Ranma; Just Plain Hard
"Hmmm," Nabiki moaned, leaning her head back against Ranma's chest, "Sounds like you really did have an eventful venture in China."
"True dat, true dat," the pigtailed young man replied, "But it's cool, dou'. Nigga be gett'n tired of roam'n, look'n to settle down with a shorty like you."
Nabiki tilted her head up to Ranma with a goofy grin plastered on it, "What makes you so sure it's going to be with me?"
Ranma smirked at her, "You know you tripp'n. We already act'n like we partna's!"
Nabiki turned herself around to look Ranma fully in the eyes. She couldn't make them out behind his shades that he wore even during the night, but she did it nonetheless for effect, "So, you really want to commit to me? I mean, we just met each other, and..."
Ranma shushed her by putting his index finger across her lips, "Yo, you listen up, It's *YOU*, it's all about you girl, and I'm all for that! There ain't nobody I want for the mother of my children, you hea' dat?"
Nabiki looked at Ranma in awe, and before the tears could escape, she moved forward, and trapped his lips in a passionate kiss that took Ranma himself by surprise. His eyes went wide behind his glasses, as Nabiki's hand started to snake into his pants.
"Yo, yo! Chill! Not tonight!" Ranma pulled himself from Nabiki, who looked back confused and with a pouting expression. Ranma gave her a smirk, "Hey now, we gots plenty of time, we take this slow, cool?" Nabiki begrudgingly nodded, and smiled up at him.
"Okay, Ranma-chan."
"Well, I'm gett'n my ass to sleep, I'll see ya in the morn'n, chica."
Nabiki settled under her covers as Ranma was leaving the room. She decided she would have to say it if she wanted to get any sleep, "I.. love you Ranma."
Ranma smiled at her, and then closed the door. Nabiki turned over with a brilliant smile on her face. True, she knew that things were just going by too fast, but she didn't care. Ranma showed that he cared for her, that was more than any other guy had even come close to other than her father. She never thought being wanted like that would ever make her feel so good; it didn't matter how long she knew Ranma, but he made her feel... complete.
On that happy note, she went to sleep.
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Nabiki came downstairs with a bounce, and greeted her sister in the kitchen, "Hello Kasumi-chan! Isn't is a great morning?"
Kasumi turned, and blinked, "Oh, good morning Nabiki, you're... unusually chipper this morning. I know how you usually dislike waking up."
"I had such a wonderful sleep," Nabiki replied, "so I'm feeling great! When should breakfast be ready?"
"Hmm, oh, in a few minutes. You may go ahead and sit down if you like." Nabiki nodded, and headed for the dining room where she saw Ranma sitting with a tired expression on his face.
"Ranma! You look horrible!" Nabiki cooed, and quickly moved to sit next to him.
"Is cool, jus' not feel'n hot, that's all."
"I can see that," the middle Tendou sister stated with concern, "You sure you're okay to go to school?"
"I can hang, don't worry 'bout me, 'aight?" About this time, Kasumi set out breakfast, and noted a couple people were missing. She already knew Akane was still taking a bath, despite taking one last night which had to be cut short so Ranma and Mr. Saotome could have their turn; and she really liked to soak...
"Um, Ranma-kun? Where is your father?"
"Stupid foo' tried to wake me up, and I didn't feel like dragging his heavy ass downstairs." Even behind the glasses, you could tell his eyes were almost drooped. Kasumi nodded, and finished setting out the food.
"Morning," Akane stated from the hall, and calmly approached the dining table to eat. She then turned and noticed Nabiki's beaming grin, "Nabiki, something wrong?"
"Wrong? Everything is definitely alright! In fact, I don't know how the world could have ever been as right as it is right now." the elder sister replied. Akane tilted her head in contemplation, then shrugged it off.
"Shouldn't you be at school now?" Nabiki blinked, and checked her watch, "Oh shoot, you're right, can you make sure Ranma makes it for me? I can't wait for him to get ready."
"Sure," Akane replied non-committedly. Ranma was apparently asleep at the table.
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Nabiki looked up from her circle of business associates when one of them pointed out Akane and Ranma heading towards the gates. Nabiki blinked, noticing that she didn't hear Akane's usual mantra before rushing headlong into the army of idiots. Even more surpising, she was still walking as she approached the gates.
Akane walked ahead of Ranma, and strode forward into the slightly shocked mass of boys. The first one, a member of the boxing team, attempted a right punch, which Akane casually deflected into the face of a sumo fighter approaching from her blindside.
"Stand here for me, please," she asked, as she calmly tugged a soccer player to the back of her, forcing him to intercept a baseball bat intended for her head. She kicked the unconcious soccer player into the baseball team member, and continued forward.
The whole entire time, Akane seemed to calmly glide through her usual morning opponents as if she were simply walking through a field of tall grass, exept without as much effort. Many of the boys were smart enough to realize that this morning they probably should pull out of the battle, and most of the others were already unconcious or writhing in pain. The last one left was Kuno.
"My dear Akane, how I stand in awe of you quiet ferocity in battle, and that I..." Akane simply looked at him as she walked by, took his bokken from him, and rapped him over the head with it; knocking him out. Once that was done, she tossed it onto him, and kept walking.
Ranma strode by, and snorted at the unconcious kendoist, while everyone else in the yard stared in incredulous shock. Nabiki wasn't excluded.
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"Um, Akane?" One girl leaned over to question her friend while they were both in study hall, "um, is everything okay?"
"Everything's fine," Akane replied, not looking up from her book.
"O...kay, but how come you didn't cream the boys like you usually do this morning?"
The raven haired girl shrugged. "I'm not concerned with those immature boys anymore, why waste my time with them?" Akane asked simply, still not looking up from her book.
"Um... okay..." The girl looked sideways at Akane, wondering what brought such a massive change in her friend. She guessed she would have to ask Nabiki or something for the answers to that.
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"Are you feeling better, Ranma?" Nabiki asked, looking at Ranma sitting on the couch of the living room.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Don't sweat it," the pigtailed young man replied, keeping his eyes to old Japanese dubbed re-runs of 'Yo MTV Raps'.
"Okay," Nabiki replied, a bit more relaxed. Then she tensed back up, "Um, Ranma...kun? Do you think tonight... well, can we...?" She let the request trail off, but its meaning wasn't lost on Ranma.
"Ah, dunno, kinda still out of it, ya know?"
"Well, I guess I understand," Nabiki replied timidly. If she had been aware of herself, she would have screamed bloody murder for the way she was acting.
"Hey, hey! Now don't be gett'n greedy! It'll still be here for you tomorrow, cool?"
Nabiki smiled, "O-okay Ranma. I'm sorry if I'm sounding too demanding." Ranma waved the apology off.
As Nabiki walked off, Soun looked up from his game of Shogi with Genma, allowing the latter to strategically pro-emptively restructure the gamepieces in extra-fair play. The Tendou Patriarch studied his daughter intensely, and wondered at the dramatic change in her attitude. She was acting rather coy around Ranma. And though that was a good thing, he considered, it was a tad dramatic for her. He resolved to keep an eye out for Nabiki later on.
Genma didn't say anything, but thought to himself that his son worked pretty damn fast.
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Nabiki tossed and turned in her sleep, finding rest hard to come by. She had managed to doze off for a bit, but then woke up after a dreamless slumber. She decided that seeing Ranma would probably help her get a good nights sleep; it worked so well last night, after all. The middle Tendou sister quietly got up out of bed, and crept out of her room to across the hall. She slid the paper door over softly, as not to wake anyone in the room, and found Ranma missing. Nabiki tilted her head, and then shrugged, assuming he went to the bathroom or something. With that thought, she closed the door, and went back into her room. If she still couldn't sleep, she'd check up on her future husband later.
Kasumi's door opened, and Ranma quietly attempted to tiptoe out the door while adjusting his boxers more comfortably. A slender hand reached out the door, and pulled Ranma back by the front of his shirt. Kasumi leaned out and stole a long kiss from Ranma, and when he tried to pull away, snatched another small peck.
"Yo, yo! Kasumi, keep this on the downlow, 'aight? We gotta keep this quiet!"
"Hmmm," Nabiki moaned, leaning her head back against Ranma's chest, "Sounds like you really did have an eventful venture in China."
"True dat, true dat," the pigtailed young man replied, "But it's cool, dou'. Nigga be gett'n tired of roam'n, look'n to settle down with a shorty like you."
Nabiki tilted her head up to Ranma with a goofy grin plastered on it, "What makes you so sure it's going to be with me?"
Ranma smirked at her, "You know you tripp'n. We already act'n like we partna's!"
Nabiki turned herself around to look Ranma fully in the eyes. She couldn't make them out behind his shades that he wore even during the night, but she did it nonetheless for effect, "So, you really want to commit to me? I mean, we just met each other, and..."
Ranma shushed her by putting his index finger across her lips, "Yo, you listen up, It's *YOU*, it's all about you girl, and I'm all for that! There ain't nobody I want for the mother of my children, you hea' dat?"
Nabiki looked at Ranma in awe, and before the tears could escape, she moved forward, and trapped his lips in a passionate kiss that took Ranma himself by surprise. His eyes went wide behind his glasses, as Nabiki's hand started to snake into his pants.
"Yo, yo! Chill! Not tonight!" Ranma pulled himself from Nabiki, who looked back confused and with a pouting expression. Ranma gave her a smirk, "Hey now, we gots plenty of time, we take this slow, cool?" Nabiki begrudgingly nodded, and smiled up at him.
"Okay, Ranma-chan."
"Well, I'm gett'n my ass to sleep, I'll see ya in the morn'n, chica."
Nabiki settled under her covers as Ranma was leaving the room. She decided she would have to say it if she wanted to get any sleep, "I.. love you Ranma."
Ranma smiled at her, and then closed the door. Nabiki turned over with a brilliant smile on her face. True, she knew that things were just going by too fast, but she didn't care. Ranma showed that he cared for her, that was more than any other guy had even come close to other than her father. She never thought being wanted like that would ever make her feel so good; it didn't matter how long she knew Ranma, but he made her feel... complete.
On that happy note, she went to sleep.
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Nabiki came downstairs with a bounce, and greeted her sister in the kitchen, "Hello Kasumi-chan! Isn't is a great morning?"
Kasumi turned, and blinked, "Oh, good morning Nabiki, you're... unusually chipper this morning. I know how you usually dislike waking up."
"I had such a wonderful sleep," Nabiki replied, "so I'm feeling great! When should breakfast be ready?"
"Hmm, oh, in a few minutes. You may go ahead and sit down if you like." Nabiki nodded, and headed for the dining room where she saw Ranma sitting with a tired expression on his face.
"Ranma! You look horrible!" Nabiki cooed, and quickly moved to sit next to him.
"Is cool, jus' not feel'n hot, that's all."
"I can see that," the middle Tendou sister stated with concern, "You sure you're okay to go to school?"
"I can hang, don't worry 'bout me, 'aight?" About this time, Kasumi set out breakfast, and noted a couple people were missing. She already knew Akane was still taking a bath, despite taking one last night which had to be cut short so Ranma and Mr. Saotome could have their turn; and she really liked to soak...
"Um, Ranma-kun? Where is your father?"
"Stupid foo' tried to wake me up, and I didn't feel like dragging his heavy ass downstairs." Even behind the glasses, you could tell his eyes were almost drooped. Kasumi nodded, and finished setting out the food.
"Morning," Akane stated from the hall, and calmly approached the dining table to eat. She then turned and noticed Nabiki's beaming grin, "Nabiki, something wrong?"
"Wrong? Everything is definitely alright! In fact, I don't know how the world could have ever been as right as it is right now." the elder sister replied. Akane tilted her head in contemplation, then shrugged it off.
"Shouldn't you be at school now?" Nabiki blinked, and checked her watch, "Oh shoot, you're right, can you make sure Ranma makes it for me? I can't wait for him to get ready."
"Sure," Akane replied non-committedly. Ranma was apparently asleep at the table.
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Nabiki looked up from her circle of business associates when one of them pointed out Akane and Ranma heading towards the gates. Nabiki blinked, noticing that she didn't hear Akane's usual mantra before rushing headlong into the army of idiots. Even more surpising, she was still walking as she approached the gates.
Akane walked ahead of Ranma, and strode forward into the slightly shocked mass of boys. The first one, a member of the boxing team, attempted a right punch, which Akane casually deflected into the face of a sumo fighter approaching from her blindside.
"Stand here for me, please," she asked, as she calmly tugged a soccer player to the back of her, forcing him to intercept a baseball bat intended for her head. She kicked the unconcious soccer player into the baseball team member, and continued forward.
The whole entire time, Akane seemed to calmly glide through her usual morning opponents as if she were simply walking through a field of tall grass, exept without as much effort. Many of the boys were smart enough to realize that this morning they probably should pull out of the battle, and most of the others were already unconcious or writhing in pain. The last one left was Kuno.
"My dear Akane, how I stand in awe of you quiet ferocity in battle, and that I..." Akane simply looked at him as she walked by, took his bokken from him, and rapped him over the head with it; knocking him out. Once that was done, she tossed it onto him, and kept walking.
Ranma strode by, and snorted at the unconcious kendoist, while everyone else in the yard stared in incredulous shock. Nabiki wasn't excluded.
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"Um, Akane?" One girl leaned over to question her friend while they were both in study hall, "um, is everything okay?"
"Everything's fine," Akane replied, not looking up from her book.
"O...kay, but how come you didn't cream the boys like you usually do this morning?"
The raven haired girl shrugged. "I'm not concerned with those immature boys anymore, why waste my time with them?" Akane asked simply, still not looking up from her book.
"Um... okay..." The girl looked sideways at Akane, wondering what brought such a massive change in her friend. She guessed she would have to ask Nabiki or something for the answers to that.
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"Are you feeling better, Ranma?" Nabiki asked, looking at Ranma sitting on the couch of the living room.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Don't sweat it," the pigtailed young man replied, keeping his eyes to old Japanese dubbed re-runs of 'Yo MTV Raps'.
"Okay," Nabiki replied, a bit more relaxed. Then she tensed back up, "Um, Ranma...kun? Do you think tonight... well, can we...?" She let the request trail off, but its meaning wasn't lost on Ranma.
"Ah, dunno, kinda still out of it, ya know?"
"Well, I guess I understand," Nabiki replied timidly. If she had been aware of herself, she would have screamed bloody murder for the way she was acting.
"Hey, hey! Now don't be gett'n greedy! It'll still be here for you tomorrow, cool?"
Nabiki smiled, "O-okay Ranma. I'm sorry if I'm sounding too demanding." Ranma waved the apology off.
As Nabiki walked off, Soun looked up from his game of Shogi with Genma, allowing the latter to strategically pro-emptively restructure the gamepieces in extra-fair play. The Tendou Patriarch studied his daughter intensely, and wondered at the dramatic change in her attitude. She was acting rather coy around Ranma. And though that was a good thing, he considered, it was a tad dramatic for her. He resolved to keep an eye out for Nabiki later on.
Genma didn't say anything, but thought to himself that his son worked pretty damn fast.
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Nabiki tossed and turned in her sleep, finding rest hard to come by. She had managed to doze off for a bit, but then woke up after a dreamless slumber. She decided that seeing Ranma would probably help her get a good nights sleep; it worked so well last night, after all. The middle Tendou sister quietly got up out of bed, and crept out of her room to across the hall. She slid the paper door over softly, as not to wake anyone in the room, and found Ranma missing. Nabiki tilted her head, and then shrugged, assuming he went to the bathroom or something. With that thought, she closed the door, and went back into her room. If she still couldn't sleep, she'd check up on her future husband later.
Kasumi's door opened, and Ranma quietly attempted to tiptoe out the door while adjusting his boxers more comfortably. A slender hand reached out the door, and pulled Ranma back by the front of his shirt. Kasumi leaned out and stole a long kiss from Ranma, and when he tried to pull away, snatched another small peck.
"Yo, yo! Kasumi, keep this on the downlow, 'aight? We gotta keep this quiet!"