Chapter 10

"They're so beautiful." Nodoka said staring at her newborn grandchildren. "I still can't believe you were having twins this whole time, Akane."

"You can't believe it?" Ranma said "We thought we only had one baby coming. Now we've gotta double up on everything!"

"Don't look at me," Genma said scratching the back of his head "I'm broke!"

"Who'd want your help!?" Ranma retorted.

"What do you mean boy?" Genma answered, crossing his arms "I did a fine job raising you."

"Wild animals could've done a better job in raisin' me." Ranma said, planting his elbow firmly into his father's face.

"Well," Akane intervened before things took a turn for the worse "Kiagi did teach me a spell which should help us out on that. He said it was a duplication spell or something like that."

"Well just make sure you only use it on the kids' stuff and not the kids." Ranma snorted "We don't need six of them!"It was at this time, Ranma found the contents of a vase on Akane's bedside in his face. "What was that for?" she shouted, now wet and covered in daffodils.

"Maybe because my wife is being a jerk!" Akane answered sticking her tongue out at the soaking wet redhead.

"Alright you two, that's enough." Nodoka said, getting in between the feuding couple. She then handed her daughter a towel to dry herself off as she picked the daffodils out of her ruby hair. "It would be nice if the two of you could get along long enough to come up with some names for these two little angels."

"Fair enough, mom." Ranma said, drying herself off with the towel as she stared at her two newborn children. "So, what do you think Akane?"

"Hmm.." A whole array of names flooded through Akane's head. "Oh, I know! Ranma, didn't we already pick names for a boy and a girl?"

"Oh yeah, we did!" Ranma said scrambling through her pockets. "I wrote them down on a card and…..Left it on the counter in the kitchen."

"You dummy!" Akane said, scowling at her wife. "Now what are we supposed to do?"

Just then, the door open and through it came what could only be described as a flash of red lightning. It then bolted through the room and crashed into Ranma.

"Oof!" Ranma exhaled, catching her fully energized daughter and almost falling off her chair. "Hey Kaori, I was wondering when you'd get here."

"Hi Daddy! Where's the baby?" Kaori said looking in every direction but the right one. "Do I have a little brother or a little sister?"

"You have both." Akane said pointing to the cot beside her. "Come and see."

Curiously, Kaori hovered over to the other side of the bed. Her eyes widened with shock and surprise at what she saw. "Wow, two babies!" She squealed jumping up and down with excitement. "Now I've got a brother AND a sister. So, what are their names?"

"Well that's the problem," Akane said turning her head towards Ranma. "Your father forgot to bring the list of names with her before we left."

"Hey, don't pin this on me!" Ranma snapped back "We were in a rush! It's not as though could sat and twiddled my thumbs while you were screamin' at me!"

"Is this the list, Daddy?" Kaori said pulling out a small sheet of paper from her pocket and opening it. "You told me to hold onto it when you were getting Mom's bag."

"That's the one!" Ranma said taking the list from her daughter and ruffling her hair. "Great job, sweetie."

As she looked at the list, Ranma noticed that more names had been crossed out than before. "Kaori, did you cross out some of these names?" she asked.

Kaori nodded her head and smiled. "Yeah." She said "Most of 'em were boring. Actually, ALL of them were boring, so I wrote some down too."

Ranma chuckled as she looked at the names "Well, you didn't give us many options." She said "You only wrote down one boy name. And I think the rest are from TV shows."

Kaori huffed and crossed her arms. "Still more interesting than your names." She said pouting.

"So what are they?" Akane said leaning over in the bed "I can't see."

"Well," Ranma said "The only boy name, which is actually pretty good, is Hideo."

"Hmm," Akane mused before smiling "I like that. Good pick, Kaori! And for a girl?"

"Like I said, they're mostly from TV." Ranma said before turning to Kaori and smiling. "But I really like the name Chihiro."

"Then it's settled!" Akane said "Hideo and Chihiro Saotome!"

"Finally!" Nodoka said relieved, as she walked over to the cot and picked up the twins. "I was worried we were going to have to leave these poor two nameless. Good choices, Kaori."

"Yeah, well done kiddo!" Ranma said smiling at her daughter before realising something. "Wait a minute, how did you get here anyways?"

"Oh yeah, Uncle Ryoga and Jiro brought me here." She said "They dropped me off at the door before finding a parking space."

"Oh I hope they didn't get lost again" Akane said.

Meanwhile, in Russia.

"Dad, are you sure there's a space here?" Jiro asked. Instead of answering, Ryoga head-butted the steering wheel and groaned.