It's worth pointing out yet again how thoroughly disconcerting Ranma found his current situation. Not only was he in some weird parallel world which permitted polygamy, but he was also jumping around his alternate self's timeline without seeming rhyme nor reason, and on top of that the very first leap he'd made was to his eventual wedding to three sisters.
"Uh, Nabiki are you sure you're -" he began, but trailed off as she batted her eyes at him and rubbed her cheek up against his arm. The sight made him feel just a little bit nervous. Nabiki was pretty. Really, really pretty. "I mean, we don't really know each other too well do we?"
"That just means we can take the chance to get to know each other a little better," she purred. Normally when something purred Ranma wanted to leap out of the nearest window, but due to the way she was nuzzling up against him... It was so strange! From what his notes had indicated Nabiki was the sort of girl who had more of an interest in his wallet than his body.
Which made him really wonder what her game was...
"Listen," Ranma said. "I don't think it would be a great idea to walk in on your sisters in the hot spring."
"Oh? Whyever not?" Nabiki coyly asked. She shifted gears and glommed onto his chest. Soft. She was so soft and warm and her hair smelled great. His mind cast back to her walking down the aisle in that wedding dress. "After all, we are all your fiancees, aren't we?"
"Y-yeah," Ranma stammered. He really had to get that under control! "But it wouldn't be right! I'm sure they'd have a problem if we just barged in on them out of the blue!"
"Not to mention that there might be other people in there..." another voice suggested.
"True, they might see all the wicked, nasty things we'll do to your body."
All of which made Ranma realise a few things in quick order. Fact one: While Nabiki had been cuddling on to him and acting unduly cute, she had also been distracting him from the fact that she had been guiding him straight towards the hotspring. Fact two: Kasumi and Akane were standing over there by the water with their robes on. Fact three: Nabiki had disengaged from him to stand in the middle of the two sisters with her back turned to him, peering over her shoulder in a way more steamy than the water. Fact four: All three sisters were dropping their robes to the ground. Fact five: He was the luckiest man alive.
'I am going to marry these girls,' Ranma thought. He gulped. He blushed. He adjusted his trousers to try make sure his rising erection was concealed, though from the way the sisters tittered it seemed as though he was only drawing attention to the matter. Well, it was hardly his fault that they were so pretty, and naked, and -
"So how about it Ranma?" Nabiki asked. Her hands slid down to her hips and she gave her hips an enticing wiggle. "Wanna have some fun?"
"We're all in quite the frisky mood you see," Kasumi added. She leaned over a touch and pressed her arms against the sides of her breasts. "And there's only one thing that can sate us."
"That would be you," Akane cooed. She wet her lips and leaned back, resting her hands on the back of her head. "Come over here, loverboy and use us however you want."
So here he was. A young man standing in front of three very beautiful, very naked women who he knew for a fact he was destined to marry. Each of them willing to share pleasure with him, and him with each other. On that basis Ranma did the only sensible thing a healthy young man like him could do with such an offer, and he did it with great gusto.
Namely: Spin around on his heel and charge out of the room like he'd just seen a whole lot of pussies. By which he meant cats! Felines, the animal, not - Gah, away with thee, filthy thoughts for this is not your day!
"After him!" he heard the sisters call out. "Don't let him get away!"
"Here's a clue!" Ranma called back while charging down the corridor. "If you have to say 'don't let him get away,' it makes a guy really want to get away!"
Just as he was about to turn away, Ranma heard a loud crunch noise. He turned back, just in time to see the three naked girls jammed in the doorway.
"Ah, Ranma! We're stuck!" Kasumi complained. "Please be a good boy and come help us out."
"Please Ranma!" Akane whined. "I can't move at all! Grab my hands and pull me out."
"You wouldn't leave three naked maidens trapped like this, would you"? Nabiki asked, sounding genuinely pathetic and needy.
The trouble was that they were saying that while reaching out towards him with very grabby looking hands with wiggling fingers that made them seem as appealing as live worms to a boy like Ranma. That was the only thing that kept him going back to help them get unjammed from the door, incidentally. This proved to be quite a wise move, for as soon as Ranma was around the corner he pressed himself up against the nearest wall and listened carefully.
"Oh, darn! I thought for sure he'd want to come and help us out!" Akane sighed. "Girls, spread out! We've waited too long for this to be denied now!"
"Quite right!" Kasumi said. "I will have that dicking if it's the last thing I do!"
"That is kind of the idea..." Nabiki said, with the kind of tone that made Ranma imagine she was rolling her eyes. "That boy is really cute though. I'm super glad it was him."
That boy...? Now Ranma's suspicions really were raised! He turned around and made ready to find a place to hide - Then collided with another patron, who happened to be carrying a glass of cold water that just so happened to spill... No, guess. Seriously, take a guess. Where exactly do you suppose a person carrying cold water would happen to drop that water when Ranma Saotome was around? Was it next to Ranma? In front of Ranma? Perhaps, by chance behind Ranma? Why no, could it be? Impossible, unthinkable but surely not <i>directly over Ranma's head</i>! But that would trigger his Jusenkyo curse and transform him from hunky, handsome boy into a cute busty girl!
"Hey watch where you're heading! Clumsy idiot!" yelled the woman picking up her glass from the floor. "Hmph, young women today..."
Ranma picked 'herself' up and checked 'herself' over. Looked like the curse was still intact, that was for sure! Weird to think how it hadn't been triggered since this whole mess started. Wow, but think about that for a moment: Just yesterday this seemed like the worst and most complicated part of his life but now it seemed like complications were multiplying all the damn time!
"Allow me."
"Thank you," Ranma said to the person offering her hand, who upon being pulled up to 'her' feet Ranma realised was, in point of fact, Akane. "Don't mention it?" she asked, though the sentence had only gained its higher pitch at the end because that was the moment Ranma's brain finished processing things. Namely people he was trying to avoid because they were acting weird.
"Tell me," Akane suddenly said, adopting a strangely cute and innocent expression and tone. "Have you seen a really handsome boy wandering around? He wears a pigtail just like yours, and was wearing the same kind of clothes that you are..." She peered suspiciously at Ranma, who was doing 'her' very best to avoid direct eye contact. Then suddenly Akane's arm shot forward and squeezed Ranma's boob.
"Hey!" Ranma yelped, batting Akane's hand away. "Cut that out!" Bad enough when Nabiki had been grabby earlier on... Uh... Oh boy, using temporal tenses was going to get confusing in a hurry. "No need to be grabby."
"You are Ranma's sister..." Akane stated, seeming to come to a conclusion. Then she smiled brightly and seemed to light up the room. Cute! But also creepy. "I'm so sorry, I did not recognise you in this lighting," Akane said. "Ohohoho! Do forgive me! Have you seen your brother around?"
Brother... Sister? No mention of the curse. It didn't seem possible that Akane didn't know about it by now even in this parallel world. Either way, Ranma had to play along for now. In which case -
It was an amazing thing really. When a bad actor pretends to be something they are not, they do a little thing called 'over-exaggeration'. You see, a bad actor cannot get into the mindset of the role they're playing and so feel the need to really put it out there that they are playing that part. They'll emphasise stereotypes that fit the role. They'll ham it up something fierce!
Right now, Ranma was pretending to be a girl. Which meant big wide cute eyes, wringing her hands cutely, standing in a much more demure and girly manner, by which of course we mean a manner in which girls don't really tend to do under normal conditions.
"Oh yes, I have seen my brother running by!" she said. Ranma bat 'her' eyes at Akane. "Teehee, he seemed to be in quite the hurry. Do you have any idea why?"
"No idea at all," Akane said. "But hey, you are his sister and I am curious. Tell me more about your brother, I'm very eager to know <i>everything</i>!"
Strange. Her smile was shining brightly, but the shadows seemed to be creeping in from every corner. Ranma's martial arts danger sense was pinging something fierce, but it seemed like the danger was coming from every direction all at the same time. Oh, but those troubles, they just kept on multiplying...
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For years now, Genma Saotome had the shame of being accused by his son - his very own flesh and blood - of being an alcoholic. Ridiculous! He could turn down a good drink any time he wanted. Really, he could! It wasn't a vice, it was a social occasion and nothing more.
Take tonight for instance. He was drinking with his good friend Soun Tendo while discussing their plans to get Ranma wed to all three of Soun's daughters.
"I worry about that Shampoo girl sometimes," Soun admitted, then took a shot. "You've seen how clingy she gets, and that grandmother of hers can't seem to take no for an answer."
"It's Kuonji that worries me," Genma replied, then took a shot of his own. "It's never the strong hit you see coming that gets you. It's the weaker one you don't that drops your guard. My boy doesn't have his guard up against Kuonji at -"
Then, they stopped at the sound of the window opening up. Both men turned towards it, then stared in disbelief as three dolls dropped into the room one by one. The first landed in a manner akin to a decently to well trained martial artist, breaking their fall superbly. The next tucked in their arms and was caught by the first, while the last - to put it crudely - seemed to have no damns to give.
The glass dropped from Genma's hand. The second doll jumped and looked at the liquid spilling out of it, then immediately wandered over to the corner of the room to grab a piece of cloth, while the other two gesticulated widely at her, giving the impression "we don't have time for this!"
The last one rubbed its forehead, then walked across to the two fathers with a seemingly exasperated gait. It then looked up at them and seemed to be miming as though it was talking for a moment, then tapped the side of its head in apparent frustration. It turned towards the first doll, then pointed at a pen on a table. This sparked a mute argument between these two, and at about this point the other doll had returned with a cloth much too large for it to carry in any kind of dignified sense. It began to mop up the spilled alcohol.
The third doll appeared to have won its argument with the first, who began to climb up the table leg. This was when Genma and Soun very slowly turned towards one another, nodded sagely and then fainted into a boozy slumber.
Probably for the best in the end. Knowing these two, even if the sisters had been able to warn them then they would have probably made an already bad situation even worse.
- The doll in Akane interrogates Ranma about the kind of girl he likes.
- Ranma is able to slip away, but runs into one of the other possessed sisters.
- Ranma jumps... But in comes a Ranma with a much better idea of what's going on.
- The sisters discover Ranma just outside the room, and try to save him.
- The sisters discover a note left by a future Ranma who tells them how to resolve the situation.
- Something else
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