"…You've GOT to be kidding me…"
She sighed, leaning back in the sun…
"As long as the old pervert doesn't touch me, I won't say anything about it…"
Female Ranma ran by, chasing the old man…
"…Then again, someone could get hurt…"
"ANE!"
Looking up, Subayai-Kogane tilted her head curiously.
"Yeah, Akane?"
"STOP THEM-!"
There was a crash, and both sweat dropped…
"Before they break something?"
"Yeah…"
With a sigh of defeat, Ane stood up and headed toward them.
At the moment, she had on a yellow bikini, a beach 'skirt' a faded cloudy gold around her waist.
Gentle gold curls bounced around her face with every step, cascading down her back quite a bit.
"Are you two going to keep fighting?" She wondered boredly.
"ANE!"
A shiver of disgusted surprise as Happosai jumped up, nuzzling her breasts…
"I knew you would show your true beauty!"
A twitch of the eye, and Ranma knew what was coming…
"GET OFF OF ME, YOU OLD PERVERT!!!!!!!"
Almost an explosion, and Happosai was flying through the air like a rocket.
Still breathing hard, she seemed ready to stomp off when a wave surprised her.
When it subsided, a gold-furred rabbit stood in her place, hard emerald eyes irritated as one twitched…
"…Ane?" Ranma asked cautiously, stepping forward…
There was a VERY long string of rabbit-talk, along with fire, brimstone, angry gestures, and what was most probably curses as loud as a hurricane before she started hopping angrily away.
Ane was an American martial arts student from California that was a somewhat-close cousin of the Tendo's.
She was known to be lazy and a skilled fighter. In her hometown, she was a fifth-degree black belt in Tai Chi and Anything-Goes Martial Arts.
As fast on her feet as a rabbit and with punches just as quick, she was known as a flexible person inside and out.
Not fighting the flow unless there was danger, she could also slip into small, awkward spaces with ease.
All she ever brought with her was her manriki, looped up on her waist like a whip from her favorite movie, and her spiked knuckles.
She'd gone to China for some field trip, and had fallen into the Spring of the Drowned Rabbit.
With her temper slow to stir and quite a doozy once she exploded, she'd been sent to her uncle's to learn control.
A tomboyish girl like Akane, they bonded quickly, even if Ane often dressed differently than all other girls in Japan.
Happosai had often whined that her baggy jeans and t-shirts covered up her figure, and she teased back that he wasn't about to see it for as long as he lived.
Until they got stranded on a beach and he caught her wearing a bathing suit…
She cursed herself as she hopped into Cologne's shop.
Understanding her predicament, hot water was poured over her until she became a girl again.
"Thanks, Cologne-san." She replied politely, wringing out her hair.
"Where's Shampoo?"
"She's gone out to see son-in-law."
Sweat drop…
"Right…"
Heading back out, Ane quirked an eyebrow at the sight of Ranma surfing…
And wiping out horribly…
Sighing at his insistence to do stupid things when you might as well not, she started heading back to her beach blanket…
However, the sight of Ryoga stopped her in her tracks.
She could never quite name why the sight of him always did it to her, but it embarrassed her into a furious blush that usually sent her running.
She felt a sort of sadness in her chest knowing he liked Akane, but never said anything about it.
Stirring something like that up would go against her very nature…
Watching as Ranma tried egging on his 'rival', all of them except Akane knowing full-well that Ryoga would become a piglet in the cold liquid.
Boulders went flying, and Ane sweat dropped as Ranma almost got crushed…
"…You both done yet? I don't want to turn into a rabbit more than I have to…"
Managing to dodge around boulders, splashes, and listening to more taunts, she flopped down onto her blanket again.
Stretching out taunt leg muscles and watching glistening tan skin, she gave out a sigh.
She listened to the music Nabiki had on, eyes half-lidded in near-sleep…
Ears seemed to perk, and she turned her head a bit to check if something was near her…
Green eyes scanned the sand, the trees behind her…
'Must have been nothing.' She concluded, stretching and arching to loosen her back muscles.
"Do you want some iced tea?"
Smiling, Ane propped herself up on an elbow.
"Thanks, Kasumi."
Taking the cold drink, she sipped it as the eldest Tendo girl headed back to her umbrella.
Watching Ryoga chase Ranma down the beach carrying a boulder, she rolled her eyes.
'Someone's going to get hurt…Probably Ranma…'
CRASH!!!
'…Maybe Ryoga…'
Bunny ears appeared on her head as she watched the waves and Genma and Soun playing Go.
One seemed cocked, listening for danger, as the other lazily bent into her face.
Unlike the others, she sometimes personified her 'other form', and the ears sometimes appeared in such moments when she felt truly relaxed.
One twitched, and she tilted her head to look at the underbrush as the silky ears raised themselves at attention.
A shirtless female Ranma ran by, following Happosai, while Ukyo and Shampoo followed HIM…
Looking down the shore, she found Ryoga with his face smashed into the sand.
'They probably used him as a doormat…'
"You okay, Ryoga?!" She called.
"I'm okay, Ane…"
CRASH!!!
'Then again, maybe the trees aren't…'
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It was so HOT…
Ane put her hair up in a ponytail, wishing this heat wave thing would end soon…
Footsteps caught her attention, and she looked up with bored half-lidded eyes.
"Greetings!"
'Oh, great…It's Kuno…'
"As of this summer, the construction of Tatewaki Kuno's own yacht, Binsense, is finally complete!"
Everyone perked, interested by the idea immediately.
"I extend invitations for her maiden voyage to Akane, the pig-tailed girl, and Ane."
'Then again, it might not be worth it…' Ane thought glumly.
Luckily, everyone else also wanted to go, and ended up on the boat as it set sail.
Sitting on the edge, the rabbit-girl watched the waves go by and avoided the cold sprays.
Moving her eyes over the deck and the people to make sure no one was dying/being killed, when she caught Ryoga staring at her.
She'd pulled on jean shorts and a white tank top, since more clothes had been called for when the trip came up.
She quirked an eyebrow when he blushed after realizing he'd been caught.
Not recalling any awkwardness in the time they'd known each other, she was a bit confused.
They were a bit far from the shore, and Ranma noted this, asking Kuno what was going on.
There was no NORMAL answer, and Ane chalked it up to his being weird.
She didn't even understand why he even pined after her at all.
Ranma had teased, like a brother, that Kuno probably liked her laid-back, 'cool' personality, and that her temper probably reminded him of Akane.
Well, he hadn't said it quite like that…
There were insults, and Akane's wrath, so I suppose you understand how he put it…
Ane twitched, and looked up at the sky to see dark clouds forming.
"Uh oh…"
"Ranma-honey, they just said on the radio that a storm's coming." Ukyo informed, coming up with Shampoo from the cabin.
"Are we okay out here?"
"Ranma, we go back now, yes?"
"It ain't my boat. What are you asking me for?"
"A mere squall can not harm my lovely lady Binsense!" Kuno assured.
Sighing, Ane leaned back, hands behind her head…
"Karma's going to bite you in the ass, Kuno…Bite you REALLY hard in the ass…"