Story: Double Trouble: Sap Incoming!

Ever feel like someone just walked on your grave? Well, present time Ranma was getting that feeling right now. All martial artists have a strong sense of danger, you see, and his was ringing the bell something awful. He looked around. For some reason Akane had her battle aura flaring. He supposed that might be what was doing it, but...

But for some reason that felt kinda different. Man, that chick was weird! He was supposed to get stronger by keeping her safe? Well, who was supposed to be keeping him safe from her?

Actually, maybe that was the point. It sure would explain how his future self got so strong. Ranma flexed his fist. Strange though, that battle aura she was flaring wasn't like any he'd ever felt before. It wasn't like she was planning on hitting him or anything, but more like she wanted to do something so much worse. It was making his skin crawl.

Whatever. Let her do her worst. There wasn't a chance in hell she'd be able to lick him no matter what she tried!

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Akane circled her tongue around Ranma's navel while looking up at him, maintaining deliberate eye contact. Then she drew that tongue inch by erotic inch up his washboard abs, then across his manly chest, up the side of his neck, around his mature jawline and finally settled its destination firmly entrenched in the back of his mouth.

Ranma's hands roamed her hips and settled on the small of her back, gently pulling her in closer. Their naked bodies pressed up against one another, the two of them coated in a thin layer of sweat. There was hunger in their body language. Ravenous hunger. The sort of hunger felt when you've had a meal, but it's not nearly enough.

After a moment their lips parted, and Akane asked, "Who has no sex appeal?"

"I dunno," Ranma answered. "Which of us was the pervert again?"

Suddenly he flipped her over so that she was on her back, and then he resumed the kiss, but only for a moment. His lips wandered off, in a reversal of the path she had led across his body. Down her chin, her neck, in between her breasts until he was passionately kissing her navel with his mouth turned up in a cheeky grin.

"Oooh, we really should stop!" Akane moaned and squirmed. "I've completely lost track of time."

"Mm, well, it's not my fault," Ranma said. "We both know I'm simply irresistible."

She reached down and yanked his pigtail up, scowling at him when they were looking each other right in the eyes; then she slowly closed those eyes and puckered her lips. Ranma leaned forward, and Akane put her finger up between them. "Who is irresistible? Dummy."

"According to you half an hour ago that would be me," Ranma smirked at her. "You know, we were really stupid when we first met. Letting arguments like that get in the way. We should've fooled around a lot sooner than this."

"Well, I don't know about that," Akane said. "I mean, this is fun and all, but you've seen how our younger selves are behaving. Neither of them are nearly as mature as we are. They haven't gone through the same nonsense together that we have."

To that, Ranma could only sigh. Oh, yes. The nonsense. That poor younger him had no idea what was coming, did he? The kind of things it took more than martial arts skill to deal with. He stepped across the room and grabbed his shirt. "We gotta have a gameplan for Shampoo," he said. "The last thing we need is either of us beating her."

"Oh, what's this?" Akane quipped while fastening her bra. "Could it be? The rare Saotome forward thinking that comes to life once every hundred years?"

Before Ranma could come up with a retort for that, the door to the training hall slid open. The half-naked lovers turned towards the doorway, and winced in horror when they saw Kasumi standing there, aghast.

"Ah, Kasumi..." Ranma said. "It's not what it looks like!"

"It's not?" Kasumi asked, wide eyed and hand over her mouth. "Thank goodness. It looked very much like the two of you were engaged in extremely irresponsible coitus a few minutes ago when your real priority should be finding a way to return to your own time." She tilted her head. "You are using protection, aren't you? And at the very least, you should be more careful. What if it had been your younger selves that had caught you in the act? Oh my, oh dear. Ranma, I don't know you very well yet but I certainly expected better from Akane."

There was little more for the two of them to do but put the rest of their clothes on. Being half naked in front of Kasumi while receiving this lecture wasn't exactly something either of them especially wanted to deal with.

It was pretty much the second worst thing either of them could imagine, being caught out by Kasumi. They both knew she'd disapprove. At least until they actually tied the knot, so to speak. Afterwards? There would be no need to sneak around, and part of the fun would be lost forever. But the actual worst part of it was having to hear Kasumi talk about sex. It was just... wrong. Nobody should have to suffer that. It was somehow worse than having a parent talk to you about sex.

"There's nothing shameful in practising safe sex," Kasumi lectured, causing both Ranma and Akane to reel in discomfort. "Now, Ranma, it is especially important that when you are thrusting your erect penis into my little sister's moist vagina that you at least make the effort to avoid ejaculating inside." Ohhhh, he'd much rather have to fight Saffron and Herb at the same time than have that in his memory. "I know it will be difficult as you will be fighting against an evolutionary tendency to ensure that it <i>is</i> inside of her, but if there is absolutely no birth control nearby and you simply cannot keep away from each other then you simply must make the effort. Would you like me to buy you some condoms, or perhaps the morning-after pill? I could always ask Doctor Tofu to -"

"No!" they both said at once. "No, no! Please don't ask Doctor Tofu to do anything!"

Asking Doctor Tofu to do anything medically related shortly after talking with Kasumi was like asking to experience a new form of pain. It was absolutely not Ranma's intention, in the least, to go anywhere near the good Doctor when Kasumi had recently brought up the topic of sex in front of him! Nope, not happening, he'd rather fight Herb, Saffron and Pantyhose Taro all at the same time than experience that hell!

"I won't tell Father or Mr Saotome about this," Kasumi warned. "But you have to promise me that you'll be much more careful. After all, we don't want to hear the pitter patter of tiny feet quite yet, now do we?"

The room fell silent. Ranma looked off towards Akane, and he could tell that Kasumi was staring at her as well. There was a funny smile on her face. "Actually," Akane said, "that might be kind of nice."

Another silence. Ranma winced. Kasumi boggled. Akane beamed. "Oh," Kasumi said. "Oh! Oh my. W-Well, that rather changes things, I did not realise you were so... Ranma, how do you feel about this? Do you agree with Akane?"

There was the question. How <i>did</i> he feel about it? He'd avoided the issue when Akane started bringing it up out of nowhere. Which was pretty much what he always did. So, like always, he just said the first thing that popped into his mind, which turned out to be "Well... I'm not against it or anything..."

Which earned him a flying tackle from an overjoyed fiancee. Well, law of averages meant he had to get it right one time at least.

"I see..." Kasumi slowly said. She rose to her feet and clasped her hands. "In that case, I suppose we shall need to practise motherly duties. Do try to make sure the other yous don't catch you in the act; it would be most improper. Akane, please wait a few minutes while I find Mother's old baby care book."

Unknown to either one of them, once Kasumi had closed the door to the training hall the look of worry on her face quickly became one of unbridled joy. "I'm going to be an auntie!" she whispered. "Ooh! I can hardly wait!"

1. The future couple try to deal with what just happened... Then suddenly an extremely early Ryoga arrives!
2. Kasumi's behaviour prompts misunderstandings from her father, possibly also Doctor Tofu.
3. Meanwhile, Akane makes her first move for Operation Maturity!
4. Present day Ranma tries in vain to understand Akane.
5. Suddenly Kuno. What else needs saying?
6. Something else