“I feel dirty,” Ranma commented as the three returned to their bottle.
“Of course you feel dirty,” Nabiki replied. “You’re a politician now.”
“I thought they were nice to me,” Mihoshi said.
“That’s because they thought you were the one who engineered our current situation,” Nabiki replied. “They thought you were an astute political mind, and they were afraid of you. Hell, I’m willing to bet that most of them thought your natural bubbliness was just an act.”
“Oh? I wasn’t paying attention. It got kind of boring after a while.”
“You didn’t miss much,” Nabiki said. “The whole thing had to do with what class of djinn we are.”
“I thought we were eternals,” Ranma said.
“No, that’s what kind of djinn we are. Class has to do with how many wishes you grant. You see, technically, we’re all Class I genies, because we each can only grant one wish per master. But since each of our masters is going to get one wish from each of us, and the three of us can’t be separated, one could argue that we’re collectively a single Class II wish-granting entity.”
“Uh...”
“We’re either three small-time genies, or one big-time genie conglomerate,” Nabiki tried explaining.
“Oh. Right. So which one are we?”
“Well, thankfully, you two listened to me and voted the way I told you to, because we’re now officially a single Class II, and entitled to all the rights and privileges thereof, this having been approved by a margin of one vote.”
“Is that good?” Mihoshi asked.
“Of course it’s good. It’s the next step up—that’s always better than the entry-level position. Plus, we still get to have three votes on the Council, so our burgeoning political position won’t be compromised.”
“Speakin’ of politics, I’m gonna go take a bath,” Ranma said as she headed upstairs.
“I’m coming too!” Mihoshi shouted after the redhead, but she was blocked from the staircase by Nabiki.
“Hold, it, Mihoshi. Aren’t you forgetting something?”
“Um...”
“You told Ahmed that you were going to let us know about the ‘extra features’ you asked for when you became a genie. You know, the ones that were transferred to us?”
“Uh, oh yeah, that. Um... sure, I’ll tell you about that. After I take a bath.”
“I think you should tell me now, before you get naked with Ranma.”
Mihoshi became somewhat nervous at this. “What... what do you mean by that?”
“I figure that whatever these ‘extra features’ he mentioned are, they have something to do with sex.”
“How’d you know that?”
“With a blush like that from someone like you, how could it be about anything else? Let me guess: the three of us are bisexual.”
“Well, yes, but that doesn’t have anything to do with what I asked for.”
“Huh?”
“All genies are bisexual,” the blonde explained. “It makes things a lot easier when somebody who we wouldn’t be attracted to normally wishes to have sex with us.”
Nabiki looked flabbergasted at this bit of information. “Oh, come on, how many times could that happen?”
“More often than you think. There are a lot of people who want a chance to try out a fantasy or two, and genies provide a relatively safe way to do that. Plus, a wish to have sex with one’s genie is actually a pretty good way to use up a wish without creating long-term effects on your universe, since we leave when the job’s done.”
“You’re kidding me.”
“Nope,” Mihoshi chirped happily.
“So, you’ve actually had sex with your masters.”
“When they wished for it.”
“Women included?”
“Uh, no. That hasn’t happened yet. But if it does, at least I’ll be able to enjoy myself, right?”
“Right… so, out of curiosity, how often did you have sex when you were still a…”
“I’m a Seniwan. I mean, I was one. And, um… I, uh, actually didn’t do it all that often…”
“You were a virgin when you became a genie?”
Mihoshi nodded. “I was hoping that my first time would be for love, but I figured that if I could make someone feel better, that would be almost as good, right?”
Nabiki resisted the temptation to give a smartass reply when she saw the earnestness in the blonde’s eyes. Apparently, she really did believe what she’d just said—well, either that, or she was really good at lying to herself. Nabiki decided to let the subject drop for the moment. “Great. Okay, so if that’s taken care of, I’ll move to my next guess. Did you do something that’s going to make us all constantly horny or something like that?”
“Why would I do that? I thought I was going to be alone for ten years, and masturbation can only get you so far.”
“So Ranma and I don’t have to worry about our sex drives?”
“I don’t think so... though Ahmed did tell me that my sex drive would stay constant as long as I was a genie, because I wasn’t aging, or something like that.”
Wonderful, Nabiki thought to herself. Ranma and me are going have teenage sex drives for all eternity. Having exhausted her mental list of possibilities, the young genie decided to stop guessing: “Okay, so what did you ask for?”
“Well, you know how sex can get boring after a while?”
“Yeah?”
“Well, when I signed up to be a genie, I asked if they could keep that form happening, so they put it in my contract.”
“So sex never gets old for us?”
“Not completely. I’m not too sure how it works, though. I think specific sex acts might get old if we repeat it over and over without any variety, but other than that, we should be good to go!”
“Why would you do something like that in the first place?”
“Well, I figured that if people were going to wish to have sex with me, I’d better make sure I could have a good time doing it.”
“And has this happened often enough to justify putting it in your contract?”
“Um... no.”
Nabiki sighed to herself. In truth, that didn’t sound too bad—it was actually somewhat reassuring that the three of them would always have something to keep themselves entertained, even if it was hours of mindless lesbian sex (or, if Ranma ever managed to get rid of her curse, mindless straight sex). “Anything else?”
“Hmm... oh, yeah, there is one thing that might make a difference, though I didn’t ask for it just for sex...”
“And that is?”
Mihoshi would have answered, were it not for the sudden shout from the bathroom upstairs. “What the— Where the hell are my pubes?!”
It was at this point that Nabiki realized that the silk of her garments felt unusually smooth in the area between her legs—something she’d been too distracted to notice before now. “We don’t have any pubic hair?” Nabiki asked through suspiciously heavy eyelids.
“Well, since I figured I could get whatever I wanted, I decided it would be nice if I didn’t have to shave anything for ten years, so I asked that I wouldn’t grow body hair. I sort of forgot that ‘down there’ falls into that category, you know?”
“Did you have to put it in your contract, though? Couldn’t you have just used djinn magic to shave it off?”
A look of realization dawned on Mihoshi’s face. “Oh, yeah... I guess I could have done it that way, couldn’t I?”
Nabiki put her hand to her head in disbelief. “And you’re sticking with your story that this hair thing isn’t some sort of weird personal kink and had nothing to do with sex.”
It wasn’t a question, but that didn’t stop the blonde from trying to respond appropriately: “No... I mean, yes... no... um, which answer means it wasn’t for sex?”
Nabiki sighed yet again. Whether Mihoshi was being truthful or not was beside the point; what was done was done. And as far as surprises went, a little thing like this was nothing compared to everything else that had happened. “We’d better go explain the situation to Ranma.”
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