Thank you BiGDeal for the idea of the exchange between Kuno Sr. and Soun Tendo; I couldn't resist using it, I always give credit people who suggest ideas that I use.

Not finishing this today, it's getting too long for my liking and I have Under the Dome to watch on Shomi and listen to The Rodeo Song on a endless loop screeching through my head.

Oh Vector426, I'm putting this here as you seem to be reading my stories and I can't PM you as you're a guest, sooo funny what you suggested about Kodachi and Gosunkugi. I was trying to come up with a romance story between them. Kind of hard to as he's perhaps one of the least sexy characters as a potential romantic hero to work with. So I shall see about that. Glad you like my weird pairings.

NABIKI

"Be reasonable, it's not like I'm a teenager. I have responsibilities, I make heavy decisions that affect the growth of my company. I have people that rely on me" she insisted but the pregnancy test still displayed its cheerful little positive sign, and it's nine other friends did too.

"I don't have time for this, I have to travel a lot for my job. I have a family to help support" she said as she glared at them, but pregnancy test and its mates didn't seem to be open to negotiations. She felt like they were mocking her.

"I make a lot of money. I live in the most exclusive condominium building in town; I had to be approved by the condo board just to be able to purchase into this place. I belong to all the right clubs, I have lots of investments, I donate a quarter of my salary to charity. I'm a good person. This is simply not a convenient time for me. Perhaps in a couple of years if I find a man who loves me?" she suggested with a hitch in her voice and then choked it down. She was determined to get over Kuno; it had been a couple of weeks since she had really spent time with him. He had sent roses by way of apology. She had hacked them up with a katana feeling it fitting with his family's blade fetish and sent them back with a strong note urging him to cram their remains into a certain orifice on his body. He had tried to see her, but she had refused him every time. There had been a temporary satisfaction in seeing the great and powerful Tatewaki Kuno escorted from her work by security.

"Come on, I've only had sex once. Surely I'm not that fertile?" she pleaded with them, but all ten of them begged to differ with her with their smug little cheerful plus signs. She weighed her options. "I'll get an abortion" she cried in satisfaction and then frowned at this, wondering what if this might be her only chance to have a child. Then she pictured a little dark haired boy running towards her from a playground, he had his father's eyes and she almost felt like reaching out to catch the phantom child in her arms. Then she pictured an equally as dark haired daughter giving her a mischievous smile gap-toothed smile; she had Nabiki's smile and his eyes as well, as Nabiki caught them having tea with both her and her father wearing matching flowery floppy brimmed hats. Then she pictured years of her working overtime, with no time for a social life, no time for romance, her friends getting married as she stayed the same and years of coming home to an empty condo; always so alone. No, she couldn't have an abortion, she decided.

However she could rise the child by herself, she realized but then sagged at this idea, Nerima was a small city it wouldn't take long for Kuno to discover that she was pregnant and insist on marrying her if only for family honour as he was all about that, that and she knew that he wanted children one day. Could she marry him and be trapped in a loveless marriage or worse, be caught in a situation where only one person was in love; how long before bitterness replaced that love? She simply didn't know what to do, all she could think about was getting away from Nerima if only to decide on her own what to do. Sighing, she threw out all but one of her little mockers and got her coat on to go over to tell her family.

TATEWAKI

He paced the floor of his office and couldn't seem to concentrate on anything. He was frustrated and humiliated over how his relationship with Larissa had ended. Okay she hadn't really been his type. Not even close when he thought about it, he had been blinded by lust as ever, it would appear and now it has cost him the most important person in the world to him.

He hadn't meant to say what he did to Nabiki; he didn't have any romantic feelings towards her because he had never allowed himself to develop any, he had held her at arm's length because he had never wanted to lose her, she was too valuable as a friend to him. She had been there for him in his grief and he had turned to her for sex, needing an escape...and had experienced his first emotional attachment to someone during the act itself. He had always assumed he was just not that much into sex, it was a fun but that was about it. Now he realized that he had just never really been with someone he was actually in love with during the act and now he was...and she wanted nothing to do with him. He had tried calling her, texting her, going to visit her and she told him basically to "go have sex with himself".

Tatewaki had never had much luck with woman; his first had been Mariko simply because she was the only one who seemed to want him and although he had learned a lot about pleasing a woman from her, he thought she was annoying with her spelling everything and constant cheering and gave a sigh of relief when she went to chase after another man.

Then he had a brief fling with Ukyo Kuonji that lasted only over a weekend that started by her simply requesting she use him a tool to rid herself of her virginity soon after Ranma and Akane married, he'd been happy to oblige her being rather bitter about that time period himself. They had had a fun time, barely emerging from their hotel room during their stay and she moved back to Osaka soon afterwards. Not that Nabiki knew about that.

As for Larissa, she had made him her sexual slave until he barely knew which way was up. He had to wonder why he was so easily led by women. Was there something wrong with him? Was there something lacking in his nature?

All he knew was that there was one person who really loved him and he did her as well and now he realized this all too late and it felt like a part of him was missing. It was funny, how she had grown from a cute little girl to so beautiful a woman and he had never seemed to have notice that. He must have been so blind. Yes he had known about her feelings for him, after all it seemed like she had wanted him to be her first for everything and he finally accepted her final sacrifice, only to lose her.

NABIKI

She stood in front of them all and told them exactly what had occurred. "So I will understand if you want to disown me" she concluded. Glancing around at Akane and her brother-in-law, Ranma, Kasumi and her husband, Dr. Tofu and Soun Tendo; Genma finally having returned to live with his wife.

"Forget that, I'll just kill Kuno" Ranma said.

"No, he doesn't know about this and I'm not ready to tell him until I decide what I want to do with this child" Nabiki said firmly.

"You're not planning to have an abortion, are you?" Kasumi asked her in a shocked voice.

"No, that is not an option. I'm giving birth to this child, I just have to decide if I want to be with its father or make co-parenting arrangements with him" she explained.

"You know that Kuno is very old fashioned, almost to the point of being stodgy. He would marry you for sure if he knew" Akane pointed out.

"I won't be trapped into a loveless marriage," Nabiki said and then looked expectantly at her father.

"The route you are going will be a lonely one if you decide to raise an illegitimate child, this may be modern Japan but it's still Japan" he said taking her hands. "I won't disown you because I don't want to be trapped in a loveless marriage either. We will keep your secret until you decide what your decision is" Soun assured her and she tearfully hugged him and then all of them.

SOUN

"But sir, you can't go in there..." his secretary objected.

"Who you be?" asked the pineapple tree-topped principal. "You be looking a little old to be my...oof" he said when Soun punched him in the stomach.

"Cut the crap out Kuno, you know exactly who I am. I went to high school with you" he said seizing him by the collar of his Hawaiian shirt.

"I no be knowing..." he said and then Soun shook him hard.

"Okay what do you want?" he said in a normal sounding voice.

"I'm letting you know that you're going to be a grandfather; just like I am. It seems that the Kuno line is joining the Tendo line" he explained.

This appeared to give the other man pause. "Your daughter Nabiki and my son?" he guessed.

"Yes and I came to tell you that you are not to interfere in any of their decisions on how they want to raise their child. I won't have you fucking up another generation" Soun said threateningly.

"I raised my children just fine" he insisted.

"I pretty much raised your boy, you were never there for either of your children, the only thing you did was give them those ghastly names and mental issues. I didn't like it when my wife brought home your son and I told her never to invite him back when I found out who his father was. But my wife had a kind heart and refused to listen to me and before long, I started to like him because he was a sweet child. It was because of my wife that he received lunches for school and other things your wife should have done for him. Your wife was too far gone all the time to care of his needs. My wife even offered to take your daughter home after school but she wouldn't let her. Then when my dear wife passed and I inherited the care of your son and I didn't shirk that duty out of a promise to my wife and because I was fond of your son. Oddly enough and for some reason, Tatewaki and his sister turned out okay. He's running your company and she's a scientist; in case you don't know. Your daughter likes to date a lot and hasn't settled for a certain man yet, but is most frequently in the company of a childhood friend of my son-in-law's, Ranma, his name is Ryoga Hibiki and he's a solid, upstanding young man who runs his own construction company and treats your daughter with the respect she deserves and appears to really care about her. That is what your children are up to" Soun spelled out to him.

"So you want my son to marry your daughter?" he asked.

"Ideally yes, but they have a lot of history between them and my daughter isn't sure about her feelings towards your son" Soun explained.

"So threaten to disown her and she'll fall in line" Kuno suggested. "That's what I would do."

"No, I'm going to support her in whatever decision Tatewaki and herself make because I care about both of them and they are mature enough to make their own decisions. I have seen with my on two eyes what being trapped in a loveless marriage can do to people; that's how your own marriage was after all. It's too bad you never bothered to get to know your children when you got back from Hawaii, they are a credit to you, perhaps the only credit you have. You were an brain dead idiot back in high school, always more concerned about chasing girls than anything else. Yes, I know all about the affairs you had with women while ignoring your wife and children. I even had to witness your son become you but he seems to have grown out of the stage of his life, which is good for him and you have my daughter to thank for that" he explained.

"So what am I supposed to do?" he asked him.

"Stay out of it unless they come to you. I'll be helping to raise our grandchild; I seem to be rather good at raising Kunos' after all. Oh and you can forget about calling the child Blade or Katana or anything stupid like that, it shall have a normal Japanese name of its parents choosing. Do you understand?" he asked him, giving him another shake.

"Tachi is my son" he said.

"In name only. So the long and the short of it is, if catch you interfering in their lives in any way, I will kill you. You're someone I wouldn't trust to babysit a cactus, let alone trust with children. You're a disgrace Kuno, I'm surprised they allow you around children at all" Soun said and released the other man.

"I can do whatever I want because I can afford to; you're nothing Tendo. All you have is a martial arts form borrowed from everyone else's and a rundown old dojo" Kuno said with a smirk.

"You may have had a huge house and lots of money but I was husband and I am a father. I have the respect of my children and have always put their happiness and needs before my own. I love them and they love me back because I struggled to give them a happy childhood when their mother passed and I like to think I was a positive influence on your son. Whereas, you were a visitor in your children's lives and that shall continue when it comes to this grandchild to be born and any future ones. Hope that your cold money is a good substitute for loving hugs and kisses" Soun said and left the other man, but not before flashing him a smirk of his own.

NABIKI

Nabiki was pondering what to do, still wanting to take a vacation from it all, lord knows she had a lots of vacation time banked up but; where to go where she could proper health care and have someone with her she knew in case something went wrong? She would still be pregnant wherever she went anyway and nervous about the idea of travelling alone. She was still thinking about it when someone literally waved a hand in front of her face. "Ni Hao, earth to Nabiki" Shampoo said.

Nabiki snapped to immediately and hugged the heavily pregnant girl and her husband, Mousse.

"Looks like you have missed us. Hey not so tight, I want to let this baby come to term on its own" Shampoo jokingly protested.

"It's been so long. How are you both?" Nabiki asked as she put an arm around each of them.

"Busy ever since we opened our third restaurant" Mousse explained.

"Come over for tea at our old place and we'll tell you all about it" Shampoo suggested, linking her arm with Nabiki's.

"So that's it, after Mousse defeated me due to my having an inner ear infection. My great-grandmother stayed long enough to see us married and then turned over the restaurant to us" Shampoo explained. "I think you can guess the rest" she said touching her belly.

"An inner ear infection? That's cheating you naughty, naughty Mousse" Nabiki chided him.

"It was her idea for me to challenge her when she was like that" he protested. "I think she was getting impatient about us having to sneak around during our relationship, everyone knew we were having sex anyway" Mousse supplied with a sheepish grin.

"I'm happy to be married to this silly duck-boy" she said affectionately.

"I charge you with being my wife; your fine is a kiss" he joked and Shampoo kissed him with a giggle, Nabiki saw the obvious love between the two of them... and burst into tears.

"Nabiki are you okay?" Shampoo asked her in alarm. "I hope we didn't offend you, Mousse is so sappy."

"No it's not that...it's just" she sobbed.

"Tell us" Mousse said handing her a napkin. Oddly enough his reaction was similar to Ranma's ""I'll kill him" he said.

"He doesn't know yet" Nabiki.

"Well we are happy to help you in any way we can, but we're going back to China soon" Shampoo explained. "You know we have chosen to remain in Japan, but want our baby to be born in Joketsuzoku surrounded by our families."

Nabiki's head shot up at this. "What's it like there?" she asked her.

"Well a little primitive perhaps but it's like a normal village here" Mousse explained.

"Is there health care?" Nabiki asked her.

"Of course, there's a hospital there" Shampoo said. "But I'm using my great-grandmother as a midwife."

"Do you think I could come with you?" she asked them.

"You want your child to born a Chinese citizen?" Shampoo asked her with surprise.

"No I just need some time to myself to decide what is best for this child" she explained.

"We'll agree if your family does too" Shampoo said after sharing a searching look with Mousse and he nodded at her. "Also the council will have to decide if you can stay. They don't take just anyone in, even if it is temporarily. Also if they agree, you'll have to help out with chores and will be assigned some sort of job for the duration of your stay. So it wouldn't be a free ride in a fancy car," Shampoo explained.

"I can agree to that" Nabiki assured them. "Looks like it's time for a family meeting...I have to invite Kodachi too though" Nabiki said.

FAMILY MEETING TIME

"I don't want you to go" Soun protested.

"So you're not willing to marry my brother?" Kodachi asked her

"This child shall bear your last name and he'll have custody rights to it regardless of whether we are married are not. It's just I don't even know myself or what I want... and I'm going to be a mother. I want to go a place with someone I trust and learn who I am and what I want. I don't want a loveless marriage. I've always been someone's daughter and his friend. But who am I really? I'm tough as steel but I want love and if that is just the love of a child, I shall accept that and I want to learn to be strong and to protect my child and it seems that learning a few Amazon martial art forms might come in handy for that" Nabiki said smiling at the Amazons.

"Mousse would act as a temporary husband to her" Shampoo explained. "Of the non-sexual variety" she assured everyone at their frowns.

"I don't like it, we will miss you too much" Kasumi objected.

"And you'll be so close to Jusenkyo" Ranma pointed out.

"I'm pregnant, not by much, by about three weeks but I doubt I'll go training there and end up as a weasel or something" Nabiki joked. "I'm going with or without everyone's blessings. Kodachi, I'll write to you and tell you how my pregnancy is progressing and when I'm ready to let Tatewaki know, I want you to deliver those letters to him. Until then, he's not a know about my pregnancy or where I am" she insisted.

"I agree" Kodachi said.

"We agree as well" Akane said, putting her hand on her husband's arm to still his ojections.

"As do we, contact me when you get there and I'll transfer your medical file to your attending doctor" Dr. Tofu said.

"Daddy?' Nabiki said looking at him. "I won't be there forever, I'll be back long before the baby is born. " she assured him.

"Okay, but I expect you to contact me at least once a week" he told her.