Turning around, Ranma leaned against the door for but a moment, slowly siding down till he sat on his butt, his knees bought up close to his chest. Looking over the apartment, he allowed his mind to drift in thought.
If you leave her now, after what the two of you did you will have violated her trust of you and made yourself no better than your fiancée’s
That single thought is what kept him from running away, from high tailing it out of this apartment and writing the whole experience off as nothing more than a freak accident. A mistake that should not have occurred, that he should never have allowed to happen.
Ranma grumbled, bringing one hand to his forehead as he dispelled that depressing thought. He was Saotome Ranma! He would face this like a man!
He took a moment to gaze at a clock, his depression forgotten as anxiety took hold. "Four Thirty! Kuso!" The Tendo's would be expecting him home soon, and Ranma didn't need to be a psychic to realize if he didn't show up, things would only get more complicated.
"Worse." he croaked out, talking to himself, "Akane KNOWS I'm with Hinako-sensei! This would be the FIRST place the idiots would check for me! Gah, I'm not ready for this! I gotta think of something! Think! Think! Think you baka!" he accentuated each chorus of 'Think' by smashing his palm into his forehead.
To say the day had gone bad for one Tendo Akane is to say Kuno was the sexiest man alive.
It had started out like any other day. Wake up early; go for a jog to work away the lethargic haze of the early morning dew. Return home, feeling better now that her body had been worked up from the dormancy sleep brought to it, her mind already feeling clearer and sharp. She was ready for the day’s trial.
Akane giggled slightly, remembrance of Ranma discovering Tatewaki Kuno of all people was designated as his husband, and the look of absolute shock and revulsion playing across his face was priceless.
Besides...
"Serves that sex changing freak right!" Akane said, yet there was no vehemence in her words, just guilty relief that he had been chosen initially over herself to be Kuno's wife.
"Hmm, what was that Akane-chan?" Kasumi's soft voice inquired from where she sat, her hands busily folding and creasing the laundry from today's chores. Akane blushed lightly; her guilty relief switching to burning embarrassment when she realized Kasumi had heard her.
"Nothing Kasumi!" Akane quickly came out. Kasumi seemed to take her explanation in stride, returning the majority of her attention to her work. "How was Couples Day? Did you and Ranma get along well?"
"We weren't paired together, that jerk took Hinako-sensei over me!" Akane finished in an angry whine.
"Oh dear." Kasumi supplied as she finished folding a towel, stacking it on the others she had folded before. "I didn't realize student teacher relationships were accepted!" she sounded thoroughly scandalized by the notion, a demure blush spreading across her cheeks.
Akane growled slightly when her thoughts, aided by Kasumi's innocent suggestion, drifted to the image of Ranma holding an Adult-Hinako, that pervert slipping their innocent teacher his tongue as his hands caressed..
"Ranma no baka!" she growled out, louder than her previously soft growling. She couldn't believe that pervert would try something like that! With their teacher no less! Oh, when he gets home she would give him such a beating!!
"If you and Ranma weren't married, who got the part as your husband then?" Kasumi questioned.
Akane grumbled pathetically. This was the reason her day had been particularly bad. "That baka Kuno ended up as my husband for the day since Ranma went with Hinako-sensei!"
Kasumi seemed to pick up on Akane's underlying tone of depression. Setting her laundry to the side, she reached out with one of her slender hands and gently took her sister's own soft, yet calloused hands, "Akane-chan, did that Kuno boy.. treat you badly?"
Akane grumbled some more, though she had to admit she felt better already. Kasumi's lightest touches had always managed to calm her nerves in the past, and this time was no exception, "He's always so pushy Kasumi! And when he's not trying to be a pervert, he's either trying to get in my pants! Or shouting off to the heaven's his 'love' for me. He's always bothering me like that, even when Ranma's around!"
"Have you told him you are simply not interested in pursuing a relationship with him? Much less anyone, aside from Ranma." Kasumi added that last bit with an audible hint of mischief in her voice.
Akane colored, before nearly shouting, "That pervert! Gah! Kasumi! I don't want anything to do with that sex changing pervert! Why won't anyone believe me!" she ended in a whine, sniffling sadly.
Kasumi opened her mouth to respond, but the phone began to ring. "You're so cute when your angry Akane-chan. Let me get the phone, then we can talk about this some more."
Akane humphed, crossing her arms as Kasumi gracefully rose to her feet. "That stupid pervert." she grumbled, feeling vulnerable emotionally now that Kasumi had teased her. She could really use Ranma's tactless comments right now.
Ranma tiptoed across the darkened room as quietly as he possibly could, lest he wake its single inhabitant. Sparing his teacher a glance, Ranma gulped hard at what he viewed.
Hinako had tossed a bit in her bed, were before she had laid on her side facing away from him, she had turned and now laid on her back. The sheet he had early pulled away in his mad dash to escape his actions had been kicked even further down her tantalizing body.
Ranma's eyes traced at first over her sleeping peaceful face, admiring the high cheekbones, angular nose, her health pink skin, and those full inviting lips that seemed to glisten in the darkened room. His eyes began to trace down her slender neck, momentarily stopping at the base of her neck, idly admiring the dusky skin before traveling lower to her expose heated chest.
"Gah!" he exclaimed, ripping his eyes away from Hinako's sleeping form as he fought to calm his rapidly beating heart. 'Focus Ranma! Focus on your target!'
Ranma intentions for coming back into this den of carnal pleasures room was not to ogle his teacher, but to get access to her telephone. 'Why she keeps it in her bed room, I'll never know' Ranma thought bitterly as he picked up the receiver, glad Hinako had yet to awaken from her fucking like mad rest exhaustive slumber.
As quietly as he could be, Ranma dialed on the phone...
"Boy! Are you just absent minded, or were you born stupid?" his father yelled, glaring at him.
Daisuke groaned from where he laid, in-between the coffee table and the TV in the living room of his home. He hated when his father berated him like this, even more so when he out right questioned his intelligence, "What the heck did I do now?"
His father's glare increased, "You idiot! You forgot to take out the trash! Your mother is going to be home soon, and you know whom she's going to yell at because of it? Not you! It's always me me me!" he grumbled, raising a fist into the air and waving it menacingly, "If you know what’s good for you, you'll take it out RIGHT NOW!"
Daisuke grumbled, hopping to his feet, "Yeah, yeah."
The phone began to ring as he passed by his father. Changing direction, Daisuke went and picked up the phone. "Moishi Moishi"
"Dai? That you?" came Ranma's familiar rough voice.
"Yeah Ranma, what’s up?"
"Hey man, something serious just happened. I need yah to cover for me for the week end."
Daisuke's eyes widened, slightly nervous. Whenever anything serious happened, it usually spelt disaster on a scale totally unheard of outside Nerima, "What’s up?"
"I can't get into details just yet man, but I really need yah to cover for me!" Ranma's desperate voice didn't calm Daisuke's nervousness one bit.
"Uh.. depends, what do you need?"
"If anyone asks, I'm staying at your place for the weekend. Workin on some stupid assignment Hinako-sensei gave us for doing so bad on the couples day assignment. Can yah do that?"
Daisuke shrugged, turning around and leaning against the wall while ignoring his father's threats of slicing his neck, "Sure I guess. What are you going to do for me, though?"
Ranma chuckled on the other end, before replying, "I won't tell Hiroshi about the late night visits you been givin his sister!"
Daisuke chuckled, nervously scratching at the back of his neck, "Hehe.. didn't think anyone knew about that." when Ranma snorted, Dai continued, "Okay, I'll do my best then. But if those nutty Fiancée’s of yours destroy my house, I'm going to kick your ass."
"Yeah yeah. You and what army?"
"Heh. Look man, I gotta go. My dad is getting pissed. Okay?"
"Thanks man."
"No problem." Daisuke finished before hanging up the phone.
"BOY!" His father screamed, looking out the window, "Trash! Now! You're mother's coming up the street! Run boy!"
Setting the phone down softly, Ranma glanced back towards Hinako.
"Good, still sleeping." he said, relief echoing off his words.
Picking up the phone again, Ranma dialed in another number. Last phase of his smoke screen plan.
"Moishi Moishi?" Kasumi's familiar voice answered.
Ranma let out a breath he hadn't realized he was holding in, thankful it was his pops or Akane who answered the phone. It would be MUCH harder to convince them of the lie he was about to feed Kasumi.
"Hey Kasumi, it's me Ranma."
"Oh, hello Ranma." some movement echoed over the phone, before she said, "It's almost five Ranma, why aren't you home yet?"
Ranma chuckled, nervousness dripping off his voice, "Uh, eer, something's come up! Hinako-ch, eer, Hinako-sensei gave me an extra assignment for doing so bad at this couple's day project. I'm gonna stay over at Daisuke's tonight to see if I can finish this."
"Oh dear, thank you for calling Ranma-kun! I'll make sure to tell the others."
"Thanks Kasumi, I, eer, might need more than one day to finish this. So If I don't come home tomorrow, just tell everyone I'm finishing up this school project. Hinako said if I don't got it done she's gonna fail me!"
"I understand, Ranma-kun. I'll let everyone know."
"Thanks Kasumi." and he hung up, feeling much better now that he had bought himself some time to figure this screwed up situation out.
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