Akane was confused by the strange looks that she got, as she carried the blissfully purring Ranma through the school halls.
I should have taken a kettle up there and changed her back, Akane thought. Why didn't I do that? Then I wouldn't have had to... tickle Ranma. Which was, of course the very reason why she had brought no kettle, but her subconscious was still doing a good job, distracting her conscious mind from that fact by pointing out how uncooperative Ranma was to being carried.
Indeed, Ranma was squirming slightly in Akane's arms, tickling her thighs with her tail and very softly breathing and purring into her ear. She completely refused to move under her own power - if Akane wanted her to be elsewhere, then she would have to carry Ranma there, herself - while at the same time somehow contriving to be twice as heavy as such a small catgirl could reasonably expected to be. And she was rather difficult to keep a grip on, which was why Akane kept moving her hands. Honestly.
God, she's so warm and fuzzy, thought Akane, who was feeling strangely warm and fuzzy, herself. I could just-
Luckily her subconscious was spared the task of hurriedly suppressing that thought by the appearance of Nabiki, grinning widely.
"Beautiful, Akane!" said Nabiki, clapping her sister on the shoulder that was not currently occupied by a catgirl nibbling her ear. "You couldn't have done that better, if I had given you a detailed script. I always knew you had it in you."
"In me...?" Akane was momentarily disoriented by mental images of Ranma's boy form, as seen by her on the day they met. She shook her head - what did that have to do with anything? Her subconscious whistled nonchalantly. "Uh.. what?"
"Well, the way you worked miss kitty-cat here - that was really professional. Are you sure that you didn't... practice together on the sly? Well, anyway, I'm proud of you, Akane! You really made a clear and definite statement about your leanings, today. And to think that I thought you were too prudish to admit your feelings for Ranma, even to yourself."
Akane was getting more and more confused. My leanings? My feelings for Ranma?
Meanwhile Ranma squirmed out of Akane's grasp, sat down on the floor, and started grooming herself. She was hindered in this task by her boxers and the loose T-shirt that Akane had put on her, before she carried her downstairs.
"And that finale - perfect! You proclaimed to the world, 'Yes, my fiancé is finger lickin' good, and I'm not ashamed to show it!'" She paused. "The only thing that disappoints me is that you gave me so little forewarning. Why, I barely got the camera ready in time to catch your performance."
"My performance? What? Leanings? My what? Nabiki, I don't understand a work you're saying!" Akane burst out.
Now it was Nabiki's turn to stare at Akane in befuddlement. She studied her sister searchingly for several moments before understanding dawned on her face. "You aren't having me on, are you?" she said wonderingly. "You really, actually have no idea what I'm talking about."
"That's what I said!" exclaimed Akane.
Amazed at her little sister's denial, Nabiki cocked her head and grinned. "Well. In that case I have a video presentation for you that will really open your eyes." She held up a tape for Akane to see and without a further word started in the direction of the AV lab.
Akane blinked and started following her sister, only to stop and turn back to Ranma. "Ranma stop that! Bad kitty! Come with me." She hurried after Nabiki.
A collective sigh of disappointment went through the body of boys in the hall, as Ranma stopped trying to wiggle out of her clothes and padded after Akane. It wasn't fair! She had almost succeeded in pulling off her shirt. Akane had already had a taste of the lovely catgirl that Ranma had become - why couldn't she let them have a look?
Akane sat in the darkened AV room and watched as Nabiki connected her video camera to a monitor.
"Obviously there wasn't time to edit it or even put it on a standard VHS tape, but I think the material speaks for itself, even in this form." Nabiki straightened up, pressed "play", and stepped back. "With the right music, voice track, and sound effects, this will be a bestseller."
Akane was about to ask Nabiki once more, what she was going on about. Why would anyone buy a tape of her trying to lift Ranma and tickling her to make her let go of the roof? But then the tape started, and Akane saw her actions from the outside, just as everybody else had seen them. Slowly her chin began to drop.
Nabiki watched Akane's reaction with amusement. She wondered what to call the final product, after editing. Awful puns about pleasing a pussy kept suggesting themselves, but she kept rejecting them as too crude or vulgar.
Ranma didn't pay attention. She merely noticed that Akane had stopped fidgeting and fighting back, so she took the opportunity to snuggle up real close.
When the video ended, Nabiki turned the light back on. "Well?"
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