"Gah!" Ranma gasped as the green-haired girl appeared at the doorway. "You again!"
"That's no way to answer the door, Ran...gah!" and there was Akane. "What is she doing here?"
Both teens fell back and covered their mouths comically as they hid behind a wall.
"Oh please," Morrigan said, rolling her eyes. "I don't need the pick me up at the moment. There was some person with a wooden sword a few yards down the street that filled me up nicely."
Kodachi cautiously reached out and poked her brother before jumping back and waiting in the manner one would usually wait for a landmine to explode.
"How very odd," she said. "Usually he's up in an instant spouting about going on with the fight."
As it was, the young man just seemed to lie there bonelessly.
Kodachi approached ever so carefully to the young man's side.
"Is there something wrong, Brother-Dear?" Kodachi asked with a trace of concern.
"I do not know, Dear Sister," Kuno said wearily. "A great fatigue lays upon me and I cannot muster the will to rise to my feet as I have done a thousand times before."
"You're saying that you're too tired too move?" Kodachi asked pointedly.
"Indeed, it must have been a poison of some kind by that misguided green-haired temptress," Kuno said. "As I fought her, the drive and passion just seemed to flow out of me."
"You mean the woman that kissed my Ranma-sama and that Tendo girl you prattle on about?" Kodachi asked with a quirked eyebrow.
Even Kodachi had been able to see that those kisses had been merely to provoke a battle, which had admittedly been fun. Surely her brother had not missed that, had he?
"Indeed, I saw her moving toward the Tendo domicile this day," Kuno said hollowlly, the normal passion for his observations drained by his weariness. "Clearly seeking to continue the foul sorcerer's plan to draw the pig-tailed girl and Akane Tendo into a licentious and untoward relationship for his own entertainment."
"You see, this is what we call accusing people of your own plans, Brother-Dear," Kodachi noted. "More than likely this harridan is merely seeking some of Kasumi Tendo's baked goods as she did seem quite taken with them. Still, am I to gather that you cannot move?"
"There seems to be very little point to stretching even one muscle," Kuno said. "Perhaps, Dear Sister, you can help me to the mansion for a much needed recovery?"
Kodachi sniggered quietly, a sound that was slowly and inevitably growing into her normal noblewoman's laughter, as she cracked her knuckles.
"I think I can arrange for you to reach home, Brother-Dear," Kodachi said, voice just on the right side of insanity. "But first, I have some past...issues to discuss with you."
"So what are you doing here?" Akane and Ranma asked, stepping out cautiously as it looked like the girl wouldn't be jumping on them any time soon.
"I was looking for..."
"Kasumi?!" Nabiki's voice sounded from the next room over.
"Ahh," Morrigan said, stepping forward without waiting to be invited. "Kasumi-san, I was hoping to find you here."
She turned a corner to see Kasumi walking slowly down the stairs in the same clothes she normally wore, only there was a definite disheveled look to them.
Two of the top buttons were undone, letting the blouse flap open to give the occasional view of the inside of the eldest Tendo's breasts even as she fanned herself with one hand and fluttered the shirt in a way that seemed to be designed to cool herself down after a long day of household chores, but also gave a few more flashes to the onlookers.
Ranma found himself pulled painfully aside by Akane as he stared.
"Oh, Morrigan-san," Kasumi said. "I'm sorry, I didn't hear you coming, so busy I'm afraid."
Now, with anybody but Kasumi the display might have been a legitimate unthinking one, but neither Ranma, Akane or Nabiki had ever seen so much as a strand out of place on Nabiki's clothes and never seen her sweat no matter how hot it got.
"I thought all the chores were done," Ranma muttered quietly.
Akane shrugged back at him, clearly just as confused.
"Oh, I see," Morrigan said frowning. "I suppose it would be too much trouble to ask you..."
"Oh, it isn't too much trouble at all," Kasumi said, coming down to bottom of the stairs and sweeping around dramatically. "Ask me whatever you want, Morrigan-san."
"Oh, excellent," Morrigan said with a smirk. "Then perhaps you can fix me some more of those rice balls?"
"Rice balls?" Kasumi repeated, blinking.
"Yes," Morrigan said. "Such wonderful sweets, you put your very passion in them and I can taste every bit of it. Wonderful."
Kasumi sighed and straightened herself up, idly buttoning her blouse back up.
"Certainly," she said with a sigh. "It'll just be a moment."
Swiftly, an eager expression in her eyes, the elder Tendo dashed off to the kitchen.
Nabiki watched the eldest Tendo leave on her airy light step and then turned to arch an eyebrow at Morrigan. The green-haired "girl" responded to the look with a smirk and a smoky kiss that reddened Nabiki's face substantially.
"I'm going back to my manga where the yuri is only on paper," Nabiki said swiftly before quick-stepping it out of the room and up the stairs.
"A bit hypersensitive that one, isn't she?" Morrigan asked Akane with a smirk.
It was half an hour later that had Morrigan snacking on the passion filled cooking of Kasumi Tendo. The hope and the gentleness and the desire to please being ever so flagrant over the more mundane and less filling flavors of rice and tuna. There was an odd strand of disappointment in the recipe this time, just a minute strand, but it came with a trace of sexual tension as well.
"That last is probably my influence," Morrigan reasoned. "But I wonder what she's disappointed about? Hope it doesn't get too much worse, the flavor would really change the way these glorious things taste."
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(Posted Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:52)
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