Chapter 8. Happi's first meeting with Ranma Chan and Kuno plots.

Nabiki Tendo stared across the table incredulously, her normal calm and collected demeanour pretty well shattered. "Saotome, if that is you, care to tell me what just happened?" She asked, looking the girl over.

"Yeh, It's me Nabiki. I got this curse, ya see." Ranma said, explaining the whole story of Jusenkyo. After hearing about it, Nabiki had to begin re-evaluating her opinion of Ranma Saotome. She had thought that he had gone crazy, or maybe gone sane would be more like it, and that was why he acted so differently. Unfortunately, this little transformation blew that out of the water. Thinking of an idea, she began to smile.

"No." Ranma said, seeing the grin.

"Huh?" Nabiki asked, looking and sounding almost exactly like Ranma did when something flew over his head.

Ranma continued, having seen that particular smile on the middle Tendo's face the day before she began taking pictures of her girl side to sell to people at school. "No perverted pictures or nothin, and if you sneak in at night I WILL catch you." This wasn't an empty threat, either. Ranma had begun to work out ways to sense Nabiki's little intrusions shortly before the whole Akane kidnapping mess, when he had found out that she wasn't using the majority of the money she made for the home.

Nabiki cursed under her breath, wondering how Ranma had thought of what she was planning to do. Then again, he had seemed to be acting a little smarter lately, even if the math test he had taken on Friday was a total failure. Truthfully, Ranma wasn't outsmarting Nabiki, but using knowledge that she didn't know he had against her. "Well, I suppose this date's a bust." She said, looking over Ranma's female form.

"Ranma shrugged. "Well, Like this I can go get us ice cream." She offered, grinning weakly.

"And you couldn't before?" Nabiki asked, confused.

"Nope. Didn't have enough money." Ranma said, before getting up and walking out of the sidewalk café, Nabiki paying the bill.

Ten minutes later, Nabiki was sitting in a seat in an ice cream parlour and giggling franticly. Ranma's little change earlier had pretty much shocked her out of her normal act and seeing her flirt shamelessly with the guy at the counter was genuinely funny. Bringing over the two medium bowls of ice cream, Ranma set one in front of the middle Tendo.

Nabiki looked over the treat. It was a strawberry Sunday with chocolate sauce on top. "How did you know?" She asked, wondering how Ranma knew of her favourite iced treat.

"Ya black mailed me into buyin enough of 'em for ya." Ranma said, looking predatorily at her chocolate sunday.

Nabiki just shrugged the statement off, figuring it was something she could find out later.

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Nabiki walked home to the Tendo Dojo, grinning like the cat that had eaten the canary. True, she had paid for the food at the restaurant but she had had a lot of fun, with someone who was blunt and obviously unafraid of her. True, Ranma knew she was going to blackmail the crap out of him at the earliest opportunity, but it didn't seem to make a difference in how he treated her other than to be sure not to give her much to use on him. The two had done a few things after leaving the ice cream parlour, Ranma getting warm water from the bathroom sink on the way, such as taking a walk down the street and to the park. Nabiki chuckled slightly as she remembered that she had heard Ranma's higher female voice cursing loudly shortly after she had left him. She supposed that he must have somehow gotten drenched. That, of course, brought up the matter of Ranma's curse. It was a strange affliction that she had never seen before, but compared to how he used to act turning into a girl wasn't really much of a problem. Truthfully, from all of her time dealing with revealing photography, she had gotten a bit of an appraising eye for the female form. She wasn't a lesbian, true, but she wouldn't exactly be freaked out by the idea… Not that she was even considering being married to RANMA SAOTOME. No way! She assured herself, shaking her head rapidly. Too bad Nabiki deludes herself so rarely. If she had had more experience with it, she may have noticed what she was doing.

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Ranma cursed loudly as he got hit over the head with a wash tub, not five minutes after leaving Nabiki to go home. He was getting slightly used to turning into a girl, but did it have to soak her to the bone every time it happened? Shaking her fist at the owner of the apartment where the wash tub had come from, Ranma sighed in exasperation as she trudged down the street. Putting the annoying incident out of her mind, she began to think about what had happened that day with Nabiki. True, she had only gone on the date in order to save someone from Akane's cooking, a noble pursuit if any existed, but it had actually been kind of pleasant. Of course, that was because Ranma had been dealing with Nabiki's extortion for a long time and Nabiki had almost no experience in dealing with him. As Ranma continued to ponder her thoughts, she heard an angry mob yelling and charging up the street. Looking for it, she saw Happosai running from what looked like a high school gym class. 'Oh man, here comes the letch.' She thought, getting ready for the inevitable.

"Sweeto!" Happosai yelled, seeing yet another lovely woman to play with. The angry and perverted Chi was flying now, energizing him to new heights that he only ever got from angry mobs. It was why he liked creating them so much. Diving towards the very healthy bust line of the petite redhead in front of him, Happi managed to get one grope in before a fist from the girl sent him flying back into a brick wall. During that first grope, Happosai noticed something strange. Firstly the woman wasn't wearing a bra, which he appreciated very much and secondly she had a familiar aura. Bounding off of the wall that the redhead had sent him towards, Happosai catapulted himself back at her.

"Get offa me you old freak!" Ranma yelled, swinging out a fist to dislodge the old lecher who was once again groping her chest. The angry mob had backed off, seeing that their quarry had gotten involved with a well trained martial artist.

"Aw, My dear girl. Please?" Happosai asked, giving Ranma the puppy eyes. Fortunately, said look coming from an old coot is more creepy than cute and Ranma was capable of easily withstanding them.

"Dry up and DIE!" Ranma yelled, trying to kick the old pervert into orbit. Unfortunately, the old man dodged out of the way and tapped Ranma's foot with his pipe. This sent the young martial artist into the nearest wall. Unfortunately for Ranma, Happosai always has an advantage in any fight against an angered woman, unless she delivers the final blow immediately. This is because angry female Chi fills him up like a battery and Ranma was radiating a pretty great deal of it.

"You'll have to do better than that my girl." Happosai chuckled, as Ranma picked herself up from where she had fallen against a wall.

"Yeh… Try THIS!" Ranma yelled, running at Happosai and sending her fists at him in an Amaguriken attack. "Kachu Tenshin Amaguri Ken!"

"Oh, Amazon tricks." Happosai said, trying to dodge the attacks. Ranma's female form was fast though, and she pegged him several times. "Ouch! you little punk. This isn't fun anymore." Happosai yelled, pulling a bomb from his Gi. Happo Dai Karen!" He yelled, releasing it. The bomb had a short enough fuse that Ranma couldn't hit it back, and Happosai managed to get it to blow up on target.

"Ite…" Ranma groaned, as she lay in the middle of a crater. Happosai cackled and gave a quick grope recharge before running off. "I hate that guy." Ranma said, darkly, pulling herself out of the hole to see a disappointed group of women. "Sorry girls, I'll beat 'im some day." She said, walking off.

Happosai watched from a nearby roof, puffing on his pipe. He had finally figured out why the girl's Chi seemed so familiar after his second recharge. It seemed that his young student had two very nice advantages. One was that beautiful little female form of his, most likely from Jusenkyo, and the other was the fact that he seemed to have gone through Amazon training. Happosai wondered if Ranma knew any of the more advanced tricks. If he did, teaching him how to jump to emotionless Chi use would be easier than he thought. Hopping off from his place on the roof the master of anything goes headed back to his hide out at the Tendo Dojo.

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At the Kuno mansion, Tatwaki Kuno was pacing back and forth in his bedroom while staring at his wall sized portrait of Akane Tendo. He had a great question to ponder. His former ally in the fight for the beautiful one had turned from the true path, now seeking her elder sister. Kuno did not know why one such as Saotome would wish to be with the mercenary one, however the fact that he was engaged to her must mean that he was in love with her. Also, Saotome seemed to be under the spell of a succubus. Actually, this could explain a lot about why he had fallen for Nabiki.

The problem Kuno was facing was, Should he interfere and strike down the Demon that held his comrade in it's sway? True, it was a samurai's duty to defeat evil, however the demoness was so beautiful. Could Kuno destroy a fair one such as her? Also, although Ranma had been useful in wearing down Akane Tendo from time to time, having him out of the way could also benefit the blue thunder in that department.

"Oh, Mine thoughts art in conflict. What shouldst I do?" Kuno wondered, falling to his knees in front of Akane's portrait. Suddenly, inspiration struck him. He would do both! He would both remove the Demoness's hold on Ranma Saotome and keep her alive to be with him along with Akane Tendo. He must have them BOTH!

A room away from her brother, Kodachi Kuno looked up from her school work to look worriedly at the door. She shuddered at the thought that she had once been like him. A little less than a year ago, she had been in a "Martial arts Rhythmic Gymnastics" match with Akane Tendo, and had tried to "Fight fairly before the match." Unfortunately, she had succeeded and Akane's manipulative older sister had managed to get her arrested and charged with assault. This had resulted in her being thrown into a psychiatric ward for about eight months and mostly purging her system of the drugs that drove her to madness. Unfortunately, her brother wasn't so lucky and his madness was too deeply engrained to go away once it's cause was removed. It must have been because she had tested some of her more potent substances on him. Sighing in regret for what had happened to her family, Kodachi went back to studying.

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The next day, Ranma was walking to Furinkan after he had dropped off Ranko, when he saw Nabiki and Akane walking together along the sidewalk. Deciding to walk with them he hopped from his fence to the one on the other side of the street and ran to catch up. "Hey! Nabiki, Akane. Wait up!" Ranma yelled, slowing down on the fence when he got to them.

"Ranma?" Nabiki asked, looking up to the fence top to notice the pigtailed boy, now wearing a set of Chinese clothes in stead of a school uniform. "Are YOU on time for once?"

Ranma laughed and scratched the back of his head, embarrassed. "Well, Yeh. Ranko needed speed trainin this morning so we ran to her school."

"On the fence?" Nabiki asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, I was. She was on the ground. She doesn't have good enough balance to run on fences yet." Ranma explained, remembering the one time he had let Ranko run on top of a fence and she had ended up falling off within five steps.

"Why do you do that, anyways?" Akane asked, looking at Ranma suspiciously. It was getting harder and harder to get really angry at him, especially since her older sister had been pretty happy when she had come home from her date the day before, but she wasn't just going to completely give up on ten years of bad behaviour.

"It's real good balance practice. Ya should try it, Akane." Ranma commented, turning around to walk backwards on the fence top.

Akane just sniffed. "In a skirt? You really are a pervert." She muttered, before running off ahead of the other two to get the Hentai horde out of the way.

As Ranma and Nabiki entered the school yard, they saw that Kuno had, once again, not taken part in the Hentai horde activities and was standing there with his Bokken and something behind his back. "Halt, Saotome." Kuno ordered, striking a pose with his wooden sword.

"Oh no. What now?" Ranma asked, slapping a hand to his forehead. After what the other boy had said on the last school day, he was afraid of what was coming next.

"Fear not friend. I shall use this holy water to cleanse the Demonic possession from you." Kuno said, pulling the object from behind his back. Before Ranma could blink, Kuno had pulled the trigger on the water gun he was holding.

Ranma looked around the school yard full of gaping people, including Akane and Ranma's own class, and turned to Kuno with a snarl on her lips. "Kuno NO BAKA!" She screamed, and then began dismantling the Kendoist.

"That's… gotta hurt." Daisuke said, from where he and Hiroshi were looking on from the second floor.

"I really don't think that bends that way." Hiroshi concurred, as the two heard a loud snapping noise. They both winced, but they somehow couldn't find any sympathy in them for Kuno.

Akane gaped from the door, looking on at the greatest display of Kuno bashing she had seen in her short life. Keep in mind that Akane is the number one contender at Kuno bashing, so this is saying something. Internally, she was conflicted. She could have sworn she had seen Ranma turn into the girl who was beating up Kuno. Ranma turned into a girl. That was definitely perverted, right? On the other hand, the girl was now beating the holy hell out of the school's resident pervert. That was good right? She wasn't even going to try and tackle HOW Ranma had turned into a girl in the first place. This was just way too confusing.

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Later, in Language class, Kuno hobbled up to Nabiki, his arms in casts and bandages all over his body. "Nabik Teno." He started, his speech slightly slurred. "I Wis To Kno F Th Pigtaile Demn grl."

Nabiki raised an eyebrow. 'Pigtailed Demon girl?' She thought, before smirking. She had been selling information on Ranma's transformation all morning and making big money. She wondered what Kuno would twist the facts into. "All right.. Twenty Thousand Yen." She said, her smirk becoming evil.

Kuno tried to look outraged, but merely ended up aggravating his wounds. Sighing, He gave the money to Nabiki.

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Sorry I ended this here. I just needed an update and the inspiration dried up right about now. I'm sure I'll have more later, but here ya go for now! R&R… Or I'll sick Nabiki on you!

Nabiki: Smirks evilly in the background HE WILL, trust me. -

last minute rant. I wish "Fry me to the moon" had NEVER EXISTED! Get it out! Please god get it out! starts to cry.