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Charlotte's Web
Chapter 3
My Darling Charlotte!
Ryoga didn't really like being in school. Sure enough no one dared question Nabiki except Kuno, but his question was more like "Nabiki Tendo! I need more pictures of the pigtailed girl! Do you have them? Eh . . . who is that? Never mind, do you have them?"
Of course Nabiki did, she sold a set of five for the ridiculous price of five thousand yen, then brought out some pictures of Akane, a set of five for ten thousand yen. Ryoga tried to protest to the pictures of Akane, but before he could snatch them away from Nabiki (Who later kicked him for trying) Kuno actually paid! What the heck was wrong with that guy? What a pervert! Well then again, Ryoga did share a bed with Akane as P-Chan, but it wasn't like he'd asked for such a sleeping arrangement. And it wasn't like he could argue about it since P-Chan cant talk . . . oh yeah, good cover no one would ever be able to call *him* a pervert . . . but eh . . . Kuno had serious problems!
Nabiki tried to get him to rematch Ranma, but Ryoga's head was in incredible pain already. Mousse took a shot at it during the first break but Ranma wiped the floors with him, and once again Kuno's challenge was just ignored.
Ryoga wondered how Ranma could attend this blasted school with all these people trying to fight him. Ryoga made a mental note to avoid fighting Ranma at school in the future, then remembered he owed Ranma nothing and changed his mind and decided to attack him at school more often. Ryoga despised this school and he didn't even attend it! Nabiki dragged him everywhere like a dog and he had to stand by her desk or sit on the ground.
Some people were interested in his plight, one teacher offered him the chair of an absent student but Nabiki was a she-devil. "No, he likes standing. Watch him stand on his head!" One girl had asked Ryoga if he was Nabiki's boyfriend. When he said "no" she started flirting with him and Nabiki had immediately attempted to rent Ryoga out to that girl for one thousand yen an hour! The girl sadly admitted she couldn't afford it and Nabiki gave her the number to the Tendo home and said "When you can afford it, give me a call, offer expires in thirty days."
Ryoga wanted to shove himself into a locker, but since he didn't know the combinations to any of the locks he tried to convince two bullies to do it. They were awfully confused, and ended up running away from him, thinking he was an undercover hall monitor.
However as the day was nearing it's middle Nabiki made an interesting deal during science class.
"We're going to cut up these unborn pigs today class!" The teacher said.
"I told you we dissect pigs." Nabiki whispered to Ryoga.
"I'm going to sort you out into groups of two, usually we have an odd student, but since Nabiki was kind enough to bring her little brother he can be her partner."
"Little brother?" Ryoga groaned.
The class was sorted, but then the teacher said "I must go, personal business y'know. I'll be back soon, behave or I'll beat you all with a yard stick! Miss. Hinako's class has a relatively low teen-pregnancy rate, but if you all behave–and if I didn't have diarrhea last month–we can beat her!" He said, taking a newspaper he walked off.
"EEEW!" One girl said. "This pig thing is SO gross!"
"Oh! My partner fainted!" A guy groaned.
"I am *not* cutting this thing up!" A girl said.
One guy had to comfort his partner because she was crying, mourning for the poor piggies that never got a chance at life. Another guy with making out with his partner because the teacher was gone and he didn't particularly care weather or not Miss. Hinako's class had fewer teen pregnancies.
"Now, now!" Nabiki announced. "No need to worry, for the mere price of five hundred yen a pig my "little brother" will do all the cutting *for* you!"
Everyone rushed to pay Nabiki, even the ones who weren't grossed out were all for not having to do the work. Ryoga had a policy, never harm a girl. He was considering breaking it by throwing Nabiki out a window.
Soon there was something like an assembly line going for Ryoga, and something like an orgy going on behind Ryoga. "Okay . . ." Ryoga mumbled to himself on the forth pig. "So I cut this thing here . . . then pull out that thing eeeeeww! Back in you go!" He worked very quickly because he had another six to go after this (Nabiki was taking care of her own pig) after a wrong move he tried to reattach the pig's tail but it just wasn't happening.
The whole experience was well worth a good long sulk though. Ryoga wasn't one to mourn his own misfortune (yeah right) but making that deal with Nabiki was the worst choice of his life!
Now, as they sat together in the cafeteria Ryoga tried to suffocate himself with the paper bag Nabiki had brought her lunch in. Until she popped it and nearly gave him a heart attack that is. She thought it was funny, he thought of running, but he needed to catch his breath first. Of course with his sense of direction he probably wouldn't get far, might even run straight to Nabiki's next class.
'Curses!' He thought. 'Akane is worth it. Must tell myself, Akane is worth this hellish torment!'
"Hungry?" Nabiki asked.
"No." Ryoga said.
"Don't pout. After all, how many people can say they dissected ten pigs in one day? Now that is something to put in your diary if you have one." Nabiki said cheerfully.
"Oh yeah? Well if I'm making you so much money, why doesn't it count to working off my debt?" Ryoga asked.
"Because I don't want it to." Nabiki said simply. Ryoga was about to protest, but Nabiki took the opportunity to shove food into his mouth. "Eat or you'll have no strength to fight Ranma after school."
"What about the money we made from the fight this morning?"
"Oh yeah . . . about that . . ." Nabiki said. "We didn't make anything, you took to long to lose, everyone changed their bets."
"Why the heck did you let them change their bets?" Ryoga asked.
"That's a good question." Nabiki said. "It seemed like a good idea at the time, since only four people were betting on you at the start." Nabiki shrugged. "When it was over everyone bet on Ranma so everyone got their money back. Actually I was out quite a bit, so you're going to have to be my slave a little longer, Ryoga-baby."
"I don't know how gambling works," Ryoga said. "but I feel like that is some how not the way it should be done."
Nabiki shrugged. "Whatever. Eat!" She shoved something else into his mouth.
"What in the name of all things good and holy are you feeding me?"
"The rest of my lunch." Nabiki said. "Kasumi made it, you should like it."
"I know that, but what is it? Y'know what? It doesn't matter, because I'm not hungry!" Ryoga protested.
"Well you're gonna eat anyway. Look! Here comes the air plane!"
"Don't do that! I hate it when people do that!" Ryoga whined.
"Wow!" Akane said. "Ryoga and Nabiki sure are spending a lot of time together today."
"They're just up to something." Ranma muttered. He was pretty sure Nabiki had talked Ryoga into fighting him today, maybe convinced him that he could win.
"Maybe they like each other." One of Akane's friends said.
Ranma watched as Nabiki forced Ryoga to eat the rest of her lunch. "Oh yeah. I hear wedding bells already." He snickered. Ranma didn't really care about Ryoga and Nabiki, if they were together it didn't really affect him, and if they were plotting something, he'd just have to beat Ryoga down again.
Nabiki sighed, looking out her window at the night sky.
Okay, so she'd sort of showed off today, she wasn't sure why but she just did. She'd told herself at the time that she was testing Ryoga's moneymaking potential but now she told herself she was just trying to impress him with the amount of money she could reel in, which didn't work. She'd also been trying to make him realize that he was literally her slave as well, but now he was just resistant to just about anything she told him, he wasn't even interested in giving her "Win Akane's Heart" plan a try anymore.
But he'd honor the contract at least. She's been right, he was, if nothing else, honorable.
He was starting to grow on her and it'd only been a day. When he successfully threw the fight against Ranma in the afternoon she wasn't quite sure if she should be pleased or concerned for his safety. Of course since she made a huge bundle of money she was pleased. She gave Ryoga something like ten percent instead of the fifty she'd promised him and told him he'd screwed up again. He didn't protest but she suspected he knew that she was holding out.
Who cared? After all what did he need with money? Nabiki had already made it clear, or at least tried to make it clear to Ryoga that he wasn't allowed to go on any of his adventures so what did he need money for? He wasn't going to buy Akane any souvenirs at the high school, that was for darn sure.
And why, Nabiki asked herself, did she care if he did buy Akane souvenirs? Why did she care at all if he got lost? The unexpected benefit of Ryoga's strength and Ranma being caught and forced to help out had finished the hard work quickly, most of what remained was just the finishing touches to this and that.
Nabiki had several questions to ask herself, unfortunately she came up with only one answer to the big one. The most important question in her life: How do I get more money? The answer was obvious: Use Ryoga, he's an idiot, but tapped properly: a useful idiot.
The German Shepherd watched the Tendo household with deadly gaze. The boy who turned into a pig was in there, he had to get that pig!
As the dog waited outside the gates, he saw a trio of black forms jump into the yard. The dog began to growl. He could sense the danger imposed by the three unknown men. As it came to its senses, it realized that their scents were familiar, it recognized them! He knew what was happening before the three ninjas made their landing.
A German Shepherd can be a frightening sight when properly motivated, and this dog was real motivated right now, he leapt over the Tendo fence with a single bound, and began his hunt.
Nabiki was standing by her window, she saw the three forms jump into the yard and split up. She was on her guard in a second. She moved quickly to the front door, as she opened it slowly, she heard P-Chan squeal!
"Ryoga!" She gasped. She ran to Akane's room, she saw Akane trying to fight with some guy dressed in black. "Akane!" She snapped. "What's going on?"
"I don't know!" Akane said. There were two men in the room, one of them was holding P-Chan, who despite his attempts at biting the man's hand, could not get free.
Nabiki heard a sound and turned in time to see the third man standing behind her. He reached out and grabbed her, holding her tight and covering her mouth.
"Is that the pig?" He asked.
"This is the only one I see, and it is black, just like she asked for."
"Let's go then-" the third man stumbled as Akane kicked him in the face.
"No! You can't take P-Chan!"
Suddenly the window shattered and a huge wolf thing jumped in, baring it's teeth and growling ferociously. I lunged for the man holding P-Chan, and tore into his arm with it's fangs! The man screamed and dropped P-Chan. P-Chan was running in no time, the man holding Nabiki let her go and tried to grab the black piglet.
Nabiki ran off, she wasn't afraid . . . well yes she was afraid. But if Ryoga was trying to get to any source of hot water he'd never find it. She ran into the kitchen and grabbed a glass.
P-Chan/Ryoga ran through the halls of the Tendo house, the man in black was behind him and gaining. Ryoga was getting desperate, he had to change into himself if he was going to stand any chance of escaping whatever evil purposes they had in store for him!
Not paying attention to where he was going, he ran into a wall when he tried to make a left turn (and ended up turning right)
The man was on him in a second, and Nabiki was on *him* in a second, jumping over him to throw some hot water on Ryoga.
"That pig owes me a lot of money, you're not taking him anywhere!" She cried.
The man's mask was messed up when she leapt over his back, as he struggled to adjust it, Ryoga became Ryoga. Nabiki threw him a pair of pants and by the time he was dressed the ninja's sight was restored.
"Where did that . . ." He glared at Nabiki. "Where did it go kid?!"
Ryoga lunged for him, hitting him square in the gut. The man doubled over. "Where is Ranma!" Ryoga shouted. "Ranma! If you have any brains in your idiot head you come out here and help us!"
Ranma snored very loudly. The sound of battle, and the fact that Akane and her opponent eventually ended up knocking down the wall to his room as they were locked in combat didn't seem to bother him, nor did it manage to pop the large bubble coming out of his nose.
Ryoga ran out into the yard, trying to lead them away from Akane! "Cant let them get Akane!" He said to himself.
The German Shepherd from before appeared, it barreled into him and he fell into the water of the Tendo pond. He was, once again P-Chan!
"Here's that pig!" One of them said. "Lets get out of here!" And one of them grabbed him and leapt away. P-Chan was definitely not a happy piggy.
The German Shepherd nodded with approval as the two men grabbed the pig and leapt away. Following their scent he ran off into the night.
Akane ran out into the night after Ryoga, when she heard one of them say "Here's that pig! Let's get out of here!" She picked up the pace, but tripped over a big fluffy dog, tripping and falling on her face.
They had P-Chan and they ran off. The dog went after them, and Akane tried to get up and go as well, but she couldn't see them anymore.
The butler knocked on the young girl's door, and waited for the answer.
Azusa opened the door. "What do you want? Azusa is in no mood for your nonsense right now!" She said.
"Visitors for you, Miss. Azusa."
Azusa gasped. "Charlotte? Oh my darling Charlotte has finally come home to be with Azusa?" She ran to the front door, and grabbed the pig from the two battle torn ninjas. "You took too long! Azusa will only pay half!"
"We lost a man!" One of them said. "You're paying us double or were taking that pig!"
Miss. Azusa was ruthless, unleashing a deadly assault by chair she knocked the man who'd spoken unconscious. The remaining man spoke, this time a bit more reverently. "Miss. Azusa, we weren't expecting such stiff resistance from a little girl. You did not tell us that she had an attack dog, or that she was a martial arts master OR that she had a body guard! Actually come to think of it, what sixteen year old girl has all those things? What kind of town is this?"
"Body guard? Attack doggy? Azusa doesn't care, Azusa has her Charlotte! Now you dirty men go away and don't come back!" She slammed the door. "Azusa woves her whittle Charlotte!" She said happily.
"Well, as long as Miss. Azusa is happy, my job is safe." The butler sighed.
'Charlotte' on the other hand began trying to bite Azusa's hand. Azusa whacked him with her whittle hammer.
To Be Continued . . .
Next Chapter . . .
"Well my little girl has quite a collection of little things she brings home." Azusa's father said. "I suppose a little black pig could have slipped under my radar. Oh, I'm sorry though, I can't stand to break her heart and take it away. But let me offer you a rather generous payment for the little creature."
It took all of Nabiki's self discipline not to slap Akane when she refused it.
"Well sir," Nabiki said sourly. "Are you a gambling man?"
"Sort of, yes." Azusa's father said.
"How about we play a little game, any game you choose." Nabiki said. "I'm willing to bet I'll beat you at anything."
"Strip poker?" Azusa's father asked, giving Akane and Nabiki appraising glances.
"I'm not interested in your cloths, only money." Nabiki said.
"Very well." Azusa's father said. "I know just the game."
"Mind you, if I win, I want my sister's pig back." Nabiki added.
"You said only money!"
"Oh you'll run out of that in no time." The seventeen year old girl said simply, naturally Azusa's father didn't take her seriously . . .
Charlotte's Web
Chapter 3
My Darling Charlotte!
Ryoga didn't really like being in school. Sure enough no one dared question Nabiki except Kuno, but his question was more like "Nabiki Tendo! I need more pictures of the pigtailed girl! Do you have them? Eh . . . who is that? Never mind, do you have them?"
Of course Nabiki did, she sold a set of five for the ridiculous price of five thousand yen, then brought out some pictures of Akane, a set of five for ten thousand yen. Ryoga tried to protest to the pictures of Akane, but before he could snatch them away from Nabiki (Who later kicked him for trying) Kuno actually paid! What the heck was wrong with that guy? What a pervert! Well then again, Ryoga did share a bed with Akane as P-Chan, but it wasn't like he'd asked for such a sleeping arrangement. And it wasn't like he could argue about it since P-Chan cant talk . . . oh yeah, good cover no one would ever be able to call *him* a pervert . . . but eh . . . Kuno had serious problems!
Nabiki tried to get him to rematch Ranma, but Ryoga's head was in incredible pain already. Mousse took a shot at it during the first break but Ranma wiped the floors with him, and once again Kuno's challenge was just ignored.
Ryoga wondered how Ranma could attend this blasted school with all these people trying to fight him. Ryoga made a mental note to avoid fighting Ranma at school in the future, then remembered he owed Ranma nothing and changed his mind and decided to attack him at school more often. Ryoga despised this school and he didn't even attend it! Nabiki dragged him everywhere like a dog and he had to stand by her desk or sit on the ground.
Some people were interested in his plight, one teacher offered him the chair of an absent student but Nabiki was a she-devil. "No, he likes standing. Watch him stand on his head!" One girl had asked Ryoga if he was Nabiki's boyfriend. When he said "no" she started flirting with him and Nabiki had immediately attempted to rent Ryoga out to that girl for one thousand yen an hour! The girl sadly admitted she couldn't afford it and Nabiki gave her the number to the Tendo home and said "When you can afford it, give me a call, offer expires in thirty days."
Ryoga wanted to shove himself into a locker, but since he didn't know the combinations to any of the locks he tried to convince two bullies to do it. They were awfully confused, and ended up running away from him, thinking he was an undercover hall monitor.
However as the day was nearing it's middle Nabiki made an interesting deal during science class.
"We're going to cut up these unborn pigs today class!" The teacher said.
"I told you we dissect pigs." Nabiki whispered to Ryoga.
"I'm going to sort you out into groups of two, usually we have an odd student, but since Nabiki was kind enough to bring her little brother he can be her partner."
"Little brother?" Ryoga groaned.
The class was sorted, but then the teacher said "I must go, personal business y'know. I'll be back soon, behave or I'll beat you all with a yard stick! Miss. Hinako's class has a relatively low teen-pregnancy rate, but if you all behave–and if I didn't have diarrhea last month–we can beat her!" He said, taking a newspaper he walked off.
"EEEW!" One girl said. "This pig thing is SO gross!"
"Oh! My partner fainted!" A guy groaned.
"I am *not* cutting this thing up!" A girl said.
One guy had to comfort his partner because she was crying, mourning for the poor piggies that never got a chance at life. Another guy with making out with his partner because the teacher was gone and he didn't particularly care weather or not Miss. Hinako's class had fewer teen pregnancies.
"Now, now!" Nabiki announced. "No need to worry, for the mere price of five hundred yen a pig my "little brother" will do all the cutting *for* you!"
Everyone rushed to pay Nabiki, even the ones who weren't grossed out were all for not having to do the work. Ryoga had a policy, never harm a girl. He was considering breaking it by throwing Nabiki out a window.
Soon there was something like an assembly line going for Ryoga, and something like an orgy going on behind Ryoga. "Okay . . ." Ryoga mumbled to himself on the forth pig. "So I cut this thing here . . . then pull out that thing eeeeeww! Back in you go!" He worked very quickly because he had another six to go after this (Nabiki was taking care of her own pig) after a wrong move he tried to reattach the pig's tail but it just wasn't happening.
The whole experience was well worth a good long sulk though. Ryoga wasn't one to mourn his own misfortune (yeah right) but making that deal with Nabiki was the worst choice of his life!
Now, as they sat together in the cafeteria Ryoga tried to suffocate himself with the paper bag Nabiki had brought her lunch in. Until she popped it and nearly gave him a heart attack that is. She thought it was funny, he thought of running, but he needed to catch his breath first. Of course with his sense of direction he probably wouldn't get far, might even run straight to Nabiki's next class.
'Curses!' He thought. 'Akane is worth it. Must tell myself, Akane is worth this hellish torment!'
"Hungry?" Nabiki asked.
"No." Ryoga said.
"Don't pout. After all, how many people can say they dissected ten pigs in one day? Now that is something to put in your diary if you have one." Nabiki said cheerfully.
"Oh yeah? Well if I'm making you so much money, why doesn't it count to working off my debt?" Ryoga asked.
"Because I don't want it to." Nabiki said simply. Ryoga was about to protest, but Nabiki took the opportunity to shove food into his mouth. "Eat or you'll have no strength to fight Ranma after school."
"What about the money we made from the fight this morning?"
"Oh yeah . . . about that . . ." Nabiki said. "We didn't make anything, you took to long to lose, everyone changed their bets."
"Why the heck did you let them change their bets?" Ryoga asked.
"That's a good question." Nabiki said. "It seemed like a good idea at the time, since only four people were betting on you at the start." Nabiki shrugged. "When it was over everyone bet on Ranma so everyone got their money back. Actually I was out quite a bit, so you're going to have to be my slave a little longer, Ryoga-baby."
"I don't know how gambling works," Ryoga said. "but I feel like that is some how not the way it should be done."
Nabiki shrugged. "Whatever. Eat!" She shoved something else into his mouth.
"What in the name of all things good and holy are you feeding me?"
"The rest of my lunch." Nabiki said. "Kasumi made it, you should like it."
"I know that, but what is it? Y'know what? It doesn't matter, because I'm not hungry!" Ryoga protested.
"Well you're gonna eat anyway. Look! Here comes the air plane!"
"Don't do that! I hate it when people do that!" Ryoga whined.
"Wow!" Akane said. "Ryoga and Nabiki sure are spending a lot of time together today."
"They're just up to something." Ranma muttered. He was pretty sure Nabiki had talked Ryoga into fighting him today, maybe convinced him that he could win.
"Maybe they like each other." One of Akane's friends said.
Ranma watched as Nabiki forced Ryoga to eat the rest of her lunch. "Oh yeah. I hear wedding bells already." He snickered. Ranma didn't really care about Ryoga and Nabiki, if they were together it didn't really affect him, and if they were plotting something, he'd just have to beat Ryoga down again.
Nabiki sighed, looking out her window at the night sky.
Okay, so she'd sort of showed off today, she wasn't sure why but she just did. She'd told herself at the time that she was testing Ryoga's moneymaking potential but now she told herself she was just trying to impress him with the amount of money she could reel in, which didn't work. She'd also been trying to make him realize that he was literally her slave as well, but now he was just resistant to just about anything she told him, he wasn't even interested in giving her "Win Akane's Heart" plan a try anymore.
But he'd honor the contract at least. She's been right, he was, if nothing else, honorable.
He was starting to grow on her and it'd only been a day. When he successfully threw the fight against Ranma in the afternoon she wasn't quite sure if she should be pleased or concerned for his safety. Of course since she made a huge bundle of money she was pleased. She gave Ryoga something like ten percent instead of the fifty she'd promised him and told him he'd screwed up again. He didn't protest but she suspected he knew that she was holding out.
Who cared? After all what did he need with money? Nabiki had already made it clear, or at least tried to make it clear to Ryoga that he wasn't allowed to go on any of his adventures so what did he need money for? He wasn't going to buy Akane any souvenirs at the high school, that was for darn sure.
And why, Nabiki asked herself, did she care if he did buy Akane souvenirs? Why did she care at all if he got lost? The unexpected benefit of Ryoga's strength and Ranma being caught and forced to help out had finished the hard work quickly, most of what remained was just the finishing touches to this and that.
Nabiki had several questions to ask herself, unfortunately she came up with only one answer to the big one. The most important question in her life: How do I get more money? The answer was obvious: Use Ryoga, he's an idiot, but tapped properly: a useful idiot.
The German Shepherd watched the Tendo household with deadly gaze. The boy who turned into a pig was in there, he had to get that pig!
As the dog waited outside the gates, he saw a trio of black forms jump into the yard. The dog began to growl. He could sense the danger imposed by the three unknown men. As it came to its senses, it realized that their scents were familiar, it recognized them! He knew what was happening before the three ninjas made their landing.
A German Shepherd can be a frightening sight when properly motivated, and this dog was real motivated right now, he leapt over the Tendo fence with a single bound, and began his hunt.
Nabiki was standing by her window, she saw the three forms jump into the yard and split up. She was on her guard in a second. She moved quickly to the front door, as she opened it slowly, she heard P-Chan squeal!
"Ryoga!" She gasped. She ran to Akane's room, she saw Akane trying to fight with some guy dressed in black. "Akane!" She snapped. "What's going on?"
"I don't know!" Akane said. There were two men in the room, one of them was holding P-Chan, who despite his attempts at biting the man's hand, could not get free.
Nabiki heard a sound and turned in time to see the third man standing behind her. He reached out and grabbed her, holding her tight and covering her mouth.
"Is that the pig?" He asked.
"This is the only one I see, and it is black, just like she asked for."
"Let's go then-" the third man stumbled as Akane kicked him in the face.
"No! You can't take P-Chan!"
Suddenly the window shattered and a huge wolf thing jumped in, baring it's teeth and growling ferociously. I lunged for the man holding P-Chan, and tore into his arm with it's fangs! The man screamed and dropped P-Chan. P-Chan was running in no time, the man holding Nabiki let her go and tried to grab the black piglet.
Nabiki ran off, she wasn't afraid . . . well yes she was afraid. But if Ryoga was trying to get to any source of hot water he'd never find it. She ran into the kitchen and grabbed a glass.
P-Chan/Ryoga ran through the halls of the Tendo house, the man in black was behind him and gaining. Ryoga was getting desperate, he had to change into himself if he was going to stand any chance of escaping whatever evil purposes they had in store for him!
Not paying attention to where he was going, he ran into a wall when he tried to make a left turn (and ended up turning right)
The man was on him in a second, and Nabiki was on *him* in a second, jumping over him to throw some hot water on Ryoga.
"That pig owes me a lot of money, you're not taking him anywhere!" She cried.
The man's mask was messed up when she leapt over his back, as he struggled to adjust it, Ryoga became Ryoga. Nabiki threw him a pair of pants and by the time he was dressed the ninja's sight was restored.
"Where did that . . ." He glared at Nabiki. "Where did it go kid?!"
Ryoga lunged for him, hitting him square in the gut. The man doubled over. "Where is Ranma!" Ryoga shouted. "Ranma! If you have any brains in your idiot head you come out here and help us!"
Ranma snored very loudly. The sound of battle, and the fact that Akane and her opponent eventually ended up knocking down the wall to his room as they were locked in combat didn't seem to bother him, nor did it manage to pop the large bubble coming out of his nose.
Ryoga ran out into the yard, trying to lead them away from Akane! "Cant let them get Akane!" He said to himself.
The German Shepherd from before appeared, it barreled into him and he fell into the water of the Tendo pond. He was, once again P-Chan!
"Here's that pig!" One of them said. "Lets get out of here!" And one of them grabbed him and leapt away. P-Chan was definitely not a happy piggy.
The German Shepherd nodded with approval as the two men grabbed the pig and leapt away. Following their scent he ran off into the night.
Akane ran out into the night after Ryoga, when she heard one of them say "Here's that pig! Let's get out of here!" She picked up the pace, but tripped over a big fluffy dog, tripping and falling on her face.
They had P-Chan and they ran off. The dog went after them, and Akane tried to get up and go as well, but she couldn't see them anymore.
The butler knocked on the young girl's door, and waited for the answer.
Azusa opened the door. "What do you want? Azusa is in no mood for your nonsense right now!" She said.
"Visitors for you, Miss. Azusa."
Azusa gasped. "Charlotte? Oh my darling Charlotte has finally come home to be with Azusa?" She ran to the front door, and grabbed the pig from the two battle torn ninjas. "You took too long! Azusa will only pay half!"
"We lost a man!" One of them said. "You're paying us double or were taking that pig!"
Miss. Azusa was ruthless, unleashing a deadly assault by chair she knocked the man who'd spoken unconscious. The remaining man spoke, this time a bit more reverently. "Miss. Azusa, we weren't expecting such stiff resistance from a little girl. You did not tell us that she had an attack dog, or that she was a martial arts master OR that she had a body guard! Actually come to think of it, what sixteen year old girl has all those things? What kind of town is this?"
"Body guard? Attack doggy? Azusa doesn't care, Azusa has her Charlotte! Now you dirty men go away and don't come back!" She slammed the door. "Azusa woves her whittle Charlotte!" She said happily.
"Well, as long as Miss. Azusa is happy, my job is safe." The butler sighed.
'Charlotte' on the other hand began trying to bite Azusa's hand. Azusa whacked him with her whittle hammer.
To Be Continued . . .
Next Chapter . . .
"Well my little girl has quite a collection of little things she brings home." Azusa's father said. "I suppose a little black pig could have slipped under my radar. Oh, I'm sorry though, I can't stand to break her heart and take it away. But let me offer you a rather generous payment for the little creature."
It took all of Nabiki's self discipline not to slap Akane when she refused it.
"Well sir," Nabiki said sourly. "Are you a gambling man?"
"Sort of, yes." Azusa's father said.
"How about we play a little game, any game you choose." Nabiki said. "I'm willing to bet I'll beat you at anything."
"Strip poker?" Azusa's father asked, giving Akane and Nabiki appraising glances.
"I'm not interested in your cloths, only money." Nabiki said.
"Very well." Azusa's father said. "I know just the game."
"Mind you, if I win, I want my sister's pig back." Nabiki added.
"You said only money!"
"Oh you'll run out of that in no time." The seventeen year old girl said simply, naturally Azusa's father didn't take her seriously . . .