Family Ties

The Slumber Party-

Ryoga didn't think he was going to live any longer. This crazed girl was attached to him, declaring her 'undying love' for him. Now he knew how Ranma felt whenever Shampoo was around.He felt the breath of life slowly leaving his lungs. He kept hearing Ranma plead, "Toshi, get off!" So.. Toshi was her name. Ryoga decided to cry out once more.

"TOSHI! YOU'RE KILLING ME!" he cried. The girl looked up at him with much interest.

"You promise not to leave?" she asked.

'She's actually kind of cute' Ryoga thought to himself. 'In a crazed maniac sort of way'

Ryoga sighed and nodded. Toshi smiled and blew another raspberry at the disgruntled Ranma. Nabiki and Akane dashed down the stairs at the same time. Both with worry on their faces.

"Awwwww... It's over..." Nabiki relented camera in hand.

"WHERE"S P-CHAN?" Akane shouted.
Ryoga looked into the adoring little girl's eyes. They scared him immensely. They were so innocent, so pure, so... so... EVIL. Ryoga had to get out of there. He sat on the Tendo's couch, next to Toshi, who held him captive. Ranma was busy explaining the proceedings to Nabiki and Akane. Kasumi was passing out cookies. Ryoga looked nervously for an escape, eyes darting to and fro, like a scared rodent. Toshi gazed at Ryoga, pushing ever closer. Ranma kept looking over her shoulder and glaring at Ryoga, and once in a while, Ryoga's eyes would blur because of the flash from Nabiki's camera. Ryoga blindly accepted a cookie.

"How CUTE!" Akane said after Ranma explained everything to her and Nabiki.

"It's NOT CUTE!" Ranma yelled and stamped her foot. Nabiki snapped a picture.

"I've run out of cookies, so time for bed!Everyone in bed, lights out." Kasumi said.

"Where'll Ryoga sleep?" Toshi asked innocently. Ranma grinned at this.

'This could work out for me...' Ranma thought. The room was silent for a few moments as everyone was thinking about an answer to Toshi's question.

Ryoga sweatdropped.

"Why doesn't he sleep in our room? Toshi'll be in there." Ranma asked and grinned mischievously. Ryoga shook his head profusely.

"No really..." Ryoga began to interject.

"Great idea Ranma! It'll be like a slumber party for Toshi! To welcome her!" Kasumi and Akane said.

"Great idea!" Toshi beamed.

"Wait, Really though..." Ryoga tried to stop the madness.

"See, Ryoga and Ranma think it's a good idea! So let's do it!" Akane said, Nabiki snapped another picture.

"Speaking of bedtime, where's P-Chan?" Akane asked. Akane looked around in wonderment. "Where could he be?"

"Oh, he's around..." Nabiki said evilly, and smiled while snapping another photograph.

"Well, I'm going to bed, he'll turn up. I'm beat." Akane yawned and started upstairs, suddenly forgetting about her urgency to find the pig. "Have fun you guys!"

"I'm out of film." Nabiki said slyly and ran upstairs, eager to set up the spy cams in the Saotome's room.

"I'm off to wash dishes. Our fathers should be home soon. There are some board games you guys may want to play, I'll be up with popcorn later!" Kasumi said. She smiled brightly.

Ryoga looked around the deserted living room. He looked at Toshi in horror as the whole impact of the situation got to him.

'I'm trapped'

Ranma grinned seeing Ryoga's face. "Y'know what, lemme get some hot water and I'll be right up." She snuck off to the kitchen.

Toshi took Ryoga's hand and led him up the stairs.

"Y'know Ryoga, if you and my brother are the same age, then I'm only one and a half years younger than you. I'm about to be fifteen. People have gotten married at fifteen! To people that are sixteen..." Toshi said as she and Ryoga walked up the stairs...

Ranma grinned evilly. "This should be fun."

Later that night...

"How about a game of Twister?" Toshi asked Ryoga excitedly.

"I call spinner!" Ranma shouted.

"But... But!" Ryoga said.

"Ryoga's right, Shi-Chan." Ranma said.

"About what?" she asked curiously.

"Some butter would make the mat slippery and that would make the game ten times funner!" Ranma said.

"Ryoga said that?"

"Yep, when you were out gettin' the game."

"Sounds fun! I didn't know Ryoga was like that..." Toshi smiled mischievously at Ryoga.

"And there's extra popcorn butter." Ranma added, controlling his frown at Toshi's smile towards Ryoga. If this was the way to get Ryoga back, then so be it.

"Great. Ranma no Baka. " Ryoga mumbled.

Ranma smiled ignoring Ryoga's comment "Right foot Blue!"

Even LATER that night...

Toshi stepped into the room, her hair was wet, black and slick, she wore a light green nightshirt. "Great game, great shower. Where's Ryoga?"

"Taking a shower." Ranma turned over on his mat and opened one eye. His hair clung to his head. "Go to sleep, he'll be back." He turned over again.

"I'll wait." She grabbed a piece of popcorn from the bottom of the bowl.

Knock Knock Knock.

Akane turned over in bed to glance at her alarm clock. "One in the morning! What do they want?" she mumbled groggily.

She climbed out of bed to answer the door. She flipped on her light.

"Another nose bleed P-Chan?" She lifted her little pet pig to her face. She grabbed a tissue quickly to wipe his little snout.

"Come in." Akane called as she wiped P-Chan's nose.

Toshi opened the door and walked in. Her eyes were red and she sniffled slightly.

"Toshi, what's wrong?" Akane asked. P-Chan looked in fear at the girl.

"Akane, do you know where Ryoga is? I'm afraid something might have happened to him." Toshi asked.

"Toshi, you know he gets lost all the time, I thought Ranma told you." Akane answered. P-Chan cringed.

"I know, Ranmi-chan told me that. Earlier, he went to take a shower and never came back."

"He's probably lost... but Toshi, he can take care of himself. You really like him don't you?" Akane smiled.

"Yeah... he'll come back, though, right?"

"He always does. Sorry about that, I know you guys were having fun." P-Chan squealed. Akane and Toshi looked down at him, who was now sitting on Akane's bed "P-Chan feels sorry too. Hey, why don't you sleep with P-Chan? He can keep you company! I'll be fine without him."

"Sure?"

"Positive." He squealed in shock and shook his little head in protest.

"Look, he's really excited!"

"Ok!" Toshi grabbed the little pig and walked out the door. "Thanks Akane!"

"Don't worry about it." Toshi turned off Akane's light and shut her door. She snuggled P-Chan to her chest.

"Y'know, P-Chan, I know Ryoga can take care of himself, I mean he's Ranma's age...I guess... and I can tell that he's a martial artist... but I still have the right to worry, right?"

P-Chan squealed. Toshi opened the door to the Saotome's room. P-Chan squealed again.

Ranma sat up "So, you found him."

"What do ya mean?"

"Never mind, go to bed."