Thanks for the review yesterday, guest (and thanks for the reviews from everyone else as well! Much appreciated), actually I can only pull off tragedy for so long. It gets a lot more fluffy hereon in. Keep in mind these are more like short stories, so anything can happen. Hope you're enjoying and will leave reviews on your way out the door...

Kuno was actually more observant than people gave him credit for and one of the things was, his uncanny ability to be able to tell when a girl got her period, not that he would ever disclose that information to anyone; let alone the female in question.

This ability had been honed out of a survival instinct where his own sibling, who would cheerfully poison him on a normal day, turned into a homicidal maniac bent on his destruction.

Therefore he already knew that his ex-best friend, Nabiki had her period, but he found himself wondering as the severity of her reaction to it, normally she seemed to be a little more annoying than normal and drawn to strange food combinations. But today she had been wincing and holding her belly when she thought that no one was looking and he found himself feeling oddly concerned about this.

Nabiki was experiencing the worst period of her life as the pains in her belly seemed to deepen with time and she felt as if she had a fever. She thought about going home but she had a math test, so tried to ignore it until she felt nausea coming on and hurriedly had to be excused from class. She moaned softly from her doubled up position over the toilet and forced herself to straighten up, rinsed out her mouth and forced another useless midol into her churning stomach and still hunched slightly forward, opened the door and ran into Kuno.

"Are you okay?" he asked her, concerned at how she seemed to be struggling to walk upright.

"I'm fine" she said, sweeping past him.

"No you're not alright, I heard you throwing up in there" he said moving so that he stood in front of her again.

"It's just female trouble" she said, hoping that that would get rid of him as it did most males when those magic words were uttered to them.

"It seems to be a lot more than that" he insisted. Nabiki tried not to wince as a particularly large cramp flared up and stumbled only to be caught by him. "Come on, we're getting you to a hospital" he said.

"No, I have a math test" she said, standing her ground.

"Oh, you could be having a miscarriage you don't know about or your appendix is about to burst but, by all means...you should worry about a math test" Kuno said in sarcastic voice.

"A bright star would be appearing in the east with three wise men in tow for your first suggestion; thank you very much. Let go of me" she commanded him and then the world went black and the last thing she saw was his concerned face mouthing her name.

FLASHBACK

This time a younger Kuno stood before her and she recognized him from when he was fourteen and his hair was growing out. "Come on Kuno-Baby, I want you to kiss me for my birthday" she heard herself say and she realized they were on her porch, on the evening of her fourteenth birthday.

"I already bought you the bracelet you wanted. How much more do you need?" he asked as a blush crept over his face.

"I want you to make me a woman" she teased him.

"I think I would have to do a lot more than kiss you for that" he said as he rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"Just kiss me" she said looking up at him and he lowered his head and gave her a peck on the lips.

"There I kissed you" he said in triumph.

"Nooo, I meant like how they kiss in movies" she protested.

"Fine, I'll give it a try" he said and placed his lips against hers. Their first clumsy attempts made them both giggle until they got into the rhythm and both teenagers were breathing heavy as Kuno's arms tightened around Nabiki until she was brought sharply against his body. She tightened her own arms around him enjoying the feeling of his solid frame. He had always been tall and lithe, but his kendo training was giving him more muscular definition that Nabiki couldn't help but appreciate.

He tasted of honey and almonds from her birthday cake and then...Akane opened the door and yelled, "I found them, Kuno's giving Nabiki his cooties."

Both teenagers flew apart and Nabiki hissed "shut up you little brat" at Akane as Kasumi gawked at them both.

"I'm never gonna let a boy kiss me. They're so gross" Akane announced and Kuno looked rather hurt at this.

Suddenly Soun's demon head was lashing its tongue at Kuno, "what's this Kuno, are you trying take advantage of my perfect little angel?"

"Of course not, sir" he insisted.

"Honestly daddy, we just were kissing" Nabiki said impatiently.

END FLASHBACK

Nabiki woke up with her mouth as dry as the desert. "Water" she gasped. She felt someone help her into a seated position and cool water flowed down her throat, she opened her eyes and frowned at Kuno's look of concern. "Where am I?" she asked him as she looked around and thought the room looked like a hospital room.

"You're in the same private hospital that I normally go to" he explained.

"But why?" she asked him.

"I'll get your doctor and he can explain it to you" he replied, leaving the room for only a couple of seconds. "This is Dr. Honda, he's an ob-gyn, he's the best in the business and he's also the one who brought Kodachi and I into this world" Kuno explained.

Dr. Honda was a middle aged man with thinning hair, an air of professionalism and confident smile. "How are you feeling Miss Tendo?" he asked her.

"Like I've been hit by a bus. Why am I here?" she asked him.

"You had a condition called Ovarian Torsion, which basically means one of your ovaries was twisted and being strangled off due to a cyst. I managed to cut the cyst away and suture it and untwist everything so to speak. The surgical incisions are small and should leave minimal scarring. Your ovary should heal in no time, so you should be fine" he assured her.

"I thought I was just having a bad period" she said, feeling stunned the Kuno had been right.

"It's easy to misunderstand what these things can be and fairly hard to diagnose if you don't know what tests to run" Dr. Honda explained.

"See? I told you something was wrong," Kuno smugly said.

"Okay fine, I owe you my fertility" Nabiki couldn't help saying and laughed when he blushed even though it hurt to do so, well stoned from the pain killers.

"Hey I had a heck of a time getting you here. Some people wanted to give you a pregnancy test; as if that would have accomplished anything! Some people wanted me to take you to the nurse's room. I literally had to call my doctor to get him to dispatch an ambulance" Kuno said with exasperation in his voice.

"Thank you" she said "So now what happens? Everyone's away at home" Nabiki asked. "I didn't go because of my math test."

"Well when I went to call your family, the outgoing message said they we absent, so called the number provided and it appears that they are visiting someone called Nodoka Saotome. A relation of Ranma's I presume? They are all staying with this person while Ranma and Akane are training in the mountains, so they need a couple of days before they rejoin them and then I shall be dispatching my jet to pick them up. As for your math test, our teacher's going to let you write it once you're healed" Kuno explained and she couldn't help smiling in appreciation at how he had handled everything.

"You're welcome to remain here until your family can come and get you" Dr. Honda offered.

"No I need to go home" she said in a panicked sounding voice, throwing her leg over the side of the bed.

"Oh no you don't" Kuno admonished, pushing her back. "Nabiki, are you still not over your irrational fear of hospitals? Why did your father let you watch those stupid medical thriller movies?" he sighed. "Just because you stay in a hospital; no one is going to mistake you for another patient and give you a medical procedure you don't need or try to remove your organs" he assured her, taking her hand at her wild-eyed stare.

"You're one to talk watermelon-boy" she snapped and he narrowed his eyes at this. "I can't stay here" she cried, "not alone. Stay with me" she begged him.

Dr. Honda cleared his throat and explained. "I'm sorry but overnight visitors are restricted to immediate family or married couples."

"I'm not staying here!" Nabiki protested.

"Okay do you want to come to my place?" Kuno asked her. "Just until your family gets back."

"You wouldn't mind?" she asked him after a pause.

"My place is hardly guest friendly but you should be safe enough if you don't wander around alone" he said with a shrug.

"Then get me out of here!" she practically begged him.

"Okay I'll go order the limo" he said reluctantly.

Nabiki winced as Kuno helped her inside, the pain killers made it hard for her to keep her balance but she refused to let him carry her like she was a baby. She had her pride after all, but he surprised her in the end when he tenderly tucked her into bed.

"You don't like that I'm here" she observed in a stoned-sleepy way.

"It's not that, it's just that I'm not used to having a guest I have to play nursemaid to" he explained.

"Are you afraid I'm going to go all clingy little girly on you?" she asked.

"yes, I have a busy life and don't need the interruptions" he simply answered.

"If you not into playing nursemaid, then why did you tuck me in?" she asked, not realizing she sounded rather childish or that she pouted.

"Oh, I didn't realize I had" he said blushing. "That is the product of having a younger sister who was highly cuddly as a child. It guess it's something I have been trained to do when it comes to females, especially injured ones."

"I like it" she said in a drugged voice that caused him to smile, she was cute when she wasn't really herself; he thought.

"Okay you just came out of surgery, so you should get some sleep" he hinted.

"Can't I get another hug?" she asked and he looked a little disconcerted when she gave him large puppy dog eyes. It was a little spooky but endearing at the same time.

"Okay, but then you have to go to sleep" he said and gave her one and dropped a kiss on her forehead as well for good measure. "There I gave you a kiss as a bonus; you had better not be bragging to your friends that you scored with me" he said in amusement.

"You know, lots of people say you're an arrogant jerk, but I like you" she said.

"Well, thanks, I think, I like you too" he said after a long pause. "Now I'm in the room right next door if you need anything or dial 1 on the houseline and someone will come and get me for you. There is a full washroom right through that door" he explained.

"Thanks, I miss being with you" Nabiki said and snuggled into bed.

"Well it looks like you're stuck with me for a couple days at least" he observed and turned the lights out.

Nabiki smiled sleepily, feeling right at home despite it being the big scary Kuno mansion, traps and all and drifted off to sleep with the sound in the next room of Kuno humming along to a classical song he played while he did his homework.