Chapter 4: Let's go
Ranma leads the way into the cafeteria, looking around for the Asadiba group, and he spots ukyou at a table eatting her lunch and goes over to where she is thinking she might know where the group went.
"Hey Ukyou, did you happen to see where the Asadaiba group went?"
"Hey Ranma huney, oh you mean the field trip group, oh they left awhile ago." Finishes her lunch and sips her drink.
"They left?" Ranma looks abit nervous, thinking the asadaiba girl will kill him for making her get left behind.
Ukyou blinks at ranma. "What's wrong sugar? You look upset.."
Ranma rubs the back of his head nervously and leans down and whispers to ukyou . "Have you seen akane by any chance?"
"Yes she wouldn't shut up about this evil girl you were off with, is this true ranma huney?" ukyou looks at him intently.
"Evil girl ..no.. um well yes but she's not evil I think she just happens to look like my girl side, so I really wanted to talk to her and clear a few things up and I guess I made her miss her ride back to her school.."
Onna stands near the cafeteria door looking around for any of the students from her school and for her friend Ivory, and after looking around the whole area she feels abit disappointed that she isn't finding anyone from her school. Nabiki enters the cafeteria by the doors where onna is standing, and spots her and a happy smirk spreads across her face.
This short brown haired girl looks at onna up and down making her get annoyed at how this girl is gawking at her. "Listen if you've got something to say to me then say it, don't just sit there and annoy me by starring.." she crosses her arms.
"Sorry I thought you were ranma but your not, he'd never wear an outfit like that
Onna starts to feel herself acting all weird from hearing the name, but overpowers the urge. "Well I'm not ranma, and of course he wouldn't he's a guy, and I'm not a guy, I'm a girl." her red gem necklace glows brightly beneath her shirt.
Nabiki eyes her uncertain. "I'll be right back ok." She runs off to the kitchen area and gets a cup and fills it with hot water, and goes back to where the girl is and dumps the water on her head.
Onna blinks and notes she's wet. "What the hell was that for! You got my hair all wet and my uniform.." grumbles and glares at the brown haired girl.
Nabiki notes there is no change in form or anything for that matter and is quite satisfied, she could indeed make a fortune off this new girl and make kuno very happy while also making herself happy in the greed category. But now she had gone and gotten her money maker mad at her, she had to act fast to repair the damage.
Ryouga wakes up finally looking around and slowly remembering why he had passed out, and looks around for ranma and the girl that he had mistaken for ranma how stupid was he. Oh well he'd properly apologize to the girl and give ranma a proper beating as soon as he could find him. Akane stomps around the hallways fuming mad looking for ranma, and without realizing it steps on ryoga's body thinking nothing of it.
"When I find him.. he's a dead man!"
"Ooh hi akane." Ryouga is all embarrassed but happy to see her at the same time. Akane's anger disappears as she notices she's stepping on ryouga's body, and gets off him quickly. "Ooh Ryouga I'm so sorry, I didn't see you there."
"It's ok akane." Ryouga has a stupid goofy look on his face and he's poking holes in what's left of the wall with his finger.
"Ryouga have you seen Ranma by any chance." she is talking all sweet.
Ryouga is lost in thoughts of akane with her sweet voice, at this moment nothing else mattered to him as he starred back at the girl he loved.
Nabiki thinks of a way to smooth things over with the redhead girl before her, and soon she gets an idea. She'll befriend the girl and find out more about her, the more she knows about the ranma look alike the more details she could tell to her many customers.
"I'm sorry it's just I didn't know if you were ranma's evil girl side or not, come with me and I'll get you some dry clothes for the time being, oh how rude of me for not introducing myself, Im Nabiki Tendou."
"Nabiki.. that's an odd name.. I guess since you introduced yourself I should as well.. I'm Onna Satomi. Now about those dry clothes.. since you got mine all wet.."
"Onna huh.. that's a really weird name.. anyway come with me and I'll get you some dry clothes like I said I would." starts off to the locker room in the gym, looking behind her to see if the girl is following and see's that she is and keeps walking till they get to the gym's locker room. The girl looks around the room at everything, comparing it to her own school's locker room silently to herself. Nabiki walks down to where her locker is and puts the combination in and opens it up and takes out an extra school uniform, and holds it out to onna.
"Here you can wear this for now."
"Um but this is your school's uniform, and I don't even go here or know you.. why would you do this for me?" Onna gives her a questioning look.
"Well I do usually charge a fee for my generosity, but I like you onna so it's free.. but you have to do something for me." she gives off an evil smirk.
Onna sweatdrop at this. "Jeez your not very nice.. what do you want from me, I should've known by the way you were starring at me back there before that you wanted something from me." takes the uniform and changes out of her wet clothes and into the furikan girls uniform.
"Your quite smart miss satomi, oh I don't want much from you really, just some pictures really." Onna sweatdrop appears on her head again. "Pictures.."
Ranma and Ukyou talk about both of their recent events while sharing a melon bread together, and both have forgotten about the girl, till akane comes barging into the cafeteria with ryouga behind her angry as hell. Akane spots ranma and ukyou sharing food together and grows even more angry, and decides she has come at the right moment. Ryouga also notes ranma and ukyou sittting together sharing food but since ukyou is wearing the girls uniform and has her hair down, he doesn't recognize her.
"Ranma how dare you flirt with another girl when you have akane! I won't forgive you!" Ryouga charges at ranma full speed and takes out his umbrella from his back and tosses it at the table ranma is.
"Ryouga.." Akane has lost all her anger once more.
Ukyou pulls out her huge spatula and slams it into the bamboo umbrella, both the umbrella and spatula grinding against each other, till ukyou put's all her concentration and strength into holding her spatula up against the spinning umbrella and finally overcomes it slamming it into the wall.
"Ryouga you jack ass! How dare you attack me!"
Ranma takes the chance to run off, before akane gets to him or ryouga, right now he just wanted to find the asadiba girl he had totally forgotten, that he left her standing by the doors and now she was no where to be found. He felt guilty really since he had told her that he would help her get back to her group, since he was the one that pulled her away from them.
Akane watches ukyou beat the crap out of ryouga with her gigantic spatula, flatting ryouga into the ground and then she realizes she forgot all about ranma and looks around for him and see's he is no where to be found as usual and grows angry once more.
Meanwhile nabiki sits in the girls locker room with onna and tells her plan to the girl, leaving out certain details knowing that she might object to them if she reveals them right now. She'd tell her about the other details later, so she wouldn't have a chance to change her mind about it later.
"So you see, that's all I want from you onna, I mean since you look so much like ranma."
Onna starts to feels that urge again but shakes it off once more. "But why would you want pictures of me, I'm not a guy.." she is quite confused about how nabiki is talking about ranma.
"No your not, but you see I want pictures of you because you look like ranma's girlside."
Onna sweatdrop at this. "Again he's not a girl that's plain and simple to see.." suddenly realizes that she was supposed to wait in the cafeteria by the doors while ranma looked around for her school's group. "Oh no I left without telling him.. um it was nice meeting you miss tendou but I have to be going now." runs off out of the locker room, and into the hallway looking for the cafeteria and bumps into someone.
"Hey where did you run off to? I told you to wait for me by the doors.." notices the girl is wearing a furikan school uniform, but still has her black boots on, and is holding her school uniform in her hands. "Um why the sudden change of clothes?"
Onna sweatdrop again. "This wacky short brown haired girl splashed me with hot water, getting my clothes all wet.. and then she said I could wear this for now."
"She splashed you.. oh man.." Ranma rubs the back of his head nervously. "She must've thought that you were me.. what was her name?"
"Her name was Nabiki Tendou, yeah she did.. but she kept referring to you as a girl but your not a girl at all."
Ranma laughed nervously at the girl to cover up. "Of course I'm not, she must be crazy.. any ways I think I made you miss your ride back to your school.. I'm really sorry." Onna looks quite upset. "They left without me…"
"Don't uh get upset, I'll um walk you home how about that?"
Onna looks at him somewhat. "Right now?" She blinks.
"Sure if you want, I owe you any ways.. since it is my fault.."
"That's right it is your fault.. so hurry up and take me home." she crosses her arms all upset.
"Ok let's go then."
"Your not going to make me do something in return are you.."
"Huh?" Ranma thinks about it carefully, now that she mentioned it he could indeed use this girl to his advantage, he could use her to team up against his father, but he wasn't sure if she knew how to fight.
Ah yes all Ranma ½ characters are copyrighted © Rumiko Takahashi, Kitty, and Shogukan, Viz video and any others I have forgotten, man how I wish ranma was mine.. oh btw I'm starting a comic on keenspace called Saotome Madness.. I've finally decided to share my ranmaverse only because one of my friends really wanted me to.