The Spider And The Wild Horse

By The Hutch

Ch.1

"Beep Beep Beep" broke the silence of the Tendo Home. Akane rolled

over and smashed her alarm clock with her hammer. As she stretched herself, she

heard her older sister Kasumi yell up

"Breakfast in 10 minutes."

As Akane got ready for school, she couldn't help but wonder how long

Ranma was going to be on his training trip this time? As she slipped in to

the bathroom, she fixed her hair and brushed her teeth she could only think

of Ranma.

That jerk. Always calling her an uncute tomboy and all of a

sudden,after that failed attempt at a marriage, how dare he just take off on

anther training mission. He just made her mad to no end! "How could I love

someone like that?" she asked, thinking out loud.

"Did I just say that I love Ranma?" As this thought rolled around in

her head, all she could think was 'Damn that jerk for making me love him.'

As she finished getting ready, her father called from downstairs, "Akane,

Nabiki, Kasumi, come down here I have an announcement to

tell all of you."

"Oh great. What now?" Akane thought, dreading as always her Fathers

announcements. As she joined her family at the table she smiled at

Auntie Nadoka. Ranma's mother Nadoka smiled kindly in return. As she sat in

place next to her older sister Nabiki, they looked at their Father, who was

holding a letter, tears running down his face.

"A son of a old friend of the family will be coming to stay with us.

He will be going to school with you girls. He will be in your class

Nabiki, so be nice to him. He is a stranger in a strange land," Soun stated.

With that said, Nabiki asked "Who has to get married this time father?"

a sense of dread over coming her. She knew that Akane was already spoken

for and Kasumi had something going on with Doctor Tofu.

'If I have to get married, it will seriously cut in to my profits,' she

thought. It almost brought her to tears thinking of all that lost

money she would never get.

"No, no. This isn't a arranged marriage. The boy is the son of a dear

close family friends that helped us once when we were in need," Soun

stated with anger in his eyes as he looked at Nabiki. "You, of all of us, owe him.

If we indeed owe him anything. It was his father that saved your life when you but a

child Nabiki," Soun said.

The girls stared wide eyed at their Father at a loss for words.

"As a matter of fact, I am not surprise you don't remember him doing

it. You were only a newborn when it happened. Kasumi probably remembers

the nice American couple" Soun said.

At hearing this, Kasumi got a strange look in her eyes as she seemed to

be lost in thought. "Oh them. They were nice and had such a cute little

babyboy. I felt sorry for him after that terrible accident," Kasumi said.

"Nabiki, when you were only a baby, you came down with a strange

sickness. No one could find a cure, then they showed up out of the blue. It was

the strangest thing. They told me that they had heard of your sickness and

they said the only cure was from a transfusion. A very rare blood type was

needed and their son was born hours before you had the same blood type.

His father was a scientist and performed the procedure and well, here you

are. They asked only one favor from us, to watch their child while they went

on a business trip. The plane they were on crashed, so we sent the child

back to America with his Aunt and Uncle," Soun said in what seemed to be one

breath.

Nabiki's mouth hung open. "Why didn't you tell me this before? I have

someone else' blood in me and now you mention it?" Nabiki asked. "Well I kind

of forgot about it until I got this letter from his Aunt.

It seems his uncle died 2 years ago and she thinks that the schools and

environment aren't good from him. She says that he is a fragile boy and she

worries about him so she asked if he can come and stay with us" Soun said.

"He will be meeting you at your school. He is in the top of his class

and speaks Japanese, I understand that he is a sensitive young man" Soun

said trying to phrase it correctly.

"Oh so he's a dork! Great. Now we have a transvestite and a geek

living with us" said Nabiki "Well, I will watch out for him but I won't tell

people that I know him."

"That's all I ask and that you treat him nicely. Don't take advantage

of him. I am sure he has lived a very over protected life and isn't ready

for all the strange things that happen around here," said Soun.

"Father," Akane spoke up for the first time, a little bit of wonder in

her voice, "What is this boy's name"?

"Oh its Parker," Soun says trying to pronounce the strange name, "Peter

Parker."