Sitting on the bath stool, she took a wash bucket, filled it with the warm water in the furo, then upended it upon herself. Then she doused herself with some cold water from the faucet. Seeing her husband still frozen stiff, she splashed him with some cold water as well.
"ARGH! THAT'S COLD! Gah! What d'ya do that for?"
"You looked like you needed it, Husband," Michiru replied. Then, arching a look towards the entrance, she added, "Besides, we need to finish up. It looks like someone wants to use the premises."
Ranma looked up from where she was rinsing herself off with the extendible wash nozzle. The eyes of the smaller girl bugged out as she noticed that Kasumi was still in the open doorway. As for the eldest Tendo daughter, she finally came out of whatever daze had come upon her when she noticed that Michiru and Ranma had been consumating their marriage in the bathing area. She blushed heavily as she backed out of the room.
"Oh! I didn't! I wouldn't! I!" Kasumi babbled behind the door she just closed. Turned the other way, she couldn't even look at the door. Pausing to take a deep breath to calm herself, she then tried again. "I'm sorry about that, Ranma-kun. I didn't mean to... ah... that is..." She didn't get far the second time either.
"That's alright, Kasumi," a voice behind the young woman suddenly spoke. "This happens to me all the time, you know. I'm used to it by now."
Surprised, Kasumi stumbled forward. A hand on her shoulder steadied her. Kasumi looked back to see Ranma out of the bathroom. The smaller girl had a towel wrapped around her waist, and that was it. She still had no feminine modesty. On the other hand, the young woman closing the door to the bathing area had her entire body covered in a robe; her hair was even wrapped up with a towel.
"Thank you, Ranma-kun," Kasumi began again. "I apologize again about the abrupt intrusion-"
"Like I said, Kasumi," Ranma interrupted, "it's no problem. Right Michiru?"
The young woman next to the smaller girl smiled and nodded. "I have no objections if you have none, Husband. Apologies accepted, Kasumi, wasn't it?"
"Ah, yes," the eldest Tendo daughter replied. "And you are Michiru Kaioh, am I correct?" The other woman nodded. "We barely met yesterday afternoon before Father returned home with Mr. Saotome and Ranma. Then that monk came by, in search of some cursed mirror that Father had apparently bought-" Once again, Kasumi was interrupted in mid-speech.
"The mirror! Of course!"
"I remember! It was the mirror that Pops and Mr. Tendo had!"
"Where is it now? We have to stop other people from looking-"
"-then you picked it up and I looked over your shoulder-"
"That mirror is dangerous! We have to dispose of it at once!"
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(Posted Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:56)
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