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"Absolutely not!" Naru screamed. "No way can we let this… this…"

"Pervert?" Ranma supplied from where he sat on the couch next to his aunt.

"See even he doesn't even deny it. No way can we let this pervert stay here!" the auburn haired girl exclaimed. "I can't believe you would even ask such a thing! Especially after this…"

Ranma chimed in again, "Pervert."

Naru gave Ranma a death-stare. "Jerk peeped on us."

Ranma shrugged and leaned forwards catching the attention of the young girl with the blue hair, 'What did they say her name was again, Mahoro? Maeswana, oh yeah Maehara.'

"Excuse me Maehara-san" The young girl jumped a bit at being spoke too, especially when Naru was still spouting off towards Haruka. "Would it be alright if I had a few of those lemon drops?" Ranma asked politely keeping his tone low so as to not be heard by anyone other than the nervous girl wringing her hands. His reply was a quick nod and a blush.

Beside Shinobu, Kitsune watched his interaction with the young girl with a smirk. The others may not have seen it as their attention was firmly on Naru as she yelled her opinion on this handsome male staying at the inn for even a night. She noted how polite he was to Shinobu and her impression of him went up a bit.

She watched him lean back into the couch tossing a few of the drops into his mouth a smile tugging at the corner of his lips. 'If I didn't know better I'd say he's enjoying listening to Naru yell. I know I am. Wonder what I can do to cause trouble.'

In fact, Ranma was enjoying Naru's yelling, it reminded him of home - of stability. While a lot of what she was saying Ranma felt was insulting, he could deal with them later if it came to that. Right now, he was just getting his kicks out of something new. Why his aunt thought these females would allow him to stay at the inn for a night until she had a room emptied for him down at the teahouse was beyond him. He'd rather have gone with his suggestion of just camping out on the mountain until morning.

"How could you ask something like that Haruka-san? This place is an all girls dormitory! Asking us to let this…"

Ranma timed in again having just finished a lemon drop, "Boy?"

Kitsune hid her smirk behind a hand, 'Ok, maybe he has that part in hand. I couldn't dig him in any deeper than he already is.'

Naru pointed a finger at the boy who sat on the couch opposite the other residents of the dormitory. "Male stay here even for one night is ludicrous!"

"I want him to stay, he looks like fun," Su chimed in from where she bounced on the back of the sofa behind Shinobu.

"He most certainly is not!"

"I don't know… I bet I could think of a few games to play with him," Kitsune purred out.

"Ooooooo games?! I want to play too!" Su was prevented from running around to the couch Haruka and Ranma were on by Motoko who'd moved around to the girls side of the room.

"No!" Yelled Naru and Motoko.

"But…" Su pouted.

"You're a bit too young to play the games I have in mind Su," Kitsune chuckled. "Maybe in a couple of years," she added under her breath, trying to duck the glares directed towards her by Haruka, Motoko, and Naru.

Kitsune's actions gave Haruka time to gather her thoughts. After closing her eyes a moment in frustration, Haruka spoke calmly but with force, "Look, this isn't really a request – I'm just letting you know that he is going to be staying in Granny's room for the night. If you and Motoko wish to stand guard over his room all night so be it, but he is staying here."

"I have to agree with her Haruka-san. An all girls dorm is no…" Motoko started to add before sputtering out.

The reason for her sudden loss of speech was the lemon drop she suddenly found inside her mouth.

Gazing angrily across the room Motoko watched Ranma rotating several pieces of the hard candy in his hand, a maddening smirk adorning his lips.

Seated on the couch opposite him in a frog-crouch was Su who'd jumped there with her mouth open in hopes of catching the next lemon-related projectile.

Down The Rabbit Hole: Love Hina Arc, Chapter 6