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Looking around at her friends, she really didn't want to have this conversation right now so, with a heavy sigh, she promised that she would tell them all about it after school, on their way to Nerima. This caught them all by surprise, but they let it go seeing as she had promised to fill them in. They would just have to wait a little while. It was going to be a long day. He was truly looking forward to getting out of class and away from some of the people in his life, particularly Akane and Nabiki.
Nabiki hadn't been so bad, since she had a different classroom than Ranma, but he knew that would change as soon as she was able to corner him. He had only barely escaped her at lunch.
Akane on the other hand sat in the desk right next to his and had been insufferable all day. Not only was she still angry at him for putting down her idols, the Sailor Senshi, she was also upset that he seemed to have a relationship of some sort with yet another girl. All in all, it led to a day of her either glaring at him hatefully or ignoring him all together and he wasn't looking forward to whatever conversation they would have when she finally managed to get ahold of him for a moment.
Quickly getting up from his desk, Ranma headed for the window Akane being between him and the door and leapt for it, hoping he'd be able to lose any pursuers that way. Just as he believed he was in luck, however, he landed and, turning to face the gate for a quick getaway, had to stop short to avoid running Nabiki over. Sighing to himself, he decided there was no point in avoiding the conversation any more and got to the point quickly.
He only hoped he could convince her to leave Akane out of their little soiree since he really didn't feel like dealing with any strange conclusions she could draw right now. However, as you seem to have finally come to your senses, and I can tell that this is going to be an interesting story, I'll let you get away with it this time. Knowing that Big, Bad, All-Powerful Ranma worried about her reactions to things always gave her a rather substantial ego boast and this time was no different.
However she put off thoughts like those for the more immediate concern of getting then away from her volatile little sister so that she could get the whole story out of him. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty sure that you won't have much time to talk if she's around. Even if it meant telling her what was going on, at least he didn't have to deal with any jealous fiancees. Your treat of course. They turned and quickly exited the school grounds then, making it around the corner just as Akane burst out of the front doors and consequently managing to lose her as she incorrectly guessed their destination to be the Dojo.
They had waited the entire afternoon, some more patiently then others, for an explanation and were eager to hear what Minako had to say. They held their collective tongues however, as she seemed to be deep in thought, and waited for her to begin. It was, afterall, Minako's story and they couldn't verywell force it out of her. No matter how much Makoto wanted to. After a few minutes of walking in silence, meeting up with Rei shortly, Makoto finally reached the end of her patience. Waiting through class was unavoidable, but now, with Minako right there, she really wanted to know what was going on.
From the way she had reacted to the man in the park, Makoto half expected this to be some sort of enemy that Minako had met during her Sailor V days that was coming back to haunt her now and if it was she wanted to be ready for it. Sailor Senshi stuck together afterall.
Before she had a chance to voice her thoughts, however, Rei managed to beat her to the punch. This looked something that really bothered Minako and she wanted to know what it was so that she could help. Though Makoto was sure she was trying to ask Minako in a kind and understanding voice, Rei managed to make the question into a demand for answers none the less. At least, if nothing else, it did seem to get Minako's attention away from whatever internal brooding that she was experiencing.
Minako looked around at her friends as they reached the bus stop and awaited its arrival. Looking around to make sure that they were alone Minako sighed before glancing at her friends once more and beginning her tale. I probably freaked some of you out a bit. I'd only been at it for about a month when I first met Him. The way Minako said the word, you could practically feel the hatred and resentment in the word, but at the same time a certain amount of respect had to be present in order for her to speak of this person with the sort of reverence implied by the use of such a formal 'Him', even if it was only the grudging respect awarded to a particularly strong opponent.
Most of them thought that this 'Him' was probably the man who had originally set off Minako's wraith, this Genma fellow, although at least Ami thought back to the way all of Minako's questions seemed rather to revolve around the man's son, rather than the man himself. Now Makoto knew that her friend obviously didn't like whoever this boy way, but she figured that it might help lighten the mood a bit if they discussed to boy's looks a bit.
Then perhaps Minako would be a bit less moody for the rest of the story. Discussing cute guys was, afterall, one of Minako's favorite hobbies. If anything, however, her mood seemed to darken a bit as she got a far away look in her eyes. Long black hair, deep blues eyes, a great build and enough grace to make a dancer cry," Now she had all the girls' deepest attention.
Afterall, Minako had just described a guy that would normally have her head in the clouds and she seemed to be projecting even more malice instead. He made a game of making my life miserable at every turn. She knew that her friend had a tendency to be overly dramatic, but not usually in such a dark, spiteful way. She tended to be more high-spirited and flighty than that.
It was late and I was just finishing my rounds are Sailor V when I saw someone sneaking out the window of a local church They were sitting in a small booth in a fairly well decorated restaurant whose decor obviously was meant to convey the message that you were in India and surprisingly conveyed it rather well. The waiter had just left with their orders, which, Ranma was thankful, were less costly then he believed they would be. It seemed Nabiki did have some appreciation for his financial situation afterall.
Well, either that or she knew that he'd just have to borrow money from her to pay if they ordered anything more expensive. Reflecting, Ranma decided that the later was far more likely than the former seeing as, as much as Nabiki was not the money-grubbing mercenary that most made her out to be, she was still pretty quick to spend other people's money if they offered.
Afterall, he was only talking about a friend of his from when he was younger. Do you actually know Sailor V personally? Not just seen her on TV, or watched one of her fights, but actually know her to the point where she would recognize you. The only ones I have are friends from when I was younger: U-chan, V-chan, and Ka-chan. One problem at a time. Pop and I had traveled to England in order to train with an old master Pop had before he trained under Happosai.
She had always been under the impression that China was as far as the two had ever gone. I guess when Pop learned from him he lived in Osaka, but he had moved since. It was one of the few times Pop actually sprung for plane tickets somewhere.
I guess the idea of walking to England appealed to him about as much as it did me. Thanking him and then taking a sip, Ranma waited until he had left again before continuing his story. While I was setting up the camp, Pop said he was going to pick up supplies. Frankly that should have tipped me off a bit since I knew we had everything we'd need for a while, but it was late and it took me a bit longer than usual to become suspicious of where he was. The first places I checked, of course were the places he had paid closer attention to on our way in since he always does that to look for possible hits.
I know your dad's a bit of a con man, but you make him sound like a professional thief or something. He wasn't really that bad, was he? She had always known he was a degenerate, but she'd never believed he was a real thief. Ranma's laugh brought her back from her contemplation. How did you think he kept us supplied all those years? Do you really think he would have stopped my training long enough to get a job? I never liked how he did things, but I don't really hold it against him. He was just keeping us fed afterall. He could steal the cash out of a man's hand without him noticing if he wanted.
Unfortunately he'd usually do something stupid, or someone would get lucky and see him and we'd have to move. He had just finished robbing a local church when You get used to it after a while.
This time, when he was just climbing out the window into an alley he ran into Sailor V. I guess he didn't take her seriously, because she managed to catch him off guard with one of her magic blasts and take him down.
That's how I found them, so I, of course, jumped to his rescue. Not only did it blow the whole 'Ranma never fights girls' thing out of the water, he also did it to help his dad, someone he barely respects. She was going to need to totally rethink her opinion of Ranma after this. Ranma didn't even think before answering. Besides, why would I want to give up prime gloating material like that?
Of course, I had her outclassed right off, but she fought really well and though she didn't seem to have much training, she had enough speed, strength and experience to make up for it. It was impressive to see how long she managed to keep her cool no matter what taunts I threw at her. Like you do with Akane?
I always do, you know that. It's part of Anything Goes, to make the enemy to angry to think straight and fight properly. She always seemed pretty eager to fight me, but I guess that you don't come across challenges like me very often. I always fought her to the best of my ability of course, though I would make sure the fights kept going until I managed to get her to lose her cool. It was always fun to see how long she would last.
You would meet up with her every once in a while, throw insults at her until she got sloppy with rage and then beat her up? And you wonder why she kept attacking you?
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Now that she thought about it, this was actually a remarkably similar situation to what had happened between him and Ryoga. In fact, if Sailor V had any qualities in common with Ryoga, Ranma would be lucky if she didn't still hold a grudge against him. Besides, she knew it was all in good fun.
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