[Episode 59240] [Episode 59240]And she was still sitting on the park bench, desperately wondering how she was going to catch up now, when the boy appeared quietly from the bushes and lifted a finger to his mouth to call for silence as he smiled and hid in the crook of a tree.
A few moments later an older man passed by, barely giving Hotaru a glance before moving on.
"Heh," the boy said as he came out of his hiding spot and dusted himself off. "Pops ain't never gonna find me." He turned to look at the girl and then frowned slightly. "Hey, are you okay?"
"I'm just tired," Hotaru lied.
She was quite exhausted and the pain from the walking about she'd already down was going down slowly. And every moment she sat to recover, the group got further away, making catching up with them more difficult.
"No, you ain't," Ranma said coming to her side.
Hotaru felt the heat flush to her cheeks again for a different reason entirely than exercise.
"You're breathing all wrong," Ranma said, looking her over. "And you smell tired."
Hotaru blinked a moment and wondered how one smelled tired before the boy turned her around on the bench she was sitting on and sat down behind her.
"Wh...what are you doing?" Hotaru asked.
"Just relax," Ranma said, and with that he started to massage her.
That was harder to do than Ranma supposed, of course. On some timelines, this Ranma was ruled mostly by instinct when it came to women and potential mates. Those Ranmas would not have given Hotaru the time of day. She was powerful, but she was also sickly, and she was sickly enough that her potential as a mate was greatly reduced.
In this timeline, Ranma had noticed that operating solely on instinct started to get strange reactions and so he had worked to train himself to control that instinct for times when intellect were better.
He was still very interested in mating and women in general, but that didn't mean he flew off the handle every time a potential lay turned up. If he had been, then he'd have made his first conquest a long time ago.
At any rate, Ranma's pheromones were muted at the moment since instinct said the current female was not a very survivable mate. They were still present, however, and they were still more powerful than a normal human's.
Hotaru did feel much better as Ranma continued to massage her, but more than that she had an increasing sense of attraction for the young man rubbing her back and neck.
Then it stopped and Ranma was sitting down in front of her. She watched him dazedly for a moment, a small smile on her face, as he started to rub at her hands and wrists.
Most women and girls would probably have just sat and waited for the boy to make a move at this point, and fervantly hoping that he would. And in that case, nothing would have happened. Ranma's inhuman instincts said "bad choice" so they weren't pushing him toward anything. However, Hotaru was being raised by Haruka and Michiru, and her standards on how to deal with attraction were being set by them.
"Does that feel better?" Ranma asked her.
In answer, Hotaru did as she would expect Haruka-Papa to do. She grabbed the boy and kissed him hard on the mouth while pulling herself closer.
That surprised Ranma, but he recovered quickly.
Whether Hotaru was a "bad choice" or not, which Ranma didn't particularly understand in such words and didn't particularly agree with anyway. She seemed a nice enough girl, and there was that veiled amount of power he sensed.
And she was currently trying to swallow his tonsils, which was certainly a turn-on, "bad choice" or not.
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