Sorry I hate writing party/date scenes I shall try to write that one tomorrow or might just head for their being reunited in the future. I'm liking how this is flowing and shall continue this for a least a few new chapters. Hope you're liking it too.
Kuno was concentrating so hard on the work in front of him, when the door to his room was slowly pushed open, soft footsteps approached him; that he chose to ignore in his concentration, he frowned when fingers slowly walked their way up his back. He grimaced and braced himself for what was coming but still shivered and said "ngh" as the collar of his shirt was pulled away and a gush of air was blown onto the nape his neck and a two fingers brushed against that spot.
"Really Nabiki, Ten Spiders Crawling Up Your Back? Aren't you a little old to be playing that game?" he complained to his old friend.
"It gets you every time" she said with a smirk, she wore a sleeveless pink top and black denim capri pants that did wonders to her long legs.
"That's only because of the ticklish spot on my neck. What are you doing here by the way? I know after you stayed with us for a bit, that I told you, you were always welcomed here anytime, but I meant in the sense that you should call ahead before coming and not simply come haunt my place and myself" he said.
"I've been dress shopping for the prom tonight with your sister and she invited me to lunch" she explained.
"Of course you have" Kuno said wearily, in the short time that Nabiki had stayed with them, she had won over everyone in the house, even his dog and it seemed, even Mister Scaly Green. Kuno himself had had quite in shock to discover Nabiki giving him a belly rub one day. "Wait you have a date for the prom? Somebody actually asked you to be their date?" he said in an incredulous sounding voice and actually felt a little...hurt and quickly dismissed this.
"Well thanks" Nabiki said in a dry sounding voice. "Actually Kodachi volunteered her big brother as my date."
Kuno frowned at this, "but she only has one brother and that would be...oooooooh no" he said with a negative shake to his head.
"Come on Kuno-Baby, you have to come. Just think of all the people you need to say your final goodbyes to, we grew up with them and we might never see them again" Nabiki said persuasively.
"I've said my goodbyes to the ones who mattered to me" he said stubbornly. "Besides I have to prepare for entrance exams for the universities I have chosen to apply for. "
"You sure said goodbye to Ranma" Nabiki commented and then frowned when the kendoist snapped his pencil between his fingertips and stood up to glare down at her.
"You just have to bring that up! Bad enough to find that he and Akane got officially engaged on their training trip, but I also had to find out that my Pigtailed Girl was Ranma the whole time and that entire school was laughing at me for chasing after a guy...and then he had to go and do that!" Kuno growled and seemed to have suddenly developed a facial tick.
"He only gave you a hug goodbye" Nabiki said, while trying to suppress a laugh.
"No, what he did was, flung himself into my arms in his male form and smacked me on the lips and then said in a really gay sounding voice "oh, Kuno, I'm going to miss all the fun stuff we did together,"" he snapped.
"Oh come on it was all intended in good fun because he actually likes you a friend. Besides, you have to admit his female side is really cute and he's making great strides with getting more comfortable with a curse he will probably have for the rest of his life. I hasn't been easy for someone so naturally masculine as Ranma. Imagine if you had his curse?" Nabiki said with a shrug and then frowned when Kuno seemed to be frozen in place. "Kuno-baby?" she asked him after five minutes of trying to get his attention.
"Brrrrrrr, I would hate that" he concluded, coming out of his trance.
"Must say, I like what you're wearing" Nabiki commented at his pale blue jeans and burgundy button down shirt.
"Modern enough for your liking?" he asked sourly.
"Yes very this century" she agreed.
"I have been trying hard ever since Kodachi and yourself began your campaign to make me more socially acceptable" he explained.
"You're going away soon and will be meeting new people, so you shouldn't alienate people like before. It's fine being eccentric here, but you'll have to make friends and will probably meet girls who will want to date you" Nabiki said and hugged him.
"And I'll probably alienate them from the first by asking them to prove that they are actually females or dump warm water over them to see if they change" he joked but hugged her back. "Really, more hugs? Am I so embraceable?" he asked her.
"I think you are and now you're not thee-ing and thou-ing every two minutes or walking around like this" Nabiki said and took a hold of his bokken, draped it over her shoulder and straightened up, smirked and started striding around.
"Really, more imitations of me?" he said placing his hands on his hips.
"Here comes the hair flip" she said, tossing her head.
"I have never been that bad" he protested.
"So are you going to date with me tonight or what?" she said burnishing the bokkem at him threatening.
"I seriously have a lot of boning up to do" he replied.
"You have almost perfect marks; you'll have no problem getting into any school" she said.
"Because I study hard, I'm not a genius like you with your early acceptance and full scholarship to the most prestigious university in Japan" he said in frustration.
"You're a multi-millionaire, why bother even going to school ?" Nabiki said.
"Multi-Billionaire" he corrected. "In order to be respected as a future businessman, I need a proper degree from a decent university. Or should I just hang out here with Mr. Scaly Green, grow my hair long and smoke weed?" he sourly suggested.
"I think you would suit long hair" Nabiki teased.
"Not my style" he replied.
"Besides you could probably get your father to collect a couple of favours from his big boy friends and get you into whichever university you desire to attend " Nabiki suggested.
"You honestly think that my father has ever been popular?" he said quirking his eyebrows at her.
"Your father's a self contained asshole" she concluded "and you know what they say about apples and trees."
"Don't even go there" he said raising his hand.
"You're much better than him...if you take me to the prom" Nabiki said.
"Why do you want to go with me so badly if I'm so annoying" he asked her.
"You're my sort of annoying" she said. "Besides, it probably will be my last chance to say goodbye to you" she admitted.
"Oh" he said in dismay.
"Thanks, your oldest friend is going away and all you can say is; "oh"" Nabiki said, feeling like she was going to cry.
"That's not what I meant. When and why are you going away? I thought I had the summer with yourself and Kodachi dragging me into your ridiculous schemes. As long as it wasn't going for High Tea again, being the only male there amongst young mothers with their daughters dressed as Disney princesses was too embarrassing for words" he mused.
"I told you I was awaiting to find out if my friend's grandmother needed help in her ice cream shop for the summer? Well she not only offered me a job, but she's going to rent me the apartment above her shop for ridiculously cheap, but it means leaving in a couple days. I won't be here for the summer" she explained.
Kuno frowned at that "are you sure you have to go?" he asked her.
"I don't come from money; I have to be able to make money in order to pay my way in the world" she said.
"I know. Sorry, I was being selfish. I just can't imagine not having you around, it seems like I've been tripping over you my entire life" he said, hanging his head.
"That's a strange way to say you care about me" Nabiki said.
"You know I do. Who knows what would have happened between us if I had had a more conventional upbringing?" he said giving her a hug and was surprised when she sniffled a bit. "You'll always be my best friend wherever you go and I shall always be there for you; even if things got fucked up between us for a few years. Now stop sniffling, or I'll tell everyone you're not the cold hearted bitch you seem" he threatened.
"I'll miss you" she said drying her eyes on a tissue he gave her.
"I'll miss you too, therefore I shall go to this stupid prom with you tonight and eat rubber chicken with a smile" he concluded. "I supposed you have some scandalous dress picked out for you to wear tonight?" he asked.
"Red and low cut" she replied.
"Naturally, I shall order a red corsage for you" he said.
"But what I'm wearing is nothing compared to what Kodachi is wearing for her date with Mikado tonight; it's their third date after all" Nabiki teased him.
"Oh yes, I understand I have you to thank for my sister dating Mikado Sanzenin" Kuno dryly said.
"Not really, I recognized him and introduced them and they hit it off" Nabiki explained.
"He wouldn't dare" Kuno said with an evil smile.
"How do you mean?" Nabiki asked.
"I had words with our young swain and explained to him that if he kisses another girl besides my sister while they are involved; I will break his lips off and I went on to further explain, that if he fails to treat Kodachi as anything other than how he would treat his own sister; I would break off whatever pops up on him," Kuno said with a triumphant smile.
"I would hate to have you as a brother" Nabiki said with a shiver.
"I don't deal well with perverts" he concluded.
"Considering you were the one for Furankin High" Nabiki teased him.
"Do not even start to compare me to Mikado" Kuno threatened.
"You're worth a thousand Mikados to me, let's just have a nice night and forget about him and if you're nice to me; I'll let you kiss me" she said.
"Why is everyone so wanting to kiss me all of the sudden?" Kuno grumped.
"I guess you're just so embraceable, Kuno-baby" Nabiki said.
"Yes Nabs-chan" he said.
"You haven't called me that for years" she said, giving him a smile that made her face light up.
"You haven't act like her for years" he replied as he studied her face and wondered when she had gotten so cute and his heart grew heavy at the idea of her leaving.