"Hey! Knock before you enter," Nabiki shouted angrily from where she was sitting at her computer. "And yes I did borrow your swimsuit for helping in Ranma's lesson. It was the most conservative piece of underwear-like clothing I could find."
And a fat lot of good it had done her to wear it under her normal clothing. Ranma had simply gone all Happousai on her and stripped it of before spanking her bare ass in front of all those perverts. She had never been this humiliated with the possible exception of today's involuntary flashing of Ranma and Akane.
"What was the big deal earlier anyway? You could have warned me that Ranma was standing just outside the door before letting me go in just my towel," Nabiki demanded without turning around. "I lost the towel and was standing there naked in front of him. To keep him from getting a look at my ass I had to let him see everything else. Do you have any idea what would have happened if he had seen my tattoo?"
"If they had seen that you already have a slave-tattoo Ranma would have collard you on the spot for your own good. He would have made you his slave-slut and Akane would have helped." Kasumi declared matter of factly.
Nabiki swiveled her chair around to see what had gotten her older sister in such a mood.
"Kasumi," she asked when she saw the girl kneeling in front of her closet going through Nabiki's swim-wear, "why are you running around topless?"
"Oh that?" Kasumi gestured at her exposed bosom. "This is just something that came from talking with Ranma and Akane. They think that all of the Tendou sisters might need to be enslaved for their own good. And I am proving them that I am not in need of a master by dressing improperly out of my own free will."
"You showed them your tits to convince them not to try to enslave you?" Nabiki asked in amazement.
"Yes, and it did seem to work." Kasumi confirmed. "Ranma at least believed me when I assure him that I was not slave material."
This did not make any sense to Nabiki, but then again, few things had done so lately. She also realized that if they had let themselves be convinced not to go after Kasumi that left only one Tendou girl for Ranma and Akane's recruitment efforts.
"Do you think I could convince them by going topless too?" She asked her sister.
"You could try," Kasumi told her smiling benevolently, "after all what do you have to lose?"
What indeed, besides her dignity, liberty and tan-lines did Nabiki still have to lose if she went out there topless. Her sanity must obviously have already been lost for her to even consider such a thing.
"Ah, there it is," Kasumi announced fishing out her swimsuit then she added one of Nabiki's bikini's "Say, would you mind if I borrowed this?"
Nabiki looked at the item Kasumi had selected.
"Isn't that a bit more daring than what you normally wear?" She asked carefully.
"That is the idea." Kasumi informed her getting up from the floor and making to leave. "I will be going then and thanks for lending me this."
Nabiki was so rattled by all that had happened that day that she even forgot to charge her sister for borrowing the bikini.
I the bathroom Kasumi stood in front of a mirror concluding that the yellow bikini she had borrowed from Nabiki should count as improper enough to satisfy Ranma and Akane.
Nabiki had been right it was far more daring than what Kasumi would normally wear to the beach, but it was better than running around bare-chested.
The bikini was a bit small and Kasumi wonder if maybe Nabiki had grown out of it or perhaps borrowed it from Akane herself. The top barely contained her bulging breasts making them look even larger then they actually were. The back of the bottom part was cut generously enough to conceal her own slave tattoo, but in the front it came up a bit short in covering everything that should be covered. It looked like Kasumi would have to shave more than just her legs
Quickly she stripped off the bottom and got out the shaving supplies. sitting with spread thighs in front of the mirror she watched her nest of brown curls wondering what to do. She knew that Nabiki kept herself groomed in what she considered a tasteful and inviting shape.
Kasumi did not knew who Nabiki would be wanting to invite like this, since as far as she knew for all her dating Nabiki had never allowed any boy to actually see that part of her. Well except for Ranma.
Sending out anything that could be interpreted as an invitation would be the last thing Kasumi wanted to do right now. She would then rather shave it all off like Akane had done. That had looked good on her youngest sister.
Her decision made Kasumi proceeded to shave all her pubic hair off without realizing that she was unconsciously imitating slave-girl fashion.
Later that day dinner seemed to be going surprisingly well. Kasumi was clad almost decently by wearing her apron over her bikini and had hardly elicited any comment from her sisters, Ranma or his mother. She almost felt that the apron was cheating a bit somehow but so far nobody had called her on it.
Nabiki had not gone with Kasumi's earlier suggestion and appeared at the dinner table fully dressed thus depriving Ranma and Akane of a new target for their recruitment efforts and the dinner table of another conversation topic.
Ranma had instead started telling his mother of the tattoo he planed to get for Akane. Both Nabiki and Kasumi were listening attentively.
"So what exactly makes the inks you have chosen so special," Nodoka wanted to know.
"They are magic, just like the needles and the pattern," Ranma told her.
Kasumi swallowed hard without chewing the bite in her mouth. A magic tattoo could be trouble.
"For one thing unlike normal tattoos it will be indelible," Ranma continued.
On the other end of the table Nabiki choked on her food and Akane had to hit her on her back a few time to keep her from suffocating.
"Are you all right dear?" Mrs. Saotome enquired friendly.
"Oh I am fine," Nabiki assured her once she had gotten her breath back. "Just got something down the wrong throat. Say Ranma this indelible tattoo idea of yours wouldn't that be kind of dangerous. What if the doctor screws up when he puts down your name on Akane's ass. It would only take a small misspelling to loose your slave to someone else. Surely you have some sort of backup plan to correct the tattoo if there has been a mistake."
"Don't worry Doctor Toufuu knows what he is doing. He has been practicing the design so much I bet he could do it in his sleep or even with Kasumi in the same room by now." Ranma laughed her concerns off. "And he can't accidentally put in the wrong name. The tattoo's magic will fill in the name of the true owner itself."
So her and Nabiki's tattoo had not been unfinished at all Kasumi realized.
Smiling a bit sickly she turned to Ranma to ask, "How would the tattoo know the name of the true owner? is there some sort of ritual involved?"
Kasumi had the awful idea of the thing being activated by physical intimacy and that the next (and first) time she had sex with a boy his name would appear on her butt and turn her into his slave. She had no immediate plans along those lines, but having her options reduced to old maid and sex-salve was not a cheery image.
"No ritual," Ranma told them much to Kasumi's relief. "All it should take is for the slave to acknowledge her status in some way, like the all legal paperwork Akane had to sign, but it doesn't have to be written down I think. Any sort of honest deal or agreement should do it."
Kasumi's relief vanished as she frantically began to consider her situation. The bet Akane had railroaded her into could not possibly be considered to count as a valid deal by the magic of the tattoo, could it? Even Akane had later when she had brought another piece of laundry told her that she and Ranma would not hold her to it against her will.
From what Kasumi had seen of magic since Ranma's arrival it did not seem in the habit of being reasonable. It occurred to her that it would be best to go along with the bet at least until she was sure.
As Ranma's mother was talking about the benefits of a slave brand that would automatically update itself with every time a girl was sold another thought occurred to Kasumi.
Just how smart was the tattoo? Would it notice if she tried to cheat? If Kasumi dressed normally while nobody was there to see would it think that Kasumi had lost her bet? If she tried to cover herself up with an apron to appear more proper might that also be considered cheating?
Slowly she reached behind her back and undid the apron strings.
"Kasumi?" Ranma asked as her bikini clad upper body was revealed. "You know you don't have to do that if you don't want to."
"Oh, its all right," Kasumi assured him. "I just felt silly wearing the apron at table."
"Kasumi I didn't ask before," Nodoka said, "and you must believe me that I am not judging you, but just why were you only dressed in a bikini underneath the apron?"
"This is just a silly bet Akane and Kasumi have going, Mom" Ranma explained without taking his eyes of Kasumi. "She is trying to prove to Akane that she does not need to give herself to an owner to be able to show a bit skin."
"Ah, I see," Nodoka nodded as if that explanation made it all suddenly sound rational and sane. "But are you sure that you can handle this dear? The bikini does look awfully tight on you. You have to be careful not to hurt yourself with a too small bra or bikini top. I mean you probably had to borrow this from someone with a different size, at least it does look not your usual style. Far too improper for that and so very much not like what you usually wear, not that I am judging you or anything."
"It is not that bad," Akane spoke up in her oldest sister's defense. "The bikini is not really improper. Many girls wear something like that or even less to the beach without being improperly dressed. It is not even one of those skimpy string arrangements that some girls wear for sun-bathing."
If you looked at it like that then the bikini was not improper, Kasumi thought. Less conservative than what she would normally wear and a bit out of context in the living room instead of the beach, but not really improper....
Surely the magic would not hold that against her? It was a great departure from the norm for Kasumi and that should be enough, shouldn't it? Was she imagining things or did she really feel a slight tickling like of pins and needles on her butt-cheek?
Best not to take any chances! With a sigh Kasumi reached behind her to also undo the string of her top.
"Kasumi?" Akane asked concerned.
"Aunty Nodoka was right, "Kasumi explained," the top was to tight for me. You don't mind, do you."
Akane and Nodoka shook their heads, no they did not mind. Nabiki had not said a word since she had found out about the tattoo being magic, she literally might not have noticed Kasumi doing a strip-tease at the dinner table. Ranma at first looked like he might be nodding that he did mind, but as Kasumi turned to him she realized that his head was just following the motions of her bouncing breasts.
"We don't mind at all, Kasumi." he told her still not looking at her eyes.
"Good, I already feel much freer," Kasumi declared really meaning what she said.
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