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Disclaimer - I do not own Ranma 1/2 or Tokyo Mew Mew (Mew Mew Power)
“Are you alright?” a male asks. Slowly Ranma came into view.
With her low energy, Nabiki could just stare at Ranma. Nabiki tries to roll to get up. She found herself looking at the ground below her. Only a hand keep her from continuing to roll over the edge. Ranma rolls Nabiki her back to safe. Then, he lifts her up and carries her from the edge. He rests her back on a wall that encases the staircase leading to the roof.
“Are you alright?” Ranma asks.
Slowly Nabiki takes a breath in and releases it. She did it two more times. Then she starts to talk, “I’m fine.”
“That’s good,” Ranma says. He sits next to Nabiki. “I know that you’re able to fight those monsters. I would like to know your arts. Can you train me in it?” He felt a weight on his shoulder. He turns to see Nabiki’s head on his shoulder. Her orange eyes were close. Her fox ears flick a little.
“Excuse me,” Jessibelle says. She steps close to the two of them. “I’ll take care of her,” she says. She turns her back to Ranma. “Can you help a lady and place her on my back.” Ranma nods and lifts Nabiki up. “Thanks, oh I can’t carry her and be chase. Would you mind not chasing us?”
“Sure,” Ranma says. He place Nabiki onto Jessibelle back. “I was hoping that I could learn your art.”
“It’s not my place to say so,” Jessibelle says, “Our leader is asleep at the moment.” She drops onto the fire escape. Ranma walk over to the edge and saw girl in light blue run off.
The door behind Ranma opens. “Where’s the fox tail girl?” Akane asks as she runs next to him. On the dull buildings she watches orange clothes moving. Akane drop onto the fire escape. Ranma listen to the metal step slowly fade.
Nabiki feels a sheet drape over her. Her fox ears flick as she listens. She reluctantly opens her eyes. She looks at the healthy green trees passes the window. From behind her she hears, “Good you’re awake.” Nabiki quickly cover her head with the pillow.
“Practice at that,” Jessibelle says, “Did you know this café had a bedroom? Get up. The others are down stairs. But first, change to you civilian form.”
In the main dinning room, Yuki sat on one of the chairs with Seed. When Nabiki walk into the room, Yuki stood up. “Nice place you work here,” Yuki says.
“That’s good,” Nabiki says, “You’re going to work here.”
“No way,” Yuki yelled, “With all those trays I could break a nail.” She raises her hand to show nails. Each one was carefully trimmed and painted.
“Then you can greet and take care of the casher,” Nabiki says as she walks to the door. “I’m going home.”
“Why should I work here anyway?” Yuki asked. Nabiki turn and simply flick the business card that the magic user gave Ranma.
Nabiki walks down the street. Her pockets felt empty for being so late in the afternoon. She slips into her home. Lingering is the smell chicken was in the air. Over her little sister’s yelling match with her fiancée, she could hear one of the old men playing the game.
“Welcome back,” Kasumi says, “Would you mind helping me cook?”
“Fine,” Nabiki says.
Kasumi walk into the kitchen. “Have a seat.” Nabiki slip onto the counter. “I understand there was a fight with the mew mews,” Kasumi says as she chops up a carrot, “So what do you think about it?”
Nabiki look at her hands resting in her lap. She took a deep breath before she starts to speak, “We’ll talk about it someplace less open.”
“I hope you didn’t push yourself too far with that sword after you,” Kasumi says. Nabiki turn to her sister. “Ranma came in complaining about how you ripped him off taking the card for something he could learn on his own. You owe him for it.”
“She meets the standard of a waitress at the café, if you know what I mean,” Nabiki says.
“You still owe Ranma,” Kasumi says. Nabiki slip off the counter and walk away. “I’m sure Ranma will understand if you tell why you need her.”
“Why do you care so much?” Nabiki asks.
“You gave your world,” Kasumi says, “He’s planning to have you to help him with getting the Fox Tail Girl to teach him her art.”
“Ranma will do anything for the arts,” Nabiki says looking at the ground. “Even ask someone to help.”
Kasumi turns to the food once more. She places the chopped carrots into the pot. “Ranma said that he wants to talk to her and he’s not good at diplomatic talks. If you don’t then he go to someone else someone that could learn more about her than wanted.”
Nabiki nods and walk away. She stops just inside the kitchen. She could no long hear Ranma and Akane’s voices. By the lack of a load crash, Nabiki guess that it was not their repetitive name calling match.
Nabiki walks into the living area. There Ranma sat looking at the TV. He stands up and turns to Nabiki. He places his hand behind his head as he spokes, “I thought of a way to repay for the favor you took.”
Nabiki stop and rotates her head to face Ranma “What would that be?” she asks trying to hide the knowledge that Kasumi gave her.
“I want your help to get Mew Mew Fox to agree to teach her art to me.”
“Why do you need me?” Nabiki asks placing her hand on her hip. “From what I heard she can jump higher than me. She can easily leap away from me. I can’t help you get her.”
“I don’t need your help with that,” Ranma says, “I need your help with tracking her, and I need you to help to get her agree to train me. Fighting won’t help with that.”
“I understand getting her to agree, but why tracking her?”
“I can’t talk to her if I don’t know where to find her. I can’t track her in the city.”
Nabiki rub her chin. “I guess that I can help with trying to get her to teach you. I’ll give you any information I hear about the Fox Tail Girl…for a while.”
“Alright,” Ranma says.
Nabiki left to her room to read. Since she did not do any business, there was not a thing for her to update. Later, she sat at the dinning table. The Saotomes were fighting over food. “I need to talk to you Nabiki,” Akane says.
“After dinner,” Nabiki responds, “When we’re not with the others.”
“My daughters are keeping secrets from me,” the girls’ father says as his eyes starts to water.
“Father,” Nabiki says, “She has a problem that she needs her old sister to help solve.”
After, Nabiki follows her sister into the dojo. “Have you heard anything?” Akane asked as she stood in the middle of the floor.
“I’m guessing about this Fox Tail Girl,” Nabiki says as she rest on the wall near the door, “I’m just hearing what you know.”
“I need to know where her den is. She’s running from me. I can win the fight if I can force her into a fight.”
“She’s good at hiding,” Nabiki says, “That type of information would be costly.”
Akane walks over to her sister. “I need help and you’re my sister,” Akane says.
“I’ll tell you what I learn…for a discount,” Nabiki says.
Nabiki walks from the dojo. She rubs head but it did little to stop pain in her head. She walks to her room. She grabs her camera. A little later, she enters her room once more. She starts to develop the photos she took. “These should get good prices,” Nabiki says as she smiles. As she continues to work on the photos, the pain in her head got stronger.
She stumbles out of her room. Using the wall for support, she made her way to the stairs. Then she made her way trough the halls. She slips into the bathroom and stagger to the medicine cabernet.
“Nabiki!” Ranma yells as he covers his body. With pill in hand Nabiki turn to her sister fiancée. A little off balance, she took the pill and stumble out.
She drops onto her bed. Slowly she closes her eyes. She woke to Kasumi over looking her. “Are you going to make a habit of leaning over me when I wake,” Nabiki says despite the grinding in her throat.
“Ranma says you were sick, “Kasumi says, “Before Akane hit him.” She places her hand on Nabiki’s forehead. “It looks like he’s right. You should rest.” Nabiki found herself spending most of the next day in bed.
The next day, Nabiki finish putting on her school uniform. She been up since the Saotomes started to fight. She had just to wait until her fox tail and ears were gone. She left the room she been in for more than a day She walk down and found her sister cooking.
“You’re up early,” Kasumi says.
“You sleep for more than a day and see how you feel,” Nabiki says.
“It’s good that you’re better,” Kasumi says.
“Too bad I was sick all day,” Nabiki says.
“At least you didn’t miss school.”
“I guess,” Nabiki says.
After eating her meal, Nabiki made her way to the school. She glances at her reflection. When she came to the school, a few of her workers came running to her. “Nabiki,” One panicky says.
“What’s wrong?” Nabiki asks.
“Ashley starts out on her own but she took all the others,” another workers says, “They took all the betting slips. We don’t have the time to make more.”
“Calm down,” Nabiki says, “We need to secure what we can of the network. We need to see what we still have and what they took.” The girls nods and runs off.
Ashley walks up to Nabiki’s back. “Having a problem?” Ashley asks, “You’re not taking bets.” She places one of her finger to her chin. “That’s right. You lost all the betting slips. I took all the workers that I wanted. I promised them more pay which is easy with cutting group number down. Luckily, you already have another job. If you beg me then I may rehire you but half the part of the others being a newbie and all.”
Nabiki was about to respond the first bell rang. “Don’t count me out,” Nabiki says before she left to her class.
A little later, Nabiki sat in the class tapping her pen to her book. ‘How could she before this with out me noticing,’ she though as she tap faster. She watches the teacher to stop her lecture, and walk to the door.
“Class,” The teacher says, “It turn out we have a new student.” A teen walks into the room. Her brown hair was pulled into a pony tail. She wore glasses over her green eyes. “Her name is Erika Yamagata. Please greet her warmly. Nabiki you have the highest grade and you don’t care about what I say so show Yamagata around.”
“Come on,” Nabiki says as she walks out of the classroom.
Nabiki walks down the hall with Erika next to her. She was skipping while humming. “This is the hall,” Nabiki says, “If you don’t know what its uses are for then you shouldn’t be here.”
“I know,” Erika says with a smile, “I could be in college but my parents though it would be better for me to be with others my age.” She stops. “You want to see something.” Nabiki stop and turn to Erika. She was lifting up her skirt showing a brown mark on her leg. “It just appeared one day.”
“Aren’t you worried about it?” Nabiki says.
Erika tilts her head and asks, “Should I?”
‘Why can’t we pick the mew mews?’ Nabiki though as she continue the tour.
After the tour, Nabiki’s day was normal for a while. She finished placing her money where the photos she took were. She drops down and starts to eat. After eating for a while a small shadow cover her meal. She looks up to see the orange fur ball hovering near her. It quickly flew to Nabiki chest and start to rub her.
“Hey sis,” Akane says walking up with Ranma next to her. “What’s that?” She asks pointing at the fur clung to Nabiki’s chest.
Innortal – Thanks. I need help
NoshMono - Sorry it took so long
JustWriter2 – I haven’t made a decision for a guy for Nabiki. I think I’ll let the reviewers pick.