Hi this is Benji Himura. I am now starting a new fanfic is a Ranma 1/2 story. I don't own Ranma1/2 or any of the characters. Some anime or manga characters might show up in the story I also don't own then. I don't own FATE/Stay night and the characters of that story. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
Signed: Benji Himura.
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Outcast Chronicles of a lost writer in Ranma world book two
Chapter thirty seven: Breaking Picolet
The day of the fight finally arrived and nearly the entire student body is around the gym waiting to see the fight. Nabiki's former minions are making the betting pool while Ukyo and Shampoo are making their profits by selling food to the crowd. Ranma is waiting by the gate because Benji and Nabiki still haven't arrived to the duel and usually the duo was quite punctual.
In their bedroom Nabiki looks at Benji, she is still lying on their bed while Benji is slowly dressing up to leave for the duel. Nabiki bites her lower lips seeing the handful of scars that Benji gained in his time protecting her from harm and getting tangled on her business.
Nabiki glanced at her alarm clock and sees that they are already quite late for the duel, it didn't mattered they wasn't going to be in time for it, they would arrive quite late to provoke the opponent. Benji fishes a black sleeveless t-shirt from his drawer and Nabiki watches in silence while he covers his body with the rather figure hugging fabric, it was his training shirt, the one that he wears when they go to the gym together.
"Benji mind in getting me some water?" Nabiki asked not really thirsty but just to stall the departure. "I will be right back." Benji replied with a smile turning to face her. Nabiki feels that her heart skipped a beat with the guilt of being the reason that he is going to fight.
Benji returns quickly with a glass of cold water, he sits next to Nabiki on the bed and hands her the glass. "Thank you." Nabiki said taking the offered glass. "You are welcome." Benji replied looking at her, he wouldn't deny that seeing Nabiki like that was one of the best parts of his mornings. Her hair was lightly tangled from the sleep and was out of place, most of the times Benji usually would wake earlier than Nabiki and he could see when she wakes and see her rubbing her eyes groggily, yawn still sleepy before trying to shake away the last remnants of sleep and tiredness from herself. Benji loved seeing that ritual that no one else knew about.
"Why you always smile when I wake up?" Nabiki asked in fake annoyance, glad that she found a way to distract him from the duel. "Because I love seeing you in a way that no one else have." Benji replied kissing Nabiki moist and lightly chilled lips. "And I find rather cute your small waking ritual."
Nabiki blushes with his words but savors them and the kiss. "I am not the only one with a small waking ritual on this apartment." Nabiki replied playfully. "You stretch while still lying down and crack most of your joints before sitting up and cracking your neck." "I do that, it relaxes me and helps the blood to run on my body." Benji said with a smile.
"I still don't understand what you find so cute and enjoys so much on me waking up." Nabiki commented placing the half empty glass on the nightstand. "It is a reminder that we are together and I am seeing something about you that I am quite sure that no one else has seen." Benji replied kissing Nabiki again.
"I won't deny that you see me in ways that no one will ever see." Nabiki said with a teasingly smile. "I am not planning on having sex with anyone else other than you." "I know that." Benji replied hugging Nabiki. "I wouldn't share you." "Neither would I." Nabiki replied hugging him back and kissing him. "I am too greedy."
"I won't deny that." Benji said teasingly. "You should deny that." Nabiki replied in a mock hurtful tone. "Even being truth." She lightly pressed her body against him allowing him to feel her nakedness under the thin sheet. Benji gently maneuvers their bodies placing Nabiki on is lap with her upper body leaning against his chest, his arms are wrapped around her slim waist.
Nabiki nests herself against him as she did uncountable times before, in that position Nabiki could fully relax on the safety of his arms and be able with ease to hear his soothing heartbeat and kiss him, in that position Nabiki also remembers of Benji's strength since most of the times she could feel his muscles and when he wasn't leaned against a wall or a back rest he wouldn't move even if she pressed her entire weight against him; all that combined it made Nabiki feel safe and protected.
However in that moment that position of comfort and safety recalled Nabiki that it all could end in the following hours. She trembled while uncountable thoughts about the battle and how she could lose Benji filled her mind. Benji gently kissing Nabiki's neck, lightly increasing the pressure of the hug pulling her even closer.
"Whatever you thought it won't happen." Benji said in a confident tone. "I really want to believe." Nabiki whispered with her voice filled with fright. "I believe in you and I want to believe when you say that you will win, I am your wife…I want to believe in you so much…but I can't help in worrying…I am scared of losing you…just the thought that you could die is enough to frighten me…"
Nabiki takes a small breath. "There are times that I nearly wet myself in fear…it even happened once when I was alone…" she whispered with her voice mixing fear and embarrassment. Benji gently kisses Nabiki and comforts her, he knows that Nabiki has a good deal of pride, while not as big as Akane's or Ranma's Nabiki wouldn't tell to anyone about something like that, he knows his wife.
"I know how it is." Benji whispered softly to Nabiki. "I also feel like that whenever something bad happens or a new martial artist appears, that not even counting the run ins with the yakuza. I can't even voice how scared I was when Sakura told me that you were kidnapped."
"But you rescued me…you fearlessly killed every yakuza with out getting shot once…" Nabiki said surprised. "I feared for your safety. I feared of what they could do to you." Benji spoke closing his eyes and resting his chin on Nabiki's shoulder. "That fear filled with me with despair, it drove away my fear of dying, getting hurt and being arrested. I lost my inhibitions in killing and hurting. That fear made me stronger, the fear of losing you made me do all that. Fear isn't a bad thing, it helps us to not doing something stupid, and some fears also make us able to do things like that. Courage isn't the total lack of fear, but the determination of overcoming your fear."
"It still doesn't drive away my fear of losing you." Nabiki said leaning her cheek against his. "I don't want to let you walk out of our home; I fear that if you go I will lose you."
"Love, I hate to say this but everything has a risk of death. I could be taking a shower, slip on the wet tiles and hit my head and die." Benji whispered in a sad tone. "I could be crossing the street and be hit by a truck; death is unavoidable and eventually will take everyone. That is why I love you as if this moment could be the last."
Nabiki stays in silence knowing that his words are true, she loves him with the same intensity, she can even forget about the daily dangers as everyone does, but she can't just do the same with a menace as dueling with Cardin.
Nabiki turns on his arms and faces him. "Love me." Nabiki whispered kissing him. "Love me again and again, until you drive this fear away…I won't let you go if you don't love me more…" Benji kisses Nabiki answering her passionate and scared request with actions instead of words.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… In the previous night
Nabiki and Sachiko see Benji idly checking how the blade shield works while they eat more of the lemon mousse pie. "What is your plan?" Sachiko asked to Benji between bites of the tasty dessert. "Slash, stab, cut and main." Benji answered casually while putting on the armlet on his right arm. "Nothing more than that, originally was shoot, main, cripple, wound and painfully disable."
"What that mean sempai?" Sachiko asked to Nabiki. "That he hasn't planned anything." Nabiki replied before eating another piece of the pie. "He will just react to whatever happens there."
"I didn't plan anything when I rescued you and your friends from the yakuza." Benji commented in a serious tone. "And it worked just fine." "I can't deny that." Sachiko commented. "But you had me as support as well you used the Kurohyou and the other guns that I made for you."
"I agree with Sachiko on that one." Nabiki said in a serious tone. "In that incident you was very well armed and you weren't hurt; I saw you on the TV you were dualing with the hyou and a Beretta."
"I don't deny that, but I am not only dependant of guns, I am still good with knives and few other weapons." Benji replied releasing the blade of the shield. "Cologne did teach me something until she decided that I shouldn't train anymore. I can perform the kachu tenshi amaguriken. And my eyes can even see the path of the bullets."
"I think that this discussion won't do us any good." Sachiko said in a serious tone. "In one way or another the duel will take place and because that tip to the police you can't use weapons, I guess that for now we should relax. I will fix dinner and you two can do whatever you two do when not rutting like two animals on the heat."
"Sachiko!" Nabiki exclaimed blushing. "It is true." Sachiko said finishing her pie, taking the plate and standing up. "I fix dinner, you two relax." Nabiki sighs and decides to keep her mouth with pie instead or arguing. Benji removes the blade shield and places it on the case.
"Don't worry too much or you will get wrinkles." Benji teased lightly pocking Nabiki's forehead. "Come on finish that pie and let's go out for a quick joy ride." Nabiki nods blushing and gives to Benji the last piece of the pie; he eats the offered morsel and moves to their bedroom. "Just tell Sachiko to not rush on dinner." Benji called in a casual tone. Nabiki smiles and does so before following him to the bedroom.
Half an hour later Benji and Nabiki are once again in the mount Ueno. "I really don't know why you always bring me here when I am feeling down." Nabiki said in a mock disapproving tone, she knew very well why he does that, he proposed her there and they could see the city lights with out hearing the sounds of the city.
"Because looking at something beautiful never gets old." Benji said looking at Nabiki; she is leaning on the rail of the parking area where they are standing looking at the city lights while Benji is seated on his BMW. "Benji Himura are you saying that while looking at me?!" Nabiki exclaimed in mock anger. "Guilty as charged." Benji replied in a teasingly tone. "What can I do if I love the sight of your cute behind."
"Jeez…you never get tired of flirting with me?" Nabiki said turning to him. "Of course not." Benji replied with a smile. "As I said something beautiful never gets old." Nabiki walks to him and kisses him. "You are so sweet." She whispered softly. "After so long I still don't know what you saw on me."
Benji wraps his arms around Nabiki's waist and pulls her closer. "I saw a beautiful girl suffering because loneliness and her own actions." Benji replied kissing her. "I saw her pleading for help uncountable times and no one would help her." "No one other than her knight in shinning armor." Nabiki whispered against his lips. "More like shinning leather."
"I had to look good for my queen." Benji said kissing Nabiki again. "For sure you look stunning in your armor." Nabiki whispered savoring his actions. "So stunning that I get wet every time that I see you wearing it." Nabiki presses her body against Benji's and guides his left hand to her right thigh while slowly rubbing her thigh on his leg while moving her thigh upwards.
"If it makes you this frisky just by recalling how I look with it I must wear it more often." Benji whispered while lifting her leg. "If you do so I won't let you out of our nest." Nabiki purred sultrily. "We will be too busy making love to do anything else." "Sound perfect to me." Benji whispered kissing Nabiki.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… In the morning of the fight
"God how many times you two rut in one day?" Sachiko said when Nabiki walked out of her bedroom and into the kitchen. Nabiki blushes with her words. "As many as we want." Nabiki answered embarrassed. "How many times since you two left for that ride?" Sachiko asked mildly annoyed, her night on the Himura apartment wasn't all that calm because some of the sounds that filtered thorough the doors.
Nabiki stays in silence for few moments before answering. "Twelve." She said blushing even more. "Four yesterday and eight this morning." "God…he must be a machine to get up so many times." Sachiko muttered in shock. "On his side it was six." Nabiki clarified.
"What the hell you feed him?" Sachiko asked still surprised. "Mostly pineapple because it makes taste better." Nabiki answered. "Do I want to know what 'it' means?" Sachiko asked blushing in the same color of Nabiki's face. "I am quite sure that you already know what 'it' is." Nabiki replied. "Everything else is to build his stamina and the volume."
"I wonder if I should take notes." Sachiko muttered before sipping some coffee. "It wouldn't hurt." Nabiki said pouring some for herself. "You could use when you get a boyfriend; I know that I don't regret." "Trust me from your howls I know for sure that you enjoy it a lot." Sachiko spoke moving so Nabiki could put sugar on her coffee.
"I do." Nabiki said with a smile. "My only regret is that I was not his first." "Who was?" Sachiko asked curious. "An ex-girlfriend of his." Nabiki answered sipping her coffee. "They were childhood friends and for a handful of years lovers. They broke up after she moved to another country."
"Her loss, your gain." Sachiko commented casually. "True." Nabiki replied. "I guess that I don't regret that much not being his first, after all it was because his experience that my first time was unforgettable." "I want to hear more about it later." Sachiko said with a smile. "Don't expect much details, I don't want you to fantasy with my husband." Nabiki replied teasingly.
"Oh trust me; you are already late for that, but I am realist I know that I won't get him." Sachiko teased back. "Besides it is just fantasies it isn't like I would be bedding him when you aren't around." The two girls chuckle lightly.
"Benji drinks coffee?" Sachiko asked recalling that she had to go buy coffee to drink some. "Actually no." Nabiki answered casually. "He doesn't like it and I acquired a taste for Brazilian tea." "It explains the total absence of coffee." Sachiko commented. "We do have some." Nabiki said opening one of the cabinets and pulling a can from the back. "I do keep a private stash for when I feel like drinking some. Benji doesn't mind."
"And natto?" Sachiko asked recalling the fridge. "Now that he hates." Nabiki answered. "I know that he won't forbid me from eating but he hates the scent and won't kiss me if I ate natto. I have to brush my teeth if I want to kiss him. So I don't buy unless I really feel like eating some."
"You are giving up a lot of things for him." Sachiko commented. "Not really." Nabiki replied. "It is more like trading some for another, besides it is part of living together and marriage to give up of some of things that you do when single to live well with your partner. Benji loves anime and manga, it part of the reason that he is sane here, but he doesn't read or watch as much because I like other things, I like seeing the news so we watch together."
"I can understand not doing things to live well with your partner but what anime and manga have to do with his sanity?" Sachiko asked confused. "Well if you haven't seen Ranma and the others would you believe on what they do?" Nabiki replied not wanting to tell her about his condition as an outcast.
"Point taken." Sachiko said understanding. "For someone with a totally different cultural background I can understand why anime and manga when allied with an open mind keeps him sane after everything that you two passed."
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Later in the day of the fight
Ranma looks around impatient, over two hours had passed since the arrival of Cardin and his minion, everyone was expecting that Benji and Nabiki would be there in the usual time of the class begin and the duel would happen. What everyone had forgot is that it was never set an specific hour for the duel to start, a flaw that Benji and Nabiki were exploring to get more advantages on the duel after all waiting can strain someone nerves.
Ranma was guessing what the couple was doing to keep themselves busy while using the showing late strategy; he had heard some rumors that bullfighters had sex before entering on the area to sharpen their eyes. Ranma recalls of the few fights that he had spied when Benji and Nabiki weren't dating.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Much before Benji confessed his feelings to Nabiki
Ranma looks down to the alley where Benji and Nabiki are standing; there are three more people there. As usual Benji is a couple steps behind Nabiki while she charges the debts of the trio.
Ranma had heard that since Benji arrived Nabiki started to collecting more debts of certain people that she avoided meeting with out being in a public location with people around. He also heard that in those cases Nabiki made the life of the debtor hard while pulling strings in the safety.
He could understand why she was using more forceful ways to collect now that she has Benji to help her. Ranma notices that Nabiki is slowly walking towards Benji and can feel the evil intent of the trio. Benji moves forward diminishing the distance and covering Nabiki.
The closer of the trio tries to punch Benji that respond by parrying the punch and punching hard on the boy's jaw. Ranma can hear the fracture even from his hiding spot on the rooftop.
Benji's style is rather simple and relies mostly on punches making Ranma wonder why not using his legs and kicking. Ranma sees the answer when another of the attackers try to kick Benji's head, Benji block the kick and packs a powerful punch on the boy's balls.
The shrill scream is muted by Benji giving a downwards hook on his head making him fall unconscious. The last one stands in shock as if unsure if he attacks or run. He decides on running, Benji grabs a nearby trashcan and tosses on the boy's back making him fall trying to hold his back.
Nabiki moves to the two unconscious boys and start to pillaging them while Benji move to send the third to the land of the painful dreams. Ranma could understand some of Benji's fighting style, it was simple and effective designed to disable the opponent and avoiding being hit, the punching was in a rather classic way and his movements showed lack of the artistic flamboyance and other complexities of most of the martial arts styles that Ranma was exposed too, it was plain simple and effective.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… In the day of the fight
After there more hours Benji and Nabiki arrive on the school, the crowd opens a path to the couple while Benji moves to the gym, he is wearing a long ice white cloak different from his usual coat while Nabiki is on her usual clothes. Benji kisses Nabiki before entering on the gym to meet the challengers.
Ranma walks in with Nabiki and the doors are locked behind them and the large screen outside starts to showing the interior. Cardin makes a speech about cowardice and lateness, Benji easily ignores and replies that they never said when the duel would start.
Picolet snaps his fingers and a group of armed men jump out of the gym stalls and charge at Benji. "And we never said that this would be a one to one duel." Picolet sneered while the hired hit men armed with swords, clubs, knifes and few with spears get closer of Benji.
"That is true. We never said anything about weaponry either." Benji commented closing his eyes before throwing a can on the middle of the crowd. Knowing what is coming Nabiki closes her eyes and make Ranma do the same. A bright flash explodes from the can forcing the crowd, Cardin and Madame St Paul to shut their eyes in pain.
Benji smiles and tosses a shuriken at the closer attackers. They howl in pain and fall on the ground, Benji moves his arms throwing the cloak over his shoulders and reveal under it an ice white coat with a similar cut of his usual coat, the coat is tightly closed and there is a rather long katana on Benji's waist. He draws the unsheathed sword and charges at the still blinded group of attackers, on Benji's closed left hand there is a doubled bladed knife tied on his palm.
Benji slashes the closer one drawing a good amount of blood and moves to the next, one by one the attackers fall as dead flies. Their blood is spraying on Benji's clothes and the pure ice white of them is gaining large dark red stains.
Outside the gym Atsuko and two more cops watch while the fight goes on, the two wanted to barge and interrupt when Benji revealed his weapons but since they didn't do anything when the armed crowd showed Atsuko said that if the crowd hasn't grounds to be arrested then there isn't ground for Benji either.
On the long wait Atsuko learned more about the duel and why Benji is fighting, as a romantic woman she couldn't help in being jealous of Nabiki being the subject of such combat. It was romantic and the fact that Benji is fighting alone is as a proof of his love, at least on the policewoman's mind.
The crowd watching is cheering loudly while Nabiki's former minions collect the last bets most of people had bet on Cardin because what happened to Benji on the interrupted duel, there was few that bet on Benji because he was after all Nabiki's knightmare and unofficially called balancer of chaos because his habit of shooting martial artists that are creating trouble and confusion.
Inside Cardin stares in shock while Ranma stares with awe, Benji's skill undoubtedly grew since his time as Nabiki's bodyguard. On the ground the twenty seven hired mercenaries are moaning in pain with their cuts, unable to stand up or do anything more than bleed and moan in pain.
Benji towers over the battlefield as a bloody ice mountain in a valley; the sword is stained in blood so is the knife and Benji's face. "Anymore minions?" Benji asked in a teasingly tone. "I am still standing unhurt."
Madame St Paul charges at Benji wielding a large kitchen knife on her right hand and a silver lid on the other. Benji easily parries the attack. "You are too slow; I guess that you were just lucky with those knives." Benji said turning to her while she readies herself to another strike. "Maybe it was the fact that you were hidden that aided."
Benji dodged a tongue attack and slashes Madame St Paul's right side with his sword when she charged trying to use her tongue as distraction. She howls in pain and fall on the ground unable to move. "What you did to me?!" She howled while Benji turns to Cardin.
"This sword can't cut anymore." Benji said seeing sparks and electric arches coming from the hilt. "But it did a fine job." Benji nails it on the floor and walks to Cardin. "Don't worry the cut is rather shallow, you see I don't want to kill anyone so the edges are blunted, they barely have enough edge to cut fabric." Benji explained while ejecting the blade of his blade shield. "But this one is razor sharp." He added raising his right hand and showing off the long blade.
Cardin backs away in fear while Benji grins walking on his direction. "I just have to incapacitate you to win." Benji said in a menacing tone. "But there are so many ways to do so. I have eight ways, four of them you die, in two you will have many fractures all over your limbs, in one you just leave with a broken jaw; but the one that I will use in you will cripple you."
Cardin runs around Benji trying to stay away from him as many meters as he can. "Do something!" Cardin shouted shaking Madame St Paul. "She can't move." Benji said turning to Cardin, he wasn't fond of torturing his prey but on that moment the terror stalk and psychological torture would help to prevent further incidents. "She was cut by my disruptor sword, that sword sends a very powerful electric discharge when it cuts, that discharge temporary but fully damages the nervous system and cancel electric impulses that control the muscles of the body. Of course it does affect the heart and diaphragm in lesser ways but won't cause any harm or death risk, the disruptor is a disabling sword."
Madame St Paul whispers something to Cardin, he pulls something from her pocket and it soon vanishes. "It was a good strategy." Madame St Paul said standing up. "Considering the traps that we laid you did well, if there wasn't a secret medicine on the Cardin family it might have been out loss. You see even thought is very rare there are times when we overeat so much that we can't move because so much food and serotonin flowing, then we developed a medicine that counters that kind of inhibitions."
"Then the disrupting effect is denied." Benji commented understanding. "Reversing what my brother and I call anaconda syndrome or effect, you eat too much and feel tired and lethargic." "Exactly, you are a bright young man but now this is over." Madame St Paul said pulling a large butcher's cleaver from her skirt. "You will fall now."
Benji parries the attack with his blade shield, Cardin attacks with the kitchen knife forcing Benji to clumsy parry with his left hand. Noticing the bad parry Cardin and Madame St Paul change their positions and continue the attack.
Benji curses the lack of mobility of his left arm because the wound and the muscle relaxants that Tofu gave him so he could move his arm with out damaging the not fully healed tissue.
Benji leaps over Cardin's head and punches downwards scoring a rather deep stab on Cardin's left shoulder. Benji lands and attacks while Madame St Paul worries about Cardin's wound.
In a desperate strike she slashes downwards as hard as she can, unable to avoid the strike Benji uses his left hand and grabs the blade, he was expecting some wound but not a so severe one, the heavy blade broke the hilt of the double knife and split open his hand and forearm, ignoring the leather protection and light metal shield there.
Benji cringes in pain and twists his arm locking the blade with his arm bones. Unable to draw the blade Madame St Paul despairs until she feels the sharp edge of the blade shield burying itself deep on her gut, she faints with the sheer pain but manages for force her muscles to hold the blade preventing Benji from drawing it from her flesh.
Benji takes out the armlet and hits Cardin hard with his fist, the sound of the fracture is heard and Cardin falls unconscious.
Benji takes a deep breath and looks at the long and heavy weapon on his arm; he braces himself and holds the handle of it. "Don't!" Nabiki shouted running to him and grabbing his hand. "Leave it! We will take you to a doctor so he can remove it with out you losing your arm!"
The battle is over and the victory is clearly Benji's, Nabiki pulls him away while using her jacket to stop the bleeding, the fabric is quickly staining red with the massive amount of blood flowing from the wound. Outside Sachiko was waiting with her car and hurriedly takes the couple away. Ranma and Nabiki's minions deal with the crowd while Atsuko calls ambulances for the fallen fighters, she isn't in a big rush of aiding them but she will aid them.
One hour later in a very expensive private hospital Nabiki and Sachiko are in the waiting room, Sachiko is comforting Nabiki that is still holding her blood soaked jacket. Benji was taken to surgery as soon he arrived and they are trying to repair the damage on his arm. Nabiki kept murmuring how big idiot Benji was for doing what he does and loving her.
Cologne arrives on the hospital after being called by Sachiko, she was informed about the incident and since she is a good healer could help. Inwardly Cologne was rather proud her not so willing disciple, she only trained him because Nabiki forced her to do so and he turned to be a good fighter and his current level made him the strongest man of the world in the normal ranking, of the super martial arts rank Benji wasn't the weakest but he is far from the most powerful ones.
After a quick conversation with the duo Cologne enters in the preparation room, she had asked for ingredients of a very powerful healing spell just in case of needing, with Benji's constant shooting Mousse and Shampoo she feared that one day she would need to heal bullet wounds, not to mention that in an emergency as the Hel's incident she might need Benji to be unhurt.
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A couple of days passed since the duel with Cardin; Nabiki haven't left the hospital and relied on Sachiko to fetch cleans clothes for her. Benji was awake since four hours after the surgery and Cologne's spell. By doctors orders he is to stay there until he is cleared to leave, by Cologne orders he shouldn't move his left arm for three days and after that he should work on the digits to stimulate the muscles and nerves.
Nabiki is slowly peeling an apple for Benji while they watch TV, the duel came on the news as a minor incident, and they found that Ukyo and Shampoo got in a massive fight because the sales territory and profit which ended gaining much more repercussion than the duel that was just briefly mentioned as the reason of the sales.
"And now the weather…" the TV said before Nabiki changed the channel. "Enough with news." Nabiki said in a light tone. "Hey leave on that one." Benji said when Nabiki stopped on the Discovery Channel. "Documentary?" Nabiki questioned lightly. "You don't want anime?"
"Not now, besides that is the documentary about Mexican food that I wanted to see." Benji replied casually. "I don't watch only anime; some of my recipes came from the TV." "Then we shall see it." Nabiki said with a smile. "Come on hop in." Benji said moving to his left and lightly patting the space on his bed.
"If you insist." Nabiki replied in mock politeness, she was eager to join him on his bed and lean against his body. Nabiki nests herself on his arms and adjust the covers over them. "You could make some chili when we leave the hospital." Nabiki commented leaning her head on his shoulder.
"If you make the shopping and chopping I will be glad to instruct you." Benji replied kissing the top of Nabiki's head. "It isn't hard since even I can do it." "You are a good cook." Nabiki praised offering a slice of the peeled and seeded apple. "I am just average." Benji replied eating a bite of the offered food.
"Jeez you two can at least not share a bed at least in the hospital?!" Sachiko exclaimed walking into the room. "We are just watching TV." Benji commented amused with Sachiko's embarrassment. "OOhhhh discovery channel." Sachiko said sitting on the chair previously occupied by Nabiki.
"It isn't for this that I came." Sachiko said after a couple of minutes. "Akane is quite pissed." "As usual." Benji commented while taking a bite of another offered piece of apple. "I learned that this time is different." Sachiko said in a serious tone. "She was the one that made the anonymous call to the police, only the fact that she didn't know your home address prevented her from being more accurate."
"It does explain why that policewoman asked for Tendo Nabiki and said that man that I live with." Nabiki commented seriously. "Akane does hate you." "I wonder why, I never did anything bad to her." Benji said with a frown. "I was always civil and even prevented Ranma from insulting her when it was for a silly reason."
"I did some research and learned that the dojo is the heirloom of the girl that is the first to marry." Sachiko said in a serious tone. "Not only the dojo but the entire property is yours." "That does explain the rush of the fat panda and the stupid mustache in marrying Ranma and Akane." Benji commented seriously. "And it also explains why Akane is so aggressive towards you, in her twisted point of view you came to our lives just to steal her dojo and her home, which never were hers to start." Nabiki pointed out angrily. "Damn I never heard of that clause on the legal documents of the house."
"It is a quite hidden document." Sachiko explained. "I only found because I have the best lawyers that the money can buy. The document was signed by your mother; the entire Tendo property belongs to the three daughters until one of them is the first to marry, after that day the entire property belongs to the now wed daughter and her husband. It is an heirloom and a stability for the newly weds and their new family."
Nabiki eyes water with tears. "She never told us anything about wanting to see us married." she whispered with Benji comforting her. "But how Akane found that?" Benji asked seriously. "If Nabiki who took care of everything never knew about it how she found out?"
"It also intrigued me so I looked up some more. The bank send a notification to the Tendo household" Sachiko said pulling some papers from a file. "You filed a request for the couple benefits in your bank right?" "Right." Nabiki said wiping away her tears. "It is much cheaper to maintain accounts and other things in the bank with the married status."
"And you use the same bank that you family used since before you were born." Sachiko said. "That bank also dealt with your mother's account, so when you filed the request and showed a copy of your wedding certificate the old documents that your mother submitted began to move, it was an account and the legal documents of the property. The account has money to pay the legal fees of the process of changing the ownership of the property and also money that is another part of the heirloom, with the years is accumulated interests and it is a considerable amount, putting on terms that we understand that account has enough money to you attend to the Tokyo university on the medicine school, pay for everything that you need including living expenses and housing and still have enough to buy a good car and keep it running for three months."
"Okay now I can see from where you got your business sense." Benji said to his wife. "The question here is what we do with the dojo?" "I don't know." Nabiki replied surprised with everything. "I never thought about things like that, I did wonder in selling the property but now it is nearly worthless because of Ranma and the others."
"Well I think that I know what to do with the money." Benji said in a serious tone. "We send Kasumi to Todai so she can graduate from college, she told me once that she wanted to be a doctor but because she takes care of the house she never had time. You are a business queen, you are my ice queen I know that you can make a plan for that money that will allow Kasumi to go to college and hire a live in maid to take care of everything."
"I agree with him queen." Sachiko said in a level tone. "While I don't know Kasumi as well you two do I know enough to want her to have a better future than being the eternal maid of those slobs."
"You two are right." Nabiki said wiping more tears from her eyes. "Benji and I are owners of a very successful company, we don't need that heirloom." "Actually queen you two own two companies." Sachiko said with meek smile. "Sometime after my 'death' I created two companies using the insurance one of them is mine alone and the other is ours, each one of us own thirty three percent of the company."
"You never told me about it." Nabiki said looking at Benji. "Well sounded a bit unneeded, I never really thought that it would successful." Benji replied in an embarrassed tone.
"Don't worry queen we haven't touched in any money that you gained since the foundation, well other than when we inject some of our money to new plans and other investments but they always return and it is returned to your account." Sachiko said with a smile. "I also made sure to keep track of the taxes so there won't be any issues on the money."
"How much?" Nabiki asked in a plain tone. "Well currently you have in our company a little over three million dollars." Sachiko answered cheerfully. "HOW MUCH???!!!!" Nabiki shouted before fainting. "I think that I broke her." Sachiko said in a worried tone. "She just overloaded." Benji said gently lying Nabiki on the bed. "She had cipher overdose. It happens whenever she sees our bank accounts our company gives us around two hundred thousand dollars every month. Thought we just keep two fifths of that."
"You two don't live as rich people." Sachiko commented casually. "Money brings comfort, happiness is priceless." Benji said with a smile while caressing Nabiki's hair. "We keep enough to have a comfortable life. Everything else is stored for the future, our children, college and other things like that our apartment is perfect, my BMW is great, our car is great too. Why we would want more than that?"
"I can understand that." Sachiko replied with a smile. "I also think like that, while I do enjoy my money a little more." "We also have a maid, who you think that do the power cleaning and washing every other day." Benji commented with a grin. "We cook and keep the house clean but we don't clean everything or wash our clothes."
"Every other day?" Sachiko asked casually. "Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays." Benji answered. "Usually for half a day, she vacuums the apartment, dust it, and clean the bathrooms and the kitchen, as I said power cleaning."
End of the chapter thirty seven:
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Author notes:
Blade shield: It is a rather simple piece of equipment composed of a metal armlet covering the arm from the wrist to just below the elbow, in the upper part of the armlet there is a two centimeters thick cover that doesn't pass of one inch away from the thicker part of the armlet. Under that cover it a double edged blade that can be ejected at will and used as a katar; a secondary edge comes out from the elbow to be used on elbow attacks. It is an old design from handful RPG sections that gives a rather good shield and a decent hidden weapon.
Disruptor sword: Nothing more than a tech katana; the blade is made to conduct electricity and the hilt stores and releases the electricity when slashing. Works similarly to a stun gun, the purpose is to disable an enemy as quickly as possible to allow either a chance of escape or killing the enemy. The basic design is from a normal katana with a rather small guard.
Double bladed knife: A knife with two blades one coming out from each side of the hilt, nothing especial or unique other than that.
Benji's new coat: It is a stylish coat made of many different materials selected by the difficulty to be cut. The basic design is mostly the same of his original coat with the addition of the cloak replacing the small and short cape over the shoulders that originally was there to protect him from rain. The cloak is there to hide weapons from everyone; the color was selected because the impact that would cause seeing the blood stains in the white fabric.