[Episode 109572] [Episode 109572]Ranma winced.
“All it takes is a small splash of cold water to make that go away.”
Wanda tried to search his eyes, but he seemed to be looking anywhere but at her.
“Ranma? Is there something you want to tell me? If you don’t want to I’ll understand”
She could feel him tense under her. Whatever it was, it was big.
“I got a curse…” He paused and took a deep breath “and when people find out they treat me like a freak. Even if they pretend it’s ok they tend to flinch or act strange around me, and eventually I’ll end up in some strange situation and they’ll decide I’m a freak and a pervert.”
His voice kept getting lower and lower as he spoke till she had to strain to hear him.
“By the end even Kasumi began to assume I was guilty of anything I was accused of. I had to prove I was innocent and even then they would shrug it off as ‘I wasn’t guilty this time.’”
Wanda just held him tighter.
“Ranma? Have you ever ended up in anything remotely as bad as this situation?” She asked with a grin in her voice, already sure of his answer.
His voice came out sounding about a decade younger then his actual age. “Well…no.”
“And have I blamed you or accused you of anything?”
Ranma cleared his throat and a little more strength entered his voice.
“No you haven’t.”
“So will you trust me, as I’ve trusted you?”
His arms encircled her as he buried his face in her hair. “I’ll try.”
A rather large clang echoed through the fortress and was completely ignored by the two.
“So all you need is a little water?” Wanda asked tentatively.
“Cold water.” Came Ranma’s voice, muffled by her hair.
Wanda sighed. It looked like she would have to share with him something about herself that she wasn’t sure how he would react to.
“Ranma?”
He relaxed his grip and rested his head on the pillow again.
“Yeah?”
“How do you feel about mutants?”
“I don’t have anything against them. My Mom’s one and I may turn out to be one.”
“How about witches?”
“As long as love potions and curses aren’t involved they’re ok I guess.”
Some of the tension went out of her as she relaxed into his chest once more.
“Why?”
“Cause I’m both, and it tends to freak people out.” The nervousness in her voice was clear.
Ranma’s hands resumed stroking her back.
“That’s nothing. My pop’s a part time panda and I have 300 year old perverted martial arts master who keeps groping me. Trust me, being a witch and a mutant ain’t got nothing on the people I lived with in terms of being out there. Compared to me you are downright normal.”
Wanda blinked as she tried to comprehend her life being normal compared to someone else’s.
“Have I mentioned that wildly improbable things happen around me?” She prodded.
Ranma grinned.
“Like say… a martial arts trained elephant breaks through a dozen walls carrying a small girl and a scroll, just in time to hand that scroll to a girl you’ve been engaged to against your will, which gets her kidnapped by a prince from a magic kingdom seconds later in a huge boat flying around with hot air balloons, and then you have to round up a dozen people who all want to kill or marry you and each other, all the while it turns out not really to be needed, cause her cooking has almost killed said prince?”
Wanda smiled and countered with;
“How about you go to see a new movie with a new friend and have a great time, but when you get home two of your roommates are having a fight with what resembles a giant living jello mold. You and your friend both get covered in gunk from both sides and have to jump into the shower and use soap and water to get the stuff off before it hardens, so while you are both standing there naked and covered in soap trying to get this crap off, you are talking abought the lead actor and what a long tongue he has when the door disintegrates and your least favorite roommate is standing there and decides he’s your one true love? Followed of course by discovering your new friend is a mutant from a rival group who now believes you set her up and the creepy guy at the door starts buying samurai gear and chasing you around spouting the worst poetry you have ever heard?”
Ranma began to laugh only to stop himself when Wanda let out a small moan.
“Maybe we better get the cold water before talking some more?”
Wanda just smirked .
“I don’t know. For some reason I have this incredible urge to start telling jokes.”
Ranma gave her the puppydog eyes treatment and she crumbled.
“Sigh. OK, there’s a water pipe above us. I just have to blast a small hole in it and we will have our cold water.”
Ranma examined the ceiling.
“The blue one?”
“That’s the one.”
Ranma raised a hand and pointed it at the ceiling.
Wanda just watched in surprise as Ranma’s hand began to glow. A sudden warmth enveloped her as a huge ball of blue fire flew from his hand to smash into the ceiling.
As the pipe (and parts of the surrounding ceiling) evaporated, gallons of water poured down on to the bed soaking them both and activating his curse, before safety interlocks shut the water flow off.
Wanda was rather surprised to find herself buried face down in a very impressive expanse of cleavage, it almost succeeded in distracting her from the sudden feeling of emptiness.
She heard a slight tremble in Ranma’s voice as s/he? spoke. “Wanda?”
“Mrrmmpp?”
“Ummm.”
Wanda sat up. “No fair! They’re bigger then mine!”
Ranma just stared at her with a hint of trepidation in her eyes. “You’re not mad?”
Wanda just looked at her, a little stunned at the transformation and a lot at Ranma’s reaction. “For what?”
“Cause I turn into a girl or cause my breasts are bigger?” Ranma winced and closed her eyes waiting for the inevitable blow that always followed her blurting out a similar comment many times before.
“Why are you cringing?”
“You’re not going to hit me?”
“Why would I hit you?” Shock was plain in Wanda’s voice.
“Cause of what I said?”
“That’s no reason to hit you.” Wanda’s voice was firm on that point.
“Really?” Ranma uncurled a little, hope in her eyes.
Wanda stretched out an arm and pulled the shorter girl into a hug.
“Really. Besides bigger doesn’t mean better. Just ask yourself this. Which of these two pair do you like better?”
Wanda’s smile threatened to split her face as she saw Ranma freeze up staring at her breasts. As an experiment she let her go and swayed gently from side to side, giggling as Ranma’s head followed as if tied to them.
Her voice broke Ranma out of his trance. “I think that answers that question, don’t you Ranma?”
“Ranko.”
“What?”
“Ranko. I go by Ranko when I’m a girl.”
“So never right?”
“Huh?”
“Sorry Ranma, but even in that body you’re still a guy to me.” She paused and tried to explain what she meant. “I mean sure you’re body may look like a girl’s body… but when I look in your eyes I just don’t see a girl, but I’ll call you Ranko cause you asked ok?”
The starry eyed look that Ran…ko directed at her made her more then a little nervous.
“Ran…ooommmppp!”
Finding herself in a bone crushing hug with Ranko kissing her she mentally shrugged and began returning it with interest. She did say she owed him a kiss anyway, right?
The thud of a body hitting the floor behind them surprised the both of them as they slowly released their hold on each other.
Looking down at the person lying unconscious on the floor Wanda ventured a soft “Dad?”
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