Chapter 12

After a quick change back with some hot water and after a trip to the local stores, Ranma was kitted with a new bikini to wear. "Hmm," she pondered looking at her reflection in the changing room mirror. The orange two piece bikini hugged her figure beautifully and fully showed off the redhead's curves. "It ain't really my colour. But it's sure better than going out naked!"

Just then, she felt a hand gently caress her hips. "Not bad, Ranma." Akane said, coming into the changing room and wrapping her arms around Ranma's waist. "You look good in orange. Though to be honest, I think I preferred you without the bikini on."

"Well, play your cards right and you might just see it again," Ranma teased, turning round to kiss her wife. "Now come on, Akane. I wanna hit some waves."

Outside, Ryoga and Tatewaki were staring out towards the ocean. "Looks like perfect surfing weather today." Tatewaki said, watching the waves crash "Do you plan on riding the waves, Ryoga?"

Ryoga chuckled and crossed his arms. "Sure am." He said "I bought a load of waterproof soap from Kiagi before we left, so I'm definitely surfing this time. Should've probably given some to Ranma earlier. Maybe she could have avoided the peep show."

Tatewaki thought about seeing Ranma's naked form earlier and reminisced. "You know, I can't tell you the amount of times I wanted to see that body of hers when we were still in school." He said. "If only I'd known better then. Still though, she still has a great look about her, doesn't she?"

"If you say so." Ryoga said, rolling his eyes before remembering the times that he himself had been fooled by Ranma's charms. "Although then again, there's been a few times that Ranma's tricked me like that as well."

"Are you two gonna stand there yakkin' all day?" Ranma said, walking in between them with a large blue surfboard. "Come on, there's surfin' to do!"

And with that, Tatewaki and Ryoga grabbed their boards and followed the redhead out to the sea. The waves were crashing furiously as the three surfers made their way out. But by the time they swam out far enough, Tatewaki , Ryoga and Ranma found that the waves were gone and that the sea had calmed.

"What happened to the waves?" Ryoga asked, sitting up on his board and staring out to the horizon.

"You probably scared them off!" Ranma said chuckling to herself.

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Hold on, you two!" Tatewaki said pointing outwards. "There's one coming this way!"

The pair stopped their arguing a looked to where Tatewaki was pointing. "It doesn't look that big." Ranma said bored.

"Ranma's right. That wave is puny." Ryoga agreed, equally as bored as his rival. However as they watched it, the wave grew larger and more fierce as it hurtled towards them.

"Well, that's more like it!" Ranma beamed watching the wave grow. "Anyone for a race?"

"Ha! You're on, Saotome!" Tatewaki said as he started paddling toward the wave. "I'll have you know I was champion surfer in college. They even called me the Blue Shark!"

"Oh yeah?" Ryoga shouted, smiling wryly "Well in my old nickname used to be the Wave Lord!"

This feels familiar somehow Ranma thought to herself as she watched Tatewaki and Ryoga exchange surfing nicknames with one another. But as the wave became larger she changed her concentration and headed out toward the riptide.

As the waves began to carry them, the race between the three competitors was on."Yahooo!" Ranma shouted gliding down the wave and overtaking Tatewaki and Ryoga. "Come on slowpokes!"

"Hmm.." Tatewaki mused as he watched his red haired sister in law take the lead. "She thinks she can just win that easily. Methinks my dear sister in law is becoming quite naive." And with that, he shot out ahead leaving Ryoga far behind.

"They think they can just leave me in the dust huh?" Ryoga said to himself as he tried to speed up but instead the Wave Lord managed to fall off the board and into the water.

With the two racers left, the competition was fierce. As they came close to one another, Ranma began to feel the pressure. "Hey so I guess that whole 'Blue Shark' thing wasn't just a load of hogwash, eh?" she shouted over.

Tatewaki smiled. "Oh my dear sister in law, I think you'll find that the only hog that's been washed is Ryoga." He joked "As for my surfing prowess, I promise you that was nothing short of the truth!"

"Is that so, huh?" Ranma chuckled, "This just got interesting."

As he resurfaced, Ryoga watched Tatewaki and Ranma surf ahead of him toward the shore with disappointment. "Damn it!" he said "I really thought I was gonna win that one."

"I told you they'd start competing with each other." Nabiki said watching the race through as set of binoculars.

"It was never a question of 'if'," Akane said, applying sun lotion onto Kaori's face. "It was 'when'."

"So who's winning, Auntie?" Kaori asked

"At the moment it's a tie between your dad and your uncle Tachi."Nabiki answered "Care to make a wager on the winner?"

"No she doesn't." Akane proclaimed, "Kaori, it's never a fair bet when your Aunt Nabiki gets involved."

"Moi?" Nabiki said, almost (but not entirely) offended as she tried to play innocent. "I would never cheat in a bet against a child. Especially my oldest neice."

"Nabiki, I've seen you cheat your own kids." Akane interjected, looking at her sister deadpanned.

"Well, I had no choice!" Nabiki defended "It was either that or let them go on vacation with their Grandpa! Could you imagine what would happen if I let them be unsupervised with Tachi's dad?"

Akane thought about it for a moment before laughing and cupping her forehead. "Oh my god!" she said "They'd either come back with their heads shaved or with a giant bag of coconut bombs!"

"Or both!" Kaori said causing both her Auntie and her mother to laugh even harder.

Just then, Ranma came up to them, holding her surf board. "So what are you two laughing at?" She asked planting her board into the sand and sitting down next to her wife and daughter.

"Oh nothing much," Akane said "I take it you won the race, then?"

"Hmph!" Ranma scoffed flexing her arms "Ain't nobody gonna beat me."

Just then Tatewaki came along holding a tray full of ice creams. "Ah there you are Ranma." He said handing Nabiki an ice cream before placing the tray down and taking one for himself. "I was wondering when you'd finish."