Y'Know what, just consider what I said in the first chapter to apply throughout the whole story, I don't own Kenichi etc.
This chapter earns its T rating via F bomb and other language.
While Miu was initially a bit disappointed that her nude weekend was interrupted, she decided it was worth it, as she got to spend the whole next day out and about with Kenichi, and while neither dared to say the word "Date" out loud that's what it was more or less. She wore her actual jumpsuit just in case his "Dream" caused him to be more observant, but her worries were alleviated quickly as he seemed unable to look at her below her neck. Kenichi bought the story that she and Kisara had accidentally knocked him out because they were startled at not hearing him on the surveillance, hook, line, and sinker. He said he had the weirdest dream. Miu put on a suspicious face and asked what kind of weird dream; he vehemently stated that it was not "that" type of dream, but not as frantically as if it had been, so Miu knew he remembered. He didn't show it much outwardly, but she knew he took it to heart, too. He kept giving her real thoughtful looks, he seemed less enthused at joining Kensei's antics, and most importantly, when she was cleaning, she found the book he had mentioned in his room, opened to the page about breaching the subject with friends, and a bookmark in the page about breaching the subject with one's girlfriend/boyfriend (She blushed at that). On top of that she also noticed his pajamas were absent from the hampers. It was that point that she realized her methods of finding out Kenichi's thoughts were on the verge of stalking and decided to relax and take a more go with the flow approach.
Two weeks later, Kenichi and Miu finally got a chance to take a break from training again and they found themselves wandering the town with no particular destination in mind, simply enjoying one another's company. Miu spotted a familiar street sign and she decided it was time for action.
"Hey Kenichi, let's go this way, I have something I need to stock up on." She led them down the street to a costume store with a picture of a tiger-woman in the window. Kenichi followed Miu, confused, into the store and down an aisle with hundreds of different jars of paint. He saw her pick up a few jars of purple paint and got even more confused
"I'm not sure what you're painting, but don't you need more than one color of paint," he said as he picked up a jar. "Body paint? What do you need that much purple... body..." he trailed of as realization spread across his face. Miu Smiled timidly and put her hands behind her back to resist covering up as he looked at her, his facial expression showing nothing but awe. She blushed as he looked from her face to low to lower and back, waiting for his reaction. She was at the very least relieved that he didn't seem to be reacting with perversion.
"... how long have you been painting on your clothes..." He finally said.
"Remember that time Kensei threw you into my room while I was getting dressed and you rolled up into a ball in the corner and started chanting that it wasn't your fault and you didn't see anything? I'd been practicing for about a week and that was the first time I'd gone out dressed like this." Kenichi looked dejected at the memory but nodded solemnly in understanding.
"So... why?"
"Well when that heat wave started last month, I put on one of my more form fitting jumpsuits to be cooler in the thin fabric, and Honoka said It looked like I might as well be naked, and it made me really uncomfortable, so I talked to Kisara about it and she said she agreed and was surprised that I didn't already know my clothes were too revealing, and said that they looked like they might as well be painted on, which is what inspired me to go to this place when I passed it, and I felt much more comfortable and decided I liked that my jumpsuits made me feel like I was naked, and during that week I researched nudism and ultimately decided that I was going to be a nudist." Miu blushed for some reason and rushed toward the end, hoping Kenichi would react positively like she thought he would. But he just stood there. "... So... what do you think? You don't think I'm weird do you?" She brought her hand across her body and held her arm in a timid posture. Kenichi blushed.
"What! No, not at all, this is just freaky, I had a dream where you told me you were a nudist, and now it's happening for real!" At that Miu let out a sigh of relief and started laughing, much to Kenichi's confusion.
"Oh, good, I was worried you'd think I was strange. But now that I've decided to be a nudist, I'd really appreciate your support. You could even join me!" she frowned and her voice turned mock- serious. "But you'll need a towel." The look on Kenichi's face was worth the awkwardness of the previous minutes.
"... That wasn't a dream, was it."
"Nope!"
"I walked in on you and Kisara fighting naked"
"Yep!"
"Why was Kisara naked?"
"Because she wanted to be"
"..."
"Alrighty! Now that that's settled, let's buy this and head out!" Kenichi followed her to the checkout numbly. Miu put the jars of paint and a roll of tape on the counter. The sales clerk looked at the items and looked at her, and gave her a rather disturbing, knowing grin. He then fell unconscious under the combined weight of Miu and Kenichi's glares.
"You never answered my question," Miu said as they walked through the park.
"Eh? Sorry, I hadn't realized you'd asked one." Kenichi grinned sheepishly
"To be fair I guess it was more of an implied question; do you think you'll take up nudism with me?" Kenichi stopped walking and looked thoughtful.
"It might be fun, but I think it'd be best if I keep my clothes on for now, that would be a situation that would be too easily misunderstood and if we were caught the elder would kill me before you could explain things." He said. Miu was a bit disappointed but still relieved that he could think this over calmly.
"Fair enough, but you don't mind if I don't bother with the paint when it's just the two of us?"
"Once again that would be easily misunderstood but I'm not about to force you to do something you don't want to do; as far as I'm concerned you can dress however you like." Miu practically jumped for joy at his words and hugged him. He blushed a bit but hugged her back with a smile. Their moment was rather brief as Kenichi was suddenly glomped away from Miu by a rather excited girl with strange pigtails in a short, Chinese style dress that revealed an insane amount of cleavage.
"Uh, hey Renka... it's nice to see you too?" Kenichi's dazed response came out as more of a question, but Ma Renka didn't seem to notice.
"Hi Kenichi, I've been looking for you! Since it looks like you don't have anything better to do, let's go on a date!" She said, apparently emboldened by his contact with Miu to actually state her purpose for tracking him down. Miu didn't like this.
"Sorry, he'll have to pass, he's already in the middle of a da... an outing with me," she said in a venomously sweet tone. Renka kept his arm hugged up against her chest.
"Like I said, 'since he has nothing better to do'" she didn't back down in the slightest.
"Oh, well it's about time we headed home, you'll have to ask him another time." Now Miu had Kenichi's other arm and started to pull him away from Renka.
"Then I guess I'll have to join you, I've been meaning to visit Papa" The masters' training was the only thing that kept Kenichi from being torn in two as Renka pulled too. Trying very hard to ignore the four as-good-as-bare breasts pushing into his arms, Kenichi sighed and started walking home, since despite their words neither girl was going anywhere. He didn't dare say anything, as the arguing girls would use whatever he said in their favor and the fight would get worse, so he walked to the dojo without either girl seeming to realize. When they got to the gate the girls were still arguing so Kenichi simply took a stance, dug in his heel and kicked the doors open. With the girls on his arms he couldn't get the right angle to open the doors all the way, but He managed to squeeze them through.
"Masters! A little help here!" he called out as he approached the main building. Much to his dismay there was no reply. He spotted a letter on the door: dear Miu and Kenichi, the masters and I will be out for a few days, an emergency popped up that it's best you not know the details of; don't worry, it's not our usual shadowy friends, but we'll still have to leave things at the dojo to you two 'til we get back. And Ken chan, He turned the letter over and in large, imposing calligraphy it said: I WILL FIND OUT! Crying, he entered the kitchen to get them some tea, only to find Kisara rooting through the fringe, waving her butt to the music from the earpieces that had presumably kept her from noticing them. It was then that Renka and Miu noticed they had entered the kitchen. Kisara stood and turned to face the others, the carefree smile fading from her face quickly to be replaced with a look akin to the one she had when Miu and Kenichi first found out about her love of cats. For a moment the only sound was the faint music from Kisara's earpieces, which she stowed in the purse at her side with the ipod they were connected to.
"Hey Kisara, What brings you here? You know I don't like people raiding the fridge; I've got a food budget to maintain! Oh, and Kenichi remembers, we were just talking about it before Renka showed up." She greeted Kisara cheerfully and even managed to keep most of the malice out of her voice when she mentioned Renka. Kisara quickly put the stuff she'd gotten on the counter
"A-ah, r-right, ah, hi." She waived timidly. She looked at the other two; both were standing shocked still, and Renka had covered Kenichi's eyes. Renka found her voice.
"Why are you naked!" she screamed right in Kenichi's ear.
"Because she wanted to be, would be my guess, am I right Kisara? You should keep a better eye on the surveillance system in the future." She put her bag on the table and left. "I'm going to take a quick bath; I'll be back in a few minutes. Don't kill each other while I'm gone!" she left a frantic Kisara, a terrified Kenichi, and a bewildered Renka to fend for themselves. There was silence for a few minutes.
"Since when do you think it's okay to walk around naked in other peoples' homes! And what do you think you are showing to Kenichi!"
"Well, I read that the masters were out and I didn't think that Miu would mind, plus I thought those two would be out longer... "
"But why are you naked!"
"Well I came here 'cause I was bored at home and I was training a bit when my clothes started to get all sticky and clingy..."
"In short, because she wanted to, right Kisara?" Miu had re entered the room and Kenichi was frantic trying to figure out what exactly was happening in front of him. He knew that her bath meant washing away the paint she was wearing but had she put on something else...
"Miu! You too! Why is everyone naked!" and his question was answered rather quickly as Renka screamed again, this time complete with waving arms (Kenichi kept his eyes closed despite the fact that Renka no longer covered them). Her repetitive arguments seemed to be starting to annoy Kisara.
"She already said it was more comfortable that way, what more reason do you need?"
"Argh! Whatever, get dressed now, there's a boy here and you two need to stop acting weird!" perhaps it was just something irritating in Renka's voice, but Kisara snapped.
"I DON'T FUCKING CARE! I am not acting weird; I'm just dressing the way I want to! No man has ever controlled me and they ain't gonna start just by bein' in the same damn room! And you, Kenichi! Stop cowering like a little crybaby, open your eyes and look at the naked women in front of you like a Fucking man! It is ridiculous that we're making such a big deal of this!" Needless to say Kenichi was expecting pain at some point no matter what he did so he figured he had nothing to lose by complying.
"yes ma'am!" he opened his eyes to see Miu hunched over slightly, suppressing laughter, Kisara, red in the face and huffing a bit after her explosion, and Renka looking between the three incredulously. He calmed down enough to give them a weak smile.
"There, was that so hard? Let's go relax in the living room." Miu left the kitchen, hugging Kenichi briefly as she went, and the world shut down around Kenichi as he saw the look on Renka's face. And the shit has hit the fan. Now Renka will see Miu's nudism as some kind of plot to get me to fall for her, Renka will strip down as to not to "lose to her" or whatever, except Renka is way too shy for that and will wind up hitting me for seeing her naked... and she'll probably be insulted if I don't look and hit me anyway. I knew I would wind up getting hit the moment I saw Kisara's butt hanging out of the fridge. Renka turned red and shook with rage.
"So this is how you get Kenichi to follow you like a puppy, you've been showing some skin and he's falling all over you! Well I'm not going to lose to you!" She pulled her dress over her head and was naked in one go. Despite knowing what was about to happen, Kenichi managed to muse that with the cut of her dress there wasn't much of a difference. Renka stood resolutely before Kenichi for a few moments before her face turned red and her lip quivered. She covered her breasts with one hand and raised the other to slap Kenichi "KIIIYAAAA! Don't look!" sometimes Kenichi hated being right.
"Alright Kenichi, she's gone, you can stop playing dead!" Miu said as soon as she saw the main gates close after Renka left a couple hours later. They had explained things a bit better and convinced her not to tell anyone, and while she seemed to believe that it wasn't some seduction ploy, she still didn't seem to like the idea
"Ah, finally, my neck was getting sore, why didn't you move me after you checked my pulse!"
"If you're going to bail out on us like that then you deserve a little discomfort."
"Sorry, you know she would've freaked out even more if I hadn't taken myself out of the picture!"
"Wait, he was conscious this whole time!" Kisara looked shocked.
"Of course! Only a master can get a one hit KO on me nowadays!" he said with pride before teetering a bit and grabbing his head from standing too fast. "Although if I took a hit like that in a fight I'd be dazed enough to be in a bit of trouble." He chuckled. Kisara laughed and slapped him on the back.
"You're somethin' else, Kenichi. You can stand up after a hit that sends you through a wall but the sight of two naked chicks will knock you out cold!" she laughed some more, hugging her sides. (Kenichi had to mentally slap himself for noticing how that pushed up her breasts)
"Physical and mental assaults are two different things" Kenichi argued feebly.
"Ah, so you were brought down by your own perverted thoughts, huh? What were ya thinking? 'Wanna spar with me next?' nudge nudge wink wink? " she laughed again.
"If he caught just one of us he'd probably think that, but we gotta take into account that he saw both of us naked... you were imagining me and Kisara doing 'things' together, weren't you?" Miu said with a sly smile. Kisara let out with a new round of laughter. You'd think she'd been drinking, but in reality she was just overcompensating for her nervousness.
"You naughty boy!" Kenichi was absolutely mortified at having two nude females contemplate the perverted thoughts he'd been having about them, but he figured there was little point in denying things at this point.
"That was my second thought..." he said. He cursed himself the moments the words were out of his mouth.
"Oh? And what was the first?" Miu was just torturing him at this point.
"'BOOBIEZ!'" Kisara was still laughing. Seriously, Miu was going to check Sakaki's stash as soon as possible.
"N-no!" Kenichi blushed as he shook his head.
"Oh so now you're blushing!" Miu smirked.
"Ah, tell us! You just admitted to imagining me and Miu... together... is it really that much more embarrassing?" Kenichi sighed in defeat
"...interrupt...desses..." Kenichi muttered.
"What was that?" Kisara asked
"I can't hear you!" Miu sung.
"I said my first thought was that I had 'interrupted a fight between goddesses'" He yelped a bit defiantly as his face burned brighter. This shut them up; it was their turn to blush.
"Wow... um..." Kisara was speechless.
"Thanks," Miu said, blushing shyly.
"Seriously? That is the cheesiest ..." Kisara chuckled and smiled warmly. "Hey Miu, let's get dinner started" she moved relatively smoothly to a less awkward topic. Miu looked at the clock
"Wow, it's that time already!" she went to the kitchen and donned an apron.
"Don't you have to go home soon, Kisara?" Kenichi asked.
"Eager for some alone time to worship your goddess?" It was mean but the look on his face was worth it. "I'm staying here for a while to keep an eye on you two. Yeah, yeah I know you've been alone before without incident, but with the elder's note I'd think you'd be glad for the extra person around to vouch for you." Kenichi paled at the reminder.
"I suppose I can't argue with that logic"
"Are you guys going to help me with dinner or not?" Miu re appeared with her apron on. For whatever reason, the sight of Miu in just her apron was harder on him than seeing her completely nude.
"Y-yeah, we're coming!" He gulped. This is going to take a lot of getting used to.
AN The flow of this chapter is a little off, but otherwise I like it. When I'd first written this I'd watched a lot of Ranma recently, so Renka happened to have absorbed a bit of the aggressiveness of another certain Chinese girl with a thing for the protagonist, but I think I toned it down a bit in this rewrite. I've officially written further than the last version went! (I'd gotten hung up on how to have Renka react when she saw Kisara... or maybe I hadn't even put Kisara in yet?) The next step will be to get the masters' ok so that Miu can stop sneaking around.