt really badly without meaning to
... He felt miserable. He wished he knew what that scene in the kitchen
had been about. Was Zhu Shu really happy that he and Akane were engaged?
She _had_ been trying to get Ranma and Akane to stop fighting in the garden.
{ :}And he had to admit that this was the least angry he had seen Akane since
that first day, But what of Zhu Shu?
Shi looked at her in surprise. "No. I chased her after slaying her guard,
but she escaped me, and I had to ensure my {families : family's} survival."
As Akane and Ranma walked to school, Akane got irritated at Ranma's silence.
{ :}"Well! Don't thank me or anything! It's not like I was defending _you_!
I just wanted to make sure Dad didn't have the wrong idea about Zhu Shu!"
Kasumi looked out the window. "Hell. If I was any less afraid that it
would almost certainly be fatal for one of us, I'd seduce him." She rolled
her eyes. "But either he'd accidentally break me, or he'd have an embolism.
{ :}So I'm stuck with fantasies..." She sighed again. "Maybe when Akane and
Ranma are married and Nabiki has her own place; when I don't have to be the
mother..."
It was good Zhu Shu had blood-bonded to Shan Pu. It would give her the
chance to find someone she could actually be happy with, maybe even Saotome.
{ :}She certainly had no reservations about Zhu Shu's preferences, even if she
agreed with Shi she had to bear an heir. With the blood-bond and marriage,
Shan Pu's children would also be Clan Dragon, and with a pureblood heir, the
survival of the Clan would be assured.
"What _are_ you going on about?" Nabiki asked, bored. It had been an
excruciatingly dull day. Ranma and Akane hadn't fought all day and
Gosunkugi hadn't turned in his next batch of Akane pics for selling to Kuno.
{ :}She gave her factor a sour look and reached out to snag the photo.
All the way to the {Doctors : Doctor's}.