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Couching her voice in the most respectful tone, “Hello. This is Tendo Nabiki, Uncle Genma just made a call to this number and I just wanted to verify some things for my family…”

“Yes. That ‘man’ did call my granddaughter Nodoka making claims upon the Saotome family honor. It was decided that your family would be given the benefit of the doubt and allowed to meet with Ranma, supervised by Nodoka. You see, we are verifying things from our end as well. It seems that Genma made some promises that he had no authority to make and the clan council will be meeting regarding his punishment. Don’t worry, though, we won’t blame you for that foolish man’s faults. Now I must go attend business. We’ll see you tomorrow.”

Nabiki put away her phone after hearing the click of dismissal. “I think that I’d better check out our prospective family, quick.” She booted up the laptop at her desk and connected to the Internet. A few queries brought her to an ftp site that listed top corporations and their CEOs. A dbase download brought up a spreadsheet listing data on the top twenty corporations in Japan. It appeared that Saotome Kasumi and Saotome Ichigo were on the boards of half of them and were co-CEOs of Saotome Diversified Industries. It was the fourth largest company in Japan and specialized in making components rather than finished products. She shuddered in both fear and anticipation. They were RICH, but if her family were to become awkward for the Saotomes, they could disappear without a trace. These people were beyond yakusa, if her eyes weren’t lying, they had ties to the emperor.

Nabiki fought to control her fear and greed, in favor of some sleep and figuring what to say to her family to warn them to be on their best behavior, particularly Akane. Her dreams that night were not pleasant.

Orchid Queen of Saturn, Chapter 2