[Episode 170474] [Episode 170474]Ranma really had a bad feeling about the entire situation. This whole wishing business had already turned out to be far more troublesome than he had thought, and he had not exactly been very optimistic in the first place He had said a lot more things in his rant yesterday than just the one part that had apparently been misinterpreted into doing away with girls clothes. He wasn't even sure what else he might have said just that there was a lot of it. It had been a long rant.
He had been rather upset with his parents, Mr. Tendou, Nabiki, the would be wife/fiancee/girlfriend that had visited and especially Akane. He might even have said something harsh to Kasumi.
And then the wish he had not meant to make had been granted.
He had already seen one result of it. The three Tendou girls seemed to think that it was perfectly normal for them and girls in general to walk around naked. And now Akane and Nabiki were about to go to school that way. Without a stitch of clothing on.
Unable to think of anything to do or say to stop them Ranma simply followed the girls to the door after they hugged goodbye by their older equally naked sister and picked up their bags.
He was hardly surprised when the girls instead of slipping on normal shoes put some sort of adhesive rubber soles on the bottom of their feet. Real shoes would probably have constituted clothing or something like that. It did not actually make any sense but at least it was consistent. Instead of asking them about it he simply put on his own unchanged shoes. It would take something far weirder to astonish him at that point.
As if she had read his thoughts and interpreted them as a personal challenge Nabiki moved on to take a cord with a shiny silver key on it from a peg by the door and hung it around her head like a necklace letting the key dangle provocatively between her bare breasts.
That almost qualified as weird even by his current standards.
Baffled by her behavior Ranma could only stare dumbfounded as the girl proceeded to take a pair of shiny silver handcuffs from the same peg and use them to cuff her own hands together behind her back.
Yes, Ranma had to admit, they were certainly firmly in weird territory now.
Unconcerned by Ranma's troubles Nabiki turned towards him and squatted down on her haunches to reach for her bag on the floor behind her. When she saw that Ranma was staring down at her bare and bound form kneeling before him she smirked and demurely lowered her eyes. She held that pose for several moments only breaking it once to give him a sly wink.
Before Ranma knew what to say or do Nabiki had already stood back up again with her bag in her cuffed hands and turned to the open door. She loudly announced that she was off and sprinted out the door on her nimble limbs before Ranma had even had time to blink.
Deeply confused and disturbed he turned to Akane who appeared to have been already waiting for him.
"Now that you are done flirting with my sister can we please finish getting ready so that we can perhaps make it to school on time for once," the naked girl asked him exasperatedly.
With that said she handed him a length of rope, turned around and crossed her wrists behind her back.
Ranma looked helplessly at the rope in his hands, then at Akane's outstretched arms and then at her bare ass just because it was there.
"What are you waiting for? Tie me up!" Akane demanded impatiently.
"But...." Ranma tried to object to her outrageous request.
"Come on and hurry up. I don't want to be late again," Akane prompted for a second time.
When Ranma still did not react she angrily glared at him over her shoulder.
"What is your problem now, baka?" She wanted to know. "Is this another one of your pervert fetishes like wanting me to dress in clothes? I tell you I don't care what your other girlfriends do. I am a proper and decent girl and won't shame my family by running around outside totally unrestrained like some wild woman."
Ranma had no idea what to say this, but thankfully Akane did not seem to expect him to contribute anything to the present conversation.
"It's bad enough what Nabiki does," she ranted now apparently on a roll. "You know she is agile enough with her arms and legs to bring her hand in front and reach the key if she wants to. I've never caught her doing it, but just the fact that everyone who knows her would realize that she could free herself is just so naughty. Young girls simply can't be trusted to run around freely by themselves."
"So you want me to tie your hands, so you can go to school completely naked and with your hands tied on your back. Like Nabiki just did. Because it would not be proper otherwise," Ranma spoke very slowly asking for clarification.
"Exactly!" Akane confirmed. "You know Kasumi would be very angry if I went out in public unbound. She thinks it is especially important for me because of my so-called temper and lack of self-control."
Ranma truly did not know what to make of that statement or really anything else that had happened this morning. The mental image of a naked Kasumi chiding him for not properly tying up her youngest sister before leaving was almost to much for him.
As he noticed that Akane was looking at him with growing impatience and anger and that she had that twitch in her eye that she normally got before losing it and malleting him straight into next week, Ranma made a decision. He did not need to understand anything. He did not need to know why or how. All he needed to understand was that the nude Akane before him was the same Akane she had always been only without any clothes on. All he needed to know was that she was likely to get violent if he did not do what she said.
With a determined sigh he took a hold of Akane's still outstretched hands and brought the length of ropes to them. If he would eat toxic sludge because Akane wanted him to, then he could also tie her hands at her request. It did not actually have to make sense.
Satisfied to have cowed him into action Akane turned her head back around and relaxed to let Ranma bind her in peace. The almost meek pose was strangely at odds with her normal behavior and Ranma began having second thoughts about what he was doing to the naked girl standing in front of him, but Akane cleared away these doubts for him rather quickly.
"You can make it a bit tighter, you know" she complained. "I am not made of glass and you wouldn't want me to get lose later would you."
No he didn't Ranma silently agreed as he tightened the rope around her wrists in response. If Akane got lose she would most likely hit him for it.
He had not yet figured out by what logic and on what rules this brave new world operated, but he knew one thing that apparently would always stay the same. It would always be his fault no matter what and he would be malleted by Akane for it. In fact he tended to get blamed and bashed for things by pretty much all the girls he knew.
As weird and disturbing as all this otherwise was, if the girls were all tied up like this Ranma would at least get hit a lot less. For a brief moment he wondered if he might have mentioned something along the lines of wishing for a bit more restraint in that area in his rant yesterday, but he quickly dismissed it as unimportant for now and concentrated on securely tying Akane up.
"Done!" he announced after he had tied the last knot.
As was to be expected Akane did not take his word for it. She had to test her bonds by tugging at them and wriggled her hands for a few moments before finally admitting defeat.
"I guess this will have to do for now," she allowed turning back around to face him. "How do I look?"
Akane tended to ask such questions at odd times and Ranma had gotten so used to it that he rarely got hit with mallets for his answers anymore, but seeing her now standing before him like this Ranma could not muster his usual noncommittal response. She was standing there in all her glory less than an arm-length away acting for the first time not just as if her nudity was no big deal but actually as if she wanted him to look at her unclad body and find it a big deal. She presented herself to him with her bound arms pushing out her not-actually-that-flat chest towards him.
Ranma tried to form a response but he had still trouble wrapping his mind around the fact that not only was Akane willingly displaying her naked self to him and not about to hit him for looking but actually would have been powerless to hammer her displeasure home if she suddenly changed her mind. None of the strength contained in that powerful frame would be directed at him at the drop of a towel and he could admire the view without fear of repercussions.
"Cute," he murmured appreciatively.
Akane actually blushed at that and taking a step forward she leaned up against him letting her naked breast push against his chest.
"Thank you," she told him quietly after kissing him lightly on the cheek before withdrawing again and turning around to face the door.
"Let's go then. On to school," she added enthusiastically as she bounded ahead with a spring in her step.
It was all Ranma could do to pick up both their bags and follow the naked tomboy wondering what exactly would happen next.
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