Tender Loving Care
Ranma favored a beaming Akane with a half-lidded stare, while he continued to sit cross-legged, "Was that supposed to intimidate me?"
Nabiki stared incredulously at the spot Ranma was approximately .04 seconds before the loud, rather intimidating *bang* went off, "INTIMIDATE YOU?!? SHE FREAKING BLEW UP A LAND MINE UNDER YOU!!!"
Kasumi stared, utterly pale, "Th-that... that wasn't there before... I swear it wasn't there before!"
Akane shrugged, before getting up from the spinters that were left of the table. "That was just to get your attention, Ranma. You're playing in the big leagues now..." With that, Akane walked off, heading for the stairs. Having witness someone attempt to bring great harm to it's master, Bunny decided that great harm was still necessary to be visited upon someone.
With a mighty roar and teeth not large enough to fit into the mouth of a sabretooth, much less a fluffy white rabbit, Bunny attempted to greet Akane with untold agony. The smell of ozone, the enhanced sound of a bug zapper, and a loud yip, sounded the outcome of that attempt. Akane sniffed the air, before putting her tazer away, "Kasumi, how about fried chicken, tonight?" Akane continued upstairs, oblivious to the twitching, blackened mess that had been at her feet. Bunny rolled over, coughing out a ring of smoke.
Ranma narrowed his eyes; attempting to blow him up was one thing, but to attack a man's pet...
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Kasumi yawned, as she got up for the morning. After Ranma and Akane's declaration, the scene had been disturbingly quiet. The Tendous and Genma had been jumping at shadows all yesterday, just awaiting for the war to end all wars to truly begin. ironically, Kasumi felt a hint of disappointment, as nothing happened. Could the two have been bluffing? Would they seriously attempt to remove one another from existance via a series of pranks no sane person could ever surmise, that even the most sadistic would consider mere 'pranks'?
"Right," Kasumi said, opening the door to the bathroom, walking in, and beginning to remove her clothes, "After my bath, I'll finish packing up, and move in with a friend. Yumi said I was more than welcome to come visit her in England..."
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Soun was the third to wake up in the morning. His daughter Kasumi was always the first one up, followed by Akane.
At the name that came to mind, Soun found himself alert and ready. Nothing happened the previous day, but he knew that was only because they were both preparing. This was to become a serious situation that no law enforcment, military, or parental diciplinarion could ever contain. It was best to settle at a distance, and allow them to work it from their systems.
Soun carefully looked around, before gently opening the door to the bathroom. As he did so, he quickly stepped to the side, awaiting for any heavy blasts to launch forth. Instead of an immense 'boom', all he heard was whimpering.
"Curious..." Soun whispered, as he looked in.
"Um... hello, father?" Kasumi greeted, meekly, as she was bound to the ceiling, nude, in a bondage pattern Soun had only seen in the most daring of magazines. Kasumi continued to grin, nervously, "Could you possibly... little help, please?"
Soun closed his eyes, "Kasumi, dear. You are a grown woman, and I respect your privacy, and your... vices. But please, if you must, contain them to your room..."
"BUT FATHER, I-" her voice was cut off, as Soun closed the door, shook his head, and decided to go use the public baths for the morning.
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Nabiki woke up, her mind too muddle to comprehend the dangers of what was about to happen on this day. Mornings were a weak spot for the middle Tendou sister, not quite being the morning person her other sisters were. Nonetheless, she knew she had to face the day, of course, she never cared for the fact that she had to face it so early.
Blearily, she stepped from her room, carrying a change of clothing for her bath, stopping as Ranma exited the guest room. "Hey, Nabiki."
"Ranma," Nabiki greeted curtly and tiredly, as the pigtailed boy passed by. There was something, nagging her in the back of her mind, something she should fear like death looming over, but gosh darn it, if she just wasn't so tired to think! As Nabiki stepped into the hall, almost stumbling close the the guest room, she awoke slightly from the creaking board on the ground in front of the guest room. Gaining her bearings, Nabiki started towards the stairs, just before she heard a rumbling that seemed to be coming from behind her. Nabiki turned around, wondering what would me making all that noise this early in the morning...
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Soun watched his middle daughter race down the stairs in wide-eyed panic, followed closely by a massive, round boulder. He blinked as Nabiki reached the bottom of the stairs, and dove to the side, just in time to avoid being mowed down. The boulder continued, rolling down the hall, and through the far wall.
Slowly, Nabiki got up, staring incredulously at the heavily damaged staircase, before turning to her father in fright, "HOW THE HELL DID SHE GET *THAT* UP THERE?!?"
"Is everyone okay?" Akane asked in a heavily worried tone, as she ran into the house while wearing her jogging outfit, "I heard a loud rumbling like a boulder, and..." Akane stopped, taking a look at the scene before her, finding Nabiki on the ground, her father staring at her with undisguised fear, and a damaged stairway, "...where's Ranma?"
Kasumi walked from the direction of the bathroom, wrapped in a robe, and walking as if she were being impeded. "I would imagine he was in the bathroom this morning," Kasumi replied in a hollow, unamused version of her normally cheerful voice. "I'm afraid breakfast will be late, as I have to untangle this fishing wire from my body."
Akane blinked, "What's gotten into her?"
Ranma walked in from the back yard, having been sitting on the back porch while awaiting his turn at the bathroom. He stopped, allowing a flicker of irritation to pass across his features, and cheerfully greeted Akane, "Hey Akane, have a good run?"
The youngest Tendou's eyes flared dangerously for a second, before she returned his smile, "Yup, really got the old blood flowing!"
"That's good to hear," Ranma replied, "Don't you usually get home earlier to use the bathroom?"
Akane shrugged, "You seem to tread awfully lightly in the mornings."
Ranma shrugged back, "Force of habit." For several moments, both Akane and Ranma stared at each other, their cheerful expressions growing more and more faked.
"What was all that racket? Can't a man get some sleep?" Genma growled, irritated by the sound of a large sedimentary rock rolling past his door.
"Well, we better hurry if we want to make it to school in time," Akane stated, still not breaking away from the stare off.
"Yeah, wouldn't want to be late, would we?" Ranma inquired, still staring at Akane intensely. With a snort, they both turned away from each other, and stalked off. Nabiki, Soun, and Genma looked at each other, nervously, before they were jolted by a blood curdling scream from Akane's direction, and a cry of pain from Ranma's.
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Ranma walked on the fence, rubbing his chest from where the trip-wire activated, hydrolic steel battering ram connected with him head on, "You try'n ta kill me, you tomboy?"
Akane looked up from where she was still finding leeches attached to her body through her school uniform, "Bucket of leeches above the door? how childish!"
"Hmph," Ranma snorted, lifting his nose, "Leeches are supposed to be good for health, you know? Thought you could use them to help reduce those puffy eyes of yours, and maybe make you look less bloated all around."
Akane growled to the point the vibrations could be felt against the ground. "Well, a battering ram must be great for toughening up, much better than a medicine ball!"
"You think you're going to win this fight?" Ranma seethed, "You're fighting my type of battle, and in any fight, period, Ranma Saotome never loses-WHA?!?"
The part of the wall Ranma had been walking on gave way, sending him plummeting into the drainage canal. Akane waited patiently for Ranma, checking her watch to make sure they still had plenty of time for school. A soggy redhead climbed from onto the wall, holding a jackhammer that was hidden behind it near the base. Ranma glared at Akane, before speaking, "You normally pass by this way on your jogging route?"
Akane tilted her head, sweetly, "I like going different ways, every so often."
Ranma turned away, snorting, "Whatever."
Akane's smile grew larger, as she turned to head for school. just as she turned away, Ranma spun around, allowing her hands to become blurs behind Akane's back. Akane started walking forward, just as Ranma came to a stop.
"Hmm," the redhead began to muse, "looks like it's gonna be a hot day."
Akane looked over her shoulder, smirking, "Well, it's a good thing you got to take a cool dip, huh?"
Ranma returned her expression, "Well, I would imagine your school uniform won't be too uncomfortable in this heat."
Akane gave him a withering glance. In truth, the uniforms did tend to get pretty stuffy when the temperuatures got higher. She scoffed, deciding to ignore his petty barb about her suffering, and refused to give Ranma any of her dignity, as the redhead snickered behind her...
Ranma favored a beaming Akane with a half-lidded stare, while he continued to sit cross-legged, "Was that supposed to intimidate me?"
Nabiki stared incredulously at the spot Ranma was approximately .04 seconds before the loud, rather intimidating *bang* went off, "INTIMIDATE YOU?!? SHE FREAKING BLEW UP A LAND MINE UNDER YOU!!!"
Kasumi stared, utterly pale, "Th-that... that wasn't there before... I swear it wasn't there before!"
Akane shrugged, before getting up from the spinters that were left of the table. "That was just to get your attention, Ranma. You're playing in the big leagues now..." With that, Akane walked off, heading for the stairs. Having witness someone attempt to bring great harm to it's master, Bunny decided that great harm was still necessary to be visited upon someone.
With a mighty roar and teeth not large enough to fit into the mouth of a sabretooth, much less a fluffy white rabbit, Bunny attempted to greet Akane with untold agony. The smell of ozone, the enhanced sound of a bug zapper, and a loud yip, sounded the outcome of that attempt. Akane sniffed the air, before putting her tazer away, "Kasumi, how about fried chicken, tonight?" Akane continued upstairs, oblivious to the twitching, blackened mess that had been at her feet. Bunny rolled over, coughing out a ring of smoke.
Ranma narrowed his eyes; attempting to blow him up was one thing, but to attack a man's pet...
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Kasumi yawned, as she got up for the morning. After Ranma and Akane's declaration, the scene had been disturbingly quiet. The Tendous and Genma had been jumping at shadows all yesterday, just awaiting for the war to end all wars to truly begin. ironically, Kasumi felt a hint of disappointment, as nothing happened. Could the two have been bluffing? Would they seriously attempt to remove one another from existance via a series of pranks no sane person could ever surmise, that even the most sadistic would consider mere 'pranks'?
"Right," Kasumi said, opening the door to the bathroom, walking in, and beginning to remove her clothes, "After my bath, I'll finish packing up, and move in with a friend. Yumi said I was more than welcome to come visit her in England..."
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Soun was the third to wake up in the morning. His daughter Kasumi was always the first one up, followed by Akane.
At the name that came to mind, Soun found himself alert and ready. Nothing happened the previous day, but he knew that was only because they were both preparing. This was to become a serious situation that no law enforcment, military, or parental diciplinarion could ever contain. It was best to settle at a distance, and allow them to work it from their systems.
Soun carefully looked around, before gently opening the door to the bathroom. As he did so, he quickly stepped to the side, awaiting for any heavy blasts to launch forth. Instead of an immense 'boom', all he heard was whimpering.
"Curious..." Soun whispered, as he looked in.
"Um... hello, father?" Kasumi greeted, meekly, as she was bound to the ceiling, nude, in a bondage pattern Soun had only seen in the most daring of magazines. Kasumi continued to grin, nervously, "Could you possibly... little help, please?"
Soun closed his eyes, "Kasumi, dear. You are a grown woman, and I respect your privacy, and your... vices. But please, if you must, contain them to your room..."
"BUT FATHER, I-" her voice was cut off, as Soun closed the door, shook his head, and decided to go use the public baths for the morning.
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Nabiki woke up, her mind too muddle to comprehend the dangers of what was about to happen on this day. Mornings were a weak spot for the middle Tendou sister, not quite being the morning person her other sisters were. Nonetheless, she knew she had to face the day, of course, she never cared for the fact that she had to face it so early.
Blearily, she stepped from her room, carrying a change of clothing for her bath, stopping as Ranma exited the guest room. "Hey, Nabiki."
"Ranma," Nabiki greeted curtly and tiredly, as the pigtailed boy passed by. There was something, nagging her in the back of her mind, something she should fear like death looming over, but gosh darn it, if she just wasn't so tired to think! As Nabiki stepped into the hall, almost stumbling close the the guest room, she awoke slightly from the creaking board on the ground in front of the guest room. Gaining her bearings, Nabiki started towards the stairs, just before she heard a rumbling that seemed to be coming from behind her. Nabiki turned around, wondering what would me making all that noise this early in the morning...
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Soun watched his middle daughter race down the stairs in wide-eyed panic, followed closely by a massive, round boulder. He blinked as Nabiki reached the bottom of the stairs, and dove to the side, just in time to avoid being mowed down. The boulder continued, rolling down the hall, and through the far wall.
Slowly, Nabiki got up, staring incredulously at the heavily damaged staircase, before turning to her father in fright, "HOW THE HELL DID SHE GET *THAT* UP THERE?!?"
"Is everyone okay?" Akane asked in a heavily worried tone, as she ran into the house while wearing her jogging outfit, "I heard a loud rumbling like a boulder, and..." Akane stopped, taking a look at the scene before her, finding Nabiki on the ground, her father staring at her with undisguised fear, and a damaged stairway, "...where's Ranma?"
Kasumi walked from the direction of the bathroom, wrapped in a robe, and walking as if she were being impeded. "I would imagine he was in the bathroom this morning," Kasumi replied in a hollow, unamused version of her normally cheerful voice. "I'm afraid breakfast will be late, as I have to untangle this fishing wire from my body."
Akane blinked, "What's gotten into her?"
Ranma walked in from the back yard, having been sitting on the back porch while awaiting his turn at the bathroom. He stopped, allowing a flicker of irritation to pass across his features, and cheerfully greeted Akane, "Hey Akane, have a good run?"
The youngest Tendou's eyes flared dangerously for a second, before she returned his smile, "Yup, really got the old blood flowing!"
"That's good to hear," Ranma replied, "Don't you usually get home earlier to use the bathroom?"
Akane shrugged, "You seem to tread awfully lightly in the mornings."
Ranma shrugged back, "Force of habit." For several moments, both Akane and Ranma stared at each other, their cheerful expressions growing more and more faked.
"What was all that racket? Can't a man get some sleep?" Genma growled, irritated by the sound of a large sedimentary rock rolling past his door.
"Well, we better hurry if we want to make it to school in time," Akane stated, still not breaking away from the stare off.
"Yeah, wouldn't want to be late, would we?" Ranma inquired, still staring at Akane intensely. With a snort, they both turned away from each other, and stalked off. Nabiki, Soun, and Genma looked at each other, nervously, before they were jolted by a blood curdling scream from Akane's direction, and a cry of pain from Ranma's.
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Ranma walked on the fence, rubbing his chest from where the trip-wire activated, hydrolic steel battering ram connected with him head on, "You try'n ta kill me, you tomboy?"
Akane looked up from where she was still finding leeches attached to her body through her school uniform, "Bucket of leeches above the door? how childish!"
"Hmph," Ranma snorted, lifting his nose, "Leeches are supposed to be good for health, you know? Thought you could use them to help reduce those puffy eyes of yours, and maybe make you look less bloated all around."
Akane growled to the point the vibrations could be felt against the ground. "Well, a battering ram must be great for toughening up, much better than a medicine ball!"
"You think you're going to win this fight?" Ranma seethed, "You're fighting my type of battle, and in any fight, period, Ranma Saotome never loses-WHA?!?"
The part of the wall Ranma had been walking on gave way, sending him plummeting into the drainage canal. Akane waited patiently for Ranma, checking her watch to make sure they still had plenty of time for school. A soggy redhead climbed from onto the wall, holding a jackhammer that was hidden behind it near the base. Ranma glared at Akane, before speaking, "You normally pass by this way on your jogging route?"
Akane tilted her head, sweetly, "I like going different ways, every so often."
Ranma turned away, snorting, "Whatever."
Akane's smile grew larger, as she turned to head for school. just as she turned away, Ranma spun around, allowing her hands to become blurs behind Akane's back. Akane started walking forward, just as Ranma came to a stop.
"Hmm," the redhead began to muse, "looks like it's gonna be a hot day."
Akane looked over her shoulder, smirking, "Well, it's a good thing you got to take a cool dip, huh?"
Ranma returned her expression, "Well, I would imagine your school uniform won't be too uncomfortable in this heat."
Akane gave him a withering glance. In truth, the uniforms did tend to get pretty stuffy when the temperuatures got higher. She scoffed, deciding to ignore his petty barb about her suffering, and refused to give Ranma any of her dignity, as the redhead snickered behind her...