Cologne brushed past Kasumi into the room. The normally reserved Saotome matriarch and the mercenary Tendou girl were having a giggle fit. An unconscious Akane and Kodachi were draped over an equally unconscious Ranma. Ukyou and her great grand-daughter were suspiciously well behaved and apparently a little confused about the other people's actions. To top it off, the vacuous housewife Kasumi was blushing like a naughty school girl.
Once again, it was proved that life around Ranma was interesting, creating inconceivable circumstances at the drop of a hat.
"Alright now, obviously something interesting is going on here. Would you please explain his condition again so I can be sure Shampoo didn't leave anything out?"
While Nodoka was settling down form her giggle fit, Konatsu quietly crept in and knelt quietly behind her mistress Ukyou. The air in the room quickly became somber, allowing Nodoka to regain her composure. "Well, apparently my family blood is coming to light. Essentially as the golden eyes progresses, Ranma will have less self-control and more power. His desires will become more tiger like as that progresses, only concerned with food, sleep, mating and killing. His human nature is counter to that, and as he is resisting it, the tiger nature is eating away at his human nature. He will die soon from this conflict as I've seen him manifesting the legendary third eye of the Tiger God."
Cologne nodded sagely, doing her number three Yoda impersonation. "Indeed, heard of this blood-line I have. Quite the fearsome warriors you are. Amazed the boy could hide such I am."
Nodoka sighed and looked down at her one and only son, sleeping peacefully at the moment. "I wish he hadn't been able to hide it so well. I could have ended this charade before this came to pass."
Kodachi was dreaming.
Dreams are sometimes wonderful things that are often forgotten. A person's memories, actions and future are all judged and examined.
There was little wonderful in her life. The things she prided were tainted with dishonor and poison. There was only one pure thing in her life, and she was currently sleeping on top of him.
. . . and that one pure thing was dying, fading and flickering away.
. . . going to abandon her again.
Leaving her all alone.
Again.
Alone again.
Unless...
...of course...
...she had the strength.
The strength to . . .
Kodachi opened her eyes and gazed across Ranma's chest at his chin for a moment. After letting out a contented little purr, she pushed herself up into a sitting position. With an air of determination, she worked herself into a traditional kneeling position while straightening out her kimono so she would be presentable. After she was settled, she merely closed her eyes and waited in an eerily still dignified grace.
Ukyou looked at Kodachi and gulped nervously, though she tried to hide her unease. Kodachi tended to be loud and out of touch with reality, except in her limited experience with the girl, when she was trying to trick Ranma. Frankly Kodachi sitting still in a dignified manner was becoming unsettling, like having Hannibal invited over for dinner. Sitting there acting sane until he could get you all alone and eat your guts with a serving of ice cream. Just sitting there and imagining how your eyeballs might taste and how her "little Mr. Green Turtle" might like the leftovers prepared. Making you play 'dress-up' with Tsubasa and that Azusa girl.
"Aaaiiieeeee!"
Nabiki sighed and stoically maintained her position as she pried Ukyou's left forearm from across her eyes.
The cowering chef was currently attached to Nabiki's back with her legs wrapped around the waist of her human shield. Her long brown hair was currently sticking straight up in jagged spikes as she stared at Kodachi with wide fearful eyes.
Nabiki twitched as Ukyou tightened her strangle hold, covering her eyes again with her forearm. "Ukyou, I don't like you that way."
Shocked, Ukyou eeped and leapt away, landing in the corner farthest from Kodachi. "It's not like that!" she protested.
Shampoo glanced suspiciously between the frightened girl and the cause of that fright. "What crazy-rose-girl up to?"
Kodachi slowly opened her eyes and swept her gaze across the room. She noted the still quivering chef as she flinched. Then she noted the purple haired amazon who had spoken to her. After calmly maintaining eye contact with the amazon for a moment, she answered in a relaxed tone, "I only wish to stay by Ranma-sama's side. I hope to gain his forgiveness for my misguided actions." Her gaze slid over to Ukyou. After a moment she looked at Nodoka. "It's best for Ranma-sama if he isn't angered or stressed, so you're advocating surrounding him with affectionate girls?"
Nodoka smiled kindly at the girl, approving of the traditional dignity she was showing. "That sounds accurate dear. It's important to keep him relaxed, so don't over do it dear, I believe you, well, surprised him earlier."
The gymnast smiled faintly as she saw the humor in that. "I can imagine."
[Akane is having a nightmare about when Ranma fought Saffron.]
[Ranma is having an erotic dream about Akane and Kodachi in the roles of Ayeka and Ryouko from a doujinshi.]
[Cologne wakes Ranma up, and he freaks out at seeing her face interrupt his dream. Throws a panicked ki blast but Cologne volleyball-fu's it out the window. Ranma scrambles backwards through the wall and out into the yard where he starts screaming. The screaming wakes up Akane and Kodachi. When he starts screaming 'burn my eyes out' Cologne whacks him with a boulder. Shampoo notes that Cologne knows hidden weapons and boulders are important to Amazon training. Akane drawls out an 'Riiiiight.' And Nabiki glares at her for stealing her line.]
[Ranma lifts the boulder off and complains about a headache. Konatsu sweatdrops because while skilled and fast, he's no where near as tough as Ranma. Kodachi slips into her demure woman mode and hops down by Ranma to see if he's alright. Ryouga comes flying into the attack. Konatsu doesn't sense it in time since it's not directed at him. Ranma doesn't run and instead catches the umbrella heading towards Konatsu in one hand. Konatsu leaps to Ranma's defense, having his instructions to protect Ranma. Cologne knocks Ryouga out when it becomes obvious that him insulting Ranma would be a bad thing as Ranma gets more steamed.]
[After things are settled, cut to Kasumi in the kitchen making candy. White soft crunchy candy cores dipped in caramel, covered in candy duct then dipped again, then rerolled in candy dust. Memory of how Ranma helped her create them for the cooking event last month. She's made a bento full of them for him every week, and named them after him since he loves them so much.]
[Kasumi comes out and offers the girls a taste of 'Ranma's sweet balls'. Much shock and staring ensues.]