Miu cracked open her eyes to the usual sound of Kenichi being woken up around 4:00 AM and dragged out of the compound for his run around the city. She started to get up, and then looked back to see what was holding her down. After noticing Ranma’s arms, Miu unlocked them from her waist and moved them aside.
Well, after the second try anyway. When Miu moved them the first time Ranma latched onto her breasts and gave them a good squeeze. But morning foreplay would have to wait until she could wake up in a place where her grandfather and a bunch of other people were within earshot.
When she did get up and free, Miu squatted down on her heels and tried to wake him.
“Ranma.”
“…Meh.”
“Ranma, wake up,” Miu said as she pulled on his arm to shake his body.
“Guh…”
Miu let out a sigh and pulled her arm back to think for a second. With no other real options, she reached down and clamped Ranma’s nose shut. A second later, she watched him sit up gasping for breath and without any of that clinging drowsiness. “I’ll meet you for morning practice soon as I’m done making tea for everyone.”
For a moment Ranma wondered what was going on, and then Miu’s words finally registered as he saw her practically skipping down the hallway towards the kitchen. After taking a few deep breaths, he let out a sigh. Ah well, it’s better than being almost drowned every day and having to wake up a girl.
When he managed to pick himself up, Ranma rotated his arms at the shoulders and started some basic stretching before putting on his clothes from last night. Since they were going to have morning sparring practice, Miu would just get angry at him for getting a clean shirt dirty after just a few minutes.
A little later that morning, in another part of Tokyo…
Tanimoto sighed as he got off the bus while looking at his map, and then did a quick glace around to make sure he was indeed in the right place. Since it was so early, traffic in the suburbs had been light enough to make a bus ride easier than walking, and it dropped him off much closer to his destination than a subway.
When he memorized the route, the martial artist pulled the hood up on his black coat to cover his face, and headed down the street.
And, back at Ryozanpaku…
“You seemed a little off this morning Ranma. Something wrong?”
Ranma could only miserably groan at Miu’s question as she helped him along the path. There wasn’t really anything wrong per say. It was just that an hour into their sparring session this morning, Ranma had gone on the offensive and while defending and dodging the multiple punches, Miu’s breasts had become somewhat more… bouncy than during everyday activities. The distraction had broken Ranma’s concentration, and Miu nailed him. Of course without that concentration his defenses had been substantially weaker, and her kick had ended the match when Ranma was knocked senseless.
When he recovered enough to notice that they weren’t headed back to the house, Ranma looked around. Much to his horror, the surrounding woods of Ryozanpaku’s back yard told him they were headed to place Ranma had told himself he never wanted to be visiting again. “Why are we going to the hot spring?”
“Because we need a bath, and this saves on water,” Miu explained to him firmly.
In response, Ranma tried to run away, but Miu just yanked him back and dragged him on. “Oh come on! If Shigure’s there-”
“She’s not,” Miu assured him evenly.
“Shigure’s always there when I try to take a bath!” Ranma yelled. Then there were the booby traps she made to try and keep Kenichi and Kensei away. They didn’t work all that well, but Ranma always ended up running through them when trying to escape before she tried to kill him or something.
Miu rolled her eyes. “Even if she is, she wouldn’t try and kill you.” Where in the hell did he get these ideas? Well, there was Kensei, but he actually made himself a nuisance.
The sheer level of Miu’s naivety kept Ranma from coming up with a reply. Just because Ranma hadn’t given her a chance to yet, didn’t mean Shigure wouldn’t do it. He’d lived with female martial artists before, he knew what they were like when angry. Just seeing her with Kensei was all the proof he needed. If the ninja had ever found out he’d seen her naked a few times, she’d probably gut Ranma in his sleep.
When they came to the spring and found it empty. Ranma did a quick check around the rocks to make sure the ninja wasn’t hiding somewhere nearby to ambush them. Then, when Miu had finally convinced him that it was safe, Ranma took off his dirty clothes and joined her in the water.
After Miu submerged herself to help get the sweat off her face and wet her hair, she came back to the surface and leaned back against the side to relax. With the woman just sitting there completely naked, Ranma found himself looking over her body and thinking of all the times they’d done it the past few days, and the little fooling around she had him had done last night.
Miu saw him blushing and blinked. “Something wrong?”
“Wha? Oh, n-nothing!”
Realizing the horrible lie for what it was, Miu moved over and put herself on Ranma’s lap. She knew that the hot air and water around them would keep her from telling if he had a fever, but she was curious to why Ranma was acting a little… strange. Stranger than usual anyway.
Then again, if Ranma was sick he wouldn’t hesitate to tell her. He always jumped on any reason at all to blame when she clobbered him in half their matches. Maybe if she… “So, I beat you pretty bad this morning, huh?”
The way he flinched just made Miu giggle.
“I wouldn’t of lost if I hadn’t been so distracted!” Ranma counted.
“By…” Miu prompted.
This time, Ranma blushed and looked away. “You… uh, your breasts.”
Miu blinked and looked down at herself. “What, there something wrong?” She shook her body to make them jiggle a little, and then looked back up to see Ranma had gone even more red. “Oh come on! We’ve sparred plenty of times before! You’ve got to come up with a better excuse than that.”
Ranma just looked back to frown at her. “Yeah, but that was before we went and did it in a hotel, and in the bathroom… and in your room.”
“Technically it’s our room,” Miu corrected him. “But…” she stopped and threw back her head in laughter. When she finally regained her composure, Miu kissed her husband on the cheek and smiled. “So you’re blaming your loss on how I look? Well, sorry Ranma but I’ll be winning a lot more from now on, huh?”
The way she was smiling made it impossible for Ranma to be angry about the whole thing, but still… “This so isn’t fair. I didn’t have a problem with this kind of stuff before,” he mumbled.
The truth of that statement made Miu think. Ranma had been rather… uninterested in girls when she’d met him; especially for a teenager. For awhile she had thought that he actually might be gay, but such ideas had vanished years ago. Although now that they were married, it seemed all those repressed desires were coming out. It was like he was just waiting for permission or something to have lewd thought about her.
That last thought made her blink. Was that it?
Miu leaned back into Ranma’s chest and sighed. Now that she thought about it… Before getting married, their relationship hadn’t been much more than a close friendship. Okay, they kissed a few times in the weeks leading up to his proposal, but the first few times he’d been so hesitant about it that Miu usually ended up reading Ranma’s body language and being the romantic one when he started getting in the mood.
I always chalked it up to him being afraid of my defenses like Kenichi, Miu thought to herself. But Ranma wasn’t an overly cautious guy, so that wasn’t it.
Finally, Miu simply closed her eyes and sighed. Although she didn’t really care about knowing every in and out of Ranma’s past, it sure would help her understand why he acted the way he did a bit better. Then again, maybe it was just true what they said, that men and women could never truly understand each other.
“Well, maybe I’ll get used to them eventually or something,” Ranma finally mumbled.
Miu just smiled at the comment. I hope not. She liked it that her husband couldn’t think strait because he thought she was so sexy. Unless of course it happened during a fight and he got hurt; really hurt, not just sparring session hurt. That thought was actually rather disturbing.
But, she didn’t have time to entertain such ideas. “Come on, I got to get Honoka up and see if she can do everything we need her to.”
Meanwhile, in that other part of Tokyo…
Natsu Tanimoto looked down at the marked spot on his map, and then at the street signs around him. This was definitely the place. It had taken him a bit longer to find it than he expected, but the sign out front confirmed that this was the Tendo Dojo.
For a moment he could almost see Niijima behind him, giving orders. “It will take me a few days to track these people down, so everyone just wait around for a day or two for me to get everything ready.”
Of course as a former fist of Ragnarok, Hermit’s information web was far superior to Niijima’s in the area of martial arts. It had taken him just a couple of phone calls to find this place after he left the meeting.
It was still pretty early, so he doubted that anyone had the time to skip out on him. With the gate obviously locked, Tanimoto raised his hand and… figured that the better thing to do was simply jump over the wall rather than knocking a hole in the oversized door. Quieter too.
He took a moment to do a quick scouting of the house and noticed an exit in the back, as well as an alleyway on the West side that might make for a good escape route for someone trying to get away. When Tanimoto had completed a quick sweep of the perimeter, he came to the front door and knocked on it loud enough to wake up anyone inside.
“Open up, I want to talk with Soun Tendo.”
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