[Episode 242609] [Episode 242609]Smiling, Ranma jogged the last few yards to the gates of his home. He leaned against the wall to regain his breath for a bit, then he turned back.
“Hurry up, slow... po... ke...”
He trailed off, staring.
Hakufu came sprinting down the road, her expression furious. But that wasn't what had drawn Ranma's attention. No, he found his gaze firmly locked to Hakufu's exposed midsection, especially her chest, which was barely kept in check by her bra and jiggling with every step she took.
He felt his face grow hot, and a funny feeling grew in his stomach as his heart suddenly sped up.
Hakufu came closer, and now Ranma could make out beads of sweat that glistened on her smooth creamy skin. As she finally reached him and stopped, one of the sweat drops crawled down her cleavage until it disappeared between the two heaving mounds to be soaked up by her sweat-dampened bra.
There was some annoying buzzing sound, but it didn't really register with him. He was too busy staring at his gorgeous cousin.
“Ranma!”
Hakufu's shriek finally managed to break Ranma out of his trance. “Eh!?”
“I've been talking to you for the last five minutes, but you just stood there with a weird look on your face!”
Blushing, Ranma quickly looked away. Damn!
Frowning, Hakufu leaned closer, peering at him with narrowed eyes. “You were staring at my chest!” She accused, stabbing a finger at him.
“What?!” Ranma jerked back. “No! Of course not! Why would I want to stare at-” he quickly cut himself off. He had always known that throwing out insults when you were embarrassed wasn't a very smart thing to do, and thanks to Koukin's influence, he had finally managed to keep his mouth shut. Maybe having another guy in his head wasn't all bad.
Hakufu suddenly brightened. “It's okay,” she said with a smile. “I don't mind if you look.”
Wait, what? Ranma blinked. “Eh?”
“Aha! An opening!” Hakufu cried, pushing past Ranma. She quickly opened the gates and went inside, throwing him a raspberry over her shoulder. “Bii! I'm first, you're a lazy panda!” Giggling like a little girl, she skipped inside.
Ranma could only stare after her, completely dumbfounded. What the hell just happened? He had been sure that Hakufu was going to smack him around, not tell him that she didn't mind him perving at her.
Girls were weird, Ranma decided, shaking his head.
“HAKUFU SONSAKU!”
“AAAH! Mother! Don't sneak up on me like that!”
“WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR UNIFORM?! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THEY COST?!”
“Hey! It wasn't my fault! There was this jerk at school! He was real gross and he attacked me!”
“I DON'T CARE! COME HERE AND TAKE YOUR PUNISHMENT!”
“No! You'll have to catch me first! Nyaah!”
Ranma grimaced as he heard crashing sounds from inside. He snuck in, careful to avoid either Hakufu or Goei, not in the mood to get dragged into one of their fights. They reminded him too much of the fights he used to have with his own father, and consequently of the life he had lost and all the people he had been forced to leave behind, and that was just depressing.
He crept across the yard, thinking sneaky thoughts, wincing as a particularly loud crash came from the living room, followed by Hakufu crying out in pain. Giving up on stealth, he picked up the pace and rushed into the house. Once he reached his room he jerked open the door and hurried inside, closing the door behind him with a sigh.
“Man, those two are too much. I wonder how the Tendos managed to put up with me and Pop if we were even half as bad.”
“Hi, Ranma!” Someone called brightly from behind.
“Gaah!” Startled, Ranma jumped and clung to the ceiling like a bat, his heart hammering in his chest.
“Wow, you can jump really high,” Mihoshi said.
Ranma looked down at her, his face darkening. “It's you!”
“Yep, it's me!” Mihoshi smiled brightly. Then her expression grew wary. “You're not mad at me or anything, are you?”
“Of course I'm mad at you!” Ranma cried. “Thanks to you, I'm stuck in this crazy world, away from my family and all the people I care about!”
“I know! I'm sorry!” Mihoshi wailed, tears streaming down her cheeks in a fair imitation of Soun Tendo. “It was an accident, I swear! I really thought that Nabiki was making a wish! I'm sorry, please don't file a complaint with my boss!”
Ranma rolled his eyes. Jeez, why did he suddenly feel like the bad guy here? He let go of the ceiling and dropped to the ground. “All right!” he said. “I won't file a complaint with your boss. Just stop crying already!”
“R- really?” Mihoshi sniffled. “You mean it?”
Pushing a hand through his hair, Ranma sighed. “Yes, I mean it. Now, can you calm down and tell me what you're doing here?”
Mihoshi nodded, hiccuping. “I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry. I'm not very good at this genie thing, but I was trying to do my best! I didn't mean for your wish to turn out badly, I swear!” She broke out into tears again, throwing herself into Ranma's arms.
Ranma stood there with Mihoshi clinging to him for several seconds. Then he wrapped his arms around her in an awkward hug. “There, there,” he said, patting her on the back.
It took several minutes, but eventually Mihoshi calmed down again. She blew her nose, using his vest as a hankie, and Ranma grimaced.
“Th- thank you,” Mihoshi said, shooting Ranma a smile.
Ranma stepped back, shrugging. “Don't mention it.”
They stood in his room, staring at each other awkwardly. “Was there something else?” Ranma asked.
“Oh, right!” Mihoshi said. “I came here to make it up to you!”
“Make it up to me?” Ranma frowned. “You mean you can undo the wish?”
“No, I'm sorry.” Mihoshi shook her head, looking depressed. “That would require another wish, and I'm not allowed to do that.”
“Then how do you intend to make this up to me? I mean, no offence, but this is a pretty monumental screw-up!” Ranma regretted his words as soon as they left his mouth, expecting the genie to burst into tears again, but Mihoshi merely hung her head.
“I know. And I'm really sorry. There isn't much I can do, but I can bring you some things from your old world, if that would make you feel better.”
Huh. That didn't sound so bad actually. It would certainly be nice to have a picture of all the folks at home to remember them by. And maybe...
“Do you mean...” Ranma hesitated, licking his lips. “Do you mean you could bring me some Nannichuan?”
“Of course!” Mihoshi brightened. “I can bring you anything you want!”
Woah. Ranma suddenly felt faint. He quickly sat down. To be finally rid of his curse. It was what he had wanted to use the wish for in the first place, just without the whole 'getting sent to a different world all by himself without any of the people he cared about' bit.
“That's … great,” he said after a while. “I'll have to think about this. I don't want to give you a list of things I could use, only to realise that I forgot something. Could you come back in a few days?”
Mihoshi smiled. “Sure thing! I'll come back the day after tomorrow!”
Before Ranma could say anything in reply, there was a bright flash of light, and Mihoshi was gone.
Ranma blinked, stunned. He could get a cure for his curse! Finally, he could be a complete man again! If he was careful, and lucky, nobody in this new world would find out about his curse before he got rid of it. That seemed almost too good to be true.
He stood up and began pacing, stopping as he felt his damp clothes sticking to his chest. Grimacing, he took off his vest and dropped it to the floor with an expression of disgust.
That stupid Mihoshi. As if ruining his life wasn't enough, she had to ruin his clothes as well.
Now, what kind of things from his old world could he use? Pictures, some Nannichuan. What else?
Ranma frowned. There had to be other things he could use. Maybe some super soba? Being super strong would certainly help him. Or a wishing sword? Then he might be able to wish himself back. Though that probably wouldn't work. How about a-
“Ranma!”
Hakufu burst into his room. She was pretty much naked, dressed only in her bra. Her ripped shirt and sweater vest were gone, and she – or more likely Goei – had taken off her skirt, panties and socks too.
“Guah!” Ranma cried as Hakufu jumped into his arms, hugging him. He toppled over, landing on his butt.
“It hurts!” Hakufu cried, crawling into his lap. “Make it stop!”
Ranma waved his arms around, not knowing where to put them. “How the hell am I supposed to do that?!”
“I don't know!” Hakufu snuggled against him. “Just make it stop!”
Seeing as how it had worked – except for his ruined vest – with Mihoshi earlier, Ranma hugged Hakufu. He had to resort to drawing one of Tofu's pressure point charts in his head to keep from thinking about the fact that he had a very attractive and very naked girl in his lap and the natural reactions such a thing caused in his body.
He could feel her breasts pressing against him, their softness a stark contrast to his own hard chest, and he was distinctly aware of Hakufu rubbing her “special spot” along his thigh. And he could ... feel her NUZZLING HIS NECK!
“Gaaah!”
“Mmh,” Hakufu mumbled, rubbing her face into the crook of his neck, “you're warm. And you smell nice.”
God, please give me strength! Ranma prayed, suppressing a shiver as he felt Hakufu's warm breath against his neck.
His cell phone rang.
Yes! Thank you!
“Uhm, Hakufu,” Ranma said. “That's my phone.”
“Mm-hmm.”
“Can you get off, so I can answer it?”
“Uh uh!” Hakufu shook her head, tightening her embrace.
Ranma twitched. Keeping one arm on the small of Hakufu's back, he leaned to the left, his other hand digging into his pocket and fishing out his phone. He pressed the button to receive the call and put the phone against his ear.
“...”
Damn! What the hell was his name in this new world again? It was kind of hard to think with a naked Hakufu snuggling against him.
Ranma cleared his throat. “Shuyu.”
“This is Gakushuu.”
“Oh, hey, what's up?” Ranma asked. Grimacing, he shifted Hakufu around, stretching his leg to get the blood flowing again. His cousin was heavier than she looked.
Hakufu mumbled a protest and nuzzled her face against the other side of his neck.
“... at school.”
“I'm sorry,” Ranma said. “I didn't quite catch that.”
“I was asking if you were willing to meet me at school, if it's not too much trouble.”
“Uhm, sure. When?”
“An hour.”
“Okay. See you, then!”
Hanging up, Ranma threw away his phone and grabbed his cousin. He was starting to fear for his virginity.
“HAKUFU SONSAKU!” A deep voice suddenly boomed.
“AAAAAAH!” Hakufu jumped off Ranma's lap and whirled around, shoving him to the ground.
Ranma looked past Hakufu, keeping his traitorous eyes from taking advantage of his position and staring at the treasure between her legs, and saw Goei standing in his door. Her battle aura was flickering around her like a corona of hell-fire, and her eyes were glowing like two points of unholy light. In that instance she looked like a demon from hell.
“WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!”
“Ah, mama, I was … I just...”
“THAT IS NO WAY FOR A LADY TO ACT! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT YOU'RE MAKING RANMA UNCOMFORTABLE?!”
“I'm sorry! It just hurt so much, and I thought … and Ranma ...”
“SILENCE! GO TO YOUR ROOM, YOUNG LADY! WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS LATER!”
“Yes, ma'am!” Hakufu sketched a salute and dashed off, but not without sticking her tongue out at her mother.
“I SAW THAT, YOUNG LADY!”
“Hey, no fair! You can't have eyes in the back of your head, you old hag!”
Goei's battle aura winked out, and she looked like her usual self again. Except for her left eyebrow, which was twitching.
“I'm sorry, Ranma,” she said, shooting him a strained smile. “Sometimes I just don't know what to do with her.”
“Ah, that's quite all right.” Ranma chuckled. “No harm done.”
“That's good then. I hope she didn't keep you from doing anything important.”
“Not really, but I have to go out again and meet with someone soon.”
“In that case, I won't keep you,” Goei said. Then her expression turned sly. “Oh, and for the future, Ranma,” she added. “When you make my daughter into a woman, please be gentle with her. She is very delicate.”
“Hahaha,” Ranma chuckled, not really sure what to say to that. “Sure thing!”
Shooting him one last smile, Goei turned around and left. Once she was gone, Ranma blew out a sigh and sank to the floor.
“God!” He cried. “I'm living with lunatics.”
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