[Episode 219223] [Episode 219223]When they arrived at the pool it was to find that the place was packed. In fact there was only one locker available so the pair had to share it not that either really minded. Because it was so crowded everyone was forced to squeaze past one another. As their allowed hour progressed however, Nodoka spotted that Ranko kept walking next to where a specific boy was standing and hanging out.
In fact, each time Ranko passed by him in order to return to the dive board she seemed to walk closer and closer to him and putting more and more space between her and the normal salaryman who was seated on an umbrella chair closeby. This pattern continued until by the end of their hour she actually saw the girl bump into him slightly as if to state her intentions more obviously.
It apparrently worked too, since Nodoka witnessed the boy becoming obsessed with watching her charge for the day as she dived off the high dive. While Nodoka knew that Ranko was a very athletic girl and acknowledged that the dives she was performing were a thing of beauty, she had a feeling it had more to do with how the girl's bouncing on the platform made her breasts bounce and how she looked all slick with water in that particular bikini, and most of all what it had felt like when Ranko had pressed her body into his at the end.
As Ranma was waiting at the top of the platform for a scared first timer who was ahead of her to finally jump, she heard her mother calling out to her. Seeing Nodoka point to her watch and then at the lockers and changing area she understood that this would be her last jump of the day, so she nodded her head and watched as her mother walked off to change. A part of Ranma was disappointed that their time had ended because she was having a lot of fun doing these dives and trying to perfect her form. On the other hand another part of her would be glad to get out of here.
She had realized early on that there was a perverted old guy sitting down deliberately on the way back to the high dive line. The first time he had groped her she had almost repaid him for it before she remembered the lecture she had received from her mother back on the train. Not wanting to disappoint her again, Ranma had instead followed her advice and instead just shook her head at him then proceeded to ignore him, and when that didn't work moved further and further away in order to discourage him.
It hadn't worked real well with this pervert though, it seemed that unlike what Nodoka had told her, this particular man did not care if anyone noticed that he was behaving badly. In order to escape his obvious attempt to grab at her the last time she had actually bumped into someone else who had apparrently fallen down as a result. She had looked over at the boy briefly and apologized even though she couldn't understand how such a gentle bump could have made him fall, but as she started to turn away to get back into line she had seen him moving away from where he had been resting and head back towards the pool.
She was a bit embarassed and ashamed to know that she had disturbed someone who was resting and made him have to move away, but that other guy who was a pervert kept groping her and she had had enough of that. If she had been groped even once more she knew she wouldn't have been able to avoid hitting him any longer, and she really didn't want to make her mother mad by her 'un-ladylike behaviour'.
She shook those bad thoughts away as she noticed that the boy in front of her had finally been coaxed to jump and that it was now her turn again. Ranma didn't know that much about competitive diving, but what she did know was that the ones who won the competitions not only did tricks, they also had a very small splash.
If there is one fault that Ranma has it is that she feels a need to prove her superiority. So it was that as she had been diving today she had tried to obtain olympic calibur dives even though prior to today she had never been on a diving board. The tricks in the air had not been a problem for her, but the splash part she had no experience of avoiding. By pure accident though during her prior dive her body had been turning slightly just as she was hitting the water and had noticed that the sounds of splashing water were less intense. With her analytical mind for details in challenge situations she focussed on this and decided to try taking that movement further.
Ranma made her dive and included her by now familiar routine of spins and somersaults trying to fit in as many tricks as she could before hitting the water, but this time just as she was enterring the water in a torpedo shape with her clasped and pointed hands breaking the initial surface tension at a very slight angle, she quickly gainaxed her body as it moved below the surface in a move that in essence folded her body in on itself so that just as her pointed toes were disappearing below the surface her hands were again making their way up to replace them.
The end result being that the water that was replaced by her dive flowed inward toward her spot of contact, and her resurfacing following the angle of insertion cancelled the majority of the splash and most of the remainder was disguised by it flowing against her emerging body rather than in a loud splash of water hitting water. If an olympic diving coach had seen her dive they would have been trying to sign her up. In fact there actually was one at the pool that day, however that man had long ago stopped paying attention to the redhead as even the most spectacular of tricks were useless if you had a large splash, and until her next to last jump the splashes had been very big indeed since Ranma had not been taught how to control it.
In fact only one person was witness to her spectacular dive. As Ranma reached the edge of the pool and started to make the effort to pull herself out, a voice called out breaking her attention. "That was a perfect dive! I have never seen anyone besides myself make such a magnificent work of art. What is your name? I must know the name of one who has realized the joy that is the art of diving!"
Ranma was a little freaked out by that speech, and turned to look at who had spoken. To her surprised the clumsy boy who had fallen from before walked right up in front of her then stopped before bending forward until his face was only about a foot above hers as he looked down in worship at her. If anything this freaked her out even more than before and she just stared at him dumbly and backed back down into the water slightly more in order to gain some space.
"Ah, shy? Fear not fair lady I mean thee no harm! For I am Ryo Watanabi of the Watanabi school of Anything Goes Martial Arts Water Games! Long have I searched for one such as you who understands the true beauty of the water and the enlightenment of the perfect dive! Only you and you alone can possibly match the perfection that is I, Ryo Watanabi, so now I must have your name fair one, for surely it was destiny that we two artisans should meet this day!"
'Oh, hell, he's a Kunou!' Ranma thought in horror and disgust. Rather than punt the pervert away like she would have prior to her mother's interdiction on the train earlier that day, instead Ranma followed her mother's advice and sidled swightly away from him and tried to leave the water again.
That she 'accidently' bumped the guy towards the pool even with his full clothes on had absolutely nothing to do with any ill intent on her part of course by any means. As she exited the water, and the loud mouthed boy flailed around trying to regain his balance she smiled in satisfaction. That satisfaction instantly went away when she felt one of his flailing hands hit her on her hip and instantly felt a rush of cold air hit her down there. 'Did he hit a pressure point?' Ranma thought worriedly even as she hurried away.
Due to Ranma's haste at getting away she was not witness to the remarkable transformation that occurred once it became obvious that he could not pull out of a dive. In an instant the clumsy youth who was flailing around like a complete novice instantly shifted into a perfect diving form. Even though he fell from only the surface edge of the pool, he somehow was still able to find enough airtime to perform multiple diving tricks before hitting the water with barely a ripple. As he exited the water he clutched greedily to his swimming trunks the token of affection that his destined partner had left with him.
It was only when Ranma finally arrived at her allocated changing area and went to remove her swimming costume by taking off first her bikini top and then reaching for the ties to her bikini bottom that she realized exactly what that rush of cold air was as she realized that she somehow was no longer wearing her bikini bottom even though that boy had barely tapped her on her hip.
Trying to ignore the implication that she had walked all the way back to the changing area half nude, Ranma quickly dried herself off then proceeded to get dressed. She looked around for her underwear only to realize with a panic that she could not find the panties that Nabiki had sold her. Hearing her mother's voice telling her to get dressed then leave the wet suit, Ranma quickly pulled on the dress to avoid her mother knowing that she had lost her bottoms, and then balled up the wet bikini top in an attempt to keep her mother from realizing it was only one half of the outfit.
Nodoka looked over at Ranko-chan as she prepared to exit the changing stall. "Ranko why don't you go wait for me outside. I'm sorry to make you wait but I had a problem with removing my full body swimsuit, luckily a very manly man was quite willing to help me out, but I'm afraid that I lost complete track of the time. I won't be long though, I'll just need to get our wet swimsuits and put them away and then we can go." she smiled at the girl then turned to scoop up the wet ball of the teenager's swimsuit.
It was only after Ranko left that Nodoka sighed and looked at the balled up swimsuit. 'Honestly, that girl. Doesn't she know that doing that could ruin this swimsuit?' with a small sigh she went to untangle the strings and began to realize that the ball was much smaller than it ought to be. The answer as to why it was so small became obvious once she realized that it was only Ranko's top not her bottoms. 'Ah, smart girl, I guess she had a plan when she gave away her panties earlier after all. Well.. she really shouldn't be wearing wet clothing underneath her dress, but considering the circumstances I won't say anything to her about this.'
Nodoka exited the changing stall then turned to almost collide with a young man. After she had a chance to get a good look at him she realized that it was in fact Ranko's cute boy that she had been flirting with earlier. "Oh, pardon me young man. Was there something you were looking for?"
"Yes, my lady, I was wondering have you seen the most beautiful girl in the world? She has beautiful red hair much like yourself, in fact if I may ask are you her mother? If you are then I would like to discuss with you arranging a formal meeting. It is destiny that we two shall be wed for her perfection hath ruined me for any other!" the young proclaimed his love for his destined one.
Internally Nodoka squeed in delight at the charming young man and his devotion to dear Ranko-chan. And briefly she regretted that she was not the mother of Ranko for if she were then surely she would have given her permission then and there. As the thought that she was not in fact the girl's mother interrupted her daydream of more grandbabies to spoil, Nodoka recovered and remembered that not only wasn't Ranko her child, but also her own plans for matchmaking Ranko with her manly son Ranma. 'But,' she thought with delight, 'just because Ranko is destined for my Ranma, it does not mean that she cannot have some.. 'fun' first..' "Young man, it would be my pleasure to act as a go between you and my Ranko-chan. Please tell me.. what is your name and where do you live?"
After a minute of getting the nice young male's contact info and giving him Ranko's in turn, Nodoka sighed as she realized that they really must leave as it was getting quite late and her trip with Ranko to the club was still ahead of them. And so she bid the boy goodbye and went to catch up with Ranko. Just as she spotted the girl she turned to take one last look at the boy and thought to herself that those two would make a very cute couple, although of course not as cute as Ranko and her own manly son would make.
Before she could turn back around to exit however she witnessed the boy take out a small bits of something out of his pocketted swimming trunks then rub it against the front of his trunks. She blinked as she slowly realized that the object he was rubbing against himself was a perfect match for the top that she had just taken a lot of time untangling. 'That's Ranko's bottom? Oh my.. she really must be perfect for my manly son.. she just can't seem to keep her bottoms on around any cute boy she sees..'
(Posted Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:40)
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