Life Sentence (part 1)Sorrow & Hope
Nabiki walks home, trembling tense and emotional. She couldn't believe what she heard from the doctor. She is feeling sick, sick to her stomach. She goes home, and walks to her room zombie like. As she cries herself to sleep. She dreams. "Nabiki, please don't cry, be strong for Mommie, take care of your sisters and your father, and keep practicing I'm sure one day you will be better than Kasumi in the arts." Eight year old, Nabiki is beside her dying mom. She is crying heavily and only hears parts of her mother's words as she is lead out by her father so that her mom could rest. Little Nabiki is about to push open the door to see mommie again, instead she overhears the conversation between Soun and Kimiko:
Soun sobbing: "Kimiko we can mortgage the house and pay for further treatments...
you can get better." Tears streaks down his face.
Kimiko murmur sadly: "Soun its too late, let me die with dignity,
Please take care of Kasumi, Nabiki and Akane, I don't think they understand
that I'm dying."
Soun: "I love you"
Kimiko: "I love you"
Both are crying softly....
Eight year old Nabiki stares uncomprehending. Later on, in the hospital hall, she hears Soun argue with the doctors for further treatment; however the doctors refuse for the patient is too far gone.
"Mom" breathes Nabiki as she wakes up. ~Why does it have to happen to us. We need you.~ She thought sadly. Then she remembers that she didn't keep one of her mom's requests to keep practicing the art. Her mother's art. She cries again, a knock on the door interrupts her. "Are you ok?" asked Kasumi through the door. Nabiki resumes her ice queen facade. "Yes I'm fine, just a little down with the flu. I'll be down later, I want to sleep in." Faking a cough, she then turns and listens as Kasumi heads back down the stairs. ~Poor Kasumi, taking care of us, she can't continue practicing the art and she was the best of us. Not that there is an art anymore to pass on to the next generation.~ Flashback five years ago:
"Daddy how could you!" The sign for their mom's art was pulled down and given to the dojo destroyer, the challenger bowed and left. Nabiki never spoke to her father again, and stopped training that fateful day. Nabiki frowned as she remembered why she gave up the art. ~I'm sorry mom, I should have kept practicing and win it back.~ She sighs as she remembered why Soun lost. He was still grieving over Kimiko's death, even though it was a year later. He also neglected the dojo and his students resulting in the lost of all their students and his status as a good teacher. After that, no one came back to a losing dojo and a weepy emotional sensei. She frowned further. ~I should trace where my mom's sign is. I will win it back.~ With this thought Nabiki lifted herself out of her depressed grim thoughts. ~I don't have much time, I must make a training regime and catch up all those lost years.~ She grinned as she thought of Ranma. ~maybe, maybe anything is possible.~
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(65 char)Author's Note: About Anything Goes Martial Arts, Strange thing about Tendo and Saotomes and everyone else: Everyone pretty much practices a different type of martial arts, maybe
it depends on who is related to whom or trained by whom. If Soun didn't really have Genma
to depend on, his dojo would be ruined, pretty much by his lack of concentration in passing on
Anything Goes Martial Arts...however it would explain quite a bit of why Soun would stop
training Akane and why no one really took Akane's martial art prowess seriously if the dojo was teaching another style instead (Kimiko's ??? still thinking of a type of martial arts) for a while. Afterall, Genma and Soun's intentions to join the school, is probably due to the fact that they only had one teacher Happosai and it was recently started by them, Happosai's earliest students.
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Nabiki walks home, trembling tense and emotional. She couldn't believe what she heard from the doctor. She is feeling sick, sick to her stomach. She goes home, and walks to her room zombie like. As she cries herself to sleep. She dreams. "Nabiki, please don't cry, be strong for Mommie, take care of your sisters and your father, and keep practicing I'm sure one day you will be better than Kasumi in the arts." Eight year old, Nabiki is beside her dying mom. She is crying heavily and only hears parts of her mother's words as she is lead out by her father so that her mom could rest. Little Nabiki is about to push open the door to see mommie again, instead she overhears the conversation between Soun and Kimiko:
Soun sobbing: "Kimiko we can mortgage the house and pay for further treatments...
you can get better." Tears streaks down his face.
Kimiko murmur sadly: "Soun its too late, let me die with dignity,
Please take care of Kasumi, Nabiki and Akane, I don't think they understand
that I'm dying."
Soun: "I love you"
Kimiko: "I love you"
Both are crying softly....
Eight year old Nabiki stares uncomprehending. Later on, in the hospital hall, she hears Soun argue with the doctors for further treatment; however the doctors refuse for the patient is too far gone.
"Mom" breathes Nabiki as she wakes up. ~Why does it have to happen to us. We need you.~ She thought sadly. Then she remembers that she didn't keep one of her mom's requests to keep practicing the art. Her mother's art. She cries again, a knock on the door interrupts her. "Are you ok?" asked Kasumi through the door. Nabiki resumes her ice queen facade. "Yes I'm fine, just a little down with the flu. I'll be down later, I want to sleep in." Faking a cough, she then turns and listens as Kasumi heads back down the stairs. ~Poor Kasumi, taking care of us, she can't continue practicing the art and she was the best of us. Not that there is an art anymore to pass on to the next generation.~ Flashback five years ago:
"Daddy how could you!" The sign for their mom's art was pulled down and given to the dojo destroyer, the challenger bowed and left. Nabiki never spoke to her father again, and stopped training that fateful day. Nabiki frowned as she remembered why she gave up the art. ~I'm sorry mom, I should have kept practicing and win it back.~ She sighs as she remembered why Soun lost. He was still grieving over Kimiko's death, even though it was a year later. He also neglected the dojo and his students resulting in the lost of all their students and his status as a good teacher. After that, no one came back to a losing dojo and a weepy emotional sensei. She frowned further. ~I should trace where my mom's sign is. I will win it back.~ With this thought Nabiki lifted herself out of her depressed grim thoughts. ~I don't have much time, I must make a training regime and catch up all those lost years.~ She grinned as she thought of Ranma. ~maybe, maybe anything is possible.~
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(65 char)Author's Note: About Anything Goes Martial Arts, Strange thing about Tendo and Saotomes and everyone else: Everyone pretty much practices a different type of martial arts, maybe
it depends on who is related to whom or trained by whom. If Soun didn't really have Genma
to depend on, his dojo would be ruined, pretty much by his lack of concentration in passing on
Anything Goes Martial Arts...however it would explain quite a bit of why Soun would stop
training Akane and why no one really took Akane's martial art prowess seriously if the dojo was teaching another style instead (Kimiko's ??? still thinking of a type of martial arts) for a while. Afterall, Genma and Soun's intentions to join the school, is probably due to the fact that they only had one teacher Happosai and it was recently started by them, Happosai's earliest students.
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