"Master," Gina started, "He's not going to hear you. He passed out a while ago, after you shoved the money in his hands." After saying her piece, she rolled her eyes for effect.
"Oh," was the responce from the only male in the room. "Well, do you know if there are any resteraunts around here anywhere?" he asked. Ranma had no idea, even though he should have, about the reaction he was about to recieve...
Sheila was the first to react, she jumped on Ranma, sniffling, "Oh you are, you really are the best master a pokegirl could want!" Ranma began to blush, but it was only going to get worse, as Brittany grabbed him into a full-fledged lip lock. Gina, Genn, Brianna, and Jetta all took turns showing an affectionate outburst towards their master. By the end of it, Ranma was beet red, and had no knowledge of which one felt him up.
"Hu-Hrm," Asrial cleared her throught, "Well, is their a bed'n'breakfast around here?" While she waited on one of the girls to give Ranma directions, she mused about what to do. It was apparantly true that pokegirls needed sexual activity to keep from losing their minds, and she had already began to feel an attatchement towards them. Not a bond, per se, but a real affection. She no more wanted to see these poor pokegirls suffer than her own family. Then there was Ranma. He's already performed "the act" with one of them, who was in dire need of it at the time. Did she have the right to interfere with this? Ranma really wasn't from this world either, so maybe if... What was she thinking? "I just don't know," she thought aloud, "how do I fit in?"
"I dunno, I think the outfit looks great on you, Asrial-chan," Ranma stated while still trying to straighten out his clothes.
"Huh," was all Asrial said, confused about his comment. Then, she realized her outburst, "Oh yeah, thanks!" She put on her best smile, and asked Ranma if he knew where they were going.
While Ranma told Asrial about "The PillowBreast Hotel," a friendly establishment outside of town, the pokegirls were following them in utter shock. He had calle her "Asrial-chan."
"C'mon, I'm sorry everyone," Ranma said sheepishly at a new campsite, "How was I supposed to know that Sextome offended the owner? At least they gave us the food, right?"
Brianna felt horrible; it was her idea, "I'm sorry master. I didn't know." Brianna's heart felt weighted by the fact that nobody got a comfy bed for a change. "Please," she choked back a sniffle "don't be mad at me." Old habits die hard, and when she felt Ranma touch her she jumped in fear.
"It's okay, Brianna, I'm not going to hurt you, and I'm not mad at you," Ranma spoke with as much softness in his voice as he could muster.
Looking up into the ocean of blue in Ranma's eyes, she let herself go. She grabbed and hugged him, crying into his arms. Her shudders of fear would soon give way to the comfort and safety found in her new master's embrace, and sleep would claim one Brianna Diggers.
Later that evening, when all of the pokegirls were either in their ball or asleep, Ranma took a moment to claim as his. He stood at the edge of the clearing, and tried to collect his thoughts. The more he thought about this Sextome, the more he felt was missing from the puzzle. A bond was transferred to him through some cosmic punch-line, and he would never be the same. Yet, somehow, throught this bond, he knew something was still missing. Something wasn't right.
He realized that he had made a mistake earlier in the evening when he used the friendly endearment of -chan when he spoke to Asrial; hell, he came close to doing that with the pokegirls too on several occations. He didn't want to be close to these girls, not Asrial, and not the pokegirls either. But, he did.
He had already began serving a life of hell due to his father's actions in Nerima; was he going to have that repeated here? He thought about Akane... There was no way to go back to her now. She didn't understand the fiancee mess, and this would just blow her mind. "Never to be forgiven," he thought. His head dropped down, as he realized that maybe he was destined to never have a normal relationship.
"Hey, what'cha doin' up?" Asrial asked, looking at Ranma's pale face.
"Nuthin'" was the reply with more than a hint of sadness.
Asrial placed an arm around him, "Hey being stuck with a princess and a harem of girls isn't that bad is it?"
Getting the desired results, a little smirk, she pressed the issue, "There ya' go! A cocky grin fits you much better than that old sour-face!"
When Ranma said, "Thanks Asrial," she put a lopsided grin of her own in place, "Uh-uh, it's Asrial-chan, isn't it?"
With a chuckle, she led Ranma back to the campsite. She couldn't help but to wonder if he was as confused as her when it came to the two of them and the little harem.
Upon returning to the campsite...
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