Akane shook her head as she reached to open the bathroom door. It had
been very rude of Nabiki to treat the poor girl like that - and
besides, her sister should be *thankful* there was no fiance. The
girl seemed rather nice when you got past the shy, defensive exterior,
too.

The brief smile that had appeared on Akane's lips when she thought of
finally gaining a friend that shared her rather unique (and violent)
hobby disappeared quite quickly when she opened the door to look
into Ranma's back - if Ranma it was - and couldn't help but notice
the object dangling down between her legs. Though it was only barely
long enough to be visible from behind, there just wasn't any way
she could doubt that it was what it seemed like.

"EEEEK!" she screamed, hurriedly turning around and rushing down the
stairs. "THERE'S A PERVERT IN THE BATHROOM!"

She would probably have started wondering what the boy had done to
poor Ranma, and why he shared the same hairstyle, had said girl not
come walking down the stairs at that moment, clutching a bathrobe
around her that pressed a bit too tight around her chest, leaving
no doubt about her female gender - or so the Tendos thought.

"Ranma?" Akane scratched the back of her head, momentarily forgetting
that she was dressed only in a towel. "What happened to the guy in
the bathroom?"

"Umm..." Ranma sweated. "That... was me," she said, weakly.

"Sure," Nabiki snorted. "What are you, some half-boy half-guy freak?"

"Nabiki!" Akane quipped, her sister's thoughtless teasing once
again infuriating her. "That's not funny!"

"Actually..." Ranma's face assumed a very pained expression. Instead
of vainly trying to find the right words, she simply released her
frantic grasp on the robe and let it fall to the sides...

...revealing not only the breasts whose presence they had previously
only seen hints of, but also something further down that definitely
should not have been there at the same time.

"My family is a bit strange, you see..." she/he/whatever trailed off.

Other than the panda, for whom no explanation is given, the rest
of those present fainted. Meanwhile, the author tried to figure
out just where the heck he put his spare pair of asbestos longjohns.


---
Ronny Hedin, thark@swipnet.se, http://nabiki.newberry.edu/thark/
        "So, they aren't extraterrestials?"
        "Nope, they're manga characters who've lost their hair."
        (the unexpected end of X-files)