Standard Disclaimer

Been a bad start of the year for me, my cat died, and it messed my head up a bit. So sorry for the delay on this and my other stories…but I just didn't have the drive at that point. A few comments about the whole Jens thing. I went back and rewatched the show and yes Aoi does see Jens, but it was only once in bad lighting during a fight…so I'd argue a 'good look' wasn't something that happened. Oh and I did some more research and guess what…I was right about the male/female ratio in it! The light novels state a 30 to 1 ratio of women to men for Catians!

Well enough of my rambling

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We Came to Help

Chapter – 4

Rereading her script, Ellis's tail flicked from side to side as she sat. Acting was new to her, but she was having a lot of fun with it. A lot of the fun came with the plot and her role as the heroine next to Kio, she was looking forward to the kiss at the end of the movie. She hadn't kissed Kio much, but every time she did her insides warmed and her head went fuzzy. Setting the thin patch of papers down on the grass, Ellis scanned over the other assembled to find the object of her affection.

She found him easily as all she had to do was listen for Kuune and hone in on that. "Kuune-senchou, you just need to tell him," she muttered as she watched. It was clear Kuune had feelings for the dear man, but as much as Ellis loved Kio she knew he could be a little dense at times. Matters of love and feelings just didn't come easily for the man. Sniffing the air, Ellis caught wind of something unexpected, "Weather didn't seem like it was going to rain."

Plopping down next to the cat girl, Manami grabbed the discarded script. "What did you say?" she asked as she started flipping through the pages. Trailing down the lines until she came to her character name, she jabbed it angrily. "Kyon I told you the line was 'Wait for me'!" she said hotly at the other cast member in her scene.

Her ears hurt a little at the extra loud decibels that Manami used, but Ellis wouldn't complain. Manami was just passionate was all, and Ellis liked that about the girl. Drawing her left leg up to her chest, she wrapped her arms around it, "Nothing really. It just looks like rain is all. Hope it doesn't ruin the practice." Looking up at the cloudy sky, Ellis wiggled her nose to get the smell to stop bothering her. Catching a strange expression on her friend's face, Ellis couldn't stop herself, "Is something bothering you, Manami-chan?"

Knocked out of some internal debate, Manami had the look of somebody doing some serious mental evaluations. Blinking several times, Manami rubbed her eye and tried to smile her way out of the situation. "Just thinking how glad I am to have lost to you for the lead. You're doing a lot better than Aoi and I am at this. I mean look at her!" she pointed at the third of Kio's lovely ladies. Aoi was standing rod stiff as the club president had a hand on her shoulder for the scene. Snorting out a laugh, "She looks like she's ready to send him flying."

Nodding a little at how nervous Aoi looked, Ellis found that funny knowing the girl. Having fought against the Dogisian fleet with Aoi and the odd battle in the woods, Ellis was amazed at how coy Aoi could be in private. "I think the president is also having his own issues with Futaba-chan being so close to him," Ellis tittered. Humans were so strange about being close to the opposite sex. It was a reason she liked being on earth more than her home planet at times. No need to worry about some male just walking up to her sniffing her, and taking her off to a hotel for mating. She had seen that happen.

"That pervert, if I didn't know Aoi better I'd be worried for her. But I doubt he could get her to do anything she didn't want to…and she loves Kio-chi anyway," Manami's voice went from hard to soft. Pulled back into her internal debate, Manami's gaze went listless. Pulling both legs up close, she hugged them and rested her chin on her knees. Almost a whimper she watched Kio and Kuune, "Stupid Kio."

Checking her watch, her small break almost over, Ellis was again worried by Manami's odd shift in emotions. Normally the girl was energetic, powerful, and driven, but ever since that night three days ago when Kio brought the Dogisian over she'd been acting stranger. "You're not still worried about that woman Kio brought over the other, are you?" it was the only thing that Ellis knew of that could be causing Manami such distress. Personally Ellis had been nervous around Jens, she had her personal fears of the Dogisians, but Kio had been so happy to help that Ellis didn't want to say anything.

Picking up the script, Manami rolled it into a tube and smacked it against her hand. "Oh that…he's not going to be bringing more women home I hope. I'm having hard enough time watching him with…" Manami shook her head hard. "As for that Jens woman, I can't help but think I've seen her someplace before. And didn't you say that those dog aliens can't interact with others or something?" the paper let out a long rip as she accidentally tore into the top page.

Liberating the script before Manami could do more damage, Ellis hummed a bit at that statement. "I'm not to up on the rules, but its more they can't have diplomatic relations with races. Individuals can still travel, but I know what you mean. Kuune-senchou said I was being silly, but I agree with you. Something about that woman," Ellis rubbed her shoulders as a chill went down them. Something about that woman's eyes filled Ellis with coldness. The light had been gone…that woman looked like she was ready to embrace death and that wasn't something Ellis was used to.

"Kuune, how did that woman become a captain? I swear she goes from being serious, to embarrassed, and finally a walking flirt machine," Manami grumbled as she stood up and dusted off her rump. Pointing an accusing finger at the woman, "I mean look at how she is around Kio! I swear it's as if she actually…it's as if it's not just that heat you go into…"

Again her heart leapt in her chest, but Ellis could control it for now. The thought of Kio and Kuune mating make Ellis think of her own upcoming heat. Mating…would it be what she read about and Melwin teased her about? There wouldn't be pills this time, no, she was going to get to be with Kio if he'd have her. Fumbling with her fingers, Ellis couldn't look at the man at the moment her heart was beating to fast. "Kuune-senchou has feelings for Kio-kun. But she thinks she's to old for him…we should help them," Ellis wanted Kuune to know the happiness she felt, and she knew Kio could come to like Kuune in time.

Stunned, Manami fell to her knees in shock. "That melon freak likes Kio too! This is just to much! It's bad enough that you're so damn sexy…and Aoi so refined…he'd…when I'm so…" Manami's head fell forward as she shut her eyes. "How do women on your planet put up with it? Having to share…it's hard," grit took up root in Manami's voice.

Her compassionate nature started to flare at seeing the semi-defeatist nature in Manami, but Ellis didn't know what to say really. "Well on our planet, we don't really have relationships like you humans do. With so few males we hardly see them really. So its more women have relationships with other women," Ellis tried to explain. She had had a girlfriend back on the home world. It didn't last long and ended when they both mutually wanted normal friendship. "And that's the second time somebody said Kuune-senchou liked melons. I never knew that about her," Ellis missed the point perfectly.

"I'll be there in a second Kyon hold up!" Manami yelled at her practice partner as he whined. Rubbing at her eyes, the glassiness faded, but something was still holding the girl's mind hostage. "That would explain why you're all gung-ho about sharing Kio-chi. Kami-sama knows if you wanted him to yourself he'd be yours," she shrugged her shoulder listlessly. "As for her," she pointed at the captain in the black body hugging latex, "she's a breast monster is what I'm saying. K-K-Kio?" Manami sputtered as the lad came running over to them.

Getting to her feet almost instantly, Ellis's ears flicked about as the warm fuzzies came back to her mind. She could feel her heat coming on faster and faster, and whenever Kio came close she could just smell him, and it was ambrosia. "Kio-san, are we ready for our next scene together?" it was the one before the kiss…and she wanted to practice that one. Aoi and Manami were getting his affection so much more than she was lately and it made her a little jealous.

Sweating a little, Kio rubbed the back of his neck as he chuckled. "Not yet, need to check the script and this is the only one not being used. K-Kuune-san is saying we need to have a few more scenes with her," he looked timidly at the purple haired bombshell who was waving at him. Standing between Manami and Ellis, Kio suddenly turned to Manami, his nostrils flaring. "Manami," he swallowed hard and sniffed again, "A-are you wearing a new perfume? It's r-really good." He slowly started to inch closer to her.

Flustered at the sudden closeness, Manami pushed the lad away and instinctively crossed her arms over her bust. "Kio get back to work! I don't want to spend all afternoon here!" turning the boy around, Manami firmly planted her foot on his butt and sent him careening into the open arms of Kuune…who he fell on. Red checked, Manami turned away from the unexpected groping, "Seriously what the hell was that? I'm not wearing any perfume…I've never worn any."

Pounding her fist to her palm, Ellis made the mental connection from the scene she just saw. "You're getting close to being in heat aren't you? He can smell your pheromones! You're so lucky! I'm still at least a week away, you'll get to mate with him," Ellis's tail bounced about. It only made sense, Kio's new Catian senses would be picking up on human pheromones as well, luckily the human girl's wouldn't be smelling his or they'd likely have started something in the park.

Manami wasn't taking that news to well, her jaw was literally hanging open as the girl stood stock still. "The hell are you saying Ellis! I don't have…humans don't…why hasn't this happened before then? If he got so strange," she couldn't say the world aroused comically. "If he got like that from me…why isn't he and…Kuune is all over him and nothing happens," Manami's face was still a lovely red.

Now that was an idea, maybe if Kio spent more time alone with Kuune something would happen. Kio and her would mate, and it would open their eyes for one another. Ellis would get Kuune happy and that would make Ellis happy. She could see Kio had some feelings for Kuune, and in time it would get more intense. It would be odd at first, but Ellis could see everybody being happy together! It would be more fun if more people were around, one big happy family.

But before Ellis could come up with a plan for her two favorite people she had to answer Manami's question. "Kuune-senchou sprays herself with a suppressant to mask her scent. I keep telling her if she didn't Kio would take more notice of her, and it would help her. She has to be having a hard time smelling him, I think that's why she wears the costume while we practice," Ellis didn't know too much about 'to much information'.

"I'm going back to practice…this is way to much for me right now," Manami said in a huff and all but ran back to Kyon and her few scenes to practice.

Thinking of what best to do for Kuune to get over her age issues, Ellis found it helped to keep her mind off of Jens. It wasn't like Ellis wanted to be racist, but she found it hard to trust the Dogisian Kio brought home. "Don't think about that now…focus on Kuune-senchou," because if she helped Kuune…maybe Kuune would help her. It was hard to not think about her first time, and her slowly building hormones were making it harder and harder to focus. How Kuune was able to function was something Ellis needed to talk to her about. Last time she had blanked out a few times when her biological needs got the better of her, but Kuune seemed all in control mostly.

"Ellis-san! Its time to get going again!" Kio called out to her with a wave and a smile. Ellis's heart melted into that smile, and she was quick to head over to get back into the swing of things. Sadly they didn't get to practice the kiss, Aoi was adamant that it wasn't necessary and the other girls oddly sided with her. Oh well, Ellis was patient.

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Stumbling forward as a strong gust of wind struck him from behind, Kio fumbled with the bag in his hand. Reaffirming his grip on the satchel of blank tapes, he turned to his walking partner with an embarrassed grin. "Guess we're in for a nasty storm after all," he concluded. If the wind had bothered Kuune, the captain didn't let it show. Why Ellis had insisted Kuune help him get the tapes Kio wouldn't venture a guess, but as much as he was reluctant to, he was glad.

Sliding her arm around Kio's, the larger woman's head bobbed lightly. "There, with our combined mass we've no need to fear those gales," her honeyed voice was deeper in the heavy moistened air. The woman had been chatting of her enjoyment of earth and all the new things Kio and the others introduced her too over her heat-induced vacation. Holding her left hand out, the one not wrapped gently around Kio's, into the air, "With the present barometric pressure, I believe we'll get to the embassy just before the rain starts."

About to protest the closeness of the woman, another heavy breeze brushed past them that would have knocked both over. Woman was smart, Kio had no doubt about that, but the damnable thing of it was she was more than just a brainy beauty. "I'm glad you're having fun while you're on your…vacation, Kuune-san. Guess I'll have to get used to seeing more aliens on earth once that elevator is fully functional," he didn't want to think about the firm breast against his arm.

He could feel her body heat, it billowed out of her like an intoxicating furnace. The more time he spent with the woman, the more Kio had to reestablish his opinion of her. What he first saw as a motherly figure had only been on face of a multi-tiered individual. Sure Kuune could be polite and refined, much like Aoi, but that was just her public face. In private she was easily flustered and embarrassed like Manami. When relaxed she was easy going and every laissez faire akin to Ellis.

Despite all his efforts, Kio felt himself responding to the woman. It made him feel like a pig, knowing he was in a strange relationship with Manami, Aoi, and Ellis but yet he couldn't stop the odd quiver in his heart that seeing Kuune was providing. It was like the other three all over again. He had fallen for Manami over growing up with her only to seemingly lose her to JACK. He thought Futaba had been above him and just humoring him with their shared appreciation of old movies. Ellis…well he hadn't been given the chance to think she didn't care, but in secret he wondered what would have happened had he not met her at the memorial.

Now, now he tried not to look into those purple orbs full of curiosity and caring. Barely, just barely, he could smell something wafting off her body and it was driving him mad. "So, t-tell me about how it is on your ship? Ellis-chan said she was usually on her private ship so she couldn't tell me more about the mother ship," he had to talk about something. It wasn't as bad as when he smelled Manami's perfume earlier in the day, no he could still think about thing other than kissing, but it was like having a splinter that he couldn't get out.

Squirming against his side a little, unconsciously pressing her breast against his arm harder, Kuune pouted cutely. Only in private, or when in settings when decorum didn't matter, she used her whiny voice, "I'd rather not talk about work, Kakazu-kun. But if you want we can talk about Ellis. I can tell you all sorts of stories about her that I bet she's not told you." Giggling softly at some hidden memory, Kuune's tail brushed up and wrapped around the tip of Kio's.

A pleasant shiver worked its way from the tip of his tail all the way up his spine! Cold thoughts, upset girlfriends, and his grandmother's wrinkled smile was all that kept his body from responding in other ways. Damn thing was still tender after being so new…he hoped. If it was always an erogenous zone, then Kuune was about to suffer from another heat-related outburst. That was another thing that helped keep Kio's jets cooled. He wouldn't let the woman he was reluctantly starting to like more and more do something she'd regret.

Waving his hands dismissively at the options, he shook his head. "I don't think that's fair to Ellis-chan, Kuune-senchou. Maybe if she were here to keep us from talking about things she rather I not know. How about…well how about you ask me about earth? Anything you want to know or do that we haven't yet? I know with us in school we haven't had a chance to go to the beach or anything. Ask me anything?" he thought he felt a raindrop but it might have just been his imagination.

Whatever reason Kuune wrapped her tail around Kio's must have passed as it unfurled as she tilted her head back in thought. After humming to herself for a few moments, "Why did you bring that Dogisian Jens over the other night? After the events of the past year with there species…aren't you a little worried that they maybe up to something else? And…would you mind if…" again she squirmed and brushed herself against the young man, "if I called you Kio-kun? It's not too formal of me is it?"

Spotting the familiar road home, Kio lead the captain into the turn and pulled his arm just a smidge away from her body. Those touches, light and warm, were driving him into a damn tizzy. All the girls could do it, but after his transformation it was getting worse for him. To be honest, it was getting harder and harder to resist taking that last final step as all the girls, save Ellis, and he has spent a little time petting. Hell had Ellis not stepped in on Manami and him the other day they might have…

His face turning red at the memory of how pert and firm Manami had been…how quickly her nipples became firm…Shaking his head hard to knock that image out of his mind he tried to answer the question, "Well I don't want to look at all of their race as bad just because some of them do bad. I'm sure not all Catians are law abiding citizens, what if one of them came to earth first? And I felt sorry for her after seeing her having trouble with the vending machine and her stomach rumbling. And yes, I'd be honored if you would," he grinned at her.

The return smile knocked the boy for a loop as her open mouth toothy grin reached all the way to her eyes and her ears twitched happily. Going from her motherly yet stoic expression to down right adorable and spastic, Kuune appeared to have dropped at least a decade in age as she preened at her cheek with her free hand. "You are right," she finally said after her happy-gasm passed, "Not all Catians are good…so I guess you might be correct." Her vision went off into the distance, an unspoken thought evaluated but left unknown. With a content sigh and yet another arm pull, "So any questions about being a Catian? Dyureru must have told you some things, but she couldn't have told you…"

Kuune was cut short as a ripple of lighting pealed across the darkened sky, much darker than it had been just an hour ago. As the thunder boomed quickly after, the woman all but yanked Kio against her chest in sudden fear, "S-sorry Kio-kun, but I've a little fear off." Her tail jutted out quickly and with full fur outstretched as another blast of thunder echoed in the stillness. As the rumble died…the raid came thundering down in a raging torrent. Kuune had been close, but the pair had been three houses shy of home before the rain all but drenched them.

Taking the chance to end the torment of causal contact with the beautiful woman, and the feeling of betrayal it garnered, Kio took the lead. Running as fast as he could, Kuune's hand firmly planted in his, he dashed through the downpour to the house without so much as a word. Not being the type for much exercise his lungs ached by the end of the short sprint, but throwing the door open he let the Catian enter before he followed and pulled against the wind to shut the door. Finding the lights off he called out, "Hello, anybody home?"

Shaking her head like her less evolved feline counterparts, her tail briskly moistened the wall, Kuune's ears twitched. "Guess I was a little off about the storm front, moving f-faster than I expected," she tensed up as the house light up from an arch of lighting and accompanying thunder. Taking one of the towels Kio had grabbed from the nearby linen closet, Kuune rubbed it against her head, "Perhaps they went out of some food rather than wait for you to return to make it?"

Knowing Manami thought more with her stomach than most girls, and that Ellis was all but mollified by new few ideas, Kio didn't put it past the trio of absent girls. "I guess its possible, want me to cook something simple then for us?" he wrapped the towel around his dripping head. His clothing was wet, but it wasn't that bad that he felt the need to take it off, hair was a different issue. Cursing himself for watching Kuune's heart shaped rump and swishing tail move to the couch, he couldn't help but compare her tail to Ellis's and his own. Kuune's was silk to their cotton in texture.

Sitting against the armrest, her hands daintily on her lap, Kuune gave Kio a pleading look. Another crash and cringe of the 'stoic' captain left her suddenly wringing her tail between those long and fine fingers. Her white sundress was quasi see-through thanks to the rain revealing her black lacy bra. "H-how about we sit and t-t-talk a little more? I'm not to hungry and p-perhaps they'll bring us some back?" she stammered with her ears pressed firmly against her head.

Turning to the kitchen and back to Kuune, Kio abandoned himself to fate. He could see that the woman was terrified of the storm, odd coming from a race of space travelers. But it made an odd logic in a sense, if they were always on the ship a thunderstorm would be neigh impossible. Sitting on the couch, a cushion separating them, Kio tentatively reached out with his hand for hers, he could do that much couldn't he? "Sure, how about we talk a little more. I wasn't that hungry…" a bolt of lighting crashed and the power went out, "myself."

In the dwindling light from the large window, the late afternoon light hardly illuminated the living room. Kuune, the moment the lights went out, yanked Kio against her and wrapped her arms around him as if he was a talisman against the heavy storm. "S-sorry K-Kio-kun, this is the s-second storm like this I've been in my entire life. B-before I became a captain…as a k-kitten…storm destroyed my home…t-took my parents," she shivered against the man.

More reason for her to be afraid, Kio allowed. Trying to sooth her as best he could, Kio gently stroked her ears, the silky texture worked wonders on his mind but he tried to banish that. "It'll be over before you know it, Kuune-senchou. We'd hear a siren if it was something to really worry about," Kio looked about the room again trying to ignore the heat the woman was generating. And her smell…oh lord her smell…something about the raid water was making just…he felt himself pressing hard against his slacks. His tongue thick and heavy in his mouth, "How about we talk about…"

Tugging on Kio's leg, Kio's personal assist-aroid handed up the green box he had bought several nights before. Pushing up its glasses, its sign read 'you wanted to know about this right?'

Taking the box if catnip with his freehand, he had to reach a distance as Kuune was keeping him on a short leash, Kio nodded. He had sheepishly wanted to know what catnip really did to Catians. Ellis had only got a whiff from a bottle of flavored sake, so he had no real idea what the real stuff would do. Putting it on his lap, Kuune recapturing his hand cringed against him close, "What can you tell me about this, Kuune-senchou? I…I picked it up on a whim and was wondering what exactly catnip would do to me. Is it dangerous?"

Reeling away from the box, closer to Kio's chest, Kuune shook her head quickly. "It makes us a little crazy. It accentuates all of emotions and makes thinking a little…very hard. In my current situation I'd likely...you'd likely…I'm sorry Kio-kun. I must be putting you in such a dreadful place. Me, an old hag in heat, causing you all sorts of trouble and wanting a place here. And now look at me, cowering from a storm. I should…I should go back to the ship," Kuune sniffed hard, her back hitching slightly.

Putting the box on the coffee table in front of them, Kio was shell shocked at what he heard. Kuune thought she was a hag and basically saying she…she… Unable to control himself, Kio hugged the woman lightly, bringing her head right under his nose. "You're not an old woman, Kuune-senchou. You're-you're beautiful…it's just this whole culture shock is hard on me…us. Manami and Aoi aren't used to the idea of multiple woman couples, hell neither am I. I guess I'm causing YOU more trouble by not understanding your situation better," he couldn't help himself as he kissed her head. "Sada-yan, destroy that for us will you?" Kio ordered.

A moment later as Sada-yan's gun was pointed at the tiny box firing its blast, Kuune screamed out a ear rattling, "NO!" But it was to no avail, the box disintegrated revealing Kio's great mistake. While the container was made from inorganic material, the catnip was fresh enough to be considered living. So the beam caused the green cardboard to vanish with a stench of ozone…the catnip remained and billowed in the air as it fell. The two Catians left doused with the potent herb.

Breathing deeply the fragrant aroma, Kuune pushed Kio back with a look of fear that quickly clouded over. "The rain…my suppressant. Kio-chan you think…think I'm beautiful?" she cooed as her head started to wobble back and forth. Her hand, no longer latched around Kio's in a death grip trailed down his chest gently. "You're not just humoring an old woman seeking to know what l-love is?" she leaned in dangerously close to Kio's face.

All he could do was see those beautiful eyes, soft looking full lips, and smell the alluring mix of her and the accidentally spilled catnip. "You're gorgeous Kuune-san, you're body is…" he couldn't keep himself from talking. The drug mixed with his consciousness and he could feel his self restraint fading with every breath. She was beautiful, but at the moment she was damn near the sexiest thing he'd ever seen. Part of him screamed to leave the room, but another part said 'stop lying to yourself'. And that was the truth, he had been in denial over his budding feelings for Kuune…and his growing sexual needs as a man. The soft kisses, the petting sessions, and just living with the woman he was growing to love was driving him mad.

Did he continue to lie to himself, resist what he wanted deep down…or did he succumb to it? Watching with open mouth, his eyes going wide, as Kuune touched her bell and her sundress vanished, Kio didn't have an option anymore. Sitting with Kuune in all her nude glory in his arms, Kio licked his lips as he let his hands roam. "A-are you sure…Kuune-san…Ellis…Manami…A-Aoi…I l-love them t-too," the last of his resistance was fighting to maintain sanity.

Taking his hands, poised at her sides, Kuune guided one north and the other south. She let them rest there, nothing after she placed his hand on her inner thigh and her right breast. "I know you do…I've watched…envied…Kio-chan lets mate," she leaned in and kissed him on the lips as she had so many times since she arrived. Only this time she met no resistance and no other women to pull her away.

Thought vanished as Sada-yan blushed and herded the other assist-aroids out of the room. Kio felt Kuune's shambling and inexperienced tongue begin to ravage the inside of his mouth. Their haste and inexperience would have made others laugh, but they were to far lost to their desires to even care. Kio's hand rubbed the inside of Kuune's leg, stopping for a moment when he felt liquid flush against his hand. His hand on her breast squeezed and tugged lightly comparing the heft and fullness against the others he had felt. Ellis had been firmer, Manami's fit his palm better, Aoi's were…almost non-existent, but Kuune's were wondrous in their own way.

Pushing Kio back, her eyes glazed but holding a hint of consciousness just as Kio's had, Kuune pushed the man to his back. "Have me?" she almost mewed as she touched her bell again and Kio's clothing vanished just as hers had. "Not…as experienced…even though I'm older I've never…never been in the breeding program. Hardly use the virtuals too," she took a look of embarrassment before looked down between Kio's legs. "It's…bigger than I expected," she made a ring of her middle finger and thumb around the base of Kio's member.

Not wanting to be the only one to feel good, the little of Kio's mentality still around for the show moved his index and middle finger inside of Kuune. He was amazed at the heat and moistness that incased his fingers, just as he balked at the sensation of having those long fingers of Kuune slowly pump him. Aoi and he had shared a similar experience not a week ago…but he had been so nervous he ended it quick…now nerves were not an issue.

He could taste fruit in her kiss, her breath coming out in short puffs out of her nose tickled him. The folds his fingers worked against were anything but flabby, firm as any of the teenager girls in the house. She was purring, he felt a deep rumbling growing deeper and deeper from her chest as he worked his fingers. Slowly in and out, making circles as he knew Aoi nearly burst from. To his great benefit, Kuune really wasn't too good with her fingers causing a bit more pain than pleasure with her hard yanks. If he could speak he'd tell her to be more gentle, but it slowed the building inside his loins as well.

Pushing her onto her back, Kio could feel her hand shift. No longer was it just her two fingers, no she rubbed her whole palm against him, her skin was just as silky soft as her tail…Speaking of tails, theirs had entwined from hilt to tip, screwing and unscrewing against one another. Wanting to get more of those deep and luxurious purrs from her, Kio worked his fingers in preparation for the main event.

"KIO-CHAN!" Kuune screamed as she pushed him back, a marked increase in fluids flooded out of her staining the couch. Climaxing just from Kio's fingers, likely helped by the over stimulation of catnip and long held desire, Kuune came so hard her eyes rolled back in her head and she fainted.

Sitting up on his knees over the unconscious body, Kio's head jerked around at the lack of a willing participant. "No like this…" turning to the sudden sound at the door, Kio found he wasn't the only conscious person anymore. "Manami-chan, do you…?" getting to his feet, stumbling and his eyes glazed from his catnip high, shambled over to Manami clad in nothing but Kuune's honey.

"K-K-Kio-kun! You bastard!" Manami wasn't taking the show well and let it be known by slamming her fist against the boy's head. The blow combined with everything that had just happened…well Kio was unconscious moments after the blow. Covered in a towel, Kio woke to find Aoi helping him to his room, she wasn't upset, but had said Manami had headed back to her own home.

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Fixing her hair in the mirror by the door, Aoi felt a slight bit of trepidation course through her. While she had been shocked two days ago to walk in on the unconscious and naked Kio and Kuune, she had semi expecting it. She had garnered enough hints of Ellis's intent to get the two together ever since the captain arrived to be too stunned. Manami however, well the woman had yet to return to the 'embassy'.

Not willing to lie to herself, Aoi had felt a smidge of pain in knowing that Kuune and Kio shared a moment. Her own efforts at physical intimacy with Kio went only as far as he had gone with Kuune, Aoi didn't know how to really take that. Of all of the women in Kio's life, she now shared top spot of most contact with somebody that hadn't been around at the start. Still, Kuune was a nice woman much like Ellis was, so Aoi didn't mind it. In fact, she was starting to think this whole multiple pairing thing would work out in the end far better than she expected. Not only did Aoi get Kio…she also got some very attractive women as well.

"Are you sure I shouldn't go with you?" Kio asked from the couch. Looking every bit as worried as he had when he woke up to the news, Kio had to be reminded constantly of things. He hadn't done anything wrong, neither had Kuune. The catnip didn't cause them to do anything they didn't want, all it did was lower the barriers. And as the man of the group, and they were all adults in the eyes of Catian law such activities were expected. Turning from Ellis and Kuune who flanked him, "I mean I was the one that drove her out of here."

Putting her hand on Kio's shoulder, Kuune kept him seated as he tried to rise. "Kio-chan, I think you should let Futaba-kun talk to her first. Once we know how…calm the girl is maybe then you can talk to her," Kuune sat close, very close to Kio. It was something the whole house had noticed that next morning, Kuune wasn't going to let it seem as if the event didn't happen. They all watched the footage Sada-yan recorded, not intentionally, and they all heard Kio's declaration of feelings for all the woman that cared for him.

"Yeah Kio-kun, let Futaba-san see how Manami is first. We need to talk to the ship about your recovery and, well it'll be rather personal. So we can take care of that while she's next door," Ellis was holding Kio's hand rather tenderly by the look. "But if you wanted, I could go with you Futaba-san?" Ellis turned to the door with a half upturned smile.

Quick to dismiss the idea, Aoi knew that any Catian right now would only make the temperamental girl even angrier. "Just let me take care of it for now. I know what she's likely going through. I felt the same prior to Christmas last year," oh boy did she know that feeling. "Kio-kun, I'll be expecting a little talk with you later myself, so don't go hiding like you did yesterday," Aoi waggled a disapproving finger at the man but her grin detracted the air of menace she might have wanted.

Heading the short distance to Kinjou household, it was just across the walk, Aoi felt her heart start to flutter. She had plans for Kio, and she was going to make good on them. It didn't sit well for her to not have one of the initial three not have the top spot with Kio, and the pledge to wait for Ellis's heat wasn't holding much weight anymore. Kuune wasn't going to wait, hell they had to keep double watch on her after the catnip hangover faded. Aoi was overjoyed with life, and the more she thought about things, the happier she became.

"Now if only I could get Manami to see it from my point of view a little," Aoi mused to herself. Pushing the ringer next to the door, Aoi looked up at Manami's window. Tiny kisses and hand holding had been great to slowly indoctrinate her into realizing Kio wasn't going to abandon her for Ellis, now she wanted more. She was human, and much like men, women had needs too. Just thinking about the video they all watched of the events leading up to Manami giving Kio a black eye…well Aoi's stomach buzzed.

Opening the door widely, a smiling elder Kinjou Nanami held the edge of the frame. "Oh, Futaba-kun, I was expecting Kakazu-kun to come and talk to her. She's been up sulking in her room since she showed up the other day. Are you going to try and steal her away from us again," Nanami let out a small chuckle. Looking much like her daughter only with longer hair and a fuller bust, Nanami took a step back to let her visitor enter.

Bowing her head slightly to the teacher at her school, Aoi took her shoes off next to Manami's discarded ones. "We thought it would be best if I tried talking to her first. Manami was a little upset with K-Kio-kun," Aoi turned to the stairwell leading up to Manami's room. Had they not told Nanami about the little oddity with Catian law, Aoi would have felt less nervous about the details. Predictably Manami's father was against his little girl 'being just some conquest' for Kio, but Nanami simply said 'I knew they'd end up together. Girl loved him since they were in diapers'.

"Shall I bring up some tea for you two? You know a little nip might calm her down enough to talk to, just a secret between us," Nanami leaned in and whispered in conspiratorial tones. Her jowls, a little meaty with the extra weight of age, were pulled back in a marvelous grin. "But I'll tell you truthfully what would knock her out of her little funk," to Aoi's shock Nanami's mother made a circle with her left index and thumb and put her right index finger though it twice.

Eyes blinking rapidly, Aoi's face light up scarlet at Manami's mother's implication. "I-I don't think that'll be necessary, ex-excuse me," Aoi all but fled up the stairs. Who would have thought Nanami was such a free spirit when it came to such matters, Aoi sure as hell hadn't been expecting it. But maybe that's why Manami's father was such a happy man. Taking a deep breath, more to calm herself from Nanami's comment, Aoi went to knock on the door to Manami's room only to be interrupted.

Opening the door just before Aoi could rap her knuckle on it, a sour faced Manami stood with arms crossed. "I've had the living room bugged since Kuune showed up, so I know everything already," Manami's tone was harsh but one might hear the bit of reluctance in it. Heading deeper into her room, she just left the door and Aoi to do whatever they might.

Following in quickly, Aoi sealed the door for the little extra privacy it would provide. Taking in the state of the room, the radio equipment was all disassembled, guns in boxes, and a general air of emptiness pervaded the atmosphere. As thoughts, ideas, and potential ice breakers flittered on the tip of her tongue, Aoi gasped at a realization. "Wait, if you have the room bugged then you know about…" she hadn't really been TELLING everybody that Kio and her had a very similar encounter little over a week ago.

"Know that you're a screamer, or that Kio-chi apparently has god fingers?" Manami flopped onto her bed, her words coming out humorously. Rolling from her stomach to her back, Manami examined the ceiling with great interest. A low half grumble/chuckle left her, "Don't worry I don't judge you for it and won't tell. Hell I envy how close you got to Kio. Leaps and bounds from the girl that could hardly say his first name a year ago."

With most of the wind in her sails already gone, Aoi was at a loss. If Manami already knew about what happened between Kio and Kuune, why hadn't she came back yet? Not having to explain how the catnip affected Kio, and how Ellis had practically engineered the whole thing left Aoi with little to say. That did erk Aoi just a little, how Ellis had set about to all but gift wrap Kio for her 'precious senchou'. Replacing the captains pheromone suppressant with a water diluted version and sending them out to the known storm…Ellis had been quite crafty.

Though Aoi again had to accept they all saw Kuune's longing. What started as just physical attraction to genuine feelings over time, Kuune had been painful to watch. Kio was just dense when it came to women. But that was for another time, sitting next to Manami, Aoi sampled the waters by putting a hand on the girl's knee. "So why are you still here then? You know Kio-kun cares about you, know that it wasn't planned, and that he had approached you cause on many levels Kio has feelings for you that are how you feel for him," Aoi said straight out, why prolong it.

Not flinching away from the casual touch, Manami actually upped the ante by covering Aoi's hand with her own. "I'm here because I'm trying to decide if this is the life I want. A life where the man I love doesn't JUST love me. It's selfish I know, but why can't I be selfish about this? It's my life after all. If I go back…what am I? The fourth girl for some geek who got lucky…a geek that didn't try to make me care for him or you…or Ellis…or her," Manami's passionate voice died.

"You know he doesn't think of us like that, Kio-kun isn't that way," Aoi felt the need to defend the currently defenseless. It wasn't Kio's fault things turned out this way, he hadn't asked for it. Aoi had already given up on Kio, her heart dying with each hug Ellis gave him. "Kio-kun was just as shocked, still is, in regards to this Catian law business. Is it fair to judge him on it? And before you answer…know that I know you don't judge him. If you did you wouldn't still be here would you?" Aoi stated coolly. She new about the CIA's offer to Manami, so if the girl was still here it meant she hadn't taken up the offer to leave.

Sitting up, nearly knocking heads with Aoi, Manami gnashed her teeth angrily. "I know! It's not fair that I can't blame him for this. Stupid Kio, I know he doesn't see me as just a number or a body. But compared to those damn aliens…compared to you…what do I have to entice him. I feel like I'm just putting myself in where I'm not really wanted. I feel like I cheated my way in. And I don't want that, I don't want to feel like he's just you know…humoring me. And to make matters worse, the CIA offered me an even better deal. It's all I've ever wanted…but I have to choose in three days. So I've been here thinking…do I officially move in with Kio or do I…" she trailed off and finally rolled on her side away from Aoi.

Getting up, knowing that to push harder would only make Manami even more confused, Aoi headed for the door. "You know him better than all of us. I could ask you question after question about him and you'd know the answer. Where does he keep his adult magazines, what time does he get up, what is his favorite food…nobody over there is as close to him as you are. I envy YOU for that, and deep down you know he's not the type to hurt you by proxy like that. I won't tell them about the offer…but I expect you to before you make up your mind," Aoi soundlessly left the room, leaning her ear to the door.

True to form, Manami could be heard on the other side seemingly talking to herself. "Gets up at nine when he doesn't have school, pork fried rice, and under a spare futon…third fold," Manami mumbled something after that but was unintelligible.

Heading back down the stairs, Aoi felt a sense of dread in the news of the CIA's new deal. Did she think Manami was going to take it? No, Aoi fully expected Manami to take a few more days sorting her feelings out and coming back to Kio's. What worried her was she had gotten a better deal to return to her old job. Why the sudden drive from both agencies to get them back. If it hadn't been so close together she'd think it just coincidence, but the timing was everything. Something was up…and Aoi just knew it had to do with that Dogisian Kio brought home. If only she had gotten a better look all those months ago…then maybe this nagging feeling of knowing Jens wouldn't irritate so much.

X-X

"Well Kio-kun I'll let you know once I've finished the last few tests, and sorry Kuune-senchou the virtuals are still down, bye," Dyureru waved at the camera absently as she shut it off. Some part of her couldn't help but scream out the word 'coward' in her head. The tests were pretty conclusive that altering Kio's DNA was not a good idea. The chances for unexpected and deadly results was to great to warrant it. She'd honor her word and check out the last few options she had, but it was looking like Kio was going to live out the rest of his life as a Catian…worse things could have happened.

Tugging on the strip of her swimsuit, she eyed the odd blue fabric under her lab coat. "Still can't believe doctors deliver bad news in these things, humans are strange," but she did like how it felt. Letting the elastic band on her shoulder go it snapped satisfactory and her ample chest giggled in its confines. "Going to be interesting in the embassy for the next week or two," she shook her head and hopped off her chair. It was time to check on Melwin on the bridge.

But to think Ellis's second heat came a little early, girl couldn't be thinking to clearly with all those hormones in her head right now. Dyureru pulled a sucker from her coat pocket and slid it into her mouth, watermelon flavor washed over her tongue. Pulling out the readings from the previous nights observations as well, "And to think Kuune-senchou got her endorphins this high, might warrant checking the footage."

Wandering down the clean corridors of the ship towards the bridge, the good doctor stuffed her hands into her coat pockets. Some of the lower level girls waved at her as she passed as they made themselves busy. Idly wondering about the daily lives of those not in the medical profession, Dyureru felt the desire to chat with some of the crew that never visited, always good to be friendly even if it made her a little uncomfortable herself.

Her ears curled back as the door to the bridge opened with a whiz and the forward view screen came into view. No matter how many times she saw it, Dyureru always sucked her breath in when she saw the space elevator. Science didn't have to be ugly, and the elevator was proof of that. "How are things going up here, I've registered your blood pressure steadily rising all day Melwin," she rolled the sucker from one side of her mouth to the other.

Not paying attention to the head science officer/doctor aboard the ship, Melwin was busy tugging on her ears. "No-no-no! I said the Usagians get first use of the elevator once we get the replacement power cells! After they go it's the Ferretians, and then our formal welcome party! Where ARE those replacement parts anyway! The United Nations of Earth is ratifying the formal declaration of peace in just a few days!" Melwin's haggard voice limply croaked.

A feral grin, one of her fangs showing wickedly, Dyureru reached into one of her coats inner pockets. Grabbing an emergency pill, one used to calm and pacify, she pointed at Chaika to get the security officers attention, and then to Melwin. The first officer needed to calm down, and if it meant a little stimulant than that's what she got. Tossing the pill to her cohort, "Yo, Melwin, I just got off the sub space with Kuune-senchou."

At the mention of her superior officer, Melwin spun around so fast she nearly fell. "Please tell me that Kio-san finally got over whatever fear of his and knocked her out of heat? Please tell me she's coming back…NOW! I can't take this! The Usagians are upset at waiting, were getting a line of other races coming, the elevator's main power cell is on the fritz, and something is wrong with the computer system…AND" her finger crooked over at Chaika, "Somebody broke the virtual suite two hours after bringing them back online!" Panting heavily her stomach extending comically as she inhaled gales of oxygen to fuel her rant.

Coming up along side the frantic blue haired Catian, Dyureru sadly had to deny her hopes and dreams. "Something happened last night to Kuune-senchou, was about to watch the feed of it to confirm. It was good, but since her hormones didn't level out after it's not likely our resident male gave it to her," thinking of a male Dyureru shot Chaika a glare. It had been a long time since she got a nice run in at the virtual suite and her own needs were building. Damn girl had to play to hard and go and create that damn Kio model…the abuse on the system broke the damn components. Slapping her hands together she did get a bout of joy in telling, "Oh but get this, Ellis's second heat officially morning."

Knowing the plan from past experiences, Chaika moved to Melwin's other side. "Oh really? Guess that means I'll be taking more trips down to the embassy to watch over while her suit is in power down. Though don't know if I'll like watching her all over Kio-chi. Think we should have a party for her? You know a 'now you can wear your big girl pants' type of thing? I feel bad about her last one," she put her hands into position.

"Listen to yourselves! This isn't the time to be worried about Ellis-chan becoming a woman! We have to much other things to worry about! I mean if Kuune-senchou was up here running the show, sure, all for it but somebody hasn't fixed the machines so she can get her fix of loving! Now if you aren't here to tell me good news I have more panicking to do!" Melwin turned and pointed an angry claw at Chaika.

With a nod from Dyureru, Chaika pounced on the fledgling captain in training. Putting her legs to Melwin's, Chaika pinned down the first officers shoulders making an odd angled triangle of the bodies. "You'll thank us for this in a few minutes, once you've calmed down," Chaika practically sang. Should she have been trying to fix what she overloaded…yes…but Chaika was well known for shirking away from the more 'boring' aspects of her position.

Watching Melwin frantically shake her head from side to side, Dyureru expertly dropped the pill with perfect timing. The red pill shaped like a smiling cat face fell right thought Melwin's lips and down her throat. "There, that should help calm you down so you can actually think and relax a little. To much panicking doesn't get anything done," she reached down as Melwin blinked hard.

Head wobbling, Melwin's cheeks reddened as her tail started making small circles. "Ish-Ish I really dat bad?" she slurred as the intoxicant worked its magic. Giggling as she preened, "Ah feel sho much bedder now." The grin on her face was stretching from one side of her face to the other.

Propping her head on top of Melwin's, Chaika wrapped her arms around the smaller Catian's waste. "My girls react the same way to those as she does, well the two that are old enough for them," the mother of three tickled Melwin's chin. "So you going to tell show us what Kuune was up to last night or are we just going to have to make jokes about it? Knowing her she got drunk and had herself a finger dance party," Chaika laughed at her own joke that nobody else did.

"Wa-wha you mean figer fing…finger dance party?" the twelve year old Melwin's brain couldn't make the jump in logic. Turning desperately to Dyureru, eyes bristling with unshed tears, "You're not keeping secrets from me are you?"

Grabbing hold of her bell, Dyureru started to bring up the assist-aroid footage from the time of the spike. "You'll know what she's talking about in a few years when you get your first heat…or if she's right you'll see it," the doctor sorted through various other timestamped films in the archive. Being of a species that treated sex a lot more candidly than humans, Dyureru didn't mind showing the captain's antics to the other members of the command staff, it was good for bonding.

Finding the best video available, Dyureru couldn't help but notice it had been viewed four times already. Calling it up in a small screen, no reason to let those not in the captain's close circle of friends see, the trio's breath was stolen. The sucker fell from Dyureru's mouth, Chaika fell off Melwin and crawled under the footage, as for Melwin herself her eyes went wide and her tail went rod stiff…then she fainted.

"GO CAPTAIN GO!" Chaika chanted with full gusto as they watched the events transpire between Kio and Kuune. "Go!Go!Go! Show that man who's boss! NO!" she cried as Kuune passed out and Kio fell out of view. "Wow…I'll need to make some adjustments to that program…humans ARE bigger. Guess that part of him didn't change when he turned into a Catian…" Chaika's boisterous voice echoed in the bridge…a pin drop could be heard.

Hissing loudly, Dyureru face palmed and ground her teeth together. "I'm giving you to the count of five to run…" she pulled out her electrical stun gun. "If I catch you, you won't like it," now the whole ship was going to know Kio had changed back. That would complicate things if he ever got back on board the ship. "One…two…" she shocked the air to get Chaika running.

And run Chaika did, ran for her life laughing all the way to her quarters where her trio of daughters were waiting. The four of them barricaded the door as Dyureru tried to administer punishment.

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Author notes

Notice something a little different about this chapter? Thinking I 'should' bump the rating up to M but if you don't mind I'll leave it for now. Chapter was one scene shorter than normal, but the size was getting to high. I like to keep my chapters under 20 pages to make reading them manageable. Hope you liked it, but feel free to tell me.

If you think the lemon/lime aspects detract I'll hold off on anymore, on the other side if you don't mind them I'll toss one in on occasion to spice things up.

Sorry again for the delay in this, but it took a bit of time to get over Luna's passing.

FYI the details of Chaika being a mother are also in the light novels

Ja Mata

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