Ranma had decided on Akane's punishment, how she forgot items of clothing, and considered that sufficient. He didn't feel any need to heap anymore difficulties on her shoulders.
The fact that his other manipulations of other people affected her was neither here nor there. P-chan's new bladder control trouble, for example, was not chosen to make Akane's life more difficult. Nor were Shampoo's new obsession with tickling girls, Kasumi's semi-public sexual fantasies, or Genma's desire for personal exposure; to Ranma's way of thinking, these changes only touched on Akane in passing.
Everything else Ranma had done to Akane, like the pressure point preventing Akane from orgasming during her fight with Shampoo, was done as a prank for his own amusement.
When Akane approached Ranma for training, Ranma took it relatively seriously. Akane's past training really had ingrained responses that were unhelpful or even downright counterproductive to a tickle fight. And barring the invention of tickle-kata, what Akane needed was training and practice against a sparing partner.
And unlike normal sparring, where Ranma might have actually hurt Akane, and where Ranma couldn't dare risk his ego letting Akane win, In a tickle-fight Ranma could go all out (short of the Amaguriken) without worry or risk.
He had set things up so that Akane would suffer a side effect of increasing arousal the longer they sparred. This was an inevitable consequence from the past half-truths he had told. But there was no reason that this session would end like the last time he had used these pressure points on her.
Since Ranma was sexually a late developer, his fantasies involving a willing young girl tended more towards the subject of hugging, cuddling, and caring acceptance. Still he was aware that he had an attractive girl at hand, with mixed feelings about him, who was rather sexually aroused, and too stubborn to give up before she absolutely had to.
So while the two of them were sparring, he was reviewing the list of things he had learned that he could do to an aroused woman. There was one shiatsu point that he felt he had to master in any case because of its usefulness in teaching other's martial arts.
When someone learns a new martial arts move, there's often a time where they suddenly get it right for the first time, but then you can't repeat it. This technique was designed to help a teacher get a student past that point. Through a combination of chi and shiatsu, the teacher applied this technique right after a student succeeded the first time, and for at least the next day, every time the student wasn't concentrating on something else, their mind went back to that time. They remember what it felt like, and they think about it endlessly.
Performing the technique again merely reset the somatic memory to the new memory. Ranma was able to hit this point, disguised as tickling, over and over during their spar. Each time, he set the recollection Akane would experience to a more aroused state than the one before.
The last time was only 45 seconds before Akane decided she had had enough, and she needed the counter-shiatsu for the arousing anti-tickle shiatsu.
Unlike the previous occasion, Akane was still firmly in control. But she was well past the point where she could pretend she could concentrate on learning martial arts.
All she wanted to do now, was to go to the privacy of her room, and deal with both her traitorous body and the thoughts engendered from walking in on her eldest sister masturbating with sex toys before her fiance had spent hours running his hands all over the aforesaid traitorous body
And for the next twenty four hours, whenever she daydreamed, her body would take her back to that point. Luckily she had gone the day without snapping at anyone, so the next day she wouldn't accidentally forget any clothing. Nor was she likely to, since she would spend most of the evening in her room doing homework, and dealing with unwanted desire.
Meanwhile, Ranma was considering the pranks against Soun Tendo. Soun's enema fetish should have been undermining the man's pomposity; but Ranma had failed to consider Soun's inherent hypocrisy; anything improper Soun did without being witnessed, never happened. Soun was able to pretend, even with his family who knew better, that he was free of perversions.
Soun needed a different prank, or an additional one, since removing Soun's current fascinations with enemas would mean playing with the minds of all of the Tendos, Genma, and Ryouga. Much easier to leave Soun taking enemas, and add something new.
But like Mousse's punishment, Soun's new kink would have to appear gradually or someone would suspect.
Ranma liked the way that no one could explicitly tell Akane when she had forgotten an item of clothing; the way they could say what they want but constrained within his own commands. They still talked like themselves, but to his instructions. Ranma decided to mess with Soun's speech, not just when discussing Akane's sartorial mistakes.
But for this to appear natural, it couldn't start suddenly. Soun would immediately start changing his speech patterns whenever he was thinking to himself. He wouldn't worry, because it would be a harmless foible since no one would hear it. After he had gotten experienced and practiced, he would find himself unable to keep from dropping his new bon mots into conversation.
While this was going on, Kasumi was humming to herself in the kitchen, trying to pretend that she had no idea Akane had walked in on her while she had been experimenting with her new sex toys. There was no shame in having an attack of a dream-lover while she was at home; everyone here knew it was outside of her control. If she could pretend she had been under the influence; if she could convince Akane, then she needn't feel embarrassed.
Never mind that it completely failed to explain how she had acquired the toys in the first place.
There was no way she'd convince Akane, but there was also no way Akane would ever bring it up. If she kept quiet about it, they could pretend it never happened.
This was a pity, because if they could have gotten beyond their colossal embarrassment and discussed it, they would have been able to accept Kasumi’s experimentation as normal, even a necessary part of their development. Akane might have become less frightened with the strange world of sexuality she was forced to confront, and Kasumi might have been able to find someone she could talk about her problems with.
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