Chapter Six
Siri looked up at Mousse when he approached her. "Hi hi,Mousse!" She smiled cutely.
"Hello,Siri-chan. Say, where's Ryoga?" He knelt to help her with her backpack.
"Him wate!" Siri scowled impatiently. "The ceacher called him,but he no answered." She pouted at Mousse. "And I wants some wamen."
"Fool. He probably got lost on his way. Well,don't worry! I know a great place to get ramen. I'll take you home after that, okay?"
"I not apposed to go wif you." Siri replied.
"Oh? Why not? Ryoga asked me to pick you up,remember?" Mousse held out his hand. "Come now. We're losing the light,young one."
"I'm over here." Siri pouted at him. "I don't fink I go wif you."
"But you see....." Mousse picked her up. "You're going to help me with something very important. We're going to play a little trick on Ranma." He'd started walking off with her. "Besides,I neve did you your surprise."
Siri gave up trying to get away now. She was curious about this surprise. "Tay,fwoppy sweeves." She let him carry her all the way back to his house, which took quite awhile. Mousse couldn't see,and Siri wasn't old enough to read. "We finded it?" She asked Mousse once they got to a front door.
"We certainly did." Mousse patted her on the head, before leading her inside and locking the door.
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"Well?! What have you got to say for yourself,Mr. Parent of the Year?! How could you get lost going to such an important location?!" Ranma demanded. He,Ryoga and Akane were looking around the deserted school premises frantically. "For all we know that nasty "master" of hers could've come and taken her away again!"
"It's not my fault. My parents have a really bad sense of direction too. Blame them!" Ryoga replied. He was about to say more,when he saw something on the pavement. "Wait a sec....." He picked up Siri's little backpack. "She was definitely here, waiting for me." Ryoga proclaimed. "Someone must've snatched her."
"Great." Ranma kicked a tree. "So....we don't know where to even begin looking, do we?"
"Not unless there's a heading for "kidnappers" in the yellow pages." Ryoga muttered. He sighed. "I hate my sense of direction! It never annoyed me as much as it annoys me now!"
"Calm down,Ryoga. We'll find her." Akane assured. "All we have to do is narrow down the suspects."
"Oh good. Nancy Drew's on the case." Ranma replied drily. "Well, who do we have that would have use for a young girl?"
"Anyone who wanted revenge on you or Ryoga, I'd imagine. Since Ryoga doesn't have any enemies aside from you, I'd be willing to bet it's someone who wanted to get back at you for some reason or other." Akane said. "Anyway, we're not going to find her standing around here." With that, Akane headed back towards the Tendo Dojo. "Well,come on you guys!" Ryoga and Ranma quickly followed.