"Don't you have anything that'll remove a Jyuusenkyou curse?" asked Ranma, currently in female form.
The old magic dealer scratched his spear-bald head. "Nothing specifically. However, I do have some other potions that might be just as good. Let's see..." He unshouldered his big pack full of potions, powders and charms and started rooting through it. "Elvish boots... Sand of the Holy... Arc of Infinity... The One Ring..." Double take. "How did you get in there, you naughty little thing? I'd better talk with Shiro-sensei..." He pocketed the plan gold ring. "Where was I? Ah, yes. And this is... Penasu Potion..."
"Penasu Potion?" asked Ranma-chan. "What's that?"
"You don't want this, miss," the old man said. "It makes males well-endowed, but women will experience a... gender reversal."
"Huh?"
"They turn into men. It's similar what happens with the magic waters of Tougenkyou," answered the old magic peddler. "It says here the process happens during sleep, and the transformation will be complete by the time you wake up."
Ranma grinned. "Then that's just what the doctor ordered!" she declared, snatching up the potion bottle out of the peddler's hand. She quaffed the stuff down over the objections of the magic peddler. "Mmm, delicious!"
"Young miss, do you have ANY idea what you have done?" the peddler screeched.
"Sure, Gramps! I just got ridda this body! Been wantin' ta for years!" She gave him a five-thousand yen note. "Keep the change." With that, she bounced away happily.
The magic peddler sorrowfully watched the girl skip away. What in the world happened to that child to make her hate her own gender? He looked down at the empty potion bottle in his hand.
And blinked.
He wiped the handakuten (°) annotation to the first katakana character, changing it into a dakuten (").
"Oh, good! This is not Penasu Potion. It's Benasu Potion," murmured the old man. "That girl will have a pleasant surprise when she wakes up tomorrow."
And if you believe that, I have this really nice bridge you can have for a steal.
Ranma-chan skipped home, happy as a mollusk. She skipped into the entry foyer, casually tossed off her slippers, and hummed as she walked down the hall.
"Guess what!" she said cheerfully as she entered what would be called the 'living room'. "As of tomorrow, my curse will be merely an unhappy memory!"
"YOU FOUND A CURE, BOY?!!" Genma roared, using his awesome pop-out-of-nowhere-behind-you-jitsu to... well, pop up out of nowhere behind Ranma-chan to ask (shout) about Ranma's cure to the curse. "Quickly, give it to your poor, honorable, accursed father!"
"The hell I will!" Ranma countered. "Besides, I don't have it anymore. I already took it. OW!"
Genma pulled at Ranma-chan's ear. "You ungrateful boy! How dare you hog the curse for yourself!"
"It wouldn'ta worked for you anyway, old man. It woulda just changed you into a well-endowed panda!" Ranma said, prying her ear loose.
Nabiki raised an eyebrow. She murmured around a popsicle, "Szf..." The words were garbled by the popsicle, so she took it out and started again. "So what kind of cure was it, and what makes this time different from the previous half-million times you tried to cure yourself?"
"It was Penasu Potion! It makes men well-endowed!"
Everyone froze. Nabiki froze, looking at Ranma with wide eyes. Kasumi, who was in the middle of pouring tea, froze. A hot blush spread across her cheeks and burned her ears. Akane choked on a rice cracker. She spent a good several seconds hacking out crumbs that threatened to choke her.
"YOU PERVERT!" roared the youngest Tendou sister, unveiling her Enormous Mallet Mk IV.
"WHAAAT?!" shrieked back Ranma-chan. "What are you on about now, you stupid tomboy?!"
The teacup overflowed.
"You drunk that stuff to give you a long schlong! Pervert!" bellowed Akane, taking a few practice swings.
"Long what?! Penasu Potion gives you bigger muscles!" Ranma protested. "'Cept for girls, who get turned into guys!"
Akane blinked. Her mallet vanished along with her rage, replaced by exasperation. "I don't have the courage to tell him," she murmured, casting a glance at Nabiki.
"Twenty thousand yen. I don't really want to tell him either, you know," replied Nabiki.
Piping hot tea dribbled over the table edge and into Kasumi's lap.
"AH! SHIT!" the oldest sister shrieked as she sprang up from the table, flapping at her tea-soaked skirt. She stopped, covering her mouth as she realized what had just come out of it. Feeling the gaze of eyes on her, Kasumi looked around to see that she was the center of attention. "I mean... Oh no. What a mess... Oh-hohohoho... ehehhh..." Her laugh trailed off, as she wished that the earth would swallow her up.
Ranma woke up feeling vaguely taller and more robust. He felt a little fuzz-headed, but he remembered that yesterday he had taken Penasu Potion in female form, and went to sleep in female form, which meant that female form should've changed into a male form. He grinned. Not gonna be a girl no more! Not gonna be a girl no more! he chanted mentally as he breezed into the bathroom.
Nabiki was brushing her teeth at the time, once again this morning afflicted with the morning blahs. This morning was particularly blah-worthy, for one of her favorite cash cows, Ranma-chan was now a thing of the past. It made her slightly depressed and a little more limp and robotic in the morning than usual. Fortunately, she had weaseled one last photo session out of Ranma last night, as (s)he was in to good a mood to care.
That was when Ranma breezed into the bathroom. "Mornin', Nabiki!" said the younger Saotome cheerfully.
Fulla pep as usual, thought the middle sister grumpily as she continued to brush her pearly whites free of morning scum. She turned toward the interloper, ready to deliver a stinging reply guaranteed to crush the boy's ego ruthlessly.
Nabiki's eyes widened, her toothbrush taking a nosedive right into her cheek.
"Heh! Quite shocking, innit?" Ranma asked.
Nabiki just stared, wordlessly, and with her toothbrush still lodged in her cheek.
Ranma snickered. Apparently, his cold-water form was cutting quite an imposing figure. Granted, Nabiki wasn't really up to her full wit first thing in the morning, but it was gratifying to see the Ice Queen looking so shocked.
Ranma was now so happy that the potion worked, that he would have gladly signed away to be a Penasu Potion spokesperson. Not only am I the president, I'm also a client! he'd say.
Then he took a look at his reflection in the mirror, and the grin vanished utterly.
Ranma's cold-water form was different, all right. It was taller. It had a larger chest. It was no longer the petite cute thing he had for years. But...
Not male, thought Ranma, reaching up to squeeze two breasts that were larger than before, the tank top she wore to bed stretched across them.
Definitely not male, thought Ranma, brushing her hands down a flat tummy and wide, shapely hips.
Positively definitely not male! thought Ranma, brushing her hand over the lack of unit on her front, made clear by the fabric of the yellow boxers stretched across the void.
"WHAT'S GOIN' ON HERE!!!" she shrieked the new, tall, sexy Ranma-chan.
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