Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Evil Kasumi Returns ❯ Nabiki’s Migraine ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½ nor any of the characters. If I did, things would be a lot different. But alas, all I can do is dream and think… what if…

And speaking of ‘What if’, after reading “Evil Kasumi II” by Targhan on The Church of Ranma and Kasumi; I got this idea.

Note: I apologize to everyone that has been waiting for this. Every time I would look at it I would think that it needs more, but I think I finally got it. Sadly, in my haste to get this out I have sipped getting it pre-read. So if you see any glaring errors, please let me know.

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And now, “Nabiki’s Migraine.”

“Ok, so let me get this straight…” Nabiki said as calmly as she could. “You both have been falling for each other for what… weeks, years?” She asked as she tried to get a handle on what she had been told. After waking up, Nabiki had been interrogating her sister and Ranma for some time and she was having a hard time not only believing it, but believing it has actually happened in the space of two days.

“Well…” Kasumi said softly. “Ever since Ranma has moved in I have been watching him. And everyday he does the best he can to be honorable and every time something has happened to Akane, then Ranma has been right there to help her.”

“So you’ve had a thing for him since he moved in?” Nabiki asked with a tired groan.

“Oh my no. It’s grown over time.”

Ranma, for his part, was just sitting beside Kasumi looking sheepish and trying to keep from being yelled at any more. But it didn’t save him from Nabiki’s inquisition. “Ok, spill it.”

“Spill what?” He tried to ask innocently.

Nabiki did not fall for it though. “Tell me, how long have you had the hots for my sister.”

“Hots… um… well you see… I…”

“Nabiki, that is not proper.”

“Who the hell cares if it’s proper? I want to know how long this has been going on!”

“Well, you see… I… I didn’t really understand myself until the other day… but you know…”

“No, I don’t know.”

“Well, Kasumi’s always been really kind to me… ya know, never hitting me when I say or do something stupid and…”

Nabiki rubbed her temples. “Oh yea, Saotome, and we know you and that mouth of yours.”

“Well, um… I… I for a long time just thought that she’s like a big sister, and such…”

“Oh I bet she loves hearing this…” Nabiki said wryly and looked to her sister, only to see that instead of Kasumi looking upset, she looked proud. ‘What the…’ she thought but was interrupted.

“But after time, things just changed. I… I didn’t really; well still don’t know when it all changed. But I know that… that… that I l-l-Love… Kasumi.” Nabiki’s mouth dropped open at hearing him actually say that. Nabiki further went into shock when she noticed Kasumi was leaning closer to Ranma and giving him a hug… a hug that he was not pulling away from… but actually somewhat returning.

“This has got to be a dream… a very bad dream…”

“Why’s that?” Kasumi asked sweetly.

“Because! This is Ranma! You know, Ranma Saotome! The guy that has who knows how many girls after him and he’s the most arrogant and annoying jerk around!” Nabiki’s voice rose from her normal at the beginning to where she was almost yelling the last part.

Before Ranma could say anything, he heard Kasumi laughing slightly. He turned to look at her questionably. “Yes, I know this is Ranma Saotome, the same one that showed up on our doorstep as a girl just after our father said that we were engaged to him. The very one that we were both afraid of. The very one that I have grown to love, and to trust. But he’s not an ‘annoying jerk.’ That is only how others that don’t know the real Ranma see him.” Ranma was grinning from ear to ear as he listened to Kasumi.

“You don’t get it do you?” Nabiki groaned out. “What about Ukyo…. Or Shampoo? Remember? Obstacles are for killing?” She leveled a death glare at Ranma. “You pulled my sister into this… what’re you going to do now? String her along like you have the others? Or will you actually choose one? And then what? Well? At least Akane could protect herself somewhat… but…” She looked at her sister. “Please… don’t do this.”

Ranma sighed. “That’s one reason I’ve been s-s-scared about admitting this.” Nabiki had thought that she could not be surprised by anything else, she was wrong. Her mind just could not comprehend Ranma saying that he was scared. “I don’t know how to get out of those things… Ukyo wants me to marry her and be a cook or whatever, and Shampoo just wants me to go back to China… and… and… damnit… I don’t know what I want to do. But I know I ain’t going back with them.”

Nabiki let out a frustrated groan. “That’s it… I’m not leaving this house for a weekend like that again!”

“Oh, but I don’t think I can get everything setup like that again.”

She blinked, and looked at Kasumi. “What?”

“Oh… well… you see…” Kasumi said while fidgeting a little.

“Kasumi setup the whole weekend. She got Akane to go to that sleepover, and then got Pops, Mr. Tendo and the old letch outta the house and…”

“Wait a second… what do you mean?”

“Well, you see…” Kasumi said with a weak grin. “Since you were leaving anyway, I was able to talk to Yuki’s mother at the market and was able to get the sleep over arranged.”

“You… You set her up?” Nabiki was going into shock, her sister, her sweet and innocent sister setup Akane to get her out of the house. “Both of them?” she asked and was surprised to see Kasumi nod her head. “And the trip?”

“I took some out or my savings, and setup the trip to look like we won it and…”

Ranma broke in laughing hard, “And I’d love to see that old letches face when he finds out where he went!”

Nabiki’s eyebrow twitched. “Where did you send them?”

“Well, you see… they went to a small island resort that has no airport of its own, so at the least, grandfather will be unable to leave the island for at least four days…”

“Where?” Nabiki asked again.

Kasumi looked sheepish. “To a resort for transvestites.”

“Trans…vest…ites?” Nabiki asked slowly.

“Yep, the old letch needs to grope real women to get his power boost, but since they’re part guy, then he’ll end up being drained instead!” By this point Ranma was laughing hard enough to fall over.

Nabiki fell backwards from where she was kneeling at the table and looked at her sister strangely. “I don’t believe it…”

Kasumi nodded her head. “It’s true. I needed to get everyone but Ranma and myself out of the house. I had to find out if it was just me. But… but he said he loved me… and…” Kasumi turned a bright red as she suddenly recalled the night’s worth of passions that they shared… and the following day…

Nabiki, thankfully, in her stupor did not notice her sisters blush. “This can’t be real… I’ve been out-scammed… by my own sister…”

Seeing the confusion on her sisters’ face, Kasumi got Ranma’s attention in the only way she thought she could, she kissed him on the cheek.

As soon as he felt her lips against his skin, he could not help but blush. “Yea Kasumi?”

“Ranma, would you go out to the dojo for a while?”

“Um…” He looked at her and then at Nabiki. “Ok sure.” So saying he stood and before he left, he gave her a kiss on the cheek as well which caused her to blush.

Having been shocked out of her stupor, Nabiki watched as Ranma willingly gave Kasumi a kiss, and then left. She turned her eyes to her older sister to see that Kasumi was watching Ranma leave and her cheeks were still blushing. “Is he really Ranma?”

“Huh?” Kasumi asked as she tore her eyes off Ranma.

“Is that really him? You know the clueless boy wonder?”

“Oh my… Nabiki you shouldn’t call him clueless.”

Her younger sister blinked at that as Kasumi did not complain about the boy wonder part. “But… this is Ranma… are you sure that’s really him, and are you sure you want to do this.”

Kasumi nodded her head. “Yes, this is what I want. I’ve very rarely been given a choice as to what I wanted in my life. And the first big choice I got… I got scared.”

“Scared?”

“Yes… I didn’t think I wanted to get married, and never experience life outside of this house. I thought since Ranma was younger than me, that things would be boring.”

“One thing we know about Ranma, is that just living around him is never boring.”

With a slight giggle, Kasumi agreed. “Yes, life has been interesting.”

“So what now?”

Sighing, Kasumi closed her eyes and gathered her thoughts. “Now, we move on. Ranma has been worried about how Akane would react to this…”

“Akane! Worried about how she will react? You two had better start worrying about how the others will react.”

“I know, which I why I wanted to talk to you about Ukyo and Kodachi.”

“What about Shampoo?” Nabiki railed.

“Don’t worry about her. I know of a way to handle it.”

“Handle it? You’ve got to be kidding me!” Kasumi just shook her head as Nabiki looked at her suspiciously. “Then what is it?”

“It would be better if you and even Ranma did not know just yet.”

“It would be better?” Nabiki almost screeched, then she gave her sister a contemplative look before asking, “What are you planning sister?”

Kasumi sighed again. “It is just a delicate matter, and the more people that know, then the more chances that it will fail.” Nabiki groaned loudly. “I’m sorry little sister, but this is something I must do on my own.”

Nabiki knew her sister well enough that when she made up her mind there was no way to change it, no matter how much she wanted to. “Then what about the others?”

“I am not sure about Kuonji-san, and there are some legal issues dealing with them as well.”

“Yeah, like the fact that Saotome ran off with her dowry, and the fact that she either has to marry him, or kill him.”

“That’s not completely true,” Ranma said from the doorway.

“Oh my, Ranma how long have you been listening to us?” Kasumi asked sweetly and with a slight blush. Nabiki scowled, she hated to have her conversations listened in on.

“Long enough to hear you talking about Ukyo…” he sighed and then approached Kasumi. “I’m sorry, but I just can’t concentrate on practicing right now.”

“You… can’t workout?” Nabiki asked incredulously.

“Not right now. Besides, Ukyo said that she has to become a Saotome or kill pops an I.”

This caused the middle daughter to blink. “She has to become a Saotome?”

“Oh, I thought she had to marry you?”

“She wants to, but… I mean, I care for her an all… but it’s, I mean…”

Nabiki glared at him, she hated it when information was withheld from her, “Spill it Ranma.”

He shot Nabiki a glare and then took a deep breath. Before letting it out, he took Kasumi’s hand in his. “Alright… I love her… but not like I do Kasumi, okay?”

She had thought that nothing Ranma could say would surprise her…. Nabiki was wrong. “You love her? You mean you can actually say it?”

“Yeah… it’s not easy ya know. But, it’s like... I mean… she was my best friend and well I thought she was a he an all…”

“Ranma,” Kasumi said sweetly, “you’re babbling.”

“Sorry…” he said and looked at her.

“Anyway…” Nabiki said and cleared her throat as Ranma and Kasumi had started just staring at each other and blushing slightly. Her tactic worked as it stopped the two of them and got their attention. “You said that you love her, but not like Kasumi, right?” He nodded at her and she continued. “Friends only?”

“Um… well… I… I guess not, I mean I care what happens to her an I don’t wanna see her get hurt.”

“Hmm, well I think something can be worked out. But I don’t think she’ll go for it,” Nabiki told them seriously. “You’ve been stringing her along for a long time, and she’s had her dreams on marrying you.”

“I know…” he said miserably. “I don’t… I mean it’s not like I really wanted all this. But I didn’t know what ta do. Ya see if I were to just ignore her then it’d only make her madder and hurt her. But…”

“But by stringing her along, now it’s going to hurt her even more.”

“I know…” he said softly.

“Well…” Nabiki said softly as she saw the obvious pain covering him. “I’ll see what I can find out, but it’s not going to be easy.”

“I know… I just wish that none of ‘em got hurt.”

“That’s your problem,” Nabiki almost growled. At his blank look, she tried not to loose control and yell at him. “You don’t want anyone to get hurt, but when you’re trying to keep them from getting hurt, you’re only going to make them hurt even more later on.” Evan as she finished saying that she could see Ranma slump over.

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To be continued… (Yes, there is still more to go. As a teaser… I am currently planning the fight between Kasumi and Shampoo over Ranma where Kasumi drop a big surprise. Especially considering she is the eldest in a family that has a Dojo.)

For those viewing this on Media Miner, I apologize for the long delay in updating, but the MMo system is the worst I have ever seen. Although they say you can upload word Doc files it refuses to work properly which is one reason I have not updated in such a long time.