[Episode 110841] [Episode 110841]"Bless it! It hurts!"
"Oh shut up! And stop squirming, I can't take it out if you do."
"Fuck you, Ranma!"
"That's very mature, tomboy. I didn't complain when you did me."
"That's because you're crazy."
Ranma and Mara stopped arguing to glare at each other. They were still in the greenhouse, still naked and next to the bed of now black roses. The pigtailed demon was about to speak when she beat him to the punch. "Look. Just get it over with," she said and sighed.
The demon took a hold of Mara's breast. "I still don't know why you're complaining so much," he said and used his nail to cut the skin and then squeezed the wound. Blood flowed out of it, together with a thorn.
The demons remained asleep on the bed of roses for a couple of hours. More than enough time for their wounds to seal up with their advanced healing. The only problem with that was the fact some of the thorns remained inside their skin. While it didn't threaten their existence in any way it was very uncomfortable. Mara took the thorns out of Ranma's back first, and now he was returning the favor. Her breasts were last, and she wasn't enjoying the experience at all.
As he worked the pigtailed demon thought back to the fight with Tofu, if it could be called a fight at all, and frowned. The doctor's shiatsu techniques didn't work on Ranma, yet his did work on Mara. He could come up with many different theories for that, but till he had a chance to press shiatsu on a mortal he couldn't be sure. So far it seemed like humans couldn't affect his energy flows, which was good, but maybe in return he couldn't use shiatsu on them either, which would royally suck. He had to make sure before going after Ukyo and...
Mara let out a gasp and glared at Ranma. "Just shut up already! You have no idea how sensitive these are."
Ranma rolled his eyes. "Of course I do. Remember I have a pair with just a little cold water."
"Now that you mention it..." The demoness reached for a conveniently placed vase and threw the dirty water at her companion.
The now redheaded demoness sputtered indignantly and glared at Mara. "What was that for?"
Mara simply smirked. "Spite."
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Some time, and many bless words, later the demons left the greenhouse and headed to the mansion. While Ranma was pretty certain Kodachi hadn't been here in ages, he knew whoever was inside would know where the girl was. Mara couldn't fault his logic so went along with it. That and the fact she was curious about the Kuno mansion.
As they entered they were careful to not make a noise, with Ranma surprised at the stealth Mara was capable of, and started to go through the big house in search of any of its occupants.
It didn't take long for Ranma to smirk and motion for Mara to stop. He silently pointed at a shadowed corner and the demoness nodded, understanding his meaning.
Once Mara was crouched and at the ready Ranma left the shadows. He didn't have to wait more than a second before his hand blurred in front of him. It stopped to reveal a dagger caught in his grip. "Nice way to say hello to an old friend, Sasuke."
The little ninja dropped from the roof and stared at Ranma warily. He knew he had no chance of defeating the pigtailed martial artist without the element of surprise, he was just too powerful. With his initial attack failing, not that he expected it to work anyway, he decided to reveal himself.
Ranma threw the dagger back at Sasuke, who caught it effortlessly, and looked at the short man seriously. "Where's Kodachi?" Of course, his question sounded more like a demand than a question itself.
Sasuke, like everyone else in Nerima, had seen the pigtailed demon on television as he was chased down by Mara. He was deadly afraid of what this new Ranma was capable of, but even then his duty to Kuno forced him to remain silent.
Ranma didn't miss the way Sasuke's eyes searched the room for possible escape routes. "Sasuke," he growled out and stepped closer to the short ninja.
Mara watched with interest from the shadows, wondering how Ranma was planning to beat the information out of the human. Hopefully he hadn't forgotten that demons needed an invitation to actually harm mortals, with a few exceptions to the rule of course. She smirked when he saw the scene unfold, though. It seemed like Ranma hardly needed to harm the ninja, the latter looked just about ready to wet his pants.
Sasuke gulped nervously and took another step back. He knew it was Ranma that killed both Nabiki and Tofu, no one else could so easily dispose of them both, so all that he knew about the pigtailed martial artist went out the window. Being faced by the man, who obviously had no compulsions about killing anymore, was scaring the ninja shitless.
Ranma stopped walking once he had Sasuke cornered. He smirked darkly and clenched a fist tightly, popping sounds heard coming from his knuckles. Each popping sound made the ninja wince and sweat more. "Last chance before I start ripping you apart. Where's Kodachi?" The pigtailed demon definitely didn't feel like putting up with anyone's shit right now, especially after Mara had been pestering him for the past day.
Sasuke thought duty be damned, he witnessed how Tofu's body was retrieved from the clinic, and told Ranma what he wanted to hear. "Mistress Kodachi is not with us anymore..." he started and explained how the Black Rose was committed to a mental institution after she snapped with the news of his death. He wilted when Ranma's glare intensified and it seemed like the pigtailed martial artist would tear him apart anyway.
After a moment of glaring at Sasuke the demon took a deep breath. "Where's this asylum?"
The ninja answered, too scared for his life, and collapsed in relief when Ranma turned on his heels and left the room. Only then did Sasuke notice the second figure in the room. When he saw it was the same woman Ranma was fighting against on television and she walked together with the pigtailed martial artist the ninja passed out from the shock, his mind incapable of understanding why the two would be together when they so obviously were trying to kill each other. He would wake up in the morning, kicked awake and punished by his master.
Even Nerima veterans were starting to feel the effects of chaos Ranma was generating since his return.
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"Nice job back there, it almost seemed as if you were serious about ripping into him," Mara complimented as they walked outside and flew in the direction of the asylum. She was impressed with the speed at which Ranma was learning to be a demon.
"Thanks," Ranma answered and inwardly berated himself for forgetting all about the invitation thing. He was only thankful Mara didn't notice, or she would be laughing her ass off right now.
The demons flew at high speeds again, taking advantage that in the night they wouldn't be noticed. They also had to reach Kodachi's current prison before Sasuke woke up and got enough of his bearing back to make a phone call and warn her wards of their visit.
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The place was depressing. There, one word. One simple word used to describe the atmosphere permeating the area. The silence of the night was continuously broken by the moans and screams of the damned. In a night that seemed eternal, for the people here never saw the rays of the Sun, only pain and suffering were available. The ones not already insane when sentenced to this hellhole would lose their sanity within weeks of being trapped here.
Padded walls were the only sight the 'patients' were allowed to see.
One such person, a so called patient, sat back against the wall. The girl rolled back and forth, as much as her straight jacket would allow, and stared at nothing through glazed eyes. Her pupils were dilated; a side effect of the strong narcotics flowing through her veins, and drool escaped her mouth, dripping down her chin and neck.
Her black hair, once upon a time luscious and carefully kept, was a tangled mess. Twin tracks of salt marked the path her tears took every time she had enough of her senses back to think coherently.
The door to the room was made of reinforced steel, a precaution taken after the girl almost managed to escape during moment of 'sanity.'
Outside said door and down the hall two men in white clothing argued hotly. "Look, you're new so let me tell you something about the Kuno girl. Don't get anywhere close to her!"
The other man, built and with a scar on his left cheek, crossed his arms over his chest. "What? Don't want to share her?"
The shorter of the two rolled his eyes and leaned back on his chair. "You can have any girl you want here. It's not like they're going to talk," he added with a smirk and then sobered. "But the Kuno girl is off limits for another reason."
The larger man frowned and placed his hands on the table, trying to glare down his companion and failing. "How will anyone know?" He'd seen Kodachi while she took a bath, a rarity in truth since she was rarely allowed out of her room, and he instantly became fixated with the idea of riding her hot body. The guys working here always took liberties with the patients, yet now that he asked about the Black Rose he found no one dared touch her.
Shaking his head the sitting guy asked, "Do you want to lose your dick?"
"Huh?"
"Two guys already tried to take the Kuno girl. She ripped their dicks off."
The larger guy frowned in confusion. "They didn't try it when she was asleep?"
"She never sleeps." He shook his head. "Incredible as it sounds the drugs don't put her to sleep. They just shut her up for a couple of hours." It still impressed him how Kodachi barely felt tranquilizers that would kill a horse. Doing a background check he found out she experimented with different kinds of drugs before being committed, which brought him to believe she'd built up a tolerance for narcotics.
"So she's off limits?" The bigger guy asked and sat down.
"Unless you never want to get a good fuck again."
"... It's a shame."
"That it is."
The two sat in silence for a couple of minutes before Kodachi started screaming. "There she goes again." The shorter guy sighed and shook his head.
"RANMA-SAMA!!!"
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