Cinderella

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Slapping her hard one more time, he forced his lips on hers, tearing her dress as he over powered her.

That night was the night that part of Nabiki died. She lost something that she would have given to her knight anytime, if he had just asked. It was like being consumed alive from inside. She screamed, and screamed, and screamed. But everyone just ignored her pleas. She called her father, she called her sisters, but they never came.

Outside, the thunder roared with vengeance. Shattering the heart of those, who were weak, with fear. It was written in legends that rain was the tears of gods. Now, the tears finally came down from heaven, mixing with the salts of the earth. It seemed that tonight, even the gods cried sorrowfully.

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Time Gates

The Guardian of Time was suddenly shaken from the shockwave, originating at the Gates of Time. She hurried towards the gates, trying to discover the abnormality before it went out of her control.

What in the damn world just happened?

Sometimes, she felt like that she had been watching the Gates of Time since the beginning of the time itself.

Frown appeared on her beautiful face, only highlighting her beauty as she peered over the Gates of Time. The gates were in chaos, the entire time lines were shattered like a glass falling over concrete floor, totally out of control and devastated beyond repair.

Oh No Crystal Tokyo!

Her dreams were totally shattered, nearly 90 of the time lines no longer had the peaceful dream she was holding on to. And the other 10 were declining fast.

Something happened, something bad, which shook the dimensions and powers of time itself! She grabbed her key staff and start pouring all her power in the chaotic gates. Trying to locate the abnormality, which was too deep, too far, and too buried for her to locate, let alone control.

Destiny was on the move again, like the angry waves of ocean, swallowing the entire dreams, hopes, and destroying anything in its path. No matter what or how hard she tried, the destiny was again chaotic, moving in ways beyond her prediction or explanation.

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Washington DC, USA

President George Bush smiled, as he contemplated on the new secret project nearing the completion, while he waited for someone to pickup the phone from the other end.

It was not the smile which was shown by your father, or grand father. But it was like of a cat which just saw an injured bird in its path, ready to be devoured.

Sure the daily politics was a killer; however, there were things he needed them to be done above everything else. If the public could buy the Iraq hoax, he knew he could make them believe anything he wanted. The Israeli, Palestinians, Russians, Japan, oil prices, nothing matter as long as he could reach his goal. The goal to save the humanity from the eternal damnation and protect them from the danger the people could not control. Sure he would have to sacrifice some things; such as not stopping the 9/11 from happening, although he knew about it way before it happened. But he truly believed that God had commanded him to invade Iraq, the same God who told him to let 9/11 happen, and now the same God told him, no commanded him to finish the project he and his buddies started decades ago.

As his daddy thought him before, sacrifice and collateral damages happens and are needed to reach one's noble goals.

"Hello, Rummy…..Yea, I know……excellent….I believe that it is time to start finding that test subject in Nerima we had been discussing for a while"

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Somewhere In Nerima

A portal opened in a dark corner of an alley; scaring the homeless cats nearby as they scurried away towards the safety.

"Fucking yea, suck my dk!" Someone screamed from the other side of the portal as he fell out of it.

"You fucking pussy; can't even shit with that. Now kiss my sweet ass and shit!" Another figured followed from behind.

Soon after, six more people came out from the portal. They all seemed surprised, excited, and worse of all, act like they had no idea what was going on.

"Okay, you son of bitches, shut your trap, we have little time and lot of things to do before the shit heads arrive. We don't have much time here…GOT IT?" A man wearing a blue mask, covering bottom half of his face totally, ordered everyone.

"Sweet Hillary! We have finally made it! Man, I can not wait to have some fun!" shouted one of the females from the team was still unable to hold her excitement.

"Shut up, private, if you don't pull up your act together, you won't get too bent over for anyone tonight! Got it?" The man wearing the blue mask was not happy; his blue eyes were hard, cold, and unforgiving.

That shut everyone up as they lined up following the orders from their masked commander. They were not fools to mess with the one who defied the death itself many times before them.

"Alright team; I want you to spread out as we planned before. We only got one hour before we get back. I will be right back, I got something to do."

"Permission to speak, sir!" yelled the same man who came out of the portal before anyone.

"Speak up, fucking asshole!" The blue eyes masked man replied.

"May I ask where and why are you going somewhere when we need all the help we need here?"

"No problem, fuck face, but just says, I got a debt to repay, and some loose ends to tie up. That is all I am going to say, since not only I have not enough time, but your pea size brain won't even understand it to begin with!"

"Understood, sir!"

The previous girl, who was excited and was told to shut up by her commander, had to put her last comment in.

"Well, Sir, I don't know about his brain, but I can go down on you right now and we can have our fun before you go, it's already been an hour since the last time you gave me some action!"

Rolling his eyes in response, the commander just shook his head, ignoring her and other females who wanted some action, more adult in nature with him again.

He nodded to his subordinates and jumped effortlessly on the roof of nearest building as he sped towards the unknown destination.

Oh please, Kami! Do not let me be too late; I owed her so much, so fucking much. I am coming!


While he ran towards his destination, a memory from past played in his mind.

The memory was unkind. It took you down paths better forgotten, and tugged at the mind during the most inappropriate of times.

She was totally broken, her mind perhaps reverted back into herself. Her clothes were tattered, eyes swollen and black, her face beyond recognition. She was found that way behind an alley, forgotten, ignored, and scored by many now. Her eyes stared at nothing. He was in front of her eyes, but her eyes were not focus on his face, like they were looking at a nightmare or a monster beyond him; broken, tired, and unable to speak. Her tongue was pulled and cut off by the monster that did that to her, her ears unable to hear anything from the damage they took from savage beating. If only he was there to stop that, if only he could save her from her nightmares. She was now beyond him, unable to be comforted by him, even though he was right beside her.

The masked man hurried towards his destination, knowing time was not on his side right now. How fucking ironic!

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Tendo Dojo

As Ryoga tore her bra away, Nabiki just cried harder. She clenched her eyes shut, her body shaking in fear and remorse. Her heart breaking again and again, knowing how she treated the man she loved once.

How she pushed him away.

How she was unable to help him when he needed her the most

Love, hate, sadness, all emotions played in her thoughts. Part of her knew that there was nothing she could do anymore.

Only one thought, one word was now in her mind.

Ranma.

Her knight.

Her hope.

Her love.

Now gone and unable to help her.

She closed her eyes, as she felt another slap against her cheek as the monster tore her panties away. Her tears, her blood was flowing freely but it never affected this monster. The bastard probably derived pleasure from her pain.

It was all about himself, and no one else. That was all he cared about.

Suddenly from no where, a man screamed with such passion and anger that Ryoga nearly shit his pants, but then again he wasn't wearing any!

"Kawarimi No Jutsu!"

His eyes crossed in pain, as his manhood rammed against something hard, and splintering the wood. He felt like thousands of needles were jammed into his manhood at the same time.

He realized that he was not far from the truth.

His manhood was rammed into a wooden log! Somehow instead of Nabiki, he was holding a fucking log.

A FUCKING LOG. What the Hell?

Correct that.

He was clearly fucking the wooden log, and seemed like that his manhood created a new hole in it, which explained why it felt like thousands of needle were forcefully jammed in his manhood. Cause it must be all those splintered wood!

His eyes were tearing from the pain; definitely it was the pain like he never felt in his life before.

He looked at the window where the scream came before all the pain started. He saw a man; his entire face was covered with a blue mask. He was gently holding the now unconscious Nabiki. His was wearing all black, some kind of ninja suit. All he could see were his eyes.

At that fateful moment, Ryoga totally forgot about the pain.

The mask man's eyes were blue, cold, and deadly. Very deadly. The killing intent was terrifying, and so immense that it totally overpowered Ryoga. He froze, his body trembled, and he was unable to comprehend much. Never in his entire life did he felt that fear before. It was beyond his believes. It looked like he was staring at the face of the death itself!

W….W..Wh……Whhat the hell is going on here? Kami, I can't mooove...ahhh..ahh...ddd..damn...I can't e..e..even think straight. So much fear! It's like my entire being is torn apart!

Then the man spoke, in such an angry and terrifying tone, the words which will forever hunt Ryoga in his nightmares. They were so simple, short, yet so powerful. The words were spoken with such utmost hatred and cold fury, Ryoga wish that would die than to ever live through this damn nightmare ever again.

"Death is my errand, for you have earned!" spoke the man with cold eyes, staring into Ryoga's very soul. And he knew deep in his heart that tonight all his sin had came back to haunt him. He was reaping what he sowed.

For Ryoga knew, without a doubt in his heart, that he was in deep shit.

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Juban's Train Station

Ranma and Hinako were riding the subway towards Doctor Tofu. His call had an urgency in his voice, that something was not right, and he had to talk to them for some kind of emergency. All he said it was something about Nabiki, but he gave them no clue about it. Ranma and Hinako cared less about the middle Tendo daughter, but decided to give benefit of doubt.

While they were traveling towards their destination, Ranma was contemplating about the situation. His hairs were wet, even though he had an umbrella with him; the last gust of wind had got him just before he got on the train, splattering him with the cold water.

He sighed.

Sometimes he felt like maybe a part of the curse remained with him, never leaving him. True, the worse was over and he no longer turns into a well endowed specimen of 36dd female any full blooded male die to have, but damn it, it seems like water still was attracted to him like magnet! However, beggars can't be choosers. It was way better than before. He was brought back to reality from his deep thoughts when he felt Hinako's breath on his neck, bringing his attention again into the present dilemma.

He looked at her exhausted face with a little awe. She was tired and subconsciously leaning her body towards him. Sometimes during the ride, she dozed off, and her head now was resting on his left shoulder. Her breaths were slow and even. Her facial features were unguarded, peaceful, and calm. Although he did not pay her attention when she was in her child form, and once he ignored her when he was in Nerima, even when she was in her adult form, right now it was different. The hustle and chaos of Nerima kept him too busy to pay any attention to little things. But when there is no one and all is quiet, like right now, and when there was nothing disturbing him, he would pay attention to every little detail, absorbing it and analyzing it. He just stared at her beautiful face. Kami, she was so beautiful, so innocent, and so fragile. She guarded herself when she was awaked, but right now she was just her. No drama, no acts, no lie.

She took care of him, gave him home when everyone abandoned him, and helped him to start walking again.

And what did she ask in return?

That was the thing disturbing his thoughts lately. She never asked for anything. She did all that for him—and that's it, just for him. So simple, so easy, yet so awe inspiring. She sacrificed her career by moving away from Nerima to Juban, spending time with him, instead of her own peers to keep him company. Letting go of her romantic chance, by keeping him in her home. And never ask for anything in return.

Not even once.

All his life he was always used, no matter what anyone did for him, they always asked for something in return. He was always a prize, a retirement package, an icon for honor, a tool.

His father….

He thought Ranma martial arts, ideas about manhood, life, philosophy. However, all was just to make sure that he can control Ranma and use him as a retirement package.

His mother.…

She just gave him birth and expected that he would be her slave with no questions asked? What a fool. She expected him to follow her twist sense of honor while she never raised him. He felt like she pushed him away so she could enjoy her life rather than worry about him and Genma. It was later he realized that while she preached honor to him, she had many secret lovers while he was on his training trip with his father. He had discovered a stash of photos accidentally while he was spending a night at his mother's house. Hell, Genma had more honor, for he never cheated on his wife. But then again, it maybe because he was always on the run and more worried about his stomach then anything.

Soun...

Just like his father, a selfish, lying, dishonorable pig. Don't even want to think too much about him.

Ukyo, Shampoo, Kodachi, Cologne...

They all wanted him in the end as a husband, son-in-law, lover, slave, doormat, a tool for their dreams. He protected them with his life, stand for their honor whenever they needed, but in return, he was nothing to them but a tool.

Kasumi...

That hurt. Of all the people who betrayed him, the one who hurt him the worse was eventually her. It took him almost a year to come to grips with the reality. Part of his mind shut down, refusing to face the cruel reality of betraying him forever. She was so angelic, so nice, and so moral. But he would never forget the hateful look in her eyes when she abandoned him. But could he blame her? He doesn't know. But one thing for sure, he would never forget about her betrayal.

Akane...

He knew he loved her once. He would have killed for her, died for, do anything she ever ask in return. If she had asked him to pull his heart out to prove his love, he would have done it. But she used him, abused him, laughed at him, and jested him. Her love for him was nothing but an illusion he created himself. Was it his fault that she couldn't could, couldn't act, couldn't sew, and couldn't dance? Hell, she couldn't do anything right, blaming him for anything she could. He clearly remembered the moment when he met her last time, how affectionately she was holding Ryoga, and her eyes full of hatred looking at him. To her he was nothing anymore. It was lucky that he was not in love when she spurned him at the last moment, else it would have killed him right there.

And finally, Nabiki...

Ahhh…that was it! It was her who was bugging him so much. She had so much common with Hinako. Nabiki the mercenary, how ironic. She was always sacrificing herself for others, while guarding her emotions so much, even more than Hinako. He remembered the day clearly, the one when he decided to follow Nabiki and spy on her. He wanted to see if he can find something on her instead the other way around, to stop her from blackmailing him. What he found out shocked him as he followed and watch her pay for things for the family. He wasn't stupid. He realized then and there, how she tried to save every penny to keep the family together. How she fought day and night against all odds for her family, and how distraught she would get when the bills were due. That's when everything started making sense for him. The more he knew about her, the more he was intrigued. He decided to help her out.

He also remembered clearly the night he heard her crying, the first time. He was outside on the roof, near her window coincidentally. She was crying for reasons he did not know. He never imagined the ice queen to be crying for anything. If she was like that, it must be real bad situation. No doubt, not the kind she faced regularly. But he knew that for whatever reason she was crying for, it had to do something about the family expenses or what she had to do to cover them. For Kami's sake, she was only 17 and taking care of not just her, but his family too!

He remember the countless night, he would stay outside her window; looking at her face while she slept, so innocent, unguarded, fragile, and beautiful.

She was beautiful, he realized. But she was a star he could never reach. A flower, he could never claim as his own. So he never approached her. He would never bring her into his world: a world full of chaos, darkness, and without hope. Something she would never understand.

So, he deliberately kept his face blank and his eyes guarded. Never could he let her or anyone knew of the fire that developed inside him for her. To protect her, he would hide it all; the pain, the loneliness, and the anger. Helpless emotions had never served to better him or give him what he sought most. He had learned young that nothing could be gained by simply feeling. Everything he had, he had because he'd sweat, bled, and lost for it. And last thing he needed was to bring her into his world.

And now here is Hinako. Just like her; sleeping on his shoulder, an innocent, fragile and a beautiful flower. But this time, it seemed like she wanted to be the part of his world. Unlike Nabiki, she was not pushing him away. He tried hard to push her away, to tell her off. He was cold, uncaring, and unfair to her. But no matter what he did, nothing fazed her. She gave so much, without realizing her own dilemma or how it endangers her own life. She defied the world twice by for him. First, when she took him in. Second, once he started walking again, she remained by his side, refusing to let him go, without realizing her own limit.

Ranma, once again, was jolted back to reality from his thoughts as Hinako stirred again. This time, she encircled her arms around his body and was now hugging him like a stuff bear and drawing a comfort from his body heat. Annoyance showed on his face, he looked coldly at her, but it was useless, since she was sleeping and not looking at him. He was aware of her "assets" pressing against his body. It was not easy for any full blooded male to not respond to a beautiful woman pressed against his body. A rare smile same formed on his lips realizing how innocent she looks sleeping in his arms. Yes, she needs to get on with her own life, for she deserves so much better. He would kill himself for her, die for her, and go to hell for her, if he had to protect her.

What the hell was I thinking? When did I start thinking about her like that? Ranma thought annoyingly.

But he had to face the reality. Somehow, somewhere, she became a part of him he did not want. Maybe not love, but he did not want to think about that right now. The thought was pushed into his subconscious before it started forming properly in his conscious mind. One thing for sure, just like his mercenary flower, he can not bring her into his life either. The least he can do is not to bring her more hurt if he could help.

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SomeWhere

As the wind blew past against her face, kissing it, caressing it softly like a lover's touch, Nabiki opened her eyes. She was tired, broken; both physically and emotionally. Even in that condition she knew she was taken away.

Away from them.

Away from the home she grew up, her prison.

Away from Ryoga, the monster.

Unable to speak, unable to do much, she tried to stirred, but again, she was so tired, she couldn't. Opening her eyes half the way, she saw her rescuer. He was all covered, wearing a mask like ancient ninja caring her away.

Then he looked down, at her eyes. She saw into his eyes, then slowly let the sleep claim her again, welcoming the rest she needed. A smile, subconsciously adoring her lips.

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Tendo's

All was quiet upstairs for a while. Too quiet, for too long. Everyone was expecting for Ryoga to come downstairs with Nabiki any moment to make her apologize for her childish and rude behavior. But no one was coming down and everyone was getting more nervous. The tension was so thick that you can cut it with a knife.

Kasumi decided to take the initiative and go upstairs to make sure everything was going ok. She excused herself as she went upstairs. Akane was breaking the chopsticks while she was waiting to see what happens next. That only made Nodoka more agitated at her, as she kept sharpening for katana even faster. Now Genma was already nervous for last twenty minutes, since Ryoga went upstairs and his wife started sharpening her katana. He tried to focus his attention back to TV, trying to ignore his wife at his peripheral vision, but he was failing so far.

Kasumi's startled scream suddenly snapped the tension like a rubber band which was stretched too far.

"Waaaaahhhhhhh….my baby!" cried the human fountain.

Everyone ignored Soun and ran upstairs on their top speed. When they found Kasumi, she was stuttering fearfully like a fool, fallen on her ass, and backing away slowly from Nabiki's room. Her eyes were widened beyond normal and were full of fear, like she had seen the death itself. Her skirt was ripped from falling down backward, hair disheveled.

"Oneechan, what happened?" Akane quickly asked as Nodka quickly enveloped the elder daughter in a hug, trying to comfort her. However, she blabbered like a fool as her eyes just stared at Nabiki's room.

Realizing the source of her distress, Genma and Akane nodded at each other quickly stepped into Nabiki's room. What they found there froze them at their spot. The fear, and killing intent was so high in the room that they felt like something was trying to torture their very soul. And the blood...

Oh, Kami, the blood.

It was everywhere.

On the walls, on the roof, all over floor; whatever tragedy took place in this room was something beyond their nightmare.

And in the middle of the room.

There stood a cross, with someone on it; crucified mercilessly and painfully. His hands were nailed on the cross. His skin was ripped off from his body, his raw muscles showed clearly for anyone to see. The skin was everywhere on the room, like a sheet, stretching from the cross and pinned to different ends of the room like a thin cloth strip.

Oh, Kami, it was horrible.

Then Akane realized with even more terror that who was on the cross. As the corpse, impossibly still alive from that torture, spoke softly, her name.

"Akane, help……me. H…H…Help me plea…se."

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Tofu's Clinic

Ono Tofu was pacing nervously. He had no idea what happened, something was not adding up. He knew now was surely the time to pack his bags and leave Nerima. He was angry, no furious, about what just happened 10 minutes ago. Words were needed to be spoken for he was smart enough to figure out that things were not right at Tendo's.

Twenty minutes ago, a stranger in strange ninja outfit had come and dropped Nabiki off. Her clothes were tattered, like someone tried to rape her. RAPE HER? What in the world was going on? As soon as Tofu saw her he quickly let the stranger in the clinic, who deposited her on the bed. She was bruised, unconscious, and left eye was turning purple, cluing her assaulter was right handed most likely. The stranger did not tell him anything, but left him a written message, letting him know that Tendo's were responsible for her condition, especially Ryoga, since the stranger asked him not to treat that animal if Tendo's call for help.

For twenty minutes she had been unconscious and he had no idea what to do except to ask for Hinako's help again. So he called her and now they were on the way. He really hoped that no one of NWC would drop by right now, for that would truly make things ugly. He knew he was good martial artist but throw Kuno, Akane, and Kodachi, with possible Genma in the mix? No, he knew he would not be able to handle it. What he needed was a plan to convince Hinako and Ranma to take Nabiki away with them, away from Nerima.

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Nerima Train Station

The Tokyo train finally reached its destination, Nerima Station. Call it woman's psychic power, call it her gift, but somehow Hinako knew that it was their stop and woke up from her slumber. She never even paid attention where she was sleeping, she tended to do that a lot.

Ranma just shook his head and left it as one of the mysterious of women he would never understand.

"Alright Hinako, lets hurry, last thing we need to get acquainted by one of the NWC".

She just grabbed his hand in hers and started pulling him away as they left the train station. They quickly grabbed the taxi and hurried towards their destination. Even though the clinic was not that far, they did not want to risk meeting wrong person and get to their destination fast.

As the taxi sped away towards the clinic, Ranma could not help but feel uneasy in his guts. He knew something was not right and he was going to get very shocking news. How shocking he had no idea, but knowing Nabiki, anything could happen.

Hinako felt his tension and just squeezed his hand in reassurance. Unlike Ranma, she had no love for Nabiki and if she tried to take Ranma away from her, well...Nabiki would know what Hinako is truly capable of. For she was not going to loose him, not to Nabiki, or anyone else.

She watched the buildings go by in silence as she sat in the back of the cab, holding his hand in hers, the wind from the open window fluttering her hair about her face. Music played timely from the radio, soft and sad.

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Tofu's Clinic

As soon as they knocked on the door, Tofu immediately let Ranma and Hinako in.

"I am glad you two make it, please just follow me"

"It better not be something stupid, Ono, and I hope Nabiki is not pulling anything on us…" Hinako immediately started her speech.

"Yes...Nabiki. Look, I think you two should know something before you meet her. Believe me, she is not trying to rip you off or blackmail. In fact, she needs your help. Please I hope that you actually consider taking her with you…"

"Now WAIT ONE MINUTE! NO way am I taking that bitch in my home, she has been using Ranma, using her family, blackmailing everyone, in fact lot of problems in Ranma's life was her fault. There is NO WAY IN KAMI'S EARTH I WILL….will…Oh My Kami, what happened here?"

That was when Tofu decided to open the door and let her see Nabiki's condition. Hinako's word died on her throat, as she saw the broken, beaten, and bruised Nabiki.

Her lips were busted, her eyes were swollen. One could also easily see that her wrists were also broken, and were in bandages.

Tofu on purpose did not fix or clean her so her condition would let them know how serious things were here and it was not the time to be emotional and revengeful.

Hinako turned her face towards Ranma to see how he felt, and after a long time she saw emotions on his face.

He was shaking; his eyes were just staring at Nabiki, nearly tearful. She saw so many emotions played across his face, as he was unable to control to hide them.

Sometimes, the pain is just too much, too hard, and too painful to be hidden away by the mask we create around others.

Love, sorrow, pain, anger, and finally guilt, settled on his face. He knew somehow it was related to him.

His hands were shaking, and Hinako squeezed them to give him some reassurance.

He tried—oh Kami, he tried—to make her stay away from him. To make her understand that she do not belong in his world either. How he cursed his own feelings to make sure she remained happy. How many time had he wanted to just go to her when she cried at nights and hug her, assure her that he would take care of her, would not let her cry again.

Yea, right.

Look at him now; weak, broken, and unable to defend the one he cared so much about. And now here she lay, broken, and unconscious.

Tear just left his eyes, to be freed again and let go as they were destined to be.

Oh Kami, what had I done? How could I let this happen to her?

Hinako quickly hugged Ranma and slowly tugged him away to another room.

However, just before everyone left, Nabiki opened her eyes, juts a little, but enough to see Ranma, his eyes full of guilt, love, and sorrow looking at her. However, Ranma, did not notice her and just let himself pulled out of the room by Hinako.

Nabiki just smiled and let the unconscious claimed her again.

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Asgard

Skuld was typing furiously. Just half an hour ago, something ripped through the Gates of the streams of time and had arrived, and she was trying to locate it. It had messed the entire computer system up and her job was beyond normal emergency. All the gods and including the demons were in uproar.

What the hell was going on here?

Right now she really, really, needed Urd. But it seems like since she met the Ranma character, she had locked herself away. She looked lost, tired, and crying for unexplainable reasons. It was not like Ranma was her lost lover or something...right?

If only Urd was the only one like that. Mara was in same condition and also was like totally lost these days. They even went to bars several times and shared a saké! The eternal rivals acting like companions in misery. How ironic!

But right now, she needed them and they were gone to Kami knows where and had no idea what the hell was going on in the heavens!

BEEPBEEPBEEPP Computer Warning ReportUnidentified abnormality detected

Oh NO! Not again! What the hell? Another time and dimensional rip? What in the world is going on? Kami, we are screwed, something bad is coming, something unexplainable, something terrifying!

Focusing hard once again, she tried again to locate the coordinates of first abnormality, maybe finding them she could pinpoint the second abnormality!

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Tofu's Clinic

Nabiki finally got some rest. Even though, things were not making sense, it did not matter to her.

She talked to Tofu for a moment, who explained to her that her Ranma was waiting outside and will meet her later, for now she needed her rest.

He denied her that it was Ranma who rescued her, for he was too weak, too injured, to help her. That her rescuer was someone else he could not tell.

Her body trembled as she remembered what almost happened to her. She remember Ryoga's breath, the endless madness and abyss in his eyes. His maniac laughter, like a man possessed. She remembered how he touched her.

Oh, Kami, how she hated HIS touch! His slimy, disgusting, lustful touches! His lustful looks, his smell, his voice, his very NAME!

How he laughed at her weakness. How he enjoyed toying with her emotions, her soul, and her heart. She hated it all. It felt like a python on her body, enveloping her, eating her slowly from inside, freezing her in fear.

But all that did not matter to her right now.

Even though, she had seen Ranma looking at her in concern before, even though she could tell he was weak and no match to Ryoga; he did not look like the one who saved her from that monster. No matter what happens in the future, she just knew one thing.

She had hope.

Hope of knowing that she would never be alone again.

Hope of future, that no matter what everyone said or claimed, he would always take care of her.

She still had the feeling of his strong arms holding her tight, protecting her, from the world, from the madness, from Ryoga.

When the madness almost claimed her soul, her gift, her body, he was her anchor, her castle, her dream, in other words, her hope.

She remembered him, although his face was covered, although no one could identify him, but his eyes were not covered. She had looked into his eyes and knew that he would never let anyone harm her. He would protect her, be with her, and never betray her when she would need him the most.

For when she looked in her rescuer's blue eyes, she knew whom they belonged to. They only belonged to one person, the one in her heart. The same eyes she always felt herself loosing to, but always holding herself from going too deep. Before she always guarded her heart. She always rationalized that he belonged not to her, but her younger sister. Always trying to push him away.

But no more.

This night

Yes, tonight!

Even though it probably could have been the worse night of her life, but it also turned out to be her best.

For tonight was the night, she finally let herself go, letting those endless blue eyes, claiming her heart forever.

No matter what anyone said, it wouldn't matter to her anymore.

Tonight and forever from now on, she would let her heart guide her destiny.

For her knight had finally came to her, he heard her call when everyone sold her to the madness. Her father, her sisters, her vary family.

But not him.

Her knight, her prince, had finally came to her, rescued her from the claws of darkness, and took her away so it would never be able to claim her. Now she could finally rest with the smile on her face. Her mother was right, dreams due come true, and tonight...tonight...she felt what she thought she never would again since…since she started taking care of her family, since her mother's death.

She felt like Cinderella.

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Author's Note

Ok after re-reading my last chapter and the reviews, I realized that I gave the wrong impression. I wanted readers to feel like Nabiki was just started getting raped, but not raped yet. However, only few of my readers realized that fact. Also her family wasn't purposely letting Ryoga rape her, they thought he was just beating her, you know how older brothers teach their young siblings by beating them up and slapping them around? They had no idea what Ryoga was actually doing. This shows that they are still stuck in their ignorance and idiotic bullshit fantasy world. Just wait for future chapters, it will all flows very smoothly.

I like to thank you innortal and rs-103 for proofreading. I also know that my chapters are huge compare to what they used to be, so it is not easy to be my proof reader. I got great response when I asked for help, again I would like to thank you all for it.

Again, constructive criticism is encouraged, for that would not only encourage me to work harder (hey I am human, recognition helps) but would also encourage others to write and review more. Now, if you find nothing wrong, try to find it and let me know (grammer wise, sentence structure, writing style, etc). What could have I done to get more of your attention and get you more interested? etc. Because I know there is lot to be desire to make this story even better.

Also, I know I was real late, and got lot of emails asking for me to update, but I want to build a tension, which I realize cannot be done real gone in small chapters, you got to have a bigger one for that.

Still, I do not feel I have written and it came out the way I wanted it to be. There are many things I want to try but damn it , it is hard, very hard, especially since English is not my native language. Kinda pisses me off, make me give up for a while, but I come back again after a while and try again. Damn!

Thank you All, please do not forget to review, if I could take hours (yes it takes hour for me to write it, especially since English is not my native language and to make sure I got enough suspense, a pull to absorb the reader in and hoping the reader gets the same image/feeling/tension/sadness I want them to feel, while making sure grammar is perfect, so I am working much harder than native English speaker), then surely you can take another 5-10 minutes for review.

Big Daddy Cool

"The toughest SOB on the planet earth, talking hard rule shit, because his stars didn't work."