Trust is an important thing to have in those around you. It's hard to build up, yet so easy to cast away. Nabiki didn't give her trust lightly to anyone. It, like many things she'd give, would be expensive. Very expensive. You wanted her to trust you? Better give her a good reason.
Akane was her little sister. Cute, precocious, yet driven by emotion. She was one of the few people on the planet that she could trust - but largely because she wasn't quite emotionally capable of playing her. She could trust Akane's martial arts skills. She couldn't trust her emotional decision making.
I mean, look at the guy she'd fallen for, here. Ranma might be physically appealing, but he wasn't very smart was he? It baffled her sometimes, that all those girls would trip over him so easily. Were they really so taken in by his roguish good looks, his lean yet powerful technique, his cocky attitude, his handsome wry smile, that cute butt, that broad back, the way his pigtail gently shook with each mighty step he made?
....
Okay, maybe she could see it. A little. Or maybe this place was starting to get to her a little bit. Not much, just a little tiny bit.
"Nabiki, look out!" Ukyo suddenly grabbed her arm and pulled her away. Nabiki looked up, and saw something spray the air right where her head had been a moment ago. Though she completely missed another ghost pop through a wall and spray something around her crotch area. Where it soaked into her clothes, where it would have a slow, gradual effect.
"Try not to get distracted, okay?" Ukyo said, still holding onto Nabiki's arm. "We can't let our guard down for a second, got it?"
Right. She shouldn't have let her gaze drift towards the boys like that. Better to <i>stare at the girls</i> instead. Like Ukyo. Who was cute as a button even before her new body came in. Still, her ears were picking up what the boys were saying up ahead...
"This way!" Ryoga said, and Ranma clipped him around the back of the head.
"Idiot, that way leads to the gunk pit and the hot bath!" Ranma said. "We oughta try this way, if we're gonna get out of here, we've not been that way at all!"
"Are you sure?" Mousse asked. "I see light."
"Fool!" Kuno yelled."That is bioluminescence, not daylight! Have your eyes checked."
... Okay, she was really starting to get it now. Out of the four cute guys ahead of them, not only was Ranma the cutest, but he was also the smartest. <i>Not to mention she became a really cute girl</i> which was a thought that made her feel really weird, like butterflies were flitting around her stomach.
Anyway, they wound up taking the route that, apparently, the first group hadn't taken yet. Ukyo was still hanging off Nabiki's arm, with the two of them watching their surroundings for further attacks. None were coming in, apparently, which was making her a bit worried. Perverts that would go to all this trouble wouldn't give up that easily. They must be planning something else for them.
"Look out!" Ukyo yelled, hauling Nabiki out of the way as gunk fell from the ceiling - but she went a little too hard, as they wound up crashing through a wall and sliding down a chute that dropped them right on an enormous heart shaped mattress.
"Ah, sorry about that," Ukyo said, rubbing the back of her head nervously. "Darn! They probably did that to separate us! Good thing it's just us girls here, right?"
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Shampo stared at the floor where a whole heap of quivering unidentified junk was lying. As a test, she grabbed Mousse and dropped him in it.
"As Shampoo thought," she said. "This eat clothing, but leave flesh unharmed."
Mousse tried to jump out of the gunk at her, but Shampoo held out her hand and kept him at arm's reach. No thanks. She didn't want him getting this stuff on her as well. Looking around, it seemed as though her airen and stupid stick boy had also disappeared. Leaving her alone with stupid lost boy, stupid kitchen destroyer and stupid blind boy. Aiyah, too many stupid people around here!
"Shampoo, my beloved!" Mousse cried. Shampoo sighed, whirled him around, and set him in Ryoga's general direction. The lost boy used the tip of his umbrella to keep from getting caught up in an enormous glomp. Which left Shampoo little choice but to turn to the only other sensible person here. The person she disliked most in the entire world, who -
Boing, boing! Now had boobs that put Shampoo's own to shame. Ooooh, how annoying! This was probably an attempt at temptation by the owners of this perverted tunnel. Go ahead, Shampoo! Make your body even curvier, even sexier than it already was! After all, your main rival now has the advantages she already had and has a sexier body now to boot! Oooh! It rankled her! It rankled her so much at how damned sexy Akane was now!
"We need to save them," Akane said. "Ranma can take care of himself, it's Nabiki I'm worried about."
"Chef girl decent martial artist herself," Shampoo sniffed. "She take care of dumb sister, no want to leave airen alone in horny cave with horny stick boy, especially when curses involved."
"Hey, don't be daft! Are you sure you want to go looking for a pair of boys right now?" Akane yelled.
"Kitchen destroyer make good point, but forget," Shampoo said. "You want stupid lost boy leading stupid blind duck through winding tunnel in search of airen? That not too smart."
Akane raised a finger... then lowered it. "Damn, didn't think of that..." she grumbled to herself. "Alright, fine. Then how about this? Mousse wouldn't touch me, right? And Ryoga has no interest in you at all? How about Mousse comes with me, and Ryoga goes with you, and the two of you go off to find Ranma while we look for Nabiki? Fair?"
That sounded quite a bit better to Shampoo's ears. She could roll with that. She huffed, walked around the clothes melting goop and shoved Mousse back down this little cave here, and enjoyed the sizzling sound of Akane's clothes being melted away. Kukuku, this could be killing two birds with one stone!
But... what Shampoo missed (and Mousse would have seen if he wasn't severely short sighted) was Ryoga checking out Shampoo's butt, then turning to give a wink to Akane, who winked right back at her. Perfect. These idiots would be every bit as horny and deviant as they were, in half the time!
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