Ranma was walking around and was trying to find himself and get his head together. He was regretting every word that he said to Akane and he realized that those very words hurt a lot more to him than she will ever feel. He needed to find out how he was going to make for his stupid mistake that seemed almost impossible to fix. The reason that he was over in the next town was because he heard that Nabiki might be there so he decided to check it out. Also, he thought that he and Akane would need some space from one another. It was better this way.

He was sitting on a park bench when familiar looking woman wearing a hat and a long brown coat with glasses was walking past him. He stuck his foot out and just as he wanted, she fell face first. She was mad and she stood up ripping the broken glasses from her face and looked at the guy on the bench not realizing who it was because he too was in a disguise.

"Do you mind? Tripping a lady is really ru-"

"What real lady tricks a manipulates everyone until they are completely wrapped around her dirty finger?" Right away she knew that it was her darling Ranma's voice. No doubt about. She smiled and sat next to him as if they were the best of friends.

Ranma was focused on one thing and that was to see how much info he could get out of her. He was not going to put his relationship with Akane in even more trouble because of her and her scheming against them. Ranma's emotions were all in a melting pot at this moment. He was feeling so many things that he didn't even have one emotion to balance out the other one. If Nabiki didn't give him the type of answers that he wanted...he didn't know what he would do to her.

"Alright start talking, what are you planning to do and you better give me some straight answers." Ranma demanded

"You don't have to be so mean about it Ranma baby. You could have just asked nicely. I'll give you whatever you want." So stroked the side of his face with all types of thought going through her mind. Ranma grabbed her hand and was willing to break it because he was not here to play with her.

"I don't have time for games...talk now." She snatched her hand away and sighed. She had no other chose but to do what he said at this point.

"Fine, you really want to know why I'm doing all of this? It's because I fell for you way before Akane did. I fell in love with you and you didn't want to look to any other girl but Akane. I was never going to give up you and I was determined to make you mine no matter what. I thought that I would finally have you the day I confessed to you but once you have your mind set on something, you don't even think to change it. I want Akane out of the picture and the best way to do it was to get Ashtryck to help me out."

"He would just help you out Nabiki because I know him a lot better than you do. What are you hold against him to make you do his dirty work?"

"Do you really want to know? I mean, I might hurt your friendship."

"Tell me now."

"Alright no need to get fussy. Remember when you and Ashtryck got into that huge fight when he first showed up?"

"How could I forget? What was your point?"

"Well, Ashtryck comes from a very strict family. He needed to marry into a family with promise and because he is part European, he has an even higher standard than anyone else in his family. So, his family decided that he would marry into our family and just as you did, he got to pick his bride and that was Akane. Since she was suppose to get married to you, Ashtryck thought that it would be better if he just got rid of you all together. The night after he beat the crap out of you, he tried to switch the medicine that was made for you with oder-less and strong poison. I saw him from the shadows and if I didn't rush in after he left to get rid of it, you would have been dead within 15 minutes after taking in. You would have died slow and painless but...I wasn't going to let that happen. He was willing to kill you to marry Akane."

In a way, Ranma didn't know how to take that. He would have never been able to see Ashtryck wanting to kill him but then again, who says that he won't? Ranma didn't know who to trust anymore. He was torn by his own hurt feelings and by all of the pain and deceit that was all around him,and he had to come to terms with the fact that Nabiki has been honest with him all this time and now is not the right time to even think to lie to him. Ranma was trusting Nabiki rather than anyone else right now.

"How do you know all of this about him? How would he had know what type of poison to use to kill me that way?" Ranma pondered on his own question but Nabiki had the answer already.

"Because he's from a well known assassin family. He knows how to kill for whatever the reason and the first time you guys ever fought, he was barely using any type of effort to fight you. You fighting him was like a master fighting someone who has no type of fighting skills at all. So by far, he exceeds you in fight more than you will ever know."

"Nabiki, what do I have to do to stop you from hurting Akane? What can I do to keep you away from us?" Ranma pleaed.

"I would love to help you out Ranma baby but I'm not running the show right now, Ash and I switched places until I get back. If I were you, I would be more concerned about what my fiancée is willing to do for me."

Ranma grabbed Nabiki by her shoulders with all his might. She was worried about what he was going to do next and so was he. He was not going to hit her but at this point anything could happen.

"Nabiki. I'll...I'll do anything. Please just leave Akane alone please." Nabiki smiled at his and he let her go. she stood up and stretched out her hand to him. He took it and he didn't know where they were going but he was not going to feel the same afterwards.

"Akane...I'm sorry." He whispered sadly to himself.