Chapter Four: Spill! What Tatewaki Finds Out!

The next evening hit, when everyone, including Tatewaki, scrutinized the tea kettle, which had now sat in the middle of the table. The genie, leaned there by the door with her arms folded, as she viewed the scene.

Nabiki, turned to the genie. "So Nozomi, do you really live in this tea kettle?"

"400 years."

"400 years!" Akane, expressed in shock and disbelief.

Nozomi, rotated her eyes and head for a minute, before she stood there, away from the door."400 years, and not one single person has changed. Not one of you.

Genma, came up close to the genie, as he examined her."So you're really a genie, huh?"

Nozomi, nodded to him, with a snobbish face. "Yeah."

"Why Saotome, of course she's a genie." Soun, put his head behind his head, nervous. "Living in my house."

Nozomi, tossed her head down at Soun, with an eye. "I don't live in your house."

"Why of course, still, hasn't anyone realize, that there is a real genie in my house," Soun, having a hard time to adjusting.

During everyone's interview with Nozomi, Tatewaki, and Ranma, aside, were having the ultimate staring contest, containing the inner battle inside, for the tea kettle. After the interview, things quiet down a bit, when Nozomi, turned to Tatewaki, and Ranma. "Oh, come on you two, give it rest." She blinked before she gave them a satisfactory look. "The tea kettle isn't going anywhere, okay."

Her words only tightened up Tatewaki, and Ranma's concentration. Eye to eye, and mind to mind, Ranma, replied back, referring to Tatewaki. "Yeah, innless he takes it."

Tatewaki, spoke back, this time talking about Ranma. "Not innless ye taketh of it first."

Nabiki, was grow irritated now. "Guys, enough!"

Then Akane, added it in shouting. "She's right, that's enough, the both of you!"

Soun, cleared his throat. "Uh.. they're right, that's quite enough."

Genma, started up next, talking to Ranma, as if he were in trouble. "Ranma.." Then in the next minute, he turned around, on his son's side. "..do whatever it takes to get that tea kettle, boy!"

Ranma, kept one eye on Tatewaki, as he used the other to glare at his father, as he veined. "I'm over here, pops!"

Genma, sat there shocked and nervous, with one hand behind his head, this time. "Oh-oh right."

Ranma, twitched. "How could you forget, it was ME, your only son!"

Genma, backed up. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, all of this mess, is getting me all confused."

The genie, sighed before she rolled her eyes. "I've had enough of this." She walked towards the middle of the table, and had lifted up the tea kettle, away from the both of them. Tatewaki, and Ranma, atomically went for the kettle, before their heads collided and crashed on each other's arms."Ou..erf."

They both groaned in frustration. Without knowing what the other was thinking, they both grabbed each other's arms tightly enough, when they put each other's strength to the test. This test of theirs led them into another fight. Yet, this fight was different from the others. This fight limited to chasing, keeping distance, which didn't include a sword.

"Look man, I'm tired of having to disfigure my body, because of you!" Ranma, exclaimed in an angry tone."

"It's not like my body to be defaced as well, fiend," Tatewaki, countered back in motivated tone."I could only imagine it all too well, what thou hast done with my body."

Ranma, scowled with a disturbed and sickened expression, across his face. "I don't even want to picture, what you probably did with mine."

"I hath not done anything! What wouldst ye think that I would even thinkth to?" Tatewaki, piercing dagger- glares at Ranma.

Ranma, glared back in tone. "You better have not done anything weird with my body." Then, he flushed aside, still feeling sick and disturbed, thinking about his girl side.

Nozomi, rolled her eyes. "It won't even matter, if you guys just wish to switch back in the first place."

Tatewaki, pierced his eyes at the genie."Thou art the one who started all it all. If you want to fix this mess, dost such on thy own time. Shall not waist our wishes to do it."

Nozomi, looked down at him, drained. "It doesn't work like that."

Ranma, scowled at Nozomi, with a irritated expression across his face. "Look, who have no idea, what it means for him, to be in my body."

Nozomi, turned to Ranma. "You do have two wishes left."

Ranma, pointed right out to Tatewaki. "Yeah, he's got four more, because he knocked the tea kettle over, at the restaurant; now, that he has them, who knows what he's gonna wish next.

Tatewaki, brightened his eyes. "Ah, that's right, I Tatewaki Kuno, do believe to have obtained four more wishes."

Nozomi, answered back, clearing the misconception. "Yeah, and now I'm stuck with the both of you, until you two have made all your wishes."

Tatewaki, stepped out. "Then I shall start with my new wish. I wish to date Akane Tendo and the Pigtailed-"

Right then and there Akane, elbowed Tatewaki, as Ranma, booted him, knocking Tatewaki, out this time.

"Few, that was a close one," Akane, let out.

Ranma, backed away as he veined. "Man, I don't care if I knock him out, while he's in my body anymore, I'm getting tired of all this mess."

Akane, turned to Ranma. "Why can't you just wish for him, not to have anymore wishes. Have Nozomi, take his wishes away."

"What's the point? As long as that tea kettles around, Kuno, ain't gonna stop."

"Not as long as I have the kettle," The jinni, replied.

Ranma, turned to the jinni, furious. "What good is it, once you've returned in it. If you end up going back in, and that idiot, get's a hold of that tea kettle, he's gonna wish for something, everything he time, he drinks a cup of tea!"

"It's true," Nabiki, stated. "If Kuno-baby, grabs a hold of it, whose knows what he'll wish for next. It could be worse."

Akane, turned to Nabiki. "What do you mean, Nabiki?"

Nabiki, looked at the group. "If Kuno's already wishing to date you and Ranma, then who knows what he could be imaging next. Marriage, kids, whose knows.

Akane and Ranma, widen their eyes, imaging the worst. "Don't even think about that."

"Besides, how would he even marry the Pigtailed girl, if he is her? If things aren't already a mess, because he's clueless idiot." Ranma, took a step back; he clenched his hands by his hand. "Just for once, I wish that Kuno, would understand that and the Pigtailed girl and I, are one and the same."

"Done," Nozomi, interrupted.

Everyone, just grasp on what Ranma, had just said.

Ranma, looked back and forth at everyone. "What?"

Nozomi, gave Ranma, an obvious look, before Ranma, read the expression off her face. Suddenly the thoughts came back to him. "Oh shi-"

All of a sudden Tatewaki, woke up, before he grabbed Ranma, by his lapel and shook him back and forth. "Why you-" He held his grip tighter. "How dear ye, strike I!"

Ranma, narrowed at him, not knowing what to think. "Well, you dissevered it."

Tatewaki, pulled Ranma, closer as his narrow, turned into a glared. "What was that, not at will to bruise thy body again?"

Ranma, scowled with a bitter look in his eyes. "Well I don't have much of a choice, I only have one more wish left, and I for one, am not planning on not wasting it."

"I believe I recall that thee hath two wishes," Tatewaki, forward in statement.

"I-" Ranma, turned to the side and shrugged. "-kinda-" He, looked down at the floor. "-used it-" At least, he let out a scuff remark. "-by accident."

"What was the wish?" Tatewaki, asked curiously.

Ranma's eye twitched. "You'll see."

Tatewaki, threw a force behind his words. "Tell me!"

Ranma, held himself stiff, and pitched a anger stare back at egotistic samurai. "I said you'll find out." Ranma, glanced aside for a moment, back to Tatewaki. "And in this case literally; you can't say that you don't understand after this." Ranma, shifted back, keeping the same look to Tatewaki. "I'm afraid you don't have any other choice."

"Thou shalt tell me, before I beat it out of ya!" Tatewaki, shouted angrily.

"Then go ahead a try!" Ranma, hollered back.

Tatewaki and Ranma, started fighting, again, disfigured or not. They went to the right side of the yard, then to the left. They chased each other down the walk way, through the gate. After taking a few laps on the street. They jumped over the wall, to over one of the tress. Last but not least, they both ended up on the rooftop, when Ranma, finally got one really good, lucky, strike and kicked Tatewaki, off.

Everyone either heard, saw, or even felt a big splash from the pond. Everybody, but the genie, was at standstill, thus for the eye's that expanded in wonderment. Ranma, took a step forward, to get a better look; he fidgeted as he cringed at the thoughts running through his mind.

Nabiki, walked over to the pound, to see if Tatewaki, was unconscious again. "It's okay guys, he's out."

The genie, scuffed aside. "That doesn't necessarily mean that he won't find out."

Ranma, jumped down, before he snapped at the genie. "Why you- I never asked for this."

Nozomi, simply looked at Ranma, with an unenthusiastic condescending sneer across her face. "Huh You're no different. No better than him.. or the rest of them. I swear it's like giving you people Pavlov's dog bone, it never ends. You bark, and bark, and bark.. until you realized you've braked up the wrong tree. "

"Hey, don't you patronize me!"Ranma, spat out before he dropped his brow. "And what the hell do you mean by that anyway? I'm not a dog!"

Nozomi, just narrowed at him. "It means, you wish, and wish, and wish, and then granted. So when you finally wish that you regret, you suddenly wanna take it back; but it's too late, you can't."

"That was an accident," Ranma, scowled back. "You didn't have to take it so literally."

Nozomi, raised her eyes back at him. "Exactly my point."

Ranma, threw dagger-looks at her. "Now look what you done."

Suddenly everyone heard a voice.

"Ranma Sao-!"

Everyone, slowly turned to the wet female figure, facing them. The voice, let out again. "Sao-to-me-" Tatewaki, covered her hand over her mouth. She looked to the ground aside, before she let out a small voice. "What's going on? What happened to my voice?"

Tatewaki, looked down at her hands. (These aren't my hands.) After that something else caught his attention. His eyes grew huge, before he tapped his chest. (Those aren't mine.) Subsequently, he looked father down below, when his eye re-widen. (That definitely isn't mine...what's going on here?)

She turned to the rest, embarrassed. "Excuse me. Tatewaki, ran straight to the bathroom and looked right into the mirror. Her eye's practically dropped out of her sockets, along with her jaw, once again. (Wha- what is this? Why on earth do I look like the Pigtailed girl!

Tatewaki, looked up and down once more, wearing a twisted look on her face. She retraced her hands, over his body again, to make sure she wasn't seeing things. (What is this? Just a minute ago, I was in Saotome's body, and now I'm in the Pigtailed girl's?) Then, after taking one good lookin the mirror, it had finally hit her, just as a bus could. Tatewaki's eyes, grew huge. (I can't believe this? Why that- that- conceited little-...) Tatewaki, growled under her breath. (Damn that Saotome..) Tatewaki, twisted into new looks of anger. (I can't believe him? The Pigtailed girl, no less... What the hell was he thinking?)

Suddenly everyone heard a scream.

"WHY THAT DAMN SORCERER!"

Ranma, choked on his food, on the edge.

Everyone, then heard footsteps, running down the steps, into the room, that everyone was in. "RANMA SAOTOME!"

Ranma, eyed her back, acting like nothing effecting him. "Yeah, what?"

Tatewaki, walked over when she pulled Ranma, up by his lapel, and pulled him close. "Damn you Ranma Saotome! How dear ye wish for I, to change into the Pigtailed girl!"

Ranma, eyed her oddly, as he sighed. (This is too much.) "It wasn't me, if you wanna go blame someone for a change-" Ranma, pointed out to Nozomi. "-then take it up with her." Then he shrugged still. "Besides, that isn't what I accidently wished for; seeing as it wasn't so much an accidently, as much as it is her fault.

Nozomi, looked aside scarastically bored. "You asked for it?"

Ranma, glared at her, erked off. "I had not!"

Nozomi, handed him a look. "You're the one who wanted him to know."

Ranma, narrowed at Tatewaki, back to Nozomi. "It doesn't seem like he knows much to me!" Ranma, simply continued. "That still isn't the point; I didn't wish for any of this."

Nozomi, simply folded her arms. "If you haven't said I wish, I wouldn't had granted it."

Tatewaki, grabbed Ranma, up close to her again. "Then what ye wish for?"

Suddenly Tatewaki, felt hot water, over his head. Tatewaki, snapped around at Nabiki, in vein. "What did you do that fo-" Tatewaki, abruptly stopped, before his widened in thought. (It's that scoundrels voice again.)

Nabiki, handed Tatewaki, a mirror. "Here-"

Ranma, eyed at her in protest. "Nabiki!"

Then Tatewaki, this time, felt cold water over him while he looked in the mirror. Nabiki, repeated her movements again and again. Tatewaki's raised his brow in question, before turned to Ranma, when he snapped into two. "THOU ART THE PIGTIALED GIRL!"

Ranma, stepped back, not knowing what to do. "Eh?"

After that, nothing but silence hit, as the entire scene, held off at a nice cliff-hanger.