Interlude: Eyes of The Moneymaker

It's been months now since Akane, Ranma, Ukyo, Shampoo, Mousse and Ryoga disappeared. Despite what Cologne said them being in "another world", I refused to listen and used my sources to find information. Sadly, all of their efforts failed big time. Every now and then, I slept in Akane's room for a mysterious source of comfort. I know, you saps think I sleep in a bed full of money. You think I miss them, mostly Ranma, because they're my source of income or as I would call it "free money". I'm human, I admit. We all need money. I laugh to those who claim that they don't need money in their lives. Feh, I heard better jokes than this one. But, I miss my little sister and her sometimes-annoying fiancée.

Vacation is still on but anytime now, school will start and I have to make choices now since it'll be my senior year in high school. The next year, I'll be in college. The best part? One, I'll be free of the red tape in high school and enjoy the possibilities of the freedom that college has to offer. Two, I'll be moving soon. Away from my home. Don't get me wrong, I love my home but lately it's as if it's been transformed into a very depressive hell-hole, courtesy of my always-failure of my father. Here's what has been happening so far.

First, Ukyo's dad finally came to Nerima. He happens to be looking for Mr. Saotome, who he had "unfinished business" with. Definitely something to do with the dowry Mr. Saotome stole years ago. Unfortunately, the two old geezers had a big battle in our house, nearly destroying it. Luckily, Mrs. Saotome or Aunt Nodoka stopped the fight by threatening them with her katana. I admire her. I don't know if she's really good with the sword but based on Mr. Saotome's feared reactions, she may be. Mr. Kuonji agreed to stop the fight and listened to what she has to say. She told him everything, but she managed to leave out the other-world bullshit stuff. We learned that the reason why Mr. Kuonji is here is because he's looking for Ukyo when he heard the news of her disappearance. After everything was settled, Mr. Kuonji agreed to open Ukyo's shop until she returns. But that wasn't the end of Mr. Saotome's problems.

After the Kuonji incident, the Saotomes had an argument. Well, Aunt Nodoka was the one doing the argument. She learned everything from him selling Ranma to the Jusenkyo incident to everything up to this point and accuses him of being a dishonorable man. I didn't need to eavesdrop. Her voice was loud enough for the neighbors to hear. Genma pleaded for forgiveness but with Aunt Nodoka knowing all of his "crimes", forgiveness is a hard thing to reach for him. What shocked me the most was that she wanted to have a divorce. Pretty weird huh? As of this moment, Aunt Nodoka is not talking to him. But I heard that Mr. Saotome is planning to win over his wife. Good luck for him.

As for Kasumi and Dr. Tofu, still in the dating phase. Nothing new, except one time Kasumi approached me for tips on sex. Hearing that, I nearly choked on my food. Here she is, Kasumi Tendo, 20 years old and planning to go to nursing school and wanting to have sex. I'm still a virgin but I have my share of porn viewing experiences, mostly guy to guy. I told Kasumi that she must watch porn in order to understand about the whole sex thing. She scolded me for watching "sinful activities" and in a span of 6 seconds she asks me if she could borrow my collection. Nice preaching sis. Speaking of family, dad at least managed to get out off bed. The only destination he only went is the kitchen, the bathroom, the living room and back to his room. Wait, this is what he almost does everyday. Kasumi and I were thinking that dad should stop moping around and do something. Our taxes are increasing and if dad doesn't reopen the dojo soon even without Ranma or Akane, we might lose the house.

Nerima during vacation time is pretty boring without the resident chaos, but we did get some familiar visitors. Natsumi and Kurumi visited us. They wanted to help us find Akane but it would be useless if doing so. What's surprising is that they arrived at the dojo with another companion: Ryu Kumon, the guy who pretended to be Ranma. When Aunt Nodoka saw him, Ryu immediately asked her for forgiveness. Nodoka immediately forgave him. They only stayed for 3 days before they went to Ryu's old home. I can tell that Ryu and Natsumi are close and before they left, they told us that they're now a couple. Nice for them.

Happosai is still doing his old stuff, nothing new. Same thing goes for Cologne, except she is doing all she can to find Shampoo and the others. Kuno is still looking for Akane and his pig-tailed goddess and Kodachi? I don't even want to know. At one point, Gosunguki suggested that he will use black magic to find Akane. I immediately said no, remembering the flying monkeys incident. One of those disgusting creatures peed on my hair!

I then remembered Pantyhose Taro. I kept wondering why he was in Nerima few weeks ago. Happosai claimed that he wasn't being chased by him. Then I recalled his battle with the red-head at the playground. If I were to judge her combat skills, I would say she's faster than Ranma. She can take on Akane, Shampoo, Ukyo and Kodachi simultaneously. I'm not bragging. She's really that good. After my sources find some info about her, I managed to gather a few things about her. I found out that her name is Ichiro Yui. She studies at Masako High School and lives not far from Nerima. I also found out that her family is one of the most powerful and ancient clans in Japan. Her mother was a feminist and her dad owns a company. I'm about to dive deep into the life of Ichiro when one of my contacts told me not to dig deeper and told me that Ichiro Yui can be pretty sadistic if someone has offended her badly. One time, when she was a freshman, a class bully threw food at her. She approached the guy and beat him senseless. She could've killed him but instead she forced him to lick the floor. I don't know why but strangely I followed his advice.

Overall, my being is filled with mixed emotions. But luckily, I managed to score some reservations for a family trip at the beach. I constantly keep thinking what Akane is doing. Probably, no, definitely fighting with Ranma again or forcing him to eat her abominable cooking. I wish she'll be okay.


AUTHOR'S NOTES:

1. Another interlude focusing on the residents of Nerima. Think of this as filler since right now, my mind is suffering from writer's block. I was planning to do a chapter on them but now this is the only way to go.

2. You'll hear soon enough from Akari, Konatsu and coming soon, Kirin, Touma, Herb and Saffron.

3. The next chapter will have tons of violence. One anime character will lose HIS eyes while another will lose HIS arm and the other will have HIS head splattered and many more. I'm not saying who. Look for author's notes in the previous chapter and while it doesn't mention who, you'll get the idea on which series they'll be from, except for the third one. Then again, there are tons of candidates. Any guesses?

4. I am now announcing that the next anime arc is Trigun.

5. Don't expect tons of overload anime cameos. They'll appear at the right time...I think.