Story: Ryunosuke Alone

Imagine a button. Imagine that this button, when pressed, returned everything to the status quo. No matter how crazy things get, no matter how bad the situation or impossible seeming it is to resolve all you need to do is hammer that button as though it were a particularly sturdy nail, and everything goes right back to normal.

When writing Urusei Yatsura Rumiko Takahashi hit that button a lot. It's amazing she didn't wear it out by the time she was writing Ranma 1/2

As such, when Ryuunosuke woke up the next morning there was no trace of photographs with displaced personalities. Nor did she give it any thought. What <i>was</i> telling? The absence of her father. Which meant that whenever the status quo was reset, he'd still be gone.

If this young girl had any sort of genre convention awareness she'd be fist pumping the air so hard that it might actually cause her to put a hole in the roof. As it was, she simply got about her day. Without annoyance. Without nuisance. Without a damn stupid old man trying to make fun of her or steal her food or some other annoying bullshit.

"Guess I'd better set up the shop," she said, giving a great big stretch - then stopping part way through and trying out a 'more girly' yawn instead. Had anyone seen her they would have thought she was auditioning for the role of Frankenstein's monster. "Since pops ain't around to run it, I'd better get on that instead."

This was actually less hassle for her than you might expect. She'd been doing the finances for the last five years. Actually, the more she went about doing shit this morning the more it became obvious to her that her old man was just getting in the way. In every sense. Not only trying to keep her from dressing up or behaving the way she wanted, but actively hindering their ability to live comfortably. He didn’t just stop her from acting like a girl, even things which had nothing to do with gender he’d toss in some bullshit! He’d replace her homework with fake copies that had different questions. He’d put dice in her shoes. For crying out loud more than once he’d paste a picture of her open door over her room’s door so she’d walk right into it!

And man, did that ever grind her gears something rotten. In fact, she was starting to feel weirdly pent up. Kinda like she was starting to crave something. A little something she'd had recently, but couldn't quite put her finger on it.

Ding dong! Someone at the counter! "There in a sec!" Ryuunosuke called. She started to stride over there with manly intent, but half way through started forcing herself to skip. Wow, this was really fast! She was by the counter in no time at all, had the shutters open and -

Wow. That had to be about three quarters of the girls attending Tomobiki out there. Ryuunosuke looked out at them all. Giggling and blushing and squirming and looking at her. She scratched her head.

"Uh... You girls all realise school don't start for..." best to check her watch, "An hour and a half, right?"

The girls all started giggling even louder than before. Weird. Ryuunosuke turned to the chick closest to the counter. "Hey babe, what're you after?"

"S-Swimsuit!" the girl said. "Need a new... swimsuit!"

"What's your size?"

"I... don't remember... Would you mind if I t-tried them on? You can tell me if it looks right."

Oof, that was a lot of killing intent. It wasn't directed at Ryuunosuke, but she could feel it nonetheless.

"I need a swimsuit too!"

"So do I!

"Me too!"

Huh... weird! For some reason it seemed as though every chick here was after a swimsuit and - inexplicably, didn't know their size. Hence wanted to model for her. Which was why Ryuunosuke spent her entire morning watching a whole bunch of chicks, sometimes four at a time, getting dressed up in swimwear ("we trust you, you're a girl too right?") and strutting around her while asking how it looked.

Cute. They all looked cute. And she told them as much. Then again, so far as she was concerned they'd all look cute if they jumped in a pile of garbage. There was something about girls. The way they move, the way they walk and talk and shit. Uh... that wasn't to mean the way they shit, Ryuunosuke only meant that as a coarse 'etc', she's not into scat (Thank god. Actually she thankfully doesn’t know what that is).

To get that back on course as swiftly as humanly possible! Ryuunosuke was watching these girls with great care. Their body language and shi- and so forth. She'd been hoping to learn something from the experience, but kept on getting distracted. By something. That hungry feeling. No, actually... Hunger wasn't quite the right word for it. No, this was more like she was...

"Oops, I dropped my pen!"

"So did I!"

"Me too!"

Man these chicks were clumsy. All bending over and thrusting their butts right in her face. Ryuunosuke smacked her lips. Thirsty! There we go. She was thirsty as all heck. And the longer she sat here watching these chicks getting dressed and undressed and strutting around in their tight fitting swimsuits, the thirstier and thirstier she was getting!

Now, if only she could figure out what she was thirsty for exactly, and then we'd be getting somewhere.

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Ataru Moroboshi is a noted pervert. Everyone knows it. People that don't even know him know it. Largely because he was introduced to the entire world at least a couple of times due to events like 'being randomly selected to compete in a tag race with the fate of humanity on the line' and 'accidentally making it rain oil for, like, a week'.

Which, the more Lum thought about it, made her wonder how everything didn't catch fire within seconds of that happen-

The reset button smashed her brain until she went cross-eyed. The pretty Oni girl shook her head and looked over at the boy she'd been thinking about. Lum had done her best to be a good girl by human standards. She'd wanted to wait until marriage before any kind of naughty fun with her Darling after the disastrous result attempting to have sex with Rei had brought forth.

But recently? Changed her mind. Changed her mind hard. Girl was of a mind to ride his dick for all it was worth (cue Ran yelling in the distance that 'can't be for long then!' without the faintest clue why). Her experience with Ryuunosuke and Ran had definitely woken something up inside of her, and she really desperately wanted to get down and nasty as soon as possible. Even Rei had never made her feel like this, and that guy was so handsome he could literally break apart a devoted married couple by popping his face through the front door.

"Hey there beautiful, wanna head out on Saturday?"

"Darling!" Lum snapped, immediately zapping him down to the ground. Then she made a point to walk right over him so he could peek up her skirt. Which he didn't take. Oooh! This was so frustrating! At this point she'd let him have his thrice blasted harem if it meant she could get one sweet dicking from him!

No, Lum. No. that's only the horniness talking. Deep breath. Calm down. It doesn't help that Darling keeps on missing the very obvious signs that you are aching for the opportunity to jump him. There has to be something she could do! Something short of a set of landing lights leading right to her lying in a seductive position, because that sort of thing would definitely get noticed by his parents.

"Hmph! You never let me have fun!" Ataru complained. Lum looked at him like the idiot he was. Come on, you idiot. Notice already! She was all for him having fun! She wanted to have lots of fun for hours with him!

Then out of nowhere an idea hit her. There was nobody else around. Only the two of them on this street... Lum fell back a little and made a few discrete tugs here... and here... Et voila! All she had to do was hurry up ahead of him. He makes a point of not looking at her. Well, that was fine with her for now. All she had to do was drop a little something something in his path so he couldn't possibly miss it and then -

"Eh?" Ataru grunted. Perfect. Exactly as planned. A little extra shake went into Lum's steps. She could hear him quite clearly picking them up off the ground: Her bikini bottoms! "Hey, Lum! Isn't this -"

And then there was the sound of great and terrible violence behind Lum all of a sudden. She risked a glance back. Oh dear. There was fire and water and a crack in the pavement, and Shinobu... was holding a car over her head.

"How... How dare you?!" she yelled. "Stealing a girl's underwear so brazenly! A taboo that even you shouldn't break! Dummy! Dummy! Dummy!"

There was a brief moment that Lum hated Shinobu more than any being on the planet. A white hot fury that almost consumed her. But then, just as quickly, it faded. Replaced with a sort of bittersweet enlightenment.

It was at this moment that Lum realised that she was not the only one in desperate need of getting laid. She sighed wearily. Oh well! Maybe... she could somehow make use of that modelling session later on to seduce Darling? Obviously they couldn't do anything much in front of everyone, but still... Huh? Wait... Wasn't there something about her using her camera yesterday to - never mind! That wasn't important, it was a thing that happened yesterday, that's all! The past is in the past, and past problems had been resolved. Therefore there was no need to dwell on incidents that may or may not have happened yesterday.

"I'm okay!" Ataru said from beneath a stack of three - make that four cars. Honestly though, that level of stamina and resilience only made Lum want to mount him all the more.

1. A whole new incident plays out at the modelling session!
2. The reset button is broken! One of the pictures is still around to cause mischief.
3. Shinobu ends up talking with Ran about what she saw Ataru do this morning.
4. Something else