"Ah, Kasumi! Could you please brew us some tea?" Soun Tendo asked his eldest daughter.
"Yes father," Kasumi said. And then a traitorous thought came to the mind of Genma Saotome: His friend was not the only one that Kasumi had called Daddy. With video evidence.
This was a new problem in Genma’s life. Ever since he first got the job, he had kept his personal life and professional life separate. With only his wife knowing about both sides. And unlike most other problems, he couldn’t run away from it
"Here you go, father, Mister Saotome." Kasumi set down the cups a few minutes later and didn't make eye contact. Not that he could either. And not because he was checking out her body, thank you very much! Granted, her figure was extremely womanly, and any man would be lucky to have the chance to be with her, but -
What was he thinking about? Genma adjusted his glasses on his face. Oh yes. The fact that he'd worked with Kasumi, and the fact that business and personal life was now interacting. Anyone in the adult entertainment industry would tell you how bad an idea that is. Because, it's bad. It's trouble. You'd have a more fun time if you invited a vampire into your home than this kind of trouble.
Kasumi being an obvious new piece of ass for the industry - ugh, he cringed at that - was obviously not helping. She was pretty nervous around him as well. How could he tell? Because she'd made tea in the English way, not the Japanese.
For a perfectionist like her to do something like this was quite telling. Soun was too focused on their shogi game to notice yet, but he would in a moment. No doubt about it. Then he'd ask her if something was the matter, and she'd have trouble hiding it, while also being unable to make eye contact with Genma, which would lead Soun's typical paranoia to leap to the <i>for once correct</i> solution to the problem, which would be a Very Bad Thing.
"You seem nervous Saotome," Soun said. "I see, I see, there must be a move that I can make that would be devastating to your strategy..."
Curse his habitually occasional situational selectively keen observational ability! Genma really needed a distraction! And something more severe than pointing in another direction! Like he did for rounds of shogi so he could change the board to his own advantage.
For once in his life, fate smiled upon Genma, and delivered unto him a distraction.
"Pervert!" followed by a slap.
Oh, the sweet sound of a distraction! Taking the form of a tsundere mating call. Ranma and Akane were fighting over something. Hopefully it was from the boy making a move but merely doing it poorly enough that Akane took it badly.
“Oh dear, she hasn’t called him a pervert in a while... “ Kasumi said. Grk! M-Mental note to himself, if she does work on another film then advise Yuri to have her say the word 'pervert' at some point, it will work like a magic spell.
In any event, the three of them quickly hurried along to see what all the fuss was about, poking their heads around the doorway to see the two of them in their normal squabbling pose. Ranma, his arms folded and leaning forward with a scowl on his face. Akane, hands on hips, looking up at him while starting up defiantly.
"What's got into you this time? I didn't do anything!" Ranma protested. A futile move, boy. Of all the things Ranma learned from Genma, how to get out of an argument was not one of them. He would do best to learn that when a woman is angry with you, knowing what has made them that way will not save you.
"Oh no?" Akane said, and then she produced Exhibit A. It looked like a video tape. "Then what's this disgusting movie I found in your room?!"
“Lonely Lovely Ladies Three?” Ranma read the title on the tape’s label, “I dunno? What is it?” That was the last thing he should have said, because Akane slapped him again.
"You just want me to say it out loud," Akane said. "D-Dirty! It's so dirty and nasty! I couldn't beleive what I was seeing!" She blushed, clutching the tape to her chest.
Lonely Lovely Ladies Three? Wasn't that one of his earlier - Genma's glasses became opaque. Oh yes, he remembered that one. His main co-star was a slightly more experienced woman, who had been using the industry to pay her way through university, as she came from a poor family. The last he'd heard, she'd become a biochemist of some renown.
As for the movie itself, it was back when he had hair on his head and a bit less of a gut. So he had some bittersweet feelings on the matter. The things that Akane would be talking about were probably the threesome in the shower, or perhaps the anal over the pool table.
Although, as a man who had worked in quite his share of adult movies, he did recognise the expression on Akane's face a bit better than the girl might care to admit. She was angry on the outside, but there was a part of her that was curious about what she'd seen. His son was either extremely lucky, or extremely unlucky.
Nonetheless, from the way this conversation was proceeding it was increasingly likely that the rest of the household would wind up seeing the movie. At which point Soun would recognise him, and then etc.
Which left him with one regrettable course of action to take. Oh, the humiliation he was about to impose upon his only son (occasionally daughter)! The shame that Ranma must bear for the sake of his father!
"Ranma! How dare you use porn, when you have a cute fiance already!" Genma yelled, rushing in and snatching the tape out of Akane's grip. At which point, Akane and Ranma punted him out over the skyline of Furinkan.
"Hrm, that coordinated attack was pretty good," Genma said to himself, adjusting to sit in a meditative posture while soaring through the air. "Yes, yes, they're obviously getting along much better. Any day now they'll surely realise their mutual attraction, and we can be done with this mess once and for all."
Those might be the wishful thinkings and musings of a man who just got punted across the city skyline, but no matter. Genma would take what he could get as a victory...
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Back at the Tendo home, a certain pair turned back to each other after getting rid of Genma. Who still had the video tape. Not that either of them noticed quite yet. Now, let's see. Which of them was going to say something dumb first to break that silence?
"It isn't mine."
Right, of course, Ranma. Sucker's bet really when you think about it. In a sense it was quite fortunate for him that his mother stepped into the room to defuse the situation - though if you ask any teenage boy what he'd think if he got into an argument with his significant other and then his mother rushed in to save the day, 'lucky' isn't the word they'd use. I think the phrase more likely to come to mind would be 'I didn't know this was my worst nightmare, but now it is <b>thanks a fucking lot</b>.'
“Well then whose is it!?” Akane said in sharp tone
“"Akane, dearest, it's alright," Nodoka said, putting her hand gently on Akane's shoulder. "I understand how embarrassing it must be, but you have to understand. Young men are built differently to women."
"M-Mom?" Ranma gulped.
“Lonely Lovely Ladies III you said it was?” Nodoka said, a very strange smile on her face. "Well, you see, at this age a young man naturally seeks to understand sexual matters more seriously. So, he will seek out adult material to better understand what he should be doing."
"It's not mine!" Ranma protested
“A Shower threesome with butt stuff is what he should be doing!?” Akane shouted, before realizing that she had just admitted to have <b>watched</b> the video and thus immediately turning an interesting tomato sauce color.
"Also, if a young man doesn't get his rocks off routinely then he winds up making an awful mess of whatever he's sleeping in," Nodoka continued as if Akane hadn't said anything. "I had been wondering why I hadn't needed to clean the sheets yet. According to Kasumi, she hasn't needed to either. It's good to know that you're taking care of your basic health and psychological needs, that's a truly manly thing to do."
At some point Nabiki had shown up with a bag of popcorn and a deck chair. She was loving this shit. You couldn't pay for entertainment like this - but they'd sure pay to keep anyone from finding out about this conversation.
"Now, I would much prefer it if you made use of each other to vent these frustrations," Nodoka said. "I do want to be a grandmother, you know!"
"W-wait, frustrations?!" Akane asked. "Wh-wha do you mean by -"
"What were you doing in our room?" Nodoka asked.
"I was looking for Ranma!"
"I see," Nodoka nodded. "And you found this video...?"
"I-In his shirt drawer..." Akane mumbled.
"Hey, why were you in my shirt drawer anyway?" Ranma asked. He poked her on the forehead. "You're accusing me of being a pervert, but I bet you were looking for a whiff of my manly odor. Huh? Huh? Weren't you? Something like that? Huh?"
Needless to say, but at this point Soun was well past the point of noticing that anything was weird about the tea that Kasumi brewed. Come to it, he probably wouldn't notice if you, dear reader, appeared next to him in a Mickey Mouse costume, danced a jig and shaved off his moustache. Then again nor would anyone else in the room. This conversation was like the conversational equivalent of a black hole, once you were close there was no escaping it.
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Is there anything quite so sad as a wet panda trudging home? Genma liked to think there was not. Still, at least the zoo hadn't tried to grab him this time. If only he hadn't wound up in the canal. He swore that Ranma and Akane had trained themselves to be able to boot people into it.
By the time he got back, it sounded like the argument had ended. Ah, the video tape was drenched as well so it was functionally unusable. Also, Kasumi was by the front gate with a tea kettle. Alas, his beloved and occasionally terrifying wife didn't seem to care about his well being, as she was laser focused on their son.
"Hello Kasumi," read the sign that Genma flipped up. "Thank you for the hot water."
"I'm sorry, that was my fault," Kasumi bowed. "The tape was -"
"Yours," Genma interrupted, putting a... is it still a finger if you're a panda? Anyway, he put it to his lips. "Shush! Don't say something where we could be overheard."
It was obvious what happened anyway. Kasumi was curious about his past, investigated, found that tape and went to ask him about it - then she must have been disturbed and had to hide it in their room. Then Ranma got the blame for it when he had no idea about it.
These things happen, but it was yet another reason mixing personal and business lives are such a terrible idea.
- Time for more filming, so Kasumi meets more of her new coworkers.
- Nodoka brings up the tape to Genma.
- Later, Ranma's buddies share a tape with him of a brand new adult video…
- Kasumi does manage to watch one of “Goro’s” old movies.
- Something else
Stocky build aside, doesn't Gemma have a pretty flat belly in the anime and a six-pack in the manga? He does get a fairly large amount of bath scenes.
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