Ace Sanchez (email: jsa@fl.net.au | www: http://jsa.users.fl.net.au/)

(Standard disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 and its associated characters created 
by Rumiko Takahashi. Insert rest of disclaimers I can't remember ...)

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Part 3 "Ranma And ... Ranma? If It's Not One Thing, It's Nabiki."


The crowd whispered among themselves excitedly as they eagerly 
anticipated the opening of the theatre curtains. It had cost a pretty
packet to be even let in, but it was definitely worth it. In fact only
the richest, famous and most powerful people in the world had been 
allowed to attend.

The large interior of the expensive looking theatre was filled to 
it's maximum capacity of people. The rows were made up of plush blue
seats, while the floor was similarly carpeted in a like shade, only
a hue darker. The front row of the theatre was at the lowest point
in the building, then each proceeding row sloped upwards a step at
a time, not unlike the inside of a cinema complex. Except it was much, 
much larger.

A girl with short brown hair stepped onto the stand in front of the 
stage and picked up a microphone. She was dressed in an elegant grey 
suit which clung to her slim figure. 

Nabiki smiled as she let her eyes roam around the massive theatre. It 
was full to nearly bursting with her favourite type of people; the 
ridiculously rich. Besides the stupid people and easy marks that was. 
Of course, it would be even better if they were a combination of those 
traits but the world wasn't always perfect.

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for," 
Nabiki called out to the massive crowd, "The most beautiful girl in the 
world, Ranma Saotome!"

The red curtain atop the center stage slid open slowly revealing an 
extraordinarily attractive girl hanging prisoner on the titanium steel 
wall. Matching titanium bracers handcuffed to her slim wrists and ankles
spread her arms and legs wide. These were secured firmly to the wall by 
thick chains. 

She was dressed in a very revealing two piece black bikini, it's flimsy
material and strings just barely covering her. Her light blue eyes were 
wide open in horror as she stared at the massive audience. She was 
shaking her head wildly, the blond pigtail at the back of her head 
swinging from side to side as she struggled with the rattling chains. A 
clear piece of extra durable masking tape held her lips shut. 
"Mrrmmmmhgmpt!" she tried to shout.

The men in the crowds gasped out loud as they saw her, while most of the 
women looked on jealously. Most that is, because the rest were also 
eyeing her with lust. Everyone in the tightly packed theatre had seen 
photographs of her before, but it wasn't the same as the real thing.

Nabiki smiled smugly at the quiet awe of the audience. "Bidding starts 
at seven billion yen, own the most beautiful female in the world! She 
can be your wife, your mistress, your love slave, anything!"

A hand went up in the front row. "Yes, Mister President of the United 
States?"

"I'd like to put up-" He whispered something about exchange rates to 
the Attorney General seated next to him. "I'll put up eight billion
yen."

"We have eight billion yen by the U.S. President, do we have a higher 
offer?"

A loud chuckle reverberated around the theatre. A man with dark skin, 
in a turban stood up in the center row. "Ha! Cheapskate! For such a 
prime piece of womanflesh, money is no object. Fourteen billion yen!"

"Fourteen billion yen offered by the Sultan of Brunei. Do we have 
fifteen? Yes you!" She, pointed to another man seated in the back row 
who had lifted his arm.

The bids started coming in fast and furious. Every man in the theatre 
began to bid even more ridiculously high prices.

"Twenty billion you say?"

"Thirty billion by Mister Franklin!"

"Forty!" Everyone looked at the speaker. It was a woman. The other woman 
next to her whispered furiously to her, although everyone heard it 
anyway. "Stop it Ellen, you're embarrassing me! And you can't afford her
anyway!"

More outrageous bids. Nabiki was in heaven. Ranma was in hell.

"Seventy billion yen!" This came from a nerdy looking man with glasses 
in the third row.

Strangely, the blonde girl chained to the wall out on the stage went 
crazy in fear as she saw who bid on her, rattling the chains so hard, 
the ground was shaking. She was trying to shout hoarsely within the 
tight gag, but her voice was muffled and couldn't get out.

"Eighty billion yen by Mister Gates, do we have a higher offer?"
The audience was silent. Damn! Nabiki thought. "Alright then, going,
going-"

"One hundred billion yen!"

Nabiki's eyes popped out. "Gone! To the guy in the last row!" She 
gave him the key to the titanium steel alloy locks as he walked up to 
the stage. "No need to bother paying manually, we have already 
extracted it from your account. Good day and enjoy yourself!"

"Ha ha ha ha! A victory for the blue thunder of Furinkan High! Now I 
shall be reunited with my Golden Goddess!"

The sound of masking tape ripping, then screaming shortly after echoed
loudly around in the theatre.


~*~*~*~


Ranma jerked upright atop the futon, eyes wild and breathing hard. 
The mad beating of his pulse gentled out as reality began to sink in. 
"It was only a nightmare..." Ranma sighed in relief. Then checking his 
chest, 'she' sighed in disgust. "Why in the world am I a girl?" she 
complained out loud to no-one in particular.

However, just to make sure she still wasn't dreaming, she pinched herself 
on the arm hard. Feeling the pain, she sighed in relief. She didn't want 
to face Kuno again, even if it was just a dream. Nabiki, on the other 
hand, she'd have to keep a close eye on.

She looked around for her father wondering where he was, until she 
recalled that he didn't sleep with her anymore. Everyone had agreed that 
it might not be such a good idea to let Genma sleep in the same room. 
Ranma in his female form was too much of a temptation. After all, when it 
was just them two in China on rainy nights, the panda would sometimes 
glomp her in it's sleep. Before she punted him away of course. And it was 
also agreed that Ranma could not share a room with one of the girls since 
she was still a boy half the time. So Ranma got her own room, while her 
father had to bunk down with Soun.

Ranma stood up and stretched as she walked over to the dresser to change 
out of her singlet and shorts. Man, I hate this curse, she thought as 
parts of her chest threatened to spill out of the scanty top. She stuffed 
them back in violently, then cursed. Ow! Stupid breasts!


~*~*~*~


Outside the door to Ranma's room, Genma was bending over looking in
through the key hole. It was just supposed to be a quick peek to see if
Ranma was awake, and if not he would initiate a surprise attack. But 
Ranma was in female form. His peek didn't want to end.

His mouth began to water as Ranma started to step out of her clothes. I 
know this seems perverse, Genma thought to himself, but boy, with you 
having a body like that, how can I not look? I'm just too weak. Perhaps 
the master trained me 'too' well, he thought sadly.

"Saotome, what are you doing?" Soun asked curiously.

Genma stood up as his face went red. "Nothing, Tendo! N-nothing," he 
stammered. Soun lightly shoved his friend away from the door and bent 
over to look in.

"Let me just see then ... ah ha! I thought right! You were looking in on
Ranma-" he stopped speaking abruptly as he saw Ranma through the keyhole 
taking her singlet off. A crimson stream of blood trickled out of his 
nostril.

"Tendo! That was my peep hole," Genma tried to whisper furiously. He was
about to forcibly regain his spot when a dry coughing came from behind 
them.

"Umm, Dad, Mister Saotome, just what are you two doing?" Nabiki asked 
them, one brow lifted.

Soun stood up at the speed of lightning, wiping his nose with a 
handkerchief. "Nabiki! Errr, me and your uncle Saotome here were just 
... err ... just fixing the lock on the door here, yes that's it. And 
... i-it's a new lock as well ... umm ... how could it get broken?" He 
laughed pathetically. 

Genma just mumbled something unintelligible.

Nabiki smiled at them. "Five thousand yen please. Each."

Soun burst into tears.


~*~*~*~


Later on when everyone was seated having breakfast, Akane looked at 
Ranma, who was still in girl form. She was stuffing food in her mouth as 
fast as she could get it in. How does she, um,  he eat like that and 
still have that good a body? She looked on enviously.

"Ranma, why are you in your girl form? You like being a pervert or 
something?

Ranma looked up, a bit of food hanging down her lip. Despite this she 
still managed to look cute. "Hey, it's not my fault. For some reason I 
got wet or something when I was sleeping."

Nabiki hid her smile behind a hand. How indeed? She lovingly patted 
the snapshots of a scantily clad Ranma through her pocket. She also had 
a couple left of Akane. Maybe Kuno would still want them. 

"Then when I tried to take a shower," Ranma continued, "There wasn't 
any hot water left. The kettle's gone walk-about too."

Nabiki again hid her smile. The little on-off switch on the hot water 
heater did wonders. And the kettle was in a safe hiding spot whenever 
Kasumi didn't need it.

"That's ridiculous Ranma. You just like your female form more than your
male form. Admit it. How could you get wet when you're sleeping?"

"Beats me." Ranma went back to gobbling up her breakfast.

Akane's mouth dropped open as she came up with the only likely reason. 
"Don't tell me you wet the bed Ranma!"

"What!?" Ranma spluttered, food flying out of her mouth. "I do 'not' wet 
the bed!"

Genma licked the mashed bits of food off his face with his tongue. 
"Boy, how can you disgrace yourself like this! I thought I toilet 
trained you! I guess I'll just have to bring you on another training 
trip!"

"Oh my," Kasumi exclaimed. "The sheets will have to be washed."

Ranma clawed her fingers through her hair in exasperation. "Even if I 
did wet the bed, it wouldn't transform me. That stuff is warm! If 
anything, it would be the other way around, with me as a girl changing 
back if I wet myself." She glared at them. "It's harder to keep it in 
when I'm a girl."

Akane recoiled from Ranma, revolted. "That's disgusting Ranma. I bet you
found that out from first hand experience."

Just then Soun burst into the room interrupting them. "Can someone 
please explain why there are dozens of boys camping on our front yard?" 
he called out.

"Ummm, that might be because Ranma is registered as a girl in school,"
Nabiki answered as she got up and peeked through the curtains adorning 
the front windows. Sure enough, she saw dozens of tents pitched up. It 
was strange none of them noticed until now.

Ranma stood up, food forgotten. "Don't tell me they found out where I've
been staying!" She started to panic. "Is that idiot, Kuno, there too?"

"I can't see him."

Genma also stood up, except he didn't forget the food. "What! *munch 
munch* Boy, you are blackening the Saotome name to continue to masquerade 
around as a girl! You were registered as a male! I saw to it myself."

Ranma however was not paying attention. She was too busy running around
in several directions panicking. "I can't let them catch me here. If 
they do, they'll be camped out there forever!"

Akane was about to say something about Ranma's ego when she stopped 
herself. He's probably right after all, she thought to herself a little 
depressed. I still can't believe about Doctor Tofu ...

"Well I'm off to school." She dropped her chopsticks into her empty bowl. 
"I guess Ranma won't be able to walk with me," she continued in a 
blatantly fake, sad sounding voice.

Soun cried in happiness. "Oh Akane, you do love Ranma! You do your 
father proud!"

"Whatever," Akane answered as she picked up her books and stood up. She
walked out the back door to avoid Ranma's fan club.

"Nabiki!" Ranma called out, desperate now. "Help me here. Money's no 
object!"

Nabiki smiled. Her favourite words. "For you Ranma? Well since you've
been increasing my income exponentially ever since you got here, I think 
you deserve a discount. Only two thousand yen." She walked over to her
room and came out holding the kettle. "Just turn yourself into a boy and
they won't recognize you."

Ranma's mouth dropped open. "You mean, you hid the kettle in your room?"

Nabiki shrugged. "All's fair where gaining money's concerned." She 
looked at her expectantly. "Well? Where's the cash?"


~*~*~*~


Ranma looked right and left as he stepped out the back door. Spotting 
no-one, he continued around the side of the house quickly. To avoid 
going around the front, he jumped over the fence leading to the vacant 
lot next door. Bad mistake. The lot was also filled completely with 
tents and boys.

"Hey! You there!" Ranma cursed inwardly, looking at them. "Yes, you! We 
haven't seen you around before. You're here to try to get a look at her
as well, aren't you?" The entire encampment of boys were looking at him
expectantly, even a bit hostile. They didn't want another boy in the
competition. And this guy looked pretty handsome.

For a second, Ranma froze up not knowing what to say. Then he got an 
idea that might work. He tried to make himself sound arrogant. "If it's
Ranma Saotome that you're after I'm afraid she's taken."

"What! Don't tell us Kuno got her already! We came here just so one of 
us could get her before him!"

"Not him you idiots!" Ranma said, disgusted they could even 'think' that
Kuno had a chance. "I meant me!"

The ground rumbled as dozens upon dozens of feet shifted to face him.
Narrowing eyes and the sound of cracking knuckle's lent a sudden 
dangerous feeling to the air.

"And just who are you?" The crowd's eyes began to turn a violent red.

Ranma however was unfazed. He had faced a far worse sight than what
was before him. A crowd of jealous girls. Several crowds of jealous girls
and, he shuddered, amazons while travelling China.

"I'm R -" He cut himself off. He couldn't introduce himself to them as
Ranma Saotome. His girl side was already known by that name and they
might think he was lying, and so, continue to pursue him when he was a
female. "Ryoga, ummm ... Hibiki." Where did he get that name from? He 
must've just made it up. It sounded pretty tough. God, he was good. 
"Yeah, I'm Ryoga Hibiki. And Ranma is 'my' girlfriend. So you guys are 
wasting your time."

"No way," muttered one of the boys, a short guy with light brown hair.
"How do we know you're telling the truth?"

"Well Daisuke did see him leave the back door, and Nabiki did say that 
she was living with them ... maybe he is seeing Ranma..." another guy 
with black hair dressed in a white gi put in. This statement seemed to 
enrage all them at once as soon as it was said.

"Let's get him!" they all shouted.

The crowd of jealous boys grinned in anticipation. This is gonna look
ugly, they thought. One guy versus all of them? No contest!


~*~*~*~


Ranma ran along the top of the fence towards school. Damnit! he thought,
rubbing his sore knuckles. Those fools have made me late! And the 
teacher's already annoyed with me for skipping out of the hall when Kuno 
started chasing me. Then he thought that since he was in male form for 
once, he might as well tell the teacher the truth. He didn't want to be 
stuck as a girl at school forever-. His thoughts were cut off when cold 
water splashed on the back of his head.

"Well, that sure put an end to my plans," she said disgustedly, turning
around to find a couple of young children running past. They were 
throwing buckets of water at each other and laughing.

Shaking her head in annoyance, she brought out a makeshift disguise
from her backpack, a pair of sun glasses and a cap and put them on, 
before continuing on her way. Maybe the hot water taps at school were
fixed, but Ranma didn't bet on it.


~*~*~*~


In a small alleyway, Nabiki slapped five hundred yen into the little 
girl's hand. "Here you are for a job well done."

"Yay! Now we can go get some candy!" The little girl grabbed her 
brothers hand and ran off, dragging him behind her.

Nabiki looked sadly at the departing children. It was always depressing
when she spent some money. "The sacrifices I make ..."


~*~*~*~


"Akane, where is Ranma?" the teacher asked.

"I think he might be sick, Sensei."

Akane smiled smugly as she looked at Ranma's empty seat. With any luck,
those boys camped outside would keep Ranma from coming to school.

"Don't go into that practical joke about 'he' again, Akane unless you 
want to stand in the hall," the teacher said sternly. Then she looked 
around the room, puzzled. "For that matter, where are all the male 
students?" Kachi, one male student was sitting in the corner, but he 
didn't really count since he was probably a queer.

The rest of the students in the classroom were all female. Most of them
looked happy that Ranma wasn't there, but they cursed when they found 
out it was a waste since none of the guys were here either. Except 
Kachi, who was trimming his nails and looking in a hand mirror.

"Well, we can't wait for them, I'll have to mark them off as absent -
What is that noise?"

There was a soft shouting coming from outside the window getting 
steadily and steadily louder. It sounded like a whole bunch of people
shouting their heads off and running like crazy.

One of the girl's ran up to the window and looked below. "Hey! There's
a whole bunch of people carrying papers and stuff chasing somebody into
the school!"

Akane also got up and looked down to the ground level. Sure enough, 
there were several crowds of people all chasing someone. That someone
was wearing sunglasses and a hat. A blond pigtail flapped suspiciously
behind her. She ran full tilt into the double doorways of the school,
before slamming them closed and locking it against her pursuers. The
massive crowd of people started banging on the school doors loudly.

"Oh. It's only Ranma," Akane said boredly.

A few moments later, the girl in question opened the door to the 
classroom and slammed it closed before leaning her back against it
in weary relief. She took off her sunglasses and cap. It was Ranma 
alright.

"Who were those people?" the teacher asked, morbidly curious.

Ranma sighed and walked over to her desk. "I don't know." She sat down.
"They kept shouting at me about signing contracts and stuff ..."

Akane looked at her strangely. "Why would they do that?"

"Beats me. And I'm no good at modeling anyway. My hands shake too much 
when I try to glue the little bits together. And this stupid disguise 
didn't work either, the brown paper bag was better- Hey why did everyone 
fall over?"


~*~*~*~


In another classroom, it was also strangely empty of most of it's male
students. The only ones left there were the female students. Except for 
one, who was standing in front of Nabiki's table.

Nabiki smirked at the tall boy with dark hair. She looked at the overly
cute stuffed toy on her desk. It was a soft furry panda with a big 'love
me' grin on it's cotton face. "Oh Kuno-baby! A present for me? How 
thoughtful."

"Hah!" Kuno shouted. "A mercenary such as yourself does not deserve such 
a prize. This is for the golden-haired girl!"

Nabiki mock-sighed. "And to think it was my body that ensnared you. Look 
Kuno, I am not a messenger of love no matter what you seem to think in 
your deluded mind. I only participate in profitable enterprises. Now
as you already know, the golden-haired girl is staying with my family-"

"That dreaded Saotome! He said he was staying with you as well! Hah! I
am not overly worried about competition from the likes of him. He is no 
man! What did he do but flee from our duel yesterday! A short nap I was 
taking."

Nabiki blinked. "Whatever. Although you are kind of right about the 'no
man' part." She smiled in irony. "As I was saying, you can always count
on me for hot tips. In fact, today I have something that you might be 
interested in ..."

Kuno smacked his hands down on the table with a glazed look in his dark 
eyes. "If it is to do with the Golden One, consider it sold!"

Nabiki took out the snapshots of Ranma in girl form. In the pictures, 
she was lying asleep, half naked and dressed in a singlet and short 
shorts. Her long slender legs were spread out haphazardly atop the futon,
blond hair in sensual disarray. Her ample breasts were almost hanging out
of the scanty singlet. On her beautiful face she wore a small cute smile 
outlining her full lips and causing a dimple on her cheek to stand out.
The long dark brown lashes of her closed eyes rested closed in blissful 
slumber. "Interested? Set of five. Three thousand each. That comes to 
fifteen thousand."

Kuno looked at them as if he had died and gone to heaven. Twin streams of 
wet drool leaked out of the corners of his mouth. Nabiki hurriedly
moved the photo's away in case they got wet.

Kuno ripped out his wallet so hard, his pocket tore open. "Sold!"

"How about these?" Nabiki showed him a couple of Akane. In them, she was
in her light yellow gi and breaking blocks of concrete.

"Bah! I do not even know this girl! I do not want to waste my hard 
earned wealth on one such as that!"

Nabiki's eyes narrowed. "This is Akane, my sister, you fool! Have you 
forgotten already?"

"Akane, Akane. The name does sound familiar. But enough of that. I only
want the pictures of my beloved Golden One!"

Nabiki grew angry. Why that two faced ... How dare he just drop Akane
from his affections like that just for a more beautiful girl. 
Admittedly, Ranma in his female form was very extraordinary and Akane
didn't want his misplaced attentions anyway. But it was the principle
behind the thing that counted.

"I'll sell you your Golden One's pictures but only if you take each of
Akane's ones as well. For the price you used to pay for them of 
course." She might as well get rid of old stock.

Kuno smacked a huge amount of money down on to the desk, easily doubling 
what she had asked for, for the two sets. "You may keep the change! I 
want but the Golden-haired One's beautiful portraits no matter what!" He 
snatched the pictures from Nabiki's hand, stuffing the ones of Akane's 
into his pockets carelessly while he kept Ranma's snapshots outside and 
gazed at them dreamily. A drop of blood trickled out of his nose. "Such 
beauty! Such innocence! To think, that I, Tatewaki Kuno, am the lucky man 
to win her tender heart!"

Nabiki stared furiously at him for a moment, before looking down into 
the wad of yen in her hand. Oh well, she thought. Money is money.

"How might this humble warrior express his affections? I must break her 
free from the cursed presence of that foul Saotome!"

Nabiki looked up with a smile on her face. "Why don't you just take the 
direct route? She is in Akane's class."

"There you go again. Who is this Akane?"


~*~*~*~


Within classroom F, the students were all sitting around boredly. There
were no guys for the girls to check out, and no guys to check out the 
girls. The teacher had dropped out of the class for the moment.

The door opened slowly. Ranma looked up to see Nabiki poking her head 
in.

"Hey Ranma! Kuno wants to see you."

"What? Another fight? I'll be out in a moment." She stood up as Nabiki
withdrew herself from the room, closing the door softly. Then she 
stopped. "Wait a minute," Ranma said out loud. "Me as a guy or me as a 
girl?" she asked suspiciously.

Akane looked at her with a bemused expression on her face. "Who cares? 
If he wants you as a girl, you can go date him."

Ranma gave her an annoyed look, then stomped out of the classroom 
angrily. "I'm going to put a stop to this. Damn I wish the hot water 
here was working!"

Akane sighed wearily and stood up to follow her.


~*~*~*~


"Okay, Kuno, what's this about?" Ranma swiped her fringe out of her 
eyes and glared at the tall boy wearing the dark blue kendo garb. He had
a malevolent gleam in his dark eyes.

"Only that," he threw something so fast at her, it was a white blur. 

Ranma caught it out of reflex. Heh. He wants to fight me, she thought.

"I wanted to give you this!" Kuno continued.

"Huh?" Ranma looked down at what she held. She began to blush furiously. 
It was a toy panda.

"I love you Golden One!"

Ranma threw the stuffed toy into Akane's hands who was standing nearby 
with Nabiki, watching. She stepped closer to Kuno. "Look, you've got to 
give this up. I'm not who you think I am! If I had some hot water, I 
could disable this curse and show you. I'm the Ranma Saotome you hate 
and had a fight with yesterday! I'm really a guy!" She continued to 
glare at him. "Besides, the 'I love you' line is getting a bit old. 
I've heard it thousands of times."

Akane sniffed. "Why that arrogant little ..."

Kuno looked blank. "I see ..."

"Get it?" Ranma sighed in relief.

Kuno's face darkened. "It is still about Saotome! You are right! It is a 
curse on the earth that he must hound you! After he ran from our fight, 
no less! He is no man! No man I tell you!"

"That's it! Put up your fists! I'm gonna kick your ass!"

"Golden One? You desire to spar with me? You do love me! Very well, if 
you win, I shall allow you to marry me." He unsheathed his bokken from
the bundle attached to his back.

Ranma grew pale. "M-marry you? No way! I'm a guy, I tell you! If I win,
you have to leave me alone!"

"You are right! Marriage is too soon! Instead we may try each other out,
but I am sure I, and you, will be more than satisfied."

"Arrrghhh!" Ranma moved forward so fast, Kuno didn't see how she suddenly
appeared right in front of him. Kuno slashed his wooden blade downwards,
but Ranma leaped up to catch the blade between the toes of her left 
foot. With the other, she kicked him in the forehead sending him flying
backwards. Various cards seem to flutter out of his pockets as he 
stumbled and fell over on his back. She is good! Kuno thought. I love her
even more if that is possible!

Ranma landed softly. "Hey! Don't hold back! You were faster yesterday-" 
She caught sight of one of the cards fluttering around. She snagged it 
out of the air with two fingers. "What is this - hey!"

It was a photograph of her! In her female form. In it, she was sleeping,
half naked in her sleeping clothes, her abundant attributes almost 
clearly visible!

She started grabbing each one as fast as she could and putting them in 
her pockets. "Who the hell did these? Nabiki!" She looked around at 
Nabiki standing a little away to the side with Akane. She had an 
unrepentant smile on her lips. She shrugged her shoulders. "Why you-!"

Sensing her inattention, Kuno stood up and leaped forward. "Wha?" Ranma
called out in alarm, before she was tightly hugged within his arms.

"Golden One! You win! I love you!"

Ranma furiously broke out of his embrace by leaning backwards and 
backflip kicking his chest and somersaulting away. She suddenly thought
of an idea, and smiled inwardly.

"Kuno, though it pains me to say this," she said in a distraught voice.
"But our love can never be ..."

"Goddess! Say it isn't so!"

"Alas!" Ranma covered her face with her hands. "But I love another."

"Who is this fiend! It is that foul wizard, Saotome, is it not? I shall 
smite him from the face of this earth!"

Ranma sniffed loudly. "No it is not him, though he is very handsome to
look upon. It is her!" She pointed at Nabiki. Nabiki's eyes widened.
She shook her head in confusion. Her mouth began to open and close but
no sound came out.

Kuno turned to look at her, a wild and furious look in his eyes. He 
sheathed his wooden sword behind his back slowly and calmly. The 
calmness only served to make the air ring with more danger.

"Nabiki Tendo. I can only believe this of a mercenary such as yourself.
How dare you corrupt this innocent beauty with your perverted ways?"

Nabiki backed away in panic waving her arms in front of her, palms 
outspread. "No! Kuno-baby, he's lying!"

Kuno rubbed his palms together as he slowly began to approach closer.
"Somehow you have been deluded into thinking beautiful young women
are of the opposite sex to disguise your lustful and perverted nature!
And so you ensorcer this uniquely attractive female to sate your evil 
appetite! I shall have to exorcise whatever demons have found a home in 
your black heart! I, Tatewaki Kuno, the blue thunder of Furinkan High,
shall punish you!" Thunder boomed as he began to slap one of his palms 
as if spanking it or in imagination of spanking something else, namely 
Nabiki's bottom. "Come here, so that I might beat the devil out of you!"

Nabiki screamed and ran off as fast as she could.

Kuno lunged after her in hot pursuit. "This is the vengeance of Heaven!"
He slapped Nabiki's bottom, who squealed in pain. "And this, and this, 
and this, and this, and this, and this - " Kuno's shouting and Nabiki's 
screams gradually tapered off to silence as they ran further and further 
away.

Akane looked at Ranma. "That wasn't a very nice thing to do."

Ranma just grinned from ear to ear.


--- end of part 3

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