Are you serious?
Chapter 4
By Gabriel R. Lopez
Ranma's arrival at the Tsukino home was…uncomfortable. Her new family spent a majority of the time since she had arrived hugging her. That and trying to convince her she was someone else. After an hour of pouring through photographs, and getting an abridged version of Usagi's family history around the dinner table, Ranma had to admit she was a bit jealous of Usagi. In all honesty the part that really freaked Ranma out was that no one was starring at her or complaining as she wolfed down more than two thirds of her entire meal in 5.2 seconds. The Tsukino's were really nice, but she'd rather be with her father. Ranma would have to look up the Tendo Dojo in the phonebook later. whatever, she'd have the whole mess resolved in the morning. Although, there was no real hurry. This could give Ranma a break from her father's stupidity, perhaps long enough to find a cure for the Jusenkyo curse.
"well, it's been really great meeting you all and everything…" Ranma yawned "But, I'm just soooo tired right now. " Ranma escaped the confines of her chair, having successfully managed to use her martial arts skill to not set off the whoopee cushion. A device no doubt placed there by her temporary little brother. "So, where do I sleep?"
"well you can't just go to bed like that young lady." Ikukyo chided
"huh?" Ranma was confused.
"You should take a bath first"
"Oh! Right. I knew that. Um, I don't know where the bathroom is either."
Ikukyo folded her napkin and pryed herself away from the dinner table. "don't worry about it sweetie, I'll draw your bath and we can get you out of those nasty clothes."
"How kind of you…" Draw her bath? Ranma momentarily wondered when she had become a princess. it felt kinda nice. Ranma then jerked away as her ego reasserted itself. The concussion was making her somewhat volatile and unstable. "I ain't your princess, and don't need your help. "
"Nobody said you did. But right now, you're confused and I'm only trying to help."
Confused, Ranma was never confused, she just didn't know what she wanted right now. "where do I sleep?"
"Your bedroom is upstairs second door to the left, the bathrom is across the hall, first door to the right."
"whatever." Ranma huffed as she wandered off to parts unknown.
Once she made it to Usagi's room, the sleepy Ranma immediately hopped into Usagi's bed. It was time for a nice long siesta, all that food in her stomach had made Ranma very, very tired. In fact, Ranma had fallen asleep the moment she flopped onto Usagi's mattress.
After a moment of uneasy silence "Honey, are you sure that's Usagi?" Usagi's father asked… it looked like his daughter, but her personality wasn't quite right.
" According to the doctor she's had a severe cuncusion… and it's made her delusional. I think a good night's sleep is just the thing she needs right now." Ikukyo remembered something about Usagi needing ten hours of sleep when she got home.
"are you insane?" Sammy shouted. "she needs to stay up at least ten hours or she could-."
"Oh my." Ikukyo seemed to realize something and immediately rushed up the stairs to help Usagi.
"She could what?" a concerend father asked his son.
"well she could…" Sammy took a deep breath to calm himself, but everything came out a jumbled mess. "Kenny-had-a-concussion-and-went-to-sleep-and-he-didn't-wake-up-again."
Of course, years of listening to Usagi's longwinded and often jumbled explanations allowed him to decipher Sammy's explanation instantly, and he too rushed up the stairs too see if he could be of any help.
Sammy just sat there stunned…after a momentarily digesting everything that just happened, an evil smirk crept across his face. Usagi was going to owe him big.
upstairs, Ikukyo was trying to revive Usagi with little success. "C'mon sweetie. Wake up." Ikukyo tright to gently shake Ranma awake.
Ranma was still unconscious when Usagi's father entered the room.
"She's not waking up!" Ikukyo was in a panic.
"Okay, fill the bathtub with cold water and tell Sammy to call 119." The man of the house quickly gathered "Usagi" into his arms and carried her to the bathroom. He gently dropped her into the tub, which was filled with cold water and "Oh my god!"
Downstairs Ikukyo relayed the message her husband had given to her. "Sammy Quikly call 191!"
"…" Sammy was in a panic as he reached for the phone at the counter. Wait…191? Darnit there were just too many numbers to remember. Okay no need to panic. Sammy dialed the numbers like a drunken sailor apparently dialing 611 or was that 166 by accident.
"bee doo beep at the tone the time will be 6:23 pm beep"
'Okay, no need to panic.' Sammy thought 'Just remain calm, hang up, and try dialing the number again… 911 right?
Upstairs Ranma was confused…why was she in her capybara form?
"Luna?" Usagi's father had a confused look on his face, and was still in shock from the sight of his daughter turning into a cat.
"what's going on?" Ranma wailed.
Then confusion became anger as Usagi's father lifted the sopping Ranma out of the bathwater and yelled at her "What have you done with my daughter you vile cat demon!"
Ranma panicked and searched for the cat demon. The fear was literally rolling off her in waves "C-cat deamon. Where!"
"Don't play dumb with me kitty! I'm on to you."
"b-but I don't understand what's going on!" Ranma whined. she was confused, why was he saying she was a c- ca- memories of being tied, wrapped in fish sausages, and thrown into a pit of starving felines caused Ranma to cringe in terror.
"why were you pretending to be my daughter?" Usagi's father momentarily thought it wouldn't take much to snap her little neck. Ranma sensed the killer intent immediately causing her to once again cringe.
"I'm sorry. I didn't do it on purpose, I told you I wasn't Usagi." Ranma was shivering, and if she wasn't already wet she would have wet herself.
"Alright, then who are you?"
"R-Ranma Saotome…S-sorry about this."