Family Socializing

To the Arcade

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma Half or Sailor Moon, both are owned by their respective creators and some big companies. I am making no money of this work.

Author's Notes: Here is the next chapter … nothing much I have to say right now, thank you everyone who reviewed the last chapter.

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'He's heavy, maybe I should have turned him into a girl before we left,' Hotaru thought as she strained under Ranma's weight. 'I'm getting close to the arcade, right?' Hotaru thought before she looked backwards and collapsed barely a block away from her house.

"Huh, where am I?" Ranma asked after being awoken by his face hitting the sidewalk.

"I figured it would probably be best if I got you out of the house after you fainted, so I left a note saying we would be going to the arcade," Hotaru answered.

"And the reason I woke up kissing the sidewalk?" Ranma questioned.

"You were too heavy and I collapsed under it." Hotaru blushed. "Are you okay?" Hotaru asked as Ranma rubbed his forehead.

"Yeah, I've had way worse then this," Ranma said as he picked himself backup and reached out a hand to help Hotaru to her feet.

"That's good, I think," Hotaru said as she accepted Ranma's hand up.

"So, where is this arcade anyway?" Ranma asked.

"Um, about three blocks that way, then another seven to the right," Hotaru answered.

"That's kind of a long walk; and you planned on dragging me there?" Ranma wondered.

"I was hoping you wouldn't be out for very long," Hotaru replied.

"I have a quicker way to get there," Ranma said as he stood in front of Hotaru. "Climb on to my back and hold on tight."

"Uh, ookay." Hotaru said confused as she wrapped her arms around his neck. 'What's he going to do?' Hotaru thought before she felt the ground suddenly disappear from underneath her feet "Eeek." Hotaru gasped in shock.

"Sorry, did you not have a good grip yet?" Ranma asked.

"It wasn't that, I just didn't expect you to jump onto a roof," Hotaru said as she calmed herself down. 'I've roof-hopped myself before, but never in my untransformed state and not being carried on someone's back,' Hotaru thought to herself.

"You ready?" Ranma asked.

"S-sure," Hotaru answered and Ranma began roof-hopping. 'This feels nice," Hotaru thought.

"Here we are," Ranma said moments later as he jumped down in front of the arcade causing several people to give them strange looks at their surprise entrance.

Hotaru reluctantly let go of her perch on Ranma's back and felt her feet come back into contact with the earth. "That was fun," Hotaru said. "Do you mind if we do that again later?" Hotaru asked.

"Sure, I like jumping through the air too, the feel of the wind rushing past your face is great isn't it?" Ranma said.

"Haruka-papa said something similar about driving fast, she loves the way the wind feels when it whips across her," Hotaru stated as they walked into the Arcade.

"Hey look there's Makoto, and everyone else from lunch," Ranma pointed out as he saw his new friends sit down at a table a short distance away.

"Rei's with them too, come on I can introduce you to her and we can all hang out while we wait for Haruka-papa to come pick us up."

"Sounds good to me," Ranma replied.

"Hello, everyone," Hotaru said as she ran up to the table followed by Ranma.

"Hotaru, what are you doing here? I thought you said Michiru and Haruka were going to have all of you go out and show Ranma around the area," Ami asked, surprised.

"Um, yeah, but they were a little busy when we got home and we didn't want to interrupt them," Hotaru whispered as she and Ranma blushed horribly.

The other girls took in what Hotaru said and their blushing faces before it dawned on them and everyone at the table started blushing as well, except… "What were they doing that had them so busy?" Usagi asked, causing everyone's blush to deepen.

"Uhm, anyway, Ranma this is my friend Rei."

"Nice to meet you." Rei stood and shook his hand.

"Nice to meet you too," Ranma said. "Are you a priestess?" Ranma asked.

"A Shrine Maiden at the Hino shrine, but how did you guess? I mean I'm wearing normal clothes today," Rei asked suspiciously

"It's your aura. People who are linked to the spiritual often produce a type of refined aura," Ranma answered, "And yours is a lot stronger then even most monks and priests I've met, so I thought you might be a priestess."

"You can sense other people's auras?" Rei asked.

"Yep, I'm a martial artist and it's something I learned how to do awhile back. I can even make mine visible to the naked eye," Ranma said.

"But, why did you scan mine?" Rei questioned.

"When you shook my hand it was so strong I was able to feel it through the contact and so I scanned because it made me curious," Ranma replied.

"Can you explain in greater detail the aura?" Ami asked as she was hurriedly writing down notes.

"Ami, what are you doing?" Rei asked.

"This aura sensing seems fascinating. It's something you can't just learn from a book so it's best to learn about it from people who know what it is from first hand experience," Ami responded.

"You really are obsessed with learning everything, aren't you?" Makoto grinned as she looked over her friends shoulder at the notes.

"That's not true! But when it's something interesting, I like to learn all I can about it." Ami blushed.

"That's being obsessed with learning." Minako giggled.

"Alright, I'm obsessed, you win." Ami frowned.

Ranma smiled at the friendly teasing. "I can relate though, I'm a little obsessed with learning everything I can about Martial Arts." Ranma grinned.

"So where are Luna and Artemis today?" Hotaru asked.

"We left the kitties at home today." Usagi said, causing Ranma to tense up and look around in a paranoid fashion.

'They're not here they left them at home, they're not here they left them at home, they're not here they left them at home,' Ranma repeated to himself over and over.

"Ranma, is something wrong?" Hotaru asked.

"No, I'm okay." Ranma said as he relaxed and sat down while everyone gave him worried looks. "So, you take your c-c-c felines with you when you go places?" Ranma stuttered.

"Sometimes," Usagi said as Makoto, Hotaru, and Minako all shared a worried look. "Why? Are you allergic to cats?"

"S-something like that." Ranma frowned and shivered.

"Is this another one of your father's bad ideas when it comes to training?" Makoto asked, causing Ranma to wince.

"Yeah, the Neko-ken was, save for maybe Jusenkyo, the worst training screw-up he's ever done." Ranma whispered.

"What is it?" Usagi asked.

"It's not really something I like talking about." Ranma shivered again. "Anyway I'm going to go grab some food, I'll be right back."

"What was that about?" Rei asked.

"Earlier he was telling us about how his father would use all these crazy, dangerous techniques to try and get an easy out of having to train Ranma, but when he was telling us about those he was laughing it off like it was nothing," Makoto said. "Did he react to anything like this at your place, Hotaru?"

"No, there was one thing that bothered him that he wanted kept secret, but it didn't seem to really upset him too much," Hotaru replied. "And before any of you ask, I'm not saying what it was."

"Do you think we should push him on this Neko-ken thing?" Minako asked. "If it's something that bad, he might need help."

"I don't think we should, it's something that obviously bothers him and we don't have any right to force it," Usagi responded.

"Usagi is right, wow I don't say that often, we don't know Ranma well enough to force the issue," Rei said, getting nods from everyone and a pout from Usagi.

"Are you implying I'm always wrong?" Usagi asked.

"Of course not," Rei answered, getting Usagi to smile. "I was stating that you are almost always wrong, no implying at all," Rei finished, making Usagi tear up.

"You're so mean Rei," Usagi wailed.

"Oh get a hold of yourself meatball head, you're too old to keep being a crybaby," Rei teased.

Usagi stopped crying and stuck her tongue out at Rei. "I can cry if I want to. Besides, I actually have a reason right now," Usagi said, whispering the last part, but Rei still heard it.

'Is she okay? Did something happen that I don't know about?' Rei wondered. "I'm not going to force you to talk about it in front of everyone, but you will talk to me later about what that meant," Rei whispered to Usagi, who was surprised someone heard her.

"I'm back," Ranma said as he carried a tray full of food.

"Are you going to eat all that?" Makoto asked, as she stared at the huge amount of food.

"No, I mean I could, but I got some stuff for everyone. I wasn't sure what you all like so take whatever you want."

"That was really sweet of you," Minako smiled, causing Ranma to blush.

Makoto grabbed a piece of cake. "Thank you so much Ranma. It was very kind of you," Makoto said as she licked some frosting off her fingers, making Ranma blush even worse.

"You're welcome," Ranma responded meekly.

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"Mmmm, what time is it?" Haruka asked, too exhausted to look over at the clock herself.

"Eh, I'm not sure, your underwear is blocking the numbers," Michiru said as she got up to knock the article of clothing from their alarm clock. "Five PM…Oh crap, it's already Five. Get dressed, we need to go find out what happened with Hotaru and Ranma." Michiru panicked.

"Damn, you wanted to show Ranma around town today, didn't you?" Haruka asked as she started getting dressed. 'Wow, that was one great marathon session.'

"I hope they're okay. I never heard them come in," Michiru said.

"With how loud we were, we wouldn't have heard if Sailor Galaxia came back and was wreaking Havoc on Tokyo," Haruka responded.

"Quiet you, less talking, more dressing," Michiru stated as she threw Haruka her underwear.

"I'll be downstairs. Meet me when you're finished," Michiru said as she ran out the room mostly naked.

"Uh, Michiru honey, you're still naked," Haruka called out.

"Yeah, well most of my clothes are still on the stairs, seductress," Michiru called back.

'Well I really hope Ranma and Hotaru left or Ranma's about to get a free show from his cousin,' Haruka Smirked.

Haruka finished getting dressed and went downstairs. "They left a note," Michiru said as she handed it to Michiru

Michiru-mama
Since you and Haruka-papa seemed busy when we got home, I'm going to take Ranma to the arcade until you're free. Please pick us up when you're done.
Love,
Hotaru

"Guess they heard us," Haruka said.

"Do you think Ranma will be upset?" Michiru asked.

"He might think we're a little flaky for forgetting to show him around, but he really doesn't seem the type to have a problem with what other people do, though he'll probably be embarrassed as hell if we mention it around him. Don't worry, we'll go pick them up and apologize and we can still show him around tomorrow, maybe take them out for dinner tonight."

"Alright, let's go pick them up first and see what they want to do."

"Sounds good, but if they don't want to get dinner, can we still pick something up? I don't know about you, but I'm starving." Haruka grinned.

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"Hotaru, what are you doing here? I thought you said Michiru and Haruka were going to have all of you go out and show Ranma around the area," Ami asked, surprised.

"Um, yeah, but they were a little busy when we got home and we didn't want to interrupt them," Hotaru whispered as she and Ranma blushed horribly.

The other girls took in what Hotaru said and their blushing faces before it dawned on them and everyone at the table started blushing as well, except… "What were they doing that had them so busy?" Usagi asked, causing everyone but Ami's blush to deepen

Ami sighed as she reached into her backpack and pulled out two fully pose able Sailor Neptune and Uranus dolls and began to show Usagi what was most likely going on between the two.

"What is she doing with dolls that detailed of Uranus and Neptune?" Makoto wondered aloud."

"I'm more worried if she's got one's of us uh I mean the other Sailor Scouts." Minako responded covering her slip since Ranma was listening.

"Let's take a look." Rei said as she took Ami's backpack and opened it while Ami was busy scaring Usagi for life with her toys.

"Man she does have dolls of all the Sailor Scouts." Ranma said as he looked in the bag, "And a bunch of naked guy dolls from different Animes seem to be on top of the Sailor Mercury doll."

"It's always the quiet ones." Mars mumbled.

Realizing what Rei said Ranma realized he knew one other "Quiet" one and looked over at Hotaru apprehensively. Hotaru turned to Ranma and gave him an odd smile causing Ranma to shiver. "May the Kami have mercy on me" Ranma mumbled.

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Um, here's the next chapter, All reviews are appreciated, constructive criticism welcomed. Thank you JohnnyG for pre-reading, you can thank him for all semicolon's used cause I never know how to use those things. P.S. If the Omake's grammar is bad it's cause I didn't write until after the rest of the story was pre-read.