[Episode 106824] [Episode 106824]
Later in the day…
Having got off the bus Nodoka proceeded to walk to her house. She walked with a spring in her step, cheerful and energetic, pleased at the day’s events. Once again she had served her Emperor and her nation to the best of her meagre abilities. Due to her upbringing, she was a firm believer in Emperor and Country, among other things. Of course what she did was a solemn duty, but it didn’t hurt that she loved her job. And that manly General had been quite handsome. With a slight blush and a schoolgirl-like giggle Nodoka thought back to the several hours she had spent with him. How they had coupled numerous times, and in numerous positions. How they had shared countless passionate, tongue-filled kisses. How she had screamed, in a good way, in his arms. How she had lounged in the furo adjacent to the tea hall in his arms, before resuming their love-making. All in all she had no regrets.
Once again she found herself thinking back to her career and all that had happened. At the age of 36 she had now served the Imperial Household Agency in her current capacity for almost 14 years now. Her career had started soon after her husband had left with a 2- year old Ranma to their training trip. It had happened that a member of the Agency had spotted her as she had gone to work to her previous job, which was at a clothes store as a cashier lady (it was the kind of store where the cashier ladies wore kimonos, so Nodoka didn’t really have to go without her kimono). Having noticed her exceptional beauty and grace, the agent had waited until her shift had finished and introduced himself to her, stating his business and presenting her with a job offer. Initially Nodoka had been quite baffled, but the idea of serving her Sovereign and Country did appeal to her traditional values. There was also the element that Nodoka was already suffering from her husband’s absence, since it prevented certain…activities, even if Genma had not been very adequate in the bedroom.
She had agreed to enter the Agency’s preliminary training program for women like her. After she had completed her initial training she had been given her first assignment, which involved a well-known, well-muscled and well-hung athlete. That had been a most exhilarating experience for her, and it was during that assignment while the athlete pounded her from behind, doggie-style, that she realised that she had found her calling. After that her superiors had found no need to persuade her to stay.
Of course, this didn’t mean that her training was over, far from it. Between assignments she would be trained further by the older Hostesses and also those who had retired from the service. There were 50 Hostesses like her in the Agency, and it was the oldest Hostesses who trained the youngest ones. The oldest ones tended to be in their early to mid-40s, while the youngest ones would usually be in their late teens. However, despite the fact that Nodoka had started her career at a later date than one usually started, she had proved to be a natural and a quick learner. Already within a year she was one of the most respected Hostesses in the Agency. By the time she had reached 25 she was already their star Hostess, who received the most important assignments and prestigious clients.
Although an outsider might have considered it to be just prostitution, the position of Imperial Hostess was very much respected. For starters, you couldn’t have just anybody be a client. Prospective clients were carefully vetted. It wasn’t just importance, prestige and merit that mattered; it was also the prospective client’s personality that was examined as well. One couldn’t certainly put the Imperial Hostesses at the whims of dirty old perverts or violent sadists. Even so, each Hostess had a detachment of specially trained female bodyguards hiding behind the walls or who were otherwise well hidden, ready to intervene at a moment’s notice. Each Hostess also received sufficient training in self-defence. Nodoka took great pride in the fact that she had never had to resolve to such defensive measures (like her katana) during her career. Of course, her clients could take her quite forcefully and vigorously indeed, but she didn’t mind such behaviour, quite the opposite. To her, a man should take his woman in a strong, manly way.
Nodoka’s clients had been numerous and her assignments varied. One special kind of assignment was the initiation of 16-17 –year old boys to the pleasures of the flesh. She relished such assignments since those boys were like uncut diamonds, full of potential and ready to be shaped into a new form. They were always nervous when they met her, intimidated by her looks, her body and her experience, and afraid that they’d be “inadequate”, but she always prevailed in the end. Nodoka smiled, reminiscing those encounters, how those young men would always in the end be full of energy, ravishing her with overwhelming force and strength. Ah yes, after that they were no longer boys, but men. Manly men.
Nodoka remembered one such mission just a couple of months before. It had involved an 18-year old boy who was a rising baseball star, and also a virgin. He had suffered from a most serious case of shyness regarding the opposite sex, and it was hurting his game. As his affliction was considered very severe, it was decided that he would have not one, but two Imperial Hostesses to help him “cure” him of his problem. Nodoka’s partner in that mission had been one Mayumi, a voluptuous beauty who was only a year younger than her. As was to be expected, the athlete had been nervous as well as shaking when first introduced to the two sexy older women. However, using their skills and charms they were able to break through his shell, and after that it was the teenager who was in charge, not Nodoka and Mayumi. However, neither of them minded one bit, since that was just what they had aimed for. It had been one long, wild threesome, with the young man eventually lying down exhausted with the two giggling and smiling women curling into his embrace. His game had improved tremendously afterwards, and Nodoka heard later that he kept her and Mayumi’s nude photos as a good luck charm.
Another special kind of assignment was the most expensive one. It consisted of a client receiving the services of a Hostess for a whole week (on rare occasions even two) instead of a day or several hours. It often involved travelling abroad as well. Nodoka had much experience of such assignments as well, having been to every continent (except Antarctica, since it only had… well, research teams, penguins, shape-shifting monster aliens, Elder Things, shoggoths and the like). These assignments also involved the most variation in clothing and other things. Ranma and her fiancées would be surprised indeed if they saw some of the things Nodoka had worn on these missions, having always seen her wearing a kimono. On these occasions her clothing had consisted of all sorts of lingerie, swimwear and dresses. Her nightgowns were quite sexy indeed, and heads turned whenever she was wearing Chinese-style cheongsams. She was also very adept in various forms of dancing, whether it was ballroom dancing, traditional Japanese dance, oriental dance or the striptease, however the latter was always for activities in the bedroom (Although there had been a couple of missions where Nodoka had worked undercover in strip clubs, posing as an exotic dancer. She had played the part very well.).
Indeed, some of these kinds of assignments had been so successful that her clients had actually fallen in love with her and had wanted to marry her. Even when she gently explained that besides her duty she was also married and had a child her clients-turned-suitors would not budge. She remembered one in particular, a very handsome and wealthy businessman who had desperately tried to get her to marry him. She recalled his plea:
What kind of a man would leave a woman like you and take off with your child? He doesn’t deserve you! Marry me, let me be your husband, and I will give you whatever you desire. I will raise your son as if he were my own.
Nodoka had also developed feelings for him during their wonderful two weeks, and not just because he was a great lover who could make her scream with multiple orgasms. Had she not been already married, she might very well have taken up his offer. No doubt she would be happily married by now, with lots of little brothers and sisters for her Ranma. But it was not meant to be. Despite her profession Nodoka could not break her marital vows. Nor could she intervene in her husband’s sacred mission to make their son a man among men. So she had had to tearfully refuse her suitor’s proposal. But he would always have a place in her heart…
Sighing, Nodoka put that thought behind her for now. It didn’t do good to dwell on those kinds of thoughts. Besides, she thought to herself, she had made the right call. The Hostesses were not supposed to fall in love with their clients. Provide pleasant company, yes. One could certainly feel attraction also, but falling in love provided unnecessary complications. To be sure, there had been such instances when a Hostess had fallen in love with a client, but unless she was able to get over it, she would have no choice but to leave the service if she wanted to marry said client. Nodoka’s sense of duty was too great to allow such a possibility.
With her house in sight Nodoka’s thoughts turned to other matters. One might not have known it, but she was quite wealthy herself, due to the fees she had received from her bosses. It wasn’t Kuno-level wealth, but it was the kind that would have raised a lot of eye-brows in Nerima. She had spoken the truth to her handler when she had said that her job was reward enough. Despite this, she received a hefty remuneration from the Imperial Household Agency. Nodoka considered it to be too big considering her meagre talents (although her superiors, and many others, would have said her talents were anything but ‘meagre’) but she accepted it anyway, knowing that otherwise she’d be pretty much ordered to accept it. To put it simply, money wasn’t the ‘be-all’ and ‘end-all’ for Nodoka. Sure, money was needed to buy food, maintain the house (and have it repaired, like when her son’s girls had wrecked it during the Saotome family pillbox affair) and buy good clothes, like the kimonos she so loved to wear. Although she didn’t just have kimonos in her house, since she also had a full assortment of dresses, cheongsams, swimwear (ranging from one-piece swimsuits to skimpy bikinis) and lingerie. She also had more…exotic clothes in her closet, like bunny suits, nurse’s and maid’s uniforms and harem-girl costumes. These she used in her missions.
However, all this cost just a fraction of what she earned, the rest of which was in savings. These she was saving for Ranma and his future family (which she was sure would involve ALL his girls, and maybe some more, she had great trust in her son’s ‘manliness’).
“After all, they’re still young and have their whole lives ahead of them, so they’ll need it more than I do. Besides, what would I do with it, I’m just an old and foolish woman” she thought to herself self-deprecatingly.
Entering her nice and tidy home, Nodoka thought of what to do next. She knew there’d be some time before her next assignment, so she could afford to plan more long term, like paying a visit to her son and his girls (and my husband of course, she added as an afterthought). Actually, Nodoka had long ago come to the conclusion that a large part of her assignments weren’t really necessary, since she couldn’t see any real important significance in them. She suspected that her Imperial handler might have been secretly observing or recording her “encounters” with her clients. Well, it didn’t matter to her. If her handler had that kind of hobby, it was his business, she didn’t feel harmed by it. For all she knew, he might also not be doing it. And besides, Nodoka loved her work too much!
She then found herself thinking of Ryu Kumon, unconsciously licking her lips as she remembered him massaging her shoulders with those strong hands of his. Ever since he had left after losing to Ranma and agreeing to seal his technique, Nodoka had been having certain kinds of… thoughts about him. He was clearly very strong (although not as strong as my son, of course, she though to herself), and he was also very handsome in a rugged sort of way. Nodoka suspected that the boy was a virgin, since the kind of lifestyle he led as a wandering martial artist didn’t really lend him much chance of being around girls. She figured she could help him discover the pleasure of being with a woman, just like she had helped her young clients. Indeed, she thought to herself, it would be her duty to help him become a man, her own desires had nothing to do with it, uh-uh, no sir. The hot dreams that she had at night of him massaging other parts of her naked body and doing other things to her didn’t play any role in her thoughts either, she told herself rather unconvincingly.
*****
“ACHOO!!”
At that moment, Ryu sneezed. He was heading towards Nerima, wishing to inform Ranma that he had sealed the Yamasenken as promised. He intended to ask Ranma for an exchange of techniques so both would master the two sets of forbidden techniques and thereby unlock them. Then Ryu would make the necessary variations to make his own school of Anything Goes martial arts. Finally, his father’s school would be restored!
It would be good to visit Nodoka though, he thought, she was such a nice lady. Maybe he could visit her first…
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