[Episode 132856] [Episode 132856]Just when she was about to leave her room to get herself a glass of water before finally going to sleep she saw Ranma streaking by.
Ranma was naked and also very obviously not yet finished with tonights activities. A few moments later Ranma streaked back into the other direction by her open door without noticing her. While he had been very visibly and prominently male on his first pass, during his second pass Ranma been in his girl-form.
Kasumi stood motionless in her door still trying to come to grips with what she had seen when the cries started up again. This time to the theme of "Yes, Mistress!". After a while they slightly muffled.
It looked like it would be a long night.
Kasumi went back to her bed trying not to think about anything too much. She would just lie down and try to tune out the noise and sooner or later sleep would come.
Sleep did not come soon and not later. Finally Kasumi had enough she would do something about it. She would go to Akane's room and demand that they keep the noise down. She would probably die of embarrassment, but it was preferable to having to listen to that.
Resolutely she stepped out on the floor and turned to Akane's room. When she saw Nabiki already standing in front of their sisters room she was at first relived that somebody else would do the embarrassing asking for some quiet thing. That was until she realized that Nabiki did not look like she was about to knock and interrupt the young couple. In fact it looked like she was taking great care not to disturb them. Nabiki had her camera with her and was currently attempting to peer through the keyhole with one eye.
"Nabiki!" she admonished her sister.
"Pssst!" Nabiki admonished right back, "they will hear you."
"Don't you have any respect for your sisters privacy?" Kasumi asked a bit less loudly.
Nabiki just smirked as a loud and very descriptive exclamation from Akane undermined her older sister's argument. Kasumi winced.
"At least don't stand so close to the door," she finally warned Nabiki.
"Yes, you are right," Nabiki admitted grinning, "I might get run over by a naked overexcited martial-artist. Did you see Ranma too earlier?"
Nabiki's was positively leering and Kasumi blushed and trying to formulate a proper answer. She was saved by a most unlikely source.
"It is nice to know that you considered my manly son impressive," Nodoka commented, "but if you really want to get another look you don't have to stand outside the door trying to peek through the keyhole. I am sure that if you asked real nicely you could get to experience him up close and personal exactly like your sister does."
Kasumi blushed further even if she had not been the target of Nodoka's attack. It was nice to see that somebody could manage to rattle Nabiki as she did other people, but it was really embarrassing to witness. There was also the problem that she suspected that Nodoka meant to include not just Nabiki, but all the Tendou sisters in her recruitment drive for her son's slave-harem.
As an uncomfortable silence descended on the trio, Kasumi became aware that the inside of the room appeared too have also gone silent. Had Ranma and Akane finally finished?
Suddenly the door opened and Ranma came out only noticing them when he crashed into Nabiki. Ranma was still female and naked, but now flushed, disheveled and covered in sweet and other body-secretions.
"Ranma," Nodoka addressed her offspring who was only now becoming aware of her presence.
With big eyes and a hint of panic in her voice Ranma tried to explain, "Mom! It uh... is not what it looks like."
Realizing what it looked like Ranma tried to cover herself with her hands, but she somehow still failed to conceal the fact that she was naked and female.
"Really, I can explain," Ranma tried to convince them.
"No need to explain. We all heard you being manly with Akane." Nodoka reassured the red-head.
"Manly?" Ranma wondered besides herself.
"Of course," Nodoka confirmed, "there is more to being manly then just being the right gender. And judging from what we have heard you have been very manly with Akane even in this form."
Ranma did not look like he understood, but he did not look like he was about to question his luck either.
"Yes, Ranma," Nabiki chimed in, "we could hear you being manly loud and clear. A bit to loud and clear if you catch my drift. How much longer do you plan to keep the entire house awake?"
"I, uh... ah," Ranma stammered, "sorry about the noise. We will try to keep it down. It won't take much longer. I uh... have Akane almost ready to start. I was just going to change...."
Nodoka gave her son turned daughter two thermo-bottles.
"I thought you might need these," she said by way of explanation. "Now there won't be any need to run back and forth to the bathroom in the middle of the night. And you might seriously consider Nabiki's earlier suggestion about the gag if you can't keep Akane quiet."
"Yes, Mom," Ranma replied embarrassedly and quickly returned into Akane's room, closing the door in their faces.
Nodoka looked satisfied, Nabiki looked deeply amused and Kasumi felt slightly shocked at his departure.
"Ready to start?" she asked no one in particular. "He means that he hasn't even started yet? What has he been doing in there?"
"Little sister is really lucky," Nabiki confirmed, "a normal boy Ranma's age would have finished within moments of starting. 'Wham bam thank you, Mam.' But Ranma isn't normal."
"Indeed, self-control is an important characteristic of any martial-artist. And Akane will learn to appreciate Ranma's stamina, endurance and attention to detail, too. Truly he is everything a young slave girl could want in a master," Nodoka gave the two Tendou sisters a significant look as she said the last bit.
Kasumi replied ignoring the innuendo, "That doesn't make any sense. Ranma might be a great martial artist, but this sort of self control is hardly the same thing. Besides unless Ranma has managed to keep it secret from all of us he has no experience at this. He is normally so shy that he could not even make himself kiss Akane until today. This is totally unlike him."
"I am afraid that this is mostly my husbands fault," Nodoka regretted. "The time they spent on the road has left Ranma with a somewhat uneven upbringing in these matters. Ranma appears to attach great importance on physical contact, simple things like touching and hugging. It used to be a major thing for him just to hold Akane's hand. It is no doubt a byproduct of Genma's attempt to shield him from female coddling. You saw how much he held onto Akane earlier once he had assurance that she was his and would not reject him."
"Yeah, he did not look like he would let go of her any time soon now that he could touch her without getting bashed for it," Nabiki agreed, "but I don't think he is just making up for lost time. He probably doesn't consider sex the same way, because nobody told him that he should. I doubt Genma ever gave him The Talk and almost everything he knows about sex he must have puzzled out by himself influenced by those perverted classmates of his and girls like Shampoo trying to sneak into his bed."
"Yes," Nodoka concurred, "It is a wonder my son turned out as manly as he has."
Kasumi privately believed, that if Ranma truly had such a strange view of sex, then Nodoka was not wholly uninvolved in that.
"But where does he get his self-control, confidence and experience?" Kasumi asked instead, her curiosity overruling her embarrassment.
"He probably thinks of it as a martial-art. If he were just trying to this for himself it might be another matter, but he is focused on doing it for and to Akane. Remember Ranma is the sort of guy who starts to cry when he stubs his toe, but would walk over hot coals without flinching if you told him that some sort of martial-arts challenge was involved. And Ranma really isn't that inexperienced. I still have a stack of photos of the "Pig-Tailed Girl's Bathroom Self-explorations" that I plan to sell Kunou when we really are in some financial crisis. Believe me Ranma knows his way around the female body very well."
"Nabiki!" Kasumi admonished her younger sister masking her embarrassment with outrage. "I can't believe you would do such a thing. Don't you have any respect?"
Nabiki looked unimpressed and Nodoka even looked amused. That confused Kasumi.
"Don't you have any problem with Ranma, er... exploring his female body?" She wanted to know, "It isn't exactly manly, does it?"
"Oh no, I consider it to be very manly," Nodoka disagreed, "It would be very suspicious for a boy like Ranma to have a female body like his at his disposal without being tempted to explore it. And I consider the way he has used both the experience he has gained and the body itself on Akane to be very manly indeed."
Kasumi digested this. It did not really make any sense to her, but Nodoka's attitude to manliness had never made sense to her.
"Well, it sounds like Ranma has managed to quiet Akane down," Nodoka observed, "We can all go back to bed and try to get some sleep. Really Nabiki you don't have to stand out here in the floor. If you are so interested in what is happening in there, I am sure you could learn it from first hand experience at a later date."
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