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Chapter 15

It was the middle of the morning when Arisa, Ranma, Hayate, and Serafall found themselves entering Arisa's home. "How come Lilith-chan didn't want to come with?" Hayate asked Ranma.

"Someone has to keep an eye on Asmodeus." Ranma told her. "Even if she's in that barrier, she can't be fully trusted yet. Also, she wanted to get caught up with Nanoha and Fate."

He just hoped that she wasn't telling them anything too crazy.

(-)

"EH?!" Nanoha gasped in surprise. "Ranma worked for the bad guy for awhile?!"

"I knew he was evil." Vita grumbled as Lilith explained what was going on. "So, when did he reveal he wasn't working for the bad guy?"

"Well, it took awhile..." Lilith explained to them.

(-)

"I'm sure it's fine." Ranma muttered to himself as Arisa opened the door and called out into the house.

"I'm home!" Arisa smiled nervously. "What am I going to tell them?"

"Whatever you think is right." Ranma told her and he looked at Serafall, who shook her head. "Well, try to keep some details hidden, okay?"

Arisa nodded, knowing that the knowledge of her being turned into a Devil was something that most people didn't need to know.

"ARISA!" Her mother's voice was heard and the next thing Arisa knew, she was being hugged by an older, sobbing woman. "I heard that there was an accident near where you were at and I couldn't get ahold of you and I was so scared and WAAAH!"

"...This seems familiar to me." Ranma chuckled as he looked at the older woman. "Wow," Ranma leaned close to Hayate, "you weren't kidding when you said that Arisa's mom was still pretty."

The older woman, who had shoulder-length hair that was brown in color and was wearing long pants and a short-sleeved shirt, looked confused at the voice and turned to Ranma and tilted her head. "You're..." Her eyes widened in shock and surprise. "Ranma?! Is that you?!"

Ranma smiled and nodded. "Yeah, it's me, Miss Jodie."

Jodie gave Arisa one more tight hug before letting go and walking over to Ranma. "Oh my goodness, you've grown to be so handsome." She grinned at him. "Maybe you should marry my Arisa, huh?"

"Mother!" Arisa yelled, her face flush as she looked away. "Why would I marry that dummy?!"

Hayate started giggling as she looked at Serafall, who was also laughing softly. "See? I told you that Arisa-chan would be fine."

"Oh!" Jodie gasped in surprise. "Hayate, I didn't see you there. And you are?"

Serafall smiled at her. "My name is Serafall Leviathan," she held out her hand, which Jodie took and shook, "your daughter did me a great favor today." Jodie blinked in surprise. "May we come in?" Jodie nodded and the group went inside.

Once inside, a man with short, blonde hair who was wearing blue shorts and a white shirt, ran up to Arisa and hugged her. "Oh! My dear girl! I thought you were dead!"

"Daddy..." Arisa sweat-dropped heavily.

After getting her father to calm down, Arisa huffed at her father. "I'm alive, I'm sorry that I didn't call sooner to let you know what happened, but my phone broke."

The man nodded and looked at Ranma before gasping in surprise. "Ranma? Is that you?" Ranma nodded and he smirked. "Wow, you really did grow up, huh?"

"Kids tend to do that." Ranma chuckled and reached out with a handshake to the man. "It's good to see that you're still doing well, David."

David smiled at Ranma. "Yes, I'm surprised that you're in town. You should have called."

"Well, I wasn't sure who I'd see first." Ranma told him. "And I forgot a lot of details, like phone numbers and addresses." He looked at Hayate, who was pouting, "I actually came back to see if my cute little sister was still living here since I wanted to tell her that I was getting married soon."

"Oh?" Both David and Jodie asked at the same time.

Serafall nodded, smiling at them. "Yes. Ran-tan and I are engaged to get married, and I'd love to have his cute little sister at my wedding." She let out a small squeal and hugged Hayate. "She's so cute and perfect! Almost as perfect as my little sister So-tan!"

Hayate just beamed and hugged Serafall back.

"It wasn't like I wasn't going to tell all of Hayate's friends." Ranma said as he saw the looks of disappointment on Jodie and David's faces. "I just wanted to tell her first. But as I went to her place, we met up with Nanoha, Fate and Arisa."

"Ah, such a disappointment." David shook his head. "I had hoped that you would have come back and married my little girl." He winked at Ranma while Arisa blushed hard. "After college, she said that she wanted to take over the family business."

A gleam came to Serafall's eyes as a thought entered her head. "If that's the case, I have a wonderful solution for you." She let go of Hayate and clapped her hands. "You see, I owe Miss Bannings my life, I wasn't paying close enough attention and nearly stepped onto the street when this crazed car came out of nowhere. Your daughter pulled me out of harms way and her phone fell to the ground and got shattered as a result. My family has stake in several banks and other businesses and we own quite a few." She winked at them. "If possible, I'd like to hire your daughter as an intern. After all, no one wants to be accused of getting where they are simply because they're related to someone, right?"

David nodded in agreement. "Yes, that is true." He looked at Arisa. "How about it, honey?"

Arisa nodded at the suggestion. "It wouldn't hurt to have more connections in business." After all, what one knew was far less important than who you knew.

"I'd like her to join as soon as possible." Serafall told David and Jodie, "but I understand that she has school and it's important to get a good education."

"Unless you're this dummy." Arisa grumbled as she thought about Ranma. "How far behind in school are you?"

Ranma sweat-dropped heavily, knowing that was true. "Yeah, I'm probably way behind in my classes, but I do have people who help fill in the gaps of my education."

Serafall nodded. "Indeed, don't worry, Ari-tan, Ran-tan has been getting tutoring for all the holes in his education that he needs."

"...Ari-tan?" Arisa muttered softly. "Urgh, whatever."

Hayate perked up and grabbed Ranma's hand. "Come on, Big Brother! Arisa-chan should show you around, it's been a long time since you were here last."

Ranma smiled nervously as Hayate led him and Arisa out of the room.

David chuckled as they ran off. "They're good friends."

"Yes." Serafall nodded with a smile on her face. "Tell me something, does your daughter do any sort of acting?" Both Jodie and David shook their heads slowly. "See, I'm looking for actors and actresses to work on a television show this upcoming year and I think your daughter would be perfect for it as well." She saw the concerned frowns on Jodie and David's faces and waved their concerns off. "This is just a side-gig. If she would partake, she'd just be a minor or background character." Serafall smiled at them. "Believe me, having work and a job as an actress is extremely difficult. Especially when you have enemies coming after you due to your work."

Both Jodie and David looked at each other with understanding on their faces and nodded. The trio walked over to the kitchen and sat down. "So..." Serafall began. "How did Ran-tan walk into your lives?"

David smiled as he remembered the little kid that was Ranma. "He ended up saving our Arisa from some kidnappers. How about you?"

Serafall sighed dreamily. "I met him at my younger sister's school and saw him do something so incredible that I was interested. It wasn't until I met him again in Kyoto that I fell in love with him. Due to some events that happened, he ended up becoming a big hero and, well, one thing led to another..." Her face was tinged pink, "he's quite a lovely man."

"I can imagine." Jodie smiled at the Devil King. "It's too bad that he's taken. Our Arisa was quite smitten with him."

Serafall giggled and nodded. "Ah, she's a classic tsundere, huh? Quite a bit different from my So-tan, who's all cool and aloof even when she's happy."

The three continued to talk for several minutes about various topics, including business, while Ranma, Hayate and Arisa walked around the mansion.

(-)

"Your room hasn't changed much." Ranma commented as Arisa led him and Hayate into her room. "Though, inviting a boy..." He didn't finish that as he got a face-full of pillow.

"Hmph!" Arisa narrowed her eyes at him. "You should be lucky that I'm letting you in here."

"Oh!" Hayate's eyes widened and she blushed. "Excuse me, I need to take care of something." She quickly left the room and closed the door behind her, leaving Ranma and Arisa alone.

Ranma pursed his lips and walked over to Arisa, who was sitting on the bed. "Still hasn't sunk in yet, has it?"

"No!" Arisa yelled and pounded the bed. "I'm so angry, confused, conflicted, I have to lie to my parents to keep them from knowing what's going on, I have to learn stuff that I never thought was possible before. I'm not even human anymore!" She flopped onto her back. "How...?" She looked up with tears falling out of her eyes. "How do you deal with this?"

Ranma tapped his chin. "I've grown up with a succubus who did lewd things to me when I was twelve, Arisa." She nodded, sniffling, "so, the idea of being a Devil, Demon or whatever doesn't matter to me as much, since they really aren't much different from humans, other than extremely long lives." There were, of course, real differences, but he didn't need to tell her that. Right now, that wasn't what she wanted to hear.

Arisa looked miserable on the bed and Ranma sighed before pulling out a piece of paper. "Here." He said and she looked at it in confusion. "If you need me. Just to talk, yell, scream or whatever, just focus on that and I'll be there."

Arisa growled and the next thing that Ranma knew, she was grabbing his head and planting her lips on his. The kiss only lasted for a moment and Arisa was blushing hard. "T-there!" She yelled as she let go of his head, grabbed the paper and shoved Ranma towards the door. "I stole back my first kiss from you!"

Outside the door, Hayate giggled as Ranma was roughly shoved out of the room before the door slammed behind her. "Well, big brother, she didn't call you a dummy this time."

Ranma sighed and nodded. "Hayate, you're a good girl."

The small brunette just beamed happily.

(-)

A few minutes later, Ranma, Hayate and Serafall all started to leave the Bannings manor. "I'm glad that you understand that we'd like to have Arisa around for a bit longer." David said and Serafall nodded. "Hopefully we'll see you around."

"Well," Serafall smiled and held out a business card, "if you want to come to my wedding, give this number a call and I'll have someone come and pick you up."

After they were no longer on the property, Ranma looked back for a moment and then walked off. He didn't know if he'd be back anytime soon.

He did know, however, that kiss was kind of nice. It was too bad that Arisa didn't seem interested in anything else at that moment.

"Well, we've got a few days." Ranma said to Hayate and Serafall. "Hayate, why don't you show us around town?"

"Sure!" Hayate beamed and led the two of them on a tour of Uminari City.

(-)

In her room, Arisa was blushing as she hugged a large pillow. 'I kissed him! I kissed him! That dummy! I kissed him!' She thought to herself.

And the worst part, for her.

She wanted more.

The blonde didn't know what to do as she rolled onto her stomach and let out a scream into her bed while kicking her legs up and down. When her hands went over a piece of paper, she looked up and blinked a few times.

"If you need me. Just to talk, yell, scream or whatever, just focus on that and I'll be there."

Arisa let out a huff of annoyance and put the paper on her dresser. "Who needs that dummy anyway?!" She was going to have to see him in the near future anyway, so it didn't matter to her at that moment.

It was a good thing no one was around to see the blush on her face.

End Chapter 15