[Episode 185742] [Episode 185742]"Wh..what just happened?" Nabiki asked as she lay against her elder sister.
The sister that had just thoroughly introduced her to the art of pleasing a woman, with several hints of more to come if she wanted it.
Red arms, virtually burning with heat, circled tightly around her abdomen as her sister nuzzled the back of her neck softly and rubbed along Nabiki's tentacles.
"I have tentacles!!" Nabiki thought to herself.
"You should probably change to human form," Kasumi whispered as Nabiki felt the greater part of her oni-sister's heat fade away.
Glancing back, Nabiki saw the familiar form of her elder sister, eyes still closed as she hugged Nabiki's scaly form protectively.
"Just think about the way you look when human," Kasumi explained quietly. "And you'll change back."
"That's not what I..."
"Sshh," Kasumi said. "First things first. If Akane or Father come in, a bit of sisterly exploration is easier to explain than demons and gorgons."
Swallowing at that, Nabiki tried to concentrate on herself, remember what her reflection in the mirror looked like. She closed her eyes with green scales and opened it to find familiar flesh-tones, though her short hair had been replaced by long, brown dredlocks.
"Hmmm," Kasumi whispered behind her. "The scales are slick, but skin is soft...hard to choose."
"Ka..Kasumi?" Nabiki said embarassed.
"Oh, sorry," Kasumi said. "Don't want to get worked up again, do we. Not so close to dawn. Okay, now, try the same thing, but imagine someone else's face and body."
Nabiki nodded, thinking she knew where Kasumi was going with this. She closed her eyes again and crafted an appearance for herself, remembering the dredlocks, she let her mental image's skin darken and made the body a bit fuller in general.
"Hmm, beautiful choices," Kasumi said, opening her eyes briefly to take in Nabiki's attempt at an African appearance. Her sister's face was still Japanese, but the details would come with time.
"But if someone sees us," Nabiki started. "They'll think you're..."
"Oh father knows I'm bisexual," Kasumi said. "And its about past time for Akane to know. But your truth is your own decision to make."
"My truth?" Nabiki asked. "That I'm an incestuous lesbian shapechanger?"
"I think you'll find that you're bisexual as well," Kasumi whispered. "Most spirit-kind are, especially you fertility types. As for the incest...legally, perhaps, ethically, I don't know what the heavens say on this. What I do know is that neither I, nor most other spirit-kind think that way. Probably including you given time."
"And the shapechanger thing?" Nabiki said. "Who was that you were with?"
"I'm afraid that was Ranma," Kasumi said. "She's a seed."
"Seed, spirit kind," Nabiki snapped. "What's going on?"
"Well," Kasumi said, turning her head about to look outside and then at the clock. "Hmm, let's continue this downstairs in the bath."
"What?" Nabiki said, surprised.
****
Akane stepped out of the furo as two someones thudded into the wall immediately next to her. Looking in that direction, ready for a fight, Akane got something of the surprise of her life.
There was Kasumi practically kissing the life out of (into?) some black girl with long, thickly braided hair that looked as confused as Akane did. Each was dressed in one of Kasumi's nightgowns, further pressing the situation into Akane's mind.
"Kasumi?!" Akane gasped in shock.
Kasumi snapped her head up from her...girlfriend...and gave Akane a shocked expression. Immediately she pulled a bit away from the dazed seeming black girl and moving the other around behind her, circling Akane as she did.
"Umm," Kasumi said, seeming embarassed. "I'll...try to talk later...after your run."
"But..." Akane said, mind still derailing.
"Go, go," Kasumi said, opening the door behind her. "I have to...take care of something."
And then Kasumi disappeared into the furo.
****
"Well," Kasumi said. "That'll set things up for later. Should have brought one of my girlfriends and done this a long time ago."
Kasumi smiled as Nabiki's arms continued to roam about her. The novice was still have some troubles turning herself off and on, apparently. Kasumi gently but firmly disengaged and pressed the disguised Nabiki against the wall.
"Not now, Nabiki," Kasumi said.
"Huh?" Nabiki said, blinking."
"We have to keep discussing what's going on with you," Kasumi said.
"Right," Nabiki said, flushing under her darkened skin. "Right. You didn't answer my question."
"Let's get comfortable first," Kasumi said, indicating the water-filled furo.
Sitting across from her rather beautiful and very well talented elder sister while they were both naked in the furo was a bit distracting, but Nabiki forced herself to focus.
"Now," Kasumi said, calling Nabiki's attention up from the wonderful lips to her deep brown eyes. "We're spirit-kind. We're basically earth-bound spirits, lesser gods, demons, angels, whatever you want to call us. We all have tasks that we're suited for, I'm an oni, for example, so I'm well suited to battle."
Nabiki gave her a disbelieving look.
"I'm not saying that I'm in Ranma's league," Kasumi said. "I haven't even been called that much. There was a rogue kumo feeding on people the ward over once, but that was the worst I've had."
Kasumi leaned her head back and sighed over that, and it wasn't a pleasant sigh. It was the sigh of someone remembering things they wished they'd never seen.
"Anyway," Kasumi said. "We also have certain quirks that have to do with our natures. So, if you get a passionate oni, like me, and a fertility spirit, like you or Ranma, in the same room and one or the other makes a move and the other isn't disagreeable."
She gestured as if the result were obvious.
"So, who made the move?" Nabiki asked cautiously.
"I did," Kasumi said. "But Ranma was thinking it, he just planned to be gone before he gave in."
"And you said Ranma was a 'seed'," Nabiki said.
"Yes," Kasumi confirmed. "Only a seed can transform a mortal into one of us. Seeds are meant to insure a race of spirit-kinds survives or spreads to a degree that they can survive. Now, I thought Ranma met the gorgon seed until her bite changed you. Which means that she is the gorgon seed."
"But that would mean that he's thousands of years old?!" Nabiki insisted. "He can't be."
"No, he can't be," Kasumi said. "And gorgons have been a dead race for thousands of years, which I guess means that Medusa earned the right to make a new seed."
"Medusa as in the first gorgon?" Nabiki asked.
"As in the goddess," Kasumi said. "Goddess of life, death, rebirth and transformations."
"So, does Ranma know any of this?" Nabiki asked.
"From what I can tell," Kasumi said. "Not a clue."
"Why haven't you told him any of this?" Nabiki asked.
"Because he was gone right after you came in and I was still a bit worked up," Kasumi said. "I had...business to take care of."
Nabiki flushed again.
"Oh, and you might want to look like yourself again," Kasumi said.
"So, if I'm geared to fertillity," Nabiki said. "Should I worry about kids?"
"It's an act of will," Kasumi said. "Spirit-kind don't conceive unless they want to. Keeps the popualtion of immortals to a minimum."
****
Akane's run lasted longer the usual, but the confused girl came back in eventually, face still looking moderately shocked and trying to work things through. She slipped her running shoes off and started walking through the house cautiously, as if expecting to step on a landmine at any moment.
When she saw a girl with dredlocks sitting in the living room, she froze and then carefully walked around to get a look at her face. She was surprised to see Nabiki's face under all that hair, sure that her sister had had short hair the day before.
"Nabiki?" Akane asked.
"Hey..." Nabiki said, blushing brightly. "Akane, I changed my hair, do you like it?"
"How'd you grow it so fast?" Akane asked.
"I don't know," Nabiki said, for once at a loss for what to say.
Akane pushed that aside and looked around cautiously before sitting down conspiratorially with Nabiki.
"Did you see another girl with dredlocks this morning?" Akane asked.
"Oh," Nabiki said as Akane got to that topic. Kasumi had insisted she wanted Akane to know about it, and to act like she knew as well, so Nabiki had had time to prepare for this question. "The girl Kasumi picked up last night."
"You know about that?" Akane asked shocked.
"She's not supposed to bring them home," Nabiki said, whispering.
"Kasumi's...a lesbian?" Akane said, blinking.
"Bisexual," Nabiki corrected, turning embarassed. "She's holding off on men in hopes that Tofu asks her."
"Oh," Akane said. "How'd you know about this?"
"Because," Nabiki paused and wondered which path to take. Whether to hide completely or partially. "She talked to me about it when I asked her about things I was...feeling...for other girls."
"You?" Akane gasped, looking at her sister in shock.
Nabiki looked like she was trying to hide in her skin at this point.
"I...think so," Nabiki said tightly.
"Ummm..." Akane paused wondering what she should say at this point. "Anybody...special?"
"Not yet," Nabiki said, relaxing a little bit as Akane tried to react as her younger sister apparently thought she should act: supportive and interested.
She paused and thought for a moment of the people she knew.
"There's a couple of people I've been thinking about," Nabiki said. "But I think the girl is straight and the guy is dating someone already." She was surprised to find herself being serious about the comment.
"Oh," Akane said thoughtfully. She paused for a long moment that grated on Nabiki's nerves. "Well, umm, I'm going to go wash off now."
At that Akane left the room, a bit quicker than was probably strictly necessary.
"Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut," Nabiki sighed.
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