Chapter 2
Naruto going gaga over the pretty ladies wasn't his fault alone this time. The Ryouga-esque physique he had inherited with its brain content did its share aswell, at the same time…
Kasumi Tendo liked to take care of all kinds of strays and this strapping young man fell into this cathegory quite nicely indeed. Sad as it was those thought processes went parallell to the ones prompting her Geisha-esque dealings with the neigh on comatose youngling…
Ushering in the young handsome one she made him take a seat and smiled back as much as she could at his gawking smiling face. 'How happy he seems! I'll have to fetch him some cookies while he waits for Nabiki!' This little household fetish of hers, (her insistence on baking cookies and being the perfect hostess-extreme… also known as the Geisha complex. Kasumi did indeed have a copy of the Geisha's road to the mans heart for reasons as unbelievable as the ones that make her go to the red light district area downtown to work on her techniques once a year…) did its best to make her take off towards the kitchen in an undecently decent and cute saunter…
"I'll bring some cookies to you Uzumaki-san!" With a smile that could stop an army of a million men hellbent on destruction and pillage!
"Heh heh…" A thin line of drool made clear what kinds of thoughts that were simmering in the way too adult mind of one Uzumaki…
Once the distracting bundle of rear end was out of his view finder Uzumaki fell out of the spell quickly enough. "WAAAHHH! What am I doing? Hold yourself together man!" Repeatedly bashing his head towards the palm of his hand Naruto came back to the… what he would call sensible state of mind. 'Better calm down or I won't get a good deal on the loungings!'
While Naruto was doing his best at focussing on a picture of Jiraya in his swimming trunks to keep his head clear of disaster Nabiki sauntered down the stairs. Seeing the martial artist in the living room with an intense look of concentration on his face she scrunched u herself as well. 'That's quite an aura of determination… I mean those stories that dad told us about battle aura's!'
Putting on her own variant of the Soul of Ice technique she smoothly traversed the distance from the stairs to the focussing youngling in the couchlike furniture. "Hello Mr…"
"Naruto! Uzumaki, Naruto!" Reaching out a hand in what he thought a business like manner Naruto smiled the most strained smile he could manage. 'Bite on that! Hah!' Laughing real quick internally Naruto had to work hard at keeping the smilings away.
"A pleasure to meet you Uzumaki-san." Reaching out and grabbing hold of Naruto's hand in a firm handshake Nabiki made her first impression. 'A martial artists handshake yet he isn't reacting like martial artists generally do to me.' Meaning of course that he wasn't eyeing her tantalizing bustline at any given opportunity… such as the present!
"I wish to pay for lodging at your estate Tendo- sama!" Naruto was always to the point. However he managed to look determined. He already knew what to expect after working through pain just to get hands of his own apartment back in Konohaga-kure…
Nabiki was more than passingly impressed with how the martial artist was handling affairs. Despite the overly direct approach he had somehow transferred a not small at all amount of compulsion onto her. 'Only the most hardened of hagglers can manage that…' Safe to say that she felt somewhat threatened recognizing the fact. 'Somehow he seems not to want to hurt me though…' (Naruto has that kind of effect on several people, Inari for one!) A light blush made its way onto her cheeks for the first time in quite a few years! (Naruto quite in character may I add didn't register this particular little fact!)
"Hmm! I have this amount of money available and I am sorely in the need for workings!" Naruto quickly blurted out. Almost flinging out his purse with the different kinds of currencies that he had.
Nabiki still a bit out of it didn't respond in character as he brushed her left mammary glancingly… "That's quite alright… Stay aslong as you'd like… Naruto-sama…"
"Are you sure?" For the first time in their little discussion he hesitated a bit. Her behaviour reminded him of some one from back home… (Guess who!)
However seeing her nod slowly made him forget all about that little fact… "YAHOOO!" If he had refrained from hugging Nabiki in a full blown hug after wards she might have remained for the duration of his ululations and victory dances awake and coherent.
Following that little event she had a full body blush and twittered on the floor in a vertical position… Naruto kept on dancing and singing into a mike from stuffspace…
INTERMISSION
Ranma was at the present wet and female. So was Genma. They were both outside the door to the Tendo compund as well...
"Mom. Are you sure about this?" Scratching her chin in an unknowingly enticingly manner. (She made a nearby Funrinkan high stalker fall into a temporary coma induced by ecchi thoughts!)
"Stop being so cute!" This in turn felled the second stalker of the day. From bloodloss! (Daisuke had been walking past with his nose buried in a magazine working hard at visualizing!)
"Yeah… I guess." Arching her back towards the door she knocked thrice…