Part B


“Knowing my sister… I’ll have to say yes. I’m Akane Tendo…” Akane extends out her hand and shakes Naru’s hand.

“Naru Narusegawa… nice to meet you.”

“My little sister wanted to go shopping… I think she wants some lingerie to show off for her fiancée, Ranma…”

“Nabiki!” Akane exclaims, embarrassed.

“Well, you did fight for that guy, right? Your sister was kind enough to show me the video of the fight…” Naru comments, trying to get Akane to feel a little more comfortable about her visit here, if that is the real reason for the visit.

“Yes… I did… but… you’re getting something too, right sis? You said outside that you lost a lot of lingerie to a certain pervert…” Akane says, trying to make sure that Nabiki also buys something here.

“Sure, why not?”

Inwardly, Akane smiles. “Why don’t you get something for yourself… and maybe Naru can help me out…”

“Sure…  but why don’t I help you pick out something?”

Akane shakes her head. “No thanks…”

“Fine… but you will show me later, right?” Nabiki says, curious to see what her sister picks out.

“Hmm… why not?” Akane says as she starts looking around the room. Nabiki heads off to the other side of the store and begins looking around. Naru steps up to Akane and asks her a question.

“Are you sure that you don’t want your sisters’ help?”

“Actually… I’d rather have you help me out…” Akane’s voice trails off. “She’d probably tease me, anyways…”

Naru shrugs her shoulders. “Well, what kind of lingerie are interested in?”

“Well… I was just looking for something nice… a few more bra and panty sets… nothing… ummm… very revealing…” Akane’s face starts turning red.

“I think I can help you out… just tell me what colors you like and I think you’ll like what I pick out…” Naru says, knowing what Akane wants.

“Sounds good…”


The two Tendo sisters continue their shopping while Ranma is returning from the store with his new purchase. ‘Thank goodness I had all that money… who knew that these things were that expensive…’ He soon arrives back at the house and sneaks inside… and very carefully makes his way over to Akane’s room.

‘Time to set up this hole…’

Ranma carefully makes a small hole in the wall, giving him a view of Nabiki’s room. He puts the camera against the hole to make sure that the angle and view are just perfect before putting the camera down on her desk.

After another five minutes go by, Ranma starts pacing around the room. ‘How long are those two gonna take? I wonder…’ Ranma’s thought start to drift to other things as he taps his foot on the floor softly. ‘That dress… she still has it…’

Another ten minutes go by before Ranma’s curiosity begins to get the best of him. After staring out the window, his mind drifts again. ‘Her closet… it’s gotta be in there…’ Slowly, Ranma makes his way over to her closet before stopping himself and sitting down in the chair.  "No... no way.... not gonna look." He muttered.  However ten minutes later he opens the door. Light pours into the closet and illuminates the inside…

‘There it is! Gods, it’s beautiful…’ Ranma thinks as his eyes gaze on the white dress that Akane had worn on Toma’s island. He begins to drool and a slight trickle of blood could be seen coming out of his nose.

His eyes now closed, Ranma’s hand reaches out for the dress and gently caresses the fabric… he imagines that he’s touching Akane …

“Oh my…”

A now mortified Ranma slowly turns his head and sees a blushing Kasumi standing in the doorway. He looks down at his hand and realizes that he was touching the dress right where her breasts would’ve been had she been in it. ‘Oh shit…’

“It’s not… it’s not what you think… I mean…” Ranma begins waving his hands in front of him defensively.

“Ranma… you shouldn’t be in Akane’s room unless she’s here…” Kasumi said in a slightly scolding tone.

“I umm… guess you’re right…” Ranma says as he slowly makes his way out of the closet and towards Kasumi.

“Don’t worry, Ranma… your secret is safe with me…” Kasumi says with a smile as she heads out of the room and back to what she was doing before. Ranma stands still for a moment, still in shock over what happened. ‘I got caught… feeling Akane’s dress up…and Kasumi thinks I’m a pervert now… geez… I’m really a pervert now… I guess Akane was right…’

Ranma leaves Akane’s room and closes the door behind him. He heads towards the bathroom… with the intent of taking a cold bath. ‘I can still feel that fabric on my fingers… her warm body beneath it… damn! Better hurry so I’m done before they get back…’



Thirty minutes later, Akane and Nabiki return from their shopping trip. Akane heads to her room to drop off her bags… only one bag was from Naru’s shop, due to the fact that Nabiki decided to do some other shopping on the way back… ‘I got a few other things, just to keep up this ruse…’ She notices the camera on her desk and looks at her wall, soon discovering the small hole. ‘Okay, there’s the hole… so where’s Ranma?’

“RANMA!”

Nabiki’s calls out to her sister. “Hey, I thought you were going to show me what you got first!”

“I wasn’t calling him for THAT… geez…” Akane says, her face turning red. Ranma comes running down the hallway and stops in front of Akane.

“Yeah?”

Akane whispers in his ear. “I’m heading over to Nabiki’s room… are you ready?”

“S-sure…” A nervous Ranma stutters back.

“Ranma… you can do it… I… have faith in you…” Akane says sweetly, causing Ranma to smile.

“Umm… see you in a second, I guess…”

Akane reaches for her bag with the lingerie in it and heads into Nabiki’s room. Ranma quietly enters Akane’s room again and softly closes the door. After taking a few deep breaths, he gets the camera and gets into position. ‘I hope I can make it through this… Akane in lingerie… damn… this is gonna be hard…’ Ranma gulps and shakes his head. ‘Please… let me get through this…’


In Nabiki’s room, Akane puts her bag down and sits on Nabiki’s bed. Nabiki takes the initiative. "You first, I wanna see what my baby sister got to impress her man…"

Akane blushes like a tomato...

Behind the wall, Ranma blushes as well. He was curious about what she got in that bag she had earlier... and now he gets to see. He had seen lingerie before, how could you not in that house, with Happosai around... but most of the times he seen Akane with less then a full set of clothes on he paid for it quite dearly.

Akane thinks to herself... 'Here goes nothing...' She starts to undress and then turns her back to where the camera is before taking off her bra and panties. She doesn't mind too much letting Ranma see her in lingerie, but naked is too far for this point in their relationship.

After taking off the last piece of clothing, she digs out her new bra and panty set and puts it on. Ranma nearly has a nosebleed when he gazes upon her as she does various modeling poses.

Nabiki looks at what her sister has picked up and comments on it. "Not bad, sis... black is a good color for you. A bra with lace is always sexy. Same thing goes for the panties. Ranma would probably die if he seen you in this outfit..."

A moment later, Ranma does nearly die- the way Akane looks is affecting him so profoundly. He can't breath and his nose wants to explode...

Akane blushes a little and then speaks. "I hope not... but I'm sure he'll like it..."

Ranma can only nod his head slowly... he most certainly likes what she is wearing. His view of her will never be the same again. Akane bends over to pick up her clothes and put them on Nabiki's bed and unknowingly gives Ranma a very nice view of her behind.

Nabiki responds a moment later. "I see you even picked the one that enhances your own figure... you get anything else?”

“Sure… I picked out a white one, too…”

Akane goes through the same motions with the other bra and panty set… and Ranma’s eyes are as large as saucers. ‘She’s gorgeous… why the hell did I call her uncute? Unsexy? Damn… she’s definitely both cute and sexy…’

“Okay… now it's my turn. Let me show you something that will really wow a man..."

Nabiki goes over to her closet and takes out a bag. "Akane, here's what I got... let me know if it was a good choice."

Ranma watches as Nabiki pulls out a type of lingerie that he hadn't seen before.

Akane looks at the garment and wonders aloud. “Who's the lucky man?”

Nabiki, with a hurt look on her face, replies. "No one yet"

Akane feels hurt about her comment after seeing how her sister reacted. She decides to cheer her up... "I'm sorry, Nabiki. I'm sure you would look great wearing that..."

Nabiki tries to smile and then nods her head. "Do you still want to see it?"

"Of course I do... and whatever else you picked up today."

Nabiki starts to undress and Ranma starts to take pictures as she does so. His eyebrows rise as each piece of clothing comes off... and his eyes bug out at the site of a naked Nabiki.

Ranma and Akane begin to feel bad after hearing Nabiki’s comment a moment ago. They both have a common thought… ‘She’s lonely… this could make things worse…’

Nabiki puts on the purple merrywidow and then models the outfit for Akane.

“What do you think, sis? I think it looks good..."

Akane pauses before responding to that. ‘And I thought I was a pervert… still… it looks kinda nice…’ She clears her mind and then speaks…

“I never seen someone wearing of those before... and you look great in it."

Akane places her hand on her sisters’ shoulder and smiles. Nabiki feels a lot better inside after seeing her sister's smile, she can tell that she is sincere about her comments.

Akane is curious about the other purchases her sister made, and asks her to show her whatever else she got at the store. Ranma switches film and barely gets the new roll in before Nabiki starts to change into the second outfit.

Nabiki soon has outfit number two on, a black halter babydoll. She does a pose and then asks for her sister's verdict on this one...

"Looks like something you sleep in..."

Nabiki puts her hand on Akane's shoulder. "Sis, you don't know much about lingerie, so I'll let you in on something. This kinda lingerie isn't meant to be worn for more then 30 minutes at most..."

"Oh... then why wear it?” Is Akane’s response a moment later.

Nabiki sighs. “Sis... you... well... you'll learn eventually...” She clears her throat and then decides to tease her sister a little. “Oh Ranma! I picked this out just for you!” She says, fake swooning in Akane’s voice.

“What!!!”

“Oh Ranma, don’t you just love it?” Nabiki says, continuing her teasing. She does a few modeling poses, giving Ranma and Akane a view of her breasts and other -ass-ets.

Nabiki imitates her sisters’ voice once again. “Oh Ranma... I don’t think I can get this off by myself... can you help me?”

Ranma nearly passes out from blood loss as he pictured Akane wearing what Nabiki was currently wearing.

For her part, Akane tried to keep herself from shouting, but was unable to do so... "Quit it Nabiki!"

“Oh, so you've thought about showing this off to Ranma already then?” Nabiki points at her sister.

'It's a little too late for that...' Akane thinks to herself. ‘I'd better give Nabiki an answer.’

"Ranma and I... are getting closer. Maybe one day he'll be lucky enough to see this wonderful outfit I have on..."

A dreamy Ranma mutters something about already having seen it to himself.

Nabiki continues teasing Akane. “Oh, so you're no longer my pure sister? What will father think!” After clearing her throat, she begins impersonating Soun. “Oh my baby girl is finally a woman!”

Akane just rolls her eyes and focuses on the end result of this plan… and wonders if it was worth it.

A moment later, Kasumi knocks on the door. "Nabiki, you have a phone call."

"I'll be there in a moment!"

“Thank Kami…” Ranma says, trying to catch his breath.

Nabiki turns and looks at Akane. "Well, sis... it's been fun. Thanks for your opinions...”

Nabiki's smile really hits Akane... the thought of ‘Are we doing the right thing’ crosses her mind as Nabiki changes back into her regular clothes.

Ranma packs up the camera... after one last look at Akane...

‘Damn she’s beautiful... and I used to call her uncute... what an ass I was…’

After Nabiki leaves, Akane sits on Nabiki's bed, still clothed in her lingerie and thinks about her sister and her situation. Ranma waits patiently in Akane's room and is worried when she doesn't come back right away.

‘Somethin’s wrong… I’m gonna go see what’s going on…’ Ranma decides to sneak over to Nabiki's room. He finds a very worried Akane just sitting on the bed and staring at the floor...

After sitting down on the bed, Akane leans against him, causing him to blush...

"Akane, what's wrong?"

"I'm having... second thoughts, Ranma. My sister is very lonely, I can tell... and I don’t want to hurt her."

“Let’s talk about this later… I... I...”

Ranma is taken by her appearance and with great difficulty tears his eyes away from her. There is a moment of silence before the sound of voices can be heard in the distance... very familiar ones...

"It was nice of Akane to invite Nabiki to go shopping with her, I hope they had fun. You three need to spend more time together..."

"You're right, father."

Ranma is the first one to cringe. "We gotta get out of here, now!"

Ranma stiffly stood up... mainly to hide a certain reaction from Akane...

"But Ranma, I'm not even..."

"No time, grab your clothes and let's go!"


Akane urgently grabs her clothes and then both her and Ranma run out the door, ending up in Akane’s room a moment later. After Ranma shuts the door, he sits down on the bed next to Akane. Suddenly, Soun and Kasumi’s surprised expressions are heard near by… they’re surprised to find Nabiki's door wide open and no one in the room...


"Father, I thought Nabiki said Akane was in her room... maybe she went back to her own room."

"Maybe, let's go see..."

Akane's eyes grow wide as she hears the footsteps come closer...

"Ranma, hide the camera and then go hide in the closet. I can't have you being caught in here with me looking like this!"

Ranma's eyes traveled her body and he made a good impression of a statue at just the sight of her... but with a little slap to the back of his head he began to move.

"Now, Ranma!" She blushes. "You can see this another time! Move!"

Ranma quickly runs into her closet and hides before a knock is heard on the door. She promptly closes the door, leaving him in darkness. Akane's last statement rings in his mind... she said that I can see her in that outfit another time. A smile forms on his face as he utters a few words to himself...

“I certainly hope so, Akane... you certainly looked sexy in that lingerie...”

“Akane, are you in there?" A voice calls out from the hallway.

“I’ll be out in a second…” Akane replies back, trying not to sound nervous.

Akane takes a look at the closet and sighs, hoping that Ranma will be okay after all of this. She quickly grabs a pair of pants and a black sweater, to conceal her new purchase. Afetr changing she gently taps on the closet and whispers to Ranma…

“I’m leaving… so sneak out when you can, okay?”

Ranma whispers back. “Sure…”

After taking one last look at her closet, Akane leaves the room. Ranma waits until the sounds of the others fade away before slowly opening the door. After walking out of the closet, he moves to close the door when his eyes once again catch a glimpse of something all too familiar…

‘There’s her white dress… damn… seeing her in that dress was bad enough… but now her in lingerie… wow… she’s really beautiful. I’d better get out of here while I have the chance…’

Ranma quietly tip-toes for the door and slowly opens it. After peeking outside, he carefully opens the door all the way and walks into the main hallway… and stops dead in his tracks.

"What were you doing in there, Ranma?" Nabiki says with a smile.

Not knowing what to say, he gives the best response that he can. Unfortunately for him, it came out in what sounded like Ranma-chan’s voice. "Ummm... nothing…"

"Oh, really? I'd bet you were in there looking through her stuff... especially her "personal" stuff... did she tell you that we went shopping today?”

Ranma thinks. 'I gotta make up an excuse for Nabiki...' He tries to make up a reasonable excuse. "I was just leaving her a um... surprise present..."

"Sure, Ranma, whatever... I bet you wanted to see her new lingerie…"

Ranma shakes his head though Nabiki has no idea that he’s already seen the lingerie… with her in it.

“Hey, there’s no need to lie… you two are a real couple now, right? No suitors or fiancées to stand in the way of your love…”

Nabiki leans over and says something to Ranma before heading downstairs. “Don’t worry… you’re secret is safe with me…”

Ranma watches as Nabiki heads downstairs and just shakes his head. ‘I’ve only heard that twice today… now both sisters think I’m a pervert…’


Downstairs at the dining room table, Nabiki sits down and joins the discussion that Soun is having with his daughters. Ranma heads back to his room and thinks about what Akane said.

“Hey sis, I just saw something interesting…” Nabiki says, nudging Akane in the ribs.

“Look… I don’t wanna hear it… I’ve got stuff on my mind…” Akane says defensively.

“Oh, but don’t you want to know what your fiancée was doing upstairs?”

Akane stands up and excuses herself from the table. ‘I need to go workout… but I can’t go upstairs and change…’

Nabiki and the others are surprised by her response. Kasumi thinks about what Nabiki just said and has a good idea of what Ranma may have been doing… but decides not to say anything… being a woman of her word.

“Nabiki, let’s talk about something else…”

“Oh, you’re no fun…” Nabiki says, disappointed in the fact that no one’s interested in hearing this little tidbit about Ranma.


As Akane leaves the house and heads over to the dojo, she fails to notice Ranma sneaking out of the house and onto the open street. ‘I’ve gotta pick up somethin’… and get this film dropped off, too…’

Over in the dojo, Akane goes through a number of exercises and lets her feelings flow as she works out.

‘He saw me… in lingerie… and it makes me feel a bunch of different things. I know I’d normally be angry for him seeing me like that but… but… now I feel different. I almost feel… good about this. Maybe Happosai was right… there’s no reason to push these feelings away… he was looking at me and it’s good to be noticed. Maybe I should ask him what he thought of my new purchases… hmm…’

Akane takes a break after a while and wipes the sweat off of her brow. ‘I wish I hadn’t picked a sweater… I’m getting really hot. Might as well head inside and take a bath…’


Akane heads inside and takes a long soak in the bath… letting her muscles and her mind relax. As she leaves the bathroom, Nabiki approaches her.

“Hey sis, you didn’t let me finish what I was saying earlier… I caught Ranma sneaking out of your room a little while ago… he said something about leave you a surprise or something… but I don’t believe that…”

“I’m sure he’s telling the truth… he has been working on being more romantic lately…” Akane says, trying to stand up for him.

“Well… why don’t we go and see then?”

“All right…”

Akane leads the way to her room and Nabiki opens the door. The two look inside to see who was right… two sets of eyebrows are raised as they scan the room, though for two separate reasons.

“I uh… guess I was wrong…” Is about all Nabiki can manage to say. A bouquet of pink roses sits on Akane’s bed next a similar one of red roses. Akane blushes and feels very warm inside.

‘Oh, Ranma… they’re beautiful… this is so romantic…’

“I told you he was in here for a good reason… look at these wonderful roses. Ranma is trying his best for me…”

“It’s only taken him how long to get you some flowers?” Nabiki says, trying to save face.

“Wait a second… he may have gotten flowers before… but he got me two bouquets… not because he had to… but because he wanted to…”

“Oh really… if he really wanted to, there would be a card in there…” Nabiki quips back.

Akane giggles as she reaches over to the red rose bouquet and pulls a small card that had been attached to the base of the bouquet. “No card, huh sis?”


Holding his breath, Ranma looks in on the scene from above Akane’s window and can’t help but think to himself. ‘Damn that was close… another minute or two earlier and they’d have caught me…’

“Sooo…” Nabiki looks over her sisters’ shoulder. “What’d he say?”

Opening the card, Akane begins to read aloud. "To a very se... special... Tomboy. Signed... your baka." She finished with a bright blush adorning her face. 'I can't believe Ranma called me 'sexy'!' She thought happily and clutched the card to her chest.

“Okay, okay… so I was wrong… I’m outta here…” Nabiki says, making a quick exit. She goes back to her room and lies down on the bed. ‘Who’d have thought… Ranma thinking ahead… and being romantic… I guess he’s really taking this seriously… good. I don’t want to see my sister hurt…’

Ranma decides to wait a little while before returning inside. ‘I think she really liked the roses… and the card.’ He tries to calm his beating heart before casually entering the house and heading upstairs.

A gently knock on her door gets Akane’s attention away from her new flowers, now displayed prominently in two vases on her desk. She had been looking out her window at the sky…

“Hey Akane, you in there?”

"Ranma... come in…" Akane says happily.

"I umm... see you got the roses I bought yah…"

“Ranma… close the door…”

“Uh, sure…” Ranma says, not knowing what’s going to happen next. As soon as the door closes, Akane walks up to Ranma and gives him a hug… resting her head against his chest.

“I loved the roses… some of those petals fell off onto the bed… so I have a bed of roses now…” Akane says softly.

“Y-yeah… umm… I was hoping that would happen…” Ranma says, not totally understanding what that phrase meant.

“I think I liked your card the best, though…”

Ranma laughs nervously. “Really? Ya know I ain’t no good wit’ words…”

“Ranma… you can hold me too if you want…” Akane says, trying to make him feel more comfortable and hoping that he cannot hear the pleading tone of her voice.

“S-sure…” Ranma’s arms slowly wrap around Akane and she looks up, a smile on her face.

“So… I see you’ve given up on calling me an uncute tomboy… now I’m a sexy one, huh?”

Ranma blushes. “Well, umm… yeah…”

Akane blushes as well. “You can call me ‘your tomboy’… but only under one condition…”

“And what’s that?” A curious Ranma asks, wondering what that condition could be.

“You’re MY baka…”

Ranma grins. “Yah know… people may think we’re fightin’ or somethin’ if we call each other names like this…”

“Does that bother you?”

Ranma has a strange glint in his eyes. “Yah know… that don’t bother me at all, tomboy…”

Before Akane can respond vocally, she feels her body being pulled closer to his. She closes her eyes and rests her head on his chest again. “Baka…”


As the couple enjoy a warm moment in private, events were happening elsewhere in Japan that would affect them both in the future…

“Do you realize what you’ve done? I’m really surprised that Ranma turned out as good as he has… he certainly didn’t have the best role model for a father…”

“But Nodoka…” Genma says, waving his hands. “You haven’t heard the whole story…”

Nodoka shakes her head and briefly touches her sword, causing Genma to cringe.

“Yes, I have… your son told me about everything that you’ve done… Genma, I’m really ashamed about the way you’ve acted…” Nodoka says with a hint of sadness in her voice.

“But…” Genma sputters.

“I don’t even know where to start…” Nodoka reaches for a scroll and holds it above the floor… the bottom drops and the paper starts rolling. “How about all these debts? You even had the nerve to put some of them in Ranma’s name… dishonoring him when they weren’t paid back. You’re lucky that I talked to some of these people… otherwise you wouldn’t be alive today…”

“Do you know how long it’ll take me to pay all of this back?”

“I don’t care.” Nodoka shakes her head. “It’s your duty to take responsibility for your actions… that’s why you’re working two jobs effective tomorrow. I’m not going to stay with a lazy, good for nothing husband…”

“You wouldn’t leave me… would you?”

Nodoka gives him a withering stare… causing Genma to know her answer in a heartbeat.

After a brief pause, Nodoka continues her “discussion” with her husband.

“You’ve lied… cheated… tarnished the honor of Ranma and yourself… and interfered in the lives of many others. I don’t know how you got lead down this path… but I’m going to make sure that Ranma doesn’t go the same way. He has a chance to form a meaningful relationship with that young lady, Akane… who fought so hard for him. I will not allow you or your friend Soun to mess up their relationship…”

“But you’re forgetting how talented of a martial artist Ranma’s become…” Genma says, trying to change the subject.

“He is talented… but I wonder… is that because of what you taught him… or is that in spite of it? There’s more to martial arts then the techniques… how can he take over a school if he doesn’t know how? And then there’s the matter of ALL of these fiancées… Genma…”

“Isn’t a martial artists life is fraught with peril? Ranma and I had to make certain… sacrifices to be made in order to keep training…”

“Don’t tell me about sacrifices… I had to give up my husband and son… and this is what I get in return? Ranma’s having a very hard time dealing with Akane… I’ve had to really help him out… how can my son be manly and know how to properly treat a woman with a father like you… one who hasn’t shown him how to treat a woman…”

“I’m sure he’ll be fine…”

“Genma… I talked to Akane as well… if he did know how to treat a woman, he would’ve treated her differently. You’re directly response for another one of his fiancées… Ukyo. That poor girl has had a horrible life ever since you stepped into it…”

“But she is a martial artist and has turned out for the better…” Is all Genma can come with for a response to his wife.

“Better? Damn it, she was forced to abandon being a girl... living a life that was a lie… and seeking vengeance instead of living. She spent 10 years in training just to get back at Ranma… when she should’ve been training to get back at you. If you had been a man like you claim to be and kept your word… Ukyo would’ve never been a problem or gotten between Ranma and Akane. However, since you failed to act like a man and keep your wits… I have no choice but to do this…”

Genma moves back in fear as Nodoka’s hand moves towards her sword… on its way to some nearby legal papers.

“Umm… what are those for? Those aren’t divorce papers…” Genma gulps.

“They could be… if you don’t get your act together. I’ve had these made up a few days ago… all that’s needed is a signature from us. We’re going to take care of Ukyo… it’s the least we can do to make up for her… misguided life.” Nodoka stares at her husband. “You will get your act together so you can at least TRY to be a father.”

Genma’s head sinks low on his chest. “Yes, No-chan…”

“Since it’s too late to do it tonight, I’ll take these papers over first thing in the morning…” Nodoka signs the papers and passes them over to Genma, who also does the same thing.

Genma yawns aloud.

“Oh no, we’re not done yet… so you’d better stay awake. We have several other topics to cover… this “neko-ken” technique, selling your own son for food, these other fiancées, Ranma’s curse… the list goes on and on… we may be up for a while, DEAR…” Nodoka says that last part while staring at Genma… who suddenly becomes quite awake.

“You… promised me a family… more children…” Nodoka tries to hold back tears. “You’ve really messed up the one that we have now… how can I expect you to uphold your word? This is your last chance Genma, to make good on your promises… to uphold your honor… to make amends for the lives you’ve hurt... and replace the things you’ve stole. I can’t live with a man who isn’t responsible for his actions… if you fail, then all the Saotome debts will be put in YOUR name, especially those in Ranma’s name… and I will take my son and put both of us on MY family’s registry. Do I make myself clear?”

Genma is silent for a moment and then looks up at his wife. “Yes, dear…”

“Good. Now let’s talk some more… we have a lot to discuss…”


Much later that evening, after several hours of “discussion” with his wife, Genma makes a few phones calls. ‘Soun’s right… I’m sure that special suit we’ve heard about may help… I’ll get right on it after work tomorrow…’

To be continued in Chapter 9: A different point of view