"This is driving me CRAZY!!" Akane shouted. Then she turned back to look between Ihrie and Ayeka. "Every since I got here I've had this feeling I should know you and that green haired lady back there, and now YOU show up."
"Well, she does sort of act like Kodachi," Ranma-chan noted.
"Like that...that..arrogant...lunatic?" Ayeka sputtered in rage.
"Certainly seems to fit you, Sis," Ryoko smirked.
"You be quiet!"
"We REALLY shouldn't have said anything, Ihrie," Fam noted. Wow, for once I'M the responsible one.
"I know, I know," Ihrie practically growled.
"Even if that's how SHE'S familiar, how about Makibi-san, or her? I mean until now I only got this feeling from Nabiki!"
"Don't ask me," Ihrie said. "Last time I felt anything like it was with an old love interest."
"That Ashram person right?" Ryoko froze letting people pass her for a moment.
"Is something wrong, Ryoko?" Tenchi asked.
"Yeah, Oneechan," Sasami noted. "You just turned white as a sheet."
"Sasami! She is NOT our sister!!"
"Umm...that cat-girl," now Ranma stopped and took a good look at Fam, before taking off at a run down the hill. Ryouga laughed nervously as Akane glared at him. "Heh, imagine that, and I thought he'd already noticed."
"I'm sure," Akane left to chase after Ranma. "Get back here you baka!! She's NOT a cat!" Everybody looked at Ryouga for a moment.
"Ranma's afraid of cats," he snickered viciously.
"Ohhhhh kay," and they turned back to staring at Ryoko.
"Do you know Ashram, Ryo-chan?" Fam asked.
"Tall, serious, dark-hair?"
"Yeah," Ihrie said, nervously. "Why?"
"Do you know where he is now."
"Well, he just sort of left one day, don't know where to. He took the news that my father was some kind of demon pretty hard," Ryoko took a look at her hair for a moment.
One his way to the shrine, Xellos suddenly felt VERY nervous.
"I don't have that much money," Kiyone protested.
"Oh, please I just wanted to see you squirm," Nabiki snickered. "Still a little information here and there would be useful."
"Like what?"
"Like the name of anybody that's every crossed paths with Genma Saotome, or at least any recorded encounter."
"Deal," Kiyone agreed, with the Yagami's computers that would be easy to find. She imagined her mother's reaction to finding out that her daughter had inherited "Dad's" roaming eye.
"Ugh, what hit me?" Nabiki and Kiyone turned to Jiro Kuonji pulling himself up from his enforced nap.
"According to reports you pissed off the walking earthquake and then took a swan dive into Kiyone here," Nabiki said simply.
"Uhh," he tried to consider this. "Did you see a brown haired girl with pointy ears..."
"Your wife and daughter are in a dimensional pocket discussing matters," Kiyone explained hostilely, after all this guy had missed Mihoshi and bowled into her. Not bad looking for an older guy though, hmmm.
"Oh that guy is awake!!!" Mihoshi yelled loudly. She bounced over and stuck her face into Jiro's. "Hey, do you know what the name of the guy that thew you was?"
"Uh...Ryouga.." he said.
"YATTA!!" Mihoshi yelled happily, jumping up down happily. "Hey Kiyone!! You can meet my brother!! Ooo I wonder if A-Ko is here too!!" Kiyone sweatdropped.
Mihoshi's family?? Kiyone wondered what she had down in her previous life to deserve this.
"Ah HA!!" Nabiki turned to the diminuitive pink haired scientist that had seemingly appeared out of nowhere. "I found that anomaly." A surprised half-elf, quarter-elf fell out of thin air as Washu typed on her console.
"Hey! They paid me for that!" Nabiki said as the elf-bloods disappeared again.
"That pocket is messing up my calculations!" Mother and daughter popped into existence.
"People expect to get what they pay for!" Leaf and Ukyou popped out again.
"You compare money to scientific discovery?!?"
"I made a deal, and I'm HOLDING that deal!" Kiyone, Mihoshi, and Jiro watched as Ukyou and Leaf kept appearing and disappearing with hardly a time to get a word in.
"QUIT IT!!!" Leaf and Ukyou shouted at once over several pops.
"You two are pathetic." Most people didn't notice the phrase, but Kiyone and Nabiki, feeling a now VERY familiar sensation, both turned in the direction and groaned. Nabiki's distraction resulted in a fuming pair of girls about reading to tear into Washu and Nabiki.
Xellos suddenly felt irrationally paranoid, almost as if some cosmic force were out to get him.
"Umm, Ihrie, you didn't sleep with him or anything did you?" Tenchi
"Ryoko that's a rather rude question."
"Oh please Lord Tenchi, as if she knows ANYTHING about social graces."
"What's going on?" Ryouga scratched his head, but decided not to go off anywhere since he'd probably just get lost.
"NO, I did not sleep with him, not that it is any of your business," Ihrie said.
"Your father wouldn't happen to be Xellos Metallium," Ryoko asked, ignoring the looks she was getting. "Would he." Ihrie suddenly felt a little scared.
"Yes," Ihrie said nervously. "Why?"
"Metallium-sama?" Ayeka blinked. "He was a friend of my mother's." Ihrie and Ryoko took a moment to look at Ayeka, and then nodded.
"Suddenly the hair makes sense," Ryoko mumbled. Then she blushed and turned back to Ihrie. "Well isn't it funny what travelling over time and dimensions can cause."
"No its not," Tenchi put in, remembering his own experiences with alternate universes.
"What is it Ryoko," Ihrie asked angrily.
"You shouldn't be mean to Ryo-chan, Ihrie!" Fam retorted innocently.
"Well, you see, Ashram is my son," Ryoko started, pointing her fingers together.
"IHRIE!!" Fam's voice reached painful tones. "That was my GRANDSON you were flirting with?"
"Ah HA!!" Ayeka pointed. "You see what kind of woman she is Tenchi, she's just not fit for you! There is NO way this demon woman is blood of Jurai."
"Ayeka," Tenchi said wearily. "Not right now."
"Ah Akane, I was almost back to house anyway!" Ranma-chan's voice whined.
"You are going to stay here and be polite to your cousin's girlfriend's mother!" The surprising thing was that Akane didn't find that an awkward statement. "Ranma no Baka!!"
"But she's a c-c-c-c-c..."
THWACK
"Oww!"
"I'm sorry, did we miss anything?" Akane asked sweetly as the Tenchi crew, Fam and Ihrie all blinked at her.
"The scarred girl was dating the silver-haired girl's son."
"Oh, so?"
"It gets worse," Ryoko said, nervously. Everybody looked at her. "Ashram's father is Xellos Metallium."
Ihrie turned green and really silent for a moment.
"MY FATHER IS A DEAD DEMON!!!!!!!!"
Xellos was not certain he had actually heard that, but it made him nervous anyway.
"Anybody you know?" Nabiki asked, as everybody turned to the shout. They had been talking to the three exorcists about one Kodachi Kuno when the shout rang out.
"Nope, that's a new voice," Kiyone said. "I wonder what the purple-haired breeding program left behind this time."
The green-haired woman had her shoulder grabbed and she was twisted about to look at a snap shot. The angry twin was holding it and looking down with barely restrained anger. Kiyone sweatdropped while Nabiki shrugged.
"Oh, we recognized what you two were when hit the top of the stairs," Nabiki said.
"I'm Yohko's sister AND I'm half demon," Iako muttered. Then she did something she had never, in her life of martial and supernatural discipline, ever done. She fainted. Ayaka Kisaragi snatched the picture as it drifted down and looked at it again.
"You know I thought he looked familiar," she said. "My parents know him and his oath-bound, well wife I guess."
"Hey, he's one of the top people on my ex's home dimension!" Washu declared looking at the pic.
"I think its time to have a little family discussion," Kiyone said to Nabiki.
"Unfortunately so," the younger girl sighed. "I was hoping not to let Akane find out about this."
"So if you felt this familiar tug towards your half-brother," Ranma's mouth was working him towards a grave. "Why'd all three of you feel it towards each other?" He looked around and realized he had just said something stupid.
Akane, Ayeka and Ihrie regarded each other curiously. Ihrie had it pretty much figured out by now, but the other two took a little longer.
"This has to be some cruel joke," Ayeka said.
"Well I can think of someone who can probably answer some questions."
"Oh?" Ihrie asked.
"I as well," Ayeka noted. "Since I am thinking of someone else that I've felt that same 'tug' as you call it with before."
"NABIKI!!!""KIYONE!!!" And they as a crowd rushed towards the shrine.