Chapter 8 Friend or Foe?
Nabiki was frustrated. Never in her entire life had she seen someone like him. The first time he had shown up and fought her sister, she had seen him as another dumb jock to make cash off of. Then, once again she was surprised to find out from her lackeys that Saotome was one of the smartest kids in school. But she loved a challenge, so she couldn't just let this opportunity to make some yen for the house pass her by. So she started digging through Ranma's past. But a situation had presented itself at her house last Saturday that was perfect. So she confronted the man…
~Flashback~
Ranma and Akane were sitting together at lunch Monday, when out of the blue they were interrupted.
"Hey Saotome, can I talk to you for a second?" Nabiki had asked as she rounded the tree they were under. Ranma looked up from his conversation and smiled. He nodded to her and turned back to Akane. "Just a sec Kane-chan, I'll be right back." He said. Akane nodded.
So Ranma got up and walked a little ways from the tree where they were,for the most part, by themselves. Nabiki stopped walking and turned towards Ranma.
"So, what can I help you with Nabiki-san?" asked Ranma as he stopped in front of her. Nabiki just regarded him.
"Well, Saotome. I just got something in my posession, something that you might want to see." Stated Nabiki with her 'ice-queen' mask in place. Ranma just looked at her.
"Okay, so what's up?" Ranma asked. He knew Nabiki was up to something. He had seen her aura when they had first met. She was a sweet girl that put up a front for her 'business'. He had seen the bank book on the Tendo kitchen counter when he had come over the other day. It was rude of him to have done it, but curiosity won out. Turned out Nabiki pretty much supported the household with her earnings at school. It wasn't a very honest way to make it, but when you have a dad that won't teach, and two sisters to support, you did what you had to do. Ranma respected her for that. But he didn't want to be a part of it, so he had already decided that if Nabiki needed money from him, she would have to ask directly. He wasn't going to play her little blackmail games.
"Well…" Nabiki produced some photos of Ranma and Akane's little predicament last Saturday. It showed Akane in his arms, and Akane's arms wrapped around his neck. They're staring into each others eyes, and are drawing closer. If anyone didn't know the situation that they were in, anyone would think it was a picture of a couple about to kiss. "These happened to come to my possession, and you know with my sister not liking boys and such, these could really ruin how people saw you two." stated Nabiki. "Not to mention give everyone the wrong idea.
Ranma was impressed. Not with Nabiki's methods, but that she had taken his picture the other day and he hadn't known she was there. So he decided to indulge her. "Is that so? Well, I'm sure since you have them now, you being her sister and all, you would never let anyone else see these, would you?" Ranma said casually looking over the photos. 'Man, these are good; Nabiki has some talent with a camera.' He thought.
Nabiki almost faltered. She had expected him to get flustered and embarrassed. Instead though he talks about it like it was nothing. "Well Saotome," she began. "That all depends. For a low 5000 yen these will stay in my possession…" she trailed off, holding her hand out to him.
Ranma just blinked at her hand, looked back at the photos in his hand, then back to her open palm. He grinned to himself as an idea popped into his head. "Hmm…I don't know, I'll have to ask Akane if these would really bother her or not…" Ranma said as he looked over to where his friend was now looking at them.
'Ack, damn. I can't let Akane see what I'm doing to her friend. She'd kill me.' She reached for the photos, but Ranma had decided to walk over to Akane at that time, so she grasped air. 'Shit!' she thought, following him.
"Hey, Ran-chan. What did my sister want" Asked Akane as she looked at Ranma. She peered over his shoulder where Nabiki was on her way over towards them.
"Well Kane-chan, she was showing me these photos she got of us. I wanted to see if they would bother you or not before I paid her the 5000 yen she was asking for." Nabiki just put her head in her hands behind them both.
Akane looked over the photos, eyes growing wider with each. She shot her head over to her sister. "Naaaabiiiiki…" she ground out in a low voice, eyes narrowing. She felt a slight pinch on her arm and looked down at it. She followed the hand up to its owner. Ranma gave her a smile and winked to her with the eye Nabiki couldn't see. He slightly shook his head as is saying, 'don't worry about it.' She understood what he meant. He didn't care if her sister had tried to blackmail him. She looked back at the pictures, and then grinned. She had an idea. She looked up to her sister.
Nabiki knew she was about to get it when her sister looked up to her and grinned. "These are great pictures sis, don't you think Ranma?" Asked Akane,holding them to where Ranma could see them. Ranma grinned as he could see what she was doing.
"Sure are Kane-chan, but they don't do you justice." He said as he casually stepped forward, putting his arm around her waste. Akane's hand came up to his chest.
"Flattery will get you everywhere, Ran-chan." She said in a 'ahem' suggested voice.
Nabiki could do nothing but gawk as her baby sister leaned up towards her 'friend.' This wasn't going like she planned. They're supposed to be just friends, so with those pictures she could make some money off this guy. But here they were, getting all lovey dovey in front of her.
Ranma and Akane almost lost it at the sight of Nabiki staring at them with her jaw hanging open. Akane leaned up so her face was next to his ear. "She looks like she's about to pass out." She whispered.
Ranma nodded and lowered his own mouth. "Yeah, I'm just trying to show her she isn't going to blackmail me. If she needs something she's gonna have to ask me for it." stated Ranma.
Riiiiiiiip Nabiki looked to that sound. There in Akane's hands, were the remains of the photos. She could only stare. Not that the loss of the pictures were important, she had the negatives of those. No, what she was staring at were the faces of Ranma and Akane. They showed barely controlled laughter. She just blinked at them.
That was too much for Akane and she collapsed to the ground in laughter. Ranma let a few giggles escape, but he needed to tell Nabiki something. He watched as realization that she had been tricked and made a fool of appeared on her visage. He brows furrowed and she turned around, ready to stomp off. She was halted by a hand on her elbow. She turned her furrowed brow towards the person.
"I'm not going to play your games, Nabiki." stated Ranma. "I know that the money you earn goes to the dojo, but this is very serious stuff. You shouldn't be blackmailing people and making bets at fights and such." He said in a calm voice.
"And why not, Saotome, hmm? Someone has to support my family while our dad does nothing, and this is the easiest way to do it." Nabiki said, voice continually getting louder as her mask fell. She had never been played the fool of, especially in front of the whole damn school. It was bad for business, and it also was a blow to her pride. "So don't you dare do that again in front of everyone, our you WILL regret it." She tried to walk off but he held firm.
"Nabiki…" he tried again, "this is dangerous. What if you do this to someone that one day will retaliate? I can see you're not a fighter, and I wouldn't put rape past some of the less loved guys here, let alone beating the hell out of you. And what if one went to the local Yakuza?"
Ranma could see Nabiki's eyes widen with each statement. He nodded to himself and continued, while opening his wallet. "You need to get out of this habit Nabiki. I could tell by those photos you took, that you could make a hell of a photographer, and with your business sense, a great business woman." He took her hand in his and laid a 10,000 yen note into it, closing her palm around it. "You are both my friends, Nabiki. I will do anything in my power to help you and you family. But you have to stop this. You love your family dearly and it shows, since all this goes to them." he said, squeezing the hand that held the bill. "But some day, this might go too far, and your not only going to endanger yourself, but the people you love. Yakuza are ruthless, and will not have a second thought about killing a person's family to get what they want." He released her hand and began walking away.
"All you need to do it ask…" she heard from him. She stood there for awhile, staring at her hand. 'Yakuza…rape…' she had never even thought about that. She ran a little betting pool around here, why would they care about that. 'They wouldn't, but they damn sure would want a cut of it,' her inner voice told her. She looked up to the retreating figure, and watched as he sat back down by her sister. Then she just turned and walked away.
~End Flashback~
After that day, her blackmailing decreased tremendously, and she had even declined to take bets on whether or not Ranma would end up with her sister. Ranma had pointed out something that she had never even considered. And in doing so, she was putting the very people she did it for in danger.
She sat at her desk, looking at the book she used for bets and information. It was huge, with info on almost every person she had ever dealt with. She just sat there in thought.
"All you need to do it ask…" That statement Ranma had made got her thinking. She had never really looked for a job, and she despised charity, but that statement had made her re-think what she needed to do.
Ever since her mother had died, her father had been a wreck. The dojo lost all its students since he refused to teach, so the house was going under. That was when she had decided to take over. Akane was going to be the heir to the dojo, and Kasumi was going to take care of the house and her family. So, she would support them. That next day she had started a cycle that has continued up to this day.
Now, she needed to make a decision. She ran her hand over the cover of the book. Minutes passed, then a half an hour. Finally, she nodded and picked up the book and her small trashcan. She walked out of her room and made her way out into the backyard. She stopped and grabbed something out of the kitchen drawer on the way out.
When she got out by the koi pond, she sat the trashcan on one of the larger rocks. She regarded the book in her hand. 'Eight years of work,' she thought, 'eight years of my life.' She dropped it into to can and staed at it.
She absently heard the knock on the door but paid it no mind. Moment later, she raised the object she had gotten from the kitchen.
shiqit was the sound of a match being drawn across its case. "…but no more…" she whispered, "…the ice-queen is no more…" and with that, she dropped the match.
She watched as slowly, each leaflet of paper caught on fire. Information on hundreds of people that took years to gather, were turned to ash in an instant. She just stood there, not knowing of the presence behind her.
"It is good to see that I am not the only one to have come to my senses, Nabiki Tendo." said a voice from behind her. She turned and looked at the man, and sighed.
"Hello Kuno-baby." She said in a depressed voice.
"Hello to you," he responded, "He is one of a kind. Is he not?"
Nabiki raised an eyebrow and regarded the former insane idiot. "Who do you mean and I'll tell you whether he is or isn't.?"
Kuno smiled slightly. "Saotome, of course. A man who brought another man away from the endless depths of madness; a man who gave a new a meaning to the life of one everyone thought cruel and heartless. What else could he be referred to as?" Kuno stated as he watched the papers burn.
Nabiki looked at her hands as she thought. Everyone had thought she was a hard bitch, one that would do anything for money. Few knew about the yen she gave Kasumi to pay off the mortgage to the house. Not even her own father and little sister knew her true reasons for becoming the 'ice queen.' "Yes, he is Kuno-chan. Not many people like him out there." She said as she looked back to her trashcan.
"That there isn't…Nabiki." said Kuno. Both sat there and watched as the blaze shrunk in size. Minutes later, Kuno continued. "Saotome came and spoke with me earlier. He told me what he had hoped to do about your endeavors. He said that you would be in the need of a friend, and since I also am in need of one, he thought that I could be that person." Both just stared at the fire. Kuno saw the small smirk make its way across the ex- mercenary girls face, and decided to try and raise her spirits.
"Ahh, the fair Nabiki Tendo. I would bless you with my divine presence at Swirley's for ice-cream. Wouldst thou wish to accompany mine self to such an eloquent establishment?" he stated, doing a mock bow, smile never leaving his face.
Nabiki couldn't help but giggle at his actions. She shook her head and regarded him. "Only if you promise never to do that again, its very annoying." She said.
"Very well, never again." He said rising up and turning, presenting her with his arm. She gladly took it and they made their way out of the compound.
"Was I really that annoying?" asked Kuno, looking at his companion.
"Kuno-baby, annoying isn't the wor…" her voice trailed off as they made there was to the ice-cream shop.
Up in the window of a certain tomboy, two figures could be seen nodding to each other. They seemed to be smiling at what they had just seen in the back yard. One turned to walk away, while the other followed. The silhouette of a pony-tail trailed behind the second.
Back in the yard, on top a rock, sat the trashcan that held the ashes of a book that had ruled the life of one, Nabiki Tendo. And so it sat there, forgotten forever…
~Somewhere near Hokkaido~
We see a figure making its way across the countryside. He's quite large and bulky, but anyone could see he was a martial artist. A large back-pack was visible, strapped to his back. Straps are tied up to his knees, holding his shoes in place, and a yellow and black stripped bandana is seen on his head.
"Saotome…" stated the figure, "I will find you, and I will destroy you. You will know the DEPTHS OF HELL YOU HAVE PUT ME THROU…" his voice was cut off as the sprinklers came one in the yard of a house in Kyoto…that's right, not Hokkaido, Kyoto.
All that is seen as the pack begins to move again is a small, white fluffy tail that disappeared around the other side of it…
Author Notes:
There ya go folks, can you guess who that character is, hmm? That's right, its him, but…didn't he turn into a pig in the cannon? What the hell…
Heh, yep and a new friendship has formed between two lonely souls. Can an ex-maniac and ex-money grubber make things work out. Hey…he's rich right (^_~)
Anyway, thanks for reading. Ive been working on two other stories also, so check then out when you get the time.
Next up: Enter Ryoga, the lost ________!
Thx everyone
Eternal Flame
Nabiki was frustrated. Never in her entire life had she seen someone like him. The first time he had shown up and fought her sister, she had seen him as another dumb jock to make cash off of. Then, once again she was surprised to find out from her lackeys that Saotome was one of the smartest kids in school. But she loved a challenge, so she couldn't just let this opportunity to make some yen for the house pass her by. So she started digging through Ranma's past. But a situation had presented itself at her house last Saturday that was perfect. So she confronted the man…
~Flashback~
Ranma and Akane were sitting together at lunch Monday, when out of the blue they were interrupted.
"Hey Saotome, can I talk to you for a second?" Nabiki had asked as she rounded the tree they were under. Ranma looked up from his conversation and smiled. He nodded to her and turned back to Akane. "Just a sec Kane-chan, I'll be right back." He said. Akane nodded.
So Ranma got up and walked a little ways from the tree where they were,for the most part, by themselves. Nabiki stopped walking and turned towards Ranma.
"So, what can I help you with Nabiki-san?" asked Ranma as he stopped in front of her. Nabiki just regarded him.
"Well, Saotome. I just got something in my posession, something that you might want to see." Stated Nabiki with her 'ice-queen' mask in place. Ranma just looked at her.
"Okay, so what's up?" Ranma asked. He knew Nabiki was up to something. He had seen her aura when they had first met. She was a sweet girl that put up a front for her 'business'. He had seen the bank book on the Tendo kitchen counter when he had come over the other day. It was rude of him to have done it, but curiosity won out. Turned out Nabiki pretty much supported the household with her earnings at school. It wasn't a very honest way to make it, but when you have a dad that won't teach, and two sisters to support, you did what you had to do. Ranma respected her for that. But he didn't want to be a part of it, so he had already decided that if Nabiki needed money from him, she would have to ask directly. He wasn't going to play her little blackmail games.
"Well…" Nabiki produced some photos of Ranma and Akane's little predicament last Saturday. It showed Akane in his arms, and Akane's arms wrapped around his neck. They're staring into each others eyes, and are drawing closer. If anyone didn't know the situation that they were in, anyone would think it was a picture of a couple about to kiss. "These happened to come to my possession, and you know with my sister not liking boys and such, these could really ruin how people saw you two." stated Nabiki. "Not to mention give everyone the wrong idea.
Ranma was impressed. Not with Nabiki's methods, but that she had taken his picture the other day and he hadn't known she was there. So he decided to indulge her. "Is that so? Well, I'm sure since you have them now, you being her sister and all, you would never let anyone else see these, would you?" Ranma said casually looking over the photos. 'Man, these are good; Nabiki has some talent with a camera.' He thought.
Nabiki almost faltered. She had expected him to get flustered and embarrassed. Instead though he talks about it like it was nothing. "Well Saotome," she began. "That all depends. For a low 5000 yen these will stay in my possession…" she trailed off, holding her hand out to him.
Ranma just blinked at her hand, looked back at the photos in his hand, then back to her open palm. He grinned to himself as an idea popped into his head. "Hmm…I don't know, I'll have to ask Akane if these would really bother her or not…" Ranma said as he looked over to where his friend was now looking at them.
'Ack, damn. I can't let Akane see what I'm doing to her friend. She'd kill me.' She reached for the photos, but Ranma had decided to walk over to Akane at that time, so she grasped air. 'Shit!' she thought, following him.
"Hey, Ran-chan. What did my sister want" Asked Akane as she looked at Ranma. She peered over his shoulder where Nabiki was on her way over towards them.
"Well Kane-chan, she was showing me these photos she got of us. I wanted to see if they would bother you or not before I paid her the 5000 yen she was asking for." Nabiki just put her head in her hands behind them both.
Akane looked over the photos, eyes growing wider with each. She shot her head over to her sister. "Naaaabiiiiki…" she ground out in a low voice, eyes narrowing. She felt a slight pinch on her arm and looked down at it. She followed the hand up to its owner. Ranma gave her a smile and winked to her with the eye Nabiki couldn't see. He slightly shook his head as is saying, 'don't worry about it.' She understood what he meant. He didn't care if her sister had tried to blackmail him. She looked back at the pictures, and then grinned. She had an idea. She looked up to her sister.
Nabiki knew she was about to get it when her sister looked up to her and grinned. "These are great pictures sis, don't you think Ranma?" Asked Akane,holding them to where Ranma could see them. Ranma grinned as he could see what she was doing.
"Sure are Kane-chan, but they don't do you justice." He said as he casually stepped forward, putting his arm around her waste. Akane's hand came up to his chest.
"Flattery will get you everywhere, Ran-chan." She said in a 'ahem' suggested voice.
Nabiki could do nothing but gawk as her baby sister leaned up towards her 'friend.' This wasn't going like she planned. They're supposed to be just friends, so with those pictures she could make some money off this guy. But here they were, getting all lovey dovey in front of her.
Ranma and Akane almost lost it at the sight of Nabiki staring at them with her jaw hanging open. Akane leaned up so her face was next to his ear. "She looks like she's about to pass out." She whispered.
Ranma nodded and lowered his own mouth. "Yeah, I'm just trying to show her she isn't going to blackmail me. If she needs something she's gonna have to ask me for it." stated Ranma.
Riiiiiiiip Nabiki looked to that sound. There in Akane's hands, were the remains of the photos. She could only stare. Not that the loss of the pictures were important, she had the negatives of those. No, what she was staring at were the faces of Ranma and Akane. They showed barely controlled laughter. She just blinked at them.
That was too much for Akane and she collapsed to the ground in laughter. Ranma let a few giggles escape, but he needed to tell Nabiki something. He watched as realization that she had been tricked and made a fool of appeared on her visage. He brows furrowed and she turned around, ready to stomp off. She was halted by a hand on her elbow. She turned her furrowed brow towards the person.
"I'm not going to play your games, Nabiki." stated Ranma. "I know that the money you earn goes to the dojo, but this is very serious stuff. You shouldn't be blackmailing people and making bets at fights and such." He said in a calm voice.
"And why not, Saotome, hmm? Someone has to support my family while our dad does nothing, and this is the easiest way to do it." Nabiki said, voice continually getting louder as her mask fell. She had never been played the fool of, especially in front of the whole damn school. It was bad for business, and it also was a blow to her pride. "So don't you dare do that again in front of everyone, our you WILL regret it." She tried to walk off but he held firm.
"Nabiki…" he tried again, "this is dangerous. What if you do this to someone that one day will retaliate? I can see you're not a fighter, and I wouldn't put rape past some of the less loved guys here, let alone beating the hell out of you. And what if one went to the local Yakuza?"
Ranma could see Nabiki's eyes widen with each statement. He nodded to himself and continued, while opening his wallet. "You need to get out of this habit Nabiki. I could tell by those photos you took, that you could make a hell of a photographer, and with your business sense, a great business woman." He took her hand in his and laid a 10,000 yen note into it, closing her palm around it. "You are both my friends, Nabiki. I will do anything in my power to help you and you family. But you have to stop this. You love your family dearly and it shows, since all this goes to them." he said, squeezing the hand that held the bill. "But some day, this might go too far, and your not only going to endanger yourself, but the people you love. Yakuza are ruthless, and will not have a second thought about killing a person's family to get what they want." He released her hand and began walking away.
"All you need to do it ask…" she heard from him. She stood there for awhile, staring at her hand. 'Yakuza…rape…' she had never even thought about that. She ran a little betting pool around here, why would they care about that. 'They wouldn't, but they damn sure would want a cut of it,' her inner voice told her. She looked up to the retreating figure, and watched as he sat back down by her sister. Then she just turned and walked away.
~End Flashback~
After that day, her blackmailing decreased tremendously, and she had even declined to take bets on whether or not Ranma would end up with her sister. Ranma had pointed out something that she had never even considered. And in doing so, she was putting the very people she did it for in danger.
She sat at her desk, looking at the book she used for bets and information. It was huge, with info on almost every person she had ever dealt with. She just sat there in thought.
"All you need to do it ask…" That statement Ranma had made got her thinking. She had never really looked for a job, and she despised charity, but that statement had made her re-think what she needed to do.
Ever since her mother had died, her father had been a wreck. The dojo lost all its students since he refused to teach, so the house was going under. That was when she had decided to take over. Akane was going to be the heir to the dojo, and Kasumi was going to take care of the house and her family. So, she would support them. That next day she had started a cycle that has continued up to this day.
Now, she needed to make a decision. She ran her hand over the cover of the book. Minutes passed, then a half an hour. Finally, she nodded and picked up the book and her small trashcan. She walked out of her room and made her way out into the backyard. She stopped and grabbed something out of the kitchen drawer on the way out.
When she got out by the koi pond, she sat the trashcan on one of the larger rocks. She regarded the book in her hand. 'Eight years of work,' she thought, 'eight years of my life.' She dropped it into to can and staed at it.
She absently heard the knock on the door but paid it no mind. Moment later, she raised the object she had gotten from the kitchen.
shiqit was the sound of a match being drawn across its case. "…but no more…" she whispered, "…the ice-queen is no more…" and with that, she dropped the match.
She watched as slowly, each leaflet of paper caught on fire. Information on hundreds of people that took years to gather, were turned to ash in an instant. She just stood there, not knowing of the presence behind her.
"It is good to see that I am not the only one to have come to my senses, Nabiki Tendo." said a voice from behind her. She turned and looked at the man, and sighed.
"Hello Kuno-baby." She said in a depressed voice.
"Hello to you," he responded, "He is one of a kind. Is he not?"
Nabiki raised an eyebrow and regarded the former insane idiot. "Who do you mean and I'll tell you whether he is or isn't.?"
Kuno smiled slightly. "Saotome, of course. A man who brought another man away from the endless depths of madness; a man who gave a new a meaning to the life of one everyone thought cruel and heartless. What else could he be referred to as?" Kuno stated as he watched the papers burn.
Nabiki looked at her hands as she thought. Everyone had thought she was a hard bitch, one that would do anything for money. Few knew about the yen she gave Kasumi to pay off the mortgage to the house. Not even her own father and little sister knew her true reasons for becoming the 'ice queen.' "Yes, he is Kuno-chan. Not many people like him out there." She said as she looked back to her trashcan.
"That there isn't…Nabiki." said Kuno. Both sat there and watched as the blaze shrunk in size. Minutes later, Kuno continued. "Saotome came and spoke with me earlier. He told me what he had hoped to do about your endeavors. He said that you would be in the need of a friend, and since I also am in need of one, he thought that I could be that person." Both just stared at the fire. Kuno saw the small smirk make its way across the ex- mercenary girls face, and decided to try and raise her spirits.
"Ahh, the fair Nabiki Tendo. I would bless you with my divine presence at Swirley's for ice-cream. Wouldst thou wish to accompany mine self to such an eloquent establishment?" he stated, doing a mock bow, smile never leaving his face.
Nabiki couldn't help but giggle at his actions. She shook her head and regarded him. "Only if you promise never to do that again, its very annoying." She said.
"Very well, never again." He said rising up and turning, presenting her with his arm. She gladly took it and they made their way out of the compound.
"Was I really that annoying?" asked Kuno, looking at his companion.
"Kuno-baby, annoying isn't the wor…" her voice trailed off as they made there was to the ice-cream shop.
Up in the window of a certain tomboy, two figures could be seen nodding to each other. They seemed to be smiling at what they had just seen in the back yard. One turned to walk away, while the other followed. The silhouette of a pony-tail trailed behind the second.
Back in the yard, on top a rock, sat the trashcan that held the ashes of a book that had ruled the life of one, Nabiki Tendo. And so it sat there, forgotten forever…
~Somewhere near Hokkaido~
We see a figure making its way across the countryside. He's quite large and bulky, but anyone could see he was a martial artist. A large back-pack was visible, strapped to his back. Straps are tied up to his knees, holding his shoes in place, and a yellow and black stripped bandana is seen on his head.
"Saotome…" stated the figure, "I will find you, and I will destroy you. You will know the DEPTHS OF HELL YOU HAVE PUT ME THROU…" his voice was cut off as the sprinklers came one in the yard of a house in Kyoto…that's right, not Hokkaido, Kyoto.
All that is seen as the pack begins to move again is a small, white fluffy tail that disappeared around the other side of it…
Author Notes:
There ya go folks, can you guess who that character is, hmm? That's right, its him, but…didn't he turn into a pig in the cannon? What the hell…
Heh, yep and a new friendship has formed between two lonely souls. Can an ex-maniac and ex-money grubber make things work out. Hey…he's rich right (^_~)
Anyway, thanks for reading. Ive been working on two other stories also, so check then out when you get the time.
Next up: Enter Ryoga, the lost ________!
Thx everyone
Eternal Flame