Nabiki Tendo (MUOF)

Nabiki Tendo is the middle daughter of Soun Tendo, making her the younger sister of Kasumi and the older sister of Akane Shampoo. Nabiki is shown to be incredibly intelligent able to become fluent in Chinese by age 8.
==Appearance==
==Personality==
Nabiki is a crafty one. She knows how to keep up her guard and penetrating it is like breaking a siege line. Nabiki is a bit of a control freak due to a situation that happened when she was younger. Though it just reinforced the desire she already had. This is what stopped her from pursuing a relationship with Perfume for so long. Giving into her emotions and thus a measure of control scared her more then she was willing to admit.
==History==
During their search for a cure for Shampoo they had encountered all manner of trouble, ranging from the trivial problems of economics and bureaucracy, to the all together too dangerous problems of dealing with magic and the unknown. Three years ago while camping out beside a large hillside in Tholon as Shampoo and Akane were training they accidentally collapsed part of the hill revealing a hidden cave, freeing a prisoner.
He took Nabiki hostage in exchange for his sword, the Black Dragon. The others could do nothing but comply with his demands, and headed off to find it, leaving her alone with that monster. Everything eventually turned out fine, and he was put back in his prison, but for those days with him, Nabiki never felt so utterly and totally helpless.
Nabiki regularly takes pictures of Shampoo and Akane to sell to Kuno. When she discovers Kuno’s infatuation with Ranma-chan she used his resulting insomnia at this thought to take pictures of his cursed form. It was Nabiki who put the thought of hooking up Ryoga and Akane into everyone’s head. As well as the one who got the Mix 612 when he proved to shy to ask Akane out himself, offering Perfume Mikado’s whereabouts for it. Finally she and Shampoo convinced Ranma to go out with Kuno to prevent him from ruining the date.
Nabiki set up a co-operative arrangement with several of the local businesses. When she went to Ukyo to convince her to join Ukyo paid her to find a suitable mate. This plus realizing that all of her sisters were in relationships caused her to start thinking about her own romantic prospects.
Knowing that she would need to know more about Perfume to set her up with someone she began following her, before deciding on the more direct approach. After that she started interviewing perspective candidates.
It was during this time that Nabiki met Natsume and Kurumi. Finding out they were looking for Soun whom they claimed to be the daughters of filled her with a mix of amusement and worry.
Since the rest of the family was on a training trip only Kasumi and Nodoka was home when she brought them to the dojo. When they returned home as Ranma and Genma focused on Nodoka Kasumi, Nabiki and Akane were quick to surround Soun to demand answers.
Though Soun claimed to not know anything about the girls it was decided to allow them to stay. Nabiki set them up in Kasumi’s old room, she also took them to the Nekohanten so they could be set up as waitresses and she could learn more about them.
Going back to setting Perfume up with someone she met up with Mousse forcing him to tell her the origins of his and Perfume’s antagonistic relationship. Seeing that as an deadened she left the restaurant in outrage at his actions.
Despite her growing frustrations at hard finding someone for Perfume was proving to be Nabiki refused to give up. Telling herself that it was both a challenge that she had to conquer, and the money involved made failure a non-option.
Which is why she became frustrated upon figuring out that Ukyo and Mousse were seeing each other as she was her last resort. She later came across Perfume as she was chasing after Bu. Ashamed at how desperate Perfume was being she tried to convince her to seek someone else besides Perfume. She prevented Perfume from being ripped off stating she owed her a favor.
Ironically Shampoo and Akane were trying to set her up as well. She found this out when Shampoo tried to convince her to go on a date with Mousse. Unfortunately Shampoo refused to back down even agreeing to Nabiki’s demand of three months of favors to get her to go.
Since neither she nor Mousse wanted this they decided to just get the date over with quickly. They first went out to eat. Mousse decided to lay their cards out on the table. Thinking that she hated him after learning what he did to Perfume. They calmed down a little when a confused Nabiki told him she didn’t, though things were still awkward.
Afterwards they went for a walk which weren’t really Nabiki's thing. She had to actively restrain herself from suggesting some other, more interesting activity. She noticed Ukyo following them and when she pointed out to Mousse they invited her to join them. Perfume was there as well saving Ukyo from explaining what she was doing, by claiming they were on a date. Knowing something was up and wanting to figure it out Nabiki suggested a double date.
Perfume was trying to seduce Ukyo using a variation of formula 612. She ended up effecting Nabiki who started expressing her disgust at her fawning over someone who obvious wasn’t interested, as well as her anger at Ukyo for refusing to be firm and leading her on. Realizing that Nabiki had feeling for Perfume Mousse arranged an accident when she started yelling at her. Just as Nabiki revealed her feeling her caused Perfume to loose her balance and fall off a slope. Nabiki immediately jumped after her.
For a normal person they would probably sting like hell. For Perfume it was like someone had thrown her into a fire. Though she was embarrassed when Ukyo and Mousse arrived to find her cradling Perfume, but she was more concerned with the crying girl in her arms. She was catatonic by the time they took Perfume to Tofu trying to rebuild her normal mental state.
She was brought out of it by Ukyo giving her 300,000 yen. Nabiki tried to deny it, only to be shown the vial of 612B. She wrestled with various feelings raging unchecked inside her as she checked on Perfume. While initially cold and angry Perfume surprised Nabiki by asking about her sexual orientation. When Nabiki admitted she was bi, she smiled and leaned into Nabiki's face before biting her on the nose and leaving.
Giving Kasumi the perfume Nabiki went home and immediately bombarded with questions by Akane. She told Akane to leave her alone and tried to go to bed. However when Akane said she’d go ask Mousse not wanting to what happened to get out she released Shampoo from her debt if they let it go.
When Nabiki went to the Nekohanten, expecting to finally deal with the 
Perfume situation. She started freaking out when she just kept working like nothing happened. Not willing to wait things out Nabiki confronted Perfume it did not go well for her leading her to wonder if Perfume was still wearing the formula.
Not willing to let Perfume get a rise out of her Nabiki decided to focus on helping Akane and Kasumi in their fight against Natsume and Kurumi giving them the idea of going to Happosai for training.
Unfortunately Perfume suddenly appeared in her room. Nabiki pretended to be asleep as she tried to figure out what Perfume were doing. She was just left confused and frustrated when Perfume kissed her and left.
Afterwards Nabiki was relieved that Perfume switched tactics, and finally started her pursuit. Though she was still unnerved by the subtle way she was going about it.
She finally went to Soon Li for advice. Nabiki expected at the very least a little bit of a lecture on the subject, but had instead come up with a whole hearted `go for it!' Soon Li even promised to talk to Soun for her so he didn’t freak out.
Luckily planning Kasumi’s bachelorette party proved to be a nice distraction. Together with Akane and Shampoo she set off right after breakfast for the Doctor's home to pick up their older sister and get things started. It was here that she learned that the perfume she had given Kasumi had worked, much to her sister’s embarrassment.
She invited Perfume and Ukyo and Soon Li made her invite Natsume and Kurumi as well. After a rather conservative morning Nabiki surprised Kasumi with her friends Yuuka and Hazumi. She also hired a stripper cop though that ended awkwardly.
They then went to a karaoke bar which ended in a brawl when an American soldiers on shore leave hit on Natsume refused to take no for an answer. Perfume took Nabiki home where they ended up in bed with each other. Though Akane and Natsume were to hung over to realize what happened when they found them.
When the family woke up to find Shampoo and Akane gone and Perfume fallen into some kind of deep hibernation. After determining that later was ok they set about searching for the former. Unfortunately a few hours later Genma, Soun, Nabiki, Kasumi, Ryoga, Natsumi, and Kurumi ended up passing out, and the only ones left awake were Soon Li, Ukyo, Tofu, Ranma, Nodoka and Mousse. 
Nabiki regained consciousness, with odd sort of confusion. She had been fused with her original counterpart, but unlike with Perfume it was gradual. She was brought out of her musing of what was going on by Perfume who tackled and pressed her to the bed kissing her before she could protest. 
Perfume quickly changed the subject when Nabiki started recalling fuzzy memories particularly some of the kinky things she did with her original counterpart playing it off as a dream. The two were interrupted by Soon Li and Soun coming in to check on Nabiki. However seeing the position the two were in Soun promptly fainted into Soon Li's arms.
When he regained consciousness an annoyed and embarrassed Nabiki and a nervous Perfume confronted him. Soun expressed how uncomfortable he was with their relationship calling it unnatural, though he quickly realized it was a bad choice of words. Nabiki burst into laughter at his statement before getting serious pointing out that given the chaotic life they live it’s ridiculous for him to consider their relationship unnatural. Soun let up and tried to intimidate Perfume, but Nabiki quickly put a stop to that. 
It was here that the three noticed that the Original Ranma had been listening in on them. Ranma declined to join and left. Perfume wondered why Ranma was so depressed causing Nabiki to reply that he had a a stubborn streak a mile wide. 
==Ability==
Nabiki isn’t up to her sisters' level in the martial arts as she really never developed the interest they had in it. Still, she has picked up a skill here and there, hard not to in a martial artist family, and sometimes found some of the ninja style tricks of the Anything goes school to be useful.
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